Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is an amazing episode with Steve Smith Sr. We actually talk more about business and we talk about life. Steve Smith was somebody that he said if he could reinvent himself or play the game today, he would play it like Steve Smith. I'm just so proud and honored of the man that Steve Smith is.
And in this episode, you're going to hear some really cool stories and you're going to hear Steve Smith talk about emotional intelligence and break it down. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the GOAT, Steve Smith Sr.
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Chapter 2: How did Steve Smith develop his 'no plan B' mindset?
Let's get unplugged.
Steve Smith. How you doing? Good morning. Good afternoon. I appreciate you, man. You have no idea what you mean to me because there's something about you that is also in me. And you've said this, being an older sibling, being the person that people looked up to, I didn't have a plan B, bro.
Like if I was going to change the life of my mom and my sister and my brother, there wasn't representation in my household. There wasn't representation in those four walls that were going to show me how to change. I have a plan B. And I know that that's something that you've always said too, man.
Like football was it. Football was it. And, you know, for some people that's watching this and some people who put athletes in a category, yeah.
Chapter 3: What role does mentorship play in personal and professional growth?
The opportunity to get a scholarship, an athletic scholarship, I believe is no different than getting a scholarship for academics, right? Because I'm very aware there's a lot of sports, non-football, who their whole structure is built off of having an athletic but also intelligent team Athletes, so they can utilize and have a lot of flexibility.
So like soccer, golf, some of the women's sports, that stuff is happening where they get guys who financially can't afford to go to college, but they also have great grades. And so where I'm going with that is, No plan B was playing football. My whole eggs were in the football basket.
However, what I've been able to experience and learn and be able to be mentored and taught from people in business-wise, man, yes, if I couldn't catch a football, I wouldn't have got my foot in the door. But understanding my intelligence and my willingness to learn keeps me in the door. And so, yes, I am a football player. Yes, I went to school.
And what's crazy is I did not do the typical psychology. At the time, I actually did family consumer studies. And they had this crazy myth that one day people would be willing to
Chapter 4: How can emotional intelligence enhance leadership skills?
they would forfeit a gallon of gas to go get a gallon of milk. And I was, so we, they were teaching us about how the consumer consumes.
Yeah.
Dude, that's, that's why you are who you are, man. Like, like I tell people all the time, just about the fire that you have, the, the energy that you, you've played with. But more importantly, like, What you were just talking about, right? Like, you're going to be the best no matter what it is.
And to me, that's your plan A, is to dominate no matter what it is that you do, to give your all, and to learn the little details that most people don't have the patience to go do, to be different, to make a name for yourself, to make a brand for yourself.
Yeah.
Bro, like it shows in everything that you do. So kudos to you for that, bro. I appreciate that. Appreciate that. You talked about something that I think is critically important, right?
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Chapter 5: What experiences shaped Steve Smith's approach to business?
The power of mentorship. My mentors are celebrity chef Robert Irvine and Damon. Slight flex. We'll continue. No flex. No flex. but they told me, right? Like sometimes we talk about taking the stairs and it's cool to take the stairs, but when the elevator is there, the smart person takes the elevator, right? Because nobody, nobody cares about all that you went through to get there.
Sometimes like you still need to know the journey, but when the elevator is present, take the freaking elevator sometime. And that's what mentorship has done for me. It's like, Hey, I don't want you to make this mistake because I've already made it. Let me tell you what the journey is like, but press the elevator to the top floor so you can just go there.
Like to me, that's what mentorship and getting in front of these rooms are.
Chapter 6: How does Steve Smith balance critique and empathy in leadership?
It's like, you still need your journey, but every lesson you don't have to learn when somebody else can tell you what they've learned.
Yes. Yes. So, so, uh, I'll tell you a quick story is, um, man, just buy my building and business. So I started doing rental properties. I started right after I retired, like 06. And so I'm doing these rental properties. And how I got started was I went to look at this property. And man, the property was so dilapidated. It was ridiculous. But it was a duplex.
I grew up in a duplex, so I'm very aware of that. And so I'm looking through and, man, we do an inspection to go look at the property. And Section 8, because I was on Section 8 as a kid, so trying to stay in that realm.
Chapter 7: What is the mission of Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC)?
I tried to do a lot of programs with my foundation or just business-wise. My niche is I'm a poor black kid who was unsubsidized. Now they call it snack, but latchkey kid. And man, so a lot of the things I do are about the things that I experienced or did not have at my disposal. So I go in there in the 68 house and she has the oven open on and the tub still has water in it because of the
it not draining properly, not having any heat. So she was using an oven to heat the one bedroom. And bro, it broke me. It broke me that this landlord had reduced all these people to live in those conditions where they deserve more. Just because they are receiving assistance doesn't mean you lessen their respect of who they are as a human being.
And man, so from there, I was so pissed off and angry. Man, I had a buddy, Mike Salamone, he came to my house. We sat in the basement and I kind of talked to him, right, about these things and laid it out to him. Like, this is what I want to do.
Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from Steve Smith's journey in mental health advocacy?
Man, out of my group of people, even my mentor, he was like, nah, I don't like it. You're at the end of your career. You shouldn't do this. You shouldn't do that. Bro, then another person said the same thing. But this guy I knew, Mike Salamone, he was a home builder. He was like, man, you know your numbers.
If your numbers are aligned, do it.
Man, I did it and ended up having some good stuff happen, having some bad stuff happen. But I rode the roller coaster and then went into COVID. And that's when it showed me. Right. And so in business, I have three phases.
The first five years, that's risky. Right. Then two years later, which is the seventh year, it starts to kind of shape up. In year 10, though, it's either the real deal or it's not. And, man, I learned that, bro. And it's been awesome.
It's been awesome.
Man, so everybody that's watching, I mean, I've been a huge fan of Steve Smith forever, so I knew some of these things. You know that business mind that he had, did you? That's what I'm talking about, man. When I say you go all in in everything that you do, that's it, man. When did that become a part of who you were, or is that just always been part of that no plan B?
I've always been that way, but here's the caveat. but I only do a few things and I only do those things. So it may seem like I'm doing a hundred. I may be doing really 50 or 75 things, but they're all intertwined and they're all on the same page. So I'm not doing, you know, I'm doing golf. I do football, but my golf is in between. Then I do my football, which is every week.
So I have those days that's slotted for studying, getting ready, preparing, and then recording.
And then some of the other things I'm asked to do, I really weigh now, what is it going to cost me time-wise?
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