MORTAR Alum // Jeff Menzise

So I'm Dr. Jeff Misy, Doctor of Clinical

Psychology. I'm an author, consultant,

professional development provider,

educator. My company is Mind on the

Matter, and I am the founder and lead

consultant. I've been in business at

least 20 years. I offer workshops. I

deal with a lot of cognitive development

with young people. I do a lot of

coaching with uh couples. do a lot of

executive coaching, you know, with CEOs

and lead partners and law firms to

Hollywood celebrities. So, I run the

gamut, but the underlying theme for all

that I do is to enhance human beings.

I've always had hustle blood, you know

what I mean? So, I mean, growing up, you

know, Jay-Z got this famous line, he

said, "Nothing wrong with the aim, just

got to change the target, right?" So, as

I began to learn more and get more

opportunities, I just shifted the

hustle, you know, and I started hustling

more towards people well-being. you

know, you know, people hustle shoes,

people hustle candy, you know, whatever

it is you hustle. So, I started

realizing that, you know, there's this

other hustle that I can actually engage

in that can help to improve my

community, help to improve people, heck,

help to improve myself.

Convenience is the way that that stuff

slips right in on us. AI is coming full

force, you know, for every profession

that that's out there. And right now,

there's been a lot of talk about AI

generated therapy. artificial

intelligence on the other end of your

phone giving you advice and giving you

guidance. These computers are super

smart. They can just grab information

from all over the place to formulate

what is a solid response in many

respects. But that human factor is to me

is going to be absolutely necessary

throughout the whole process because you

know the computer is it can't be

empathic. It can't pick up on the

subtleties. It can only deal with what

is actually presented. And you know

having worked in this field as long as I

have I know that people don't always

present what it is. You know sometimes

they'll present one thing and through

experience you know that that actually

is connected to other things and as a

human being with experience you know you

kind of help to dig down AI not so much.

So therapist is somebody that's licensed

to administer therapeutic processes. Now

when you're talking about coaching you

don't have a code of ethics in the

coaching world. You don't have to be

licensed to be a coach. You don't even

have to have any type of education to be

a coach. Right? And so a lot of people

who are coaching, you know, they might

be good at it. They might be good at

giving advice to people, but they also

might be limited in understanding what

boundaries are and what the help and the

harm dynamic actually is. Right? One of

the other advantages that I had though

is that I do understand the clinical the

therapeutic process as well as the code

of ethics that comes along with that.

Right? I learned that the best approach

is typically having both. Right? So the

clinical world has things to offer that

the holistic world does not. The

holistic world definitely has things to

offer that the clinical world does not.

And so what I attempt to do is take the

best of both worlds and bring it all

together like that.

When Mortar showed up, I understood

immediately like, hey, this is something

dope. Cuz when I moved back to the area

from the DMV, from DC area, I was

looking how to plug in professionally,

right? I'm good up there, but I had

never lived in Cincinnati as an adult

and definitely not as a professional,

right? And so this was like, okay,

professional development. I got hustle

blood. I already said that. So, I got

the hustle blood, but I didn't have the

business information and the structure

and the know how to actually formulate,

you know, for efficiency a business,

right? I could hustle all day, but that

ain't it. Next level game. I think that

Mortar is doing it by bringing all these

entrepreneurs together under one

umbrella as Mortar alone. So, then we

see supporting each other differently.

So it's not like this is somebody

different over there that's competition

that I need to hoard, but no, this is my

these my Kimp folk, you know, these my

mortar cousins, you know what I mean?

And so I think the more that that we

continue to see how we align and how

we're connected and how we're actually

family, then I think that though that

hoarder mentality, that that scarcity

approach to business, I think that that

kind of melts away.

One of the things that stood out the

most going through the mortar class is

uh the fact that we're no matter where

we all were in our process, we were all

together on that journey. And that was

the most beautiful part to me is that we

had all these different entrepreneurs,

various stages, various products,

various business, various orientations,

various goals, you know, various

motivators, but we were all together in

that space. And the camaraderie, I don't

think it could have been matched

anywhere else.