Rise From The Ashes
"Burnout to Brilliance: Great CEOs, No Burnout"
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Rise From The Ashes
The Power of Generosity: How Giving Fuels Success with Steve Ramona (Part 1)
Can generosity be the secret key to success? In this powerful conversation, Steve Ramona, entrepreneur and host of Doing Business with a Servant’s Heart, shares how a service-first mindset transformed his business and personal growth. From learning the value of customer service in his family’s health club to leveraging the Law of Increase on LinkedIn, Steve reveals why promoting others without expectation creates lasting success.
💡 In this episode, we discuss:
✔️ The power of relationship-building in business
✔️ Why small acts of kindness can create a ripple effect
✔️ The difference between transactional and transformational networking
✔️ How to balance service with self-care to avoid burnout
Whether you're an entrepreneur, leader, or someone looking for deeper fulfillment, this episode will inspire you to serve, connect, and grow. Join us for Part 2 as we continue this journey of resilience and success.
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⏱ Show Notes & Key Takeaways:
0:02 – Service-Based Entrepreneurship
- Steve shares how growing up in his family's health club shaped his philosophy on business and relationships.
- Why putting service first leads to unexpected success.
6:09 – Acts of Service and Success
- How small acts of kindness and generosity create a lasting impact.
- The Law of Increase: Why promoting others leads to personal and professional growth.
15:35 – Be Your Own Hero
- The importance of self-investment and balancing service with self-care.
- How Steve’s mindset shift helped him turn failure into his best year ever in business.
🔥 Don’t miss Part 2! Stay tuned as we dive deeper into success habits, networking strategies, and how generosity shapes legacy.
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Until next time, keep rising.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another session and podcast episode of Rice and Ham Shears Burnout to Broaddus. This is season five and I have an extraordinary guest who is a heart-centered and a person of service towards humanity. His name is Steve Ramona and he's a podcast host himself, I believe. If I'm not mistaken, it's one of the top in the world. Is that right there, steve?
Speaker 2:It was at one time, yeah, number one in small business marketing. Awesome.
Speaker 1:Steve, please say hello to the world. And what do you do and what your passions are?
Speaker 2:Baz, thank you so much for having me on Audience. Great to meet you all. I'm passionate about doing business and life for the servant's heart. I want a million people to hear this message and hopefully take action with it. We serve, we grow. You want to scale, serve. You just want to grow a little bit. Serve. You want to stay where you are. Serve Because you know what it's the funnest thing to do in business, because the ROI, the messages, the gifts that you get back after you ask are immense. I've grown myself to a millionaire I can say it today because of doing this, which gives me more abundance baths to be able to give more. So open your eyes in the morning. Who am I going to give to? Who am I going to serve? Closing your eyes tonight, who am I going to serve tomorrow? Have that as your mindset, your foremost front mindset. Anybody you run into me, personally or professionally, and growth is just magical I.
Speaker 1:This is one of the reasons of many I love you and what you do, because it's a lost concept in the world where service is a component for it entrepreneurship, business. In this modern day, this service is, or the word service has been overused and manipulated to gain so many other things. You have a different take on it, though. You have a heart center space, and I want to back up a few couple years. How did this all come about? Because it sparked from somewhere deep with inside you, didn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:18 years old, my family launched a health club and my cousin, who was the president, jeff, asked to come. Hey, you want to come work. And I did what I learned in the first year. That first summer was I'm 18, talking to 40, 50, 60 year olds who, guess what, are very successful Not all of them, but some of them. But it started with hey Jim, hey, tony, have a great workout. Hey Jim, tony, have a great day too. Hey Jim, how was your Godson? Hey, how was your vacation in the Bahamas? Hey, how's the new car? Did you get your?
Speaker 2:It became closer relationship this isn't a business model and family and our health club became very successful pretty quickly because we had all about customer service. I had to walk around the room, the gym, and ask people how they're doing anything, how you doing, made sure they had towels, made sure things were clean, make sure. All that the focus. So my cousin kudos to him and I thank him every time I see him for that, because I've taken that to the next level from entrepreneurship, because Because this is a fact of 1980, baz, entrepreneurship really wasn't in many mindsets.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a thing. It wasn't. There's nothing wrong with it. You've met so many people doing what you're doing with the podcast and then meeting through business. Who is the most humble person you've actually met? You can name them or not name him, it's fine, but who was the driving force? What I mean by that? Who was the driving force other than the situation with your cousin and that? Who did you aspire to be on that ascent?
Speaker 2:Rush Tapp in October of 2022,. I met him through one of my clients in a business I was part of. He was helping people with their podcasts and it was something interesting to me to be able hey, what a great way to get my clients on, highlight them on a podcast and get them out to my world. Of course, I get out of the world, but it was just great Because let me back up as for the last three years, before that, I was taking my clients and putting them on YouTube, excuse me, on LinkedIn. Hey, meet Shelly Miller. She's got a cool little product and it was a visual business card. So, hey, reach out to her. So passively, I was promoting our business, but the basis was why I'm not promoting my clients? Why aren't other people promoting their clients? And it just grew. I started getting referral. I became the top sales guy in six months because I just got referrals, because people were like, hey, he's been promoting me on LinkedIn. He's what? Oh, yeah, I became a client and promoted me. Oh, he's a great guy. Oh, he's not trying to sell me, he's doing this or he's doing that.
Speaker 2:Treating people right is if you ever watch sporting events audience and you see the kiss cam and I just saw this just five minutes ago. What do people do, the shy people, the extroverts they're going to kiss? Well, when they get on camera, on those on the big scoreboard, I forget what they call it Direct. Yeah, that's what I get to do and, baz, you get to do. Every day I get people seen and have them on my score, on my big jumbotron, with my world so powerful and wonderful to do.
Speaker 1:But also, you come alive when you do it. Even these conversations, every conversation I've had with you, you just come alive when we speak about the service to others, and it's not about what you get and what you're gaining, it's what you're giving to other people and that's one of the reasons for many, as I said earlier, why I love what you do. When we talk about burnout and these rise from the ashes moments, I'm sure you've had some in your time. What's the most memorable for you? That you've obviously come out of it, but what was the defining factor in it?
Speaker 2:if you would like to share, Thank you and I'd love to, because what I tell people all the time you're struggling. You have a bad day, we all do. God made our lives up and down for a reason. I still figure I bet you will. But go out and serve and I'll tell you a great story and I've told it many times. So it was a two o'clock. Meetings were canceled. A contractor was supposed to sign for my digital. It didn't sign. The oh, let's wait two weeks. How I'm supposed to sign for my digital but didn't sign. They go, let's wait two weeks. Happens to us all the time.
Speaker 2:So I went out to the grocery store. I said I'm done for the day. I don't usually do that, but I'm like I got to get away, cause that's what I preach to people Get away when you're just get away from it. So I'm sitting in the grocery room in Baz and there was a surfer I'm in california, long hair, great kid. I've seen him since. We laughed. He's dude, what are you doing? Nobody buys people's grants different or weeks, I think he said weird. I said he just do me a fair. I think his name was derrick. He'll just do that. So he did. He's okay, and I pay for my groceries. So we walk out together in a magical moment.
Speaker 2:What happened? She starts tearing up and I'm like debbie, I am so sorry that wasn't meant to upset. She goes. No, that's not in a role. I said what's going on? She goes. I know you don't realize this and that's why I'm crying. Is we just? My husband lost his job last week. We don't know how we're going to pay for our groceries. I'm going to get teary eyed right now because it's and she's holding the baby had to be six, seven, eight months old.
Speaker 2:Here's the power of the story of serving. I did not know that. I didn't ask hey, she's struggling. You just don't do that. We don't know the shoes people are walking in. But when we take action of serving, something like that can happen. And, I think, more important in this story, it's great that I do what I did. But even bigger than that, what is she going to do best when she goes home and talks to her husband? This guy, steve, did this. Now we're spurring serving through somebody else Pay it for. We've seen the movie and talked about that. I think it's lost right now, but it's like Christmas. That's Christmas Every morning. I help somebody this morning. They're like God. This is the greatest thing. I'm so glad I met you. I just felt like I had Chris this morning. I get that every morning.
Speaker 1:And that's what I think stands you apart from a lot of other people. That's not to say they're not capable of it, but it's that mind state of going. I want to get it and it's not done enough, especially in these self-serving environments. What you do is so unique and it's not just with the grocery stores. You do it in business. You do it. That's who you are as a person. It's not changing your identity to suit a scenario or suit somebody else's belief system. This is who you are. Suit a scenario or suit somebody else's belief system, this is who you are.
Speaker 1:And I think entrepreneurs and listeners out there, business people who are aspiring to be something, start at home. Start by doing what's going on. Steve did. And just do a good deed for somebody, even if it's paying for a cup of coffee or they're shopping or simple. That sounds sounds corny, but helping him across the road changes someone's day. Steve said earlier, you don't know what people are going through. Then it comes into the weight of having that responsibility for yourself to raise the standard every day and the emotions from it. You can speak into this place. This, steve, how do you manage your own sort of time as well as serving others on that sort of basis yeah, that and that can be somewhat challenging, but it eventually works itself out.
Speaker 2:Again. It falls into chapter four of Think and Grow Rich Law of Increase, and then I think it's chapter three or two, but I read that every month Increase people's lives. If people start asking more of you, you politely, as a servant, say I can't do that. Or if you're a coach, I do a free podcast workshop. I help podcast hosts for free. Once a month I spend an hour. They want to do more. There's going to be probably a charge and that's okay because I'm bringing in more. Beth. Hey, if they want to come to that workshop every month, they've learned from me Because guess what God in the universe goes? Kudos, Steve. Here's the problem. We don't know when how to be. The return is going to be the roi and that's where people stumble. It's okay, I'm going to serve baths today. When is that big client going to come? When is that million dollar contract? When is this or that transformational, not transactional, through your whole life?
Speaker 1:transactions will come naturally and I want you, the listeners, please pause that and write that down. Can you repeat that please, steve?
Speaker 2:Transformational, not transactional, in every encounter you run into.
Speaker 1:That there should be a framework for everybody listening now, from here on forward. Transformational, not transactional, and that in Misty's living proof of it, this changes people's lives and the balance of having the two is quite unique for yourself. But you've not just monetized it to make life a freedom and fulfillment for yourself. You're now paying it forward to other people, aren't?
Speaker 2:you quote, abundance leads to more abundance to others. This abundance coming to me, I've got some fantastic ideas to maybe be a nonprofit foundation, spend more time. Maybe now I'll have more time to do two podcast workshops a month instead of one. All the billionaires and millionaires I've talked to and it's not a lot, I think it's about 10, that were high successful people. They're always thinking of ways of giving back and it's not the ways that you think and a lot of it's subtle, very subtle.
Speaker 2:I had a guest on my podcast, anthony Trucks, and shout out to Anthony he calls it the dark work that when you get up at five o'clock in the morning and I get up at 515, that you're working. I know, maz, we've talked about you doing this work. There's nobody clapping for you, there's nobody cheering for you and we don't give a crap. To be honest with you, we're there to learn, to grow, to help others. I don't need fanfare, I just want people to be smiling and be happy. And Debbie happened at the grocery store. I made her week a little bit better and hopefully she grows on it and things happen for her.
Speaker 1:And that's what you know separates the winners level is what you just said. There we're not. There's no one clapping for. You've got to clap your own in your own mind every single day, to have that one percentile shift to change the identity within yourself, to level up, and the difference between failure and success is only that one percent. It could be getting up in that morning to do what you've done a thousand times before, but you have that one percentile change in that day. That creates the ripple effect. If failure doesn't exist, then it becomes exponential because you pay it forward. I want to touch on briefly before we go close. Part one, steve, is the difference between your own way and your own voice of failure and success, because failure is often associated with not just giving up but the burning on, the fatigue of doing things over and over again, repetitive of it. Can you just talk into that for a moment?
Speaker 2:love this question because everybody's failing. Back to those 10 and 15 billionaires. They've all failed, every single one. I asked that they failed. They did some a little, some a lot, some lost millions, some doesn't matter, and I've failed. I've started network marketing companies. I've lost thousands. I've built great communities. I've lost them because of something, some other. We have to learn from those failures. But here's a powerful tip for all of you listening, you can bring serving into the failure. And here's what I've learned.
Speaker 2:You have a coaching, you have some program and you're pitching, you're talking. They're like, hey, tell me more about your program, how much is it? And you say it's $15,000 for a year. And they go that's just a little too much. I'm not ready to go, maybe in the future. We hear it all the time and I love that people are being honest and I love that people are being honest. But it becomes very uncomfortable for me making that offer because, oh my God, did I upset them? And that person saying no, they've got to say no to somebody they like. Here's what you do when you're making that offer. You've listened to them for 10, 20, 30 minutes. Go.
Speaker 2:You know what, joe, I heard you needed a better CRM. You were complaining about your CRM, but it wasn't bringing you value. Here's one I think that would really help you. I took the no and I gave them more service, more value. When they leave, what do you think we go though? Oh my God, I've done this and people have told me later you've really calmed that whole conversation down. 50% of the time I've found that people will come back and become your client A couple weeks later, a couple months later, maybe a year later. Because People will come back and become your client A couple of weeks later, a couple of months later, maybe a year later, because you leave them with more than when you first met them. And again, you said it so well that 1% could be that one tip hey, here's what you can do on your Zoom. Or it could be, hey, here's $100,000. I want to invest in your company, doesn't matter. Bring value. That's what service means Bringing value to people. Have them be seen.
Speaker 1:So take a negative situation and serve more. You'll be a hero. I love that. I'm not going to say much more than be your own hero and if you're listening to this now, write something down. What have you been avoiding to be your own hero in your life? What's stopping you from making that decision today? Write it down and do something to act on it. Today, wherever you are in life, make a decision for yourself to overcome that one thing that you want to become myself, steve, I'll speak to you very shortly. For my listeners, please share, subscribe. Change someone's life today. This is A Rise From the Ashes. This is part one with Steve Ramona, and we'll be back very shortly. See you soon.
