195: Q&A: Why I'm No Longer the CEO of BPN (Moving to Tennessee, Business Lessons & More)

Nick Bare (0:06)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of The Podcast. Today is a question and answer that I opened up on Instagram a few days ago. And we're going to get into the meat and potatoes of it. We have some great questions that were submitted. But a lot of people have been asking about, one, my move, me and my family's move to Tennessee. How my role and position with BPN will evolve. And just what's going on. So I'm going to address all of that in this Q&A. Now in preparation for this podcast, because even when it's just a Q&A, you know, I pull the questions that you guys submit. And I take all of the questions and I drop them into a document. And then I decide which ones I think have a lot of value that are interesting and that I want to touch on. And then I kind of refine the list. And then from there, I start adding notes. And it's not me just like looking at the questions for the first time while I'm talking about it in this conversation in this podcast. I add context, I add notes because I want to be thorough. I want to really be able to explain and break down the questions you guys are asking and submitting. And I want there to be a lot of value behind what I'm sharing and my answers.

So, in preparation, I pulled a quote from one of my favorite books. It's called The One Thing by Gary Keller. And he says, quoted, You can become successful with less discipline than you think. For one simple reason. Success is about doing the right thing. Not about doing everything right.

A lot of times when I have a quote that I like, I will reread it multiple times. Because that's the way that I best consume and digest content. If I'm listening to an audio book, like I'm listening to an audio book right now, I'm listening to a book that I like, I'm listening to a book that I like, I'm listening to a book that I like, I'm listening to a book that I like, I'm listening to a book that I like, I'm listening to a book that I like, right now that I'm going to get into here in a little bit, on my morning runs. And if there's a chapter or a section that I loved, I will go repeat that section over and over and over again. Today on my morning run, I listened to the same chapter of a book four times. That's no exaggeration, four times, because I found that chapter very valuable, very interesting, and every time I listened to it, I pulled something different away from it.

Gary Keller, The One Thing. It's a book that I highly recommend reading. First question I'm going to get into. What was the biggest challenge you faced when getting out of the military? How do you know it was the right time to get out of the army and go all in on BPN? I believe this question was asked because lately I've been pulling old footage from YouTube and I've been sharing it on Instagram. And I've been documenting this journey for the last 12 years. And there's all this old archived footage and clips and I've documented all of it. For those of you who've been following along for years or the entire journey, thank you. I appreciate you. But if you haven't, I would highly recommend going back and watching some of my old content. And I have documented when I first landed in Texas, and I got stationed at Fort Hood, and I was going to gyms and filming my workouts, and it was awkward. It was uncomfortable. It was cringe-worthy. And I documented the adventure of my nine-month training rotation in South Korea with the Army, and transitioning out of the military, and signing our first warehouse lease, and all of my races, and fitness preps, and competitions, and getting married, and having kids, and building a family, and growing this team. It's all been documented. Like, all of that footage is on YouTube. And I personally like to go back and watch that old content, because it's a reminder of the work, the effort, that has gone into building what we have built, and why we are where we are today. So if you haven't watched any of that old footage, one I would appreciate if you did, but also, I think it's very valuable, and can be very inspiring for a lot of people, to see where I started compared to where I am today, and how the camera presence has changed and evolved, how my fitness has changed and evolved, how my values have changed and evolved. You go back and watch videos from 2017, you're probably going to hear a lot of cursing in those videos. Today, you won't find one curse word in any of my content, none. There hasn't been a curse word that has come out of my mouth for the last 14 or 15 months. Hasn't come out of my mouth, not one. I'm really proud of that.