TheBEAZ has a conversation with the founder of Successteam.org, Tim Behling. They discuss the mission, and vision of Successteam.

Hear how this motived Tim to create the 501(c)3 organization Successteam: "The fact that, statistically; I was written off as an individual who would only amount to the minimum, if anything at all, is more than enough to keep me going. I wake up every day with the goal of connecting with others and helping them see the value within themselves. If you believe in you, no obstacle is too large.”

During the discussion, Tim opens up about the trials and obstacles he had to overcome to get and keep succesteam.org growing. They talk about the beginning of the partnership between Successteam and Gerald Jones Subaru and shine a light on the essential importance of partnerships. 

Here is "The Get Down" for this episode of TheBEAZ Presents:

1. Be a giant in every room
2. If you care, it has to be an action
3. Dream big and make it happen

Charles Beasley: All right, all right, all right. Welcome to another episode of Epoch Visionary. And as always we will be respectful of your time because time is [00:01:00] the new currency and we can appreciate that. As we always talk about here on the show, remember collect the dots before you connect the dots. So we are going to collect the dots. If you see anything that's worth collecting then we'll talk about how to put that all back together as we move forward. So that's a wonderful, wonderful thing. And today TheBEAZ presents why take a soil sample before building. Why take a soil sample before building? And the person that is going to help us explore that is Mr. Tim Behling. [00:01:30] He's the founder of SUCCESSTEAM.

So as we kind of talk words matter, and I just love the way that sounds, limitless opportunities that life has to offer. If I'm not mistaken, beginning at the age of 19, he wanted to be an asset to his community. So, he began to mentor young adults from the ages of 13 to [00:02:30] 18. Okay? Now, to help him with SUCCESSTEAM, as he's created that, he has certain programs that he's brought on as well. One of which is Big Brother, okay? And Big Brother is a fellowship of young men, looking to become real men. I'm going to say that again. A fellowship of young men looking to become real men. That's profound. I love that.

Again, little hinges swing big doors. So I think words are very, very impactful. So The Prospering Dreamers is something that stands out to me because prospering has a realm of looking forward in a positive way. And Dreamers kind of coincides with what we talk about here, being a visionary. Because as a visionary, you got to be looking forward, you got to be looking at some things out here, and a dreamer is kind of the same thing. So again, those things [00:04:00] matter. And I love the words and the things that this young man stands for and what SUCCESSTEAM stands for.

Now, as I was doing a little research, there was something that was interesting to me that we talked about. Motivation. And we're going to get to that later. But again, I wanted to welcome him and thank him for giving us his time and also dropping some dots and coming to talk to us about his experience. And I think we can all benefit from that. So, welcome Tim.

Charles Beasley: All right, all right, all right. So what we're going to do now is what I call Set The Stage for what we're going to talk about. So again, this is Epoch Visionary, and what we're going to talk about here is why take a soil sample before building? Why take a soil sample before building? Now, I think pretty much most of us have heard of the metaphor about [00:05:30] a good foundation before you build, and that is great. And there's nothing wrong with that, and that makes a whole lot of sense.

So it says here if you do have extra foundation supports are not used, then the expansion and the contraction [00:06:30] of the soil due to moisture can result in cracked and crumbled foundations. So as I kind of get into this with Tim here, it seems like that he provides support systems to our youth, and I think we'll kind of weave this metaphor in and out as we move forward. But I think it was just perfect for what he does and what we're going to talk about here. So, Tim, let's get right into this and let me just ask you a pretty basic question. What is SUCCESSTEAM?

Charles Beasley: Okay.

Tim Behling: Exposure, okay? If they haven't been exposed to, as many of our youth have some things that they've experienced in life and a couple of things that they haven't. So we want to expose them to it. Right? So they're knowledgeable of it. You can't pursue an opportunity that you don't know about. Right?

Charles Beasley: Right.

Tim Behling: And then, enhancement. Okay? If you do know about it, right?

Charles Beasley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay. The three [00:08:30] E's. I like that. Now, we know what SUCCESSTEAM is. Where did the name come from? I mean, my guess is there had to be some thought in terms of what you were going to call it. How did SUCCESSTEAM come about?

Team, we combined it with success, team, or made that into one word because even in the beginning I always understood that this was never something that I would do by myself. Whether that be from a physical standpoint or a spiritual, because God is always with me. And I was blessed with this thought process [00:09:30] of being able to do this. So even when it was just me in my room, thinking up these ideas, I always knew that God was blessing me and that this right here wasn't something that should be secluded or it should be represented inclusively, and we should be open and adored. Because if I have dreams, I'm pretty sure a lot of other people out there do too, if not everybody. So success is understanding what success means to you, and team, understanding that there's no such thing as a self-made [00:10:00] project, self-made person in this world. Whether it's through your spiritual blessings from God or the people that you surround yourself with, success isn't something that you achieve alone.

Charles Beasley: That's absolutely correct. And sometimes, we have to be smart enough to realize that the other people out there can help us, and leaning on other people to help us get to where we need to be. And that's kind of what... our vibe with you, when we talked. And again, a lot of what I believe lines up exactly with what you're talking about now.

Tim Behling: Yeah. I discovered... And it might sound like a compliment to some will get it. It might sound like [00:11:00] a jab towards me. I found out that I wasn't smart enough to think I couldn't achieve anything that I wanted to.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right. Right.

Tim Behling: Yeah, right? That was the big thing. The dreams, no matter how big they were, I always thought about, hey, how can we make this happen, not whether or not it would be possible, right?

Charles Beasley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Charles Beasley: Right, you just went after it. Right. You just went after it and it is what [00:11:30] it is, you'll figure it out from there, right?

Tim Behling: That's it. That's it, right? And that's how you know things. And that's a big thing, for anybody out there listening, is that don't put limits on yourself. Right?

Charles Beasley: Right.

Charles Beasley: That's right. That's right.

Tim Behling: ... be in a city that needed what we were planning to offer. When I think of soil, and you're missing the earlier, like our foundation, we had a good idea, right?

Charles Beasley: Correct. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay. A lot of people, they just won't get off the porch. They won't get off and do something, right?

Tim Behling: Yeah.

Charles Beasley: And I tell a lot of the guys I work with sometimes that they can't take your birthday away, man. If you know what I mean? It is what it is. Just go do it and figure it out, right? Just figure it out-

Tim Behling: That's right.

Tim Behling: Yeah. Partnerships and recognition. Brand awareness. Pretty much, I come from a background where I was basically... Even though I'm from here, we serve South Carolina, North Caroline, and Georgia. I'm from that Southern tri-state area, right?

Charles Beasley: Right.

Charles Beasley: Correct. Okay. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Tim Behling: So it's just like introducing yourself, going to grassroots for effort. I know we use social media. Social media is great but it's different when you're putting your face in a place and actually allowing people to connect with you and strengthening that recognition, that face recognition. And then, when they do see you on social media, if they do see you, it's like, "Hey, I know that guy. I know that guy. I know that person."

Charles Beasley: Okay. You mentioned something earlier, and again, how do we know or who do we benefit from and so forth? But can you give me, probably, I guess, three people that mentored you or that you looked up at or that you emulate or... Three people that kind of made an impact in your journey so far, and why did they... what was it about those people?

Charles Beasley: Okay.

I will say, growing up, my best friends, [Tyrique 00:16:22], Nick, or Nick Woodworth, a lot of guys that I grew up, man. My football team, my football mates. I would say they were the individuals [00:16:30] who really taught me what dreaming was. Because none of them was from here. My best friend, Nick, he was from Detroit, and my best friend, Tyrique, he was from Philly. And he came down to the small city of Aiken, South Carolina [crosstalk 00:16:47].

Charles Beasley: Yeah. Like, what's this? What y'all got here?

Charles Beasley: All right. Well, good, good, good. You can get it from many different places. Sometimes you just have that spirit with somebody, [00:18:00] you see him from afar, and sometimes, people just don't reach out because they're too insecure to reach out to somebody that they might look up to. So that's a good story in terms of who you look at and why. So that's a good thing to know. Now, as my daddy would say, he said the same thing, but they don't teach you that at school. You can't get that out of a book. Right?

Tim Behling: Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir.

Tim Behling: Incorrect.

Charles Beasley: Okay.

Tim Behling: And that's pretty much... we didn't start out that way, right?

Charles Beasley: Okay.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Tim Behling: Let's see what we can do. But after making that assessment and getting a whole bunch of people interested, "Okay. Well, what are we going to do?" And I'm like, "Well, I don't know yet."

Charles Beasley: Right, right.

Tim Behling: So we went through the trials and we really locked it down. It's just like, "Okay. Let's do ripple effect. Let's give our generation an opportunity to influence the next generation and be guided by the generation before us." So that's how we got here.

So just out of curiosity, though, was there ever a time where you just felt like, "You know what? I'm about tired of this. This ain't going the way that I wanted to." Was there ever a time that you started to throw in the towel? And [00:20:00] if so, how did you move forward?

Tim Behling: Man. Every November of the first four years.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay. Okay.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay. When you had that spike, because I think that's where a lot of people kind of jump off or quit, is either they don't have a way to motivate them to move forward. Maybe they don't have the support pillars that they need to keep them on that foundation. Is there anything in particular, [00:21:30] a book or a person, or how does that work for you? Do you have a formula or is it just something that you do?

Charles Beasley: All right. Okay. Okay.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Right. Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Charles Beasley: Okay. I wrote that down. That's a big... that relationship with your dreams. Man. Goodness. That's some good stuff right there. I'm impressed by stuff... I love stuff like that. That's the stuff I put in my background and keep bringing that thing up. So relationship with your [00:23:30] dreams. All right.

So in relationship to what you were doing in terms of education [00:24:30] and looking forward to mentoring people and the partnership with Subaru and their initiatives as well. But outside of Subaru, the company that I work for as Gerald Jones, the auto group, and our leader there is Andy Jones, and he is very beneficial or active in the community as well. And it seems like that that's always a good match. So how did you and me get hooked up with this partnership? Share it with [00:25:00] the world.

[00:26:00] So from the bottom of my heart, man, I appreciate Subaru. SUCCESSTEAM loves Subaru. And it's just like, man, we want to keep it going but it all started really just with the bridging of the gap of understanding what Subaru's mission and outreach was, and us being able to fit the bit in that partnership, being able to come together. [crosstalk 00:26:18].

So when we sell... generally we sell a good bit of cars in that month, and every car that we sell, [00:27:00] the customers get to pick a charity that they would want their money to go to. And we picked two local charities here. So we'll be talking about that more deeply at that time as well, and try to obviously get people to support you all and the Augusta Dream Center. And that can turn out to be a pretty good little piece of change, and I can't wait to sit up and see you and then hand you that big old, big old, big old, what? Check, to help you do what you need [00:27:30] to do.

Tim Behling: There we go.

Charles Beasley: So that's the ultimate goal is to partner, and then being able to provide those opportunities down the road. So that's a wonderful thing. Now, how did you come up with the initiatives? Especially... Well, I can't say especially, but the Big Brother. Was that your brain child? Was that a group of people that you deal with or how does that work?

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay.

Tim Behling: So for us, we look and if it's not going on then we're going to do it. And with SUCCESSTEAM we are at that point. We're like, "We're going to make it happen. We're going to impact our community, and we're going to provide these activities that should've been provided a long time ago."

Tim Behling: Yeah. No, we do, to be honest with you. It's not a long list of restrictions, but you do have to prioritize cohesiveness. And that's something we prioritize. And we also prioritize really mutually beneficial relationships. We don't want to partner with organizations [00:29:30] that don't align with our mission or don't see longevity, and that's the biggest thing for us is that we want to work with people who allow us to give back to them as well. And we want to make sure that we're aligned with organizations who see the value in what we do and not just a onetime fix that they might be able to solve a problem right then.

Charles Beasley: Okay. So you do a soil sample as well to check that out and see if it aligns, because if it doesn't align, then you probably got a little weak foundation and you don't want those cracks down the road.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Right, right. That's what you mentor. So being a mentee and looking at.... that's a wide... I assume it's a wide range, 13 to 18. So I'm sure you got a whole lot of different personalities and people finding themselves at that age. Is that pretty difficult to do? Is that something you train for? Or you just kind of [00:31:00] work off different people? How do you figure that deal out?

Charles Beasley: Okay.

Charles Beasley: Okay. All right. [inaudible 00:32:19]. Right, right, right, right. Okay.

Tim Behling: Yeah.

Tim Behling: Yeah. Most definitely. We can go back to our first event, when [00:33:00] we planned for 150 plus, and we got zero.

Charles Beasley: Okay. That was one of the times that you think about peace out.

Tim Behling: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Okay.

Charles Beasley: Oh, wow. Okay. You bounced back, though. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.

Charles Beasley: Okay. So now you got three states that you deal with, right? And your last event, which was with the bigger... I know the Bookbag, but you also had the group of men, right?

Tim Behling: Yeah.

Tim Behling: Mm-hmm (affirmative). That's right. That's right. So basically Big Brother appeals for the young man who will become real men. Our third annual is now this year, June 24th, June 27th at USCA again and in South Carolina, it brought out 100 plus young men from South Carolina, North Caroline, and Georgia. And I keep forgetting that too. I'll be leading them out, but I can't do it no more. We had one individual company [inaudible 00:34:59]. But that [00:35:00] was cool. We appreciate their support. How they found out about it? I don't know, but he was there.

Charles Beasley: All right. Good, good, good. That's right.

Tim Behling: That's right.

Charles Beasley: That's organic.

Charles Beasley: Everybody's doing it. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Cool. I love it. I love the... actually, you can tell by listening to your voice you get excited about it. And when I met you, that just shines through. That's not fake. You can feel it, you can hear it in your voice, and I think that's one of the things that kept you powering through because obviously you're passionate about it. So now, let me ask you this question. What... because [00:37:00] I was reading something on your website, I believe. But what was a primary motivator for you, or what is a primary driver for you?

Charles Beasley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Charles Beasley: All right, all right, all right.

Charles Beasley: Okay. And I'm going to read this, because I wrote this down. Part of it, you talked about where you came from. But you say, "I wake up everyday with the goal of connecting with others and helping them see value within themselves. If you believe in you, no obstacle is too large." And you can feel that and you can see that. And that right there was kind of profound because everybody's got [00:39:00] something or should have something that they can look at. And most people that tend to be successful have that kind of foundation somewhere, which brings me to this.

Tim Behling: Man. Number one is be a giant in every room. You know what I'm saying? Never think anything is too small for you, never think anybody is too popular for you, never think of the obstacle that it is too large for you to overcome. And be a giant in every room.

And number three is dream big and make life happen. It's a motto that I've lived by for a very long time. It's dream big and make life happen. Life [00:40:30] throws out opportunities like air, like the wind through the trees. It doesn't really matter who catches on, they just want it gone. Anytime we wake up in the morning is an opportunity for us to achieve big. So this is like dream big, make life happen, don't just think opportunities are going to come to you, don't think opportunities come to those who wait. Opportunity comes to those who are patient, right?

Charles Beasley: Right, right, right. Difference, there's a difference.

Charles Beasley: Okay. Exactly. I like that. That's The Get Down, that's The Get Down from Mr. Tim Behling of SUCCESSTEAM. Get it! Get excited about it. So we talk about an epoch. So this is Epoch Visionary, right? So the epoch for this for you, or an epoch anyway, because we have several of them, but an epoch is a period of time in the history of a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular [00:41:30] characteristics. So if you could, what would be the epoch, or an epoch you would like to share with the audience, with BEAZ nation?

But then, throughout that, of course, you go through your first love, you get your license, you know what I'm saying? You go through experiences, you graduate. Right? High school, friends, they change, they go off, you [inaudible 00:42:43]. And it's just like, man, that age 13 to 18 was the epoch in my life, just as I assume that it might be an epoch in others as well of just the times where I had a chance to choose, I had a chance to change. And a lot of the choices [00:43:00] weren't necessarily the best, but I was able to change in a way that got us here.

But it's all within us and how we respond to it. And everybody's [00:44:00] had something that they've overcome. They just can't reproduce it sometimes. So I love the message that you left here. I love your experience. Again, we are going to continue this relationship with Gerald Jones Subaru and with SUCCESSTEAM going down the road. I look to definitely be involved with you personally as well. And we will be looking for your help outside of that anyway. But I think you're just a good person that leads and I can see that light shining in you. So that's a wonderful, [00:44:30] wonderful thing to do. So I'm going to ask you, do you have any final thoughts right now?

Charles Beasley: All right. Fair enough. Fair enough. Get excited. I love that. And so, what we're going to simply say here is [00:45:30] how can somebody contact you and help with SUCCESSTEAM? Or what's the best ways for the audience to reach out to you?

Charles Beasley: All right, all right. Well, again, we thank you for your time and your leadership, and we look forward to, again, continuing to connect and connect other people to you as well. So that was Mr. Tim Behling here [00:46:30] with SUCCESSTEAM, and that's a wonderful thing. As we talk about TheBEAZ Presents comes on every Friday. You can catch us on all the major networks, but nonetheless, if you go to beaznetwork.com, you can see us there and that's a good, good, good thing.

Announcer: You've been listening to TheBEAZ Presents Epoch Visionary. TheBEAZ is an executive manager that runs two successful automobile franchises. Having been in the business [00:47:30] since 1995, he's hired, trained, and mentored other successful executive managers who run and lead sales teams. And now, he sits down with people from all walks of life to reveal how they were able to see the need for change in their way of thinking and begin a new period of productivity, growth, and success in their life.