Hiring a CEO to Run Things (and Get Life Back)

I actually, I actually by the end of the day I basically abdicated. It was so humiliate and I, you know, I knew that I felt it.

Or because people were mad at you or what made you quit. I, I felt it. I, I just, I got, I, I, I guess I was fragile of, of ego or of ability and I, I just became so easily discouraged. I think, you know, as somebody who, you know, usually I do pretty well at things and I was just like by 3pm on that long hike that day was so clearly not doing it well.

But yeah, you could feel that I just kind of like give, yeah. And, and kind of somebody, some, another couple of guys kind of stepped in to get us to camp and I just, I was so disgusted with myself for not only that night but for days. It was bracing and I was like, it was like I will never, I was so humiliated.

I was like I will, I will never again be so weak. And from, from then it was just such a turning point. And from then on, just if nothing else to, to, to, to avoid feeling such, such humiliation, such disappointment in myself.

It was very motivating. And, and I, and I thereafter I had a couple more turns of being leader as we all did. We cycled through, took turns.

Over the course of this 30 day period, I led much more firmly and not in, in some authoritarian way. I was, I was collaborative and so good, but I wasn't just so fragile and weak. Yeah. And by the end, and then the way this month culminates is the, the group of the two instructors hike back into civilization on their own.

The 12 split into groups of three and over the course of a four day period, each group hikes back in on their own and leaders are elected one to each of the three groups and I was elected one of one of the leaders. So it was this wonderful, you know, resurrection almost, if not to use such a heavy word but, but there's a better word but it Was, you know, it was. I had, I had essentially that.

No, I love that. Yeah. At least of my, of my, my self esteem and, and sense of self and. And so anyway, it was a just a transformative moment of leadership for me in a very young age.

I was 15. Yeah. I wish I had, but 12 years earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not to say that, you know, I have it all figured out, but there are these maybe. Yeah. For some of us who find ourselves in leadership positions here and there in life.

Yeah. These moments where you stiffen the spine for whatever reason. Either maybe that motivation comes from within or from without, but you do it and, and you kind of learn what it, what it feels like to be a proper leader. Yeah. And it is not about popularity.

It never is. No. Thank you for sharing. I sure. I always value when you share personal anecdotes on the show and it's fun to get to hear it right here with you because honestly, I relate deeply and I genuinely wish mine had come a lot earlier because I think a lot of my business buying journey had been harder than it probably would have been had I had some of these, I don't know, difficulties…