Imagine stepping into a space teeming with entrepreneurial women whose ambition soars beyond business, women who are driven by a Kingdom Purpose to make a genuine impact. That's precisely what we unpack in today's episode, thanks to the wisdom Bek brings from her time at Brooke Thomas's mastermind event.
We discuss how faith intertwines with entrepreneurship and the catalyst effect of a no-gossip policy, propelling discussions to new, abundant-minded heights. Bek shares how strategic business planning and a spirit of collaboration can be seamlessly integrated to fuel personal and professional triumphs.
This episode casts a spotlight on the invaluable practice of seeking diverse mentorship and the undeniable benefits it has on holistic growth. We don't just talk shop here; we explore the art of nurturing leadership through authentic relationships that champion the entire individual. Bek's reflections on the mastermind experience are a testament to the transformative power of joining forces with like-minded lionesses in pursuit of Uncommon Freedom and collective achievement.
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Imagine stepping into a space teeming with entrepreneurial women whose ambition soars beyond business, women who are driven by a Kingdom Purpose to make a genuine impact. That's precisely what we unpack in today's episode, thanks to the wisdom Bek brings from her time at Brooke Thomas's mastermind event.
We discuss how faith intertwines with entrepreneurship and the catalyst effect of a no-gossip policy, propelling discussions to new, abundant-minded heights. Bek shares how strategic business planning and a spirit of collaboration can be seamlessly integrated to fuel personal and professional triumphs.
This episode casts a spotlight on the invaluable practice of seeking diverse mentorship and the undeniable benefits it has on holistic growth. We don't just talk shop here; we explore the art of nurturing leadership through authentic relationships that champion the entire individual. Bek's reflections on the mastermind experience are a testament to the transformative power of joining forces with like-minded lionesses in pursuit of Uncommon Freedom and collective achievement.
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All right, everyone, welcome back to the uncommon freedom show back in the studio with Beck. It's been a hot minute since you've been in the studio, huh.
Speaker 2:Yes, it has. It's been a busy month.
Speaker 1:It has, I'm trying to think, the last one we recorded together. It's been a while.
Speaker 2:I don't even know if we recorded one, yet you bumped me for all these other popular guests, so I've been on the outs Sheriff.
Speaker 1:Mark Lamb was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1:Your youngest son was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Dylan rocked it.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, hey, welcome back. You were recently at a mastermind with Brooke Thomas and it's very appropriate to talk about the power of running with lions, or lionesses.
Speaker 2:That's a hard word to say plural, is it Probably get you into some trouble?
Speaker 1:So, but it's really one of the main concepts of uncommon freedom is running with lions upgrading your circle, and it's definitely something you've done. And, as we talked about, it's very difficult to find entrepreneurial, abundant minded women, especially outside of our coaching circle not mashing any of your friends, but really women who are into building a business, not just having a job, building a business, having massive impact. Very difficult to find that, so go ahead, talk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's really a unique group of women and I'm so grateful that I found it. So shout out to Megan Valentine just for you know, telling me about this a year or two ago, and then for you just supporting the investment of time and finances to be a part of it. But I've just found that again you need to put yourself in different rooms that shake it up a little bit. And for me, you know, the first year I went into the mastermind, I would say I wasn't intimidated, but I also just didn't really know what to expect and I'm not sure I made the most out of it. It was a crazy year.
Speaker 2:Last year, you know, we had a lot of parenting adventures and some other things where I was just a little bit in survival mode, and so I took in some content, but I didn't steward it the way I wanted to. And then, going in this year, I will say what I did last year is I radically grew my faith with the Lord. And so what's really unique about, you know, brooke Thomas's events is not only are these entrepreneurial, already successful and chasing success women, but they're all doing it with Kingdom purpose and a faith mindset, and so we spend a lot of time at the retreat and at the mastermind and things we just worship. We just worship. It's Holy Spirit filled. It feels amazing because you're really getting that groundwork done before you get into like business and then impact, and so it sets the stage well for everything else that we do. What else do you want to know why we all wear pink?
Speaker 1:So yeah, it's definitely, it's your. It's the sorority experience for those who didn't get sorority right. We're not sorority.
Speaker 2:I'm imagining it's so much better than a sorority, but I did describe it a little bit like that Like I like the color pink, but I love blue far more, and so you know I have a couple of pink things, or I had a couple of pink things in my closet.
Speaker 1:You got a full pink wardrobe.
Speaker 2:Until I went into working with Brooke and then you know she's really generous and a lot of the things we do. We get gifts, and so I have a lot more pink in my closet now. But what I love is she's authentically herself. Brooke is, but she is really professional and created for impact and she has a huge heart, and so she's really about providing value. But the other thing is she sets the stage early on in her events, and this is something for all of us with associations, because you talk about this in the book that being an uncommon community is talking about you know, ideas, not people.
Speaker 2:There's no gossip in this group. It's really raising the level of your conversation to an abundant minded conversation Like what are we creating together? How do we cheer each other on? And so there's also not a spirit of competition with each other, and it's really like when you win, I don't lose. In fact, I want you to win because it shows me I can also win in the things I'm doing. And then it's a really collaborative group. So it's like how can we help?
Speaker 1:you win. What are some of the industries that the other ladies are in?
Speaker 2:There's a lot of women in real estate. There's lawyers, medical professionals, there's other network marketing people in the group. There are people creating product-based businesses. So they're, you know, creating a jewelry class, for one of our fellow elite members has created like a hair perfume, so for girls, that's a really amazing product to put out there on the marketplace. So some people are producing product, some people they are their product and their influence and their content is what they can deliver to the marketplace. And so a lot of it is about branding and strategy, increasing your audience, serving your audience well.
Speaker 2:And then, you know, brooke even took it up a notch, I think, this year, and brought in, like an expert, megan, who's been working with us on strategy for business and it's been really neat to see. Just I took one idea from the mastermind and I used it yesterday with a group of our up-and-coming and already developed leaders, and you know, I spent an hour with 100 plus coaches online yesterday and we had a really fun time building a growth plan for Q1, which you and I have talked about, those kinds of things with our team, but this was a very simple format. I think it's been a while since we've done it and because I brought that home. Having practiced it myself, I was then able to pass it along to our organization and work through a lot of the concepts and things that our coaches are working through, and I felt like I brought a lot of value out of that.
Speaker 1:So there's a lot of value coming besides just the neat community and the nice people and yeah, and saying that we hear, is the more people pay, the more they pay attention, and obviously this is I mean, it's a pretty. The price tag on what you're doing this year is actually about what I used to make as a police officer, but sometimes you have to make that commitment and investment to guarantee that you're going to follow through on things.
Speaker 1:Because, if it costs less, you're going to do less, and it's easy to say well you know, Well you know it's my you know it's water under the bridge, type of thing right.
Speaker 1:But when it's a bigger chunk of change, you're gonna pay more attention For women that are looking to upgrade their circle but maybe aren't yet at the level of making investment Similar to what you made even last year, which I think last year's investment was about a third of what this year was. Right, yeah, do you have any suggestions or recommendations? How can women upgrade their circle Without going to the level of mastermind like this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you can start smaller too. I mean again, brooke, as an example, offers, you know, smaller groups of things that are much lower price points. You know, again, there's value provided there, just a different level, and it's a good starting place for a lot of people. If you go to those things and you Steward the information that you're getting and the relationships, then often you can build to the level or then you can afford that next thing, and that's part of the you know the culture that I want to surround myself with, which is that I am very blessed but I'm not satisfied financially, and so I want to create more, to do more impact in the world, and also so I can invest in more things like this. I'm I'm wish I had more of our, you know, leaders and coaching team that were in, that are in the mastermind with me. I wish I had those people this year and my hope is that we help them create impact this year so that they can invest again in themselves.
Speaker 2:The other thing is you can start like you talk about, and just create environment like this, like you started the men's Eagle Eagles group, and what it takes is it takes knowing what you want to create.
Speaker 2:So, just like in lifestyle design, I would say, in creating Community like this, you have to know what you're going for. So you have to know the type of people you want to attract. And then I would say, once you know what you want, you have to also be becoming that person to create that group. Because it's really difficult to invite other like-minded, high-level, big thinking, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial, kingdom-minded people into a group if you're not quite there yet. So I'm not saying you need to be at the arrival stage, but you definitely you need to work on yourself, because we you and I have put ourselves in some bigger rooms this last year, but it's been like a baby step process. It's like that scaffolding from teaching where it's like you go from where you are you take the next step up, or it's like a peek at the next peak, so to speak right and once we get there, we get some more confidence, we get some more skills.
Speaker 2:Then we're ready for the next level and because of that We've had some, we've been rubbing shoulders, so to speak, with really incredible people that I think are Helping us to even dream bigger. I mean, I don't feel like we were small dreamers, but I've dreamed exponentially bigger already this year than I did three years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
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Speaker 1:You've always been for a long time. We've been intentional to find mentorship outside of Business. That that we're in. We get mentorship in the business right. But also it's kind of easy to end up in an echo chamber or to get focused only on the business and lose perspective of the other spheres, the other spokes on the wheel of life. And one of the advantages to doing something like this is you're getting you're getting outside perspectives. Can you want to just talk about the value and the importance of that? So, for example, if you're in real estate to just go to real estate conferences, you're gonna learn a lot, but there's probably some things you're gonna miss if all you do is go to real estate conferences, because that's the perspective that everything is being taught from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's really interesting, I mean because we are whole people and we're not just what we do. I think being in environments like this develops the whole person. So you know, when we went around the smaller group that I'm in right now, with only 10 women, what we did initially which was really brilliant on Brooks Park as far as leadership is we really spent the first day we talked about our businesses and we each gave a short talk on what we did, what we were building and creating and how we needed help in this group. But the next day what we did is we shared, like our greatest heartbreaks or the things that were holding us up right now. That are the deepest things, and we picked just one or two, but each person's was so unique, and so you have someone from a different field, but they're sharing something that is holding them up maybe it's spiritually or in their business and then you have a group of people around them God bless you speaking life into them and helping them come up with, you know, solutions, or even just being prayer warriors for them, like maybe we can't solve that person's problem, but we can pray into that, we can sew into that. And then the other thing is, we can give each other ideas and we can support each other's businesses. So when you're in a group, that's healthy. That's what I'll just say.
Speaker 2:This group is so healthy that, because there's no spirit of competition, it's like I might not be in the real estate industry or even have a lot of interest in that, but I can absolutely cheer on a podcast, a book or give ideas on social media strategies to someone who's building that business, even though I don't understand all the details of what they do day in and day out.
Speaker 2:And so I think it's just that cross-pollination can be really helpful, because, again, we can kind of get stuck in our own field of vision sometimes, and I've already seen the results of putting myself in that room and then bringing it back to our organization and finding something practical I can train with. And I've had multiple words spoken into me, you know, at that event that are just basically, I left with my soul on fire for the impact that we're yet to create, and I also went through just like some healing while I was there for some really hard things. You know, I just had some emotional time. But the nice thing is I didn't leave it there. I didn't leave like, oh, I have all the things I left whole and healed and that's really Jesus. But also being in that space where you have the time to make that process and when you're with higher level, abundant minded people, they are willing to go there, they're willing to be vulnerable if they're the right kind of people but, they don't sit in it.
Speaker 2:And that's the difference. When you put yourself in a room where everybody sits in it, then you never move past it, then it's a constant source of conversation. Then you're having the same conversation six months later of how bad things are, and it's not a spirit of hope and creation where, when you put yourself in that room, your mindset can pivot so quickly that I think it creates a growth mindset and it changes how we show up in everything else that we do yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:It's funny. I was thinking cross-pollination and then you end up setting it as saying the words, but just the idea that it gets you into new spheres of influence, new circles. You have those people on your podcast or you just learn from them. You read their books and then they have you on their podcast right your books and it just connects you to different people and one of the things that we've learned and it's become abundantly clear.
Speaker 1:You know, it seems like even more and more. Like every passing day it's even more obvious to me just how powerful connections are. Like everything that you need to be successful in life is can be found in relationships that you have and better quality people that you have relationships with. The more problems, the more quickly your problems will get solved, the more abundant you're going to think it's just gonna accelerate life. It really is mind blowing. So there's probably a great starting point for a lot of people probably to just find some type of either a day seminar or a weekend type of thing. Would you suggest that someone jump in if they're like that's it, I'm ready to hit the ground running. Would you suggest someone jump all the way to something like the Queen's Table that you're doing, or is it worth kind of to give me a push?
Speaker 2:No, that's more like hand selected by Brooke, I think, in her particular type of format that she uses. So that would be a giant leap. I don't want to speak to whether someone should do that or not. I think you baby step into it. You go to a live event, which is usually like a couple days. The investment's more reasonable and you get the experience of, again, like-minded people, great training, lots of ideas, a feeling of belonging and you still get tons of value. And then what many people will do is, from that live event then launch something like a year long mastermind, where it is a smaller group of people I think there's about 60 of us there and that's.
Speaker 2:We're intentionally zooming together, we're praying together in this one because it's faith-based, we're implementing ideas and strategy and we have accountability built into it. So I also would say don't hesitate to get into something like that, but again, make sure you're willing to really commit to it. This year I'm much more committed to shifting my calendar to make sure that the timing can work for things, if possible, and doing my action steps. So I show up with accountability and I'm gonna get into it. I'm gonna get out of it what I put into it. But I would say start small and then build from there if you need to.
Speaker 2:If you have a lot of income and you already have done some things, then it is probably time to level up.
Speaker 2:If you've been doing the same kinds of things over and over again, it's time to go to something at the next level and let that pull you and draw you up so that you're putting yourself a little bit into an uncomfortable situation but you're gonna leave better.
Speaker 2:I mean, what I loved is going this year having some work done last year on worthiness, with some counseling and just some other things I realized that my mindset shifted. My faith has shifted so much that when I went into this year smaller room, maybe just feeling like I could have felt less confident, but I didn't. I went in feeling like you know what? I belong here, and I belong here because I've got all these ideas that I need to figure out how to implement and I need a space to process all of that with the right people that are trusted. And it's okay if I'm not as far along as others in some areas, but I might be farther along in certain things and just realizing I can bring value to a group like that, not based on necessarily what I've already done, but also all the learning I've done along the way, and so I feel like it is important for us to continually grow and learn, but you've got to start somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I know you also shared just kind of the perspective that last year, and I'm sure it's probably even more so this year, you're on women that have net worths of probably hundreds of millions, and some even that were billionaires, if I recall correctly what you said, and it's so valuable that as soon as you think, man, I'm pretty good to go intentionally work to put yourself around a room of people that are higher performers than you and bigger impact makers than you so that you reset your goal.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just two Sundays ago, two weeks ago roughly I was with a group of men that were supporters of-.
Speaker 2:Don't quote me on those numbers, because I'm not very good at numbers. Got it, it's all good Basically. People further ahead of us.
Speaker 1:I was with a group of men for a weekend that were all supporters of one of the ministries that we support and talked to them. I was one of the younger guys in the room but these guys.
Speaker 1:Hearing them talk, it was very clear that their net worth was hundreds of millions of dollars, and not that it's about money, but the impact that they could have because they had so much more to give is significantly more than what we're able to do, and it just motivates me to not be satisfied, because what we've achieved is far more than what we ever thought possible in probably the first 15 years of our marriage, and it seems to be like to read your own press, basically, and so forcing yourself into bigger and better groups.
Speaker 1:Like John Maxwell says, right, if you're the smartest person in the room, it's time to find a new room. Not that I'm ever the smartest person in the room, but it's just constantly-.
Speaker 2:Not today.
Speaker 1:Not today.
Speaker 2:Just kidding.
Speaker 1:Always looking for that next Level of people. They're gonna force me to.
Speaker 2:But you do need to be in a room that aligns with your values. I don't think you and I would be comfortable because there's plenty of rooms to get into with wealthy people, right, right. That doesn't attract me at all. I don't want to be in a room where it's all about things and stuff.
Speaker 2:What I love about the rooms that we've chosen to put ourselves in is we can enjoy a fun experience at a nice place with you know, some nice things, but it's not the main purpose. The main purpose is creating impact in the world and stewardship, and so the people we spend the time with have that same mindset of. I want to create impact, yes, for my family, but also for my community and then beyond, and they have, they're doing really cool things, which reminds us that, like, we can join with them on some of these things or we have the own, our own things were called to, but it's never about Building a selfish life, which, for us, when we defined uncommon freedom, that was really important that we put in there. It's got to have a kingdom purpose, otherwise, you know, it's a, it's a worthless calling and we're just. We're living for ourselves, and I know that God doesn't honor that awesome.
Speaker 1:All right, friends. Hey, run with lions, upgrade your circle, and we just want to encourage you that, if you.
Speaker 1:Aren't spending time with people that will. If you were to trade spots with them, if you were to trade lies with them, it would it If it wouldn't be an upgrade. It's time for. It's time for some new friends. It's time to upgrade your circle. Invite those people with you, because we don't want to leave people in the dust. But if they're not willing to change, as long you stay tethered to them, it's gonna hold you back. So you just want to invite you, upgrade your circle. Run with lions or lionesses and and continue to strive for uncommon freedom.