#319 - John Marsh - Taking Wise Counsel, Influence, Our Blind Spots, Forgiveness, & A Little Thing Called Humility

John Marsh is the Co-Founder of Marsh Collective, host of the Redemptification Podcast, and investor helping steward over $1.5b in redemptive real estate in 12 small towns (with populations of 800-180k) around America. Over the last 25 years, John and Ashely have guided over 60 startup businesses in various industries, such as Hospitality, Construction, Real Estate Investing, Advertising, and multiple Restaurants. John and his wife have renovated 280+ buildings within ten blocks of downtown Opelika to help save their city. Today, John's current focus is helping others make generational differences in communities and companies. By helping patrons bridge the gap between redeeming vision, financial sustainability, and execution to pioneering a new asset class of real estate which they have coined "Irreplaceable Real Estate." We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey On this episode, Chris and John discuss: The power of influence Humility Blind spots of entrepreneurs Divorce & money Changing the hospitality landscape Links Marsh Collective John and Ash's story John's first appearance on The Fort Topics (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:41) The Power to influence and love (00:10:07) Why is humility so attractive? (00:13:06) Blind spots in the entrepreneur type (00:33:19) Learning forgiveness (00:37:26) Being hard on yourself (00:40:41) Reversing bad momentum (00:44:25) Divorce & money (00:53:13) Taking counsel (00:54:43) Applying these lessons to business partnerships (00:59:21) What’s wrong with hospitality today? Support our Sponsors Relay Human Cloud: https://bit.ly/3sjQcaY Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: Twitter: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts