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80. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Edison Valerio

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Paul Casey:

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Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. It's the Tri-Cities influencer podcast. Welcome to the TCI podcast. We're local leadership and self-leadership expert Paul Casey interviews, local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and non-profit executives to hear how they lead themselves and their teams. So we can all benefit from their wisdom and experience. Here's your host, Paul Casey of growing forward services, coating and equipping individuals and teams to spark breakthrough success.

Paul Casey:

It's a great day to grow forward. Thanks for joining me for today's episode with Edison. Valerio Edison is a state farm agent here in the Tri-Cities specifically Pascoe. And I asked him for something quirky about himself and actually I sort of knew what he was going to say because we golf together and he likes to use the phrase nice and easy whenever I try to hit the ball too hard, but Edison, tell us a little bit about that phrase and I think it probably goes beyond just go, huh?

Edison Valerio:

Totally. Paul. Hey, thank you so much, Mr. Casey, for giving me the opportunity to be on your podcast. And this is Edison with state farm, like a good neighbor and a nice and easy as something that is really simple, but that's how I try to live my life. Nice and easy and the same way that we apply that at the golf course when we try and we were trying to push something and we have something in mind and it would try to push it too hard sometime it doesn't go our way, right? When we try to hit the ball, but there's nice and easy Paul is something that is really simple, but at the same time is taking life nice and easy and be nice to yourself when other people that's, that's also have a positive impact. So I applied to my personal and in the golf course.

Paul Casey:

Okay, nice. Well, I'll tell it to my golf game. So there you go. Well, we'll dive in after checking in with our Tri-City Influencer sponsor, take back your weekends and let Senske services be your green team. Senske services is a locally owned and operated company founded in 1947. That has been working with families for nearly 75 years to help create and maintain environments that are great places to live, work and play. They're a family business built on family values and Senske dedicated to delivering quality and providing exceptional customer service. Senske offers a variety of services, including full service, lawn care, pest control, tree care, and Christmas decor. You may have seen their holiday light show at the corporate office. It is a must see every year services are backed by the Senske promise, which means the job will be done right. Or they come back out to learn more about the services Senske provides and the offers available to you visit Senske dot com.

Paul Casey:

Thank you for your support of leadership development in the Tri-Cities. Well welcome Edison. I was privileged to meet you when I was about three or four years ago, I think I was recruiting for a mid-Columbia Score, which helps entrepreneurs launch small businesses here in the Tri Cities. And you you're a key volunteer on that team and thank you again for that. And, and then it was on the golf course as well, where we've had a good, good time. And I think you're usually playing, UB40 on the golf course cart, which has always encouraging.

Edison Valerio:

Yes, yes. And then it goes back to a nice that easily. You had to always include a bit of music. You know, some of us, they do meditation before they go into the golf courses because as we know that the game is a mental game as well. So they let a bit of you before, you know, really, you know, relax relaxes. Yeah.

Paul Casey:

Yes. I love it. Well, so are a tracing. Any influencers can get to know you tell us about your work there at state farm and what do you spend 80% of your day doing these days?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah, I know that's the, you know, I've been really, really blessed to have this opportunity to be my own, my own business owner, to have my own business at the beginning of these this year, which is we're still through the pandemic and I stay, I stay farm independent business owner. We have an office and I have three team members. Two of them are licensed. Someone is going through the process. And so, you know, my background to Paul, I, I used to manage banks for 15 years. I've been in this community for 20 trying to create a positive impact with the people that we touch with while we have so that we can make a difference. And in this world in general, but I spent the, so that's my, you know, my main key for my office, my base is, is to make sure that we have a qualified individuals, talented individuals, but also we, that, that they well-trained so that when our customers call, they can have the best, worst service possible because we are about, we might again, risks of everyday lives so that people can recover from the unexpected when something happened to them, they can recover so that they have dreams so they can, they can realize their dreams.

Edison Valerio:

And so I spent a lot of time coaching a lot of time, making sure that the basis is born in with our, my expectation, but it was also reaching out, doing some marketing, being in my community, volunteering my time and such as going to mainly now here in Detroit, in the passcode, excuse me, on the schools of volunteer my time about to Pasco high now on spending time on new horizons, which is they have kids, challenging kids, oh, with early pregnancy and things of that nature. So we go there as a big partner and, and talk to them, but mainly, you know, focusing on the financing part of it, because that's what that's my expertise is. So that's where to spend the majority of my time.

Paul Casey:

Gotcha. Why do you love what you do? Cause you, you made a shift from the banking industry to the insurance industry. So I'm assuming there was a pole there for you. Why do you love what you do?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. And you know, every single day when we wake up and we look about what do we have, that we can make a difference. So in the financial industry with the knowledge that I had was about, you know, helping people with a checking the same amount with Mons and, and talk them within how to have a better, better score, better five quiz scores. But here with insurance is, and we are in financial services and insurance as well, but they insurance portion of this is about managing risk. How do we manage the rest of everyday lives? So that, because it wouldn't on minus the Rez and something happened, we can lose it all in one second. So it's so fascinating to come to work and talking with people and asking those, those proper questions so that we can discover what they need so that we can protect assets, but also we can protect them and we can protect their family by making sure that they have the right products so that if they have an accident, once again, they have the right coverages because if not, then they open themselves to any lawsuits or medical beers or they don't able to pay.

Edison Valerio:

And it's really like, just like last week, Paul, I had a customer that is Spanish-speaking. And the first thing, I mean, she had a little bit of leak of water and her and her house, but she just came here because she works all day, may Lee and they, an amount of foster company, she works all night and that you sleep all day, but she took the time and she didn't, she didn't call the plumber or anyone. She just came here for, you know, for us to help her. So when are in faces of devastation and desperation, they thinking about us, right? So how, what an opportunity we have to help those individuals and to have anyone to think of us in that time, when they have a station desperation so that we can help them so that they, they, they can continue to live in the regular life because everything can change more secretarial. So that's the, that's the beauty of what I do, what I do call and every single ledgers come into work. And, and it just, my vocation is my vacation. You're saying joy. I can be here for, you know, eight hours, 10 hours, 11 hours on any calls that I gave for any course summers at any given time. And we have our 24 course, 25 hours of course, summer services that they can also assess if, if I, you know, if I can, but fascinating to be in that position.

Paul Casey:

Yes. Yeah. It sounds like you've nailed your why now you do what you do. I love that. Tell us a little bit about, you want to hire a, you want a team around you. That's highly qualified people. Who else do you reach out to as an entrepreneur to help you be successful? Who do you surround yourself with?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah, that's a really good question because we, you know, we never stop learning. We have to continue to learn and we have to be in attentions as to what, what, what's the systems that we need and want it to continue growing because we're not whole, we're not a hundred percent. We always need a percentage. Our buckets are needed according to the projects. Right. So, you know, perhaps, you know, I reach out to you, you really gave you really influence influential and team leadership and team spirits. And just as a personal growth, you have a great book. And I read a lot of look from John, John Maxwell and, and motivational books. And also in the mornings, I, you know, I have my three things that I do in the morning, which is one of the thing is my spiritual, which is [inaudible] listen to your stints. And then Alyssa to my motivational is going to more diversity. And then, then I do my exercise, but you know, reaching out, you know, me once again as asked me, reaching out to what's playing me hall and then in a community, having that have a, your center of influence by, you know, people from my BNI, people like you and, and other leaders in the community that had been influential. I know you have any questions, you know, you can always call them different business owners, you know, such as you know, I have one Mike Miller from mood security, a fan of mine and yeah.

Paul Casey:

Yeah. Good, good people. Cause it does take a community. I like how you mentioned BNI at first . If people don't know what BNI is, what is, would you explain that to our listeners?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. I know they BNI is, is a business network that is going to expand your personal knowledge, personal professional, but also it's a great marketing source. And what he does say is that anything that you have sort of model people that can refer your business. And in case when the, the customer comes into their businesses and asking for, or inquiring them, their businesses, they can also say, oh yeah, but then we have so-and-so. And so that can help you, perhaps in my case with your insurance not only, you come in to buy a home, but also have someone that can help you. So it's a referral base. You build relationship within your team and trust. And also they say centers of influence that instead of you promoting your business, you have 20 other people perhaps also promoting your business,

Paul Casey:

Good stuff. We all need that we all need the, the fellow promoters, the refers, especially in entrepreneurism, because there's such a word of mouth advertising that as critical to build your reputation as someone who can help and add value. I love that. Let me go to something you mentioned earlier, you said you've got a great morning routine, three things that you do in the morning. You said you nurture your, your spiritual wellness. You talked about like motivational and exercise, go a little bit deeper. Because I'm sure that is probably a way that you avoid burnout and negativity.

Edison Valerio:

Oh, absolutely. You know, we, you know, we love what we do and of course, as an employer and you know, we love the, are, you know, alive. So anything else, but we also need to remember Paul, that that is a lot of negativity up there, right? So this is just the world. I mean, our world is even in the morning, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't listen to, I don't start my day listening to news. I haven't watched the news for many years. I read that news. I read it because I choose what I wanted to read. So once again, going back into being intentional, we need that your positive. And just like, can we take our environments in the morning? So you need your environments in the morning or for you to go through that day really strong. So that anything that comes your way, you able to overcome it.

Edison Valerio:

Yes. So for me, those are the three things that I've found that I keeps me really strong. And as I go through the day, because throughout the day you're going to have, you might have a customer that, that might take it on you, you know, Mohammed courseware, that's how to by date. And so how do you overcome those challenges? How do you help those individuals? Right? If you not, if you're not suited mentally, physically, and you know, it's, it's, it can definitely overwhelm you and they ended up fourth and you don't love what you do a thing for those, that nature, but going deep into those three rituals and you know, you don't have to do her every day, but the same way that perhaps one of us, you know, you do Joe gum, meditation, whatever it is, you do need to spend time for yourself.

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. And that's the time that I take for myself early in the morning, so that, you know, before the family, anybody works up, you already too, like you are, you're ready to go for the day and you're ready to take on that day. So it's not, I mentioned it to you, Paul, you know, just take just an hour within that hour. You know, you break it down, you break it up to different sections, but in the same time that I'm working out and that's what I'm listening to, my spiritual breakfast, and it's really simple. It's like, I go to YouTube and so many different, you know, your stands or any other spiritual preachers up there, they just, you know, sexual it's up 20 minutes, a 25, no more than that. And then the more, more diversity, more diversity, it's the same where you have 20, 25 and then goes in so deep into, you know, new, our purpose in life, but not giving up, becoming a varsity.

Edison Valerio:

And we'll you down? How do you, how do you lift yourself up? And those other things, all that, you know, people, you know, they see does. And perhaps they see me that, you know, this happy guy that happy Caribbean guy that goes around smiling all the time within a, with an island vibe. But as it is, you know, it's not easy. You have to, it's not just this mile that you, you know, trying to reflect, but it is, you know, how you chooses to have out a smile by the things that you intentionally consume mentally. Cause we had to be mentors, mentors, strength, and we have to mental mentally strong. And so that's, that's how I lead my life. I mean, that's how I lead in the morning. Now,

Paul Casey:

Once you intentionally consume and otherwise he just got the default consume, which is often a lot negative stuff, a lot of drama that you could allow it to cling to you. And instead you got to pull that stuff off and choose what you consume to set yourself up for a good day. Love that good stuff. Well, Hey, let's take a quick break. Before I asked Edison how he plans his day, how does he get things done? Let's reach out to our sponsors. Are you dreaming of a lush weed free lawn? Have you heard what your neighbors are saying about their Sinsky lawn, a lush weed-free lawn in, within your reach? Don't just take it from us. Listen to what people in our community are saying about Sinsky services. Lavando Elle of Kennewick said I've been a customer for several years and I can depend on Sinsky to take good care of my lawn.

Paul Casey:

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Edison Valerio:

No, that's, that's the, that is a really good question. We, because I'm not going to go into details, Paul, because I are, you know, my, the business that I do and even banking, I mean, it has a lot of processes and this latter routine. So even when we, even when you would get up in the morning, you know, you have to have that routine. So everything is starts with our routine. And so just to make a daily to do list, and that starts the night before. Yeah. And even, even so some of us, we like we planners. So we, we plan on Sunday for the week and, and sometimes you can plan for the whole month, but you can, it's tentative, right? Because you use a lot of verbal second, half and political through weekly, you planned for the week and Sunday. That's what I do.

Edison Valerio:

Take your time. You make sure that your schedules and you knew you review your schedule so that you can have a really quick snapshot, snap view and, and, and your mind as to how that work is going to go. But you, so you made your daily to-do list in the morning or the night before you follow through you do the hottest, you do the hardest task first, and then you clear off your desk, but let's go back into my, into my, to clarify. And then I'm going to go to, I have four more items that I want to emphasize, but like what we do in an insurance world requires everything requires attention because we're dealing with, with people we're dealing with customers risk, we money in the race. So that was something happened that can be, they can be protected. So if somebody calls and said, Hey, a Edison, I just replaced my 2012 Toyota Highlander for a 20, 20 Camaro door.

Edison Valerio:

Things I cannot, we cannot procrastinate it and do it later because if something happened during that time, of course we can, we can back, you know, we can make it effect at any time by those things has to be done sooner than later, immediately on that date, we cannot leave without getting those tasks done because we have, we have people moving and those moving in generalists’ vehicles, anything can happen. Any accident can happen in a given day. So those tasks needs to be done. But in general, though, I'm going to just, you know, we mentioned about, okay, well, get things done through the, during the Workday. And once again, make a daily task, do the hardest tasks. First clear off your desk, sit up a system, set up you process. Because if you don't have a system in place, then you're going to be posed so many different ways, such as if you have a systems that everybody knows in the office that you're going to take an hour.

Edison Valerio:

The first hour from eight to nine is going to be for you to prioritize your tasks. And they know that, okay, within eight to nine, we're going to take voicemail. We're going to take messages because you know, perhaps Edison is working on his routine for the day and then focus on one thing. First CSI. You know, we, as I assume, I mean, we would like to multitask, but just focus on one thing first at a time, get that things other time done so that you can go into another task. Don't jump around because you don't want to have different open tasks and the day nothing gets done. You want to get one thing first, get it done, moving to the next one.

Edison Valerio:

And, and the last one is, you know, it's in the office. It's okay to say, no, I know I cannot do this. Always know, you know, I would like for you to search it or guest announcers or figured it out. And it's okay to say no, because you cannot take all the task. It's going to come as a business owners, you need to delegate, right. And you need to your team for them to find those answers and then have them challenge them. Having to find those answer. I share those with you. Like the iron and the burns. Like even, yeah, the first of course I made the first one or two months, you're spending a lot of time coaching with them and you do your coaching sections, but then they, you enable them to search and find those answers. And then they, the one who ended up teaching you and which they not as a whole, the offers gets, instead of one person gets, you know, three or four brain educating each other by having, by having this open concept, right. People share with the IDs numbers practices. Yep. And so that's, those are the things that I organize my day, Paul on

Paul Casey:

Those are really good. I love the, I, they call it the eat that frog principle of doing that, those difficult tasks first and avoid. It's easy to cross off a lot of little things first, cause they're easy or more fun or just convenient, but we get that big thing done. We get that monkey off our back and we're able to then start a snowball of productivity for the rest of the day. And also, like I said, you know, clear your desk, right? If, if we're all looking at her desk right now, we're just like, oh, you know, it looks like a bomb hit. It, it, it, that clutter just sort of yells at us and it actually hurts our productivity because we get this, this it's, it's a feeling of overwhelm it's in the back of our heads. Probably not right in front of us, but there's something about a clean area with a nice and tidy to-do lists that allows you to set the stage for being productive. So you've got some really great habits there that the time manager and me just smiles. Well, last year you made your, you made a career change and during the COVID year. And so you had to, you had to make a decision to switch careers. Can you tell our listeners who might be on the verge of like, Hmm, I might want to do something different. Maybe it's they have a day job and they want to pursue their dream job. Maybe it's just switching positions, maybe it's going for a promotion. What counsel would you give someone who is really thinking about doing something different than they are now?

Edison Valerio:

You know, it's we all Paul, we, we are a scare. Well, we get scare of the unknown. Yeah. And so, you know, be being in banking for many years and even so I, I became an approve candidate for state farm 10 years ago, but I was so comfortable with online skein money in banks. At that time, I was finding you bank of America that I didn't want to jump. Right. Because you feel comfortable with the little of income that you receive and to jumping into a commission, a hundred percent commission, right? So you just, you have a fear of the unknown, but what I can tell them, the listeners up there is that [inaudible] what you visualized is going to be while you're going to realize the time that you executed your plan. So your objective, you know, and of course, before you jump into your ticket, take an interest in investigating your, what exactly you're trying to do, you know, have that adapt adaptability or your mindset, you mindset. And you mind sets that stability sometimes come a lot of times going with a gravity too. Right.

Edison Valerio:

But whenever you feel the, you know, the fear, you know, trying to, to feel grateful instead as, and share with other ones and they feel that where they can keeps you the ins and out, do you research read once again, I mentioned, if we, the session I'm really good on that, Paul, because when you visualize at one point, it's going to be, it's going to come in fruition and put things in perspective who thinks in perspective and you can't, you can be anything that you wanted to be in life. The only limitations are in our minds, in our head. We can't, yes. We're going to have a lot of adversity, but I send times we can, we can become once again, anything because the situation does, doesn't dictate who we are. You know, as I mentioned it to you, Paul, that I am a, I am a kid and man's young from the bronze, the bronze on New York, the city that they, they, the streets of New York, my mother single mother, that she couldn't, she couldn't have me in a tough neighborhood because she was working in a nursing home.

Edison Valerio:

And so I grew up in the, in the island. We, you know, from the Dominican Republic and I live in Puerto Rico as well. And then, but to me, you know, it was, and I came here to what I wanted college when I was 18. I just, I didn't my first time in Washington state. But you know, it was a private school part of my religion Seventh-day Adventists. And I knew that I was, that's what I wanted to be. I started as electrical engineer, but at some time it was tough because you had to learn so many different things that you don't know, but you had to uncomfortable before you go, you get comfortable. You, you had to then visualize that other anal, the tonal. This is what I, I see myself. So in any businesses up there or anyone that is the ones to take, make that change, don't think that you're going to have a plan B, don't go with a plan B, you have to go with a plan, a, you had to jump and don't think that you're going to come back to what you were doing, because otherwise you're not going to seq at a hundred and twenty oh two twelve.

Edison Valerio:

We want to G we want it to be a fun and hide high fat and high heat, two 12. So that nothing stopped you. Right? So that's the type of mentality. And, and we had to be mentally strong. That is easy. Absolutely not. That is difficult. Absolutely. That that is possible. Yes. Yes. It's possible. Yes, we can do a, yes. We can meet any things. And some, sometimes, you know, we have, Paul would come to work and a lot of people, they have so much, so much talent and they come to work because they just feel that that, that they are that's, that's as good as they go. They are. And, and they have this, this, this pipeline, amazing goals and plans, but then they would put in, in plays. And then somebody said, I think that was the Jean rom. You rom said Les brown. Yeah. Les brown. He said, he said, motivational speaker. He, that he says that Les says that they, the plays that has the most talented or the most dreams are a and the cemetery because everybody texts it to the tomb because too late, too late. So why not to realize and put your plants in place now where we can, instead of taking a seven feet on the ground, and if you fail, you fail, but at least you try.

Paul Casey:

That's good stuff. And I love how you said, you realize what you visualize. Right? And so you've got to keep that goal or that dream, or that next career for that next job position firmly ensconced in your mind. And then, like you said, another author says, burn the boats, right? The Cortez principle of, you know, you can't leave yourself the chicken exit. Like, well, if this doesn't work, then I've got my plan B, but no, I've, I've got to pursue this a hundred percent. If it doesn't work out, it's going to be okay. You know, I can always fall back on my old career or something else, but you don't go in with that. I'm going to bail when things get tough, I'm going to put it wholeheartedly. And yeah, you mentioned some good people there, Les brown listeners, anything unless brownie, what you want to listen to that Jim Rowan, R O H N a. He's got fantastic stuff. You've mentioned Joel, Olsteen for encouragement and you some really good stuff to fill your brain with. Hey, so Edison, finally, what advice would you give to new leaders or anyone who wants to keep growing or gaining more influence in their community or in their workplace?

Edison Valerio:

You know what, one of the thing in order to keep, to keep growing and we need to realize is number one, you know, we're talking about the pursuit of happiness and sometimes, you know, the pursuit of happiness, we as human being, we, we want to, you know, we have these, this facade of happiness, are you doing little things that are not aligned with your purpose. So find you purpose, which is going to find your happiness, and then yet that's going to be contagious. And so with that, whatever you walk, you know, you're going to be walking with your cheek and the shoulder about who you are humble behind, they happiness. That's going to tell you who you are, but also that is going to rebel you purpose in life. And your purpose in life can be different ways. It's not. And I'm talking about just making money, because that is comes. That is the spiritual, that's the result of doing what you love to do. A hand, but the purpose of, you know, perhaps going and talking with others, working with us, non-profit organizations, going to the salvation army or the food bank, whatever it is, find your purpose first and names. That's going to keep you going. And, and by finding your purpose, I know you why then you're going to find your happiness.

Paul Casey:

Well, that is so good. Yeah. I've listened to another podcast where the speaker says the opposite of depression is let's see, I'm trying to think of, she said, but the opposite of depression is a lack of purpose. It's actually apathy. It's not knowing at your core. And so when you have that purpose, you have, you have that internal drive that motivation and that happiness follows after that. I think I slaughtered the quote, but you, your point is well taken that you've got to have that core purpose in order to lead to joy, which is going to vault you forward in an everyday and get you up every morning. Well, Hey, how can our listeners best connect with you?

Edison Valerio:

Yes, they can't follow my webpage on Facebook. Edison, Villarreal is state farm, and also on Instagram, as well as some malaria state farm. We're located here in passcode, 34 7 was court street wide next to Sally's. And also on this north, everybody, you know, on this north is, is a restaurant has been, the staff establishment has been here for 70 plus years. And, and of course you can give us a call at (509) 492-4446. And we'd more than happy to talk to you about your insurance needs. But you know, if you need me to go and talk to anyone about sharing my experience to any high schools, which I love to do talking to our youth, you know, please feel more than working to, to do so and give us a call. Yeah. And it was great. Paul, thank you for giving me the opportunity.

Paul Casey:

Yes. Well thank you for all you do. And the nonprofits you've been associated with the chamber of commerce, and like you said, just your willingness to speak to youth or share your story. You make the Tri-Cities a great place. And so keep leading. Well, my friend,

Edison Valerio:

Thank you. Thank you.

Paul Casey:

Let me wrap up our podcast today with a leadership resource to recommend all you have to do for, to get my tool on how to be a terrific team leader is you open a text message to 72,000 that's 7 2 0 0 0, and type the two words team lead, put a space in between that team lead to 72,000. I'll send you a one pager on 11 inspirational actions to do with your team. Well, we'll have to give that as a free gift to you. So you can be a more terrific team leader than you are right now. Again, this is Paul Casey, and I want to thank my guests, Edison. Valario from state farm for being here today on the Tri-City influencer podcast. We also want to thank our TCI sponsor and invite you to support them. We appreciate you making this possible so that we can collaborate to help inspire leaders in our community. Finally, one more leadership tidbit for the road to help you make a difference in your circle of influence it's by Robin Sharma. And it goes along with what Edison talked about of the getting out of the comfort zone. Robin says, the more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone actually expands until next time kgs keep growing forward.

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Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. It's the Tri-Cities influencer podcast. Welcome to the TCI podcast. We're local leadership and self-leadership expert Paul Casey interviews, local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and non-profit executives to hear how they lead themselves and their teams. So we can all benefit from their wisdom and experience. Here's your host, Paul Casey of growing forward services, coating and equipping individuals and teams to spark breakthrough success.

Paul Casey:

It's a great day to grow forward. Thanks for joining me for today's episode with Edison. Valerio Edison is a state farm agent here in the Tri-Cities specifically Pascoe. And I asked him for something quirky about himself and actually I sort of knew what he was going to say because we golf together and he likes to use the phrase nice and easy whenever I try to hit the ball too hard, but Edison, tell us a little bit about that phrase and I think it probably goes beyond just go, huh?

Edison Valerio:

Totally. Paul. Hey, thank you so much, Mr. Casey, for giving me the opportunity to be on your podcast. And this is Edison with state farm, like a good neighbor and a nice and easy as something that is really simple, but that's how I try to live my life. Nice and easy and the same way that we apply that at the golf course when we try and we were trying to push something and we have something in mind and it would try to push it too hard sometime it doesn't go our way, right? When we try to hit the ball, but there's nice and easy Paul is something that is really simple, but at the same time is taking life nice and easy and be nice to yourself when other people that's, that's also have a positive impact. So I applied to my personal and in the golf course.

Paul Casey:

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Paul Casey:

Thank you for your support of leadership development in the Tri-Cities. Well welcome Edison. I was privileged to meet you when I was about three or four years ago, I think I was recruiting for a mid-Columbia Score, which helps entrepreneurs launch small businesses here in the Tri Cities. And you you're a key volunteer on that team and thank you again for that. And, and then it was on the golf course as well, where we've had a good, good time. And I think you're usually playing, UB40 on the golf course cart, which has always encouraging.

Edison Valerio:

Yes, yes. And then it goes back to a nice that easily. You had to always include a bit of music. You know, some of us, they do meditation before they go into the golf courses because as we know that the game is a mental game as well. So they let a bit of you before, you know, really, you know, relax relaxes. Yeah.

Paul Casey:

Yes. I love it. Well, so are a tracing. Any influencers can get to know you tell us about your work there at state farm and what do you spend 80% of your day doing these days?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah, I know that's the, you know, I've been really, really blessed to have this opportunity to be my own, my own business owner, to have my own business at the beginning of these this year, which is we're still through the pandemic and I stay, I stay farm independent business owner. We have an office and I have three team members. Two of them are licensed. Someone is going through the process. And so, you know, my background to Paul, I, I used to manage banks for 15 years. I've been in this community for 20 trying to create a positive impact with the people that we touch with while we have so that we can make a difference. And in this world in general, but I spent the, so that's my, you know, my main key for my office, my base is, is to make sure that we have a qualified individuals, talented individuals, but also we, that, that they well-trained so that when our customers call, they can have the best, worst service possible because we are about, we might again, risks of everyday lives so that people can recover from the unexpected when something happened to them, they can recover so that they have dreams so they can, they can realize their dreams.

Edison Valerio:

And so I spent a lot of time coaching a lot of time, making sure that the basis is born in with our, my expectation, but it was also reaching out, doing some marketing, being in my community, volunteering my time and such as going to mainly now here in Detroit, in the passcode, excuse me, on the schools of volunteer my time about to Pasco high now on spending time on new horizons, which is they have kids, challenging kids, oh, with early pregnancy and things of that nature. So we go there as a big partner and, and talk to them, but mainly, you know, focusing on the financing part of it, because that's what that's my expertise is. So that's where to spend the majority of my time.

Paul Casey:

Gotcha. Why do you love what you do? Cause you, you made a shift from the banking industry to the insurance industry. So I'm assuming there was a pole there for you. Why do you love what you do?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. And you know, every single day when we wake up and we look about what do we have, that we can make a difference. So in the financial industry with the knowledge that I had was about, you know, helping people with a checking the same amount with Mons and, and talk them within how to have a better, better score, better five quiz scores. But here with insurance is, and we are in financial services and insurance as well, but they insurance portion of this is about managing risk. How do we manage the rest of everyday lives? So that, because it wouldn't on minus the Rez and something happened, we can lose it all in one second. So it's so fascinating to come to work and talking with people and asking those, those proper questions so that we can discover what they need so that we can protect assets, but also we can protect them and we can protect their family by making sure that they have the right products so that if they have an accident, once again, they have the right coverages because if not, then they open themselves to any lawsuits or medical beers or they don't able to pay.

Edison Valerio:

And it's really like, just like last week, Paul, I had a customer that is Spanish-speaking. And the first thing, I mean, she had a little bit of leak of water and her and her house, but she just came here because she works all day, may Lee and they, an amount of foster company, she works all night and that you sleep all day, but she took the time and she didn't, she didn't call the plumber or anyone. She just came here for, you know, for us to help her. So when are in faces of devastation and desperation, they thinking about us, right? So how, what an opportunity we have to help those individuals and to have anyone to think of us in that time, when they have a station desperation so that we can help them so that they, they, they can continue to live in the regular life because everything can change more secretarial. So that's the, that's the beauty of what I do, what I do call and every single ledgers come into work. And, and it just, my vocation is my vacation. You're saying joy. I can be here for, you know, eight hours, 10 hours, 11 hours on any calls that I gave for any course summers at any given time. And we have our 24 course, 25 hours of course, summer services that they can also assess if, if I, you know, if I can, but fascinating to be in that position.

Paul Casey:

Yes. Yeah. It sounds like you've nailed your why now you do what you do. I love that. Tell us a little bit about, you want to hire a, you want a team around you. That's highly qualified people. Who else do you reach out to as an entrepreneur to help you be successful? Who do you surround yourself with?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah, that's a really good question because we, you know, we never stop learning. We have to continue to learn and we have to be in attentions as to what, what, what's the systems that we need and want it to continue growing because we're not whole, we're not a hundred percent. We always need a percentage. Our buckets are needed according to the projects. Right. So, you know, perhaps, you know, I reach out to you, you really gave you really influence influential and team leadership and team spirits. And just as a personal growth, you have a great book. And I read a lot of look from John, John Maxwell and, and motivational books. And also in the mornings, I, you know, I have my three things that I do in the morning, which is one of the thing is my spiritual, which is [inaudible] listen to your stints. And then Alyssa to my motivational is going to more diversity. And then, then I do my exercise, but you know, reaching out, you know, me once again as asked me, reaching out to what's playing me hall and then in a community, having that have a, your center of influence by, you know, people from my BNI, people like you and, and other leaders in the community that had been influential. I know you have any questions, you know, you can always call them different business owners, you know, such as you know, I have one Mike Miller from mood security, a fan of mine and yeah.

Paul Casey:

Yeah. Good, good people. Cause it does take a community. I like how you mentioned BNI at first . If people don't know what BNI is, what is, would you explain that to our listeners?

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. I know they BNI is, is a business network that is going to expand your personal knowledge, personal professional, but also it's a great marketing source. And what he does say is that anything that you have sort of model people that can refer your business. And in case when the, the customer comes into their businesses and asking for, or inquiring them, their businesses, they can also say, oh yeah, but then we have so-and-so. And so that can help you, perhaps in my case with your insurance not only, you come in to buy a home, but also have someone that can help you. So it's a referral base. You build relationship within your team and trust. And also they say centers of influence that instead of you promoting your business, you have 20 other people perhaps also promoting your business,

Paul Casey:

Good stuff. We all need that we all need the, the fellow promoters, the refers, especially in entrepreneurism, because there's such a word of mouth advertising that as critical to build your reputation as someone who can help and add value. I love that. Let me go to something you mentioned earlier, you said you've got a great morning routine, three things that you do in the morning. You said you nurture your, your spiritual wellness. You talked about like motivational and exercise, go a little bit deeper. Because I'm sure that is probably a way that you avoid burnout and negativity.

Edison Valerio:

Oh, absolutely. You know, we, you know, we love what we do and of course, as an employer and you know, we love the, are, you know, alive. So anything else, but we also need to remember Paul, that that is a lot of negativity up there, right? So this is just the world. I mean, our world is even in the morning, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't listen to, I don't start my day listening to news. I haven't watched the news for many years. I read that news. I read it because I choose what I wanted to read. So once again, going back into being intentional, we need that your positive. And just like, can we take our environments in the morning? So you need your environments in the morning or for you to go through that day really strong. So that anything that comes your way, you able to overcome it.

Edison Valerio:

Yes. So for me, those are the three things that I've found that I keeps me really strong. And as I go through the day, because throughout the day you're going to have, you might have a customer that, that might take it on you, you know, Mohammed courseware, that's how to by date. And so how do you overcome those challenges? How do you help those individuals? Right? If you not, if you're not suited mentally, physically, and you know, it's, it's, it can definitely overwhelm you and they ended up fourth and you don't love what you do a thing for those, that nature, but going deep into those three rituals and you know, you don't have to do her every day, but the same way that perhaps one of us, you know, you do Joe gum, meditation, whatever it is, you do need to spend time for yourself.

Edison Valerio:

Yeah. And that's the time that I take for myself early in the morning, so that, you know, before the family, anybody works up, you already too, like you are, you're ready to go for the day and you're ready to take on that day. So it's not, I mentioned it to you, Paul, you know, just take just an hour within that hour. You know, you break it down, you break it up to different sections, but in the same time that I'm working out and that's what I'm listening to, my spiritual breakfast, and it's really simple. It's like, I go to YouTube and so many different, you know, your stands or any other spiritual preachers up there, they just, you know, sexual it's up 20 minutes, a 25, no more than that. And then the more, more diversity, more diversity, it's the same where you have 20, 25 and then goes in so deep into, you know, new, our purpose in life, but not giving up, becoming a varsity.

Edison Valerio:

And we'll you down? How do you, how do you lift yourself up? And those other things, all that, you know, people, you know, they see does. And perhaps they see me that, you know, this happy guy that happy Caribbean guy that goes around smiling all the time within a, with an island vibe. But as it is, you know, it's not easy. You have to, it's not just this mile that you, you know, trying to reflect, but it is, you know, how you chooses to have out a smile by the things that you intentionally consume mentally. Cause we had to be mentors, mentors, strength, and we have to mental mentally strong. And so that's, that's how I lead my life. I mean, that's how I lead in the morning. Now,

Paul Casey:

Once you intentionally consume and otherwise he just got the default consume, which is often a lot negative stuff, a lot of drama that you could allow it to cling to you. And instead you got to pull that stuff off and choose what you consume to set yourself up for a good day. Love that good stuff. Well, Hey, let's take a quick break. Before I asked Edison how he plans his day, how does he get things done? Let's reach out to our sponsors. Are you dreaming of a lush weed free lawn? Have you heard what your neighbors are saying about their Sinsky lawn, a lush weed-free lawn in, within your reach? Don't just take it from us. Listen to what people in our community are saying about Sinsky services. Lavando Elle of Kennewick said I've been a customer for several years and I can depend on Sinsky to take good care of my lawn.

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Edison Valerio:

No, that's, that's the, that is a really good question. We, because I'm not going to go into details, Paul, because I are, you know, my, the business that I do and even banking, I mean, it has a lot of processes and this latter routine. So even when we, even when you would get up in the morning, you know, you have to have that routine. So everything is starts with our routine. And so just to make a daily to do list, and that starts the night before. Yeah. And even, even so some of us, we like we planners. So we, we plan on Sunday for the week and, and sometimes you can plan for the whole month, but you can, it's tentative, right? Because you use a lot of verbal second, half and political through weekly, you planned for the week and Sunday. That's what I do.

Edison Valerio:

Take your time. You make sure that your schedules and you knew you review your schedule so that you can have a really quick snapshot, snap view and, and, and your mind as to how that work is going to go. But you, so you made your daily to-do list in the morning or the night before you follow through you do the hottest, you do the hardest task first, and then you clear off your desk, but let's go back into my, into my, to clarify. And then I'm going to go to, I have four more items that I want to emphasize, but like what we do in an insurance world requires everything requires attention because we're dealing with, with people we're dealing with customers risk, we money in the race. So that was something happened that can be, they can be protected. So if somebody calls and said, Hey, a Edison, I just replaced my 2012 Toyota Highlander for a 20, 20 Camaro door.

Edison Valerio:

Things I cannot, we cannot procrastinate it and do it later because if something happened during that time, of course we can, we can back, you know, we can make it effect at any time by those things has to be done sooner than later, immediately on that date, we cannot leave without getting those tasks done because we have, we have people moving and those moving in generalists’ vehicles, anything can happen. Any accident can happen in a given day. So those tasks needs to be done. But in general, though, I'm going to just, you know, we mentioned about, okay, well, get things done through the, during the Workday. And once again, make a daily task, do the hardest tasks. First clear off your desk, sit up a system, set up you process. Because if you don't have a system in place, then you're going to be posed so many different ways, such as if you have a systems that everybody knows in the office that you're going to take an hour.

Edison Valerio:

The first hour from eight to nine is going to be for you to prioritize your tasks. And they know that, okay, within eight to nine, we're going to take voicemail. We're going to take messages because you know, perhaps Edison is working on his routine for the day and then focus on one thing. First CSI. You know, we, as I assume, I mean, we would like to multitask, but just focus on one thing first at a time, get that things other time done so that you can go into another task. Don't jump around because you don't want to have different open tasks and the day nothing gets done. You want to get one thing first, get it done, moving to the next one.

Edison Valerio:

And, and the last one is, you know, it's in the office. It's okay to say, no, I know I cannot do this. Always know, you know, I would like for you to search it or guest announcers or figured it out. And it's okay to say no, because you cannot take all the task. It's going to come as a business owners, you need to delegate, right. And you need to your team for them to find those answers and then have them challenge them. Having to find those answer. I share those with you. Like the iron and the burns. Like even, yeah, the first of course I made the first one or two months, you're spending a lot of time coaching with them and you do your coaching sections, but then they, you enable them to search and find those answers. And then they, the one who ended up teaching you and which they not as a whole, the offers gets, instead of one person gets, you know, three or four brain educating each other by having, by having this open concept, right. People share with the IDs numbers practices. Yep. And so that's, those are the things that I organize my day, Paul on

Paul Casey:

Those are really good. I love the, I, they call it the eat that frog principle of doing that, those difficult tasks first and avoid. It's easy to cross off a lot of little things first, cause they're easy or more fun or just convenient, but we get that big thing done. We get that monkey off our back and we're able to then start a snowball of productivity for the rest of the day. And also, like I said, you know, clear your desk, right? If, if we're all looking at her desk right now, we're just like, oh, you know, it looks like a bomb hit. It, it, it, that clutter just sort of yells at us and it actually hurts our productivity because we get this, this it's, it's a feeling of overwhelm it's in the back of our heads. Probably not right in front of us, but there's something about a clean area with a nice and tidy to-do lists that allows you to set the stage for being productive. So you've got some really great habits there that the time manager and me just smiles. Well, last year you made your, you made a career change and during the COVID year. And so you had to, you had to make a decision to switch careers. Can you tell our listeners who might be on the verge of like, Hmm, I might want to do something different. Maybe it's they have a day job and they want to pursue their dream job. Maybe it's just switching positions, maybe it's going for a promotion. What counsel would you give someone who is really thinking about doing something different than they are now?

Edison Valerio:

You know, it's we all Paul, we, we are a scare. Well, we get scare of the unknown. Yeah. And so, you know, be being in banking for many years and even so I, I became an approve candidate for state farm 10 years ago, but I was so comfortable with online skein money in banks. At that time, I was finding you bank of America that I didn't want to jump. Right. Because you feel comfortable with the little of income that you receive and to jumping into a commission, a hundred percent commission, right? So you just, you have a fear of the unknown, but what I can tell them, the listeners up there is that [inaudible] what you visualized is going to be while you're going to realize the time that you executed your plan. So your objective, you know, and of course, before you jump into your ticket, take an interest in investigating your, what exactly you're trying to do, you know, have that adapt adaptability or your mindset, you mindset. And you mind sets that stability sometimes come a lot of times going with a gravity too. Right.

Edison Valerio:

But whenever you feel the, you know, the fear, you know, trying to, to feel grateful instead as, and share with other ones and they feel that where they can keeps you the ins and out, do you research read once again, I mentioned, if we, the session I'm really good on that, Paul, because when you visualize at one point, it's going to be, it's going to come in fruition and put things in perspective who thinks in perspective and you can't, you can be anything that you wanted to be in life. The only limitations are in our minds, in our head. We can't, yes. We're going to have a lot of adversity, but I send times we can, we can become once again, anything because the situation does, doesn't dictate who we are. You know, as I mentioned it to you, Paul, that I am a, I am a kid and man's young from the bronze, the bronze on New York, the city that they, they, the streets of New York, my mother single mother, that she couldn't, she couldn't have me in a tough neighborhood because she was working in a nursing home.

Edison Valerio:

And so I grew up in the, in the island. We, you know, from the Dominican Republic and I live in Puerto Rico as well. And then, but to me, you know, it was, and I came here to what I wanted college when I was 18. I just, I didn't my first time in Washington state. But you know, it was a private school part of my religion Seventh-day Adventists. And I knew that I was, that's what I wanted to be. I started as electrical engineer, but at some time it was tough because you had to learn so many different things that you don't know, but you had to uncomfortable before you go, you get comfortable. You, you had to then visualize that other anal, the tonal. This is what I, I see myself. So in any businesses up there or anyone that is the ones to take, make that change, don't think that you're going to have a plan B, don't go with a plan B, you have to go with a plan, a, you had to jump and don't think that you're going to come back to what you were doing, because otherwise you're not going to seq at a hundred and twenty oh two twelve.

Edison Valerio:

We want to G we want it to be a fun and hide high fat and high heat, two 12. So that nothing stopped you. Right? So that's the type of mentality. And, and we had to be mentally strong. That is easy. Absolutely not. That is difficult. Absolutely. That that is possible. Yes. Yes. It's possible. Yes, we can do a, yes. We can meet any things. And some, sometimes, you know, we have, Paul would come to work and a lot of people, they have so much, so much talent and they come to work because they just feel that that, that they are that's, that's as good as they go. They are. And, and they have this, this, this pipeline, amazing goals and plans, but then they would put in, in plays. And then somebody said, I think that was the Jean rom. You rom said Les brown. Yeah. Les brown. He said, he said, motivational speaker. He, that he says that Les says that they, the plays that has the most talented or the most dreams are a and the cemetery because everybody texts it to the tomb because too late, too late. So why not to realize and put your plants in place now where we can, instead of taking a seven feet on the ground, and if you fail, you fail, but at least you try.

Paul Casey:

That's good stuff. And I love how you said, you realize what you visualize. Right? And so you've got to keep that goal or that dream, or that next career for that next job position firmly ensconced in your mind. And then, like you said, another author says, burn the boats, right? The Cortez principle of, you know, you can't leave yourself the chicken exit. Like, well, if this doesn't work, then I've got my plan B, but no, I've, I've got to pursue this a hundred percent. If it doesn't work out, it's going to be okay. You know, I can always fall back on my old career or something else, but you don't go in with that. I'm going to bail when things get tough, I'm going to put it wholeheartedly. And yeah, you mentioned some good people there, Les brown listeners, anything unless brownie, what you want to listen to that Jim Rowan, R O H N a. He's got fantastic stuff. You've mentioned Joel, Olsteen for encouragement and you some really good stuff to fill your brain with. Hey, so Edison, finally, what advice would you give to new leaders or anyone who wants to keep growing or gaining more influence in their community or in their workplace?

Edison Valerio:

You know what, one of the thing in order to keep, to keep growing and we need to realize is number one, you know, we're talking about the pursuit of happiness and sometimes, you know, the pursuit of happiness, we as human being, we, we want to, you know, we have these, this facade of happiness, are you doing little things that are not aligned with your purpose. So find you purpose, which is going to find your happiness, and then yet that's going to be contagious. And so with that, whatever you walk, you know, you're going to be walking with your cheek and the shoulder about who you are humble behind, they happiness. That's going to tell you who you are, but also that is going to rebel you purpose in life. And your purpose in life can be different ways. It's not. And I'm talking about just making money, because that is comes. That is the spiritual, that's the result of doing what you love to do. A hand, but the purpose of, you know, perhaps going and talking with others, working with us, non-profit organizations, going to the salvation army or the food bank, whatever it is, find your purpose first and names. That's going to keep you going. And, and by finding your purpose, I know you why then you're going to find your happiness.

Paul Casey:

Well, that is so good. Yeah. I've listened to another podcast where the speaker says the opposite of depression is let's see, I'm trying to think of, she said, but the opposite of depression is a lack of purpose. It's actually apathy. It's not knowing at your core. And so when you have that purpose, you have, you have that internal drive that motivation and that happiness follows after that. I think I slaughtered the quote, but you, your point is well taken that you've got to have that core purpose in order to lead to joy, which is going to vault you forward in an everyday and get you up every morning. Well, Hey, how can our listeners best connect with you?

Edison Valerio:

Yes, they can't follow my webpage on Facebook. Edison, Villarreal is state farm, and also on Instagram, as well as some malaria state farm. We're located here in passcode, 34 7 was court street wide next to Sally's. And also on this north, everybody, you know, on this north is, is a restaurant has been, the staff establishment has been here for 70 plus years. And, and of course you can give us a call at (509) 492-4446. And we'd more than happy to talk to you about your insurance needs. But you know, if you need me to go and talk to anyone about sharing my experience to any high schools, which I love to do talking to our youth, you know, please feel more than working to, to do so and give us a call. Yeah. And it was great. Paul, thank you for giving me the opportunity.

Paul Casey:

Yes. Well thank you for all you do. And the nonprofits you've been associated with the chamber of commerce, and like you said, just your willingness to speak to youth or share your story. You make the Tri-Cities a great place. And so keep leading. Well, my friend,

Edison Valerio:

Thank you. Thank you.

Paul Casey:

Let me wrap up our podcast today with a leadership resource to recommend all you have to do for, to get my tool on how to be a terrific team leader is you open a text message to 72,000 that's 7 2 0 0 0, and type the two words team lead, put a space in between that team lead to 72,000. I'll send you a one pager on 11 inspirational actions to do with your team. Well, we'll have to give that as a free gift to you. So you can be a more terrific team leader than you are right now. Again, this is Paul Casey, and I want to thank my guests, Edison. Valario from state farm for being here today on the Tri-City influencer podcast. We also want to thank our TCI sponsor and invite you to support them. We appreciate you making this possible so that we can collaborate to help inspire leaders in our community. Finally, one more leadership tidbit for the road to help you make a difference in your circle of influence it's by Robin Sharma. And it goes along with what Edison talked about of the getting out of the comfort zone. Robin says, the more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone actually expands until next time kgs keep growing forward.

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Thank you to our listeners for tuning in to today's show. Paul Casey is on a mission to add value to leaders by providing practical tools and strategies that reduce stress in their lives and on their teams so that they can enjoy life and leadership and experience their key desire for salts. If you'd like more help from Paul in your leadership development, connect with him@growingforwardatpaulcasey.org for a consultation that can help you move past your current challenges and create a strategy for growing your life or your team forward. Paul would also like to help you restore your sanity to your crazy schedule and getting your priorities done every day by offering you is free control my calendar checklist, go to WW dot, take back my calendar.com for that productivity tool or open a text message 2 7 2 0 0 0, and type the word grown.

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The Tri-Cities influencer podcast was recorded at fuse SPC by bill Wagner of safe strategies.

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