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L. Scott Ferguson: [00:00:00] Time To Shine Today podcast varsity squad. This is Scott Ferguson. I had some fantastic conversation with a good friend of mine, Harrison Tash from Living Water Consulting. Harrison comes from the place of a heart God man some of that I just resonate with really well. And. He really brought it on the mic because he’s authentically relatable like he goes into companies big companies And really helps them really see a vision and but again He comes from a place of trust and love and that really resonated with me And we just had a fun conversation and I cannot wait to bring it to you And if you know anybody or know any business owners or entrepreneurs whatnot that really might need to hear this Please share it with them.

Or if you’d like to like or smash the subscribe button, that’d be awesome as well, because it helps my sponsors and affiliates. So without further ado, here’s my really good friend, Harrison Tash from Living Water Consulting. Let’s level up.

Time to shine today. Podcast Varsity Squad. This is Scott Ferguson and I [00:01:00] have a fellow Midwestern people that know me, you know, I come from the Mitten from Michigan and I got my guy. It’s absolutely levels up companies, large and small. He’s a very ambitious director and leader of a large corporation.

He diagnosed, developed, and led multiple programs, including hiring staff, professional development, recruiting, acquisition, integration, and strategic planning. He’s helped lead company leadership of a 400 million business through the rebirth of their strategic planning and execution. This experience eventually led him to start his own business where he helped successful CEOs and entrepreneurs scale and streamline their businesses so they can have the freedom that they deserve.

And this is my guy, Harrison Tash from Living Water Consulting. Harrison, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself to the Time to Shine Today podcast. What’s your favorite color and why?

Harrison Tash: Man, I gotta say the, the energy you’re bringing, man, is just, it’s rising me up, it’s rising me up. So I know why people, I [00:02:00] know why people are listening to this podcast, including myself, but my favorite color is.

Definitely. Hunter green. Really? Yes.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. Right. Let’s open that one up, man. Why is the hunter green? I mean, if you’re watching a Vimeo or YouTube, this dude’s like should be on the cover of GQ, by the way, man, this guy, he’s like a stud and everything. He could probably rock any color, but why hunter

Harrison Tash: green?

Well, okay. Hunter Green is, is so, I’m an artist. I love the paint. Okay. I do, I do I do a lot of like famous people, so I love, like Einstein and , Frank Sinatra. So I, I just like catch these people who have like an impact on our lives. And so I just love color, but one of my favorite things to do is to literally just look up in the trees and just.

See all the different kinds of greens. I mean, I love that when I’m out in nature. So that’s definitely a piece of it. Yeah. ,

L. Scott Ferguson: and it’s, when we were talking earlier, you’re like, I kind of dig the snow, ? So you’re kind of like a nature guy. I love it, dude. That’s, that’s, yeah, that’s very cool.

So let’s get [00:03:00] to kind of the roots of your Harrison, , like where’d you kind of start? And, , I’m very, really curious. That’s my superpower is curiosity. Is that. Yeah, , you’re an artsy guy, but you’re in the consulting world, right? Yeah so a lot of people don’t really see that I actually help like Artists and stuff like that kind of meet their blind spots, right or , see them and push them But how did an artsy guy?

Really get into and really helping up large powerful ceos cfos in the c

Harrison Tash: suite in the world Yeah, that’s a good question. And you’re exactly right. Like I guess you normally don’t put the two together. But I’ll put it in the words of one of my clients who I’ve worked with for like five years now.

And they’re an amazing company, dancer, concrete design in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Amazing company. Good shout out to them. Go check them out. But one of the, one of the things that he’s always encouraged me when we started work together was, Hey, one of your, one of your best talents. is visually helping people see the problems that they’re going through and [00:04:00] how to actually visually get themselves to a more clear and focused spot with it.

And so I use, yeah, I use a lot of my just my skills within the artist world to be able to show people kind of where they are. So visually. Going through it and finding out where the problems are. So that’s, that’s a big piece of it for sure. Well,

L. Scott Ferguson: that’s strong because like if they can see it, then they can actually come pull towards it.

Right. And for you to help them draw that picture, that’s, that’s amazing brother. So how about your roots? Where you, were you a college guy? Like, like what, what, what’s your story, your background?

Harrison Tash: Yeah, that’s a good question. So, so roots essentially like when I was in college, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do.

And I didn’t want to go to colleges to go to college, but luckily I played soccer. And so I went to college anyways, because honestly, I wanted to be as competitive. I’m a very high competitive person, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, so, , being in that world and, and being able to to compete is what got me through it.

Once I got into my [00:05:00] after, after school, I still didn’t know what I wanted to do, which was, , it’s like where a lot of people are. It’s like, you got to find that passion, all this stuff. All I knew I was passionate about was people. I just love people, right? I love watching them. I love interacting.

I love just knowing like people getting better. So people with my passion. And so I didn’t know how to put that into, , I, so I started going down HR and stuff like that. But anyways I had I had a really good course. In my master’s program, that was about organizational development. And I just saw like, there was just so many things that paralleled to what my passion was.

And that’s how I got into consulting. Eventually it was, I just started helping our company with all these different areas and just realized that like, , you can level up and shore up different areas of a company and small wins equal large success. , over time. So that’s.

L. Scott Ferguson: Spot on man, because like, , it, you became, we, we both can probably agree that value is a limitless commodity, [00:06:00] right?

We can always provide, what I’m saying? I love that you basically said what I kind of coach my squad is inch by inch, it’s a cinch, right? By the yard, it’s hard. Like these companies, whether it’s, let’s give a shout out to Dancer, Concrete Design. If they want it to be , right now it’s just, it’s just not happening, man.

, I didn’t like when you, especially when you deal with, , people even on the personal side where they want to lose weight, it didn’t take them, , two weeks to get 30 pounds overweight. Right. It’s going to be that time. I love that you took the inch by inch. It’s a long, , short steps, long vision.

I love that. So what do you think if you’re starting to work with. a company and you have that discovery, make sure you’re the right horse for the course, right? Let’s say you’re in that, that, that time, that discussion. Is there any secret sauce, if you don’t mind, Sharon Harrison, that you maybe use to help them, , initially find that initial blind spot?

Harrison Tash: Yeah. Yeah. That’s, that’s a great question by the way. I love the rhyming that you have, man, inches of singe, [00:07:00] make sure

L. Scott Ferguson: the creative side that just starts coming out and gets people to catch it, ? So

Harrison Tash: I love it. I love it. Yeah. You know, there, there’s certainly there’s certainly ways to help people find their blind spots, especially when you’re talking to organizationally.

But first you have to start with leadership, right? Yeah. We have a proprietary program called the eight to great, and essentially it breaks it down. But the first four foundational four is leadership, health, compelling vision, purpose, and why, and core values. And so we’ll start right there. Just understanding those four dynamics of your company.

And what we find a lot of times is that companies have not built themselves on a solid foundation, which would be those four things, right? Leadership, health, compelling vision. Their purpose and their core values, if they can build on that, we know that they’re building their company on a solid foundation, but if they’re not, I mean, if that’s, that’s part of the assessment is like, okay, like you’re, you’re, you’re boots on the ground per se, aren’t even [00:08:00] understanding what your, what your vision is for the company.

Right. They can’t even say what values you actually have, or they can’t tell us what’s the purpose behind your company. Cause it can’t be to make money. Right. , there’s a lot of people trying to make money and you got to stand out beside that and you got to have something that drives you, , further than just making a buck and two, what I mean?

Love it, man.

L. Scott Ferguson: So what are the core values over at Living Water? Yeah,

Harrison Tash: good question. I mean, first off, we seek truth, man. That’s what we seek. We seek truth. So beyond anything else, we’re trying to figure out what is the truth in the matter, right? And so we’re not trying to sugarcoat it. But another core value is that we do it in love, right?

Like we, we won’t say it and we won’t do it. Unless we know that we’re going to do it because we want to say it and do it in love. Right. We want to make sure that it’s in that way. But, but honestly all our core values are built on those two. So everything that we do is built on that truth and love, man.

Like we’re seeking it and we’re trying to figure out how to do it. And I know that sounds a little squishy, but at the day,

L. Scott Ferguson: yeah. People need to [00:09:00] hear this. I don’t care if they think they’re too big for it, but , I, I just hearing that you do what you love. In the service of people that love what you do, right?

Cause you, you love helping people and people fricking see that and they’re like, and that’s why you’re successful with that. I love it. So maybe we’re still in that discovery conversation with the decision maker to bring, , living water aboard. Excuse me. Is there any good question that you wish they would ask you,

Harrison Tash: but never do?

, You know what people never ask me is, is how much, how much work will it take? Nobody asked that question. And , I mean, , coming from this business, right? , it takes work. Everybody wants this kind of turnkey solution. They want this like magic button push. And, and I have to force it out of the CEO, out of the president.

And I have to say like, Hey, I just, you haven’t asked this question. But I’m going to tell you right now, this takes work. And so it [00:10:00] costs money, but it also costs your time and energy. And are you willing to put forth the accountability and the change that needs to happen to get to where you want to go?

Yeah. Yeah. So no one’s asking that question.

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. The work that’s involved in that’s what they put in the grind and you help them with, , the manager, the love that love that. So, I mean, You get brought into a company and you’re probably brought in by like a high leader, whether it’s a CEO or the COO, right?

So there’s people below them, right, that are like, I can see the smile creeping up, that are like, why the hell are you bringing in this Harrison dude to level us up? How do you work with that person to really get them on board with the truth and love that you’re really trying to spread through the company to help them level up?

Harrison Tash: Yeah, that’s a, that’s a great question. And you’re exactly right. I mean, it comes into play almost every time. There’s always somebody, whether it’s middle management director [00:11:00] level, or even VP status, like there’s always somebody who disagrees with bringing someone in. And to be honest with you, man, it’s like, it’s like anything else.

It’s how do you build trust and. I mean, everyone knows this, that like when you’re genuine and you’re, and you do have that vulnerability factor to you where you can be truthful I think people respect that. And so it’s about gaining trust fast. Yeah. Like if you can, if you can gain that trust fast and, and here’s some ways that I’ve done it, I’ve certainly been in that situation where we’ve even had like this, the CFO didn’t want me in there, right?

Like this is this something like that happened to me in the last few years. CFO didn’t want me in. Not that they actually said it, but it was like, Hey, if someone, if I know someone doesn’t want me there and I’ll be very upfront with the CEO and I’ll let them know I’m going to seek that person out until I gain some favor and how I’m going to gain favor is I’m going to be truthful.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it and I’m not going to bring you roses to try to cheer you up or whatever. What I’m going to do [00:12:00] is, honestly, I’m going to hit it front on, hit it right at, right at, hit the problem right up at the front and just say, Hey, I feel like there’s a little bit of tension here and it’s normal and I’ll let them know.

Hey, it’s normal. But at the end of the day, we got to figure this out because me and you were going to be working together for a year and it’s already signed on the dotted line

L. Scott Ferguson: and I’m pretty much paid dude. So I love that you didn’t make it a competition with him and you made a collaboration synergy.

That’s that’s amazing, brother, because that’s the first thing that I kind of, I seek that person out. I look for the rolled eyes in the room. I look for the slump, , if I’m brought into a company, you look for the, , that dude. And I don’t be like you said, I don’t try to be his buddy, his best friend, but I try to get him on board with everything I’m doing, , and get super curious with that.

Cause man, you get that one person on board. It’s game on. Right. It’s, it’s, it’s there. So, yeah. Have you ever seen the movie Back to the Future?

Harrison Tash: Oh man, of course. Who has?

L. Scott Ferguson: Can I ask your age [00:13:00] first,

Harrison Tash: if you don’t mind, sir? So, I’m, I’m actually 36,

L. Scott Ferguson: so, okay. Yeah, dude, you live like you’re 27. I

Harrison Tash: know, man. I know. It’s a blessing and a curse.

L. Scott Ferguson: Never lose. I’m not 51 and I get, and I don’t get 36 anymore, but I, I’m not like the typical

Harrison Tash: 51. Right. Scott? I would’ve told you. You look, you look no older than 45, my

L. Scott Ferguson: man.

Let’s get that DeLorean with Marty McFly, right? Let’s go back to the double deuce, the 22 year old Harrison. What kind of knowledge nuggets, that’s what we call him here at TimeShine today, but what kind of knowledge nuggets might you drop on him? Not so much to change anything because your journey is pretty awesome.

You’ve experienced some really cool stuff, but to maybe shorten his learning curve, level up and blast through maybe just a little bit quicker.

Harrison Tash: Yeah. Yeah. First, first I’m going to ask what are those blind spots, right? beCause when, when somebody is, whether it’s the CEO trying to rush into something to get some quick change, or it’s, it’s someone at the VP level, who’s introducing me to the [00:14:00] top level to get it, , take, , to get the foot in the door.

Either way you look at it. The first thing I’m going to ask is, is when we’re one on one like that is, Hey, what are your blind spots? And to be honest with you, most people know a few, but you can’t, you normally can’t name three. Right off the top of your head, it takes you a little bit to think about it.

And the reason is because we never look back. We don’t, we don’t reflect very well as humans. It takes time to reflect. Right. So blind spots is definitely going to be a first spot because I want to know first off, and I’m going to write this down right away. I’m going to put it in the notes, whatever they think their blind spots are.

I’m going to put a question mark behind it, not a period, because I’m going to figure out if that’s true or not. Love that

L. Scott Ferguson: dude. So who in your life then holds you most accountable?

Harrison Tash: Good question. Well, if you’re married, who that is? Lia .

L. Scott Ferguson: Lia.

Harrison Tash: I love it. Yeah, for sure. I mean, my wife definitely holds me accountable.

But, , I have a few different groups of guys. I have , I have a bible study group of guys Nice, nice. That we do a [00:15:00] Bible study with. And they’re, they’re always asking the great questions, , like, Hey, Harrison, where’s your eyes? Right? Like, yeah where, where are you looking these days?

? But I also have a, a great group of guys that do, we do the Murph every Saturday. Well, what I will say is, is that this summer was a little hard for me, so I didn’t do it every Saturday, but , 90 percent of the year, we’re doing a Murph every Saturday. Right. Love it. And so if you, if you haven’t been through that, , you put on no Maddie would be

L. Scott Ferguson: happy.

You’re doing that brother. Yeah. He was a young buck in the military. Yeah, I know his family.

Harrison Tash: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. Yes. Great. That’s awesome, man. And so yeah, we do that every Saturday, but there’s a lot of accountability that happens in that, right? It’s like when you don’t show up and someone texts you and says, Hey man, where you been at, , it’s like, Oh yeah, I probably should have showed up.

But what I say is it’s like, it’s, if you go back to atomic habits, it’s habit stacking, right? So if you, if you’re disciplined with your, with your physical self, all of a sudden your mental discipline starts. Starts, , rising to the top. And some people say you need the one [00:16:00] before the other. And what I think for me, it’s been just constant ladder approach with both, right?

Yeah. So there’s, there’s that group. And then also, , I have I have very close. Mentors who, who , we meet up monthly and I get that kind of accountability through them. And so one of them actually my high school principal, and then my dad,

L. Scott Ferguson: so brother, what I love about you is you love that you live that plus equals minus like, like, I think that every day Harrison wakes up and finds people that he respects and kind of wants to emulate, right.

That’s your plus the equals is like what we’re doing right now, man. We’re wrapping, we’re bouncing stuff off each other. Right. But I also see you sending the elevator down, man. And bringing somebody up to you, that’s the minus. And that is a super impressive. I mean,

Harrison Tash: that’s, that’s awesome. Scott, let me, , where you’re at in life when, when someone asked you to be their mentor and then it hits you, you’re like, Oh wait, one, one, I’m getting old.

I’m starting to get a little gray hair. Oh no, I’m getting old. You’ve actually, you, [00:17:00] you had so much humility and I think that you’re in the same spot. You have so much humility where you keep looking up to people and you’re like, wait, you think I’m a mentor? I’m still getting mentored, man. What do you mean?

Mentor me.

L. Scott Ferguson: My mentor is like, listen, Fergie, the more you mentor, the more immortal you be right. Because if I can pass that on, And pass it on. Those people are going to pass it on, , because all I’m doing is even with my book that I’m writing, it’s called regurgitate, right? Basically I’m writing about people that I’ve interviewed, which you’ll be in a chapter as well.

Cause it’s going to have a chapter for every interview, but I’m regurgitating what I take away from it. It’s no different than Tony Robbins, regurgitating Jim Rohn, who regurgitated Earl Nightingale all the way back to like Seneca, right? So all we’re doing is we’re taking it, putting our flavor on it. I love that, that you do that.

So Harrison, if people. If people really knew Harrison, they would know what.

Harrison Tash: I think I kind of alluded to it before, but I just love people, man. I love getting people together. I love laughing. There’s, [00:18:00] there’s nothing better than laughing for your soul. I mean, I just love it. And, and , just, just the emotional attachment between humans.

It’s just, I just love it. Whether you’re crying, hugging, laughing, , whatever it is, having fun. So, so if people know me, they, they would say that, but here, here’s a, here’s a funny one, I guess. I think at my funeral, there’s going to be like 60 voicemails replayed. Because whether you’re a client, a friend or a future friend, I’m going to leave you a two minute voicemail and it is going to be the most random, or I shouldn’t say yeah, it’s going to be the most random voicemail you’ve ever received.

I read it. I read an article not so long ago saying that they’re going to get rid of voicemail and I was like, I almost had a panic attack. I was like, wait, that’s like my, that’s like my outlet. What would I do? Yeah. It might be an Irish man that calls you. It could be a, just a crazy client. I’m acting as a client for you.

It doesn’t matter. I just love leaving voicemails, man. I don’t know why. That’s

L. Scott Ferguson: awesome. I’m notorious for the videos, , cause I’ll you’ll, you’ll get one today. Just [00:19:00] a spoiler alert. Like after we record, dude, I usually walk my dog or something. And I’m like, I talked to people that way. That’s awesome.

That’s awesome. So how do you want your dash remembered, man, that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date, hopefully it’s way down the line, but your life date and death date, how does Harrison want his dash remembered?

Harrison Tash: Well, hopefully it has something to do with loving God first and loving people.

Second, I mean, I obviously, , living water comes from a faith background. I’m just going to ask that you take him. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, the, the true living water obviously is what I want to point people back to, so Yeah, that’s that’s definitely it. But , other than that, I mean, I hope that people would say I was a good father and husband and, and was truly a inspiration in some way.

Because I believe that most. I think everyone has the potential to be an inspiration to somebody, right? Absolutely. And, and, , in a world where everyone’s trying to seek for fame, why don’t we try to seek fame in our own families first, right? [00:20:00] And let’s, let’s try to be the people in our own families want to be.

And, and that goes for me too. Like I want to be certain pieces of everyone around me, right? I think Sylvester Stallone said, I’m only a sum of everyone that I’ve ever met.

L. Scott Ferguson: I don’t know if you watched that documentary, but it was pretty awesome,

Harrison Tash: dude. I haven’t yet. It’s on, it’s on the list. All I can say

L. Scott Ferguson: is that he, he wrote every movie by a part of his life.

Like I’m not giving much away here at all, but Rocky III, remember at the beginning, he was liked by everybody and then he got brought down by Mr. T. It was like what happened in his life and they parallel it to his life and it was easy for him to write the movie. And how an old friend brought him back up, Apollo, it’s, it was crazy, dude.

It’s a great doc, man. And he lives like just right down the street. Kind of man, like, I don’t know, like six blocks away here in North Palms where you got vacations. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. He moved over from the left coast over here now in the North

Harrison Tash: Pole. So they all [00:21:00] do. They all do.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. So what do you think people?

Misunderstand the most about Harrison.

Harrison Tash: Oh, wow. You know what? I don’t, I don’t know if I’ve if I’ve been asked that. I think you’re pretty transparent, dude. Yeah. Yeah. That’s a really good question. One of the things that I help that, that I think helps with finding your blind spots or, or those characteristic maybe flaws, or just like you said, like people misperceive it It’s certainly like the disc live style.

Shout out to live styles was grown in our area here. Yeah. , these, these kind of assessments that help you in that working genius, , Patrick, now that’s really good. So if, if yeah, to answer that question, it would be this. I am one of those guys that are super relatable. And so , you’re going to have a very friendly Harrison most of the time.

But what happens is. That I’m also my personality after learning this through my personality assessments, my personality is also shut the door and get stuff done. Right? Yeah. And so I might be the most [00:22:00] happy person in the world, but there might be days where I don’t want to see a soul because I got stuff to get done.

And so, , it’s, it’s hard because I might walk past somebody that I wouldn’t really say hi to. And they think that something’s wrong, but nothing’s wrong. It’s just, yeah. I’m in, I’m in do it, right? Yeah. I’m locked

L. Scott Ferguson: in. Yeah. People don’t see that to even get to your level that people don’t see like, okay, let’s, let’s make the soccer analogy.

I mean, how many corner kicks did you practice in your life? How many people watched you practice? Nobody watched nothing.

Harrison Tash: No one watched, but yeah, you were there practicing.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. We’re in there drilling at 5m on the jujitsu mats at 51 years old. I’m helping these kids drill, drill, drill. No one’s seeing that, but we go to, , IBJJF in a couple of weeks.

They get to show out and I’m telling that it doesn’t matter what people see here and I love that you would, you will admit and own it basically be authentically relatable to a lot of people, man, with that, because they grind in the dark people. Yeah, that’s

Harrison Tash: awesome. That’s [00:23:00]

L. Scott Ferguson: awesome. Sure. What is your then definition of a life well lived?

Harrison Tash: Man, , earlier we said for, for God and for people, but if I want to elaborate on that a little bit more I think God made us to work, man, in a culture where people are trying to figure out how not to work and get paid the same amount of money as people who are working. I just think that a life worth lived is, yeah, forgotten for people, but also I think it’s, it’s one where you’re exploring where your talents and skills are and sharpening those day after day and trying to get better, , Proverbs 27,

L. Scott Ferguson: right?

Yeah, man. Oh, as

Harrison Tash: iron, as iron sharpens iron, one person sharpens another. Yeah. Yeah. I love

L. Scott Ferguson: Proverbs because one, the wisest man that ever lived that God gave wisdom to wrote that book, , wrote most of the chapters and they’re almost all of them. And there’s 31 chapters. So if you read a chapter a day, you can finish proverbs.

So I read it, just I recycle it, man. So it’s always first thing is proverbs, bro. . [00:24:00] Time To Shine Today podcast varsity squad. We are back and Harrison, you and I will hook up one day.

I’m going to get you on, I actually have a couple of companies in mind, actually, for you to speak to, but also maybe a little on the speaking circuit, because you got to rock some stages, brother. And we can meet and talk about some of these questions, probably 15, 20 minutes on each one of them. You might even leave me a two minute voicemail, one of these questions.

Right. But today with our lightning round, brother, you get five seconds with no explanations, and I promise you, they can all be answered that way. All right.

Harrison Tash: Ready to level up? I’m ready, man. Let’s do it.

L. Scott Ferguson: What is the best leveling up advice Harrison’s ever

Harrison Tash: received? Yeah, plan or that’s, I have like so many ways of going, but for, I would say think before you speak and plan before you

L. Scott Ferguson: act.

Love it. Love it. Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success.

Harrison Tash: Get up at 5 a. m and exercise and read the Bible moving. Yes.

L. Scott Ferguson: Love that. So you see me kind of walking down the street or maybe it were an event. You’re [00:25:00] like, man, Fergie’s looks like he’s in his doldrums just a little bit, man.

And like what book other than the good book would you hand me to maybe love me? And what book really sparked you?

Harrison Tash: Okay. Good question. I’m going to go with 40 X,

L. Scott Ferguson: 40 X, 40

Harrison Tash: X. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: Got it. Love it. What’s your most commonly used emoji when you text

Harrison Tash: high fives,

L. Scott Ferguson: love it. Nicknames growing up.

Harrison Tash: HArry, I love

L. Scott Ferguson: it.

Love it. Any hidden talent or superpower that you have that really no one knows about? Well, until now,

Harrison Tash: I think I have a great ability to help people really solve their own personal problems. Love that.

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. Chess checkers and monopoly. Check chess for sure. Just gotcha. Headline for your life.

Harrison Tash: Yeah.

Love God, love people, truth and love.

L. Scott Ferguson: That’s it, baby. Any superstitions or you pass [00:26:00] on those?

Harrison Tash: How I, yeah, I don’t think he doesn’t want to admit it. I don’t, I don’t know if I do or not. I’m trying to make. All right, yeah, circle back. I have

L. Scott Ferguson: one. Yeah, I don’t think I don’t know if I have one. Love it. Go to ice cream flavor.

Harrison Tash: Man. Yeah. Vanilla. Gotcha.

L. Scott Ferguson: Me too. Actually. So there’s a, there’s a sandwich called Harry, the tank sandwich, man, build that

Harrison Tash: sandwich for me.

Build that a sandwich for you. Oh, that’s, that’s certainly the guy, a nice A nice burger for sure on it. You said sandwich, but it’s got a, it’s got burger meat on it. So it’s a burger with some, yeah, yeah. With some bacon and candy. There you go. Yep. And then it’s, yeah, it’s gotta be like some sort of like candy laced bacon.

You know what I mean? Like it’s gotta be, yeah, for sure. But the, the bun is like that. It’s kind of like that Italian bread. It’s a little bit harder, right? So it doesn’t just fall apart. [00:27:00]

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it, man. Good stuff. Favorite charity and organization like to give your time or

Harrison Tash: money to destiny rescue is one of my favorite organizations.

I, some of my family actually works for them. And after seeing what they do is just, it’s amazing.

L. Scott Ferguson: What do let’s elaborate a little bit. What do they do?

Harrison Tash: Yeah. So they they help young women, just women, I should say out of out of human trafficking. Okay. That’s amazing. Around the world.

Around the world. They’re, they’re all over the place. Mostly in, in Asian countries and they are 80, 80 some percent of what you give go straight to the cause. That’s

L. Scott Ferguson: beautiful, brother. That’s awesome. And last question. What is the best decade of music, 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s?

Harrison Tash: Oh, man, I’m going to go, I’m going to go seventies.

All right, man.

L. Scott Ferguson: You know what? Eighties was my jam because I grew up, I graduate 1990, right? So like eighties was my jam. So, , you had the invasion of, , you two and Duran Duran or whatever. And you had the [00:28:00] rap and big hair don’t care. But like, if I’m editing a podcast, right, when I’m listening to yours and starting to build notes on it, I had the seventies on because the seventies is the best storytelling, like.

Era ever from Croci to the Eagles to like, , everything. Yeah. Yeah. So

Harrison Tash: I love, yeah, for sure. Eagles was on my list for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I don’t know where Queen, is, queen fit into that or no? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, so Queen. Yeah. Eagles, I mean, yeah. There’s so many good. Yeah. But I don’t know where CCR fits into that, but I love CCR too.

Oh, yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: CCR was like late sixties, early seventies, man. Absolutely. Yeah, everyone down on the river. Like it’s, it’s everything’s storytelling and I love it. That’s fantastic. So how can we find your brother?

Harrison Tash: Yeah. So you can find me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a great place to, to look Harrison Tash again at living water consulting.

But , my email is Harrison Tash at consult living water. com. But those two, yeah, those two ways are probably the best way to get [00:29:00] ahold of me. And, and I’m always on LinkedIn. So that’s, that’s a great way, but obviously we all are checking our emails once a day, at least. So sure.

L. Scott Ferguson: Absolutely, man.

We got that. So if you don’t mind, leave us with one last knowledge nugget we can take with us, internalize and take action on.

Harrison Tash: Okay. Let me, yeah, let me think about that. One of the things that Henry Ford said, and I don’t know if anybody’s heard this quote, but I’m sure, I’m sure the audience has, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

You’re right, baby. And so, what I’ll leave you with is that that is so true, and it’s become more and more evident that whatever we put in front of us, if we think we can actually reach it, we’ll reach it. Love it. And I don’t, I mean, I think some people think like oh, I could never become a millionaire or I could never, , reach the dream of being that weight and being that kind of in shape or whatever it is.

or I could never reach that position in this organization. And it’s exactly the way Henry Ford [00:30:00] says, it’s like, whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re, you’re exactly

L. Scott Ferguson: right. What you think is real is your reality, brother. And I love that, man. That’s, that’s beautiful. And squad, we just had a super fun conversation.

Like my good friend here, Harrison Tash, who, , big shout out to Dancer Concrete Design up there. Cause he, , they kind of told him that his best talents are visually helping people see the problems through a vision and help them guide. Right. Through their blind spots and really focus on what it needs to be done.

, observing people is, , Harrison’s passion. That’s how he really showed up and showed out with his value. , he tells companies that inch by inch, , kind of, it’s essentially, he’s like, listen, we’re going to work towards this. We’re always going to be working towards that goal.

And that leadership is a compelling vision. Your purpose and why and core values and find the found it and find solid foundation. That’s just kind of four things that they do over at Living Water. And then. Also, like if you’re going to start working with a coach or consultant, ask them, dude, how much work is it going to take?

How much am I going to have to really put in this? How present [00:31:00] am I going to be? And Harrison really remind us when you’re valuable and genuine, you’re going to gain trust a heck of a lot quicker. , if you have a confidant, ask them, , what do you feel my blind spots are? , if you can’t find it, , like my good friend, , Leah Woodford would say, , get your asking here, , start asking people will that you trust will tell you that’s , the accountability comes a lot from Harrison’s wife, which is shout out to her as well.

And that Harrison reminds us that, , you discipline with the physical is going to help with your mental. So get up, get moving, get hydrated, get lit, get out in the sunshine. If you’re happy, if you’re lucky enough to have it like I do, , down here. So I really see Harrison living a life of intention and not does it for the intention, not the attention.

He’s not like, look at me, look at me, dude. He’s about. Love God, love people. That’s where living water came from. This guy is planting trees. He’s probably never going to sit in the shade of because he is authentically relatable. , life well lived to Harrison is, , [00:32:00] God made us to work in a culture where there are takers.

So get out there and work and you can earn whatever you want. Set no limits on yourself. A huge shout out also to destiny rescue for the human tracking trafficking, check it out in our show notes below. We’ll throw a shout out in there. For you to catch up with them. And lastly, from the Motor City, Henry Ford, if you think you can or you can’t either way, you’re right.

So just know what you, you are limitless and get out there and get it. And that’s what my good friend Harrison does. He levels up his health. He levels up his wealth. He’s humble and he’s hungry. He’s handsome devil. He’s earned his varsity squad letter here in time to shine today. Thank you so much for coming on, brother.

I absolutely love your guts.

Harrison Tash: Yeah. Thank you, Sky. And I want to say thank you for your service that you did. I know Veterans Day has just passed. So a special thank you for you as well. Thanks, brother. We’ll

L. Scott Ferguson: chat soon. All right.

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