Kenny Chapman (the 'blue collar coach') delivers a short Freedom Friday Focus video encouraging viewers to evaluate their closest relationships and core leadership team. He cites an MIT study claiming most people earn within $3,000–$5,000 of their five closest friends, asks whether your core team fuels your goals or extinguishes them (gasoline vs water), and urges intentional investment in supportive teammates aligned with your values and mission.
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Hey, my friends. Kenny Chapman here, the blue collar coach, coming to you with a little freedom Friday focus today about your closest team. So I want you to think about this, right? Your closest relationships. MIT did a study that revealed that most people earn within three to five thousand dollars of their five closest friends. Many of you might go, hmm, I need to think about my friend group a little bit, right? So check it out. What I want you to think about is your company. When you think about your leadership team, when you think about your core, 3, 4, 5, close. Are they supporting you? Are you growing them? Are you investing in them? Are you helping them become better as people? Are they taking some of the load off you? Are they driving the company? Do they share your core values? Are they in line with your mission and your vision? All those things matter, my friends. Yeah, I think about the. The exponential influence that we're having at blue collar now because we've lined up the right things, the right team around us. Everybody's supporting everybody. We're working in unique ability roles. We're doing what we're supposed to do when we're supposed to do. What about you? Do you have core around you that are totally supporting you, that you're making better, that are making you better, that challenge you, that aren't? Yes, people. That's what it's all about, my friends. When you think about who you are, what you want to accomplish, the only thing holding you back is sometimes those around you. So I want you to think about it. My buddy Les Brown talks about the fact that when you go on a walk, somebody sets the pace. You're a pacesetter, my friends. What's your core look like? Until we talk, my friends. Look at that. You think about gasoline and you think about water. You got a spark. Does your team put gas on it and fire it up, or do they pour water on it and put it out? You need to think about that. I want you to have a better than fantastic weekend until we talk, my friends. Cheers.
