Welcome everybody to this week's episode of the Main Street Business Podcast.

My name is Mark Kohler.

I'm here with the illustrious, Matt Swanson.

Yes, illustrious, I take that.

I've been called worse, so that's good.

Yeah, yeah. I'm this. I've been called worse. That's good. Yeah, yeah. I'm, uh, this, I'm on, I'm, we're kind of doing a little bit of country,

a little bit of rock and roll for you old Donnie Marie fans. Uh, this Matt's in the office.

I'm outside. I've spent new years at the Rose Bowl, first ever.

I know. This is an amazing game. It was an end how I'd like. But it was still an awesome. It was a great game. I was watching it in a sports bar.

Not as fun. Yeah. It was electric. And to be in a bowl game of the, mean the what do they call the granddaddy of

them all whatever the Rose Bowl I mean it was the tradition there it was really a neat experience

so I'm still in SoCal running around and I've got a little greenery here behind me to break it up

so Matt and I are trying to so for the oh just bump my camera there so that um some of you catch this on

youtube you'll see matt in the office crank and i'm here cranking just outside enjoying the

good good vibes yeah headed back um tell the topic today matt this is a good one yeah yeah we want

to talk about strategic planning we're going to hit that but we also want to talk about and get it kind of your why, you know, I think Simon Sinek's guy says start with why. But we want to kind of dig down and get a little more touchy-feely. We're doing on ourselves right now in planning, trying to set a vision and course for what you want to do.

Because you've got to do that before you go set the plan.

Let's take a moment.

We're going to do that today.

Break some thoughts down and then create a plan of action on what we want to accomplish.

Yeah.

And I feel strongly.

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