Lessons - From $673 in His Bank Account to Eight Companies All Hitting Seven Figures in Year One | Rylee Meek - Founder of Social Dynamic Selling

In this lessons episode, discover why lasting success depends on strengthening every area of life, not just financial performance. Understand how mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial health work together. Explore why purpose and the right environment accelerate growth and uncover how ownership, responsibility, and accountability creates stronger leadership. Okay, 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 is like a high performance individual, somebody who is 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 host some events called Become the CEO of Your Life. And why we called that that was really, I think if we were to approach life, like we approach business, like the way a CEO oversees and runs a business. There's, you know, the sales department in business, there's the marketing department, there's HR, right? 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, if... as the company as a whole, if the sales department is struggling, they're not bringing in sales to the company, who as a whole struggles? The entire company, right? The whole company. Yeah. If they don't make money, the lights are up. Yeah. So if sales is crushing it because marketing is 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. Mentally, if I'm crushing it in business, but mentally and emotionally, I'm a freaking train wreck. who, but, 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, or how many actual, uh, CEOs will call it are, 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, 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 important. Okay, your mental health is freaking important. Emotionally, and the difference between mental and emotional, mental would be more of like, I can come into a situation and be optimistic, I can be positive, I'm mentally strong, but emotionally, what happens to you? When stuff doesn't go your way, right? Like Mike Tyson's like, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face. And what are 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 your company the way that you need to? And so everything 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 long-term. And so that's the idea behind these five pillars. And so we coach people through this process of how to develop their core values and their mission, their vision, their purpose for their life. And then from there, some people come to us and It's like they wanted to start a business, but they don't know how. So we'll walk them through that. But we're always going to start with 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. And so it's understanding what's going to push you through 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 pillars, man. No, it's very important. 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, like people within a company that are just trying to figure out how to excel. Again, anybody who 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 quote-unquote succeeding 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 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 was a good guess. Like 99%. Like people just balance is not a thing because again, the word shouldn't be balance. It should be like integrate, especially in an entrepreneurial environment. Like whatever you're doing is not going to be easy. I need a better word. Definitely at the beginning. I need a better word than harmony because I feel like harmony is such a sissy word, man. What would... I'll be out of here. I guess you could do integration. You could do harmony. I'll think of something. I'm not thinking of it now, but I'll think of something. I'll shoot you a message. Anybody listening to this thing, DM into the... Yeah, I mean, think of a better word for... Basically making it so that 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 it is like enjoying the journey, but doing the journey properly, probably. Absolutely, absolutely, man. Because so many people will, as you mentioned, just like 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 gotta trust the process. Number one, success leaves clues. So if you're looking to start a business, go find somebody that's already done that type of business and just go be around them, right? It's like, that comes back to just find the fruit in people's life that you want. Go freaking be around them. And that's what I've done in every tier of my life. 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, I wanted what they, I found out what I wanted and I looked for people that had it. And then I just went to them and asked, how'd you do that? And then I'm just going to follow those steps. Um, and so it's, uh, it is a, a, uh, So 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. Look for those opportunities. Bring your passion with you and 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 wanted to go into, which I thought was another interesting point, because I kind of touched on it, we danced around it. What are your particular leadership principles? You mentioned, I think in 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 in 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 servant type leader, which is... completely accurate, but I really think from a stewardship standpoint, which is, again, it's one of those words where it's like, what does that even mean? And at the end of the day, I think of stewardship really as management, right? Like if I'm going to steward something well, I got to manage it. And I got to 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 you're a leader or not. 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 to manage something doesn't mean to just keep it in order, right? 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 they're managing it. And that's the same thing. That's a biblical principle that we were called to manage and do more. We're to go forth to multiply what we've actually been given. And so taking that seriously is really the concept 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, uh, 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 employees well or lead my sales guys well in order to make money on this business endeavor or whatever it is, but there is a reward that's actually due 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 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, is really what we coach on and how, how I lead all of my companies. But what, 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, 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 OK. 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. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links in the description to watch the full episode. See you in the next one.