➡ Jamal Park explains his strategic approach to business management which involves applying corporate-level process-driven methods like kanban boards, cloud storage and stringent time management. He emphasizes duplicating proven processes across different business components, and highlights that a business’s growth becomes easier when there’s clear visibility of what and where to grow.
➡ The speaker advises that productivity and growth, in both personal and business aspects, can be effectively managed through implementing process-driven strategies. Sunday meetings that review the past week and plan for ones ahead are essential, and discussions about mental health and personal growth of everyone involved are integral for the functioning of this system.
➡ The speaker motivates for a personal journey, emphasizing internal growth and spiritual enlightenment alongside business principles and practices. They argue that success in one’s marriage, relationships, running a household, and managing finances requires maturity, understanding, business-mindedness, forgiving, accepting suffering and aligning with people who share the same direction while getting rid of toxicity, all geared towards achieving long term benefits.

Jamal park says, how do you keep track of all of your businesses? If all of your businesses and projects and milestones, do you use Microsoft planner or another application, or is it all in your head? Everything is documented. Everything is in a process. We use a combination of kanban boards. We use, okay, we use kanban boards, we use calendars. And then different projects require a different level of dedication.

Right? So for example, for the real estate development aspect of the business, I have Rita running it. And so Rita, I’ve set her up and I’ve basically set up a process where she’s being taught and basically she’s being managed, even though she’s the one that’s actually over the projects, she’s being managed by the project managers and architects, so that they basically teach her every single aspect of the business.

And it’s only one project. So everything is divided and all we do is duplicate it. So I’ll give you an example, right. A lot of people know the application that I use in order to manage the books, and I’ve even talked about it and I’ve shown you all and I’ve given you all a preview of how I use things and how I manage my finances with these applications.

Well, all we did was duplicate the process from other businesses that we use. So the media aspect of it, the web development company, the rental process, the rental business, as far as us renting out the properties. And then we got a land development, real estate development arm of the businesses that we recently started that allows for us to be able to do it. So all we did was duplicate the process and we can just drop down and click whichever one that we want to manage.

And then we start to put in all of the information in order to do the right bookkeeping and doing the budget and the planning, and we can foresee and project that out. Right. So everything is basically kanban. We got different things that we want done and the same process that we’ve learned and used as far as corporate America, we just took it and we applied it to our own businesses.

So everything that I learned in corporate America, I take it, I use an agile process and then I apply it to my own businesses in my personal life. That’s a very good question. If y’all are not taking the things that you’ve learned in corporate America and managing and participating in the agile process and all of that, and you’re not applying it to your own life if the only time that you use these tools is you use them in corporate.

I’ll give you another example right for my editor, I don’t need my editor. I have spaces for people to be able to come in and edit in the studio. I got 27 inch monitors, Apple monitors, I got Mac studios, the $4,000 joints. But everything we do is set up based off a cloud. And so I give permissions, or we can give permissions in the cloud for them to be able to access certain files.

So they got certain templates that they’ve developed. They got access to certain things. When we upload an interview, it goes straight up into the cloud and then it goes over into my editor, who works for me, who was actually in Michigan, but then at the same time, he don’t have to come into the office to edit it. So we then set that project in place the same way that we would do it in corporate America.

And we got Kanban boards for importance for when we want certain things done because we want it deployed. And that applies to every single video that gets edited, everything that gets chopped. Then, you know, we pull it up and down and we send it up and through the cloud, and then we archive it and send it over into a completely different cloud folder. That allows for us to then use that process to make sure that we can always pull it back out, or we hold on to those files and then we back those files up on actual hard drives that’s in two different places, just in case anything ever happens to the cloud.

So nothing has ever happens to our cloud infrastructure that we got set up with the company. But then at the same time, we also back everything up on multiple different hard drives. So we’ll always have those files and we’ll never lose them. So everything is process related. That’s how we able to stay so organized. That’s why we never miss. And then we make sure that everybody is managing each other’s calendars.

They got access to be able to see my calendar. They can put anything on my calendar. They can set a meeting on my calendar the same way that we do in corporate America. So, so everything is process driven. When you start to get into business, most people mess up because they’re not process driven, they’re project driven. Let me say it again, they’re not process driven. They’re project driven.

You have to take the same insight that you get and that you manage from corporate America and you apply it to your regular everyday lives for those of you on a very simple, very simple level. Right? And I’m about to go over into the next thing. At a very minimum. You guys have calendars that you live and die by that. Your bosses and your manager force you to actually go by for when you got meetings, when you have a one on one in with your boss, when you have to do a stand up with your team on a daily basis, but then in your regular life, you’re just going based off of your memory instead of actually having a process.

If you got to get something ordered or you need a new computer, or you need to get something expensed for something that you had to buy, that you need to get reimbursed by, that’s a process that you have to go through in order to make sure that you properly account for that, for what you buying and what you’re doing. If you got to go and take a conference or you’re taking a trip, or you need another piece of equipment, there’s a process associated with that.

But then when we get into our regular lives, we don’t even have a budget for how we live our lives, when we get our paycheck, that’s weird to me. How can you have all of this insight? How can you be so well groomed to be such a professional? But y’all not taking any of this stuff and applying it to your own business and your own life and y’all just living life of la vida Loca.

When we step outside of what we do in our regular lives and we put our regular hats off, take our regular hats off, and then we step into corporate America, we operate with a level of professionalism that we don’t apply to our own households. Your cube, your office at work is spotless and clean, but your house and your bedroom is messed up. In your home office, you can’t get a toy removed.

Everything that you do has to be aligned. Everything that you have going on the same way that you operate in corporate America, the same way you operate in your business is the same way that you should be operating your professional life. That way when you start to grow the business, all you’re doing is expanding and it’s making it easier because you have a process in place that allows for you to be able to bring people in onboard them, get them set up, be able to have visibility into what they’re doing, and then be able to manage a time more effectively around that.

My goal is to make sure that we’re always operating in the best processes, implementing new processes instead of trying to just grow the business. It’s easier to grow the business when you have visibility into where you need to grow at. Maybe I need to expand my team, maybe I don’t need to expand my team. Maybe that person has a lot of time on their hands, and we just need to spend more money making sure that they’re better suited or better trained for what it is that they do or give them a raise, and they can take on more responsibility instead of just hiring somebody else.

But if you don’t have visibility into that, if you run in a restaurant and you’re not using data driven decisions to understand which going to be your busiest days, how many employees you need to hire, whether or not you should be open on the weekends, whether or not you should close on this day, then you’re just moving. You’re just doing a lot of stuff, but you’re not going nowhere.

You’re running on a hamster wheel, and you’re not allowing for yourself to be. To run as fast as you can based off of what your capabilities are. You just moving, you’re not taking an elevator. You’re just running up and down steps. Now, that may feel like you’re doing a lot, but you can be a lot more efficient to grow your business much more effectively if you start to implement processes every single week on Sundays.

This ain’t even supposed to be a segment. Y’all making me go into a bunch of stuff, and I’m teaching y’all stuff I shouldn’t even be teaching y’all. This is stuff that we talk about in the Patreon. But I’m gonna need y’all to join the Patreon, because it’s gonna be a whole nother wave that’s coming in the Patreon. And I got a lot of things planned for y’all every single Sunday.

Me and Rita, not the whole team, that’s separate meetings. But me and Rita sit down, and we don’t take our computers. We take our iPads. We go over the schedule, we look at what we’ve done, we look at the budget that we’ve allocated over for real estate. We look at the budget that we’re doing over for media. We go over who it is that we want to come into the studio.

We start to plan around what days makes the most sense, and we’re basically spending. And we do it over breakfast. We don’t do it in a formal setting. We’re not doing it in a living room. We go out, we take our iPad. She got her own iPad. I got my own iPad pro. And we go over our schedule. We go over the business. We go over the things that we got planned and going on, and then I check on her mental health.

Hey, what is it that you need to do? Do you need another assistant? Do you want to move into a different position? We operate in our marriage like a business. This is not about love. The love comes with it. The business aspect of it is what makes you happy. I could check on your mental health. I could see where I need to come in more. Do I still have the autonomy to be able to go out to the office? Do I need to make some adjustments? Do I need to move this person over here? But she’s my eyes and ears because she runs different segments of the business.

That allows for me to be more productive and to grow the company more effectively. Right. And so we have those meetings on Sundays most of the time, and we don’t do them remotely. We do them in person. We have fun, we go out to breakfast, and we kick it. And then we make sure that we get the business in order before we start having a conversation about what it is that we want to do or where we want to travel.

Everything is process driven. Your marriage should be process driven. Your professional life should be process driven. Your business should be process driven. Your money should be process driven. Your calendar should be process driven. Everything that you do should be process driven. If you are not process driven, then it will drive you crazy. It will drive you crazy, I’m telling you. And so those business meetings that basically allow for us to project our growth have milestones.

Hey, what are the problems that you have in, how can we solve for it? Issues go up. Complaints go up, not down. My job as the leader of my household, as the leader of my companies, as the leader of this media, as the leader of you guys, to an extent, is to figure out how I can give you the best information to put you in the best position possible.

I don’t fire people. I never fire people. My job is to figure out where it is that I could best put you so that you can be most effective and happy. Hey, we don’t need to hire nobody else. Give them a raise. We’ll give them an extra $25,000 a year and let them be more productive because they looking to do more things for it anyway. They’ll be more happy and we can keep them longer because it costs us more to be able to train an employee two to three times more in order to onboard hire somebody and find somebody else.

And I ain’t doing all of tHat. We just going to move more efficient. We don’t need to hire nobody else. We’re going to keep our same team. We’re going to expand, give more responsibility, train people up that way. The next person that come in, come in, up under them, not necessarily is hired to be their counterpart. They should be training and growing the business. We should be grooming them to take over different parts of the business as we grow.

You see what I’m saying? So my job is never to get rid of or to criticize or anything like, even with you guys, I’m not trying to figure out when I’m going into 2024 and my audience and the Patreon members, I’m not trying to figure out how we could make more money or expand a business. We try to figure out how we can add more value. Because when I come in here every day and I say, hey, give me a mental health check, check out what’s going on.

What are you all feeling? How are you all going through things? I go in and I look at the discord inside of the Patreon that’s attached to any of the link to the discord is attached to any of the most recent posts inside of the Patreon nine. We looking at whether or not we need to finally launch our own platform in order to get off Patreon because we can structure the content better to have a better experience for the people.

I’m checking the sentiment of the people to understand where they at. How much longer do I need to give them baby food? Can we bring everybody along to the next level? How many new members that we got to get up to speed to make sure everybody on the same page, where are we going to meet at next? What’s the city that’s closest to the most people so we could have the biggest effect on people.

It’s a process driven thing that we go through year by year, day by day, and we just improve on the processes or we get rid of certain things that no longer suit what we’re doing from a business perspective. And that applies to the relationship, that applies to the business. And you will have an incredibly fruitful, loving, fun filled, great growing business if you start to look at things in the same professional manner that you look at them as you go into corporate America every day.

That’s why I tell you all to dress for the position that you want, not the position that you win. That’s a great question. That is an awesome question. And when you all have these conversations, and I want you all to tune into the Anton Daniels channel tonight at 10:00 p. m. . Eastern when I go to talk about relationships. And, you know, we do our Wednesday night livestream when these people come on here and they tell you all what you all supposed to be doing in your relationships and what you all should be looking for, they don’t have a clue.

They don’t know what it’s like to grow into. How can somebody life coach you when they ain’t never been through life? They ain’t never built a business. They don’t know how to apply business principles into a relationship and vice versa. They ain’t never been able to hold on or go through something in order to get to something that’s better than it. They don’t know anything about women. They don’t know the nature of men.

They don’t know the nature of women. All they know is heartache, destruction, and not being able to finish the thing that they started and everything that they’ve done in their life, whether it be professionally or in a relationship. So what makes you think that you can then have a conversation holistically all the way across the board? Because it’s layers. It’s layers to professionalism. It’s layers to getting to the next level.

When you’re talking about executive compensation, it’s layers to the next level. When it comes to grooming people or putting people in position of power or finding the next person that actually poses to come into your business and then transform it into the next thing that you growth. What is growth? Compensation. Paying your people. What makes them happy? When should you have meetings? Do you have too many meetings? Do you have too many meetings with your chick? When do you pull back? What makes them happy? How can you then give them purpose? Right? These people have no clue of what it means to actually, to be in a successful relationship, successfully married.

And so even when you see these women and they come after me and they say, well, I don’t like anti, no, you don’t like yourself. Because I’m going to give you the harsh reality of what it takes in order to get to the thing that you really want. I’m not here to tell you the thing that makes you feel good. I live my life based off of the results, and that’s what I’m trying to convey over to you.

So get out of your emotions, get out of your feelings, get out of the thing that make you feel good about yourself temporarily, to get to the thing that makes you feel great about yourself. Forever. Forever. When you’re choosing a wife, when you decide that you want to give yourself over to your husband, there’s a process for that, a vetting process for the person that you’re supposed to be with forever, not the person that makes you feel good right now.

That’s why you a single baby mama. That’s why you a single father right now, because you led with your eyes and your mind instead of leading with your heart and your understanding. There’s business principles that come along with being able to be spiritual and read the Bible. Learning, understanding the growth. It takes you 40 years to be 40 years old. You can’t skip steps. You can’t skip the process.

You have to understand it and go through it in order to get to it. And so I’ve been there. I’ve done it. I’ve done every single thing that you think that you’re going to go through. I’ve already mastered it. I’ve already overcame it. I’ve seen it happening. I can give you the steps to what you’re going to be successful in. I can even guide you through the tumultuous times that you’re going to experience.

I know that you’re supposed to suffer. That’s just coming with the territory. But if you want to get to the results, if you want to be rich, if you want to have a great marriage and relationship, there’s a process associated with it, and you’re not going to get it on a pulpit. You’re going to have to be all encompassing. If you want to rock out with us over at the bag chasers, you don’t just get the game on how it is that you can make more money.

You’re going to have to work on the character. You’re going to have to understand what it means to be successful when it comes to business related because you got to run your household like a business. As a man, you have to run your household like a business. This as a protector, you have to look at things and see things differently. You got to put people in position of power.

Everything comes back to how you look at things from a business perspective. And when I say relationships and marriage is a business first, that’s all encompassing. All encompassing. Tune into it. I’m going to save the last segment because I’m at my two hour mark. I’m going to save the last segment for tomorrow. So we’re going to go over that because I want to talk about taxes. I want to get to the money.

I want to talk about planning for your next fiscal year as far as the amount of money that you make, what you should be having, your dependence at, when you should start a business, how you should leverage your tax return, what to do if you got debt. And so I’m going to save that for tomorrow. But I need you all to really tune in. Now is the time, now is the time for you to really hold on to and get immersed in what is going to be the best thing for you long term.

It’s not time for games. Time out for games. It’s time out for feelings. We too old to be leaning into our feelings to be going with people based off of whether we like them or not. We got to go into things based off of results. It’s time out for all of the games. You had enough time to mess up your life. Now we going to get things together and we’re going to run it up in 2024.

We going to really run it up. We’re going to get rid of the debt. We’re going to fix any issues. We’re going to have forgiveness. We’re going to make sure that we align ourselves with people that we supposed to be going in the direction of. We’re going to get assets, we’re going to make investments, we’re going to make real estate purchases. We’re going to learn more. We’re going to grow more, we’re going to suffer more, we’re going to cry more.

Some of is going to go through some things. We’re going to pray for each other and we’re going to grow. It’s time out for all of the toxicity. We’re going to hold each other accountable. We’re going to pray for each other and we’re going to be real stewards, real great stewards of the things that we have in front of us. Because it’s not about the cars that’s dealt to you.

It’s about how it is that you utilize your energy to really, really grow. That’s what life is about. You ain’t got to like me, but you got to do the thing is best for you. Let me say that again. You don’t have to like me. You got to do the thing that’s in your best interest. It’s up to. .