Tesla

Production Control Supervisor

Lead-N-Life

Lead-N-Life was a "call to action" that I couldn't ignore. 

My business aspires to mentor and strategically challenge leaders to become influential in their business and life. The perspective that I teach my clients is the difference between standard and exceptional leadership. 

A leader can utilize my Leadership Development Program to identify his/her current path while utilizing strategic assignments throughout the program to develop new skills and awarenesses while enhancing your current skills and talents. For experienced leaders they may use this program a bit different, an experienced leader should use this program to “rattle the cages” and continue to challenge their growth. 

This program WILL help you identify your Leadership style, uncover "unconscious incompetence", develop areas of concern, CHALLENGE your status quo, provide support and re-alignment.

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Small Group Leader

Leader | ✔️Goal Getter | 📦 Thinking outside the Box to achieve MORE | Passionate about helping other's realize their potential!

Hi, I'm John

I help leaders of ALL walks of life in multiple industries strategically plan their development for future growth, both professionally and personally through my SOARING program. A strategic program meant to challenge your perspective, provide instrumental reflection and challenge you to step outside your comfort zone. Once complete with this program - you will have completed the necessary work to align your upcoming season's. (Every 90-days)

I share insights about leadership development, challenging perspectives about life and the role your leadership ability play in it, all while keeping an optimistic attitude about the journey. I have developed a 4- and 8-Week Leadership Development Program for both new and experienced leaders. 

I share with my network "Reflections at the Park" on Friday's. You can see it here and on my YouTube channel. Reflections at the Park is dedicated to being a personalized look at my thought process that covers many facets of life, both professionally and personally. 

I have a B.A. degree in Transportation & Logistics Management where I have over 17 years of experience.
Multiple Awards for my Leadership Ability 
Certifications in Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, Project Management.

Let's grow together, would love to talk with you about anything that you may be struggling with.  

#coaching #teamleader #operations #operationsmanagement #family #lifecoaching #strategycoaching #purpose #passion #military #yoga #running #strategicthinker #entrepreneur #businessowner #reletnless #resilience #committed #driven #consultant #leadershipdevelopment #leadershipcoach #coach

Why do you do what you do? 

👇


If you forgot, remember it today! 


Celebrated my sons 23 year old birthday yesterday! 

Seeing him grow into a father, a husband, a man of God is something I don’t want to continue to miss as I did in the past. 

I no longer want to waste my time doing the things I don’t want to be doing. 

#yourjourney #fatherhood #timeisfleeing

John Martinez

Founder of Lead-N-Life 🕴 Lead-N-Life Podcast 🎤 Self-Published Author (x5) 📚 ACTION>REFLECTION>ACTION

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Passion or Purpose?

What does success mean to you? 


👉 I ponder this question every 90-days. 

👉 90-days ago, I would have answered that success would have been for me to get a promotion at work. 

💯 As of April 1st - I answer, success is me spending the most time possible with my family, while achieving my purpose in life. 

Nobody has it all figured out. 

📢 Let me say that again, NOBODY has it all figured out - we are just meant to live the best life, based on your definition of success. 

Have you defined the meaning of success in your life? 

If you want help - check out my book on Amazon: The SOARING Leader - Strategies for Development and Growth in 8-Weeks!
(Link in the comments)

It will help you answer these questions: 

1. What is my strength?
2. What does success look like for me? 
3. If I died, how would people remember me? 
4. Do I take opportunities or am I operating on Fear? 
5. What ruins my day's? 
6. What do I need to do Next? 
+ more...

I am also conducting a Case Study and looking for a total of 10 volunteers to be a part of 2-month case study that involves personal and professional growth. This may be for you if you feel: 

1. You don't know what to do next in your life. 
2. You are having issues at work and need some guidance. 
3. You are not entirely happy with life at home. 
4. You feel you have been stagnant and need something to change. 
5. You want to be better, do better!

Simply DM " Ready" and I will provide you further details on the case study. 
#leadershipcasestudy #casestudy #personalgrowth

Here is a LIFE hack for growth! 👇 



Talk to people and listen to their stories: 

Learn what others:
👉 Did
👉 Are doing.
👉 and plan to do. 

What does this do for you? 

Challenges your perspective. 
Learn from other's mistakes. 
Gain motivation for your journey.
Gain support (friendships) 
Open doors you didn't know to knock on. 
Provide you with gratitude for your journey. 

Here is how you can accomplish this, ready for the secret plan? 

Schedule a:
👉 Phone call.
👉 Videoconference 
👉 or meet-up.
with someone you'd be interested in talking to. 

That is, it. 

No BIG secret. 

💯 The only thing stopping you is YOU!

Here are some interesting people I have spoken to before that can carry a great conversation: 

Everett Asher
Robert Garcia
Belinda Robinson, MBA
Brian Enright
Deon Myers

People I would love to talk to soon about their journey and how it is going...

Hala Taha
Salma Harfouche 🐮
Alina Iatiuc

#networking #buildyourcommunity #development 

How can networking help with professional growth?

Tell me more about Belinda Robinson's MBA journey?

How can personal development lead to professional growth?

Is your family, ready for you to be laid off? 

Tesla laid off +10% of its global workforce yesterday, 

Forbes reported, A total of 84,638 people were laid off from U.S.-based employers in February 2024. 

The layoffs are expected to continue in 2024. 

👉 As a leader at home, commit to this: 

1. Speak to your significant other and children about the possibility of layoffs at your company. 

2. Establish and stick with a bare minimum monthly budget. (Build this budget to pay house, utilities, food, transportation) save as much as possible - cancel non-essential charges. 

3. Commit to starting a side hustle - doesn't have to be BIG, something that can simply bring in a bit of money every month. There are plenty of possibilities. 

4. Update your resume.

5. Ensure you make a plan about your next steps if it comes to you being laid off. 

Have you been asked at work as a leader to speak with your teams and share that we will be okay and we will weather through the storm, the last thing the company wants is to lay anyone off? 

Why are you not speaking to your home team about it?

If you are the sole bread winner in the family - this may be causing you enormous stress and worry - take the time to prepare your family and yourself. 

Have a plan that can be implemented if the worst happens - make it fun with your family to reduce the stress - call it Operation Daddy/Mommy Home. 

#layoffs #leadingathome #bealeaderathome

What are some best practices for dealing with layoffs?

What other news has come out about Tesla recently?

I lied to get the job. 

I was good, until...



I was working at Jume’s Restaurant at 14 years old. (Under the table… 🤫) 

I never thought that I would learn one of my first leadership development skills at that age. 

The owner asked me, John, do you know how to use a commercial dishwasher? 

I wanted to keep my job, so I lied and said, yes. 😨 

As he saw me fumbling the entire process, he stopped me. 

🔥 John, it is okay if you don’t know, there is nothing to be embarrassed about – just be honest with me and willing to learn. 

I replied: I don’t know, can you please show me. 

This lesson has carried me through intriguing about things I wanted to learn about. 

Asking questions when others were afraid of being embarrassed.

🗣 These leadership development skills that we learn along our journey are instrumental in: 

1. Guiding your current actions.
2. Providing your current perspective.
3. Challenging your growth.

Making you the person you are now!

I'm curious 🤔 Do you remember one of the first leadership lesson you learned? 

Drop it in the comments below – how did you learn this lesson? 

This is my favorite season!

It's not Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall. 👇 



I don't just help instruct everyday leaders on how to strategically identify their season in life - I follow my own program. 

Why? 

Because it works for me - and I am entering my favorite season. 

👉 Opportunity season! 

What is an Opportunity Season? 

It is a 90-Day Period in which I have identified through a strategic framework, I identified that I would like to expand my self-awareness, reframe my mindset this season, utilize strategic intent, challenge fear and take massive action by creating or taking opportunities outside my comfort zone. 

Why is this my favorite season? 🤔 

It holds endless possibilities. This next 90-day season will call for me to be courageous, resilient, creative and let's face it - to have some fun. 

Here is how you can identify what season you are going into in your life: 

👉 Ask yourself: 

What am I ambitious about? 

Where do I see my life in 5-years (Vision)? 

Write down only one BIG, 3 ,2 and 1 year goal aligned with your vision. 

Now write down what you have to do in the next 90-days to get you closer to that 1-year goal. 

Repeat every 90-days. 

The strategy is literally that simple. 

Will you sit down for an hour today and answer the above questions? 

Work life is great, I am making progress!

Home life is always frustrating, why?  


👉 Work John: I want to complete this project on time and within budget so I can mark it as a professional accomplishment!

👉 Home John: Everything is so frustrating to me, why can't everything just be right at home? 

Sound familiar? 

Your workplace "leadership development program" will not, essentially, make you a better leader at home. 

It takes: 

🖊 Reflection
🖊 Intention
🖊 Gratitude

To determine what a happy life will be for you. 

I have learned that I must put as much effort into being a leader at home as I was at the workplace. 

Remember, your company's leadership development program is making you a leader "manager" for their interests according to their business intentions and operation. They are training you to run their business - not run your life. 

That is up to you! 

Question: 

Are you happy with your work & home life right now? 

What is missing from your life to make you happy? 

Drop an "IDK" in the comments and I will send you a short thought-provoking exercise to help you identify this. 

#leadership #leadershipdevelopment #happylife

Why is reflection important for determining a happy life?

Here are two definitions for leadership development, which do you agree with? 

"Leadership development is a set of activities designed to improve the skills, abilities and confidence of high-performing employees and prepare them for leadership roles within an organisation. It usually includes a series of programmes on collective leadership in the organisation that can help current and future leaders perform their roles effectively. Organisations can select employees with leadership potential for these programmes, where they can develop skills such as decision making, team building and management, project management, network building, strategy development, coaching and mentoring, communication and motivational and inspirational skills."

"Leadership development is the process of enhancing the leadership abilities of any member of an organization. Honing, developing, and effectively applying good leadership is a key part of any leaders’ job and success. Leadership development is the process of developing and refining those key proficiencies."

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What are the key proficiencies in leadership development?

What is the importance of network building in leadership development?

What does "leadership development" mean to you? 

I was FEELING unhappy...

Because I wasn't doing this one thing...

Practicing GRATITUDE...

It is easy to lose yourself in your own thoughts and worries.

It is easy to over-commit yourself to your work and tasks.

It is easy to get lost in the hustle of being career driven and a parent.

I had to take a step back and remember my strategy...

👉 I am a S.O.A.R.I.N.G. Leader. 

I know my Strength.

I identify Opportunities to explore. 

I adjust my Attitude when needed. 

I use a Resilient mindset.

I lead with Intention.

I accomplish the Necessities for balance in my life.

I practice daily Gratitude.

I was forgetting the last part, and it was so easy to do so with all the tasks in front of me. 

If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed and frankly burnt-out...

Remember the small things today that you are thankful for. 

My top 5 for today are in the comments. 👇 

How can practicing gratitude help with stress and burnout?

What are the key characteristics of a S.O.A.R.I.N.G. leader?

What do you NEED in your LIFE? 
👇 



Make it a point to reflect and plan a bit. 

Ask yourself - what do I need for daily balance while pursuing my goals? 

#balance #thesoaringleader #preventburnout

That hasn’t been done before?!🤔



Going to the Selena Museum in Corpus Christi and seeing ALL that she was able to accomplish and how she influenced an industry and touched her fans lives, reminded me of this: 


❤️ Work hard to pave your own path, follow your dreams and what you are passionate about! 

🙌 Just because others think it won’t work or it’s impossible is a limit on their vision, not yours! 

🥰 Appreciate the people that support you, wholeheartedly. 

#followyourpassion #visionandaction #appreciation

Leaders who have been working with my uncle for 25-30 years. 

Are miserable 👇 



I begin every season with a hypothesis statement. 

I use my imagination and think about what the next season (90-days) of my life may look like.

This assists me in: 

1. Visualizing my energy spent.

2. Identifying potential roadblocks. 

3. Aligns my season with my 90-day milestone. 

4. Practice strategic intent and planning. 

5. Forces me to think about how I want to be spending my time. 

📢 I was speaking to my uncle yesterday on the phone and we happened to start talking about some people he works with. 

He stated something that really stood out to me. 

Some of the leaders at his job, now Supervisors and Managers, have been with that company for over 25-30 years. 

Yet, my uncle says, they are constantly irritable, frustrated, irrational, not open to new ideas and frankly, can be a pain in the ass to work with. 

I asked my uncle - do you think they still enjoy what they do? 

He stated, I am confident they don't, but they have invested too much time already to do anything else, plus they are already in their late 50s to early 60s. 

👉 They are ready to retire. 

Please, don't spend the next:

👇 30 years
👇 20 years
👇 10 years
👇 5 years
👇 90 days

Just going through life without putting some effort into identifying what a successful life is to you. 

Take the time NOW!

It begins simply with a hypothesis statement. 

This is the format I use, feel free to steal it and add to it as it fits you: 

Write 1-2 paragraphs of how you want the next 90-days of your life to go. Think of emotions you want to feel, things you would like to try, people you would like to speak with, events you will be attending. The purpose of this statement is to illustrate and visualize in your own words what you foresee happening, simply by doing this can unlock aspirations, ideas, obstacles and a deeper sense of self-awareness. 

Your company will not do it for you! 




You are solely responsible for your development. 

🤔 Let's see if this sounds familiar: 

Company hires you.
You get an introduction with the team.
You learn about your roles and responsibilities. 
Possibly talk to a couple stakeholders.
You attend a training class (Maybe) 
Then you get put on the floor to lead your department. 

⁉ Sound about right, leaders? 

Here is the truth: 

👉 You company is not going to develop you as a leader. 

👉 They are going to develop you just enough to run their business. 

It is up to you to work on the things that your company is failing you at. 

What about soft skills? 👇 

Decisiveness
Creativity
Integrity
Relationship Building
Problem Solving
Empathy
Compassion
+ more...

It is up to you to take steps to continue your development. 

If this sounds appealing - I have 5 spots remaining for my "FREE" Leadership Development Case Study. If you would like further information, please DM me. 

#leadershipdevelopment #softskills #leadership 

What are some best practices for leadership development?

What is the free leadership development case study about?

I am not a Leader, he said! 

(SHOCKED ME) 🤯 



I was helping my sister move yesterday. 

I saw the owner of the moving company demonstrate great emotional intelligence with his assistant. 

He was guiding him through a pain staking process of getting an over-sized couch inside the apartment. (If you ever had this experience, you know it can be frustrating) 

During this process, the owner: 

Was extremely patient with his assistant. 
Intentional about how he was training his assistant. 
Extremely humble and allowed his assistant to take charge when needed.

He says to me later as we speak by his moving truck: "I am not a leader; I just share my experience and lessons I have learned to help him (assistant) grow". 

I reassured him that he is doing exactly what a leader is meant to!


P.S. Get out of the narrative that a leader is a position/title or only applicable to high profile jobs. That is BS.

(Snippet from my book) Work on answering this question of yourself? 👇 

4 people have reached out to me over the past couple of days. 

They are struggling with some issues. 

Some career and some personal. 

While I am dedicating time to helping them conquer these challenges, it made me wonder what type of issue dominates most people. 

What issue type do you face more of daily? 

Have you ever held the flashlight for your DAD?




He needed you to hold the flashlight because he couldn't SEE what he was trying to fix. 

Did you get yelled at for not holding it straight? 

Did he thank you for holding it? 

Let me ask another question: 

👉 Who is holding your light right now? 

👉 Are you holding a flashlight for others? 

Yes, it's a metaphor for: 

Who is helping you through the daily darkness of your life?

Who are you helping through their darkness? 

#ironsharpensiron #leadershipdevelopment #

What are some tips for leadership development?

Can you find Waldo? 



Sike… He is not in my garage! 

But, what is here is an Opportunity! 

An OPPORTUNITY to break from the traditional path and EXPLORE my AMBITIONS. 

An OPPORTUNITY to push past my comfort zone! 

An OPPORTUNITY to take risks! 

An OPPORTUNITY to F***ING SOAR!

🍻 to the next chapter of POSSIBILITIES! 

#vision #makeopportunities #takerisks

What are some examples of opportunities to explore my ambitions?

How can taking risks help me grow professionally?

What are some benefits of taking risks in my career?

I have NOTHING to say today... 🤷‍♂️ 


And that is OKAY!!!

I am just observing YOUR posts today and maybe tomorrow!!!! 🤣 

He inspired me!!!

Hearing from my group class today how moving the story of how Rocky impacted my life was a bit tough. 

I got off the call and looked at old pictures and videos of him! 

Miss him everyday - but he is my constant reminder that I am destined for something grand! 

Always in my heart BUBUS! 

Until we see each other at the Rainbow Bridge 🌈 know that I carry you in my heart! 

#personaldevelopment #myinspiration

What role does personal development play in the author's reflection?

What significance does Rocky hold in the author's life?

How does inspiration impact the author's perspective?

Here is a short list of the TOP GREAT LEADERS of the world: 👇 


Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Here is a short list of the TOP GREAT LEADERS of MY world: 👇


Filiberto Gomez- (Abuelo) (1995 - 2012) 
SSG Pursley (2006-2010)
Filiberto Gomez Jr. (Tio) (2021 - Current) 

Who inspires your World? 

#leadership #leadersbuildleaders #leadershipdevelopment

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