McBee Business Shakeup and Words of Wisdom with Savannah Chrisley

In this solo edition of Meet the McBees, Steven steps into the studio alone and details a brand-new podcast format coming soon, opens up about the latest harvest, the realities of downsizing and property sales, and why sometimes simplifying is the key to scaling. Steven also talks about hopping onto ‪@SavannahChrisleyUNLOCKED‬ podcast, clearing the air about recent chatter, and why it’s more important than ever to not believe everything you read. And in classic Steven fashion, he closes with a message that hits hard: Losers focus on winners. Winners focus on winning.

Hey y’all.
Welcome to Meet the McBes.

Today we’re going to discuss—well, we’re packing up and we’re headed to Bravo Con. We’re heading out to Las Vegas.

I honestly have no idea what to expect. I know Jesse and Cole and Alli’s going as well. We have no idea what’s in store for us. All we keep hearing is that Las Vegas is going to be crazy this weekend with Bravo Con going on.

This is the event of all events for the network for Bravo. It’s going to be so much fun and it’s going to get rowdy. And if you know anything about us, we enjoy a good time every now and then.

In saying that, I have yet to see any videos of Bravo. There was a network—uh—Bravo Con introductory call and video that we weren’t able to make it on. Unfortunately, that gives you a little bit of an idea of what to expect, how it works, everything that’s going on, and we didn’t watch any of that.

So, we’re going into this blind. Have no idea what the events are going to look like. I know it’s going to be fun. I know it’s going to be wild, and we look forward to seeing y’all out there.

By the time this podcast airs, the weekend will have wrapped up. We’ll be back in Missouri. But I know that we are all excited.

Cole and Jesse are both packing this morning. That’s why I am here by myself in the studio yet again. I promise you this is not going to be the setup in the very near future.

We have some exciting things coming down the line with this podcast—some exciting changeups, I guess you could say, in what this podcast is not only going to look like from a studio perspective, but who’s going to be sitting here giving the podcast, the content that we have going on.

I’m excited because we’re going to be able to get outside the realm of just the McBS and just the farm and ranch. There’s so much to our life, so much I’m personally passionate about that I felt like this specific podcast and the name of the podcast really essentially pigeonholed us or blocked us into a corner of only talking about the episodes, the TV show, or the farm and ranch.

And with this changeup comes a lot of new exciting content, a lot of potential guest opportunities. There’s going to be some really neat things coming, and that’s going to be coming here at the turn of the new year.

I promise you we have big plans for this podcast, and we’re not going away anytime soon with it. In fact, we’re only going to double down on what we’ll be talking about, how often we’ll be in here. It’s going to be good, and I’m really excited about it.

This past week, really, we’ve been finishing up harvest here on the farm. We have about 400 more acres of soybeans. We’re going to be finished by Thanksgiving, which is a very good timeline for us. Obviously, downsizing the farm, the row-crop side has helped us finish out a lot earlier.

You know, it’s been a shakeup for us—downsizing. It’s been a little bit humbling. Obviously, if you look at the headlines, the articles, we sold our grain facility. We really sold essentially everything. Even this office I’m standing in—we sold it.

We’re downsizing. We’re getting rid of all this overhead. And to me, I talked about it a couple weeks ago on this podcast, that a humbling experience in life is a very good thing if you use it properly. And I think that that is what we are going to do.

Downsizing, getting rid of all this overhead, all of these material things—these large offices, super nice offices that do nothing but cost us money in utilities, property taxes, maintenance, repairs—it’s all a giant headache. And there’s no ROI. There’s no actual income that comes from a fancy office.

You could sit in a 10×10 room that has no windows with a computer and accomplish ten times more without being distracted than you would in a fancy office.

So, I’m excited about what we’re doing, the path that we’re on moving forward. It’s been a difficult twelve months. We’ve had some very serious meetings about where we are from a financial state of the company to where we’re headed over the next three to five years.

And honestly, I’ve said it over and over again in the podcast leading up to my dad’s sentencing and even after that—we are in a better place as a company, as a culture, as really figuring out our identity and where we want to go in the next three to five years than I have ever felt here.

And that is such an exciting thing to be around.

So, even though we’ve gotten knocked down a couple steps on the totem pole—a little bit of a humbling experience packing up and moving out of our office and working out of a 10×10 room with no windows and just a computer—it’s going to be good for us. I’m excited.

And again, cannot begin to thank y’all enough for all of the support y’all are showing us, all of y’all tuning in.

There’s a Facebook page—I think it’s called Everything the McB Dynasty. We talk about everything. I think that’s the name of the Facebook page. There’s like 40,000 of y’all in there. I really appreciate it, and I go through those messages all the time.

We are very, very active on social media—any downtime at night, early in the mornings. We’re looking through the comments, trying to respond to as many as we can, trying to respond to as many DMs as we can.

Obviously, as we grow, as the pages grow, as the fan base grows, that’s not going to be feasible for us to respond to each and every message, but we do our best to try and get back to each and every one of you because it means a lot to us.

There was a podcast that was just released—as of this recording, it would have been two or three days ago—that I did with Savannah Chrisley. I think I went into a little more depth than I usually do as far as my dad’s situation.

I knew the sentencing was going to be over by the time it was released. We filmed that about five or six days before my dad’s sentencing, maybe a week before. So we were just leading up to the sentencing.

I of course had high hopes that it was just going to be probation, so I was a little shell-shocked after the sentencing happened.

But leading up to that podcast, I knew that it was going to be post-sentencing that it was released. So I just talked about things that have been on my mind—things that I’ve kept held close to my chest while leading up to my dad’s sentencing.

Just wanted to talk about how whenever you are not involved in the judicial system and you see headlines or articles, you almost have this preconceived notion that the world is black and white.

And I think you’re naive to what you don’t know—and I was the exact same way.

Growing up, you’d see someone indicted or charged with something and you automatically assume that they’re a horrible person and that everything stated in the article is true.

What you realize whenever you’re going through this—and the first time for me was my dating show—is how distorted and exaggerated headlines and articles really are. They’re meant to drive emotion or be clickbait.

And it’s the same way with my dad’s situation. You see all of this “facing up to 30 years,” “millions upon millions of dollars.” There’s just so much exaggeration rather than the actual truth.

So you start to take things with a grain of salt. And you realize you shouldn’t prejudge based on what you read online.

Unless you know a person or a situation intimately, there’s no need to have an opinion.

And that’s what I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. You don’t have to have an opinion. You can just say, “I don’t know enough about this situation.”

And I think that’s the best way to go about living life.

Losers focus on winners. Winners focus on winning.

And I think that is a very easy way to think about how you should live your life.

So yeah, a little bit of a rant this morning. I think that’s all I got for today.

Thank you all for tuning in. We’ll be back here next Tuesday. Every single Tuesday from here on out, aside from some holiday weeks.

Meet the McBS. Big things to come.

See y’all next time.

Unless you know a person or unless you know a situation intimately, really there’s no need to have an opinion.

And that’s what I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older is, hey, you see things about people or you hear off-hand remarks about someone’s character, and until you know that person, you deal with that person, you have a firsthand account of what’s actually happening or how that person is or who they are, you don’t have to have an opinion—positively or negatively.

You can just say,
“I don’t know enough to know about this situation.”

Or,
“I wouldn’t judge someone based on off-hand information or an article I read online.”

Unless I know the person, unless I’ve looked them in the eyes, unless I’ve dealt with them directly—personally or professionally—I’m not going to form an opinion on them.

And I think that’s the best way to go about living life.

And it’s something that I’ve spent enough time around wealthy people to understand—they understand this point.

You will never have someone that is more successful, wealthier than you, in a better familial situation, has a better family, marriage, whatever it may be—they will never spend their time degrading someone else that is lower than them.

So the people that are going to comment negative things, they’re always from a lower spot in success in life, in their family, in marriage.

No one that is more successful than you will take the time to talk negatively about someone.

And that is something I guarantee you, because I’ve spent enough time around successful people to know the difference.

They just won’t do it.

They’re too focused on themselves.
They’re too focused on their passions, their businesses, their family—pouring into their loved ones.

That’s what their focus is on, not on someone else.

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Losers focus on winners.
Winners focus on winning.

And I think that that is a very easy way to think about how you should live your life—just not casting stones from glass houses.

And I’m guilty of it.
I have been guilty of it in the past.

But I can assure you, over the last couple years—what we’ve gone through—my eyes have been opened to that quote and that particular way of living.

That will make your life so much better.

And honestly, what I’ve never understood is going out there and leaving a negative comment, or talking badly about someone, or trying to trash someone’s character, name, reputation, or business when you don’t personally know them.

What do you get out of that?

Other than the satisfaction of knowing that you’re hurting someone else—what does it actually do for you?

It doesn’t help your life.
You’re not going to make more money.
You’re not going to have a better family life.

So why do it?

To me, it always comes from a place of envy or jealousy—and it’s misplaced.

Because if you actually lived that person’s life, if you walked a mile in their shoes, you’d realize their life isn’t something to be jealous of.

I said this a couple weeks ago—you couldn’t pay me to have Elon Musk’s life.

He’s the richest man in the world, probably the most successful entrepreneur in history—and you couldn’t pay me to live that life.

Because of the stress.
The personal hell.
The weight of the world on his shoulders.

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So yeah, a little bit of a rant today.

But the lesson being—if you’re someone who’s left negative comments before, coming from a person who has done that in the past—just think to yourself:

By taking the time to leave this negative comment, that’s time taken away from your own family, your own success, your own improvement.

And that helps put your priorities where they should be—yourself, your family, your business, your life.

People who are focused on improving themselves are too busy to worry about someone else’s life.

Let alone comment negatively on it.

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That’s all I’ve got for today.

I could come in here and talk for hours, but I’m really looking forward to the turn of the new year.

The rebrand of this podcast is going to be really, really good.

We’re going to be diving into deep content beyond farming and beyond the TV show—my personal passions that I’ve held for the last decade.

We’re bringing in great guests, very interesting guests.

Between my network and Alli’s network, there are going to be some really cool conversations coming.

So thank you all for tuning in.

We’re getting packed up.
We’re heading to Vegas.
And we’re getting out of this office.

It’s a good thing.
It’s going to lead us to better places.

Appreciate y’all’s support so much.

We’ll be back here next Tuesday—every single Tuesday, aside from some holiday weeks.

Meet the McBS.
Big things to come.

See y’all next time.