1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 Okay. All right. She's got the new speak Spanish by chance. 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:05,520 Un poquito. 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,720 Oh, look at that. What a good accent too. Yeah. Right. And 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,280 yeah. And you didn't say un chico, which is, which is 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,520 right, too. All right. Good stuff. So how the heck did you 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:16,600 get into this? 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,720 High performance and speaking, 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,120 high performance and speaking specifically with schools. 9 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,660 Like what really the the genesis of it all is, of course, you 10 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:31,040 know, childhood trauma and believing that I was never good 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,400 enough or there was something wrong with me. And so I had to 12 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,680 perform and achieve for attention and recognition and 13 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,680 love. And that put me on that path and that pattern in life 14 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,240 of performing and you know, seeking attention and all that 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,960 kind of stuff. And then really what got me into it though, a 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,640 few years ago was that like I crashed and burned and lost 17 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,320 everything, which we can go into more detail if you want. 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,520 All right, welcome in to vision pros live with Jackson Callum. 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,200 Your show host will be doing interviews for visionary 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,720 entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building fantastic 21 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:04,480 visions out there. 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,500 Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome into vision pros live. 23 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:19,960 Today's a special special day, mainly because I've got James 24 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,520 pile here. And we're gonna be talking about the kids and the 25 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,800 future of education and schools and really the now of education 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,960 and what we need to be doing to help. But I'm also super jazzed 27 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,680 today because it's my birthday. So I got to be excited about 28 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,440 that. And without further ado, I'm going to dive into some of 29 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,880 these sponsors. So cold click right here. Cold click is what 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,200 we use for LinkedIn automation. Art Hoffman, fantastic leader, 31 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,920 great at teaching how to go about getting those systems in 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,940 place, and making sure that you maximize your opportunity with 33 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:51,080 your market. I love it because it helps make sure they make 34 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,920 sure that we don't break any of the rules that the algorithms 35 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,120 need us to follow in order to make sure we maximize the amount 36 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,040 of great people that we're touching base with. That's 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,720 really what it's all about. It's about capturing enough of an 38 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,880 audience to find the people who are in a great position to start 39 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,360 a relationship with you in the here and now not everybody is 40 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,440 and that's okay. We will cultivate those relationships 41 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,320 over time. But the more people we can connect with usually the 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,560 more amount of good we can do by joining forces with said people. 43 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,080 So that also leads to tap mental I can't point on my screen for 44 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,480 that one right now. But tap mental.io is run by Dave Goodall. 45 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,520 He actually met us on the podcast and decided to become a 46 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,240 client and I've been super impressed with him. He bridges a 47 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,280 gap between psychology with systems for business owners and 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,000 he does it super, super well but impressed with his case studies. 49 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,500 I've been impressed with what he's been able to do for me in 50 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,140 the same regard, as well as, you know, as you just get to know 51 00:02:46,140 --> 00:02:49,960 his stories of how deep his background runs for expertise. 52 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,920 If you're looking for a business consultant, somebody to help 53 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,320 you within like a 90 day period and and do so in a systematic 54 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,720 fashion, he's got his six phases to help entrepreneurs unlock 55 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,200 again, the psychological barriers that often get in the 56 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,480 way of driving results and creating reliable teams. So I 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,680 highly recommend checking out what Dave's up to. And that's 58 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,680 also going to lead into a great conversation with James Pyle. 59 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,280 And I get so excited to talk about the kids that I also don't 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,360 want to forget about the water project and the kids that not 61 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,000 only are they pulled away from their education, they're pulled 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,400 away from their education often because they have to go find 63 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,880 clean drinking water for their family. And in most cases, it's 64 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,440 not sanitary drinking water, they just have to go get 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,480 something to survive. So, you know, imagine your children 66 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,400 having to do that, having to go three, four miles to find water, 67 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,840 bring it back for the community, rather than receiving their 68 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,440 daily education that nurtures them and allows them to create 69 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,360 an even better life for themselves. Well, the water 70 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,400 project allows you to pick communities and then donate 71 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,000 whether you have a dollar or you have $100,000 to give away to 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,600 help with it, you empower people with a basic resource that is 73 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,680 needed for them to survive. And then hopefully be able to thrive 74 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,320 on top of that it is such an empowering feeling to be able to 75 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,680 get the email that says you've made this project happen for 76 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,280 this community. And to know that you've contributed to it and 77 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,440 get to see the results of that community go from, you know, the 78 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,280 the what you could imagine would be despair and desperation of 79 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:25,840 not having access to water like that on a daily basis to then 80 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:30,000 having it almost freely available. It's a really cool 81 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,480 feeling to have been involved in that. So make sure to get 82 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,320 involved, whether it's the water project or helping out with 83 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,440 any other any other form of volunteerism that you can go 84 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,840 ahead and drop the link in the comments as well. If you have 85 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,200 something that you would rather see us focus on or control 86 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,240 or contribute to, there's a lot of great causes in the world. 87 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,040 I'm all about driving awareness for those. And so without 88 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,920 further ado, I'm going to bring on James Pyle. He's on a 89 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,440 mission to equip, empower and encourage 10,000 top school 90 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,360 speakers that could be you that could be me. And over the next 91 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,400 three years, he's going to be training us how to inspire and 92 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,920 encourage youth and educators to know their true identity, 93 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,880 leverage diversity for acceleration and be the person 94 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,840 that they are created to be. And you know, there's a lot of 95 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,480 people who talk about how difficult things can be right 96 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,520 now, but I like that James is focused on making sure that we 97 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,480 make time to talk about the opportunities at hand. We're 98 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,320 taking education by storm. I'm using his words now and 99 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,720 committed to informing the next generation and those who 100 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,600 influence them most on the realities of life and how to 101 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,120 best navigate their journey. And he's just received a 2.2 102 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,720 million dollar rather just launched a 2.2 million dollar 103 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,320 scholarship campaign this fall to help aspiring speakers get 104 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,320 everything that they need to succeed speaking in schools. So 105 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,840 without further ado, James, thank you for joining me on 106 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,560 Vision Pros Live, my friend and I can't wait to unpack this 107 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,840 vision of yours. Oh, howdy everybody. Man, thanks for 108 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,400 having me. Happy birthday. Everybody give a big round of 109 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,360 applause. Celebrate woohoo. Another lap around the sun into 110 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,960 many, many, many more for this wonderful man, Jackson. So 111 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,480 bless you, brother. Oh, thank you, James. Man, I appreciate 112 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,000 that. So as we dive in, I got we gotta find out for these 113 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,920 listeners. So other than what I explained myself, what should 114 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,960 what should they be expecting on the show and and why should 115 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,280 people be listening to you about this subject? Well, 116 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,680 nobody should listen to me about anything. In fact, don't 117 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,520 listen at all. No, just kidding. The reason why is 118 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,520 because so many people in this world. In fact, really, I 119 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,960 believe everybody we're all attacked in our identity and so 120 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,520 much of the world is lacking self-awareness, which we call 121 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,240 step zero. And so why people should listen to this episode 122 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,640 is is that if you're sick and tired of living a mediocre 123 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,960 life, if you're sick and tired of average, if if you've got a 124 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,760 bone in your body that's like upset about the way things are 125 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,000 happening in the world and you find yourself thinking about 126 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,280 it or talking about it, this episode in particular is very 127 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,080 important because we're gonna be talking about a lot of very 128 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,840 very rich ideas, wisdom, content and frameworks for 129 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,000 people to be able to take action. You know for for myself, 130 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 I'm a person who's compelled to act and so because of that, I'm 131 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,320 tired of people talking about how messed up things are and 132 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,640 that's why we're on the path we're on because we're 133 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,840 committed to actually doing something about it or at least 134 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,440 going at it with everything in us till the day we die. I love 135 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,840 it and so when you talk about getting these leaders on stage, 136 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:36,000 you know, who do you consider a leader and what types of people 137 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,400 are able to go to these speaking engagements and 138 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,200 participate? Yeah. So that's the coolest thing about this is 139 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,440 that you never know where people are gonna come from and 140 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,360 and what's really gonna qualify them other than usually it just 141 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,240 is one of those facts of life. Usually, it's a it's a tragic 142 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,760 experience and in fact, it's usually you know significant 143 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,040 tragedy, suffering, pain, hardship, all these types of 144 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,000 things that most people run from that's that's actually the 145 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,880 place where we find that seed has been planted in a person's 146 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,920 life for them to actually be able to do like it talked about 147 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,320 at the top of the web page there and that is to shine 148 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,200 brighter and you know, it's just an amazing amazing opportunity 149 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,480 that we all have here to be able to be alive right now in 150 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,520 this time and I think most people at least you know that 151 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,720 I'm aware of think that things are kinda jacked up and guess 152 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,840 what? That's why we are here right now is we're the ones 153 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,440 that have been sent here to be alive and to fix this stuff. So 154 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,400 rather than just complaining about being upset about it, 155 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,960 we're committed to actually taking the action to help 156 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,640 rebuild this country and train people to take responsibility 157 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,480 for their lives. I love that man. You're your question 158 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,280 there. Sorry about that. What qualifies somebody and and how 159 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,800 we identify people who would be great for speaking is 160 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,360 literally you've had a calling on your heart your whole life. 161 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,440 It's not something that you stumbled into today or you heard 162 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,280 about in this podcast. You're like, oh wow, speaking in 163 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,240 school sounds interesting. No, you've had a fire in your soul 164 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,400 your entire life and you know it's part of your purpose and 165 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:09,040 you're calling and you actually know that it takes getting 166 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,040 mentored by people who have the systems of success for you to 167 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,080 actually achieve success in something and so what we look 168 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,880 for especially in people that we deal with is is people with 169 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,720 a servant heart people that are actually about the purpose of 170 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,200 helping inspire and encourage youth and educators and parents 171 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,000 and knowing that like the income and pay is part of that, 172 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,640 but that they're not out for the money. So, that's really 173 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,920 what identifies people in our programs. I love that and I love 174 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,160 that you led with trauma as well as a reality. You know, 175 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,880 most great motivational speakers speak from the depths 176 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,320 of the traumas that they had to overcome and so if you are in 177 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,480 that position, it's like if you've gone through trauma and 178 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,640 you're still dealing with it and you're not comfortable 179 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,040 talking about it, we're not talking about you. We're talking 180 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,600 about people who have have a desire to share how to overcome 181 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,400 that trauma with others and so you you know who you are if 182 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,800 you're in that boat. So, James, what's your vision for those 183 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:10,320 that you serve in 30 seconds? Yeah, my vision is to elevate 184 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,920 self-awareness so that people can know who they truly are 185 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,720 because when we know who we are, we know why we're here and 186 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,520 what to do and I'm very very driven to empower others with 187 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,920 that knowledge of self-awareness so they can 188 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,080 actually fulfill their potential and when we get to the 189 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,160 end of our lives and we meet the creator, we could actually 190 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,800 see that hey, we ticked all those boxes we were supposed 191 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,720 to take in our life and then heaven is really heaven. So, 192 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,720 yes. Okay. Awesome. I love that. So, let's dive into your 193 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,520 vision. What is your personal vision look like? Yeah. So, my 194 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:50,480 personal vision is to continue to be a role model for others 195 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,200 and finding the cure to their pain and giving it away to the 196 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,120 world. Instead of looking for role models, we must become the 197 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,880 role model and build the person we admire most so that we can 198 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:05,680 be that role model for us and for others. Yeah. Well said. 199 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:09,920 Okay. So, it sounds a lot like becoming your best self. You 200 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,400 know, it's it's a big part of that process and I I like that 201 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,240 you call self-awareness step zero. That's interesting. 202 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,000 Where did that come from? That came from losing everything in 203 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,520 my life actually due to drug and alcohol addiction. Living 204 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,440 like a complete goofball and pursuing you know, every carnal 205 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,360 pursuit there is pretty much and then I realized like, you 206 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,000 know, so many people are so excited to do like, you know, 207 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,480 personal growth, self-development or a program 208 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,240 for anything and I realized after losing everything six 209 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,400 years ago that until we have self-awareness, we can't even 210 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,080 begin any program. So, we call this step zero is actually a 211 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,800 friend of mine and I came up with it because it's the step 212 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,520 you have to have in place as the foundation before any step 213 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,640 of any program will actually work. So, it's that 214 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,120 foundational building block that most people skip over and 215 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,480 never talk about but without it, nothing else can exist and the 216 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,680 way I always share with people is is you know, it's like GPS, 217 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:09,760 right? You gotta put in an endpoint and then it gives you 218 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,800 your directions based on where you are. If you don't put in 219 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,640 where you're at and you don't put in where you're going, 220 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,920 you're certainly not gonna end up where you wanna be. Dude, 221 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,760 you nailed it. That's really interesting. I hadn't thought 222 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,720 about it that way but calibrating that beginning 223 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,200 point, you know, is is critical because your path would be 224 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,320 totally, you know, even if you were off by a total of twenty 225 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,280 yards, right? Now, you're trying to travel through 226 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,040 buildings for instance, instead of on the proper street and 227 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:42,400 it's it becomes impossible or damaging. You know, if you were 228 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,080 to be to be able to do that physically, imagine the damage, 229 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,320 the stress, the chaos, the the laws that you would break. Well, 230 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,480 there's no difference in terms of how we navigate our personal 231 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,040 lives as well. We've gotta be able to self-calibrate. I love 232 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,680 that. I've never heard that. I'm borrowing that from here on 233 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:03,200 out and I will. Yeah, there's nothing new under the sun as 234 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,160 you know. So, anything that's come through me is I got from 235 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,200 somewhere somehow. You got it, man. Well, you talked about 236 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,840 some of the some of the traumas, some of the struggles 237 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:17,120 that you had. Let's talk about your worst business experience 238 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,600 ever. Have you crossed that? You crossed one of those that 239 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:26,160 qualifies as that. Yeah, totally. So, six years ago, I 240 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,440 was in a pattern in my life where I was heavily addicted to 241 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,560 prescription pills and because of that, I was behaving in ways 242 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,680 that I was not proud of myself in and that fueled the 243 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,280 addictions. I literally could not even stand looking at 244 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,800 myself in the mirror and so I was using it as an escape 245 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,880 mechanism and I had a company we were building at the time we 246 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,560 were doing real estate investing. We had flipped I 247 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:56,000 think about eighty-seven houses in eighteen months and we were 248 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,520 literally on track to surpass ten mil our second year and I 249 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,240 lost everything. I literally pretty much gave my company away 250 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,480 like I went along with this plan of the people around me who 251 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,080 were maneuvering on me and I gave my business away pretty 252 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,840 much and I almost actually ended my life like the day that 253 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,240 it all came crashing down. I just I literally I was like you 254 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,640 know not to go too much into that or to trigger others but I 255 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,520 know a lot of people deal with this stuff especially nowadays 256 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,240 and what happened was I was I was literally standing in my 257 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,280 bathroom mirror with my forty-five automatic like loaded 258 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,160 ready to go and just the thought kept hitting me of like 259 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,920 man I just messed up everything in my life. How do I not mess up 260 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:48,000 at this right and I couldn't do it though. I couldn't do it 261 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,320 because in that moment my conscience has been one of the 262 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,840 strongest things in me my entire life and in that moment I 263 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,800 just my my higher conscience was like dude how could you end 264 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,520 you really it was just because I was so embarrassed. I thought 265 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,160 that was the only way out but he was like dude you don't even 266 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,720 know you how could you ever like you or love you because 267 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,720 you've never known you and that's so that's that Genesis 268 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,920 of that step zero self awareness of coming into 269 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,560 understanding of actually our self awareness which then will 270 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:18,240 lead to self like which then can build self love. What led 271 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,400 you to have that thought or where did that thought come 272 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:29,280 from that you didn't know you how did you realize that? I 273 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,240 mean it was literally just like I I pretty much had like the 274 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,840 craziest like clarity self awareness revelation if you 275 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,240 will like in the moment of I couldn't I couldn't go forward 276 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,880 with you know ending myself because I just knew that wasn't 277 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:48,000 right and like literally the next day I think I woke up and 278 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,840 as sad and jacked up as I was I realized that I had been 279 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,240 ripping people off and scamming people my whole life. I called 280 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,280 it sales and business and making money but I had pulled 281 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,200 schemes my whole life and now all the schemes I had pulled 282 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,520 had been pressed down and served back to me in one 283 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:10,240 serving and man I did not like the taste of that medicine and 284 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,880 I was so flooded with feelings of like not only did I never 285 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,480 wanna feel like this ever again, I realized that man I 286 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,840 never wanna be the source of causing other people to feel 287 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,360 like this ever again and so that was when basically the you 288 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,720 know the Lord called me to my purpose of helping others in 289 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,760 self awareness and also I was like a sales dog my whole life 290 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,880 and built several sales based organizations early in my 291 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,880 career and he was like you have to sell without telling a 292 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,480 single falsehood or a single lie and I was like wow dude 293 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,520 that's tough like you know not even like hey there's three 294 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,400 left when there's seven or whatever you know what I mean 295 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,600 and that's really just it put me in this pattern in this 296 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,720 process where when I lost everything I went back to step 297 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,320 zero self awareness and I actually identified with 298 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,160 Christian faith my Christian faith and the Bible as my source 299 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,200 of truth and so what I did was I did something kind of weird 300 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,640 to most people but interesting to some I pulled my whole life 301 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,360 under review and I looked at everything I did and why I did 302 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:12,960 it and where that programming came from and I started I made 303 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,000 the Bible the one universal truth in my life that I use this 304 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,880 a measuring stick for everything so like for instance 305 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,080 like I still I changed my watch to a 24 hour clock because I 306 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,560 had a 12 hour clock my whole life and I was like where did I 307 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,440 learn this you know like whatever I did a one way when I 308 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,480 was younger I did the opposite way and I began really having 309 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,680 this awareness of where my programming was coming from I 310 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,200 stopped listening to all music all tv all streaming all videos 311 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,040 I took like a 30 day basically sabbatical and pulled myself out 312 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,960 of you know social environments everything and I really got you 313 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,480 know curious on myself and and discovering who I am and why 314 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,120 I'm here and yeah I mean quite frankly I just I knew since I 315 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,920 was a kid I had a massive calling and a massive mantle on 316 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,200 my life and it's kind of funny because like when I was younger 317 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,560 and and having gone through what I did as a kid I always would 318 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,040 like I always had this thought in my head of like I would see 319 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,520 the stories of people who were like you know Suzanne Summers 320 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,680 who had wet the bed until she was like a teenager because 321 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,720 she had trauma or people like this and I was like I know I'm 322 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,040 going to be a big influence in this world because like I have 323 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,400 the makings of like that you know really jacked up beginning 324 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,680 to then start you know what I mean I got this in spades I 325 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,080 didn't come with the silver platter and the perfect family 326 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,680 in childhood I got all the pedigree to you know right build 327 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,840 myself into something you learn the stats you know you learn 328 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,280 you're told you know for the sake of like helping your own 329 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,360 future family you're taught things like oh man if this 330 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,200 happens or you you know if your kids are a product of X Y or Z 331 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,640 their chances of success are like zero and you're like 332 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:52,080 that's me you're talking about like like come on man and so 333 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:56,160 you you just you have to realize like whoa I I've got to 334 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,200 make my own stats my own odds you know I gotta make my own 335 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,960 luck and walk to the sound of the beat of my own drum things 336 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,720 like that become your mantra so I appreciate you sharing that 337 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:12,080 I'll I'll boldly follow suit you know in a in a just trying 338 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:18,160 to self or be self-aware myself on this I think I I struggled 339 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:24,800 with the idea of basic line you know I I didn't have to face 340 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:30,240 that reality as strongly as you did but that meant I you know 341 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,960 with with my circumstances in life I was a manipulator and 342 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,480 so I would manipulate the truth you know leaving certain 343 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:43,520 things out you know making sure that the story hit a certain 344 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,160 way you know and and there's a there's a there's a 345 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,600 resourcefulness to that for good as well knowing how to 346 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,440 story tell but you can also leverage that same power for 347 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,400 extreme and you know whether whether it's a blatant lie or 348 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:04,560 it's an omission or a misdirect if you're if you're 349 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,960 doing so you know without the intent of doing good I don't 350 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,480 wanna say for the intent to do harm even it's often just times 351 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,040 you know neglecting the good that should be done then that's 352 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,840 wrong right that that's something that's not going to 353 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,560 help your soul. It's not going to help you find any success. 354 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,480 It's gonna lead you down a path that that leads you into a pit 355 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,520 of darkness and despair so I appreciate you sharing that 356 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,880 openly because I think a lot of human beings and life you know 357 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,520 need to be aware that there are leaders out there who 358 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,560 understand where they're coming from and that you know we're 359 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,040 not we're not all perfect. Maybe there's some perfect people 360 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,560 out there but I'm not one of them so it's it's helpful to 361 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,960 know that I've got leaders. There was one and they killed 362 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,120 him so you know. Oh yeah exactly. Well said. Absolutely 363 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,960 and speaking speaking of the greatest sacrifice of mankind 364 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:04,480 and and our our world you know that that led to salvation 365 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,360 itself. What's your best experience in business? What's 366 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,920 springboard? Oh man yeah honestly is what we're up to 367 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,680 now. It's it's the experience of being able to serve and 368 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,080 steward others in the highest capacity through helping them 369 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,040 thrive in their purpose and experience and the realization 370 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,840 of their dreams. You know a lot of a lot of people who have a 371 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,480 dream of speaking is something that's very massive in their 372 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,080 heart and their spirit for their whole life and I was very 373 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,120 fortunate early on or you know whatever not fortunate. I don't 374 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:43,360 know how everyone look at it but I worked really hard and so 375 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:46,400 I had a lot of early success in my life because of the you know 376 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,280 some of the the damage and stuff that had occurred and being 377 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:55,680 able to see others and see them win and being able to be the 378 00:21:55,680 --> 00:22:00,720 man like behind the the curtain if you will whereas earlier in 379 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,280 my life I was always in the limelight. I was always you know 380 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,600 still in the show. I was out there gregarious loud just very 381 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:13,120 very boisterous but to see other people experience that and 382 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:17,040 it's so cool because like when I speak that's awesome when 383 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,240 somebody else gets to have the feelings of their dreams coming 384 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,360 true and all that energy and excitement not only do they feel 385 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:27,360 that I get to feel it too so more people win like that and 386 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,760 like we just actually did an event a couple weeks ago down in 387 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,360 San Antonio with with one of our current communities. Oh 388 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,640 really yeah, that's crazy. So we were at the Lila B Cockrell 389 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,320 Theater actually so these these students in our current one of 390 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,240 our current communities for their very first school speech 391 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:49,360 ever spoke at this massive three story theater. Now, there's 392 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,320 only a thousand youngsters in the front bottom row, but to 393 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,080 have that stage to go on and the reason I'm sharing this is 394 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,080 one of the gentlemen who's who's in that community. He's 395 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,160 not a he's not an English first language guy. He's from 396 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,800 Honduras. He speaks Spanish and after the talk, he was all 397 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,960 worried about like if he was gonna be able to make sense or 398 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,240 connect with the youngsters, he was literally autographing 399 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,080 bananas and like pairs of sneakers like the kids like took 400 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,080 their shoes off and we're like here sign our shoes and like and 401 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,880 I got a video of him in the the Uber limo when we were headed 402 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,920 back to the hotel after where he's just like ecstatic and so 403 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,880 it's like that's where I get my fulfillment and my best 404 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,760 experiences. I'm very fortunate. I actually get to 405 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,720 have the best experience of my life every single day when I 406 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,440 conquer myself with my daily non-negotiable programming 407 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,600 routine. You know, it's something that I get to 408 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,280 experience the biggest win of my entire life every single day 409 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:48,640 when I never miss. So yeah, those are my best experiences 410 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,960 and daily non-negotiable routine. You say that it 411 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,400 programming. Yeah. Yeah. Programming routine which takes 412 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:02,400 the daily morning routine to a whole new level. So, that's fun. 413 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,000 We're gonna be talking about that in just a minute. So, 414 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,120 one one question. I'm gonna put you on the spot for this. So, 415 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:11,920 because I should have asked this up front but since you're 416 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:18,320 eighteen, how many schools have you spoken in yourself? 417 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,600 I really don't know. I could tell you it's definitely 418 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,200 hundreds of stages. There was a there was a season in my life 419 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,440 where I was actually I was actually speaking like four or 420 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,240 five days a week at college universities in various 421 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,000 capacities. In everything from like a small classroom of like 422 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,720 fifteen, twenty kids to like the massive auditoriums with 423 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,280 you know, fifteen hundred, two thousand students in them. So, 424 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,400 the question is that like, was that like a recruiting thing 425 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,160 for sales or was that more of a motivational speech? Like, 426 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,240 what are the, what's the context on these? Yeah. So, so 427 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,960 for that, it was, it was actually a kind of a combination 428 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,160 of that. It was for a non-profit that offered these 429 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,520 like volunteer travel opportunities for students and 430 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,280 so basically like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we would be 431 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,680 making announcements in the classes. It was actually kinda 432 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,840 crazy the way they had this guerrilla marketing set up and 433 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,640 then Thursday all day long, every hour on the hour, we'd be 434 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:15,040 doing like an hour long scripted presentation. So, you 435 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,840 know, in terms of like high schools and middle schools, 436 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:22,160 like I would say at this point, several dozen, you know, but 437 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,440 colleges definitely in the hundreds and then stages of 438 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,680 various capacities and stuff, you know, I mean, I think a lot 439 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,040 of people have like stage is like, you know, big huge 440 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,920 production and set up. I mean, this is a stage, right? A 441 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,480 podcast is a stage. Absolutely. Every day in line at 442 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,600 Starbucks is a stage and you mentioned something earlier 443 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,480 and that poked out at me and it's like how we do anything is 444 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,440 how we do everything. You know, so many people, so many of us 445 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,800 in life, we're so dual minded and so we we try to say we 446 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,080 wanna be one way but we behave in a totally opposite way. 447 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,640 Right? And when we're committed to something, we'll find a way 448 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,920 to serve everywhere we go. Interesting. That is and I wanna 449 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,560 dive into this daily non-negotiable program routine a 450 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,480 little bit. So, do you mind sharing about that? Is it 451 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,960 relevant to the audience? It sounds pretty relevant to me. 452 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,400 Again, yeah, yeah. Most people love love to learn about this 453 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,800 stuff and hear about it. So, one of the interesting things 454 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,640 of of my experience in life and like natural, if you will, 455 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:22,480 modus operandi, work styles, all that stuff is I always thought 456 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,440 I had a consistency issue, right? And it wasn't until 457 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,520 after I crashed and burned and lost everything and went 458 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,800 through the process of through my faith, you know, recovering 459 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,880 from drugs and alcohol and all that kinds of stuff. I realized 460 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,400 I never had an addiction problem. I had a self-control 461 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,680 and a discipline problem because of lack of my identity. 462 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,880 And so, actually, this non-negotiable program routine 463 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,520 is something I learned from one of my mentors almost two 464 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:50,000 years ago and he's a guy who did ten years in California 465 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,680 prison for violent crimes and basically during that time, he 466 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,080 woke up at 2 45 AM every single day when he was in prison and 467 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,640 basically without going too often to the rabbit trail of it 468 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,400 all in California, the prisons are segregated by race. That's 469 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,400 how they keep the populations separate. And so, basically, 470 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,960 this program routine came from in the prison, you're given 471 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,240 respect and credibility based on your consistency of never 472 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,120 missing. So, where I was going with this is I thought in my 473 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,960 life, I had a consistency issue. I didn't have a 474 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,680 consistency issue. I was consistently being an idiot and 475 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,160 a loser. There was no consistency issue there. It was 476 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:34,560 an awareness and a focus issue, right? And so, what this daily 477 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,000 non-negotiable programming routine is, is that just 478 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,240 imagine, you know, for you, for me, for the listeners, just 479 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,640 imagine what your life would be like if you never took another 480 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,440 back step ever again, especially for men, right? So many people 481 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,320 spend three, four, five days a week trying to make progress 482 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,200 and then two days a week throwing it all away. And our 483 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,320 words are the most powerful possession or thing that humans 484 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,760 possess is the power of our word. And so, when we begin 485 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,160 keeping our word to self, how we do anything is how we do 486 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,240 everything. We keep our word to others. However, most people 487 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,120 have never kept their word to themselves. And so, they built a 488 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,520 life attracting others that don't keep their word to them 489 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,480 either. It's also interesting thing about self-awareness and 490 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,920 obliviousness. The opposite of that is that it's usually those 491 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,200 people that are like commenting about how they're seeing it in 492 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,920 everybody else. And what this is, is it's going all in on your 493 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:37,520 commitment to never miss again and to do practices every day 494 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,680 that cause you to face elective adversity so that you build a 495 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,920 callus in your mind much like you would on your hands to be 496 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,120 resilient and disciplined because life is full of adversity 497 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,840 and tragic tragedies. And so, what this programming is, is that 498 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,520 it actually builds the habits and the mindsets to know that I 499 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,880 put myself in, let's say, uncomfortable, undesirable 500 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,680 situation stuff I hate doing every single day throughout the 501 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,640 day. So then when life hands it to me, it doesn't take me out 502 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,640 anymore like it did in the past. So things like, you know, I 503 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,600 think today is almost like 650 days in a row of doing what I 504 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,360 call cold shower power or some form of ice bath for at least 505 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,560 two minutes every single day for the last almost two years now. 506 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,960 I do, you know, 111 burpees minimum every day. I do, you 507 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,680 know, a really, really early wake up time, basically 508 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,480 engineering these things in my life that are really difficult 509 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,160 on purpose. So I'm ready for them. And like even for instance, 510 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,880 like I really didn't sleep much two nights ago, and I might 511 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,840 have got two or three hours of sleep last night. I don't know. 512 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,040 And I was like, good, I'm stoked for this podcast today because 513 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,720 I want to empty myself out and have nothing to give and then 514 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,680 be able to show up and shine even brighter. Because the only 515 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,560 way that we can actually make gains and strength and progress 516 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,320 in life is by going beyond the limit. That's how we find out 517 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,680 where the limit is. And so that daily non-negotiable 518 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,120 programming is, it's just committing to going all in on 519 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,680 yourself. And the way that I encourage people to get started 520 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,760 is, is follow the Atomic Habits two minute rule. Pick something 521 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,080 like what I did where it started with me was, is that it 522 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,360 started with the two minute cold shower every day. For those 523 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,520 of you that aren't familiar, there's a book called Atomic 524 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,800 Habits. And the author talks about in the book, a two minute 525 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,880 rule. And what it talks about is, is that when you want to 526 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,400 build a new habit, you basically put it on your calendar that 527 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,880 you're going to do it for two minutes a day for like, let's 528 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,480 say 90 days. And so let's say you want to learn to play piano. 529 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,320 So rather than saying like, you're going to do like three 530 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,960 hours a week and it's this big, huge mental obstacle that you 531 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,640 never start on. You just have the target of two minutes a day. 532 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,640 Now, when you get to two minutes, you could do more than 533 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,000 that, but your goal is, is just two minutes. So you build that 534 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000 positive psychology and that positive neurofeedback loop where 535 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,560 you're actually doing what you say you're doing. And you know, 536 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,360 you're working on your goal and you know, you accomplish your 537 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,640 goal because it's only two minutes. So I always suggest 538 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,440 that people find something that you can do to begin like that. 539 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,720 I have a little method I use. I tell people, you know, do a two 540 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,320 minute cold shower, do three rounds of Wim Hof breathing, and 541 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,520 then do like a gratitude journal, right? And, and here's 542 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,320 what's interesting too. A lot of people, they're like, you know, 543 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,840 I'm grateful for the sunshine and my family and you know, 544 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,880 that's all good. The real gratitude though is, it's in our 545 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,000 results. The way that we actually express the highest 546 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,280 form of gratitude to the creator and everyone else is in our 547 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,560 results. It's not even in our actions, right? Because if 548 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,400 you're somebody who takes the actions and doesn't get the 549 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,640 results, you're sending a terrible message to people 550 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,880 around you that if they put in the effort, they won't be 551 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:45,040 successful. So say that last part again, James. Yeah. What 552 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,600 I even say you said that the real gratitude is in our 553 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,320 results. And then you said we're sending a negative message. 554 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,840 When what happens? Yeah. So if you're the kind of person, 555 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,680 like, let's say we've all seen these people, like, you know, 556 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,080 you somebody's been going to the gym for years. They go to 557 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,800 the gym for years. They half ass their workout. They're 558 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,760 eating donuts on the way there. They're having a Starbucks, 559 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,280 8,000 calorie sugar syrup during the workout and after, 560 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,880 and they're not actually getting fitter. It sends, it 561 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,400 causes cognitive dissonance in other people's lives. And what 562 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,200 cognitive dissonance is, is it's the opposite of conscious 563 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,400 congruence. When you hear something and you see it and you're 564 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,960 like, Whoa, this doesn't match up. Right? I know for myself, 565 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,520 my whole life, I've just had this thing in me that like, if I 566 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,800 see somebody talking about something, and I can instantly 567 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,360 tell that you don't do that thing, especially at the level 568 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,240 you're talking about it, I can't even hear what you're saying. 569 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,120 Right. And that's, you know, the guy that's the mentor with 570 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,200 the non-negotiable stuff, he says that too. He's like, why 571 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,840 are you even talking? He's like, let me ask you something, 572 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:48,000 buddy. If I do what you say, am I going to end up like you? 573 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,360 Because I don't want to be anything like you. Right. So 574 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,440 many people want to share advice in this kinds of stuff. And so 575 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,480 that's why the greatest expression of gratitude is in 576 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,200 results because we lead by example. Right. Like again, you 577 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,000 know, you're, you were from a similar era and stuff like 578 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,800 Michael Jordan, he's got the seven rings, you know, Phil 579 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,440 Jackson, he's got all the rings, however many it is, six, 580 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,640 seven, 10, 20, I don't even know anymore, but it's basically 581 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,840 when they, they show that result, you don't need to do any 582 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:24,800 talking results for themselves. Yep. They, they do. And, uh, you 583 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,360 know what? It's interesting. There's, there's so many great 584 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,800 things unpack and all that you just shared. Um, but I'm going 585 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,600 to do my best to go back through some of them, um, because 586 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,160 I took some notes. I was like, and I don't always take notes 587 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,960 with guests, some guests, man, they, they hit it. And I'm like, 588 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,240 sweet. I want to write that down for me for later. Um, somebody 589 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,640 who's listening as well. I hope you're doing the same thing. 590 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,200 I hope you're taking the opportunity to figure out how 591 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,440 does this align with your vision? Um, you know, where does 592 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,400 this fall? Um, in relation to the, your own tools in terms of 593 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,280 driving self-awareness. Um, so if there's something I could 594 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,000 comment in real quickly in there too, Jackson. So part of 595 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,640 the journey of self-awareness was this process of Holy 596 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,720 Spirit convicted me with this, this riddle. How do you explain 597 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,120 to people the game they're losing? They don't even know 598 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,560 they're playing. You're like, what, what does that mean? How 599 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,040 do you explain to people the game they're losing that they 600 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,680 don't even know they're playing? See one of the, one of 601 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,520 the interesting things about self-awareness is, is that if I 602 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,200 tell you an observation about you, that's let's say 603 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,440 negative, even though nothing is positive or negative, just 604 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,520 meaning that's attached to it. But, but let's say it's 605 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,160 interpreted as negative feedback. You're instantly 606 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,880 defensive, right? I could be your best friend. No brothers. I 607 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,840 could have known you for 30 years and I will be like, bro, 608 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,120 and it's defensive, right? Now, go ahead. So here's what's 609 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,760 interesting. I'm going to challenge that for our audience 610 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,000 because we are talking about visionary vision pros, um, 611 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,160 people who appreciate, know how to put context around such 612 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,120 advice. Um, and so there's different types of people and 613 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,040 yes, in general, uh, yes, people will get defensive, um, 614 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,160 and, and that reality. However, what I've seen with most 615 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,560 visionary entrepreneurs, the ones who are truly visionary, 616 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,720 the ones who have gotten to that level of self-awareness 617 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,920 where they say, wow, this is an awesome opportunity for me to 618 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,440 learn. And it doesn't matter if the person who's teaching is 619 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,720 somebody who lives under a bridge or is somebody like 620 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,640 yourself, uh, that's a, that's a coach of many years, but 621 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:28,320 their, their ability to listen, process, assess, decide what to 622 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,960 do with it is very dependent on where the recipient, uh, where 623 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,240 they are as a recipient of information, what their filter 624 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,040 process looks like. But in general, I agree with you. 625 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,360 However, I just want to make sure the audience understands 626 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,360 that, you know, if, if you're at that stage, um, what James is 627 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,360 saying is, you know, is, um, is relevant for those that you're 628 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,520 often trying to influence. Um, you know, you come at some, you, 629 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,040 you give somebody some critical feedback that's not ready for 630 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,480 it or not conditioned with, with healthy coaching, they're 631 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,600 likely to get upset at you about it, even though you might 632 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,400 be more receptive to such feedback. Is that fair to say, 633 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,120 James? Totally. And that's, you're talking about there. So, 634 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:14,080 uh, perception is a confession of internal character, right? 635 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,560 And so where I was going with that is, is like, let's say like 636 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,880 a stranger comes up to you and they're like, Hey, you saw him 637 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,440 at the coffee shop. Hey, Jackson, that's a really nice 638 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,320 shirt you're wearing. You're like, Oh yeah, preach it, buddy. 639 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,880 Like you got gospel truth. Have been, you tell me all about 640 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,200 it. Now on the flip side, you could have somebody who you've 641 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,520 known for decades who could tell you something that they 642 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,840 actually know about you. That could be helpful, but it could 643 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,880 cause a defensive response. Right. And I agree with everything, 644 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,640 everything you're saying in there and where, where I wanted 645 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,920 to help shine some light here is, is that the process of 646 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,120 self-awareness comes through self-assessment and self-discovery. 647 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,480 There's nothing that anybody else could know more about you 648 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,920 than you know about you. Right. Right. And for other people, 649 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,160 your listeners who really want to get after the elective 650 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,280 adversity, who really are hungry to understand self-awareness 651 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,920 and know themselves, water only fasting a seven day water only 652 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,640 fast will be the greatest self-awareness experience of 653 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,680 your life. You will learn everything you need to know about 654 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,480 yourself and life by removing everything for seven days, other 655 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,160 than water. I like that. I like that you talked about knowing 656 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,600 your identity, um, as well as one of those, uh, trigger 657 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,640 points for, um, becoming consistent with being your best 658 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,400 self. And I think it's important to also draw awareness of what 659 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,480 that identity is. Um, I'll do that from my own angle because 660 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,680 I am worried about people who, who focus on finding their 661 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,080 identity through self. Um, and what I mean by that is there's, 662 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,760 there's another key power that goes hand in hand with 663 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,440 overcoming addictions, overcoming vices and moving yourself 664 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,760 forward. And that's understanding that you belong, right. Having 665 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,960 a community when you belong in your communities, for instance, 666 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,040 um, that is a, that is a mechanism to help you understand 667 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,160 the value that you are and not feel the need to escape the 668 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:08,640 reality of your life. However, what James uncovered and knowing 669 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:14,160 his identity by coming to have a relationship with God, and I'm 670 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,040 speaking for him, you can shoot any of this down, my friend, but 671 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,640 from what I understand, you're a believer, you know, you're a son 672 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:26,640 of God now, which means you belong with God and how much more 673 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,080 powerful can your centeredness get than when you've come to 674 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,760 realize that that you belong with the, the, the all time 675 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:39,040 greatest creator there is. And, and he sees you as a son. Um, is 676 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,760 that fair to say, yeah, there's probably the greatest relief of 677 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:46,320 my entire existence is like, Oh, I just have to turn up. I just 678 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,280 have to turn up every day and everything else is sorted for me. 679 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,880 You know what I mean? Yep. Absolutely. I totally get it. 680 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,440 There's a big one, um, in my late twenties, um, when I finally 681 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,200 accepted that reality and came to realize that that was true. 682 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,680 Um, it, it liberated me from so much pain, doubt, confusion, 683 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,920 inconsistency. Um, it was like, well, that's awesome. Um, there's 684 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,960 nobody, you can ever take that away from me. I can have my 685 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,400 citizenship taken from me. Um, I can have my freedoms taken from 686 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,720 me. I can have my relationships taken from me and from my 687 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:24,320 earthly standpoint, but nobody can ever get in the way of my 688 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,240 relationship with God. Um, and so there's, there's extreme 689 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:31,120 power and being able to recognize that, um, you mentioned 690 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,240 the real gratitude isn't a results. I just loved that. I 691 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,800 had the, I had to keep it highlighted and, and talk about 692 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:42,240 it because, um, I think that to layer on top of that, you then 693 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:46,480 said later, the greatest expression of gratitude is in our 694 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,800 results. And I love that phrase even further because, you know, 695 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,160 sometimes we're all children, we're all trying to learn to 696 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:58,640 express gratitude with more meaning. So my child, you know, 697 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,000 who's learning to say thank you because we teach her to say 698 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,760 thank you, um, you know, versus my 12 year old, um, who has more 699 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,520 capacity to actually like express gratitude sincerely, 700 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,680 although it takes great effort. Um, you know, it's, it, she's no 701 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,600 different than me learning to do the exact same. And so when 702 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,320 you, when you put that forward, I was like, wow, this is an 703 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:26,320 amazing invitation to assess when I am saying thank you out 704 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,080 loud. Um, and I'm trying to express gratitude. It's so 705 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,680 important for myself as well, not just those externally, but 706 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,920 like, like you said, with the workouts, you really got me 707 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,520 there, man. I'm a skinny fat guy. Um, so, you know, you really 708 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,920 hit it. I was like, oh, like I am self-sabotaging my own 709 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,600 workout experiences and my own interpretation of the value of 710 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:53,600 working out or health by being grateful for the opportunity to 711 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,600 work out, but basically doing nothing with it. Um, I think 712 00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,440 that's going to help me tremendously. So I just want to 713 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,560 thank you for that. Awesome. Um, as, and I'll let you know, 714 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,160 I'll follow up with the results of the, the matters that you 715 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,600 can hear, but let's dive into one more power lesson. Um, you 716 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,960 can, you can spread, so feel free, uh, to go in any, any 717 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,960 direction you want with this. What powerful lesson can other 718 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,360 visionaries learn from your experience? James, what else 719 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,240 you got? You've already given like 20, but yeah, I mean, 720 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:23,120 honestly, it's, it's, I'm an endless supply because of the 721 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,400 energy that flows through me. It's not from me, right? Um, 722 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,360 you know, it's really, it was something that, that you had 723 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,160 mentioned earlier and I just had it and it tried to jump away. 724 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,240 So we're going to see if, if Holy spirit really wants to 725 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,840 bring it back right now. Um, the, the most important thing 726 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,720 though, that I could share with people, excuse me, a power 727 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:44,320 lesson is, uh, it was when you had interjected and you were 728 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,160 talking about people and their identity and, um, Oh, check it 729 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,520 out. So, so mastery high performance is a game of 730 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,400 subtraction. You know, most people, and even myself, a lot 731 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,760 of my life, I was looking for the next thing to add. What's 732 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,560 the morning routine thing or what's the nutrition or what's 733 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,440 the supplement, right? And high performance is a game of 734 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,600 subtraction. Mastery is a game of subtraction. It's not 735 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,600 looking at what am I doing? It's looking at what's left to 736 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,040 be done. Right. And so like you had mentioned there, a lot of 737 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,360 visionaries, a lot of your, your listeners, people that 738 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,680 tune into this show and in your audience and others, we're 739 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,320 focused on that. So we're aware of the fact that when other 740 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,440 people tell us something about ourselves, it's a confession 741 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,480 of their internal character, but it's being said to us to 742 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,240 notify ourselves. Right. And so when we know that it's that 743 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:38,960 game of subtraction, um, we're able to actually identify that, 744 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,760 that log in our eye before we tell our friend, the spec and 745 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,240 theirs, that was part of my self awareness journey as well 746 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,520 as learning that I had this call inside me because of my 747 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,840 trauma. I always wanted to help people. And so then I found 748 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,040 myself like trying to help everybody and like, you know, 749 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,520 over help them when they didn't want it. And then they never 750 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,640 matched up to my expectations. So then it was always divisive. 751 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,680 The fact, the matter is actually just got this awareness 752 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,720 literally probably within the last year of whenever I'm 753 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,360 seeing something in somebody else. So, so Holy Spirit 754 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,560 actually taught me this and they taught me that the ego, if 755 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,840 you will, way to use the ego in our favor. So when we spot 756 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,800 something as somebody else, like if, if I said, Hey Jackson, 757 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,440 if I knew you and I was like, Hey, your, you know, time 758 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,840 management skills need an upgrade or you need to be better 759 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,120 at communicating or whatever. The fact that I'm noticing it 760 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,000 in yourself in the past, I would be external focused being 761 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,240 like, Oh, you need to get better at this or you're jacked 762 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,880 up at this. What I've realized now is, is that when I see that 763 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,080 in you or something in anybody, I've actually turned that 764 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,440 conversation inward and I'm like, okay, James, what is it 765 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,600 inside of you that's calling out for help right now that you 766 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,400 need to put your energy into removing the log from your own 767 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,800 eye in this area. So then you can lead by example, the 768 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,680 greatest form of influence and communication for others, 769 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,880 leading by example with your results. Right. So rather than 770 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,320 being focused in a great example for visionaries is like 771 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,240 if people in your company, you feel like they need to work 772 00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:04,880 harder or they need to get better at communicating or what 773 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,080 have you, rather than me going to my business partners or my 774 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,760 employees or contractors and being like, you know, you guys 775 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,640 suck at communicating, you know, can we get better at this? 776 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,040 What I do is I literally, I just start going around the 777 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,760 office and I'm like, Hey guys, I'm on this new mission. Like 778 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,880 I'm really getting better at communicating and I want to 779 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,760 improve my communication skills. So please help me like 780 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,000 with my awareness. I'm like, if you see me having an 781 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,160 opportunity to get better at communicating, please bring 782 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,880 that to my attention so I can grow and get better at it. Well 783 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,840 then what happens then what happens is I'm talking about it 784 00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,880 so much. I've penetrated other people's internal dialogue and 785 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,360 they're like, man, James is really on this communication 786 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,680 improvement thing. I kind of think I could probably get 787 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,040 better at communicating too. Right. And that's that inception 788 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,520 model where then now it's a pull motivation because they 789 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,920 thought of it. It's their idea versus being told, Hey, you're 790 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,760 terrible or you suck at this or you need to be better. So XYZ 791 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,800 right. So that's really powerful. That's really powerful 792 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:03,280 because one of the things that is, is so common in the world 793 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,040 is, is people are telling others what to do. There's no 794 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,560 invitation. There's a pressure. And, and you know, again, 795 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,080 Christ being the greatest teacher of all time, uh, only led 796 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,360 with invitations ever. Um, and he was inviting people to do 797 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:22,560 what he himself was doing and did. Um, so the ability to, to 798 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,040 move past commanding people or pressuring people to do things 799 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:32,080 and move into inviting, but also making sure that you've got 800 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:37,120 check your invitation versus your own personal willingness to 801 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:42,800 make improvements that adds yet a more pure foundation for 802 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,520 sedimentation. So I appreciate that, man. I want to, I want to 803 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,520 give you a little bit of time to talk about this. We're a 804 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,280 little bit over, but it's worth it. Um, the $2.2 million 805 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,400 scholarship campaign. What is that? How does that work? Yeah. 806 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,160 So I'll just briefly mention that. And if people want to get 807 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,240 more information, obviously they can hit the website and get 808 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,360 all those details. Um, really quick though, just on that last 809 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:06,320 point you were making, uh, a true master, a true guide, a 810 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,640 high level coach, they're not going to tell you, and this is 811 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,560 what I was hearing you saying about Jesus. They don't tell you 812 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:18,480 what to think. They show you where to look. Right. And so 813 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,680 that's that awareness of when we're really working with a 814 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,320 master of something or a high level guide or coach, they're 815 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,480 not going to tell you what to think. And that's like Jesus, 816 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,640 he didn't tell you what to think. He just shared where you 817 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,720 could look for it all. If you're ready. Yep. Right. Right. 818 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:35,920 And even if you're not right, it'll still show you, but yeah. 819 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,880 So the scholarship campaign, basically what it is, is we 820 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,800 realized there's a big need for youth and educators and parents 821 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,160 to get a unified voice, unified, uh, conversation and 822 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,960 language amongst themselves. And so what we did is we actually 823 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,640 launched this campaign where, um, typically our programs are, 824 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:56,160 um, they're not cheap. And the reason is it's a professional 825 00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,640 certification. You know, it's the kind of thing where you're 826 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,560 going to get way more value than you would from like a 827 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,360 traditional education, but it's kind of more like a trade 828 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,600 school in the sense of like, yeah, there's a certain cost to 829 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,640 it monetarily and time wise. But when you learn these skillsets 830 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,080 is going to pay you massively for the rest of your life. But 831 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,080 so what we realized is, is that, you know, people are 832 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,080 struggling, they have the big dream on their heart, but 833 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,880 they're not able to actually enact on it. So we actually 834 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,240 started a scholarship program to be able to, for people who 835 00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:26,160 qualify, sponsor them to come into the program at a reduced, 836 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:30,080 um, tuition. And what happens is, is for every student that 837 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,640 enrolls in the program, we actually have pledged a matching 838 00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,280 $25,000 scholarship to an educator or a young person, a 839 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,800 youth to be able to come into the community as well. And our 840 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,440 goal here is, is that we're building to our knowledge, the 841 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,360 world's first and only community of speakers, motivational 842 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:53,360 speakers, paired with educators, paired with the actual youth, 843 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,320 the students in the schools. So we can actually create 844 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,880 programs and experiences that are going to be lasting and be 845 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,760 helpful. And it's stuff that people are interested in doing 846 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,680 because it was people from every, if you will, sector, um, 847 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:10,320 or influence realm going in on it. So just basically our call 848 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,960 to be able to serve the marketplace, serve the youth of 849 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,240 this country, serve the parents that are looking up to them. And 850 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:18,560 just one final thought, if I could share here, you know, um, 851 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,440 you were talking about your kids earlier and you're well 852 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,240 aware of this. Children oftentimes do not do what 853 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,040 they're told, but what they do do is they emulate the 854 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,400 behavior that they see. Right. And I think a lot of times I see 855 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,120 parents who are so interested in trying to tell their children 856 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,400 how to be, whereas like you're aware of, and a lot of, you 857 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,520 know, more where people are know this, that the best thing we 858 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,720 can do is just show people, show them that, Hey, we make 859 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:45,280 mistakes, we mess up too. And when we do, these are the 860 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,560 consequences that we have to pay when we do that. So I just 861 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,120 want to encourage people to, if you've got an inkling in you 862 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,920 that, that you could be better about something, listen to your 863 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,800 conscience. It will never lie to you. It was always speaking 864 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,000 truth to you. Listen to your conscience. It is calling you up 865 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,120 in your identity, not out on your behavior. And that's how 866 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,800 we define accountability. I like that a lot up in your 867 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,280 identity, not out on your behavior. Beautifully said, 868 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,280 James. So vision pros. We appreciate having you, having 869 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,480 you with us and listening in today. James, thanks for being 870 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,800 our guest. And if you want to follow or get in touch with 871 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,120 James, I'm sure any of the mainstream social media 872 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,760 platforms are great. You can also drop any questions, 873 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,520 comments in the comments, and we'll be happy to forward them 874 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,080 to James. Make sure he's aware of it. And we look forward to 875 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,600 seeing you on the next episode. Everybody have a fantastic 876 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,160 rest of your day. You know, I will, and we'll see you on the 877 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,880 next one. Bye. Thank you for being here today. I'm really 878 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,440 happy that you tuned into vision pros live. I'm looking 879 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,880 forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes 880 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,280 continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more 881 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,000 fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite 882 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,800 people to participate in the show and thank you for giving 883 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:59,680 us your time and attention.