All right. Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with
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. 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 just grateful to have coach
Tian Singletary on stage today, his humility,
his desire to focus on authenticity, which some
people talk about it, but then there's other
people who focus on it. I prefer the ones who
focus on it. And we just started talking about
the depths of learning. He was talking about
junior ROTC. He was talking about the military
and how he learned about goals in high school.
I think a lot of us get these seeds planted.
I'll say I'm a little bit notorious or infamous
for accidentally undermining. the teachers who
started me on the journey of leadership, because
I was a horrible leader. I was really bad. I
was just gifted. I was talented. But I did not
care about the people I was leading around me.
I just wanted to win. And I wanted them to win,
but I wanted them to win because I was winning.
So, you know, I felt like some of the teachers
or leaders early in my life maybe let me down.
And as I listened to Coach Tian just now, I was
like, they didn't let me down. They gave me the
gift of placement so that I could understand
these things at the time in life when I was willing
to self -reflect, when I was willing to say,
you know what? Perhaps it's time that I actually
put these things in practice and do the hard
work myself. And that came years later. So Coach
Tian shared his process of reading a book. And
I'm curious what that book is. Maybe we'll get
him to tell us which book that was later. But
I'll give credit to Jake Larson turning me on
to. I will teach you to be rich .com with Ramit
Sethi. Such a strange transition because he sent
me there to learn about copy. And I expected,
I was like, why does this website have anything
to do with copy? And then as I'm reading it,
I could see that there are principles of copy
that Ramit Sethi... was practicing that Jake
was trying to get me to practice. But what really
helped me was Ramit Sethi has this guide that's
now hidden called The Ultimate Guide to Habits
and Goal Setting. And that thing taught me some
very healthy truths about goal setting. I've
never heard taught anywhere else. You guys can
go look that up. Learn from Ramit. He's not a
sponsor. I don't know him, but I'm grateful for
the man. So there's that resource for you. Then
you got Home Studio up here. Another resource,
Home Studio by Junaid Ahmed. He helps you build
professional studios. I'm down here in Ecuador,
in Turcan. I don't have my studio present, but
Junaid builds studios in the $30 ,000 to $75
,000 range, and he's a top 2 % global podcaster
with Hacks and Hobbies. I highly recommend following
him as well if you're on the podcast journey
and wanting to learn how to take things to the
next level. And then there's Dr. Danny Brassell.
Dr. Danny Brassell helps... Parents inspire their
children to learn, to love, to read. He's one
of the world's best educators. He's got a program
called The Reading Habit. Again, I recommend
checking that out as well, especially if you
have children or if you know people who do. It
would be wonderfully wise to get him involved
to take your kid's education level to the next
level. And really maximize that opportunity because
that's usually what maximizes our prosperity.
Lastly, before I bring Coach Tian back for a
couple more questions, the Water Project, my
friends, if you would be willing to go check
out the Water Project, I'm not affiliated with
it. We do donate to it every single month. And
it is really neat to be able to see that there's
transparency regarding opening up water wells
or sand dams in these locations where people
don't have access to the thing we take for granted
most. I've never been thirsty in my life, legitimately.
I used to take that for granted. When I found
out about the water project, I got to see that
you get to see the project come to fruition.
And I started to realize, whoa, there are millions
of people who don't have access to clean drinking
water. And we can solve that. That is something
that is totally solvable by us diving in. I'm
grateful they lead the way on that. So if you
don't have something to give back to it, that's
okay. My request of you is to just rock a microphone
like myself. And maybe that means discussing
it over dinner with your family or with your
friends and saying, hey, here's something you
never know. Planting that seed might lead to
10 different people giving as much as $1 ,000
or $100 ,000 or even more to the project. And
you're making a generational impact on communities
that can then focus better on their education,
focus better on providing for their families.
And I just can't let that aspect go. when there's
people out there who don't even have access to
water. So let's get into that and do it. We've
got 8 billion people to help. We're going to
go right back to helping each of you right now.
Coach Tian, thanks again for joining me here
on Vision Pros Live. Let's get after it, my friend.
Let's do it. Awesome, man. All right. So you've
got this depth of leadership. You've got the
authenticity. You've been on the path of growth.
You've got your website and different products.
You're working with John Maxwell as well on Live
to Lead. You've got a program, a global youth
leadership program that you're also helping build
on. You've got an upcoming virtual event on November
29th, a live workshop on January 17th in Myrtle
Beach. Man, what is your why? What is it that
drove you to want to do all this? My why is it's
like when I was younger, I didn't have all the
resources that is now available at our fingertips.
At the same time, there's people out there that
just want love. People out there that want people
that truly care because That sometimes is hidden
by these devices, right? So as I think through
it more and more now, as when you asked me that
question, I'm like, wow, it's more deeper than
I thought. Because it's like, it's really hitting
me right now. I just want to truly add value
to people that may not be where I'm at right
now in my life, because I came from. I would
say poverty, right? Where I was weighing, handing
down clothes and shoes and sometimes holes in
my clothes and shoes. Right now, they walk around
with holes in their clothes. I'm like, wow. For
me, when I was younger, that was poverty. And
then, so coming from that and now where I'm at
in my life, I'm like, I truly want to give back.
Like, I truly want to help those that need support.
and meet them where they are, right? Everyone
is at different locations or different places
in their life. And I just want to meet people
where they are and help build them up to where
they can be because everyone have true potential
in them. They just need someone to just help
them pull it out, right? And that's where I'm
at in my life and in my season of significance,
living a life of significance is what can I do
to help someone to move forward from where they
are right now in life, right? So yeah, thank
you for the question. It made me think about
it a little bit more. I see how deep you went
and you're being very respectful of the audience
and the time. I'm going to ask a question I've
never asked anybody on the show before. So normally
I ask, what's the story behind your why? And
you already helped us see that you come from
a background, you know, where life is tough,
where you know what that feels like and you like
the idea of helping others. Was there anybody
along your way? that saw your circumstances and
took the extra effort or time to help you? And
what's that story? Or was there nobody who showed
up and helped you dig out? Did you have to grind
it out yourself? What was your journey like?
It's a mixture of both. I got to give first honor
to my Heavenly Father. God who helped me. And
I live in a praying foundation, a praying house.
So my mother, my father really loved me. And
they showed me the way just by what they can
do. They both came from somewhat, I will say
again, poverty. My father, both my parents finished
high school, but they never went into secondary
education, right? Secondary education. So that's
their level. And they only taught me from what
they know. So in order for me to grow, I gained
wisdom from my teachers that was very supportive.
My second grade teacher, third grade teacher,
fifth grade teacher, when I started playing recreational
football and basketball, my coach, right? Those
people were in pivotal moments of my life that
helped me to think differently. Then going back
to when I joined GRTC, I was able to travel a
little bit being on part of the drill team. So
getting out of my environment and seeing other
things opened up my eyes a bit more. I was like,
okay, maybe there's a possibility to get away
from here other than selling drugs or doing that
type of life. What can I do? At first, I didn't
want to go to college. So I really had no plan.
I had no plan on what I was going to do after
high school. But since I was part of GRTC, and
then a recruiter came for the military, first
I was trying to go into the Air Force. I did
a test, passed it, but they never got back with
me. I was like, I'm ready to go now. I need to
sign now. And that's when the National Guard
came. And I signed up with them when I was a
junior in high school. And that's when my life
began to move in the right direction, I would
say, because I was getting away from my environment.
So all those things, people, places, all those
things helped me to move on the direction that
I'm living right now in my life. I love them.
And you inspire me to ask all sorts of different
questions that I don't usually ask. So I get
to go one more, one more questions on this. And
so let's think about, so we've, this episode
serves really well for those of you. who are
younger um you know and have those types of mentors
available to you in your life you can you can
follow that same model and path that coach tion
just talked about um and maybe even with more
purpose now that you've heard what's helped him
accomplish i i second that it's helped me accomplish
the things that i've gotten to let's focus on
the adults who may feel like man i didn't have
that um you know or i didn't get to take advantage
of that if you had to start right now coach on
with shoot who do i turn to to get out of my
current environment Um, right. Or who can I turn
to for support so that I'm not doing this life
alone? What would you do? Now you will bring
out the coach T on out of me. First day, the
lions, the lion, the lioness, you got to have
the tenacity of a lion to go out there and go
get it. If the resource is not out there, one
of the things I had to do was I had to create
the resource, right? So you have to find a way
to create the resources you need in order to
move forward. Look around your community. Maybe
there's someone that you're missing that may
be moving forward and you need to just grab hold
of their coattail, right? And make it be a neighbor.
It could be someone down the road. It could be
someone from a different community. Find them
and then try to learn from them, right? Try to
learn from them and then start applying the things
you're learning. One day at a time. Baby steps.
Not a huge, gigantic step. Just take baby steps.
Because one step at a time, it will compound.
It's like having a tree in your backyard. Are
you going to cut that tree with a dull axe? Or
are you going to sharpen your axe? Now, are you
going to try to chop that tree down in one day?
Or are you going to go out there every day and
just chop at it five times? Next day, do the
same thing. Over and over again, what's going
to happen to that tree? That tree is going to
fall. So whatever your tree is in your life,
that's awareness. Now you have the awareness.
Now the goal is preparation. What do I need to
do to prepare myself so that I can move beyond
this tree or I can move this tree out of my way?
Whatever that is. And depending on what your
tree is will determine what you will do. But
you got to have clear awareness what it is. Once
you know what it is, then properly prepare yourself.
Find people that can talk to you or help you.
Social media. There's plenty of people on social
media that you can follow. But you got to do
that with discernment. Making sure that they
have the same values of you, whatever your values
are. Make sure that their values are in line
with who you are. And then start learning from
them. Social media. Books. There's plenty of
books out there. So many. Right? So many. I tell
you, when I was young, I didn't read books at
all. I read my first book again when I was overseas,
thousands of miles away. That's crazy. What was
the book? You better laugh. But the book was
a vampire book, right? There you go. It was a
vampire book. That was my first book I read literally
from cover to cover. And I was like, whoa. And
then that's when I started reading self -development
books and my life changed. Now I do audiobook.
And now I read an audiobook two times the speed
so I can get through it, learn the part that
I need to learn. If I need to go back, go back
to it. And then dig a little bit more. I want
to tie something together that you said, though,
Coach Tian real quick. And some people aren't
going to like me for this, but you talked about
reading the vampire books and you went to self
-development. There are plenty of blood sucking
self -development coaches out there that could
be called vampire books as well. So I love that
Coach Tian also talked about studying the values,
right? Making sure the person that you're following
is living by and according to the type of feelings,
the type of. lifestyle that you want to have
don't just look at the riches and ignore the
rest um right there's there's more to it than
that um so again thank you for touching on that
particular point i'll let you finish wrap up
your thought and then i'll i'll do a little bit
of recap with some of what you taught us today
i think i think i wrapped it up already oh yeah
yeah i'm like i think i think that's it okay
You gave some huge principles. I love the story
of chopping down a tree and that everybody's
got those trees in their backyard they can go
after and the compound effect. Darren Hardy wrote
a book called The Compound Effect. Very much
worth looking at. So I'll pull this full circle.
One of the things that I loved about what you
shared about your youth, you share the number
one source that you have. For those of you who
are adults later in life, I would agree that
our Heavenly Father, he will always be there.
for us always we can turn to him and we can say
you know heavenly father guide me to who i need
to be following um you know guide me to that
path help me move from beyond this environment
that i may be stuck in taylor welch said environment
is one of the greatest he says the greatest key
to success is a very weak person can outperform
a very strong person if the weak person's in
a strong environment And a strong person's in
a weak environment. So environment is definitely
one of those pieces. Going back to my transition
here, I brought in a homeless guy once. We helped
him get back on his feet. And when we did that,
I ordered the compound effect because he wanted
to read it. And so he read the book and then
he would do a nightly report to me of what happened
in that chapter and how things went. So I read
the book through him. We both uplifted each other.
And again, it doesn't matter if you're at a position
where nobody is willing to help you in life or
you've got all sorts of resources around you.
As coach, if you put in the work, if you go and
start chopping that tree down, you learn how
to chop it down with the right tools, right resources,
the right techniques. And of course, your trees
are going to start falling more. and more throughout
life. You're going to accomplish more by doing
just that. So Tian, thank you so much for everything
that you gave today. Again, those of you who
want to connect with Coach Tian, you got tiansingletary
.com. I'd be happy to have him back on this episode.
Of course, you can find him on his own podcast
as well. And those of you listening in, if you
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