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That's right, it was nerd Mecca last weekend, and as per usual that means we got teased with the upcoming docket of shows and movies. Just like with everything else, Disney was there to outdo everyone and unzip/flop out their schedule onto the table. I'd felt a bit of a different reaction than in previous years, mostly because I feel disinterested in a substantial majority of things coming out. Now, I'm not an asshole. Neither am I a bigot, fascist or anything else you can be called for disagreeing with the status quo. But the fact is we've got to talk about the Disney+ lineup, and these Subscription Wars as a whole (which are coming fast). I don't care for a lot of the I.P.'s they're basing the content on, and I'll go as far as to say some of the casting similarly isn't great. But I do love Marvel, so I give them a grain of salt and a fair shake. Hopefully I'm way off base with my predictions on this upcoming season, but who knows.I've also been having big developments in the world of fathering. As Arthur gets cuter, he gets comparably smarter too, making entertaining him more of a hands-on task. Also, he had a full "throw-up" (not just some weak ass "spit up") and it was straight out of the Exorcism. Like a fountain from the mouth. Good times.Lastly we're (again) approaching the end of a Fortnite season. So if you've been slacking on your dailies, weeklies or Fortbytes, now is the time! Truthfully, the latter wasn't really worth all that trouble. I'm sitting at a 97% completion, and don't even care enough about the 100% reward costume to continue. But the games' always fun, and they're still packing in new weapons and game modes daily right up until the end. Between facing the summer heat, and staying in for a nice, cool glass of Fortnite...what would you choose?Thanks for tuning in guys, see you next week. Links below, one for twitter in case you want to leave feedback/suggestions, and the other for the Kyoto crowd support page (try to donate if you can guys, anything can help):https://twitter.com/DorkAndBeansPodhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kyoani-heal

Okay. I am seriously going to skip the intro. Yes, it's another episode, but I'm choosing to skip, the intro because I'm dying right now. It is literally 2:00 in the morning and I just spent the past hour reading through this book that I just got a couple of weeks ago and finally picked it up tonight, which was a bad idea to pick it up at midnight pretty much, or I guess one o'clock but I'm dying right now. I'm like, holy cow. I don't know if it's just because it's late, but I got to tell you about it. So here's the deal. I know how frustrating it is as an entrepreneur to waste countless hours sifting through, want to be experts who've never actually helped me in the end. Then to learn years later that there was an expert who really could help me a hundred times faster than learning it on my own. I have created this podcast to save you time and money while taking you on a journey with me as I learned from an interview, real experts who can actually help you grow your business. My name is Coulton Woods, and you're listening to Learning From The Experts. What's going on guys. So, backstory. I went to Jeff Walker's product launch formula event, right. And as we were sitting there, a few rows back from the front, we were just paying attention, watching the event, hanging out me and Steve trying to figure out how everything's going with them, how they're running it. And Pretty Soon Jeff Walker has us turn around and talk to people around us and get to know them and what they're doing. Well, it turns out that Stephen starts talking to the guy in front of us and his name is Jack Turk. And if you know who Jack Turk is, you'll know exactly where I'm going with this. But, his name is Jack Turk. I actually didn't know who he was at all. He writes for, I don't know if I can even really say who he ghost writes for, but he's, he's like a legend, a legendary ghost writer. He ghost writed for a really big person that I probably can't even name, I don't even know if it's legal or not, but he is very huge in the online marketing space. Anyway, so we got talking to him and he's like, yeah, I ghost wrote all these books, all this sales copy, all of these different offers, you name it, for this one really huge person. So that kind of intrigued us a bit and he's like, yeah, I totally know exactly what you do Stephen. Like, I know your industry and what you teach so well, cause I've literally written books on it myself for other people. And if you don't know what a ghost writer is, it's a writer for a certain individual. Like if Steven got somebody to write a book for him, but not giving that person the credit for the book, that would be a ghost writer. So essentially they'll come in and say, Hey, I know your stuff, or give me access to all your stuff. I will write a book on your stuff. That will sound exactly like it's coming from you. So it's almost like they wrote their own book, but somebody just kind of helped put it together for them and write it. So he's a ghost writer and he was like, Hey, I'd love to write some stuff for you. So that was pretty awesome actually, especially since he's been writing for some really huge people, which is crazy. But anyway, so we're sitting in an event and he actually had his own book, on the chair below him. And before we even met him and talked to him, I saw sitting on the ground and I was like, that actually looks like a book that I would really like. So I told a few of them, like, I actually took a picture of it, literally took a picture of it like right there beneath this chair so that I could remember like, you know, look it up on Google or Amazon and buy it and get it shipped to my house so I could check it out. It was funny. I was like telling Steve, dude, like I want that book. And he's like, no way. I saw it too. Now I want it as well. So we totally bought a couple of copies for us. And also it was kind of just to say that to the guy like, hey, we bought a couple of copies of your book. It looked pretty interesting so we thought we'd buy a couple. And he's like, oh sweet, I'm glad. It's hope you guys really enjoy it. So I've had it sitting on my desk for the past couple of weeks since the event, cause literally the day you get back from the event, Amazon's got it at your door. So it's pretty quick stuff. Right, man, anyway, I could feel a side rant coming on, but I'm not going to go there. So it's been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks and I finally picked it up tonight and I was kind of getting tired and I was like, I'll probably go to bed here soon. It is one o'clock in the morning. And I was like, you know, I'm going to look at that real quick and kind of see what it's about. And I literally opened it up and the first couple pages I started just reading through it and I was like, what the, this is freaking gold. This is like everything that I've seen even Russell and Steve Teaching things, but in copy, just laid out. It's super easy to go through and read and get what you need from it. So pretty soon I realize I'm on like page 90, there's only like 123 pages in the whole book. So it's not very much, but I'm on like page 90 and I'm like, holy cow, this is just straight gold. Obviously I'm kind of skimming through some of it and then reading pretty good on heavily on some parts of it, but I'm just diving in right now. I cannot believe how much is given in here. And I can tell that he's been writing for some really huge people by the way, that he literally has written this and how easy it is to just see it. But then also like the straight up just golden nuggets on every freaking page. If you guys are writing anything with sales copy, if you guys are writing ads for any kind of ad platform, it doesn't matter, anything on your website. literally, if you're creating mailers, I remember I saw something in there about creating or writing an actual Mailer, sales copy for the mailer, the mailer itself. Hopefully I'm saying that right. It is two o'clock in the morning. So if I slur my words, I'm sorry. So if you guys do any kind of writing for sales on any level of that, you need to get this book, you need to figure out who this guy is. I'll drop you the headline of the book cause I know you're probably dying. I hope you're dying because you should go buy it right now. In fact, let me actually pull it up on Amazon. I want to see how much it is so you can even know how much it's going to cost you on Amazon. let's see here, it's called the "101 fast, good cheap hacks to writing a killer sales letter" it's pretty awesome. I can't, I just can't believe it's $14.95 paper back and you get it in two days, which is awesome. So if you guys write any kind of copy, if you write anything on websites, if you do any kind of, even just social media posting, whatever it may be, I cannot believe how easily this is laid out. I mean it's 101 like hacks to writing a killer sales letter and it literally is on this page it's hack number seven, you know, and then the title of it, it's like hack number seven, make it so good It hurts. And he talks a lot about offers in here and different parts of the offer and the sales copy with it. Oh Man. Anyway, I know I could probably go on forever just talking about, not even really talking about what it say it says, but okay, check this out. Here's one, hack number 45, use the right words and headlines. This is really interesting. He says, make sure your copy uses the top 10 money making words you should use in your headlines, John Capitals, hopefully I said that right, who was head of the third largest AD agency in the US for 40 years. If that doesn't say something, I don't know What doesn't, the most commonly used words in 100 successful headlines. Here's what he found. You want to use the word "you". Okay. Okay. So in 100 successful headlines, here are the words, the top, words used in those headlines. Man. Hopefully that makes sense. So I'll list off the top 10 words used in those headlines. So the word "you" was used 31 times the word "your" was, so "why", "oh", "you" "are" "your" was views a 14 times how 12 times and new 10 times who? Eight times money, six times now, four times people, four times want four times. And why four times. I never would have guessed that you your how new who money now people was or Wasn’t. And why would be the top 10 money making words that you should be using in your headline? That almost sounds too simple stupid to be true, but it actually makes sense when you look at it. So the most common words of course were you and your, it should be obvious, when you're writing to sell. The biggest mistake most often made is to focus on we and I. I Looked through the Valpak ads you get in the mail, how many times do you see ads? They only tell their story. Do you care? Me Neither. Using the right words is critical to making a sales letter do their job. I saw that one. It was like what? That's so stupid, simple and easy, but it makes so much sense. Like how many people were writing like, oh, we have 30 years of experience in business. Who the freak cares, they want to know about how you are going to help them, not the fact that you have all this great, awesome, cool experience stuff like no, instead of saying that, twists around and say something about how your experience is going to get them what they want anyway. So I know I've been going on this longer than I even expected to, but I just wanted to take a minute and drop this real quick. I don't even know how I didn't hear about this book before. It's probably super underrated. I don't even know when it was released. That would actually probably be a good, I don't think it would be it on Amazon, but that might be a good indication. Oh, Independently published November 12th, 2018. Oh well that makes sense. It just barely came out. This thing is going to go huge and you guys want to know about it right now. So I would say hurry up and get your copy, I wonder if he has a funnel for it, he's got to have a funnel. Anyway, if you find a funnel for it, let me know cause I'm totally going to go through here and yeah, figure out what he's doing. I'm going to find everything I can about him because every headline that he has written, I'm totally going to be getting ideas from and modeling. So that's just kind of what I wanted to drop on you guys today. Hopefully that is something that you guys like and something you want to hear. If you're into sales at all, if you're in anything business related, you should like that. If you have somebody that does your marketing for you in house than I would 100% say, get this book, have them go through it, use it. Often. I can already tell this is going to be like a Bible for sells copy. Anyway, that’s what I have for you tonight. I will let you go and I'm going to go to bed. Well, hopefully here soon. Are you looking to jumpstart your business by learning or getting help from the real experts? Go to learning from the experts.com to find preapproved experts that I've handpicked for you. Please don't forget to let me know how I'm doing by subscribing, rating, and leaving feedback.  

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Often, when you do something that you know you need to do, there will be consequences.  In this episode you'll hear how getting rid of 2000 people from an email list led me to being removed as a speaker from an even happening in April. was it worth it?... well, check out the episode and find out. Automated Transcript below ----- 0:00 Hey this is Dean Soto, founder of prosulum.com and freedominfiveminutes.com and we're here again with another freedom in five minutes episode Today's topic is this 0:19 I got cut 0:23 that end more coming up 0:27 well good night this is actually night it is about 1130 and I'm doing this podcast I'm out here in the freezing cold but it's so worth it to be with you again gosh I'm so sorry that it has been a while man things had been crazy crazy crazy in fact it got crazy right when Oliver the guest our very first guest in the last episode left so 1:01 I'm going to get I'll give you a quick quick preview cuz I'm going to talk about what the craziness was in the next episode. But a quick preview for the next episode we had 1:13 literally had five puppies handed to us, and they were crapping all over the place. And it was interesting. It was a test of stress, but it worked out in the end and I'll tell you how it all worked out in the end in the next episode, but today's story goes a little bit something like this. So over the last few over the last few weeks, actually I have been preparing for what is called warrior week in the wake of warrior community there is a crucible there is a gauntlet a full 2:00 week that you go through if you want to get the whole the entire wake up warrior experience. Okay now I'm not affiliated with wake up warrior at all. I'm not a very affiliated with warrior book but if you have been listening to this podcast for any time you know that that is a big part of my life and a big part that is a big reason why I am even doing this podcast in the first place 2:33 it has literally changed my life It has given me the tools to 2:40 to not only live a meaningful and a very purposeful life it's given me the tools to also do things that I would have been terrified 2:55 to do in the past 2:58 now because of this training that 3:00 Basically how it works is where week is one week that you go and lack of a better word, you get the crap beat out of you with a whole bunch of different exercises and things like that. But it's not meant as not meant to be just like a boot camp type thing. It is meant to unleash a lot of emotions that are within you. And for you to face, your pit face. The things that you lie about, face the things that you are putting on a mask about because we all do this and we lock ourselves into these roles that 3:37 that other people try to put us in that we also put on ourselves. Okay, so that is what warrior week is when you were actually there. Of course, I've never even been there yet. But this is what I've at least from what I've seen so far and is a life changing event well 4:00 Pretty much a month before going into warrior week, you go into 4:09 a preparation mode, you go into a group of a bunch of other guys who have one or two coaches who are preparing you for warrior week. And it is it is not easy. It is not easy at all. Every day, every single day you have something to do you have an assignment and the assignment is something that you cannot escape from 4:41 you either you either do it or you don't go to worry a week 4:46 you are a member of the team, but you're also having to lead at some points and because of all of this, it even though it seems simple. 5:00 Even though sometimes it seems repetitive there are a lot of emotions that come from doing this because every day you're looking at something about yourself and you're sharing something about yourself with these other men who are essentially become your brothers you're sharing something about yourself 5:25 and slowly slowly starting to unmask the things about you that you've hidden or that if they've come out you've beaten back beat it back into yourself into the way that that that you think you're supposed to be or other people will come and say, hey, that's not you. That's where did that come from? And you go right back here. I you know, you're right. That was really bad on me to do then you go right back to where you were, 5:59 and so on. 6:04 Hopefully I'm not waking up my son up there, he always has his window open even though it's freezing. 6:11 And so 6:13 with all of this, you're constantly unveiling things about yourself that 6:22 that you that you 6:25 just imagine. Imagine if you ask yourself questions about yourself every day, if you really took a hard look at yourself every day, all of the changes that would occur Well, that is what is happening in this case. And a lot of the times is happening even more because not only do you have to look at yourself, you have to process it and explain it to other people. 6:49 And so there have been emotions inside of me. There have been things inside of me that I have either never felt before or either 7:00 felt him and I've suppressed them and there's things that are going on that 7:10 that 7:13 in some respects I like it even though it's dark 7:19 and that sounds very scary. But there are parts of me coming out that 7:27 that I that I thought were dark or I thought were not how I should feel or how I should act and it's coming out and I actually do like it 7:45 so which leads me to this entire story of me getting cut from being a speaker at a an Amazon Amazon 8:00 event that I was going to speak at in April. 8:08 Well, 8:11 so 8:13 one of the things that came up 8:16 is that 8:19 I had a very 8:24 nice guy demeanor. 8:27 And then on top of that, I always wanted to I wanted I had this feeling like this, this fear that I that I wanted everyone to like me and if they didn't like me, then something was wrong. That's not me. People have to like me. Everyone likes Dean right everyone like is Dean and so 8:49 So through this entire process. I started seeing things specifically about my business where I'm like, you know what, 8:59 I have a lot of 9:00 People who 9:03 who 9:07 I'm basically super boring absolutely super boring especially with the online Empire Academy stuff that I that I had been doing that and I don't really do much with it anymore but I actually think I am going to do some things with the email list and because I do not 9:27 take one side or the other, I do not challenge anybody. I am very very boring on that email list. I have I basically out of you know, I have 2000 I was looking at my Convert Kit. I had 2000 people who had never opened an email for like the last few months and I had been sending email after email after email, trying to give some really valuable stuff but 2000 people who were doing nothing literally just ignoring my email. 10:00 know and I'm like, you know what, 10:02 one of my things one of the things that I want one of the things that I want 10:10 is that 10:13 I want to have an impact on people for one and two, I want to hang around with people. I want people to be in my network in my social circles who are getting value from me, okay, value from me 10:33 value. 10:36 So if when I saw that there were 2000 people who were on my email list who literally never opened up an email in the last few months and I sent at least minimum 10 emails. I looked at that and said, You know what, 10:57 I need to I need to give them an ultimatum. 11:01 If because here's, here's the deal, if they're on my email list, I'm literally taking value from them. If they're on my email list, and they don't want to be, I'm taking value from them. They are, 11:15 they are, 11:18 they are basically getting their email bought their inbox full. It's, that's it, they see an unboxing it, you know, it's just one added little thing. And literally, that's taking value. They're not getting any value from my email. And it's actually taking value because it's filling up their inbox, 11:35 right? So I'm like, No, I do not want that. That is not how I roll. That is not what I want. And I don't want to be around people who don't want to be around me. And so I drafted up an email. This was after some of the warrior exercises I was doing. I drafted up an email and basically said, Okay, look, you have not open an email in 10 days. 12:00 And even these emails that as the last few emails I've invited you 12:05 to the person I've invited you to the event that I'm going to speak at plus 12:12 invited you to give to get you give you dinner 12:17 dinner with me for free at a really nice restaurant I had a really really nice restaurant planned like really really really nice restaurant 12:28 and 12:31 and then there you would essentially get one on one coaching and consulting from me so you I would literally pay you to come be with me and to consult just because you're a member of my community. Right so I so this is what I said in the email I sent you know, hey, you haven't opened the email 12:50 in I've sent about 10 and and I've even invited you to all these amazing things 12:58 you still haven't opened the 13:00 Email. 13:02 So here's the thing, here's the deal. You're getting subscriber unsubscribed. In fact, the title said, bye bye. You're being unsubscribed. 13:10 So, here 13:12 is the here are the three options that you have. The first option is to respond, keep me subscribed. And also, just tell me why you want to stay subscribed. 13:25 Second option 13:28 is you can reply with a nasty, nasty 13:34 comment, 13:37 you know, and asked me to unsubscribe you. And I put in parentheses you know, these are the loser types. these are these are the people who literally have not opened an email 13:49 not open an email in months from me, 13:54 but yet when they see that they're going to be subscribed. unsubscribed. 14:00 They look at the email and they go oh how 14:03 oh how Dean. 14:07 unsubscribe me. Oh my gosh. How Oh my I know they're clutching their pearls and then they go home well 14:15 I'm going to look up the courage to respond to him with a nasty email Oh I'd never wanted to be on your email list anyway Dean yeah let me let me draft up a I had one guy who dropped he drafted up like a huge paragraph 14:33 telling me why you know people aren't opening my emails or whatever and I'm like the dude you literally have not opened up my email any of them until I told you ravines unsubscribed and then now you 14:52 you're going to start coming back. I didn't respond. I really didn't even read anything that he wrote. 15:00 But now you're going to come back and just complain and complain and complain. So I said this in parentheses I basically said in the in 15:10 in summary I said you know, hey losers are going to complain. So this is number two number two option you know, this is the basically the loser option you know, you can respond with a with a complaint, you can respond with a nasty comment, but that's what losers do. You know, you you you'll take action. You won't take action on me on my dream drop shipping, which I've had several people who have become financially free because of that. They won't take action on systems. They won't take action on consulting. They won't take action on my free stuff. They won't it won't take any type of action, but they will take action to come back and complain. That's what losers do. They make some excuse Oh, Dean. I didn't take action because you guys 16:00 Cuz you're you're just not this or you're not that are you know oh gosh Thank you for subscribing me I had I had one guy who's like thank you for subscribing me I I've been trying to unsubscribe forever I don't like really you don't know how to frickin click a stupid button at the bottom of an email you're retarded you could if it was taking you that long you could have replied insistence just said unsubscribe me you're literally retarded. Okay so 16:33 so that was option number two. So anyone who responded with that type of email is a loser they are you know it to to respond with a nasty email like that you're a loser or Option number three was just click the unsubscribe button and below that's it. So option number one your winner because you stay on my email list and you want to you actually want to 17:00 to, you know, get some good information, you know, and so on so forth. Option number three, you're a winner because you just said, Okay, yeah, you know, good ideas. Just I'm going to click that unsubscribe button your winner. That's it. Option number two, 17:18 you're a loser you are because you're literally taking action to just complain and to make an excuse, 17:28 okay. 17:30 And so 17:33 one of the comments in there that I said was, you know, at least I took me at least I forced you to take action on something, even though it was option number two. So you took action on something, even if it was just complaining. So good job. Yay. But But ultimately, it's Dean, you're so mean. You're so mean. Oh, and so 17:56 so option number four. There was no option number four, but there were some 18:00 People who took an option number four and these are the super duper 18:06 super super super losers who 18:10 who basically went to the person who was putting on the event 18:15 it's still going to be an amazing event by the way like it's totally understandable that they you know if they get pressured part part of life not a big deal I'm not worried about it 18:27 but went to the person who's putting on the event and said oh Dean so mean he doesn't look at what he said he called everyone losers know I called you a loser because you're the one who is going and just complaining rather than just subscribing or saying, Hey, keep me on the list. You know, because yeah, I do like what you're doing either one you're going and complaining. And so they complained. Oh man, gosh, he's been he said all these bad things. And the host basically said hey, you know, 18:59 you know I'm getting a lot of pressure. 19:00 Sure and so on and so forth I'm gonna have to remove you as a speaker and I said yeah no problem I was just glad that it happened today because this is I booked my I booked my flight and hotel today and so at least I was able to cancel first class first past fight the flights are not cheap so so yeah that was that that was good 19:23 but anyway so yet you know she sent me a nice thing saying hey you know, you know it was gut wrenching when you said this in your email and blah blah blah and you know I can't you know use the word loser and stuff and I mean if you if once again if you looked at the email literally the only people who were losers are the people who complain who I knew were going to write back with some nasty comment and you know, she asked, you know, you should send you should send an apology, email, and yada yada and I'm like 20:01 Know fully understand, thanks for letting me know and canceled no apologies necessary on your part or on my part. And that's it. 20:10 So why is this important? Why is this important? It's important because there are going to be times where you have to make a decision to essentially cross the Rubicon, 20:25 essentially, to go with your heart and to to make a hard decision that, you know, is going to cause some kind of blowback. 20:36 You know, it's going to cause some kind of blowback For me it was getting cancelled and getting a lot of nasty comments and so on and so forth. do I care? No, because guess what, out of this I had two people I had two people, one lady who got burned by some stupid guru 20:59 quote unquote guru 21:00 Who took all of her money essentially? And what did what did I do? She responded because of that email telling me about all this and I'm giving her free 30 minute free 30 minute consulting session just so I can help her to get back on track. 21:24 If I did not do this, I would not help. Her 21:29 second person 21:31 was a wife who's taking care of her husband with cancer and has a disabled child 21:40 and said that she could not open her my my emails because she was so busy taking care of them but wanted to start an Amazon business 21:50 wanted to start an Amazon business 21:54 but could not do it because of all the stuff that was happening that she liked. 22:00 The content that she loved what I was saying but but I couldn't but she could not open emails over the last few months because of all of this stuff 22:08 and she's and and because of that I offered actually offered one of my courses to her for free 22:18 so that she could build wealth but you know what she did this is a real winner this is a real winner she already had based off of the last email she actually went back and looked at the the emails that I was sending and looked at the merge by Amazon emails that I was sending that had step by step freaking documentation step by step frickin systems 22:45 instead I think I'm gonna go with these actually because it's very, very hands off and it's perfect for my situation. So had I not sent this email out 22:57 how to not send this email out. 23:00 You would not have had access or even known I had sent those emails 23:07 and her family would continue to suffer would have continued to suffer 23:14 that to me those two situations to me 23:21 far outweigh getting cancelled far outweigh getting the losers 23:30 responding to me the way they were the losers going to the event coordinator 23:38 and getting the cancelled and everything like that 23:44 far outweigh 23:47 there's gonna be times when you need to make decisions like this 23:52 there's going to be times when you need to make decisions like this for me I'm going to be sharing a lot of inside stuff 24:00 with everybody that is in my circle, 24:04 so if you're on this podcast if you're on my email list and freedom in five minutes calm if you're on my client with pro Sue 24:14 anybody in my social circle is going to start seeing more of my inner workings, things that I'm not going to share. I'm simply not going to share with people who are deadweight 24:33 sometimes you're gonna have to make a decision like this 24:38 it's gonna hurt 24:40 and it's going to challenge you and people are going to say no, that's not who you are. 24:46 That's not who you are 24:50 in a set that time you have to make decision to say you know it should I go back? Yeah. Should I should I should I stay where I'm at and who other 25:00 People want me to be or am I going to be real to myself? 25:07 So what is one thing right now 25:13 that you know deep down inside you need to do 25:19 that is going to cause other people 25:24 to say that's not you. 25:27 That's not you. 25:29 You're You're this person over here. 25:34 What's that one thing that you've been dying to do? We're dying to say 25:48 and I challenge you 25:50 in five minutes to make the decision to do it 25:55 to make the decision to do it. It might be going on to your Facebook group. 26:00 or on Facebook in general and saying, Hey, I'm starting a business, this is what I'm doing. I'm going to start a side business. It might be where 26:10 you go to your boss, and you say, Hey, you know, this is, you know, I, I deserve a raise, I deserve a raise. Because this is who I am, this is what I've been doing for you 26:23 might be going to your employees and saying, Hey, we're going to be measuring here are the measurements that we are going to implement. 26:33 And they're going to say, well, you're happy go lucky. What? Why would you've never had us measure anything before? what's what's up with this? And I guarantee you some people are going to not like it. They might leave where they might cause chaos, but when you push through it, it's going to deliver massive results. 26:55 What's that one thing that you know you need to do? 27:05 Alright this Dean Soto freedom in five minutes.com. 27:11 com yes is a longer podcast longer podcast but it's necessary it's this was a tough one I'm not gonna lie This is tough this is it's it's a tough one for me but it feels right it feels right and I know it's right because I've already got to change to people's lives in a way that I would not have changed them otherwise and I was hoping to change a bunch of people's lives at this event but 27:40 you know 27:42 the the losers one that round but there will be plenty more in the future not I'm not worried about it in the least so anyway Dean Soto freedom environments com pros calm and I will see you in the next 28:00 freedom in five minutes podcast. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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Oh. Okay, okay. What's happening? I need this tripod back. Oh my God, you will not even believe what I'm doing to my Chanel handbag down there on this rock. I just, I cannot see. Do you think I need my sunglasses, or do you think the sun is going to play nicely with me? Okay, hey peoples of the internet. I have the things to tell you. Hello Shannon, what's happening? Okay. I'm going to jump off the rock ... face down. Okay, please work internet. I want to share this over to my page. Do you back yourself fully in your business? What about the rest of your life? That is our topic. I've got some ass kickery for you. I'm gonna jump down. Okay, I'm coming back. I've gotta climb up, oh my God. Okay, I can't get up. All right, I had to go the lazy way around. Okay, the internet keeps fucking up. Okay, Joseph, I noticed that every time you come on my live steams, you say your name. Hello, hello, Joseph, I can see your name though, from your profile. I'm gonna give you guys an ass whooping, is that all right? I'm just trying to figure out, should I switch to my phone data? Why are you putting your phone number in dude? What's happening? Did I ask for dates on the internet or he's telling something? I'm looking rocky. That's cause I'm rocky as fuck. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I've decided to back myself in my love life. How do you feel about that people? I'm gonna kick my own ass about that. I did just kick my ass. I was just on the phone with a private client just now doing a VIP session. Things got a little bit heated. I'm wearing your favourite leggings. Wait until you see my leggings that have "Grateful as Fuck," written on my ass. Actually, I think it just says, "Gratitude," or it says "Grateful," I don't know. I don't look at my own ass often enough. Brandon Marshall is bringing it like a soul brother. Thank you. Thank you for backing me there. Okay, I thought I was gonna get in trouble. Someone stopped. All right, what about ... Do you know what's hilarious you guys? When I jump into the search bar on my Facebook on my laptop, and I'm searching for my own page so that I can then share the live stream. The thing that's hilarious is that I can then see the search history, and the search history of my personal Facebook is stuff that my team have searched when logged into my profile, as well as obviously stuff that I've searched. I swear to God, sometimes the cat ninjas are using my profile to Facebook stalk, and fan girl stalk people that they're interested in or something, so that it doesn't come up on their profile, or something like that. Because I'm like, what is up with this search history? What do you guys think you're doing? What's happening? All right, why is this live stream not coming up so that I can share it? I'm not gonna sell a couch, but I'll sell you this delightful rock that you can come and sit on with me. It's beautiful. What do you want me to give you? Can you stop with the frick ... What are you guys doing? Yeah, I should use Live Leap. I'm so lazy at remembering to use things. Okay. Here's the deal, right? This is gonna get preachy. I'm just gonna warn you. I'm gonna remind you in case you didn't remember, in case you've forgotten. Do not fucking forget. Can someone share this to daily ass kick? 'Cause my sharing thing is not working. Do not forget ... Oh, don't even worry about it. I'll share it later. Do not forget that there's a one day event happening with me in New York on Tuesday, if you wanna come spend the day with me on New York on Tuesday. One day, VIP, intimate event, and then one day even with me at Soul Shift and Money Making in San Diego the next Tuesday, which is April third. So, if you wanna come along to either of those, or you'd like to know more, there's a couple of places left in both of them. Message me on my personal page is best, and I'll get you those details. I wish I had my sunglasses, but right now the bottom of this tripod, because the rock down there is on an angle, so I've elevated the back two legs of the tripod by chucking my Chanel handbag down there on the rock and sticking the back two legs of the tripod into the bag, and my sunglasses are in the bag. So, it presents somewhat of a dilemma. But we'll figure it out. So, I'm on the phone just now, with my client, and essentially we were talking about the fact that she's always trusted in herself and that's how she's got results in her life in different areas, but that when it comes to business and getting the results that she wants in her business, and this was our first one on one call, right? She's doing a VIP one on one trial session with me, that she's noticing this feeling of basically well should I? Should I go and follow along with what such and such people are teaching or saying that I should do, whoever such and such people happen to be. The people who are commonly or uncommonly known as the gods of the internet, self appointed. Now, obviously we can all self appoint ourselves as anything, but ... This tripod is self appointing itself as a little bit of a biotch. I'm worried it's gonna fall over and then I'll have to quickly jump off the rock and grab it. Okay, it's under control. All right. So, you know, we've all done this. Give me a love hot shower if you've done this, or if you ... Hopefully I'm not gonna fall off the edge of this rock. I'm sitting with one ass cheek off the edge of it. I don't know why I do the things I do. I just like to live on the edge, literally, on the edge of this rock. There's an ass cheek hanging off. Oh. It's gonna be fine. Okay. Give me a love hot shower if you do this. You're already giving the love hot showers and I didn't even ask the question. You guys are on the ball. You're level as fuck. You're playing tight. It's very stypical of our community, and if you don't know the new words of the community then figure it out. We do this where we question ourselves, right? And we start to wonder, are you doing this in your business? You start to wonder, maybe I should do it the way that these internet marketing people say to do it. Maybe I should do like the 26 fricking copy written emails, or whatever it is, right? And you wonder if you should follow these different systems or strategies to build a funnel, or to build recurring income, or build any fucking thing, I suppose. Or in general, you just start to wonder whether you should do it like how other people are doing it. But then at the same time, and there's nothing wrong with learning from other people, by the by. Obviously. But then at the same time, there's a part of you, it's a big fucking part I think, which is just oo, this is gross, right? Like, it feels disgusting. Give me love hot shower if you relate to that, and I swear to God, this sun is just like, I'm gonna get you bitch. I'm right in your eyes, and I'm not backing down. I've just had a fantastic idea. I could turn around the other way. That would make actually a hell of a lot more sense because I'm literally sitting here like a squinty eyed squirrel. All right. I'm gonna, oh fuck. I'm gonna sit on this rock down here. Okay, oh my God. Now I can see nothing. Do you know one time I helped my ex husband launch a programme online called Rock Hard Results? It was a great programme name. Now I can see nothing. So, it's actually even worse now. We're figuring it out. It's a team effort. I'm totally in the dark now though, so I don't think that's better. Okay. See, here I can see but here ... Okay. Don't revolve around the sun. Let the sun revolve around me. I like it. Okay. Here's the rule. I'm gonna try and cut to the chase. I have a habit of rambling on. I don't know if you've noticed. The rule is, if your soul is staying disgusting, like if something inside of you is just like this is oo, right? E-U, like ugh. This is gross and it feels gross inside my body, and it feels scaly on my skin to be taking action like this, or to imagine that I should do so, then if you feel that, then that's how it is. That's the rule, okay? This current situation makes no sense at all. I'm gripping the tripod between my feet in order for it to not fall over. So, this is requiring massive inner strength of abductors, which is my inner thighs. I already have inner thighs like that woman on James Bond that kills a man with her thighs. My inner thighs are extremely toned and tight and strong. And they're now getting stronger by the moment. I hope you guys appreciate the effort because I did already work out today. I don't know why I can't just let it be easy. I just like, my room is like right there. I could be sitting in my room live streaming, but it's very dark. And it's not as fun as being on a rock gripping a tripod between your legs. So, anyway. I'm getting there, right? I'm getting to the point. I think I said what I needed to say already. The point is back yourself. When are you gonna finally back yourself, okay? So, I was using an example with my client. I was like, listen to me. You already know ... This is what I wanna say to you now. You already know that everything you feel inside of you is real. You already know that the way that you're being directed to do it through your soul is the way that it's gonna work. You already know that if you were to go against your own soul, and your own nature, and you were to essentially go and try and do ... In a way that ... Okay, I think it just kept freezing. In a way that feels kind of icky to you, or it's just boring, it's not interesting, it's not expansive, it feels really, do I really have to do that? Oh, okay, I guess I better. That's what's gonna get me a result. Okay. And it's kind of like this head hanging type of feeling, right? If you were to do it in that way, you know that it's not only not gonna work, you know this at your core, right? You might be buying into a story, you might be telling yourself all manner of things that are definitely not true. You might be trying to justify and convince, you might be like, "Well, that person knows better than me", or, "They're further along than me and maybe I don't really know because I haven't achieved that goal yet", whatever your goal is, right? In your business. And so, "They probably do know better, and I probably should do it this way", and you're going down this pathway of essentially trying to convince yourself to not back yourself, which when you put it that way, sounds really kind a crazy, and not good crazy. And it sound sad I think, as well, right? And then the other side of the coin, the flip side of that is you 100% know, give me a love hot shower, give me a love shower about this, you 100% know, if you agree with me give me a love hot shower. You 100% know that what's inside of you is real. You know that the things you feel inside of you about where your success is gonna come from is correct. And one thing that I love to journal on again, and again, and you might like to save this as an idea for later, and write it down as a journaling prompt, or somebody can put it in the comments if you want because I'm having a hard time getting my laptop to work here. I like to journal often on where do I ... A question I've asked myself many times over the years, where do I really believe, for example, my hundred million dollar empire is gonna come from, or before I was already making multi millions a year, then I would journal on where do I really believe my multi million dollar business is gonna come from, or where do I really believe my fame or my impact, or whatever it is, is gonna come from. So, the thing that's a big thing for me at the moment is soul mate love. Being in a soul mate relationship, right? That is kind of the biggest focal area for me, or the thing that I've not achieved yet. And I now and trust that I will. So, if I would tune in and journal on where do I really believe that that level of love and romance is gonna come from, and being in a relationship with my soul mate, and then I would look at some of the crazy ass shit that I've done over the past 18 months, since I became single, since I left my marriage, I went through this period, I went through initial period of what did the fuck, where the fuck do I even start? I don't even know what dating means, I don't even know how to do that. I've been in long term relationships for 15 years at the time. I'd literally been in long term relationships since my first ever boyfriend. So, it's like I don't even know what I the means to date, right? So, that was ... Being a brand new entrepreneur on the internet, like what's a lead page? I didn't even know. I'm like, "What do you do and a date? I don't even know." I don't know, somebody tell me. I don't think I ever even went on a date with my first two husbands. I think we just somehow became in a relationship after meeting at the gym. I literally had no clue. And then, I went through the next phase, which I feel like is what all entrepreneurs who are driven, motivated, bad asses like we have here too. The next phase is, well you know what? I'm a high achiever, and I'm a good student of life, right? Okay, finally this is gonna let me share it, so let's share it. I'm a good student of life, and I like to do really well at stuff, and I'm committed, and I will get good results, and so I'm gonna go and learn how to do it properly. Who's done that as an entrepreneur? Right? You go along and you're like, give me an amen or a hell yes or something on the comments if you've done that as an entrepreneur. You go, "I wanna do this properly. So, I'm gonna go and learn from the best people about how to market, and how you build an audience online, and how you sell a programme, or how you make a programme in the first place", or whatever it might be. And so, you go along and learn, and because the vast majority of people out there are teaching some kind of non thinking system, like join these dots, do it this way, here's the right way, here's the wrong way, that's probably what you fall into, right? And there's only a very limited number of people out there who teach like I teach around business and entrepreneurialism, which is follow fucking flow and soul intuition, fuck everything else. There are no rules, there is no right or wrong. Let's tune in, let's get you connected to soul, let's get you back to what you've always known. Let's act from that place and then sure, if you wanna know a few little, if there's things you literally don't know, you never heard of what a lead page is and you wanna know, cool. We can learn that, but actually you don't even need that to be successful and to make money, right? So, for me, if we relate it back to the dating thing, I did that same thing. At first, I was like, "I don't even know what dating is. I literally have no clue what that means or how to do it." I've heard the word, and I am 38 years old so in theory I have some sort of concept around it, but I'm not sure. Somebody's gonna have to tell me. So, then I started hiring coaches. Now, fortunately I hired an amazing sex and love coach to start with who helped me connect with intuition and flow, which was my good friend Alexa Martinez, and cannot recommend her highly enough. She's actually doing a soulmate manifestation free challenge this week on her Facebook page, so worth checking out. And that was amazing, and that just taught me so much about, oh my God. I was like, "What? Oh my God. All these crazy things I've felt inside of me about what I really want from romance in a relationship, you're telling me that's okay? You're telling me I can even have that? You're telling me I've got permission to be me? What? You're telling me I should tell men how I feel?" I was like, mind is blown, right? So, same thing as well. I teach a lot of people around business, but then after that, I got kind of, I did that for a little bit, and then I just, I got pulled in, right? And we all do it. You get pulled in and distracted by, if you're on Facebook for example, you're gonna get pulled in and distracted by so many fricking people on the internet who are telling you the right way to make money, or to sell an online programme, or to do anything at all. And so, I got pulled in, and I jumped on a few different mailing lists for example, with people who would send out, "Here's 10 scripts to get him to respond in a text message." Stuff like that. Or here's how to say this, or here's what never to say to a man, or here's 10 reasons why he's lost interest in you. Stuff like that. And I was on these mailing lists, and I did some coaching with people who teach like this as well. I paid for some coaching with people who teach like this, because I was like that newbie entrepreneur, who's like, "But I don't know. And I don't know if I know what I know, and I haven't had success in this area yet. I've had two failed abusive marriages, and ..." Okay, stuff that was on me as well. Let's just be clear and on that, all right? I don't wanna be blaming and doing anything like that. But I've had two marriages that didn't work out, and clearly I have no fucking clue what I'm doing, and how do I know how to choose right? So, I should go and learn from an expert, right? And we all do that with business, or we've all done that. I did the same thing with business. I know so many entrepreneur who can relate to having done that in business, but yet I was getting this information and I was getting to taught these things and the whole way through, when I would be told, "Okay, say this in a text. Oh no, don't ... What? You were thinking of saying that to him? Don't say that. Never say that to a man. That's a terrible idea." And then, there would be this feeling inside of me like, oo, really? I did even send ... I think I did it like two or three times, where I used a little script from a text messaging thing. And I kind of thought it was funny, I was laughing at it, but I was also like, this is kind of gross, right? It feels icky. It feels like, yuck. And it's kinda like, really? And then, a few times where I didn't speak my truth in a romance situation because I was listening to the advice of coaches at the time who were like, "No, no. That's coming from a hurt place inside of you, or that's something you need to heal inside. Don't say that. And this is the right way to communicate with a man, and this is how to do it. And I was like, ugh. And something inside of me was shrinking, right? I was feeling contracted. I was feeling like maybe they're right? Because I don't know, and I'm not an expert, and I don't have results in those areas. So, maybe I should listen to them and I'm willing to try it, and I said that. And I spoke up. I was like, "I don't really feel ... But okay. I'm open to it." And they were like, "Yeah, well ..." They were basically like, without saying you're wrong and I'm right, that's basically what they were saying. They were like, "Well, this is how it works. I'm right, do it this way." I was like, "Okay." And then I just didn't follow through though. I didn't follow through. In the end, I sent the fucking letter that I wanted to send to a guy, even though everybody said don't send that letter, right? Or everybody who you asked, which is a very small group of people. But my coach, and one or two friends, and in the end I was like, "Fuck it. I've always spoken my truth in business, and I'm gonna speak my truth in this area as well." Because here's what I know for sure. Anything that's feeling contractive, anything that's feeling like it's actually making me feel sad to follow that method if I would follow the method of that particular person or coach, or whatever. Or the strategy that's being taught online around dating, it's making me feel sad and contracted, and icky all at the same time, anything you're feeling like that in business, or think that you should be doing but it makes you feel that way relevant to business, I'm gonna tell you flat out 100, 1000, one million percent, all the percents, gathered into a big percentage bucket, don't do that shit. It's not gonna work for you. And by the way, if you got some kind of supposed outcome from doing stuff that goes against your soul, do you think it's gonna make you feel happy and fulfilled? So, for me with the dating stuff, I just started to remind myself, and this is kind of what I was kicking my client's ass around just now on the phone, I just started to remind myself that all of my results in my entire life, back to when I was a child, and even in my business before I got results and how many results, I had to remind myself of thins and getting into believing in myself, and coming from faith, and coming from self belief before I had the results to back it. Every result has come from when I trusted in myself, and anytime that I achieved any sort of success, quote unquote success, by doing something that went against my soul and that didn't feel right, it made me feel icky or it made me feel contractive, or it made me feel sad, then that success meant nothing to me. I have made money in the past by doing stuff that wasn't my soul work. I've never done anything that's felt like immoral, or completely wrong or something, but I've done plenty of stuff to make money in business where it was like, "Oh, really? Yeah, okay. All right, I guess. Because I want the results and so I'll suck it up." And when I did make money doing things that way, it slipped through my fingers. I didn't even fucking care. It meant nothing. It was not fulfilling. So, I started to think about the dating, and I was like, "But if it's true. If it's true that if I would say it in this way and follow, and learn these scripts until they become automated inside of me so that I'm communicating properly, as how you're supposed to communicate to a man. If that's true, then how could I possibly end up in a fulfilled soul relationship for me?" Because it would have been based on me not being me. Every step along the way it would've been based on me going ... Me being me, and who I am in this moment in time, with all my faults, and all my uncertainties, and all my weaknesses, me being me is not enough to get that relationship. I would have to catch a man by saying things right. Hello, what kind of fucking relationship's that gonna be, right? Just like what kind of fucking business is that gonna be that's built on a foundation of not a beautiful rock like this? It's not built on a solid rock foundation. How cool is that? I'm sitting on a rock. I'm super excited. Look, here's the rest of the rock where I was sitting before. I was up there. Now I'm just on a lower bit, but there's all these little rocky foundations all the way around. I'm in Orlando. So, I just ... It was like a wake up call. It was like, hello. How do you wanna believe in yourself, right? Like, hello. Where do you ... What foundation do you want this relationship to come from? Hello, do you actually wanna choose to believe that if you speak your truth, and be you, that that's not enough? And I was like fuck that shit. I'm gonna start saying exactly what I want, I'm gonna chose to back myself, I'm gonna chose to trust myself. And like the particular situation with a particular guy where everything that I wanted to say to him was breaking all the rules, like don't say that. I was like, "You know what? I'm gonna fricking say it, and then some." And the stuff I said was like, stuff you definitely aren't supposed to say to a guy. And my choice was that if I would be myself fully, and it didn't work, then that's exactly perfect and what was meant to be. And my choice was also that actually it's impossible to screw up being me, because when I be me and back myself and trust in myself, only good and positive outcomes can come from that. And so now, I feel 100%, I'm fricking so in trust and in certainty around where I'm going in the relationship area of my life, and I know that I'm getting the results that I desire. Awesome Nicole, thank you for jumping on first. All right. Janice says, "I feel this icky energy nine hours a day." Soulmate relationship and not backing myself in business, [Keja 00:22:05]. That's exactly the same situation that was happening with the client that I was just on the phone to, right? We were talking about a similar conversation to this, but obviously personal to her, and it was exactly the same. She's got the results in her health and fitness, and in her relationship, and then we're talking about the fact that you know, and this is why I was using the relationship example to her. I was saying to her, I know that me being in a relationship with my soulmate, it's gonna come from me being fully me, and I know that it's about me speaking my truth, trusting my own inner guidance, and anybody who's basically trying to direct me or tell me what to do, whether it's somebody random on the internet, or someone who I'm personally speaking to, if it goes against what feels right inside of me, then I know that it's not right for me, and I know that that's not how I'm gonna get the results that I want in my life, and I know that I just don't have it within me to do stuff that doesn't align for me on a soul level. I know that in business, to get to where my business makes millions of dollars a year, and I have only 100% soul mate clients who are so fricking cool and badass and do the work, for that to happen, I had to fully back myself. I didn't have money. I was over $100 000 in debt. I was gonna go bankrupt, I couldn't even buy coffee, and I realised I was one foot in and one foot out. I knew inside of me, I just knew that I was born for more. I knew I'm gonna get those results. I had the faith inside of me, and I believed that I could make money doing what I love, and doing this and speaking my truth every day, and just hanging out and being fully me, and not being worried about if I'm professional and whatever else, but I wasn't backing myself. I was one foot over there, and one foot, "Oh, maybe I should do it your way? Maybe, okay. It doesn't feel good, but okay. You have more results than me so I probably should do that." And then eventually I was like fuck this shit. I'm gonna fully back myself, and if I have to do that every single day for the rest of my life, and never make money, then that's gonna be fulfilling to me rather than living a life of if I follow your rules and do it this way, maybe then I'll get a result that I won't even fucking care about because it didn't come from flow. So, that's what I apply over now to the relationship area. I'm like, this is like a done deal. 100% the results that I desire are gonna come from me backing myself and trusting in myself. Somebody said, "What about if you being yourself will cause others to shun you?" Which is a great question. Well, they will. They will. They will. I'm gonna tell you a great answer about that. First I'm gonna open my laptop, because I just saw that my brother WhatsApp'd me. It came up at the top of my phone. He doesn't know I'm sitting here waiting for him live streaming. He's asked me what time we should leave for dinner. So, I don't know. How long's it take to get from fricking, a Disneyland resort to downtown Orlando? Let me just message him back. Don't know. Can you check? Downtown Orlando. Am on a live stream. All right, cool. Did that work? I don't know. We'll see. Okay, so here's my answer. How are you gonna feel about whether people shun you. The reason I'm at a Disneyland resort, I'm so not a Disneyland person. I actually really don't like Disneyland. I don't like a lot of people around me, and I just don't like Disneyland. I don't like rides. Sorry all the people who love Disneyland. You can hate on me for it if you want, because we're at a conference here, and I'm like playing hooky on the conference because I'm not really a conference person either. So, that's why I'm sitting on a rock on a live stream, instead of being in a conference. So, he's in the conference room and he's just messaged me about dinner. All right. So, yesterday I found out that in certain groups on the internet, of Facebook groups, that people talk all the time about what a bitch I am, right? And how they can't handle my life streams. And I'm just like, okay. I'm just gonna say something directly to those people right now. Just so you know, if you say that you can't even, even, with me, and you can't handle my live streams, and did you see what she did on her latest live stream, I'm just gonna point out the obvious, which is that the only way you know that is because you're watching the fucking live steam. So, technically that makes you a magnetises fuck fan. Who's triggered as fuck, by the way. And if you are triggered and emotionally charged by me, that's because I'm being a mirror, and because I'm confronting in you something that you know you get to address inside of you, and basically probably you're gonna become a client in about a year, and then you're gonna tell me that you used to hate me and bitch about me behind the scenes but I already knew because other people told me. If you didn't actually care, if you weren't connected to me on a soul level in some sort of way, then you wouldn't watch the live streams, and you wouldn't bitch about me behind the scenes, and you wouldn't care. You'd be like, "I'm not interested. I'm not attracted to her. I'm not magnetised to her", and you would just not even observe. You literally wouldn't care, right? It happens all the time, Melissa. I actually was a little shocked because I'm so in a love bubble of my own cult and my own world that I've created that I haven't heard it for a while, but I used to be much more conscious of it, and to answer the person's question who asked about this, I knew about it more and I was conscious of it because I was concerned about it, and because it would cause me to shrink and be worried, and not speak my truth. And then I just gradually over time let go of that, because I still care. Yesterday I was like, I was triggered and I was a little hurt. I was like, "Oh." I was actually like, "Oh, I thought everybody loved me now." I really did. I was like, "Oh. Well, okay." And then I was like, "Oh, well technically I suppose I could ..." I do actually know that people don't like me but I kind of forgot because I'm only surrounded by love, so I was a little triggered, and I was kinda like, "I think I wanna go around to their houses and cook them dinner, and just sit them down and just explain to them, just so you understand, I'm a nice person." And I'm actually like really nice, and I'm really introverted and quiet in real life, and everything as well. I think you would like me, right? Like, really, I'm an actual ... I'll buy you a present. I'll bring you chocolates. I'll do that. I do that all the time anyway. So, I kinda felt like I need to deal with this situation so that people understand how awesome I actually am. But then the other part of me was like, not fuck them. I got into curiosity, and I think it's funny because the reason I said, I'm like, "Well, if you're watching my life streams, then it means you're a fan." Just technically. Just saying. So, I think it's funny. But also, even if I feel hurt, or even if I've lost people along the way, and I've lost friends, and I've lost some clients along the way who I got too much for them, I got too intense for them, and some of them came back and then they're like, "You've got too much for me. You got too intense for me. I couldn't handle it. It was like a trigger for me." One of my newest clients who joined my inner circle, first thing he did introducing himself is, "Oh, I'm probably like a lot of people here when I first came across Katrina Ruth, I wanted to punch her through the computer screen." I was like, "Aww. People say the sweetest things about me." And for real though, my clients say that all the time, right? So, it's really, really common and normal, oh, thank you. Thank you for the present in advance. So, anyway. My point is, I got to a point of understanding that my message and my art, and speaking my truth is more important and bigger than what people wanna say about me, right? And that I have to put that first. So, don't assume that somebody like me just doesn't care, or is so confident, because it's not that. I'm still hurt at the idea, and I don't like the idea, and quite honestly, even at a big conference like this, there's three and a half thousand people here, I'm conscious that there's people in this room, and some of them I know who they are, who really fucking don't like me and think I'm a bad person, or I'm too aggressive, or I'm unprofessional online, and that fricking annoys me, right? And I let it go, because in the end I have to be me, and I have to speak my truth, and even the real life friends how I've lost along the way, I've just been like okay, there's some sadness there, or sometimes there's a grieving process to go through depending upon who the person is in your life, and technically not just as friends, but really even my marriage was a fallout of me being fully me, right? There's many reasons that went into that, but it was. I'm so fully me that you can't have me in your life if you don't ... For somebody who's not fully being them in their life, and not fully pressing play, or they just, they disagree with my values or my beliefs, how can you keep me in your life, right? You can't. You're either gonna ... If I'm in your life, there's only two reasons for that. Either you really love me and you resonate so fucking fully with me, and we're basically come from the same glorious pot of souls, which is why when we hang out in real life we're gonna have the bestest time ever and I won't be hiding from you like I'm hiding from everyone else here. I know there'd be some cool people here, I just don't know where they are, right? For real though, whenever I meet any of my tribe or my clients, or people who follow me online and who are the same as me, when we meet in real life, we're instantly magnetically best friends because we're the same sort of person. Or there's the people who hate me. And if they actually say that they hate me, or they're like I can't stand her, or whatever, then actually it's because at their core, they're the same sort of person, and they're just not owning their truth. That's a reality, right? That's just how it is. Okay. What else? Where was I even up to? I am not who you think I am. I am ... You are who you think I am. Reflect your own truth. Thank you Ruby. You are also the most beautiful soul. Thank you for seeing that in me, and I reflect it back to you. I'm shooting it back to you like that super hero who shoots stuff out of there, like Spider Man who shoots his spiderweb out. I'm shooting back love and acknowledgement. All right, what else? So, anyway. I think one of the hardest things, in theory, it's a choice whether or not it's hard, is when you don't have the results yet. You don't have the money results, so you don't have whatever results you're having in your business. And you know, you know on a soul level what is right, and what is aligned, and how you're gonna get results, right? But you don't have the results. So, that voice comes up ... Maybe you have some other people who are lovely enough to tell you all the time that you're doing it wrong. Eliminate those people. I don't mean in a bad way. I just mean turn away from them energetically, or physically, or whatever else is required, right? Don't listen to them. Literally, la-la-la-la-la, can't hear you. Not listening. Choose to only listen to people that affirm what you already know inside of you, yeah? To me that seems obvious. But, mind you, I've definitely gone against that myself at some points in time. So, there's that. But then the other thing is it's not just the voices of other people, right? It's the voices, shit. It's the voices inside of your head. Those things are little bitches some of the time. And they come up every day and be like, "Really? Are you sure? Because that sounds kind of stupid to me. And besides which, how can you prove it? And I bet you're wrong. And I bet you're gonna screw everything up, and I bet probably if you do that, or say that, everybody's gonna tell everybody, and then the whole entire internet is gonna laugh at you because you're stupid." That's what the voices inside your head will say. Or it'll be like, "Who do you think you are to do that? Somebody else could do that, but clearly you have no clue what you're talking about. You don't have the results, you can't prove yourself, you don't speak properly, and your hair doesn't look good." And so, these are the normal every day thoughts that we all have. I have these voices inside of my head as well, and I know, I see them for what they are. I'm like, "Bitch please. I see what you're trying to do here, and I'm gonna let you know that I'm gonna be over here doing what I'm meant to do anyway." But sometimes they get to me. Sometimes they got to me with the dating stuff, right? And now I became stronger over time, because I just kind of thought back, and I thought back to my business stuff, and I'm like, "Hmm, well, took me like five fucking years, or however long, to really get this with my business, but then when I did, shit started working. When I fully backed myself. So, I think, thank you for coming along, and telling me all of your thoughts for today, and if you insist on carrying yourself around and following me everywhere, and talking shit, then I guess I can't stop you. I'm still gonna be over here pressing fucking play", and I'm gonna learn this lesson a lot faster, right? So, it's about realising that you can have these voices inside of your head, you can have the voice of doom and gloom, and self doubt, and whatever bullshit is going on or coming through you, or even coming at you from outside of you, all of that can be present and in attendance, and you can still do whatever you know what you're meant to do. And so, what that comes down to is you've gotta be bold enough, and trust enough to actually back it up and follow through though. It's not gonna be enough to feel and know inside of you what's true and what's gonna get you results. That is not gonna cut it. You're gonna have to back it with action, right? Which means, from my example, the dating example, it means that when I have an instinct or an impulse, or a soul nudge comes through me, like, "Hey, say that to this guy. Speak your truth. Say this", and my voice inside my head's gonna be like, "Oh my God, are you crazy? Don't say that. Really? You already said such and such thing. Like, really? You're gonna morally now? You're gonna say that?" And, "Oh, maybe I shouldn't, and maybe this, and then let's go check what he's posted on Facebook today because maybe that's gonna put me off because you don't know ..." Like, what? What if I just always followed my soul nudges? Because I can tell you something for sure, in my business now, and it took me however long it took me to get this, I always follow my soul nudges. That doesn't mean only when it feels exciting or inspiring. That means especially when it feels terrifying, when it feels reckless, it feels crazy, it goes against what everybody's saying, and I built a multi million dollar per year online empire where I get to do only what I fucking want everyday, and I have a 100% soul mate client base. My clients are now becoming millionaires and multi millionaires in the last year as well. Multiple clients who've gone from where they were making 8 to 10K a month at the start of last year to where they're now making 50, 60 and over 100K per month in numerous cases, over 200K per month consistently in multiple places as well, and all of these women and a few men who work with me, are doing what I'm talking about here, following soul nudges. And not only attracting such badass from only following soul desires, requirements, and flow. It's not just when it feels easy or comfortable or fun or exciting. It's when it feels terrifying. It's when it's scary. It's when it feels reckless. It's when it feels ridiculous, right? And here's something else. Let me just check in in what my brother's saying. He's just messaging me more. 36 minutes. Am on my way back. Okay. We can go for like 5 or 10 minutes more. Okay. Am on a rock. I'm telling him. Don't forget, if you jumped on late and you didn't hear me, I'm doing a one day VIP very intimate event this Tuesday in New York, and I'm repeating the same event the Tuesday after, April 3, in San Diego. These are soul shifting deep dive days to get clear on exactly who you are as an entrepreneur, who you wanna be as an entrepreneur, creator and leader, and the best fucking way for you to make fuckload of money and a fuckload of impact doing that. That was too many fucks. Maybe. Not maybe. Whatever it was. It's something like that. I can send you the whole written overview, so message me over on my Katrina Ruth personal page if you wanna know more about that. Okay, so then coming back to this. Here's how I actually got into this business, because as I've been sharing, I don't have the results yet, I'm like working towards these results in my romance side of my life, and I know that it will come from backing myself, but I also know that that means I can't just sit around being like, "Yeah, I believe that I'm gonna have a soulmate relationship, and I believe that it's gonna work out for me and I have faith." It means that I've also gotta follow all actions that my soul tells me to take, even though I feel like a fricking crazy person half of the time, okay? And the reason that I knew that first for business though, and where I can now apply it from business over to love, I knew it for business because when I was broke in my business, and when I was over $100 000 in debt, and I thought I was gonna go bankrupt, I sat down one day, and it's funny because I'm kind of at a theme park now. I'm at the resort anyway. And I was at a theme park. I was at a Wet and Wild theme park, like a water one. And I went and sat down for coffee, and I made this list and it was based on the fact that I'd been a personal trainer for 13 years before I built my own online business, and so I've now been actively involved in the fitness industry for 21 years, since I was 17 years old. And so, at the time, it was maybe like six years ago or something, so I would've been involved in the fitness industry at the time for like 15 years, and I had complete faith and certainty around my ability to always be in great shape. Now, it didn't mean that I always was in my ideal shape, because sometimes I would slip a little bit out or whatever, but it never was a problem. I was like, "I know how to be in fantastic fucking shape. It's very simple and straight forward, and easy, and it's just automatic that of course I get to have that." I have zero doubt, and also that it comes from me following what I believe is true and real for me inside me. Never once have I followed a diet plan. I've tried to do it a few times in years gone by, and I always was like cheating all the way through on those diets. And I don't follow structured training. All my training and my eating is intuitive. I even wrote a book about five or six years ago called Think Thin, The Intuitive Diet for Women. You can get it on Amazon if you go to books for kick ass women dot com, you're gonna see over 60 books on Amazon that I've self published, and Think Thin is one of them, right? So, that's my way of eating and staying in shape. So, I sat down and I thought about what if I had the same beliefs for business and for money that I have for fitness? What if I just always knew that I know what's right for me? What if I fully trusted in myself, what if I fully backed myself, what if I went from soul flow and intuition, and I basically sat there and I wrote a big list of what are all my beliefs to do with fitness and my body, and being in great shape? And they're all really powerful positive beliefs that would serve a lot of people well, as I'm sure you can imagine, right? And then I looked at what my money beliefs were at the time, and I had so many money and business beliefs around not trusting myself, or there's gotta be a wrong way, or something like a right way or a wrong way, or I've gotta get it right, or something along those lines, right? And other people maybe know more than me, and I've gotta do stuff that doesn't feel good, and just all these beliefs, and I literally sat there and I took all of my positive and powerful fitness beliefs and and I rewrote them into powerful positive beliefs for my business, and for money, and I just made a decision. I was like, that's how I'm gonna choose to think. I'm gonna choose to back myself, I'm gonna choose to trust myself, I'm gonna choose to basically operate from inside of me. And even last week I had another breakthrough around this, because I noticed that in my business there's still a couple of areas where I feel like I'm not fully showing up, right? Where I feel, you know that sense of disease, or feeling uneasy, or restless, or unsettled, because you feel like ... I had a general feeling that there's some discontent present in my business. And a general feeling of feeling like I notice that pretty much every day I feel slightly restless, like slightly, just like what am I missing? That was it. I journaled on why do I feel like there's always something missing in my business? I just have this niggle all the time, and I thought ... I said to myself, this was like the other day in Santa Monica, sitting in the tea and coffee bin. And I thought, "Well, I don't feel that way in fitness. I have like zero restlessness or niggles in fitness." Even if I go into [inaudible 00:40:58] and I'm in my little shorts and my sports bra, and I see that I got a bit puffy around the waste or something, it does not remotely bother me. I'm like, "That's fine. I know exactly how to fix it." Right? And I have only self love, right? Like I actually really, it took me several decades, but I really love and accept myself regardless of what my body's doing, and I have full trust, right? And I thought, "Why do I have such contentedness in fitness, but in business I still feel a little uneasy?" And I was like, "Oh my God." And I realised it's because with fitness and nutrition, I 100% follow every single soul command and desire and requirement. So, what that means is, like this morning, I was like, "I gotta go to Bikram Yoga this morning." Hot yoga. That's how I felt. That's what my body wants. Well, I had a schedule of going to a conference today. I'm like, "Too bad. I'm going to Bikram Yoga because that's what I feel I need." The zero of the time will I not follow soul urges in that situation, right? 100% of the time with fitness and my body, I do what I'm told to do from within ... Not by other people. Zero percent of the time I do what I'm told to do by other people, and 100% of the time I do it even if it comes at the cost of something else that I was supposed to be doing, but it's also on the times when I don't feel like doing something. Maybe I'm like ... Oh, the other day. I didn't feel like going to the gym. Too bad. I go to the gym if I know that it's what my soul's telling me to do. But by the same token, if I go to dinner, and there's like an amazing dessert and I wanna eat it, I'm gonna fricking eat it, right? If that's what feels good for me. So, then with business and money, I noticed that there was still times, or there's still times where I'm not doing what my soul tells me to do. You know, I like to rebel even if it's against my own self, from time to time. Just to kind of prove a point, that I can do what I want, I think. But I had to kind of acknowledge this. I'm like, "Oh, I have a feeling of discontent, or dis ease sometimes in my business because there's certain things that I know I actually should, quote unquote, should be doing from a soul point of view, like my soul's directing me to do it. Could be like whatever little task, or getting back to somebody on my team, or finalising an idea, or what it is, and it's that kind of little girl inside of me that's still like if your Mom tells you to clean your room, you're like, "Well, I was gonna clean my room, and now that you've told me to clean my room there's no fucking way I will clean my room." It's exactly the same reason that I refuse to see the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies, because everybody was like, "You've gotta see them. They're really good." I was like, "Bitch, please." If everybody's seeing them, there's no way I'm gonna see them because clearly I'm better than that. And then eventually I saw them and I was like, "I guess they were okay." So, it's just that ... I recognise that part of myself, and so I kind of kicked my own ass around it. And so then with love, and relationship, and sex and that sort of thing, I was like ... Oh, shit. I was like, "Well, okay." I went through this phase last year after I left my marriage, which was the year before, and so last year my phase was like, trying to do the things that I thought that I should to do be successful at dating or whatever, or try and learn about it, and doing things ... But also, I was in this most ridiculous pattern, which was so stupid, I can't even believe that I did this, where if I would go on a date with a guy, and I wasn't attracted to him, like romantic, to where you're like, "Can we just have sex right now?" That I would still kind of convince myself and I would be like, "Oh, well maybe I am attracted and I just don't know it, because he's a really nice guy." And now I say it, and I'm like, "That's hilarious." How could that be a thing? You either are or you aren't, and you fucking know where you are because you're like, can we just seriously, can I just crawl into your skin immediately? In a non weird way. And so, it was kind of this phase of trying to make it work, right? And now I'm like, "Okay, it's either I'm fucking feeling it, which is relatively rare, but that's the whole point, or it's nothing", right? And either way is totally fine, but I'm not gonna keep on meeting up with somebody just in case I somehow at some point magically wake up one day and in massive lust and attraction, or whatever, right? But by the same token, it also means ... That's fun. But by the same token it also means that if I'm feeling like, "Okay, I should say this to this guy", or message this or whatever ... I do this where, it even happened last week I think it was, last weekend, where I'm like, "Oh, don't message that." I met a guy, and I'm like, "Don't message that. That's a bad idea." And then I felt like messaging it. I'm like, "My soul is telling me to message that, so I'm gonna message it." And either outcome is fine, right? And it's just that continual process of I'm gonna continually back myself, I'm gonna continue to follow what I'm directed to do inside. Whatever the outcome is actually doesn't matter because the point is that I'm proving I fricking believe in myself, right? And I'm proving I'm gonna back myself, and I'm proving that I fucking mean what I say when it comes through me from the inside. So, I'm building inner strength, I'm building self belief, I'm building resilience, I'm building tenacity, and all these areas can just be related to each other, whether it's fitness stuff, business stuff, love and romance and sex stuff, all of them just connect into each other, and I have to fricking go. I could live stream all night, but I'm gonna go and have dinner with several badass people. So, I'm sure I'll have many more things to share with you tomorrow. I would really encourage you to watch the replay of this live stream. I feel like I brought the message and the preaching tonight, this afternoon, whatever it is. So, go watch the replay, leave me a comment, send me a message, let me know what you thought, and seriously, what if you just fully decided to back yourself? I've built a multi million dollar per year business where every day I just wake up, and sit around and talk to cool people on the internet like I'm doing now. I only do what I want, I have the best time ever. I travel the world continually. You guys see this, and I just want you to really know that's available for you. I didn't have all that. I built it up, and I built it from backing myself, right? And I literally used to write in my journal, all I really wanna do is inspire, educate and motivate people, and talk to cool badass people on the internet, and now here we are. So, I know that this is available for all of us in all areas. Don't forget that if you wanna spend a day with me in person in a VIP private event, on Tuesday in New York, that that's happening. There's several places left, I think three maybe for New York. Send me a message on my personal page, and then there's a couple of places left for San Diego the week after as well. So, it's gonna be April, sorry. March 27 in New York City, and April 3 over in San Diego. Message me on my Katrina Ruth personal page, or you can message on this profile if you're confused about how to find it, but maybe someone can tag in my personal page right now, or I'll do it in a moment when I jump off, and send me a message there because it's just easier for me to PM over on my personal one. I prefer it. And I'll get you all the details of exactly what we're covering, and the cost, and all that good stuff. Have an amazing day. Go take massive action, from your soul. And do not forget, life is now. Press fucking play.

Another week of diving into our best of Ask Women Vault. This week on our podcast we have the practice makes perfect master, Brad P on our show. The same Brad P that has now slept with 100's of women (he has a GF now) even though he is an introvert, skinny and looks like big bird... A cute big bird!  Brad gives away his best and highly tested conversation routine that took him years to develop and a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Brad tells us exactly what to say at every stage of an interaction with a woman. Even if you are a woman, you will love this episode. Brad also brought up something super interesting to our female guest that a lot of women do not know... It's that something that makes me so good at what I do (ego stroke) He told our adorable female guest Catherine Urbanek that most of what women say they want is BS BECAUSE when they say what they want, they are thinking of a guy they are already totally into, giving it to them. Hopefully I'm phrasing the above correctly becaus --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/AskWomen/support

I thought this would be a fun and easy way to test out my shiny new microphone. I actually got this book sometime late 2014 and have barely read any of it yet, but I have already gotten a good deal of enjoyment out of its mere existence in my life. Hopefully I'm able to pass on some small amount of that enjoyment to you, dear listener. Timestamps of note:  00:00 - Introduction, update about the new mic  01:10 - Some background about the book 14:45 - Undramatic readings of the inside cover, prologue, and chapter 1, with my own commentary peppered in This was a pretty fun departure from whatever I usually do here, so if you'd like to hear more of this, or can think of other things you'd like to hear read in my dorky monotone, please do let me know. Oh, and I almost forgot, but here's that Cracked article I mentioned: The Best (Worst) Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Covers -- ORCA was written by Arthur Herzog. A Kangaroo book. Published by Pocket Books, New York. Copyright 1977.   Backing music in this episode: "Avant Jazz", "Epic Unease", "One of Them" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/