My name is Clay Stairs. I am the founder of ClayStairs.com and the leadership initiative.

Growing up, as I went through middle school and as I went through high school, I was pretty much a big fish and a small pond.

And so I felt I had an over inflated sense of self.

So once I graduated from college, I might have been like a lot of folks.

Graduated from college, terrified.

So I ran to ministry, ran to the church really quick.

From there, I jumped in to being a school teacher.

But all the while, I knew there was something more inside of me.

I took over Shepherd's Fold Ranch, which was a summer camp and retreat center.

But then once again, now here I am at about 47 years old.

And I'm feeling like it's time. There's this shift beginning to go on.

Like, okay, at this place, I've done what I've needed to do.

It's time for me to expand.

It's time for me to grow. But I didn't know anything about how to run my own business.

As I made that shift from being the executive director of a nonprofit organization into running my own company,

I found out really quickly where my weaknesses were.

I've got to know something about sales and marketing and all those things that terrified me.

And so it was about at that time when we were doing some fundraising for Shepherd's Fold Ranch

that I met a young man named Clay Clark.

Clay would tell me, it's just a formula.

Do these things and outcomes, production, outcomes, money.

I just didn't believe him.

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