Breaking Barriers: The Mindset of Successful Entrepreneurs w/ Mason Eddy & Frank Nyantekyi (EP 128)

A powerful conversation unfolds around the themes of ambition, entrepreneurship, and the drive to create a meaningful life. Frank Nyantekyi shares his journey from Ghana to the U.S., the impact of family on his career choices, and the importance of cultivating multiple income streams while maintaining a work-life balance. 

• Importance of resilience and motivation in entrepreneurship 
• Myths versus realities of starting a business 
• Consistency over comfort in entrepreneurial ventures 
• The financial freedom achieved through side hustles 
• The significance of quality relationships in achieving success 
• Shifting the mindset from employee to entrepreneur 
• Lessons learned from family and personal experiences 
• Assessing the quality of associations and relationships 
• Emphasizing proactive financial strategies over reactive ones 
• Laws of attraction and the importance of forward-thinking associations

Transcript

Journey of Business and Motivation

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to another episode of Plain Injured . Thanks for joining and being part of our community . I'm here with a great friend of mine , a brother from another mother . I think we've been in life , in business , doing life , for a decade almost now , if not more . Frank Janticci , frank , what is going on , man ?

Speaker 2 0:22

What's going on ? Mason , it's good to be on . It's good to be able to tap into the Planned Injury Podcast .

Speaker 1 0:30

You bet man . Well , frank comes from a pretty unique background . So , frank , drive to want to create a good family life , a good relationships in our life , make an impact , spread the good of humanity and our faith . We share a similar faith background . So , frank , why don't you share a little bit of how you were raised , where you came from and some of that , and then we'll dive into some other topics , Excited to chat with you .

Speaker 2 1:09

Yeah for sure . So obviously this is not a Wisconsin accent . I was born and raised in Ghana . I did high school in England and then I moved to the US to do my undergrad and grad school . A little bit about my early journey . So my dad died before I was born and the uniqueness of that was that my mom never allowed that to stop her . So I've actually never seen my mom work a normal job like nine to five . She's always like run a business . So it was really unique to see that when I was young and then when I moved to the US .

Speaker 2 1:48

It's so weird because normally people move here for a better life but when you start , you get into the 95 , it's easy to feel like , oh , I can , this is , I'm making good money and you feel sufficient and satisfied .

Speaker 2 2:02

And I almost fell into that trap until I connected with you Because I had seen what my mom had done in the past , came here , got comfortable and then just that drive and connecting with other people that run businesses . Really it was kind of like a reinvention of myself , to feel like , oh , this is something I really wanted to do earlier on , what has taken so long to get here , and it was probably the season I was in . I was in grad school then , so , yeah , that's a little bit of my background . Today , I work as a projects manager in a large insurance company . I have two kids married . Yeah , I've done everything that normally is expected right Go to school , go to grad school , get married , live , make good income . I think for me , though , something that I've found to be very important is the need to grow and to be more and to be able to make an impact , so that's a little bit of my journey .

Speaker 1 3:08

Yeah , Can I . Can I ask you another question ?

Speaker 2 3:10

Yeah .

Speaker 1 3:11

It's . It's valuable for people to hear . When I met you , you were a single dude , you know going to school working . You know going to school working and you know , so I've seen you go from single dude to dating , to engaged , to married , to kids . Like we've known each other that long In fact , we were at your wedding , we were there when both your kids were born Like we've been just involved in a lot of those areas and along that journey you've always had a career of some kind and you've definitely grown a lot in your career .

Speaker 1 3:50

But you've also always had something going on the side in actually multiple dimensions . Because not only are you running something here in the US that you've scaled a quarter million dollar venture in e-commerce which you'll never tell people , so I'm going to tell them and then you also do business to help your mom with business back in back in ghana . Yeah , just give us a little bit of . Where does that come from ? Like what's the drive , what's the motivation through all those seasons of life to stay so consistent in that and and not kind of start to kind of rest on the comfort of , hey , I'm making good money and what's been that motivation ? Because I think a lot of people from the US who were born here . They tend to . I just see this , I observed this and I could be wrong , but I just see a lot of people who travel from a different country to come here for a better life tend to be the ones who have more ambition and they leverage what's here and what's available more than others . So any thoughts you have on any of that ?

Speaker 2 4:53

Yeah , I think different seasons have provided different motivations . So , coming from Ghana and watching my mom run businesses , it just made sense . It's like , ok , she run a business . I was able to go to private school in the UK . It was as a function of her running businesses . She paid for my undergrad and , I think , most of my grad school as well . If I want to be able to provide a certain level of lifestyle for my kids , there is no better version to copy . It's like she did that from a third world country and provided all of those . But then also another point of motivation I had kids . Once you have kids and you have children and you have a family , you move from a sense of I to what do I do to protect my family . You move from a sense of I to what do I do to protect my family In work . Can you realize that ? And a huge wake-up call I've been laid off twice in four years , from 2020 to 2024 , I was laid off twice .

Speaker 1 6:08

There is no greater awakening than being laid off .

Speaker 2 6:09

having a family with two kids navigating that so true . So all of those just it made it clear to me that not having something on the side is almost irresponsible , that is , I mean , not everybody has to feel that way , which is fine . Some of us , I think . Most of the times there is a fear of what if things don't work out . What if things don't work out ? What if I invest a lot and things don't work out ?

Speaker 2 6:32

I think for me , I always saw that different , because I saw my mom start a cleaning business from zero to have over 30 employees to shrink . I saw my parents run businesses where my dad went to a BMW dealership , bought a 3 Series with cash and then 5 to 10 years later they were bankrupt . So I've seen all those ups and downs . So it's like it's normal that at times you will have success . One thing I've done better is really reimagine that as like what am I learning through the process ? Right ? So I'm always looking to make an impact . That's really one of the things that have driven me . I have a question for you what are some of the ? You've been running a business for over 10 years . You've had success both in the entrepreneurial realm and then also in your career . What are some of the biggest myths about starting a business ?

Speaker 1 7:28

Yeah , great question . I think there's a handful of things , especially in today's age , that people are challenged with . Number one is interesting and kind of a paradigm shift . There's too much information because , at the end of the day , when it comes to entrepreneurship , as you know , frank , you need to go do more than you need to just get educated . The the ratio of education and doing has to be pretty lopsided , meaning you got to take a lot of action and fail a lot , fail fast , and you need to get educated along the way . So that's myth number one .

Speaker 1 8:16

Number two is , I think , with social media , and all that's out there is that there's a silver bullet waiting for you , there's a get rich , and I don't actually it's kind of . I recently changed my perspective on this through some conversations with my mentor , frank , but I think that you should get rich quick . I think you should build wealth quickly in your life , because you and I both know you buy your life back . Then you get it sooner . You get to spend more time with your family , your kids , the things you , the people you love . So , um , I think , get wealth quick , not maybe get rich quick , cause I think there's a difference there but , um , but what I think that this challenge is is that we're looking for the silver bullet or the quick fix . And here's what you and I both know and that we've experienced is that anything successful takes a decade of effort . So that's number two .

Speaker 1 9:11

Number three is I think most people , when they hear starting a business , their brain goes to 40 , 50 , 60 , a hundred hour a week , work weeks , uh , trading your life for it . Uh , giving everything you got your , your , you know every penny of savings . Uh , going into debt , taking out a loan and that's just something I've never done . That's when we've been guiding you guys . That's something we've never recommended you do . In fact , we build everything . We've never taken out a loan . You've never taken out a loan for things . We've helped you in e-commerce and we just recommend you go low cost and you use sweat equity and we scaled everything 10 , 15 , 20 hours a week . That's about the amount of effort we put in , never sacrificed our day jobs , build things in the evenings and weekends and stayed consistent , and I think the biggest thing is consistency through all of that . So that's another factor .

Speaker 1 10:03

And then the last thing I'd say is kind of tied into the information is there's just a lot of noise and typically the more noisy an industry is , the more limelight it gets and the more people are are selling a bag of goods . So right now it's in e-commerce . That's a big one . Um , it might be through , uh , you know , kind of cryptocurrency . That's a big noisy space right now and typically the more noise people are kind of just creating false , false facades of what success and the reality is .

Speaker 1 10:40

And , and you know , my wife and I and , and , and and you know , would be the first to tell you that our key to success in our venture in e-commerce and what we've helped you guys kind of build had nothing to do with , uh , the internet and a program and like a youtube video . I had everything to do with the relationships we established in our life and and executing on a plan and um , and it took time , it took a lot of time over years , but , um , that's it . And then I think the principle behind starting something on the side and this , and then I'll I was .

Speaker 2 11:15

I was just going to ask you to double click on that , like the why behind , why it's important , the principle behind it is , yeah , that that you .

Speaker 1 11:25

In our opinion , if you're going to build something outside of your career , you build something that's going to produce a different kind of money than your job would produce . So , for example , your mom's cleaning business . For Frank to go start a cleaning business in the US , just gave himself another job . Yes , right Now Frank gets that cleaning business the 30 , 40 , 50 , 100 employees hey , now it becomes something where he can potentially remove himself from it . But to get it to scale that way is pretty difficult . So when we recommend somebody start something on the side , they think what is a system that I can build ? Or how can I automate this ? I want to start something that over time , I can remove myself from and that I'm not the magic . So are you building a business that owns you or are you building a business that you own it eventually ?

Speaker 2 12:18

is the . Can you speak more to why it's important to think this way , like why ? Why you don't want something to in starting something ? You don't want it to become just another job ? I think there is a lot of I wouldn't say noise , but there's a lot of discussion around entrepreneurship out there and people get stuck in that .

Speaker 1 12:39

Yeah , well , because I think the world's teaching , if I'm understanding your correctly , frank , and please like tell me to pivot here to a different idea . But a lot of people are told find something you're passionate to do , passionate about , and you'll never work a day in your life . And while that may be true for some , I think most people it's not . And what I wanted to create was I wanted to create something that when I was , when , as I'm building it , it's giving me more time in my life .

Creating Financial Freedom Through Side Ventures

Speaker 1 13:09

So here's , here's a simple example or a simple kind of math equation . If your expenses are , let's say , $5,000 a month and your job you make , let's say , $8,000 a month , so your net cash flow is $3,000 a month . From that , right , your net cash flow based off of expenses , so you're cash flowing $3,000 a month . So if you lose your job and you have one month of pay , you can live without a job for one month . You're one month financially free . Or actually it would take you two months to become financially free because you need $6,000 to cover the $5,000 for two months . Okay , so that's kind of a job , but that's all you got . If I build something on the side and let's say it takes me five , 10 years , but eventually it produces $5,000 of cashflow through my side venture and I'm still working my full-time job . That covers my expenses now from my living expenses . So now I have my job income at $8,000 a month , plus I have my business income at $5,000 a month , which covers all my expenses . I just became financially free with a job . Now what my decision point becomes is how much do I , how much money do I want extra ? Now I get my side venture to $8,000 a month and it's residualized . I remove myself from my job . I'm at this exact same spot and you can go one from one .

Speaker 1 14:38

Here's the last thing I'll say . One of the things that you're working on beautifully you and your wife and your kids is building a money machine and this is actually a book that was written . But you're building a money machine why ? You guys are fully vested in 401ks , roth IRAs . You guys have a business in Africa you're investing in . You have a business here in e-commerce you're investing in . You have your job income .

Speaker 1 15:04

Okay , so that's right there . I just named four different sources of income you guys have . So , god forbid , something happened to Frank and his ability to produce at his job . You can now turn on one of the other machines for your family . Flip the switch . So it's not linear . I say this often , but starting a side venture is not for people who just want to quit their day job . It's also for people to have an insurance plan in case a job quits . You Say that again Having a side venture not for just for people who want to quit their day job , it's also an insurance plan in case a job quits you what have you seen as one of the setbacks or blockers that stops people to imagine themselves or think about the things this way ?

Speaker 2 16:01

because I think a lot of times people are like , well , it's not for me or I'm happy where I'm at . Why is having an insurance important , this insurance policy on the side important ?

Speaker 1 16:15

to be , to be Frank with Frank .

Speaker 2 16:18

Uh , such an American term , english term , that doesn't make sense Uh what have you seen of like the way that more black people from thinking this way ?

Speaker 1 16:31

They think there's security in a job . They think jobs provide security and people rest in consistency and when something is paying you consistently , it's comfortable . It's like right now if you get in your car and turn it on and drive , it's going to work for most people , like they're just , they're expecting their cars just going to always run , and then one day they get in a car and it doesn't turn on and it doesn't work . And if they weren't planning for it , that's they're going in $30,000 of debt or $20,000 of debt because they don't have any money set aside for it . So at some point , the reality is the truth is you you experienced this twice . You said earlier you're going to lose your job and you're replaceable .

Speaker 1 17:14

Um . One of the other uh individuals that my wife and I uh guide Frank , who you have a great relationship with um , is he's . He's leaving his corporate career . At the end of this year , in November 14th , is his retirement . His wife was already gone . They have three little uh , two little kids , sorry . And um he's leaving his corporate job . He's a . He's a super high level , just a couple layers below a CEO at a big , a big fortune , fortune 50 company . And um he's one of the highest , like recognized employees there . And uh , I was asking him the other day . I was like so what , what are you ? How are you feeling about leaving ? He's like dude , it's . It's crazy , he's like . But the reality is they're going to replace me in a matter of a month , he said even when I'm gone , I'm replaceable , and so that's a paradigm that I think we just have to come to terms with . How many ? And here's a really great question for most of us what was your raise ? Most of us have just we're in the raise season . What was your raise this year ?

Speaker 2 18:13

Most of us I don't know what it's going to be . It's going to be like two to 3% .

Speaker 1 18:19

Yeah , but what was the inflation last year ? Like 7% to 9% . I think that means if let's say , let's call it 7% , that means you lost . If you had a 3% raise , you just lost 4% of your income last year , gone Without even doing anything . So how do you offset 4% ? Well , you go build something on the side . The only way to to grow , uh , wealth in today's world is you have to build something for yourself , is my opinion .

Speaker 2 18:42

That's just the only way to do it as as a student but a graduate , as a husband wife couple that is looking to transition . What is the kind of mindset shift that is required in your experience ?

Speaker 1 18:59

firm on the outcome , flexible on the path , and what I mean by that is tell me more . Yeah , I was not , and you were the same

Building Wealth Through Entrepreneurship

Speaker 1 19:11

way . You and I both approached e-commerce not because we were passionate about it . We loved it , we were going to be so good at it , we were like just meant for it . None of that . The reason you and I approached that space was because we saw the results it could produce in our life . We understood the asset it could create and we wanted . What we were passionate about was the life it could help us create and the impact we can make through it on our family and on others . Like that's it .

Speaker 1 19:42

So , number one , you have to be that . You have to be outcome focused . Number two I believe if you're a couple , you have to be on the same page . Both have to be active entrepreneurs , building something . No , well , frank , you and Laura are on the same page . You know where you want to go , you know what your values are . You know what's most important for your family . She supports you and what you do . So there's a level of being on the same page .

Speaker 1 20:09

And then I think you got to get real with yourself and how unproductive you are . Let's say you're married and you have kids . Once your kids go to bed , we're very unproductive . Most families are extremely unproductive creatures . It's Netflix time , it's phone screen time .

Speaker 1 20:30

At best you're reading hopefully maybe you're reading a novel and you're not on your screens but most of it's screen time , netflix time and movies time , and so so to me , if your kids go to bed 7 , 30 , 8 o'clock most young kids that's when they're going to bed you have at least two to three hours that night . If you're going to , typically people are going to bed around that time for you to go build something for yourself and I think it's the best way to invest your time as a couple is doing something in those evening times . That's productive , that's forward focused , because otherwise we get caught in the past and we start becoming victims and we start thinking about all the things we don't have and where we're not , because we're watching all these things on TV and social media , of all these great things people are doing in their lives . We get lost in that .

Speaker 2 21:21

I like that you said this whole idea of having that wasted time until the end of the day . Where do people start , though ? I think there are a lot of options out there . What would you recommend from your experience as a place to start ?

Speaker 1 21:40

Well , listen , if you're listening to this podcast episode because you're intrigued by the idea of being able to go build something for yourself , maybe you met Frank , maybe you met myself , maybe you met somebody that knew one of us . I believe that's where it starts . I believe it not with a podcast episode . Where it starts is with a relationship with somebody , because that's where it began , for we sit here across from each other knowing that was the answer for us . Right , it was relationships in our life . It was people that had done things . Relationships in our life , it was people that had done things .

Speaker 1 22:21

And what I found about successful people who have truly , genuinely created financial freedom or financial success , or on path to do that , and aren't trying to just sell you a program or something to go by , but they actually had created it successfully . They're very giving people . They enjoy that because you that's the impact we get to create in our life is is being able to give back and and frank , I know you're , you have a massive heart for this but you , you look at you , look at people . As man , I see so much potential in people . You're extremely optimistic , human being , actually to a fault , sometimes right , almost too optimistic . You look past some of the details , which is something we I mean , that's , if that there's a bad trait and if that's your worst trait , that's a pretty freaking good trait . Uh , bad trait or whatever . Uh , double negative . But , um , I think just being able to build relationships is a phenomenal starting point and then , um , and then just just realizing that you're gonna have to grow a new skill set , getting outside your comfort zone is the name of the game .

Speaker 1 23:25

You know , I we started this podcast . I don't even know 2019 , this , this playing injured podcast . I never , I didn't even I still this is this isn't ? I still , today , have no idea how to upload a podcast onto any of the platforms . I don't know , but Josh does . My co-host , he figured all that out . And you don't have to be great at everything , frank , you have . You know , wealth is built in building teams and you've built organizations in your job and you've built organizations through business and you've built organizations over in Africa . I mean from all different levels . I mean there are people that you know that are way smarter than you , that are your businesses right and part of your team Way more skilled than you I don't think you'll be mad Way more skilled than you are .

Speaker 2 24:15

Yeah , that's true . I tell them all the time .

Speaker 1 24:19

Yeah , but that's leadership , and that's also like a level of understanding where wealth comes from . Wealth doesn't come from you being really good at something and you being the expert or being really niche . Wealth comes from you empowering other people , helping other people get to where they want to go .

Speaker 2 24:37

Yeah , so something I've also seen at times helping other people get to where they want to go yeah , so something I've also seen at times is that people I think it's more of a shield than anything , the idea of like , oh , it has to be perfect , it's a perfect time . Whatever I do , I have to be all in , like it's either I'm all in or I'm not , or it's perfect or I'm not doing it . What have you seen as a way to overcome that and take an action rather than waiting for perfection ? Because the idea that , well , if it's not the perfect business , or it's the perfect business idea , or it's the perfect time in my life I've seen it as a Go ahead . Yes .

Speaker 1 25:31

I was just going to say can I answer all three of those questions ? I'm going to answer it . I've seen those . So what's the answer ? The answer is do something , and the answer is do a little bit every day . A little bit goes a long way , and especially when you're in the wealth development game . See , I think people attach scaling and building wealth or building ventures on the side , like they do , to their job . They think I got to go to school for four years Maybe subconsciously , but let's bring it to the conscious level . I got to go to school for four years and then I can start working . And then , once I start working , I got to work for 40 hours a week and then , after five years , I'll be really good at my job and I can get promoted or whatever . No-transcript , the work I did 10 plus years ago is still paying me today in entrepreneurship is still paying me today . Entrepreneurship in a job . The work I did five years ago actually five hours ago doesn't pay me anymore . It paid me only for that moment .

Speaker 1 27:08

Wealth development . Here's what's cool . You build little blocks and those blocks continue to produce um , and you know , one of the best analogies for that is would I rather carry buckets of water to my home and try to build a business around . Oh , I'm going to go help carry buckets of water or build a pipeline where I can just turn on the water and now I can put pipelines in everybody's home . Like , what am I actually building ? And the difference between the way we think about building things on the side is build a pipeline . It's gonna take some time , but that's a little bit of at least the mindset . Is there anything else you wanna shed on that ? Shed light on that , because I feel like maybe I missed the mark a little bit on that . I don't know if there's anything .

Speaker 2 27:49

No , I think you're spot on on the idea of building a pipeline and doing a little . I loved when you made that comment about doing a little to start and not waiting for the perfect , because it never will be . Something is always going to come up , there's going to be some new development , something is going to happen . What I have found is when you take little steps and I'm a believer , I believe that every time that I take little steps towards success , god gives me a layup Because he realizes I'm actively working towards a purpose , I'm working towards something , and at times we all need that help and people call it luck . I call it like actively somebody noticing I'm taking steps towards that , so I just get in the helping hand .

Speaker 2 28:33

When you were speaking , I mean you've been in , you've run businesses for over a decade now . How have you grown as a function of this ? How have you grown as a man ? How have you grown as a family man ? How have you grown even in your career ? How has this learning opportunity or running a business influenced different areas in your life ?

Speaker 1 28:56

Yeah , you know it's funny , I can't really say that any of my growth that I had in corporate America was a function of what I , what corporate America taught me . Any programs they had , any conferences sent me to , none of it came from there . And I'm not saying that there aren't companies that do a really good job of that . I just didn't have that experience . If I had to attest the reason I grew in my career , it was because of what I did on the side . It was because of the books I was reading , it was because of the association I had , it was because of how much I was getting outside of my comfort zone every night of the week and I was growing myself through , developing myself in my own endeavors .

Speaker 1 29:53

And so so many people , I think , are very binary in the way they think they're like , oh I'm either going to be an employee or I'm going to be an entrepreneur , and I got to go all in on one of those . And I just think we live in a generation where , if you're not flexible , if financial security and stability is not about one source , financial flexibility and security is about skill , flexibility and security . It's about you being flexible in the way you make money and having autonomy over that , and that's been a big piece . The other thing I think that's been really beautiful is growing my , my mental and emotional capacity tell us yeah , leaning a little bit in that .

Speaker 2 30:38

What does that mean in expanding your emotional and mental capacity ?

Speaker 1 30:44

How much I can handle today , how much chaos I can handle when the kids are crying and things aren't going well at home . I don't know if I would be there mentally and emotionally if we hadn't built something on the side , because there's been plenty of moments where we've just had to lean in and you don't have an option . And here's what I find Most people this is just this is what I've seen Most people when it comes to their job , they'll show up emotionally broken , sick , tired , hungover , you know whatever right

Living Full-Time Values, Part-Time Work

Speaker 1 31:18

, they'll go to their job . Still True .

Speaker 2 31:20

Yeah .

Speaker 1 31:22

Because they're driven by a fear , because if they don't show up they get fired , they lose their paycheck . Okay , then they start something on the side . Or their family or their kids need them and they're like oh , I'm too tired , I'm not feeling well , and they don't for their kids , their family , their wife and their side ventures .

Speaker 2 31:42

I love that you said that , because I was listening to a podcast and they spoke about one of the best ways to really connect with your kids is spending time . And in relation to what you're saying , but if you're not present because you're mentally you're not , you don't have the capacity , you're not going to be present when you're with your kids . But sorry , I just had to jump in and share that . Oh true , yeah .

Speaker 1 32:02

So what is it and this is , I think , getting at a point here is that my value ? What are my values ? What's my value system ? My value system is my family . My value system is my health . My value system is the way I treat people , okay , how I show up for them . Well , what's the most important place ? I need to have it pinned my family , my kids .

Speaker 1 32:25

So my mentality was and excuse me on this if I'm offending anyone , but I'll call in sick to my job , like that why ? Because they pay me to not be there , they give me sick time so that I can show up for my family , my kids and what we're building on the side . Why Because that's the long-term play . Wow , that's sticking . That's the sticky thing . The thing that's not sticky is the job . I can always go get a new job and that job's going to quit me someday . That job's going to say you don't belong here anymore , you're not needed here anymore . It might be when I'm in my late 60s , it might be tomorrow , right ? Where do I want to put my mental and emotional energy really ? So here's the question . And then maybe we should kind of land the plane here . If you got anything else , frank but- .

Speaker 2 33:15

I have one last question . But yeah , and then we can move .

Speaker 1 33:17

Yeah , here's the question why does the world teach us to go , get full-time jobs and then live part-time marriages , part-time raising kids , part-time health Wow , why don't we flip it ? Why don't we figure out ways to make money that provide for our family , that are part-time , aka residual , passive , asset-based , ongoing whatever you want to call it there's so many words for it and then live full-time marriages , full-time parents , full-time health journeys , full-time spiritual faith walks with your church or your faith , or whatever you're into there . Why don't we flip it ? I think if most people were to work towards flipping the equation sooner in their life , instead of doing it in their 60s , doing it in their 20s , 30s and 40s , I think there would be less anxiety , less depression , because now we're living out our true values and , I believe , the way God designed us speak to this .

Speaker 2 34:25

I feel this sounds like common knowledge , but I feel like a lot of people would hear this and it will be new to them , and part of it is because it's a function of the people that I have associated with and I loved it . Earlier on you had spoken about associations and then I had a question here on that . I was like how do you know if you even have the right association by you ? How do you find the right people to associate with ? How do you know if you even need an association or to associate with people ?

Speaker 1 34:55

Yeah , I mean it's a great question . I'll be pretty quick on it . Number one is assess , assess the association , and one of the one of the greatest , one of the best assessments that I was made aware of is what are they talking about ? And what I mean by that is are they talking about the past ? Your association that you're hanging out with and I know every culture is different , but I know the African culture , I've gotten to know your culture a little bit . Frank likes to hang out and kind of just chill and just hang out , yep Food and all day right , like nothing wrong with that . But what are they talking about ? And if they're always talking about the past , here's an indicator they're stuck in the past .

Speaker 1 35:44

And if you're the kind of person who wants to move forward I'm assuming you're listening to this because you want to move forward in life , you want to be better , you want to create a better life for your family you got to start surrounding yourself by people that speak future , that speak where we're headed , where we're going , and that not only if you start speaking that that will attract that into your life . If you start thinking forward , if you start . I believe in the power of manifestation and the fact that , hey , I think our relationships were a divine interaction , a divine work of God in our lives . But you and I were both , prior to meeting each other , thinking forward where we want to go . What do we create ? Like life can't be this , like it's got to be more so .

Speaker 1 36:25

I think that a power of attraction , um , and then I think you just really need to define relationships in your life , and for my wife and I , relationships are not built on quantity time . Relationships are built on quality time and quality of conversation . If the quality is there and if the quality conversation and the quality time is there , that's an opportunity to build a really strong relationship . Most of us have relationships in our life due to proximity and environment when we worked , where we live , this , the , the school we went to right , that is our association , the family we were born into . Okay , but are you actively seeking ? And I'll tell you , it's uncomfortable , frank . You meeting me and us becoming friends was uncomfortable . I'm sure we're totally different , grew up totally different .

Speaker 2 37:25

Yeah , you're right .

Global Impact of Vision and Values

Speaker 1 37:28

But the reality is that doesn't matter , because what ? What is the true line Meaning ? What is the one thing that , no matter what culture you're from , no matter what background you're from , if there's a commonality in where we're going , in our value system , it doesn't matter what all the other factors are . You , you , you , you even the board across cultures . The one thing we talk about often is that vision and a dream will surpass all cultures , and if you go around the world and you talk about a vision and a dream and the life you want to create , every culture has that . Wow . So dude .

Speaker 2 38:09

Yeah , this has been great .

Speaker 1 38:11

Yeah , such a blessing to have you in my life . You know I'm just going to say this as we land the plane here , frank is , you're one of the best human beings , one of the most dependable people , you know I I talk about often , um , we live in a society that doesn't follow through , that doesn't is afraid of commitment and afraid of , of , of , really , you know , showing up um and and and , being honest and and over the last decade , that that's , that's you , that's just been you in my life . That's been you and not just my life dozens and dozens of people's lives that you've just been there . You've been stable , you've been consistent , imperfect . What it means to be a father , a son , a friend , a business partner , a spiritual warrior . Frank Yontuchu , you are the man for that and it's an honor . I appreciate you so much that it's our job to get our kids around each other so we can influence each other's kids , because of how much value there . So just respect you a ton , buddy , and thanks for coming on our show . Thank you .

Speaker 1 39:29

Where can people find you , mason ? Oh , that's a good question . Good luck . No , I think LinkedIn is probably my most kind of active platform that I use . And what about you , frank , Is that kind of LinkedIn that I use ? And what about you , frank , is that ?

Speaker 2 39:44

kind of LinkedIn is all . I'm only on LinkedIn , actually , no thanks . Thanks for the opportunity , mason , you bet .