I'm just really excited to have a great conversation and go with the flow and hopefully help some
people out with building a great life.
Yeah.
I'm good with that.
That sounds like an everyday journey.
Is that what you tend to focus on?
You live in Japan, you're on the side of the world for me and for my audience, or I would
say my core audience.
What's day to day life look like for you, Scott Allen?
You've got quite a stack of books that you've written.
Are you writing 100 books a day?
I'm not 100 today, but I've been upping the ante recently.
I generally do six books a year.
That depends on the year, I think.
We're trying to push that to one a month just because I just want to have my books out there
everywhere to help people.
I think that as a content creator, the more I can create and put out there into the world,
the more people can discover my brand, the platform, and how it can best serve them,
how it can best help them to build a great life and keep pushing forward through day
to day.
I show up every day.
I have a plan for the things that I'm going to work on, and I just dive in and put in
the time.
I usually go with, I'll have two, three hour time blocks every day, maybe two hour time
blocks every day where I'm going in and creating that content.
Outside of that, we're posting to social media, and I also coach people through the book publishing
process as well.
It tends to be a bit of a busy day or a busy week, but I do take time out for rest as well,
which is important, very important.
Absolutely.
I became enamored with this website and how clean it is, and really what this book right
here really drove me do the hard things first.
I'm a big fan of living life to its fullest, which usually doesn't coincide well with living
life as easy as possible.
I'm just not a fan of the easy route.
With that said, is this the platform you were talking about, scotlandpublishing.com, or
is there another site that I may have even overlooked?
That's an interesting question.
I actually have scotlandbooks.com.
We have the Shopify store on there where everything is set up.
I got you covered.
I got you covered on both.
It's a good question though, because people are sometimes confused as to why you have
two websites.
The one you were just on, Scott Island Publishing, we set that up just as a general website,
but we're giving it a bit of a facelift because it's going to be built out for the global
publishers that want to do business with us.
The global publishers, meaning publishing companies outside of the US that buy my books
directly and they translate them into, I think we have Do The Hard Things First and a few
other books are translated into 15 or 20 other languages.
We built out a little industry outside of the US publishing so that everything we do
is self-published, but then they're usually picked up by other publishers.
That's the reason I built out this site.
It's kind of like a project that's going to be getting a lot more attention and we're
going to be directing it towards publishers only where they can come here and just download
copies of the books and then decide if they want to buy them for translation.
I love that.
Some things on this site, I've got somebody working on it.
Not everything is fully functional, just so you know.
It's a living, breathing thing websites are and they're always optimizing, but it drove
my attention.
You've published books in 16 languages, over 500,000 copies sold worldwide.
You're transforming human potential.
I was going on Amazon looking, you got a bunch of reviews on there as a well positioned book
should and there's so many people getting into a division and leadership space that
have forgotten to pay attention to what happens after I publish.
It doesn't just fly off the shelves on Walmart on its own or Amazon.
It's fascinating to me and we'll dive pretty deep into that.
That said, I'm talking to an expert in that field.
What are three resources for leaders and visionaries that you recommend that they may not have
on their radar or maybe ignoring because we tend to forget things that are important?
I do a lot of following other people who are in the space and learning from a lot of other
people as well.
One resource I'd recommend is the diary of a CEO.
I watch a lot of podcasts.
Those are probably my three top resources that I follow.
I spend probably two hours a day watching these interviews because they're just fantastic.
The diary of a CEO is one.
The other one is Lewis House.
Great content.
School of greatness.
Yeah, amazing.
The third one would be Tom Billio's impact theory.
I just love Tom's material.
I've been following him for years.
I think after we had come out of COVID, which took a little while, but probably after 2020,
2021, I was kind of in a bad space.
I started following some of these leaders in the industry and their voices, their content,
their message just really pulled me out of a dark spot.
I think I remember finding Tom Billio at the time, Ed Millett.
I've always been a Tony Robbins fan per se and his book, Awaken the Giant.
If I had to recommend any book, Awaken the Giant Within was the one book, just going
back 30 years, that really got me on track with everything.
It eventually got me to Japan as well.
There's more of a bigger story there.
I love to read books as well.
Awaken the Giant Within, Who Not How, Beyond Positive, I could name a hundred.
I'm trying to write them all down.
I got to get these for the show notes.
I read a book a week.
It's not overly aggressive, but it's just enough to do about 40 to 50 books a year.
A lot of them are probably audio books these days, but that's just because we have that
option these days.
Instead of just sitting down reading a book, when I'm driving the car, I've got an audio
book on or I'm listening to a podcast.
I'm always trying to maximize my time and when I can learn something.
Occasionally I will listen to disco club music as well, just to break up the speed a little
bit.
That's awesome.
I appreciate that and all those resources.
I couldn't agree more.
The more we learn, the more we can learn.
That's one of my favorite quotes.
Anonymous quote, no idea who said it, but it is so true.
Big shout out to Lewis Howes.
I can't pump up Dyer of CEO.
You fall up a Lewis Howes and not pump up School of Greatness.
I had the good fortune of being on the video power marketing team and Lewis Howes was one
of our clients.
We ran the registrations for his webinar and it was a privilege to be a part of that.
That was almost 10 years ago.
I get to see what he's done since then and how he continues to grow and lead.
It's fun to... Maybe I didn't get to know him, but I got to work with his assistant
and as I did, you get to see behind the scenes and see that people are who they present themselves
as on stage and that's always a wonderful feeling.
All right, well without further ado... Go ahead.
I'd love to meet Lewis some days and some day at the art show and just meet the other
people as well.
I just love connecting with people and especially people who are out there just every day creating
something.
Getting people onto the show to just share their content, their message.
Just tapping into that every day just fills me with a lot of energy.
I'm sure it could work the same way for anybody else.
We'll talk about it.
I think I'm sure you can find your own key in, but the person I'd probably go through
is Ryan Blair who introduced us to Lewis Howes.
Ryan is a New York Times bestselling author as well and we did his second book launch
for The Rock Bottom, The Rock Star.
We have just talked about a ton of amazing resources for those of you who are listening
in.
I love that you highlight podcasts as well and that you talk about the time you dedicate
towards it.
I think a lot of people are scared to mention how much time they spend on TED Talks or how
much time they spend on YouTube or University and how much time they spend on podcasts because
you don't sound as smart to the common world of business professionals if you're not talking
about all the books that you're reading and how you're spending time in books.
There's so much that you can learn through audio and video as well that enhances that
whole process and experience.
It's not an either or in my opinion.
It's an and opportunity.
It's a way to throw down.
All right.
We'll be right back after a quick break.
We'll be diving into Scott Allen's vision and we'll be talking as well about becoming
the architect of your own life.
He's done an awesome job of building that out.
We'll talk about Japan too.
All right.
Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Callum.
I'm your show host.
We will be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building
fantastic visions out there.
Hey welcome in to Vision Pros Live everybody.
I'm your show host Jackson Callum, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
I'm super excited to have Scott Allen of ScottAllenPublishing.com on today.
He's also got Scott Allen Books.
That is double T double L by the way.
And Scott is not going to be a person that's very hard to find on Google because he has
sold over 500,000 copies of his books and his websites are super clean and crisp, which
I appreciate greatly because it says a lot about the depth and we all go through a process
of clutter when we're building our visions.
His is like built and flying and solid and awesome.
That's just always fun to see.
So we're going to have fun diving and seeing how the heck he did that and how what we can
all learn as visionary leaders.
Before I bring Scott on, I also want to bring up two other opportunities and resources for
you in the form of sponsorships.
Number one is Dave Morrow with HardToKill.org.
The Hard To Kill podcast is phenomenal.
The mission behind it is even better.
He's helping 100,000 veterans lose two million pounds collectively so they can look good,
feel good and do good.
And he's got one of the easiest workout programs in the world.
He's also got a community called Veterans Fit AF and he's expanded that community to
also invite people in who love the camaraderie and the culture of military as well.
So in other words, civilians like myself can also jump in and start to get in shape.
And it is actually helping me quite a bit.
I'm down a couple pounds already and it's nice to have a community where I'm held
accountable to get my workouts in.
Now moving on to Oportunidades de Trabajo para Latinos.
All right, we've got the sponsorship up here.
What the heck did I just say?
It's Opportunities for Latinos.
This is our own creation.
I've been building this dream for 14 years and it is now completely Latino run.
So you see Diana in the picture there in that video.
Our Latinos are helping other Latinos out there learn how to become virtual assistants
and how to get certified so they can gain work on their own accord so they can also
work with our clients.
They're absolutely phenomenal at what they do.
And really the whole purpose of promoting this too is if you know Latinos who would
make great guests on our Latino podcast, well, they just launched the podcast recently.
And what's really cool is Luisa did an interview just a few weeks ago with Kike Inglis and
Kike has 900,000 subscribers on YouTube.
I have never interviewed somebody with that level of traction in the world and I've been
doing this for years.
So it's super fun to see how fast this is moving forward.
There are millions of people out there who need work and the opportunity for us to provide
that type of training and service and support to them for free.
It's what drives me my friends.
Then there's the water project.
Switching over to the water project.
We've got, I don't get involved with the water project personally.
I'm not like a founder or board member.
People have gotten confused with that.
No, I just love what they do.
When I found out that there's millions of people on earth who don't have access to clean drinking
water, I chose not to forget about that.
I literally chose, you know what?
I'm going to talk about this more often.
I'm going to contribute to this.
I'm going to see what else we can do to help because I would never want my kids to be in
that situation.
I've never been thirsty in my life.
And the fact that that still exists to this day, I'm like, let's eradicate this.
Let's dive in and do more to help with this situation.
So what's really cool about the water project, you donate to a specific project and you get
to see the outcome of that project come to life.
They actually send you posts about the updates and you get to see how it helps the community.
Seeing these kids celebrate water like my kids celebrate Christmas day reminds me that this
is something that I just, I just, I just not willing to forget about.
If you have a cause that is more important to you and you're like, Jackson, please talk
about this cause instead.
Just drop the link.
It's not a competition.
We've got 8 billion people in this world to help.
My hope is that we will all come together to do just that.
Those of us blessed enough to rock the mic for a living.
You know, it's, it's our opportunity to jump in and do more.
So that's what it's all about my friends.
And without further ado, I'm going to bring Scott back on.
We'll dive into his vision and see how he's showing up in the world.
So Scott, how are you my friend?
Welcome to vision pros life.
You want fantastic.
Thanks for having me on the show.
Absolutely.
Um, I usually ask the question, what is the vision for those that you serve?
But you do a lot of things for a lot of people.
So if you don't mind, who do you serve and then what is the vision for them?
Yeah.
So I think that, um, without going too broad, uh, I tend to want to serve everybody.
I think, you know, cause I believe you on that.
I'm okay with broad.
Yeah.
And when I first started out creating my contents, although this may not have been
my intention at the time, the content does serve a very wide audience.
So you know, it's really anybody who is ready and willing to take charge of their lives.
And I think that could be everybody could be most people, people who, I think everybody
wants to do that, to be honest with you, just not everybody's ready for it yet.
Right?
So whether you're ready for it or you're not, I'm laying the foundations for, you know,
teaching people those tools and the strategies and the frameworks to help them, um, take
charge of their life and just discover what their, their highest potential is.
I mean, we're always striving for something greater than ourselves.
So one of the things I want, my favorite word is fulfillment.
You know, I believe that life is about fulfillment.
Yes.
There are many times I was, you know, sometimes I'm chasing after money or chasing after success
or something.
And I realized like when I got it is like, well, you know, I got it, but I'm still not
feeling, you know, like this was the thing, you know, I realized like fulfillment is the
key.
Like what Anthony Robbins said, I think the key to success is progress.
So I'm always looking to progress forward and help other people to progress forward
as well.
So every time I, you know, when I'm designing a book or designing a course or, uh, you know,
going, uh, doing an interview, I'm always talking about these things that are going
to help people to, you know, call it scaling up or, you know, like moving forward with
their lives because we all need help as well.
I mean, I need it, you know, no matter where you're at in the progress or on the, on the
journey, everybody needs help with their progress.
So yes, I love that you keyed on a favorite word.
That's fun.
My, my English teacher, uh, junior year of high school, she had a favorite word and it
was spatula.
Um, I will never forget that as his favorite word, but I never did quite coin one until
you said it.
And then I'm like, well, mine is love and fulfillment love go hand in hand.
Um, you know, they are very much companions, um, in our life.
Let's talk about your vision and maybe we tie that to fulfillment as well.
So what does fulfillment look like to you and give us some details.
What's, what's your vision?
What do you see on the horizon?
So I used to have a watch.
It still is my vision, but I have a vision for, uh, I want my books to be in every bookstore
in the world.
Not because again, not because of success and fame and fortune and all that, that stuff's
good, but all this stuff is just a result of all the work you do.
The reason is because, uh, the more the bookstores that my books are in or the more, uh, you
know, platforms that, uh, the interviews can be, it can appear on the more people you're
going to reach.
Right.
So I want everybody to be able to access that information easily.
So that's why I'm really, uh, uh, enthusiastic about getting the books into as many languages
as possible because, um, yes, I read all the books in English, but outside of that, we're
trying to get them to as many languages as possible on every bookstore, uh, in the world.
You know, that's really like, that's one of my visions.
I think I have a few of them.
Um, the other one is to, yeah, everything you can teach me and help me on and return
in regard to getting materials translated into Spanish, my friend, please like send
me any resource you got on that because that has been a massive desire of my heart that
I haven't quite moved into yet, but we are ready as a team now.
So please go ahead and continue though.
I narrowed you down, but we can keep going broad.
Yeah.
Well, uh, I don't have a Spanish publisher yet, but I have published, I think we have
10 books in Spanish currently and I plan on doing, uh, many more, you know, because that's,
um, I actually have a pretty broad market in the, um, Spanish community.
So I'm going to keep going with that.
So I'm glad you mentioned it.
Me too.
I'm going to write down spam and Spanish publisher.
We're going to do some research.
Um, we'll, we'll do some research, pull it together.
We'll send it to you.
You're welcome to use it.
How you see fit.
Let's solve that problem.
Let's go test.
Sure.
Awesome.
So, uh, again, I, I kind of interrupted your vision and where you're going with it.
And you took it with grace.
One of the things that comes to mind, um, is this book that happened to be on a shelf
in Africa and a little boy read it, got obsessed with electricity and was able to produce electricity
for those that he'll do it.
It's called the boy who harnessed the wind.
You're, you're probably familiar with this book and turned into a Netflix movie as well,
which expands the reach.
And that's what I hear you talking about is you have formulas in your book that can dramatically
help people's lives.
And that's why it, why it's why it matters so much to get on those shelves throughout
the world.
Um, did I get that?
Did I get that vision clearly?
That's correct.
Yes.
Yeah.
There's no, there isn't, there's no ego associated with that, by the way, those who are listening
in, if you're, if you're kind of scared of claiming things like that as a visionary leader,
um, then you know, you're, you've probably had people kind of hold you back or, or say
that, Hey, what, you know, what's with your ego, but that is not an egocentric reality
visionaries.
That is one that if you've got the formula two plus two equals four, don't take for
granted how many people don't have access to that formula and don't understand it yet.
Follow Scott's lead and boldly proclaim it.
And let's let it come to fruition.
What are your thoughts on that?
Because that do you run into visionaries who seem like they're kind of holding back or
am I kind of in the wrong crowd?
No, I definitely do.
In fact, um, there are many times when I'm holding myself back to it's like, you know,
should I really be out there and make you so much noise?
And, uh, and you know, you tend to hold yourself back with, you know, there's a lot of self
doubts, uh, uncertainty and all that stuff.
Right.
So, um, to be honest with you, six months ago, you probably wouldn't have, I probably
wouldn't have been here having an interview.
It's like, people would come to me to do an interview and I'd be like, okay, I'll do it.
Sure.
We looked at the reluctantly, but back in March, I decided to, um, and part of it was
like just the fear of going out there and talking about myself, sharing my story.
So I was holding myself back for many years, actually, but I was okay with behind the scenes,
uh, behind, you know, sitting at a desk, writing books and stuff like that, creating content.
That's okay.
But when actually I have to get out there in front of people, um, it was a bit of a
leap.
But here's the thing, like once I, once I did it, it was like, I loved it because I
realized like connecting with people is probably the one thing that I love doing the most and,
um, nothing better than to be on stage or in an interview doing that.
Cause now you can, you know, people can actually see like, oh, he does exist, you know, there
is a, there is a face behind all those, uh, you know, the, the books and the, you know,
the, the words and everything like that.
So, um, but yeah, I've helped, I've held myself back for many years and I see other people
doing the same thing because I think one of the reasons is, um, and people will have to
maybe give their own reasons for this, but I think that there's something in us that
says like, I'm not worth it.
You know, I'm not worthy.
What if I go out there and they reject me or they don't like me and all those things.
And I realized like I was holding onto those beliefs too.
So I just had to set them aside and, uh, put myself out there and say, you know, I'm just
out here to help people and if they, they want that help, great.
And if they don't, maybe they'll be ready for it someday.
So, yeah, I love it.
You're, you're like the Lorax for authors because authors often hide behind their books.
Like that was one of the most common genres or industries for people to not come from
behind like what's there.
It's like who, who thinks of contacting an author to get to know them?
Uh, at least I didn't growing up, it seemed like they were untouchable individuals, but
it turns out a lot of them are kind of introverted.
Oh, but seeing you, Scott, like I saw your website, I see your pictures and then you
can like, I would have never assumed that imposter syndrome or that the feeling of like
being like, Oh man, I don't know if I should speak, whatever.
Like you're one of those, you're one of those TV faces, if you will.
Um, that's like, Oh man, this guy's made for TV.
He's probably been doing this since he was born.
And I get the same reaction, same treatment from people.
I'm like, no, I'm, I'm nervous and 90% of my interviews, um, you know, whether it comes
across as not, it is, is a scary thing to get out there.
And we all have different angles of overcoming it.
And again, the invitation, the tidal wave invitation to all you visionaries listening
in who are like, Oh, I'm not a visionary.
Oh no, you are.
We see you.
Um, you know, you definitely have something to value to put out into the world and we
hope that you, uh, you find a great way to step into it.
So we're going to, we're going to step into a dark subject for now.
Um, what is the worst leadership experience that you've ever had?
Um, is that personally or at a leader that I was working under?
It's it's an, it's optional.
It's based on what do you think the audience is going to learn most from?
And so it can be either one, but let's yeah, go down that, go down either one of those
paths.
Yeah.
I mean, I have a stories for both sides, but I think that, uh, just going back, um, a few
years to when I was working in a business school, um, I was working under a leader and,
uh, things, uh, just weren't going very well.
People were, there was, it was like a very toxic environment.
And I was also a leader at the time in that business.
That was probably number two in command, I think.
And, um, the, uh, the leader or the manager for that, um, business school and we had business
schools all over Japan.
Uh, yeah, it just created a very toxic environment and people were quitting left and right.
And I was trying to hold everything together, you know, and, uh, I wasn't doing a great
job of it myself either because I needed a leader myself.
I think like a leader needs somebody else to guide them to, you know, all the mentors
and coaches.
So, um, I went through that for three or four years and then finally ended up, uh, leaving
that business myself, not because of that, because my book business had got to the point
where I was just ready to move on, you know?
So, um, yeah, but, uh, we may not have time for all the gritty details, but I learned
a lot from, uh, working in, you know, like a lot of other companies.
Um, mostly, uh, the lessons I learned were things to do, like how to have a successful
business, right?
I learned that from other really good leaders, you know?
And then, um, I also learned on the other side of that, like things not to do in your
business, you know, how not to treat people, um, you know, how to show up for people and
not have it be all about you.
It's all about, it's about the team.
And then, you know, like, you know, how do you, uh, cultivate your team and move that
forward?
So.
All these, all these introspective questions, um, can lead us down a very important rabbit
hole for ourselves.
Um, right.
How am I showing up in toxic ways?
Um, right.
We, we all have the toxicity within us.
Um, and so being able to gravitate towards better ways.
And if you don't know what toxic means, and it's a worthwhile thing to look up on YouTube
and start to uncover and unpack.
Again, how do I end up accidentally leveraging this?
That is, uh, interesting.
So business schools in Japan, we might come back to that.
What you reminded me of is one of my favorite quotes that's probably least liked in the
world.
And that is great leaders are great followers.
It seems the paradox of that seems like that can't be the case.
But in reality, I wish somebody had taught me that at a young age, because I was often
told I was the leader.
Um, you know, and, and like, then you're on your own, you're on an island, you're just
screwing everything up by yourself.
You're not looking at who's doing what and how.
Um, so it is really helpful to finally realize like, no, put your ego aside.
You can learn from others while still leading your, your cohort.
Um, and it had a massive impact on me in my thirties.
My man, if I could learn that my twenties or my teens, Oh, well, we live and we learn.
So, uh, why'd you brought it up moving into the opposite end of the spectrum?
What's the best leadership experience that you've ever had?
Yeah.
So the best leadership experience would again come from, uh, learning from somebody.
So just going way back, uh, before I came to Japan, I was actually working as an electrical
engineer and, uh, you know, that was a pretty tough job actually, you know, but, um, and
in order to succeed in that business, I, um, I knew that was in my twenties as well at
the time.
So, you know, I had a leader at the time who was actually, I realized that I was struggling
with the work, struggling with my life actually.
So it wasn't just the job.
It was things that are happening in my personal life.
And, uh, this leader at the time took me aside and this was the person by the way, who gave
me the Tony Robbins book and said, you have to read this book, you know, and, um, this
guy was great.
He just, uh, he was always giving me these, uh, unique resources, you know, he's like,
you have to read this book.
It'll change your life.
And, uh, I was like, you know, at the time I wasn't into reading self-help personal development
books as more to going out to the bars and party and just doing all these like kind of
self-stop tossing things, but he really, uh, he, he set my mind.
Well, he gave me the resources and the tools to help me set my mind straight, you know?
And so like a couple of weeks later we meet up again.
He's like, did you read that book I gave you?
And he was, he'd be testing me and checking me in.
Right.
And I'm like, yeah, I did.
He was like, he cared about you.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You know, he's like, you know, show me your goals then.
Like, cause that was in chapter seven, you know, so he'd be testing me.
Right.
But, um, so that was to me, like that was great leadership, but also, um, that just
came from, you know, it took kudatango in that scenario though.
You, you had to be willing to not say like, well, what, why are you asking me that?
You know, what did you read this week?
Uh, and there's so many people who don't understand the value of what he was doing for you, but
you did.
So how did you eat that up?
And, and what are the times where you were upset that he was trying to hold you accountable
or did you know?
Yeah, there were, yeah.
Because, um, yeah, I felt like, you know, this guy's getting in my face and I just want
to go out this weekend and party again, like I did last weekend.
But he's like, no, if you do this, it'll change your life.
And so he came over to my apartment one day and he's like, he walks in and he goes, you've
got to take these like, uh, you know, these posters off your wall and we're going to build
a vision board.
I'm like, I want you to say, I know like two days later, we had a vision board and we had
my goals that my goals were like, one of them was like, I wanted to be a bestselling author.
The second one was I want to travel the world.
I think the third one, he may have, he might've come up with this when he goes, we're going
to build you into a better human being.
I'm like, okay, that sounds great.
I'll just roll with it then.
You know, so he seemed to have this, I don't get an agenda, but he was really leading me
from one step to the next.
So I was that he was kind of like seeing the future before I could, like, I mean, I didn't
really have a vision for what I want to do.
A vision board.
Yeah.
It's like, if you create a vision board, he goes, you look at it every day, you're going
to build something that you like nobody's ever had before.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Well, if you say so.
So we had a vision board with like places I wanted to go.
And I found that the more of this vision board that we were building, the more ideas I started,
I started coming up with and more excited.
I started getting about life.
It's like, wow.
I've never really traveled before.
And now it's like, you know, he's like, how would you feel?
He goes like, he knew I hated my job at the time.
It's like that.
I want to get out of it.
You know, and he's like, what if you could be living in another country a year from now
and living a different life?
And I'm like, oh, come on, you know, I don't even have a passport.
Yeah.
He's like, well, we're going to take care of that next.
Right.
So next.
And by the way, you know, like just to jump ahead a little bit a year later, I was living
in Japan, living the dream life.
And all of this came as a result of like all the work that we were doing a year prior to
that.
Yeah.
Wow.
I left a lot of details there.
I kind of jumped.
It was good jumping.
We got it.
It all started with.
Yeah.
But I'll start it with the vision.
Right.
Because if I hadn't had a vision for that and then had the and you know, I'm not saying
you need a vision board to make it happen, but you need to have something like every
day you got to.
I mean, you just showed me the power of a vision board.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
And by the way, I still have vision boards in my office.
Like I got none of the practice of building them.
Recently, I have been hired another mentor and other coaching.
He's like, he said the same thing.
He's like, do you have a vision board?
I'm like, oh, here we go again.
It's like I forgot about the vision board, the power of that, you know, and it brought
me back to I think it was like Tony's book and a couple of it.
We're going to play with it.
Keep going.
But I'm going to show my morning formula, which is also part of my and I'm holding myself
accountable here.
I need to update this.
But go ahead, Scott, because you're you're on like the this is something that has been
magnificent for my life as well as for those that I've worked with.
And it's amazing how you can bring things to fruition when you literally don't lose
tight of what you want to do for your life.
So keep going.
Tony Robbins, you were there.
Well, here's something amazing that happened after we started to build a vision.
And I had the vision board and things like that.
He said to me, great things are going to happen in your life.
I'm like, OK, great.
Three months later.
And he was like, so I think what he was saying is like, once you build out a vision for the
life that you want, things are going to start to show up.
Right.
So we can call that synchronicity, intuition, whatever it may be.
But there was definitely an energy or a power that I was building in my own life that I'd
never had before.
Or it was there.
I never recognized it.
I think.
And by the way, I think we all have this thing.
Right.
So I'm not like a genie or some magician.
We all have this.
Right.
But anyway, what happened is after I had the vision board and I started working on myself
two or three months later, my roommate brought home the newspaper and I never read the newspaper
and back when we had newspapers.
Right.
And this one day I just happened to pick it up, open it to a random page.
I think I was maybe looking for the comics or the movies or something and just opened
it up.
And right there was this advertisement said, teaching English in Japan now or apply now.
You know, like, wow, teaching English in Japan.
Yeah.
I'm going to try that.
So next thing I know, I put together a resume, a killer cover letter, sent that over.
And like a month later, I was in downtown Vancouver having an interview with a Japanese
businessman who had all these business schools in Japan.
And yeah, they hired me and brought me over with a few other people.
And that was it.
It was like I had that locked in.
And when they hired me, I had still had like six months to go before they brought us over.
But it's like that came as a result of like figuring out like.
And by the way, my whole like one of my visions at the time that came out of that vision board
is I wanted to travel the world, to go to go to Thailand and Vietnam and all these places.
So when I made that decision, I went to the library and I started getting all these books
on these different languages.
And my roommates would come home and they're like, you know, they'd be coming home late
Friday, early Friday morning or Saturday morning.
Like, what are you doing?
I'd be up on the floor, like, you know, laying on the floor, reading all these books on like
speaking Thai and this stuff.
And they're like, you know, there's like what's going on.
I'm like, oh, I'm going overseas.
I'm going to Asia, you know, like.
And this was kind of before I had decided to go to Japan.
But I knew I was just leaving and that was it.
And once I made that definitive decision, my mentor, my leader, he was right.
Things started happening.
Everything started falling in place.
But I built I built that destiny, you know, like building like the architect of your life.
It all came from that, like just every day showing up and still working my regular job.
And I could have gone back to going back to the bars all the time and just kind of like
hanging out and stuff like that.
I mean, that was fun.
But I was done with that.
And now I had this new vision that I was building.
And I'll tell you, like, it was exciting.
You know, absolutely.
A mentor of mine, when he was helping me overcome just negativity in general, negative thought
processes talked about how our mind as infinite as it feels and can be.
If you think of it like a bookshelf, if you're constantly putting great books on the shelf,
eventually you run out of room for the negative books.
And just keep feeling, filling your mind and filling your activities with positivity and
it will sort itself out.
And it was a very, very helpful visual cue that also helped tremendously where my thoughts
were.
Diving in to if this was the last chance you had to share powerful lessons, Scott, I hope
you have many more.
I know this were it.
What powerful lesson kind of visionaries learned from your experience?
I think, first of all, like you're never it's never too late.
Right.
And I hear this from a lot of people that go, it's too late for me.
I'm in my 50s or 60s or 80s or whatever it might be.
And just I follow Gary Weinerchuck a lot.
I just love what he says.
And he has like his messages to the other day.
He put out a video last week, I think it's like it was to 55 year olds.
He's like, I'm 55 and you're going to live another 40 years.
And he's like, you're going to give up now.
So I tend to follow like that's the advice I want to hear because I'm the same age as
Gary.
Right.
So it's like, you know, and I'm and a lot of my some of my friends are talking about
retiring and this that and that's fine.
You know, if you're retiring.
But my question to them was always like, where are you retiring from?
What are you going to do after that?
Like, well, I don't know, make do some gardening and stuff.
And that's really cool, too.
I have nothing wrong with that.
But I just want to keep going forward no matter, you know, like what happens in life, we're
going to have ups and downs.
We're going to have failures, which are actually good things, good learning experiences.
But the one thing that visionaries can learn is like, you know, you just got to keep keep
learning, keep pushing forward, keep working on the vision, because I think that a lot
of people either they don't have a vision or they once had one and they gave up on it.
And so now they've just just by default, they've fallen back into a rut.
And now they're just waiting for that day when they can kind of like retire and, you
know, go to a golf course every day.
Hey, I love golfing, too, but all that plenty of time for that on the weekends, you know,
but I just I think as a visionary, I just I need to be creating something all the time.
But when I'm not actually feel like under stress, like I feel anxious, stressful, you
know, and then when I start creating something that kind of goes away.
And part of it is just like, yeah, like, what is the next vision?
You know, I kind of lost sight of that myself for a little while, too.
It's like, and that's when I went back and built a new vision board.
It's like, oh, my next vision, my big vision, actually, I think I had another one is like,
I want to be on stage in front of tens of thousands of people.
That's right there.
That's right there in my morning formula.
You saw Pat on the screen.
And that's the one thing I would love to do that.
So I when I do visual meditation, that's one of the things that I think about.
And I because I believe that when you actually think about this thing, you've got to got
to convince yourself that it's real.
Like it's already there, you know, and I think that's what happens with a lot of us is like,
we, you know, we think, OK, well, in order for me to become that kind of person, I have
to be this person first and get this first and then I'll get up.
But you actually have to reverse, you know, it's kind of like be do and have, you know,
like you've got to be that thing to to get yourself onto the right path.
Eventually, you'll you'll you'll become whatever it is that you visualize.
You know, so you've got to have that vision first.
So it's not just going to materialize, I think.
Right. Huge, you know, man search for meaning, you know, talks about that concept a lot as
a man think it is as well.
Another phenomenal book and resource.
There's a very difficult movie, very dramatic called Cold Mountain.
And I recently watched it and Jude Law not going to ruin the movie for you guys.
But when he I guess I am at the end of the movie, when he's coming back together with
the woman that he's left for years because of the war, they're getting ready to get married.
But without the official capacity to and it's this I'm going to ruin the I'm going to butcher
how to deliver this because she's so powerful.
I hope you see this opportunity for my friends because he she basically says like, you know,
we hardly know each other, even though she's like super in love with him, too, because
they have this years of seven years of distance.
And he says, he says, no, I've spent thousands of occasions with you over the last seven
years going through all the term.
I was with you the entire time, whether it's imagined or real.
They happened and she felt the exact same way, you know, and that different times, different
places, you know, no tender to find here matches.
They have this.
It was just them in their mind.
But point is, we have the ability to stimulate and visualize our experiences before they
happen and understand how to do things that we've never even attempted before just by
utilizing our minds.
There's incredible science behind that.
So I'm glad you bring it up.
There's incredible realities that can unfold.
And all it takes is experimenting with it.
You don't have to quit your job and move on to divisions immediately.
You know, you're a great example of that.
You maintained your job, you know, and you kind of eased into this experience.
And there's, you know, hats off to you if you just jump in and go for it and throw everything
else to the side.
But there are lots of ways to be able to dive in and build your visions.
So thank you for sharing all of that.
Let's dive into specifically now becoming the architect of your life.
What does that mean to you?
And how can people dive into to be in the architect of their life?
And you talk about owning your own life.
That has a lot to do with freedom.
I'm a big fan of freedom.
Scott, the time is yours.
Yeah, I think I'm going to start with one of my favorite movies, The Matrix.
There's a scene in The Matrix.
And I just had to say this, like I've watched that movie probably more than anybody.
But there's a scene towards the end when Neo turns around to face one of the agents in
the subway, right?
And just as he does that, I think Carrie Mosk, her character's name, she says she turns to
Morpheus and she says, what is he doing?
And Morpheus says he's beginning to believe.
So I've played that over and over and over again.
A lot of it comes down to, you've got to start believing.
You've got to believe in yourself.
And even if you don't, let's just say you're starting at rock bottom and you don't believe
in anything, right?
You've got to take action towards something, right?
You've got to build these.
And you, like everybody has the ability for this.
This is where the architect of your, you are the architect of your dreams, meaning that
you have everything you already need.
And I think a lot of people think they don't.
Like they need, they think they need the money.
They need the education.
They always need something.
So they're always coming at this from a place of, you know, I don't have enough, right?
You know, it's like the scarcity mindset.
And I battled with the scarcity mindset like most of my life when I came to resources and
money and I'm not good enough.
But here's the thing.
I mean, I don't have, you know, I think I went to, back in the day, I barely got through
high school.
In fact, I failed it.
I failed high school and I had to eventually go to night school and get my degree and things
like that.
You know, there's just like certain things that I had to do because for me it's okay
to fail, but it's not, you know, it's okay to fail.
It's okay to get knocked down.
It's just not cool to stay down there, right?
You know, like stay down for a little while, but you got to get back up in the game.
Right?
So again, coming back to the architect of your life, it's like you have everything you
need to build your thing.
And the question is, what is the thing you, if you could, you know, if we took all the
fears and the self doubts and all that, you just pushed that aside for a few minutes and
you asked yourself that one question, you know, what is the life that I would lead if
I could be doing that today?
And I ask myself this every day, right?
Because I have to keep building that vision of what it is.
Like you really, it is a lot of work, but the hardest part of this really is just getting
focused on it.
Like most people are just not focused on that.
You know, they're focused on flipping through their phone or doing whatever.
I think we talk, we talk about distraction as if it's something that just shows up and
takes over our mind.
The thing is you're creating the distraction, all of these things that are happening, the
thoughts and all this stuff, like you're creating that.
So that means that if you're creating that stuff, you can get rid of it as well.
And you can create the thoughts you want.
You can create the beliefs you want.
You can let go of the past and, you know, build tomorrow.
It's really, it's right there in front of you.
Now having said that, this is where leadership comes in.
Like we do need, like, because I get lost on the path as well, you know, and they're
like going back.
I mean, over the years I've had many mentors, coaches, leaders.
I didn't always ask for them to show up, but they were there.
Right.
And I realized like if they hadn't shown up and maybe there was something in the universe
that just said, we need to help this guy out.
So we got to send him some help, you know.
Well, and what signal are you sending too?
Right.
There's, there's a connection.
There's usually correlation there, but go ahead.
There's an energy for sure.
You know?
It comes down to like, when you start believing, you start to create this energy.
And I'm really big on like lately I've been diving more into this, uh, universal energy.
You can call it God, you can call it, you know, like whatever you want to, but this
universal-
He won't be offended.
No, not at all.
No, you know, it's all, it's all there to help you out.
Right.
But the thing is like, you have, you have, you're tapped into the biggest, um, resource
that, uh, you could ever want.
And I think a lot of people, they either don't believe it or, and I think the reason they
don't believe it is that they haven't experienced it yet.
Right.
So you have to build that experience.
So going back to years ago when I was building up my vision board and you know, like I didn't,
uh, in the beginning, I didn't believe it either.
This guy's telling me like my life's going to change.
It's going to be great and all this.
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
Whatever.
But we actually started building something.
I was like, uh, and, and just going back to like the matrix is that like, he's beginning
to believe, like I started to believe, right.
And when I started to believe that it's like, that became stronger and the energy became
stronger.
And then other stuff started showing up.
The coincidences became more frequent.
I started, you know, meeting more people that were on that path.
You know, like I'm a big believer of like the road less traveled, one of my favorite
books, but also the poem by Robert Frost is like, you know, I chose the road less traveled
and that made all the difference.
Right.
So, um, and you, you talked about those people, uh, coming into your life and you, you began
to know, right.
You talked about the coincidence that they began to happen and you just can't justify
the coincidences.
Because you see them continue to happen and you get to have that bold opportunity to be
able to shift from again, a belief to a knowledge.
And as you shift towards that, it's like, wow, like the power really hits home.
So you, you hit this, um, oh, you talked about giving up.
And so I want to, I want to circle back to that, uh, because you did what you needed
to to finish that high school, um, you know, uh, get your high school degree.
I told my mom, I'm either dropping out or graduate in early, take your pick.
Um, and so I had no intention to graduate.
I didn't care.
Um, and I was just going to do it to get it done with.
And I went to night school as well.
Um, way easier than summer school and summer school is way easier than school.
So it was perfect.
Um, but with college, I have a 0.33 GPA of one.
I think I fixed it a little bit more, but I started there at 0.33, which is awful for
those of you who aren't in the United States.
You don't want that.
It's the worst you can get.
Um, when I got back from Uruguay and I started to fix things, I had a spiritual mentor who
sat me down boldly.
I was a, I was a, I was a brand new father.
And he said, your life is going to get harder and harder and you need to get more organized.
You know, and he wasn't, he wasn't coming at me, but this guy was as nice and as loving
as could be.
And, you know, he'd never been the stern, um, and he's like, it is going to get harder.
It's not going to get easier.
It's going to continue to get harder and harder.
And so he's like, you need to get your education.
And I already knew that I was not meant to go back to my university.
Like I had this deep rooted thought.
And so I, I was beginning to play with this concept.
Was I giving up?
No, it was, it was, it was a giving up process.
And I looked at him.
I said, listen, I said, you're a doctor and I understand why you had to get your degree,
but I need you to be very clear with me right now.
If you feel like you're getting revelation for my life, are you saying that I need to
get my education by going back to the university?
Or are you saying that I need to make sure that I get my education?
And we had this long pause and he was struggling.
I could tell like his ego side wanted to challenge me on this.
And it wasn't, it wasn't a nasty ego.
It wasn't like a man, this kid won't listen type thing.
He took a long pause and a reverence on it.
And then he had a humility check of, you just need to get your education.
You need to make sure you prioritize the knowledge that you're getting in relation to life.
And I was, I was so grateful and so blown away that I had a mentor who could align that
strongly with the powers that are.
And I share that for whoever, whichever visionary or leader is in here is thinking like, Oh,
I'm just going to be robotic and go right back to school.
I'm going to be robotic and do please you visionaries.
You're not here to listen to Scott and I to follow our path.
You got your own path to figure out related to how these things work.
And I hope that you do you like you figure out what this means for you, what type of
vision board you might want to have, what type of morning formula you might want to
devise for yourself, trust in your intuition, overcome that imposter syndrome and step into
wanting to become your best self.
And if you do that, I think great things will happen for you.
Scott, I'll let you wrap up.
Any final thoughts on that before we end the show?
No, I love what you said about just becoming your best self because I've been my worst
self.
I know what that looks like.
So when I started from ground zero, I was like, I couldn't, it was really hard for
you to imagine what my best self would be.
I think my best self would have just been the guy who could, you know, stay out of the
bars for a week and kind of get his head straight at that time.
But eventually once you get past the next goal, then you get to the next one and the
next one.
And that's really, you know, you don't go from zero to 102 seconds.
I mean, it does take time and that's why I'm like, I'm big on learning just all the time,
you know, learn everything you can find somebody who believes in you because we really need
that.
And if you're not sure where to, if you can't find anybody who believes in you, like dive
into a book, watch interviews, whatever it takes, like you've got to contact Scott.
Yeah.
Read a book, you know, but yeah, you just got to sometimes what it requires too is like
removing yourself from a situation that is potentially like very negative or toxic.
And that can be difficult if you're in a situation or relationship, you know, but you know, you
can't always control that.
You can't always control that.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
No, but the one thing you can control is, you know, your own mind.
Like you may not be able to control the external circumstances, as I think Victor Frankl had
said, but you can control, you know, what's going on inside.
Right.
And if you realize that, then you can start to seek the help that you need, you know,
and it will, I believe it will come, you know, if you look for it, it will be there.
Correct.
Absolutely.
And while we can't always control that instantly and our trials are sometimes the roads to
our best blessings and best opportunities, we should still seek, right?
We should still search.
And it's amazing how things can flip in life.
So if you're in that position where life is hard, don't give up, reach out to somebody
like Scott.
I think Dave Vaynerchuk talks about it, build a foundation of people around you who are
moving towards the same direction and feel free to reach out to us as well.
We're all here to help.
I shouldn't say we're all here.
In our community, we build a community of people that are here to support.
And there are people who are not ready to do that in our lives.
And I've found that I don't want to eliminate those friends or family members from my life,
but I will not go hang out with them and their negative social circles.
They can come to me and belong in a much more positive environment.
And that was a huge move for me moving towards being able to become my best self.
So those of you who've listened in today, down below, you're going to see the action
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