Be Real

April 8, 2024 by Sheryl J. Moore

A message from my good friend, Doug Orchard, who directed the film I was in, “The Baby Boomer Dilemma…”

“BE REAL

I have observed that many financial advisors pretend to be someone they are not. Too many are acting. I’m sharing this video to persuade you to be real and see what happens when we are genuine and share the beautiful part of our humanity.

(Please scroll to the 4 minute mark of the video[HERE] and watch from there. It starts with an important brief introduction of the speaker. Below is the backstory of who this is and why I’m sharing this).

Rick Sapio is an M&A advisor in Dallas, Texas (focused on business transactions exceeding $100 Million). He reached out to me this summer about my film M&A. He wanted to show it all over the world through the business groups EO and YPO. He hired the president of YPO as his own CEO a couple years ago and he has been a member of EO since 1990.

We had two Zoom calls in July but he had to reschedule the 3rd stating he wasn’t feeling well. The next Zoom call had to be cancelled with no future rescheduling as he stated he learned he had Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. That’s typically a death sentence. He stopped working that day.

It changed the tone of our relationship and I emailed him back and forth during the fall about more important things and around Christmas.

Yesterday I found this video of him speaking in February this year to EO Dallas. I’m sharing this with you because I want you to see an extremely successful person being real. There is no pretend here and watch how impactful it is.

When I film people, I have to strip away all that pretend nonsense and find the real person in there because we as humans can tell when someone is just acting. We are bombarded with it on almost everything we see now. Too many have also lost the beautiful part of humanity: sharing the challenges we are facing and the lessons we are learning in a genuine way with the hope to help others.

I promise you that if you invest the time to watch this, you will love people more and have a desire to be genuine. (Notice the reaction from the audience!) I also promise you that if you are ‘real’ and don’t act, people will want to work with you. We don’t need more pretenders out there. No one cares about fake books, written by someone else (or now ChatGDP), fake accolades, fake infomercial programs, fake news pieces, and everything else about the financial industry that makes me want to vomit. That’s what Instagram is all about. The industry is starving for truth speaking, competent humans who have a real drive to help people.

Again, I’m sharing this with the hope that is persuades someone who is lost in the pretend to explore the real.

Sincerely,

Doug Orchard”  -sjm