share with me your first last name, your business, and where you're located.
My first and last name, Robert Hunt, and I am located in the Dallas, Fort Worth area.
And my business is running CEO peer groups, P E E R peer groups, uh, here in DFW for the last
11 years. And, um, I, my focus this year is on promoting the book. Nobody cares
until you do. It's a book about accountability. It's about owning your decisions in your life
and not blaming the world and, uh, having the life you really want.
Wow. So that's a book that you have recently wrote.
Yeah, we wrote it in 22 and we released it and then we're like, Hey, we've got it done.
But then now what do you do with it? And it just, there's a lot more work to promote it than it is
to write it. Absolutely. Um, so nobody cares until you do. That's the name of the book.
And interesting. How did that get started? Well, a couple of years ago, uh, Salem Thine,
who's the guy who co-authored the book with me, he shared with me this accountability ladder.
And we started sharing this with our, I started sharing it with my clients and trying to teach
a simple way of understanding what accountability really looks like. And after we talked about
it for a couple of years, we kept saying we should write a book and, uh, we finally committed and
hired a publisher and a ghostwriter and got all that done because during the time of COVID,
it just felt like everybody was angry with everybody and nobody wanted to get along and
everyone wanted to blame everybody and everyone to make excuses for why they weren't doing stuff.
And we just felt like the world has lost the idea of accountability. So we want to teach it because
accountability is true freedom and joy and power, but people look at it like a negative thing.
It's not, it's a great thing. And where did this vision come from? And I know you said it,
it started then, but it seems like there's more to the story. Uh, did you have challenges with,
with being accountable? Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. I think the biggest struggle with accountability
is we're not aware where we're playing a victim. And if you say to someone, well, you know,
I've got all this debt and I can't do anything about it. They go, oh yeah, I get it. I get it.
If they say you got to, if you have a problem with your spouse, I got a horrible spouse. Oh yeah.
I know what you're talking about. Everyone will commiserate with you and all it does is keep you
as a victim longer. Kathy and I had been married for 20 something years and we got into a place
where we owed $90,000 in debt, not including the house or the car at cars. And, um, it was killing
us. And we had fights and stress and, uh, my relationship with her was struggling. My business
was struggling because I made decisions in a negative mindset, worried, like, well, what if I
lose one customer, I just better do whatever they want. Because if I lose a customer, I'll go broke.
And you make all these decisions in a negative mindset. And so everyone feels that is how you
work, how you do things. And so by the end of 2019, we just realized we're not going to get any
better unless we own this problem. So we decided to sell our house and downsize and start over.
And so we sold our home and it took a while, but we ended up, and this is all lined out in the book.
Um, we ended up closing in March of 2020, took all that money and moved into this house where we live
now and we rent here and we paid off all of our debt in April of that year and owed nobody
anything. And the piece that I had was remarkable. I just, I didn't realize how much I had lost peace
until I got it back and I could sense, Oh yeah, this is what peace feels like again. Cause if I
worked my butt off seven days a week, I would never get out of debt. And I just felt so hopeless.
But when I took ownership over it and I realized nobody cares if I'm broke or not, I got to do
this for me. When I took that ownership and I made the changes, I had such a huge debt,
I had superimposed with my marks. So that was absolutely alone for me. It just services the
agent but it really didn't do us. Our life was temporarily on the edge of closing, so it started
and it really was a struggle. And then we носer the
life your job was, you know, the house as much as two things would do. So that out erm,
lost weight and got back in shape. And then my business wasn't being run with confidence. And I started looking at it differently. So I
approached it differently. And it doubled the first year in 2020. And it doubled in 2021 again, because I had a swagger and a
confidence and vision and creativity again. Everything that I was working on got better. They're not all perfect. But
everything that I was unhappy with, I started intentionally working on, and they all got better.
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