What's up, champions?

This is your host, Neal.

And I want to welcome you back to another amazing episode today.

I'm fired up about today because I'm going to be teaching you something that I feel is one of the greatest unlocks that I've had within my life, both in leadership, business strategy, but personal development, but just all around.

One of the biggest unlocks I've ever had.

And I will tell you that oftentimes when you have these great ideas inside of you, maybe it's dreams, maybe it's a goal, maybe it's just what you consider a God, God given idea.

But it doesn't feel like it's fully come together yet.

But you know it's there.

You're baking something inside, but you're trying to figure out how to get it out.

Sometimes what you need is just the right person to be able to voice that too.

And as you do, those thoughts that started off as messy or non structured begin to take shape and clarity begins to come in.

And I'm telling you, when you learn this concept, some of your greatest growth is right in front of you.

And it's on the other side of your next great conversation.

Whoo.

That's fire right there, guys.

I'm fired up for today and I hope that you are too.

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What's up, champion?

This is your host, Neal Reyes, and I want to welcome you to the Executive Perspective.

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Why?

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I am an executive with a deep level of understanding of business, operations, leadership, and technology.

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Hey, what's up, champions?

This is your host, Neil, and I want to welcome you back to the Executive Perspective with Neal Reyes.

Man, I'm fired up about today's show.

I know what you're thinking.

You're always fired up.

I am always fired up.

That's because I believe we have really, really good content.

And I'm excited that I get to share these things with you.

You know, this podcast, as I said before, focuses in three main areas.

It focuses on leadership, business strategy, and personal development.

Well, today I have something that fits into all three of those.

It's a concept that I believe will resonate with you, that you'll understand easily.

But I also believe it'll open up your eyes, your mind, and I also believe it'll open you up to be able to perform at a higher level than you have before.

Today I want to talk with you about the topic of the human whiteboard.

Now, someone might say, what in the world is a human whiteboard?

Well, for some of you, you already know what I'm talking about.

Even if you've never heard that term before, it resonates inside of you.

But it's the human whiteboard is what I want to refer to you today.

Now let's start to paint the picture so you can follow along with me.

Have you ever turned around and walked up to a whiteboard?

Maybe you're in a meeting or maybe it's just you and you're trying to draw some thoughts out for other people.

Sometimes they use a journal or they use a dot journal or something of that nature that helps them out.

But you walk up to the whiteboard, you grab some markers, and all of a sudden you have these thoughts and these ideas.

They may even seem like messy thoughts or ideas because they're not really, you know, in any type of order or aligned.

But as you start to whiteboard it out and draw it out, you begin to get clarity.

I will tell you that I don't want to call myself a whiteboard junkie, but I love using a whiteboard.

In fact, so many times when I'm in meetings or I'm trying to illustrate things to people, I just feel the power of a whiteboard is very Strong, but also it helps me to structure my own thoughts, see what I'm trying to show.

Well, today I want to talk with you about the topic of the human whiteboard.

Now, before I go any further, I want to apologize to you because I want to show honor to you.

I have my London Fog in the studio with me today.

That is my, probably my favorite, favorite drink.

If you don't know what a London Fog is, it's Earl Grey with a little bit of cream.

I use milk and it has a little bit of an L in it.

But today I felt like a London Fog.

And so it's in the studio with me.

I only apologize in case you hear me pause for a second to take a drink.

That being said, though, the human whiteboard, why is this important?

Imagine having a human whiteboard rather than a regular whiteboard.

Now, what is a human whiteboard?

This is someone who you can bounce your ideas off of.

This is someone that, as you speak with and your ideas come forth, sometimes you've been ruminating on them for a while, you've been tossing them around in your mind.

But as you begin, begin to voice them, how clarity begins to take root?

It begins to get clear for you.

I refer to this as a biblical principle.

And one of my, probably, I will say my greatest human whiteboard without a shout out is my wife Katie.

I absolutely love that woman.

But this is a biblical principle I refer to as iron sharpens iron.

What that means is that iron can only be sharpened by other iron.

And when you're bouncing your ideas off someone else who thinks like you, who believes like you, or at least has ideas like you, but someone who you're equally yoked with, or someone who you have a connection with or bond, who can help you in that way, ideas begin to come to life.

So picture yourself now instead of in front of the whiteboard, you're in front of the human whiteboard.

This is someone who helps to bring out ideas to life just by listening to you.

But they also know how to challenge you, and they also know how to reflect.

I'm going to say that again.

This person has three unique qualities about them.

They know how to listen to you, they know how to challenge you, but they also know how to reflect you.

What does the reflection mean?

Well, the reflection would be is that as you're bouncing an idea off of them, they're understanding it and then reflecting it back to you, but with their own input.

Sometimes that input comes across as encouragement, which is extremely, extremely important.

You know, recently I was listening to Something.

And I came across something that said that every person needs three friends within their life.

Now, you may not ascribe to this, but I thought it was kind of funny, so I'm going to share it.

You know, every person needs three friends within their life.

The first one is someone that.

Who is the.

It's the truth teller.

This is someone who.

That you can always count on to tell you the truth.

And if you got some BS going on within your life, they can help to call it out for you.

This is the truth teller, the second person.

That's what I refer to as the vault.

That's the person that you can speak to about anything, and you know they're never going to share it with anyone else.

That's something that you.

It's a safe space for you to be able to talk to.

But at the same time, the vault is also the person who's great at encouraging you.

Sometimes it's you opening your heart up to them and them encouraging around that, but other times it's just them encouraging you.

That's the vault.

But you know it's safe to tell them things because it's not going to go anywhere else.

And then the third person, that's your ride or die.

Who.

Who's that?

That's the person you could call up at 3 in the morning.

No matter what's going on, you can say, I need you now.

And they're going to get over there right there and then.

And the real rider dies.

The one you could say, bring the gun.

And they say, don't worry, I got the shovel too.

No, I just.

I'm totally jok by that.

Do not take that serious.

Neil's just being funny.

Okay, that's my disclaimer right there.

But those are three people you need in your life.

Well, I'm going to add a fourth one to that.

And sometimes one of those people can be that.

But within leadership, business strategy, or personal development, you also need the human whiteboard.

And remember, that's the person who can listen to you.

That's the person who can challenge you.

They know how to challenge you.

But you also feel safe with them to allow them to challenge you and to allow them to push you.

And at the same time, this person also knows how to reflect you.

Now, here's why there's power in talking it out.

Whenever you have an idea that's ruminating, say, I'm getting excited just thinking about this.

Because sometimes, even when I'm in front of the camera, I feel like it's a whiteboard for me.

But I'm going to tell you, I mean, this gets me so excited.

I feel like calling up my whiteboards right now and starting to draw things out.

You know, I have people who I go to lunch with.

I have one very, very close friend.

He knows who he is, But I have this one very close friend.

And we go to lunch with each other often.

And every time we do, we bring our Remarkables or we bring our notepads with us, because we're always ready to be able to understand that that meeting.

We might just be talking and sharing life with each other.

We may be sharing our dreams with each other, but as we're there speaking with each other and iron sharpens iron.

I may get a revelation in the word, or he might, and we start documenting it right there.

We may challenge each other on things.

Oftentimes when we're at lunch, we bounce off business ideas or business principles or strategies, business strategies off each other.

And I don't ever want to rely on my memory to have to document that.

And while I have my phone with me and I have notes already prepared that I can track those in, I want to be able to draw it out.

And since I don't have a whiteboard with me, I usually have my Remarkable, and I can draw it out in front of me.

He does the same thing.

There are times we go to lunch and we don't open the Remarkable at all.

But there are many, many times where we do.

And for you, it could be a different one.

I'm not plugging for the brand of Remarkable.

It's just what I happen to use.

It's the tool that I like.

But that being said, it's highly beneficial.

In fact, I've gotten to the point where I carry this thing with me everywhere I go, everywhere I go, because I always want the ability that when inspiration hits, I can start to document it out.

So the power of talking it out.

These are some of the things that are the power of talking it out with your human whiteboard speaking forces you to structure ideas.

Remember, I compared this earlier to having the actual whiteboard.

And on the actual whiteboard, when you're drawing on it or writing on it.

For me, I like different colors.

In fact, going all the way back to when I was in college, that's how I like to study.

I would write things in different color ink, and I like to highlight things, but I'd highlight them different colors to signify different things.

If I had my Bible right now, and I were to pull it out and show You.

You'd see the same thing.

You'd see different colors of highlights or different colors of ink in there that I've written or highlighted or underlined things.

You would also see if I pulled out my phone or even if I flip my iPad around for you to see.

I have a digital bible on there, and I treat it the same exact way with the different colors.

That's how my mind works.

But it's also things that the colors signify something to me on the whiteboard, it's the same exact thing.

But understand that when you're speaking with someone, by you speaking it, your ideas begin to take structure, they begin to take form.

Sorry for the pause.

That was drink number one.

The second thing about the power of talking it out is verbal processing surfaces, hidden assumptions.

Oh, man, that's really deep right there.

I'm gonna say that again.

Verbal processing surfaces, hidden assumptions.

In other words, remember I talked about the friend.

That's the human whiteboard, but that they have the ability to challenge you sometimes as you're structuring something in your mind, this idea, this concept, this business strategy, the business concept, the business idea, whatever it is, you might see it a certain way through the lens of your eye, but they're seeing it through a different lens.

You know, oftentimes I talk about in communication that when you speak, you always hear your voice through your inner ear.

But when people are listening to you, they hear you through their outer ear.

And the voice through the outer ear always sounds different than through the inner ear.

That's why if you back up years and years and years ago, before cell phones were so popular and voicemail was so EAS available.

I mean, I can think of when I was really, really young, when answering machines first came out.

I mean, I was really tiny at this point, okay.

But I remember answering up.

And I remember once in a while, I'd call the house.

This before caller id, and I'd call, and someone didn't ask, phone, But I left the message for mom.

Well, we might be out all day long.

We finally sync up.

Later, we get home, and the answering machine is blinking.

And mom hits play, or dad hits play.

And we're all gathered around the answering machine, see who called that day.

And as the answering machine starts playing, I hear my voice come on.

And I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, is that what I sound like?

That's how most people are when they hear their voice for the first time.

Why is that?

Because you've been accustomed to hearing your voice through your inner ear, your whole life.

But others are accustomed to hearing it through their outer ear.

So when you first hear your voice for the first time through your outer ear and you process, that's what you sound like.

It's an eye opening experience.

Now, that being said, human whiteboarding is the same thing.

When you're expressing your thoughts or idea to somebody, you're hearing it through your lens of your inner ear, but they're hearing it through the lens of their outer ear.

And then they're able to reciprocate or reflect that back to you, remember?

But they're also able to challenge you.

They can challenge the assumptions you're making.

They can challenge the things that maybe you're not putting enough thought in.

Sometimes they can challenge you in a way where you're like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this initiative and I think I'm going to start doing a live webinar.

And I'm thinking about doing it once a month.

And this friend of yours, this human whiteboard says, that sounds fantastic, but I don't think you should do it once a month.

How about once a week?

Well, that may feel like it stretched you right there.

That may feel like a top shelf item like we've discussed in other podcast episodes.

But that's the friend that you need to challenge you.

They need to push you.

Now they're saying you should do it once a week just for the heck of it, because they want to push you.

That's not, that's not the reflecting part.

The reflecting part is they're pushing you to reach for your greatness.

The other thing about the power of talking it out is hearing yourself often creates an internal problem solving moment.

What did I mean by that?

When you hear yourself talk about it, sometimes I'll have a thought that I've spent weeks on in prayer or thinking about.

But the moment I start talking it out, it's like the puzzle pieces start to fall into place and I get clarity on it.

And even when I'm talking with that other person, oftentimes it's my wife, even before she gives any feedback, just by her giving me the safe space to talk to her, I begin to see that thing clear and the pieces fall in place.

And then she gives me great, great wisdom around that.

She's someone I trust and love deeply, but I have others in my life like that as well.

This is a powerful concept of what human whiteboarding can do for you.

Now when you talk out your ideas now this is going to be a leadership toothbrah.

I want you to Pay attention to this.

When you talk out your ideas, your brain gets permission to move from cluttered thinking to creative clarity.

Whoo.

That is a powerful, powerful concept.

When you talk out your ideas, your brain gets permission to move from cluttered thinking, that messy thinking, to creative clarity.

And I'm going to tell you that when that happens, unlocks begin to shape and take place.

Now, the next thing I want to talk to you about are what I refer to as qualities of a great whiteboard.

Remember, we're talking about the human whiteboard, and I mentioned to you three things earlier that a good human whiteboard does.

They listen to you, they challenge you, and they reflect you drink.

Number two.

Sorry about that.

I told you I love my London Fog.

Okay.

Anyways, all that being said, qualities of a great human whiteboard, not every conversation partner, first of all, qualifies to be a human whiteboard.

I want to just cap off this next section with that so it's clear.

Not every conversation partner qualifies.

The person who you need.

This is someone who can display some of these things I'm getting ready to share with you.

The person who you need who qualifies as a great human whiteboard is someone who listens deeply to you, but without jumping in to solve immediately.

What does that mean?

That means that when they're listening to you, they're intently focused on you.

They make you feel like there's no one else in that room if there's other people there because they're so dialed into you.

You know, this doesn't always have to happen in a private space, but sometimes it should or could.

Sometimes definitely should.

But other times, you can do it in the middle of a restaurant or, you know, a coffee shop or something, but you need to know that person is listening to you like you're the only one there.

They're not attracted, but they're also listening deeply to you.

They're not just hearing your words.

They're listening to your tone.

They're listening deeply to you.

And they're not just trying to jump in immediately to fix it.

They're listening to you.

The other person who qualifies as a great soundboard or a great whiteboard is someone who knows how to ask insightful and challenging questions of you.

Man, that's a big, important piece right there.

I will tell you that if you want to know a key to being an executive and a great, great leader at the very top of the structure of the architecture, here's how you do it.

Of the infrastructure, this is how you do it.

It's not about being the person who has all the answers, but it's about being the person who knows the right questions to ask and who to ask them of.

Oh, I'm going to tell you that right there.

That separates amazing great leaders from amazing leaders.

Amazing leaders aren't always focused on having to have all the answers.

They give space for other people to be the experts in the area.

And they place people who are real smart around them, who have these gifts and abilities to just shine in their areas.

But amazing leaders, they know the questions to ask and they also know who to direct those questions at or who to ask them of telling that's powerful.

Unlocks.

Well, with this, this person who qualifies to be a great soundboard for you.

They know how to ask insightful and challenging questions of you.

The other thing they do is they know how to hold space for messy or incomplete thinking.

That's so important right there.

Because sometimes as you're talking, you may just be trying to sort this thing out.

I mean, it might kind of feel like a little bit of a soup sandwich.

You know, you got some good things in there, but it doesn't really stick.

But as you speak it out, they got to give you time to be able to get that out because it may come across as a little messy or incomplete, but as you do, you'll begin to fill in the blanks as you talk it out with them.

The other thing is, the person who makes a great human whiteboard is someone who's able to resist the urge to fix too early.

What do I mean by that?

Well, so oftentimes, gosh, I can think of times early in my marriage, I'd come home and maybe, and I'm going to be, honestly, for a minute, vulnerable moment.

Vulnerable moment.

Maybe not even early in my marriage, but it was just a few years ago, my wife would come, I'd come home, or my wife would come home and I could tell she wanted to talk and bounce things off me.

And so I'd sit there, listen to her, and I thought what she was doing, okay, this is my husband mind.

Okay, I'm sure there are people who relate, but I thought when she was trying to bounce something off me, I thought she was communicating to me, I've got a problem, I don't know how to fix it.

I want you to tell me how to resolve it.

And so that's what I would do.

I jump into the fixer mode and I'd be like, oh, that's easy.

Just do this, this, and this.

Oh, did I learn that women are wired different than men or wives are wired different than husbands?

Maybe that's the way I'll say it instead.

But here's what I learned.

Sometimes when my wife is speaking, she just wants me to listen.

She doesn't want me to give her the answers.

She doesn't want me to tell her how to fix the issue or fix the problem.

I'm seeing all kinds of light bulbs go off on husbands right now.

I mean, we just had major breakthrough today.

We could end the episode right now.

But, you know, with my wife, she just wants me to listen.

In fact, she may already know how to fix it or what needs to be done.

She's just looking for someone to be able to bounce her stuff off of.

So remember, to be a great human whiteboard, you have to learn how to resist the urge to try to fix too early.

Sometimes you just need to be that great listener.

Remember earlier I said there were three really good qualities that someone who's a human whiteboard does.

And the first one was listen.

The first one was listen.

Then it was challenge, then it was reflect.

But listen was the first thing.

Do you ever wonder why God gave you two ears and one mouth?

Hmm.

It's because sometimes you need to listen twice as much as you speak.

Anyways, we'll move on from there, but here's another leadership truth bomb for you before we do.

A great whiteboard doesn't erase your ideas and helps you to shape them.

Whoo.

I'm telling you, that's deep right there.

A great whiteboard doesn't erase your ideas and helps you to shape them.

And that's a fire concept right there.

Now, why do leaders especially need this?

Why is a human whiteboard so important for people?

Well, I'm going to give you some quick things.

Leaders often carry the heaviest mental load.

In other words, they're always expected to have all the answers.

I'm going to tell you that's an unfair assertion that people put on them.

But nonetheless, it's something that happens.

Isolation kills innovation.

You know, sometimes I refer to things in the spiritual realm that the enemy can make people feel like they're an island unto themselves.

Sometimes you're dealing with a thing in leadership or a challenge or a problem, and I get that you have to be mindful about.

I'm a very transparent leader by nature.

It's been one of my key pivots to success.

But while I'm very transparent with my leadership at the level I'm at, I can't share everything Remember I talked about the three friends you need earlier?

But one of them needs to be the vault.

Well, I can compare those three friends to someone you need in business as well.

And someone in business that your supervisors need are people you report to or your counterparts around you.

Even your subordinates, your employees that report up to you.

They need to know that you're a vault and that when they share something with you, sometimes that's sharing with just you.

And that's it.

Now, sometimes you have to be able to advocate for those people, but to be a good steward, but you have to do so without betraying, betraying confidence.

But when you're the vault, when you're that person that people talk to, oftentimes you have to understand that sometimes as a leader, you might feel like you're all alone in that situation.

But isolation can kill innovation.

So you have to be able to find the right people who you can bounce off of, who these great human whiteboards are that you can be able to use.

And what I will tell you is it's not a one size fits all.

It's not like you find one whiteboard and it's going to fit every situation.

You might have some whiteboards, human whiteboards for personal, and you might have another one for business or for strategy or for leadership or for growth.

Sometimes you'll hit the jackpot and you find one that can meet multiple of those things.

But understand, it's okay to have more than one human whiteboard.

Just like the three friends.

I joked with you earlier about that.

You know, you have the different friends who help with different things.

You know, you have the truth setter, you know, that's the one who can always count on telling you the truth, but also help to kind of call out the BS that's in your life or the, you know, the misgivings, the junk that you're lying to yourself about.

But they can help you keep it real.

Okay, that's the friend that helps you keep it real.

You then also have the vault, and then you have the other one that's your ride or die that you can call at any time and they're there for you no matter what.

But that doesn't mean that one person fills all three of those roles.

In fact, oftentimes they don't.

They might blend a little bit, but oftentimes they don't.

That also being said, the one other reason why leaders especially need a human whiteboard, High level thinkers need safe places to talk.

Messy without judgment.

What do I mean by that?

High level thinkers they need a place where they can just kind of start to farm out ideas and talk about ideas and someone's not judging them.

Like you don't even know your stuff or you're all over the place.

It's just a safe place where they can kind of put their things out there and someone can help them be able to put those things in the right order and let the pieces fall into place.

And remember, you don't always gotta be the fixer, you just gotta be able to help and listen as well.

Now that being said, you already know by this point in the show whether if you have that human whiteboard and you're grateful for them, but you're learning some different ways you can use them that maybe you hadn't before, or maybe you're recognizing that that person exists in your life, but you hadn't even been close to tapping into this powerful, powerful leadership principle that helps both in business strategy but personal development at the same time.

If maybe you're also recognizing I don't have that person.

And so I want to help you on how to build that network.

First of all, you need to learn how identify trusted confidants or mentors.

Most likely these people are already around you, but they may not be.

So sometimes you have to go out and find them.

And how do you find them?

By getting in the right networking circles.

Sometimes it's by joining and I will tell you, I've learned this within my own life.

Sometimes it's by joining the right masterminds.

Not every mastermind is a great one.

But joining the right mastermind where you can be around people who are of like minded faith.

And I say faith, but but yet that's extremely important.

I'm not counting that off, but I'm talking about these are people who are like minded like you.

In other words, they think in the same ways.

They don't have to be in the same vertical as you, they don't have to be in the same business or industry as you.

But their mindsets need to be complementary.

They need to understand that you know how the way they function inside is similar to the way you function inside.

Not identical, but they can help to remember the third person reflect you.

They got to be able to reflect you.

They got to be able to listen, they got to be able to challenge you, but they also have to be able to reflect you.

Those are three great qualities that that person needs.

As you do that though, you know what I will tell you, sometimes you need to join a mentorship program.

Now I'm not saying this is a plug for us because we're not even ready to roll this out yet.

But later this year we're going to be rolling out our mentorship program.

I don't even have a name for it yet because I'm still ruminating some things with the Lord and I'm still doing my human whiteboarding with that.

But one of the things I do know with clarity is that we're having a mentorship program roll out later this year.

That mentorship program is going to be geared toward just a handful of people who will work with me.

My mentorship program is going to have a one year commitment.

Why?

Because in order for me to really mentor somebody, they need to have some consistency and time exposed to me where I'll be meeting with them on a weekly basis for the course of a year.

That's 52 meetings minimum that they're going to meet with me on.

That may sound like a lot to you, but that's my willing, that's my level of willingness that I'm willing to invest in this person.

This is something that's a mentorship, so I can help them with that, but also to be able to help them with their questions.

The next thing on how to build your own human whiteboard network is to set clear intentions.

Sometimes it's okay to just tell someone, hey, I just need to think out loud with you for a few minutes.

Can I bounce some ideas off you?

And then the third way is to reciprocate.

You know, nobody likes the friend where you always want to pull from others because you need, need, need, need, but you're not willing to give, man, I'm going to tell you, nobody likes that friend I can even think of like in my own daughter's life, she had an amazing friend a while back.

But if that friendship faded because all that friend ever did was wanted to pick up the phone, call my daughter, have my daughter carve out all of her time just to hear all that girl's problems.

But if my daughter wanted to share with her something she was going through or a challenge, the girl had no time for it.

And in the end, it was hard on my daughter, but she made the decision that I can be a friend to this person, but a friend from a distance because this person can't be that person I'm looking for in my life.

Maybe it was that human whiteboarding thing she needed too.

That's an important and that's a very mature thing to do.

So understand that you don't want to be the person who just takes, takes, takes.

You also want to be the person who gives.

Now I want to go over some recap of what we've gone over today, and then I'll give you some closing thoughts as we get ready to round up this episode.

The first recap that I want to give you is that ideas are often messy and incomplete when they're trapped in your head.

I'm going to say that again.

Oftentimes when you have ideas but you haven't voiced them out, and I'm talking specifically, not just drawing them out or writing them out, but voicing them out, you got to hear yourself kind of speak them and give them life with your words.

But oftentimes when you have ideas that you haven't voiced out, those ideas are messy or sometimes even incomplete when they're still trapped in your head.

What I mean by trapped in your head, it simply means you haven't voiced them to get them on the outside, but once you get them on the outside, and especially with the right person, man, I'm going to tell you, things can come to life.

Now I'm going to give you a quick tip here because for the person who maybe doesn't have that whiteboard person in front of them, or maybe you do, but they're a safe person to whiteboard about, work on.

But maybe you're starting to feel something stirring you where you feel that impression to start a business on the side.

And maybe it doesn't mean you want to leave the job or you're ready to leave the job, but you're concerned that if you open up to the wrong person, it can cost you something.

But you still need someone to voice these ideas out with, I'm going to tell you one of the easiest things you can do now.

This doesn't replace a human whiteboard.

Understand this.

This doesn't replace a human whiteboard.

But it can help you to fast track while you're finding that person.

And the other thing I'm going to say is that you know what the Bible tells us that you have not, because you ask not.

Why don't you just simply go before God and ask him to bring that person into your life, that they can be a human whiteboard for you, but that you can also reciprocate and be a great human whiteboard for them as well.

Learn to put other people first if you're not already.

But here's the here's the key.

If you are in times where you're in a room where your private room probably should be A quiet room, just so it records easy.

Or if you're in your car, if you just simply hit record, if you have a voice recorder app on your phone.

If not, it's worthwhile for you to jump online or to go into a store and buy you a little voice recorder, but to simply have that voice recorder on and start to speak your ideas out to it.

The ideas that you've been kicking around in your mind, the ideas you've been thinking about.

Because even just speaking those out will help you gain clarity from it.

And I'm telling you, this is powerful.

This is almost like voice journaling.

When you speak those things out to you, but then you go back and play them to you, it's going to fire off some new thoughts and some new ideas that you haven't had before because you're hearing your own voice.

But what's happening is that now you're being kind of your own human whiteboard.

Now, that doesn't replace a really good human whiteboard in another person, but it's a great starting point.

And sometimes it's something that can help you really to farm your thoughts out even before you talk or share it out with another.

And the value of sharing it out with another is their mind may be similar to yours or a complement yours, but they're still unique to their own ideas, their own thoughts, their own experiences.

In other words, they've got their own lens.

And when you speak to them, they can help to challenge you in ways that you're not thinking, to challenge yourself.

But they can also turn around and help to reflect some ideas with you and encourage you in some ways that you need.

Now, the other thing I want to recap on is you need the right person to help you think out loud.

This person can help you see angles maybe that you've missed, or they can help bring the best ideas to life.

So remember, I told you how to do it with yourself on the voice recorder.

But you need the right person to really help you think out loud.

This person will help you see new angles or things that you hadn't seen before or maybe that you've just been missing.

But at the same time, they'll also help to bring your best ideas to life.

And sometimes the angles that they help you to see that you missed could be angles where it was gotcha.

If you weren't careful, it could have been detrimental.

But sometimes it could be a real small tweak.

Like, hey, when you roll that new thing out, did you think about maybe adding this one extra step that Might make you a lot of extra money or that might help you be way more successful.

And man, I'm going to tell you, that's powerful right there.

And then the last thing I want to give you on the recap section is talking is thinking.

I'm going to say that again because I think that's profound.

Talking is thinking.

Collaboration accelerates clarity.

Gosh, that's profound right there.

And to me, I think it's profound.

You know, sometimes it's the simplest things that can be the most profound, at least to me.

Talking is thinking.

But collaboration, collaboration accelerates clarity.

And when you're able to find that person, that human whiteboard that you can collaborate with, man, I'm telling you, that can fast track some things for you.

In fact, I can think of just even this year, earlier this year, as I was writing down some things for the year and the Lord started feeding me.

It was when I went before the person who I use in my human whiteboard.

And we're talking and strategizing and I didn't even plan anything formal like, hey, I need to meet with you on this day, this time.

We just happened to go to lunch one day, but I had my remarkable and he had his.

But as we were there and we're just talking, I just said, you know what, I want to bounce something off you.

And I wasn't planning on it, it just came out.

But as we did, because we were sharing different things and feeding each other and I was feeling the flame get stoked in here.

I was getting fired up on the inside.

And as that happened, I pulled it out, I started sharing some ideas and then it was like things started coming to life.

I mean, it was like rapid fire session.

Things started coming to life.

Life.

That being said, I'm going to get ready to close with some final thoughts for you today.

These are my closing thoughts for today's episode.

First one, who's your human whiteboard?

Have you thought about that yet?

I challenged you with it earlier in the session or in the I'm sorry session, treating like a coaching session.

I'm so sorry, but earlier in the podcast I challenged you with who's that human whiteboard for you?

Have you identified them yet?

Do you already know who they are?

And if so, don't just say I'm doing that.

This episode should help you how to leverage that even better.

Now if you don't have one, then remember it's time to start building your network.

And I gave you some real key ways on how you can do that.

But I'm going to tell you that, you know what these people I'm talking about, these are like diamonds in life, you know, diamonds aren't found across every common path.

You know, if you're walking down a path, there's a bunch of pebbles all over the path.

But diamonds, diamonds, you have to sometimes veer off the common path, and you got to go dig.

For now, the key is you got to know where to dig, because diamonds aren't located everywhere.

Well, these human whiteboards and these people who can be some of your closest confidants or your closest friendships or relationships that you have, these are people that they're worth going to find.

And at the same time, sometimes you need to think outside the box of what you have already.

In other words, if you were going to make a meal, but you always limited yourself to going to your pantry or to your spice cabinet only to determine what you're going to make.

Well, while you have good things in your spice cabinet and while you have good things in your pantry, sometimes you need to step outside of the box and you need to go to the store and pick up some new products that you didn't have before so you can make some.

You can cook up some new things that you haven't had before.

Well, this is kind of similar when it comes to finding your human whiteboard or your confidants, the people who you can grow with in leadership, business strategy, and personal development.

That human whiteboard, they might be right around you, but they might also be at the next event that you're supposed to be at.

So be open to that.

Learn to stretch yourself and grow yourself.

And I know sometimes those things cost money and sometimes they can even seem expensive.

But what I will tell you what's more expensive is not investing in yourself and stepping out into those environments, because if you do, you'll grow on the inside.

Your network's going to grow.

And after a while, what once seem expensive to you may not seem expensive anymore because you've grown to a new level.

Now, remember, students, or remember class, what direction do we grow here?

On this podcast, we only have one direction we grow here in the executive perspective.

And what is it?

That's right.

It is forward and upward.

So sometimes you got to invest and forward and upward.

And the last closing thought I have for you is that if you already have this person that you've identified as the human whiteboard, then it's time to pick up that marker and start drawing your next big move, man.

I want to let you know that I believe in you, Champion.

I believe you have everything you need inside of you to connect with greatness.

And I believe that if you touch down into that, you're going to grow into something amazing and you're going to leave an amazing mark on this world.

I believe in you guys.

I want to remind you to swing by our website@neal Reyes.com where you can find all of our teaching resources.

And if this podcast is resonating with you and if you like it, I appreciate you coming back every day to listen to it, but I also want to encourage you to leave us a review, follow it, share it with someone.

If it's helping you, there's a good chance it's going to help people around you.

And here's a knowledge bomb.

I'm going to help you out.

Sometimes you may not know the things to talk about with other people, but when you share an episode like this with them, it shows, one, that you care about them.

But two, it opens an immediate line of conversation.

Because later, if you talk to them, say, hey, just out of curiosity, did you get a chance to listen to that episode?

Or usually they'll call you and be like, oh, my gosh, I listen to episode.

That Neil guy is fire.

I'm just joking.

That's just me plugging right there.

But anyways.

But what I'm saying, though, is when you share things that matter to you with others, it opens the door for them to reflect.

And now you guys can talk about new things that maybe you weren't talking about before.

And that's kind of like that human whiteboard, right?

Oh, man, that was deep right there.

You didn't see that coming, did you?

Yeah, no, I know.

Anyways.

All right, well, guys, that being said, one more time, I want to let you know I believe in you.

Go out there and smash it.

Thank you for joining me today, and have a blessed day.