John Maxwell Live2Lead Kansas City 2027 | Chris Pinion

0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: made so many connections. [SPEAKER_00]: I made a lot of great connections. [SPEAKER_00]: We had John Maxwell. [SPEAKER_00]: He's always there to kick things off. [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine what can happen. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: If your team came and realized, hey, you're not the only ones failing. [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Increase, Wisdom, Influence, Connection, the 252 leadership podcast. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Brian Mills, and I believe leadership begins with growth. [SPEAKER_00]: Inspired by Luke 252, we're gonna have practical conversations about growing in wisdom. [SPEAKER_00]: our influence and building stronger connections with those around us. [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you lead a business team, a family community, or simply yourself, there's always room to increase.

0:44 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's learn, grow, and lead better together. [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Increase. [SPEAKER_00]: And today on Increase, I want to welcome my special guest, Chris Pinion. [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know who Chris is, Chris is the lead pastor at Life Quest Church. [SPEAKER_00]: He's a real estate entrepreneur and developer. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a firefighter. [SPEAKER_00]: He's a chaplain. [SPEAKER_00]: He's a keynote speaker. [SPEAKER_00]: He's an executive life in business coach. [SPEAKER_00]: And he's an author of a great [SPEAKER_00]: He's a good friend of mine. [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the reasons why I have Chris here today for the last several years as part of the Maxwell leadership, I have the ability to put on and host what we call live to lead.

1:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to jump Maxwell's signature events and I have license in rights to that. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a tremendous event and last year was our most successful event ever because Chris was our MC helped me co-host and did a great job. [SPEAKER_00]: And we're looking forward to this year's event. [SPEAKER_00]: We already have one scheduled Friday, January 29th in Cass County in Raymore, Missouri, and we're in the process of finalizing a date for one in the over and park area for sometime in February next year. [SPEAKER_00]: but we want to help you understand what lived to lead is and what it's all about. [SPEAKER_00]: And so just to give you a highlight of first is again, John Maxwell puts this on and he searches out each year anywhere from three to five as some of the most top talented, probably most current up-to-date issue type things, leadership speakers and experts.

2:26 [SPEAKER_00]: And we have those individuals virtually [SPEAKER_00]: And then we also have two or three local leaders and speakers. [SPEAKER_00]: And so with that combination and interacting with each other, talk about increase. [SPEAKER_00]: It is truly, truly a day of increase. [SPEAKER_00]: So Chris, tell me a little bit about last year and some of the things that stood out to you, what you gained as being MC and Y, [SPEAKER_00]: You're willing to invest your time, energy, and talents to make this year even bigger and bigger. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, thank you, Brian, for having me on. [SPEAKER_01]: Last year was amazing. [SPEAKER_01]: The thing I love about live delete is it's bringing people together for working on their mindset, working on their growth, not just growth in business, but growth in as a person, you know?

3:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And the people that were there and the variety of people, you know, the eclectic group of people was amazing. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was exciting. [SPEAKER_01]: And we had my fire chief from Harrisonville there, we had some city officials there and just entrepreneurs and people that are in the real estate space, people that are in the business space and 20 year olds. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was 70 year old. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And just the interaction, I really think what really was really good about it is they were interacting with one another like they were at their tables interacting with one another and that was actually I believe probably more valuable like a lot of people these days want to watch stuff online that's cool.

3:59 [SPEAKER_01]: But when we get belly to belly, like when we get face to face and say, hey, let's connect, I can learn so much more from you, no offense to great speakers, but I've learned so much more from you than a speaker that I've taken notes on. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I believe that was one of the great things. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was so much fun. [SPEAKER_01]: Like we had great food, like Chick-fil-A, you know, you can always get some good Christian chicken. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying? [SPEAKER_01]: And then we had great giveaways like you just such a great job giving away and we had a local band from the Ray Peck high school they knocked it out Oh, man, that was you know, they were we had a real live bumper music. [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean they did great things one of our speakers was Jesse Cole. [SPEAKER_00]: He was my favorite [SPEAKER_00]: oh man he was fantastic with Savannah bananas he was so much fun so much energy but even the band we bought these banana heads and they play debunk for music with the but actually just came across some of the bananas like the little rubber type bananas you handed out star film and and then you had your yellow uh i choose on yeah [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, so it was fine, and so somebody in the business world, somebody that's in the entrepreneur world can come in and check us out.

5:07 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: And have fun. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just boring. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: But it was life-giving. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the biggest comment that I had from people almost everybody said, it wasn't what they expected. [SPEAKER_00]: They expected it to just be kind of a boring seminar. [SPEAKER_00]: And they said they'd never had so much fun. [SPEAKER_00]: They'd learn so much. [SPEAKER_00]: They made so many connections. [SPEAKER_00]: I made a lot of great connections with people that I've been able to impact their business or they've been able to help me and things like that. [SPEAKER_00]: And last year, like I say, it was a great lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we had John Maxwell. [SPEAKER_00]: He's always there to kick things off. [SPEAKER_00]: Jesse Cole, we had Anthony Trucks, former NFL player, American Ninja Warrior, [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, later.

5:49 [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, great talk on what you do in the dark, impacts your success. [SPEAKER_00]: And then we had Tiffany Bova. [SPEAKER_00]: She talked about, you know, having people that plan of where do you want to be a year from now? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody wrote that down. [SPEAKER_00]: They filled out an envelope, put it sealed it. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, just here a few weeks ago, I've mailed those to everybody. [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, I'm really excited and curious to get some feedback of people. [SPEAKER_00]: See, did I achieve or get to where I wanted to be? [SPEAKER_01]: over the year that I applied the thing right that's one of the things I love about you Brian is that you are such a generous person like if I listed the top five generous people that I know that that are living right now like you're one of the top five like you always lead from the heart you always lead with generosity and you're always trying to figure out how you can bless someone and I love that man I [SPEAKER_01]: I think and I believe it's contagious like if you haven't met Brian you need to meet Brian because he is contagious Thank you and his his love and care for people he's a real deal.

6:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you Chris and that's that that's the thing is is I'm in up [SPEAKER_00]: be the best at everything but I love bringing value to people and that's just my passion is to help people be better at what they do and help people achieve their goals and that's what that's what makes me happy. [SPEAKER_01]: Well let's talk about bringing value because last year you brought value to people. [SPEAKER_01]: I was actually at a table where we had [SPEAKER_01]: CEO of a non-profit and we invited them and they started connecting with some different people and I don't know if you know this or not but when you're leading the non-profit rather it's a church or just a non-profit out in the world like it can be hard you've got to raise money you've got to raise volunteers you've got to raise all these different people and it can be challenging and you can get in your mind and I saw that lady connect with two or three other [SPEAKER_01]: that I believe became life-giving relationships, life-giving for them, and that came out of lived elite.

7:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And I made that connection. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And she may even be one of our local speakers. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we talked about that. [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, because she has a great story. [SPEAKER_01]: And that's your heart, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Like, your heart isn't, so I think for people to understand that lived a lead is not just coming in here and a bunch of speakers. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's that. [SPEAKER_01]: Live to lead is not just coming in and eating some delicious food. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's that. [SPEAKER_01]: Live to lead is an experience. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: And you start getting around other people that [SPEAKER_01]: I believe you birds of a feather flock together and I love the phrase where they say, you hang out with five smokers and you'll be the sixth. [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what? [SPEAKER_01]: It's the opposite is true too. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: You hang out with five successful people.

8:29 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll be successful. [SPEAKER_01]: And the more that we hang out with people that are further ahead than we are, man. [SPEAKER_01]: amazing things happen. [SPEAKER_00]: And this year's lineup, just to give you an idea, we're still finalizing our local speakers. [SPEAKER_00]: We have some great people. [SPEAKER_00]: We're just trying to nail down confirmed dates. [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll be very pleased and impressed. [SPEAKER_00]: But again, we'll have John Maxwell. [SPEAKER_00]: And he's going to be speaking about getting return on failure. [SPEAKER_00]: Stephanie Chung, watch a little promo video that she did amazing so much energy. [SPEAKER_00]: He's almost like [SPEAKER_00]: tons of energy and she's talking about from inspiration to execution so many times we have this inspiration we can get excited about stuff but how do we actually execute it and that'll be a great talk we have Dan Heath he's talking about reset how to change what's not working that's always [SPEAKER_00]: And then Catherine McClay, building your leadership bench, how to build that legacy.

9:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Rory Vaiden, again, I just watched a little clip on him. [SPEAKER_00]: It's procrastination on purpose. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's all about if you have diluted purposes, you're going to have diluted results. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're not genuinely you, [SPEAKER_00]: And we talk, I talk about that almost all my podcast about being the best that you can be. [SPEAKER_00]: Not be a duplicate of someone else, but the best you, because if you're not truly the best you, then you don't know who you can help, that's right. [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know who needs to hear your story. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's so important, and he's going to talk about that. [SPEAKER_00]: How to be genuine, and how to be real, and how this sometimes you've got to procrastinate.

10:10 [SPEAKER_00]: on purpose, to be able to focus on what's the most important things. [SPEAKER_00]: So we got a great virtual lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have some great local speakers. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure we'll have some great food. [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have the best MC in town. [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, Chris is going to MC, but he's also going to interject. [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to share, talk, help pull this hall together. [SPEAKER_00]: And my job there. [SPEAKER_00]: is really just to be like almost like a proud papa and just see everybody's face and see everybody interacting and then doing everything I can to make everybody else's job easier run smooth or be successful my question for you Chris is if you're looking out we got people watching right now who should come what's the ideal person let me ask it like this do you want to grow [SPEAKER_01]: You should come.

11:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to get around other leaders that are further ahead than you? [SPEAKER_01]: You should come. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to get around other people that will push you? [SPEAKER_01]: You should come. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to get around people that have failed? [SPEAKER_01]: You should come. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to get around people? [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the most important part. [SPEAKER_01]: Get this. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get around people that are in your community. [SPEAKER_01]: Guys, listen, there are people in our communities and we don't even know them. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, like we don't even know them and yet we get thrilled about somebody on the screen. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the guest speakers will be awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the virtual speakers will be awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, getting in the room with other people that are in the trenches. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine what can happen. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: If your team came and realized, hey, [SPEAKER_01]: You're not the only ones failing.

11:45 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not the only ones failing forward. [SPEAKER_01]: You're not the only one's tired. [SPEAKER_01]: You're not the only ones that things are not happening, man. [SPEAKER_01]: Or you push, push, push, push, push, push. [SPEAKER_01]: And you're trying to achieve something. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you run up against the roadblock. [SPEAKER_01]: Is anybody ever ran up against the roadblock? [SPEAKER_01]: Hello. [SPEAKER_00]: Good time. [SPEAKER_01]: And so 2020 did us a disservice. [SPEAKER_01]: I love Zoom. [SPEAKER_01]: I use Zoom. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe there's nothing that can replace face-to-face and people that are not connected, study-show, people that are not connected will not do as well. [SPEAKER_01]: Physically, they will not do as well, spiritually, they will not do as well in every area of their life. [SPEAKER_01]: But when they get connected, when you and I get together, like, I leave it, I'm like, dude, I love Brian Meals, man, like Brian, [SPEAKER_01]: with your money, with your resources, and you're always trying to figure out how can I bless someone?

12:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And I want more of that. [SPEAKER_00]: And you talked a little bit about this, but just a little bit stronger. [SPEAKER_00]: What makes this a value? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're going to give up a day. [SPEAKER_00]: We go pretty much from eight to three. [SPEAKER_00]: The cost is very reasonable, but again, there's an investment. [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. [SPEAKER_00]: What's that return? [SPEAKER_00]: Why is this worth that time? [SPEAKER_00]: Making that blocking that author calendar, making it a priority, putting it to side distractions, investing the money to be there. [SPEAKER_00]: You kind of hit on it, [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think the most important person to lead is yourself. [SPEAKER_01]: So if I can't learn to lead myself, I'm going to have a hard time leading others. [SPEAKER_01]: Pushing pause in a day, bringing your whole team, and just coming and having fun, letting your team see that you're having fun, like last year, we have thrown around bananas and doing all kinds of things and giveaways and all kinds of things like, [SPEAKER_01]: pushing pause, getting away from the normal grind of life, getting with your team, and maybe even you do this.

13:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you say, on Friday, I'm going to make this a team day where my team is going to be together, and then Friday night, I'm going to take everybody to dinner, and I'm going to we're going to debrief, kind of like a little retreat, or maybe even into Saturday, where we're going to take what we learned, and we're going to put some feet to it, you know? [SPEAKER_01]: And so I think I think it's really about getting in the room with other leaders and realizing you're not alone. [SPEAKER_01]: and investing in yourself. [SPEAKER_01]: It's what you said. [SPEAKER_01]: And to invest in yours. [SPEAKER_00]: And the other thing is we put together sponsorship packages and we're the sponsors. [SPEAKER_00]: So be able to get tables, get access to do those things. [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things we're going to do this year is actually some of these sponsor levels give them access to this podcast to help them promote their business, help share things that they've learned.

14:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, [SPEAKER_00]: other than some of those things, if you're talking to people that say, hey, why should I sponsor this? [SPEAKER_00]: Why should I invest in being a sponsor of live to lead? [SPEAKER_01]: Before answer that, let me go back to your other question and then I'll come to that. [SPEAKER_01]: I really believe that we are all, every single one of us. [SPEAKER_01]: Where you're at physically, where you're at spiritually, where you're emotionally, relationally, mentally, is in direct proportion to what you're investing into your life. [SPEAKER_01]: Right? [SPEAKER_01]: Like a lot of us don't invest into our mindset and so our mindset is crap. [SPEAKER_01]: You look at the homes we were talking about the homes before we came on air today. [SPEAKER_01]: The homes is excellent what he does, not by accident.

15:05 [SPEAKER_01]: You understand that? [SPEAKER_01]: He practices every day. [SPEAKER_01]: Most people would not want to be like my homes because they would not want to put in the investment. [SPEAKER_01]: We see some of it successful. [SPEAKER_01]: They put in the investment. [SPEAKER_01]: And so when they come to live to lead, you're investing into your life. [SPEAKER_01]: And now, why should you be a sponsor? [SPEAKER_01]: It's just another notch up. [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, you're going to become a sponsor and we're going to give you, you're going to get tickets to bring some of your team members. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get front and center space. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get printed space. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get time and you're before these people. [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll tell you this. [SPEAKER_01]: I help sponsor things all the time. [SPEAKER_01]: It's also leading that generosity. [SPEAKER_01]: There's other leaders that have helped me, so why not help pave the way to help other leaders?

15:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if we didn't have sponsors like this, the price would go up significantly, because I already know the costs behind the scenes to have the whole live-delete package to have the the rented space to have all of the different things it would go up significantly. [SPEAKER_00]: And also, in response to packages, we also give them access. [SPEAKER_00]: They can choose one of these speaker videos. [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll come to their place of business. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say they want the Stephanie Chung video or the Dan Heath video. [SPEAKER_00]: We will come to their place of employment. [SPEAKER_00]: They can bring a team of people together. [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll do a little mini two-hour live to lead and do that video in debrief.

16:31 [SPEAKER_00]: We also have some other leadership tools that we're going to provide them. [SPEAKER_00]: Things that would be a $12, $1,500 value that are just going to be included in their sponsorship. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you, then being able to participate in a podcast like this is going to be priceless. [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a great opportunity. [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, the thing is, [SPEAKER_00]: one of the things that we forget about is you if we want to become a great leader, you got to learn to be a great follower first. [SPEAKER_00]: And so you know what, even if you're working someplace, you don't feel like you're a leader, you know, you got to lead yourself, but you know what, this will help you. [SPEAKER_00]: be the best that you can be to where you can help your organization move and achieve goals.

17:11 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to help your boss achieve goals and you know that's how you get noticed. [SPEAKER_00]: That's how you like bless other people and give. [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be given back to you. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I encourage you, you know, right now if you put, you know, just put down in the comments [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll connect with you and get you information about early bird pricing and our sponsorship packages. [SPEAKER_00]: And so just put lead and we'll get that information to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Chris, man, I thank you so much for being here today. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to the first year and these two live delete events. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: audience for joining us today on increase wisdom, influence, and connection.

17:56 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, keep learning, keep connecting, keep increasing. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Brian Mills with 252 leadership, my guest crimps, pinion, and till next time, increase the leader within you.