I can't. You hear me? Alright.
I can't. Perfect. So, let's
see. I'm trying to figure out
we've been sending emails to
Brad dot Smith at Stellar
Insight Inc. dot com. Is that
an accurate email for you?
Yes. Okay. Cuz it kept saying
that uh it kept getting bounced
back but as long as you're
getting them then I'll just
send them to you. You know,
maybe, maybe not. Like, give
me about 10 seconds here. Sure.
And I will confirm
Hang on. What am I looking
for here? Vision, vision pros?
Yes, sir. That's us.
Okay.
Okay. I'm apparently I'm
getting I'm and I'm also about
four days behind on my emails.
Oh, gotcha. Okay. But you made
it today. So, that's the big
thing for me. Well, if it's on
my calendar, I I attend. Okay.
Sweet. Yeah, it looked like you
had at least checked that box
that you were going to be here.
Yeah. So, what else do you need
from me before we jump into it?
No, not much. I just give you a
rundown of what we're going
through. Um today is kind of
like its own mini segment is
what we do. We last about 20
minutes. So, I'll ask you
questions. They'll pop up below
me and uh we'll take this and
we'll chop it up in the small
just like 30 second to 1 minute
long answers and then we'll
throw those on Instagram,
Facebook, LinkedIn, all the big
platforms. That's pretty much
all we're going to do. So,
then. Yeah, no joke. No. I
mean, I I'm I'm I'm 74, right?
So, I'm old enough that when I
started driving and I wanted to
go visit somebody, I had to
have specific directions. You
know, it's like, okay, when you
go down this road, when there's
a big tree and a church there
turn left at that next road,
right? Yeah. And then you'll go
four more miles and then it'll
turn left. Yeah. No, it's funny.
I've talked to new people
every day and I'm always like,
so, just a for fun question. Do
you think your job would have
been here 20 to 30 years ago?
Do you think your job would
have been I've I've coached
CEOs. I've been doing that for
28 years. So, yeah, clearly and
I was right at the forefront of
this whole process. There's
nothing that actually my
company would not have existed
20, 30 years ago. No, no, no.
It's a podcasting, live
streaming, live event
coordination, facilitation,
that didn't exist and it only
came into effect at COVID. It
felt like then everybody needed
it and it's fallen off some
since then but I'm of the
opinion that the internet was
invented or the miracle of the
internet was invented to break
down the national boundaries.
The most powerful thing was to
break down national boundaries.
Yeah. No, I agree with you.
That makes sense. Human beings,
right? So, yeah. Now, we just
have to make it so that there's
a way to have deep
conversations so that people
won't have the shallowness that
the internet and uh actually
gives them, you know?
So, you know, you're on a path
but then I believe in divine
intervention on a consistent
basis. So, Gotcha. Are you
ready to jump into this then,
Brad? Yeah, let's let's jump in.
Hang on. Let me make sure I got
this squared away here. Sure.
Those are my guideposts back
there. Yeah, as long as you're
ready to go, we're good. Yeah,
I hear you're fine. You look
fine. Alright, let's jump in.
Here today with the Vision
for Business people. Please,
Brad, tell me about your vision.
Which level? My vision. Where
do you want to go? Well, my
vision. Oh, I have lots of
rabbit holes I can tell you
for each. So, if this is for
business people, right? Is it?
Yes. Okay. Our vision is a
vision for business people.
Every one of the people that
are listening to me except
maybe Amazon and a couple of
other people, there's a lot of
work involved. Add a zero to
your revenue and add a zero to
your net revenue. Both of those
are possible. I've done it
repeatedly. So, challenge
yourself and find out what are
the limitations and if you're
half of that. Okay. So, adding
a zero at the end of your net
revenue. Right. Where did that
idea come from? How did that
idea come from? I did it with
a client. It startled me and
then I got done with it. I I
turned him into a millionaire
and by the end of that process,
it took about 3 years but at
the end of that process, I
stopped myself and I said, okay,
Brad, what what is it that we
did? What is it is possible and
how many more people need this
and I realized that almost
every person needs to have their
vision deep enough and broad
enough so they can understand
what all the impediments are.
For myself, one of the things
that I've discovered through my
life journey is that I was the
biggest impediment to
everything that I wanted. Not
not the world doing it to me
but me using the mechanisms of
the real world, not our
vision to come back and limit
me and I'm still working on
that. Yeah. So, what? How did
you begin this? You you didn't
always become like right out
the gates. You weren't a coach
for CEO. Oh lord, no. There's a
journey involved. So, yeah,
let's talk about it. Fall term
freshman year. So, I had a
couple of it. Started out in my
dad was a chemical engineer and
I had a PhD bachelor's in
chemistry and he was a
chemistry and he essentially
raised me to think like a
chemical engineer. If you've
got it, if you've got a result,
that means there's an effect,
right? If there's an end result
you want, then there is a cause
for it, right? And so, fall
term freshman year, one of my
biggest life lessons, I
developed an ulcerated colon.
Okay. Right? Ulcerated colon.
Okay. Uncool, right? And I
suffered with that for about
two months and then I finally
got to the doctor because it
took a while to five or six
weeks to get in to see him and
within about 20 minutes, he said
to me, three sentences that
changed the course of my life.
So, I had chemistry as a
background. If there's an
effect, there's a cause, right?
That's the foundation. So, he
said to me, gee, Brad, if you
don't have a good blood to
death, he had my attention and
I didn't know it was that bad
but it was that bad, okay? I
didn't want to bleed to death.
I was joking. This isn't going
to happen, right? And then he
said to me, you'll never eat
strawberries, corn, or lettuce,
all things I like. No, maybe
not so much lettuce but
strawberries and corn, right?
You'll never eat anything with
roughage ever again in your
life. Wow. And my 18-year-old
friend, he said to me,
buddy, that's not happening.
Then he said, the killer was,
you have a psychosomatic
disease and I knew what that
meant. You have a psychosomatic
disease. Your emotions affect
the severity of your symptoms,
okay? And in that instant, I
made 100% commitment to conquer
the disease. If it's caused by
my emotions, cuz that was my
first decision, then I have to
go back, find out which emotions
are creating that, study my
body, study my emotions, and
look for the patterns that
created that, and then reverse
it because psychology is a
decision process. And so, I
went back in, I studied Brad.
Brad was the beaker, if you
would. I studied my emotions
and over time, I learned how to
track patterns and eventually,
I learned how to control
them, right? Or at least
intermittent. And then, the
pain, which was pretty bad and
constant, if I was conscious, I
was in pain, took me about three
years, maybe three and a half,
to get that conquered, at least
down to intermittent. But it
was still part of my life and
I had to watch my diet. He was
pretty accurate about that for
a while. Had I stayed that way,
but as I studied the psychology
and the psychology, eventually,
I got to the place where I
remembered a single event at
about 11 months old. It was
conscious, normal memory. At
11 months old, where I went
back and reworked that with
hypnosis at age 47, 18 to 47,
right? So, at 47, went back in
and reworked that in a single
way. I went back in, I went
back in immediately at 11 months,
had the lid off the diaper pail.
I was curious as all get up,
swirling the diapers around,
right? Freaked my poor mom out
and she grabbed me, spanked me.
So, I just assumed that I was
my first spanking. I went back
in, reworked that from an adult
perspective instead of a
toddler perspective and that
was the end of it. Wow. Right?
What a story. What a what a
highs and lows just like the
hero's journey that you've been
on in that story. That's crazy.
But what I learned from that is
all of life. I'll just put this
thought out for most people. If
there's an effect in your life,
there's a psychosomatic cause
that's going to affect you. If
you're doing a job, then take a
look at you and who you are and
how you relate to people,
right? What's your character?
Do an analysis of your
character. Write down all your
values. Write down all the
things you love about yourself.
All the things you admire about
other people. Those are the
high ones. Then you go back
through and do what are all the
things that people yell at me
about me, right? And then also,
what is it I don't like the
third list is what is it I don't
like about my life? And the
purpose of blame is to shift
responsibility off yourself.
That's a two-year-old emotion
and if you would skill, right?
So, in order to reclaim
responsibility, you have to
make the decision to conquer it.
So, those are the three major
decisions we make when when
we're born. First one is at
twenty inches long when we're
not verbal, I'm not capable.
That's the primary one. If I'm
not capable, the second one is
I can't be responsible and if
I'm not responsible, somewhere
along the line, we make the
decision in our first year or
so, I'm not valuable and those
three decisions, I'm not
capable, I'm not responsible,
I'm not subconscious until we
go back in and choose to be
responsible. That's the one
entry into those three and then
if we choose to be responsible,
then we learn capability and if
we learn capability, then we
learn and infer that we're
valuable. Huge, isn't it? Yeah.
That right there is the core of
what's important to me. It's
the building blocks to starting
off, right? So, you've gotta
choose to be responsible. What's
the difference between someone
that's immature and someone
that's mature? They take full
responsibility for the things
that they do.
Yeah. Right? So, I'm gonna throw
one more in here. My my
subconscious described as the
governing value. There's no
other word like it in the
English language. Integrity.
You can come close but I I
design, I describe integrity as
what I believe. That's the
depth of my subconscious. What
I think, that's my momentary
consciousness. What I say and
what I think. If we all line up,
that's integrity. How many how
many people can say, I went
this whole last year and I
counted the number of lies I
told everyone else and myself,
right? Yeah. And when I
realized, when I finally got
that definition of integrity, I
figured I I realized at the end
of the year, I had been
tracking the number of lies I
told people. I realized there
was only five. Five. So, I made
the commitment to try and work
to get lower. I'm down to the
point where now when I talk
with people, I either am in
silent because that's not a
lie, right? I'm in silent or
I tell them the truth. And I've
got that now. What I watch is
how I'm feeling. I'm agreeing
for me. For how secure or
insecure I'm actually feeling.
Yeah. These these are really
freaking high standards, right?
Yeah, absolutely. They are.
High standards. For sure. If
you hold yourself to those high
standards, then insist the
people around you do their best
to match and that creates a
difference. The core of
everything is my self
authority. Do I believe what I
believe, right? And what I say,
what I think and I do, right?
The core of that is what I put
myself into and make decisions
about. That's my self
authority. If everybody had a
really good view, an accurate
view of their self authority
and that's what I believe. It's
a different world. We wouldn't
have war. Yeah. Because we
wouldn't blame other people and
we wouldn't think scarcity,
right? Yeah. Let me ask you
this. Um pointing at early
entrepreneurs. I wanna talk
about why leaders hide from
funding their vision. Why do
you think leaders hide? And a
lot of times, why can leaders
lean into funding their vision?
That's a tough one. Yeah. I'm
a bootstrap guy, right? So, I
agree with that but I also
watched my dad start thirty-four
companies while I was growing.
So, a few, right? Funding, not
funding, hard work, bootstrap,
right? But the reason they hide
from funding their vision is
because they don't believe it
deep enough and they are not
committed. Just like my
decision about my colitis, I
made 100% commitment to it. I
was committed. It wasn't if I
was gonna conquer that, right?
Right. So, are you committed
deep enough that you're willing
to risk failure? And that the
key question because if you're
willing to risk failure, you
know, and be blamed, right?
It's like, well, I did my best,
right? Did you do everything?
Did you look at everything?
That's hard work, right? But
the whole, how do we learn how
to, how do we learn how to walk?
Right? Falling. Yeah, you keep
falling on your butt until you
get it figured out and you
build the muscle. Every time
you fail, whatever it is,
you're gonna be really good at
that. Both of them were long
term. Nineteen years, the first
one. Twenty years, the second
one, right? Wow. I may be
headed for my third one but
we'll see what she says. Right?
Yeah. Um but in order to do
that, I have to figure out how
to fund that, right? So, one of
the challenges this young lady
has brought into my life is,
why aren't I a millionaire yet?
I'm a millionaire. Yeah. Right?
So, that challenge has been,
get out, talk about what you do,
own your mistakes and I've had a
bunch, right? Own your
mistakes, stand up, and build
the skill of resilience and
determination. Not
hardheadedness but
determination. There's a
difference. So, and so taking
it from why do leaders hide from
their vision? How can leaders
keep going without
determination? And resilience?
To get back up and keep going,
right? Commitment.
Commitment. Willingness to be
to fail but fail doesn't mean
worthlessness. That's not the
same thing. So, failing means
that you just didn't ask enough
questions.
Be curious. Be committed.
I like it.
I don't take clients that aren't ambitious and I do not take clients that are not curious.
Got high standards for your clients as well.
I don't want to waste my time, right?
But I don't want to, I can't, because I try, believe me, I can't make some, I can't carry
someone to success if they're unwilling to do the work.
Right.
You're totally right.
Some of it, and it takes time to work through.
Look at it this way.
Every human being lives in their own bubble.
Right?
We have our own bubble.
We have our own concept of the world, our own concept of how things work, right?
My goal has always been, especially with the colitis, right, my goal is to get to find
out exactly how they really work.
Right?
Reality.
So, if you're willing to be in reality instead of an illusion, right, and everyone has their
own bubble and truth takes time, accuracy takes time to sink in.
What are you afraid of and what is that fear, funding your vision is part of it, right?
What does that fear tell you about what you're not willing to do?
I don't want to be in pain.
Well, most of us don't like to be in pain.
Right?
What's harder?
Being in pain emotionally, right, or being, or, you know, not getting what you want to
achieve.
I don't ask easy questions.
Yeah.
I have not.
But, it's like, I look at how people really are and I want them to be successful.
What would happen if we changed, one of my goals is to coach governors, right?
What would happen if a state governor were able to raise the gross domestic product,
right, the whole revenue for the state, so that the gross domestic product divided by
the number of citizens, so the dollars the state earns per citizen went up by 5%.
What would that do?
Massive amounts.
No idea.
It has to happen and I've got a list of all the things that it has to happen, right?
Yeah.
Right?
But it's like, what has to happen in order to have people be better?
First, they have to take ownership for their lives.
Everybody.
How do you get, you know, 300 million people to take ownership for their lives?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's difficult questions as well.
You know?
Right.
So, no idea what that first step would look like.
First step is you eliminate child abuse.
There is a country in this world, and I don't remember which one, it's somewhere in the
Scandinavian countries, where they have almost completely eliminated child abuse.
That's huge.
If you eliminate child abuse, right, and all the incest and rape and garbage that goes
with that, right, if you eliminate that, that allows us to have a healthy platform to build
our lives from.
Yeah.
Give or take a spanking or two.
Yeah.
Without going into it.
Absolutely.
Yeah, no.
I mean, that taught me a lot, right?
So that's one rabbit hole I've dragged you down.
I want people to be successful, and there's no reason why they can't be.
Well, Brad, unfortunately, we are out of time on this episode, but it has been great.
You've checked, like, every checkbox that I have over here of my list of questions to
ask, you've hit them all on the head.
So instead of popping up questions, I said, I'm just going to let them run.
We're going to keep talking.
Let them keep talking.
Let them have the limelight.
I'm fine with it.
But it was phenomenal.
I am going to send you some follow up emails about this.
And then whenever we post all of these clips out on LinkedIn and Facebook, I assume you're
on LinkedIn as well.
Oh, absolutely.
It's my main platform.
So gotcha.
Yeah, mine as well.
And so I'll personally I'll friend you.
I'll connect with you on LinkedIn.
And we'll network back and forth.
But we'll let you know whenever we get these clips out and post it.
It should be a couple of weeks from now, but we'll send them out to you.
So I think life is an adventure.
Right.
Why can't we have more zeros in the world?
I love it.
Good.
Thank you.
Of course, Brad.
Thanks for jumping on here with me.
I appreciate it.
Good.
So if you want to you said this as a starter, or if you've got other things you want to
do, just send me a send me an email and I will eventually get to it.
Okay, as soon as you catch up on your emails, you'll get to it.
Gotcha.
Thanks, Brad.
Take care.
Wow, he's a talker.