317-Be A Tactical Leader (BATL) – TTST Interview with Veteran and Founder of BATL Zack Knight

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In between time away with the military, Zack has been able to build six businesses ranging from a security consulting firm, a domestic violence awareness non-profit, to an international dance competition he and his business partner grew to over 150 countries in the first year of operation.

  Identify what makes you happy and live that happiness

– Zack Knight 

Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways

1. A good coach needs to be vulnerable with people they are working with, be relatable and maintain an open line of communication

2. When starting to work with a coach, ask to see their ‘numbers’ and make sure they provide you your own blueprint for success. No cookie cutter

3. Being selfish from a place of service is a good thing

4. Legacies are important, leave a good one!

5. Be empathetic, smile, strive for high emotional intelligence

6. Again, remember to SMILE!

Level Up! 

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Speech Transcript (very little editing so not exact)

Zack, what’s your favorite color? And why?

Unknown Speaker  2:12  

You actually have it in your in your logo, my friends Orange, orange. Yeah, I love a good sunrise in the morning. My place here in Atlanta faces a sunrise and I love it every morning.

Unknown Speaker  2:22  

This is your my first interview with this logo. Man. The last one was not at all and stuff and I had this guy do it and you put these like little son things over the ass and I was like, awesome. And I guess I have no idea. I’m sure for me, man. I can’t draw stick figure must less like price like putting things together so that let’s get to the origins man of kind of like, you know where you came from and how you are grown into 150 Different companies a dance competition. Stuff security. I mean, security I see fits with you perfectly. You know, I’m saying you’re he’s a badass dude, if you’re watching, he’s pretty well put together either my brother from another mother here. So let’s get to the origins just a little bit.

Unknown Speaker  3:02  

Yeah, man, I was born and raised here in Atlanta, I grew up. I took the name of my stepfather night. There’s a big piece of that in my teen years that really, intrinsically he’s the only father I’ve known. So it’s one of those I took his name in my teen years as one of those that I really hold true. So a lot of what I talked about is legacy legacy building but also the values of a night as a whole. I take it all very seriously and kind of growing up I had that mindset I wanted to protect people, I was always the guy that beat up the bullies. I like to pick on bullies when they were picking out other people. Thankfully, I’m blessed being a little bit bigger guy so I could get away with that most of the time. But that really fed into my first real profession as a police officer here in Atlanta. I did all the training I trained a lot of police officers I was on the SWAT team kind of did all the quote unquote fun stuff that were they actually did it backwards. I left that to join the military when I was 28 went through officer school I already had my degree with their officer school with their infantry school. My goal there was to like expand my horizons serve on a higher level take some some men into into a combat zone and expand my leadership skills capabilities that rule real time if somebody if you can say two words and under gunfire and somebody listens to you, like that’s talking about influence, right? Just be careful what you ask for, because that’s what I got about a year and a half after I was in I went over to Afghanistan, deployed with the Green Berets out of Florida and really did some some work for for about a year over there and got injured in the process and had some businesses already rolling but that’s really the big piece that’s the backgrounds for the security firm fits in is obviously the background in the security firm fits perfectly with SWAT and infantry and all that good stuff.

Unknown Speaker  4:50  

Yeah, I love that. You know, you you say that if you can communicate and hard target situation, right? That’s huge in life period. Right? I mean, it’s like other people, deer in the headlight. But if you can perform in that hard target situation and be able to, like you said, be able to communicate even if it’s one or two words, because everything if you’re watching everything was hand signals and very little talk, and obviously, for obvious reasons, that’s fantastic talent to do so. So let’s talk a little bit about, you know, your coaching that you have set up and how you’re helping people a little bit, a lot a bit long this way.

Unknown Speaker  5:24  

So it really feeds into all the above. I’ve taught everything I’ve ever done from one point I was a little league coach, as a police officer, I taught at the police academy taught recruits. While I was with the police department, I actually went through the Dale Carnegie Academy here, and I went back and taught at Dale Carnegie, I’m in the military, I taught I mean, it’s just been like, as a CrossFit instructor for a while. So like everything I’ve ever done, has gone back into teaching somehow, it’s always like been that that piece that doesn’t I can’t get rid of, if you will, right. And with with be tactical leader, all of it’s about tactics, I’m fascinated by operations of business, my MBAs in small business operations. I’m fascinated about how pieces move. It’s like a chessboard, right? How’d you get ahead of the curve. And that’s where the dance competition, we’re able to scale it. So quick, we actually started at Darren COVID Hit that 150 countries in the first eight months. And a huge piece of that was like the structuring. And then I started the podcast started right before that it really turned into people started asking, Hey, can you teach me how to launch a podcast and teach me how you made it so efficient? Can you teach me this, this and this? And for a long time? I said, No, I don’t want to, I don’t know anything about media and marketing and digital anything. I didn’t even have an Instagram until I had my first business like, I just, I’m not that guy. And enough people started asking him, so it was kind of one of the signs everything else. I’ve taught him everything else left coach, and it turned back into, you know, how do I teach business tactics? How do I teach people to take that first step, I’m really good at taking the big vision, chopping it down to one step at a time. And enough people started to ask it. And so it’s kind of moved into that space overall,

Unknown Speaker  7:00  

I think the awesome coach, I know that you are so what in your opinion, then is what would make a great coach

Unknown Speaker  7:11  

who, honestly, it fits all into kind of the leadership model I’ve put together. In my mind, I wrote a paper or two that were submitted to Army publications about the lack of leadership in the military as a whole how they teach the science but not the Art of Leading. Sure, you know, here’s your box, stay in that box, don’t do anything outside of that box. Because if you do, and that’s not what leadership is about. That’s not what business and coaching is about. For me, it turns into, you have to be vulnerable with the people you’re coaching, you have to maintain lines of communication back and forth, you have to be able to have that influence. And if if you’re not setting forth as a coach, hey, this is where I’ve struggled in the past and having those real conversations with them, then you also don’t become relatable. If I say it, yeah, I have four businesses, 150 countries and two others that are doing pretty well. All of a sudden, that’s not really relatable to a lot of entrepreneurs that I want to help. So I tell them, hey, this is where I screwed up all along the way maintain that level of vulnerability. Yeah, trust me, brother, I have a lot of stories about where I screwed up. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  8:14  

that that’s that experience a place through and learning man. And trust me, I’m 50 years old. And I still learn from that, like, you know, the adage of, you know, the rearview mirror is smaller than the dashboard, you know, because you know it, you don’t live there, but you learn from there. Right? And I love that. You’re humble enough to admit that you know, you had some misgivings and whatnot. But you use that to level up news and the experience to level others up. That’s beautiful. So when you’re starting to maybe in discovery session with someone you’re about to coach Zach, is there any secret sauce you could possibly share with us to maybe help them find their blind spot?

Unknown Speaker  8:54  

Man, I talked about blind spots a lot on my own show. I love that question. Because blind spots How do you see them? Right? Obviously, their blind spots. So helping people discover those. Honestly, I don’t think there’s a secret sauce attached to it. It’s just if you’re willing to eat Gooch to point to that, right? I’m the guy that like people hire me because they know I can be the Jackass attached to and they know I’ll be straight up and honest like, and I’ll tell people I’m like if you don’t like the hard truth at all. I mean, I started the Dale Carnegie stuff in there and I do the schmoozing and the EQ aspect of stuff sound but at the end of the day, like if you’re not telling the truth to your people, and you’re not discovering what the real pain points are, and say, Hey, you’re not telling me the truth on this or you’re not giving me revenue numbers. You’re not telling me how you’re actually struggling? You want to fluff it to make it look pretty. It’s the Instagram world, right? Everybody wants to see the pretty stuff. Nobody wants to see that. Nobody cares about what what car you borrow against to take a photo on right? So it turns into like calling it out. Just be like hey, you’re you’re bullshitting me right now. What’s the real truth behind your struggles? Right?

Unknown Speaker  9:55  

That love, love, love that that it’s through the pain points that you’re really just trying to bring up. And a good coach is really going to do that through empathy and listening with all the senses and being in military and hard target situations like yourself like you. You really pick out on those, you know, you’re alert to a lot more stuff so that whoever you’re coaching is one lucky mofo. You know what I’m saying? So, like, is there any good question then, as you’re starting to maybe? Make sure you’re the right horse for the course right for for this client? Is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do?

Unknown Speaker  10:34  

When I hired my last business coach actually still have them? One thing I asked him is actually two questions. Because at the end of the day, I think the coaching industry has kind of been bastardized since COVID. Like everybody’s all of a sudden a coach and a life coach, I’m a business coach, I’m a blah, blah, blah, coach. I’m not teaching I’m not coaching anything I haven’t done myself, which there’s a lot of limiting belief attached to that. But also, it’s like, I have the proof in the pudding. For my business coach, I asked him to things I’m like, Hey, show me your numbers, show me revenue, show me like you’re actually not full of crap. And show me your blueprint that I can take a copy of it. You know, do you have that scarcity mindset to share with me? Or are you going to see me as a competitor all of a sudden? Or how are we going to work together in that relationship? I think that’s a big one. You know, is the coach willing to open like the secret gate to all the information, the copy and paste piece of it, and then coach me to make it more battle oriented and not his orientation? You

Unknown Speaker  11:33  

know, dude, I love I love that because like you said before, proofs in the frickin pudding, right? So it’s like, also their lineage that they come from. And I always say, Are you are you being coached? You know, I’m saying it’s like, do a lot of coaches have gone out there? Like you just said, you know, everybody’s a frickin life coach. I mean, my, my coach had me rebrand myself as a lifestyle optimization artists, right? Like, I’m a breakthrough coach, I only keep people for like, four to five weeks. That’s it, because they’re stuck. I get them through. And then, you know, it’s landed me speaking gigs and stuff like that with their companies or whatnot, which has helped out but I love that you put it out there. So the exact What do you think your strengths are?

Unknown Speaker  12:09  

Honestly, I want to piggyback off, oh, Lord, the military terms, I want to piggyback off of something you said, you only keep people for a short time. My goal and a lot of the work I do is more of the fractional SEO work. So I help you build structure something and hand it off. I think my my strength is let’s take the couple first steps to get you moving towards your vision. You start seeing the successes, and I set you up to succeed beyond that. I don’t want to keep you for five years. If I haven’t, if you haven’t left me in the first year, then I did something wrong as a coach. Thank you. Thank you. It’s hard to say that sometimes because they’re like, oh, yeah, but you’re always recruiting and prospecting. Yeah, absolutely. I am. Because the next big thing, not the thing that I should have already launched,

Unknown Speaker  12:52  

right? Yeah. And it’s, it’s like, I want my clients to fire me, you know, and know, and maybe do or twice a year refresher or something. Right, just to make sure they’re good. But I appreciate you saying this. So how about weaknesses, man? What do you got? To share? I’m a stubborn ass. I’m gonna be honest, recovering narcissist, right? Like, I’m human never fully recovered. in

Unknown Speaker  13:22  

it. I mean, it’s true. I mean, again, I was a carpet 21 I deployed with the best of the best in the military out there that toured the seals. But now I deployed the best of the Army, right? I’m used to being the best. Yeah, absolutely. I’m used to being around and surrounded myself with the best. So there are times where the narcissism comes in as a level of selfishness that I look at where people want to say selfish is a bad word. I think being selfish with yourself is empowering. And there’s so many aspects of that. But when people point to me and say, Oh, you’re being selfish, I’m like, Absolutely, I am. And then I get stubborn in that mindset. So I can see how, you know, I’m stuck in my ways in a certain way in, but it’s all in the betterment of my legacy, my vision I have for my life. And I’m quick to cut ties if it doesn’t align in that way, where if you try to take away from that selfishness, I’ve been really close to being that that statistic in the veteran world, you know, the 22 a day I was, there’s a whole story there where I was really damn close to it. And I know what I have to maintain to stay away from that that hole that we all hop in as veterans and yeah, it led to being selfish with myself loving myself again. And there’s a huge piece of that.

Unknown Speaker  14:34  

I mean, even in the dictionary snack, it’s like, selfish isn’t a bad word. And he doesn’t even say anything negative in the dictionary. Basically, just like, you know, hey, you take care of yourself. So you put yourself in a position to help others. I mean, it’s the whole cliche again, have the putting on the oxygen mask in the airplane. Right. So you got it. I love it. So have you seen the movie Back to the Future?

Unknown Speaker  14:57  

Of course,

Unknown Speaker  14:58  

okay, let’s get that DeLorean with Martini. And let’s go back to maybe the 18 year old Zack. What kind of knowledge nuggets would you drop out him? That’s so much to change anything because your journey is pretty badass. But maybe there’s shorten the learning curve and blast through just a little bit quicker.

Unknown Speaker  15:13  

Hmm that’s a really good question. I think I would have pushed 18 year old me toward EQ and empathy a lot sooner. I was honestly sent to Dale Carnegie because I was a terrible teammate. I wasn’t a great team player. I was. I was top of the stats in my shift at the police department. I was smoking people in the PT side of stuff and the physical fitness side of stuff. And I couldn’t make SWAT I kept getting passed over for promotions, and actually had a captive essentially Yank me by the year one day and say, You know what, you could cut your production in half. But if you smiled once a day in these halls, people would actually like you. And for years, I tell you for years, I hated that dude hated that dude for saying that. And then all of a sudden, I went through Dale Carnegie and one of his golden rules is smile. Simple. Yeah. Smile period. Yeah. And I’m like, Okay, hang on. This is bullcrap. There’s no way this dude was right about anything. And I didn’t have the humility to go back and look at it. So if I could drop that nugget, it’s like, think about that emotional intelligence. Think about DON’T BE THE ASS kisser. I’m never that guy that’s like, and I’d be a yes, man. But there were better ways to go about my hard nosed ways in the early days, that would have led to a lot more success early on to your

Unknown Speaker  16:33  

brother from another mother, man. I swear, dude, it’s like, it’s funny. I make two new year’s resolutions every year, man one make someone smile every single day. Right? You know, and to, unless I’ve hurt you disrespected you in any way I give zero fucks about what you think about zero, as long as though is I am putting up the service. Right? You know, I’d love to, you know, give give, give until it hurts so good. Right? But and I have I’m gonna get mine on the backend. You know, but just smiling is something with me. I had the same thing. It was a chief petty officer like free but being so fucking serious, dude, just smile, bro. It’s good. You know yours? How tall are you? I’m 76 money. And he’s like, well, so you’re 73 inches above ground? Do you know what I’m saying? So it’s like, yeah, dude. So I love that. So how do you want your dash remembered that? You know that little line in between your incarnation date, your expiration date, your life being death date? How do you want your Dasher members act?

Unknown Speaker  17:29  

You know, a big piece of what I talked about some of the next book start with why it was a great one I read early on. That led me toward thinking beyond just a police department a local level. But I’ve shifted that mindset toward ending with why what’s your legacy? Why? What are you working toward in the end, and every piece of the business stuff that I’m working on now leads back into the domestic violence where it’s nonprofits surviving to thriving, we teach women’s self defense, everything from mindset to padded combatives essentially, we teach Krav Maga and padded suit. So everything is really enterprise level feeding back into that the dance competition tagline was dancing to defeat domestic violence where we’ve gotten domestic violence awareness into 160 countries across the world now. The legacy piece the dash for me is being the guy that beats up the bullies, man, you know, helping those that can’t help themselves. And for a long time, it was can’t or won’t, and that won’t is a very toxic piece that my therapist helped me correct. Because you know, it’s you can lead the horse to water but if they don’t want to drink that’s on them. I took it way too personal. So now it’s really focused on those that really want the help that are ready to take action. They just don’t know how quite yet. Yeah, dude, that’s huge heart. Huge heart. So what if anything, keeps you up at night? Oh, man. I mean, besides the Afghanistan dreams. You know, it’s there’s a lot of things rather and it’s one of those I do a good job with my morning routine, setting the day with intentionality, meditation, you know, all that stuff. Like, I focused on it, man, but honestly, I’ve been up since 230 this morning is I always get up at four to go to the gym. But at 230 I woke up and I was thinking about employees, clients getting payroll met. I mean, it’s a stressor, we all have attached to different pieces in this world. And you know, it’s rarely on myself, which is a balancing piece. Again, being selfish, where I run a mastermind here in Atlanta, and we meet every Friday morning and I’m like, Hey, we’re not meeting Friday. I’m heading out of town to take a mindset I do once a month mindset resets. Like I’m gonna go celebrate America and hit a beach somewhere avoid some fireworks but hit a beach somewhere. Yeah, we’re not meeting on Friday. And you know, I think it’s one of those that I have to disconnect like that, right? I have to detach and get away for at least two days at a time. It’s a huge piece for me.

Unknown Speaker  19:53  

Do you do like you know my coach has me set intentions every day and I have my my coaching client Students like, you seem like you do things for the intention and not the attention and I frickin love that. That’s awesome. So then what do you think people might misunderstand the most about Zack?

Unknown Speaker  20:16  

You know, it’s funny, I’m an introvert by nature. I I recharge like I legit like we were just talking about pod fest. I could have made pod Fest this year, but it’s like just thinking the overwhelm attached to it. And other stressors and like I can’t, because I know if I go to something like pod fest, and it’s that big. I need two days to recharge and I get back home otherwise I’m snappy. And I’m like, Yeah, see, and taking it out on people around me. So honestly, like being an introvert, I have to recognize different aspects of myself where if you’ve met me in person, like you’d never know, I’m the class clown in the group fitness stuff like you never know. Right? But I think that’s the misconception is people think I’m this outgoing, bubbly, fun loving guy right into the day like that’s fun you know it’s fitness which you got to get makes more relatable. Yeah, kind of the guy that’s in the corner rocking back and forth like I usually am and and now rather than you know, corner for 10 minutes but yeah, um, yeah, that’s the biggest misconception really

Unknown Speaker  21:13  

do I love that you say that because I’m the same way Manny, you give me my Kindle and a kava bar. Like I love cannabis drink. It really relaxes you right and I do it I take a lot of veterans there to show them Hey, you don’t have to go to drugs and go to a route to help me it’s liquid Xanax is awesome. But you give me a Kindle at a kava bar by myself in a corner and I am right at home bro. Now I’m a Midwestern dude. And I will go off and hug you and I meet you and stuff like that right and stuff and be that high energy guy but so then the SEC What is your what is your definition of a life well lived?

Unknown Speaker  21:54  

I think a big piece of it is identifying what is it that makes you happy? And it’s not waking up stressed every day. It’s not waking up with the business and the success and the even the mission right? There was a long time I had all six businesses we were in the highest point NBC was offering me eight figures for the competition and I turned it down and it’s like, things are going so freakin well. And that entire time I hated myself could look myself in the mirror. Literally was hating every single day I was waking up and again that was part of that story where I was about to become a statistic and yeah, I the big shift for me was like waking up happy every day, bro. You can’t I can’t tell you how stoked I am that my feet hit the floor because the guys that didn’t come back from Afghanistan and and all the people I know that aren’t happy. I’m like that people wake up at 4am Like, I can’t believe you do that. I’m like, Are you kidding? I’m so excited up today. Like that is like the simplest thing if we could shift to like just being happy every day. Right? To me, that’s like huge.

Unknown Speaker  22:56  

I’m not four. I’m 430 I’m on the jujitsu mat at six. Like we have some absolute pillars here and two of them are fighting this weekend in Vegas. And it’s like it just it gets me revved up and fired up just to get out there and get rockin I absolutely love that man. So time to shine today podcast versus glad we’re back and Zack you and I will meet one day maybe share a brain grenade or a glass of cava or something, man. But then we’ll talk about each one of these questions. Maybe 1520 minutes each one but you got five seconds to answer with no explanations. You’re ready to rock. They can all be done that way. This is your and your hard target situation. Real quick. There’s one or two words you’re ready to do it again. Let’s do it. Zack, what’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

Unknown Speaker  23:45  

Oh man, you didn’t tell me they’re gonna be hard questions. Honestly, smile.

Unknown Speaker  23:50  

Beautiful now. Love it. Sure one of your personal habits contributes to success Smile.

Unknown Speaker  23:56  

Smile. Intentional morning routine.

Unknown Speaker  24:00  

Love it man. So you see me walking down the street or someone Fergie looks like he’s in his doldrums a little bit. What book might you hand?

Unknown Speaker  24:09  

Love yourself like your life depends on it.

Unknown Speaker  24:11  

Who’s that? By free? It seems like I’ve read it. Ramit

Unknown Speaker  24:15  

cabachon I guess can’t pronounce his last name. But yeah, he was an e4 and the army actually

Unknown Speaker  24:20  

love it. Nicknames growing up Zacky baggy. Love it. Terrible. Just checkers or monopoly. Chess. You didn’t mention chess earlier so I’m happy you said that. So go to ice cream flavor.

Unknown Speaker  24:39  

Half Baked.

Unknown Speaker  24:41  

Baked love it. So there’s a there’s a sandwich called the z k let me call it the Zacky what’s on the sandwich man?

Unknown Speaker  24:49  

All the meats

Unknown Speaker  24:50  

little bacon little man candy on there too Right? Oh, definitely hanging out dude. I love it. Look, favorite charity and organization like to give your time or money to

Unknown Speaker  25:01  

Atlanta local Atlanta, to charter club. But yeah, Atlanta. huge, beautiful.

Unknown Speaker  25:06  

And last question. you elaborate a little bit on this one, Zach. But what’s the best decade in music? 6070s 80s or 90s?

Unknown Speaker  25:18  

This decade me, I mean, I was born in the late 80s. Brother, so I don’t even Oh, man. I’m gonna not say the the 90s for sure we’ll go with the 80s because the guy between the two

Unknown Speaker  25:29  

dies that I was born in 72, right. So it was like, the 80s was my graduate 99. So it was like, 80s was my jam, buddy. That’s so much happened in the 80s, bro. And I got sucked into this stranger things thing on Netflix, right? And I’m like, I’m not into sci fi stuff. But then I watched it and the kids were 12 years old. 1984 I’m like thinking I was born in 72. So everything was like, man, right? In the movie posters, like everything was like, it was awesome. It was awesome. So, Zach, how could we find your brother?

Unknown Speaker  26:05  

And you can find me across all social media at V tattoo leader or at Zach a night.

Unknown Speaker  26:12  

Beautiful. And you have a webinar that’s free called discover your voice? Correct? Yes. So a little bit about that.

Unknown Speaker  26:20  

It’s a it’s a five day challenge that really pushes people toward discovering their voice and using it to impact the world. I do it once a month, usually the first week of every month. Just discover. I’m sorry. It’s my voice challenge.com Okay, but it really is just all about like discovering the power of your own voice and trying to use it to leverage into the business world.

Unknown Speaker  26:42  

I love it. Got it put that it’s called My challenge. voice.com My voice challenge my voice challenge. I can put that in the show notes, please. Awesome. In fact, do me one last salad and leave us with a one less Knowledge Nugget we can take with us internalize and take action.

Unknown Speaker  26:59  

Just remember to smile.

Unknown Speaker  27:02  

Dude, that’s fantastic. Fantine squat, we literally just had a fun as masterclass with my brother from another mother man, here’s Zack Knight, you know, to him protection of others is paramount, which he did it through the police force, he did it through the military, he hates bullies, man, and he will put them in their place, he actually seeks out bullies like a bully Hunter Knight and I absolutely love that you want you to expand your horizons and serve on the highest level possible. And then in all of his experiences that he went through led him to be really leveled up coach, you know, and the level of coaches some of the is vulnerable with the people there to coaching, you know, he reminded us that a good coach maintains lines of communication, and that they’re relatable as well. You know, he helps find blind spots through really solid listening not just with his ears, but with all his senses, you know, in really what I call listening from the neck, like really leaning into the conversation, you know, it digs deep for those pain points. So we can put you on a strategy to help you level up, you know, he’s some of the it’s really more interested in hearing your story than he is about telling his I can see the apprehension, as I’m asking these questions sometimes like shit, you know, and he really wants to hear your story, you know, and if you starting to work with a coach, it’s hopefully exact, you know, show them to ask you ask Him to show you his numbers, you know, see his lineage, have him show you the bulb blueprint that’s going to help you level up. You know, he reminds us us being selfish. Is that a bad thing? It’s a good thing as long as you’re using that selfishness of yourself to help level up in really recognize others. You know, he’s so transparent when you recognize his weaknesses, that he just, I just see so much of me in him when I was younger, and even even today, you know, he wants you to be empathetic spot, smile and really strive for the high emotional intelligence. You know, he’s planting trees, that he’s probably never going to sit in the shade. Shade of it. This dude is just fucking kick ass man. You know, he’s gonna slide across home plate of life bumped and bruised, but knowing that he beat up the bullies and help those that can’t help themselves, and he didn’t say won’t help themselves, he say can’t help themselves. You gotta want to help you want to level up and get you Zack, he’ll get you there, you know, and he wants you to really strive for that identity that makes you happy. And really lean into that happiness and level up your life and that happiness lasts while I’ve already said it before smile. It’s in my daily frickin resolutions to make someone smile every day and I know Zack made me smile. I know he made you smile as well. He levels up as healthy levels up as well. You know, he’s earned his varsity squad letter here at time to shine today. Thank you so much for coming on, brother. I love your guts.

Unknown Speaker  29:45  

I appreciate you for having me, Scott. chat soon.

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