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“As long as we make leadership something bigger than us… we give ourselves an excuse not to expect it every day, from ourselves and from each other.” -Drew Dudley In this episode we interview Drew Dudley. Drew has been called one of the most inspirational TED speakers in the world, and he is on a mission to help people unlearn some dangerous lessons about leadership. As the founder and chief catalyst of Day One Leadership, he has helped top organizations around the world increase their leadership capacity. His clients have included McDonald’s, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, the United Way, and more than 100 colleges and universities. Prior to this, Drew spent eight years as the director of one of Canada’s largest leadership development programs at the University of Toronto. Drew is also the bestselling author of This is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters that debuted at #6 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. As a speaker, Drew has delivered keynotes to more than 250,000 people across five continents. His TED talk “Everyday Leadership (The Lollipop Moment)” was voted “one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time”.In this episode we discuss his idea of day one leadership, his experience on the patient side of healthcare, as well as leadership lessons from the pandemic. If you want to learn more about Drew or his work, you can visit his website, https://www.drewdudley.com/As always if you enjoy our content and want to support us, please subscribe to our podcast and give us a positive rating. You can also connect with us on social media or at leadingtherounds.comWelcome to Leading the Rounds.

#amazonbasin #emeraldtreeboa #amazingbasinsJOIN THE PATREON: https://bit.ly/3lLoyf1Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

#ballpython #royalpython #pythonregiusJOIN THE PATREON PAGE: https://www.patreon.com/unfilteredreptilespodcastSubscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

Our guest today, Angel Kwiatkowski, is on a mission to make our working hours more fun and more productive. She is the founder of Cohere, the first and largest community-managed shared office-space in, Fort Collins, Colorado, and a consultant whose advice can be found at DIYCoworking.comWelcome to Agency For Change Podcast!

#monitor #lizard #reptilebreederSubscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

#boelenspython #crocmonitor #reptilebreederSubscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

Today we chat with Rick and Randy Evans of Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters. They share with us their incredible journey of how the started their coffee roasting company. Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters roasts specialty coffee for cafes across the country, and they also have well known cafes in Sandpoint Idaho, Coeur' d'alene Idaho and Spokane Washington. In this episode rick and randy share with us:How their childhood as a military family shaped their adult livesTheir humble and inspiring journey of dreaming up Evans Brothers CoffeeHow they got their fist bank loan to start their businessHow they started their coffee company with nearly no money and only huge dreams and massive passion for coffeeTheir philosophy about company culture and workRick and Randy are incredible humans and we love them so much. We know that you all will love this conversation as it is both heart filled and deeply inspiring and hilarious.For more about them:https://www.evansbrotherscoffee.comWelcome to the Heart Bowls podcast where we believe that business should make the world a better place.We talk about owning and operating a thriving vegan, acai bowl, food truck business called Heart Bowls. We interview successful business owners the food and coffee industry and talk about their journey, business culture, team building, personal growth, education, the healthy food business, vegan food, and a whole lot more.https://www.heartbowls.com

#reptile #animalpreservation #venomoussnakesSubscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

In this episode we talk to Katy Bean, owner of the most adorable local pie shop in Coeur d'alene Idaho about all things hand crafted pie and business. Katy shares with us the importance of embracing the natural process and steps we must take to grow and succeed in our business. She has taken the steps, taken the time, and now she is reaping the benefits because her pie shop is thriving! Some highlights from the episode: How important it is to stay committed to your WHY while being flexible with your’ “how”. Growing a business slowly and sustainably The struggles of starting a baking business from a home kitchen and the growing pains of finding a commercial kitchen.Handling mistakes with grace and being honest with your customers.Their instagram and social media strategy for their pie shop.Katy has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share with us. Her passion and her pies are inspiring and I know that you all will love to hear how she turned her small home kitchen bake shop into a business with employees and a storefront.More about bean and pie:https://beanandpie.comMarie Forleo:https://www.marieforleo.comWelcome to the Heart Bowls podcast where we help you start and grow the business of your dreams. If you want to start a food truck, vegan cafe, coffee shop, acai bowl business, this podcast is for you.We talk about owning and operating a thriving vegan food truck business - Heart Bowls. We interview successful business owners the food and coffee industry and talk about their journey, business culture, team building, personal growth, education, the healthy food business, vegan food, and a whole lot more.

#reptile #animalpreservation #venomoussnakesPlease check out & support: https://reptilepreservation.org/Subscribe to the channel: https://bit.ly/33FczcGFollow On Instagram: https://bit.ly/30CrJNEBuzzsprout: https://bit.ly/2XD1dCcApple Podcast: https://bit.ly/31yTV3dSpotify: https://bit.ly/3fB2Q9DBROUGHT TO YOU BY:COLD BLOODED CAFE: www.coldbloodedcafe.comSIMS CONTAINER: www.simscontainer.comWelcome to the Unfiltered Reptiles Podcast. This podcast was created with a goal of allowing the listener to laugh and learn as we ourselves question, debate and highlight our top quality guests each week. We try to not take ourselves too seriously and hope that we can have a fun yet productive podcast for our listeners to enjoy. - Forrest T. Fanning

Andrew Laws is a digital marketing and SEO consultant with over twenty years of experience. When he's not busy helping his clients make more money he spends his time falling off bikes, grazing his knees on skateboards, and making loud noises in an attempt to be musical.Discussed in this episode:- What exactly is SEO?- Is SEO just about websites and the words we use within it, or is there more to it?- Why businesses usually come to Andrew for help with their SEO?- Why we sometimes put off optimising our website and other marketing assets, putting aesthetics first.- What effective SEO means to Andrew when it comes to marketing a business online.- What most businesses doing wrong when it comes to using SEO.- How SEO has evolved over the years, to where we are today. - Some of the myths we tell ourselves around SEO.- Andrew’s Top 5 first steps to effective SEO.- How to keep consistent with your SEO.- What to look out for when looking for someone to help you with your SEO.- The process Andrew takes clients through when working with them.- Some of the benefits Andrew’s clients have experienced from working with him.Mentioned in this episode:DuckDuckGoBuilding a Storybrand by Donald MillerDISCLAIMER: Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or lifestyle change. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website. Always seek the advice of a legal or financial professional or other qualified provider with any questions you may have regarding a legal or financial matter. Never disregard professional legal or financial advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website.Follow Andrew Laws:Web: andrewlaws.comLinkedIn: Andrew LawsFor more information on Ross' Personal Branding photography, please visit https://rossdeanphotography.comWelcome to Make Today Count. Your 60 mins of fresh conversation, served up to inform, educate & inspire your personal brand. Each episode I chat to thought leaders, influencers and experts in their game who all have one thing in common. The desire to go the extra mile. Pushing against the status quo to create a richer life for both themselves and those around them. Powered by compassion and driven by the need to leave the world that little bit better than when they arrived.odcast theme music: ‘March on’ by Silent Partner. Used in agreement with the Youtube Free Music Audio Library.

In this episode with chat with Jamie from Culture Coffee Bar, a mobile coffee trailer in Modesto California. Jamie shares her story of how she was working in a completely different industry and took the leap of faith to leave everything she knew behind and start the business of her dreams. Culture Coffee Bar started as a small modest mobile coffee trailer and she has grown her community and following to the max. She serves hundreds and hundreds of customers a day at her busy events and she is going to be making the move from a mobile business into a cafe in the near future.This episode is nothing other than INSPIRING, informative and full of passion.Learn more and connect with Jamie and Culture here:https://www.culturecoffeebar.comWelcome to the Heart Bowls podcast where we help you start and grow the business of your dreams.If you want to start a food truck, vegan cafe, coffee shop, acai bowl business, this podcast is for you.We talk about owning and operating a thriving vegan food truck business - Heart Bowls. We interview successful business owners the food and coffee industry and talk about their journey, business culture, team building, personal growth, education, the healthy food business, vegan food, and a whole lot more.https://www.heartbowls.com

Enroll in my upcoming 75-minute mini-workshop ---> How to Create Small Wins When Talking About Racism: Tips, Strategies, and Word Tracks to Empower your Dialogue with Fragile or Defensive People. Wednesday, July 29th from 11-12:15 pm PST via Zoom. Follow: @leadingwithyourgut & @jennareneeshellmanEmail: info@leadingwithyourgut.comWelcome back to another episode of Leading With Your Gut! On this week's episode, I have Kelley Anne from Burn Bright. Kelley is a licensed therapist with 15 years of experience. She is a gender equity and victim's rights advocate, a corporate wellness trainer, and a burnout expert. Her career has been vast, starting out in the prison system. Kelley was one of the youngest women to work in the largest men's maximum-security prison in NY State. Her job there was to run a group mental health program. Kelley has worked with military sexual trauma victims, and has run sexual violence prevention and response offices. Kelley is the creator of Burn Bright, a company dedicated to helping high achieving, big-hearted helping professionals battle burnout. She takes the lessons that she learned from her own personal experience with burnout to help others. It's a labor of love; the way she takes care of people who take care of the world.Kelley Anne and I also discuss the misconceptions of mental health, depression, fragility in 2020, and symptoms of burnout. You don't want to miss this episode!Connect with Kelley Anne:@letsburnbrightJoin her FaceBook GroupListen to her podcast, Burn Bright

In this episode we meet Kelly Adams, owner of Bunkhouse Coffee Bar (a plant-based cafe) in Jensen Beach Florida. We hear about how she started her passion project as a small coffee trailer and within two years moved into a full on cafe where she now specializes in specialty coffee, Smoothie bowls and gluten free vegan baked goods.More about Bunkhouse at:http://bunkhousecoffeebar.comWelcome to the Heart Bowls podcast where we help you start and grow the business of your dreams.If you want to start a food truck, vegan cafe, coffee shop, acai bowl business, this podcast is for you.We talk about owning and operating a thriving vegan food truck business - Heart Bowls. We interview successful business owners the food and coffee industry and talk about their journey, business culture, team building, personal growth, education, the healthy food business, vegan food, and a whole lot more.https://www.heartbowls.com

This show exists entirely because of your donations!To earn an episode, donate to The Okra Project here: https://www.artsbusinesscollaborative.org/asp-products/the-okra-project-sponsored-project/Then send a screenshot of your receipt to w2ptpod@gmail.comWelcome to Welcome to Prime Time! Hosted by Brennan Klein of Attack of the Queerwolf, we’ll be covering the 1988-1990 horror anthology series FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES episode by episode!Our artwork is by Henry Hall. Seek out his commissions at henryhall.netOur theme song is “Living in a Dream” by Pseudo Echo.Follow Brennan on Twitter @itsrainingbrens and Instagram @theburningclem

Zoe Patterson is a confidence and body image coach who supports introverted women to break free from who they think they should be, silence their inner mean girl, and connect to who they really are so they can start reclaiming their power and live the life they deserve. She runs The Hideout, where introverted women can come together and connect and is the founder of She Is Coaching.Discussed in this episode:- Why clients usually come to Zoe for coaching.- Why we can sometimes be so worried about what others think.- Why worrying about what other people think is sometimes so hard to shake off.- How listening to these thoughts can affect our personal and business lives.- Some of the myths we tell ourselves about why we can't put ourselves out there more in business or in life in general.- Tips for managing negative thoughts on a daily basis.- The general benefits of not worrying about what other people think.- What to look out for when looking for a coach to work with.- The process Zoe takes her clients through when working with them.- The benefits of working with a Coach.Mentioned in this episode:- Mean GirlsDISCLAIMER: Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or lifestyle change. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website. Always seek the advice of a legal or financial professional or other qualified provider with any questions you may have regarding a legal or financial matter. Never disregard professional legal or financial advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website.Follow Zoe Patterson:Web: www.she-is.co.ukInstagram: @she.is.coachingFacebook: @sheiscoachingFor more information on Ross' Personal Branding photography, please visit https://rossdeanphotography.comWelcome to Make Today Count. Your 60 mins of fresh conversation, served up to inform, educate & inspire your personal brand. Each episode I chat to thought leaders, influencers and experts in their game who all have one thing in common. The desire to go the extra mile. Pushing against the status quo to create a richer life for both themselves and those around them. Powered by compassion and driven by the need to leave the world that little bit better than when they arrived.Podcast theme music: ‘March on’ by Silent Partner. Used in agreement with the Youtube Free Music Audio Library.

Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, samknickerbocker.comWelcome back to fuel your legacy. And today we have another incredible guest I love bringing on people from all different walks of life, people who have accomplished different things and are really focused On, on different aspects, they're bringing their light their love to the world in different ways fulfilling and sharing with other people. Billy Bross is someone you're gonna want to go follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, these places, but he, he loves just helping online education companies and course creators break through the noise and fill their programs with committed high quality content and students students, right so part of its getting the students in part it's making sure their contents ready for that. He left a really great career honestly in renewable energy industry to go full time into his side hustle, his heart, his hobbies and ultimately his passion. So that's what I love about the people that I'm bringing on is that they've made that transition, and they're able to give us a light and knowledge as far as how we can make that transition in our own mind. He also runs a home and online home beer brewing school, so if you've ever wondered how to make Your own bruise and go check him out, he's awesome. Okay, so with that, I'm going to turn the time over to him, but I want him to be able to share his story and why he made the transition, how he made it, and how did he know when it was the right time to take that leap, quit his promising career and jump in full time to what he loves doing. So. Billy, thank you for being on here. I'm excited to hear your thoughts and and what we can do to become are following your footsteps. Awesome. Hey, thanks for having me, Samuel. And yeah, if anyone needs a good beer brewing recipe, then I'm your guy hit me up. Are you a craft beer fan?I actually don't drink alcohol at all. But I have family members who do and I know a lot of people who do.It wasn't a we'll talk about the business. It was a lot of fun, although it wasn't the healthiest business to run.Yeah, so thanks for having me again. And yeah, so you know, I I'm not the typical entrepreneur Am I very much like school, and a lot of entrepreneurs you hear dropped out of high school, or they kind of bash college and say, just get out there and start selling stuff and growing businesses. I actually liked learning and that's a theme that you're gonna hear from me. I love education. I'm very curious. I've always loved learning new topics. I remember in fifth grade, I was really into reading Popular Science Magazine. I would only read two parts, I would read the very front and the very back. And the front, they always had the section called what's new, and it's about all the cool new typical technology fields. And then in the back, it was always a classified section. And they're always like these really like kind of interesting, quirky ads. And I was I was like, wow, that's, that's kind of cool. You can build a helicopter, and then you can fly around. You can like buy a DIY kit on how to do that. That's really interesting. So I've always been interested in both science and art. So in business and creating new ventures, so I went through, went through all of high school, went through college, and then I went to grad school and got my MBA. So I took the very traditional path. But when I got that first job, which was a great career, I'll go into that. When I sat down the very first day at that desk after that, my boss remember, he gave me a tour of the office and everything and then finally sat me down and I was like, Okay, now this is assuming I don't do anything. And I just say the past, this is my life. I'm gonna be at this desk an awful lot. And I was excited to be there. But at the same time, I said to myself, this ain't gonna last too long. And so it wasn't too long after that, that I started on the side because I had this free time during nights and weekends, I started a beer brewing blog. So got really into brewing craft beer in college, really geeked out on like I do with a lot of things and decided to start writing about it and posting homebrewing tips and videos and things like that. So eventually, that was what allowed me to this was six years later jumpship when I was finally ready to leave that job and that career, I had this side hustle going, as you mentioned, and that was what enabled me to really forge my own path.That's awesome. So I'm curious. Because I mean, I know you say you're a proponent of education, and, and schooling, where would you I mean, do you feel like there's a line between schooling and education?Is there well, you can certainly have education without depends on what type of schooling you're talking about. And I think there certainly is a place for traditional education. But I think the whole I know the whole industry is getting disrupted right now. And I and I work with because I I work with online educators now online experts, teachers, teacher entrepreneurs, who are working in these areas. Well, for example, I have one on my school I'm working with and they teach artists. So digital artists, mainly people who do concept art for movies and video games. And traditionally, they would have to go to a university to get these skills and pay $100,000. And then they're not guaranteed anything afterwards, not guaranteed income or jobs. And now you have this online school, who I'm helping, and they help these artists they do it through $500,000. Sometimes a little bit higher price courses are still premium price for online but much cheaper than $100,000 for a traditional University. And the best part is these course creators are practitioners in their field. So they're in the trenches, they're, they're working in this area, and so they can tell their students how to succeed not just in their craft, but in the business side of their craft, which is so important. And now they're even starting to pass on jobs to their students as well. So, you know, there's certain there's certainly, there are places for traditional education. I mean, you wanna become a lawyer, you want to become a doctor certain fields like that engineering, but for, for some of these other fields, that's not necessarily the best path.And I think I think, for my cuz of how you caviar, like oh, I'm not one of those entrepreneurs that bags on it. I think that most for my experience, I all I do pretty much is an interview entrepreneurs of some sort CEOs, people who are successful in business or on the other side, mother's father, and just like, I guess I do interview a wide range of people. But I think most of the entrepreneurs that I interview there, although I would consider myself in this category, I bagged on traditional education, to a degree, but only to the extent of, I think that you could go get the same or better education from an online course. With somebody who is still practicing in the industry, and has some real life experience over going to a college, where that may or may not be the case, as far as crack practicing, and as you said, you pay now you walk away with $100,000 either spent money or debt with no guarantee of a job. And so, I think that's where, at least from my experience of talking to people, that's where most of the if you want to call it animosity comes from in that conversation. It's not that they think that to become a doctor, you shouldn't go have somebody practice and teach you that. But even even with that, being a doctor, being a lawyer, I hope not true, but I would say even with that, there's a lot of people who have gone through all of that education, formal education to get their degrees and in the process, they found that they actually are better able to serve clients or patients by you. Using methods that aren't necessarily taught in school, but to be able to use those methods, they have to have the credentials. And then they end up going off and doing functional medicine, which they could have done. They just want to have the licenses to do so without the formal education. So it's an interesting balance. I think education is everywhere. I don't think you should go fail.I shouldn't. How do I say that?I think failure is essential. Okay. I think we should be willing to fail, but fail different than the people in the past. Like if you're going through and you're making all the same mistakes that everybody else made. You didn't learn anything. Yeah, you know, guys like my point you need to go and create your own.Like, take and this is what this is one good thing that I think I gained from public like from my college years that I don't, I don't Where I would have got this otherwise, sure there's places, but how to conduct effective research is a very, like, if there's nothing else you learn. That's a pretty dang good thing to learn. So you can actually read medical journals and say, Okay, what exactly like how are these samples done? What's it? How are they using statistics? How are they doctoring statistics, not just medically, but business wise, if you're walking into a business and they lie, whereas $4 million company and you're like, Okay, and you have $10,000 extra every month, because your operating costs are like you're barely surviving doesn't matter that you're making $4 million of revenue, if 3,000,900 you know, whatever, if it's all going out in expenses. You're, you're struggling, right, one bad month and you guys full, that's different than somebody who's netting $4 million every year, you know, so, being able to read, statistics read and be able to research stuff i think is important. In in that so something I feel like I'd be Effective from there when you're helping somebody build effective content. What does that look like?Well, the important thing is to always start with the audience. So a lot of this is a trap that a lot of and I fell into this trap, too, that a lot of experts and people are just subject matter experts, people who know a lot about their topic. They become obsessed with the topic, and obsessed with the content. But it's that whole set hole, if you build it, they will come thing not being true. When it comes to selling education online. A lot of people think it is though. So you want to start you want to find products and content for your audience, not customers or an audience for your content. And there's a big difference there. So the most important thing is to focus on what is the problem to be solved, or what is the thing that they want, and then try to in as few steps as possible. That's a big mistake, too. You don't want to over people are overwhelmed with information. You don't want to just dump a bunch of insight PDFs on their lap. So you want to get them from really our noun to that endpoint and as a efficient manner as possible.I agree. And so with that, just because you're you have helped over 500 companies accomplish this. How do you address it? I guess if it's online, when you're doing online courses, how what percentage of these online courses have an active teacher, somebody who's involves teaching in it, and how much what percentage is just recorded content, like an online course is recorded, and they're gonna buy it and pay whatever and it was made once intellectual property and they resell it multiple times without updating? Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah. So so it's shifted over the years. So it's very different than how it was when I first got started in 2009 2010, where it was a lot more self paced, more on demand more of a separation between the teacher and the students. And now what we're seeing is The model that we like that we see working in that we teach is more so that other end of the spectrum, or more closely resembles a true college class or college semester, where you're taking people in, you're taking them through as a group, we often call it call it a cohort, kind of nerdy term, as we call it. And, and it can be 100% live teaching, it can be pre recorded, plus maybe some office hours or some support calls. But usually, there is some, I think, going forward, the way of the future is there's got to be some kind of support some kind of live interaction, because if not, I mean, the, the, the numbers right there. I mean, the lesson is right there in the data, and that only one to 3% of people actually complete online courses as just as terrible. It's terrible all the way around. It's terrible for the students. It's terrible for the teachers as well, any entrepreneurs because, you know, most of a business's revenue should be coming from repeat customers. Because the most expensive thing you can do Doing a business's get a new customer. So if they're not if they're failing at that initial product, initial product is not working for them. What are the chances that they come back for more?I agree. Have you add sure you have in this space heard of lightspeed, VT said again? Have you heard of lightspeed vt it rings a bell I'm not too familiar with it though. Brad Lea is the creator CEO of the of the service, I would highly recommend looking it up his his service what I like about his service, and this is not necessarily a plug for him, but why not? You're listening. You want to create an online course, why not plug for guy he's awesome. Um, but it's a very interactive so unlike a typical video course where it's like, you use watch it hope they watch the help they got out of it inside of the video. There's a lot of interactive things, you can click on. And it's like building a sales funnel. But in video course form, so like, I could be having this conversation and then say and what's what level was your income? I'm, I'm fine. And so that makes sense, right? What level is your income 50,000, whatever. So they're gonna have three options they pop up after me and based on which button they push, then they're going to hear different content from me based on where their level of knowledge is at, or it's going to relocate them back to where they need to hear, hear what I just said. So they can so we can contest comprehension contest, make sure that the people are getting what they need because you may have somebody who's taking an elective class or taking a course just because like they need the basics but they already understand half of the what the content and most courses and make you go through the same like the same path. And so they're they're only getting, like everybody's getting the same cookie cutter information rather than saying okay, I want to buy this course on so Media, for lack of a better word, right? There's people who don't even know that on social media, you should have all of your profile pictures be the same across social media, you should have all of your banner pictures be basically identical, you should have all of your your descriptions about who you are like there's, that's like step one, before you get started on marketing before we get started I that have uniformity, like that's important. So that person, maybe that's where they're at? Well, the other person may already have all that done already have been paying for ads for a while, but just needs to know how to write more effective copy, right. And so for that person, they can go through and get the first half of the course done, still get credit for whatever, but they get the first half of the course done super fast, because they have advanced through that they already know it. And then they can move on to the part that they actually want to do faster versus having a course where they're bored for the first half of the semester lose interest before they actually get the content that they wanted and then they don't complete it. So anyways, it's a personalized learning paths. No, those are excellent. Yeah, and it's a, it's one of the cool things you can do with online education technology. And it's a great way to increase results. So I love that. I'll check that out.Yeah, he's said he would be actually a good. He's super, super cool. If you reach out to him on Instagram. He's in. He's in Vegas. And he doesn't do interviews unless you come to his office. So that's a thing there, but he would be a great person, I think, for you to be on his podcast.Cool. Yeah. That was my mom go to Vegas. Yeah.Yeah, no, it's uh, and he's super chill. And he also I shouldn't say loves beer, but he drinks beer. So you'd have to be able to contact or like, my kind of guy.Yeah. Um, anyways, so So let's talk about this. When did you I mean, you got out of your working your corporate gig. You've got out of beer, I mean, creation, I guess craft beer education. So was that really That the transition from like, how did you transition from your corporate job to teaching people how to create educational, like content?Yeah, good question. Yeah. So so I left the full time job in the, in the renewable energy industry to run this beer website. And so fortunately, you know, again, I'm not the traditional entrepreneur, a lot of entrepreneurs were just like, jumped ship, I wanted to have money in my savings account, I want to have a decent amount of consistent income coming from that website. So I got to that point where I felt really confident that I could cut the cord with a full time job and have a viable business. And unfortunately, that happened, but it was really more of a springboard that website into where I am now. My intention really wasn't to be the beer guy my whole life. That was just a cool project that I was working on and I want to be experienced doing it and of course, wanting to use it to leave my job. But I really missed working with with other things. People on teams and collaborators, really smart people like I was doing. I didn't, I didn't have that anymore when I was running the beer website. So So I started joining these online forums and communities and meeting other people like myself in all different niches. And even though a lot of them were beyond me, they still I can still notice things in their business gaps, especially in their marketing, where I would say, hey, if you just move this thing over here, or just do this or get this page up, it could really explode your growth. And so more and more of them start to reach out and I started doing some consulting on the side. And that eventually became my main passion, helping people like myself who had the subject matter expertise, but didn't have the the business expertise or the marketing expertise to get it out there. And because I had learned that and I had this traditional business background, that combination of skills, put me in a good position to help them grow their business, and that's what led me to where I am today. So I sold the the beer website actually a few years ago. So that's now in someone else's hands. But but he's doing a good job with it. We're still in communication.Good hopefully hopefully turned to pretty penny that Scott. That's awesome building websites, I didn't know how like that I don't have anything that gets a ton of traffic. But you can just like go by URLs and or domain names. And if you put something on there and get a little bit of traffic and like build up the name on Google like you can that's a way that's a form of investing right there it's kind of interesting business model but it's it's cool to see like how much what I paid for my my domains and then how much they've increased in value since I've put content on their websites and add things pushed to them create a connection. So it's a cool it's a cool thing to see. So I'm curious. I liked the way you said this, I guess is you had a bigger goal and so many people they think, Oh, I'm I'm in this business. For me. I work in finance, right? My objective is not it is my objective. is financial but I'm in finance because of the the bigger goal, right? The bigger goal for me being in finance is to help people with well, as they understand how money works, then they it decreases statistically decreases causes of depression, anxiety, suicide, domestic violence, malnutrition. And those instances decrease when there's higher income, or at least understanding how money works in a home. And so although I work in finance, that's not my main gig, my main gig is what it produces. At the end. I think that's important for people to understand, especially when they're trying to identify well, do I jump ship? Do I go do my own thing? Or what is it exactly that you're jumping ship from and to? I think that's a huge, huge, huge question to be answered. Before you quit your day job before you go anywhere. What exactly are you jumping to? And as Billy said he wasn't jumping to the beer company to become the beer guy. That wasn't as objective. He saw that as a project as a current way of expressing himself in, in other forms of creation. And I think that's important because so many people will get fixated on a certain thing. And they'll say, Well, I don't know anything. I only know how to be a mom, I only know how to garden. I only know how to create videos, I only know how to make beer, right? And so they don't see their value outside of the task that they're doing. And this holds people back. So many people back even in their corporate jobs, because they think I'm only good for what I'm being paid for. Instead of recognizing that the value that they're adding to that company is so much more than the tasks that they're fulfilling. And if they were just to go market, just the value that they're adding, personally, they could probably increase your income, even if they didn't want to change what they're doing. They could take that out of a corporate And go perform those tasks by themselves and be able to create the same or more income more regularly and be in more control of their income. So that's a huge thing. And then understanding that this happens. I would say this happened to me as well, especially with this podcast. Like just kind of the the germination of this podcast is I was doing Facebook videos about different topics. Facebook Lives, I did them every day for I think a month did a month of Facebook lies every day. And what I found was people were reaching out to me and saying, Man, I would love to listen to all of your content, but I can't leave Facebook on all the time. You should turn it into a podcast. I was like, Oh, I never think about that. But I'll turn into a podcast then. And so so so many times, think about what are you complimented on the most? What What do people compliment you on? What do you think? What do people say? And if I Just think like that. Or if I could just do that, what is the most common thing that people say about you in that context? And then reach out to Billy and say, Hey, Billy, how do I turn this into a course? Yeah, I turn this into an online course. Because clearly if there's enough people who recognize my gift, even though I don't recognize my guests, how do I make this gift? able to reach more people? And how do I monetize it? Right? How many times does that happen to you, where you have somebody who comes to you who wants to create a course isn't quite sure exactly how to do it. They know their audience, they know what they what they're trying to teach, but they just have no idea how to monetize it, how to make it effective for their end consumer.Oh, it happens all the time. Yeah, it happens all the time. And and I'll tell you what I tell them because the wrong way to go about it is to go disappear into your basement for nine months and go record some amazing video course. It's been a ton of fun. On software and lighting and microphones and all that stuff, editing, distribution, and just to find out that no one really wants the topic, no one really wants what's being offered. So, this is good news. This is good news because you don't need to put so much pressure on yourself to have something completely polished and dialed in. The way to do it, especially now going going forward is to take that audience first approach, like I talked about, start to build a following get in the trenches with your audience, hop on the phone with them even I've talked to dozens of my customers and email subscribers when I was running that beer brewing website, not selling anything, just hopping on the phone and just asking questions. And look, I was part of my market. I was brewing up a storm. So I but I still my mind was blown all the time. And I was surprised by the things that people would say and what their problems were. So don't fall into that curse of knowledge. You know, where you think that you know it all. The market will tell you and you'll often be surprised. And then just get something out there. Just get something out there. Take an iterative approach. And this is really my approach to to life, you know, and the value that I provide. And like what you were asking earlier. I mean, I see myself in a really strong point of leverage for two reasons. One is I think personal growth is the most important thing in the world. And one of the ways that we can solve a lot of the problems that we have in the world, yes, there are a lot of problems with society and the economy and all that. But if everyone really focused on themselves, and focused on if I focused on making myself better tomorrow than I am today, and I did that consistently, every single day, if everyone did that, we'd be in a really, really good position. And one of the ways to do that is through education, through online learning online courses, and it doesn't matter what niche you're in. What tends to happen if a person is improving in one area, even if it's something sort of like insignificant by most standards, like brewing beer, people don't think that's entirely a life changing thing. But it is and I would see how my students would come in and they would fall in love with this hobby. And that passion would exist. from them, and it would spread to their family, their wife, their kids, they would all see it. And next thing you know, everything in the household is uplifted. Right. So that's one leverage point working directly with them. But I took a step back and said, Okay, let me work with the entrepreneurs and the teachers, the teacher entrepreneurs who serve them. And now we get into, so now I'm able to help them reach more people. So improve this collective personal growth going on throughout the world. And also, I'm a big believer in small businesses, they really are the engine of the economy. So that's I love working with entrepreneurs. Now, they're the innovators, they're the job providers are the ones paying a whole lot of our tax dollars. So that's what gives me a lot of fulfillment. I see myself really in a great place of leverage and aligns with my values. The main one being personal growth.Yeah. And I think that that's the key is identifying what isyour personal value and how are you aligning yourself with your personal value, I think once so I have a I have a my journal, a journal that I created. But it's called the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. And the focus is identifying who why why would it be important for you to actually exceed or succeed in life in general. And it's part of a grander process of identifying your identity. And as you said, your your values for me my core values are candor, integrity, and gratitude. Those are like more important than just about anything else. And when I really analyze who I am, without any fear of judgment for not saying God or saying family or whatever, without any fear of judgment of anybody else, what am I personally internally committed to more than anything else in my life, and it's those three those three values and so I built my business I built everything I do in my life down to my marriage, my children, my everything, based on those three values and all of these need to be present in everything I do. I'm not interested. And when you're looking at jumping ship or going something new again, Be aware of what you're leaving and what and where you're going. Because I'm sure I want you to tell me some failure stories of people who have done this what I'm about to describe, hopefully, some, if you don't, that's amazing, but I think you probably will, but people who they, they were doing this, I decided to create this course or education, out of desperation, because rather than running towards what they were passionate about, and running towards what they love doing, they were running away from what they didn't like doing. And that distinction is huge. just choosing to try it, try and create as, as you would say, try and create a product that you can sell just because you don't like what you're doing right now. Your current, your current work. That is not the way to move forward. It's not I think it has a short lifespan. You're not going to be a long lasting educator or innovator anything but if you are passionate about something and you're running towards what you like, you're gonna have different results. So tell me a story of where you've had Somebody who is running from something rather than towards something.Yeah,well, I can give you my own example. Sure, sure.Yeah. So when I, when I made that transition from running the beer site to doing consulting full time, I was doing some service provider work. So I wasn't just consulting, I was also helping people build and maintain their Facebook ad campaigns and the natural path. And so I eventually pulled back from that because the natural path if you start doing that is to grow an agency. You know, so you start to look at Okay, how can I get more clients? How can I do a better job with this and you're just gonna wind up in that agency playground. Turns out I didn't really didn't want to run an agency. It just, it doesn't align with what I enjoy doing. It's not me, much more of a strategist, much more of an architect. I don't want a big team or anything like that. It just didn't match up with the lifestyle that I wanted. And I always start with the lifestyle and reverse engineer that So I started to go down that path, but then quickly pulled back because I had that feeling like and yeah, I can deliver value here. But this isn't, this isn't my zone of genius. So a lot of my life has been like that testing different things, seeing how it feels. Sometimes you just have to write like, I didn't know what that that day to day was like, it looked good on paper, running an agency getting a lot of clients. But when I was actually in the trenches of it, I said, No, I don't feel so hot. Let me go back this other direction.Yeah, I think that's that's huge. Being able to dig, like to determine and decipher between that What are you running from something you write to something and making sure you're running to something that you love and that you're going to bring the light and Joy to the world not just from what you don't like because it's just barely I haven't seen it pan out very well for many people. And it's good that you were able to recognize that before you got too deep into something you hated and decided to. You never know happens honestly. So I'm curious when you did make the jump though. What was your? Did you Who are your biggest naysayers saying no, don't do that. Why give? Why are you giving up this great job? Tell us the story of your biggest naysayers and how you overcame them.I have been really fortunate in that I've always had a tremendous support system. I really can't think of one person I'm close to. I can't even think of one person who said, You're dumb. Don't do that. Don't leave that full time job. It's great. Everyone was just like a really great cheerleader. Just Hell yeah. Billy, go for it. So I've never had anyone say that, fortunately. But I have had haters, you know, running. You wouldn't believe that running a beer website. You get haters, like, I remember I was. I was, uh, I did some videos about a beer cocktail and some British one. And I guess they're very strict about how they make these beer, beer cocktails where you mix two beers together a beer and some other kind of a silly thing. But people will get on YouTube get really upset and passionate about pretty trivial things. So I'll get flamed in the comments if I made the recipe wrong or something And then and then I would have people just generally upset that I would sell information. A lot of people just see that as a big No, no. How could you possibly sell this, especially in a niche, like an enthusiast niche? You know, the beer market? People are a little bit touchy about that. So, so yeah, I certainly had my fair share of haters, but but no one no one saying, hey, you shouldn't be doing that as a career or a business fortunately.Right? So how so? How did you overcome that? Because there's people who, maybe they have support in their career, but when they see those comments online, when they see that the haters, they're like, Oh, no, am I doing something wrong? Maybe I should adjust my my approach my market like maybe, maybe I should change maybe I get doing whatever I'm doing. So how did you learn to just let that roll off of you or not give it any credence? Like how did you move past that and say, Look, I'm doing me you do you and you don't want to do it, whatever. If you want to post crappy things, that's fine, too. Whatever.Yeah. So a big Part of it was looking to mentors. So looking to people who either mentors I knew personally or mentors from a distance I just followed online, who were a few steps ahead of me, or many steps ahead of me and had way more haters than me and seeing them talk about it. I remember I think it was a roommate safety, if you know who he is heard of him? Yeah. And he had his own version of Have you seen mean tweets against what he's called Jimmy Fallon, one of those late nights? Yeah. President Obama will be on there reading all the mean tweets about him and he makes it funny. So Remi did something like that, I think was him and maybe James altucher. And they're reading all the tweets. It was like this funny, they're sitting around the fireplace drinking whiskey or something, and reading some of the hit the April comments on their YouTube videos. So I've Oh, I'm a big fan of humor. So I used humor to approach it and just kind of have to laugh at them. You know, it's silly, right? And I don't take it personally. And I realized that they only see they only see a sliver of me and my personality. Right, like they saw maybe just the first three minutes of that YouTube video and that's all they know about me. Right? So I have a lot of empathy.I think I love that. I think that and that's really the whole purpose of my book or one of the major purposes of my book is exactly that. How do you like gain perspective of what's really happening? So often in our world today, we get sucked into like, Oh, this is such a big deal on Facebook. It's like no, like, literally in two days, nobody's gonna remember this thread even happened. We've got it got to keep in perspective there, how much they know about you. It's not an attack on you. It's an attack on their perception of, of what's happening, which is entirely different than on you. So I love that what would you say your your secret? If you have like a specific habit, mindset or behavior that you have participated in regularly to build your legacy? What would you say that is and how could we adopt that into our lives?Yeah, so it's really I'm a big fan of positive habits. So having a strict morning routine. Having a strict nighttime routine? And then and then self reflection. Am I improving? Going back to what I said earlier? Am I a better person than I was yesterday? Am I smarter than I was yesterday? Am I more skilled in this area than I was yesterday? And if you just do that day in and day out, I forgot the exact numbers are. But I think if you if you improve 1% each day after 70 days, then you're twice as good as you were before. That's been the biggest thing for me again, personal growth.Yeah, no, I love that. It's awesome. So how could we support you if we wanted to get in touch with you? Let's say we have a course that we want to create. Or we'd like to maybe take part and see what see what courses you helped to create and just take part in some of those that you've already helped create for other people. Do you have a list of all the companies you've worked with? And so we'd go cruising back. Oh, yeah, he's helped dessert. I'd like that type, of course. And where do we get in touch with that and how do we get more involved with what you're doing?Yeah. So nice and simple, best ways to get around. My website Billy bras calm b i ll y VR OSS calm. And yeah, there's a bunch of case studies on there. And you can see a lot of the courses that I've worked with and a lot of the niches that I've worked in, you can hop on my email newsletter, I send out a almost daily email newsletter. I'm a huge fan of email marketing as a channel. I just think it's the most intimate, personal way to communicate but I do it very differently than how most people do it. So So yeah, that's that's a very popular.Okay, cool. So here's the here's the last two sections on my podcast are some of my favorite. So this this second last section is called legacy on rapid fire kind of like a game show. But there's, there's no right or wrong answers. But there's five questions. And we're looking for one word, one sentence answers. I may ask you to clarify any one answer at any given time.Fair enough. Let's do it.Awesome. So legacy on rapidfire number one, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the new Next level of your legacy.Hmm.sorting the great opportunities from the good opportunities. That's the constant challenge.That is and what have you found to help you in that endeavor?There's actually I actually have a really tactical thing that I use. It's a formula that I've discovered by Brendon Burchard. And I can't remember the little complicated, but you essentially look at everything that goes into an opportunity, the resources, the time, the money, the sanity, that you need to invest into it, and see if the payoff. So the financial payoff, the doors that it opens and how it fits into your lifestyle, how those balance out, it's kind of like a scale. So it's not perfect, but it's a good framework to use to evaluate opportunities highly recommended. No, that's awesome. I agree that you have tohave some formula of determining how You spend your time and where you spend your time. And I talked about it from a perspective of, you've got to become the CEO of your own life. And that's the CEOs job to determine like, hey, which contracts we're getting in? How are we increasing the value to our shareholders, if it doesn't weigh in the favor of increasing the value to our shareholders, now worth my time, and, and being able to hold that standard to yourself and for others, it's a nice school concept. I love it. It'll be a book one day, but like that might be a course before it becomes a book. I'll see. So what do you think the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has been to this point,running a marathon?I haven't done that. So I will, that I would tend toseegoes to the head and then like 10 or 11 years old, and had no not no intention of running this half marathon. On, but my, we were all showing up. We all showed up to support my family and my older sister who had been training while she was warming up that day, she pulled a muscle or something so she couldn't run. And so she's like, Well, does anybody else want to and I was like, I have two or three other brothers who are running. So I, you know, like sketcher Skechers. The shoes had like a leather, almost like nice, classy leather. Skechers shoes. That's what I had on. And I was like, y'all run? Why not? So I ended up running this half marathon in Skechers shoes. I was like 10 or 11. I was like, That will never happen again. So I haven't ever thought to brave another half marathon and

Episode Title: Setting The Captives FreeWebsite: http://saltydogspodcast.comPodcast Gear: http://podcastgearforbeginners.comWelcome back Derek Shore!Support us financially at http://patreon.com/saltydogspodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 97, we meet Kayla + Dr. Steven Tersigni, a family of seven! Steven is a Refractive Surgeon, and Kayla is a Ph.D. Candidate in tandem with raising their five children. This couple has a unique perspective on life and work. They have moved 18 times in 14 years! Listen up for three things: low expectations, marrying the babysitter, triage in families.To learn more:BrintonVision.comWelcome to the Love or Work Podcast, hosted by Andre Shinabarger (Physician Assistant, Grady Hospital) and Jeff Shinabarger (Social Entrepreneur and Founder of Plywood People). They are asking the question: Is it possible to change the world, stay in love and raise a healthy family? 100 interviews where Jeff and Andre learn from other working families in the journey of marriage, purpose and parenting.Website: www.loveorwork.comHome Together: A date night right where you areInstagram: www.instagram.com/loveorworkLove or Work is a project of Plywood People.Plywood is a non-profit in Atlanta leading a community of start-ups doing good.www.plywoodpeople.com

www.successwithrg.com www.destinymastersinstitute.comWelcome to Season 2!!So many of us want to always hit the home run! What if you simply paid attention to getting up to bat and getting on base? What if you were to focus on hitting another team member in to home plate? In this episode we discuss making small adjustments within to create massive movement without! Learn how to enjoy the moment you are in. Dream It!! Believe it!! GO FOR IT!!

Salty Dogs Christian PodcastEpisode Title: The Disruptive Nature Of GodWebsite: http://saltydogspodcast.comPodcast Gear: http://podcastgearforbeginners.comWelcome back Mike Clifford as a second time guest on the show! Find out more about his ministry at http://capacityministries.com/. Have you ever considered God's disruptive nature - how He tends to shake up the norm in order to teach us lessons, teach us kingdom, and continue the process of maturing us into his likeness? We dive in with Mike, Jason and Casey in this episode, talking about learning from God's way of shifting the trajectory of our lives. Support us financially at http://patreon.com/saltydogspodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we share with you our recent conversation we had with someone we really look up to and are inspired by: Chris Baca. Chris is a lot of things, but how we found him was around his content he openly shares with the world via his Youtube channel, his business (Cat and Cloud) and his podcast that he hosts with his business partners, the Cat and Cloud Podcast. We find Chris and Cat and cloud to be somewhat of business mentors, through what they do in their business, podcast and youtube.Listen to the Cat and Cloud podcast, see what they do, order some coffee and more, all at:https://catandcloud.comConnect with Chris:https://realchrisbaca.comWelcome to the Heart Bowls podcast where we help you start and grow the business of your dreams.If you want to start a food truck, vegan cafe, coffee shop, acai bowl business, this podcast is for you.We talk about owning and operating a thriving vegan food truck business - Heart Bowls. We interview successful business owners the food and coffee industry and talk about their journey, business culture, team building, personal growth, education, the healthy food business, vegan food, and a whole lot more.https://www.heartbowls.com

In this episode, we meet Ciara and Bob Dalton of Sackcloth + Ashes - for every blanket purchased, they give one to your local homeless shelter! This week we hear all about the journey of an entrepreneur. THE REAL STUFF - through success, travel, and failure. We hear about what it really takes to be an entrepreneur and be married to one.To learn more: https://sackclothandashes.com/CiaraDalton.comWelcome to the Love or Work Podcast, hosted by Andre Shinabarger (Physician Assistant, Grady Hospital) and Jeff Shinabarger (Social Entrepreneur and Founder of Plywood People). They are asking the question: Is it possible to change the world, stay in love and raise a healthy family? 100 interviews where Jeff and Andre learn from other working families in the journey of marriage, purpose and parenting.Website: www.loveorwork.comHome Together: A date night right where you areInstagram: www.instagram.com/loveorworkLove or Work is a project of Plywood People.Plywood is a non-profit in Atlanta leading a community of start-ups doing good.www.plywoodpeople.com

Hosts Elizabeth Holmes and Lisa Schauer share a deep admiration of women who have built careers in creative industries and having Emmy award winning filmmaker Beth Harrington sit down for a conversation about her journey was a delight. Starting with getting hooked on rock n’ roll in her teenage years in Boston, we explore the through line of blending storytelling and music that has influenced much of her work. Her enthusiasm for storytelling hasn’t wavered and we look at how her approach has changed as her career has evolved and how she’s consistently finding the joy in filmmaking. We love her authenticity and vulnerability when sharing her gratitude for the way her own story has rolled out and we loved our time with Beth.   As noted, this episode was recorded prior to the COVID-19 crises and subsequent Shelter in Place order. Mentioned in the episode:www.trusttreegroup.comwww.bethharrington.comwww.thewindingstream.comwww.themusicianer.comWelcome to the Clubwww.duplexplanet.comwww.federalepdx.comJonathan Richman

Alex Cameron is a video production and marketing expert with over a decade of storytelling experience. In 2016, he founded Depiqd to help passionate yet overloaded business owners find new customers using high-quality video production for social media and beyond. This year, Alex aims to help more and more companies use YouTube successfully to grow their email lists and drive traffic to their websites. In addition to all this, Alex also has a love and speciality in producing online courses for savvy business owners looking to leverage their knowledge to generate additional income from digital products. Alex is happily married to his wife, Emma, and father to three children, Dulcie, Rory and Beauden. Alex is an avid golfer, cinema-goer and martial artist.Discussed in this episode: - What is actually meant by 'storytelling' when it comes to your business and how you can use it to enhance your efforts.- Why the use of storytelling in marketing is important for businesses.- Why some businesses are not telling many stories in their marketing.- What businesses are missing out on, when not telling great stories in their marketing.- When it comes to creating content, the common mistakes that some businesses make.- How to start incorporating great storytelling into your marketing.- Some tips for crafting stories and where to start.- Some of the myths we tell ourselves about why we can't start tell stories in our marketing.- The overall benefits of adopting compelling storytelling in your marketing efforts.- What to look out for when looking for someone to work with, when it comes to video creation- The process Alex takes clients through when working with them.- The benefits Alex’s clients have seen whilst working with him, to tell their stories.Mentioned in this conversation:Muse StorytellingDISCLAIMER: Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or lifestyle change. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website. Always seek the advice of a legal or financial professional or other qualified provider with any questions you may have regarding a legal or financial matter. Never disregard professional legal or financial advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website.For more information on Ross' Headshot & Personal Branding photography, please visit https://rossdeanphotography.comWelcome to Make Today Count. Your 60 mins of fresh conversation, served up to inform, educate & inspire an abundant life. Each episode I chat to thought leaders, influencers and experts in their game who all have one thing in common. The desire to go the extra mile. Pushing against the status quo to create a richer life for both themselves and those around them. Powered by compassion and driven by the need to leave the world that little bit better than when they arrived.Podcast theme music: ‘March on’ by Silent Partner. Used in agreement with the Youtube Free Music Audio Library.

This weeks guest is Steve Sims. Do you know anyone that’s worked with Sir Elton John or Elon Musk? Sent people down to see the wreck of the Titanic on the sea bed or closed museums in Florence for a private dinner party and then had Andre Bocelli serenade them while they eat their pasta? Well, you do now. Quoted as “The Real Life Wizard of Oz" by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, Steve Sims is a best selling Author with "BLUEFISHING - the art of making things happen”, sought-after consultant and a speaker at a variety of networks, groups and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard – twice!Links: website: https://www.stevedsims.com/ FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stevedsims/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/stevedsims/Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on kindle amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker. comWelcome back to fuel your legacy and today we have an incredible guest. It's cool the more people that I've had on the more notable people that I've been able to have on which is always exciting. So today, we have Steve Sims And he was here in Utah a few months ago speaking at a conference for, for some people who are looking to, to understand what he does, I'm excited to bring it on. Because understanding the ROI of relationships is, I think key and everything and there is so many of the most successful people that I know that I listened to that I associate with, say relationships are the new economy, right? That's the new currency is how well do you know somebody? So, Steve, he's a speaker and author. He's the founder of bluefish, direct founder of boot camp marketing, and it's your coach and real and he's been called so this is the best thing is when people title you as things because the titles other people give you end up being some of the most wonderful ways to market yourself because you just, it's just raw. So he's been called the real-life Wizard of Oz according to Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine so that I mean That's a that's quite a glowing compliment to be called The Wizard of Oz. What? What pen brought that on? Where'd you get your start? And what was your childhood like? And why are you doing what you're doing today?Wow. Um, first of all being called the villain like Wizard of Oz is a double-edged sword because let's be blunt, the Wizard of Oz was a fake.You kind of go, Oh, that's very nice. And then you go, Oh crap, and they called me a fake.So I like to take it on its face value that I am the guy that can less little get you through the journey. So I class myself as an educated man. But I don't believe the school had anything to do with that. I left. I left school at the age of 15 and ended up working on my father's construction site. And I didn't have any future didn't have any hopes didn't have any goals. We didn't live in a world of the internet where we were bombarded with what the other half was living with or what they had. So I grew up ignorant. And immune to all of the luxury and stuff like that. But as an entrepreneur, you don't become an entrepreneur, you are an entrepreneur. It's either your left-handed or your right hand is just, it's just one of those things. And I remember growing up, conflicted, disgruntled, dissatisfied, and all of those things that have everyone going, Oh, you've got a DD and oh, you can't focus and you can't concentrate. It wasn't the fact that I couldn't focus I couldn't concentrate. I wasn't being engaged. And nothing was excited me. Nothing was challenging me. And entrepreneurs, we need to be challenged. We come alive. When we're challenged. And as a bricklayer, I was being told this is what you do, and then you grow old and then you die. That was my life. And it didn't make sense to me. I left the building site, and not knowing what I wanted to do, but just know Do it but just knowing firmly that wasn't what it was. I ended up selling cakes on the back of lorries. I ended up being an insurance door to door salesman. And if anyone's ever seen me, can you imagine me knocking on your door an o'clock at night trying to sell you life insurance. It didn't go well. I ended up getting a job in Hong Kong by completely lying on a resume. I lasted 24 hours and I was fired.Now I was just trying anything to get to something that would challenge and excite me. And I found it in the funniest place. I ended up working on the door of a nightclub. And it was a great position. It was a great pedestal for me to watch the world I was able to watch humanity and to see how they handled themselves how they spoke to others how they interacted, you know, like bar staff is some of the best communicators in the world. You know, they'll talk to someone in a business suit, and then I talked to a group of girls are Guys completely differently within a split second you know they are very good at altering the way they communicate with the different people based on a split second assumption of your attitude, the way you dress how which you look out for you, all those kind of things as a doorman no one wants to talk to a doorman because they're there to punch you in the head. You know, no one wants to talk to him. But I was able to watch them and I would stand on the door of nightclubs and go, I want to be that person. I want to be that group. I want to have them as friends. And so then what I started doing was trying to find a way that they would talk to me as a person and not as a dormant and because I knew where all the parties were and all the best events where I started getting extra tickets and going up to my regulars going Hey guys, I know you like a good night. Did you notice a premiere going on on Friday? Are you going? Now we're not we don't know how to get in. Well, let me make a phone call. Maybe it again for viewing I started becoming this fixer. This, this guy that knew. And the only reason I did it was not that I was a social butterfly far from it was because I wanted to give the people I wanted to talk to a reason to talk to me. It was a Trojan horse. If I can talk to you about getting you into a private body, I can talk to you about what makes you successful, how you had things, why you change, and they always say you are the combination of the five people you hang around with. Well, it was fine. I was hanging around with five bikers. So that wasn't going to get me very far in life. So I had to change my circle when I did. It just started is that before you knew it, I went from getting people in the parties to throw in the parties myself to suddenly being associated with some of the biggest events in the world. From fashion weeks to Grammys to Kentucky Derby. Ferrari's Cavalier no classic Elton John's Oscar party, I became associated with the grandest most often Skylab fluent event on a planet, and therefore my clients were those people, all those people should I say? And then I started marketing them and branding their products you know, I know people coming to me going hey, I've got a company that sells lipsticks, you know, how would you do an advert? And I will I don't like your advert because you're marketing to the wrong people. And I suddenly start became a brand and so on for these companies. Two years ago, I got asked, Hey, would you release a book on the rich and famous people you deal with? And I said, Now I'd bet I'd be dead by cocktail hour. So then they came back to me this will okay. Would you buy a book on how fabric Live from London can now be working with Elon Musk and the Pope? And that made sense to me. So we released a book, not thinking it would be successful not put any marketing behind it. It didn't do well in the first couple of months and then it took off in the third and since then, I've been doing podcasts and speaking engagements all over the world. I consult for Entrepreneurs of all levels. I have an online course called Sims distillery that helps people learn how to communicate. And it's just grown and I've become my brand. So, from bricklayer to dealing with the meanest, most affluent people in the world to now being an author, speaker, and coach, it's a very interesting journey.Yeah, I love it. And so funny how different and different people come into their passion, different ways. And some people I had a guest on a little while ago who she found her passion, really through, it was something that it was her passion as at a young age, then she lost sight of it or she was dissuaded from it. And then she circled back to her passion. And I love one of the things you said, Well, actually, it's kind of a kind of both in hand in hand, you don't become an entrepreneur. You either are one of them or not ones, as a movie, and it's okay not to be an audience. corner, sometimes because I work in the entrepreneur world where I'm actively seeking out entrepreneurs. And, and so the assumption is by a lot of people that I just think everybody's an entrepreneur and everybody can do it. And I just want to work with everybody. And the reality is, I don't know what the percentage of entrepreneurs are, but it's not a high percentage of people who are entrepreneurs, there's a high percentage of them. There's a high percentage of people who are not entrepreneurs who liked the security, as the certainty, as the safety of working for an entrepreneur,and that's fine. That's fine. There's you know, we got three grades at the moment. And it's like me moaning at you because of your height. You know, you have no control over your height. Okay. So you either are an entrepreneur or you're not. There's a lot of one trip owners out there, they look at it and think, Oh, it's a sexy life. Yeah, I'm an entrepreneur, but they can't handle the two o'clock in the morning not being able to pay your bills on Friday or the fact that you all out on the front line, an entrepreneur is a guy that jumps off the cliff, and then builds a parachute on the way down. And there are phenomenal intrapreneurs I think every entre, we had a quick discussion on this before we went live. A good entrepreneur needs to surround himself with phenomenal intrapreneurs These are the people the love that life until the last bit where you're your next on the line, and that's fine. I'm surrounded by phenomenal intrapreneurs that are creative, driven, push it and help support me be on the front line. So I believe there are great entrepreneurs, but the one tripping is not too flaky and they fall by the wayside very quickly. And so how would you help somebody if they're sitting there listening to this and they're not sure who they are, what where they fall in that maybe just because of lack of experience, lack of Discovery a lot of people who listen to this they're their stay at home moms are people who have been basically sacrificed their life for for the love of their children or for other people. And so they've never really gained the experience or tried out the different positions, you could say. How would you help them kind of look at their life and say, Well, what about me? Where would I fit in these categories? Well, first of all, as an entrepreneur, you are mich broke, rich, broke, broke, rich, rich, rich, broke rich. It's a Helter Skelter over life. I don't think any entrepreneur, given the vision chart of how they're going to be over the next few years, whatever, optionally go, Oh, yeah, I like that. Because entrepreneurs will get laughed at spat at ridiculed Elon Musk musk. He said it to me ages ago. He said they laugh at you before they applaud. Now, if you're not the person that can stand being hated, ridiculed and laughed at the maybe you should be an on an entrepreneur. If you don't care, and you want to be challenged, maybe you're an entrepreneur. But it does come down to that final line of are you willing to take it on the shoulders, finances, because a lot of the times we've lost, we've lost as entrepreneurs money, and we've got it, we're up against it. And then all of a sudden, at like five o'clock on Friday, we're going to pay payroll, and we're running all of our credit cards to do that. We've all been through it. The life of an entrepreneur is not sexy. It's not something we chose is something we are.I love that I think that's so beautifully put. And if you go back and listen to it, and just ask yourself, hey, where do I fit, you know, it's okay. You might be as creative as, as eager to create in your life, different things, but maybe you don't have the wherewithal to have people ridicule us. That's something that I, I think I always had inside of me. But it for me, it took a while to expose that because of the social programming, that you should care about what other people think it took me a while to ultimately say no, I like in my heart. I don't care what you think about me. I'm going to do, what I feel confident doing and what I want to do, regardless of whether you think it's a good idea, anybody, right?Yeah, it gets really, it's very hard to run when you got someone sitting on your shoulders. And so careful about what you do, care about what you solve, care about what you do, but don't care about someone's naysaying opinion. you'll usually find that the person sitting in the corner going, Oh, look at Oh, he can't all watch it. That person's never going to be your client and let's be blunt, never amount to anything. Because people like to sit in the corner and tell you you can't do something because they don't want you proven the diamond Quit to do it themselves.Yeah, that is something that I completely agree with. And I tell people that I work with often had one, one woman a few months back who had asked me, and well, because she was thinking about working with me, she said, Well, I don't want to waste your time. And I saw her Look, I don't let people waste my time. Yeah,yeah, not exactly.twice on me. And if you rescheduled twice, you go in the hopper of people I might call once every six months. It's just not committed to their future yet, but you may be in the future like I don't allow people to waste my time. That's not how this game works. So I love that. So moving forward, something else that you said that I think people needs to understand. And I want to add some specificity here because this is I believe, key in this phrase, especially if you're listening to Gary Vaynerchuk. Or there's a lot of people I think Gary Vee is probably the highest one that says as often it's just you have to add value, you have to add value, you have to add value to others. People before you ask for value in return. And I think that that's true. to a point, right, just adding value, there's a lot of ways to add value in people's lives, right toilet papers valuable. Somebody guiding you a Walmarts valuable like there's a lot of value that you could add. But what love what you did, you added value with the intention that the value add was intentional too, as you said, a Trojan horse to get something out of it not that you expected or that you are going to do a tit for tat type expectation of something out of it. But you are very intentional with how you are adding value to whom you are adding value so that you could get around certain individuals. And please speak to that as to why that's so important that the intentional adding value rather than just random value addingyou got to be laser focus today because we're in a world of mass distraction. So you've got to be Short and sharp to the point while creating something that benefits you as well. Now, I agree with you about you've got to add value. I also agree with you that there are multiple different levels of value. But you've got to go to the value that gets as close as it possibly can to the core of the individual. So, you know, I've worked with very affluent people, very powerful people. Not always very famous people. So you can go to these people and you can say, Hey, I know you don't know me. Get that out of the way. That's always a good one to get out of the room straight away. I know we haven't met I know we haven't been introduced, but there's something that I would like to do with you. But before we get into that, I'm aware that you support this charity. I'm aware that you have got a new book coming out. I am aware that you're promoting your media brand. I'm aware that I've got an idea after looking over this, how I can help you get more reach, get more input, get more donations to get better. Marketing getting better, and show that you've paid attention to? Okay? You may well turn around and go all this and they may turn around and go, Well, actually, we've got a marketing team that just actually said that to me. And I've said about what and they've come back to me and they've gone, hey, we've done now I've gone right. That's, that's brilliant. But it shows that you focus and As the old saying goes, they won't care until you show you care. Now, in that conversation, if you dissect what I've just said, I've got out of the room that you don't know me. And when I say you don't know me, you may know my name. You don't know my credibility. You don't know my reputation and your right. reputation and credibility in today's counts. Okay, so I've got that you don't know me. You don't know me, you know my name, but you don't know me. I've also made it clear that I want something from you. If I say to you, I need a tip. 10 bucks. But before we discuss that I want to talk to you about you're going to know straight off the bat I need 10 bucks. So I like to get it out of the way that hey, I need something from you. I've got something I want us to do. But before we get into that, and then you go into the reason why you need to keep me in the conversation because I'm here to benefit you. If you go in with that, they know you need something. Why do they know that? Because you told him quite bluntly, I need something. So there's no, there's no sitting there going, what is this guy after? I've just told you I want something. And she allows the person and relaxes easy-going, Oh, well, he wants somebody to bang on a minute. He's bringing something to me first. And that is a good one to get out of it. So that's how I enter into every conversation, whether it be dealing with the Vatican, whether it be dealing with Richard Branson, I always say hey, I need something but before we get into that, I know you're doing XYZ and go into that route. I love that I love this to me. It's a simple four-step process.Making every conversation intro sample where you're building rapport credibility, and you're building that now. Don't fall on yours. And don't, don't be scared to fall on your face say get as big of the nose as possible. But on the other hand, do your research, right everythingis important.Yeah, every client that I meet with, I have them send out a fill out a form where I get all their social media links so that when I'm sitting down with them, before I meet with them, then I know what things we have in common, what things I can support them with and what things I can't, the things that I can't support them with, I'm probably not going to bring up in our conversation, because that would be like shooting yourself in the foot. To understand who you're talking to understand where you can add value. Don't take on somebody that you can't add value to just because you want to be around them. Be clear and make connections where possible. And too many people want to be the everyman everything guy It's just not. You're not supposed to be the everything guy. You're supposed to be good at what you do. Oh for me, you know, I've got a brilliant gardener that I speak to absolutely every single week about my garden, but I'm not going to have him do my taxes. It's not a problem to turn around and think this person is good for that, but not good for that. Yeah, exactly. I love it. So what would you say? When did you because I know it's a journey. And we kind of talked about this, but what was there an exact moment where the light bulb clicked. You're like, Man, this is what I want my legacy to be.Oh, I don't know if I even know what my legacy to be. And I have heard I've heard that question come up a few times before but I'm kind of in the fight and on the journey and enjoying the view. And I haven't. I have some very basic principles. I want to be crystal clear. I want to be in possible to be misunderstood. And I don't want people to be confused. Now, if that ends up being my legacy or ends up being sketched on my tombstone, I'm happy about that. But there's a lot of people that plan for things. And for a lot of people, they need to plan. But I plan to seconds after I've jumped off the step, and I find that I only become good when I get going. And everything that I have ever started a shit. I know the first time I do anything, the first time I do an interview, the first time I did a podcast, the first time I wrote a pushbike The first time I tried to do a business meeting, every single one of them was rubbish. But you need that rubbish to be yet golden. And I have learned that so if I wake up one morning and go, I'm going to do a podcast I'll do a podcast. It'll have a crappy already. We do have a bad signal, it has a terrible microphone. Everything I try I try differently. And so legacy wise, I don't know if I found my thing yet. I just know what I found is an elf. And I'm going to promote a good friend of mine called Joe polish. He openly talks about elf businesses easy, lucrative and fun. And if what you do can be those three things, those three things, keep doing it. I have had lucrative businesses. I've had lucrative projects, but they've been stressful and they ain't been fun. They made me a lot of money and I bought a new motorbike and I've had great fun doing about great finances doing them, but they ain't been fun. So I now try to find elf projects and elf businesses. And I would say now for the past three or four years with my brand coming out of bluefish did I'm in an elf momentum at the moment and I'm enjoying it. Where is it going? I don't know. But as long as itself I'm stayingwith it. Awesome. I love that I never heard that acronym but I think I will start asking myself what in my life is falls in that category? And what is health? Yeah, that stuff that doesn't for sure.Absolutely. Joe polish. You said some very intelligent things. He's also said some very stupid things because he's a weird individual. But yeah, he's given me some incredible nuggets which have helped my life.That's awesome. So now if you were to say there was like one story or one point in time where you decided to stop caring about naysayers? What was that one, that one moment where you're like, Okay, I just, I just don't care? Or I'm doing my thing.I listened to the worst person in the world and that was myself. And I went through a very, very dark month. My life I had been I was about eight years into being the man that can about eight years, I had some of the richest clients royalty caps in the industry, you know real power players around the world as clients send me hundreds of thousands of dollars so I just a night out or weekend away. And I woke up one day and I thought to myself, Oh my god, you know, I've got to change. I don't know why, but I just thought I had to. So I took all my earrings out and I covered my tattoos by wearing long shirts and you know, I thought to myself, Oh, I have to be a bit more pronounced. Now. I have to be a little bit more British. You know, just everything about me changed. I started wearing suits now anyone that knows me knows I'm on two wheels forever. And I bought a car. I bought a vintage Ferrari to try and impress you. I bought a $50,000 odham up watch. I went to Donna Monaco, and I throw a kickoff party in my suit with my Ferrari with my watch. And I came home, and I got the photographs of that event. And I realized this was the first event in my life that I hadn't shown up to this avatar of who I wanted to be had this pretend Steve Sims. And it depressed me and I got drunk and I was drunk for about three days. I didn't know what had happened and I realized that I had listened to all my subconscious all my inadequacies, all of my self-doubt. And I had become this shield, this persona, this alters ego. And luckily it was my wife that said, Look, people don't buy the suit and the car they've been buying this you for years, they've been sending you money as this quirky guy, the comm spell and anyone that's ever got an email from me knows I can't spell but it didn't stop me write a book. Don't focus on your inadequacies. Don't focus on your weaknesses. Because you end up with incredibly focused, targeted weaknesses. They don't get any better focus on your unicorn. So I realized that I sold the car immediately. I got rid of the suits. Funnily enough, this was in the late 90s. I wanted to keep the suits because they were nice suits. I put them in my cupboard. And it was about three years ago in Los Angeles, I gave them away to goodwill, and I'd never worn them. never worn them since that day, because I felt they were toxic. No, I like putting on a nice suit. But it was never those suits. He ended up going and buying different suits. So that was my dark time when I listened to my doubt, and my inadequacies, and since then it's a case of Hey, this is me. Now I've got an I know you're in Utah, but as far as La is concerned, it's a bit chilly and I've got off No shirt on, but there's a black t-shirt underneath and that's where I'm showing up as me every single day. If you don't like it, we can part ways and we'll all be fine but I am never going to use a single second of effort to be somebody I'm notso that was my tongue fineyeah i think that's often the hardest person to get hundred silence right you can get to the point where you tell everybody else to go screw themselves but being able to tell yourself to go screw yourself as you talk and lean into your uncertainties lean into your your your fears and you say look, I'm going for it regardless that sometimes it's the hardest thing to master as far as like financially going from the different areas. I mean, going from a bar bouncer having lost your job in different areas. How did you spend, how did you make that transition from from employment into employer or entrepreneur financially because I mean, you alluded to this to at the beginning where you're rich, you're broke, you're rich, you're broke, you're rich, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke rich. Like I understand that happens. And I think that's one of the bigger fears of people who are thinking about making the jump. And so how did you level that? How do you handle it with your wife? I don't know if you have kids, but like, how did you make that? an okay thing for them.I have to stop my bank account from becoming my barometer to react. And it took many years, but the thing that would happen was I would have a ton of cash in the bank, and I'd be like, oh, I don't need a try. I got loads of money. And the money goes quickly, especially when you've got a nice house and you know, you got payments and I do have kids, I have private schooling and before you know it that starts whittling down fast. And then you go crap, I got no money, and then you go and get into stressful deals and projects that you shouldn't have got into but you have done now because of the checkbook. So you're going from candlelight, you know, fire to beach fire to the beach. And it's, it's bad. And as I say, I was using my bank account to dictate me. And it was the tail that wags the dog. The smartest thing that happened to me was when I suddenly started realizing that I was pathetic at certain things, and an entrepreneur wants to be great at everything. The Smart entrepreneur realizes, you know, we're not, we're great at one or two things, but the rest of it, we may be adequate, or maybe really bad at, okay. So as an entrepreneur, I realized that my wife was detail-oriented, she would come to me and she'd be like, Well, look, I've looked at the spreadsheet, and I'm like, Well, I don't want to look at spreadsheets was the bottom line. Because that's how I vision things. So then we realized that I can steer the car, you know, I can be the big powerful engine that can make it go fast. But I need other people to help me. I need a good set of tires, I need a good set of brakes. I need a good steamer, you know, and I suddenly started finding those people. And I can go, Hey, we need to send this person a great brochure. Get someone to design the brochure, hey, record what you think will be great. And then get someone to write the copy to translate your vision into what someone else can meet. So, Claire, my wife became good at managing and handling me. And she was like, what, okay, and so what we came up with, we came up with the 10 grand credit card. Okay, which started in my late 30s, maybe 39. Oh, yeah, realtor. I hadn't quite hit 40 at the time. But she said, okay, you're gonna have three credit cards, because no matter where you travel in the world, Sometimes, you know, something can happen to a credit card, and it screws and or, you know, they try to send you a verification code. But of course, you're in a foreign country, so you're not getting it, you know. So we have three credit cards. And she said each one of those credit cards has got 10 grand because no matter where you are on a planet, if you've got 10 grand, you can get a couple of hotel nights and you can get a flight out of it. Or you can pay a hospital bill, you know, 10 grand is a great instant support number. Okay, so she said you got three credit cards for 10 grand,you add a bank account, and she kicked me out of the bank account, I could not go and see how much money I had in there. Now, this is what happens. You stop reacting to your tail. You start looking at someone and going okay, is this a project I want to accept? Is this a client I want to be doing and in focusing on the client and not focusing on the checkbook. You get to accept deals that make sense and don't motivate your bottom line. You start we at you reacting with your stomach in your head and not with your with the fear of how much money's in the bank. You take better deals. And when you take those better deals, you start solving the problems that the client has. And then he starts reaffirming the knock-on effect by stop looking at the bank account was monumental to me. And my wife would just say to me, oh, how's it going? What's your pipeline? Like? And she would talk to me in my language, you know, are you busy at the moment? Well, things are starting to get you to get a bit quiet. Oh, well, maybe there are some opportunities for you to use that time, which was code for the bank account that needs replenishing. But she wouldn't tell me that because then I don't get the wrong kind of deals. So a good entrepreneur needs good support around them. If you are good at designing things but crapper doing invoices and the first time I realized how bad I was at doing an invoice was when I undercharged someone by 10 grand. And I had to pay 10 grand for that trip. Okay, now, do I go to the client and go, Oh, I made a mistake? No, I just paid 10 grand to learn the course, that I should never do invoicing again. And that was the last time I ever did an invoice. I've never done an invoice soon. I have no idea how to get into QuickBooks. I still don't know the potent passcode to get into my bank account. I don't need to it's not what I specialize that it's not my unicorn.Oh, that's so cool. I've talked to one other person who was very similar. He did door to door sales. And he just said Look, when when I decided that I want to stop looking at my bank account and just as long as I'm making more transactions or whatever, I'm helping more people than everybody else. I know I'm making more than anybody else. And that's got to be enough. So Yeah, there's value in that for sure. So how could we if we wanted to get connected with you, or if we had a business that we want to do to help us with? How would we get in touch with you? How do we get in touch with your, your, your book? Your Sam, sorry, your sim distillery, how do we get in touch with some of these tools to help usgrow? What we did an online course that should give you the basics called Simmons distillery.com. There's one aim in Sims. Sims distillery.com is my 16 part course that hopefully will help you get the first steps if you don't want to jump into their bluefish in the art of making things happen, should give you permission to fail and dream bigger. If you want to get hold of me. I'm not hard. I'm at Steve de sims.com. But you can also find me on Instagram, Facebook, all of these places. We've even got a free Facebook community called an entrepreneur's advantage with Steve Sims. So there are loads of ways you can reach out to me if you feel as though you want me to answer help with your company. That's nice. But I would suggest you go through those other ways. First you look at the book, do that do your homework first, you may find by doing that, you actually discover other questions that you would have come up with other you come up with, you wouldn't come up with a view to jumped into me straight away, and I want you to be as productive, productive and as powerful as possible. So it's usually best to get the book, get the seems to Sylvie? And then can I get used to my mentality, you may find, I'm not your best choice, I may not be the best person and only you are going to decide that but you're not going to know they should go through the first steps.That is so true. I'm redoing a training system for a lot of my business partners and our leaders. We're talking about what should be in there. It's like it's all in there. If they come and ask me a question before they've done their research or something and I don't even know what they don't know. But I do know what I've already put out there so they haven't taken it down. of the free content that's already there. I like there's not a lot we can do for them. And so I love that you said it that way. Agree, go do those, those things that he's already prepared for you and if you like him, then reach out and get and get to know him a little bit better. So we're at the pretty much at the end here, but I have two more sections here. So the last one is a legacy on rap. Sorry, the first one is a legacy on rapid-fire. So I'm gonna ask you five questions, looking for one sentence answers to go through these and just kind of fast, fast fast. Are you ready for this?I'm ready.Okay. So what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?dream bigger, but I never want to stop dreaming people hold themselves by not dreaming big enough. And as far as I'm concerned, the bigger the dream, the bigger the achievement.Agree. Awesome. So what next one is what is the hardest thing you've ever accomplished?What the story I told you getting over me You can be your biggest advocate you can be your biggest success your biggest asset but sometimes you can be your, your largest devil and your biggest delta. So try and kick that little monkey off your shoulder.Awesome. And then what do you think your greatest success to this point in your life has been?No carry? I have no care about you laughing at me when I fall over. Just stick around to see me get up again.Amen to that. And what would you say is one secret the wave has contributed most to your success.My dad is probably one of the biggest on educated men on the planet. big thick Irish bricklayer fella. And I remember as a kid, he put his hand on my shoulder one day, for no reason wasn't even looking at me. We were just walking down the street. And he said to me, son, no one ever drowned by falling in the water. They drowned by staying there. Now at the age of 14, I thought I'd swallow the fortune cookie or something I couldn't understand where the bloody hell this came from. But you know that is often stuck with me and now and then I fall over quite often and I go, right. It's my decision whether when I stay here and drown, or I get up so I would give him that credit.Awesome. And what are two or three books that you'd recommend to the fuel your legacy audienceblue fishing, the art of making things happen by me Steve Sims obvious one, Dr. Zeus because I find that they got a lot of stuff in there that people don't realize how powerful anything by Jay Abraham because all of his methodology and style, critique sales techniques from the 80s are actually more powerful and impactful today. And if I can give you the fourth one, anything that allows you to dream, anything that's kind of like science fiction, espionage, spy novels, john Grisham, anything that makes you kind of dream in your head That's good because the difference between us an AI is AI can't dream, create an action act, it can only deliver what you asked for. So start meeting things that make you dream and take you to a world beyond your imagination.That's so interesting. I've never heard anybody put it that way, the difference between us and AI because that's a, if you don't follow the technology that's coming up quick, big difference, like AI is going to be able to replace a large percentage of what humans are currently doing. And the question is, but what do we do with all that free time as you're right asked you an It looks like you have a little bit of free time. What are you going to do with that? And that's a real question to be asked. Millions of people are being put out of jobs daily, across the world because of artificial intelligence or some form of robotics. And if you're not thinking how can I then go create more value for the world and give back then you're going to be sitting there doing nothing? pretty quick.A great, greatyeah. So here's the last one. Question. It's my favorite question. I excited to hear your answer. I don't know what it's going to be. But we're going to pretend that you've died that you're dead. Okay. 210 But okay, no, no, it's 200 years from now, six generations from now. So your great, great, great, great, great-grandchildren are sitting around a table, and you have the opportunity to kind of listen in to the conversation that they're having about you, your life and your legacy. What would you want your great great great, great-grandchildren to be saying about you? 200 years from now.He lived by his standards and not others.Simple as that simple as that.And it doesn't need to be any more complicated. I love it. Thank you so much for your time, Steve. I'm just grateful and honored to have you here on the show. And if there's ever anything I can return the favor to you. I'd love to do so. Thanks. And love to if you ever back in Utah. I love to meet up with you.Hold to a panel. Thank you.Yep, no problem. We'll catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. 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This weeks guest is Jemimah Ashleigh. Jemimah is one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs. Having built three successful businesses, she is a highly sought-after business consultant, speaker and bestselling author. Jemimah also hosted the Australia’s #2 business podcast. She now works exclusively with entrepreneurs and CEO’s to build strong and influential personal brands to showcase their mastery to build a lasting legacy. She focuses on branding, focusing on mindset, market positioning, digital marketing to build profiles. This winning combinations set business owners up to excel in their businesses in less time and with greater efficiency. It is no wonder she has been named one of Australia’s Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs and Woman to Watch in 2019- and we have her here today.Links: https://www.facebook.com/jemimahashleighau/ www.jemimahashleigh.comWelcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on kindle amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker comWelcome back to fuel your legacy and this week, and every week I feel like the guests that I'm having on are getting better and better and better. This week specifically, is a week to listen to if you are a female entrepreneur. You're in a business, you're striving to build something you want to be successful and show your worth and show other people and yourself that you can be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Then this is the episode for you. So I'm excited to bring to you, Gemma Ashley, she's from Australia. And she is on a mission, a crusade. She's, I mean, she needs more help, right. But part of her crusade is to help female lead businesses she according to her, she says 97% of female web businesses are failing. And her goal is to minimize that, if not eliminate it, which I love that trying to create these massive impacts and people Gemma herself, has built three successful businesses and as just a really highly sought after business consultant and has the number two if I'm reading this correctly, number two posted Australian podcast business podcast. So she's a scratch fish. She's no small fish. From the land down under. So I'm super excited, I'm excited to learn because of I, my primary clientele, if you listen to this podcast, you know, my primary clientele is females as well. Maybe from a different place, but I want to help them become successful and help them gain financial confidence to build and create a meaningful legacy to them. And so with that, go ahead and let us know, like where you came from how you got into this passion project of helping female entrepreneurs. And where's that headed? What do you building?Yeah, thank you. So I love that intro. Thank you so much. That was a great interview. Yes, sir. All of that stuff that you just said is accurate. So the United Nations released the horrifying statistic that 97% of female lead startups will fail in the first five years. This is what I don't know about you. But for me, this was pretty much an unacceptable number. And it gets worse when I tell you that female lead startup are failing at Twitter to write about male counterparts. So this is Such an absolute passion project for me in such a thing that I just find unacceptable for so many different reasons. But I'll just take you back a little bit first. So I've always worked in male-dominated areas. I started my career not in business at all. I used to work in law enforcement. And for 10 years, I worked for a company or an agency for the strange better place in Australia, and I live while I love my job after 10 years of being a law enforcement, I was exceptionally been out I was known as ever having a good day law enforcement, right, you've either got victims, you've got offenders and you've got community impact. And I was working instead of people smuggling, human trafficking, major drug offenses, like these are not little impact things for the community. These are significant challenges. So I was what Oh, sorry, only about 8% of females are kind of doing 8% of the population with a female. So I certainly always have kind of been in male-dominated areas in 2015I had a bit of experience that kind of changed everything for me where Ifound myself stressed and suffering for the first time sort of having anxiety attacks. And realize that I was sort of stressed out and needed to kind of get some work-life balance. And with that, I started my first business and wanted a little bit of a side hustle of a creative release. And I started making jewelry of all things. And the more that I learned about sort of making jewelry and the more that I sort of people that asked me to, to buy pieces, and I was so incredibly grateful for that. And I wanted to learn more and more about business, which is where the podcast comes in. So start learning as much as I can about a business I rapidly and then start the podcast. And sorry, it was yet named one of the top two business podcasts to be listening to which is pretty amazing. It was called the business experiment and we wrap that up in 2020, end of 2017. So I came up kind of beautiful podcast there and sort of again, now again, tech and being as male-dominated As well, where I started to sort of see this sort of thing about within a real sort of really started presenting itself was about networking events. I was doing them on my profile group, I was talking to more and more women and that was just like I just didn't have time. I'm struggling to get on top of what I needed to get done. And the reason that that and when I started digging into the statistics for women and why we're failing, it was the right there was a there was very much the identity, identify very quickly, that we have something called invisible tasking. This is the intangible stuff that we have to do. For example, we need milk today. Or no one's having a coffee. We need to take them to the vet. When you take the kids to school. We are going to vacuum the floor. This invisible tasking is giving like amazing visible jobs. I like four hours a day for women. Women are doing 85% on average, and I'm not as I know there are a few people out there will say my husband and I have a split or I certainly do you know my wife, I do the lion's share of that, that's great. But statistically, women are doing 85% of all household tasks. So this stuff adds up. And if you are doing four hours extra day, and 85% of all the other stuff, and you're trying to start a business, and we're looking at that business, taking at least two years to start to make a profit, if not even getting any revenue and adult you are something has to give your kids your family and it was always going to come to this. This is why women are opting out. Because leaders like we get we just physically, mentally and emotionally can't support doing all the things that we have to do. So being around now intelligent women and figuring out what the other thing women are doing, is we don't start at the beginning. We tend to go I think I understand the goals and values. I think I understand what I need to do next. And they try to skip steps because they just don't have as much time. We came up with this wild idea about what if we gave women the right tools The right time in the right order. And that's where this whole thing came from about giving women the right support at the right time.That's awesome.It's a lot. It's a lot of information. I just, youknow, it's interesting. So what, what made you want to go into law enforcement in the beginning, like what was the dream or vision? What were you fulfilling by being in law enforcement?Yeah, I grew up in a very rural community. Um, I like I'm talking, I can share a shape. I had to catch a bus for an hour to go to school every day. We had a farm, I can drive attract out like a very rural community. And for a lot of it, I didn't everyone sort of assumed that I would stay local and that I would be doing what 95% of people did become a teacher or a nurse or a mom and Mary that you know, 20 that was never really inherently in me. I did things at school like languages like Indonesian and French, and Russian history. And so all three of my high school years, but I, I fell in love with legal studies when I started doing Legal Studies. And what ended up coming out of that was a very smart teacher said to me, don't pick the end-all job that you want, pick something you're in a field that you're interested in when I was looking at Green university and college in 2013, and I went, Okay. And I got quite interested in legal studies and process and the Twin Towers at full and cheese earlier. You know, the war on terror was certainly well underway. And I realized that I liked this kind of area of psychology mates, law enforcement. And my dad had been a local police officer for many years. So I understood the legal stuff and I was interested in it. And that's where I decided I wanted to join these strange, better place and so I work through my way through the courts, getting some experience, then which over in prisons for a little while, and then our evod she Victoria place before Ultimately being recruited by these right?And yeah, an amazing job.That's awesome. And was at any point in time, did you have people who were thinking, why are you going into that field? Like, was it? Yeah, Sarah, she was trying to distract you from following that as your passion at that point time? Or was it like people support you have that goto things that can be true birthdays happened? So I remember picking sir, at the end of the mainstream schooling system, we have sort of a huge well, exam period, where the entirety of the state is ranked against each other. And you were given a number for where you sat percentage-wise. And so you know, everyone's going to get the 80s and 90s because that opens up every door. I sat sort of in the lower ideas, and I was offered two different degrees that I had asked to do. One was education and schooling I looked at during the secondary teaching for a little while. The other degree that I looked at was doing national security and again, filling inside your something I was interested in doing. And one of my teachers who I know meant well but missed the mark a little bit. He said to me, if you end up doing national security, you will going to end up working not doing security at Bob's don't do that. And I thought that's very narrow decided.I was like,a little possible outcome. Yeah, the only time I'm going to do is like any game, the bar that was nearby, like you're gonna I remember thinking, that was the first time I recognize that some people had we're never going to leave behind. And that's not going to be me in any way, shape or form. It's not going to be me. So then other people will see disappointed when I joined like my dad was a police officer. He was super supportive of me doing that and but again, always Very young, I was only 2022 when I sort of joined law enforcement. Sorry, a very young female. But you know, it was good it was a good career move.That's so interesting. I love that realization, I think more people need to have that in all areas of their life, not just a physical location geographically, like, man, some people are never going to leave. And it's okay that you leave them. That and that could be friendships, that could be family, that could be employed, that could be children. And that could be so many business partners, whatever. Some people, they're just flat, unwilling to grow and to develop themselves. And I'm not advocating for splitting up families, but I'm not advocating for that at all. There is however, a reality that we need to be conscious of what we owe allegiance to ourself as individuals first and if we choose to stay back, then we aren't actually able to help the people that we love most if we're willing to venture out and leave For a time, there's going to be a time when we become successful and all those people that we left that we abandon right or that they thought we abandoned them, that we're actually able to help them like nobody else could have helped them.I think I think, absolutely note it 100% agree with you, I think we have to recognize it is that people, I, I think most people are not trying to dissuade you from your dreams because they don't believe you can do it. They try to dissuade you because they're scared for you. And there's a big difference. So it's because they can't do it so that they don't want you to succeed. I think most people in everyone's life like if someone blatantly doesn't want you to succeed, you need to evaluate who you're spending time with. Because I mean, Jim Merton famously quoted You are the sum of the five people do not underestimate that the people that you're around, he grades by you pushing you to make you a better person. You need to be very acutely aware of where you're spending your time and what you know who was in influencing your circle. But I think, for the most part, people are just scared for you. And because they've never had the ability they don't know if you can do those people don't want to say fail. I think that's you know, for people that care about you. And then other people have more malicious kind of activity of like, well, I never go to succeed so you canYeah, I'm it's healthy it's a healthy dose of both I think in most people's lives. But the same realization, I think needs to come like okay, you're not going to change. Yeah, but that doesn't have to be my future. So I love that example. So you were there. Finally got some anxiety sounds like you just burnt out in your profession. Yeah. And years and 10 years is a long time. It's way past the average of somebody staying in any one career field,especially millennial like let's be honest,in our lifespan, and what we're looking at five to seven years is like the max for most Yeah. That's really where the average is at the high end of the average, to remain in an industry just because of shifting, shifting world tide. I mean, there are so many things that could implement that and I love that you went from. I mean, you have three very, very different industries. It sounds like law enforcement, to jewelry making, building a business and jewelry, podcasting, and now business coaching. I mean, there's so the three such different areas of working or four different areas of working. What was that transition like? And do you feel like it was a more natural transition or was it a big delineation between each transition,it was a very natural transition, I think the jewelry so the jewelry comes about I mean, New York City and I had a bit of a chance encounter where I was staying and I met a silversmith, who was making jewelry and I do would work in middle school, but I'm a little older, maybe I can't admit to but I was told when I wanted to do that in sort of the year 11 or 12 areas that I would be the only go. I certainly wasn't declined from doing it because I was female. But it was I was told with no uncertain terms. You will be in here McGill in this class. So maybe you don't want to do that. Okay. I'm sorry. I opted not to do their thing. So I refound something that I was very interested in. I liked working with metal and electric wouldn't. I grew up on a farm so I was like, hey, getting my hands dirty. and law enforcement isn't exactly keeping your hands clean a lot of the time. So I ended up sitting with a gentleman for a couple of hours, who was a silversmith and making jewelry pieces, which was incredible, was absolutely incredible afternoon, and I thought I really I'm really interested in this because I like that you started with nothing and ended up with something and that was the first time I really Having some thunder and lightning having this never happens in LA about By the way, it never rains it is never stones, and like, oh, not saying Thunder lightning. So, uh, yeah. So it was very, very natural for that. And then I wanted to learn more about business. I was starting a business, I grew my business very quickly, I very much had an inherent understanding of what I needed to do. But with the businesses it grew, I need to get more education. So I was consuming podcasts, a lot of focus. I was consuming a lot of articles, I found Gary Vaynerchuk. I was watching his videos and content every day. And it was incredible. And then I thought, well if I'm learning this stuff, I wouldn't be able to teach other people. And within three to four months of really throwing myself into the deep end of learning, whatever I could, I realized very quickly that I could delineate between really good advice and terrible advice. And I could identify he was selling the snake oil and he had to really, who knew what I was doing. And so I wanted to give that to other people. Coming up. Sure. And that's where the polka dot.There are two things that I want to highlight, in that area of the story. One is that so often in life, the things that give us joy are refound something from our childhood or younger years that we think was no longer an option because we got married had kids, we no longer can be a pro golfer, we no longer can go and have these incredible dreams. And that's just flat not true. And guys have the same problem, right? I will be with people all the time men who they're working a nine to five job that they hate whatever, but because they fathered a child or they got married, then they feel like it's their duty and their responsibility to provide for their family in a safe, secure environment. And it's not just a male-female problem like it's not either one gender. There are equally just as many men who hate their lives as women in my opinion, and that maybe I'm perspective, right. But there's one the second part of that. Is this interesting thing that I think more people need to be aware of what are your unique experiences, she had a unique experience, and maybe unique from a perspective of it probably happens to a lot of women. It's not unique in that area. But it's unique that as part of her story and what's serving her that she wanted to follow our passion. And she was dissuaded from following her passion, due to based on sex or gender, saying, well, you're going to be the only one in this industry. So maybe you don't want to do that. And now, what is she passionate about? she's passionate about helping women and she's quoting statistics and the language that she's using, and I'm not slamming this case at all. Don't take this. I'm trying to call attention to it so people can see it in their own life. But the language pattern that she uses so naturally is a conversation of Male males in an industry versus females in the industry, she's drawing that contrast, specifically, so she can help the people that she needs to help. And if you as an individual, you may have unique experiences in any area of your life, maybe it's not your division that you need to call attention to isn't between genders or, or sex, maybe it's between one type of product or another type of product. But for me, it's between one type of financial advice or another type of financial advice. Like, you have to create that separation. So there's clarity in who you're trying to help and why you're trying to help them, then it's a very important thing when you're building a brand or building a business, that you're focused on creating that delineation of who you're there to help and why you're there to help them. What are your thoughts on that? I'm curious.Um, I agree language is very important. I think one of the things I really want to highlight here is that what you have to remember in everything that you do is that there is there are polarity and Everything that we do sorry for every negative as a positive for every positive, there is negative, what you have to be careful of and he says, I think when you're talking about between this advice, and this advice is that business, if you're in this kind of area, you have to be very careful not that there isn't a judgment call. And there isn't like, this is negative. This is bad. This is good. This is you know, and I'm not trying to draw that women need more help than men. I've certainly worked with a lot of male clients. I've certainly wished for a lot of female clients. It is around the seas. Let's give it to me. It's about equality. And it's about giving people the opportunity regardless of agenda, the right opportunity at the right time to get their business underway. What we've just identified is where there is a huge gap for women. This isn't to say women should be given jobs that they're not qualified for it certainly not what I'm saying I'm certain I'm for equality across the board. I think the really big thing that we have to be careful of when we have that language is that we expect Nothing is good or bad. It's just like, this is why we're doing the thing we're doing sorry. Like, you're just really when you when you're making that big statement viewers around, they usually make judgment behind it. So it's just this is what I think.But I agree I'm gonna, I'm gonna share how I would have that conversation and place and why right? And not necessarily the conversation but the language, right because we use judgment in so many different ways. It's almost like the English word for love. We only have one word for love. And we use that I love this phone. I love my wife, I love my kids. I love my step. It's like, well, what type of love are you talking about? Because there is it a different type of love with your actual partner than there is with your child? Hopefully, not the same, right? So. So judgment is one of those words that's used, I think overused. And then because overused is taken out of context. So I have to make a judgment call by the five people I hang around with. It's not good or bad. bad but it's a judgment call. I'm judged on judging a situation and determining how I want to proceed in that situation. And that is a judgment call. But I'm driving down the street and there's a red light versus a green light. Now I know the laws, I know that it's illegal to drive through a red light, but there's nobody on the road, right? Then I have to make a judgment call Am I going to stop and go through stop fully for this red light or I'm going to go through it. And most people they're going to stop and that's a judgment call they make now are they allowed to go through it and share if they want to. And then there's a potential danger, I think where the emotion so to do it to take whether it's good or bad, the emotion comes in when we start condemning one choice when we start labeling it and that's when the emotional emotion of the judgment call steps in. And that's what I would separate. You do making judgment calls you have to be making judgment calls if you refuse to make judgment calls in your life. You're going to be living an aimless life with like a ship without a rudder, right? You need to be making judgment calls throughout your life. You need to be in my opinion, making condemnation calls or condemning something as good or bad doesn't serve you in the long run. But judgment calls. I think you should make judgment calls all the time.Yeah, I would agree with that. It's just again, it's just that it's like everything is negative everything is positive polarity. Is that it? Is that just understanding that you know, reframing something completely negative or completely positive? Two things always true.Yeah, yeah. So anyway, that'show I right great, great point. Absolutely. 100% agree with that.Yeah, I've just found that some people use judgment too often. I'm just like, okay, butlet me reframe. Let me rephrase it. Like, it's a big thing. Because if you can reframe that, you know, you're correct when you say that if you never judge anything you're never getting. It's true. Like if you have to decide there are decisions that he made. So um, but yeah, I think just condemning, condemning is probably definitely the word.Cool. Not so I want to go into this invisible tasking thing because the first time I've ever heard it called That I love the term. I wonder how because I just I went through this experience with my wife where she's feeling overwhelmed with all this invisible tasking and she sees me because I don't bring my work home with me and I don't like allow it to I don't vocalize of my invisible tasking at work, then it appears like there's an inequality. And I believe that there probably is in the area of home tasks like things that just needs to be done to keep the home running. I am again, this is just to draw a contrast, and I just so everybody's aware, I completely agree with Gemina I said it wrong again. Yeah, sorry, I've been saying that wrong, too long. So drama, that it's something that needs to be aware of, and I would say written down and some clarity and some decisions made on who's going to worry about certain things in the household. 100% agree with that. The thing that often gets overlooked just from a man's perspective and I'm sure that you would agree with this is when you are running a business there's just as many invisible tasking things going on on the the weight of the person who's the main breadwinner of a household, and all of the things that they're thinking about all the things that they have to get done all the things that they have to do to maintain the income to support all the household tasking that's happening. And so be aware that it's not just like oh, I have all this invisible tasking and it's wrong that I have it and my partner should be doing more of the load. Your partner probably feels the same way from an income perspective, depending on I mean, it depends on the dynamics of your household but I definitely Yeah,yeah, I say where this as I agree with you, I hate the person here is growing like generally, you will find particularly in the startup realm, you will find that one person generally has a stable job. And then you have sort of the Let's call them the main breadwinner in the situation, then you if you have a female who is running a house and also joins your business, even double the Lord of the invisible talking, which is where really I kind of come in and go, all right, how do we shorten this period of time. So I have found that you know, in the thousands of hours that I have gone and spoken to so many people about this. And the visible talking is, is predominantly found the way you don't think it's going to be found, and it is not in four or five-hour jobs. I'm talking that 10 or 15 minutes, an hour that you were doing stocks out very quickly. I'm talking about the fact that Christmas is just around the corner, and that we have Christmas presents to buy Christmas presents to wrap Christmas tree to go up. These things on average, take about 10 hours to sort of getting every Christmas present under the tree. This is the time that's been cut out and if this is you know it's a division of time. But at the end of the day, it is also just a societal issue. It's not just, it's something that women have been taught that we have, we cook, we cook the meals, we clean the house, we do the thing. And a lot of the time, we don't even really sort of realize we're doing it because we mimicking the things that we're saying that families doing on here. And there are very simple solutions to these. This is not like you have to go home and ruin your marriage and start screaming each other about who's doing what he sees, actually, for $100 or $80 and $50. In some situations, how much money is it going to cost us to get someone to come in and clean our house every two weeks? That single-handedly changed my relationships just by going I don't have to worry about who's cleaning the bathroom and have those conversations anymore? because someone's going to come in once a week and do it. And do you have much time I get freed up it's about these little hacks? The very small ones. It's not reinventing the wheel. It's like Well, how do we make this more equal? but also how do we take it off? Everyone's flights, we don't have to worry about it. This is why we have virtual assistants. This is why we have what else can you outsource? I've gotten one client who's a male. He lives in Austin, Texas. And he loves this idea of these tiny little hacks so much he had me go through his entire day like what else could we do a little hack around to the point now he gets all of these meals to live in. Pre coach pre-package all of that so he can focus on what needs to be done. That task is cleaned every two weeks. He gets he does all of his laundries but it's an allocated Dana allocated time that he does that. So it's not bleeding into other times. It's not around you know, how dare you I told you, like, let's not fight about free-spending five minutes, take the legit like, the garbage has to go out guys. This has to happen. How can we make it that it's going to have the least amount of impact in the day to day stuff? We still need milk. The dogs don't care that the kids have to go to school. This is how this one goes. How can we make it easier and when Effectively figuring out how to borrow for time.Yeah, no, I love that. And I completely agree. It's one of the reasons that my wife and I hired a nanny and his spin-off thing. Yeah. I completely agree and I so I think that I just want to create a good discussion for people can come on and see both sides of the things. Now you this uh, again, all the stuff that we've been talking about really good I think that this last thing that I want to highlight of your story, or what you're doing now is probably the biggest in my opinion of so far we've talked and what I've read about you, this is the biggest thing, giving people what they need when they need it and not allowing them to skip steps. Yeah, this is I sincerely believe this is the one thing that holds its held me back in the past it's helped so many people back in the past because you are building from the right foundation I sit down and talk to somebody about their finances or I've got money here about money got money here. Mike Okay, does that serve you? is it helping you build the legacy that you want? Is it help? Is it even remotely aligned with your core values? And does it bring you fulfillment? Right? And people are like, Well why do I need to talk about that? Just here's my money and go manage I'm like, no, that's not how it works. I don't want to make money unless I know I'm doing these things for you. And it's turning the whole conversation on its head really, and seeking for that fulfillment seeking for what the meaning in what you're doing first, and then everything else becomes so much easier. Decisions become easier clarity of what do we need outsource? What do we not need to outsource? Right. You could if you're somebody I have a guy in my neighborhood. He could he's wealthy enough he could outsource taking care of his landscaping and cutting his grass. However, that is like the most relaxing thing to do. He cares for literally like a golf course he has a golf course lawnmower. It's perfectly flat. If they had to a Few years ago, he had to change like, I don't know, 100 square feet of grass. He wanted to sod over some planter beds. Instead of just like putting sod over those planter beds, he tore up his entire yard related sprinkler system and read it everything just to make sure that a few feet of grass blended in with each other. Like he loves it. Could he outsource it? He absolutely could. But it wouldn't give him the fulfillment.Would I outsource it? Absolutely. Oh, yeah,me too, right now. But that's the thing like understanding, again, doesn't not good or bad, but understanding what fulfills you is there has to be the foundation. So speak to that as far as like, how you make sure that people are getting just the right steps in the right order at the right time.So you know that earlier when he spoke about the foundational stuff, I have so many people that come to me and guard. I just want to write my book. Does my book should be number one. And when that happens, it's going to change the game and I'm going to get paid like, five figures to speak from stage. And then I can turn it into a six-figure coaching program. And I'm like, Why? What? Why? Why do you want that? What's the outcome? Do you know? If because if the outcome is and I know that you can attest to this. If you don't know why you're doing something, there is largely maybe not a point to be doing it at all. Stay with me. If I if you said to me, we sit down, we have assembly sit down, and we have this conversation. I said, So tell me, um, why do you want to be in business? And you said because I want to take my kids to Disneyland. I went to Disneyland every year. Okay, and you want to stay at the hotel and my kelly instead of two weeks? Okay, great. And we do the math of that. And let's say that it's going to cost $20,000 that does not answer why you want to do this job. If you tell me that, you want to make six figures and you think this is the easiest way to do it. You've got to be kidding me. This is by far the hardest thing you ever did to your reason. Like if you just want six figures to go get a job. But there I can name 100 careers right now that you can go make six figures today in this has to be bigger than you for two reasons. One, this is a commitment, this is a lifestyle choice. This is not a career This is a lifestyle choice. It is not a clock on the clock off when we say we're like ha nowadays, we don't make any. It's not like I lay down on the couch and have a 15 minute now I take 15 minutes out of that. That's not how this goes. It's a lifestyle choice. We live brave, I ate it. It is 1240 here I'm in Los Angeles. I'm I have client calls all day. I love my job. I love it like I live to breathe my job. I'm still going to go out and do la stuff. I'm so probably gonna have to take clinical This is what our lives look like. It is just a mesh with each other. The other thing that I would say is that when we start from like, why are we doing why we're doing, we have to go back to the foundations. And I've always explained it like building a house. Most people get to their block of land and start to throw up a structure without having any idea what the foundation is. When we're in entrepreneurship, you have to build that so strongly. So it is never going to fall. Your concrete has to be set, it has to be ready to go. I have businesses that will turn out to me who are doing close to six, seven figures who are trying to hit that barrier, right and try to go to the seven months. And the amount that can't tell me why they're doing what is why they're doing what they're doing is astounding. The problem is, and they've been out and they tired and they're getting over it and like this has been hard and maybe they're just sort of feeling medium means a lot less I learned for like high fives, low sixes and they sort of just saying like, I just don't know why. why I'm doing this anymore. I can't think of a reason. Your y has to be bigger than you for those days when you're exhausted and you're done and you want to check out you like I don't do this anymore. I have to be able to look at my pile of work and feel tired and go well 97% of small business female-led startups are going to file in the next five years. If I don't keep doing this, what's going to change? If you're wise I need to in 60 years or $100,000 so big enough to make you get out of bed. It's not enough for there to be a pain point. And you know, we've never changed anything when we haven't gotten tired of her and stuff. So it's it's a big, it's a big thing to make sure that you have the foundations really down on your while you're doing something and I spent a lot of time with clients going, why are we doing this and more specifically, what do you want to end upbecause these are the easy steps to skip. They are putting a Facebook page up super easy. Starting to get some followers on Instagram, not difficult. Start to like maybe sell one or two products. But if your foundations on set, you are going to have to tap out, you will be going to have to go, I can't go up anymore. You have no drive, you have no direction, you have no anything you just going to sort of flail around. This is where we get into trouble as well. Besides, we didn't have a debate. And don't get me wrong. But the absolute journey of entrepreneurship is not a straight line between a debate, this is you are going to go on a bushwalk you're definitely going to fall asleep, you're probably going to get hit by a train, you're going to get sick, you're going to have things go wrong, you're going to get lost. And then you're going to finally end up at bay and be like, now what do I do that hottest to us firsties danger area because we can get just enough done that we're feeling productive. We can start to say just enough return that it's worth it. But if we don't have those whys and the foundations in place, we know going any further than that kind of staying in that bushwalk for the next couple of years.No, I love it. So that's exactly where I've found I've talked to a lot of business coaches and anybody Who's planning on starting you out anywhere other than what she just described? I would run from and that's just the complete answer. They have a lot of good tactics that are effective for the right person who's already gone through this. But if you're somebody walking in thinking Facebook marketing is going to blow up your business but you don't know why I don't like you're you will waste money in Google AdWords, SEO, it doesn't matter like if you are going in without understanding what's happening. Nothing is going to help you and I just can't express that enough because it's in every area of your life if you don't know why you're getting into a relationship with a man or a woman why you're starting a family I mean, it goes every area of your life if you don't have a good why I promise you life is hard. And it's harder than just cuz right so if that's your reason for doing something is just cuz it's very unlikely you'll succeed in the long run.Yeah, absolutely. Isn't it? Look, let me be very clear here. Success is not an accident. No one won an Academy Award is like, Oh my god, I can't believe I did that. This was fully intentional. When you get the number one business podcast in Australia, you Sorry, this was intentional. When you get an Amazon best selling book. It is an intentional success. It may look like we're like, look at this amazing thing that happened. No, I worked my butt off for all of that stuff to happen. Everyone does, do not make do not think that I'm just going to figure it out as I go along. I have never met a business coach or someone successful that does not have another business coach behind them, doesn't have people guarding them. This is like me, this is the interesting thing about business coaching, is that people, you know, it's a huge investment to make. I was like it's the only investment. I agreeand it's not that big. Like, even no matter what I don't every time I've paid a business coach. I've always made my money back, way more than I everreally and if you're not would be and this is why people say like I just made like $150 per person I get this and I was like they again the and also like the smaller investment and the first thing you should be asking is like when you if you are going to engage with business coach The first thing to awesome is how you need to ask yourself is have they done what you want to do? If it isn't if someone walked to me and said I want to make a million dollars today, I was like I've never done that but I can sell airy-fairy to other people. I'm not the coach for you. Someone says to me, oh, and already best-selling book. I want to be a stakeout. I want to travel the world. I want to have clients so I can live out of a suitcase. I've done that for six months. I've got you that very easy to do. If you being a financial guy is you know, you people say I want to have $100,000 in savings if you've done it. Absolutely. If you haven't done it doesn't take that on. Like I have to be very, very mindful of that because that's where I think a lot of people get into trouble. Oh, sorry. There's also no Worldwide, there is no like, qualification to be a coach. So I picked effectively you need to ask me what business hearing? But also the other question is what businesses if you hiring but what training do you have and what other clients have you had? Because the number of people that I've met that like I'm a health coach, and I've done like a six-hour course online, or the person who's a life coach, because I read a Tony Robbins book. Do you think I'm kidding about this stuff? It is painfully accurate when you start to ask questions. Ask the questions is the other thing.Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, it just is what it is, though. It's rampant in the world. And it's important to know how to vet and paying somebody sometimes just to that the coaching,right? Yeah, it's reallygood coaching or is not good coaching. Soand speak to coaches and say, who would you recommend if I wanted to do this thing? Because good coaches will not be like, I'll help you. I'll help you. That was not my wheelhouse, but other people do to it. Well, yeah, airfare you won't get referrals from people that you know, like and trust.Yep, absolutely. So I'm curious, like, what was the ultimate? If you were to say this helped me the most overcome my naysayers in life? How did you like silence the biggest naysayers in your life?Oh, that's a good question. I think there wasn't one moment where I felt likeI stopped all the naysayers. But I do remember the moment that I stopped explaining myself to other people, which I think was the moment that I stopped caring if I had a very stable government job. All my friends needed our government. I traveled extensively around the world my job, and I'd started a jewelry business and the podcast was blowing up like we were on cuantas we were in Marie Claire, like we and this was not I don't pay I've never paid a central publicity ever and I will never be paid to me magazines zozo stuff and I had my beautiful friend Andrew and I apologize to you Anytime, because so many people like so you're during a bit you were you were in placing and then you went inside of a jury business and now you doing a podcast like I don't understand. And he just sort of said to me explain it to me. And I was, I was like, No, I'm done explaining it. No, I'm sorry. I'm out. And that was the moment that I think I stopped caring about the nice eyes, and about the people going to explain what you doing to me. Because I realized two things. One, I was done explaining the two The longer I spent talking about my stuff and explaining my life choices, the less time I was working on my business. So my advice if you have naysayers around you, and the thing is, one of you is correct. You're telling me I can't do it. And I'm telling you, I want to do it. One of us is going to be right. It is my job to make sure I am correct. The one guy said fighting with you about why I'm going to do it. The last time I'm spending doing the thing I sent him VCs where the magic is. So it's almost about the nice size exists, they are always going to exist. They become less vocal, the more work that you do, but it is about 100% implementation every single time. Yeah.I agree. I love it. Thank you for sharing that. I'm curious. If you were to focus on one habit, mindset or behavior that you've used in your life to create and focus on building a meaningful legacy, what would that be and how could we adopt into our life?legacy for me is just about everything I'm legacy is. I think if every person can have an understanding that you are going to die, the time that you have is finite. And the problem is that you think you have time very famous quote, is that will change the way that you live your life. wholeheartedly, there is no guarantee which more you look at. There is an amazing if you want to get some perspective on the There is an amazing video by a guy named see Frank. And it's called the jelly bean and jelly beans. And they lay out the average person's lifespan in jelly beans. And then they take out all the days that you sleep well the days that you shower or the days that you can meet all the days and you're leftover with you say your days left in Jelly Bean. We have a finite amount of time. That is the thing that's going to change the game if you can realize you're going to die, and that your legacy eventually your legacy is everything you have left it is very easy to be committed to growth.Thank you. Thank you. I love that that's your habit. I nobody's ever said that on the show before. Something I wholeheartedly agree on. And I think that would play into the final question here but I love that that is the habit and mindset that you need to get into to make everyman my habit is get up at 530 in the morning. Yeah sucks and I'm sorry. But if you want to, you know it's a success. is a numbers game let me very clear on this is fully intentional I work an extra two hours longer than most other people every day aheadI love it so how if we wanted to reach you get access to your books I mean your podcast is done I don't know if it's still up andit is evergreen I'm still we still have like requests for interviews which is kind of cute. Um, okay best way place to find me is to mind Ashley calm. There are a ton of freebies there are like downloadables and how to build your legacy and how to build you'll build your brand like so for me it's I'm a big focus on building your brand and making sure that you have that legacy and that people know who you are. Your wife doesn't there's at least a dozen freebies free video stuff and get a copy of my book nature that's on Amazon and Kindle as well.That's perfect. So say it again, your web address and then these links will be in the show notes here and also how to spell her name because I always miss pronounce it Until shewas just a gym. I'm with hate to the end of it. Sorry. Yeah. So www JEMIMH ey sh Li GH.Perfect and not and those will be in the show notes there. So if you're wanting to go and get some of those freebies and think how can I be there barter for more time? How can I because even if you're not starting a business like honestly, if you just want more time with your family, that's not stressful. Want more time with your kids? Yeah, it's worth it. So it's not just for business owners. It's for life people trying to win life. Yeah, it's for you to absolutely. So so this is a coming into one of my favorite parts of the show. It's like a game show. It's called legacy on rapid-fireguy.I love it. five questions. Looking for one word, the one-sentence answers landing to the one sentence. Okay. So first question is, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today.I've been traveling for the last six months living out of it. the suitcase I have lost a large amount of my routine which is a problem at the moment for me I'm very routine orientated. So I'm trying to figure that out like I have Wi-Fi all the time. I find the social time that's holding me back.Okay, awesome. What do you think the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has beena probably international bestselling author that was quite huge. Or quitting my six-figure salary.Okay, and what do you think the greatest success at this point in your life has been?I too many to name I'm sorry, incredibly proud of what I've achieved. Leaving my job is my greatest success in doing that and betting on myself. 100% betting on myself and going, I'm going to make this work. That's perfect.So what is another secret you believe contributes most to your success?be nice to people and don't be a terrible human. Be kind always to have Every single person that you meet I'm serious, like, people underestimate just being a good human.Yeah, I agree. AndI believeI'm a good human. I'm super direct and sometimes not a lot of tact, but it's from a sincere place of love.And 100% of people come to come to me for tough love all the time. I'm like, I love you. But that is the worst decision you're ever going to make if you do the thing. Yeah,yeah. Being Human means good intentions for humans. Not necessarily. Everybody likes you. So just to get there. What are two or three books you'd recommend to fuel your legacy audience?Oh, I don't know. Position me by Jimena. Ashley is a pretty great book. Gary Vaynerchuk crushing. It was great. You want to do comedy raid bossy pants. Tina Fey particularly for women out there. I'd also say yes plays by Amy Poehler. And those five-second rule Mel Robbins. Awesome.Okay, here's my favorite question. It's getting close to the end here. This is the question that I believe has to be at the bedrock foundation of everything people do in life, I have my questions. I have my clients answer it and my business partners answer everybody thatI work with you.In my sphere of influence, I want to know the answer to this question. And more importantly, I want them to know the answer to this question because I know the answer to my question, but it matters what the answer to their question is. So we're going to pretend that you've died you're dead God. Okay. This is 200 years from now six generations so this is your great great great great, great-grandchildren. They're sitting around the table and you get them the opportunity to listen in to what they're saying about you your legacy, what your life meant. What do you want them to be saying about you six generations from now?She changed the game for women, female entrepreneurs. and this for me is such a dry so interesting that you say this because such interesting drive up because I was talking to someone to add to a mile, of course, it was a male who is a bit of a nice and he fails. And he's like, Well, you know, it's not like you're going to change anything significant in your lifetime. And I was like, the changes that I make, and the things I'm able to change will change it for women in the future. Much like the women who came before me, have changed it for me. My grandmother was not allowed to art. She wasn't allowed to vote. So when people say to me, I don't care. I'm like, What is wrong with you? Women gave them what like literally was shot and killed for these rights around the world. There are countries now that we don't have the right to do that. This isn't as much as this is about me. And what I'm trying to achieve. This is equally not about me in any way, shape, or form. I just want them kind of if I could listen to anything, I'm like, she was a total badass.That's what I was going to say. Awesome. Say and what I love about that is that's an answer that's in alignment with this whole episode. That's my most purpose is in alignment with everything perfect. All that she's doing daily, what she's chasing, everything is in alignment. And that's where I want people to be in every area of their life. What is in alignment with how you want to be remembered, and legitimately 200 years from now? That's why I've named this podcast fuel your legacy because it's not about the fuel is that the financial confidence and the know-how to build a legacy. The legacy is what are you building?The greatest thing if you ever want to say what legacy can look like? properly say what legacy can look like, is going watch Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda. The pokal like go listen to the soundtrack or at 100% around everything that happens in the United States at the moment is really about him. But the whole thing is around your legacy. I'm obsessed with the idea of a legacy because it's ultimately the end of the day. It's all we havecompletely agree on which is why that's That's the name of my brand, feel your legacy. I want to help people, I love it, build their legacy, and in a process, gain more financial understanding, save families, marriages, everything isconnected. It's a real thing. And I think it's amazing what you doing. Amazing.Well, thank you so much for coming on and sharing your expertise with us. Honestly, if you're not getting in touch with her or getting onto her website and taking advantage of three weeks, I don't know what you're doing. But this isn't just if you have a business, I can't reiterate that enough. These are life skills that are not taught by traditional educational processes. And then, unfortunately, I'm going to burst your bubble but what you were taught by your parents, or your grandparents, most likely, is not success habits. Just put it out there. Because my kids, they're going to learn things for me that are not success habits because I'm not a perfect human. Right. And so understanding that Not everything you do is perfect. And not everything you learned is perfect is key. So definitely go check her out, make sure you're engaging with her on social media and our website and getting as much information from her as possible and maybe even hiring to her to help you get your life in order might make you happier, which is kind of one of the goals of life is literallythe goal of life is to get happy literally the goal. Yeah,yeah. Well, hey, thank you so much.Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. Yeah,no problem. And we will catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. 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This weeks guest is Nick Thiel. Nick spent 20 years working in IT. He had a passion for coaching and trained as a life coach. Nick is also passionate about helping Dads become better versions of themselves for the sake of them and their families.He left corporate world in May 2019 to pursue his passion full time.Links: www.facebook.com/DadUpToday www.facebook.com/groups/extraordinaryDads playbook.daduptoday.comWelcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on kindle amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker. comWelcome back to fuel your legacy and another incredible guest from the UK. We're going to shout out to Nick teal. That the cool thing about meeting with people from all over the world is you get to hear different opinions different mindsets and because of different economic situations, there's a lot of things that maybe we haven't thought about because we live in our specific country, that when we start thinking about how is this working in other countries, it gives us ideas of how we can maybe implement some of their strategies that they're using in our country or our culture. So stay tuned for that. We're going to maybe think about what is unique to there, or what is he doing daily that I could be doing on my end of the world as well. So Nick, he spent about 20 years in it, and had a had a full career there, but just has a passion for coaching and helping other people and specifically dad, so he considers himself a coach to dads helping ordinary men become extraordinary dads, and he's on a mission to create a new generation of dads which I love that I coach with a coach. His whole thing is called next-generation next-gen coaching as he focuses on how do you become the next level of a coach? There's a lot of life coaches out there, how do you become the next level? So I love this when you said, helping become the next generation of dads, you know, helping them be a new version, a new better version of dad. So with that being said, Nick, go ahead and introduce your past how you have come to where you're at why you left corporate America and you know, the whole spiel. I'd love to hear all about it.Sure. Great stuff. Thank you very much, Samuel. Good to be on the show with you. So, yeah, let's go back in time. So I ended up working on it. And to be honest, that was an accident. So I went through a typical, typical childhood, went to a good school, went to university got a degree in Business Studies. And even back then, I think I had a sort of entrepreneurial passion inside of me that I didn't want to follow the normal corporate world. I always felt that there was probably more out there for us than just going through and having what is so often described as a good job. You know, many times our parents Get a good education, get a good job and everything will be fine. I didn't think that would be the case. But as it was, I remember back then actually, I, I wanted to own a gym. That was one of my dreams very early on in my life owning a gym, a health club. I was really into that side of life, then I ended up getting involved in a company you may or may not have heard of out there in the States, which was Amway, a large multi-level marketing company. And while that didn't do me any favors in terms of what it gave me financially, what it did do is open me up to the world of self-development of the world of coaching if you like. And part of the journey of that was that we got a lot of books to read, which are all self-help book self-improvement books, and it opened me up to that world out there that said, you can become a much better version of yourself. I was a very shy child lacked a lot of confidence quite insecure and didn't have a lot of people skills. So reading these books, And being around this environment around a lot of confidence successful people started to transform me into someone that develop those traits. And then I thought, wouldn't it be great to teach other people the stuff that I'm learning. But as so often the case, we end up falling into a job after university, and I ended up working in it. And what is so often happens for so many of us is that once we're in a career, it's really hard to get out of a career and change career, because we developed responsibilities. And very early on in my working life, I got together with my first wife, and she already had a son who was seven years old. So I committed within a year or two of leaving university, I had these commitments to look after a family. And therefore I couldn't just turn my back on that and pursue the career I wanted to. So in the back of my mind, I thought, you know, I'd love to be a life coach, but in the front of my mind, I thought I need to keep earning money and provide for my family. And so I ended up Ending, as you said, the best part, I think it was the best part of 20, just over 20 years in it. And through that time, I moved through a variety of roles, ended up making great money, six-figure income. And before I made all that money, so I thought, wouldn't it be amazing to make six figures? I bet if you're in six figures, all your problems go away, you're happy as anything. And when I got there, I realized that actually, you're no happier than when you were earning half of that. Yes, some of your problems have gone away and things were a bit easier. But I remember turning up to work every day thinking I am unfulfilled. I didn't enjoy the work I did. I always knew that that wasn't my passion wasn't my calling. But I didn't know how to just turn my back on that kind of income and pursue what I wanted to do. And so I wrestled with that for several years if I'm perfectly honest, and during that time, I had a five-month career break when I trained, got professionally trained as a life coach. But I ended up back in it because it was the security of what I knew before I had a chance to build my coaching business. And then a couple of years ago, I started thinking, I need to do something within the coaching space. I wanted to help men because I was just passionate about wanting to see men be in a position where they could transform their lives. And then I was getting coaching myself and my coach at the time, we looked at where I'd best be we're best to be able to serve. And we realized that my experience by that point was, I was a dad to three children by then. So I had adopted my ex-wife's first, my ex-wife, son, when we got married, and then we'd had two more children ourselves, then our marriage has broken down, unfortunately. So as a dad, I'd experienced the whole range of going through adoption, becoming an adopted dad, having my children, then getting divorced. My children ended up Moving 200 miles away. So I went through a whole heartache and a process to understand how to best parent from a distance. And so working with my coach, we realized that the best thing I could do is probably to coach dads and help them goes, better equip them for the journey that they might go on. If it was similar to mine.And it was back then I started a page on Facebook for dads. Initially, I thought it would just support single dads. And then I realized all dads go through the same struggles we all have the same issues in life. So I kind of made it more open to all dads. And I knew what I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to turn it into a full-time business. But it was hard balancing the demands of my career was what would be needed to turn that into a business. So it kind of sat on the back burner for a while just trickling away in the background. And then finally, this year in around March may know or May this year, things were changing. At work, and there's a lot of rules in the UK around how I was a what's called a contract. So I wasn't employed permanently by the company, but I contracted out to companies, and all of the tax rules and everything is changing in this in this country. And so it was obvious that change was coming. There was uncertainty. And I talked it over with my new wife. We've been with two years of marriage now. And we said if you're not going to do it now, when are you going to do it? Because she's been encouraging me. Most of the time we've been married, just don't do what you stopped doing a job you don't enjoy, stop being unfulfilled and start living out your passion. And I'm very lucky that I've got a wife that supports me so much in that respect because that's got to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks. And so in May, I decided that it was time to walk away from that job and go for it full time but becoming a dad coach, which is what I'm now doing.That is incredible. I love it. So You heard or read the book, The Dream giver by Bruce Wilkinson? No, no to that one. Okay, so I would read that. And anybody who's listening to this, go ahead and read that I did a book review on it. That's probably been a few months ago, maybe even shoot probably close to a year ago. It's been a long time but a super good book and I read it regularly. The thing with this at the book and why I like that this book for this analogy is because Bruce Wilkinson can put into kind of a parable about these dreams. And for Nick, you had your dream you had your first calling to a dream or to be a coach in college right? Is that that what I'munderstanding? Yeah, yeah. Back then. Yeah.And he spent another 20 some odd years not doing his dream but the dream kept coming up a piece made some small progress towards Did you take complete when you say you took five years to have it trained as a life coach. Did you take time out of Quit your it job while you what, five months? or five months or five months.Yeah, so I had a contract that ended and I decided right I won't pursue a job, I will pursue what I believe I'm being called to do. And so I kind of reignited during the first couple of weeks of doing that. The whole concept of wanting to become a life coach kind of like came back into me, my conscious because I'd almost I put it to one side so much as I'd forgotten about it. And suddenly they all came back and I thought, yeah, that's what I always wanted to do back then. That's why I should do now and then that's when I sought out the correct training, etc. and got qualified.Yeah, I love that. So the point is, your dreams even though you maybe have said no to your dreams before or in the past, they'll keep coming back up, especially if it's you if it's your purpose, if it's what you're meant to do. Those things are going to keep creeping back up into your life. And at some point, we've got to take, take a second pause, look over and Okay, what is it about that's so important? I think that a lot of people have gotten into some type of multi-level marketing Amway is we were part of my family's part of it when I was younger. And but I think it is there, these multi-level marketing people often will give them a bad name. But the reality is they're one of the big if we're talking about gateway drugs right? They're one of the biggest gateway drugs to personal development, which is awesome. And that's all they serve as an as a purpose is to help people in mass numbers get focused on personally developing themselves and focused on what value are they adding to society, if that's all that they did, and all they accomplished, that's a win. And so many people will sit there and talk about it like it's a negative thing. That's a win if that's all that they accomplish. That's huge to at least accomplish that. So I love that idea. And especially since he was a shy and almost introverted person at the beginning So the best coaches that I know and are all naturally shy and introverted.Yes, how it is. It's weird, isn't it? And I was that I was the guy that if I saw you coming down the road and I knew you I crossed over to avoid having to say hello to you, I was that kind of shy guy.I'm not been that type of shy, but I bet that crazy kind of shy. Yeah, but the point is, though, there's a lot of people who are probably feeling that same way when they go to work. They're avoiding people, they're avoiding eye contact, and they're driving, they're avoiding connection with other drivers. They're so stuck in their little world. And it's not bad necessarily to be stuck in your little world. But there is a lot of people out there that when you're willing to no longer be selfish, right, and choose to be selfless, then you are ending up gaining a connection with other people and it doesn't mean that you have to overwhelm yourself. I'm naturally an introvert as well. If there are too many people around too much going on, I'm like, going to go shut myself in a bedroom. You know, it's over stimulant but it's important to understand and that that's a natural thing. So if you're going through that or somebody who knows going through that, just be with them understand that that's where they're at. But that's incredible what do you feel like making the biggest shift for you to go from that shy introverted person and identity to willing to step out? And I'm not saying that you at your core have changed your desire, but what made you willing to step out of that box and explore new things?You know, I mean, that's a great question. So but I think probably the biggest thing was that I got, I got comfortable with who I was, I got happy with who I was. And that was the biggest breakthrough. So not only was I this shy, insecure guy but back then I was a skinny kid growing up. And then I got into weight training and bodybuilding and that was a bit of an obsession hence wanting to open a gym when I was young. Right. And, and that was me probably putting an outer shell on this Shy Guy interior. And, and then as a result of reading all of these books getting around successful people being built up by people that knew how to build you up as a person, and not just people knocking you down all the time, I started to like you I was I got comfortable with who I was. And I thought This is me. And you'll either like me or you won't like me, but this is me. And I don't need to try and be anyone other than myself. And funnily enough, when that happened, I started not only coming out of my shell and being more willing to talk to people, but I didn't I wasn't so obsessed with my bodybuilding either. Because I no longer had to wear an outer shell to protect me. I was just who I was.So what do you think it is that holds people back from liking themselves to accomplish that?That's a great question. And my wife has just released a course for people on how to like themselves. So you think God knows all the answers to this, but I think a lot of it is just that the programming we get through our childhood. So all the little things that go on as we're growing up, around affecting our self-talk, and affecting the self-beliefs we have. And we're creating all these limiting beliefs, we're creating these lies that we're telling ourselves constantly about who we are. And in this day and age, it's even harder because you've got social media bombarding you with all these images about how you should be, or the only way to look perfect is this or if you're not getting 1000 likes, then obviously, no one likes you. So we're living in this space where we are constantly judging ourselves and comparing ourselves with other people. And that makes it hard to like who we are. And we can just shift away from that and realize that we're not in a comparison world. And if we could see the reality of every person, everyone has their flaws, everyone has their weaknesses. We're all the same. And we've all got the same fears and insecurities and we should just, we should accept that we are how we are we are created in a certain way made in a certain way. And we should be happy with what we are and who we are.Yeah, I agree what what what practices Or habits or mindsets or whatnot? What would you say could help somebody who's stuck in the not liking themselves stage? What is something they could do to kind of work themselves out into ahead? I'm comfortable and I like myself like what is a practice habit, mindset or behavior that they could adopt?Yeah. Okay. So I think I think part of that is your self-talk. So whatever you whatever you're saying to yourself on a daily is what you're going to start believing about yourself. And so, the first thing is to start listening. What am I saying to myself? Am I telling myself negative stories? Are my telling myself positive stories? Am I telling myself beliefs that are pulling me back or am I telling myself beliefs about myself which are drawing me forward? And you know, even if you start that self-talk, and it doesn't convince you at first it will start to reprogram the mind it will start to change what we're doing. And then the other big thing for me is just to be around people and to expose yourself to a situation where you start talking to other people. And you realize that people do like you. And that helps. Not that we should judge ourselves on what other people think. But also realize that people other people's opinion is their opinion. And everyone's got an opinion whether it's a good opinion or bad opinion. But someone's opinion of us doesn't have to become a reality. And I heard that, quote, years ago, and I thought, what a great quote, other people's opinion of you doesn't have to become your reality. So it's all about I mean, there's a lot of big exercises I do when I'm coaching dads on knowing their identity. So looking at who are you knowing your values, so what makes you tick? What things are really valuable to you? What things do you do anything to avoid? And then looking at your beliefs, and what are the beliefs that you've grown up with that may be holding you back from being the real version of you?Yeah, I love that. So just rewind that for the last two or three minutes and start putting just one of those things. I don't care what you put in practice, but choose just one thing to put into practice and start viewing yourself better. Even the people who have the best view of themselves excuse me, in my experience can still level up their belief in themselves. Absolutely. That's just what I've experienced in the past. So one of these things that I have met with a lot of different coaches or and I don't think it's exclusive to coaches, I think this is a principle of passion that I want to touch on here. You've mentioned that you were you're in this career you have responsibilities was hard to leave those responsibilities. And it seemed that there was a binary choice between wanting to life coach wanting to follow your passion k works can call it passion, and needing money.And for some reason,it either in society or just in our own lives. We've come to believe that this is a binary choice that we can only choose one or the other. And that if we choose to go do our own thing, then we're going to struggle financially. And so now there's this fear around going and doing it ourselves. I'm curious, where do you feel like that belief came from inside of you that it was either one or the other?Um, I think it was. Well, it's an interesting one, because actually, I think in this day and age, I question whether that belief still happens, because I think we're being exposed to a new world and a new set of beliefs that says, you can follow your passion and make money. But I think there was a reality check inside of me That said, if I've got this level of responsibility and this amount of money I need every month, how can I suddenly follow my passion and recreate that level of income? Because I didn't feel quite naive enough to think that I could recreate that level of income overnight, contrary to some of the adverts that we get bombarded without there these days. So it was maybe It was a relative, maybe I had my own limiting belief, maybe, you know, none of us are perfect with we are we're talking about all this mindset stuff. But we've still all got additional beliefs that we've got to overcome. And to move into that space where you know, there are people out there doing what you want to do and making the money you need to make. But you sometimes think, Well, how do I make the jump from where I am to get to that point as well?Sure. So So what I don't know. I don't know what the real answer is. I don't know that there is one answer size fits all, you know, but I think for me when I'm working with different clients, one thing that I just invite people that person to think about his perspective. So for me when I shifted my perspective in life, to and this was from a what book was it? by Brian Tracy, I think it's no excuses for the power of self-discipline. Probably one of his best books I love pretty much all about Brian Tracy stuff his style and mine connect. Well, I jive with him a lot. But the question is, or I guess the perspective to have in life, in general, is every day in life, I if I consider myself a company, every day in the life, I am either adding value to my stock or devalued devaluating my stock. And when you start thinking of your life as a stock, or as its own company, you're the CEO of your own life and your own company, then it doesn't matter whether you're an entrepreneur or working for somebody else, okay, I'm putting working for somebody else in quotations. Because at that point, when I go into a job interview, I'm no longer waiting for somebody else to assign my value. I'm walking in saying, look, this is the value I'm offering. This is what my stock is worth. Now, are you willing to pay me what what myself stock is worth whether that's an employer, or, as in singular, you're working for a corporation or an individual or you're working for many individuals as a, as an entrepreneur, you have lots of different people that you're selling your stock to, versus just selling all your stock to one, one person or one entity. And but when you think about it like that, it makes it at least for me a lot easier to say, Okay, I have value if I, if I'm making six figures at this company, then I already know that I have my values, six figures at least, but it's actually more because they wouldn't pay me six figures unless they were making money on me.Yep, I agree. Right? No great way to look at it.So then my stock in myself is it's on a discount to this company, whoever I'm working for. What if I were to go get market value for my stock, and then I can start looking at Okay, I can make market value for my stock and all these different areas. And then it is overnight. Like I know overnight, I could be making x $9 because I know the value that I'm bringing, I know the value of my stock and what, what is being exchanged for, for the money. And so I just thought maybe if people started thinking about their life from a perspective of, I'm the CEO, and every interaction is I'm selling stock in my company. And I'm either increasing the value or decreasing the value of that stock every moment of my life, then we're more excited too, to do personal development and develop ourselves because now that's a direct investment into our value of the stock. And also, we're more excited to go share that with other people, because now we're thinking, well, if it's on a discount over here, what's the market rate for my services? And then we can go out and find a market rate for our services? And what are your thoughts about that?I think that's great. I mean, I think if I if I was going to argue with you, so to speak, from the other side, bring it on. So I agree with what you just said. With the only thought being that when you're working for someone and your value is, you know, whatever you're being paid. Then if you move out of that space to do something for yourself, if you move into a completely different area, that's when it's easy to, to not appreciate your value as being what it was for that company, because the skillset that you had for that company. So for me, I was working in it, and they were paying me to do a job in it. They didn't care whether I was a great coach or not. And they didn't care that I was making a difference to a lot of people in the company at the time. Then to move into a different space where all my value is in the coaching and the different time making the people's lives. That's when we need a real mindset shift to say I'm great I was I could make great money doing this job. But now I'm going to go and do this job. How transferable as some of the stuff. Now the personal part of me the fully transferable mindset, okay, and, and then the IT skills. They're not so transferable.So So I would so I'm not I'm like this back and forth K, argue my argument, I guess you could say or my position would be that they're not paying you to punch numbers. Right? You might think they are because that's the task you're fulfilling. But if you're an ass if you're not friendly, nobody likes you you're a pain to get along with and you don't function well in their system. It doesn't matter if you're the best person at punching numbers, you're fired because they're paying you for who you are. Conveniently, you fulfill a role for them. On the number side I most companies I've ever worked for are seeing people work for if you don't jive with the company culture, if all you do is a one skill set, and that and that's what they're paying you for. You don't get paid, you get fired. And so the recognition of what value are they paying me for? Is it because I can punch numbers, that's an added benefit. They're paying for you for who you are and your morals, your ethics. Integrity, that the ability to be on time, the ability to be reliable, all of those things we discount, and we just don't even recognize the value of what those are until you're an employer, and you're like, Okay, this person can punch numbers really good, but he ain't got anything else going for him. I can't hire that person. And so when you start thinking like an employer, all of that other stuff, that's the bulk of the value, it's not the skill that you could teach a monkey to do. It's everything else. Yeah. And that value, I would argue, is 100% transferable into any industry, that skill that you're applying that value to is is up to you.And I'm gonna have to agree with you on that one. Soit's funny enough, because when you started this conversation, the one thing I was going to say was that I actually believe the reason I was able to progress well in the IT industry, even though I didn't enjoy it, and it wasn't my passion was actually who I was as a person. As the relationship. I was able to build within any workplace. And I would often find myself ending up as leading the team, whichever team I started, and I ended up leading that team. And it was all about who I was. And it couldn't have had anything to do with my actual skills in a job. Other than my mindset did say, I will learn this skill, I will learn this job and I'll be good at it. But fundamentally, who I was the way I could relate to people across a wide range of different jobs. That was what made the difference for me to grow my income quickly when I was working in it. So you're spot on with that bit. There is the most transferable thing out there.I agree. And so the reason I'm I like this little banter between us is because this is where people are missing the mark. They think that they are like they identify their identity as being able to complete a skill rather than everything that goes with it. And your identity is not the skill that you complete your identity as who you are. Being as an individual, absolutely, and help make that distinction could be the difference between somebody fulfilling their dream of continuing to fulfill to be unfulfilled through?Yeah, I, you know, I coach guys on identity and what you just said spot on. Because so many people wrap their identity up in maybe their exact role at work or even in them being a husband or you know, a father or whatever it is. And the minute that that thing changes, so they lose their job, or they get a divorce or whatever it is. They've lost their identity because it was wrapped up in that role. But, as you say, our identity is who we are, who is this person? What attributes Do we have, when we get clear that that's our identity and these other things are roles? A total shift of who we are?Absolutely. So I think it's perspective. So I love that I'm glad that we were able to have that conversation. When it comes to specifically coach dad's helping to help men become better dads and the next generation, what would you say? If you could, and I hope that you can but described between where. And we're putting in air quotes here for anybody who's not watching this, but where our current dads like what's their current mindset and mentality, things like that? And what is the next generation of like, the new evolved dad that you're trying to coach people into? What's the difference? And how could we identify either or and this applies, By the way, this applies to women, this applies to children applies to everybody. Just because he chooses to focus on males these principles, they're human principles, not justokay, great question. Then when I look around, I think a lot of dads are in this space. So I think before we become a dad, we kind of have an idea as to the kind of dad we think we are going to be or the dad what we want to be. And that may be modeled on the dad that we had or it may be a complete opposite because often it's going to be one of the are just some ideas in our head. And then we become a dad. And we realized that it wasn't as easy as we thought it was going to be. And I think the reason for that is that we haven't when we become a dad, we still haven't mastered life. And so the bits of life that were bad enough before we became a dad, and when I talked about life, I'm talking about relationships. So you know, no one taught us how to do marriage. So we get married, and we find out well, living with someone else is quite tricky. And we've talked just about identity and no one helps us figure out who are we and we become a dad and we lose our identity of the more because Oh, so and so's a dad now and you're so and so's husband. And actually, I'm still me, what about me? And we don't we lose our sense of purpose because we get into this place like I was where we're just trying to survive, trying to bring in the money to support the family, and not really figuring out this is what my dream is, this is what I want to do in my life. We are just the Existing. And I've been speaking to some dad recently that was just saying that I just feel like I'm existing. I'm just making enough money to survive. And again, finance, you know, finances tough kids are expensive. So, so a lot of dads now are in a place where I think they, they have lost their identity, they've lost their, their, their reason for living, they're struggling in relationships with their wife. And you know, when you introduce kids into that equation, it's just it's less sleep, it's less time for each other as a couple, and therefore more stress and more struggle. They've lost their identity, they're struggling with their finance, they might have let their health go. There's all this talk about the dashboard these days. And there's the article say the dashboard is deemed like the sexy way to be now. I'm not sure I think the evidence is that people still look at the fit, fit physique and say that that guy's in good shape, and that guy's not in good shape. So all these things, we lose And then there's just the whole, how do I connect to my kids? And you know, this day and age, our kids are hooked to screens. And it's getting worse and worse. And we're trying to find out how can we stay relevant? How can we be the cool dad that I could still want to hang out with that they want to talk to. And again, no one taught us any of this. So we arrive at a place where we're trying to master the six different things. No one's taught us how to do any of it. And we just start feeling overwhelmed and thinking I'm probably not the dad that I want it to be. And you start feeling like a bit of a failure. But we have no idea what to do about it. And I think men are probably worse than women in that respect because we're not naturally good at asking for help. We don't like to admit that we're struggling. You know, I often joke that when a man is lost, he won't stop and ask for directions. He'll keep driving until he finds his way. And it's kind of the same with when you're struggling with being a dad, you don't want to turn around to your mate or your Your partner or your in-laws and say, I'm struggling, I need help. So we just kind of keep quiet, we suffer a little bit, and we struggle a lot. And that's where I think a lot of dads are. And certainly, the more I'm in a lot of groups on Facebook, etc. And I'm interacting with a lot of dads and they're all suffering from those, one of those things.That's cool. And so what's your ideal vision for them as far as where you're going to coach them into?Yeah, so kind of like turning all of that on its head. So we looked at it, it's a dad that knows who he is, is clear with his identity is happy with who he is, and doesn't doesn't feel the pressure to conform and be someone he's not someone who knows where he's going in life, someone who's got a purpose, and it's not just his purposes and just to survive, is to pursue his dream and to set that example to the family of this is what it looks like to be living a life of passion, that but the life of purpose. Someone that can model good relationships with their partner with their children, with their colleagues with their family. So we're not in this toxic situation of everyone falling out with everyone. someone that knows about health and can raise their children to understand about health because I think we've got a health epidemic going on now, particularly I don't know if it's the same out there. But in the UK, we've got some health issues that are just getting worse and worse, such as diabetes is crippling the system and it's causing more and more children to suffer. Money, again, a big problem. And we're in a world where the money is so available, you can go on gambling sites, you got lottery sites, you got credit cards, offering you as much money as you want. And no one's understanding what the impact or implication of borrowing all that money is. So again, we're not we're, the dads of today are possibly getting themselves into situations and the new generation of dad says, I'm financially responsible. I know how to handle money, and I'm going to teach my children how to handle money, how to be good stewards of money. And then in terms of parenting, it's the dad did it Want to get to the new generation of dads, they understand how to show up how to be present with their children. Because it's no good just being there. It's about being present, and about really connecting with our children. And that varies obviously from when they were a toddler through to when they were a teenager, that the whole how present being present looks and feels will vary. But it's understanding how you've got to be how you got to show up and putting the child as a priority in your life along with your partner, to make sure that they are growing up without an active participating President Biden know in their world.Now, I love that and that again, that goes to anybody. It's a husband, father, son. wife, mother, grandmother, daughter. I mean everybody needs to work on those skills, in my opinion, they're there. In general, everybody's work on we are going to find our little niche the person that we connect to the best, right but if you feel like that you could benefit from that type of coaching. Reach out to Nick. I mean, I'm sure he's willing to have a conversation very least. And if he's not the right fit for you, they'll let you know. And you can direct you to somebody who might be a better fit. I'm curious just because I've talked about this or struggle with this. And when it comes to identity, I want to help people identify their identity as well. But I want to hear your take on this. I have seen this happen, where, because two people didn't know who they were, when they got married, then they had kids, but they were the whole time they were fulfilling somebody else's identity them. And then you help them dig down and find out who they are at their core. And when both people find out who they are at their core, they find out that they don't connect. They're not a good couple. It's, for lack of a better word. It's better that they like to get divorced, and go fulfill their passions because there's So far on different pages when they get down to their core, how do you handle that from a coaching perspective? Because, again, you don't want to be breaking up families. And on the other hand, you want people to fully live and bean and fulfill their, their identity and who they're meant to be. So how do you balance that if somebody gets into a bad relationship, a relationship they didn't know was bad, or they didn't know is contrary to who they are? And then they find that out? How do you go about handling that situation?Well, that is a massive question, isn't it? And you've just landed that one on me, Samuel. Thank you. So I mean, that's a really interesting one. Because I think if you if you get to a point where you have successfully got them both to unveil their true identities, I, to me, that's a massive success. Because they can now be free to be who they are. But I think as you said that there may be an unfortunate situation where actually when they're living true to themselves, there is no connection between them. And I think you've got to look at Within marriage, you know, too often people say, Oh, I falling out of love. Well, that's great. You can fall in, you can fall out of love very easily. I love to me that is a verb, it's a do. It's an action, it's not feeling. The feeling of falling in love is great. It happens early days, it's exciting. But there will be times when that feeling can go away, but we decided to love daily. I think referring to a situation you were just talking to think it comes down to what their nature is. And all their natures align to in any way that could hold them together, where they could appreciate that their identity, their values may be a bit different, or in revealing their true identity or their values so misaligned that is not healthy for them to stay in a relationship. And while I would hate to advocate a couple breaking up when they've got children, even when they haven't got children, because I've been there I've seen what it's you know the effect it had on my children.I'm also not an advocate of couples staying togetherIf there's no relationship between them because I think you're modeling an unhealthy relationship to the children as well. So we've got to be honest with ourselves because too many people will use that as an excuse to walk away. Sure. But I think in the very least, if you've coached them through that process, and there's just such a divide between the two of them, then maybe the best thing you can do is coach them into a healthy situation where they can move apart, but in a way that's, that doesn't mean there's any animosity between them. Sure. Because I think what causes a problem in marriage breakdown is the animosity and the use of the children in the middle of an argument. So you know, I don't think we can fix every marriage going and if we can't fix it, then I'd say divorce well. And that's sometimes what is unfortunate that may prove to be the better solution.Yeah, it's an interesting thing. Question. I've talked to a quite a few marriage therapists, divorce attorney, I talked to a lot of people about that, and I don't have the right answer. I'm fully committed to helping people identify who they are at their core. I believe, as you've stated that you can choose to love anybody, and regardless of how compatible you are, but I do think that compatibility is also a big and it's got to be part of the equation you got to be you can't, you can't? I don't know. I don't know. It's hard for me.I don't know it's such a hard one is that because Idon't know what your edge outweighs that fulfilling the purpose of happiness on this planet? Yeah.And I like to say I think you've got it. You've got to look at what you're modeling to your children. Because what you want for your children is to understand how to select the right partner and make that marriage work. And, you know, I think if we're not careful, we have children growing up and thinking that marriage is all about mom and dad barely talking to each other or not liking each other. And that's not a particularly great place for our children to grow up either. Yeah, but I don't want to sit here and make it. I don't want for everyone to think, Oh, you know, I'm not getting along great with my partner today. So I better split up so that my children don't see us argue. That's not what I'm saying. It depends when those two identities come out, it just depends on how radically different their values are. And their viewpoints on life. Because there has to be some compatibility for it to be maintainable. It's interestingtoday. It's a great question. Love it. It's like that the classic ethical dilemma questions where you're just like, I don't know, I don't know the answer, but I like to think about it because I think it serves me to know hey, what, where am I at? What am I willing to sacrifice to be a share that loves and to help and serve and bless others. So I'm curious where how do we support you? How do we get in contact with you? where's the best place to reach out to Facebook? Like, what's your social media presence? Where're your websites? at what's the best way to get ahold of you if we wanted to coach, or wanted help,but the best way is probably through Facebook. So I've got a page on Facebook called dad up, and it's at facebook.com forward slash dad up today. So that's the page and then I've got a group of any dads out there listening and want to be part of our closed group community as a free group where I provide a little bit of training and we just build a community of dads. And that's facebook.com forward slash groups forward slash extraordinary dads. I'm just about in the next two weeks, I'm launching my online membership program, which will be a very low-cost membership program online for dads to get weekly coaching. So training videos on all the topics we've been discussing today. group coaching calls Question and Answer session every week, be part of a private community. So if anyone's interested in knowing more about that they best off just reaching out to me via Facebook through the means we've just mentioned. And I'll add them on to the mailing list who are going to get notified in the next couple of weeks when that all comes out. Ensure that just finding me personally on Facebook as well. I'm on Facebook, I am on Instagram, but I haven't embraced the Instagram world quite yet. But I know I need to as my kids keep telling meand yeah, it can it comes and goes for me sometimes I'm way active on it. Other times I'm just not active on it. But so this is a good time to be releasing this episode is going to be right around Valentine's Day. So if you are thanks if you just went through Valentine's Day and you're thinking man, I could do better then let's better things.Yeah, I mean, particularly, you know, relationships are one of the biggest things I want to teach that. And that we've got some brilliant tools that we can give guys that absolutely will transform a relationship for you. And it doesn't matter where your partner is that we can work just with the guy, and it's going to make a huge difference to what's going on in their home.Yep. Awesome. I love it. So here's the second the last section of the whole podcast, which is again, one of my favorites, but it's called legacy on rapid-fire. So I'm gonna ask you five questions, and I'm looking for one word, two, one-sentence answers. And depending on how you answer the first question, I may ask you to clarify. Because I've had some people who answered the same, same answer. Okay, consistently. So I'm like, well, that's good. I'm glad I'm talking to a group of enlightened people. But let's go to the next level and let's go deeper. So,you ready? I'm ready forthat. The first question is, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy.Fear.Okay, fear of what?Fear of failure?Okay. Awesome. And it's good. It's good that you're aware of that. And what do you think the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has been thehardest thing of all? That's a great question.It is maintaining a relationship with my kids after they moved away, and is consistently showing up for them. It may sound stupid to say that's the hardest thing. But in terms of consistently doing it for over 10 years, it's, it's taken a side of me that wasn't in me before.Yeah, I love that. And what do you think your greatest success at this point in your life has been?If I'm allowed to almost repeat the previous answer, the relationship I've got with my children. I think it's phenomenal. The fact that they will still travel for hours on a Friday and a Sunday every other weekend. Come and see me when they're teenagers and have a great day. social lives. That speaks volumes to me that I've done an ALRIGHT job.Yeah, that's awesome. And what would you say is one secret habit mindset or behavior that you believe contributes most to your success?Um, I would say my self talk. So just repeating the positive stuff to myself and not allowing the negative talks to come in. Awesome.And what are two or three books that you'd recommend to feel your legacy audience? I lovesort of all the classic books but I love the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. One of the books that transformed my way back was How to Win Friends and Influence People. Great book and Rich Dad Poor Dad. awesome book and anything by Tony Robbins I'm a massive Tony Robbins fan. Sonow awesome. So this is now my favorite, favorite question to ask which is why say for last but I asked all of my clients this, I asked me and then I'm coaching this anybody who's joined my business. I am asking all of them this question. Okay, you ready for this question? I'm ready. Okay, so we're going to pretend that you are dead. You've died, and six generations from now. So this is your great-great, great, great, great-grandchildren. You get the opportunity to listen in to a conversation they're having sitting around the dinner table talking about your life neck, they're talking about what your legacy is, what do you want them to be saying six generations from now about Nick's legacy,that he made a difference. But he stepped out in faith, with courage, did what he felt he was called to do. And he made a difference that lives on six generations later. That's awesome.I love it. So I've been waiting to say this thing the whole time. But everything that it comes that we've talked about today comes down to being in alignment and finding out your identity. And so answering that question, what do you want your legacy to be if you're listening to this answer that question for yourself, I asked it on every episode. So it's not shouldn't be a new question if you've been listening, but I asked this on every episode, you'll see how different people answer it. But answer that for yourself take the time to journal, what do I want that conversation to look like? Second, what are my core values? What are my three or four core values that for me, are guiding in my life and if it doesn't, if something that I might be participating in doesn't align with those core values, then I choose not to participate? Third, what fulfills me right and you know, as we went through this thing, all these things Nick has answered he wants to be remembered as somebody who steps out and is different. His values are family commitments, serving, keeping people close and connecting with people. And what fulfills him is blessing other people's lives, seeing the light come back into their lives, and specifically working with fathers and helping them do what he was able to do and so and that and that wasn't like something just came up with as they're from the beginning of his life. And even before he went into college and got out of college, all of these values were there just took him a while to align his life in alignment with his legacy, his values, and fulfillment. And then you get to look at how can I bring that to the world? And how can I fulfill that and make money doing it? And, and I'm confident that Nick can help you with all of those things, answer those questions. I also can help you if you're interested in and chatting with me. But I just love it. So thank you so much, Nick, for your time. I super appreciate you. Thank you, gentlemen, late over there.No problem. It's been a fantastic conversation. I enjoyed it. Cool.Yeah. Well, we will catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. What you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do, give me a shout out. I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to All those who've left a review, it helps spread the message of what it takes to build a legacy that lasts and we'll catch you next time on fuel your legacy.Connect more with your host Samuel Knickerbocker at:https://www.facebook.com/ssknickerbocker/?ref=profile_intro_cardhttps://www.instagram.com/ssknickerbocker/https://howmoneyworks.com/samuelknickerbockerIf this resonates with you and you would like to learn more please LIKE, COMMENT, & SHARE————————————————————————————————————Click The Link Bellow To Join My Legacy Builders Mastermindhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/254031831967014/Click here to check out my webinar as well!————————————————————————————————————Want to regain your financial confidence and begin building your legacy?In this ebook you will learn:- The 9 Pillars To Build A Legacy- Clarify you “why”- Create Daily Action Steps To Launch ForwardWant Sam’s FREE E-BOOK?Claim your access here! >>> Fuel Your Legacy: The 9 Pillars To Build A Legacy————————————————————————————————————

Matt talks about what it was like dating with diabetes, when to tell them about it, and HOW to tell them about it.Link to the YouTube version to leave your comment or question about dating with diabetes: https://youtu.be/-Jrbel24Khk-------------Learn more about automating your blood sugars here:https://www.ftfwarrior.comWelcome to the Pardon My Pancreas podcast!! This show is all about the REAL life with diabetes. Your two host are Matt Vande Vegte & Ali Abdulkareem. Both type 1 diabetics, both diabetes advocates, both diabetes content creators. Matt is the man behind the brand at FTF Warrior which is an tribe dedicated to helping people living with diabetes achieve a healthier life through online coaching while Ali is the creator of the Diabetes Daily Hustle from the Youtube vlogs and podcast show! This podcast is sponsored by FTF Warrior - An online health and fitness coaching company for type 1 diabetics dedicated to helping them master their blood sugars during and after exercise! https://www.ftfwarrior.comFollow Matt here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftfwarrior/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ftfwarrior/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ftfwarrior---------------------------Follow Ali here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali.abdlkareem/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPM9FFVTOX5gN_qnVHRNA---------------------------Disclaimer: While we share our experiences with diabetes, nothing we discuss should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your doctor or medical professional for your health and diabetes management

The Media Bros, Jack & Jake, specialise in social media marketing and content creation. Working with companies such as Boots, Talk Sport along with a majority of fitness influencers.Discussed in this episode:- Why the use of video so important for businesses these days.- Why businesses are sometimes reluctant to use video to market their business.- What businesses are missing out on, when not using video in their business.- The common mistakes when it comes to creating engaging video content.- How to start incorporating video into your marketing.- Where we should be sharing our video content.- Tips for making video creation sustainable.- The myths we tell ourselves about why we can't use video.- The overall benefits of adopting video in your marketing efforts.- What to look out for when looking for someone to help with their content marketing.- The process The Media Bros. take clients through when working with them.- The benefits The Media Bros’ clients have seen whilst working with them.DISCLAIMER: Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or lifestyle change. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website. Always seek the advice of a legal or financial professional or other qualified provider with any questions you may have regarding a legal or financial matter. Never disregard professional legal or financial advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website.Follow The Media Bros.Web: mediabros.co.ukEmail: hello@mediabros.co.ukInstagram: @themediabrosYou can follow Ross Dean & Make Today Count at: Website: http://rossdean.com Facebook - https://facebook.com/rossdeanphoto Twitter - https://twitter.com/rossdeanphoto Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rossdeanphoto LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossdeanphotoFor more information on Ross' Headshot & Personal Branding photography, please visit https://rossdeanphotography.comWelcome to Make Today Count. Your 60 mins of fresh conversation, served up to inform, educate & inspire an abundant life. Each episode I chat to thought leaders, influencers and experts in their game who all have one thing in common. The desire to go the extra mile. Pushing against the status quo to create a richer life for both themselves and those aro

Source: wsn.comWelcome to the Prop Drop, a brand new sports betting podcast from WSN.com that focuses 100% on prop bets from all major sports. Whatever big games, valuable betting opportunities or popular events are coming up, we’ll offer in-depth analysis and free prop picks.Ryan Sullivan and Adam Forsythe are joined by Alece Anderson and they’ll be your tour guides to the best prop betting opportunities available anywhere.This week’s show starts out with a look back at the Super Bowl and the Kansas City Chiefs' decisive victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Ryan and Adam both called the Chiefs to cover and they also cashed in on a long list of Super Bowl prop bets.Adam nailed a parlay that combined a Raheem Mostert Touchdown, Damien Williams touchdown, and a KC win at 5.5 to 1 while Ryan hit on player props including Patrick Mahomes, Damien Williams, and Tyreek Hill. Ryan also piled money on Williams to be named MVP at 19 to 1 and was outraged that Mahomes got the honors despite throwing two picks.Moving on to upcoming props, the guys go into detail on some great props you can bet on this week.In the NBA we’ve got a Lebron James vs. James Harden prop on who will score more points when the Lakers meet the Rockets. There’s also a good option prop on whether Damian Lillard will top 32.5 against the Jazz in Utah on Friday or at home against the Heat on Sunday.You’ll have to watch the full episode to find out which way Ryan and Adam are leaning on those.We also touch on props in the NHL, PGA, tennis and even a few Oscar Best Picture bets thrown in to spice things up.Skip to: 1:50 Last week's Best Bets6:05 Ryan's Best Bet7:05 Adam's Best Bet8:00 Adam & Ryan answer your comments8:46 Super Bowl 2021 Futures13:00 Lakers vs Rockets15:25 NCAAB: Marquette Golden Eagles vs Butler Bulldogs17:00 PGA Tour: Pebble Beach AT&T Pro-Am20:36 NY Islanders vs TB Lightning24:09 English Premier League: Manchester City vs Westham26:08 Daily Fantasy Sports Picks30:08 Damian Lillard Prop Bet32:40 Oscars35:50 TennisSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBN4zGZtlyfETCNE6hi1zGQFOLLOW US ON:Twitter - twitter/wsn.comFacebook - facebook/wsn.comInstagram - instagram/wsn.comSupport the show (https://www.wsn.com/podcast/)

We interview the host and founder of the Diabetics Doing Things podcast Rob Howe!Rob Howe: https://www.instagram.com/robhowe21/Buy a "Diabetic" hoodie here! https://www.teepublic.com/hoodie/3504164-diabetic-hoodie-and-t-shirt-------------This episode is sponsored by Companion Medical!https://www.companionmedical.comWelcome to the Pardon My Pancreas podcast!! This show is all about the REAL life with diabetes. Your two host are Matt Vande Vegte & Ali Abdulkareem. Both type 1 diabetics, both diabetes advocates, both diabetes content creators. Matt is the man behind the brand at FTF Warrior which is an tribe dedicated to helping people living with diabetes achieve a healthier life through online coaching while Ali is the creator of the Diabetes Daily Hustle from the Youtube vlogs and podcast show! This podcast is sponsored by FTF Warrior - An online health and fitness coaching company for type 1 diabetics dedicated to helping them master their blood sugars during and after exercise! https://www.ftfwarrior.comFollow Matt here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftfwarrior/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ftfwarrior/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ftfwarrior---------------------------Follow Ali here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali.abdlkareem/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPM9FFVTOX5gN_qnVHRNA---------------------------Disclaimer: While we share our experiences with diabetes, nothing we discuss should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your doctor or medical professional for your health and diabetes management

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This weeks guest is Matt Scoletti. Matt was a basketball player in high school, captain of the team, fun and outgoing kid. Then, in college, he got exposed to alcohol and really enjoyed it. The problem was, he couldn’t stop drinking. Matt drank heavily for 10 years of his life from age 18-27. Finally, he had enough. Matt was so disgusted with who he had become that he felt he had to change his life! He went from being addicted to alcohol, to being addicted to healthy living, working out, and eating right! Since giving up alcohol, he has been on American Ninja Warrior, run 3 marathons, is a 2-Time World Record Holder, won the Physique Athlete Of the Year, been in Flex Magazine, and done countless obstacle course races and endurance races including biking 250 miles in 24 hours in Australia last year! Matt is now a professional speaker and love using his story to inspire people to GO FOR IT in life and create urgency in your life to reach your potential!Links: www.MattScoletti IG/TikTok/FB - @MattScoletti YouTube: Matt ScolettiWelcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on Kindle, Amazon and their website Sam Knickerbocker. comWelcome back to fuel your legacy. Today we have an incredible guest called Matt Scoletti. And I first reached out to him or who reached out to but I saw him on Instagram. I love this story. Luckily, he's been able to accomplish without that man, this would be something Somebody who can share a passion share a dream about what it's like to make some transformations in his life. And his story is one of somebody hitting rock bottom and then turning it around. He was an alcoholic for a decade. What I love about that phrase is he was an alcoholic for a decade's so many people they think once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. I don't believe that. But after hitting rock bottom in 2011, he completed some crazy crazy fitness feats. He ran multiple marathons been on the 24-hour bike races obstacle courses, set to world records, is now a motivational speaker who travels his country speaking in schools, businesses, nonprofits, to inspire audiences to push past their limiting beliefs, and attack your potential. I know he's going to get into this because I'm going to ask him but he also was on American Ninja Warrior. And that is cool. I mean, some people you see it I watched that show. I think it's a fascinating show. But do you think man I'm never meeting That person? So why does matter, right? But the cool thing is with social media now, if you see somebody in the public eye that you want to meet, just use Instagram and then start a conversation and most of them are just like Matt are super down to earth, super willing to chat and even willing to add value where they can. So with that, Nat super excited for you to be here, be on the show and to be able to share your nuggets of transformation with us and what it's been like building your legacy. Go ahead and introduce yourself. Tell us your backstory, your dark points in your life and how you came to the light.Sure, and thanks for having me on sam. I appreciate it. I'm excited. So yeah, I'll give you a little background first. So growing up, I'm from just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Go Steelers. I'm a diehard Steeler fan. Hopefully, you don't hate the Steelers and we didn't talk about that yet. No, I don't hate them. Okay, good.I have a team? Okay.Maybe I can make you a Steeler fan and annexed by the end of the podcast. I don't know like that.My business coach is a Patriots fan. He's got aconvention kind of says in multiple national championships.The Patriots, that's the one team. All right, we got to move on because I don't want to start talking about Yeah, Igrew up just outside of Pittsburgh, and had a great childhood. I mean, my parents were awesome. I have an older brother two years older than me. I was so blessed because, in my opinion, high school was awesome. I mean, I worked my butt off. I got really good grades. I was captain of the basketball team and looking back at high school, maybe I didn't realize it at the time, but basically, everything was going really good for me. I mean, I was healthy, somewhat athletic, had great friends, close family and had it all. And then I went to transition into college. I went down to Richmond University of Richmond down in Virginia, and for the first time really in my life, I was exposed to what the partying scene College was like, and I won't forget my first time going out freshman year, my parents had just driven away and I thought, you know, freedom, I get to do whatever I want now. And the first thing I did was drink two, three beers with friends. I never really drank before. So I started having this feeling of being drunk, which was new to me. And I noticed that I was even more outgoing. I was louder, I started to not care and be carefree, doing whatever I wanted to do. And I thought it was a cool feeling. And from that point on for the next four years of my college career, that drinking instead of becoming a fun thing to do with friends, became something that I had to do in order to be social and I didn't realize that really until senior year that I basically got to the point where I could not have in my head now. This is the story I was telling myself. I cannot be fun without being drunk. And that's a scary six-story that I was telling myself. And I don't think I knew at that point how serious this problem was becoming so senior year, basically, I was just happy to graduate because it got to the point of drinking four or five, six nights a week, if not more, even sometimes during the day, and it got out of control. Now, at that point, I told myself, this is just college everybody does is in college. I'll get out of it once I get into the real world. What I didn't realize was I couldn't get out of it. I had this poor mindset and bad habits. And for six years out of college, my drinking did not get any better. I told myself the same story of if I'm not drinking, I'm not fine. And it hit it eventually hit the ultimate low in 2011. So to give you a little story, what happened in the summer of 2011, I started journaling about how I felt in the morning waking up with a hangover. And I don't even know the reason why I started journaling. But it turned out to be a really good thing. So I wake up in the morning on typically Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning, come over. And I would write these raw feelings on how bad my head hurts and how I didn't want to do anything and how I felt like a loser. And I just wanted to lay on the couch all day. And it was, it was this pattern that began to happen. So October of 2011. It's a day after a Halloween party. I wake up on the floor of my living room which is not abnormal. By the way, it's embarrassing to say, but I woke up on my floor quite often. And for the first time, I open up my journal that I had been writing in for about five months, straight beforehand. And I started reading the journal entries. So I saw my handwriting, the pattern that my life had become and for fun Months span when I journaled those journal entries would have been the same had they gone back 10 years because I was doing the same thing I was drinking to try to make myself feel better. And it was turning into this life that had no purpose. So I had no goals, I had no drive, I had no ambition. I didn't know what I wanted to be, I didn't know what I wanted to do. So I use this constant drinking to just kind of get me to the next day. So that morning, when I read all those journal entries, I'm crying my eyes out, but in a good way, because I realized I was the one that put myself in this situation, which was empowering because that meant that I'm the one that can change it. And from that day, in October 2011, I promised myself that I wouldn't let alcohol ruin my life anymore. And it was to the point where I looked myself in the face that morning in the mirror and I was embarrassed that who was looking back for the first time I was, I didn't even want to look at myself in the mirror because I know how empty I was inside. So the first thing I tried to do what I call it, I came up with a keystone habit that I wanted to change, which is getting alcohol out of my life. That was the Keystone habit. What I didn't realize were all the different things that would happen. Once I focused on that one Keystone habit of getting off a lot of my life. And to give you the snapshot of what happened was, first I got alcohol out of my life. Secondly, I started going to bed earlier because I wasn't drinking and staying up late, which meant I started getting up earlier in the morning, which meant I started working out. In the morning before I even went to work. I started eating healthier. And my whole world started changing because of this one Keystone habit that I decided to get out of my life which was alcohol. The first let me just tell you a funny story. The first funny thing that happened, we'll talk about American Ninja Warrior if you want to talk about that. But the first cool thing that happened was Shawn getting healthier and this is going on for about six months or a year at this point, I'm feeling good, my body's changing. I lost like 40 pounds, looking much more muscular and I started shooting videos for my Facebook page. And I had a, I was I had the camera stacked on a bunch of books facing me using resistance bands and I was trying to show my audience, the proper way to do a bicep curl using resistance bands. My foot slips off of the resistance band, the band comes up, hits me right inside of the face. And I catch this all on video. So I have a massive red mark across the side of my face. I can't shoot any more videos that day because I look like an idiot. And what happened was I uploaded the video anyways to Facebook even though it was silly. People started laughing somebody said you should send this into America's Funniest Home Videos. I thought I don't even know it was still playing but I figured I would send it in I don't they call me like to months later and say, Hey, Matt, this is, I think your name was Sasha from America's Funniest Home Videos, we just saw your video, we loved it, we want to fly you and a friend out to Los Angeles for the taping of our show. So it was one of it was weird because it's kind of like a negative thing you slap yourself in the face with a resistance band, but it turned out giving me a free trip to LA with my brother and some prize money. So it was like in my thinking it was like the good Lord's way of saying you're on the right path things are finally starting to happen that is good for you. So continue on this path. And my drive my driver has been I was telling you about when I look myself in the face and that was embarrassed October 2011. That person that I can still picture of my head drives me every day because I want to be the opposite of him. He was somebody that would quit. He was somebody that wouldn't get out of his comfort zone and My Drive is to be the opposite of who that person is. And it's worked. I mean, I've gone on and had a lot of fun fitness things happen in my life that will probably get into but that's kind of the backstory I don't know if I went into too much detail or not, but there you go,No, no, I love it. I'm gonna pull some of the things out here because I think it's important to recognize and highlight the key transformational moments in somebody's journey and my belief and what I've seen over interviewing, now hundreds of people and time and time again in my own life and other people's life observing success listening to books, is once you find a key principle, kind of like you said, a keystone habit right once you find these things, that whatever that is, the principle behind it is applicable everywhere. And that's what's so important is for him it was alcohol and it led to X amount of things maybe for you, the Keystone habits not alcohol, but it's TV. If you're going to turn your TV off, maybe whatever your Keystone habit is, everybody has a different Keystone habit. But if you are all to find out what is happening every night or almost every night for you to feel XYZ, right, because the feeling is what we're chasing. And then you change that one thing if you started going to bed four hours earlier, I will nearly guarantee you eventually, you're going to start waking up earlier. Yeah, you start waking up earlier, you're going to find something to do. When you're up earlier, whether that's reading more good books, studying whatever for him. It was working out and I think most people that I've met with and interviewed and talked to, that's kind of how it starts, they start exercising more. And the funny thing is when you start exercising more, the natural reaction to exercising more whether it's planned or unplanned, and I've talked to people who intentionally Try not to have this happen, but it just doesn't work. You start eating healthier, you start being more conscious about what's going your body Regardless of it's not even like you're trying, it's just like your mind your endorphins. Everything happens to whereas your body starts getting healthier, it starts wanting healthier things. And without even realizing it, you change what you're intaking, because your body starts asking and responding to different stimulants so that those Keystone habits, I'd invite you, whoever's listening, what are your Keystone habits? What are you doing for the last two to three hours before you go to bed, and if you altered those or remove some of that stuff, you just need to straight-up remove. But if you altered it, what would happen the next day? Yeah, and if you just do it one day, you won't recognize it. But if you do it consistently for a week, a month, you remove that you're going to find some major transformation in your life. The other thing that I love about this story is journaling. And if you listen to my podcast before, you know like me, journaling is my favorite form of meditation. It's something that I have committed to having journal entry for every day of the year, this year and moving forward, I had that for a long time, my life, I lost it after the birth of my first son. And I'm committed to it because it's just it changes my life and helps me process through so much through journaling, I think and I don't know if you've thought about this ever, but I would love to read that book. Right? The cool thing about experiences because we were talking a little bit before this about like, how have you written all these books? Or what books are you writing, Sam? These are the types of things that I'm publishing things about my life. I'm publishing stuff that for X amount of time I've spent already writing in you have a book written the amount of transformation of people who could read that identify with those feelings, and read it compound over and over and over and kind of highlight that the mindset shifts, and then the, the transition, the aha moment of Wow, this is my life. Everybody can go through that. If that was a book, I don't care if it's 50 pages long hundred pages long, whatever. And to then hear where you're at now, that's a truly inspirational book that I think could hit the New York Times bestseller, right? Because it's a story of something that millions of people in America can relate with.I hear you and you know what? I don't even know. I don't know if you notice, Sam. So I'm excited to bring it up. I actually, and I was going to get into this too. I wrote a book about exactly what we're talking about.I didn't know that. ButI know I didn't. I didn't know if you didn't know, I was kind of excited to drop that bomb on you. Soit's called, it's called the first 15. And the reason it's called the first 15 is and you alluded to it perfectly. I talked about owning the first 15 minutes of your day and how that can propel you through the rest of the day, the rest of the month, the rest of the year, the rest of your life. So it's all things that I strongly believe in, which is a morning routine. And just like you said, Sam, I think that's so cool about a lot of people, in my opinion, have amazing stories. And I would ask your audience and anybody who's listening, don't dim your light on your story, because I've talked to so many people I'm sure you to have to Sam. And they say, they tell you their story. And they say, well, it's not that big of a deal. Is that big of a deal? Like there are some incredible stories out there. And I challenge and ask any anybody listening to this, don't dim your light on your story, you probably have a really good story and if you want to tell it, tell it and self publish it and put it out there to the world because it's probably more awesome and you give yourself credit forthat. So even if you think you're telling your story is terrible. If your story, whatever it is, your story could change one person's life of your story could help one person find love could help one person not kill themselves. If your story could have one person better their life, find the right person, whatever it is. You could impact one person, would it be worth sharing your story? And that's the question I asked myself. And it just is like, it's worth sharing because if I can help one person, it's worth sharing if I can help million, I'm thrilled. Right? But if I can help one, that's important. So that's one thing the other. I want to bring up one more thing that he said before we dive into some more, asking more questions about the story. But have you ever and I'm asking anybody,  your audience, right. But you so many people think they can't be someone without substance or without something happening, right? Their story is not good unless they have a tragedy, right? There are so many things where we think we can't be somebody we're no fun unless given a certain set of circumstances unless we're put in a certain situation. We can't be fun. It's interesting. I spent eight. I was on an eight-day cruise with some friends A while back and they were all drunk all the time, right? And that's fine. Like I know most of them and they don't drink regularly. So it's not like a bad thing. But, interestingly, that's how they choose to unwind. And their exam, are you going to try this or you like, don't you want some I'm like, I don't need that. to enjoy myself. I don't need that to relax. I don't like everything that you're saying you're doing this for, for me is not I do that. Without it. Right. So it comes down to and you nailed it on the head. It's a limiting belief that you need something out. So you need something outside of yourself, to be who you want to be. You can be who you want to be right now, deciding to be that person. And if you're questioning that, please reach out to Matt, reach out to me reach out to somebody who can coach you through that mentality shift. Because the unfortunate thing is, people always ask, Well, why do I need a coach? Why do I need to pay somebody to help me? The reason is, it's an old saying, I believe Albert Einstein, but the same mind that created the problem, I can't solve it. Right? All the inconsistency is in your thought processes, and I still pay for a coach. Because I'm still learning and growing, right? And I as much as I think I progressed. So I'm so off based on so much stuff that I talked to my coach and like, Well, why do you think that Sam Why do you think that right? It's a natural process, we always are going to be naturally limiting ourselves and so we need somebody to help us break out of those limiting beliefsfor others there too because I have a coach for the business side of it. And also since I do a lot of speaking I have a speech coach. So I'm with you, I consider myself a half-decent speaker, but I'm never going to be perfect and that's one of my favorite parts of speaking or business or anything. You could always keep learning and growing and getting better. So I'm with you 100% on that. Yeah,absolutely. So I mean, without giving away too much, right? I'm not here to like have you share your whole book with us. But as far as morning routines we, everybody hears they're important. I mean, there's going to be tons of people listen to this. And they're going to say, Oh, yeah, I know, I should have a morning routine, but I don't. What is it, that you found help you get like, really stick to your morning routine?You know, I think I think to see the success of the morning routine and the first I mean, you got to be a little bit patient, right? Like you need to give it at least a month or two probably to feel the full effects. But what I noticed in the main thing I was focusing on, as you said it was working out. And what I noticed was, not only was I looking better physically but my energy throughout the day completely shifted. And I went from, as you know, drinking until, let's say, 11 or midnight, waking up Just enough time to go to work and just kind of making it through the day instead of owning the day and crushing it and being excited to be out there in the world, to somebody who woke up earlier and then got in my 45 minute hour workout. And then people that saw me throughout the rest of the day could tell that day whether I work out or not, if I had the energy, if I had a pep in my step, if I look like I was healthy, they're like, Oh, you got a good workout in this morning. And then the days and it didn't happen often, but the days where I was kind of lazy or just didn't have that same energy, they knew that they would call me out and say, Matt, you didn't work out this morning. And I said, No, I didn't. And it's I think feeling that energy. Once I started working out and just feeling the difference in my body. It just it maybe it's a probably different person. It started to make me believe in myself more once I started seeing that success and realizing I can wake up earlier in the morning. I did it. I'm conquering alcohol while also making myself healthier. It's just, you can't help it build confidence in yourself because you're making these positive changes. And I would say to anybody who's looking to start a morning routine, I mentioned this to everybody. You don't have to start by waking up an hour and a half earlier. I mean, you could wake up 10 minutes earlier and do journaling, do a meditation practice, just do something to help you gain a sort of taking action on the day, instead of waking up and flipping on the news and reacting to all the negativity that's happening in the morning.Yeah, now Absolutely. So along those lines, and you talk about having a smile file, kind of explain that and share how we can each build one ourselves.I would love to explain it That's like my favorite part of anything I talk about. So the smile file is something that you know, as I said, waking up in the morning and just feeling more energized. Instead of looking at your phone or seeing something negative, I encourage people to do something positive. And a smile file is examples of how individuals have positively impacted other people or the world. Or let me give an example. Let's just say somebody in the workforce. And they have their yearly review. And their boss says that they did a great job like they appreciate the work they're doing. Or if you volunteer and one of the fellow volunteers or people that you're helping say, hey, thanks a lot for coming out. Like I appreciate you spending the time write that stuff down and put it in what I call the smile file, which is just a binder or folder or something where you keep examples of all these ways you've positively impacted other people. And it will probably take time to build it up. I mean, I've been doing mine for years. And the coolest part is what I encourage everybody to do. Is it in the morning, read one of these examples. of how you help the world become a better place. And you can't help but just feel better. And just think, Wow, like I, I did that I positively impacted the world. And it helps in twofold it helps you, your energy is much better, you're standing up straighter, your posture is probably better, who's more confident, and then you will most likely This is what I've heard a lot of people that have coached happen is you start looking for more ways that you can positively impact other people. It just happens because you've had this routine now and you're thinking about the smile file, how can you help other people? And it's a completely as you said, it's a mindset shift that can be powerful.Yeah, and I think it's a simple thing. To recognize that the more you focus on something, the more that's what you become. Yeah. And that's a huge and I without going into the religious talk conversation, I think that that is one of the most powerful things in our lives is what you choose to focus on, you become. Yeah, I agree, kind of gets into the idea of creation. There's a lot of people who are scared of the idea of creation because they think, man, I don't want to. If I have to accept that I'm the creator of everything that's happened, then that's terrifying to me. And for me, it was terrifying. At one point in my life, when I realized man, I kept the potential to create whatever existence I want in my life. It's daunting, right? I don't want that ability, right? But the point where I Okay, I see it now how do I do it? And how do you do it kind of is daunting. Once you understand that. It's an exciting thing. And then just like you when you're reading your journal, and you found out Oh, man, this is terrible, right? This is crazy. But on the other hand, like everything that happened was your own creation and yeah, nation that everything that happened was your creation comes with the realization that you can create whatever you want because you already created and so understanding that that's the the the thrilling, probably one of the most thrilling things in my life that I could ever share with somebody is that you're a creator and what you create is yours. Now, whether you like that or not, it's kind of up to you. Yeah. But the fact that you were able to create an can create that's, that's fulfilling and exciting.One. Yeah. I love I agree. And I mean, I thinkthink about it is like a lot of people asked me if something goes wrong. I try to blame myself first. And what I mean by that is, to me, that's empowering to me. If I think of how I can change myself to fix whatever the issue is, then I'm empowering myself. And some people will say, Well, Matt, as you blame yourself all the time. Like doesn't that like, doesn't make you feel bad and I say no because that means I, I have the power to change myself to change whatever is going on. It's a problem around me versus what I used to be like was pointing the finger at everybody else. It's his fault. It's her fault. It's their fault. And that's just empowering all them. I can't change who they are, but I can change who I am. Sure. And I think that comes down to what, what your definition of the word blame is or fault is I had a conversation with my brother, and he's like, Oh, it's their fault. It's their fault. And I'm just like, Okay, well, I think it's, like, sounds like we have a different definition of the fault, or at least the meaning and what the implications of it are me. I'm with you blame or fault. That's a fantastic thing to have. If you can blame me for everything in my life. I'm thrilled because that means it's mine to change. Yeah, but the moment you start saying, Oh, well, that's not your fault. That's that person and you're trying to take power from me by saying that my situation is somebody else's fault. I don't allow that right. My situation is my responsibility. And I love that I can have control over Nobody can take that away from you. So with that being said, what, what kind of led you then to start competing in all these different things? Like there's a, there's a level of like, I like to get fit. And then there's a level of Okay, I'm going to go compete with the world on how fit I am. Yeah. What became the like, how did you get onto American Ninja Warrior? How did you go about setting these two World Records like what exactly transpired that made you even think about doing that?Yeah, I mean, that's a great question. I think the first one is, I have been competitive from a very young age. And I think to have an older brother who beat me in a lot of things growing up, it just helped me with my competitive drive to keep it you know, I figured if I could beat him like I could beat anybody. So it was fun. And I think I had that ingrained in me at a young age. But the other thing I think the combination of that and getting these small wins that I had after I stopped drinking and just seeing the positive effect. That my body and mind and energy we're having. It's just made me start to think, well, what else can I do? You know, if I can stop drinking and I can start working out, then you know, that's a good start. It's a good base. But how far can I take this thing and the American Ninja Warrior thing happened? Because I love the show. And my cousin loves the show. And she said to me one day, just kind of like, out of nowhere. Hey, man, you want to try out for that show. And I hadn't even really thought about being on the show before as you said, you see some of these shows and you think you're I don't know how that person got on there. But it's cool to cool to see him on TV. But I never thought until it's really till she said that that I could be one of those people on TV. But I started looking into it. You see, really you just you fill out a bunch of stuff online and then they have you send in a three-minute video where you kind of show off some of your physical abilities, but also it is a TV show so they want to make it very entertaining. And I played the angle of I'm a die-hard Pittsburgh fan as we joke around before I'm a Steeler fan. I love my city. And I played up the angle of this sort of Mr. Pittsburgh, and I had a terrible towel for those of you that know that or know the Pittsburgh Steelers, we swing around this terrible tower Pittsburgh Steeler games. And they must have loved it because I will say this after I sent him the video and I sent in my form. I thought I was going to hear back within a month or two. And it took I think it took four months. I almost forgot about even submitting videos and stuff. And I finally am randomly I'm driving home from work one day, and I get a phone call and she says it's you know, Leslie from American Ninja Warrior. I was driving the car off the side of the road because I couldn't believe they called me and it was really funny because they said you know, we love the video with sorry, it took us a while to get back to you. We'd love to have you run the course and be on the show. And I said to them, that's great. I don't train every day like an American Ninja Warrior. Like I don't have our something set up in the backyard. It's American Ninja Warrior asked. So I said, How many months Do I have to train before you take the show? And she started laughing and she said, we're coming to Pittsburgh in a week and a half. I kind of had a crash course. I went to this gym. It's like a gymnastics gym. I think I went seven times and nine days to try to get my skills up to be on the show. But I guess one of the takeaways I would say is, I know it's cliche, if I can do it, anybody can do it. But it's so true. I mean, if there's something that you want to do, and you want to go after, the first step is putting yourself out there and submitting the video or sending in the form or shooting a Facebook Live video, whatever it is. I being on that show helped me stretched my comfort zone because I didn't consider myself quote an American Ninja Warrior. You're but then you get asked to be on the show after you submit the video and it becomes real so really if I can submit a video and beyond anybody out there in your in your world should definitely go after whatever they think they might not be able to getyeah I love that there are so many things in life that we can just like kind of think about doing may be put in a little bit effort but if we're not focused on it will forget that we forget that even happened right it wasn't really a goal wasn't a passion project yours you're just something that you did but it's those little things that you can be a yes man, for now, there are some people say yes to everything other people say there is no to everything. I think there's a healthy balance and first check and say Hey, is this in alignment with my values? I would say yes to as much as you can. That's in alignment with your values and say no to everything else because it doesn't matter. It's on alignment. And, and this not only helped him help Matt get out of this comfort. But this, I mean, I don't know at what stage you became a public speaker, but like being able to get out of your comfort zone, that's like one of the number one fears of people, which is weird. I love speaking in front of people, but it's, it's one of the number one fears. But when you step out of your comfort zone enough times, you start to say, okay, whatever, I'll do whatever. And I'm going to be successful, whatever, because I'm willing to do it confidently, even if I blow it, you know, I know that.So I didn't even know we're going to go here. And I'm so glad you brought that up. Because that's so as you said, public speaking up, maybe you've been blessed with just always liking public speaking, I'll be completely honest, I used to hate it and be scared to death of it. And it took me a lot of as you just said, getting out of my comfort zone to feel comfortable in front of four people, let alone 400 or 4000 people so, but as you alluded to Sam, I think one thing if you are trying to get better at public speaking or anything that's out of your comfort zone, keep stretching yourself and pushing yourself outside of the comfort zone and I, I actually coach some people to become better speakers. And the first thing is, speak, speak speak. Just keep getting on stage finding places to speak. I love Toastmasters, a great organization that helps you get out there. You're nodding your head. You might bespeaking tomorrow in Toastmasters. Oh,yeah, that's awesome. Toastmasters is that organization is changed my life. But keep speaking, but also, as you said, do other things that are outside of your comfort zone. It doesn't have to just be speaking, you know, sign up for a show, shoot that live video that you want to do whatever pushes you outside of the comfort zone. Yeah, it starts to become normal after a while.Yeah, for me, the one thing that I'm working on right now it's still it's karaoke. I'm super confident in my singing voice. If I close my eyes, so this is interesting. I have one of my business coaches, he throws you put people through this experience, where you get a chance to kind of dance, create a dance and go dance in front of everybody, and they cheer for you, which is great. And they're all doing the same thing. Sothat's awesome.But I have no problem going crazy dancing, however, like just really losing it. Like, I know a lot of people do when they're drunk or a high or whatever. I have a lot of fun, but I keep my eyes closed. And because it's coming, it's like the ostrich in the sand. Right? It's like if I can't see you, you can't see me I'm just having myself a good time. Right. And so something I've been working on through karaoke is being able to not just stare at the TV screen or, or close my eyes and sing the song but engage with the audience while I'm singing. And it's terrifying for me I still to this day, it is terrifying. And my family and many of my siblings have recorded CD out like this. They're good at singing my family. It's not something that I've ever felt that I even remotely match up to on that level. And so I don't sing a lot. But that's where that's currently if you're listening wondering where Sam stretching himself, karaoke is something that stretches me every time I do it, and it's terrifying. And I still choose to go do it. Because that's awesome.I think that's so cool. Okay, I gotta ask you a question now. So you're stretching yourself with karaoke? Do you feel more confident now in Toastmasters? Or when you're giving a presentation because of stretching yourself so far in karaoke?Oh, yeah, totally because it helps you be more comfortable with the sound of your voice, and more confident projecting, doing different tonalities speeds, everything it helps you gain more command over and more comfortability with it. So it has enabled me to engage with my audience more, get more emotional, get more excited about everything. The more that I've done karaoke. So it's a good thing, but ever, that's where it comes down to kind of Keystone habits are principles that are applicable everywhere. And when you start making one change in one area of your life, it bleeds into all the other areas of your life. And that's what's so cool about transformation and being able to identify those smaller things. I'm curious as you transition because I know you have a nine to five that we're not going to talk about. Okay, but on the side of your nine to five through this transformation, you've started a whole nother kind of personal brand for yourself through different things. Tell me a story of or tell us a story rather of your biggest naysayer, the person who just like didn't believe in you the most and how are you able to silence them and just still go forward and do what you know that you wanted to do?Oh, that's a really good question. And I am going to, I'm going to answer the question. I'm not going to skirt around it but I'm going to use it. Because it was tough for me. So I had when I was in this party mode. In my mid-20s, I had four really good friends. And these four friends were my drinking buddies, they were my buddies that I would Friday after work, they would meet up at my house, or I go to their house at 6 pm. And we would start until we all passed out that night and then do the same thing Saturday, and a lot of Sundays. So these four people, in my mind became my close friends. And what I didn't realize was, you know, you the way you act, you attract people like how you're acting, or that's how I believe in the law of attraction. So, I was drinking Friday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'm going to attract people that are doing what I'm doing. So one of the most powerful things that happened to me was once I stopped drinking, and I told These four guys that I have to stop, like, I'm going in the wrong direction, I need to do this. And they did not believe me that I was going to stop. And they thought, Oh, no, you know, he'll stop for a week or two or whatever. And then he'll be right back out with us. So they did not believe I was going to do it. I don't they didn't know how serious I was about it. And I'll say two things. The first thing I'll say is, I wish I would have taken them aside, maybe even one by one and had a really tough Heart to Heart about. It's not their fault. I mean, it's my fault that I'm putting myself in this situation. I want them to still be in my life, but I just can't drink anymore with them. So that may have even empowered them to decide to make changes themselves. But the other thing I'll say is, as I think this is where your question is going, if you make changes in your life, I don't care what change it is, you're probably going to have some people that are pretty close to you, if not very close to you say come down on you and why would you change? Why are you doing this? You know, it'll never last you know. And I think people that say that maybe they're scared that you're going to get ahead of them and leave them behind. Or maybe they're just not comfortable in their skin. I don't know what it is. But if anybody is if you're listening and you want to make a positive change, make the positive change, you will never regret it in the long run. But be prepared for some of those people that that may challenge you, even if they're not even trying to, they may just be trying to keep you around or keep you quote-unquote safe. Whenever you need to fly, you need to let yourself go and make these positive changes. So the naysayers would be those three or four close friends that I had that I still talked to two of them, I don't see him very often, but what I noticed was my whole group of friends started shifting. Once I started getting healthier. I became friends with people who wanted to be healthy, who ate healthily who worked out who did marathons and obstacle course races so that she In close friends was really helpful and I almost upgraded the people that I was hanging out with.Yeah, no, that's, I think that's the key is being willing to, to step away and be committed to the change and recognize that they're not dissuading you or telling you to know, you're can do it out of it's not out of disbelief for you, it's out of protection for themselves at and that's a, something we all have to deal with. And that's what I would encourage you to do is think about the people listening. Where in your life are you currently being a naysayer?That's a good question.Yes. Because we think oh, yeah, all these people are naysaying us. Right. But hey, wherein your life? Are you currently inviting other people not to achieve their dreams? Where are you currently not believing in somebody else's ability to do what they say they're going to do? And then write a note. And start today to change your level of support and start believing in them. Because as you start to believe in others kind of goes back to the very beginning of your smile, your smile, right? You start to believe in others, you're naturally going to start believing in yourself. And that's the key. So, even if you can't believe in yourself yet, start by believing in others, and start becoming somebody who is a yes, say, or somebody who believes in somebody rather than a naysayer, because it means it's a progression. In fact, in my book, the fuel your legacy nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy that starts with haters and goes right into believers like what, that the transition is a natural transition to go from, and part of growth. So I'm curious if you were to focus on a specific habit, mindset or behavior that you have used to create your meaningful legacy what would that be and then how can we adopted into our lives, smartphonesOh, that's a really good question. And actually, I'll answer that I'm thinking about this naysayer thing. You got me thinking now if I'm being a naysayer anywhere in my life, I wrote that one down. That's good. But habit, a habit to fuel your legacy. I would say I think one of the most powerful habits and I think it does go along with journaling is having a gratitude practice. I think, being grateful and focusing on what you're grateful for. What I'm grateful for, is it's a mindset shift that I didn't even fully believe in instead until I started doing it, and I'm mine is my gratitude practices really simple. Right after I meditate, I sit, I'm typically sitting on the floor sitting in a chair, eyes closed, and I just try to put myself in a situation where I felt extreme gratitude in my life. And I typically do two of those scenarios where I feel that gratitude and then the third one was Three things I'm grateful for. And the third one is typically something very small. It's not some massive thing like a big vacation or something. It's just the fact that I was able to see the sunrise that morning or I got a chance to work out or I woke up on the I got another chance at life, I'm alive. So I think having a gratitude practice, it doesn't have to be the not the last 10 or 15 minutes. I mean, it could be one minute just helps you helps me anyways, get my mindset, right. And then as I go throughout my day, as you're saying, we become what we focus on. If you do a gratitude practice in the morning, as you go about your day, instead of thinking about things that upset you or you don't like you start thinking things about what you're grateful for because you have this practice already started. So I'm a workout nut. So the two things I'll say our gratitude practice and exercising in the morning just because I think if you don't do it in the morning, there are too many things use later on in the day that we can make up to avoid the exercise. So, Julie, your legacy, I'll go with gratitude and working out.Awesome. I love that. So when people are transitioning this I know you're coaching speak on, on stage about helping people kind of chase their best self and become as much as they can chase their potential. How important is understanding how money works in that transition?I think it's huge. Yeah, I mean, I think that's, yeah, that's a great question. Because I think if you can't, I mean, that's the difference between I guess making it a hobby and making it a business right. I think if you can find a way to do what you're passionate about, and also, you're earning enough income to let you do it, then you basically have it made and I think the cool discussion is, you know, I'm sure you have friends like this to Sam or we probably both have friends that earn $50,000 a year working for themselves and they're the happiest people in the world. And you probably know people that make $300,000 a year and they hate their lives and they come home miserable every day. So to me, if you can, if we're talking about entrepreneurs or even if you work for a company, and you are completely fulfilled and happy and what you're doing, like I am when I'm on stage like you are Sam, probably when you're coaching and doing your podcast, and if you're making enough income to support you and your family I think you got it made and you know, you want to put some aside for later down the road for your kids school and your retirement and all that. But um, yeah, I think you need to find away. If you're serious about your passion and whatever you want to go after in life to monetize it, at least to some extent or else it just becomes an expensive hobby. ProbablyYeah, no, I completely agree. And I think that's part of that is understanding how money works and the role that it plays in building your legacy. It's not that your legacy is financial and that's a common thing that I get well, what do you mean by legacy? Because legacy is a financial word like no legacy can be financial, it can have a financial legacy, but almost always money needs to fund your legacy, but your legacy is not necessarily the money, your legacy. It could be I mean, there are people who I would say their legacy is the money. I would think the Rockefellers is somebody who likes people know them for the money even though like the Rockefellers, we, this is crazy, but we probably would not have gasoline engines right now. or gasoline as a whole without the Rockefellers that was their business was Trent the transferring and that the creation of gasoline-like everybody uses it you nobody knows the rock, rock fellers for oil and gas with All know them because of the financial legacy they left which is fine. But as we have, we should be eternally grateful for their society, right. And so you get to choose what people will remember you for. And that choice should be lived now. So we're getting into the final fun things about this. But I'm curious how could we support you? How can we get access to your book? Is it Where do we find that? What's the best place to find Matt and kind of participate in your vision and your legacy that you're building?Yeah, I mean, the book is on Amazon, it is called the first 15. Yeah, feel free to check that out. I'm very active on Instagram if anyone wants to follow along, and as Sam already said, if you have questions or comments reach out to me, as he knows, I try to respond as quickly as I can. So on Instagram, it's just my name at Matt skullet a co le TTI. And I'm happy to hopefully inspire some people to help some people and interact with all of you on there.Yeah, awesome. Cool. So this is called legacy on rapid-fire this next section. Now the one thing that the caveat that I'm happy to put in here is the first question you have to clarify. Okay, fair enough. The legacy of rapid-fire, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy?myself?Everybody says that's what you have to clarify. Oh,wait, ask me the question. Again. I think I got a good answer. But what is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy?I think myself because I need to continue to as we're talking about upgrading the people that you surround yourself with. I think I need to keep stretching my comfort zone in who I get in front of as far as is speaking opportunities. So I want to I do have a coach, I'm going to join at least one organization of all speakers. And I think being around other individuals that are playing the game at a higher level than me, I think the only way to grow is if you know, you want to get better at tennis and you're playing against the worst tennis player, you're not gonna get any better. So I want to keep getting in rooms with people like yourself, Sam that is playing the game at a high level, in our in, in their business in their lives there where I aspire to be. I don't want to be ahead of everybody that's in the room as me so I think continuously pushing myself out of my comfort zone to surround myself with people that are much more successful than I am because that's where I want to be.Yeah, absolutely. I love it. So what is the hardest thing you think you've ever accomplished?I think the hardest thing I've ever accomplished is becoming a professional speaker. And that's because of kind of go back to the same question I was holding myself back. I'll tell you, I'll tell you a quick story is this may help Iraq is in fifth grade. I was, I got volunteered to give a speech to run for student government. I didn't want to run for student government. I didn't want to give this speech, but my class volunteer means fifth grade. So I get up in front of the whole school. There's like 400 people in this room. My whole speech was five sentences. It was like a minute long. I memorized the speech, I thought I had it down. I left the piece of paper in my locker, but I thought I had memorized it enough. So I can go out there and give it I got the first four senses down and then I blanked on the fifth sense, and I stood there like a dope in front of 400 people. And the reason I'm telling this story is I told myself the story of I suck as a public speaker for the next 20 years of my life, because of a sample size of one screw up when if I had just had my speech in front of me, I'm sure we've gone fine and I wouldn't have thought that so I told myself as you said, This limiting belief, I told myself the story that I was not a good public speaker. So to get over that story, to me build confidence like I couldn't even imagine once I started succeeding in front of a group.Yeah, I love that. So what do you believe your greatest success at this point in your life has been thegreatest success isI think my greatest success is the relationship that I've helped build with my wife. So that was, I'm a family man. So we don't have kids yet or dogs yet, but I'm sure in the future, who knows, but I think the relationship that we share has been the greatest feeling and the greatest success. I don't think any business or public speaking success could compare to the relationship I have with ourawesome I love that's, I think, before this conversation we were talking off-camera. And he asked me Hey, what do you want your like, what do you get excited about in the morning? And I said you know right now probably not what I want to get excited about. I said, most excited about waking up and helping to help clients I love helping people make the mindset transformation about how they do and their relationship with money. I think it's the most fulfilling thing for me. And but I want to wake up and get excited about that I get to see my kids and then I get to see my wife. So I love that that is your great success to this point in your life to I would say my family is my greatest success right now. But I don't know that I am mentally treating in that way, which is an issue.But that's great that you acknowledge it. I mean, that's how you can buildon that right? Yeah, for sure. So what are two or three books that you would recommend to fuel your legacy audience?Oh, two or three bucks. So actually, I have my button.I'll give you three books. So these are my three favorite books. Two of them. One of them has been around for a while two of them are newer. Thinking Grow Rich is one of my favorite books that has ever been written I have that there's like three or four books that I will reread once a year and thinking Grow Rich is one of them. the second book I'll give you is called the 5 am Club by Robin Sharma. And he basically as you know, I'm a morning routine guy, and he is he talks about how waking up early can completely change your life. And the way that he writes the book is cool because it's almost like a fictional fairy tale style that he writes the book and he tells a great story while also giving you awesome tips on personal development and business development. So 5 am Club, the last one I'll give you, which is an intense book is called can't hurt me. And it's written by a guy named David Goggins, who was a former Navy SEAL. And he is he's one of the most intense crazy guys are you ever hear about, but hearing his story of just really difficult childhood, he was extremely overweight turned Navy SEAL badass guy is it's a strong powerful story I think a lot of people will enjoy.Awesome. We'll have some links to those in the show notes here. And then also links to where you can get ahold of and find Matt on social media and his website there. So here's my favorite question. I think this is pretty much why I do this podcast because we get to pretend that you're dead. And that's exciting. No, all right. Good. You're dead, right? So so we're in pretend you're dead. And you are now kind of view into the future six generations from now. So your great-great, great, great, great-grandchildren. They're sitting around a table, discussing your life, man. They're talking about what your legacy is. What do you want your Sixth Generation great, great, great, great-grandchildren? What do you want them to be saying about your legacy?Wow, that is a good question right there. I like this question. What do I want them to be saying about me six generations down the road? Um, I think one of the things I want them to be saying is, no matter how many setbacks you have in your life, you can still succeed at anything that you do so I mean, I consider myself to have failed. I don't even know how many hundreds or thousands of times but all at all, if you look at the whole picture, I feel like it's been a pretty darn successful life and I expect to do the same in the future. Meaning that when we do these things I want to try to improve on I'm going to fail 1020 times, but if you succeed once, then it seen as an insane, insanely huge success overall, so I would say, down the road that would be one of the things that I would want them to say is, is to basically keep failing, keep failing. And don't be afraid to screw up because in my opinion, I don't think you can do anything great if you never fail and you never continuously fail and finally figure out whatever it is to have the right success. So yeah, I think that's, that's what I would want to say to I mean, the never give up style attitude. But even more than that, don't be afraid to be yourself. Don't be afraid to fail. Because if you keep going after your passion, eventually you'll get there.Yeah, awesome. Love it. Thank you so much for taking the time to be on this show and sharing your words of wisdom, your story. I'm excited for everybody who has the opportunity or takes the opportunity rather than goes get his book and to learn from him beyond social media. She is somebody who's Excited early in the morning on Instagram, so if you're looking for people who are gonna like you, you're gonna open your phone most people do it. The first thing you see is the excitement of Matt Scoletti, then you're on a good track because he is he's up and moving. AndI love doing those videos about okay.I appreciate that.Awesome.Well, catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. What you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to all those who've left a review. 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Welcome back to the Fuel Your Legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, Fuel Your Legacy: The 9 Pillars To Build a Meaningful Legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, samknickerbocker.comWelcome back to Fuel Your Legacy bringing you another incredible guest, Douglas Taurel. And he's actually out from in New Jersey. I Love New Jersey. I love Pennsylvania, the whole area out there so when I saw that that's where it's from. Somebody, I wanted to be in around and get to know. But his mission and his passion are even more incredible than where he's from, in my opinion. He's a TV actor, right so he's been on the affair Mr. Robot, the American blue blood. So the Americans bluebloods person of interest. And he is in the cobbler. If you haven't seen the cobbler by Adam Sandler, I think one of Adam Sandler's best movies honestly, just an incredible movie, and so you've got to be in that. But now even he's a producer and he's produced a one-man play. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it's a one-man play, called the American soldiers journey home, which commemorates any of the First World War, and he's finished filming the Web TV series, a landing home, in which he wrote and directed and tells the story of a veteran having a hard time adjusting military life, and that everybody has different reasons for doing what they do. I work with a lot of veterans, veterans, and people who are actively serving in the military and my company. That's a lot of the people who are my business partners. And so I have, a natural desire to want to help them also my sister, Denise, she was like three or four months, maybe six months away from being commissioned as an ROTC officer. And then she got diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and was discharged. She wasn't able to fulfill her dream in the military. So I got to see firsthand kind of the adjustment of somebody whose dream had just been altered by the reality of needing to come home per se, although she never left. She still had to come home mentally from that lifestyle and now readjusted to we'll call it civilian life. So I'm excited to be able to share this with you because I think it's every one of us. If we don't know somebody who's serving in the military, we should know somebody who's serving the Military, and this is a very real concern, a real thing about most people who have served. So I'm excited to have you on here, Douglas and go ahead and share a little bit of your background how you got into acting and why the American soldier What about that, as are you so passionate about?So Hi, everyone. Thanks for having me on the podcast. So I got into I've been acting professionally here in New York for about 20 years. I'm originally from Texas from Houston. But I came to New York, trying to pursue the dream and I got into acting in college. It was very cliche was over a girl that I had a crush on and I wanted to impress her and I thought being part of a school play would be would do the thing and the 10 cent version is I got bit by the acting bug and I never got, I never got rid of it. So I went to Ole Miss. I graduated from there with a double major business in the theater.And I've been pursuing acting ever since I came Since I graduated, andI am as being here in New York, I was, I came out of the Twin Towers probably 10 minutes before the first plane hit. So I was kind of I was in the financial district when I was working there when I was a young actor. And so I was really, as the rest of the nation was that was affected by the event and like a lot of young men did. They wanted to, you know, they wanted to join, they wanted to come part of the military. I couldn't join the military because of being blind and when I so I decided to kind of do something with my talents, so I wrote this play, called the American soldier. And I at the time, you know, we were reading a lot of the time we were heavy in the Middle East, I guess around 2005 2006 I were reading a lot in the newspapers about what veterans were going through and how they were struggling either suit through a suicide or financial problems or just challenges they were having. And I just thought it was kind of unfair. So I would, I wanted to kind of create a project to kind of give a true awareness of what they were coming from and calculus, people understand what sacrifice meant. So I went to the New York Public Library, and I had this crazy idea of creating a planet based on the American Revolution. And I was going to remind people the bravery of how we became the country we are in and I started researching, like, books and books, there are so many books based digital, they're just filled with veteran letters. And the more I researched, the deeper I went into, and I kind of created this project from that nucleus, and since then, I've been you know what I thought it was just going to be a vanity project. You know, just a one-time thing is now been performing for six Seven years it's gone on. I've performed in notable spaces like the Kennedy Center Library of Congress, the American Legion national headquarters Off-Broadway twice. And the play is kind of it's become an artistic mission for me to kind of keep reminding people of what veterans and families go through and have gone through. And that's kind of where I'm at right now with the plane why I created it.That's awesome. So I'm curious how often I mean because it's been years since it was created initially. Are you updating it? Are you rewriting it little parts to make it more impactful for today's current issues? Or is it kind of just a snapshot of something in the past,so the play is taken on, it's not being updated anymore? You know, when I started creating it, Samuel, I created it about I guess I was I started about, you know, I mean, 1110 to 11 years ago, I kind of I start to lose track of diamonds. I've been part of it for so long. But when I had created it, I had a bunch of letters of veterans. And so in the very beginning stages, it was very malleable, so to say, and it was like, I had Shakespeare in and that didn't work I had, I had on it was the play wasn't balanced. And so over the time, it's been really shaped and really kind of sharpen and polish, so to say, and, and from what it is now, Tim, from where it first started. It's, I mean, it's very different. And it's a very different play. So now, there are a couple of letters that I want to put in there that I don't know when I'll be able to because I'm already like in November, I'm performing it twice. And then next year, I already have like six cities lined up so the play keeps it keeps so busy. That doesn't allow me to kind of rebake it in a way that makes sense.Sure. Now that's cool. And so what was the process like?And maybe I don't know if this lends to your childhood orwhatnot butwhat how did you get into acting? I know you said a girl but is that that the full story what about acting caught ahold of you? Because I got into cross country for girls. And as soon as the girls were gone, I was gone, right? Because nothing is exciting about it. Running cross is not exciting. What about acting took your interest and said no, this is exactly where I want to be. I feel like I can fulfill my legacy my purpose hereWell, I mean, I got into theworld Well,hello, I'm so when I got to college, and I got into acting once I fell in love with what acting was I was when I was a freshman year in college. I was just really kind of, you know, you know, rudderless, so to say, and didn't have a real direction to know what I was going to do. And then I remember very clearly an actor standing up saying hey, there's I'll just For this Children's Theatre, and at the time, you know, just coming out of high school I was I just broke up with my girlfriend and I said, You know, I want to do something to kind of impress her. So I became part of it. And so once I joined once I audition, I was always really good at being playful and kind of funny. And so the director liked what I was doing and she said, Hey, you know, you're pretty good at this, you know, if I like to cast you and I Institute and then she cast me in another plan, and she said, you know, if you major in theater, I'll give you a scholarship. And you can study theater, and I said, Well, that sounds like a good deal to me. And you know, you know, a lot of girls around so I said, Yeah, sure. Let's do it. So, and then I, I developed, I was able to develop a real passion for it and I was pretty good at it in college so they said the bug bit me and then that was pretty much once I graduated college. I knew what I was going Do and I knew that that was for me what it was going to do for me as I knew there was nothing else that I could do. At that time. I was a double major. So I had opportunities to go into business. I was doing an internship for life, north northwest mutual life, and they had offered me a real job paid you real money. And I just remember very clearly going into the interview in a tie and thinking I just, this is not something I want to do for the rest of my life. It's just not what I want to do. And I told my father says, I'm gonna turn the job down. At that time, they had these general auditions and I audition for this what they call summer stock theater, and you audition and you get cast for the summer. And I was given a job up in North Carolina and pay me 125 bucks a week to be an exercise dancer. And I took it and that was my first contract. That was my first real job and to this day, it's so One of the most blissful memories I think about as a young actor because I was free, I was open I had, you know, really No, no responsibility. I wasn't married, didn't have any kids. All I was doing is making 125 bucks a week and acting up in North Carolina and I was completely in love. And then, you know, that contract ended and, and I knew there was nothing else I could do. And a lot of times when people asked me, you know, could you do anything else I couldn't because it would be, to me personally would be spiritual suicide. There's not much else I could do. I could probably do another job, but I wouldn't. I just wouldn't be very happy at it. And, you know, to me, at the end of the day, what's important is that you're doing something that you love because it's never really beneficial to do anything for only the money. And that's when life kind of presents its problems towards you. Stress is happening and you're never feeling fulfilled and they leave Dark Places. And I know many people who have gone through those avenues and I just been very fortunate that I've always known instinctively pursue what I love. And it's been and it's paid me back. I mean, it's, it's, as I say, the acting God's been kind to me.That's incredible. I love that phrase. I don't think I've ever heard it in the context of this, but I think that's so true. Because legacy and this is kind of one of the purposes of this show is to help people get out of the box when they hear the word legacy. So many people think of legacy as a financial term.Yeah. Andit could be a financial term, I'm not ruling money out of it, right. But I think more importantly than the finance is the identity and you identifying who you are what really lights your soul on fire and, and helps you grow spiritually because if, for me, at least, my mission in life, I would align it by at least the four F's and there's five if you throw in fun Right, but faith, family fitness, finance, and then fun, right? Those are kind of the order in which I want my life to operate. And faith is number one. And faith isn't necessarily really a religious term, just as a legacy is not a financial term faith has to happen everywhere. And it's a very deeply personal I mean, yeah, and I think faith is an I mean, faith is really important and the one thing that I've always had I've always had confidence as a person as an individual and you know, once I made the decision that I was going to be an actor, it didn't matter. I mean, there were you know, there's always when you choose to become an actor when you grow up with friends who are not actresses, it can be challenging because they're making real money. Right? I mean, they're making real money they're buying cars are getting mortgages to starting to get married. And that necessarily, is not the journey that you're on as a young actor, you're waiting tables you're on you're doing odd jobs, you're doing crap films, crap, small projects, don't anything to kind of build your resume, so to say and you have to have An unbelievable iron will and iron constitution to believe in yourself and others which you want to do. And a lot of times when I coach young actors, and if I, if I give I give presentations, I always tell them, you know, if you're going to go into this business, do it because you love it. Because you're going to have a tremendous amount of downs. And if you don't love it, you're not going to be able to withstand the hardship that comes across when you're in the business. And I think Steven jobs said it, probably as clearly as anybody else could have said it, it says, you know, you have to be insane to do it, because it's hard. And if you had any sanity, you'll quit. And the rejection is so relentless and is so it comes actually in such high quantity that if you don't absolutely love this or whatever it else you're doing and believing in, you're not going to have the endurance to finish. And that is usually the thing that anybody can take away from this conversation. Is that You have to believe in what you want to do, to have the endurance to finish it, and to be fulfilled in life. Because if you're doing something that you're not fulfilled and it doesn't make you happy, then that's going to put you that's going to leave you in a very poor place spiritually. And you know, being rich, doesn't necessarily mean well that means you know, absolutely waking up in the morning, being excited about the things that are in front of you and not looking at your day, as you know, as complete drudgery every single day like Groundhog Day.Yeah, exactly what I love. And so this comes to mind because in my in a lot of my teaching, and when I coach people, and it comes down to value, I have a just a full conversation about value and how you say, your your friends, you went into acting and you're waiting tables and you're struggling, right. And they were making quote-unquote, real money. So what's interesting about that, from a financial perspective, I'm in the financial space. at a company much like Northwestern, but the interesting thing is, although they had, I would call it corporate value, their value is still being assigned to them. And there, in most cases, and this is not unanimously across everybody, in most cases, then there's a massive imposter syndrome feeling inside of corporate America, and a lot of people are being paid more than they think they're worth. And they couldn't go and transfer that value that they're getting paid maybe $100,000 a year, they could not transfer for that hundred thousand dollars your income to anywhere else except for that company because they think that's the only company willing to put it there. So where you are out building your value, and get into the point where you can create money because you're able to create you created a one-man play where you're going, you're going all by yourself, you're creating value. Those people who had real jobs quote-unquote in corporate America, they didn't get that opportunity of many of them, not all of them, but many of them don't have that ability to believe in themselves because it was never developed. Not that they can't have it, but they just don't have it. And I coach a lot of my clients through that who are coming in from corporate America jobs and say, Okay, I want to be an entrepreneur, I want to go do something on my own. But I just don't think that I have the value exchange there.AndI love that you said you have to be insane. Because every great person, they had a vision for what was going to come before it was ever a reality. And they chose keyword being chosen to live in their future to live in the vision of their future rather than where they were at today. And because nobody else can see your vision and your future other than you or at least as clearly as you can, then you appear as insane.Yet, I would argue you're the only sane person around because you're engaging in creation. Rather than reacting to your surroundings, but it's you know, it's it's really important because I mean, even when I created the play when I created the play, as I mentioned earlier, I had, you know, I had thousands of veteran letters for over a period of five, six years, and I just didn't know what to do with them. And I knew I wanted to tell a story. I just didn't know how I wanted to tell it. And, you know, at one point, I thought it was going to be full, that's going to be a play with multiple characters. And I would talk to many directors, and they were like, Well, what do you want to do with it? You know, and they were like, let's not really, I don't think people are interested in veteran letters. And, and I got a lot of no's. And then, you know, even when I found directors who were might be interested in and, you know, they had completely different ideas. And so, you know, I was already conditioned to understand that, you know, if I, if I want this, I'm gonna have to you know, squeeze it through the funnel. And I, I mean, I just, I took no for an answer. And I think, you know, what I was able to do is, I was, I knew I had it. I knew I needed to create a product to show people from it. And that sometimes is, you know, sometimes just focusing, they always say, you know, the journey of 1000 steps begins with the journey of without the journey of 1000 miles begins the first step. And so, so many people told me to know that if I would have listened to them, and not focused on the first step, which was actually to memorize your eyes, just one letter, the play would have never become what it is today. And I was able to just basically, you know, tune them out to them out and listen to my voice and just completely only listen to myself and said, You know what, no one knows what to do with it. Everyone is telling me No, I'm going to focus on one thing right now that I have control over. And I'm going to start showing people something that I can create with it. And then from there, the yeses started to come. And that's where that and then from there more than I got a director who was interested in the work and got a director and said, You know, that's really powerful stuff that you have. No, you anymore And then from there, it just fast forward to right now, I've had the opportunity now to you have to be, I've shared this before you have to be so stubborn because there was a period when I was creating the play that every single festival told me no even when I had a version of it, they told me like, ah, I don't know, that's something we're really interested in right now. And I only got my first yes to a festival because someone dropped out of a festival. And that first yes gave me an opening. And now people look at the plate. You know, being at the Kennedy Center a couple of times and touring and the response it gets and now I get invitations and people don't they think they think that that's where you start you started from with the play, but they don't see the incredible amount of knows that you're going to get in the beginning. And you just have to have that complete, insane, insane stubbornness to push through and whatever it is you're pushing through, not to focus on what other people Going to value and what people are going to think about it because it's never your job to judge it. It's your job to create it, and let other people judge it because they will always judge whatever you create, especially in the art, you know, in the art world. In sports, if you shoot if you make if you shoot 20 points, or you score 20 points is 20 points. In the art what someone thinks is beautiful the other person can think is trash. So you're always subjective to the to, you always immersed. It's a subjective art. So you're at the mercy of the audience. So it's really important that in anything you create, and in that goes into business as well because it takes it to create to make a business you have to be creative and how you're going to get over your obstacles is to really focus on on the task at hand and focusing on what you're creating, not worrying about if people are going to think what you're creating has any value if it's stupid or not. Or if you're going to get laughed at you know, it was that usually is when you start listening to your ego and then That's when you start making really bad decisions. And you don't follow through what you're trying to do. And you start second-guessing yourself, and you start saying that it's probably not a good idea anyway. And you talk yourself out of it.Yeah, absolutely. I think that it's interesting. This is this. I just talked to a friend about this. But the idea of know sometimes people either get discouraged by now or there, they hear the kind of three feet from gold perspective, which is like, just keep going, just keep going. And I think what's interesting that you mentioned is when you heard No, you didn't just keep trying to offer the same thing over and over and over and over, every time you heard a know or maybe not every time but you know, as you were hearing knows, you made adjustments to what you were offering to make it more appealing to accept and I think so many people think, well, three feet from gold just says keep doing the same thing. Like no, you keep doing the same thing that you know, nobody wants. That's right. Oculus that's insanity, right? That's insanity. That's insanity, right? But if you're going to get to know, the end goal is I'm going to be on Broadway, I'm going to be in the Kennedy Center, I'm going to be traveling the world doing this. But that's the goal. Now, that's the goal. Now how that shows up is really, as you said, dictated by your subjective audience. And so if somebody says no to the first version of it, then you just create a new version, you create a new version, brand new version, until somebody says, yes, that happens at family life, dating doesn't matter. Everything ever, you have tohave the ability to it's a, it's a fine balance, but you have to have the ability to be stubborn and the same time to listen. Right? So you know, you're pushing through to the end goal, but you have to have the flexibility and the ability to take criticism and feedback and say, Okay, I'm hearing the same note over and over and over and I should make I should turn 45 degrees, or I should adjust the combination of what I'm trying to create right now. 35 to left 27 to the right. 13 to the left. Okay. Try 27 to the right, you keep messing with that combination to finally figure it out. But it doesn't mean that you say just because you say no, you quit. You say, Well, you know, and I used to I, whenever I would get it, no, I would always I mean, I don't take any easily. So when people would tell me to know, when especially directors, I would always say, Well, I appreciate your time. If you don't know if you're not interested in it, do you know anybody else who might be interested in it? And a lot of times just by continually pushing through and asking for more yeses, right? You start finding enough people who believe in what you're doing to cultivate to get you to what your end goal is, but, you know, I know it's just a temporary opinion. It's not a definite answer. It's just a temporary opinion because a lot of the theaters who have told me to know are now calling me to come to perform, right? It's just a temporary answer and no, if you don't take it personally, then it allows you to be more if you can learn how to put your needs Go away and not worry about criticism and, and put it to the side you become more you have the ability to, to swim up upstream so to say you have the ability to withstand and keep going, but if you let people's nose affect you personally, then that's true whether in life or in business or creating anything that becomes really hard for you to keep pushing to your project is the ability basically to say, you know, I get it, they don't really okay. Let me take it, let me what let me take your criticism. Let me take your feedback. Let me digest it. And let me see if I resonate with it. My first performed play, the reviewers were kept saying, I got Forstall for I got really good reviews and I got some mixed reviews in the beginning and but all the reviewers had one like they had one no they kept saying the reviewers and add a playwright Really smart guy. And I said, You know, I don't know if I should listen to these reviewers of, or should I just kind of throw it away, you know? And he said, Well if they're all telling you the same thing there is, there is some. It's, it's worth paying attention to what that criticism is. And so they were saying like, the plague wasn't teaching them something. They kept saying that it gets it like the plague didn't educate me in a way but didn't teach me in a powerful voice. It was very emotionally, it was very well crafted, rather well-acted, that it didn't feel like I was learning anything. So I sat back and I started going through the play and going through all the monologues that I had, instead of realizing that I wasn't teaching the audience of what was going inside, with what a veteran sees, feels inside, internally. And so I went back to the drawing board with my director and I said, You know, I need to add some more stuff to it. And that's really when the plane took off. The play started to explode after that, but I would have never been able to get where I'm at today if I hadn't had the flexibility, and not have the ego to say, I'm right, you're wrong, they're wrong. I'm right. And ignore their responses and, and ignore their criticism. And that's a really, that's a very valuable thing for anybody to take. Because if you're doing business and if you're creating anything, you know, you have to be if you're getting the same note, listen to it. And you can adjust to it. And they're always and there are some notes that you feel so strongly about, like, there were some, you know, some things that people talked about, like, that particular monologue to my director didn't really like but I feel so passionate about it that I said, it's not staying in the play. Like I want it. This is part of the play. So yeah, it's really important to have that flexibilityI've seen so I've seen some kind of go both ways. And it's interesting, sometimes when you hear those complaints, or constructive feedback, whatever and sometimes the responses You need to actually, it's a good response becausealthoughI'm trying to figure out how to say this, but, in any endeavor, you need to create tribes, you need to create separation between the things that people like and things that people don't. And, as you said, identify if it resonates with you, but it's not resonated with other people, okay, and we're gonna put other people in a quote in quote marks because that just means that they're not your people. And sometimes you need to blow that thing that nobody likes, you need to blow that up and make it, even more, standing out so people understand why it's there. And rather than remove it, and not give somebody the contrast, but give somebody more of the contrast, and once somebody has more of a contrast, then they can gain that understanding. They can learn, oh, this is why that those lines are in there because it's literally how somebody's feeling, not just a story, but these are the feelings and feelings are rarely unanimous. There's almost Almost every feeling, there's going to be some contrast that that's just the nature of humanity. And so it is a delicate balance. I'm curious. For me, I've had to adopt forms of meditation. Thanks to getting past naysayers in the early years. How did youlearn toput down the naysayer and say, Look, I'm not going to worry about your negative feedback. Did you have meditations? Did you have practices or rituals that you use to bolster your confidence at the same time as taking their feedback and say, Okay, what can I alter?Well, I mean, tactically what I always did is I did this more when I was a younger actor, but I would write where my dreams are. I would always write when my dreams are. And I used to keep a diary, a physical diary and I would write you know, this is what these are my dreams, this is where I hope I I am in five years where I am in 10 years and I would try to foresee that But, you know, when you become an actor, you know, you have to really love it. And so I would just tell myself, this is worth every ounce of frustration that I'm going to get. Because this is what I want to do. And I would sit there and think, could I do anything else? Um, I remember when I was getting heavy into acting, and there was a girl that I was dating before, who was not my wife right now. And she said, What are you going to quit this kid thing and get a real job. And I remember what I and I only bring that up because it's one of those things that someone tells you in, in the history of your life that are always those things that someone tells you that you never forget, you know, and you'll always look back at it and I remember thinking, one I thought, Okay, I guess we're done. Right, it's over with, but then I thought, I thought I like it. And I thought, well, she sees this as a doing like a, like a kid thing like a hobby, where I'm looking at it as a life mission as a dream of mine, right? It's a much the definition that she had what I was doing and the definition that I had what I was doing was so opposites. You know, she thought I was like, you know, I don't know to go to a tailgating game or something where I was like, I'm on a this is my mission. This is I'm going to be an actor. I want to tell stories, telling stories makes me feel happy. I'm just nothing else I want to do. And I think from a very early age, I understood that and once you understand that, I guess many people talk about it is your why but you have to sit down and you have to know what it is that you're doing and why you're doing it. Because if you don't know why you're doing it, that's when you can, you can get knocked off the track. Because if you're doing it because if you're doing it for your wife, if you're doing it for your kids, if you're doing it for your Dad for your mom, if you're doing it for, for your friends, if you're doing it for the kid who picked on you in high school, if you're doing it for the girl who didn't ask you out to the prom, you're doing it all for the wrong reasons. And that is going to do that's going to, you're not going to have the the the fortitude to finish through. So you have to have the ability to understand, okay, this is why I'm doing this. And this is what it means to me. And once you understand that, then the rejections and the failures don't matter because you're on you understand why you're doing it. And that's it's really important that people are crystal clear, and how they get there and how you can do it by writing. You know, you can kind of sit down there and everyone tries to skin the cat in many different ways people have you writing journals, people have you meditate, people have you, you know, you know, think out loud, talk to friends about it, but at the end of the day, the goal is still the same, the answer is still the same. Why do you want to do what you want to do and what does it mean to you? And that has to be something very powerful. Very, has to be something almost. It has to be worth death, to be honest, because if it's not worth death, then you're not going to finish. And so if, if whatever it is you want to do is not worth dying over. I would I would. Second I would check what that is and reevaluate. Because once you can answer this is worth dying for. And I know it's cliche to say, but life is so short. It is and to not do something in this life that you love is a real travesty. And when you start looking at the perspective of life through those prisms, and start and I in this and I understand that there's art, you know, wherever, wherever you're at in life, you have real responsibilities, you have bills, you have, you know, mortgages and, but whatever it is, even when you're doing within that You can find ways to say, Okay, how can Ihelp? If I want to do something more? How can I do it? At night? when everyone's asleep? How can I get up at four o'clock in the morning to do it right? To pursue the dreams that I want to pursue while I do my day job, quote, you know, my day job, so to say. And if you don't have that really clear answer to that it's worth doing. Even if it means death, then you're not going to wake up at four o'clock in the morning to pursue that dream. You're not going to stay up at two o'clock in the morning to pursue that dream. And that's what you need to do it. You know, it's just really important that you get clear on that and that answer, and I mean, write it in a journal, you know, where you want to see your life in five years in 10 years. What do you want people to say about you? That to me was always really important to you. What, where do I want to see myself you know, and I constantly see myself still holding an Oscar. You know, and I dream about it all. The time you know, and I keep those dreams and I may not reach that dream, but I get closer and closer and closer and closer. And those goals and make someone told me once that, you know, having these artistic goals or any goal makes life worth living, you need a goal to live. And I think a lot of depression and a lot of failures that happen in life is that people don't give themselves really exciting goals. You know, they don't give themselves tangible, really vibrant, really compelling, hard goals to achieve, you know, and to make life more interesting. They get caught in the minutiae of life, which is easy to get caught, you know, I mean, I saw my parents go through it, and you get on this treadmill so to say and you wake up the same day you go to work the same day you wake up the same day, you go to work the same day you wake up and it becomes this repetitive thing and eventually life is like this, you know, you're 65 years old, you know you're sitting there, you're watching jeopardy. Oh, that'd be terrible. Yeah. So it's important to have that, it's going to be worth doing, you know, even if it means death.Yeah, absolutely. I love that because there's a book called The Hundred and 77 mental toughness Secrets of the world-class by Steve Siebold. He was that held the contract him and his consulting firm held the contract for training, navy seals that America's navy seals on mental toughness. And that's one of the questions that he asks. right at the beginning of the book is, Hey, what are you willing to die for? What do you want to fight for? What do you how do you want to be remembered? I think understanding that is so crucial. And it's one of the reasons I do again, feel your legacy podcast. This is why I brought Doug's on here. Understanding that legacy most people have lost even a glimpse of that legacy in early teens, if not late childhood at this point in life. We're conditioned to not think about that and that is what I would do. From I would say religiously but also known religiously that spiritual suicide, just as Douglas said, and that is that, that's the key to having that vision, having the desire to go out there and do something. And that's I found the same thing in my life when, when I started into what I do right now public speaking, and I'm an author now and working in the financial industry, people I get a lot of people asked me, hey, Sam, why don't you go over to that company or that company or that company, you can get paid way more working at another company doing what you're doing? And never wants it? I've been thought of going where I'm getting paid the most. I've always thought about where can I go have the greatest impact? Where can I have the biggest alteration? Like how can I alter more people's lives and that's what I've been using to dictate where I go, but then I still have people ask me, when are you going to get a real job? And what I found is it's that moment. One, everybody should ask yourself, that doesn't matter even if you have a question. quote-unquote, a real job, when are you gonna go get a real job makes you question what you're doing? And that's an awesome question. So without those questions that were would never have been able to say, that's not the right girl for me or whatever, it's important to have people who question you and your life. But that's the moment where it's like, okay, obviously, you don't quite yet understand what I'm doing. And so I need to blow up my intention and come at this with so much more enthusiasm, so much more exciting. So you can see the vision of what I've seen because I've been kind of half passing it thinking that you're catching the vision, and you're okay with the vision, but you haven't caught the vision. And so I've got to go so big to where you catch the vision and keep going until you do. And I love that that's kind of one of those things you've done. I'm curious if you were to say one specific habit, mindset or behavior that you've used over the years of creating your legacy. What would that be like one thing that we could all adopt into our lives? I think the world valuable thing to do is wake up before everybody else.You know, in sports, we have anything you want to beat people to the spot in basketball. You know, the crossover and basketball are designed to give you separation between the defender. When it's designed the crossover move, anybody who doesn't know basketball sports, it's a move that the basketball players work on to get a little bit of separation to beat someone to the spot. So when you wake up early in the morning, you don't even have to be the most talented person. But if if you get up at four o'clock in the morning at 430 in the morning, and you start working on your goals for a couple of hours, and you do that on a repetitive basis, five days a week, four weeks out of the month, every month out of the year, you're going to be exponentially further from anybody who has any more talent in you. You're going to get more work done, you're going to beat them to the spot. So they may be faster they may be a faster rider. They may be a faster type of Maybe a faster blogger than maybe a faster speaker. But if you're getting up, you're producing, you're producing more content, you're, you're creating more work, more leverage every morning by getting up in the morning. That value of you getting up before, you know, before they wake up, gives you so much more leverage in your life. And to me, I mean, I had so many other projects and you have life in front of you. And I did all my writing early in the morning because it was the only time that I would get up. And there was no phone, there was no text, there was no email there was it was just me and me. That was it. And everybody else and so I would do that for about an hour, an hour and a half. And I would always, to me it was one of the things my mother taught me as a student as a young kid. I remember I think I was in seventh grade or eighth grade and I had to memorize I think the capitals of the United States and I was like oh my gosh, I'll never get this done. You know, and she's once you get up early in the morning and memorize it off, it's too hard because if you get up early in the morning, your brain will be fresh. You'll be able to do it. And I did. And I took that lesson too hard. And now I wake up every pretty much consistently, five, six days a week and 445 in the morning. And I try to get all my writing and all my work in before everybody else. Because once life starts, and it becomes difficult, but anybody, whatever your goals are, if you can just condition yourself to get up early in the morning to work on your projects, and you're going to get them done. And that is, to me the most, that's the most personal I feel is been the biggest asset to my success as a writer and as a producer.Yeah, I love that. I think that that's something that I've also noticed in my life. And I go in and out of it. I'm not perfect. I wish I was more perfect. But definitely when I have a target or something that I'm going for and I've got a deadline, I want it I want to get something achieved a certain point and then I stay up later and I wake up earlier because that simply would want to get your stuff done.Yeah. And when you get up early in the morning and you're tiredFor our, for your listeners to listen iswhen that voice speaks to you as that warm comfy pillow starts talking to you and that you know that bed says no stay in bed. And you know, it's much more comfortable in here, you have to tell yourself now the reason why I'm getting up is not because of the short term goal is because of the long term goal. There's a lot you're getting up to achieve the long term goal is and so it's not just to immediately shift your focus from short term to long term. And if you can do that, that makes it easier to get out of bed. Because you know, discipline is hard. And it's hard for me and it's hard for everybody. And if it was easy, then everybody would have the discipline I think about people always say I wish I had more discipline, but what you do it just you have to realize that it's hard. It was easy, then everybody would have discipline is it's where you are it's where your focus is as a person. So when you get up in the morning and alarm goes off and you're like, I don't know if I want to do this focus on the long term goal. Don't focus on the short term goal which is I'm just getting up to date. Focus on today is going to give me You know, this much more freedom in my life, this much more creativity in my life, this much more happiness in my life.I love that focus on the focus on the long term, read your goals. And then as you said, you know you you wrote out your vision multiple times to kind of handle because some of those naysayers they're not outside of us that those naysayers are just as much or more so inside of us than they are outside your mom and dad.Yeah, that people who care about you the most who want you to succeed. Sometimes the loneliest things are doing things when people you care about the most or against you. And again, it goes back. That's why you have to have that answer this is worth doing, even if it means death. Because if you don't have that answer, it's going to be easy to get knocked off your block.Yeah, for sure. So I'm curious for people who maybe haven't heard of this play or want to see this play and give us a little bit more information on how we can get in touch with you if we want to watch the short series or whatever. How do we get in touch? How do we watch what you're doing? support your endeavors and help you share this message of, in my opinion, building your legacy and focusing on that the long term rather than the short term.Sure. And just to let everybody know that this play, everyone who's trying to create something plays very successful right now it's touring. It's, it's performing notable, beautiful venues that it started with a piece of paper and simply an idea. So everyone should know that, you know, you can take any idea you have, and if you chip at it, a day at a time, consistently, you can make it into something very special. So that's something that's an important lesson for everyone to kind of take away but so the place called the American soldiers based on letters from the American Revolution through Afghanistan. They've been written by veterans and their family members on the play gives awareness to what veterans go through when they come back home from combat and their families. And it gives a true appreciation for their sacrifice. And commitment. And most importantly, it says thank you to them. The website is called www the American soldier solo show.com, the American Soldier Soldier show.com. And in November, I'll be at the Kennedy Center on the 13th. And then I'll be in Cape Cod. And then in January, potentially supposed to go to LA. And then I will be in North Carolina, on Veterans Day and then Chicago on Memorial Day and a couple of other cities. But if you go to the website and you sign up and you're interested in the project, or if you're interested in the play coming to your city or your state, you know, you can go to my website and contact me there and and then we can begin a discussion about how I can bring the play to your area or your community. But it's been an incredible honor now because I mean like I said, I probably almost started as an idea. I've now performed this play for over 10,000 audience and veterans and I received letters from veteran runs all the time and become friends with a lot of veterans, they'll ask you to keep going. So something that started as just a simple idea on a piece of paper that I wanted to tell the story for veterans now it's become this artistic mission that I could have never, ever in a million years would have thought it would be giving me back so much in return.That's awesome. And are you on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, where'sTwitter, Twitter, Twitter, and Instagram are at Douglas Taurel. And then my Facebook page is Douglas drill.Okay, awesome. Just a random question because I'm, I'm thinking of this as a show solo show. Is it something that you do all by yourself? Or do you have supporting staff and stage set and stuff that take how many people that take to put on this play?It's just me, it's just me. And then I usually have a sound designer and a lighting designer and usually when I traveled to a different city that was whatever venue I'm at, they provide that they provide me a sound designer in the theater and lighting designer, with a place kind of already been designed so we get there to get to the space. It's me and an army trunk, a world war two authentic army trunk, a six by nine American flag, and I play 14 characters. I play men, women, and children. I play many different accents. And one cost, I use one costume and my kind of manipulate it into many different costume changes. And I tell stories, I tell 14 characters from every conflict, and I try to kind of give it a whole module of what been associated with a family member who's been in combat or being a veteran who's come back from combat.Wow, that's, that's awesome. I'm going to, hopefully, I'll be in a city where it's playing. That'd be fun to watch. So here's that. Here's the next section here. And I love these last two sections. This one's called legacy on rapid-fire, almost like a little game show. But it's five questions. And you're just going to give us one word to one sentence. answers. Now, this first question, I've been getting the same answer repeatedly. So it's okay to give that answer but I'm asking you to clarify it now. So I haven't been able to change it. I don't know how to change it to target the clarification, but I prepped people here. So the question is, what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy?It would be me. That's what everybody says. That's what I want you to clarify.What about you is holding you back? I mean,how much more work I can put into the day. Okay, I mean, it comes down. How much more work can I crank out in the day?Awesome. And what do you believe the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has been thehardest thing I've ever accomplished, then,you know, as an actor, there are so manyI mean, I would say this play. I mean, I had tremendous doubt in this play. I mean, I can't tell you how many know. I mean, just a side note, I threw the play in the trash can on one time. I was so frustrated because I was getting so many noses and I was just like, no one gets it. Everyone tells me No, all I have is a bunch of letters that over 1000 letters of veterans and my wife pulled it off to stop being a little girl. Do what you do memorize a piece of memorizing your favorite piece of text and start showing people where your passion is that and that. I think this play.I mean,From if I wish I could somehow in a three-hour film, I can crystallize where this place started more display is. It's been pretty magical in many different ways. It's I've been able to touch and speak to people that I could have never in 1000 years thought I would be telling And touching and speaking to,yeah, no, I love it. That's so I'm gonna break code here for a second, just because training my team on this just two days ago, two or three days ago. But it lends perfectly to this idea of he had to learn something and start showing people what he wants to do. So there's, in my opinion, there are four types of people who get on stage and do something, right, whether it's speaking or singing or whatever, right and, and I label them that as a talker, somebody who's just like, basically reading something, they're just talking. And they're no emotion, nothing almost monotone. They're just talking there can sure text conveying a message, then there's a speaker speaker a little bit better, because the speaker actually has intention behind like, they have a goal, they have a beginning endpoint. They know what they kind of know their structure. So they're structured but they're not there's no emotion in it. And then a presenter is somebody who's able to present with a little bit more fun Yes, so they're getting a little bit more buy-in. But what you want to achieve is somebody who gives somebody an experience. And as long as you're telling somebody something, or showing somebody something, you're not able to give them an experience. And so you have to infuse the emotion. And I love that your wife said, Go memorize a piece of it and show people what you love to do. Because at that point, that's when you're able to infuse the emotion into the script and show somebody. This is why it's important. Because I say the same words in my presentations to my clients as I as some of the other people that I work with. But our results are so different because of the emotion behind what I'm doing and what they're doing. They're presenting, which is decent, and they're showing people what they do. I'm allowing my clients to experience the transition between where they are and where they're going to be all in that meeting with me. So that experience they want it so much more because now they've experienced but they have that comment. The dissonance of it's not quite a reality. So let's do it. And they take that next step forward and they want to rather than me trying to drag somebody through a pushup, push a playthrough. You want them to watch your play notbe okay with your way. Yeah, well, we have a say in acting. show people don't tell people.Yeah, show people, you don't want to tell them. No one wants to be told anything.That's true on stage. So a lot of times when I'm if I'm directing actors, or I'm coaching actors is that you know, don't tell me Show me. Yeah, exactly. If you're in a scene, if you love her, show me, don't tell me that you love her. Like, how would you act? If you love that girl? Show me. What would you do? Get on your knees? Would you do you know? Pull her chair out for us. You know, we want to see you show us. We don't want to see you tell us much more interesting when you show us and you tell us?Yeah, absolutely. So what would you say your greatest success at this point in your life has been?I mean, I don't want to sound like a broken record again. But I meanHad this play at the Kennedy Center twice has been,you know, as a performer to get the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center is such a far fetched dream. You know, it's such a, it's like, you know, down the runway pipe dream when you're a kid that, you know, one day I'll be able to love to perform at the Kennedy Center. And to take this idea to be invited back at the Kennedy Center to me is I have to say, it goes back to the play at the Kennedy Center. I mean, it's awesome to be twice they're invited back. So I mean, I and I was at the Library of Congress. And so I mean, the stages that this venue has taken me to is just been mind-blowing.Cool. And so what's one more secret Do you believe what contributes to your success?stubbornness, you just you had? I have I think I was born with the ability to ignore other people's criticism.I've always had that ability not to be.And I've had friends told me that because I, I've had many friends have told me, I don't know how you're an actor, I would fail one audition and I couldn't do it anymore. And I just always could ignore people. I think, you know, you can develop that skill, but I think that's the one thing that I've always been blessed with that I can just focus on my voice and my mission and that to me, is all that matters.Yeah, that's awesome. So what are a few books that you recommend to the fuel your legacy audience may be to learn more about what you do or just books that have been a guiding light to you throughout your journey?I mean, I don't know if people will find this very powerful, but, you know, one of the most one of the books to change my life so pretty dramatically was during the race memory book. You know, as an actor, I was always trying to find how to how can have a strong memory and I think a strong memory can help you in any business in any in anything in life. And I would say for everyone to get that book so it'll tell you the tactical things of how to use your memory in a much more powerful way. And then what happens is that gives you confidence because you have a stronger memory and the more confidence you have you perform in with more confidence. So I that's one book and another great book that I've read isMaxwell,Psycho-Cybernetics by his last name is Maxwell Maxwell's book. Psycho. cybernetics is a really powerful book but it goes to the point of visualizing where you want to go and how when you visualize it, your body will, you will go there and he goes into research and studies where there's the famous one where like people who have the simple act of writing down your goal makes you like something like 60% more, gives you 60% more chance of actually achieving that goal, just by sliding it down. And by having a vision and people who have a vision and forward can go into the subconscious where your body your mind starts feeding the body, the body starts feeding the mind where you start performing the actions that you need to fulfill your vision. So I would say Psycho-Cybernetics and the head of the range memory book and Neuro-Linguistic processing. I've always been fascinated by the psychology of the mind because I've always been trying to find out how can I, what can I do to kind of tweak this muscle and get the most out of it? And so books on NLP will be really powerful. Your linguistic processing?Yeah. Now cool. Those three books, they're going to have show notes. They'll be some in the show notes for books for those. And then here's my favorite part of the show. This is like, probably one of the whole reasons I do this show. It's my favorite I get to pretend that you're dead. Um, so I guess I don't like it as much, but I do know. But really though the thing is legacy. And you alluded to this earlier in the show and I wanted to say yeah, that's we're going to talk about but I held off. Legacy is really about what are you being remembered? So we're going to pretend you're dead and you get to view your great great great great grandchildren six generations down, sitting around the table discussing your legacy. What do you want them to be saying six generations now?six generations away about Douglas. You went through his dreams.I love it. Simple, short, sweet direct, going after his dreams and you can do that's, that'swhat drives me. I have a dream that I'm still trying to fulfill. And so it's what I tell my children to go after your dreams.Just be willing to work on but go after him.Yeah, and that's all you need. So thank you so much, Douglas, for coming on the show and sharing this I'm excited to see where this goes and see as your career progresses the different types of opportunities that you get through being just absolutely determined I'm excited for you to see you are or hold your Oscar. Just know that you got that. And because I think it'll happen if you with as much focus and attention you're putting to it, I see no, no reason why it wouldn't happen.And I appreciate those happen over time. Thank you, man. Thank you for having the opportunity to share my story with you guys. Yeah,no problem. We'll catch youguys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us. If what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do, give me a shout out. I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to all those who've left a review. It helps spread the message of what it takes to build a legacy that lasts and we'll catch you next time on fuel your legacy.Connect more with your host Samuel Knickerbocker at:https://www.facebook.com/ssknickerbocker/?ref=profile_intro_cardhttps://www.instagram.com/ssknickerbocker/https://howmoneyworks.com/samuelknickerbockerClick The Link Bellow To Join My Legacy Builders Mastermindhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/254031831967014/Click here to check out my webinar as well!Want Sam’s FREE E-BOOK?Claim your access here! >>> Fuel Your Legacy: The 9 Pillars To Build A Legacy

After 10 years within the finance and administration sectors, Katie wanted to fulfil an ambition of creating a Virtual Assistant business, focused on making her client’s lives easier, more organised and stress free. And so, KM Virtual Office was born. Based in Ipswich, Suffolk, Katie and her team provide a whole range of support services from Email Management, right through to Human Resources support.Discussed in this episode:- Why people usually come to Katie for help with their business? - What most business owners doing wrong when it comes to managing their time? - Why many business owners come to a point of overwhelm, at one time or another? - What exactly is outsourcing and the role of a virtual assistant? - The benefits of using a VA (Virtual Assistant) - Some of the myths we tell ourselves about why we can't outsource. - Katie shares some examples of how she has really made an impact in the businesses of her of clients and what challenges they overcame. - What to look out for when looking for a VA (Virtual Assistant).DISCLAIMER: Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or lifestyle change. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website. Always seek the advice of a legal or financial professional or other qualified provider with any questions you may have regarding a legal or financial matter. Never disregard professional legal or financial advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on this website.Follow Katie MellorWeb: https://www.km-virtualoffice.co.uk/Email: hello@km-virtualoffice.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/km_virtualoffice/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KM.VirtualOffice/You can follow Ross Dean & Make Today Count at: Website: http://rossdean.com Facebook - https://facebook.com/rossdeanphoto Twitter - https://twitter.com/rossdeanphoto Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rossdeanphoto LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossdeanphotoFor more information on Ross' photography, please visit https://rossdeanphotography.comWelcome to Make Today Count. Your 60mins of fresh conversation, served up to inform, educate & inspire an abundant life. Each episode

In this episode, Greater Kokomo Chamber of Commerce manager, Liz Kerns shares how the chamber of commerce provides resources for businesses in the community. Being affiliated with a chamber of commerce also means that your employees benefit too!http:// USWkokomo.comWelcome to the UNITED State of Women!As we (Kalena James & Julie Deem) launch our new podcast, the chamber provides a lot of benefits for not only business owners but also for their employees.Our social media #PowerPurposePlan is a community where professional women come together to thrive, by living more connected to our Power x Purpose x Plan! We show you how you can have it all and teach you how to get by becoming the star of your own life and not just a supporting role in your life, career, and relationships. We invite you to become a part of our Diamond community and we look forward to growing in this space with you cheers!Kalena Jamesuswkokomo.com Click to view: show page on Awesound --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/united-state-of-women/message

~~VisionLuke Schock is here! * God’s Word, communicated with love, is THE source of true change in a believer's life. Protect this house - https://gracifyit.graceoc.com/article/grace-staff-and-team-values/* This speaks to communication and relationship. It’s all about unity and loyalty. Those are the things that protect us from the enemy. It’s easy to dismiss negative comments that we think or hear others speak. Instead, let us stop and say, “No! That is dangerous and cannot continue.” We will never allow triangulation (talking to a third party about our issue with someone). Instead, we will always go to that person individually first. Even further, we will hold each other accountable to do the same.* Key words: communication, honor, loyalty, unity~~Important InfoNight of worship Sunday at 7 pm *Invite your teams out!*Cider, coffee, donuts, music, and more!Men’s group TONIGHT every Wednesday at 7pmMOPS - Every Other Thursday - to get connected email PortJervis@GraceOC.comWelcome to Grace Dinner - November 10 @ 6:30pm *Please invite First Time Guests you meet and tell me they are coming! ~~Personally SpeakingI RAN OUT OF TIME FOR THIS PART! SORRY!

In this episode, we share our mindset about how to create a powerful PLAN, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community #PowerPurposePlan and what it will mean when you tap into yours.http:// USWkokomo.comWelcome to the UNITED State of Women!As we (Kalena James & Julie Deem) launch our new podcast, we wanted to share our perspective around owning your plan.Our social media #PowerPurposePlan is a community where professional women come together to thrive. In this introductory episode, we share our mindset about PLAN, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community, and what it will mean when you tap into yours. We look forward to growing in this space with you as you join us in living more connected to your Power x Purpose x Plan.Click to view: show page on Awesound --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/united-state-of-women/message

Matt Tarro & Forest!https://www.instagram.com/the__drop/https://www.matthewtarro.comWelcome to the Pardon My Pancreas podcast!! This show is all about the REAL life with diabetes. Your two host are Matt Vande Vegte & Ali Abdulkareem. Both type 1 diabetics, both diabetes advocates, both diabetes content creators. Matt is the man behind the brand at FTF Warrior which is an tribe dedicated to helping people living with diabetes achieve a healthier life through online coaching while Ali is the creator of the Diabetes Daily Hustle from the Youtube vlogs and podcast show! This episode is sponsored by FTF Warrior. An online community for diabetics dedicated to helping people live a healthier life! https://www.ftfwarrior.comFollow Matt here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftfwarrior/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ftfwarrior/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCzwLc-MTNk9636tQyXuwQ---------------------------Follow Ali here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali.abdlkareem/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPM9FFVTOX5gN_qnVHRNA---------------------------Disclaimer: While we share our experiences with diabetes, nothing we discuss should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your doctor or medical professional for your health and diabetes managementMusic: https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud

In this episode, we share our mindset about PURPOSE, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community #PowerPurposePlan and what it will mean when you tap into yours. http:// USWkokomo.comWelcome to the UNITED State of Women! As we (Kalena James & Julie Deem) launch our new podcast, we wanted to share our perspective around owning your purpose. Our social media #PowerPurposePlan is a community where professional women come together to thrive. In this introductory episode, we share our mindset about PURPOSE, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community, and what it will mean when you tap into yours. We look forward to growing in this space with you as you join us in living more connected to your Power x Purpose x Plan. Click to view: show page on Awesound --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/united-state-of-women/message

In this episode, we share our mindset about POWER, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community #PowerPurposePlan and what it will mean when you tap into yours. http:// USWkokomo.comWelcome to the UNITED State of Women! As we (Kalena James & Julie Deem) launch our new podcast, we wanted to share our perspective around owning your power. Our social media #PowerPurposePlan is a community where professional women come together to thrive. In this introductory episode, we share our mindset about POWER, invite you to become a part of our Diamond community, and what it will mean when you tap into yours. We look forward to growing in this space with you as you join us in living more connected to your Power x Purpose x Plan. Click to view: show page on Awesound --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/united-state-of-women/message

We are back at it with another alien episode! By request we have done Skinwalker Ranch and have included the Phoenix Lights! What are your thoughts on these? Real… Fake… Let us know over on Instagram!PODCAST OF THE WEEK: yeah… I got nothing...Want to skip the chit chat??? 10:45References:Skinwalker Ranchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranchhttps://youtu.be/FGpVYOoEW0ohttps://youtu.be/YMkZVTegpaAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walkerPhoenix Lightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkXUvS3iX0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeCDLsyJwETWO GIRLS - ONE MIC - ONE SQUEAKY FUTONF I N D U S!Show Twitter: @excusmewhatpShow Instagram: @excusemewhatpodcastShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OapfhAUBT7wWNhYrvTz-gMia’s Twitter: @ameliabedilia16Mia’s Instagram: @miabia1637Jillian’s Twitter: @jilliankjerJillian’s Instagram: @jilliankjerJillian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0LfmGTy8ezjVQRmaxkJNg?view_as=subscriberFYI: The BEST place to follow us is on Instagram!Business Inquiries: excusemewhatpodcast@gmail.comWelcome to Excuse Me What?! Podcast! Our names are Jillian and Amelia {aka Mia}. We are two sisters that live in MN, USA. In this podcast we talk about all the weird shit you want to know about like paranormal activity, true crime, ufos, aliens, conspiracy theories and cryptozoology. We like to keep it light hearted and super casual with a few curse words while we give you the info. Like the show and want to help out? Rate us and review us! SHARE US WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW! We really want to GROW!!!! Thank you so much for checking us out!Intro/Outro Music:Author: Kevin MacLeodWebsite - http://incompetech.com/Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... 

This week we are talking everything sleep!  Sleep paralysis, sleep walking, sleep talking, demons….   You know all the things related to sleep. PODCAST OF THE WEEK: Dirty John References:https://www.livescience.com/50876-sleep-paralysis.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167075/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01294/full#B65F I N D  U S!Show Twitter: @excusmewhatpShow Instagram: @excusemewhatpodcastShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OapfhAUBT7wWNhYrvTz-gMia’s Twitter: @ameliabedilia16Mia’s Instagram: @miabia1637Jillian’s Twitter: @jilliankjerJillian’s Instagram: @jilliankjerJillian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0LfmGTy8ezjVQRmaxkJNg?view_as=subscriber FYI: The BEST place to follow us is on Instagram! Business Inquiries:  excusemewhatpodcast@gmail.comWelcome to Excuse Me What?! Podcast!  Our names are Jillian and Amelia {aka Mia}. We are two sisters that live in MN, USA.  In this podcast we talk about all the weird shit you want to know about like paranormal activity, true crime, ufos, aliens, conspiracy theories and cryptozoology.  We like to keep it light hearted and super casual with a few curse words while we give you the info. Like the show and want to help out? Rate us and review us! SHARE US WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  We really want to GROW!!!! Thank you so much for checking us out!Intro/Outro Music:Author: Kevin MacLeodWebsite - http://incompetech.com/Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... 

YOU. GUYS! We are talking about our first cryptid!!!!!  Who’s excited? ME! Today we are talking about the Jersey Devil which is one of our personal favorites!  We are going to get into the origins and some sightings and all the good stuff! What cryptid should we do next?  Let us know on Instagram! PODCAST OF THE WEEK: To Live and Die in LA   and Broken Harts References:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devilhttps://www.atlantic-county.org/history/jersey-devil-pg1.asphttps://people.com/celebrity/new-jersey-devil-spotted-again-this-time-with-a-picture/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ni1Cl6vuWYF I N D  U S!Show Twitter: @excusmewhatpShow Instagram: @excusemewhatpodcastShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OapfhAUBT7wWNhYrvTz-gMia’s Twitter: @ameliabedilia16Mia’s Instagram: @miabia1637Jillian’s Twitter: @jilliankjerJillian’s Instagram: @jilliankjerJillian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0LfmGTy8ezjVQRmaxkJNg?view_as=subscriber FYI: The BEST place to follow us is on Instagram! Business Inquiries:  excusemewhatpodcast@gmail.comWelcome to Excuse Me What?! Podcast!  Our names are Jillian and Amelia {aka Mia}. We are two sisters that live in MN, USA.  In this podcast we talk about all the weird shit you want to know about like paranormal activity, true crime, ufos, aliens, conspiracy theories and cryptozoology.  We like to keep it light hearted and super casual with a few curse words while we give you the info. Like the show and want to help out? Rate us and review us! SHARE US WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  We really want to GROW!!!! Thank you so much for checking us out!Intro/Outro Music:Author: Kevin MacLeodWebsite - http://incompetech.com/Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Subscribe for free on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and at http://fowlplayersradio.buzzsprout.comWelcome back! This week we spoke to Antonia Monokrousos- a wonderful dancer who has been dancing in troupes and theatre productions for many years! She is a well known belly dancer and you've seen her in many local productions in Baltimore, such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma, Phantom of the Opera, and the King and I.

We are learning all about this legit CRAZY cult called Nxivm!  You may have heard about this in the news lately because SHIT IS GOING DOWN!  Want to learn more about it? Just listen! We are open to doing updates on this one in the future since there’s a lot of stuff currently happening with this. PODCAST OF THE WEEK: umm… totes forgot Think you might be in a cult or think you might know someone who is?Cult Education Institute: https://culteducation.com/directory-of-cult-recovery-resources.html16 red flags that you might be in a cult:  https://twentytwowords.com/signs-youre-in-a-cult/ References:https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/what-is-nxivm-149217/https://www.urbandaddy.com/articles/42212/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nxivm-the-insane-new-york-sex-culthttps://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Keith_Raniere/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVMhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/nyregion/nxivm-keith-raniere-trial.htmlhttps://nypost.com/2019/05/17/nxivm-slave-master-describes-naked-group-meetings-with-leader/https://womenintheworld.com/2019/04/09/allison-mack-confesses-to-coercing-women-into-sexual-slavery-for-alleged-nxivm-cult-leader/F I N D  U S!Show Twitter: @excusmewhatpShow Instagram: @excusemewhatpodcastShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OapfhAUBT7wWNhYrvTz-gMia’s Twitter: @ameliabedilia16Mia’s Instagram: @miabia1637Jillian’s Twitter: @jilliankjerJillian’s Instagram: @jilliankjerJillian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0LfmGTy8ezjVQRmaxkJNg?view_as=subscriber FYI: The BEST place to follow us is on Instagram! Business Inquiries:  excusemewhatpodcast@gmail.comWelcome to Excuse Me What?! Podcast!  Our names are Jillian and Amelia {aka Mia}. We are two sisters that live in MN, USA.  In this podcast we talk about all the weird shit you want to know about like paranormal activity, true crime, ufos, aliens, conspiracy theories and cryptozoology.  We like to keep it light hearted and super casual with a few curse words while we give you the info. Like the show and want to help out? Rate us and review us! SHARE US WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  We really want to GROW!!!! Thank you so much for checking us out!Intro/Outro Music:Author: Kevin MacLeodWebsite - http://incompetech.com/Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... 

Episode #4 We are wrapping up our Jack the Ripper talks this week!  We are covering the suspects and “updates”... It’s a good one! The Main website Mia used for her research: http://www.jack-the-ripper.org    It had a TON of information if you want to look into this further! PODCAST OF THE WEEK: Serial Killers from the Parcast Network     They talk about all the serial killers you've never heard of!F I N D  U S!Show Twitter: @excusmewhatpShow Instagram: @excusemewhatpodcastShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OapfhAUBT7wWNhYrvTz-gMia’s Twitter: @ameliabedilia16Mia’s Instagram: @miabia1637Jillian’s Twitter: @jilliankjerJillian’s Instagram: @jilliankjerJillian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0LfmGTy8ezjVQRmaxkJNg?view_as=subscriber FYI: The BEST place to follow us is on Instagram! Business Inquiries:  excusemewhatpodcast@gmail.comWelcome to Excuse Me What?! Podcast!  Our names are Jillian and Amelia {aka Mia}. We are two sisters that live in MN, USA.  In this podcast we talk about all the weird shit you want to know about like paranormal activity, true crime, ufos, aliens, conspiracy theories and cryptozoology.  We like to keep it light hearted and super casual with a few curse words while we give you the info. Like the show and want to help out? Rate us and review us! SHARE US WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  We really want to GROW!!!! Thank you so much for checking us out!Intro/Outro Music:Author: Kevin MacLeodWebsite - http://incompetech.com/Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Patient engagement manager at the diabetes management app Mysugr! Scott! Follow Scott here!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottkjohnson/https://scottsdiabetes.comWelcome to the Pardon My Pancreas podcast!! This show is all about the REAL life with diabetes. Your two host are Matt Vande Vegte & Ali Abdulkareem. Both type 1 diabetics, both diabetes advocates, both diabetes content creators. Matt is the man behind the brand at FTF Warrior which is an tribe dedicated to helping people living with diabetes achieve a healthier life through online coaching while Ali is the creator of the Diabetes Daily Hustle from the Youtube vlogs and podcast show! This episode is sponsored by FTF Warrior. An online community for diabetics dedicated to helping people live a healthier life! https://www.ftfwarrior.comFollow Matt here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftfwarrior/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ftfwarrior/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCzwLc-MTNk9636tQyXuwQ---------------------------Follow Ali here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali.abdlkareem/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPM9FFVTOX5gN_qnVHRNA---------------------------Disclaimer: While we share our experiences with diabetes, nothing we discuss should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your doctor or medical professional for your health and diabetes managementMusic: https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud*I do not own copyrights to this music, all rights reserved to the respected labels.

We get diagnosed and WE ADAPT! Thank you for listening to the episode on Chef Robert's story with his life as a type 2 diabetic and a wonderful chef! Chef Robert:instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happydiabetic/http://www.happydiabetic.comWelcome to the Pardon My Pancreas podcast!! This show is all about the REAL life with diabetes. Your two host are Matt Vande Vegte & Ali Abdulkareem. Both type 1 diabetics, both diabetes advocates, both diabetes content creators. Matt is the man behind the brand at FTF Warrior which is an tribe dedicated to helping people living with diabetes achieve a healthier life through online coaching while Ali is the creator of the Diabetes Daily Hustle from the Youtube vlogs and podcast show! This episode is sponsored by FTF Warrior. An online community for diabetics dedicated to helping people live a healthier life! https://www.ftfwarrior.comFollow Matt here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftfwarrior/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ftfwarrior/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCzwLc-MTNk9636tQyXuwQ---------------------------Follow Ali here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali.abdlkareem/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgPM9FFVTOX5gN_qnVHRNA---------------------------Disclaimer: While we share our experiences with diabetes, nothing we discuss should be taken as medical advice. Please consult your doctor or medical professional for your health and diabetes managementMusic: https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud*I do not own copyrights to this music, all rights reserved to the respected labels.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro Song: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-we-dont-have-kids-ep-42/pl.u-55D6P6qUVbE33L Spotify Playlist-https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/7y7ibAFvLlocEonZQW7I6i?si=84kPurNyRcSlDQJQkjLYTA What's good what's good. This episode Jullian gives a recap of his Maui trip. The guys briefly discuss the R Kelly situation while going in deep on parenting and the effect of gaming and GTA. Also they discuss the pros and cons of children having access to technology. Music from NAV, Anamolie and Buddy to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro Song: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/ Jullian (Somebody)http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-wowwww-ep-40/pl.u-EdAVvPYuMERddA Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/41OqDeucp7KPpqmW8RcqpK?si=VhVlsBhzSny8BYekV47ejg What's good what's good. This episode the guys discuss R. Kelly..... again. The infamous interview that graced our tv screen and social media. How Jussie has 16 counts and how hard it is to jail our celebs but not defend their actions when other celebs aren't getting destroyed. We take a trip down memory lane with the hits from the artist on the millennium tour. Also Fubu making a comeback and much more. Music played by Mereba, Always never and Buddy to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro Song: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/ Jullian (Somebody)http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist -https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-pocket-p-y-ep-39/pl.u-r2yBJ5BsjLE44z Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/3zlduYfanIaz8yAwbwXf0p?si=cODdK2MRTMObH5JTvpdLjw What's good what's good. This episode the guys make an attempt to break down and dissect this deep topic of ...... Jordyn Woods! (Dun dun dunnnnnnnn) They discuss the "Momo Challenge" and Tiktok collecting yours kids data. A lot of black excellence including Lori Lightfoot, Toni Harris and Jaden Smith. If you were in Tekashi shoes would you snitch? Music played by 2 Chainz, Saint JHN, Planet Giza and Galimantis to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/ Jullian (Somebody)http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-camera-power-ep-38/pl.u-pMylDpmcKDa22e Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/7m6FgxwP70rSnmzmTezHzV?si=NZIMT3k4SIO4hQxpoaZ3KQ What's good what's good. This episode the guys discuss Tristan Thompson, R Kelly, Robert Kraft and Jussie Smollett to name a few. You can see why the music didn't come until about 50 minutes in. At 11:20 they talk about weed being legal, 13:20 Jylon's prostitute aka lady of the night. 30:00 they touch on Tekashi 69, 42:00 El Chapo might have a retrial. Also they are trying a new "Gong" section of the show. Tune in to see what that's about! Music from Kyle Dion, Future and Zacari to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/ Jullian (Somebody)http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-boycotting-by-mistake-ep-37/pl.u-55D6P82sVbE33L Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/2Rci9dkF33dyHtnv1y3oPF?si=BJR9HXt-QuKDsiThoBztMg What's good what's good. Have you ever boycotted by mistake? That's what we are currently doing with Gucci. Jullian clears up his moon landing statement from the previous episode. The WGTA crew talks about the El Chapo case, 21 Savage, Floyd Mayweather and celebrate the anniversaries of 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin" and Drake's "So Far Gone" albums. Music from a few artists including Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y, Innanet James and Drake. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood)/ Jullian (Somebody)http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-triads-in-the-congo-ep-36/pl.u-55D6PjliVbE33L Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/5UiIvlDfHWvJHVKJZHnqAH?si=BA7IBsuYRM6uHoEY7U4CFw What's good what's good. How Bout Them Patriots!! Jullian is still celebrating the win. This episode the guys discuss all the nonsense the happened over superbowl weekend. Which includes 21 Savage, Bow Wow, Travis Scott and the Chris Brown Offset beef. Also is Liam Nesson using his "Taken" skills on brothers? Jullian declares Black History Year. Of course music played by Khalid, Cleo Sol and Masego to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-jesus-christ-ep-35/pl.u-4JomK7lTm62AAl What's good what's good. JESUS CHRIST! This episode we discuss the J Cole single, crazy weather on the east coast, and who is willing to suck dick to save the podcast??? Shouts out to the Fyre doc lol. Jullian lets the world know again his Patriots will be winning the Super Bowl .... again. How many signs does a woman need to know her significant other might be batting for the other team? Also music from Cautious Clay, Elujay and Hiatus Kaiyote to name a few. Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist -https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-the-whole-name-is-silent-ep-34/pl.u-zPyL1pLTxy9DDL Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/0e0K9uY5hJhhREZrhqKzi1?si=cJNV9z2cRimRf3vFkzOJbA What's good what's good. Drakeeeeeeeeee? Drakeeeeeeee? How could we not? Ep.34 we weigh in on BIG DRACO. Is he stating facts or is he full of nintendo games? We discuss Trump's romantic candle lit 4 for 4 dinner. Also why flat earthers have gained enough traction to even have a name. We play some new music from Kallitechinis, Future and we review Big KRIT's album "TDT". Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-business-class-ticket-to-hell-ep-33/pl.u-yZyVP2mCqjA33o What's good what's good. 2019! Whats good! Feels great to be back recording for you guys. We take one week off and R Kelly runs a muk! Wow, what in the 50 shades of Grey is going on. This episode the fellas bring music from some well known artist like Gucci Mane, Future and The-Dream. Also we review Paxquaio's album "Dodgin the Raindrops." The WGTA crew touch on Jim Bezos, Ed Buck and of course R Kelly. They also figure out what is a First Class, Business Class and Economy Class ticket to hell. Tune in! Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-happy-new-years-ep-32/pl.u-55D66b3IVbE33L What's good what's good. HAPPY NEW YEARS!! The WGTA crew was able to squeeze in the final episode of 2018! They were missing Kendal but to fill in we had Jordan in the building. This episode the guys pick their favorite album from each month since we've started (April - December) From there they choose their favorite song from that album. Make sure you tune in to see who we picked! Once again, thank you guys for a great 2018 and we look forward to giving more content in 2019! Peace out! Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-eating-pistachios-ep-31/pl.u-4JommeDIm62AAl Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/1WL5Rgt6UXKQJlOLhdVmdc?si=y9_0ttNiSw-JoyySqFsF2Q&nd=1 Album Review - Kodak Black "Dying to Live" What's good what's good. MERRY CHRISTMAS!! you filthy animals. I hope once everyone is done forcing themselves around family, they isolate themselves like normal and listen to us!! Haha. We're joking, kind of. Thanks again for supporting us this year as we wrap up a productive podcasting year. We hope to have put you guys on to new music. Also that we were able to make you guys laugh. This episode there's music from NBDY, A CHAL, JID, Raveena and much more! Also tune in ladies for our pistachio tutorial!! Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

Justyn and Alex each bring a different topic, weekly, called an 'Interest'. An Interest can range from rants, raves and literally nothing that anyone but them would care about -- and everything else in between.We had the pleasure of being joined by Robbie Clark. Check him out at www.iamrobbieclark.comWelcome to IDIOTSYNCRATIC.The news bits we covered today:School turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency:www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/sch…-agency/1645349811Man who calls himself 'shark bait' attacked by shark in NSW:www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/man…1209-p50l6y.htmlWhat are we talking about today?Justyn-Rodney AlcalaRobbie-Avengers: EndgameAlex-Super Smash Bros. UltimateJoin the conversation. Leave a voicemail: 682-422-9458We also had the pleasure of partnering up with local brew house, Urban Alchemy Coffee + Wine Bar, for some of the most delicious cups we've ever had. Check them out at www.urbanalchemy.bar---------------------------Patreon: www.patreon.com/IDIOTSYNCRATICYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1md7N0laKEY8mpLsDfCjAFacebook: www.facebook.com/idiotsyncraticpodcastInstagram: www.instagram.com/idiotsyncraticpodcast/Twitter: www.twitter.com/IDI0TSYNCRATICWe truly appreciate everyone who takes time out of their busy schedules to support us and share the show.Theme: All My Friends by Pseudo Future.

http://whogottheaux.comWelcome back to WGTA!! Subscribe leave a comment and Rate!! Intro/Outro Songs: Jullian (Mr. Scott's Neighborhood) http://soundcloud.com/jullian100 Apple Playlist - https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/wgta-id-be-thick-ep-29/pl.u-zPyLLEXIxy9DDL Spotify Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/kendal.ushijima/playlist/3QennskUMKJBhEhkYC3lp8?si=qLf_ZG5PQ9yplvTAMenOyA&nd=1 What's good what's good. Welcome to Saturdays! Moving forward we will be recording on Saturdays and releasing on Mondays!!! Today Kendal was out of town so Jullian and Jylon held down the fort. Lots of new music dropped included the highly anticipated Meek Mill project "Championships" The guys also did an album review on Metro Boomin's project "Not ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES" The WGTA crew touches on the passing of Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg, the Dwight Howard situation and Jylon raises the question of what we would do if we were women. Tune in to find out our answers! lol Hope you enjoyed this episode and again don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications on new episodes and give us a rating to help build the show. Also leave a comment with song suggestions or anything you want.

Justyn and Alex each bring a different topic, weekly, called an 'Interest'. An Interest can range from rants, raves and literally nothing that anyone but them would care about -- and everything else in between.We had the pleasure of being joined by Robbie Clark. Check him out at www.iamrobbieclark.comWelcome to IDIOTSYNCRATIC.The news bits we covered today:Winnipeg's 1st ticket for toking in a car issued 1 hour into legalization: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitob…ar-ticket-1.4867328‘Mr. Ding-a-Ling' ice cream truck driver accused of stalking young girls:www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending-…irls/856033517Original Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch retiring after 50 years: aleteia.org/2018/10/20/original…ing-after-50-years/What are we talking about today?Robbie-Winning the LotteryJustyn-Junji ItoAlex-HalloweenJoin the conversation. Leave a voicemail: 682-422-9458We also had the pleasure of partnering up with local brew house, Urban Alchemy Coffee + Wine Bar, for some of the most delicious cups we've ever had. Check them out at www.urbanalchemy.bar---------------------------Patreon: www.patreon.com/IDIOTSYNCRATICYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1md7N0laKEY8mpLsDfCjAFacebook: www.facebook.com/idiotsyncraticpodcastInstagram: www.instagram.com/idiotsyncraticpodcast/Twitter: www.twitter.com/IDI0TSYNCRATICWe truly appreciate everyone who takes time out of their busy schedules to support us and share the show.Theme: All My Friends by Pseudo Future.

This week we discuss the mythical Maribou and why is screams you to sleep at night, how not to give a baby the Heimlich, and the best way to remove a Justin Bieber Posession from a home. Music Round: Oh The Places You'll Go (Places In Song Title) Internet PlacesFacebook: superfuntimetriviaInstagram: superfuntimetriviaTwitter: @sftimetriviaEmail: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.comWelcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live comedy trivia podcast.

This week we hit the road to New Liskeard and discuss if Smurfs can survive contracting the AIDS virus, how the greatest gift of all is being a Walmart Smiley Face sticker greeter, and how Mulan had a much better super hero origin story than Cinderella. Also, Kettee.com.Use Broccoli to get 10% off at checkout where they have a wack of crazy great deals on nerd culture stuff like Dragon Ball Z, Lord of The Rings, Rick and Morty and a bunch of other stuff.Do it. www.kettee.com Music Round: Drinking Songs (All songs are alcohol related) SponsorKettee.comSleeping Giant Brewing We'd Love To Hear From You At These PlacesFacebook: superfuntimetriviaInstagram: superfuntimetriviaTwitter: @sftimetriviaEmail: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.comWelcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live comedy trivia podcast.

Welcome to Another edition of The Definitely Fresh Show With your Hosts Young Fresh, Mr.Tonedef, Ghetto Prophet Mimi & the Rest of the DFS Crew as we bring you the best in Talk Show Comedy and Entertainment.Make sure you follow us on Twitter at @_IamYungFresh @MrToneDef & as always @Tonedefradio1Go click LIKE https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Definitely-Fresh-Show Also follow Tonedefradio at @tonedefradio1 on Twitter YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS AND EVERY EPISODE FOR FREE ON ITUNES 15 MINUTES AFTER IT AIRS IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OR JUST COME RIGHT BACK HERE AND VISIT US ONLINE.https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tonedef-radio-/id547087125 Get all the latest Updates on everything Tonedefradio  at  http://www.Tonedefradio.comWelcome to another edition of The Def Fresh Show with hosts Fresh & Tone. Each week DFS will bring you a variety of news, comedy, sports, music, and much more. Our purpose is to show you the world through the eyes of the Urban Male so pull up a chair and let’s talk.Tonight’s Guest: Tonight’s Topic: Follow us at:Twitter: Tonedefradio1Like us on Facebook: TonedefradioInstagram: TonedefradioSubscribe to Tonedefradio on ITUNES or Follow Us on SoundCloud. 

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www.StarkTraining.comWelcome to Stark Naked Radio, episode #6.  We'll be discussing the effects of inflammation on your health and fitness, testosterone cream (does it work?), and the difficult-to-lose female pot belly.  We'll also review lipitor and women, and bullet proof coffee.

http://www.peterkling.comWelcome back, Peter Kling author of "Letters to Earth", and how to survive Armegeddon joins us once again! We will be discussing the 13 Star Families, globalization that may include a new 13 month calendar. Please have your questions ready for Peter as the phone lines will be open! Call in number: 323-679-0809