Your circumstance and your self-worth have nothing to do with each other.
In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Josh Eldridge, a business coach at Painter Growth who owns a construction company in Knoxville, Tennessee. Josh is an Air Force veteran and a former pastor who lost his house and his first business, carried well over $100,000 in debt, and spent a November on scaffolding pulling brick off a wall with a sledgehammer. He explains why he tells people to build on their strengths instead of repairing their weaknesses, how he measures impact by earned trust rather than by goals he can keep moving, and what he does on the days he is not okay. He also talks openly about the months after his service when he did not want to be alive, and about the small thing that got him to the next morning.
Chapters:
00:00 The Thing That Keeps You From Panicking
00:19 Meet Josh Eldridge 01:09 Purpose Comes Before Excellence
02:15 Homeless, and Swinging a Sledgehammer
03:15 Learning to Love the Hard Work
04:34 The Input Is Not the Curse
05:36 How Do You Measure Impact?
07:39 Your Gifts Are the Map to Your Purpose
10:45 Proximity Over Talent
13:51 Talking About Not Being Okay
18:28 One Small Goal at a Time
21:58 Suffering, Endurd Anymoreance, and Hope
26:15 Why He Doesn’t Get Scare
Connect with the hosts and guests:
John Staub: / john-staub
Travis Hall: / travis-m-hall
Josh Eldridge: / josh-eldridge-knox
Painter Growth: https://paintergrowth.com
Dataliction: https://dataliction.com
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