SMB POD EP 20 | The tipping point

It’s not over just because you hit a certain age.

Some of the biggest breakthroughs happen later in life — when experience, failure, wisdom, and purpose finally align. 🔥

Your timeline is YOUR timeline. Keep building. Keep showing up. Keep betting on yourself.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I just you just always wonder kind of like what's the stirring inside you that makes you like maybe as the tipping point to just say like in life I'm gonna go for it. You know, and I I made that decision when I was 30, kind of I've already told that story, but the company I worked for dissolved, and I had worked in private enterprise and then corporate enterprise and back to private. And I remember being like, I just want to chart my own destination. I don't want to work for somebody else and be, you know, like, are you gonna are you gonna is the company gonna fold? Or, you know, like you you don't you don't get to have control of your outcome. No. And I I know my work ethic. You know your work ethic. Your dad spoke to your work ethic. Your dad was modeled work ethic, you know. Um, but I just you know, I think entrepreneurship is just I I just somebody told me this once, and I think it's so true. Like entrepreneurs just see things differently. And when you see things differently, a lot of times you vote on yourself, right? Right. And you hope for the best possible outcome. And there are, I always call it switchbacks in life. Sometimes you go left when you should have gone right, and sometimes you go right when you should have gone left, and then you're just trying to find that true north to get you to where you really want to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Right, exactly. I read something, I don't know, I think it was on Instagram, I think it was speaking to men and women. There's some type of statistic, and I can't remember exactly what it was. But it was paneling or surveying millionaires, and most millionaires are or successful entrepreneurs are in their prime around 40, 45, 49. Um, and that just made that made me think, you know, it's that life experience is that you know you get to a point working for somebody else that you've just kind of had enough and you want to take a chance on yourself. But really, that you know, when you hit a certain age, right, it's not over. It might be the beginning for you, actually. Yeah. And on another episode, we spoke to that. But with me being 40 this year, I thought, gosh, that that's true. I feel like this is a whole new chapter of my life. And really looking back on, you know, my previous years, I should have done this a long time ago. Why didn't I take take a chance 10 10 years ago and start building? But what I'm trying to say is that it's never too late. It's never too late to to take take a chance on yourself to not necessarily start over, but there's just there's so much potential within yourself. And I guess just hold on to that and and no, it's not too late. You can you can do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Right. And you know, I see a lot in in the real estate space where agents will will become licensed later in life that maybe they were like a public educator or they had another full-time career, and then they retire from that career, and then they're like, now what's next? What's my encore chapter? You know, like what's that performance look like? And so it's really fun when they come into the industry because um they're, you know, a lot of times they're like 55, 60 years old. And so they'll, you know, they'll step into the space for 10 years or more and um have a lot of fun with it. And yeah, so I I'm trying to remember, I don't have the actual statistic, but I think the average age of real estate professionals, um, I think it's they're it's like over 50. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So and I think it's just important, like for me. I just I just oh I just want to be the best version of me every day. And some days, some days I are, you know, I hit it out of the ballpark, and some days I'm like, well, I'm ready for tomorrow to begin because I can begin again.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

But I think too, we have just this this, I mean, obviously, I mean, let's just be real, a lot of us eventually are gonna phase out. So then there's the kind of the new, newer agents who are coming in, maybe been licensed. I can think of a handful for, you know, up to 10 years. And I love to, I love the young energy. I love the way they think. It's so different. And that's why I think education is important for me. I'm wanting to stay current and relevant because I don't want to be the dinosaur that should have, you know, I don't, I don't think you're got off the stage a long time ago, you know. No. So so any plans? Do you have any trips for the summer? Like to me, it's like work hard, yeah, play hard, rest hard. So we're working hard. What do you do you have any play play plans coming up?

SPEAKER_00 5:04

To be honest with you, I don't. I don't. And I think where I'm at currently with a shot of aesthetics, it it's truly for me right now, like a seven-day a week.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

You're still in the build mode.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Yeah, and I just I live and breathe what I do. And I'm my own worst enemy, quite honestly, because you know, even on the weekends, I'm I'm working, or I think it just it's rooted in I really love what I do, and I really want to be thorough and provide that that good service to to my patients, but I I need to plan a trip. We've been talking about it. Yeah, it it's hard to leave the business though.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

It's I always say like in real estate, the whole the thing is once you plan a trip and get ready to go on vacation, that's when the phone goes mass and starts.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Exactly. I and I have a group of other uh nurse injector and business owner friends, and again, they said, you know, when stuff's gonna hit the fan, it's before I'm hopping on the airplane or and right, right, you know, or when I'm on the trip. So um, but again, I have great people in my corner too, great employees that work for me that um are on my side too to help.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

I think what's different, and what I love is now you have a new uh injector provider, Jen, at the office. Because like in real estate, I have Jenna, right? So with technology, I can do negotiations, I can write contracts, I can do Zoom consults, everything from afar. I just can't physically show property that you know, and Jenna is, you know, will step in to do that, and I do that for her when she's she's gone, but you can do work remote. But in your profession, it's not like you really can delegate that because you know your relationship is with your patient, your client.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

It is tough. And well, so and going back to vacation, what I've been doing, and even with train me now being a trainer and educator, I I take the family with me if I'm going somewhere or going into an office somewhere. We'll kind of plan a weekend around it. So that's how I've been trying to create that balance a little bit. And yeah, my son was joking, Mom, we haven't gone anywhere just for fun in a long time. I know, Peyton. It's usually he knows that I one of the days I'll be training in office or in a conference, but you have to make it work, and that's rougher right now. How I'm making it work is incorporating the family. We we go, we hit the road and we go together.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

So yeah, I remember Ashley, when the kids were younger and and you know, uh they were at home. I would work a lot of weekends, and but I wanted them to have you know fun. And so Bruce would take them out, like we bought a boat, nothing fancy, but we bought a boat, and like he would take them out skiing on the river. Because I didn't want them to feel like they were sacrificing from sure their childhood for me, and they never did. Right. Um, but it made me not have as much guilt around like I'm not home on the weekends because I was in the build, I was in the build phase, which is your phase.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

Exactly. I know, I love that story. Yeah. Yeah, you you just you you make it you make it work.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Yeah. Yeah.