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as Winston Churchill reminds us, success is all about going from failure to failure without losing
enthusiasm. This is I Will Not Lose Podcast, where we set out to prove everything is learned
from failure. We must persevere and recognize it as one step closer to success. I'm your host,
Tony Ortiz. We're going to jump right in. First and foremost, happy Memorial Day to my first
response listeners. We're dropping on Memorial Day. Happy belated Memorial Day if you're tuning
in later in the week. And if you're tuning in well into the future, don't worry, the message
is still relevant. So I will not lose podcasts. Just the inspiration for this podcast drives a
lot and aligns with military disciplines. So I thought it would be interesting, although myself
am not a veteran or I've done no military service, I come from a family with a lot of
military service. My father's a Marine. My uncle is not military, but police, state trooper.
um my cousin is active marine and army um so it runs in my family a lot of the discipline
things like that have been pushed down to me i myself am a bit of a free thinker
the military wasn't a path for me but i still think that the values can be
applied to everyday life so with this episode we're going to go and just kind of talk about
some military disciplines, some things that are learned through military training and how that
can adapt to civilian life. So if you're out barbecuing, having time with family, spending
time eating good food, listening to music, just know those freedoms are protected by people who
have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country to be able to continue to do this. Memorial Day
is absolutely significant. A lot of people think of it as the start of summer, but for many people,
it represents people who have given their lives in military service in one way or another in many
of the different branches. So in order to kind of pay homage and speak about not only the freedoms
they help us protect, but the values that the military kind of instills and how that can be
applied to civilian life. So believe that there are people who would love to take these freedoms
from us. Just our luxury, the things that we have in the first world, in our Western society,
you know, they can be taken for granted, but just know that they come at a price. You know,
our military protects our assets. So it is one thing, no matter, you know, this is not
my opinion or to make you sway or feel one way or the other. People have love for our government,
people have hate for our government, but that's not what this platform is about. We're going to
be focusing on what I can apply to my civilian life and what I think you can adapt to yours.
So without getting started, we're going to talk about adapting under pressure, perseverance,
the importance of teamwork and leadership, discipline and time management, as well as
handling setbacks and failures, all things that come from a military mindset that can be adapted.
So when you're talking about adapting under pressure, the ability to make quick decisions,
quick and finite decisions, and not be stuck with, you know, analysis paralysis, being able to,
you know, you're going to do everything you can to account for everything that's going to happen,
but things are gonna you know shit happens things fall out of place so being able to adapt to that
being able to um make way of a business crisis or if you're in a public speaking event if you've
ever had to give a presentation and you go to speak into the mic and there's problems with the
mic there's some sort of feedback or you're not hearing anybody at all and while they're messing
around with wires, trying to figure out what to do, seasoned speakers going to just say,
hey, can you guys hear me?
And if enough people say, yes, I can hear, then they're just going to project their voice
and they're going to work without the microphone until it gets set up.
And usually by the time the mic is set up and they run it to the speaker, they say,
I don't need it anyway.
And they continue to go on.
So being able to adapt under the pressure of public speaking, or even I know when I've
put on live show presentations. We've put on live presentations where you have multiple cameras and
audio inputs and, you know, you test everything and you run it right beforehand, but all of a
sudden you go live and you can't hear one of the speakers and you have to adapt. You have to figure
out, okay, is there an additional mic that maybe one of the producers is using? And I can just give
them the headset real quick and we'll figure it out on the other end and work on fixing the headset
for somebody who's doing audio monitoring rather than somebody who's actually speaking.
There's all sorts of things that under pressure, you have to just adapt quickly.
Big shout out to DJ Jamal Knight.
I believe he was on DJ Focus's podcast telling the story of DJing an event in the summer
and he was worried about his MacBook overheating.
So he put like a bus pan of ice with napkins over top and was trying to keep the laptop cool the whole time and still run the set.
And like my palms are literally sweating as I'm hearing him tell this story.
Pretty sure I saw DJ Menace put something about having to keep laptops cool.
So whenever you're in any sort of live performance or you're in any sort of situation where you're entertaining and there's a lot of technical things that can go wrong.
uh improvisation is one of the best skills that you can have and they'll teach you that you know
in in combat and now these one thing i want to kind of side note all of the things that they
teach you in the military are really to keep you alive you know whether it's listening to commands
whether it's following orders whether you're just uh improvising or using a tool that you don't have
or making a tool, you know, these are all things that keep you alive. So it's a pretty interesting
thing, even down to the way they have the communication so that you don't mistake
something over a walkie talkie or something. But yeah, all sorts of ways to adapt to pressure.
If you've ever had to give a presentation with no mic, if you've ever tried to set up for a video
shoot and you account for everything, you try to make sure everything's charged, but some little
adapter piece that connects the third light might be missing. And now you have to remember that
I usually keep duct tape whenever I'm shooting a video shoot, whether or not you're just going
to gaff some wires. I mean, you can have gaff tape, but the duct tape comes in handle if you
need to like prop a camera or something. I mean, you don't want to account for having to do
something makeshift, but it's going to happen no matter what area. I mean, I could go on and on for
ways that you have to adapt under pressure, but I think that's a very big one. Perseverance,
tenacity, the will to keep going. Things are going to get tough regardless of whether that's
completing a mission or whether that's just getting to your job on time. Things like traffic
occur. I hate to compare combat to traffic, but in your everyday life, you're going to deal with
things that make you want to quit, that make you want to not continue to keep going. So whether
you're working on a difficult project, if you're job hunting, I know post-corona there was a lot
of people who were really struggling with job hunting. It seems like every place is hiring,
but yet nobody's hiring or you can't get past an interview so it was uh it was difficult there's
still people still i know people in the job market so wish perseverance on them you know i wish
perseverance for them to be able to continue um even if you're just pushing through a tough workout
you know um if you're working on a degree a postgraduate degree or even an undergraduate
degree. Hell, if you're finishing high school, there's perseverance that's involved in academia
as well. And if you're an entrepreneur, big shout out, you already know this. You have to persevere.
You're only employed until your next job. I mean, even if you have contracts that last a year or two
years, it's not guaranteed forever. So no matter what kind of an entrepreneur you are, whether
you're selling services or you're selling goods, there's going to be setbacks. There's going to be
things that happen. So adopting a mindset of perseverance is going to help you no matter
what you're trying to accomplish. Big one in the military is teamwork. Teamwork and leadership.
You know, whether you're a part of a team or whether you're leading a team, there's so many
things that this can be applied to in everyday life. I mean, even if you're just, let's say for
Memorial Day, you're coordinating a barbecue and it's not just one person that puts together all
the food, brings all the gifts, brings all the drinks, plans the menu. I was just at a barbecue
yesterday big shout out to uh Myra and we were out there with Bob and Layla it was a great barbecue
there was multiple people taking turns on the grill there was somebody inside cooking up a
steak Stephen cooked one of the best steaks that I had with an amazing pan sauce and it was like
you know somebody had put beer inside of a chicken and put the chicken on the grill to make a beer
canned chicken. And it was just all sorts of like teamwork in preparing the feast, preparing
everything, delegating the responsibilities, knowing who's bringing what so that you can put
everything together, sharing the responsibilities. I mean, even if you're volunteering for a community
picnic or a community event, you know, you know what your job is and what you bring to the table
and you stick to that job and see how that affects the whole team. It's good to be cross-trained in
some of the skills that your co-workers or your co-volunteers or co-family members,
I don't even think that's a word, co-family members, your family members, you're going to
have to communicate with them. You're going to have to provide some sort of like what I was
saying about being cross-trained in their skills, you know, maybe you can cook as well as make a
drink. And even though that one person is the bartender and they're the person that's known
to make the best margaritas for the drink, maybe somebody else knows the recipe. So if that person's
busy with the kids or the dogs, somebody else can step in and take care of it. You know, these are
things that come from military and being able to be cross-trained in different skills that can also
be applied to civilian life so if you've ever played uh sports even for recreation i mean i'm
trying to think i've been recently playing a ton of disc golf with uh brian and some friends but
disc golf is not so much uh i mean you can play teams and you definitely have to collaborate with
a team member but just knowing i mean i've played volleyball been a wrestler even though
that's an individual sport you still need to know how you making weight affects somebody else
if i miss weight then my partner my uh you know the person who's a bit lighter than me is going
to have to wrestle a weight up just because i didn't make weight so you're always bringing
something to a table you know even if you're an entrepreneur or a solopreneur like you'd call it
Like myself, you know, I run a creative business, but there's contracts, there's other people at
agencies that I have to work with in order to get a job done. So knowing how I fit into the
main wheel, knowing what my mission is per se, is a great skill to have.
Another skill, discipline and time management. So the military places great emphasis on the
efficient use of time. Not only do they have their own set of, it's called military time,
where it runs through the 24 hours in a day rather than going 12 hours and resetting.
But you need to know where you need to be, when you need to be there. You have just enough time
to get done what you need to get done. And this is what it can feel like if you're running a
business or you're in a fast-paced career, you have to prioritize your tasks. In the high-paying
jobs, you don't get to just be told what to do. You may have a list of things to do, but you're
not given it every day or every hour. You're given, okay, here's what you have to get done
for this month or this week, and you have to make the best use of your time to get it done.
So one of the tools I use for productivity all the time is listing. I write everything down. If I'm going to talk about it on the podcast, if I'm going to accomplish it, even if there's a different load of laundry or some extra stuff like blankets I want to get done.
I write it down and I prioritize every Sunday in the beginning of every day and look at what are
my tasks for the week what's the most urgent what's the most important because they're two
different things something can be due on a Monday that's not as important as what's due on a Thursday
but if you got to get it done in time to get it done then you have to start the more important
thing on Tuesday after the other thing is done. So being able to just purge that list and cross
something off the list and know that you got it done is a great feeling. And that little
dopamine response of crossing something off the list definitely boosts productivity. I don't know
the exact stat, but it definitely increases the chance of getting something done by you
writing it down. So anything you could do for time management, if you have an academic schedule,
if you have different classes, once you get out of high school, assignments are really
kind of open-ended and you have multiple different classes that things are due on. So
if you don't manage your time and you wait till the last moment till everything's due,
you're not going to do as well in academia as you should. Discipline and time management in
dieting and personal fitness. I mean, anybody who's lifted weights on any sort of thing knows
the, you know, you have to track your progress. You have to have an idea of what you're going to
lift that day. You have to track what you lifted, what you ate. If you're into bodybuilding,
It's an insane regimen.
I mean, one of the craziest sports that I didn't even realize, but physique, not necessarily
bodybuilding, but overall physique competitions.
People are dieting and training for months in order to go into that competition.
So I don't know.
I pride myself on great time management.
And it's, it's funny, I kind of take it a little too far. Sometimes in personal conversations, I'm using the phone like a military walkie talkie. It's like, get this across real quick. And okay, we got everything. We're good. Okay.
how's the weather I guess sometimes communicating just for communication's sake I have to remind
myself you know this is something that people do socially and it's not always bad to wonder how
people perceive the weather you know just hearing whether or not they think it's too hot or whether
they think it's beautiful that could be something important but I do digress military training
involves learning from mistakes and setbacks. So how to handle failure and setbacks. I mean,
this podcast is a weekly reminder to persevere and continue to recognize it as one step closer
to success. So we dedicate a whole podcast and a whole episode just to how to handle different
setbacks. But there's so many, we're going to keep it brief and just continue to break them
down into episodes and continue to keep the mindset of perseverance, but you're going to
have career obstacles. You might get passed up for a promotion. You might think that you've done
everything and you're ready to go. And then you go into your interview and something just doesn't
go wrong or somebody else has more seniority than you and they get the job. Now you have to wait
another two years and you might've had your whole life planned out on how this new career and this
new position was going to change things. You're going to have financial setbacks. You know,
things happen. There's parking tickets add up. Things just happen. You may have a medical bill
or a copay that's due that you didn't plan on paying or depending on your insurance.
Fortunately, America doesn't have the greatest health care system where if you're sick,
you can just get treated. It's a lot more complicated than that. I mean, you could be
fully insured and still not be treated. So that brings me to my next thing in my list, like health
issues. Nobody plans for getting sick or being told, hey, we need to run a biopsy because we
think this might be cancerous. Nobody plans for things like this to happen. And it's not
necessarily a failure, but it could definitely be a setback. And having a perseverance mindset
and saying, okay, this is something that I'm going to continue to push forward with.
You can get terrible news, but still, there's people that get even terminal diagnoses and
they still live the rest of their life happy or free. And there's nothing wrong with that.
You have to have a mindset of persevering through relationships, struggles, academic
challenges, career obstacles.
One of my favorite quotes is everybody's going through something that nobody knows.
You know, especially in a world with social media, you have people who are presenting
the absolute best versions of themselves.
You know, they posted that they got that new car.
they didn't mention what kind of debt that put them in or if they're going to be paying it off
for the next 12 years you don't know what people are going through so they may just be posting hey
I'm having a great day and inside they know they just need to really reach out and connect with
somebody and somebody needs to send them some positivity and you may just be thinking wow this
person has it all together I always see them they're happy they have a life that I want to have
So when you're comparing yourself in a world of social media to everybody else, just know that people are going through things. There's something you have that you're not sharing that you might not go and run to social media to put it out, especially when it comes to relationship struggles.
you know look at the trophy couple and guaranteed they go through some things there's a big thing
where they say uh if you're married for a long time there's times that you wanted to split
there's times that things happened and it's just a matter of you haven't given up you persevere
through relationships you know nobody i know has a absolute perfect textbook relationship
I mean, even in Disney movies, things happen, you know.
So that kind of wraps up what we have in terms of the structured portion of the show.
I wanted to get into some announcements before we wrap up.
Andrew Schultz is coming to Wind Creek July 28th.
So tickets are available.
This is not sponsored or anything.
But Andrew Schultz is a comedian that I've been following for years.
He also has a podcast, Brilliant Idiots, that I definitely listen to and have listened to for
years every week. It was part of the inspiration for me to get into podcasting because I thought
it would be great to build a group of listeners that can all adapt on a common theme. And you
know, you have no idea what that podcast has helped me get through personally. So this is
kind of me paying it forward. I figured, hey, shout out this show. I got my tickets. I know a couple
people that did. The seven o'clock show sold out in like 10 minutes. So even at the time of me
posting it, they may or may not still be available through Ticketmaster. They had the best price I
found. So other than that, I've settled on a service for remote guests. So just got to work
through the technical stuff, figure out what it would take to produce guest episodes. Audio
quality you know this is an audio quality i'm sorry an audio podcast first and foremost so the
youtube and the video portion of it is secondary but that being said we want to make sure that the
audio is absolute quality i know sometimes zoom calls can get a little muffled or you have
technical difficulties so i'm going to do some test episodes with that before i go and put
anything out, but do expect some remote guests from season three and beyond, because that's
going to open up the world to people who aren't even in my tri-state area. It's going to be able
to open up to some of my friends out in the Midwest or Portland, Oregon. So I'm excited for
that. As far as guests, we do have one locked in. We had Heidi Markow of Beginning Over Foundation
sharing her story that one's going to be a banger so i can't wait to drop that that's in post
production now so no drop date but that's going to be coming soon uh there is a drop date for
a town slim competition is three dropping 610 um i like what they did there with the drop date
the area code 610 so that's easy to remember 610 that'll be available in all streaming platforms
that's produced by phase one we had earlier on season two on as a guest um that's his project
that he was talking about dropping so at least now and maybe the next week i'll keep on announcing
that hopefully that'll blow up on 6 10 uh that's all i got for announcements thank you for rocking
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