On today's episode of Gathering The Kings. I think all successful people want other people to succeed as well. Sure. Yeah. You know, the stories we saw where what was his, scrooge was, like, counting his coins and wouldn't like, I don't think that's true. In real life. That was just a Disney made up character. Most people aren't like Chaz. The miser that just holds at everything. And if they they are that person, they're probably that wealthy. And it doesn't have to be monetary either.
It could be successful in their own right. You are listening to Gathering the Kings with Chaz Wolfe, featuring fellow 78 and even 9 figure business owners who have real battle scars from business and life, but have prevailed as the king that they are designed to be. We welcome high performing entrepreneurs to the stage in order to reveal the reel of the reel. On what it takes to build a your picture of the journey of success and how you too can get there.
Through this dialogue, you will learn the value of growing your network and surrounding yourself with power players and Kings like today's guest. Grab your pen and notebook because we're about to dive in. What's up everybody? I'm Chaz Wolfe Gathering the Kings podcast coming to you today. Brit Bowers on the Kings stage, mom my man. How you doing? I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. I I appreciate you being here. Time is is the most valuable.
So the fact that you're giving it means a lot to me. So what Kings of business are you in? So you know what? I'm in I'm in the land business. Ultimately, I'm in the cash flow business, but I'm also in the helping people business. So and we get paid very well to do it. I love it. I love it. And so in inside of the land, you know, your your you're buying, selling, everything land, or is there specific types? Like, give us a little bit of of what this land helping people looks like.
Yeah. I prefer vacant residential lands. We we generally buy it from people that no longer want it and turn around and people that do want it, but they don't have tens 1000 of dollars just sitting around. You know, most banks don't actually finance for land, so I try and fill both of those needs. You know, find the people that want land because I have the land as all as well as allow them to the ability to make payments on the land. Yeah. Yeah. So almost like a funding option in there too.
Exactly. Yep. Well, I I love the other creativity of getting deals done. It sounds like you're You're in the same vein. We'll have lots to talk about here. But before we jump into your story, tell me at this level, obviously, you're you're you're crushing. You're you're doing a certain amount of revenue, right, that $1,000,000 mark or more, but but why, dude? Why are you still going? You you've already got success. You've got it wrapped up. You got it in the bag. Why are you still doing it, man?
You know what? It's funny. Me and my Wolfe, I went went out to to lunch. We just got back from lunch, and I was like, you know what? What if we just took, like, you know, just gave everyone on our on our team, like, a a package, like, paid them out and just was happy where we're at. You know, didn't acquire any more land or houses. And she she had a really good point. She's like, well, a lot of them will pay off in, like, 7 to 8 years. And I was like, no. No. No.
We've been 3rd doing 30 year mortgages. But I I think the real reason that's her reason why we can't stop. You know, you gotta keep building it, buying and selling. Yeah. But I think the real reason is is we're entrepreneurs. We're business people. If we did not have a growth and building mindset, we probably never would have built this in the first place. Yeah. I mean, if I if I didn't have that mindset already, I probably would have stayed in The, stayed with my w two job Yeah.
And let someone else dictate my schedule in my time and what I wear and how often I had to cut my hair and shave my beard every day. So that's just not what we do as creators Chaz builders as visionaries. We just keep going and keep building and keep hiring and keep scaling and going into new markets and starting a coaching course and a podcast and a YouTube Chaz, a talk. We were just talking about that. Yep. It just never stops. Like, you gotta have something to deal with your time.
You know, we got, like, in the Bible, it says, you know, The idle hands, and I'm very paraphrasing this. I mean, are are the devils playground, you know, type Kings. So a lot of times, I don't make time for myself to sit around. I I don't enjoy sitting around. Yeah. I I think that everything that you just said, every entrepreneur is going, uh-huh. Yep. Yep. Yep. Now now The the desire for more that you re you referenced.
Not every entrepreneur has that, right, where they don't wanna they don't wanna be told what to do. They wanna do their own thing, but that only that obviously you know, that, like, sends you in the business. It gets you started. Right? But in order to, like, really scale to where you are and have systems and people and all the things that would give you freedom to just hit the pause button if you if you wanted to. Those things come from the desire for more.
So where like, Was it along the way that you Kings realized that you had that desire for more? Was it a moment in time? Was it, like, this epiphany? Was it, like, I'm just I just haven't stopped. I didn't even realize it. Like, give me some feedback there. No. I think I don't know if it was an epiphany or, like, one of those light bulb coming on moments.
I guess, I if I look back, it was just a couple years ago, 2018, when I was getting out of the military, my whole goal was just to make $10 a month. That's all I needed to make. Well, I hit that before I even got out of the military. Wow. And then I hired a bunch of bunch more people and people started you know, coming in just more deals started happening, more transactions, more cash flow coming in. And, I mean, we just hired someone else last week.
So I think it's just I feel like it's one of those things. Like, if you're not growing, you're dying. We're always improving, like, going to the gym and eating healthier, you know, trying to run that mile a little fast I don't know if I had an epiphany, but I just feel like, you know, it's just I just have never taken my foot off at least for the last 10 years. Now granted, I take vacations all the time. We take time off because that's, you know, we've got I've got a family.
It's great and really fun to do Chaz, but that's when some of my my I'd basically recharge my batteries, and that's when some of my best ideas come Yeah. When I'm just hanging out for a couple days and, like, Okay. Let's when else can we start now? Type thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a difference between idle hands and and an idle mind. That's true.
Yeah. Because there's that there's that thinking time that you're talking about where you can go to a quiet place and I think most entrepreneurs can relay, but depending on on on the level of desire, man, that idea factory just starts churning. Yeah. What Keith Cunningham talks about, in his book, The less stupid or something like that. I forget what The book's called, but anyhow, look it up.
Keith Cunningham, something less less dumb mistakes, but he talks about setting, thinking time up, like scheduling it. And that's one of the things on my my to do list I've already put it on my calendar, but something always seems to get in the way of it. Every time that seems like I find the implement is to start having thinking Kings. Yeah. Yeah. I had a guest on my show.
She's been a business owner for 20 years and successful in the windows and door space and and she said that she had a business coach once tell her that, you know, you wouldn't miss an appointment with, you know, a client or, you know, an employee. If you're doing an employee meeting, why would you why would you miss that appointment with yourself? But it's so hard. It's so hard. I had this was just like a couple of months ago, one of my team members was like, hey.
So, like, you know, she was asking me about some certain things I was supposed to be doing in some blocked off time. And I was like, well, you know, she was like, well, we blocked off the time for you. Like, what do you mean? Like, what why haven't you been doing it? I was like, well, look look back. The last couple of weeks on on those time frames, and I had filled it call call call. You know? Yeah. Deal this meeting, this, you know, and she was No. You can't do that.
We need you to, you know, so I I received that that that that kind rebuke. I receive it. No. It's so true. It's like, I have a a mentor a mentor, and he's like, look. If someone calls you or tries to interrupt you during that time, you set let's just say that you set a time with your son to take him, you know, to get ice cream on that day. You can't say to that person, Oh, hey. You know, actually, I'm actually going out to I'm gonna take my son out for an hour or so.
I I can't actually do it because I've already got a commitment. No. Just say I already have appointment. Chaz can you do it next week on Thursday? That person that's calling or texting is not gonna say, well, can you cancel it? Like, you don't even have to get into that. Like, just, you know, block that time and and be just comp almost religious with it type Gathering. Nothing gets in the way of it.
And our phones, our phones, and our emails, and our twitters, and our text messages are the Biggest killers of productivity because everybody else is squeezing their way into your schedule all day long, and it's it's a darn addiction. It really is. Like, we gotta check that phone. And, no, if we schedule that time in, like, everything else is second nature type Kings, That's right. I love I love the mindset. Okay. So let's go let's go to your story.
Let's go back maybe a little bit of time where, you know, you maybe aren't where you are today, but You're in the middle of it. You're in the thick of it, and I wanna know a good decision that you made that really catapulted things forward around. People or systems or advert like, what what was that one thing or maybe one of the things you can look back on and and share? Well, I guess one of them was really we've been talking about this whole entire time was time blocking.
And when I was in the military, I had to be on base by 6 AM to be doing physical training. And most of the times, I wouldn't be able to leave until, like, 6 PM that night. Like, my days were stuck there all day long. So I I didn't have time to start a business. I also had a brand new baby a very new very new marriage. We had just moved across the country. All these things that I had going on. I could've just said, you know what?
I I don't have time to start a business to eventually get out of the The. That that's what I wanted to do was get out of the military. Right? But I had to find that time, and that was No Netflix. No Hulu. I don't even think Hulu existed back then, but I would get up at 4 AM every single morning at least 6 days a week and I would time block the things I needed to get done to work on my business. Now I couldn't call back sellers and buyers at the time, but I could I could email them back.
I could, you know, message them on Facebook. These things things like that, but it was just setting that 2 hours a day multiplied by 6 days a week, and that turned into, what is that, 12 hours a week? Multiply that times 4 in a month. And then by the time a year is, like, past, like, you have put in so many hours to build your business, And that was probably the best decision I ever could have made was just finding that time. Now now I would drop dead at nighttime by, like, 9 PM.
Like, and I I still have found myself in that Like, I'll still get up to 4 AM some mornings when I'm feeling overwhelmed The night before. Like, oh, I got all these things to do. It's amazing that 2 hours when the phone's not ringing when kids are not awake, and you have I you have 4 kids. Like, I've got 3. There's always something that gets in the way. You just gotta find that time. Yeah. It's so true.
And and and so you put that, you know, in that place of that that personal appointment, you know, whether it be the the thinking time, the the gym, you know, prayer, meditation, bible reading for me. You know, it's like, those things Chaz they're on the calendar, but it's, like, you just have to remember that you you're committed to those things just like you are the podcast with with with Brent Bowers. You know?
So I just think that there's some mindset there that it never goes away, and that's what I wanna hear. I want the I want the listener to hear that you got two people at at a pretty high level saying, hey. Look. Like, we you still get overwhelmed. You still wake up at 4 going, okay. Let me get a couple of extra hours in here today. Let me let me be really, you know, focused. You know, I'm still on a regular basis. Now last month with with new baby has been interesting for sure.
Mhmm. There's been some later nights and some earlier mornings, and it's been all over the place, but you have their schedule. But but but there's stuff that needs to get done. So we we you gotta figure it out is is my encouragement to the listener.
And god bless all wives, all spouses that have to be married to entrepreneurs like you and I, Chaz, because, you know, it's like they're doing they're getting up with The baby, and they're dealing with our, you know, mental ups and downs and our roller coasters. And, you know, I I don't know. Like, I might be the only entrepreneur that, like, I swear business is a is a roller coaster sometimes, like, Yeah.
Some days, and I feel like I'm in top of the world and the next, I feel like every it's all raining hell down on me at the same time. But I wouldn't trade it for anything because it's like we're building something. You know? Ty I listened to the to the book the other day on Audible, really long book, but so recommended by Phil Knight, the co founder of Nike called Shudog. I was, like, depressed the whole time during listen to that that that that book? I mean, it was, like, 20 years.
They're in bankruptcy, and then one day, like, someone god turned the lights on, basically, when they went public, I think if I understand correctly. Yep. And he's given a $100,000,000 a year away to charity. It's like, I wanna be that Yeah.
Yeah. But the story, as you're saying, nobody knows those those individual moments, you know, where where they're hustling and and going to track meet and and trying to sell shoes and, you know, all the little things or the or the the behind the scenes of the manufacturing and how that almost bankrupted them and just an incredible story like you're saying, but we all have those moments to your point. We all have those decisions to be able to keep keep Kings. Because it doesn't just happen.
And even if it does happen, then then you might be on the way down now for a minute before it happens again, whatever it is. You know? Yeah. And we're seeing it right now in the real estate market. I have several properties that, like, they're they've slowing down on me. But thank god, like, we're you know, okay financially. We're set.
We still got the cash flow coming in, and it's like, you know, but we just we just came out of, like, a 4 year cycle that it's almost like we could blink and make money Right. Type thing. And, though, I think it's a good time to get in real estate, yes. Was 4 years ago a great time to get in real estate? Yes. It's just we're in a different market now. And, you know, gas is expensive. Well, actually, it's went down. I just saw it went down a little bit. I'm trying to heck.
Yeah. The reality is this is that there's there's going to be either reasons or excuses to your point. That's so good. Yeah. Reasons or excuses Yeah. The ones we do or we don't. So, okay, let's flip the coin. Brent, tell me about a time where you just made a really poor decision. I wanna know I wanna know the juice details. You know what? There's been so many of them. There really Chaz. And I heard this from Tony Robbins. He said when we win, we party, when we fail, we ponder.
And, you know, I was winning so much. It's like, I was in I was in the military still, and I had just gotten just started buying and selling land. And I was, like, buying land for $285 and on it for 5000. Find the next parcel for 500 and getting 500 down and 400 a month. And, like, all these little things, The these winds just kept stacking up. And I was like, I think by the about 10th or 12th 1, I'd made a couple $100. And I'm just like, oh my. Anything I look at, I can just buy it and sell it.
It's gonna I'm gonna turn it to The. And I I I stopped going and looking at it. I would just like, look at it. I would be doing my army emails or just back from the field, a piece of land would come across. I was like, yep. We're getting The 1 third of the The the value by it, and I didn't even run title insurance. Like and I I did about 3 or 4 deals where I had purchased the land, and one was a was a gaping crater in the ground.
Another one was like a treasure deed where there was basically a cloud on the title, and I had buyers lined up for all these things. And we found out about the problems after I had bought So it's just like, I got cocky and arrogant, and I had to go back and, like, okay. You know, there's steps for a reason that we need to take to make sure that we're not getting into a bad investment. So that was one of the many, many times where I made bad mistakes. And but I learned from it.
So I I see this great, great value, and I've taught many people how to avoid those type Kings. And we dug herself out of the Wolfe. Brian dug like, that was before I had a team. I dug myself out of the hole, and it's just I learned a lot from it. So I really am glad it happened. Yeah. I I received that. I think that we all I mean, we we've all lack the due diligence, whether it's in a partnership or a, you know, in a deal or in in a a lot we could we insert whatever you want The.
But Yes. What I actually heard you say was that you got arrogant. That's right. I got cocky and arrogant, and I was like, oh, I can't I can't mess this up. Right? It worked out. And so so the the listener, I'm sure, is going, okay. Well, the let the learning lesson there is don't be cocky. Don't be arrogant. Think through things all the way through. Is there is there a is there was it just so many wins in a row that gave you the false, yeah, confidence? False confidence. That's so good. Great.
Put a great term on that. Yeah. I got so many wins so quick that it was just false confidence. And that it's funny. You said partnership. And then I went into a partnership with The of my brothers, my best friends, and we went into a business, and I was just arrogant. It's like anything I touch, I will turn to gold, and it didn't. And things went south with that business and then eventually our friendship. And we're good now. Thank god because the money screw that.
Like, that was just a honestly helped me on taxes, to be honest with you, that we lost on it, but, which is a stupid way to look at it. But you're scratching and clawing for any any validation. But, you know, it's like, that cost me a lifelong friendship because of that arrogance, and it was about the same time frame. Yeah. No. You're right. I I think that's that's The that's the point here. Is that I mean, I I think I think for a long time, I I I have been a huge proponent of winning. Right?
I even have in one of the workbooks I created for our Mastermind group Chaz you need to win every day. Period. Yes. You need to win every day. And you do. But how do you then stop the mindset of multiple wins. If that you're telling me, Brent, Chaz, that I need to win every single day. Hey, Chaz Wolfe here.
As many of you know, I have been on absolute mission to help entrepreneurs from all across the country in many different industries, level up their game and grow their business, and intentionally connect with other entrepreneurs. We do Chaz, obviously, through the podcast, but we also have a peer to peer mastermind group specifically for 7 to 9 figure business owners.
We are bringing some of the best and most successful entrepreneurs and minds together in a regular and a super intentional way to not only grow our network but to be able to leverage.
And at a certain point in business, success becomes about leverage, leveraging time, leveraging resources, leveraging key relationships, The is exactly what we're doing inside of the peer to peer mastermind group called Gathering The Kings, specifically for 7 to 9 figure business owners, So if that's you, if you're ready to level up your 7 to 9 figure business, even to the next level and get around other big hitters just like you, I want you to
go to gathering the Kings dot com, fill out a short application, and, it'll come to an application, call with me I wanna chat with you, see if it might be a good fit. Talk soon. If I'm in here looking for the The and I'm getting, you know, I'm getting confident over here. What's the caveat there? How do I how do I stay humble? I don't know. I don't know. As far as winning every day, I got a little on the other side of my desk here at my other desk.
Like, I've got like, a couple Kings I wanna accomplish every day. The first is, you know, go to the gym. And that's what one of my personal Kings. Go to the gym. You know, talk to make 5 connections each day. It could be a seller. It could be a business partner. It could be Mike accountant. And The, like, for a while, that was the top 2. Now then there's personal stuff. Like, you know, make sure I make my wife feel loved and appreciated each day.
Each The of my children, like, you know, to just have a little connection time with them each day because There's 3 of them. It's and you've got 4 now. It's it's really hard to make sure each one of those little little growing beings get that win, and that win might be daddy who sat with me and read a book for 2 minutes. Like, so I don't know. I I don't see why that would make someone not humble because at the end of the day, a win could be we got our mailers out. To our land sellers.
That's a win. Yeah. Like and then the next win is, a week from now, we got a phone call from one of those letter. And then the next win is we got a purchase agreement signed by 1 one of those sellers, and and small wins turn into We now get $16 a month on land notes or whatever, you know, whatever that win might be, or I get the parking spot really close to, you know, the Applebee's restaurant. Like, and I just say winning, you know, or The shaded spot because we're in Florida.
It's a hundred degrees right now. So Yeah. Seriously. It's it's small wins. Yeah. No. I'll the the I guess it's all perspective. Right? If if you are thinking of the little things as not so much an arrogance boost, but of, like, this is helping me build something. I think that that's a great perspective.
I also think that gratitude or having the perspective of something that want like, that once was different, you know, and so, you know, for the listeners, that resonate with me knowing that it didn't come from anything. Single mom family, like, literally just I can remember when things weren't like The, when I wasn't in a in a beautiful office inside of my home that we just got done building on a beautiful estate, I can remember when life was just a little bit different.
And so even though we have it, even though I got the win, even though I'm beating my chest a little bit, it's like that same moment where you're like, Wolfe, woah, woah, bro. You remember when? And so I think I think both of those perspectives are are super valuable. I wanna know real quick here, Brent. Do you have any sort of, like, discipline, or maybe even process when a decision comes to you. Like, we've been talking good and bad decision here.
The the decision comes to you right now and you gotta make The, what do you do with it? So, for instance, if, like, you came to me or someone came to me, like, just a a little bit ago, I like, a we have a brand new contractor in the area that's working on one of our properties that we've had a lot of mistakes with lately a couple contractors rip ripped us off and nothing against contractors, but I guess my process is is like, what does history show me? What have I dealt with in the past?
And or can I call somebody that that knows or refer, like, So I guess that's my process? It's not huge. It's not anything groundbreaking or earth shattering is like, you know, what does my past experience show me. And if I didn't have any past experience in that, who do I know that does that I can reach out to? Because here's the cool thing about successful people, and you know this Chaz, your your, example of it with your podcast.
And most successful people actually, I I I'm I'm not I think all successful people want other people to succeed as well. Sure. Yeah. You know, that The stories we saw were what was this? Scrooge was, like, counting his coins and wouldn't. Like, I don't think that's true in real life. That was just a Disney made up character. Most people aren't like Chaz, the miser that just holds at everything. And if they they are, that person, they're probably not that wealthy.
And it doesn't have to be monetary either. It could be successful in their own right. Totally. But you could always call someone and get help. So that's my very sim simple process. Yeah. It what you just said is, like, basically, it's not about the money necessarily. I learned this principle a while back that having more money doesn't necessarily change you. It it it amplifies who you already are. And The when good people get a lot of money or successful in many different areas.
It could be just more The, but to your point, it's I wanna give back or I wanna be able to raise up my community or I wanna be able to other people through a podcast or whatever. And then the people who are already ill Wolfe, you know, or have a a a an inkling in their spirit are are gonna do wrong things anyway. So I think that's you're spot on with that. It's a matter of being able to build with right intentions, probably. Yeah. And those people won't be successful.
They won't be wealthy or rich very long either. Like, something bad will happen because they'll bring it right on themselves. Yeah. I'll go to prison or whatever. Yeah. It won't last long. Alright. Let's hit the speed round here, brother. I've got a question on the 1st round here of dwindling your business down. All the transactions, all the calls, all the everything down into The trackable metric. What is it? As far as the metric, you know, let me make sure I understand you correctly.
Like, how do I track if I The down to one metric? Like, how do I track my company if it's successful? Sure. Yeah. If that's how I if you do into everything that you do down into The trackable thing Can I have 2 metrics? For, like, a key performance. No. It's The. But, yeah, no, share share them both because here's the thing. It's like and it's so simple. It's We put out we have to know exactly how much we have to put out, you know, to get a return and how much that return is.
So if I Right now, it's about a dollar. For every dollar we spend, we make about 3.95 back in all the companies combined. So that's 2 metrics. I kinda cheat it. I don't know if I could figure out one. I'm probably your least intelligent dwindle that down into to return on ad spend, basically. Yeah. Return on spend. There you go. Yeah. Interesting. Return on investment. ROI.
Yeah. Yeah. Which which obviously could incorporate you know, your people and salaries and all that stuff because that can all be considered investments. And one of our team members are are investments. And if for anybody listening to this, if you look at one of your team members as they're not an investment, they're not pulling their weight, they're not bringing in a return on investment, The that's a burden.
And you you guys you should either find a new seat on the bus for that person or get them off the bus completely. AK. I'm saying fire The, get rid of them, or in the partnership. And it doesn't have to be a negative thing. We just actually terminated one of our employees, and we gave her a severance package. She's been great for the last 2 years, but she just no longer works for our community or our culture, I should say. Right. Yep. Exactly. Alright.
Brent, what book would you suggest that a 6 figure business owner read? Oh, man. I say The wealthy gardener. I just love the story. It's about a chiropractor that said just worked his way up in real estate It's just a beautiful story. I almost said my wife's book that she just wrote Mother Trauma, but, that put out Mother Trauma. Oh, yeah. She's my wife is doing really well on Amazon right now. She's already got 22 reviews. I'm just really proud of her.
So a rider in the family, but the 6 figure business owner or 6 figure earner in business should probably read the wealthy garter if you haven't done so already. Yeah. That's good. We'll we'll list both of those books and the show notes. I hope that the one for your wife is The off. Next question is, do you intentionally network or mastermind with other entrepreneurs? Absolutely mastermind. I'm very intentional on networking. I don't go to random networking Kings.
I go there to either speak or learn something as I actually gotta give the credit to Sean Callenge for Chaz, and the guy is just just incredible in the business relationships that he builds. But, yeah, I highly highly believe in it. I mean, The podcast is a is a very not random networking event. Like, right, you and I are networking right now. Yep. So, yes, I highly agree agree with it. I'm actually starting my own master. I know you have The as well. It's incredible. So it's very powerful.
I started a real estate meetup many of years ago, it's still growing even though I'm out of it. I can't tell you how many 100 of 1000 of dollars in business that I got to do. By starting that event. So you can start by going, but I think you should also create too. Yeah. No. That's so good.
It's a good perspective of not just being recipients, but a giver, but that's kinda why I like the the mastermind format usually, or at least in my opinion, ones that are done in the actual, like, definition of mastermind is, like, you can give and take Yes. In the scenario. It's not like just sitting down on a seat and taking Kings. And that's that's That's more of what I would call a conference.
And, Chaz, you don't have to have all the answers either because there's gonna be some people in there that are probably doing 8 Chaz you could have a person that do that's doing eight figures. And that that's exactly what that 7 figure earner needed to hear. And it was only one thing, and he can leave that weekend or that that mastermind thinking, oh my god. I can't believe that's all this cost.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You have that one pivotal moment, like, that you're talking about, that connection, that piece of knowledge, that one hinge The just just pulled the screw loose and then everything, you know, came came apart or came together. However, you look at it? Yeah. It changes the world. Do you actually, let me let me phrase it like this. If if you only had 1 hour each week to work in or on your business, how would you use that hour to successfully run your business like you do now?
I would put a message out to my entire team of hope, inspiration. Also, the time in that 1 hour to make sure that I publicly announced the person's name that that was showing up in the KPIs, the key performance indicators, or or The, you know, she bought more land this week than everyone else or or more houses or whatever.
That 1 hour would be a message directing everyone that's rowing on the boat to keep rowing in the same direction because I learned this as a platoon leader in the military, my my first job as a as a as a brand new second lieutenant, my commander said, I don't pay you to get the fuel and the water out, I pay you to make sure the fuel is pumped and the water's provided, and you have thirty two people to do that for you. So it's the same thing with anything as business owners.
We we're like The person that has the leverage. Like, They're just being used properly in good ways and not not bad ways. Like, almost be good stewards of the leverage that that we've been blessed with. Yeah. Because one one might hear you say, well, that that leader said that you got thirty two people to use. And it's it's the opposite. It's like, wow. I'm blessed to be able to orchestrate this this whole thing. And I and thirty two people wanna be involved Wow. You know?
And and what can we do with the power of 32? Dude, that's incredible insight. Thank you for your service also. I might have said that earlier, but, I mean, leadership from from a whole another world. Applicable in business. And that's I'll tell you, that's the difference between the military. You you oh my gosh. That was level 5 listening Chaz. To use. That's the difference between what I was taught in the military and what The this is what I was surrounded by.
And the business side people wanna be here. People wanna be in this culture, like the military, not so much. There's a lot of negativity. Like, they're forced to be there. My commander with all his intelligence said use these people. And in business, like, we don't use anybody. Like, we motivate and inspire. We share the vision. And if they don't have the same vision, they're probably not a fit.
Yep. And then the confidence that we have as entrepreneurs is that there there are lots out there who are a good fit. Holy cow. Yes. You just gotta be willing to put yourself out there one more time. Get hurt The more time. You might be thinking, well, I'm done. I'm I'm gonna do all this by myself. You're gonna be a The man operation. Like, that is pathway to burnout and frustration and alcohol. You know?
So you just gotta keep Eventually, you're gonna it's like finding the woman of our dreams or or the man of your dreams. You just gotta keep, you know, just keep your heart open type thing. Yeah. Yeah. So good. Last question here for you, Brent. If you lost it all, what would you do? You know what?
I would walk down to the county assessor's office, and I would figure out the people that were behind on their taxes, and I would ask to borrow their phone and I would start calling with people to see who I can help. I I Kings had thought about this. Like, okay.
If I didn't have any money to market, I would I would just have to somehow another get down to the county building to go through the records and start writing letters or whatever to be able to start finding land owners that are behind on their taxes or out of state or both combine those 2 and start reaching out to them and see if they consider, you know, selling that parcel of land. Yeah. You would do it all over again.
That's, yeah, do it all over again, but way less scalable, way more time consuming, but you do that for a week or 2. Yeah. You'd be back on The money flows. Yeah. You'd be back right where you are. I love I love everything about our interaction. Today, just your your your spirit, just the the kindness that you've spoken, the encouragement that you've given, value drops. I mean, you're building a phenomenal business over there. I can tell just from the language that you've used today.
How can the listener connect with you? How can they find you? No. I appreciate you asking me, Chaz. I built a YouTube channel. If you go to YouTube and search Brent Bowers, you Chaz find me there. That's probably the best place to find me. Perfect. I'll check out his YouTube channel. Brent, we wish you nothing, but all the success and blessings that said that your hands will not being idle will produce for you. And so we appreciate Chaz, and thanks for being on the show. Thanks, Chaz. God bless.
Thank you for listening to Gathering the The today. I hope that you were able to pull out a few nuggets to go apply into your business right away. More importantly, though, I hope that you're realizing that it takes more to be successful than just being by yourself Kings it all on your own, carrying the weight all by yourself.
What I have realized, not only in my own journey from multiple businesses in multiple different industries and now interviewing over 2 or 300 other very successful 7, 8, and 9 figure business owners is that It's tough to do it alone. And so gathering the Kings exists to bring together successful entrepreneurs. In fact, we are putting together 1 1000 kings, specifically who are grateful, but not done.
We're intentionally assembling kings who fight tooth and nail for their business, family, and communities, and here's what we believe Chaz in the pursuit of excellence in those areas, that it ignites within us the responsibility to govern power and forge a lasting legacy. So if that relates and and resonates with you, and you know that you need people around you, sharp, qualified The very successful business owners. I want you to go to Gathering.
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