BST // MID MORNING MANTRA 📿

Brian Eastman46min

Speaker 1

00:31

Guys what's going on? Anyone not hear me just let me know in the chat

Unknown Speaker

00:53

a few minutes here just in case

Speaker 1

01:15

guys if you want to add any questions into the chat to please feel free, I'll answer whatever I can a ton of questions today. I'm hoping to grow this this little project overall and use it to get a little connected. So feel free to add anything you'd like. In terms of questions that were submitted. I'll just keep them private for now, just in case if you really want your name, node or location, I can definitely do that for us next round. But this will I don't know I think it'll be a little nicer

Unknown Speaker

02:01

it's all 1102 And then we'll get started

Speaker 1

02:44

Oh no, no to you. So I'll get started. Thank you guys who submitted questions. I think this is kind of a pretty cool format to get connected to. It's something that's very awkward for me. I think you guys have seen me take on some videos on social media. You guys know me personally, it's not really my forte. It's not really what I do. I took a course in marketing and it was something that honestly I had to do at the time and for me, it was way outside of my comfort zone. And so something that I really appreciated the push to do. And now the VET courses ended around that same bush, but, you know, for me, I did get a lot of good feedback on that as awkward as it was and I wanted to bring that to our world. And, you know, I know that a lot of you, especially people that are joining the chat right now, some of you guys are a lot newer. You know, when I started with this company, I always say it was 68 People might have been a tiny bit more at the time, but we knew everything about everyone. We understood why we did things we understood where we were going and there was no day you know he talked about this day thing a lot. There was a point in which we made decisions, it was very easy to go back and it would be a situation in which they were going to use this candle right and it would be very simple to then go and say, Hey, Ryan says we're going to use this candle you know, and now we get to a point where if we bring something into the mix, it's more they want us to do this. They want us to do that. So for me if you know those of you who I don't know very well, if I can put a face to the day a little bit of some of that will be a win. I just I think that diving into conversations headfirst is ideal. You know, and I want to tackle what I'm going to find is like the hardest question are inevitably like the most cutting questions. So we have a comment here. And the comment is why did we not grant awards like team member of the month cliche, but I believe we need them or outgroups raising recognition and thought are the ones that deserve not just rds of balance. I couldn't agree more for us in our world. You know, we have a lot of meetings, you know, and when we run meetings we talk about the things that are hard the things that sometimes are going wrong and things that need to change, you know, and I myself have sat in meetings and realize that they need to, we need to introduce a little bit more praise in that situation a little bit more of what's going on, right? You can't just have boundaries in one direction and the other, you know, speaking to those of you that are line level, I know that our ideas are very likely to become a lot more of your world as employee, you know, and we run them as a situation where we're firm believers that people don't do something because one they don't know how to do it. So we use this to set clarity and to oftentimes they don't know that they're supposed to do it. And so our bodies in our world are meant to handle those two things. Undeniably so and then the third option as to why people don't do things is because they intentionally don't do them. They don't want to do them. They want to work against the situation that's RDS or for as well. So these are big clarity setting pieces, but the phrase feeds for us, you know, we don't do that in a centralized manner. And to me, I I agree that I think we should, you know, and so for us in our goals, when we meet as a CH team, our goals now are ensuring that we not just because of this submission, but generally speaking that we make sure that we're finding one group one. One team member from the notes one person that we've seen to really shout them out and really drive home that that phrase to me It's decentralized you know, or not to me to ch as a whole you know, this praise system is a little bit decentralized. But I think that, you know, I want to spend a chat out of this video and talk about some ways that you guys all feel like that could be universally implemented everywhere, you know, like, and so we're not just doing things that then go by the wayside. We're not doing things that feel like we're just doing it to appease you know, I think that the closest thing we have to praise in that sense or, or some of the deepest praise we do is the anniversary program. If you guys are not familiar with the anniversary, anniversary program, deal with your leadership, if you're a leader and you're not familiar with it with us, you do get Yes, you do get special things we do take very good care of you, as you spend your time with ch. Obviously, we know the coin, but we know and I believe based on this question and a general consensus that we know it could and should get better and so that is a great question. It's something to be addressed in here as well and to be able to kind of spin that into it. So again, I'll I'll spend a chat out of this conversation and we'll we'll take it from there. Let's spin it off to easy one or lighter, someone asked you, someone asked me what inspired you to embrace your identity as beast You don't know my first name is Brian. My last name is Eastman. And when you end up in middle school classes when you end up in elementary school or in preschool, very often you see the first letter of your first name and the last letter or your last name so it would be beat that Eastman which for me you know, I'm a person as you guys very likely know, somewhat big size and stature. I have been a big size and stature since I was an extremely young child. I'd say it's really small town. And so the discipline thing for me is something that it's actually it's a fairly deep situation. Because it was really hard for me, you know, and I got made fun of under the moniker beastman or being big for being a plus size model I am today and it took a long time to kind of hone that you know, and I truthfully didn't really own the Beastmen thing until really moving to San Diego in full managing an entirely new group of people after I'd spent a long time managing on the East Coast and it just kind of came up came up and was a part of that and it's something in which you know, I am really proud of myself know who I am and, and being this kind of tall and big person that is decent, you know, that's totally cool with me. You know, the same person, kind of tying it back to this really cool kind of praise or making things special. The same person had a comment about I love the camaraderie between the people working in the different outlets. Is there a CH day we might be able to reinforce those bonds or do you think that should happen? They happen organically on our own time? One, we would love to make that happen. We really did work hard to try to facilitate a holiday party this year. But for us, you know if you guys aren't aware, we're over 900 people finding a space for 900 people is not exactly very feasible item. So one is that we do believe it should happen to is that we don't we can't find it entirely know how this should happen or how we get everyone together. Small things like this. And pieces that we're working on as a CH team to kind of bring people together. You know we we've talked about doing ch hives we've talked about the very simple thing I do see very simple things. We all went out in doing the job doing cycling with me. Some of you may or may not know but

Speaker 1

10:48

it was a lot of athletic activities with the leadership teams and more on on for us. That's something that we want to expand out in our world. And for me, personally, I you know I I told this morning mantra to light the light to take towards mindfulness, you know, and that's something that I do want to talk about as a group. And that is something I think we can all benefit from. And, you know, I think everyone's definition of mindfulness and spirituality is extremely different. But I think that we can all agree that if we can be a little bit more calm and level headed, they will prevail. So maybe this becomes a mindfulness but we'll see how it goes. But in terms of CHD I think right now or you know, for the foreseeable future, we're stepping into a busy summer season. It is going to be an organic process. There is no way around that whatsoever. So that is a good question. It is something that we want. Understand that logistical implications of doing something so big are very hard. And I see more you guys joining which is awesome. If you have any questions that you didn't ask in this yet, please feel free to use the link. Also, feel free to drop a comment, comment sections over on the bottom right. I'll try to answer everything I can. And Dan will be here for 1130 1140 depending how he goes. This is a really great question and kind of you know, one of the many reasons I wanted to do this. What does the future hold for up and coming ch projects anything new you're most excited about? For those of you who know or don't know our next project is going to be Leila. Leila is a Mediterranean restaurant. It's going to be on 30th Close to PTL or other location. It has a couple of doors from going up if you're familiar with point up in North Park. We call it Mediterranean because it's going to draw influences from all over the Mediterranean. For us it is strongly influenced by Middle Eastern Persian. Iranian culture is something that we hold near and dear to our hearts. It's a cuisine that we personally love. And it's a cuisine that there isn't classic institutions in San Diego that do make a very good pass. At doing something delightful. But it's not necessarily that anyone's taking a very special or interesting direction. And then per you those of you who aren't familiar with Iranian culture, it is not a drinking country. So the unique opportunity to bring these flavor profiles that actually learned quite well towards cocktails bringing this into the cocktail world is is particularly special. So Leila is next. We are going through tastings with chefs. Right now we are locking down a menu if any of you personally want more information on it, I'm happy to share some more bits. But yes, we are looking at version slop cocktails. We are looking at Mediterranean food with a strong Persian influence. And we have some very special people working on the project that will now call on the process but our original goal for opening that was very early in March. And as we know we are now past that you guys have been a part of an opening. Specifically on an opening team you're well aware that these deadlines tend to stretch a little bit. So when we know more, you guys will all be the first one invited to this process. That's going to be next very likely. If you guys are familiar with Lafayette hotel, we're working on the horse horse is continental dining restaurant when we say continental dining. That's a very confusing term continental dining is the simplest way to say it is it is a fancy hotel food. And what this means is Ritz Escoffier got together in Paris, and they made a really special restaurant menu that was elevated takes on French cuisine sorted within a hotel. And so there is a heavy French influence there is an elevated dining experience for us as well. And the cocktails and the wine program will play to that so the horses on the horizon. We also have a small hotel Coronado was currently operating as lab and Eden is very close to Hotel Del basically kitty corner from Hotel Del that is a project that is very much in construction. We are going back and forth on what the name may be. And that's actually another pieces that we do keep to ourselves until we're fully launched. You know, you'll go on local news and and see speculated names or some of the names. We've used and the process of updating and things but you know in terms of like this grand release, it's something we hold near and dear to our hearts but that will be a very special small hotel. It will be elevated. That is not to say that by hotel is not elevated. We want to do a little bit more take on the luxury aspect of it make it attainable in a small space in an environment where that's there will be an oyster bar reservation only there will be a pool there and it's something we're excited about. So look for that. You do want to get that open this summer. It's an undeniable goal for us. As you can see, some things are kind of stacking in terms of how that's looking and there is the nature in which we are as you guys are familiar with a small team that opens the restaurants and so we're gonna do everything we can to get those open by the end of summer. So that's the current. That's what I'm excited about. You know, as someone who's ingrained as my partner's Iranian label, something I'm particularly very excited about. And then the cocktail program that we're doing there is something that I think will be really special. So this is somewhat personal, but I think that it's an impactful question, and it's how do you balance self care and work? And the short answer to that is it's it's definitively hard. But routine is something that is a necessity in my world. In terms of where I was for a long time in leadership, I've been managing spaces for about 1617 years now. I did not have self care, I did not have work life balance. I did not do any of those things for an extremely long time. Working within CH is something that dropped me that as wild as that may sound to some of you it's really where I grew up. I grew up managing and ch I came to ch with a very young, immature, righteous pain in the ass of a leader. And so you know, you guys are leaders or not, and I've ever given you advice maybe on how you're acting for how to let's say pick your battles. It comes from a place of being a real pain in the ass to our salon and at the time, and really learning the hard way of of how to progress how to get better. Now that being said, growing up, I went through a lot working for CH and again, I didn't have I think part time for myself. I didn't have time off for balance. And it is it's something that I'm coming the most thing to in my world that I ever have in terms of mindfulness in terms of balance in terms of self care, and it takes a lot of thoughtfulness in terms of balancing that time. You know the single biggest piece that I use in my world for getting things done or balancing self care or mindfulness is time blocking. Time blocking is massive for me. My calendar is mostly public, so you guys can go on google calendar and see my calendar and kind of see how I operate my world. I operate in things called sprints. sprints are it comes from like a project management terminology. It just means it's a some dedicated time to sit down and work and get shit done. For the me, article starts with a morning journal I write out the most important things I need to accomplish that day. I do it in groups of six, I always write down six. There's usually more than that. There's never less than six very important things I have to do that day. I like the number six. I like the number three I like the number nine you guys are in a Nikola Tesla, check out the theory of 369 won't go too far into it, but it's pretty special. So balance begins with reading out the most important things I have to do that day. I try to do them right away. That's before I touch my email that's before I respond to a text that's before anything else in the very simple manner of checking those items off as you start your day is the single biggest thing I've ever been able to pull off and the best thing I've ever done for my health and well being.

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