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"Who needs me today, more than I need me?”- Mike HutzelGrowing up as the oldest of 5 boys in a military family, today's guest got use to change early on in life. And not only change, but making clutch decisions fast when facing major forks in the road. Today he shares with us the insights he has learned on his journey of decision making, leadership, mindset, perspective, and the joy of being a dad. From how to handle career changes, to entrepreneurship, to the importance of real relationships, you will be thankful you listened to the episode. Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome to the Mike Hutzel story!LISTEN TO THE PODCAST 🎧WATCH THE PODCAST 📺Mike Hutzel | Thinking from the Perspective of Others, Making Conscious Life Decisions, & Being a Dad GUEST BIO: As CEO, Mike leads the teams associated with revenue for the company, that include the sales teams, partners and allies, consultative partnerships and franchises. Mike leads the vision of EagleONE and contributes to the ongoing adaptations and modifications that best suit our client needs. Mike’s most recent noteworthy professional accomplishment is being a contributing author to The Franchise Bible, 9th Edition, released world-wide by Entrepreneur Magazine on 20 April 2021. His best personal accomplishments ever were marrying his best friend Nicole and becoming a dad. Mike is a committed Catholic whose faith is a central part of his daily life. He is an Army Brat of the 101st Airborne Army and the proud father of a United States Marine. The values associated with his faith coupled with the life-lessons learned in a military family all contribute to his work-life, building up clients and the family at EagleONE. SHOW NOTES:Website: https://eagle1group.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehutzel/ REMARKABLE LISTENER SPECIAL OFFER:Free one-on-one discovery session with Mike. This could be to discuss business goals, personal goals, or a business project. CORE THEMES, KEYWORDS, & MENTIONS:Poverty, 5, alcoholism, finding time, experiences, Army brat, pulling people along, leadership, responsibility, moving, relocation, Catholic, Christianity, baggage, change, being a dad, faith, couple, going to church on vacation, involvement, consistency, ADD, ADHD, crime, drugs, conscious effort, decision making, Eagle One, trials and tribulations, prayer, relationships, people, journaling, working through problems, remarkable people, inspirational story, motivational story Mike Hutzel | Thinking from the Perspective of Others, Making Conscious Life Decisions, & Being a Dad Hello, my Remarkable friend. Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. Today's guest is amazing and you're going to love him. He talks about growing up in military brat, being the oldest of five boys, how he had forks in the road, and how to make decisions. We talk about leadership and the differences between, between pushing and pulling people.We talk about mindset and perspective and paradigm. Just the joys of being a dad and tips of how to do it better and so much more. Today's guest is someone who had a journey where he had career changes. He's an expert at what he does and built a large organization that's successful and works with clients all over the globe.But today he shares his personal story and journey. So you and I can not only be entertained, but most importantly, we can learn, we can apply, we can grow, and then he even shares his email address and personal information at the end so you can reach out to him, continue the conversation, because his mindset is just like the podcast mindset.To help one another grow and to glorify God, and to enjoy the journey together on the way. So at this time, get your pens and paper ready, because our guest today, Mike Hutzel, is going to share his life expertise so that you can be next on the show. Or maybe we'll never hear from you, but you're impacting millions of lives.Or maybe you'll be all over the TV and we'll hear all about you. We'll get to find in heaven that we were the catalyst that you used to change whatever the situation is. We're not looking for glory or fortune. We're only looking for your benefit, for God's glory. So we love you. Thanks for being here today.Share this with your family and friend and enjoy this episode with our friend Mike, because if you listen through to the end, you're going to get some great quality content to change you for the better. Enjoy.Mike Hutzel | Thinking from the Perspective of Others, Making Conscious Life Decisions, & Being a Dad:Hey Mike, how are you today, brother? I'm doing well, man.Yourself, man. I'm doing fantastic. It's been great talking to you a little bit off camera. Our listeners from around the world just heard a small bit about you and they're excited to hear your episode. So thank you again for being here today. And we always ask the same question to start the show. The people who've been with us for years, or the new listeners, if they listen to the intro, they know the show is about the past, the present, the future.It's about the story, your journey as a man. We're going to stop along the way and just dissect your life in a way and try to figure out not just how you overcame things and achieve success, but the practical steps of how you did it. So our listeners can too, saying that if our listeners were going to hang with you for this entire episode, what's one truth?Or if you're like, you got nothing else, this is something that's really important that we're going to communicate and share today. Yeah, I would say that the concept that I, I, my spiritual advisor gave me a number of years ago, and it's, it's a question you can ask yourself, and the question is, who needs me today more than I need me?That's a paradigm shift I use in my personal life as a, as a family man, as a, as a professional. Oftentimes when things are going crazy or, or not going the way I would want them to go I always stop and ask myself, who in this situation needs me more than I need me? And I, I hope your listeners can get some value outta that.That's a powerful question that has deep, deep roots. So I'm looking forward to hearing this episode myself cuz how many people struggle with their purpose or even if they know their purpose, fulfilling their purpose and to make sure they have more meaning. So that's fantastic. So in your life, Mike, where did your life begin?Where were you born? What was your upraising like? Parents, married, divorced brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles. What was your upbringing like? Yeah, so I was born in Cincinnati in the early seventies 72 to be exact. And although I never really called Cincinnati home dad, my dad was a hundred first airborne Vietnam era.So I grew up what was, what's known as an army brat. I was the oldest of five boys and because of dad's service we lived everywhere but Cincinnati, mostly down south but across the pond. So we spent three and a half years in Germany when dad was stationed there. And it was, you know, it was, it was a typical, typical army life in that five boys, one army salary.I'm pretty comfortable at this stage in my life saying that we didn't grow up lower economic class. We grew up poor. Now, I'll tell you this though. We, we didn't know it. Mom and dad were really good about making sure we had all our needs. And, and as kids we were surrounded by other army brats. So we, we, all we knew was that life.And although the salary didn't go very far, we never went without food or clothing or, or love or that kind of thing. Awesome. And then five brothers, where were you in the order? So I'm the oldest of five. I was born in 72 and I, so the next one is four years younger than me. That's Matt. Then Brian and Brad came and they were a year apart.And the, the irony is the distance between my, myself and my youngest brother is 13 years. I like to tell people a little bit tongue and cheek. I was the reason mom and dad got married. And my youngest brother, Brent, was the reason they stopped having children. We were both unplanned but, but mom would argue that our number has been five our whole life.They ended up with five daughter-in-laws and 10 grandchildren, ironically. Five girls and five boys. So five has been a number for us for, for our entire life. And, and the, the neat thing about having all brothers and growing up the way we did David, is we're, we're thick as thieves. You know, I, I hear so many families, they, they move off or they go away, or they lose touch.And my brothers and I are all here in town. Our, our families all here, the kids are all here and we spoil mom with all of our attention and, and family gatherings, et cetera. So it's, it's a unique situation. We know it, and we're very careful to protect it and talk about that a little, because sometimes we grow up and things are so commonplace for us.We think everybody's life's like that. But the sad reality is most families aren't close anymore, and that's a huge problem from every aspect and every level of life. What are some of the things that your family does that keep you close? I think most of it's time, honestly. You know, I, I think part of it is our background.So there's a certain amount of humble pie that comes up when you, that comes with growing in, growing up in poverty, right? We, we had to rely on each other for everything. Of course, that growing up the way we did it was back in the era where kids went outside to play and you ran the neighborhood and things like that.And I think that those kind of experiences growing up, it wasn't easy. And, and we were by no means perfect. I mean, dead, dead. Even after the service was working, two jobs usually. You know, that we had some alcohol things go through the family over the years. And, and so there was some imperfections, but those, those difficulties that we encountered, not only from the poverty side, but some of the internal stuff we were facing, I think really drove us close as brothers.And, and so now it's really a matter of how do we really find time to spend with each other. It's not just e and by the way, it's not just even with the whole family. My brothers and I collectively go and do things what we call experiences. We'll go and experience things together now some of us for the first time.And it's, it's a way for us to stay close and stay bonded and keep meaningful interactions happening on a regular basis in our lives. Excellent. So now, when you were growing up, you talked about your mom and your dad, you talked about your brothers, and then that, you know, that just internal strength and that bond that was part of your family.What? What do you think the military background had into also bringing that team together? Was that something that just for generations, your family's always been proud and strong and close, or was that something that was even further strengthened by the military tie? Yeah, it definitely was strengthened by the military tie.I mean, I, I do a lot of speaking, David in what's known as the veteran owned business sector. And I joke because I'm, I'm an army brat, which means I didn't ever serve. But I, I tell the audiences a lot of times, look, you know, I knew what a four inch fold was by the time I was five because dad was a drill sergeant amongst other things.And so we, we had a very orderly household, everything, and we used to, I can remember the old Green Army blankets that we have to, but dad would want to bounce a quarter off of our beds as young men. Once we knew how to, once we knew how to make our beds we learned all kinds of military terms too. Dad didn't say, go out and pick up the trash in the yard.Dad would say, give me a police call. But we knew what that meant. Okay. It's, it's, it is just a military term for the same thing, but we understood that we had to go out and do a police call, so he brought that home. You know, and I also think in retrospect is I think back to why I'm an entrepreneur and some of the things that.Places like Forbes and Entrepreneur, they claim are unsuccessful entrepreneurs. You know, that perseverance and, and, and some of that, that chuah that comes along with the military life is, is part of why I think, you know, ultimately I was a successful entrepreneur because I grew up that way. It was always mounting the next obstacle, doing the next thing, and pulling people along.Right? I, as the oldest, you know, I, I might talk with my wife about this quite a bit, but I was always carrying somebody else's rucksack. Right. I knew how to change diapers at a young age. I was, I was making bottles. I was, cuz dad was t d y which means he was off doing something for the service and mom was alone.Well, me as the oldest I had to take on some of those responsibilities and, and my brothers did as well as, as they grew older and older, everybody got more and more responsibility cuz dad was gone. So it was, it was, and from the military aspect, the, the other thing I would say, which I really appreciate now because we moved so many different places it, it taught me a couple things.One was the world's a very small place. Two is that not everybody's like you. So that, that holds two, two really things for me. One is that I have to be comfortable in my own skin no matter where I am, but that I also have to appreciate people for where they, where they are, who they are. So, so things like racism or, or sexism or bigotry or not that, that didn't have a place because you had to go to the next place and you had to learn how to figure out how to work with the people who were around you learn whether it was kids in school or sports or whatever it was, we had to know the next place and, and so we had to hold onto who we were, but we had to understand we were going somewhere where we were going to meet brand new people who were probably not going to be like us.Yeah. And that's such a privilege. And to have that balanced mindset from a child, that's such a great thing the way it should be. Today, our kids are programmed all over the world, not just in America, you know, just the term, like if I, you you mentioned racism. I mean that core of that whole concept, we all use it and we all understand what it means.Yeah. But there's only one race. The human race, the actual term itself would de was designed to divide people. Yeah. And it's something that bad people popularized and preachers from our pulpits use it today, but it's really an inaccurate term. There's one race, the human race. And that's one of those terms that further fuels the vision.But everybody uses it and we all know what it means. But if we really break it down to the core, that's a problem. There's different cultures, there's different nations, there's different subcultures. But everybody bleeds. Red man won blue or red. No. Amen to that. Amen to that. And I'll tell you that we just didn't even.When we moved back to the States again, we moved into a, a very humble community. And, and I, it was right before I started high school. I, I went to a, you know, a very quote unquote affluent high school here in town, but I had to pay my own way. My parents couldn't, couldn't afford to do that. So my first full-time job was for the school the summer before my freshman year.And all of the pay that I was supposed to get was went to the tuition. But I, I remember thinking how, how beautiful this place was and how, how diverse it was. And it, it just never dawned on me because of how we were raised. Again, people from every, you know, every time we moved it was people from everywhere else.So everybody was sort of a foreigner. But the common thread we had was the green of the army. It didn't matter what race we were. And so, and that's how we were raised. And, and I think it, it carries true today and, and it's, it's carried into the grandchildren. Mom would, mom would attest to that for sure.And I, I just think it's one of those things, you, you just can't even afford to be racist because you, you, you need to rely on the people that God's given you and in, in that place and that time. Yeah, I agree a hundred percent. Like a hundred percent. So there's some shows where I already get, like, I will have questions and I feel the leading like, oh, I can't wait to ask this sar mass this, and I don't want to get ahead.Like in, in a lot of people's story, you know, we go chronologically, I don't want to jump through and pull back. But at the same time, you made a great statement and you talked about pulling people. And in leadership you can push and you can pull, and most people don't ever understand the difference in the types of leadership and let alone have a good leader.But that learning of pulling people and helping them, that style of leadership, was that something again, your father and your mother instilled in you, or is that something you learned as you came through? Because just the fact that you used that term, that's not like a natural term for people to use.Yeah, I, I think it was a combination of things. I mean, one thing mom insisted on, no matter where we lived was a, was a Catholic education, so I'm considered a Catholic Christian. You know, mom taught us there was not one right way up the mountain. That, that, you know, each, each, you know, each version of, of faith is up to the individual.But, you know, some of, some of what I learned, I, I would argue, was also in school, right? So like my high school, for example their, their mantra is men for others. And that can mean a lot of things. And it can be one of those big ambiguous statements that means I, I, I mean really well, but I never actually do anything.Part of the, part of what I learned was love is love is an action. It's a verb, right? And so, so to to, to, to the point of pulling people. You gotta, you gotta demonstrate that. And, and so the men for others concept that I learned while I was in high school you know, a lot of, the, lot of the work I can remember, David, here's a, here's a great example.I didn't, I didn't recognize we were poor until I was in high school and we, in my high school, we had a community action program that was required for juniors and seniors. And I remember feeling great about that cuz I was like, oh, there's people worse off than me. Great. I'm, we're helping them and all these things.Well, one of the, one of the times we had a trip, we, we had a delivery of food delivery around Christmas time and it was in my neighborhood. So the family, I went to pay a visit, lived two streets over, and we were, the, the, the seniors were delivering groceries to that family. And, and it dawned on me at that moment that I, you know, these were neighbors, right?And so I, I think that aspect was a combination of my parents for sure.