Building Big Dreams Together with Sam & Jason Yarborough

Strong communities start with intention and vision before results.

This week, we discuss our journey with Arcadia, a space we’ve built for leaders to connect, learn, and grow. After two successful events, we’ve expanded into an ongoing community that nurtures relationships beyond the conference room, blending work, life, and personal growth.

In this conversation, we share how we navigated the balance between business and family, why alignment is key in both work and life, and how we’ve been able to build something that’s not just an event but a movement. We dive into what it truly means to create a space of belonging, how to prioritize self-care while building big dreams, and the lessons we’ve learned about leadership and trust. 

Whether it’s at home or in the office, we think you’ll walk away from this one with a fresh perspective on how to show up for the people who matter.

What you’ll learn:

• How to balance business, family, and personal growth effectively
• Why alignment and communication are essential for leadership and trust
• The key to building community beyond just an event

Jump into the conversation:

(00:00) Introduction

(03:01) The Arcadia journey and building community

(05:31) Overcoming challenges and key learnings

(08:19) Balancing life, family, and business

(10:55) The importance of self-care and personal growth

(12:33) Building meaningful local friendships

(13:31) Understanding partnerships and ecosystem growth

(15:19) Overrated and underrated business trends

(17:03) Lessons learned from failures and missteps

(19:41) Practicing core values and managing finances

(25:28) Redefining success and finding fulfillment

(27:08) Humbling and hilarious parenting moments

(29:27) Gratitude and future plans for Arcadia

Check out Arcadia: https://www.BeArcadia.com  

Connect with Sam Yarborough: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-yarborough/ 

Connect with Jason Yarborough: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yarby/ 

Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius

https://www.shareyourgenius.com 

Transcript

[00:00:00] Sam Yarborough: We've had two events. Now we're planning our third, so stay tuned. but the first one was totally an experiment, um, of let's just try this and see if people show up. And boy did people show up. Um, 

[00:00:13] Jason Yarborough: boy did they.

[00:00:14] Sam Yarborough: they showed up and the response was like, better than we could have ever imagined.

[00:00:18] Sam Yarborough: So then we're like, I guess we're doing this again. ​ 

[00:00:46] Sam Yarborough: Hey friends. 

[00:00:48] Jason Yarborough: Hey. Hey. 

[00:00:50] Sam Yarborough: Two guests. One mic today. 

[00:00:52] Jason Yarborough: That's it. One desk. We are pod, this is the podcast studio, I guess. I don't know. 

[00:00:57] Sam Yarborough: It's cozy. One of 

[00:00:57] Jason Yarborough: these days we'll have an actual studio. 

[00:01:00] Sam Yarborough: It's on our 2026 list of things to do. 

[00:01:02] Jason Yarborough: We're doing it. 

[00:01:03] Sam Yarborough: Speaking of 2026, we thought it would be fun to do just an episode of the Two of us, 

[00:01:09] Jason Yarborough: be Friends.

[00:01:12] Jason Yarborough: Okay, I'm gonna leave it there. 

[00:01:14] Sam Yarborough: How, what's that song? Just the, 

[00:01:16] Jason Yarborough: just the two of us? Yep, that one. That one. 

[00:01:20] Sam Yarborough: Um, okay. So if you are a longtime listener, you know that I have an addiction to podcasts. Um, so I was listening to one the other day by Rich Rowland, Mark Manson, and they did this fun thing where they just pulled questions out of a bowl.

[00:01:34] Sam Yarborough: Um, 

[00:01:34] Jason Yarborough: I wanted to do a top hat, but we didn't have one. 

[00:01:37] Sam Yarborough: We didn't have one. Um, their questions were actually from listeners, but we decided to do this seven minutes ago, so ours are from GPT. So should we dive in? 

[00:01:51] Jason Yarborough: I guess, I don't know what these questions are. I've not even seen, I haven't really spent 

[00:01:55] Sam Yarborough: time with them either, but they're, I don't think you should be.

[00:01:57] Sam Yarborough: Nervous. Are you nervous? 

[00:01:59] Jason Yarborough: No. No. I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty good here. 

[00:02:01] Sam Yarborough: Okay. How was your, how was your year overall, you think? 

[00:02:05] Jason Yarborough: Last year? Yeah. Or this year, up to date, like these seven days last 

[00:02:07] Sam Yarborough: year 

[00:02:09] Jason Yarborough: it was pretty great. I, I think I spent most of it with you, so that was the best part of it. 

[00:02:13] Sam Yarborough: Oh, 

[00:02:13] Jason Yarborough: and then, you know, a lot of travel, though.

[00:02:15] Sam Yarborough: You did travel a lot. Yeah. Pretty good. Jason traveled a ton for work this year. I traveled a ton for work the year before and that definitely plays a toll on the family. Yes. When we're gone. But it did pay off this Thanksgiving because the whole family got upgraded.

[00:02:35] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. 

[00:02:35] Sam Yarborough: So if you are a consistent traveler for work and you haven't declared an airline, what are you even doing? 

[00:02:42] Jason Yarborough: Yeah, you're not even a traveler. I'm sorry. 

[00:02:45] Sam Yarborough: It can pay off. Okay. So back to are scheduled programming. Do you wanna go first 

[00:02:50] Jason Yarborough: as in like you asked me the question or me draw the question?

[00:02:52] Jason Yarborough: You draw the question. Okay. Yeah, if you would like to answer first, 

[00:02:55] Sam Yarborough: I don't care. 

[00:02:56] Jason Yarborough: Okay. We'll put this next to the mic so you guys can hear. This is us drawing. Okay, Sam, when did Arcadia stop feeling like and quote an event and start feeling like something people belong to?

[00:03:12] Sam Yarborough: Mm. Okay. I'll answer that in a question in a second. Just so you guys know, these questions are not all about Arcadia. They're not all about work. They're not, they're kind of a, a mixed bag, so stay tuned. 

[00:03:22] Jason Yarborough: And what if they don't know what Arcadia is? 

[00:03:24] Sam Yarborough: Take it away. 

[00:03:25] Jason Yarborough: So Arcadia is the company that we run together.

[00:03:28] Jason Yarborough: We host events here in Bozeman, Montana, and we have a community online called the Arcadia Constellation. Uh, we gather folks in leadership typically in B, the B2B go to market space. Uh, if you're in a leader just looking for more out of life, we, uh, have a space for you to come, invest in yourself and grow, learn, connect, all those fun things.

[00:03:49] Sam Yarborough: So I feel like the story, we've told it a few times, so not to be a broken record, but we've had two events. Now we're planning our third, so stay tuned. Um, but the first one was totally an experiment, um, of let's just try this and see if people show up. And boy did people show up. Um, 

[00:04:07] Jason Yarborough: boy did they, 

[00:04:08] Sam Yarborough: they showed up and the response was like, better than we could have ever imagined.

[00:04:12] Sam Yarborough: So then we're like, I guess we're doing this again. So we did it last summer. Frankly, I think we knew it was more than an event after the first event. We just didn't have the capacity to act on that. so then after the second event, people still were like, we wanna do this more than once a year. We want to feel connected and lean in as leaders.

[00:04:34] Sam Yarborough: And so that was the birth of the constellation. And here we are 

[00:04:38] Jason Yarborough: having fun 

[00:04:39] Sam Yarborough: four months in, people 

[00:04:40] Jason Yarborough: still showing up. 

[00:04:40] Sam Yarborough: People still showing up. That's wild. Yeah. 

[00:04:43] Jason Yarborough: At least to me, 

[00:04:43] Sam Yarborough: grateful for it. 

[00:04:44] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. 

[00:04:45] Jason Yarborough: that sums it up pretty good. Like after that first event, we knew that it was more than just an event.

[00:04:51] Jason Yarborough: People wanted more out of like what we were providing in the space. It wasn't just about the. The tactics and the work that we were doing, it was about the person and the connecting and relationships. And we, you know, learning people, people need that. They're still wanting that they're not finding it in these other conferences.

[00:05:06] Jason Yarborough: Uh, and the, these experiences and these opportunities to connect is really what I think drew people to, to what we created. And that was just the, the best part to see, because that was the biggest unknown to us is that, are people actually gonna like this? And turns out they not only liked it, they, they needed it.

[00:05:21] Sam Yarborough: Agreed. Yeah. Okay. Next question. I'm drawing now. 

[00:05:26] Jason Yarborough: Okay, now I'm nervous. 

[00:05:28] Sam Yarborough: Okay. Over the last year, where did we push a little too hard? And what did we learn about Pace health and priorities because of it? 

[00:05:38] Jason Yarborough: I know that we pushed too hard anywhere. If anything, we kind of waited too long to push on some things. Um, but I, I think we're, we're learning exactly like what our, our members and our, our attendees actually need out of an event. And we kind of all started out as like, it's very much an experiment. We had the opportunity to experiment with it.

[00:05:59] Jason Yarborough: So we're learning exactly like what provides that best sense of belonging. Into Arcadia. I guess we waited too long. We waited too long on doing our taxes. We're learning a lot about taxes from a, uh, startup perspective. That one is, uh, not fun. Um, so learn a lot about that.

[00:06:17] Jason Yarborough: Learn about building a business, building a community, and like just building a space for people to actually invest in themself. 

[00:06:23] Sam Yarborough: What about you personally though? Oh, me 

[00:06:25] Jason Yarborough: personally? Yeah. Oh, that says where did we not, not me. Well, we meaning. 

[00:06:30] Sam Yarborough: We're also married and have a family. Mm, 

[00:06:33] Jason Yarborough: got it. Yeah. Well, maybe we push a little too hard on, on, on launching everything.

[00:06:40] Jason Yarborough: It takes up a lot of time, uh, to, to build an event and then have a community launch on the backside of it. Feel like, you know, maybe it took a lot of time away from the kids. Oddly enough, they seem to enjoy the Arcadia experience and like what we're building. Jack wants to work at Arcadia when he is eight.

[00:06:58] Jason Yarborough: Um, but that was his word's, not mine. Um, I, I think we learned a lot about like how we take care of ourself, how we look after each other, um, and how we, you know, stay, stay connected through it all. Like I think we're learning a lot about that as we build this company together and as we. Lead and help other people, like how do we continue to lead and help ourself And you know, we, we push pretty hard on, on getting our community, this podcast, our events and everything.

[00:07:27] Jason Yarborough: And I think we're learning a lot about like how to more effectively do it and manage it, run it together. Now that this is our kind of going into our third year doing so. 

[00:07:35] Sam Yarborough: Agreed. I think there's also a challenge of like, you know, speaking transparently because we are transparent people, but like Arcadia isn't a moneymaker.

[00:07:44] Sam Yarborough: Yet. And so we've been balancing full-time jobs throughout the year on top of all of that. And so having priorities of being a married couple, being great present parents, being business owners, and then being fully invested in roles that we hold outside of all of that is it can be a lot to carry and balance.

[00:08:07] Sam Yarborough: Yeah, a 

[00:08:07] Jason Yarborough: whole lot. 

[00:08:08] Sam Yarborough: Yeah. 

[00:08:09] Jason Yarborough: Probably I could taken more vacations. 

[00:08:11] Sam Yarborough: Yeah, I think, yeah. 

[00:08:13] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. 2026 goals. 

[00:08:15] Sam Yarborough: Okay, go for it. 

[00:08:17] Jason Yarborough: Your turn here. Okay. What do we got? What has been the hardest part of building big dreams together while also being parents and partners? 

[00:08:25] Sam Yarborough: Hmm. We just talked about this a little bit, but I

[00:08:28] Sam Yarborough: I think the hardest part is probably alignment. And this has been like a ever changing conversation. And so staying super connected to each other and like, where are we going? What's important in this stage of life? And how do we balance all of that?

[00:08:45] Sam Yarborough: 'cause I think, I know that we're both really committed to each other, but we're also super committed to being the best parents we can be for our kids. And if you wanna be successful, you can't be a half-ass committed business leader. So. How do you, how do we make sure each of us have what we need in all of those areas while still pushing things forward?

[00:09:07] Sam Yarborough: It's been an ongoing conversation. 

[00:09:10] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. I think alignment's a good word. Balance was the word that came to, came to my head. The hardest part is probably balancing all of it, right? Because we, we do run this. Business outta the house. We do run it together. We, I do have a full-time job and do work outta this room, this podcast studio.

[00:09:28] Jason Yarborough: So like balancing life outside of the business, balancing life as a parent, balancing life as a couple, and you know, still trying to maintain, you know, friendships and life outside of this house. And it's balance. I think that is the part that I think a lot of people. Miss out on or don't focus on.

[00:09:49] Jason Yarborough: I think a lot of folks tend to, you know, be imbalanced and they push too hard in one area and not try to keep the other area as, as super purposeful as they can. And so I think, you know, it's really, I wouldn't call that a challenge, but it's, it's something to be mindful of and intentional about. 

[00:10:05] Sam Yarborough: Mm-hmm.

[00:10:05] Sam Yarborough: The, the only other one I'd add is communication. I think that, 

[00:10:10] Jason Yarborough: did we just do the ABCs of, uh, building. Dreams together. Alignment, balance, and communication. Communication, yes, we did. 

[00:10:20] Sam Yarborough: There's the framework for 2026, 

[00:10:21] Jason Yarborough: how to build dreams. 

[00:10:24] Sam Yarborough: But I do think communication is something that's really overlooked. Like I feel like you and I are super in sync with each other, and even still we have missteps of like, oh, I thought you were feeling this way or you were doing that, and so that's a constant thing that we're, we're intentional about working on.

[00:10:41] Sam Yarborough: Yeah. Next. 

[00:10:45] Jason Yarborough: Sure. 

[00:10:46] Sam Yarborough: All right. 

[00:10:47] Jason Yarborough: Are we gonna go through all these? 

[00:10:49] Sam Yarborough: It depends on how chatty you are. 

[00:10:51] Jason Yarborough: It's always me. That's the chatty one. 

[00:10:53] Sam Yarborough: That is true. what do you hope listeners carry into this year when it comes to relationships, work and how they treat themselves? 

[00:11:00] Jason Yarborough: Relationships work, and how they treat themselves.

[00:11:05] Jason Yarborough: a lot of folks that I, I talk to, I challenge 'em like, take care of yourself first.

[00:11:10] Jason Yarborough: If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of those around you, you can't take care of your work. And so like, it's, that's a, it's a very important piece for me. It's like, you know, what are you doing for yourself to take care of yourself? And I'm not meaning, like, are you taking yourself on vacation?

[00:11:23] Jason Yarborough: I mean, like, are you treating yourself with, with respect, you have self-love and self-worth? Are you taking care of your body and your health? Right? So like, first and foremost, like, what are you doing to, to take care of yourself? Find, find something that that allows you. To make you a better version of you.

[00:11:41] Jason Yarborough: Uh, for me, like I know that's very much like working out and, and reading and spending that, that time with, with myself to think and meditate or whatever you wanna call it. You know, it makes me a better dad, a better husband, a better employee, a better business builder, podcaster, whatever you wanna call it, right?

[00:12:00] Jason Yarborough: And bring that into the work and your relationships. Alright? Find that version of yourself that that can allow you to fully show up. Right. It's kind of like, uh, stranger things. Last night we were watching, you know, find that version of yourself that allows you to be the most free version of yourself.

[00:12:17] Sam Yarborough: no spoiler alerts, but you have all the power within you. 

[00:12:23] Jason Yarborough: So what about yourself? 

[00:12:24] Sam Yarborough: Grace for yourself. Um, you're probably doing way better than you think you are. 

[00:12:31] Jason Yarborough: Mm-hmm. That's for sure. 

[00:12:33] Sam Yarborough: Um, and then I think too, this was one thing that I didn't necessarily set out to do this year, but it happened that I created a lot of new local friendships and those have been so.

[00:12:48] Sam Yarborough: Nourishing for me to have in-person relationships. I think a lot of us work remotely. We have friends on LinkedIn, but having people that you can see face to face, that you can build community with and do, do good, hard things with, I think is underrated. 

[00:13:06] Jason Yarborough: Mm-hmm. Pretty much so. our company, Arcadia, going back to it means harmony.

[00:13:12] Jason Yarborough: Arcadia does. And you know, one of the reasons we we start is we want people to find that for themselves. Like our sign off is be great, be Arcadia. We want you to be harmonious and like in yourself, in your work, in your life. Mm-hmm. Your friendships, career, everything. So like, find that, what does it look like?

[00:13:28] Sam Yarborough: Next question. Here 

[00:13:30] Jason Yarborough: it comes. What do people still must understand about partnerships, ecosystems, or community building right now? 

[00:13:38] Sam Yarborough: Oh 

[00:13:38] Jason Yarborough: geez. 

[00:13:39] Sam Yarborough: I think that in the world of especially AI and things moving so quickly that this is not a new. Misconception, but I think it still stands very true that partnerships are an overnight success and will immediately create results for your company. And while they will create immense results, they do take time.

[00:14:04] Sam Yarborough: Um, they take process structure, but they also take trust in relationship building. Mm-hmm. And those things can't, that's not at the power of AI or the speed of ai rather. 

[00:14:16] Jason Yarborough: Yeah, no, I, I agree. It's definitely not a, not an easy button. I mean, for some it might be, I think for some others it definitely is not, definitely takes a ton of time to kind of find where you're going to invest your energy and efforts.

[00:14:32] Jason Yarborough: Um, and there's, there's ways to kind of streamline that process, but still it's gonna take a better time to figure out like, hey. This is where we're going to invest all of our energy. This is where the revenue is gonna come from. You know, this is gonna be our strategy. Right? You gotta find those people that you best aligned to.

[00:14:49] Sam Yarborough: Mm-hmm. 

[00:14:50] Jason Yarborough: And you might have a lot of that data sitting inside your CRMs. And you can reach out to them and they may not wanna align to you. Had a situation like that happened recently where we were like, this is gonna be the best partnership ever. And they're like, yeah, probably not. And I was like, oh, okay.

[00:15:04] Jason Yarborough: Um, and so that, I mean, that's just the way it happens and you just gotta, you know, figure out where you're best going to fit in and understand like what your ecosystem should look like. 

[00:15:16] Sam Yarborough: Agreed. 

[00:15:17] Sam Yarborough: All right. This is another like. Business C one overall trend, what trend in business or go to market feels overrated? And conversely, what feels underrated currently? 

[00:15:30] Jason Yarborough: Hmm.

[00:15:31] Jason Yarborough: right now, kind of, um, if I'm just thinking about it from experience and what I see is like a BM kind of feels overrated right now. Which might be a hot take, but I don't know, but it feels kind of overrated, uh, over bloated, um, oversaturated. Is that 

[00:15:44] Sam Yarborough: still a thing? Are people still saying that? 

[00:15:47] Jason Yarborough: I think so.

[00:15:48] Sam Yarborough: Okay. 

[00:15:49] Jason Yarborough: I don't know, maybe, It is kind of a trend in business. Right. But I, I think there's, there's be, there's better ways of doing it that are coming onto the market, but they're. They're still kind of relatively flown under the radar. So a lot of people still rely on a BM, they're still relying on these, you know, antiquated solutions.

[00:16:05] Jason Yarborough: Um, and so I, I think that's just becoming overrated and we'll start to see that just kind of die by the wayside here soon. I think we've, we've more than peaked on that one. And trending business feels underrated. I, I still, like, I just started putting a talk together yesterday around partner marketing, I feel like, and my topic was that is like you're.

[00:16:28] Jason Yarborough: It is, it is, it is still underrated, like your, your company's closing deals without you, basically. And so people aren't tapping into their partner marketing, their, their abilities to, to drive massive amounts of leads, massive, uh, and opportunities. And so I feel like we haven't quite figured that one out, tapped into that, the potential of, of that, you know, quote unquote trend.

[00:16:52] Jason Yarborough: So I feel like there's a lot that's been left uncovered from partner marketing. 

[00:16:57] Sam Yarborough: Okay. You heard it first here. 

[00:17:00] Jason Yarborough: Maybe I, I, I don't know

[00:17:03] Jason Yarborough: what was a failure or misstep that actually pointed us in a better direction. 

[00:17:08] Sam Yarborough: My last job.

[00:17:13] Sam Yarborough: Um. 

[00:17:15] Jason Yarborough: I mean that's accurate. 

[00:17:16] Sam Yarborough: Yeah, I think so. I mean, like, we've talked about this a little bit, but I left my last job in June. I took the job thinking it was like the perfect role for me. Um, and I guess on paper it was, but it ended up not working out to be everything that I hoped and dreamed, and it just was sucking the living life out of me.

[00:17:41] Sam Yarborough: Um. So scary as all get out to leave. But on the other side of it, I think we're better off. I mean, there's certainly things I'm grappling with still, like I don't make any money, but we're working on that. Yeah. 

[00:17:57] Jason Yarborough: But to go back to like the question earlier, it's like you are better off, like you've, you're, you're treating yourself better.

[00:18:06] Sam Yarborough: And, and I think there's, so, you know, we had this conversation yesterday in the community of like, we were going through our core values. One of my core values is stability and security. And so I think there's, I'm just learning so much about myself through this process of like, what is my self worth? What are we building?

[00:18:25] Sam Yarborough: How can I help others find that in themselves? And how can we just create a space for people to have those conversations? Period. Um. So, man, I think that was like a cat, a huge catalyst for us to like really lean into this and 

[00:18:39] Jason Yarborough: yeah, kick it off. I think some things are more important than others. 

[00:18:42] Sam Yarborough: That's fair.

[00:18:43] Jason Yarborough: But also one of my core values is not security and stability, unfortunately. So 

[00:18:47] Sam Yarborough: this is, this comes, we don't have conflict in our marriage, but if we did,

[00:18:53] Sam Yarborough: Let's see what's next. Drum roll please.

[00:18:59] Sam Yarborough: Funny story, really quick. I cannot roll my Rs and it drives me bonkers, but Jason just taught Jack our 6-year-old to roll his Rs, and now he rolls his Rs every time there is an R in a word. Just despite me. Yeah, 

[00:19:15] Jason Yarborough: just, yeah. Just to show you that it can be done. Anyone can do it. You wanna, you wanna try it for the listeners at home?

[00:19:24] Jason Yarborough: You don't have to. This 

[00:19:24] Sam Yarborough: is gonna, you're not, you're gonna think I'm baking it, but I'm not. Or 

[00:19:30] Jason Yarborough: every time you do that, I think you're faking it. 

[00:19:32] Sam Yarborough: I'm I

[00:19:36] Sam Yarborough: fellow. Can't roll your Rs. Reach out to me. Let me know. I'm not alone. What are you actively practicing this year, even though you're not great at it yet? 

[00:19:46] Jason Yarborough: Hmm. That's a good question.

[00:19:48] Jason Yarborough: the exercise we just did with our community yesterday, is like living more rooted in the core values. Like that, that I've established with my coach who led us through the exercise yesterday. And like, how can I keep those more front and center and live by them and kind of structure my life accordingly?

[00:20:11] Sam Yarborough: Mm-hmm. 

[00:20:12] Jason Yarborough: And not let the things that would usually bother me, not bother me because they don't align to my values. And even if they do align to my values, practically not letting them bother me, I tend to carry things pretty heavily and let them kind of gimme a lot of anxiety. Uh, and so it's. Trying to find ways to live more according to my values and, uh, provide a different level of, what do you call it?

[00:20:34] Jason Yarborough: Self-efficacy. 

[00:20:35] Sam Yarborough: Mm-hmm. finance, for me, this has been, I've always been like reactive towards it, even like a little. Dismissive is not the right word, but I felt like I couldn't understand it. And so we hired a financial planner, which has been like so insightful and helpful, but I wanna get to a point where I feel like we're really proactive and in control and making really, um, intentional decisions rather than just it is what it is.

[00:21:07] Jason Yarborough: Yeah, I like that. My turn. Let's see. Snap it up. What surprised you most about this past year and how did it change how you think about leadership or life? That's a wide chasm there. 

[00:21:25] Sam Yarborough: Life in general, 

[00:21:26] Jason Yarborough: leadership or life.

[00:21:31] Sam Yarborough: Um, what surprised you most about this past year? Um, what surprised me most about this past year is. Again, I left my job in June. Um, how much identity I had wrapped up in that and how, shocking it was for me to kind of walk away from that. Like I didn't even know it at the time, but it still kind of lingers.

[00:21:53] Sam Yarborough: Um, so that was a really interesting thing to like redefine who I am outside of a Salesforce partnership expert. Um. And how I can redefine that for, for us, for our family, for the work I do, for the relationships we lead. yeah, that would be my answer. 

[00:22:13] Jason Yarborough: That's a good answer. 

[00:22:14] Jason Yarborough: there's a quote that says like, confidence requires proof. And I, I think we established a lot of proof in our, call it business, career, life or whatever, and like the things that we're building and how we're consistently doing it. And so like, I, I feel like a lot of the work we did is, is given us proof that we're in the right.

[00:22:40] Jason Yarborough: Space, we're doing the right thing, doing the right work. And so it, it gives us more confidence to, to continue to do the work and do the thing. Um, especially when it, it, it gets challenging and hard and slow. It's like having that confidence that, Hey, look, we've, this is what our people are saying. We have the proof, like we are doing the work.

[00:22:59] Jason Yarborough: We are consistently showing up. And I think the, the proof is, is a lot of. what We need or needed in order to have the confidence for the work we're doing. 

[00:23:09] Sam Yarborough: I agree with that. 

[00:23:11] Sam Yarborough: Which relationship showed up for you in a way you didn't expect?

[00:23:14] Sam Yarborough: And what did it teach you about trust? 

[00:23:16] Jason Yarborough: This one might actually surprise you and like me and this person haven't gotten extremely close, but, um, or my new friend Harris. Hmm. To her. Group there. When we, uh, when we first met over lunch, we had a really great deep, vulnerable conversation and, uh, it was really refreshing to have like that level of conversation with, with another man.

[00:23:39] Jason Yarborough: And in a space that allowed me to be vulnerable and open. Of course, I cried, uh, over lunch with the person I had just met for the first time. And, uh, it taught me that like he was very open as well, and he was very receptive. And it taught me a lot about like trusting like the, the, the conversation and like the person that you want to be and how you want to show up and like truly letting your guard down within any space and not just the spaces you feel safe in.

[00:24:06] Jason Yarborough: Because like that's who. I feel like I am most of the time to be open and vulnerable, but I tend to, to hide or not be that person out the gate. And it kind of gave me a lot of trust in mankind or just people in general. Mm-hmm. That you can still be vulnerable and open and it can be received well. And I think, you know, as a result, he and I have built a really great relationship over the past couple of months and he's also the one who's recommended us to a, a course we just took recently.

[00:24:34] Jason Yarborough: So. 

[00:24:35] Sam Yarborough: Yeah, that was a great answer. I'm glad we went back for that one. 

[00:24:39] Jason Yarborough: Okay, now it's your turn because I answered a old question. If you're accounting at home, we have three questions left. What's one purchase under $100 that genuinely made life easier? 

[00:24:51] Sam Yarborough: Wow. Way to throw this one in GPT. Um, oh, I do have a good answer for this.

[00:25:00] Sam Yarborough: Our shark vacuum. This episode is brought to you by Just kidding. It is absolutely not. But we do have one of those little handheld vacuums and I use it every single day for crumbs and dirt and hair from pets and all of that. So if you don't have one, I'll drop a link in the chat or in the show notes.

[00:25:21] Jason Yarborough: Amazon affiliate. Let's go. 

[00:25:25] Sam Yarborough: Okay. Two questions left. 

[00:25:28] Sam Yarborough: How has your definition of success shifted and what does enough look like now? 

[00:25:36] Jason Yarborough: Um, I think my definition of success has shifted a lot over the years. Maybe not within the last year. Um. For me right now, it's like, am I, am I proud of the work we're building? Am I proud of, you know, how we're showing up and doing what we believe in?

[00:25:53] Jason Yarborough: And, you know, for me enough looks like do, are we from a financial standpoint, are we, are we taking care of, do we have what we need? Yes. And success to me is like, am I proud of what I'm building? Am I happy in the work we're doing? And do I feel fulfilled? You know, going back to like, they're not motivated by the.

[00:26:13] Jason Yarborough: Stability thing, or it's also not, I'm like not, I'm not super financially driven. I'm driven by more of like how we show up and how we help and you know, what, what I'm doing to, to bring my best into the world. And it's like, now I feel like we're really doing that. I feel like I'm doing great work on, in inside the partner world.

[00:26:34] Jason Yarborough: I'm learning a ton there still, which is great and fun. Growth is one of my core values, so I feel like I'm still growing on that front as well as in the business front. So for me it's like. I'm, I'm getting more aligned to my, my values. I'm fulfilled in the work that I'm doing and I'm, I'm showing up in the way that I feel like I'm supposed to, and like that makes me feel successful 'cause I'm able to build a life that I, I want, that I want to live and with the people that I want to do it with.

[00:27:01] Sam Yarborough: Good one. 

[00:27:03] Jason Yarborough: Thank you. It's your turn. Last question. For those of you still here and listening and want to know from Sam, what was your most humbling or hilarious parenting moment this year? 

[00:27:18] Sam Yarborough: Oh wow. We're gonna end with a banger.

[00:27:21] Sam Yarborough: 

[00:27:21] Jason Yarborough: I think I know the answer to this, but, uh, 

[00:27:23] Sam Yarborough: I don't know if there was an exact moment. Um, 

[00:27:26] Jason Yarborough: I, I think there was, 

[00:27:28] Sam Yarborough: was there? 

[00:27:29] Jason Yarborough: No, no. I'm waiting for you. 

[00:27:31] Sam Yarborough: There's been a few moments where I like go to bed just thinking I'm the worst parent ever. And um, well now what's the moment?

[00:27:42] Sam Yarborough: You can whisper it. 

[00:27:44] Jason Yarborough: I feel like it was the moment where I don't remember what the kids did that morning, but you texted me and I was on a trip one morning and like. We have an old dog, she pooped in the hallway. Oh, the cat pooped in outta the litter box. The kids were doing something and I just felt like, oh God, I have to get home right now.

[00:28:01] Jason Yarborough: Or maybe the, or maybe it was the most recent parenting moment where I got another text while I was traveling that, Hey, great, Nora's got lice 

[00:28:08] Sam Yarborough: or the one before where we all the stomach bug and you were gone too. Yeah, that one. So that's why there's not a single moment that stands out for me. Um, I will say though, like it's not a moment, it's a.

[00:28:18] Sam Yarborough: It's a phase that we're in. Um, man Parenting's a Trip. Both of our kids are extremely different, like, which is an obvious statement to say out loud, but we joke that Jack is a, an exact copy of you. Mm-hmm. And Nora is an exact copy of me, which is so challenging. Um, and so having to learn to meet both of them in very separate, different ways.

[00:28:45] Sam Yarborough: To like, help them be the best they can be. I mean, I guess it's leadership in a nutshell, but, um, I'm having to learn so much about myself in order to meet them in a better way and not just go ballistic on them, which I still do. Um, but yeah, it has been extraordinarily humbling this year. Like, honestly, of all the things that have stressed me out this year, that's been the number one.

[00:29:11] Jason Yarborough: Yeah, that's a humbling. Parenting moment. Yeah. Not, not so hilarious. 

[00:29:16] Sam Yarborough: Not so hilarious. I mean, there's been some really hilarious ones, but, yeah. well, bulls empty. 

[00:29:22] Jason Yarborough: Empty. That's the, that's it for the hot seat. 

[00:29:24] Sam Yarborough: This was kind of fun. 

[00:29:25] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. 

[00:29:27] Sam Yarborough: Friends, 

[00:29:27] Sam Yarborough: if you are still here, we are just so grateful that you spend time with us, that you are a friend. Um. There's a lot of fun things coming up for 2026. If there's any guests you wanna hear from, let us know. 

[00:29:42] Jason Yarborough: Yeah. Anybody you wanna introduce us to for the podcast, we'd love to interview your friends.

[00:29:48] Sam Yarborough: Yeah. Or, or maybe it's you or you. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, as always, we'd love to see you in the Constellation. Join us there. Um, the Arcadia Leadership Experiences is happening this summer. 2026. Yeah. So, um, there'll be details to come from that, but we're so grateful for you and here's to a great year.

[00:30:09] Jason Yarborough: Yeah, be great you guys. 

[00:30:11] Sam Yarborough: Happy 2026. Bye. 

[00:30:13] Jason Yarborough: See y'all.