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Another unusual podcast. As we've noted in the past, it's rare that people show up to insist on being interviewed.  In this case, it was someone we'd interviewed in the past, in fact a year ago, July 17th, 2020 Anthony Bourdain and Robin Williams stopped by on a podcast named "Exiting Early." (Anthony and Robin appear in the books "Backstage Pass to the Flipside," both interviewed extensively.) But in this case, Anthony wanted to weigh in on the film about his life, called "Roadrunner."  He says he was disappointed in it, that the filmmaker "didn't have a clue" as to what happened to him - how he himself didn't have a plan to exit early, and it had nothing whatsoever to do with his relationship with Asia Argento. He pointed out that he thought the AI of his voice sounded "robotic" (neither I nor Jennifer have seen the film) and the ending, having an artist deface a mural on camera for the film was "shitty."  Again - I haven't seen it, but I took the time to ask him about it. He also called the filmmaker "amateur" but gave the film a "five" out of ten because at the very least, it had footage that he'd shot in it. I'm a filmmaker myself, member of the DGA/WGA. I was so stung by Ebert's "thumbs way down" review of my film "Limit Up" at the time, when Luana Anders was still on the planet (cowriter of the script) when I asked her to read the review, but to edit out the negativity... over the phone she read "Richard Martini... directed Limit Up."  Took me a year to read the negative review. So it gives me no pleasure to tee off on this filmmaker - even though I was a music critic at Variety for years, I always tended to give people the benefit of the musical doubt.  If I doubted they're rehearsed, I noted it. In this case, Anthony came forward to tee off on this filmmaker. Wasn't my idea.  I tried to ask him cogent questions - and to fill in the blanks. "Why no note left behind?" He answers that eloquently. He talks about how to meditate to help set aside negativity. He talks about finding beauty in gratitude. As I note in the podcast, if you're going to make a film about someone, take the time to see if it's possible to communicate with them. Ask their loved ones if they've had dreams, find three different mediums and ask the same questions (as I do in "Talking to Bill Paxton" on Gaia) take the time and effort to allow the possibility that they might have an opinion on their own story. I can only report. The only editing in this podcast is done for time if there's a long space between me asking a question and Jennifer getting an answer. . Apologies for having to end it early - Charles Grodin, Prince and Robert Downey Sr. ("Greaser's Palace") all make appearances and report things I've never considered or could have heard of. I asked about Robert senior because Luana knew him, he directed her in the film "Greaser's Palace" which is on cable, and ran this week in Santa Monica. Robert Sr. says that his son is already "speaking to him" and the father says he's learning from his son, as well as being proud of him.  Prince reminds us that strings tuned too tightly tend to break, a metaphor about finding a "middle way" between not listening to loved ones, and finding a way to "tighten up the string" to allow them to communicate to us by tuning into them. The film cited in this podcast is "Hacking the Afterlife" - it's available on Amazon Prime through Gaia. If you have Amazon Prime it's a small five dollar charge to watch it.  It represents ten years of research, and notes the science behind the flipside. Again - I didn't ask for Anthony to come forward, Jennifer did not either, and he had a mouthful to say about his opinion about this film Roadrunner about his life.  I don't think he's saying "don't watch it" but he is saying "don't buy the conclusions about who he was, as this filmmaker didn't have a clue." Ask Anthony on one's own. If you knew him, you love him, or even liked him - set the stage for a meditation where he sits across from you and answers questions. An obvious first question would be "So Anthony,  how accurate was this podcast I just heard?"  Enjoy.

Full Text of ReadingsEleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 92All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint Anthony of PaduaThe gospel call to leave everything and follow Christ was the rule of Saint Anthony of Padua's life. Over and over again, God called him to something new in his plan. Every time Anthony responded with renewed zeal and self-sacrificing to serve his Lord Jesus more completely. His journey as the servant of God began as a very young man when he decided to join the Augustinians in Lisbon, giving up a future of wealth and power to be a servant of God. Later when the bodies of the first Franciscan martyrs went through the Portuguese city where he was stationed, he was again filled with an intense longing to be one of those closest to Jesus himself: those who die for the Good News. So Anthony entered the Franciscan Order and set out to preach to the Moors. But an illness prevented him from achieving that goal. He went to Italy and was stationed in a small hermitage where he spent most of his time praying, reading the Scriptures and doing menial tasks. Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media

Transcripts: Steven Butala: Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit: Hello. Steven Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala Jill DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWitt broadcasting from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Steven Butala: Today, Jill and I talk about how to develop the skills that you may be missing to have a successful company like Jill talked about. I'm sort of wondering this about you actually. Jill DeWit: It's a long process, but I'm going to share all of it today. Steven Butala: As we talked about yesterday at the end of the show, Jill and I host an accountability group. And go ahead, Jill, explain the backstory with this. Jill DeWit: Yeah, so it's our first ever Land Academy official accountability group held by Steven and I, and it's free and voluntary to anyone that enrolled. It was like November, December, last year kind of thing. And we started in January, kicked off in January. So we had a really good question last night or the other night, which was, "I've heard you guys talk about how having a past life or being a business owner in some form was a good indicator who's going to be successful in this world." Jill DeWit: And so we answered that question and then the person said, and I'll give you the quick answer, which was, "You can afford it. Tenacity. You know how to solve problems. You die trying. You're going to kick [inaudible 00:01:31] high water. It's going to be successful." If you've done that, then there's not much you can't do I think, so stuff like that. And then the person said, "All right," and there's a lot of other things. They said, "Okay, well, how do I develop the skills that I'm missing then to be that person?" And that's what we're going to talk about today. Steven Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit: By the way, if you are a Land Academy member, don't forget. You can reach us on Discord. So Anthony wrote, "I have been seeing a lot of posts like does anyone know of a good photographer in X, Y, Z County? I was thinking we could add state and county sub farms to the resources forum, so we could share resources by county rather than having to post requests for providers in the general forums. Then, we can share who is good in each county and who we should avoid." And I personally think this is a great idea. Steven Butala: That's good, but I have a 180 degrees different opinion. Over the years, Jill and I have created forums and we do have forums in Land Investors, in Discord and a knowledge base that I think we're transferring through different... well it's knowledge based. The software that it's being used on is obsolete, so we're moving into another one. And the heartache that it causes, if you go say in X, Y, Z County, I've got this great person who can close deals. I have a great lawyer, closes deals all over the state. They're based out of this county. It's going to become obsolete fairly quickly, number one. Number two, we're going to get a call from that lawyer that says, "I'm getting all these calls from Land Academy members and they're not asking me the right questions. What they're asking me is, where should I send mail, things that I've never heard of before." And so it's title mind all over again. Jill DeWit: I was only talking about photographer. Steven Butala: And I think photographers get obsolete too. The best photographers I've ever had, the times that I've gone to use them again, they're gone. I just don't think- Jill DeWit: That's fair. Steven Butala: It's like saying air table is the best CRM. It's not. It's really good for us. We love it. Jill loves it. It's pretty. She says it all the time. Apparently, that matters to her and that's fine. Whatever it takes to get deals done. I just don't think that sharing this type of information... and this question is appropriate for this topic today.

How well do you connect with your clients? Do you know what your clients really need? Do you have a system in place to solve clients' problems? Sometimes we automate things to be more efficient, but we lose connections in the process. Personalization can bring back the human element, make your clients feel valued, and help you get to the heart of what your clients need. In today's episode, we'll cover: Why agency automation needs more personalization. 2 reasons to treat your agency like a client. How systemization can help your agency grow.   Today I sat down for a chat with Anthony Baxter, owner of Firefly, a performance digital marketing agency based out of New Zealand. Anthony started his career in telemarketing sales and has implemented a lot of what he's learned from his past position into how he runs his agency now. He's here to discuss how agencies can benefit from getting back to the human connection. Why Agency Automation Needs More Personalization In an age that's highly digital, it's easy to automate everything. Chatbots can answer questions, email systems can send out automated replies, and CRM's can make it simple to manage clients. So it's easy to ignore the human element. While these tools do make things easier, they often don't take into account what matters the most — your client. Anthony says he's a big fan of picking up the phone and having a conversation. When you have that one-on-one connection, it's easier to understand what your client truly needs. Don't just go all-in with one way to reach out to your clients. It's important to have multiple touchpoints. I suggest using automation to make routine tasks easier but not to replace personal interaction. Have automation but also have personalization. Do your own marketing, but don't be afraid to pick up the phone. By testing and trying out various strategies, you can figure out what approach works best for your clients and your agency. 2 Reasons to Treat Your Agency Like a Client When Anthony first started Firefly, his team spent 50% of their time working on internal projects and creating strategies to help the agency grow. Anthony says, if you're a digital agency, you're good at digital. So why not use your own resources to grow your agency? Firefly has seen two major benefits from this approach: Strong culture: We talk about the importance of agency culture all the time. When you spend time focusing on your internal processes and ways to grow your agency, it shows your team your business is just as important as the ones you are working with. Better leads: Anthony says pain points are one of the fastest motivators for sales. If a prospect has a problem and you can solve it, they're more likely to become a client. When you work on your agency, you'll find it easier to understand your vision, recognize these pain points, and be the fix. How Systemization Can Help Your Agency Grow Anthony says systemization has been the key to growth. In the beginning, he held all the agency knowledge himself which created a bottleneck. But over time he has learned the importance of systemizing processes in everything from operations to fulfillment and even sales. In fact, Firefly's systemized sales process has created efficiencies and sped up their sales cycle. This helps them deliver a predictable result every time. This results in happy clients and an efficient agency team. Change is inevitable. And as agencies, we are competing against talent. So Anthony says we must take our systems and bottle them in order to adapt easier and grow faster. To be a successful agency, you have to figure out what works. A lot of that comes from looking within. When you focus on your process and building those key relationships, you'll find it easier to have the freedom to focus on what you want to do. Looking for a Payroll and HR Solution for your Agency? Payroll and benefits are hard. Especially when you're a small business. Gusto is making payroll, benefits, and HR easy for small businesses. You no longer have to be a big company to get great technology, great benefits, and great service to take care of your team. For a limited time, Gusto is offering a deal to Smart Agency Master Class listeners. Check out Gusto.com/agency for 3-months FREE once you run your first payroll with them.

GEORGE:  All right, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the mind to George show. And by this point you've heard the new intro with me being as funny  as I can be today. I am super stoked. Today's guest is somebody who I love dearly have formed a deep friendship with, and here's a secret. This guy made me break a chopstick over my throat.In front of all my mastermind students, like I thought there was a chance I was going to the hospital, but I was in good hands. He teaches people that reality is plastic. And he is one of my dear friends, a hypnotherapist who has helped me immensely in my life when it comes to my mindset, resiliency business, and everything in between.And quite frankly, he has been able to simplify the crazy mind of George. And so I figured there would be no better guest to bring on the show than my buddy Anthony. So Anthony, welcome to the show. ANTHONY: Thank you, George. Good to be talking to you again. GEORGE: Me too, man. I love trying to just eight mile those intros and see what comes out of my mouthANTHONY: That was pretty succinct. And,  back to the chopstick, I must say you're there for the first person I've asked to just go in and do that. Normally I reserved that super power for myself, but. I suspected you would go all inGEORGE: Yeah, man. I got to say before I even ask you the question, I gotta paint this picture for everybody. So if you're watching this on video, ignore the creepy mustache on my face. I was telling you the day before we started, I wanted to freak my wife out cause she hates facial hair. And I'm about to record a video on how most internet marketers are creepy. So I'm gonna keep the mustache for a minute, but.Anthony came over. He flew across the pond to come over to the mastermind and he came to give this speech and this amazing talk and hang out with us. And it was an absolutely amazing experience. And I'd been working with Anthony. So we're the mastermind. And in our mastermind, we help entrepreneurs really build and scale their businesses.But a lot of it comes down to working on ourselves, being clear of our day awareness, building team culture, and a lot of that work. And  anthony gives this talk. He's doing his thing and it's amazing. Everybody is loving it. Few people are confused, which I'd love to seeing. They were like, this is not real.And it was hilarious.  and then he asked me to stand up in front of the room in front of everybody. So envisioned 60 people in a U. 60 people in a U camera crew, the staff of the place I was hosting the mastermind at. And he's like, all right, you're going to break this chopstick on your throat. And  it was a hefty chopstick.I must say, like it was a, one of those hard plastic chopsticks. And he has me. He shows me how to do it in front of everybody. I've never practiced this. I had no idea what was coming. He did not tell me it was coming. And he handed me the shops. Second. He told me to write a word on it.  something I wanted to let go of something I wanted to release and.It's actually really funny link thinking about this now, Anthony, when I think back on it, what I wrote on that chopstick was basically letting go of the blocks, preventing me from standing my power, being myself,  like owning my sovereignty. And so I stood in front of this room and I remember this, he looked me dead in the eye.He said, the only thing is you must commit. Do not go half ass,  don't go half speed. Don't do anything. If you don't commit, it's not going to work. And I have this thing sitting on my throat. And so I was like, all right. And I have no problem committing.  So I followed the instructions then boom.And I committed. And this thing shattered, but you should have seen the eyes of the people looking at me because I was looking at them and ghastly faces. I had a few people like cover their face,  and then what ended up happening is I hit it so hard that it shattered the chopstick  and it basically SRAP node.And so the chopstick didn't cut my throat, but a piece of the shrapnel hit the side, my neck and I started,  yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a tiny scratch.  those surface wounds that like bleed a little bit. So it started bleeding and I was like, Oh my God, your throat is bleeding. And I was like, no guys, I'm fine.I'm fine with that. It was so good.  it was so good. Like it's literally one of like in business, it's one of my top five moments of  that I've ever experienced. And it was a gift that it was on me. But,  yeah, I wanna I'm opening that loop for, but because I'm going to ask Anthony a question about that in a minute, but before I do that, I have this important question that I ask everybody in your, somebody who's been in this game for a long time, you and your father,  do the same thing.And he is like a massive pioneer in this space. And you have been doing this work for a  very long time, and you've done it with patients and. Clients you've traveled the world. You've spoken, you've done shows. And I imagine that in that world, especially in a world of like hypnotism,  it carries this mystic.Like it could be good, could be bad. There's been some resistance and really some deep down Gusto required to keep going. But when you look back at that,  let's say 20 years, 15 years. Looking back and reflecting. What was one of  the biggest mistakes or challenges that you faced? How did you overcome it and then how do you keep that moving forward from this point .ANTHONY: very interesting many places I could go with that I think,  with regard to the subject itself it's,  It, it kind of contracts and expands constantly. It takes over everything. It has to be part of everything. And then,  you get very deep into what it is we're dealing with. And I'd say one of the challenges over time has been getting caught up  in that getting caught up in an idea about it and that leading to you.you know, missing opportunities in a way, because when it expands out hypnosis is just communication. It's just part of life. It's expectation and suggestion of built into every experience we have. But along the way, you know,  there've been times where I've been caught up in a particular theory  and that has,  It's directed me a little,  you know, I love the subject daily.It is part of every fall of my life. And when I share it with people, I often warn them that hypnosis. Can consume, not just consume you, but suddenly you see it everywhere. It's like a new set of glasses. And suddenly you're looking through these tinted spectacles and you're seeing it when it, within everything.So I guess another challenge sometimes is to put it down, to just listen to the surface level of conversation. We don't necessarily lead to,  You know, we don't necessarily need to be interpreting things sometimes it's just communication.  So on a personal level, I apply this to everything I do, how I show up for my clients, whether I'm giving a face to face therapy session or whether I'm attempting to speak to your mastermind group, I'm trying to share the good piece, the common piece, which is the the world is made of words that it's built into everything that we do, that communication is the key and how we speak to ourselves,  is the most important part for us to be mindful of because there's no filter there. There is a feel for if someone else is criticizing you there's, there tends to be no filter when we speak to ourselves. GEORGE: yeah, that's such an interesting, and by the way, attempting you succeeded. Amazingly.  speaking about communication, you didn't attempt to speak to the mastermind. You crushed it just for the record and everybody  loved you.  I think that's really interesting actually. What I love about that is like, when you think about like hypnosis, right? That's what you do. You help people, but hypnosis as a tool for you,  it's a way to help people. And  when I hear you say about like, when it expands, it can become engulfing or encompassing.And then I basically end up in the situation missing everything that happens around me and yeah. The way, one of the things that you helped me understand and help me do is that there's these times as entrepreneurs, as business owners, as humans, that in the moment, whether it's a good moment or there's some resistance, or there's a trigger, there are times where we feel that it's all in golfing and all encompassing, and like we can't get out.We don't even see the exit. At some point, right? Like it's  you know, an ad account gets shut down.  Oh, it's all over the business is spiraling out of control. Or the other side of  Oh, I had a win today. I'm going to focus all on the win and then lose track of what actually created. Yeah. And so when you think about that,  what are some of the things that.Humans entrepreneurs, business people, anything like what are some of the things that they can do  to be able to recognize those, like create awareness around them and maybe even shift out of those things. So it's almost like hitting the pause button on the whole situation happening up here. I'd love your thoughts on that.ANTHONY:  I think it's,  it's a very common conversation with all of them. This fresh analysis of technology and how we use it.  a lot of people on the back that a social dilemma are taking a false from technology is one example. And that's one thing,  taking a break on something, taking yourself out of that, essentially the equivalent to going on a little retreat is one thing, but what follows that is the important thing. Especially with business processes and practices   and our  own story,  every now and again, I think we need to do that. Take a break, and  then come back to it in a mindful way and think what. What am I trying to do with this? What is my purpose in using this device or this,  you know,  when I got into your work, it was all about story.And I was fascinated with what you were saying about it. And,  you know, again,  it's, it's another tool. It's another means. But it's not one we should get lost in. It's not one we should insist upon. It's useful every now and again to ask what's here without this. So,  for me, it's about backing off every now and again, you know,  reasserting your intention upon your activities and your processes and not doing that rather than get character love and then just getting carried away with them. So there's lots that entrepreneurs can be doing to manage their,  monitor and manage their emotional regulation, especially when it comes to decision-making. So they're not necessarily so reactive.  so easy grab buttons to just  get pressed.And then to go through,  the, the, the illusion of decision making and choice. When in fact you're just reacting, you would just be experiencing,  you're just a pattern matching machine, and those responses are just  coming out of you predictably.  you know, it's easy to then   lose control even though. So, you know a big part of my business is about the hypnotizing people. It's about  waking people up to the fact that the behaviors, the getting in the way of their success or their life or their happiness. All patterns or habits,  drilled into the machine.It's just that we do them. We have an experience of choosing when, in fact. It's entirely predictable, which way you're going to go. Cause that's what he did last time. And that's what you did last time. And that's what you did the time before we can break those patterns. By first of all,  recognizing them for what they are. These are learning experiences more often than not. They were learned on the back end of an emotionally charged experience. They're not who you are equally. They know,  choices you're making  that, that they're just.GEORGE:  I think that's good. I love the way that you talk about that. Because when I look back at. Our work together or my work with you.  one of the biggest things that I had the breakthrough with is that first I had this belief of  Oh, I'm broken, I'm bad. Like I have all this stuff to work through. I'm reacting. It's crazy. And then I was like, Oh, but I gotta go the other way.I need this higher level of healing or awareness to shift it out.  and I did, and it was really actually really simple. And when you just said that,  what you're really doing is the hypnotizing. You're not D hypnotizing people. You're D hypnotizing programs like these automatic programs that run based on experiences in our life. I remember.  when I was working with you, one of the things was, there were parts of my day. I felt out of control. Like I wasn't spending enough time with my family,  and you were really simple. You're like, go teach your son how to brush his teeth, brush your teeth with your son. And that simple thing started to create this level of awareness in me. And what I got to understand from our work was. That I was trying to react to a program with a new program. I was trying to,  swing the opposite way. I was like, Oh, I responded this way and now I'm going to respond the other way. And once I worked with you, what it got to is that Whoa.The finish line for me is not to respond it's to be aware of what happened, aware of what I wanted to do, and then be informed to make a choice in a different direction. Yeah. I just, yeah,  that was one of the biggest takeaways for me was,  and not to, yeah, like just the simplicity of it.  it was like a pause button, like there's to this day from the work we've done together. I'd say in 95% of situations that used to cause an emotional reaction or a shift or a trigger in me and get an immediate reaction. I still sometimes get the feeling, but my default is to sit with it, not to do something with it.ANTHONY: Yeah. Yeah, in order to get to rip it, to recognize that even what we know  from the neuroscience is that when we're experiencing that high level of emotion,  the activity in that part of us that thinks, and is rational and uses language in a kind of meaningful way tends to decrease. And we're much more likely to just respond. Now there might be words coming out of our mouth. There may be actions,  this is going to be the kind of stuff we look at later on and say, I don't know why I said that. I don't, I dunno what I did that. I didn't mean that,  and, and, and where does it come from? It doesn't matter so much.I don't think we necessarily need to dig into the history. It's just  that's what happens when there is a high emotional charge. So yeah,  you are. You  you're a real values based guy and you hold yourself to a high standard. You have high expectations for yourself, which is wonderful, but that doesn't mean that we're immune to emotional triggers or buttons being pressed.And then essentially feeling that.  you know, in congruency between how we'd really like to show up,  and what happened there. So yes, a big part of the work was to stop pause and,  we don't need to spend too long on it. We just,  we, if we can just have this much of a gap, if we can just let those levels subside, thenGEORGE: Yeah. That triggered that trigger two thoughts for me that I want to talk about with you because,  obviously it's for everybody listening to this, like I've worked with Anthony, we've done a lot of sessions. Like I've actually benefited greatly from working with him and this modality in general and one of the things that you just said, I wrote down the other one, so I didn't forget it, but one of the things that you just said that got me. When you said you're a values-based man, like you have this high expectation for yourself. I think a lot of entrepreneurs set these really high bars, right?Like I'm going to change the world. I'm going to make a $10 million company. I'm going to have 5,000 people a day. But like you  pick whatever the wrapping paper looks like, but there was a point in my world where.  At the beginning of this episode, where we talk about,  the tunnel vision and all encompassing is that I almost made these values out of a program, not out of clarity, like  the goal or the measuring stick that I created was more out of reaction to programming from emotional events.My value is only there. If I accomplish that or if I hit that number or if I do that versus  Oh, well, that's something I'd want to work towards. That would be an awesome impact.  And so for me, it was really sneaky and I think it gets sneaky in entrepreneurs a lot as well, because. In my experience, like you don't wake up in the morning and you're like, okay, I want to let go of safety, security, benefits, and insurance to have a wrench thrown in my plan, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and feel like I'm climbing a mountain constantly, but then love the process as we get through it. And that's what entrepreneurship is. And so what do you think, or I would just maybe just love your thoughts on this.  cause I feel like one of the things that was happening to me is that I would set these. Measuring sticks. Are these finish lines, are these goals that were unrealistic or they were realistic, but when I didn't hit them or I weren't achieving them fast enough, I would use it as evidence to be like, Oh, see, you're not good enough. See, you're broken. Like you could have worked harder. You could have been better. And it felt like this trap and, and in our world, it's  yeah, you should have goals. What are your KPIs? But there had to be this healthy relationship. With the goals. And so  what are your thoughts on that? Like when people are thinking about this,  Hey, I'm just starting. I want to have a $5 million company or a 1 million, or hire my first team member. How do we navigate that? So it doesn't become that tunnel vision,  obsession all in golfing and then disconnect us from,  the plastic reality, which, by the way  I say that because it's the title of his book, by the way, reality is plastic. That's why I keep saying that. But I'd love your thoughts on that. ANTHONY: Yeah.  obviously  you work anyone I kind met by talking about these topics, I guess by that time, you'd  shifted your focus to the absolute priority and you still share it now, your personal, why,  being about,  your family and  your wishes for your son,  which kind of made. It a lot easier because if our self-worth is tagged to a bunch of goals, whether they're achievable, achieved or not, then we're  setting ourselves up for a problem because If it's reliant upon those things, then it  suggests you haven't done the work.It  suggests that, or at least that there is work to do.  So. I think that's the important piece. I think, to do that as an entrepreneur, it's easily ignored because you can be so busy and you can be on a mission and other things holding you up or blown away by your energy  or, or what you're achieving.And it's easy to  skip doing the deep work on yourself that would require you  or would enable you to still be happy.  if that, if that talk it wasn't here.  if the business just disappeared completely and you had to pivot and do something unimaginable for awhile, then is there still the possibility for you having a sense of peace and a sense of happiness? I think there is absolutely if you've done the deep work on yourself, and sometimes that involves shifting. Again, patterns, habits of mind that have been there,  for as long as  again, based on one or two or 10 experiences, when you were younger, you can sort to think that's me. That's just how I live. That's just how I work. That's just how I motivate myself. I don't believe that because I've seen so much of that stuff.  Dissolve and, and often in that often it can dissolve pretty rapidly or at least it can be massively undermined in the light of a real good. Reassessment, essentially we don't need to be regressing we just need to revisit and reassess every now and again and see it with fresh eyes in a calm state. Then we get the opportunity to change those things.  again, if we don't, then at some point,  you're not going to meet.  a particular bark thick in a pedestal that you've put your sense of self upon.And then it's highly likely that you're going to wobble  and start to ask questions. And those questions are the clue. Those questions, the questions actually are the tool. They are the blade of inquiry. We need to  use if you want to do this deep work. And that takes some courage. It takes a certain level of sensitivity because those,  I'm not really,  I'm not really  a believer in terms like deep rooted and complex. However long the problem's been there, wherever it came from. I just, I don't really see it that way. I know this stuff can change. I know it can shift, but it does require us to  be sensitive to the fact that these problems are made of. A thought stroke feeling experience. And  when it, when it pinches us,  when it, when we feel that itch or whatever, or tension or whatever it happens to be, or habit is to move away or habit is to,   overplay it in the opposite direction. Whereas. Certainly the work that we did.  many of the other things you've done,  and shared with me, they require a slightly different approach.I,  sit, still sit with it, let it find it physically. And,  it can seem almost like the materials we're playing with at that point,   It's not necessarily a ton of story attached.  A feeling,   it's a posture, it's a shift in breathing and suddenly things feel different without the analysis, without the counseling about the advice you just find that you can show up differently.And I,  I used to very much enjoy your descriptions of that kind  occurred  between the sessions, because often that was it, people noticing a shift in you like a light  or, you know, what's got into you. Yeah.   often  not quite what people imagine. The output that the effect of doing this kind of work is going to be, it's a subtle thing, but it's. It's everything because it's carried in your walk and your stance and your interactions and yeah. Yeah. And when, Oh God, like I have so many threads to pull and an analogy to share about pulling a thread in this. But when you say that, what I love about that is that. And I talked about this the other day that as somebody who's experienced trauma, and I think in today's current state of the world, 2020, most adults, most people and children have experienced some level of trauma, whatever level that is for you could be, your parents could be live, could be witnessing a car accident, losing a friend like. There's no measuring stick when it comes to trauma, it's all relative, but there's trauma. And one of the things that I've noticed a lot is that I had this belief forever, that because I experienced this high level of emotion and trauma, that the modality to help me out had to match that energy for it to be effective.And if it didn't, I was like, I'm not healing hard enough. I'm not getting enough work. It didn't hurt bad enough. I didn't cry enough. And one of the beautiful things about. A lot of work that I've done, but like genuinely in this world with you. Is that it was really subtle. It was. But when I say subtle, it was subtle, but it was consistent. It wasn't another swing in the opposite direction. It was like, Oh, it's incrementally different today. Like I turned the volume knob up, like one degree of happiness. But it was everywhere in my life. It wasn't like in the work or in my relationship or at the gym, it was everywhere. And then the longer I committed to the practice and the things that we did, the volume Albert turned, but it wasn't from zero to 20 in a day.It was like one, one, one, one. And you said something about five minutes ago that I want to unpack because this was a  big distinction for me. So one of the things that you broke through for me on a massive level that no one else had ever been able to do. And  this, like, and for those of you listening that don't know my full story, I've invested over seven figures in healing and  cognitive behavioral theory, EMDR meditation, silent retreats, plant medicine, group therapy, prolonged exposure, even to the point of doing nerve blocks, Botox, brain scans.I did STEM cells like I've done. Everything. And I'm glad that Anthony's laughing because it's true. And I've done a lot. The one thing that you helped me with so much, and I will never forget this. You were introduced by a dear friend of ours, of mine. And I think, you know him really well. And we got on a call and you looked me dead in the eye. And you said I'm not interested in your past. Every other thing that I had done. And to no fault was, let's go back into the past. Let's go back into the past. Let's go back into the past. Let's go back into the past. And it was at this point in my life, I had done so much work. I had gone back into the past so many times I could spit it to you in my sleep. And nobody at that point, and maybe I wasn't ready, but nobody had been like, okay, now that you've been in the past 8,042 times,  when are you going to realize that we can just be in the present right now? And let's from there forward. And that was one of the things that you helped me with was it was like, I get  that happens.Okay, here we are.  Do you feel it in your body? Where's it coming up? And then. And it was this really shuttle shift. And a minute ago you said we have to look back to rehabs to reassess.  But the, the analogy that I like to think about a personal development teacher said this to me a couple of years ago, they said, if you're driving a boat and staring out the back, you're guaranteed to sink the Titanic.And they were like, when you drive the boat, when you drive the car, are you look at the road before you switched lanes, you look back real quick and then get your eyes back on the road. And I think  that's the best way to describe what you helped me. Do. I look back to assess really quickly and be like, okay, got it. That worked, that didn't work. Let's try this again, but bringing it into the present. And I think that's probably one of the biggest gifts that you gave me. And I think that entrepreneurs could receive, or humans could receive in general. So when you think about that, when you think about navigating the past, we're looking at  Oh, well this happened in the business or that employee did this or that product didn't work well in my experience, if I look at that, I recreate the same thing in the future.And so how do you navigate that? How do you go about being able to look back, be present. I'd be like, okay, got it. That happened. This happened, what am I going to do forward? And then carry that forward. ANTHONY: Yeah.  I remember that moment clearly too. And I could see a sense of relief.  it, that, I think there's a problem actually in psychotherapy and many other kinds of modalities in that. And it's almost a legacy of what Freud gave up, which is that we need to go there. We must go there. We must uncover, remember re-experience, which is disgusting thing to do to people who have been deeply traumatized,  if you really think about it but it's there like a backbone in many systems of therapy and because often provokes the swing, describe the emotions high enough.It's  I think both the therapist and the client can think this is it. I'm doing it. This is therapy is what I came for.  some pain is here. This must be it. And often it just leads to more of that. It's  a. Historical archeology into your own, past. So I try to do as little of that as possible if we do, it's very short and succinct, and I think this can be applied to any life lesson.So again, I'll prefer to call it revisit and reassess. You're going to do that with all the strengths and understandings you have now. As an adult, in your case, outside as a man, as a father, all the understandings you have now,  with a, with a teenager and a young child. So look at it again,  from a, from a kind of distance, look at it again, keep anything useful. You may have gained from that experience, but this is what I want you to do. I want you to. Drop down beside that younger, you thank them for going through that, let them know they came through that and tell them exactly what it is they need to hear and give them permission to let go of any of those negative emotions. And when you get a sense that it's done, I want you to just see them with a smile on their face, waving goodbye as they free you forever. So that kind of. Peace.  it's not that it's just a script, but it's  it's that light touch. We don't need to go into the, every detail. We don't need the drop into our body and feel it again,  we don't need to be retraumatized in that fashion.If we're going to look at something, let's do it. Knowing we came through it, even if it was. A difficult meeting last week, or we blew a deal or whatever it happened to be, look at it again, keep anything useful and essentially let go of any of the emotional charge that's there. And,  I've seen  many lives change with that light of a touch.Again, I don't think we should then keep doing that and looking for  more and more things. I think we should get back to the present and figure out,  what do you want? How can you be at peace, happy and connected in this moment? And what do you want? GEORGE: What I found for me? And thank you for when you were saying that again, I remember I literally remembered this session and  I felt love in my heart, like remembering, looking at my younger self being grateful. And the thing that I tell myself now is talk to myself. Like I talked to my son, talk to myself, like I talked to my children. ANTHONY: It's that, and that essentially is what you need to do to treat yourself with the same kindness,  the same,  patients, the same kind of curiosity,  and I noticed I've got kids they're 20 and 18. Now. We it's funny.  Every few years, you  sink. They were just six, then they were just nine  but often we're  treating them the whole way. We treat them like adults we're expecting so much of them total. It's not actually,  let's, let's, let's just get some perspective here and to do the same thing to ourselves, whether you were. Whether it's five years ago or whether it was three months ago or a meeting ago, it doesn't matter. It's, there's something learned. There's something we can take from it,  even the toughest experiences. And what I find is when I  think that these events, if we want to call them that,  they are. They are created in this moment. They're imagined they are not the event.  they are, they are,  like a memory trace and a feeling that we're calling  that childhood or that past or whatever, but we're recreating them in this moment. And what I find is  if you have to go there, if you want to, as my dad says, it says, if you're going to look back glance, don't stare. But if we're going to go on. If we have the courage to do this kind of work, ultimately it gives a sense of completion. And there's something about this organism. There's something about our brain that when it's complete, it's done. Whereas actually we'd been carrying that kind of partially filled template without an appropriate conclusion  for decades in many cases.So even though we're, you said realities plastic a couple of times, even though we just  we're just rewriting that the end, if you like of the story, we're giving it  a conclusion where we're satisfying it. Then it says, if,  our brain is no longer seeking that says, I've heard you say this stuff about language and  when we're seeding ideas to people  opening up these kind of incomplete streams. And it's true because there's this kind of search going on, not just for meaning, but for completion. That's what we're used to. That's  how things have been drilled.   yeah, it has.  It's used   to open up,  thanks for creativity and really for just commanding attention. But when it's our own story, when it's our own history, is that yeah, every now and again,  we need to say the end and it's no different  when we're pitching out into our future and that's causing us anxiety more often than not.What we're doing is focusing on the one piece. The actually our, again, our brains, just trying to protect us and say,  if, what if, what if, yeah.  And it's it. And again, it's easy to mistake that for mental rehearsal, it's not,  you're obsessing over this screen.  you read reading your intro 10 times, 20 times. That's what really preparation you need to go and complete. This imagined event in the future. And again, it doesn't matter if  your, your fantasy about it, how you end. It turns out to be the reality or not. Your brain just needs a sense of completion. So both of those things may sound like we're. We're becoming less present, but our habit, if you like, especially when we're suffering is to let this content just  spew for going over  that meeting again, or that argument again, that cross word again, we're anticipating that major issue again. When in fact, if you just set aside just a few minutes to do the,  have the kind of conversation, we just had, or,  there's a number of tools for doing the same thing with things you're anticipating.  They're easy to learn. They're easy to apply. You don't need a therapist to be honest, it's just, sometimes it's nice to relax and let someone  be the guide. All of this stuff can be self applied and then being present. Isn't it again? That's not something you should be having to do,  you're just being, you're just playing relating your  that's it.GEORGE: Yeah. You know what? Yeah.  what's,  something that's really interesting that you helped me identify and I know how to summarize it. Now we talked about like, when you look back at a glance instead of staring right. What I figured out is I felt like I was stuck in this loop.  Like I would, I would come up for air. I would get a little bit of air, but I never was like swimming. I was always like treading water. That's what it felt like. And I would have these pockets, but then I would swing back in and pockets and swing back in. And what I realized is that it wasn't due to lack of work or lack of tools. It was due to lack of clarity. I had more clarity on what my past trauma looked like then on where I wanted to go. And so when I was triggered, it always tilted backwards.And one of the mistakes I made, two, two of the mistakes I made is one. Is, I wouldn't give myself the space to be present. And I was afraid to plan my future because I didn't think I was going to get there.  Like I was like, I was so wrapped up in what was in the past. And then the other mistake was I planned it way too far out in advance. Instead of you being like, Hey, go brush your teeth. Hey, go for a two-minute walk.  Hey, put your hand on your heart and love that child. Hey,  go sit here. And it was so simple. And then I realized that,  my goal out creating that clarity was basically to cut the anchor to the past and the anchor of the past wasn't Oh, tomorrow I'm going to be a sent a billionaire.It was like, Hey today, right now I'm going to go journal for five minutes. I'm going to go walk for five minutes. I'm going to go sit down in front of my wife and be like, Hey baby, I'm scared. I'm going to go share something or feel something. And then that allowed me to create clarity and start to  let go of what was there.But it was something interesting that I noticed Anthony.  I teach people all the time, like vision, future, self journaling, like who do you want to be? Who do you want to be? Who do you want to be? And I wouldn't even take a minute to think about it because the weight and the clarity and the. Past had all my attention, had all of it. And so that was a big  distinction for me.  the analogy I wanted to share with you earlier, this is what it felt like for me. So  if you, if you envision this, if you're listening to this, if you're watching this, I don't have a visual, but like envision like. A cup and then you take  20 feet of string and you put it into the cup and it looks like a jumbled mess.And if I handed you the cop and I'm like, untangle, it you'd look at it. You'd be like, Oh,  whatever, like you can't untangle it in the cup. There's not enough space. And I felt like my life, I had to jump into that cup and figure out how to untangle it in the cup. And then you come along, you pull the string and it's dead straight in a matter of a second. That is the best way I can describe what you do. That is the best way ANTHONY: someone showed me how to untangle Roque and cables and Christmas lights awhile back. And it was just don't put anything just gently, take them, just gently shake them.GEORGE: Yeah, one of the things, cause I want you to talk about you and I have never talked about this. I have no idea where this is going to go, but I know you love duality and this is something that's new in my world. But when I say duality, I still have like  a limited understanding of it. But in my limited understanding, it's allowed me to find levels of presence that I've never felt before in my life. And it was this movie watching.  I told Auntie before we hit record about this movie called chasing the present, you've probably ever been talked about a hundred times, but there was a guy struggling in this moment.  like emotional, sad, depressed, anxious.And the duality professor looked at him and he said, who are you? And I loved the question. And  of course the answer was, I'm an entrepreneur I'm successful. I'm a businessman, blah, blah, blah. And I was playing along in the movie and then he's  okay, were you born that way? And the guy's  well, no. And he's  okay, cool. So who are you? And then of course went to States of being well, I'm loving, I'm compassionate. I'm funny. And he's  In every moment and we're like, no. And then he's  well, who are you? And he paused for  20 seconds. And in that moment I broke down in tears. Cause I got it.Like I literally got it before he said anything and I got it. And I was like, in this moment, I can be whoever I want to be. And then in this moment, I can be whoever I want to be. And  he broke it down and he said, Oh,  your dog . But he started breaking it down. And he was like in this moment, and this moment in this moment, and it was really powerful for me,  really powerful for me.I think one of the most dramatic effects in my life has been finding those pockets of knowing what to say or knowing what to ask or having a simple tool or a practice to lean in on, get me back into the president, got me back into my body. And so can you  talk about that because you have an understanding of that, but that question rocks me. I've probably asked it 5,000 times myself in the last year. ANTHONY: And to think of that question as the ultimate. So you said you added two. Yeah. So  what,  My kind of route into this, it's the same thing we're talking about by the way is often called non duality. So  just, just to make that clarification and it's probably the oldest Indian philosophy, certainly, but it's become very popular in the West. In fact, one of the great. Western masters of this lifts in Temecula, close to you, a man called Francis Lucille. If you'd get a chance to spend some time with him, I would definitely do that. Lived at drag queen and,  trust me,  this,  very charming and quietly spoken Frenchman.  Has the capacity to really burn off everything that you will not. By asking that question  in a kind of artful manner, there are other, there are many ways of asking it if you like, but  the, the, the journey essentially is especially with a tool like that, you might think of it.First of all, as a cutting tool where you're going to use it  as it sounds like they were in that movie. And anything that doesn't satisfactorily answer that question. If you really contemplate it, your name doesn't satisfactorily. Answer that question, your hair,  even,  even a pink Mohican doesn't satisfactorily sum up George.and we can keep cutting. We can keep cutting.  We can lose parts of the body and we can continue to be intact and so forth and so on. So the initial part of the process is you sit with this question and I don't want to, I don't want to give you too much of a shortcut, but let me tell  you won't satisfactorily answer the question.And that is the first part of this revelation. You're going to come up empty handed, nothing. He's going to satisfactorily stick to display, to inquiry. And there is a moment there  going from  something,  I'm this,   I'm a father, I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a success. I'm a whatever to nothing which perhaps for some people sounds terrifying, but for many others, it's exactly what they're going to seek and travel the world and pay good money to achieve a moment like that.Or a moment of nothingness. To deepen that inquiry. You went in failing. If you like to find a center, an edge, an age and name, you then begin to look at your experience and we tend to then go in the other direction to try and find,  I've taken you through some of these exercises, try and find a boundary. Between your inner experience and your outer experience between the feelings inside of you, the voice in your head and my voice. If you really do to again, sit as the answer, sit quietly and do the work. Then you're going to see the, all of this activity is taking place in the same. Space, if you want to put it that way, it's the only thing that seems to reliably be present in all of your experiences.And that is your sense of being present and aware. It's that simple? So again,  you, you move and I guess people could spend years on this, but.  you could be guided through this in a movie, you could be guided through this reading a book. You could,  someone could put this to you and you could have this experience within minutes. All right.  Is to the move is from something that you  felt pretty sure about, but,  the suffering to nothing as moment of nothingness. So then an expansive inclusive sense of being connected and what I'd say about this is what you're recognizing is as far as I'm concerned,  closer to your true nature.So rather than searching for happiness in acquisition of objects, you see the. When you were provided with a moment of happiness,  when you hit a target or you got a thing, actually what you experienced was calling off the search for a moment  that, that, that search was gone. And you, shot, it's exactly the same when we. search for peace by going to some wonderful location, for sure. It there's beauty there and you can feel connected to what's around you there, but  it shines from you. This experience is coming from you, not just from the outside. Could you experience that in your current circumstances? What do you need to go to the Himalayas?I don't think you do. And then finally,  it brings us back to connection. Again, we've had many discussions around this and I,  I know with the other people, you work with  you, you, you do a lot of this kind of work,  if you like the opposite, one of my teachers said,  The opposite of love is this sense of distance. Whereas  if you do this inquiry, if you recognize  that boundary isn't there, then you will feel connected. You will feel just as connected and close to,  The people who are important to you wherever they are as if this space is alive, connecting space, as if it connects  you know, like you're joined by a rubber band or something like that, it's alive connecting space.So without getting too philosophical about it, I think this inquiry is something that. Any of us can do, if you think about it, the vast majority of therapeutic techniques, especially the more imaginative visual techniques, the first step is observe,  be the, be the observer. Look at that again, see yourself there.And we often think of that as just being in the third person or is dissociation. I think it's closer to recognizing yourself as you are, as the witness of. Thoughts and feelings that you yourself and not a thought and feeling as the knower of your experiences.  but you know, you yourself or on not just an experience. So yeah. I don't know where that's just completely confused.it's a cutting away, which is a kind of Advantech kind of move. And then it's,  an opening up and a reconnecting and,  There's three ways in a lot of people get that via meditation. That's not really the main for me. What I've been  talking about. There is more of an inquiry and I think the other way of benefiting is contemplation. And when I say that,  taking a sentence.   this is how I benefit most from your work is because,  you're extremely good at this.  you can pop a question out or you can lay down  a sentence and. It's all in there.  If, if, if I was to let me think of some things that affected me at the beginning of the last few months,  that you said one of the things I first heard you say was,  what are you doing to get people to their after state? Whether they buy your products and services or not.So, so rather than I, yeah, cool. I get that. Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna do more of that. It's  to me, you could contemplate upon that. You could let it like. No, it's like a worm and  like working its way through every aspect of your business. And again, with this kind of non-duality stuff, contemplations like that you can take a sentence or you can take a question like, who am I?And rather than thinking, Oh, I've done that for, we did that last week or expense I've spent. An hour on that. It's  no, this, this is going to keep working for life.  this, this kind of technology.  it doesn't really need to be expanded upon   so, so rich,  so that's  that's become a big part of how I grow and potentially to improve my business and,  you know, achieve my personal goals is with contemplation upon ideas that when you heard it had such an impact, but kind of thing,  this, this may not finish doing this work yet. I'm just going to carry this with me.GEORGE: so much for me.  and thank you. That was probably like one of the best compliments I've ever gotten when it comes to this ANTHONY: two or three things you said at the beginning of,  of COVID,  it's a couple of bits in thrive,  which I'm telling   Transformed, what could have been a very difficult situation for me? just literally two or three little sentences like   you kind  weave them together. And it gave me a complete outlook. It gave me a,  clarity on exactly what I needed to do and how I could give how I could show up. And that. Has made a huge difference to me.  you said this is the time to build massive brand loyalty. and again, the, what would you do if,  to get people there, whether they buy or not? I literally started a Facebook group and. Very  modeled your intro to your relationships group said,  commit, commit to this group. And the third thing was show up publicly weekly with three things that you want to achieve in the next three months.Remember when this was going to last three months, things you want to achieve in the next three months. And dude, it, that was like a thousand people strong  within a week. And. They just asking people to go public with those things, set something off that I'd never really seen in any other groups I had before this openness, this vulnerability and people recognizing that.The value of going there.  I can't believe  I've shared that,  lots of them. So they were previously terrified to admit that they hadn't achieved all of their goals or that they were still afraid to go on camera. And it's actually, it was a big opening up. And I'm real, not that I needed proof because I felt it at the mastermind and I believe in what you share, but.It really was strong evidence for the model and  that the lighthouse model, there's just so much to it that has an impact on your life, how you show up,  you know, for your family and for yourself, let alone for your customers.  you know,  I really am.  it, it, didn't just  save me. It  really transformed my business and everything I've done since it's just been easier. GEORGE: Yeah.  you know what you said about   really  landed for me,  was basically,  when we think about awarenesses, right?  there's. An infinite amount of levels of awareness and consciousness and clarity, right? Like I always loved the proverb, like the seven whys, right?Like  why, why? And like getting down deeper. And I think one of the most profound lessons I have learned,  I've been doing entrepreneurship really since I was like 13, but  as a ho as a profession for 11 years now, And the biggest mistake I made in the beginning, it was clarity or great idea or boom act, and then throw it away forget it was there.  don't even put it in my toolbox, just  let it go. And I never, until I read that book from Keith Cunningham,  the road less stupid,  one of the things he talks about is thinking time. And I found that if I let it marinate or. I bring it into my house and just keep it there and reference it,  once a month, once a week contemplate it, I've had the biggest breakthroughs as well.And I feel like I wasn't in the space back then to allow it to contemplate.  And now I am, but like these questions,  you know, I used to ask people like, what are you pretending not to know? Or what are you pretending not to see?  Cause like when we're so close to it, we can't see it. But when you contemplate on that for a moment, like whip out a notebook, go sit in your office, go sit outside in nature, right on the top of the pad, your question, and just think. And ponder and reflect and flow, right?  write down whatever potentially comes up. ANTHONY: Try to figure out, just see what comes up,  let it, you,  if it's unsettling, then. Be curious, the curiosity piece is the main piece.  it's like stay curious if something comes up and it's difficult, uncomfortable, or irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Be curious, be interested. Like you'd never been interested before,  and again,  the it's such a power in it.  I've really overlooked it myself. Contemplation,  what, what, what does it even mean?  but that's what it means to me is it's taking these gems that had an impact and recognizing their work may not be fully,  no, on a phone, just every now and again. Just  let it, let  that got hit again.  and see what comes up GEORGE: and the best way it's  we. It it's actually not like we don't do this.  think about every time you shower, like you're always like, Oh, the thought, Oh, the thought, Oh, I gotta write it down. Oh, I got to remember because you're so present and you're not agendized except you're showering. And so when you're sitting there contemplating, there's all this intuition knowledge, wisdom, flow, clarity coming through. And I think just the exploration of it is what makes this all fun and effective Listen, I could probably talk to you for  25 hours in a row and we know this.  but before I do that and I forgot to do this in the beginning,  I want everybody to go check your stuff outwhere is the best place for everybody to find you to go, to get into your world? Where's the best place. ANTHONY: Let me make it really simple.  I. Teach people how to use hypnosis and their own life and how to use it on other people, whether it's to help them change or have fun, or simply have crazy experiences. I run a training company with my father is called J AC Q U I N H Y P N O S I SACADEMY.comAnd one of the things I flipped on the back of thrive your book,  was to let people in, you can have a 14 day binge of all of our video courses. There is more than you could possibly consume there, to be honest, but trust me. The best stuff is the easiest to learn. Be hypnotizing people to that material safely, confidently.  you could spend a lifetime mastering it, but if you want to free trial for 14 days, go check out our website. There's loads of information there.  It will lead you to my personal website, Anthony jacquin.com and other places too.One more thing. I'd love people to check out.  I just want to make the most of  is my father created a very effective pain control technique. For many people, they will experience significant relief or completely eliminate their pain. I know this sounds crazy, but within a few minutes, I demoed this at the mastermind and you remember a couple of people completely lost their chronic pain.So we've now collaborated with a friend's company called neuro more. They're very much into their kind of consciousness, hacking technology, doing good things  with, with the tech we're carrying around with us. And this is an app called painkillers, actually a few different things with that name, but P A I N KLLO so without the R right pain killer. P A I N KLLO. I'm going to share the link for you guys, but if you go, if you search for neuro more and E U R M LRE is neuro more and the pain together, P a I N K  L R, then you'll be to download this app, just share it with anyone,  Who's experiencing chronic pain, whether that is a physical pain in with them for years, that is essentially no longer definition.That is chronic pain. It's not acute. It's not stopping you from bending too far. It's not, you got a broken tooth is just, it's been caught up in the system and it's still occupying your attention.  Again, we're tracking data on the app and you basically put a score of how bad your pain is. You listen, it's an audio and you score again. And,  we are getting many wonderful reports of people saying I can't feel it. I can't feel it. So I'd love it. If people would check that out, we're trying to get up to kind of 10,000 people to use it in the next couple of months.  and then we'll see what we're going to do with it. After that. I'd love you to.GEORGE:  love it. Yeah. So everybody go check out the app,  check out the website.  his book is also really good. I listened to it on audible a few times called reality as plastic, but make sure you check out my man. So I have one final question for you,  for everybody listening. If you could leave them with any parting words of wisdom, something to take away, something to apply into their life.Like this is your opportunity to just project your sprinkle, your magic dust, or light on everybody and leave them with something from you. What would that be? My friend. ANTHONY: Look, I've seen over 5,000 people in one-to-one therapeutic exchanges. And during that time I've seen people who have been experiencing every kind of problem, block compulsion,  belief, you  negative emotion and. I know that all of those things can be shifted. None of them are who you are. You don't have to tolerate putting up with something just because you've been tolerating it for so long. I know it sounds crazy, but chronic pain is the thing that really. Taught me this,  when you see somebody who's been in chronic pain for decade or 20 years, and with some words and using their imagination, that can vanish is a reminder that any of those things that you've been carrying could potentially be put down, maybe even the back of being aware of the fact that they could.So  I would simply just remind people that.  you can do this. You TA you can take charge of this. And,  you know, as we've been in today doing a bit of the work around your sense of self and what truly matters and is truly important to you is one of the best, but just to store often a lot of those habits of the body and those habits.Loosen their grip. They're no longer defining you. And that is,  something that's going to enable you to enjoy more of the happiness you deserve and share, and celebrate and express that with the people that you love. I love it. GEORGE: I love it. No better way to end it. I'm not going to taint that. That was beautiful, Anthony, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for being here for everybody listening. This was a, another episode of the George's mind belongs in a straight jacket on the mind of George show.  remember that relationships always beat algorithms, and now it's time for the outro. I'll see you guys in the next episode.

My 8th guest as part of my Launch Series is a person I feel a special kinship with as we share a common purpose to help others lead healthier lives. So happy to have him here. Anthony Masiello has been working in healthcare for more than 20 years. His career started by working on bioinformatics with the Human Genome Project then transitioned to pharmaceutical research. But his unbelievable health journey, losing over 150 pounds and successfully keeping it off since 2005, took him down a different path that eventually led to his discovery of Lifestyle Medicine. So Anthony then shifted his career to focus on the prevention and reversal of chronic disease through his new tele health startup, Plant Based TeleHealth, the first national lifestyle telemedicine service. And he's here to share with you his definition of health. I hope Anthony's message helps to redefine what health means for you.Show Notes:Connect with Anthony Masiello: Website | Facebook | EmailConnect with Dr. Jonar, M.D.: Website | Instagram | Facebook | TwitterHow can I support this podcast?Listen, Subscribe, Rate & Review:Glass Half Healthy on Apple PodcastTell Your Friends & Share Online!Thanks to my intern, the wonderful and smart Amelia Liu, to Twinsy for their production help, and to StockSounds for the music. And to YOU! Thank you for listening!Disclaimer:This podcast is intended for educational purposes only and isn't medical advice so please talk to your primary physician for that. In addition, the views and opinions expressed by me are my own and not that of my former, current or future employer. This also applies to my guests. Finally, we do our best to make every effort to relay correct information, but don't guarantee its accuracy. Thank you for listening.

Hey everyone! So Anthony is out this week, so in lieu of a full episode, Adam and Anthony will record a full episode later this week and have it for you all. Thanks for listening!

Anthony was born on August 10, 1916 in Elizabeth New Jersey. His father was an immigrant who made his living as a bootlegger during these times of Prohibition.    By the time Anthony was heading into high school, he decided his time would be better spent making whiskey and selling it to his Father’s customers.    During the war, he left to work for Boeing aircraft company in Seattle. After the war, he returned to NJ and began gambling on horse races to earn money. Well, you can imagine the mob characters that Anthony was dealing with and eventually he crossed them one too many times.   One particularly close call happened with the Mafia decided to teach him a lesson he would never forget. Anthony was beaten within an inch of his life and tossed into the Newark City dump, where he was left for dead. Instead of becoming a feather in the cap of the mafia - Anthony survived, and knew that he needed to get out of town and make a fresh start.    Anthony decided to head south to Florida. He didn’t have much money - only $18 in his pocket when he saw a sign that said “See Key West”. Anthony stopped at the race track in Homestead and started inquiring about Key West. He had already missed the last bus heading to Key West, but instead caught a ride with the milk truck. When he finally rolled into Key West, Anthony couldn’t believe his eyes. Bars were on every corner, slot machines all of the place and there were more women of ill repute than he could shake a stick at.   He immediately said to himself, “This place is for me!” Anthony got work in the shrimp yards, heading shrimp. He eventually had some shrimp captains take him under their wing and show him the ins and outs of shrimping. Later, Anthony got his Captain’s license and began his fishing career. He had a great career and became a highly sought after charter fishing captain, and he held plenty of records!   Eventually, Anthony began spending more time in the bars on Duval street. He loved the night life. He got along great with gay people because his brother was gay. He loved a good party, and knew everyone in town. He eventually had an affair with one of the Navy wines he met at a bar and caused quite a scandal. Eventually, the gay bar owner left town and committed suicide. So Anthony’s favorite bar closed down.   Anthony missed that bar so much, that eventually his friends talked him into opening that bar back up. The word-famous bar that used to be Sloppy Joe’s and plied booze to the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Truman Capote now became Captain Tony’s bar. Anthony or “Captain Tony” as everyone knew him kept the place just like it was and could be seen there nearly every day of the week, until a couple of weeks before he died.   It was today in Key West History, November 18th, 1964 that this Establishment, formerly known as the Oldest Bar at 428 Greene Street was placed “on limits” to Navy personnel.  Can you imagine the stories that building could tell? I mean, the gays, the shrimpers, the women of ill repute, and now the Navy boys - what a time they had.   And that is what happened today in Key West History.   Today in Key West History is brought to you by 43Keys Media. To learn more fascinating stories about our beautiful Florida Keys and the Eccentrics who have called it home for generations, visit 43keys.com

Today we laid out the path and the process to become a member of the two comma club. On today’s episode Russell recaps day 3 of Funnel Hacking Live, which had a theme of the Two Comma Club. Here are some of the awesome things that happened day 3: Find out how many people received Two Comma Club awards, and the new Two Comma Club X awards. Find out what kind of coaching program Two Comma Club X is, how much it costs, and what the goal of it is. And find out how Russell chooses who speaks at Funnel Hacking Live every year. So listen here to hear a quick recap of all the awesome stuff that happened on day 3 of Funnel Hacking Live. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. Today I’m going to be covering what happened on day number 3 of the Funnel Hacking Live event. Alright everybody, welcome back. I hope that you’re enjoying this recap. For those of you guys who were at Funnel Hacking Live, you’re like, “Oh yeah, I remember htat.” And those who weren’t, you have massive FOMO, fear of missing out, and you’ll make sure you come next year. If you guys knew what we were planning for next year, I have a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I don’t know if it’s going to happen or not. If it does though, it’ll be insane so do not miss it. Alright so Funnel Hacking Live day number three. So day number one we talked about Impact and Income, day number two the theme was You’re One Funnel Away, day number three was The Two Comma Club. To kind of set this off, we had 91 people this day come on stage and we gave them Two Comma Club awards, but we also had 15 people who got the Two Comma Club X award, which means you made over 8 figures, or 10 million dollars in a funnel, which was really, really cool. And the coolest thing about this is I saw tons and tons of people posting on Instagram and Facebook and everywhere, Funnel Hacking Live has become the Emmy’s or the Grammy’s  of entrepreneurship, and it’s so cool that that’s what this has become. Entrepreneurs there’s not much stuff. You start a business, you make a bunch of money, you buy a nice car, you buy a nice house, you serve a lot of people, you raise money for charities, but there’s never a time to reward entrepreneurs like there are for actors and athletes and everything else. So Funnel Hacking Live has become that, it’s become the Emmy’s and the Grammy’s and it’s been really, really cool. This day was fun because we had the chance to highlight so many amazing entrepreneurs, bring them onstage and give them cool stuff. So that was awesome but, I want to start at the beginning of the day. I wanted this one, because I knew it was going to be a fun day, so I wanted to start with Anthony DiClementi. So Anthony came and taught everyone how entrepreneurs can biohack for more energy. So he came onstage and it was so fun seeing him on stage. He was in a full suit with bare feet, which is totally such a biohacker thing. So he came in and taught people breathing exercises, other ways to get energy and it was really, really fun. It was our only non-internet marketing type of speaker and I think it was a huge, really cool addition. If you guys haven’t read Anthony’s book on biohacking, you should get it. There may or may not be a new book coming out in the near future. Maybe not the near future, but in the future. He’s working on it now, which is also going to be amazing. So that was awesome. After Anthony got off stage, then Alex Charfen came on and talked about the billionaire code. What’s fun is my opening presentation at Funnel Hacking Live is how to go from 0 to a million, a million to ten, and ten to a hundred. Mine was more, your role as an entrepreneur, where do you need to be focusing your creativity at. Alex came back and went through the billionaire code, which is like all the different phases as he sees them, that businesses transform through. I think his had 9 or 10 different phases, and it was really cool because it shows you each phase, here’s what’s happening, here’s how many businesses in the world are actually at this level, here’s the opportunities and the weakness and all that kind of stuff and goes phase by phase by phase. And it was really coo l for you to get a really good map of, oh here’s the direction I’m going. Here’s what’s happening. Things like that. So Alex was awesome. After that then Dana Derricks, our resident goat farmer came on stage and talked about the Dream 100 which was really cool. You know, it’s funny. I’ve been talking about Dream 100 now for like 8 years, ever since I read about it in Chet Holme’s book and I’ve been telling people to do it. I’ve been doing and a few other people have done it, but very few people do, yet it’s the foundation for everything. In fact, I don’t know if I have Dana’s book here, but he ended up writing a book called Dream 100 and he was like, “Hey can you write the forward for it.” I was like, “Yeah.” I’m not going to find it here right when I need it. But the forward of the book was basically, I told them Dream 100 is everything for us. It’s how we decided what we were going to create, what products we were going to serve, the audience, how we were going to get traffic, how we were going to differentiate, everything in our business is based off the Dream 100, yet for some reason people don’t do it. So he came and talked about that and it was awesome. So Dream 100 was really big and he had some amazing images and videos of goats knocking over little kids and things like that. Anyway, Dream 100 was a big thing. And this is where we started kind of diving more into traffic. So Dana talked about Dream 100, how to use it for traffic, how to lever partnerships, joint venture relationships, things like that. After that, then Peng Joon came on stage, Peng Joon is actually the number one affiliate for the Expert Secrets book. A lot of people here don’t know him, he’s awesome. He joined my inner circle a while ago and I had a chance to meet him, and get to know him and he’s just an awesome dude. So he got up and taught this process that he does. He basically spends three days once a quarter and films 100 videos and then he’s done and then from there he’s got a team that breaks it up and they turn it into Instagram posts, and Instagram videos and YouTube and Facebook and he showed this whole process of how everything works and it was amazing. People were like jaw dropping like, holy cow that’s the process. It was cool because Conversation Domination, which I taught about the first day was all about, here’s how you dominate each channel and have a specific type show for each channel. And his was like, how to create content and push it across all these channels you’ve been building up to build reciprocity and build a following and the blend of those two concepts is really, really cool. In fact, for those who joined the Two Comma Club X coaching program we’re going to be giving you our systems that kind of blend both of those two worlds together, but that’s for another day. But the coolest thing about Peng Joon’s presentation outside of him blowing everybody’s mind, was the end of it. He showed a video of him trying to learn public speaking. He was onstage and he was so bad and nervous and awkward, and this coach critiquing him back and forth. He showed kind of where he came from and how bad of a speaker he was, how nervous and how introverted and all these things, and from that how he’s become this huge person now, 3 or 4 million followers on Facebook, makes tens of millions of dollars a year and this whole thing, transformation he went through and how he had to learn it and earn it and become it. That was, I think, one of the coolest things because you see this person who has evolved himself through hard work and I think he gave everybody hope of, “Wow, no matter where I’m at I could become what I want to be. I look at Peng Joon and look who he’s become and I could do that if he can do that.” Which was really, really cool. Then after that, Alex and Layla Harmosi came on the stage, what’s cool about them is that, since I’ve know Alex he’s launched and blown up 3 or 4 businesses and always kind of walks away from them. And in April this year he launched a new company, and from April til now he barely crossed the finish line, it was less than a year, the new company launched and not only did they hit the Two Comma Club, they hit the Two Comma Club X, they made over 10 million dollars in a funnel in less than a year, which was cool. They do it all through high ticket sales, in fact I was showing his value ladder, they don’t even have a full value ladder. They basically have 2 rungs and they just sell really expensive stuff. So they came up and showed how they do their sales and their pitch. And one of the big things they talked about was so cool. It was like, when you’re doing high ticket sales, or any kind of sales, you’re selling the vacation. You don’t sell like, “You’re going on vacation. You’ve got to pack your bags, get your kids in order, get your family packed, find a ride to the airport, get to the airport, go through luggage…” You don’t sell this horrible experience, you sell a vacation. “Who wants to go to Hawaii? We’re going to be at the beach and you’re going to see waterfalls crashing on your back, get massages every night.” That’s what you sell as a vacation. Obviously they got to get to the vacation and stuff happens. It’s kind of the same thing with them. Look, you have to understand yourself high ticket things. You don’t sell the work, you sell the vacation. What’s the vacation you’re going to go on and then reverse engineer that to get somebody to actually buy what you’re selling. It was really, really cool. Their presentation was amazing as well. Then after that we had a lunch break. We came back from lunch and then we did the awards. We had a bunch of awards we gave out. We gave out our dream car winners, I think we’re up to 50 or 60 people that won a car through the Clickfunnels Affiliate Program. So we gave away those awards. Then we had inner circle member of the year, so all the inner circle members who had won member of the month came up and then we awarded the member of the year. Dana Derricks won that, which was cool. Then we did all the Two Comma Club awards. We’ve had over 258 people at the event, but 91 of them weren’t there. So we gave away 91 awards, some people had 2 and one person had 7! 7 Two Comma Club awards, which was awesome. And then we did the 8 figure award, which is the new award this year, and we had 15 people, 17 that have qualified, but 15 were there to receive their award. A big, huge plaque, twice as big as the Two Comma Club one, plus they get a ring that’s like 2 karats of gold and 4 karats of diamond, or 2 ounces of gold and 4 karats of diamond, like a super bowl ring. It was really, really cool. Like I said, we’re making this thing the Emmy’s and the Oscars, and the Grammy’s of our industry. Each of those rings cost us like $10 grand, so we gave away a lot of hardware. Dave was carrying around his luggage the whole trip and hoping he didn’t mugged and get robbed because it was like $100 grand in rings at least. But that’s what we do for our people. So keep on selling and you’ll keep on getting rewarded by us. After that Sunny D came out and did the Sunny D Clickfunnels rap, which is awesome. After that, this I want to talk about for a little bit because this is where I wanted to take a group of people through a process. We just gave everyone awards and it’s like, I honestly think that anybody sitting in the audience could be on this stage in 12 months from now winning a Two Comma Club award. I’ve seen it happen so many times and I don’t think it’s impossible. In fact, I think it’s probable if people follow the process. So I was like, what’s that process look like? If I set a goal between now and next year I had to make a million dollars in a funnel, and my life depended on it, what would I do? So I kind of talked about that during my presentation, it was called the 12 Month Millionaire, how to become a millionaire in the next 12 months so you can get a Two Comma Club award. I didn’t just talk about myself, I had 5 people come up and talk about it. So I had Steven Larsen, if you had to create an offer that was so irresistible that people had to buy it, what would it look like? So he did, it was supposed to be 10 minutes, but he went for 17, but whatever. A 17 minute presentation, here’s how I’d create the irresistible offer. Then after that I had Julie Stoian come up and said, “Julie, we have this offer we just created with Steven, and you have to figure out how to create the right funnel, what would you do?” And she walked through this really cool process of the two types of funnels. There’s a presentation funnel or an unboxing funnel, depending on what the offer was, we would sell it through a presentation, like a video sales letter or a webinar. Or we’d do an unboxing funnel where we unbox the offer and put it in a strategic line and sequence, which is your front end, your upsell, your downsell. So she walked through that, which was so insanely cool. That was number two, then number three John Parkes came up and I said, “Okay, you’ve got this funnel now, you’ve got to make money, how are you going to do it fast?” And he went through this testing process we learned from the Harmon Brothers, how to test a whole bunch of ads, creative videos, in a very short, finite period of time for under $100. So we walked through that whole process, which was cool. It was like now we know exactly what ad is going to be the best. Then we had James P. Friel get up and talk about, “okay now you’ve got this offer, this traffic, things like that, how do you now systemize it so you’re not going to drown like most entrepreneurs do?” So we walked through his Trello process, which was super cool, and the bat meetings and how we do our bat signal meetings here in the office. Then when he got done, Alex Charfen got up and he talked about how he’d actually build the all star team that could actually do this and facilitate and run the whole thing and it was really cool. So they all shared their stuff then afterwards everyone gave them a huge round of applause. We showed an animated video we made called the Justice League, and basically showed, these guys are my Justice League and we brought them together to help my company. Then I had these guys go off stage and I said, “Okay, now how many of you want this Justice League to help you do it?” and we made an offer for our new coaching program called Two Comma Club X. My goal coming into this was to get 250ish people to sign up and to get over a thousand within the next year, so that’s kind of what we structured it as. I made the offer, which was probably the best offer I’ve made in the history of my life, and when the dust cleared we had over 650 people sign up for the Two Comma Club X program at $18000 a year or 1800 a month, so you can do the math on that. But it was insane, and now I’m home in the office, we’re scrambling this whole week to get everything prepared and put together. In fact, today I’m actually giving out the membership site access to everybody to get started, but the program is amazing. Again, they get to work with all 5 of those coaches, depending on where they are in their business, there’s a timeline, they move through that. We’re doing a systems event where we give people all the Trello systems we have. They’re doing another event they don’t even know about, that they’ll find out about in the member’s area, which is super cool.  And then there’s a big cruise. We’re going to do a big party cruise at the beginning of next before Funnel Hacking Live. Everyone will come on and celebrate and network and go on vacation together for a week, and a bunch of other cool things. So it’s really an insane offer, that did 3 times more than I thought it was going to. So it was awesome. And then we broke for dinner, got everybody signed up and when we came back from dinner I had to go work on the OUR funnel because I hadn’t finished it yet, and I was running the event. It was almost done, my team had built it, but there were some things I wanted to add to it. So I actually went up to my room. But before I did, I introduced the 5 coaches again, and Brent Copeiters and they did Hot Seat Coaching, so bunch of people filled out a form asking questions and for the next 2 or 3 hours did coaching one on one with people, which was super, super cool. They were up super late doing that and they all hung out, helped coaching and serving people all night long, which was awesome. So that was day number two, the Two Comma Club. We showed people the path, the process, and then a bunch of them we took outside of the event to now take them and hold their hand and walk them through becoming a Two Comma Club member in the 12 months. Because my goal for all of those people and you is to have you onstage next year, getting your Two Comma Club award. So that was day number three at the event. I know, can it get any better? Three days and we had one more full day coming, and the last day was called, Change the World, how to now change the world. So I’m going to talk about that in tomorrow’s podcast, but that is the next step. I hope you guys enjoyed that. For those who were at Funnel Hacking Live, I hope that gives you a reminder of all the amazingness you experienced. Those who weren’t there, I hope it gives you some ideas, some tips along the way, but hopefully most importantly it helps you understand why it’s so important to be there. I would sell my house if that’s what it took to be there. Because the ability to network with people and go through the system, this process. People always ask how I pick my speakers for Funnel Hacking Live, and honestly the biggest thing is, unlike most events, if you look at most marketing events or probably any event, I don’t know. You come in and there’s a million break out rooms and they try to teach everything and you have pick which track you want and stuff like that. For me, Funnel Hacking Live is really a storyline, it’s like there’s a story I want to take people through and it’s a journey. That’s why we don’t publish schedule’s ahead of time, because I don’t want people like, “I’m coming to this one, but not this one.” It’s like, no you don’t understand. Every one of these speakers was hand crafted to tell part of the story and they all line up in a very systematic order and if you miss one of them, you miss a piece that builds upon the next piece and the next piece. So I pick my speakers on number one, having high energy. I want to keep the energy level high. But number two, it’s like they fit in the storyline of what I’m trying to tell at the event. I feel bad, I’ve had friends who are like, “Why don’t you let me speak? Why couldn’t I speak this year?” or whatever. Your message didn’t fit the storyline, and that’s the most important thing. It’s not any, me or you or anybody as a speaker, it’s the storyline for the audience and the attendees, it’s the most important part. So that’s how I pick my speakers. The story I need everybody to have to break false beliefs so they could actually achieve what they need in their life. So it’s fun. Alright, with that said, I’m going to bounce. Tomorrow I will tell you guys the last day, where we had many amazing things. Tony Robins came on stage, we did something that made an extra $3 million in coaching sales in 30 minutes, I’ll talk about that and a bunch of other things. So make sure you don’t miss tomorrow’s podcast. Thanks everybody, talk to you soon.

R.I.P Steve. He didn't die but we're hoping he's resting peacefully after eating some food that his stomach didn't agree with. So Anthony and Clement bring to you another episode of Now You Know Podcast. Anthony gives us an inside look into 3 Peat's trip to Toronto for the Canadian Music Week Festival. And it's on that trip where Anthony discovered music from Toronto artist Jessie Reyez. Clement introduces us to music from Houston rapper/songwriter Cam Wallace. And they talk about the new Kendrick Lamar album and if it puts him in the all time Top 5 List.

New year, new Los Angeles Lakers. Well, at least a couple of their young core took that sentiment to heart. Luke Walton praised Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell for their work ethic of late, and it’s resulted in two of the most promising games the Lakers have played all season. So Anthony and Harrison try to figure out what it might mean for the season on the whole. Anthony started the show with something of a mission statement about the show, because that’s the kind of thing you do when you’re exhausted and a listener asks an existential question over the weekend! Then, with that behind them, the guys discuss how this recent success might feel different than that which the team enjoyed to start the year. Anthony was even willing to go into playoff talk. And don’t worry, the two didn’t finish the show without a (very weird) discussion of Jordan Clarkson and Goran Dragic’s “fight.” Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate the release of a course I put together with Jonathan Levi called, Branding You™: How To Build A Multimedia Internet Empire, we're re-releasing an interview I gave on his Becoming a Superhuman podcast. So when you're ready, hit play and learn ... How To Outsmart Forgetfulness Forever With Superhuman Memory Skills! Jonathan: Hello Ladies and Gentleman, and welcome to the Becoming Superhuman Podcast.  I am your host Jonathan Levi.  For those of you who don’t know, I teach a course on a web platform called Udemy, which is one of the world’s largest online course platforms.  It is through that platform and through that platform and through being an instructor that I met my guest today. Dr. Anthony Metivier is an experienced author, consultant and an expert in the field of memory and learning.  Dr. Anthony is a fellow instructor on Udemy and he’s been a friend of mine since I originally appeared on his highly rated podcast, the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.  Anthony’s innovations in the field of mnemonics helped him teach people all over the world to exceed in academics, learning languages, memorizing poetry and a whole host of other amazing skills.  This podcast goes into a lot of different topics and Anthony and I cover a lot of ground from different mnemonics and memorialization techniques all the way to meditation.  So now I am very excited to introduce you to Dr. Anthony Metivier. So Anthony, good evening, welcome to the show.  Thank you so much for making the time.  I had so much fun with you on your podcast, the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.  It was one of the things that actually inspired me to do this show, and I want to thank you for that, and I thought it would be really fun to have you as one of our first guests.  So welcome. Anthony: Well thank you for having and I know my audience of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast really responded well to your interview, and I know it sent some people to your course so it was fantastic. Jonathan: It did and thank you for that.  It was such a blast and I think the audience picked up on that.  You and I kind of having this mind meld, and we had a really good time and I’m sure we’re going to have a great time on this podcast as well. Anthony: Yeah, absolutely.  I think people really respond to it too because it’s not really coming from MENSA or championship stuff, and nothing wrong with that, but it is more down to earth and real application to our studies and so forth from people who use it for those purposes. Jonathan: Definitely.  Actually you have been involved in memory and accelerated learning for a long time.  Before I was and also before it became kind of a really trendy topic.  Maybe  share with our audience the story of how you got into this field. Anthony: Well it was just happenstance and a very lucky one because I had been in graduate school in Toronto at York University and these hard Toronto winters and something wrong with my biology sent me into a real bad depression.  I couldn’t think and I couldn’t concentrate.  I had the weight of all these exams on my shoulders for my doctoral exams.  For people who aren’t in a PhD program now or have been, then they would know that there is these committees you have to go and sit in front of and they grill you over hundreds and hundreds of books that you are supposed to have covered, and I could hardly get out of bed.  So it was just a crazy time. To avoid life, to avoid facing all of this and to avoid the horrid pain of cracking another book of obscure French philosophy with terms like architectonic tautology and just things that rattle your brain, I was starting to play with cards and magic tricks.  I could focus on that.  I could watch these videos.  I didn’t have to read a book or anything like that.  You don’t get far in the world card magic without coming across one of the holy grails which is a memorized deck and most people to some kind of trick.

To celebrate the release of a course I put together with Jonathan Levi called, Branding You™: How To Build A Multimedia Internet Empire, we're re-releasing an interview I gave on his Becoming a Superhuman podcast. So when you're ready, hit play and learn ... How To Outsmart Forgetfulness Forever With Superhuman Memory Skills! Jonathan: Hello Ladies and Gentleman, and welcome to the Becoming Superhuman Podcast.  I am your host Jonathan Levi.  For those of you who don’t know, I teach a course on a web platform called Udemy, which is one of the world’s largest online course platforms.  It is through that platform and through that platform and through being an instructor that I met my guest today. Dr. Anthony Metivier is an experienced author, consultant and an expert in the field of memory and learning.  Dr. Anthony is a fellow instructor on Udemy and he’s been a friend of mine since I originally appeared on his highly rated podcast, the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.  Anthony’s innovations in the field of mnemonics helped him teach people all over the world to exceed in academics, learning languages, memorizing poetry and a whole host of other amazing skills.  This podcast goes into a lot of different topics and Anthony and I cover a lot of ground from different mnemonics and memorialization techniques all the way to meditation.  So now I am very excited to introduce you to Dr. Anthony Metivier. So Anthony, good evening, welcome to the show.  Thank you so much for making the time.  I had so much fun with you on your podcast, the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast.  It was one of the things that actually inspired me to do this show, and I want to thank you for that, and I thought it would be really fun to have you as one of our first guests.  So welcome. Anthony: Well thank you for having and I know my audience of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast really responded well to your interview, and I know it sent some people to your course so it was fantastic. Jonathan: It did and thank you for that.  It was such a blast and I think the audience picked up on that.  You and I kind of having this mind meld, and we had a really good time and I’m sure we’re going to have a great time on this podcast as well. Anthony: Yeah, absolutely.  I think people really respond to it too because it’s not really coming from MENSA or championship stuff, and nothing wrong with that, but it is more down to earth and real application to our studies and so forth from people who use it for those purposes. Jonathan: Definitely.  Actually you have been involved in memory and accelerated learning for a long time.  Before I was and also before it became kind of a really trendy topic.  Maybe  share with our audience the story of how you got into this field. Anthony: Well it was just happenstance and a very lucky one because I had been in graduate school in Toronto at York University and these hard Toronto winters and something wrong with my biology sent me into a real bad depression.  I couldn’t think and I couldn’t concentrate.  I had the weight of all these exams on my shoulders for my doctoral exams.  For people who aren’t in a PhD program now or have been, then they would know that there is these committees you have to go and sit in front of and they grill you over hundreds and hundreds of books that you are supposed to have covered, and I could hardly get out of bed.  So it was just a crazy time. To avoid life, to avoid facing all of this and to avoid the horrid pain of cracking another book of obscure French philosophy with terms like architectonic tautology and just things that rattle your brain, I was starting to play with cards and magic tricks.  I could focus on that.  I could watch these videos.  I didn’t have to read a book or anything like that.  You don’t get far in the world card magic without coming across one of the holy grails which is a memorized deck and most people to some kind of trick.

In this episode of the Shetler Show, we go LIVE! This is the second time we are doing this live video stream for the Shetler Show, which is not very common for a skateboard podcast. In this interview Anthony Shetler speaks with Ben Reid, Ramsey and Jake Dooley. They start the show with some tasty snacks, and they go in to a few details about Ramsey’s baby shower that just went down. Anthony tells why it was a classy event, and was not “white trash” in fact. They might even figure out where baby showers come from, and where the name originates. Jake Dooley was born and raised in Taunton, MA but has since moved to southern California for the skating scene. Anthony Shetler gets his thoughts on the New England Am Contest, and why skateboarding in California is different due to the pro skater rich environment. Anthony dives into the everyday life of Jake Dooley, including his personal and professional life. Anthony Shetler also speaks with second time guest, Ben Reid. Ben has since got into commercial fishing since he was last on the Shetler Show podcast. So Anthony finds out more about how he started down this path of commercial fishing. Sea sickness, vertigo, vomit, and first day jitters also get discussed. Anthony Shetler even gives his best pirate impressions when describing Ben’s job on the boat in Compton, RI. This episode of the Shetler Show is packed full of laughs between good friends as well real talk about the skate industry, scooters, drugs, and the first skate park built by Rob Derek. Host: Anthony Shetler Guest: Jake Dooley Ramsey Ben Reid Sponsors: Solstice - http://solsticeskateboarding.com/ Filmbotgrip - http://filmbotgrip.com/ House of Marley - http://www.thehouseofmarley.com/ Shoutouts: Jay Vasconcellos Grandison Tabor Craig Pivia Tara on Baby shower info Ben nhems Scoot Luke Bella (RIP) Tim - Dock lead Marice Jordan Ray Areista Terry S Mike Ramos Brandon Westgate Dave Bachinsky Rob pontes from Asphalt Elite Becky Eric Hannamoto Paul Rodriquez The Ninety Nine