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Hard decisions have to be made every single day. Sometimes they have to be made where we remove any personal desires from a specific outcome we want from a situation.\xa0 We make personal decisions, business decisions, and decisions that ultimately affect decisions of others. The easy way is always a great option, but true leaders do not take the easy way. It\u2019s never an option.\xa0 Today\u2019s podcast is a true picture of how true leaders make impactful decisions in the real world.\xa0

Josh Wilson is Founder and CEO of JW Enterprises, Off-Leash K-9 Training with offices in Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and Texas.\xa0 He\u2019s the founder and host of The Big Dog Podcast talking about life and business with people from all walks of life.\xa0

Tom and Josh have been acquainted for the last 2 years in Apex and they jump in like two friends sitting at a bar having a drink as they talk about the importance of making hard decisions, sometimes unpopular ones, and the weight of responsibility that comes with making them. Josh shares a couple of FOMO moments in his life recently, but stuck to his immovable commitment to his clients, his employees, and his executive team by putting them first. Josh and Tom talk about the value of investing in good employees and the disconnect many employers have when they look at the numbers on the P & L. They discuss the hiring process and how they set people up for success inside their organizations by looking closely at their true talents and assigning them to positions accordingly. Tom and Josh talk about the bullshit excuses we all tell ourselves and the importance of mindset and the biggest lie we tell ourselves about having everything we want.\xa0\xa0

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What You\u2019ll Learn:

• Why Josh shut the doors on one of his businesses
• How company culture and looking at the bigger picture of the lives of the people he employs are impacted by his decisions, right, wrong, or indifferent
• Why you shouldn\u2019t hire people based simply off a P & L
• What Josh does when he realizes he\u2019s hired someone for one job that truly fits in another position\xa0
• The power of setting up your team for success and why it\u2019s important to talk to them about finances\xa0
• Tom shares why he hates working out, but more importantly, why he continues to do it every single day
• Josh shares what it\u2019s like having teenagers and the stark reality of what he represents to them
• Why Josh stopped being an early riser recently\xa0
• The power of delegating responsibilities to the team you employ
• How Josh came to the realization that he\u2019s only operating at only 40% in his life and why it\u2019s supercharged him recently to make some serious changes
• Josh shares the value of creating a powerful workplace for his people\xa0
• ROI and how it\u2019s directly connected to your personal care
• Tom shares 3 benefits that have come from him investing in himself first and the ripple effect it\u2019s created in his family
• Why it\u2019s important to have a network that will push you and how hiring people to tell you what to do will save you time and make you more productive\xa0
• And much more!

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Favorite Quote:

\u201cThat audit of your personal time and more importantly of the staff you do have, their time, is like where can we maximize?\xa0 We\u2019ve shifted people to so many different roles, hired them for one thing and figured out they would thrive somewhere else and do better. It\u2019s a matter of figuring out the right seat.\xa0 Just because they\u2019re in the car with you doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re in the right position.\u201d\xa0

• \xa0Josh Wilson\xa0

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