Up Your Average

The road to someday leads to a town called Never. That warning moved Tony from Indianapolis to a surf town in Costa Rica.Tony O'Neill, founder of Highline Outdoor Group, runs executive search for the outdoor and sporting goods industry and once built Yeti's leadership team during its biggest growth run. He tells Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve why he and his wife Marla were not trying to escape Indianapolis, and what finally made leaving practical.This episode covers:• Why paying off a mortgage created the capital for land abroad• What selling a house by owner looks like with one showing window• How location independence and time zones shaped the business model• When a winter rental became a land purchase and an architect• Whether a lifetime of belongings deserves one shipping containerTony's one piece of guidance for anyone circling a move this big: do it immediately, don't wait.👉 Work with us at https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

10 minutes is the one block of time nobody is too busy for. Doug set a stopwatch at a coffee shop table and beat it with 36 seconds to spare.Keith argues that our world shrinks with time. And investing only 10 minutes a day in the right activities can keep it open. Doug warns that even 10 careless minutes close it just as fast. The old line about handing a job to a busy person turns out to be about valuing the 10 minutes rather than the hustle.This episode covers:• How you can buy wisdom with 10 minutes a day by reading the book of Proverbs• How one page at a time becomes a book for a kid's 16th birthday• Whether an AI counts as a friend once you have thanked it• Why Keith rolls his eyes when someone says the phone goes both waysIf you want to change your world, take 10 minutes (or more) and listen to this episode.👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

Keith hired his first employee at thirty and got one thing badly wrong. He waited too long to say the hard thing, and it cost him twenty nights of sleep.Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve talk through feedback: how to give it, how to take it, and why the gap between those two skills shape your life. Keith elaborates on how, just like a good story, your life is filled with protagonists and antagonists. You choose which one you play at work, at home, and in every room you walk into. Doug admits he still flinches when someone criticizes him, and he doubts anyone truly enjoys it. What they land on is plain enough. A system corrects itself only when feedback moves fast, and most of us let the loop run open for years.Key Topics:• Why Keith scrapped the annual review at Gimbal• What "you could be right" does to an argument• How to tell a protagonist boss from an antagonist boss• When a decent tip beats an honest one• What Doug still finds hard about hearing criticismIf there is a conversation you have been putting off, this one may be the nudge to go have it this week.👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com