Unpack to Grow

The Third Growth Option with Benno Duenkelsbuehler and Guests

Joe Motz started with a pickup truck and a dream, then built a 140-person company that builds sports fields for NFL teams across the country. After getting a wakeup call at age 34 that his command and control, hard-charging style was close to killing him, he changed his approach to life, people, and management. In this episode Joe openly talks about unpacking, mindfulness, vulnerability, becoming a listener, allowing coaches (notably at Vistage) to show him new models, and selling his company through an ESOP to his employees.

“We pack for fears, we need to let go of the armor”

2:12 thru 10:54 – Joe takes us through his journey from being a farm boy to CEO.

12:19 thru 19:50 – Learn about how a doctor visit, and the Tugboat Institute helped him to think about new habits, unpacking…17:51 “mindfulness…getting rid of one thing and replacing it with another…(brought) significant results… same thing then occurred on the business side, I gotta change it to make it more meaningful.”

20:39 – “…for a hard-charging guy to say: ‘I don’t know it all’… it was a relief.”

23:21 – “Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to achieve.”

24:23 – “We’re packing for fears, we need to let go of the armor.”

29:04 – “… in the corporate space, how much armor do I really need… things are at their best, the purest, they taste the best,… when you strip down to that minimal required, not a bit less… finding the sweet spot.”

You can reach Joe by emailing [e-mail].