Podcast appearances and mentions of Brian Tracey

“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go. Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere. The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.” That is the famous dialogue between Alice and the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol. And it's a great illustration of what happens when you don't know what is important to you and where you want to go. You're going to go get somewhere and that somewhere is probably going to be a place you never wanted to go to.  This week, I'll share with you why developing your Areas of Focus is so important.    You can subscribe to this podcast on:  Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Areas of Focus: The Foundation Of All Solid Productivity Systems. Take the Areas of Focus Course  Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Time Sector System 5th Year Anniversary The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack  The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 374 Hello, and welcome to episode 374 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. So, why are your Areas of Focus important? Well, in a nutshell, they give you direction. They help you to prioritise your days and weeks and give you purpose.  Without them, you'll end up helping someone else achieve their goals, more often than not, in exchange for money, only to discover you're health is shot to pieces and you've spent your forty years of working life miserably giving away five days a week to something you hated doing.   A bit harsh, I know, but if you've read the book The Top five Regrets of The Dying by Bronnie Ware, you'll know that the number one reason given was “I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”  It's your areas of focus that will allow you to live a life true to yourself because by developing your areas of focus, you'll learn what is important to you and what is not.  And the second reason? I wish I hadn't worked so hard.  When you don't know what is important and what is not, you will work too hard. Everything becomes important, and that means you work long hours and at weekends, missing out on your children growing up and enjoying the best years of your life doing the things you want to do.  I'm pretty sure that's not how you want your life to work out.  So with all that said, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week's question.  This week's question comes from Julie. Julie asks, hi Carl, I hear you mention knowing what's important to you a lot, yet I really don't know what's important. I'm under pressure at work and I have two teenagers at home. I feel my life is being pushed and pulled by everyone but myself. What can I do to create some boundaries in my life?  Hi Julie, thank you for your question.  It's when we feel lost and out of sorts that our Areas of Focus can help to bring back some peace to our lives.  Our areas of focus are focused on our needs and wants. And because of that, people feel it's an indulgence to even consider spending time on developing them. That's particularly the case when we have a young family and we've allowed our work to dominate our lives.  The first book I ever read on time management and productivity was Hyrum Smith's Ten natural Laws and time and Life Management, and around the first quarter of that book is spent on developing what Hyrum Smith calls your governing values.  Your governing values are the values by which you live your life by. With these, we will all be different. For some, being a good mother or father will be their most important value, for others, it might be building a successful business. Now, when I read that book I was around eighteen or nineteen and that part of the book washed over me. I was young, I believed I was immortal and I could do anything I wanted to do. I didn't have time to think about my “governing values”.  Yet, with age, came wisdom and around my late twenties I began to see the importance of having a set of values to guide me.  That's when I gave myself a couple of weekends to write out my governing values. Funnily enough, as I look through my old Franklin Planners from that era, I can see that the values I wrote down then are not far away from how I define my Areas of Focus today.  it's these areas that give you a direction and a purpose. They help you with prioritising your days and weeks and give you a solid foundation on which to build your goals.  For example, I used to be a smoker. Throughout my twenties and thirties I's smoke around twenty cigarettes a day. I found it relaxing, a great way to step away from my work and to think. Yet, I knew that by continuing to smoke I was violating my area of health and fitness.  I was going to the gym and running, I was eating healthily, but i was destroying all that by continuing the smoke. As I got older, the pressure inside me to quit something I enjoyed doing grew stronger. it eventually reached a point where I had to quit.  Every time I reviewed my areas of focus, I had that niggling voice reminding me that the vision I had for my later life—being able to travel the world running marathons, exploring places like Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rocky Mountains would be just a pipe dream because I would be spending my later life in and out of hospital.  And so, I set the goal to quit smoking. Now for anyone who has gone through the process of quitting smoking, you'll know it's one of the toughest things to do. It took me two years to finally quit. Yet, the effort was worth it.  Quitting gave me a sense of accomplishment, a realisation that I could do anything if I put my mind to it and it was compatible with what I felt was important.  Yet without a set of principles—something your areas of focus will give you—things like stopping something that is slowly killing you or staying in a career that is draining you and leaving your feeling depressed and unhappy—will never occur to you. They will be placed on what Brian Tracey calls, “Someday Island”, a place where nothing happens because you're waiting for “someday”.  another illustration of this was when i joined a law firm. I had spent six years training to be a lawyer. I worked hard, to get my legal qualifications, yet when I began working in a law firm, I quickly realised I'd made a huge mistake.  I hated being stuck behind a desk eight or none hours a day.  Prior to working in an office, all my jobs had involved a lot of moving around. I began my career in hotel management, where I spent all day running around a large building dealing with all sorts of issues. I'd sometimes be on reception helping to check people out, then I's be in the restaurant serving lunch. It was fun, physically exhausting, yet incredibly fulfilling.  Then I went into car sales. And again, my days were largely spent running around a showroom and forecourt talking with customers.  Suddenly, I'm chained to a desk and within six months I'd gained 20 pounds in weight, I was unhappy, and felt trapped. It was as if I had been sent to open prison where I was expected to be in one place for eight to nine hours a day Monday to Friday. it was horrible.  So, I quit and came to Korea. a decision that turned out to be the best decision I've ever made. Yet, when i told my friends and family I was quitting the law firm and going to teach English in Korea, they thought I was mad. Why was I quitting a potentially lucrative career to go and do something I knew nothing about?  Yet, it was my areas of focus that told me what I needed to do. staying in that legal job violated my career and business area. I was trapped in an industry that held firm to a tried and tested career path. I didn't want that constraint. I wanted a lot more freedom to help people and perhaps change their lives for the better. Being a lawyer would never give me that freedom.  The benefit of having a set of established areas of focus is they give you a blueprint for the life you want to live. By writing them down, and reading through them every six months or so, you get the chance to realign yourself with the way you want to live your life.  Now, for those of you who have not looked at your areas of focus before, there are eight areas we all share. These are: Family and relationships, health and fitness, Finances, Business / career Lifestyle and life experiences Self development Spirituality life's purpose  Each one of those mean something to us. However, how we define them will be different of each of us, snd in what order of importance will change as we go through life.  For example, as you get older, your health and fitness and finances will likely move up the list and your career and business will drop down.  When or if you start a family, your family and relationships will rapidly climb the list.  You may even find that over time you redefine one or more of your areas. This is perfectly normal.  however, at their core, these areas define who you are and what's important to you.  This means, Julie, when it comes to juggling your career with your family, you will be able to see by how you prioritise your areas whether you should attend your daughter's netball finals or that important meeting at work.  If family and relationships is above your career, then it's an easy choice to make. However, if you have prioritised finances above family and relationships, you'll need to decide if the risk of missing out on a promotion, is worth it to see your daughter play in the netball finals.  The problem most of face is there are too many competing demands on our time. Time is fixed. We get twenty-four hours a day; that's it. The good news is, no matter what work you do, you always have control over how you spend those twenty-four hours.  I know many people will say they don't have control over their time. But you do. You can decide not to attend a meeting you've been invited to. You get to choose whether to tap the accept, decline or maybe button when it appears on your calendar.  Whether you accept a meeting request or not, will depend on what you prioritise.  Given a choice between a meeting with an important person on a Saturday evening or spending that time with my wife, I already know the answer. my wife will have priority. Family and relationships is much higher than my career/business area.  I can renegotiate the meeting with the important person. Saturday nights are my family's protected time. It's one night a week, and I won't sacrifice it for anything.  This also translates to my work week. My exercise time is 5:00 pm. At that time, I stop what I am doing and either head out for a run or go upstairs to the loft and lift weights. I never schedule meetings at 5 pm. That's my exercise time and right now, my health and fitness area is higher than my career/business area.  All this comes down to knowing what's your areas of focus mean to you and how you prioritise them. There we will all be different, but it's your areas of focus that will give you a blueprint for how you want to live your life, what is important to you and where you want to spend your time.  Not knowing what your areas of focus are will be like being Alice in Alice in Wonderland. you'll feel the need to go somewhere, but will have no idea where and then you will end up following someone else, and that someone else will not always have your best interests at heart.  I hope that has helped, Julie. My advice is to spend some time working on your areas of focus. Determine what's they mean to you and pull out any activities that you can do consistently and add them to your task manager or calendar. That way you will stay on course. And, if you find you are not happy with the direction you are going, redefine your areas and adjust course.  Thank you for your question and thank you to you too for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very very productive week.   

The "DO IT NOW" condition is a powerful tool for personal growth, encouraging immediate action and fostering a proactive mindset. However, it must be balanced with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and a realistic understanding of one's capacity to avoid the pitfalls of excessive urgency. By integrating this approach with mindfulness and self-care, individuals can harness the benefits of urgency while maintaining their well-being and authenticity in their journey towards becoming their best selves.

Becoming a more positive person involves a combination of self-awareness, intentional practices, and surrounding yourself with positivity. By integrating these strategies into your daily life, you can cultivate a mindset that not only enhances your own life but also positively impacts those around you. Remember, positivity is a skill that can be developed with practice, patience, and persistence.

Keeping your mind on what you want involves a combination of setting clear goals, practicing mindfulness, managing your environment, and surrounding yourself with positivity. By integrating these strategies into your daily life, you can cultivate a focused mindset that not only enhances your ability to achieve your goals but also promotes overall well-being and resilience. Remember, focus is a skill that can be developed with practice, patience, and persistence.

Managing your emotions is not about suppressing them but about understanding, accepting, and directing them in ways that serve your well-being and relationships. By integrating these strategies into your daily life, you can enhance your emotional intelligence, resilience, and overall life satisfaction. Remember, emotional regulation is a skill that improves with practice, patience, and self-compassion.

Personal agency is not just about making choices; it's about understanding that these choices, influenced by our emotions and beliefs, shape our lives. By cultivating a strong sense of agency, managing our emotions, and making choices aligned with our authentic selves, we can navigate life's challenges with resilience and purpose. Remember, the journey of personal growth is an internal one, where the power to change and improve lies within you.

The mantra "Never Give Up" is a powerful reminder of the resilience and determination required to overcome life's challenges. Here's why this mindset is crucial and how it can be cultivated:Embracing Resilience: Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties and adapt to change. It's not about avoiding challenges but about facing them head-on with a mindset that views obstacles as opportunities for growth. This mindset is integral to personal growth, as it empowers individuals to embrace change, overcome obstacles, and grow stronger through life's challenges.The Power of Determination: Determination is the driving force behind personal growth. It's about having a committed attitude and unfailing persistence, which are essential for working towards your goals despite setbacks. Determination increases confidence through self-belief. Trusting in your abilities allows you to persist through discouraging situations, focusing on the positives and pushing forward.Adaptability and Problem-Solving: Adaptability is about adjusting to new conditions and environments, finding ways to thrive in uncertainty. It requires creative problem-solving skills, which are enhanced through resilience training. With perseverance, setbacks become stepping stones for personal development. This mindset, coupled with a growth-oriented approach, transforms obstacles into opportunities for growth.Strategies for Cultivating "Never Give Up": Set Realistic Goals: Breaking down challenges into manageable steps and setting achievable goals provides direction and purpose, fostering a sense of accomplishment and momentum. Seek Support: Surrounding yourself with a supportive network can provide emotional encouragement and practical assistance, reinforcing your resilience. Practice Self-Care: Prioritizing activities that promote physical and emotional well-being, like exercise, mindfulness, and relaxation, helps maintain mental toughness and focus. Embrace a Growth Mindset: View challenges as opportunities for learning and improvement. This mindset encourages continuous self-improvement and resilience.

Keep GrowingIn the journey of personal and professional development, the mantra "Keep Growing" encapsulates the essence of continuous learning and self-improvement. Here's why this mindset is crucial and how you can cultivate it:Embracing Change: In a world where change is the only constant, personal growth through continuous learning is vital. It allows individuals to adapt to new challenges, staycompetitive, and seize emerging opportunities. By actively seeking new knowledge andskills, you can navigate the complexities of the modern world with confidence.Expanding Horizons: Learning isn't limited to formal education; it includes reading, attending seminars, taking online courses, or engaging in practical experiences. Thisbroadens your perspective, fosters creativity, and encourages critical thinking. It's about exploring new ideas, cultures, and viewpoints, which enriches your life and makes you a more well-rounded individual.Personal and Professional Development: Continuous learning is instrumental in both personal and professional growth. It equips you with the tools to succeed in various aspects of life, from technical expertise to leadership qualities. This not only boosts your self-confidence but also empowers you to take on challenges and achieve personal goals.Adaptability and Resilience: Life is unpredictable, and the ability to adapt and bounce back from setbacks is crucial. A growth mindset, cultivated through continuous learning, views failures as opportunities for growth. It instills confidence in dealing withuncertainties, fostering resilience and the ability to embrace change.Stimulating Curiosity and Passion: Engaging in continuous learning ignites curiosity and fuels passion. When you pursue your interests, learning becomes enjoyable and rewarding. This joy of discovery and mastery of new skills sustains motivation and thedesire for personal growth.Personal Fulfillment and Well-being: Beyond professional benefits, continuous learning contributes to personal fulfillment. It keeps the mind active, potentially delaying cognitive decline, and fosters a positive attitude towards personal development. This leads to a higher quality of life, where you feel a sense of purpose and achievement.

David Hill is a trailblazer in marketing, sales training and coaching, leveraging over 36 years of experience across multiple industries. He has worked with some of the top companies, including Success, Cardone 10X, and leading real estate brands. David founded Path to Sales Mastery, where he specializes in helping sales professionals and business owners overcome common sales challenges. Known for his ability to drive significant growth, he enables clients to boost their sales by up to 50% and more within 90 days or less.   Through his proven strategies, personalized coaching, and practical solutions, David continues to inspire and empower teams to reach their full potential.   David also hosts the Path to Sales Mastery podcast with over 400 episodes featuring guests Gary V, Mel Robbins, Grant Cardone, Brian Tracey, and many others.   Connect with David Public Website: www.davidihill.com Real Estate University: www.realestateuniversity.club  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidihill/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidihill 20-Minute call: https://www.davidihill.com/strategycall

David Hill is a trailblazer in marketing, sales training and coaching, leveraging over 36 years of experience across multiple industries. He has worked with some of the top companies, including Success, Cardone 10X, and leading real estate brands. David founded Path to Sales Mastery, where he specializes in helping sales professionals and business owners overcome common sales challenges. Known for his ability to drive significant growth, he enables clients to boost their sales by up to 50% and more within 90 days or less.   Through his proven strategies, personalized coaching, and practical solutions, David continues to inspire and empower teams to reach their full potential.   David also hosts the Path to Sales Mastery podcast with over 400 episodes featuring guests Gary V, Mel Robbins, Grant Cardone, Brian Tracey, and many others.   Connect with David Public Website: www.davidihill.com Real Estate University: www.realestateuniversity.club  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidihill/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidihill 20-Minute call: https://www.davidihill.com/strategycall

David Hill is a trailblazer in marketing, sales training and coaching, leveraging over 36 years of experience across multiple industries. He has worked with some of the top companies, including Success, Cardone 10X, and leading real estate brands. David founded Path to Sales Mastery, where he specializes in helping sales professionals and business owners overcome common sales challenges. Known for his ability to drive significant growth, he enables clients to boost their sales by up to 50% and more within 90 days or less.   Through his proven strategies, personalized coaching, and practical solutions, David continues to inspire and empower teams to reach their full potential.   David also hosts the Path to Sales Mastery podcast with over 400 episodes featuring guests Gary V, Mel Robbins, Grant Cardone, Brian Tracey, and many others.   Connect with David Public Website: www.davidihill.com Real Estate University: www.realestateuniversity.club  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidihill/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidihill 20-Minute call: https://www.davidihill.com/strategycall    

This was a lost interview that I did with a great Evan Carmichael last year!!In this interview, I was blessed and honored to interview the great Evan Carmichael, if you were on YouTube at all, you definitely know his name. He has been one of the key success factors to many business YouTube sensations. From Joe Polish, Brian Tracey, Tony Robbins to Jay Abraham and beyond he is the absolute king at this platform.In this episode of the service without excuses podcast, we discuss even beyond the YouTube options, but get into more personal branding and how to get your service business to stand out above others utilizing your messaging to the right person at the right timeWhen I first talk to Evans office, it took us a full eight months in order to set up time to do this interview. The information that you were here can transfer not just any service based business, but any company that wants to grow and scale their options to a large audience which is typically whatever speaks to as a wildly, successful book, author, Speaker, and consultantTo find out more about him, go to believe.evancarmichael.com or his YouTube channel with nearly 4 million subscribers YouTube.com/@Evancarmichael

Irene Riad is Founder of SIGHTcet.com, The Self-Mastery Coaching Institute. In this episode of the Grownlearn podcast Irene gives tips about mastering your mind to achieve success. We also talked about the need for mindset education, or as Irene calls it ' Psycho-education' in universities. Irene's mission is to help people reset their sight to the energetic power they hold within, and improve the quality of their lives, one generation at a time. Look out for the upcoming book of Irene Riad co-authored by Brian Tracey this December! -----------------------------------------------------------

Hello there, In this week's episode, I chatted with the President of Dublin Fire Brigade Whiskey Club, Brian Tracey. Hear about the story of the club name, bringing colleagues out of their comfort zones, how he became a firefighter, and the qualities that make a firefighter. Brian shares his love of whiskey, past and future tasting events, relationship building with whiskey friends, his favourite whiskeys, he shares his love for his local and the spiritual tasting home of the club, The Palace Bar, Dublin. Whether you're a regular listener or new to Hartelines, enjoy the episode, and why not share with a friend, also as always remember you are always welcome here on Hartelines. A massive thank you to Brian for sharing his role as President, life, and career story.

If you're talking about money in voir dire, you're essentially telling the jury that's what your case is about.  And here's the problem with that… Your case is N-E-V-E-R about money.   Someone has got to start changing this conversation because what you're doing has zero to do with money, and everything to do with holding bad actors accountable. Today's FHTH podcast is the recording of last month's live episode. If you missed it, listen in to find out what I want you to stop doing at trial (unless you want to tank your case).  And if you were there for the live recording, here's your chance to hear it again! Enjoy! Recommended Reading: The Psychology of Selling, by Brian Tracey https://a.co/d/6bhjFYA    Quote:  Sari de la Motte: “I don't have to come in here and tell you what jurors are thinking. You know they think you're a money-grabbing shark ambulance chaser that's just there for the money, that your client is not really hurt, that you're all just in it for the big bucks. And yet your response to that is to come in and make all of your voir dire about who can give money and who likes lawsuits. You've just fucking proved their point.” * * * * FREE H2H TRAINING * * * *  THREE POWERFUL STRATEGIES TO HELP READ A JUROR'S MIND Understand what the jury is thinking, so you can gain the confidence to trust them - and yourself - in the courtroom. Get the training here:  sariswears.com/jury   

“Every day we are influenced in countless ways by the world around us, and most of this flies completely under the radar of our conscious awareness” From Neuroscientist and Stanford Professor, David Eagleman's, The Brain: The Story of You. On today's episode #291 on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” we will cover: ✔ A review of where our podcast began, and where we are going. ✔  The importance of understanding our subconscious mind as it relates to our results. ✔ A look back at the history of this understanding, that goes back to visionaries in science and the arts (Francis Bacon, Descartes, etc). ✔ The unusual results Andrea saw with 12 teenagers who studied this concept, catching her attention, in the late 1990s. ✔ 6 STEPS you can use today, to expand your awareness, and help you to tap into the power of your subconscious mind. Welcome back to Season 10 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain learns best, taking us ALL to new, and often unimaginable heights.    Welcome back! For those who tune in each week, you might have noticed this was the FIRST time we've taken a break with this podcast since we launched. It's always been important for me to produce content every week, but this past month, we travelled to some places where there wasn't always internet, so I decided it would be a good time to take a break, and think about where we began with this podcast, and where we are going, creating a clear vision moving forward, and putting our season theme of Part 2 of Going Back to the Basics into practice. If you look at the image in the show notes, you can see where the vision for this podcast began by making a connection with the six social and emotional learning competencies[i] that you'll be familiar with if you are in the field of education, or paying attention to the research.  These competencies include Growth Mindset, Responsible Decision-Making, Self-Awareness, Social-Awareness, Self-Regulation and Developing Relationships, and hundreds of research studies[ii] have confirmed positive outcomes for our next generation of students, adults and communities who implement these competencies.  Instead of covering social and emotional learning topics only for this podcast, (that I saw publishers begin to cover more thoroughly than I ever could on my own, using their research to prove efficacy), I decided to connect what I saw as “the missing link” for health, well-being, productivity and achievement on this podcast—an understanding of our brain, that I call Neuroscience 101. Reflecting back on almost 300 episodes written, recorded and produced from June 2019 to today, it's easy to notice the growth that has unfolded along the way, that I share on EPISODE #279[iii] on “Lessons Learned After Hitting the 300,000 Download Mile Marker,” or “The Top 10 ALL Time Most Listened to Episodes on Podcast.” I can't miss out on EPISODE #233[iv] where we covered the “Top 12 YouTube Interviews” as chosen by YOU! These are all good ones to review. In addition to the growth noticed over the years from feedback that YOU, the listener would send me, I also noticed a shift with the content in our interviews over the seasons. In our early interviews, we were introduced to books, ideas and strategies that would orient us to the understanding of the brain and help us to break down topics like improving student success with Dr. John Dunlosky's[v] research, or trauma in our schools, that we saw with EPISODE #168[vi] with Dr. Bruce Perry and his book What Happened to You, or EPISODE #60[vii] with Dr. Daniel Siegel on “The Benefits Behind a Meditation Practice.”  We moved through the research, season by season, covering the topics that I thought would help us to all gain a better understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Then, the focus turned towards health and wellness in 2020, which was an unexpected turn for me, but one that made a huge impact on me personally, allowing me to test out certain products, like the Fisher Wallace Brain Stimulator[viii], the Whoop[ix] fitness tracker, take a visit Dr. Daniel Amen's Clinic[x] for a SPECT image brain scan, or even by learning how to improve Heart Rate Variability with the Lief Wearable HRV Device.[xi]  While producing these episodes, I was implementing the ideas myself, and often times along with my family members, for improved results. You can scan through the episode home page here or review the season descriptions below. Season 1: Provides you with the tools, resources and ideas to implement proven strategies backed by the most current neuroscience research to help you to achieve the long-term gains of implementing a social and emotional learning program in your school, or emotional intelligence program in your workplace. Season 2: Features high level guests who tie in social, emotional and cognitive strategies for high performance in schools, sports and the workplace. Season 3: Ties in some of the top motivational business books and guest with the most current brain research to take your results and productivity to the next level. Season 4: Brings in positive mental health and wellness strategies to help cope with the stresses of life, improving cognition, productivity and results. Season 5: Continues with the theme of mental health and well-being with strategies for implementing practical neuroscience to improve results for schools, sports and the workplace. Season 6: The Future of Educational Neuroscience and its impact on our next generation. Diving deeper into the Science of Learning. Season 7: Brain Health and Well-Being (Focused on Physical and Mental Health). Season 8: Brain Health and Learning (Focused on How An Understanding of Our Brain Can Improve Learning in Ourselves (adults, teachers, workers) as well as future generations of learners. Season 9: Strengthening Our Foundations:  Neuroscience 101: Back to the Basics PART 1  Season 10: Strengthening Our Foundations:  Neuroscience 101: Back to the Basics PART 2 You'll see that while our first nine seasons were focused on orienting ourselves to the basics of neuroscience, Season 10 and moving forward I'd like to narrow our focus to improved mental and physical health, (building on the Top Health Staples) to understanding our consciousness and our identity, and help us to become crystal clear about who we are, why we are here, and what legacy we want to leave for others. You'll see the guests we have coming up will drive our understanding of these topics forward, hopefully helping us to become better versions of ourselves, with the idea that when we arrive to where we want to go personally and professionally, that we next create a plan for the legacy that we'd like to leave behind to help others. For today's episode #291 we are going to pick up where we left off with our last episode where we dove into Stanford Professor and Neuroscientist, David Eagleman's work. Let's go back to where we left off the end of May with EPISODE #290[xii] and dive into today's episode on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind.”   In Chapter 1 of David Eagleman's The Brain: The Story of You, he explains how our identity is a moving target. He says: “Who you are depends on where you've been. Your brain is a relentless shape-shifter, constantly rewriting its own circuitry—and because your experiences are unique, so are the vast, detailed patterns in your neural networks. Because they continue to change your whole life, your identity is a moving target: it never reaches an endpoint.” David Eagleman's, The Brain: The Story of You. THE CONSCIOUS MIND: In our last episode, we uncovered from David Eagleman's work that the “conscious mind-the part you think of as you—is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain” making me take a look at the graphic on The Levels of Awareness, that I created after reading an article called “The Easy Problems of Consciousness”[xiii] from National Geographic. If we look (all the way to the right) at the FULLY aware column, that's like the 10% of the tip of the iceberg that we can see consisting of our ability to THINK. To truly discover WHO we ARE, we'll need to dive into the depths of our subconscious mind (under the surface of the water) to learn and explore more about the other 90% and peel back the layers, of who we truly are. FINDING ANSWERS BY DIVING INTO OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: You'll notice that we will be spending more time moving forward looking at ways we can improve our levels of awareness, so we can take this knowledge, to eventually help others, after improving ourselves. This will be the key to building a strong legacy that will exist long after you move from this physical plane, that we call earth. And if we want to improve our own results in this process, we've got to open up the keyhole to our levels of awareness. Imagine a tiny dot expanding as your mind expands. Or instead of peeking through the tiny keyhole of a doorway you want opened, blast open your mind and kick the whole door down instead. Or forget about the door, and break a window to gain entry into this new awareness that you'd like to achieve.  This all begins by understanding who we are, (we are not just our name) and we can expand ourselves even further as we learn how to use this marvelous power of our mind that J.B Rhine, from Duke University would say is “the greatest power of all creation.” As you are listening to this, doesn't it make you want to knock down some doors (blasting through some of YOUR subconscious blocks)? Things that you're aware have been holding you back from where you KNOW you're supposed to be? These are only your conscious blocks. Like I've heard people say “I want to stop self-sabotaging” with their health or relationships. There are some parts of us we are consciously aware of, but other blocks, might take some time to reveal themselves. It just blows my mind that something so powerful, (our sub-conscious mind- or all that exists below the water level with that iceberg photo) that controls so much of who we are, is not taught to us in school. It's here that I think some of the previous work and study I did in the seminar industry can help us to understand what David Eagleman was talking about in his book, The Brain when he said that the “conscious mind is the smallest part of what's happening in your brain.” This was at the heart of EVERY seminar I've ever attended. If we REALLY want to understand who we are, and be in control of where we are going, understanding the 90% of us, where our beliefs, creativity, emotions, habits, intuition and values all exist, is crucial if we want to be in control of the future that we want to create. GOING BACK TO THE BASICS: THE HISTORY If we go back to our Think and Grow Rich Book Study, that we covered at the start of 2022, Napoleon Hill wrote a whole chapter on the subconscious mind (Chapter 13) that we covered on EPISODE #195[xiv] and then he reminds us to re-read Chapter 4 on Auto-Suggestion, which is the medium that influences the subconscious mind.  This book was first written in 1937, showing us how far back this concept goes. Since this time, there are many others who cover this topic just as thoroughly as Napoleon Hill, like author Brian Tracey[xv], who explains why this understanding is important on his blog, in his books and all of the seminars he conducted. Tracey shares that “since your subconscious mind has such a great amount of control over your positive and negative behaviors, the key is to train your brain to produce more positive behaviors.” If you've ever read Brian Tracey's work, you'll know it's all centered around productivity and success. The subconscious mind and how to take control of it, runs at the heart of his message. In my early days of working in the seminar industry, and learning from the top speakers around the world, I saw that this concept wasn't new. I was even given a box full of material to study, joining many prominent people in the fields of science or the arts, who also studied the material I was given from an invitation only method. I read the same words that visionaries like Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Rene Decartes (1596-1650), Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), or Isaac Newton (1642-1727) read, and was told to keep this box of materials a secret. It's full of lessons that focused on using our mind to help us in all areas of our life, including our health, and is not far off from The Silva Mind Control Method[xvi] that we covered thoroughly this year. Understanding the levels of consciousness was taught in the introduction to this program, and as we progressed into month three of the course, autosuggestion and the subconscious mind were covered, showing again just how far back these concepts go. Moving forward, I'm hoping that science will reveal some answers to why certain practices from years past, yield noticeable results. I'd like to keep these practices less of a “secret” for anyone to use for themselves or for the benefit of others. Just keep an open mind here, and follow along with the images in the show notes that I'll use to explain the importance of understanding our conscious, and sub-conscious mind as it relates to WHO we are, and then how we can use this understanding to put our goals on auto-pilot, creating results that will truly boggle our minds. Sorry the notes I wrote are a bit messy, as I wrote them years ago, and didn't think I'd be sharing them years later. You'll get the idea. DO YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY? As we move forward, this understanding might be something you already know, or have heard of before, but until you can explain it to someone else, it warrants a review. If you stay with me here, I can guarantee that the application of this understanding has the potential to shift your life in ways you'll never believe. I've been working with these ideas since those early days of working in the seminar industry (25 years ago) when I first watched 12 teenagers skyrocket their results with this understanding, and I still pick up something new each time I look at this. When I first saw these concepts yielding results after a relatively short period of time with those teens, it literally knocked the breath out of me. Something I've come to notice happens when I can see someone achieving quantum leaps with their results—it's hard to look away from something this magical. YOUTH MENTOR INTERNATIONAL (1999-2002): The Fundamentals of Life. For those who don't know where I first learned this concept, it started back in the late 1990s when I worked with Bob Proctor on a program for teens called Youth Mentor International. This program that I helped Proctor to create and deliver, covered the understanding of our subconscious mind, and how to put our goals on auto-pilot.  The results of this program for these 12 teens was absolutely astounding. You can review the interview with Bob Proctor on EPISODE #66[xvii], where we reminisced about our time working together, shocked that it close to 25 years ago, revisiting the results we saw with those teens.  You can see an image of where this program began, with cassette tapes covering these foundational topics, years before we could stream content around the world via podcasting or video.  As I started to write this episode, I knew I had to go back to the Basics, and look at these tapes. Notice the title of the program: Youth Mentor International Fundamentals. This is what we taught ALL kids (ages 10 and up) around the world, each week.  The Fundamentals of Life. Tape 1: Building an Emotional Appeal of a Future Promise (where we helped the kids to see the power of visualization) and building their future on the screen on their minds. Tape 2: We Think in Pictures: which takes our visualization skills to that next step, honing in on a detailed picture of our goals and dreams. Tape 3: The Conscious Mind and the Senses: showing the kids that there was a world beyond their 5 senses, or the importance of being aware of the “unseen world.” Tape 4: The Subconscious Mind and the Body: that took students into the lesson I'll share with you here today, or diving into the 90% of that part of us that remains under water, in the iceberg photo. Tape 5: The Faculties of the Mind (that we will cover on our next episode). Tape 6: Review and Application of the Fundamentals. After watching the success of those teens all those years ago, I put my hat here, and decided to keep looking for what else could possibly take our understanding of who we are to greater heights. This program had such potential, but fell apart after Sept. 11th happened. I tried to carry the torch forward, and learned from educators along the way, like you see with can see when I re-connected with Jeff Kleck, from EPISODE #246[xviii] who changed the direction I would take with this material in the schools, leading me to focus less on the spiritual side, leaning more on science, or how the brain impacts our learning. I know connecting the science to these concepts is integral, so my focus has moved to watching and learning from the leading experts in science, to bring credibility to the ideas I saw working with those young students all those years ago. UNDERSTANDING AND USING THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND The key is to understand how our MIND works, and that it's separate from our BRAIN. When we figure this out, it's like all of the pieces of the puzzle start to fit.  Can you imagine putting a puzzle together without the lid, or the picture of the completed puzzle? That's almost like what we are doing when we are living life without a picture of our mind, and how we can use it. How do we better understand the part of us that exists under water in the iceberg image? I don't know about you, but I'd rather be in control of this ship called life, than to let it drift aimlessly at sea. REVIEW OF THINK AND GROW RICH: CHAPTER 13 THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND If you listened to our Think and Grow Rich Book Study, (EPISODE #195) you will remember when Napoleon Hill reminded us that “The subconscious mind works day and night” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) and that you “cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it, any plan, desire or purpose you wish to be transformed into concrete form.” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) He suggested that we go back to Chapter 4 on Autosuggestion and read this chapter again to become familiar with how to make use of this part of our mind that remains hidden to our eyes, but holds the power to move us to great heights. RAISING OUR LEVELS OF AWARENESS: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSCIOUS AND SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND IMAGE 1: This is a concept I wrote about with permission from Bob Proctor, in my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[xix]. The concept you see in this image of the mind and body originated with the late Dr. Thurman Fleet of San Antonio Texas, circa 1934. Dr. Fleet was the founder of Concept Theory. Bob Proctor was taught this concept from a child psychiatrist from Florida, Dr. John Mike, who transformed millions of others around the world with this understanding. It was this concept that also transformed the results of those teenagers all those years ago who learned how important it was to understand that we think in pictures, starting with this image. If you look at the image, imagine the conscious mind as the top part of your head, and the sub-conscious is the bottom part. Attached to the conscious part of our mind, is our 5 senses, or what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch. This idea teaches us to look BEYOND our 5 senses, (what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch) and begin to develop our higher faculties of our mind that go beyond our senses with (reason, intuition, perception, will, memory and imagination). While working with students with this material, I became very interested in helping them to expand their thinking and even created a video program that teaches these concepts to students, that you can find on the Udemy platform today, called The Secret for Teens Revealed: A 10-Step Blueprint.[xx] Another way to think about all of this, is that David Eagleman reminded us that our “conscious mind-the part you think of as you—is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain” so to develop the largest part of our brain, would be to learn what's happening in the depths of our subconscious. The conscious mind is important, as it will be this part of our mind that holds our willpower, and our ability to think. IMAGE 2: Shows us of the importance of autosuggestion that Napoleon Hill covered in Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich. My diagram here shows that we can change our results in life, by changing what we think about—see how I've written in the conscious mind “We can think.” What we think about will change our self-image, or the image I see of myself. You can do this by thinking or repeating something with emotion which explains why affirmations repeated over time can change your self-image, when they are repeated with emotion, but this process does take time. Since we can THINK with our conscious mind, we can use the power of our SUBCONSCIOUS MIND to work for us, rather than against us and build ourselves into a new and improved version of ourselves, which creates BELIEF. This part of our mind accepts WHATEVER we give it. We build pictures in our conscious mind, we impress them upon our subconscious mind, and the images we create are expressed in our body, that moves into action, and produces results. IMAGE 3: HELPS US TO BRING ORDER TO OUR MIND FOR GUARANTEED RESULTS IMAGE SOURCE: The Secret for Teens Revealed, Samadi, Page 71   THE CONSCIOUS/THINKING MIND: Once we can see how the 3 parts of our mind work together, we bring order to our mind with this image, for guaranteed results. With time, you can learn to use your CONSCIOUS MIND to THINK clearly and build the pictures of what you really want. And what you think about does show up on the outside. In this diagram, I'd written that if I am embarrassed, your body can respond to that thought physical, by blushing, and we've covered how reading the emotions in others is something we can easily learn to do. THE SUBCONSCIOUS/EMOTIONAL MIND: With practice, you'll see that whatever you turn over to your subconscious mind, with emotion added, over time can change your results with this idea of auto-suggestion. This is why Napoleon Hill says we've got to read our goals out loud daily, for this process to occur.   BUT WAIT: What if there's something I want, and I'm doing everything you are saying, but I still don't have this thing that I want? We will cover this more later, but it goes back to understanding our PARADIGMS that control who we are. There is lots to learn here, so just keep studying, revealing more and more about yourself along the way. If you see yourself with great results…and these results aren't happening…there's more work to be done. Remember, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU, but the layers of the subconscious mind just need more work. THE BODY: When you hold something on the screen of your mind, consistently over a period of time, you'll eventually see the results that change your conditions, circumstances and environment, which is the third part of the image. We've talked about this process often on the podcast, especially with people we've interviewed who have transformed their life over the years, like Ryan O'Neill from EPISODE #203.[xxi] Over time, we can train our subconscious mind to work for us, putting our results on auto-pilot, and these result change who we are over time. HOW DO YOU ACTIVATE YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND AND INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF AWARENESS? The first step in this process is to go back over the 3 parts of the mind and see if you can explain this picture of the mind, and how it operates to someone else. Once you can see how the conscious-mind, subconscious mind and the body, work together to achieve outstanding results, and you can share this understanding with someone else who can see what you see, then you're on the right track, and you should be able to use this concept in your own life. You've just got to do the work to strengthen your mind, and there's more we will cover more next week, but for now, begin with these 6 STEPS to INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF AWARENESS, UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. LEARN TO THINK IN PICTURES: VISUALIZE: This was one of the first skills that we taught to the teens when they were beginning to set goals, and it's a skill I'm still working on improving. Jose Silva's program is the best I've ever seen for improving your ability to visualize. If you struggle with seeing an image on the screen of your mind, just start slowly, with pieces of fruit like an apple, or a lemon, and with time, you'll notice you'll begin to see more. START TO MEDITATE (and keep developing this practice): This one will always be at the top of the list as a daily meditation practice will help you to access parts of your mind that you might not be aware of. Jose Silva's program took this practice to the next level for me, and is what I work on daily now. I also love Dan Siegels Wheel of Awareness meditation. There's no right or wrong place to begin here. Just start with something you feel connected to, and stay open minded to trying something new to expand your awareness in still, quiet, thought. DREAM: Not everyone will say their dreams can open up their mind to new thoughts and ideas, but they do for me. If you want to improve this area, make sure you are getting enough REM sleep each night, and see if you can remember what you dreamt about. Write down your dreams, and see if there's anything you can learn from them. It might not happen overnight, but if you can be consistent here, you'll gain incredible insight from this time that your conscious mind goes to sleep, and your unconscious mind soars. SET GOALS: There was this activity I would do with the teens I worked with called the 101 goal list. I remember learning this from the Chicken Soup for Soul author, Mark Victor Hansen, and I think he learned it from a teenager. The idea is that you sit down, and write out 101 things that you want to BE/DO/HAVE. It doesn't have to be material things, but can also be experiences you'd like to have, or places  you'd like to visit. I remember doing this activity for the first time at an airport. After the first 25 things, I couldn't think of any more. The idea is that if you can keep going, you'll begin to tap into your subconscious mind, and begin writing things you might not be consciously aware of. I still have that original list that has somewhere around #50 that I'd like to swim with sharks. I have no idea where this came from, as it's not something I've consciously thought about. Try this activity and see what you discover about yourself. READ YOUR GOALS OUT LOUD: This one really works and might be why saying affirmations out loud works over time. There is a power that comes from reading what you want out loud. Try it. It will feel weird in the beginning, until you switch and begin to own what you are saying. Over time, you will start to believe what you read everyday, and when the belief is there, so will be your goal. BE OPEN TO LEARNING FROM OTHERS: This one goes without saying. Of course if you are listening to this podcast, you will be open to learning from others. But would you purchase a ticket to hear someone speak, or jump on a plane and fly somewhere to meet someone you know you could learn from? Proctor used to do this all the time. I loved his stories of when he would sit in the back of the room and listen to people speaking that he wanted to learn from. These were always life-changing connections and if you've ever experienced this, you'll agree with me that they are well worth the time and effort. If there's something you are working on, and you're stuck in some way, you'll be able to easily put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle into place with the power that comes from two or more minds working together. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude this EPISODE #291 on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” we reviewed our vision for this podcast, where we began and where we we'd like to go over the next 10 seasons. We picked up from where we left off the end of May, with Neuroscientist David Eagleman's work, urging us to look closer at the subconscious mind, since it controls 90% of who we truly are. We reviewed the history of the subconscious mind and why this concept is a foundational step for us in the process of learning who we are. We looked at 6 STEPS for expanding our level of consciousness by diving deeper into developing our SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. This is just the beginning. Next week we will look at the Faculties of the Mind vs the 5 Senses to Expand our level of awareness more, but until then, think about this quote from James Allen, who wrote the book, As a Man Thinketh. He said “Mind is the master power that molds and makes: And Man is Mind, And Evermore He Takes the Tool of Thought, And Shapes What He Wills, Brings Forth a Thousand Joys, A Thousand Ills, He Thinks is Secret and it Comes to Pass, Environment is But His Looking Glass.” The goal is to understand how our mind works, so we can get our thoughts, feelings and actions lined up. That's integrity and not everyone has it. When you can line up how you think, feel and act, the magic happens. What we THINK on a daily basis really matters for where we are going. If the AHA moments haven't happened yet, (or nothing outstanding seems to jump out at you) come back next week, and I'll add some more, with the goal of helping you to expand YOUR awareness, by “seeing” this marvelous power that's held within the depths of our subconscious minds.   See you next week. RESOURCES: How to Expand Your Level of Awareness with Bob Proctor https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/6083/how-to-expand-your-awareness REFERENCES: [i] Casel's 6 SEL Competencies https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/ [ii] What does the research say? 100s of research studies confirm SEL benefits students https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-does-the-research-say/ [iii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #279 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lessons-learned-after-hitting-the-300000-unique-download-milestone-thank-you/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #233 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/top-12-neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-podcast-interviews/ [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE  #37 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kent-states-dr-john-dunlosky-on-improving-student-success-some-principles-from-cognitive-science/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #168 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dr-bruce-perry-and-steve-graner-from-the-neurosequential-network-on-what-we-should-all-know-about-what-happened-to-you/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #60 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-science-behind-a-meditation-practice-with-a-deep-dive-into-dr-dan-siegel-s-wheel-of-awareness/ [viii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #120  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/personal-review-of-the-fisher-wallace-wearable-medical-device-for-anxiety-depression-and-sleepstress-management/ [ix] https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kristen-holmes-from-whoopcom-on-unlocking-a-better-you-measuring-sleep-recovery-and-strain/ [x]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #134  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/how-a-spect-scan-can-change-your-life-part-3-with-andrea-samadi/ [xi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #228 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/rohan-dixit-founder-of-lief-therapeutics-on-measuring-hrv-in-real-time-for-stress-relief-from-the-inside-out/ [xii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #290   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-the-neuroscience-of-learning-unlocking-the-secret-to-our-identity/ [xiii] National Geographic Your Brain (Revised and Updated) https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Brain-Revised-Updated/dp/154784079X [xiv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ [xv] Brain Tracey on the Subconscious Mind https://www.briantracy.com/blog/personal-success/understanding-your-subconscious-mind/ [xvi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [xvii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #66  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-legendary-bob-proctor-on/ [xviii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #246  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/jeff-kleck-on-using-neuroscience-to-inspire-thinkers-in-schools-sport-and-the-workplace/ [xix] The Secret for Teens Revealed: How Parents, Teachers and Teenagers Can Inspire Leadership and Transform Lives by Andrea Samadi Published September 15, 2008  https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1604940336 [xx] The Secret for Teens Revealed Online Course: A 10-Step Blueprint https://www.udemy.com/course/the-secret-for-teens-revealed-a-10-step-success-blueprint/ [xxi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #203 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/case-study-with-paranormal-researcher-ryan-o-neill-on-making-your-vision-a-reality/  

Ken Hogan, Paul Rouse and Brian Tracey are all on hand to look ahead to the weekend's action and they take a look at just how well the new All-Ireland championship structure is working out.

Dr. Finance Live Podcast Episode 101 - Eric Berman Interview - Brandetize CEO - Brian Tracy PartnerThis is Episode 101 of the Dr. Finance® Live Podcast hosted by Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV (aka “Dr. Finance®”). Dr. Criniti interviewed Eric Berman, founder/CEO of Brandetize, Brian Tracey's business partner, successful entrepreneur, and marketing and personal branding expert. Mr. Berman is currently founder/CEO of Brandetize, a full-service, performance-based marketing agency that partners with esteemed thought leaders such as Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield, Phil Town, helping “Experts Build Their Empires.”  Additionally, Eric has consulted for venture capitalists and successful companies at all levels including Club Med, Vessel Health, Fenix Space, PeakLogic, TakeLessons.com, and more.    Lastly, Mr. Berman was one of the co-founders of CollegeClub.com, Inc., the largest and most visited college site on the Internet in the year 2000 (“the first Facebook”), where from September 1993 until June 2000, Mr. Berman helped the company raise $75 million, oversaw several acquisitions and helped manage the growth of employees from 3 to 400.  Berman had served in a variety of positions there including Chief Operating Officer, VP Corporate Development, VP Business Development, and Director of Sales.  Mr. Berman received a B.A. in Quantitative Economics from the University of California San Diego in 1993.Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV (aka “Dr. Finance®”) is the world's leading financial scientist and survivalist.  A fifth generation native of Philadelphia, Dr. Criniti is a former finance professor at several universities, a former financial planner, an active investor in diverse marketplaces, an explorer, an international keynote speaker, and has traveled around the world studying various aspects of finance.  He is an award winning author of three #1 international best-selling finance books: The Necessity of Finance (2013), The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance (2014), and The Survival of the Richest (2016).  Dr. Criniti is also the host of the highly successful Dr. Finance® Live Podcast as well as one of the top hosts on Clubhouse.  Dr. Criniti has started a grassroots movement that is changing the way that we think about economics and finance.    For more information about Doctor Finance, please visit https://DrFinance.Info.  Disclaimer: This Podcast is for informational purposes only. It is presented with the understanding that the author(s) and the publisher(s) are not engaged in providing financial, legal, or other professional services. If financial, legal, or any other form of advice is needed, please consult a financial advisor, an attorney, or another professional advice-giving entity.  Also, the opinions and views expressed by any guests on this Podcast do not necessarily represent the opinions and views of Dr. Finance® or its affiliates. Copyright © 2021 to Present by Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV - All Rights Reserved.

We are excited to bring you this encore presentation of our 21th episode. We hope you enjoy!René Deceuninck, Motivational Speaker, Coach and Master & Expert in Body Language, joins Theresa and Blair in this week's episode. René shares that for him, success is being happy and having that clarity of who you are and where you are going. Rising above being bullied and not accepting that he was “not smart or good enough” to achieve his goals, René proved that success is something that fulfills your needs as well. Don't ever quit and overcome that inner critic that is stopping you. Better yet, get into the helicopter and fly above it. About the Guest:René Deceuninck, Master & Expert in Body Language, Motivational Speaker, Coach and Trainer, runs an exclusive international company. Since 1995, René has been delivering enriching insights and results-oriented outcomes to his clients.His seminars, keynotes and trainings around the world are changing businesses with amazing levels of positive increase. He shared stages with Brian Tracey, Jairek Robbins, Jack Canfield and many other influential speakers. In collaboration with Success Resources, René is hosting preview sessions for Anthony Robbins' Unleash The Power Within, a 4 day transformational and breakthrough event including the famous Firewalk!His clients are empowered with their new skills to read thoughts before one word is spoken, in meetings, in sales and in everyday situations. As a result of this competitive edge, they optimize their performance, both personal & professional.Website: https://www.renedeceuninck.comOnline Course: https://ipb-ltd.mykajabi.com/Social Media:Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drcommInstagram https://www.instagram.com/renedeceuninckLinkedIn https://be.linkedin.com/in/rdeceuninckTwitter https://twitter.com/drcommYouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCHX-lz9VOLeI-x9WD5NmbAPinterest https://www.pinterest.com/renedeceuninck/ About the Hosts:Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment and lifestyle brands. She is the creator of the Social Media Empowerment Pillars, has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards and more. Blair is listed in USA Today as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch in 2022 and Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is an international bestselling author and has recently published her second book, ‘The Global Resilience Project.' She is the co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast and in her free time, you can find Blair growing The Global Resilience Project's community where users share

For almost 3 decades Leo has personally designed and tested Autobiographical Feedback to create an extremely uncommon and adventurous life. In addition to using Autobiographical Feedback to heal his cancer, he has also used it in every area of life including to build multiple businesses, create new meanings for past traumas and create the opportunity to work with real world influencers like Jane Goodall, Nelson Mandela and Vandana Shiva. Leo has used Autobiographical Feedback as a catalyst for multiple sustainability movements in the United States and Canada and to help found Cabarete Sostenible in the Dominican Republic which fed over 10,000 people for 6 months during the Covid 19 Pandemic. Leo has organized and sponsored several music fundraising festivals oriented towards community building and sustainability, lead multiple trainings for political and business leaders in Washington and donated thousands of hours to ‘at risk' youth, alternative schools and the Coast Salish Tribes from Canada to California. Professionally Leo has shared the stage with peak performance leaders like Les Brown, Brian Tracey, Deepak Chopra, Mark Victor Hansen and Reverend Michael Beckwith. Leo is an internationally award winning speaker, author and trainer who has worked with wide variety of organizations including the indigenous tribes of North America, the US Navy's NJROTC Leadership Academy, numerous Law Enforcement agencies, the California and Washington State Departments of corrections and the Navy's Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Programs (SARP). As an advocate for emotional, physical and financial fitness Leo believes that life is a process; and that in every moment we have the opportunity to reinvent and improve upon ourselves as individuals, communities and as a collective. He strongly believes that there has never been a more poignant time in history for humanity to gain access to their fullest potential and bring their gifts to the world. Leo currently lives in the Dominican Republic where he is actively involved in creating Reality 2.0 with his wife and close community of friends. He is an avid Vipassana meditator and is currently focused on introducing Autobiographical Feedback to the world with his latest business, I AM THE MATRIX. Find out more at https://iamthematrix.com/

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Kelly hosts “The Epic Podcast” and is regularly sought out for her specialized expertise and unique perspectives about entrepreneurship. She is a contributing author for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, and ABC among other prestigious media outlets. Kelly is a featured speaker around the world and has frequently shared the stage with industry legends including Tim Ferris, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracey, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Tony Hsieh, and Lisa Nichols among other brilliant influencers.

Kelly O'Neil is one of the most sought-after international brand positioning and platform development strategists for technology startups, professional services firms, medical and dental practices, entrepreneurial small businesses, and other service professionals across multiple industries. She helps her clients reposition themselves as lynchpins in the market, launch innovative brands, and market-disrupting platforms, and strategically scale their businesses from 6 to 7 to 8 figures in the process. After a highly successful corporate career that started when she was just 19 years old, Kelly opened her own consulting firm in 2001 and continued her work as a brand marketing and positioning strategist and was sought out by high-growth tech clients to help them develop their go-to-market positioning strategies to acquire funding, increase their business valuations, get acquired or go public. Her methodology is so unique that marketing genius Seth Godin awarded her the coveted “Purple Cow Award” for being one of the most innovative companies in America. Today, Kelly is the Founder and CEO of the multi-million dollar brand which includes Innovate Profit Consulting, Innovate Brand Agency, The UpLevel Community, and various other business ventures. In 2022 she launched the Epic movement to serve the unique needs of market-disrupting women entrepreneurs who are changing the conversations in their industries. Kelly is the host of “The Epic Podcast” and is regularly sought out for her specialized expertise and unique perspectives about entrepreneurship. She is a contributing author for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, and ABC among other prestigious media outlets. Kelly is a featured speaker around the world and has frequently shared the stage with industry legends including Tim Ferris, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracey, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Tony Hsieh, and Lisa Nichols among other brilliant influencers. Kelly lives with her Tibetan Terriers London, Addison, and Remington in Las Vegas, Nevada, and when she is not shaking up the industry can be found boating at the lake or practicing her forehand on the tennis court. Why the Human Design chart has led Kelly's intentions in life and business. Not everybody has the same path- follow what works for you. How she is wired to recognize the innovations in any situation. She is such a strategist, so she works to solve problems and help people get the lifestyle they want. “At the end of the day, it's not about my business.  It's an expression of my purpose to live my best life.” How you can position yourself as the “one and only” The power of “getting in the weeds” with your clients. Are you leveraging the magic out of what you do? There is so much focus on hustle and grind, that we have forgotten how to slow down with intention. Do the things that will move the needle in your business. Ask yourself the hard-hitting questions that will help propel you forward in your business. Make sure you listen to your intuition in your life and business. Who would be the first person you would call if you had to start over on your business? If you are going to be building relationships, pay extra attention to the connectors in your life. It brings them joy to connect people. Deposit constantly into the relationship currency bank- always find ways to connect with people. Ask what they need, how you can support them. Treat people the way you want to be treated. How do you align the things you are best at with your purpose? Take the “should” out of your business model. You do you. Learn more: www.kellyoneil.com

Let's prevent distractions and all procrastination from entering our liv this month! These statements work wonderfully alongside deep breathing and right after a peaceful meditation. These affirmations were created to help you reach your goals, build your confidence and give you some powerful statements to start your productive day on the right foot! TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - Intro (01:35) - This month's inspiration (04:44) - Affirmations Session (09:00) - Things to look forward to! (09:26) - NEW Affirmations cards! (11:28) - Outro Try Audible: https://amzn.to/3wv9LfZ These affirmations were inspired by the book “Eat That Frog” by Dr Brian Tracey: https://amzn.to/3VvfbCl Sign up to our newsletter: https://kitschnoir.com/pages/newslett... Website: https://kitschnoir.com/ List & Planner bundles: https://kitschnoir.com/collections/bu... Wall Calendar: https:https://kitschnoir.com/products/dry-w... Daily Planners: https://kitschnoir.com/search?q=daily 2022 Diaries SALE: https://kitschnoir.com/search?q=diary NEW Affirmations cards: https://kitschnoir.com/products/affir... PRE XMAS SALE: https://kitschnoir.com/collections/ch... Black Culture Market: https://www.blackculturemarket.co.uk/ FOLLOW ME: Instagram: http://instagram.com/kitschnoir Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cherellythe... TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kitschnoir My Online Store: https://kitschnoir.com/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/kitschnoir Contact for business: info@kitschnoir.com #BlackGreetingCards #Entrepreneur #GirlBoss #OnlineBusiness #BlackOwnedBusiness #SupportBlackBusinesses #SmallBusinessOwner #Affirmations #BlackGirlAffirmations #SelfHelp #healthaffirmations #productivity #productive #productivelife #procrastination

This is my story of discovering the Law Of Attraction For Money. I discovered Law of attraction for money when I was in high school in the late 1980's after reading books like "The Power Of Positive Thinking" and "Think And Grow Rich" and others. In college in the early 90's I discovered Zig Ziglar and Jim Rohn and many others.  From there, I got into Tommy Hopkins For Sales, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracey and many others. Finally, in early 2000's I got into "The Science Of Getting Rich" and other books until the movie "The Secret" came out. This podcast episode is my stories of how the Law of attraction for money worked for me.  These are REAL stories of the power of this force in my own life for making more and more money. Dig in. Get Cracking! Join us in my private community on Facebook here: Discloure Group

1.00" Shout out for AdvanceCT, the right people to talk to if your business is thinking of setting up in the US. Talk to us if you'd like to know more.2.30" Tom Murphy is looking for distributors for his world-beating Mayo made shaving oil, De Facto, sponsor of our podcast. No matter where in the world you are, and if you know the grooming market intimately, then Tom wants to talk to you. However, only high-energy folk need apply. 3,30 Críona Turley, founder Capella, the platform for hybrid working. If you need your employees' home workplace assessed for 'health and safety' Capella can do big numbers in a short time.Críona and her co-founder Victoria Yanakos, based in Manhattan, are now set on building a global business, backed by Enterprise Ireland (she gives them a hearty shout-out). Incredibly during the thousands of assessments her company has carried out she has seen people working from their cars (a full 8 hour day) and another who was working from a wardrobe in an attempt to get quiet from kids at home. Another service they provide is making the workplace more exciting, to encourage people back to the office. She says that people are NOT going to work full time in the office, but they will be three days at home, two days in the office.Her 'hire in a heartbeat'. Margaret O'Brien, former RTE continuity announcer and star (and her mother)25.00" Wasters. That's what people who waste food are. TeamGBS brings you Tuam based DigiTally, Patrick McDermott (also of Stocktaking.ie) says he can give businesses an 8% gross profit lift by making food hospitality management much more efficient. The company has already headed overseas, starting with the UK, but Patrick is quick to say that cracking that market was done with 'great difficulty'. He has decided to focus on Liverpool and Manchester rather than trying to cover all of Britain in one go. They find they can find leads through industry networking events such as those run by the British Irish Trading Alliance.His 'hire in a heartbeat'. Brian Tracey, frog eater (oh and author of 'Eat That Frog') - getting more of the important things done today.50.00" A cure for blackspots. Colin Cunningham, founder Cellnex and Caroline Hofman, CEO of Laois Chamber of Commerce join TeamGBS to discuss mobile phone blackspots that continue to cause problems to businesses across the country. However, Cellnex says that if they were given a relatively small amount of government funding that they could solve a big chunk of the problem. GetConnected.ie is a site we learn about that is available across the country - and that may be able to find and sort out wireless signals for mobile.(9 out of 10 problems can be solved). Alpha Wireless is a company based in Laois that gets a very positive mention. Caroline Hofman's 'hire in a heartbeat' would be Michelle Obama (she mentioned a Michelle Obama Plaza for Laois!) and Colin Cunningham's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Michael O'Leary for what Ryanair's prices have meant for businesses trying to do business in the UK. All our great insights are brought to you by De Facto Shaving Oil, proud sponsors of That Great Business Show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Angela Brown is a 25-year veteran of house cleaning, #1 YouTuber and podcaster with her show "Ask a House Cleaner", and a guru in our industry. I have been friends with Angela for 5 years. In fact, she was the first person to really challenge me to start a podcast in late 2016. Angela is highly respected in the residential cleaning world and is helping thousands to grow their house cleaning businesses. In this double interview, we dive into so many topics that make Angela... Angela. You will see that she is just like you. She just persevered through every adversity over and over again with an insatiable desire for learning. I love this quote early on in part 1 of the interview. "I was taught how to learn and I never stopped learning. When most people go through school, there comes a graduation time and for some reason they give themselves permission to stop learning. For me, it wasn't about being humble. It was more about me being aware that my learning never stops. No one was ever coming to graduate me... ever. So everyday, I say. How can I do it better? How can I look at yesterday and do it better?" This is what sets Angela apart.Angela grew up in a family of 19 kids in Utah. She is the 4th oldest of 7 girls and 12 boys. Large families was all that Angela knew. It wasn't weird or different until she moved east to find families with 2 kids. Growing up in such a large family on a farm taught every Brown the meaning of hard work. It's the defining characteristic that Angela took from her childhood.This Moment Concept - We have all been raised with a certain set of beliefs, characteristics, hardships, and privileges. Then we arrive at a moment in time with others that have another set of beliefs, etc. Now that we're here, what can we learn from each other in order to enhance our own lives and make other's lives better? Angela was brought up in a patriotic family that truly understood and appreciated the Land of Opportunity. She realized that she already lived in this country and didn't have to earn her way to America. She was already there and could go pursue this opportunity with her hard work ethic. This was taught in her homeschool and she read many immigrant stories.She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at 17 to become a nanny. But her integrity and care for families forced her to leave this job. This opened up many hardships and opportunities. Curiosity, hard work, honesty, vulnerability were traits that transformed an 18-year-old homeless girl into a Toastmasters, National Speakers Association, bartering, cleaning, and Success Magazine inner circle influencer. Brian Tracey was a huge mentor through his tapes and books. She tells a great pay-it-forward story about meeting him in person. 

Kelly O'Neil is one of the most sought-after international brand positioning and platform development strategists for technology startups, professional services firms, medical and dental practices, entrepreneurial small businesses and other service professionals across multiple industries. She helps her clients reposition themselves as lynchpins in the market, launch innovative brands and market disrupting platforms, and strategically scale their businesses from 6 to 7 to 8 figures in the process.  After a highly successful corporate career that started when she was just 19 years old, Kelly opened her own consulting firm in 2001 and continued her work as a brand marketing and positioning strategist and was sought out by high growth tech clients to help them develop their go to market positioning strategies to acquire funding, increase their business valuations, get acquired or go public. Her methodology is so unique that marketing genius Seth Godin awarded her the coveted “Purple Cow Award” for being one of the most innovative companies in America.Today, Kelly is the Founder and CEO of the multi-million-dollar brand which includes Innovate Profit Consulting, Innovate Brand Agency, The UpLevel Community and various other business ventures.  In 2022 she launched the Epic movement to serve the unique needs of market disrupting women entrepreneurs who are changing the conversations in their industries. Kelly hosts “The Epic Podcast” and is regularly sought out for her specialized expertise and unique perspectives about entrepreneurship.  She is a contributing author for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, and ABC among other prestigious media outlets.  Kelly is a featured speaker around the world and has frequently shared the stage with industry legends including Tim Ferris, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracey, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Tony Hsieh, and Lisa Nichols among other brilliant influencers.

Ben Newman is a highly regarded Performance Coach, International Speaker, and Best-Selling author. His clients include Fortune 500 companies worldwide, business executives, sales organizations, and professional athletes in the NFL, PGA, NBA, MLB, UFC, and NCAA. Newman is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best-Seller, UNCOMMON Leadership. Ben serves as the Mental Conditioning Coach for the 18-time National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide football team and has worked with players from the last four Super Bowl Champion teams. He was recently selected by influencive.com as one of the Top 10 Motivators in Sports, and Real Leaders Magazine selected him as one of their 2019, 2020, and 2022 Top 50 Speakers globally. Newman's clients have included: Microsoft, United States Army, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Quicken Loans, Miami Dolphins, MARS Snackfoods, Kansas State Football, St. Louis Cardinals, North Dakota State Bison Football, Northwestern Mutual, Minnesota Vikings, New York Life, University of Iowa, and Wells Fargo Advisors, Boston Medical Center, Missouri Tigers basketball…as well as thousands of executives, entrepreneurs, athletes and sales teams from around the globe. Ben's authentic, powerful, and engaging storytelling has become internationally recognized. He has shared the stage with Jerry Rice, Ray Lewis, Tony Dungy, Colin Powell, Brian Tracey, Ed Mylett, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jon Gordon, Dr. Jason Selk, and Tim Grover, Aeneas Williams, Eric Thomas, and other leaders and legends in the world. Ben lives in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, with the true measure of his success, his wife, Ami, and their children, J. Isaac and Kennedy Rose. You can follow Ben on Instagram and Twitter at @ContinuedFight You can learn more at www.BenNewman.net Listen to The Burn Podcast everywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.

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Welcome back to PART 6, EPISODE #196 and our final episode of this series, where we will cover the final chapters and add “The Neuroscience Behind the Timeless Goal-Setting Principles” in Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich to ensure we make 2022 Our Best Year Ever with brain-science in mind. This episode I'm dedicating to the man who has been reading this book for his entire life, who I have mentioned often in this series and podcast, Bob Proctor, who was the first person to see more in me than I could see in myself. It was Bob who asked me “What do you really want?” when I was in my late 20s, and just figuring it all out. He did catch me off guard with this question, but it didn't take long to map out the vision, as crazy as it seemed at the time, when you have someone who believes in you to push you along the way, the vision becomes clear.  Once you know what you want, and have a crystal-clear vision of it, it really is our duty to make it happen in our lifetime. Bob is the perfect example of someone who took action, inspiring millions globally, and someone I will forever be grateful that I crossed paths with. I found out that Bob was gravely ill, while finishing this episode, thought it was important to recognize his influence as an example for all of us, to put something into our goals this year that we have never done. Using Bob's example, do something wildly different this year, than you ever have previously. He said many things that are forever stuck in my head, but I found a quote that makes sense to close out our book study that I think will stick with all of us. He said, “You can't just THINK and GROW RICH, you've got to do something with those thoughts.” I'm hoping that this year, we are all looking for quantum leap results, that take us far beyond where we've ever been before. I have been studying success principles, and how successful people became that way, since the late 1990s when my paths crossed with Proctor. I saw these ideas could transform results for our students in the classroom, years before we talked about how important our mindset was after Carol Dweck's[i] work made its impact on the field of education, and I wrote my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed [ii] to document these success principles that are echoed throughout Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich book, and aren't difficult to understand, but implementing them in our daily life is where the hard work comes in. Here's my challenge to you—to go through each of the PARTS in this series and see what you can do to truly make a difference and impact with whatever it is you are doing this year. We've covered the 15 principles used by some of the wisest people in the world, and I want to add a sense of urgency for all of us to kick it into high gear this year. Think and act in a wildly different way than we have previously. This will take some focus, but the results will be well worth the effort. Remember that Hill says you haven't read this book until you've read it 3 times? We can come back to this series next year and continue to apply the principles with the new experiences built over this year. This series is not only for you, the listener, I am doing the work right along with you! If you want to see my interview with Bob Proctor, and where my vision began, go back to episode #66[iii] and EPISODE #67[iv] on the Top Lessons learned working with him for 6 years which is one of our most downloaded episodes, and one I still receive feedback and messages about. With this episode today, I knew I had to tie in the most current brain research, so that we can look at ways to improve our current goal-setting/achieving process, with strategies that will take the guess work out of our year, to make a difference for all of us, since the strategies I will share are all peer reviewed, and have been proven scientifically to be the most effective way to achieve whatever it is that we are working on this year. When I say I want us to make this our best year ever, I really do mean it and wouldn't spend the time to create this episode, if I didn't think it could make a difference for all of us.  There is a neuroscience to setting and achieving goals, for habit formation and habit breaking, and I hope this episode will help break down the science, and make these principles applicable in your daily life, for the results that will inevitably come as a result. Remember, it is our duty to take action, and use the potential that we each have. This is not just a mere wish, or hope, it's for us to all take action on whatever it is that we want (our burning desire) in a way that we've never done in past years. What will we do differently this year? We have covered an introduction to how our brain forms and breaks habits on an earlier episode #35[v] way back from January 2020 that's a good episode to review in addition to what I will share with you here. On this episode, you will learn: ✔︎ Review PART 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to all 15 Success Principles of Think and Grow Rich. ✔︎ Strategies and action steps that tie the most current brain research to these 15 Success Principles. ✔︎ Tools and resources you can use to immediately implement these success strategies into your life so you can move quickly and easily towards your goals. If you have made it this far in this 6 PART SERIES, I've got to congratulate you, as most people don't ever even finish this book, let alone read it 3 times, like Hill suggests. I can tell that each time I've read this book, I stopped at Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind, probably because we covered this concept thoroughly when I worked with Proctor, that I missed reading Chapter 13 on The Brain, Chapter 14 on the Sixth Sense and Chapter 15 on How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear that I'll highlight at the end of this episode. I can tell that I didn't read these chapters, as there are no notes written on these pages, and then the edition that I have, when I got to the end of the book, there was a surprise. There was a Chapter 16 that I didn't know existed. If you will recall, there were only 15 Principles that we were going to cover, so when I saw the 16th chapter, I was confused and immediately sent a message to my good friend Alan Lindeman[vi], from Ohio, who has taught this book for years, and I knew he would reply to me immediately, which he did. Alan filled me in and reminded me that Napoleon Hill wrote another book shortly after Think and Grow Rich was published, but his wife wouldn't let him publish it at the time. It depends on the version of the book that you have, but mine has this 16th chapter that Alan thinks was included in the newer editions. I won't review it, because I'm superstitious with what I think and talk about and prefer to stick to positive angles, steering clear of dark thoughts, or perspectives, even if I know it's important to be aware of them. I would just prefer to keep this work focused in the light, and would never speak or think of anything outside of positive thoughts for anyone and this self-awareness will keep me from covering this final chapter. If you want to know what it's about, just Google Chapter 16 of Think and Grow Rich, and you can see for yourself, if you are curious. Just remember the power of autosuggestion, and that your nonconscious mind will take in whatever you offer it, so I highly recommend skipping it, and focusing on the 15 principles we have covered. There is a power of thought, and if Hill didn't think it was important to guard our thoughts, I don't think he would have covered this in his first chapter. For this episode, I want to review each of the 5 PARTS that we covered in this series and see how the most current brain research ties into the timeless principles Hill wrote about, to give us more belief as we push forward with whatever it is we are working on this year, which was the goal of covering this book to launch our year, in the first place. I'll add the final 2 chapters (15 and 16) at the end to complete our book study before our final review to bring these principles all together. Remember that PART 1 began with a reminder from Grant Cardone that “in order to get to the next level of whatever it is that we are doing, we must think and act in a wildly different way than we previously have been.”[vii]  We've talked about Price Pritchett's You2 book around this time last year on the podcast, where he explains that “if you want to accelerate your results rapidly, you must search out and vigorously employ new behaviors” (Pritchett, You2, Page 7). That's what I am hoping this book study has inspired us to all do. What will we do DIFFERENTLY this year? I'm hoping some of the strategies I share will inspire us to take NEW actions, that will yield NEW results and that we continue to look at everything we are doing, with our brain in mind. Using Neuroscience to Learn Something New Have you ever wondered what happens at the brain level when we are taking new behaviors like Pritchett recommends, or thinking in a wildly different way than we ever have been? Or when we are learning something new?  Maybe you say “no, Andrea, I've never wondered this” and I'll say “that's ok” but just for a second, think in a wildly different way than you ever have previously, from how we have been taught learning occurs, (the old method where we sit in class and I teach you something from the front of the classroom) and maybe you'll learn it by actually doing it when you take what I've taught you, and apply it.  Instead of this old way of learning, I want us to think inside of the skull of our brain, to our neural networks, as we are learning something new, or if you are teaching students in the classroom, or coaching a sport, and see if this understanding can help you to see how new information is acquired at the brain level first, before giving us the new results we all want to achieve. Just think differently. Look at the image in the show notes, and let's take a trip inside our skulls. When learning something new, (in the classroom, at home, or a new sport) neurons in the brain begin to slowly extend an axon out to other axons, connecting to other neurons (which is a slow process). We have oligodendrocytes (green in the image) that wrap myelin around the axons to allow information to move faster. We have astrocytes (shaped like stars, and red in the image) that play an active role in memory and learning as they wrap around the blood vessel serving as gatekeepers at the blood brain barrier, providing homeostasis and regulating blood flow in the brain.[viii] For learning to occur, Eva Kynt, as associate professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium shares that we must have “motivation and willingness to learn (as) the basic elements”[ix] and “one way to motivate the brain is to expose it something new and unfamiliar.”[x] “The ability to learn new things—whether that's calculus or hitting a fast ball—requires stretching our brain past the point of what's familiar or comfortable” (Cal Newport, Georgetown University) and “that stretch requires unbroken concentration.” Think of all the actions happening in the brain, and the focus that's required to make these connections happen. Cal Newport from Georgetown University says “the amount of concentration a person requires to learn something new depends on the complexity of the material. The more complex something is, the more sustained focus a person will likely need to grasp it” and that there are “habits of mind to facilitate learning, such as curiosity, and diligence.” As we are teaching or coaching new skills, think of the neural networks that are being created, the myelin that's formed each time a student reinforces the skill they are learning and ways that you can inspire students to become curious with what they are learning. What is interesting to me is that the research shows that there is nothing inspiring about doing something we know we can do. There's no motivation in that and requires us to use our imagination (Chapter 6 of TAGR) to push ourselves, and those we are teaching, to new limits. American neuroscientist and tenured professor at the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University's School of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Huberman's research said that “the data shows the probability of achieving the goal depends on whether the goal is easy, moderate or impossible. If the goal is too easy, or difficult we won't use enough of our autonomic nervous system to recruit our action” and these goals won't lean you towards readiness, “but when goals are moderate” or something that everyone can “see” as possible something happens to our blood pressure to prepare our body to take the needed action. Huberman says “when goals are moderate, or in range, there's a near doubling of the systolic blood pressure” that helps the body to lean into the goal. Your body becomes primed for the action it's about to take. If we are looking to achieve quantum level results, or achieve something that we have never done before, I think it's direly important to make what we are going for to be achievable, or something we can see ourselves doing, for the leaning in to occur physiologically. That's why reading and writing our goals out twice a day and having a crystal-clear vision of what we want, that burning desire that anyone can spot when you are talking about what you are working towards, is so important. When we can connect what the research says to our goal-achieving process, it makes more sense. Put This into Action: Breaking Past to Where We've Never Been Before Think about the sports team in last place, who has a vision of winning, and had to stretch their mind beyond their past results. Like the Cincinnati Bengals who according to NFL research “no team in NFL history had overcome a halftime deficit of 10-plus points to win in multiple games against an opponent in a single season (including playoffs).[xi] This team suffered year after year with their performance and haven't been a good team since they made the playoffs in 1988. 2 years ago, they were the worst team in the NFL, until they got a new head coach and quarterback, and whatever they did changed the trajectory of the team. The QB had previously won the college national championship so he brought the winning mindset to the team. Only they know what they did to achieve this milestone and will be interesting to see how it plays out moving forward, but I think it just takes one person of influence to turn a team around, with a new mindset, encouraging new actions, and to think in a wildly different way than they ever had previously, so they can get to where they have never been before. This concept can be applied in the workplace if we want a new position at work and the salary is 3 times higher than our current salary. We must be able to see beyond what we know we can do, using our imagination, to break through where our results currently are sitting to achieve these quantum leap results. We must be unwavering with our vision for what we want. This is how history is made in the sports world, and how we can transfer this skill to our personal and professional lives. PART 2[xii] we looked at the importance of positive thinking, being crystal clear with what we want, and I'm going to add something Price Pritchett warns us of in his You2 book, that “most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing” their goals and that “quantum leaps require you to take the offensive. You can't achieve exponential gains in your success from a defensive position. You can't make a passive stance and make a quantum jump…and leave the safety that goes along with merely wishing for something. You must place your trust in action.” (Pritchett, You Squared, Page 24). The Neuroscience of Action Taking/Executing Your Goals So, what is the neuroscience behind taking action with our goals? American neuroscientist from Stanford University's School of Medicine, the well respected Dr. Andrew Huberman discusses the science of setting, assessing and executing goals on his recent podcast.[xiii]  Dr. Huberman reminds us that there's only ONE basic system in the brain related to setting goals and there are common brain circuits that help move us towards our goals (short and long-term) and that humans can juggle many different types of goals (financial, health, work related etc.) but usually when we put all of our focus on one area, we lack in other areas. Like our health can suffer if we focus too much on our work goals, and vice versa. Setting, Assessing and Executing Goals and Our Brain: To reduce the stress with the goal setting process, Huberman tells us that when we are going after our goals there are only four parts (or circuits) of the brain involved and understanding how these four areas work together can help us to find ways to move towards our goals, more intentionally, with increased focused and with brain-science involved. No matter what the goal is (an executive building a multi-million-dollar company, or a teacher creating their lesson plans) there, are only these four common circuits involved in the goal seeking areas of the brain[xiv]: Goal-Seeking Areas of the Brain: The amygdala: often associated with fear, anxiety or avoidance of pain. Initiating Action/Preventing Action Basal Ganglia: A circuit Involving the initiation or prevention of action (go or no-go circuit). Executive Functions like Thinking/Planning (Now and Future) Circuits: Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Orbitofrontal Cortex: Meshing Emotionality to Our Current State (where we sit now without our goals vs how it will feel when we achieve our goals). How Do We Assess the Value of the Goal and Know What Action to Take? What happens in these circuits depends on what value is placed on a goal, and given the value of the goal, we decide which action to take, or not take and the neurotransmitter dopamine will be used in our brain depending on this value of the goal we deem as important. Which brings us back to why a book like Think and Grow Rich could help us in the first place. If I think about the four goal-seeking areas of the brain, and how they are activated during the goal setting/achieving process, it makes sense to me that having a solid plan to stay on track would keep these 4 areas of the brain working for me, instead of against me. The chapter on choosing faith over fear will help prevent my amygdala from shutting down my brain when obstacles come my way, because I will have a plan to move past them. Then I can imagine the Basal Ganglia saying “go Andrea, keep going!” and cheering me on past whatever obstacles come my way like procrastination, and the persistence chapter will remind me why I must keep going, use my executive functions as I think, plan and add the final goal setting part of my brain to add emotion to how incredible it will feel when I achieve what I have worked so hard for, or the pain and frustration I will feel if I miss the goal. This book was designed to support the four goal seeking areas of the brain. No wonder it works so well. What I thought was fascinating with the research that Dr. Huberman mentioned is there are ways that we can further  “improve our focus and cognitive attention” and our ability to stay focused on what we want, and that's by focusing on an external point, and the minute we focus on a point (outside of our body) it requires effort, and something happens at the brain level that prepares us further for the action we are about to take. Remember Pritchett said we can't achieve exponential gains in our success from a defensive position. We must be primed and ready for action. Then Use Your Visual Focus to Achieve Your Goals Quicker and With Less Perceived Effort Huberman's focusing activity helps us to be prepared mentally for the action we must take, by leaning into the goal, when we do this. He gave an example of a study where one group looked at the goal line in a goal-achieving exercise they had to move to (narrowing their attention to what they wanted-move themselves to the goal line wearing 15 lb weights), while the other group did not look at the goal line, or their final destination. The group that used their focused attention towards the goal they wanted, (they could see exactly where they were going, with no doubts at all) were more primed for that goal physiologically. He explained on a deeper level what happens to the brain and body when we focus on the goal ahead of time, but the results showed the group that looked at the goal line, were able to move towards the goal line with less perceived effort (17% less effort) and quicker (23%) faster than the other group that did not look at the goal line. Put This into Action: So how does Dr. Huberman's research tie into PART 2 of our book study? He said that just by changing where a person looks, they changed their perceived effort and their ability to achieve their goal more quickly. Do you have your eye on your goal? Are you clear about your END point, or where you are going? There really is a science behind setting and achieving our goals.  As we are working through PART 2 of the series, where we took our goal, that is not a wish, nor a hope, but a burning desire, remember that desire that Edison saw in Barnes' eyes? Barnes was clear about what he wanted. He had his eyes on the end goal, and Edison saw it just as clearly as Barnes did. That energy radiated from Barnes, and Edison picked it up.  He didn't let it waver (with doubts, fears or worries) and never took his eyes off his goal. I put an image in the show notes of a roadmap I created in the Level Up Program[xv] (that I created for schools) to help us to break down our goal into quarters. It helps to bring clarity to where you are now, with a vision of where you are going, and a place for action steps you can take along the way, breaking the goal into smaller chunks. You might have a process for breaking down your goals that you prefer, but I put I wanted to share this strategy with you in the show notes as an example to map out your year, with a clear path, keeping in mind that the research shows this clarity (or your eye on the end goal) is so vitally important. Our brain will pick up on the value we place on our goal, (our clarity and definiteness of purpose) and provide you with the dopamine needed to take the action necessary for the attainment of that goal. That's mind-blowing to me, to think about WHY the principle of desire (knowing clearly where we are going) pushes us towards what we want.  It's happening on a biological and physiological level. Thanks to Dr. Huberman's podcast, I was able to make this connection, and many more on a deeper level. REMEMBER: When we are clear about WHAT we want, and WHY we want it, this will drive our behavior and our brain will produce the neurotransmitter dopamine to push us towards action of what we want. When we can keep our eye clearly on the end goal, we will get there with less perceived effort and quicker than if we didn't have this clear vision. This reminded me that Brendon Burchard chose clarity as one of the habits in his book, High Performance Habits, as one of the habits that moves the needle the most for habits of high achievers, and now I can see why. PART 3[xvi] we examined the importance of putting these goals on autopilot with what Hill calls “autosuggestion” and then further honing our craft by studying, learning, and developing specialized knowledge that will separate you from others, making you truly unique with your talent that you'll continue to perfect in your lifetime, while using your imagination to keep building and perfecting whatever it is that you want to create in your life. What we are doing here is creating NEW behaviors that will become automatic and work for us and make our pursuit towards our goals much easier with time. The Neuroscience of Habit Building We mentioned at the start of this episode that we have covered an introduction to how our brain forms and breaks habits on an earlier episode #35[xvii] from January 2020 that's a good episode to review in addition to what I will share with you here. PART 3 is all about putting our goals on autopilot, and Hill suggests reading and writing our goals every day, twice a day. What he is doing, is helping us to prime our brain to become crystal clear with our vision, that after a certain amount of time of repeating our goals, they begin to become automatic in our brain. They no longer feel like pipe dreams, but we become familiar with them, and this is not far off from the habit-building literature you will find when you research “How to Build New Habits” with the hundreds of books, research and articles on this subject online. What I liked about Dr.Huberman's work is that he explains that there are certain habits that will give us more “limbic friction”[xviii] or are more difficult to do. This is going to be different for everyone. For me, getting up and exercising every day is easy to do, and requires very little limbic friction because it's become a habit for me over many years, but to sit at my desk and read through Neuroscience Articles on Pubmed is excruciatingly difficult and when we have something that we find difficult to do, we can end up procrastinating, and not doing it at all. Dr. Huberman makes this daunting task simple and easier to tackle by diving the day up into phases, like Phase 1 being the early morning, (0-8 hours after waking up) where you can “overcome this limbic friction” and do the things that are most difficult for you if you tackle them in this early window of the day to help you to push past something that's difficult, which will eventually form a habit. This was the main idea of Brian Tracey's popular book Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time.[xix] It was about tackling those difficult tasks first. Put This into Action: I've always liked the idea of picking one habit you will form (or break) every 90 days, and if you can check off each day you do the new habit (if it's exercise, reading articles on pubmed, or trading coffee for hot lemon water) whatever it is, you pick one habit, and focus on that for 90 days. At the end of the 90 days, you will have formed a new habit, and will have a heightened level of self-awareness as you go through this process. I highly suggest this activity but will say that if you are looking to eliminate a habit you don't want anymore, and can't do it, then a good episode to revisit is Dr. Anna Lembke from EPISODE #162[xx] who explains how certain habits can become addictive, and how to break them. You can use the chart in the show notes to pick one habit and make it stick, or break a habit this way over a 90-day period. I listened to another incredible podcast with Kristen Holmes from Whoop.com who we had on for episode #134[xxi] on “Measuring Sleep, Recovery and Strain” and she was speaking with Dr. Hazel Wallace on “Nutrition and Habit Formation[xxii]” and they discussed some similar habit forming/breaking strategies. I loved the example that Kristen Holmes used when talking about ways to break habits she didn't want (like looking at your phone while driving) and she mentioned that thinking of the negative consequences of the action can help you to break these habits. Dr. Huberman mentioned this strategy of his “The Science Behind Setting and Achieving Goals”[xxiii] podcast with the idea of visualizing failure as being an effective goal achieving strategy, instead of the usual visualizing success strategy. He makes the distinction that predicting failure is much different than visualizing failure as predicting failure, or what happens if you don't achieve what you are going for, can help you lean into your goal. When you are on track, you can reward yourself along the way, and withhold rewards when you veer off track, to keep your dopamine reward center active. The best reward is always the unexpected reward that you could also use to further motivate someone and amplify their system. Take a look at the image in the show notes and pick one habit that you will form or break over the next 90 days, and see if you can use Dr. Huberman's strategy of tackling the new habit in Phase 1 of your day, to make it easier on you and your brain, as you attempt to create a new habit. PART 4[xxiv] we dove deep into why organized planning, decision-making and persistence are important and timeless leadership characteristics, with strategies to help all of us to improve our persistence muscles. The Neuroscience of Focus There is a way to focus in on our habits, using our persistence to turn them into stronger habits that stick, and use up “less limbic friction” (Dr. Huberman) or how difficult a habit is to carry out, when we think about the habits we do every day (like brushing our teeth) that are automatic, easy to do, and we can easily perform them at any time. They are strong habits. Putting This into Action: and Increase the Likelihood That We'll Build Strong Habits That Stick A study identifies “neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior”[xxv] become a habit. Remember the 4 parts of the brain involved in goal-seeking? For this strategy, we are involving the basal ganglia (action execution or suppression or the do/don't do) circuits of the brain for something Dr. Huberman shared is called “Task Bracketing” and happens any time we are learning a new habit/skill or trying to break a new habit or skill. Most of us will find some things easy to do, and others more difficult, depending on whether they are habits or not. It matters what we are doing BEFORE and AFTER the skill, to bracket it, because parts of the brain (in the Basal Ganglia that determine whether we are taking an action or not) will become more active (before and after a particular habit) so it “brackets” the habit to make it stronger. I do remember hearing this in a past episode with Dr. Ratey, the author of Spark: The New Science of Exercise and the Brain on EPISODE #116[xxvi] where he mentioned that any time exercise is done BEFORE a new habit you are trying to form, it will make that habit stick.  It made sense to me that exercise could be used to frame the habit or think of this imaginary bracket around the habit adding more focus to it, with our brain primed with neurotransmitters, strengthening what we are doing, so it can be performed at any given time. If we have habits that are “bracketed (with physical exercise, or any other strategy you can think of to prime your brain to what you are about to do) like viewing sunlight, cold exposure, caffeine, fasting, or ways to increase norepinephrine, and dopamine) this will help you to engage in activates with high limbic friction”[xxvii] (or the activities that you find difficult to do).  So even if we got a terrible sleep, or aren't operating optimally, we will still move forward and perform what we set out to do, since we have placed a higher value on this habit we've bracketed, just like habits we don't think as necessary, we could skip. This creates a neural imprint on our brain of the value of whatever habit it is we want to maintain. Preparing our brain for this habit that we want to create by initiating it when our brain and body are in the right state, like early in the first 8 hours of the day when we are less tired, is another way to “bracket” the habit we want to stick with less “limbic friction.” Another way to strengthen a habit is to think of the neural pathway that's created each time we do the thing that we want since “neurons that fire together, wire together” and neuroscience and the literature in psychology support that doing what you want to accomplish once or twice in your mind BEFORE hand, can help you to create the neural circuit before you even begin the habit creation process. Do you know how you bracket your “high limbic friction” habits? Here's how I do this. In order to read, research and write complex ideas involving neuroscience, I start my day around 4am with coffee (half caffeine and half decaf), use exercise and intermittent fasting that I break after my morning hikes. This way my brain in primed to sit at my desk and create content that I sometimes find difficult to learn, understand and explain. After my interview with Dr. Ratey, I was aware of the fact that I knew I needed to do certain things for me to focus on work that I find difficult to do, but I had no idea it was a brain strategy called “bracketing” until I learned that from Dr. Andrew Huberman. Example of how Andrea brackets her difficult work (reading/writing neuroscience articles) with caffeine, exercise and intermittent fasting. PART 5[xxviii] we looked at the incredible power of the Mastermind, when two or more minds come together, creating what Hill called a third, invisible, intangible force that may be likened to a third mind. Next, we took the mystery out of sex transmutation showing that we can use this energy, the most powerful of human desires, to develop keenness of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence, and a creative ability that can become a motivating force to propel any profession to new heights. Finally, we reviewed the importance of linking ALL Parts of our mind together and reminding us about the power of autosuggestion and reading/writing our goals out twice a day. This part of the book showed me how important it is to bring our understanding of the brain and mind together. One of our earlier episodes from October 2019 focused on “The Difference Between the Mind and Brain”[xxix] so we can see how energy and information comes into our body, and how we can use this information. There's an incredible power that is formed when we can tap into our creative mind whether it's through a mastermind team, or transmuting your energy, we all have the ability to take our results to a new level with this concept. THE FINAL CHAPTERS OF THINK AND GROW RICH, REVIEW AND CONCLUSION Chapter 14: Talks about the importance of our sixth sense or developing our intuition that “will open to you at all times the door to the Temple of Wisdom.” (CH 16, Page 248, TAGR). Hill says “the ability to use this power comes slowly, through application of the other principles outlined in this book. Seldom does any individual come into workable knowledge of the sixth sense (or intuition) before the age of 40. More often the knowledge is not available until one is well past 50.” (CH 16, Page 257, TAGR). I first became interested in this topic years before I read this book, and there are many useful books I have found that have helped me to further develop this skill, like Shakti Gawain's Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life[xxx] that has a section for using intuition in the workplace. When you become good at listening to what feels right vs what feels wrong, and science ties into this as we will feel it throughout our entire body (interoception) then we will become quicker and more efficient at making decisions and will never need to ask someone else “what do you think about this?” because you will know with certainty what the answer is. This skill does require practice. The final principle we will cover is Chapter 15 and How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear that Hill says is mandatory, or else none of the other principles will work. He says “before you can put any portion of this philosophy into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it. The preparation is not difficult. It begins with study, analysis and understanding of three enemies you need to clear out. These are indecision, doubt and fear.” (CH 15, Page 262, TAGR).  Before we can even get to the Six Ghosts of Fear, we must eliminate all doubts and fears that make us indecisive. Do you see how ALL chapters of the book work together like the colors of the rainbow? Are you decisive or indecisive? If you have learned to trust your intuition, you will be decisive, and not attached to what other people think or as Hill said not “easily influenced by the opinion of others.” Once you have used your sixth sense to move past these three enemies, there are Six Basic Fears (or Ghosts of Fear) that we must outwit. Fear of Poverty Fear of Criticism Fear of Ill Health Fear of Loss of Love of Someone Fear of Old Age Fear of Death “Fears are nothing more than states of mind” (CH 15, Page 263, TAGR) and all six of these fears should be examined and eliminated for you to reach your highest potential. As we come to a close of this chapter, we are brought back to remember how important our thoughts are in chapter 1, and that we must build the life we want with a clear mental image of our goals. We need to be careful who we surround ourselves with, not stay clear of negative thinking, complaining, or worrying. And once we have followed all the steps Hill suggests, in each of the 15 chapters, and eliminate all doubts and fears, we will move steadily in the direction of our goals and THINK for ourselves. REVIEW, ACTION STEPS AND INSIGHTS To bring this final episode into a close, I want to review each PART with some thoughts on what action we will take to make use of this book study. I had no idea these episodes would keep me busy for the entire month of January, but I did learn that instead of relying on someone else to walk me through the book, teaching it on the podcast helped me to understand the principles on a deeper lever than any other year I have done with study with someone else leading it. PART 1:  We talked about stretching our brain past what's familiar or comfortable and think in a wildly different way than we previously have been. The amount of concentration we require to learn something new depends on the complexity of the material, and we must think of learning from a new angle, from within our skull, right down to the neurons, and axons in the brain, and how they are forming neural circuits, depending on the effort we are putting in to form a new habit or create a new circuit that with repetition will eventually become easier. What will you do differently this year? How will you break through to new levels and achieve something you have NEVER done before? PART 2: We looked at being crystal-clear with our goal, knowing where we are now, and where we want to go, and the action steps we will take, and how focusing on our end point or goal, will help us to get there with less perceived effort and time. I gave you a roadmap to use to map out your year and break it up into quarters so that at any given point of time, if you are asked where you are in the process, you are unwavering with your response. Is your year clearly mapped out from where you are now, to where you are going? PART 3:  We looked at how autosuggestion puts our goals on autopilot and some ways to break habits that don't serve us, and how to form new ones. What strategies will you use this year to break or form new habits? I put the 100 Days to Habit worksheet in the show notes you can use for this strategy. PART 4: We talked about the neuroscience of focus and how to add “task bracketing” to make difficult “high friction limbic” tasks easier to accomplish, while setting the brain on a path to creating a new habit with whatever it is you find difficult. What are your “high friction limbic” tasks? How do you task bracket them to make them less difficult? PART 5: Puts all of the parts of the brain together and leads us into the final chapters of the book that I admit I hadn't read until doing this book study. Learning how our brain works is something we can do with new learning, applying new research and honing our skills and craft along the way. It's all a process, which takes time. To close out this episode, I'll end with a quote that I saw the other night on one of Bob Proctor's social media accounts. I know it wasn't him posting this, but his team, as he never had time for that sort of thing, but whoever picked this quote, got it right. It said “What story do you want to tell? What scenes do you want to shoot? How do you want the movie to end? Be the director of your life.” Bob Proctor Whatever it is you are going after, you'll do it when you believe it. Napoleon Hill had an unwavering belief in his vision when Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest men in American history challenged him to write a book on the laws of achievement, and Hill told him “Andrew Carnegie, I'm not only going to equal your achievements in life, but I am going to challenge you at the post and pass you at the grandstand.” [xxxi] I'm sure that Carnegie saw the belief in his eyes. Do you have an unwavering belief in whatever it is you want to achieve? I would seriously put some thought into this. It's the last chapter of the book I wrote, inspired by my work with Proctor, The Secret for Teens Revealed, I took the principles I learned while working with Bob in the seminar industry, and created an action plan for teens to use. The last chapter in this book is What Difference Will You Make in Your Lifetime? We should all know the legacy we want to create, and the difference we will make in our lifetime. It's not what we GET in our lifetime, it's who we become and it's up to us to make this happen. The 15 principles of this book that we have studied are a solid roadmap to help guide us there. I think we can now all agree how these principles are backed by science and why they are effective. With that, I complete our Book Study of the powerful book, Think and Grow Rich, that has been studied by some of the wisest people in the world, and if you've made it this far, you can add yourself to this list as well. I would love to hear any feedback on this episode and what you think. Did this study help you to refine your year? Now that we have completed the study, what action steps will you take? Do you feel the sense of urgency that I tried to convey that this MUST be the year we ALL do things differently to attain new results, and that as each year comes to a close, we revisit these 15 principles to further refine our plans? If this was the last year of your life what would you do to make an imprint of the world with your talents and abilities? See you next week as we move into some interviews with a returning guest, David Sousa and his new edition of How the Brain Learns, as well as a fascinating story of Erika Ferszt[xxxii], who founded Moodally.com and turned to neuroscience after she experienced work burnout after 10 years of working for Ray-Ban in Global Advertising and Media. We continue our season in pursuit of our goals, with health and wellbeing at the core of our message. 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#35 “How to Use Your Brain to Break Bad Habits”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/how-to-use-your-brain-to-break-bad-habits-in-2020/ [vi] Alan Lindeman, Executive Coach https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlindeman/ [vii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [viii] Astrocyte Regulation of Blood Flow in the Brain May 2015 by Brian A MacVicar and Eric A Newman  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448617/ [ix] Harnessing a Universe of Knowledge: The Science of Learning, Special Time Edition, by Markham Heid Page 12 [x] IBID [xi] NFL Playoffs: What we learned from Bengals' win over Chiefs in AFC Championship Game by Kevin Patra, Jan. 30th, 2022 https://www.nfl.com/_amp/2021-nfl-playoffs-what-we-learned-from-bengals-win-over-chiefs-in-afc-championsh [xii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ [xiii] Set and Achieve Goals with Andrew Huberman https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-setting-and-achieving-goals/ [xiv] The Science of Setting and Achieving Goals Andrew Huberman Podcast EPISODE 55 Published  January 15, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1F7EEGPQwo [xv] Level Up for Educators https://www.achieveit360.com/level-up-for-educators-neuroscience-meets-sel/ [xvi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ [xvii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #35 “How to Use Your Brain to Break Bad Habits”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/how-to-use-your-brain-to-break-bad-habits-in-2020/ [xviii] Dr. Andrew Huberman “The Science of Making and Breaking Habits” https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-making-and-breaking-habits/ [xix]Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracey April 17, 2017  https://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp/162656941X [xx] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #162 Dr. Anna Lembke on her book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/medical-director-of-addictive-medicine-at-stanford-university-dr-anna-lembke-on-dopamine-nation-finding-balance-in-the-age-of-indulgence/ [xxi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #134 with Kristen Holmes from Whoop.com on “Measuring Sleep, Recovery and Strain” with a Whoop Device https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kristen-holmes-from-whoopcom-on-unlocking-a-better-you-measuring-sleep-recovery-and-strain/ [xxii] Whoop Podcast #157 with Kristen Holmes and Dr. Hazel Wallace on “Nutrition and Habit Formation” https://www.whoop.com/thelocker/podcast-157-dr-hazel-wallace-nutrition-habit-formation/ [xxiii] The Science of Setting and Achieving Goals Andrew Huberman Podcast EPISODE 55 Published  January 15, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1F7EEGPQwo [xxiv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ [xxv] Distinctive Brain Pattern Helps Habits Form by Anne Trafton Feb. 8, 2018 https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2018/02/08/distinctive-brain-pattern-helps-habits-form/ [xxvi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #116 with Dr. Ratey  on “The New Science of Exercise and the Brain” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/best-selling-author-john-j-ratey-md-on-the-revolutionary-new-science-of-exercise-and-the-brain/ [xxvii] Dr. Andrew Huberman “The Science of Making and Breaking Habits” https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-making-and-breaking-habits/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 [xxviii] on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of the Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ [xxix][xxix] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #23 “Understanding the Difference Between Your Mind and Brain for Improved Results” 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This Coffee Break is on the subject of procrastination. In his best selling book "Eat That Frog", Brian Tracey gives 21 suggestions for how to stop procrastinating and achieve your goals. In this podcast, I will focus on the first three which are foundational to the rest: (1) Setting the table, (2) Plan Each Day in Advanced and (3) Practicing the Law of Three. To read more about how to stop procrastinating and get things done, check out the book "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracey which can be found in most libraries or you can purchase it on Amazon.

Rye whiskey production had a historic past in the northeastern states, especially Pennsylvania and Maryland. And now Sagamore Spirit based in Baltimore is bringing rye whiskey back. Ryan and I traveled to record this interview with their CEO, Brian Tracey, and their Director of Operations, Ryan Norwood. We uncover Brian's unique past of how a phone call with Kevin Plank, the CEO of Under Armor, would take him from running a backpacking and kayaking company in Flagstaff Arizona to building a new distillery from the ground up. One of Brian's tasks was to find a distiller and that led to a few conversations with Ryan Norwood, a young guy who was really into yeast and beers. Sagamore had a longstanding relationship with MGP but now they have their own Maryland rye distillate and we talk about how they shaped and revitalized the Maryland rye category. Show Notes: Brian talk about how you go from ski bum to whiskey CEO? How did you cross paths with Under Armor CEO, Kevin Plank, and him ask you to become CEO? What did you know about the distilling business before starting? What did Kevin like about the distilling business? What was the initial vision? After you were convinced to start, who was the first call you made? When did Ryan Norwood come into the picture for distilling? Walk us through the differences be between brewing and distilling. What was is like working with Larry Ebersold to develop your Maryland style rye? Why do distilleries go with 95/5 rye? What was the process of figuring out how to scale and go beyond a 500 gallon pot still? Why only distill rye whiskey when bourbon is so popular? What does it mean to you when articles begin coming out without any affiliation to Under Armor? As a CEO, what are you trying to empower your people with? What was it about going down the path of finished whiskeys? Do you have any horror stories from working with barrel brokers on used barrels? Here's how we all came together to collaborate on Pursuit United Rye. @sagamorespirit @sagamorewhiskeybrian @smilesdavisjr Support this podcast on Patreon

The Keys to Successful Manifesting | Adora Evans | Raw & UNscripted w/Christopher Rausch Tuesdays @ 7pm (pst) / 10pm (est) Learn proven strategies for successfully manifesting what's most important to you Discover methods for improving your perspective and mindset about past mistakes and challenges Gain specific tips for shifting the negative self-image you may hold about yourself Please join me LIVE Tues, 12/14/2021 @ 7pm (pst / 10pm (est) as I share a conversation with my amazing soul sister Adora Evans!! Videocast replay link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHgM3Icw0E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHgM3Icw0E) She's a powerhouse of overcoming unbelievable challenges in her youth to manifesting and creating a life she is super proud of. Moreover, she's taken the lessons she's learned and the investments in her own growth to inspire others to create and accomplish the same for themselves. She's the author of the book "Majestic Money: The 30-Day Femme Manifesting Game (The Rich Queen Movement Series) and works with personal development icons like Denis Waitley, Brian Tracey, and the world-famous Les Brown!!! Discover more about Adora via her Instagram @adorasgroove  and learn about what she has going on via this https://linktr.ee/Adoracrystal?fbclid=IwAR0iulDmeKmJBMrB7MXiu4NoizUsRgc3z6COJQqFl3NhPdgiYD7GFfYwENc (LINK!) No doubt this conversation will provide tons of #inspiration and #motivation to potentially change your #Perspective and #Mindset! Bring your favorite note-taking tools and let's make the changes we need to move to the next level of our life! BONUS: We'll be interacting with you LIVE in the comments section with your thoughts and answering your questions! Also, please take a moment to become an official #MisFit4Life in our group http://www.facebook.com/groups/RawAndUnscripted/ (www.facebook.com/groups/RawAndUnscripte)d Are YOU READY #KickassNation #MisFits4Life??? #PositiveSelfImage #Confidence #MindsetMastery #NoExcusesCoach #Raw&UNscripted #NoRegrets #Unstoppable For More Information please check out: http://www.christopherrausch.com/ (www.ChristopherRausch.com) http://www.youtube.com/TheChristopherRausch (www.Youtube.com/TheChristopherRausch)

Meet Natalie Ledwell Dame Natalie Ledwell is a bestselling author, host of the podcast, Not Over, Just Different, co-host of the cable TV show WAKE UP, and founder of Mind Movies, the hugely successful and revolutionary online Personal Development company that has reached over 5.8 million people worldwide. Right now, she has launched her brand new groundbreaking Social and Emotional Learning curriculum entitled "Personal Growth Studies" into schools here in the US. Which is designed to empower youth from ages 5-18 years to live fulfilling and successful lives with high self-esteem and a vision for a bright future. In October 2018, Natalie traveled to Liberia. She met with government officials and launched Personal Growth Studies into several schools, which is now in its second year, working with over 1000 students. In 2020, Natalie had the immense honor of being Knighted by the Orthodox Order of St John, a humanitarian group recognizing individuals who are doing great work and have a big vision of the work they want to complete in the world helping others.      You Do Not Need to Know How You'll Manifest Your Desires I loved this conversation with Natalie Ledwell so much, in part because Natalie is so the real deal, and it's incredible to hear how the universe has worked its magic through her, highlighted by her huge impact and beautiful success. She got the idea to create Mind Movies in 2008 after watching The Secret and realized that you do NOT need to know the HOW in the manifestation process in setting big goals and manifesting your desires. She and her husband paid for a high-end mastermind with some of the leading digital marketing experts and threw themselves into the world of internet marketing, sales, and other programs. Natalie attributes surrounding herself with the best people in the world as one of the most critical factors of their success.      Become the Person You Envision in Your Greatest Future I loved this quote from our conversation; Natalie said she "had to change who she's being to be the person who fits in a new capacity and is friends with some of the most well-known leaders in the personal growth industry." My takeaway is that when it comes to manifesting your desires you must step into the leader you need to be to match the emerging version of yourself. This is exactly what Natalie did, and today she has become friends and works with leaders like Tony Robbins, Brian Tracey, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, and Dr. Joe Dispenza.      Spiritual Practices + Daily Habits I always love to ask successful entrepreneurs like Natalie (whom I'd refer to also as a lightworker) how they stay spiritually aligned and connected to their purpose and heart. Natalie Ledwell shared that she has a few things she does every day to stay spiritually connected. She meditates every day, either to Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditations or in complete silence. She makes tea (magic hour tea, to be exact) and sips it on the balcony every morning, slowing down and tapping into her senses, noticing what she sees, hears, feels, and experiences in real-time. This morning moment of pausing allows Natalie to create space for communing with the divine. She always exercises, usually a walk with an audiobook or something inspirational to listen to, and ends with moments of gratitude. I loved her reminder about gratitude and that whether you journal about it, think about it or verbalize it, it's not about the action and is all about the emotion. Most importantly, Natalie reminds us that you want to feel gratitude. Manifestation Ingredients The goal is to leverage the universal entity of power greater than ourselves to manifest our deepest desires. The two most important ingredients in doing this are expectation and belief. Our emotions are what we emit to the universe. Thus maintaining high-frequency emotions like joy, gratitude, and pride, are essential for manifesting your desires. Natalie Ledwell has lived the Law of Attraction in her own life going from growing up in the countryside in Australia as one of eight children, experiencing quite a bit of lack, to running fitness facilities to eventually creating a powerful product that has touched the lives of 6 million people (and growing). She went from struggling to being in the flow. It's crucial to visualize your future, being grateful and expecting and knowing it's already here. What I loved most was that poignant reminder that this is for all of us.      Final Thoughts Natalie Ledwell is well versed in the power of manifestation. It plays an enormous role in her business, Mind Movies, and in her everyday life. Manifesting your desires is something she wants for each and every one of us. Natalie reminds us that anyone can do this. Anyone can manifest what they desire. And, there is always enough for everyone.      Sacred Connection As always, this community is a sacred, safe place built on love and acceptance. It was created to help you evolve and expand into your highest self. Please share your wisdom, comments, thoughts. I love hearing from you and learning how you are being your truest, you-est you. Please join us in our Facebook group The You-est You® Community for Soul Seekers Join host Julie Reisler, author and multi-time TEDx speaker, each week to learn how you can tap into your best self and become your You-est You® to achieve inner peace, happiness, and success at a deeper level! Tune in to hear powerful, inspirational stories and expert insights from entrepreneurs, industry thought leaders, and extraordinary human beings that will help to transform your life. Julie also shares a-ha moments that have shaped her life and career and discusses key concepts from her book Get a PhD in YOU Here's to your being your you-est you!     Connect with Natalie Ledwell Website: natalieledwell.com Facebook: @natalieledwell1 Twitter: @natalie_ledwell Youtube: youtube.com/channel/NatalieLedwell Pinterest: pinterest.ph/natalieledwell   Enjoying the show? For iTunes listeners, get automatic downloads and share the love by subscribing, rating & reviewing here! *Share what you are struggling with or looking to transform with Julie at podcast@juliereisler.com. Julie would love to start covering topics of highest interest to YOU.   You-est You Links: Subscribe to the Podcast  Learn more at JulieReisler.com Become a Sacred Member at the Sacredology® Membership Join The You-est You® Community for Soul Seekers on Facebook Subscribe to Julie's YouTube Channel Book Julie as a speaker at your upcoming event Amazon #1 Best selling book Get a PhD in YOU Download free guided-meditations from Insight Timer Julie's Hungry For More On line Program (10 Module Interactive Course) 15 Days Of Gratitude To Change Your Life on InsightTimer

Dave has been investing in real estate since 2003. Helping thousands of real estate entrepreneurs from around the world. Featured on some of the largest real estate shows on the internet. Shared the stage with Robert Kiyosaki, George Foreman, Arlene Dickinson, Ted Thomas, Robert Herjavek, Brian Tracey (to name a few).  

What a pleasure it was to speak with GAA Hall of Famer Sean Boylan, who after 21 years playing hurling with Meath decided to take up the mantle of the intercounty football manager for 23 years, winning four All Irelands, eight Leinster championships and three league titles. Over the hour with Eddie Scally , Sean discussed His recent battle with Covid  Effects of Covid on players  Getting appointed as Meath manager  A hurler managing a football team  Epic battles throughout his tenure  Treating his players as adults  How he kept things fresh and evolved  Regrets / greatest days  Finishing up - “It was like a wake without a body”  His respect for Mayo Expects nothing between the last 3 teams anyone could win this years Sam but he hopes it's ....... If you like what you hear, why not dip into the archives and listen back to some of the recent episodes where we deep-dive into careers of former Kilkenny hurlers Eddie Brennan, Noel Hickey, Brian Hogan, PJ Ryan, Paul Murphy, Peter Cleere, Eoin Larkin, Micheal Rice, Eddie Keher John Mulhall and Richie Power, Waterford's Dan Shanahan & former manager Derek McGrath, Roscommon's Frankie Dolan, All-Ireland senior camogie winner with Kilkenny Denise Gaule, Katie Nolan & Power, former Westmeath player John Connellan,  Carlow's Marty Kavanagh Niall Carew & Brian Tracey, Referee David Gough, Cork All-Star Larry Tompkins, former Galway All-Ireland winners Eugene Cloonan, Micheál Donoghue and Kevin Walsh or All-Ireland winner with Offaly Michael Duignan.Better yet you can follow The Clash Act on your favourite podcast platform or log onto the KCLR app for fresh weekly episodes.This podcast was brought to you with thanks to Morrissey Motors Kilkenny, the main Peugeot dealer for county Kilkenny since 1994.

Black Moves First Episode 02: Parchelle Tashi Ever thought of starting your own business?  In today's episode, I chat with my  long time friend, Parchelle Tashi about entrepreneurship.  As co-founder of a new company 36,000' Parchelle is on a mission to partner with today's leading authors to expand their reach and revenue by creating online courses that serve as profitable complements to their published books.  With a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction, Parchelle has that cool-teacher-vibe, and has a way of simplifying the complexities of video and instructional design with good stories, actionable advice, and heartfelt conversation! Parchelle shares her story of transitioning from high school math teacher to full time video professional and how personal development has paved the way for her to focus on what she loves to do.  Listen to today's episode for entrepreneurial, leadership, personal growth tips and much more!    1:25 Alton introduces Parchelle  2:57 Parchelle's transformation from high school math teacher in Virginia to video professional in San Diego.  6:40 Challenges and stereotypes Parchelle has faced as a black female entrepreneur.  12:13 The evolution of Parchelle's Business into creating online courses for authors.  12:58 Parchelle's Ideal Client. 18:00 How Parchelle takes complex ideas and simplifies them to teach.  22:04 The correlation between how you value yourself and what you charge your clients.  25:19 Parchelle's personal development journey. 28:20 Tips for Entrepreneurs. 33:00 Parchelle's vision 10 years from now.  33:44 The importance of building a team.  39:28 How to connect with Parchelle.  Resources mentioned:  The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+artist%27s+way&qid=1624965500&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+artist%27s+way&qid=1624965500&sr=8-1)    Mooji: https://mooji.org/ (https://mooji.org/)  Brian Tracey: https://www.briantracy.com/ (https://www.briantracy.com/)  Wealth Dynamics: https://www.wealthdynamics.com/ (https://www.wealthdynamics.com/)  Connect with Parchelle:  Email: video@parchelletashi.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parchelle/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parchelle/)  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parchelle.tashi (https://www.facebook.com/parchelle.tashi)  http://www.teachfirstclass.com/ (www.teachfirstclass.com)  Connect with us: Subscribe to our podcast and share with others.  Sign up for our newsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/3ORVW8T/blackmovesfirstsignup (https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/3ORVW8T/blackmovesfirstsignup)  You can also view us on the web at http://www.blackmovesfirst.com/ (www.blackmovesfirst.com).  Follow us on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/blackmovesfirst (www.instagram.com/blackmovesfirst) & Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blackmoves1st (https://www.facebook.com/blackmoves1st) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFdUxfpQdSfDm_TnB-iSsOg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFdUxfpQdSfDm_TnB-iSsOg)  Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackmovesfirst (https://twitter.com/blackmovesfirst) 

In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon Bolliger ND, talks to Cheryl Ivanisky about Holistic Diabetes Solutions as she is a Wellness Strategist, Dr. Holistic Medicine, CEO of Holistic Diabetes Solutions & The Academy of Holistic Diabetes Education For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/cheryl-ivanisky   Highlights from today's episode include: Cheryl Ivanisky  18:23 So you know, when there comes the whole vitamin D, vitamin K, yes. And there, and then when you look at the countries around the world, even some of our sunniest climates, yeah, all year round, but because people cover their bodies, they're also deficient, which you wouldn't think they would be division, vitamin D, but vitamin D is critical. Cheryl Ivanisky  22:38 I think getting back to basics is very important. But I think that that one thing that people can really do is look at the quality of sleep that they're getting. Cheryl Ivanisky  24:19 you're looking at what your body fights every day with environmental pollutants out in the world, the products that you use that it has to break down the pesticides, it has to break down the cellular and electronic electrosmog it has to deal with and everything else.   About Cheryl Ivanisky Cheryl Ivaniski is a Global Wellness Authority, Dr. Holistic Medicine - Acupuncture, Speaker, Coach, 5 X Bestselling Author Diabetes Thriver for over 24 years, host of the NO BS Podcast About Diabetes and the author of Having A Life of More; Having watched her grandma struggle for 40 years with loss of vision, mobility, independence and eventually the shutting down of her kidneys and heart, until one day Diabetes took her life. Cheryl was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and Hashimotos disease over 24 years ago. Specialists said she should expect the onset of scary complications and told her to prepare for a grim future. She took a stand that her life was not going to be the same. She mastered the Holistic Lifestyle and has since been living a very vibrant life!  Her mission brought her from teams of health professionals using the traditional approach, to going back to university and studying alternative methods to wellness - how to heal from the inside out, to be proactive rather than reactive, and how holistic self-care can elevate your wellness leaps and bounds!  She's gone on to co-authoring books with big names like Jack Canfield, Les Brown, Dr. John Gray and Brian Tracey. Core purpose/passion: My mission to help others manage their diabetes with a holistic approach and alternative ways to wellness. Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube |   About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND: Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker, she did a TEDx talk "Your Body is Smarter Than You Think. Why Aren't You Listening?"  in Jan 2021, and is the author of Amazon best-selling books "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask". & "A Healer in Every Household" For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog.  For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips   About The Healers Café: Dr. Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives. Follow Dr M on Social – Facebook | Instagram |  LinkedIn  |  YouTube  |  Twitter  

René Deceuninck, Motivational Speaker, Coach, and Master & Expert in Body Language, joins Theresa and Blair in this week's episode. René shares that for him, success is being happy and having that clarity of who you are and where you are going. Rising above being bullied and not accepting that he was “not smart or good enough” to achieve his goals, René proved that success is something that fulfills your needs as well. Don't ever quit and overcome that inner critic that is stopping you. Better yet, get into the helicopter and fly above it.  About the guest: René Deceuninck, Master & Expert in Body Language, Motivational Speaker, Coach and Trainer, runs an exclusive international company. Since 1995, René has been delivering enriching insights and results-oriented outcomes to his clients. His seminars, keynotes, and trainings around the world are changing businesses with amazing levels of positive increase. He shared stages with Brian Tracey, Jairek Robbins, Jack Canfield, and many other influential speakers. In collaboration with Success Resources, René is hosting preview sessions for Anthony Robbins' Unleash The Power Within, a 4 day transformational and breakthrough event including the famous Firewalk! His clients are empowered with their new skills to read thoughts before one word is spoken, in meetings, in sales, and in everyday situations. As a result of this competitive edge, they optimize their performance, both personal & professional. Website: https://www.renedeceuninck.com (https://www.renedeceuninck.com)  Online Course: https://ipb-ltd.mykajabi.com/ (https://ipb-ltd.mykajabi.com/)  Social Media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drcomm (https://www.facebook.com/drcomm)  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/renedeceuninck (https://www.instagram.com/renedeceuninck)  LinkedIn https://be.linkedin.com/in/rdeceuninck Twitter https://twitter.com/drcomm (https://twitter.com/drcomm)  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCHX-lz9VOLeI-x9WD5NmbA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCHX-lz9VOLeI-x9WD5NmbA)  Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/renedeceuninck/ (https://www.pinterest.com/renedeceuninck/)  About the Host: Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. As a pioneer in the industry, she brings more than a decade of experience to her clients, which include global wellness, entertainment and lifestyle brands. Blair has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards and more. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including CBC Radio, CEOWORLD Magazine, She Owns It and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 best selling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur. When she's not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “I Am Resilient Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life's most difficult moments. https://www.blairkaplan.ca/ (https://www.blairkaplan.ca/)  Theresa Lambert is a High-Performance Lifestyle and Success Coach, Speaker and Bestselling Author of “https://www.amazon.com/Achieve-Grace-elegance-effectiveness-workplaces/dp/B08DSYSJZP/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1596137449&sr=8-3 (Achieve with Grace: A guide to elegance and effectiveness in intense workplaces). She founded her coaching and consulting firm, Theresa Lambert Coaching & Consulting Inc., to help ambitious women succeed with more elegance and less struggle so they can lead with focus and nourish themselves to the top. Drawing from her nearly 20 years of experience in the hospitality Industry and most recently her 6 year tenure as the General Manager of Nita Lake Lodge she brings both a real world view and

Jennifer McCune is a Midwestern girl at heart who moved to Virginia over 20 years ago to attend graduate school. Although she loved her past professional years in education and fundraising, her three children motivated her to start her own business over 8 years ago, which she loves. Mompreneurship has given her the time and flexibility to focus on other passions including travel, philanthropy, and public speaking, and empowering and inspiring people to live the lives of their dreams.Topics discussed in this episode: Entrepreneurship based on kindness & generosity [3:04]“Mompreneur” & Rodan & Fields [4:13]Service is my WHY [5:30]Finding balance [21:30]Now what?Leadership Principle [10:42]Exhibiting kindness and helping empower people  Key Habit [22:55]Do a little each dayMoving forward [42:08]Know Your WHYMake a PlanJust StartAsk for Help - get a MentorGet Involved:Go shopping! Just in time for the holidays - ask about Heaven in a Jar!Stop Procrastinating  - just step forwardFind a Mentor / Be a MentorResources mentioned in this episode:  (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases) Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, Brian Tracey  [23:36](#CommissionsEarned)Women United in Philanthropy [17:50]Where to find Jennifer:You Tube:  Jennifer McCune - You Tube Mompreneur Next DoorTwitter:  mompreneurnxtdrLinkedIn:  Jennifer McCune - LinkedInPersonal Facebook: Jennifer McCune - FacebookFacebook for Rodan & Fields:  Jennifer McCune Rodan + FieldsInstagram:  @mompreneur_nextdoorGet involved!Grab your FREE “Ultimate DISC communication Cheat Sheet”Get your own DISC Assessment, and don't forget the 10% discount (code "PODCAST") at check out!Email me at andrea@theintentionaloptimist.com  so I can be your professional encourager!  ● Join the Intentional Optimists Facebook Group  ● Follow on Instagram @theintentionaloptimist  ●  Linked In Andrea JohnsonSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AndreaJohnson)

011 How to be more productive? Thank you & what's next?There isn't enough hours in the day, right? With so much to do and with so little time, what's the secret to being more productive? Why do so some people seem to get more stuff done? Well, this is one thing that I always get asked... "How are you doing so much Ricky? You are always so busy and doing so much stuff."  Well, because this is a very special episode (DOUBLE DIGITS WOOHOO!), I wanted to share with you how I stay so productive in my business and this week I am giving away my https://mailchi.mp/fecf67ff6878/10-tips-to-improve-your-productivity (FREE ebook "10 tips to improve your productivity.") As we have reached a huge milestone of 10 episodes in (double digits!), I wanted to share my appreciation & gratitude for everyone that has supported my podcast over the last 10 weeks. It really means a lot to me, and I appreciate you joining me in this journey. (Listen out for a special mention on the podcast!) Although this is a shorter episode. I want to make sure I repay my thanks by offering you a free ebook to help support you in your business. In this episode, I unlock... A shoutout to every written review on the podcast An update on what's next for Unlocked... Exciting stuff coming soon for you! And 3 of my 10 top tips to improve your productivity to help you gain more focus in your life or your business. Resources from the show https://mailchi.mp/fecf67ff6878/10-tips-to-improve-your-productivity (Click here for your free guide 10 tips to improve your productivity) Brian Tracey's book :https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=brian+tracy+eat+that+frog&adgrpid=53435782455&gclid=CjwKCAiA-_L9BRBQEiwA-bm5fl_fZ1WIBcd2hrJnyoTLTiBr9g8fgnuZ04bbXSpyqDT045_VRM44YhoCRmAQAvD_BwE&hvadid=259113981594&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046178&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3265630250822718437&hvtargid=kwd-1447503169&hydadcr=11467_1788048&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_4p4q17arph_e ( Eat That Frog) Join the UNLOCKED COMMUNITY To receive the free weekly top tips, resources and tricks to help you create success in your business http://www.rickylocke.co.uk/unlocked (click here) Patreon thanks! Shout out to the amazing Patron supporters for keeping this podcast going; thank you Ant Howe, Cheri Brenton, Chris Lovett ,Steve McDermott & Rory Barnes! You are all amazing! Come Join the UNLOCKED community where you can receive... Early access to episodes Patron shout outs and recognition at the end of every episode Exclusive backstage content and bonus episodes Ask me anything - have your questions answered online Shape the future of the podcast with your requests. Live hangouts every month supporting each other to UNLOCK success (Optional - become a sponsor of the show!) Exclusive giveaways and HUGE Discounts off my online courses and so much more... To be a Patron and support the podcast just head to this https://www.patreon.com/theunlockedpodcast (link) or head to https://www.patreon.com/theunlockedpodcast I can't wait for you to be a part of this journey! Free Resources https://mailchi.mp/0d35be4cdc01/8hyymfp0m6 (FREE Ebook 10 SIMPLE STEPS TO SELL WITH CONFIDENCE ) https://mailchi.mp/fecf67ff6878/10-tips-to-improve-your-productivity (FREE Ebook 10 tips to improve your productivity) Free Workbook : https://drive.google.com/file/d/18hahQ2osX2InxaPGkhJ9gd0MgjeQEMIr/view?usp=sharing (Understanding Your Values) FREE EBOOK : Ihttps://www.rickylocke.co.uk/ebook (mprove your confidence and create awesome videos with a smartphone) Follow me on https://www.instagram.com/rickylockemagic/?hl=en (Instagram) & https://www.facebook.com/RickyLockeMagic (Facebook) at: https://www.instagram.com/rickylockemagic/?hl=en (@rickylockemagic)  For more about me and what I do, https://www.rickylocke.co.uk/ (check out my website) PODCAST MERCHANDISE!!! It's officially here! Woohoo! You can now...

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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.~Nicholas SparksHeartbreaks are painful, but with some guidance and self-motivation, you can channel the pain you may be experiencing into a healing process. It is up to you to make the decision, but know that you are never alone in your journey. If there is anything I have learned is how to love myself through a broken heart. When a loved one's sudden departure has left me breathless I have learned how to breathe again and with time and patience in the process I come out with a whole new depth of compassion and understanding. Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes I am reborn. The only way to salvation is not stepping around the fire but walking straight through.In this week's pod we hear about just that from a man's perspective. Frank Clark shares with us how he navigated through the sudden and devastating loss of his 20 year marriage and the keys to coming out stronger than ever. We also touch upon dating in a COVID world, sexuality and true intimacy and how it's created and sustained.Frank Clark has been a serial Entrepreneur for over 50 years. He has started, created, and sold many multinational electronic service companies producing hundreds of millions of dollars. His flagship company, Lewis & Clark, Inc has serviced almost every major electronic manufacturing company around the world with high quality refurbished production equipment. His company was named by top marketing firms as the most innovative in its field. Frank has also been a strong student of personal development for over 30 years studying under the world's greatest teachers including Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracey, Keith Cunningham, and David Sandler. He has combined this knowledge plus his own Global entrepreneurial skills into The Orange Crushing It Movement: a Coaching, Training, and no nonsense results based Influence Company . He is a loving father of 2 children, resides in Tampa Bay, Florida and is a living example of how life at any age can be transformed, revitalized, healthy and vastly successful.You are sure to laugh, be inspired and enjoy this one!In This Episode, You Will HearWho is Frank Clark aka ”Mr. Orange” (6:00)A Date with Destiny (6:40)Moving through the different color levels of consciousness (8:21)How to overcome a breakup (15:27)How you don't “be happy” you “do happy” and how doing contributes to your actual emotional state (16:08)The importance of gratitude (16:52)How allowing the elements of emotions to cycle through and having patience with the process is crucial to the healing (18:46)Acceptance, taking responsibility, picking up the pieces and moving on (19:47)The positivities of dating during COVID (26:27)How sexuality evolves into intimacy (39:41)How communicating and being vulnerable are key steps to intimacy (41:44)Connect with FrankFacebookLinkedInWebsiteLet's Connect!WebsiteInstagramFacebookLinktree Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the reason why many of us, including me, often fall short of truly changing people's lives. On today's episode Russell talks about struggling with his need to perfect his book as he's reading it for the audiobook version. He remembers struggling with it 2 1/2 years ago when doing the same thing with Dotcom Secrets book and how that has helped work through it this time. Here are some of the cool things you'll hear in this episode; Why Russell struggled to do the audiobook version of the Dotcom Secrets book, and how that is helping him get through it with the Expert Secrets book. What Russell learned from listening to Brian Tracey onstage versus a Brian Tracey audiobook that was too perfect. And why sometimes we should let our perfections go because that might be keeping us from changing others lives. So listen below to find out why Russell struggles so much doing the audiobook versions of his books. ---Transcript--- Good morning everybody, it's Monday, well at least for me. Who knows when you'll listen to this. But even if it's not Monday, treat it like it's Monday because it's going to be amazing today. I am actually on my way to go record the last half of the Expert Secrets book for audiobook format. It's interesting, I don't know how many of you guys have done it before, but I remember the Dotcom Secrets book, when it was done we were planning the launch, everything was happening. And all the sudden the week before I was like, “Wait a minute, what if we did an order form bump that was the audiobook? That'd be the coolest thing in the world.” So then I was like, how do you make an audiobook? So I tried to start recording it myself, and that didn't work.  So I'm like, there's gotta be recording studios that do this kind of thing. So I search around, there's this dude in Boise who has a recording studio for bands, but I don't think we're in the era where bands record a lot of stuff anymore or whatever. So anyway, I hired him to do the book and it was awesome, kind of. Well, it turned out awesome for those that got the audiobook version. But a couple of things, because I forgot the mental turmoil that I went through. So the problem is he said normally people spend a week recording an audiobook but I had to do it all in one day because I was in a huge time crunch. So I started trying to do the whole book in a day, which had a lot of pain associated with it because it just took so long. And it was tiring and it was, I was trying to keep my energy level up because I didn't want people listening and each chapter getting tired-er and tired-er with me. So I was doing all sorts of stuff to keep me awake and alert, which was really hard. Honestly, there's a lot of pain associated with that first book. And the other thing that is interesting, first half of the Dotcom Secrets book is written like a story so it sounds really well. Then the last half it's like examples and things that don't make sense as an audiobook. So I recorded it and I remember as I'm doing that whole thing, it made me really self conscious about the book because I was like, these don't sound awesome. The first half of the book sounded cool, but these parts, me telling the script and plugging in examples, it just doesn't work unless you're reading it. So I did it, but what's interesting is when it was done, I was, and I forgot about this until Friday when I started recording this version, but I forgot how self conscious when it came to the book while I was recording the audiobook version. It was this weird mind thing where I was like, this book is not very good. Because I don't think it's that good as an audiobook. But because of that, I never, after that was the last time I read the book, was when I did the audiobook. I put it on a shelf and I never read it. Then we launched it, literally a week later and sold, I think last we checked it was like 79 thousand copies, so we're getting close to one hundred thousand copies, which is awesome. And I've had insane amounts of people tell me that the book changed their life and changed their perspective on things and helped them understand marketing and sales and funnels. It did it's job and I'm really proud of it. Really, really proud of it. What's funny is that I know that as we're approaching our next book launch, there was things I wanted to clean up in the book, and most of them are things that I remember came to my head during the audiobook version, things that bugged me back then. So last week when I was flying to Arizona on Wednesday I got the old book out and I was highlighting all the stuff I wanted to change. And as I was reading it I was like, “Man, this book…” I probably shouldn't say this about your book, it's not very humble, “This book is really good.” I was really proud of it, even though there's things I want to change and tweak or whatever, but I was really proud of it. And I forgot. I was like, “Man, I haven't read this in a long time, I forgot about it.” And then Friday I went in to read the Expert Secrets book I started getting this, I was sitting in the exact same chair, in the exact same room, exact same everything as the Dotcom Secrets book. And the first part of the book is similar. It reads like a story, so it, I was liking it. But then I got to the parts that are similar, where it's like I'm taking the power point slides and I'm plugging in all the stuff. And it doesn't read good as an audiobook that way. So I started becoming more and more self conscious as I was reading it. I spent probably 6 or 7 hours in the studio recording the book and by the time I left, I was a wreck, my whole brain was just second guessing the book, is it any good? Maybe it's not any good? What if people don't like this because it doesn't make sense this way? And all the sudden as I was sitting at home I was laying there, after I think my wife went to bed. I think I was watching Shark Tank or something because I was hopped up on enough caffeine to give me energy to read the book and I couldn't fall asleep. I was sitting there and stressing out and then I was just like “Huh, I kind of remember this from 2 ½ years ago when I did it with the Dotcom Secrets book, and I remember how much I second guessed the book and  I didn't even want to sell it after I finished the audiobook. But we did it anyway because I was like I can't do anything, I just have to put it out there. I kind of feel the same way about the Expert Secrets book. And this time luckily it broke up into two days, otherwise it would have been even worse. That's why I'm going back to do the last. I probably got 68 percent of it done on Friday and I'm going to do the last 40 today. It's just funny how much you second guess yourself. And I started thinking about all the products I've created in the last 14 years, and the interesting thing is I've never gone back and watched any of the products ever. And I think that the problem that some of us have, is that we do. You put your heart and your soul into something and when you're creating it, you know it's right. When I was working on the book I was like, “I know this is right. I know.” I felt right about it and then when I went back for the book version, its me doing the audiobook, you start second guessing yourself because you're like, “Ah, I didn't say that right. I should have said it this way. “ So much of this stuff floods into your mind that if it wasn't for the fact that it's being published, it's being printed, the launch date's happening, all these things, I probably would just pull the plug. “You know what? Screw it, I hate this book.” Just running away. Luckily the wheels are in motion just like the Dotcom Secrets book, I couldn't do anything about it. The Dotcom Secrets book we were giving away a Ferrari, there were no if, ands, or buts. This is happening whether I liked it or not. The same thing with this and I'm grateful for that because I think a lot of us, we record something and we go back and listen to it, and then you second guess yourself and you cancel this thing that could have been life changing for somebody else. So I would recommend for a lot of you guys, first off, if you're editing your own videos or audio, I bet that's hard. I luckily have no skills or talents, so I'm not able to do that, but if I could I can imagine how I would be stressing out and trying to cut our every cough or hiccup and everything. I would be trying to make it perfect, whereas the perfection is often times what kills the project or what takes the soul out of it. You know Marketing In Your Car, you've guys have heard me sneeze, you've heard me almost kill squirrels, I even got pulled over once, or at least almost pulled over multiple times. But that rawness of it is what makes it intriguing. I think sometimes we try to perfect it so much that it loses it. I remember I was listening to a Jay Abraham course back in the day and it's the first time I remember hearing Brian Tracey and I was listening to this presentation of him on stage and I was like, “Dude, this guy is captivating.” Everything was amazing about it. I was like I want to learn everything Brian Tracey. So I went online and to Ebay and bought every Brian Tracey course known to man, and the first one I plug in and it's Brian in the studio reading a book and I was like, I listened for probably an hour and I was like, this is horrible. I just turned it off and I've never listened to Brian Tracey since, which is sad because the first experience with him live in front of people, there are flaws and things and it was amazing. In fact, it's interesting, everyone is obsessed with audiobooks, and I like audiobooks, but if you look at what I listen to, this morning while I was working out I was not listening to a course of Dan Kennedy onstage. Because there's something, I like people's energy on Stage much better than their energy reading a book in a studio, typically. That's why I've tried to keep, in fact that's one big reason why I read my own audiobook, as opposed to everyone else was like, “Don't read your own audiobook, hire someone else to do it for you.”  because of the pain I'm going through now, but I was like “Then you've got some dude reading a book to you. At lease when I'm doing it I'm able to use my own voice inflections and talk the way I would speak to somebody more personally and have a little more fun with it. But there's something about live, so I would just say, the  reason why I'm sharing any of this, in fact, I think sharing my mental battles I have with myself over my own content is the same thing all of you guys are dealing with. And I would just recommend to, if I was most of you, don't ever go watch your course after you do it. Let the people speak. Because you're going to be so, at least for me, I'm so critical of myself, I would hat everything. I literally, if I went back to every podcast I would edit out every stutter, which I just did three of them right there in a row. I would edit out every cough, every sneeze, edit everything and then it would become this perfect thing and you guys wouldn't connect to it. I just think it's important to pull yourself out of the editing of the content if you are the content creator, because I think sometimes because of our perfectionism, that we like and we expect of our own stuff, it will actually keep you from creating what will give people the lasting change that they had made. So I hope that helps somebody who's stuck in that part of it right now like I was and have been and am in often. With that said, I'm going to wrap this, for a couple of reasons. One, it's kind of the end of the thought. Two, I'm about to get on the freeway and I have no idea exactly where I'm going, I'm really bad at directions, so I gotta turn GPS on my phone. I should have just done the episode with GPS on and you guys could have heard every two minutes, “Turn left here. In one quarter mile, turn right.” But anyway, I didn't do that, so you guys missed out. Anyway, I'm going to bounce, appreciate you guys all, have an amazing day and don't be perfection, don't try to be perfect in your content. Just create stuff and put it out there because I think perfection is the number one thing that'll kill your ability to change your customer's lives. With that said, appreciate you guys and I'll talk to you soon.

A quick glimpse behind the scenes of what I'm really doing to build and launch my funnels. On this episode Russell talks about being the contractor of your business and finding awesome people to do the work you need to get done. He also talks about failing and why you should expect to fail many times before you find something that works. Here are some of the informative things you will hear in today's episode: How Russell realized that his role in his company is similar to that of the contractor building his new office. Why on average it takes 12 failures before millionaires are successful and it's not based on luck. And what the concept “You're just one funnel away” really means. So listen below to find out why finding good people and failing is actually really important in building a successful business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to Marketing In Your Car. Sorry, I just get excited. Anyway, it's crazy here. We've had 5 snow days in a row, but today the kids finally, finally got to go back to school, which is nice. But everything is soaking wet. It's been raining and flooding. Our house flooded. We have a lot of damage. So that's kind of a nightmare. But the good news is we just went to the new office and it's getting close to done. We're about two weeks away from moving into it, which is the most exciting thing in the world. And as we're sitting here in the office, and I thought about it last night. Last night I finished, I finished! What? I finished the Expert Secrets book. At least this round of it. This is the most painful round of edits thought. It took a lot of time. I have one more round of edits after this, but it'll go away faster. So I'm pretty much, for all intents and purposes done with the Expert Secrets book, I'm so proud of it. The crazy thing is it's almost, its within like 100 words of the Dotcom Secrets book, which is weird. That was not planned, but it's kind of cool too. So when I got done with that it was 1 in the morning, so I started looking at all the cool projects we have. We use Trello, some of you guys know. James Friel got us set up on Trello, so I was thinking of the projects. So I sat down and I'm like, “Who are all the people involved in getting this project done? What are all the talks?” So I sat down last night and just busted out a whole bunch of Trello cards. Assigning people, getting them doing what they're supposed to be doing. All the pieces. Then it was done and I went to bed and passed out and it was awesome. Anyway, I was thinking about that versus how some of you are running your business and I want to just liken this also to the new office. I'm in a new office and the contractor dude is there, and he's kind of showing us everything and what's interesting as I look at this, is that the contractor didn't actually do anything really. If you think about it, right? He was sitting there and he got paid by me, I think, I don't know how much contractors take, 10, 20, 30% or whatever, they get paid a bunch of money. So we pay him and he's like, “Cool.” So then he goes and is like, “Alright, we need a designer.” And hires a designer. And he's like “Oh, we need someone to do this part.” And he hires someone. And all the contractor's really good at doing is just knowing what are all the pieces that need to go into launching, or to completing and building, and then hopefully he's put in time to find really good sub-contractors to do each of those pieces. And that's it. And he gets paid the lion's share of the project. And all he's doing is he's just figured out what are all the pieces that go into building an office, or house or whatever the project is. And then who are all the people I need to hire to do those pieces. I was thinking about that, for me with our funnels and stuff, that's all it is. Because I've done it so many times, I've done this now I think I'm on my thirteenth year or so of this business. Some people are funny, “How come all the things you do are successful.” The reason why is because I built up a really good team of people over the last 12 years. I look at myself almost like the contractor in my business. I know all the pieces that go into us successfully launching something. I don't have to rethink that, I just know it. It's second nature now because I've done it so many times. There was a time and a season of my life where we were literally launching something at least once a month and if that once a month thing would fail, we would do one every single week until one didn't fail because that's how we had to pay payroll. It was a nightmare, but we launched things all the time. Because of that, I know the process. I know that to get something launched here all the things. I know everything inside of my head. And because I've been doing it so long, every single time I'm finding, initially it was me doing everything. But then I realized I'm not very good at design, so I hired a designer. Then I realized this and I hired…..I probably hired a hundred designers in the last 12 years. Now I know 3 or 4 that I really liked and I now I just work with those 3 or 4 people. I probably hired a hundred website builders. I hired a hundred programmers, probably a thousand programmers. I've done all these things over the years, and from that I've got my hands full of 4 or 5 favorites. So when I know I have a project done, I know Rob's going to do this, so and so's going to do this, boom, boom, boom. I task the whole thing out and everyone starts working on it. And what's cool for me, as the contractor, this isn't true in all cases, but in the building, the people can't frame the building until the person is finished doing the foundation. There's things that have to go in order. With what we do in our business, most people can do their thing independent of everyone else. The video guy can do videos independent of everyone else. The designers can do that. The copywriters, everyone do the thing indepently. The goal is getting everyone to start on all the pieces as soon as humanly possible. Everyone is doing the pieces and they start coming in and then the last step, which for me as a person is my favorite part, so I do it now. But I could have outsourced the part. For me it's like, here's all the pieces now, these are all the things I needed to get this funnel done, now I just need to plug them all in. Because of Clickfunnels, I just plug them in. And obviously I work with Steven Larsen on my team. We plug all the pieces in and it's ready to launch. But if you look at all the projects I have, what's interesting is I've got the next probably 10 funnels completely done. Front end project is done, everything is done. I just have to, all the assets are sitting in Trello boards finished just waiting for me to say, “Okay, I'm ready to launch this one.” Then I login, spend a day and plug all the pieces in and boom it's ready to go. In fact, yesterday we were working on the Funnel University Newsletter, if you're not a member of Funnel University yet, by the way, you're insane. Go to funnelu.com. Anyway, we were…. I got a……are you kidding me? Road closure. Dangit. There's some huge pot holes up here. Okay, so now I'm on a road closure and I'm going through a neighborhood and I have no idea. Dang, I'm really bad at these kind of things. I'm so bad at directions. I'm just going to follow the headlights in front of me and pray they're going the same direction I'm going. Anyway, where did I leave off? So yesterday we were doing January's Funnel University Newsletter and in the newsletter I was showing the Marketing In Your Car funnel, which we reacently launched and you have all seen. The strategy behind it, the marketing in your car funnel was a couple of reasons. One was to get you guys all indoctrinated listening to Marketinginyourcar.com every single day. That was number one, number two is to get more subscribers. Number three, this was actually our core reason, is I'm trying to get people to join Funnel University. You probably saw that in the upsell sequence. Yesterday in the newsletter I was showing how basically if you look at probably the next dozen funnels we roll out, they will be new, cool front ends to help build our cult-ture and get people excited about Clickfunnels. So different swag things, different cool things, but then the upsell sequence is all pushing, the upsell sequence is identical, it does not change. So I literally in 40 minutes, and I record the whole process, all the Funnel U. Members will be able to see it inside the new forum we're setting up for you guys. I took the Marketing In Your Car funnel and cloned it. I already had the video done, I already had the graphics. Everything was already done weeks ago, months ago actually. I just drag and drop, boom, boom, in 40 minutes the new funnel is ready to launch and it was done. It came because I knew, whatever, 6 months ago, that I wanted to do a project called Funnel Graffiti. I knew, in fact, it's been almost a year, because we gave out funnel Graffiti at the last Funnel Hacking Live event, so it's been a year. So then we filmed the video this summer. But I tasked all this stuff out a long time ago, so it's all sitting there done and as soon as I'm ready to launch it, it was done. So it took 45 minutes to launch this funnel because I had all these things done. So that's the powers, if all of us as marketers start looking more at our business as we're contractors as opposed to the actual sub-contractor working, and you can sub-contract out to yourself, especially the stuff you like to do, I'm guessing if you're like me, you like building stuff in Clickfunnels, so sub-contract that out to you or a certified partner or whatever. But look at yourself more as a contractor, and become a master at understanding what are all the pieces that go into launching a funnel. And the funny thing is that the only way to know all the pieces that go into launching a funnel, is by launching a funnel. In fact, I try to get this through people's minds all the time. Because everyone thinks their first funnel is going to be a winner, right. So they create this funnel and go through all the pain and heartache and headache that go through making your first funnel. And there's a lot. You have to figure out how to write copy, to edit pages, and images and videos and orders and products. There's so much crap that goes into your first one and then it's horrible. And most of the time your first one will fail, you will not make any money. In fact, most of the time you will lose money. It'll be a bucket of money with a hole in the bottom and the cash will be pouring out of it. But you have to be okay with that because the only way for you to learn every single step in the process, for you, is to do it once. Always tell people that the first funnel, you're going to spend so much time and effort, and it might fail. In fact, you're probably going to fail but you gotta be okay with that. Because it's not about you launching this funnel and making a bunch of money, its about you as a new contractor, a new funnel builder learning a new process, all the pieces that go into that. Because after you do it once you're like, “Dang, well now I know I need this and this. I hired these people, this guy sucked and this one was awesome. I'm not going to hire him again, I'm going to hire a new person.” And you keep doing that over and over again and eventually after you launch three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty funnels, whatever that is, you will have your dream team of people that are working with you. You will know exactly who to go to every single time. And if you fast forward six months to a year from now, you're going to be in the same situation I am. I don't fail anymore because I know our team. I know what our market wants. I know who is going to do each piece of it, so I can quickly create something and just have it work really, really quickly. For you guys that's the goal. I had two interviews yesterday from people that were asking about the whole “You're just one funnel away” concept, that's the theme of this year's Funnel Hacking Live event. And I wanted, during those interviews I explained, “Look, you're just one funnel away, you don't know which funnel that is. I wish I could show you guys the landscape of failed funnels that I've had in my 12 years in this business.” I've got more failed funnels that I could show you, than I guarantee most of you guys have ever even dreamt of attempting. But because of that, that's how I built my team. How I figured out what didn't work. I've mastered the process. All the pieces that go in there like the back of my hand. I don't have to think anymore, it just happens. So today, excuse me, last night I was like, “here's the project, here are all the pieces.” I tasked them all out and now everyone's working on them. I'm not sure when we'll launch that project, but I do know that the second I'm ready for it, all the pieces will be there and I don't have to think about it at that point. I'm digging my well before I'm thirsty. I'm getting all the things in place. So think about that you guys. Again, this whole concept, “You're one funnel away” Is so powerful. You don't know which funnel it's gonna be. You've gotta keep building, walking, trying, failing, moving forward. A really cool, I might have shared this with you guys before so forgive me if I have, but it's worth repeating. Probably almost ten years ago now, maybe even more, I got this Jay Abraham course and I was listening to it. And one of the speakers was Brian Tracey. I had never heard Brian Tracey speak before and he was on stage, and it was just, I loved what he was saying. I remember what he talked about; he said that one day he was watching this TV show with a bunch of millionaires. It was like a news talk show or whatever. There's like twelve millionaires on stage and they were interviewing them and asking a bunch of questions. And the host asks a question, “How many times did you guys have to fail on average before you had success?” and they didn't know off the top of their heads, so they cut to commercial. During the commercial break they did all the math and figured it out. They came back, and this panel of people, they said that they figured on average, they'd each failed about 12 times before they had success. Brian Tracey said something interesting, he said, “Do you think that they just tried something and failed, tried something and failed. And on average the 12th time they got lucky and it finally worked? Or do you think that the first time they did it, they didn't have the resources or the connections, or people, or idea or whatever, but they did it and it failed. The second one, they did it and it failed. The third, they did it and it failed. Each time they failed they learned something. And they figured something out and literally by the 12th time, they had failed every way possible.” By the 12th time they knew how this process worked and there was no way they can fail at that point. It's like Thomas Edison, he said when he, every time he failed the light bulb, he was like I figured out a new way to not build a light bulb. He had a thousand ways he tried and didn't work, but he didn't look at those as failures. That way didn't work, that way didn't work. Cool, this way it worked. We gotta look at things that way as well, you guys. So many of us are getting into this like, ”I want a million dollar webinar.” And I'm like, dude that's awesome, but you gotta put in the work man. Let me tell you how many decades of effort. I guess just one. But I mean, for me to be able to do what I do now, we can do a webinar and make half a million bucks, it didn't just come magically. It came on the back of ten years of failing and failing and trying and failing and building a team, and learning and growing and learning and growing and coming to that. Obviously, we've tried to give you guys a lot of short cuts. Perfect Webinar is a short cut. Clickfunnels is a short cut. Honestly, Facebook's a short cut. Facebook's the greatest gift to marketers right now, in the world. And I don't think it will be here forever, but it's here now and it's amazing. All these short cuts, so hopefully you guys don't have to spend ten years, but do know you are going to have to spend some time. And do know you are going to fail, but if you keep it in your mind that you're just one funnel away….I don't know if that funnel is today, tomorrow, a month from now, six months from now, but if you have that in your mind knowing with absolute certainty that one of these funnels is going to be the one, it's going to be the freedom maker for you. You have absolute certainty of it, you keep building, moving forward, pushing, I promise you will hit that. But you have to have absolute certainty that it's going to happen. One of the interviews yesterday, someone asked me, “What was the “why” behind what got you into this thing and why you push yourself so hard?” I said, “When I got started, I was watching these people online who were having success. Back then in was Armand Morin, Alex Mandossian, Marlin Sanders, my mentors. Mark Joyner. All I know is I looked at these guys and I believed them. I believed that what they were doing was making them money and because I saw them doing it, I had 100% absolute certainty that it worked and that I could make it work. I didn't know how, but I was positive that I could and it would. Because of that I didn't stop. Because I had perfect that it was going to work, so I just started running and running and running.” I think a lot of problems that some of us have is that we don't have faith. “I think this can work. I think this can work for me.” And because of that you try and dabble and try and dabble and doing quite go all in, but if you know with absolute certainty that there's no way this is going to fail, it's going to take you a bunch of times, but you know that's it's gonna work. It'll push you through the hard nights, the failures, the funnel flops. But it'll be worth it. I promise you guys it's worth it. It's not only worth it for you and your family, because the money that comes from it is amazing, but it's worth it for the people you are serving with the products and service you are creating. You will touch their lives in a way that doesn't make sense to you now, but when you see it and you see the fruits of that, it's pretty amazing. So I want to leave that with you guys today. I hope that helps. I'm at the office now. I'm going from the new amazing office to the old crappy office. In the old crappy office two more weeks or so, then we're out of here. Appreciate you all, thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, or any of them, please go to iTunes and rate and review us, I'd appreciate that. Please become an affiliate for Marketing In Your Car, free MP3 player, let people know about it because that'd be cool. Thanks you guys. Appreciate you all, have an awesome day. Bye everybody.

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