Jack, sir, welcome to the show. So good to have you here today.

Thank you, Scott. I'm excited to be with you and to have a great conversation.

Me too. So we're talking about all about mindset today. So here moving or I should say peak performance leadership, which is the podcast name, my company's name is Moving Forward Leadership. So they go hand in hand. I like to talk about leadership in 3 domains. That is leading yourself, leading your team, and then leading your organization. Today, I feel like we're gonna kinda stick in that leading yourself domain, but I'm sure it'll be applicable across the board. Would you not agree? You're, like, violently shaking your head, so I'll take that as agreement.

So first off, like, what do you mean by aliveness aliveness mindset? Like, what does that even mean in the first place?

Yeah. It's something that I'm really passionate about, and, it really means bringing the best version of yourself into your day to day experience. And what I realized over time, Scott, was that most people don't even think about that on a daily basis. And maybe it happens to come like lightning in a bottle. And really my life changed when I became intentional on trying to feel alive every day. And that became a practice of mine, and that becomes something that I work with with the leaders and the teams that I work with is to get them into an aliveness mindset.

That's awesome. And, you know, as you say that, I can just I I feel it, I feel it through the leaders every day, the the ones I talk to, the ones I coach, And there's, like, oh, I'm just dragging. I'm you know, I feel dead here. This play like, I don't see any growth in this place. This place is, you know, a place where people go to die. I've even heard and, you know, you name it all all in between. But we try to you know, as coaches, we try to get their mindset and shift it towards the positive. Right? And I was talking with my team members today about that, and I was like, alright.

We need to shift things to positive. Let's start focusing on the positive because it's just so easy to think about the negative. So the live in this mindset, I'd love to hear more about, you know, what what does this mean? What, you know, what what makes this up? Right? What are the components of it, for the leader out there listening in?

Yeah. Thank you. It really became a realization where I had been running a business for over 20 years. And it was certainly financially profitable and learned a lot, and it was, you know, some really great skills that I picked up. And what we it was a family business, Scott. But what I realized over time is the business, you know, had challenges. And even when we were going doing well is that it didn't really fulfill me. If we had a great deal, if we had a great month of sales, it was certainly nice, but I didn't really get any intrinsic value out of it.

And what I recognized is that what I really valued were my deep relationships and having an impact in people's lives. And so the awareness of how do I bring more joy, more energy, more passion, more aliveness into my day, how do I create that as a practice Became something that not only motivated me a great deal, I saw the impact it had in my own life with my wife, with my kids, with people around me. And I wanted to have others have the same experience. And what I was able to realize is that some of these traits and some of the practices I were doing were transferable. And that was really a big and that became the basis of my practice when I work with leaders. I'm not only here to tell you how to better lead, but how to show up as the best version of yourself every day rather than being brought down or having negative energy about your day in the meetings that you're attending.

There's so much that I love. So let's just go back to the whole the family aspect, and you mentioned that, right, and bringing your best, you know, best of you forward because I don't know how many times, and, like, I felt this in the past too. And talking with the leaders again, like, coach, like, so many of them are like, oh, get home. It's just drained. Like, well, day really starts. Right? You get home to your spouse. If you got kids, you get home to them, and, like, they haven't seen you all day. They don't know what your day is like.