47: Learning to lead effectively, while having fun with Billy Boughey (enneagram 7)

How to become a leader and commit to change

This week’s guest is off the charts motivating and charming, he lights up the room every time he walks in and he loves, cares, and serves at the highest level possible. Billy Boughey is master of all things leadership, and hands down one of the most dynamic speakers I have ever seen. He leads with example and from the soul, and as an enneagram 7, has truly mastered how to bring fun and movement into leadership.

Listen to this podcast to hear how you can leverage media to tell stories and connect, increase performance and improve your business culture, and find out exactly what it takes to be a leader and commit to overhauling your company culture—starting with you.

Listen now

The story behind the glory

We start off discussing Billy’s success and how most people look at the glory instead of the story behind it. He shares how the grind and hustle determines your mindset—how you have to decide whether things happen to you or for you. He shares what it was like growing up in his household, how his stepfather was emotionally and physically abusive, how they lived paycheck to paycheck as his mother struggled to support them.

Billy speaks about playing professional baseball and how it enabled him to find faith and confidence, and how this led to his transition to leading. He discusses how identifying your strengths and weaknesses and working on self-awareness are part of the process to becoming a better leader, and how it ensures that your weaknesses aren’t your undoing.

Starting the movement

When it comes to overhauling a culture, he shares how he helps and how you have to be willing to commit to the process and make the decision to change in order to see change happen. He shares the four things he tells every leader, and how doing the work as a leader first will help others follow.

Billy discusses how he uses entertainment, songs, and movement throughout his work, and how putting action and movement creates lasting change. Stop withholding and start doing--the beauty happens when you start moving into who you are supposed to be.

Billy Boughey

Billy is a nationally recognized host and speaker who has led events for Delta,
Coca-Cola, FIFA, The John Maxwell Company and many other notable organizations. He is the Founder and President of the Atlanta based company, Elevate Experiences. Billy’s passion is to build a world with no unequipped leaders. As a former baseball player at Auburn University, Georgia State University and the Philadelphia Phillies his experience includes working with many college and professional sports teams to improve their culture. His talents include keynote speaking, culture coaching and consulting groups on how to make their team members smile and their customers rave.

Billy is also the author of Culture Reconstructed, a start-where-you-are guide to building a remarkable team dynamic. He hosts his own podcast titled Created for Experience and is a certified Kolbe consultant, helping companies understand how each employee strives to get work done.

Quotes:
“There’s a grind, there’s a hustle, there’s a silence, there’s a loneliness, there’s a beauty in success, but it all starts with those previous words.” -Billy 4:02

“I believe everybody has a story to tell, and your story grows and gets better or worse depending on how you view things.” -Billy 4:10

“I heard recently from Ed Millet, he said ‘give yourself mental permission to turn the page.’” -Billy 4:29

“I don’t know when someone decides to be great, but I do know it has to start internally, it starts in your own heart and your own mind.” -Billy 8:52

“I love what Gary Vaynerchuck says is that ‘Lebron James and Beyoncé were born Lebron James and Beyoncé, but they had to cultivate that talent, they had to make that decision.’” -Billy 9:06

“If you’re listening to this podcast and you know somebody around you has a gift, say it!” -Billy 10:11

“The very thing I thought disqualified me for all the greatness in my life is the very thing that actually qualified me.” 12:54

“Leadership is 4 things; it’s knowing yourself, leading yourself, knowing others, and leading others.” -Billy 20:55

“When people are seen, heard, and understood, anything’s possible.” 22:16

“Dr. Carol Dweck of Stanford University wrote a great book called “Mindset,” and she boils it down to two things—it’s not whether you’re smart or you’re dumb, it’s whether you’re a growth mindset or a fixed mindset.” -Billy 30:47

“On my tombstone, I just want it really clearly said, ‘Billy kicked ass for the glory of God.’” -Billy 37:37