LeaderImpact Podcast
LeaderImpact Podcast
Ep. 95 - Tim Beauchamp - Impact Begins Today
Impact doesn’t wait for a title or a perfect moment. From his first day in sales after leaving full-time ministry to leading sales effectiveness at Frontier Communications, Tim Beauchamp shows how belief, discipline, and service can transform a career and a culture. We dig into the two pivots that shaped him: stepping into the marketplace with a calling to serve, and facing a painful job loss that stripped away trophies and revealed what endures.
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Welcome to the Leader Impact Podcast. We are a community of leaders with a network in over 350 cities around the world dedicated to optimizing our personal, professional, and spiritual lives to have impact. This show is where we have a chance to listen and engage with leaders who are living this out. We love talking with leaders, so if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to make this show even better, please let us know. The best way to stay connected in Canada is through our newsletter at LeaderImpact.ca or on social media at LeaderImpact. If you're listening from outside of Canada, check out our website at LeaderImpact.com. I'm your host, Lisa Peters, and our guest today is Tim Beachum. Tim is the Senior Director for Sales Effectiveness at Frontier Communications, the largest peer play provider of fiber technology and services in the United States. His team accelerates sales performance through coaching, training, and AI-driven innovation. Tim began his career in full-time ministry, but quickly realized that God's calling for him extended beyond the local church into the marketplace. As he's pursued this path, he has seen God's hand guiding his work and producing lasting impact, confirming his true calling to lead, mentor, and develop people in business. Known for his optimism, decisiveness, and ability to build positive team cultures, he brings enthusiasm to every challenge. He's been an active member of the Leader Impact community for five years, helping establish the North Texas cohort and recently hosting the U.S. Leader Impact season kickoff in Chicago. Tim's wife, family with four daughters, is based in North Texas and he's a raving fan of trekking the Canadian Rockies, scuba diving, and spending time with his daughters. Welcome to the show, Tim.
SPEAKER_00:Lisa, thank you so much. It's great to be able to spend a few minutes with you.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I love you even more that you're a fan of trekking, actually, raving fan of trekking the Canadian Rockies.
SPEAKER_00:You know, some of our fondest memories with our family, and we've done this for a number of years. Uh, and it's typically in November. Uh, a few years ago, we decided, hey, third week of November, uh, those of you who are familiar with the United States, we have our Thanksgiving at that time. And uh we decided, hey, we're gonna go up not only in the summer to Alberta and do hiking and um uh water rapids and all that during the summer, but in the winter, um go up there in Lake Louise and Canmore and Banff, etc., and do some winter hiking, which is completely different, as you know. But a little funny story. We learned quickly that the US Thanksgiving is not the Canada Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01:Oh.
SPEAKER_00:And so the challenge was to find turkey on Thanksgiving Day, which uh we were not successful and still have not been for a number of years, unless we go to a restaurant. And so we've settled for Turduccan. Turduckan for our Thanksgiving meal. But but we love coming up to Canada and uh we'll continue to do so in years to come.
SPEAKER_01:Ah, well, we love having you.
SPEAKER_00:Excellent.
SPEAKER_01:All right, well, we're gonna begin our podcast, and we love hearing about your professional story and how did you get from where you are to where you are today? And mostly we want to hear about those pivotal, if you have a pivotal turning point along that journey.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. So, two pivotable, pivotal, excuse me, turning points in uh my business career. The first, it makes me think today at Frontier Communications, where I'm uh currently in a leadership role, when new hires come on board, the first thing that we communicate with them on their first day is impact begins today. Impact begins today, and they usually look up, they're trying to process a lot of information, and we share with them it begins today, not in four weeks, not in two weeks, not in three days. In fact, today, on your first day, you will start prospecting and talking to strangers. And impact doesn't have to be in the spotlight either. No one needs to know how many hours you work, as far as over the weekend, late into the evening, but the focus is on the impact. And we share this with them to show them that we believe in them. And we've seen over and over again that growth follows belief. And so that makes me think of my first day as a salesperson. I actually was here downtown Dallas a number of years ago. I had never been in sales and uh got there early. I'd never been downtown Dallas. We lived in a suburb, and I walked into the office, it was dark. I saw a light in the back of the office and went to the back, and it was the break room. And I turned the corner, had my notepad, and there was a gentleman that was actually laying on the table in the break room, um, relaxing, which was, I thought, strange. And he sat up, red-eyed, a little cloudy, looked like he had had a fulfilling weekend, a busy weekend, and uh he hollered at me and said, Who are you? And that was my welcome into sales, my first day. Lo and behold, he was the top salesperson at that location. Oh, see, what's highly unusual about this is the week prior to that, I was in full-time ministry at a church. And so imagine going from three years of ministry, visiting people in hospitals, leading education programs, music, and suddenly downtown Dallas in a business environment, and that was the warm welcome. There's an individual, Larry Carter, that believed in me. I had to step down from that church because the senior pastor at that time, unfortunately, had been unfaithful in his personal life, and I couldn't remain at that church in that environment. So that started the beginning of a sales career. Larry hired me, he believed in me, and over the next 25 plus years, the career took off from a business perspective. And one of the things that I learned quickly was that my calling wasn't just to have an impact for those that are going to church, but an impact in the business world to be highly successful, have an impact on new hires, sales leaders. And it makes me think of that passage in Matthew that talks about if you're faithful with few, you'll be ruler over many. And so in the business environment, I realized even in the downtimes that God was still using me to have an impact on other people. That's the first key turning point. Fast forward 25 years, COVID and looking up and realizing restructuring in the organization. I had been in leadership roles, national accounts, regional director, national director, and suddenly unemployed. And so when I found this out, I shared with my wife, Sharon, and she was elated and wanted to high-five. And this is the best thing that could happen to you. Great opportunity. What God might have for you next. To me, I was crushed, Lisa. And that sense of emptiness, and within 24 hours, to be taking down the plaques and all the memories and all the uh quotas that our teams had hit, the successful results, and uh quickly realized that within 24 hours chasing success really came up empty. Yeah. And um, so I dove right into interviewing and uh within a few days received a call from um a headhunter, and the headhunter um said, Hey, Frontier Communications is looking for this position, started the interview process. Now, here's the punchline. Going through this whole process, um, several interviews, and uh they communicated with me and said, We're gonna frame up an opportunity for you, an offer, and uh we're gonna go ahead and send that to you within the next couple of days. And within a couple days, I received an email, and the email said, Um, we want to thank you for your interest in Frontier, and we've decided to go a different direction. And again, just crushed, thinking I did every everything right. And um, I got to that point to say, Lord, if Frontier is not the company for me to be at, I trust you. I I released that. Yeah. At the same time, I thought in 2 Timothy it says, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind. So I called them back and reached out to our contact, talked with James, said, James, obviously disappointed. What can I do better? And James said, What email? We didn't send you an email. And I read it to him, and he said, That email was supposed to go to somebody else. In fact, your offer is coming right now.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_00:So that key turning point was letting go, trusting in God, not having the spirit of fear, being confident as a business person, and reaching out, standing up, being firm. God had a different plan. And now the past five years have been a remarkable experience here at French.
SPEAKER_01:And what if you never made that call?
SPEAKER_00:To think of it. And and think of friends and folks we come in contact with that we can encourage to be confident and um are in a scenario where they think all is lost, and it might just be one step that they need to take.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Great stories. I want to go back to the first one. When you show up at the office, your first job, sales job, and the guy's laying on the table. And because I I really like I'm waiting for your pivotal moment, and I'm thinking it's from ministry to a job. Because many people think, you know, to be Christian, I have to have a Christian job or something. Well, no, we we are marketplace leaders. So here you are, marketplace leader. And I think, was did you kind of feel this moment? Is God calling me to minister this man? Like here he is, right?
SPEAKER_00:He's yes. First I was thinking, oh my goodness, what have I gotten myself into? Yeah, my head's spinning. Am I going to be able to do this? And once again, I'm thankful for Larry's belief in me that hey, you are a salesperson, you can do this. But um, yes, there is that sense of confusion. You know, when we all get um off-center, our head starts to, it happens to all of us, and we have to come back to our foundation. And I think in 1 Peter 4:10, it talks about um how each of you should use whatever gift you've received to serve others as stewards of God's grace in various forms. And so um, yes, there was that confusion. Yes, to be an environment that is not incubated like at church, and um people talk different ways, don't use proper language, um, not everyone's honest, and it's in business in general, and uh, but that was the door opening to be able to serve others and to be really a steward of God's grace.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's a great story. I I I loved it. Thank you for sharing that because I think we're all put in those situations where we're like, like truthfully, I look up really God. Is this is this what we're doing? Is this where you're putting me today? That's I asked for ways that I could serve and then I get put in this situation.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god. I I have a uh dear friend Shann Gastoneau, and uh known him for 25 plus years. Um and he says, on the way to doing something, I became someone. Oh that that's my life experience. And uh I think we'd be amazed that most people are experiencing the same thing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Oh, that's a we had Shan on many podcasts ago, and that is a great, yeah, that's really good. All right. Well, we're gonna continue with our second question of your best principle of success. We would love to hear one. And if you have a story that illustrates that.
SPEAKER_00:Going back once again as a young salesperson, there was an individual that was uh successful sales leader, and he came to our company and led different training sessions. His name was Ken Miller, and Ken is uh still alive today, and I texted him a couple weeks ago, but this was over 30 years ago, and he led the standard structured training that we had to go through. But the thing that came out with him is that he believed in the individuals that were in his different classes, and one of the things he um did at the end of the session was he rolled out um a concept of the common denominator of success. And it was actually written by Albert Gray, and this goes back to like 19. I obviously was not alive at the time, but um it was a presentation that Albert Gray gave back in 1935, 1940. But the principles remain true still today, they're key factors that contribute to success in really any endeavor. And um, the focus is on what is it that successful people do? This is from a business perspective, and that is that she or he forms the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do. And he rolled that out at the end of the session. And as a young person, I thought, okay, great, I want to go back to my city, start calling, make a lot of money. And years later, almost 15 years later, I was going through a file cabinet and uh found what he had handed out and brought it back and read it, and it started to make sense that successful people they don't necessarily love the things that they have to do, the habits, but they're driven by their purpose as the engine that they're disciplined enough to form those habits to be successful. And so, once again, here for the past few years, when someone, in fact, I have a copy of it here, can get it on Amazon. It's an easy, easy read. Um, we introduce this to those that come on board. And we remind them and walk them through how important it is that when you feel like your pipeline's not growing, when you're not hitting your numbers, if your customers are not pleased, um, we talk to them about TNT. Takes no talent. You should be on time, you should work hard, you should be honest, diligent. All of those are the basics, but you should form habits that will help you drive a healthy pipeline. A mentor here, one of our senior vice presidents, Joe Pelloteri, says a high healthy pipeline drives predictable revenue growth. And as leaders, our role is to expose areas that need discipline to create habits. And so creating habits.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That falls into our personal life, Lisa, as well. Yeah. What is it that maybe we don't like? And it's so much easier to absorb the pain of missing our goal than to be disciplined and creating those couple habits together.
SPEAKER_01:Um I'm gonna repeat that book. It was Common Denominator of Success by Albert Gray. Yes. I gotta look that up. Yeah. Some of those, those are the classics. There are some great classics. Um, as you were speaking, and I'm thinking, what is it successful people do? And there was an interview we did, and it was Cindy Claussen, and she talked about the gold medal and the treasures we have on Earth. So I think of when you lost your job and you were packing up all those medals and all those plaques and everything, they mean they mean nothing. Um they do, they're they're great, you won them, yay, but it's she talked about her medal, and it's starting to um uh oxidize, and you know, like it's a gold medal. It's you know, and she has five from one Olympics.
SPEAKER_00:Amazing.
SPEAKER_01:Those are the treasures on earth, and they will they don't mean anything. They they didn't, you know, you lost your job. You you you like how brilliant that is uh of a statement that it's not about the treasures we gather on earth.
SPEAKER_00:It's you know the interesting thing is I believe that happens to the majority of individuals that are in in business, and that can be a home business, it could be a big corporate business like this. But the the interesting thing is if you've made an impact on other individuals, that comes back to you. A lot of times it's years later when individuals come up to you, say, Lisa, that podcast from 2022 with uh Ryan Walters that made an impact on my life. It did with me, listening to it what, three, four years ago. Remember listening to that about hunger and uh made an impact in my life. But um, it's not the trophies, certificates, it's the impact we had on other people.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I'm currently preparing a keynote on uh the ripple of one person. And that and it's it's for a group of volunteers, but talking about the leadership that they provide, because you never know who you will affect two years, you know, and someone comes up to me and said, Remember, you said that to me, I saw that, I you know, yeah. So great story, thank you for sharing. Um you kind of mentioned about learning more from our failures, you you know, what successful people do, they they you know, I'm learning from our failures, like they they take them as we'll learn. So if you have one, a failure, a mistake that has happened, because we know we learn more. We we learn more than that from our own successes. So if you have one and a story to share.
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. Failures qualify us to be leaders. Uh, in Henry Cloud's book, uh, in one of our leader impact groups, we've read uh Integrity. And in there, he talks about coaching some young gentlemen, uh, some brothers, and uh coaches them on as they're entering into life, going off to college, and talks about three things. Uh, you need to be exceptional, exceptional in your trade, what you do, full of integrity, and then also building alliances across the business and outside of the business. Um, if we slip in any of those areas, it can definitely impact our outcome. Exceptional in trade meaning staying disciplined, studying, being the best every day, not resting uh on our laurels when we need to be the best that we can. I remember we had secured a meeting with the CIO of a municipality here in Texas this time, and uh quite an opportunity. And so, in our pre-call with the client, the client was very direct and saying, Tim, here are the things I'd like you to cover, here are our challenges. Um, I look forward to hearing your proposal and solution with your team. And I at the time was doing very well, a little cocky, and uh, we didn't prepare as we should. And we did a little bit of pre-call planning, but went into the meeting, sort of winging it, didn't have an agenda, and um, it went south quickly. And Bernie had uh was retired military before he had been in this position, and he didn't pull any punches in the meeting, and the meeting did not go well. And I realized, man, immediately, who can I point the finger at? The next day Bernie called me, and I remember specifically him saying, Tim, you can do better than this. Wow. A year later, he finally accepted another meeting. We were prepared. Yeah, it took a year asking forgiveness, being prepared, me asking forgiveness of the team that man, I missed the mark in preparation. We were able to close the business. Bernie recently sent a picture, a text of grandchild relationship completely changed now. But that was a that was a tough lesson. That was a that was a failure. My my mom used to say she was a musician. Music or life is like a piano. You get out of it depends on what you get out of it depends on how you play it. And uh that one that one was not played well.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So I have to ask, in that year that you were, you know, um reflecting, what did you did you do anything for the client in that year? Did you, you know, send reports and say, hey, I thought of you? Um, I uh just did you think of the client in the year? Did you share? Did you I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:We did. We continued to follow up, um, continued to share with uh the client about our expansion in that area. Um this municipality is uh a sizable municipality next to a very large university, uh very prominent university. And so we knew the ramifications of the ripple effect that word travels, uh, that if there's uh a poor proposal, uh to be cautious that would spread with other clientele, uh, making efforts to go and try to meet in person, sending follow-ups. Um, a couple times during the year, the client needed help on um some other items and to respond quickly, be on top of the game, not ask for anything. Yeah, it was too early, and to be patient.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Good for you. I mean, I have been in that situation where you just have to step back and go, there's no ask right now. Like I have to give, um, I have to build the trust again. So yeah. That's right. All right. Um obviously you have been in Leader Impact for five years, cohort in Texas. Um you know we want to grow personally, professionally, and spiritually. So for impact. So I'm wondering if you're willing to share us an example of how the spiritual makes a practical difference in your life as a leader.
SPEAKER_00:Leader impact definitely has had uh a huge impact on me the past five years. Um, as a as a person that loves scuba diving, the the one way I look at it is that the leader impact groups are like fresh oxygen. And uh I I don't know if you know number one rule in scuba diving. Do you happen to know what the number one rule is in scuba diving? No.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:You probably shouldn't, yeah. Um never never hold your breath. Okay. And you would think, oh yeah, but it the temptation is to hold your breath when you're underwater, but you need to constantly keep breathing. And so we had uh I sat in on the Atlanta, one of the Atlanta leader impact groups early this morning at 6 a.m. And just a really powerful session with these businessmen. And afterwards, I literally thought this is this is like oxygen to me. It's uh refreshing. And whether it's uh joining a lab in Belgium uh at one of the anniversary um gatherings or going to Atlanta, meeting there, hosting the kickoff, um, leader impact has had an impact on me these past five years. Uh, Brene Brown, um, she talks about connection. Uh, connection's why we're here. And uh we read this book in in one of the uh groups as well, that it gives us purpose and meaning. So, from a spiritual perspective, to answer your question, as leaders, we we have to remember that the team we lead takes on the identity of the leader. And I learned that from uh a good friend, Greg Vernovich. He's an expeditioner, takes folks on these big massive hikes, as Dun Everest. And um, he's he shared that recently in one of our groups, and I thought that is so true that in in John 8, Jesus talks about hey, I'm the light of the world. If you follow me, you'll never walk in darkness, but you'll have the light of life.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And so, yes, we have to be on top of our business principles. We have to be punctual, we have to lead with confidence and integrity. But from a spiritual perspective, if we are following God and his principles, we won't walk in darkness. We'll have clarity, we'll have confidence, his light will shine through us, and um we'll never be alone. Leadership is lonely, as you know, Lisa. And um, with him there by our side with us, it it makes a world of difference.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Uh great comment this morning. I was just in our leader impact, and we're taking John Maxwell's book, The 360 Degree Leader. And we talked about modeling behavior. So, you know, part of leading down is um like you want them to model your. So, how are you acting, like to model your own behavior? And it just went through the ideas. It was so good. Uh and and our team had some great conversations. Uh, we've got some people who are private enterprise, people who are union, people who have faith, people who don't have faith. We are a wit, a mixed group. That's right. So um, but I love that I want to go back to you. You said you joined Atlanta group. So did you actually zoom in on another Leader Impact group?
SPEAKER_00:Yes. So I was introduced to uh Leader Impact five years ago. Uh going back to Shan Gastineau. I've known Shan for a number of years, but we he had never shared with me about Leader Impact. And when he first shared with me in 2019, I sort of blew it off. And uh, you know, we go to church and uh I've got work and still chasing success and making an impact on other people. But the next year he shared with me, and I said, Well, do you have one or two groups in Atlanta? And I think at the time it was like 11 or 12, and I thought, okay, there's something to this.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:The integration of professional, personal, spiritual, and how do we maximize that? And um, so I thought, hey, let's do this. It was 2020. I was in the interviewing process, COVID had just started, and I thought, I'll go ahead and dial in at 6 a.m. and um see what this is all about. And it just took off. And uh just the relationship built with individuals that are managers at bike stores, construction attorneys. Um, and so I'm still part of that group. There was a year that um I transitioned off as we started the Dallas group. We have one that's been meeting uh here for the last three years, and uh so that that was the beginning, and it's worth getting up an hour earlier.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. You have inspired me to check out another group. Like I have our I hope I run two virtual groups. Anyone can join, but even inviting other leaders, say join ours. Like come in. Because the conversations, you don't, I mean, we do study books, but you can be part of the conversation. Um so I'm inviting you. We have our Leader Impact Canadian summit coming up in facts. So maybe first to second, that's my or first to third. I've registered, got my car rented, I've got my hotel ready.
SPEAKER_00:Great.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. So I'm excited about that. And invite anyone listening to come join us. Um all right. One of our last questions is about uh your lasting impact. We know that as dedicated leaders, we want to have a lasting impact. So we're wondering, as you continue to move through your own journey, um, if you've considered what you want your faith legacy to be when you leave this world.
SPEAKER_00:Faith legacy. Good friend Braden Douglas. He's in fact part of our group here in uh in North Texas and instrumental when we started three years ago. Um in his book, Becoming a Leader of Impact, and this has stuck with me, Lisa, since the first time I read it. He he talks about legacy and that our legacy is the number of people, it's so practical, the number of people that we impact, and the length of time that the impact lasts. And when we talk about impact, he also highlights that this is influence of others to perpetually positive behavior. So as I think about legacy, I think how many people have I been able to impact? Have I taken advantage of moments to impact other people's lives? Yes, business-wise, but also from a personal or spiritual perspective. It's it's in that moment, Sunday, just two days ago, was at the car wash. This is Tim Time, drinking a Diet Coke, having a cracker. And of all the tables, uh a gentleman, very sharp dressed African American businessman, came up and plopped down a bag, um, uh like a man purse on the table. And I didn't want to talk to anybody. And uh, there's there's nobody else at the tables, Lisa. And um he put the bag there and I looked up and cordial and said, Hey, how are you doing? Doing and um I don't think he knew he didn't think I was gonna talk to him. And he said, Well, I'm not really doing good. And I said, Tell me more. That's the question that's not a question. Tell me more. You can always win with that in sales, in personal interaction. Tell me more. And he said, Well, I have chronic pain in my uh heels, in my legs. I've had um heel replacements, and I'm in chronic pain. He opened up his man purse and it was full of lotion and uh medication, pain meds, and he just shared the journey that he's been through. And he said, But this is uh, I believe what God has me to accept at this point. And um I've just been through two knee replacement surgeries in the past six months myself, and just coming out of therapy and a lot of pain and managing pain. And I was able to look up to him and not tell him that, but just to share with him and say, you know, in uh Isaiah, it talks about uh God gives power to the weak and he gives strength to the powerless. And and just left it at that. And he said, I I needed to hear that. I needed to hear that. This is this is a God ordained at the car wash. And um as I shared that with him, I started to realize impact doesn't need a spotlight.
SPEAKER_01:Wow.
SPEAKER_00:Um it's a good story because I think you don't have to have a spotlight, you don't have to be in a church to make an impact. My my middle brother, I have two awesome older brothers. He reminds me hey, in in Romans, God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn. Your calling. Each person we come in contact with has a calling, has gifts that God's given to them. And it can't be withdrawn. And so we've got to look for those opportunities to share. That legacy of having folks come up at a wedding. Tim, you had an impact on me 25 years ago, and God changed my life, or our four daughters wanting to talk about spiritual things. Um, that's the legacy I'd like to leave.
SPEAKER_01:Tim, that's fantastic. I love listening to you. And I I'm working very hard on my Bible verse memory. So I have an app that I've, it's called Bible Memory. And I'm really practicing um, so when you tell a story, you just bring up uh something from the Bible. I mean, that's just powerful. And everything you bring up is so relatable. So I it's like, yes, that is in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so you've inspired me. It's it's intentional, a little secret. Um, driving into work, I used to be that person, and at times still am to put on 106.1 or uh put on um different Christian radio stations, etc., or talk shows or Air One, uh, but now try to be more disciplined. There's an app called Lictio 365. And uh just remarkable, great quality uh messaging there, or just uh put on the scripture 20 minutes, 45 minutes. And um, if we if I don't do that intentionally, then it doesn't become part of who I am.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, intentional. Great word is you have to we have to be intentional every morning. I do it. Um so we had just going back, we had Braden on our podcast. I think he was number two, one of our second guests. He was, yeah. He is awesome. I've interviewed him a couple of times, but we're hoping to bring him back. So just you know, because I knew that he moved down to Dallas and oh, I he is lovely, lovely man. Um, my last question for you, Tim, is what brings you the greatest joy?
SPEAKER_00:So there's different levels of joy, but um the first one that comes to mind is I'm so impressed with our daughters and um our times of laughter. They're adults now. We have a couple grands, we have two uh soon to be arriving, uh, another boy and a girl, but uh the sense of humor, uh, the wittiness, they love to abuse me and highlight my weaknesses and errors. Um, I remember a few years ago, and this has started to become tradition during the holidays. Uh, we have a group text, and a picture came over, and it was four pictures of legs. And it was their legs. And um they hadn't shaved for several weeks during the holidays. And uh their challenge was, Dad, can you select whose legs are whose? And um, laughter and abuse and um things like that. That um greatest joy of, you know, it's been said that success is that your kids want to come back and they want to listen to you and enjoy life, but we really enjoy life together. The the beautiful thing here, again, is is that I love them and not because of what they've done, but because I love them and uh believe in them. That that's God's love for us. Yeah, whatever we do, if we make a mistake today at work with a stranger, that when we stand at the end of the day, he still loves us. That's our identity. That there's no one that we have to impress. Yeah. Final comment was dropping my dad and mom off at the airport and uh gave my dad a big hug, colonel in the Marine Corps, real tough. And he said to me, Enjoy life. And I I pushed him back and yeah, thank you. And he grabbed me again, and uh he said, No, you really need to enjoy life and be aware of that. And so that that was a good word from my dad. It's important to enjoy.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um, for your daughters, uh, I think of, I mean, God asks us to love our children. That's he blessed us, he gave them to us, he's asking us to take care of them all on earth. And we had a hockey coach once, and the hockey coach said to us, uh, not in a well, a very beautiful way, I will coach them. You love them. You don't need to coach them. When they are finished the game, and you good or bad, you only get to say good. Don't love them. Yeah, I'll point out you love them.
SPEAKER_00:So it's so tempting to coach.
SPEAKER_01:Especially if you're good at hockey or good at basketball or whatever you know was your thing. That's right. Just love them. They get coaching.
SPEAKER_00:So that's right.
SPEAKER_01:Tim, I want to thank you for joining us uh these last over half hour. Um, you've inspired me to get back on my Bible app right now. I already did it this morning, but it's like, I gotta learn more. I want to learn more. So you've left an impact on me. So if anyone's listening and they would love to reach out to you, find you, what is the best way?
SPEAKER_00:Uh easiest way is on LinkedIn. Okay. And uh it's Tim Beecham. Some might say Beauchamp, but it's uh Tim B-E-A-U-C-H-A-M-P.
SPEAKER_01:All right. Well, thank you again. It has been an absolute pleasure having you on the Leader Impact Podcast.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you, Lisa.
unknown:You're welcome.
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