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Meet Johnny Levy: Poet, CEO, and Author

I'm Scott, and today I am delighted to be joined by Johnny Levy, a poet, CEO and author. Who helps people uncover their true identity through what he calls the superpower quest. From running Data Joe to performing poetry slams, Johnny demonstrates how embracing your authentic design

Unleashes extraordinary potential. We're gonna talk on his business success with Data Joe, his creative pursuits in poetry, but we're mainly gonna focus on his superpower Quest framework and how it can assist you in your pursuit of your legacy. So Johnny, welcome to the podcast, man.

Oh, it's so good to be here, man. And I really I really believe in and love your mission, so thanks for having me here.

Pleasure is mine. Anytime that I can get somebody who not only believes in what we're all about here at Corvus, but is living proof. I'm all for it. That's, what my jam is, and let's just get started in terms of how you found your jam, and really a lot of it was in the early influences and challenges in your life and how that brought faith as such a big, integral part of your pursuit of your mission.

So I'd love for you to start there with our audience.

Yeah. Let's see.

Johnny's Early Life and Challenges

I guess I'll go into my origin story then. I grew up in kind of a tough neighborhood in Denver called Park Hill. And the currency of the neighborhood, the world around me, really the currency was dominance violence, and I really began to realize early on that I didn't have that currency.

And so I think a lot of us we grow up in, in environments where the currency that's appreciated and affirmed is not necessarily the currency that you find naturally in yourself. And so then you feel like you have to become something different or, right? I mean, there's two ways, right? It's like you can spend your life trying to become something different, or you can just accept the fact that you're a failure, right?

Mm-hmm. Because you're judging yourself against that standard. And so that's kinda what I did. I just, I was like, I guess I don't have that currency. I guess I'm not a real man.

And that's

something that goes far too unspoken in terms of, people saying, I'm not a real man when the truth is anything, but

Yes.

Yeah, but it's like that narrow definition kills a lot of us. Mm-hmm. And and so that definition was, for me, very difficult. And I didn't really know how to put this into words or to say any of this stuff. And there were these amazing moments during my life when extraordinary people put a handout to me and pulled me up.

And so over time there were just, enough of those that happened. Mm-hmm. That I began to be exposed to different realities.

Discovering Personality Frameworks

So, probably the one that I'll talk about now was my exposure to personality frameworks and personality assessments that came actually late in life for me.

And I remember I took my first personality assessment, this is after I married. So there's a lot of things that have happened before this, like I've gone to college, which I never thought I was gonna, I didn't. Think I was gonna go to college and

I'm, right there with you brother. I've took my first personality assessment as the Berkman a few years after I got married. So, how, I wish I knew then what I knew now

I wish that too, like if I had known some of this stuff early, it would've really been helpful. But then it being hard is also good because I had to learn it the hard way.

Um, which makes it much more precious to me. But but yeah, this is, I had already gone through college and, figured out a lot of things by this time. Gotten married, come to faith. I came to faith when I was radically saved at the age of 21, um, which is amazing story I can go into if you'd like, but that's a long one.

Yes. And and so I'm married and, have certain tensions in my marriage and I take my first. Personality assessment, and it was called Lion Otter Beaver golden retriever. Okay. Which is a modified version of the disc test, which is the four part, personality framework.

And I take the test thinking, well, men are supposed to be lions, right? Lion, otter, beaver, golden retriever. I'll take the test and I'll find out I'm, I'm supposed to be a lion and I take the test and find out that I'm an otter. Which is playful, inspirational gregarious, fun-loving people person.

Right.

That's the

Isn't it so fascinating when that happens? I took a assessment along those side was called the alpha nail test in terms of what type of nail are you right? And mine came back. You're none of them. right? And I'm like that. Wait a minute. I'm here. I'm pursuing, I'm going after what I want. How are you telling me I'm not alpha in anything?

Yeah. Yeah. See and they can do harm in that way. That's why you need a lot of different personality assessments to try to get a real picture. I've noticed that too. Different ones measure for different things, and some of 'em just are wrong.

They don't. It don't fit you. But Lion, Augh, beaver, golden retrieval was actually really instructive for me because my wife actually tested a lion, right? So a lion is type a, assertive driven, right? And she you know, she thought that's what I was in there. And there was some good reason for that because I do have some of those qualities.

If you watch me in a group, I'm very confident and people do gravitate towards me and people, I can inspire action and motivate action. But

it's, it's, very similar um, Clifton Strengths certified and how we talk about Clifton strengths in terms of those strengths, which are at the bottom of your report. It's not that you don't have them, they're just simply less dominant. You have to choose to use them.

Yes, yes. And so it, it set me free, like when I took that test it began to set me free because I began to think maybe it's not that something's wrong with me, But maybe I'm just built differently than I thought I was supposed to be built.

And maybe that's okay. So that was the beginning. And so that began a kind of a love affair with personality assessments as a mechanism for unlocking potential and reducing friction, right? Ah, we have so much friction within ourselves when we are trying to go against the grain of how we're designed and how we're

Nice. Nice.

The Power of Words: Johnny's Poetry Journey

And I love how this has parlayed into your expression through poetry and how it, walk me through how you found that as an avenue for expressing your otter.

Uh, bro, this is one of my favorite stories. Okay. So this is actually predates the personality assessment. So this is college, early college, and so I'm coming out of my neighborhood into, a different neighborhood, right? So I grew up in Denver, kind of urban neighborhood, tough neighborhood. I go to college. Because of the help of a program called Upward Bound, amazing government program that helps at risk students actually make it to college.

And so that helped me. I don't, I probably wouldn't have gone to college, if not for Upward Bound. Shout out to Chaz Maldonado, shout out to Paulette McIntosh, the directors who were just so good to me. Um, but, uh, love that. But anyway I am coming into college. Mm-hmm. Uh, Fort Collins, right?

So suburban, kind of rich area, predominantly white, very

different from.

A foreign

foreign land for

you?

Foreign land. Foreign land. And but if there's anything I know it's I know I can write, I know I can write, but I think I'm gonna be a fiction writer. I'm gonna be a sci-fi writer.

Poetry never crossed my mind because poetry was just soft, sissy stuff. Like you wouldn't mess with that, And and so I come into my creative writing class. And my teacher comes in and he's he kinda looks like a cholo, like from my neighborhood, like, you know what I mean? You know what I mean?

He came in with the black T-shirt, the rosary, the crease, Dickies, the shaved head, this Mexican brother. And I looked at him and I thought, oh gosh, that's a breath of fresh air. Like that's something I finally see somebody that reminds me of where I'm from. And so he had instant credibility with me.

And he's a poet, right? So I'm having to reconcile in my mind, wow, this dude seems real cool, really cool, but he's a poet. Can a poet be? Can a poet be cool? Maybe? And so anyway, I I began writing, doing some of the writing assignments in this creative writing class that I was in. And he pulls me aside, for for a conference or a meeting.

And he says, Johnny, the next thing you write, I want it to be real. I want you to write me something real from your heart. 'cause I'm writing fantasy stuff that's, not. From my heart or from my experience, it's just cool. I want to write cool stuff. It's like you write me something from your heart.

Next thing you write me, I want you to write me something from And so I took it seriously and I went home and I wrote this poem called Mama's Cross, which is about, I got a, my mom asked me to leave the house when I was 15, got had, had a rough relationship with my mom leading to me leaving the house at 15.

We're reconciled now. We're all good now. But at that, at that time that was the pain I was carrying in my chest, right? Mm-hmm. Was that I'd been asked to leave my house and, and and so I write this poem full of all that pain and longing and the complexity of my relationship with my mom.

I write this poem and I go to class and and Antonio Vial is the name of the teacher. Shout out to Antonio. He's a good brother.

Cool.

he, looks at me and he says, all right, Johnny, I want you to read it out loud.

Now you're going through this emotional rollercoaster at this point in terms of you've put all this on paper, you've had to relive it. It's probably a bit therapeutic, and now all of a sudden it's like, you want me to do what?

I know, right? I gotta read it in front of the class. So I rise to the challenge and I read it in front of the class and I look up and and Antonio, Antonio v Hill has tears, right? Mm-hmm. His tears. And I was like, it was like lightning struck my heart.

In that moment. I was like, words can move people.

they can. Words can move people. And I was like, if words can move people, I will spend the rest of my life moving people through words. I will be a poet for the rest of my life. And so I became a poet that moment and never stopped. I've continued to pursue the craft and uh, you know, I write all kinds of things, but poetry is very close to my heart because poetry tree is where you can be.

Honest, I, that's what I value in poetry. It's

That.

That's beautiful. Vulnerability.

And I wanna come back to the poetry and the superpower quest.

Data Joe: Merging Identity and Business

I'm gonna park those to the side for just a second because I do wanna talk about data Joe, where you're the CEO and in a lot respects what you're doing at Data Joe is helping your clients. Produce their best stories outwardly and very much in line with what you are as your core in terms of how do I

express the best version of myself, and you'll be able to take it through the concept of data to say, how do we express the best version of our client's work, if I'm paraphrasing it correctly.

Well, that's some good connection.

I mean, that's probably saying it better and more well thought out than I have thought it out, but I would say we do tend to do awards. And so really if you look at my company if you look at the pyramid of my company, I'm gonna start probably at a different place than the

Okay.

we produce.

Yeah, because our company is actually very identity driven and very mission driven. We do have a sense of mission and a sense of purpose, which is part of what makes the company great. So at the top of our pyramid is a concept called partnership. So partnership is our culture word. It's the most important word to how we do business.

We make all of our decisions based on what we would define as good partnership, and that's how we talk. We use that language internally, right? Mm-hmm. Is this good partnership? Is it not? Should we do it? Um, underneath that are our core principles that are basically how we execute partnership. And those core principles are passion, dependability, creativity, and humility, passion, love it, dependability, creativity, humility.

That's what we would define as good partnership. So that's, love it. That's what we try to be. You come down the pyramid. The next level is, our mission. Mm-hmm. So our mission is we are an entrepreneurial data partnership, an entrepreneurial data partner. So double circle partner. Partner is more what we are more than anything.

Right? We're entrepreneurial in that we are not, we're not a vendor that's just like, pay us our money and you get your list, pay us our money, you get your list. Here's our roster of products. Get your, select your product, check it off on the sushi menu and we give it to you. We're a, we're a partner, right?

But we're also entrepreneurial. We're always trying to come up with new ways to help our clients generate revenue so that innovation, creativity, entrepreneurialism, is endemic to who we are. And then data, it's usually around data um, data and research. And so that's the mission is to elevate, right?

It's to, is to help, to be a good partner to our publishers, helping them be successful in their data initiatives and research initiatives.

And when you think about all of that to play into what we're talking about, which is how you found your ability to tell authentic stories, right? How does that play into how the company operates? Because the data is the data. But without it coming across as a quote unquote usable story to your clients, the publishers, whatnot, it can be useless at the end of the day.

This is so good, man. So I would say the place where my gifting most thrives within the organization is actually in the culture of the organization, right?

Mm-hmm. So o often there's a couple places, but that's probably the foremost, right? I want to bring out my team's superpowers. I want to bring out my team's authentic selves. I want everybody to be happy and joyful to come to work every day because they're doing work that is meaningful to them and work that aligns with their design.

Right. Right. There's something we've done. Right. That's something we've done. Right. If we do nothing else, right, we do that. Right. Okay. Right, right. So that's part of it. Then it extends out to how I'm the face of the company. So I'm the one dealing with the publishers. Right? Right. So I'm always getting the authentic story because I'm spending time with publishers saying, Hey, who are you?

Right. What's your culture? What are you trying to accomplish? Mm-hmm. And then how can we get you there through the data products we provide or through anything else we can do to get you there. And so that this isn't even getting to the product yet, which is where you started, But it's all, I'm a relationship guy, so my influence is always gonna spread relationally

Outta curiosity because we're gonna segue soon to the superpower quest. How often do you find talking to these publishers? They don't know their true identity. They don't know

their true superpowers.

So that's a good question.

It's more of a spectrum than an on off switch. Right? It's not like I know, or I don't know. There are very few people that don't know anything about their identity. Right. But I would say most people on the spectrum. Don't know. And as much as they could know,

Mm-hmm.

right. So, right. So I do run into, I think almost everybody I meet has some understanding of who they are and how they

operate. Mm-hmm. But I'm very good at listening for the telltale signs that a person is living in tension with their design. Mm-hmm. Right. And it's things they say I once, if I hear you say. Oh man, I wish I was better at organization. I really suck at organization. I gotta work on that.

I gotta get better at that. See, that's a clue, right? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. Maybe you need, like I don't work on I work on organization a little bit, but mostly I hire and partner with people who are organized.

right. I agree. Play to your strengths. It's a big reason why I got my certification in Clifton Strengths and one of the biggest things that I learned from that. Is your less dominant traits do not have to be your vice. You can compliment them with what you are naturally strong at doing and using the Eisenhower philosophies in order to figure out what are you delegating?

What are you deferring in life?

Yeah, that's it. That's it. So I do be able deal with people a lot and I get to encourage them upward, right?

Like, and so that's, it is funny 'cause I'm in this data research industry, but I'm constantly getting to encourage people upward because that's who I am. Right, right. Like regardless of the conversation we're talking about data, it doesn't matter. I'm always gonna go first for who's the person, understand the person, love the person, and then we can get to business once I know you and once you know me.

Yes. Um, that's just my philosophy with it. I hope that answers your question.

It it does.

The Superpower Quest Framework

And it plays so beautifully into the superpower quest. And, I'll let you speak to it, but just to give a little tease to the listening audience. We've got core drives, we got hero types, we got power words. We got. Power punches. I mean there's some energy in this framework.

and I'd love for you to help walk the audience through the genesis of it and how it helps with an understanding of true identity.

Ah, so good man. So good. There's so much to say here. It's, this is the outflow of my love affair with personality assessments.

Mm-hmm. Right? And and specifically the ones I would name a lot of 'em, but the ones that I would name would be six types of actually six types of working genius came out. As I was writing, so I had already kind of come up with this concept win the Six Types of Working Genius of by Pat Lencioni came out.

That's right. Great author, I mean, five Dysfunctions of the Team is one of my go-to Staples in

it in terms And I love and use the six types of working Genius a lot. There is some, I would say if you hold my framework against this framework, there's certainly like probably 65% overlap on that part.

He's got six types and I've got six hero types. Right. But again, that's just, that just incidentally happened. But before that, there was a framework called Ikigai, which is a great four part framework for finding your passion. It's really good, man. I did an interview with the guy who wrote the book on that, Tim Ro,

Awesome.

it's incredible and that was a great influence for me.

Obviously the lion, Auer, beaver, golden Retriever, Enneagram.

Exploring the Enneagram

Enneagram was an influence on me. Enneagram, I love. It's just so thick to try to dig to the bottom of it. There's so much unique language to the Enneagram. Ecosystem. Yeah. But I feel like it yields unparalleled self understanding

if you

It's, and it's interesting hearing all of these different influences, particularly, which has at a core of it's for what you can get paid for. 'cause a lot of this

work

does a lot of sense of how you can feel good about yourself, but doesn't tie to what you can get paid

for.

Yes.

Understanding Ikigai

Ikigai is what you love.

What you can be rewarded for is how they put it, what they say paid for sometimes, but what you love, what you can be rewarded for, what you're good at and what the world needs. Right? And the intersection between those four things is your Ikigai. And if you find that. You just go out and you just work it.

You just work it every day. Let's Tim Tam Shero said, you know, which way to point your feet when you get outta bed in the morning Right. When you know you're Iki guy. And so I wanted to create something like looking at what was out there. I wasn't necessarily diagnosing a lack Of what was out there.

But I. I wanted to take my swing at it, and I wanted to, put my identity into it.

Incorporating Superheroes

And my identity is big. Superheroes and comic books were a huge thing for me, a way, to bond with my dad when I was a kid.

nice. Outta curiosity. Marvel or DC

Marvel. All the way.

All day.

All, all day. There you go.

Yeah. Are you're Marvel or DC guy?

I just ask. I'll put it that way. I know enough to know you're in one tribe or another,

So

I'm Marvel tribe. I can appreciate dc, but I'm marvel all day. And and so I really wanted to inc to make something fun accessible.

Something that you could use on the fly, which is actually what I love the most about the six types of working genius is that mm-hmm. It's very practical. To use on the fly. Mine is also that way. Very practical use on the fly. But I also wanted to incorporate, there's a book called Dan. It's by Dan Sullivan, and I have it right here.

Dan Sullivan, Catherine Nomura, and Julia Waller called Unique Ability. Um, which is really another one, kind of like Iki guy. It's a reflective process of understanding.

I, I love Dan

particularly the series that he's done with Ben Hardy. So that's a great, that's a great add,

These were all influences.

And so I was like, I wanna do it, but I want superheroes to be in it. You know what? I want to use the superhero trope. I wanna use the hero's journey. Joseph Campbell's, hero of a Thousand Faces, which also captured me. And and so I did, and so I put together, it just started to form in me over the last probably five or six years, it started to form in me that there were these patterns that mm-hmm.

I, that I seemed to see and that I hadn't seen anything, line up exactly with what was lining up in my heart. And so I thought, lemme just go for it.

Refining the Model with Family

And I tested it out with my kids. My kids and my family actually helped me refine the model. Oh, nice. It was crazy, dude. Like mm-hmm. It used to be five.

It was only five. And connector. There was no nurturer. There was only connector. And the connector is more like the gregarious otter, outgoing, the is more the loyal supportive caretaker, right? Mm-hmm. Which is different, but I just have lumped that all into connector. And so I had my daughter, my 13-year-old daughter, take the test and she was like, you know what?

I'm not any of these. She was like, there's another one. You're missing one. There's one that's not here. And I was like, no way. I've thought this through. There's no way. My kid, like, there's no way. And I began to think about it. I began to talk to her about it. I began to push on it. And it was like absolutely true.

Like I

Once again, proving the fact, do not argue with the logic of teenagers.

Nah. put it that way.

Yeah, you gotta learn. Yeah. But there were so many moments like that where my kids contributed and my kids. Felt like they were a part of it. You know what, I, my wife was a part of it. And so it began to turn into something that was not just me, but that was an extension of both me and my family, was precious, precious.

Which I think resonates a lot with the purpose of your podcast, right? Like,

absolutely. absolutely, Right. I

Frameworks for Personal Growth

mean, you know, one, one of one of the frameworks that I was blessed enough to learn is what do you want for the results? What is the transformation you are willing to undergo? And once you have undergone that transformation, what will your new identity be? And ultimately, that's what it's about at the end of the day in terms of what we talk about at Corvus, is what is the identity that you want for yourself and how are you going to take action to get there?

Yeah. So in we, we use identity a little differently, I think you and I.

So that framework is a little differently. So I would use identity as. Who you are inherently. And it's actually the thing that only, well, okay, so this is getting a little, so there's a, I would, I would say that you have a, you have an innate design. I think you would agree with that. Yes. But then there also is work to be done to achieve your goals or to understand your desires.

Right. And I think you're talking more in that realm, right? The realm that can be changed. I don't actually think you can change the design that you came into the world with. Um. Mm-hmm. I think you have, there's an innate youness

mm-hmm.

mm-hmm. Was whispered into your soul by God. So I, I believe that to be true.

Hmm.

There is a, there is, there are some of those elements that are subject to control and should be controlled. Right. Just 'cause I have a tendency towards greed doesn't mean I should give myself over to greed. That's, that would be a bad strategy. Right. But but I would say there is an innate, what I would call the image of God inside of us.

That is a unique and special image and expression of that image that we are intended to grow into, not grow away from.

A lot of people I've heard many different positions on it. For me, I synthesize it down to do you believe in choice or do you believe in fate, or do you, are you somewhere on the paradigm between the two, which is beautiful in terms of how much the universe is always working For

For us, yeah. At day, yes. But you know, it's

The use of language and thought and superheroes and framework in order to.

The output of your self discovery and how you've been able to do that through this framework, not just for yourself and your family, but for the community as a whole, which is the pathway to legacy that we talk about here at Corvus in terms of it starts with yourself, then it goes to your tribe, your closest supporters, and ultimately to the community as a large.

That's huge, man. And that's a huge part of the book. Also, probably one of the distinctives of the book is that there, there are probably two things that make the book different than most of the things that you would pick up in the category. And then there's just plenty. There's plenty that's the same.

You know what I mean? So probably, so the first section is discover your superpower. Um, and seriously, like that's, you could use that, you could use the six types of working genius. You could use Enneagram, like I, right. I'm totally happy, whatever you use. But discover your superpower is the first part, and that's, that work is being done many places.

Steward Your Kryptonite

The second part is steward your kryptonite. Steward your kryptonite. Now that work. It is being done some places, but not as much. Right? Yeah. So six type of working genius does talk about your working geniuses and your frustrations. Your frustrations would be synonymous with what I say, what I call kryptonite, right?

So the next is stewarding your kryptonite. And there is, and it is a sense in which you stop looking at your kryptonite as your adversary or your weakness as your adversary, and begin to have a curious and gentle understanding of your weakness. Yes. In order to understand how to leverage that weakness, right?

And to steward it. I like steward, right? Like you're stewarding your weakness as opposed to fighting your weakness, which is what most people do, because most people can't distinguish between weakness and let's say sin or malevolence, right? But they're different. They're very different things.

Join Forces with Others

Um, the third section is join forces. That's another one that's distinctive because it's okay, understand your design. Understand your weaknesses so that you can understand other people's strengths and other people's weaknesses so that you can begin to join forces with people instead of always trying to be all things yourself.

Yeah. That, that's so spot on. So, you say that you are, you found yourself to be very gregarious. I've learned a along my journey that I am very sociable, but I'm not gregarious in nature. I need to be with people who are gregarious in the right circumstances in terms of partnering to achieve a goal.

Awesome, man. Yes. And that like then you can give yourself a break. Mm-hmm. Instead of constantly feeling like you have to do this thing, like I, my, me and my brother-in-law like to kind of assign, a point value of difficulty for a thing. So if a thing is like a nine, if it's, there's certain things that are a nine for me.

That are like a one for other people. Right, right. Like creating an org, a system of organization and a plan.

Mm-hmm.

It's like a eight. I don't like doing it. You know, my wife, that's like a two. She is all day every day. You know what I mean? And so like you're, you found something that's like a nine for you and it's let me go partner with people that's a one for them.

They love doing it, you know? Yes. In terms of energy output, and so then the fourth section is utility belt.

Build Your Utility Belt

Build your utility belt. That's your systems, your life systems that you're using, the wisdom, the maxims, the principles, the structures, the systems that you're using to help supplement the kryptonite, right?

Yep. And when we talk about building those systems, one of the things we talk about here in the corporate effect is you gotta do the reps. You have to do the reps, because you're not gonna have working systems out the gate.

Right, right. And you need those systems, right?

Like you to steward your weakness. Well, you've gotta have good, you have steward through kryptonite. You've gotta have good systems and good people around right? Mm-hmm. And if you have both those things, you're, you could fly man. You could fly, Yes. And reduce friction.

Face Your Super Villain

And the last section is face your super villain.

Face your super villain. Now, now that's where we're dealing with malevolent. Right now we're dealing with what's the brokenness inside you that causes you to destroy yourself and others? And, and most hardly any of them go there, right?

Like,

No. No. And that's why, unfortunately for a lot of men in this country, right when they wake up in the when they wake up during the course of the day and they go to the restroom, take a look at themselves in the mirror, they see an enemy, not an ally, because they see that villain in the mirror.

Yes. Yes. And that villain is not who you are. Mm-hmm. But you can get tricked into thinking your villain is who you are, right? That's correct. And that's disastrous for yourself and for everybody around you.

Amen man. Amen.

Final Thoughts and Takeaways

So, Johnny, as we wind down this episode, I always do a tip of the cap to Randy p's the last lecture and the book that he gave just before he passed at Carnegie Mellon. And he talked about head fakes throughout the book. And the final head fake was that this book was written for my kids.

Your kids are listening to this podcast and hearing everything that you've dropped in terms of wisdom, what is the key things that you want them to take away?

It's the thing I tell them every day. It's the thing, you know what I mean? This is it influences the way I speak to them. It influences the way I pray for them. It influences the way that I pray with them, which is understanding your unique identity.

Mm-hmm. The thing that only God can speak to you. Like only God can tell a person their true identity because God is the one who created you. And so I, I do a lot of work and I think my kids will resonate as they're watching this, they will resonate that what I've said is very consistent with what I've told, what I tell them all the time.

I could tell you, I could list off for each of for each of my

kids. Mm-hmm.

What we've noticed. In terms of their unique identity and their unique calling and that we have, are continually shepherding them into, you know, most recently, my, my son has learned that he said this to me and it was just, it was so profound.

He said, dad, when I'm on the basketball court, that's where I feel God the most. That's what he said. Hmm. When he's on the basketball court, that's where he feels God the most. Now, am I supposed to say, oh, no, no, no, son, you should feel God more in church than on the basketball. Like that's what we do. But God communicates to my son through basketball and I've watched it happen time and time and time again. You know, like that's how unique each of us are,

Oh yeah. No, I, I, and and, and I agree. There are just some environments where it just all feels right when it comes together,

yes. And it's your father, right? That's what and if there's any message I have beneath the message, it's that you have a father who loves you.

And you, you may think often, and this is for people of faith or people of all different kinds of faith or people of no faith. There is, there's still, we all struggle with this sense that the universe or God or someone is disappointed with us or we're just not, you know,

Yeah whatev, whatever your point of view, you always have to have that fundamental belief that the universe is working in your favor. You may not understand it at the time, but you have to believe that the universe is working in your favor. I.

And I think go further, right? Like, I want people to know they're loved as they are. Like, when I hold my son, when I hold him close and my arms and I sniff his hair, and I just, and I tell 'em I love him.

There's nothing you're just like and in my heart, it's just there's nothing I wouldn't do for you. What if that is the way that the universe right

feels about me. It would change the way that I live because I could live from a place of wholeness knowing that I am loved for who I am, which is I think what every person really wants.

If you peel them back to what the thing they want more than anything else. I think we want to be loved unconditionally and we are. That's the message, right? You were designed and crafted, fearfully and wonderfully made

absolutely absolutely agree. It's why connection is one of the four pillars in the Corvus and Empower framework, but connection starts with itself. And that you have to have that strong connection with self before you can absorb that love from external sources. Johnny, as we are finishing up here, please tell the listening audience how they can learn more about you, where they can find out more about these superpower quest Give.

Alright, so the best place to find me and to engage with me is to go to the superpower the superpower community. So if you go to superpower quest.com. That will forward you to the superpower Quest Substack community, um, and signing up for the, for that I'm publishing content there on a weekly basis.

Mm-hmm. Um, but I would also say on there, there's a couple things from that, that that's my home base basically is that substack. But there, if you go to johnny levy.com, my full name, J-O-H-N-N-Y-L-E-V y.com, that will take you to my speaker profile, which is on that site. So my speaker profile, learn more about me.

And then finally the superpower Quest five minute starter assessment mm-hmm. Is the best way to get on my personal radar. Because if you take that assessment, it's five minutes, you learn the first couple things about your superpower taking it it's superpower quest.com/survey. I read every single one of those.

And often I am able to, give feedback or even make connections for people based on those. So,

Awesome.

are the three main. Ways

Awesome. And we will make sure those links go out in the episode links and show notes so that everybody can access this. Johnny, it's been a pleasure. Any final thoughts before we close this episode out?

Man, I just wanna encourage you, man, I love the work that you're doing, Scott, like I love the work that you're doing. I love how you're bringing this story and this particular perspective to people, and even you said prior to us starting. You want people to understand that they don't have to sacrifice family and connection to be successful.

That deeply resonates with me, man. Like it a, it's true. I don't think people know that it's true that you can have it all in that sense. And in fact, you were designed to have it all in that sense, right? Mm-hmm. Whatever success you're gonna have doesn't need to be at the expense of your connection to your community and your family.

And we believe that lie we bought that kind of whatever. Protestant work ethic lie. I don't know where it came from, but we bought it.

Right?

the work you're doing is important, man. So I just wanna encourage you on that.

I will continue to do it. And the more that I can have wonderful guests like you on this podcast and all the other avenues that Corvus comes to life, the stronger that message is gonna get out there. We, we're trying to create some impact here. You certainly did that in this episode.

So Johnny, thank you so much for being on the podcast. I appreciate it. To my listening audience, thank you so much as always, for spending your time. Please feel free to subscribe and share with those in your circle who you feel would get value out of this. Appreciate all y'all and we'll see you on the next episode of the Corvus Effect.

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