I met an amazing young man while my youngest son was playing football at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, LA. Chris Nichols and I bumped into one another in Nashville about 2 years ago and formed a relationship of hope and courage that we can be our best for our family, companies, and communities. We both live our lives with a Relentless Pursuit of Excellence!

Chris is a Vice President with endevis, which is a national provider for workforce solutions, connecting the right people with the right companies. They are passionate and experienced – constantly evolving to keep pace with an ever-changing workplace. Strong work ethic, open and transparent communication and trust are all a part of the endevis experience.

Here are some Winning Edge strategies from the podcast:

• "We always talk about, 'talk the talk and walk the walk.' You can say whatever you want your culture to be. But, how you treat people every day is going to determine what your culture is."
• "They touched me because they cared about me and I would run through a wall for them."
• “My special sauce is probably winning through adversity. So you failed, so now what?”
• “My Mom and Dad would say 'listen Greg when you fail make sure you learn something from it.'”
• “Listen to other people. Take advice from people. They are smarter than me. Get the right people on the bus.”
• “Hindsight is 20/20. Everybody has to be okay with hindsight 20/20. You got to be able to look at the bold, hard facts in an ugly manner. Let’s put ugly on the table. You gotta get ugly out of you.”
• “Can you give me feedback here, so I don’t want to make this same mistake again.”
• “It took me probably 2 years to write 8 things that I learned from my business failure.”
• “A guy use to tell me, 'Greg you are the author of your book, you got the pen, what do you want the ending to look like?'”

I hope you enjoy this episode of the Talent Tide Podcast with Chris Nichols, and I hope you gain one thing that can help you have more hope and courage that the BEST is yet to come!