Elevating Beyond with Mark Minard

This show is dedicated to THE HUMAN RACE. BLACK DUDE, Pierre Evans, sits down with WHITE DUDE, Mark Minard, and they have a really, really, real, HARDCORE WOKE SESSION, about all the BULLSH** this mediocre world of cancel culture, wishy-washy, People Pleasing, Non Critical Thinking, DEUSCHB***, are too SPINELESS to talk about. Racism, Reverse Discrimination, Interracial Marriage, Business, Drugs, Poverty, Wealth, Success, COVID, The Flu, The Common Cold, Blacks, Whites, Pinks, Yellows, Rainbows, Christians, Muslims, Cops, Pronouns, Verbs, The Cosby Show, Overcoming Adversity, 50 Cent, Eminem, and HOW TO ESCAPE SLAVERY OF YOUR MINDSET, and Learn to be a FREE THINKER! Follow Mark Minard on instagram @mark_minard Follow Pierre Evans on instagram @pierre5ql

Host Mark Minard Sits Down with The ICONIC, Grammy Award Winner, DIONNE WARWICK, She Needs No Freakin Bio, and Has Sold Over 70 MILLION Albums, Along with The Founder of DogePalooza, Grammy Award Winning Producer, Damon Elliot, Share The Story Behind The Story of How We've All Come Together, For The Worlds Biggest Event of 2021, DOGEPALOOZA ! a huge shoutout to THE DOGEARMY, your support is POWERFUL beyond measure! Listen, if you don't know anything about dogecoin, or if you do, this episode will blow your mind, and let's just say, you might be hearing from Elon Musk, Drake, okay, I need to Shut Up, as You Won't Believe What Today's Episode, and Dogepalooza has in store for you! CONGRATULATIONS to our 2 VIP Winners for Our Elevating Beyond Dogepalooza Giveaway, But Guess What, We Still Have 4 More DogePalooza Tickets We Are Going The Giveaway -this is $500 Hundred Dollars more, Worth of Tickets We Are Giving Away! Just tag me @mark_minard along with @dogepalooza on Twitter &/or Instagram, with the hashtag #dogepalooza, and you will be entered to win, as winners will be announced by this Friday, August 27th. The More You Post, The Higher Your Chances Are of Winning! Learn all about this live event, at DOGEPALOOZA.COM Also, check out our host, Mark Minard's new bestselling book: 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How To Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team! Until You Learn To Master Leadership, You Will Never Be Successful As An Entrepreneur! 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How to Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team is the latest release from best-selling author, business owner, thought leader, and host of iTunes Top-100 ranked podcast "Elevating Beyond," Mark Minard. Mark started his business at the height of the 2008 recession, with his office literally in a barn, and after 13 years of entrepreneurship, he has seen it all. Lawsuits, contractor issues, hiring, firing, conflict, doubt, challenges (internally and externally,) financial ups, financial downs, failures, and successes. In this book, Mark shares his proven strategies through his personal experiences on how he's built a multi-million dollar business and his world-class Dream Team.16 Reasons is a mind-blowing adventure challenging you and your business to go from sucking, to becoming freakin' awesome! Visit https://www.markminard.net To Connect with Mark Minard Connect With Mark Minard & The Elevating Beyond Nation Here: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/ Check Out Mark's Best Selling Book, The Story Of YOU, Transforming Adversity Into Adventure, Taking Your Dreams To The Next Level & Beyond http://amzn.to/2xv88ks Check Out My Podcast Here🔻 https://www.markminard.net/podcast

On this very, vey, freakin' awesome episode of Elevating Beyond, Host, Mark, sits down with Actor RJ Mitte "Walter White Jr," from The Award Winning Breaking Bad Series, Along with Hollywood Director, Brett Leonard, who is well known creating one of the most commercially succesdull films of 1992, The Lawn Mower Man, budget under $6 million, eventually earning $150 MILLION Worldwide! We talk about so much, including their new movie, Triumph, starring RJ Mitte, and Terrence Howard, and, as always, we share the story behind the story, Breaking Bad, directing Stephen King's The Lawn Mower Man, Triumph, overcoming fear, going after your dreams, business advice, and funny stories from working on set over the years in Hollywood. Triumph based on a true story, and it available theaters today!! heres the movie trailer Inspired by a real story, a determined high school senior strives to be a wrestler one last time despite having cerebral palsy and goes to extreme lengths, crushing obstacles and inspiring others along his journey to prove his abilities. Also, check out our host, Mark Minard's new bestselling book: 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How To Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team! Until You Learn To Master Leadership, You Will Never Be Successful As An Entrepreneur! 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How to Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team is the latest release from best-selling author, business owner, thought leader, and host of iTunes Top-100 ranked podcast "Elevating Beyond," Mark Minard. Mark started his business at the height of the 2008 recession, with his office literally in a barn, and after 13 years of entrepreneurship, he has seen it all. Lawsuits, contractor issues, hiring, firing, conflict, doubt, challenges (internally and externally,) financial ups, financial downs, failures, and successes. In this book, Mark shares his proven strategies through his personal experiences on how he's built a multi-million dollar business and his world-class Dream Team.16 Reasons is a mind-blowing adventure challenging you and your business to go from sucking, to becoming freakin' awesome! Visit https://www.markminard.net To Connect with Mark Minard Connect With Mark Minard & The Elevating Beyond Nation Here: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/ Check Out Mark's Best Selling Book, The Story Of YOU, Transforming Adversity Into Adventure, Taking Your Dreams To The Next Level & Beyond http://amzn.to/2xv88ks Check Out My Podcast Here🔻 https://www.markminard.net/podcast

Listen as Mark sits down with, founder of the billion dollar publishing empire, Chicken Soup For The Soul, NY Times Best Selling Author, Jack Canfield, along with Guinness Book World Record Speaker, Author, Miriam Laundry. They share the story behind the story, of how Jack canfield was rejected 144 times, before his book, chicken Soup For The Soul, went on to sell 500 million copies, along with Miriam Laundry, as they talk about how to face your fears, overcome your inner critic, and Elevate your self esteem to The Next Level, and Beyond! Check out Jack Canfield and Miriam Laundry's new book, I CAN Believe In Myself , available on amazon! Connect with Jack Canfield at www.JackCanfield.com Connect with Miriam Laundry at https://miriamlaundry.com Check out Elevating Beyond Host, and Owner of Dreamshine for Over 14 Years, New, Best Selling Book, 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team! 𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 Everywhere Connect with Mark Minard, and The Elevating Beyond Family Here MarkMinard.Net Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard

Host, Mark Minard, sits down with, Pat Williams, basketball Hall-of-Famer, co-founder of the NBA's Orlando Magic and former general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, as they talk about the Top 7 Principles and Characteristics of Every Great Leader. Pat Williams, is Also one of America's top motivational and inspirational corporate speakers, Pat has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies. Pat is also the author of over 100 books, his most recent title highlighting the leadership secrets of the United States Military Academy at West Point in CHARACTER CARVED IN STONE. Pat has been the general manager with NBA teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Orlando, including the 1983 World Champion 76ers. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history. In 2012, Pat received the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Pat was diagnosed in February of 2011 with Multiple Myeloma, an incurable form of cancer. However, after several rounds of chemo, Pat's doctors have told him that they are unable to detect any myeloma in his body and have given him a clean bill of health. Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations. Additionally, Pat has been blessed with 17 grandchildren. Pat and his family have been featured on CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, and Mike and Mike as well as in such diverse publications as Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, and Focus on the Family. Connect with, and learn all about at PatWilliams.com Check out Elevating Beyond Host, and Owner of Dreamshine for Over 14 Years, New, Best Selling Book, 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team! 𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 Everywhere Connect with Mark Minard, and The Elevating Beyond Family Here MarkMinard.Net Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard

Host, Mark Minard, has invigorating conversation, with Co-Producers/Writers/Director/Actors, Glenn Withrow (he also was in The Outsiders,) & his beautiful wife, Hallie Todd (played the mom in the hit Disney series, Lizzie McGuire,) about their new movie: THE LAST CHAMPION, which releases on iTunes, amazon, and google play, December, 8, 2020. They share untold stories behind the story, including how Glenn was mentored by iconic director, Francis Ford Coppola, you know, the guy who directed movies like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders (just to name a few,) and how Glenn, his wife, Hallie, & daughter, Ivy, all worked together in writing/producing/directing, their newest movie: THE LAST CHAMPION John Wright was a hometown hero – the powerful star of his high school wrestling team and a promising Olympian. He could have had it all … but one bad decision destroyed his dreams and forced him to leave under a cloud of scandal that has haunted him ever since. Twenty years later, John returns to his small town after his mother's death, hoping to save his family home from foreclosure. His icy reception proves that his former friends and neighbors still haven't forgiven him for letting them down. Unexpectedly, John gets the opportunity to turn everything around – by coaching his high school's wrestling team. There he meets Michael, a talented underdog with a troubled homelife who faces a vicious opponent out to destroy him both on and off the mat. Can John become the leader the team and Michael needs, or will he lose himself to the dark demons of his past? The Last Champion is an inspirational family sports drama that will have you believing in second chances. Beautifully photographed in the Pacific Northwest, it's a story about faith, loss and redemption starring Cole Hauser (Yellowstone), Hallie Todd (Lizzie McGuire), Randall Batinkoff (X-Men: First Class) and Peter Onorati (This is Us). The film is directed, produced and co-written by actor Glenn Withrow (The Outsiders). Click here now to watch THE LAST CHAMPION on iTunes Check out our host of Elevating Beyond, Mark Minard's new best-selling book: 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team! 💥𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 Everywhere Visit https://www.markminard.net To Connect with Mark Minard Connect With Mark Minard & The Elevating Beyond Nation Here: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/

It's okay to cry, to be angry, to be scared, to be sad, but don't you dare give up! I am personally doing a series of shows to all my fellow small business owners-non-filtered, real talk, who're been battling in the trenches for months and months and months, and are feeling so isolated. I am doing this mental health series to let you know you are not alone, and how we can and will not only get through this, but overcome to a whole new level, victoriously! Also, thank you all for purchasing, leaving all the incredible reviews, and sharing my new book, please keep spreading the word, I love you so much...Read below to learn more about it! 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How To Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team! Until You Learn To Master Leadership, You Will Never Be Successful As An Entrepreneur! 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks: How to Be Freakin' Awesome at Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Profits, & Build Your Own Dream Team is the latest release from best-selling author, business owner, thought leader, and host of iTunes Top-100 ranked podcast "Elevating Beyond," Mark Minard. Mark started his business at the height of the 2008 recession, with his office literally in a barn, and after 13 years of entrepreneurship, he has seen it all. Lawsuits, contractor issues, hiring, firing, conflict, doubt, challenges (internally and externally,) financial ups, financial downs, failures, and successes. In this book, Mark shares his proven strategies through his personal experiences on how he's built a multi-million dollar business and his world-class Dream Team.16 Reasons is a mind-blowing adventure challenging you and your business to go from sucking, to becoming freakin' awesome! Visit https://www.markminard.net To Connect with Mark Minard Connect With Mark Minard & The Elevating Beyond Nation Here: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarkMinard Twitter https://twitter.com/Mark_Minard Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mark_minard/ Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-minard-5904b633/ Check Out Mark's Best Selling Book, The Story Of YOU, Transforming Adversity Into Adventure, Taking Your Dreams To The Next Level & Beyond http://amzn.to/2xv88ks Check Out My Podcast Here🔻 https://www.markminard.net/podcast

Host, Mark Minard, sits down with Tripp Lanier, as they talk about how to be more dangerous, relentless, overcome fear, doubt, and not be such a freakin whimp. Bio: Tripp Lanier is… Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times. As a Professional Coach… Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he's designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun. As Host of The New Man Podcast… Tripp Lanier has conducted hundreds of interviews with experts and authors from all walks of life including: Tim Ferriss (The 4 Hour Workweek, The 4 Hour Body, The 4 Hour Chef) Laird Hamilton (Big wave surfing legend) Ryan Holiday (The Obstacle is the Way, The Ego is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic) Phil Stutz and Barry Michels (The Tools, Coming Alive) Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior) Steven Pressfield (The War of Art, Turning Pro) Robert Greene (48 Laws of Power, Mastery) Steven Kotler (The Rise of Superman, Stealing Fire) Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck) Aubrey Marcus (Founder/CEO of Onnit) Dr. Robert Glover (No More Mr Nice Guy) Navy SEAL Mark Divine (Unbeatable Mind, The Way of the SEAL) Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind) Neil Strauss (The Game, The Truth) Alan Alda (legendary actor and NY Times best selling author) As a Human Guinea Pig… Tripp has thrown himself into everything from 10 day silent meditation retreats to plant medicine journeys to men's groups in the Costa Rican jungle to somatic sex intensives in his bedroom to drinks with Zen masters — He even learned some life lessons by hanging out backstage with David Lee Roth. At the age of 23, Tripp created one of the first digital video post-production companies in the Southeast. To support his music career and love for travel, he crafted TV shows and commercials for national and regional clients. Wanting to align his personal values with his work in the world, he sold the company after 12 years to become a professional coach. Other contributions include working with world-renowned philosopher Ken Wilber as Co-Director of Integral Institute's Art Center. Tripp is married to therapist/relationship coach Alyson Lanier and has the best daughter in the whole wide world. They live in a small beach town in North Carolina where he spends much of his time surfing, playing music, and enjoying a simple life. Check out Elevating Beyond's Host, Mark Minard, new Best Selling Book: 📕 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team! 💥𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 💥

If your a business owner and you don't WELCOME negative feedback from your clients, then your acting Entitled, which is endangering your entire organization, and you freakin' suck! Listen to today's show, and let's learn how to not be sucky, entitled, business owners, and become awesome freakin' leaders! On todays show, I share a real life story from my own company, and will explain to you how to be freakin' awesome...here we go! Check Out My New Book, Thank You All So Much For Purchasing, and Sharing! 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team! 💥𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 Everywhere💥 FULL SHOW TRANSCRIPTION Speaker 1: Hey, what is up everyone? First and foremost, I want to say you are freaking awesome. Thank you. As my new book, I'm holding it up here to those of you that are watching on the video, hit the freaking bestsellers list again. 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks, how to be freaking awesome at every level of your business leadership profits and build your own dream team. Thank you so much for everything. This has been my life's work. 14 plus years of building my business from the ground up with my team, with my employees, how I did it, how you can do it at every single freaking level. Thank you. Keep sharing it and welcome back to Elevating Beyond with a two word mission statement, change lives, and I'm going to be going into something actually last week I was talking about under pressure and man, that I love you all so much, because this has been such a season for all of us across the world. Speaker 1: And especially as business owners, as leaders at a whole other level, these challenges we've been facing and all this uncertainty. And I talked about so much of that and more on the last episode, I love what all of you are writing me about it. I'm actually probably going to even do a part two from it, but today, listen, I'm talking about something that's important because we hear, I'm holding up right here, even from the book, you can see accountability in action and this whole self-awareness thing, but what does this really really mean? Besides these trending words, when it really applies to your business, to your leadership, to you as the owner, to really hold yourself accountable and to be able to take the right type of what wouldn't just be criticism, but actual wisdom on areas you need to change and grow, versus what would just be negative criticism that's not helpful and useless. Speaker 1: And if your ego is too big where you're like, "No one can ever tell me what to do. I'm the only one that knows everything." And you're not able to get that feedback even when it's not what you want to hear, whether it's from team members and from your freaking customers, who you should be super serving by the way, always, then you'll never go to the next level. So, Oh, I'm popping everyone in here live too from ... See what's up, everyone on Instagram popping all of you in live and I'm giving people a chance here too. As we have our amazing four million listeners, viewers all around the world, to be able to, if I did this the right way, to come in on Instagram live, I might even pull some of you up and allow you to share live on the air as we're talking about, what are some of the biggest struggles and challenges that you're facing in this moment in your business or that you've been facing for years? Speaker 1: And not just fluffy fake stuff, actual in the trenches specific problems. And I'll pull you in, you can type it in, I can pull you on live and we'll talk it out and we'll address them because I tell you everything about it, everything about my book, all that we're doing, it's from 14 plus years of in the trenches experience. And what I was talking about before we pull the live stream in is the ability to not be entitled as the owner, as the leader, but to be able to take that wisdom and what would be that constructive criticism or what's known as feedback of what you don't want to hear versus what you need to hear. Speaker 1: And I see this more and more, especially when it's from your clients who you need to be super serving. You can't have that entitled mindset of "I'm always right, because I'm the owner. And no one can ever tell me how to do it better than myself." Then you'll never go to that next level. Guess what? They'll take their business elsewhere. And I have one example just that I pull up right here from the book, boom. Now the shameless plug, 16 Reasons, baby, Why Your Business Sucks about accountability and action. And I share the whole story of how we built our waterfront lodge for my company, Dreamshine, which serves individuals with developmental disabilities, over 55 now, and what it took to build this waterfront lodge. Like it took years of being turned down by every bank and just going through hell and back, persevering, not giving up, but to create this whole customized building that would be adaptive and amazing for all of our different levels and functioning levels of individuals that we serve, whether they're in wheelchairs, visually impaired, have different autism tendencies at every level. Speaker 1: And to be on the beautiful ... We had it built over the water, so you have a beautiful view of the pond. It's all accessible. And as we were done, we were so excited and we were doing our grand opening and we had more and more clients joining. And I'll never forget, everyone was saying positive things, everyone. And there was one parent that was like, "I love everything about it. This is so great. But with how big this building is, the noise kind of seems to echo. And when everyone's in here, it's kind of loud and people some of our clients have different behaviors and they're sensitive to loud noises." Speaker 1: And I could have been like, my ego could have been like, "How dare you? I've been working for years and years on this to make this the best it can be. And everyone else has said positive things. You must be out of your mind." But I stepped back and listened to her and paid attention and realized, "Oh my gosh, you're right." And first of all, I was like, "Thank you." And she's like, "Don't get me wrong. Everything else is so amazing. I just, I wanted to give you some feedback." And immediately we took action to, and it cost a lot more money to get all of these different soundproofing panels to then soundproof the whole building so that it would help absorb the noise. We even divided it down the line in a different phases, into other rooms as we got more and more of a budget put together. And that was a huge gamechanger right there, yes, it costs more money. It took putting more work in, but guess what? Speaker 1: That's why Dreamshine is the best in the world because we take these things into serious consideration. We care and we don't just listen. And I don't just send them to some random one 800 number, "Oh, voice your concerns here. And we'll just add it into the inbox." We actually take action on it. And why? Because we freaking care and we want to be the best. So yeah, you have to keep doing ongoing what it takes to be the best. And just this little example became a gamechanger and this is our whole mind and set and what your mindset needs to be ongoing is to drop the ego, drop the entitlement, and to be able to take that feedback from your team members, from your clients that you super serve. Speaker 1: And just to make it clear, I'm not talking about the flat-out crazy ones because I have a whole other section in here, which my man, Dr. Bruce wrote me about, who's reading this right now. Bruce, you're awesome. If you're listening, he used to be the CFO Footlocker. He's going to be on the show in the future. And he was saying the section on Ms. Psychopath Face that I wrote about in the book is one of his favorites. That's a whole other issue and that's not the type of person that's going to be giving you actual feedback that's usable. So separate that from there's a place I work with, [Ballay 00:09:22] , that they have a no jerk policy. And if someone's being a belligerent jerk about something and they're just criticizing you and they're not giving you any actual feedback that you can do something with, that's different. Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, you have to be able to take that stuff, not that you want to hear. And you got to have those people around you that tell you what you need to hear to get better. And it's usually going to be the harder thing. It's like, "Man, I just had done all this work to do this. And what? Now you're telling me this, isn't working out and I need to do this." Yes. And guess what? If you don't, you won't make it. That's the difference. But when you do, because you're listening to this because all of you are reading my book, all of you are freaking awesome. All of you are high performers. Then you'll continually keep going to that next level. And there's no magic. You just keep putting the work in. You keep taking action and you just keep moving forward. What's up to everyone that's jumped on here, by the way. Israel, Lucas, Muhammad, Fashiones, Roselind. Speaker 1: So many of you, SKS. I'm trying to see if there was any questions too. If anyone has any questions, SKS is saying, "Being able to take constructive criticism." And that's what I'm talking about. You know, if that's Roslyn, Roselin, what's up. Rockstar. You are the rockstar. God bless you. God bless everyone. And if you were asking about being able to take constructive criticism, what's up Debbie? Who just popped on here. Yes. Like in the same goes, not just if you're the owner or the leader, but no matter where you're working, those that are on my team that continue to grow, that continue to elevate are the ones that are able and mature enough to take criticism. When it's coming from a place of love, which would be considered coaching, we've got to drop all this feeling crap out of the side. Like it's really not about feelings. Speaker 1: I love you enough. I care about you enough that I want to help you and invest my time to make you get better. So you got to be willing to hear things that you suck at. I don't usually word it like that. I'm like, you're awesome here. I love you. You're amazing. But this thing here needs to change and you need to get better in this area. And as you can grow and develop in it. You're going to be able to go to a whole new level. And there's one type of person that will shut down and get passive aggressive. And we're not able to go any further with them, unfortunately, but that's on them, that's not on you. You can do it with love. Speaker 1: And if you're able to take this feedback, this coaching and realize they're investing their time in me because they care. They want to help me get to that next level. And no one knows everything. No one I'm constantly learning. All of us are constantly learning. You have to be willing to grow. You have to have this ongoing confidence that you build. And also you got to be coachable and willing to grow. It takes a combination of all of it. And then there's times, everything contradicts itself, but it all works together and you all get it, if you're doing it. There's times where you, as the leader are going first and you have to be willing to go against all the resistance of everyone saying, "That's crazy. There's no way you can do that." Speaker 1: When I first opened Dreamshine to say, "We're going to do it on this resort like setting for special needs and individuals with developmental disabilities, like nothing that's ever been done," I was 26. And they were like, there's no way you're going to be able to do that. We've been doing it this way for 30 years. Those aren't the people I'm talking about that are giving you constructive criticism. That's where you have to keep following your why and what's within you to keep pressing forward towards that vision. But as you continue to grow and keep going to those next levels, then ongoing, you have to be able to keep learning, to separate when someone's giving you that feedback, that is going to be challenge you to go and grow to that next level. Speaker 1: So all of you that have popped on all of you that have joined, thank you for joining us on the live stream. I'm actually going to figure out Rosa ... I'm going to figure out ... Jerrell, what's up, my man. So many of you, I love you all. I'm going to figure out a way in the future as we're doing more and more of these shows, man, it's been crazy. I haven't had time to relate to a lot of you in a while. Not only have we passed, we have over four billion downloads, but so many different, multiple streams. So many, I can't even count all the countries we're in, it's because all of you. I love all of you. And we're going to be figuring out other ways, even like on this, I would share the Zoom link and I can pull some you up. Your beautiful face will pop somewhere here next to mine. And we can have a conversation back and forth and I'll still be having people here live in the studio. As you know, we do it. I have some surprise guests coming up, but just listen to what I'm saying. Speaker 1: Be able to take that feedback from your clients, drop that ego. From other people and challenge yourself to grow. It's the only way to really super serve and don't be entitled. Your business is a service. It's about super serving your clients. So take that feedback. Keep making it better. Keep making everything better. And people will keep coming back to you for more service. That's what's going to continue to separate you from everyone else. Is it easy? Heck freak no, of course not. We all know that. Is it worth it? Absolutely. And I want to end this off just by telling all of you there's a lot of negativity out there right now. And I just want to let everyone know, listen, keep guarding your mindset. Speaker 1: Don't allow anything, the social media, the media to dictate how you should feel. Don't allow other people or everything else to tell you the way you should feel or what's wrong, or you should always be afraid or you should feel guilty. There's too much crap out there. And I'm telling you right now, keep following your heart. You have to tune more and more of that stuff out and listen. I'm for the human race. I'm for the human race. I love everyone and listen, human beings, we see all this negative stuff. I always say, God is orchestrating. There are so many amazing people out there doing beautiful things. Don't forget that because unity is power. And I say it a lot, we've heard it a lot, but the devil is after your mindset. So he loves to plague us with worry, with fear, with division, with hate, with anger, to separate us more and more and more because when we're unified, we're able to be unstoppable. Speaker 1: So remember this, remember how beautiful so many of the human beings are. Keep those around you in your inner circle that are challenging you with love to grow to that next level. I'm here with you. You're listening to this, you're watching this, the Elevated Beyond family. We got this, never settle, never give up and keep Elevating Beyond.

On today's show I talk about RUNNING TOWARDS THE GUNFIRE, While Everyone Else is Running Away! 2 Books Discussed:RELENTLESS by Tim Grover 📕 𝟏𝟔 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬: How To Be Freakin' Awesome At Every Level of Your Business, Leadership, Finances, & Build Your Own Dream Team, The New Best Seller by Our Host, Mark Minard —Yep, that's Me! 💥𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 💥 Full Show Transcription: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Elevating Beyond, and before I really get into it, first of all, I'm in the studio right now. I think I'll be recording another part of this in my other office at Dreamshine, which is a whole other story, which goes to what I have had written down, which I have been needing to talk to all of you about, is what I'm calling today's show Under Pressure. That's right. How do we deal with the pressure, especially to business owners, I'm talking to you who've been standing firm since this crap with COVID and everything else has hit from March on, it's now nearing October 2020 as I do this. And this pressure's real, and I'm going to push forward to how I've dealt with what I've dealt with and how to get back and stay on to that freaking complete focus and flip the switch to that killer instinct that you have inside you and run towards the gunfire when everyone else is running away, because this is what we need to do. This is what we do. There's no other option and this pressure's been real. And as I was starting at the beginning, welcome back to Elevating Beyond with a two word mission statement, change lives. You turn on the freaking TV, I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican. Look, I'm going to just keep being more and more real with you all. It's stupidity. I think parties are a joke. I've always thought it was stupidity. And my honest opinion is you should always vote for whatever person that you believe has the best characteristics and core values of what you believe in. I don't give a crap what party they're in and all this political stupidity that's going on, that's dividing people and adding more and more pressure. And by the way, don't forget ladies and gentlemen, the news is a freaking business and they are banking more from more viewers. This is the most viewership they've had since the biggest tragedy of 9/11. So I'll be the one to say it. They act like they don't love these pandemics and catastrophes and crisises, but they do. And they love to elevate and not really do their jobs as journalists anymore and share the facts and really investigate the stories to help lead you and educate and empower you. Instead, it's dumping more pressure and fear and telling you how you should feel and filling you with anger and dividing everyone more. And there's 20 billion issues constantly going on, depending on what channel you watch. And it will get overwhelming. And they edit the stupid little clips that give you a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a freaking story. And what I'm here to say is if we're going to defund anything, defund the freaking news. You got the control, you got the power button. Turn that crap off. My wife watches it all the time. I pop my earbuds in. "But Mark, how are you going to learn what's going on?" You think that freaking popular news channels are really telling you factually what's going on? Okay? Nope. They're filling you with more drama and pressure and fear and tension and hate. And I watch more people finish doing the news and they get angry at each other for stuff they weren't even mad about before. You've got to pay attention to what you put into your mindset. You have to guard it and I'm telling you, in my own life, I don't care ... Look I'm past ... Whatever you, I really don't care if you agree with me or not. I'm right. Turn that sh#% off. I don't care if you watch Fox. I don't care if you watch CNN, turn it off. It's crap. Okay? Guard your mindset. Take action by doing what you need to do by following the purpose in your heart. That's what you can control in the corner of the world that you're in. Continue to take action. Don't waste time with all that negativity in drama and defund them, turn them off. Don't let anyone else tell you or dictate what you should feel. That's the way abusive relationships work. It's dysfunctional. That's what the news is. Okay? Unless you can take it ... Nope. Don't even waste time with that crap. And it's just more and more negative. And people have been home more and stress more and we're dealing with our kids in and out of school. Are they going to school or are they not? Is our company going to be able to open? Are we going to have funds? Are we going to be able to get this loan? And you have someone quit. And then you have someone not feeling safe and you're dealing with restructuring and strategizing. And then one news channels telling you this is going to happen and this is going to end. The other one's saying, you're the enemy. You're going to go to hell if you do this, you're a horrible person. How dare you. Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off. Focus on you. And here's where I want you to step in and go back to that killer instinct. The one that you have overcome all those things in the past, in your life that you thought you were never going to make it through. Each one of those Goliaths that stepped in front of you and said, it's going to be impossible for me, Mark, you'll never make it. You're a loser. Facing jail at age 17 DUI. Face smashed in. Dealing drugs, living in a trailer park. You're a freaking loser. Pass through from that, I went to open my company, the state of Ohio fight against me. 26 years old, you can't do this. You can't open a company for special needs. You're not going to make it. They fought me. I battled them. I battled them. I battled them 14 years later, Dreamshine with the best program in the state, in the country. And as I keep saying, we keep guarding and protecting and building our ship throughout this, our ship won't sink, but I'm not going to lie. The pressure's been real. It's been real. And I want you to ... look, I'm even going to give you a recommendation. Well, first of all, please, my book, 16 Reasons Why Your Business Sucks, how to be freaking awesome at every level of your business, of your leadership of your finances and build your own dream team is available this month now, boom. It released everywhere. Grab it anywhere. Amazon, Audible, all versions. Thank you for supporting me. That's a game changer. That's everything from my years and years in there. And another one is I've been listening to, again, the book Relentless by Tim Grover, who is, I don't know what they would call you, Tim, a high performance, not only a coach, way beyond that. He was the coach, performance coach, trainer for Michael Jordan for starters. And it goes way beyond that. And he talks about tapping into this killer instinct and I'm listening to it and I can relate to it. And more than ever, I'm relating to it now throughout this time, when we're plagued with this doubt and this fear, and he keeps talking about freaking tapping into that killer instinct that you know you have in you, that's got you to where you are and is going to continue to get you to where you're going to go. This isn't the time to be allowing more freaking negativity and doubt to sink in. It's time to zone all that crap out and tap into what you know is true. And that killer instinct, that complete freaking focus of saying, look, I keep saying it, I'm going to dominate through this. I'm not just going to overcome. I'm not just going to push through. I'm going to freaking dominate throughout this. And I want you to say the same thing. Yep. That sounds crazy Mark. Oh, that's not like everyone else. Good. I don't want to be like everyone else. I never wanted to be like everyone else. I don't freaking care about everyone else because when you dominate and do the dream, that's in your heart and keep following that instinct that only you have that no one can do for you. That's how you're able to serve and help other people in the bigger picture. So screw what everyone else thinks. You think the media gives a crap about you. You think these stupid politicians arguing about this and that give a damn? No, you are the captain of your own destiny. And I want you to remember that. And as this pressure comes in, I want you to freaking tap into that killer instinct that you know that you have. And as I say, you don't get to give up because your purpose is bigger than you. You don't get to give up. So stop with all this crap. I know we're all going through it. We all get it. Stop allowing the stupid freaking news and stuff to come into you and tap in to that killer instinct. And don't just go out there and make it through and survive. Triple down, quadruple down, and freaking dominate, crush it, and never settle. Never give up. Keep Elevating Beyond.