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The Bamboo Lab Podcast
Clint Boxman and The Drive Within: Finding Purpose Beyond Success
What makes someone jump from merely successful to truly impactful? Clint Boxman, Managing Director of Latitude 48 and one of Washington's top-rated financial advisors, reveals the journey that shaped his distinctive approach to business, leadership, and life.
Starting with humble beginnings in a small town, Clint shares how his entrepreneurial spirit emerged at just 13 years old when he began his own landscaping business, eventually accumulating more savings than his parents. This early financial independence funded his education and sparked an investment journey that would become his life's work. With guidance from unlikely mentors including his father's boss (a high school dropout turned self-made millionaire), Clint developed a passion for helping others build financial security and meaningful legacies.
Throughout our conversation, Clint reveals the profound ways client relationships have transformed his perspective. From celebrating milestones to mourning losses, these deep connections have taught him to "live every day to the fullest, like it's your last." This philosophy permeates everything at Latitude 48, where client relationships span decades and often feel more like family than business.
Perhaps most compelling is Clint's unique definition of success. Rather than focusing solely on accolades (though his team has many), he measures achievement through impact – what his children will become, how clients feel served, and the difference made in his community. His experience serving as master of ceremonies at a client's funeral offered powerful perspective on what truly matters at life's end.
For anyone striving to build something meaningful – whether in business, community, or family – Clint's mantra offers a guiding light: "Whatever you think you can do, you can always do more." His story reminds us that our greatest legacy isn't built through grand gestures but through consistent, purposeful choices to serve others well.
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Speaker 2:Welcome everyone to this week's episode of the Bamboo Lab Podcast. As always, I'm your host, brian Bosley. Several years ago I had the privilege and honor to work alongside of a specific financial planning team out of Kingston, washington, and we worked together alongside of each other for a number of years and I got to know each and every one of these individuals very, very well of years and I got to know each and every one of these individuals very, very well. Probably in my 29 years of coaching, I have never been more impressed by a team of individuals coming together as a cohesive unit and a team. So today I brought on a friend of mine over the past several years. He is the managing director of the Latitude 48 group. His name is Clint Boxman. My friend Clint, welcome to the Bamboo Lab podcast. Thanks, brian. You are welcome. Good to be here. That's awesome. Do you remember when you guys bought me that picture of the Great Lakes?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think and I know when I moved into this new office space in Wisconsin a couple of months ago, I put that right above my desk. So literally I'm looking at it right now and I think I sent the picture to all you guys it never really had a great place to hang it. I moved around so much in the last four or five years and was never at my house, so now I have a prominent place. It's just got a bunch of sticky notes though, Clint, so it's almost all covered up with sticky notes of quotes that I've heard or questions I should ask clients. But it's the prominent display in the center of my office. So thank you for that.
Speaker 3:Nobody needs to see the Great Lakes. It's all good, I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it because I can see exactly how far away my mom is, how far away my kids are. I can actually have a visualization of how far away they are. So that's pretty cool. It is Well. You know. Obviously, clint, I've gotten to know you so well over the years. I don't know how many countless hours we have spent talking over the years, but the Bamboo Pack, the audience out there. For their benefit, can you share a little bit about yourself, where you're from, your family, your childhood, who or what inspired you?
Speaker 3:Sure, yeah, born and raised in Washington, so born in Seattle. I'm the oldest of three kids. I have two younger sisters. I grew up in Snohomish, not far away, a little town north of Seattle. It's kind of a farming community. Some people say it's the antique capital of Washington, maybe it's the US now, I don't know. Kind of sleepy town that's kind of ballooned and blossomed into a wonderful place. Uh, miss living there. Um, mom was a school teacher elementary. She mostly did fourth, fifth, sixth grade or sometimes a split class. Uh, dad was a sales um manager for a trucking company. Dealt with mostly state transportation of city of transportation, like basically take a chassis off a truck and build to fit what their needs were, like a dump truck, crane, a snowplow, that kind of stuff. So that's a little bit about family. I'm a dad of two kids. I've got an 11-year-old Audrey daughter and then a son, landon, who's coming up on 15. Feels like yesterday when we had him Wife Megan and live here in Kingston. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine, I can't believe you have a teenager, almost two teenagers, In a couple of years you can say you have two of them.
Speaker 3:I know, I know it goes by fast. The good thing is that they age and we don't, so that's the benefit of having kids. That is true. When did we start? When did I meet you Like? When did we? How many years ago Was that? Before COVID? That was pre-COVID, I thought so. So I want to say it was 2018 or 2019. Holy cow, I think it's when we started working together and then active coaching sessions and stuff heading into COVID and well into COVID, well past COVID, and then, yeah, so it's been a minute it has been.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great, and the funny thing is we've never met face to face. I know we need to do that. I know we do. I have so many people out in Washington that I want to see and it's one of my favorite states of all time. I and I love, I love washington, so I'm going to get out there someday. I've met a lot of people from the podcast. Literally this is my second podcast of today and the first gentleman was from washington as well. I shared that earlier with you oh, it's two in one day from washington nice so thanks.
Speaker 2:So you came from what? So your your town? How many people were in your hometown growing up? Clint?
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't know, it was thousands, like probably tens of thousands. Now it's probably closer to 50 or 60,000. So it's a much bigger town. In fact, the county is named after the town, so it was a pretty prominent area. It's not Homish County.
Speaker 2:So fairly big, nothing like Seattle. No, no, no, it's in the Homers County. So fairly big, nothing like Seattle.
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:It's just amazing.
Speaker 2:And I know my guests get tired of me saying this, but I say it so often because it comes up so often how many people I've met or I've met you obviously prior but how many people I've talked with on this show who are from towns, not massive cities, that are successful, and I would say honestly, 80, oh gosh, more than that. I bet 10% of the people I've spoken with who are highly successful in life came from a city. I bet 90% came from somewhere between 50 and below Some people. I had one lady who had, I think, three in her graduating class, three to four, something really small like that. I mean I had 75 and I was in a small town. But it's just amazing.
Speaker 2:I never would have thought that, clint, I would have thought you know, you're getting these successful people in the world of finance or whatever the trade is, that they're coming from these massive cities. They're not. It's just not where they breed success and I don't know what it is. I think there is a community sense of you know, when you live in it you grew up in a smaller community, maybe a blue collar family you work harder, you also get, you also meet more people when you're in a small because you know so many people. When you're in a small community, you have to get along.
Speaker 3:You can't hide. That's very true. It's hard to hide.
Speaker 2:It is yeah. To hide it is yeah, like seattle, detroit, grand rapids, atlanta, those places you can just hide and be kind of anonymous and just stick with your one little niche group right, yeah, so it's very true, you have to make it work now I know you as one of the hardest working men in the industry, so I gotta ask you what has, what was that inspired you, or who inspired you growing up to become the person you are today?
Speaker 3:um, there's probably a lot of layers to that. So I think, um, initially, first, you know, uh, I'm a big sports guy, so I have to go immediately to sports. And being in Seattle, you know the, the drive that I I I think I got was through sports and just trying to always be better. And I loved Ken Griffey Jr growing up, just loved watching him, and basketball is also a big passion of mine and Michael Jordan was an easy one to want to emulate, be like Mike. But knowing full well how hard they worked to get to that level, I think that was an indirect inspiration that I had young.
Speaker 3:My parents didn't have hardly any money and when I was, I think, around 13, I actually started my own landscaping business and I went door to door, you know, asking if I could do some random jobs for people mowing lawns, weeding, clearing blackberry bushes, all that and then that eventually snowballed into, you know, getting more lawns and other things. And then it was babysitting and then it was dog walking and such, and so I eventually had more money in the bank than my parents did and that eventually later on in life helped me pay for college, buy my own car, pay for my insurance, gas money, all that kind of stuff. But the thing that kind of molded me more was my dad's boss. He was a high school dropout but self-made millionaire and he kind of inspired me to start investing. And my dad said you got to talk to him about what to do with your money. You know, it's doing no good sitting in the bank. I don't know what you should do. Just go have lunch with him. And so I had lunch with him. I was a teenager at the time and he kind of taught me about you know, how to manage your money and what you should do with your excess cash. And he talked about investing in real estate. That was his big thing. But he also, you know, talked about investing in companies like stocks. Again, this is the 90s. Investing in companies like stocks um, again this is the 90s. So let's not confuse bull brains with the bull market. But you know it, I started investing in as a seattle guy.
Speaker 3:Of course you got to buy microsoft, because that was the thing everybody did. Uh, again, a sports guy, I bought nike stock because basically everybody wore some type of nike gear, whether it was baseball or basketball or soccer, whatever. And then we used to shop a lot at walmart so I bought walmart stock because well, shoot, there's long lines. I was very impatient waiting in these lines. They got to be making money. And then the other one I bought was a pfizer. And that was because when I went to grandma's house she always had all these drugs in the in the file cabinet. You know they, there's plenty of grandmas out there and and and that kind of um.
Speaker 3:Obviously I did really well in the nineties and so that kind of helped shape some of my love, passion for, you know, investing and knowledge for investing, and obviously now a career path which I kind of stumbled into way decades later. But um, that decades later, but um, that that has to be sort of a um, an inspiration of sorts, um. And then I think the only other one that I put out there would be either my grandfather, um, we called him grandpa bang. He uh, he was active in rotary. He um was so influential in his town in Illinois it's in the quad Cities, moline and Rock Island, illinois. He had a key to four different cities and he was a major influence on just making life better in that town or those towns, and now they're just big cities and I think the other person would be my track coach, uh, mr Janae Tuck.
Speaker 3:Um, he had a saying leave it nicer than you found it. Um, and he was. I was a TA for him in high school. He had a kind of this new idea of like a civics class, a life class if you will, and he was somebody that kind of taught me about how to get a credit card and establish credit and why you, how to balance your checkbook and why should you buy a home when you, you know, first get started in life. And you know, he also kind of helped shape my life and love for it and knowledge for investing in career path and kind of help make me who I am. So I'd say that those would probably be the best inspirations that I had growing up and the rationale as to why, wow, that's a lot of powerful people, I mean, I like the first.
Speaker 2:What is it? Leave it nicer than you found it. It's kind of like it's like the doctor's Hippocratic oath First of all, do no harm. First, do no harm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, he, he used to. I can still hear his voice now, like on the bus, you know. You know, get back out there, let's leave it nicely. Then we found it like after we're leaving a track meet, you know the stadium, we were the team that had to stay back and clean up the, the bleachers and you know, around the stadium, just to make it nicer and before we could leave. So we hated him for it. But now, when you think back to all those great teachings that he, he left, it made a pretty big impact on me.
Speaker 2:Well, you get to a point in life too. I you know, clint, I know where. I know I'm older than you, but not a whole lot. I guess probably 10 years. I'm 58. What are you?
Speaker 3:Almost 45.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'm 13 years older than you, almost 14. Where it becomes more about what you're going to leave as a legacy. You can go for the success, you can go for the accolades, you can go for money, you can go for production, you can go for trophies and titles, and at a certain point, especially when you have kids and then grandkids down the road, it's more about how am I leaving this place, is it? Am I leaving it better? Am I leaving it nicer than I found it, like your grandpa would say. I think that's such a track coach. I'm sorry. That's such a powerful way to live life. Yeah, no, you've been with. You've been in the industry now almost 20 years, haven't you correct? Yeah, that's yeah, that's a journey, man, that's a journey it was yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's amazing because in the last, I would say, month I've been in contact, clint, with maybe five or six people that I met my first couple of years in the industry. So 34 years, I don't know 96, whenever, I'm sorry, 91. So 34 years ago, some of the guys I was their first training manager, so back in the day when you had training managers and district managers and field vice presidents maybe they still do, I don't know, but I was like three or four of these guys I was their training manager and we'd just been in contact, just literally, some of it coincidentally, but four or five, I think, five people total from my past and we're talking and I'm like, can you believe it was 33 years ago? I was your training manager. Or 31 years ago I was this I was a co-manager with a gentleman by the name of will lee in the ann arbor, michigan american express office. I don't know where that time went. It was almost like I went through a time portal and I woke up five years later and 30 years has passed.
Speaker 2:The industry of finance is, I think, one of the more challenging ones for people. So I think, when you really dig into it and you have such a passion for serving other people, as you guys do at Latitude 48. You have such a passion for serving your clients and community and you're working hard so long especially those first decade or two it just but when you're doing that and you're doing something, you have a true, genuine love for time is going to pass, because you get into that zone kind of where it just time kind of flies by. If you had a job where you hated and you did it for 19, 20 years, I bet it would feel like it was 40 years.
Speaker 3:I believe it. I believe it now.
Speaker 2:The first few years were out with challenge. I was talking to somebody I don't know, one of these, these gentlemen, three weeks ago and I said they. They said to me actually we had a conversation on it the stuff we went through that first year as a financial advisor out of college. I hated every single minute of it. But I look back now and that first year especially if I had not gone through that I would not be the person I am today as a professional as well as in my personal life. And then I start to kind of feel sorry for some of those people who didn't have to do the things that we had to do two decades ago or three decades ago coming into the industry, and it seemed like it was more difficult then. I don't know, maybe I was just younger. It seems like there's an easier path to success today than there was when you started or when I started.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, Knocked on doors. Door-to-door sales.
Speaker 2:It was. Here's a phone book, here's a script and here's a phone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Start calling yeah, good luck, yeah, right right. No internet, no yeah.
Speaker 2:I remember a time Clint I was this is how much people hated the cold calls is I was in Madison or Milwaukee, wisconsin, I'm not sure and I was coaching it wasn't American Express or it was before, it was Ameriprise. I think I was coaching like 10 of their people on marketing and sales and calls and phone calls and I was in this room like a bullpen where these people were calling and there was a particular person he's no longer with the company and he was the head of the office and he did not want me there. The vice president, rvp or GVP, hired me. This gentleman FVP, I forget his name, I think he was. He could have been district manager, I don't know, I forget his name. He did not want me there. He was a little, it just. You know, I was stepping on toes and he said see, look how great my people are calling. They're on the phone, they're in. It was like five o'clock at night or five, 30.
Speaker 2:And I was just observing what about this lady over here? There was a young lady, probably 25, 24. And she was over there just talking on the phone, making she was setting appointments and just like she was having a long conversation with these prospects. And he said, yeah, I said why? She said why is she in your group? She sets her appointments every week. And I said, well, how many clients does she have? And he said it was some small number. So it was some small number. So she was setting her 12 appointments a week, but she wasn't getting a lot of clients.
Speaker 2:So I went over there to observe her, to take notes. Like she's doing this. They must not be showing up. Or when they do show up, maybe she's not. Her sales is off, her sales pitch is off. Well, when I looked, I realized there were no lights on her phone. So she was on the phone this whole time. The lights weren't coming on. Like different you, she was having mythical conversations with prospects in front of people all around here saying set another one, got two appointments set tonight. She wasn't even on the phone. That's how terrifying the phone is. I don't blame her man, she was scared to be on the phone.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:I know that's one of those extreme memories I have of how terrifying that era and that first year is for so many advisors, especially back then.
Speaker 3:We had a guy that taped our hand to the phone. We couldn't leave and the only way to get out of it is you had to make the calls.
Speaker 2:You know what? It's pretty barbaric but it's pretty effective, man. It's pretty barbaric but it's pretty effective, man. We did this thing called power dialing, where I would give my friend, tony, my leads and he would actually dial and hand me the phone and as soon as I was done you didn't have time to turn it over and write notes on what you talked about and organize your leads as soon as the phone was up he was dial to the next number and handing you the next lead and you do 30 minutes of calling. That way He'd do 30 and I'd do 30. And we would set more appointments in that time than you do by with three or four hours on your own because you're lollygagging and you're getting up and going to the bathroom.
Speaker 3:You know you're sh worst enemy. Oh for sure, giving your own excuse train?
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially if you're a good salesperson, I mean you can sell yourself on anything. Right right, clint, what would you say in the last year or two? As you have continued to grow, you guys are growing the practice. You're meeting new clients, you're servicing clients like you do, getting involved in the community. What would you say has been one of your greatest learnings in the past year or two?
Speaker 3:um, I, I think um where there has been bad has brought out good, and I'd say it's. We've had a lot of life experiences, um, both personally and through work, um deaths, health issues. You know the stuff that happens. And I'd say, to summarize all that from you know hearing about paralysis of people to emergency surgeries and sudden heart attacks and obviously death, um, you know really it's to take life for, not to take life for granted, and to kind of live every day to the fullest, like it's your last and be grateful for all of the gifts that god's given us. Um, because you just really don't know.
Speaker 3:And I mean just yesterday, unfortunately, we had two, two announcements on deaths of good clients, and one was kind of a known, but again it was a stage four cancer diagnosis, very aggressive, nothing we can do, but it's just time. So it was a known thing, great guy, we'll miss him. And then another one that was an absolute out of the blue, you know, mid-60s, still working. She's a teacher. Um massive heart attack at home, um husband, she didn't have any signs. Um, didn't have any history, family history, history, uh, obviously school's out, so they're on vacation, sort of, so to speak, and um he went for a quick errand, came back and she was gone and, um, those, I guess life experiences, I would say, have been some of the better. To your question of last year learning lessons about. You know you got to not assume that everything's wonderful and that everything is just going to be there. You know you got to take it by the hands and just say, okay, I'm going to live in the moment and not count on something tomorrow.
Speaker 2:That's so coincidental. My previous guest this morning talked about something very similar. With just being in the present and I know how close you all are to your clients, they become more than just customers and clients. They're not transactional at latitude 48. They're very relational. So losing a client I mean I haven't had to experience that very often, which in my industry I coach people for maybe five years is about the average length of a client relationship. Yours can be 20, 30 years. So my heart goes out to the family of your clients who have passed. We had an issue or not an issue, I'm sorry. We had. My son called me on Sunday morning or texted me.
Speaker 2:A gentleman, a young 21-year-old gentleman he goes to college with in his classes wasn't a really close friend of his, but they were in groups together and studied together in the same curriculum construction management. He was this young gentleman by the name of Jackson who was down in Knoxville, tennessee, for the summer, at least for the weekend for Fourth of July, had a few too many drinks. On the Fourth of July At two in the morning he decided to climb a construction fence, climb up to the top of a crane, and then he fell off it. He was dead before they got there, 21 years old. And then I look on Facebook. Yesterday I looked and I have some mutual friends on Facebook who were related to him because he was from the upper part of Michigan. I didn't know that and I just saw the pictures of him. He looked like this nice young man.
Speaker 2:He just made one mistake, you know, and it made me realize. I was hiking yesterday with Jackie and I said I just can't keep stop thinking about this young kid, because we all have children. A lot of us have children. We all have somebody we love who's younger or, you know, is in college, just got out of college or is going to go to college, or at least in that age range where you think, oh, we were all there. How many times did I dodge a bullet of doing something that you know that was a little bit stupid and could have cost my lost, my life? So I agree with you live in the present. It's not easy though, is it? It's hard to do.
Speaker 3:No, it really is. It really is. And even with kids and you know other different experiences you have you get caught up in sometimes in the moment and you're not thinking about that as a big picture and then you think backwards and you kind of regret it or think you know I probably should have, would have, could have, you know, but you do the best you can. But I think that those are, you know, some of the things that it's. It's just a constant reminder and that's the good and the bad, I guess, of this job is that you, you get to see most of everyone's lives in that collective and the more people you serve, the more life experiences you witness and get up, be a part of both good and bad. And um, it it's, it's deep and it's hard sometimes and then it's also honorable and honoring, um, and humbling at times. You know to be so involved in somebody's life, um, that is. Yeah, the emotional side of this business is a lot. It's become more than I ever thought of Um and I don't take it for granted anymore.
Speaker 2:Well, I think, yeah, I think, when you start off in any career, especially in a career that's so relational, like merit, like, uh, like financial planning, um, I know, you know, I only lasted four and a half years in the industry, so I didn't have before I went on and started coaching. I only lasted four and a half years in the industry, so I didn't have before I went on and started coaching. I was just starting to become somewhat close with my clients because it took a few years. It's very transactional. It seems like at the beginning, especially when you're 23 years old and you need to make money, you're just trying to get clients and then you don't realize until later that wait a minute, I actually care about these people Like the. You know I get. I. I had a client. My one of the clients actually wasn't even my client, but it was when I was training a training manager in Ann Arbor, michigan, one of the young ladies who was like a year younger than I was or two years, but I was her training manager. She brought in an architect out of Ann Arbor, he and his wife. They came in. I sat through all the meetings as her manager because she was brand new. They became clients and so I got to meet him three or four times. Well, when I left two years later to start my coaching practice in 1996, I left on November 20th or 19th, actually On November 20th.
Speaker 2:The next morning when I woke up I didn't know what I was going to do. I'm like what I just quit a major company, I don't know. I knew I wanted to be a leadership consultant, so I he was the first person I called. I called him out of the um, I looked at I knew his name, so I and. But I didn't have his number. So I looked on the yellow pages and got him and we met a week later and he became a client of mine in coaching and I coached him for oh, 17 years, maybe, clint, I mean.
Speaker 2:So he became a good friend of mine. I mean he met my family. He came to my wedding. He gave me his BMW for a month for a wedding gift to travel wherever I wanted to, a little convertible Z3. This was 22, 23 years ago. But you realize that now I'm coaching, after 29 years, my clients, past and present, they're people I legitimately care about. I told the client this morning on a Microsoft Teams call. I said look me in the eyes. And he did. I said I love you, and he said I love you too. It's weird. It's stuff we didn't expect when we were younger.
Speaker 3:No, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2:Clint, this is a question I like to ask my guests. It's kind of one of the more prophetic questions. I don't know if it's prophetic, but it's a deeper question. What would you say is one of the most difficult things you have gone through as a man, and what did you do to overcome it and get through it?
Speaker 3:Um, I, I'd say that there there are several things I could make mention of. Um, my spleen ruptured when I was 25, I had to do an intervention with my sister, but first I had to intervene my parents first, um, and then eventually coach my dad to divorce my mom, uh, and then I could say just parenting in general. There's no manual on how to do it and you've got two very different kids. I think anybody that's a parent can probably appreciate and know where I'm coming from with that. That's an ongoing, most difficult thing you deal with, because every stage of life has been a challenge and different and difficult and sort of fun world into one. So those would be like the big things that would come to mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what? Tell me what as a so when you're so? It's been a long time. I mean my daughter's 38, ashley's, Dawson's, you know 22, going to be 23 here in a few months, and my, my bonus sons are all in the thirties. Now it's been a while. Austin's, 22, going to be 23 here in a few months, and my bonus sons are all in the 30s now it's been a while. I've never had two young people in my house at the same time. My daughter is 16 years older than my son and my bonus sons are in the middle. What's it like to have two children in your house four years apart, one being female, one being male?
Speaker 2:I mean that's just got to be.
Speaker 3:I've never experienced that it's just different. It's a good different. It has taught you a lot of life lessons and really good, valuable takeaways about just how to be better better as a person, better as a delegator, better as a teacher, better as a coach, better as a a co-parent right with with my wife, how to do things differently and learn more things that you didn't know and force you along the way, whether you liked it or not, not. Um, you know, as soon as we got really comfortable and felt like we were in a good groove with landon, obviously, then you have you go backwards in time to the baby stage, where you kind of remember some things but don't remember everything. And then again it's a girl. Okay, I, I know I was deathly afraid, like I had sisters, but I wasn't the dad. I don't remember all of the things growing up with all my sisters. You know stuff, but you know, am I going to be? I know the guy side, I don't know the girl side. So that was a thing. And even with Megan, like, yeah, I was a girl, but I don't remember these things. Like these are different times and different experiences and different you know stuff, and so it has been a challenge to like have to relearn and have to rethink and have to do things a little differently, do things a little differently.
Speaker 3:You know, she's uh more um aware of of what happens around her. Um, you know, sometimes my, my son's a little bit like, oh, I didn't see that bird that's right in front of me, kind of thing, and you're like, really, how did you not see that? And she's totally aware of it. Um, he was um pretty much good at everything he he put his mind to, and Audrey was a little bit more shy and apprehensive of wanting to try something new, um, and then, you know, my son struggles with, if he's not good at it right away, then he quits Um, and that also is a struggle.
Speaker 3:For you know how you um uh get him to overcome that. You know when it's like, oh, that's not a big deal, just give it another try. And it's like, no, I'm done. And you're like I don't know how to motivate that Um, whereas my daughter's like, if she doesn't get it right away, like she's going to keep going and she's not going to quit until she overcomes it. So they're very different in how they tackle adversity and look at different things. So it's been fun, but it's certainly sometimes a chore and a drain to go through the day to day with them.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but do you think, because they are so different but yet they have a solid, they have a very similar foundation, almost like running a team or a business you have that same foundation of where you're trying to go as a team and a collective, but yet such different personalities parenting, and do you think the parenting of Landon and Audrey have helped your directing and leading of Latitude 48? You think they've crisscrossed?
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 2:And I like when people say that, because so many people try to departmentalize their lives and you know this word balance and I like the word balance, I really do, but I like the word blend better when you're talking about your personal and professional life, because we learn so much in our professional lives especially, you know you dealing with people on a consistent basis, the emotional side of people, serving people, leading people, and so when you have this, you get this skill set that you know, that you harness when you're in your professional life and it should carry over to the way you raise your children and vice versa, the way we raise our children we learn so much from them Should go over to our professional life and how we lead teams or serve our clients. A lot of people don't like to do that, like to separate completely, and I'm like dude, there's a wealth of information and wisdom that you have on both sides that would definitely that would cross over so well and help the other side.
Speaker 3:So I kind of assume that about you I have a question and it's humbling too, because I've been I would say I'm I'm more wrong than right in this category of parenting, my wife's way more right than I have been, and it's kind of a trial and tribulation because you don't know if it's going to work or not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, but it's good to have one person who's more tuned into the parenting and you know, I don't know what your parenting style is. I know what your leadership style is pretty well and I want to bring that up because, as I mentioned earlier, I think you know I've coached I don't know how many people in 29 years. You are clearly one of the hardest working people I know. You have almost a maniacal focus on your career path and your serving of clients and your building of the business and things of that. Do you think that's your strength, clint? What would you say if you? What is your? What is one outstanding quality that you say, okay, I have all these other ones too, but there's one that shines out that brings you and the team up to the next level.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I suppose that that's probably an easy top level one. I, it's, it's both good and bad. Um, I, I'm definitely a driver. Yeah, I know that. Um, sometimes to a fault, and, um, I, I, I never seem to stop and say that was great, it's always, oh, I could have done that better or I should have done more.
Speaker 3:I don't know where that comes from and why, and sometimes that's what is a strength, and then at the same time, it can also be a major weakness. It's like, dude, you realize what you've accomplished and done. Why is that not good enough? Why can't you stop and celebrate that? And and I don't know how to do that, right, yeah, it's like if, if I'm, uh, you know, playing basketball with my son and we're shooting free throws and I make nine out of ten, like, nine out of ten is pretty damn good.
Speaker 3:And I'm mad because I didn't get 10 out of 10. Like, and that, and that I was that way in school, like you know, they give tests and obviously there'd be extra credit and I'd always go for the extra credit and I'd get like 102%. And I was mad that I didn't get 110, right, because there was 10 bonus questions and I was able to get two of the 10 in the time that they gave it the test and I got a hundred percent. You know, obviously that's an A plus and that's that's amazing, but I didn't feel like that was good enough, right? So that's just the way my mind has always been, and it is hard to not think that way for others, and that also is, again, a pro and a con.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I think it is, but I think it's your. It can be a problem, but it's you're on the right side of the problem. I mean, I think if you really want to have full achievement in life and full, uh uh, live your purpose to the highest level, it's better to be a harder worker and to have a time have a difficulty with imperfections than it is just be like whatever happens, happens, I'm okay with anything, and I mean it's almost that. Are you the thermometer? Are you the thermostat? You know the thermostat dictates the temperature of the room. That's who you are. But you can also be a thermometer and just gauge the room and say, okay, it's, you know, 72 degrees in here. I have to accept what it is. I think it's almost always better to be the thermostat. But sometimes you have to be the thermometer and just say I'm okay with the temperature right now, I can't do anything about it, I'm just reading the temperature of the room.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, and that's what I think my kids have given me. Is some of that? Yeah, me is some of that? Um, yeah, you know, because uh, they're not quite like that and I've had to internalize it and uh revisit it and temper expectations and or thoughts and and be okay with it. Yeah, not that it's bad, but it's not. Um, it's not for everybody and it's not who they are, and I have to foster and help with making them as good as they want and can be.
Speaker 2:It's just so amazing when you do stop, like you are, in observing your children. I mean, obviously you're raising your children, I have raised mine and I find it so fascinating when I look back and think I hope I taught them a lot and still do, when I have an opportunity to mentor them or role model for them. But I honestly look back and think I firmly I know it's cliche to say this, but I do believe they taught me as much as I taught them. It's cliche to say this, but I do believe they taught me as much as I taught them. When they get older, especially like whoa, okay, how I did that work, how I parented here didn't work. So you can kind of take those lessons and go on with your life and say, okay, I'm not going to raise any more children, obviously, but I can use that for my own life. You know, I can say this works really well, I'm going to use it again in my own life. Or this didn't, I got to scrap it, type thing.
Speaker 3:I agree 100%. Well, I think there's some. You can learn something from everybody.
Speaker 2:You can. And, clint, that's what I've learned about this podcast is that was the biggest learning I've had is how many people and literally I mean every person and I believe this on every level every human being on this earth has a story and has wisdom and experience that we can all learn from every single person. You know, you can look at the CEO of a company to a person who's homeless, and they're both going to have amazing stories that we can all learn from and take with us to better our lives and better the world. It's just, there's wisdom everywhere. We just have to look for it, we have to open our eyes to it. I should say, yeah, great, yeah, it's interesting because between Landon and Audrey there are four years Now. My daughter, my grandson, turns four here in two weeks, july 26th anyway and they're having their second child in October, so they're going to be about four years apart as well. So you're doing that now and they're about to start that journey of having two children four years apart.
Speaker 2:Yeah it wasn't by design, but I am so grateful that it happened the way it did. Yeah, yeah, that's wonderful. All right, this question here. I've been curious to hear your answer to this question, and that is what would you consider Clint to be a win in your life, or how do you define success?
Speaker 3:Hmm, um, well, I've, I've always seemed to measure my day-to-day wins on goal setting and, you know, setting a mark that you know is is generally probably too big for many people um, and then trying to go after it and go achieve it, that that's. That's been a way that I would say what's a win in my life? Um, but I think, big picture wise, as I look forward, I'd say that the one thing would be, um, just the general uh, friends, family, to be loved for them to want to be around me and knowing that they believe or see me as the one that's always helping them be the best they can be. That's one level. I think another level would be you know my kids growing up to be successful in whatever they end up doing and maybe, and hopefully eventually, hearing from other. You know grandparents that are around a table, you know whether it's the wedding or you know some random thing that you know we're visiting from town and I'm in their town and they know them and they just talk and gush about how great my son, daughter, is and how we should be so proud.
Speaker 3:I think that that would be, um a big win for me. Um, you know, or you know just I had the great fortune of being, um, like, the master of ceremonies at a client's funeral. Okay and um, it made me realize how much of a difference we make in people's lives every day. As financial advisors and you know dinners and stuff, but not the family they don't know as well as we do now. Today, that's what it means to be that person and as a guy that's a decorated Navy thumb ringer, you know huge rotation in the community. He's one of my most favorite people and just the number of people that came to celebrate him. A lot of stories I got to read a lot. Hey, clint, can I interrupt you for?
Speaker 2:a minute. It's real garbly. For some reason I'm having a hard time hearing you.
Speaker 3:It is now, I'm still talking, I have it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a little garbly, I don't know. Your cough seemed like it was clear. Can you say something? I'll just see if it's yeah. Yeah, just, I don't know You're back again, what else? I hear you, okay, yeah, just I don't know You're back again, what else? I hear you? Okay, yep, hear you great. So just kind of lost you at you know kind of the friendship part and the clients, and it kind of started garbling off there. Oh, you were the emcee of a client's funeral. That's where we lost you.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, so you know, he Just being able to hear all these people and see all these people that came to the celebration, be able to read out loud the letters and stories about him and his life and see all the generations of the connections he had and the people he influenced, all the things that he did because he was kind of the guy that would take credit for anything, just kind of do it and be gone um, just had the profound impact he had on so many people. Um, it was just so inspiring and I think you know a way in the world for me would be whenever, however, I can check out of this life, um, and if I can do a final one and be so good and we'll be close to how he loves, just to know the profound difference we get in people's lives, the positive impacts that they make to me, that would be a massive win in my bucket of life.
Speaker 2:Do you think that when you started this journey of being an advisor 19, 20 years ago, you thought that would be where you are now? Not just the success, but I mean as far as the commitment, the loyalty and connection you have with your clients? Would you have thought that 20 years ago?
Speaker 3:No, no way, no, no, it was a job, not a career.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now, as far I know, you have a pretty good team around you. I've had a chance to get to know almost everybody on your team. How has that managing the team? How has that team help you build and help each other build that relationship with clients? What is there that about you, that kind of has that you have a kind of a magical dust when you're all together. What is that? It kind of has that you have a kind of a magical dust when you're all together.
Speaker 3:What is that? I think it's to try not to make it a silo, that everybody has a hand in the connection with the person. One person is in charge of greeting and appointment setting and filing paperwork and follow-up. Somebody else is giving updates and somebody else is, you know, giving updates. Somebody else is doing you know, random other things, so it's not just the one man band, you know. So you're sharing in the walking through life with, with each person. I think that is a piece of that success, or that secret sauce, if you will. That is a piece of that success or that secret sauce, if you will. I think always celebrating, you know, the victories, of the positives that we've made impacts on life, you know, helps to want to have another outcome similar to that with somebody else, and that is probably, and I would assume, a driver for, however, the rest of the team, you know, thinks and operates and is a motivator for them. Rest of the team, you know, thinks and operates and and is a motivator for them is because it makes you feel good.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, it's definitely working and of all the people I've, all the teams I've worked with over the years, you, you guys, were just fun to work with and I I was thinking of how many places I lived while I was with you guys.
Speaker 2:I lived in east grand rapids twice. I lived in grand Grand Rapids twice. I lived in Grand Rapids the city, then I moved to the Upper Peninsula, so I've lived in, I think, four different places while working with you guys. I remember doing calls with you guys while I was walking around my yard in East Grand Rapids in the summertime. I would set my garage up to be my office because I just wanted to move around and I had a big space in there and had my computer and client files I'd bring in during the day and it was always fun working with you guys. And I know Bim just recently retired. Yes, yeah, I've texted him a couple of times. So a little shout out to Bim Prince out there, please enjoy your time that you have earned, spend time with family and friends and enjoy your, your, your hobbies out there and your passions. Um, yeah, how long was he with within the industry? He wasn't there, but he's a teacher for a while, isn't he?
Speaker 3:yes, um, he started in 1999, so he would be 20, almost 26 years, almost 26, somewhere in, somewhere in that range. Wow, yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:And you guys are neighbors, aren't you? You're pretty close to each other.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can throw a stone at him. I'm up the hill, thankfully.
Speaker 2:Well, don't throw any stones at him. No, you guys have a really neat team, Really very personable, very likable, very respected, very experienced team. That's one thing I really respected about working with you guys is just it was always fun, there were always great conversations, Everybody was highly open-minded and just good people. I mean just really really good people. So, and that's why I'm still in a group text with all you guys there you go.
Speaker 3:I know it, I know it. I thought well, keep it going. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:I love. Sometimes you'll say, hey, the event tonight we're going to be starting at 5 o'clock. You guys have a client or event or something. I feel like I'm still part of the family.
Speaker 3:Still part of the family. Well, I mean we spend more time with each other than we do, probably our significant other wife, husband and our kids. I mean you kind of have to need to like each other and enjoy the time with each other, and so we've always tried to be purposeful with sprinkling in fun and engagement and, you know, wanting to be around each other because we spend a lot of time with each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you sure do, and I see new babies coming to the Latitude 48 family.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, you guys have a good thing going there. Hopefully more to come. Yeah for sure. All right, this is my favorite question, clint Now this is assuming I have a time machine I'm going to fly out to Kingston Washington today. Now, this is assuming I have a time machine I'm going to fly out to Kingston Washington today and we're going to get in it. You and I are going to go back to some former time, when you were younger. I'm going to go as a passenger and as a note taker and you're going to sit down with your former self on a park bench somewhere and you're simply going to give yourself words of wisdom, recipes for success, life advice.
Speaker 3:What would you say to the younger Clint Boxman? I'd say don't be afraid of what you don't know. You can always do more. And whatever you think you can do, you can always do more. And that might be, you know, working just a little bit harder or pushing you to the extreme of uncomfortable, or pushing you to the extreme of uncomfortable. And just know that not only can you do that more of whatever it was, but it'll be more than worth it and you'll be happy with the result, just if you give it a try.
Speaker 2:It's so cool that so many people, when I ask that question, the word afraid or fear comes in. I think when we were younger and we still do I think I'm going to put a question in here down the road In 20 years from now, what would you come back and tell your current self? And I still think we'd say don't be afraid. I think we live with so much unconscious, subconscious, irrational fears and I love that you put in there. You can always do more. And I love that you put in there you can always do more. It's so powerful when you think of you know if you make one more sales call at the end of the day, or call one more client to just talk to them, or throw one more baseball with your kid or give your wife or husband a kiss one more time before you go to work, just it's one more of every little thing that we do that makes all the difference. It's not crazy exponential things that that we do, it's little things. I just started a book, I think two days ago, oh sorry called tiny habits by dr p bj fog kind of a strange name. Um, it's all literally about small, little, tiny things that we do are what make the difference? If there's a book by um really love Ed Milet, I think he's got an amazing podcast. He's a multimillionaire that did this podcast and wrote this book later in life called the Power of One More. In fact, I'm looking at it in my bookshelf right now.
Speaker 2:The same thing Success isn't defined by doing something grand every week or every day, or every year, every decade. It's about doing little things, more and better every single day. Just 1% improvements. Think about it. If you can improve yourself 1% on whatever your focus and whatever your most important things are, 1% change every day, at the end of the year you'll be almost 37 times better at what you do. That's incredibly insane. You get it because you understand the power of compound interest. I mean you know when you invest money, absolutely. So the team is growing. I know how many do you have on Latitude 48 right now, we're up to nine now. Nine, that's amazing. And so next, as you grow this and as the kids are, you're going to have two teenagers here in a couple of years. What's next for you? Grow this and, as the kids are, you're gonna have two teenagers here in a couple of years.
Speaker 3:What's next for you, like, what's your next focus? Um, I I'm that typical person that probably doesn't spend enough time on myself doing things that I do every day for others. When you ask that that's one of those, I haven't really done a lot of good planning for me. And or what is next? I see myself still just continuing to be in this role for at least the foreseeable future, helping clients on their journey and being a part of the team. But I do enjoy the whole community volunteer aspect of things. You know, being able to give back and do more on things that we might need, you know, whether that's in the schools or with kids and youth, or coaching. Or, you know, do some type of financial assistance for the various amenities of needs or projects that we have going around town or in our community.
Speaker 3:Uh, I love, love, love, love coaching. Um, I don't know if that love coaching is just because of my kids or of just the, the whole, what I get out of coaching, so that maybe is part of it. Um, I would hope that traveling I do enjoy traveling, that there's so many places in the world I want to go see, um, and you know, I'd love to just sell the house and store stuff and just be gone and just travel and just see the world. Um, so I I think that if I was really forced to start planning for myself, it'd be some capacity to those items.
Speaker 2:Okay Is Megan? Does she want to travel too?
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the heart. The hardest part is that we're. We're a part of that. You know, I'd call it sandwich generation is we still have the parents. They're not nearly in that place of where we have to add or do a lot of things for them, but we know that someday that's coming, and then also our kids, and so the focus is it's not likely on going away or being away, because we're obviously needed to be here, but at some point. You know, yeah, she loves traveling just as much as I do, so that's great. Well, I think you know, yeah, she loves traveling just as much as I do, so that's great.
Speaker 2:Well, I think you know you look at the coaching. I think when there are people who have the life experience that you have, you know, especially in the professional world, it would be a waste not to coach. And not that if you're coaching sports you're not, obviously you're not coaching financial services or leadership, but all that, it just that does come into play. That it just that does come into play and it's just what we teach in sports is the stuff we've learned through our lives, not just in sports but also in raising kids or leading a team or serving clients. So it would really be a waste if you didn't keep coaching in some capacity. Right, but I'll be honest with you. I coached lacrosse for almost five years and my son was was little, I was. I was so happy to give that up. I was so happy.
Speaker 2:You know I loved coaching the games but I didn't know lacrosse, I didn't know X's and O's, I just knew I was kind of the. I was the head coach for two and a half years, I think, or two years, and assistant coach the other years. And when I was the last two years when I was head coach, I'm like I'm just kind of the guy who's going to teach them life lessons. And I had to bring my, my thankfully my bonus son, my oldest stepson, played in in uh high school and college and coached at uh who's a head coach at the high school level after this and I brought him in as my assistant coach one year and he basically ran everything.
Speaker 2:I just I was the motivational guy. I taught him three things. It was always give your best out there, show respect to everybody on the field and have fun. If you do those things, you're going to play, if you don't, you're not going to play. And that's what I kept him. I kept that saying Do your best, show respect, have fun. I just drilled that into him but I was glad when it was done. I I loved watching my son. I love being a part of his life. You know, in the in sports, those four or five years, or five years, but I was ready depending on where the stage they are.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those are the most important qualities that are there. You know, early on it was like I want them to come away with an advancement of whatever they were doing, whether that was soccer or baseball or basketball or what, um, all the different sports I've coached but, um, I wanted, my goal was they want to play next year? Right, and that was kind of you know you asked the question of, that was a win. I mean, that was a win for me where I didn't, um, have them want to not be a part of whatever the sport was or play organized whatever I wanted them to be back and want to do, be a part of whatever the sport was or play organized whatever. I wanted them to be back and want to do it next year. I'll be mad that the season was over, yeah, right, and so that that was, um, that was an end goal to, like you said, I just give me your best and be respectful and, more importantly, let's go have some fun.
Speaker 3:And, and I think, if, if and when we did that, every kid wanted to be back and they were, and that was also more fun for me as the coach because it was all these same kids and then they were just a year older and they had more experience and more talent and or there were different skills that I could help hone and make better.
Speaker 3:And then when we got one or two other newer kids to the team, it it allowed me to focus more time on them versus the others because I knew where they were and what their strengths and weaknesses were and just made my job better and easier. And so it was I don't know, having Landon now in high school, believe it or not Um, I've I mean, I've been coaching him since he was five and so I've had close to 10 years of um basketball coaching and I've had almost the same five or six kids every single year and seeing them how they've grown and and developed it. It's been awesome and I'm semi sad to see my stage, at least for now, with them mostly done. We'll see if if there's other opportunities down the road for different things that I could help them with, but it's been a really cool journey and I just can't not do that with Audrey now.
Speaker 2:Right, right, that's one thing I never did. I never was able to. My daughter played a lot of sports but when she was in sports I was living in Detroit or Ann Arbor or Grand Rapids, michigan, and she was four hours away, so I wasn't able to be as involved with her sports. When she was younger, I watched a lot of meets and she actually played rugby in college for I think a year or a year and a half and I was able to go to a lot of her games because she went to Grand Valley State University, which was in Grand Rapids. So I got to see some of her games when she got to the college level.
Speaker 2:But my son has been playing lacrosse for four years now three years and I haven't seen one game yet. I've seen scrimmages because all their games are travel, they're in Madison, wisconsin or they're somewhere else, and literally there were twice. Two times I had plans Like I'm going, I'll be there, I'm leaving early. Saturday morning I was going to Madison, wisconsin. They were playing the University of Wisconsin and both days there was a blizzard. One time they had to cancel the tournament. The second time the team traveled and went literally right by my house. I could see them travel by my house, but I said I'm not driving in this stuff, no way. So I watched it on TV instead. I got to watch it on TV and have a couple beers at my house and watch them play.
Speaker 2:Before I ask the last question, I just want to. I want to do want to thank Megan Landon and Audrey for letting me, for lending me you out for an hour or so with me, so I got a shout out to them and I also just want to shout out to the team that you have, because you know, from Ben, who's been, who's now retired, to Braden and Ryan and Jordan and Mel and Steph, and I know you have Brennan now. I haven't got a chance to meet him yet, but I just want to give them a shout out and say what an honor it is to know all of you, and I think you have more people on there now, don't you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, carson is in the midst of. He's taking his Series 7 next week, so we're excited to have him you know be a part of the team. And then Shelby is somebody that we just hired to help alleviate some of the load that Steph and Mel and Jordan on the administrative side have done. We can't be thrilled to see that expand. What they bring to the team is awesome, so we're excited.
Speaker 2:Well, kirsten and Shelby, congratulations, because you've joined one hell of a good team. Just tell everybody I said hi. Will you, before when you get off, tell them all? I said hello. And for my last question I like to call this kind of Clinton net question. It's a net that catches anything I miss. Is there any question? I didn't ask that you wish I would have. Or is there any final message you'd like to leave with that Bamboo Lab audience member out there who's just looking for some thoughts?
Speaker 3:Well I'd say I mean, you've coached us and my team over the years and all of your podcasts are about other people but nobody focuses on you, are about other people but nobody focuses on you. So I would say what drives you, what motivates you, and kind of flip the script on you.
Speaker 2:You asking me this question. I'm asking you, hey, you could have warned me on this one. I'm not good at thinking on my feet, man.
Speaker 3:You said it was a surprise, so here you are.
Speaker 2:You know it's interesting. We did actually last week record the 150th episode of the podcast and I had Dave Dick, my friend, come on and he interviewed me for an hour and 15 minutes or so. But I like what you asked, I think what motivates me honestly, clint, now more than ever and it probably always has been a motivator for me, but as of the last four years I would say more and more, probably because I became an empty nester four years ago this summer. It's really what my children and grandchildren think of me. I have this little in my office, a little plant, and I have this little rock that looks over and it's a painted rock and it's like it's hanging over the edge of the thing. It's like a. It's probably made out of clay and it's got these little eyes on it and I think about that as it's.
Speaker 2:Whenever I look at that and I see these eyes looking at me, I think of my children and grandchildren looking at me and am I doing what's best for our family? Am I serving my clients the right way? Am I honoring my family by how I bring on clients, how I coach them, how I serve them, even doing the podcast? So really what motivates me is I want to make sure that over my life, my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and beyond my legacy, they can look back and say he was a man I could role model my life after. And that's really been a big motivator for me over the last three to probably four years now. And I have to correlate that with the fact that I became an empty nester. So now my parenting has become so much more important to me because I don't have the day to day parenting that I did before. You know. So I've realized how much I miss that day-to-day parenting, so I think that's a major motivator for me.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty good one, Dude thanks for throwing a surprise question at me. I don't want any other guests to get that impression that you can just do that now. Only you can pull that off, clint. No man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you so much and you know I do miss all you guys but it's so good to be still part of the Latitude 48 family. But again, I know what you guys are accomplishing and as soon as you know, when I met you seven, six, seven years ago, there was no doubt you guys were successful. Then there was no doubt. But the level you guys have gone to as of late and the accolades that you guys have gotten you know best in the state team, best in state advisor, forbes magazine, blah, blah, blah, so many amazing accolades you've gotten. They're all well-deserved, they're all very well-earned and I just don't see this train stopping anytime soon. I see this Latitude 48 just continue to make the impact that it does on the clients that you serve as well as the communities you guys live in. So congratulations on that, brother.
Speaker 3:Thank you serve as well as the communities you guys live in. So congratulations on that, brother. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I appreciate you and thank you for being such an amazing guest on the Bamboo Lab podcast. Clint. It's an honor to be here. Thank you, Brian, Thank you Folks.
Speaker 2:Now I know when talking to Clint it's just like he and I on the phone over the past several years. He's very articulate, very concise, there's not a lot of words that don't mean something. When Clint talks, there's not a lot of filler. So I would recommend go back through this episode, listen to it twice. First time, do it while you're walking, hiking, running on your treadmill, driving home, whatever, cleaning your house. Second time, grab a pad of paper and sit down and take notes, Because this is a man, this is a team.
Speaker 2:Latitude 48, that is one of the most successful I've ever worked with and one of the best overall. They're doing something really well and a lot of what I see when you look at them they just outwork people. They're not just a bunch of grinders who go out there and just work to work. They work to and I heard this quote earlier today being efficient to be effective, and they work on efficiency so they can be effective. So they can be effective serving their clients, serving their community and growing the practice and the business and the team.
Speaker 2:So a lot of words of wisdom here. Please listen to it twice. Please rate and review the podcast. Smash that like button if you haven't yet, and please share this with three to five people. Just copy the podcast or share it on your email. However you do it, Spotify, Apple Music, whatever you listen to, just use that share button. Give it to three to five people so they can learn the secrets and some of the wisdom and experience of Clint Boxman. Everybody, I appreciate you all so very much. You know I'll be back here talking in your ear one week from today, same time, same place. But in the meantime, please get out there and strive to give and be your best. Show love and respect to others and turn that back and show it to yourself as well, and, by all means, live with intention and purpose. I appreciate each and every single one of you.
