A YouTube interview (Mick Hunt hosting Rocky Garza) focused on self-awareness and personal growth in leadership. Key themes in this chunk: success is a journey ("success is not a destination"), the difference between disclosure and true vulnerability ("very good at disclosure and very bad at vulnerability"), how leaders can block company growth by hoarding decisions ("hold the title... hold all the cards"), and culture being defined by tolerated behaviors ("culture is not what you pontificate, it's what you tolerate"). The conversation also includes lighter personal material—music preferences and stage-intro anecdotes—that humanize the guest.
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Success doesn't happen overnight.
No.
Well.
And I think not only does success not happen overnight, but success is not a destination. Like I think that's why.
Did that make you sheltered?
Yeah. I realize about the age of 30.
Not that you didn't trust people, but it was more of I don't need to get close because this is temporary.
I was very good at disclosure and very bad at vulnerability.
Was that a Rocky feeling?
I was very good at giving you what you thought was vulnerability, but for Rocky it was simply disclosure.
The biggest reason that most companies don't grow is because of that. You hold the title, but then you also hold all the cards and you won't play the hand.
I want you to imagine if you're a leader currently and ask yourself if visionary and integrator rubs the wrong cord with you and you're thinking, don't tell me what I am, what I'm not. Let's give it an analogy sense because we all like a good analogy.
Problem number two with most businesses, the companies that celebrate small success us usually have a much better culture. Rocky guards with the floor is yours.
Yeah, totally. Culture is not what you pontificate, it's what you tolerate. That's Rocky's fancy word, cuz I like rhyming. Culture's not what you say it is. It's. It's what behavior you do, you allow.
Welcome to MC Unplugged where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves and game changing conversations. Buckle up, here's Mick.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today we're joined by a transformational speaker, an amazing coach and an author who's dedicated to helping people uncover their true selves. With a gift for connecting deeply and challenging individuals to live authentically. He's empowering leaders and teams to create meaningful impact. Please join me in welcoming my dude, the authentic, the impactful, the fearless, my guy, Mr. Rocky Garza. Rocky, how you doing today, brother?
Man, I'm doing wonderful, Mick. Thank you so much for having me on the show. From now, by the way, if I can grab that record, I'm gonna take that with me to my next keynote. And when they say they're gonna read my bio, I'm gonna say, hey, no thank you. Just play this instead. I'm gonna let them play that and I'm gonna walk out right out to right on the stage to Bad Bunny or something. I think I just said my thing. I just got my new intro.
Well, speaking of that what's your Bad Bunny song?
Well, my newest Bad Bunny song is the first. The new one is the brand new one he just came out with because it. I can't get enough. He did. He did a bit with Jimmy Fallon that they do in the subway and people just lost their minds. But it is. It's like throwback roots to a song historically that lots of folks know. And then he sort of took that and remixed it into his own. So when you hear it, there's like a whole TikTok thing right now. Like, the older generation hear it and they're like, oh, I love it. They're dancing. And then it like breaks into his part and everyone loses their mind. So I'm a big Bad Buddy fan.
So we are brothers from another mother, right? I can't tell you one Bad Bunny song, bro. So my music taste is anything 80s. Anything 80s, I don't care the genre. 80s was like it for me. And then 90s hip hop and R and B.
Okay, now we. Now I got you locked in there. The 90s hip hop and R and B. I'm dialed in with you. That was like all I listened to in that range. 80s. There was like a period of my life. Maybe we'll get to it later. Period of my life. There was not a lot of pop culture for me in the 80s that gravitated to just because life for me in the 80s wasn't. Was kind of more survival than it was pop culture references and so on. I kind of. I grew up fairly quick early on in my life, but 90s hip hop, I'm with you and only reason, let's be honest, that I know that is because there's a couple other Bad Bunny songs that I really liked. And then that just led to I'm a. I'm a. When I pick something and like it, I kind of just stay there. My wife makes fun of me all the time because she knows about all kinds. She's way smarter than me, and she knows all kinds of. And then references and not just pop culture.
