Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Emotional Intelligence with Parker Harris

Are you seeking to break free from the corporate chains? Find inspiration from our guest Parker Harris, a self-made entrepreneur who transitioned from a Fortune 100 company to creating a mastermind model that blossomed into Junto Global, a network connecting thousands of entrepreneurs. As he shares his journey, Parker gives us a peek into the importance of having a clear roadmap and comprehending the sacrifices associated with success.

Have you ever felt stuck with people who drain you instead of inspiring you? Parker's experience with disconnecting from toxic relationships is a journey of self-discovery and personal development. He discusses the significance of curating your circle and its relation to building a solid foundation for success. Listen in as he reveals the importance of leading with love rather than judgment and the value of understanding the people around you.

Brace yourself for a refreshing perspective on negative emotions. Parker shares his personal story of understanding and harnessing his negative emotions to his advantage. He reflects on the significance of choosing the right people in life and liberating oneself from relationships that no longer serve our best interests. This episode is an enriching blend of personal anecdotes, valuable insights, and practical advice that will empower your professional and personal journey.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Latinos and Real Estate Investing Podcasts, where individuals just like you come to learn how to create wealth through real estate investing, entrepreneurship and business ownership. And today's guest is Parker Harris. And Parker started his career landing his dream job working for a Fortune 100 technology company doing operations and strategy. After getting to know the executives and asking the advice they gave their children, he realized he must choose a different path. I was wondering, Parker, what advice did they give their children so we could get into that in the interview? He started a mastermind model after Benjamin Franklin that over time, became his business and mission. Today he leads Junto Global, which has served thousands of entrepreneurs to connect with like-minded peers and build the relationships, help and businesses they deeply desire.

Speaker 1: 1:31

Parker, sir, welcome to Latinos and Real Estate Investing. Appreciate you being here today. It's my pleasure, Mark. Thanks for having me. You're welcome, brother. Thank you for being here. So let's just get started to the beginning. I know you worked for this technology company and you decided to go on your own. Aren't you to tell us that journey? Where did it all begin and how did it all happen?

Speaker 2: 1:55

out of this entrepreneurship journey we get I think, like most things in life, it's not like linear, just like one thing. Usually it's a convergence of a few different things happening together and belonging to. Short of it is that I really loved getting that position. I loved the company and I was a little bit naive. My goal was to become the CEO of that company in a pretty short timeframe. I was like how do I become the CEO in five years? They're like we don't have a program for that. I'm like don't worry about it, I'll build it. I'll build that program for you.

Speaker 2: 2:34

And that was the opportunity to start talking to those executives was I started bringing executives from this company to speak to the new hires like zero to three year employees that had just graduated. And most large companies have a retention issue with millennials because they don't they don't, frankly fully understand millennials, and I think millennials really want to understand. How do these executives see the company? What was their career path? How do I become successful within this company? What are the opportunities that this company has within the industry over the short, medium, long term? And the only answer that the company had for that was it was a monthly happy hour. And I was like that's not what people want, and so I started bringing in executives to speak to this group, and that was the opportunity for me to start asking them what do they do every day? Do they like what they do every day? Would they recommend that to me? And I was shocked with the answers. Right, they're like 90, 95% of the time they were like no, I wouldn't recommend this, and I wish I was asking these questions when I was your age and I just looked around I was like, oh my gosh, we have 10,000 people in this company all competing for your position and you don't even like you know what advice. You know what advice do you give your kids? And? And that advice was like figure out what. Your some version of figuring out what you're passionate about. I think some people have different definitions of what passion means, but it led you know these kids were becoming cartoonists, or you know these things that they actually enjoyed, do we?

Speaker 2: 4:25

And so I looked at my life and I was like what is it that I enjoy? How do I enjoy adding value to other people? And and I was reading Victor Frankl's book A Man's Search for Meaning and he he has this quote in there that I didn't fully understand until a few years later. But it's like live your life as if you're living it for the second time and you're as dangerously close to making the same mistakes the second time as you did the first time. And and I just had one of those ethereal moments where I was totally sober, sitting on a bench by the beach and I just saw my life flash before my eyes. If I stayed at this company, I was like, you know, that's the safe path, like that's I just I just can't do it like with my one life, and you know if I'm dangerously close to making the same mistakes the second time. And so I knew I had to choose another path and I started looking for for you know, those opportunities that were already there that I wasn't maximizing.

Speaker 1: 5:28

Wow, a lot to unpack there, sir. Good stuff. So, parker, you know maybe there's a listener out there listening to us you know I really want that CEO job. I really look at that VP or that executive VP or that regional VP. Maybe they're working at corporate somewhere and they're thinking to themselves how can I get that job?

Speaker 1: 5:54

You mentioned a few things of a few moments a few moments ago. A few moments ago about when you were talking to these executives, many of them were telling you because I want to give people the sober and the truth reality of what these positions tell, right and just so people can like future pace what were some of those things that they were telling you? Like they wouldn't wish this on anyone. What was a common theme and common thread that you found? These high level. This is a Fortune 100 company we're talking. We're talking like top 100 companies in the world. I like this is a big deal. What were the things they were telling you? Like, hey, if I could do this over again, I wouldn't do it. I wish I was asking that questions when I was your age. What were some of those things they were telling you? That was a no-divis.

Speaker 2: 6:49

If you come to mind one was just the realization that you could become successful without having a plan. A lot of these people got in these positions without necessarily having a plan, but they just were willing to work hard and do the work. But it often came out of sacrifice to their health, which was pretty visible. And then the part that wasn't visible was the relationships, like their family, not really knowing their kids or even losing some of those relationships because they weren't present for them. So maybe I'm jumping ahead here, but my advice to any listener and I guess I don't like to give advice so like this so my counsel to your listeners would be to just have that conversation. If you think you want that VP or the CEO job, figure out how to talk with that person and ask them questions. I noticed the elite strategist behind you and I think sometimes it takes a little bit of strategic thinking for how to get that audience. If someone's really busy, or if they're the CEO or a vice president, how does an intro level employee get that audience with that person? And there's different ways to go about that. One is to organize an event that creates value for other people, so there's leverage in it, so it's not like, hey, I'm asking, I'm not asking for you, but for me, I'm asking for this group of 100 to 100. Yeah, for more people, right? This is going to end my record. This is what I'll add more about.

Speaker 2: 8:38

I remember someone that I really wanted to talk to was just not being responsive, not giving me the time of day, and I talked to their assistant and their assistant's like no, like he needs to make more time for stuff like this.

Speaker 2: 8:54

And so she got me the meeting and he was very unkind to me and at that point in my career and I think I'm still like this I didn't need the kindness, I was okay with the tough love, I just wanted the real truth. And there's, I think, a number of people see, you know, see, jobs comes to mind where, when he was 12, 15 years old he was a teenager he was calling the head of Hewlett Packer, right, he was calling the heads of these companies and and and. So I would just just suggest To make those phone calls, to have those uncomfortable conversations, to be okay with rejection or unkindness I Will usually lead forward and the earlier we have these conversations. When I was a student, it was really easy to get that. You know, as I got further in my career, became harder and harder to get those meetings, and and so therefore, a little bit, we're strategy was needed, got it.

Speaker 1: 9:54

So, after having multiple of these conversations, that's when you decided that, hey, this is not for me, I don't want to be the CEO or Chenwan Andre company, I suppose. Is that. Am I correct in that, in that statement? And that is that when you decided you were gonna go on your own. How did that? How did that begin? I?

Speaker 2: 10:11

Think it was just a realization that this wasn't like this is not how I want it to add value, like.

Speaker 2: 10:19

I was interested in this stuff, but I wasn't passionate about about it, and the things that that mattered to me were more related to people and experiences.

Speaker 2: 10:32

And so I Think that if we're, if we're healthy like and I mean like mentally healthy, usually there's already something showing up in our life that, whether it's a hobby or or something that we're doing outside of, maybe our like, where we're making our money that that can be like the, the clue to where, where we could focus to add more value. And so, for me, I had started Junto years before, before this, for myself, and it was something I was willing to invest time into every week, every month, even when I didn't have a lot of extra time in mind. I just because I got so much value from it, and I was also really, really passionate at the time about, you know, making good drinks and good food for people that I cared about. And so when I left, I actually dove, became the COO of mixology company and helped them raise some money, and and then I focused on Junto as well, and and after about a year, I decided that Junto was really the space for me, to when I was most alive.

Speaker 1: 11:46

So tell us about what exactly this Junto does. So Junto Serves entrepreneurs and connects them. So so you know, a lot of people don't realize most people don't realize you. You hit on a lot of things that are so important. Right, you spoke to a bunch of executive, high-level executives and, like you said you a lot of times, in those roles, you don't need to plan to be successful, work hard, you do the job. And we think that money is the thing. Hey, once I get this position, I get the status that I'll be happy, and but then there's a cost to that. Right, there's the quality of life costs of that, and there's a lot of things you're saying here that are really resonating with me and I talk a lot about it.

Speaker 1: 12:30

I talk quite a bit about that in this podcast and it's finding your purpose and a lot of time when people Look and they actually find their, ask the question. If you ask, you shall receive. If they ask the questions of Themselves like, hey, what, why am, why did the universe, why is my God? Whatever put me on this earth for a lot of times, what intrinsically inside of us is to serve others, is to. This is the purpose of this podcast, before we started is to empower others to be better version. This is an extension of my purpose is to empower others to become better versions of themselves. And you touch on something really powerful when you said you was doing you started Junto. I'm gonna say in Spanish, because it's just the words you started Junto. It's the right way to say it. Yeah, that's the right way to say okay, you started Junto when you was you still had a job, right, and you and you said something a moment ago you said you was putting in time into I mean, you could, outside of your job, you was building that and and he was committed to that. And then you decided that's your passion and that's the way you were gonna go.

Speaker 1: 13:39

Tell us about that, because a lot of people miss that right, a lot of people Missed a part, or they're here online, all of these shiny object things, right, and they miss the part of what's the one thing that I want to focus on outside of my job that's gonna fulfill me in the long run. And you did. You actually did that. Can you tell us about that process? Can you tell us what that looked like? Right? Can you tell us Like, hey, how do you do that. I have a job and I have this passion and this thing that I want to do, whether it be real estate investing, whether it be I've done it, by the way, I've done it myself. I Want to know your journey. How do you do that? How does one do that on their off time and and and then turn it into something like you've done something beautiful?

Speaker 2: 14:29

It's a really good question, martin. A couple things come to mind there. What is Learninged for me? At?

Speaker 2: 14:38

At a pretty young age, I learned to enjoy adding value to other people. You know, and and I don't I'm not sure if everybody enjoys that yet, like sometimes, you know people Maybe don't don't like to do customer service or don't like to work or don't like to do you know to do that stuff, but I I found a lot of gratification in adding value. So I think there's no way around that. That's that's what business is at the end of the day is adding value to other people and learning how to capture that value. So that's a big you know. To me that's that's part of purpose is is adding value to other people, and that's what that's. What service is Right. You mentioned like serving other people.

Speaker 2: 15:23

I think, more broadly, though, another broad concept that's coming to mind for me is Like I was really searching for it for a long time. Like it was like, like earned, like I was honestly Looking for what was my purpose and there was a lot of angst around that, maybe even fight or flight, and I'm not sure that serves me fully. Like I. I love the quote Like fast is slow and slow is smooth and smooth this fast. I think it's like a special forces quote and I'm at a point in my life where I'm able to slow down a little bit and be more smooth, and I noticed that is actually being me faster Along than when I was just like earnestly going for it.

Speaker 2: 16:06

But I think, like you said it, if we're asking, you know, if we ask Like we, it will be answered. If we knock, the door will be opened, and so If we're not asking that she of what is my purpose, there's no way to find it. And Then and then the last thing I'll say on this I think I think you could probably ask me that question three more times. I come up with some different ways to answer that or some additional thoughts that come to mind, but I Think a lot of this stuff comes down to personal growth or personal development versus just like business, or more health or more relationships, like like it's doing that in our work to really figure out who we are and and to develop ourselves to become, you know, someone that can add value to other people. And Good.

Speaker 1: 17:02

So if someone is, it's all good talk. Good brother, someone's listening. You said something ready, powerful. My business partner and I owe are always talking about this. Right, I'm a big Tony Robbins, a big Tony Robbins guy, and Tony Robbins says that Business is a spiritual game. Business is a spiritual game and you said something really powerful and you said inner work. Right, and my business partner and I were both big on personal development and this is something we're, that. We're always talking about inner work. Someone is listening to us, parker, and you know, many years ago you said something about you like cookie.

Speaker 1: 17:41

If you worked for a company mixology company you left the one company, started working for that and in my quest and in my search for my purpose, I like cooking for people. I like you like cooking. I like hosting people. I like when people come to my home. I like you come to my home, I'm gonna cook for you, I'm the barbecue for you, I'm gonna treat you well and it's something I like to do and For some reason I thought that because I liked doing that, but I never asked a question that I would be a great restaurant owner and I sucked and I lost a lot of money at it. But I had a tremendous amount of growth during that time because I read, I learned about myself and I seeked my purpose. But during that time I was asking the question, and before that I was asking the question God, why did you put me on this earth? For what's my purpose? And and and always I always was looking for for that Group, right, you, you, you coach, you host mastermind. Right, that's what onto does, right, it's you host mastermind. I was always looking for that. Before mastermind was a master, I, before I had read thinking grow rich by Napoleon Hill, way before that, like, I always intrinsically knew that I needed to be around people that were smarter than yeah, if I wanted to grow, I needed to learn from you, I needed to be with this guy, needed to be with guys like you. I knew that guy. I needed to be around other people doing things at a higher level so they can teach me and I get better. Right and. But for many years I struggled finding that. And I'm talking about before the internet. I'm talking about Before YouTube was popular. I'm talking 2000, 2002 to 1999. I class, yet for the internet explosion, right, and if I'm listening, if that version of me is listening to this podcast right now and Is in quest, is in that quest of finding their purpose and they're in that quest of finding that Tribe and how to do their inner work. Because I'm a big believer I only got Better when I got better. I only got better in business when I got better, when I put things in priority, when I when I family business and I put things in order of importance and I was attention on all areas.

Speaker 1: 20:05

Where do you tell that person to start? How do where do they start? They? You know, you remember that feeling you used to have when you was asking that question. I remember that feeling clearly that I used to have when I was asking that question like God, where do I go? Where do I start? Like that, that, who do I need to meet? Where are these people at? What are you telling that person? Where do you tell them to start? Where do you tell them to look? How do they begin?

Speaker 2: 21:57

Martin I, it's interesting you asked this question because it this is. This is where I lost it, like when I was going was that personal development is not just a personal thing, it's not just an individual thing. It involves other people and having you know quality people around you, they'll help, even Share with you what, like what they see, is your purpose, or you know what is. What are you actually passionate about? You know, and, and so I think that's a mistake that sometimes even personal development has is thinking that it's an individual journey versus like a community or or a success team. So, to answer your question directly, I think it really depends on the individual right and where they're at If they're a student, right, if they're at a university or or high school, you know, if they're within an educational environment, there's usually different groups that are more Development focused versus like social focused, that that there's other people that are also seeking, searching, doing building, they're not lost, they're not trying to waste their time, and so that's that's for me. Where I started was I was. I was at the time I was going to SDSU, san Diego State University, and I got really involved with Entrepreneurship groups on campus, finance and investment society, marketing, the American Marketing Association there's there's a lot of different groups that that I got involved in and and I took on leadership roles in those groups. So I wasn't just showing up and and being a, you know, part of the audience. I was hoping to contribute to that experience and through that, that's where you know, most of the opportunities that I received early on in my career came from. Was, you know, people that I had brought it to speak, or people that saw me in those type of environments? And I saw that dichotomy of 90% of people had very little opportunities and then 10% of people had all the opportunities, and that 10% what they did differently is they were leading, they were contributing, they were adding.

Speaker 2: 24:05

If they're not in university, there's still these type of organizations like American Marketing Association is not just a university organization. They have events all over the United States, if not the world, every month and there's so many different events that are going on. There's even the list of these events that you can like apply either, that you can subscribe to, and there's probably three to five Events going on a night in every major city, showing up for those events, meeting people, you know, shaking hands, actually being interested in adding value to those people, right, was it? Oh, I know this other person that you should connect with. Who are you? What do you do? Because, no, you know very. If I think that the competition out there for people that actually want to show up and Add value to other people like that's. You know, you're already in in a small class of people. Most people are just there to solve their own problems.

Speaker 1: 25:04

If you, if, if we show up to solve other people's problems, the whole world Yep, yep, I love that you said that right, because there's a quote that I heard someone say in the past and as you beat 50%, remember who said it. But you beat 50% of people just simply by showing up in in our country, in the US, because a lot of people just don't. They don't show up and a lot of people don't want to do the work and 50% of it is showing up to these events. I always talk about that here in this podcast, about hey, showing up to the meetups. Where, where, where are the investors, where the entrepreneurs look up? There's, there's an app called the meetup app and there's a meetup for everything, marketing this. Like you said, in every city, there is easily two, three, four, five events going on at any given time.

Speaker 1: 25:50

Let's go to to mastermind. I want to switch over to mastermind. I know you host these masterminds for entrepreneurs. First of all, let's start with educating those that might be listening, that are not familiar with what a mastermind ends. That was coined by by the great Napoleon Hill. Can you tell us what, what, what is the meaning of a mastermind?

Speaker 2: 26:14

So Napoleon Hill defined a mastermind as Two or more minds coming together in the spirit of harmony to accomplish a common goal.

Speaker 1: 26:23

Man. You remember that from the book to the tea. I think that's exactly where's that. He's the way he defines it too. So so two or more, two or more minds come together in harmony to define a common goal. So what's the value of having two or more people in your group? As we both know, you are who you spend time with. I was talking to my business partner yesterday morning. I had a barbecue at my house this weekend and I had a couple of different experiences with different Contractors that I'm working with on over the weekend. And it came to me and it was like man, I was telling my partner I was a Dude.

Speaker 1: 27:04

I only want people in my circle that Keep their word. Aren't you know integrates? They do what they say. They say what they do that that's a type of people I want to work with and it's it's unfortunate because it's such as that's so scarce in the world out here people that keep their word and do what they say they're gonna do. Parker and you are who you spend time with. You are who you spend time with if, if people in your circle are, you know, are are drinking every weekend, you got five people that are. All they do is drink and they're always broke. Yes, you're the sixth person that's drinking and always, it's always broke. I mean, it's just. It just is what it is.

Speaker 1: 27:49

So tell me, how does an entrepreneur, how does one join a mastermind, how does one find a mastermind? Because that was another struggle for me, right After I learned, after reading, thinking, grow rich. Then I was like, okay, how do I find these? And if you look online and here's the thing, I've looked it up, I've done this and I haven't done this in a long time. I'm a member of a few masterminds out. But if you look it up, parker, and you look up masterminds like near you, they're not easy to find on Google, like it's not easy, it's not. Like it's not like hey, you have to actually show up to events, like maybe events you host or maybe events I host or maybe Events other other people host, and that's how you find out about these events. But that's how I found out about the masterminds I'm in. How does one Find the group appears Right, that's gonna level them up. And how does one find an and identify a mastermind? They want to learn, they want to join. That's gonna level them up.

Speaker 2: 28:52

You're a smart guy, martin, I Think you know what's coming to me as you ask this question is. I actually think it starts by walking people out of your life, like for me, it started with walking people out of my life. That we're going the same direction, that I were going, that I was going it that worry, you know, maybe didn't have the right like my best interests at art and and you know it from a Maslow's hierarchy of needs standpoint, connection is a more basic human need than success or self-actualization, and so I think a lot of people self-sabotage their own success to the connection that they have and me that's the yeah, it's good observation.

Speaker 2: 29:44

It almost happened to me Like I you know, I I've been only child I really yearned for friends and acceptance and and then I started finding that, maybe not in the best places and it wasn't leading me in a good place, and I had to walk those people out of my life. And and I mean like deliberate conversations, it wasn't just ghosting people, hey, like this is what I'm, this is what I'm doing, this is what I'm thinking, this is what's happening. And and I was crying through some of these conversations because, you know, I I cared about these people but, um, it created a lot of loneliness for a period of time, like six to 18 months, of being very alone and and looking, you know, at people that had the, that, those relationships and and and really valuing it, like seeing, like, oh, that's, that's something I want, like I value that relationship, but I need to find it in the right spot. And so, from that point on, I was very careful, I curated, if you will, who I let into my life after that, and that group of people became the foundation of Honto, the foundation of the mastermind. Um, this might kind of go back to the previous question, but, like I'm, I'm more on the side of starting to like, like organizing events versus just going to them, and so I would even suggest your audience you know people, listeners, that are like hey, where do I start? It's like, start an event that you care about. It could be about gardening, it could be about anything.

Speaker 2: 31:13

Crypto, like you know, like whatever excites excites, you will likely excite other people, and when we organize that event, we become the, we become an authority. There's like some credibility that that creates, um, where, where? Then, once you have people there, you can create your own mastermind, um, or someone will invite you because they see that you're a doer, right, you're there to add value, you're, you're doing something, and the people who are doing stuff want to be around other people that are doing stuff. There's a similar like energy and and focus that that requires, uh, but I can say I got really leveled up by the people that I was around. They had, uh, you know, different upbringings, that I had maybe made less mistakes, that I paid and had some better habits, and I think I was probably the the beneficiary of a lot of those relationships and it may have even saved my life. So I'm not sure I answered your question there, martin, so feel free to ask it again. But that's you, you did.

Speaker 1: 32:09

You know, you said something so key, so powerful there that I think would be. I want you to elaborate on this because I'm sure, I'm sure that there's a listener that's going to listen to the they. They're going to resonate with what you just said. So you said you, you literally had conversations. Everyone that heard what I just said about, I'm going to say, everyone that heard what I just said knows exactly, as a human being, you know exactly, we all know exactly what I'm talking about. You are who you spend time with right, and you said something so powerful and I really admire you for that and I want to commend you for that that you literally picked up the phone and and you told these people that you wanted to put out of that. You wanted out of your life. They couldn't be in your network anymore. You live in tears. You told you know these were face to face conversations, yeah, these face to face Like.

Speaker 2: 33:02

I admire that man.

Speaker 1: 33:03

That takes a lot of courage, that takes a lot of guts to do that. That takes big commitment from your side to your personal health, to your mental health, to your well-being into the future Version of you. And, as you said, you were. You even thought lonely at time after that because you were leveling up and you you knew they weren't good for you. And I know, as a human being, I know that there's other human beings listening to us around the world right now and saying, man, that really resonates with me. I can think of this person that's in my life. That's just no good. I can think of this person that's in my life. That's just every time. I'm around this person. My energy, my energy, my time. I'm around this person, my energy. I call them the vampires, the energy drainers. Right, you're around them. What they do is complain. I talk nonsense and it's just complain. They're not. They're not bringing value to to the conversations. You just want to gossip and complain. I know that there's, there's a listen. Every listener knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 34:04

How does one muster up the courage? Cause in theory it sounds good. Right, in theory it sounds good. You need, you're the top five, five people you hang out with, you're not going to make a dollar more than the five people you hang out with. All of that sounds good.

Speaker 1: 34:17

You know, my mom used to say to me um, the American King, on that, they're the King at it, which means, tell me who you're with and I'll know who you are coming, who you're spending time with and I'll know who you are. Of course, I didn't get that, as you used to tell me I don't like that kid, I don't like that kid, I don't want you to spend time with this one. Now I understand what what the same means. Right, tell me who you're with and I'll tell you who you are. And uh, so how does one prepare oneself? How does one identify those people they have to eliminate out of their life?

Speaker 1: 34:45

How does one prepare oneself? And how does one do it? Cause, listen, I know there's people listening out there. They're like, yeah, I need to do this, I just don't know how to do it. I don't know how to cut my sister off. I don't know how to cut my cousin off. Man, this has been my high school buddy, for he saved my life 30 years ago, 20 years ago. How do I? How do I do this. I'm still loyal to this person, but they're just no good for me. How does someone do this?

Speaker 2: 35:12

So a few things like one is you know not to go all Gary, gary Vaynerchuk, but you know you're going to die, and I think it goes back to that. That. That quote like live your life as if you're living it for the second time and you're dangerous to be close to making the same mistakes the second time as you did the first time. The other thing that comes up for me with it is it was interesting over over multiple years, looking back when I walked those people out of my life, there was a few people that re-entered my life future. They were like Parker, like I'm making this change now too. Like you know, I've given up. You know these habits and I want to be. You know what? You know, why don't we reconnect?

Speaker 2: 35:59

And so this can be a gift, right, this is part of leadership, I think is like learning to lead ourselves and become our own best friend, like being able to be comfortable being around ourselves versus just finding comfort from the associations with other people, and I always you know this is a little bit cliche but like leading with love.

Speaker 2: 36:20

Right, this is not a hateful thing, this is not a judgmental thing, this isn't like oh, you're a bad person, I don't like you.

Speaker 2: 36:27

I'm dipping out. Right. This is, this is an I thing, this is I'm making these decisions, this is where I'm going, this is what I'm realizing and this is what I, you know, and and this isn't up for negotiation and and I think people will be surprised if you know, over a medium to long term, the benefit that that creates for that person, because it becomes a wake up call for them and helps them realize, you know, maybe there's a shift that they they need to make, potentially, and and it doesn't need to be forever right we can always reengage your relationship if it would serve us or if it would serve them. But I think, if, if we think about the fact that this is our one life and there's so much to experience, there's so many things that we can do, there's so many things that we can do with it. You know why, why be afraid and like, just just play small? So that's, that's what comes up from.

Speaker 1: 37:31

So, so, one life, one shot, right, one opportunity at this thing, eventually, from from your experience, you know, hosting masterminds with entrepreneurs, successful entrepreneurs, what are? What are one or two things that you can tell someone like, hey, if it were me and I had someone in my life that was doing XYZ, if it were me, this person did someone I have to consider no good for me, right, what would be some of those things that you would say, because maybe someone doesn't know what, what Was good? And again, this is a we're trying to paint with a broad brush, right, we just want to give some examples of some of the things. Maybe you could just use some of the examples or some of the things that you did during that time, because we all, we, we all have a man, we all have a man. I'm very intentional of who I keep in my inner circle. Because of that, because I understand who I'm spending time with. It's why I become, and who's in my ear, who I'm listening to it and what conversations I'm having are Extremely important to my success and my fulfillment in life.

Speaker 1: 38:48

Now, I was talking to a friend the other day and and we, we, we do business, we do some business. He is an executive at a company that loans money, gives us money, loans not gives us, but loans us money. And I said, I said to my friend, I said, listen, matt, I can't, I cannot, I Cannot respect if we're doing business, if you change or if someone changes, we are having agreement and someone changes the rules of engagement in the middle of the arrangement after we've already set the rule. I understand that things happen and markets change and things happen, but changing the rules of engagement in the middle of a transaction, it's not, that's not. Someone I can trust Said look, dude, it's the same thing as if you for me, if we, if it's three or four of us, and we're out in a, in a, let's say, we're out having dinner or something and and I, there's someone that's in this environment or this group of people that is Hitting on a, hitting. He's a married person and he's hitting on a married woman. I'm not judging anyone. Okay, we've isn't the shirt, in my circle, my table, and this person is hitting as my person, hitting on a married woman or a married person, and then that person Wants to come and do business with me and asks me to be a partner with me in a deal down the line. The answer is no Right guy, for I don't want that person in my circle. And this may be. This may sound judgmental, but it's a values thing for me. It's a values things. For me, it's a lake. Listen, if you do that to your spouse or you're doing that someone else's spouse, you're gonna do it to me as a business partner and as a business partner I have to trust we got to have each other's back. That you know.

Speaker 1: 40:39

Being an entrepreneur is not easy. You know it's very rewarding and it's fun. But you there's challenges, there's constant things you have to be fixing and figuring out and strategically planning out. And to have to worry about a partner now Doing or not doing the right thing, because you know the line of values is something I'm not gonna do. So how you do anything is how you do everything. That's one of the things for me. But what would you advise someone? What are some of the characteristics, what are some of those things that you would say, hey man, I need this person out of my life Because they're not working. You know this person is not helping me get to what I want to get to.

Speaker 2: 41:18

Yeah, it's interesting when you say that like. What comes up for me is that that idea of like, listen to people because they'll often tell you what they're thinking, right, yeah, who they are, what they're thinking, what they want and I think that's that can be a real challenge is is Not seeing people the way we want them to be, but seeing them how, for who they actually are, and and actually learning to listen like to people, right, that's, it's like a skill that needs to be developed, that some people maybe have at a younger age. So so I would say, like, like, listen, and if you don't like what you're hearing from that person, that's probably a sign. For me. I think there's also like, it depends on the life someone wants to live. But if someone's doing something that's unethical or illegal as a way of life, that was a hard no for it. Like, I just I Just didn't want to live in feet, you know, and and then this might be obvious, but it was something that I had to learn as well, because I Really wanted people to like me.

Speaker 2: 42:24

But if someone's taking advantage of me, even stealing from me, right, then that's a that's a hard pass, right, that's, that's gonna just be. It get bigger, and so that idea of like I think I said this earlier was like having other people's best interests at heart. It's like find people that have your best interests at heart too, and if someone is unwilling to to to have that frame or that view or being willing to think about my best interests are, are they really a friend? I don't know right. Is that? Is that? Is that a relationship? So I think it might be different for for different people, depending on kind of you know what they want it and in how they're approaching life. But I think it starts with getting to know ourselves and like learning to listen to other people and and something I wish I would have done when I was younger is like Actually figuring out who I enjoyed being around Power that is powerful man.

Speaker 1: 43:26

That's that you know. Unfortunately, that, parker, I find that comes with age and experience, right, as you know yourself, and you get your purpose and you figure out what you want out of life. You figure out what's important to you. When we're young, we're trying to figure out who we are. We're just trying to figure out what we like and, right, we don't even know that. That's why I recorded a podcast episode for my birthday, for my 45th birthday, a few weeks ago, and it was this I recorded it for my kids, I recorded it for my children and my grandchildren.

Speaker 1: 43:58

I want to leave 16 life lessons to live by. That I've learned as a 45 year old man, and the one thing was figure out your purpose. Number two, I think, was value number two. Lesson number two is figure out your purpose as early as and as fast as you can. For that same reason, because you figure out what you like, figure out what you don't like, figure out who you want, you figure out how to make decisions easier in your life, without shame or guilt or fear, because it's about your purpose. My friend, I am so grateful that you took the time to come out and spend time with me and my audience. I appreciate it, thank you. Thank you for coming out and hearing me. You're welcome, my friend. Thank you for coming out, sharing your wisdom, your insight, your experience, as right now we're gonna go right into our untitled round where I'm gonna ask you a series of questions. You don't have to think, you don't have to justify, just one word answers. Are you ready to play, my friend, let's do it. Entrepreneurship is adding value, selling a pain.

Speaker 2: 45:03

My advice to young entrepreneurs is build great habits and write your own story Like figure out the story you're telling yourself and rewrite that to serve you.

Speaker 1: 45:18

I've always wanted to travel too.

Speaker 2: 45:21

So I'm traveling the world this year with my wife, so I feel like I'm unlocking this places out. But I'm really excited about Dubai is something that's not currently on my roadmap that I'd really like to go to.

Speaker 1: 45:35

Awesome. Never underestimate the power of Forgiveness. A million dollars is Small, not a lot. That's what came to my mind. Big, big, big, big, big, big big. Ben Franklin is Thought leader, inspiration, family or business.

Speaker 2: 45:55

Mm, that's a tough one. I mean I err on the side of family a lot, but my family doesn't. I think I would be willing to cut out, like cut people out of my life that weren't supporting my purpose Cats or dogs, don't say the cat. I was like we have a dog that we're traveling on Got it?

Speaker 1: 46:20

Book smart or street smart? Gonna have bowls? Passion or stability? If I had issues, though, I'd go street smart. What was that? One, passion or stability, both.

Speaker 2: 46:36

I think it depends on the person. It depends on the person and their kind of risk profile.

Speaker 1: 46:42

Wine or beer.

Speaker 2: 46:44

Neither Wine.

Speaker 1: 46:46

It depends on what country Words or action, actions, and lastly, ben Franklin or Lincoln the dog? I don't get that one. What's that? I don't get that one, you don't get that one. So my team puts these questions together and do you have a dog? What's your dog's name? Lincoln, lincoln, okay, so this is why they're asking it. That's why they're asking it. When they did their research on you, they were like, okay, he likes Ben Franklin and he loves his dog. So Ben Franklin or your dog, lincoln, your dog, your dog?

Speaker 2: 47:21

Oh, it's funny, we almost named Lincoln Franklin. You mean like, could I have Ben Franklin as like a child, like a man?

Speaker 1: 47:31

It means to you, just whatever it means Just for fun, ben Franklin or you.

Speaker 2: 47:38

Oh man, I'm gonna go with both on that one too. So much love.

Speaker 1: 47:44

Thank you so much for coming out and playing full out, man. I really enjoyed this interview with you. Parker, if people wanted to connect, first of all, I wanna ask you whereabouts on the world are you today? We're in Prague. You're in Prague. Prague is Middle East.

Speaker 2: 48:01

Prague is in Europe. It's in the Czech.

Speaker 1: 48:03

Republic, Czech Republic. Awesome man, Good, good, good. If people wanted to connect with you, they wanted maybe to join your mastermind, your entrepreneurs mastermind, and they just wanted to keep learning from you, growing, connecting with you. How and where could they find you? Parker?

Speaker 2: 48:21

Yeah, I mean, it depends on the social media platform that they're on. I'm active on social media, I would say Instagram or LinkedIn, and then our website is hoontouglobal or junetouglobal where they can get some more information, but feel free to email me as well at parkerjunetouglobal and if I can help with anything. One of the things we didn't get to dive into fully, but I hinted out a little bit is really getting clear about the story that we're living out, and I think a lot of people come here Martin if I'm going off cue, but a lot of people have they're unconscious about the story that they've written for themselves and that story was often given to them by someone else when they were a child. And until we get clear about what that story is, it becomes challenging to change that story and often negative emotions, or what I call triggers, can be the tool, it can be the clue to help us figure out what that story is. It's like it's the starting point to figure it out.

Speaker 2: 49:36

But I think a lot of people and I've done this in the past for me I didn't like negative emotions and so I tried to numb them, escape from them, hide from them, and I regret every moment of that and the more I lean into those negative emotions. There's so much power in those and having the tools to leverage those emotions and harness them can be a big difference maker. So if anybody is interested in that type of tool, feel free to message me on social media or email me. And I appreciate your time, martin, appreciate your audience's time and I hope that we can reconnect again, absolutely Maybe for a barbecue.

Speaker 1: 50:25

Yes, sir, that would be great. Yeah, when you're back in the States, we'd love to do that. Thank you, parker, for coming out. Really appreciate you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We shared a lot of insights, a lot of value with myself. I learned a bunch of things from you and I'm sure my audience also got a lot of value from this conversation and everything that you shared. So that's juntoglobal. So email this Parker at juntoglobal. Make sure you reach out to Parker. Really appreciate you guys listening. Parker, really appreciate you coming on, brother. Enjoy.

Speaker 2: 51:00

Thank you, Parker.