BGBS 068: Coach Jimmy | Speaker/Story Coach | Are You Willing to Be Willing‪?‬ Baby Got Backstory

BGBS 068: Coach Jimmy | Speaker/Story Coach | Are You Willing to Be Willing?Jimmy Hays Nelson, aka Coach Jimmy, has been a high-performance business coach for over a decade. Jimmy’s unique skill is helping his clients to seamlessly connect their personal stories to their product or service, creating a strong “know, like, and trust factor.”Using his 20+ years of experience as a stage and film performer, he has shared his own personal story of being a former 100-pound overweight 3x college dropout to successful entrepreneur to create a 7-figure business and now dedicates his life to helping professionals craft their own stories to attract and impact the lives of their ideal audiences. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, emcee, and event host, now honing his expertise as a virtual emcee as well.He has dedicated his life to helping people live a life WellCrafted. As Coach Jimmy says, “Create a story, change the world.”In this episode, you’ll learn…There is no treading water in life. We are always getting better or worse, so you might as well build your daily habits to get better.You will be rewarded in public for what you do in private. There is no overnight success. Everyone you look up to has worked very hard behind closed doors to get where they are.Until you learn to fall in love with the process over the performance, you’re always going to be disappointed somewhere along the way.ResourcesWebsite: thecoachjimmy.comLinkedIn: Jimmy NelsonInstagram: @thecoachjimmyFacebook: @CoachJimmyQuotes[20:46] I don’t know that we ever know when we’re going to arrive, but I love chasing the next version of me.[25:41] I want to feed the doers, the people that are hungry to take action, and that that’s what lights me up all day long because at the end of working with those people, I’m never exhausted. I think that’s a big telltale for us to figure out where we’re supposed to be is, what are those things that we do that fills our bucket and doesn’t drain us? [28:39] You can’t argue with my story—doesn’t mean you’re going to convert, doesn’t mean you’re going to be in my tribe, or agree with me. But you can’t argue with my story. And it just feels like it diffuses any of that negative feedback immediately.[54:38] Personal storytelling is the fastest way to create know, like, and trust with an audience. And who do people do business with? People they know, like, and trust.Have a Brand Problem? We can help.Book your no-obligation, Wildstory Brand Clarity Call now. Learn about our Brand Audit and Strategy processIdentify if you need a new logo or just a refreshDetermine if your business has a branding problemSee examples of our work and get relevant case studiesSee if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next levelBook Your Brand Clarity Call TODAY Podcast TranscriptCoach Jimmy 0:02Honestly, I dropped out of school anything business wise or like what look like a real job or to make actual money outside of getting lucky and booking the movie or the Broadway show. I was like, there was nothing in my history that I was gonna be good at any of this because I quit stuff really easy, you know. And so I gotten there. And I was still struggling because I still saw that Jimmy when I looked in the mirror, there was still a lot of it like a mental things. And so I had a mentor early on that said, cool, Jimmy, what are you reading? What are you listening to? And I was like, What do you mean? He’s like, in the morning? What do you do when you wake up? I’m like, I don’t know. I throw on ESPN or the news on or he’s like, I’m gonna challenge you to read 10 pages of a good book a day. I’m like, dude, reading me outside of a script. I’m like, it’s just not my jam. He’s like, I didn’t ask him. What’s your jam? It’s like 10 pages.Marc Gutman 0:56podcasting from Boulder, Colorado. This is the Baby Got Back story Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of