Kay:
So, let’s talk a little bit about what that communication clarity has led to in us teaching inside the John Maxwell Team environment and has then even beyond that expanded to you, Shi, getting to profess at UNR.
Shi:
Yes, I am so proud to be an instructor of Sociology on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I got my Bachelor’s degree and my Master’s degree, and I have always wanted to teach Sociology 101 there. I don’t want to be a full-blown professor. I don’t want to do research. I don’t want to go for grants. I don’t want any of that stuff, but I love the College environment. I love the learning environment. I’m so privileged and excited to get to do that. I know, Kay, you and I both love to teach and teach together so I wish we could be co-instructors. Kay even does get to come guest appear. She speaks every semester. We do a personal growth and development presentation for my class because we love it so much. In fact, we are invited back semester after semester for several different professors within the College, asking us to come present and it’s one of our favorite things.
Kay:
Right. Educating others is definitely a passion of ours, but we would not be at the place where we would even be equipped to do that education if it wasn’t for all of the work that we have done within both the marketing and the restaurant realm. So, what we took from restaurants is the systemization. What we’re taking from marketing is clarity and communication, and if you apply both of those things into the education realm, now we educate our own communities as part of what’s the business. This is part of our work. Hi, welcome. You’re here.
Shi:
We are communicating.
Kay:
We are currently communicating and educating and so what we’ve done is found ways to bring systems and communication clarity to concepts that people are looking to learn in order to help them grasp those concepts and move forward.
Shi:
Right. The theme for this series here is, ‘What’s the Business?’ I’m so glad you brought that forward Kay. Our business is restaurants, our business is marketing, and our business is education and educating but we also love getting educated. We are obsessed with learning and with growth and consuming it. So, naturally, when you have an obsession like that, you also want to reciprocate in return and we’re so lucky that we get to do it in a variety of different ways both for making money and for making passion and purpose alive in our lives. Education, whether we’re teaching the John Maxwell Team members about how to market their business and use software solutions to do that, or we’re getting to teach alongside Joseph McClendon III within the Neuroencoding Institute or teaching at the University. We really love teaching. We really love learning.
Kay:
You know, I’m so glad that you brought forward the value of getting educated in being an educator and I think that many people have this idea that they become a master and once I become the master, I have no more learning to do, and I can just get out there and teach. But it turns out that stuff is changing all the time.
Shi:
All the time.
Kay:
All the time including science, including facts that you think you know, that are absolutely 100% facts are changing all the time. So, constant input when you are somebody who is dedicated to being an educator or a communicator. If you’re someone who’s going to give that constant output, you’ve got to be ready to have that kind of educational intake happening in your life. You’ve got to practice what you preach.
Shi:
Exactly and preach we love.
Kay:
We do.
Shi:
We like to call it the preach and teach because of course we’re going to get energized and excited, and we love to bring forward information and it’s one of the parts of our businesses that we love the most anytime. Sometimes our teaching looks like teaching our associates in the restaurant company about…
Kay:
Or the local Rotary Club.
Shi:
Or the local rotary club. We love doing that. We recently got to do a speech for an adopted grandparents group. These are older folks from a Church who go into elementaries and be an adopted grandma or grandpa to the young folks. We got to go in and give some communication strategies and tools to them that they all found really revolutionary and helpful. We got the sweetest thank you card from them. It was so cute. When we get to do that, we’re on fire. We love that.
Kay:
Yep. Educating is definitely our passion and it’s part of our business so much so that we’ve even come to a point now where we help other people do it in curriculum development and we’ll talk about that here soon.
