The Glamorous Grind
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The Glamorous Grind
The Business of Building Community with June An
What if your hardest moments could become your greatest strengths? June An, entrepreneur and founder of The Group SD, joins us to share how he transformed a turbulent childhood into a life of purpose, leadership, and service.
Born to Korean immigrants and raised by a Hispanic family for six unexpected years, June's early life defied convention. Spanish was his first language. Reunion with his father brought challenges—but instead of resentment, June chose growth. "Nobody's going to save me, so I became that person for others," he says.
That mindset powers everything he does—from launching 71 businesses through his 386-member “non-networking networking group,” to leading a men's circle that redefines masculinity through emotional openness and accountability.
We talk jiu-jitsu as a metaphor for life, building community from scratch, and parenting with intention. June opens up about breaking generational cycles, embracing discomfort, and why his son telling him, “Dad, I’m proud of you,” was the ultimate full-circle moment.
This episode is packed with wisdom on resilience, leadership, and living with heart. Whether you're an entrepreneur, parent, or someone navigating your own path, you’ll walk away inspired to turn your struggles into strength.
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For me I've been a lifelong martial artist and there's such a crossover in martial arts and life, I think, and business. And for me, with jujitsu, with martial arts, besides it teaching you discipline, it teaches you to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations and a lot of times if you don't go through adversity, you'll just give up. You won't even try to go through that struggle. But if you struggle on a daily basis, just training, everything is easy.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Glamorous Grind where grit meets glamour and law is always in style. I'm Alona Antonian, a trial attorney and a certified family law specialist.
Speaker 3:And I'm Mila Aratunian, a trial attorney who specializes in employment and personal injury law. We are lawyers, friends and your guides to real life legal drama.
Speaker 2:Each week, we're breaking down unforgettable cases, sharing incredible personal journeys and sharing what keeps us motivated in our careers and personal lives.
Speaker 3:So whether you're hustling to make your own dreams happen or just here for a good story, settle in with your favorite drink, because we are bringing you wisdom, wit and a whole lot of style.
Speaker 2:It's law, it's life, it's the Glamorous Grind.
Speaker 3:Today we are thrilled to welcome a guest who truly embodies the entrepreneurial spirit June Ann.
Speaker 2:A San Diego native, June has built a reputation as a dynamic entrepreneur and community leader.
Speaker 3:He is the founder of the Group SD, a business networking organization that's redefining how professionals connect and grow.
Speaker 2:From launching businesses to earning a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, june's journey is all about discipline, love, resilience and passion.
Speaker 3:So let's kick things off. June welcome. Thank you so much for being here on your birthday of all days.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Speaker 3:Thank you for the invite we're going to try to make it so much fun for you Like we're going to try to make this a memorable birthday for you, perfect.
Speaker 1:Thank you for the invite. We're going to try to make it so much fun for you. We're going to try to make this a memorable birthday for you Perfect, thank you.
Speaker 2:So when you walked in, I immediately noticed that you're such a high energy person. Can you tell us about yourself?
Speaker 1:Sure, I've always been hyper. The funny thing too is that in school, teachers would always write kind of this you know the report card. June has so much potential, but he can't sit still, and so my father would always say you have ants in your pants, just calm down. I didn't know what it was, but I always have to do something.
Speaker 2:And you do a lot of things, right yeah?
Speaker 1:I try to stay busy, everything, everything.
Speaker 2:So you have a podcast. I heard you do jujitsu.
Speaker 1:Jujitsu. He owns a jujitsu.
Speaker 2:He owns a jujitsu studio.
Speaker 1:Where is it? Yeah, in Encinitas.
Speaker 2:What is it called?
Speaker 1:General Arts, jujitsu For me. I've been a lifelong martial artist and there's such a crossover in martial arts and life, I think, and business. And for me, with jujitsu, with martial arts, besides it teaching you discipline, it teaches you to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations and a lot of times if you don't go through adversity, you'll just give up. You won't even try to go through that struggle. But if you struggle on a daily basis, just training, everything is easy.
Speaker 3:Every day you do something hard Right At least start your day.
Speaker 1:I always suggest to people. It doesn't have to be martial arts, it doesn't have to be jujitsu, but do something difficult first thing in the morning, it's a win. The rest of the day is easy. I started working when I was six years old because my father was an immigrant, so he had several different businesses and he always put me to work. So from the beginning it was constantly me just working at the dry cleaner, the construction site, the janitorial service or the restaurant. So it was kind of bred into me. But not only that. In school I distinctly remember what I used to do is I used to get an allowance, or when I'd work I'd get tips. I would take that money, go to the store, buy a bag of candy and then I would take out the candy and sell the individual candy to kids for a dollar each. So I'd end up making a lot of money.
Speaker 2:So I've kind of always had that. How old were you when you did that I?
Speaker 1:was in elementary school, so I was probably somebody teach you. No, it's honestly, I think it was just I was born with an innate certified hustler. Yeah, I got in trouble a couple times, for you know selling candy to kids for a marked up price, but that that is really cool.
Speaker 2:You said your family came here as immigrants. Were you born in America?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was born in Texas, el Paso, and so my father he, fought in the Korean army, and then so they fought in Vietnam, and so they were giving out visas, and so his visa was about to expire so they came here. I don't know why they picked El Paso, texas, but I was born in El Paso, texas, and from there he immediately went to the construction site and started working.
Speaker 2:Oh, how'd you make it to California?
Speaker 1:Well, that's an interesting story. So when my father was working on the construction site he kind of has that entrepreneurial spirit he's like I'm not making enough money. So he asked one of the foremen to watch me, Like if he can have his wife watch me during the day while he's at the construction site. And so he did that for a little bit for a couple of weeks. And you know, I was a, I was an infant, I was just born, and one day my father was like told the foreman it was like, can you watch my son for a little bit? And he was like, sure, we were ready to watch him anyways. What he didn't realize is that he was going to leave for six years. So he ended up leaving El Paso to find work and then he left me with this Hispanic family, amazing family, and they raised me for six years.
Speaker 1:It's funny, people are always shocked, but I lived it, so to me it's normal.
Speaker 2:So being raised by a different family for first six years of your life, that are developmental years of your life. Yeah, what values did you learn there versus you know when you went back with your father?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, really good question. So since I was raised in a Hispanic family, I thought, to be honest, I thought I was Hispanic, I had no idea I was Korean and so, being raised in that family, they're very family oriented. You know, hispanics they want to have a party for everything. So it's this community feel and it's this just. You know, they put a lot into their kids and so when my father came, he didn't have any family in the US, so when he came and got me at six I thought I was being kidnapped. I see this Asian guy coming in to take me. I had no idea and I only spoke Spanish. That kidnapped. I see this Asian guy coming in to take me.
Speaker 2:I had no idea. And I only spoke Spanish. That was my first language, oh wow.
Speaker 1:You still speak Spanish fluently. You know, I understand a little of it. I don't really use it, so I've kind of lost it, but that was my first language. Did your dad keep in touch with you. The first six years you were alive? Not at all. So he just shows and got me. You know my family told me hey, this is your father, you got to go with him. So he took me and so he completely disconnected any contact with that family oh my God totally disconnected any contact with that family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I had no idea again. You know, it's like I lost a family and then I was taken. But not only that is that as soon as we were going cause he had reestablished his construction company in Tucson he stopped off at the airport and then I see this chubby Asian kid coming out of the plane and he's like that's your brother, and I was. I didn't know. I had a brother for six years. He was an older brother. He only spoke Korean, so he was in Korea. They left him in Korea and then they got me and then he only spoke Korean. I only spoke Spanish and my father spoke broken Spanish, broken English, full Korean. So it was interesting.
Speaker 2:That must have been so tough. Can I tell you what I'm thinking, right?
Speaker 3:now, what's that that you're talking about this with such strength and grace, and I think that 99% of the human population would be sitting here feeling sorry for themselves, and you just took that pain and you turned it into fuel.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Honestly that's amazing.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you. Well, to me too, it's what I do remember growing up in that, because I worked at Six on, because he immediately put us to work and we were working and we worked the restaurants, and I remember, distinctly remembering that I was like I wish I had a rich uncle that could take me. But the thing is I got to the point where I figured out I'm not going to get, nobody's going to save me, so I have to save myself. So I became that person that helped other people. So if there was a bully, I was the first one to fight the bully because I knew how it felt and I wanted to be that person to protect them.
Speaker 3:I still kind of see you as that today. I mean, and I know we're adults so people don't really get bullied, but you form connections between people and that's what I mean. You do a lot of things. I know Lona mentioned you have a podcast with Coast News.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:You're also a consultant, right.
Speaker 1:Right. And then I have a handful of other businesses and investment interests and I'm just always relaxed, always happy, and if I have any cocktails I'm going to get even happier, so you're a fun guy to hang out with yeah, normally without drinks, I'll tell you I love you.
Speaker 1:But if I drink, I'm going to tell you I love you about 20 to 30 times. That's how it is, but it really does go back to. I've always kind of had this heart, but I just want to be that person that I didn't have. So it's I see, whenever I look at somebody and I speak to somebody, I speak to a lot of people. When I sit down with them, it's I see them in their highest light and I see so much potential in everyone. Because same thing I go back to I wish somebody was there for me. You know, cause I'm still evolving. You know I'm definitely not there. I'm going to continue to evolve.
Speaker 2:That's what drives you. You wish somebody was there for you, and that drives you to be there for others, and you formed a men's group.
Speaker 1:I do everything that I want, that I need in my life. So that's how I formed the group. But as far as the men's group, it's one of those things, especially hitting 51 now. But you get to this age and men have been kind of pushed to the side and to be a strong male figure, it's been considered toxic. I don't think that's right. I think there's got to be a balance. There's definitely a balance.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of pressure on men. I think her and I we're kind of like dudes because we're in that role.
Speaker 1:But what do you think?
Speaker 2:women expect from men. But what do you think women expect from men?
Speaker 1:For the last few years. What I guess the public has said about men is they want them to be sensitive and if you try to kind of stand up for yourself, you're considered toxic. And so the difficult part about that especially navigating business, especially in California it's difficult to have a business in California but just in life, to navigate everything and then to be told you can't be a man. That's what's happened the last few years. So for me, you know I wanted to form this men's group and have high quality men. So I did this announcement, you know, I just put it on Instagram. I was like starting a men's group who wants to be involved? 55 men show up. Starting a men's group who wants to be involved? 55 men show up.
Speaker 3:Males, like forming connections and like having that type of companionship is undervalued in our society.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 3:It's cool for women Like it's a thing Like, oh, let's go out for brunch, let's go get drinks, but men don't really do that, right, and I feel like and not to say that you should be sensitive, but there are a lot of things that men go through that I think it would be helpful for all of you to share.
Speaker 1:So with the men's group, there's certain things and I tell the guys all the time there's certain things that I can't tell my wife. There's certain things I can't tell my friends, you know, because they may not understand. But to be able to get into a men's group with people that you don't necessarily know but they're high-quality people Strangely enough it's a lot easier to open up to somebody. That's almost non-biased, and so that's really helped. And you're seeing people, everyone's really kind of blossomed. Their business is doing well. At home they're doing well. They're better fathers, they're better sons, they're better husbands, things like that.
Speaker 3:Because of this, because of the fact that and regularly we'll see people cry, which is fine, and it's a sense of community and togetherness that I think a lot of times men lack Exactly. So you've also, in addition to the men's group, you started another networking group called the Group SD, which is for men and women, and it's a networking group for local professionals. You guys meet every Friday.
Speaker 1:Every Friday it's actually the non-networking networking group. I have several different businesses. I do consulting as well. I've been in investment banking in the past, so I've done a lot of business with different corporations, different people. But it always seemed artificial to me. I love to sit down, you know, sit down face to face and have a conversation. You can see people's, you can even feel people's energies.
Speaker 1:During COVID, everyone went to Zoom. Everything was just impersonal. Everything was done via your phone, facetime. That's really not my style. I really wanted to get to know you.
Speaker 1:So with a buddy of mine who's a student at the Jiu Jitsu Academy, he's a financial planner, we had coffee and he's like what do you want? And he asked me that question. I was like well, I want community and I want to be a pillar of the community. And so we decided and we're like let's each invite two different people, two different people, no business cards allowed, and let's just have coffee. We were kind of like this, let's have a conversation. And we just had a conversation and we didn't talk about business at all. And it did so well that they wanted to do it again. And so they're like but can we invite people? And it kept doubling and it kept doubling. No business talk at all, just personal, like about even about your passion. You know what do you do to motivate yourself, questions like that and we'd have great conversations, but what ended up happening was, as it kept doubling, everyone's businesses just blossomed.
Speaker 1:So that's why I say it's a non-networking, because a lot of people they're all business, and then you know what ends up happening their home life lacks, they have stresses that have nothing to do with business, it's all personal, and then sometimes people are way too personal and then their business lacks. So in life and business you got to have that balance, and that's what the group is. The group is now, I think we're at 386 members. We've had 71 businesses started from scratch from the business. Everybody's business is blossoming. We've had 71 businesses started from scratch from the business. Everybody, everybody's business is blossoming. And then not only that, though, now everybody has friends and they have family, and so now I'm seeing everybody, they tag me all the time. They're having dinners, and it's a sense of community, because you know, the world is crazy. So every Friday we had over a hundred people show up.
Speaker 2:Last Friday, and where do you guys meet?
Speaker 1:Good Anya in Encinitas.
Speaker 3:You have a very positive energy all around. Yes, and I think you know when we connected, that was what like drew me to you as a human, Because here comes this like very big personality who does a little bit of everything. You just bring a lot of positivity to the world and I can see that you find a lot of purpose in that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do. I mean, life is beautiful, really is. I mean we live in a great city, you know, I know great people and it's just it. And then so I started this initiative April of 2023, where I do coffee with one new person every day.
Speaker 2:Monday through.
Speaker 1:Friday yeah, every day, except for holidays, obviously.
Speaker 2:How do you find people to connect with?
Speaker 1:Before yeah, I would just ask random people, I would just ask. And so now I think that's how we connect.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, we've got coffee. Yeah, we just got coffee.
Speaker 1:And I love it because for me it's like a lesson in growth. For me, every time I meet somebody, no matter what they look like on the outside, they have a different story. No two people are alike, and so that's so interesting to me.
Speaker 2:What's your conversation starter? You just meet somebody for coffee. You don't know. How do you get comfortable with?
Speaker 1:that, Honestly, I just say I'd love to, I'd love to hear about your story. Would you do coffee with me?
Speaker 2:That's it, that's it.
Speaker 3:That's how he approached me.
Speaker 1:I'm 10 out of 10, a hundred percent when I asked somebody for coffee. We end up doing coffee. Now I'm a little behind because we, you know, we get 20 new members per week and that's one of the reasons why the group has grown as big as it has is. I'm very intentional.
Speaker 3:You are always trying to help everyone.
Speaker 1:I get that personal growth when I get to learn about your story and your story For me. There's tidbits that I can take from it. It's inspiring and so that and I have this, I've always had this confidence Life will take care of itself, funds will take care of itself, trust the universe.
Speaker 3:Just trust the universe Manifesting.
Speaker 1:Just manifest it. And what's ended up happening is the more I help people without me being selfish, the the universe just brings positive karma for yourself yeah, it really is. I mean it's, it's, you know, and my son's 21, he's at the naval academy, 21 year old, 21 year old son, oh wow yeah he's, he's an amazing.
Speaker 1:I actually just got off the phone with him when before I got here. But he's in the Naval Academy and he's just an amazing human being. He really is. But it's one of those things where a lot of people they do things growing up, they do it for their parents' approval. I've never been like that because I knew I got to the point where I was like my father will never be satisfied, and so when I had my son, I lived my life for my son, my son. I do everything so that he could be proud of me and it's funny, I've never, you know, pushed it, never said anything. And then two years ago he's like he randomly just said hey, dad, I'm proud of you. That broke me down. I mean, that was amazing to hear that from him and other people have said it. But the fact that my son said it, I'm like, all right, I'm going to continue this mission and continue setting my legacy by being an example for my son.
Speaker 2:Considering your childhood, when you learned you're going to be a parent, what values did you decide you're going to instill in your child?
Speaker 1:Honestly, from early on, I wanted to be the exact opposite of my father. I will be firm, but I'm going to give him support, I'm going to give him encouragement and I'm going to give him love. You have a choice. You can either repeat the process and cycle, or you can break it and just be something different and set your legacy and my son is my legacy.
Speaker 3:One thing about you that I think just stands out and is so shining, and it reminds me of the shirt that's in alona's office yeah it's like hanging on your tent and it says turn shit into gold that's it and I feel like everything you talk about it's hard things that have happened to you, people who are not very nice to you I mean, dad, you know, was not the nicest raising you. Your mom abandoned you, yet you're so empathetic and kind towards them when you talk about it.
Speaker 1:I never do anything expecting anything back, and so even love I'll give everybody. I'll give both you love, it's just you don't have to give it back to me. I'm completely fine with that. I feel good that I gave it to you and I hope I touched you in some way and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3:I think that's a secret to your happiness. Yeah, it could be and like now. It's my goal in life to just give things without expecting anything back, because I think that's where so much disappointment in our lives comes from. Is we like do things for people or do things expecting some return on investment and the other?
Speaker 2:person may not have the same expectation. You'll be disappointed and you're not going to be a happy person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, that's what I see. A lot of my friends, I see family members, kind of go through it where they're they get really disappointed by somebody and they're like yeah, I did so much for them and you know they're not doing anything and they're they're just like heartbroken, you gave him something, you shouldn't expect something back.
Speaker 1:If you're doing something, expecting something back, then I feel like Unless it's your kid yeah exactly, unless it's your kid, but just in general, you should just do things If it's right. If you have the energy, do it, why not?
Speaker 2:I think I want to know more about all your businesses and what you do.
Speaker 1:I have a mortgage company. I do business consulting, I do consulting for Fortune 500 companies.
Speaker 2:What kind of consulting do?
Speaker 1:you do. It's basically operational strategy. So it's basically I can take a. I have this kind of innate ability to look at your business and see opportunities to increase your revenue. And I can see and sometimes it does take somebody from the outside to look at your business and look at your model, look at your branding and to be to give them your opinion, because sometimes you're so invested in what your brand is or your business you don't even realize you have holes in it.
Speaker 3:Let's talk a little bit more about that. I mean, we talked kind of about your personality and that, your energy levels and how you're always looking to contribute and finding purpose in that. How do you apply those skill sets into your serial entrepreneurship?
Speaker 1:Just curiosity, the thing I'm good at, I'm good at looking at things and starting things. I consider myself a visionary. I can see kind of an opportunity and I know how to carry it through. The issue that I run into is maintaining it, because I do get bored, and so again, I think that goes back to just that hyperactive personality. I have to always be doing something and that's why I always exercise first thing in the morning. It's that energy, it's doing something difficult and, honestly, it's just challenging myself.
Speaker 2:Before you become successful, there are failures along the way and you're turning 51 today.
Speaker 3:Can you?
Speaker 2:tell us about your journey and the failures from which you've learned.
Speaker 1:Right, that's a big thing and that's why I go back to jujitsu, because with jujitsu it's such a difficult martial art You're grappling.
Speaker 3:You're a black belt right.
Speaker 1:I'm a black belt, yes, exactly, and so I used to box, did Muay Thai in the past. But jujitsu, to me, is such a direct reflection of life and business, because you're constantly failing. You constantly are. I mean, there's always gonna be someone better than you, or they just might happen to catch you on a bad day, and so what you have to do is you have to put your ego aside. You still have to have that determination, but you have to become comfortable in uncomfortable situations. So that's why, like in business, you're gonna run into situations, you're gonna run into failures. Again, you have a choice you fail, just give up. Just give up. Give up on life, give up on everything, or you learn from it. And it's like you know, like Jocko Willink, anytime something bad happens, he says good. I say the same thing Good.
Speaker 2:So what did you learn from your failures?
Speaker 1:One of the biggest things is I can't do it all myself, and a lot of entrepreneurs tend to try to figure things out themselves that are on this island, and the thing too is, a lot of times, as an entrepreneur, you have a lot of people counting on you and you think you can't be vulnerable. You can't let them know that. Well, honestly, I don't know how to do this. You know, I don't know. I'm good with what I do. I don't know how to do this, so they try to figure out. There's a lot of missteps in that. So for me, I used to always try to do everything myself. Just let me figure it out. But now I know I bring in good people. If I don't know how to say, do something marketing, whatever it is, social media marketing I bring in the right people to do it, and then I learn from it.
Speaker 2:Though, how do you know that that person is the right person that you are relying on?
Speaker 1:Give them as much opportunity as possible, but there's a point where you have to cut it.
Speaker 3:You got to know when to cut the cord.
Speaker 1:You do.
Speaker 3:Because I think that if you cannot trust the people in your organization to run things, to lead things, you need to get new people, you don't need to do it yourself.
Speaker 2:Do you believe in the laws of attraction?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I think this is one of the reasons why I'm so positive that if I go through life with that idea that it'll just work out, I'm going to put it in the work, because I know myself and I always tell people you got to believe in yourself. I have this strong belief in myself. I can figure out anything. Give me something, I'll figure it out. And so, kind of, through life, what I've seen and it gets stronger and stronger is that if I go through life like that that positive attitude good things will happen.
Speaker 1:The right people always show up at the right time and that's really what's happened to the group Weekly. I invite both of you to come on a Friday. Someone will come and someone will have an issue. I'll ask a question. I try to keep it just very informal, but I usually come with thought-provoking questions and the questions sometimes people will have are like I'm struggling with this. Well, whatever they are struggling with, somebody in the group that's brand new will literally show up. So if somebody is, I have this supplement, I don't know how to manufacture it, I want to get it out there. Boom, somebody shows up. So I think it's that energy that I put into the group and it's that positive energy, it'll just work out.
Speaker 3:And I want to touch on that because I mean we connect on a lot of levels because we're both kind of strange people that no one really understands.
Speaker 2:Unique is a better word, avant-garde is a better word.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 3:All right, I'll take that, but taking care of your people, understanding your own weaknesses, strengths and their weaknesses, and putting them into positions where they can utilize their strengths to give you the most value and where they don't really have to touch upon their weaknesses as much. And part of being a good leader is also knowing that about yourself and your own strengths.
Speaker 3:That part is kind of hard because you kind of have to call yourself out like I'm not so good at this, but you do such a great job at that, so can you tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's one of those things where I always say I'm going to be everyone's biggest cheerleader, and so same thing with people that work for me or I work with. I try to place them in the position that, like you said, will really concentrate in where they can utilize their strengths. But the other thing I do too is that to be really an advocate for somebody, you also have to call them out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how do you give them a reality check? Yeah and be authentic about hey, you want to do this, but I don't see that.
Speaker 1:If you see somebody, they have a bad habit or they keep making a mistake, you really do have to call them out and say look, I've been trying to empower you to really succeed, take this on, take this project on, but you're really, you're behind. You're behind what's going on. And so for me I go into it again on a personal level hey, is something going on? Normally you do great work, you know, you've always been ahead on these projects. Why are you behind now? Are you taking on too much? Am I giving you too much? And it really? Are you okay at home? Because inevitably, I typically find out something. Maybe they've taken on too much projects or they're having issues at home, so now it's affecting their work. Okay, let's take care of that.
Speaker 2:What do we need to do? Well, you're talking about someone who was doing well, and then they start going down the hill. But what about someone new that hasn't yet proven themselves, that's coming up with excuses? How many chances do you give those people and how do you empower them to be better when they don't help themselves?
Speaker 1:I think it has to come down to kind of the approach is if they work for you, they're gonna immediately kind of be fearful of you. It's just gonna be kind of one of those things you're the boss. If you can kind of convey that you're there for them, you want them to succeed, you want them to be promoted, you want them to get bonuses, so it's to be that cheerleader. But as far as chances go, as long as you've been true to yourself, because a lot of times we'll put a lot of pressure on our staff without really looking at ourselves. Have we been the best boss? Have we been the best boss? Have we been the best leader? And if we haven't, and someone keeps messing up, have we really trained them the best? And I think a lot of that is to look at ourselves first to make sure that, hey, have I really put in the time to train them, or did I just give them something and said, hey, do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, on one hand, I think training is absolutely important to train them. Or did I just give them something and said, hey, do it? Yeah, I mean, on one hand, I think training is absolutely important to set them up for success initially, but then you want to empower people to own the project and run with it and prove themselves and see can they rise to the top, or are they going to give up and don't want to try anymore.
Speaker 3:For someone who's just starting out building a business, what would be your number one piece of advice that you would give to them?
Speaker 1:Find a mentor, find somebody that's already done it and just ask questions. Be a sponge, absorb it. Work hard, put in the work, get the mentors, get ideas and then I'm telling you, you'll succeed.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much for joining us. This has been a pleasure, especially on your birthday.
Speaker 1:Again. This is really fun, Thank you. It was a gift to me for my birthday. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:It's been an incredible interview. Really nice to meet you I love your energy. Like I said, you walked in. I immediately felt positivity.
Speaker 1:Thank you, we're going to have to do coffee.
Speaker 2:And that wraps up another episode.
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