Episode 102: Finding Purpose, Vulnerability, and Resilience with Nate Green
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Nate Green, founder of Juggernaut Consultants and author of Suck Less Do Better, to explore his journey through business, life, and finding purpose. Nate shares his inspiring story of resilience, including a life-altering heart condition diagnosis at just 23 years old. For nearly a decade, he believed he was on borrowed time, but today, he lives on what he calls “blessed time.” His experience drives him to focus on family security and living with purpose, guiding him in every decision.
We dive deep into topics like:
- How focusing on people first leads to success in business and life.
- Why acknowledging vulnerability is essential to growth.
- Nate’s journey from law enforcement to building multiple successful businesses.
- The importance of discovering and relentlessly pursuing your purpose.
- How having a clear purpose and focused action can help you overcome any obstacle.
Nate’s authenticity shines through as he talks about the challenges of being open and vulnerable, and how that plays a role in his mission to give others hope. We feel like he’s speaking our love language throughout this conversation, and we could talk to him forever!
Key Takeaways:
- People First: Success follows when you focus on the people you’re serving and the impact you can make.
- Purpose-Driven Action: When you tap into your purpose, it fuels resilience and focus, helping you stay on course no matter what challenges you face.
- Vulnerability as Strength: Being open and vulnerable isn’t easy, but it’s key to building meaningful connections and lasting impact.
How to Connect with Nate Green:
- Website: Success with Nate Green
- Instagram: @IAmNateGreen
- Book: Suck Less Do Better available on Amazon and other platforms.
If you’ve ever struggled with acknowledging your successes or wondered how to pursue your purpose with more clarity, this episode is a must-listen. Nate’s story is a reminder that no matter where you start, there’s always room to do better, live with purpose, and impact others along the way.
Don’t forget to share this episode with anyone who could use a little extra motivation to suck less and do better in their life!
Until next time, get after it!
Guest Bio:
Nate Green is an award winning CEO, Founder, Entrepreneur and Best Selling Author. His relentless spirit and grit, coupled with his passion to impact the lives of those that are hungry and driven have been a combination that have provided him great success. Through a life of crazy adventures, major hardships and the constant need to adapt, Nate has constantly pushed forward to develop the core of who he is and overcome all obstacles he encounters. The life transition from a Police Officer to Founder and CEO of a company that sold for 8 Figures has allowed for financial freedom and a unique knowledge base that he has channeled to launch others toward success.
Nate is passionate and dedicated to constant growth, development and building a legacy focused on changing the lives of others. Through this process he has written his first book, Suck Less, Do Better, and has developed the programs, Focus Your Greatest Asset & Out of the Suck. Nate focused on taking the foundational and core elements of how he found success and the proven roadmap that he has walked others through to achieve their greatest success and provide it for everyone to benefit. The core foundation that is built through the three of these are guaranteed to have an impact in the lives of the readers and participants.
Most importantly, Nate is known for his generosity and love for those around him. He is first and foremost a devoted father, dedicated husband, loving son, caring brother, and supportive friend. Being driven and motivated for success and the constant development of the greatest version of who he can become, Nate has to constantly focus on the proper balance of priorities and will always elevate the needs and time with his family over chasing financial gain. Nate’s focus is to be an example of a highly successful entrepreneur and leader that maintains the proper balance of prioritizing his family and relationships.
Through the years of struggles, hardships and overcoming obstacles, Nate is excited about the success he has been able to achieve, but humbled by the amount of knowledge he feels is still to gain. The excitement of knowing that he was able to create and build a business from the first client to being on the Inc 5000 list for multiple years and continuing to scale until it was acquired for 8 figures is just a part of his journey as a passionate entrepreneur. Now at 40 years old, with great success and skill sets on his toolbelt, Nate is continuing to develop his remaining 4 companies and planning more to come. He is driven and invigorated by the process of supporting other entrepreneurs through their developmental process and achieving their own goals. The future that is to come for Nate is determined by his constant hunger and drive for growth, development and always challenging his limits.
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Read the full transcript of this episode below:
Lynn Howard
Hey, I’m Lynn and I’m Amanda.
Amanda Furgiuele
Welcome to the Pursuit of Badasserie, the podcast. We now have another incredible guest with us today. We have Nate Green.
He is an award-winning CEO, founder, entrepreneur and best-selling author. His relentless spirit and grit, coupled with his passion to impact the lives of those that
are hungry and driven. We know a little thing about that have been a combination that have provided him great success.
Through a life of crazy adventures, major hardships and the constant need to adapt, Nate has constantly pushed forward to help the core of who he is to overcome obstacles he encounters.
The life transition from a police officer to founder and CEO of a company that sold for eight figures has allowed for financial freedom and a unique knowledge that has channeled to launch others towards success.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Nate, welcome to the show. Hey, I really appreciate you guys having on me on here. And first off, I love the title.
This podcast title is like, I want to be on that one. So that’s that’s awesome.
Amanda Furgiuele
Thanks. We aim to please.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
We’re also super love our own name. We love our own name.
Amanda Furgiuele
That’s awesome.
Lynn Howard
Super humble too, right?
Amanda Furgiuele
You know, that’s awesome. Extremely.
Lynn Howard
Yeah, but listen, if we’re going to talk about names, we love your book name too. Like mine, we knew it was like a match made in heaven as soon as we saw your book.
Okay.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Suck less do better and less do better. Yeah, the funny thing is is the the foundation of that title comes from a principle from the last 15 years of my life.
It was like literally every day. My goal was to get up and to go after the day harder than I did the day before is become the better version of me day after day.
And so my slogan was suck less do better. Let’s go. And so then when I wrote my first book, I was like, well, there’s no option.
Lynn Howard
It’s it’s coming.
Amanda Furgiuele
I love that.
Lynn Howard
We both love that.
Amanda Furgiuele
I mean, it definitely kindred spirit. And it’s, you know, feel like I feel like one of the things we are always saying is, you know, get your together, get it together.
And so, you know, if I could make that a book title, we probably would. Maybe we will.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
You should. That would be awesome.
Lynn Howard
You know, it would be a blast to throw together on that one.
Amanda Furgiuele
There you go.
Lynn Howard
- Yeah. Listen, you should do it.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
We trademarked our name.
Lynn Howard
You have to. So tell us a little bit about how you got I mean obviously we heard your bio but definitely I mean this both resonates or that resonates with both man and I about like every day because this is how we are as an individual but also as a unit and this is why we complement each other so well it’s like okay what’s next how do we do better how do we improve and coming from I mean I read your website too we read your bios but coming from hardship and definitely I’ve seen my fair share man has had hers as well but like not letting that hold us back not letting that be an excuse and like going after it so unpack that a little bit for us before we move forward.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
You know life is filled full of distractions and I feel like there has to be this cleansing approach that you go after like every single aspect of your day and so you know there’s all these distractions that come up whether it be competition with other people or
We’re walking through and like comparing yourself to other people. So the first thing you have to do is kind of like clear your slate a little bit.
And that’s where for me, the only competition that you really should have is against yourself and how you showed up the day before.
And so, um, on in my life, there was a lot of competition thrown on me, the competitions I didn’t even know I was involved in, you know, one of those ones you’re like, wow, I just lost, but I wasn’t even sure that I was in this thing.
Um, and so like there’s this difficulty that you go through and these psychological issues, I call it your lens is broken in different aspects.
And so you got these fractured lenses because of your life. And so I had to figure out how to reset her, how to figure out how to figure, you know, kind of focus on me and what I’m going to do every single day to work myself towards a better competition, at least it, even the playing field, it’s me yesterday against me today, two years ago against me today, walking through that, that’s really what it comes down to.
And so it was more of like a coping mechanism at some points, but also more of like a healthy aspect
of where am I going to go in the future and have to silence all this noise around me and really dive into the only fair competition which is me and that’s kind of the stem of where this all came from is during this conversion from law enforcement to entrepreneurial side and so that’s the root of the foundation.
Amanda Furgiuele
I love that you say that the only competition is me because I think a lot of people get bogged down and what everybody we were just having this conversation a few hours ago this concept of what’s everybody else doing and what’s this person doing here and how come I’m not as good as this or how and really what it comes down to is there really is no other competition except you who you were yesterday there’s something that’s you don’t know what anybody else’s path is and all you see are the the decisions that they made but you didn’t really go to see the choices that they had so you don’t know there’s no point in comparing yourself to anybody else or any other business.
Lynn Howard
Well you’re also seeing masks that they put on the pedestals that we
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
we we put them on but also they put themselves on so it’s not even the decisions that they made it’s just it’s so much more so I love that sorry I didn’t mean interrupted yeah no and to make it even worse basically like social media a lot of times and even to some clients that I’ve had a fire in the past it really comes down to the light in which they shine on the biggest lie that they can get other people to believe and and so you’re competing against these false realities I had this one CEO that they kept on claiming that they had done certain amount of millions and even billions of revenue under their leadership and I know otherwise and so in there it’s like wait wait a second like how did you even get to that calculation what type of multiplier are you using here and so it’s like that false reality is like man like you are competing against all these other false realities and even you know how can you really compete with other people’s pinnacles their highest point
in their life, because you might be sitting here in this valley. And when you’re using that as a comparison tool, how is that fair?
How is that fair to you in the future? You like, you got to dig in and find that true bar to compare yourself against and really chase hard after that.
Lynn Howard
But not only that, a house built on lies is going to eventually crumble. The foundation and the fundamentals are shaky at best.
And eventually there’s going to be a thin spot and the hole is going to like open up. And you’re speaking, Amanda, my love language, we get on our soapboxes and -a-moan about like in a healthy way to get off our chest about all of the falsehoods.
fact, my post yesterday or the day before was around the falsehoods and like the injustice and the different things that people shine, especially because of social media, how it’s so inundated of just like all of this that isn’t true and that we buy into because it’s so superficial and we’re so
just connected, not just from others, but more importantly from ourselves. And so it’s easy to come along. It’s like the cup mentality where you’re just kind of like wrapped in.
And you don’t have a thought. And some people are going to be mad at me saying that, but essentially you don’t.
You are just like riding along your sheep.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
not a wolf. hundred percent. Yeah. And it’s crazy everywhere from all statements to, you know, go rent to Lamborghini for a day.
And they can’t afford it, but they’ll go rent it for a day or better yet. I saw somebody that that is following me.
I saw them post something on their social media the other day. And it was them taking pictures and videos around a certain car.
And I’m not going to give any details because I don’t want anything to come out. But but in there what they didn’t realize is they accidentally picked up a sign in the background to know that they were at a dealership.
Like, come on. Like if you’re going to, if you’re going to be that bold, you better own the car.
You better not. only own car, but I have the ability to pay for that car. And my rule is if I can’t cut a check for it, I don’t want it.
And so I don’t like financing. know I if I can’t cut a check for it. And that’s where for me, like I have fast cars.
I love fast cars. But you’re never going to see it on my social media. Why? Because I’m not in it for that shine.
people don’t like me from a ball shiny head and just for what comes out of my mouth, then you know, they like me because of a car, then they’re falling on the wrong dude.
Amanda Furgiuele
Absolutely. I also feel like you one of the things that I’ve seen in my younger niece’s nephews, their friends, is their incessant need to post everything on so like their friends, their cars, their outfit, where they’re located.
here’s where the location I am. I’m going to be here for six hours. I’m like, this is wild. I would never want video of my house, of my car, of my kid, of things that were important to me.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Like sometimes you need to keep things just for you.
Amanda Furgiuele
Just for just for you.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Yeah. And there’s certain aspects of my life. Like, yeah, I’m a guy that has wealth. I’ve worked really hard, but I’m also, you know, a little bit backyard, if that makes sense.
Like I like the hunting, I like to go kill some stuff. I like to blow stuff up. So like, yeah, people don’t need to know my entire life.
Look, what I just killed. Like they don’t need to see all this stuff. And it’s like, how far are you gonna go?
Are you just gonna show one side of you or the other side? Like, how are you gonna find that balance there?
And it’s like, you know, are you gonna really show them when you’re having a hard day? Are you really gonna be real when you have one of those down days and you’re trying to rebuild yourself?
call it where my mental forklift hits the shelf of all my trauma and drama and it all falls off and I’m trying to put it back together and put it back on the shelves.
Like, are you gonna really show that side? No, you’re just gonna show what you want people to see. And then it becomes this false reality and you’re trying to get somebody to follow you and like you because of this unrealistic perspective you’re putting out there.
Lynn Howard
Oh yeah, had many conversations around that. In fact, my last book kind of like knocks me off of that pedestal very quickly about sharing all the drama, but you know, okay, I want to get back to your story because this is, I mean, we could talk about that part all day, but you actually spoke, to me it sounded like two parts, it was not just the stock comparing the others, but also the healing of yourself and the internal work that you did.
And can you give, because we are all about like actually getting it done, getting it done. So the practical, the practicality of the things that you actually did.
So that’s, you spoke more in like the mindset and the comparison aspect, but what are some of the things that you did to unpack your own trauma and kind of let go, because obviously there had to have been something for you to be able to hit the numbers that you’ve hit and have the success that you had, because unhealed doesn’t allow that much success.
like you have to put in the work to get there. So can you share some of your tips?
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Yeah, yeah. And I’ll be honest with you, a lot of times where you find your drive, what I call your fuel, is in the trenches, is in the depths, in the dungeons that you really want to box up and you want to leave there.
So the first thing you have to do is continue going deep. I call it the inner two-year-old. You have to ask why and constantly ask why.
Anybody has a two-year-old’s like, I get that. Like you just keep on diving deeper. And then you’ve got to really look at it from a practical standpoint, because some of our trauma, in a part of our childhood and issues we might have, that we definitely take into adulthood, whether it has to do with money, success, all these different things.
I call them broken lenses. We have these broken lenses from childhood and from different stages in our life, whether it’s from exes or a past marriage, a failed this, a failed that.
And as you’re going through that, you have to first recognize them. And then when you’re looking at it, you have to look
look at it as the ability to now condense them into like a little bit of a superpower. You know, my life, as you guys know, just briefly, like, I went from law enforcement to an entrepreneur.
I mean, that conversion included heart failure, paralysis and all kinds of stuff in there. Now, my childhood, my parents, absolutely amazing.
But I had a relentless older brother in that process, a lot of my psychological issues going during that conversion from cop to entrepreneurs.
I really struggled because lot of the competitions that I constantly failed at as a kid were based on physical things, based upon how many pushups, pullups, what kind of far could you run?
And as you know, with heart failure and paralysis, you’re not very good physically anymore. You have a lot of physical issues.
And so when you’re talking about practical steps is really just acknowledging them and figuring out how you can work through and leverage them.
So a part of my goal for impact stems from periods of my life where I didn’t have hope or I felt like I didn’t have hope.
And so I had to figure out how to channel every ounce of positivity, every ounce. And I had to figure out how to make it day in day out to the next step to the next step.
And now as I continue on, I realize there’s so many people that are lacking hope. And so now, I have this superhuman capability of being able to go through all these trauma points in my life and relate to almost anybody out there.
And so the only thing that I can’t relate to is addiction. And I was actually talking to my wife about this, like I’ve never been addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Thank God for that. But almost every other trauma, drama, I can walk through and I can relate. And so when I call that superpower, because a lot of times, as if we dug into each one, there is a lot and it’s extensive and it’s widespread.
And so it’s beyond the normal coping that anybody, I would hope would ever have to deal with. And so that’s where when you’re talking about that, it’s a matter of how do you leverage this past and learn from this past and take it into your future and really have your best approach, your best goal to leave the most amount of impact.
so Lynn, it really comes down to figuring out what is it in your past that you can use as fuel to get you to the next phase and push you through the hard times and the dark times to have the best outcome.
That way, when you’re on your deathbed, you don’t look back with regrets because you gave up and you crawled into a hole.
Nope, you’re going to use all of it as leverage to have an impact.
Lynn Howard
I can hear Amanda thoughts. So, yes, you are speaking. I want to say thank you. I know we’re not at the end yet, but I can’t help myself.
I’m a bit emotional because this is, you might not have done any research about me, but definitely I’ve lived through some , like some and I
I about this all the time and I teach it, I live it and it’s about like absolutely healing one step at a time sometimes like all the things that you just said and putting it out there but I want to thank you because I think that you were the first male that we’ve had on our podcast who’s actually spoke about this and to me this is so powerful because not saying that you know women should be don’t like should whatever like the whole man woman thing and I’m masculine feminine but at the end of the day it is less likely we’re seeing it more often now and I’ve definitely worked with a lot of men around this but we aren’t seeing it enough and I just really appreciate you for everything that you’re doing not just sharing on our podcast but for you sharing this and having the success to back it up to say listen like I’ve done the work and I’m putting the work in and I can share that with the people who need to hear it so that way I have the impact that I’m
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
and to have to fulfill my life’s purpose because it’s not lived enough and it’s not spoken enough especially from the males in our in our lives so I’m extremely grateful for you to be on our podcast right now like I’m actually like I knew that this one might be a little emotional for me but this is yeah absolutely well I appreciate that and it is a shame I do feel like many guys and once again I’m gonna generalize for a second not every guy but a lot of guys they feel like they have to have this rough and tough or they have to have this certain perspective and the one thing that I know is some of the strongest men I’ve ever met suffer from some of the most amount of trauma that you can ever imagine and the issue that we find is they’re never able to tap into the deep rooted aspects of their fuel what’s can drive you
them because they’re not willing to go to the depths. And there’s just one client that he was having the trouble like really dialing and what is that that fuel what is what is it that he’s chasing after and why and we spent about an hour and a half and man we went deep and man he was crying man and he got me crying I’m not a crier I’m in back from law enforcement I’m rough and gruff like I can deal with it I’m a little off-kilter I can see it all and deal with it all but man just what you’re saying is like you have to be open you have to be vulnerable you have to take people deep and then in turn this was about two weeks ago man and sissy has fired difference between then and now once we dug into these deep crevices that he never wanted to talk about again but now he’s been able to tap into his fuel now he’s been able to chase down his future why because there’s these boxes there’s these things that he’s done that he’s seen that he’s experienced that he’s just you want to put in a box and you never want to talk about it again but I promise myself
that if I was going to write a book and if I was going to chase this different direction, then the biggest thing is I had to promise myself that I was going to be open and vulnerable.
And there is nothing in my wheelhouse of my past that I’m unwilling to talk about to have an impact.
And that’s something that I had to work through and I had to do a lot of work to be available to have those conversations.
Amanda Furgiuele
I think I’m like a bricky-gown hives because I talk about this a lot. I’m chuckling about it because Lynn knows exactly how I feel about that.
But the vulnerability does create a lot of impact, but it is very hard to share that, but also to come to terms with it yourself.
So it’s not just vulnerability with the world, it’s vulnerability with yourself and really getting down to the deep-rooted things that are going on in your mind and body.
And that is extremely tough and it’s one thing I will constantly be working on for
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
for the rest of my life. Yeah, you’re welcome. One thing for me is the reason why I say open and vulnerable, there’s an important thing for me.
now other people, they might consider all vulnerability. for me, I struggle with being open about my successes. know, as you’re reading off, you know, Nate Green is this, this and done, it makes me cringe.
Why? Because I never want my successes to make anybody feel lesser. And I had other people shove their successes and made me feel lesser throughout my entire life.
And so it is, that’s a hard thing for me to be open about is the successes that I have.
And in there, I’ve just promised to always dive deep, be open about it, but yet not leave people there to help people convert over to understand they have the hope to be able to achieve these successes.
I mean, let’s be real in my life. You know that most likely to succeed list in middle school. wasn’t on there.
I mean if there was another list I’ve been on that other list. mean I was ADHD I mean a little bull in a china shop acting out all the time I’m not the best student and so when you think about it If I can pull down the grit the determination to chase after life as hard as I have Man You take somebody that was actually more of a genius in high school They could run circles around me But the problem is is nobody will ever outwork me and that’s the thing for me is even in this I’ll call it pre retirement, you know I just turned 40 and sold this company and now it’s like, okay, I get to work I don’t got to work and so now I get to be dangerous because well, I still get up a four-third every morning.
I Still go after it. It’s like man I’ve got lives to impact and here’s the thing for me people are waiting on me to get sad I get outside of my box get outside of my shell and to chase after my
I’d better future to be able to have an impact and inspire them, and that keeps me up at that.
That keeps me moving. When my alarm clock goes off at 4.30, it doesn’t ever have to hit snooze. I am up like this morning, 4.27, three minutes before my alarm, and I’m like, let’s go.
That’s it. And so that’s what keeps me up at night. That’s what gets me up in the morning. was like, Nate, you can relax a little bit.
Like you can sleep in. I’m like, no, I can’t. People need me. And that’s what this next phase of life is, is showing up.
Because showing up, just for my family, securing financial future, no, now it’s showing up for you guys, showing up for every single person I have the potential to reach.
Lynn Howard
But also, I think it’s showing up for your purpose. It sounds like you have found your life’s purpose and you are truly leaning into it.
And through that, I just wrote a post about this even in your darkest of moments, when you have found your purpose.
In the roughest days, the roughest seas, it can still be your guiding light or the fire underneath your to say, like, get out of bed, you got this.
Even if it’s just one step, you got this. And I love that you have that and you so, yeah, it’s just flowing out of you, both in your words, but also in your energy and in the work that you do.
So I think that that’s beautiful on many levels. I do want to go back to one other point, about the vulnerability and openness.
The thing is, is that I feel like globally, if we’re looking at the male versus female, that we are also not doing our jobs, you are, collectively, to create a safe space for men to be open and more vulnerable, even women, like in a minute, I’ve had this conversation a million times.
But we are harder on the men, and we’re not as, we don’t have as much grace and compassion, and you
for creating that space for them to be able to have that openness and that vulnerability, which in turn hopefully will ripple it back and they’ll be able to do that for others.
I know it’s something that I’ve tried to do with my son, my ex-husband, and the men who are close to me in my life and men that I work with, but I feel like we need more of that.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
It’s hard and I appreciate that and it is a little bit of a different feeling. It is really, it’s like running upstream and you’re sitting there and you’re like, you know, everybody else is always talking about their masculinity and all this kind of stuff.
And I’m like, man, like I’m a masculine dude, I can keep up with the rest of them and I can do whatever it takes, but it’s also, hey, listen, I’m pretty messed up too.
The only difference between me and them is they’re gonna ruin their life when they’re trying to hide it and I’m just gonna be real about it and be like, yeah, pretty messed up in here and I’m just gonna constantly figure out how to leverage it.
It’s funny, me and God have quite a few conversations, but the God in my head is a little sarcastic like I am.
And so I remember this was probably about two years ago and going through and went through some serious difficulties and some real hardships with a next divorce and cops got involved, felonies were involved, not on my side.
And that was about five years ago. And so I went from being married to a single dad and that went to a very hard place, a really difficult conversion in my life.
And I remember thinking that God just with all this, don’t let that be in vain. And so God is like, nate, listen, I’m going to give you the opportunities, it’s up to you whether it’s going to be in vain.
And so I feel like God has pressed upon me to not only let my successes have an impact to lead people to success, but also
all the hardship, all the difficulties to let those be a guiding light for those people that are in there.
And so the only way to do that is to talk about them and to be real about them because they’re there.
And it’s just a matter of how they how you let them affect you. That’s really what it comes down to.
Lynn Howard
It’s your choice. We were just I think we were just on a podcast interview and someone said it’s the push or the pull to see they’re pushing you towards something great or something different or it’s pulling you back into the chaos.
So the victim to the hurt the whatever. And yeah, I love that.
Amanda Furgiuele
Yeah. Yeah. One thing that I want to sort of retouch on is you’re talking about how you wake up with this purpose.
You wake up knowing that you have to provide this opportunity for the people that you are on the surface basically to help others in that way.
And we talk about this all the time with some of our clients who are in this imposter syndrome moment of, well, who would want to hear my story who wants to hear from me.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
You got that’s that’s really all you got and that’s where for me. It’s like now It’s like that that wasn’t my purpose in life.
Now. I feel like God has blessed me To have that but I think that’s because of you know I don’t talk about this a lot But when I was 23 and had the hard failure doctors thought it was a degenerative issue and they told me I only had 10 years to live And so Luckily, they came back about year later and said hey listen that we were wrong But I lived in that for about eight to ten months before it all came back around That’s something hard to unravel That’s something hard to take back like oh just kidding.
There is no just kidding I was at nine and a half years basically on a time clock and so for me I’ve had this huge press point of family security family security family security So doing an eight figure exit isn’t like man.
Look at me. No, it’s like okay. God. Thank you. Appreciate that That’s that’s amazing. Now my security for my family is good.
Now I am on blessed time. Not even borrowed time. I’m a blessed time now. It’s like, all right, let’s go.
Like what do you want for me on this next phase? So I’ll do whatever it takes. You just tell me where to go.
You tell me what to do. And I will do it. And you what he tells me? Give me the glory.
Cool. I got all this is because of him. So let’s go after it. And and then he’s like, give me the glory and then be open and vulnerable.
Oh, that’s hard. And that’s that’s really where, you know, brings us back to this conversation is open and vulnerable.
I struggle. I struggle with acknowledging my successes. I struggle with it. It’s checklist. And so when you’re talking about these different pieces, it’s more a matter of how can we leverage it?
How can we leverage the way my brain is a is ridiculously real? I’m like, man, who wants to hear from me?
You know, I’m just Nate from Florida that I built a few financial firms, had some success. I mean, I’m just a bald dude that likes to be a bald dude.
And I became a bald dude because people kept on recognizing me after law enforcement. So I had to do something different.
So I shaved it off of 23. So I like, OK, cool. Like, let’s go. And so for me, it’s been a blast.
But it’s also that I’m really driving hard into every different way I can impact between books and keynotes and coaching.
And that’s my future. That’s really where it’s at. And at the root of everything is to give people hope.
So whether they’re there in a dark time, whether they’re trying to overcome these obstacles, whether they got this trauma, drama, whatever it is, it’s like, what can I do to give them hope?
And then help them tap into their purpose. Because if they could tap into their purpose, now they have hope.
It’s incredible how that works. It’s like, somebody asked me, Nate, how are you so resilient? And it’s, well, wait a second, I have the core of who I am.
Dial. them. I have my fuel tapped in my lighthouse, my purpose. I’ve been under control. So now I call it the multiplier, the multiplier is focused action.
Now it’s just day by day to extend. Well, then it doesn’t matter how bad you get your face kicked in, you’re going to get up because you have focused action that you have to take.
It’s not an option, you’re just going to go. So sorry, I just went on a rant, but that’s kind of some of my mindset.
Amanda Furgiuele
It’s just like, man, let’s go. Let’s figure this out. And we love that.
Lynn Howard
We love that. All of it.
Amanda Furgiuele
eating it out. Yes. I went to spoke. You’re basically speaking our love language. We feel like we could talk to you forever and a day about this because it absolutely hits a note with many things and what we try to teach, what we hope that our purpose is that we get out of bed for our morning.
know our purposes, but to get out of bed every morning and we. hope that others still can get gleaned from it what we are hoping to give to the world, so to make the world a better place.
you’re, you can run all you want on that. You can run all you want because we’re just like, oh, our people.
Lynn Howard
I’m a little bit passionate if you can’t tell. Very much. We feel you. We feel you. Okay, so we are already coming, I think we’re already at 30 minutes, but we’re coming to the end.
Two things. One, we always want to ask how people can get a hold of you, but what is one last little nugget that you would leave our audience with?
And before you say that, I do have to let the audience know, not every time do we ask the guests of like, why are they on here?
But when we were chatting before the podcast, and it was like, I’ve already done this. And like, you know, I’m really, I just want to inspire.
And you know, I want to touch your audience. And so I had to ask, what’s in it for you is like no this is my purpose like this is what I want to do I just want to leave this little bit of legacy in this little and it was just something that we have never heard from another guest like and it was truly meant is what I would say um you know sometimes people are lip service like we said before but it was truly meant that you’re here showing up in your purpose to spread the word to help support to leave value where you can in the right areas and we just appreciate that so I do want to give that little little piece of the audience of like it’s a real deal guys it’s a real deal so but what’s one nugget that you would leave with the audience to help the biggest thing is people first it’s always about people money will come if you focus on people and having an impact and this goes back to the rudement of my first business through to all my businesses and even to today
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
focus on people, what kind of impact you can have inside of your business, no matter what it is, I had a financial firm.
It’s not really like a people thing, but it’s people on the other side. when you focus on people first, everything else will come together.
And when you figure out your purpose, drive hard relentlessly towards that. That was two things.
Lynn Howard
They were perfect. All right, so how can people get a hold of you? Like what, by the way, he has a book.
Amanda Furgiuele
Make sure that you’re talking about it.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Yep. So the book is called Suck Less Do Better. It’s available on Amazon and other platforms. There’s a website success with Nate Green.
Probably great place to see the upcoming programs that we’re releasing and a lot of other things. But then also always on Instagram, it’s I Am Nate Green.
Lynn Howard
So you can always chase me down there and harass me there. Excellent.
Amanda Furgiuele
Well, thank you so much for being on the show. of course, all that information. will be on our show notes.
if you want to dive deeper in with Nate, we absolutely recommend that you connect with him and ask your questions because he is a wealth of information.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate you guys having me.
Lynn Howard (Lynn Howard)
Thank you, Nate. So everybody, make sure that you’re sharing this podcast with those that need to hear about being open and being vulnerable and that could use a little bit of suck less, do more.
Nate Green (Juggernaut Consultants)
It’s like, let’s do better.
Lynn Howard (Lynn Howard)
Let’s go. Be better. Do better in their lives. So until next time,
Amanda Furgiuele
Get after it.
it was truly meant that you’re here showing up in your purpose to spread the word to help support to leave value where you can in the right areas and we just appreciate that so I do want to give that little little piece of the audience of like it’s a real deal guys it’s a real deal so but what’s one nugget that you would leave with the audience to help the biggest thing is people first it’s always about people money will come if you focus on people and having an impact and this goes back to the rudiment of my first business through to all my businesses and even to today
