Entrepreneurs' Organization

They wanna meet people to aspire to as well.

If I would go to things like EO, Entrepreneur Organization, YPO, Young Presidents Organization, Summit Series, okay, for like the one person watching this video that wants to look it up, some of the networking groups I've been in.

When I go to Tai Lopez's networking parties, Tai's having one today actually, wish I could be there.

When I go to these, These rich business owners have flown there, often paid to be there, or they're invited but they still gave their time, hoping to meet somebody who they can aspire towards.

I was comparing ourselves and knowing what was really in our bank account and assuming what I thought I knew what was in other people's, you know, gave that level of insecurity.

But I think, you know, surrounding myself with a peer group, I joined the Entrepreneurs Organization, I joined YPO once we qualified, Young Presidents Organization, you know, being surrounded by other people that were sort of like walking through it or had been through it was enough that I needed to give me the confidence that we were sort of, you know, on the right path and doing the right thing.

And to your point, it's a pattern that you do see with a lot of successful people where they will embody, whether it's from a leadership approach, from a mindset approach, from a hiring approach, what they're wanting to grow into as opposed to operating from the perspective of where they came from or even where they are in the present.

Because I don't know if it's, like you said, psychological or naive or intentional.

And at some point, really leading up to signing, a buyer disappeared.

We just couldn't get hold of the CEO who we negotiated with talk to anymore.

I had met him in Philadelphia a few weeks before.

And it took about two weeks of absolute radio silence until we learned that he had been arrested by the FBI.

So that part was relatively Easy to find out that this time there would be no such unpleasant surprise.

But then what happened is we started extremely well, principle to principle.

The buyer's CEO, Jonathan, is an amazing CEO.

And we had very good.

It was in Chicago.

And Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs and Young Entrepreneurs Organization were founded by a friend, Vern Harnish.

Vern, if you're listening, hello.

It's been a while since I've talked to Vern.

I wouldn't have had it any other way.

And I'm so grateful that EO has brought us together, because that's how we met even prior to this podcast.

I think you reached out somewhere, and then I ended up seeing you in person when I was in Adelaide.

Yeah, that's right.

So I was talking to the walls a lot.

So I wish I was around back then.

So I literally was just trying to rack my brain on what do I do next? What's the next move here? And there weren't things like EO.

There weren't business groups.