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Parents, in laws, and grandparents can be one of the biggest blessings in early parenthood. They can also be the biggest source of stress if expectations are unclear. What does it actually look like to design your family on purpose and not just react to life? In part three of our Family Matters series, John and Michael sit down with Josh Mackey, husband, dad of two daughters, and pastor in Denver, to talk about the rhythms, values, and mission that shape a family from the inside out. Josh brings both his own story as a dad and years of walking alongside other families through the hard stuff, and he does not hold back. The conversation starts with the identity shift that hits you the moment you become a dad. Not just your schedule and your money, but who you are. How your kids are becoming like you whether you like it or not. And how that reality is either terrifying or one of the most motivating things you can hear. Josh introduces one of the most practical tools we have heard yet. An acronym built on your family name where each letter stands for a value you actually want to live. Corny? Maybe. Powerful? Absolutely. His daughter already walks past the sign in their kitchen every day. We also dig into Sabbath, not as a religious rule but as a rhythm of real renewal. The difference between vegging and actually being restored. How to protect a day for the things that fill you up, good food, good people, and yes, ice cream. And how that rhythm looks different in every season of life so you do not need to have it figured out before you start. Then Josh brings the book Family on Mission into the conversation. There is a difference between having a family and a mission that compete with each other, making your family your mission and isolating them from the world, and doing family on mission where your kids are invited into your purpose and your work. They see what you actually do. They learn by watching you, not just by being told. And we talk about failure. Because you are going to mess it up. The question is whether you model what it looks like to say you are sorry, to disagree without destroying each other, and to let your kids see that brokenness followed by forgiveness is not weakness. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. Here is what we cover Why becoming a dad is a more radical identity shift than even marriage How your kids are learning from you by osmosis whether you are teaching them or not The family name acronym tool Josh and Carissa built and how to make your own version Sabbath as a rhythm of renewal versus vegging, and why it matters for your whole family Why the goal is not hitting parenting benchmarks but building a vision for wh

In this episode of Bundy Group Insights, Jim Mullens, Managing Director at Bundy Group, interviews John Mackey, founder of The Mackey Group, to discuss the evolving trends, challenges, and opportunities within the fire protection industry. With nearly two decades of experience, Mackey is a trusted authority in fire protection, strategic growth, and advising companies on enhancing operational performance and achieving long-term success. The conversation delves into the ongoing consolidation in the fire, security, and safety sectors, focusing on the influence of private equity firms, strategic buyers, and contractors in shaping the market. Mackey shares actionable insights for listeners, particularly business owners, emphasizing the importance of preparing for potential sales by cleaning up financials, optimizing service revenues, and evaluating technology stacks to maximize value. Mackey and Mullens also highlight the significance of identifying the right buyer fit through a competitive process and developing strategic plans to ensure smooth transitions amidst a highly active acquisition market. Additionally, Mackey addresses key external factors impacting the industry, such as labor shortages, fluctuating interest rates, and potential political shifts involving tariffs and immigration policies. Despite these challenges, Mackey expresses optimism about the industry's resilience, driven by a steady flow of investment capital and ongoing growth opportunities. Key Takeaways: Ongoing Consolidation: The fire protection industry continues to consolidate, with private equity firms and strategic buyers driving acquisitions across sectors like fire sprinklers, fire alarm, and security. Market Resilience: Despite minor dips in deal volume, strong financial metrics and continued investment underscore the industry's overall health and growth potential. Sophisticated Private Equity Influence: Large private equity firms such as KKR and Blackstone are increasingly active in the space, building aggressive portfolios and setting new industry standards. Preparation for Sale: Business owners should focus on cleaning up financials, enhancing service revenue, optimizing operations, and building solid growth strategies before considering a sale. A part of that preparation includes planning for a competitive sale process. Labor Challenges: Skilled labor shortages remain a significant challenge, requiring innovative solutions to address workforce gaps and maintain industry growth. Election Impact: Political and economic factors, like tariffs and interest rate changes, may create supply chain challenges but also open opportunities for strategic adjustments. Strategic Fit Matters: Beyond the purchase price, business owners should carefully evaluate buyer fit, including cultural alignment, legacy management, and post-sale roles for leadership. Learn more about the Bundy Group by visiting bundygroup.com .

Inspect Point Webinar- Optimize your Business Practices (March 31st 11AM) John Mackey john@mackeygroupllc.com mackeygroupllc.com FULL TRANSCRIPT Drew Slocum: ( 00:08 ): This is episode 20 of the Fire Protection Podcast, powered by Inspect Point. Today, my guest is John Mackey. John is the owner of the Mackey Group, l l c. It's a fire protection consulting business. Um, I actually had John on about a year ago. Uh, he was on the second podcast and went really well. A lot of listens to that. Um, John started his consulting business, uh, pretty recently. Uh, formally he was with the Hiller Group, um, head of their digital, uh, and just different technologies for the Hiller group. He's, he's done a lot to improve different businesses out there, uh, heavily involved in some mergers, mergers and acquisitions as well. So, uh, John's new role is, is looking at different fire protection companies, uh, both big and small, and trying to get their, you know, day-to-day operations, their business plans in line. Um, so it's just kind of a, it's a good topic to talk about with all the, the crazy pandemic talks out there, the looming recession if it's, if it's not already here. ( 01:11 ) So making sure your fire protection business is up to snuff with reoccurring revenue. Um, I think that him and I thought it was a, it is a great opportunity to really improve your business operations to when we come out the other side of this to really be rolling. So, uh, we got talking about that. And, you know, this podcast is really gonna coincide with, uh, a webinar we have in spec points, hosting a, a live webinar tomorrow, March 31st at 11:00 AM with our VP of Customer Success, uh, Jennifer Doyle, who's heavily and entrenched in a lot of day-to-day operations for different contractors. So she's gonna have a lot of tips and tricks out there to, to help improve your businesses. I will make sure to add the link in the podcast notes, as well as this post on social media. So, uh, make sure to subscribe and please enjoy. All right, we go. Um, thanks John for, uh, joining me. It's been about, uh, was it, it's been, been almost a year now since I put the first one out there, and thank you. Were that first one. So it's, uh, one year anniversary. We'll do it, we'll do, do it a little early at least. John Mackey: ( 02:24 ): Uh, hey, I appreciate you always, uh, look forward to opportunity to talk to you and share perspectives of, uh, what we're both seeing in the industry and, and, um, just offer my, uh, my insight for the listeners and, and, um, help out where I can. Drew Slocum: ( 02:38 ): Yeah, no, thanks. Uh, John, John was out about, uh, about a year ago. He was with the, the Hiller group at the time. He, he recently, uh, it's kind of out in his own venture now, the Mackey group. And I, I guess what is, I guess, tell the listeners what, what you're up to and kind of what your vision is. John Mackey: (<a href="https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/gwcG1Da

On the second episode of the Emergent Order podcast, John Papola interviews entrepreneur, author, and Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey. Papola and Mackey discuss the evolution of Whole Foods Market, from its humble beginnings in Austin, TX to its current role in the Amazon corporate ecosystem. This episode also includes an in-depth discussion of Mackey’s conscious capitalism movement and what it really means to be a “good” capitalist. The two Johns also discuss the making of the film At The Fork , a collaboration between Whole Foods Market and Emergent Order. More from our guest: His Blog on Whole Foods Market's Website The Conscious Capitalism Website References from this episode: Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey The Whole Foods Diet by John Mackey Free to Choose by Milton & Rose Friedman The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Dierdre McCloskey Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Dierdre McCloskey Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Dierdre McCloskey The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime Video

Welcome to the first in our Podcast Showcase Series with Paul Shapiro and Toni Okamoto interviewing John Mackey. He started this little company, grew it, and then sold it to Amazon. You might know it as Whole Foods Market. Though Paul and Toni can tell you all about their guest, I can tell you a little bit about Paul and Toni. This super star duo is hosted by none other than Paul Shapiro, animal activist, author and now CEO of the Better Meat Co, and Toni Okamoto, who is a cookbook author, and the creator of Plant-based on a Budget, which encourages people that eating plant-based doesn’t have to be expensive. Toni was featured on What The Health and has a pretty viral youtube video where she and her business partner Michelle Cehn compare the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger. As many know, Paul and I met on the My Food Job Rocks podcast and through chance, I got the opportunity to found Better Meat Co with him. Paul chose Sacramento to be the HQ of Better Meat Co, not because of strategy but because that is where Toni lives, his fiance’s home town. I was happy about the location for my own personal reasons as well. As Paul learned about how I did my podcast through the many talks we’ve had, he was very impressed with the number of connections and knowledge I’ve amassed throughout a couple of years of doing this and thought it would be valuable and fun to do a podcast with Toni. Business for Good is a podcast that focuses on the businesses that solve humanities biggest problems and one of those problems being food! Today, we go into the mind of John Mackey, Paul’s friend, but also the CEO and CEO-founder of Whole Foods. Business for Good as many other episodes that focus on food, such as slavery-free chocolate and investors for plant-based companies. But they also have an impressive list of other guests such as coral reef revitalists, musicians who are making a sustainable impact, and… toilet paper companies where if you buy their products, they will build toilets in third world countries. Without further ado, enjoy the first episode of the Business for Good’s podcast, their episode with John Mackey. You can check out more of Paul and Toni’s episode at businessforgoodpodcast.com Shownotes As a student, John Mackey was an idealistic hippie who worked in a vegetarian co-op while studying religion and philosophy. He never took a business class during his whole academic career. In other words, he wasn’t exactly the guy people would’ve placed bets on to become a businessman, let alone one who’d launch a natural foods empire called Whole Foods Market that would get purchased by Amazon for $14 billion. (Note: John long ago stopped taking a salary and even donated all of his Whole Foods stock, so he didn’t see a penny of the sale.) Listen to John discuss with Toni Okamoto and Paul Shapiro his thoughts on everything from venture capitalists and labor unions to Whole Foods’ sale to Amazon and of course how to do good in the world via business. John’s Books: Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity John’s book recommendations during the show: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the Worldby Brad Stone The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Books by Peter Drucker More info: Conscious Capitalism, the organization John cofounded

Welcome to the first in our Podcast Showcase Series with Paul Shapiro and Toni Okamoto interviewing John Mackey. He started this little company, grew it, and then sold it to Amazon. You might know it as Whole Foods Market. Though Paul and Toni can tell you all about their guest, I can tell you a little bit about Paul and Toni. This super star duo is hosted by none other than Paul Shapiro , animal activist, author and now CEO of the Better Meat Co, and Toni Okamoto, who is a cookbook author, and the creator of Plant-based on a Budget , which encourages people that eating plant-based doesn’t have to be expensive. Toni was featured on What The Health and has a pretty viral youtube video where she and her business partner Michelle Cehn compare the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger. As many know, Paul and I met on the My Food Job Rocks podcast and through chance, I got the opportunity to found Better Meat Co with him. Paul chose Sacramento to be the HQ of Better Meat Co, not because of strategy but because that is where Toni lives, his fiance’s home town. I was happy about the location for my own personal reasons as well. As Paul learned about how I did my podcast through the many talks we’ve had, he was very impressed with the number of connections and knowledge I’ve amassed throughout a couple of years of doing this and thought it would be valuable and fun to do a podcast with Toni. Business for Good is a podcast that focuses on the businesses that solve humanities biggest problems and one of those problems being food! Today, we go into the mind of John Mackey, Paul’s friend, but also the CEO and CEO-founder of Whole Foods. Business for Good as many other episodes that focus on food, such as slavery-free chocolate and investors for plant-based companies. But they also have an impressive list of other guests such as coral reef revitalists , musicians who are making a sustainable impact, and… t oilet paper companies where if you buy their products, they will build toilets in third world countries. Without further ado, enjoy the first episode of the Business for Good’s podcast, their episode with John Mackey. You can check out more of Paul and Toni’s episode at businessforgoodpodcast.com Shownotes As a student, John Mackey was an idealistic hippie who worked in a vegetarian co-op while studying religion and philosophy. He never took a business class during his whole academic career. In other words, he wasn’t exactly the guy people would’ve placed bets on to become a businessman, let alone one who’d launch a natural foods empire called Whole Foods Market that would get purchased by Amazon for $14 billion. (Note: John long ago stopped taking a salary and even donated all of his Whole F

Entrepreneurs are heroes, the four principles of conscious capitalism, the two most important components of a great company culture and more with John Mackey. John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods, an advocate of entrepreneurship, and bestselling author of Conscious Capitalism. Recorded live from the Genius Network Annual Event. If you would like access to the full feature presentation, the show notes, and the special resources for this episode, please visit 10xTalk.com/113 . Here's a glance at what you'll learn from John in this episode: John explains his perspective on capitalism and why entrepreneurs are heroes. How do you create an award winning culture with over 80,000 employees? John share's the two most important components for creating a culture that attracts star team members. Technology is moving so fast. 20 years ago, companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Uber didn't exist. Listen as John shares his thoughts on the future and what's to come. The Four Principles of Conscious Capitalism: How to use them to build a stronger business, move your organization closer to its highest potential, and create a more positive world for all of us The story of a conversation John had with a 25-year-old and the #1 life lesson from it The 2 BIGGEST mistakes entrepreneurs make when it comes to hiring team members Does love have a place in business? According to Mackey, love is the foundation of organizations that truly reach their full potential. Discover how to infuse love into your company culture. Joe and John have a revealing conversation about the role that fear plays in business and the biggest takeaway he wanted to leave everyone with.

Why entrepreneurs are heroes, the four principles of conscious capitalism, the two most important components of a great company culture and more with John Mackey. John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods, an advocate of entrepreneurship, and best-selling author of Conscious Capitalism. Recorded live from the Genius Network Annual Event. Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from John in this episode: John explains his perspective on capitalism and why entrepreneurs are heroes. How do you create an award winning culture with over 80,000 employees? John share’s the two most important components for creating a culture that attracts star team members. Technology is moving so fast. 20 years ago, companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Uber didn't exist. Listen as John shares his thoughts on the future and what's to come. The Four Principles of Conscious Capitalism: How to use them to build a stronger business, move your organization closer to its highest potential, and create a more positive world for all of us The story of a conversation John had with a 25-year-old and the #1 life lesson from it The 2 BIGGEST mistakes entrepreneurs make when it comes to hiring team members Does love have a place in business? According to Mackey, love is the foundation of organizations that truly reach their full potential. Discover how to infuse love into your company culture. Joe and John have a revealing conversation about the role that fear plays in business and the biggest takeaway he wanted to leave everyone with.

The Freedom Fast Lane LIVE events are an amazing opportunity for you to get connected with high level entrepreneurs, people who are working to build a business for themselves (just like you), and everything in between. One of the things you'll benefit from most is sessions like this one, where those who have experienced incredible ultimate success, John Mackey in this case, share practical thoughts and strategies to help those who attend. You'll get a lot of value from hearing John's story in building Whole Foods to the incredible company it is today, what money is and what it's used for, and why capitalism is not the evil thing many people portray it to be. You won't want to miss this episode. A clear purpose brings out the haters. Here's how Whole Foods has handled it. During this conversation between Ryan and his guest, John Mackey the topic of haters was brought up, and John had some great ideas to share. He points out that any time you are successful you will become noticed by both the purists and opponents - and both can become quite a thorn in your side. During this Q&A from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE, John shares how Whole Foods has navigated the waters of opposition that come from the success the company has enjoyed. John is a great voice of wisdom for you, so be sure you listen. Connect With Today's guest: JOHN MACKEY Website: John's Blog Resources Mentioned On This Episode www.FreedomFastLaneLIVE.com Connect With Freedom Fast Lane Live Website: www.FreedomFastLane.com On Youtube On Facebook On Twitter On Google Plus On LinkedIn On Instagram Subscribe to Freedom Fast Lane Subscribe to the Freedom Fast Lane Podcast with Ryan Daniel Moran