Chad Anselmo - Hope and Hard Work: The Superpowers of Doers

Jumping in, taking everything, and working hard to explore your limits. In today's episode, Chad Anselmo shares the first lesson he learned. Chad is an alumnus of the David Eccles School of Business. He is the CEO and founder of F1 Payments, an enterprise focused on accelerating business velocity for all parties in the payments ecosystem.

Chad begins the episode by discussing perseverance through his experience as a fresh graduate during the financial crisis and recession. Right after he graduated from the Eccles school, he had to change his plans and direction. Having tried his hand at employment in a venture capital that failed, he got his restart as a credit and collections officer at Universal Studios. Discover how he innovated and automated systems to achieve success at Universal.

He discusses the role hope plays in reaching one's goals. Listen to what he has to say about handling growth, the surge of clients, and massive changes in the workplace. Find out how they became one of Texas Monthly's Best Companies to Work For. Don't miss his discussion of the culture of integrity and accountability his team built.

This week's show is all about persevering through obstacles, building and maintaining tools to be able to contribute to our relationships. Take a step back, examine your goal's guideposts, and keep going!

Episode Quotes:

On how they manage work from home during the pandemic:

“We determined that productivity was just fine from working from home versus working in the office. We've had a very flexible policy since then, if you feel comfortable coming into the office, come into the office, we'd love to see you. If you feel more comfortable working at home and not having to brave commute then stay at home do that. Now having said that, we have accountability. No one gets a free pass on making sure they get their job done, but really we want people to feel comfortable and be able to feel like they have the best opportunity to be able to be successful.”

His thoughts on perseverance:

“We're all persevering through something and as we think about the obstacles in front of us, we ask, “How do we build and maintain tools to be able to look at how effective and efficient we are?” As well as how much we're contributing to our relationships in our lives? That to me is what perseverance is. Taking a step back, looking at your guideposts, making sure that you're between them, and then continuing on that journey of trying to get to your goals.”

What does he think of having hope as one of the school’s core values?

“Hope is, I think, germane to everything we're trying to accomplish. Like we hope for a good outcome. We hope to be able to make it. We hope to be able to have success. We hope for all these things. Now we put in place, good things to be able to allow us to be able to accomplish those things. Either process, people, relationships, or whatever to be able to accomplish it. But in the end, I think it's hope that drives humanity.”

Books He’s Been Reading:

• How to Become CEO by Jeffrey Fox
• Necromancer

Projects He’s Involved With:

• Get Seeded: Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute