Podcast appearances and mentions of Nick Nanton

The message is clear: The future of work will be defined by rapid technological advancement, requiring individuals and organizations to embrace adaptability as a core competency. Leveraging tools like the AQai model and fostering a supportive and agile work environment will be critical to thriving in the age of acceleration. Join me on this just released 15-minute documentary titled Pivot Power, Navigating Work in the Age of Acceleration. Directed by the acclaimed Nick Nanton, a 22-time Emmy Award Winner, this film provides profound insights from industry leaders on how organizations can navigate and thrive amidst technological advancements and AI integration. You can view the documentary here. https://adaptabilitytoolkit.com/pivot-power/ Key Theme include: Accelerating Pace of Change AI Disruption and Opportunity Adaptability as the Essential Skill The Adaptability Quotient (AQ) Key Insights and Facts: Skills Obsolescence: The half-life of skills is shrinking rapidly, with estimates suggesting that 40-80% of current skills could become irrelevant within the next 5-6 years. Company Longevity: The lifespan of companies is also decreasing. The average life cycle of a typical business model has shrunk to 2-3 years. AI Augmenting Human Capabilities: The focus should be on leveraging AI to enhance human capabilities and empower individuals to perform tasks more efficiently and effectively. Importance of Organizational Support: Companies must foster a culture that embraces experimentation, accepts failure, and provides support for employee development and adaptation. "Mushroom moments" represent the period of hidden development and growth, while "flower moments" signify the time when these advancements come to light and are widely recognized. Adaptability allows individuals and organizations to thrive in both phases, fostering continuous development and ensuring they are prepared for the "flower moment" when it arrives. The 10,000-hour-to-become-an-expert-rule is outdated because the rapid evolution of technology and information renders skills obsolete much faster. Continuous learning and adaptability are more critical than accumulating expertise in a single area over a long period.

This Flashback Friday is from episode 146, published on January 14, 2010. The mortgage meltdown altered the landscape of real estate investing. While some of yesterday's most favored strategies will not work going forward, today's savvy investor can still find great opportunities for growth and profits-if they understand how recent events could shape this industry over the next few years. Jason talks with author Steve Bergsman about the state of various market sectors – including commercial, residential, and leisure real estate. Get direction as to where things are headed, so you can make the right decisions on property investments during the coming years.  The new decade will produce multiple investment currents. By separating the asset classes that will remain stable from those that will continue to lose value going forward, you'll will gain insight on the changing marketplace. Recent developments have hurt some investors, but they have also opened the door to profitable new opportunities down the road. Upcoming shows will feature: Nick Nanton on Celebrity Branding, Mark Kholer on Asset Protection, Ted Nicholas on Marketing, Andre Eggeletion on The Federal Reserve, Dr. Denis Waitley of The Psychology of Winning, Mike Koenigs on Scalable Video Distribution, Frank McKinney on Mansion Development, Yanik Silver on The Internet Lifestyle and many other success leaders. ___________________________________________ I'm speaking at Global Citizen Week and as one of the speakers, I'm also excited to offer my network a few VIP passes—which means your access will be complimentary (usually priced at $1,500). However, space is limited, so don't miss out!  Reserve Your VIP Pass https://globalcitizenweek.com/miami/local/ Taking place from October 31 to November 1 at the beautiful Hotel AKA Brickell in Miami's financial district, this event is an incredible opportunity to: Expand Your Network: Connect with other forward-thinking entrepreneurs, investors, and business owners who are equally focused on enhancing their global footprint. Engage in Strategic Conversations: Explore the latest trends in diversifying investments, optimizing tax strategies, and building a Plan B for global mobility. Learn and Optimize: Participate in expert-led workshops and discussions to discover new ways to protect your wealth, maximize business potential, and enhance your lifestyle. Who should attend?  Entrepreneurs & Business Owners: Learn how to streamline your corporate structure and tax strategy to unlock new growth opportunities. High-net-worth Individuals: Discover strategies for protecting and growing your wealth globally. Investors: Find out about emerging markets and investment opportunities that can drive your financial independence. Those Seeking Global Citizenship: Learn how global citizenship can improve your quality of life with better health care, education, and security. To secure your spot, just register here:  Reserve Your VIP Pass https://globalcitizenweek.com/miami/local/   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

Investor Season: A Mindset Playbook for the Investor Life with Bobby Davidowitz In this insightful episode, John is joined by seasoned investor Bobby Davidowitz for an in-depth discussion on building long-term wealth through real estate and strategic investments.  They dive into the mindset and strategies needed to transition from being a real estate professional to an investor, emphasizing the importance of thinking like a CEO in your business. Bobby, an expert in commercial lending and real estate investments, shares valuable lessons from his new book "Get Your Head in the Game: A Mindset Playbook for the Investor Life", offering 10 actionable plays for aspiring and seasoned business owners. Key topics include how to recognize the right investment opportunities, avoiding gambling on risky ventures, and the joy of missing out (JOMO) on the wrong deals. Bobby also touches on his current involvement in a unique bourbon investment project alongside Chris Voss and Nick Nanton, demonstrating how passion projects can align with wealth-building.   Key Topics Covered: The power of long-term thinking and delayed gratification in wealth-building. How to recognize the difference between a smart investment and gambling. The importance of timing in real estate and knowing when to stack capital for future opportunities. Bobby's involvement in a bourbon investment project and how passion projects can also be investment opportunities. The "joy of missing out" (JOMO) and why sometimes it's smart to walk away from opportunities that don't align with your principles. How faith, discipline, and relationships play a significant role in achieving financial freedom. Final Thoughts and Takeaways: John and Bobby emphasize that real estate is a vehicle for unlocking wealth, not just a career. By adopting the right mindset and surrounding yourself with the right people, you can create a life of financial freedom. The key is to make smart bets, stay disciplined, and be patient as you build wealth over time. Whether it's through real estate, other businesses, or passion projects, aligning your values with your investments is essential.   Next Steps: Reevaluate your real estate business to ensure it aligns with your long-term wealth-building goals, and start incorporating an investment strategy today. Follow the podcast for future episodes and insights from industry experts on how to grow your real estate business and achieve financial freedom. "Real estate isn't just a career—it's the ultimate vehicle to unlock wealth-building opportunities. If you're not thinking like an investor, you're not thinking about it the right way." — John Kitchens Connect with Us: Instagram: @johnkitchenscoach LinkedIn: @johnkitchenscoach Facebook: @johnkitchenscoach If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe and leave a review. Stay tuned for more insights and strategies from the top minds in real estate. See you next time!

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CORE Learning.The webinar recording can be accessed here.We know what it takes to teach students to read proficiently, yet nearly two-thirds of fourth graders in the U.S. still struggle with literacy. It's time to trust the proof and embrace the truth. Join us for a candid conversation with Nick Nanton, a 22-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, as we take a closer look at one of his most impactful and critically acclaimed projects, The Truth About Reading. This isn't just another discussion about the literacy crisis—this is a behind-the-scenes look at the personal impacts of educational policies and practices. Because behind every label and every initiative, there is a person with a story that needs to be heard.In this third session of CORE Learning's Structured Literacy and Language Diversity Week: Spring '24 Series, we're taking the discussion to the next level by exploring how language diversity impacts equitable literacy instruction. This edWeb podcast provides you not only with the inspiration but also with the resources to fully understand the complete picture of equitable literacy instruction and make meaningful changes in your classrooms.The truth about reading is that we need to move beyond awareness and turn our knowledge into action for a brighter and more inclusive educational future for all learners. Join the movement. This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-12 teachers, school leaders, and district leaders.CORE LearningTransform teaching and learning so that every student thrives.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.

In today's episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we reflect on serenity in nature and technology, drawing parallels between Cloudlandia and meticulously raked sand. Woven into our talk is AI and how it's changing everything, from Evan's course helping us out at work to all the crazy experiments shaking things up. We get into how innovation unexpectedly boosted my creativity, which we're calling "exponential tinkering". As our annual event nears, lessons in "exponential thinking" add to the anticipation of a reunited community and potential for growth. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Dean and I explore the serenity of Cloudlandia and how it parallels the peacefulness found in Japanese Zen gardens, reflecting on the role of imagination in experiencing digital spaces. We discuss the success of Evan Ryan's AI course within our company and how it has encouraged experiments with AI across different teams. Dean introduces the concept of "exponential tinkering," highlighting how AI is revolutionizing the arts and content creation, with a nod to OpenAI's Sora tool. We contemplate the cultural shift toward immersive experiences like VR, while expressing skepticism about their long-term utility and appeal. Dan recognizes the importance of integrating existing consumer experiences to create innovative products, using Apple as an example. We highlight insights from Mark Mills' book "The Cloud Revolution" on the strategic importance of reshoring supply chains and repurposing shopping centers into logistics hubs. We compare Tesla's success to the sustainability challenges faced by other electric vehicle companies that are more dependent on government subsidies. We share anecdotes about the Soviet-era's illusion of luxury, and how modern-day explorers uncover the true state of Soviet infrastructure. We examine the declining enthusiasm for venture capital in the tech world and the concept of "cruel optimism" that can be prevalent in this sector. Excitement is expressed for our upcoming annual event, stressing the value of 'exponential thinking' and the potential growth of our community. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan how are you, mr Jackson? Dan: Well, welcome to Cloudlandia. I'm sitting out in my courtyard and it's a little bit of a cold, rainy morning. I don't know if you can hear the rain gently falling in the courtyard. It's relaxing. Dean: Do you have an? Dan: umbrella over your head. No, I'm in a. I have a covered, a covered area here that I'm sitting at about. I don't know what you call it, like a lamina or a loja, I don't know how it is, but it's a covered underroof thing, that's attached to my courtyard. Dean: What you're saying is that there's something between you and this guy. That's exactly it. Dan: I'm not getting rained on, I'm under covered, as they say. Dean: Yeah, well, it's sort of a poignant, almost like a Japanese. Stay right, yeah, this almost feels like a Japanese Zen garden. Dan: here I hear the like the little the water coming off the roof of a tile roof, so that it's very Japanese Zen actually, because the there's a spout that drains the water down into a drain. Yeah, so nice. Dean: Yeah, it's very interesting. When I was a teenager I sort of fell in love with Japanese culture. This would be early 60s, late 50s, early 60s and you know I read the literature, I looked at the artwork. I was interested in their architecture, their history, and then in my military. I was drafted into the US military and got sent to South Korea. And I'm an R and R. Rest and relaxation, that's what they called it. Dan: R and R I went to Japan. Dean: I went to twice, oh nice. And my memory is of being in the mountains, at a place where they really didn't speak English I don't know even now if they you know, having Americans who was part of their experience, but it was perfectly understandable. I mean, the hospitality was so great. But I can remember being in one of these little rooms where they had. They had sliding doors that would open up and you could see the mountain, you could see the water. And I remember it raining, but I was warm and I had tea. And I was sitting there and it sort of corresponded to what my teenage visions had been. I always remember that. Dan: That's great. I love it when stuff like that happens. Well, this would definitely be the kind of day that would be conducive to tea. Dean: And sitting out here. Dan: It was kind of a Zen garden that I have in the courtyard, so it's nice. Dean: Yeah, yeah. Speaking of Zen, there's a lot about the jump from the mainland to Cloudlandia that has a Zen-like quality to it, tell me more, tell me more, especially now with the. A lot about it, well, a lot about it. You have to imagine, in other words, that you only get as far in Cloudlandia as your imagination will go. I'm really seeing this. I'm kind of being a creative collaborator with Evan Ryan, still in his 20s, but he's been investigating artificial intelligence for the last 10 years, so he's well into it. So basically his adult life has been and he's got a very thriving business and he's got clients from all over the planet. But he wrote one book which was superb. It was called AI as your teammate and he put it together into a six-module coaching course for companies and our entire company went through that. Dan: Oh, wow. Dean: So it's six to our modules and just to the main. Purpose is just to get people over the hump that this is any scarier than any technology that they've already mastered. It's just a new technology. And it did wonders. It did wonders and I can see the last module was probably four months ago and I can see the investigations and the experiments that are going on across the company, each person sort of focusing on something different. And then Evan is writing a new book and I just shared an idea with him and maybe it be a topic that we would discuss today. But I said, there's all sorts of predictions being made by people about where AI is going and where it's going to take us, and both exciting and scary. The predictions are both exciting and scary and what I realized that all these predictions, no matter how expert the person tried to present themselves, was just one person's prediction. And more or less their prediction for everybody else was simply what they wanted to do for themselves, Right. Dan: Yeah. Dean: And I think Mark Zuckerberg and there's all sorts of people the big tech people and government people and everything, corporate people and I say you're trying to make this a prediction for the world, but it's only probably a prediction for you that this is the direction and what I realized is that there's an exponential breakthrough with AI and it's in the area of tinkering, which is a neat word, yes, Tinkering. So Evan and I talked about it and he's going to. You know, he's developing the idea as exponential tinkering. Dan: And I really like it. Oh, I like that. Dean: That's a good yeah, what a nice combination of words, because, there are kind of two words that are jarring when you put them together, that's very good. Dan: I like that a lot. Dean: Yeah, so what are you tinkering? Dan: with. So I'm tinkering with a couple of things right now and deep into the. Are you talking about technology things? Dean: No, yeah. Well, technology, or specifically AI, are you tinkering at all with it, seeing what it can do? Dan: I'm starting now to. Did you see the latest thing a couple of days ago? The release of Sora, the video creation tool. Now, that was OpenAI did that right. OpenAI has just I think it's only very limitally open to their top tier, you know, data users or whatever, but the demo reels of it you know, showing what it's capable of, and I mean it's certainly you see now where that's the final piece of the puzzle here, like two things have happened in the last 30 days that have really kind of cement where I see this going. I've been predicting here that 20, that you know, almost like the big change 1975 to 2025 will kind of look and the you know all these exponential improvements reaching the top of the asymptotic curve that there's You're using big words. Dean: Yes, so Asymptotic, asymptotic. I think that deserves a subhead for our listeners. Dan: Okay, Well, asyn, in math when you do exponential, it's exponentially increases, increases, and then it reaches a point where it's just marginally like improving slightly. You know, like there's not really the exponential leap, for instance, of going from. If we just take text, we've gone from, you know, writing it on papyrus or having people hand write stuff. Dean: Chiseled as on. Chiseled as in play. Dan: Whatever. And then Gutenberg was an exponential leap in that, but it got better in terms of when we were able to, you know, create digital photocopy and things like that, and we got to the text file where you could digitize text and that became a PDF. And now so everything you know, the functional like improvement in text, has really reached the top of. There's nowhere really to go from everything ever written available instantly on any device you have. And that same thing has been over the last 25 years, kind of cascading series of those with increasing complexity of them, right? I think it's not. That's the easiest thing to fully digitize is text. And then pictures were the next thing, that you could digitize pictures so we can transfer images, then moving pictures right? Audio, sorry, was next after text, audio images or images, videos. Now we're at the point where you know every piece of media video, audio, text or images is completely digitized. It's available on any device at any time you want it. And this next piece that's falling into place is the ability to generatively create, from description, images and videos that you can describe. And so when you take this Sora, and you take Dali and you take the all the things that are converging with the, with the AI, and we'll give them another two year runway, which would even sort of double their time that they've been in our world Mainstream they'll be fully cemented into the mainstream use. And then you look at what's happening with the release of Apple's new Air Pro goggles, or whatever they're calling them. Dean: Vision Pro. Dan: Vision Pro. Dean: And that is. You know everybody who's going to use any of this. Dan: Exponential tinkerers. Dean: Yeah, but that somebody who's doing it tinkerers. Tinkerers is just someone who's doing it for their own purposes. You know they're not trying to create something for anybody else, they're just for example, I gave you the example that I've had a real interest in. You know, I wrote a new book and I had. I was writing a new book and I had one chapter finished and it was how we put our company together, and the chapter was unique ability teamwork. That, basically, a fundamental difference between coach team members and other team members is that we everybody operates according to their own unique ability within unique ability teams. Okay, so that's that, but I've always had a fascination with Shakespeare. You know he's one of my five. Dan: Yes. Dean: You know, five lifetime role models Shakespeare, because he was not only a great poet, a great playwright, a great you know creator of, you know, creator of plays, but he was also a tremendous entrepreneur and he, you know, he created the first company that was self-sustainable and he created a new theater and everything else. So he was very entrepreneurial and seems to have made a pile through theater. And anyway, but I was always fascinated with the language form that was operating in London in the late 1500s and 1600s. So Shakespeare is 1560, 1560, 1660 years and it was called iambic pentameter and it was a structure where there's only 10 syllables per line. You get to the 10th syllable and then you go to a new line, and so I had one of my team members actually go to AI, go to chat GPT and say we would like to translate Dan's copy into iambic pentameter and it was back in 24 hours. Dan: You know came back and I was just fascinated. Dean: I was just fascinated with it because I thought differently about my own thoughts when I saw them come back in a different language form. In English but about a different structure. So I was sitting there, I was reading it and I gave it to some of our team and I said what do you think about this? And they said, wow, I get totally new thoughts from reading it. It's, you know, the basic ideas, but they're in a different language form. And I said now what I'd like to do is I hear it like it here. It's spoken, you know, by someone who was really great with Shakespeare's language. So it was a very famous actor who we have their recordings of, and so we open my team member, Alex Barley, who is British you know. So he's from the UK, so he has a feel for this type of language and he has a feel for theater. And then he worked with Mike Canig's, great friend of ours and. Mike. Mike gave him two or three other AI programs that he could take a look at and about four days later I get this wonderfully eloquent reading of a whole chapter in Iambic content and I listen to it every week. I listen to it every week and it does things for my thinking. Okay, and I've shown it to a few people. This is a you know. A number of people have listened to it and they're all say, wow, that's amazing. Dan: You did that. Dean: Why'd you do that? Why'd you do that? Dan: Why'd you do? Dean: that Just tinkering? I was just tinkering and I just. I kind of said you know, if I put this together with this and maybe put the two of them together with this, I wonder what it sounds like. And I have no intention of, I have no intention of going any further with it, but it really serves a purpose, that it really influences my own thinking and I've noticed that my writing has changed as a result of listening to this for three or four, three or four months, you know, I just I just get a different take on my own ideas. Dan: And. Dean: I call that tinkering, I just call that tinkering. Dan: I like that. Dean: And I believe that with AI, what you have, there was always tinkering in the technology world, but I think what AI does, it makes, it allows tinkering to be exponential. Dan: That's interesting. So there's, I'd say, yeah, you're, there's an artistry to it in a way. Dean: You know, in that there's, it's kind of like doing something for your own pleasure for your own yeah, and your own enhancements you know you see, you see an extension of a capability that you already have, but you can see new dimensions of the capability that you already have and that in itself is the reward, that in itself. And people say well, are you going to? You know, I tell people and they say oh, so are you going to actually produce this? And you know, you know like we produce our books. And I said no, I'm just doing it for my own reasons. Dan: I just like the feel of this. I just like the feel you know and. Dean: I do not think I'm unique in this experience. I think there's a hundred million people doing the same thing with something that kind of fascinates them. Dan: And I wonder if that's the artistic expression gene or something. I mean, that's our internal desire to chase our whims. Dean: You know, in a way, yeah, that's one of the great joys of the the reason I'm saying this is that we're always making the predictions about who the giant tech giant is that's going to dominate this and I said one I don't see it emerging. I think all of them are scrambling like mad so that they don't get left behind. But I don't think the idea of tinkering really exists in that world. You know quarterly stock prices, investments that's what they're looking for, you know, and everything else, but I don't see the dominant player, even. You know, even open. Ai is the dominant player. Dan: Have you had some experience? Have you tried the vision pros yet? Dean: No, I don't like goggles. Dan: I don't need. I mean I'm not inclined either. Dean: They're anti social. Dan: I wonder you know it's going to be. I know there'll be a lot of people at Free Zone next week that have them that are, so we'll get a chance to try that for sure. But I know my kenix has it. Dean: I know Leo as his one of the things that I always look at their past stage right now, but it'd be interesting checking their lives down six months from now whether they're actually using them. Dan: That's what I'm curious about, right Like it's so. Dean: I don't need to be first in with anything. Dan: Right, exactly, yeah, yeah, I think that this chasm it's getting, you know, I think it's getting wider and wider, this that there's even now, nuances of going deeper into Cloudlandia, because I think that's like immersively diving into Cloudlandia and I think that there's. Nick Nanton just posted a thing about some big movie director who was tweeted about. You know, just spent the day editing this is a feature movie, mainstream movie director saying you just spent the day editing in the Vision Pros with, in collaboration with his editor, on a big screen. They are theatrical, like movie screen size and just fascinated. He said. Dean: you know, no headache, no anything so I don't know, yeah well, where I think and I felt five, ten years, well, let's say five years ago when people were talking about visual reality, okay. Dan: Yes. Dean: And Peter Diamonis had a lot of proponents of this at Abundance 360 and I was sitting there and I said first of all, every everything that I've seen I find boring and the reason? because what you're seeing is the creation of one brain, and if it's not an interesting brain to begin with, the result of their creation of a VR program is exponentially less interesting. Okay, and what actual reality is good? You know, I look out in my yard and you have the same opportunity there. I look at them and I've got these seven giant oak trees in their yard, I mean they're a hundred, and ten hundred foot oak trees, and the reason I love those trees so much is nobody created them. There was no intention for this to happen. It was just a lucky acorn. Dan: Right the result of it. Dean: I mean they produce thousands, millions of acorns in our yard and it's just squirrel food you know, and and it's the nonintentionality that interests me, it's not the somebody's intention, okay, and one person's story really doesn't interest me for the first time if it doesn't include a lot of other people's stories you know, in other words. You're putting that together, so I don't know. I mean, I think there's a fundamental obstacle to all technological breakthroughs, and it's called human nature. Dan: Yeah, this is where that's. What I wonder, is the goggles? Them sound like it. Just it feels like, wow, this is a you know, unless we're at a point where I think the improvement of the vision pros is that you can actually see out of them. Dean: Well, you can see out of them and it's got the thing that I think is really going to make a difference, and that's all augmented reality. Yes, exactly In other words, you're looking at a real thing. Yeah, there are useful pictures, useful data, useful messages on it, and there's useful capabilities, in other words, there's like email and, I'm sure, the design. You know design tools and everything that you can do and that, I believe, is good, but it'll only, it'll take hold where the use of this speeds up an economic process that already makes money. But you can speed up an economic process. Dan: I'm seeing that, if everything is, you know, being shaped to drive us deeper into this cloudlandia existence here, that everything's happening in the goggles, that I was just had coffee with Stuart, my operations guy, and we were saying how it seems like there's a trend towards you know, I have you ever heard the term hostile design for architecture where the Starbucks one of the Starbucks here in Winter Haven just went under when it's 10 year renovation and they completely turned it into like a basket robin's? where it's all the character of you know a basket robin's. There's no sense of that third place kind of you know origin that Starbucks started with, where, when Starbucks was first getting started in the 90s, they had, you know, nice design, comfy chairs. It was inviting to come and get a coffee and sit and you know gather kind of thing. And now it's essentially designed with the hey, keep it moving, keep it moving kind of vibe to it. There's no, nothing about the chairs, the seating, it's just literally one long banquette with facing single wooden chairs. You know that, on and round table, so there's no comfort or invitingness to come and linger. Dean: Well, they commoditize, so you know. In other words, yeah they start off at very special places. Yeah, and you know you could go in if you could use it as an office, it could be your office all day if you were I think yeah. Dan: I think that's what happened is that post as we got into the last ten years where it became more, you know, wi-fi is ubiquitous and, you know, demanded in public spaces like that. That you know I was saying to Stuart. My theory about it is that in the 90s and early 2000s the internet was still a place that you had to go to right, like you, yeah, had to go to your computer to go there, and these third places were, of you know, an important part of you're putting that aside and you're coming to this third place to be there and as laptops and Wi-Fi and all these things made it possible that people could go and set up shop in the Starbucks and spend the whole day there, that became defeated, the whole purpose. It wasn't a third place, it was the place. 0:25:06 - Dean: You know, yeah, and the other thing it became every place. You know, I mean, when you commoditize, it's every place. And, and you know, I mean you know. And the other thing is that there was a fundamental change in the Starbucks culture and I can say exactly when it was. It was in the 90s and I think it was probably around 1995. They said there's a risky part of our future and that is we can't guarantee that we're always going to have good baristas okay, because the real right. The real skill I mean of Starbucks is who is? Where the baristas who can do the coffee, just right, and they said we can't. You know, it's too risky and that we become too dependent on these people, you know and they said we've got to make it mechanical and what they did immediately is that their espresso drinks, you know, whatever form it came in, was only 80% as good, but it was predictably 80. The moment you give away quality in order to achieve quantity, you've lost all uniqueness. Yeah. I agree, yeah and that's what they've done. And now the other thing is that they created their own competition because people seeing how a coffee operation works, they went to Starbucks University and got their degree, you know, and it probably take a year to do that and they went out and created their own independent coffee shops. So I think those unique coffee shops still exist, but they're not trying to take over the planet yeah, it's really. Dan: It's interesting. I'm looking for places like that, but you just it's kind of a sad thing. It's almost like you've talked often about the, the black cab knowledge of the drivers in London that they have London, I think London. Dean: London, birmingham and Manchester, I think they have, but the black cabs are the best cabs in the world. Yeah, okay, they're, just there's nothing to compare of what an experienced black cab driver with the black cab experience in the world. There's just nothing like it, and it takes you three years of dedicated study to even pass the test to become a black cab driver, you know and it's very interesting that all of that now can be. You know, anybody in their Honda Civic equipped with their iPhone, has the knowledge right on their phone well, actually it worked out, it didn't work out in London right, because Uber came in and they said well, you know, the Uber guys got it, but they have no feel for the city right and yeah, and so within six months of Uber coming in and actually threatening black cab developed its own Uber software, so now they have the Uber software plus the knowledge of the driver yeah, right it's like AI, an AI program defeating world champion, chess champion okay, yeah and within a year, the chess champions just said okay, we've upped the game and now it's us, plus our AI program, against each other. Dan: Yeah, it's very. You know, it's a-. Dean: Humans are infinitely smarter than technology. Dan: Yeah, it's a fascinating time to be approaching your 80th birthday right now too, you know, looking into the next decade here. Yeah, what are you guessing and betting on for the next few weeks? Dean: I'm betting that people's grasp of their past is now their trump card. Okay, that the future is completely and totally unpredictable, okay as far as I'm concerned. I mean, I think you could predict the future more in the 19th and you know the book you gave me, the 1990, the great change I would think was called the Great Change. If I think back to 1950, where I was alive, I think that the first grade teacher and I had a first grade teacher in 1950, sister Mary Josephia. Sister Mary Josephia, sometime, first grade she says the reason why you're learning this now reading, writing and arithmetic is that when you graduate from high school because nobody went to college in those days- you know, you left high school and you went and got a job. She says everybody's going to be looking in the job market at how good you are at reading, writing and arithmetic and showing up on time and finishing what you start and saying please and thank you and everything else. And she was totally correct. In 1962, exactly what she predicted was true. Okay, so try a first grade teacher in 2024, can she predict anything about what a first grader will experience 12 years later? Dan: Yeah, no chance yeah. Dean: And that's just a general condition on the planet. I just think the future is no longer predictable. So what's the unused resource? The unused resource is your past. Dan: Say more about that. What do you mean? The unused resource? Dean: Well, first of all, it's unique. I mean, if I sat down with you and asked you questions about your past and it went on for a year day in day out for a year. Not one thing that you say about your past during that year is anything but unique to you. That's true. Yeah, exactly that's where all the raw material is for creativity. It's not in the future, you know and it was so funny because I remember four or five times in abundance 360, peter would invite in people from Google, okay, and they had these moon shots, okay, and what was interesting about them? They were predicting new things in the future that hadn't been imagined yet, okay. And it seems to me like sparse ingredients, but it was what they were up to and there was presentation after presentation and they had videos on YouTube and everything else. And I said is there any customer experience in this? No, there was no customer experience. They were just making it up, you know, and they were sort of, and these teams were in competition with each other who could come up with the most convincing thing? That didn't exist. And then I kept track of it and over a 10-year period they shot all those projects down. They never went anywhere. Dan: Wow, yeah, they never went anywhere. Dean: Yeah, and I said, all you do is let's find three examples of things that people are already enjoying, and can we put them together in a new way and create something new where people already have experience? With at least a third of the new thing you know, and that's what Apple does. Apple never does anything. First they sit there and they say MP3 player, napster, making money doing this Internet. Let's put the three of them together and see where they go. Dan: Yeah, that's smart. They were doing triple plays and didn't even know it. Yeah, well, maybe they were, Maybe they were yeah that's your clever observation of it, right, exactly, yeah, put a framework over it. Dean: There's a great technology thinker by the name of Mark Mills, and he wrote a really interesting book called the Cloud Revolution. Okay, and it's really worth a read. Okay, and what he said? If you go backwards 100 years and you look for all the major technological breakthroughs that have more or less been the mainstream of the last 100 years, he says they you always discover it was never one thing, it was always three things. Dan: Oh really. Dean: He uses the radio, he uses electricity, he uses internal combustion, he uses cars, he uses airplanes, he uses, you know, motion pictures and all the major things air conditioning and everything, and he shows the three things that went together before the breakthrough was possible. Oh wow, and part of the reason is you're putting together already existing habits. Dan: Yeah, that's really. You have to piggyback on something that somebody's already doing, right. Dean: Yeah, that gives them their existing habit, even though you're adding. You know you're adding factors that are two other habits. But you have to get people something solid to stand on before you ask them to take a step into the new. Dan: What was the name of that book? Dean: again, it's called the Cloud Revolution. Okay, the Cloud Revolution. Yeah and he uses an interesting example and this is a prediction he's making for the future. He said, with reshoring take place. So that's one factor the supply chains are going to get shorter and shorter in the future, because COVID sort of proved to everybody that relying products that came from a hundred different places and required 5,000 miles of ocean travel to get to us wasn't reliable for the future products you know, foods and everything. So what? The major thing is that you're going to try to have supply chains were important with things as close as possible to where the customers are. And he said that's one trend. Okay, that's reshoring, that's that process of bringing your manufacturing and your industrialization back to close to you. That's one factor. The other factor is no longer obsolete shopping centers, Okay. And he said let's suppose that you just take every obsolete shopping center and you turn it into a combination of warehouse, factory and distribution center, Okay. Okay, All the existing infrastructure is built in. That's already zone. It's got huge parking, it's got some massive, big spaces like the big anchor stores, some massive big spaces. You already have delivery docks, you have truck docks that go underground and people go yes and everything. And he says but it's obsolete for the purpose it was created for. But he says if you think about it as a nexus point for trade supply routes in other? Words the raw material will come in and then supply routes going out to the actual customers. And he says all of a sudden you got a new use. But people are used to shopping centers, people work in shopping centers, you know and everything else he says well, you know, and they have major, usually they're situated where there's major transportation routes, there's major highways, there's, you know. I mean probably the best shopping centers are in places that have, you know, highway access. They have air airline, you know, ups, and so that he says just look, look at a lot of stuff that already exists. Put it together in a new way and people's habits already supported. Dan: That's smart. Dean: Yeah. Dan: I like those things, so that fits in with the whole. Jeff Bezos, you know what's not going to change in the next 10 years model, looking not at what's going to change, but what's not going to change, because that's what you can anchor on. Dean: Yeah, it's kind of like I'm just watching all the EV companies, the electric vehicle companies, with the exception of Tesla, because they've got a unique, established niche. I don't think any of the other companies that are based on a profit motive are making that forward, shutting, cutting back. Volkswagen is cutting back, gm is cutting back, everybody's cutting back, because they're losing anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000 on a vehicle and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better. Okay, and then, but what made it unnatural is the fact that you had to have massive government insistence for it to even get off the ground. Dan: Yeah, you just kind of hit something on the head there, because Elon Musk has definitely thrown his hat over the fence on electric vehicles and it is dominating the market for it, because he's all in on that, which is something that Ford and Volkswagen and all these companies can't do. They're not, they're only like dabbling in the electric vehicle markets, you know. Dean: Yeah they did it because there were massive subsidies, there was math, you know, and the states like California were mandating. You know, you know, and by 2035 we won't have any fossil fuel vehicles. Okay, and you know, if the strong arm of government's gonna come on and just forbid the alternative, well, of course we're going to invest our future in it. But those governments are going to be thrown out. I bet the government in California is throwing out within 10 years, I mean you know, by the way, that that just reminded me of something. Dan: I just watched the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin. Did you see that? Dean: Yeah, Parts of it. I saw a part Okay. Dan: Yeah, yeah, nothing extraordinary about that. That wasn't what I was getting to. But while Tucker was in Russia, he did a series of short Videos that were just kind of exploring what is it actually like in a, you know, post sanctioned Russia that you know, yeah, since they put sanctions in place and you know, and it was funny because he was describing, you know, like every visual that we have of, you know, communism in Russia is, you know, empty shelves and limited supply and limited Choice and utilitarian things. So he went, he did a interesting series where he went to a Russian Supermarket to see, okay, so what is it like like? What's day-to-day life like in Russia under sanctions during wartime? And it was, you know, the most fascinating like grocery store where you go in and it's the shelves are stopped with Everything you could imagine, all these things. It's a beautiful, clean store, very modern. Everything about it was amazing. They filled up their basket with what would be, you know, a week's worth of groceries for a family of four kind of thing, what you would get if you were kind of feeding a, a family of four and they, you know, found everything. They they wanted a beautifully you know, fresh baked bread, all the staples that you could need. They filled them all up. They all him and the producers kind of guessed that they would have, you know, $400 or 400 worth of groceries if they were buying it in America, kind of thing which was their frame of reference and Turns out they got all of that stuff for like a hundred and four dollars is what it's what it costs. Dean: Yeah, don't you find it fascinating that he found the one supermarket in all of Russia where that was. Dan: That's what I wonder. That's what I want. Dean: No, that's not you think he went there just have passers-by on his own, I don't like to go. Oh yeah, yeah, the Soviets had one in Moscow. It was right near the Kremlin. It was called gum GUM, if you look it up on Wikipedia. Huh, capital G, capital U, capital M, and you went in and it was just well-dressed shoppers, everything you know, I think that's that's might have been where he was. That might have been it, oh yeah, and it's, and it's a show place, it's a show play and that's what they found when they found out the history of it. Shoppers would go in and they would come out the front door and then they go around the block, go through the black door Backdoor and give back everything that they had bought, and then it was restocked on the shelves. Dan: Oh boy. Dean: They were all actors. Dan: Oh, wow, very interesting. I wondered the same thing, because they did. He went to a subway station that he admittedly said was the most beautiful. So we never seen a subway station as nice anywhere in in America and it was. They showed the footage of it. You know, beautiful artwork and chandeliers and steam, cleaned cleanliness and, no, no graffiti, all of those things. And it did have the sense of. Is this a show place? Because there's an interesting YouTube channel. There was a gentleman from the UK and his channel is called bald and bankrupt and what he does is he goes just solo with a single camera and he was touring all these Soviet Territories. All the outposts, you know, like that were the height of the thing, to compare, and every one of it is Just like everything is run down. And you know all of the Soviet Union, you know post Communism is completely, you know, run down. And what you would expect, right, what you would that, your Vision of it, and I think that you kind of just hit it on the head. That's that it's more likely. Dean: That's like a show place or a yeah that that subway system was put in the 1930s. Okay, they had the boss of it, was cruise ships, cruise ships came in the fame Because he put in. But there was. There was no Limit on cost and there was no limit on how many people died. Building, they asked, made about 20,000 workers died. Putting in the subway system Okay and and, but if those are not cost you pay any attention to, then you can build anything in the world. But, if you wanted to go to another city and see the subway, they wouldn't let you do that. You could only see the subway. That they, because subways were a bigger deal you know in the 1930s or 1920s. Then they are now. You know, because most people don't use the subways. But in Europe, you know, where people don't have cars and they live in very dense populated areas, subways make sense. I mean 80 percent of the Public transportation in the United States I'm talking about buses and subways and commuter trains is the greater New York area that once you get outside the New York area, only 20 percent of the public public Transportation public transportation exists because everybody's got private transportation. Dan: Yeah exactly right. Dean: I mean you got your own. I mean you got a plush Travel vehicle called the Tesla X. You know it's kind of neat. You don't use it 99% of the time, but it's nice having you know. Dan: You know what I said. I was talking about you. Yesterday the I was had to drive somewhere that was about an hour away, just over an hour Actually. Dan said a new high watermark for my migration north. I went just about a half an hour north of I for the first time since. What's it like? Dean: I mean do you need oxygen? Dan: I mean you know I was using the self-drive, which is just name. You know it's only in named and as it has a nervous breakdown if you take your hand off the wheel for more than 30 seconds at a time. But I said you know Dan Sullivan has it figured out. Dan Sullivan has had self-drive since 1997. Dean: You've had true self drive, self automatic, self drive you know it's an interesting thing, but what I notice, you know I'm just developing the reason. This thing about the past is interesting because I'm writing my new quarterly book right now and it's called Everything Is Created Backward, and what I mean everything that sticks is actually created by starting with the past and picking the best of, and I think three things is really a formula. I mean, there might be things where it's five things, but I think three is useful because you can go looking for three, okay, and what I'm seeing is that the tech world has basically ground to. A lot of people don't know this, but the investment part, the venture capital part of the tech world, has just hit a wall. I mean, there's a massive amount of money available, but nobody wants to invest it because so many things promised as new things in the last 10 years really haven't amounted to anything. It's about, I think about less, maybe around 10% of IPOs. You know, initial public offerings have panned out Okay. That's a high risk that you have a nine you know, a nine to one chance of losing your money if you invest in something new, and I think the hype factor for getting investment has lost its energy. Dan: Yeah, that's changes everything. This changes everything, oh that's no good, then that's a sure sign that it's doomed. Yeah, this changes everything should be your signal to run away. Dean: Yeah, and you know I mean, but it does change everything for certain individuals and this is the mistake. It's like Joe Polish calls this cruel optimism. Dan: You know cruel optimism Okay. Dean: Yeah, and he has a great take on this, and he said that that when it comes to you know, because he's very interested in addictions and how one gets off an addiction, and he says there's thousands of predictions that if you do this and do this, you get a work for you. And he said what's true about it is it'll work for somebody, okay, but it's their willingness for it to work that actually makes it possible. And so there's a lot of human agency to things turning out the way you want. If you take complete ownership and it has to work for you, probably it'll work. But if you think it's going to be done to you and you don't have to do anything probably it won't work. Yeah, that's a very yeah, but I thought it was. But he says it's very cruel Because when it doesn't work and it doesn't work, and it doesn't work, your addiction gets more powerful. Dan: I said to somebody I've been talking about. I've often talked about the difference between, in marketing, a slot machine versus a vending machine, and that's a great analogy. It's often the way that most businesses take on marketing. They put money in the slot machine and they pull the lever and they hope that something happens and they're surrounded in a room by all the other entrepreneurs. Dean: Yeah, we got two out of three. Or we got two out of three oranges. Dan: We got a trend going here, that's right, so everybody's pulling their slot machine and they're all in the same room and somebody hits the jackpot and they all flock over to that machine. Look at the crowd, See see, see, it works. They're like yeah, trying to do the same thing. And then you know every all the testimonials that you see. That's exactly what that reminded me of. It's cruel optimism that sometimes see it does work, but they're usually talking about something that happened quickly and to a great extent and once. And it's not the same as the predictable vending machines. Not every time I put in the dollar I get $10 out. Dean: But you know, one of them has. One of them comes with a dopamine factor and the vending machine doesn't come with the dopamine factor. Dan: That's the truth, isn't it? Yeah, but we're all seeking that excitement of the the lot machine. Yeah, it's a cruel optimism, that's funny. Dean: I think it's a good. I think it's a good title. You know, he everything but and. But. It has that somebody else's formula for the future is going to work for you. You know, so I have a. You know I have a little saying that in order to create a more, bigger and better future, you have to first start by creating a bigger and better past. And the reason is the past is all yours to work with. The future is nobody's to work with. Dan: Right. Dean: Yeah, and so my feeling is the greatest breakthroughs with the new vision pro, you know and you know the other AI technologies that are coming along with it is that my feeling is that the best breakthroughs for this will be actually an industrial work, where you're actually dealing with existing engineering. You're existing with existing infrastructure and I think quality control is going to go way up, as people can check out every system you know and they look at, you know they go backstage, they go into a boiler room and they can do a check with their goggles on of every piece of machinery and they have a checklist, does this check and does this check and nothing gets missed. And I think it's going to. The great greatest breakthrough is going to be an industrial quality control. I think that's where it's going to be most used Wow and warfare. I mean all the 35, the latest jets. They operate as six pilot, six plane units. And all, every one of the pilots is aware of the other five pilots and what they're doing. Okay, and they operate as this six person unit, their radar allows them to see 500 miles out in all directions. Okay, and they can see any threat coming, probably two or three minutes before the threat sees them, which makes a big difference, you know. So yeah, somebody said, all breakthroughs happen in three ways, all human, technological breakthroughs. Number one is weaponry. Okay, that's number one, number two is toys and number three is porn. Dan: So there's a triple play right there in the making. Dean: There's a triple play. I mean, if you can check off the box, if this is good for warfare, it's good for play and it's good for porn you got yourself a winner. Dan: Oh my goodness. Dean: That's funny, I like within three days. The biggest complaint about Apple's new vision pro was you couldn't do popcorn on it. Dan: You can't I mean, it's funny, isn't it? That's the way, that's the thing, oh man. Dean: Now, instead of being horrified by that, you're being told something important. Dan: Yes, exactly that's great. So this, this is the week, dan, this is our yeah, so we'll be in. Dean: Orlando at the four seas, in Palm Beach at the four seasons. So Thursday evening will be arriving there. I've got all day Friday completely free. And but we already have Saturday for dinner and Sunday dinner in the calendar with others who have requested it. Dan: Okay so so I got lots of time. Okay, so that's my plan Initially. I may come down Friday then, but Saturday was when I was going to arrive, so maybe, let's you know, put Saturday lunch for sure, yeah, if that works for you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and yeah. Dean: So we're completely, you know, completely flexible with those days All my materials for printing have to be in by Tuesday this week. Dan: Okay, so you're gonna. You're a relax and it's all underway. Dean: Yeah, it gets printed out of Chicago and it'll be sent to the team when they get to Palm Beach. It'll be in the four seasons and they'll just have all the materials for the workshop. Dan: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Okay, well, worst case scenario be Saturday at lunch, maybe Friday. I'll come down on Friday, okay. Dean: What'd you get? What'd you get out of today? Dan: Fascinating, I think this whole. I like this idea of the exponential thinker. Dean: I think that I will be there. You should chat with him about it. There's so many people. Dan: I'm looking, really looking forward to seeing everybody it's. I can't believe it's been a year. Dean: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there, anyway, I think we're gonna have a good. We're gonna have a good, a good event. We have about 70 free zoners and we have another 90 guests. Dan: Oh my goodness, wow, okay, great. Yeah, so hopefully that will yield some new free zoners too. Dean: Yeah, okay, dean, see you on Saturday. Thanks, dan, bye, and just let Becca know, you know, and she'll work things out. Dan: Okay, that sounds great, okay, okay, thanks, bye, bye.

The World's #1 Negotiation Coach, Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author "Never Split The Difference" - which has sold over 1 million copies.Chris spent over 24 years in the FBI with 4 years as the chief international hostage and kidnapping negotiator. After working on more than 150 international hostage cases, he retired from the FBI and founded The Black Swan Group.A consultancy and trainer for businesses and individuals on negotiation skillsHe created and narrated a MasterClass, The Art of Negotiation - One of Masterclass's top performing courses.A documentary film - 'Tactical Empathy' - by our mutual good friend - Nick Nanton was released sharing his story.Ross and Chris talk about teaching negotiations, coaching, book - The culture code, making a difference, being driven, workplace awakenings, positive and negative mindsets, vulnerability, naivety, applying new ideas, what we are driven by, how humans are wired, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, labelling dynamics, impact on the brain, bringing things out and reading people. The pair also discuss testing, collaboration, trust, leaving people better, having a more prosperous life, obituaries, help, service, what are we afraid of, overreactions, caveman, extremes, breaking points, playful negotiations, state of playfulness, calming yourself down, turning negative into  positive, coaching real estate agents, knowing your value, insight, discovery, 'what and how questions, exploitation and driving dune buggies.Timecodes:00:47 Chris's bio02:31 Black Swan's background04:34 training entrepreneurs vs corporate06:21 Humans operating differently in different environments, 10:04 Mindsets of entrepreneurs13:46 Tactical empathy18:07 Labelling techniques22:09 Low risk practice 25:20 Treating life like a negotiation28:14 Understanding life29:42 Transition and negotiation of self33:06 Rules stifling creativity36:47 Playfulness at high stakes40:37 Chris's book - The Full Fee Agent43:36 Perspective shifts in relation to negotiation47:26 Overcoming jitters with large scale serious projects and opportunities50:00 The last time Chris did something for the first timeConnect with Chris:LinkedInMasterclassWikipediaBook - Never Split the DifferenceBook - The Full Fee AgentBlack SwanInstagramConnect with Ross:WebsiteLinkedInMoonshot Innovation 

On the latest episode of Now to Next, join host Nick Nanton as he sits down with special guest Joey Coleman, Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author, renowned speaker, and expert in customer and employee retention.In a rapidly changing business landscape, employee retention has become a critical challenge for companies of all sizes. High turnover rates not only hinder productivity but also incur significant costs in recruiting and training new talent. However, Joey Coleman has cracked the code to keep employees loyal, engaged, and committed to their organization like never before.Drawing from his extensive research and experience working with top-tier companies, Joey Coleman will reveal the three crucial stages that define an employee's journey and how businesses can leverage these stages to build lasting relationships with their team members.This episode is packed with beneficial information for you and your business! Enjoy!Timecodes:0:06 - Introduction and overview on the topic of the episode1:04 - The focus on Joey's latest book "Never Lose an Employee Again"2:03 - Where the idea of "Never Lose an Employee Again" came from6:46 - Transparency is paramount9:25 - The behavior of employers is to blame for negative employer-employee relationships12:50 - How Nick reevaluated vacation time for his own company to help employees18:10 - Put the right people around you and you can accomplish anything20:15 - The most successful employers moving forward need these two things27:02 - Employee engagement and team building in the virtual world31:27 - How to get in touch with Joey Coleman and get a copy of "Never Lose an Employee Again"32:30 - Closing remarksConnect With Nick Nanton:WebsiteFacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTube

Join Rebecca as she and Nick Nanton talks about "How to Get Anyone to Do Anything". ____________________________________________________________________ Nick Nanton, from the slums of Port au Prince Haiti with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer, Nick Nanton, has become known for telling stories that connect.  Why? Because he focuses on the most fascinating subject in the world: PEOPLE.  As a storyteller and Best-Selling Author, Nick has shared his message with millions of people through his documentaries, speeches, blogs, lectures, and best-selling books.  Nick's book StorySelling hit the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list and is available on Audible as an audio book.  Nick has directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regions and 22 wins), including:     DREAM BIG: Rudy Ruettiger LIVE on Broadway Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story  Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On Operation Toussaint The Rebound   Nick has shared the stage, co-authored books, and made films featuring:   Larry King Dick Vitale Kenny Chesney Charles Barkley Coach Mike Krzyzewksi Jack Nicklaus Tony Robbins Steve Forbes will.i.am Sir Richard Branson Dean Kamen Ray Kurzweil Lisa Nichols Peter Diamandis And many more   Nick specializes in bringing the element of human connection to every viewer, no matter the subject.  He is currently directing and hosting the series “In Case You Didn't Know” (Season 1 Executive produced by Larry King), featuring legends in the worlds or business, entrepreneurship, personal development, technology, and sports.   Website: https://nicknanton.com/ Instagram: @nicknanton ____________________________________________________________________ Check out my FREE Live webinar, the 3 MUST HAVE Secrets to Communicating with Narcissists RIGHT HERE Learn more about the SLAY Your Negotiation with Narcissists program right here:  www.rebeccazung.com/slay Read the transcript of this episode right here. ____________________________________________________________________ For more information on REBECCA ZUNG, ESQ. visit her website www.rebeccazung.com and follow her on Instagram: @rebeccazung and YouTube!   GRAB YOUR FREE CRUSH MY NEGOTIATION PREP WORKSHEET RIGHT HERE!   SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL RIGHT HERE. PREORDER YOUR COPY OF REBECCA'S NEW BOOK, SLAY THE BULLY: HOW TO NEGOTIATE WITH A NARCISSIST AND WIN RIGHT HERE  THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR INFORMATION:   ❤️ Better Help On Line Therapy: If you are struggling and need help, check out the resources at Better Help right here for online therapy. Please seek the help and support you deserve. https://www.betterhelp.com/RebeccaZung   We receive commissions on referrals to BetterHelp. We only recommend services that we trust.

It's time to SLAY your future negotiations! On the latest episode of Now to Next, we welcome Rebecca Zung, Attorney and Negotiation Expert, for a deep dive into her world and the complexities alongside it. Rebecca has become an expert on dealing with, and negotiating with, narcissistic people. She's created a very successful YouTube channel and provides guidance on navigating these complex relationships in our lives. In today's episode, we dive into her story and what led her down this unique road!Timecodes:0:06 - Introduction and overview on our guest0:30 - Who is Rebecca Zung? 1:10 - Dealing with narcissism throughout her life4:15 - Loving Vs. Virginia6:50 - Being bullied as a child near Washington, DC9:40 - Recognizing someone as a narcissist12:06 - Narcissists target people who hold value14:45 - Traits of a covert narcissist17:22 - "Welcome to Hell!"21:18 - You're not going to remain friends with these people21:58 - What does S.L.A.Y. mean?24:00 - How to create or recognize leverage27:13 - Begin to anticipate their actions and words29:30 - Know you are going to win before you show up31:48 - Empathy is so important 35:50 - What is "love bombing?"39:00 - How to connect with Rebecca Zung online39:30 - Closing remarksConnect With Nick Nanton:WebsiteFacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTube

Join us for an inspiring conversation with guest speaker Nick Nanton as we delve into the power of storytelling to create hope in your life. Nick has created over 60 films and one sold-out Broadway show, with his work featuring remarkable people and organizations such as Rudy Ruettiger, Peter Diamandis, Operation Underground Railroad, folds of Honor, canines for warriors, and more. With over twenty-two Emmy Awards, impact 100 at the United Nations, three gold records, and recognized as a 40 under 40, Nick is a powerhouse in the film and documentary industry. In this episode, we explore how storytelling can be a tool for creating hope in your life, the impact of sharing stories about people who we may never hear about, and how to learn, grow, and transform through storytelling. Tune in to this episode to gain practical insights from Nick and discover how to leverage the power of storytelling to create a positive change in your life. ************* LINKS & RESOURCES ************* Learn how to heal and overcome childhood trauma, narcissistic abuse, ptsd, cptsd, higher ACE scores, anxiety, depression, and mental health issues and illness. Learn tools that therapists, trauma coaches, mindset leaders, neuroscientists, and researchers use to help people heal and recover from mental health problems. Discover real and practical advice and guidance for how to understand and overcome childhood trauma, abuse, and narc abuse mental trauma. Heal your body and mind, stop limiting beliefs, end self-sabotage, and become the HERO of your own story.   Join our FREE COMMUNITY as a member of the Unbroken Nation: https://www.thinkunbrokenacademy.com/share/AEGok414shubQSzq?utm_source=manual  Download the first three chapters of the Award-Winning Book Think Unbroken: Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma: https://book.thinkunbroken.com/  Join the Think Unbroken Trauma Transformation Course: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/  @Michael Unbroken: https://www.instagram.com/michaelunbroken/  Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelunbroken  Learn more at https://www.thinkunbrokenpodcast.com  Listen more about Nick Nanton at: https://nicknanton.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creating value in life takes struggle and perseverance, and many bouts of trial and error. In this episode, Bill talks with Emmy Award-Winning Director and Host Nick Nanton about daring to fail yet still enjoying the process of failing and getting back up again. With all great works, we only see the final, perfect product. But there are always far more versions thrown in the trash.   From the slums of Port au Prince, Haiti, with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer Nick Nanton has become known for telling stories that connect. Why? Because he focuses on the most fascinating subject in the world: PEOPLE. As a storyteller and Best-Selling Author, Nick has shared his message with millions of people through his documentaries, speeches, blogs, lectures, and best-selling books. Nick's book StorySelling hit the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list and is available on Audible as an audiobook. Nick has directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold-out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regions and 22 wins), including:   DREAM BIG: Rudy Ruettiger LIVE on Broadway Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On Operation Toussaint The Rebound   Connect with Nick at: Website: https://nicknanton.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicknanton1   Show notes: [0:09] What is his favorite story to tell? [8:21] On approaching his job gracefully [12:33] What does money mean to Nick? [20:36] Outro     Connect with Bill Bloom  Web: https://www.bloomfinancialco.com/ https://bloomfinancialco.kartra.com/page/bNJ87 Email: bill@bloomfinancial.us  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bloomfinancial/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/retireasyoudesirepodcast   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. (WFS) member FINRA/SIPC. WFS. is separately owned and other entities and/or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of WFS.   Views expressed in this podcast are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide or be a substitute for specific professional financial, tax or legal advice or recommendations for any individuals. Information is based on sources believed to be reliable; however, their accuracy or completeness cannot be guaranteed.

Creating value in life takes struggle and perseverance, and many bouts of trial and error. In this episode, Bill talks with Emmy Award-Winning Director and Host Nick Nanton about daring to fail yet still enjoying the process of failing and getting back up again. With all great works, we only see the final, perfect product. But there are always far more versions thrown in the trash.   From the slums of Port au Prince, Haiti, with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer Nick Nanton has become known for telling stories that connect. Why? Because he focuses on the most fascinating subject in the world: PEOPLE. As a storyteller and Best-Selling Author, Nick has shared his message with millions of people through his documentaries, speeches, blogs, lectures, and best-selling books. Nick's book StorySelling hit the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list and is available on Audible as an audiobook. Nick has directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold-out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regions and 22 wins), including:   DREAM BIG: Rudy Ruettiger LIVE on Broadway Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On Operation Toussaint The Rebound   Connect with Nick at: Website: https://nicknanton.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicknanton1 Show notes: [1:03] What has working been like for Nick for the past two years? [4:48] How old was Nick when he won his first Emmy? [14:33] How does his love for music make him a better storyteller? [28:50] Outro     Connect with Bill Bloom  Web: https://www.bloomfinancialco.com/ https://bloomfinancialco.kartra.com/page/bNJ87 Email: bill@bloomfinancial.us  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bloomfinancial/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/retireasyoudesirepodcast   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. (WFS) member FINRA/SIPC. WFS. is separately owned and other entities and/or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of WFS.   Views expressed in this podcast are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide or be a substitute for specific professional financial, tax or legal advice or recommendations for any individuals. Information is based on sources believed to be reliable; however, their accuracy or completeness cannot be guaranteed.  

Welcome once again to The Million Dollar Relationships podcast! Today, we are being joined by Nick Nanton. Nick is an American director and producer of film and television projects, author, and branding agency executive. He is the co-founder and CEO of DNA Films. He has produced and directed several documentary films, including Dickie V, Operation Toussaint, Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On, Visioneer, and A New Leash on Life: The K9s for Warriors Story. He is also the CEO of the Dicks + Nanton Agency, a celebrity branding agency he co-founded with his business partner J.W. Dicks in Winter Park, Florida. Additionally, Nanton is the creator and host of the Amazon Prime Video interview series, In Case You Didn't Know with Nick Nanton. He has won over 20 Emmy Awards for his work on these projects. Nanton has also written several books, including Celebrity Branding You and Story Selling.   Nick's inspiring story of overcoming financial scarcity and achieving success is featured in this episode. Hear about his journey from a 10-month-old immigrant kid from Barbados to the successful entrepreneur he is today. Nick will discuss how his parents supported him, the mentor who invested in his entertainment company, and the importance of having solid relationships throughout life. This conversation highlights the need for honesty, being open and honest with your family, and understanding that even when you feel alone, some people can provide guidance and support.   Join us as we learn from Nick's story and inspiring journey!   [00:00 - 11:02] Journey of Success and Service ·         Nick shares his story of how he became an entrepreneur out of necessity and did everything from selling candy to teaching tennis lessons. ·         He started building an entertainment company and music with his business partner, eventually serving more than 3000 entrepreneurs in 63 countries worldwide. He uses his funding from his branding business to pursue creative ventures.   [11:02 - 24:45] The Fallacy of Being Self-Made Nick does not believe in "self-made" because everyone is a product of their surroundings. Nick shares the story of the people that influenced his life and business: His parents, brothers, and his business partner, J.W. Dicks. Nick does not have a massive fear of failure because he believes that if he does not do something wrong to dishonor his family or relationships, his family will still support him.    [24:45 - 28:50] Closing Statements ·      Follow Nick on Facebook and  LinkedIn. Also, be sure to check his webpage at https://www.nicknanton.com and his agency at https://www.celebritybrandingagency.com       Thanks for tuning in!    If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe!    Find me on the following streaming platforms: Apple Spotify Google Podcasts IHeart Radio Stitcher     Tweetable Quotes   "When you show up and serve first, by serving people well, opportunity abounds." – Nick Nalton.    

If your business is not where you want it to be, it's because you're not where you need to be...   In this episode of Times Square Today with Nick Nanton, I shared the importance of consistency in being a leader in the real estate market. One of the critical factors to thrive in this field is to maintain a level of consistency in your daily activities.  Leaders show up, are accountable, and don't give up. Remember, you can only lead and coach other people by starting with yourself. If you aim to build a disciplined habit, start with your thinking. Because biggest constraint and reason why we don't reach our full potential is the limiting beliefs we tell ourselves. Change your mindset by consuming content that leads to your goal, joining communities with the same passion and dedication, and putting yourself in an environment that brings out the best of your abilities. Tune in to learn more about how to become an effective leader and achieve your goals in this competitive market!   What Can Help You: Sunday Planning 168 - 168 is the number of hours each of us has every week to live the life we deserve. Get our Sunday Planning 168 framework to establish the right mindset for the week to let you do what the best in the world you're at! My Growth Score - For a business to thrive, create an effective plan that propels it to move forward. Yet, creating a solid strategy requires you to identify your growth constraints. What is preventing your business from growing? Take our 5-minute Growth Score Assessment and discover which of the 8 xXelerated Growth Factors could hold your business back. Book A Discovery Call - As a leader, you want to have strategies that help your business grow fast. You also want to build a strong team and make big changes that will give you freedom. We want to help get you to where you want to be. John Kitchens is the most sought-after systems and processes coach for real estate agents that want to build a business. Book a call with John Kitchens and transform your business and life!     See our best stuff on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnkitchenscoach/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnkitchenscoach YouTube: https://youtube.com/johnkitchenscoach LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/johnkitchenscoach  

Welcome back to Now to Next! On the latest installment, we welcome Mark Schaefer, Author and Marketing Strategist, for a conversation surrounding one of the last great marketing concepts in today's day and age. We're exploring the power of 'community' and why it's become such a powerful marketing tool for businesses and entrepreneurs. We're also diving into Mark's new book "Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy!"This is an episode you won't want to miss, so click that play button now!Timecodes:0:30 - Mark's new book launching January 9th0:58 - Mark's background and bio1:40 - What is branding? 3:20 - A defining moment in Mark's life8:00 - The major factors within community these days9:58 - The granular data that Spotify can collect14:00 - Sharing with others or your community can help you process challenges and trauma17:30 - The connection Mark aims to establish with his readers18:52 - Why community is the last great marketing strategy24:31 - The art and science behind community27:27 - "Status is magnetism"29:00 - The power of listening to your community35:00 - It's okay to start at square one with a new community37:00 - How community works so well with non-profits41:00 - When you can get Mark's new book42:00 - The future of communities and marketing43:56 - Closing remarksConnect With Nick Nanton:WebsiteFacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTube

Welcome back to Now to Next! On the latest installment of the show, we're excited to be joined by Chad Willardson, Author and Founder of Pacific Capital, for a deep dive into his latest book "Smart Not Spoiled," as well as the valuable financial skills we should be teaching our children.If you're a parent and you're wondering how these financial conversations will play out with your young (or future) children, look no further! Timecodes:0:06 - Welcome to the show and introduction on Chad Willardson2:20 - Chad's upbringing and early perception of money6:22 - Jack Canfield's flying analogy7:40 - "Once I hit a certain number, everything will be fine"8:50 - Spreading wealth and money decisions across multiple children12:47 - Where to begin your financial discussions with your children15:26 - "Borrow wisely"17:49 - A portion of every paycheck should be saved and invested for your future22:03 - Find a wealth strategy that helps you sleep better at night27:36 - Expect your children to screw up financially a few times33:00 - Chad's experience with an NBA player and his 7-figure rookie deal37:10 - "Protect who and what you care about"41:42 - "I can't until..."44:25 - You don't invest unless you have a faith in a brighter future46:20 - Closing remarksConnect With Nick Nanton:WebsiteFacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTube

Welcome back to Now to Next! We're thrilled to be joined by Alex Epstein, Philosopher and Energy Expert, for a deep dive into the pressing issues surrounding energy and environmental progress. We'll also explore some of the key themes Alex is sharing within his new book "Fossil Future." Sit back, relax, and enjoy another thought-provoking conversation! Timecodes: 0:20 - Introduction and overview on the guest of the day 2:30 - How Alex got introduced into energy policy 5:00 - If you're talking about getting rid of something, you need to look at its benefits first 6:15 - The three basic worries with fossil fuels 8:50 - Alex's viewpoints on climate change 10:30 - How fossil fuels help alleviate drought 12:50 - Why this issue seems to be so political 15:50 - How Alex manages the positive and negative feedback on his viewpoints 19:41 - It's hard for people to find a middle ground on this issue 23:08 - Addressing the other forms of energy out there 29:45 - Example of using wind power to power hospitals 32:30 - EnergyTalkingPoints.com 38:00 - How well Alex's team vets their information, data and facts 43:47 - How the naysayers have impacted Alex personally 48:00 - You have to love what you're doing for the negative feedback to not matter 51:00 - What's on the horizon for Alex 53:50 - Closing remarks Connect With Nick Nanton:http://www.nicknanton.com/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton (Facebook) http://twitter.com/nicknanton (Twitter) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg (YouTube)

What would you be able to achieve if you weren't afraid of being laughed at? Well, welcome back to Now to Next! On our latest installment of the show, we're pleased to welcome Steve Sims, Founder & CEO of Bluefish, for a great discussion on Steve's new book "Go For Stupid"and the art of achieving ridiculous goals in your life. As Steve puts, in this age of "gotcha" culture, it's important that we push through the negativity to achieve what matters most to us! Timecodes: 0:20 - Introduction and catching up with Steve 4:45 - Learning more about Steve's upcoming book "Go For Stupid" 7:14 - The network effect of meeting people at high levels 11:54 - You need to take the risks and bank on yourself 20:34 - The process of goal planning and goal setting 27:00 - Social awareness and the art of asking versus demanding 34:24 - Rejection hurts, but don't let it kill your goals 42:05 - The value within Steve's new book "Go For Stupid" 42:27 - The story around "Kenneth the Bartender" 47:00 - Closing remarks Connect With Nick Nanton:http://www.nicknanton.com/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton (Facebook) http://twitter.com/nicknanton (Twitter) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg (YouTube)

What are your targets for Q4 and entering 2023? In today's episode of the coach code podcast, John and Wally share powerful insights on important things that impact the remaining months of the year with the right mindset, focus, and action plan. You'll learn several strategies for doing negotiations effectively as Wally provides techniques that can help you close deals smoothly. This includes asking the right questions when dealing with objections and putting in the effort. In today's market, putting effort is one of the key elements that will help breed skills. You have to have the mindset that outworks everyone in your field. This will help you to accelerate your business goals. Wally firmly believes that in all the effort that you're doing, there is a code to doing business with the people in the marketplace. You have to establish yourself as an expert in the field and have a deep understanding of everything to be able to add value to the people you are dealing with.  John emphasizes visibility. The struggle of agents currently is not being clear with their numbers, targets, and metrics that are crucial in how to handle your business like a business. As a leader or agent, you have to know where you need to improve, and this only works if you track your numbers. You'll go back to the things that work and don't work. Giving you transparency and clarity on where you are right now in business and in life.  John and Wally give out their strategy for being in the right headspace, keeping their stress level low, and being able to focus and have the right mindset. You'll get an amazing perspective on activities that will help, such as mindful meditation, journaling, and affirmations. This will help your brain be intentional in whatever you're doing at the present moment. Don't forget to check out Wally's book which talks about being at rock bottom and how he was able to transform his business and life!     Show Notes 1:08 John Received an EXP Award John Kitchens received an EXP award from the Success Summit for his appearance in Times Square.    2:36 Traditional Negotiation Strategy Wally shares a story about a documentary of a negotiator who worked for the NY Police, FBI, and US Government overseas. He talked about traditional strategies that you can use to negotiate your Real Estate deals.   5:07 Code To Doing Business Wally shares his insight about the things we need to consider as we close into the last quarter of the year and move on to 2023. You have to take into consideration of your strategy by doing the right things in the right order. He firmly believes that there's a code to doing business with people in the market. You have to establish yourself as an expert in the field and have a deep understanding of everything about the market to be able to give good advice to people.    7:58 Qualified and Ready Start going deep into conversations that you have with your clients. This helps you understand their goals and ensure that you are compatible with them.    8:16 Ask Questions When dealing with objections, always ask questions. You've got to do more than you did before getting where you want to be by asking the right questions.   13:48 Visibility There are real estate agents who are not clear with their metrics, targets, and numbers. Visibility is one of the most important things in business. Wally shares his strategy for having clarity in implementing plans that provide visibility in his business.   17:08 Know Where You Need Improvement Having people track their numbers will give you insight not only into the things that are achieved but also into what's working and not working. This gives you transparency on every aspect of your business.   21:34 Put In The Effort John and Wally talk about how effort is one of the key components in today's market. Are you putting in the effort? Are you meeting the standard? Have a mindset that outworks everyone in your industry by putting in the effort. In the words of Wally, he said that effort breeds skills.    27:48 Leading To Conversations You have to choose the activities that work. Be intentional in what you're doing, and with the help of marketing and branding, this can lead your business to grow. Always ask yourself as an agent if the activity you're doing will drive you to a conversation with your client.    31:56 What Chapter Are You On? John provided a profound explanation of the gap and the gain concept. You look at different chapters of another person who is already successful in the business. However, they were in the game for decades, and the effort and work they put in for the longest time from the time they started is different from where you are starting right now.   34:25 Building Momentum John observed that in the last couple of years, people have formed bad habits and are being rewarded for their bad behavior. This is where reluctance kicks in. Wally gave a sensible way to build momentum and help strengthen yourself to move barriers. He touched on the topic of how awareness is a powerful tool in making the changes you need to make.   38:38 Mindful Meditation Wally and John share how they get in the right headspace to be able to focus and have the right mindset. Having mindful meditation, affirmations, and journaling can train your brain to not let destructive, negative, and disempowering emotions come in. Your brain will work according to how you set them daily.    42:50 About Wally's Book Wally opens up about his book being relatable to people who have been in the same situation as him. He inspires people with the changes he made in his life, and how he transformed from rock bottom to where he is now. He believes that once you tell your story; you take the power of your painful past out. He empowers people to acknowledge situations that happened to them to move forward.

On the latest installment of Now to Next, we're so excited to welcome Remi Adeleke back to the show for another great conversation! Remi, a former Navy SEAL, author, and filmmaker, has just released his latest movie entitled "The Unexpected." The film captures the horrific reality of organ harvesting and means to bring awareness to this global issue. Join us for an enlightening conversation on this issue and some key takeaways on such a controversial topic. Timecodes: 0:25 - Introduction and overview on Remi 1:45 - Remi's appearance on Michael Bay's film "Ambulance" 2:50 - How Remi chose the topic of his movie The Unexpected 6:29 - The horrific reality of human trafficking 9:05 - Human trafficking is happening right here in our country 10:20 - Best way to support Remi and see his new movie The Unexpected 11:24 - What is organ harvesting? 17:50 - Organ harvesting happens in the most vulnerable places worldwide 22:13 - The demand for organs is through the roof 25:45 - What Remi learned about himself and this topic while making the movie 30:00 - Directing scripted material and the challenges associated with that 31:45 - "You have to rely on others and their abilities to make something special" 34:58 - Where to learn more about Remi's fascinating life story 36:18 - Bringing awareness to this massive issue 39:13 - Closing remarks Resources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xUwS39mFs0&ab_channel=RemiAdeleke (Remi's New Movie: The Unexpected) Connect With Nick Nanton:http://www.nicknanton.com/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton (Facebook) http://twitter.com/nicknanton (Twitter) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg (YouTube)

On this week's episode, Nick Nanton, 22-Time Emmy Award winning Director and Producer, tells us how important it is to have those big dreams and goals but also why you need to be realistic with your next step. He drops some wisdom on how to be more self-aware and how that will help you connect with more people both through the lens and with clients and colleagues. He also talks about the importance of having a solid team around you so you can focus on the things that you are uniquely gifted at. Key Takeaways Building momentum is the key to getting things done Have big dreams but also set smaller goals that will make you happy Stay in your lane and build a team around you to do the rest Everyone has a unique story to tell  About Nick Nanton From the slums of Port au Prince Haiti with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer, Nick Nanton, has become known for telling stories that connect. Why? Because he focuses on the most fascinating subject in the world: PEOPLE.  As a storyteller and Best-Selling Author, Nick has shared his message with millions of people through his documentaries, speeches, blogs, lectures, and best-selling books. Nick's book StorySelling hit the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list and is available on Audible as an audio book. Nick has directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regions and 22 wins), including: DREAM BIG: Rudy Ruettiger LIVE on Broadway Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On Operation Toussaint The Rebound Nick has shared the stage, co-authored books, and made films featuring: Larry King Dick Vitale Kenny Chesney Charles Barkley Coach Mike Krzyzewksi Jack Nicklaus Tony Robbins Steve Forbes will.i.am Sir Richard Branson Dean Kamen Ray Kurzweil Lisa Nichols Peter Diamandis And many more Nick specializes in bringing the element of human connection to every viewer, no matter the subject. He is currently directing and hosting the series “In Case You Didn't Know” (Season 1 Executive produced by Larry King), featuring legends in the worlds of business, entrepreneurship, personal development, technology, and sports. In This Episode   Creatives need to make a good living so they can make bigger and better things [3:11] It's important to have big dreams but you need to have realistic expectations [5:46] Momentum is hard to build but it's crucial in getting to your dreams [12:17] Nicks greatest superpower [14:46] Branding is nothing more than good storytelling [17:01] When you realize your message is more important than yourself, that's when breakthrough happens [20:52] Quotes “You were probably born into this world with innate gifts that were probably beaten out of you for 13 to 15 to 17 years, in college, or undergrad, or grad school. l and all we really need to do is look to what are those things that were beaten out of us that we are really gifted at when we were 0-5 like how do we get back to just doing those things.” [8:19] “Literally all we get is this journey, so like try to find a way to enjoy it and try to set milestones and goals that will make you happy when you achieve them because you haven't placed yourself outside the realm of possibility.” [13:59] Links FREE Workshop Available "How to Consistently Earn Over $100k Per Year in Video Production While Working Less Than 40 Hours Per Week" Get the ASCEND Method Cheat Sheet Join the Grow Your Video Business Facebook Group  Register for the Onward Summit (October 2022) Find Nick Nanton online Follow Nick on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Follow Ryan Koral on Instagram Follow Grow Your Video Business on Instagram What's your question for the podcast? Share a video or audio response! Additional Links: Check out the full show notes page If you haven't already, we'd love it if you would take 1 minute to leave us a review on iTunes!

Creating value in life takes struggle and perseverance, and many bouts of trial and error. In this episode, Bill talks with Emmy Award-Winning Director and Host Nick Nanton about daring to fail yet still enjoying the process of failing and getting back up again. With all great works, we only see the final, perfect product. But there are always far more versions thrown in the trash.   From the slums of Port au Prince, Haiti, with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer Nick Nanton has become known for telling stories that connect. Why? Because he focuses on the most fascinating subject in the world: PEOPLE. As a storyteller and Best-Selling Author, Nick has shared his message with millions of people through his documentaries, speeches, blogs, lectures, and best-selling books. Nick's book StorySelling hit the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller list and is available on Audible as an audiobook. Nick has directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold-out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regions and 22 wins), including:   DREAM BIG: Rudy Ruettiger LIVE on Broadway Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story Rudy Ruettiger: The Walk On Operation Toussaint The Rebound   Connect with Nick at: Website: https://nicknanton.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicknanton1   Show notes: [2:17] What has working been like for Nick for the past two years? [6:02] How old was Nick when he won his first Emmy? [15:47] How does his love for music make him a better storyteller? [30:16] What is his favorite story to tell? [38:29] On approaching his job gracefully [42:40] What does money mean to Nick? [49:34] Keep up with Nick [50:43] Outro     Connect with Bill Bloom  Web: https://www.bloomfinancialco.com/ https://bloomfinancialco.kartra.com/page/bNJ87 Email: bill@bloomfinancial.us  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bloomfinancial/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/retireasyoudesirepodcast   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. (WFS) member FINRA/SIPC. WFS. is separately owned and other entities and/or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of WFS.   Views expressed in this podcast are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide or be a substitute for specific professional financial, tax or legal advice or recommendations for any individuals. Information is based on sources believed to be reliable; however, their accuracy or completeness cannot be guaranteed.

Today, I'm speaking to my good friend, Nick Nanton. In addition to being a musician, author, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney, he's a 22-time Emmy award-winning documentary film and Broadway director/producer. He's interviewed a ton of famous people, including Larry King, Jack Nicklaus, Peter Diamandis, Tony Robbins, Richard Branson, will.i.am, Robert Kiyosaki, Dan Sullivan, Jack Canfield, and too many more to list. He's also the co-founder of the Celebrity Branding Agency®, which helps business owners become celebrity experts in their field. They represent more than 3,000 clients in 60 countries around the world. I wanted to explore Nick's approach to entrepreneurship. It's one where business and art intersect to create truly unique experiences—not just for him but for the people who are willing to take a chance on his ideas. You'll hear how he creatively raises money to fund his films and why his investors aren't looking for your typical ROI. We also discuss his creative process for filmmaking, how he operates and manages his agency, company culture, branding, storytelling, and why celebrities are banging down the door to work with him. Key Takeaways with Nick Nanton Getting a seat at the table and networking with the most recognized celebrities in the world. Leaving law to go all-in on entrepreneurship. Hear how Nick went from freelance clown, tennis coach, and screen printer, to celebrity brand builder and agency owner. How to build credibility and attract clients who are the right fit. Creating a unique culture that people are excited to be a part of. Nick's creative approach to getting people to invest in his films. Investing that grants you access. The formula for a life well lived - ⅓ earning, ⅓ learning, and ⅓ serving. How Nick creates an unfair advantage over his competition. Never hire someone you don't admire. Subscribe to the Podcast We hope you enjoy this episode and that you find some golden nuggets within this interview. Trust us, it's there! If you want episodes delivered straight to your inbox, consider subscribing to the show and we'll email you each time a new episode is released! Thanks for tuning it & keep being awesome. BAM!

In this episode, Nancy and Jose are joined in studio for a great conversation with two passionate literacy advocates: John Corcoran, the author of "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" as well as the Founder of the John Corcoran Foundation, and Nick Nanton, the 22-time Emmy Award winning director and producer. John and Nick are also partners on the soon to be released documentary, "The Truth About Reading." Listen as John tells his powerful story of learning to read at age 48 and how he enlisted the storytelling skills of Nick in creating their new documentary. You'll also hear Nick discuss their three goals for the documentary: present a fair and balanced presentation on illiteracy, create a discussion about the need to try new methods while maintaining successful methods, and to help find the resources for families, students and adults struggling with the time and the money to improve. Some amazing takeaways from the interview with John Corcoran and Nick Nanton: - "You cannot succeed" unless one can read, write and spell- The importance of being truthful and not blameful in improving literacy in America- The importance of improved teacher training to deliver better reading instruction- If America helps more citizens read, it will "fill a hole in its soul"- Improving literacy will take courageous political leadership - The answers to the Rapid Fire questions! A truly great interview from two purposeful gap minders. Thank you, John and Nick for joining us on The Gap Minders and for being the literacy champions that you are. Enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the show. If you have any questions or want to contact Nancy or Jose, please send an email to podcast@uwsd.org. Thank you for listening.To learn more about the two social impact organizations making The Gap Minders possible, please visit www.TheGapMinders.org.

On this episode of Stuck to Unstoppable, Nick Nanton drops gem after gem! Topics include: pain being a catalyst for who a person becomes; the importance of serving others; seeing people as collaborators and not competitors, and so much more! Nick also shares some of his career background involving how he began creating documentaries, finding himself in an affluent network, and reveals what his ideal leacy would look like. Check out this phenomenal episode and tell us some of your takeaways! Keep Up with Nick: Website: https://nicknanton.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton?ref=ts Nick's Book: “Story Selling” https://www.amazon.com/Story-Selling-Nick-Nanton/dp/0988641879  ABOUT STEPHEN: From homelessness to heartfelt industry leader, Stephen Scoggins is an 8 figure serial entrepreneur of multiple businesses who has dedicated himself to serving the person he used to be. His goal is to reach and assist one million people in their journey to becoming who they want to be. CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_sco... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephenscogg... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephensc... Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephen_scoggin FREE RESOURCES: Stuck to Unstoppable Podcast: https://stephenscoggins.com/stuck-to-... Website: https://www.stephenscoggins.com Free eBooks & Resources: https://www.stephenscoggins.com/resou... Blog: https://stephenscoggins.com/blog/  

Here's a quote from today's guest, Nick Nanton “…how you respond to adversity is what prepares you for whatever's coming next…” Nick Nanton is a successful director, musician, TV and podcast host. Having directed over sixty documentaries and written numerous songs for popular artists it would seem there's nothing he can't do. He joins Dr. […] The post Focus on What You Can Control appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Here's a quote from today's guest, Nick Nanton “…how you respond to adversity is what prepares you for whatever's coming next…” Nick Nanton is a successful director, musician, TV and podcast host. Having directed over sixty documentaries and written numerous songs for popular artists it would seem there's nothing he can't do. He joins Dr. Lycka today to talk about the life lessons he's learned and the wisdom that continues to drive him.   Guest Bio:  Director and Producer Nick Nanton has created over 60 films and one sold-out Broadway show. He has won 22 Emmy Awards and is currently the host of “In Case You Don't Know, with Nick Nanton” on Amazon Prime.   Guest Contact Info: WEBSITE: https://nicknanton.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/nicknanton LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/nicknantonesq     Thanks for listening to the show! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation, please email me at allen@drallenlycka.com or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka.    We would love to have you join us there, and welcome your messages. We check our Messenger often.   As a big thank you for listening to our podcast, we'd like to offer you a free copy of Dr. Lycka's bestselling book. The show is built on “The Secrets to Living A Fantastic Life.” Get your free copy by clicking here: https://secretsbook.now.site/home   We are building a community of like-minded people in the personal development/self-help/professional development industries, and are always looking for wonderful guests for our show. If you have any recommendations, please email us!   Dr. Allen Lycka's Social Media Links Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dr_allen_lycka/ Twitter:  https://www.twitter.com/drallenlycka LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenlycka YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/c/drallenlycka   Subscribe to the show We would be honored to have you subscribe to the show – you can subscribe to the podcast app on your mobile device.   Leave a review We appreciate your feedback, as every little bit helps us produce even better shows. We want to bring value to your day, and have you join us time and again.  Ratings and reviews from our listeners not only help us improve, but also help others find us in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes or your favorite app goes a long way! Thank you!

On the latest installment of Now to Next, we welcome entrepreneur and the founder and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight, Keith Ferrazzi, to the show to discuss competing in the new world of work. Listen as Keith provides an overview on his latest book, ‘Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest,' which is based on 2,000 interviews he and his team conducted with leaders throughout the pandemic. The book provides a guideline for how we can all capitalize on what we've learned over the past two years to stay competitive in the workplace of the future. There's a lot of great information packed into this episode that is bound to leave you with some considerations for your own business. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the discussion! Timecodes: 0:43 - Introduction and background information on Keith Ferrazzi 2:41 - Adaptability and how unique of a skill it is 10:15 - Building culture with virtual teams 21:40 - Best practices for team communication 23:47 - 80% of the US Prison Population came from foster care 25:14 - Keith's work with foster care 27:17 - How you can learn more from Keith Resources:https://www.goforwardtowork.com/book (Keith's New Book!) Connect With Nick Nanton:http://www.nicknanton.com/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton (Facebook) http://twitter.com/nicknanton (Twitter) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOvnpNMTX4pKVIi234pOTg (YouTube)

The GIFTED Show brings inspiring, impactful conversations with best-selling authors, revolutionary researchers and entrepreneurial mavericks, broadcasting voices that the millions all around the world need to hear to unleash their gift on the world, and become the changemaker they were destined to be.So who are the guests?Lisa Nichols is a New York Times best-selling author who has prevented over 3,800 teen suicides, and the winner of the Humanitarian award for South Africa, Lisa is quite the inspiration.Founder of Motivating the Masses, INC, Lisa has gone on to develop programs that have transformed the lives of people all around the world. A motivational speaker featured on the likes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and The Larry King Now, Lisa is nothing short of incredible.Our second guest is the superb Martin Latulippe. The Human, speaker, and coach, Martin is another best-selling author who enables others to build a bullet-proof mindset through his famously unorthodox mentoring methods.A dreamer first and foremost, Martin was the youngest speaker in Canadian history to be inducted into the Canadian Speakers Hall of Fame. Helping thousand worldwide drastically improve their results while working alongside some of the biggest brands in the world.And last but no means least, Nick Nanton.Nominated for an incredible 43 Emmys and winner of an astounding 22, Nick has worked with the likes of Larry King, Tony Robbins, and Sir Richard Branson to name a few. Dubbed ‘The Voice of a new generation' by Larry King himself, Nick's true passion is telling stories that truly connect.A Wall Street Journal best-selling author and Co-founder of the largest personal branding agency in the world, Nick has helped thousands craft their message, build their platform and share their gifts with the world.To have all three of these brilliant minds together was simply breathtaking.Be prepared to have your perception of what can really be achieved blown out of the water.The GIFTED Show host Giovanni Marsico is the founder of Archangel - the world's largest community of entrepreneurs, coaches, and Changemakers on a mission to change lives, change ourselves, and change the world. He's had 25,000+ people attend his live events, thousands transformed with his coaching programs, and is now the host of The GIFTED Show - an episodic podcast experience that helps you share your gift with the world. Giovanni has also created a new genre of film: "Real-Life Superhero Movies" - where his first documentary, DREAMER, has won 3 Emmy awards.You can follow Giovanni: Archangel Academy: https://archangel.cc/Giovanni Marsico Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giftedwithgio/Giovanni Marsico Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiftedentrepreneur/Giovanni Marsico LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovannimarsico/#gifted #weareallgifted #changemaker #selfimprovement #personaldevelopment #dreams #business #journey #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #motivation #manifestation #growth #mindset #success

OFFICIAL TEASER for The GIFTED Show - a podcast experience by Giovanni Marsico (Coming March 3rd). Giovanni is a 3x Emmy-Winning Producer, Founder & CEO at Archangel Academy, Business Mentor to Changemakers, TEDx Speaker.Archangel Academy is a community of superhero entrepreneurs, leaders and game changers that are making the world a better place through mission-driven entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Giovanni hosts his large-scale fundraiser in Toronto every September for thousands of entrepreneurs called Archangel Summit where all of the proceeds are used to support various charities and offer micro-loans, investments, and grants to entrepreneurs creating positive impact. He also runs an invitation-only, private community called Archangel Masters for highly successful entrepreneurs impacting the lives of millions of people.From Host Giovanni Marsico."I believe that we are all GIFTED.I believe that inside you, me, and every one of us is a GIFT that we can share to change the lives of others.And I believe that we all need each other's support, now more than ever, to unleash these gifts.On March 3rd, something big is coming.It's called The GIFTED Show.It's not a podcast or YouTube show.It's way different, and bigger.It's a movement, wrapped up in an episodic journey.And instead of the traditional 1on1 interviews, in each episode I invite 2 or 3 world class masters, as if me, you, and them are all out for dinner, having the most transformative conversations ever.And then each episode builds on the next, like an epic TV series.In our first few episodes dropping March 3rd on YouTube and iTunes you'll hear from Jim Kwik, Dr. Nicole LePera, Lisa Nichols, Gareb Shamus, David Neagle, Martin Latulippe, Nick Nanton, Sally Hogshead, and Jonathan Fields.I've spent the past 8 years building a global community and network of Gifted humans…and It's time for me to introduce them to you.The journey begins March 3rd. Stay tuned for more details and exclusive clips dropping over the next few weeks."#weareallgifted

We're thrilled and honored to welcome Emmy Award Winning Director Nick Nanton to the Sound Connections Podcast! Nick has produced numerous award-winning documentaries featuring visionaries, such as Larry King and Rudy Ruettiger. In addition to his documentary work, Nick has been writing songs for over 2 decades and has had his songs recorded by top artists like Lee Brice, Joe Bryson, and Morgan Myles. His songs have also appeared on TV shows like Glee, New Girl, Hell's Kitchen, and The Ghost Whisperer, and he's been awarded multiple Gold records. Somehow, in addition to all of that, Nick finds the time to host his own podcast. Now to Next with Nick Nanton is available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts and gives Nick the opportunity to sit down with specialists from a wide variety of industries to discuss what's happening and what the future holds. For more information on Nick, check out his website NickNanton.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Make sure to listen and subscribe to the Sound Connections podcast on your favorite podcasting apps including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts!

What a great opportunity to speak with 22-Time Emmy Award Winning Documentary Film and Broadway Director/Producer, Nick Nanton on the Legacy Leaders Show!As a master storyteller Nick is known for sharing stories that connect and make impact on a global scale through his largest personal branding agency in the world, DNA and his powerful documentaries. You simply don't want to miss this episode, Champions!

Nick Nanton is bringing heart & hope to every conversation

*NOTE* - Apologies for the poor quality of Daniel's side of the conversation in this episode. It does improve during the episode. This was due to a technical issue. Thank you for your patience & understanding. Welcome to this episode of the Beyond Success Podcast. This series of conversations with business experts and captains of industry, is here to serve you in your growth as an entrepreneur. No matter what level of success you are at, there are always areas of growth open to us. So please join us in the collective uplift by listening, learning, enjoying and sharing this podcast! In this episode, Dan has an incredible conversation with 22-Time Emmy Award-Winning Director, Best-Selling Author and Keynote Speaker: Nick Nanton. Nick shares the story of where he came from, his philosophy on topics like networking, mentorship, growth and so much more! Nick has worked with some of the biggest names, produced some highly regarded films and scaled the dizzying heights of the film production industry. He spends his time giving back by helping other entrepreneurs, thought leaders and businesses share their message and mission with the world through media. If you are struggling with where to take your business, how to grow your offering or just be of greater service to others: this conversation can help! Connect with Nick here: Website: https://nicknanton.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Nicknanton?ref=ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicknanton/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nicknantonesq Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ Want to manifest money now? Play the 'Money Game' to harness the power of micro-shifting to attract abundance immediately. Get your Ebook for $1. Buy NOW. Do you want inevitable & sustainable financial abundance, based on your own unique 'Money DNA'? Watch our brand new webinar Interested in working with Dan 1-2-1? In collaboration with other highly successful experts, he will help you reach financial freedom in 6 months or less: Apply Here *PLEASE RATE US AND SHARE* Join me on: Facebook Instagram Twitter Music Credit: "The Dreamer", Common Timestamps of interest: 01:30 - Welcome Nick 03:57 - How many EMMYS?! 04:50 - Where did Nick's story begin? 09:36 -A framework to follow your dream 13:50 - “Freedom is only ever found within boundaries” 17:10 - Try not to tie your self-worth up in your projects 19:33 - Money is just one struggle, don't ignore the others 22:07 - Don't wish the journey away, that's what life is all about! 26:55 - Giving up your time & freedom for money is getting it backwards 29:44 - Perspective shifts everything - Mentorship 34:00 - What's next for Nick?

Nick Nanton is an Emmy Award Winning Director, Podcast Host of Now to Next, Branding Expert at Celebrity Branding Agency and Storyteller at DNA Films. Nick's directed more than 60 documentaries and a sold-out Broadway Show (garnering 43 Emmy nominations in multiple regional and national competitions, and 22 wins). He's made films and shows featuring:…Continue reading ➞ Nick Nanton, Emmy Award Winning Director, Telling Your Story – Episode 142The post Nick Nanton, Emmy Award Winning Director, Telling Your Story – Episode 142 first appeared on Mike Malatesta.

Stories sell, change minds. Stories work yet so few know how to tell good ones in the federal space. 16 time Emmy award winning producer/director, Nick Nanton, reveals Hollywood's script to gut punching story telling... Hint, it's not about the tech.

This week's episode is with Nick Nanton, An Emmy Award-Winning Director and Producer. Nick produces media and branded content for top thought leaders and media personalities around the world. Recognised as a leading expert on branding and storytelling, Nick has authored more than two-dozen Best-Selling books (including The Wall Street Journal Best-Seller, StorySellingTM) and produced and directed more than 50 documentaries, earning 15 Emmy Awards and 26 nominations. Nick speaks to audiences internationally on the topics of branding, entertainment, media, business and storytelling at major universities and events. Nick has worked on everything from large scale events to television shows with the likes of Steve Forbes, Ivanka Trump, Sir Richard Branson, Larry King, Jack Nicklaus, Rudy Ruettiger (inspiration for the Hollywood Blockbuster, RUDY), Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield (The Secret, creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® Series), and many more. In this show we cover: The similarities between having a connection with your audience and sharing a good story The biggest mistakes that business owners and entrepreneurs make when it comes to storytelling How you can adapt storytelling to grow your business The process for creating your story How celebrities and influencers are using storytelling to grow their personal brand Visit Nick's website: www.CelebrityBrandingAgency.com Watch Nick's latest documentary on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Didnt-Know-Nick-Nanton/dp/B07KWHYPY3 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicknanton/ This show is hosted by Ultra-High Personal Productivity Authority, Business Strategist, Former Elite Athlete, Author and Public Speaker. The Game Changers Experience will take your life and business to the next level as part of our mission of serving entrepreneurial communities globally and impact 100,000 entrepreneurs to become a game changer. Connect with Adam by clicking here Follow him on Instagram  Get access to his bonuses and event invitations by clicking here  Listen to him on YouTube  Become a Game Changer in the Game Changers Facebook Group 

EP 20 - In this week's episode of The Lawman's Lounge, Bill "The Lawman" Umansky of The Umansky Law Firm hosts Nick Nanton. Emmy Award winning Director. Producer, Author, Attorney, Speaker, and Branding Expert. You won't want to miss him. If you're searching for answers for your business during this unprecedented time, search no further. Tune in every Tuesday morning for a new episode!

  Welcome to the LI Law Podcast.  The premise of this podcast is to feature issues, developments, and topics affecting the law and how it relates to the 8 million of us who live or work on Long Island, New York, which includes Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, and Kings Counties.  During the Covid-19 health crisis, episodes will be published as soon as they are recorded to keep listeners updated on the most up-to-date legal developments on Long Island.  Our guest on this 51st episode is Yael N. Lazar, Esq.  Yael's law practice in Locust Valley, New York is concentrated in estate planning and tax law practice with an emphasis on protecting families today while securing their unpredictable future.   Her legal expertise includes the preservation of wealth and values-based planning with unique Kids Protection Plans®.  Yael advises all types of families: traditional, divorced, blended, alternative, or single with children. Yael Lazar graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 1995 and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ira J. Raab in the 1st District Court of Nassau County.  She worked briefly for the Law Offices of Martin H. Scher before starting her own matrimonial and family law practice, which included not only divorce, custody and child support cases, but also estate planning and real estate closings. After finding that many of her clients were left with tax issues following their divorces, Yael formed IRSAngel, a separate department of her firm, which handles all aspects of tax resolution work, including tax preparation. Yael is recognized as a specialist in the IRS Problem-Solving Niche and won Long Island Press's Best of Long Island in 2012. In addition to becoming a US Tax Agent, she has participated in and completed live seminars and trainings across the United States to gain specialized knowledge about the most up-to-date and effective solutions for dealing with IRS and other tax problems.  In addition to helping taxpayers end their frustration and fear created by communications with the IRS, she is the author of the book, Help for Your IRS Problem and co-author of the best-selling book Protect and Defend: Proven Strategies from America's Leading Attorneys to Help You Protect and Defend Your Business, Family and Wealth.  Yael has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX on Meet The Experts hosted by Nick Nanton.  She has also been a frequent guest on the WNYH radio show Give Yourself Credit as well as the local TV show The Hot Seat.  Listeners who contact Yael today via telephone at 516-683-1313 or by email at info@estateplanningangel.com will receive a free Family Wealth Planning Session and a link to a free e-book which provides a quick, fun, and friendly, and essential guide to legal planning for busy parents. Yael N. Lazar, Esq.'s contact information is: Telephone: (516) 683-1313 E-mail: yaellazaresq@gmail.com Website: www.estateplanningangel.com Welcome to the podcast, Yael. Please contact us with your general questions or comments at LILawPodcast@gmail.com.  Zehava Schechter, Esq. specializes in estate planning, administration and litigation; real estate law; and contracts and business law. Her law practice is located on Long Island and New York City. No podcast is a substitute for competent legal advice.  Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have. Be well and stay safe!    

After starting his business in possibly the worst year for financial markets i.e. 2008, Shashank Shekhar has led the company to be one of the fastest growing mortgage companies in America by helping thousands of families secure better financing for their homes. Arcus Lending was recently named to the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America (aka “Most Exclusive Club in Business”). This dramatic growth has been built on the pillars of legendary customer service and unrelenting focus on education. Shashank lives and breathes the mantra “We are in the customer service and education business, we just happen to do mortgages.” Amazon.com #1 best-selling author and international speaker Shashank is widely regarded as “America's Premier Mortgage Expert”. He is the expert guest of TV and radio show – “Mortgage Matters” and author of widely acclaimed books – “First Time Home Buying 101”, “Real Estate Unleashed“ and latest #1 best-seller “My First Home”. Besides writing one of the top mortgage blogs in the country, Shashank also gets invited to blog on several of the top mortgage and real estate websites. He has been quoted/featured on Yahoo! News, FOX Radio, Washington Post, Bankrate.com, Financial Times (London) and several other media for his expertise. He was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning director Nick Nanton on his TV show. His awards include: “150 Million Club” by Mortgage Professional America for three years in a row“Top 40 Under 40″ most influential mortgage professionals in the country  by National  Read more... After starting his business in possibly the worst year for financial markets i.e. 2008, Shashank Shekhar has led the company to be one of the fastest growing mortgage companies in America by helping thousands of families secure better financing for their homes. Arcus Lending was recently named to the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America (aka “Most Exclusive Club in Business”). This dramatic growth has been built on the pillars of legendary customer service and unrelenting focus on education. Shashank lives and breathes the mantra “We are in the customer service and education business, we just happen to do mortgages.” Amazon.com #1 best-selling author and international speaker Shashank is widely regarded as “America's Premier Mortgage Expert”. He is the expert guest of TV and radio show – “Mortgage Matters” and author of widely acclaimed books – “First Time Home Buying 101”, “Real Estate Unleashed“ and latest #1 best-seller “My First Home”. Besides writing one of the top mortgage blogs in the country, Shashank also gets invited to blog on several of the top mortgage and real estate websites. He has been quoted/featured on Yahoo! News, FOX Radio, Washington Post, Bankrate.com, Financial Times (London) and several other media for his expertise. He was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning director Nick Nanton on his TV show. His awards include: “150 Million Club” by Mortgage Professional America for three years in a row“Top 40 Under 40″ most influential mortgage professionals in the country  by National  Read more...

After starting his business in possibly the worst year for financial markets i.e. 2008, Shashank Shekhar has led the company to be one of the fastest growing mortgage companies in America by helping thousands of families secure better financing for their homes. Arcus Lending was recently named to the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America (aka “Most Exclusive Club in Business”). This dramatic growth has been built on the pillars of legendary customer service and unrelenting focus on education. Shashank lives and breathes the mantra “We are in the customer service and education business, we just happen to do mortgages.” Amazon.com #1 best-selling author and international speaker Shashank is widely regarded as “America's Premier Mortgage Expert”. He is the expert guest of TV and radio show – “Mortgage Matters” and author of widely acclaimed books – “First Time Home Buying 101”, “Real Estate Unleashed“ and latest #1 best-seller “My First Home”. Besides writing one of the top mortgage blogs in the country, Shashank also gets invited to blog on several of the top mortgage and real estate websites. He has been quoted/featured on Yahoo! News, FOX Radio, Washington Post, Bankrate.com, Financial Times (London) and several other media for his expertise. He was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning director Nick Nanton on his TV show. His awards include: “150 Million Club” by Mortgage Professional America for three years in a row“Top 40 Under 40″ most influential mortgage professionals in the country  by National  Read more... After starting his business in possibly the worst year for financial markets i.e. 2008, Shashank Shekhar has led the company to be one of the fastest growing mortgage companies in America by helping thousands of families secure better financing for their homes. Arcus Lending was recently named to the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America (aka “Most Exclusive Club in Business”). This dramatic growth has been built on the pillars of legendary customer service and unrelenting focus on education. Shashank lives and breathes the mantra “We are in the customer service and education business, we just happen to do mortgages.” Amazon.com #1 best-selling author and international speaker Shashank is widely regarded as “America's Premier Mortgage Expert”. He is the expert guest of TV and radio show – “Mortgage Matters” and author of widely acclaimed books – “First Time Home Buying 101”, “Real Estate Unleashed“ and latest #1 best-seller “My First Home”. Besides writing one of the top mortgage blogs in the country, Shashank also gets invited to blog on several of the top mortgage and real estate websites. He has been quoted/featured on Yahoo! News, FOX Radio, Washington Post, Bankrate.com, Financial Times (London) and several other media for his expertise. He was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning director Nick Nanton on his TV show. His awards include: “150 Million Club” by Mortgage Professional America for three years in a row“Top 40 Under 40″ most influential mortgage professionals in the country  by National  Read more...

From the slums of Port au Prince Haiti with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing young girls to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 5-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer, Nick Nanton, has become known for telling stories that connect. As co-founder of the largest personal branding agency in the world, DNA: The Dicks + Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency®, representing more than 3000 clients in 60 countries around the world, Nick has helped his clients craft their message in order to build their platform and share their unique gifts with the world. Nick's Wall Street Journal Bestseller, StorySelling, shares the secrets of how to sell without selling by simply connecting with the simple art of story. Nick has directed more than 40 documentaries garnering 18 regional Emmy nominations and 5 wins. This show is sponsored by Experiment 27. Get the sales and service agreement (free client contract template) Experiment 27 uses to close business HERE. [$1,000 value] In this episode you'll learn: [3:23] Why you don't have to be afraid of Marketing as an Artist [5:00] How the business world helped Nick to dive deeper into the art that he loves [5:56] How Nick took his skills from the Art world and applied them to the Business world [6:30] The sweet spot between the Art and Business worlds [7:49] The mindset shift of comparing oneself with the International artists [11:03] Story behind Nick's very first documentary [12:02] How his first documentary led to him making Business documentaries [13:10] "Doing things in a friction-free manner" [15:40] How Nick gets celebrities onboard for his movies [20:34] How investment in movies is not a financial investment [23:38] What happened during Nick's break between 2008-2010 [24:26] Dan Sullivan's idea of 'Unique Ability' [26:29] Seeking control vs Seeking freedom Links mentioned: Nicknanton.com Follow Nick on Twitter @nicknanton Story Selling by Nick Nanton & J. W. Dicks Books Mentioned- The War of Art by Steven Pressield & Da Vinci and the 40 Answers by Mark Fox 'In Case You Didn't Know' with Nick Nanton Brought to you by Experiment 27. Find us on Youtube. If you've enjoyed the episode, please subscribe to The Alex Berman Podcast on iTunes and leave us a 5-star review. Get access to our FREE Sales Courses.

Emmy Award winning director Nick Nanton breaks down the essence of branding, story, success mindset, and normalizing surrounding yourself with extraordinary. Show notes at https://jeffdolan.com/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffdolan/message

An Emmy Award-Winning Director and Producer, Nick Nanton,  produces media and branded content for top thought leaders and media personalities around the world. Recognized as a leading expert on branding and storytelling, Nick has authored more than two dozen Best-Selling books and produced and directed more than 40 documentaries, earning 5 Emmy wins and 14 nominations. Nick speaks to audiences internationally on the topics of branding, entertainment, media, business and storytelling at major universities and events.

From the slums of Port au Prince Haiti with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing young girls to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 5-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer, Nick Nanton, has become known for telling stories that connect.Storyteller Nick Nanton's award winning short films include Jacob's Turn, Esperanza, Mi Casa Hogar, and Visioneer. Nanton is a 13-time Telly Award winner and has co-authored several best-selling books. He is the founder and CEO of The Dicks and Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency.This storyteller uses video to tell amazing stories and make a difference in the world.You brand is just your story. Branding is storytelling. Your story is the one thing other people can't copy. Your job as a person or a brand is to tell your story in a unique way that aligns... to help your prospect in the world. - Nick Nanton on branding

The hardest part about getting your prayers answered is being able to recognize when they are being answered. This episode will help you to learn how to get the answers to your prayers, and more importantly how to know they are coming from God. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the Book of Mormon Challenge podcast. I'm so excited to have you here and I'm excited for today's episode. The title for today's episode is, The secret to getting your prayers answered and how to know it's actually from God. I'm picking up this podcast a couple of weeks after my last one and I feel kind of bad. If you remember I did a day, it was Parley P. Pratt's birthday and I decided to take the whole day off and try to read the entire Book of Mormon in a day, and I was going to do a whole bunch of mini podcasts throughout the day and afterwards and try to share with you the things that were happening, and I recorded one or two of them, but they didn't turn out amazing and I wanted to kind of put my thoughts together and really focus on helping, probably the biggest question I've been getting from people who've listened to this podcast is, “Russell, I've been reading the Book of Mormon, I'm going to try it, but I don't know how to pray. How do I pray? How do I get answers? When I do get an answer, how do I know it's actually from God?” As I've been thinking about that and kind of putting together this episode, I didn't, I decided to not post those other mini episodes, and I wanted to kind of recap it here first because actually during that day, I received answers to some of my prayers, and it was special so I wanted to kind of share some of those experiences with you on this podcast as we're talking about how to get your prayers answered. With that said, I'm going to jump right into this. As you know on Parley P. Pratt day I tried to read the entire Book of Mormon. I ended up spending about 18 hours doing it. I got about, actually I got to page 266, which is not quite halfway there. So I didn't quite hit it, but I got almost halfway there. So I'm going to block out another day, and do the rest of it. And I will keep you in the loop of how that goes. But it was amazing. It was really neat to read it that way and try to keep my focus for 18 hours. It was kind of tough, there were times where I'd get tired, and I'd have to stand up and read while I was walking around. And other times where I'd sit in different locations, or just a whole bunch of stuff. But it was a really special experience and I'm so grateful I had an opportunity to do that. And I cannot wait to do part two, coming soon. So I will let you know. But as I was reading the book, and I remember I got an answer to a prayer while I was reading. And when I did that, I jumped off and I recorded my thoughts right afterwards. And I'm not going to share that recording, instead I'm just going to kind of share the thoughts right now, because it's a pretty neat thing. There's a quote I heard on my mission, I don't know who said it, so I'm not going to give them credit, unfortunately, but whoever said it was awesome. They said, “Prayer is how we speak to our Heavenly Father, and oftentimes the scriptures are how he speaks back to us.” So I kind of heard that a lot in my life, and there have been times where I'd try to use the scriptures as a way to get answers and I knew that on Parley P. Pratt day as I was reading I was looking for some answers. But it was crazy, within the first hour of me reading, I got the first answer to my question. I was going crazy because it's so cool when it happens. I actually want to share with you guys a funny story before I tell you the prayer I was trying to get answered and how it got answered. It's funny, on my mission I got about 7 months into my mission I got the dreaded “Dear John” letter. The girl I was dating at the time, who I was convinced I was going to marry and everything, sent me the letter saying that she was not only dating somebody, but she was engaged and was going to be getting married here very soon. As a young 19 year old missionary, I was destroyed. I just remember crying and I could barely control myself, I was just like, I'm out serving the lord and this is the person who I'm supposed to be marrying. Why would you take her from me, I'm doing everything that you told me to do? I remember a day or two later, I had a chance to go meet with my mission president, his name was President Giddons, and as I was meeting with him he must have either heard what happened or he saw it on my face, or maybe I told him, I don't know. I was just broken, and I told him, “My girlfriend is getting married.” And he looked at me and said, “You know what, you can find comfort in the scriptures.” And I remember when he said that I was kind of frustrated. I was like, you know what, there's nobody in the scriptures who got a Dear John letter. There's nobody in here who could even relate to me, there's no way. And I remember going home that night kind of being a little frustrated and the next morning saying, you know what, I'm going to start over at the very beginning, start reading the scriptures and I don't care if I have to read the Book of Mormon, the Old Testament, the New Testament, everything, I don't care. I'm going to read the entire thing just to prove to President Giddons that there's nothing in here that's going to comfort me for this problem. And that was 19 year old Russell. I started at 1 Nephi, chapter 1 in the Book of Mormon and I started reading and what was crazy is, by 1 Nephi Chapter 2:15 I got my answer. What's happening in the book at the time, if you haven't started reading it yet, I encourage you once again to go to Bookofmormonchallenge.com get your free copy of the book and go and read it, but at this point, Lamen and Lemuel are the older brothers of Nephi. Nephi's this younger kid who is good, who is listening to his dad and following what the Lord says and trying to do everything. But they were asked to do a really hard thing. They had to leave their family, leave their gold, their riches, all their money, their home and go into the wilderness and to basically leave. And it was hard for them. It was not an easy thing to leave everything you loved behind and wander into the wilderness. And they're out there in the wilderness wandering and in Chapter 2 Verse 15 there was a scripture, and when I read this scripture it was like a punch in the face. It said, “And Lamen and Lemuel being the eldest did murmur against their father and they did murmur because they knew not the dealings of that God who had created them.” I remember reading that and I was sitting here listening to myself murmur about my girlfriend and how sad I was and all these things. And when I heard that, it said, Lamen and Lemuel, they murmured because they knew not the dealings of that God who had created them. And as I read that I felt the spirit and the spirit told me to quit murmuring, quit complaining, the lord's got something special for you, just wait. So I decided to wait. I stopped murmuring and I went on my way and served my mission the best I could and I got home. A few months after I got home from my mission I met a beautiful girl named Collette. A few months later than that, I somehow convinced her to marry me and since then we've had 5 amazing children. We had a family night a little while ago with the kids and we were reading the scriptures from the beginning and we read this verse. And I told them, “You guys this verse is all about you.” And we read it and I said, “That's Lamen and Lemuel being the eldest did murmur against their father and they murmured because they knew not the dealings of that God who had created them.” And the kids said, “Dad, how is that about us?” I said “Because one day a little while ago I murmured and the only reason I murmured was because I didn't know who Collette was, and I didn't know who you guys were and I'm so grateful that I stopped murmuring and let the lord do what he wanted to do with me. Because if I didn't I would never have had you guys.” And it was such a special thing, looking backwards. A lot of times it's hard to look backwards when it's happening in the moment. But for any of you guys who are going through trials, I encourage you to do what I learned this day, and that's to not murmur, because you have no idea what God's got in store for you. So that was one of the first times I got an answer from reading the scriptures. Again, prayer is how we speak to Heavenly Father and the scriptures is how he speaks back to us. So when I was going on this Parley P. Pratt day, I knew I needed an answer to some prayers and I didn't know what to do, so I was praying for an answer and I jumped into the scriptures and what was cool, within the first, still 1 Nephi, the first section of the book, I got the answer to the prayer I was looking for. So I'm going to give you some context into the question I was looking for and then the answer I got, just to show you guys the pattern of how this works. When you understand, when you see the pattern of something, then you're able to replicate it and do it over and over again. For me, about a year ago I got introduced to an organization called Operation Underground Railroad. I had never heard of this before, I found out about it through a really sacred experience that I don't feel comfortable sharing on this podcast right now, but I got a call to see if I would be willing to help with Operation Underground Railroad, and I had never heard of it, I didn't know what it was. So I went online and started Googling and found Operation Underground Railroad and started watching the videos and I found out about this guy named Tim Ballard and Tim goes to the deepest, darkest places on this earth and goes and saves little children from horrible, horrible, evil people. And I remember that night as I was watching the videos I was actually, I have a vlog that I do and I was recording myself and I said, “I feel like tonight the direction of my life is forever changed.” And I knew that it was something that I needed to be part of and to help in any way I could. So I decided I would jump in and help. I'm not super talented at a lot of things, but there are a couple of things that I'm good at. And I said, you know what, I'm going to try to help this organization the best that I know how, and I know how to do it through this thing called a sales funnel. For most of you guys, you have no idea what that is, don't even worry about it, but I was like I'm going to build a funnel for Operation Underground Railroad to try to get their message out to the world and try to shine a light on this evil, evil thing that's happening. They say when you shine a light in a room, all the cockroaches scatter to the corners. I said, if I could help magnify this message and shine a light in the room I'm going to do it. And I don't know how I'm going to do it but I'm going to do it. So I started running as fast as I could and started putting together a plan based on my own ideas and the plan seemed good, but for some reason it didn't seem….I don't know, you know that feeling where you're like, this is good but it didn't seem great? Like I'm missing something. So before then, I was supposed to drive down to Utah and meet with Tim Ballard and some other people who are involved in this organization and the day I was supposed to be heading down there I was praying in the morning, “I need help. I need inspiration. I'm supposed to present these guys with my plan and my plan's not very good.” And in the middle of that prayer I had a flash of inspiration from Heavenly Father. The inspiration was simple, you need to make a documentary and you need to call Nick Nanton. And at the time, you're probably thinking who's Nick Nanton, and that's almost how I felt. I had met him five or six years earlier, we had a conversation for less than 5 minutes and I hadn't seen him since. He's the guy who had done documentaries in the past, he had a lot of success with him. So I said okay. I messaged him on Facebook Messenger, I was like, “Hey Nick, we talked once five or six years ago, I know we don't know each other that well, but I don't know if you believe in God, but I do and he told me today that you are supposed to help me do a documentary for this group called Operation Underground Railroad, check them out and let me know what you think.” I got a message back from him a few minutes later, he said, “Brother, I'm in.” I said, okay. We're making a documentary. Then I drove down to Utah, I presented this to Tim Ballard and some of the other people down there and they said, “yes, that's it. That's right.” So we went back to the drawing board and said okay let's do it. I called Nick up and introduced him to Tim and said, “You guys, let's make this documentary.” And they went for the next 3 or 4 months, flew around the world to Haiti and all over the place to capture this story in a way that not only shines light in the darkness but helps to capture hope. We got back after the documentary, they finished the filming of it, I do a big event once a year for entrepreneurs and we had about 3,000 entrepreneurs coming to this event. We had Tim Ballard come and we had Nick Nanton come and we had them show, do a private screening for this group to show them the documentary. So we showed them this amazing documentary that talked about Operation Underground Railroad and the mission and what they were doing. And I'm sure I'll do a whole podcast in the future just on that topic alone, but after we showed that documentary, from the group of entrepreneurs we were able to raise over a million dollars right there that will go on to save hundreds of kids from sex trafficking, which was one of the most amazing, special moments of my life. In fact, if you want to see the trailer and eventually the documentary, if you go to ourfilm.org, you can see. As of right now the trailer is there, and in the future the documentary will be there. So we did that and it was such an exciting thing, but I knew that that wasn't the end. I knew that was the beginning. We had this documentary, how do we get this out to the world? How do we shine such a light on this darkness that the evil goes away? And I didn't know the answer to that. I honestly still don't know the answer to that. And I was scared and nervous once again. As I started my Parley P. Pratt day and started reading as fast as I could, as soon as I got to 1 Nephi Chapter 17 I read these versus. Some context of what's happening here, Nephi, Leman and Lemuel have left Jeruselem, they've gone across the wilderness and they found this amazing place, they called it the land of Bountiful and there's trees and an Ocean, and it's probably like sitting in San Diego. It's perfect weather, they're loving it, their family is there, they're prospering finally for the first time in years and then Nephi has a vision and the vision says, “Nephi you've got to build a boat and you're going to leave this amazing land and we're going to take you somewhere else.” So Nephi, as he always does, says, “Okay I'm going to do it.” And he starts running, comes back down and starts building a boat and what happens? Immediately his brothers Lamen and Lemuel, they start murmuring again right. That's all they know how to do. They're complaining and they're angry and frustrated with Nephi. And he's like, “No this is amazing.” They even talked about killing him, they were so frustrated. And they said, “Nephi, you don't even know how to build a boat. You don't have any actual skills, you're not going to be able to do this. The boat's going to sink, we're all going to die.” And Nephi said to them, “I said unto them that they should murmur no more against their father, neither should they withhold their labor from me. For God has commanded me that I should build a ship. And I said unto them if God had commanded me to do all things, I could do them. If he should command to me I should say unto this water, be thou earth, it should be earth. And if I should say it, it would be done. Now if the lord has such great power and has wrought so many mighty miracles among the children of men, how is it he cannot instruct me that I should build a ship?” “Russell, how is it he cannot instruct you how to launch this documentary? Russell, how is it he cannot instruct you how to get this message out?” That's the message I heard that morning as I read this.  And I felt the spirit so strongly. I was like okay, I'm just going to go forward and do it and the lord will instruct me how to do this mission he's asked me to go on. So that's, you guys, that's why I'm hoping you guys are catching some of this. I'm hoping you're feeling it. That's why these scriptures are so important. How many of you are like, “Where's God today? Why is he not talking to me? Why is he not helping us?” He is, he wants to. But we have to be willing. And this is the lesson I'm learning over and over and over again. I come doing this podcast and I'm nervous because I don't want people thinking that I am perfect in any way, because I am so far from that. I struggle everyday to read the scriptures. It's a difficult daily process for me, but man every time I do, I feel it. And that's the key. So the challenge for me, the reason why I did this whole Book of Mormon challenge, I'm hoping as many of you guys as possible come on with me, but I'm doing it for myself as well, to get me back into the scriptures. I forget these things. I'm going through this process and I felt the spirit that morning, when I'm reading this, or reminding me of when I felt the spirit earlier in my life, and it's like, the lord is there, if we'll just open the scriptures and read. If we'll pray, pray, pray, open the scriptures and read, he'll answer our prayers. Alright, so I want to jump into this now. Again, the title of this podcast was The Secret to Getting Your Prayers Answered and How to Know it's Actually From God. The whole reason why I've titled it this and why I'm doing this podcast is because a lot of you guys have been asking me that. “Okay Russell, I'm doing this thing now. How do I know that it's true?” and I tell people, “You pray about it.” “Okay, I've prayed a lot in my life, what then? Is something going to happen? Is an angel going to come to me?” Probably not, but let me explain to you how it's worked for me. And I don't know if this is the same way it works for everybody, but this is the pattern that I've learned, and I've used it and its helped guide me throughout my life. So I'm going to kind of walk you guys through that. So with that said, the two questions I want to answer in this podcast. Question number one, if you're writing these down, how do you get prayers answered? And question number two, how do you know it's actually from God and not just some voice in your head? So those are the two questions we're trying to go for. As I was breaking this down I realized there's kind of different types of answers we're looking for. So I broke it into three types of answers and there's probably more, but these are the three I was able to kind of think through and identify. So the first one, the first type of answer is a yes, or a no. This is the kind of thing where it's so important you're not going to move forward until you get an answer. The second one is inspiration and guidance, try to take you somewhere. And then the third one is comfort. So I'm going to kind of go through these. The first type of answer is a yes or no. This is the ones where you don't move until you get an answer. So a good example of this is like marriage. Before I got married to my beautiful wife, Collette, I was not going to just go on this path with my eternal companion without asking Heavenly Father first, “you have the ability to see the future and everything that's happened forever and what's going to happen, is the right companion for me? Should I really marry her? I love her, she's beautiful, I think she's awesome, but what do you think? You have better vision than me, you can see a lot more than me.” So we prayed, and it wasn't just a prayer and the answer came, it was work. I had to pray, my wife had to pray, we prayed separately, we prayed together and we thought through it and it took a while, but we didn't stop until we got an answer. I was not going to go kneel across the alter and be married for time and all eternity to my beautiful wife, unless Heavenly Father said, “Yes.” So we did that, we prayed, I'll also add that we fasted while we prayed. Fasting is where you don't eat or drink while you're praying. Usually fast for a day or two or however long you are, but fasting is amazing, fasting will amplify your prayer. So if you really want an answer, I recommend adding fasting with it as well. So that was one example. We prayed and prayed until we got an answer. And only after we got the answer did I make my movement. So that was the first thing. The next big one, that happened earlier in my life was when I prayed about the Book of Mormon. Is the Book of Mormon true? Is there a God in Heaven? Is Jesus our Savior? Those questions we talked about two episodes ago during the three givens. All those questions I prayed and I was not going to move until I had a yes or a no. It blows my mind to this day, that some people will leave the church or they'll forget God without getting an actual answer. I would never move without the answer to something that's so important. The quote I shared with you guys two episodes ago from Bruce R. McKonkie, talking about the Book of Mormon said, “These are deep, and solemn and ponderous matters, we need not think we can trifle with sacred things and escape the wrath of a just God. Either the Book of Mormon is true or it is false. There is no middle ground.” So when I was reading that book and I was praying about it, I was like, I am not moving until I get a yes or a no. There's no middle ground. I can't be like, oh I'm just going to kind of go down the middle. There's either a yes or a no and I have to know what it is. And I'm not moving until I get the answer. So those are the yes and no kind of questions. When you pray until you get an answer and those ones usually take more work. It's usually not just a quick answer and you get it. They take a little bit of time. That's number one. Type of answer number two, I called it inspiration or guidance. This is where you're trying to get inspiration for your life, for what you're doing, trying to get guidance to make sure you're doing the right things. There's a quote I heard on my mission as well, and again I don't know who said this one so I can't give it to anybody, but it said, “Pray as if everything depends on the lord, and then work as if everything depends on you.” This is where most of my answers come from. When I wake up in the morning and I know that I'm going in a direction, I kneel down and I start praying. I pray and ask the lord. I pray as if everything depends on the lord, and I end my prayer, I'm not looking for a yes or a no, I'm looking for inspiration and guidance. Then I go and work as if everything depends on me. Operation Underground Railroad, I was asked to be part of this thing, so I prayed for inspiration and guidance and I started running. I started running and running and moving forward and then every morning I would pray for guidance. I would pray as if everything depended on the Lord, and I would work as if everything depended on me. I kept moving forward and moving forward and moving forward. And there's something magic about moving forward. When you move forward, the lord blesses you. Sometimes it's not immediately. For me it was the 11th hour. It was literally the morning, getting ready to jump in the car and drive down to present my plan with these people and I didn't have the plan yet. I'm sitting there praying in the morning. But the lord knew I was moving forward. I was working as if everything depended on me, and then just when I needed it he gave me the inspiration. This is what you should do. You need to make a documentary. This is the person you need to call. I was guided. This is true in my business, I don't know about you guys if you own companies or businesses, I get this every single day. I'm trying to make the best decisions possible. I pray every morning, guide me, lead me, make sure I do the right thing so I can serve my audience the best that I possibly can. Then I work as if everything depends on me. I cannot tell you how much guidance I get. Every single day there's things that come up, there's ideas, there's things that just come to my head that aren't my own idea. They show up, and then I'm able to go and move forward on those things, because I'm praying for inspiration and guidance. And when you pray for it, it appears. Next on my list here, books. I've written two books now, and working on others. But when I'm writing my books, it's crazy, I'll be studying and praying and figuring things out and my books having nothing to do with spirituality or church. These are business marketing books, but still I'm looking for inspiration. How can I change somebody's life with these books? And I'm praying and I'm researching and all the sudden in the middle of stuff, all the sudden these ideas pop up, these patterns show up, things that I didn't know before come to my head.I'm like, “That is not my idea, I don't know where it came from, it's amazing.” Same thing happens to me when I speak on seminars and stages. Before I get onstage every single time, I pray “Heavenly Father please give me the guidance to inspire these people and know what to do and to say to actually help people to change their lives.” And then I get onstage and start speaking and the most amazing things always happen. I don't know where they come from half the time because they come out of my head, they come out of my mouth. I'm like, “I've never said that before, I don't know where that came from, but it came. It showed up when I needed it.” I talked to Tony Robbins about this and Tony said the same thing, “I have an outline of what I'm going to talk about, I get onstage and then it just, something magical happens. Something's channeled through me, I don't know what it is.” But I know, and you guys know. It just comes from me, as long as I'm in a place where I'm trying to serve other people, it just shows up. And it's true. All my callings in church, on my mission, I saw it over and over and over again. One of my favorite stories of my mission, there were these things called media referrals where somebody will see on TV an ad for the Book of Mormon or a movie called the Lamb of God or something. So I got this call one day on my mission saying, “Hey, this girl requested..” I can't remember if she requested a bible or what she requested, “if you could deliver it, here's her address.” So we jumped in the car, drove over, met her, gave her the thing she ordered and asked her if we could teach her a lesson, a missionary discussion. She said, “Yes.” We came in and taught her the first discussion, told her about Joseph Smith, about the Book of Mormon and we gave her a Book of Mormon, she was so excited to read it and we scheduled the appointment for two days later. We came back two days later and knocked on the door and her mom opened it and she said, “Sorry, she's not here right now.” And we said, “Where is she?” “She's actually in jail for a little while.” We're like, “Oh, are you serious? She was so excited, we could have helped her, we could have shifted her life. I know that this message, it could have been the thing for her.” She's like, “Yeah, I'm sorry but feel free to come back, maybe she'll be out in a couple of weeks.” So we came back a couple of weeks later, she was still gone. Came back a couple weeks later, and then finally after a couple of tries we just kind of gave up. Fast forward a month or two later, my companion and I were sitting there, and all of our appointments that morning had followed through, it was raining outside and we thought, we have to go out and knock on doors to find someone, and to be completely honest we didn't really want to go out in the rain and get soaking wet. So we're sitting there and we're like, “You know what, let's pray. Let's ask Heavenly Father where we should go. Maybe he's got someone prepared for us today.” So my companion and I sat in our car, we sat down and folded our arms and prayed, we said, “Heavenly Father, please give us the inspiration we need, please guide us to somebody today who is ready to hear this message.” We ended the prayer and sat there for a few minutes and I was like, “You know what, I don't remember that girl's name, but we visited her a couple of months ago and she's the one who went to jail.” My companion looked at me and he's like, “Are you kidding me?” I'm like, “What?” and he's like, “I honestly was thinking of the exact same person right now.” I'm like, “Are you serious?” That person, her face or whatever came to both of our minds at the exact same time, and we got so excited, so we jump in the car, we were trying to find her house, race over to her house, go knock on the door. The door opens and her mom comes out again and we're like, “how's it going? Is so and so here.” And she's like, “No you guys, I told you. She's in Jail.” And we're like, oh I guess we weren't paying attention or maybe… We were kind of frustrated and were about to turn away and walk away, and then the mom, her name was Monica, she said, “I have a quick question. You guys keep coming by, how do you know her. What are you visiting for?”and we said, “We're from the Mormon Church and she had called before and we had given her the Book of Mormon.” She said, “Oh I've seen it here. The Book of Mormon is here by her bed. What is that? I'm just curious what it is you guys do, what you talk about?” and we're like, “Do you have a few minutes and we'll tell you?” She's like, “Sure, come on in.” we were like, really? So we came in and we had a chance to teach her the first discussion. Told her about the Book of Mormon, about Joseph Smith and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ coming to him and setting up this church and all the amazing stuff I've been sharing with you guys on this podcast and Monica felt it. She felt the spirit and she said, “Please come back.” We came back a day or two later and talked about Jesus Christ and his sacrifice for her and how he had died to save her from her sins, and how she could repent for her sins, and we told her about that and she was so excited. And we came back and taught the third discussion, the fourth and all the way on and she ended up getting baptized. It was one of the most amazing experiences. And what's cool is fast forward to the time I got home from my mission, I actually got an email from Monica's daughter after she got out of jail. She said, “Hey, I got out of jail and my mom got baptized, as you know, and now I'm going to church with her.” It was just such a cool thing. I remember thinking how special it was to know that our Heavenly Father knew that Monica was prepared, knew exactly where she was at. And as soon as I was willing to pray, as if everything depended on the lord, then he opened it to me. And showed us exactly where and how to find her. The same thing is true inside of our families. Pray as if everything depends on the lord and then work as if everything depends on you. The third type of answer we're looking for, the first one again was yes and no questions. Number two was inspiration and guidance and number three is comfort. I've used this so many times in my life. Someone who's struggled, who needs comfort right now, I testify to you that the Lord will comfort you through prayer. This is the way he answers our prayers. I know my girlfriend got married on my mission, as funny as it is now looking back on it, prayer is what gave me comfort. I have a handicapped sister who is two years older than me, and when my handicapped sister, Stacy passed away, I didn't know how to take that. It was hard, it was scary, it was all those things wrapped into one and prayer is what comforted me. There's trials in our family and society, things that happen all the time and prayer is how we get comfort. So those are the three types of answers. We have our yes and no's, we have our inspiration and guidance, and we have comfort. That's usually where we're, at least for me personally, where I'm looking for how to get my prayers answered. Alright, so I'm going to dive back into this. There's two questions, number one is how to get your prayers answered, and number two is how do you know the answer is coming from Heavenly Father, not something you just made up in your head? So question number one I broke down into a couple of steps. So step number one to how to get your prayer answered. Step number one is you have to sanctify yourself. What does that mean? There is a scripture in Joshua 3:5 it's one of my favorite scriptures. It's really simple, really easy, but it was a turning point for me. In Joshua 3:5 Joshua is actually meeting with his people and they're about to go in and try to recapture, repossess their promised land, which is obviously a scary thing. There's armies and wars and this crazy that they have to do. So in Joshua 3:5 it says, “And Joshua said to his people, sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” So what does that mean to sanctify yourself? Sanctify means to clean yourself, be prepared, be clean, the Lord wants to do wonders among you, but you have to be clean first. If you are out there breaking all the commandments and doing all sorts of horrible, evil things, the Lord's not going to come to you, he's not going to answer your prayers. You need to be clean if you want answers from God, you want his spirit to visit you, you have to clean yourself, you have to sanctify yourselves. So how do you do that? You do that through a process we call repentance. Repentance is basically asking our Heavenly Father to figure you. Maybe we'll do a whole episode on repentance because it's important and there's a lot that goes into it. But it's basically, repentance is as simple as stopping what you're doing, turning your heart to God and asking him for forgiveness. That's what repentance is. On my mission it was interesting, I told you guys before, I went in the mission field and I was praying and asking, “Is the Book of Mormon true?” and what's funny is I asked that question over and over and over again for months and I never got my yes or my no. I was asking, I was praying, I was moving forward, but I never got my yes or my no and I was always stressed out. Then I remember one day getting the answer, and it wasn't the answer that I thought. I was looking for a yes or a no, but the answer I got was not that I needed a yes or no, the answer I got was that I needed to be clean. I needed to sanctify myself. I'm like, what? I'm on a mission. If you know anything about the Mormon church, going on a mission is not simple. You have to be clean, you have to prepare yourself, there's all these things you don't do before you go on your mission to be ready. But as I heard that I started thinking, what have I not cleaned up in my life? What have I not repented of? I've stopped doing a lot of bad things that I was doing. I mean nothing grievous or super evil, but what did I not repent from? What have I not asked forgiveness of? And I started thinking back and I was remembering, oh my gosh, there's a lot of things that I've done that I never asked for forgiveness. So I started praying and asking Heavenly Father for forgiveness. And after I asked for forgiveness, that's when the answers came. So for you guys, it's important to understand, you have to be clean, you have to repent first. There's a talk by Elder Jeffery R. Holland that he gave, and he's one of my favorite apostles, he's an amazing person. In this talk he was talking about people like us, who are trying to do things, trying to have the lord help us with whatever it is, answers to questions, to help change the world, whatever it is we're trying to do inside of our sphere of influence. And he was talking to us, he said, “Brethren, if you are struggling with self control, I ask you to pray to your Father in Heaven for help. Pray to him as Enos did, who wrestled before God and struggled mightily in the spirit. Wrestle like Jacob did with an angel, refusing to let go until a blessing had come. Talk to you mom, your dad, your bishop, get the best help you can from all the good people who surround you. Avoid at all costs others who tempt you, weaken your will or perpetuate the problem. If anyone does not feel worthy tonight, he can become worthy through repentance and the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Savior wept and bled and died for you. He has given everything for your happiness and salvation, he is certainly not going to withhold help from you now.” When I hear that I just start thinking, okay I need to get away from the people that are distracting me, I need to get clean. I don't know how to explain it more than that. We've got to become clean. Sometimes we think, there's no way that based on all the stuff I've done in the past, I've done so many bad things and there's no way that I could be forgiven. I get that. It's one of Satan's great lies that he tells us, that what you've done is too bad. The lord's not going to come to you. He's not going to forgive you. He's not going to help you. And I think this last line is so powerful. “The Savior wept and bled and died for you. He has given everything for your happiness and salvation, he's certainly not going to withhold help from you now.” One of my favorite phrases that I ever heard that actually came from the Savior's lips, it was before the crucifixion and he was outside of Jerusalem looking at the entire city, looking at this people, the people who were eventually going to crucify and kill him, and in Matthew Chapter 23 he said this, “Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them  which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.” And then fast forward, this is when it comes back to the two different witnesses, so fast forward, not even that far in the future, but across the world on the other side of the world, after Christ was crucified, then he came to the people here on the American continents and what's cool, in the Book of Mormon, in 3 Nephi 10:6, the Lord actually came to the people in America, I talked about that earlier, it was one of the most amazing things. But when he came here he said almost the same thing to the people in America. He said, “Oh ye house of Israel whom I have spared, “ So these people here in America, they were part of the house of Israel that he had taken away from Jerusalem and he spared them over here in America. He said, “how oft will I gather you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, if ye will repent and return unto me with full purpose of heart.” I hear those scriptures twice now, I think of a hen and chickens, and I don't live on a farm, but I've been to a farm once or twice, and you look around and there's these chickens running around and a hen gathers them together and the chickens run away, and they gather them together and they run away, and it keeps happening over and over and over again. And how many times do we look like those little hens, those little chickens who are running around and messing up and messing up and messing up. And the lord is like the hen saying, “Come back. Come back.” It's Satan who's telling you it's too late to come back. You can, no matter where you are, and no matter what you've done wrong, you can come back. Literally, he's looking at his people who are about to crucify and kill him and he says, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathers her chickens under my wings and you would not.” He will continue to forgive us over and over again. So that's the key. So I'm going to kind of repeat this. Step number one is you've got to repent. You've got to sanctify yourself. The lord is going to do wonders. He's going to answer your prayers, he's going to lead you and guide you and help you know exactly what to do. He is going to answer your prayers and when he does that, your life is going to change, and when your life changes, you have the ability to change other people's lives. That is the marvelous work and wonder that the lord wants for you. So if you were going to go on this journey and change yourself and change other people and if you want those blessings, you have to do what Joshua said, you have to sanctify yourself because tomorrow the Lord wants to do wonders among you. That's number one, step number two, after you've cleaned yourself, you've repented and you've tried your best to do what's right, and again, we're never going to be perfect. But you've done your best to repent and try to make those shifts in your life, the second step is you've got to study it out. Now this is a really cool scripture that helped me to really understand that, a lot of times I would go and say a prayer, “Hey I have a question.” I'd pray and nothing would happen. I'm like, huh. Maybe the lord doesn't know, maybe he doesn't care, maybe he's not even there, or whaever. And I had all these thing, I'm sure all of us have had those same feelings sometimes. Oliver Cowdery was a guy who was helping Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith was translating and Oliver Cowdery was writing it down by hand on this paper. In Doctrine and Covenants section 9, there's some verses where the Lord's talking to Oliver Cowdery and he says something that when you read this and you hear this, it will make your mind open like, “Oh, that's how I receive answers to my prayers.” So this is what he told Oliver Cowdery, he said, “Behold ye have not understood, ye have supposed that I would give it unto you when you took no thoughts, save it was to ask me. But behold I say unto you that you must study it out in your mind, then you must ask me if it be right. And if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you, therefore you shall feel that it is right. But if it not be right, you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have the stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong.” I want to kind of emphasize a couple of things, at the very beginning it says, “You took no thought, save it was to ask me.” So, all you did was just asked me. If you go to a teacher like, “Hey, what's the answer to the question.” The teacher's going to be like, “I'm not going to tell you. How are you supposed to learn and grow if I just give you the answer?” So the Lord tells Oliver Cowdery here, you took no thought, save it was to ask me. You have to do more than just ask me. He says, “Behold, I say unto you, you must study it out in your mind.” You gotta study it, you gotta figure it out first. Study it out in your minds, “And then you must ask me if it is right. And if it is right, then you shall feel that it is right.” You will feel the spirit. The spirit will tell you that it is right. But first you have to study  it out in your mind. And then if it be not right, then you should have no such feeling. So that's how it works. We can't just go ask him, we have to do the work first. We have to study it out in our minds, figure out the answer and then pray about it, and when we do, we'll feel if it's right. Or we will have no such feeling. So before I got an answer to my question of if the Book of Mormon is true, I had to actually read the Book of Mormon. I had to read it, study in my mind, I had to think is this logical, does it make any sense? And then I got an answer to my prayer. Before I was going to marry Collette, I didn't just say, “Oh she's cute. Let me pray. Should I marry her?” I had to study it out. I had to go on dates with her and figure it out and ask her questions and we had to figure out if we were a right fit. I had to think about it and pray about it, I had to fast about it. Allthese things I had to do and then I got an answer to my prayer. Before we moved to this home I was like freaking out. If I move to this home, is this going to be a good place for my kids, is it going to be bad. I don't know if it's going to be good. So before we made the decision we prayed about it, we studied it out. We looked at the school systems here, we figured things out and studied in our minds and prayed and then if the answer is true, we'll feel if it is right. Now one thing about this, this is especially true with yes or no questions. We don't come to the Lord, “is the answer yes or no.” because he has to have us feel something and we're like, wait was that for the yes or the no? We gotta figure out, I think this is the right way. Then we say, “Heavenly Father, I feel like the Book of Mormon is true. I read this thing, I studied it, I feel really good about it. Is the Book of Mormon true?” Boom, you'll feel it. “Heavenly Father, I met this girl, I've been dating her. I fasted, I pray with her, I've done everything I can. I know about her, I met her family. I feel like she's the right one. I think I should marry her. Heavenly Father, should I marry Collette?” Boom, I got my answer. So don't do what most people do and take no thought, save it was to ask me. Do what you're supposed to do. Study it out in your minds, and then after you've studied it out in your mind, then ask him if it is right. And if it is right, then you shall feel that it is right. The spirit will tell you, you'll feel it. If it's not right, you will not feel the spirit.  Is this making sense? So that's step number two. Step number one was sanctify yourself, step number two is to study it out, and step number three now, you have to listen, and recognize, and follow the voice of the spirit. And this is where we transition to the second big question now. How do I actually know that this voice is from God, it's not just something in my head that I'm just making up? I don't know about you, but that was my biggest concern all through high school. I would pray for something and I'd have an inspiration and I'm like, “Wait, was that from me? Did I just think that? Or was that from God? Or was that just something I thought from a movie I saw? Or was that evil?...” and I didn't know. How many of you guys have felt that before? It's scary. What if I have inspiration and it's from somewhere that's wrong or evil? I don't know. How do I know what the spirit actually is? For you guys, one of the biggest things is, and I'm going to share with you guys a really powerful tool that I've learned. The biggest thing, you need to start recognizing. I remember I had some really good teachers when I was younger and  I would be in class with them and they would teach something where the spirit would be there and they would feel it. And they would ask us, “Hey do you feel that.” We'd be like, “Yeah I do.” “That right there, that's the spirit.” I remember on my mission we knocked on a lady's door and we came in and started teaching her about the scriptures, we showed her the Book of Mormon and read about it, and then I remember showing her the picture of Joseph Smith in the First Vision. I remember I told the story of the first vision and I felt the spirit so strong as I told that story. And I looked at her and I could tell that she felt it. I said, “Did you feel that?” and she had tears in her eyes, she said, “Yeah.” I said, “That's the spirit telling you it's true.” If you listen to my other podcasts, I encourage you if you haven't or if you have, go back and maybe listen to them again, and as you listen to them, notice what you feel. If you don't feel it with me, then go read the Book of Mormon, or go read the Bible, or go…a big key for us, one of the things we have to learn is we have to learn to feel and then recognize that spirit. So you're putting yourself in spiritual situations, you're going to church, learning about Christ, doing things that are good. Notice how you feel. Because as soon as you start recognizing, “oh that's what the spirit feels like. Oh wow, that's what it is.” Then you can start becoming, it becomes a lot easier. As soon as I realized, and it was sometime through high school, towards the end of my junior or senior year, were the first couple of times I felt the spirit. And what was neat is that, fast forward on my mission when I started praying and I asked if the Book of Mormon was true, and I felt this thing I was like, “That's the feeling, there it is. That's the spirit.” So that's the thing that's going to take, and I don't' know how to explain it other than you feel something. It's like, for me, it's weird when I feel it, because I'll be reading the scriptures or something that's not, I don't know. Sometimes when you go to the movies or something and you see this big amazing thing and you feel like an adrenaline rush, it's almost like I'm in a situation where there should be no adrenaline rush and all the sudden I get this adrenaline rush. I don't know, it's hard to explain and it's going to be different for everyone. So as you feel it, I want you to start recognizing it, because that's how you're going to, the more clear you understand what the feeling is, the better you're going to be able to recognize it as you're moving forward on things. Again, the question, how do you know it's actually coming from God and not just in your head? The best explanation I've ever heard about this, ever, is from a book called Following the Light of Christ into His Presence by John Pontius. I was actually listening to the audiobook of this probably almost a year ago now, and I was listening to it and as I got into it, there was this one section that he called, The Voices. It had such a huge, profound impact on me. In fact, so much so that I'm not even going to try to teach this to you, I'm just going to read this from the book, because it was so powerful. So I'll kind of set this up. He basically said that there are three voices inside of our mind. So when you're hearing stuff inside your head, thoughts and things like that, there's three voices. We start learning how to distinguish which voice is which, man it makes things so much easier. So the three voices, I'll kind of give you what they are ahead of time. Number one is your mind, this is your brain, this is the conversations you're having inside your head. Number two is Satan's temptations, this is Satan, this is the adversary, this is the person who hates us, who's trying to destroy us. Now as I read this, there's some things that will make sense for Mormons, for those who aren't Mormon, I'll give a little preface just so you understand what this means. I think the next podcast episodes I'm going to do, I think the next three I'm going to talk about the three main questions, where do we come from, why are we here, and where are we going? But so the next episode, if that's where I'm going with where do we come from, I'll talk more about this. But as you know, we believe we came, we lived with our Heavenly Father ahead of time, and if you read in the Book of Revelation it talked about Satan was there, there was a big war in heaven and he left with a third of the stars, so we believe that a third of the hosts of heaven, a third of Heavenly Father's children came to earth here, with Satan and they are basically, they work for Satan, tempting us. So as we get to Satan's voice, the voice of the adversary, it's Satan or the people that are here, his minions that are tempting us and trying us at the same time. There's that voice of Satan that's there all the time. Then the third is the voice of the spirit. So these are the only three voices that are happening inside of our head. So when you start understanding what they sound like, now you can start becoming very clear like, “Oh, this is what that meant. This is what I should be doing.” So I'm going to read these sections. So again, the book is called Following the Light of Christ into His Presence by John Pontius. “There are three main sources of voices in a healthy mind, the first is the voice of your own mind. You hear yourself think, you talk with yourself, you discuss things with yourself, you argue with yourself, berate, praise, and jabber with yourself all day long. This voice is distinguishable because it is unsure, or in other words, it questions things. It's seldom definite or decisive. It almost always asks questions. ‘What is that? Who is that? Why did you say that? What does that mean? Do you suppose? What would happen if? I wonder…' Even when it is empathetic it leaves open the possibility of change. ‘I'm definitely going to bed now, okay? I'm going to go to town if the car will start.' “You'll notice that this voice usually takes the personal case. ‘I think I should fast today.' The Holy Spirit would have said, ‘Fast today.” Okay so that's the first voice, that's your mind. Your mind is the one always asking questions. So remember that. “The second voice comes from Satan's realms. It is unlikely that we receive much personal attention from the king of kingdoms personally, rather we deal with his minions, his messengers, and his tempters. These beings have been in the business of tempting mankind for as long as the earth has existed, perhaps even longer. They are undoubtedly very skilled and highly motivated. Each has probably tempted thousands of people just like us, they have spent thousands of years in intimate contact with mortals. They have much more experience with tempting mortals to sin than we could possibly ever have in resisting it. “They know the subtleties and the tricks necessary to entice and trick us into failing. The undoubtedly specialize in their works, meaning that there are certain men that specialize in anger, marital infidelity, family disharmony, murder, drugs, illness, depression, hate, or a million of other maladies, sins and vices. Once successful, they linger with year after year with those that they afflict. When we hear the voice from this source it will be cleverly disguised and enticing. It will appeal to the natural carnal, central, and devilish side of us. There are real intelligences in the message and malice of forethought. They plan and plot against us, and their messages are carefully chosen. “A prompting from this source will nearly always be stated as an absolute. ‘Don't let them get away with that. You're too tired to pray. You deserve better. Pay them back. No one will ever notice. It should be yours anyway. Just take it. She's your wife, not your mother. Football only happens once per year, church can get along without you for one Sunday. She wants you. It's only natural. He loves you more than your husband, how can you not love him back.' “These promptings will always lead us away from the truth. They prompt us to disobey, to not pray, to abandon church assignments and family responsibilities to commit sin and walk in forbidden paths. They have destroyed millions of souls and you're simply the next on their list. They are confident, efficient and successful and they hate us with unimaginable intensity. From their perspectives they are engaged in an all out war against us. Our perspective barely even includes a realization that they exist. It's no wonder that they win so frequently. “One of their weaknesses is that they can rarely voice just one lie. While the Holy Spirit generally prompts us just once, the tempter often voices many objections to each prompting. The Holy Spirit may prompt us to call everyone to family prayer. Thereafter the evil suggests many reasons why you should not obey. ‘Everyone's tired; they're just going to complain. You don't feel like it. The wife is already in bed, it's late, and it's useless. You can do it tomorrow.' This is actually one of the ways we may discern the voices. The Holy Spirit whispers the truth, and thereafter the opposition tirades against it.” Okay there's number two, which are Satan's temptation. This one's interesting to me the more I think about it, because when I first was listening to this as an audiobook, I started thinking, we always talk about how everyone's got their pet sins, or their things that they fall back on. And I honestly believe that when we're born, Satan's got these people tempting us to do all sorts of things, and when we find out, “the thing I struggle with is pornography.” Or “My struggle is Lying or cheating or stealing.” They figure out what our things are and then we literally have someone assigned to us that's trying to tempt us. They know, “That's what Russell falls for every single time.” They're coming back and they'll keep tempting us with that thing over and over and over again. Alright, so there's number two. Now number three…So number one was your mind, number two is Satan's temptations, and number three is the Spirit. It says, “The third source of information in our minds is the voice of the Lord through the Holy Spirit. This voice always entices us to do good. To believe, to serve, to pray, and to repent. It often prompts contrary to where you were headed. If you were just settling into the super bowl on Sunday morning, it would tell you to go to church. If you were already on your way to church, it would prompt nothing but would give us the feelings of comfort and satisfaction. The voice of the conscious is easy to recognize because it is the only one of the three that prompts us to do good. “These promptings come as an absolute statement. The Holy Spirit would say, ‘Fast today.' Your mind would have said, ‘I wonder if I should fast today? Or perhaps I should fast.' Any time you have a prompting to do good it has come from God.” So the mind has questions, it's trying to question things. Satan is typically telling you either to do bad or it's bombarding you with a whole bunch of things, and the spirit prompts you to do something once.  As I was reading this, it was interesting. The spirit will tell you to do something. Like the spirit will say, “Hey you should fast today.” And then instantly Satan's going to come tempt you and be like, “You shouldn't fast today, you're hungry. Instead you should go do whatever.” It will like bombard you with five or six different things to try to fight against that. And then your mind's like, “That's true, I shouldn't fast. What if I did this today….” And it starts questioning it. So if you look at that, almost every situation you're going to be hit by all three of those things. The spirit's going to come and say, “Go to church.” Or it's going to say, “Read the Book of Mormon.” So you hear that spirit says, “Read the Book of Mormon.” It's precise, it tells you to do something. It's a still, small voice and it usually says something once and it stops. Then instantly Satan comes in with his temptations and doesn't say something once, he usually comes in and like, “No, don't read the Book of Mormon. You don't even have a copy and it's going to take a long time and it sounds like scripture and it's going to be a lot of work. You're catholic anyway, you already have a scripture.” All these things, it won't just be one, it'll be one, two, three, four, five. And your mind will be like, “That's a good point. What about this?” and your mind will start questioning it, and that's how you'll know. So the voice we listen to is the still, small voice. The command that's leading us towards good. There's one more paragraph I want you to read because he kind of bundles these all together. He said, “We have been talking a lot about promptings, perhaps even the term needs clarification. A prompting is information that originates outside of one's mind. The Holy Spirit prompts to do good, the Devil prompts to do evil. Our mind's consider and analyze the promptings and make decisions concerning them. These promptings all appear and sound exactly like our own thoughts. The only way to differentiate between them is the way we have already discussed. Good comes from God, evil comes from the adversary, questions and analysis comes from within. It really is just that simple.” So I don't know about you guys, but when I heard that, it just made so much sense. It made things so clear. All the sudden I was like, okay. I just need to pay more attention. When something comes to me, I'm listening. Was it a still, small voice that just told me to do something once? And what happened afterwards? This isn't just church stuff. Every single day when I'm doing my work, what I do for my business, I'm going in there, I'm listening for voices. Usually it will be like, “Hey you should do this.” Something that's leading towards good and instantly Satan comes in and is like, “Oh, you could do this.” And just shortcuts to the ways that aren't serving my audience the highest will immediately come in. And my brain's trying to figure out, what was the first thing? It's interesting, I read a book a little while ago called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he's one of my favorite authors. But in Blink, the subtitle of the book is The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. And it's interesting, the premise of the entire book is like if you look at the majority of decisions, most people their instinct, their initial reaction is truth. And then they come back and try to rationalize it, and figure things out, and most of the time when they do that, they actually end up with the wrong answer. They said that the blink the decision, the immediate thing that you hit with initially is typically the right answer. And as I was reading that, listening to that, I was like, I think that that's the spirit. I think what happens, we have a situation and instantly the spirit comes and tells us what to do with a still, small voice and then the borage of tempters come into us and start fighting things and we try to analyze things and half the time we end up on the wrong path. But if we listen to the blink instinct, the first thing, that's almost always the truth. It's interesting. I just thought it was kind of an interesting tie in as I read that book and thinking about this. And I don't know how these things correlate, and obviously Blink wasn't written through a spiritual eye, but as I read that I was thinking about this, it became very, very interesting to me. So for me, as I pray for guidance every day in my business, I'm always trying to listen to the voice of the spirit. It's happening in business, happening in my family, it's happening as I'm praying and moving forward on things. Alright, so the last step in this process, step number four. Step number one if we come back here, was to sanctify yourself, step number two was to study it out, step number three is to listen and recognize the voice of the spirit, step number four is to follow the voice of the spirit. After we hear, then we must do. Movement is essential. I think a lot of times the Lord gives us little things. He tests us, tries us, gives us little things to see if we're going to be good stewards of what he gives us. And when you do little things, he gives you more. And when you do more, he gives you more. And when you don't pay attention, you fall back. It's interesting. So movement is essential. It's important when you know the truth that you act on it. In times of my life where I follow promptings from the spirit and I move forward I get more of them. Times in my life where I ignore, or I fight against them, or follow Satan instead, I've noticed the voice gets quieter and quieter and I hear it less often. So I want to kind of end this back in Joshua, back in the Old Testament because if you read the entire Joshua chapter three, the story keeps on getting good. So Joshua 3:5 is the verse I shared earlier where it said, “And Joshua said to his people, sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Then you fast forward, the nice thing about history is we have a chance to actually see what happens. So the people didn't sanctify themselves, and then the Lord said unto Joshua, if you go down to verse 7. “The Lord said unto Joshua, this day will I begin to magnify thee, inside of all of Israel that they may know, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” So you remember Moses took the children of Israel out and came to the Red Sea, parted the Red Sea and everyone moved through it. So then he told Joshua, I'm going to let all of Israel see that you are just like Moses. And he said, “And thou shalt command the priest that bared the arc of the covenant saying that when ye come to the brink of the water in Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.” So coming to Jordan, which is this huge body of water,

Nick Nanton is a three time Emmy Award Winning Director, Producer and Filmmaker who learned how to win an emmy by Googling, "How to win an Emmy".  He's a lawyer, although he told us he'd rather be a lawyer in a room full of non-lawyers than a lawyer in a room full of lawyers." He's known as the Top Agent to Celebrity Experts and is known around the world for his role in developing and marketing bsiness and professional experts, through personal branding, mdkia, marketing and PR. Nick is the CEO of The Dicks + Nanton Celevrity Branding Agency, and internationa branding and media agency with more than 2200 clients in 33 countries.  NIck has producted large scale events and television shows with celebrities like Stive Forbes, Brian Tracy, US President George W. Bush, Jack Canfield, Michael Gerber, the great sales trainer Tom Hopkins and many more. Nick is a thought leader speaking on major stages internationally and having co-authoured thirty-six (yes 3-6) including his WSJ Best Seller "StorySelling". Nick has been seen in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Entrepreneur® Magazine, Forbes, FastCompany. com and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX television affiliates around the country, as well as E!, CNN, FOX News, CNBC, MSNBC and hosts his own series on the Bio! channel, Portraits of Success. Nick is a member of the Florida Bar, a voting member of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Home to The GRAMMYs), a member of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Home to the EMMYs), The National Academy of Best- Selling Authors, and serves on the Innovation Board of the XPRIZE Foundation, a non- profit organization dedicated to bringing about “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity” through incentivized competition, best known for it's Ansari XPRIZE which incentivized the first private space flight and was the catalyst for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. Nick spends his spare time serving as an Elder at Orangewood Church, working with Young Life, Downtown Credo Orlando, Entrepreneurs International and rooting for the Florida Gators with his wife Kristina and their three children, Brock, Bowen and Addison.. Learn more at http://www.NickNanton.com and http://www.CelebrityBrandingAgency.com To view this interview on our blog go to http://www.thebusinesscalledyou.com/nick-nanton

In this episode, we talk to marketing guru and best-selling author Nick Nanton about how he started off and has become a successful business owner and marketing authority today.   Key Takeaways!   Nanton started off his success by becoming an “agent” for business people. By taking his talents from the music producing world and utilizing them in the business world, he has been able to become much more successful. (2:50)   The Value Equation. If you want to be invited to the table, you must bring something of value first. Life is simply exchanging value with people in order to get what you need from them. (4:25)   He gained his first huge wave of clients by writing his book Celebrity Branding You, which made way for him gain popularity because he was traveling around the country, speaking about his book, thereby building his reputation, and gaining leads. (14:02)   Nanton believes that the best way to stand out and be successful is to be YOU. You need to be passionate about what you're doing, because if not then you aren't going to be as successful as you could be. (18:02) The simplest way to brand yourself is to be who you are and show people that YOU are the person that can help them.   Now he has been able to take himself out of the day-to-day operations of his business and can pursue his true passions. He now works more on the creative side and gets to shape his business into what he wants it to be, while others do the day-to-day tasks for him. (21:22)   You can go to Celebritybrandingagency.com to see more about what Nanton is doing and get ideas on how to get your branding out in the open, as well as other helpful tips.  (25:48)   Resources Mentioned in this Episode   Nick Nanton's Website: Celebritybrandingagency.com   Website: Morningcoffeemarketer.com  

Welcome back players! We are just kicking off Summer 2015 and as usual we are bringing you some heat here on “The Dealer Playbook” Podcast.In this session we are diving into the art of branding with international branding expert Mr. Nick Nanton.Nick is a 3-Time Emmy Award Winning Director, Producer and Filmmaker, Nick Nanton, Esq., is known as the Top Agent to Celebrity Experts® around the world for his role in developing and marketing business and professional experts, through personal branding, media, marketing and PR.Nick serves as the CEO of The Dicks + Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency, an international branding and media agency with more than 2200 clients in 33 countries. Nick has produced large scale events and television shows with the likes of Steve Forbes, Brian Tracy,Bill Cosby, President George H.W. Bush, Jack Canfield (Creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series), Michael E. Gerber, Tom Hopkins and many more.Nick is recognized as one of the top thought-leaders in the business world, speaking on major stages internationally and having co-authored 36 best-selling books, including the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller, StorySelling™.Nick has been seen in USA Today, The Wall St. Journal, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Entrepreneur® Magazine, Forbes, FastCompany.com. and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX television affiliates around the country, as well as E!, CNN, FOX News, CNBC, MSNBC and hosts his own series on the Bio! channel, Portraits of Success.In this session Nick talks more about: - The power of your brands “Story of Origin”.- An easy to follow framework you can use to tell your brands “Story of Origin”.- Tips on how to make your story “stick” with your audience. Get more power house info from Nick Nanton Celebrity Branding AgencyNick's Twitter You Know The Drill, Now It's Your TurnThe whole team at DPB can not thank you enough for all the support and love you have been giving us.Whether you loved it, hated it, want more of it, or want something different , we want to hear your voice.Sound off below with your thoughts, opinions, suggestions, questions, etc. and lets keep this conversation going.See you next time ;)Connect With Team DPBConnect with The Dealer Playbook on Twitter here.Check out Michael Cirillo's blog here.Check out Robert Wiesman's blog here.Connect with Michael Cirillo on Twitter here.Connect with Robert Wiesman on Twitter here.  

A 3-Time Emmy Award Winning Director, Producer and Filmmaker, Nick Nanton, Esq., is known as the Top Agent to Celebrity Experts® around the world for his role in developing and marketing business and professional experts, through personal branding, media, marketing and PR. Nick serves as the CEO of The Dicks + Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency, an international branding and media agency with more than 2200 clients in 33 countries. Nick has produced large scale events and television shows with the likes of Steve Forbes, Brian Tracy, Jack Canfield (Creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series), Michael E. Gerber, Tom Hopkins, Dan Kennedy and many more. Nick is recognized as one of the top thought-leaders in the business world speaking on major stages internationally and having co-authored 34 best-selling books, including the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller, StorySelling™. Nick has been seen in USA Today, The Wall St. Journal, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Entrepreneur® Magazine, Forbes, FastCompany.com. and has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX television affiliates around the country, as well as E!, CNN, FOX News, CNBC, MSNBC and hosts his own series on the Bio! channel, Portraits of Success. Nick is a member of the Florida Bar, a voting member of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Home to The GRAMMYs), a member of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Home to the EMMYs), The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors, and spends his spare time working with Young Life, Downtown Credo Orlando, Entrepreneurs International and rooting for the Florida Gators with his wife Kristina and their three children, Brock, Bowen and Addison.