We recently connected with Charles BUCK and have shared our conversation below.
Charles, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.
I always enjoyed working with people and motivating them. As a retired Marine, I once had a lot of opportunities to do this while on active duty. Then, after returning and moving to the corporate world, those opportunities were further apart. I then met my fiancé, and she inspired me to get certified as a speaker and coach through the John Maxwell Leadership program, and things started to move forward from that point.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Within the early days of training and working on material for classes and seminars, I wrote and published my story, “My Own Worst Enemy.” At the same time, I posted a quote book, “What Resonates,” with many of my favorite quotes and what they mean to me. My most recent book is a fiction book called “Hardened Heart.” It’s staged in a post-apocalyptic world where two old friends randomly find each other and go on a journey searching for redemption.
How’d you meet your business partner?
Well, I would have to say my cofounder is my Fiancé, Vicotria McCullough. We met at a small gym in Peyton, Colorado. My Trainer was the gym owner and became somewhat confident. I would tell her of my dating woes and was so tired of the scene. She mentioned Victoria was single and might be interested. Victoria, in fantastic shape, was training for a competition called “Tri-Fit,” I was intimidated by how beautiful and in shape she was. I told my trainer that she wouldn’t want to date an old fat guy like me, I joked. I’m not that old and not fat, but compared to her, I could have used a few more sit-ups. I accepted the challenge and got her number; I waited a few days because I didn’t want to seem too anxious. There hasn’t been a day that we weren’t together since.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
I never liked the term “Fake it till you make it.” But it is true in so many ways. I always worked hard to fit in wherever I was in life. Be it in Grade and HS to my days in the Marine Corps. What I didn’t have in most of those years was the confidence I have now. Yes, even in the Marine Corps, I felt like I had to put off a persona that I was confident but deep sown in the side; I was nervous about failing, not fit in, and looking foolish in front of my Marines, my peers, and my leadership. However, that isn’t so much the case today. Sure, we all get nervous, but when you genuinely believe in yourself, that part of you is insignificant and plays little role in how people perceive you. Sure, fake it till you make it, but don’t fake it too long, or you will become what you fear the most.
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