How a Marine Turned Failure Into Unstoppable Leadership
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
Why is it so important to you to build leadership into other people?
True education is self-discovery. So in that, you're finding out, what are my strengths? and lean in towards your strengths and what are some of those weaknesses and also getting better at those as well. And ultimately, it's about influencing and getting others to perform at a higher level that even they thought wasn't possible.
Charles Solano is a resilient, purpose-driven entrepreneur and the founder of Rhodium Leadership Academy, Time to Wing It, and a Big B coffee owner. Through his work, he helps professionals master their mindsets and build thriving ventures, creating a lasting legacy of empowered leadership, bold action, and community enrichment.
Talk to me about the story of breaking some Guinness World Records.
I had a period in my life where I got pretty obsessed with doing chin-ups. I went after the 24-hour record, which was 5,320 at the time. And... I didn't get it. It was a failed attempt. I tore my right bicep, but in my after action report, as David calls it, I got a lot of learnings. We are limitless. We are limitless. If you want to put in the work, it's amazing what our bodies can do.
What do you think is the number one lesson that you want people to learn from viewing your episode? I hope the viewers get a lot, but I would say...
it spans the globe like a super high school internet elvis today apple is going to reinvent the phone it's not over until i win the living your legacy podcast for those who live to leave a legacy that's extraordinary the impossible oh that is sensational Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Inside Success Podcast.
I am your host, Jason Tyler, and I am joined today by none other than Charles Solano. Now... I know that you guys can see this on the screen but his shirt says time to wing it and I just want to take a minute to just kind of explain what's the what's the ethos behind time to wing it what are we what do we got going on here so time to wing it is a quick service chicken wing restaurant we're going to revolutionize the way
the right way to fry chicken wings.
Now, we talked about this in the episode. I don't want to give away too much of the sauce, but you guys do your wings a little bit differently. Talk to me a little bit about the differences.
Our sauces are fabulous. We've got four of the categories. We got mild, we got hot, we got medium, and we got lava hot. So now what separates us apart with the taste of our wings is that we fry everything in beef tallow.
See, that's what made, when we were talking about it in the interview, that's what made my ears perk up. I was like, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. We're doing, we're frying everything in beef tallow? All right, that's something that I can get behind. Because the last thing I want is to, you know, go out and eat fried food. And now I feel super sluggish afterwards. I can't get nothing done. I'm not going to eat fried food again for another week. So that's like a big, big benefit to having everything fried in beef tallow. Now, I don't want to just spend time on Time to Wing It. You're in so many different businesses, and obviously you have your background in the Marine Corps. So I want to talk a little bit about just what is it like running and operating so many different businesses, even specifically just in Bigby Coffee?
What's it like running five different locations?
I got a great team in place now that runs the coffee business. And I wouldn't have ventured out into these other businesses if I didn't know that I've got a solid team of leaders in to run the coffee business. I still have to meet with my leaders weekly and we talk about our KPIs. We talk about store performances and, you know, company culture and stuff like that.
How did Charles Solano turn failure into leadership success?
So now that I have those leaders in place, it affords me the time to do some other things. So you want to talk about constant prioritization and to do lists and stuff like that. Yes, it's always there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:37
2
How did Charles Solano turn failure into leadership success?
4:37–5:47
3
What lessons can be learned from breaking Guinness World Records?
5:47–8:03
4
How does Charles Solano define true education and self-discovery?
8:03–13:23
5
What is the importance of company culture in leadership?
13:23–14:29