Stephen ScogginsFounder - CEO, Lion - Lamb Solutions · Founder CEO Unstoppable Solutions

Success = 🦁🐑 Balance #shorts

3 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short spoken piece, Stephen Scoggins recounts a pivotal piece of advice his grandfather gave him when he launched his first business—the foundation of his later ventures and leadership work. The grandfather told Stephen to live his life as "one part lion and one part lamb," meaning he must combine bold, aggressive market pursuit with loving, supportive, and encouraging behavior toward his team. Stephen expands the metaphor by likening this balanced character to Christ, who displayed both decisive boldness (e.g., overturning the money changers’ tables) and compassionate fellowship (e.g., sitting with Peter). He argues that mastering this duality is essential for building an extraordinary organization and that without such balance, success is unattainable.

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My grandfather, when I went to go start my first business, the first business that actually became the foundation for everything that you see and all the amazing team members and everything, which by the way, you will never build an amazing organization without an amazing team. There's no way it happens. My grandfather said something very simple when I, especially when I built the business and I began this journey of teaching and leading and speaking and writing books and stuff like that. He said, Stephen, for the rest of your life, I want you to remember that you're always to be one part lion and one part lamb. You need to be bold and aggressive and go after the marketplace. You also need the lamb to know when you need to be loving, supportive, and encouraging other people around you. If you can figure out a way to incorporate being one part lion and one part lamb, you will be the Christ. Not you will be Christ, but you will be like Christ in that Christ exhibited boldness, aggressiveness, turning over money changers' tables, all that kind of stuff, and sitting down with Peter. Peter, do you love me? If you can learn to be one part lion and one part lamb in all you do, there's not a single gate of hell that can touch you.