This is the question that our guest today Jordan Montgomery opens up with as he shares the story of where he went from having everything to having nothing.   

 Jordan Montgomery, the owner of Montgomery Companies, is a highly regarded performance coach and keynote speaker whose clients include business executives, sales organizations, and entrepreneurs. 

Jordan travels to speak and coach executives at Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and salespeople from small-town Iowa to a dominant force in the performance coaching industry. 

In addition to his work speaking and coaching, Jordan is an accomplished business leader who has managed top-performing sales teams in the financial services industry. 

Jordan resides in Tiffin, Iowa, with his wife Ashley, and his three daughters, Audrey, Claire, & Olivia. When he is not writing, coaching, or speaking, Jordan spends time with his family and enjoys the outdoors. He is a lover of sports and all things Iowa Hawkeyes! 

 And today, he opens up his story for us to learn the hard lessons he has to walk through.   

Topics Covered:

• When dreams don’t align with your values  
• Rebooting your life from the ground up 
• Learning to lead oneself while looking in the mirror 
• Helping your kids understand whom God made them be 
• Doing the Bible in a year program with your kids 
• Why learning to process your thinking out loud is important 
• How physiology affects the psychology 

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How are you making your big life decisions?

How often are we just running towards the next outcome in life.  I find it often when I look back in my life that I didn’t slow down enough before making a big decision in my life.  Today I am talking with Jim Crider and he has a great story of having setting himself up right and spending the time to know where he wants to go. 

Jim Crider is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and the CEO of Intentional Living FP. Jim tells every client he works with that his job is to help them live the life they want to live. He understands that money is simply a tool, a resource that is there to help his clients live their dream lives. His role is to guide, to live where his clients’ lives and money intersect, and to help his clients make intentional decisions. Through thousands of hours of study, tens of thousands of conversations with clients, and countless financial and life goals planned for, Jim and the team at Intentional Living FP know and anticipate the planning opportunities their clients will face, and they serve as a guide to their clients as they navigate the inevitable decisions to be made. When he isn’t helping people make financial decisions that will help them spend time doing the things they enjoy with the people they love, Jim is busy being a husband, an outdoor adventurer, and a dad to 3 boys under the age of four!

Topics Covered:

• Getting out of that place you just don’t feel life is working
• Why not me mindset
• Understanding money goals
• Working through money stories in our life
• The lie that more money will make us less stressed
• Working through the fearless nature of kids every day
• Breaking the rules when designing your life

Episode Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM)

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Are you good at taking your own advice?

I think most men struggle with this including myself.  The military creates a culture where we have a large influence on others’ directions as well as reflecting and making sure we lead by example.

But the one thing that we can get wrong is that we often live in the bubble of the Military and forget how we influence our family.

Our guest today Paul Huszar talks about his blindness to prioritizing his marriage and how it cost him it in the end.  What he had wrong with his thinking, and how we would do it over again.

He is the CEO of VetCore LLC a franchising agency helping Veterans start disaster restoration businesses.  He has a 23-year career in the United States Army and achieved a lot. 

Topics Covered:

• Experience at West Point
• Deciding when to get out
• Managing priorities of family while serving
• Following your own advice
• Managing the loneliness at the top
• When to challenge your command structure
• Finding your purpose
• Finding what your good at
• Finding what you can get paid for
• Freedom through Entrepreneurship

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Ever had those moments where the kid’s emotions are at a 10?

Let’s face it, if you are a parent and that has not been your case I would tell you to write a book as you have the holy grail of parenting. 

Today on the podcast I am talking with Debbie Godfrey who started a blog called PositiveParenting.com in 1994 and 30 years later she is the leading voice on Positive Parenting techniques.  Her kids have grown up and had kids of their own and watching the seasons of parenting change has been a real blessing for her. 

If you have ever wondered what life is like in my home and what parenting challenges I face on a daily basis, wait no more.  I open up with some of the big questions that I am facing and the challenges I am learning to walk through. 

Topics Covered:

• What was it like starting in ’90s on this topic
• Acknowledging the season of parenting you are in
• Positive Parenting and Emotions
• Helping kids get through a strong emotion
• Learning emotions are a temporary state, this to will pass
• How to help bring closure to kids for something hard to process
• Finding the emotion behind behavior that is unrelated
• Working through power struggles between siblings

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