- CEO Story: Stacey opts to have a working background rather than going to the University. Gone to Portugal and around the world doing part-time jobs. Up until when he was 26 years old, with the help of online courses, Stacey really pursued his passion for health and fitness.
- Business Service: Workout labs training- online coaching platform. Create workout plans for the client’s specific needs.
- Secret Sauce: Healthy nutrition and fitness into your lifestyle.
- CEO Hack: Surround yourself with at least five people who are better than you.
- CEO Nugget: If you keep trying different tactics, something will definitely work out
- CEO Defined: Time and work freedom to achieve your true purpose
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00:23 – Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and sales CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkins values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.
00:48 – Gresham Harkless
Hello, this is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today Stacey Quick of mustardfitness.com. Stacy, it's awesome to have you on the show.
00:58 – Stacey Quick
It's awesome to be here. Thanks for having me.
01:00 – Gresham Harkless
No problem. It's great to have you. What I wanted to do was just read a little bit more about Stacy so you can hear about all the awesome things that he's doing. Having cycled through 20-plus professions by the age of 25, Stacy had a clear idea of what he didn't want to do. He decided to scrape together a small amount of savings and plan what he was going to do as a career. He only knew that he didn't want to report to a boss, nor did he want to request permission to take a vacation. Based on those two self-set rules, he began working on his new online fitness coaching business. It was the best move ever. Stacy, are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?
01:37 – Stacey Quick
I am. How are you all doing today? I hope you're doing well. You're probably warmer than me. I'm a little bit chilly at the moment, so excuse the sound of the heater.
01:45 – Gresham Harkless
No problem. I'm chilly as well too. I'm not a big winter person, so it's great to have you on the show and I wanted to start out everything by hearing a little bit more about your background and what I like to call your CEO story.
01:57 – Stacey Quick
Sort of started about the age of 20 when I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to go to university. It's very, it's a lot more liberal in the UK to not go to university and instead kind of choose a working background. So instead of doing that, I booked a one-way ticket to Portugal, which is where I sort of worked for a while, and then headed around the world doing some odd jobs here and there before I got to the age of about 26 and thought figure out exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I guess that's a really good place to be because, in this day and age, you can really choose. You're kind of spoiled for choice. With online courses and global transport and the ability to contact anyone you want within reason at the click of a button. I thought I'd like to take my career online and pursue a passion I've always been interested in, which is the industry of health and fitness. So yeah, here I am.
02:47 – Gresham Harkless
There you go. Now that makes perfect sense. It's always funny and I love reading your bio and everything, how it's always, like I say, contraries. Sometimes you figure out what you want to do based on what you don't want to do because you didn't want to do all those things. So now you know exactly why, what you want to go, and where you should be directed.
03:03 – Stacey Quick
Yeah, it's like a process of elimination. You've got to try a few things. I mean, coming straight out of university or whatever, these kids today are just kind of forced straight into the profession they've always been told to do. I think that it's necessary to try a few things first, which is, I guess what I did. I've had some interesting professions, that's for sure, some of which my mother wouldn't be too proud of. But here I am.
03:24 – Gresham Harkless
Well, I wanted to drill down a little bit deeper and hear what you're doing with Muster Fitness. So how are you supporting the clients that you're working with?
03:31 – Stacey Quick
Well, I mean, I found a great online coaching platform called Workout Labs. Workout Labs Train is the website and so this gives me the ability to create workout plans specifically for client's goals and needs. Through this platform I could then sort of put these workouts or apply these workouts to their calendar where these clients can have access to them on their tablet, laptop, or cell phone, whatever they want.
I can keep an eye on how they're doing online virtually and of course, if necessary, send the necessary motivation through WhatsApp or email or however I stay in contact with them. Along with that, I'm a fitness nutrition specialist, so I go through a complete nutrition plan with them and recommend some yummy recipes just to get them on the way to their goals.
04:17 – Gresham Harkless
Awesome. It sounds like accountability is a really big part because a lot of times people have goals and I'm sure they come to you with these things that they want to do, but sometimes they need somebody to kind of stay, keep them true to those goals and do all those like kind of the things, the details that make up becoming and reaching those goals.
04:36 – Stacey Quick
I mean, the thing is, most of the time it's usually just a small change that needs to be applied. You get people coming to me who they've just tried the same thing over and over and it's never really worked. They just need to apply it in a very slightly different direction. With that, they see crazy progress and it's usually just a small tightening of a screw that gets them going in the right direction. Direction and once you get going the progress is quite easy to make.
05:00 – Gresham Harkless
That's interesting. Yeah, it's kind of like, I guess it's like, I don't know if you've ever heard this video. It's like 212 degrees is why. Where everything starts to happen and all the actions start to move. If it's 211 or something like that, then nothing happens. But once you change one degree or one inch or whatever, it makes all the difference. So that's what you're kind of seeing with your clients as well too, is that they make a small change and then they start to kind of get rocking and rolling there and you start to see their impact.
05:24 – Stacey Quick
Absolutely perfect. It's a perfect metaphor to use, actually. I'm going to steal that. Thanks very much. Gresham. Never heard of that. But that could have been a better company name, to be honest. I've gone with Mustard Fitness now.
05:38 – Gresham Harkless
That's a great segue because I know this is one of the questions I was definitely looking forward to asking you, and it was for what I call your secret sauce. Obviously being Mustard Fitness, I wanted to kind of hear what you think your secret sauce for yourself or your organization is.
05:51 – Stacey Quick
They come to me and they think as soon as they start a plan, they have to only eat salads and they have to run on a treadmill for five hours a week or whatever just to get in shape. That's not the case. I really try and promote the idea that it's not a six-week plan or a 12-week plan. It's a way of life. You're just going to simply change the way you live. Of course, you can't live on salads and treadmills. You've got to build fitness and healthy nutrition into your lifestyle.
I think it's super important to enjoy things as well. I mean, if it was all about not drinking beer, eating salads, and running on a treadmill, I would be in really bad shape. But it's not. I see nothing wrong with finishing a hard day, busting your ass in the gym, and then, and then having a beer at the end of it. But as long as it's just one beer and not five you've got to find the moderation. That really is key with food as well. I mean, you can enjoy a pizza on the weekend or a hamburger midweek if you're working for it, that's totally cool.
As long as you're 80%, 90% of the time, you're doing really well, you can, you can enjoy. That's what I try to push on my clients, and so then sort of further that sort of unconventional approach. But I see that a lot of personal trainers nowadays are really giving out cookie cutter style plans where they, it's a one size fits all and some people get into really good shape, but it's not sustainable. You have to learn what makes you fit. So I really try to teach my clients the ins and outs of basic nutrition because it's not that complicated, as well as what's required to get in shape in the gym.
The ultimate goal being when they, when they finish training with me, they have it in their own hands. They're completely self-sustainable on their own. They know what to eat, they know what not to eat, and they know how to train. They don't need to worry about paying for a goofy personal trainer.
07:37 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that's important. So it kind of sounds like you're empowering your clients that you're working with. So it's not just like, okay, I'm gonna have to pay you for the rest of my life. You feel empowered as a person when they get to kind of work out with you.
07:50 – Stacey Quick
Exactly. I mean, it's not taught in schools and it really should be, I mean, nutrition should be almost number one. Because if you're not eating well, you're not gonna, you're not gonna last very long. What I do is with my clients, I just say, hey, I mean, this is actually the reason why you shouldn't just eat hamburgers for a living. This is the science behind it, and it's super simple. Understanding what a calorie is isn't that complicated. I like to try and teach these ins and outs just so they understand what to do in the future.
08:18 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, absolutely. Because a lot of times when you're working out or what you're eating, sometimes you're not going to have a personal trainer sitting right beside you to hold you accountable. So it's important that you understand that, hey, this is not why I don't want to eat hamburgers for the next seven days this week. Or drink beers. Drink beers today, because this is what happens. So once you understand that, you can take control of your health.
08:41 – Stacey Quick
Absolutely. I think it's understanding just what's in a meal in regards to calories. I mean, you can really make up for it the next day. If I eat an extra slice of pizza, I know that's probably 250 calories. Okay, guess what? I'm running for an extra 20 minutes tomorrow. But it's not complicated. People seem to think that health and fitness is a crazy journey that you have to start on for the next 10 years. No, it's not that complicated and that's what I try to teach my clients, that they can really manage this on their own, and it might be bad for business in the long run, I don't know. But at the end of the day, I'm all about giving that, as you said, empowerment to people with their own health and fitness.
09:18 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah. No, I think it's huge because I feel like you start to create a tribe, so to speak, because you are being authentic, you are being true, you are empowering the people, so it can't help but attract more people like that. So I think that's phenomenal. Example of a secret sauce. I love that your name aligns with that as well, too. So I wanted to switch gears a little bit and ask you for what I call a CEO hack. This might be an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but it's something that makes you more effective and efficient as a business owner.
09:45 – Stacey Quick
Right. Okay. It's not drinking beer that's not a hack. Honestly. I know it's a little bit generic, and I've heard it a couple of times before, but it works. You should really surround yourself with the five people that you aspire to be like, or at least five people who are better than you at something. If you make an effort to be the worst person in the room at least once a week, you're going to grow faster than ever. I truly believe that if you're around if you want to get into investments and you hang out with five guys or five girls who are into investments way more than you.
You're going to learn so much faster than if you were just alone or if you were spending time with people who are like you on the same level. I think that's super important. Don't tell my girlfriend this. God, I hope she isn't listening, but she is way smarter than me. I don't like to let her know that. I don't think she's noticed, but she's so much more intelligent. What that does is that keeps me guessing and I'm constantly playing cat. I think that's absolutely fundamental to progress, not only in business but in life.
10:49 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Definitely, if she does hear this, I think you just got some cool points. I think it'll help you out in the long run as a win-win comment. I'm sure she appreciates hearing that as well too.
11:01 – Stacey Quick
She's paying me.
11:05 – Gresham Harkless
It makes perfect sense because your environment does determine, who you are and what you want to do. So sometimes if you want to accomplish, especially really high goals and ambitious goals, you want to make sure that you're around people that are already doing that or doing beyond that because that's going to push you towards being that.
11:21 – Stacey Quick
Absolutely. I mean, a quick example is I just started doing MMA for the first time and, yeah, I mean, I go in and these guys are a lot smaller than me. I'm not a small guy. I'm 200 pounds. I'm six foot three. But these guys are small and they, they are beating my ass. But the thing is, I'm getting better and I'm getting better fast. I truly believe it's because they're so much better than I am. It's really both pushing me to get better and pulling me up to their level.
11:48 – Gresham Harkless
Exactly. The idea is to find experts in whatever field it is, whether it be MMA or working out or whatever because that will only accelerate your growth and your advancement. I think that's a great CEO hack. Now I wanted to ask you for a CEO nugget. This is a word of wisdom or a piece of advice, or if you could hop into a time machine, what would you tell your younger business self?
12:09 – Stacey Quick
Okay. A nugget, I would definitely say is if something's just not working which has happened to me a lot, I would repeat things, and I think it was. I'm going to get called up on this, but I think it was Einstein who said, that true insanity is when you keep repeating the same process and expect different results. Right. I completely agree it's a little bit cliche, but I love it. I really believe that because I've done it and I've tried the same.
12:38 – Gresham Harkless
That makes perfect sense.
12:39 – Stacey Quick
Over again sometimes it just doesn't work and it's best to either change tactics or just come at it from a completely different angle, even in an opposite direction. You'll find that if you keep trying different tactics, something will work and when it does work, you just sail.
12:57 – Gresham Harkless
Exactly. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. A lot of times like you said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. So if you want a different result, you have to change your actions or your input in order to make that different. Whether it be, like you said, working out or something in business.
13:10 – Stacey Quick
Absolutely. Yeah, that's completely true. In diet, nutrition, business, and everything.
13:15 – Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Now I wanted to ask you my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of being a CEO. We're hoping to have different, quote-unquote, CEOs on the show. So, Stacy, I wanted to ask you, what does being a CEO mean to you?
13:26 – Stacey Quick
Okay. Well, I got to be absolutely honest. I'm definitely in the development stage. I guess we all are to an extent. From where I am to where I want to be, I'm a very long way off. But my end goal, that CEO position that I guess I have now but in the future, is it's not necessarily the money or the luxurious lifestyle, which is what everyone kind of goes for. It's more the time, the freedom, the financial freedom. Of course, it's nice to have some money coming in, but at the end of the day, if you have to work 60 hours a week all the money in the world just doesn't.
I think that if you can have time and freedom and enough money to have a decent life, you can really spend more time doing what you want to do or learning what you want to learn or being what you want to be or just living how you want to live in general. It's all possible with time. So I think that's what more people should strive for because life's short. You've got to enjoy the time you've got. Right.
14:24 – Gresham Harkless
There you go. Yeah, it's very true. You have to make sure that you're doing something that's in alignment as you said, and making sure that you're working towards what you're purposes on this earth to some degree. So it's great to kind of get that reminder of what being a CEO means and I appreciate you for sharing that with us.
14:39 – Stacey Quick
Yeah. Well, I hope it helps some people out there. I hope someone sort of takes that and goes okay, I'm going to go more for time instead of the riches and the private jets, which I haven't got yet.
14:49 – Gresham Harkless
There you go.
14:50 – Stacey Quick
Who knows?
14:56 – Gresham Harkless
I truly appreciate you for taking some time out of your schedule. What I want to do is pass you the mic, so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional you want to let our readers and our listeners know and how best people can get ahold of you.
15:06 – Stacey Quick
Okay. Well, I mean, like most 15-year-old kids, I have Instagram, which is instagram.com mustardfitness. That's my company name. If you actually go to my website, www. Mustardfitness.com, you can see the history behind the name. I promise you it's not as interesting as you think, but it's worth a read. Final note, this is something I just picked up recently that I'd like to kind of share with the audience if that's cool. I think that sometimes if you've got your end goal in mind, it's great to have a clear path from where you are now to that end goal.
But it's also a good idea to start at the end goal imagine that end position and work your way back to where you are now. Because you might, you might miss something, you might have missed something along the way. Just in regards to planning your dreams and your goals or whatever it is, you're dedicating your time to work backward every now and again and you'll find that you pick up on things.
16:02 – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. I love that begin with the end in mind and we'll make sure that we have those links in the show notes just so that we can find out why he called Mustard Fitness and also your Instagram handle as well too. But Stacy, I truly appreciate you for taking some time out of your schedule and I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
16:19 – Stacey Quick
You too. My man thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure.
16:23 – Outro
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00:23 - Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and sales CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkins values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.
00:48 - Gresham Harkless
Hello, this is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today Stacey Quick of mustardfitness.com. Stacy, it's awesome to have you on the show.
00:58 - Stacey Quick
It's awesome to be here. Thanks for having me.
01:00 - Gresham Harkless
No problem. It's great to have you. What I wanted to do was just read a little bit more about Stacy so you can hear about all the awesome things that he's doing. Having cycled through 20-plus professions by the age of 25, Stacy had a clear idea of what he didn't want to do. He decided to scrape together a small amount of savings and plan what he was going to do as a career. He only knew that he didn't want to report to a boss, nor did he want to request permission to take a vacation. Based on those two self-set rules, he began working on his new online fitness coaching business. It was the best move ever. Stacy, are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?
01:37 - Stacey Quick
I am. How are you all doing today? I hope you're doing well. You're probably warmer than me. I'm a little bit chilly at the moment, so excuse the sound of the heater.
01:45 - Gresham Harkless
No problem. I'm chilly as well too. I'm not a big winter person, so it's great to have you on the show and I wanted to start out everything by hearing a little bit more about your background and what I like to call your CEO story.
01:57 - Stacey Quick
Sort of started about the age of 20 when I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to go to university. It's very, it's a lot more liberal in the UK to not go to university and instead kind of choose a working background. So instead of doing that, I booked a one-way ticket to Portugal, which is where I sort of worked for a while, and then headed around the world doing some odd jobs here and there before I got to the age of about 26 and thought figure out exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life.
I guess that's a really good place to be because, in this day and age, you can really choose. You're kind of spoiled for choice. With online courses and global transport and the ability to contact anyone you want within reason at the click of a button. I thought I'd like to take my career online and pursue a passion I've always been interested in, which is the industry of health and fitness. So yeah, here I am.
02:47 - Gresham Harkless
There you go. Now that makes perfect sense. It's always funny and I love reading your bio and everything, how it's always, like I say, contraries. Sometimes you figure out what you want to do based on what you don't want to do because you didn't want to do all those things. So now you know exactly why, what you want to go, and where you should be directed.
03:03 - Stacey Quick
Yeah, it's like a process of elimination. You've got to try a few things. I mean, coming straight out of university or whatever, these kids today are just kind of forced straight into the profession they've always been told to do. I think that it's necessary to try a few things first, which is, I guess what I did. I've had some interesting professions, that's for sure, some of which my mother wouldn't be too proud of. But here I am.
03:24 - Gresham Harkless
Well, I wanted to drill down a little bit deeper and hear what you're doing with Muster Fitness. So how are you supporting the clients that you're working with?
03:31 - Stacey Quick
Well, I mean, I found a great online coaching platform called Workout Labs. Workout Labs Train is the website and so this gives me the ability to create workout plans specifically for client's goals and needs. Through this platform I could then sort of put these workouts or apply these workouts to their calendar where these clients can have access to them on their tablet, laptop, or cell phone, whatever they want.
I can keep an eye on how they're doing online virtually and of course, if necessary, send the necessary motivation through WhatsApp or email or however I stay in contact with them. Along with that, I'm a fitness nutrition specialist, so I go through a complete nutrition plan with them and recommend some yummy recipes just to get them on the way to their goals.
04:17 - Gresham Harkless
Awesome. It sounds like accountability is a really big part because a lot of times people have goals and I'm sure they come to you with these things that they want to do, but sometimes they need somebody to kind of stay, keep them true to those goals and do all those like kind of the things, the details that make up becoming and reaching those goals.
04:36 - Stacey Quick
I mean, the thing is, most of the time it's usually just a small change that needs to be applied. You know, you get people coming to me who they've just tried the same thing over and over and it's never really worked. They just need to apply it in a very slightly different direction. With that, they see crazy progress and it's usually just a small tightening of a screw that gets them going in the right direction. Direction and once you get going the progress is quite easy to make.
05:00 - Gresham Harkless
That's interesting. Yeah, it's kind of like, I guess it's like, I don't know if you've ever heard this video. It's like 212 degrees is why. Where everything starts to happen and all the actions start to move. If it's 211 or something like that, then nothing happens. But once you change one degree or one inch or whatever, it makes all the difference. So that's what you're kind of seeing with your clients as well too, is that they make a small change and then they start to kind of get rocking and rolling there and you start to see their impact.
05:24 - Stacey Quick
Absolutely perfect. It's a perfect metaphor to use, actually. I'm going to steal that. Thanks very much. Gresham. Never heard of that. But that could have been a better company name, to be honest. I've gone with Mustard Fitness now.
05:38 - Gresham Harkless
That's a great segue because I know this is one of the questions I was definitely looking forward to asking you, and it was for what I call your secret sauce. Obviously being Mustard Fitness, I wanted to kind of hear what you think your secret sauce for yourself or your organization is.
05:51 - Stacey Quick
They come to me and they think as soon as they start a plan, they have to only eat salads and they have to run on a treadmill for five hours a week or whatever just to get in shape. That's not the case. I really try and promote the idea that it's not a six-week plan or a 12-week plan. It's a way of life. You're just going to simply change the way you live. Of course, you can't live on salads and treadmills. You've got to build fitness and healthy nutrition into your lifestyle.
I think it's super important to enjoy things as well. I mean, if it was all about not drinking beer, eating salads, and running on a treadmill, I would be in really bad shape. But it's not. I see nothing wrong with finishing a hard day, busting your ass in the gym, and then, and then having a beer at the end of it. But as long as it's just one beer and not five, you know, you've got to find the moderation. That really is key with food as well. I mean, you can enjoy a pizza on the weekend or a hamburger midweek if you're working for it, that's totally cool.
As long as you're 80%, 90% of the time, you're doing really well, you can, you can enjoy. That's what I try to push on my clients, and so then sort of further that sort of unconventional approach. But I see that a lot of personal trainers nowadays are really giving out cookie cutter style plans where they, it's a one size fits all and some people get into really good shape, but it's not sustainable. You have to learn what makes you fit. So I really try to teach my clients the ins and outs of basic nutrition because it's not that complicated, as well as what's required to get in shape in the gym.
The ultimate goal being when they, when they finish training with me, they have it in their own hands. They're completely self-sustainable on their own. They know what to eat, they know what not to eat, and they know how to train. They don't need to worry about paying for a goofy personal trainer.
07:37 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that's important. So it kind of sounds like you're empowering your clients that you're working with. So it's not just like, okay, I'm gonna have to pay you for the rest of my life. You feel empowered as a person when they get to kind of work out with you.
07:50 - Stacey Quick
Exactly. I mean, it's not taught in schools and it really should be, I mean, nutrition should be almost number one. Because if you're not eating well, you're not gonna, you're not gonna last very long. What I do is with my clients, I just say, hey, I mean, this is actually the reason why you shouldn't just eat hamburgers for a living. This is the science behind it, and it's super simple. Understanding what a calorie is isn't that complicated. I like to try and teach these ins and outs just so they understand what to do in the future.
08:18 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, absolutely. Because a lot of times when you're working out or what you're eating, sometimes you're not going to have a personal trainer sitting right beside you to hold you accountable. So it's important that you understand that, hey, this is not why I don't want to eat hamburgers for the next seven days this week. Or drink beers. Drink beers today, because this is what happens. So once you understand that, you can take control of your health.
08:41 - Stacey Quick
Absolutely. I think it's understanding just what's in a meal in regards to calories. I mean, you can really make up for it the next day. If I eat an extra slice of pizza, I know that's probably 250 calories. Okay, guess what? I'm running for an extra 20 minutes tomorrow. But it's not complicated. People seem to think that health and fitness is a crazy journey that you have to start on for the next 10 years. No, it's not that complicated and that's what I try to teach my clients, that they can really manage this on their own, and it might be bad for business in the long run, I don't know. But at the end of the day, I'm all about giving that, as you said, empowerment to people with their own health and fitness.
09:18 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah. No, I think it's huge because I feel like you start to create a tribe, so to speak, because you are being authentic, you are being true, you are empowering the people, so it can't help but attract more people like that. So I think that's phenomenal. Example of a secret sauce. I love that your name aligns with that as well, too. So I wanted to switch gears a little bit and ask you for what I call a CEO hack. This might be an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but it's something that makes you more effective and efficient as a business owner.
09:45 - Stacey Quick
Right. Okay. It's not drinking beer that's not a hack. Honestly. I know it's a little bit generic, and I've heard it a couple of times before, but it works. You should really surround yourself with the five people that you aspire to be like, or at least five people who are better than you at something. If you make an effort to be the worst person in the room at least once a week, you're going to grow faster than ever. I truly believe that if you're around if you want to get into investments and you hang out with five guys or five girls who are into investments way more than you.
You're going to learn so much faster than if you were just alone or if you were spending time with people who are like you on the same level. I think that's super important. Don't tell my girlfriend this. God, I hope she isn't listening, but she is way smarter than me. I don't like to let her know that. I don't think she's noticed, but she's so much more intelligent. What that does is that keeps me guessing and I'm constantly playing cat. I think that's absolutely fundamental to progress, not only in business but in life.
10:49 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Definitely, if she does hear this, I think you just got some cool points. I think it'll help you out in the long run as a win-win comment. I'm sure she appreciates hearing that as well too.
11:01 - Stacey Quick
She's paying me.
11:05 - Gresham Harkless
It makes perfect sense because, you know, your environment does determine like, who you are and what you want to do. So sometimes if you want to accomplish, especially really high goals and ambitious goals, you want to make sure that you're around people that are already doing that or doing beyond that because that's going to push you towards being that.
11:21 - Stacey Quick
Absolutely. I mean, a quick example is I just started doing MMA for the first time and, yeah, I mean, I go in and these guys are a lot smaller than me. I'm not a small guy. I'm 200 pounds. I'm six foot three. But these guys are small and they, they are beating my ass. But the thing is, I'm getting better and I'm getting better fast. I truly believe it's because they're so much better than I am. It's really both pushing me to get better and pulling me up to their level.
11:48 - Gresham Harkless
Exactly. The idea is to find experts in whatever field it is, whether it be MMA or working out or whatever because that will only accelerate your growth and your advancement. I think that's a great CEO hack. Now I wanted to ask you for a CEO nugget. This is a word of wisdom or a piece of advice, or if you could hop into a time machine, what would you tell your younger business self?
12:09 - Stacey Quick
Okay. A nugget, I would definitely say is if something's just not working which has happened to me a lot, I would repeat things, and I think it was. I'm going to get called up on this, but I think it was Einstein who said, that true insanity is when you keep repeating the same process and expect different results. Right. I completely agree it's a little bit cliche, but I love it. I really believe that because I've done it and I've tried the same.
12:38 - Gresham Harkless
That makes perfect sense.
12:39 - Stacey Quick
Over again sometimes it just doesn't work and you know what it's best to either change tactics or just come at it from a completely different angle, even in an opposite direction. You'll find that if you keep trying different tactics, something will work and when it does work, you just sail.
12:57 - Gresham Harkless
Exactly. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. A lot of times like you said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. So if you want a different result, you have to change your actions or your input in order to make that different. Whether it be, like you said, working out or something in business.
13:10 - Stacey Quick
Absolutely. Yeah, that's completely true. In diet, nutrition, business, and everything.
13:15 - Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Now I wanted to ask you my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of being a CEO. We're hoping to have different, quote-unquote, CEOs on the show. So, Stacy, I wanted to ask you, what does being a CEO mean to you?
13:26 - Stacey Quick
Okay. Well, I got to be absolutely honest. I'm definitely in the development stage. I guess we all are to an extent. From where I am to where I want to be, I'm a very long way off. But my end goal, that CEO position that I guess I have now but in the future, is it's not necessarily the money or the luxurious lifestyle, which is what everyone kind of goes for. It's more the time, the freedom, the financial freedom. Of course, it's nice to have some money coming in, but at the end of the day, if you have to work 60 hours a week all the money in the world just doesn't.
I think that if you can have time and freedom and enough money to have a decent life, you can really spend more time doing what you want to do or learning what you want to learn or being what you want to be or just living how you want to live in general. It's all possible with time. So I think that's what more people should strive for because life's short. You've got to enjoy the time you've got. Right.
14:24 - Gresham Harkless
There you go. Yeah, it's very true. You have to make sure that you're doing something that's in alignment as you said, and making sure that you're working towards what you're purposes on this earth to some degree. So it's great to kind of get that reminder of what being a CEO means and I appreciate you for sharing that with us.
14:39 - Stacey Quick
Yeah. Well, I hope it helps some people out there. I hope someone sort of takes that and goes okay, I'm going to go more for time instead of the riches and the private jets, which I haven't got yet.
14:49 - Gresham Harkless
There you go.
14:50 - Stacey Quick
Who knows?
14:56 - Gresham Harkless
I truly appreciate you for taking some time out of your schedule. What I want to do is pass you the mic, so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional you want to let our readers and our listeners know and how best people can get ahold of you.
15:06 - Stacey Quick
Okay. Well, I mean, like most 15-year-old kids, I have Instagram, which is instagram.com mustardfitness. That's my company name. If you actually go to my website, www. Mustardfitness.com, you can see the history behind the name. I promise you it's not as interesting as you think, but it's worth a read. Final note, this is something I just picked up recently that I'd like to kind of share with the audience if that's cool. I think that sometimes if you've got your end goal in mind, it's great to have a clear path from where you are now to that end goal.
But it's also a good idea to start at the end goal imagine that end position and work your way back to where you are now. Because you might, you might miss something, you might have missed something along the way. Just in regards to planning your dreams and your goals or whatever it is, you're dedicating your time to work backward every now and again and you'll find that you pick up on things.
16:02 - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. I love that begin with the end in mind and we'll make sure that we have those links in the show notes just so that we can find out why he called Mustard Fitness and also your Instagram handle as well too. But Stacy, I truly appreciate you for taking some time out of your schedule and I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
16:19 - Stacey Quick
You too. My man thank you so much for having me. It's been a pleasure.
16:23 - Outro
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