Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: The podcast for those who find themselves immersed in adversity and choose to write their story instead of having others write it for them. I'm Drew Duraney and I'm your host.
Today's guest is Nate Wild.
Nate Wild is a Connector curator and catalyst for business growth through meaningful in person experiences. With a deep belief that relationships built face to face are the most impactful, Nate helps entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders to tap into high caliber, highly curated events to expand their network, grow their brand and unlock transformative opportunities.
As the founder of Odigos, Nate is redefining the business event experience, focusing on curated connection, genuine relationship building and strategic collaborations that drive real results.
His work spans across industries from supporting social impact ventures to advising projects in energy, agriculture, mining and the nonprofit space.
Nate also plays a pivotal role in capital formation, helping purpose driven ventures refine their offerings and connect with aligned investors from a global network.
Fueled by a lifelong passion for service and travel, Nate finds inspiration in nature, architecture and the diversity of people.
His mission is to create meaningful abundance and build things far bigger than himself.
Solutions, communities and experiences that elevate everyone involved.
Enjoy the show.
All right, Nate, it's taken a long time to get us to this point.
You're worth the wait, my friend. Great to see you. Nate Wilde.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: Good to see you, my friend. Good to be here.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: Absolutely. All right, first thing I always do is I always thank the individual who introduced me to my guest. So once again, Steve Ramona. Shout out. Thank you, my friend, for introducing me to Nate. I really appreciate it.
So folks, why is Nate on the show? I'll tell you why. Yeah, I always have this criteria. You have to be a good human being, and he certainly is. And then you've got to be doing something in life that people need and he does. And then you gotta be different, unique, with something that sets you apart with the other humans or businesses in the world. And he checks off all three of those.
But another reason why he's here. You know, I always talk about how I believe in the beginning of our lives when we're young.
It's not a malicious teaching. But our family friends, they tell us life is linear. It's a straight path. If we do all these things in order, A plus, B plus C, D is going to happen.
For the most part, life is linear until it's not. There's always external circumstances that come in our path and getting in between one of those letters and derail that straight path in life and make it a more circuitous route.
With that, I truly believe there's three types of men.
There's man number one, who's got a ton of blind spots. He doesn't even see these external circumstances. He figures, I'm just living life the way I'm supposed to. He got on autopilot and that's it. Nothing changes in life.
Then there's man number two. Man number two's got a heightened self awareness. He sees the adversity, those external circumstances, yet he's the victim. That's a barrier to anything in life. That's his life. Doing it to me, I can't change it. It is what it is.
No changes. And on your DeathBed, man number two has got a ton of regrets.
And then there's man number three. That's Nate. That's the men and women I have on this show. Man number three has a heightened self awareness. He sees that adversity and he says, you know, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. That's not a barrier, that's an opportunity. I'm going to take massive action, do something different and become a stronger man on the other side.
So, Nate, reach back as far as you need to for that defining moment. Whether it's the tap on the shoulder, the whisper in the ear, or like what I needed two by four upside my head, that transformed you from the man you were to man number three, who you are now and how you took that transformation and changed your life both personally and professionally. What you, you have for us.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's interesting. I've been. Well, first off, thank you for, for having me on the show. And I love that you shout out Steve. Ramona Drew, you and I have known each other for a while, probably a year, year and a half at this point. But Steve was the one who made that happen. So shout out Steve. I'm sure he's introduced plenty of people who come on your show, so. We love Steve. But to, to answer your question, it was a, it was a gradual change for me. I. You, you really have me thinking about when that happened and what it looked like. And I, I can pinpoint times in my life back when I was younger, when I was the first man, when I. The word I would use is naive.
Really just.
I don't know, maybe that's self deprecating, but it just not aware of what's going on, not totally oblivious of hardships and of, of opportunities and of places I can and should go.
And then I know, probably late teenage years, early 20s. I absolutely was the victim. I was, I could see that there was more to be had out there. I, I lived in Southern California for a couple years. I'm from Idaho, but lived in Southern California and, and met all of these people who were killing it in business and in life and lived in these mansions and lived just a beautiful life, which I'm not saying riches does that to you, but it can allow for some of that for sure, if you use it correctly.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: And I almost felt like a victim. I almost felt like I was, I was not being put in the right place to accomplish. And it's funny because I look back at that and I could see now in my mind today I could see these paths forward that I should have taken and different relationships to foster and things to open up. And I just kind of sat and was a grumpy like little dude about that.
So I think the real shift from, from that like the second man to third, it happened probably not long, probably five years ago I think is probably around where I would say it's.
I was working a couple different jobs. I worked for Google for a little bit. I worked for a couple of years mid level SaaS companies in, in various different realms. I did some management, did some customer service, sales, marketing, like really jumped around and did everything for a little bit.
And it just, every single time I felt like I was in a box, I like, I, I'm a creative person. That is something. I, I'm a visionary to a fault.
And I think that, that every time I would try to find a new way to do something that was a little bit better and try to improve it, everybody would come back and say, no, that's not how we do things here. You're not fulfilling the role. And that's when I kind of got introduced and brought into this idea of entrepreneurship and like, why not, why not go build it yourself? Why not just do it yourself and build it from there? So got connected in with some of the most amazing entrepreneurs that I'm still well connected with today and get to chat with and work with and vision with on a daily basis. And that man, that just makes me happy. I think that's really the transition point. So hopefully that's a fair. I can't pinpoint like a day or a situation, but you know what, sometimes.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: There'S multiple moments like that, but sometimes it's that aha moment where you just have that gut feeling like this doesn't feel right and that's kind of like what you're talking about.
So, so when you had that, that what was your first move? First physical Move away from the corporate 9 to 5 to take that plunge into entrepreneurship. And how did you go about it?
[00:08:26] Speaker A: The first big move that I did, I. So one of these mid level SAS companies I was working with, I prepped literally hours I worked on this document trying to bring to them because it was. It was this human resources system, like SAS system.
We had dozens and dozens of customer service reps. There is extremely complicated system handed it handled anything from time off to payroll, to discipline to onboarding and offboarding legal documents, everything.
So we had so many customer service reps. And that's my job that I was there is just a.
A rep for customer service.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: And we would get on calls consistently and just not like. Like it would take 20, 30 minutes to solve a lot of these. Some of them took hours to solve.
And what we realized is there's most of the time other people had already experienced that and had been in that space.
And there was a search capability that you could go and look through emails or look through different call transcripts. But it wasn't very robust.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: And so I built out. They had this whole AI division of the company. And I built out this idea to kind of combine AI with automation and like almost like a spider web of all the responses that we as customer service reps saw.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: To make it incredibly simple and make it just so much easier.
And I brought that. That was kind of my first, like, hey, I bet I could do this. I bet this is like a 500 person company. I think I could actually take something up to the top level and make a change.
So I did. I prepped this all. I brought it up to them and they said, nate, this is awesome. Like, this is something we could really implement. We're not going to do it. Like, this isn't in our realm. This isn't something that we can do. We need you to go back and keep doing your work.
And so I was broken. It hurt me. Like, I was so excited about it. It made sense to me genuinely. I think it could have like just changed the game for them.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: And so like pretty quick after that I was like, I need to start being my own boss. I need to start making my own decisions. So my first, my first foray into entrepreneurship was as a loan officer. I don't even know if you want to call that entrepreneurship.
[00:10:55] Speaker B: No, no, it shifted into that broker stuff like that. Y. That's good.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Yeah. But I got to control my own, like the way I approach leads and the way I marketed and sell, sold and controlled the Experience for my clients. Like that really, I loved that. I really jived with how that worked and how. How much I could creatively shift it and make that work. So. And then it kind of went from there. Obviously, I don't do anything anywhere near mortgages anymore. But it was, it was interesting because.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: Usually what happens is the last work job we have is usually what we were intended to when we were young. It's like we evolved to that. So after the loan officer thing, what did you transition to?
[00:11:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: What you're doing now?
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Well, I, I.
My good friend, we actually were talking about him before we started recording here. My good friend Josh Tapp, who runs Pantheon fm.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: He called me. We've been friends for a decade at this point. Like, we, we knew each other in high school.
I've did a little. Done a little bit of contract sales work for him in previous iterations of his company. He called me and said, nate, like, I. We're building this really cool thing in podcast monetization.
Would you like to talk? And that's not even what he does now. Like, they've shifted away from podcasts entirely. Come up, come sell with me, Come be a contractor, and we can. We can build this together.
And so that was. I couldn't tell you. That was probably four years ago at this point. I packed up, I was in southern Utah and came back up to Idaho.
Yeah.
And that definitely connects more with what I do. That brings us into, like, the agency and coach consultancy world that I, I play with a lot nowadays.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: I love that way to go through a lot easier. Yeah, Josh's a good man, too.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Just like he is.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Even Josh, those two.
Okay, so now you're in the tap world, working with Josh on. And that now I know you. You kind of broke away. Not from him, but just doing something differently because I definitely want to get to what you're doing now because it's very intriguing to me. So once you, you know, got into what you were doing with, With Pantheon, what. What idea did you have that you need? You wanted to branch out? Because I love.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So we.
When I came in, I told Josh up front, I was like, josh, you got to know my plan. I have committed to this. I'm starting my own thing. I want to come and build what you're doing, but once I get this figured out, my plan is to exit and start to build this. And he was fully supportive. He's. I want to build it with you. Let me, let me know how I can help you best, which I appreciated so what we saw is that every single coach consultant, agency, even like mid sized business, they wanted two big things.
And maybe I'm generalizing too much, but they wanted a podcast.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: And they wanted a retreat.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: They wanted to build some realm of those two things. And yet those two things were always put on the back burner every single time.
And travel has always been one of my true loves in life. Like I, oh my gosh, going and experiencing culture and being places and food and that is, is amazing. And so I was like, I, I, I, I love to plan trips, events, things like that.
Why not step into the event world? Why not build up something on that side? So I took a lot of the same things that Josh was doing to help monetize fill use podcast the best way. And we kind of funneled that right into first retreats and then we added more like one off in person events, webinars, virtual summits, like built it up from there to be as experiential as possible and kind of open up as many doors as we could from there. So it was a really good journey that got us to where we're at.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Love it. All right, so tell me about the first retreat slash event that you did. Like your, what was yours and how did that progress and how did it go? Give me like the steps of how do you do some kind of event? Your first one, what do you had to do?
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Sure, sure. Well, it was, it was quite the process getting to the first one, honestly, because it was, the model was weird and we weren't sure how to price it, how to approach it, who to market it to.
Because that's, that's the kicker is that podcasts have, if we're talking that podcast and retreats, podcasts have a much lower barrier to entry than a retreat does, which is great. Like I think it's wonderful. But we'd get in a lot of conversations with people. The first one, what was that? Let me think back a couple years here.
Oh my gosh. I think that was. So we, we did a joint venture with a couple of hosts and Josh was actually one of them. He decided to come on board with this. We got three different guys that were in a couple different fields. Josh does a lot of marketing. We had a guy who does sales and one that does more operations. So kind of hitting on the three realms of business, which was really good. And we, we went down to Orlando.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: And just had a blast. Like all of our events are extremely experiential. We hate the conference room feel it's always like we try to go someplace that's off the, the beaten trail and someplace that they can actually have a great experience. So we went kayaking in a state park down there and just this gorgeous area, great food. We've gone back multiple, multiple times. I think it's my favorite venue at this point. But the, the kicker with it and to, to answer your question about like how, how it works, what you have to do to approach that, it's filling the events. That's part of what we realized is I, I, I've never wanted to be just an event coordinator. I don't want to just step in and like run an event.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: I've always been like, let's design it. Let's figure out what the end goal needs to be and how we can approach that and everything that we can implement to make it happen.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: And with that, let's, let's figure out how to, how to fill it with the right people and how to build up referral partnerships and kind of make it all make sense. So I've, I've start, I've started telling all my clients or all my potential clients. It's like 85% of my work happens totally outside of the event itself. It's in like relationship marketing. It's in connecting with the right people and helping them to commit to being in the room and opening those doors. So.
But it works phenomenally and it gets me excited.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: That's great.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Does that answer your question?
[00:17:57] Speaker B: It does. No, it does. It does. So do you target certain types of events, types of themes, type of people? Like what have you evolved to now? Because I know you were, you had one company was called Luxury. What was it called? Luxury.
[00:18:10] Speaker A: Luxury Mastermind Experience.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Right. And, and tell me a little about that experience and how you transition to what you're doing now.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: Sure. We originally the, the plan was to target masterminds, high level coaching groups, things like that that we could build retreats for them.
But it's expanded a lot that, especially with the upfront work that we do and that we focus on our specialty is, is, I'll call it smaller events. We do some larger events. Like we're hosting a pretty big virtual event in July.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:44] Speaker A: Hopefully this comes out before then. I don't know, but I'll work out.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: When, when are you by?
[00:18:48] Speaker A: You said.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I will have out before that. Absolutely.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Okay, perfect. If it was my podcast, it might be further.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Now. Especially now you told me you have something coming up. I'll definitely.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, it, we're we're doing one there that's much bigger. But what we realized, to answer your question, is that it really, at the end of the day, it's the people that work best for what we do and that get the most value are the ones that are trying to build business based off of relationships and trust.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: So it's the ones that can't be like the offers that can't be sold from cold outreach or like a paid ad or anything like that. It's the ones that has, call it a nurture cycle to get people in the door and get them to trust you and know you and like what you're doing.
The events that we're doing kind of gives a lot of value and step to help them to get up there as well as continuing relationships. We do a lot with like fulfillment with current clients, bringing them in to help them connect better and get more done in two days than they would in a couple months or referral partners. So that's really what it's expanded to. It's all relationship based. Everything is how to deepen that and make better connections.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: All right, so now your current company is called what?
[00:20:08] Speaker A: Odigos. Odigos Events.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: Tell me, tell me first how you got the name.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: And then what you're doing now with. With it.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: It's.
We got on a kind of a, this kick of really loving like the Greek and Roman stuff. And again it's with Josh. Like Josh isn't even like a full business partner of mine, but we always call our company sister companies. We work next to each other, so he's got the pantheon and all of these like Greek and Roman things. And so I was like, can I do something there? Like, I'm sure we'll be working side by side for a long time. Is there something cool? So I was looking through all these different possibilities. I think Chat GPT helped a lot with this once upon a time. So.
And I came down to Odgose, which is guide in Greek.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: It's the Greek word for guide. And that one just stuck out like that made a lot of sense for what we were doing and where we were going with this. And so it's stuck and it's built up with the events. It's built up with every like global thing that we're doing. It's. That's kind of the name stay for a long time.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: So I love it. I love it. Now you, I think you told me, didn't you have some kind of event in March that you were playing in Florida or something?
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did actually, back in Orlando. We were back in that same spot, so. Oh, my gosh. Well, we've. We've started to shift some of our events to be hyper curated, so these weren't. This one wasn't for other people. It was an OD Goes event, specifically.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Okay, great.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: I filled the room, brought all of my. My good friends. I wish you could have been there. I know it would have been a blast.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: But next one, man.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: That was next one. I let you know. We. We've got more coming up, so.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: But the. The key with that is, is we try to fill the room based on who's already in the room.
So fill it up with five or 10 people and then have really good conversations about what they need and who they're looking for. If they're looking for capital or super connectors or partners in certain offers, if they're looking for clients, whatever it might be, then we go and find those people and invite them into the room and bring them there, and then we figure out what those people need and what they're looking for, and then it kind of makes a spiderweb of connections, so.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: Oh, I love that.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: It makes for a very. I call them hyper curated events. Yeah, it really is.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: They are hyper curated.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: Exactly that. That's the goal.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: So. So the one in March in Orlando, what was the theme? Like, how, like, if I was there, which I wish I was, so let's. Let's say I was there. What would I experience?
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's. Are you asking for that one in particular right now?
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Right now? That one in particular, and then what your vision is for another one. Like how you're gonna. Because I know you. You want to make everything better than it was before.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: So, sure. Let's start with the one that happened and then where you want to go.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: With Orlando, it turned into very much a kind of a collision between agencies, nonprofits, and a couple people in, like, financial services.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: So just kind of the intersection between each of those.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: So we had how that could help.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, yeah. So it all came together.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: They came together, and Josh was a sponsor for that one. I. I think this podcast more about Josh than anybody else right now.
[00:23:36] Speaker B: This is the Josh.
I love it.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: But he came and. And with what he's doing at Pantheon now, he used to do podcasting, and now it's referral marketing.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: Right.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: And helping people build referral systems.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: So he came and taught and facilitated and helped us all to, like, connect better and Ask for referrals and kind of open the right doors and for that room. Oh my gosh. Like, it was, it was.
I. I think Josh and I both agreed that it was the best room we've had and that it just. The caliber of the people there, the things we were doing, like, it was a blast. And as I understand and from my follow up, it seemed like people got some really excellent value out of it and the connections were just invaluable. So it was the. Very much a collaboration event. We don't do the keynote or.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: No.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Just speak at you sort of got you.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: So it's different from what I'm accustomed to. Yeah. Because I'm used to those. The keynote.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: That's why we launched this all is. We're sick of that. Like just it's. It's valuable. Education and helping connect the right people is so valuable. But especially if you're in person, like, why not spend as much time as possible meshing and connecting and figuring out where you can help each other and.
[00:24:56] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: What doors can be open. So.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: I think it's key.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: So where's the vision now? How do you. How are you going to make. Make it even better?
[00:25:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
How do we make it even better? We're really leaning into that hyper curation side.
I think that that's. As our network expands and build. Not just mine, but we have a ton of referral partners and people that have been a part of our events or have seen what's going on that are. Are pretty keen on what we're doing and what. Where it's going.
We want to just expand this first off. I mean, expanded geographically. Our goal is to get to Lisbon in London by the end of this year or the start of next year, and then Australia early into 2026 as well.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: But ultimately the goal is to just.
I realized recently that what we do, it's not events necessarily, obviously that's the vehicle.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Right.
[00:25:54] Speaker A: But it's. It's firmly based around relationships and relationship marketing. It's. It's connecting and collaborating and bringing the right people together.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Love that. Yeah.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: And kind of that mindset shift has, has opened a lot of doors to help make it make more sense what we're doing. I guess it makes it clearer how we can help accomplish that better.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: Which is.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I love that approach because I've gone to so many of these events where you go to each listen to certain speakers and. And there are people in the audience you're not even thinking about.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: There May be people you could build relations in that audience and it's. You're on your own to get to meet them. But I mean I would have loved, and I'm going to at some point go into some of yours, but venues where you're encouraged to get to know the attendees.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Not necessarily just there to listen to a keynote speech and take notes and, and apply it at home, because you can do that plus get to know the audience, you know.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: I love that, love that approach.
Anything else that, that you think the audience should know that we haven't touched on, that you want to let them know what you're up to or any advice or anything at all?
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Oh man. It's a good question. I think just ultimately it's. I have become so, so much a champion of this like, realm of relationship marketing. Like every call I get on and every person I talk to, I'm like, oh man. Like, have you thought about increasing how you connect here, building this up? And I really, I think that every single business, whether it's high level, like $100,000 a year coaching or whether it's like buying fidget spinners from Walmart, anything like that, there is space to build up relationships and connection, an emotional connection between your brand and the buyer. There's always space for that. And it doesn't have to take the, the space of this big event or anything of that sort. But there's always stories that can be told and different causes to back and people to share and things to, to empower with what you're doing. And I, I really am, am such a firm believer. I think we're really shifting in the market where cold outreach and yeah, paid marketing and things like that. It's not nearly as valuable or as, as useful as it used to be. It doesn't work quite like it did. It really is. People work with the people that they know and trust.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: That's where we're at right now. They buy from that too.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. And I noticed that a lot. There's, there's still a lot of those hackers and cold marketing people. I mean it's hit on almost every platform now. Even like LinkedIn. Some will be.
It'll make sense to connect with them because they, they wrote it differently and then you connect and then right away it's, you know, would you like to buy sales page? What the. You know, I love the relationship marketing.
[00:28:52] Speaker A: So.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: God, God bless you, Nate. That's a, that awesome approach.
So, you know, folks, I'm certain, I believe you certainly captured the essence of Nate Wild. And you're going to want to get in touch with him. So here's how you can do that on LinkedIn. Go to LinkedIn. It's LinkedIn.com in Nate. N A T E-Wild W I L D Reach out. Definitely reach out to. To Nate and. And what's the website again? Because I don't want to butcher the Greek word for God.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: You're good. Od events.com o d I g o s Yep, that's it.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: As it's okay, od goes. Okay, od goes what?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Odgose events.com.
[00:29:30] Speaker B: I'Ll put that in the show notes. I'll put that in your LinkedIn.
All right, so folks, listen to this. You ready? Hey, Nate, I'm gonna ask you two questions, all right? First one, vision. Visualize. You're in your happy place and you're sitting down with young 7 to 10 year old Nate and you want to give him advice about life. What are you going to tell him?
[00:29:56] Speaker A: I think I would tell him to lean into creativity.
I think more than anything, I think in a world where creativity is stifled and like genuinely I schools and everything kind of teach you to be, be in one place and don't think outside the box.
Don't subscribe to that. Really, truly and genuinely lean into the creativity that you have and make it. You make everything you're about. Because that's, I think if I had figured that out earlier, I, man, I would have gotten on this journey even earlier and been more excited and confident with it at that point.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: I love it. Lean into creativity. All right, so we're, now we're going to shift hats now you're talking to young Nate, the young businessman, young entrepreneur, and you want to give Nate advice about business. What would you tell them?
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Oh, you warned me about this question before we started and I, I had a good one for the 7 to 10 year old. But men, you know, that doesn't seem so long ago. It seems like I'm talking to, it's definitely a different Nate, but I think I would probably tell him to aim high, stop aiming low. Stop. Like, don't, don't look for pennies because there are people willing to offer thousands and thousands of dollars for what you're doing. I think that that's, it's, it's a confidence thing to just aim high, look at the stars, aim for that.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: I love that. It's like understand and know your value and don't, don't negotiate it down.
Know your value and what you provide for others as far as. As far as that value. That. That's great advice. That's. That's great advice. Well, Nate, I want to thank you for a bunch of things coming on. Number one, coming into my life.
I certainly know that we're going to build a long relationship here, and I want you to.
You.
You inspire me because you're probably half my age and. And I'm old enough to be your dad, probably, but I'm proud of you. And keep being the human being you are and keep doing what you're doing because you are in empowering yourself. You're empowering others to lean into creation. So keep doing it, man.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: I will. I will. And I. Can I push that back to you. Thank you. Drew, I genuinely like you are such a good man. I'm sure everybody listening can get the feel and, like, you can pick up on. On how good someone is through their, like, the content, things they push out. So I hope that people can genuinely tell how sensational Drew is and what you're doing and what you're building.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: So thank you.
[00:32:41] Speaker A: And I mean that genuinely. I really, I. I do.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Well, take care of yourself, man. And everybody out there, please take care of yourselves.
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