Oct 15, 2024
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Kelly Siegel!
Kelly Siegel is the CEO of National Technology Management (NTM). He has an educational background in criminal justice and sociology from Western Michigan University.
Kelly has been delivering results since running his first paper route as a twelve-year-old. Besides his goal to make NTM the gold standard of the IT industry, his mission in life is to leave a legacy, or in Kelly’s words, “make a dent.”
His relentless drive to better himself is breaking his family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and poverty. Kelly takes personal progress to the next level by continuously improving his physical, emotional, and mental health and performance by working out daily, reading voraciously, and practicing mindfulness.
You’ll find him feeding people at spontaneous
cookouts in his backyard, volunteering his time for causes close to
his heart, and mentoring the next generation of
leaders.
Key Points
• Transforming childhood trauma into strength
• Achieving high performance through EQ
• Surrender is key to life's cheat code.
• Principles of surrender and gratitude in life
• Approaching politics with curiosity, not judgment
Best Quotes
03:17 - 03:27
• "It was probably on one of my podcasts when I had to do the final edits when they sent me the final manuscript and I cried like a baby."
04:17 - 04:25
• "And then after I, they said, and they were right. So we, right now, I think this morning we're number 12 in the country at self-improvement for harder than life."
06:07 - 06:18
• "I lived in the gap for most of my life. And the challenge is when you live in the gap is when you actually attain something you were working for, it's empty and you don't understand why."
07:51 - 08:10
• "Was that where you decided, was that the event where you decided to surrender because that's really what you're, what the moment you realize that you're not in control of this and you can surrender to whatever you call it, you're a Christian or Catholic, so you, it's God, it could be energy, it could be source, it could be anything"
12:26 - 12:32
• "So I would tell you that yes, you gotta fricking do the work, but you also have to detach from the outcome."
12:51 - 12:56
• "Marry the process, divorce the outcome, that's it. Get better every day and keep freaking grinding."
34:33 - 34:41
• "As I said, man, my positivity has got more infinite than your negativity or pessimism ever will."
01:00:03 - 01:00:08
• "Love everybody and tell the truth. And if we all did that, this would be a better place."