Episode 023 - October 12, 2022 - Guest Ryan Emge, successful business owner, husband, and father.

Business Broken to Smokin' Podcast

In this episode of the Business Broken to Smokin’ Podcast, Lodestone True North’s Head Coach Mark Whitmore has a robust discussion with our guest, Ryan Emge. A successful business owner, husband, and father. PART 1

Links to Ryan’s companies:

https://www.freightedge.biz/

https://www.assured.construction/

0:00 Intro

2:01 Ryan talks about his business

8:45 Revenue blindness

34:16 Raising kids with the house project

37:50 Core values

43:30 Book reference - The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” ~M. Scott Peck

48:00 Thoughts on self-discipline

49:15 Poem reference Road less Travelled, Robert Frost

49:25 Book reference Discipline without punishment

56:00 5 books

Bible

Chesterton collections

Collective works pre-nicean church fathers

Paradise Restored by David Shultan

1:09:26 Book reference The Road, Cormack McCarthy

1:16:00 Ryan shoutout to Mark

1:21:40 Lincoln Quote - look up

1:25:18 P.u.l.s.e. Meeting

People, Unearth, Lead, Scorecard, Execute

1:29:00 Family meeting

1:34:39 Movie Oblivion

1:35:25 AAR Meeting (After Action Review)

1:36:30The Huddle meeting

1:37:20 Family Dinner Time

1:39:28 Book Reference Grit by Angela Duckworth

1:40:27 Song Reference - The Highwomen, “Crowded Table”

1:47:51 Book Reference - Thou Shalt Prosper by Rabi Lapin?????

1:49:29 Recruiting Flywheel

1:55:55 Monitoring your Core Values

1:59:10 Book Reference The Advantage by Pat Lencioni

2:06:04 Compelling vision

2:09:00 Teeing up the Story of Ryan’s dad, and business transition

2:10:52 Question for Mark from Ryan: Balancing Business and Family Life, prioritizing energy, bring life and fruit to work family and personal family - Answer S3

2:20:30 80/20 principle

2:22:18 Book Reference Steve Jobs biography

2:24:15 How does the family, marriage, and business all tie together before coaching them

2:27:00 Ryan shoutout to Mark

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**Credits**

Music - The Living Years, Mike & the Mechanics @3:45

Book reference - The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck

Book reference - Grit - Angela Duckworth

Book reference - The Advantage - Pat Lencioni