Why the Best Leaders Make People Feel Safe
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What does Boyd mean by 'giving a feeling' as the foundation of leadership?
The number one thing you can give to every single person you meet is a feeling. You hit them with a feeling, so when you leave them, whenever they hear your name, they feel a light, a light color.
They just feel some weight.
That was somebody who I was safe because that's all we really want. Am I safe? Am I safe to be me? Am I safe to be heard? Am I safe to express myself? Am I safe to matter? And when you give someone that feeling, when you are in need, like real third world need, like hunger, food, depression, these types of things, you're going to have someone that's going to show up for you.
Boyd Melson is a disciplined, resilient, and service-driven military leader and former professional boxing champion. Drawing from his unique experiences in the military and the boxing ring, he helps entrepreneurs, veterans, and high-performance leaders build emotional resilience and adaptability, empowering them to turn adversity into strategic momentum and building a foundation of true mental toughness, inclusive leadership, and lifelong service.
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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler, and I am joined by Boyd Melson. Boyd, welcome to the show. Pleasure to have you. I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy to have you. Thank you, brother. It is always a pleasure. It is always a pleasure. Now, Boyd, we just got finished recording your episode for Legacy Makers, which, guys, if I ever recommend for you to watch an episode of Legacy Makers, it's going to be Boyd's episode. But Now, on the other side of filming, what would you say is like the number one thing you want people to be able to take away from your experience?
It goes back to what you said, and it's one of the tracks on my Spoken Word album. And it's about giving, I have a track called Give a Feeling. And I talk about in the track that we're always told it's better to give than to receive. And we hear this throughout our childhood and we try to live it. And what I've learned, or my understanding at least, is that people think of things tangible always about giving. And then what they do is they look at what they have, and based off the amount of items they have, they create a value system for other people's worths based off what they have and decide what they think they can afford to give. And may not always be so altruistic, may also be because they want something in return.
And then we also live knowing that we try to do that and we don't always get something back. I thought this was give and take.
I thought this was an exchange.
Why was I told it's better to give than to receive, and I'm not receiving anything, but I'm giving. Well, my track is, and this is what I'd like people to know, the number one thing you can give to every single person you meet is a feeling. You hit them with a feeling, so when you leave them, Whenever they hear your name, they feel a light, a light color. They just feel some weight. That was somebody who I was safe. Cause that's all we really want. Am I safe? Am I safe to be me? Am I safe to be heard? Am I safe to express myself? Am I safe to matter? And when you give someone that feeling, when you are in need, like real third world need, like hunger, food, pressure, these types of things, you're going to have someone that's going to show up for you.
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