Bill McDonald, husband, father, martial arts instructor, gym owner, entrepreneur, and the owner and host of The Bearded Beast Show discusses how trying too hard to be everything to everybody is degrading your ability to be an effective leader that people respect. 

Episode Highlights: 

• Bill introduces a new Bearded Beast song by Christian "C-Bakes" Baker called "Born For This." 
• Bowling is exercise? 
• You can't be afraid of telling people the truth. 
• Great leaders need to be able to say 'no' to people without apologizing for it.  
• Don't lose confidence and self-esteem by letting people walk all over you. 

3 Key Points:

1. Release your inner frustration by telling the truth. 
2. Telling people the truth is doing them a favor. 
3. Build up your authority, respect and make time and energy for things that matter to you by being able to say 'no' to people when you need to. 

Tweetable Quotes:

• "'The biggest thing that is holding you back is this, your inability to tell people the facts versus a water-down version of the facts." – Bill McDonald
• "When we buffer the truth and we don't say the truth, and we let people get by, and we keep letting them go down the path, it hurts them, because they don't learn. They don't learn what they are doing wrong." – Bill McDonald
• "If you give full effort, you get full results. If you give half effort, then you get absolutely nothing." – Bill McDonald

Resources Mentioned:

• The Bearded Beast Show 
• Facebook: The Bearded Beast Show