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Hey this is Luke Wade and if you really want to learn how to level up your life you should be listening to the time to shine today podcast with my good friend got Ferguson, time to shine today podcast squatter, the Scott Ferguson, we are Episode 143 that kind of shifted gears with the kind of people that I usually interviewed usually coaches, therapists, counselors and whatnot. But I had to bring on Luke Wade, from the KC crew and ally sports, because what he did during COVID, in the city of Kansas City, Missouri, it just blows my mind what he’s actually doing. And I’m just so impressed with what he did. And I had to get an interview with him. So my really good friend Jason Holzer made sure that we got connected and I could lay down an interview. And basically what he is, is, you know, he’s a community creator, it’s in this website and his company name, but he, during COVID, when it shut down, he still kept community events going. So obviously, we weren’t able to play sand volleyball, kickball, softball, pickleball or anything. But what he did is he set up at home community events, which is blows my mind how he did it. So without further ado, here’s my really good friend Luke Wade, from the KC crew and ally sports.

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Besides today, barsi swatted at Scott Ferguson. And we’re gonna go from the top, I just had some technical difficulties. So I’m just going to kind of redo this whole interview. From the start, I have a really good friend Luke Wade from Kansas City, which I didn’t really even tell him my favorite player growing up is George Brett, which he’s like a legend there in Kansas City. And actually, he helped me out a little bit of my batting stance back in high school down in Cocoa Beach, Florida, with Phil Wilson’s show me baseball camp, and it’s really cool. To have Luke on. He’s a community creator. What he does, is he will go into communities and set up events for people to have fun, he moved into community didn’t, he didn’t feel he felt that he could fit in anywhere, but there was no events going on. And that’s what Luke does. And he is a little bit different from what I usually interview with coaches and mindset people to help you level up. But one of the reasons why I really wanted to bring Luke on is he’s not only as a community creator, but he’s doing this during the COVID times, still, he actually is blown up his business. He pivoted shift whatever the the cool name is for it now to really level up. And I mean, he is an army guy, which we kind of joke around. I mean, Navy got the best of them this past year, but they did win that big football game with me being a Navy guy, but he’s military. And that means the world to me. And again, I say he’s an army veteran, a computer programmer start an extremely popular adult sports and events company, the KC crew by eight years ago in 2012, which has had over 70,000 League event participants in eight years in Kansas City alone, and he’s planting seeds across the United States. So listen up to how he’s doing this. Lucas use KC crew success to venture into other business verticals such as software, food and beverage concepts that work and support Casey crew as well as help other companies. Luke now helps other others create thriving communities and emotional experiences through in person and virtual events, sports partnerships and philanthropy through his company, the community creator, the website is the community crater.com it’s in the show notes. But listen to this whole interview first before you go check them out. Luke, welcome to the squad. And if you could

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tell us your favorite color and why.

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Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me, Scott. I appreciate it. I’m excited to be here. And thanks for that great introduction. Yeah, so I’ve always had a trouble trouble picking my favorite color, but I would say depending I would say like, is it what I’m wearing or what I’m looking at, you know, so I like if I’m wearing a color, it’s gonna be black, you know, the whole swimming thing for us big guys out there. But if I’m looking at colors, I like blue and red, which worked out I ended up in Kansas City with the Royals and the chiefs. So that worked out pretty well. But I would say the blue reds my favorite color, Love it. Love it. What emoji Do you use the most when you’re texting? Um, probably the laugh out loud one the crying face emoji. One or the upright one. The upright. All right. both eyes. Crying laughing Love it. Love it. Sorry, bandwidth. Good. Thanks for coming on, brother. Man. It’s been a while and we got introduced to a mutual friend Jason holds a great guy. Look at him like a little brother for reals. Give us the origins where you started. Maybe you should kind of moved in Kansas City find yourself that lost, but we’re looking for stuff to do and really couldn’t find it. Sure. Yeah. So I when I moved to Kansas City, I actually lived down south. You know, a lot of people don’t know this. The Kansas City is on both sides of the Missouri and Kansas State line. I always say the good parts are in Missouri, but there’s a lot of great stuff happening in Kansas and more and more happening over there. So when I moved here, actually living Kansas, but I ended up finding a job downtown. And so I eventually moved downtown Kansas City. You know, being a young professional, 2526 27 years old, downtown was talking about how cool it was, there were a lot of cool things coming, but there wasn’t a lot to do. So I ended up finding myself playing in softball leagues and sand volleyball leagues to meet people in Kansas City, because I really didn’t know anybody. But I was having to drive 30 minutes outside the city to do that. And it just didn’t make sense of why is downtown supposed to be this new cool place for young professionals. And there’s really not a lot going on yet. And so to be honest, I didn’t really think of all that until after I started my business, Casey crew, and I didn’t even think of it as a business. I really just thought I was starting a softball league for me and my friends, I stumbled into entrepreneurship, even though now that I look back, I realized I was really grim for my whole life. And almost everybody in my family is an entrepreneur now. So but nobody called it that back then. But anyway, more of the story is I essentially just rented a softball field told some friends, and we had about 1000 people sign up the first year. And all I did was look at every league I played in, and I just took the opposite of what I didn’t like, you know, just little things is like asking the official to score and him not wanting to tell me and just telling me, we’re up by three and kind of being a, you know, an asshole about it. And so I said, you know, let’s get rid of that, let’s put a scoreboard on the back of the fence, and that you can flip it, nobody has to ask for and just little things like that. And then I also started training our own officials rather than hiring the 25 to $30 an hour officials who went to official school and all they care about the game, I hired people based on their personalities. And if they liked people, and they liked having fun, and then I taught them how to be an official and taught them how to umpire because at the end of the day, and recreational sports leagues for adults, nobody’s going pro, everybody’s out there to have a good time. And so now after eight years, I’ve realized maybe it was about year five or six, I realized that I’m after the kids who didn’t make the team, I want the kids to play for fun. They don’t care if they win or lose. And yes, we all care if we want to lose, there’s a competition. But at the end of the day, these people just want to get outside, have fun, see the city and meet new people. And that’s what I’m after. And at the end of the day, there’s more of them than there are the people who are going to show up every week try and win, argue, yell, compete and fight. We don’t want them in our leagues, we actually put in a no douchebag clause in all of our rules that say, hey, if that’s you, were not the lead for you go somewhere else. So that’s kind of how it started. I actually ran it full time, part time for three years. So I I’m a was a web developer and software programmer at heart. I love my day job. So when I started, Casey crew was just meant to be for fun. And then about three years in someone actually offered me money for the business. And I said, Oh, this is a business. It’s worth something brought somebody in evaluated it, they told me is actually worth you. Oh, yeah, they offered me a no, it was essentially, someone offered me a bunch of money for the business. And I brought someone into evaluate it. And it was turns out it was worth two to three times what they had offered me. And that kind of flipped the switch in my head to say, Wow, I didn’t know Casey crew was a business, I could actually make money at this. And so I quit my job and been trying to figure out how to run a business ever since. So what kind of support system because you’re having these huge Events, Small small events, huge events. What How did you bring in support system to follow your ideologies with how you wanted it run? Could you vault Fon, you’re about getting out there. Exercise is great for everybody. I’m sure there’s different levels to the different leagues. But how did you find people to kind of come in and help you support? This? is one dudes not gonna be able to handle everything? Right?

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Yeah, in the beginning, it started out as just me. But yeah, I slowly found people who believed in what I did. And people kept saying how much they love Casey crew, and soon it grew from my friends to do half the city, you know, we, we have we have now I’ve almost 20,000 people a year, not half the city, but 20,000 people a year playing our leagues or come to our events. And so, you know, it’s obviously more than my friends. I’d like to call them all my friends. But people just kept saying like, this is so cool. This is so fun. Like, do you need help, can I help you. And so that’s how it really started. And then we obviously started, you know, advertising and hiring people and training them. And then really the support system, I eventually, when I was working part time with KC crew, I wanted to keep my day job. And so I actually built the software to manage all of my leagues. Because I saw it as a way to, hey, I can keep my leagues running more efficiently while I can keep my day job and not have to worry about it. So that turned into a business of its own. At one point, I essentially got to where I was managing 8000 people a year playing sports by myself through the software. So that’s grown into its own business, I now have multiple platforms and investors. And you know, that’s part of the reason we’re able to scale and launch in new cities, which we’re working on right now. And the big idea behind the software, it’s I’m really excited about it. It has a global account, meaning that once we launched in multiple cities, if you play in your city and travel to another city, it will know that and offer you an opportunity to connect you to a league or team in that city. So if you play softball in Kansas City, I fly to Florida, it pops up my phone says hey, there’s a team tonight that needs a team you want to need to play or you want to sub. So now you’re playing with people in different cities and sports you love and that’s the best networking on the planet. So that’s kind of the big idea around the software. As we expand to different cities. We’re going to start testing that software all through the community creator.

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It’s actually its own brand. So Casey crew is like the sports analyst. platform. And then it’s called league ally is essentially the software platform for leagues and using my military background, obviously with ally there. And then now, I’ve actually helped and we’re working on building our own facilities and our own food and beverage concepts. And so I had an investor last year who built took an took over an old arena and turn it into a giant Sports Complex with 12 basketball courts is called hyvee Arena here, and I was a big part of that we office out of there, we run most of their leagues. Well, they invested in my league ally company to build a facilities solution called facility ally. So now we’ve got both of those up and running. We just launched one last year in the one year, year before so we’re getting ready to expand we have investors coming on we’re getting ready to start selling that nationwide by the end of the year.

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Is the the leagues are they pay leagues?

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Yes, so all of our leagues are paid to play. It depends on what sport you play in, we have cornhole pickleball. We even have a karaoke league. But we also our biggest sports are sand volleyball, softball, kickball, and basketball. So it depends on what sport you’re playing what level like you said, a competition, where you’re playing at, we offer them pretty much all over the city and kind of our niche is working with public and private entities. A lot of people in my industry, look at Parks and Rec departments as a competitor. I look at them as a partner, they own all the fields. They’re not using half of them, how do we work with them to grow those areas and create economic development, which I didn’t know what that meant till somebody told me I was doing it. But essentially, that’s what we do now is we drive young people. And we’re getting into old and young as well. But for now, it’s adults, our core demographics 25 to 34 years old. And we just look at parts of the city that are growing or need to grow and have opportunities. We drive people there through marketing. So we’re a one stop shop, we work with the parks and rec department or the private entity, we rent the courts, we market we advertise we plan, we run the equipment and we write them a check at the end of the day, that’s going to ask for these perks and racks. They’re really governed by you know, government and whatnot. But did they put up much? are they putting up much resistance to you right now? Now, most of the ones we work with have not they’ve been absolutely amazing. Um, you know, we’ve worked with three or four so far, I’m actually I just gave a big presentation to 600 Parks and Rec departments last week. So I’m slowly getting the word out there that the whole idea of the community creator, which actually came last it was Casey crew, my software and now the community creator was, how do I teach others what to do like I do in Kansas City? Because, you know, ideally, I’m not going to start a rec league in every single city, managing officials, whether equipment feels like just a big nightmare. But if I can teach others to do what I do, I can reach more people faster. And so the idea is like, how do I teach Parks and Rec to start a successful pickleball league or cornhole League, or whatever it may be? That was the original idea. And then, right when I launched, the community creator COVID happened. So I said, nobody’s going to want to learn how to start a pickleball league or a corner league when they can’t have anybody in person. So I switched. Luckily, we were able to pivot and start doing virtual events and have a huge success. So now I’m teaching others how to do that as well tell us about those virtual events because, you know, time to shine today, we’re all about really adapting and overcoming, you know, this kind of a military thing where everyone’s saying, pivot and shift, you know, a lot of people will make excuses instead of adjustment. So what did you really when you took a step back on March 17, or whenever you guys went into your kind of quarantine? What, what was your first inclination? What was your first step? And tell us about the challenges? Yep. So the first step, I remember clear day is actually March 15. For us. We were trying to finish our winter season. So we had one week left, it was Sunday, March 15. If we could get through that week, we’d be done with winter, and then we’d have a month before our next season started. So we were like, let’s just get through this week, I was standing at one of our pickleball leagues just overseeing a couple things. I play in those as well. So they’re a huge fan. I just wanted my men’s league last night. So I’m pretty I don’t win, but I play

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but

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yeah, it’s most of the time. It’s fun. I get my butt kicked by people twice my ad and they’re like, Yeah, yep, yep. So but yeah, so I was standing there. And I saw the notification come down and said no more than 10 people in person, etc, etc, the quarantine and I just remember my jaw dropping and walking out of the arena, thinking what are we going to do? And at that time, you know, it shutdowns has already started to happen, other cities on the coast. So I started seeing a lot of my friends sharing things to do from home during quarantine things to, you know, ways to attend events online. And so we just put together a website within that next day of all those options, top 10 things to do home from home during Coronavirus. And that was my first thought because I was like, I don’t know what else we’re going to do. All of my sports and events are in person, you know, we have 1000 person grilled cheese festival every year. So how are we going to do that? And then all of my software depends on people playing in person. So how are we going to use that so all of my business essentially shut down. And my wife and I actually run the business together. Now she was an X ray tech was able to leave her job four years ago, and I’ve been absolutely amazing to build our life together. And we just sat down. We’re like, maybe we could do something virtual, like how do we create fun and community, you know, virtually. And so we went through a couple ideas and we’re just like, Well, everybody loves Bingo. Anybody of any age can play. So maybe we try an online Virtual Bingo. And we launched it on Tuesday. And it was supposed to be that Friday during happy hour. When we launched it, we had no idea what we’re gonna do. We ended up taking an old ping pong balls and writing the numbers on a big boat bingo board on the back of our whiteboard wall, set up the camera, and I put on a funny jacket and I just essentially host bingo, we mixing trivia. And then we just tips and tricks along the way of saying people’s names, you know, calling out on their video like, hey, Scott, I see you’re drinking a, you know, a drink. What do you got there? What’s your favorite beverage, like just little things like that talking to every single person made it such a big impact. People were like, this is the most fun I’ve had in a month like, we started seeing that we just knew we were onto something. So we slowly started testing other ideas. We did a dinner and Netflix where we teach you how to cook a dinner from a movie and then watch movie together. We did networking, we’ve done a trivia murder mystery. And we really done really well with our online virtual events. Now we’re expanding that I just did a brewery tasting event this weekend with a radio station that had over 300 people sign up. It was a huge success. We did brew tastings from home, you actually went and picked up your beer the day before. And then from home got brew tastings and tips from local brewers. So we’re expanding that we’re actually working on a virtual grilled cheese fest instead of our in person one. So at the end of the day, there’s a lot of people are scared and confused and stuck at home, they don’t know what to do. So if we can give them opportunities to engage and interact from home to alleviate some of the pressure and issues they’re having. That’s what we’re trying to do. Love that man. So like you’re adapting and overcoming to the situation now that How about like members with you know, are? What is their views on? Getting back to the the new norm, I guess you could say, Are people stoked to get back in person events through the creative community? Or are people hesitant? Are people asking or what’s the Yes, verbiage going on? that people are definitely asking. So we that we started all of our virtual events in March, we’ve been unbelievably successful. We are booked almost twice a day, every day with trivia and bingo events. We booked on weekends now we’re getting booked to help other people do what we’re doing now. Like I said, I’m training other people. And that’s been going on since March. So that’s the whole reason we’re doing so successful. Now as we started early, it takes a while for people to realize what it is well, along the way, I was actually able to work with the city government, and the parks and rec departments that I work with, to create a plan to get back to playing in person. And it’s tough for us. Like I said earlier, we’re on both sides of Missouri, we play in Kansas, and Kansas. So we had to work with both state regulations, both city governments, and both overland are both Parks and Rec departments to figure out what they would approve. And we luckily were able to do that by the end of like right at the end of May. And so we launched our registration for in person sports, and we just started with things we could do socially distance, we’ve done pickleball cornhole, softball, kickball, and sand volleyball, we didn’t bring back our basketball or indoor volleyball, remembering back a lot of things you can’t really, you know, save on kind of invitation procedures, we doubled our staff, we have different social distancing, where the teams have to stay over here, while the games are finishing here, they leave this way we clean everything and bring everybody in. So we put together a plan that the city and all the parks and rec approved, we were able to actually start our summer league at the end of June here. And so do your questions. Yes, people are ready to come back. But we’re about 50% of what we normally are. We normally have 4000 people playing a week in the summers, we got about 2000. So that’s not a complaint. I’m extremely ecstatic about that. Because I know there’s people out there that can’t do that. They’re completely shut down. No one’s working with them to do anything. So I’m happy we’re able to do that. But I think it’s a mixture. People are scared. And some people are just ready to come back. Are you a membership site or a league by league?

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It’s some we’re growing into some membership options. But right now, it’s if you want to play on Tuesday nights softball for the summer season, you pay, you play for seven weeks, and you’re done. So you pay each individually each night per season per sport. And we actually we award our top captains and top players every year, our average players, the top 10 play four times a week with us all year long. Gotcha. So what’s your plan really to expand into other cities across Canada? So we’re, I’m kind of taking a backwards approach. One of the things about KC crew that’s been so successful is we’re socially driven. So working with public parks getting you out into the areas you wouldn’t have thought of going and seeing how cool it is, and being a part of the city. But then we partner with local bars and restaurants. So I built this onto my software. But what week one you play, it could be bar one, week two could be bar two. So there’s a different bar every single week that your team could go before after to win specials at the bar to get specials at the bar. So the other cool thing is we run five or six leagues a night so that’s bringing all of our leads to one place. Obviously we’re not doing this right now because of it. But in the normal environment. We’re the only people to do this in the cross country is different bar the weeks and then what also happens is when you win your kickball game, my umpires put the scores and automatically calculates the winner emails. everybody on the team have a coupon for nachos, they walk in the bar click a button to get a free round of nachos. So we’re driving thousands of people into bars during the week when they normally don’t have anyone there. So it’s creating this really cool community of socially driven stuff. Well, I’ve learned that we don’t own the parks and rec, we don’t own the where the in between. And ideally, if we could own all of them, it would be a better process. So we are now opening our own food and beverage concepts that are socially driven sand volleyball bars, pickleball bars. And so I’m actually opening our first one in October in St. Charles, Missouri, right outside of St. Louis. And then we’re opening one in Kansas City in the riverfront in April. So we’re actually really excited. And the idea is to start with the socially driven food and beverage, we create leagues there, and then we will slowly grow in the community. So it starts with our hub, get that going. And then we start working with Parks and Rec departments and others around the community to grow socially driven leagues in that community. So we’re kind of going backwards the way I went before. I love it. I love it. There’s a great idea. You’re a fantastic idea. idea, man. Hey, so like, let’s get in our let’s get our DeLorean with Marty McFly. Right? You know, and let’s go back to maybe the 1718 year old you know, Luke Wade, look at a Knowledge Nugget. So you drop it on him with the experience and the wisdom that you built in your young life right now? Like what kind of knowledge I get. So you drop it on Luke to help him level up shorten the learning curve a little bit? Well, Marty, where we’re going, we don’t need roads, I would what I would say to him is one start reading immediately. Start reading more books. That’s one of the things I didn’t do young of younger me is, is read and educate myself. I really just, that’s when I became an entrepreneur or left my job. I just started reading book after book after book. And the knowledge I’ve gained from each one of them is unbelievable. So I would say one, please start reading Luke, why haven’t you done that already, I got to where I was reading almost two books a month over the last couple years. And it just, it’s been unbelievably changing in my business and opening my eyes to a lot of things I never would have thought of. And then number two is surround yourself with good people. People who are where you want to be when you want where you want to be, that’s the people you should surround yourself with, they need to be better than you smarter than you and help you get to where you want to be because I’m a part of a quite a few mastermind groups now where I learned so much. And it’s such a great support system of people just like me going through the struggles I’m going through, maybe not in my specific business or industry. But we all have similar struggles, we’re all struggling. At the end of the day, social media shows people that we’re all perfect, we’re not I’ve done, I’ve really changed that this year, I’ve done a I’ve put a really big effort into showing people that I’m not perfect. And I do that on my LinkedIn quite a bit where I talk about my business struggles, things I’m going through. And it’s the response has been unbelievable, because people relate to that no one’s perfect. We’re all going through things. So I would tell myself to surround myself with great people who can prop me up and you can help as well. So I would say those are the top two things I would tell them. I love it. I love it. And so we talk a lot about the dash here at time to shine today. I want to know my squad wants to know how you want your dash remember that little mark in between your incarnation day and your expiration date? You know how you know your life a death? And how do you want Luke’s dash to be remembered? Maybe your epitaph your legacy? Yeah, I’ve never really thought about that. So that’s a great deep question. I don’t have a canned response for that one. Um, I think you’re living it, bro. You’re living legacy right now. And I don’t I I’m very careful when I say that about people. You know, because a lot of people will say and they give your honest and transparent about it not not having a canned answer. Because you’re living it every day, bro. You’re you’re giving till it hurts so good, you know, by giving people opportunities to level up even when the COVID Senior shift. And so we can end that question right there. But what are three things that loop can’t live without?

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Well, I appreciate that. Which what you said there are three things that I can’t live without is I’d say right now is my my my wife obviously better? Yeah, yeah, right, almost said bike, and she’s standing right over there. So it got to me for sure. But my wife is unbelievable. She has you know, we started the virtual events together. But I’ve kind of gone on my community creator path, I’m working on some other things and she’s taken the virtual events. She’s running almost every single one every single day. And she’s been unbelievable. You know, as a business owner, even if it’s not your wife, you’re always worried about handing off the reins like are they going to do this okay, or they’re going to take it okay. And I was doing a lot of the sales calls on the virtual stuff was taking a lot of my time. And I ended up passing more and more off to her and she killed it. She did such an amazing job. We got more bookings people were actually relating to her more, and she’s running all the events so she knows more about it. So I’m so happy that I was able to do that she was able to step up and and so that’s been unbelievable. Number two would be my bike. I love being outside. I think that whether it’s going on a walk or whatever, but my bike gets me outside and just yesterday we’ve had the most nice fall weather here in Kansas City and riding around I’m just like staring at the clouds. I just really love being outdoors so I see my wife would be number two, and then my friends and family would be number 30 like probably say you better say community would have been too but I was just thinking about my bike because I’ve been riding it so much recently. Um, but my friends are Family. Like I said, my family are all entrepreneurs. My brother is in software and podcasting and knowledge broker and my dad’s been doing for most products for 30 years. He does all of our shirts and hats and stuff. And my uncle owns several but it’s just my family is always there to support each other in our business stuff. And my friends are amazing as well. I got a lot of entrepreneur friends and I’ve got a lot of great friends who’ve been supporting me year over year, Jason Holzer included, is one of the first people to join our league come his wife, I remember clear as day being their self loving family. Definitely.

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So what’s the one thing Luke knows for? Sure.

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I know for sure that I think there’s good in everybody. And people want to be nice, and they want to help each other. It’s just showing them how you know how that how much that means to everyone. Like just little things that you can do smiling at people saying nice things. I like your shirt. I like your hat. Oh, is that a new new shoes, like just little interactions like that with people can really bring out the best and I think positivity. You know, a lot of people don’t realize how much negativity will hurt you and your surroundings. And that’s one of the things I’ve also done over the years is just cutting as much negativity out of my life as possible. Because the more positive you are, the better your everyday is going to seem. Whether that’s Freeland falls off and nearly hits you and you can think about it and cry about it all day. Or you can think about it didn’t hit you and move on and look at I got the rest of the day and not worry about getting hit by a tree right? So there’s just a million things of positivity can do for you. And so I truly believe that, you know, people have that inside them and I’m hoping that I can help show them and how that can make their life much better. Love it. What’s the what’s the one thing is blown loose mine really just blew you away? The adaption of the virtual stuff we’re doing like crazy. I have no I still get blown. Like I said we were last weekend we just did a brewery event and we did a virtual brew tasting and I had no idea was gonna be so successful. And everybody who attended kept thinking over and over again, thank you for giving us something to do. Thank you for doing something fun, like, and so you know, and even virtual Bingo. Like, you know, I played bingo, I love Bingo. But you know, I never played as much as I have now and I don’t think most people have but the fact that people love it so much in the way we’ve been able to adapt it virtually to create the interaction and the engagement. That is awesome. is unbelievable. I still everyday I still can’t believe it. That’s awesome. So what’s your definition of a life well lived? You know, freedom, I think is the number one thing, being able to choose the life you want to plan out your day to day, you know, my wife and I went on a six mile bike ride yesterday morning at like 830 to go get coffee and we walked around and rode our bikes back, you know, just being able to live the life that I want to live. You know is is my is that definition and I say this to people all the time. I never talked, you know, money, my salary to me, doesn’t matter. I’ve gone up I’ve gone down. I made a ton more when I was a software developer. I’m not worried about that anymore. What I’m worried about is quality of life. And I think freedom is the number one thing about love, bro, love it. Hey, so we’re gonna as we wind things down here a bit Luke, we like to do our leveling up lightning round. Okay. And you and I could talk for 1520 minutes. I need five second answers. Okay, top of your head. You’re ready to rock. Yep. What’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received? expand horizontally, not just vertically. I love it. It’s awesome. Look linear. That’s beautiful. share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success.

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meditation and mindfulness.

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Love it.

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Not the book you’re reading now. Not the flavor of the month. But what’s the one book man if I’m in the doldrums? I need to be leveled up like Fergie read this book. Four Hour Workweek. The one that changed my life. But most recently the ultimate sales machine both are great, fantastic man. So sports star or Hollywood star. Oh that stuff I think sports star need to they’ve got to become like golf because my body hurts do my favorite charity or an organization like to give your time and or money to Reese now. The the battle within is a program for people with PTSD or trauma. It started for veterans. I went through it several years ago and changed my life. Good for you, man. Good for you. And that’ll be in the show notes peeps. Awesome. All right. last questions. You might need some explanation on this one. But what’s the best decade of music 6070s 80s or 90s? I gotta say as a band we can hang big hair don’t care. Hey, Luke, how can we find your brother the community creator calm, you can find all of my social links there. I’m actually got a virtual boot camp going on right now. I’m not sure when this goes live, but I’m gonna be offering challenges in boot camps to teach people how to do what I do and workshops so check it out there a podcast coming soon. If you’re looking at some of the stuff that I’ve done with Casey crew, it’s just Casey guru.com. But I love it. I love it. Leave us in all those links will be in the show notes folks. So make sure you do check them out and leave us with one last Knowledge Nugget you want us to take with us internalize, take action. I would say if you are Not happy all it takes is one step a day to change it and you just have to figure out where you want to be and it isn’t easy but you can do it and so if you’re not happy what’s going to make you happy and take those steps every day to get there? All right squad you just had the frickin free masterclass dropped on you by someone my good friend here Luke Wade who is the epitome of adapting and overcoming he’s got his no douchebag claws in his league which is makes it fun and so people are accepting and people can in from all levels can go and have fun. He’s all about having fun and uplift lifting people. He reminds you that you know not all readers are leaders but all leaders are readers so get a book that’s going to level you up in try to read one a month that’s what we do here time to shine today. I tell my clients they must read a book a month and we need to talk about it and always is always leveling off he’s telling you to surround yourself with good people to level you up people that might know more than you about certain aspects, because that’s what a great leader a great delegator does. He reminds us that there’s good in everybody. And make sure you show people what you mean by that. Maybe smile at him, give him a compliment and have some fun to do as a family man. He loves to live free with no encumbrances. He managed to expand horizontally, not just vertically which that blew my mind because a lot of people are just looking to move up man, you got to see what’s around you. And that will help you adapt and overcome just like Luke did with the Creator, the community creator and his mentor that inch by inch. It’s a cinch is what we say here at time to shine today towards happiness. Do something every day that’s going to make you happy. Luke, you’re humble. You’re hungry. You’re leveling up your health, you level up your wealth. You’re part of our squad. Now you can’t go anywhere. We got to collaborate in some stuffs and I just can’t wait brother. Sounds great. Thanks again for having me. I can’t wait to see where this goes. You bet. Thanks, Luke. Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of time to shine today podcast, probably brought to you by southern New Jersey real estate real estate excellence who can be reached at 561-249-7266 and online at www dot Sutter in Nugent comm if you’re a business owner or professional who would like to be interviewed on top to shine today, please visit time to shine today.com slash gust. If you liked this episode, please subscribe on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, I Heart Radio or wherever you get your podcast. There’s a link in the show notes to our website. Also there you will see our recommended resources. We hope that you will support our show by supporting them. If you like what you have been listening to, it’d be great if you could just give us a five star rating and tell your friends to subscribe while you’re at it. I’m your host Scott Ferguson. And until next time, let’s level up it’s our time to shine.

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