This is a short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "Fight to Ignite Episode 6 Sneak Peak" (created by Tanya Hughes). Multiple speakers discuss service-oriented careers, leadership (leading from the front), and the power of giving people opportunities to change their lives. A repeated testimonial describes a woman named Deanna who moved from a $38,000/year public-safety job to running a business that paid all expenses and left $170,000, and who later made nearly $600,000 in a year. The group emphasizes legacy, coaching/teaching, and impact (the starfish anecdote) and mentions the organization Equus as a home for service.
Questions this video answers
$38,000 per year.
$170,000.
Almost $600,000.
Chapters
You can stand there and let it hit you and think that you're a victim and not go anywhere and stay stuck. Or you can dodge it and not get anything out of it, or you can simply catch it and you can look at it and analyze it, say, what can I learn from this? How can I grow? What can I change? It's what I was looking for. I'm not sure how to put it other than that. When you've been in service and you've been serving people for as long, my whole career, basically service in some form of another. So it's really great to have found a home for that here at Equus and to be among the groups. Awesome people.
Everybody wants to do this, but we're not really taught. My wife's a school teacher, right? And I know in school, they're not really teaching you how to get on this side. They're saying, grow up, go to school, college, and come out and get a good job. They don't say, go ahead and go get a good business. So it's not about what you do, but it's about the results you produce. When I'm long and dead, I don't think anybody's gonna be like, man, that's him. He was selling insurance for a long time. I want them to say, man, that was the legacy that he left. That was the legacy he built, right?
You have an opportunity to change somebody else's life. With no sales experience. One year later, she had.
After she paid her taxes and after.
She paid all of her business expenses, she had $170,000 left over. And this is somebody that came from making $38,000 a year, carrying a gun, going, getting the bad guys. We had given Deanna an opportunity to change her life. Last year, she made almost $600,000 doing this. Barry Clarkson says, when you hire someone, you give up the right to be average and. Or you can't teach what you don't know. You can't lead where you won't go. That's what it means to lead from the front.
Kid walking out on the beach and all these starfish washed up on the beach, and he's throwing starfish back. And this old guy, Senegal old guy comes up to him and says, you can't even put a dent in what you're doing. Like, you're not making a difference in what you're doing, right? You picked up a starfish and tossed it back, and you said, I made a difference to that. For us, that's where this all starts and stops. Right? It's how many lives can we change with what we go out and do?
There's always something on that one phone call. There's always that something on that one dial session on that you miss. Literally can be a difference if you, like, put another or.
