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That sounds like an everyday journey.

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Is that what you tend to focus on?

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What's day to day life look like for you, Scott Allen?

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You've got quite a stack of books that you've written.

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Are you writing 100 books a day?

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everywhere to help people.

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I think that as a content creator, the more I can create and put out there into the world,

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the more people can discover my brand, the platform, and how it can best serve them,

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how it can best help them to build a great life and keep pushing forward through day

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I show up every day.

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I have a plan for the things that I'm going to work on, and I just dive in and put in

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blocks every day where I'm going in and creating that content.

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which is important, very important.

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I became enamored with this website and how clean it is, and really what this book right

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here really drove me do the hard things first.

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life as easy as possible.

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I'm just not a fan of the easy route.

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I got you covered on both.

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but we're giving it a bit of a facelift because it's going to be built out for the global

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publishers that want to do business with us.

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The global publishers, meaning publishing companies outside of the US that buy my books

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directly and they translate them into, I think we have Do The Hard Things First and a few

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is self-published, but then they're usually picked up by other publishers.

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going to be directing it towards publishers only where they can come here and just download

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copies of the books and then decide if they want to buy them for translation.

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I love that.

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Not everything is fully functional, just so you know.

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It's a living, breathing thing websites are and they're always optimizing, but it drove

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You've published books in 16 languages, over 500,000 copies sold worldwide.

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You're transforming human potential.

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I was going on Amazon looking, you got a bunch of reviews on there as a well positioned book

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should and there's so many people getting into a division and leadership space that

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have forgotten to pay attention to what happens after I publish.

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It doesn't just fly off the shelves on Walmart on its own or Amazon.

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It's fascinating to me and we'll dive pretty deep into that.

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What are three resources for leaders and visionaries that you recommend that they may not have

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on their radar or maybe ignoring because we tend to forget things that are important?

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School of greatness.

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their message just really pulled me out of a dark spot.

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I think I remember finding Tom Billio at the time, Ed Millett.

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back 30 years, that really got me on track with everything.

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There's more of a bigger story there.

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Awaken the Giant Within, Who Not How, Beyond Positive, I could name a hundred.

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I read a book a week.

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I appreciate that and all those resources.

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I couldn't agree more.

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The more we learn, the more we can learn.

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That's one of my favorite quotes.

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Anonymous quote, no idea who said it, but it is so true.

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Big shout out to Lewis Howes.

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I can't pump up Dyer of CEO.

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You fall up a Lewis Howes and not pump up School of Greatness.

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I had the good fortune of being on the video power marketing team and Lewis Howes was one

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We ran the registrations for his webinar and it was a privilege to be a part of that.

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That was almost 10 years ago.

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I get to see what he's done since then and how he continues to grow and lead.

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It's fun to... Maybe I didn't get to know him, but I got to work with his assistant

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and as I did, you get to see behind the scenes and see that people are who they present themselves

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as on stage and that's always a wonderful feeling.

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I'd love to meet Lewis some days and some day at the art show and just meet the other

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I just love connecting with people and especially people who are out there just every day creating

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Getting people onto the show to just share their content, their message.

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Just tapping into that every day just fills me with a lot of energy.

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I'm sure it could work the same way for anybody else.

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We'll talk about it.

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I think I'm sure you can find your own key in, but the person I'd probably go through

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is Ryan Blair who introduced us to Lewis Howes.

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for The Rock Bottom, The Rock Star.

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I love that you highlight podcasts as well and that you talk about the time you dedicate

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I think a lot of people are scared to mention how much time they spend on TED Talks or how

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much time they spend on YouTube or University and how much time they spend on podcasts because

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you don't sound as smart to the common world of business professionals if you're not talking

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about all the books that you're reading and how you're spending time in books.

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There's so much that you can learn through audio and video as well that enhances that

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whole process and experience.

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It's not an either or in my opinion.

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It's an and opportunity.

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It's a way to throw down.

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We'll be diving into Scott Allen's vision and we'll be talking as well about becoming

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He's done an awesome job of building that out.

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Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Callum.

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I'm your show host.

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We will be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building

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fantastic visions out there.

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Hey welcome in to Vision Pros Live everybody.

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I'm your show host Jackson Callum, founder and CEO of First Class Business.

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I'm super excited to have Scott Allen of ScottAllenPublishing.com on today.

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He's also got Scott Allen Books.

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That is double T double L by the way.

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And Scott is not going to be a person that's very hard to find on Google because he has

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sold over 500,000 copies of his books and his websites are super clean and crisp, which

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I appreciate greatly because it says a lot about the depth and we all go through a process

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of clutter when we're building our visions.

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His is like built and flying and solid and awesome.

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That's just always fun to see.

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So we're going to have fun diving and seeing how the heck he did that and how what we can

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Before I bring Scott on, I also want to bring up two other opportunities and resources for

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you in the form of sponsorships.

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Number one is Dave Morrow with HardToKill.org.

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The Hard To Kill podcast is phenomenal.

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The mission behind it is even better.

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He's helping 100,000 veterans lose two million pounds collectively so they can look good,

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feel good and do good.

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And he's got one of the easiest workout programs in the world.

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He's also got a community called Veterans Fit AF and he's expanded that community to

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also invite people in who love the camaraderie and the culture of military as well.

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So in other words, civilians like myself can also jump in and start to get in shape.

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And it is actually helping me quite a bit.

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I'm down a couple pounds already and it's nice to have a community where I'm held

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accountable to get my workouts in.

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Now moving on to Oportunidades de Trabajo para Latinos.

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All right, we've got the sponsorship up here.

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What the heck did I just say?

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It's Opportunities for Latinos.

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This is our own creation.

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I've been building this dream for 14 years and it is now completely Latino run.

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So you see Diana in the picture there in that video.

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Our Latinos are helping other Latinos out there learn how to become virtual assistants

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and how to get certified so they can gain work on their own accord so they can also

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work with our clients.

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They're absolutely phenomenal at what they do.

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And really the whole purpose of promoting this too is if you know Latinos who would

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make great guests on our Latino podcast, well, they just launched the podcast recently.

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And what's really cool is Luisa did an interview just a few weeks ago with Kike Inglis and

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Kike has 900,000 subscribers on YouTube.

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I have never interviewed somebody with that level of traction in the world and I've been

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doing this for years.

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So it's super fun to see how fast this is moving forward.

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There are millions of people out there who need work and the opportunity for us to provide

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that type of training and service and support to them for free.

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It's what drives me my friends.

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Then there's the water project.

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Switching over to the water project.

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We've got, I don't get involved with the water project personally.

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I'm not like a founder or board member.

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People have gotten confused with that.

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No, I just love what they do.

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When I found out that there's millions of people on earth who don't have access to clean drinking

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water, I chose not to forget about that.

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I literally chose, you know what?

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I'm going to talk about this more often.

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I'm going to contribute to this.

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I'm going to see what else we can do to help because I would never want my kids to be in

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that situation.

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I've never been thirsty in my life.

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And the fact that that still exists to this day, I'm like, let's eradicate this.

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Let's dive in and do more to help with this situation.

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So what's really cool about the water project, you donate to a specific project and you get

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to see the outcome of that project come to life.

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They actually send you posts about the updates and you get to see how it helps the community.

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Seeing these kids celebrate water like my kids celebrate Christmas day reminds me that this

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is something that I just, I just, I just not willing to forget about.

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If you have a cause that is more important to you and you're like, Jackson, please talk

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about this cause instead.

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Just drop the link.

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It's not a competition.

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We've got 8 billion people in this world to help.

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My hope is that we will all come together to do just that.

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Those of us blessed enough to rock the mic for a living.

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You know, it's, it's our opportunity to jump in and do more.

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So that's what it's all about my friends.

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And without further ado, I'm going to bring Scott back on.

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We'll dive into his vision and see how he's showing up in the world.

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So Scott, how are you my friend?

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Welcome to vision pros life.

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You want fantastic.

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Thanks for having me on the show.

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Absolutely.

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Um, I usually ask the question, what is the vision for those that you serve?

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But you do a lot of things for a lot of people.

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So if you don't mind, who do you serve and then what is the vision for them?

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Yeah.

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So I think that, um, without going too broad, uh, I tend to want to serve everybody.

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I think, you know, cause I believe you on that.

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I'm okay with broad.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And when I first started out creating my contents, although this may not have been

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my intention at the time, the content does serve a very wide audience.

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So you know, it's really anybody who is ready and willing to take charge of their lives.

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And I think that could be everybody could be most people, people who, I think everybody

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wants to do that, to be honest with you, just not everybody's ready for it yet.

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Right?

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So whether you're ready for it or you're not, I'm laying the foundations for, you know,

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teaching people those tools and the strategies and the frameworks to help them, um, take

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charge of their life and just discover what their, their highest potential is.

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I mean, we're always striving for something greater than ourselves.

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So one of the things I want, my favorite word is fulfillment.

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You know, I believe that life is about fulfillment.

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Yes.

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There are many times I was, you know, sometimes I'm chasing after money or chasing after success

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or something.

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And I realized like when I got it is like, well, you know, I got it, but I'm still not

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feeling, you know, like this was the thing, you know, I realized like fulfillment is the

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key.

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Like what Anthony Robbins said, I think the key to success is progress.

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So I'm always looking to progress forward and help other people to progress forward

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as well.

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So every time I, you know, when I'm designing a book or designing a course or, uh, you know,

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going, uh, doing an interview, I'm always talking about these things that are going

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to help people to, you know, call it scaling up or, you know, like moving forward with

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their lives because we all need help as well.

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I mean, I need it, you know, no matter where you're at in the progress or on the, on the

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journey, everybody needs help with their progress.

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So yes, I love that you keyed on a favorite word.

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That's fun.

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My, my English teacher, uh, junior year of high school, she had a favorite word and it

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was spatula.

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Um, I will never forget that as his favorite word, but I never did quite coin one until

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you said it.

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And then I'm like, well, mine is love and fulfillment love go hand in hand.

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Um, you know, they are very much companions, um, in our life.

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Let's talk about your vision and maybe we tie that to fulfillment as well.

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So what does fulfillment look like to you and give us some details.

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What's, what's your vision?

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What do you see on the horizon?

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So I used to have a watch.

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It still is my vision, but I have a vision for, uh, I want my books to be in every bookstore

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in the world.

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Not because again, not because of success and fame and fortune and all that, that stuff's

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good, but all this stuff is just a result of all the work you do.

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The reason is because, uh, the more the bookstores that my books are in or the more, uh, you

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know, platforms that, uh, the interviews can be, it can appear on the more people you're

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going to reach.

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Right.

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So I want everybody to be able to access that information easily.

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So that's why I'm really, uh, uh, enthusiastic about getting the books into as many languages

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as possible because, um, yes, I read all the books in English, but outside of that, we're

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trying to get them to as many languages as possible on every bookstore, uh, in the world.

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You know, that's really like, that's one of my visions.

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I think I have a few of them.

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Um, the other one is to, yeah, everything you can teach me and help me on and return

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in regard to getting materials translated into Spanish, my friend, please like send

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me any resource you got on that because that has been a massive desire of my heart that

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I haven't quite moved into yet, but we are ready as a team now.

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So please go ahead and continue though.

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I narrowed you down, but we can keep going broad.

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Yeah.

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Well, uh, I don't have a Spanish publisher yet, but I have published, I think we have

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10 books in Spanish currently and I plan on doing, uh, many more, you know, because that's,

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um, I actually have a pretty broad market in the, um, Spanish community.

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So I'm going to keep going with that.

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So I'm glad you mentioned it.

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Me too.

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I'm going to write down spam and Spanish publisher.

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We're going to do some research.

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Um, we'll, we'll do some research, pull it together.

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We'll send it to you.

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You're welcome to use it.

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How you see fit.

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Let's solve that problem.

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Let's go test.

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Sure.

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Awesome.

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So, uh, again, I, I kind of interrupted your vision and where you're going with it.

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And you took it with grace.

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One of the things that comes to mind, um, is this book that happened to be on a shelf

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in Africa and a little boy read it, got obsessed with electricity and was able to produce electricity

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for those that he'll do it.

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It's called the boy who harnessed the wind.

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You're, you're probably familiar with this book and turned into a Netflix movie as well,

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which expands the reach.

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And that's what I hear you talking about is you have formulas in your book that can dramatically

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help people's lives.

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And that's why it, why it's why it matters so much to get on those shelves throughout

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the world.

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Um, did I get that?

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Did I get that vision clearly?

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That's correct.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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There's no, there isn't, there's no ego associated with that, by the way, those who are listening

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in, if you're, if you're kind of scared of claiming things like that as a visionary leader,

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um, then you know, you're, you've probably had people kind of hold you back or, or say

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that, Hey, what, you know, what's with your ego, but that is not an egocentric reality

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visionaries.

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That is one that if you've got the formula two plus two equals four, don't take for

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granted how many people don't have access to that formula and don't understand it yet.

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Follow Scott's lead and boldly proclaim it.

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And let's let it come to fruition.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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Because that do you run into visionaries who seem like they're kind of holding back or

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am I kind of in the wrong crowd?

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No, I definitely do.

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In fact, um, there are many times when I'm holding myself back to it's like, you know,

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should I really be out there and make you so much noise?

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And, uh, and you know, you tend to hold yourself back with, you know, there's a lot of self

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doubts, uh, uncertainty and all that stuff.

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Right.

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So, um, to be honest with you, six months ago, you probably wouldn't have, I probably

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wouldn't have been here having an interview.

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It's like, people would come to me to do an interview and I'd be like, okay, I'll do it.

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Sure.

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We looked at the reluctantly, but back in March, I decided to, um, and part of it was

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like just the fear of going out there and talking about myself, sharing my story.

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So I was holding myself back for many years, actually, but I was okay with behind the scenes,

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uh, behind, you know, sitting at a desk, writing books and stuff like that, creating content.

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That's okay.

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But when actually I have to get out there in front of people, um, it was a bit of a

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leap.

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But here's the thing, like once I, once I did it, it was like, I loved it because I

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realized like connecting with people is probably the one thing that I love doing the most and,

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um, nothing better than to be on stage or in an interview doing that.

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Cause now you can, you know, people can actually see like, oh, he does exist, you know, there

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is a, there is a face behind all those, uh, you know, the, the books and the, you know,

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the, the words and everything like that.

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So, um, but yeah, I've helped, I've held myself back for many years and I see other people

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doing the same thing because I think one of the reasons is, um, and people will have to

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maybe give their own reasons for this, but I think that there's something in us that

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says like, I'm not worth it.

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You know, I'm not worthy.

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What if I go out there and they reject me or they don't like me and all those things.

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And I realized like I was holding onto those beliefs too.

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So I just had to set them aside and, uh, put myself out there and say, you know, I'm just

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out here to help people and if they, they want that help, great.

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And if they don't, maybe they'll be ready for it someday.

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So, yeah, I love it.

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You're, you're like the Lorax for authors because authors often hide behind their books.

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Like that was one of the most common genres or industries for people to not come from

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behind like what's there.

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It's like who, who thinks of contacting an author to get to know them?

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Uh, at least I didn't growing up, it seemed like they were untouchable individuals, but

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it turns out a lot of them are kind of introverted.

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Oh, but seeing you, Scott, like I saw your website, I see your pictures and then you

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can like, I would have never assumed that imposter syndrome or that the feeling of like

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being like, Oh man, I don't know if I should speak, whatever.

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Like you're one of those, you're one of those TV faces, if you will.

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Um, that's like, Oh man, this guy's made for TV.

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He's probably been doing this since he was born.

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And I get the same reaction, same treatment from people.

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I'm like, no, I'm, I'm nervous and 90% of my interviews, um, you know, whether it comes

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across as not, it is, is a scary thing to get out there.

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And we all have different angles of overcoming it.

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And again, the invitation, the tidal wave invitation to all you visionaries listening

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in who are like, Oh, I'm not a visionary.

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Oh no, you are.

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We see you.

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Um, you know, you definitely have something to value to put out into the world and we

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hope that you, uh, you find a great way to step into it.

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So we're going to, we're going to step into a dark subject for now.

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Um, what is the worst leadership experience that you've ever had?

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Um, is that personally or at a leader that I was working under?

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It's it's an, it's optional.

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It's based on what do you think the audience is going to learn most from?

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And so it can be either one, but let's yeah, go down that, go down either one of those

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paths.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I have a stories for both sides, but I think that, uh, just going back, um, a few

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years to when I was working in a business school, um, I was working under a leader and,

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uh, things, uh, just weren't going very well.

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People were, there was, it was like a very toxic environment.

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And I was also a leader at the time in that business.

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That was probably number two in command, I think.

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And, um, the, uh, the leader or the manager for that, um, business school and we had business

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schools all over Japan.

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Uh, yeah, it just created a very toxic environment and people were quitting left and right.

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And I was trying to hold everything together, you know, and, uh, I wasn't doing a great

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job of it myself either because I needed a leader myself.

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I think like a leader needs somebody else to guide them to, you know, all the mentors

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and coaches.

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So, um, I went through that for three or four years and then finally ended up, uh, leaving

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that business myself, not because of that, because my book business had got to the point

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where I was just ready to move on, you know?

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So, um, yeah, but, uh, we may not have time for all the gritty details, but I learned

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a lot from, uh, working in, you know, like a lot of other companies.

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Um, mostly, uh, the lessons I learned were things to do, like how to have a successful

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business, right?

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I learned that from other really good leaders, you know?

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And then, um, I also learned on the other side of that, like things not to do in your

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business, you know, how not to treat people, um, you know, how to show up for people and

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not have it be all about you.

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It's all about, it's about the team.

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And then, you know, like, you know, how do you, uh, cultivate your team and move that

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forward?

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So.

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All these, all these introspective questions, um, can lead us down a very important rabbit

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hole for ourselves.

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Um, right.

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How am I showing up in toxic ways?

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Um, right.

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We, we all have the toxicity within us.

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Um, and so being able to gravitate towards better ways.

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And if you don't know what toxic means, and it's a worthwhile thing to look up on YouTube

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and start to uncover and unpack.

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Again, how do I end up accidentally leveraging this?

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That is, uh, interesting.

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So business schools in Japan, we might come back to that.

469
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,360
What you reminded me of is one of my favorite quotes that's probably least liked in the

470
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,640
world.

471
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:02,120
And that is great leaders are great followers.

472
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:06,040
It seems the paradox of that seems like that can't be the case.

473
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:12,680
But in reality, I wish somebody had taught me that at a young age, because I was often

474
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,120
told I was the leader.

475
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:17,360
Um, you know, and, and like, then you're on your own, you're on an island, you're just

476
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:18,920
screwing everything up by yourself.

477
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,400
You're not looking at who's doing what and how.

478
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,120
Um, so it is really helpful to finally realize like, no, put your ego aside.

479
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,960
You can learn from others while still leading your, your cohort.

480
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,160
Um, and it had a massive impact on me in my thirties.

481
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:37,720
My man, if I could learn that my twenties or my teens, Oh, well, we live and we learn.

482
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,360
So, uh, why'd you brought it up moving into the opposite end of the spectrum?

483
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,960
What's the best leadership experience that you've ever had?

484
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:45,960
Yeah.

485
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,160
So the best leadership experience would again come from, uh, learning from somebody.

486
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,200
So just going way back, uh, before I came to Japan, I was actually working as an electrical

487
00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:00,440
engineer and, uh, you know, that was a pretty tough job actually, you know, but, um, and

488
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,840
in order to succeed in that business, I, um, I knew that was in my twenties as well at

489
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,840
the time.

490
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,440
So, you know, I had a leader at the time who was actually, I realized that I was struggling

491
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,440
with the work, struggling with my life actually.

492
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,440
So it wasn't just the job.

493
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,400
It was things that are happening in my personal life.

494
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,600
And, uh, this leader at the time took me aside and this was the person by the way, who gave

495
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,200
me the Tony Robbins book and said, you have to read this book, you know, and, um, this

496
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,200
guy was great.

497
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,160
He just, uh, he was always giving me these, uh, unique resources, you know, he's like,

498
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,160
you have to read this book.

499
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,160
It'll change your life.

500
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,080
And, uh, I was like, you know, at the time I wasn't into reading self-help personal development

501
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:41,760
books as more to going out to the bars and party and just doing all these like kind of

502
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,520
self-stop tossing things, but he really, uh, he, he set my mind.

503
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,800
Well, he gave me the resources and the tools to help me set my mind straight, you know?

504
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,600
And so like a couple of weeks later we meet up again.

505
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,280
He's like, did you read that book I gave you?

506
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,320
And he was, he'd be testing me and checking me in.

507
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,320
Right.

508
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,320
And I'm like, yeah, I did.

509
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:00,320
He was like, he cared about you.

510
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:01,320
Yeah.

511
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,320
Yeah.

512
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:03,320
I don't know.

513
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,320
You know, he's like, you know, show me your goals then.

514
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,880
Like, cause that was in chapter seven, you know, so he'd be testing me.

515
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,880
Right.

516
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,560
But, um, so that was to me, like that was great leadership, but also, um, that just

517
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,640
came from, you know, it took kudatango in that scenario though.

518
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,120
You, you had to be willing to not say like, well, what, why are you asking me that?

519
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:20,600
You know, what did you read this week?

520
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:27,160
Uh, and there's so many people who don't understand the value of what he was doing for you, but

521
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,160
you did.

522
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,160
So how did you eat that up?

523
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,860
And, and what are the times where you were upset that he was trying to hold you accountable

524
00:28:32,860 --> 00:28:34,360
or did you know?

525
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:35,360
Yeah, there were, yeah.

526
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,160
Because, um, yeah, I felt like, you know, this guy's getting in my face and I just want

527
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,800
to go out this weekend and party again, like I did last weekend.

528
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,360
But he's like, no, if you do this, it'll change your life.

529
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,800
And so he came over to my apartment one day and he's like, he walks in and he goes, you've

530
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,840
got to take these like, uh, you know, these posters off your wall and we're going to build

531
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:52,840
a vision board.

532
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:58,160
I'm like, I want you to say, I know like two days later, we had a vision board and we had

533
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,320
my goals that my goals were like, one of them was like, I wanted to be a bestselling author.

534
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,240
The second one was I want to travel the world.

535
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,920
I think the third one, he may have, he might've come up with this when he goes, we're going

536
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,560
to build you into a better human being.

537
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,480
I'm like, okay, that sounds great.

538
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,480
I'll just roll with it then.

539
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,340
You know, so he seemed to have this, I don't get an agenda, but he was really leading me

540
00:29:17,340 --> 00:29:18,340
from one step to the next.

541
00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:22,520
So I was that he was kind of like seeing the future before I could, like, I mean, I didn't

542
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,160
really have a vision for what I want to do.

543
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,160
A vision board.

544
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,160
Yeah.

545
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,120
It's like, if you create a vision board, he goes, you look at it every day, you're going

546
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,280
to build something that you like nobody's ever had before.

547
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,280
I'm like, oh, okay.

548
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,580
Well, if you say so.

549
00:29:34,580 --> 00:29:37,720
So we had a vision board with like places I wanted to go.

550
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,400
And I found that the more of this vision board that we were building, the more ideas I started,

551
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,420
I started coming up with and more excited.

552
00:29:44,420 --> 00:29:45,420
I started getting about life.

553
00:29:45,420 --> 00:29:46,420
It's like, wow.

554
00:29:46,420 --> 00:29:48,640
I've never really traveled before.

555
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,240
And now it's like, you know, he's like, how would you feel?

556
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,040
He goes like, he knew I hated my job at the time.

557
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,040
It's like that.

558
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,040
I want to get out of it.

559
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,480
You know, and he's like, what if you could be living in another country a year from now

560
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,120
and living a different life?

561
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,280
And I'm like, oh, come on, you know, I don't even have a passport.

562
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,280
Yeah.

563
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,280
He's like, well, we're going to take care of that next.

564
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,280
Right.

565
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,280
So next.

566
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,440
And by the way, you know, like just to jump ahead a little bit a year later, I was living

567
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,720
in Japan, living the dream life.

568
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,600
And all of this came as a result of like all the work that we were doing a year prior to

569
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,600
that.

570
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Yeah.

571
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:17,600
Yeah.

572
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:18,600
Wow.

573
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,600
I left a lot of details there.

574
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,600
I kind of jumped.

575
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,600
It was good jumping.

576
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,600
We got it.

577
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:23,600
It all started with.

578
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:24,600
Yeah.

579
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,600
But I'll start it with the vision.

580
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:26,600
Right.

581
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,240
Because if I hadn't had a vision for that and then had the and you know, I'm not saying

582
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,320
you need a vision board to make it happen, but you need to have something like every

583
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,320
day you got to.

584
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,240
I mean, you just showed me the power of a vision board.

585
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,240
Yeah.

586
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,240
It was amazing.

587
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,840
And by the way, I still have vision boards in my office.

588
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,440
Like I got none of the practice of building them.

589
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,880
Recently, I have been hired another mentor and other coaching.

590
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,360
He's like, he said the same thing.

591
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:49,800
He's like, do you have a vision board?

592
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:50,800
I'm like, oh, here we go again.

593
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,880
It's like I forgot about the vision board, the power of that, you know, and it brought

594
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,720
me back to I think it was like Tony's book and a couple of it.

595
00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,720
We're going to play with it.

596
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:00,720
We're going to play with it.

597
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,720
Keep going.

598
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,960
But I'm going to show my morning formula, which is also part of my and I'm holding myself

599
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,960
accountable here.

600
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:06,960
I need to update this.

601
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,640
But go ahead, Scott, because you're you're on like the this is something that has been

602
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:16,960
magnificent for my life as well as for those that I've worked with.

603
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,640
And it's amazing how you can bring things to fruition when you literally don't lose

604
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,040
tight of what you want to do for your life.

605
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,040
So keep going.

606
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,040
Tony Robbins, you were there.

607
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,120
Well, here's something amazing that happened after we started to build a vision.

608
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,600
And I had the vision board and things like that.

609
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,560
He said to me, great things are going to happen in your life.

610
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,900
I'm like, OK, great.

611
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:38,900
Three months later.

612
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:42,440
And he was like, so I think what he was saying is like, once you build out a vision for the

613
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,000
life that you want, things are going to start to show up.

614
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Right.

615
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,760
So we can call that synchronicity, intuition, whatever it may be.

616
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,440
But there was definitely an energy or a power that I was building in my own life that I'd

617
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:53,540
never had before.

618
00:31:53,540 --> 00:31:54,540
Or it was there.

619
00:31:54,540 --> 00:31:55,540
I never recognized it.

620
00:31:55,540 --> 00:31:56,540
I think.

621
00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:57,540
And by the way, I think we all have this thing.

622
00:31:57,540 --> 00:31:58,540
Right.

623
00:31:58,540 --> 00:31:59,860
So I'm not like a genie or some magician.

624
00:31:59,860 --> 00:32:00,860
We all have this.

625
00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:01,860
Right.

626
00:32:01,860 --> 00:32:06,080
But anyway, what happened is after I had the vision board and I started working on myself

627
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,120
two or three months later, my roommate brought home the newspaper and I never read the newspaper

628
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,360
and back when we had newspapers.

629
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:12,360
Right.

630
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,080
And this one day I just happened to pick it up, open it to a random page.

631
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,240
I think I was maybe looking for the comics or the movies or something and just opened

632
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,240
it up.

633
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,480
And right there was this advertisement said, teaching English in Japan now or apply now.

634
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,560
You know, like, wow, teaching English in Japan.

635
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:27,560
Yeah.

636
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,560
I'm going to try that.

637
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,320
So next thing I know, I put together a resume, a killer cover letter, sent that over.

638
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:38,160
And like a month later, I was in downtown Vancouver having an interview with a Japanese

639
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,600
businessman who had all these business schools in Japan.

640
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,680
And yeah, they hired me and brought me over with a few other people.

641
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:45,680
And that was it.

642
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,120
It was like I had that locked in.

643
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,560
And when they hired me, I had still had like six months to go before they brought us over.

644
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,120
But it's like that came as a result of like figuring out like.

645
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,720
And by the way, my whole like one of my visions at the time that came out of that vision board

646
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,520
is I wanted to travel the world, to go to go to Thailand and Vietnam and all these places.

647
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:10,360
So when I made that decision, I went to the library and I started getting all these books

648
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,360
on these different languages.

649
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,360
And my roommates would come home and they're like, you know, they'd be coming home late

650
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,960
Friday, early Friday morning or Saturday morning.

651
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:18,960
Like, what are you doing?

652
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,480
I'd be up on the floor, like, you know, laying on the floor, reading all these books on like

653
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,000
speaking Thai and this stuff.

654
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,280
And they're like, you know, there's like what's going on.

655
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:28,960
I'm like, oh, I'm going overseas.

656
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,040
I'm going to Asia, you know, like.

657
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,120
And this was kind of before I had decided to go to Japan.

658
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,820
But I knew I was just leaving and that was it.

659
00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:41,920
And once I made that definitive decision, my mentor, my leader, he was right.

660
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:42,920
Things started happening.

661
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,840
Everything started falling in place.

662
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:50,680
But I built I built that destiny, you know, like building like the architect of your life.

663
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:55,160
It all came from that, like just every day showing up and still working my regular job.

664
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,760
And I could have gone back to going back to the bars all the time and just kind of like

665
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,000
hanging out and stuff like that.

666
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,440
I mean, that was fun.

667
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,440
But I was done with that.

668
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,200
And now I had this new vision that I was building.

669
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,360
And I'll tell you, like, it was exciting.

670
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,840
You know, absolutely.

671
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,960
A mentor of mine, when he was helping me overcome just negativity in general, negative thought

672
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:20,200
processes talked about how our mind as infinite as it feels and can be.

673
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:25,000
If you think of it like a bookshelf, if you're constantly putting great books on the shelf,

674
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,600
eventually you run out of room for the negative books.

675
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,240
And just keep feeling, filling your mind and filling your activities with positivity and

676
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:35,640
it will sort itself out.

677
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:42,840
And it was a very, very helpful visual cue that also helped tremendously where my thoughts

678
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,840
were.

679
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,000
Diving in to if this was the last chance you had to share powerful lessons, Scott, I hope

680
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
you have many more.

681
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,120
I know this were it.

682
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,240
What powerful lesson kind of visionaries learned from your experience?

683
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,720
I think, first of all, like you're never it's never too late.

684
00:34:58,720 --> 00:34:59,720
Right.

685
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,880
And I hear this from a lot of people that go, it's too late for me.

686
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,520
I'm in my 50s or 60s or 80s or whatever it might be.

687
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,720
And just I follow Gary Weinerchuck a lot.

688
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:08,720
I just love what he says.

689
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,240
And he has like his messages to the other day.

690
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:14,840
He put out a video last week, I think it's like it was to 55 year olds.

691
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,120
He's like, I'm 55 and you're going to live another 40 years.

692
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,220
And he's like, you're going to give up now.

693
00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:23,360
So I tend to follow like that's the advice I want to hear because I'm the same age as

694
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,360
Gary.

695
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,360
Right.

696
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,240
So it's like, you know, and I'm and a lot of my some of my friends are talking about

697
00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,480
retiring and this that and that's fine.

698
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:32,480
You know, if you're retiring.

699
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,200
But my question to them was always like, where are you retiring from?

700
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,440
What are you going to do after that?

701
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,880
Like, well, I don't know, make do some gardening and stuff.

702
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:39,880
And that's really cool, too.

703
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,280
I have nothing wrong with that.

704
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,760
But I just want to keep going forward no matter, you know, like what happens in life, we're

705
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:46,760
going to have ups and downs.

706
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,920
We're going to have failures, which are actually good things, good learning experiences.

707
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,320
But the one thing that visionaries can learn is like, you know, you just got to keep keep

708
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:59,040
learning, keep pushing forward, keep working on the vision, because I think that a lot

709
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,320
of people either they don't have a vision or they once had one and they gave up on it.

710
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,040
And so now they've just just by default, they've fallen back into a rut.

711
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,760
And now they're just waiting for that day when they can kind of like retire and, you

712
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,360
know, go to a golf course every day.

713
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,520
Hey, I love golfing, too, but all that plenty of time for that on the weekends, you know,

714
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,720
but I just I think as a visionary, I just I need to be creating something all the time.

715
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,720
But when I'm not actually feel like under stress, like I feel anxious, stressful, you

716
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,760
know, and then when I start creating something that kind of goes away.

717
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,400
And part of it is just like, yeah, like, what is the next vision?

718
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,000
You know, I kind of lost sight of that myself for a little while, too.

719
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,520
It's like, and that's when I went back and built a new vision board.

720
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:45,080
It's like, oh, my next vision, my big vision, actually, I think I had another one is like,

721
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,520
I want to be on stage in front of tens of thousands of people.

722
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,840
That's right there.

723
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,640
That's right there in my morning formula.

724
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,480
You saw Pat on the screen.

725
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,760
And that's the one thing I would love to do that.

726
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,240
So I when I do visual meditation, that's one of the things that I think about.

727
00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:08,320
And I because I believe that when you actually think about this thing, you've got to got

728
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,920
to convince yourself that it's real.

729
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,200
Like it's already there, you know, and I think that's what happens with a lot of us is like,

730
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:19,040
we, you know, we think, OK, well, in order for me to become that kind of person, I have

731
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,080
to be this person first and get this first and then I'll get up.

732
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,840
But you actually have to reverse, you know, it's kind of like be do and have, you know,

733
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,120
like you've got to be that thing to to get yourself onto the right path.

734
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,560
Eventually, you'll you'll you'll become whatever it is that you visualize.

735
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,880
You know, so you've got to have that vision first.

736
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,320
So it's not just going to materialize, I think.

737
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:45,200
Right. Huge, you know, man search for meaning, you know, talks about that concept a lot as

738
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,680
a man think it is as well.

739
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,680
Another phenomenal book and resource.

740
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,120
There's a very difficult movie, very dramatic called Cold Mountain.

741
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:59,040
And I recently watched it and Jude Law not going to ruin the movie for you guys.

742
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,400
But when he I guess I am at the end of the movie, when he's coming back together with

743
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:10,080
the woman that he's left for years because of the war, they're getting ready to get married.

744
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,240
But without the official capacity to and it's this I'm going to ruin the I'm going to butcher

745
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:15,760
how to deliver this because she's so powerful.

746
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,580
I hope you see this opportunity for my friends because he she basically says like, you know,

747
00:38:21,580 --> 00:38:25,040
we hardly know each other, even though she's like super in love with him, too, because

748
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,000
they have this years of seven years of distance.

749
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:33,560
And he says, he says, no, I've spent thousands of occasions with you over the last seven

750
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,560
years going through all the term.

751
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,700
I was with you the entire time, whether it's imagined or real.

752
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:45,240
They happened and she felt the exact same way, you know, and that different times, different

753
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,920
places, you know, no tender to find here matches.

754
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:48,920
They have this.

755
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,680
It was just them in their mind.

756
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:58,320
But point is, we have the ability to stimulate and visualize our experiences before they

757
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:05,680
happen and understand how to do things that we've never even attempted before just by

758
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,440
utilizing our minds.

759
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:08,920
There's incredible science behind that.

760
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,000
So I'm glad you bring it up.

761
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,200
There's incredible realities that can unfold.

762
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,960
And all it takes is experimenting with it.

763
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,640
You don't have to quit your job and move on to divisions immediately.

764
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,520
You know, you're a great example of that.

765
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:26,120
You maintained your job, you know, and you kind of eased into this experience.

766
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:33,000
And there's, you know, hats off to you if you just jump in and go for it and throw everything

767
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000
else to the side.

768
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,680
But there are lots of ways to be able to dive in and build your visions.

769
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,200
So thank you for sharing all of that.

770
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,040
Let's dive into specifically now becoming the architect of your life.

771
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,920
What does that mean to you?

772
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:51,120
And how can people dive into to be in the architect of their life?

773
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,540
And you talk about owning your own life.

774
00:39:54,540 --> 00:39:55,720
That has a lot to do with freedom.

775
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:56,720
I'm a big fan of freedom.

776
00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:59,000
Scott, the time is yours.

777
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,240
Yeah, I think I'm going to start with one of my favorite movies, The Matrix.

778
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:04,480
There's a scene in The Matrix.

779
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,120
And I just had to say this, like I've watched that movie probably more than anybody.

780
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:13,480
But there's a scene towards the end when Neo turns around to face one of the agents in

781
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,080
the subway, right?

782
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:21,160
And just as he does that, I think Carrie Mosk, her character's name, she says she turns to

783
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,560
Morpheus and she says, what is he doing?

784
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,280
And Morpheus says he's beginning to believe.

785
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,160
So I've played that over and over and over again.

786
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,080
A lot of it comes down to, you've got to start believing.

787
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,560
You've got to believe in yourself.

788
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,920
And even if you don't, let's just say you're starting at rock bottom and you don't believe

789
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,240
in anything, right?

790
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,360
You've got to take action towards something, right?

791
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,360
You've got to build these.

792
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,840
And you, like everybody has the ability for this.

793
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:50,040
This is where the architect of your, you are the architect of your dreams, meaning that

794
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,280
you have everything you already need.

795
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,280
And I think a lot of people think they don't.

796
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,240
Like they need, they think they need the money.

797
00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:56,920
They need the education.

798
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,080
They always need something.

799
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:03,000
So they're always coming at this from a place of, you know, I don't have enough, right?

800
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,200
You know, it's like the scarcity mindset.

801
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,800
And I battled with the scarcity mindset like most of my life when I came to resources and

802
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,080
money and I'm not good enough.

803
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,080
But here's the thing.

804
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:19,520
I mean, I don't have, you know, I think I went to, back in the day, I barely got through

805
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:20,520
high school.

806
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,520
In fact, I failed it.

807
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,400
I failed high school and I had to eventually go to night school and get my degree and things

808
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,400
like that.

809
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,100
You know, there's just like certain things that I had to do because for me it's okay

810
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:33,800
to fail, but it's not, you know, it's okay to fail.

811
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,680
It's okay to get knocked down.

812
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,480
It's just not cool to stay down there, right?

813
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,160
You know, like stay down for a little while, but you got to get back up in the game.

814
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,160
Right?

815
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,960
So again, coming back to the architect of your life, it's like you have everything you

816
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,800
need to build your thing.

817
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,000
And the question is, what is the thing you, if you could, you know, if we took all the

818
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,920
fears and the self doubts and all that, you just pushed that aside for a few minutes and

819
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,420
you asked yourself that one question, you know, what is the life that I would lead if

820
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:01,760
I could be doing that today?

821
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,080
And I ask myself this every day, right?

822
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,360
Because I have to keep building that vision of what it is.

823
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:13,300
Like you really, it is a lot of work, but the hardest part of this really is just getting

824
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:14,300
focused on it.

825
00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:15,920
Like most people are just not focused on that.

826
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,640
You know, they're focused on flipping through their phone or doing whatever.

827
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,760
I think we talk, we talk about distraction as if it's something that just shows up and

828
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:23,760
takes over our mind.

829
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,640
The thing is you're creating the distraction, all of these things that are happening, the

830
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,240
thoughts and all this stuff, like you're creating that.

831
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:34,920
So that means that if you're creating that stuff, you can get rid of it as well.

832
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,280
And you can create the thoughts you want.

833
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,720
You can create the beliefs you want.

834
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,920
You can let go of the past and, you know, build tomorrow.

835
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,560
It's really, it's right there in front of you.

836
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,120
Now having said that, this is where leadership comes in.

837
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:53,160
Like we do need, like, because I get lost on the path as well, you know, and they're

838
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,160
like going back.

839
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,720
I mean, over the years I've had many mentors, coaches, leaders.

840
00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:59,480
I didn't always ask for them to show up, but they were there.

841
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:00,480
Right.

842
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,080
And I realized like if they hadn't shown up and maybe there was something in the universe

843
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,720
that just said, we need to help this guy out.

844
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:07,800
So we got to send him some help, you know.

845
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,840
Well, and what signal are you sending too?

846
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:10,840
Right.

847
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:11,840
There's, there's a connection.

848
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,400
There's usually correlation there, but go ahead.

849
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,400
There's an energy for sure.

850
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,400
You know?

851
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,760
It comes down to like, when you start believing, you start to create this energy.

852
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:23,240
And I'm really big on like lately I've been diving more into this, uh, universal energy.

853
00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,360
You can call it God, you can call it, you know, like whatever you want to, but this

854
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,360
universal-

855
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:28,360
He won't be offended.

856
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,360
No, not at all.

857
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,440
No, you know, it's all, it's all there to help you out.

858
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:33,440
Right.

859
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:38,600
But the thing is like, you have, you have, you're tapped into the biggest, um, resource

860
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,560
that, uh, you could ever want.

861
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,320
And I think a lot of people, they either don't believe it or, and I think the reason they

862
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,720
don't believe it is that they haven't experienced it yet.

863
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:47,720
Right.

864
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:48,720
So you have to build that experience.

865
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:52,320
So going back to years ago when I was building up my vision board and you know, like I didn't,

866
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,120
uh, in the beginning, I didn't believe it either.

867
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,120
This guy's telling me like my life's going to change.

868
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,120
It's going to be great and all this.

869
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,120
And I'm like, yeah, sure.

870
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,120
Whatever.

871
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,840
But we actually started building something.

872
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,600
I was like, uh, and, and just going back to like the matrix is that like, he's beginning

873
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,880
to believe, like I started to believe, right.

874
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,280
And when I started to believe that it's like, that became stronger and the energy became

875
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,280
stronger.

876
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,000
And then other stuff started showing up.

877
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,160
The coincidences became more frequent.

878
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,560
I started, you know, meeting more people that were on that path.

879
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,920
You know, like I'm a big believer of like the road less traveled, one of my favorite

880
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:28,240
books, but also the poem by Robert Frost is like, you know, I chose the road less traveled

881
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,320
and that made all the difference.

882
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,320
Right.

883
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:37,080
So, um, and you, you talked about those people, uh, coming into your life and you, you began

884
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,080
to know, right.

885
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,340
You talked about the coincidence that they began to happen and you just can't justify

886
00:44:41,340 --> 00:44:42,900
the coincidences.

887
00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:46,760
Because you see them continue to happen and you get to have that bold opportunity to be

888
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,360
able to shift from again, a belief to a knowledge.

889
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,000
And as you shift towards that, it's like, wow, like the power really hits home.

890
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,340
So you, you hit this, um, oh, you talked about giving up.

891
00:45:00,340 --> 00:45:04,600
And so I want to, I want to circle back to that, uh, because you did what you needed

892
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:09,080
to to finish that high school, um, you know, uh, get your high school degree.

893
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:13,160
I told my mom, I'm either dropping out or graduate in early, take your pick.

894
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,120
Um, and so I had no intention to graduate.

895
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,120
I didn't care.

896
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,640
Um, and I was just going to do it to get it done with.

897
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,040
And I went to night school as well.

898
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,240
Um, way easier than summer school and summer school is way easier than school.

899
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:23,560
So it was perfect.

900
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:28,480
Um, but with college, I have a 0.33 GPA of one.

901
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,240
I think I fixed it a little bit more, but I started there at 0.33, which is awful for

902
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:35,480
those of you who aren't in the United States.

903
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:36,480
You don't want that.

904
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,480
It's the worst you can get.

905
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:43,640
Um, when I got back from Uruguay and I started to fix things, I had a spiritual mentor who

906
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:44,640
sat me down boldly.

907
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,800
I was a, I was a, I was a brand new father.

908
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:52,300
And he said, your life is going to get harder and harder and you need to get more organized.

909
00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:55,600
You know, and he wasn't, he wasn't coming at me, but this guy was as nice and as loving

910
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,600
as could be.

911
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,160
And, you know, he'd never been the stern, um, and he's like, it is going to get harder.

912
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,520
It's not going to get easier.

913
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,560
It's going to continue to get harder and harder.

914
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,840
And so he's like, you need to get your education.

915
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,440
And I already knew that I was not meant to go back to my university.

916
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,760
Like I had this deep rooted thought.

917
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,320
And so I, I was beginning to play with this concept.

918
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,320
Was I giving up?

919
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,960
No, it was, it was, it was a giving up process.

920
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:21,960
And I looked at him.

921
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:29,280
I said, listen, I said, you're a doctor and I understand why you had to get your degree,

922
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,460
but I need you to be very clear with me right now.

923
00:46:31,460 --> 00:46:35,760
If you feel like you're getting revelation for my life, are you saying that I need to

924
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,320
get my education by going back to the university?

925
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,840
Or are you saying that I need to make sure that I get my education?

926
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,920
And we had this long pause and he was struggling.

927
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,520
I could tell like his ego side wanted to challenge me on this.

928
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,360
And it wasn't, it wasn't a nasty ego.

929
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,000
It wasn't like a man, this kid won't listen type thing.

930
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,080
He took a long pause and a reverence on it.

931
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:05,360
And then he had a humility check of, you just need to get your education.

932
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:11,560
You need to make sure you prioritize the knowledge that you're getting in relation to life.

933
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:16,720
And I was, I was so grateful and so blown away that I had a mentor who could align that

934
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,000
strongly with the powers that are.

935
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And I share that for whoever, whichever visionary or leader is in here is thinking like, Oh,

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I'm just going to be robotic and go right back to school.

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I'm going to be robotic and do please you visionaries.

938
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You're not here to listen to Scott and I to follow our path.

939
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You got your own path to figure out related to how these things work.

940
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And I hope that you do you like you figure out what this means for you, what type of

941
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vision board you might want to have, what type of morning formula you might want to

942
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devise for yourself, trust in your intuition, overcome that imposter syndrome and step into

943
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wanting to become your best self.

944
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And if you do that, I think great things will happen for you.

945
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Scott, I'll let you wrap up.

946
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Any final thoughts on that before we end the show?

947
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No, I love what you said about just becoming your best self because I've been my worst

948
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self.

949
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I know what that looks like.

950
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So when I started from ground zero, I was like, I couldn't, it was really hard for

951
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you to imagine what my best self would be.

952
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I think my best self would have just been the guy who could, you know, stay out of the

953
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bars for a week and kind of get his head straight at that time.

954
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But eventually once you get past the next goal, then you get to the next one and the

955
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next one.

956
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And that's really, you know, you don't go from zero to 102 seconds.

957
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I mean, it does take time and that's why I'm like, I'm big on learning just all the time,

958
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you know, learn everything you can find somebody who believes in you because we really need

959
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that.

960
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And if you're not sure where to, if you can't find anybody who believes in you, like dive

961
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into a book, watch interviews, whatever it takes, like you've got to contact Scott.

962
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Yeah.

963
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Yeah.

964
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Read a book, you know, but yeah, you just got to sometimes what it requires too is like

965
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removing yourself from a situation that is potentially like very negative or toxic.

966
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And that can be difficult if you're in a situation or relationship, you know, but you know, you

967
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can't always control that.

968
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:09,320
You can't always control that.

969
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,320
Yeah, exactly.

970
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,320
Yeah.

971
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No, but the one thing you can control is, you know, your own mind.

972
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Like you may not be able to control the external circumstances, as I think Victor Frankl had

973
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said, but you can control, you know, what's going on inside.

974
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Right.

975
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And if you realize that, then you can start to seek the help that you need, you know,

976
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and it will, I believe it will come, you know, if you look for it, it will be there.

977
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Correct.

978
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Absolutely.

979
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And while we can't always control that instantly and our trials are sometimes the roads to

980
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our best blessings and best opportunities, we should still seek, right?

981
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,120
We should still search.

982
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,880
And it's amazing how things can flip in life.

983
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,600
So if you're in that position where life is hard, don't give up, reach out to somebody

984
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:50,600
like Scott.

985
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,640
I think Dave Vaynerchuk talks about it, build a foundation of people around you who are

986
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moving towards the same direction and feel free to reach out to us as well.

987
00:49:58,480 --> 00:49:59,480
We're all here to help.

988
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:00,680
I shouldn't say we're all here.

989
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In our community, we build a community of people that are here to support.

990
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And there are people who are not ready to do that in our lives.

991
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And I've found that I don't want to eliminate those friends or family members from my life,

992
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,460
but I will not go hang out with them and their negative social circles.

993
00:50:18,460 --> 00:50:22,880
They can come to me and belong in a much more positive environment.

994
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And that was a huge move for me moving towards being able to become my best self.

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So those of you who've listened in today, down below, you're going to see the action

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steps that you can take to get involved with Scott Allen on his initiatives.

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You'll also see a list of the resources that we talked about.

998
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So you can go in and just click on that list.

999
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You can find, of course, any resource you want on YouTube University.

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But I have found that when my resource list gets curated and siphoned through the minds

1001
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of people who are doing things that I aspire to accomplish or do, it makes it so much easier

1002
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to consume the right information at the right time.

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So we hope that's a resource to you.

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And then at the top right corner of the screen, you're going to see a button that says, be

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our guest.

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If you want to jump on here and talk about your vision, even if you're brand new to looking

1007
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at life from how am I going to serve people and help people, come and join us.

1008
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We're looking for people, leaders who want to help the world.

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You don't have to have 500,000 books sold like Scott does.

1010
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But if you do, we'd love to have you as well.

1011
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But if you're just getting started and you're starting out with writing your first title

1012
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for your book, come and share it.

1013
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As long as it's holistic, we'd love to have you.

1014
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And everybody have a fantastic rest of your day.

1015
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Thanks for being here.

1016
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Thank you for being here today.

1017
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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

1018
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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your life.