Join us on Productive Joy as Dr, Christie introduces Skip Willcox - an entrepreneur, mortgage professional, podcast host, and devoted dad. Skip shares his path from graduating with degrees in economics and political science at University of Georgia to embracing coaching and starting Kairo Sales Group.

He emphasizes his OUTPACE acronym (Organization, Understanding, Time Management, Positivity, Active Listening/Adaptability, Controlling Emotions, Education) to enhance productivity and joy in personal and professional life. Skip drills home the advice on taking leaps towards your passion and always being a learner.

Find more about Skip here

And Keiros Sales Group here

Episode Highlights:

00:00 Welcome to Productive Joy

00:26 Meet Skip Wilcox: Entrepreneur and Lego Enthusiast

02:04 Skip's Journey: From College to Mortgage Professional

04:19 Transition to Coaching and Full-Time Entrepreneurship

06:17 Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

11:00 Understanding Productive Joy

13:41 The OUTPACE Strategy for Success

21:45 Rapid Fire Questions and Final Thoughts44

Episode Transcript:

Christie: [00:00:00] Hi, friends. Welcome to Productive Joy. I have a fabulous guest with us today and I cannot wait to introduce you to Skip. But before I do, do me a favor. Follow this podcast. It makes such a world of difference for people to see it, for people to get a little more productive joy in their lives, and we want that more than anything.

So follow, subscribe, do your thing, and then share it with all the humans, you know, that's. Gonna make a big difference as well. So just like always, we have a fabulous guest with us today. We have Skip Wilcox. Skip Wilcox is lots of things. He's an entrepreneur, good things, good things. He is a mortgage professional in lots of different realms.

He's also a podcast host, which we'll get into a little bit later. He's an avid sports fan. He was specific though, M-L-B-N-F-L and college football. He also plays tennis and he is a dad to three fabulous kiddos and a hu. Spend and fun fact, he is a Lego enthusiast and he got some new Legos just recently.

So [00:01:00] congratulations to that. Skip. And why. Thank

Skip: you. Thank you. It's true, it's true. We did an early Father's day and my wife got me new Lego sets for Father's Day. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm kind of proud of myself actually. 'cause you know what? I get some joy. Outta doing those

Christie: Well, and that's why we're here today is to create a little productive joy.

So Skip, I think that's fabulous. My son is a huge Lego fan and I think always will be for his whole entire life. Right. So what would you say to our listeners to get them super excited about this episode in like 30 seconds or less?

Skip: Ooh. Well, I would say Chrissy, that in 30, 30 seconds or less, that's, that's, that's tough.

All right, guys. What you're gonna pick up on this episode is you're gonna have a good, easy way to remember a set of skills, all right, that are gonna help you throughout your work day, your personal day. Doesn't matter what it is. To keep what's really important at at the forefront and help you be more joyful day in and day out.

Christie: I love that. I like to say you have to [00:02:00] keep the main thing The main thing, right? Sure. Like you can't be so all over the place that you're missing the mark. Okay, so let's back up because you did not. Start here, but you are here. And so I want you to tell us a little bit about your journey. You can start with little, little tiny skip if you want to, or you want, you can go with a mid adult to adult, but ultimately what got you from, okay, I'm going to go on a career path to the career path that you're, oh my

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