Words of Wisdom, an Interview with Uncle Randy
Randy is from a small town of 3,000 people in Wisconsin called Chilton. Over Randy's impressive career he has spent most of it in Wisconsin working through a number of different opportunities in corporate America, and as his own boss with the company he owned. In this episode you will hear insights from Randy on topics around corporate life, the life of being a business owner, and his personal life. Randy has had some very cool hobbies including racing, and flying remote control airplanes.
Randy's Bio:
Randy Brunette is a Technical Consultant with Spatial Business Systems, Inc. specializing in AutoCAD Electrical and related products including Inventor, Vault, and the Substation Design Solution (SDS) Toolkit. As a Technical Consultant, Randy’s duties include helping customers through mentoring and understanding their business issues and finding solutions that solve their challenges. Randy has been in the design field using Autodesk products for over 35 years, with experience across many different segments of the manufacturing industry. He has been in an application engineer role for 23 years, traveling throughout the world providing consulting services. Randy is a top-rated speaker at Autodesk Universities, Technical Academies, and seminars. He has authored AutoCAD Electrical software training manuals, videos, and other materials.
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Key Takeaways:
- Having a diverse background helped provide backup plans when he went out on his to run his own company.
- Discipline is key! Without discipline it will be even more challenging to be successful in both Corporate America & running your own company. We heard a few times about discipline in today’s episode. Because of the discipline Randy had it provided him with some freedoms that make the work life balance really good.
- Gotta put in the hustle - as a business owner you do get to work half days, you do get to pick which 12 hours. You also need to have back up plans in case you hit a dry spell where you may not have income coming in.
- With regards to relationship management, be a good person, say what you do and do what you say. If you are working with a client and make a promise, do whatever it takes to meet that goal.
- Randy talked about goal setting and how it is different between corporate and private business owner but does have some similarities. The main difference Is as a private business owner goal number one is can I survive another year & how to I make that happen. Those turn into goals to achieve the bigger goal.
- Randy has a great perspective of being a business owner. He did this while being a husband and father of two younger children. He had back up plans for the back up plans and literally did side hustles when needed to make sure he provided for his family.
- We heard about discipline again when Randy speaks about balance between work, life, hobbies. He uses a technique that we hear about now as “time boxing”. He also mentions when he was a business owner you don’t say no can’t do it if there is a conflict, you say not right now. We also heard it is ok to say no in corporate America.
- Parenting rules - If mama ain’t happy, nobody is happy, second rule, is it illegal, immoral, or life threatening, and third rule is did they understand the rule or the task they were asked about. If not, then need to be clear and maybe not be so hard on them since they didn’t fully understand.
- If you are interested in the flight coach topic you can find out more on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/flightcoach
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