A Meaty Return For Manly Connection, Growth, and a Fine Meal of Brisket:

We return to the man-zone barn with smoked brisket while bringing back together another amazing group of men for our 2nd edition of our MEN OF MINDSET gathering. An evening of growth-oriented MEN with a meaty dinner and male bonding.

Quote: Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success! ~ Edward Everett Hale

Key topics included the challenges and opportunities in our respective industries, such as the impact of the pandemic on restaurants, changes in real estate commissions, and the need for skilled labor in construction. We emphasized the importance of resilience, continuous learning, and adapting to new trends. Our conversations also highlighted the need for better leadership, work-life balance, and the importance of teaching the next generation valuable skills and lessons.

Your Co-Hosts This Evening:

• ANDRE YOUNG: I’m Andre Young; speaker, author, and Founder of You Evolving Now, LLC. I have taken my 19 years of experience as a Mental Health Therapist and focused on marital, individual, and group counseling. Along with my life-altering experiences as an individual, athlete, employee, and business owner, I created a movement of Positive Living, Personal Growth, Relationship Growth, Healthy Living, and Lifestyle Enhancement. Through this movement, we are enhancing Work/Life Harmony and Leadership on-site for Companies and Schools!
• DALE KESSLER: Dale is the proud owner of Realty 365. “Our goal in dealing with our clients is to prove real estate can be both a fun and profitable experience. “The time to buy or sell is NOW!” By leveraging technology and experience we aim to ensure your experience with a real estate transaction through our brokerage is nothing short of AMAZING! If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home, call Dale and consider it SOLD!
• WES MORRIS: Westley has a story of hope, resilience, perseverance, determination, and commitment. Westley captures his audience with his energetic style of speaking and adds value to his clients by giving them the tools they need to overcome any obstacle. He transfers emotion to others through his tell-all story and has been known to cause even the hardest man to tear up.
• BRIAN STRAUSER: Husband, Proud Father, and Owner of Strauser Home Improvements here in Bethlehem, PA USA. At SHI, we not only strive to grow personally, as well as professionally, we also devote a lot of time in helping others do the same.
• ED HANNA: Husband, Father, and Co-Owner of Union & Union, a purveyor of casual American dining. Union & Finch is an American style bistro located at 1528 West Union Street in Allentown, PA, USA.
• STEVEN LOCKLEAR: Fellow adrenaline sports fan, proud patriot, and Sales Pro with Sales Management Solutions here in Allentown, PA.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Shoutout to Stan Chan, Master of our Meaty Dinner of locally sourced, grass-fed brisket!
2. The power of knowing your industry and the insights for growth.
3. Our youth and their personal and professional growth to impact our industries and their futures.

Men of Mindset Guest Co-Host(s) Links:

1. Andre Young – https://youevolvingnow.com/
2. Dale Kessler – https://www.realty-365.com/dale-kessler/
3. Wes Morris – https://westleymorris.com/
4. Brian Strauser – https://strauserhomeimprovements.com/
5. Ed Hanna – https://www.unionandfinch.com/
6. Steven Locklear – https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-locklear-7b744772/
7. Scott W. Mulvaney, Author at HotshotBook.com and Founder of https://livethefuel.com/

Mentioned Influencers:

1. Brad Modrich – https://bradmodrich.com/
2. Rob Eschbach – https://f13performance.com/
3. Stan Chan on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/stanchan8/

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/U80Hpr2W5t8

Timestamped Show Notes:

23:00 – I appreciate him just helping me kind of hone my mindset, which it’s all mindset. You know, one of the things when you hear a lot of this stuff, and when I’m thinking about you guys in this room, and the people I care to spend my time around, is we’re not willing to fail. We’re like the type of people that it doesn’t matter what is thrown at me. I don’t care what the job is that I come in front of. I don’t care what the situation is. I’ll figure it out. It’s just my job. That’s what I do, and I pride myself on it, and I think that’s something that we’re losing in some of these younger kids these days. I’m a huge kid advocate, love the youth, and and putting my time and investment into them. ~ Brian Strauser

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Get A Will! Don’t Pay Yourself To Care For Family:

Will Young made his mark as an entrepreneur and civic leader, helping raise more than $25 million dollars for companies and nonprofits in his capacity as board member (serving on ten boards), and business owner from 1996 to 2011. After writing four business books, a knock on his door in 2011 changed his world forever. Now he writes and records books, podcasts, plays, keynotes, movie scripts, short stories, and blog posts from his own life experiences and failures.

Quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Live With Gratitude
2. Be The Comeback King
3. Be Yourself

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

www.unlikelyfelon.com

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/aYJqru2_UIM?si=oMHmXkYrovareDlb 

Timestamped Show Notes:

05:20 – The funny thing is, when they came in the house that day, my wife and I, we still joke about it to this day… You have to find a way to look at it, that’s exactly what the first couple of years of this was like. It was hard, but you kind of you relax with it. We joked around because neither one of us knew what was going on. I looked at it, I thought, was she cheating on me with somebody? Is she in the mafia, something that I don’t know about? Is she living a double life? All these weird thoughts. Then she’s looking at me going, are you looking at weird stuff on the internet? I mean, just all these thoughts, because you have no idea nowadays, and then, why are these people in our house?!

10:45 – We had to end up selling our home, we had to end up dealing with all kinds of different issues that weren’t documented. So I’m doing the best I can based on what I believe they wanted. Well, there were other family members who disagreed. So that became a big point of of problem.

20:00 – The number one thing is, anybody involved, and I mean anybody, step relatives, uncles, aunts, brothers cousins, friends down the street, they should all be involved in all the decisions for clear communication. Either in writing, in a group meeting, etc, so that there’s witnesses that can say, yeah, I saw that all 10 of us agreed with what were doing. I mean, other than what you said, the wills and signed agreements and all that stuff. The other thing too, is just don’t pay yourself to take care of your your relatives. I mean, there’s a lot of different philosophies on that. 

31:50 – We had to have two different attorneys. You can’t have one attorney represent you. So you have to have two separate attorneys. It just became this odyssey, I felt like every day I was getting up and having an out of body experience because it was so not my life of crime. Up to this point, I only had some speeding tickets. I had an open container when I was like 19 years old in college. That was it. So here, I was caught in this thing. Thank God she, I mean, she’s just an angel. To this day, she’s it, she has incredible friends. She’s an incredible person. Thank God because if she wasn’t, she would have left me in a heartbeat.

40:50 – I think it was smart move. I don’t have a legal background. I’m not here to say whether you are guilty or innocent. I love the fact that you’re honest. You say, we definitely screwed up, and we definitely didn’t do some things that were within the legal process, that’s why we got nailed. Then you stepped up and you owned it because you want to protect your family and not get drug through a massive trial of hell. 

50:00 – Assisted living doesn’t stay easy, even when we put them both in assisted living. It just made a lot of our challenges even worse, because you still have to get them to doctors, you still have to make sure their fed, they have clothes. I mean, people think well, we just put them away. You got to pay for it. You got to be involved in all of it or find somebody or pay somebody to be involved in it. 

54:20 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

If I narrowed it down to three key points… Number one would be gratitude. It’s important to have that, no matter what’s going on in your life, find the good things to focus on the good things. If you focus on the negative and the bad, that’s what grows. I mean, we hear that all the time on every book and self-development podcast. It’s probably cliche, but here’s the reality. It probably saved my life, just finding that gratitude.

Second thing and this is what I teach my kids all the time, is you can come back from anything. Truly anything, if I could survive this, and again, there’s people who’ve been through way worse than me. I mean, God forbid you lose a child or there’s just things that are way worse than what I went through. But the reality is if you can come back from whatever it is, if you just keep working, you can come back. But that’s what I tell my kids all the time.

I think the third thing is, it may be around the word, or the feeling of authenticity and love. Being yourself. I think I was pretending to be somebody. I mean, there were bits and pieces of me that were me. But I was losing. One of my friends said, you know, back in that day, you were so buttoned up. I was like, what do you mean buttoned up? He said, it was like, we didn’t get to see the real you. We didn’t get to talk to the real you. Even now, it’s hard for me. I mean, it’s hard for me to say I’m a convicted felon, that it’s like I just said, but it’s the reality and it’s me, and it’s okay. I’m okay, because I’m still a good person. I’m still living a great life.

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