Ep. 100: Berlin Maza, Captain - Perspectives

You've always been a couple of years ahead of me in my career and always been a mentor to me and a good friend outside of work too.

And I kind of, I look up to you in your personal life, how you're a husband and father, but also at work too.

And don't let that go too much to your head.

But yeah, Maybe it's the season I'm in in life, and I kind of want to see.

You've got a lot going on in leadership and mentoring others in the fire service, outside the fire service, advancing your degrees, working on your master's, and also just community outreach stuff.

How do you balance and decide what gets your yes when you have all these tasks and commitments and wanting to move the needle? How do you say yes?

So you've already let this go to my head.

So I want to throw one thing out there just for clarification.

And this is obviously a joke.

I want to keep everything lighthearted today.

But I'm working on my doctorate program currently.

So I've got my master's.

I'm working on my doctoral program.

And I say that as a joke simply because this question – It's really a tough question.

And I say that because you're asking me how do I balance.

And by your question in itself, there is no balance in there.

And what I'm going to say here is twofold.

I mentioned earlier I'm going to reference other individuals.

And the book that I'm going to reference is called Winning.

He wrote another book.

I believe it's called Relentless.

But his name is Tim Grover.

And so Tim Grover is an individual.

He's an inspirational speaker now, but he wrote books as he was a trainer and he was highly influential in the lives of athletes like, for example, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant to name two.

He also worked a little bit with Dwayne Wade, Shaquille O'Neal.