Bill McCleskey - The Future of Entrepreneurship and Business Leadership in Nashville

Well, you know, I think that may be true, but I... expose, I let people in, right? You know, I let people see what I'm doing.

And I think for me, at first I was pretty shy about that several years ago, but I learned that it inspires other people and it keeps me accountable.

And I grow through it myself.

And so the consistency of what I do, I'm giving a message, I'm running, I'm doing my thing.

And a lot of times I'm going through stuff, right? I wake up, man, I don't feel like going running.

I don't feel like working out 50% of the time, you know? Or I'm dealing with something personally or in my business.

And, man, I still got to be accountable to myself, to people who call me and say, hey, man, I appreciate that message.

Or, man, that really got me through something.

I have to preach to myself, you know, that morning.

Right.

And a lot of the messages are really just for me.

But you guys are able to watch.

Yeah.

Well, do you ever think about yourself when you're like 90 going back and watching all those videos?

Yeah, for sure.

So I'm going to tell you, like the insight for me is I have a son.

He just turned 18.

But when he was about 10, I started thinking about if something happened to me and my son was left here without his father.

what would he have to revisit to get to know me? Because he's only been here nine or 10 years at that time, right? And that's what prompted me to write a book.

I said, you know what? I can write a book.

Now I wrote a book about entrepreneurship and mindset, psychology, hustle and discipline and stuff like that.

But it was really like to get my mindset to my son.

Wow.

Right? That was the first motivation.

Wow, what's the title of your book? My first book is called Get Off Your Assets.

Well, you know, I think that may be true, but I... expose, I let people in, right? You know, I let people see what I'm doing.

And I think for me, at first I was pretty shy about that several years ago, but I learned that it inspires other people and it keeps me accountable.

And I grow through it myself.

And so the consistency of what I do, I'm giving a message, I'm running, I'm doing my thing.

And a lot of times I'm going through stuff, right? I wake up, man, I don't feel like going running.

I don't feel like working out 50% of the time, you know? Or I'm dealing with something personally or in my business.

And, man, I still got to be accountable to myself, to people who call me and say, hey, man, I appreciate that message.

Or, man, that really got me through something.

I have to preach to myself, you know, that morning.

Right.

And a lot of the messages are really just for me.

But you guys are able to watch.

Yeah.

Well, do you ever think about yourself when you're like 90 going back and watching all those videos?

Yeah, for sure.

So I'm going to tell you, like the insight for me is I have a son.

He just turned 18.

But when he was about 10, I started thinking about if something happened to me and my son was left here without his father.

what would he have to revisit to get to know me? Because he's only been here nine or 10 years at that time, right? And that's what prompted me to write a book.

I said, you know what? I can write a book.

Now I wrote a book about entrepreneurship and mindset, psychology, hustle and discipline and stuff like that.

But it was really like to get my mindset to my son.

Wow.

Right? That was the first motivation.

Wow, what's the title of your book? My first book is called Get Off Your Assets.