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John:Ever wondered how you could turn your side hustle into a full time gig and spend more time together?
Vikki:Hi. I'm Vikki, a number one best selling author.
John:And I'm John, a retired Los Angeles police officer. Welcome to dig the well, where we help couples navigate the world of business.
Vikki:We've been married for thirty five years, and because we built a successful side business, John retired nine years earlier than he originally planned from the Los Angeles Police Department after twenty five years on the job. Now we spend more time together, and we want to help couples like you do the same.
John:Join us as we help you overcome common obstacles, and we show you how to make extra income without sacrificing family time.
Vikki:Ready to dig deep and build your well? Let's get started. Hello. Hello. Welcome back to Dig the Well.
Vikki:We're excited to be with you today.
John:Yeah.
Vikki:Yes. Yes. Yes. And today's topic is going to be not allowing outside influences, outside world noise, things that happen in your life cause you to allow that to derail your business, basically. Yeah.
Vikki:For lack of a more concise title. Because we wanted to talk about several things that we've been noticing popping up with the business owners that we coach, on a regular basis, daily, weekly. And and we thought it was really important to bring that up to all all y'all.
John:Yeah. Because oftentimes we find people will it's almost like they're looking for an excuse not to not to build their business. And, you know, it's kinda weird. If you think about it as a job, if if you were your own boss or if you just worked for a company and you got up in the morning and thought, yeah. I don't think I'm gonna go to work.
John:It's a little cloudy out this morning, or it's not cloudy enough this morning, or whatever the reason. Right? And you just made up found some excuse not to go into work, and you did it over and over again, you probably wouldn't find yourself employed there very much longer. Yep. When you own your own business, you don't fire yourself.
Vikki:Right. And you should sometimes. Give yourself a time out or something to snap yourself out of it. Yeah.
John:I think it's so easy to do. It's almost like that slippery slope. Yeah. You know, you after you've done it once or twice, it's like, well, that was easy. Right.
John:Nobody even yelled at me.
Vikki:Right. Nobody noticed I wasn't making calls. Nobody noticed I wasn't following up. Yeah. It's it's kinda scary.
John:And the and the sad thing is if you didn't go to work a couple of times, it's really not gonna probably not gonna affect your income very much just if you just missed a few times. Right? Use that excuse, whatever your grandmother died again, you know, or the cat got run over for the eighth time. But if you if you bail out on your own business, it's it affects you. Right?
John:It affects your income. It affects your business, your the growth of your business.
Vikki:Yeah. Momentum. If you've started to create some momentum
John:Oh, yeah. Yeah. If you have momentum and you lose it, you know, try getting that back again. Yeah. Right?
John:So once you have it, you certainly don't wanna lose it. We can talk more about that later. Yeah. But yeah. And then the other thing it does is it tells everyone in your organization the commitment level you have.
John:That you don't even treat your business as a legitimate, like, real business that you're bailing out on it all the time. So how do you expect other people then to follow you? Or if you're in a business where you're recruiting and trying to find build help people build their own businesses too, How do you do you really think that you're gonna find that person that's going to be really motivated and wanna build and grow their business, and then you have you as a mentor if you're kinda cheesing out on it?
Vikki:Right. Exactly. Yeah. So yeah. Let's talk about a couple key topics that we've been hearing a lot of in, in our coaching.
Vikki:And I think number one, right now is still and it seems crazy to me, but it's still the tariffs. You know, if we wanna be totally current, people are still going wonky. That's not right. Going bonkers and letting that affect the how they run their business on a daily basis. And to us, that's insanity.
Vikki:Don't do that. Yeah. Don't do that.
John:But it's been like a month and a half since the president announced that they were going to increase tariffs. And at that time, there was a lot of uncertainty. There was there was no talk about the specific countries or how much it was gonna be, and it was later revealed. But either way, I mean, I don't we don't have control over that.
Vikki:Right.
John:Yeah. And is it gonna affect your business? It may. It may not. Probably not.
John:If if people would just take a deep breath and just, like, breathe through through their noses and just calm down, let it play out. There's a plan involved in this that those those mass those massively high tariffs were unsustainable. And I think everyone knew that, and if everyone would just calm down and let it play out, it's playing out now, and it's like I said, it's been about a month and a half. Right. And it's actually playing out for the better.
John:Things are looking up. Things are looking so much better, and the tariffs are getting more under control. The thing that I don't like, and I've already seen it, and I saw this during COVID, and it it was kind of a pet peeve of mine, and I think it's really unethical, is people raise their prices, and they're raising their prices using the tariffs as an excuse, and I've seen it already where someone says, oh, because of tariffs, it's it's gonna cost more. And so I asked them specifically, what do you buy from China? What parts are you buying to to make your product from a foreign country that's that you're having to pay an additional tariff to have those parts, and can you source them from somewhere else?
Vikki:Like in The US, for example.
John:I know. They don't source any of their products from a country that that that's carrying a high tariff. So that's just nothing more than an excuse to raise their prices. Right? Yeah.
John:Exactly. It's just a money grab, and they did that during COVID. And if you if you remember, after those prices went up, skyrocketed during COVID, when we got that when we got past that nonsense and got back to work and got things back online and got our supply chains back going, and sure, it isn't the same as what it was pre pandemic, but it was much better than what it was during the pandemic. But even when we got those back together again and prices should have come down Right. And could have come down, they haven't.
John:Right. Prices still remain high. And I think these yeah. And I think the people who are raising their prices and using tariffs as an excuse just to money just to grab money and gouge people, I doubt seriously. And you know what?
John:I'll challenge you. If you're watching this and you've raised your prices because of tariffs and you had to, okay. I get it. Yeah. Definitely.
John:If it didn't, shame on you. Right. But no matter what, when when the thing when everything calms down, and those tariffs aren't an issue, and your source of whatever it is that you need to buy offshore, when those prices come down, you better lower your prices back to where they were. Yeah. I agree.
John:I agree. I hope you do. And I I have faith that some people will, but I think overall, we're gonna see industry wide companies and people, business, small businesses, whatever, they're they're gonna raise their prices, use tariffs as an excuse, and then not lower them.
Vikki:Right. So the main thing to us is, like, keep doing business as usual. Stop worrying about things that you're not in control of. Right? That's always been our motto too.
Vikki:Raising our kids when they would worry about something. You know, I remember you telling us, especially in the kids, that if you can't control it, what's the point of worrying about it? Right? And a lot of you are sitting there worrying worrying worrying, and you're not doing the daily task that you should be doing for your business to make it grow, make the cash register ring, and you're blowing it.
John:Yeah. You're
Vikki:blow snap out of it. Yeah.
John:And there are things you can't control. Let's say you're you're still stuck on the whole tariff thing. Well, there are things you can do that that is in your control. Look for other sources. Look for ways to buy things, that you that may not be affected by a higher tariff.
John:Right. If in fact that's the case.
Vikki:Right. Exactly. So just yeah. Had to put that to rest.
John:Focus on what you can control.
Vikki:Right. Exactly. Exactly. And just know, have faith that it's all gonna work out in the end. If you're sitting there believing, oh, it's doomsday.
Vikki:Our country's going to hell in a handbasket. You know what? You could be part of the problem of making that happen. But if you have a positive mindset that it's all gonna work out, there's a reason behind everything, then things are gonna go better. Right?
Vikki:So let's all get on that bandwagon. Whether you voted for the president or not, that's totally not part of the equation in my opinion. And let's talk about presidents. That's the
John:other thing. But, yeah, make no mistake about it. Yeah. It it isn't just a a Trump thing with tariffs. Right.
John:It's every president. It's every president for many, many presidents. Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. They've all been for tariffs.
Vikki:Right.
John:It's just that the problem is we're we've always been on the wrong end of the of the foreign trade negotiations, and our tariff deals are ridiculous. What we charge on tariffs is just is so small compared to what other countries are charging us. Right. It's about time we just get to a fair tariff system.
Vikki:Exactly. Exactly. So when it comes to presence, let's talk about that. And we're not gonna say who we voted for. We've made that clear on other episodes, but, and who we didn't vote for and all all of that.
Vikki:But, you know, we've been in business a very long time. You were 16. And, I actually probably should have counted, but it's at least it's probably even Steven. It's probably three or four Democrats that have been in office when we've been in business and three or four Republicans. Right?
Vikki:We're not in control of that. And there's been times we weren't happy with the presidential choice, and we still carry on our business. Right? We're we do what we are we can do. And so, yeah, I just really I heard another great, business coach, Sandra Yancey, talk about that several times, and it's so true.
Vikki:It is so true. True. True. So stop worrying about who's in office. It doesn't control your bottom line.
Vikki:You know? You control your bottom line. It's in your hands.
John:I mean, control your bottom line.
Vikki:So okay. So
John:Yeah. And I was just gonna bring a point. Just something I would just thought about when you're you're you're speaking is, I remember when I was really little, there was a presidential election, watching it on TV, saw the results, and the result didn't go the way my mom, or at least my dad, had voted or wanted. Right? And I remember he was kinda bummed, but I remember that he told me, he goes, well, you know what?
John:We'll we'll have to wait another four years and see if see if, you know, if we get who we want to get in. But in the meantime, he's he said, I'm gonna support the new president. And he did. And he he was very, you know, he was he it wasn't his choice, but it was America's choice, so to speak. He the the man won, and so my dad was very supportive.
John:What happened with that? Why Yeah. I don't see that so much. I don't see people that if their candidate, whether it's president, congress, senate, any elected official, if their elected if their favorite elected official doesn't win, if that candidate loses, then they get, I don't they get, like, almost combative. They get they they protest everything.
John:They just they can't support anything that that that winning candidate does. Right. I don't understand that. I don't either. I get it.
John:It's gonna be four years where you're not gonna be you're not gonna be happy, but make the best of the four years.
Vikki:Right. And there have been four years when we haven't been happy other times. Right? But I I still Throughout our lives. Yeah.
John:Yeah. And and we've supported whomever was sitting in office every time.
Vikki:Every time. Yeah. And my parents
John:Oh, go ahead.
Vikki:Oh, I was just gonna say my parents too. Same Yeah. Thing. Like, I knew who they voted for. They weren't happy, but you didn't hear bad mouthing.
Vikki:You didn't hear them fighting with friends at dinner parties. I mean, it's getting out of control.
John:Or wishing for them to to fail. Right. That's the other thing. It's just Yeah.
Vikki:It doesn't make sense.
John:Yeah. It shocks me that there there's this one side now wants everything to fail. Right? The left wants everything the right's doing to fail. And I I don't get that.
John:I mean, if I were on the left, I would say, no. I don't want it to fail. I want our country to prosper. Yeah. I want I want Trump and his administration to to thrive and succeed and and do what's right for our country, whether I voted for him or not.
John:Same with when Obama was in office, whether I voted for him or not, I was hoping that he was gonna make change for the country and do the right thing and and be the best president he could possibly be. Totally. Totally. Totally. So it's just it's nuts.
Vikki:And if we could if I could say you're hurting your business not if I could say. I'm going to say.
John:You're What do say?
Vikki:You are hurting your business if you are making it so known that you feel a certain way politically, to the world, to you know, on social media especially. Let's just say that. Because guess what? You're cutting off half the country that doesn't agree with you. Yeah.
Vikki:So you're cutting off half of your cuss your potential customers because you're bad mouthing whichever side that you don't care for. You know, again, we we don't do that in our business. We don't talk, religion either. I mean, I I do post a little, but I'm always I I post about my god now and then with a quote from the bible. But I also encourage anytime I do a training that all religions are welcome, and they are.
Vikki:Like, but yeah. Anyway, it's just it's absolute insanity, that the the disagreements, the fights, the the bickering, the loss of friendships.
John:Oh my gosh. Yeah. I saw something on TV where they were showing, I forget what program I was watching, but they were talking about how families have split up over the presidential election outcome in November, where for Thanksgiving, families were that have traditions of showing up, you know, and and having Thanksgiving at a at a at one family member's household, that family member told the the family that voted for Trump that they were no longer invited, and they were not welcome at their home anymore.
Vikki:Yeah. I remember Obama days, people would do that too. Yeah. Obama days, that was happening. They you know, people were
John:like It's shocking.
Vikki:I want nothing to do with you because you voted for Obama. Yeah. Both all the time.
John:Some of our some of our a lot of our close friends Yeah. They're on the other side of the fence than we are.
Vikki:Yeah.
John:That's okay. We still love them. They're still our friends, and we don't like getting we we sometimes we'll we'll bring up the subject, which we shouldn't. Right? But I don't think we do.
John:Somehow the subject gets brought up. And we get into kind of a pretty good discussion. Right? But it's healthy.
Vikki:It is healthy.
John:Right? No one's punching anyone. No one's getting anybody in a headlock. Police are not being called. We just respect where they're at.
Vikki:Both sides.
John:And we hope they respect where we're coming from, and we can talk about it. And then sometimes I think, yeah, you know, I think you got a pretty good point.
Vikki:Yeah. Totally.
John:Right. Anyways, we don't fight, and we don't, like Vic was saying, we don't those are just very, very close friends of ours, and very close friends. Other than that, we keep that out of our business.
Vikki:Right.
John:As much as possible, we keep it out of our business. Because because like Vic said, we know that we're gonna alienate half of the population, and that's not what we want. We want our business to thrive Right. And prosper, and that means we want this we want this to touch and reach everyone.
Vikki:Yeah. And we become also friends with our customers, our clients, and I I don't wanna ostracize that friendship. But is that the right way to but, yeah, I love our friends. And no matter how they believe, I love them all. And and so, yeah, it is absolutely insane.
Vikki:It's insane. So if you're letting that, hurt your business, stop that. Stop it. You know, put your opinions off the table. Right?
Vikki:Seriously. And let's all work together and have a great country, a great world, a great life. Seriously. So okay. So that's that.
Vikki:We also wanted to talk about other things that can derail your business, including health issues, losing family members, losing a pet that is a family member that could, derail, you know, you running your business for a time. And then before you know it, you're not plugging back into your business at all. And, and we recently had that happen. Do you wanna talk about I don't wanna start to cry. So
John:this just happened. We had to euthanize our dog. It was actually our daughter's Misa. But it ended up we we we kidnapped him and couldn't return him to to he was he was our hostage. Right?
Vikki:During COVID. Right? When she had to come back for a year or two?
John:Yeah. So what happened was we had we had a big a big dog. Right? We had that big Akita, and he was he and this little Shiba Inu, which is like a mini Akita, they got to be the best of friends. So we ended up with the Akita first, and our daughter went out and got the Shiba Inu, And because for that reason, that he was like an Akita, but the Akita was just too big for her in an apartment to have.
John:Right. So she had him, but they ended up being buddies. They went everywhere together. And so he spent a lot of time here, and especially like Vic said during co during a period in COVID, Misa had come back home for a little bit, and then she moved back out to her to an apartment, but the apartment didn't allow pets where she's at Dana Point. Right.
John:So, we said, hey.
Vikki:Stay with us. Yay.
John:We're keeping them. So we kept that little guy, and about two and a half years ago, the Akita got to the point where he was just really old, and his body was starting to fail him. So unfortunately, we had to put him down, and that was pretty tough. Really tough. Yeah.
John:It was really tough. And then we've had the little Sheba since then tank. Tanky. Yeah. And over Mother's Day weekend well, anyways, he we noticed he wasn't feeling right.
John:Took him to the to the vet, and it turns out that he wasn't gonna survive but he had.
Vikki:It was terminal.
John:Yeah. And it was just a matter of about twenty four hours.
Vikki:And excruciatingly painful for him.
John:Yeah. So So Tough decision was made, and and, you know, of course, that was our daughter's decision to make because technically, by I guess, legally, he's hers. And it was tough. You know, we had the entire family here at the house, and we had a a vet come out to the house and perform a service for that. It's really cool.
John:They do a really good job with that.
Vikki:Can I just say Yeah? That this might make me cry, but that's great family. You know? Because we let our son and daughter-in-law know and our son-in-law, and they rushed out. Yeah.
Vikki:They dropped everything to come out and see him, before he passed. Yeah. That's true family. So, anyway, I just had to throw that. That made me feel, like, so happy for Tank.
John:Mhmm.
Vikki:He was so loved. Yeah.
John:Yeah. Sure.
Vikki:So yeah. Sorry. So they
John:For sure. Anyway, so this vet comes out to the house and does what they have to do for that, and it was just really it was very nice. It was a nice send off. And it was tough. Right?
John:Because then we're dealing with all the emotions of it and with everybody in the family too having to tackle this thing. It's it's not it's not pleasant. But it didn't we didn't stop our business. Right. I think you still had I still have some Zoom meetings.
Vikki:Yeah. Meetings to go to. I had the meeting we found out, I had a you're a future of filler, sipping sample that night, and I still went. I didn't have anyone that I could replace me, do it for me. But people were gracious there.
Vikki:I told a couple people, not everybody. That's the other thing that I the reason I'm throwing it in is you don't have to tell everybody. You
John:know? Shouldn't.
Vikki:Yeah. Exactly. Just tell a few of your closest friends, which that's what we did, and they will help you get through. And our friends did. They have completely helped us get through.
Vikki:Yeah. Well, we're still going through it, but missing him every day here.
John:It's tough because we keep I keep thinking, you know, he's gonna be in his little bed, and I go over to his little bed. He's not there, and I realize, oh.
Vikki:Before the podcast, we were getting all set up for today, and I heard a noise. And I was like, Tanky. I was gonna tell him, we're gonna do the podcast because we always tell him. And if you go back to past podcasts, you'll see his little white tail behind us. He walks walk behind.
Vikki:He would sit Yeah. That'll be fun if you wanna go back and watch the beginning episode.
John:But, anyways Yeah. We're the point we're trying to make is, and especially if you lose, like, a loved one that's that's not your pet, but actually a family member, someone that a close friend, someone that's really close to you, I get it. It's tough. And there's a time to to grieve and mourn, but there's also you also can't let that be an excuse not to not to stay focused on your business.
Vikki:To use my dance background, the show must go on. You know, your life has to go on. The people that are living and your business has to go on. Yeah. Yeah.
Vikki:It's it's not easy. And if you're going through that, we're sending out huge hearts to all of you. I lost my dad just it's gonna be three years, June tenth. Holy cow. That's crazy.
Vikki:And but, you know, that stopped me in my tracks for, like, a second, but then it didn't because I heard my dad's voice, and I think that's what we're doing with tanky too. I I heard my dad's voice saying, keep being the light, Vic. Keep being the light. And so because that's one of the last things he said to me. Yeah.
Vikki:I'm getting cry about my dad. But, you know, I instead of, you know, just wallowing in the sorrow, I wanted to make my dad proud just like little tank. I know he doesn't want us wallowing in our sorrow. He's up in heaven with with Kuma dancing, you know, playing together. Right?
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. And, looking down at we're the ones in pain.
John:Yeah. I think I think any loved one, would rather see you thrive. Yeah. I think they wanna see you prosper. I've used that word.
John:They use those words a lot in this podcast. They really do. They don't wanna see you, you know, being Eeyore and just moping around. I don't think that would make anyone happy. I mean, I would I know when I go, I would want the the people I leave behind happy.
John:Right. Right? %.
Vikki:And I know your dad's watching over. We've always known your dad because we lost John's dad when I first met him. We first started dating. Six months later, we lost her dad. He was, what, 52.
Vikki:Super young. Now we're older than, you know, that, like, kids home. We're older by a lot, and we had that conversation when we hit 52. So any other 52 year olds
John:out there?
Vikki:Hello. When we hit that, remember, we're like, oh my gosh. This was crazy that your dad left us at such a young age. Yeah. But you didn't let that stop you.
Vikki:You're, you know, whip window tinting then on to prestige motoring accessories. That drove you, I feel like
John:Mhmm.
Vikki:To show him from while he's watching from heaven all that you could do. Yeah. So that's what we wanna challenge you. If you're going through a health scare, a health challenge, could be life or death. You could be have cancer.
Vikki:There's a lot of people hurting right now. We're with you. We're praying for you. Hopefully, you have a business where it can keep going without you. If you don't, contact us because that's the other great thing about not trying to put a plug for Neora, but that is a great reason to have a direct sales business is it can go while you're in the hospital.
Vikki:You're getting better. Like, our business we could have stepped stepped away Yeah. From Neora, if we needed to. And, actually, there was a day or two where I was hardly answering any, and I knew any emails, any texts, and my leaders had my back. And that was so amazing to know that I didn't have to step right back in the day that Tanki passed away.
Vikki:You know?
John:Yeah. So There have been so many testimonials from people in this in that business, or or they're they'll be invited on stage at one of the conferences, and they'll just tell their story. And and oftentimes, it's gosh. I can't even count how many stories are similar in the sense that they went through something very traumatic, whether it was them personally or some someone very close to them. And it took them out of the game for an extended period of time, for months at a time.
John:Like, some of them were, like Vic was saying, in the hospital recovering from something very serious. And while they were in the hospital, their business didn't skip a beat. And it wasn't because they were on the phone or they're on Zooms, they're in no condition to do that. It's the people in their business that stepped up and Mhmm. And helped them.
Vikki:And kept going. Like
John:Vic said earlier, you that's one of the reasons why you wanna be in a direct sales business, but here's the caveat to that whole thing is you have to be in the right Yeah. Direct sales business, because not every direct sales business is gonna do that for you. That is so true. That is very,
Vikki:very true. But traditional business, you know, hopefully, you have an office staff that will carry on while you're getting better. You know? That that is a tougher one, though.
John:Yeah. I know. I I don't know if many people really, really plan for that. Right? You don't even I don't know how many people think about that.
John:Yeah. Exactly. Happen if you were if God forbid. Right? We do certainly don't want this to happen to anyone.
John:But what if something happened to you where you were you were, you know, off your feet for Right. Six, nine months, twelve months?
Vikki:Would your business carry on? Yeah.
John:Yeah. Would your would your job still be there? I know some people, they may they may be at risk of losing their job or or being reassigned or or being demoted or something to something else. I don't know.
Vikki:Yeah. We didn't mean for this to go this way, but it would be smart to have multiple streams of income. Yeah. Right? Yeah.
Vikki:Seriously.
John:Yeah. And something that's protected. Right. Like we were saying, right direct sales business that you've invested your time and your effort in and and to build an organization of people who care and who will, you know, who will step in and and step up and step in the gap and and and help you. Right.
John:I think that's important because that's like, gosh, that's some of the you you can't buy insurance for almost that.
Vikki:Right? Exactly. I was starting to think, you know, what could you you could have long term care. Right? But that's the medical side.
Vikki:What about bringing money in? You need like, there is no insurance for bringing money in like that. I guess workers' comp
John:I'm sure there's some, but it would be horrendously expensive. Yeah. So if Yeah. If you build the right business, you can do that, and it it you can it doesn't cost you anything. Right.
John:Yeah. Should you have to lean on that portion of it?
Vikki:I was thinking that you're not paying the people that are helping you to keep your business going. It's just what they do. It's part of the whole plan, the whole direct sales model. Yeah. Exactly.
Vikki:So well yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
John:So Yeah. I hadn't even thought about that.
Vikki:Yeah. I know. It's it's yeah. We've got a lot of people in our personal business right now. We have one of our key leaders is in July going to have massive surgery.
Vikki:I don't wanna get into the details of her surgery, but we know that. Like, she's working her business, May, June. She knows she's gonna have to step away, but all of us are aware. We're ready. The system is in place to carry on while she gets better.
Vikki:We have another one in Rochester.
John:Gonna continue working to build her business.
Vikki:Right. Yeah.
John:And While she's recovering. Yeah.
Vikki:Yeah. And Rochester, New York is having back surgery, same kind of thing, where she's gonna be out for a while, might be able to do a few phone calls if she feels like it.
John:But What's really cool about this too is I I they're they didn't ask for the help. They didn't come and and and beg on their hands and knees, hey. Can you help me with my business? It's that once you find out that they're going to be going through something like this, it's it's a nice way to support them. How many just think about it.
John:If if you're going most people who go through something like that, like a surgery or like a a a terrible illness, they get a lot of people that support them and and pray for them, which is wonderful. Right? That's what you want. You want people to support you and and pray for you, maybe bring over a casserole.
Vikki:I was gonna say some meals.
John:This this is help that goes beyond that. Yeah. Right? This is help that's gonna keep money coming into their household, to their families, keeps the lights on, keeps the bills being paid, keeps the roof over their house. There's not a I mean, people mean well when they offer support, but how many people actually say, hey.
John:Look. I'm gonna make sure that your mortgage gets paid this Right. For the next six months. Like nobody. Yeah.
John:Because most people are struggling to make their own pay their own bills, to be honest. Right? So they as much as they would probably like to help and do that, wouldn't you wouldn't it be nice if you could just tell your friend, hey. Look. I got your mortgage for the next year.
John:You don't have to worry about that. Yeah. But honestly, how many people are in that position to be able to do that even if they wanted to, which I think a lot of people do want to? Right. But this is that kind of help.
John:They don't have to ask for it, but you're gonna step in, there's gonna be a ton of other leaders that are gonna step in and say, hey, don't worry about it. Your business is covered. We got you. Right. Right?
John:Ain't that cool? I know. It's very, very cool. Yeah. Without having to ask I know.
John:And expect anything in return.
Vikki:No. Exactly. It's a total gift. Yeah. So well and I I think that's the main three things we wanted to cover today that, you know, if you're letting something hold you back in, you know, the tariffs, who the president is, a health issue, or losing a pet or family member, don't wanna say snap out of it.
Vikki:That was gonna be what I was gonna say.
John:Just stop making excuses Yeah. To to turn your back on your own business.
Vikki:Yes.
John:Right? That's right. If you wanna be if you wanna have a business, you wanna you want to run your business, run it. Right. Be a businessman.
John:Be a businesswoman. Be that person that's gonna say, hey. Look. Come hell or high water, I'm building this thing.
Vikki:Exactly. Exactly. And ask
John:I'm sorry.
Vikki:Oh, sorry. I was gonna say and ask for help if you do need it. But exactly. Carry on. Yeah.
Vikki:Carry on.
John:You'll respect you you people will respect you, but you'll respect yourself.
Vikki:Yeah. And there's nothing more important than that. I don't think I think you do need to respect yourself.
John:Well, cinnamon bears are pretty good.
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