Dom Levike, tell me about your vision, man. My
vision is very, I guess, what I try to do in
life is have a positive impact on the world,
right? So I've always tried this from what I've
done in music, from what I do in business, from
what I do writing books, right? And if I tailor
my vision for organizations or for my career,
is to help organizations strive to a powerful
talent ecosystem right that's what i want to
do is help organizations transform the world
of work into a better place through a powerful
talent ecosystem and culture that's huge and
for those who who aren't quite able to catch
that you younger visionaries dom's talking about
infrastructure he's world class at this stuff
their company's doing 200 250 000 monthly and
and revenues right now they're moving towards
six to eight million and beyond it's going to
be amazing i've been really really excited to
get to know him behind the scenes with ryan westfall
as well 537bd who's been helping explore like
okay If we all want to do this, and we've got
8 billion people in the world to help, then it
takes great minds to dive in. So today, y 'all
are in for a super treat. We're going to come
right back. We're going to dive in further to
Dom's vision. We'll see you on the other side.
All right. Welcome in to Vision Pros Live. I'm
Jackson Callum. I'm your show host. We'll be
doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs
and guest leaders who are building fantastic
visions out there. What's up, everybody? Welcome
in to another episode of Vision Pros Live. I'm
your show host, Jackson Callum, founder and CEO
of First Class Business, and I am stoked to have
Dom Levike on the show today. Dom has superpowers
when it comes to building businesses. He was
also in a band that toured with Sum 41 and got
to do some really cool things that warped for
back in the day. One of the secret visionaries
about entrepreneurs and people who are successful,
musicians. they're like super genius people it's
just true okay i'm gonna own it too um you know
there's a there's a certain ability about people
who learn multiple languages and also different
cultures and learning instruments like that but
dom also if you if you're not carefully listening
you can't even hear his accent and i think that's
something that's so important to honor because
again somebody who dedicates themselves to communicate
effectively and understand the culture of people
that's not even their first language like that
is extreme dedication to love and service and
understand how to help people um and it's something
that's near and dear to our heart as we have
that mission of helping latinos worldwide and
bridging the economic gap between north america
south american rest of the world so excited to
have him on stage of course we also got home
studio mastery .com featured on here with junaid
where he helps you build out world -class podcast
studios and then danny brassell I hope that all
of us lean into giving back today. If you know
somebody who's a parent of a child who struggles
to maybe listen or struggles to read, then absolutely
send them to Dr. Danny Brassell, dannybrassell
.com. He's got the reading habit. We've helped
Danny turn this program into a freemium business
model where you can actually get access for free
to the materials. He helps parents inspire their
children to love to read. He's hilarious. He's
great at it. He travels the world doing this
for parents, for teachers, for parents. principles
all throughout the world. I highly recommend
checking out his resources. As I mentioned, if
you know somebody who has that struggle, and
here's a hint, out of the non -readers, the people
who struggle to read, four out of five of them
are boys. It's not really as big of a problem
for girls. Girls tend to dive in. They've perhaps
evolved more than us. But if you know somebody
who's got a son, and they happen to be struggling
with the whole education factor, then why not
give it a shot? Give Danny a call. This is near
and dear to my heart. And then, of course, there's
the Water Project. The Water Project helps millions
of people gain access to clean water, something
we take for granted. I hope that you lean into
that with us and look and see what you can do
with the Water Project. We'll drop the links
in the show itself. So without further ado, we're
going to fill up your glass. We're going to fill
up your education. We're going to do that with
Dom Levike right now. Dom, welcome in to Vision
Pros Live, man. Super happy to be here. Thanks
for having me, Jackson. Absolutely. All right,
Dom. So we set the stage for being able to build
these ecosystems for businesses. Let's talk about
that background. Where did your vision come for
this? Yeah, I actually think there's a lot in
a person's history, in a person's career. We're
shaped by our background. We're shaped by our
history. We're shaped by what we have done. a
very good example of that right everything i
have done from from my childhood leading to today
has brought me to that vision right so it i started
as a young of course i'm from canada everybody
plays hockey but i started as a young hockey
player and i grew up learning losing how to lose
how to win resilience working in teams leading
teams i was a coach i was a captain i was a goalie
right all of these things actually helped me
shape my personality and then you talked about
it a bit a bit earlier but i played in a punk
band after that so that's why all the tattoos
right so of course i'm still a big rocker at
heart and i'm still a punk rocker and it was
so much learnings as well because that's my first
uh you get creativity building as teams, traveling
with a band, sleeping in a van, sleeping in bad
places, spending a lot of time. When you're tired,
you got to show up no matter what. You end up
doing great gigs, but you also end up doing really
bad gigs. And then you sign contracts with companies
that try to steal from you and a bunch of cricks
that try to sign. So you learn business. So through
hockey, you learn so much. Through music, you
learn so much. And then you get a bit more prepared
after university. into the world of work right
what and that has shaped me through all these
experiences and building companies building teams
you said that so well and i i got to touch the
surface on the music side i didn't get to dive
behind the scenes on it but i've watched a lot
of the movies about elvis and about johnny cash
and about um uh what is it um whether it's eight
mile what's the one About Compton. What was that
movie called? I can't remember the name. I can't
remember. I can't remember it, but it talks about
their contract and their manager stealing from
them and what that looks like. It happens all
the time in the music industry. But if you're
the one going through it, your refiner's fire
is just heavy on you. You've got to learn how
to negotiate. You've got to learn how to make
those deals. You've got to learn how to find
that next gig. You've got to learn how to be
booed offstage, probably. Have you ever been
on an offstage? Not booed offstage, but booed.
You're actually a super great musician. Booed,
yes. Booed offstage, no. And you said it, right?
We had great contracts. We had great partners.
But there was also guys that tried. And then
finding out who you can trust, who you can't
trust, and all these stories about all those
great musicians around the world. And by the
way, Johnny Cash is tattooed right here, the
man in black, right? So this is my background.
This is where I come from. This is the people
I love. the stories i love absolutely nwa i cannot
hear you straight out of compton phenomenal movie
phenomenal phenomenal musicians and again these
these parallels when you can tie these parallels
together visionaries and see how your background
is related to your path but also how these types
of experiences outside your own follow dom's
story take a look and see okay if he knows that
right if he's on hockey teams for that long and
working as a goalie working as a coach he knows
different angles of systems and departments and
operations and at the end of the day this is
also why athletes and organizations of sports
make so much money a big reason why is because
they've learned how to systematize their operations
and you can see what's going on you can see so
many of their successes too so dom thanks for
for helping us see that i'm curious man what
is what's your why my why is helping right so
i've i've come from a place of helping and sharing
and trying to make people around me and and one
of my former boss she's incredible by the way
and one of the my last leader in ronstadt she's
she's an awesome woman and she used to say dom
you're the guy that says the most you say the
word fun the most i've ever heard anybody so
my why is to make people have fun right work
has to be fun life has to be fun i like to do
that around me so of course i'm a i can be a
really tough boss we need to execute we need
to perform and that's how we built a company
in just six months with 250k plus in revenue
and and and all of that coming in the next few
weeks right so we have those projects those investments
will be in the large among the largest firms
in canada just a few years and and that's what
we want to do but the way we do that we can't
do that if we're not having fun if our culture
is not the main driver if it's not right and
you talked earlier about processes and i firmly
believe good companies run with solid process
and processes and systems and technology but
none of that happens without great culture great
people and having fun and that's so important
for us dang and and you have so much uh you have
so much experience with that having led vans
um you know like i just can't imagine like what
it's like the warp tour and being there and and
and doing that over and over and so you you are
like a generating machine of fun through all
those experiences and do the sports stuff too
that's crazy yeah and we did actually one date
at the warm tour not the whole tour but it was
actually a whole lot of fun we played on one
of the stage with all of these bands and and
see that we played with some 41 as you mentioned
and but you go on stage and your job is to make
it fun make it fun for people make people enjoy
the night make people sing want to dance and
if when you're in that mindset you understand
that you're created something you're created
a moment So every time I speak, every time I
give conferences, every time I speak to my teams,
every time I speak to a client, to a prospect,
it's always about creating a good moment, creating
a partnership that actually creates something
positive for everybody that's involved. Right.
If you can do that carefully or you actually
have a lot of power in the relationship and that's
how you create the most amount of value. I love
it. Here's what I heard and here's what I love
about what you said. Visionaries, pick up the
little details about how leaders put things down.
Here I was talking about Dom being on the Warped
Tour and playing in bands and really what comes
from being able to organize his own schedule
with his band and knowing where they're going
and being part of that process. But instead of
allowing us to believe, oh, he's done that the
whole Warped Tour, he immediately honed in on
humility. and set the record straight of Jackson.
I did Warped Her One Day. That doesn't reflect
all the other things Dom did with that band.
I know that. But that humility, the ability to
hone in on, let's stick with the full truth on
this. Let's make sure people don't misinterpret
the truth. That's an amazing leadership attribute.
I don't see a lot of leaders really diving into
that, but those are the types of leaders that
I want to work with. Dom, what role does humility
have? in your life as a leader how did you develop
the desire to make sure records are set straight
where does that come from that's a great question
i i always and that's something very important
to my heart so thanks for the feedback i very
much appreciate it but Leading with authenticity
and transparency is how you create deep and meaningful
connections. So being humble is also being curious.
Because if you think you know stuff and you're
always about knowing and you think you're the
smartest guy in the room, you will miss a whole
lot of very important elements. So it's okay
to know. It's okay to know you know. But the
most critical element is be curious. care about
people care about their stories cares about what
they think because this is where the value of
diversity this is where the value of organizations
and teams where there's economies of scale and
the power of the sum of all the individuals right
that's what i feel is so important is the power
that gets created through curiosity to being
humble to being there to learn. Anybody you speak
with, you learn stuff. And that's what I've learned
through all those years. And it was so good because
that wasn't something initially when you become
a boss, you think you need to show that you know,
right? So you're going out, you're trying to
be powerful. And then you realize that, oh, yeah,
that moves, but that's usually short term. If
you really want to move people, you got to move
people with the heart and they'll only connect
the heart if they have purpose. And if they feel
heard, they feel connected, that's how you will
create something magical, way beyond what their
head's going to produce. I love that. This is
an 18 -minute masterclass on leadership, joy,
fun, doing things the way that we love to do
things as well. I'm super excited about this.
Dom, the people, if you guys want to get in touch
with Dom, you can find him on LinkedIn. And again,
the last name, Levike. As you can see, it's spelled
on the screen. You know, for us Americans, you
might struggle with that a little bit. Levesque
is how I think most people in the U .S. would
say that. And just like my last name, hard to
find. But Dom, you can find him. Next Wave, we'll
dive in further in a future interview if you'd
come back. We'd love to have you. I'd love to
come back. This was great, Jackson. You're awesome.
And I think you're a great host. And I'll be
very happy to come back and talk further if anybody
wants to reach out. LinkedIn, I'm easy to find.
By email, my name, dominic .mylastnamelevesque
at nextwave .com. Reach out, connect, speak.
My two books are available on Amazon under my
name. So very easy to find. And one of them is
already a bestseller in the US. So yeah, check
it out. And thank you for having me, Jackson.
This was awesome. For sure. Absolutely, Dom.
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