6ers, your journey of leadership is a personal development like no other. It is a continuous self-exploration, and you work hard to strike the balance between listening to others as you take the opportunity to also share things about yourself, including some of your failures, and what you learned from them.

This week, Tony Nash is joined by Michael Klemmer, a US Army veteran, founder of Aerial Resupply Coffee (Premium small-batch roasted coffee, roasted in America), and the Director, Military Affairs and Service Business at Bacharach Inc.- design, manufacture, and service of combustion gas analysis and refrigeration leak detectors, and monitoring instrumentation. He believes in enabling others by sharing life and business lessons from building Aerial Resupply Coffee with the public. He retired from the Army in 2020 at the rank of Major.

You'll discover that by changing your mindset and acknowledging you don’t know everything, you’ll be able to gain more insights. You will be humbled quickly and you will learn a lot by having the courage to ask questions and field observations. This right attitude develops a leader mindset as you share the insights you learn with your peers and team members helping them build their skills as well.

As a result, you’re building your own great team and you’ll avoid struggling as you scale your business because you have a capable team behind you. By making the purposeful choice to be transparent in your own journey, you empower the people around you and they avoid becoming the untapped potential.

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Resources mentioned:

Commit Foundation

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• 01:08 - How far Aerial Resupply Coffee have come in one year


• 01:57 - Focus on the system, not the outcome


• 03:39 - Building his business based on transparency and crowdsourcing information


• 06:21 - Learning about marketing by crowdsourcing information from his network


• 07:54 - A vulnerable military experience that immediately changed his mindset


• 10:41 - Looking at the blueprint strategy of organizations that came before you


• 13:20 - Having a clearly identified niche you want to focus on


• 15:53 - Giving yourself credit for the work done with a tactical pause


• 18:16 - Entrepreneurship is a self-exploration journey


• 20:21 - Why he recommends the Commit Foundation


• 21:30 - His transition from being task-oriented to being fully present in the moment

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Here is how to connect with Mike Klemmer:

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