John sits down with CEO @ Fort Capital Chris Power which was established in 2005, Fort Capital is a forward-thinking investment firm with a focus on real estate and private businesses. They look beyond the usual, and while they seek to provide our investors with superior financial results – our greatest returns are improved lives. Their team is their competitive advantage as they seek meaningful work and relationships.

• What gives you energy and what drains energy? – Chris Powers
•  We need everybody. Nobody’s any better than anybody else. We’re just different. And so, I think that’s kind of how I started thinking more along the lines of who am I, how do I fit into this world, and how do I get the most out of it by knowing who I am and, and what will drive me energy, and what will take away my energy.- Chris Powers
• I want them to be good for my Sunday school teacher and my economics teacher, and it’s powerful. – John Marsh
•  We use the Enneagram, as you mentioned, and we use that really, we think from a spiritual standpoint, that best describes your flesh (a bible reference), that God came to deliver you from. It’s the prettiest flesh, average flesh, or sick flesh, what it looks like.- John Marsh
• If anyone on the call and listening hasn’t begun the journey, please begin the journey of getting to know yourself so you can grow yourself. It’s really powerful..- John Marsh
• … the distance between how you were created to be and how you’re living is stress and tension. – John Marsh
• How are you? How is it peace? Because if you want to know what the world calls happy, the Bible calls peace. It’s the peace that surpasses understanding, and peace is not a process, it’s a person who is actually the prince of peace, not the author of confusion. – John Marsh
•  Just like I want to grow a great business. I want to have a good marriage or good kids or good faith. Everything has to have effort and intentionality … – Chris Powers
•  What I say is when someone speaks to my heart and not my head and my heart is humming like a tuning fork, I’m going to spend more time with that person. I mean, it’s not a genius approach. It’s just like, if they say stuff that impacts me, that means something.  – John Marsh
• …what you realize is the biggest challenges that most business owners face aren’t even really in their business. It’s everything else that’s falling by the wayside. – Chris Powers
• It is hard. And for people that have been successful in business my biggest fear is a spoiled, entitled kids.- Chris Powers
• But I do know for us, those five Fs, faith, family, fun, fitness, and finance, we believe you got to have a plan for everyone. We need to plan like everything depends on it so we can live like nothing does, and the Bible says that man plans his ways, God orders his steps. Now, God doesn’t need our plan, but we need to be a people that plan because of what it does for us.  – John Marsh
• And on the latter note of the age spot, right now you and I are time billionaires. We have time. I guarantee you, Warren buffet would trade every single dollar he has right now to be me, and that is something I think about all the time..- Chris Powers
•  The obvious is tell the truth, and that is, it just makes life a lot easier when you don’t have to remember all your lies, and people don’t like a liar. That is just the golden rule. So, that one’s the easy one. – Chris Powers
• second, take accountability for what you’re doing. Nobody likes somebody… I shouldn’t frame it that way. The people that we want to work with and trust the most often are accountable for everything they say they’re going to do.- Chris Powers
• The last is treat all people with respect, and I capitalize all… .- Chris Powers
•  Do you care for me? Can I trust you? And can you help me?  – John Marsh
• …. imagine that you’re sitting at your 80th birthday party, and in the room is your wife and your kids and your friends and your coworkers, and you’re looking out over all these people that you have been around your entire life. And the exercise was your wife, your kids, one of your best friends, and your co workers are going to get up and give a speech about how you impacted their life. The exercise was you write their speech.- Chris Powers
• hen we look at the Biblical priority list is to love God with all your heart soul and might, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. Look, if I put my order of priorities the way I see it, number one is God’s first, John second, which is the most unusual and hard thing to imagine. My wife is third. Kids are fourth. People I’m called to walk with fifth, and job ain’t in the top five. But the hardest person I’ve ever found to serve and love is John.- John Marsh
• Everything in life compounds, good or bad. A bad example would be, if you’re on drugs, you start with a cigarette, and then you go to a heroine, and then it compounds. And then the relationships get worse in your life and blah, blah, blah. On the flip side, good relationships compound. – Chris Powers
• I just think I can’t hardly lose for winning if I just keep taking the step, taking the step, taking the step, and that’s really the powerful thing about life. – John Marsh
• What I believe my purpose is to help people grow personally, love God passionately, do good work purposefully, and live intentionally.- John Marsh
• It’s one definition I heard of busy struck me and as being under Satan’s yoke. – John Marsh

• Fort Capital – website
• The Fort Podcast
• Chris Powers – about
• YPO
• Halftime Institute

What have you read that we should read?

• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Comer

Who do you know that we should know?

• Pete Chambers

Where have you been that we should go?

So the experience that I would do is one next time you have a party, hire a magician, but don’t tell everybody at the party that there’s going to be a magic show.