Brotherhood - Why LS? Pt.5

Thank you for joining Leadership Sovereignty. I'm your host Terry Baylor along with Ralph Owens and in today's episode we're going to discuss connection, partnership, the benefits of being vulnerable and accountable, and share a little more of the origin story of Leadership Sovereignty. Enjoy the show.

Yes, sir. Ralph, man, I have thoroughly enjoyed Leadership Sovereignty today. This is our inaugural podcast. This is something guys, just so you know, this is not a back of the napkin know microwaved you know five minute conversation. Hey, man, let's do.

Guys, this has been in the incubator for at least at least at a minimum twenty fifteen at minimum.

I say before that, I say we go all the way back to 02/6007. Right? When we were figuring this thing out together and That's true. Keeping each other encouraged and bouncing ideas off of each other. Hey.

You ever dealt with this? You know, how you deal with that? That's That kind of thing. Right? And and, you know, what we're doing is trying to take our collective experience and putting it out there to bless somebody else who may be going through, you know, the same type of struggles.

And to your point, right, since that moment, right, and here's the deal. Right? I met Ralph just to give you guys a little more backstory. Ralph and I were both implementers. And we came together, we were two different organizations for the same company, but two different organizations.

And we came together solving a problem. And just to give you guys a little insight into Ralph, Ralph is one of the greatest givers that I know. He's always trying to help someone just see he is. So I met him that way. We were walking.

I remember something around VMware. I think you had just gotten a certificate or something. And you had this manual and you were like, hey, man, I'm, hey, you want to, man, you can have it. I'm like, sure, man, let me alright. I'm gonna get after that.

And I remember, man, we were walking across, I think the street was foresight. I can see it right now in between those two parking lots. And we were talking about a possible solution for a problem. And that's how we met. And man, we have been connected since that very day.

And again, I can't wait to tell more about that journey and how you went off and did some things we came back together did some things. And that story amazingly seems to keep repeating itself.

It's crazy. It really is crazy. You couldn't make that up.

You couldn't make it up, man. You couldn't make it up. And I think this is one of those coming together moments again. And I'll tell you this, guys, I'm gonna tell you this. There hasn't been a time that Owens and Baylor has come together where the outcome of it hasn't been.

And it's across. Now Ralph, I'm hitting you with something I hear today because I'm chewing on this. A principle is true across any platform.

Oh, absolutely.

Oh my gosh. That's I'm still that the weightiness of that. Right? But again, so I'm thinking about that as it pertains to you and I. The principle is when Owens and Baylor gets together, something great happens.

We've seen it we've seen it technologically. Yep. We've seen it musically.

Yep. Yep. Yes. Yes. We have.

Yep.

Right? We've seen it in the community of people.

Mhmm. Yep.

So I believe that's a principle that's cross domains.

Yeah. That's good. I'm a I'm a have to chew on that today. Yeah. That's that's really I ain't I never thought about it like that, but you're right.

So now Owens and Baylor is in the podcast domain. So

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's a yeah.

There's there's some there's something there. I remember a time where I had I had went out to California to do some work, And I'll never forget Terry and I were talking on the phone and I remember telling him, I was like, hey, man, this ain't I may be here because at the time I I thought I was gonna be staying out there. But I told him, I said, man, this this ain't what we doing. This is not over. I don't know how, you know, we're come back together.

That. But this this is not over. But you know what? That happened twice in our lives.

Yes.

Because because fast forward, I'm in Houston, and you're in Houston. You had made a decision to to relocate. And I said, hey. This ain't

no more. You sure did. I'm saying This ain't no. I I am sure glad that there's a blessing on your on your words. I'm glad about this.

I mean, I can't imagine doing life anywhere else. I'm blown away the fact that our proximity is the near the same as when we were teenagers.

Ain't that crazy? And we were at least 1,500 miles away Yes. From where we grew

So I am in firm belief and conviction that God has something and has been doing something special with this friendship. I'll say this, one of the things that I hold dear and which is a it's very important to me on so many different levels. But in that conversation, when you did call me from California, matter of fact, you were on your way from church. When on that conversation, I remember, and you you'd share with me you said T, man, I don't have any brothers, You you are you are the closest thing to a brother that I have. And that meant everything to me because understanding right I got six biological so I understand and we are all different.

We all have different connections and relationships. But I understand the gravity of that statement. And I see the interactions between my brothers. And I see that and make history it's human nature. Some connections are closer than others.

Doesn't mean that the glue isn't as thick or isn't as binding. And so I understand the value of that man and it means a lot to me.

Yeah. Now the same here. I think that this is one of the reasons why we've always worked so well together is because we help to improve each other. You know, I don't know when it happened, but at some point, we both gave each other permission to speak into each other's lives on a level that you ain't talk you ain't listen you ain't trying to hear that from nobody else. Right?

But and because I value that, I don't abuse it. You know what I'm saying? I I I'm very just just no different than so not the same, but no different than I value the relationship that I have with my wife. Meaning that I'm just not gonna say anything because I value her as a person. I wanna make sure that she's always feeling good and feel confident and things of that nature.

And even in this relationship with you and I, right, I would never just say anything that haphazardly or just lose tongue or whatever. But I know that if there's a time where I need to speak into your life that I can and that you will actually listen. Right? And you have that same access to me. Not everybody has that access in my life.

Right? But because of how much time we spent with one another and going through the things that we've gone through, it's been a blessing because again, can't Because you were born into a family where you had so many brothers, it's impossible for you to understand what it's like not to have them. But I get a chance to see what it's like to have one, even though I was born into a family where I didn't have. Right? Because there's certain things that having a male sibling does to you to help in your maturity and your growth and things of that nature.

And I get a lot of that from you. So now I really thank God for you and and and just the relationship over the years.

Hey, you shared something with me, and it it changed my life. You said what you don't appreciate or understand, you're bound to abuse it. And and the conversation that we it wasn't no easy. It wasn't no easy conversation. But that lesson has helped me with my kids.

It's helped me with friendships. It's helped me with my wife, of course. And man, yeah, it's it's it's yeah. I Ralph, I appreciate you, bro.

Yeah. Happy to help you as well. Yeah. We we we we we about to take this to a whole another level.

Alright, guys. So get ready. Leadership Sovereignty, man. Hey, this is just for you and what you and we all need. Because here's the thing, as Ralph and I share, man, this stuff is therapeutic as well.

Right? Because we're still growing learning, and we're not professing to have it all. But what we do have we will share with you. And we're going to bring in some great people to share some great anecdotal information and man to just help build us all up. So Ralph man, great show today.

I'm super excited. I'm so glad. Man, we're kicking this off into '23 going into '24. So get ready, guys.

All right, talk to you next time.

All right. God bless.

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