465. What Happens When You Relinquish Projects to Reliable People
Celebrate your wins with this special Fuck Yeah Friday episode! Lesley and Brad discuss how embracing intentionality, reflecting on personal victories, and letting go of control can lead to incredible breakthroughs. Tune in to hear community wins, the value of scheduling tools, and insights on making space for what truly matters.
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In this episode you will learn about:
- Automating tasks to stay focused and present.
- Leveraging AI to achieve clarity.
- Reflecting on goals for health and intentionality.
- Delegating effectively to achieve balance and stability.
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- Ep. 313 Monica Linda - https://beitpod.com/ep313
- Ep. 424 Nadine Hanafi - https://beitpod.com/ep424
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Lesley Logan 0:00
It's Fuck Yeah Friday.
Lesley Logan 0:01
Fuck yeah.
Lesley Logan 0:02
Get ready for some wins. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.
Lesley Logan 0:47
Welcome back to Be It Till You See It. Today is your Fuck Yeah Friday, your adult version of TGIF. You know that weekly episode that you're like, this is gonna drop, and it's gonna remind me that there are wins out there and you know what is also like, really important, if you got to this episode and you're looking for a way to skip out of it because you're like, because, like, (inaudible) what's going on?
Brad Crowell 0:47
Yeah. It's a big deal.
Lesley Logan 1:06
Does that make you think that other people are winning and you're not? We have to slap, slap, slap.
Brad Crowell 1:12
Change that up.
Lesley Logan 1:12
This is where you go and you
Brad Crowell 1:15
This is an opportunity to know that good still happens in the world.
Lesley Logan 1:21
Yes.
Brad Crowell 1:22
Yeah.
Lesley Logan 1:22
Yes. And that led to you go, oh. Also sometimes you go oh, I had that win.
Brad Crowell 1:27
Yeah, maybe good is happening in my life, but I'm not seeing it.
Lesley Logan 1:30
Yeah, Yeah. So okay, first up, the win that you sent into us is Adrienne McCaskey and she is Agency member. We probably just saw her in Pennsylvania, actually.
Brad Crowell 1:40
Oh, yeah.
Lesley Logan 1:40
So coming from my I-need-a-moment, so I'll just say, if you find yourself complaining in your life, this is me talking not Adrienne, find yourself complaining in your life, you need to finish your complaint and then find a win. So that's what's happening here. I'm struggling to think of specific wins as of late. So, that said, I'm feeling good about how I've been able to be more present with my kids after school and in my off hours. Thanks to more automation and use of my scheduling tool and trying to get clients to schedule and cancel themselves.
Brad Crowell 2:10
That is awesome.
Lesley Logan 2:11
Yeah, that's fucking amazing.
Brad Crowell 2:13
Fantastic.
Lesley Logan 2:14
That's a huge win.
Brad Crowell 2:15
Yeah, that's exactly why you want a scheduling tool. So, good job.
Lesley Logan 2:19
Yeah. Also, thanks to some tips from others and the agency group, I've been better about setting reminders and sticking to schedules for admin tasks like tax deadlines, cleaning, etc., so Idon't fall behind or let these things sneak up on me. Every little bit of organization helps. Setting a reminder and then looking at it, I mean, I think you won, Adrienne, I think you won. This is like The Game Of Life. You just won it. I love that and I love that.
Brad Crowell 2:47
You know, I've never played that game.
Lesley Logan 2:48
The Game Of Life?
Brad Crowell 2:49
I've never played it.
Lesley Logan 2:49
The first time I played it, I gave me six children. I had the kids under the van and I had a split-level house, which on the card.
Brad Crowell 2:55
What?
Lesley Logan 2:55
Can you tell it traumatized me?
Brad Crowell 2:56
What is this game?
Lesley Logan 2:57
The Game Of Life?
Brad Crowell 2:59
Never played it.
Lesley Logan 2:59
Oh, we should just get it and play it at Thanksgiving. So you like spin, and it tells you like a number, and that helps you choose a job. And you pull a card and you can end up being a cop or a teacher or a surgeon, right? And then you go at other things, like, okay, now choose your pay, right? And then you draw a random card, you can get $10,000 a year, that could be your pay. But then it's like, oh, taxes are due. It's like Monopoly, but not. You're not buying much houses. But I had six kids, because every time it was like, oh, you just had a baby. It's like, oh my God. And another kid, all these kids, like, stacked on my little car. And then I had a split level house. And the drawing of the house when it was a split level had a split down like it was a trashy house.
Brad Crowell 3:39
Oh.
Lesley Logan 3:38
And by the way, split level houses are not it just means that there's a split level. So I thought The Game Of Life was being a little harsh on some people. You could also get a (inaudible). You learn about all the different types of homes you can get. It's very interesting. We have to play it. Okay, let's get back to one more win of yours. This is from Karen Campbell. Celebrating that I've been honing in on my ICA, so that's a ideal client avatar, and this week, things have really clicked. I have the most true to me, I Help statement that I have ever had. It's been a culmination of all the conversations, coaching calls, webinars, inside of Agency, as well as leaning into the use of AI for help with marketing messaging.
Brad Crowell 3:39
Great.
Lesley Logan 3:39
Thank you, LL, Brad, Kirsten, Kirsten has an AI course that Karen's leaning into, and Rachel Piper, and for the recent Monica Linda and Nadine Hanafi webinars. So grateful.
Brad Crowell 4:25
Awesome.
Lesley Logan 4:26
Good things are coming because I've gained the clarity needed to move the needle forward. Boom.
Brad Crowell 4:34
Man, she's on a roll.
Lesley Logan 4:35
She's on a roll. So Monica Linda has been on the Be It Pod, and so has Nadine Hanafi. And if you are wanting Nadine's amazing branding stuff, it is brilliant, and we've linked to it in her podcast episode. And so please take a look at that so you can get our little Be It Pod link to figure out what your colors are and things like that. But also, I just want to highlight this is a culmination of conversation.
Brad Crowell 4:58
Yeah.
Lesley Logan 4:58
I heard about I Help statement, I should have an I Help statement, and it can take time.
Brad Crowell 5:02
It takes time. I was just on a coaching call with another Agency member, and I'm going to remain anonymous because I didn't tell I was going to share this, but she said for years I've struggled with my I Help statement and the frustrations that I've had in the past couple weeks have suddenly made it really clear to me what my I Help statement needs to be.
Lesley Logan 5:24
Oh.
Brad Crowell 5:25
Yeah. And because when we go through some bullshit, you suddenly know what you do and don't want and who you do want to work with and you don't want to work with and why. And so it can allow those things to become more clear, but maybe sometimes you just have to go through something first before that clarity comes to you. So it's a tough thing to demand instantaneously, even though you can be thinking about it, thinking about it. So Karen, I know it's really exciting, so I'm happy for you. This is fantastic. Great job. Yeah.
Lesley Logan 5:53
Yeah. Okay, so I thought today would be a good time to reflect on things that you don't have to join in, because I didn't tell you this before we hit record, but on things that I said I want to do this year and celebrate what I did do on that. So I'll start. And if you think of something that you wanted to do this year, and you can tell us how it's going.
Brad Crowell 6:13
I'd have to look at my phone, but I have something in mind. I don't know if I did it or not.
Lesley Logan 6:18
Okay, so I wanted to be more intentional about getting into the Las Vegas community, and like having friends in Las Vegas, doing things with friends. And I will say, we planned a few things, and I'm like, Las Vegas' canceled. This is not a complaint. But also, I got to hang out with another Las Vegas multiple times, and I tried out new restaurants with her. And so I'm gonna call it a win. I also tried out a library card, and I tried out pole dancing, and I tried to, like, get to know more parts of the city, and we tried out new restaurants, and we were open to going to dinner with different particular couples or potential couples. And so I feel like even with all the travel we had, I definitely took advantage of the Vegas time that I had, and it's really easy to go reflect on that. Go, I could have done more. Oh, I could have actually reached out to them a week before. I could have done this. That's not how you do wins everyone. So what I did do is more than I did a year ago, and more than the year before that. And I really am proud of that intentionality, and I'm excited for the year to come because I have more people in Las Vegas to spend time with. So that's really cool.
Lesley Logan 7:23
Another thing that I also had wins throughout the year already about this is just like being more intentional with girlfriends and talking to them, and I got to see all of my girlfriends multiple times in the year and hang out with them in person. And so I'm really proud about that. I think that's really cool.
Brad Crowell 7:40
That's awesome.
Lesley Logan 7:40
Yeah, I also had this goal of really trying to figure what's wrong with my stomach and with my health and my sleep, and with the help of FemGevity, I fucking got answers, and I really am loving how I'm feeling, like I'm going into next year feeling better than I did last year. Yeah, so that's a huge win. And then I will say I wanted to have more time in my schedule, and it took us several months and some big battles, but I got a bunch of my time back. And did I use that extra time to work on the things that I wanted to learn? No.
Brad Crowell 8:15
But that's kind of okay.
Lesley Logan 8:16
That's okay because the goal was to get the time back.
Brad Crowell 8:18
We've also been push, push, push for years, so, you know, taking a rest with that time is also incredibly helpful.
Lesley Logan 8:25
I also was like, what is it like to get bored? Let's try that. And I also got better ideas not filling that time. That's why the win doesn't have to be I got time and then I used it somewhere else. I got some time back and I used it to play a video game and read a book and lay on my (inaudible) and talk to some girlfriends and I have time like the other day, I saw a friend's story. I never watched her stories, and I saw her story, and she was going through something, and I was just like, hey, I'm free at 9am on Monday. Do you want to have a chat? I got on the phone with her, and because I had the time and I wasn't behind on projects, I can go here's how I think I can solve your problem, and here's who you should call. And that's what I did. And it was a 15-minute call, and I was like, okay, bye. And so I just am really proud that I gave myself time that wasn't filled with other things, so that I could be there for people or do things spontaneously.
Brad Crowell 9:11
Yeah, well, that's awesome. Those are great. I got a couple that come to mind. This year, I wanted to shift away from some of the managing of the company that I have been doing historically, because I am very passionate, but I'm also very hands on and controlling. And so by relinquishing the projects to people who are incredibly capable and could do the job, it's been allowing me to focus on shifting into a different position in the company, which still is the CEO role, but more of a sales and marketing side of things. So I'm still, you know, ultimately, handling stuff, but I'm not micromanaging like I was, and that's been a really different way to work, and it's also allowed me to connect more with our clients who are coming in, and also effectively move the needle of the sales in a good way. So that's a big win. The word for the year for me was stability.
Lesley Logan 10:11
Oh.
Brad Crowell 10:11
Yeah.
Lesley Logan 10:12
You and Michael Unbroken has a word for his year. He does it on his birth. I don't, I can't pick a word. But anyways.
Brad Crowell 10:18
Wow. 2024, my goal was stability, and what that meant is last year was really intense, topsy-turvy as far as launches and income and travel and all the things, and this year was just as busy, but it didn't feel as chaotic, and it was also more we were able to high-level with our company, we're able to shift when we were getting the income. And so it gave us better cash flow management, which any business owner out there understands what I mean. It's great to make a bunch of money at the beginning of the year, but then if you make no money in the middle of the year, you're like, oh my God, do we still have enough? And so we were able to make some adjustments and shift things around as far as when we were doing what we were doing, and that has made my stress levels incredibly better this past year than it was a year ago. So I'm super proud of our team for that. I'm proud, I mean, it was a team effort to be able to do that.
Lesley Logan 11:15
Yeah, I'm also proud of us and also you. Here's the thing, you can ask the team do all of these things, and we can change things around so that it feels more stable. Then you also have to let go of the muscle that likes to stress and worry. That's the think. Like, that's a habit. Stress is a habit. Stressing about things you can't control, habit.
Brad Crowell 11:35
That's true. Yeah. And the last thing which I need my phone to be able to answer is my goal was to get seven hours of sleep this year, a night.
Lesley Logan 11:42
Oh, on average?
Brad Crowell 11:44
On average. And I know I got six for sure.
Lesley Logan 11:47
Can we just log in on your computer to Oura?
Brad Crowell 11:50
I mean, can I?
Lesley Logan 11:51
I think you can. Yeah.
Brad Crowell 11:52
Okay, here we go. Well, I got six hours on average.
Lesley Logan 11:56
And you wanted seven?
Brad Crowell 11:57
I wanted seven. Six hours and 15.
Lesley Logan 12:00
Here's what I think we should do, Brad, we'll get our 2024 reports at the end of this year while we're on tour. And then when we come back from tour and we do the FYFs for February, you and I will share any changes we want to make to our health, as far as what we can track, as far as sleep goes.
Brad Crowell 12:17
Dig it.
Lesley Logan 12:18
Okay, here we go. I think that this is the most applicable mantra that could exist for wrapping the 2024 FYFs up for the year. I am growing and going at my own pace. I am growing and going at my own pace. I am growing and going at my own pace. Guys, that could be your mantra for the whole fucking year. So you know what to do.
Lesley Logan 12:44
All right, loves. We hope you really enjoyed. I don't know, if you think that these suck, you can tell us, but here's the thing, I listened to this one podcast I've been inspired. I said it on during one of the roundups, the rewinds, one of the reviews gave him five stars and then said this host is lacking and is not doing a great job. So don't say that. You can email that in, but give us five stars, and then email the team like, hey, the FYF suck, or hey, I really wish you did X, Y and Z. You're welcome to tell us. I'm not gonna say we'll make changes. This is who we are, but the goal, again, of the FYFs is to remind you that good things are happening, and even when you're feeling like you're in a shit hole, like a lotus flower can grow from that, and so wins can come from the weirdest places. Until next time, Be It Till You See It. Happy New Year. Have an amazing one.
Brad Crowell 13:31
Bye for now.
Lesley Logan 13:33
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Brad Crowell 14:16
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Lesley Logan 14:20
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Brad Crowell 14:25
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Lesley Logan 14:32
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Brad Crowell 14:35
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