Accountability is Freedom (with Coach Lester)

In this episode of the Liberation is Lit Podcast, host Tayler Simon sits down with Coach Lester to delve into the transformative power of accountability in the realms of creativity and entrepreneurship. Coach Lester shares his personal journey from a multi-talented creative to a successful accountability coach. He discusses the importance of time management, the value of building habits, and the critical role of purpose and core values in business. Lester also highlights key books that have influenced his path, such as 'The OZ Principle' and 'Atomic Habits.' Whether you're an artist struggling with the business side of your craft or an entrepreneur looking to instill more discipline in your life, this episode offers essential insights and actionable advice. Join us for an inspiring conversation about how accountability can be the gateway to freedom and success.

00:00 Welcome to the Liberation is Lit Podcast

00:39 Meet Coach Lester: A Journey of Creativity

02:52 From Creativity to Accountability

04:20 The Importance of Accountability

07:25 Building a Business Like Art

14:19 Balancing Creativity and Business

15:25 The Role of Core Values in Business

16:46 The Reality of Accountability

18:11 The Path to Financial Stability

19:46 The Importance of Accountability

20:54 Focusing on Business as a Creative

23:37 Foundational Books for Personal Growth

26:32 Implementing Habits for Success

31:56 Upcoming Projects and Opportunities

33:38 Connecting with Coach Lester

35:35 Final Thoughts and Farewell

Books Mentioned in this Episode

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, & Craig Hickman

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams by Ken Blanchard

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C Maxwell

Where to find Coach Lester

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Transcript

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Hey y'all. Welcome to the Liberation is Lit Podcast, where the power of storytelling means the force of social change. I'm your host, Tayler Simon and this podcast, we believe in the profound impact of stories, and I am so excited to be here today with. Coach Lester, and we're gonna talk all things creativity and entrepreneurship and accountability, which I don't know, I feel like that's been the word of the year for me for like the past few years. So let's get into it. Hello, coach Lester. How you doing today? I'm doing phenomenal. I am doing absolutely great. Awesome. So to kick off our conversation, can you tell us a little bit about you as a creative and why did you decide to become an accountability coach? Okay. That's a good question. So me as a creative, so I am a, obviously a creative individual, if you can see behind me, from, since I've been a child, my family was very, my family was very enthusiastic about my art artistic venture, so I can remember very early my grandma, anytime I drew a picture or anytime I sent my ABCs, it was just everybody would be like, whoa, hey, all right now. so even, you know, even in school like drawing, I would love to like draw I would always just jump to different things. I've been a, at one time I wanted to do, like comic books. So I had, I had started drawing. I, I had this guy from school taught me how to draw. I, I end up jumping, directly into like computers and just, I. Anything creative, any way I could express my creativity. I'm always, I was always jumping into something. And so I've been a, you know, I got my certification, audio engineering. I, I was a music producer. I was producing music for a while. I tried rap. I, a spoken word artist. I, I always used to be like, you know, everybody would be like, oh, you're a Renaissance man. And I just like trying different things, you know, new, sort of new ventures for me has always been like really exciting. And, you know, most, as, most creatives for most creatives, it's like that we like to jump, try new things and, you know, think differently. We don't like to, you know, have the little, you know, that mundane sort of idea about life. You know, we like to. Have a lot of color, right? A lot of color. We want that, you know, that blast of color. We just, we just love it. We love words moving, words around and rearranging 'em, rearranging paintings, you know, just canvases. so I jumped into all this stuff. But when it came time for me to, turn it into income. That's when it got really serious. That's when it was like, oh, okay. don't have, I have tons of creative skills. I'm extremely creative, but I was lacking in my business and financial, endeavors. Very much so. I didn't understand, basic fundamentals about business, and it was a really quick wake up call because. I was in the employment system for about 20 something years. I was, I got a background in it and I, I was in Job Corps and then at, when I got outta Job Corps, I just always. I kind of kept a job. I was, I was in, I went from Dunkin Donuts to working in surgery, the surgery department. used to clean rooms for surg after surgeries. After that I, when I left that job, I went to work at Amazon. I became a, afterschool teacher. So I was a daycare teacher and I ended up becoming a security officer. I did just so many things and when I left the employment system and I was like, you know what, I, I feel like I can do this myself. I found out really fast. It's gonna take some work and, you know, on, on my journey. So I, I've been an entrepreneur, full-time entrepreneur for two years. And so what brought me to how I came to the realization that, hey, I'm gonna be an accountability coach, throughout my childhood, I was a, I was a bit of a knucklehead, but I wasn't too much of a knucklehead. Right. I had a very strong community who were always trying to talk. I was always getting those talks. I don't know if you're one of those Chi children who, you know. Family members always just stop and they try to give you advice and they just tell you like, yo, don't do this. Don't do that. Don't end up in jail. Don't do drugs, don't drink. My entire community was like that, and I, I feel like, probably, probably, because, you know, my mom and my dad, were battling addiction, throughout my childhood. So it was like, I was the baby. I was the baby child. So everybody was like, look, everybody done lived and it was like, we don't, we don't want that same thing for you, you know, I, I think that was most mostly like my grandfather, my grandmother, everybody pitched in and did their part. Like, yo, we want to get you outta that environment and we wanna make sure you have some other core values other than just, just moving place to place. And you know, it's just. The rough life of, of, of the, the, the product, of the crack epidemic and, you know, heroin epidemic. And, you know, you want to throw a little bit of, a little bit of, mass incarceration, right? You wanna throw some of that in there? Then you, you know, it, it's like the whole system was built for me to fail. But I didn't. And so I kept, I kept going. And when I quit my job in maybe like the first year, I just, I started picking up, I started picking up books. The first thing I did was I picked up my first book that I hadn't read. I hadn't read a full book, in shoot, I can't even tell you, right? I, I think I got through maybe a couple, maybe like halfway through the book, and I was just like, Ugh. And so I, I discovered audio books. I'm an audio person, I'm an audio engineer, and transferred into actually buying books. I found out that, you know, going through, books a little bit slower for me was, you know, was very beneficial. one of the books I ran across was, the OZ Principle. And it was the first book that I. I like, I felt challenged internally when I read it. Like it kind of, it's, it's a book about accountability, so it's, it's gonna challenge you to think differently. And when I, when I realized like, oh, that's kind of like something I've been having problems with. You know, not taking the trash out, missing deadlines, not, you know, waking up every day, getting up in the mornings. That was, that, that's a tough one. That was a I still struggle with that. Listen, that one was tough. Okay. That one was tough, but I finally got it under control. I'm on a 21 day streak. I think I just hit my plateau, like I'm off every day. I'm excited about the day. And so, being an accountability coach, I had to make a difficult business decision. Decision that's choose a focus. I had a, I opened a, a film production company. I was trying to be, you know, I was trying to do different things, serve different clients, and the heart of. Of me. I've always been a helper. I've always been like, I've always had the rescue spirit, like, yo, I need to help this person. People always call me if they need help. Yo, can you da da da, you, you're really good at computers. Can you come over here and figure this out for me? And so, I. I just naturally liked helping people. But as a creative you can kind of get enthralled in other people's sort of, drama because you want to help because you see how you can help or things like that. and I'm not, a solution based thinker and as I went on my business journey. I started, jump developing and started connecting my identity to who I wanted to be rather than I thought my story was. I landed on accountability.'cause one of the things, one of the fundamental things you have to do in business is you have to figure out who your clientele is gonna be. I don't, I don't wanna say clientele, but who your customer base is. Right? And, and that's very important because if you tie your customer base to a purpose and what challenges tho those communities go run into. One of the biggest ones for me was business accountability. I don't know if you're anything like me. I hate wasting time. Yes. That's why I try to like multitask multitask and then like sometimes that is a waste of time too. time. Man. My, my grandfather, very early, he used to tell me if you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late. If you're late, need a little bit more help. So I've been, you know, that's been one of the things that was kind of holding me back. I just wasn't accountable with my time. I wasn't accountable with, the things that I wanted. And it start, it starts early in the morning before everybody gets up. I mean, these are basic things that we kind of know. The early bird gets the worm, right? And it's true. The early bird really does get the worm. You get time to yourself, you get more time to your day. when you first wake up in the morning, you get that sort of. That energy, you know, get you a nice, nice cup of coffee, you know what I'm saying? I had to come down off the dark coffee because I was, I had the shakes, so I had to come down and jump, drop that down to the mid, the medium coffee. But, it's, it's time, accountability. I mean, I, you know, I made a post today, 20 minutes of accountability, beats, 20 years of excuses. what I'm saying? Like just 20 minutes. Like all, all you, all it takes is for you to just get started. Like you have to gain momentum. And my company accountability is freedom. The core, the core framework that I kind of, you know, of made is, freedom stands is an acronym for focus, responsibility, elevation, effort discipline, ownership of your results and momentum all of those combined and they run off of, that's how, that's how accountability runs. Once you start being accountable for the things of your life that you're supposed to, you start focusing on those core things, you find your freedom. Literally, you know what I'm saying? You get this sort of clarity that comes over you and I was like, wow. When I hit it, like when it really, like when it really hit, it really hit me maybe like three weeks ago. I'm not gonna lie. You know, posting, you know, new Sky film production trying to get people to sign up for film production, but. That's not where my heart is. I'm really good at it, but that's not where my heart is, right? My heart isn't helping my people because we have an affliction over us that we have not yet solved. Right? We see it every day. We see it in our neighborhoods. We see it in our families. We, and most important, we see it in ourselves. And if, if we can't fix, if we're not a part of the problem, then we're not a part of the solution either, right? And so I, when I, when I discovered that on my journey and I did the work and I read the books, and I studied the books, I didn't just read 'em, I study'em, but most important, I took action and I used AI to, to help me do it. I didn't. I didn't. I'm already creative, so I don't need AI to be creative for me, I just needed to do quick tasks for me to get it out the way. Save me time, because that's what, that's the whole thing I'm trying to do. I'm trying to save time because in that time, when you get your time back, you get to do the things that you want to, like spend time with your children, to your parents' house and visit them. Parent might be sick, parent might be old, but you working, you're doing so much stuff because you're not doing the things that you need to. Especially in America, because we have the opportunity, right? There is opportunity here and it's opportunity if we can tie that opportunity to our purpose.'cause everybody has a purpose. You just, it just takes time to find what that purpose is. But when you're in your purpose, you have to be accountable because you can't be something and you're not doing it. And I. You may not be accountable everywhere in your life, right? some places that needs work, but there are places you are accountable and, and that shows in, in your commitments and the things that you do. So, you know, it's not about, blaming or, you know, chastising and pushing pain. You ain't accountable and put, you know what I'm saying? It's not about that. It's about stepping into. adulthood and really starting to see and really start understanding that you're wasting time, not investing money into your education. You are wasting time, not investing time into your business structure. Most definitely, you and you are wasting time not investing it into yourself. Because leaders if, if you're a leader, leaders lead by example. That that's core. Every leader knows that. And in order for us to, get people to follow us in the right direction, you need to be doing the right things. Okay. And it starts with you. Once you start doing the right things for yourself, then people gonna be like, Hmm, guys, pretty lemme go to his website, get me an accountability session. So that's, I hopefully I answered your question. I know I'm kind of longwinded so Oh no, that definitely. Yeah. And I know a lot of what you, you do is. Your ba your, your whole philosophy is, accountability is freedom to be able to do the things like spend time with your family and do the things you want to do. And I know a lot of creatives, they go out on their own and start their business because ultimately they want more time to dedicate to their art without necessarily being pulled into like a job. So what is your advice for, and I know. Creatives like me, like I just wanna make, art I don't wanna do the business part, but the business part allows me to, you know, pay my bills. So how do you kind of work with creatives to get over that philosophy? I know we've had plenty of conversations about it to, to help me, just get over the. Ew. Money is icky. Like, I don't wanna do that. I just wanna make my art because like, I'm just a creative, artistic soul. So how, how do you kind of bridge those gaps, that gap for creatives? Build your business like you create art. Your business is an art. It's an art form. Business is an ancient art form. Business isn't about marketplace, it's about you. That's why any business has core values. the problem that we have that we see with businesses is they don't live their core values. As a creative, you understand? That's why you don't deal with those businesses. That's why you don't, and you and it, and it feels like, ugh. I again, in a business that's just the world, the way they create. If you look at any movie in the past a hundred years, all the movies, anytime somebody is at the top of the business, they're the, they're the evil one. Right. our perception is, is, is, is is being made for us. And so I would tell any creative build, you know, you can build your business like an art, right? There are core values that you can put in place in your business. That's why having purpose first, you can't just. Oh, these are our customers and I'm just gonna go after these people and see if they, I can sell them something. That's not business. That's you trying to sell somebody something. Business is about servants. You have to want to serve your community. You have to be willing to take the time and serve your community and give them something they want. Now, the problem with that is everybody don't want help. Right? They want to figure it out themselves, that's okay. And I had to, I had to understand that as an accountability coach, that everybody doesn't want my help. Everybody's not ready to be accountable and that's okay. They probably, they probably got some really, you know, I had some pretty heavy stuff I had to get over, I'm saying? I lost a lot of time with family members, my children. My, my parents, and it started with them, you know, they lost time with me and, and when, when it came time for me to, you know, have kids, my first child, I lost a lot of time with my first child, and I said I wasn't gonna do that with my second one. And I've been a man of my word and I've been sticking to it. And in order to, prepare, for the future, because your, your trajectory is far more important than your current results. Right. And so I'm thinking about 10 years down the road, and my son right now, he'd be like, daddy, you gotta focus. Right? 10 years down the road, he's gonna have these core values that I believe in. Right. And it's hard, and also again, you're about business like this. Business is me. I'm the business again. We talked about the Wizard of Oz. Everything that you need is already inside of you. Right find. You have to live and we're, unfortunately, we're in a system where you need finances in order to be successful. But just remember this, everybody that's rich and everybody that's successful isn't evil. There are good, rich, financially stable people. They're doing the things in their lives. You, you know 'em. You'll see 'em, you'll understand. Those are probably the clients that you need. Who need the help, who need your Griff and your purpose, those people are out there, right? So you have to really believe in yourself and trust that,'cause business is a part of it. Finances is a part of it, It feels good to just, you know, when that, when that good check hits your account, Hey, I get to, I get to take care of my family. I get to take care of myself the way I see fit, my standards rather than just those little jobs that you have to, also responsibilities. You know what I'm saying? You can't, just, one of the, you know, one of the things, I'll tell people what I did. I jumped, I quit. I quit my job at the top. Don't do that. That's not being accountable, being irresponsible. Being accountable is having the job that you have and understanding you're gonna have to work harder on yourself than you do on your job, and you're gonna have to get up early in the morning and take that time back, and you're gonna have to create a plan every single day. And you're gonna have to work on that plan, and you're gonna be tired and you're not gonna wanna do it. And it's gonna feel like one of the most heaviest things in the world. But that's how every habit starts. That's how all of them start. I. If you start a new sport, if you start a new painting, if you start a new journey, start being accountable for your time and what you wanna do and your most important, your business artist. That's why I work with artists, because I see it all the time. Creatives were just everywhere. Boom, boom, boom. Right, but we never wanna focus on that business part. And I was like, Hey, if this is a problem in my community, let me see what I could do. Let, what, what solution can I come up with? I'm gonna become an accountability coach, right? And see if people really, if, if this is now I have to own my results, right? Because there's a, there's a, there's a possibility that I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure for anybody that's watching this, they know. much time they probably wasted by not doing the things they need to, for their business, for their finances, for their family. We waste time and that's what keeps us connected. Time is what keeps us connected and we can't get time back. So stop wasting it. Right? Business doesn't have to be what they show you. It is. That's why a lot of businesses are failing. They're because they're, they're not rooted in any type of purpose and authenticity has taken over the world. It already has. It's, it's here, right? Because everybody's using ai. trust me, I go through the videos and I watch, you know, different coaches and people, and they're reading scripts and stuff like that. It's so distinctive now because I use AI so much, always trying to get it to make sure that it doesn't sound like ai. When it's taught, I'm like, Hey, hey, let's, let's simplify this language. You saying all this extra stuff. I don't need you to do that. I just need you to tell me, you know what I need to know. Once I, once I kind of found out that was gonna be my focus, and that's the first thing you're actually supposed to do as a creative, business is focus. You need to pick a focus and once you, and most of a lot of times like you specifically, you, you have a focus. You know what I'm saying? Liberation is lit. Books, Hey, books is the focus. I'm with it. Right? Then you start, then you have to start, there's other things that you have to start putting in place, right? You have to turn yourself into a business, and we have to build, we have to build our businesses, like practitioners. We have to rapidly build expertise. These things are really important. So important that if you don't, you're just gonna continue to struggle, right? And we know the things that we're supposed to be doing. that's the whole thing. Like people always tell me like, yo, when you gonna do this? And when you gonna do that? I used to be like, oh, well, you know, I'm trying to do this first and da da. But the first thing I had to do was focus. I had to choose a focus and. I, I cried because I, I, I understood that I'm gonna have to leave, you know, I still do videography. I got one client that I work with, but anybody else they're gonna have, it's gonna have to be worth my time and my time is, there's no limit. My time is priceless. So that the price tag on that gonna go, it's, it's up, right? Because now I understand. That business is about time. Right? Everything runs it, it runs on time. So, hopefully, did I answer your question because I told you I'm long-winded, so, Yeah. Yeah. And. I know you, you said about the importance of establishing expertise and another place I see that you're very accountable to is that self-taught, self-learning and doing that through books. So besides, other than the OZ principle, what have been like some, foundational books for you to kind of change your Traje trajectory into this direction? Man. Oh, let me shout out, man. First off, let me shout. Wait, wait. Let me shout out. The Oz Principal. Let me shout them out. I can't remember his name. I'm trying to get better with authors. I'm new to books, so learning Don't worry, I'll add all the author names later. Just gimme the titles and I'll add all of the books to the show notes. shout out to James. Clear Atomic Habits. Yo book is phenomenal game changing. That is a very foundational book. Eckhart Tolle the Power of Now, that was, that took me out of the past and stopped. Thinking about the past all the time and stop thinking about the future all the time, right? Your goal might be the future, but to create, you have to create a system you have to think about now. So basically I'm a representative of the man in the future, the older version of myself. I listened, I heard a podcast one time and it was talking about that. So Eckhart Tolle was really good. The Power of now, couple books I have here, the Coaching Habit. want, you know, I wanted to be a coach, so I got me a coach book and it, ba basically it's like, say more, say less, ask more. Change the way you lead forever. And, and it, and it literally, it don't miss, the audio book wasn't all that great, but the read. Phenomenal. Another book, shout out to my, to my guy, Blair Enns and, his book is the 12 Step Manifesto on How to Win Without Pitching. That book, book really solidified my expertise and it really taught me how to build like a practitioner. so it, it taught me how to put in boundaries and and how to stick to those boundaries. And it's very scary when you put a boundary in and because you, yourself can't cross the boundary.'cause if you start letting the boundary down, then you, you break it, you start breaking promises to yourself and then you're like, dang, I knew it. I should've, I should've did. Exactly. And so now I'm at the point where I have my, my, my success is rooted in my process and I'm confident in that. very confident in my process and anybody I talk with, anybody I, because, and that was the, Blair Enns that 12 step manifesto is how, is the first book that I read that told me that I need to choose a focus I'm building a business. I'm not being creative. Being creative and building a business is two different things and we can't, for the sake of our craft, right? We can't keep making, we have to make intelligent business decisions, right? And we have to kind of push our craft just off to the side a little bit. But if you bury that same creativity in how you build your business, these books have helped me do that. these core things about habits and how habits were in our lives.'cause accountability is a habit. It's just a habit you gotta build, You have to work at it every day. Success is the product of daily habits, not one, once in a lifetime transformations. And it's not gonna hold, it's not gonna happen overnight. But if you don't write your goals down, hmm. Implementation intention, so that was some, that was a core one. Dad. Dad was another one that was a very core, a very core for me. You know, just. I'm not into investing yet, or you know, real estate or anything like that. And that's sort of like a real estate book. I'm more into the nuances of the stories of what happened because stories really kind of tell you how the person got to where they are. So I like to, like, favorite part is, you know, from Rich Dad, poor Dad is about. Him and his friend as they were children and what his dad was trying to teach him, his, his rich dad was trying to teach him.'cause poor is a mindset state, right? A mindset, poor is a mindset. So, you know, you might be broke, but poor is mindset. You have to know the difference. And so that was another, one book. The One Minute Manager that was really, oh, that was a good one. The one Minute Manager. Also the One Minute Salesperson. That was really good. Those are two, I'm giving y'all mad value here. Maybe. Yo, go read those. Any one of those books that you read was I, I mean, emotional Intelligence. That was another book that I, I got into. The, the, the 21 FUT Laws of Leadership. Right? That was really, oh man, that was really good. I'm actually still reading that one. The Five Second Rule. You guys probably know Mel. Mel Robbins. Mel Robbins was a really good one. A hundred million dollar offers, right? A hundred million dollar offers. But I'm gonna tell you which one changed everything for me. Like after I read all those books, it was one book that I'm just like, oh yeah, I love this guy. Thank you for this book. called The No bs, time Management for Entrepreneurs. By Dan s Kennedy, yo. Whew, my guy YY listen. Hmm. But those are some of the core books, man. And, and you know, I'm still, it's, I'm still just, every day I'm a reader. I'm a reader, Yes. And of course, you know, we had to talk about books on this podcast, so. you know, the goal was not to read a book. The goal was to become a reader, right? I love that. And that's what, when you start tying your identity to your actions, that's where the real change starts to happen, right? You have to know who you want to be. And if, if, right now where you're at in your life, if that's not adding up, if things aren't adding up, you need to start looking at reading. James clear's atomic habits.'cause that's why learned de from, he, he, he, he talked about, he talks about identity based habits because every action is a vote for the type of person that you want to be. So every time you don't get up in the morning, voting for a certain type of person. Right. I know. It's just like, it's like I, I just lived this sort of, choosing this focus is so crazy because I, any, like, when I'm talking about it, it's just like, you can tell when, when it hit. When I hit home with somebody, they're like, that's me. But it's a good thing. Well, I mean, I'm not, you know, I don't want to make anybody feel bad, you know what I'm saying? Because trust me, there's still things I'm working on every day and it, and it takes work, you know? But because I'm focused and I know what I want, and I know that we don't have a lot of time, we don't. And if world was to end today, it's gonna end with me smiling.'cause I know I got up this morning took my day and I took control of my life. And it's not run by my fears, my doubts, my parents' fears, my parents' stories. It's no one else's story. But mines and I'm gonna continue to make choices and I'm gonna own my results whether they're good or bad, but I know me, I know. I'm gonna have some pretty good results because, it's just, it's just what it is. I'm blessed, man. I'm, I'm just blessed man. God has blessed me throughout my years. I, you know, I've seen many of, I, my life could have went in many different directions and it didn't. And I give God credit, but I also have to give myself credit because he didn't come down and nothing for me. Right. He was there just to make sure just to remind me to stay on track. Do good and you'll be all right. So those were some of the books. Oh, after that, that was just mic drop, like all of the little nuggets. Not to put another thing on your plate, but maybe we will get a podcast from you soon. Yes, podcast is coming. That is for sure that is on the list. Podcast is, is coming. Right now I am just trying to build up my, clientele. Right? I have spots open. I have 25 spots. And, I'm just, I'm a big announcement. my first time putting it out in the public. So, you know, shout out to Tayler for inviting me on. I am going to Invest Fest in Atlanta. this, weekend. It's this big inve invest in, in, it's this big invest fest. I don't know if you're familiar with Earn Your Leisure. They're a podcast. They have a podcast called Earn Your Leisure, and they talk about investing. It's gonna be thousands of black people all together. and talking about investments, Bitcoin, technology, ai, you know, there, I, I already got my schedule. I, I've been. What, which ones I'm going to and I'm just so excited to get into conversations with people. Also, this is a big marketing opportunity, right? Because if nobody knows who you are and what you do, never be able to sell anything or you'll never be able to help.'cause if my Great. help my community, then that's where I need to be at. So that's really, that's, I'm, I'm actually preparing for that. I got a lot of stuff I gotta do. I didn't put all my goals out. I started, you know, I create my, I create smart goals. So if you have a Goal, smart Goal acronym, go look it up. Smart goal, the work. Speaking of people finding you, where can people keep up with you and find you and all of the amazing work that you're doing helping. As entrepreneur. Absolutely. So on Facebook, you can find me at Lester Boykin. You get a little view of my family and, you know, healthy accountability reminders. On Instagram, you can find me at accountability. Is freedom spelled out just like that? Very simple. on TikTok, you can find me at Coach Lester and. All those websites besides TikTok. They, not currently, not right now, but everything else you can find a link to my, website where you could immediately book you a accountability session start getting action today so you stop wasting time and start doing the things that you keep talking about. And we turn that talking into doing, into action. So, yeah. Yes, and I'm gonna put all those links, including the booking link in the show notes as well, so you can just. Pop right over there and yes, this was such a great conversation and a lot of reminders for me to hold myself accountable for the things that I may not want to do, but I need to do. question. Mm-hmm. for What's the question? as every, every Good coach ask is a question, right? Ask is a a good question. Mm-hmm. You don't have to answer here, but I want you to think about it. What does accountability mean to you? You saw my Substack post. Yeah. About that. But yes, listeners. the front of your mind. Keep that at the front of your mind Mm-hmm. you know it'll start to make sense for you. Woo. Yes. Thank you so much again, coach Lester. I'll post all of the books. All the links. Yes. Give yourself, I like give yourself a praise dance because you're doing an awesome job, man. Give yourself on a, Hey, praise dance for Tayler. Give yourself, this was awesome. This is a great opportunity. I appreciate you actually, the first podcast, my first ever podcast interview, first of many, Mm-hmm. you know it's going down in black history, baby. Well, thank you again and thank you listeners for being a part of The Liberation Is Lit podcast. If you have stories you wanna share, wanna suggest any topics or just wanna connect, you can find us on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Liberation is lit. Or our website, liberation is lit.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review. 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