Lessons - Become The CEO Of Your Life | Rylee Meek - Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker & Podcaster

In this lessons episode, discover why holistic success depends on integrating mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial well-being. Understand how these five pillars guide high-performance individuals and entrepreneurs towards sustainable growth. Explore why steward leadership grounded in ownership, responsibility, and accountability, empowers transformative personal and professional impact. I want to go into, okay, so the five pillars that you particularly chose, why are these important and try and tie them back to somebody who's like a high-performance individual, somebody who's trying to build something, an entrepreneur, how do they sort of think through these different things, how do they impact their life, and what are the pillars as well? Yeah, so the five pillars, I mentioned them earlier, but mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial, and why I believe these are so important. I kind of equate this back to, we know some events called become the CEO of your life, and why we hauled that was really, I think if we were to approach life like we approach business, like the way a CEO overseas and runs a business, there's the sales department in business, there's the marketing department, there's HR, there's maybe the fulfillment side, there's all these different divisions, and when you're running a business as a CEO, they got to make sure that they're pulling levers and making sure that everything's running at a high level. But if you take that concept and you think, okay, as the company as a whole, if the sales department is struggling, they're not bringing in sales to the company, who has a whole struggles, the entire company, right? This is the whole company. Yeah, if they don't make money, the lights are right, that's yeah. So if sales is crushing it, because marketing's doing a good job, but nobody's fulfilling the orders, who struggles, like the whole company, right? So it's an understanding that everything needs to be operating well in order to have a good, solid business and something that's going to continually create revenue. And so that was my idea or concept with this, like mentally, if I'm crushing it in business, but mentally and emotionally, I'm a freaking train wreck. But financially, everything's good, but everybody hates me because I'm a boss and I'm not an actual leader, right? Like eventually, that's not going to last long, okay? Or how many actual CEOs will call it or are crushing it financially, but their health, they're like a walking heart attack, right? Or they're spiritually, they're like, I'm doing this, but I'm not really sure why I'm doing this, which was me for a good chunk of my life. Like I'm doing this because I want the, the, you know, I want the jet, I want the Ferrari, I want all these, these great things, and then still feeling like crap at the end of the day. And so if, if we can operate in excellence knowing that one isn't necessarily more important than the other, but they are all imported, okay? Mental, your mental health is really important. Emotionally, and the difference between mental and emotional, mental, it's, it's mental would be more of like, I'm coming to a situation and be optimistic, I can be positive. I'm mentally strong. But emotionally, what happens to you when stuff don't cause it doesn't go your way, right? Like a bike Tyson's like, it's, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face. And what is you going to do after you get punched in the face? And so how are you on the emotional level to be able to, you know, lead your marriage or lead your family lead lead lead your company the way that you need to? And so everything is is, is for the greater good, but we can't be neglecting one or the other to try to get the other ahead of one because that's not a sustainable life that anybody wants to live, you know, long term. And so that's the idea behind these five pillars. And, and so we coach people through this process of, you know, how to develop the core values and their mission, their vision, their purpose for their life, you know, and then from there, some people come to us and it's like they, they want to do start a business. They don't know how. So we'll walk them through that, but we're always going to start with this, these foundational truths of like why? Like why do you want to start a business? Number one, I'll tell you it's a lot of work, right? And you better like have some delayed gratification, right? And so it's, it's understanding that, you know, what's going to, what's going to push you through to when emotionally things don't actually go your way? And ultimately just kind of walking people through that process. So that is the five power village men. No, it's, it's, it's very important. I love, I love like simple, I love simple frameworks that can have such a meaningful result if they get these things right from the get go because like you said, these things obviously very much apply to entrepreneurs, but they will also apply to entrepreneurs of people within a company that are just trying to figure out how to excel again. Anybody who is, is trying to push themselves so that they're doing more or moving up or getting or taking on more responsibility, you have to do these things very gracefully because if not, there can be a lot of negative in, in, in quote, unquote, succeeding or, or getting the raise or starting something new. There can be a lot of negative to it as well. So I think that setting yourself up and like your, your framework, like your cornerstone from like the ground up with these types of spiritual, mental, emotional, financial, physical, I think these are so integral and I don't think you should ever sacrifice one for another. And I think that I'm going to pull a number out of the air, but I'm sure I'm not that wrong. Like 95% of entrepreneurs definitely sacrifice some of these things for other. Absolutely, man. Right. Yeah. If not more than that for sure. That's a good yes. Like 99% weight. I every, like the house, like people just balance is not a thing because again, it's that the worst shouldn't be balanced to be like integrate, especially in an entrepreneurial environment like you, whatever you're doing is not going to be easy. I need a better word, definitely at the beginning. Oh, I need a better word than harmony because I feel like harmony is such a sissy word, man. What would have led me to be out of here? Like I guess you could do like integration. You could do like into harmony. I'll think of something. I know I think of it now, but I'll think of sounds. I'll show you. That's the job. Anybody listening to this thing, like, you know, DM into the, yeah, it would be a better word for basically, basically making it so that you, what you do, how you operate in life is checking all the boxes, but every single day. There's no, there's no, there's no, there's no. I think like the proper way to say is like enjoying the journey, but doing the journey properly, probably. Absolutely. Absolutely, man, because so many people will, as you mentioned, just like that they'll, they're so focused on what they want in the future that they're not present with who they are right now. And so you got to trust the process. Number one, success leaves clues. So if you're looking to, to start a business, like go find somebody that's already done that type of business and just go be around them, right? It's like that goes back to just find the fruit and people's life that you want. Go freaking be around. And that's what I've done in every tier of my life, tier. I don't know if that's the right word, but like it was like, I want art, portion, season. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I wanted it. I wanted what that they, I found out what I wanted. And I looked for people that had it. And then I just went them and asked, I should do that. And then I'm just going to follow those steps. And so it's, it is a, a, a really back to just the success leaves clues. It's like just, you got to be looking for those opportunities. As we talked about, like what an entrepreneur should be doing and look for those opportunities, bring your passion with you. And you know, just enjoy life. It's way too short, man, to not enjoy what you're doing. Amen. Amen. All right. The other thing that I want to go into, which I thought was another interesting point because we kind of touched on it. We danced around it. What are, what are your particular leadership principles? You mentioned in, I think in a lot of a lot of the content you put out, steward leadership principles. So there's four of them. And why are these the most important leadership principles? We didn't really go into leadership too much, but I know that everything we talked about is kind of a good leadership lesson to take a mind as you grow, but go into these ones in particular. Yeah, definitely. So when I think about steward leadership and why I broke it down into steward leadership, because a lot of people think of leadership, they've heard like servant leadership, right? Even in the Christian community, like they say Jesus was that that servant type leader, which is, is completely accurate. But I really think from a steward ship standpoint, which is one of those words where it's like, what does that even even mean? And at the end of the day, I think of steward ship really as as management, right? Like if, if I'm going to steward something well, I got to manage it. And I got to, I got to like understand the responsibility that I need to take, which is one of those principles. So first off, there's ownership. I got to actually take ownership with this role. Whether you think your leader or not, you're, you're, you're a leader, right? It's just understanding if you're going to step into that role and own the role that you're in, okay? Whether you're in a job or if you're a husband, right? Or if you're a wife, you're a leader, okay? You're leading somebody at some point throughout your life. So owning that role, taking it seriously and understanding that, you know, to manage something doesn't mean to just keep it in order. I mean, if you have a money manager, you give that money to somebody with the full expectation that they're going to make more of it, right? Like that's they're managing it. And that's the same thing. That's a biblical principle that that we were called to to manage it and, and, and do more was to go for to multiply what we've, what we've actually been given. And so taking that seriously is really that the concept of of what steward leadership actually is, there's ownership responsibility, the accountability that, you know, we all have, we're going to be accountable at some point with the things that we've been given. And then ultimately, just the idea that there is a reward that that that we will receive at one point. And so whether it's, you know, the earthly reward of, hey, I'm going to lead these these employees well or lead, lead my sales guys well in order to make money on on this, this business endeavor or whatever it is, but there is a reward that's actually do at the end of the day. And more so knowing that through that understanding of what steward leadership is, there is a servant component to it, right? And leading by example, having that influence and in people's life, but going about it in a manner that of stewarding it well, taking it seriously and being willing to have that responsibility and accountability is really what we coach on and how I lead, you know, all of my companies, but why we teach people to lead in that manner as well. Because people want a leader that that's not always right, right? People don't want to just follow somebody that that's always right, but somebody that's always real and going to be able to to lead appropriately and be able to say, yeah, I got that one wrong, right? But knowing that that's that's okay, but we're going to we're going to lead this thing together or we're running this race together. And that's just again, really the idea or concept behind steward leadership versus anything else. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. 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