Episode 67- Goals that are big enough for everyone else’s goals w/ Briar Baughman

My guest on today’s podcast is Briar Baughman. Briar is the owner and founder of Off-Load Moving, a moving company based out of Hampton Roads, Virginia. What’s unique about Briar is the level of success he has achieved in such a short time, being only 24 at the time of this recording. In this episode Briar shares his story. He details how his family moved 19 times in the first 18 years of his life and how that deeply shaped him. He had developed a dread for moving and realized that this is typically a transition in one’s life that can be exciting but also very stressful. He explains how amidst growing his family, attending college, and being in the army national guard, he and his wife at the age of 19 decided to start Off Load Moving. In this episode we talk about the progression of business, from the early days of getting off the ground, to beginning to scale your business and how that can sometimes mean that as the business owner you have to take on less hats to prevent bottlenecking the business, which can in turn take you away from parts of the business you may have enjoyed or grown accustomed to. Briar is a family man, who loves investing in kids, and has a wisdom beyond his years. In this episode he talks about “being present where your feet are” when your life is filled with many hats, like being a husband, father, business owner, friend, and coach. He also talks about setting goals for the business that are bigger than yourself and are big enough to encompass the goals and lives of your team as well. And finally Briar shared his definition of success as not being money or achievements, but what you kids say about you when you are not in the room. So with that introduction, I hope you enjoy this episode of the Self-Employment Success Podcast with Briar Baughman.

Transcript:

All right. Welcome Briar to the self -employment success podcast. Awesome. Thanks for having me, Liam. It's great to be here. I'm excited for us to, rehab the conversation we just had, because we basically did the whole podcast, not recording. So that was killer. just get our feet wet. That's all. Yeah. I love it. A little warmup. It hurts anybody. You're a coach. understand the power of warming up. So, Briar, let's start by telling the listeners kind of who you are, a little bit about your family and then what your business does. Absolutely. Yeah. So I'm Briar Bachman.

off -road movement here in Hampton Roads. We service all of the south side of Peninsula with our two branches as well as pretty much anywhere in the country. We've gone to Washington, Cali, Texas probably three to four times a month. So pretty much we've been to almost every state possible except for Hawaii and Alaska of course. But I'm a father of three. I have an amazing wife that's co -owner of the company. She does all customer service in HR because she's a lot better at it than I am. And then yeah so...

We've been around now for four years and about six to seven days. Just had our four year anniversary, started at 20, I'm 24 now. We've grown to the capacity of five trucks and about 24 employees and making the move to a 13 ,000 warehouse here by the end of this month. that's impressive. Yeah, it's a lot of Especially in four years, yeah. Yeah, so four years, the first two years, like we were talking about earlier, I deployed for a whole year.

the four years that we've been in business. So in reality, I call it a three year growth. But after we got back from deployment, I deployed to Djibouti. I saw a third world country that never thought I'd see. It's got a different perspective on life from kids my age or even my kids' ages that were skin and bones walking across the streets and bare feet and all. So it me a different perspective to just kind of be grateful for every day and just kind of not spend it like it's your last, but use it as it's your last.

So that was a different, so coming back was that October 22, bought our first truck. We rented the first two years and just slowly started growing at a quality level over quantity. Because for me, I could go out and buy hundreds of trucks, but if I don't have guys to fill them or quality guys to fill them, then they're just collecting dust and not gonna do anything for me or for the community.

So at the of the day, I just wanted to make a moving company or a business at the end of the day to be something more than myself. Just because, I mean, that's all you can do in a life is try to give some type of, you know, piece of your life to someone else is the biggest thing. I love that. Yeah. So 24 years old, running a very successful moving company right now. What? How did you choose moving? Like, I don't know that many people wake up and are like,