460 | How To Build Multiple Million Dollar Businesses With A Kingdom Mindset

Jun 17

[00:00:00] Rylee Meek: We've done nine figures, eight, eight separate companies have started now. Every single one of them, we've hit seven and eight figures within the first 10 months of each. People don't buy what they need. They buy what they want, right? And so you, we had to figure out a way to get people to want what we have.
[00:00:16] Rylee Meek: When I was able to gather a group of people and deliver one presentation to 20 people versus 20 presentations individually, it was like inventing. Fire to me. And I was like, holy crap. I think a lot of Christians, man, they're playing life not to lose versus playing life to win. You could be incredibly successful at a lot of things and still feel like a failure if you're not operating for the God given intended purpose of why you were created.
[00:00:43] Chaz Wolfe: What's up everybody. Welcome back to gathering the King's podcast. I'm your host, Chas Wolf. Today on the show, we have an absolute King in sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, and the nonprofit space. Mr. Riley Meek. He is the co founder also of the King's council and the host of the King's council podcast.
[00:01:00] Chaz Wolfe: He owns several other businesses, which we discuss, and he has built his empire way past the nine figure mark. We talk sales and acquisition. We dive deep on how and why you were created to create. We use Riley's book, the kingdom entrepreneur, seven day blueprint to talk about that.
[00:01:14] Chaz Wolfe: We also talk about why you need to stop waiting for life to happen to you. And so much more. This episode is absolutely packed with practical mindset and spiritual insights. I'm excited to finally release this to you guys, please subscribe and follow. If you haven't already liked the video, maybe throw me a comment down below of why you are playing life to win and not playing life to lose.
[00:01:35] Chaz Wolfe: We look forward to chatting with you in the comments. Enjoy the show.
[00:01:39] Chaz Wolfe: Riley, my brother, thanks for being here on the King stage. How are you?
[00:01:43] Rylee Meek: What's up, Chaz? Happy to be here, man.
[00:01:45] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah, dude. You know, it's funny. I was doing, we always do research, but I was doing some research on you and you're just this ball of energy, like everywhere you go, you got this big smile, this exuberant, just boom, here I am. So I really actually am excited for this energy of the call, but Riley, tell us what kind of businesses that you have and we'll get rolling here.
[00:02:05] Rylee Meek: Oh, brother, I've got a hand in a number of different things, man. ~Um, ~I've been an entrepreneur since I jokingly say I gave my life to entrepreneurship at the age of 15.~ Uh, ~and started numerous different companies. ~Um, ~Failed at a lot of them, of course. ~Uh, ~but,~ uh,~ we were, the main thing that we focus on is new client acquisition.
[00:02:22] Rylee Meek: ~Um, ~I'm a firm believer that,~ uh, uh, ~if you build it, they do not come. I don't care what that movie actually has ever said. ~Uh, ~I realized quickly that unless you have a consistent flow of, of leads and then ultimately sales into your business, you don't have a business unless you're actually selling stuff.
[00:02:38] Rylee Meek: It's a very expensive hobby. And so, ~um, ~everything that, that we've, we've done,~ uh,~ Well, I can't say everything, I guess, but a majority of what we've done has been through dinner seminar, marketing and sales. And so, yeah, we do, we do a lot of,~ um, uh, ~direct mail and, and we fill events with ideal clients and prospects.
[00:02:56] Rylee Meek: And then ultimately craft presentations, take people on that emotional journey to. To make that wise buying decision. And then,~ um,~ and then we really partner, I, we have our own companies with this in the,~ um,~ you know, in the insurance space, financial advisors do this a lot. ~Uh, ~we work with a ton of doctors in the regenerative medicine space.
[00:03:13] Rylee Meek: ~Um, ~I believe it or not in the, in the home remodeling construction space, the aging in place, walk in bathtubs,~ uh,~ you name it, man, we've got a lot of different things going on, which has really afforded me the ability to,~ um,~ to invest then into other companies that aren't. necessarily dinner seminar,~ uh,~ marketing, but,~ uh, uh, ~more, more along the lines of,~ uh, uh, ~HRT peptides, things along those lines.
[00:03:32] Rylee Meek: And, and,~ uh,~ just fun stuff like that, man. I love, I love peak performance. I love operating in excellence, whether it's mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and then of course, financially as well, man. So, ~um, ~Got my hand in a lot of things.
[00:03:46] Chaz Wolfe: it's awesome, man. I appreciate,~ uh,~ your, your intention there with the word excellence. I think that that stems through what I've seen, all the things that you put your hand to, but I think that that's probably going to be a big theme here between the two of us. I find myself in that same realm of going, if I'm going to put my name to it, if I'm going to do it, why wouldn't I do it to the best of my ability at the time?
[00:04:04] Chaz Wolfe: Top most peak performance that I can get to. ~Um, ~but before we get into that, King's council's in the background there. Obviously we're on gathering the King's show here. Like you're what's going on here. What's what's the King's council about, man. I think
[00:04:15] Rylee Meek: Yeah, bro. Yeah. It's such a cool alignment too. When,~ uh,~ when I started to dive into what, what you guys have have going on as well,~ um,~ the King's council, I'm, I'm a born again believer in Jesus Christ. So Jesus is King and,~ um,~ how, how we view this is we just, we're sitting on the council and,~ um,~ and we get.
[00:04:32] Rylee Meek: To get to do this life. I like what you said. It's like, Hey, we, we, we get to operate in excellence in everything that we do. And I believe God's greatest gift to us is, is life itself. And our greatest gift to him is what we do with this thing. And so we've really, this has been really over the last four and a half years of, of kind of an evolution of what the.
[00:04:54] Rylee Meek: The king's council is truly about. We started out as,~ um,~ just getting some, you know, raising my hand, like, Hey, does anybody else kind of have this desire coming out of the 2020 debacle,~ uh,~ of like being bold for their faith, but also just like, Hey, anybody else just like feel financially. I had a lot of mindset garbage that I had to, to overcome,~ um,~ with just in the business world, I'd made.
[00:05:16] Rylee Meek: A lot of money over the years and I struggled with like, could I, could I truly operate,~ uh,~ in excellence, make a ton of dough and still be a Jesus freak? Like, could I, is that even possible? And, and I had to,~ um,~ you know, I seek a lot of mentorship and, and,~ uh, uh, ~dove back into the word of God of like, what truly does this say?
[00:05:35] Rylee Meek: Because I've been told like, you know, rich people are greedy and evil and, and money is the root of evil. And it's just like, it, It was a bunch of malarkey is what it actually was. ~Um, ~when I, when I started to read the Bible for myself and actually dove into this and started to put these things into practice.
[00:05:52] Rylee Meek: And so, ~um, ~the King's council, man, at the end of the day, what we are is a, we're a ministry. We serve as an extension of the local church. ~Um. ~To disciple entrepreneurs,~ uh,~ and, and that's really what it is, man. Our goal is to help,~ um,~ increase the tithe, but the biggest thing, man, is to initiate radical generosity.
[00:06:09] Rylee Meek: And,~ uh,~ and I really believe that it's kingdom entrepreneurs that are going to be at the forefront of any change that we have, not only here in America, but. throughout the entire world as well. ~Um, ~and I just love entrepreneurship. I, I think the,
[00:06:23] Rylee Meek: ~um,~
[00:06:23] Rylee Meek: from an entrepreneurship standpoint, what an important thing for people to really understand, whether they own their own business or not, I believe we're all entrepreneurs, but what, what the culture and society has, has done is, is indoctrinated us not to be,~ uh,~ because the root word of entrepreneur, man, all it actually means is.
[00:06:41] Rylee Meek: An undertaker.
[00:06:42] Rylee Meek: but throughout the a French word.
[00:06:44] Rylee Meek: well. Um, and I~ Um, ~Pardon my French. ~Um, ~but all that really means man is to undertake. And so if you're willing to undertake that task at hand, whatever it is,~ uh,~ you're an entrepreneur. You can be a stay at home mom, a dad, you could be a rodeo clown. You could, you know, be a, an Elon Musk.
[00:07:00] Rylee Meek: You're an entrepreneur. It doesn't matter. If you're willing to take that task at hand. And what we've done is just gathered a group of like mindset and people that are on fire for, for, for God. And,~ um,~ and they want to actually be in an impact on this earth, which I believe we all have that, that ability within us, but.
[00:07:18] Rylee Meek: Our, our ability is based upon the availability. Are we going to make ourselves available? Are we going to be responsible with what we've been given? And then the last one, man, is, are we going to be accountable? ~Uh, ~are we willing to be accountable with what we've been given? And so, ~uh, ~that's really what the King's council is, is just a, a group of like mindseted people that are here to crush business, but love Jesus at the same time.
[00:07:38] Rylee Meek: on
[00:07:39] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. I love it, man. You can hear your passion. I want to just point out to the listener, obviously that, you know, the other business stuff, it was like, it was cool. And like, we were going to have a really great business discussion. And then the last like two and a half minutes was all like excitement and passion, and you could totally tell that you're on fire for it.
[00:07:54] Chaz Wolfe: So I just appreciate that. I also appreciate that you threw in their rodeo clown because my dad and grandfather were professional rodeo clowns, believe it or not.
[00:08:02] Rylee Meek: are No kidding.
[00:08:03] Rylee Meek: but love Jesus at the same
[00:08:04] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. ~Uh, ~in their younger years,~ uh,~ doing the rodeos, ~uh, ~all across the Midwest and West,~ uh,~ not anymore, obviously, but,~ uh,~ but yeah, it's kind of funny.
[00:08:12] Chaz Wolfe: ~Um, ~okay, well, let's, let's dive in here. There's actually a lot here to go into. I want to first talk about this idea of you don't have a business,~ uh,~ unless you have like a predictable way to get leads and sales, like we know this. I think it's a little bit of a cliche at this point, probably on this show, but just really for most entrepreneurs.
[00:08:29] Chaz Wolfe: But. There's like a layer underneath that where you're like, no, no, no, no. Like you don't get it. You don't, you can't scale unless you have this. So I'll just, let me give you just an open forum here. Just kind of tap this open and see where this goes.
[00:08:41] Chaz Wolfe: go into.
[00:08:42] Rylee Meek: Yeah, man. ~Uh, ~this is, I love talking about this because a lot of people that even come to us, and I'm sure you get this too, man, people come to you and they have an idea,~ um,~ or, or here's what they've been told. This is what I think. Culture society, the school system, which I think is a joke,~ uh,~ a whole nother topic, but, but, you know, we're, we're told to follow our passion, right?
[00:09:02] Rylee Meek: Or I remember hearing this when I was little, like, Hey, if you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life. And the older I got, I realized like that is, The worst, the absolute worst advice I've ever heard on the face of the earth, because I know a lot of passionate people that are freaking broke and they don't, they don't have anything.
[00:09:21] Rylee Meek: Couldn't rub two pennies together, but they're very passionate about what they do. ~Uh, ~and, but the, here's what I've known is the number one enemy of every vision is lack of provision, right? You can have an incredible vision for your business. It, you'd have a vision for your life, but. Dude, if you don't have the finances or the ability, the skill set to create enough value in the marketplace, that's going to want somebody to pay for those services, you got nothing and, and until you really figure that out, or really from a business standpoint to,~ um,~ we think we have this great idea, but if nobody wants it.
[00:09:55] Rylee Meek: It's not a business. It's, it's an idea. It's, it's a, it's a very expensive hobby. And so, ~uh, ~when I realized this man, the first business, well, I started in the network marketing world at the age of 15.
[00:10:07] Chaz Wolfe: I think we all did.
[00:10:08] Rylee Meek: well, yeah, dude, I think it absolutely, it was just this past weekend. We held an event and it was kind of a topic of conversation where it's like everybody, like, I think.
[00:10:17] Rylee Meek: It's like a,~ uh,~ you gotta, you gotta go through that before you actually move on to different type of businesses. And I freaking love the industry. Now it's changed dramatically over the last few decades, but it, it exposed me and opened my mind and eyes to like, just really this concept of personal development.
[00:10:36] Rylee Meek: I dude, I grew up in a town of like a thousand people. I didn't even understand that you could. Think about what you think about, right? And it's like, I just thought you just went to school and then you went to college and then you figured out what you were going to do for the rest of your life, work for 40, 50 years, and then you're going to, you know, retire and die.
[00:10:55] Rylee Meek: But then I thought of that. I was like, that sucks. I don't want to do any of that, man. And. And so when I jokingly say I gave my life to entrepreneurship, I had a lot of cool ideas. I love health and fitness and nutrition. ~Um, ~but I quickly realized that even in the personal training world, when I, when I started that at the age of 18, I was like, yeah, I'm excited to, to train clients.
[00:11:15] Rylee Meek: But.
[00:11:16] Rylee Meek: Nobody paid me money for it. I was like, why don't you guys want to pay me to help you? And, and so I realized that,~ uh,~ you know, people don't buy what they need. They buy what they want. Right. And so you, we had to figure out a way to get people to want what we have. And so from that point on,~ uh,~ you know, I, I went from business to business, to business and tried different things,~ um,~ which I think is important for, for us, if you're starting out young to, you know, Try things right with with the mindset of training, though, I think a lot of people say they try things,~ uh,~ which is really just pre loading an excuse of why something didn't work versus if you take on this mindset of like I'm in training, no matter what it is that I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do it with all my heart, right?
[00:11:58] Rylee Meek: And I'm gonna operate in excellence. And if it doesn't work, no sweat. I learned how It didn't work. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna move on to the next thing. And the biggest thing that I found out through that was just like, I looked as an opportunity, an opportunist,~ um,~ an entrepreneur opportunities. I was looking at the marketplace and saying, okay, where are people heading?
[00:12:20] Rylee Meek: What's needed? That's out there. ~Um, ~not something that I'm passionate about. But if I could, if I could follow opportunity, Yeah. But always bring my passion with me. I'm never going to fail in this. And so this is how I just kind of came across this concept of, of doing seminars and, and gathering groups of people,~ uh,~ because I had sold a lot of one on one.
[00:12:41] Rylee Meek: And which is, is great. I mean, I learned a ton through that on, on why and how people make decisions. ~Uh, ~but when I was able to gather a group of people and deliver 1 presentation to 20 people versus 20 presentations individually, it was like inventing fire to me. And I was like, this is Holy crap. Like you could actually let, yeah, it was like, you could leverage time and your marketing efforts.
[00:13:04] Rylee Meek: And, and, and that was my, this has been in 2011. This has been the first, my first million dollar year. ~Um, ~so in 2011, I was 26 at the time and,~ uh,~ it was, it was incredible. And I realized that dude, the things that I was selling at that point in time was insulation to literally like, Into homeowners, uh, led lighting brought still to this day.
[00:13:27] Rylee Meek: I do not know. And please don't tell me,~ uh,~ what the R stands for in our value of insulation, but I've sold probably 30 million in it. And, and so, and again, it wasn't that you don't have to, I didn't have to be an expert on the product or their service. I just found something that people wanted and I was like, all right, can I, can I help, can I fulfill this and then can I get them to help make a decision on that?
[00:13:51] Rylee Meek: And so, and that's why I just love that I love marketing. I love the marriage of marketing and sales because one without the other just doesn't, doesn't work long term. ~Uh, ~and so the, the marriage of those together has, like I said, allowed us to, to do multiple different. Products and services and businesses.
[00:14:09] Rylee Meek: But we focus on that alone is new client acquisition. I know if I have a continual flow of new leads, I'm never going to run out of, of sales opportunities. And,~ um,~ and you know, it's, I kind of equate it to like going to the casino, dude, if I go to the casino and I know every third quarter that I put in, I'm going to get a dollar back, I'm never going to stop putting quarters in never, ever, ever, and.
[00:14:32] Rylee Meek: As for business owners, if you find that model, just freaking pour gas on it, find out how you can put six quarters in nine quarters in right. And really get this thing to grow and ultimately scale. And so, ~um, ~Yeah, man, it's, it's, again, it's, it's following your passion. Don't don't don't don't follow your passion, follow opportunity, but always bring your passion with you.
[00:14:54] Rylee Meek: And you're always going to be able to show up in excellence and provide value to your customer, your, your,~ uh,~ client, patient, whatever it is, whatever industry that you're actually in,
[00:15:04] Chaz Wolfe: I love the the Excitement that you have for the marketing and sales process. There are some personalities, or maybe some people who are maybe more operations driven, they're listening to you right now going like, Oh, if I only understood what that meant, like I get it, but maybe I don't understand how to go do it.
[00:15:19] Chaz Wolfe: I I'm just good at executing the thing, whatever the thing is that they're selling. And so what would you say to that person? Like, you know, obviously what you're the overall, what you're saying is you got it, you got to market, you got to get in front of people and you got them and get them into your pipeline.
[00:15:32] Chaz Wolfe: And that truly does solve everything. I, for many, many years, I've said sales solves everything. Of course, on the back end, you have to have like quality product and, you know, a lot of caveats there. But,~ um,~ for that guy who's more operations driven, how does he step into pressing on this gasoline? If you will, because, because I'm nervous, right?
[00:15:49] Chaz Wolfe: Like I understand, like I do this and I get a lead and I do that, but then I lost money and then I did that. I lost a lot of money and it's just like, I don't really know what to do and I don't know where the gasoline is. Help me out.
[00:15:59] Rylee Meek: Yeah, yeah, that's good, man. I think that comes back to your mindset of, of if you're an entrepreneur, maybe you're more operationally driven,~ uh,~ which is great, but then you either need to, if you have a time, then you need to become an expert at that, right? And I think every entrepreneur to some extent, you have to be involved with new client acquisition.
[00:16:19] Rylee Meek: To some extent, right? If, if, if that's not your, your focus,~ uh,~ you then need to partner with, or you need to hire that on. ~Um, ~so if you have the finances, the resources to do that, then absolutely you need to, you need to do that. But here's where, where. I think people fail or struggle in this, this concept is that they try a lot of things and they're like, well, let's just see what sticks.
[00:16:41] Rylee Meek: And there's never any, any follow through with that. Or there's, they never gained enough traction because they're doing 16 different things and they're not tracking those metrics on like what actually is working. And so I love. This, the idea of having something that's predictable, right? When in our model, I know if I've got to go make a hundred grand, I know exactly what lever I have to push to, to make that happen.
[00:17:04] Rylee Meek: ~Um, ~so if you can have a predictable marketing system,~ uh,~ in, in sales system and your company, and then one that's sustainable, right, we can dial it up, we can, we can slow it down when, when, you know, maybe we're, we're bogged down or,~ uh,~ you know, the fulfillment's just not happening. ~Um, ~and then one that ultimately is, is scalable.
[00:17:21] Rylee Meek: It's, it's really what we. Call our system. It's predictable, sustainable, and then a scalable selling system into your business. So, ~uh, ~if that's not your skillset, that's fine. And if you, so then if you have time, make it a skillset and it is, it is something that can be learned. I didn't know how to do any of this crap when I was younger.
[00:17:37] Rylee Meek: It was just like, all right, I just started talking to people, but then what I did is I, I paid for coaching. I paid for mentors that either had gone before me, right. And they didn't even have to be. Light years ahead of me, they just had to be a half a step ahead of me. If they knew a little bit more than what I knew, I was able to take some of that value,~ uh,~ and then implement that into my business.
[00:18:01] Rylee Meek: And so, ~um, ~so yeah, it's it, but if you, if you don't have time, then hopefully you've got money, right? Cause you're going to have to, you got to give on one of these things where you're able then to,~ uh,~ either completely hire somebody out to run that for your, sit for your company,~ um,~ or that mentorship, like I had mentioned before.
[00:18:19] Rylee Meek: If They knew a Either way, you've got to, you got to dial this thing in, right? Cause most things, and this isn't for every business, but most products, most services out there for the most part are a commodity, right? Unless you're like this unique unicorn of an app or something like that. And it's only a matter of time then until they have other options, right?
[00:18:41] Rylee Meek: We see this in every new platform that gets developed. But,~ um,~ so if it's a commodity, like why would they buy it from you? Why in the world would somebody pay a premium for your product or your service? ~Um, ~and if you're, if you're not charging a premium, then you're just hanging down, you know, with everybody else and, and, and their price shopping, you're just whoring yourself stuff out for peanuts and you're not getting paid the value that you are, you should be worth.
[00:19:07] Rylee Meek: ~Um, ~but that again, comes back to this mindset here of. Am I worth what I'm, what I'm paying or what am I worth? What I'm charging my end user. And if, if, if that's your struggle,
[00:19:18] Rylee Meek: and if you're, if you're then come back to mindset, everything. You just hire a mindset coach, get around those like mindset and people that are willing to push you,~ uh,~ to charge the appropriate price points that are needed.
[00:19:28] Rylee Meek: and you're not
[00:19:28] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. I love it, man. I was just talking to,~ um,~ a contractor actually,~ uh,~ earlier today, and we were talking about lead flow and I had actually,~ uh,~ turned him onto a couple of different sources of ways to get leads. This was maybe a month or two ago. ~Um, ~I met him through,~ uh,~ another person, so I don't know him super well, but spent a little bit of time with him, gave him some different ideas and followed up with him to say, how are things going?
[00:19:47] Chaz Wolfe: And he had, he had stopped doing them. I was like, oh, okay, cool. Did you, did you have metrics? Can we talk about what happened? Cause you turned them off cause they weren't working. And he was like, no, I don't, I don't have any metrics. It's like, oh, got it. So it might, might've been working, or maybe you just didn't do it long enough, or maybe you weren't doing it properly.
[00:20:06] Chaz Wolfe: We don't know actually where in the sales process it broke down because
[00:20:09] Chaz Wolfe: spent a little bit of time You don't, you didn't track anything. Got it. Talk about that for just a half second. Cause you tipped on a little bit, but this is big. I can go get leads, but if I don't know what to do with it, then it doesn't matter anyway, I'm just going to spend a bunch of money and now I think now I'm going to blame the leads, the leads are bad, but they're not, what do I do?
[00:20:26] Rylee Meek: Yes. Yeah, man. You cannot manage what you don't measure. And if you're not measuring those things,~ uh,~ from, you know, somebody just raising their hand,~ uh,~ and it's, you know, this has become obviously very popular from an online, you know, ad placing ads, generating leads, getting them, you know, where within your funnel, did they drop off?
[00:20:43] Rylee Meek: If you're not managing those things, if you don't, and if again, it doesn't have to be you hire that out. There's, there's experts that, that, that's just what they do. I don't do all this stuff myself. When I started out, I had to though. If you're a solopreneur, you are freaking everything. You are marketing, you are sales, you are fulfillment, you are accounting, you are hr.
[00:21:02] Rylee Meek: ~Uh, ~and, and, and that's just, that's the beauty of the position that you're in because you get to learn all those different things. And,~ um,~ and again, if you're, if you're not, if you, if you don't have the time, hire that out. And actually then set these weekly calls up, let that, you go through them. I, you know, and, and when we're first launching a new product or a new service, now those are daily calls.
[00:21:24] Rylee Meek: ~Uh, ~sometimes they're, they're hourly texts of like, Hey, this is, this is when, when we posted this ad, this is what, what took place. ~Uh, ~but if you're not, if you're not actively in that role, you're going to end up wasting a ton of money. And if you have an unlimited budget, by all means go for it. But even then it's, it's.
[00:21:42] Rylee Meek: Idiotic to just throw money at things that aren't actually producing, right? I think of every, every advertising dollar is a seed and it's either falling on good soil or it's falling on the concrete and it's, it's getting, you know, washed away with the next rain. And so unless you know where those things are, are landing,~ um,~ and really, and that comes back to just identifying.
[00:22:04] Rylee Meek: Who's your customer, right? Who, who in the world buys your products and your services? ~Uh, ~and then it's like, all right, where are they? ~Uh, ~whether it's geographically,~ um,~ or where are they shopping even? Is it online? Is it offline? Is it it? And, and, and it doesn't have to be like spending money on ads for that.
[00:22:22] Rylee Meek: But it could just be doing JVs and, and, and partnering with people that already have your existing client list. ~Um, ~and that's fun. That's just, that's, I love doing that, man. And in strategy sessions of just like peeling back the onion and really identifying who is your customer. Not even who you think it is, but if people haven't done like kind of a reverse analysis of who are my actual people that are paying me money, because we even find this out with the king's council, which is, you know, it's a nonprofit now, but I'm still measuring those things.
[00:22:52] Rylee Meek: It's still like I'm not, I'm not interested in going and talking to 3000 people,~ uh,~ you know, 3000.
[00:22:58] Rylee Meek: peeling back the onion And Women that are into crocheting. I ain't going to do that because it's just, you know, maybe they have a husband that, or, you know, or have a desire to get into entrepreneurship, but, but it's really just identifying who is that true client and then focusing your efforts there.
[00:23:15] Rylee Meek: ~Um, ~but managing those things, bro. I mean, you know, it more than anybody that's, that's. That is the lifeblood of your business. if you're not measuring those, you're not going to be able to manage any sort of growth within your business.
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[00:24:13] Chaz Wolfe: That's right. Yep. I love it. Well, ~uh, ~this has been good child's play for the two of us. Kind of get things warmed up, sales acquisition, both of our kind of strong suits. I love it, but I'm going to pull the gloves off and we're going to switch, we're going to take a hard right here.
[00:24:27] Rylee Meek: things,
[00:24:27] Chaz Wolfe: Clearly, you know what you're doing when it comes to business.
[00:24:30] Chaz Wolfe: ~Um, ~I think my research said that like, you know, Either nine figures or multiple nine figures in the last decade, like just like an absolute player. So I appreciate that perspective. I think I've given you plenty of a on ramp here to show the audience that you, that, you know, your stuff let's put our, let's put our entrepreneur hat on underneath faith for a second.
[00:24:49] Chaz Wolfe: And your first book, the kingdom entrepreneur,~ uh,~ part one is seven day blueprint, God's proven template. And you talk about this seven day template and you follow as a creator that was created by the capital T creator, talk about this template and cause we're going to go down this road here for a second as being a creator, like the creator or being made in his image.
[00:25:13] Chaz Wolfe: Even I've got some thoughts here as well, but just open up this topic for us.
[00:25:16] Rylee Meek: Yeah, man, this was, this was shared to me,~ Yeah, man,~ this was, this was shared to me, uh, from a former mentor of mine a few years ago, and I thought it was like, Oh, that's a cool concept. But again, it wasn't until I actually. ~ ~Really dove into this~ thing,~ uh, in the in the book of Genesis, uh,~ chapter one~ in the beginning, um, God has given us a template on how to create and if he is the original creator, right?
[00:25:43] Rylee Meek: Which I believe he is. And if I believe everything that's in the Bible, I look at this thing as an operating manual, right? A lot of people, it's ~like, oh,~ it's like this narrative story or, uh, there's cool concepts, but ~at the end of~ the day, this thing is my operating manual. Um, and it wasn't always ~dude. It~ was, it, it was me rushing to ~uh,~ to do things.
[00:26:03] Rylee Meek: And, and~ obviously, um. I, I made,~ I had a lot of, um. Um, certainly some success with it, but I had a lot of ~failures~ and a lot of heartache and things as well. Um,~ and when I started to~ read through Genesis chapter one, um, there's ~six~ days in which God created, uh, and, and then the seventh ~day of~ which we know as the Sabbath or rest, uh, God gave, God gave us this template and so.
[00:26:23] Rylee Meek: I won't go through it. It's an entirety, but I, the book ~essentially is about~ this, that in day one, um, first off God spoke everything to into existence, which is freaking radical. If we really think about the power of, of words that we have, and we speaking, you know, over our ~our lives,~ over our children, over our businesses, um, and, and there's such power ~ ~within that.
[00:26:43] Rylee Meek: But then as you go into each day ~ ~uh, day ~ ~one, for example, uh, said, uh, God, God said, let there be light. And when I first read that, I mean, and I think most people, we just did a conference this past weekend as 300 people in the audience. And I asked what is light? When you think of what light is, the only thing that people threw out was, well, the sun, but as you continually read, the sun was not created until day four.
[00:27:10] Rylee Meek: So this got me really going of like, what in the world, because scripture also tells me that God is light. And so then I'm like, Whoa, what, what in the heck does this actually mean? And as I dove into it, you know, when, when we, when we read God, God said, let there be light. I think of this as like, Ooh, it's him casting his energy or what we equate to vision.
[00:27:33] Rylee Meek: Right. And here's the cool thing. I love it when science actually backs up the Bible, which it does every single time, literally every single time that the universe is actually still expanding at the speed of light today, which is so cool. But, but. When I think about this, God, God had a clear vision for what he was actually creating.
[00:27:53] Rylee Meek: He knew it. And, and what's so cool as, as Christians, what, you know, we, we know that in the very next chapter, ~we're~ in Genesis three, excuse me, uh, Adam falls right in the, in the, you know, now there's the, there's sin in the world. And, and I thought on this, like, God, man, if God is Alpha and Omega, if he's like, he he's beginning and end, he's, he's omniscient.
[00:28:14] Rylee Meek: He knows everything. Why in the world would he still create if he knew we were going to Jack this thing up? And what really dawned on me was that. You know, his vision was so strong of what he was going to create to be in relation with us. It was so strong that it was going to give any sort of pain in his life purpose.
[00:28:35] Rylee Meek: And so we, this is where we spend so much time on and like, what is the vision that you have for your business, for your life? And this template man is, isn't just for business. It's for, ~if you want~ to create a meaningful life, if you want to have a, uh, an incredible marriage, Follow this template. And, and, but here's the coolest thing.
[00:28:52] Rylee Meek: We serve God a structure in order and he created very specific ~things~ on very specific days. Uh, and if one of those days was, was created differently or before the other, it wouldn't have worked, right? And, and so there's vision. Day two said, God, God ~separated the,~ the heavens from The the, um. The water's from above and the water's from below, and it essentially created the atmosphere, right?
[00:29:15] Rylee Meek: And this is what, like the culture that we're creating, who are you surrounding yourself with, right? Are you plugged into mastermind groups like yours, listening ~to podcasts~ like this, that you're, you're reading, um, you know, books, you're consuming things ~that where~ you're creating this atmosphere, um, that will allow you to then move into day three, which, which we.
[00:29:33] Rylee Meek: We call structure. This is where God actually pulled back the the waters and created ~dry~ land and then vegetation. Uh, so he was, he was creating what, what I believe was just like our playbook. So our structure in our business isn't, it isn't like a business plan. I think most business plans are. Silly because they never work according to plan unless you're trying to go raise money or get an S.
[00:29:55] Rylee Meek: B. A. Loan. Business plans are are silly. We need an operating manual. We need a playbook like on the daily basis. What are your S. O. ~P. S.~ What? How are we building this thing? Um, which flows into day four. Which is actually where the Bible says that God, this is where he created the sun and the moon and he placed the stars in the sky and created what we know as time, right?
[00:30:17] Rylee Meek: Just ~this concept,~ this 24 hour cycle. Um, so order is the implementation of the structure, right? We've written the playbook and now we're actually, this is where we're managing things. We're measuring ~our, our,~ you know, our, our, uh, marketing dollars and things like that. Or even if in a relationship, this is where you're actually.
[00:30:37] Rylee Meek: Lane or walking out date night with your spouse, right? You're actually doing these things that you've planned accordingly, which allows us to get to day five, which we consider momentum. And in the Bible, what? So what it says in day five, it says God created the birds of the air and the fish of the sea.
[00:30:55] Rylee Meek: So we weren't created yet. No other mammals were created yet. And this is where I was like, dude, why? Why would he create the birds and the fish like what's the meaning behind this? And what's, what's cool, man, if you really think through this, the birds, the birds of the air were able to not to get ~nasty,~ but they were able to defecate.
[00:31:14] Rylee Meek: Right. Uh, and, and, and that was the fertilization for the vegetation to grow, but also when they would do it over the water, it now created algae to create a coral. It allowed the fish to have something to consume so that the birds could eat the fish. And this could now create a momentous cycle of life, right?
[00:31:32] Rylee Meek: And this is where, where I failed. And, and a lot of my businesses starting out is I, I skipped over creating culture and atmosphere. I skipped over the ~playbook. I was like,~ we're, I~ was like, uh,~ Um, from the movie, uh, old school, I was Like we're going straight, right? Like we're going to the yard, bro. And, and, and as, as I ran to that, I realized that foundationally, I didn't have anything set up in my business.
[00:31:57] Rylee Meek: And so I, I had a huge spike of, of leads and sales and income, and then it started to fizzle out, which, which, which I lost momentum, right. Which then led into day six, which is. Multiplication. This is in Genesis 1 28 says to go forth to be fruitful to ~multiply,~ have dominion on this earth. Uh, and that's what I believe is our mandate.
[00:32:19] Rylee Meek: That's if any Christians listening to this, they've heard of the Great Commission, but this is the original commission. Before Senate even entered the world, this is what our, our, the intent was, was for us to have dominion on this earth. And as entrepreneurs, kingdom entrepreneurs, this is what I believe our mandate ~ ~is, is we are to be fruitful.
[00:32:37] Rylee Meek: Number one, uh, whatever it is we put our hand to, we're to be fruitful. A lot of people think this is just like making babies ~ ~and, you know, making babies~ is fun.~ Um, it's raising them. That's hard. Uh, it, but we are to be fruitful. But in order to multiply and actually have dominion, this is more about culture.
[00:32:54] Rylee Meek: This is like, what are we, what, what's the, the ultimate culture? And for, for the king's council, it's like this kingdom culture ~that we are to~ have dominion on this earth, uh, in, in, in ~taking that~ to, to the ends of the earth. Um,~ but of course we~ jacked it up, like I said, and, and, uh, uh, the last day is day seven rest, Again, this isn't this template.
[00:33:17] Rylee Meek: It's not like God got tired. He didn't like create for six days. And he's like, dang, man, that was that was hard work. No, he got he created this as a model for us to follow because in the New Testament, it says that the Sabbath was created for man. Not for God, right? But it's a set apart. And this is again why I think it's a model that we're to follow.
[00:33:37] Rylee Meek: We have to rest. And that's the that's I think the biggest struggle for a lot of entrepreneurs is we're grinders. We're hustlers. We're like, if it's to be, it's up to me, right? And and there's such ~wisdom~ in taking that time off. Um, it just has to be a day. Right. But that one day of rest and reflection and reviewing what we're doing ~ ~allows us to pour gas on things, um, and to really continue ~this~ momentum that we've actually created.
[00:34:04] Rylee Meek: So, um, that's it. A high level overview, man. In the book itself, we get into the nitty gritty of the that in how to actually implement that again, whether it's into your business, your home life. Any ~ ~relationships that you have as well.
[00:34:17] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah. We'll put a, uh, links to your books below. So if they are interested in that, they can, they can grab that. But this, this concept of creating and you've taken it a step further and really gone, well, if I, if I'm create tid, then let's, let's follow the map from the creator. Okay, great. And so you've, you've laid this out, which I think is amazing, but, but But for the person that's listening right now, that maybe they're a Christian, maybe they're not, but they're having this like confusion around, well, like I'm not the creator.
[00:34:45] Chaz Wolfe: And so like there, there's this marriage or maybe even dance is a better word that I have found as a believer where it's like,
[00:34:52] Chaz Wolfe: I'm receiving blessing or favor, but also I'm creating. And what I have found actually more in the church is the sit, wait for blessing and favor because I'm not the creator. I'm just the little, little created where I hear you and me saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
[00:35:09] Chaz Wolfe: No, no, no. You're made in his image, the image of Elohim, the creator. And get off your hiney and start creating. Talk about this. for a second.
[00:35:18] Rylee Meek: Yeah, man. Absolutely. Dude. There's nothing more annoying to me than hearing that.
[00:35:23] Rylee Meek: I'm just waiting on God, you know, just, I'm just waiting on God. And. And while they, there's, they think there's some righteousness in that concept, man, that is like, God's sitting there going, no, I'm waiting on you. I've already given you everything ~everything~ to go forth and to be fruitful. Uh, but if we don't take action on these things, he can't.
[00:35:46] Rylee Meek: He can't do anything. Through us. And, and, and that requires faith, right? And, and the Bible tells us that ~is~ is literally impossible to please God without faith. Uh, and I kind of equate faith to risk, right? It's, it's like we as entrepreneurs, creators, we have to take risks, right? And, and if we actually believed, again, as Christians, if we believed truly in what we were doing.
[00:36:11] Rylee Meek: Don't you think we should be the ones that should be leading the charge on this and taking quote unquote risks? Because we have faith, not in faith itself, but we have faith in the creator that he's given us a vision. And I believe if he's given you the vision, no doubt he will give you the capacity to fulfill that vision.
[00:36:29] Rylee Meek: But it takes you Getting off your rear end and actually doing something about it. I love it. And in, in, in creation, you know, God created everything that was ever going to be originally created. And from there, we then are the ones that get to go do everything else that's been created from that time has, has been from those six days, right?
[00:36:48] Rylee Meek: God gave us, God never made a table in his whole life, but he made a tree, right? God's never made a car. He's never, but he created oil, put oil in the ground that allowed us to turn that into rubber and melt it down and create these incredible things and tools that we have at our disposal now. And so he really And even from a work concept, he created us to work a lot of people think that that work is a curse.
[00:37:18] Rylee Meek: That's not what it says in the Bible. It says that when God created Adam, he put him in the garden to work it. That was the original plan and intent. Now, through. Through the fall, it says now by the curse of your by the sweat of your brow, the ground is cursed. So by the sweat of your brow, you're going to toil and you're going to sweat and it's going to it's going to be hard, right?
[00:37:39] Rylee Meek: And so, yes, it is going to be hard. But the cool thing is for Christians. What we believe is that hey, Jesus returned and when Jesus actually Returned he wasn't preaching anything other than the kingdom. He said the kingdom of heaven is here And so when we invite him into this prime into our lives into our hearts and then we start to take on this kingdom mindset We then get to again co create with our creator So incredible wisdom incredible knowledge can be given to us, but it still takes us to To freaking get to work and do the hard things that we're called to do so that we can continue this creation process and, uh, yeah, there's, I mean, I can go on and on about just this, this, where I think Christians and I just say I am a Christian man, but.
[00:38:29] Rylee Meek: They're the hardest people to work with. They're the hardest people to coach. They're the hardest people to, uh, because they have these mindsets that, that just like, they're like, Oh, you know, I don't want to be greedy. I don't have too much. Like, are you freaking kidding me? You say if you believe the Bible, I question their faith in any of it because if they don't believe that stuff, what are you even doing right?
[00:38:49] Rylee Meek: Just go get a job, go sell insurance, go do something else than actually try to build a business because God wants those that are that are willing to take risks and actually like be willing to go put their life on the line sometimes for these things. Not literally, but it's like, hey, this is like everything we've we've we've Got a second mortgage on our home to build this business.
[00:39:12] Rylee Meek: Whatever it is, they're willing to take those risks because they believe the vision is strong enough in, in what they're providing to the marketplace that it's going to work. And, uh, it gets said, Christians are the, are the hardest ones to actually work through that process because they think that it's, it's, it's really just this mindset block that if they get too much, They're going to be greedy and they're, they're, they're, you know, they're no longer a good Christian, which it couldn't be further from the truth God gives to us according to our ability.
[00:39:40] Rylee Meek: Right. And if, if we aren't able to handle those things, then by all means, yeah, it's, we shouldn't continue to grow those things, but this is where I you know, masterminds like yours, man, and, and just getting, gathering groups of people, gathering the Kings to come together that are willing to, uh, be on mission.
[00:39:58] Rylee Meek: Really take this, this thing seriously of life and, and run this race. Run it hard because we only get one of them.
[00:40:05] Chaz Wolfe: ~ ~There's, there's a, um, a picture that I got, uh, I don't know, maybe probably 12 or 15 years ago. And I had a little circumstance happened in my life. I met my biological father for the first time. I didn't know who he was. I thought somebody else was my dad. He had no idea I existed. And so through that, yeah, crazy story.
[00:40:20] Chaz Wolfe: But through that, it was this picture of the father's heart and like the father capital T capital F the father's heart. And like what he had for me, what God has for me, Chaz and, and, and As I now have children, I didn't then this has become, you know, full circle for me, which I'm sure it has for you, but everything that you're saying as far as like the, not wait, like get up and do and, and, and be a co creator.
[00:40:44] Chaz Wolfe: I imagine this with my own children, even though they're, they're young, I've got four under the age of 10, but when my daughter creates something like literally create something out of cardboard boxes, and it's like, dad, look, it's like,
[00:40:57] Chaz Wolfe: Wow. This is amazing. You like, it's not like she came to me and said, dad, I was thinking about making something.
[00:41:04] Chaz Wolfe: And is this the right type of glue and what color should I use? And maybe I'll just wait for you to get done for work. And then you can tell me how to do it. It was no, no, she just went and did and then showed it to me. And I was like, wow, this is amazing. You created this. And we went through each individual little thing that she created and you just, she just, you know, just.
[00:41:24] Chaz Wolfe: Just exuberant energy coming from her because she created this thing. And so I liken that to this, this piece that we're talking about here, as far as being co creators, it's like, well, first off, if I'm made in his image, that means I operate like he does. Right. Does it mean that, and actually I was just having this conversation with my wife a couple of weeks ago.
[00:41:41] Chaz Wolfe: It's like, you know, as soon as I say, what is this as I say. I want to become like Christ. Christians are like, Hey, yes, amen. But as soon as I say God, like they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:41:51] Chaz Wolfe: And
[00:41:51] Chaz Wolfe: it's like, well, wait a second,
[00:41:54] Chaz Wolfe: wait a second. It says I'm made in his image. Like I can create, like, this is, this is, how he's made me.
[00:41:59] Chaz Wolfe: And so. What has I think benefit beneficial for me, but also I think for others is if I just see it as a good father Why wouldn't why is he why would he know this is not accurate at all? He's like he's waiting for he wants me to go make choices in fact, he actually even wants me to go maybe make a mistake or two and then come back and go ah Bummer, you know and and engage even in the bummer, right, right?
[00:42:25] Rylee Meek: Absolutely, man. Yeah. You hit it dead on there, man. Our perspective of God will either bring out the best of us or the worst of us. It, it, it comes back to just perspective and.
[00:42:36] Rylee Meek: And I read this in the parable of the talent. So, so well, because, you know, for those that don't know what that is, is it the story essentially is, Hey, uh, there's a master and he's going to go on a journey for a period of time. And so it says that he gives back to their ability. He gave, gave to these three servants according to their ability.
[00:42:56] Rylee Meek: I gave one of them five talents, one, two talents and one, one, the one with five. Yeah. Put it to worse work, and he doubled it the same with the one with to put it to work. He doubled it, and then the one with one buried ~it,~ and when the master returned, he came back and was like, Hey, uh, now, now we have to be accountable, right? And we're all gonna be held accountable to this at some point in time in our life and the accountability. If you've given your life to Christ. That the accountability portion of it is not like, am I getting into heaven or not? That's not what that judgment day is. It's going to be this in which it comes back and says, Hey, what did you do with what I gave you?
[00:43:34] Rylee Meek: And to the, to the guy with five, who doubled the guy with two with doubled his exact words were well done. Good and faithful servant. You've been faithful with, with the little I'm going to, I'm going to entrust you with more enter into the joy of your Lord. Yeah. And the guy with one, when he came back, he didn't double it.
[00:43:52] Rylee Meek: Uh, he didn't, he didn't even, he didn't even bring anything to the master except an excuse. And this is what it was. He said, I knew you to be a hard man and you, you reap where you don't. So, uh, and, and so what I did is I just buried it. So I didn't lose it. And this is where I think a lot of Christians, man, they're playing.
[00:44:12] Rylee Meek: Life not to lose vs playing life to win the guy with five and two. They're like, nah, I've been given this talent. I've been given this a skillset, this ability, and this doesn't, this is more than just money. And this is why I love that. It's even called the talent because the talent back then was a significant amount.
[00:44:29] Rylee Meek: It was like 6, 000 Denari, which is a lot of money back then. Um, but I love that it still says talent because it's like, Maybe you have an incredible singing voice, right? Maybe you have an incredible, uh, ability to make things. You're an engineer, right? And you're, you're not that sales and that marketing guy, but did you steward that?
[00:44:48] Rylee Meek: Well, did you, did you do that? But it all comes back to their mindset. And how they view their perception of ~ ~And if, if you've grown up in the church, uh, and you've, you've been indoctrinated with this, that like, God is like this, uh, nasty guy that's only there to like, check the box when you, when you do bad things, right.
[00:45:08] Rylee Meek: And a lot of this comes back to just the mindsets that we create, right. Whether, whether we grew up with a father or we grew up with a butthead of a father, or, you know, the different one that was like, willing to encourage you and willing to go above and beyond. And when we take on that mindset of, like, truly our God, our Creator is a loving God, and He does want what's best for us, He allows us to go through crap, because truly that's what's best for us, and it's testing us and refining ~us,~ uh, to go through the motions of life, um, but not just to coast, to take intentional action throughout life, and steward those appropriately.
[00:45:47] Rylee Meek: But if your mindset is not of that man, now you become a victim, which is 99 percent of this population. It's like, ah, everything's happening to me and against me versus happening for me. And that's that mindset shift that just, that that's so key, whether you're an entrepreneur or not, but especially if you're an entrepreneur and a business owner, the crap that's happening.
[00:46:08] Rylee Meek: Who you is happening for you if you take on that mindset. So I love it, man. That's just a great analogy, though, of you and your daughter. And it's I have a daughter as well. It's the same thing. I love it. When, when she, you know, when she messes up, but for me, the other, the other week, I'm downstairs here and this is where I record our podcast and I'm down here and I'm prepping for some content and all of a sudden I hear a. And obviously she dropped something and it shattered. And, you know, I'm kind of like, Oh, okay. But the, here's the very first thing I heard, uh, dad. And that warmed my heart so much jazz, like how amazing that her first response wasn't to hide it from me or to, to not, to, to, you know, thinking that I'm going to be like mad at her upset with the situation.
[00:47:01] Rylee Meek: It was her calling out to her father and we all have a father. Uh, in heaven who asks us and wants us to call out to him when, when crap is hitting the fan, we need to be the ones that are like, uh, dad, and he is there to pick us up whenever the, the crap hits the
[00:47:18] Chaz Wolfe: Yeah.
[00:47:18] Chaz Wolfe: ~Yeah.~ A lot of the mindset that you've given here, uh, whether again, Christian or not for sure, entrepreneurs, but it's fear, it's fear based even in the, the parable of the talents there, he hit it because of fear. And I loved how you even said for, for those folks that maybe have grown up in the church and been indoctrinated, cause that's, that's truly what it is, where it's like, There's this fear, it's fear mongering, the news does it.
[00:47:39] Chaz Wolfe: Unfortunately, religion does it. And it's like, I'm going to fear you into certain actions as opposed to come on in here. Let's, let's, let's bring you home. That's what the father does. Right. And then out of a response out of co creating out of the fact I want to honor what I've been given. Now I have this.
[00:47:58] Chaz Wolfe: Maybe no zero fear, but I have less fear or I have more confidence. And so, um, last little kind of major topic here. I want you to kind of open up for us and then we'll, we'll, we'll end up here, but this like fear versus confidence, especially even in the church, because I, again, I see believers. And then even more dialed in here, believers that are business owners.
[00:48:19] Chaz Wolfe: And it's like, but if I, if I run too hard or if I make too much money or if I achieve too much, or if I dominate too hard, then, then there's this like arrogance and, and a lack of humility. And, and okay, maybe some of those things could be true for some people, but. It's not the exact equation. Just like, like you said earlier, at the beginning of the show that, you know, money is the root of all evil.
[00:48:41] Chaz Wolfe: It's like, that's actually not what that scripture says either. And so I'm talking fear versus faith, but I'm also talking, you know, being able to, you know, being able to,
[00:48:49] Chaz Wolfe: you know, maybe so overcome some of these like boxes that we've been put in, let me just kind of open it. up for you and see where You want to take it with that. see where you want to take ~it with that.~
[00:48:55] Rylee Meek: Yeah, man, I love it. You even said the word confidence, um, which I think if you look at the root where I love diving into, like, the root of of these these words confide, um, is, is, is the root word of confidence. And when we think about, uh, why we don't have confidence, it's usually because, uh, we know, we know What we're actually like on the inside, right?
[00:49:21] Rylee Meek: And the only people that we confide in is ourself. And so when something new comes at us, it's ~it's~ like we don't take the risk. We don't take the challenge because, uh, we don't step up to the plate or even verbalize that. Hey, we're gonna go do this because we know. We are the only ones that know every lie we've ever told, right?
[00:49:41] Rylee Meek: And so as an individual, and so when, when you confide in that, right, you don't longer have the confidence to actually walk this thing out in life. And so, and, and back to even the fear of it. So then we, we operate in fear, uh, because of maybe what other people are going to think about us or, you know, ~what.~ The Instagram haters are going to say, or whatever it is, uh, which is all just garbage at the end of the day, because we play, I play for an audience of one and, and I don't really give a rip what anybody else thinks about me because their opinion is, it doesn't matter, right? I'm operating for an audience of one.
[00:50:18] Rylee Meek: And that's the only opinion that I actually care for. And with that being said, scripture tells us that God does not give us a spirit of fear. Which is, it's interesting, right? It's like, if God doesn't give us a spirit of fear, why, why do I have this feel, fear, fear or anxiety well up inside of me? And it's, it's, it's getting back to just understand the only fear that we really should have is the fear of God, right?
[00:50:42] Rylee Meek: And this isn't like this, this scariness of him, but it's more of an awe or a reverence of who he is. The God almighty that created the entire universe from just speaking the words. Like if we really grasp that, if Christians really grasp that, holy cow, like we're going to, we should take this thing way more serious than it actually is and be willing to take those risks to step out in confidence and actually.
[00:51:10] Rylee Meek: Have bold action, right? Like we're going to boldly go before go where no one has gone before it because of who
[00:51:17] Rylee Meek: our God is not because of anything else. And yeah. And with that though, man, this is the power of community, right? And, and growing. This is one thing that I've learned. If you want to, I'm sure others have said this before, but if you want to go fast, it's easy to go alone, but if you want to go far, you got to go together.
[00:51:37] Rylee Meek: You got to gather the kings together and you've got to do life together to be accountable to each other. Be willing to be open and vulnerable to call me on my B. S. When I when I'm acting like a little little girl in this situation, it's like, no, no, buck up, buddy. You said you were going to do this. Have confidence.
[00:51:57] Rylee Meek: And in what you're doing and continue to take action and in action, I think is the biggest thing that action brings clarity, uh, no matter what the decision is, you know, if it's like, well, I don't know if I go this way in my business or this way, and you're stuck on the fence. Well, at the end of the day, the enemy owns the fence.
[00:52:14] Rylee Meek: And if you don't actually get off that thing one way or the other, you will forever be bound to that fence. So get off, pick a side. What I mean by when it gets when it brings clarity, even if it was the wrong decision, at least you found out quicker than not, not getting out the fence, right? Because yes, action brings clarity, but reaction reveals character.
[00:52:36] Rylee Meek: And what happens when, when that was a bad decision, now we got to, we got to. There's a fork in the road again. It's like, what am I going to do? Do I just fold this thing and quit and go back and get a job? No, heck no. If you are a man of character right now, it's the reaction time. It's like, all right, back up.
[00:52:52] Rylee Meek: Let's get on the other side of the fence and let's get to work here. Because I just, I just figured out a way that that didn't work, but that comes back to the mindset. Right. I love love the concept of, you know, um, Edison who invented the light bulb so that he, he figured out a thousand ways it didn't work before.
[00:53:10] Rylee Meek: Eventually one day it worked and if we have that mindset and then just taking that on of like, okay, I'm going to continue this thing until I figure it out. Not give up too soon right now. There are just bad ideas in business, and this is important in community to to be able to have a coach or mentor that's willing and be willing to take feedback like, bro, that's not a good idea, ~right? Like, ~I mean, we've got to we've got to put those people in our life as well. Um, but. Then we need those that are willing to say, yes, great idea. Let's freaking go. I got your six and, and and now we go to town together. Um, and so that, that's just why, again, I love about your, your community, man, and, and what you're building, what you're doing here with like mindset and people that it's just like when you get on mission, And, and and collectively come together.
[00:53:59] Rylee Meek: Uh, there's not a whole lot that can stop a full fledged force of, of what's actually taking place in the business world.
[00:54:06] Chaz Wolfe: Exactly. I was gonna say, you've got so much passion towards operating and, and it's like, as if you operate without fear, we all know that there's this, this thing that stirs up in each one of us. And I think that it's a muscle at this point where you've just simply said, no, thanks, appreciate you, but, uh, but no thanks.
[00:54:23] Chaz Wolfe: Um, and so I think for the, for the listener, it's, it's it's, it's, it's You don't just cut it off. Like you don't just, Hey, don't book, don't bury it. Don't do it. Right. And that's not what I'm hearing you say. In fact, it's quite the opposite. I'm hearing you say, grow a strong mindset and get around other people who can help you massage the muscle of operating in faith over fear.
[00:54:41] Chaz Wolfe: And if we can really go into what you were saying a few minutes ago, maybe six, seven minutes ago, it was, is really this belief, but it's, but it's coupled with action. I can believe I can say, sure, that's powerful. We learned that in chapter one, but it's what came after that is all these elements of implicate, uh, implementing all of the, spoken words that we can follow in the, uh, in the, in the template, as you. have it in your first book.
[00:55:05] Chaz Wolfe: So, um, Riley, I got a, uh, one last question here for you. I want to know, um, because you've You've lived a lot of life, man. You've, you've done different business exploits. You've helped a lot of people. You've seen a lot of things, a lot of experience. And so if you could talk to the younger Riley, just roll back the clock and you tap him on the shoulder and you whisper in his ear, what would you tell him? tell him?
[00:55:25] Rylee Meek: Yeah, man, I think when, so when I was young, 15, um, I mentioned, I jokingly say I gave my life to entrepreneurship. I actually gave my life to Christ shortly after that at the age of 16. Um, and I was surrounded by just a great group of people for a few years of my life. and as I started to make money, um, and experience, you know, quote unquote success, um, I found myself doing, uh, uh, a lot of different, a lot of stupid things.
[00:55:53] Rylee Meek: And I lost a lot of. Really, what I would call just discipleship in my life. I no longer was putting myself in those, um, the environments that I, I had once was. And so the power of community and being willing to be vulnerable with each other and being willing to grow. With each other, I think is so, so powerful.
[00:56:14] Rylee Meek: Um, money is a great magnifier. That's, that's what I've realized. And when, when I started to make a lot of it, I realized I wasn't that great of a dude and, uh, but thank God he allowed me to grow through it and never took his hand off of me. And, and finally, you know, really was only been about four and a half years since he woke me up again to.
[00:56:34] Rylee Meek: To say, what are you doing, dude? Cause I realized you, you could be incredibly successful at a lot of things and still feel like a failure if you're not operating for the God given intended purpose of why you were created. And that was me. I was, I was like a fish out of water, just like grasping for the next thing, the next thing to the next thing.
[00:56:52] Rylee Meek: And this is why I think was, you know, I used it. I channeled it to seek success, to seek fulfillment. Um, That always left me unfulfilled, and that allowed me to you mentioned we've done 9 figures in 8 separate companies. I've started now every single one of them. We've hit 7 and 8 figures within the first 10 months of each.
[00:57:16] Rylee Meek: Uh, and that's allowed us just to grow rapidly. I rushed to that momentum, but I didn't foundationally have anything in place. Uh, and so Staying true to that the community and being willing to surround yourself with with like minded people is is important. If I would have did that throughout that growth period, I truly believe I'd be at a beat now, and it wouldn't be just in the nine figure mark, but ~hey,~ I'm only 38. And so I get to ~start,~ uh, start fresh. And this is what we've been building for now, um, for the past four years of just understanding why I'm building business and what, what the real intent is behind it. Um, but I, I didn't have that for a long time and it came back to just, uh, being willing to be in rooms like what you're building and being willing to be vulnerable with those like minded
[00:58:04] Rylee Meek: people.
[00:58:05] Chaz Wolfe: Well, I couldn't agree with you more for obvious reasons, but the King's council, um, is uh, is an inspiration for. Not only just today's podcast, obviously a lot of the mindset I'm sure that you share here today that you go in depth, uh, inside of that. So if someone's listening here today, they're an entrepreneur, they call themselves a Christian.
[00:58:23] Chaz Wolfe: They want to be around other people that are like that. Obviously check out King's council. Um, in fact, fun story. Uh, because obviously the King's council is a little different than gathering the Kings. But when we were starting gathering the Kings, I was searching for stuff and, uh, the King's council came up.
[00:58:38] Chaz Wolfe: And so the, the, the difference here, um, you know, we, we don't, we're not a faith organization, although I'm very much a man of faith and I talk about it openly here on the show and anybody who's willing to ask. Um, but the cool part is, is that I remember seeing your stuff before gathering the Kings was even official.
[00:58:54] Chaz Wolfe: And I'm like, Good for him. Like, I appreciate him. Like I saw you on stage. Like I, that was, that was years ago.
[00:59:01] Chaz Wolfe: And, uh, and so thank you even for me, just as an entrepreneur, I was out there doing the same thing, all different industries, you know, making money. Of course, uh, faith has always been important to me, but, but the reality is, is that I, I got to see something cool that you were doing that now is more of a, maybe a God given purpose and you're filling that.
[00:59:18] Chaz Wolfe: And so I just want to encourage you. Uh, of course, I'm sure there's hundreds of you, maybe even thousands of clients that have come through your stuff that, um, That have spoken that to you, but even from a far from a distance from years ago, thank you for doing what you do. Thank you for being here. We'll put all your links and stuff in the, in the notes for people to be able to check you out and check out the King's council, where you're going to be with some of your next events.
[00:59:37] Chaz Wolfe: We just appreciate you being here. Riley. Thanks so Riley. Thank you.
[00:59:40] Rylee Meek: Thank you, Chas. That means a lot, man. Really appreciate it.
Thank you for listening to Gathering the Kings today. I hope that you were able to pull out a few nuggets to go apply into your business right away. More importantly, though, I hope that you're realizing that it takes more to be successful than just being by yourself, doing it all on your own, carrying the weight all by yourself.
What I have realized, not only in my own journey from multiple businesses and multiple different industries, and now interviewing over 200 or 300, you know, I've been able to do a lot more than just be by myself. I've been able to do a Other very successful seven, eight, and nine figure business owners is that it's tough to do it alone.
And so gathering the Kings exists to bring together successful entrepreneurs. In fact, we are putting together 1000 Kings specifically who are grateful, but not done. We're intentionally assembling Kings who fight tooth and nail for their business, family, and communities. And here's what we believe that in the pursuit of excellence in those areas.
That it ignites within us, the responsibility to govern power and forge a lasting legacy. So if that relates and resonates with you, and you know, that you need people around you, sharp, qualified, other very successful business owners. I want you to go to gatheringthekings. com. Once you take a look at what we're doing and see if it makes sense for you to be part of our pursuit to 1000 Kings talk soon.

Rylee Meek has achieved massive success and is a 9 figure business owner that owns SEVERAL 7 figure businesses. Meek, the Co-founder of Kings Council Coaching, shares his journey as an entrepreneur and gives real tactical insights on sales and marketing, the intersection of faith and entrepreneurship, and common mindset challenges among Christian entrepreneurs. Drawing from his book, "The Kingdom Entrepreneur", Meek explores the root of confidence and the concept of fear of God. This is a sales and marketing masterclass you can't miss!

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