{"id":482,"date":"2023-05-08T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:22:39","slug":"putting-together-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/putting-together-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Together the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Putting Together the Team<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\u2022 The Right Pieces - Its Not that Easy \u2022<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Where do you go after hearing that your idea actually has legs?\u00a0 Do you jump right in?\u00a0 Hitch yourself to the first person(s) that come along?\u00a0 Or do you sit back and further develop the plan?<\/p>

That last thought\/question is where I landed.\u00a0 Who is a perfect fit for this journey?\u00a0 I already had my production company set up to do a bit of advertising for the post-production work I was doing for a podcast, but that didn’t mean I had the expertise and contacts to pull off something this big.\u00a0 So I reached back out to Deborah Mash and said I needed her and the Circle Take Productions team on the project. One team member on board.<\/p>

Looking at the General Contractor role, I could have easily brought on board a highly qualified GC I work with in Oklahoma City, Roger Jones from Roger Jones Construction.\u00a0 Except that Roger isn’t licensed in Colorado and doesn’t restore homestead cabins.\u00a0 Decades-old houses on a grand scale, yes, but not homestead cabins built many times with materials from the surrounding forest.\u00a0 So I went to see one of my business advisers and confidant Hank Ford.\u00a0 After hearing the project plan, and getting the same response I got from Deborah “You need to do this,” Hank very casually told me to call his cousin Roberto Fimbres in Pueblo, Colorado.<\/p>

Turns out Roberto is a GC, owns Shelter Construction Company in Pueblo with his daughter Keely.\u00a0 More importantly Roberto has a long history of restoring historic properties in Colorado and has worked in the Wet Mountain Valley.\u00a0 After I phone call to introduce myself and discuss the project, we decided to meet next time I was in Colorado.\u00a0 Second team member possibly on board.<\/p>

Now, let’s focus on the hardest piece; funding.\u00a0 I am not by nature a salesperson and its not in my personality to ask people for money.\u00a0 This rather obvious omission led me to my life-long friend Johnny “JW” Williams.\u00a0 JW spent 40 years in radio advertising as a sales person and strategic marketing specialist.\u00a0 And most importantly he is not afraid of “the ask.”\u00a0 Once again a conversation took place; then another; then another.\u00a0 Its tough to say yes to a project like this when you are solidly thinking about retirement.\u00a0 But in the end, JW said yes.\u00a0 Team member two definitely on board.<\/p>

Now back to Roberto.\u00a0 JW and I scheduled a time with Roberto, polished up our presentation and headed back to the mountains.\u00a0 After a nearly three hour meeting, Roberto asked if they could see the cabin we were focused on for the pilot.\u00a0 So we headed out from Pueblo and then spent another two hours looking over the Wagon Wheel<\/em>.\u00a0 At the end of the day we had team member three on board.<\/p>

And we had an ace up our sleeve back in OKC with Roger Jones.\u00a0 His finish carpentry skills are out of this world.\u00a0 He and his team committed to helping in any way they could.\u00a0 We’ve got some ideas for finishing touches that Roger can, and will, do to really make the project a success.\u00a0 Team member four on board.<\/p>

While I know there are still others to add to the team, we now had a framework in place to move forward from.\u00a0 And to think that only took about three months working on it part time in the evenings while not focused on my consulting company.\u00a0 Next up: Finding the funds to close the budget gap.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Putting Together the Team \u2022 The Right Pieces – Its Not that Easy \u2022 Where do you go after hearing that your idea actually has legs?\u00a0 Do you jump right in?\u00a0 Hitch yourself to the first person(s) that come along?\u00a0 Or do you sit back and further develop the plan? That last thought\/question is where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"mark","author_link":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/author\/mark\/"},"rttpg_comment":2,"rttpg_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Putting Together the Team \u2022 The Right Pieces – Its Not that Easy \u2022 Where do you go after hearing that your idea actually has legs?\u00a0 Do you jump right in?\u00a0 Hitch yourself to the first person(s) that come along?\u00a0 Or do you sit back and further develop the plan? That last thought\/question is where…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}