Reintroducing Trevor, Episode 1

Thank you for reading this & considering listening. 

Get to know Trevor's thoughts, updated philosophies and updates to the world of Trevor's Circus - NumoSpect Media, Common Leaders, LLC and other future plans.

This weekly show that is intended to be stream-of-consciousness and is much for me, Trevor, as it is for prospective business partners to learn more about the updates to the roadmaps that I design & follow. The intent is to share fresh, unbaked updates from my brain after the daily live show on the NumoSpect Media app. We have great guests and great conversation that often prompts new ideas and perspectives -- I will briefly share those thoughts here. Along the way, I'll twist in some of my experiences and will try to ensure you get some background on me to connect the dots to today. 

There may be cursing on occasion and this show will contain things that most kids under 13 will have no interest in at all. 

A person who might be interested in this weekly segment is someone who is a new, aspiring or changing entrepreneur (that last one is me). Others who may find value in this show are those who are considering investing in or partnering with one of Trevor Tomion's ventures.  

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Transcript

Trevor: 0:36

Hey everybody. My name is Trevor, Trevor, Tommy, and Moore specifically. You can find me everywhere, so there's no reason you can't know my last name. Uh, bear with me with the audio while I tie my tie, uh, to introduce myself. You should know that I'm always five minutes late, so let's not hit about that. This is my. One of my favorite knots, so I wouldn't say it's necessarily a top five tie. It's probably a top 15 tie in my closet. I believe it was given to me by my stepmom or my mom. I forget. One of my moms very fortunate to have more than one, actually have more than two, excuse me, But one of them gave me this tie. And I was feeling this tie today, this morning, and I just hadn't put it on yet. But here, five, uh, almost five o'clock Pacific time. I find myself here with you, which is awesome. And I also find myself for the blue and yellow theme, which was coincidental, but also also happens to be my brain colors. Um, which I didn't think about this morning when I picked the tie, but I didn't think about it when I put on the background. So it just sort of worked out. I'm gonna move the audio. You're about to become, um, removed for a. Here's my little road protester. It's a road go to, um, it's a wireless mic. Uh, it's not the greatest quality compared to like a plug-in mic, but I've had too many reliability issues with the others. So, um, with what I can afford, this is, this is the best. That we can get in some ways. And it's also, uh, again, reliability means a lot and the fact that it doesn't have to be plugged in is pretty awesome. So hopefully that audio comes through. All right. For you, you're about to be on my tie. Hopefully you can see this guy. It's um, I think they're technically like sailboats, but it's a bit of a roar shack test. I've gotten told that they are tacos. I've gotten told they're banana peppers. I think that's probably what I said. Um, they also look a little bit like bananas. They look like a lot of things, but I think they're sailboat. Um, in terms of what the intent was, but you can call it whatever you want. So yeah, I'm Trevor. I'm five minutes late always. Uh, and in this case, I think I'm an hour or three and five minutes late today to this segment. It will normally air live. So this is recorded and partly because I forgot to hit the live button, but that's okay with me. Um, so normally this gonna be live on Wednesdays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 1 15, 1 30. We'll go for about 20 minutes. We'll go somewhere in that range whenever I'm feeling the spirit to jump on. But it'll be somewhere between one and one 30 that we hop on. And what this show is really intended to be is a way for me to reintroduce where my head is at a couple of times a week, three times a week, to be exact. It is a bit self-aggrandizing, so I'm here to tell you that I'm aware of. And also I recognize that I have so many ideas at times that the people around me, the people who are closest with me, rarely can keep up because I just have so many things going through my head sometimes, and I have so many projects moving at once, or that I'm attempting to fire up at once. So I thought, Trevor, let's get on the live interwebs. Let's give, give folks an afternoon. On where Trevor's head is at, it'll be a chance for you to hear potentially on things that you can get involved in early and often as associated with my companies and my organizations and my partners, um, my business partners, my vendors, all the people that I work with to make. This thing that is the circus that I'm creating. That's why I call our morning live show the circus, because there's a lot going on. This will be a, a place for some hot, takes some reflection on how the day is going. And it's also, I think, gonna be a really cool opportunity to share with you any updates that I have related to thought processes after our live show. So we occasionally have guests, um, and those guests will prompt new thoughts and I would love a chance to reflect openly with them, uh, openly with. About where my head is at. I also have new ideas every day, almost every day, and definitely every other day. So I think it's gonna be a cool place for us to go through that and for me to reintroduce, because I grow every day and I grow every couple days, and I grow every moment. And, and I'm really fortunate to be able to say that because it's the truth. Today we're gonna start at the very beginning. This is a 20 minute segment. I will not go over that. I will cut myself off, uh, hard stop at about 18, so we. Just sort of tie everything in a bow as best we can. So I will talk fast and I'm also looking to find some playback, um, ability so you can slow things down. It's actually something pretty important to me, so I'll let you know if I find that because I am gonna blast through. Especially today, we're gonna be, we're gonna be cranking through. So to reintroduce myself, let's start with episode one, introducing myself. Again, my name is Trevor. I'm the founder of Common Leaders llc. That is oversees all of what I do, is the corporation, the corporate wing. And the reason for that is because it provides some legal protection. It also sounds cool to say that you have, uh, an llc. I'm also going ac free today cuz it's a little warm and I'm trying to save a little electricity, so I'm all wiped my head a little here and there so you don't have to stare my sweat. In addition to Common Leaders, llc, I also have founded a couple of other companies, uh, with the main one being Pneumo Spec Media. Pneumo Spec Media is. Underling to the LLC that is Common Leaders. So everything falls under that umbrella right now. And Pneumos Spec is what I would call our media development wing. And in addition to it being a wing under common leaders, it also over arches, Common Leaders because it houses our content. So common leaders creates content and Pneumos Spec Media helps produce, design and deliver, distribute those things. And Pneumos Spec also does those things for other people, which will talk more about different. Whereas Common Leaders is a producer of content when on the Content wing, Common Leaders is a much more tangible product and tangible service. It's a consulting business at it. I guess at its simplest consulting in the sense that I have experience as a business consultant a little bit. I'm not an expert, uh, but I did have great mentors. Uh, you'll hear me say that a lot. I had really great training. I had really great exposure. I am fortunate, I think, to have a very active mind and it helps me process things rather quickly. Uh, sometimes not as quick as a lot of other people, but it does help me move quickly and I now have ADHD meds to help me put it all together, which is. And I help hire, I help people get hired. I really enjoy the hiring process from all the angles, especially for small and medium size organizations, as well as startups when it comes to the hiring side. I love doing that. I'm. I'm gonna help you hire good if you need help. I enjoy doing that. I love creating culture and creating teams. And that leads me to what happens once we're in the organization is talk about what you might be trying to break through and do, how you're trying to grow your organization, how you're trying to grow your people, how you're trying to maintain. Those are areas that I love to play. I have a background in profiling, which leads me, Actually, I'm supposed to be sharing my screen because I have a whole bunch of queues up. So let's share a screen so you don't have to stare at me for this whole time. Um, let's see if we can get that up. And I'm gonna run through a few different things in order to help kind of, let's see how we wanna organize this. That's trash. That's no. Do we want that? Nah, that's no good. We're gonna have to make me small, which is even better. So let me get those captions off there. As we learn together now we're not learning together. I was just a hair un prepared. I'm not even gonna talk about it. We're gonna get down here and we're gonna take off the little ticker because nobody cares about tickers and they're super distracting. Anyways, this may be a stream of consciousness show on occasion, so welcome to that. Why can't I get rid of the ticker? I have a little trouble finding which ticker to hide because there's so many in here. It's a bit of an organization problem on, it's really not. It's restream. Um, and if Restream. Took into account that people probably have a lot going on sometimes that that would reduce that. But anyways, here we are. This is my screen. Hopefully you don't see anything you're not supposed to see cuz I really don't have too much to hide. But we are gonna go through a bunch of tabs as you can see, which is why I'm supposed to be on a time limit moving quickly. So the first place, I'm supposed to take you as not Bartel, but I'm gonna take you to Bartel for half a second. This is where I learned a lot about profiling. Again, I'm not an expert and I do not want to claim that I am. I don't have credentialing in profiling other than what they taught me. So I didn't go to college for human behavior. I took some site classes. Uh, I took some organizational site classes. I took some business classes, but I didn't take like really deep psychology classes. What I know is primarily from what I was trained in when I worked at Bartel, I took. All the courses they offered while I was there. So I am credentialed, but I am credentialed through Bartel and Bartel and I feel very competent in where I play. I'm again, not the foremost experts in what they do. They are, but I do have some skill there. And Bartel does a lot of organizational leadership is what they call it. They also. I don't know if they still use the term, they do a lot of organizational diagnostics. So being able to assess the health of a team or an organization or a group of people, um, any, even an individual, an individual level, they can help diagnose someone or a group of someone's relationship to leadership based on a series of behavioral assessments. It's, it's very cool. And what they do is, um, truly amazing in many ways. So when I talk about where I'm credentialed from, it's to lend a little bit of credence to where I'm from and why maybe it's worth having a conversation with me. I don't expect that you would think that I'm anything more than my training. Um, and that is where my training is. So I love to shout people out. We'll start with Bartel. This is my LinkedIn page cuz when introducing myself, one of the places I go to credential people, when I'm looking to see what someone's background is from, from a professional standpoint, LinkedIn is where I go. I love LinkedIn. While it is not perfect, it is extremely effective in getting a baseline for someone and how they operate. Um, if someone claims to be, uh, a business owner or a digital entrepreneur or somebody who can make you$10,000 in 10, Go to their LinkedIn. If they don't have a LinkedIn, it's a big red flag for me. And if their LinkedIn isn't up to date, it's a big red flag for me. Um, because in the digital marketplace, LinkedIn is an equalizer for me a lot of times. Uh, I wanna see what your background is, what your education is in. Um, It's not just about education, it's about experience. You know, it's, it's where, where do you find your philosophies from? That is what I'm looking for when I go to LinkedIn, and it's how I've tried to build my own LinkedIn is around some grounding of who I am and where I come from. So I start with LinkedIn to say, If you don't have one, get one, uh, Facebook. Oh, yeah, So in terms of the next stop in, or the first stop in the journey, Reintroducing myself in the next eight minutes. Tommy's farm market is a close relation to Tommy and farms, which is where I'm from. This was my parents' farm market. It is no longer open, but um, but the farm is still operating. I grew up part-time on a family farm. My parents were, were divorced. So when I was with my dad, I was on the farm and I'm very fortunate to have that upbringing. We grew strawberries and pumpkins and potatoes and tomatoes and peppers and all the things, and it was all housed under my grandpa's. For most of my life. So I'm very close with my cousins, uh, my aunts and my uncles, and we had a big family. Have a big family, and we are very, I'm very fortunate to have grown up. Where I did and how I did on the farm. Um, but that is where I started in a lot of ways when you talk about my work world. So I watched my, my family treat customers well. So that was my introduc Introduction to customer service was answering phones at a young age. Hello. Thank you for calling. Tommy and strawberries aren't ready yet. One of my next big landing spots after college. Really, my first landing spot after college was at workforce development in Gates County back where I grew up. And I worked in a work fair, uh, welfare to work system at Workforce Development. And my role there was to help design program. Actually, that's not what I was supposed to do. What I was supposed to do is help, uh, provide people support and instruction on how to go from being on the welfare system on the. Government support system to becoming gainfully employed so that they wouldn't need those services. Um, in the long run, that was my primary objective. How I did that was I connected with people. I rebuilt some programmatic things. I did a lot of handouts, a lot of resources, a lot of engagement, a lot of interaction. It is generally my style and my style really started to take shape at workforce development, and that's why it's relevant. I don't know what this thing on top is. It looks like it's a. Uh, some sort of thing that's irrelevant. I realize it could be a bit of a trigger, pun intended, but workforce development was an amazing experience from workforce development. I ended up at Bartel as a, Originally my title was, was a really$10 word. It was organizational leadership and no, it was leadership development, organizational diagnostic, special. That's the one. In short, I was a consultant. I did some diagnostic work, as I've talked about with assessments and with, uh, debriefing on assessments, and I'd love to talk to you about what that was. It was a really wonderful world to dive into. We also, as I mentioned, did. Bus, actual business strategy and consulting around where a business is going and how to create vision and how to build leaders within your organizations at a, at a one on one level, but also at a group level. I was extremely fortunate to work alongside some really, um, season experts in that field. Milestone. Next stop there. I was the director of operations for three and a half ish years. It. From a career standpoint, from a fulfillment standpoint, in the moment, it was the most fulfilling career choice that I have ever had the opportunity to inhabit. I am e I would say equally grateful for all of my experiences because they led me there. Um, but in terms of how much I enjoyed what I got to do, and kind of feeling like I lived in a dream sometimes. That was my time at Milestone. The owner of the company trusted me a lot. I trusted her a lot. Uh, it was a phenomenal experience. I joined when it was a startup and I left when it was a full grown infant. It was really cool, and they've only grown since then, and I couldn't be more proud of all of what we accomplished and what they continue to accomplish at Milestone. The next job was Common leaders, and here we is. My company, it is a business consulting company, not in the same way that Bartel is. However, um, I would like to think that I stole or borrowed a few principles from them. Nothing stealing wise. I really hope to partner with them because I think very highly of them at Bartel and their methodology and the technology they use is truly outstanding. But common leaders was my dip into the leadership. You'll see with the word common. I took a bit of a different approach. I think that a lot of leadership development, and this is not aimed at Bartel because I don't think they operated this way. They had systems to treat everyone very well, and they had systems to serve everyone. But in terms of popular leadership development, a lot of it is a bit pretentious in my opinion. And a lot of it you don't get exposed to until you get to higher education. And I think that's bull crap. So that's why common leaders is I want to create a place where, All of us and all of you and anyone can access leadership material. And that was, um, not ironically, probably founded from my college experience studying creativity. And we talked a lot about how creativity is. Something we're all born with. It's something we have inside of us, and I think the ability to be a great leader, or to be a leader is another thing that we are given and that we have, especially in the world of digital media, it's so accessible to have a positive influence on the world. That is why I went with common leaders. We have a really bold mission at common leaders that I'll continue to get into. I love common leaders. It is who I am at my core, and I, and I really couldn't. A whole lot more proud of the core we've kept. It needs to grow a lot more to continue to have the influence that I'd like it to have and the impact that I'd like it to have. And we are starting here today with it again, The first season of the Common Leader's Podcast was super fun, so please check it out. Um, in fact, let's just skip to that. Common Leader's Podcast is hosted by Buzz Sprout. These are all the places you can listen to the Common Leaders Podcast. And when I say podcast, what I mean is the audio only. So that is podcasting. It is audio only. So all of these places carry po. Um, Carry Audio only podcasting, including my Common Leaders account. I think I have like maybe. 18 or 20 episodes total up there, there will be more added, including this one. So please check out both Buzz Sprout and our Common Leaders podcast. There's a couple episodes I'm really partial to. I hope you check them out and find a couple that you're partial to be a great honor. I'll also drop my affiliate link in, um, in the comments, in the notes of this. Buzz Sprout is the best period. They're the best at distributing your content at a very reasonable cost. So if you've ever considered getting into podcasting, or you are into podcasting, go to Buzz Sprout's, YouTube and learn from them, and then go to Buzz Sprout's website and sign up with them. If you're interested in doing that, it would mean the world to me if you could throw me a$25 gift certificate by using my affiliate link. That's what it equals for me, but I'm not gonna be hurt if you don't. The most important thing is use Buzz Sprout. I'm coming up on time and I'm gonna wrap this up. We're gonna end it Pneumo spec about where I am, and then all these other tabs are truly just where you can find me. So pneumos spec.com is the other part of my website. We saw com leaders.com. Nuo spec.com is the media wing that I mentioned earlier. Nuo Spec also has an app. Now, I'm not confirmed it's on Google Play yet because I need to check with them. It is on iOS. I think it's on Google Play also. So download the Pneumos spec app and check it out. There's gonna be a lot of content coming into the Pneumos Spec app in the coming days and weeks and years. It's gonna get big and it's gonna get wild, and it's gonna be super fun. PMOs spec.com is inspired by access, which. The common leaders piece. So common leaders wants to give access to an inspirational leader that we can all connect to, whether that's because they look like us or sound like us, or come from the same place as us or have a similar vision to us or a similar background to us. We are gonna break. In a way, break people down a little bit to say, Here is a leader who you might relate to. What is it that you think you need to help you relate? So go down through the list of filters and say, I'm looking for a leader who is, fill in the blank here, and hopefully I can. Present to you, we can present to you and facilitate a conversation where you can relate to a person who can, who can inspire you a little bit at a time, not Tony Robin style necessarily, but more so in a graspable doable way. Pneumo spec is the distribution wing of that mission, and we host, um, creators as well. There. That being said, I'm at 1945. It has been a great first episode of me talking to myself. I hope you'll join me next week as I reintroduce myself with all the new things on my mind, and I hope you have a great week. Thank you so much for being here.