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15 minutes of freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is Leadership.

In today's episode I want to share with you a few impactful

lessons I've learned on how to completely mess up being a leader. So there's a lot of motivational stuff out there, right?

Like, episode yesterday was literally based around motivation.

And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the motivational space.

Some could even say, in I guess some veiled capacity that I have been or

am a quote-unquote motivational speaker which is super crazy to me.

But again, motivation to me always has to come from the inside, can't come from the outside, so that's

something off to work through in my own time.

But with saying that, I don't have a bunch of shit to motivate you on as it pertains to leadership. What I have are a bunch of mistakes that I've made.

See in the car business, when I was finally given a leadership title, sales manager, right? That's a leader role.

Maybe you're a sales manager, your own business now. Maybe you have a leadership position

yourself. And see with my fragile and frail ego and misappropriated sense of self-worth that I had

established at that moment, I thought that once I was a sales manager I was slightly above the rules.

When I say that that meant that if the dealership opened at 9 a.m.

It was okay that I showed up at 9.03. Now you yourself might also be in that same trap.

I like it opens. I'm there about on time. Pretty close. Traffic was bad. I got stopped at the

rather I stopped and got everybody donuts and coffee. How many times have you said one of these

BS excuses to justify why you're not somewhere on time? You see when the store

opens it's not we're opening around about somewhere near if we

feel like at nine o'clock we're opening at nine which in theory if I'm in a

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