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#289 - JP Dinnell of Echelon Front

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Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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JP Dinnell, Chief Training Officer at Echelon Front joins Nick Schiffer and Tyler Grace to discuss leadership principles like taking ownership, setting clear expectations, keeping communication open, emotional detachment, and building a culture of high performance. JP also shares how he applies these principles in his personal and professional life.

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0:00.0

Mr Tyler.

0:05.0

What's up?

0:07.0

How are you doing?

0:08.0

I'm alright, a little tired.

0:11.0

A little tired, holidays coming up, so it is Tuesday, Thanksgiving us Thursday.

0:18.0

I did not record a midweek this week, a lot going on and Doug had emailed me late, checked in with me, he's like,

0:25.0

I don't know if I have time to edit something this week, so we decided to bump that because it

0:30.1

get released on Thanksgiving. So it's just been it's been a lot of work lately every year coming into the holidays

0:38.8

so I'm a little bit burnt out but all things considered I'm all right you I'm good this yeah I am

0:49.6

good there's been a lot going on. I feel like my my my days are just slammed

0:59.6

Mondays are my site visits. I'm on every job site and you know trying to fit meetings in between and today as you said it's Tuesday I've been in the office all day and I just it's the never ending to do the I shouldn't say never ending I feel like I'm actually getting quite a bit done and making a lot of great progress on things that I've been not prioritizing and for that for the sake of that you know it feels good to make progress especially

1:30.2

as we round out the year end here.

1:33.8

Yeah, I, um, recently I've been getting in bed

1:37.2

and when I lay in bed, I'm like,

1:38.3

oh my God, I'm already in bed again already.

1:40.5

Like, I feel like this just happened. It's so crazy. I like every time I go to get in bed I'm like I feel like I was just in bed. There's that great construction meme of like what's it like to be in construction and the guy like lays in bed and as he hits the pillow the long clock goes off and he gets back out of bed and he leaves

1:59.2

Yeah, that's pretty much what it what it's felt like lately and I don't typically feel like that

2:04.7

but I also I go back to I remember I listened to a podcast a long time ago where it's like

2:09.5

there's seasons of life you know there times are going to be happy there times are going to be sad,

2:14.8

stressed. That's all part of it. You can't have one without the other. So when you ask me how I'm doing,

2:20.8

yeah, I'm okay. Like I've been happier. I've been sadder. I've been more rested. I've been less rested. I'm right now I'm okay. Getting done what I need to get done. Controlling what I can control. Everyone's healthy holidays are coming up so I

2:37.2

can't complain. Well with that being said I'm excited about our guest today, Tyler.

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