Rick Jordan

Learn from failure.

I like to keep it raw and real, and it sucks, especially when you feel like you let people down.

That does creep in too, man.

I know I didn't say that in the story I was telling, but that does creep in.

You and I are kindred spirits that way.

How did I allow this to happen because it's affected so many?

Yeah, you take it personal.

Even if you couldn't change anything, it weighs on you.

It's human, but it's also human for those people that feel like, okay, well, I don't know what they would have expected you to do different.

There's another thing that's a little hard for guys like us to grasp.

When it comes to people that are working for you, for the majority, 99% of them,

The mental point of origin is not the organization.

It's themselves.

When you're the person at the top, it's like the mental point of origin is almost never yourself.

When the company needed cash, I kicked it in.

When the company needed to pay expenses, I would pay those expenses on a credit card.

I would go without taking my salary out of the public company.

Long before it got to anybody else, that's a big lesson that I learned on this too, man.

And entrepreneurs expected to be self-sacrificing and fall on their own sword.

And that's what I found is the expectation of everybody who works for you in the organization too.