Overcoming Personal Barriers to Achieve Professional Growth and Business Scaling

Darren is just the type of person that you immediately feel comfortable with and, um, just know that he's a kind soul and that he's just there to help. Uh, I'm Matt Lucas. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I'm a chiropractor. Before I was working with Darren, I was just kinda coasting. I was just at a place where I just didn't know which direction I was heading with the future of my business after we had already been established for a decade or so. I was just alone in this process, that it was just me trying to figure things out, and didn't really have anybody to spitball things. I had other chiropractors that were mentors and friends, but they just kinda were in the same, I guess, holding pattern that I was. So I was just looking for somebody that just has different experiences, that was out of the same profession as me, and could kinda challenge me to look at things differently. Darren [laughs] Darren's just, uh, a very calm and cool guy. He just makes you feel so relaxed when you speak with him. He's such a good listener. Just from the first time that I met him, I just... I knew we would be instant friends, and I felt so comfortable with him, being honest, 'cause that's a lot what it was. It was what is holding myself back? There was just a certain point in time, and I don't have a specific point in time, where I realized that it was pretty much myself getting myself... getting in my own way of that growth and development. Until I can acknowledge that and recognize that, and realize what are the action steps that I need to make in order for me to be a better leader, to be more organized, to be more disciplined, to be a better time manager for myself, to be more selfish with my time, that was another thing that I needed to learn. Without kinda getting personal, I was unable to accept the strategic business advice. So that just kinda occurred fairly quickly within our initial conversations. I was investing in the business as a business consultant, but getting to know a person like Darren, who has just such a unique background and experiences, and how well-read he is, and how many different companies he's been a part of, it turned into more personal development than just professional and business development, which I think for me specifically, was what was holding me back from having the courage to take on the steps that I needed to take in order to grow and scale my business. We spent about a couple hours with each other every couple weeks. It was great sitting down with him. When we were talking about our vulnerabilities and stuff like that, I was like, "You're [laughs] speaking to a psychologist," but I felt very comfortable with him, so it's a great experience. He was very quick to kinda learn what my business was. He really wanted to understand my business, even though he didn't have a lot of experience in chiropractic specifically. But he seemed to catch on and learn what are the major challenges that I was going through. If there's something that's holding you back, Darren is able to safely and comfortably figure that out, take his time, understand you, understand your business, and just help you think differently, and to open up different scenarios for things that maybe you haven't thought of. If you do that, you're not gonna regret it.