Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Episode 10 - Julie Miller Davis - Lifelong Trainer
Julie Miller Davis is a lifelong educator, that took a different direction when she wanted to dedicate more time with her family and eventually found her way back into education on a different platform. She now runs her own successful business owner, as a speaker, and productivity training with JMD.
Leighann Lovely 00:19
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Leighann Lovely 01:06
It's gonna be a great conversation today. I have a award winning productivity and efficiency expert Julie Miller Davis, she brings a fresh perspective on avoiding overwhelm and reaching goals in an intentional manner. She trains business owners how to live and work their highest level of efficiencies, guiding her clients to reset to patterns of excellence, leaving mediocracy in the dust. Julie's out of the box thinking knowledge on how to say yes to what is important, and no to what is not an ability to help and help regain control of your pursuit of your goals makes her one to watch in the world of productivity, prioritizing and efficiency. Her background in teaching, leadership and entrepreneurial ship has shaped her into an expert speaker and trainer she is today. Julie, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm excited to talk with you.
Julie Miller Davis 02:13
Thank you for having me, Leighann. I've been looking forward to this for a long time.
Leighann Lovely 02:17
So why don't you start off by telling me a little bit about yourself.
Julie Miller Davis 02:20
Um, so I am Julie Miller Davis, that's my professional name. It came about quite accidentally because Julie davis.com was not available. So my husband I started bouncing around what it could be and and trying all these different things on the URLs and and so then I just put in my middle name and it became JMD productivity training and now a lot of people call me JMD. And so it's pretty, it's pretty funny. But no, I am, I was a high school teacher. I grew up in Breckenridge, Colorado. And I've always been a Colorado girl except the two years that I left my first few years teaching and to high school English for almost 20 years before having my son and then left teaching to teach to raise him and when he went to school, just started figuring out what else was out there and eventually landed at a place where I could still teach but not be involved in politics or having a boss or a bell schedule or anything like that. And took a lot of the concepts and principles that I used in my classroom, as well as at a leadership ranch that I volunteered at for 20 years and melded them into a curriculums and different things, programs and classes that I put together for entrepreneurs and women business owners, mostly women, business owners, a few good men, and mostly women.
Leighann Lovely 03:56
Awesome. That's great. So you started out as you said, What grade were you teaching? High School?
Julie Miller Davis 04:04
So nine through 12?
Leighann Lovely 04:05
Yeah. Okay. Well, that's awesome to be able to go from, you know, high school kids to now, adults, which I'm sure was definitely an interesting transition, because, you know, you've got the young minds too. Now, you've got people who are already kind of, I guess, that would be really different people who are already kind of set in their ways.
Julie Miller Davis 04:31
That's true. Yeah, that's true. And, um, you know, in my introduction, you talked about that I reset people's habits and patterns, they can get the right things done and so, um, yeah, set in your ways is why a lot of us are stuck or in trouble or not doing the things that we should be doing and so it's digging into that and setting setting new habits around it. We don't I don't really believe we ever break habits, their habits, right? They're ingrained in us we can, we can form new ones. And when the old ones rear their ugly heads, we can say, hey, I don't, I don't do that like that anymore. This is what I do now. But yeah, the interesting thing is, you know, kids, they're, you know, they're there a lot of times a hostile audience, right, they have to be there. And they do have to learn what you teach them, because they are going to have a test at the end. But, you know, working with entrepreneurs has just been fantastic. Because most entrepreneurs are hungry, to learn, hungry to improve, and for information, and so sometimes to their detriment, you know, it's kind of we are, we're learning, learning ourselves to death without implementation. And my company is all about implementation. And so it's a, it's not teaching necessarily, brand new information. It's more about how can I help reset your patterns, and your habits so that you can actually implement all these great ideas, and all these great concepts and all these great things that you have been gathering? And do something with all that information?
Leighann Lovely 06:17
Right, you make such a valid point, there, we there are a lot of people out there who say, Well, I'm a lifelong learner, I love to learn, I love to learn, but what is the point of learning all of this information, if it's simply going to be stuck in your head, and then never put to work in the real world if you never implement that, so I could, I could go out and read every single book and retain all of that information, but it means nothing. If I never use that information, to better myself to like, I could go read emotional intelligence 100 times over. But if I just simply read it, and don't truly, you know, take that information in and then try to, you know, utilize that information for my own benefit, right. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. Right. Right. So wow, that's, that's awesome. That's, that's amazing. So you are in and you mentioned this, I've mentioned this already, but you're the co founder of JMD.
Julie Miller Davis 07:21
Productivity training?
Leighann Lovely 07:23
Yes. Let me say that, again, you are the founder of JMD. Productivity training. Tell me how you, you know, you and you kind of said this, but tell me how you started it. But what was the main driver that really said, hey, I want to do this, I want to go out on my own, I want to start a business. You know, what was the trigger that because it's hard, it's really hard. It is hard, it's very hard.
Julie Miller Davis 07:53
It's very hard. And if you're in the right space, and doing the right thing, it's also very fun, right? Because you are hopefully pursuing something that you love. And for me, so then what I did before this is I had a home based business, you know, selling a product, and growing a team and all of that. And what I love the most about that was my team and leading them and helping them and teaching them. And what also happened was there were other leaders in my organization that kept coming to me and asking me how I was doing what I was doing working, I was only working three days a week because my son was in elementary school, the whole point of the whole thing was that I would have some income to supplement for our family while raising our son. And through elementary school, especially because you know, once they get to middle and high school, you never really see them much. So I just started really thinking about how when I was going to these leadership retreats and things and doing these trainings on basically calendaring is where it all started. I started really thinking about the fact that I did not want to sell, you know, do these home parties and sell products. I mean, that's not my end game. It was something to get my son through elementary school and to and to supplement our income. But I really started listening to people around me, women because I was networking mostly with women. I was hearing this pain point of I'm so busy, I'm stuck. I'm I'm can't I'm trying to do all the things and I can't get anything done. You know, I just kept hearing these same phrases over and over and over again. And I'm so stressed out I'm not sleeping like you know all the things. And so I started thinking about it. How the fact that the way that I operate on a daily basis is not how most people operate. And, you know, we never know, sometimes we don't know, we have gifts that we have, right? And so not that I'm perfect, I want to be perfectly clear to all the listeners, I have all kinds of slips where I have to look at myself and say, Okay, what would I tell myself to do here? Because I am underwater at the moment, you know, and so, um, but I just really I, and I, as as my background is, as a teacher, I am I am a teacher at heart, it is not something I did it is it is truly like who I am. And so how can I use that gift of being a teacher? And the gifts that I had around prioritizing, and around proactive thinking? How can I use that to create something to help help women do things differently? And, and so I just started digging into how I read. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective teens is something that I taught for a long time. So how did I take that, and turn it into something for entrepreneurs. Without it, you know, a twist on it, and parts of it. And then I had some other other trainings that I had been through that I wanted to integrate into my curriculum. And so I created a curriculum for a program. And, then other things were born out of that, but it's, it's been a journey, and definitely a journey. But it's been amazing and has allowed me all kinds of freedom, and, and has helped so many women and men change, change how they do things.
Leighann Lovely 12:01
So let me ask you this part, in your training, what are some of the key things that you hit on? You know, you're talking about helping men and women get, you know, kind of unstuck. And in that curriculum and without giving obviously, I don't want you to, you know, give away your your product, give away your your trainings, but what are some of the key things that you
Julie Miller Davis 12:23
Um, well, one of the things that we do is, is largely around calendar with a lot of people come to me in the, in the beginning for calendar. And it's because they're, they have no system, really, of how they're going about, or they have this full calendar, and they have this to do list of things that need to get. And so how, how are these things going to get done when my calendar is booked from eight to eight, you know? And so a lot of the work I do is around number one, how do we create space in the calendar, so that you have room to breathe room to take a break room to do some of these things on your to do list. And then, um, I don't know if you've heard my my talk, one of the talks I give is all around prioritizing with power. And so I talked about the it's basically about navigating your to do list, because the to do list is never done. There's always one more thing to do. And, and so that task list taking that and how do we integrate it with the calendar? But also how do we decide what's important and what's not. And I have my 3d system, have the do it, delegate it or dump it. And anyone who's heard me talk can will roll that they're like, Oh, I heard Julie talk six years ago, do delegate dump. Right, like so that's one of the core principles, but then we also really dig into the habit of proactivity. And how are we proactive? How can we actually do things differently than we've been doing them? And what part are we playing in being in our own stuckness in our own way, and identifying that and helping people unravel that because we're in it, and when you're in it, you can't, you can't see it? You know, it's like being so close to a tree in the forest that you can't see your feet and can't see the path. And so it's a lot about that. Yeah, and that's, that's such a true statement. Other people can see, other people can recognize, but you yourself are completely unaware. And it's amazing how easy it is to fall down that path to to become completely paralyzed because of the amount of things that you and you would think, well, you've got so many things to do is to just start chipping away at them.
Leighann Lovely 14:47
Right? But you become so overwhelmed and so stressed out that all of a sudden you're like, I don't even know where to begin. Where do I start? I just And unfortunately, that is that is a real thing is completely real thing. Wow. Okay, so let's let's talk about now you have you have a team of you. So let's, let's talk about that how many, how many people are on your team.
Julie Miller Davis 15:14
Um, I have six people on my team, I have three that are monthly, like on a monthly stipend with me. And then I've got three others who areon an as needed basis, like my event planner, although I do meet with her probably every single month. And then I've got a photographer and I've got a videographer that are kind of my as needed basis. And they're, they're definitely involved in a lot of things in my business. But the three that are my staples that I really can't live without, are my my virtual assistant, my assistant, I don't even call him right, but she's just my assistant, but she lives far away. And my project manager, and my web slash, social media, marketing.
Leighann Lovely 16:09
So you know, it's one thing to be, you know, a solo ponuer, but it's a whole nother thing to go out on your own and then build a team. And then to keep that team happy. And to work with the mix, especially when it comes to a virtual team, having a Virtual Employee anywhere, you know, being able to work and to have them be an assistant is extremely difficult. Because typically, those individuals have to be very, very in tune with, with you, you have to be very in tune with them understanding, you know, what you need, understanding what you have to get. So, how did you go about building this team? And how do you continue to keep a cohesive working team together?
Leighann Lovely 16:09
Awesome.
Julie Miller Davis 16:09
Yeah.
Julie Miller Davis 16:58
It's a good question. Um, no, I think there's a lot of a lot of people who work with me are doing it everything on their own. And by the time they're done working with me, they are ready to delegate, they're ready to hire. But they've also figured out if if anyone takes my my free challenges that I run a couple times a year, they figure out, there's a lot of things they can delegate that doesn't, it doesn't cost him money to delegate, they can, you know, there's people that live in your house, a lot of times that you can but there's also other things that you can get off your plate without having to pay anybody a huge amount of money, you can pay your neighbor's daughter to do some of these things, or whatever, you know, babysitting money, kind of kind of stuff. But um, you know, I started out I think my business was, I want to say a year old. When I hired really hired, I hired a gal earlier and that my neighbor's daughter, I hired to do some CRM stuff where she was inputting just inputting emails for me into my CRM, but I hired a gal just, you know, $300 at a time, and when that $300 ran out, she said, hey, it's time to re up, we've used your 10 hours, or whatever it was that we were, you know, using them. And I would just, I just kind of kept her on retainer that way, but not monthly, it was just kind of hourly. And about a year after that, it was every month, I'm paying you this much money to do the work and, she was really my only person besides just web maintenance that I had, and I had to have web payments, and oh, no, I also had a social media. I started out as someone who just was posting one time a week, it was not very much money. And then I a year after that went to someone who posted three times a week and then changed over to another gal now who does all my marketing, she does my ads, she does my social, she manages you know, all kinds of things in my, in my marketing world. And what I want to stress is that, and I don't have the same assistant anymore, I outgrew her, and what I needed was no longer what she did. She's like, you know, and she wanted to because she loves me. She's like, Yeah, I can do that. And then it wasn't happening. And I'm like, Yeah, you know, I just think that you wanted to say yes to me, because you love me and we have a great relationship. And it's time it's time for us to part ways and it was with love. Like there was no damage to the relationship. It was I needed something different and something more and so, um, and then when I got this year I I hired my project manager. My life is like, oh, you know, I'm like, Hey, guys, can we do this and like, oh, already done. We talked yesterday. I'm like, my team, but I what you brought up was about how it's all about communication it's all about first of all, are the people you're hiring in alignment with what you deem as important is their definition of excellence, the same as your definite definition of excellence is their definition of communication, the same as your definition of communication. And I'm, I'm high in communication, if you're low in communication, you probably need to hire someone high and communication, because otherwise, you're going to be frustrated, they're going to be frustrated, and it's not going to work. But I really think Leighann, if you can run a team in such a way that you're also involving them with each other, and you're taking yourself out as the middleman sometimes, and let them create relationships and trust with each other. And then if they have questions come to you, and you meet with them, I meet with each of my team members. Two of them, I meet once a week, one of them I meet once a month, and then the three of them meet once a month. And sometimes I'm called into that meeting. Sometimes I'm not, you know, but there's constant communication. And, and we use a tool, we use Slack to communicate as a team, so the emails don't get lost because emails get lost. So now we've got all of our communication in one spot. And it's amazing. And it's an it's a journey, like, I'm, I'm in my eighth year of business. And so you know, Patience, my friends is the key. And learning from your learning, and being willing to let people go when it's time to let them go and let yourself grow when it's time to grow.
Leighann Lovely 21:47
That's awesome. And you're right, communication is 100%. Key, if you don't know what the right hand, you know, if the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, you're gonna fail 100% of the time. Yeah, right. So yeah, you, that's awesome. That's absolutely awesome, too. It's a rarity to be able to find a team. That works. So, you know, awesome, together all of the time and be be able to, excuse me, and be able to, you know, understand each other understand how each other works. It's becoming more and more common. Now, people are working virtually. And so is your whole team. Virtual yeah, my whole team is virtual. Awesome. Yep.
Julie Miller Davis 22:41
I have one in Ohio. One in Wisconsin, one in Washington. Yep. And then my videographer and my photographer here in Colorado Springs. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's great. So one in Wisconsin, Hey, 111. Here, and then my states? Yes. So my, my event planners in Utah? Yeah, I have them all. Everywhere. But you know, the other thing, I think land for everybody to get along. And and for the team to communicate well together? It really it will come from people's leadership. So it comes from number one, have you or have I given each person? What what is the expectation of, of their role in the company? Like, what? What is their? What is their bubble? And what is someone else's bubble? And a lot of times, they're very good at asking questions. I'm like, I never never get mad. If you ask me a question like, hey, is this something I should be doing? Can we have a call, because I'm not really sure if this is my job or such as those job. And so, you know, there's they're always very open to asking questions. And I'm open to the questions. And then, you know, going back to the other thing that I said, if you are hiring people, because you have, again, that clear definition of what is x, what are your values? Are they in alignment with those values? What is your definition of how of excellence in your company? And are they going to serve in that way? You know, and I am very blessed that my team is is the way they are because it's not and when I brought my project manager in, I wasn't sure you know, now that someone else is giving some directives. How's that gonna go? And it went so well. And I and I know it doesn't always right. And I think I've laid so much foundation, it really helped.
Leighann Lovely 24:40
And you said something that I think is extremely important for people to understand alignment. You have to make sure after you've set down your expectations and you've sat down what your needs and wants are, is that person in alignment with you? Do they you know, are their goals are there extra? Rotations are their needs once, you know, for the direction that they want to, you know, go moving forward in alignment with you. And I think that, you know, if that all is is lining up for everybody on the team, then then yeah, it makes sense. And everybody's going to be going or rowing in the same direction. It's when somebody all of a sudden decides, no, I think we should be doing this, that, you know, it stops working. And that's when you know, you have to be aware that maybe it is time for that person to move on or, you know, grow to another role. Because you're not going to be able to continue to all move in the same direction all the time. Eventually, people do want to maybe move on grow, or, but it's great to have everybody right now rowing in the right direction. And hopefully, for the long term, right. That's, that's everybody's dream is to continue to do that together.
Julie Miller Davis 25:58
Right. Yeah. And, and, and it's not always realistic, either, that we'll all be together, you know, right, ever. And people outgrow people and or the Yeah, are they just decide to go on to a whole other direction any like from teaching high school students owning their own business?Like that.
Leighann Lovely 26:25
So you're you are, you're also a speaker for the women entrepreneurs. And on your LinkedIn post, it says that you are an out of the box thinker with real world pragnatism so tell me about that. What does that mean?
Julie Miller Davis 26:33
So it kind of goes back to what we said earlier today, where I'm, I'm on the outside looking in. And so it's, it's that whole thing, where how many times are you going to try to do the same thing over and over in the same way and get an expect to get a different result, right sanity, and sanity. Um, and it's my job to first of all, be able to look at it from an outside perspective and help start asking questions that will solve the problem that will get you through the wall, or whatever it is that you're up against and to teach you how to do that for yourself, to teach these entrepreneurs how to do that for themselves. And so my out of the box thinking is really about bringing in a new perspective that kind of takes that 30,000 foot view or whatever you want to call it. And, and because of the way that I am that I problem solve, because of the way that I teach people to problem solve, I'm able to look at things from different angles in and, you know, again, it's not rocket science, and it's not where I can't believe how many times people say to me, Oh, well, this seems so simple. Why can't I Why couldn't I just see it? And I'm like, well, it is simple. And it's not simple. And I talk about this stuff, every single day, like, this is my job.
Leighann Lovely 28:11
Right? Sometimes the most obvious things are the hardest things to see.
Julie Miller Davis 28:16
Yeah. You're not looking at it every day. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it and talking about it every single day. And so, you know, through eight years, I'm I'm better and better at it. Because it's, it's what I eat, you know, live and breathe, right? It goes back to the old you know, have you ever walked into somebody's house and you notice, you know, there's paint peeling on the wall, or there's, you know, hole in the carpet? And you're like, how do they live like this? You know, it's it's horrible. And then you and then you start to realize, wow, they live like this. They've accepted it. And now they don't see it anymore. They don't see it. That is so funny, because I bring up an analogy that people crack up at every so often because it's like, when you have a really bad smell in your refrigerator. And you can't stand it and you can't figure it out. And pretty soon you don't even notice it anymore. Because it's it's just there.
Leighann Lovely 29:10
Right? Right. You become nose blind to it. There have been there have been times where I've had friends walk into my house, and I'm like, How does my house smell? Like, it smells fine. I'm like, okay, great. Because I don't want to be one of those people. And I just got a puppy too. So, you know, like, I have an extremely heightened sense of smell. But again, I'm just like anybody else if you smell something for so long, but there was one day that I walked out of my bedroom, and in the morning I walked into where the puppy is craters. And I was like, oh my god, like what is that smell? Like oh my god, he must have had an accident or something in his crate and I walked over no and no accident and I'm just like, Oh, my God, the dog smells like this. Oh my god. So I ripped you know, everything out of his crate. I threw everything in the washing machine. I threw him in the bath. And I'm like, and then I think it was like six hours later, my husband had been gone. And he comes home and he goes, what? He walks in the house. He goes, What is that smell? I'm like, it's still there. I'm like, seriously, it's still there. I washed the dog. I washed everything in his crate. Where's that smell coming from? Well, it just hadn't like, aired out of the house. Okay, but isn't that everybody's fears? Like somebody walks in your house. And they go, Oh, God. Oh, you guys live like this?
Julie Miller Davis 30:30
You live this? It's the same. It's the same principle, you know? And to have someone be able to look at it from look at what what's keeping you stuck? Or where, where you're having an issue, from an outside perspective, to walk into the house and go whoa, what, what is that? You know? And, and kind of, you're kind of the person who walks into somebody's brain and says, whoa, what is that?
Leighann Lovely 31:05
Let's, unravel that ball of wax, shall we? Yeah.
Julie Miller Davis 31:09
And it's just moving people from this feeling of or reality of mediocrity, because they're just surviving, right? They're just trying to make it through the day, I got all this stuff to do, I have all these appointments, I have all these calls to make I have this whole to do list. I've got a family to take care of, you know, all the things. I've got a household to run. And it's, it's how do we make space for that? And how do I create instead of survival? Because they're trying to survive it? How do we make it so that it's thriving, like there's joy instead of drudgery?
Leighann Lovely 31:49
Yeah, that's awesome. So, uh, you, you are obviously your speaker. So tell me a little bit more about, you know, some of your speaking engagements. And I mean, you know, obviously, you have an event planner. So I'm assuming that your event planner helps you.
Julie Miller Davis 32:05
I have a I have an event that I run every year in October, and but we work all year on It's, a three day or it's like a half day, full day half day event that we run that's hybrid. So we do, some people come in person, and we broadcast to other people. So you don't have to fly here. But it's awesome if you do. And so we work a lot on that. And that is where people can get a whole entire overview of every thing that I do. And everything that I teach, and they walk away and I'm a teacher, so you're not you're not just gathering, I'm not a lecturer, you're gathering information, I'm telling you, you're practicing it, you're talking about it, you're sharing about it, and then you leave with a plan. And so even if you you know, don't end up staying with me for the short term or the long term, you have something to walk away with that is very very implementable at the end of that event, but mostly I speak Leighann to,I speak on prioritizing. I speak on call it solve unsolvable problems, which is being proactive. And I speak on focusing and and I have another talk called commit to courage. And I speak all over all over the the North America really and mostly to women's groups to a few conferences and mostly to just get the word out about me to gain some following your followers and followings and to help as many people as possible and I give away free stuff and and hope that they engage with me and hope it's helpful and and then we see where it goes. And so there's there's not a lot of big, you know, I'm not on a lot of big stages. I'm not getting big money for it. It's not where I make my it's not where I make my living. But I sure enjoy getting in front of as many people as possible, and helping them have just some aha buzz around what they do.
Leighann Lovely 34:27
Right. That's awesome. I've always, you know, I've always thought and dreamed about you know, getting up in front of, you know, a group of people and doing something like that and never I don't think I ever will. I think there's a there's that that little voice in the back of my head that says nope, probably not going to do that. I probably start shaking and have to walk off the stage. It's not for the faint of heart.
Julie Miller Davis 35:00
It's not and I battled with stage fright for a long time. And you would have thought with being a teacher that I wouldn't have that. But, you know, I got a captive audience and I have a captive audience in a classroom, and they have to know what I'm teaching them because there's a test. Right? And you get burnt out, you get in front of a room of people, let's say a corporation, a corporate office brought me in to speak. They could be hostile, they don't, they might not want to be there. You know, or why, why do they need to listen to me? Or why is this relevant, but after a while, you just learn. You've I've got something to share, and it's relevant, and it's good. And, and I'm fairly entertaining. So hopefully, I capture them and give them one little thing that they can take away and implement.
Leighann Lovely 35:48
So yeah, no, that's great. That's awesome. See, you you started the business when your son was in middle in middle school. Oh, in middle school. Okay. So he's now he's got to be graduated high school and what is he college now?
Julie Miller Davis 36:08
He is not in college right now. He stayed home and he's working and he needs to leave the house. I will, I will tell you all in confidence so we're, working through that he's moving, and going to get a job up in Wyoming where his his best friends are in school right now. So yeah, he's graduated. He is not out of the house.
Leighann Lovely 36:43
You know, what I do? We actually we talked about this before, I do remember that. So yeah. So he is decided what to do defer school for, for the time being or not to do school for right now, which is, hey, I'm, I am a advocate of learning. I am an advocate of, of educating yourself. But I don't necessarily believe that you have to do a traditional college in order to do that.
Julie Miller Davis 37:07
So neither do i Neither do I. And I just, you know, I want him to find something that he loves. And I think that you have to have an education in some fashion, like you have to have training in whatever you're doing, whether you're whether you're working at a restaurant or retail or whether you're in the military, I mean at all at all, there's training for all of it, whether you're a sales on the sales floor for any, you know, a car, a car dealership, or whatever. And so I think it's just around i We are not tied at all to him going to a four year school or anything like that. It's, it's more about, let's find something that you love, and how do we how do we help you? Or how do you help yourself? Do that? To the best of your ability?
Leighann Lovely 38:00
So are you delegating some of your work to him? On No.
Leighann Lovely 38:10
No, it's, it's it is more of a love
Julie Miller Davis 38:12
Excellence is not my definition of a level of excellence.
Leighann Lovely 38:16
He needs more life experience before you're okay. Okay. Yes.
Julie Miller Davis 38:20
No, he is not the he is not the person I would give anything that needs attention to detail or anything. But but but I will say this, he grocery shops for me. So I do delegate that stuff. So he goes to the grocery store, he loves going to the grocery store and comes home and has everything on the list. And he might call me a couple times while he's there, but I didn't have to go there. You know, and I hate grocery shopping. So that's good.
Leighann Lovely 38:49
You and I are like minded and now. I will clean all the toilets in the house. But don't send me to the grocery store.
Julie Miller Davis 38:59
Yeah, yeah,
Leighann Lovely 39:00
I can't stand. I'm one of those people that like speed walks to the grocery store and literally will just throw whatever I can in the cart that is edible. Because I want to get out of there as quickly as possible. I come home and my husband goes What did you buy? And I'm like, food.
Julie Miller Davis 39:17
Food Don't eat me.
Leighann Lovely 39:21
Yeah, like we have food to eat. Okay. Yeah, I am not a fan of the grocery store. Neither neither. Well, we are coming to time. So I have the question of the season. Okay, if you could go back to your younger self and give your self advice. When would you go back and what advice would you give yourself?
Julie Miller Davis 39:46
Oh. I think that. I knew this question was coming in. It's, it's a it's a thinker. So, I really think that it comes back down to something that I said earlier, which is that we really need patience. We need patience in all things. We need patience, and finding the right partner. We need patience, like life partner, we need patience in, in growing up and learning who we are. And in this business, definitely need patience. Because like, we're just always in a hurry, and we want. We want everything now. And our kids, they get everything now. Right? Everything is. So right now. And so I would probably go back to some time in my 20s and just say, you know, what, just be patient Don't be in a hurry. And it applies to so many things in this business. My gosh, being a business owner is not for anybody that's in a hurry.
Leighann Lovely 41:08
Yeah, that is definitely something that if I could go back to myself and maybe my 25 year old self, I would try to try to drill that into my my younger self. That's a good one. That's a very good one. Yeah. And try to drill that in to my 10 year old self to Yeah, yeah.
Julie Miller Davis 41:36
No kidding.
Leighann Lovely 41:37
My daughter. Get in the car. Are we almost there? We've been in. We've been in half 10 minutes. It's a four hour drive fall asleep. So if somebody wanted to reach out to you and learn more about your October, did you say October event, October event or learn more about your services? How would somebody go about doing that?
Julie Miller Davis 42:05
They can find me on LinkedIn, which is just Julie Miller Davis, you can also find me at my website, which is Julie Miller, davis.com, and HTTPS, you know, Julie Miller davis.com. And you've got all the resources you need right there. If you want more about the event, you can actually go we have an event page that's unstuck event.com that you can go to and find more about that.
Leighann Lovely 42:32
Awesome. And, you know, this has been such a great conversation. I really appreciate your time. Today. I will have your the way to reach out to you in the show notes. So if somebody's interested in reaching out to Julie, you can please check the show notes then that will be listed in there. But again, Julie, thank you so much for your time today.
Leighann Lovely 42:51
Thank you so much, Leighann. I just really appreciate you having me. Yeah. Thank you again for listening to Let's Talk HR. I appreciate your time and support without you the audience this would not be possible. So don't forget that if you enjoyed this episode, to follow us, like us or share us. Have a wonderful day.
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