Jodi Low went from sole parent of two young kids, half a business debt, and no financial support after divorce to building U and Improved — an 18-year leadership training company focused on heart-based leadership.
In this conversation she shares how she turned rock bottom into purpose, why most corporate leaders manage instead of lead, and the 18-inch journey from head to heart that changes everything. She also opens up about the “enoughness” conversation, why in-person connection still beats AI for real transformation, and the powerful moment Les Brown saw something in her she didn’t see in herself.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro & Welcome to Jodi Low
02:00 – Jodi’s Abbreviated Story: Single Mom Entrepreneur
06:50 – The Divorce That Changed Everything & Starting U and Improved
08:00 – Juggling Single Motherhood While Building the Business
11:00 – Heart-Based Leadership: The 18-Inch Journey
13:49 – Les Brown’s Impact & “Seeing the Quan” in People
16:30 – AI, Human Connection & Why In-Person Training Still Wins
27:00 – The “Enoughness” Conversation with Mike Lindstrom
32:00 – Travel, Personal Growth & Life After Kids Leave Home
35:00 – Book “From Me to You” & Teen Leadership Foundation
38:00 – Final Thoughts & Where to Find Jodi
Links:
- You and Improved: uandimproved.com
- Book – From Me to You
- Instagram: @jodilow & @uandimproved
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So I have been a sole parent since my kids were one and three, and
Jodi Low:that means- Wow … no time from their father, no financially, like nothing.
Jodi Low:I got half the business debt.
Jodi Low:I'm a single parent of two kids.
Jodi Low:I'm like, "What? What am I gonna do? what does this look like?"
Mike Lindstrom:Welcome back to another episode of What's Your Story?
Mike Lindstrom:Mike Lindstrom, my man, Scott Leese, another episode.
Mike Lindstrom:I'm excited about this one.
Mike Lindstrom:This is a friend I've known- Yeah … for 15-plus years, who I
Mike Lindstrom:haven't physically seen, and that's the, that's the- Oh, my gosh … the
Mike Lindstrom:downfall of social media, as you know.
Mike Lindstrom:You see them on LinkedIn and Facebook, and you text.
Mike Lindstrom:But to actually give somebody a hug and actually engage in real conversation,
Mike Lindstrom:which is what we're gonna do here today, so I'm excited to have that.
Mike Lindstrom:How long's it been?
Mike Lindstrom:Huh?
Mike Lindstrom:So, oh, it was back in 2017.
Scott Leese:Oh, so almost 10 years.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, almost 10 years at least.
Mike Lindstrom:Wow.
Mike Lindstrom:So w- she said decades, so she's correct.
Mike Lindstrom:So without further ado, I would call s- keynote speaker other than friend,
Mike Lindstrom:keynote speaker, influencer, trainer, personality in so many different ways.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Jodi Lowe.
Mike Lindstrom:Thanks for coming on the show.
Jodi Low:Thank you.
Jodi Low:So happy to be here.
Jodi Low:It's, it has been- So good to
Mike Lindstrom:see
Jodi Low:you again
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: it has been a decade.
Jodi Low:It's
Jodi Low:been like a million years,
Mike Lindstrom:but- I know, but we act like it's been like since yesterday.
Mike Lindstrom:I
Jodi Low:know, 'cause it's big hugs- Yep … and we're all back to
Mike Lindstrom:our old- back to normal.
Mike Lindstrom:So we always start off with the question, what's your story?
Mike Lindstrom:You give us your abbreviated version, however you do, and then we
Mike Lindstrom:start going down the rabbit holes.
Jodi Low:My abbreviated version, my story.
Jodi Low:I am insanely passionate about people, and I have built my life around that.
Jodi Low:I grew up here in Arizona since I was five, so more or less- Wow
Jodi Low:a native, pseudo-native.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Went to Arizona State, loved that.
Jodi Low:And, quickly realized that I am not a good employee.
Jodi Low:I just did not like working for someone.
Jodi Low:Just very entrepreneurial, always sort of have been.
Jodi Low:And I thought, "I gotta start something. I gotta build something." And so I was doing
Jodi Low:that with my husband of the time- Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:at that time, and then, that kinda went in a really sideways direction
Jodi Low:overnight, and, with that, it's really what propelled me into
Jodi Low:starting my company, You and Improved.
Jodi Low:So that was almost 18 years ago.
Jodi Low:Jess, so what year was,
Mike Lindstrom:what year was that?
Jodi Low:That was 2008.
Mike Lindstrom:Well, you had another, a name of a brand- Yeah … back
Mike Lindstrom:then, too, that we- Yeah … we all knew- Yeah … because the quarters
Mike Lindstrom:was being built in Scottsdale.
Jodi Low:yes.
Mike Lindstrom:Her logo was on a very prominent spot in town,
Mike Lindstrom:so you would see it, and then it morphed into what you have currently
Jodi Low:now.
Jodi Low:Yeah, You and Improved, yep.
Jodi Low:You
Mike Lindstrom:and Im- and you're solo.
Jodi Low:I am.
Jodi Low:I've been solo for, goodness, yeah, almost 18 years now.
Mike Lindstrom:So what, of those titles, influencer, keynote speaker,
Mike Lindstrom:trainer, other than mom and the obvious- Yes … what one do you kinda lean
Mike Lindstrom:all in on when it comes to your brand?
Jodi Low:I would say trainer, corporate trainer, leadership trainer.
Jodi Low:That's probably… A speaker.
Jodi Low:I don't know.
Jodi Low:They're all a great to me.
Jodi Low:Yeah, I know.
Jodi Low:it's so hard because it's almost like these pieces of myself that
Jodi Low:all meld together, so it's almost saying, what's more important,
Jodi Low:your right arm, your left leg?
Jodi Low:It's like I need them all.
Jodi Low:yeah, I'm sort of a hybrid of all of them all.
Mike Lindstrom:so take us back.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:What was the jump-off point where you said, "I need to go into the training
Mike Lindstrom:world. This is what it's gonna be"?
Mike Lindstrom:You had your aha moment- Yeah … is what I call it.
Mike Lindstrom:What was that for
Jodi Low:you?
Jodi Low:the early aha was in college.
Jodi Low:I always found myself gravitating toward any public speaking classes,
Jodi Low:toward communication was my major.
Jodi Low:I thought I wanted to teach.
Jodi Low:I actually, was gonna go into the college of teaching, got accepted into all of
Jodi Low:that, and then I was like, "Ooh, that's a lot of kids," a lot of the time.
Jodi Low:I knew I wanted to be a mom one day, but, that just didn't feel right.
Jodi Low:And so oddly enough, here I am all these years later, I'm teaching communication
Jodi Low:and speaking and all of those things, so it was a hybrid that I didn't see
Jodi Low:then that ended up coming to fruition.
Jodi Low:But I just always knew that it was something to do with helping
Jodi Low:elevate people, helping people live bigger, dream bigger.
Jodi Low:I'd go to… I was just that crazy person that was always going to listen
Jodi Low:to speakers and go into classes.
Jodi Low:Anything that would challenge me and push me, I was like, "Yes,
Jodi Low:sign me up. I wanna do that."
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And that was really the launching point, just wanting to create
Mike Lindstrom:something that- any big influences there?
Mike Lindstrom:Professor at college, motivational speaker, a book?
Jodi Low:Huge, yeah.
Jodi Low:Anything that- Huge professor at ASU was, a big influence, Dr. Fred Corey,
Jodi Low:who, has since retired, although he did come to my book launch,
Jodi Low:which was so- Oh, that's so cool
Jodi Low:cool, and my, uh, senior year, high school English teacher, which was so
Jodi Low:much fun, 'cause both of them were really, really- That's neat … key
Jodi Low:influential people in my- Yeah … like writing and speaking and all of that.
Jodi Low:So, that was really special.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Scott Leese:You, you said you realized early that- You, I can't
Scott Leese:remember how you phrased it, but you weren't gonna be a good employee- Yeah
Scott Leese:you didn't wanna work for somebody else.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:What, how did that manifest itself?
Scott Leese:what did you experience or do, or what happened where you were like,
Scott Leese:"Yeah, this is not gonna work"?
Jodi Low:great question, because there's a very specific moment.
Jodi Low:So I was working in local, radio sales, and I loved it.
Jodi Low:I was meeting people.
Jodi Low:I was very young, just out of college, so it was, like, my first-
Scott Leese:First sales job- Mm-hmm … first out of college, yeah
Scott Leese:… Jodi Low: first real sales job.
Scott Leese:But I was like, "Oh, I, this is perfect," 'cause I love people.
Scott Leese:And I, what I loved about it, I loved working with small local
Scott Leese:businesses, hearing their story- Yeah
Scott Leese:and helping them grow.
Scott Leese:I thought that was just so cool.
Scott Leese:And then national accounts and seeing the difference with that.
Scott Leese:I was like, "Oh, okay, helping these brands grow." I really loved it.
Scott Leese:The thing that I didn't love was, if I'm seeing clients out in the East
Scott Leese:Valley, why do I need to drive back to the station at 5:00 to just say,
Scott Leese:"Okay, bye, I'm going-" Clock out.
Scott Leese:Like, I didn't get it.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:there was no logic to that.
Scott Leese:And I was a big producer.
Scott Leese:I enjoyed it.
Scott Leese:I, you know, was doing everything I needed to do.
Scott Leese:I'm like, "This just is ridiculous." The, and just the rules and the
Scott Leese:meetings and all of the things that just seemed silly to me.
Scott Leese:And I'm like- Yeah … "Well, aren't we, grown adults?
Scott Leese:Can't we just go do what we need to do?
Scott Leese:I'm losing time driving back and forth." So just didn't make sense to me.
Scott Leese:I was like, "I need to do my own thing."
Mike Lindstrom:So did you- Yeah … literally have this thing in the wake,
Mike Lindstrom:or did you just quit cold turkey and say-
Jodi Low:I didn't, no.
Jodi Low:I didn't, I… It was really just a metamorphosis of things
Jodi Low:that happened, a sort of a sequence of events that unfolded.
Jodi Low:I started to work in magazine sales.
Jodi Low:That was a lot more independent.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I was working from home and back then you didn't work from home, but
Jodi Low:that role allowed me to do that.
Jodi Low:And so then I started to see the more autonomy I had, the more I was
Jodi Low:like, "I love this," 'cause I'm very driven, I'm very self-motivated.
Jodi Low:So I didn't need as much of that structure.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I love the people part, but I was getting that with seeing clients
Jodi Low:and so that was fulfilling there.
Jodi Low:I just liked setting my own schedule, doing my own thing.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:That, that felt good.
Mike Lindstrom:So if you watch the cast, we get a lot of
Mike Lindstrom:professional ladies come on here.
Mike Lindstrom:Okay, yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And we love asking the question about, 'cause you're a mama bear, right?
Jodi Low:I am.
Jodi Low:I am.
Mike Lindstrom:how do you juggle that when you're on the come up?
Mike Lindstrom:'Cause they were younger.
Mike Lindstrom:Now at the age whether or not, of course, that's great, ASU.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:They're kind of out of the house, but how did you juggle
Mike Lindstrom:that as a entrepreneur and a mama bear?
Jodi Low:I have no idea.
Jodi Low:I have no freaking idea.
Jodi Low:That's the best, most
Scott Leese:honest answer-
Mike Lindstrom:It is … yet.
Jodi Low:It really is, yeah … I literally, 'cause I get asked that
Jodi Low:question like, "How did you do it?" I'm like, "I freaking don't know."
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I just did it, 'cause there was no other choice but to… 'Cause, so the
Jodi Low:whole long backstory is it was just me.
Jodi Low:So I have been a sole parent since my kids were one and three, and that
Jodi Low:means- Wow … no, no time from their father, no financially, like nothing.
Jodi Low:Wow.
Jodi Low:So when that imploded, it was, like, me and my girls, they were one and
Jodi Low:three, and I was like, "We have no businesses," 'cause I had a couple
Jodi Low:of businesses with him at the time.
Jodi Low:So those, I got half the business debt.
Jodi Low:I'm a single parent of two kids.
Jodi Low:I'm like, "What?
Jodi Low:What am I gonna do?
Jodi Low:what does this look like?" And I just spent some time really over those next
Jodi Low:probably four to six weeks going, "I want to build something- That's meaningful,
Jodi Low:that's impactful, that can- Yeah
Jodi Low:really shape people's lives and businesses, and what is that gonna be?
Jodi Low:And so that's when I really dove into creating You and Improved.
Jodi Low:The funny part is I never… people always are like, "Well, you didn't, get a job?"
Jodi Low:I, it never dawned on me to get a job.
Jodi Low:Wow.
Jodi Low:Like, it never dawned- that's when we talk about wired- Yeah
Jodi Low:to be an entrepreneur.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:It never dawned on me.
Jodi Low:I'm like, well, I gotta build something 'cause I wanna be 100% present on anything
Jodi Low:that I commit to with my girls, and I know I need to Keep a roof over our head and,
Jodi Low:a house yeah And how am I gonna do this?
Jodi Low:So that's what I did.
Jodi Low:And God bless my dad, he was, helping out a ton to just, run them to
Jodi Low:school if I couldn't or pick them up.
Jodi Low:But I would just work my tail off while they were in school or preschool.
Jodi Low:I
Scott Leese:think- Was that a seven days a week thing
Scott Leese:when you were getting started?
Scott Leese:Oh, yeah.
Scott Leese:When you were working on your business-
Jodi Low:Oh,
Scott Leese:yeah … every single day?
Jodi Low:it was-
Scott Leese:People don't talk about that enough and you're
Scott Leese:like- No … shamed nowadays for working on Saturday and Sunday- Oh
Scott Leese:or whatever,
Jodi Low:but … it was around the clock.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:It was around, it was nap times, it was, meetings in, phone meetings while my kids
Jodi Low:were napping in the backseat of the car.
Jodi Low:it was- Yeah … whatever it took.
Jodi Low:It was crazy.
Jodi Low:It was crazy.
Jodi Low:But that's why when you say, "How did you do it?" I'm like, "I
Jodi Low:really don't know, I just did it," 'cause there wasn't another option.
Jodi Low:It was just if there was time, that's what we were doing.
Jodi Low:I was gonna figure it out because I, they're my world and I have-
Scott Leese:Yeah … to provide.
Scott Leese:How do you, how do you coach others through a similar- Yeah, that's a
Scott Leese:good question … experience now?
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Because it, when your default answer is, "I don't know, I just freaking did it"-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Scott Leese:I would imagine that clients and people that you're coaching
Scott Leese:and they're like, "Can you give me a little more than that?" Yeah.
Jodi Low:Like, and so ex- can you help me through that a little bit more, Jody?
Scott Leese:You're like, "Well, okay, h- that was the honest truth,
Scott Leese:but now I have to find something- Yeah, that was the honest truth
Jodi Low:more to-" There's a lot more structure.
Jodi Low:there's a lot- Yeah … of things that, one can do depending
Jodi Low:on the circumstance, right?
Jodi Low:So a lot of my clients now, I do a lot of corporate training,
Jodi Low:so working within companies for years, sometimes even decades.
Jodi Low:Working with them to solidify how do we create collaboration?
Jodi Low:How do we create true team alignment?
Jodi Low:How do we do that?
Jodi Low:So that looks a lot different than, what I was doing even in the early
Jodi Low:days, which were a lot more individual coaching and, and- Yep … and
Jodi Low:working with more solopreneurs.
Jodi Low:Now I work with a lot of, from Fortune 100 to small businesses, you know?
Jodi Low:So it looks a lot different, but the messaging is still the same.
Jodi Low:If you are looking to be everything to everyone and not taking care
Jodi Low:of yourself in the process, it's a recipe for disaster.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And that I figured out quickly.
Jodi Low:I'm like, "You can't pour from an empty cup, right?" yeah.
Jodi Low:Like, I can't give what I don't have.
Jodi Low:I've got to take care of myself.
Jodi Low:So I would still do whatever I could to make sure that I was taking care
Jodi Low:of myself mentally, physically.
Jodi Low:there was no question on exercising and just taking some breaks here and
Jodi Low:there, a massage, whatever it was.
Jodi Low:Like I had to do- Yeah … whatever it took to keep me healthy and strong.
Jodi Low:Some form of
Scott Leese:self-care.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Which, I think sometimes people look at that as, oh, that's, a
Jodi Low:silly expense or, not necessary or, whatever, some superfluous
Jodi Low:thing that you don't need to do.
Jodi Low:To me it's-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: if you're not doing that, you can't- Yeah … be
Mike Lindstrom:everything that you need to be.
Mike Lindstrom:Well, there's als- it juxtaposes, especially as a single
Mike Lindstrom:mom, closed mouths don't get fed.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:You gotta go out there and ask and do the deal and grind and hustle.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:But you also have that point of, yeah, if the cup's empty, it's
Mike Lindstrom:you gotta start with yourself.
Jodi Low:Absolutely.
Mike Lindstrom:So there's this constant toggle between the two.
Mike Lindstrom:I, we were fascinated 'cause we had Kaylee O'Kelly on from- ABC15.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And she's a similar story, two kids.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:She… But the only difference was for her it's, like, her crazy morning
Mike Lindstrom:makeup schedule, getting on air live.
Jodi Low:Oh, so early.
Mike Lindstrom:I can't even imagine doing that stuff.
Mike Lindstrom:yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Like, I could work from my home in pajamas on Sunday or do a
Mike Lindstrom:call with the kids in the back.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:But to say I gotta be on that camera live at 5:00 AM- And then
Mike Lindstrom:my butt's gotta be in bed by 10.
Mike Lindstrom:I just couldn't do
Jodi Low:That's a whole-
Mike Lindstrom:That's a whole different thing
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: different level of-
Mike Lindstrom:But just, but it, just even listening to her on our podcast talk
Mike Lindstrom:about what she's very similar answer.
Mike Lindstrom:Like, I don't know how I do it, but, you know, we, you figure it out.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And that's where the mama bear thing comes in, 'cause you're gonna trust
Mike Lindstrom:your instincts 'cause you're always gonna put your kids ahead of yourself.
Jodi Low:100%.
Jodi Low:I knew early on just the way things unfolded, I was like, my biggest title
Jodi Low:is to be role model to these girls.
Jodi Low:I've gotta figure out how… I didn't know what we were gonna do.
Jodi Low:I didn't know how we were gonna do it.
Jodi Low:it's eight weeks after my divorce.
Jodi Low:I'm filing paperwork for this little LLC called U & Improved.
Jodi Low:I had no idea really what I was doing.
Jodi Low:I was just- Wow … one foot in front of the other.
Jodi Low:And I wanted them to see that too, though, that we can get through hard stuff.
Jodi Low:And like at some point in their lives they're gonna be faced with challenges.
Jodi Low:They're also gonna wonder, how did we get here, and how did we… You know,
Jodi Low:and I've gotta build this for them.
Jodi Low:So- Yeah … that was a big piece of it.
Jodi Low:When
Mike Lindstrom:you first started, was your niche primarily female entrepreneurs,
Mike Lindstrom:and then it branched- In the
Jodi Low:very early days.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:But, for U & Improved, it was really leadership.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:I really wanted to focus impacting teams, impacting leaders.
Jodi Low:I, I feel, and what I've seen especially now over the last 18 years
Jodi Low:especially, there's a big gap in managing people and leading people.
Jodi Low:And there's a whole lot of managers and not as many phenomenal leaders.
Jodi Low:And my whole piece of that was how do we create a heart-based leadership movement?
Jodi Low:I wanted to help people see that when you get out of here and lead
Jodi Low:from here, it all comes together.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:You know?
Jodi Low:But that's a big journey.
Mike Lindstrom:Big
Jodi Low:time.
Jodi Low:And it's 18 inches, but it is the longest journey- Yes … of your life.
Jodi Low:And when you realize, though, my gosh, when I care about my team members or
Jodi Low:gal that answers the phone as much as I care about my biggest producer, or
Jodi Low:my biggest customer- Wow, if I come from here, it, it all falls into place.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And that's the difference, and you will build a phenomenal
Jodi Low:team when you make that shift.
Mike Lindstrom:That's a big shift, though.
Mike Lindstrom:It is.
Mike Lindstrom:that's the… We talked about this earlier on the cast about
Mike Lindstrom:this whole mouth heart thing.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:How do you get people to do that?
Mike Lindstrom:'Cause that is a long 18 inches.
Jodi Low:It is.
Jodi Low:How do
Mike Lindstrom:you… what's your tenets
Jodi Low:to get there?
Jodi Low:it's a process.
Jodi Low:It's a process.
Jodi Low:You know, we have a lot of different classes that dive into that.
Jodi Low:They're immersive, they're intense by design.
Jodi Low:Because it isn't a sprinkle pixie dust and everybody's a-
Jodi Low:No … a heart-based leader.
Jodi Low:No.
Jodi Low:It's a, it's an evolution and it's an introspection, and it's a putting
Jodi Low:things into action and seeing what sticks and what works, and what
Jodi Low:feels authentic to that person.
Jodi Low:Because I can do something that feels completely authentic to me and how I
Jodi Low:would lead, and you might be like, "That's scratchy and totally uncomfortable."
Jodi Low:Scratchy and uncomfortable is okay if it's challenging you to grow, but if it's
Jodi Low:inauthentic- Yeah … that's not okay.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:So you gotta find that.
Mike Lindstrom:who are some of the big influences, in terms of trai- Like I,
Mike Lindstrom:everyone knows I'm a Tony Robbins guy.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:That was my first job out of law school.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I worked for Tony for three years, speaking, coaching,
Mike Lindstrom:built his coaching company-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: in 2000, and then broke off and that's how I got into coaching.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:After I helped him build his company, I started my own.
Jodi Low:Love that.
Mike Lindstrom:What was some of the influences there?
Mike Lindstrom:'Cause you, it's one thing to go get an LLC and say, "Hey, let's go do this.
Mike Lindstrom:We're gonna teach this to this."
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:but now you need mentors or people that are gonna coach or train.
Mike Lindstrom:It could be a ven- Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I did… A lot of people gave me grief about it.
Mike Lindstrom:I still stand by it.
Mike Lindstrom:Landmark Forum.
Mike Lindstrom:I did Landmark- Yeah … years and years ago.
Mike Lindstrom:I was 27, 28.
Mike Lindstrom:I still say it's one of the best programs if you're willing to put
Mike Lindstrom:up with three days of listening to somebody- Listen to your story and- Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:come at you and no journal and you leave at midnight.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:My wife and I did it, when we were, got engaged.
Mike Lindstrom:I still love that course.
Mike Lindstrom:It's morphed a little bit.
Mike Lindstrom:It's clearly not what Est was- Mm-hmm … way back when he built
Mike Lindstrom:that program in the '70s and '80s.
Mike Lindstrom:Those were some of my influences.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:So like, what would you say you hang your hat on when it comes- Yeah
Jodi Low:to some of your- It was a lot of different speakers, a lot of different
Jodi Low:books, a lot of different programs.
Jodi Low:One of the key influences though, I had the opportunity to hear Les Brown speak.
Mike Lindstrom:Oh,
Jodi Low:fantastic.
Jodi Low:And I heard… It was a very unusual circumstance.
Jodi Low:I actually included the story in my book because it was that pivotal of a moment.
Jodi Low:He was speaking here locally and, it was like a PBS thing-
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm … a fundraising thing.
Jodi Low:I'd heard his voice on the TV.
Jodi Low:I was like, "What is going on?" And it said he was coming here locally.
Jodi Low:And, he fills the Georgia Dome, you know?
Jodi Low:Like- Yeah … so I was like, "Oh my gosh, he's coming here. I've gotta go."
Jodi Low:And this is right, right when my divorce happened, like right then.
Jodi Low:And, but I'm just figuring things out, and he ended up coming to, KTV
Jodi Low:studios, and there was about 40 of us.
Mike Lindstrom:Wow.
Jodi Low:And I was like, "Oh my gosh, he's right there.
Jodi Low:This is crazy." And at the break he came up to me and he put his
Jodi Low:hand on my shoulder and he's like, "So what's your story?"
Mike Lindstrom:Love it.
Jodi Low:And I'm like, like- Love it … what's going on?
Jodi Low:He's like, "What do you do? What's your…" and we had this dialogue
Jodi Low:and he's like, give me your card.
Jodi Low:let's talk." I'm like, "Oh my gosh." It was a big aha because it was the
Jodi Low:first time that someone who didn't…
Jodi Low:He, his words to me were, "You have something that I can't teach,
Jodi Low:and I wanna speak with you." I'm like, "What does that mean?" Oh.
Jodi Low:And I'm like, "Okay, w- is this like a sales thing?" I'm
Jodi Low:like, "No, this is Les Brown.
Jodi Low:He certainly doesn't need me." Right.
Jodi Low:Like, what is this?
Jodi Low:Yes.
Jodi Low:And so as that unfolded, it was like, wow, someone saw something
Jodi Low:in me that I didn't see in myself, and that was the first where the
Jodi Low:penny dropped, like I, I got this.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I can do this, you know?
Jodi Low:So-
Mike Lindstrom:And I've always found that people like l-
Mike Lindstrom:and my, I know Les is a gift-
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: in so many ways.
Jodi Low:people that they just have an ability to kind of see you-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: and go, "Okay, I don't know what's here, but something's wrong."
Jodi Low:You know, they say in, what was the movie?
Jodi Low:Jerry Maguire.
Jodi Low:He called it the quan.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Yeah, the quan.
Scott Leese:Right?
Mike Lindstrom:The quan.
Jodi Low:The quan.
Jodi Low:That's one- The, I have
Mike Lindstrom:not
Jodi Low:heard in a long time … the thing
Mike Lindstrom:you can't describe.
Jodi Low:I love it.
Jodi Low:The
Mike Lindstrom:quan.
Mike Lindstrom:Quan.
Jodi Low:we
Mike Lindstrom:hear it throughout the whole movie, the quan.
Jodi Low:Yeah, so Les saw my quan.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And then he was like, "There. There she is." "This
Jodi Low:is the person. We need her."
Mike Lindstrom:What was the quan for you when you started having your aha moments?
Jodi Low:For me, I believe my gift is I see in people what
Jodi Low:they don't see in themselves.
Jodi Low:So when he did that for me, and then I started to see, wow, Like
Jodi Low:I can just feel when someone's off.
Jodi Low:I can f- like there's just that like- Mm-hmm … okay, what's the real story?
Jodi Low:so digging deep and then really getting into the mindset piece.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Because, going back to, you know, how did you do it or how did you get
Jodi Low:through it, so much of it was this.
Jodi Low:Had I not learned what I knew and what I learned along the way, I wouldn't
Jodi Low:have gotten through my divorce.
Jodi Low:I wouldn't have built a company, to what it is today.
Jodi Low:I wouldn't have been able to do all of that had I not had all of
Jodi Low:that training and knowledge prior.
Jodi Low:And that was, again, the classes, the books, the speakers,
Jodi Low:anything I could get my hands on,
Scott Leese:how did you- Yeah, oh
Scott Leese:find ways to scale yourself?
Mike Lindstrom:Oh, it's- It's
Jodi Low:always- 'Cause you are
Scott Leese:the product-
Jodi Low:I'm always growing- … you could say … every single year.
Jodi Low:Right?
Jodi Low:What classes can I take?
Jodi Low:What course?
Jodi Low:And some were great.
Jodi Low:you were talking about different ones that you've been through.
Jodi Low:people always say, "Well, why should I go to you and approve or not?" I don't know.
Jodi Low:Why should you?
Jodi Low:You should go to everything.
Jodi Low:Anything that speaks to you.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:You might love it, you might hate it.
Jodi Low:I've gone to things that I thought were horrible.
Jodi Low:I've gone to things that I thought were amazing, but I learned either way.
Jodi Low:ways of learning, ways of communicating, ways of training that I didn't
Jodi Low:love, and then I picked up on things that I was like, "That was pivotal.
Jodi Low:That was instrumental.
Jodi Low:That was life-changing." it was the culmination of all of it.
Jodi Low:But had I not experienced all of it, I wouldn't know the,
Jodi Low:necessarily- Right … the difference or the things that worked for
Mike Lindstrom:me.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Scott Leese:do you feel like- Integrating AI into your work and your
Scott Leese:life is one of those kind of moments?
Jodi Low:for me, no.
Jodi Low:No.
Jodi Low:It- well, I say that.
Jodi Low:if it's, a thought starter or a, "Hey, what's another way to phrase
Jodi Low:something?" I think it could be beneficial for those kinds of things.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:For me, in my work, my, my whole thing is this.
Jodi Low:Like, I love the people-to-people.
Jodi Low:Like, during COVID, you know, yes, I, I did whatever I could online,
Jodi Low:but that's just not my happy place
Scott Leese:you know?
Scott Leese:You- yeah.
Scott Leese:You must,
Scott Leese:you must be dealing with, companies and executives now, though,
Scott Leese:that are having communication leadership issues and whatnot.
Scott Leese:Oh, yeah.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:And they're trying to incorporate AI-
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:… Scott Leese: into that.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:I'm ju- I was just curious if, AI is making that worse-
Jodi Low:Yeah … their communication leadership, or making it better.
Jodi Low:To me, AI is gonna be a huge gift for me and my company
Jodi Low:because it's similar to COVID.
Jodi Low:The pendulum swung so far.
Jodi Low:Everyone's gonna work from home.
Jodi Low:Everything's gonna be remote.
Jodi Low:Everything's on Zoom.
Jodi Low:We can train, we can do everything this way.
Jodi Low:And then we realized, oh gosh, we need each other.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:We need people.
Jodi Low:We need community.
Jodi Low:We need connection.
Jodi Low:We need collaboration.
Jodi Low:We gotta get people back in the office more.
Jodi Low:We've got… You know, people missed it.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Now, there's a lot of hybrid, great, but people missed the connectivity piece.
Jodi Low:The same element is part of AI.
Jodi Low:AI is an amazing tool.
Jodi Low:It's gonna do revolutionary things.
Jodi Low:It already is, and there's going to be that awakening of, we still have to
Jodi Low:communicate and have human experiences.
Jodi Low:We still have to use our minds and think critically and
Jodi Low:strategically, and it's a great tool.
Jodi Low:It's a, it's amazing,
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:I
Jodi Low:agree … that, that's the part I see.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:The… We're- we always talk about this in our world, too, 'cause if, you
Mike Lindstrom:know, if Mike's not doing the coaching, no one else is doing the coaching.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:So I don't leverage just some junior coach like some models do.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:That's just not my thing.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:But that's why I take on a limited number of clients and charge more money.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:So that's what we all do.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:But then you start thinking about how AI is… Do I have to create online courses?
Mike Lindstrom:Should I create more communities?
Mike Lindstrom:it just definitely throws a wrench in our-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: our way of thinking of, we like to touch.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:We like to be mano a mano.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Jodi Low:We wanna do the live seminar.
Jodi Low:We don't wanna be on Zoom.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Jodi Low:So it's not easy.
Jodi Low:It's not easy at all, and my mind always goes to, "Oh, I could do this,
Jodi Low:and I could do…" I have more ideas and more things I wanna do than in- I could
Jodi Low:ever accomplish in lifetimes plural.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Yeah
Jodi Low:I, so I always have to rein it in, "Okay, what do people
Jodi Low:really need and want? What would be most impactful? What would be most
Jodi Low:meaningful?" and I like you, I love to, be that, in person and- Yeah … you
Scott Leese:know.
Scott Leese:It feels like it's raised the bar and expectation for all of us in terms of
Scott Leese:what we're supposed to have produced.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Scott Leese:So you're saying, "Oh, should I have this course? Should I
Scott Leese:do this? Should I do that?" Mm-hmm.
Scott Leese:And it leaves me sometimes with a feeling of like, "Well, fuck,
Scott Leese:I guess I'm not doing enough."
Jodi Low:Right.
Scott Leese:Because I could and should be doing all these other things- Yeah
Scott Leese:… all these other ideas that I have.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Mm-hmm.
Scott Leese:Shouldn't AI be allowing me to execute on everything?
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Well, it's interesting.
Mike Lindstrom:We get people coming at us, "Well, we wanna do this, we wanna do this." Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:So I had forwarded something over to him.
Mike Lindstrom:The guy alleges to be like, "I can turn your podcast into this
Mike Lindstrom:virtual course," or whatever, and the simple response, "Not interested
Mike Lindstrom:in doing any of that stuff." Right?
Mike Lindstrom:B- and I didn't, and I didn't either.
Mike Lindstrom:I was just showing him what comes at us to keep our minds thinking
Mike Lindstrom:about- Yeah … what's possible.
Mike Lindstrom:What, yes.
Mike Lindstrom:Because right now we may not be wanting to go down that path- Yep … of
Mike Lindstrom:trying to create a virtual thing relative to the podcast, but in three
Mike Lindstrom:months we might be thinking, "Man, we really missed the boat on that." Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:"We should be capitalizing
Jodi Low:on that." And that's the thing.
Jodi Low:I think keeping your eyes and ears open and not closing any doors, and being very
Jodi Low:true and authentic to who you are and your best way of- Delivery or connection.
Jodi Low:And it, for many, there's online programs that are perfect and a lot
Jodi Low:of people love to learn that way.
Jodi Low:There's others that's just not their thing or they prefer this.
Jodi Low:So, you know, that's great- Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Do you do you have virtual courses?
Jodi Low:No?
Jodi Low:No, not really.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:everything I do is pretty much live.
Jodi Low:I can… I do it virtually, but it's still live.
Jodi Low:So
Mike Lindstrom:one to many.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, nothing recorded.
Mike Lindstrom:You'd be in the studio piping out to 50 people, 100 people.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And that's to the public audience or that's to a private
Mike Lindstrom:group, like a private company?
Jodi Low:Private group.
Jodi Low:Private group.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Jodi Low:That's- that's the smallest part of what I do.
Jodi Low:Got it.
Jodi Low:That's maybe 5%.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:And it's more for clients that I'm already working with in New York
Jodi Low:or Minnesota or Mexico , you know.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I need to reach them and I can't be the, in front of them, but it's always
Jodi Low:in conjunction with something I'm doing live because I just feel that's my sweet
Mike Lindstrom:spot.
Mike Lindstrom:So do you ever just have the leader, like the CEO calls you up cold or
Mike Lindstrom:warm, they see you on the podcast- Yeah … go, "Hey, we want this Jodi
Mike Lindstrom:to be my coach." but I don't want you coaching my company or my team." Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:"You know, I just want you to work with me one on one." Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:D- is that an option?
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Or do they say no?
Jodi Low:no, I do.
Jodi Low:I work with individual executives.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:I work with leadership teams and then obviously organizations.
Jodi Low:it just depends on what they need.
Jodi Low:Right.
Jodi Low:But absolutely.
Jodi Low:So yes, I do that and, oftentimes that's a great way to really
Jodi Low:connect with them, understand their business and their culture and,
Mike Lindstrom:you know.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I actually prefer it.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:You want that.
Mike Lindstrom:when I've like I had one last week, it was a guy said, "I want you to work with
Mike Lindstrom:my sales team," he's talking about all this great stuff, the budget and what they
Mike Lindstrom:wanna do with the team and of course I ask him at the end, I go, "What about you?"
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:He's like, "Oh, well, you know, I'm trying to
Mike Lindstrom:make my salespeople better.
Mike Lindstrom:I want them to get better close ratios." I'm like, "Well, who's gonna lead them?"
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Speed of leader dictates speed of pack, so what about you?
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:I said, "My proposal is I just coach you for six months." Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:"And we'll, that'll happen by-product."
Jodi Low:I literally, Mike, had this conversation end of last week, and,
Jodi Low:I was talking to the CEO of a company and he's like, "Well, I've got a
Jodi Low:couple of executives that I'd love to put through this," and I sa- you
Jodi Low:know, and I said I'd like to come to your class, the one after that.
Jodi Low:can I do that?
Jodi Low:'Cause I can't make this one." I said, "If you're committed and they know
Jodi Low:that you're coming to the next one, yes." But if you're not coming or if
Jodi Low:you're saying that, not showing up, no.
Jodi Low:Because- Yes … pays of the leader, pays of the vet. yes.
Jodi Low:So if you're not, if you're expecting someone to do something
Jodi Low:that you haven't done or aren't committed to doing, not my client.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:That's a good filter though.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Jodi Low:Oh, it's 100%.
Jodi Low:It's a,
Mike Lindstrom:it's a philosophy.
Mike Lindstrom:It's a great filter.
Scott Leese:I don't think many people have that philosophy from the get-go.
Mike Lindstrom:In
Jodi Low:the early days- no … I think, you know, when you're just
Jodi Low:starting out- In the beginning
Scott Leese:you're like- Sure
Scott Leese:I need every dollar or whatever, right?
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:The answer is
Mike Lindstrom:yes.
Jodi Low:I will coach, yes,
Scott Leese:yes.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:That comes with experience and wisdom and a little bit of financial security
Scott Leese:probably where you can say, "No, that's not gonna be the right kind of client for
Scott Leese:me. I don't wanna deal with that-" Yeah.
Scott Leese:"… for whatever reason."
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Oh, 100%.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Scott Leese:if somebody had that right from the beginning, I wanna meet them.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:'Cause I didn't have that.
Mike Lindstrom:No, I did not have that.
Jodi Low:In the early days, I think, yeah, you're figuring it all out.
Jodi Low:I remember one of my earliest, big moments like that, I, fired a client
Jodi Low:that was, just getting ready to launch, everything was getting ready to go.
Jodi Low:I was gonna be training 300 of their engineers and, their whole topic
Jodi Low:was trust, and we've gotta create more trust in our environment.
Jodi Low:And then it came to just getting all the details and logistics and specifics
Jodi Low:around the training, and we'd gone through everything and what it would be.
Jodi Low:And then it was like, "Well, what are you gonna say when you first start?
Jodi Low:And then what are you gonna say?
Jodi Low:And then what are you gonna do?
Jodi Low:And then, well, how about the, what are you gonna s-
Mike Lindstrom:You're like, "Come on,
Jodi Low:man.
Jodi Low:Come on." My brother, if there's a trust problem, it's showing up right here.
Jodi Low:I am not your girl.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Jodi Low:If you can't trust me to fulfill my role and responsibility in delivering
Jodi Low:this, we're not… and everyone to this day is like, "You fired who?"
Mike Lindstrom:But you have to stay congruent with your brand.
Mike Lindstrom:I mean-
Jodi Low:A hundred percent … you're
Mike Lindstrom:not being yourself- Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: if
Scott Leese:you're
Mike Lindstrom:authentic.
Scott Leese:it feels good to fire clients-
Jodi Low:Y- you know what?
Jodi Low:… as they say no to certain types of business.
Jodi Low:it was a big one too, and I was like- Yeah
Jodi Low:"You know what? That is not who I want to engage in. I'm gonna be miserable." Yeah.
Jodi Low:And life's too short for that.
Mike Lindstrom:that, yeah, that's true too.
Jodi Low:There's other better clients that are more aligned.
Mike Lindstrom:bad groups and bad contracts are not good.
Scott Leese:What are the main problems that the clients that you're
Scott Leese:talking to or prospects that you're talking to are dealing with right now?
Scott Leese:is it different now than five years ago?
Jodi Low:10 years ago?
Jodi Low:You know, I don't know that it's different.
Jodi Low:I think retaining great, employees is tough.
Jodi Low:I think finding great employees is tough.
Jodi Low:I think we've got that generational thing where, you know, people- … are bitching
Jodi Low:and moaning about the younger generation.
Jodi Low:It's like, this happens every generation.
Jodi Low:Well, it- This is nothing new.
Scott Leese:Oh, yeah.
Scott Leese:People also don't go work at one place for 40 years
Jodi Low:anymore.
Jodi Low:It's just different.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And so if we're not able to adapt, so I think adaptability is big.
Jodi Low:communication is always at the crux of it, you getting people to just be
Jodi Low:able to give and receive feedback and be honest and collaborate and figure
Jodi Low:out how do I fulfill my role and responsibility while simultaneously
Jodi Low:helping you r- fulfill yours?
Jodi Low:How do we do this collaboratively, and how do we create alignment in our
Jodi Low:organization that really moves the needle as opposed to siloed thinking or, my job
Jodi Low:is more important than the- Mm-hmm … the overall organization's goals, you know?
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:W e'll see those
Mike Lindstrom:kinds of things.
Mike Lindstrom:do you have an NLP background or no?
Mike Lindstrom:Neurolinguistics?
Mike Lindstrom:No?
Mike Lindstrom:No.
Mike Lindstrom:No.
Mike Lindstrom:what kind of- I didn't
Jodi Low:know about it,
Mike Lindstrom:yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, so what kind of tools do you use?
Mike Lindstrom:we use DISC a lot- Mm-hmm … or Drake, some of the, I use Maxwell stuff.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:Five Dysfunctions of a Team I've used before.
Mike Lindstrom:Do you have any tools that you really like that are maybe not yours?
Mike Lindstrom:yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Any of those that you
Jodi Low:throw alongside?
Jodi Low:Yeah, not, I don't really incorporate a ton of outside tools.
Jodi Low:Real Colors is one that I use.
Jodi Low:yeah, of course.
Jodi Low:That one I like, only because I'm not a huge assessment person.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:The only reason I really love that is because there's a lot of other
Jodi Low:training that I can build in with it- Yep … and around it, so
Jodi Low:I think it's a great framework.
Jodi Low:It's easy, and it's very fun.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:but other than that, it's really all of our own proprietary stuff-
Jodi Low:from our Two and a half day classes.
Jodi Low:Most of what I do I custom create for the client- Yeah … so.
Mike Lindstrom:Smart.
Jodi Low:One of my training partners and I-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, that, that's, Five Dysfunctions came my way from
Mike Lindstrom:the company that I knew the CFO.
Mike Lindstrom:He goes, "Mike, you're not gonna be- This guy's bought in
Mike Lindstrom:on Five Dysfunctions." Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I'm like, "Okay. I'll, yeah, I'll use it."
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:but it'll wrap nicely around the stuff I teach.
Mike Lindstrom:So I'm not opposed.
Mike Lindstrom:That's why I was curious as a fellow-
Jodi Low:Yeah, no, there's- … content creator … that's the thing.
Jodi Low:It's like, again, what speaks to you?
Jodi Low:You know, if there's certain tools that a trainer or a coach
Jodi Low:or a speaker, great, you know.
Jodi Low:If that- Yeah … if that's what works for you and that, that modality or that-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah
Jodi Low:you know, there's a million thing- N- no one has recreated the wheel.
Jodi Low:Can we continually enhance it or change it or make it different and unique or s-
Jodi Low:or connect with a person in a new way?
Jodi Low:Sure.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:What I don't love is when it becomes w- "That's not my job"
Jodi Low:or- I agree … "I can't do that," or well, you know- It's not my
Jodi Low:style … he's a this or she's a that.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:That's where I'm like, "Eh."
Mike Lindstrom:I am who I am.
Mike Lindstrom:But I'm like, that's against adaptability.
Mike Lindstrom:If you say, "I am who I am," then you're not getting into adaptability.
Mike Lindstrom:And a lot of
Jodi Low:these companies will say that, like, "You are who you are and,
Jodi Low:you know, if you take this assessment, in 15 years you're gonna be exactly
Jodi Low:the same. You are who… You can't change. This is you." And I'm like-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: everything I believe is about you can always change.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:You can always improve.
Mike Lindstrom:It's about a choice and decision.
Mike Lindstrom:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:So that's where I'm always at odds with that philosophy so.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I
Mike Lindstrom:agree.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:What about, real quick, outside of work.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:what other projects are you doing outside of your passion?
Jodi Low:my biggest passion is travel.
Jodi Low:So any time I can get away with my kids or significant other, you
Jodi Low:know, when we can just do that kinda stuff, that's my happy place.
Jodi Low:So- Yeah … love to travel.
Jodi Low:yeah, but in terms of projects, just doing more of what I do and creating
Jodi Low:new ways of approaching different people- Yeah … in different ways.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Any
Mike Lindstrom:new books coming out or any new
Jodi Low:content?
Jodi Low:no.
Jodi Low:I launched my book a couple years ago, and that's been- What's the name?
Jodi Low:Just- … From Me to You.
Jodi Low:From Me to You.
Jodi Low:Always with the you.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Jodi Low:Which, people are like, "Why the you? Why the you?" So that's, just a big-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: anchor for me because- I,
Mike Lindstrom:I know it
Jodi Low:when I started my company, it was always like, "It's about you.
Jodi Low:If it's about me, we're done." Love it.
Jodi Low:It's gotta always be about you, so I use that as my little anchor.
Jodi Low:But, yeah, so From Me to You is, my book that I launched a couple years
Jodi Low:ago, and really leadership lessons that I've learned throughout my life,
Jodi Low:personal stories attached to- Yeah
Jodi Low:the leadership lesson within them and helping the reader-
Jodi Low:Yeah … connect with that.
Jodi Low:It's good.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Scott Leese:Is your… Ha- have you found that your motivation for growing your
Scott Leese:business has increased since your kids went off to school, or has it shifted?
Scott Leese:I'm asking this because I'm about to go through that.
Scott Leese:He's about to go through that.
Mike Lindstrom:yes.
Mike Lindstrom:You're
Scott Leese:like, "I'm right there." And I'm next.
Scott Leese:You
Mike Lindstrom:should get to be a coach right now.
Scott Leese:One that's about to fly out of the coop- Mm-hmm … and then I'm a
Scott Leese:couple years away from the other one.
Scott Leese:And one of the things I've been thinking about is when I
Scott Leese:have nobody in my house- Yeah
Scott Leese:and it's just me-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Scott Leese: am I gonna work more?
Jodi Low:Am I gonna be more motivated to do more stuff, or am I gonna be like,
Jodi Low:"Nah, that's it. I'm done." Yeah.
Jodi Low:I did it already."
Jodi Low:You know, it's different.
Jodi Low:I don't think it's an increased motivation.
Jodi Low:I'm, I've kind of always been highly motivated, so I
Jodi Low:don't think it has changed.
Jodi Low:I think it's just different.
Jodi Low:My motivations are building in more downtime, which sounds kind of crazy,
Jodi Low:being really efficient with my time.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:making sure that I'm working with … I'd rather work with fewer
Jodi Low:clients that I absolutely adore- Right … than spreading myself too thin.
Jodi Low:So I think it's just shifted in that way.
Jodi Low:making myself available for the things that also matter outside of work.
Jodi Low:my work is my absolute passion.
Jodi Low:I really truly love it.
Jodi Low:It gets me up early.
Jodi Low:It keeps me up late, and I also wanna make sure that I'm doing the other
Jodi Low:things in my life that I love to do.
Jodi Low:But,
Scott Leese:so it's not so much about just I did 10 million last year.
Scott Leese:I need to do 15, and then I need to do 20." No, I- That stuff starts- I mean-
Scott Leese:That part of the growth has changed
Jodi Low:a little bit for you?
Jodi Low:Not as much.
Jodi Low:Not as m- it's, yes, it's always about growing 'cause I find that
Jodi Low:exciting and whether that's growing personally or grow- growing financially,
Jodi Low:all of that's exciting to me.
Jodi Low:I also, I'm in my early 50s.
Jodi Low:I, almost mid, early mid-50s, and when I look at the calendar and I look at,
Jodi Low:it's like there's less sand in the top of the hourglass than the bottom, you know?
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And so I'm really deliberate with my time now.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Whereas before, I don't know, I, I think it, there was so much
Jodi Low:survival mode in the early days.
Jodi Low:You know, 20 years ago is different than today.
Jodi Low:but now I'm very intentional.
Jodi Low:Very intentional.
Jodi Low:That
Scott Leese:resonates
Jodi Low:with
Scott Leese:me.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Scott Leese:I think I'm-
Mike Lindstrom:I don't know.
Mike Lindstrom:Maybe that's- … I think I'm doing more
Scott Leese:of that
Mike Lindstrom:as well.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I'm behind him by a couple … Colt's a freshman, so I got four more years, but-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: I do think about that a lot.
Jodi Low:Of course, you always think about, we've been married 20 years.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I'm proud of that, but we always talk about that.
Jodi Low:What's our life gonna look like after that?
Jodi Low:Are we gonna travel?
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:She's a judge, so she's not exactly, you know, a,
Mike Lindstrom:an entrepreneur type where she can just pick up- Yeah … and leave.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I think she loves what she does.
Mike Lindstrom:She'll probably be on the bench as long as she loves being on the bench.
Mike Lindstrom:Possibly.
Mike Lindstrom:Could be till she's 75.
Jodi Low:Wants to,
Mike Lindstrom:yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:so here's a question for you.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Th- this is, put you on the coaching seat.
Mike Lindstrom:Okay.
Mike Lindstrom:So tomorrow- I have a, it's a six-hour facilitation.
Mike Lindstrom:It's an off-site here in town.
Mike Lindstrom:A bunch of entrepreneurs are coming in from out of town.
Mike Lindstrom:Like a, kinda like a YEO, YPO type of group.
Mike Lindstrom:My buddy's the chapter, in charge this month.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Mike Lindstrom:And he sends me this themes that, they really wanna hit.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:In this word, I've been hearing this word come up more.
Mike Lindstrom:Okay.
Mike Lindstrom:I'm curious if you've heard this word as well.
Mike Lindstrom:Enoughness.
Mike Lindstrom:It's right there in the script.
Mike Lindstrom:We wanna know more about how this is, which ties into really when is enough?
Mike Lindstrom:Is it balance?
Mike Lindstrom:When, what's your number?
Mike Lindstrom:When should I retire?
Mike Lindstrom:Should I wanna be able to go out and sell?
Mike Lindstrom:But if you had to be the coach tomorrow-
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: and you had one or two themes that you'd wanna
Jodi Low:do to talk about enoughness-
Jodi Low:Yeah
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: for seven or eight people, what would you tell them?
Jodi Low:I'd wanna know how they define enoughness individually.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:My enoughness might be different than yours.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I'm sure it is.
Jodi Low:I'd wanna understand how they define it- As a group.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And then individually understand, well, what does
Jodi Low:that look like for you?
Jodi Low:Because, I've got people close to me that are gonna plow and drive because
Jodi Low:they are so invigorated by the- hunt and the thrill and the build.
Jodi Low:Not just this, but just what they get to build.
Jodi Low:They get the, they, lights them up.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:So that enoughness is different than the person who's like, "You know what?
Jodi Low:I've worked hard, I've built this, and now I just, I want to enjoy
Jodi Low:it," or, "I wanna watch others run it while I go do Y." Right.
Jodi Low:Or, "I wanna build something new." Yeah.
Jodi Low:And change, shift gears, or follow a passion I've never done.
Jodi Low:yes.
Jodi Low:So to me, I'd wanna understand what enoughness was for each of
Jodi Low:them, 'cause I think it's too big.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Jodi Low:It's too big of a concept to, to, you know-
Mike Lindstrom:Have you heard this term a lot?
Mike Lindstrom:I haven't heard this-
Jodi Low:I haven't heard it a lot, no … not till
Mike Lindstrom:recently.
Jodi Low:I've
Mike Lindstrom:never heard the phrase.
Mike Lindstrom:It's come up twice in the last, or three times.
Mike Lindstrom:That's interesting.
Mike Lindstrom:This is the third time in the last 90 days.
Mike Lindstrom:I don't know who's out, somebody on in- Instagram is probably promoting it and-
Jodi Low:It's probably like a little Barbie takeoff, you know, with Ken
Jodi Low:and Kenough and that whole thing.
Jodi Low:I never thought of that.
Jodi Low:It's probably come from that.
Jodi Low:everything good comes from Barbies
Mike Lindstrom:somehow, right?
Mike Lindstrom:I'm gonna bring, I'm gonna bring that up tomorrow.
Mike Lindstrom:Some good movie.
Jodi Low:I'm gonna bring that up.
Jodi Low:Like, is this a Ken and Barbie
Mike Lindstrom:reference?
Mike Lindstrom:Where is this- I'm gonna show, I'm gonna show a clip at the
Mike Lindstrom:beginning of my training.
Mike Lindstrom:I'll just-
Jodi Low:Right?
Jodi Low:" Mike Lindstrom: Does this guy have brethren with him?"
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:No, but I, of course, naturally, you know, this is a coach,
Mike Lindstrom:you ask yourself the first question.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Like, "Well, what about me?" Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Well, what's enough for me?
Mike Lindstrom:What is enough for me?
Mike Lindstrom:is it the money?
Mike Lindstrom:Is it college funds?
Mike Lindstrom:Oh, I just… I've had a guy tell me last week, he's like, "Mike, I just
Mike Lindstrom:wanna get my kids through college-
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:… Mike Lindstrom: and then they're on their own.
Jodi Low:It's not when they're 18 and they're on their own.
Jodi Low:It's when they're all through college." When they're done
Jodi Low:with school. "I paid for that.
Jodi Low:I didn't want them to have debt.
Jodi Low:And then whatever happens." Yeah. "That's enough." And I'm like, Okay.
Jodi Low:We'll see in five years." Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:'Cause I know this is entrepreneur-minded person- Right … who, like you,
Jodi Low:he wants to, he wants to go out there and impact the world.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:You don't just change.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:I can't imagine just hanging it up, and like, "The money's
Jodi Low:there, so I'm done." Like- But
Mike Lindstrom:you travel, though.
Mike Lindstrom:That's not a
Jodi Low:bad
Mike Lindstrom:thing.
Jodi Low:I don't… Yeah, traveling's great, but I still
Jodi Low:would wanna do what I do.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Like, I'd still wanna be, it, I'd still wanna be speaking.
Jodi Low:You can do what you
Scott Leese:do from anywhere though, can you not?
Jodi Low:True.
Jodi Low:yes.
Jodi Low:I, certainly in person.
Jodi Low:So
Scott Leese:you could go live in Italy for three months and then
Scott Leese:go live here for three months.
Jodi Low:Absolutely.
Jodi Low:Absolutely, yeah.
Jodi Low:Right?
Jodi Low:Where's
Mike Lindstrom:the favorite place you've been, travel wise?
Jodi Low:I went to the North Pole.
Jodi Low:I went to the Arctic Circle.
Jodi Low:Oh, wow.
Jodi Low:Whoa.
Jodi Low:And that was- Damn … that was- Bucket list right there … amazing.
Jodi Low:amazing.
Jodi Low:Not the answer
Scott Leese:that I was expecting.
Mike Lindstrom:It
Mike Lindstrom:was my- No, no, no.
Mike Lindstrom:When did,
Mike Lindstrom:when did you do that?
Jodi Low:It was my 50th birthday gift from my brother.
Mike Lindstrom:Wow.
Jodi Low:And, it was one of the most epic experiences of my life.
Jodi Low:I- So
Mike Lindstrom:what'd you get out of it?
Mike Lindstrom:What was the things that you took away?
Jodi Low:How vast this planet is, how little we are, how insignificant
Jodi Low:all the BS is Yeah … all of that.
Jodi Low:And learning more about polar bears and polar ice caps and what's happening
Jodi Low:to our planet and how if we keep doing what we're doing, it's- Yeah
Jodi Low:th- that was just a gut punch.
Jodi Low:So a lot of that, and seeing it firsthand, yeah, it was-
Scott Leese:What is the process like to get there?
Jodi Low:I flew to Par- my brother lives in Paris, so I flew to Paris,
Jodi Low:then we went up to, the very, very northern islands of Norway.
Jodi Low:Wow.
Jodi Low:And then you take a ship from there.
Jodi Low:How long is that ride?
Jodi Low:Which is crazy.
Scott Leese:It's, like, off the map.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:It is off the map.
Jodi Low:it was several hours.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:it was a ways.
Jodi Low:I can't even remember now, but- Boat?
Jodi Low:Yeah, boat.
Jodi Low:And it was a- We're talking about,
Mike Lindstrom:like, a, we're talking about, like-
Jodi Low:It's a French cruise line, and that-
Mike Lindstrom:Oh, okay
Mike Lindstrom:took me there.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Mike Lindstrom:So it's a ship.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:Like a, okay.
Jodi Low:Mm-hmm.
Jodi Low:not a massive- How many days?
Jodi Low:No, don't think,
Mike Lindstrom:like-
Jodi Low:I didn't realize that … Royal Caribbean, nothing
Jodi Low:like that I feel motion sick
Scott Leese:already just thinking about it.
Mike Lindstrom:you don't like that?
Mike Lindstrom:He doesn't like being on boats anyway.
Mike Lindstrom:No.
Mike Lindstrom:He's not a cruise guy.
Jodi Low:Yeah, I'm not a cruise girl, and neither is my
Jodi Low:brother, so don't think, like,
Mike Lindstrom:this
Jodi Low:is like a royal point, my
Mike Lindstrom:point- No, I got you.
Mike Lindstrom:You're talking, it's a point, you wanted a point B. Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:You had to get there that way.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:no, it's very beautiful.
Jodi Low:It's a, like a luxury-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: yachty type experience.
Mike Lindstrom:Not yacht, but- I know what you mean … very ni- yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And it was epic.
Mike Lindstrom:Wow.
Mike Lindstrom:It was just amazing.
Mike Lindstrom:So it
Mike Lindstrom:was the best- I wanna get
Jodi Low:50 … 50th birthday gift.
Mike Lindstrom:I mean- That's a good 50th gift.
Mike Lindstrom:Yes,
Jodi Low:I've got a wonderful brother
Jodi Low:. Mike Lindstrom: So you said mid… I always do things in zeros and five.
Jodi Low:I'm 53.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:I'm 53.
Jodi Low:So
Mike Lindstrom:I got
Jodi Low:50…
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, 55- Yeah
Mike Lindstrom:will be my next one- Yep … when at the benchmark.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:So what do you give yourself at 55- Oh … if
Mike Lindstrom:it's gonna be a travel gift?
Jodi Low:You know, I don't know.
Jodi Low:I haven't go- I haven't gotten that far.
Jodi Low:I'm, I'm too, in the moment.
Jodi Low:I'm still looking, I'm staring down 54 first.
Jodi Low:We don't
Mike Lindstrom:wanna- So I haven't gotten that far
Mike Lindstrom:we don't wanna count ahead, right?
Mike Lindstrom:We wanna slowly
Jodi Low:roll.
Jodi Low:sometimes I'm like, "Wait, how old am I?" 'Cause sometimes I'm like,
Jodi Low:"I'm 54." I'm like, "No, I'm not.
Jodi Low:I'm 53.
Jodi Low:How old am I?" So- … I get myself confused.
Mike Lindstrom:So I gotta ask you about the, 'cause you mentioned
Mike Lindstrom:off-camera, so the girls are at ASU.
Jodi Low:They are, yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:How often do you see them?
Mike Lindstrom:How often do you talk to them?
Mike Lindstrom:How has that changed from being a mother to a friend?
Mike Lindstrom:And I know a lot of people have beliefs about this.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And they, you always gotta remain this or that, and I don't stand on this.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:I know how my dad treated me, and I'm gonna model a lot of that.
Mike Lindstrom:Mm-hmm.
Mike Lindstrom:But what's your take on that- Yeah … now that they're in college?
Jodi Low:So they're in college, but th- they are and aren't.
Jodi Low:So my oldest daughter was studying abroad this last semester, and so
Jodi Low:her first year she was in the dorm.
Jodi Low:Next year she was in an apartment, then she studied abroad, and then she moved
Jodi Low:back home for the rest of this year- Yep
Jodi Low:her junior year.
Jodi Low:It's been fabulous having her home.
Jodi Low:Wow.
Jodi Low:As a young adult, I mean, 21.
Jodi Low:She's, remarkable, you know?
Jodi Low:and so that's been super fun.
Jodi Low:My youngest daughter's a freshman finishing up the dorm thing, and, yeah,
Jodi Low:she's been spending more time at home recently because she's getting ready to
Jodi Low:move out of the dorm, and it… there's a lot of dorm problems at this dorm at ASU.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:So she's sort of over the hot, steamy dorm situation.
Jodi Low:but she'll be in an apartment next year.
Jodi Low:The three of us, we're sort of like the Three Musketeers, though.
Jodi Low:we've just… it's always been just us.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:So we're really, really close.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Jodi Low:which is awesome.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:So it's been a,
Mike Lindstrom:it's been fun.
Mike Lindstrom:I've s- I've what's your take on that- Yep … with social media and
Mike Lindstrom:your family, and what you share?
Jodi Low:Completely shifted.
Jodi Low:Com- in the beginning I was like, "Oh, this is…" When it first, I posted
Jodi Low:everything 'cause I thought it was so much fun seeing everyone's life, and then I'm
Jodi Low:like, "This is… why am I doing this?
Jodi Low:Why are we posting?" You know, like, I don't understand.
Jodi Low:So I mean, somebody graduated- Mm-hmm … or it's a, some big event.
Jodi Low:Other than that, it's only just business- So it's
Scott Leese:not, so it's not a-
Jodi Low:work stuff
Jodi Low:… Scott Leese: it is business stuff.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:So you use it a lot for
Jodi Low:business.
Jodi Low:I do.
Jodi Low:I do- Yeah … because a lot of our stuff is really visual, and it's- Yeah … so
Jodi Low:much fun to, to kinda see and share imagery from some of our big events.
Jodi Low:but other than that, I don't do a whole lot on there anymore.
Jodi Low:No?
Jodi Low:No.
Jodi Low:But people
Mike Lindstrom:wanna see that other part of you, don't they, Diane?
Mike Lindstrom:I do,
Jodi Low:I d- I do a little bit, but I just, it's not like, "Hey, I went here
Jodi Low:this weekend or there that week." Oh.
Mike Lindstrom:what about, like, strategic posting?
Mike Lindstrom:Like, if you say, that's one thing to go on LinkedIn and say, "Hey, I'm grateful
Mike Lindstrom:to be in front of X, Y, Z company," 'cause you have- Yes … good social proof.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Totally get that.
Mike Lindstrom:But if you said, "Hey, this is gonna be a informational piece, and I'm gonna have
Mike Lindstrom:me talking to the camera for two minutes, talking about goal-setting," to Instagram.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Is that something you're like,
Mike Lindstrom:" Jodi Low: No"?
Mike Lindstrom:I do really short little snippets, and it's typically something that
Mike Lindstrom:just came up in my mind as I'm driving or I just got done with a training.
Mike Lindstrom:It's something that just stuck with me, and I'm like, that's a good little
Mike Lindstrom:lesson or point or something that people could find value in." Yeah, I'll just
Mike Lindstrom:literally talk into my phone and do it.
Mike Lindstrom:There's not a whole lot of,
Mike Lindstrom:Afterthought
Jodi Low:Yeah, it's just- Yeah … sort of an in the moment type thing.
Jodi Low:Things I do.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Yes.
Mike Lindstrom:No, that's, w- we get frustrated- Those are things … 'cause we'll put
Mike Lindstrom:a ton of afterthought into something.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Like for example, when we first did our first true
Mike Lindstrom:LinkedIn post announcing it.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:He's got like 100,000, 20 plus on LinkedIn.
Mike Lindstrom:He's got a huge following.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And I, you know, I've got guys that were helping me post,
Mike Lindstrom:kind of giving us all a, to reshare it.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And we're kind of looking at the numbers going, "That
Mike Lindstrom:is paltry." Like, what, what is that?
Mike Lindstrom:But we al- we know now, we know the algorithm, and they
Mike Lindstrom:don't want you promoting.
Mike Lindstrom:Right.
Mike Lindstrom:They want you bringing value.
Mike Lindstrom:we all get on… We do that out, in advance.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:But there's certain posts that are just completely random.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Like you had one recently, I love the one you talked about, feminism by the way.
Mike Lindstrom:that was a little edgy.
Scott Leese:I thought that one might take off.
Scott Leese:Yeah.
Scott Leese:It
Mike Lindstrom:was authentic, though.
Scott Leese:Because it was like-
Mike Lindstrom:It was authentic … a little- It's edgy and auth- On the edge
Mike Lindstrom:you have to go and see.
Mike Lindstrom:I'd love you to hear a take on it.
Jodi Low:Okay.
Jodi Low:Yeah, I wanna hear.
Jodi Low:I wanna hear.
Mike Lindstrom:But it didn't.
Mike Lindstrom:If you hear a guy talk about that-
Jodi Low:That
Scott Leese:probably- But it didn't.
Scott Leese:And then you have another one, and you're talking about something that's
Scott Leese:like boring, like, I don't know, how to make a cold call, and it's
Mike Lindstrom:poof.
Jodi Low:Yeah, and you're like, "Really?
Jodi Low:That's
Mike Lindstrom:the
Jodi Low:thing that
Scott Leese:takes off?" It's impossible, is impossible to try to figure out-
Scott Leese:It is … what's gonna work or not.
Scott Leese:So frustrating.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:It- There is no rhyme or reason.
Mike Lindstrom:But I've always liked asking that question of
Mike Lindstrom:entrepreneurs, social media.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Like how it plays into your life or not.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:And, what, your daugh- are your daughters on it pretty-
Jodi Low:They are.
Jodi Low:also, they, but not like super, here and there.
Jodi Low:They're very mindful of what they post, and it tends to be more
Jodi Low:aesthetic than anything else.
Jodi Low:Sure.
Jodi Low:Like, you know, it's like the cool vibey pictures and- yeah … those
Jodi Low:kinds of things, but less of like- They,
Mike Lindstrom:well, they had a- … " "Oh, look at me" … they had
Mike Lindstrom:a good, but they had a good l- teacher.
Jodi Low:Oh, well.
Mike Lindstrom:I love that.
Mike Lindstrom:they're, speed of leader, speed of pack, right?
Mike Lindstrom:So tell us, we always close out with a couple of little asks,
Mike Lindstrom:like which favorite book all time?
Jodi Low:A, a book I really like, and this is not a leadership book, but just
Jodi Low:a book I really like is Chasing Daylight.
Jodi Low:Love that book.
Mike Lindstrom:Haven't heard that one come up in a while.
Jodi Low:That-
Mike Lindstrom:No one's said that one on the podcast yet.
Jodi Low:No.
Jodi Low:That one's a favorite.
Jodi Low:I, and I think, again, I think it's probably this phase
Jodi Low:of life that I'm in- Mm-hmm
Jodi Low:where it's like, aha, time is precious.
Jodi Low:So, so that's one that, that I love.
Jodi Low:yeah, and there's a million leadership books I could, I could-
Mike Lindstrom:Give me one
Mike Lindstrom:… Jodi Low: go on.
Mike Lindstrom:Give me one.
Jodi Low:Of course, you've put me on the spot and I can't think of a dang book.
Mike Lindstrom:Like mine's Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning.
Mike Lindstrom:Man's Search For Meaning.
Mike Lindstrom:That's my number
Jodi Low:one.
Jodi Low:That is my number one.
Jodi Low:Man's Search For Meaning is right up there.
Jodi Low:I have a list and I literally am just blanking on everything I love.
Jodi Low:Tony Robbins is of course,
Mike Lindstrom:Awaken the Giant Within.
Jodi Low:Tony Robbins.
Jodi Low:there's lots of Les Brown, there's lots of
Mike Lindstrom:Tony Robbins.
Mike Lindstrom:Les Brown, you gotta go with
Jodi Low:Les.
Jodi Low:yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:He's still alive and kicking, man.
Jodi Low:He is.
Mike Lindstrom:Principles you live by.
Mike Lindstrom:Anything, like you get to talk to the audience, say, "This is the one of
Mike Lindstrom:my big values, something I live by."
Mike Lindstrom:It doesn't have to be a quote.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:It
Mike Lindstrom:could be something from your teachings.
Jodi Low:There are a couple quotes.
Jodi Low:"Leap and the net will appear" is a big one for me- Good … because I do feel…
Jodi Low:that coupled with, "Risking nothing is risking everything," because I do feel
Jodi Low:like those both really embody, not just my journey, but I think so many people
Jodi Low:I meet, leaders I meet, individuals I meet, play safe because it's comfortable.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Jodi Low:And so-
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:where did I, where did, where'd you read that one from?
Mike Lindstrom:I think it was Morning Notes- Decades … with Julia.
Jodi Low:Decades ago
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, she wrote
Jodi Low:a- I literally had that quote in my- It's a great quote … first
Jodi Low:office and I would always look at it.
Jodi Low:I'm like, "Yeah."
Mike Lindstrom:But I always tell people, first you have to jump.
Jodi Low:Yes.
Scott Leese:I can think of about a half dozen people I wanna
Scott Leese:send that quote to right now.
Jodi Low:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:It's a great quote.
Mike Lindstrom:But everyone's always standing on the edge.
Jodi Low:Just go.
Jodi Low:Just do it.
Jodi Low:Just push
Mike Lindstrom:them.
Scott Leese:Just go.
Scott Leese:Risking nothing is risking
Mike Lindstrom:everything.
Mike Lindstrom:That's what the coach does, is push them.
Mike Lindstrom:Oh, my gosh.
Mike Lindstrom:the medal will appear.
Jodi Low:Yep.
Mike Lindstrom:It'll appear.
Scott Leese:Get out there.
Mike Lindstrom:Got anything else you're promoting?
Mike Lindstrom:Talked about website.
Mike Lindstrom:Where do we find you?
Jodi Low:Instagram, social?
Jodi Low:UandImproved, with a U. Yep.
Jodi Low:Uandimproved.com.
Jodi Low:That's a company website.
Jodi Low:we do our w- two and a half day immersive leadership classes-
Jodi Low:Love it … throughout the year.
Jodi Low:which are open to the public as opposed to our private, you know, corporate training.
Jodi Low:And in August, we have our adult class, but once a year
Jodi Low:we do a class for teenagers.
Jodi Low:Nice.
Jodi Low:So 14 to 18 years old.
Jodi Low:I actually started a foundation 12 years ago that provides
Jodi Low:scholarships for deserving teens that couldn't afford to go otherwise.
Jodi Low:So it is a game changer.
Jodi Low:Cool.
Jodi Low:So those are big.
Jodi Low:It's coming up the weekend of August 7th through 9th.
Jodi Low:So-
Mike Lindstrom:We'll make sure we promote that- Yes … for sure.
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah.
Mike Lindstrom:Well, Jodi, thanks for taking the
Jodi Low:time.
Jodi Low:Thank you.
Jodi Low:Yeah, thank
Mike Lindstrom:you
Scott Leese:so
Jodi Low:much.
Jodi Low:It's so great seeing you both.
Jodi Low:Great seeing you and meeting you.
Mike Lindstrom:I know.
Mike Lindstrom:When do we convene after 10 years?
Mike Lindstrom:Yeah, I know, right?
Mike Lindstrom:Let's not make this 10 more
Jodi Low:years.
Jodi Low:no.
Jodi Low:Not 10 more, for sure.
Jodi Low:And
Mike Lindstrom:we have to, we'll have to bring you back on.
Jodi Low:I'll come back.
Jodi Low:I would be happy to come back.
Jodi Low:Good.
Jodi Low:That'd be so much fun.
Jodi Low:Great.
Mike Lindstrom:Scott Lease, Mike Lindstrom, Jodi Lowe,
Mike Lindstrom:thanks for anoth- episode.
Mike Lindstrom:Tune in next time.





