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No episódio de hoje do Autispod, recebemos Wallace D' Lira, autista, palestrante e ativista da causa, para um bate-papo essencial sobre o cenário atual do autismo no Brasil. Como está a luta pelos direitos dos autistas? O que ainda precisa ser feito? Como a sociedade pode contribuir para essa mudança?

On today's episode we delve into the intricate relationship between genetics and nutrition, exploring how genetic testing has evolved and its implications for personalized medicine. We discuss the importance of understanding pharmacogenetics, detoxification pathways, and the role of nutrition in gene expression. The conversation also touches on food sensitivities, early nutrition for children, and the ethical considerations surrounding genetic testing.The information provided in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. While we strive to share accurate and up-to-date information, this podcast is not a substitute for professional medical care. Always consult your physician or a qualified healthcare provider for personalized medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical guidance or delay seeking care because of something you heard on this podcast.-- ⁠⁠Identifying and Treating Nutritional Deficiencies⁠⁠⁠⁠-- Nutritional Deficiences that Compromise Health Occur in Clinicians - Not Only Patients⁠⁠⁠⁠-- Residents that Learn to Assess Patients for Nutritional Deficiencies can Better Mitigate Chronic Disease⁠⁠Dr. Ramona Wallace D.O. - drrkwap@gmail.comDr. Ben Greene D.O. - benjaminjkgreene@gmail.comDr. Jordan Little D.O. - jordanlittle.do@gmail.com ONMM Podcast - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠onmmpodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, Dr. Ben Green and Dr. Jordan Little welcome back Dr. Ramona Wallace to discuss neurodivergence in primary care. The conversation explores the definition of neurodivergence, the significance of EEGs in understanding brain function, and the role of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation      (TMS)  in treating various neurodivergent conditions. They also delve into personal experiences with mental health, the importance of nutrition and lifestyle, and the impact of genetics and environmental factors on neurodivergence prevalence. The episode emphasizes patient-centered care and the need for a holistic approach to treatment. In this conversation, Dr. Ramona Wallace discusses the complexities of neurodiversity, the importance of genetic and environmental factors in diagnosis, and the role of informed decision-making in vaccination. She emphasizes the significance of nutrition and its impact on brain health, as well as the need for personalized treatment approaches for neurodivergent individuals. -- ⁠Identifying and Treating Nutritional Deficiencies⁠⁠-- Nutritional Deficiences that Compromise Health Occur in Clinicians - Not Only Patients⁠⁠-- Residents that Learn to Assess Patients for Nutritional Deficiencies can Better Mitigate Chronic Disease⁠Dr. Ramona Wallace D.O. - drrkwap@gmail.comDr. Ben Greene D.O. - benjaminjkgreene@gmail.comDr. Jordan Little D.O. - jordanlittle.do@gmail.com ONMM Podcast - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠onmmpodcast@gmail.com

Get ready. We're taking a road trip into functional medicine—the approach that looks beyond symptoms to address the root causes of health issues. You might've forgotten about this, but the Krebs cycle and all those suppressed memories from biochemistry are actually KEY when it comes to developing personalized healthcare. Please enjoy this episode as we barely scratch the surface of the functional biochemistry in healthcare that is so osteopathic in its nature.  -- Identifying and Treating Nutritional Deficiencies -- Nutritional Deficiences that Compromise Health Occur in Clinicians - Not Only Patients -- Residents that Learn to Assess Patients for Nutritional Deficiencies can Better Mitigate Chronic Disease Dr. Ramona Wallace D.O. - drrkwap@gmail.com Dr. Ben Greene D.O. - benjaminjkgreene@gmail.com Dr. Jordan Little D.O. - jordanlittle.do@gmail.com ONMM Podcast - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠onmmpodcast@gmail.com

Gale Hopkins Bond, 74, of Henrico passed away on Friday, October 20, 2023. She was a retired educator and a member of Varina Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, Wallace D. bond, Jr.; children, Jeffrey George Wright (Robyn), Thomas Willis Wright, Jason Hopkins Wright, Eric Daniel Bond (Jolene), Starlett Bond Martinez (Hector) and Shannon Bond Jones (Adam); and 12 grandchildren. A graveside service will be held Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 3 p.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at nelsenrichmond.com.Article LinkSupport the show

Lucca Cirilo e Frederico Amorim trouxeram tudo que você precisa saber sobre vacinação pra dengue: quais os tipos, quais as indicações e contraindicações e qual as coisas novas que ainda vão surgir! Referências Referências episódio: 1. https://sbim.org.br/images/files/notas-tecnicas/nota-tecnica-sbim-sbi-sbmt-qdenga-v4.pdf 2. Patel SS, Rauscher M, Kudela M, Pang H. Clinical Safety Experience of TAK-003 for Dengue Fever: A New Tetravalent Live Attenuated Vaccine Candidate. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e1350-e1359. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac418. PMID: 35639602; PMCID: PMC9907483. 3. Biswal S, Borja-Tabora C, Martinez Vargas L, Velásquez H, Theresa Alera M, Sierra V, Johana Rodriguez-Arenales E, Yu D, Wickramasinghe VP, Duarte Moreira E Jr, Fernando AD, Gunasekera D, Kosalaraksa P, Espinoza F, López-Medina E, Bravo L, Tuboi S, Hutagalung Y, Garbes P, Escudero I, Rauscher M, Bizjajeva S, LeFevre I, Borkowski A, Saez-Llorens X, Wallace D; TIDES study group. Efficacy of a tetravalent dengue vaccine in healthy children aged 4-16 years: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2020 May 2;395(10234):1423-1433. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30414-1. Epub 2020 Mar 17. Erratum in: Lancet. 2020 Apr 4;395(10230):1114. PMID: 32197105. 4. Patel SS, Rauscher M, Kudela M, Pang H. Clinical Safety Experience of TAK-003 for Dengue Fever: A New Tetravalent Live Attenuated Vaccine Candidate. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e1350-e1359. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac418. PMID: 35639602; PMCID: PMC9907483.

In this episode, Dr. Ian Fields joins Dr. Mark Hoffman at the mic to discuss the role of the microbiome in obstetrical and gynecological conditions. --- SHOW NOTES Dr. Ian Fields completed a fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery and received a Master of Clinical Research degree from Oregon Health & Sciences University. His research focuses on changes in the urinary microbiome and their association with lower urinary tract symptoms. Dr. Fields begins the episode by describing the microbiome as “all of the things outside of our cells that make up the human body,” which includes bacteria, viruses, and fungi. He explains that the microbiome may play a role in how humans maintain states of health, in addition to having large impacts on the pathophysiology or development of disease states. Dr. Fields references the Human Microbiome Project, a United States National Institutes of Health research initiative that was aimed to improve the understanding of microbiota in relation to human health and diseases. The physicians then transition to cover the role of the microbiome, specifically in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Fields explains that the most studied condition is bacterial vaginosis. From a urogynecology perspective, he expresses a particular interest in urinary tract disorders, such as urinary incontinence, recurrent urinary tract infections, and interstitial cystitis. Dr. Fields emphasizes to listeners that urine is not sterile. In addition, he highlights how the use of vaginal estrogen increases the presence of lactobacillus within the genital microbiome, and thus is beneficial in the settings of genitourinary syndrome of menopause and recurrent menopause. Dr. Fields concludes the episode by briefly addressing other areas of study regarding the microbiome in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. For example, studies have revealed a link between vaginal microbiota and risk of preterm birth, as well as neonatal gut microbiota and the mode of delivery. Ultimately, Dr. Fields states that the microbiome is an underfunded and understudied aspect of medicine, and he urges listeners to acknowledge the large potential the field has. --- RESOURCES The Human Microbiome Project: https://hmpdacc.org/hmp/overview/ Brubaker L, Nager CW, Richter HE, Visco A, Nygaard I, Barber MD, Schaffer J, Meikle S, Wallace D, Shibata N, Wolfe AJ. Urinary bacteria in adult women with urgency urinary incontinence. Int Urogynecol J. 2014 Sep;25(9):1179-84. Wolfe AJ, Toh E, Shibata N, Rong R, Kenton K, Fitzgerald M, Mueller ER, Schreckenberger P, Dong Q, Nelson DE, Brubaker L. Evidence of uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Apr;50(4):1376-83. Hoffman C, Siddiqui NY, Fields I, Gregory WT, Simon HM, Mooney MA, Wolfe AJ, Karstens L. Species-Level Resolution of Female Bladder Microbiota from 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing. mSystems. 2021 Oct 26;6(5):e0051821. Richter HE, Carnes MU, Komesu YM, Lukacz ES, Arya L, Bradley M, Rogers RG, Sung VW, Siddiqui NY, Carper B, Mazloomdoost D, Dinwiddie D, Gantz MG; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. Association between the urogenital microbiome and surgical treatment response in women undergoing midurethral sling operation for mixed urinary incontinence. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Jan;226(1):93.e1-93.e15. Fettweis, J.M., Serrano, M.G., Brooks, J.P. et al. The vaginal microbiome and preterm birth. Nat Med 25, 1012–1021 (2019).

  Best selling author and book agent Bill Gladstone has been in the publishing industry for over thirty years. In that time, he has represented some of the biggest names in the business and has helped to shape the careers of many successful authors. Gladstone is a man who knows the ins and outs of the publishing world, and he is someone who can be trusted to get the best deal for his clients.   Find out more about Bill: https://waterside.com/   Intro Guy 0:00 Your journey has been an interesting one up to hear you've questioned so much more than those around you. You've even questioned yourself as to how you could have grown into these thoughts. Am I crazy? When did I begin to think differently? Why do people in general you're so limited thought process Rest assured, you are not alone. The world is slowly waking up to what you already know inside yet can't quite verbalize. Welcome to the spiritual dough podcast, the show that answers the question you never even knew to ask, but knew the answers to questions about you this world the people in it? Most importantly, how do I proceed? Now moving forward? We don't even have all the answers, but we sure do love living in the question some time for another hit of spiritual with your host Brandon Handley. Let's get right into today's episode. Brandon Handley 0:42 Hey, the spiritual tip I'm on today with our special guest William Gladstone and he is the co author of the books tapping the source, the golden golden mic or the golden motorcycle gang and author of the international best selling novel The 12. Glassnote is considered an international expert on indigenous cultures and the meaning of 2012. He is also co producer of the highly acclaimed film tapping the source as a literary agent Mr. Gladstone has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch and Tom Hartman. And last but not least, and of course, not not even probably the tip of the iceberg. But Master Shaw, who I recently interviewed, and that's how I found out about, you know, the guy behind the scenes. William Bill Gladstone. Thanks for being on today. Bill Gladstone 1:36 It's a pleasure. And yeah, I'm glad that you had the opportunity to interview Dr. Shah master shots. He's kind of a hidden secret right now. He's not really hidden. But you know, I've represented you know, Neale Donald Walsch deals, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Marie Kondo. And there's a level that they have in terms of their visibility that Dr. Shah does not. And it's kind of ironic, because Dr. Shah, in some ways, is a more important spiritual teacher, what he's able to do. And I ended up I was so intrigued and worked with him now for about 15 years that I actually investigated and wrote this book, Miracle soul healer exploring a mystery. And it really is a mystery. Not only does he have the ability to heal people, but he's been able to train other people to heal people. And that, to me is like mind boggling. How does that happen? So, you know, in the 10 years since I originally wrote miracle soul healer, I've learned a lot more about Master shots. So we're re releasing the book come out in a couple of weeks, and that we've changed from exploring a mystery to documenting a legend because it's my belief that he's going to become a legend just in the way that Edgar Casey is a legend, legendary healer. What Dr. Shah has been able to do is extraordinary. And what's almost more extraordinary is that he keeps reinventing himself. It's like he started off, you know, as a as an acupuncturist. I mean, he's got degrees in medical, traditional medicine, but also Chi Gong and Tai Chi and acupuncture and herbal medicine. So he's always he's just as a very exploratory nature. He never satisfied even though he's he's always wanting to learn and develop himself. He's just a very creative human being an intelligent human being. So a few years ago, right at the beginning, when I agented, his first big best seller, he already had bestsellers before I started agent again, but the first one I did was miracle soul healer, and he included a calligraphy and you can see behind me I have a calligraphy now I was gifted one by one, which is wonderful. But at the time, it was like, Oh, now he's really gone too far. Now he's saying that this calligraphy, this piece of art, this piece of paper has healing properties. I said, No way. Anyway, you know, I got up on stage. I remember I was at a one on one author, one of one of that with Rick Fishman, who he actually introduced me to Dr. chatons, you know, when the book first came out at least 10 years ago, and, you know, I presented the book and, you know, I was a little bit, you know, I don't really know if this drawing you know, is, but the rest of it, you know, I've checked out, you know, it's really interesting. And I remember when I got off the stage, someone came up to me because we had given out some copies. And I said, I'm a something impact. And I opened the book to the page, and the energy from this is just incredible. Well, you know, I guess maybe there's something to it because I thought it was pretty far out there. But and that was really, when that happened. That's when I started, you know, because I have degrees from Harvard. You know, I published articles and, you know, scientific and my father was a chemist before he became a book publisher. So grounded skepticism, healthy skepticism. And so, but now I was intrigued. So that's when I did the original interviews and I interviewed over 100 people when I wrote miracle so healer, and there's absolutely no way you would have so much positive results, just from the placebo effect, and certainly the placebo effect. And yeah, there's something to that, but there's something actually going on. So that's why I've continued to be in contact with with Master Shah. Like, him, I also like to keep exploring and growing. So I am finally realized, even though you know, he gifted me a calligraphy, I didn't really pay much attention to it. But then recently, I came up with the idea that we should do these NF T's non fungible tokens, we should sure, you know, do one that was, you know, going to give financial abundance to people because in addition to healing, there's other blessings that are communicated through the calligraphies. And I was skeptical, but it's like, you know, it's not going to hurt anybody, if they believe it, and it works for them. Great. I'm not saying it's gonna work, but just as a collectible, because the art itself has value. So we did choose 5000 of these prints, electric prints, and we sold all that $2,000 Each generating $10 million. So that got even more of my attention. It's like, whoa, and as those you know, I think they sold like to 1500 people, because a lot of people bought two or three. Well, there were at least 600 people who like, wrote in within weeks of getting this calligraphy, my financial world has been, you know, like, evolving. And I'm like, Okay, if that's happening, I guess it's time I still don't understand exactly how it happens. But then, you know, so I'm like, Okay, this is really amazing. I get a call from Esther, she says, my new thing is, song, I have this special dowel song. I'm gonna give all my healings now through the song. And I'm like, okay, and I want you to organize the concerts. And I said, What master shot. I'm a literary agent. I don't really understand the world of music. You gotta give me a you know, we just started all these, because now we're also some of the original calligraphies, I sold one for a million dollars, I mean, big business. I said, Let me focus on these things that I understand. And I'm already doing. And he said, well, but heaven says, You can do this, you know, everybody. And I said, Well, I used to think that was just sort of like a joke. But when he says, heaven says, I know everybody, it means I will know everybody, if I don't know, I'm now the right person. For sure, he's kind of on a spiritual mission. And I mean, this is true. I mean, I don't believe it myself. But two days after he asked me to represent and find a record label for him, and I told him, Look, give me six months, I've got to focus on all these other things. My daughter who's a ghostwriter called me with a project. And it was a project related to a marketing expert, actually two marketing experts that wanted to use her to write a book. But she wanted me to something the agent to negotiate the terms and do what I do. So I got on the phone, and I met this extraordinary author who has a marketing company. Well, it turns out, she also has a record company. And it turns out that she's into, I don't even know what you call it, this non traditional music, World Music, whatever. And I said, Well, you know, I've got this other claim, why don't you go and listen to this music and tell me what you think. She writes back the next day is the most incredible music. I never had anybody like this, we want to, we want to, you know, do everything we will do the concerts. And actually the album for that is coming out in about two weeks. So now, it's not just the calligraphy it's not just the healing. It's not just the teaching. It's also music concerts. So who knows what Master shows going to do next. But I am very intrigued with all this going on. That's why I decided to go back and just update the book a little bit. Because there's no longer exploring a mystery. It's documenting a legend. I've never met a human being who's been able to pivot and be successful in so many different areas. I mean, he's like, you know, he's now a concert performer. He's mastered calligrapher. He's a Master Healer. And what actually is my greatest point of contact with him is we've been doing together for almost a year now, what he calls the power and wisdom of Dougie Jain, which is the teachings of Lauzun dowdy Jing is a book that was written over 2500 years ago, only has 82 chapters Laos, who is considered the foremost promoter, and expert on Tao, he introduced the concept of doubt to the world. And I studied philosophy at Yale. And I've always been intrigued by the world of ideas. So MasterChef asked me to host this show. And the main benefit I get is, he's taking at least an hour, sometimes two or three hours for each chapter. So it's probably going to take us two years to go through this. And it's totally free. I mean, I'm just doing it because I'm learning so much. And basically what you're learning is the way of the doubt nature's way. And the surface. That seems very simple. But these lessons, the more you hear them, and the more you truly understand them, the more profound they become. And you know, I've worked with all these great spiritual visionaries Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, as I said, before, Neale Donald Walsch, and you know, they're great. But I have to say, if you want to go back to first principles, I'm becoming convinced that the Dow, the understanding of what the Dow means, particularly the way Dr. Shah interprets it, is kind of the fundamental face of all knowledge, it's really been intrigued. And so I've been learning that. So I'm very grateful to Master Chef for bringing all this to the world. And I'm also totally alive. But what's also was remarkable is, but 15 years ago, we did this film, tapping the source, and we interviewed over 100, major celebrities, authors, business leaders, billionaires. And what we learned was that the source of happiness for all of these people was very basic, it was finding a way to express gratitude every day, and finding a way to be of service to others. Well, then, push forward 10 years later, I'm studying, you know, Lao Tzu and the Tao. And what is the fundamental message from Master Sha? One, in his case, it's a little bit different. You start with forgiveness, so that my people didn't feel the need to ask for forgiveness. But Master Sha, you asked for forgiveness, then the next few things, express gratitude and be of service, my purpose of life is to serve. That's what Master Schultz presents. So I found that, wow, what I've been doing, you know, totally in what I would call the secular world, you know, just mainstream world is now sort of linking up with with Master Sha, which is admittedly, an esoteric traditions. I mean, not everyone is going to resonate, you know, with the Chinese language and the Chinese philosophy, but they really are one. And so I've really been having a lot of fun with this. And we're combining, we're starting to do these tapping the source summits. And so at the last one, we had Deepak and my good friend and client, Dr. Ervin Laszlo with Master Sha, and looking at these big questions, you know, where do we come from? Where are we going? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? What is the nature of our universe, and it's really interesting as we as we go forward, because there is a common thread, and there is a way of raising the awareness of the average person, because it may not seem like it's such a big deal, but it's actually a very big deal. If the majority of people on our planet had a greater sense of who they really are, not just in terms of their personalities, not just in terms of their family backgrounds, but who they really are, as, for lack of a better word, spiritual beings, universal souls. When I was a bit, Brandon Handley 13:51 let me jump in here real quick. So, you know, one of the things I enjoyed in researching you was listening to an interview that you did with Jack Canfield, maybe 10 years ago, maybe 11 years ago, we talked about and just like you talked about here, you came from like a chemist, your father's a chemist, book publisher, going into this industry for yourself where even he'd mentioned to you I believe, you know, don't be a writer there's no money being a writer. And you know, you're and I can hear you I'm in the business world as well. And I can hear you rattling off numbers like you're a very your business acumen. You know, you're very focused on the business. Right. But you also you also co authored another book, is it tapping this horses? Welcome. Have it right in front of me? Yeah. Bill Gladstone 14:37 It was tapping the source. I should have brought him up, you know, show him to you. Brandon Handley 14:42 I didn't give you I didn't give you any prep on this. So Bill Gladstone 14:45 yeah, tapping the source which was Reus issued as a complete Master Key System. Tapping the source was brought to me by another one of my clients because he had become a big fan of Charles canal, Charles canals Master Key System. There's so many rumors about it, Bill Gates uses it Elon Musk, like circulated in Silicon Valley. But tapping the source was really a modern, updated version of The Master Key System. And Charles canal was the first writer who combined Eastern ideas with Western ideas. Napoleon Hill gave an owl credit for all of his work with thinking grow rich. And so Nell really was the source of information for what we now call the Human Development movement, which has been going on for about 100 years. Brandon Handley 15:38 So, and that wasn't until that was, like 1012 years ago that you tapped into that book. Were you aware of him before that? Bill Gladstone 15:47 Not at all, I had never even heard of Charles now. Your mind Brandon Handley 15:50 blown, like what it sounded like? You were just like, wow, what is this material and this is so amazing. Well, Bill Gladstone 15:55 not on this. And I have to be honest, I remember when I was very young, because, you know, it was in publishing already, I was living in New York, and I got invited to something called dare to be great. And it was, as far as I was concerned, a whole lot of hocus pocus and hype. And, you know, manifest this and envision that, you know, I just thought it was a lot of people trying to steal your money. So I've been very skeptical of this whole self help genre. Even though my father's article publishing was one of the leading publishers in self help. He also was very skeptical. So I was not that open when unkind. So Oh, I got this book, Master Key System and its depth. And the same thing, frankly, with the secret. And you know, even though a lot of my friends, like they're oversimplifying, and it's not that simple. But then when I read Charlson out, which was not as simple as a secret secret, actually had made reference to Charlson out, but I wasn't aware of who he was at the time. But the secret over simplified, Charles tau is very rigorous. That's why we had to write the book, it was 26 weeks to go through the course, in those days, you have to understand this 100 years ago, you had to pay a dime for each. So it was $2.60, which is probably like $2,000 today, but you had to complete each each lesson. And then you get the next week's lesson. And each lesson required an hour of meditation. And it was very complicated. But when I finally read the material, I understand why Napoleon Hill and others had gravitated to Charlson else, he really had found some principles. And, you know, they've been misrepresented too often. For example, the law of attraction, according to Charles now, is really the law of love. And it simply means if you're emanating energy of love, you're going to draw energy of love back doesn't mean you're going to get a one to one correspondence, you send out energy of love to someone who's, you know, in a bad mood, and he, they're not going to send you back love, they may send you back, but you know, something you don't want. But over time, if you if you if you are able to generate energetic fields of positive energy, positive energy will be drawn to you. And this is very interesting. Turning back to the master shot, because now I'm beginning to understand what happens with these calligraphies. He puts so much love into these calligraphies. It's creating a field. And so it's not Hocus Pocus, there's actually reality to what is going on here. But yes, I have a very rounded and I think my mother, my mother was very inspiration. He wanted to save the world, she really had a big heart, my father wanted to have fun, and he wanted to win. So he came up with all these ideas. And he made a lot of money doing things that nobody else had ever done in book publishing. And he had a lot of fun doing it. And he never took any of it too seriously, in terms of the actual content of the books. So I kind of have this combination. I like to have fun, and I like to make money. It's fun. And I've made a lot of money. I mean, it's really, if you look at everything we've done, it's in the billions of dollars, not that I've personally made but that I've generated for the book publishing industry, and a lot of it for my authors and a lot of it for myself and my company. So I even wrote a book called be the deal that I wrote in seven days because I also launched the very first print on demand book company, and we needed proof of concept. So the first print on demand book ever written by a solo author and have to say that because the same day that I finished my manuscript, we got hold of the Star Report The thing about Clinton at the time and the sex scandal with money. So that was actually the very first print on demand book. Mine was the first solo authored book, and we actually got an investment of $28 million from Barnes and Noble based on we now had proof of concept. So yes, I I have this wonderful combination of, from my mother, I get this sense of, you know, purpose and wanting to help others. And then for my dad, I get this feeling of, hey, let's have fun. And let's see how much money we can make and what we can do. And I think that they go together. Well, I think that when, you know, like, we changed our mission statement about 20 years ago to waterside productions exists to help authors and publishers create and distribute books that will make a better world. So that's really what our focus has been. And if you focus on creating a better world, and having fun, you're probably want to make a lot of money. If you're if you're successful in doing that. Brandon Handley 20:40 You know, absolutely. How could you not right. And, and I think that there are ways that you could not obviously, but if you take a look at to see, you know, to it's funny that you did that project with Charles Sinawe, I did a project myself on that on that same book, right? I did, I created an audio, where I put like, isochronic tones and like bio rhythms and like the sounds of nature, all behind the reading of the book, so that, you know, somebody could listen to it in that same way, right? And just kind of get the content and I released it in the same way that he released it, like in a weekly format, right? Because the way that it was originally meant to be consumed was just like our online courses today. Right? It's just, that's what he was doing back then. So I thought that that was pretty interesting. But you know, what you're doing whether or not you know it, or knew it at the time was you were being you were already being of service. And I think that I think that um, you know, Wallace D wattles also talks about this, which is not the guy, but Napoleon Hill talks about how if you're if you're doing these whether or not you know, you're using the law of attraction, like your friends, Jack Canfield, and all these other people are gonna say, you're, you're, you're using it, right? So you're being of service, you're helping people get access to some of these books, you may not already believe half of the stuff that you're seeing in here, like, whatever. And you brought up something really, really, really important, in my opinion, is you went to this, you went to this seminar, called dare to be great. And you're like, are these guys selling snake oil? Right, is basically what you're saying. But here you are selling calligraphy? Yeah, right. What has changed, I think inherently and you because again, the deck the Jack Canfield audio, you talked about you said you weren't that into personal development at that time, and in this space so much. But seems though, over these past 10 years, maybe maybe maybe longer, that you've kind of fell into the space, and you're believing more like you're talking about emanating this love, and it's gonna come Bill Gladstone 22:41 back, basically, it's seeing the results, seeing that it works. I mean, when I went to that dare to be great seminar, I mean, the guys, I mean, they look like used car salesmen, I just didn't get a good vibe from them. And I don't know, whatever happened with that organization, you know, I didn't list but you know, it's kind of like any of these. And, you know, Scientology, I think is the same. I mean, I hesitate, because you got to watch out for these organizations that have come after negatives. But sure, they're really self based organizations, they're not real, that they claim to be of service to others. But if you go behind the scenes, you find out that's not really the case. So you do have to be careful. And exercise caution. Butcher, when you do find an organization like Master Chavez, and I've done all the research, I mean, I've met all the people. That's why I wrote the book. I mean, it's really selfless. I mean, he's not, he doesn't need money, he doesn't care about money for himself, yes, his organization to grow, and he does care about having the biggest impact. Well, you know, what is money? Money is energy. If you don't have it, you're not gonna grow. But yes, it's more seeing the results. I mean, I've personally spoken and met with dozens, really hundreds of people whose lives have been significantly improved, because of either the calligraphies, or the teachings of master shots. So you know, I've seen the results. And you know, he's not a perfect human being I'm sure he's had his failures. And, you know, he's very cautious to say, I'm not guaranteeing anything for everybody. And there's one thing about Dr. Shah that, you know, I'm, I was super skeptical of because it was too easy. explanation why things wouldn't work, which is, in the end, it's all about karma. And if you have bad karma, I can't help you. I mean, I can't help you. But I can totally help you because you we each have our karma and our path. And there is truth to that. But I was skeptical because well, that's too easy. If it doesn't work. It's all on the patient. So, you know, but then, as I've dealt more and more master shot, I've seen that he is authentic and that his system And does work. And I'm still on the fence. I just had this conversation with master shot a few days ago about the nature of karma because as I become more immersed in, in, in Lao Tzu and the DAT karma exists according to master shot at the level of the human experience of the, the world of things, we have the world of nothingness in the world of things. And I've always been sort of more drawn philosophically to the world of nothing is the world that includes nothing is and the world of things. And in the world of nothing is obviously there's no karma. And in terms of my personal experience with karma, I have a very different view. I don't actually believe there's time or space. In the real universe, the universe we experience obviously has time and space. So in that limited universe, which is really a universe of illusion, yes, there's karma. But ultimately, there's not even that there's there's there's a universal, energetic connection, to all of existence. And at that very, very deep level. There's, there is no karma there is no, there is no judgment of any kind. This is what allows and teaches the doubt, which is the source of the source. And we can't even I mean, like we think of the the source. And it allows you even said, the Dow that I described in my teachings is not the real doubt. And it's the same thing. We as human beings can't even contemplate what the true essence of all existence is. It's beyond comprehension. But we have good approximations. And we can learn a lot by aspiring to be aligned with the nature of existence itself. And that's really all that all the spiritual teachers are saying, when you say Be of service will be of service to whom? Well, you're really ultimately being of service to the energy of existence itself. And the energy of existence is magnificent. It's everything, even what we consider evil, is it still energy, and all existences is a play of energy. And within each realm, there is good and evil. And it's very important to sort of raise our vibration so that we experienced the highest possible reality we can. But ultimately, it's all play the way I explain it to people. If you have kids, you probably have gone to some little league games, and Little League is great right now their Little League World Series, I actually prefer watching that over major league baseball. Anyway, you see these kids, and you know, they're playing, and they're playing their hearts out. And during the game, nothing matters except the game, and you play by the rules of the game. But guess what it says the game is over. It was just a little league game, it really didn't matter at all? Well, at a very big level. That's our own experience as human beings, we're playing a game, and it matters, it matters a lot. You know, whether you are treating people well, whether you have children, your grandchildren, you have someone that you love that loves you, all those things are really important. But when you leave this planet, when you leave your human form, that was nice, but it represented less than less than a finger of your existence. So you know, if you can start having that perspective, and I think even somebody like Putin would think twice about murdering all the people that he's murdering, I mean, it's going to catch up in a different universe, perhaps. But you know, if we could combine this larger sense of how we are all individual, that we're also all one, we're all interconnected, we're all part of the same energy flow. I think we we'd have a much better world. Brandon Handley 28:48 Like, did you see yourself like in this space? 1015 years ago? Could you imagine yourself talking like this? Bill Gladstone 28:57 I don't know, if I didn't give it any thought one way or the other. It doesn't surprise me. I mean, cuz I've always had, as I said, because of my mother. I always had this interest in sort of the non material. Also, one of the reasons, you know, I probably evolved this way. And I covered this a little bit in the film, tapping the sources. When I was 15, I had a near death experience. And I was I was gone. I mean, it was an interesting experience. But I was I was on my way to wherever it is, you know, I was headed, and it wasn't on this planet. And I was not forced to leave. I was, you know, sort of given a choice. And, frankly, I mean, I'll tell the story because it's kind of interesting. So I was 15 years old, and I had the flu. And I had a really bad case of the flu kind of thing. COVID It wasn't good. And those days we actually had a family physician, and he would make house calls. But he said it was February and I was living in Westchester County and it was kind of snowy and you know traveled was not that easy. And he said, Look, I'm really busy. I can't make house calls. But you know, I've got other patients who've come down with this flu. I've got something that I think will help if you can bring Bill in. So my mom drove me over. And, you know, the doctor looked at me said, Yep, I think you've got the symptoms here. I'm gonna give you the shot. This should work. He gave me the shot. He said, I'll be right back in a minute. And next thing, my memories, I'm gone. I'm like in bliss. And I'm, my bliss is interrupted, because I hear this loud voice. And I said, Oh, what's that lead voice? Oh, that man. That man's very upset. Oh, that man's wearing a white coat. Oh, that man must be a doctor. Why is he upset? Oh, he's upset because that body on the floor is not responding. Oh, that's my body, I better get back into that body. So the doctor won't be upset. But there was no idea that I better get back in my body because I'm going to be dead. It didn't occur to me. And it didn't matter to me. And having had that experience, which at the time was not that common and very little was known about near death experiences. Moody had not even written his first book on afterlife. So I was actually discouraged mostly by my father, but also even by my mother, don't talk about this. Nobody wants to hear you're valedictorian of your school. Everybody thinks, you know, you do all the sports your captain, a couple of sports team, this isn't gonna get you very far talking about this kind of stuff. Just stick stick to your normal life. It's an interesting experience you had my dad is the chemists was, Oh, you didn't have any oxygen. It was all hallucination. You know, don't take any of it too seriously. Well, it took me about 20 years when I started uncovering that other people had had similar experiences that I realized, no, my dad was wrong. In this case, my experience was authentic. And so because of that experience, I've always been kind of aware that there's a lot more going on here than just what meets the eye. Brandon Handley 32:01 I got it. What do you mean? And so how do you feel like you became this lightning rod or catalyst for so many of these prominent authors? Like how did you find yourself in that space? Well, it's very hidden, because Bill Gladstone 32:15 I certainly didn't set out to do this. I was the leading agent in the world for books about technology. We, even before we did that the dummies series, we had had 500 best selling books, we represented over 25% of all the best sellers at the time when computers first evolved. And that happened really, through a relationship I had with Andy Kay, the founder of nonlinear systems, which became K Pro computer. So I was given access to all these computer documentation writers, so we started representing them. And overnight, we became the leading source of books about technology. But like many things, we did the very first books on the internet and everything on the supercomputers, we created the very source of our demise. Because the internet made it unnecessary to buy a book. I mean, not for everybody, but we used to sell, oh, I don't know, in a single year, 5 million copies of Windows for Dummies, for example. Now we still sell it but you know, I think it's down to like 100 200,000 copies, which is not insignificant, but compared to 5 million that so when you know in our business was was booming, and you know, we were doing great business, but then when the internet crashed and the need for these books also fade because there wasn't as much innovation. I mean, there's you know, like, Okay, now with that Twitter and me, there's still things happening. But compared to the boom of the late 80s, early 90s, where you had a new computer, a new software program, and these things, you know, just took the world by storm, you actually had more space in a Barnes and Noble dedicated to computer books than to fiction. You had an entire wall, it looks anyway. So we have this great success. And then it started to go down. And I had one call when the very first books I'd ever aged. It was the Sphinx in the rainbow by David Lai. And David was an extraordinary human being he just passed recently in his 90s. And I actually signed the book to publish it when I was editor in chief for Harcourt Brace Yovanovitch here in San Diego, but I left her court to create waterside productions. And they canceled the book because they have an editor who even understood the book because this book was way ahead of its time. It was explaining the nature of the ability to predict the future based on hologram sick concept of the universe. And also why sometimes a prediction would be wrong. Anyway, it was it was too sophisticated for anyone left it hardcore. So I got a call from Dave and he says what do I do and I say oh Don't worry, I know people in New York and other places. I'll I'll do some aging on the side because I actually sit at Waterside productions to be a film company, not a literary agency. So that was really what got me into the agent in the first place. And I did sell that book whose first book I ever sold. I actually sold it Shambala, which, interesting. They then that book went out of print 20 years later, and David revised the book and we sold it to enter tradition. So it's still in print with a new title and arrow through time. But the reason I mentioned this is okay, so after David, I got involved with all the computers, I turned down people, including Tony Robbins, because too much time to deal with them compared to what I could do. I could sell 10 books on computers, one of which would sell at least a million copies in a day. And you know, Tony, I love Tony and we met. But you know, he needed a lot of hand holding that time and guidance. And I was like, Tony, just not really worth my time. So yeah, I don't regret it, you know, would have been worth my time as it turned out, but you know, who could have predicted it? In any event? Yeah, I've turned that I've made bigger mistakes. I turned down Jeff Bezos, I could have been one of the seed investors of Amazon, back down because the business plan didn't make any sense to me. So I've made my mistakes. I don't know what's interesting. But back to David Loy. So David calls me up. And it's just the right time. He says, I've got this friend. His name is Dr. Ervin Laszlo and he's written about 30 books, but none of them have sold more than 5000 copies. And I think you'd really enjoy working with him and he needs a good agent. So that's how I got connected with Irving. And Ervin was already at that time considered the leading systems theorist in the world, he had studied Alfred North Whitehead, and he really had, you know, he was just amazing. He had created this organization called the club of Budapest because he was also a naturally gifted concert pianist. He was a member of the Club of Rome. And the Club of Rome said nobody's paying attention, because they, this is back in 1972, the limits of growth really was the precursor to warnings about global warming, and everything else. But nobody was paying attention. So they said, you know, they seem to pay attention to celebrities, you're kind of a celebrity, you know, create a writers and poets organization. And he did and you had people like, yo, yo, LA and Peter Gabriel, and the Dalai Lama, anyways, credible organization. So I met with our event, and we became good friends, and I was able to, it actually was a lot of work more work than probably any book I've been involved with he because he was a scientist. And he wrote this book, which eventually became the Akashic science in the Akashic field actually, blanking on the title, the exact title, but we ended up having I rewrote the book myself, it was only 120 pages. And then I got the editor who had worked with Deepak Chopra, science and the Akashic field was a final title. And I got the editor who had worked with Hawking and Brief History of Time, and then he edited it after I rewrote it. Anyway, it took two years, and the books only about 160 pages. Because what we had to do is we had to take these very complex concepts and get them down to a level where ordinary people could understand them. And what was fascinating was, Dr. Laszlo was showing how new scientific concepts parallel, ancient intuitive wisdom about the nature of reality, the Akashic field, if people don't know about the Akashic records, it's the belief that everything that's ever happened is stored the information is stored. And the reality that modern science is now showing is that that's probably the case. It's not a superstition, everything does exist in successful anyway. So I represented Irving and once I represented Ervin that sort of opened the box, and I had actually sold a book to Neale Donald Walsch because he had his own imprint and Hampton Roads, but I hadn't representative but once I did Urban's book, it just opened the door, and then all these people started coming to me, and this business is very small. If you represent two or three of them, you know, Eckhart came to me, and that's a wonderful story of how all that happens. But when you have two or three of these big superstars, everybody thinks you're a genius and you have the magic touch. So they all just come to you. And because I've always been accessible, and very honest, I mean, one of the things that's remarkable is my father because I work for his company. I remember after the first week, he looked at me and he said, You may be too honest for this business. You know, publishing just have a lot of hype all media does. I actually know there's a lot of hyperbole will be kind of not outright deception. So and I've just never been, you know, I I don't know just my nature. I I can't lie, I just, you know, I have to be who I am. And I have told you. So, you know, that's very attractive, because, you know, you want to be able to trust your agent. So sure, that's, that's one of the reasons I think, you know, we've been so successful. I've actually never solicited a client. All of my clients have come through referrals. So, you know, interesting, it's just, you know, and but back to your idea of the energy. Yeah, there's kind of an energy field. I think that calligraphy helps actually, I think, to create the the vortex, but I've always had it I mentioned this semester, you're shocked because he like, you know, well, why don't you share that, you know, some of your success comes from all these calligraphies. And things I said, Well, that's true. But you know, I want to be honest, I've always had this success, actually what the calligraphies are doing for me more than that, is allowing me to enjoy the success at a higher level. Because I do have what I did, I think I've gotten a little better at it very impulsive side, where I've thrown money at things, very foolishly I've given people I shouldn't have given them and being more respectful. And I think part of it is because of my interactions with master shot and the field that I think he continues to help create. But yeah, there's kind of a vortex of energy right here in my little office, where I don't have to do anything, I just wake up every morning and out of the blue and pretty good right now it's sort of intensified, I have had at least six billionaires contacting me in the last year, all from either want us to age them or publish them. And, you know, you can't invent stuff like this. It just it's kind of miraculous, to listen Brandon Handley 41:41 to another Tibetan Buddhism book. I forget the Masters name, but he has his line. It sounds kind of like your life at this point in time, right? I have everything in the world comes to me. Right? That's kind of what he says. And there you are. Right, you are that vortex the energy is coming back into you. And I love it. What's bill? What's next for you? Your What are your thoughts? What do you where do you see, Bill Gladstone 42:05 I actually see, what do you know, my main focus, you know, I maintain my health, you know, enjoy my, my kids and my grandkids? And, you know, try to give back. So how do I get back, it's what I do best. So yeah, we're just doing everything at a higher level, we're starting to do these big concerts for Masters shot, I think we're going to reach a lot of people through those. We're going to do calligraphy, exhibitions, I think we'll reach a lot of people through that, we'll continue to do our NF T's non fungible tokens for other authors, I just signed up Napoleon Hill Foundation to do some NF T's and working with Mark watts, son of Alan Watts to do some NF T's. They're interesting. And some of these billionaire clients that are coming to me, I've been a big champion of heart mass. And so they have, they have a new initiative, and there may be one level of it, which also includes NF T's which are able to measure your individual contribution to creating global coherence award you in some way, for positive behavior that leads to coherence. I do think that coherence and raising human awareness is kind of the most important contribution that I can make. And I think that I'm in a position where more and more things are coming together, I can envision sort of like the equivalent of you know, Live Aid concerts, you know, beyond just semester shot, just major healing concerts that raise awareness, and that, you know, make a positive contribution. I also think that, you know, there's a reason, I mean, some of these billionaires have called me up and said, You know, I had a reading, they have their own spiritual paths and my spiritual, some of them that have basically said that I was predestined to appear in their lives, and we're supposed to do something together. And none of us know exactly what we're supposed to do. But there's a number of things that I can envision. And I just say, you know, it's sort of like, I always go back to the movie of the young man, Karate Kid, wax on wax off, and you know, then eventually, you get into the main stage. And despite everything I've done, I really think most of what I've done is kind of wax on wax off. It's not really the main event. And I kind of feel that I'm still not quite on the main stage yet. But that's coming very soon. And you know, we have a number of things we want to do we want to reissue the type of the source film, you want to interview, more. Spirit wasn't Brandon Handley 44:36 able to get that on and wasn't able to want to watch it really quick. And I wasn't able to find it on Amazon Prime. Bill Gladstone 44:41 Well, because we've taken it down temporarily because we re edited it out it, just send me an email after this and I'll get it out to you and you'll love it. It's really, I mean, I watched it after 10 years and mostly is due to my wife's production and editing. But it's really I mean but it's it's fantastic. It's just, it's so inspiring. And so wise, there's so much wisdom. It's the kind of thing you could watch five or six times, and you'll learn something new every time. But yeah, I see that happening. I see interviewing more, and just getting more visibility for the kinds of things that I have been doing and being more. That's why I'm doing the show with you. I mean, I don't need it. And I don't seek it. I don't not enjoy it. But it's not, it's not necessary for me to be, you know, you know, I did all that in my 20s. But if it's going to serve, I'm very happy to do I mean, I was on the Today Show I was on, you know, I've done a lot. You know, I've done a lot that, you know, most people and myself included when I was very young, it was like, oh, boy, that would be the pinnacle of this and the pinnacle. And I'm in a nice place where, yeah, I mean, happy, you know, to be on Oprah or something like that, but I've never really thought it and, you know, despite my ability to sort of speak and be friendly, kind of very happy on my own. Just, you know, I wouldn't say I'm an introvert, but you know, I don't need a lot of outside. Recognition. It's never been something that was important to me. Brandon Handley 46:16 Sure. No, that's important, too. So I mean, you you've played, you played a major role. I think in the spiritual evolution of so many people, and not a lot of people know that you've played that role, which I think is it's pretty, it's pretty neat. And again, it goes back to you have been of service all these years, so many people, they just may not know you directly. And that's what I thought. Bill Gladstone 46:39 It's very interesting. You say that, because one of my very closest friends passed just a few months ago, Michael, guys. And about 10 years ago, I was going through, you know, we all have challenges. And I don't know, there's some things that were going wrong. And I actually was feeling like a failure. I actually was. And I remember Mike and I have known each other. I actually started waterside in his office, you know, 40 years ago, 40 plus, and he just said, Bill, you've helped so many people, just with the computer books, do you realize how many millions of people, hundreds of millions of people have benefited from what you've done, that was really a wake up call. And it really got me through that little bad stretch. It was like, Okay, I'm not a complete failure. I've done something of value. But yeah, it's interesting. We just did a class on the Dow with Lao Tzu and the greatest leader is the leader that no one even recognizes. The greatest leader doesn't even get recognition. The next level of great leader, yeah, they get a lot of admiration and praise, but the greatest leader leads in such a way that no one even knows, he or she is the leader, Brandon Handley 47:50 Will. Again, you, like you said you didn't have to take this time. And I definitely appreciate you being on here today. You are rereleasing Master Sha book and the power of the Dow. Yeah. Bill Gladstone 48:04 This is really something if you've never heard of Dr. Master shots, this new edition, this is just a mock up of the cover. It's really worth reading. I mean, it's a fun read. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback. And it's done is the story. It's not, you know, it's like how I met him and interviews with a lot of different people. But I think it really will open people's eyes. And I really do feel that he's not received to date, the kind of visibility that someone of that caliber and have that ability to give deserve. So yeah, of everything for this interview. That would be the one thing I would hope your fans pick up on. But yeah, it's happened to source the movie. You can go back, you know, Amazon is still this was my most successful book, The 12. It's really, you know, it's all over. Brandon Handley 48:50 I remember seeing that I remember seeing that cover quite a bit, especially Bill Gladstone 48:55 this book we published to a major publisher, and we got it into the airports and you know, it really, we can say it's close to getting the movie deal done. And that wasn't millions, and it could still happen. I've actually figured out a way to do it. But yeah, though, if you want to have a really good read, and understand that the Mayan calendar is real. And it never predicted the end of the physical universe. It predicted the end of the energetic universe, and we're actually in a new energy every 26,000 years, there's a new energetic field. And think of a sunset. If you're unless you're looking at the sun when it sets. You don't really know the difference between 10 seconds before sunset, and 10 seconds after. When you're at the scale of 26,000 years. 10 years is like 10 seconds. So we are in a new era is happening. You can see it in a lot of different ways. The fact that the world seems worse right now, doesn't necessarily mean that we're not actually entered In a better era, whether it evolves in the way that it's intended to or not, it's really up to each and every one of us. Each and every one of us has a role to play. Even if it's just at the level of your thoughts, thoughts do create events. And that's why I'm interested in ideas of global resonance. And I'm interested in being on shows like this. Because if you're full of negative thoughts, you're going to draw negativity. If you're full of positive thoughts, you're going to attract positive energy. So that I think is absolutely demonstrated. And so anything that I can do to help people sort of reframe their personal existences in a more positive way, I'm delighted to do so. Brandon Handley 50:46 Thank you so much. But where can people find out more about what it is you're doing? Where would you like people to go? Bill Gladstone 50:51 Oh, my gosh, well, the best is, I guess, just WWE waterside.com. I am not into self promotion. So I don't really know. I mean, yeah, all the people that I work with it they probably think Bill you're getting this tends to promote what we're doing. I didn't do it. So maybe they will send you afterwards and you can put up on the screen for sure website. I probably shouldn't reveal this. But I even though I'm a champion, while the technology I don't use it, I still have a flip phone. I don't I've never searched the web. I don't use I don't use the modern technology, people that work for me do. But I really, you know, if I could, you know, I'm very happy sort of living in the old 20th century. Having actual lunches with people COVID has been tough on me on that business has actually been better than ever because everybody was stuck at home and they were all reading and writing. So you know, but yeah, I miss I miss the human interaction. And technology in May is useful. And you know, I'm so grateful that we can do this zoom call. This is close to personal, but it's not the same as face to face meeting so Brandon Handley 51:59 I couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. So I will share out whatever you're able to share with the audience bill and again, thanks for being on today. Bill Gladstone 52:06 It was a pleasure. Thank you. Yes, sir. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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This is episode 156 of the Pam Sowder Podcast, with your host, Pam Sowder! Pam has over 2 decades of field and corporate experience and was voted one of the most influential women in direct selling. She helps match the daily needs of distributors to everyday life challenges. Today, Pam is thrilled to be joined by an incredible guest all the way from Australia! Sandy Forster is a Money Mindset Mentor for women worldwide who are ready to experience more abundance along with freedom in their lives! Sandy has went from welfare to millionaire (which you do not want to miss out on hearing about!) She loves inspiring and empowering women to break through the blocks that are holding them back, manifest more money, and help them create a life for themselves that they are truly passionate about! Sandy is also the author of the award-winning international best-seller, How to Be Wildly Wealthy FAST, and is the host of the popular podcast, Wildly Wealthy Women. Through her work, Sandy has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. In this episode, you're going to be equipped with the knowledge and tools to uplevel your mindset, take the actions that will get you where you desire to go, the key principles around the Law of Attraction (and how you can leverage it), and the daily work you should be putting in to begin manifesting success and prosperity in your life!   Key Takeaways [:30] About today's episode with special guest, Sandy Forster! [1:43] Pam welcomes Sandy to the podcast! [2:15] How did Sandy discover her passion for wanting to inspire and empower women worldwide? [8:21] What actions we can take to become proactively aware of the power that we all hold through the law of attraction. [15:31] About Pam's book, Rich Girl Poor Girl. [15:55] How to not get lost in “the grind” and why it is crucial to work on your mindset above all else. [19:54] The daily work you need to put in, in order to uplevel your mindset; and the pieces that Sandy has specifically put into place to help her go from welfare to millionaire. [24:22] God's role in the Law of Attraction. [26:28] Why you do not need to be struggling in order to get results. [32:44] Why you need to take action to receive what you desire. [34:20] Why life should be fun no matter where you are on your journey. [37:13] Sandy shares some final words of wisdom and inspiration for listeners.   Mentioned in this Episode Sandy Forster's Facebook Law of Attraction: Prosperity Secrets with Sandy Forster (Facebook Group) Sandy's Website: WildlyWealthy.com Sandy's Instagram @SandyLForster How To Be Wildly Wealthy FAST: A Powerful Guide For Women To Attract Unlimited Abundance Today!, by Sandy Forster The Secret (2006 Film) The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles Rich Girl Poor Girl: How to Become the Rich Girl You Were Always Meant to Be, by Pam Sowder   Continue on your Adventure Find more episodes on PamSowder.com/Listen Reach out to her at PamSowder.com/Connect   Reach out on Social Media! Follow Pam @ItWorksPam on Twitter — Tweet her and use #askpam #pamsowder!  

Do you feel rich, secure, and financially abundant? Or do you worry about having enough to make ends meet? Money can be a source of stress, fear, and limitation. Or it can be a beautiful tool to solve problems, live generously, and change the world. Our view of money (and how we make or spend it) is hugely affected by our mindset. And to a greater extent, this view has been shaped by our experiences while growing up.In today's episode, I speak with Natolie Warren, a psychotherapist & coach. Natolie is on a mission to empower spiritually rooted ambitious women to overcome their biggest unconscious blocks so that they can lead fulfilling lives. She helps ambitious women live a passionate life and align with their soul's purpose. She shares about how our mindset affects our finances and what we can do about it. Some of the key talking points include: How our mindset plays a key role in all aspects of our lives.What generational money trauma is and how it manifests itself. How parents unknowingly create the scarcity mindset in their kids.How to check yourself to find out if you are making decisions from a scarcity mindset.The tie between the way that we view money and the way that we view ourselves and our self-worth.Healing from negative relationships with money. How our money mindset affects our ability to comfortably ask for salary increments or raise our prices.How our mindset impacts the way that we choose to invest in ourselves or our businesses.… and so much more!Episode drink:Raspberry Peach MimosaIngredients:Peach juiceChampagneChambordFresh raspberriesBooks Suggested:Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life by Barbara Stanny It's Not All About Money: Memoirs of a Private Banker by  Hans J. BaerThe Illusion of Money: Why Chasing Money Is Stopping You from Receiving It by Kyle Cease The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles Connect with Natolie:Website: www.natoliewarren.comInstagram: @natoliewarrenYouTube: Natolie WarrenConnect with Cassandra:Schedule your discovery consultation via this link: https://calendly.com/cassandraalexisTune in to the Crowned Opulence Podcast on your favorite podcast app and join the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.  Have a mimosa that you want to have featured or a conversation that you want to hear about on the show let me know at https://www.crownedopulencepodcast.com/Enjoy the show? I'd love to invite you to leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcast.  It will help others like you find the show and be a part of these necessary conversations.  I can't do it without you: leave a review on Apple

About This Episode: Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, now in its sixth edition, with over 2.5 million copies sold. He also currently serves as a Fellow with the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Jim has co-authored over a dozen books, including Stop Selling & Start Leading, Learning Leadership, The Truth About Leadership, Credibility, Encouraging the Heart, and A Leader's Legacy, as well as the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)—the top-selling off-the-shelf leadership assessment in the world. The Wall Street Journal named Jim one of the ten best executive educators in the U.S., and he received the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He was presented the Thought Leader Award by the Instructional Systems Association. Jim has also been recognized as one of HR Magazine's Top 20 Most Influential International Thinkers, as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America. Jim believes it was on January 20, 1961 when he was first inspired to study leadership. That was the day he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedy's Honor Guard at the Presidential Inauguration. He and Barry are currently completing a new work titled Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership—a book about how to make a difference without a title, position or authority. Find out more about Jim at: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkouzes Leadership Challenge - https://www.leadershipchallenge.com/ Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/871 Sponsors: Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book  

About This Episode: Robby Starbuck is a producer and director known for the cinematic style he brought to the music video genre. He has produced over 1,000 projects at his company RSM. Collectively his work has been viewed over 5 billion times. Robby has directed and produced the official music videos for multiple feature films such as Terminator: Genysis, Transformers: The Last Knight and Spongebob. Robby has directed and produced Hollywood stars like Natalie Portman, Jamie Foxx, Brad Pitt, Gina Rodriguez, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and many more. He's also directed and produced the biggest names in entertainment like Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, Megadeth, The Gaslight Anthem, Smashing Pumpkins, Sarah Bareilles and many more. Robby decided to risk his career by coming out as a proud conservative after seeing the warning signs of socialism in the United States. Being the son of a Cuban refugee inspired his entrance into politics as he reflected on the horrors his family had experienced in Cuba. Those experiences were seared into his mind as a young man by his Mom and Grandparents as they recounted to him how Cuba had been destroyed by leftism. It was all he needed to jump into politics to ensure he stood up and did something to prevent a similar decline for the United States. In 2015 Robby publicly endorsed President Donald J. Trump and began to publicly promote the President's policies that put America First. Needless to say, he was “cancelled” but that just made him get louder. He's been interviewed on President Trump's Facebook Page by Lara Trump, OAN, Bill O'Reilly, Breitbart, Sirius XM, Hugh Hewitt Show and many more. He's written political op-ed's in The Federalist, Orange County Register, LA Times and the Western Journal. He has recently announced his candidacy for Congress in 2022 in a bid to unseat Democrat Jim Cooper of Nashville. He and his wife also host a podcast called GrowUp Live where they talk about political issues and culture, interview culture influencers and political guests like Senator Rand Paul, Congressman Ken Buck, Dinesh D'Souza, Dennis Prager, Former Acting DNI Richard Grenell and many more. Robby announced his congressional run in a speech at CPAC in February 2021. Find out more about Robby at: Freedom Forever - https://freedomforever.us/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4578440/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RobbyStarbuckRSM Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/robbystarbuck/ Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/865 Sponsors: Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book  

Interview with Edel Owens. Edel is an energy & work-life balance coach for high performance entrepreneurs and corporate clients.  After a successful career as a teacher, graduating with a masters in education, she switched her focus to her passion for health and wellbeing, establishing her health coaching practice in 2020. Using a highly customized blend of nutrition, lifestyle and mindset mentoring, Edel now helps successful entrepreneurs transform their own health, take back control of the work-life juggle, overcome procrastination and eat for energy and sustained wellness.In this podcast episode you will learn:✨What stress management and nutrition have in common✨How your mindset influences everything in your life✨The most powerful question you can ask yourself to get startedEnjoy listening.With gratitude,Julia------More about Edel: https://www.healthedel.com/Book Recommendations:Psycho Cybernetics by Mazlow MaltzThe Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. WattlesYou were Born Rich by Bob ProctorThe Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy------

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In today's episode, I brought my girlfriend Anna Chrystal on to expand the conversation on excusitis. A mind-decaying disease. What I hope you take away from this episode are the 4 types of excusitis and how to rid/ cure yourself of them. Some Show Notes 1. Controlling Your Reactions is key 2. Meditation calms the mind Books Referenced 1. The Magic Of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz 2. The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles 3. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom/Author Don Miguel Ruiz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brandon-rouzan/message

Dean Elaine Wallace, D.O., M.S., M.S., M.S., M.S. currently serves as the Dean of the Kiran C Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is an active researcher and scholar and has been recognized numerous times for her mentorship and teaching excellence. Dean Wallace is board certified in family medicine, neuromusculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine, and medical acupuncture . -- Hosts: Daniel Epstein & Raj Kavadi Producer: Timothy Crowe Music: Foximusic.com

This is a review for fantasy indie book THE ROSE SHIELD QUARTET by Wallace D. Peach. We tend to get feisty with a great deal of hand smacking, chair banging, finger snapping, horn blowing, and the occasional firing squad. Author's Goodreads page Tristen's Goodreads page

Kicking off 2021 we have a new episode!! Learn what is increase and why it is so important to apply it to our lives.

Today we have the amazing Dr. Tracy Timberlake on the show. She is a Multi-Award Winning Business Coach, million dollar Course Creator, Speaker and Online Influencer. Dr. Tracy helps her clients launch their 6-figure Selves by turning a lot of letters (degrees), experience and education into a lot of money and impact. Recipient of the prestigious Miami 40 Under 40, she has spoken on the TEDX stage, been featured on NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur Magazine, etc, it's no wonder her clients appropriately titled her "The Entrepreneur Whisperer." Dr. Tracy is also co-founded Flourish Media and the Flourish Media Conference whose claim to fame is an annual event where they introduce women owned businesses to potential investors for seed-funding of up to $15,000,000. In this episode, we are getting into goal setting and manifesting for 2021. We look back at 2020, goal setting techniques, and so much more.In this episode we cover:Manifesting money and making sure you are an energetic matchGoals vs. ResolutionsHow to get past old beliefsVision BoardsArticles & Books Mentioned:The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattleshttps://amzn.to/3nLvAkVThink and Grow Rich by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hillhttps://amzn.to/2KSVTHjA Return to Love by Marian Williamsonhttps://amzn.to/3phzNNxConnect with Dr. Tracy Timberlake:Website: www.drtracytimberlake.comInstagram: @tracytimberlakeClubhouse: @tracytimberlakeYoutube: Tracy Timberlake Did you enjoy this episode? If so, I would appreciate it if you could rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcast (or wherever you listen). This will help more people find the show. I appreciate you!Next check out these episodes:EP 18: Healing Through Yoga, The Moons and Card Readings with Brittany AllenEP 17: Ok Dani, Let’s Manifest It Sis!EP 5: Redefining Wealth by Healing from your Past Traumas with Stacie L. Daniel Follow me on all social media @candidlykesha. Feel free to email me with any feedback or suggestions for upcoming topics at hey@candidlykesha.com

In this episode learn what is the best way of getting into the right business and also practice an important exercise to get where you want to be.

Learn why it is important to things in an efficient way and how it affects your life.

One of the incredible Rebels who listens to this show reached out and asked me to share my top 10 most impactful books. I thought it was an incredible idea! And so this episode is the first half of that list of ten books. For reference, here is the list:1. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker2. Conversations with God; Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsh3. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles 4. Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani5. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe DispenzaI discuss the specifics of why these books matter, and why this order. I encourage you to check them out, ready them and get back to me about your experience. Enjoy! RulesoftheRebellion.com | Join our REBEL Community | Follow Us on all Socials | All listening options |

Uncover the most important thing to do when you start acting in the certain way.

Welcome to the Thinking Big Podcast. This episode is part 9  of a special 14 day Think and Grow Rich Challenge. Today we are going over the 11th step to success, the step on The Subconscious Mind - The connecting link. This is probably my favorite chapter I recently hosted a live 14 days Think and Grow Rich challenge that benefited Feeding America and I thought it would be great to put the challenge right here on the podcast.  So for 14 days I will be releasing a new podcast and the associated challenge that covers each of the 13 steps of Think and Grow Rich plus a bonus challenge on the introduction. It doesn’t matter if you have ever read the book or not, the challenge is designed for anyone to do. There is a link in the show notes so you can sign up for free and get download all of the challenge worksheets and a PDF copy of the original Think and Grow Rich Today we are thinking big on The Subconscious Mind. The 14-day Think and Grow Rich Challenge. https://www.sean-osborn.com/14daychallenge   Free Audibles book http://bit.ly/thinkingbigaudible   Connect with Sean Osborn at Thinking Big Coaching Website http://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ Until tomorrows challenge, remember to always think big Ratings and reviews directly impact search rankings for the Thinking Big Podcast. So please help and rate and review the podcast. Episode Transcription: Welcome to the thinking big podcast. This episode is part nine of a special 14 day think and grow rich challenge today. We're going over the 11th step of success. The step on the subconscious mind, the connecting link, and this is probably my favorite chapter in the book. I recently hosted a live 14 day think and grow rich challenge that benefited feeding America. And I thought it would be great to just throw this out here on the podcast for everybody to listen to. So for 14 days I will be releasing a new podcast and the associated challenge that covers each of the 13 steps in think and grow rich plus a bonus challenge on the introduction. It doesn't matter if you've ever read the book or not. This challenge is designed for anybody to do. There are links in the show notes, so you can go sign up for free and get the downloads of all of the challenge worksheets, plus a free PDF copy of the original think and grow rich book. So today we are thinking big on the subconscious mind. (01:30): Hello and welcome to tonight to night is God. It's one of my favorite chapters in the book. It is the chapter in the step on the subconscious mind, such a powerful step, such, such fun. I can't wait for tonight. So like always, we're going to start off with a few quotes that align with the subconscious before we get into it. The first one is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion. Wallace D waddles, the power, which is in you is in the things around you. And when you begin to move forward, that things will arrange themselves for your advantage. And we, you know, I don't want to get too geeky on this, but I kind of want to get a little geeky on the subconscious mind. We went into it a little bit on an earlier chapter, but I wanted to really dive in again a little bit into the subconscious mind and the vastness of it and the power of it. (02:36): Because once you truly understand the power of the subconscious, how much it can really do, and that you have the ability to turn anything over to it, you can have it working on whatever you want it, whatever you want it to be working on, you could absolutely have it worked on everything. So we're going to go back into just a little bit of the, you know, the subconscious and the conscious. Again, most of us know what this consciousness subconscious mind is. Most of the people, you know, watching this are, are pretty aware with the personal development, but the subconscious mind opera operates at about 4 billion bits per second. And that is absolutely astonishing compared to the 2000 bits per second, that our conscious mind works at. You know, our conscious mind is only aware of one half of 1000000th of a percent of what the subconscious mind can do. (03:29): If you think about it, your subconscious mind, every second takes in 8 billion bits, it's doing 8 billion bits. Every second, it would take 8,000 novels to write 4 billion zeros. It's just amazing on what your subconscious can do, and you have the ability to turn over anything you want to it. You can program your subconscious mind to kind of do anything. And like we talked about the self driving car, you know, and in three months, you know, you turned over, you programmed your subconscious mind pretty much how to drive by itself. You know, you no longer consciously drive, unless you're 16, you no longer consciously drive. You're driving through your subconscious mind. And you were able to program that into your subconscious. And if you look at cars nowadays, you know, the Tesla, you know, the latest in engineering is, is developing, you know, self driving cars. (04:31): You know, they've got, it's loaded with computers, sensors all the way around the car cameras, all the way around the car. It has to know all these different things going on. What's coming from behind. What's in front of you, how fast you're going. Are there any percent pedestrians, what does that sign say? All of this stuff that, that those computers have to see, recognize and do something with. And you did that automatically. So if you think about, if you can program your subconscious mind to do that without even really knowing that you did it, or even trying to do it, if we tried to program our subconscious mind with positive things and with the things that we want, what do you think it could do with that? (05:13): What do you think it could do with the things (05:16): Really wanted to program? What would you program your mind to do if you knew it could do it? What would you program your mind to do when you see, you can turn over what ever you want to your subconscious mind. And it's through the, you know, that the habits that we do, it's like driving. Once you drive every day, you by habit, you automatically program your subconscious mind, as well as affirmations and auto suggestions. You have step that we've gone over. And again, it doesn't have to be true or false or fake or real, whatever you turn over, it's going to work on positive or negative. And the subconscious mind receives it Biles. And it remembers all since impressions or thoughts and by impressions, I mean, everything that you sense, whether it's from your five senses, whether you, whatever, you see, whatever you hear, whatever you feel, whatever you taste, whatever you smell, every sense impression or thought that you've ever had is actually in your subconscious mind. (06:13): It's stored all of that, regardless of its nature, positive, negative. It doesn't matter. It is stored all of that. And when people tell me, you know, and for a long time, I was like, I have a crappy memory. I can't remember shit. I just can't remember anything. We don't have memory problems. Cause again, it stores everything. What we have is we have a retrieval problem. We don't know. We don't know how to go in and retrieve the stuff that's there. And you can really be voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind, any plan, any thought or any purpose, which you desire to translate into its physical or monetary equivalent, whatever you want to put in there to do. It's like programming computer. If I want to program a computer to do Excel, boom, I'm going to run Excel and it's going to, that's what it's going to do so we can do whatever we want to do. (07:06): We can program, have what we want. And we are living daily in the myths of thousands and thousands of impulses from our five senses that are coming in and reaching our subconscious mind without even our knowledge. If you look at advertising, you know, again, pictures, boom, they go kind of right in without, you know, it was consciously, you know, looking at and evaluating those, but advertising stuff with, you know, social media, all the things you're seeing in your hearing, all of these things are happening every second, every day, without you even knowing about it, it's just automatic. Again, your conscious, aware of one half of one, millionth of a percent of all the sense impressions that you're getting. You're only aware of the things that you're, that you truly, that you've trained yourself to be aware of. And some of these impulses are negative and some of these impulses are positive and a great deal of them are negative. (08:02): And from now on, you know, part of what this chapter's about from now on try to help shut off the flow of any negative impulses and aid in a voluntary influencing of your subconscious mind through positive impulses of desire. A Raymond Charles Barker has a, has a fantastic quote on this. And he says, it takes as much hard mental work to fail as it does to succeed. Failure is actually a success negative. And for me, what he's saying there is he saying, if we have failure, we've just been successful at thinking the negative. It works, regardless of what, if you think positive, you're going to get positive for such to think negative. So when we fail, we're actually, it's actually a, it's a success. We, we we've, we've succeeded at being negative. So by changing your, your thought habits and in trying to focus positive things into our subconscious mind, what we're doing is we're able actually to possess the key that really unlocks the door to our entire subconscious mind, you know, further, you will control that door so completely. (09:12): If you do this, that no undesirable thought will be able to influence you or get into your subconscious mind when you get to that point where you can just turn off in it, you hear some Nope, Nope. Negative. Nope. Not gonna hear it. Nope. You've gotta be able to turn that off. And remember it is equally, you know, influenced your subconscious is equally influenced by negative thoughts that we just allow in. We just automatically allow negative thoughts in, and it's when I go back and I say, you know, anybody can think and grow rich, but what do we normally do most of us think and grow poor because the negative thoughts and for me, here's the thing, a positive and a negative emotion for me cannot occupy my mind at the same time. I don't think it's possible for anybody. If you, if you have a positive emotion, you cannot, at the same time, have a negative emotion. (10:03): And for me, a single negative thought or emotion is sufficient to block my mind and me from helping me achieve my goal, a single negative thought, I can't do that. I'm not good enough. Who do I think I am? All these things. A single negative thought can actually stop me, stop the motivation, stop the persistence, stop the desire to do it. And the subconscious mind is absolutely more susceptible to influence when it is mixed with emotions. And that's part of what's in this book is when we mix our thoughts with emotions, it is much more resonant to us. It, the feeling emotion by those, you, it is just so much more powerful when we actually put our thoughts and we put emotions, emotions with it. So it think about it. If you are having a thought, I want to do this, you know, this is, I want this goal right here. (11:05): And you mix that with love, or you mix that with a sexual desire. You mix it with one of these positive emotions, your desire to go and, and it makes it much more real in your subconscious mind when you mix it with an emotion, whether positive or negative. And in fact, there, there is evidence that only emotional thoughts have any influence on the subconscious mind. So we need to strive to mix our thoughts all the time with only positive emotions. Sometimes we do it sometimes negative or good. Sometimes I like, I hate to say it, but sometimes they get like when you, when you want to get bingettes or when you're mad at someone, does that not drive your thoughts a little bit more? It's not the correct way to do it, but you can see that when you have negative emotions, it motivates you to do stuff even more. (11:54): So we try to do them with positive, only emotion, and you're not going to be successful with, with negative emotions, but you can see where that leads. And in the book, he talks about seven major positive emotions and seven major negative emotions. And the positive emotions that he talks about are desire. Faith, you know, paint that you can do. It love sexual, longing, enthusiasm, romance, hope when you mix your thoughts and ideas with those, they become much more powerful. And he says, you know, there's seven, you know, seven major negative emotions is fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition, anger. So just as one more positive, one more work negative on our subconscious mind. And so thinking back, I want you to think back over the last 30 to 60 days, and I want you to estimate what percentage of your emotions were positive and what percent of your emotions were negative. (12:52): Think back 30 to 60, 30, 60 days, you know, how many, how much of your thoughts were actually positive and how many were actually, and again, if you're honest, they're going to be, they're probably going to be more negative than they are positive. And what were the most when you're looking at those, you know, what were the most notable, positive thoughts that you had? If you go back over your positive, which ones are notable and the same thing for negative thoughts out of all the negative thoughts that you have, what are the negative ones that were most notable in your, in, in all the thoughts you have, you see patterns in those, in both your positive and your negative. And what I want you to do is I want you to list three specific steps that you can do to avoid the negative emotions in the future three steps. (13:36): What can you do to eliminate or to stop a Boyd, negative emotions in the future? You, what are three things you can do? And that is actually the challenge for today. So however, you're getting this, whether it is, you know, live right now with video or at a later time, you're watching it go. There's always going to be a link to go and download the challenge, go and download the challenge for the day and fill it out. It can be a very beneficial thing for you to do so here, here it is. Fill it out. It's going to have you go through this. How do you visualize it? Have you put some feeling in with it? So until tomorrow I will see you guys later.

Get a deeper understanding of how to use the will and also learn the fourth fundamental statement that composes the science of getting rich.

To dominate your will is to dominate your faith, since this is it's core. The correct use of the will is going to get you where you want to be. In this episode learn how to use it.

Learn what is needed to finally thinking in the certain way to get rich and attaining what you desire, fulfilling the 3rd fundamental statement of the book.

In the science of getting rich there are key elements that you need to learn about, in this episode learn one more of those key elements and begin to implement it as soon as you can.

You need a correct type of mindset in order to get rich in order to help yourself and others, learn what that mindset is in this chapter.

There is a thinking stuff that surrounds us and can be influenced by thought. In this chapter learn the first principle in the science of getting rich that is based in the thinking stuff and faith.

In the world, even if it seems so, opportunity is much greater than you could imagine. More on that fact in this episode.

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Brandon Handley 0:00 4321 Hey there podcast land thanks for tuning in. We are taking another hit a spiritual dope and today I've got Jeremy snowed and joining me He is a dad, a granddad friend and men's mentor. He finds fulfillment being a resource a community connector. He runs a men's growth and development group Hero's Journey men's online discussion circle, and host a biannual man's three days meetup. He spends his free time discovering life hacks, physical movement and mindfulness practices. Jeremy, thanks for joining me today. What's going on? What's up? Jeremy Snowden 0:38 What's up? Thanks so much for the invitation, man. Yeah, Brandon Handley 0:41 yeah, I don't it was like, it was kind of like, it was a no brainer. You know, it was like, you know, we we've crossed paths, Facebook paths so many times, right. When I spun this up, I was like, you won't point so just you're kind of like a brother, brother from another mother right type of thing. Cuz, like, I think we're the same people. Right. Right. And and and the more we have these conversations, the more we kind of find that that's true. You and I were just talking before this about a mutual, you know, mentor that we found online. Eddie Bryant, right, who's doing who's doing some stuff. And you mentioned I just discovered on the week before, so I was like, this is just, yeah, it's fun. It's fun. And it's funny. So before we even get started, man, so before we even get started, I feel like I feel like we're kind of like, we're conduits for the creative energies forces in the universe, right? Yeah. And we're put together right now on this podcast, to speak to somebody. Right? And somebody needs to hear this, and it needs to come from you. What is it? Unknown Speaker 1:51 Man? Jeremy Snowden 1:52 Okay, so Wow, right on the spot, did you Okay, so I think more than anything else For me if I was if I was looking at the person that needs to hear this you are a human being not a human doing you know there's more to you than you know that you're at then you're aware of and just fully embody yourself No I think that would be a good Brandon Handley 2:24 I love it. I love it man right i mean you're you're you're a human being not a human doing we get so caught up. Gosh, reactivity, right all the activity although RUN RUN, RUN doo doo doo I got to be productive man. If I'm not productive, they're gonna kick me off the team. Jeremy Snowden 2:42 Right? The pressure and the stress? Yeah, Brandon Handley 2:45 yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So I love it. I love it. You're a human being. Unknown Speaker 2:51 And I think the other thing is, Brandon Handley 2:53 knowing yourself right? And when you get into this kind of the spiritual realm and And you're you're getting into all these different involve with all these different groups. Excuse me. And these conversations, the word self can take on a number of connotations, right? Come on, what do you got? So tell me what you know. So, I'll give you an example of something that I saw this morning. And it actually had to do kind of like Maslow's law, right? hierarchy of needs. And when you get to the top there, it's self expression, self actualization. Ah, true. So, I mean, you know, if I asked you what that meant to you to basically that's the pinnacle, self expression, Self Realization, what does that mean? Right? Jeremy Snowden 3:42 Wow, that's deep. For me, I guess it is finding experiences where I can be the observer, so that I can see myself clearly, you know, so depression in a wave of just that one the day that you just don't want to get out of That it just feels like your blanket is concrete, you know? And you can't explain it or anything. And so I have to, I call it father myself or, you know, work within my higher self, if you will. And almost to put my hand on my shoulder, if you will, and say, Hey, I know what you're feeling. Yeah. It's almost like it's two separate people or, you know, like my tradition. It's you know, you're a tripartite three part being spirit soul body, you have a spirit, you know, or I'm sorry, you are spirit you live in, you know, you have a soul you live in a body, you know, and now it seems like it's probably more complex and yet more simple. It's just but at any point, it's just seeing myself in those feelings, I can feel this I'm not those feelings. Right. But I you know, I can resonate with those feelings. Who's the it does that that's me. You know, you talk to yourself. A couple of days ago, I was like, let's have pizza and I was like, Who's let's Brandon Handley 5:06 good idea for us to go get these things together. And that's great though I was just I was just listening to a book this morning actually. It's called mastering your emotions and the exercises in there is is what you just talked about, right? One of those is very powerful exercise you you see you see this observer exercise actually happen a Unknown Speaker 5:26 lot in NLP, right? I'm not Brandon Handley 5:29 sure yet, right. So it's the same thing you you, you You see, first of all, you're already here right? But if you can remove yourself one or two or three times and see that situation just like you said, you know you're in that better fathering yourself. I love that because you know, as a father, you know what that means by you. Put your hand on on your shoulder, and you're going to walk yourself out there with comfort and care and say, Hey, Paul, we got this we got right. And we're gonna go face this, whatever it is. Absolutely. Right. Yeah, love that the concrete blanket man that made me feel I felt it. I felt that corps right. Yeah, man. So, you know, my tradition is what what is your tradition? Because you said my in my tradition, Jeremy Snowden 6:11 right? My historically if you will, first time I make the distinction between religion and spirituality, right. I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. Brandon Handley 6:20 Yeah, show Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 6:21 Right. Yeah. But at the same time, it was, you know, growing up in up drew up in a Christian environment, if you will, okay. And everything was about hierarchies, structures and pecking orders. It just life in general. You know, like, who makes the most money who's the cutest who's the tallest, the smartest, prettiest? Sure. Um, you know, and just that, that linear thinking like that. And so, for me, breaking out of that, I don't know if this is the proper time to talk about that or not, but basically just I was, you know, a very Launch Bible believer in you know, born again Christian you know for quite some time and while I do admire and respect a lot of my, a lot of my time there and of course my friends and my you know who become your, your family that you choose, you know? Sure it's I can see it now and you know having the whole dark night of the soul or nights or months you know. Right So, but in that I can see the need for that as a part of part of my life. So that was my background. Sure. Brandon Handley 7:31 Yeah. It's funny you say that right? Like I'm I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I think that a lot of people get that confused. I don't have a religion. Yeah. But I am spiritual right because I think that you know, you have a religion you're not you are not religious you have it right. Like, that's your background and your your kind of upbringing and, and, and, you know, the path that you follow, and it's funny that you bring up you know, we we have Eddie Bryan and In common a couple weeks ago like i said i was first I listened to him but you know there's some he talks about Vedanta and Hinduism right and he talks about all the different paths of Hinduism and right in the end he does it sooner or later you just got to bet on one line later just got it you got it you got a bet on one Yeah. Oh it because otherwise you're just always kind of popping around Yeah. And it It's funny how I landed on the just pick one theory or idea and I got that through the science of getting rich Wallace D wattles. Right I've never read that book. I mean, it's it's my all time it's in my top five man it's such a great book. But it's like just follow just read this one book and don't read any don't pay attention to anything else for like until you This is part of your soul, Unknown Speaker 8:54 bro. Brandon Handley 8:56 I'm so sorry to dive down in that right so okay. So you're running the men's group. Let's give a little more background journey man like, I mean, let's let's do this first, I always like to talk about the front end of it, you know, what is it you're doing? Tell us about? Tell us about your tell us about the men's group, right? The hero's journey, men's online discussion circle, right? Like, how did that get started? And what's going on? Jeremy Snowden 9:21 Yeah, so almost two years, well, longer than two years ago, I connected with some guys and some Facebook groups. And I was just blown away to see what the same questions over and over and over again. You know, my wife cheated on me, you know, or my wife left me or my girlfriend, you know, yada, yada. Or we can't give a lot we can never, you know, come to a conclusion on anything or whatever. Right? And so I figured, you know, I'm throwing my opinion in this whole thing, just to see what happens to kind of see where I'm at with my peers. You know, where are we at? You guys don't know me from Adam. I don't know you from Adam. And you. It's almost like my friend of mine, Andy. You might No to he and he's just he just trolls your stuff because he thinks you're cool. You know? We can't is it silly? Brandon Handley 10:07 Yeah, yes. No, he's funny though. So he doesn't get a choice. Great troll. Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 10:12 And he's like, and he's sort of my, my spiritual project, you know, to get him to start walking along that Brandon Handley 10:20 path. Don't go to the dark side. Jeremy Snowden 10:22 Right and he's he's doing everything he can to, you know, push, push it up, push me off it but Anyway, I digress. But he says, You know, I said something about, you know, just try not to read the comments right about now with everything heated up. You read people's comments, and you're just like, oh, but he retorted and said that it's all about the comments. And really, that's that's that's community right there. Yeah, you can actually trace your community within those comments. You know, CS Lewis said it this way, and I'll get off my soapbox. He said, I mean, Brandon Handley 10:55 this is immunity. That's exactly what this is the soapbox, bro. That's why we're here. All right. All right. Jeremy Snowden 11:02 community doesn't happen until someone else says YouTube. Mm hmm. You know, and so I created an online community of people that like, we have the same kind of challenges, you know, a lot of them are still married or, or, you know, some art, you know, and the thing that we do is we use the book as an excuse a friend of mine, Stan, you can you might know him as well. Stan, Michael, he, he wants to talk to me about the law of the third's, it's very similar to this mode to Brandon is like, you know, I have this light ring. I don't know if you have a light rain, but I kind of see that as my vortex. You know, I mean, like, it's, it's almost like, if we were to practice you know, like all of the different magical traditions, if you will, where you could look through water and see spirit on the other side. That's what we're Brandon Handley 11:56 doing. You know, we're ending the evil stepmother and Mirror mirror on the wall. fairest of them all right. I mean, come on somebody that stops everywhere, right? Like, here's the thing, like, here's the thing is what's so great about like this space is like, once you realize you tripped over into it, you're like, Oh, it's everywhere. Everybody's been trying to tell me my entire life. Jeremy Snowden 12:16 Come on. Right? Right on your face, right? Brandon Handley 12:20 Mm hmm. I mean, we'll cliches and you know, stuff. Your parents told you that you said, Nah, shut up. Stop. You're crazy. Don't talk to my friends. Right? It's everywhere. I was I was on the plane, coming back from Denver. And I was watching the Madeline L'Engle movie with Oprah in it. A stitch in time, A Wrinkle in Time, Wrinkle in Time, man. And it was everything you and I are about and I was like, I was taking notes like furious. I was like, oh, brah Oh, Oprah, not again, more Oprah right um, Mirror mirror on the wall. Right, just like yeah, that's the vortex that's looking looking, looking looking. piercing the veil, right? Jeremy Snowden 13:06 Yes. I'm Brandon Handley 13:09 with you. Yeah, tell me more. So Hero's Journey hero's journey. Tell us all Batman. Jeremy Snowden 13:14 So it's very similar, right? You could see these different themes in everybody's lives. We're all living the same life. Brandon Handley 13:21 Suddenly, let's talk about the things right, let's talk about let's talk about the hero's journey. Because if you're not familiar with it, who's it come from? Jeremy Snowden 13:31 Joseph Campbell, is a mythologist very wise man who did research to be able to see these common themes and all stories Star Wars, right? Um, Brandon Handley 13:45 gosh, went nuts. Oh, so if is he recently like that went went went when was he? You know, I do know some history on him. But I you know, I'm not this is not a test. But I want I want I want people to hear from you. I was like, Unknown Speaker 14:00 No, kind of monopoly, Jeremy Snowden 14:02 probably circa and I can look it up too. But probably circa 1950s around that time, I guess Brandon Handley 14:09 so he predates he predates Star Wars and all that Jeremy Snowden 14:13 stuff, right? For sure. For sure. And yeah, just pulling him up here just as a nerd Brandon Handley 14:18 with rain. Sure, man. So, before, Jeremy Snowden 14:21 right so yeah, he was born. Right so 1904 so in died 1987 So, yeah, he was an inspiration to Steve Lucas. Is that right? I'm not a big Star Wars fan but Lucas. Lucas right, George There it goes. I think he's towards. I'm showing my own coolness right now to some of your audience. Yeah, but anyway, um, he just really, you know, well, it says he was influenced, for instance by Nisha Christian Judy Krishnamurti. Carl Jung. I mean, just Schopenhauer. I mean, like he basically canonized The concept of you know that the departure, the initiation of the hero, and the return, you know, and with each and there's got subsections and all that you could read on it, of course online. But it's just that we have the same story except I think in my mind's eye, I'm thinking what you talked about Maslow's hierarchy of needs kind of the same thing. You know, I'm saying there's, there's levels to this shit. Brandon Handley 15:25 Right, right, right, though. Absolutely. Jeremy Snowden 15:27 And unfortunately, we talked about it earlier, maybe some people this round just don't want to get it. Brandon Handley 15:32 Well, there's a there's a section in the story, right is some people reject the hero's call, right? Because the beginning there, right? is is is okay. And and here's, you know, if you want my take on it, which you're not asking for, but I'll give it to you. Ain't on me. Right. So we've got the hero's journey. Then there's, there's the call of the hero, right? That's when you're when you and I are in this journey, we felt something I mean, so overwhelming that if you didn't do it, something inside you died. Yeah. Right if you don't and that's so that's the that's the hero's call, right? The hero's call is, is there's something Unknown Speaker 16:17 within me that if I don't share it, Brandon Handley 16:21 if I don't help to give this away Unknown Speaker 16:24 within my lifetime I may as well stop now. Right? Yeah. Brandon Handley 16:29 So you feel that and then you have a couple opportunities to say Nah, fuck that I'm gonna go have a beer. Right? Right and so you can sub you can sub do that in a number of ways. And and I'm not sure if you ever watched the series on Netflix it's called the umbrella factory. And and what I realized by watching the umbrella factory was there's one girl on there I'm not not to give away the whole plot, but like she was subdued her entire life from her innate superpowers. By medication, right Though, you know, to what where I'm getting there is is like a religion, ad. You know, people who my grandmother was diagnosed as schizophrenic now, we didn't have like we weren't super close, but the question begs to be answered. What's your medium? Yeah, right. Right. And and there wasn't, there wasn't the space in the place, then that we've got now available to allow for that. Yeah, to explore that, which is I love where we are now. So, to me, the hero's call is just that right? There is something within you, right? And if you if you don't answer that, you've got to suppress it. And that's when you start to kind of each time because it's going to be it's going to come more than once. It's gonna keep coming right there every, every moment in your life is kind of an opportunity for that hero's call, right? Yeah. And if you don't answer that You're gonna wither away and die. Yeah. Yeah, that's my take on it. Jeremy Snowden 18:04 What do I think that's wonderful man, that's, that's really good. I love this volley. Plain and simple is because that's how I grow. You know, for the longest I looked around to people that were in suits on Sunday morning, and it's like, you guys can't bring the fire here What's going on? You know, and I was like, there's got to be more. And it's not that they weren't good people. It's just that sometimes when we put constraints on our, our faith or our religion, whatever it is, right, it's, it's we kind of like it's like, I used to lead worship, you know, so and I love worship music. But it was like, only part of the dance and when I when I when I stepped down from that, if you will, and began to sit down on my back porch, right, and, you know, dance in front of the moon. Nobody else is around. It's just me and God. So everything outside of my body is dancing with me. It felt more authentic. Then, you know, playing and although I still play music I still love. I still love worship music but it seemed that I was, you know, we could we following a rigid tradition didn't allow me or spirit for me to be able to just blossom it just kept me in this kind of in a confined space so sure, sure kind Brandon Handley 19:21 of like kind of like I mean, if you think about a tangle of roots and in a confined space in a box, right, like I mean, there's just Unknown Speaker 19:29 nowhere to go. Brandon Handley 19:30 Yeah, okay. Well, I mean, it's fair, but I'm just curious too, because all right, look, you've got this group you're doing you're and you're and you're walking them through, like the hero's journey, right? So I stopped everybody here for a second at, you know, rejecting the call. So what happens when you answered a call is you know, take me there. Right? Jeremy Snowden 19:48 Well, I mean, first off, and I know this different for everybody. I mean, number one is when i don't know i don't get probably the same thing. Granted, it's like even the cashier will start telling me about it. Marriage, you know, I'm saying and it's so it's like you know, I gotta also safeguard my energy at the same time but it's like working with guys that are like somes kind of like a little off and I need some just help. What they really need is just somebody to walk with them that second phase right, which is the initiation right percent, right. So it's, it's and it's it's Simba or I'm sorry. It's symbols friends. Timonium, Puma. Yeah. Cool. Brandon Handley 20:30 Right. So now saying that the other day I don't even care. No. Jeremy Snowden 20:34 Yeah. And then you have her freaky, right, the monkey that shows the bigger picture, if you will, right. And then the mentor Right, so the mystic, mystical mentor. There you go. And that's where I mean again, that the hero's journey arc works Yoda all stories, right. There you go. Right. Go. So walking with them is it for me at least it's as much as just for saying I see you. Yeah, I see you. And he's like, looking at you now. Right? You've done it. Unknown Speaker 21:06 I'll tell you Brandon Handley 21:08 that, that that saves me. when when when, you know, when that happened to me, I was like something was a little off. And I had to reach out to, you know, three, three people, three different people. And I was like, Unknown Speaker 21:21 I don't know what's going on. Yeah. Brandon Handley 21:24 I'm not losing my shit, but I'm not quite right. I just thought I'd let you guys know. Right? And at same time also reached out to a Buddhist Reverend friend, right? I said, Hey, here's what I'm feeling. And he goes, you're cool. I was like, working with them. Right. But to your point, this is a little over three years ago. The I had the exact same feeling of, hey, look, I want to be the greeter. Right? Kind of like a scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Unknown Speaker 21:58 Right. Yeah, yeah. Unknown Speaker 22:00 We're gonna cross paths you're gonna cross paths or paths are gonna interweave. You're on the way to Emerald City. I'm sure I'll walk along with you for a while. Jeremy Snowden 22:08 We're off to see the wizard. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah, Brandon Handley 22:11 yeah, so exactly the same. Yeah. Tell me more. Jeremy Snowden 22:14 Yeah. So a lot of the times, it's, it's a matter to, I mean, it's just us watching them as kids, we had invisible friends. Right. And then we're told, well, that's stupid, you know, but I think that they serve whether they were real, you know, if you can, if you if you accept, you know, spirits or demons or whatever, if you go along that track are whether they are just an aspect or element of our own spirit or mind. You know, however you see it, they serve a purpose, you know, and one of those is to, to watch, like, you know, again, is my tradition. It's like, there are such things, it's watchers, right? Have you noticed a lot of paintings that people do when they're shrooms are a plant medicine. There's a lot of eyes around the eyes have it? Sure. So, you know, sometimes people just need you to be their spotter, you know, as they're going through that stuff. You don't need to have. Brandon Handley 23:15 Yeah, you listen, you Listen, don't trip by yourself on the first time, right? Like everybody knows that. I'm just saying, right? Like, it's, it's, it's very similar though, right? Like, you know, you want to be in a safe place and especially when you're in a vulnerable condition such as an awakening or such as like, you know, especially look men are just as vulnerable as anybody else. I I believe, more so because if they're going through the, you know, the call to hero, right. And they don't know where to turn. Most of us haven't been prepared for this. Yes. Right or don't recognize, right don't recognize that they've been prepared for now because I'll I would also say that due to the Your religion, you were able to put things into some kind of framework. You're like, you know what, holy shit. there's a there's a story in the Bible that lines up to the scene that I'm going through right now, what was the outcome? And you could you can say in your mind, right, this was the outcome. What does that outcome really mean, though? Because that outcome no longer is, is this kind of this story, right? No, this is no longer like, you know, you know, the walls of Jericho, just falling down what, you know, what was that story? If I could put that into modern language, right, I circled it, you know, XYZ times. And, you know, is that a story of patience and perseverance of you know, and that's what this really meant, right? And that's what I'm experiencing. Sure. Is, did you have that? You know, is that how you kind of translated your, is that what made it easier for you or was it is it a journey that kind of like really set the tone for you? Jeremy Snowden 24:56 Right, right. Well, it was, I guess, It was a mixture of both. So as you were sharing, I was like, dude, I'm I'm letting him go, because this is really this is solid meat here. This is about where I'm at. So it came to a point where and I won't go into that on the just because for time sake, but, you know, I was going through my dark night of the soul if you will season right. And I just realized I need to zoom up a little further and not just assume that text, no offense to anybody else, any text. Okay, so across the board for me, if it does not resonate with my heart, I just can't receive it. Right. Right. So if I can apply it because I think it's wholesome, right? I mean, I All scripture is given for admiration and for admonition and examples for us and got out and I believe that they're good. They're good stories. Some of them don't apply the way that I was told they applied. And so I have to, you know, observe them as the self Right, yeah. As it's just like, you know, looking at your kids candy, I hate to, you know, make the word candy, you know, I'm saying but it's like, you know, when you're at Halloween, you're just checking get your, you know, you get your fill of Reese's Pieces that Brandon Handley 26:14 you find those passwords don't need all those candy. Jeremy Snowden 26:18 But, you know, I had to I had to scrutinize each thoughts, you know, of any any text. So that's why I'm listening to, you know, Edwin Bryant right now. And, you know, the yoga sutras of Patanjali. It's because there are words there. They're, what three 5000 years old. And he is explaining them and I even have to scrutinize him for myself for my own personal self right now. Not out loud, right? I'm Brandon Handley 26:48 good. Jeremy Snowden 26:49 All right, all the greats I don't I just, I've come here on the same dispensation and it's my responsibility to unpack it. You know, there's a difference. I put it this way. There's a difference. belief and faith, right? And it's like, yeah, was that media? Yeah. So like faith is all scripture calls faith substance. Right? It's a substance. Okay? Right. Whereas belief seems to me to be just an ideology, you know, and it's like, sometimes we mistake I have in the past mistakes as interchangeable. But then when my ideology falls apart, that's when your faith has to come alive. So that's what happened. Okay, so when, when that happened, because of the dark night of the soul, right, I decided to investigate and search things to see if they're actually what they really are for, for my own selves. Brandon Handley 27:43 And describe, like dark night, a soul a little bit. So for somebody that, you know, that feels like they've been through it, or you know, or what does it mean to you because I think that that has a different meaning to people to Unknown Speaker 27:55 write. Jeremy Snowden 27:58 I think it's part of this The Hero's Journey story arc, if you will, in the dragons, the the bankruptcy, the divorce the, you know, the difference stimuluses that caused the response in you? Is it parallelisation? Like, I've been there, like, you know, where you're just paralyzed, you don't know what to do. It was Wednesday, like, a day ago, and now it's, you know, Sunday morning or whatever, you know, you just kind of lose track of everything. It's best. That's my own personal experience. I don't really cry a lot. It's not. Brandon Handley 28:31 I mean, is it like a depression point? Is it a focal point? Do you have to kind of hit? Jeremy Snowden 28:38 Okay, so, very similar to what you said. It's like, Is there a diagnosis for it? That is actually right. Or do we just what is what we call depression? Right? Yeah. Is it? Is that Unknown Speaker 28:54 the call? Sure you Jeremy Snowden 28:57 believe so. You know, think it's thick. Right, and they have to withdraw themselves and and heal themselves or not you know and so you know I kind of think that ladder it's yeah I think you're right my mom actually was kids phrenic and we her and I lived with her demons you know as her behavior is powerful Brandon Handley 29:21 I mean how do you look at that now? Jeremy Snowden 29:25 Yeah so i i i don't know in terms of we've I guess my sisters and I've we've we've had that those conversations is a demon is a devils that are like literal doubles. Is it just the serotonin synaptic gaps and durose transmitters that blah blah, you know, misfire Listen, listen to I mean, there's always there's always a science psychology about it, right? Like I'm right. And that's, that's frustrating, right? Because you can science away just about anything you want. Right? Brandon Handley 29:56 Let's talk about it from let's talk about it from just your You know, your own life experience perception, your own human words? Know what's out. You know, if you're looking at that right now, like I said about my grandmother does that, you know, all right, well, Was she a medium? Was there something was she in contact when you got plenty of people that say I talk to angels, you know, is there something trying to communicate through her and it was a matter of if she had had the right teacher or teaching. It could have been just tremendous power that could have brought good into the world. Unknown Speaker 30:31 Sure. Jeremy Snowden 30:33 Isn't that crazy, too? And could it be I mean, and rest are soul. It could it be that she denied the call? Brandon Handley 30:42 Don't so that's the thing, right? If you don't, if you're not, Unknown Speaker 30:46 so, for me, a lot of this is already like my first language. Brandon Handley 30:54 I was raised this way like my mother was I was born out in San Francisco. My mom was like, I mean I picked up the exact same eaching book. She got like, I'm stupid, retarded. Like, I mean, everything she ever said is like, I'm like, Oh my gosh, she was right. Right. and and, and and like, I mean, yeah, you know, I brought up Alan Watts with her and she's like, Oh yeah, I remember seeing him in San Francisco, Alan. Know. And so, so when I experienced all this stuff, I kind of had a background in it right. I was like, Jeremy Snowden 31:29 nice. It was almost like I'm Brandon Handley 31:34 falling into like, down comforters. Wow, you were just like beautiful gowns. You know, like, wow, I was like, Man, this is a great place to be. Yeah. How can I explain to everybody else where I'm at, right like, I mean, and and do it in a way and that's part about this podcast, right? How can you know a big part of it's okay, great. It's cool. You feel that way, but How can you apply that in? Yeah, practicality, right? And so, so you're doing that in your group, right? you're grabbing these men. And you're saying, All right, we're cool here. This is a safe space. Here's what you're going through, and you're using the hero's journey to walk them along the journey. Right? Jeremy Snowden 32:19 So through the challenges of everyday life through divorce or whatever. And also like, like, in my case, for instance, which in the hero's journey Ark, my dragon was hell. I mean, Holy moly, right. I mean, like, if I'm wrong, I can get a, you know, you know, don't collect $200 go directly to hell, you know, find stamped and it's your own. It's your own damn fault, Jeremy, because I'm now seeking things or allowing things or understanding things that are contrary to my upbringing, if you will. So that was my that was that was that I was just so afraid. You know what What people are gonna think, you know, how people are gonna act toward me, now that I'm able to hold space for a wizard, if I wanted to, you know, I'm saying, you know, or somebody else, it's all welcome here. Brandon Handley 33:11 Sorry. I'm sure the reference behind that. I don't even know, man, I'm just you know, let's just like it's just like, hey, like, you know, all are welcome. Nobody's kind of kept out. Right. And so that's kind of what you were you're talking about. Right? Jeremy Snowden 33:25 Right. But it was because I hit that firewall and push through it, you know, and what if I can give? Can I give a brief example, dude? Yeah, absolutely. Please do. So a couple of years ago, I did plant medicine over at a Native American church. Right. Okay. And I was like, for sure. This is the thing that sends you to hell Brandon Handley 33:45 right here, for sure. Was that the first time you've ever done plant medicine? Yes. Yeah. Okay. What is plant medicine? Jeremy Snowden 33:53 Well, I guess. I think I guess that's not exactly true, but From a vantage point of hallucinogenic as a medicinal Brandon Handley 34:04 right for medicinal purposes well yeah as originally intended Jeremy Snowden 34:09 one could argue that marijuana is plant medicine. Sure. Absolutely. Talking about that about and I westca no it's the it's the South American route that is extracted created into a tea you drink it shit yourself, etc etc. Brandon Handley 34:24 There's nowhere to go a little declare. Gives you as Jeremy Snowden 34:29 many Doritos as you want. You're like, absolutely Brandon Handley 34:35 good exchange. Jeremy Snowden 34:36 So, you know, in my mind's eye, I was like, I mean, I changed my will before I went in you know, I mean, it was I was thinking this I prepared with intentions, etc. about it. I meditated and prayed on it, and then I, you know, I went in, put your money down. That's where it's at, right everywhere. So I'm in of course, I won't go into the experience right now, but The thing is, is that things that I seen made sense to me. Yeah. It makes sense to me in a way that maybe the things that I've read didn't make sense to me. Sure. I didn't change my religion, or if you will, so much as it it really helped me to open my spirit, if you will. Everybody should do it, because it was a trip and a half and it was a heavy deal, Brandon Handley 35:24 you know, about no doubt. Well, but I mean, look, I it's kind of like, um, it's kind of like the the walls are already weakened. And that just, you know, that just Unknown Speaker 35:37 positive in a damn Jeremy Snowden 35:39 right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You know, it didn't make me better. It didn't make me a better father or husband or getting married or anything. It just changed you. Exactly. I mean, let's just, even if you look at it from a purely scientific standpoint, you know, where it was the who's hallucinogenic. It's, you know, It was legal the way that I obtained it the whole nine yards. So I'm pretty certain that but it's, you know, I'm just Brandon Handley 36:06 waiting for the address at the end of the show. Jeremy Snowden 36:14 Well, but the thing that if you just look at it from a scientific point of view, where it's just a hallucinogenic that, you know, responded to your nervous system, creating a sense of euphoria and blah, blah, blah, colors, right, good shit. It was right. Nonetheless, it wasn't really about the experience, right? Because it really is about the outcome. Really, right. Yeah. I, this experience is a great, everybody's got it. Right. You know, Brandon Handley 36:44 you take it, I mean, look at me, it's, it's, it's, you know, everybody's got experiences, right? It's, it's not that you don't have the experiences How do you translate those experiences? And that's, that's really the outcome, like so it's it's every, you know, You know, my wife has never done any hardcore drugs, or drugs. I don't think she's ever smoked a weed or maybe she took a hit, but like, she never was like, hey, let's sit around all afternoon and like smoke his bowl, like, Oh my God just filled the bottled water, right? Like she never hung out did all that, but like, um, you know, she'll have some drinks and whatever. But so she's had experiences that she's had. And I've had, you know, plenty of experiences similar to one I just outlined and much rougher and tougher. And she looks at my life like, wow, you went through some shit. I'm like, it's not. Everybody's gone through some shit. It's somebody translate that how do you? How do you take your stories, and empower yourself? Because what we've done though, historically, and I think this is part of what you're teaching your men and working with your men is take these stories and your experiences, and empower yourself. And that's kind of the pinnacle of the hero's journey is that my writers? Tell me more. I'm talking way too much. Yes, Jeremy Snowden 37:56 this is the collaborate. I think it's great but the return That's the final third of the hero's journey the return when, you know King off, Arthur is able to pull the sword from the stone where Simba grabs the courage to be able to, you know, go and get his bride and defeat his uncle and circle and lie, you know. So. So it's it's again, it's it's, it's the, it's the return and for me, it's like well, we started at the, you know the departure like with some some of my guys, we started the departure, and I don't determine that for you. Like, I'm very careful not to try to dictate what I see God as for someone else. Yeah, you can't. Right. Right, right. Yeah. That's right. Brandon Handley 38:42 So that's what that's what it is frustrating. Um, and that's the product it's frustrating but it's also the problem because you Yeah, it's uh, if you say you know, God, then you don't know God type thing, right? Like because Unknown Speaker 38:58 you can't, you can't Brandon Handley 39:00 Put that into words. If you've gotten that kind of the first place that this kind of dawned on me experiences can't be translated they must be experienced was a de five rings book. If you've ever read that, right? Have you ever read that? That Samurai? Oh, yeah. And I was just beginning Jiu Jitsu at the same time, but like he would be talking about like, you know, kind of these different sword moves and swords, spots and spaces. And he can tell you how to do the moves, you can watch how to do the moves, but it's not until not only do you go try to do the moves, when you nail the move, and you get it right, then you know, you've just executed it correctly, right? You're like, wow, you know, because it'll be just a muscle here or muscle here and change and adjustment angle here or there. That makes it all work, right. So minor, minor adjustments, but when you nail it, you've experienced it. And that's all you can tell somebody like you'll know when you get it. Right, you'll know when you write like algebra and fractions. Jeremy Snowden 40:05 Yeah. Oh, and you're like, bingo. Yeah, I got you best nine years of my life. Brandon Handley 40:16 So, so you're running this group, you've been running this group for a while now. Right? And and you're, you're ramping up. You want to expand my right or wrong. For sure. Yeah. Let's talk about that. Tell me what's up. Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 40:31 So because of my experience of divorce seven years, and just when I was able to kind of release that yoke of what my reality was, or when I created as far as my story, and then realize I used to be, I used to be a husband and a father, then it'd become, you know, an ex husband. I changed roles right. And then the kids stopped calling me because they were certainly going off to high you know, High School in college. So they respect Less than less. And it's like so now I'm not even a dad. And so it you know, although I was technically Of course, you know, when they needed something specially, but and and it's just part of their journey they're they're doing what they need to do as well. But it really caused me to be up to to look inside to make it happen. And so that's sort of what I'm approaching other guys that are just having those questions right now. You know so Brandon Handley 41:26 the question is, what is what are some of the trigger questions you hear and you're like, you're like, you're like I know it. I know you need me. Right, I can help you. What are those questions? Jeremy Snowden 41:35 Well, the key the key word that I listened for should back in my Bible days, Hey, have you been reading your Bible? Not as much as I should? Sure. Yeah. Are you exercising not as much as I should? It's like, why don't you design a life for yourself when you fully embody yourself? And so you know, whenever I hear those kind of things like should how things are supposed to To be or ought to, if they're open if people are open to it, and again, it's a matter of audience, right? I don't know who, who needs me. I'm, I'm just opening myself to do. I'm doing a 21 day kind of a challenge. It's really not about the 21 days. It's not about doing activities, although it is it's just about someone watching you through your journey as you're developing. So those dark days where you don't want to get up and you get a text from me that says, you're making your bed right and you're doing your five push ups. Put a thumbs up when that's done, holler to you later. Peace, right? It'll put a smile on your face. It'll make you it'll make you do it even though you don't want to do it. It's valid. Right? It's just it's it's billion dollar that they already have. Sure. Brandon Handley 42:44 Yeah. That hasn't been on hasn't been hasn't been bolstered. Right. It hasn't been supported. It hasn't been encouraged, Jeremy Snowden 42:52 right? Um Brandon Handley 42:55 I would you know, I would stop were we talking about it. I'm Sure you Unknown Speaker 43:00 flow, the book flow, you bought a book Brandon Handley 43:03 is it in his book where he talks about and I think it is in his book where he talks about like, you know, some of the older cultures like in China and Oriental cultures, they cultivated the sense of being, right. They cultivated, they were cultivated people. And we get the sense of and you know, when we say, oh, that person's cultivated, we this we think aristocratic, we think money, wealth, and all these other things, but know, what he's talking about is they've cultivated that inner sense of being right. They've cultivated that, you know, stoicism and applied it and it's internalized, right. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's what they've done. And that's what we haven't done. Right. So that in a Western culture, right, you know, and, and, and I'll throw this other one at you too, because I keep kicking it around. You know, adulting is hard, but you know what, the full word is adulterated. We've been adulterated and changed, right? There's this change and transition. So adulting being adulterated. When we go through this metamorphosis. It's a it is a challenge. And if you don't have people like yourself, myself, I'm there to catch you as you come in or greet you, right? I mean, the officer into the church is there to greet you to welcome you like that. Right? It's You're welcome here, come into this place where you're welcome. And and and be prepared to hear some stories that if you're, they're no longer pearls before swine, right, that they're no longer pearls before swine, like, these are all the stories that are now before you that after you cross this threshold of understanding, you get now you're like, Ah, yeah, because you can't you I think we're talking a little bit about this earlier. It's like you can't go to people who haven't already had the experience. Tell them about the experience, and have them ready to accept it because It sounds unreal. Unknown Speaker 45:02 That's right. Right. But the beauty is Brandon Handley 45:08 we've got, you know, Vedanta Hinduism, all the stories from you know, the the writing to your pata shots. But I mean even, you know, the the cuneiform Egypt lives this, these are not and this is this is what you're talking about though these are not new feelings. These are not new questions. These questions have all been answered before. Yeah. But they've been answered by generations before us who had other experiences to reference around them. Right. And we've got to do that now. We've got to retranslate those stories into a language that somebody else can understand. Jeremy Snowden 45:46 And more or less one that resonates with our just tacking on for me, it's like, yeah, yeah, right. It's not something that I'm parroting anymore and not that you're living it. Brandon Handley 45:56 You're living, you're living it, you've embodied it. It is now internalized and when you express yourself, self expression, your inner self. Right? That's what's coming out. It's like the Wayne Dyer thing, right? You know, if you put nothing if you're an orange, essentially right, the only thing it's going to come out of you is orange juice because all you've been putting in you is pouring right? I mean for you, all you've been putting into yourself is like this love, right? I've been putting into yourself Is this just the story and your understanding and you've been working on yourself? You've been cultivating yourself so that you can Unknown Speaker 46:31 share so that you can get Yeah, yeah. Jeremy Snowden 46:34 You know, I find that a lot of guys and again, I work in more in the manned space than I you know, I've got of course you know, lots of Lady for fret friends that are women but I pretty much in the man's face in terms of self development. Um, and maybe that's just more I'm just that's how I'm wired. You know, I there's a lot of common, there's more commonality, so for sure, but you find that a lot of guys have been motivated and burdened by shame. Okay, it's, it was the, it was the tool that drew the you know that trival drove him to school, it was the tool that kept him in line. It's the and then all of a sudden, you know, and that's where I'm thinking, Man, if people are feeling sensing that on the regular, something's not right, your, your, your, your heart is as a as a and this is just my experience, if your heart is just pushes that way, it's like it feels it and it pushes it away. And so sometimes people use excessive alcohol or drugs or whatever, you know, to, or eating or whatever to be able to mask that. But that's just, that's just the symptoms, you're just cutting leaves off the, you know, the, the weed or whatever, you know, but it's going to continue to grow. It's just going to be there until you find a way to be able to not even address it, but address yourself. It's okay. You know, it's alright, man, everybody makes mistake, I really do it in my there. And just going through that process of not, you know, that self talk process to bring really an impact besides the story, the stories and outside thing, which some of it was true, some of it happened, a lot of it didn't. And you replayed it, you know, 90,000 times every day over the last 20 years or whatever. So I think that's why people need to have other people it's not just by my coaching, you know, video, you know, whatever's and you will be a millionaire too. It's, hey, so was it hard brushing your teeth this morning, man. You know, you look tired, like doing a video. You know, like how when you do video with people. Brandon Handley 48:49 So, you know when I chatted with a doctor who was helping men Go through depression, right? She was actually working on, you know, men who are suicidal, right? Trying to get them help, right because her brother had had done this himself. And so she made that kind of her life's work Unknown Speaker 49:15 column Unknown Speaker 49:22 for three, to one more back. Brandon Handley 49:27 What are some, like, you know, applications of kind of what we're talking about there, right? Because it sounds to me a little bit like, you know, using the observer as a tool, right? That's what it was right? So she would she would say, hey, with men, right? They want to try it first. They want to try to do it on their own first and so she would offer them a toolbox. Do you offer your guys like a toolbox? Beautiful. Jeremy Snowden 49:49 I think that the the book study in itself is that toolbox like resource, and it's really not me. It's the other guys I mean, we get on a zoom call. We talked about You know, like, right now we're doing Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Right? Great ground, the great book, right? Yeah, nothing wrong with that. And we're just going through it and what we're doing, we're talking the language to each other. So I use that as a toolbox. I mean, plain simple is people guys always say it's so hard to be able to be a part of a men's group. Well, the men's group is, you know, your bowling league, if it's the right guys, you know, or, you know, the people that you you know, whatever, you know, hike with or cycle with, that can be a part of your men's group. So it doesn't have to be an officially sanctioned thing. So that's my that would be my tool, my toolbox and you know, then I work on work with people one on one, you know, we do the, the hero's journey men's circle, just that's, that's what I do. That's what I do for my life, not for a living. So I'm charging for I probably never will. It's just a way to be able to have these conversations because if you think about it, in Spanish, everybody's taking Spanish, one Spanish To write, and none of us can even order from the taco truck. You know, I'm saying, why is that? Well, because we didn't get a chance to practice it. Right? So when you're reading a book, a really good book, and then you're talking to somebody about it, like what you and I just did, you know, in the hero's journey, you broke it down. I was like, amen. Amen. I was like, Wow, dude. So, you know, and then she's talking about it. What does it do? It solidifies my ideas. It helps you to contrast them against yours. Sure, not for the not for the cause of debate. You're a stranger you're hearing you know, Australia or whatever. I know you're not but you know, I'm saying Brandon Handley 51:35 but actually, I heard there's a lot of spiders there the other day and we don't want to be in Australia. So Unknown Speaker 51:40 Crikey there goes that cranky. Brandon Handley 51:42 But I was like, they all said it with kangaroos and platypus and koalas. Unknown Speaker 51:47 100% Brandon Handley 51:50 The it's also funny too. Are you able to do me a favor man. Take your camera and swirl it around and rattle off some of the books that Unknown Speaker 52:01 Like well now, right? Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 52:05 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The Millionaire Next Door right I know that you got that. First things first time traps Elements of Style as far as writing I think you and I think Brandon Handley 52:16 that's where we like that's where we that's where we hit off right like we really don't know. Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 52:23 One minute to do list Heidegger Martin Heidegger, you know, basic writings pemuteran john, which is great, right? I never saw you're not so smart. It's more just a analytical book. You got some Seth Godin represent, right? Yeah, check this Unknown Speaker 52:38 out says one way book man. For sure. Right. Jeremy Snowden 52:42 Right. So of course Four Agreements represent right. The Alchemist over there while the heart by john Eldridge. Hmm. You know, so, uh, I hate to say I'm well read, but I'm just not. Unknown Speaker 52:57 So. I think Brandon Handley 52:58 I think the other thing you hit on there too. is, you know, it's not just reading these books, discussing them and applying them. So otherwise it's a it's what they call shelf esteem. Whoo. Right. Right. You know, what good is it doing it? Yeah. Great. You read all the books. What out of that particular book did you love right? Or you know, if you want to, you know, we'll talk about I talked about high fidelity and the crown a lot, you know, not the chronological order but how you got from how I got from like, you know, blondie, you know, Tomic in 1981 to shatter herbs and Rolling Stones like got into like a you know, man who's right out to that like a talking heads you know, it's always the same, it's the same right like I could tell you a chronological order how I made these brownies and and and the songs and how they made me move. right and and and and what I took out at that time, what was my heart feeling? Same thing with the book. So right like, What? What inside of that book made? What was the? What about that book made you move? What about that book made you change? What changes did you make? Because you've read that? Unknown Speaker 54:18 Yeah. Right. So, um Brandon Handley 54:23 what are some like great applications that you would give some people from any one of those books include Unknown Speaker 54:32 include include call heroes, you know, hero's journey. Wow. Jeremy Snowden 54:37 Um, well, again, I think that the the hero's journey is a template for your entire life and it can happen so quickly right in different areas and aspects of your life. So it's not just a one time winner takes all you know, it's it's you got to go through this story again, it's just a different story. Like, like my kids, they went vegan, right. And I was thinking in my mind Amway is next. Unknown Speaker 55:05 This only leads to one place. Jeremy Snowden 55:08 Now, you know, no, not necessarily, but it's just that we all go through face to face. Yeah. All right. Have you been born again yet? You know, are you Unknown Speaker 55:16 sure? We go through the? Yep, yep. Yeah. Jeremy Snowden 55:20 So, um, I think that probably love, of course, the Four Agreements primarily for its, if you will, the, the number, the preface, but the beginning where he talks about how society created things about us, like your name, it's not your name. It's what you're called, you know, it's not you, you know, or your language was chosen for you because of where you were born. You know, those kind of, so when you when you when you understand that part, then you understand Wait a second, then, I mean, things get really weird. You're like, what do I do with my hands, you know, kind of thing. It's, and so I really like that seven hands. Habits of Highly Effective People. Oh my gosh, in terms of, you know, if you're dealing with anger, for instance, you know, then, I mean, understanding Victor Frankel's stuff, Jewish, Austrian psych psychiatrist and lecture now he's on a table exercising his last Enduring Freedom, you know, the power to choose his response. He couldn't control the stimulus what was happening to him at the time, Unknown Speaker 56:24 right. Jeremy Snowden 56:26 And, you know, his response you could control because of the space in between, which is his power to choose. Brandon Handley 56:33 Yeah, that's based in between is is it that's, that's something that me once you recognize that space in between, so there's so much power and absolute there's so much power in that. And you know, not for nothin like I was always like, felt like, you know, the fastest way to answer had to be like the smartest one right now. You're the fastest One answer, but the more I think about it, like, the person who goes away and comes back with an answer, like the next day and really thought about it, that's the person I admire, you know the person with a question. Okay, well, yeah, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Jeremy Snowden 57:16 Yeah. Nice. Brandon Handley 57:18 Right and and then and then we usually within that time, you kind of figure out some answers for yourself. And to me anyways, whenever you ask a question, you're like, Look, not for nothing. You've got it. You've got a pre loaded answer already. You know what I mean? You're like, even in even for yourself, right? Like, you know, the whole idea of what you seek is seeking you, right? It's just like, you're just, you know, you're sending out to the university. Like, this is what I'm looking for. It'll the universe is like, Alright, well, here it is. You're like, Ah, yeah. where, you know, you know, you know not I don't know where you you, you only had eyes for that. Jeremy Snowden 57:54 Right? Right. How about this, just throw a little bit of spice in Coggins did that. How many of us are self sabotaging at the 10th and goal all day, Brandon Handley 58:07 every day? Jeremy Snowden 58:08 Because we, I mean, we can see it through the membrane. And we're afraid what that means. Brandon Handley 58:14 There's a really good book on that. Let me see if I've got it here. Notice there is I can do anything. I do anything, only if I knew what it was how to discover how to discover what you really want and how to get it. And this is, the concept is about scanners. Right? And scanners are like, you know, I forget what it is, but like, you know, some of us we've got this story, that we're not going to go do this thing, because we feel like why can't go do this because if I did that, I'd leave my family behind. Right or or like, you know, something would happen, my family, they would get upset with me and so we tell ourselves, all these stories They're just that write stories. And so we stop ourselves at the 10 yard line. Because internally, we've got, like some story that we told ourselves that we heard, you know, 30 years ago. Unknown Speaker 59:11 That's so digged. In it's it's entrenched. Yeah. Right. Brandon Handley 59:16 And and whether or not we like to admit it, we know that that's still in there, right? We're like, we're like, now I got rid of that. Like, yo, bro, you don't get rid of words. Right? They keep coming. They keep coming back. And that's just like those stories that we keep telling ourselves and then we say, yeah, we think we got it fixed. And we am still there. Jeremy Snowden 59:35 Right? Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. Brandon Handley 59:38 Yeah, I mean, Jeremy Snowden 59:39 that's a that's sorry. That's like, a choice, right? Brandon Handley 59:44 Yeah, that's a space right. That's a space in between, right. That's a space that's a that's the that's the opportunity to recognize the story that you've told yourself over and over and over and over again, and and that's your opportunity to say Not today. Unknown Speaker 1:00:01 Right? Yeah. Brandon Handley 1:00:03 I talked way too much on this one, Jeremy, thanks for letting me talk. I mean, I can see why, you know, you're you're the guy that that, you know, thanks for this is how you hold space. I appreciate it. You know where, you know, you've got this coming up, where can people go join this group with you? Jeremy Snowden 1:00:18 Absolutely. Thanks. And first off, I wanted to say, you know, I mean, like, you're rocking it to, like, as far as like living your ultimate path. I can, I really can see from my side of the screen. Here's somebody that's going after it, you know, I'm saying you still have obligations, you still have things you have to do. And so this is extra right Brandon Handley 1:00:40 side, hustle, whatever. It's not. here's, here's, here's the thing, and I appreciate that, right. It's not the side hustle. This is I mean, you'll listen to a lot of other people. If you make this the thing you have to do. There's resistance in that and there's worrying there's concern and so you will think back, right you hold things back that are true. Do you because you're concerned what other people may think. Right? And so if you just do it, because it's true to you without expectation, I mean, we talk about Buddhism, right? And we talk about suffering is due to desires but suffering to me is due to our expectations suffering, his desires, our expectations, not being realized the way that we thought that they were going to come out right. So if we do this with the intention, if I do this with the intention that this has to work, all pressures on this all pressures on me that I lose my freedom with that, yeah, beautiful my freedom with that, so but I do appreciate the truth of the matter is this is true to me. 100% right now, getting to lead with spirituality instead of hiding behind your father for the rest of us was awesome. You know, doing that five group was great. They brought me To exactly where I am today it was necessary. I did you know I did prosperity practice and and dabbled in LA. But that also brought me here to ultimately spirituality. I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna leave with spirituality. Like we talked in the in this is like, that's who I feel like I need to be I need to be the greeter I need to be the person that greets like you just like you right? Like, just like it is 100% you know, so we're walking the same we're walking a similar path, right? And and we're just there to help people out man and the whole deal with this podcast is we're out there doing it successfully and living our path and having a more fulfilled life through this version of ourselves. Unknown Speaker 1:02:48 And there are plenty of people doing it. And my total intent is to show you that you can do it too. Brandon Handley 1:02:58 I love that right. There's some There's something else. There's something in Jeremy's story that you're going to hear today that resonates with you that says, I gotta, I gotta follow my path. I gotta, I gotta I gotta open up my own heart. I feel like I feel like I could you know, benefit from hanging out with Jeremy and learning about, um, you know, the hero's journey, I've never heard about it. So go ahead, spend some time there. Understand it's like to give people space and follow your path, man. Jeremy Snowden 1:03:25 Absolutely. So we have a Facebook group, of course, hero's journey, which immense discussion discussion circle, which means you know, you're in, you're in if you want in your in piping, just we follow a DBA D Don't be a, you know, whatever. Don't Don't just don't troll in there just for the sake of trolling. Yeah, but it's a great place to be able to connect, you know, it's a safe spot. Some people what I've noticed, too, is there more. They're more reserved, you know, they they they want to watch for While and that's fine. And but it's a great place to connect. And of course, you can message me, of course, Jeremy Snowden, feel free to add me if you're a guy that's into growth mindset, if you're trying to find your way or if you just need some pointers or some feedback, always willing to schedule a call with you. Brandon Handley 1:04:17 Yeah, I think that's awesome that you're holding that space for these people. And, you know, you're accepting them and you're helping them. You're helping them find themselves man. And that's super important. So thank you for joining. So that's Jeremy Sloane on Facebook. And I know you're on Instagram to where should they find you on Instagram? Jeremy Snowden 1:04:39 Instagram is bald headed Movado. It's a project that's a tongue in cheek, I'm biracial. And so I kind of take potshots at you know, the the notion that you know, what are you supposed to be then? So it's more of a tongue in cheek thanks, but I enjoy it. I love I love I'd love to connect there to all thank Unknown Speaker 1:04:59 you Thank you so much for joining us today. Cool. Thanks, brother. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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Join me as I speak with Regina A. Lawrwence who is a soulful business coach & strategist,helping you monetize your mission through a profitable, online coaching business. Part of the fun with this is speaking with someone who is not only spiritually inclined, but who has maintained her city grit. Find out how a high powered lawyer finds herself after crumbling to the floor in tears. All things Regina: https://reginalawrence.com/ https://www.instagram.com/reginaalawrence/ Brandon Handley 0:00 three to one. Brandon Handley here and today I'm joined by Regina a Lawrence. Regina is a soulful business strategist. And she is a former trial attorney and law school Professor turns soulful business and life strategist. She's found that many entrepreneurs have brilliant ideas and dreams but don't know how to take that dream and create a system or structure to make that dream and idea profitable. That's where she jumps in. And she was able to bring consistency system structure for you and really take your soul driven idea and convert that into an awesome business and I love it right. I'm super excited because that's that's right up. That's right up this and not only that, right, Regina, also called trum. Kinda like my hometown area and you're down. You're down in Arizona right now, but you're from the northeast and you've got like this little bit of a grit a little bit of a punch that you've really We only find like kind of up in the northeast. How you doin tody? Regina Lawrence 1:03 I'm good. How are you? Brandon Handley 1:04 I'm doing great Tell me. Hey, tell me something we can help you celebrate today. Unknown Speaker 1:10 Oh man, I just had a news client Sign up today. Very excited to help her with her business and to help her create the program she wants to. So that's what I'm celebrating right now. Brandon Handley 1:21 Awesome. I love it and tell me something man. This uh, you know, we're we're smack dab in the middle of pandemic, whether or not you believe the hype or not, but, you know, everybody's on different sides of the fence. Is this a hoax? Is it whatever, nobody really cares, but you know, for what it's worth, we are shut down in the United States of America. How's your business been during that? This whole thing? Unknown Speaker 1:43 You know, my so I have two businesses. I have a social media agency and I have a coaching practice and my coaching practice has slowed a little bit, just with people who want to wait to start until their brick and mortar opens. Unknown Speaker 1:57 But my social media Unknown Speaker 1:59 you See has really been picking up during this time. Okay, so it's a mixed bag for me. Sure. Brandon Handley 2:06 Yeah. I mean, look, everybody needs a digital strategy, especially now, right? Otherwise, how they go. And, you know, we always talk about like that post COVID plan. Is that something you talked about with some of your people? Unknown Speaker 2:19 For sure. I think this has shown us that one, it has shown us the ways that we can stretch and the ways we can do business in a way that we didn't think about before. It's also for me really put into place like how do I create business? And how do I create even greater automation and evergreening in my business, so that way, if something like this ever happens again, and by the way, it will because the government knows they can shut us down and lock us down? How do I get out of dodge and go to Costa Rica and live on the beach for a couple months instead of in the chaos? Brandon Handley 2:55 Right, right, right. Yeah, it does sound nice. I love the idea, though. Trying to keep that content evergreen. So, you know, we started off on a tangent and that's just kind of how I how I go. Let's just do a little bit of a backstory though. So, Regina, I love your backstory. Why don't you go ahead and share it with this audience a little bit, just kind of, you know, jumping in from pre crying on the floor, and then right after that. Unknown Speaker 3:23 So my background is I was a federal trial attorney for the city of Philadelphia. And then I moved into a white collar fraud litigator and investigator role. prior to going to law school, I, I always had this mindset that like I had to be an achiever, and I had to be successful and I had to just pursue things that my family and society saw as good. So get a good job, get a good education, find a good partner, and you live a good life and you'll be happy. And so I realized that I'd spent the first 2526 years of my life pursuing this happiness. And this piece through accomplishments and through external realities. And I really hit a pivotal moment when I realized I was in my office and I was working on a case for a really big client. I think I was 2027 at this point. And I started to have a panic attack. And I was no stranger of panic and anxiety. It fueled me It got me through everything in my life. And this was different. And I remember closing my office door laying down on my office floor and I'm, you know, dressed in a pencil skirt. I have a pair of blue baton high heels on, and I just laid there and cried. And I remember thinking, like, I don't know how I'm going to do it, but life doesn't have to be this hard. And it doesn't have to be this stressful and I'm going to figure out a way to not live the rest of my life like this. And so that experience of being like, okay, like You did everything you were supposed to do, and you're still very unfulfilled and very unhappy. What now? And so that launched me into this whole new world of mindset and spirituality. Brandon Handley 5:15 I love it. You know, there's actually a little bit before that I caught listening to to one of one of the podcasts on there. Nine brothers and sisters, how many Unknown Speaker 5:27 brothers and sisters? Yeah, I have four brothers and I have four sisters. Brandon Handley 5:31 That's, you know, that's got to be hectic. And not only not only like, kind of kind of like just being caught up in that size of a family, right? Because I'm imagining like, that's always a whirlwind and that's if everything's going well. And memory serves me correctly. Like things were not always going well in that household. Yes or no. Unknown Speaker 5:51 So I grew up my I'm from a family where there's a lineage of a lot of addiction and I grew up surrounded with a lot of our Hard drug addiction and codependent and the codependency issues that go along with that. And the just the all the things that go along with growing up around addiction but we were like, the thing about my family is like we look like this normal, you know middle class family like loving, seemingly loving parents who got divorced when I was 13 to our shock. We grew up in a in a neighborhood with a big, big house and, you know, we were this family that looked like this nice Catholic Italian family. But really on the inside, there was a lot of trauma and a lot of hurt and a lot of addiction. Brandon Handley 6:43 Yeah, no, that's that's that's a tough place to be right. It's a tough place, I think to establish your identity. Because the inside does not look like the outside, right, which I think kind of, you know, kind of plays into where you want to Anyways, right, um, you know, had this interesting thought of. I listened to the for a minute you were an anxiety coach. Yes. Yeah. Is that Unknown Speaker 7:10 right? Yeah, I was and I, I still do what I did as an anxiety coach, I still bring into my coaching now. Yeah, Brandon Handley 7:16 but I love it right? Because it's all about kind of evolution and who you are as a person what it is that you bring, right. You know, for a second there, I thought to myself, I was like, do you think that and you may have liked it this way? like anxiety attacks? Is that like a sign that you're just not living your life's purpose? Unknown Speaker 7:36 I can't I think it can be. I think that, you know, a lot of people have different thoughts and schools of thought about stress and how we respond to stress with anxiety. I think majority of anxiety is a habited pattern of behavior. I grew up in a household where my mother was always anxious. It was her phrase, I'm so anxious, I have so much anxiety and so even As a small kid, like I have Arjuna You're giving me agita, like giving me anxiety, you know, and you're not Brandon Handley 8:06 gonna hear that anywhere else but the Northeast. Oh, yeah, I know. You give me the agita. Unknown Speaker 8:11 Exactly. And so like I grew up with that identity as a kid where, you know, anxiety is just a way of being it's a way it was almost synonymous for me, like with productivity. And what I realized was that, like, a lot of anxiety is actually born out of a desire to control and control is an illusion. We have control over nothing. We have control over our thoughts. We have control over our reactions and our responses. We have some control over our body but we can lose that with illness and so yeah, so I think that some some anxiety is a sign of like, like shit needs to change. And but i think it's it's a sign of so many things. Brandon Handley 8:59 Sure, sure. And I love that you kind of hit on that too, so far as like, you know, mindset goes a lot of assist these learn tendencies, that that's what you grew up around, right? Even with my own kids, I'll stand like they'll plop down, like, I'm so tired. And I'm kind of on the mindset. I'm like, you are quite literally made of energy, right? Like, you're not tired. You know? I mean, you know, I mean like that, because when it's like five o'clock in the evening, or like midday or something, I'm like, No, no, you're not. That's just something you've heard one of us say. Right. So So yeah, I totally I totally get that. Let's talk about what it's like then to, you know, kind of spin this business. You remember kind of the journey to even saying, Hey, I'm a soulful business owner. This is what I do in that area. Like because religion or even just talking about being spiritual can go down so many roads, right. So let's talk About your foray into that, because it sounds like again, you started college as an, you know, anxiety coach, but that kind of led to more, you know, yeah, opened up for you. And I'm curious what that look like. Unknown Speaker 10:11 So from a really young age, I have had some spiritual gifts that through society and conditioning, I've suppressed but I've had a lot of different spiritual gifts where I would dream things I would know things before they happen. I always had a knowing about things. I can't describe it more than a knowing and and I would see things as a child and I knew from a very young age that my little brother was the same way and we couldn't tell people and so just like any muscle, your spiritual muscles, if you suppress them, you you don't, you're not able to lift like you used to. And as I started to go through my own mindset waking up, I really started to get into meditation and allowing the white, the whitespace and the silence and I started to feel these gifts. Come back online again. And you know for me I'm this rational lawyer who gives show me the reason show me the proof like that's how I'm educated and that's how my brain works I'm super analytical but I'm also have these spiritual gifts that I can't always explain them but if I know something's going to happen, it happens. Like if I get guidance on something I am got like, it's, it's the two were happening at the same time. And so initially, I was like, okay, like, I'm gonna, after I started the mindset coaching business, and the stress and anxiety business, people were asking me, how are you building your brand? You're doing such a good job building your brand online, how are you doing it? How are you building your business? And I realized that in starting my coaching business, I became an expert in a lot of things, social media, branding, marketing, you know, doing I'm a I'm a lawyer. So if I want to learn how to do something, I learned the whole process like I really am a sponge for things. So I realized I could kind of take that stress and anxiety coaching, and pivot it to business coaching. But what I was realizing was the business coaching wasn't fulfilling, and it wasn't fulfilling what I'm here to do. Because, for me, you know, with with business people ask entrepreneurs, what's your Why? Why are you doing the thing you're doing? Right? And that's great. But like, if a mom says to me, I'm building this business, because I have kids. Well, great, but what about those kids? Why is it your kids that make you want to do this? What do you want to do with your kids, right? And so the same thing with a spiritual entrepreneur, like, we have desires on our hearts of things we want to do and there's a really deep soul reason why we're on this earth in this moment in time doing the things that we want to do. And so I really had to work through the fact that I was worried that people would think I was crazy because I am a spiritual and rational woman. And then I decided to just say fuck it, this is who I am. This is how I show up in the world. I'm very intelligent, and I'm very spiritual, and I marry the two. And if people don't like it, they're not my people. And I just decided one day that I was gonna bring the two together and launch a whole coaching business just around this. Brandon Handley 13:24 Yeah, no, I love it. I love it too. You know, is there's so much and I know that, um, you know, sounded to me too, like when you first got when you first started going off and running you you were doing like long form blog writing and kind of researching the copywriting thing, right? learning that marketing bit, right. And that's, you know, kudos to you because that's not easy. You know, that's a, it's a challenge to be able to, to, you know, figure out how to do that type of writing, figure out what your market is. And then this part where you just kind to burst through and you're like, Listen, I'm just gonna go with it. Like I can't, you know, I can't keep hiding behind purely executive coaching, when that's not where my heart is. Right? Um, so let's talk a little bit about that, where it's like the integration of your spiritual self in the material world, right? Like, this is one that like, I think a lot and for me, it's a challenge. And I see it as a challenge for a lot of other spiritual people, right? integrating the spiritual with the quote unquote real. And then, like the money aspect of like, well, I don't want to deal with money like I mean, this is tough for them. So how have you been able to kind of navigate that area? Unknown Speaker 14:43 So for me, there is no separation between who I am. As Regina, the human business coach and Regina, the spiritual woman. It's the same thing and something that I teach a lot and this is part of my brand and in my book, thing is that you can be all of the things. We live in a society where oftentimes people say, if you are x profession you need to look like a BMC if you're a spiritual woman, you need to be pure. You need to be on a yoga mat and you need to be like meditating all the time will fuck that because like that, right? We're Brandon Handley 15:22 who listen that gets its is tired. That is that is quite literally tired. Right? And, and Unknown Speaker 15:32 it sucks. It's like, it sucks. Well, Unknown Speaker 15:36 it's like society gives us boxes and that's what we're supposed to be. And if you don't fit into that, that box and it makes you less legitimate. And one of my first spiritual friends and teachers this girl in Philly, her name's Reagan. She's a tarot card reader and she does energy stuff. Unknown Speaker 15:53 Tilton Unknown Speaker 15:56 she's amazing, and she was my first year. real spiritual friend in Philadelphia and she is almost six feet tall. She's like tall, thin, Giant Boobs always half naked. And she's like the spiritual powerhouse. And I remember meeting her and I was like, that is a woman who she is who she is, and she doesn't care what anybody thinks. And that's, that's what I realized. So like, we still are stigmatized in society. Like if you're a female attorney, you're supposed to look, talk and act a certain way. If you're, you can't be too pretty can't be too gay. You can't be to this, you can't be to that. And so I realized that I'm not going to live my life like that, like I am, who I am. And it's, there's a lot of polarities and who I am. It's very confusing to people, and I don't care because that's how we all are. We are all like that. But we try to fit ourselves in boxes so that people can understand us and comprehend us. And so that's how I was with the spiritual in the business. Like I am very spiritual. And I'm very smart, and I'm very fucking inappropriate. And I could tell you a dick joke in one minute. And I could talk to you about channeling angels in the next right like, and that doesn't, Unknown Speaker 17:11 that's relevant Unknown Speaker 17:12 and right. And that doesn't make one less more or less legitimate than the other. Right? And so that's how I approach everything. And that's like my mission, especially in working with women like you can be all the things and doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you. The thing you asked about money, and this is something I see a lot with spiritual entrepreneurs, where there's almost like this guilt about charging for services or, you know, we have to rewind back and we have to think about what what is money like we A lot of us have these preconditioned notions about money that come from childhood conditioning, and come from these old sayings like money is the root of all evil and like a Seuss associating some sort of like, like low vibration with me. When actually money is energy, money is abundant, like money gives us the ability to serve at such a high level when you the more money you have, I think the more good you can do in the world, so why wouldn't I want all the money? Brandon Handley 18:16 Absolutely right. There's, there's more people you can serve with it. And I love it and it's funny that you bring it up. I just got like this random packet of incense. And it's one of them's money, right? Yeah. And, and, and why why why bring that up is because I've definitely had conversations as I know, they're my journeys and people like, you know, money's no different than like the air that you breathe, right? Like, if you take a breath and you stop breathing, which Do you want more? Do you want money or do you want that next breath so which one's more important to and you know, as anyways, as you know, burning two cents on this is like, oh, wow, look, there I am. I'm literally breathing in money. Yeah. Like I was like, I love it. So, anyways, uh, you know, for me, that was a challenge for me too, I'll have to admit like, you know, kind of grew up just as like, kind of money being like this this thing, right, this thing and in the way of whatever. And I think that age just like you said this the approach of it, but v was reading the book of the science of getting rich by Wallace D. Wattles. Well, yeah, I was like, I was like, This makes all the sense, right. Like, and I finally like, I mean, things click then. And I was like, I was always so I'm absolutely. And I think that even if somebody can just look at it as an even exchange for energy, right, like, hey, look, it's just an energy exchange, you're there, you're doing a service to provide, you know, if, if I go to a restaurant and they provide me a service, I leave a tip, right? You, you're providing a service. So I love it. Unknown Speaker 19:55 And I think we also have to think about like, I had a call with a girl today and she does like spiritual work where she works with women, and helps them to like feel like women who are transitioning and pivoting in life and in business, where she helps them get to their highest energetic frequencies so that they can perform. They can pivot, like she essentially helps them change their life and their perspective. And she charges nothing for it. And I said, you literally offer a service where you are helping to change somebody's entire life. That's invaluable. Like, why are you charging more for it? Right? Brandon Handley 20:33 Yeah. Well, I was listening to, you know, you may know this name. Dan Kennedy is a copywriter. Yeah. Yeah. So he's got this one session where he's talking about, like, you know, exchanging people's money. If you don't take their money, they're gonna give it to somebody else. It may as well be you. Yeah. Right. I mean, and not and again, that was another thing that just kind of like resonated I was like, you're right, like that person, even if they don't have much money. And they have bad spending habits and all these other things. I'd rather they invest in what I had to give them, then maybe they're gonna go buy, you know, two cases of beer, whatever, right? So something like that, right? Unknown Speaker 21:12 Anybody who is struggling with charging their value, something that I have done and I teach people to do is if you have a service that you offer, sit down and make a list of all of the value that you provide people for what you charge them, like see it, like really map it out. And when you look at it, look at the value exchange between what you're offering and what they're paying. And then ask yourself like, is this a fair value exchange? Because maybe you'll look at it and you'll say, No, I should add a few more things to this, like I should beef this up for what I'm what I'm charging, or you might look at what you're charging and say, Oh, I don't charge enough for what I'm doing for this person. But I think like the analytical mind needs that it needs that comparison for me with my coaching. I need to know Know what I'm offering? And I need to be very clear on the value that I bring to the table for my clients. If I wasn't clear on that I couldn't charge what I charge. Brandon Handley 22:10 Sure, do you? I mean, do you do like an ROI sheet for your people? Like, how does that look for you like that conversation? Unknown Speaker 22:18 I like to just have that conversation with them and have them journal it out for me, and show me and talk to me about it. And I have other ways, like when we figure out rates, like, obviously, I look at what the market is charging, and I look at, you know, what type of business they have and all that. But I also like there is a part of it that intuitively, you need to, you know, you could have a product or service that you offer somebody and the market value is $3,000 for it. But if you don't feel in alignment with that value, even if its market value, if it feels like too much, you're never going to get $3,000 for it because you're not in alignment with that price. Right, right, right. Yeah. Brandon Handley 22:56 Yeah, no, no, definitely. You know, I've definitely had that conversation. I've definitely had that in myself, right? So instead of, maybe somebody's not feeling that they're worth that value, what do you do? Do you help step them up into that value place? as you're working with them? What do you do with them? Unknown Speaker 23:13 I think you start, I think we need to start with people where they're comfortable or stretch them a little bit. And then we can slowly incrementally because there it'll be different things for people to know that they're worth the value that they want to charge. So if you're working with somebody, and they're a coach, and you think that for three months of one on one coaching, they should be charging about three grand, but they're not comfortable with more than charging 1500. I'm not going to start them at three grand, I'm going to start them lower. They're going to start coaching people, and then they're going to get testimonials of how they've changed people's lives. And they're going to really start to see like, wow, I'm really good at these certain things and being a coach and then you incrementally increase the price. That way. They're in alignment with what they're charging. Brandon Handley 24:00 I love it. I love it. I read one guy, Vince Pugliese, who what he'd done was, he chose, like, the golden day on his calendar, right. And he had all the kinds of bookings and what he would do like on that golden day, he would charge like, maybe double or just like once he would love to be paid that day, right? Be like maybe if maybe I'm worth more, and I'm not charging enough. He said, All right. This is the golden day. And he would float that out there. And as somebody said, Yes, he knew he was worth that much and he needed to raise the rest of his numbers. If he didn't get that number. He didn't wallow in it. He just went out that day and did something fun, like with his family. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I love it. So let's just try to meander here. Again, one of the things I want to try to share here with like this audience is that you can do the soulful business. You do a good job. I think of pivoting people Taking them from their corporate life and kind of into this business. Right. So let's talk to show. Tell me a little bit about that. Unknown Speaker 25:07 So I think the pivot from corporate to owning your own business and having a business, it's more soul aligned. I like for people to do it with a plan. So, I like for people to start to develop the concept and start to if I'm coaching someone who wants to be a coach, they have started to build the business and they start to bring in some clients, and we start to get really clear on what they're doing and why they're doing it for the pivot. That's what I did before I left practice. I started my coaching business before I left, I left faster than I would probably recommend for my clients too, but I'm also a gritty girl from Philadelphia, and I'll, I'll do whatever it takes, you know what I mean? Like, but I but it was hard for me. It was hard. It was really hard when I did it. And I really like for people to take Third time and to like create a plan of action. Brandon Handley 26:03 What about like right about now? Right? What if somebody kind of because of where we are right now transitioned or they're furloughed? They're, you know they're laid off. They're they're just literally not able to go do the work that they've been able to do. Have you been able to work with anybody like that during this time? Unknown Speaker 26:24 Yeah, my recommendation for people who are in that particular situation is quick, dirty and simple, like quick action, like get really clear on what you want to do, why you want to do it, the mechanism that you're going to use to serve and do it quickly. Like there are ways that you can build a business online for free. Essentially, you can build a free website, you can build a free email list. You can build an opt in for your email list. You can do everything. I actually wrote a post on this on my Instagram, about like the five apps applications you need to use to start a business for free today and whatever. So the first one is you can build a free website on Wix or on there was one other one I can't remember but I know Wix for sure. Oh on GoDaddy, Wix and GoDaddy, you can build a website for free. You can build an email list initially for free on MailChimp. You can also build I believe you can build your lead magnet like the the landing page, you can build it on Unknown Speaker 27:34 what's called Unknown Speaker 27:34 MailChimp and you can build it on Google Drive. And that's it and then you can build an opt in for free on a free version of Canva oh you can go into Canva you can make a free logo, you can pick free brand colors, and you can literally have a branded free website often lead magnet all of it. Like you could literally if you really wanted to do it. You could do it tonight in like four hours. Brandon Handley 27:59 Absolutely hundred percent. I love it. Absolutely. I'll throw one more on there in there for some people that are trying to monetize their mail list. There's a song like and it's like a free plugins called can't can't campaign z. It's like a front end that'll add somebody to the mailing list and you can charge a subscription fee or a one time thing for that. So it's pretty interesting. Yeah, you can spin it all up. And that that quick, for zero dollars. It's just a matter of kind of putting yourself out there. Let's talk about that for a second. Like putting yourself out there. Right. Like, I mean, do you recall, I think writing your first blog is definitely one where you're just kind of putting yourself out there. That's one, but then like, maybe your first podcast, your first video, the interviews, right, those firsts. How were they you know, what was that like to put yourself out there like that, huh? Unknown Speaker 28:53 You know, there's a reason why entrepreneurs are obsessed with self development and mindset. We're Because everything that we do, especially when we start our business is really, really stretches us because we're doing things we've never done before. And it's not like I would say for me, I started with videos, I started wanting to know I started with writing long formed captions and posts. And I decided as I was building my brand that I was going to I love to tell story. I'm a storyteller. I love to write. And so I decided I was going to use that as my first way to connect. So I started just speaking my truth and telling my stories and sharing about my life. That wasn't hard for me because I like to do it. I then I started to do videos, I would go live on Facebook all the time. And the first few times, it's hard, like, you're like nobody's here. Nobody's watching. But I mean, nobody's watching. Nobody knows who you are yet. Like you got to start somewhere. And then Instagram Stories like Instagram story. Stories are just the best tool for people to get to know you, and to get to know your everyday life. And again, it's hard and it's weird. You're like filming your life in a way you've never had before. Now, I love it. I film everything. My friends are like, oh, we're a Z list celebrities on Regina story, like, you know, so you just get used to it. None of it like, Oh, it's not intuitive to being a human like a lot of these things like, filming yourself recording yourself talking like, but you just have to, like, do it. Brandon Handley 30:30 Right. Right. I agree. I still remember. I still remember all my notes. kind of remember my first time like, my first podcast, right? I'm sitting in a corner just kind of like recording like really soft toys and just kind of like, in this is what's happening. soft voice right? Yeah, kind of tucked away. I'm like hope nobody hears me but I'm about the suddenness of the rest of the world. As soon as you press that button and send it out. You're like, Oh shit, am I gonna blow up my gonna catch on fire? No, nothing happens and that's okay. And my first face With live I had a USB headset plugged into the computer. And so the mic was trying to pick it up on the US I did like seven or eight minutes and people thought I can't hear it was like what, let me get closer, and like seven minutes have not even been able to deliver all feeling like super embarrassed. I think my kid definitely like one of my kids like jumping around on me and that's okay. Like it was a podcast or fatherhood. That was that was what I was doing that. And then I realized like, everything was no good. I unplugged it and I did it again. Like, immediately I was like, You know what? I was like, You got it. I can't put any space in between. Can't put any space in between that I gotta go again. And, and with the and just with, you know, doing videos. It's just it becomes natural, right. I think like, I think you know, walking wasn't easy, right? But we figured it out. Unknown Speaker 31:55 Yeah. And I think like we see people like when we get started we see people who have been doing doing it. And we think like, oh, like, that's so good. Like, how did you do that? Like, how are you like that, like, I'll never be like that. I got so good with doing videos because before I started my business as a coach, I, when I was working full time, I was a network marketer. So I did network marketing for a little bit. And the best thing about that was, it taught me how to sell it taught me how to go live, it taught me how to do really uncomfortable things that like were not intuitive to me. So now it's like second, like somebody could say to me, hey, go live on my Facebook right now. I'd be like, okay, and I just go live and talk about whatever they want me to talk about. Right? I wasn't always like that. Brandon Handley 32:38 Like, I think I think that you bring up something really, uh, you know, kind of poignant there right? We're talking about creating a business and if you've never been in sales and you're doing the spiritual coaching thing, closing the sale. Oh, yeah. Asking for the money right and and you talk to what do you what do you tell what do you teach her? What do you teach her? about that. Unknown Speaker 33:01 I mean, the first thing is the the thing that we talked about earlier, it's feeling like you're worth what you're asking for. I have no hesitation asking for what I charge as a coach, and I don't negotiate it, like I might give you, I might give people like a monthly plan, smaller payments, but I charge what I charge, and I offer what I offer. But I'm also very much in alignment with what I offer in the value. So that's the first thing you have to feel aligned. Like you have to have a soul alignment with what you're doing to be able to ask for the sale. The second thing about asking for the sale is like you don't really I don't even feel like I'm asking for the sale. The way that I coach. And the way that I run sales calls is I get on and I talk to them about them. It's not about me, what's your problem? What's your issue? What do you need a solution to? And I really pay attention to what their pain points are. And I think about it, do I solve these pain points? Can I make their life easier with the services and the skills that I have? have, like today I had a sales call I two sales calls today. And both of the girls, I can solve their problems in their businesses hands down. And so I made that very clear. This is what I do. This is how I work. This is how I solve your problems. This is what we do together. And this is what it looks like. And by the end of the call, both of the girls were like, I need you, how much do you charge? And that's the thing. It's like, I don't even think of it as like selling. It's like how do I What's your problem? And do I have a solution? And and then explaining to them the solution that I have and why I can serve them. And then the price is just, it just is what it is. Right? Brandon Handley 34:38 Right. I love that. So I mean you're you're just you're simply looking to serve and that's what it is is more of a service call. Unknown Speaker 34:45 Totally everything and I coach like this is the thing too. If anybody's listening, that's a coach. People don't if people have never coached with a coach before. They don't quite know what a coaching experience is like. So give them an experience when you get on a sales call. with them, how do I serve you today? And what do you need help with in your business? Like for me, people that I'm getting on calls with have been watching me for a long time. And they know people who know me, so they've been referred to me. So I have a lot of credibility that's been built up that people know that I'm a successful coach. If you're beginning that's okay. If you don't have that yet, but get on. So, okay, so yeah, totally get on the call with them and offer them a solution to a problem that they're having now coach them and give them that experience. And then by the end of the call, they're like, wow, you gave me so much value. How do I work with you? Brandon Handley 35:37 Right, right. We met through so you and I, we met through Lisa Archer rose deli, and she was she was my first coach. And what was so awesome for me in that coaching experience was having somebody that was on my side, right, having somebody who was like, I still remember when I told her I want to do podcasting instead of There's all this other stuff that wasn't like, What are you thinking? we work so hard for this? She was like, I help you do that. What are you trying to do? I was like, Why aren't you saying no? Right? So it's like the, you know, giving given them me the freedom to chase my dreams. And I and so when you've got somebody like that when you're able to do that for somebody else that's, that's fire. Mm hmm. Right? I mean, tell somebody that Yeah, they should go live their dreams, right? And then showing them how they can do it. I mean, you we talked about earlier, it's like that's invaluable like when you're changing that and really so she was a sales coach then and and and we have lots of fun talking about like, you know, this stuff applies like everywhere, like you talked about earlier, right. You can apply this in business you can apply this in family but like you're choosing right now to kind of do this sole purpose. And there's a you know, there's one of the phrases use quite a bit. And I was just curious on the language, he probably got it somewhere about soul contract. Talk to us about what a soul contract is. Unknown Speaker 37:08 So I believe that every person before we come to this earth in this lifetime, our soul comes for a purpose. And that's a soul contract, we have a contract with our soul. Our soul has contracts with other souls that we make before we come to Earth. So that we can we can have certain lessons lived out in this lifetime. And so I believe that our businesses are either a fulfillment can be a fulfillment of that soul contract, I think that mine is, or our business should be in alignment with that, like maybe, maybe a woman soul contract is that she's supposed to come to this lifetime and have get married and have a baby and that baby for a certain reason to fulfill the contract. So maybe creating the business is to assist her so that she can be a mother and live that life and do Those things right? So I don't think we don't haphazardly come to earth when we're born like, I don't think happen, like happens like that. We come for a distinct purpose. And I'm all about helping people figure out how their business is, can fulfill that or assist that. Unknown Speaker 38:17 Okay, I like that like that a lot. Um, Brandon Handley 38:21 I think I think that that's one of the things too that uh, you know, for me, like kind of awakening to any sole purpose, or any, any type of awakening was kind of later in my life seems like it hit you a little bit earlier. Do you feel like you know that that awakening kind of happens when it's meant to happen? So you're like, oh, man, I got a I've got a contract to fulfill. Mm hmm. Unknown Speaker 38:40 Yeah, I do. I think we have to be open to it and like, there's little knocks and like pings through our life and we often ignore them. And for most of us, we have to end up like, on the floor of our office or you know, Brandon Handley 38:54 so that's that's one thing that kills me right like, you always see like people like all you got to hit rock bottom before. bounce back up. And that wasn't it for me, right? Like I definitely was not rock bottom. And nobody wants to hear like, God, you know what, it wasn't that much for me. Like, I just decided to make this shift and it was decided nobody fucking wants to hear that, like, we need like when I quit drinking, for example, right like, what did you hit your wife? I was like, why do I need to hit my wife to stop drinking? And that doesn't like I just it just wasn't serving me anymore. Unknown Speaker 39:22 Exactly. Brandon Handley 39:25 And so I love it. I love it though. So that's what I was gonna say. There's like that feeling that you get right when you're laying there and or like those knocks at the door. And I think that what you're referring to, to me when I think about it, I'm going to like Joseph Campbell's hero of 1000 faces, right? The hero's call, right? So there there's a I think there's a penalty if you don't answer that feeling, right like and do you talk to that at all like if somebody comes up to him like I'm feeling this Burke spiritual way. I'm feeling this inside, but I don't think I should answer it. You do you talk to him through that? What do you what do you do with that? Unknown Speaker 40:07 Yeah, I mean, I think the penalty is like living a life where you're feeling unfulfilled, the dislike the desires of our hearts and like the desires that we have to do things like they're there for a reason. But we have them because there's something in us that wants to fulfill that in one way shape or form and it might not look the way we think it Look, it may not end up looking the way we think it's going to look. But the punishment quote unquote, is just that. We're going to feel were you your punishment could be spending a lifetime wishing for me it would have been spending a legal career wishing I was doing something that was more meaningful, or where I had more time freedom and life freedom. Brandon Handley 40:47 Would you say like me that's that's to me, that would be the definition of hell. Yeah, like, the purest definition of hell would be not to live out your soul contract. Unknown Speaker 40:55 Yeah, and most people live in that Brandon Handley 41:00 You know, I got I got plenty of theories on that one, too. But I mean, like, you know, when when you're taking medication or something like that you're really just trying to silence silence that, Unknown Speaker 41:09 yeah, right? Brandon Handley 41:11 You go messing with the mind like that you're gonna, you're gonna go to now something you're missing out. So you've got a book you're working on. Tell us a bit about that. Unknown Speaker 41:24 So the book I'm working on is, it's, it's gonna sound funny because it's a little bit different than what I do as a spiritual business coach, but I spend a lot of time talking to women and working with women. And I have also spent a lot of my life dating and dating and dating. And I realized that there's no there's no books out there that speak to me the way that I would like to be spoken to in dating. And I I wanted to create a book that kind of highlights the humorous things that happen have happened in my dating life. And the lessons that have come from all of those relationships states, one night stands, all the things. And so I've been writing this book now, where each chapter is a different lesson and a different person. And a different every person has like a funny nickname, like because my friends and I, everybody I date we give them like nicknames. And so it's like, what's the lesson? And what can I teach you from that lesson? Like, for example, I sit with women all the time, and they're like, I just can't meet somebody who I want to be with. And I just keep ending up with these losers. And I say to them, Well, what do you want? What do you want to be with? And my one girlfriend was like I was I wrote about this in the book. She was like, I want someone who's nice to me, and who has a job and I said, Honey, that's like asking for air. Like, given that he's nice to you and he has a job, what are like the core value pillars that you want in a Man, like the future father of your children and a husband, and let's get very clear about it. And so like that whole chapter is about, like, if we don't know what we want, and we don't get very clear on it, we're calling everyone in energetically. So how do we get clear? So it's all about that. So it's funny. It's a little bit vulgar, but it's also soulful, kind of like meat, vulgar, funny and soulful. Brandon Handley 43:24 I love it. I love it. I think I think it's entertaining but I think you also hit right there to look that's a that's a lesson that applies everywhere right? You know until you until you get clear on what you want. It's not how are you going to know when it shows up? Exactly right. And you keep throwing back and like yeah, you go back also with like, what do you want was first question right first because they're always like, this is what I don't want. I don't want this I don't want that. I don't want this. I don't want that. And He better not smoke. Unknown Speaker 43:54 Yeah. Brandon Handley 43:56 Right. And then like a ninja like well That's great. And those are the things that keeps showing up. What What do you actually want though? Because that's that's what you're putting out there. Right energy. I Unknown Speaker 44:07 think that applies in all areas of life like we are. So I don't know about you, but like growing up, I kind of had a fear of saying what I really wanted because it was like, Don't jinx it. Like, you don't want to jinx that. Right, right, right. No. And so, I've gotten very clear about No, this is what I want. This is what I'm calling in. Like, even in dating. We were joking recently with my friends. Like a few months ago, I was like, I wouldn't meet a guy and I went on this litany like, so specific. I was like, I want someone like this I want someone like this. Like I want Richard Gere and pretty woman like I was saying like it was just we're having this conversation. And then like two weeks later, I meet this guy who is everything I very clearly and intentionally have stated that I want it and that applies in business that applies in relationships like we should have such clarity around what we are calling into our lives and what we're seeking. And then just like when you say like, I want this particular type of car, like you start to see that car everywhere. It's the same thing with our business, our relationships, our friendships, like all of that. Brandon Handley 45:14 I mean, talk to that though, a little bit, right? Like the, the idea of being okay with stating what you desire, right? but also being okay with not knowing how it's going to show up, right? Because I think that that's where a big part where people kind of get get busted, right. It's like, well, it has to happen like this. Here's how I see it happening. Right? Do you coach people to say, listen, stop worrying so much about the how and just get clear on what it is you actually want to show up? Unknown Speaker 45:45 Yeah, and also have flexibility with the way it's going to be like, we don't always know how things are going to turn out. And maybe you have something like you want something but the only reason you want it is because that one and that desire. And the actions you take to get there are actually going to teach you something and open your eyes up to something else that you want. So like, life never life often doesn't look like what we imagine with our narrow rational animal brain. Like, yeah, Unknown Speaker 46:18 yeah. Um, Brandon Handley 46:21 when, when is that, you know, you're kind of going into this space how much actually opened up right? Like, you know, you've and just like what you're saying here like you probably saw like a few small pieces of what was possible. How much has it actually opened up for you Unknown Speaker 46:36 so much. But I also like, when I decided to do something, I decided to do it. And so when I started my business, I moved from Philadelphia to Phoenix, Arizona, and I knew no one here and I decided that I was going to go balls to the wall and meet everybody in this community and I every day of the week For a three month period of time, said, you have to connect with a new person. You either have to have coffee with them, have a zoom with them, do a podcast with them for three months straight Monday through Friday, I met a new human being and intentionally put effort into that. And it's been the greatest blessing and benefits in my business. Brandon Handley 47:22 That's awesome. No, that's, that's a great approach to write. And I don't think that you have to move across the country to do it either. Right. Like I think, I think that a lot of people are hesitant to kind of go jump into a new space again, because it's it's new, right and put themselves out there. But the funny thing is, is when you go to a new place, or go to like new meetings and meet up with new people, a they don't know who you are, they've never met you before. So you can be whoever you want, right? Like in that space. Right? You can bring the best of who you think you are in that moment. They're totally Yeah. I love it. What is anything you think we should have covered by now that you throw out there? Unknown Speaker 48:05 No, I mean, that I feel like we we talked about so many different things. write Brandon Handley 48:14 books that altered like your whole perception Unknown Speaker 48:18 of the first book. There's a few. Unknown Speaker 48:23 Dr. Joe dispenza says, breaking the habit of being yourself was probably one of the greatest tools of my life. It's a little science heavy at the beginning, but once you get into it, it really taught me that I can really change who I am and how my brain works. Louise Hay. She really showed me the power of mantras and affirmations and the metaphysical world. David Hawkins, he was a power versus force and my favorite book of his is called letting go it's All about letting go of the control that we think we have. That's an illusion. A big one for me was Gabby Bernstein, spirit junkie. It's all about all the love. The biggest thing about Gabby and what she teaches is that especially early writings of hers, all the love that we need in the world is inside of us. And so stop seeking what we're seeking from the outside world. Those I would say those books in the beginning, like, Unknown Speaker 49:27 were the biggest, biggest things from biggest teachers for me. And then I Unknown Speaker 49:32 also like I invest in coaches, I always have a coach. I'm always in a mastermind. I always have a I just mean, a couple of my girlfriends were coaches, we just started a weekly accountability group to kick each other's asses. So I always am working with somebody and always having somebody accountable. So Brandon Handley 49:52 are you inspired by like Jim Rohn on that one would like to know surround yourself with like the five people that you surround yourself by, you know, whereas we're What kind of drives you to do want to do that? Or is that just innate? Unknown Speaker 50:04 That's innate? I have always, I'm a communal person. So if I'm going to do something great, I want to do great things with great people. And it's been like that when I was in law school, I had a group of girlfriends and we studied for every single exam together, we studied for the bar exam together, like your success is my success. And that's how I've always lived my life. And then when I got into business and into the world that I'm in, I joined a mastermind in LA, which was just the best best experience. I loved that group so much. And from there, I gained these beautiful entrepreneur friends and we are each other's biggest cheerleaders. We refer each other clients like so. Yeah. Unknown Speaker 50:49 Who's your ideal client? Unknown Speaker 50:51 My ideal client is somebody I will work with men or women. I tend to work more with women. I want somebody who has As a desire on their heart that they are not fulfilling right now. And they want to figure out the structure and the system and the mechanism through which they can put it out into the world. I want to work with people and I work with people who they've already decided, I don't want somebody who is like, I don't know, maybe I want to do this thing. Now. I want people who are like, on their journey, they have decided it's time to make a change. They are just at that point where they're like, I need somebody to coach me and teach me how to do these things. Brandon Handley 51:35 Right now. Amen. Right. Amen. Like it, they're not ready to. They're not ready to take the leap. Right? Like, you can't push them. Right? That makes sense, right? I mean, they gotta be ready. You just, I mean, you're really just trying to pick up the pieces, Unknown Speaker 51:48 right? And also I got to teach the concepts and provide information and to to encourage, but Unknown Speaker 51:56 the power is in the person who is taking the Action, Brandon Handley 52:00 for sure. I love it. I love it. Where should everybody reach out to you like Where should we go find you. Unknown Speaker 52:08 So I probably spend most of my time on Instagram at Regina a Lawrence la w. e MC. And then my website is Regina Lawrence calm and that has some good freebies on it and different ways that people can work with me. Brandon Handley 52:23 Awesome way. Thanks for hanging out today. And, you know, joining me and sharing your story with everybody. Unknown Speaker 52:29 Thanks for having me. Good. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Stand Out In The Speaker Marketplace In today's episode Steve Lowell talks about How To Stand Out In The Speaker Marketplace. Would you like to learn how to stand out in the speaker marketplace? In today's interview James Taylor interviews speaker Steve Lowell about: How to generate revenue from the stage How to stand out as a speaker A mess, a moment, a mission Please SUBSCRIBE ►http://bit.ly/JTme-ytsub ♥️ Your Support Appreciated! If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show. 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Just go to InternationalSpeakersSummit.com, where you'll be able to register for a free pass for the summit. Yep, that's right 150 of the world's top speakers sharing their insights, strategies and tactics on how to launch grow and build a successful speaking business. So just go to InternationalSpeakersSummit.com but not before you listen to today's episode. Hey, there's James Taylor, and I'm delighted to welcome Steve Lowe. Steve is a sought after speaker and mentor and one of only 15% of professional speakers worldwide holding the distinguished, certified speaking professional designation. In addition to this, he is the 2018, national president of the Canadian Association of speaking professionals and on the board of the global speakers Federation, we're gonna learn a bit more about that later, with a worldwide reputation for excellence and training, steeped coaches, executives, speakers and entrepreneurs in the art of winning over audiences using interactive educational and inspiring approaches, and as a result, exponentially increasing the influence and growing their businesses. And it's my great pleasure to have Steve with us today. So welcome, Steve. Steve Lowell Wow, thanks for having me here. I'm so excited about about this summit. And congratulations to you, James, for all the amazing work that you're doing and bringing all these incredible resources together for your clients. James Taylor And you're you've been traveling around the world because you, you about to become the president of the global speakers Federation. Is that correct? Steve Lowell Right. So I was the national president for the Canadian Association of Professional speakers in 2018. As you said, I'm now the immediate past president and I am now the vice president of the global speaker's Federation. So I'll be the incoming president in about a year or so. James Taylor So if anyone that doesn't know about the global speakers Federation, and what it does, Tell, tell us about what the GSM is. Steve Lowell Sure. So there are 16 countries around the world, each of whom have a speaking Association like they do in the UK and in the USA. And in Canada. There's 16 of these countries around the world that have associations for professional speakers. So there's a central hub organization called the Global speakers Federation. And these associations from all these different countries, they belong to the Federation. Now the Federation is like this central body by which these associations can share best practices and, and collaborate and it's just like a central hub where everybody can come together to make every Association stronger across the entire world. And so as the incoming president of the global speakers Federation, I'll have a lot of opportunity to work with the boards of directors of all of the different speakers associations around the world. And this is how we sort of bring the internet National speaking world together. James Taylor And in addition to all the different national associations having their own conferences, global speaker Federation also has a conference it is every every two years, I believe. Steve Lowell Yeah, it used to be every four years. But we made a decision, I think last year to run it every two years is called the Global speaker summit. And the next one is actually in February 2020. And it's happening in Namibia, in Africa. And we're so excited about that. And we're expecting, I don't know, somewhere around 200, maybe 300 people, something like that. And, and this is a really great opportunity for speakers around the world who are either international speakers, or people who aspire to be international speakers to come together and meet some of the top global speakers on the planet and just and shake hands and ask questions and learn, share, grow and belong together. And we're just so excited about it. James Taylor And everyone tells me Namibia is one of the most beautiful countries on the planet. So it was just just go into the movie. Everyone's telling me the radio About as a country to visit. So let's let's take a step back. How did you get into this strange, unusual world of professional speech? We'll begin. Steve Lowell Well, you know, actually, it all began for me at the age of six years old. So when I was six years old, I was a musician, you know, and a bit of a ham. And so I love to play my guitar and ham it up on the stage. And then that turned into a professional music career for most of my early adult life. And then I guess that was in my mid 20s or so. And I stumbled across a zig ziglar video, and I thought it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I want that job. Because, you know, he's got no equipment, he doesn't have to haul stuff around. You know, he speaks for 40 minutes and he goes home and in the music business, you know, we had trucks and vans that we traveled on the road and we play all night long and then you do it again the next night and it was awesome, but it was just you know, it was it was time for change for me and, and so I got into the world. of speaking and then I started training speakers very early in my career. And I just seem to have a knack or skill for that. And then over the years, over the last 3035 years, I've been honing that skill, developing that craft and coming up with a lot of very unique content specifically for speakers to help them in different areas, not just stagecraft, and message construction, but really going deep into their expertise and into their experience and their wisdom and their creativity, and pulling out that profound piece of messaging that only they can claim ownership of. And so that's kind of where it's all wound up. And that's what takes us around the world now. James Taylor And you mentioned Zig has been one of those early inspirations as you were kind of getting into the world of speaking. Who were the you know, the mentors that you had or Who were those speakers that you looked at? And you said, I like their how they built their speaking business because there's so many different models for building a speaking business. But was there any that you went? That's the kind of speakers I want to be able to speak in business I want to have. Steve Lowell Yeah, so I would say that the Zig was my primary sort of virtual mentor. I never really had any personal mentors to guide me through because I was always, how can I put that I was always a bit of a rebel. And I was one of those guys that needed to figure things out the hard way, you know, so I need to get in and do it wrong and screw it up and do it wrong and screw it up and then figure it out. It's just my nature. But the, but the speakers that I that really motivated me, were speakers that probably your audience wouldn't know, because these were speakers who were not out there on the public stage. But I would go in I would watch these speakers at at conventions and a corporate things and, and what I got really fascinated with was how they would be able to generate revenue from the stage so they would speak and then at the end, people would walk up and sometimes run to the back table to sign up to their to their stuff. And I was fascinated with how that works. And of course, there's the other side of the speaking business where people speak for a speaking fee, and at I did that. And I did. I worked in the corporate space and all that. But there was something about those speakers that that really captivated me. And this is long before, you know, the Brendon Burchard. And the ones that are popular today, this was years before them. And so I really started to try and study their craft. And I'll tell you, James, I never got it. I mean, I tried and tried and tried and tried and tried. And it never really happened for me until until fairly, but it's a real skill to do. Oh, James Taylor cool, pretty new kind of keynote. Steve Lowell Oh, yeah. It's it's totally different. But I was fascinated by the process. And so I just really spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on. I even studied neuroscience to try and figure it out, and a whole bunch of things. And so I mean, we we have a system now that works for it. And I can talk a little bit about that if you like but those were the people that really motivated me the most the ones that could get on the stage. And and it wasn't really for me about how amazing they were on the stage or how slick they were. Although Didn't notice those things, but was really impressive to me was how were they guiding the audience to respond the way they want the audience to respond. And I was fascinated by that process. So that's kind of where I focused all of my, my, you know, training. James Taylor And you remember point where, you know, in the early days, you were kind of trying to figure out that figuring out that blend of the obviously the psychology, the stage skills, finding your message where you were, was there a defining event or speech that you gave, we just kind of all seem to click into place and it seemed to work? Steve Lowell Yeah, well, there were many of those until it didn't work the next time. Alright, so the frustrating part of it, James, you know, I, I worked something out and I would say, okay, it works. I did it. And then all I got to do is do that again. And then I go to the next gig and I do the exact same thing and it wouldn't work, you know, and there's like years of this trying to try to figure this out. So was there a defining moment I don't think there was a day defining moment as because I think what happened for me was I had so many of these so called defining moments that I just sort of stopped looking for them. And what I started focusing on was, you know, building the the patterns of success over time. So there was no snap of the finger where it came to my awareness that now it's working. And yesterday, it wasn't, it was more of a process of learning and getting momentum and fine tuning. And now we kind of have it down to a bit of a science but you know, that there was no snap of a finger, you know, earth shattering, jaw dropping, life changing moment that made it happen, I thought there were you know, before that, but they turned out not to be James Taylor so talked about and in. No one thinks I often speak have a conversation with speakers about is around kind of positioning. Yeah. It's, you know, one of the good things now is we have this just so many speakers coming onto the onto the market, all different topics. Obviously, we're in trouble. Local marketplace now as well. And that's fantastic, because there's all these voices, new voices coming onto the stage. But the challenge that the flipside of the challenge is, how do you stand out? How do you find your own place in this marketplace? So I know when you are in sync, we were in Singapore recently in event together, and you were kind of talking about this idea of thinking about positioning and how you can stand out in a crowded marketplace. Steve Lowell Yeah, and there's, there's a lot of different angles around that, you know, there's the social media angle, and there's the website angle, and there's the branding angle, and, and there's all these different things you can do. And I tried to do all of those, and I wasn't really very successful at any of those things. So that when I when I look at standing out being noticed, and we talk about positioning, I talk about it this way. And you're an excellent example of this James and it's, it's like this is what do people attach your name to? What do they associate your name with? And so James, you know, you've done some magnetic If isn't work with this summit over the years, and so people now associate your name to the international speaker summit. And you've got that. And that's, that's a big piece now, of what positions you and it's a big piece of what what attracts people to you, in addition to everything else that you do. And so, you know, for me positioning is about what do people actually attach your name to. And so for Jane, and I and my wife, Jane and I, over the past five or six years, people have been attaching My name to what I call my rescue meter, and anybody who's seen it, they know what it is. And and so that is the positioning thing for me. So I'm becoming known as you know, I'm becoming known as the rep meter guy. And I'm, you know, I'm very much in demand as a mentor for professional speakers around the world because of that rep meter model system that that piece that I do, which I can talk to you about. So positioning as a speaker, I don't think that there's any one specific answer to it, but a answer like an answer. That works really well is when you have something that is so profoundly unique, or at least that you express it in a way that is unique that people can attach your name to it. And it's interesting because, you know, we hear a lot about differentiation, right? The marketing, people will talk about differentiate, and you have to be different. And what I've learned is James, you don't actually have to be different from anybody else who does what you do, you only have to appear to be different. And so and so what I found is the way you appear to be different starts by changing the language that you use when you speak about yourself or your business. And then and the ultimate goal here is to change the language that the world uses when they speak about you. That's the goal. And so you want to train the world to speak about you a certain way. And that starts by changing the way you speak about yourself. And then the other component to it is that your messaging isn't it's not enough that people understand Your message, they need to be able to repeat it, which means they need to be able to take your message, whatever it is, and apply it to their lives somehow. And then when they walk out the door, they need to be able to recognize opportunities in which your message resonates with them. And so that's sort of the process. And so there's an understanding, first of all, I don't actually have to be profoundly different, I just have to appear to be profoundly different. How am I going to do that, I'm going to start by changing the language that I use in my messaging and about myself, and the way I speak about myself so that I can train the world to speak about me a certain way, and then make that message repeatable so that they're speaking about me out there to other people. And so that's sort of the positioning trajectory that we've developed and, and that we're working on and, and that's kind of what we what we bring to the table when we work with speakers and coaches and trainers and authors and all the nice people who do what we do. James Taylor So it's a little bit like a new assistant, like Seth Godin talks about in terms of printing Our product, it has to be remarkable it has to be something that people remarked others about. Yeah, in order to kind of spread that viral nature, something something you mentioned in terms of positioning and creating those kind of statements, those those words, that you know, eventually you can have, you put them out into the world and they might be nothing people, but gradually over time, that means something in you, you connect you own that that phrase in the in the mind of the, of an audience member. One thing I often wonder about that is, you know, in part when I used to be involved in politics, we often message discipline, so disciplined with your message over and over again, to the point that people can repeat it, like, they get almost Confederate because they can just repeat it or that Oh, that's such and such. But, and I find, you know, I think I think for as a speaker sometimes as we were interested in often so many different things, is how to how to have that that discipline Plan of continually, can you repeating that message? I mean, have you any thoughts about that? Because that could be a, you know, if your mind kind of jumps around for different topics, I could speak about this, I could speak but I'm really interested in this topic just now. How do you give yourself enough discipline to be able to focus on that word? Steve Lowell Yeah. And I love this conversation. Because, you know, I hear this all the time, as do you, I'm sure you know, you know, I never met her microphone I didn't love and I can speak on anything like that. And, you know, I think that that philosophy can absolutely kill you as a professional speaker, because as you said, you want to have something that people can eventually, you know, attribute to you. So the discipline, I think, for me, the discipline was this, because I'm kind of like that, you know, I've got a lot of different things that I would love to talk on. But I had to make a conscious decision and I'm gonna, I'm gonna filter all this out, I'm gonna, you know, choose this particular lane. Now, that doesn't mean a particular necessarily particular audience. But here's what it meant meant for me is, once I had that, that piece of messaging that you Talking about I call it expert insights. By the way, that's the word that a word that I picked up out of a book somewhere. And I call it my expert insights. And this is what we teach people to do is develop their own unique expert insights. But once you have your expert insights, it's not about speaking, adjust about that, as much as it is being able to take that concept and apply it to different audiences. So for example, I can take this concept called the revenue meter and my expert insights, and I can speak to speakers, and I can spin it a certain way. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a convention for real estate investors, which which are not my audience at all, but I use the exact same content and I just take speaker out and put real estate investor in and you know, fine tune a few things and targeted to them. And then I do it with executives. So you know, I take this do the same content, I just pull the keywords out and change it so that it's relevant to the audience. So now what you're doing is you're taking your one message your one expertise or your two expertise. or whatever. And and instead of repeating the same thing over and over and over, which does happen, by the way, but there are opportunities for you often to take those expert insights, take that messaging, and just with some minor tweaking, you can make it available to a lot of different audiences. So it opens up the opportunities for the speaker and it makes it a little bit more interesting, you know, but I'll tell you something, though, with the discipline side, you know, for years, as I mentioned, I was in I was in the music business and you know, we would play in bars, James, we played in bars, and sometimes six nights a week on the road for years we did this and so you know, I can't tell you how many times I had to stand in front of an audience and play the song Brown Eyed girl right? And and if there's any musicians listening to this, you know, Brown Eyed girl is a beautiful song. It's a great song, but it's got like three chords and then one little extra chord, and it takes almost zero musical talent to play Brown Eyed girl, but the audience has loved it right and so every night well Hey, we're gonna play Brown Eyed girl. But here's the discipline. You know, I'm picking up my guitar and I'm ready to play and sing Brown Eyed girl and in my mind, I'm going I just I just don't want to do this song again. It's the third time tonight is the hundredth time this week, done it a million times. Like that's what's going on in my mind. But here's the discipline to that audience. It may be the very first time they're ever hearing us do it. And so every time we do it that audience every single time, they deserve 100% or more, I mean, they deserve every ounce of anything that I can muster to make it feel like it's the very first time I've ever played it. And to me speaking is exactly the same thing. And it's the same with any other you know, skill or discipline. We need to be able to show up for that audience regardless of who they are every single time without fail regardless of how we're feeling you know, I've spoken with the with the flu, as I'm sure you have. I spoke with, you know, with fractured ribs when I crashed my motorcycle I broke I've spoken broken legs come in you and you give 100% every single time period. So to me, that's just the basic discipline of being a speaker. And it's part of what we do. And it's part of what we're expected to do, even if it means that we're repeating same message over and over and over and over again, it's part of the business. James Taylor And you mentioned they just, obviously, you work with a lot of speakers and just kind of help them and coach them and around that positioning and the messaging and the business. I'm always intrigued, but, you know, you because you mentioned the music side, obviously, you know, like a music industry originally, as well. And I remember giving one of my very first speeches, I filmed it, and I sent it to a mutual friend, Frederic Heron from Singapore is a great speaker. And he and Frederic said, he said, because he knew I was a chameleon, and he said, you're basically being a cover band. Yeah. Okay, you need to pull your own songs now. Okay. Yeah. And it was fine because it's the way that We learned that we learn an instrument because we cover other people's stuff. And then gradually over time, it gives the basic skill set. And then they say, Okay, what do I want to say? What was my my thing? And I remember another mutual friend we have with Ron Kaufman. And I remember speaking, I've run I've got this idea. And, you know, it's about two things. I'm really passionate about technology and, and creativity. And it's this idea, like bringing these two things together. And I said, you know, this idea of the center, like this half human half machine thing that can it comes together and he and and you can only get this from someone that's experiencing the business and understand speaking internationally. And he said, center, yeah, as very European. So Oh, okay. And is that and so we started playing around and I came back and like, what about if we did like super creative, super creative? like super is like the augmented part and with technology and creative as the, the creativity part, and then Ron, and something you mentioned, like the small tweaks sometimes, and Ron said to me He said, make it a verb. So then that is a super creative you make it super creativity. And so super creativity is that word is now building and you're building you mentioned, like having a word or something you build on, which means nothing, the outside world. Some mostly there's no word at the moment. But gradually you look to develop it, but is it a little kind of steps in stage, like you're chiseling away at this thing until you can hopefully you have your Michelangelo's David or just an elephant or something. And so when you're working, you work with so many speakers in terms of helping them develop that find that that that position, that speaker thing that's underneath there. What are some of the good rules of thumb that you would suggest in order to start being able to really probe and find out what that is if someone could speak on anything, but what is that thing that's unique to them? Steve Lowell Yeah, and that's a big, big question because it's different for for everybody. So, you know, some people I find have, let me put it this way. Most speakers that we do And you'll recognize this I'm sure, most speakers, coaches, trainers, authors, entrepreneurs, people who use the spoken word to drive business. What we found is most of them are motivated by one of three or more of the three primary motivators. And the first one is what I call a mess. Which means some of us have, you know, a big massive story that we've overcome in our lives that have molded part of who we are. And I don't have a mess. I don't know if you have a mess. But I have a lot of it'll know a lot of speakers who do have a mess. A mess is you know, where they've had the illness or the accident or something major in their life. And some of us don't have a mess. But some of us have what I call a moment, a moment in time where we realize that we have a gift or a purpose. Like it's that moment or a series of moments in time, James, you know, where you go, this is it. This is why I'm here, right? And I have one of those, but a lot of people don't have one of those. And if they don't have a mess, and if they don't have a moment, then generally they have what I call a mission, which means they have a bigger purpose in life, right. There's a footprint they're trying to leave a legacy. See, they're trying to leave, there's a change. They're trying to evangelize or something. And so typically when we, when we, you know, talk to speakers, we typically find they fall somewhere in there in terms of their primary motivation. And then that motivation sort of nests upon upon which they base their messaging and everything else that they do. So for me, one of the rules of thumb is first determine what is your primary motivation, I mean, what really actually drives you to be in this business, and it could be as superficial as money, and it could be as profound as changing the world and it could be anywhere in between there and and both of those extremes are okay. But once you know what your primary motivator is, then that would that sort of helps you guide towards what really should you be spending your time looking for because ideally, you want something that stirs you at an emotional spiritual soul level almost other than something that just drives your intellect because there's something drives you're in intellect, that's a finite thing, typically, which means once you are intellectually satisfied with this piece, you move on to something else. And that's why people tend to jump around from from one thing to the other, but the soul or the spirit, or that thing that comes from inside. That is that is usually not a finite thing. That's usually something that's more, you know, it's almost infinite and a lot of people, that's what I think we need to find, because finding that piece, you know, the piece you're talking about, you know, what I call expert insights, or that one piece that is unique to you finding that can take an enormous amount of effort and time and, and introspection and, you know, a lot of years to try it and get it wrong and figure it out. I mean, it can be a really big process. And so this is why I think so many speakers never really find that piece. You know, James is because they're operating at the intellectual level. They become either intellectually exhausted and they give up or the exact opposite they become intellectually satisfied in Then they have to move on. So the answer isn't up here the answer, the answer is here. And that's where we have to look. And just and you know this from your music background, you know, James, the music doesn't come from the head, it doesn't come from the page. And it doesn't even come from the instrument. The music comes from the heart, it comes from the soul, and everything else are just vehicles in order to create the music. And I believe that speaking is exactly the same thing. And so many speakers speak from their head. And certainly when we first started as a speaker, you know, we're cover bands, we're all cover bands, right? I was a zig ziglar cover band, you know, for so many years, because I was in my head, just trying to get my you know, find my own stage. But then once we find the stage, once we find that place that comes from here, it gives us the drive. I mean, you know, I know how much work it is for you to do this summit. And you've been doing it for several years now. And you don't do this because it's a good idea. You do this because you're driven for this right. And this part of it's not part of what you do anymore. It's part of who you are. So that's the the angle we need to come from as a speaker. So to answer your question about best practices, I don't think there are any best know, best practices matter until you get that. And once once you've got that, then it's time to really start digging, but to just to start finding something because you're looking for something and you're and you're in your head doesn't isn't really gonna work. I don't know if that makes sense. No, James Taylor it makes total sense. And I think it's that it's that finding that that Wellspring? Oh, yeah. And it's a difficult thing to explain, you know, something which energy you might make might constitute an energy or all, you know, is going to that place and that does require a lot of work often requires a lot of inner, you know, inner work as well to find that thing to chip away at that and that's where I think mentors can be great, you know, and have that have or being part of a community is that I think the one thing about the danger the community is that That may be that need to feel to conform or to go along with what other people are doing in this. And when you're in Canada, you're at, you're in a country of great songwriters. So the journey mixers of this world, they've always kind of chosen their own path. And it's like, it's trying to find that. So using the community to be able to learn to contribute to, but at the same time, figuring out what your own thing is, as you said, your you know, that idea. And so as you were going, you mentioned this, this coming to that stage where that light bulb did go on for you. And it was like, this is it. This is what I want to devote my life to what what was it for you? Steve Lowell So that particular moment happened? I'm going to guess I'm in my late 20s. By that time, and I had, I saw the zig ziglar thing I became very attracted to the professional speaker thing. And so I thought, Well, where do I go to learn that and so I started working with a training company called the Dale Carnegie training organization, and, and I went through all of their courses and I was working for them. Am I in my mind, I was training to be an instructor, but I started in sales and all of that. So what happened was, I would go to all of the Dale Carnegie courses, and I'd be sitting at the back of the room as an assistant. And I'm watching the instructors, and I'm thinking, I'm trying to coach in my head. And sometimes the instructors would do things I'd say, Oh, I didn't like the way he did that. Oh, I like the way he did that. And I would have done it differently. And I'm really kind of in my mind evaluating the instructors, right. And then one time, the instructor came up to me and he said, Hey, Steve, would you like to try coaching somebody, which was like totally irregular, that would never happen, but it happened in this day? And I said, Yes, Yes, I would. So I stood up. And there were I think, 30 people in the class and this one guy, the student, he gets up to speak, and he is the one person in the class that absolutely did not want to be there. He was just he was his boss sent him there because he had no personality. He had no social skills like us is what he did not want to be there. And it was I think we Seven have a 13 week course. Anyway, he got up on the stage and he kind of had that, okay, I go ahead and press me kind of attitude, you know, and I and it within two minutes, man, I had that guy wide open. And he was like he was loving being in front of the room, and he never went back. And from there, he just soared. And it was in that moment, I thought, I can do this, this is what I can do. I can take people in front of an audience and I can find magic in them they never knew existed. And I did it in less than two minutes. And I had one of those earth shattering, jaw dropping life changing moments, then, and that's when I realized I can do this. But I also realized that I was in the wrong place. Because I didn't agree with a lot of the philosophies that were being taught at that time in that organization. And so ultimately, I left and started my own business, and I've been sort of doing it ever since. But that was the defining moment for me in terms of why I'm here. But there was actually another defining moment in In terms of my current content, and this was one of those things that happened and I don't know if you've seen the whole revenue meter thing but I have some videos for you and your and your guests that describe it but what was happening in my business is I had just met my wife Jane, we're going back maybe six years ago and my business was doing okay you know, but when Jane came into my life it just it really started to soar And I remember thinking you know, what, what has changed because I'm not doing anything differently just everything's working today that wasn't working before and and I was trying to figure out what changed for me in the business because I wanted that content. I wanted to see if there's something there I could bring into my you know, content. And I had one of those two o'clock in the morning straight out of bed ideas ever had one of those jams I just got to pop you right out of bed in the middle of the night. You get those right, yeah, the trick is always do you write them then you write it you write it down. So I've had many of those over the years but this one I was from dead sleep to Wow. And then I went and got my iPad and I wrote it all down. And that's become the foundation of what we do now. So those are the two pivotal moments, I think in terms of getting us to where we've been. Now, your earlier question, it sounds like I'm contradicting myself, because your earlier question was, you know, did you have a pivotal moment where you figured out how to be, you know, be productive from the stage. I never had a moment from that. But I did have that moment where I figured out why I'm here figure out what my gift was way back at age 2527, whatever it was, and I had this moment about five years ago, that drives the content we're using now. So you got to listen to those moments, because I think we all get them and like you said, we get them and then we don't write it down. And then you know, then it's gone. But I wrote that one down. So thank goodness I did, James Taylor obviously so and this rescue meter, this is a way of being able to benchmark yourself and then be able to track your progress and develop as a speaker. Steve Lowell Yeah, exactly. I'll give you a quick snapshot of it. It's basically like the What we've found in working with speakers all over the world is that there there are basically four states to a speaker's reputation as it relates to how people talk about you. I'm not talking about your reputation online, and although all that comes into play, but what is it that people actually say about you. And the first state is a state that I call obscurity. And obscurity means that people aren't really talking about you at all. Nobody really knows who you are or what you do. And so many people stay in that state for a long time. And if they stay there long enough, they end up getting out of the business. But if they do a few things, right, the next state is a state that I call competitive at the competitive state. What that kind of means James is, generally people know who you are, and they know what you do, but there's nothing really that separates you from everybody else who does what you do. And so people look at you as a something or an something and you're kind of in this category of many, and it's really difficult to operate in that state. And I would say about 95% of us And our business operate in that state, you know, for their entire careers. But then if a few things change, if you start changing the way you speak about yourself, and you start guiding the way the that the world speaks about you, then you can get to this stage that I call branded. Now, what the branded stage, this is where things really start to change in terms of your reputation out there at the branded stage. This is where people kind of look at you and they know what you do. They know who you are, and there's something different about you, even if they can't quite put their finger on it. Like your name doesn't necessarily rise to the top, but it kind of it's kind of, you know, escalating up there and you're getting some attention, eyebrows are raising the phone is starting to ring a little more people are not noticing you and you're in that stage. And that's a really good stage to be and that's the stage at which momentum starts to begin. And then the fourth stage, which is the ultimate stage is what I call the one. This is where you are the only logical choice in your field. This is where you pick and choose the gigs. You're going to take you Set your price people pay it, you choose how hard you're going to work, who you're going to work with. And now at this stage, you're kind of thinking more about legacy because your business has kind of taken care of itself. And interestingly enough, it has very little to do with tenure, it has very little to do with how long you've been in the business, and more to do with how you have trained the world to talk about you. And that's why these these unique pieces that I've been talking about, you know, I call it expert insights. And, you know, people they're different people call it different things, but that little package of of wisdom that only you can claim ownership of, that's what drives that conversation that takes a person from obscurity to competitive to branded to v one. So the rep you meter is really just a visual representation of those four states and then the discussion in terms of how you get from one to the next. James Taylor I think you're talking about that. So the first one was up was unknown. I'm talking about the first of a first security obscurity. So it's interesting because as you're saying, I'm also thinking about you know, what enquiries come in to speaking engagements, the level of conversation you have with someone depending on where they're coming in. So, you know, if you're in obscurity frankly you're not getting any inbound leads anyway there's nothing nothing coming you're just wondering you're having to go and fight every single fight. The second one is your in your in the competition you're in the running but you're not differentiated. I'm guessing in any major way. No, I heard and I see the emails that come in, which are around Oh, we've seen your we've seen your work around create my kissing on creativity, we really like it, we think it could work well for this particular event or this particular client. So you start to move up a little bit more branded because they like your, like you or they like your message like the way that you see it your unique take. But then there's a final one, which is the one I love when I get those emails in. And we're looking to book bring a speaker in to talk about this idea of super creativity. Which word is like that I'm not competing with anyone. You got Steve Lowell it. And so that's exactly right. So for you, it's super creativity, your name gets attached to that. And so now you become the one. So you nailed it. That's exactly the process. Yeah. James Taylor So and it's great, because I think as you start to do that, I mean, also, you can think of this in terms of a pricing perspective as well. I think all those people who are, you know, as you say, the one they own something, you know, start with why Simon Sinek Yeah, sure. I mean, I don't know what Simon's fee is at the moment, but it will be pretty significant he owns it owns something in the mind of the customer, though, so is an awesome, very different conversations that are going on there as well. So I love that so obscurity to competitor to brand new to the one and you have this video series, which we're gonna have a link here below. So people can can go through and obviously go much more in depth into how each of these work, how you develop each of these, these stages as well. And so we're going to have a link here. People just click on that link, and anything else that we need to, you want to kind of say just at the stages, as people kind of thinking now kind of getting their head around this idea of, of the one and what it takes to be the one? Steve Lowell Sure. Here's, I think, the most important premise to start with, and that is, get your head out of your solution. Because here's the thing, you know, we go, we go to many conferences around the world, as do you, and we see many speakers as to you. And, you know, we go to these conferences, and there may be, you know, 5060 speakers over three, four days. And, and even if all of them are outstanding on the platform, they got great stories, they got great show and slides, and they make you laugh, and they make you think, and they make you cry, and they do all the things speakers are supposed to do. And at the end of the three, four days or whatever it is, you walk out of there and usually there's only one or two that actually stick in your mind. Right? And and so there's a reason why only one or two actually stick in your mind and generally the reason is this, because most of the speakers are focusing on their solution. There. Five Pillars to this, there are six secrets to that there are three models to this, there's a platform for this. And it's not that that's a bad thing. I mean, that's an okay thing they get on the stage, they tell their stories, and then they present their solution in the context of those stories. And then, you know, and that's their positioning. But the problem with that is, that's what 98% of the speakers do. And so what, what I recommend is get your head out of your solution. And don't even talk about your solution, help the audience understand that they have a very specific problem first, and if you can help them understand that they have a problem, help them and it's usually a problem they were never awareness aware of. So you bring to their awareness, a problem they never knew they had, then you help them understand the cost of having that problem. And then you present to them here's why that problem exists. And only then are they really at all interested in your solution. And so reverse the order of your presentation, get the solution out, leave it to the very end, help them understand their condition better help them understand the cost of their condition. help them understand why they're in that condition and then bring your solution to the stage. Because here's what will happen, people will walk out the door, and they're not going to remember your solution at all, what they know is they need you. That's what they know. And they're not going to be able to remember your four secrets to this, your four pillars to that or your six strategies, or whatever. What they aren't going to remember is that James is that guy for Super creativity, that's him, or whatever that thing is, he calls it, that's the guy I need. That's what you want them to remember when they walk out. And even if even if you're not selling, coaching, training, consulting, whatever, that's what you want them talking about when they go to the next convention, or when they put their feedback form in or where it's time for their organization to hire a speaker. All they're going to know is that guy understands or that lady understands our world better than we do. And we need them in front of us. And so that would be sort of the starting point. James Taylor Great. So we're gonna have that link. Yes, you can get that video series. As you start to finish up. I'd love to know, if you're traveling a lot just now in your role. Go Speakers Federation, if you had a long haul flight, and you could choose any speaker or author or thought leader to be sitting next to you on that long haul flight, living the living all that. So you can have a really good conversation with them. Who would that speaker author or thought leader be? Oh, boy. Well, I would you know what, I would have to go with Zig, right. I had the opportunity to meet him a couple of times. And I do have time for like, 30 seconds story. Absolutely. I guess I use sigma stories. Steve Lowell Okay, so I, you know, I had written a couple of letters to Zig over the years and all the time, he always hand wrote me back, which I thought was cool. But he didn't really know who I was. We could have just a guy, right. So he was speaking in Montreal, which is about two hours away from where I live in Ottawa, Canada. And so I went to see him speak because I hadn't seen him live before. So I get to the hall where he's speaking it's a big conference room hotel room, and I opened the doors because I wanted to try and go get a front front row seat and there was nobody in the place. So I thought I'm going to run up to the front, I'm gonna put my book because I had one of his books, I put it on the front chair, and I'm gonna reserve my seat. And as I look up on the stage, there he is. He's on the stage. And at that time, he was using overhead slides. Remember what the overhead projector was that he was using overhead slides? So I took my book, and I said, Mr. Ziegler, would you signed my book for me, and he signed and it was just him and I in the whole place. So we spent maybe five minutes chatting, then he excused himself because he had to get ready and people were starting to come in. So that's that was my entire experience with him at that time. Now, it was over a year later, and he was speaking in Ottawa, my own town. So I thought to myself, you know what, it worked once it auto work again, right? So I showed up to the place an hour early and I cracked the door and I can get in and no one's there and I walk up to the front. And there he is on the stage. And now Mr. Ziegler would travel like how many people what he needs in a year, right millions of people he would meet in a year. This was over a year later. He looked down at me and he said, Hi, Steve. Yeah. And that that's what I did. And so to me, that was the essence of a quality being. And so that's one of the reasons why, you know, other than his speaking and all that that was probably what solidified him in my mind as somebody I wanted to aspire to be. Now, sadly enough, I don't remember my own name, and I have your name across the screen so I can remember it. I'm teasing. I'm kidding. But I'm not very good at remembering names, but but the level of integrity that he displayed every time I saw him was very inspiring to me. So I think if I could choose anybody to sit beside me on the airplane, it would probably be Zig James Taylor fantastic, great, great, great potential passenger to be beyond that long haul flight with together and what about in your speaker bag, what is in that bag with you that you carry with you to all of your various speaking engagements. Steve Lowell Man, there's, there's a whole bunch of them but there's there's two that that are really old that I always go back to And one of them is the science of getting rich by Wallace D wattles. And there's just something comforting about about that message. And I listened to it on audio books. And the other is called the master key. And the master key is even older, it was written in, I don't know, 1812 verse or something. And it's very old colonial sort of English, it's hard to follow. But it's, there's something about those books, they're, they're not tactical, they're, it's more about belief systems, and it's more about that type of thing. And I've got all kinds of books on strategy, you know, Blue Ocean Strategy and never split the difference. And, you know, all of the Robert Cialdini stuff and all of those and they're all awesome, and I read them all and I listen to them all and I love them all. But when I'm feeling just like I need, you know, I just need something other than intellect. I usually go to those to the science of getting rich, or the master key and I listened to those because they just get to the core of The beliefs that that drive, you know, my ability to stay with it when when sometimes because, you know, we all get the doubts, right? And, and that's though I think those are my two go to books. And then Zig Ziglar, his first book, see you at the top used to be my go to book. But what would happen James is I would buy it and then I'd lend it to somebody and never come back. So I buy another one, I must have given out 300 copies of See you at the top. So I just sort of memorize the whole thing. And so even I don't buy it anymore. But those are the ones that are sort of most valuable to me. James Taylor And what about mobile apps? Are there any apps online tools you find very useful for yourself as a speaker? Steve Lowell Yeah, there's one that I just got. I can't show it to you now. But yeah, there's a lot of apps but there's one that I just picked up at NSA influence convention last week, and it's called savvy card as a VVY card. And what it is is like an online business card, so it's meant to replace paper business cards. But what's cool about it is you know, you meet somebody in the hall and they say, hey, do you have a business card? And I say, yeah, just give me your number. I'll send it to you, boom, boom, boom, I send it to them. And now, they're in sort of a, like a database. But the other thing is that I have their phone number, and I and I get to see what kind of activity they use with my card. And because it's an online card, it's got my videos there. It's got all my contact information in there. It's got all my websites there, everything is there, and I can watch their interaction with it. And I can follow up with them on it. In addition to that, it's not really an app. It's actually a website that looks like an app. So every time somebody looks at my card, it elevates the ranking on Google. And so it's actually got this practical application behind it. It's called savvy card sa ve ve y card. I saw them at NSA influence. I went down, talk to them signed up and I absolutely love it. James Taylor Fantastic. I'll put a link to that here as well. And finally, Steve, let's imagine you woke up tomorrow morning and you have to start from scratch. So you have all the skills or the knowledge you've acquired over the years. But no one knows you you know no one will would you do? How would you restart things? Steve Lowell The very first thing I would do James is that assemble the right team. Because I spent all my life trying to do it myself. And and it was, it is not good. And then when I met my wife, Jane, you know, she comes from a very successful business background. So she understands business at a level that I just don't. And what I had to come to the realization with is, you know, James, I'm only good at a small subset of things. And that's my speaking of training it like my content like that. But when I try and run the business, I'm not good at most of that stuff. And I had to come to that realization, but what I know now that I wish I knew then or I wish I was smart enough to be aware of them was getting the right people in the right space doing the right things, people you know, people will there are people who will play at the things that you have to work at. So what we need to do is find those people who play at the things that I have to work at. Jane is a master at that she knows exactly what she can play at What she has to work at, and she farms everything out. So when that element came into my life, it just it changed everything about my business. And so she and I run our business together. But that would be I think the main thing is get the team in place. And there's a number of things, of course, but that is definitely the biggest mistake that I made. And if I had to do it again, that's what I would do. James Taylor build a team. And if you want to learn more about you, your speaking programs, the other things, you've got your training and connect with you. where's the best place to go and do that? Steve Lowell Yeah, go to my website. Steve law. COMM it's all there. James Taylor Yeah. Well, Steve, I know we're gonna meet each other somewhere. It might be Namibia, it might be some conference somewhere. Who knows? Who knows. But thank you so much. And thank you for bringing the all your knowledge and I know how much you serve. Also the community of speakers as well. We didn't even get a chance to talk about that side of things, but you put a huge amount of service into helping other speakers be the best and get their message out into the world and You know, take their mission and take it further. So thank you so much for the work that you do and I look forward to sharing a stage somewhere in the in the near future together. Steve Lowell Well thank you for the opportunity and I look forward to it as well. James Taylor Today's episode was sponsored by speakers you the online community for speakers and if you're serious about your speaking career then you can join us because you membership program. I'll speak as you members receive private one on one coaching with me hundreds of hours of training content access to a global community to help them launch and build a profitable business around their speaking message and expertise. So just head over to SpeakersU.com to learn more. More of Steve Lowell Learn More About SpeakersU #speakerslife #speakersU

In today's episode talk Money Money Money Money! I share why you want to create an income goal and how wanting more money isn't a bad thing, NO WAY! Having lots of money is good for you, your family, your friends, your growth and the world! Let's dig in! Want to learn more about how you can start your own online business from scratch? Join my free masterclass and find out how today! https://bit.ly/4CFORMCLASSCheck out my Mindset Coach, Danielle Amos, here: https://www.danielleamos.co/Books that have helped me improve my money mindset:The Abundance Code by Julie Ann CairnsYou're a Badass at Making Money by Jen SinceroThe Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne WilliamsonThe Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. WattlesThink and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill

About This Episode: In 1987, Thomas E. Bulleit, Jr., fulfilled a lifelong dream of reviving an old family bourbon recipe by starting the Bulleit Distilling Company. Inspired by his great-great-grandfather Augustus Bulleit, who made a high-rye whiskey between 1830-1860, Tom left a successful law practice and risked everything to experience life on the frontier. Today, we're not the only ones who are glad he did. A tavern keeper in 1830s Louisville, Kentucky, Augustus Bulleit was dedicated to a single goal: the creation of a bourbon unique in flavor. After experimenting with countless varieties, he finally came upon a bourbon with the character he had long sought after. One fateful day, while transporting his barrels of bourbon from Kentucky to New Orleans, Augustus Bulleit vanished. What happened is still unknown, and his creation nearly disappeared into history along with him. To this day, Bulleit™ Bourbon is distilled and aged in the Bulleit family tradition. High rye content gives it a bold, spicy character with a distinctively smooth, clean finish. Kentucky limestone-filtered water provides a foundation for the bourbon's character, while charred American oak barrels lend a smoky backbone. Our aging philosophy is simple: we wait until our bourbon is ready. As Bulleit enthusiasts know, rye has always been our cornerstone. In this tradition, we're proud to present Bulleit™ Rye – a straight rye whiskey made from 95% rye and 5% malted barley. It's a whiskey with unparalleled spice and complexity. Find out more about Tom at:Bulleit Proof: How I Took a 150-Year-Old Family Recipe and a Revolver, and Disrupted the Entire Liquor Industry One Bottle, One Sip, One Handshake at a Time About Bulleit Bourbon Bulleit - The Story See the Show Notes: www.jeremyryanslate.com/718 Sponsors: Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books. Right now I'm reading "The Science of Getting Rich,"by Wallace D. Wattles, about building real wealth. www.jeremyryanslate.com/book  

Brother Ben X shares audio from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan explaining why he followed Warith Deen Mohammed also known as Wallace D. Muhammad ! Minister Louis Farrakhan addresses an audiance of followers of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, at the invitation of Yusef Bey of Your Black Muslim Bakery of Oakland, CA in 1979. Among those in attendance are Yusef Bey, Silas Muhammad, Jabril Muhammad (aka Bernard Cushmere) and Tynetta Muhammad. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brotherbenx/support

Brother Ben X shares audio from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan explaining why he followed Warith Deen Mohammed also known as Wallace D. Muhammad ! Minister Louis Farrakhan addresses an audiance of followers of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, at the invitation of Yusef Bey of Your Black Muslim Bakery of Oakland, CA in 1979. Among those in attendance are Yusef Bey, Silas Muhammad, Jabril Muhammad (aka Bernard Cushmere) and Tynetta Muhammad. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brotherbenx/support

This episode center's around Wallace D. Wattle's seminal book, “The Science of Getting Rich.” Specifically, his perspective on persistence. Why is this so important? Because Mr. Wattle's decades-long research into successful people revealed what so many after him have also found to be true…persistence is an essential quality for success. First, a definition of persistence: “A firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.” There's a difference between being obstinate and obstinate continuance. The former indicates an unwavering unwillingness to change, whereas the latter indicates determination. Huge difference. Whether you are persisting through rejections in the job search process to get to your dream job, persisting through the steps necessary to launch your own business, or persisting through the many demands on your money to save for that trip-of-a-lifetime…the common denominator is persistence. What Mr. Wattle Has to Say About Persistence Here's what Mr. Wattles has to say about persistence: Take inventory of yourself, and determine in what particular, if any, way you are lacking in the essential quality. Measure yourself courageously, point by point, and see how many of the factors of persistence you lack. Here you will find the real enemies that stand between you and noteworthy achievements. Here you will find not only the “symptoms” indicating weakness of persistence, but also the deeply seated subconscious causes of this weakness. The Persistence Checklist Here is Wallace D. Wattle's persistence checklist. Which of these “enemies' do you struggle with? -Failure to recognize and to define clearly exactly what one wants. -Procrastination, with or without cause (usually backed up with a formidable array of alibis and excuses). -Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge. -Indecision, the habit of “passing the buck” on all occasions, instead of facing issues squarely (also backed by alibis). -The habit of relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans for the solution of problems. -Self-satisfaction. There is but little remedy for this affliction, and no hope for those who suffer from it. -Indifference, usually reflected in one's readiness to compromise on all occasions rather than meet opposition and fight it. -The habit of blaming others for one's mistakes and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable. -Weakness of desire, due to the neglect in the choice of motives that impel action. -Willingness, even eagerness to quit at the first sign of defeat. -The habit of neglecting to move on ideas, or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself. -Wishing instead of willing. -The habit of compromising with poverty instead of aiming at riches, general absence of ambition to be, to do, to own. -Searching for all the short-cuts to riches, trying to get without giving a fair equivalent (usually reflected in the habit of gambling, endeavoring to drive “sharp” bargains). -Fear of criticism, failure to create plans and to put them into action because of what other people will think, do, or say. This enemy belongs at the head of the list because it generally exists in one's subconscious mind, where its presence is not recognized. How'd you fare? What can you do to remedy any of the points you struggle with? Here are some steps you can take: -Honestly evaluate your current level of persistence, using the criteria just listed. -Choose one area you'd like to focus your energy on improving. -Write a full page of ideas on how to improve that area. -Choose 3-5 specific strategies you'd like to focus on. -Calendar time to implement those strategies. -Set a date to evaluate your progress on that area. At that time, you'll either want to implement additional strategies to improve on that area or choose a different area to focus on. To visit my website: www.exclusivecareercoaching.com Follow My YouTube channel (Lesa Edwards); it's chocked full of valuable career management content in easily digestible bites. Want to speak with an expert about your career/job search goals? Need help figuring out what's holding you back from achieving your dream career? Let's talk. Here's the link to schedule a 45-minute consult call with me:  https://my.timetrade.com/book/KRKLS. Hope to see you soon!

In this episode we reveal the secret “Talmudic Wealth Formula” for achieving long-lasting wealth as well as a long life. The Talmud is a sacred ancient Jewish text that is the primary source of Jewish religious law and theology. In the past, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewish cultural life and was foundational to “all Jewish thought and aspirations”, serving also as the essential guide for the daily life of Jews.The Talmud, is a vital tool used for decoding the Hebrew Bible and contains secrets on how to become wealthy, succeed in business, and on how to live a long life.Recommended Reading:The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. WattlesThe Money Code by H.W CharlesRich Habits Poor Habits by Thomas C. CorleySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/moneycode)

The sisters are joined by Paige Pritchard, founder of The Purposeful Penny, an online community for women to gain the knowledge and confidence they need to create their most purposeful financial life. Paige was inspired to start her blog, The Purposeful Penny, after paying off $98,000 of student loan and credit card debt by the age of 27, buying her first home at 25, and building a six-figure retirement portfolio by her 29th birthday. She discusses the importance of understanding our emotions surrounding money (hint: starts as a child), and walks us through some impactful changes for financial success! You can find Paige at her website, thepurposefulpenny.com. Book Recommendations: (1) The Heart of Money by Deborah L. Price (2) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (3) The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

We are revisiting episode 91 to recap the importance of one of my favorite books, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Waddles. This book is one of the key catalysts in the shift from working at a 9 to 5 and going through a quarter life crisis to understanding the power I have within me to change my financial reality and go bigger in my business. The more I read this book, the more I was able to apply it’s lessons to my own life.    Tune in to this episode to hear:  Why The Science of Getting Rich has helped me achieve the visions I had for my life and business  The ten biggest takeaways from this book and how I applied them to my own life How to shift your money mindset and how to raise your income even more

Starting from nothing, J. has built a multi-million dollar real estate business. He now trains students from around the world on the methods he uses to generate cash flow and raise millions in private capital. His primary focus is now on creating his own hospitality businesses using only short-term rentals, and he currently controls 21 units that earn nearly a million dollars a year in income. J. is able to run his business on just three and a half hours a day because of his advanced systems and automation. In 2016, he made his system available to his students and they are having success faster than with any method he's ever taught. Creating Cashflow Diary in 2011, J. follows one simple rule: to only train and produce material around the strategies he's currently employing; his courses are some of the most highly reviewed in the industry. What you'll learn about in this episode: Why J. got started in real estate investing due to devastating medical setbacks that happened to both J. and his wife simultaneously Why J. found real estate to be his only solution after he sold everything he could on eBay, and how learning “the hustle” carried over to real estate How J.'s short-term rental business works, and why it is more efficient and potentially lucrative than traditional single-family Why Airbnb isn't the only marketplace J. uses, and how he teaches others to get into the short term rental market Why it is important to manage your expectations, and why a background in sales will speed up the process a bit How J. has survived having over $800k being embezzled, $400k being stolen, having tenants die in their properties, etc. What daily activities and habits J. has developed to find success and be his best every day Which influential mentors and coaches have most affected J.'s business strategies and outlook on life How to contact J. Massey: Website: www.cashflowdiary.com Podcast: www.cashflowdiarypodcast.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/CashflowDiary/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/cashflowdiary/ Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9y45Ox3QB_4nqQDA0rJew J. Massey's Recommended Reading List: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles: https://amzn.to/2VwOsG9 High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard: https://amzn.to/2uVgD60 The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer: https://amzn.to/2FYCtdT

In this episode, we meet Caitlin M. Hayes, Esq., High-Powered Lawyer, and Healer. Truly a Renaissance woman, Caitlin has a breadth of skills from the courtroom to the green room. She supports executives, family offices, high net worth individuals, and close corporations with conflict resolution, team building, and vision curation. She discovers her artistic aptitude through modeling, dancing, and writing. You can connect with Caitlin online here: https://www.bookcaitlin.com/ My favorite Quote from Caitlin in this episode: "Understand that the power (you seek) is in your mind, and it can only be activated by connecting with the unconditional love of source energy.""The only way we can get to that place of truth is that the key has always been inside of us.""We must not operate from being the victim, or from blaming. You must heal.""The only road to freedom is to face your truth inside."Recommended Resources:"The Psalms.""Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattle"Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle"If you're a business expert, a trainer, a coach, or a consultant, and you want to land Big-Ticket Clients, watch our free training: https://drpele.com/masterclass Big-Ticket Clients™ helps coaches, consultants and companies leverage the narrative psychology and persuasive power of storytelling to attract and enroll their highest-value clients online. This podcast is here to answer only ONE question: "How do you stand out in a noisy marketplace to create the business and life of your dreams while maintaining your own powerful, unique voice?" To get answers, subscribe to Big-Ticket Clients™.Support the show (https://drpele.com)

Back in 1910, a man named Wallace D. Wattle published a trilogy of books each beginning with the title "The Science of" In the second volume of that series, he published The Science of Being Great, as a follow-up to one of his most successful books, The Science of Getting Rich. In the first chapter of this book, Wallace lays down an argument that all men and women have greatness within them. Each of us is blessed with the ability to think, and can use our minds to conquer unimaginable feats.

Christin ist 1982 in Hamburg geboren. Nach einigen Auslandssemestern in England, Australien, Singapur und den USA liebt es als heutiger Coach und Wirtschaftspsychologin mit Menschen zu arbeiten und sie darin zu unterstützen, sich mehr Freiheit, Gesundheit, Unabhängigkeit und Wohlbefinden im Leben zu verschaffen Nach einer gesundheitlich-notwendigen Auszeit hatte sie sich ins Online Business begeben und lebe seitdem zeit- und ortsunabhängig. Sie hat nun Zeit für ihre Familie und ihre sozialen Projekte, vor allem im Tierschutz, sowie Kurztrips. In der gemeinsamen Arbeit mit Kunden werden die Stärken und Herzensthemen benannt und gemeinsame Strategien und Konzepte entwickelt, um die Möglichkeiten des passiven Einkommens im Online-Business für sich zu generieren. So kann z.B. auch eine neue berufliche Perspektive sich auftun, wie zum Beispiel die Ausbildung zu einem der neuen Trendberufe, des Feel Good Managers. Zusätzlich steht Christin mit ihrem Feel Good Online Institut und dem digitalen Magazin "Pure & Positive" für positive Impulse und Inspirationen im Leben und bringt die Positive Psychologie ins Online Business   ***** Viel Spaß mit diesem interessanten Interview ***** Der Pitch von Christin ist: Als Wirtschaftspsychologin und Coach unterstützt sie Frauen über ihr Feel Good   Online Institut dabei, sich mit Onlineprodukten rund um die Positive Psychologie und Themen „Gesundheit & Wohlbefinden“ ein zeit- und ortsunabhängiges Einkommen   aufzubauen. Viele Impulsen und Inspirationen für ein positives Leben finden Interessenten auch in dem eMagazin „Pure&Positive“   Welche 3 praktischen Tipps hat Christin aus ihrer Praxis für dich?   - Bei sich bleiben und nicht im Außen unterwegs sein! - Wirklich Klarheit finden für sich, seine Position und das eigene Ziel! - Suche dir Unterstützung und erschaffe dir dein Konzept und deine Strategie     Was ist die Marketing-Geheimwaffe von Christin und wie ist ihr Marketing aufgebaut?   Ihr Marketing funktioniert durch Empfehlungen, Reichweite über das Online-Magazin und meine Offline-Kundschaft, die die ersten Schritte ins Online Business machen und Onlineprodukte entwickeln wollen.     Welche Verbindung hat Christin zu Frau & Geld und womit und wie verdient sie ihr Geld?   Offline: Seminar / Workshops zum Thema „Positive Psychologie in der Praxis“. Online: 6-Wochen-Programm: Mit dem eigenen Herzensthema zum eigenen Onlineprodukt. Beide Programm treffen den Nerv der Zeit trifft und wird die Sehnsüchte und Wünsche der Menschen erfüllen Wie wichtig ist für Christin Geld und macht Geld sie glücklich? Skala 1-10? Dann 8! Geld hat für sie einen hohen Stellenwert, nicht der materiellen Dinge wegen, sondern für das Gefühl der Sicherheit, um sich weiterentwickeln zu können, die Welt anschauen und soziale Projekte unterstützen und fördern zu können. Das sorgt natürlich für Glücksmomente. Verändert Geld den Charakter? Natürlich kann das passieren, wenn man in der Persönlichkeit noch nicht klar und gefestigt ist und weiß, was einem wirklich wichtig ist. Ich sehe da zum Beispiel junge Fußballer, die mit 17-18 Jahren schon Millionen verdienen, und regelrecht abheben. Andere versuchen wiederum, durch Geld Glück und Zufriedenheit zu erlangen. Das ist durch Geld alleine kaum langfristig möglich und verändert in meinen Augen schon den Charakter - und nicht positiv.    Welchen Tipp hat Christin für dich, wenn du dein Einkommen deutlich erhöhen willst? Generell: Affiliate Programme und Kooperationen eingehen und skalierbare Onlineprodukte entwickeln. Und dann mit einem Coach/Mentor ein stabiles und dieser Hinsicht unterstützendes Mindset entwickeln. Oft tun sich hier blinde Flecken und auch störende/hinderliche bzw. kontraproduktive Glaubenssätze auf.   Was war der schlimmste Moment für Christin, ihr größter Fehler, bzw. Ihre größte Herausforderung als Unternehmerin?   Die Erkenntnis, auf „ein falsches Pferd“ gesetzt und Fehlinvestitionen getätigt zu haben. Sowohl in Kooperationen, die in menschlichen Enttäuschungen endeten, aber auch in Fehlern bei Marketingstrategien. Dann hat sie sich geschüttelt und die Wunden geleckt, dies als Erfahrungen verbucht und sich wieder ihr „Warum“ vor Augen gehalten. Dann war es irgendwann auch wieder gut, man ist aufgestanden und hat weitergemacht.   Wie trifft Christin ihre Entscheidungen?       Welche Entscheidungsfindungsstrategie hat sie? Wie geht Christin an scheinbar unlösbare Aufgaben heran?   Sie sagt von sich, dass sie manchmal ein bisschen leider an der „Vogel-Strauß“-Strategie leidet, wenn unangenehme Entscheidungen anstehen. Aer daran arbeite sie.   Generell schaut sie wo sie steht, wo sie hin will und was es dafür braucht. Dann legt sie Zwischenschritte und einen Zeitrahmen fest. Wie gehst Christin an scheinbar unlösbaren Aufgaben heran?   Strategisch! Was ist das Problem, was braucht es zur Lösung und wie kommst du dahin? Wer kann dir  helfen (Wichtig? Man muss nicht alles alleine schaffen)!   Wie bekommt Christin ihren „inneren Schweinehund“ in den Griff? Wie motivierst sie sich, wenn sie mal keine richtige Lust hat, etwas zu tun, was getan werden muss? Mit Belohnungen! J Sie sagt sich, dass das auch erledigt werden muss, nicht alles angenehm ist und man daran nur wachsen kann.   Wie hast Christin es geschafft, Ihre Leidenschaft zu finden Sie hat sich aus einer sehr unzufriedenen Lebensphase heraus die Frage gestellt, was/wer   ihr wirklich wichtig ist, was sie ausmacht und was sie in der Zukunft vom Leben will. Sie hat sich also ausgiebig Zeit für eine Selbstreflexion genommen. Man braucht Klarheit für sein eigenes Warum! Hier kann man sich zwar Tipps von Experten und einen Leitfaden nehmen, aber wirkliche Klarheit im Herzen findet man nicht im Außen, nur bei sich! Frage dich selbst: Will ich das noch 5, 10, 20 Jahre weiter machen?“   Welche Werte sind für Christin wichtig? Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit, Gemeinschaft, Gerechtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit, persönliches Wohlbefinden   Was bedeutet Erfolg für Christin? Das Erreichen ihrer persönlichen Ziele!    Was sind die drei Stärken von Christin? Empathie, Durchhaltevermögen, hohes Verantwortungsgefühl und Disziplin   Gibt es ein Lebensmotto, ein Lieblings-Zitat das Christin begleitet?  Erfolg hat drei Buchstaben: TUN! und gehe deinen Weg und glaube an dich!   Was war der beste Rat, den Christin bekommen hast? Von ihrem Mann: Vertraue Dir und lauf los!“ Und „In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft“   Welche Internet-Ressource (z.B. einen besonderen Service, eine Open Source Software oder ähnliches) hat für Christin persönlich einen hohen Mehrwert?    Facebook für Kooperationen, Recherche und Marketing   Was ist die beste Buchempfehlung von Christin?   Die Wissenschaft des Reichwerdens von Wallace D. Whattles    Welchen „letzten Tipp“ gibt dir Christin mit auf den Weg?    Klarheit gewinnen, Vertrauen entwickeln und stärken und losgehen. Niemand ist perfekt! Suche dir Unterstützung und baue dir eine Community auf!    Wie und wo kann man Christin am besten erreichen? Die beiden Webseiten von Christin: www.feelgood-institute.com www.pureandpositive.com Facebook  Christin privat: https://www.facebook.com/chris.pri.336 Facebook Christin - Feel Good Online Institut https://www.facebook.com/christinprizelius Instagram Christin: christin_prizelius LinkedIn-Christin: https://de.linkedin.com/in/christin-prizelius-598812b6 Freebie: https://feelgood-institute.com/pdf-staerken-business/ 30 Tage Kurs: https://feelgood-institute.com/dein-feel-good-booster/ Einer ihrer Kurse: https://feelgood-institute.com/feel-good-manager-werden/    Schaue mal rein in das Online-Magazin „Pure & Positive“: https://pureandpositive.com/produkt-kategorie/magazine  __________ Wie immer auch zum Nachhörenn und Nachlesen - hier meien Blogseite: https://amatabayerl.de/179-dein-konzept-fuer-passives-Einkommen-mit-Onlineprodukten-interview-mit-christin-prizelius Ich freue mich, wenn Du mir ein Feedback hier im Blog oder auf Facebook hinterlässt

FFRF's Director of Strategic Response, Constitutional attorney Andrew Seidel tells us about our recent final victory in our 5-year federal lawsuit challenging prayer and preaching at the Chino Hills, California, school board. After hearing the song "Reincarnation," words by cowboy poet Wallace D. McRae and music by Dan Barker, we talk with FFRF's Director of Communications Amitabh Pal about the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, with alarming parallels to the push for Christian nationalism in the U.S.

In this episode, I discuss 14 books that have helped me to level up in my life and in business. I share what inspired me to go on a "30-year-old crisis book binge" and how each book helped me! Here's the book list: 1. Millionaire Success Habits by Dean Graziosi-- https://amzn.to/2szxBFM 2. Playing Big by Tara Mohr-- https://amzn.to/2AThGGL 3. Secrets of Six Figure Women by Barbara Stanny-- https://amzn.to/2svZzST 4. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It by Charlamagne-- https://amzn.to/2ARjy2Z 5. Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell-- https://amzn.to/2VZM637 6. Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler-- https://amzn.to/2AScq6x 7. Be a Free Range Human by Marianne Cantwell-- https://amzn.to/2T5Cq5u 8. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey-- https://amzn.to/2APYxpm 9. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill-- https://amzn.to/2VZpqzU 10. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles-- https://amzn.to/2T0wvP3 11. The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks-- https://amzn.to/2W0Qsa8 12. You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero-- https://amzn.to/2sx8GCz 13. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle-- https://amzn.to/2W3DgBF 14. This is Marketing by Seth Godin-- https://amzn.to/2W123Gk Enjoy!!

If you've ever heard, read, or watched a movie about Positive Thinking and the Law of Attraction, then do we have a special show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award Winning Historian, and the author of Occult America, and the vice-president, executive editor, and director of backlist and reissues at Tarcher Perigree. He is also the author of a fascinating new book on Positive Thinking “ One Simple Idea. Today we'll talk about what Positive Thinking, New Thought, and the Law of Attraction really is, where it came from, how it came about, what's real about it, and what isn't, and how we can all use it to transform our lives. That plus we'll talk about hardware stores and milk, heart shaped pink buckets, and how we can transcend our cake and eat it too. Questions and Topics Include: What book Elvis's hair stylist gave him? How Elvis read books by Earnest Holmes, Madame HP Lebatsky, Manley P. Hall Gave him a copy got a copy of the Impersonal Life from Joseph Benner What do we do if we're stuck in a 9 to 5 job? What's a great book to discover your purpose? Why you want to read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Ebby Thatcher How do you help someone to find their one thing and light the fire underneath them How to get the subconscious working for at night or at any time through the day. Why we don't want to blame ourselves for negative events…and why we don't want to interpret Rhonda Byrne's The Secret in this way. What you want to do if someone (or you) is sick. What is a D-Day approach to healing (including, but not limited to the spiritual and meditative side of things) What do we need to know about Wallace D. Wattles author of The Science of Getting Rich What can we learn about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Thought movement What is the definition of New Thought (Positivity and New Age and metaphysics movement) What it means that thoughts are causative – that thoughts become things Where did the Law of Attraction come from and when did it first come about? What Andrew Jackson Davis has to do with the Law of Attraction Who were the first new thought writers to talk about ‘what you think about you bring about Prentice Mulford and his book Your Forces and How to See Them. (also used by Christian D. Larsen) What is Hermeticism? (From Alexandria and Egypt in the time after Christ) What Greeks have to do with the positivity movement? Why ESP research has been hijacked, when there's good literature and proper science behind it. JB Rine who had an ESP lab at Duke for several decades and did several hundred thousand trials What ESP has to do with positivity Why New Thought was originally focused around healing and then why it shifted in this country What can we learn from Earnest Holmes? Why Neville Goddard is Mitch's personal favorite. What can we learn from Norman Vincent Peale? Who was American's evangelizer of the positive What did Ronald Reagan have to do with positivity and positive thinking metaphysics How Reagan made positive thinking metaphysics mainstream Americanism. Who gave birth to the whole field and business of audiobooks today. What can we learn from Earl Nightingale and The Strangest Secret Where the Dr. Demartini statement ‘What we think about and thank about we bring about' (Law of Attraction!) How do we transcend our cake and eat it too? How important is the meaning behind each word we chose to use. What's wrong with the term ‘enlightenment'? How Mitch just wrote the article “Is there a right way to affirm” for Science and Mind Magazine Is there a best way to think and to pray? What's it mean in New Thought or positivity to ‘think from the end' What are pink heart-shaped buckets? What did Rod Sterling of the Twilight Zone give us? What can William James tell us? What are some of Mitch's most powerful personal practices? What's the importance of expressing gratitude? What strange habit Michael and Mitch share on journaling What's the power of writing down goals What's the power of a 3 PM prayer Why Aldous Huxley felt kindness was the powerful tool What's the importance of radical forgiveness Why it's so important to abstain from humiliation What are a few more of his top must reads Resurrection by Neville Goddard William James Essay “Is Life Worth Living” Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich The Power of Your Super Mind by Vernon Howard One Simple Idea is now out on paperback – Occult America also available wherever books sold Can find more at mitchhorowitz.com or on google put in Mitch Horowitz How there is a vast family tree behind new age, new thought, and positivity have such a rich and powerful history Guided Positive Thinking Law of Attraction Meditation And for more free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Topics: Urban Literature, Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, Natalie Cole, Richard Pryor, Cooley High, The Jeffersons. (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1975   A. General News   B. Gerald Ford is President   C. Apr - Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.   D. Jul - Stanley Foreman takes the photo "Fire Escape Collapse."   E. Sep - Ford survives 2 assassination attempts. Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, and Sara Jane Moore, a leftists sympathizer, are the only two women that have attempted to assassinate an American president; both of their attempts were on Gerald Ford and both took place in California within three weeks of one another.   F. Nov - Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.   G. Dec - United States Congress passes the Metric Conversion Act which declares, but does not mandate, that the metric system is "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce".   H. Misc Tech: Kodak developed "The Digital Camera" / Motorolla obtains patent for the first portable mobile phone / Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer, trademark the name "Microsoft" (for microcomputer software), and the personal computer wave begins.   I. The ring-tab beer (and soda) can design was discontinued in 1975, after injuries were caused by people swallowing the metal tabs.    J. Open Comments:   K. 1975 Min.wage = $2.10hr (+.10) / $84wk / $4,200k yrly - 2018 = $19,950yrly   L. Avg. Income per year $14,100   M. Avg. House Price - $11,787   N. Avg. Cost of new house -  $39,300   O. Avg. Cost new car - $4,250   P. Unemployment 9.2% vs Black unemployment 15.5%   Q. Open Comments:   1.    Top Pop Singles   2.    1 - "Love Will Keep Us Together", Captain & Tennille   3.    2 - "Rhinestone Cowboy", Glen Campbell   4.    3 - "Philadelphia Freedom", Elton John   5.    Grammy Award winners   6.    RotY: "Love Will Keep Us Together", Captain & Tennille   7.    AotY: Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon   8.    SotY: "Send In the Clowns", Judy Collins   9.    New Artist: Natalie Cole   10.    Top Grossing Films   11.    1 - Jaws   12.    2 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show   13.    3 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest   14.    Top TV Shows   15.    1 - All in the Family (first tv series to be #1, 5yrs in a row)   16.    2 - Rich Man, Poor Man (7-week mini-series)   17.    3 - Laverne & Shirley   18.    TV Debuts   19.    Jan - The Jefferson’s, a spinoff of All in the Family, on CBS (1975–85)   20.    Sep - Welcome Back, Kotter on ABC (1975–79)   21.    Black Snapshots:   22.    Jan - The Wiz opens on Broadway   23.    Jan - The creation of the Church Committee was approved. Later that year, the media begins reporting that the FBI & CIA spied on citizens, many of them high profile African Americans; MLK, Malcom X, Black Panther leadership, etc. Senator Frank Church stated on NBC's "Meet the Press": "...If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology."   24.    Feb - Elijah Muhammad, the religious leader of the Nation of Islam dies. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son and successor, Wallace D. Mohammed, a.k.a., Warith D. Mohammed. Because of his personal studies and thinking, Warith led the majority of the original NOI to mainstream, traditional Sunni Islam by 1978. However, splinter groups resisting these changes formed, particularly under Louis Farrakhan, who in 1981 would revive the name Nation of Islam and claim direct continuity from the pre-1976 NOI.   25.    Apr - In the pilot episode of Starsky and Hutch, Richard Ward plays an African-American supervisor of white American employees for the first time on TV.   26.    July - Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon   27.    August - James Benton Parsons (64 yrs. old), the first African American to serve as a life tenured federal judge: Becomes the "Chief" Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. (Basically Chicago). Born in Kansas City, Missouri, raised in Decatur, Illinois. He was named "class orator" for Stephen Decatur High School class of 1929. He was on the basketball team, in the school band and orchestra. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Millikin University in 1934.   28.    September – WGPR-TV, channel 62 in Detroit, becomes the first television station in the U.S. to be owned and operated by blacks.   29.    September – The Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier title fight from the Philippines (the "Thrilla in Manila") is sent via satellite to the U. S. and shown on HBO   30.    September - Roxie Roker, mother to artist Lenny Kravitz, played Helen Willis on 'The Jefferson’s'. She was part of the first interracial couple to appear on regular primetime television.   31.    October - The premiere episode of Saturday Night Live is broadcast on NBC with OG cast member Garret Morris (Mr. Mason from Cooley High) and Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests.   32.    ###The Social Scene: Urban Literature / Fiction / Art   33.    Donald Goines, the ‘Godfather of Urban Fiction.’ (36yrs old): Criminal, drug addict, Author. From 1969 -1974 he published 16 novels that helped establish the genre.   34.    Urban fiction working definition: Works of art set in urban America dealing with drugs, violence, and sex, involving African    35.    American or Latino characters. The genre is also known as Street Fiction, Gangsta Lit, Ghetto Lit, or Hip-Hop Fiction.   36.    Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were a middle-class African-American couple that ran a laundry business. At 15 Goines lied about his age to join the Air Force, where he fought in the Korean War. During his stint in the armed forces, Goines developed an addiction to heroin that continued after his discharge from the military in the mid-1950s. To support his addiction, Goines turned to crime, this included pimping, and theft. He began writing while serving a sentence in Michigan's Jackson Penitentiary. Goines initially attempted to write westerns but decided to write urban fiction after reading Iceberg Slim's autobiography Pimp: The Story of My Life.   37.    Goines continued to write novels at an accelerated pace to support his drug addictions, sixteen books in five years, with some books taking only a month to complete. His series about Kenyatta (under the name Al C. Clark) describes a black revolutionary, who campaigns against exploitation and evils of inner-city life. On October 21, 1974, Goines and his common-law wife were discovered dead in their Detroit apartment. The police had received an anonymous phone call and responded, discovering Goines in the living room of the apartment and his common-law wife Shirley Sailor's body in the kitchen.   38.    Goines books are still popular, especially in the prison system. His books have gone on to sell millions of copies and have never been out of print, making him one of the most successful African-American authors in history.   39.    His books have been utilized in several prison literacy programs and his novel "Dopefiend" (1971) has been taught in a Rutgers University class.   40.    Other popular titles: Whoreson (1972), Black Gangster (1972), Street Players (1973), White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief (1973), and Black Girl Lost (1974)   41.    ***Question: has anyone read his books?   42.    Donald's work was deeply influenced by Iceberg Slim.   43.    In 1961, after serving 10 months of solitary confinement in a Cook County jail, Robert Maupin (a.k.a. Slim) decided he was too old for a life of pimping and was unable to compete with younger, more ruthless pimps. In an interview with the Washington Post, he said he retired "because I was old. I did not want to be teased, tormented and brutalized by young whores."   44.    In 1967, he published two books; A memoir, "Pimp: The Story of My Life" and the novel "Trick Baby"   45.    ***Question: has anyone read his books?   46.    Iceberg and Donald's work made a HUGE impact on the youth growing up in the 70's and 80's.   47.    "Pimp" inspired the screenplay for the 1973 film "The Mack", starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor.   48.    Various other entertainers were also influenced by Goines and Slim: Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Katt Williams,    49.    Eddie Griffin, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, Ludacris, Nas, and Jay-Z, just to name a few.   50.    Iceberg and Donald also proved that a commercial "Black" book market did exist.   51.    A new "post" Hip-Hop revival of contemporary urban fiction happened at the end of the 1990s, as demand for novels authentically conveying the urban experience increased, and new business models enabled fledgling writers to more easily bring a manuscript to market and to libraries.   52.    One of the first writers in this new cycle of urban fiction was Omar Tyree, who published the novel Flyy Girl.    53.    The genre gained significant momentum in 1999 with Sister Souljah's bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. Teri Woods's True to the Game was also published in 1999.The publishing of these three novels created a momentum of readership for urban fiction and carried that wave for years. All three books are considered classics in the renaissance of the genre.   54.    Major writers of contemporary urban fiction include Wahida Clark, Vickie Stringer, Nikki Turner, Kole Black, K'wan, Toy Styles, Kwame Teague, and the writing duo Meesha Mink & De'Nesha Diamond.   55.    ***Question: has anyone read any of these books?   56.    The reach of urban fiction into a large youth readership is undeniable today, particularly among adolescent girls.   57.    Critics and supporters are pleased that Black youth are reading. But some have mixed feelings about promoting literacy by any means necessary. “To some extent, there is an exposure to a part of urban culture that has rarely been explored in a way that it is now…which can be a starting point for civic dialogues,” offers Tracey Michae’l Lewis, who teaches writing and literature at Community College of Philadelphia and Philadelphia University. “Unfortunately, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What is this costing us?’”   58.    Scholars have differing opinions on Urban Fiction. Some believe that it is low reading, like a trashy book, that is not of high quality. Those who believe this think that prisoners and adolescent should be reading more elevated works.   59.    On the other hand, are scholars who say that African Americans appear to be reading street lit to find themselves and escape themselves at the same time. Some readers just enjoy losing themselves in portrayals of lavish lifestyles, racy sex and ride-or-die dramas of the streets, while others enjoy the genre for its reflective qualities.   60.    [Contributing source: Debating Black “Street Lit,” New Urban Fiction May 31, 2008 / Joe / African Americans, book review, urban]   61.    ***Question: Is urban art (books/films/music) really and truly a problem?   62.    ###The Music Scene   63.    6 - "Shining Star", Earth, Wind & Fire   64.    13 - "Lovin' You", Minnie Riperton   65.    14 - "Kung Fu Fighting", Carl Douglas   66.    18 - "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)", Tony Orlando and Dawn   67.    20 - "Pick Up the Pieces", Average White Band   68.    21 - "The Hustle", Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony   69.    22 - "Lady Marmalade", Labelle   70.    23 - "Why Can't We Be Friends", War   71.    24 - "Love Won't Let Me Wait", Major Harris   72.    25 - "Boogie On Reggae Woman", Stevie Wonder   73.    27 - "Fight the Power", The Isley Brothers   74.    30 - "Fire", Ohio Players   75.    ***Vote:    76.    Jan: Fire, The Ohio Players   77.    Feb: Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs, Carl Douglas   78.    Feb:  New and Improved, The Spinners   79.    Feb: Do It ('Til You're Satisfied), B.T. Express   80.    Mar: AWB, Average White Band   81.    Mar: Al Green Explores Your Mind, Al Green   82.    Apr: Perfect Angel, Minnie Ripperton   83.    Apr: That's the Way of the World, Earth, Wind & Fire   84.    May: A Song for You, The Temptations   85.    May: To Be True, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes   86.    May: Mister Magic, Grover Washington, Jr.   87.    May: Sun Goddess, Ramsey Lewis   88.    May: Just Another Way to Say I Love You, Barry White   89.    Jun: Survival, The O'Jays   90.    Jul: Disco Baby, Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony   91.    Aug: The Heat Is On, The Isley Brothers   92.    Aug: Chocolate Chip, Isaac Hayes   93.    Aug: Cut the Cake, Average White Band   94.    Aug: Why Can't We Be Friends?, War   95.    Sep: Non-Stop, B.T. Express   96.    Sep: Honey, The Ohio Players   97.    Oct: ...Is It Something I Said?, Richard Pryor   98.    Nov: Al Green Is Love, Al Green   99.    Nov: KC and the Sunshine Band, KC and the Sunshine Band   100.    Nov: Inseparable, Natalie Cole   101.    Nov: Save Me, Silver Convention   102.    Dec: Let's Do It Again, The Staple Singers   103.    Dec: Feels So Good, Grover Washington, Jr.   104.    Dec: Family Reunion, The O'Jays   105.    ***Vote:    106.    ###Key Artist: Natalie Maria Cole (25yrs old): singer-songwriter, actor, author, daughter of crooner Nat King Cole, nicknamed, "Sweetie"   107.    Short-story: Born and raised in Los Angeles. Grew up immersed in the music scene of her parents. Even though she didn't plan on a singing career, she took a summer job singing with a band in 1972. Albums soon followed, as well as two Grammy Awards for her debut album, Inseparable (1975). After a bout with addiction, Cole returned in the 1990s with Unforgettable... with Love, featuring renditions of songs previously sung by her father. Cole died in 2015 at the age of 65.   108.    Early Career: She met the writing and producing team of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy in 1975. The duo helped Cole land a deal with Capitol Records and, later that year, create the album Inseparable. With hit songs such as "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)," the album exploded onto the music scene, earning the young starlet her first two Grammy Awards—for best new artist and best female R&B performance.   109.    Cole's career took flight: she turned out four gold and two platinum records / in 1979, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame / Cole hit a lull in her career in the early 1980s due to her struggle with drug addiction / in 1991, she released Unforgettable... with Love. and won a Grammy for album of the year / in 2008, "Still Unforgettable" won another Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.   110.    Personal Life and Death: The death of her father, when she was 15 yrs. old, greatly affected her and put a strain on Cole's relationship with her mother. In her 2000 autobiography, Angel on my Shoulder, Cole exposed her depression and heavy drug use throughout her career. She began using in college. She overcame her addiction in 1983. In 2008, Cole was diagnosed with hepatitis C, a disease of the liver. She passed 7 from congestive heart failure on December 31, 2015.   111.    Legacy: "Cole wasn’t the next Aretha. She was the simply the MOST versatile vocalist of the soul-pop era" - Written by Keith Murphy (@murphdogg29) BET 1/2016  112.    Cole could do Chaka’s “Tell Me Something Good.”. But could Chaka do “Our Love.”? Cole could do Gladys Knight & the Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia.” But could Gladys do “Good Morning Heartache,’? Cole could do Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know.” But could Houston do “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” or “Something Got A Hold On Me”?   113.    Audio Clips   114.    ***Question: Silver spoon or deserved?   115.    ###Key Artist: Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (35yrs old): Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter (1940–2005)   116.    Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, he became one of the most influential comedians in the history of comedy. Few comics today will talk about their own careers without mentioning the inspiration they received from Pryor. A talented yet controversial man, most people either love him unconditionally or hate him passionately.    117.    Early Life: For much of his youth, Pryor was left in his grandmother's care and lived in the brothel she ran. He also experienced sexual abuse as a child, according to his official website. To step away from the grim reality of his life, Pryor found solace in going to the movies. Expelled from school at age 14, Pryor ended up working a string of jobs until he joined the military in 1958. He served in the army for only two years, as he was discharged for fighting with another soldier.   118.    Early Career: Returning home, he found work as a stand-up comic throughout the Midwest, playing African-American clubs in such cities as East St. Louis and Pittsburgh. In 1963, Pryor moved to New York City. The following year, he made his television debut on the variety show On Broadway Tonight. Guest appearances followed on such programs as The Merv Griffin Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. At the time, his act was modeled after two African-American comedians he admired, Bill Cosby and Dick Gregory.   119.    In 1960, while playing in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel, he had a panic attack and walked off stage. He wanted to give voice to the winos, pimps, dealers, and other characters in his head. He retreated to Berkeley, California, where he met a variety of counterculture figures, including Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton.   120.    Mainstream Success: In the early 1970s, Pryor scored several successes as an actor and comedian. He earned positive reviews for his supporting role in the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues (1972), starring Diana Ross. In 1973, he netted his first Emmy Award nomination (outstanding writing achievement in comedy, variety) for his work on The Lily Tomlin Show. The following year, Pryor took home his first Emmy (best writing in comedy, variety) for another collaboration with Lily Tomlin: the comedy special Lily (1973). Pryor also wrote for such shows as The Flip Wilson Show and Sanford and Son, which starred comedian Redd Foxx. Continuing to thrive professionally, Pryor co-starred with Max Julien in the film "The Mack" 91973) and worked with Mel Brooks on the screenplay for the western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974). His own work was also attracting a lot of attention. Despite its X-rated content, his third comedy albums sold extremely well and won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recordings in 1974, 1975, and 1976.   121.    Fans of all racial backgrounds were captivated by Pryor's comedy, which consisted of situational and character-driven humor in place of straightforward jokes. He poked fun at the white establishment and explored the racial divide. By the late 1970s, Pryor had a thriving career as a stand-up comic and movie actor.   122.    Audio Clips   123.    Troubled Personal Life: Pryor had a long history of substance abuse and stormy relationships. He got into legal trouble in the early 1970s for failing to file tax returns. / In 1978, Pryor had another run-in with the law after he shot his estranged wife's car. / Pryor’s health began to suffer, and he endured his first heart attack in 1978 / In June 1980, after several days of freebasing cocaine, he lit himself on fire in a suicide attempt /    124.    Later Years: In 1986, Pryor was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that affects the central nervous system. By the early 1990s, the once-kinetic Pryor was confined to a wheelchair. The comedian wrote the autobiography Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences with Todd Gold, earning critical acclaim upon its release in 1995. In 2001, Pryor remarried Jennifer Lee. He spent his final years with her at his California home. Outside of performing, Pryor was an advocate for animal rights and opposed animal testing. He established Pryor's Planet, a charity for animals.   125.    Death and Legacy: On December 10, 2005, Pryor died of a heart attack at a Los Angeles area hospital. In addition to providing audiences with both hilarious and moving performances, he paved the way for African-American comedians like Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock to make their mark. "Pryor started it all. He made the blueprint for the progressive thinking of black comedians, unlocking that irreverent style," comedian and filmmaker Keenen Ivory Wayans explained to The New York Times.   126.    ***Question: Given his EXTEMELY troubled personal life, does he deserve praise, pity, or pilloried (ridiculed publicly)?   127.    ###Vote for Key Artist:   128.    ###The Movie Scene    129.    Dolemite: Played by Rudy Ray Moore, who co-wrote the film. Moore had developed the alter-ego as a stand-up comedian and released several comedy albums using this persona. The film has attained cult status. Plot: Dolemite is a pimp and nightclub owner who is serving 20 years in prison after being set up by a rival, Willie Green. One day, his friend and fellow pimp Queen Bee helps him get out of jail, and plots with him to get revenge on Green.   130.    Mahogany: A romantic drama directed by Berry Gordy and produced by Motown Productions.  Mahogany stars Diana Ross as Tracy Chambers, a struggling fashion design student who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome. Fresh from the success of Lady Sings the Blues, this film served as Ross' follow-up feature film.   131.    Let's Do It Again is an action crime comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker. The film, directed by Poitier, is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge. The song of the same name by The Staple Singers was featured as the opening and ending theme of the movie, and as a result, the two have become commonly associated with each other.  This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night, and followed by A Piece of the Action (1977). Of the three, Let's Do It Again has been the most successful both critically and commercially. [FYI...Calvin Lockhart was Biggie Smalls and Jimmie Walker as Bootney Farnsworth]   132.    ###Key Movie: Cooley High: [My Favorite movie of all-time!]   133.    Summary: "...But "Cooley High" was no exploitation film. Unlike the other black stories being told on screen in the early '70s, this one wasn't about crime, racism, drugs, vengeance, or black-power heroes and heroines who stuck it to the Man. It was just about teens doing what teens do -- hanging out, going to school, going to parties, hooking up, cruising the streets, and dreaming of the future. Yes, there was petty crime and some tragic violence, but they weren't the focus of the story. It was just a slice of life, both specific and universal. As a result, "Cooley High" marked the beginning of the shift in African-American cinema away from blaxploitation toward more diverse stories of black life, although it would take another 20 years for that transition to be fully realized." - 'Cooley High' Is the Most Influential Movie You've Never Seen, by Gary Susman, moviefone.com   134.    Audio Clips   135.    In film, coming of age is a genre of teen films. Coming-of-age films focus on the psychological and moral growth or transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. Personal growth and change are an important characteristic of this genre, which relies on dialogue and emotional responses, rather than action. The main character is typically male, around mid-teen and the story is often told in the form of a flashback.   136.    Films in this subgenre include Bambi (1942), Oliver! (1967), American Graffiti (1973), Breaking Away (1979), The Last American Virgin (1982), The Breakfast Club (1985), Stand by Me (1986), Almost Famous (2000), the Harry Potter series (2001–2011), and Moonlight (2016)   137.    ***Question: The movie dealt with friendships, loyalty, betrayal, forgiveness, and regrets. Do you have any personal stories to tell that deal with these issues?   138.    ###The TV Scene: The Jefferson’s   139.    Sample review: Parents need to know that this classic '70s/'80s sitcom -- which follows an African-American couple who move to an upper-class Manhattan apartment in a primarily Caucasian neighborhood -- combines strong racial stereotypes with some positive representations of African Americans and interracial relationships. George Jefferson is stubborn, mean-spirited, and bigoted, and the show uses strong words like "damn" and racial epithets like "honky." The show is generally mild by today's standards, but George's inappropriate behavior and language may send iffy messages to younger viewers.   140.    For many black Americans, the news of actor Sherman Hemsley’s death represents a two-fold loss of both an incredible talent and the captivating character that was George Jefferson. By portraying the outspoken and incredibly honest Mr. Jefferson, who was never too shy to speak candidly about race relations in the seventies, Hemsley and his cast mates had a major effect on American television through the hit sitcom “The Jefferson’s.”    141.    As the longest-running series with a predominantly African American cast, the show was one of the first to portray a successful black family, paving the way for future sitcoms like “The Cosby Show” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” It was also the first series to prominently feature an interracial couple with the characters Helen and Tom Willis, using its makeup of colorful personalities to create humorous commentary about race in the United States at the time.    142.    Making its debut in 1975, the show mimicked its parent series “All In The Family,” but instead focused on a black household. George Jefferson displayed his distrust of white people and shared his views on race in America with a fervor that rivaled Archie Bunker’s comical, yet stinging, opinions about minorities. The show explored issues rarely discussed on television, and the characters’ frequent use of racially charged terms like “nigger” and “honky” placed the series in a class all its own. Although George and his wife Louise “Weezy” Jefferson’s sudden success catapulted them into a predominantly white world, they represented the epitome of black culture. Even the show’s popular theme song was reminiscent of the gospel tunes often heard in black churches.    143.    “The Jeffersons” use of confrontational humor and candid commentary that helped ease the discussion of topics like race and class on American television (and beyond) is the cornerstone of the show’s legacy. Its characters opened doors for future black actors, and its success proved that African American sitcoms did, in fact, resonate with general audiences.    144.    ***Open Comments:   145.    Legacy: We also recognized the familiar in George's willingness to put on airs if it meant seizing an advantage against a rival or gaining one from a potential patron, backing down only when it became clear that his honor or family's well-being was at risk. It was easy to mistake George's hustle as symptoms of a gratuitous and crass materialism, but, his endless striving, the relentless quest to impress the Wittendales of the world or to get into a posh tennis club, even though he had no clue or interest in the sport, was always about survival. Money, in George's mind, represented the best defense against discrimination. "Let me tell you something about people," George tells his old adversary Archie Bunker at a cocktail party. "That bartender's willing to work for me because if you got enough green in your pocket, then black becomes his favorite color." - What 'The Jeffersons' Taught Me About Being an American. SHERVIN MALEKZADEH  AUG 7, 2012   146.    "...And the previous, say, eight years or so were characterized by efforts to sort of break down institutional racism in America from the Civil Rights Act to desegregation in schools. And so, you had this whole level of black folks who were just being held back by institutional racism, and once those bonds started to break, they could build businesses. They could get great jobs, and they could move into the middle class and upper middle class in a way that they hadn't been able to do before. And "The Jeffersons" in its own way, even though it was also a very typical sitcom, very broad, it also talked about those elements. You know, George had to deal with his friends from the old neighborhood. They would come to visit and embarrass him because he was trying to impress the new wealthy people that he lived with in his new high-rise. And, you know, there was always that tension, and I think some black folks were going through that in their own lives. They could recognize a bit of that in what George Jefferson was doing. - Heard on All Things Considered, NPR   147.    ***Question: Was the show too unrealistic/out of reach?   148.    ***Vote: 1975 biggest legacy?

Inside U: The College Sports Podcast hosted by Xavier J. Audick In this episode, Xavier analyzes the College Football Playoff Committee's first Top-25 ranking of the season, explaining why Washington State fans and Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott should be grateful. Furthermore, Xavier discusses the University System of Maryland's decision to retain President Wallace D. Loh, Athletic Director Damon Evans, and Head Coach DJ Durkin. And, finally, Xavier previews this weekend's top Power Five games.

There's so much noise out there in social media, the news, and all of this circulating negative energy that takes people out of silence. Silence is where the juice and beauty is; that's where you can go deep within yourself and figure out what lights you on fire. A life without understanding who you really are is kind of fleeting; there's not a lot of joy to it. Finding yourself is an emotional rollercoaster so getting grounded in who you really are is what You Be You is all about. - Drew Canole What steps can you take to detox your life, crush limitations, and own your awesome? Discover your unique power like never before. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST  20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE On Wellness Force Radio episode 235, Transformation Coach, Founder of Organifi, and Author of You Be You, Drew Canole, joins us for the second time to reveal how every day can be a new rebirth for your life, what soul mapping is and why it's so vital for doing the inner work, and where exactly in your heart you can physically, spiritually, and mentally get in touch with yourself. Get ready to find out your 'why' and figure out what you want to see, hear, feel, and become as you go through your own You Be You self-discovery journey. "You can become someone new at any moment you choose. Most people are waiting for a specific magic moment but the thing is, there is magic in every single moment of our lives." - @drewcanole on @wellnessforce Radio episode 235 wellnessforce.com/235   Pre-Order You Be You now and get exclusive bonus content! You Be You is designed to empower you to seek more, be more, and do more--from a place of self-love, first and foremost. Loving yourself is not selfish; it's necessary. In this book, transformation specialist Drew Canole shows that no matter where you've been or where you are right now, there are tools you can implement to live fully, healthily, and happily. Drew himself has overcome insane obstacles--from a painful childhood spent in foster care, to being bullied, to an unhealthy relationship with food that resulted in gaining 40 pounds, to finally breaking through and harnessing his personal power to achieve incredible success! Drew will take you on a three-part journey to detox from external expectations, embrace your darkness and reclaim your light, and recognize your limitless potential. You'll shift from your current perspective and limiting beliefs to a new, more enlightened mindset that includes surrender, trust, self-honesty, meditation, positive intention, and kindness toward yourself and others. And the result? A life aligned with true purpose, meaning, and incredible amounts of awesomeness. Purchase 1 Book:  Instant Access to “Upgrade Your Life” Masterclass ($79 Value) Receive a special bundle of videos, PDFs, and meditation tracks designed to help you shift your life to the next level. Purchase 2 Books: Free Ticket to Live Online Workshop ($199 Value) Join Drew for a private event in San Diego, CA, or in real time by live streaming it from the comfort of your home, as Drew dives deeper into insights from the book and explores his favorite techniques to create lasting change in your life   Get 20% Off On Your Organifi Order Here   Listen To Episode 235 As Drew Canole Uncovers: How we can allow every day to be a new rebirth for our life rather than dwelling in the past. Why putting so much time and effort into our bodies can be a distraction for something more important in our lives. Why we're always striving to get to that place where we're enough when we've already reached it by just being us. The 3 phases of You Be You and why Drew structured the book to be condensed and full of information compared to being lengthy. How we can use trauma as fuel in our lives and for others as teachers, helpers, and mentors. Why self-care and self-love are the reason why we see positive results in our lives and the people in them. How Drew felt a spiritual push and guidance to be where he's at today in his life. His interest in NLP programming and how to create change with the help of mentors. The identity pyramid which allows you to break down your own identity and change who you are. Our 3D selves versus 4D and 5D selves and how to get to a more spiritual place. Where in our heart we can physically, spiritually, and mentally get in touch with ourselves. Why he doesn't focus on chasing his own success but how we can show up and empower others. How he creates a culture of transformational change within his company and how his team can share that with the world. The difference between how Organifi creates and sells their products compared to other companies who use lower quality ingredients. Why they chose to put reishi mushrooms, cordyceps, and rhodiola in their Organifi Red Juice. What a dry fast is and why he chooses to occasionally do one for a cellular clean up. Why he wants to be so open with other people about himself, what he's gone through, and what he's currently experiencing. Steps we can take to help people who are skeptical of self-responsibility and self-respect. The spiritual law of interference and karma: Why people who need to be healed will find what they need. Soul mapping - what it is and how it can help when you do inner work. The why identity process and how uncovering your 'why' is so important for understanding yourself. Power Quotes From The Show "Once you get everything that you want, you realize that it's such a small piece of the whole entire picture. I want as many as people as possible to wake up and recognize their own greatness." - @drewcanole on @wellnessforce Radio episode 235 wellnessforce.com/235 "When you make the conscious act every day to supply yourself with the highest quality nutritious, organic superfoods that have been clinically tested to legitimately lower your stress, reduce depression, increase your energy, improve your mood, and do all of these absolutely amazing things for the human body, it just changes you." - Drew Canole  "If I am part of divinity and a pencil in the hand of God plus know that God is constantly expanding in the constant universe, rippling out then my natural ability to expand co-exists with what that is. The big bang is inside of me so my ability to be open is really my ability to hook to the infinity that's within me. That's the greatest secret of all because once you have access to that and it's not about you, your dream life is there and divine synchronicity starts to happen. God or the universe is using us consistently but we have to be open to it." - Drew Canole "Put your faith out there and just be you; don't try to change yourself in order to sell more products because that's not going to be fun. You're going to get to the end of your life and you'll have all this money but if you lose yourself in the process of making money, that's not a life worth living. You just want to become more of who you are and you want the world to pay attention and buy that."  - Drew Canole "Soul mapping is really turning inwards, getting deep within yourself, and recognizing the patterns in our lives. When you look back far enough on your life, you'll see this red thread of patterns of your soul's choices. Once you get to that point, you're much more equipped to make choices from your soul in the future. A lot of times, we make choices from our mind but if you can start to make choices from your heart and soul, your purpose and desire for what you want to create on this planet really start to enlarge."  - Drew Canole Links From Today's Show Drew Canole Facebook Twitter Instagram Organifi FitLifeTV YouTube  Facebook Pinterest You Be You WFR 078 Drew Canole: Self Love, Juicing, & Transformation FitLifeTV Alpha Reset Wayne Dyer Jim Fortin The Joel S. Goldsmith book collection on Amazon Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Graham Hancock The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles The Kybalion Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan Eckhart Tolle WFR 226 Paul Chek About Drew Canole Fueled by small-town values and a big vision for a better planet, Drew Canole begins each day with one simple goal in mind – to positively impact the lives of others. Through his work as a Personal Coach and endeavors such as EnrichYourExistence.com and FitLife.tv, Drew aims to inspire and motivate others to search deep within themselves to create an abundant, healthy and fulfilling life. "Improve one life; improve the world." Drew was born and raised in the small, rural community of Lake City in Northern Michigan. After attending Central Michigan University, he launched a successful career in finance before recognizing that his greatest talent was helping others discover their untapped potential. He currently resides in San Diego, where his work as an author, fitness specialist and transformation expert has made him one of the most reputable Personal Coaches in Southern California. Drew is committed to the conviction that people are at their best when challenged. 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If you've ever heard, read, or watched a movie about Positive Thinking and the Law of Attraction, then do we have a special show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award Winning Historian, and the author of Occult America, and the vice-president, executive editor, and director of backlist and reissues at TarcherPerigree. He is also the author of a fascinating new book on Positive Thinking “ One Simple Idea. Today we'll talk about what Positive Thinking, New Thought, and the Law of Attraction really is, where it came from, how it came about, what's real about it, and what isn't, and how we can all use it to transform our lives. That plus we'll talk about hardware stores and milk, heart shaped pink buckets, and how we can transcend our cake and eat it too. Questions and Topics Include: What book Elvis's hair stylist gave him? How Elvis read books by Earnest Holmes, Madame HP Lebatsky, Manley P. Hall Gave him a copy got a copy of the Impersonal Life from Joseph Benner What do we do if we're stuck in a 9 to 5 job? What's a great book to discover your purpose? Why you want to read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Ebby Thatcher How do you help someone to find their one thing and light the fire underneath them How to get the subconscious working for at night or at any time through the day. Why we don't want to blame ourselves for negative events…and why we don't want to interpret Rhonda Byrne's The Secret in this way. What you want to do if someone (or you) is sick. What is a D-Day approach to healing (including, but not limited to the spiritual and meditative side of things) What do we need to know about Wallace D. Wattles author of The Science of Getting Rich What can we learn about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Thought movement What is the definition of New Thought (Positivity and New Age and metaphysics movement) What it means that thoughts are causative – that thoughts become things Where did the Law of Attraction come from and when did it first come about? What Andrew Jackson Davis has to do with the Law of Attraction Who were the first new thought writers to talk about ‘what you think about you bring about Prentice Mulford and his book Your Forces and How to See Them. (also used by Christian D. Larsen) What is Hermeticism? (From Alexandria and Egypt in the time after Christ) What Greeks have to do with the positivity movement? Why ESP research has been hijacked, when there's good literature and proper science behind it. JB Rine who had an ESP lab at Duke for several decades and did several hundred thousand trials What ESP has to do with positivity Why New Thought was originally focused around healing and then why it shifted in this country What can we learn from Earnest Holmes? Why Neville Goddard is Mitch's personal favorite. What can we learn from Norman Vincent Peale? Who was American's evangelizer of the positive What did Ronald Reagan have to do with positivity and positive thinking metaphysics How Reagan made positive thinking metaphysics mainstream Americanism. Who gave birth to the whole field and business of audiobooks today. What can we learn from Earl Nightingale and The Strangest Secret Where the Dr. Demartini statement ‘What we think about and thank about we bring about' (Law of Attraction!) How do we transcend our cake and eat it too? How important is the meaning behind each word we chose to use. What's wrong with the term ‘enlightenment'? How Mitch just wrote the article “Is there a right way to affirm” for Science and Mind Magazine Is there a best way to think and to pray? What's it mean in New Thought or positivity to ‘think from the end' What are pink heart-shaped buckets? What did Rod Sterling of the Twilight Zone give us? What can William James tell us? What are some of Mitch's most powerful personal practices? What's the importance of expressing gratitude? What strange habit Michael and Mitch share on journaling What's the power of writing down goals What's the power of a 3 PM prayer Why Aldous Huxley felt kindness was the powerful tool What's the importance of radical forgiveness Why it's so important to abstain from humiliation What are a few more of his top must reads Resurrection by Neville Goddard William James Essay “Is Life Worth Living” Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich The Power of Your Super Mind by Vernon Howard One Simple Idea is now out on paperback – Occult America also available wherever books sold Can find more at mitchhorowitz.com or on google put in Mitch Horowitz How there is a vast family tree behind new age, new thought, and positivity have such a rich and powerful history Guided Positive Thinking Law of Attraction Meditation Mitch Horowitz Shares the Power of Positive Thinking & Law of Attraction from Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Earnest Holmes, Norman Peale, Neville Goddard, Earl Nightingale + Guided Meditation! 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 90% of success is all about having a strong mindset and attitude.  One of the greatest ways to build and maintain a positive mindset is through reading great books. Here are my TOP 10 MINDSET BOOKS (in alphabetical order): As a Man Thinketh by James Allen; The Answer by John Assaraf & Murray Smith; Awaken the Giant Within, by Anthony (Tony) Robbins; The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz; The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. Schwartz; The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod; #HalElrod #MiracleMorning The Secret by Rhonda Byrne; The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale; Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill; You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero. Here are my Honorable Mention Selections: The Master Key to Riches, by Napoleon Hill; Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill; How to Raise Your Own Salary by Napoleon Hill; The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattle   If this episode helps you, please LIKE, COMMENT & SHARE. Hit SUBSCRIBE to get notices of new episode! Go to YesMasters.com For more killer training videos for REALTORS who want more Yes's and more Successes in their business and in their life! From Kevin Ward, international real estate trainer, speaker, and coach.

If you've ever heard, read, or watched a movie about Positive Thinking and the Law of Attraction, then do we have a special show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award Winning Historian, and the author of Occult America, and the vice-president, executive editor, and director of backlist and reissues at TarcherPerigree. He is also the author of a fascinating new book on Positive Thinking “ One Simple Idea. Today we'll talk about what Positive Thinking, New Thought, and the Law of Attraction really is, where it came from, how it came about, what's real about it, and what isn't, and how we can all use it to transform our lives. That plus we'll talk about hardware stores and milk, heart shaped pink buckets, and how we can transcend our cake and eat it too. Questions and Topics Include: What book Elvis's hair stylist gave him? How Elvis read books by Earnest Holmes, Madame HP Lebatsky, Manley P. Hall Gave him a copy got a copy of the Impersonal Life from Joseph Benner What do we do if we're stuck in a 9 to 5 job? What's a great book to discover your purpose? Why you want to read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Ebby Thatcher How do you help someone to find their one thing and light the fire underneath them How to get the subconscious working for at night or at any time through the day. Why we don't want to blame ourselves for negative events…and why we don't want to interpret Rhonda Byrne's The Secret in this way. What you want to do if someone (or you) is sick. What is a D-Day approach to healing (including, but not limited to the spiritual and meditative side of things) What do we need to know about Wallace D. Wattles author of The Science of Getting Rich What can we learn about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Thought movement What is the definition of New Thought (Positivity and New Age and metaphysics movement) What it means that thoughts are causative – that thoughts become things Where did the Law of Attraction come from and when did it first come about? What Andrew Jackson Davis has to do with the Law of Attraction Who were the first new thought writers to talk about ‘what you think about you bring about Prentice Mulford and his book Your Forces and How to See Them. (also used by Christian D. Larsen) What is Hermeticism? (From Alexandria and Egypt in the time after Christ) What Greeks have to do with the positivity movement? Why ESP research has been hijacked, when there's good literature and proper science behind it. JB Rine who had an ESP lab at Duke for several decades and did several hundred thousand trials What ESP has to do with positivity Why New Thought was originally focused around healing and then why it shifted in this country What can we learn from Earnest Holmes? Why Neville Goddard is Mitch's personal favorite. What can we learn from Norman Vincent Peale? Who was American's evangelizer of the positive What did Ronald Reagan have to do with positivity and positive thinking metaphysics How Reagan made positive thinking metaphysics mainstream Americanism. Who gave birth to the whole field and business of audiobooks today. What can we learn from Earl Nightingale and The Strangest Secret Where the Dr. Demartini statement ‘What we think about and thank about we bring about' (Law of Attraction!) How do we transcend our cake and eat it too? How important is the meaning behind each word we chose to use. What's wrong with the term ‘enlightenment'? How Mitch just wrote the article “Is there a right way to affirm” for Science and Mind Magazine Is there a best way to think and to pray? What's it mean in New Thought or positivity to ‘think from the end' What are pink heart-shaped buckets? What did Rod Sterling of the Twilight Zone give us? What can William James tell us? What are some of Mitch's most powerful personal practices? What's the importance of expressing gratitude? What strange habit Michael and Mitch share on journaling What's the power of writing down goals What's the power of a 3 PM prayer Why Aldous Huxley felt kindness was the powerful tool What's the importance of radical forgiveness Why it's so important to abstain from humiliation What are a few more of his top must reads Resurrection by Neville Goddard William James Essay “Is Life Worth Living” Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich The Power of Your Super Mind by Vernon Howard One Simple Idea is now out on paperback – Occult America also available wherever books sold Can find more at mitchhorowitz.com or on google put in Mitch Horowitz How there is a vast family tree behind new age, new thought, and positivity have such a rich and powerful history Guided Positive Thinking Law of Attraction Meditation Mitch Horowitz Shares the Power of Positive Thinking & Law of Attraction from Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Earnest Holmes, Norman Peale, Neville Goddard, Earl Nightingale + Guided Meditation! Health | Business | Career | Self-Improvement | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Bryce Prescott knows that the rules of success are more than principles of business, but executing through the challenges, trials, and emotions. In late 2014, Mr. Prescott started what became The Rules of Success Podcast as an outlet to share his perspective about life and all of it’s challenges and blessings. The show focuses on the areas of health, spirituality, relationships and business. The purpose is to provide the listener a fast track to both enjoy quicker success and to avoid unnecessary pitfalls. The success he has enjoyed has come with it’s fair share of failure and embarrassment, and it is the polarity of his experiences that is the basis for his refreshing take on balance, success and true achievement. On this show we discuss persevering through business challenges, mindset, and healthy living. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: Being the right person at the right time, at the right place Maintaining an abundant mindset Why you don’t have to have all of the answers Masterminds, Coaching, and Meditating Success leaves clues Life has a clock on it, cancer Eating healthy Using creativity to cleanse yourself of fear and resentment and more! Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Bryce’s Twitter, @iamMrPrescott Bryce’s website: iammrprescott.com Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Ever work at a standup desk and could use a little support? With the Focal Upright system, you can be more productive longer, while engaging your full body for a healthier and fun way to work.  (affiliate link) Thanks for Listening! Thanks

After Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker talk about the secular origins of Labor Day, Dan describes his first visit to speak as an atheist in a prison (Jackson Correctional Institution). We announce a new drawing for a free copy of FFRF’s music CD “Friendly Neighborhood Atheist,” a 2-CD compilation with 34 historic and contemporary freethought songs. We listen to the humorous poem “Reincarnation” by cowboy poet Wallace D. McRae set to music by Dan Barker. Then we speak with Diane Burkholder, a cisgender, queer, mixed race, Black feminist community organizer with the Kansas City Freethinkers of Color who will tell us about the intersectionality of various minority causes.

If you've ever heard, read, or watched a movie about Positive Thinking and the Law of Attraction, then do we have a special show for you. Today I'll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award Winning Historian, and the author of Occult America, and the vice-president, executive editor, and director of backlist and reissues at TarcherPerigree. He is also the author of a fascinating new book on Positive Thinking “ One Simple Idea. Today we'll talk about what Positive Thinking, New Thought, and the Law of Attraction really is, where it came from, how it came about, what's real about it, and what isn't, and how we can all use it to transform our lives. That plus we'll talk about hardware stores and milk, heart shaped pink buckets, and how we can transcend our cake and eat it too. Questions and Topics Include: What book Elvis's hair stylist gave him? How Elvis read books by Earnest Holmes, Madame HP Lebatsky, Manley P. Hall Gave him a copy got a copy of the Impersonal Life from Joseph Benner What do we do if we're stuck in a 9 to 5 job? What's a great book to discover your purpose? Why you want to read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Ebby Thatcher How do you help someone to find their one thing and light the fire underneath them How to get the subconscious working for at night or at any time through the day. Why we don't want to blame ourselves for negative events…and why we don't want to interpret Rhonda Byrne's The Secret in this way. What you want to do if someone (or you) is sick. What is a D-Day approach to healing (including, but not limited to the spiritual and meditative side of things) What do we need to know about Wallace D. Wattles author of The Science of Getting Rich What can we learn about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Thought movement What is the definition of New Thought (Positivity and New Age and metaphysics movement) What it means that thoughts are causative – that thoughts become things Where did the Law of Attraction come from and when did it first come about? What Andrew Jackson Davis has to do with the Law of Attraction Who were the first new thought writers to talk about ‘what you think about you bring about Prentice Mulford and his book Your Forces and How to See Them. (also used by Christian D. Larsen) What is Hermeticism? (From Alexandria and Egypt in the time after Christ) What Greeks have to do with the positivity movement? Why ESP research has been hijacked, when there's good literature and proper science behind it. JB Rine who had an ESP lab at Duke for several decades and did several hundred thousand trials What ESP has to do with positivity Why New Thought was originally focused around healing and then why it shifted in this country What can we learn from Earnest Holmes? Why Neville Goddard is Mitch's personal favorite. What can we learn from Norman Vincent Peale? Who was American's evangelizer of the positive What did Ronald Reagan have to do with positivity and positive thinking metaphysics How Reagan made positive thinking metaphysics mainstream Americanism. Who gave birth to the whole field and business of audiobooks today. What can we learn from Earl Nightingale and The Strangest Secret Where the Dr. Demartini statement ‘What we think about and thank about we bring about' (Law of Attraction!) How do we transcend our cake and eat it too? How important is the meaning behind each word we chose to use. What's wrong with the term ‘enlightenment'? How Mitch just wrote the article “Is there a right way to affirm” for Science and Mind Magazine Is there a best way to think and to pray? What's it mean in New Thought or positivity to ‘think from the end' What are pink heart-shaped buckets? What did Rod Sterling of the Twilight Zone give us? What can William James tell us? What are some of Mitch's most powerful personal practices? What's the importance of expressing gratitude? What strange habit Michael and Mitch share on journaling What's the power of writing down goals What's the power of a 3 PM prayer Why Aldous Huxley felt kindness was the powerful tool What's the importance of radical forgiveness Why it's so important to abstain from humiliation What are a few more of his top must reads Resurrection by Neville Goddard William James Essay “Is Life Worth Living” Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich The Power of Your Super Mind by Vernon Howard One Simple Idea is now out on paperback – Occult America also available wherever books sold Can find more at mitchhorowitz.com or on google put in Mitch Horowitz How there is a vast family tree behind new age, new thought, and positivity have such a rich and powerful history Guided Positive Thinking Law of Attraction Meditation Mitch Horowitz Shares the Power of Positive Thinking & Law of Attraction from Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Earnest Holmes, Norman Peale, Neville Goddard, Earl Nightingale + Guided Meditation! Health | Business | Career | Self-Improvement | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

As entrepreneurs, we face many challenges on a daily basis, challenges that are very different from those who have a “real job”. Fear can be crippling for anyone, however this episode should provide a different outlook overcoming fear and taking action after hearing Eva and Elia’s story. Eva is from Hungary, Elia is from Italy, they came to this country just a few years ago...hand in hand with nothing but each other...their clothes and a few dollars. It began with focus…..they did not think about what they didn’t know…..instead they focused on what they planned to achieve. Traveling to the US to begin a new life did not include a set of First Class seats on the Concorde, nor were they carrying suitcases of cash. They did however share a dream….to move to America and build a real estate investing business from scratch. Eva and Elia spent many hours involved in self improvement by reading real estate investment books….book that were written in English, even though they did not speak English fluently. They continued to expand their horizons by attending local REIA Meetings. (Real Estate Investment Associations) By attending networking events and simply being genuine, they attracted the attention of local real estate investment experts. These experts approached them and offered their assistance in educating Elia and Eva on creative acquisition techniques. As part of creative acquisition practice they began striking deals with local investors to remove unwanted items from houses that were being renovated or “trashed out”. The term “trashed out” is used when someone is hired to remove the garbage, furniture and other personal belongings from a home once its occupant has vacated. Mentors such as the late Jim Rohn, Larry Harbolt, John Schaub, Pete Fortunato, “Uncle Jack” and many more have been a great help to Eva and Elia. If they had not first put themselves out there to be willing to learn, they would not have been in a position to “receive the information” Eva and Elia believe in helping others first…. that mindset usually results in others feeling compelled to help you in return. This very basic principle is what initially resulted in the launch of the CashFlowGuys brand and has helped launch Eva and Elia’s business. Elia says to overcome fear quickly, begin with the steps that you fear the most….that way everything else becomes easy. AWESOME Advice! During the show Tyler Sheff asked Eva and Elia “What can our audience do to help you?” Eva and Elia responded with the following: “We are thankful for people that believed in us and gave us a chance. Whoever has given us a chance we've never let them down. If you want to help us, all we ask is that you give us a chance. Our goal at this stage of our lives is to build credibility and gain visibility. If you want to refer us a deal (we'd reward you for it), interview us or have us sponsor your event, we'd appreciate it.” Eva and Elia As promised Eva and Elia’s favorite books are as follows: Building Wealth One House at a Time by John Schaub 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher by Jim Rohn The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr Joe Dispenza Here are a few books Eva and Elia would love to read (perhaps you could pay it forward and send them a copy): Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur How to Negotiate Real Estate Contracts by Mark Warda How I Turned $1,000 Into $1,000,000 in My Spare Time by William Nickerson (suggested by John Schaub in his book Building Wealth One House at a Time)   Contact Info for Eva and Elia: Real Estate Helpful Solutions - LMRT Inc. Phone: 727-366 6916 E-mail: realhelpfulsolutions@gmail.com Website: http://www.realestatehelpfulsolutions.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/REALtreasuresfound/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/REALfound  

Our quote for today is from Joe Mullally. He said, "I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it." In this podcast, we are making our way through Garry R. Morgan's book, "Understanding World Religions in 15 Minutes a Day."  Our Understanding World Religions topic for today is, "The Nation of Islam."  The Nation of Islam is probably best known for the Million Man March, held on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on October 16, 1995. Louis Farrakhan, its leader, gave the keynote address and led the huge crowd in pledges to "take responsibility for their lives and families, and commit to stopping the scourges of drugs, violence, and unemployment." Social and economic improvement for African-Americans through self-discipline and moral living has always been part of the Nation's beliefs, and it has made a positive contribution to the lives of many in this regard.  The Nation of Islam began in 1930. In this period of Jim Crow laws, legal segregation, and horrendous discrimination, millions of poor, rural African-Americans from southern states migrated to northern cities in search of work. Conditions often were no better than what they had left behind. Into this situation a man named Wallace D. Fard appeared, in Detroit, preaching a message of Black supremacy. He said all Africans were originally Muslim; Christianity, which most African-Americans then professed, was a tool of "white devils" to subjugate them. Rather than seeking equality and integration, Fard preferred a totally segregated, Apartheid-like system where Blacks would have their own country. Many saw his message as the way out of poverty and oppression, and he gained many followers.  In 1931, Fard met Elijah Poole (who took the name Elijah Muhammad) and trained him for over three years before Fard mysteriously disappeared. Elijah Muhammad took over leadership, and the organization continued to grow, later attracting such celebrities as Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Elijah Muhammad taught that W.D. Fard was Allah in the flesh, the Messiah and the Mahdi, and gave him the title of The Master. He claimed he'd been called by The Master to be the true religion's final Messenger.  ...

Freethought Radio interviews Mikey Weinstein, the retired Air Force attorney who has formed the Military Religious Freedom Foundation to fight high-ranking evangelism in the military. The show covers recent exposes his group has uncovered, including the filming of a video for the Christian Embassy at the Pentagon, "soul saving" by a ministry group in a Pentagon commons, and halting a Pentagon plan to help distribute the "Left Behind" videogame to all soldiers in Iraq. The show also marsk the birthdate of H.L. Mencken, and broadcast "Reincarnation," words by cowboy poet Wallace D. MacRae, music by Dan Barker. (MP3, 47 min, 42.9 MB)