Get clear, get balanced, and get moving. This episode helps you map out what matters most, so you can live with focus, purpose, and brilliance.
In this week’s episode of Serving Up Success with a Splash, we’re diving into “Diamond Mapping”, a powerful tool to help you assess, align, and elevate four vital areas of your life: Business & Career, Financial Independence, Health & Fitness, and Family & Relationships. Join Bruce the Corporate Cockroach, Angie the Renaissance Woman, and Dr. Dosanjh the Strategy Doctor as they walk you through how to draw your personal Diamond, find your “X” factor, and focus your energy where it matters most. This episode isn’t just about balance; it’s about achieving more by living intentionally. Plus, the smart and sexy Cosmopolitan Cocktail
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 oz vodka (preferably citrus vodka)
• 1 oz triple sec (like Cointreau)
• 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/4–1/2 oz cranberry juice (just enough for color)
• Lime wheel or orange twist (for garnish)
Instructions:
1. Combine vodka, triple sec, lime juice, and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake well until chilled.
3. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
4. Garnish with a lime wheel or a flamed orange twist for extra flair.
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In this lively episode, Bruce and Angie introduce “diamond mapping,” a straightforward self-assessment tool that helps business leaders track satisfaction across four key areas: financial independence, business success, health, and family relationships. By regularly scoring and visualizing these areas on a simple grid, leaders can see where their lives are in or out of balance and make adjustments to maintain sustainable growth and well-being. They also emphasize that imbalance is inevitable as life changes, and embracing this dynamic process can help you stay resilient and focused on what matters most.
Bruce shared a cautionary story about how he once focused so heavily on career and financial success that he neglected his family relationships, ultimately leading to divorce and a dramatic decline across all areas of his life. He emphasized that the diamond map is not just a measurement tool but a catalyst for self-awareness, requiring you to define what true satisfaction looks like in each area and to regularly reassess as your goals evolve. Both Bruce and Angie underscored the importance of seeking outside perspectives—whether from mentors, coaches, or trusted advisors—to help you see blind spots, set priorities, and take deliberate action to rebalance before imbalance becomes crisis.
Bruce and Angie emphasized that while tools like diamond mapping may seem overly simple or obvious, they’re often the most powerful because they help you step back from complacency and take an honest look at where your life is truly out of balance. Bruce shared insights from observing happier, more balanced communities in Jamaica, reminding leaders that fulfillment doesn’t come from wealth alone, but from aligning all life areas intentionally. They also discussed how financial security can start with the smallest habits and that self-awareness, coupled with practical strategies and support from advisors, is essential to achieving both professional success and personal well-being.
Angie shared her personal journey of leaving a lucrative but unfulfilling corporate career to build a business rooted in creativity and purpose, underscoring that authentic success comes from doing work that inspires you rather than simply climbing the ladder. Bruce emphasized that 85% of happiness stems from quality relationships—both professional and personal—and encouraged leaders to genuinely know and support the people around them. They closed the episode by challenging listeners to use the diamond map regularly, pick one focused action to improve their balance, and remember that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself, as illustrated by next week’s guest, Mimi Kirk, who continues to thrive and evolve into her 80s.
00:00:47.650 --> 00:00:49.909 Angie Snowball: Hey, hey, Bruce, you're on mute!
00:00:50.515 --> 00:00:52.719 Angie Snowball: It's the only time we don't hear him talk.
00:00:52.720 --> 00:01:20.259 Bruce Cramer: Oh, my God! Hi! Serving up success with a splash, where, of course, strategy meets happy hour, cheers everybody. And, by the way, as always thank you for joining us. We're always pleasantly surprised by the traffic we're getting, and we can't be grateful enough for that to continue
00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:29.729 Bruce Cramer: so with that. Of course I'm Bruce Kramer Aka, the corporate cockroach, and I'm always joined by 2 people
00:01:29.860 --> 00:01:38.219 Bruce Cramer: that make my life far more balanced. One of those being the unstoppable Renaissance woman.
00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:41.360 Bruce Cramer: Angie's no ball. Angie.
00:01:42.286 --> 00:01:44.014 Angie Snowball: Cheers, thanks, Bruce!
00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:49.729 Bruce Cramer: Of course we're minus we're minus the doctor.
00:01:49.730 --> 00:01:50.210 Angie Snowball: Yes.
00:01:50.210 --> 00:01:50.600 Bruce Cramer: No.
00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:53.702 Angie Snowball: Dance moves today. It always keeps me going.
00:01:54.090 --> 00:02:09.909 Bruce Cramer: Yeah, I know he's he's out on business, and as we discussed last week he's very balanced and organized so he can pull it all off. And so we got his back tonight. We hope to do him justice. But tonight's show.
00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:17.340 Bruce Cramer: and it's a big one. We're literally, and I mean literally mapping your life.
00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:45.050 Bruce Cramer: And what do I mean by that? Well, I would say, you want to make sure you have a set of markers, because we're going to introduce you to this concept of diamond mapping, and I'm not sure how many out there have seen it, or or participated in using the tool. But it's all about creating balance in your life, and of course, balance equals a very productive.
00:02:45.180 --> 00:03:01.649 Bruce Cramer: happy, and successful life. So that's kind of what we're going to get into tonight, and once we jump into it, the tool is going to kind of outline where you, as an individual kind of shine
00:03:01.770 --> 00:03:07.380 Bruce Cramer: in and amongst 4 key areas of your life, and where could you use a little bit of polish
00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:16.190 Bruce Cramer: to drive you to further success? But before we do that we have to celebrate our cocktail of the week. Angie.
00:03:16.190 --> 00:03:26.820 Angie Snowball: It's a cosmos sex and the city fans. Here we are. So we're starting out with our vodka. We're going to do one and a half ounces of whichever one you like
00:03:26.820 --> 00:03:50.969 Angie Snowball: got my handle here. I do like my vodka. It's good for weight loss, ladies, that's what I heard. Okay, and then we are going to do one ounce of triple sec or cointreau something like that going to dump that in there we are doing a 4, th an ounce. I'm actually going to do a whole ounce because I like mine a little pinker of cranberry juice, and then we're going to take some real lime juice in there.
00:03:51.260 --> 00:03:55.380 Angie Snowball: Squeeze that sucker in there. Gonna shake this guy up.
00:03:55.510 --> 00:03:58.828 Angie Snowball: Got the heavy duty Shaker today, too. It's gonna be loud.
00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:01.599 Bruce Cramer: Expect nothing else.
00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:16.319 Angie Snowball: I know Bruce likes to keep his ice in his glass. Lots of people do that. I like. This is the one I really do like to get it really, really cold, and drink it directly out of it. I forgot my strainer, though. Alright, I'll let you do that while I pour the rest of this all over myself. Back to you, Bruce.
00:04:16.329 --> 00:04:24.909 Bruce Cramer: So just real quick, as she says. And the reason why is this show is an hour long. So if I make the Martini
00:04:25.149 --> 00:04:44.279 Bruce Cramer: version of this, the Cosmo, the way I really like it by the end of the show. It's it's 1 is going to be gone, but it will lose the ice. That little sheen of ice you get on the top. If I'm going to sip for an hour, I need ice, so.
00:04:44.280 --> 00:04:46.105 Angie Snowball: I'm gonna remake when I break.
00:04:46.410 --> 00:05:03.609 Bruce Cramer: All right. So again, I'm also going to share my screen just like we did last week. Just so everybody can kind of see the concept of the diamond map. But before I do that, just a little bit of an intro about it, it really is a self assessment tool.
00:05:03.750 --> 00:05:12.160 Bruce Cramer: and it's not. It's very easy. It's not saying scientific, but it is very relative.
00:05:12.230 --> 00:05:36.699 Bruce Cramer: and you'll see that in a minute. But it really focuses on 4 key areas of your life. That's easy for you to assess your level of satisfaction in each of those areas. So let me just take a moment and bring that up here, so you can kind of see better what we're talking about.
00:05:37.460 --> 00:06:00.580 Angie Snowball: For anybody who's listening on spotify, and you can't see it. What it basically looks like are those old school grids that we all did in algebra class the Xy axis thing right? And it's 0 to 10 0 to 10 0 to 10. And Bruce is going to walk you through. How you rate yourself on each one of them. So if you think about that just like a cross, you're trying to make a diamond out of those crosses.
00:06:01.110 --> 00:06:05.270 Bruce Cramer: So hopefully, Angie, can you actually see the slide.
00:06:05.270 --> 00:06:06.678 Angie Snowball: I can see it. Yeah.
00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:31.199 Bruce Cramer: So, as you can see, there's 4 axes on this view. One is financial independence. You see that right at the top, and that's on a scale of one to 10. You have business success on a scale of one to 10, and then going straight down on a scale of one to 10 health and fitness, and then finally to the left.
00:06:31.320 --> 00:06:34.029 Bruce Cramer: family and relationships.
00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:41.180 Bruce Cramer: And so it's a pretty easy exercise, because it's about your level of satisfaction.
00:06:41.450 --> 00:06:42.660 Bruce Cramer: And
00:06:42.780 --> 00:06:52.630 Bruce Cramer: this is intended to not be a 1 and done exercise as you go through life. In fact, they recommend at a minimum quarterly. Some people
00:06:52.770 --> 00:07:04.210 Bruce Cramer: do it monthly. I do check in on this quite often, and so we'll talk more about that. But all you do is you put an X
00:07:04.580 --> 00:07:22.369 Bruce Cramer: on a scale of one to 10 across these 4 segments. As to what's your level of satisfaction. Now, if you're truly living a very balanced life, it'll look like a perfect diamond, and it doesn't matter if it's an 8 or a 2,
00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:44.870 Bruce Cramer: you're striving to have that perfect diamond, and then, as you increase, whether it be in terms of your satisfaction in business, your relationships, health, etc. You want to grow those in balance. So when one moves from a 2 to a 4. You'd like them to all be at 4.
00:07:45.110 --> 00:07:50.870 Bruce Cramer: And that's kind of the secret, because they say as long as you stay in balance
00:07:51.450 --> 00:08:00.180 Bruce Cramer: you have a much higher level chance of success in terms of leading a very productive life as well as
00:08:00.370 --> 00:08:01.689 Bruce Cramer: happy life.
00:08:01.930 --> 00:08:12.710 Bruce Cramer: So with that now one of the things most people are going to look something like this, you know. You're not going to start out with a I'm not saying you're not.
00:08:12.710 --> 00:08:32.139 Bruce Cramer: but chances are it's not going to be a perfect diamond. And this isn't something to worry about, because the good news is as you do this exercise. It just identifies. Where do I need to pay more attention? What? What segment of my life needs more of my attention?
00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:49.190 Bruce Cramer: So with that, I'm going to stop sharing. You could take your markers and just do a big T, and then go one through 10, financial, one through 10 business. And you know it doesn't get more complex than that. So with that, Angie, what are your thoughts about this tool?
00:08:49.190 --> 00:09:13.939 Angie Snowball: Well, I think I love. What you said is that I mean you, said Quarterly. I can honestly tell you that if I look at that diamond, Mac, that changes weekly for me. I go through right triangle to isosceles triangle to diamond to I mean, I haven't quite had a rhombus yet, but everything else is in there, because that's also how you grow, you know, like I, I feel like, you know, back in May I had
00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:21.530 Angie Snowball: this really perfect diamond, and it was more, I would say it like a 5. Everything was like out of 5, but it was a perfect diamond.
00:09:21.530 --> 00:09:41.449 Angie Snowball: and then a whole bunch of stuff happened with family, and it kind of went in a little bit. But financial went up because there were new opportunities. And so then I'm at this like weird triangle thing, right? But because I went up in one place I was able to pull notice that I had had this piece I had to change and deal with.
00:09:41.450 --> 00:09:55.300 Angie Snowball: and my financial kind of went up to like an 8 right. But I brought it back down to a 6, so that I could bring family back out to a 6, I could bring my health back to a 6. And now, all of a sudden, instead of sitting at a 5. I had a perfect diamond at a 6,
00:09:55.300 --> 00:10:19.489 Angie Snowball: so did it get Wonky to get there. Yeah. And then it got wonkier, because shit just got crazier. But now I mean, in a month's time I'm sitting at like an 8. I'm suddenly back at a diamond of like an 8, and if you would have asked me well, Monday Bruce saw me. My face was inflamed with poison ivy. I was swollen like a bad cartoon, so health was way down there, but what it forced me to do
00:10:19.490 --> 00:10:36.100 Angie Snowball: was also to take a step back. Take a break, get all my health back into a row. Get all my family ducks back into a row, because we have a lot going on with the in-laws, and all of a sudden I'm back at my diamond. But it's realizing that
00:10:36.100 --> 00:11:02.140 Angie Snowball: if you were at a perfect diamond all the time you're going to be one boring ass, person. Life doesn't work like that it's just. It moves, it changes. And that's why diamond mapping is this dynamic thing. It's a simple structure that you can do on the back of a napkin at any time, and see where your triangles and parallelograms, whatever the hell you have going on are, and then know what you have to do to make it a diamond and make a plan.
00:11:03.310 --> 00:11:03.970 Bruce Cramer: Oh, it's.
00:11:03.970 --> 00:11:04.490 Angie Snowball: 12.
00:11:04.490 --> 00:11:04.870 Bruce Cramer: It's very.
00:11:04.870 --> 00:11:10.119 Angie Snowball: What are you thinking like? Tell me where your diamonds and tray well, and stuff are.
00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:29.159 Bruce Cramer: I'm a little tentative to share this, you know, because I have just the opposite. You know one of the key messages I sent to people I work with is that it only takes one of them to be out of balance, and it can really create
00:11:29.280 --> 00:11:30.649 Bruce Cramer: a crisis.
00:11:30.800 --> 00:11:32.069 Bruce Cramer: And so
00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:42.849 Bruce Cramer: let me think about that, and when we come back from break, ask me that question again, Jesse. Jesse, we're ready.
00:13:31.580 --> 00:13:32.780 Bruce Cramer: Okay.
00:13:35.180 --> 00:13:36.433 Angie Snowball: Asking, again.
00:13:37.542 --> 00:13:45.749 Bruce Cramer: So. So I I do want to back up for a moment, because, as Angie pointed out.
00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.510 Bruce Cramer: life would be boring if it's always a perfect diamond. However.
00:13:50.680 --> 00:14:13.680 Bruce Cramer: it's important to strive for that. And one of the things I probably didn't do justice at the top of this, as we introduced the concept is that you know this, you know. Again, we try to tie all of our episodes together. In that very 1st episode we talked a lot about awareness, particularly self-awareness. Well, this is one of those tools
00:14:13.680 --> 00:14:34.070 Bruce Cramer: that really assists you in terms of your self-awareness. So it's important when you take a look. And you see financial independence business in a career. It's up to you to define. What does that you know on a scale of one to 10. If you were to hit 10 in terms of your level of satisfaction. What does that mean?
00:14:34.180 --> 00:14:38.689 Bruce Cramer: And you need to define that across all 4
00:14:39.040 --> 00:15:01.140 Bruce Cramer: segments, so that when you put yourself on the scale, you know clearly what you would expect if you had a a level. 10 satisfaction. Here's what it would look like, because I'll tell you. That'll change your 10 today as you grow and succeed and take the world by storm. That 10 is going to constantly shift.
00:15:02.300 --> 00:15:16.809 Bruce Cramer: But her question to me and one of the things about one misfire, and you can come crashing down and so I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna share what happened to me in my life, going back
00:15:16.920 --> 00:15:23.189 Bruce Cramer: almost 2 decades ago. So, as I mentioned in our last show, I was a bit of a hard charger
00:15:23.410 --> 00:15:27.479 Bruce Cramer: and my emphasis. I loved my job.
00:15:27.820 --> 00:15:40.629 Bruce Cramer: And you know we talked in another episode about it when your passion and skills and needs of an organization align. You can't help but be successful. That was me. At that point in my career
00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:43.820 Bruce Cramer: I was in a fairly senior position.
00:15:43.970 --> 00:15:49.909 Bruce Cramer: I mean, I was a 9 and a half when it when I took a look at my business and career.
00:15:50.050 --> 00:15:55.400 Bruce Cramer: because I was in a large organization that took damn good care of their people.
00:15:55.800 --> 00:16:14.820 Bruce Cramer: I was from a financial independence. I was at a 9 and a half, and I'm like, Oh, this is great, you know, because at this point in time I have 3 kids. I'm married and have been married for for more than 2 decades. I'm like, you know what
00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:27.650 Bruce Cramer: I'm on a roll, and my health, I also, you know, was in the gym no less than 4 times a week. So again I would say my health. I was at least at a 9.
00:16:27.940 --> 00:16:32.329 Bruce Cramer: Now I was doing this for my kids and my family.
00:16:32.460 --> 00:16:33.730 Bruce Cramer: However.
00:16:34.930 --> 00:16:45.250 Bruce Cramer: the reality was, I didn't go to any events, I was pretty much an absent parent. We didn't do a lot of vacations, and I hear that from my kids all the time.
00:16:45.580 --> 00:16:49.690 Bruce Cramer: and, to be honest, I didn't spend a lot of time with my wife
00:16:49.900 --> 00:17:07.960 Bruce Cramer: at the time I was pursuing an Mba. So you know I you know 70, 80 HA week was not out of the question. But I I you know I thought I were living large, but the reality is the toll it took on my kids and my spouse
00:17:08.369 --> 00:17:11.019 Bruce Cramer: was that I was probably a 2,
00:17:11.550 --> 00:17:25.399 Bruce Cramer: and how I justified that in my mind. Well, I'm actually doing all of this for them, because, just think, you know, if I'm this successful, you know, I'll be better able to provide and do do good things for my family overall.
00:17:25.650 --> 00:17:27.240 Bruce Cramer: Well, what a mistake!
00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:36.250 Bruce Cramer: Because guess what happened when they're sitting at a 2 and everything else is cooking. What do you think happened, Angie? Do you care to guess.
00:17:36.740 --> 00:17:38.145 Angie Snowball: Oh, I already know this story.
00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:38.970 Bruce Cramer: Oh, okay.
00:17:39.254 --> 00:17:45.510 Angie Snowball: And I had the same right. I mean, we're not the only ones with this story. That's why this is so important.
00:17:45.510 --> 00:17:48.070 Bruce Cramer: What happened is I got divorced.
00:17:48.190 --> 00:17:50.710 Bruce Cramer: I mean, my wife divorced me.
00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:58.770 Bruce Cramer: and you know I was a big part of the problem. I mean. I have to admit that it's easier now, years later, to admit it.
00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.480 Bruce Cramer: But the reality is, guess what happened.
00:18:01.930 --> 00:18:09.069 Bruce Cramer: Guess what happened to my financial independence. I went from 9 and a half to about 4 and a half.
00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:10.720 Bruce Cramer: because literally
00:18:10.770 --> 00:18:36.719 Bruce Cramer: in the divorce proceedings, I lost half of everything I had, so everything I built, and, by the way, my spouse was a big, she enabled me to be able to do all of that. So it's not that she didn't deserve it. But now think of me in this journey my my financial independence was literally cut in half, because I lost half of everything.
00:18:36.770 --> 00:18:44.039 Bruce Cramer: Well, I was reeling a little bit, because, after you know, 3 decades of marriage and and you're.
00:18:44.500 --> 00:18:59.189 Bruce Cramer: you know, significant. Other is saying, bye, bye, of course, I struggled at work. So instead of operating at a 9 and a half with everything I had going on in my head, I slid back to, probably somewhere in the neighborhood of a 7,
00:18:59.370 --> 00:19:02.929 Bruce Cramer: because I still enjoyed my job. But suddenly.
00:19:02.930 --> 00:19:04.449 Angie Snowball: Yet your head's not in the game.
00:19:04.450 --> 00:19:08.000 Bruce Cramer: Yeah. Yeah. And my health.
00:19:08.430 --> 00:19:30.340 Bruce Cramer: I started going out because here I am, single after 30 plus years of marriage. Yeah, I don't know what that life's like. So naturally, I'm drinking more. Partying, a little more, my health started to slip. I probably went down to a 6 there, and everybody's pissed at me, and in a lot of cases rightfully so that state attitude.
00:19:30.630 --> 00:19:40.440 Bruce Cramer: So because I never sat back and took a real hard look in the mirror to say, Brew, how dumb could you be?
00:19:40.650 --> 00:19:52.540 Bruce Cramer: Yes, you had things rolling, but you're you know. You're sacrificing your kids, your wife, etc. So I guess bottom line is
00:19:52.960 --> 00:20:09.509 Bruce Cramer: this shit can bite you in the ass when you're out of sync. Yes, if you're in sync, your chances of like, I said, productive, happy. Successful is all there. But if you fool yourself into thinking well, I'm productive, I'm happy. I'm invincible.
00:20:09.740 --> 00:20:12.210 Bruce Cramer: and one of those things are out of line.
00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:18.879 Bruce Cramer: You're going to be shit out of luck overnight, you will not be able to sustain.
00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:23.780 Bruce Cramer: and I'm here to tell you I'm living proof of that now. I'm happy to say.
00:20:23.970 --> 00:20:38.910 Bruce Cramer: You know you don't quit. You realize the mistakes you make. You lean into the discomfort of your self-awareness, not being all that you thought you were, and you rebuild and guess what you rebuild, using the diamond map.
00:20:39.410 --> 00:20:54.730 Angie Snowball: And keep doing it. Because if you think about it now, like, you're even higher on that scale than before, because you have a great relationship, because now you understand what it takes to keep it. Now you understand what it takes to really be. Be there and be a part of that.
00:20:54.730 --> 00:21:02.879 Bruce Cramer: Yeah, well, and there's still work a work in progress. But I'm far more. How can I say realistic.
00:21:03.120 --> 00:21:03.640 Angie Snowball: Yeah.
00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:10.159 Bruce Cramer: Far more tentative to what it is I need to do better, which leads us to our second segment.
00:21:10.330 --> 00:21:37.020 Bruce Cramer: and before I turn it over to you, Angie. This is where it gets powerful, because one of the things the diamond map helps you do is put your X make your mark. What's that one thing you need to do that will help improve and maximize the balance in your life. Had I done that realistically and didn't say, Well, I had all these things going on, I mean, how did I have time? You know
00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:54.449 Bruce Cramer: you make time. It's that important. I would have put an X on that segment called, you know, family and relationships, and puts and and start thinking in terms, what do I need to do to improve? I didn't do that, but this.
00:21:54.450 --> 00:21:56.799 Angie Snowball: Because you didn't know where it was at the time.
00:21:56.800 --> 00:22:10.850 Bruce Cramer: I? Well, I didn't pay. I didn't pay attention, and I didn't give it the respect that I needed to about balance. I thought you could cheat it. I thought you know what I'm on a roll. I could cheat it. No, you can't cheat this
00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:12.810 Bruce Cramer: good Angie.
00:22:12.810 --> 00:22:33.910 Angie Snowball: And I think it's also like this isn't something. This is a lot of self-awareness. This is a lot of looking into yourself like you said. Take a real hard look in the mirror. One of my favorite songs, Michael Jackson. I'm talking to the man in the mirror right? But it's a lot about that. But you don't have to do this by yourself, because sometimes you can't
00:22:33.910 --> 00:22:58.450 Angie Snowball: see your own X. Sometimes you're so deep in your own weeds that you can't see this diamond. You think you've got it, but you need someone else to help you do it. It's like that story about the Guy, the repairman on the submarine in World War 2 or the one about the plant engineer, right? That this nuclear power plant is losing tons and tons of money, and all these fancy engineers are in their
00:22:58.450 --> 00:23:26.709 Angie Snowball: everybody's deep introspecting into this thing that they've created, and they know everything about it inside and out. Nobody can find out where this leak is. Right. So they call in this outside consultant. The guy comes in, and he just sits around and stares at this thing for like days, right? And they're like, Oh, what's this guy doing? Does he even know what he's doing? And all of a sudden, like the 3rd day or something climbs up a ladder. He puts a big mark, a big X with a marker, a spell tip marker on this thing. He says, okay, there's your problem.
00:23:26.750 --> 00:23:52.059 Angie Snowball: Well, they find out. Indeed, that is the problem. They fix it. Everybody's excited. Couple of days later they get a bill for $10,000, and the the CEO is like. Hang on, man! You were here for 2 days, and you did nothing but stare at this thing. I I don't understand why we owe you so much money. And he was like, Yeah, well, the X cost me a dollar to make. But the $9,999 is for all the experience.
00:23:52.060 --> 00:23:57.590 Angie Snowball: knowledge, and introspection. I had to find out where to put that X,
00:23:57.630 --> 00:24:25.100 Angie Snowball: because that's the most valuable piece is, where do you put that like the guy in the submarine that goes? And he knocks it with a hammer. And all of a sudden it starts working, and he's like, Hey, man, that'll be 10 grand, and he's like, Would you hit it with the hammer? He goes. Yeah, but I knew where to hit it with the hammer. You didn't. You'd have been here for years, going nowhere without me knowing where to put it. So sometimes. Yeah, we have to do the introspection. You have to realize that something's not right, and you got to change your ex.
00:24:25.190 --> 00:24:36.289 Angie Snowball: But maybe you need to bring in somebody else to help you find out where that needs to be. I know I did. I mean, I knew I was getting there. I knew I wasn't at a diamond. I knew things needed to change.
00:24:36.430 --> 00:24:50.419 Angie Snowball: I wasn't sure what it was, and I'd already been what I like to call the Queen of Screw Ups. So I was getting old enough to know. I don't want to just jump again, you know. I want to take some time and figure out where this X should go
00:24:50.420 --> 00:25:11.330 Angie Snowball: and smart enough to know I couldn't do it by myself. I didn't do it right the 1st times like I needed some support. So you know I reached out. I still have this amazing. You can make fun of me because I made fun of myself forever. But a hypnotherapist guys freaking awesome. Archie Hamilton, if you need one. He's phenomenal. He's in Scotland. We do it on zoom.
00:25:11.330 --> 00:25:12.270 Angie Snowball: Know that, have you?
00:25:12.270 --> 00:25:32.989 Angie Snowball: Oh, my God, guys, amazing! Been with him 5 years. 1st time he tried to get me I told him he was full of shit, and he would never work on me. 15 min later I was knocked out woke up. It was crazy. I'm like holy cow. How do we start but that person? And then Jim Diebold. And now a multitude of other business coaches like Bruce, like Natej, like Danny Creed.
00:25:32.990 --> 00:25:44.189 Angie Snowball: They've all helped me every time I redo this diamond to help me place my ex because I have my knowledge. I know what makes my happiness. I know where I want things to be.
00:25:44.310 --> 00:26:01.190 Angie Snowball: but I need that help to help me put the X in the right place, and then I need help for people to help me make that strategic plan of how do I get to that? X, so you don't have to do this alone. It's just important that you start the process. So you know who to bring on board with you.
00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:03.060 Bruce Cramer: Wow!
00:26:03.490 --> 00:26:05.969 Bruce Cramer: Now that was a lot to unpack. There.
00:26:05.970 --> 00:26:09.697 Angie Snowball: No, that's the problem. When it's just Bruce and I. We just talk at each other.
00:26:09.930 --> 00:26:11.050 Bruce Cramer: But that was good.
00:26:11.606 --> 00:26:13.833 Angie Snowball: Is like, hey guys.
00:26:14.390 --> 00:26:22.399 Bruce Cramer: That's like, you know. So when you're looking at those 4 areas when you're talking about your health, it might be that you just need better sleep.
00:26:22.570 --> 00:26:41.720 Bruce Cramer: or when you're talking about your finances. I mean, this isn't rocket science. It just needs your attention. But it's amazing how, how not obvious that is to you when you're caught up in everything in your life but but finances, it might be as easy cut back on some of the expenses. What's your burn rate.
00:26:41.780 --> 00:27:05.060 Bruce Cramer: you know, if you if you love your job. But you're struggling financially, you're not saving. Well, then, if you love your job, don't sacrifice that because that you're you're doing very well. Figure out how to cut back on expenses, or I'm trying to think of some other stuff just off the top of my head, you know. Like with me it was just, you know. Show up
00:27:05.430 --> 00:27:16.199 Bruce Cramer: to events, show up, spend face time with the people you love, not just on a weekend for a pizza night. And so, you know, it's simple things like that.
00:27:16.470 --> 00:27:31.290 Bruce Cramer: But I think we're we. We need to go to a break. When we come back. We're going to talk about some pointed questions that you can ask yourself with each of these segments to help drive what it is you need to improve.
00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.389 Bruce Cramer: So with that, Jesse, take us away.
00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:15.109 Bruce Cramer: Oh, boy, the mechanics tonight at least, I'm not on mute.
00:29:15.450 --> 00:29:15.784 Angie Snowball: Yeah.
00:29:16.670 --> 00:29:23.479 Angie Snowball: it was so funny you were so excited. See? You get I get excited watching you be excited even when I can't hear you. You're like.
00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:51.229 Bruce Cramer: Well, maybe after the 100th episode, I'll get that right. But I always have been the slow kid. But but one of the things is, and we've talked about this on other shows. We've in a few now of our episodes. We introduced some of these very simplistic tools, and quite frankly, they've been around for a long time, and often they're recycled in different.
00:29:52.010 --> 00:30:16.009 Bruce Cramer: speak by different consultancies, etc. But the reality is this stuff really works, and you know it's the simple things in life that make the biggest difference. So I would. You know, I would challenge you to just try using some of these things because you you sit here and you think well, that's obvious. Well, trust me. As life occurs, these things aren't always so damn obvious.
00:30:16.290 --> 00:30:18.459 Angie Snowball: And how often do we get complacent?
00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:23.179 Angie Snowball: Yeah, like some of the questions you're gonna dive into? Because I also
00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:43.339 Angie Snowball: for a very long time did not realize I was living pretty much in isosceles triangle, because I was content with it. And then things came down the road, and I'm like just had to take that hard look and say, truth is, I'm not happy. The truth is, that's unhappy at all. I'm just not ready to sacrifice the tens and all the other 3 sections
00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:59.869 Angie Snowball: to make that even. But, man, I went from that stupid triangle of 3 tens, and basically a 0 to little twos, and I was 10 times happier, healthier. It doesn't have to be, you know, perfect. You just have to be honest.
00:31:00.060 --> 00:31:27.890 Bruce Cramer: Well in this thing, balance in life. One of the things I've been fortunate to do. I don't do a lot of traveling, but I have spent quite a bit of time in Jamaica. I've been there more than a handful of times, and it's interesting because I know people that are extremely wealthy, and they're just not happy. They're never happy. They're never satisfied. Well, guess what
00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:31.479 Bruce Cramer: if they did the diamond mapping exercise? They would know why.
00:31:31.830 --> 00:31:46.229 Bruce Cramer: but in some cases they don't take the time to understand themselves, and they don't. They may or may not be aware of tools like this. That would help you. Why am I so unhappy? You know I got all this money. Well, what's interesting
00:31:46.490 --> 00:31:50.369 Bruce Cramer: is, I had this conversation with a couple of bartenders in Jamaica.
00:31:50.480 --> 00:32:04.190 Bruce Cramer: you know they're you know they live there, and as I'm driving around, you know, their houses are made out of cardboard and tin, it's you know they're makeshift houses. Now granted, the climate is beautiful.
00:32:05.180 --> 00:32:09.969 Bruce Cramer: It's absolutely beautiful, and they're so damn happy.
00:32:10.110 --> 00:32:22.249 Bruce Cramer: And you know I'm sitting here thinking. You know, we're dropping a significant amount of money at this resort to stay there. Yet these people are like, is it all a big act?
00:32:22.510 --> 00:32:38.619 Bruce Cramer: And the thing is they're living a balanced life. They have plenty of food. They're in much better shape than I was when I was there, because they don't overeat. They eat, you know. They, you know they make do with what they got. But they eat very healthy fruits, fish
00:32:38.890 --> 00:32:48.509 Bruce Cramer: jerky, you know, but they they do things in moderation, because that's all they can afford yet living there.
00:32:48.620 --> 00:33:00.149 Bruce Cramer: Hey? We get up every day we get to come into this resort, you know. Look at the climate around here. Look at the you know the ocean, the beauty, just the net. It's so peaceful.
00:33:00.470 --> 00:33:24.859 Angie Snowball: And their energy is so amazing. We were there last year for our honeymoon. It was a week before the terrible hurricane, so we we missed that. But as we were leaving, I you know you make friends with these people because they're so happy. They're so they make you want to be balanced right? And we're like, Hey guys, you're going to be okay. We're worried about you. Let us know if something happens, what can we do? And they're like, yeah, mine is okay. Things happen, you know, like they didn't give. They were
00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:34.670 Angie Snowball: totally fine, because they know that whatever gets out of balance it's going to be okay. They're going to put it right back in. They've got all the important stuff right in front of them. And
00:33:34.670 --> 00:33:44.729 Angie Snowball: that's what I'm saying about being honest like. Do those huge houses really make you happy? Maybe for a minute, and maybe if all your other things are in check, but
00:33:44.730 --> 00:33:50.180 Angie Snowball: it does it worth it? If your finances are at a 10, and your family's at a 2, or your health.
00:33:50.180 --> 00:33:50.510 Bruce Cramer: Yeah.
00:33:50.510 --> 00:33:56.170 Angie Snowball: Too, because you're working too hard, and to get all that money I don't know. It's just not.
00:33:56.170 --> 00:34:15.340 Bruce Cramer: Yeah, you know their motto of no problem, no problem in their fist bumps. But you know, they they actually said to us, You know, we. We watch you guys come in here in these resorts and you're our entertainment. I mean, we literally enjoy talking with you. And we hear of all the problems and challenges
00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:35.429 Bruce Cramer: my big worry tonight is I got to walk back to my house down the beach. I just don't want to step on something. You know, you guys, are, you guys are stressing that. So so it's all perspective. And as I said earlier, it's all relative. But I could tell you people that live a balanced life.
00:34:35.449 --> 00:34:51.919 Bruce Cramer: They might not even have a shirt on their back. And they're happy, they productive. They're making the living. Their family's living the way they want to live. So don't underestimate this balance, but anyways, so getting into some of the questions. So
00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:56.340 Bruce Cramer: what comes to mind for you under financial independence.
00:34:56.790 --> 00:34:58.969 Bruce Cramer: Angie. What would be some questions.
00:34:59.270 --> 00:35:23.010 Angie Snowball: So I think, for for me that's the hardest one. So we've talked a while back about the disc profiles. Right? And I'm this very high. I person. I'm very creative. That's where my happiness comes in. That's what makes me feel complete. I have 0 C in me. I mean, pretty much 0 ever unless I really really need it. So
00:35:23.010 --> 00:35:43.049 Angie Snowball: finances is the hardest one for me, because I know that I need it. I know that to do some of the things I want to do. They have to be there, but that's very hard for me to define, and that's why wealth managers are is such a key point of my life? Because I basically go to Matt and say, Hey, man, this is what we want to do.
00:35:43.070 --> 00:36:03.589 Angie Snowball: What do I have to do to make that happen, because that's a weak point for me. I have to work backwards, and I'll never find my own ex. So Matt helps me find the X, and then I can go back to business and say, Okay, this is what I got to do. This is where we got to invest. This is where I have to spend more time, so that I can get myself to the financial place that I want to be.
00:36:04.870 --> 00:36:11.389 Bruce Cramer: And you know. And that's the great great response. Because what the wealth manager is saying to you,
00:36:13.010 --> 00:36:16.090 Bruce Cramer: Are your finances where you want them?
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:25.270 Bruce Cramer: And does your career typically they get to this in some round about. Does your career support your.
00:36:25.270 --> 00:36:25.690 Angie Snowball: Yeah.
00:36:25.690 --> 00:36:31.699 Bruce Cramer: Financial. What you perceive to be would be satisfactory. Does your career support that?
00:36:32.090 --> 00:36:58.519 Bruce Cramer: And you know there's a lot of people that chase the buck at the expense of being in a role that they truly enjoy, thrive. And I'm telling you, if you chase your passion, the money comes, and in a roundabout way. Wealth managers do that. They, you know, they make you become more self-aware about all aspects of your life. Does it actually support
00:36:58.890 --> 00:37:06.220 Bruce Cramer: what your goal is in terms of financials. The other thing that I think is just like
00:37:06.530 --> 00:37:22.479 Bruce Cramer: all of the tools we talk about have a compounding effect. Well, one of the things my wealth manager taught me very early on is, everybody talks about you. Got to save. You got to save. Well, it's not to save a buck this week to have 2 bucks next week.
00:37:22.740 --> 00:37:30.800 Bruce Cramer: Warren Buffett figured this out when he did a paper route as a young boy. The compounding fact of cash.
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:37.550 Bruce Cramer: 10% of a hundred dollars is 10 bucks right?
00:37:38.190 --> 00:37:46.449 Bruce Cramer: 10% of a thousand dollars is a hundred, 10% of a million.
00:37:46.630 --> 00:37:54.290 Bruce Cramer: You can keep going with me. You may never tweak the dial in terms of the percent your money is earning.
00:37:54.420 --> 00:38:05.979 Bruce Cramer: But the compounding effect is the more you have, that percentage has a huge difference. So when you finally land a hundred $1,000 in the bank.
00:38:06.120 --> 00:38:18.860 Bruce Cramer: and let's say you're only by the way, in the market you should be earning in the thirties. If you're in the stock market with a good wealth manager, you should get somewhere between 25 and 36% return.
00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:35.430 Bruce Cramer: Fyi. That's what I've been experiencing for a while. But I have a great wealth manager. His name is Bob Folds, and he'll be on this show at some point. But the point is, if you don't touch money, you put money away every week and don't touch it.
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:58.170 Bruce Cramer: no matter what percent you're at, it's going to compound, and money makes money. So if you're living paycheck to paycheck, or whatever, you're never going to compound wealth where money is no longer a problem. If you simply save, don't touch it. The compounding effect will build you riches.
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:08.999 Angie Snowball: And you know, one thing I want to add to that is because, like, I think, a lot of people, including myself, I mean, I was raised in a paycheck to paycheck world. That's you know, we came from nothing. That's what we were raised in.
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:29.299 Angie Snowball: So the concept of it scared the hell out of me. I was like no man. I got just enough to do this, this and that live within my means, but just not used to that. And one of the 1st really good wealth managers I've ever known. One is my uncle, but I also met with another woman, and she said, it doesn't have to be a thousand dollars.
00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:36.879 Angie Snowball: she said. Start with $5 a paycheck. Start with $10 a paycheck, whatever you everybody can cut out a coffee
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:44.730 Angie Snowball: and put that into something, and and then that compounds, and all of a sudden putting a thousand dollars away is nothing.
00:39:44.730 --> 00:40:07.619 Angie Snowball: When you thought you couldn't start because you only had 5. You can start with anything. Just find yourself a wealth manager that's willing to get started because these things do compound and don't be afraid. And also this goes into next week as well. It's never too late. It is never too late. I scratched my life and started over at 40, and I am better off in 10 years than I was
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:15.690 Angie Snowball: 10 years ago. And that's in a whole different lifestyle. So you can always start over, and you can always start.
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:22.714 Bruce Cramer: Well, said, another one is
00:40:23.830 --> 00:40:32.110 Bruce Cramer: and chime in Angie is health and fitness, you know. People think well, I gotta go hit the gym and all that. It's also diet.
00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:51.309 Bruce Cramer: you know, in this country we are fortunate to have access to the best food supply in the world. Now, if you're like me, we often not make the choice for the best, but the reality is diet. Just the things you put into your mouth less
00:40:51.770 --> 00:40:53.960 Bruce Cramer: healthier sleep.
00:40:54.240 --> 00:41:03.780 Bruce Cramer: You know there's a lot of studies that sleep is a big part of weight loss. If you're not getting enough sleep, you you will not lose weight.
00:41:04.120 --> 00:41:06.910 Angie Snowball: And actually sleeping, not being in your bed.
00:41:06.910 --> 00:41:07.360 Bruce Cramer: Yes.
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:08.490 Angie Snowball: Sleeping.
00:41:09.620 --> 00:41:11.219 Bruce Cramer: It depends what you're doing. Well.
00:41:11.220 --> 00:41:14.309 Angie Snowball: Oh, that, yeah, there could be calorie reduction involved.
00:41:14.310 --> 00:41:18.670 Bruce Cramer: Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's for the adult side of this crowd.
00:41:18.670 --> 00:41:20.920 Bruce Cramer: What happens when Nantesh takes vacation?
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:21.790 Bruce Cramer: Oh, you see.
00:41:21.790 --> 00:41:22.490 Angie Snowball: South Korea.
00:41:22.490 --> 00:41:41.359 Bruce Cramer: Us on this segment, and I think we'll go to break, and we'll wrap up with family business because we don't want to beat a dead horse, and then we'll talk a little bit about the challenge for next week, because we hope you take when we do these challenges, just take a minute to try it. What do you got to lose
00:41:41.680 --> 00:41:44.110 Bruce Cramer: with that, Jesse? Take us to break.
00:43:32.520 --> 00:43:41.650 Bruce Cramer: All these cocktails work so well. So, Angie, what one do you? We have 2 left, family and relationships. Which one do you want to take.
00:43:42.376 --> 00:43:53.440 Angie Snowball: Let's see, I think I'll do you know, I'm gonna talk about business and career, which is probably gonna surprise most people that know me, because family is like my number. One thing, but
00:43:53.440 --> 00:44:13.269 Angie Snowball: one of the reasons like my path, you know, chose Renaissance women because I'm constantly reinventing myself, and part of that was because I was always choosing the wrong thing. I was choosing things that I thought I should be doing, and that the world thought I should be doing, not what I thought I should be doing things I was good at, but I didn't like.
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:25.619 Angie Snowball: and I had a really hard time like choosing finding business that inspired me, finding work in a career that you know they always say, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.
00:44:25.730 --> 00:44:50.530 Angie Snowball: and it took me way too long to figure that out, because I was like, well, I'm making great money, and I'm really good at it, and I'm climbing the ladder, and everything's going well. And then I had to take that hard look and say, But you're freaking miserable. I mean, I was even able to maintain that little box. Little Diamond, was perfect. It just that diamond was at a 2. It was never going to get to a 10 because I wasn't doing what I loved, and I wasn't inspired. Once I threw away my
00:44:50.530 --> 00:45:10.810 Angie Snowball: corporate life, and I started to live with creativity, and truly helping other people and inspiring people and being really doing things. I loved that business thing started going, you know, way over there to that, like 8. All of a sudden all the other aspects of my diamonds started to grow, too, and that was really important for me.
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:14.339 Bruce Cramer: And look at you now.
00:45:14.680 --> 00:45:41.839 Angie Snowball: I know, and that's another one never too late, I mean no kidding. I was 30. How young is 30 now, right like your baby. I was 30, and I was like God, I can't quit, man. I've got 10 years in this corporate career, and I'm here, and I can't imagine what is going to happen to me? I'm already 30 at 30. I thought that I mean it was. It's crazy. It's never too late now. I look at 30, and think, my God, you're just starting. You should have done that, you know.
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:53.389 Angie Snowball: so much earlier. But anyway, that's why I think, like you really need to be honest. A lot of this to me is going back to being honest with yourself, really being honest where your ex is.
00:45:55.040 --> 00:45:57.330 Bruce Cramer: Awesome, absolutely awesome.
00:45:57.694 --> 00:46:24.759 Bruce Cramer: You know one of the things I do. Once I know there's an episode. We figure it out, I think a Monday morning. All we know is the topic. We don't really know what we're going to say, how we're going to, you know. Converse, you know, we do a high level outline for these shows just to say, here, these are the salient points we need to cover. But I like to clip things that are related. And there was this article that said, it has been said
00:46:24.780 --> 00:46:27.870 Bruce Cramer: that fully 85%
00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:39.820 Bruce Cramer: of your happiness will come from good relationships with other people in your family, your personal life as well as work.
00:46:40.340 --> 00:46:48.610 Bruce Cramer: So when you look at that family and relationships, it's not all just about family. There's other relationships that you're
00:46:48.830 --> 00:46:49.920 Bruce Cramer: part of.
00:46:50.160 --> 00:46:57.029 Bruce Cramer: And I often think, too, when we, when we do leadership seminars or any of these things or team building.
00:46:57.620 --> 00:47:03.700 Bruce Cramer: we talk about accomplishments, goals sometimes
00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:10.229 Bruce Cramer: screw all that. It's also the relationships. What kind of do I really know
00:47:10.560 --> 00:47:37.659 Bruce Cramer: the challenges or the feelings that Joe has, or Sally or Rebecca, I mean develop relationships. I remember there was the time when school of management was well, you know, you're the boss. You're the leader. There's got to be a little bit of distance. I agree. Somebody has to know unequivocally who gets to wave the magic wand. When we agree to disagree, somebody does get to make that decision.
00:47:37.770 --> 00:47:59.689 Bruce Cramer: but that should never take away the fact that you develop relationships with people. You work. You know what their passions are. You know what they're trying to achieve. You know the challenges they're going through. When you get to that level of a relationship, it goes a long way in developing that high performing team that doesn't mean you relinquish
00:48:00.060 --> 00:48:10.529 Bruce Cramer: control in terms of oh, my God! Somebody's got to make that. We know who's going to make the decision. You know it doesn't mean there's no accountability, none of that.
00:48:10.720 --> 00:48:12.160 Bruce Cramer: but no people.
00:48:12.620 --> 00:48:13.480 Bruce Cramer: And so.
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:23.750 Angie Snowball: I think that's us. I mean, if you think about it, Natej and Bruce and I, we all started out business oriented 100%. Of course, we liked each other and we clicked. We get along. We have fun together.
00:48:23.750 --> 00:48:47.120 Angie Snowball: But we didn't know that when we started. Yeah, I mean, we didn't know. We started talking. We built this relationship. We had X's in common that we wanted to do things we wanted to try. We have the same passions. And we started putting this concept together. And it's growing and rolling. And in the meantime things have happened for all of us, and I know Bruce's
00:48:47.190 --> 00:48:53.980 Angie Snowball: stories about Bruce's kids. I love his wife. I consider her a good friend. I can't wait to see her again now, Ted.
00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:54.390 Angie Snowball: you know.
00:48:54.390 --> 00:49:19.290 Angie Snowball: knew when shit hit the fan with my father-in-law and poison ivy, whatever he's just call me anytime, you know. I mean, they are not just my business partners anymore. They are my friends. They carried me through honestly the last 6 weeks of my life. It was like a bad movie, and I was like, they don't make sad movies with this much shit in one movie happened. And these guys like not only held me up, they said, Go, do what you got to do.
00:49:19.420 --> 00:49:30.929 Angie Snowball: They are my friends. And that started from a business relationship. So I think, Bruce, you just hit the nail on the head. It's relationships and goes all around all those pieces.
00:49:33.180 --> 00:49:41.079 Bruce Cramer: All right. So, Jesse, I think you're going to take us to break, and when we come back we'll kind of talk about the challenges for the week.
00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:43.399 Angie Snowball: No, wait. That was the last break.
00:49:43.710 --> 00:49:45.159 Bruce Cramer: Oh, no. Gee!
00:49:45.160 --> 00:49:46.850 Bruce Cramer: He says, okay. So like.
00:49:46.850 --> 00:49:53.250 Bruce Cramer: Got to remember to come off a mute and make sure I know how to read the prompter. Okay.
00:49:53.250 --> 00:49:57.868 Angie Snowball: Breaks are tricky, man. No, we get you got time, Bruce. You're allowed to talk. Talk away.
00:49:58.270 --> 00:50:15.020 Bruce Cramer: I'm surprised. Usually Jesse's a bit of a smart ass, and she likes to poke at me during the show. Yeah, she goes. You've only been at this for 2 months. I told you I'm the slow kid, and I'm not lying about that.
00:50:15.020 --> 00:50:16.982 Angie Snowball: The cosmos are really good tonight.
00:50:17.310 --> 00:50:25.460 Angie Snowball: They are especially with the extra vodka. All right. So you know, this awareness to action.
00:50:25.550 --> 00:50:49.220 Bruce Cramer: And you know one of the things. And then, Angie, I'm gonna is, you know, again, to underscore what we what we're talking about tonight. This isn't a 1 time exercise. Don't beat yourself up, do it honestly. What's your level of satisfaction? Take a deep breath and look at out of the 4 segments of your life. Where do you think you need to place that? X.
00:50:49.570 --> 00:51:12.020 Bruce Cramer: Don't try to do everything. Don't try to improve all 4 segments at once pick one that you believe will truly have the greatest impact and then pick one action. Item, one thing that you think could improve your chances in that segment to increase your level of satisfaction.
00:51:12.190 --> 00:51:19.889 Bruce Cramer: And then, as we said earlier, quarterly is probably enough, if you want to do it monthly, all the power to you
00:51:20.700 --> 00:51:44.419 Bruce Cramer: but recalibrate, and it doesn't have to be that you sit down with your markers and you draw on the board. Just think through the 4, and where are you at? And and just score it in your head? This could be like a 6 min exercise. And do you have balance, or did you fall out of balance, and there may be a reason for it. But don't, don't think for a moment. You can sustain
00:51:44.770 --> 00:51:49.840 Bruce Cramer: without shoring up that imbalance. Angie, what would be some of your.
00:51:50.600 --> 00:52:13.259 Angie Snowball: You know, I think I'm going to be. I'm usually the one that you know. I never tell the dogs. No, the kids. No, I don't let make people do their homework. I ask any of my English students who have never done that. But today I'm going to tell you, do your homework. I'm going to be tougher than Bruce, I'm going to say, print out a diamond map, do it once a month. It takes 5 min. But the reason. I say that is because.
00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:40.099 Angie Snowball: you know, self-awareness is super important. We've been through it in a million times, but it's also sometimes cheesy and hokey, and everybody's out there saying, be self-aware, and glitter and unicorns and crap right? This is real. This is a systematic thing that you can look at, and you can build actual steps, actual, tangible items. And I'm big on that, because that's what makes us different. I do want you to print this out. I do want people to do it once a month takes 5 min.
00:52:40.280 --> 00:53:00.029 Angie Snowball: and it's a real reflection of where you are, and maybe you'll find that you know what I need to look harder at myself. Maybe you'll say I need a business coach to help me look harder, or I need someone. A health coach a fitness coach. I need someone to help me find my ex. But I think this is something we should all do once a month. It takes 5 min. But it's a process in a system.
00:53:01.540 --> 00:53:03.310 Bruce Cramer: I stand corrected.
00:53:03.805 --> 00:53:07.269 Angie Snowball: And I think he's surprised by that.
00:53:07.270 --> 00:53:10.550 Bruce Cramer: I listen. I'm the one that says, do homework.
00:53:10.550 --> 00:53:15.070 Bruce Cramer: Listen. I stand corrected. So here's the challenge.
00:53:15.270 --> 00:53:19.580 Bruce Cramer: This week. We don't do this every episode, but we've had a few now.
00:53:19.730 --> 00:53:25.600 Bruce Cramer: Rate yourself in the 4 areas, just shits and giggles after a few cocktails.
00:53:25.720 --> 00:53:34.109 Bruce Cramer: Being honest with yourself, then draw your draw, connect the X's where or dots, whatever you use.
00:53:34.640 --> 00:53:36.129 Bruce Cramer: What shape is it?
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:55.629 Bruce Cramer: You might be pleasantly surprised, and you might be pretty damn balanced good for you, if not, identify where you're going to place the X if you're not in balance. And there's, you know, like me, where you're at a 2, and you know, that's probably pretty obvious. I need to do one thing.
00:53:55.770 --> 00:53:57.869 Bruce Cramer: Take one step at a time.
00:53:57.870 --> 00:53:58.670 Angie Snowball: Love it.
00:53:58.670 --> 00:54:11.340 Bruce Cramer: To improve. You know, there's 1 of these episodes. We'll talk about the 1% rule that if you improve by 1% every day. Imagine, after a year, how damn good you are.
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:12.400 Angie Snowball: Right.
00:54:12.931 --> 00:54:17.350 Bruce Cramer: Take one meaningful step. I just repeated myself, take one meaningful.
00:54:17.350 --> 00:54:18.899 Angie Snowball: That's an important thing to repeat.
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:20.120 Bruce Cramer: In this
00:54:20.120 --> 00:54:32.000 Bruce Cramer: area. So you know, that's that's what I I would recommend as the challenge for the week. And, by the way, feel free to reach out to us.
00:54:32.130 --> 00:54:38.499 Bruce Cramer: You can get a hold of us via Linkedin, our websites. We got all kinds of ways to share your feedback.
00:54:38.640 --> 00:54:42.840 Bruce Cramer: Not only if you do these challenges, but also, what do you want to hear?
00:54:43.140 --> 00:54:43.930 Bruce Cramer: Yeah, please.
00:54:43.930 --> 00:54:52.690 Angie Snowball: Yeah, show us your diamond maps. How cool would that be? You don't have to put your name on it, but you know I'd love to see where you are. That'd be cool.
00:54:53.116 --> 00:54:57.259 Bruce Cramer: And and Angie talk a little bit about next week, because we have a guest.
00:54:57.260 --> 00:54:58.649 Angie Snowball: We do next.
00:54:58.650 --> 00:55:03.060 Bruce Cramer: On the eve of the 4th of July we got one hell of a guest. Go ahead.
00:55:03.060 --> 00:55:28.760 Angie Snowball: So we have Mimi Kirk with us. You might know her as a Vegas showgirl. You might know her as Mary Tyler Moore stand-in. She was on Star Trek. She is an internationally famous raw Vegan celebrity. She is now a famous artist, and there's a whole bunch of other things in the middle, and she's going to talk to us now at 86. If you look her up, you're going to fall over because she looks 60
00:55:29.092 --> 00:55:37.080 Angie Snowball: at 71 she won the most sexiest Vegan over 50. So this woman knows what she's doing. She reinvents herself all the time.
00:55:37.080 --> 00:55:39.469 Bruce Cramer: She was. She was on Star Trek.
00:55:39.470 --> 00:55:41.039 Angie Snowball: Is. She was on Star Trek. Yes.
00:55:41.040 --> 00:55:41.910 Bruce Cramer: Damn it.
00:55:41.910 --> 00:56:07.399 Angie Snowball: It's amazing. No, she's amazing. And she's so inspiring. And I love having her right after this, because this is what she does. She takes a look at the diamond map and says, Oh, things changed. It's dynamic. Let's change it, and let's do this, and it's never too late. She started being an artist at 80, so it is never, too, and she's incredibly successful. Look her up, Mamie Kirk, we'll be. I'll be out there in San Diego with her.
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:08.360 Bruce Cramer: On a rooftop.
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:28.989 Angie Snowball: Yeah, hopefully, you can hear us. But the plan is the rooftop of San Diego, right next to Balboa Park. So meeting with her, and she's just an inspiration to anyone who's thinking, maybe I need a change. Is it too late? Because the answer is never. It's never too late to change, and to make that perfect diamond.
00:56:29.590 --> 00:56:35.280 Bruce Cramer: Okay, you ready, Angie. So keep shining. Stay balanced and always
00:56:36.040 --> 00:56:45.959 Bruce Cramer: serve up success with a splash until next week. We'll see you. Thank you for joining Bye.
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:46.870 Angie Snowball: Cheers, bye.
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