IAM2386 – Embrace the Chaos: A Franchise Broker’s Revelation

In this special episode, Gresham Harkless believes in the importance of energy in life and business.

He recently had a conversation with a coach about transformation, where they discussed the concept of letting go of things that no longer serve you.

Gresham emphasizes listening to one's body and intuition and mentions how physical sensations, like anxiety, can be signals to explore deeper issues.

Gresham discusses the importance of staying in tune with their spirituality, reading God's word, and maintaining a relationship with Him to make informed transitions.

Furthermore, he refers to the essential of being open to change, especially self-initiated change.

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Intro 00:00

Are you ready to hear business stories and learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and level up your business from awesome CEOs, entrepreneurs, and founders without listening to a long, long, long interview?

If so, you've come to the right place. Gresh values your time and is ready to share with you the valuable info you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.

Gresham Harkless 00:29

Hello, hello, hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast. And this is a special episode of our I AM CEO Podcast.

And this is actually going to be a snippet of a snippet, so to speak. I'm just doing an intro because I've been starting to document my journey into starting what is now called Blue Star Franchise.

We're also going to do a kind of sub-site within CB Nation called Franchise CEO. So you'll see some links in the show notes related to that.

But just wanted to give you a little bit more insight, give you a little bit more color in some of the aspects of why I'm actually doing this.

Because one of the things I was doing as I was going through training to start up this new business was realizing and hearing from the founder of FBA, the Franchise Brokers Association, that it'd be really cool to document your journey going through and building this out.

I think it's something that would be super helpful, obviously for people that are looking for and thinking about starting franchises.

But frankly, if you're starting anything, any type of business, I think it's really cool to kind of just even see the journey and how it's been going from there.

So I'm going to share a few of those snippets from the, from the first couple of videos that have been created.

But definitely, of course, subscribe to our YouTube, check out a lot more where I figure out exactly where we're going to post this.

So I'll have that information that's available to you. But regardless, if you're a builder, continue to keep building, continue to do your thing.

The world definitely needs exactly what you're trying to build and needs you to be your unique self.

So make sure to run your own race, because nobody can run your race like you. This is Gresh signing out. I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.

Hello, hello, hello. This is Gresh here. And I think it's day 27 or so of this franchise broker journey and actually had a call, I want to say it was Thursday or Friday where I talked with somebody who I hadn't talked with in some years and she's a coach, and she does some phenomenal work.

And I remember having some really powerful kind of sessions with her. She does a lot of, like, kind of energy work and.

And, if you really drill down, I'm a big believer as well, too, and that so many things are energy and, if not everything is energy.

And I'm not a big scientist or I know a lot about exactly what is, and how to explain everything, but I do believe strongly and that there are so many things that are energy.

But one of the things that we end up talking about, she said she had a lot of transformation in her business because she had to pretty much kind of let go of things that things kind of crash and burn and do those things that they did.

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And I asked her, which is what I wanted to kind of talk about today, is how do you know when and maybe even how to let things go?

And she said, sometimes you just kind of have to let those things go. Sometimes you pray about it.

And as I get ready to go to church, it's like you just want clarity around what things should be, what things should not be.

And sometimes when you try to control all the things and you try to keep and prop things up, that ends up being a hindrance to what actually could be.

So as I go through this transformation myself, as I start a new business and do all those things, I'm trying to be very cognizant to what things maybe are at the end of the season or at least needs to be like the Phoenix and kind of transform from what it was to what it ultimately is.

And I feel very called to have that media company kind of mentality and mindset around everything that I'm doing.

But it does require a lot of us letting go of things that we did in the past. And that's really hard and difficult.

But one of the podcast interviews and actually a conversation I also had this past week, we talked a lot around.

Your body will sometimes tell you what you should be doing and how we should be very cognizant of, like, how we feel if we feel like that apprehension or we feel like it doesn't.

Doesn't feel right for whatever reason. It can be classified as like, woo, woo. But I believe in reality, sometimes our body tells us based off of interactions.

Sometimes we can't even put into words, like, if you feel like a little bit more of anxiety, it's maybe because of something that has happened, doesn't necessarily mean that it's right.

But it just makes us aware of something we should be kind of looking more into. So those are really huge things and really big things that I think we need to pay attention to when our body's telling us something, when we have kind of like that quote-unquote gut feeling, or we have that intuition or however you define it.

I believe truly that God speaks to us in many different ways. So for me, I think that sometimes God is whispering to us and telling us those things, and those whispers get louder and louder and louder and end up being a really big transformational moment.

But I think it's on us to continue to kind of make sure that we're checking in with God, we're having those conversations, those relationships, reading His word so that we can know when to make that transition.

So as I go through, this transition that's happening in my life and as I add on more things, it's also very important that I let go of things or let things kind of transform into the things that they're going to be.

So that's something I'm really focused on, is just like not being so. Not having my hands clenched around the things that I want.

And I, when I was talking with my wife this morning, a lot of what I said on the podcast is don't let the how get in the way of the why.

And, why you want to do things, why you want to make that impact. Don't let the how, like, distract from that.

And so that's something that's really, coming up a lot for me as I go through this transition, this change of, like, what am I clinched onto that I need to let go of?

And I say this a lot, too, being like the kid in the jungle gym, what rung do I need to let go of so I can swing to the next rung?

So that's something that's really big, is just understanding what to let go of, what to move forward to, and just how that's going to happen.

So I'm excited because I like change. I like new things. I like change that I initiate. Let me say that rather than change that is initiated to me.

But I'm a big believer that we initiate that change that helps reduce the likelihood of things that are happening to us.

Trying to be really on top of, like, taking those step forwards and see what comes from there. So grad signing out.

Yeah, it's just all about change all around, letting sometimes things crash and crumble because the things that are the essence of what you're supposed to do, how you do it will be left standing, or at least will have to be rebuilt in a different way.

So I'm trying to initiate that and do that in a smooth and methodical way as possible. We'll just see how everything goes from there.

Please let me know if there's anything I could do to help. And of course, looking forward to giving you more and more updates.

Outro 06:19

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