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I'm Porter. I'm your host, and this month of June, We're covering balance, learning, and loyalty as our core values. What do those things mean? How were they applied to your life, or within your perspective? Those results may vary.

And, frankly, for a lot of people, the jury's still out. Maybe you haven't thought about it, maybe you haven't considered it ever, and maybe you're just not sure. When we're talking about learning, a lot of that gets taken for granted.

Everybody has to go to school. Legally, you have to at least. Somewhere, But even if you don't, let's say you drop out, maybe you've got a GED through high school or secondary school depending on where you grew up.

Maybe you didn't go to college or university. But maybe you did. Does that mean you learned less? Does that mean what you learned has less value? No. Not necessarily, maybe less applicability in fairness but certainly not less value.

Plus, there's an air of commonality when you talk to people about those topics because you can still have a conversation with different perspectives over shared values.

Folks this particular interview, We're talking to our survival dad y t host of Walkabout, Jonesie.

And we're gonna talk about a few things concerning learning. And loyalty, and balancing those things within your perspective as they're applied to different end states and different topics.

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Welcome back again on Porter. I'm your host. Here on SDYT, the podcast. We're talking to our host. From survival dad y t video series Walkabout, An occasional guest host to this podcast. Jonesy first, welcome to the show.

Right, Porter. Thanks, mate. I appreciate it. Damn in, This is great. We've talked on occasion a little bit since the last time you were here. In fact, since the last episode, you guess hosted was now a few months ago.

Right? Right? Yeah, mate. You were out, sick, I think it was. Chances are very high. It was just you want to take the day off. I figured why not? And we'll be able to see what types of questions you've got.

I mean, we've talked about them. Right. Yeah, mate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We did. We had that conversation. I remember picking up the phone. I remember you saying, hi, Jonesie. I got a favor. It's about the last thing I got tonight.

Okay. Alright. Well, we'll go through it and we'll see What maybe you remember? This episode in June, recovering balance learning, I know mate. It's June. Right? That's balance that's learning this loyalty.

I hedged you to your intro. Okay. Well, just reminding you. Alright? So we have a common point to step off from. Okay. You having a rough day, man? You doing okay? Right. Yeah. Okay. Well, you just seem a little on edge.

Alright. You keep asking me the same questions. We talked about all the stuff off the air. You asked if I was ready? You told me you'd record the intro, and then you'd bring me into the conversation.

Now I'm here. I'm just anxious to get started. Oh, well, sure. Don't let me stand in your way, man. Let's start at the beginning. Do you wanna tackle 1 of these at a time?

Or we hadn't really discussed this too much. So it's really up to you. Order, I bet you just take a seat for a second mate. I'll go over a few of those, and then you chime in whenever you feel like you're ready.

How's that? Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. We can do that. Right. Then I'd like to start by saying, Thank you for having me on the show. Right? And to all the listeners? I understand that walkabouts been a bit absent for a little while.

Apologize for that. There have been a few things that I've had to address. But you have to balance at work, life. I think integration to a certain degree. 1 of the things that I do wanna discuss is loyalty.

When I hear about loyalty, I think about things like a lion. Or a queen or a king. And they're court, how do you do things for whoever's in charge in those organizational structures that puts them is the priority.

Loyalty. How do you decide which action to take in certain situations or which action not to take in certain situations?

You can base it off of what you wanna do. You can base it off of the ideal outcome, but at the end of the day, it depends more on who told you or which organization told you to do something and where your allegiances lie?

Loyalty. More specifically though, Think about this mass consumerism that we're moving into now.

Right? The entire planet has products, services, advertised online on social media, Right? Everybody's trying to buy something, or everybody's trying to advertise why you need to.

Brand loyalty, is a bit different. It could be as simple as you buy 1 product, 1 time from 1 person, 1 group. Right? K? There's a shop I'm familiar with.

It's a place called Bunnins. 1 of my favorites though. It's a hardware store. Can you show up, grab a snack on a Sunday. Walk into the store, spend more time than you needed to, walking out with more things than you realized you need.

It's great fun. Not really. You don't need any other night. Now let me cut you off for a second, Josie. We have stores like this.

Like a harbor freight meets a tractor supply, meets a true value ace hardware kind of vibe, like, a target type black hole. Like, when you walk into target, you're like, oh, I didn't know I needed these things and you buy it.

Oh, yeah, mate. It's just like that. I've seen it actually going into target as well. You go in there with like 5 dollars that you're planning on spending. And then you buy like 25 dollars worth of things.

Walk out, and it's been an hour and a half. Let's just say the point is you get something. The quality is good. You understand upfront what you're getting based on reviews or whatever. And then you use it and you like it.

So the next time you need something similar to that product, you buy it again. You don't even do the research. You buy it again from the same people, the same group organization whatever because it worked well the first time.

And maybe that's the extent of your brand loyalty. Maybe it goes a bit more shallow than that. Where you buy a brand because it's popular and you continue buying that brand until it's not popular.

Right? Brand loyalty or any loyalty has a line, has a boundary, where you stop, where it becomes no longer a question of the longevity of the loyalty, but there was loyalty nonetheless. Now maybe it goes a bit deeper though.

Maybe your brand loyalty is more closely aligned with your value system, Porter, you're gonna like this. Right? If a corporate entity has values that you like, Maybe that's why you continue buying from them.

You had a woolies mate. Wallies? No. Wallwettes. Right. Wallies. The point is it's a fresh food store. Right? I like the fact that they have sustainable things that you can buy there.

Organic things. Good quality products. I like the atmosphere. I like the environment. And so I shop there. Oh, sure. Yeah. Right? Like, you pick different places to go because you align more closely with I mean, yeah.

Sure. Common sense. Assuming assuming you know their values and you know yours. And number 2, they actually provide their values, like written somewhere so you know what they are.

Right. Well, yeah, that's true. You can't just guess. You can't say, oh, well, this place is dependable, so they must value being dependable.

Right? Maybe it's just a victim of circumstance that they happen to be dependable. Sure. That's right, mate. Now you look at that flying kangaroo we've got.

Right? Quantus Air. I appreciate the fact that they put their values on their websites. Now, for example, I live in the states, so there's a lot more options. If you understand what their values are, you're more likely to go with them.

Now, conversely, I'm a Bundy fan myself. You're a Bundy fan. Like, married with children? No. No. I'm I just meant Al Bundy love and marriage. You know, like, the What?

No. Bundy. It's a ram, mate. Okay. Alright. No, mate. What are you sit down. Bundy's a ram. They make ginger beer. They've got all kinds of drinks, fruity drinks, whatever. Matter of fact, now you can find them at like Costco.

If you never had it, here's a quick plug for Bundy. You can make yourself a dark and stormy? I've heard of dark and stormy's. Actually, a couple years ago, I went out to Bermuda for about a week.

Pretty sure it's like their national drink. Right? Ginger beer and and rum? Black steel rum. Black steel mate? No. They make that in Vermuda. This is Bundy's roommate. Totally different.

Everything's grown on the island. Ginger fields for their ginger beer. You've also got their sugar cane, their molasses, for their rum. Growing on the island as well or whatever you do with molasses if you don't grow it.

It's all local. It's delicious, though. I see some with you. Brain loyalty plays a role. Right. Yeah, mate. But that's why if I wanna dark and stormy, I'm going to Bundy's. Or here in the States, I'm going to Costco to get it.

Okay. Alright. I'm with you. That's just loyalty. Right? Like, you don't really need to balance out other options at that point because you've already got a loyalty to those products. So does balance really matter?

Well, of course, it does. Sometimes loyalty only goes so far when I talk about the longevity of loyalty mate. People can change your minds. People grow up, their tastes change, preferences change, the priorities change.

So your loyalty might change as well. You don't stay friends with somebody forever. In most cases, and it's fine. People grow apart, relationships end, And that reminds me.

We're talking about brand loyalty. What does that mean to you as a person? Well, I mean, we've pretty much already talked about that. No. What I mean is as an individual, not like you, Porter, here's the thing.

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Probably not. Does that mean they can't ever be fathers? Definitely not. Of course they can. And so those are the people I'm speaking to, and also let me say, I'm speaking to the future fathers as well.

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I'm speaking to the future fathers as well. Your name is your brand. Here's what I mean. You take all of those aspects of quality, care, community, being genuine, being honest in representing what values you stand for.

K? As you teach those to the people that gave you their father title, or those kids who belong to other people.

As you teach them, the mentor them, you are building your personal brand. K? The effort that you put in. That's what breeds brand loyalty. Right? Not to you because you're gonna change.

You're gonna get older. You're gonna become an asshole too. And here's the thing, If you're gonna grow up and be a can't say that. Right? What do I say then? That's just who you've become. Doesn't mean it's who you are.

However, In establishing those boundaries, being dependable, being honest, being loyal, doing what you say you're going to do. Actually, taking an effort, building confidence, instilling confidence, or maybe self esteem?

Those types of things? Maybe it's as simple as Lennon had a tie a tie mate. We're learning how to mow the grass, but maybe it's also teaching or showing through services, a work ethic.

And sacrifice. Maybe it's showing how to communicate. Maybe it's even from a distance and you're never actually there in person that often or at all.

But that's how you build brand loyalty mate. It's your name. It's what you instill in other people. It's your character. That's your brand. And if you want people to be loyal to that, not be your friend.

Not always like you, not always agree with you. But understand you and value all of it. Well then that's what it takes. Alright. So I have a couple questions. What we're talking about loyalty and fatherhood These call them brand values.

Okay? These aspects that you brought up of quality and care and dependability and honesty. All of these things are basically values of that brand. So my question is, are they always good? Well, that depends much. What do you mean good?

Here's the thing, if we're saying that brand values are the parameters to get expected results, consistent results. Then let's call them boundaries because that's what that means. If you cross those lines, you get inconsistent outcomes.

If you stay within those, you know what to expect in any other outcome. Now a good boundary is up front. It's in your face and you know what you're getting ahead of time is dependable and it's honest.

However, a good boundary is also just encouraging honesty. Depending on how you define good, sure. A bad boundary. It's vague, it's indistinct.

Boundaries let you know what's acceptable, what's not. So here's the thing. The natural order of things is chaos. Okay. Alright. I like that. The natural order of things is chaos. Right. That's what I said, mate.

The natural order of things is chaos. K? Which means you have to if you want consistent results, if you want dependability. If you want success, in any relative sense, if you want survival, you need controls made.

Well, sure. That's like, Who was it Newton's second law, I think, of thermodynamics? He said it was inch might look. No. It it doesn't matter. Okay? The point is, You need controls. Too many variables.

You're going to get inconsistency. That's like personal training or strength training even. Right? You want to be able to implement for the sake of, let's say, minimizing the chances of musculoskeletal injuries when you're working out.

K? Let's use that as our baseline. Or I made sure you take the floor then. I'll just sit here. 1 second. If you're trying to minimize the chances or the risk, you need to input as many controls as you can in say a technique.

So if you develop a sound technique in any particular movement in plane, And then have 1 variable, maybe 2 at most. Maybe that variable is load.

Or sets, or reps, or rest. But whatever it is, whatever they are in some cases, then you know once you get a deviation from a predictable result For better or worse, it was likely due to 1 of those 2 or both of those 2 variables.

But if you have too much chaos, you don't know what's what's effective and what's not. So it's difficult then to improve and get better. And that's the whole point of this human condition.

Bora, let's not get too deep mate, but I do agree with you. Put boundaries in place first, that's what all good stalls do as well. Right. They put their values out there as boundaries so you know what to expect, what you're gonna get.

As an experience when you shop with or work with that company for that product or service. Rod, of course. And so overall, you wanna have a predictable outcome.

Well, sure. You want positive examples too. Right? We're talking about fatherhood earlier. Ideally, you wanna be a positive example of what father should be or what fatherhood is or what fatherhood could be.

Right, mate. What do you mean positive? Think about it like this. K? Positive can be relative to the environment. I'm not following. That's what I was about to explain made.

Okay. Survival in an environment on a black sea right now. What they're trying to teach is survival. K? For diet, for food, for sleep, for mental health, physical health, blasting holes in places.

Tanks. K. You get the picture. Here's the thing, a positive example of fatherhood in that environment primarily revolves around how to survive and how to communicate and how to work together.

It doesn't have anything to do with a tie. K? Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with a yard. K? Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with straight eyes in school. K? So Positive example is a positive trend in that case.

But positive could also be happy. Right? Given what they want, you teach them what they need. Right? A positive example could also be knowledgeable though. Right? And maybe the environment where you live, maybe your family's teachers.

Maybe you gotta do well in school. Right? I've heard about Tiger parents. Shout out to them. So maybe doing well in school. Is your way of a positive example teaching kids how to study or how to study better more effectively whatever?

Maybe it's prosperous. Right? Maybe your kids work on a farm somewhere. Right? It doesn't change the fact that you need to learn how to manage your money financially speaking.

Activically speaking. Understand, intellectual property. Understand organizations. K? How much is spending? How much is she making? Maybe prosperous is the positive example you need to hear about. In any case, yes.

Fatherhood has to be a positive example. Abs and dads? K. Dad that drink all the time. Alright? These are negative aspects when you ignore your kids and you don't teach them. However, the lesson learned can still be positive.

The example, maybe not. K. Alright. I'm with you. So it takes an active conscious effort to get positive examples in place so that this loyalty that you build to the brand of your character stays intact.

Yeah. I agree with you. We set an active, conscious effort. Why is that? Or people need to learn at their own pace, you can't be on it all the time.

Right now. Cool snot. But, consistency. K. That's what matters. Sometimes you gotta go out of your way, find creative ways to get in touch with people or with your kids or whatever.

Right? My son lives with his mother. So when we talk online or playing video games or whatever, that's all we have for right now.

And maybe that's not going to work down the road, but it works for now. So I've got to meet him in the middle. K? Now sometimes I forget things. Gates, appointments, events because I'm not there.

Forgetting things may just be a stress response. It's not a lack of caring. No. I get that, mate, and I appreciate you saying that out loud because that's how it feels. I can't believe I forgot that.

Well, that that's what I mean. Like, sometimes people forget, and it doesn't mean you don't care less. Or or I guess it doesn't mean you don't care or that you care less. Let's say your favorite class at school is math.

And somebody asked you what you learned in math class that day, and it's at the end of the school day, and you say, I don't even remember. I don't know what we learned today in math class.

That doesn't mean you don't care about it. It's still your favorite class. You just don't remember. Maybe you're tired, maybe you're stressed, maybe you're hungry, maybe you're a daydreaming.

Doesn't mean you don't care about it. Right? And, obviously, it's the same thing with people. Well, Shoul might. Remember we're talking about brand loyalty here, and your character is your brand.

Right? So then, doesn't it seem more like you don't care? What might seem like it because you're dealing with people, that doesn't mean you don't. Okay? You still may care quite a bit.

Maybe you don't know how to show it, maybe you don't know how to communicate it. Maybe you communicated in ways that are different than the intended audience is receiving, but it doesn't mean you don't care. Right? Okay. I get it.

See, that's the thing, man. Even if you're not always there, increased distance does not mean a decreased potential for influence. But even if you don't realize the opportunities in front of your face, you still gotta make the effort.

And eventually, you'll succeed. Like I said, you can account for every variable, but you've got to account for most of them or at least make the effort to try.

And then you can start implementing controls and better target how you want to accomplish whatever you want to accomplish.

That's sort of the science of working with humans, I guess. Yeah. Might, it's called psychology. Alright. Okay. Well, Sure. I I consider that more of an art form, I guess. Well, let's not mince the words made.

Right? The points still be in the same. If you wanna build the brand of your character, and in this case, Apply to fatherhood. Okay? Consistent effort is the key. It may not be frequent effort, but it's consistent.

K? Be predictable, be genuine, be honest, be dependable. That's what loyalty is. K? Take ownership. Build self esteem. Build confidence. And still a knowledge base. In steal reliability.

That's what all good brands do, and that's why they have loyalty from their customers. K? In this case, it's your kids. I appreciate it, man. Look, I appreciate you taking some time to just to stop in and talk, man.

This is such a cool perspective. I'd never really thought about brand loyalty, consumerism, and fatherhood before, but it's it's an interesting take on it, so I really appreciate it.

Yeah. I made a course. Eventually, I'll be getting back around to some of these walkabout videos once I get my life back in order.

But for the time being, I'm glad I could come in Participate in this, get some FaceTime with your viewers. No. No. They're it's this is all audio.

I'm not recording any video, man. I understand it, mate. That's why I'm saying thank you. I appreciate your time and give me the opportunity to get these lessons out. And 1 day, my son will be old enough. He'll listen to this as well.

At least I hope you will and and maybe then you'll hear it. So I appreciate the opportunity. K? Because there's a lot of times down the road driving where I think I'm never gonna remember to tell him this, or he may never think to ask.

And then what? So this is a good opportunity to listen. I appreciate it your increase in dialogue. Helping people communicate and to a certain degree, building empathy in the process.

I appreciate the opportunity, mate. Of course, the all of our listeners Thank you for taking time out of your day to join us today and support the show.

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