Donnie Boevin, CEO of Success Champion Networking.
Tell me about your vision.
Man, let me tell you, one,
the biggest thing I first started with to do
when I launched the company
is I was gonna change how the world networks.
And that was my biggest vision
is I felt that there was a lot of crappy networking
out there, especially if you're in the B2B side of things.
You know, if you sell B2B and you're into a room
with a lot of realtors, mortgage title,
it's just, it's a tough game because you can help them,
they can't help you back.
So that's where my vision started.
And as I continued on my journey,
what I realized is most people in our world
are that corporate escapee.
Like they were successful in corporate America,
they went out, they launched their company.
And so now they're three to four years in,
they've tried a lot of things.
And so that's how they usually find us
is they're looking for a better way to network.
What I found a lot of those people
is they're just trying to find freedom.
So my ultimate vision is to help as many people
find freedom through building a business as we possibly can.
We do it through networking and collaborations
and bringing the right people together.
But, you know, we're just helping people
build a real community so they can find freedom.
They don't create a crappy job for themselves.
And they can build a company that actually allows them
to live that life they wanted to live.
So that's the ultimate vision of everything.
What's the story behind your why?
That's probably the deeper root of one of those
hardened realities where you've seen that giving,
giving, giving can deplete people.
I agree with that.
Well, I very much can.
So it's for me, there's a why and then there's a reason.
Like the why I do things is because nobody did it for me.
Right?
So I teach everything I've screwed up in business.
I'll put it out there on social and I'll
share the entire journey, the wins, the ups and downs,
goods, bad, because I want people
to see the real side of business.
Because what they get to see is the Instagram version of life.
Like you only ever get to see people's wins.
You don't see the mental battles they have.
You don't see, you know, in like my case,
almost losing everything in the process
of trying to build a company.
Right?
So I share all that because nobody
was helping me along the way.
And so I thought I was the only one screwing all this up.
So but the reason behind all this
is because I continue to want to give my wife the life she wants.
She deserves to live.
Right?
So my why is to help everybody else find freedom.
Right?
Help everybody not make themselves an island.
But the reason that drives me the most is, you know,
my wife put up with me for 20 years now.
We're going on 18 years of marriage.
And, you know, she's been my ride or die
through this entire thing.
And she deserves the continued success in life.
One, to get back to where we were.
Right.
But two, to continue to chase our dreams
and do the things we've always talked about doing.
So that's the huge.
But what people continue to do is they give.
And they have this whole mentality
that I'm going to give and the world's
going to show up and magically hand me business.
And the world's going to.
So they give.
And then they give from this beautiful place.
But because of that, they're taken advantage of.
People realize, oh, they have a lot of connections.
Oh, they know a lot of people.
So they give and they give and they give and they give.
And just like you said, it leads to burnout.
So there's a whole philosophy around the idea
of giver's gain.
And the gentleman who said it, Ivan Meisner,
he even came out and said, I wish
B and I would not have embraced this phrase.
Because giver's gain, I know it's not
what they're trying to say, but it's literally
saying you're giving to gain.
And I know when they say that, they always
say that you're giving unselfishly.
Blah, blah, blah.
Here's the thing.
If you never take from the network,
you're going to be taken advantage of.
So you have to give.
So we break it down into five Gs.
Give, give, give, get, and give again.
Because here's the thing.
Most people that are out networking have no idea,
do not understand that they should actually
open doors for you too.
Now where are you going with your vision?
Yep.
So we'll tie those together.
People have, you know, they need to have their destination.
You got yours.
What's your destination?
So the most beautiful and ultimate thing
that my wife and I will be building
is we're going to build a retreat that's
over 600 acres on the retreat.
We'll have fairgrounds.
We'll have a corporate event center.
So we can bring people into our world of renfairs, festivals,
and do awful corporate conferences and the likes,
but create an environment where people can let their hair down
and be themselves.
I want to be there.
Yep.
And put on, I mean, I love the idea
of you doing a corporate retreat and you wake up
in the morning and there's giraffe walking by your window.
That kind of stuff lights me up and I
think it's going to be a lot of fun.
So that's what we're working towards.
Everything the businesses are doing
are working towards that vision.
Thank you for being here today.
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Have an excellent time building out your vision
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