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Embracing Your Dreams: Miranda Johnson on Authenticity and Leadership
Miranda Johnson's entrepreneurial intuition first sparked in middle school when a teacher suggested she'd make a good secretary. Her response? "No, I'm going to be Miranda Queen instead of Burger King." That early confidence blossomed into a remarkable business journey spanning construction, transportation, and now leadership development.
From her earliest days selling candy in school hallways and braiding hair for cash, Miranda displayed an innate talent for sales and reading people. By age 20, she was securing direct contracts with major builders, eliminating middlemen and maximizing profits. Later, she built a transportation company with over 20 trucks, even obtaining her commercial driver's license along the way.
After 15 years in transportation, Miranda made the difficult decision to sell her trucks and focus on her family. This pivot led to the creation of Mirage Collective, a leadership community built around her mantra: "Authenticity is the new blue check." The platform provides entrepreneurs with powerful tools to showcase their businesses, sell products, and connect with a global community.
Throughout our conversation, Miranda emphasized that "consistency is the ruler that measures results." When entrepreneurs feel like quitting, it's typically because inconsistency has made it impossible to gauge progress. She advocates starting with three fundamental areas: watching your words, guarding your mind, and prioritizing health. Working out, she shared, is her therapy—creating the mental clarity needed for business success.
Her book "The Pain Principle" explores how temporary discomfort leads to long-term growth, while her upcoming "Lead Loud: 11 Commandments of the Next Gen Leader" will further expand her leadership philosophy. Miranda and her husband are also launching "Couples and Entrepreneurship," addressing the unique challenges business owners face in maintaining strong relationships.
Ready to build your business without sacrificing your authenticity or family life? Miranda's journey offers a roadmap for success that values consistency, community, and alignment. Connect with her on LinkedIn or at www.mirageoco.org to learn more about joining her leadership community.
You're like you need to be teaching. First I thought he wanted me to be like a school teacher. I didn't know what he meant by that. So that's how I got into Mirage and created this Consistency. You can't get the results and you can't measure your results, and it does make you feel like either you're not doing anything, it'll make you feel like I want to quit today, but that consistency will help build that.
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Speaker 2:Miranda Johnson every day yeah, well, miss Johnson, I want you to tell the folk, because what I do on this show, I let people talk about themselves first. Yeah, and I base you know, a lot of my questions around highlighting you today. All right, all right, so you tell the people who you are today.
Speaker 1:Confirmation is out there so you know, I used to start with the average of I'm a mom, I'm a wife. Now I like to call myself a dreamer, because a lot of the things I realize now, at the beautiful age of 44, is that majority of my ideas start in my dreams. So I take those things. So, first and foremost, I'm a dreamer and um, and I like to take those dreams and create reality out of them. I'm also, um, somebody who's very playful.
Speaker 1:I love to joke, I love to laugh. I come from a very comical family that does a lot of skits and everything's off the cuff. Um, and I'm currently a CEO and founder of Mirage Collective, which is about having a leadership community. I also work with Tampa Business Club. I'm one of the executive ambassadors with Tampa Business Club and I also do business development with Buy it, rent it Profit, which is on multifamily investing and training. Here I was partnered with the Tampa Housing Authority Wow.
Speaker 1:So like you have time to sleep. Yes, actually, um, what am I? I've decided this part of my life I'm not working, so anything that I do has to be things that I enjoy. So I am. I sleep very well because I know. Um again, when, as we get into the conversation, you'll learn why I have to sleep. I've hit the walls already, so I understand. Rest Nothing happens until you rest.
Speaker 2:Nothing happens until you rest. That's a good one, all right. So tell us how you came up with that name, because I really love the name of your organization, your company, and I also love the logo and the color. So just tell me. It speaks to a lot honestly.
Speaker 1:so listeners out there google it well, the name is mirage collective the name actually for a long time. Every time I would create a business name, I would always give it like somebody else's name or something else. That didn't really mean anything for me and this was the first name. So my if you ever, if you look me up, my other company names were like 5bg transportation, 5bg realty.
Speaker 1:All my stuff was 5bg because I have five beautiful girls so everything I did was 5bg, and this time I was like I wanted to be me. So mirage oh, miranda johnson was the first time I had an opportunity to really put my name on it. And then collective was about community. That was really important. It was like Miranda wants her community, um, and and this is this is the community that I would like to establish. And the logo is about intuition. It's about using your intuition and trusting your intuition. I talked about those dreams. So when you have those dreams, how do you lean into it? So it's just that constant reminder that we all have a little bit of intuition. We actually some of us have a lot more of intuition, and how do you lean into it? Always? And that'd be your first, your first option.
Speaker 2:Got it, got it and I asked that question. Thank you for expounding on that because, uh, when I think about a name, I always think about creativity.
Speaker 1:A lot of times entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2:They step out in faith and on their own, but they have that creative ability and it goes into even the name and things as the smallest things you know.
Speaker 1:So where are you from?
Speaker 2:Tell us where you're from.
Speaker 1:So my father was. I am an Air Force brat, so I was actually born in England, so in London sorry, lake and Heath, england and I was raised in Germany for a couple of years and then eventually I went to Charleston, south Carolina, where my father retired out the military, became a government contractor. So Charleston is where most people are going to know me from Somerville, south Carolina. That's my, that's my home, that's my baby, that's where my mom lives and my brother lives. Okay, charleston, Charl, charles, what's good to eat up there? Oh, we're, so we are. Uh, see, that's the home of the seafood broil. Um, if you think about, you know, your oysters, your, your shrimp, your fish, I'm sorry, push, that's how we say it in um, charles, push, it's just the gichi, it's the gichi language. Um, so, pushing grits, um, yeah, so, having that, that's, that's our, our normal way of eating.
Speaker 2:Charleston, chewies are our staple, okay, so yeah yeah, I have a good man check that out. Yeah. So, uh, looking at your impressive entrepreneur journey, um, I had the time. You know I do my research and all of my guests uh, and financial, uh, success. Um, so if you could tell us how your experiences from your youth that inspired you to pursue your path of entrepreneurship? You know, have you had anything from when you were younger or anyone that? Inspired you.
Speaker 1:My memory that I have the most was you know those tests they used to give you in school that would like rate you on what you should do when you grow up, like there were those assessment tests for like career assessment tests. So I remember the teacher, I think it was like seventh, eighth grade, and she was giving everybody these assessment tests and during the assessment test she was like you know, miranda, fill it out. And she was like, oh, you're God Damn, yeah, yeah. And again, mine, this is like 90, 1990, 91-ish, so maybe 92. So that would sound great for a lot of girls that you tell me I'm going to be a secretary. And I just remember, not knowing what I was saying, but I said it really quickly and I was like, no, I'm going to have like, instead of Burger King, I'm going to be Miranda Queen. And I said that to her and I was like, and she's kind of tried to shut me down I was like, nah, I'm going to own some stuff.
Speaker 1:And, mind you, I was already selling candy in school, braiding people's hair, so I was like I am babysitting, so I was already having my little three hustles. So to me, for her to like put me in like that category, it was kind of it ignited me to say, like what else is out here, and why is she labeling me as a secretary?
Speaker 2:So your school, let y'all sell kidney. We used to get suspended.
Speaker 1:No, they didn't let us.
Speaker 2:Oh, gotcha, I said I had a hustle, got it. You can go to ISS and in-school suspension.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I was good. I was so good at it. Actually, I had a clear book bag and I used to. You know, I had a very good return on my investment.
Speaker 2:That's as far as I'll go with that but.
Speaker 1:I was able to get candy and sell it. I even knew what clients I would sell my Snickers for 50 cents and who would pay a dollar. Wow, yeah, I was very good at sales. I didn't know that, I just knew I was good. I was very good at sales. I didn't know that, I just knew I was good. I was good at reading people.
Speaker 2:Reading people. That's good. Well, shout out to my two high school partners, eric Castle and Dustin Gray. Oh wow, dustin Gray, he said everything. He had the Rice Krispie treats, he'll make you a necklace. Yeah, he did a lot of things. Shout out to Dustin I ain't talked to him in a while, but um. So my next question is um, what you do now? Uh, it doesn't always. Well, I couldn't connect where you started the sort of in your entrepreneurial journey, which is transportation industry, with the trucking right so where I actually started was in construction.
Speaker 2:Oh, in construction.
Speaker 1:So and that started because at the time my ex-husband was a sander. He used to sand houses and his entire family was in construction. Like they sand houses, they had a painter, they had a guy for everything and I just remember they always went through the middleman. So the middleman was like the uncle. Right, the uncle had a contract with one of the builders, or, sorry, one of the managers, and then the manager had the actual it was so many channels, sometimes he didn't get paid. I used to get mad because I'm like, why didn't you get your check? Well, this person, this didn't happen, this didn't happen. I was like, why are we going through all these channels? When I first started, I was like we got to get rid of the middleman. He kept saying the middleman. I was like, how do we get rid of the middleman? So that's how I really started was going into companies like dr horton rylan homes and I actually was able to help him get contracts, direct contracts. So he, he and I actually started on a construction company.
Speaker 2:Wow, back then and I was like 2000, I was 20, 21 years old you, you were, wow, yeah, okay, and now take us through how that jumps into the transport industry.
Speaker 1:So second husband Ha, so my current husband, now beautiful husband Joshua Johnson. So gorgeous.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So I met him in 2008, 2009. He decided to get his CDL back in 2011. This is right. When the market crashed, a lot of jobs were being lost. It was extremely hard, especially for men at that time, to figure out, you know cause they were just losing jobs like crazy, like stores were closing down. He went in and was like, hey, I'm going to get my CDL. I happen to have a lot of family and friends in the transportation industry so when he got his cdl again same me.
Speaker 1:I don't like to work for the middleman, so I was like I don't want to go through channels, stuff, how you're going to get paid, how do we get directly to it? So we invested and bought our first truck and that's where it started so how many trucks did you guys have Over? 20 over the road, 20 trucks over the road.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you get your CDL.
Speaker 1:I do have a CDL. Really, you drive them, I can drive.
Speaker 2:You used to.
Speaker 1:I mean I still have an active CDL, I'd stop driving. I only drove for a while because most of the time I manage the business. So I did drive a little bit in 2023. I used to actually run the tampa port really hated it. I'm not. I can't back where.
Speaker 2:The damn excuse me I was just about to ask you yeah, I can't I can't, like you know, but no, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I'm not the best driver. I can go forward like nobody. I can drive a manual. I could do all the things, um, but I just didn't have enough experience inside the truck of driving regularly. If I did, yes, um, my husband was my husband's an amazing driver. He drives really really well, but me I still have. Could I get in a truck and if I had to move it?
Speaker 2:yeah sure yeah, oh man, that's a good skill set to have too oh, for sure for years. You'll be able to use that, you know. Yep, also, what circumstance? Where was there a circumstance, a situation that happened, for you to transition from, I guess, that transport industry to empowerment? You know?
Speaker 1:So okay. So two things. One was something that I didn't consider. It goes into too long of a story story, so I'll try to make it short. I wanted to keep my marriage. I didn't want to. I wanted to have a relationship with my kids.
Speaker 1:15 years in transportation. I literally raised my children in transportation, which means I raised my kids on a very busy schedule and I'm gonna use the word busy now I don't like that word anymore, but I raised them on a very busy schedule. I I saw that my daughters were in their 20s you know what I mean and turn 18, they're getting older and here I am still like this. So for me it hit a wall and the transportation industry in 2023 was also not doing really well. It was an opportunity for me and my husband to really look at ourselves and say how are we doing? And we weren't doing good. So I decided to sell those trucks and we decided to start to sell our trucks and focus on our marriage, which was scary because there wasn't an option like that. But I realized support is what I was lacking.
Speaker 1:So when I say two things, that's the first thing. The second thing is I don't like to use that word, empowerment, because it's not my job to empower anybody. You got to have own power. I consider more like a conductor. You know I can help the power source move through it, but I can't empower you, um, but I wanted to be more of a space and offer. What we didn't have was what community was important for me. So and I really my husband kept saying you teach, that's what you do, you're a good teacher like you need to be teaching first. I thought he wanted me to be like a school teacher. I didn't know what he meant by that. So that's how I got into Mirage and created this.
Speaker 2:Mirage Okay, mirage and collective. What's your mission statement?
Speaker 1:Authenticity is the new blue check. Authenticity, yeah, authenticity is the new blue check. We really want you to remain. You um take, I think, what we talked about later, that influencer type of idea just because you decide to be a leader, entrepreneur, whatever that looks like, you don't have to mimic someone else to be successful, um, and but you do need community. You need people around. It's really important to have people that are going to support you, to have your ecosystem there, plus tools that actually work to your benefit.
Speaker 2:The resources are very important, all right. So what resources you all would say at Mirage Collective that you all offer?
Speaker 1:So one of the. Well, so we've just transferred to sorry.
Speaker 2:That's good Services resources.
Speaker 1:So we just transferred to a brand new site that we've built out a ton of new cool tools and stuff that we just put on the website. So now people can. If you're a real estate agent, you can actually put your listings up there. If you sell digital products, you can add your digital products. You can get leads from your digital products, which now gives you an opportunity to make more income. You can have your own QR code that directly to your business.
Speaker 1:You can post blogs, you can post articles basically allows you to be yourself. You can post your photo albums anything that allows you to be you. You can now take that. Any type of business can be listed on Mirage. Oh, you also get a full membership directory so you could be listed directly where people all over the world can find you. It opens you up to a different space where you're not just, oh, I'm a part of community. You're a part of community that wants you to sell or that wants you to earn, but also, if your identity just is in writing and that's your skill set, you can write on there. And you can also sell real products too, whether they're digital or real products on there, as well.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's on there, and you can also sell real products too, whether they're digital or real products on there as well. Wow, wow, that's actually awesome. So that sound. There is a comfy comedy time. Okay, so I have a surprise for you, uh-. Oh, yes, yes, so it's a joke, right, all right it's a joke, yeah you love jokes, all right.
Speaker 2:So if you tell the audience here, because, um, and I'm just adding this into the show, okay, uh, so we have two cups here, all right, my, my glass is clear and, uh, madam over there, her class, I don't know what color is that. It's green, so tell us, tell the audience, what you're drinking oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:So for the past 15 years plus, I drink chlorophyll water. I only drink chlorophyll water, um because I like to feel and smell like I should like healthy. Um so, and it also it's just. It's a good for you, my, I think it's a good for you, my I think it's a great skincare routine for myself, my entire family. I make sure they drink chlorophyll water, so that's what I have and that's what I drink daily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she actually. Let me try it before the show. It tastes like spearmint. Yes, that's a flavor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a flavor, but so the breath should never be stink too with drinking chlorophyll water.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah, now thank you for sharing that. No problem, that's cool. I really like it a lot. I just can't. I don't think I can drink it right now.
Speaker 1:You know we talked about that well, the idea is that it will bring out whatever you smell, whatever you eat. So you smell like that. However, you know it'll make you more mindful about what you eat.
Speaker 2:Yeah because I don't want to eat no chicken and smell like bacon definitely not yeah not, for chlorophyll pork is not what you want to be smelling like.
Speaker 1:It's got some extra smells that's gonna come.
Speaker 2:You don't want that one, eat some berries. We'll get back into the show, all right. So, uh, you been on the journey. Like I said, you say 21, 20 years old, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, when I, yes, when I started in construction.
Speaker 2:Yes, all right so, in comparison of leadership uh 20 years ago, what was the landscape of? How would you say, uh, leadership was shaped.
Speaker 1:Uh compared to present day oh, man, it's a couple things. Uh, one of the main things I would say is you were more isolated back then. Everyone was an entrepreneur. I didn't have. There was not entrepreneur, solo entrepreneur None of that existed.
Speaker 1:So a lot of times you were very isolated. You might've found you had to go outside to find people that were in the industry to get your education. There wasn't Google, there wasn't an Instagram page or even putting a website together. So a lot of things you had to do a lot of research, which I find entrepreneurs today don't do as much. They kind of will go on a podcast or go look at something on YouTube and go, oh, I can become that because this person has it without all the details, or does it? How much money will I make? How much money can I sacrifice until I make money? Back then you had to really know your path all the way through to even get somebody to give you $20 to invest into your business, and it couldn't be something made up. So, yeah, that I would say. Definitely the research side of it was different.
Speaker 2:Right, we had to go out if you really wanted it, you had to go and different right, you had to go out.
Speaker 1:If you really wanted it, you had to go and get it you had to go get it and your connections mattered and your reputation. Reputation was everything. Uh, when I started me going in and do a build, if I did one bad job, it traveled quickly. You know, everybody would know. They would tell you oh, don't work with this person. If you didn't pay somebody, oh my gosh, you could have been a mistake and it would have traveled. We didn't even have social media and it would travel so fast. So those are things that you get sued easier too. I felt like back then because they just walk into the courthouse and file some papers on you and you know, now it's like it's more. Things now are a process where and not that you can't be shamed I think now the worst thing about it is that the reputation can last longer. You could at least clear yourself up.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know you could kind of recreate your identity today as people change on topics and different things come about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, forget all about you know right five years ago.
Speaker 1:You know right, right in somewhat in some ways, yeah, so I don't know, I almost still I've missed old school entrepreneurship a little bit.
Speaker 2:But old school, they didn't have a platform like yours, right, they didn't know. No, no, no, this did not, not.
Speaker 1:This didn't even exist to be able to meet. No, no. So that's why I said there's things that I do appreciate, um, because I actually did score back in the day. I don don't know if you remember what score?
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm familiar with score.
Speaker 1:Back then score was like that taught me a lot about business. Now I find there's so many, there's almost too much information where people get cloudy.
Speaker 2:Okay, I can see that actually Also, in your opinion, can anyone be a leader, no matter age, seniors? Because I recently had Alina on the show, so I know this answer myself. Okay, miss Arlene Grosso, she started her first business at the age of 70 years old. Wow, right.
Speaker 1:But just in your opinion, can anyone be a leader? Yes, anyone, if you're talking about age, race and that type of thing. In that sense, yes, should everyone be a leader? No, because it is very much a mindset game, no matter how you look at it, you know, because you have people that are in leadership roles that are doing things that they should not be doing. They're taking advantage of the situation. So can they be a leader? Yes, should everyone be a leader? I would say no, gotcha, they should not all be in leadership positions?
Speaker 2:Yeah, can I share my thoughts on that?
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I do believe leaders have a. They're chosen. I think you're chosen to be. I agree with that. Yeah, you have to be special to be a leader. I don't think everyone is destined or can be a leader, I agree right. They may be put in the position or elevated because of resources, connections, yeah, but everyone is made to be a leader.
Speaker 2:You can see, you can tell, you can feel it, oh yeah, oh yeah feel it, uh, but yes, I just wanted to ask that yeah because I'm just looking over your website, uh, reading more things about you, yeah, I learned that that's a real big focus for you absolutely leaders, creating a platform where they could uh openly, uh, gain right, explore their creativity as well and benefit from their creativity. So that's the big bit. So you have a new book. I do, yeah, but it's Pain Principle. The Pain Principle, yep, the Pain Principle. Why the title?
Speaker 1:So it was a reflection of self. A lot of people would ask me all the time like Miranda, how are you doing in business? You have five kids, you're married I know you've been through all this stuff Like, how do you do that? And I couldn't really answer that at first and I had my moment where I was just up and I was like, okay, let me just go ahead and be completely transparent. I was around somebody who was complaining about something and I realized that she was her own problem, right, and a lot of times I saw myself as like, as a leader, you have to always take accountability. It doesn't matter how it happens. It's most of the time it's your fault, because somewhere you didn't do something and now it led to being your fault.
Speaker 1:So the pain principle is actually the rest of the title is embracing self, pain to break free. So that's the rest of the title. For me it was how do I put my own self through? Sometimes pain which might be a breakup right. It might be reflecting on the fact that I have to be honest, that I made a mistake in that, or it may be a new connection that I need to make. That may kind of feel uncomfortable. How do I put myself in a position where I'm okay to accept temporary pain to get long-term results? So the pain principle was accepting that there will be pain. There has to be pain, it's just. It's impossible not to go through that pain. But with pain comes change.
Speaker 2:That's true. That's true. Yeah, I think I've really realized that within the last year of just accepting that no matter in life, it's just going to be ups and downs, Like you have mountains, challenges. Nothing is going to be. This perfect's going to make sure your family and the things that are vital to you is taken care of. All right so, but I love that Thank you.
Speaker 2:I really do, yep. So people lie to themselves about what's holding them back, choosing comfort over breakthrough. Give an example or you can share your message to the people. But those ones out there procrastinating right, I felt in their comfort zone. Feel like I'm too old or my last three ventures did not work out. Yeah, and I should give up. Um, and I will say I'm new to the entrepreneur journey myself and uh, like I'll be thinking about quitting all the time. I'm not going to lie Normal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the time I be emotional. I'm like man, I just want you know this and I really want this to work. So it's a struggle, it's a battle internally and people see you on social media and like we talk about we're not social media, people Right, they we're not social media, people Right, they think you're doing good. That's not really true. I'm willing to tell, say it to people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like just everybody who's still social media. That's not just because they're not making hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's not true. Yeah, let's be honest with you. But the question to you is, what's your message to those people who are afraid to try, afraid to not, later on in life, say, be that shoulda, woulda, coulda right so let me just say this, because entrepreneurship is a little different for me, because I've always been an entrepreneur, I've really never worked a nine-to-five.
Speaker 1:So the same way like if my business didn't go well, I would go and find, uh, another business. It's just like somebody who lost their job, they would go fill out a new application. Oh so in my mind, like I, that I'm actually more afraid of nine to five than entrepreneurship, because I feel like I have to depend on somebody else to like approve my application. That actually gives me a little bit of anxiety. So in my mindset, entrepreneurship I don't I can't really explain that comes a little bit more natural, not easy, but just a little bit more natural. So what I would say is my way to give somebody some information would be consistency is the ruler, measurement of results.
Speaker 1:So if you want to, if you ever feel like man, I need to back off or I'm feeling emotional, I'm feeling sad, because, number one, there's no emotions in business. Right, business doesn't care about your emotions, but when you feel that way, typically it's something that's off on the consistency and because you're not being consistency, you can't get the results and you can't measure your results and it does make you feel like either you're not doing anything It'll make you feel like I want to quit today but like you have that consistency will help build that. But if you stop, go, stop, go, stop go, or you're only talking about your business but you're not actually applying your business, then yes, it's going to make you feel like you're not getting anywhere because there's nothing consistently happening. So if you want those things, the idea is to come up with small, consistent things daily to get to where you want to get for your goal. And that's helped me and that's why I say when I wake up, I have my affirmations. That's part of my consistency.
Speaker 1:I wake up, I go, make sure I do a workout. The workout feeds the brain. When I eat certain things, berries feed the brain. So everything I'm doing is for the idea that I'm building what I need. So when I start working, my body and my mind get those results. And when I don't do those things and I'm inconsistent, you can see it, it's obvious. So I always. When they feel that way, typically their consistency is off got it.
Speaker 2:I like that answer consistency will get you way further. When I even started up with the podcast, I did my of course market research and I would listen to different individuals and read and they say you know, I really believe I could have been course market research and I would listen to different individuals and read and they say you know, I really believe I could have been further along if I never would have stopped if I didn't take that six month break or that nine month break, um, and start back.
Speaker 2:You know, right, uh, stay consistent. It's hard and challenging, uh, but fighting through it. You know. You see the yeah, the fruits later on, you you know. So, advice to individuals preparing for their later years in life, so, with being consistent and getting to the comfort zone, what would be your advice to tell people? Keep moving, keep pushing. Just because you're retired don't mean you hang up the hat. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:You know, I feel like you just got to do what makes you good. I mean, I can't. I can give you advice. I know, miranda being 60, 70 years old, I'm trying to be chilling you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to relax. I'm I'm frolicking, you know. Um, I don't really want to be in that hustle mindset I do feel like a lot of times for that later age. Don't try to lean into what you see everybody else doing. Still, stay true to what you really like and what makes you happy. If you know that you're, you know you kind of are a gardener and that's your area, find something in that to make money out of.
Speaker 1:Don't go and try to go way outside of things that don't really relate to you, because I think it's not going to bring you joy, it's not going to make you happy, especially in that second, that latter part of your life. I don't think anybody wants to do that. And then there's another part that I like to tell people is like, remember that hell is to die and only be a fraction of yourself and to look back and see like man, I could have been so much more. That's really that's the worst thing. So if you feel like you're at that age and you wouldn't be happy if you left this earth and you weren't even able to do a fraction, then start doing something today what are the three areas that they can focus on?
Speaker 2:if they was to choose something in life to say you know what? I want to start being more consistent at this. What would you say? Three good things to be a starter. You know that would be for somebody age 65 and older.
Speaker 1:What's your word? Say Power words. You got to start with your mouth. Tongue has to start with the tongue. After it comes from the tongue, it has to go into your, obviously the mind. What the mind is thinking of, who the mind is allowing around it, what the mind is being fed Right. And then health. I don't care what anybody says, if you get outside you get that adrenaline pumping from a walk or run. It ignites you in a different way. It gives you some type of energy that makes you think like you're almost 10 again. You know. You're like oh, you know, know, I could do this and I could do that. I'm really a health first focus when it comes to leaders now, especially, um, because I deal with my own health issues, because I didn't do that. So now it's like health first. All that other stuff will come. Focus on what you say, what you think and how you take care of your health, and other things will begin to line up that's good, that's okay, that's two got one more, I wasn't three what was the third?
Speaker 1:I thought it was oh, the mind. So the mind, mouth, your mouth, your mind and taking care of your health. So you want me to say okay, you want more gotcha, you need to do three.
Speaker 2:See, that's the comprehension skills there. Right there, I can give you some more things. You can give some more huh Okay, so what advice would you give to someone who feels stuck, whether it's in their personal life, professional life, they don't know where to start to turn things around.
Speaker 1:Feeling stuck. I would probably say if they're feeling stuck is to pay attention to their surroundings Typically. If they're feeling stuck is to pay attention to their surroundings Typically if they're feeling stuck they usually have people around them that are also stuck.
Speaker 1:Pay attention, who are you sitting with? Where are you getting your information from? Really paying attention to your friendships, your marriage, sometimes, you know, and that's sometimes that's the hard one to look at your relationships, all those. And then what are you doing every day? That's why I said it starts with that mouth, like really what you say, because again you can feel stuck. But sometimes it starts with the words, and I'm a big affirmations person to start in the morning and saying I am using today too, even if you haven't done it yet, but if you're not even willing to say it, and if your words are all negative and everything that you say is oh man, nothing's happening for me.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I'm trying to do this, it doesn't work. That's where it is. And you need to really look at your surroundings and find out why you're stuck there. Because, again, if you want to be a leader, everything comes back to you. So you have to really look. So what, what are you doing and what assignment has been given to you? I think that's another thing is a lot of people, when they say they feel stuck, they've been given some type of purpose or assignment but, for whatever reason, they keep trying to change their own mind. So if you learn how to not try to change your own mind and learn to just lean into what you've been told, lean into what you said that you wanted to do and stay focused there, that's a good answer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me thinking I was just complaining this week okay yep, I was just complaining and doubting this week. So that is that's real big. That's. I'm just thinking about how I need to change my words. But I do manifestation, okay, I do little sticky notes, um, and I write down, like happened in my life, and try to speak positivity, but then I get mad one day and then I just that's normal. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, you're still a person. The idea to think that even I'm sitting here and I don't have bad days is crazy. But there's a step two that you have to do. So, yes, you do your manifestations and visualization. I'm sorry, manifestation, but now you need visualization.
Speaker 2:And visualization.
Speaker 1:You see yourself doing those things. You get to a point where you smell it, you feel it. It's like it's sitting inside your body. It's almost like you want something to eat and you're craving a food and you've got it at home, maybe some leftovers. That's really good, and you can almost taste the leftovers. You can see yourself heating it up in the microwave. You can see yourself about to go sit down and eat it. You know that, that feeling you get when you know you got that food there yeah, they just ate my sushi today too I was gonna say.
Speaker 1:And then they eat it and you know how mad you get because you felt it. So nothing else feels good anymore, right? It doesn't even feel natural to eat. They can offer you something else you want your sushi. That's how you look at your life it's like anything else, won't feel good, because you've now visualized yourself in a certain space, so much so that you can taste it, so anything else is not natural yeah, yeah, I've been seeing that on that corvette.
Speaker 1:I've been seeing yeah, see yourself driving down the highway. You're pulling into the driveway. The garage door opens. I mean, it's full on feeling what's well?
Speaker 2:what's next? Uh, for you like what? Would you like Any future plans for this year, let's say 2025. My theme is thrive in 2025. So what do you have next for Mirage Collective, or I don't know? You do a whole lot of different things.
Speaker 1:I think for this year is to continue with the events with Tampa Business Club and Buy it, rent it, profit to see those two platforms grow. My husband will be starting couples and entrepreneurship Our own will be a part under Mirage as well. The idea is to be transparent and honest with other couples, because that's an issue that people don't talk about a lot. Where couples go through us and their partners decide to be entrepreneurs whether it's both of them or one of them, it's a lot.
Speaker 2:It's a lot on the family.
Speaker 1:Um and it, it. There's dynamics that people just they, they create a perfection. That's not true and that's why I talk about yes, I am on my second marriage. I'm on my second marriage because I was hardhead in my first one. Um, but we both were hardheads. So for me it was I wanted to be this thing and I didn't really think about who I was taking with me, I just wanted to go and take care of my kids and sometimes you have to slow down because you want the whole unit to go together. So couples and entrepreneurship is something that me and my husband will be working on this year.
Speaker 2:That's really good. That's really good and you're hitting all points. I don't know. You're like counseling me today or something. Oh okay, yeah, for real. But yeah, entrepreneurship, it takes a toll on your family. That's why I try like my foundation involves my family, my wife and kids. Like. That's why they be here, like most of my shows I'm so glad to see that For sure.
Speaker 1:But it's different things. It requires time, like this is saturday, right? So yeah, I appreciate my baby thank you so much, baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, oh so, but as y'all you gotta tell, you see the brains um of the operation for real. You know what I mean I get it yeah, uh, but show your website um all your social media Sure.
Speaker 1:So I no longer have Instagram or Facebook, also just LinkedIn. So, Miranda Johnson, on LinkedIn or Mirageo Collective, you can also find our website, which is wwwmirageocoorg. Or you can find me on the Buy it Rent it Profit platform under wwwbuyitrentitprofitcom Buy it rent ititprofitcom. I do leadership training and educational training on there and I do have some leadership training educational videos. Also, if you want to go to the Tampa Business Club website to find out where our upcoming events are, I'm also on there as well.
Speaker 2:I love that you're involved in the community, making ways for other people to also be involved without build up their platform. Their brand also obtain visibility. I think that what intrigued me about having you join the show was how, how invested you were in community, like I know you don't have Facebook Instagram anymore and longer.
Speaker 2:but like just seeing those things, just seeing what you do, it was inspiring for me, to be honest, like that's uh, like I tell my wife and most people a lot of guests on the show I really don't have like know you, you know what I mean, but I come on here and I really been enjoyed learning, actually, uh, taking time and researching individuals and understanding their journey and how they became, you know, successful and the route that you chose. So it's really inspiring, because I know it takes a lot of work to do it, it can take a lot of sacrifice.
Speaker 1:It does, it can. This part is different. I'll be honest, this part is different. I'm working on when it becomes unnatural, then I realize that I'm outside of my lane, so I'm no longer in alignment.
Speaker 2:So I'm working on alignment.
Speaker 1:So if I would say this year it's alignment.
Speaker 2:So, as we wrap up, I just want to know what do you enjoy doing just like, uh, your regular day? I know that people don't usually ask this. I don't want to just pop in my head right now what do you enjoy like just every single day? What do you enjoy doing? I?
Speaker 1:I love working out, man, I really do. It's my adrenaline, um, whether I get on the treadmill and do my what? My 12, you know 12, 3, 30, my, my incline on the treadmill I like I just started getting back into running. I like lifting, that's just my, that's my therapy. So I do love working out. Um, like I said, I'm a big jokester so I love calling my brothers to older brothers. So usually every I call my brothers daily and I just rattle off some weird jokes and some scenarios.
Speaker 1:And then, because I have five daughters, so for me it's just yeah, yeah yeah, they're getting older, yeah yeah, you have some action for real so you know, my part of my morning will usually start with talking to my daughter, my 14-year-old, in the car ride. We listen to some silly radio stuff and just enjoy ourselves. And the best part of my day is, honestly, when my husband comes home. Man, I'm loving this part of our marriage. So this right now is just being able to spend time with him and, you know, wake up and he gives me my morning kisses and then my night kisses. I'm like a little giddy, um, which that wasn't always there. So I'm really appreciating that part of my day now where before it was an irritation and aggravation because I was not where I needed to be. So this part of my life I'm just really enjoying simple things, wow that's incredible.
Speaker 2:The book is out. The pain principle. I love the uh. The cover too thank you yes, so we support miss miranda johnson, her family, five daughters too. Five daughters, uh. Writer. Author. Um, do you have any other upcoming books coming out in plan?
Speaker 1:for 2025? March 7th, oh, I forgot to mention that March 7th. My other book called Lead Loud, which is 11 Commandments of the Next Gen Leader. I actually don't get me in trouble, cash Doll. I actually took her Ten Commandments song and I redid it as a way of 11 commandments. Instead, I added something else and I made it for more where it comes down to leadership.
Speaker 2:There we go, so you should add her too. Oh sure, you post the book. Add her on there too. Is she on LinkedIn? I don't know. I don't know if Cassie's going to be on LinkedIn. I think she's on BMF though.
Speaker 1:I do love music. Music is my baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right. Well, thank you for tuning in to another episode. Let's Get Comfy podcast. I hope you all have enjoyed hearing from the wonderful Ms Miranda Johnson and how inspirational she is. Involved she is in the community, just her leadership. That she possesses. Visionary, true visionary, but that really values family values, enjoying what she does each and every day her health journey. Take notes as far as I have. So. Thank you so much for joining us. Till next time.
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