Speaker 1Hey, what's up, I'm service VIPs, it's your boy Chris. This will be a short and sweet episode today. And it's just me, myself, and I got no AG, I got no chatty pee. I got no guests. It's just me, but what I want to do is give you a quick update. Now there'll be some little bit of nuggets in here, 42, but I want to give you a quick update. So again, this will be short and sweet, so just, you know, so tune in for the five to ten minutes. I'm actually going to do this, but real quick, I want to do something. For anybody that's going out to pantheon, it's pantheon, it's like right around the corner. I'll be there. So if you're there, I'd love to see you. I'm excited to see everybody from the industry. And a lot of people reach out to me asking me if I was going. So the answer is, yep, I'll be there. And actually, I am going to be part of a session. I'm actually kicking off a session with the CEO of Authority Brands. And also the COO of Yelp, who was on the podcast, those guys are doing a fire side chat on Tuesday from 10 3 to 11 in the Acts in the stage in the expo hall. And I'm actually going to be the one that kicks it off. I'm excited for that conversation and it's because Yeah CEO of authority brands is talking about how, you know, these guys are leveraging AI to help scale all those home services businesses at Falls and authority brands. You'll have a bunch. one hour have been Franklin Mr. Sparky, they got tree service pool service, they got all kinds of different service space businesses. And then it should be really, really interesting from what I've already gathered on the conversation. So I will be there and I'll be a part of that session. So please come and check in on it. I'm also, of course, I'll be at Tommy's event at home service freedom to freedom event up in Vegas. I got a little stage time there for about 15 minutes, the big thing that I've been working on since this all this cancer treatment. So I want to give you guys a quick update on just a couple of those things like yes I'll be there and I look forward to see an everybody. I want to give a quick shout out, too, to one of our newest sponsors affinity, who has really impressed me on the payment processing side things and how they integrate into your business and try to make gathering payments easier trying to make it a little bit cheaper. That's what I've paid so much money, but just how they fully integrate into your payment processing and makes it simple and so they impressed me. side to have those guys on board and of course I want to keep telling you guys stop sleeping on email marketing. I'm not saying just because you're doing it doesn't mean you're doing it right. I guarantee that most of you aren't but when you do it right it actually works extremely well. So you leverage send it just like Peter Mendes just like Gainer does just like Tommy does. I mean Tommy fired a guy right at his in-house email marketing team and just you send it email marketing. Send it email marketing. Zack's been on here before I won the previous episodes. get all uses it out here. So, guys aren't just using it over and over again because it sucks. Like, they don't keep using businesses at sucks. So, and then of course, you know, to Avoka, I've always proud to have Avoka on sponsor. You guys know I'm a huge believer of Avoka. They keep getting bigger. They keep adding more stuff. They keep clean it up. So, they're big proud to have those guys on board. Now, I want to jump into this I am now, um, most, let's see, I guess three weeks post my last treatment, um, I'm about to, I'm down about, I basically lost about a 40 pounds in this whole entire process, um, I will tell you, when I rang the bell on August 21st, that was officially my last day of treatment, but my worst days were the two weeks after ringing that bell. Um, those were the days where I felt like, man, I really had to adopt my no zero days, mantra that I've said for years because man, there were days where I felt like zero was was all I got. I got, there was nothing I could do. Um, I could barely talk if at all. Um, I felt like I was so fatigued. I couldn't move. Um, I'm literally seeing their thinking, how am I going to make it from 11 o'clock to 12 o'clock? I'm not going to do this again tomorrow. Um, so I really had to dig deep and and push myself to just be, you know, do something to be active, even if it was something as simple as just walking around the house. Um, or you know, even just drinking water, I couldn't swallow. So drinking a sip of water was impossible. Um, so eating, I didn't eat for like three weeks, which just seems crazy. So I was just getting an IV, but I'll tell you. Something that was really profound that came from all this, and this is what I really want you to hear. When you're in that situation, man, it really puts a lot of things in perspective. You know, and I'll say, you know, in my first 40, you know, six years of life, I looked a pretty full life. Um, I've done everything, I've tried everything, you know, I've always worked my ass off and grinded my ass off. I feel like I've been a good guy, you know, I've helped a lot of people along the way. Um, but I also recognize that I wasted a lot of time on saying, yes, that things I should have said no, too. You put a lot of things in perspective when you go to the situation, like, what's really important to you? And sometimes we get skewed on what's really important to us, or what we think is really important to us. And I'll say this, your health is definitely number one. And pay close attention to it, especially us guys. You think like, oh, we don't need to get tested or like you do. Especially when you start to get into your 40s and stuff like that, you do, you need to pay attention to your body. But here's one easy thing that you guys could do to myself that it Anna's done it. I know we got Tommy and Bri to do that. Lots of our friends have done this. It's called a Pranovo scan. If you do a Pernobo scan, what it does is actually as it puts you into this cat scan and it scans your entire body so it can catch anything that might potentially be wrong so you can get ahead of it so it's like if you had something cancerous anywhere within your body it can catch it and it can give you so you can catch it early and and you can beat it. what we got like a tumor or like something that's going on in your body. If you just want peace of mind, which is really what I wanted, I did this scan a few years ago. And when I went back and looked at it, it actually caught early signs of my throat cancer. So it was like so early on that I thought now that's not what it was. I just figured it was from something else, but I should have went and got it checked out then, so but it's called a Prenobo scan and you can go and do it one time when you're done. It's not super cheap, it's like a couple thousand dollars, but for a piece of mind, I suggest going and doing that. Then you know if you're good to go and don't be scared to do it like you should know what's going on because obviously you want to live as long as I'll do as you possibly can. So the biggest thing that I was I was sleeping on was. Who am I what am I spending my time on you only got 24 hours in the day and you're only going to live for so long so every hour is so important. And you're not going to be awake every hour, so you're me sleeping, you know, but these and chunk of those hours, which is really important. But what is the most important thing to you? And what do you need to put in some boundaries and, you know, who you give your time to? Um, I obviously your family is so important, like to to me, where I feel like I felt short was I did not put nowhere near enough time into just myself and Anna and my wife. Now we both worked in the business for a long time, we both grinded. But what we sacrificed was each other and not going and doing the trips. And we tried to go and do date nights and they never stuck. We rarely did just a husband and wife trip together. It was always like, you always have the kids or we did it with me. Another couple. So we really didn't prioritize our own relationship. And to me, that's the most important relationship that I have. So just, you know, what's most of what are your non-negotiables? Um, you know, I love building a business. I still have a couple of businesses. I have Redbird roofing, you know, which is our growing business over in Indianapolis at Chad and I are partners in. I might spend a little bit of time on it. And I, you know, I was able to, um, buy, uh, uh, uh, and to put my partnership with Cindy Emo marketing. And I spend plenty of time on it. I'm just trying to help it scale and grow. I believe so much and Zach and that team and what they're doing. And, and that's fun. It's just not my priority. My health is my priority and then as soon as I can get back in the gym, my physical fitness is my priority like I've had done such a good job of building Um, my body up and getting strong and I mean, to didn't lose it all really, um, in this cancer process. And now I'm like, I can't just, I'm looking forward to getting back in the gym. Unfortunately, I'm not able to eat enough calories still at this point because I'm still in recovery, uh, to be able to go to the gym because I need to salvage what calories I've got. I can't afford to burn them. But as soon as I can, I'm getting my ass right back in the gym because when you get in there and you work out, Um, you do feel better. I feel like you perform better. Um, you're just that you think clear. Um, so just prioritize in your life like what is really important. Now what you think is important, but what's really important because you can't get the time back. Once it's gone, it's gone. And God forbid something comes up and you're like, damn, why did I waste time on X? If you think that, well, then get that out of your radar. But you just spend so much time just saying, guess to things and taking phone calls that I knew, I was like, man, why did I say yes? I should have just said no. So, I wanted to just rethink, how am I gonna live this rest of my life? I'm 47 years old. This podcast is something I love sharing with you all is something I love and helping you and it's something that will always be a priority of mine. It's just not my main priority But I don't have another job, right? This is my job as to serve you guys on this podcast. And that is on my priority list. It's just second on my priority list to my wife and my family. And I'll continue to serve you all. I'm bringing on the right guests and growing skill list thing. And then something I wanna roll out to you is if you're listening right now and you've been wanting to be on this podcast, As a guest or you thought about it, what would it take to be on a podcast where you sitting at that, I'm nowhere near big enough to be on that podcast. Let me encourage you. Go to all of our social media pages, go to my personal page. You'll either go to the to the point home services podcast page, go find me, Chris Yano, go to the website, if you want to. But reach out to us if you're interested in being on the podcast. And we'll have a conversation around it. And we'll see if it makes sense. You don't have to be a behemoth on here to make it on sometimes there's a lot of really appealing stories that you have, but others can totally relate to let why don't you let me figure out what what's relatable in the story or not. So please I encourage you to to reach out. No, so I'm going to say this this last thing. You know, I think that the from from everything that I've heard that the home services space is in a really, really good position it's it's not going it's it's only going to continue to to I mean it's not going anywhere your opportunity is endless still. And so as long as you're opportunity is endless and you are healthy enough to go and chase it down, chase it down with everything that you've got, you're so worth it and employees are worth it. And you can build a great business. You know, I build a roofing business because it's fun. I know more now than what I knew five years ago, three years ago. but I get to do it now, knowing like, hey, I went through the hardest thing I've ever went through in my entire life. I mean, by far, cancer, and fighting cancer and some of those days where the most mentally tough challenges I've ever had in my entire life, which put me in the position today to say, I know. I thought I was mentally tough before I had no idea. I know how tough this is and I know what I can get through. So I'm going to put all that focus and energy into only the things I care about. So I'm saying no to so much more. That way I can take all this energy, all this focus while I'm in great health and focus on the things that absolutely matter to me because I can't get the time back. You can't get the time back. So please learn from what I had to go through. The challenges I had to go through. Learn from it to say, fuck, like I don't want to have to go through that to have this epiphany of like I need to rethink how I'm living my life or rethink I'm running my business or rethink how I am in my marriage or how I am as a as a parent or as a parent to my kids or how I am to my employees like don't wait for something catastrophic or something bad to happen let use my situation let that be let that be the trigger for it. So you guys know, I really appreciate you. Again, I told you, let's be short and sweet. I love all you. I'm so grateful that you listened to the podcast. And tune in next week, because we're going to have, we have a great lineup of more guests that are coming on where VIPs that we're going to pull into the room. We're going to start to kind of wander outside the norm a little bit, start bringing some other leaders. that aren't in running an HVAC business or a blaming business or electrical business, but are just great leaders in the space that we can learn from and apply to our businesses and Aaron's had some great guests he's reached out to to come on. So I'm excited for our, for our, our bullpen that we got coming up for you guys, but you know, I appreciate you and continue to come back from this and with us because you are VIPs to me and you belong here in the VIP room. So until next week, don't talk about it. Be about it.
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