HOW TO BUILD A WEALTHY AND IMPACTFUL LIFE
In this episode, I sit with Alok Appadurai, CEO Of uplift Millions. His life experience is full of driving mission-driven businesses and leading people. He has built a successful 9-Figure business but also have helped others build multiple 7-Figure and 8-Figure business.
Today he shares not only his lessons through his journey but what he learned through other people he coached and how he thinks people can be both WEALTHY and IMPACTFUL.
Connecting with Alok:
https://upliftmillions.com
Alok's Book: Maximum Impact Potential
https://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Impact-Potential-Alok-Appadurai-ebook/dp/B09P1ZPBJ6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U1NA2PHI7JA4&keywords=maximum+impact+potential&qid=1648744657&sprefix=maximum+impact+potential%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1
Connecting With Manpreet:
https://linktr.ee/themanpreetbawa
Below is the show timeline:
0:00 Coming Up
1:04 Welcome and Introduction
2:03 How the world is facing a shared experience and collective consciousness emerging through it
5:08 Alok's story of building mission-driven business
6:16 Number one mistake most entrepreneurs make
7:15 If you are having hesitation about business or job
9:49 Bottom of the barrel moment
11:46 The most important decision one
13:58 What is Faith?
23:18 Asking God for Help
26:21 Maximum Impact Potential - The Book
33:31 Wealth and Impact Consciousness
38:43 What is Leadership?
43:07 Do we need to be unemotional in Business?
43:37 What brings joy to Alok?
49:42 How to get unstuck and get to your next level?
55:42 Thanks and closing
Transcript
Historically, there's
Speaker:no shortage of people
Speaker:that have impact consciousness. Right?
Speaker:Meaning I want to make the world better.
Speaker:You know, I want to help this.
Speaker:I want to do that.
Speaker:But many times they're broke, right?
Speaker:They've got no money
Speaker:flowing through their ideas.
Speaker:So I'll let the listener imagine,
Speaker:you know, how that worked out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Likewise, there were in history
Speaker:no shortage of people
Speaker:who cracked
Speaker:the wealth consciousness code.
Speaker:They learned how to make money
Speaker:come to them. Okay.
Speaker:I truly believe the future
Speaker:of moving the world
Speaker:in a better
Speaker:direction will come
Speaker:when you have both equal parts,
Speaker:wealth, consciousness
Speaker:and impact consciousness.
Speaker:Yes, you have the consciousness
Speaker:that can increase the flow of money
Speaker:through you,
Speaker:and you've got the consciousness
Speaker:of yes,
Speaker:here's what I will do with that money
Speaker:to make other people's lives better
Speaker:right.
Speaker:Welcome, everyone.
Speaker:Yet another episode of the show,
Speaker:and I am so happy.
Speaker:So excited because today
Speaker:I have my man, Mr.
Speaker:Alok a virtual in front of me
Speaker:and really am excited
Speaker:because, A he is Indian.
Speaker:This is the first Indian guest I have,
Speaker:as an entrepreneur.
Speaker:I have to had before.
Speaker:But more from IT
Speaker:background technology and entrepreneurs,
Speaker:but from the work he does and B
Speaker:just because obviously the energy
Speaker:and that you will feel
Speaker:as we get a couple minutes into the show
Speaker:you will see why I am excited
Speaker:you can talk so much about people
Speaker:and their accolades,
Speaker:his accolade is his energy.
Speaker:Energy talks for him.
Speaker:So without further due Mr.
Speaker:Alok, over to you and welcome
Speaker:Ohh Manpreet my man.
Speaker:It's such a joy to be here
Speaker:just to share and sharing
Speaker:time with you gets me gets me going yeah.
Speaker:Amazing.
Speaker:So so we'll get into your backstory later
Speaker:this time.
Speaker:I thought I'll ask you
Speaker:because of what is happening in the world
Speaker:today,
Speaker:like all of sudden
Speaker:this last year, we have seen
Speaker:the world is experiencing the same thing.
Speaker:Whether you're sitting
Speaker:in India, UK or us,
Speaker:everybody is experiencing the same thing.
Speaker:And as this shift is happening
Speaker:and all
Speaker:this great
Speaker:resignation and people leaving jobs.
Speaker:How do you see as a entrepreneur,
Speaker:as a person
Speaker:who trains entrepreneurs
Speaker:to make successful business,
Speaker:how do you see the shift?
Speaker:I think there's a massive awakening
Speaker:going on.
Speaker:You're so right that there's a
Speaker:there's a unity consciousness happening
Speaker:right now
Speaker:that's different than I think
Speaker:what people assume.
Speaker:Unity, consciousness
Speaker:is might have looked like, right?
Speaker:Like we're all
Speaker:we all are
Speaker:sharing the same experience
Speaker:around the world.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:I just allow that to lead us into another
Speaker:set of ideas around
Speaker:like what else do we share?
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:if we can realize that we have
Speaker:a shared commonality
Speaker:of our experience,
Speaker:like where else can we take that? Right.
Speaker:So I truly believe that we as humans
Speaker:are hardwired to serve.
Speaker:We love serving,
Speaker:we love making other people's
Speaker:lives better. Right?
Speaker:So amidst
Speaker:all the kind of divisiveness
Speaker:or division of culture or geography,
Speaker:we start seeing,
Speaker:wow, we're all having
Speaker:this shared experience, huh?
Speaker:I wonder what else is shared, right?
Speaker:Where we can actually have
Speaker:a more coming together, right?
Speaker:We can start
Speaker:letting go of the divisiveness
Speaker:to realize, yeah, like well,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:what does it feel like
Speaker:to build a business
Speaker:that makes other people's lives better?
Speaker:Huh, right
Speaker:now, people
Speaker:with great resignation
Speaker:are beginning to open up and go, "huh
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:what might I do
Speaker:to make the world a better place?"
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, you said it right.
Speaker:It's awakening.
Speaker:It's it's.
Speaker:It's,
Speaker:you know, the Covid put us into place
Speaker:where we started to look out and dwell
Speaker:into things
Speaker:that we were putting in the closet.
Speaker:Okay, it doesn't matter.
Speaker:My boss is narcissist, It doesn't matter.
Speaker:My job
Speaker:makes me do this thing doesn't matter.
Speaker:My relationship or my bank balance,
Speaker:whatever it was,
Speaker:we were just putting in a closet, and
Speaker:all of a sudden, the closet disappeared.
Speaker:We had no choice to put out.
Speaker:So
Speaker:in a moment, and a lot of it is happening
Speaker:through a hole, coming through your back
Speaker:story up.
Speaker:And, you know, you've been somebody
Speaker:who was run
Speaker:purposely possible businesses before
Speaker:and you've been on Cadillacs,
Speaker:featured a Tony Robbins Forbes.
Speaker:You know, I can go on and on and on.
Speaker:But to your own journey, it shifted
Speaker:where it was no longer about a lock.
Speaker:It was about the impact,
Speaker:which was
Speaker:get him with your focus later on.
Speaker:But could you walk through that journey
Speaker:of yourself,
Speaker:that transformation or awakening
Speaker:happening in your life as you experienced
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:You know, I
Speaker:had been
Speaker:on a 20 year journey to create mission
Speaker:driven businesses.
Speaker:And yes, you know,
Speaker:you're, you're so right.
Speaker:There's all these highlights
Speaker:of these amazing elements.
Speaker:But, you know,
Speaker:I think the piece
Speaker:that I would really like to speak
Speaker:into is in 2016 losing everything.
Speaker:And I was living in a one room studio.
Speaker:I didn't have a car.
Speaker:I had to look out at my four year
Speaker:old son at the time
Speaker:who would be sound asleep
Speaker:in the one bed that we had that we shared
Speaker:and I had to ask, how did this happen?
Speaker:Like how did I get here?
Speaker:How did I get to this moment?
Speaker:And you know, for someone like me
Speaker:where I had
Speaker:put everything on the line, many times
Speaker:to try to be a social entrepreneur
Speaker:or a mission driven entrepreneur,
Speaker:I was baffled in that moment, like
Speaker:how how did the wheels fall off, right?
Speaker:You have the right heart,
Speaker:the right intention,
Speaker:the right work
Speaker:ethic, the right commitment,
Speaker:the right dedication. What was I missing?
Speaker:And there was really that sort of,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:coming to God moment, right
Speaker:where I had to raise my hand
Speaker:and realize the thing
Speaker:that I wasn't doing,
Speaker:that everybody else was that successful.
Speaker:People around me were doing
Speaker:was I wasn't asking for help.
Speaker:I wasn't raising my hand
Speaker:and being courageous in
Speaker:and allowing and being vulnerable
Speaker:actually to allow that.
Speaker:I didn't always know what I was doing.
Speaker:And instead, because I was embarrassed,
Speaker:I would hide that. Right.
Speaker:And so
Speaker:that that ability to start shedding
Speaker:the ego, shedding the pride.
Speaker:And so you're right,
Speaker:I started as the local pastor I brand.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:I would just start coaching people
Speaker:and helping them with sales
Speaker:and various things.
Speaker:And then it
Speaker:it emerged because if I'm being honest,
Speaker:I didn't actually ever feel comfortable
Speaker:marketing my personal name.
Speaker:It just it just like, you know,
Speaker:some people
Speaker:set out to be a guru, like not me.
Speaker:I didn't like it.
Speaker:So you are correct.
Speaker:There was just a beautiful
Speaker:transition moment.
Speaker:I want all of you listening to really
Speaker:trust
Speaker:if you're having that same hesitation
Speaker:and maybe,
Speaker:you know, you're
Speaker:you're striking out, you're resigning
Speaker:from that job
Speaker:and you're
Speaker:going to build your own business.
Speaker:And by the way, there's
Speaker:nothing wrong
Speaker:with building a personal brand
Speaker:around your name.
Speaker:Nothing wrong with it at all.
Speaker:But it's about comfort level.
Speaker:And I didn't have that comfort level
Speaker:even though we were succeeding
Speaker:in the business across six figures
Speaker:and then multiple six figures.
Speaker:But I knew I was listening for something.
Speaker:And when one night laying on my couch,
Speaker:I was playing around with
Speaker:some ideas, was tapping
Speaker:into my creative imagination,
Speaker:which I want all of you to know.
Speaker:You have the biggest wealth generating
Speaker:technology ever,
Speaker:which is your human mind.
Speaker:So I laid there
Speaker:and I kept asking this question of like,
Speaker:what's next?
Speaker:Because this personal brand
Speaker:doesn't really feel right.
Speaker:And that's when uplift millions emerged.
Speaker:And
Speaker:I quickly knew my friend.
Speaker:I was like, I'm pretty sure this is it,
Speaker:you know?
Speaker:But then I was like, Yes, this it.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure that, you know,
Speaker:but by the end of the night,
Speaker:I knew
Speaker:that the universe
Speaker:had gifted me
Speaker:the entire runway in that moment.
Speaker:And we never looked back
Speaker:Amazing.
Speaker:Few questions of first of all, when you
Speaker:were at this moment
Speaker:where you lost everything right?
Speaker:Or. Yeah.
Speaker:And you said you were questioning
Speaker:how did it go wrong
Speaker:that you were able to figure it all
Speaker:the so many times
Speaker:you know, we hold on to the things like,
Speaker:you know, that
Speaker:maybe somebody
Speaker:listening to
Speaker:those was near to that moment
Speaker:where they're losing everything
Speaker:or they're all losing,
Speaker:but they're holding back
Speaker:or let go this job.
Speaker:But I
Speaker:sense, you know, that so many times
Speaker:the thing that we are holding forth
Speaker:from when you lose that, that's
Speaker:when the next thing happens.
Speaker:Like if you didn't lost
Speaker:everything in 2016
Speaker:uplift, millions would never have come
Speaker:because your mind was there
Speaker:trapped in those things.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What would you tell
Speaker:the people
Speaker:who are in a similar situation?
Speaker:What could they do that can help them
Speaker:overcome those villains or the situations
Speaker:or accept it in a way
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:If you're listening
Speaker:and you know,
Speaker:maybe you're in a complicated moment
Speaker:or maybe you're in a job
Speaker:you don't like or maybe you're, you know,
Speaker:maybe you're at that moment that I was
Speaker:at where you're at,
Speaker:it's literally bottom of the barrel.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And I want everybody
Speaker:to know
Speaker:you don't have to hit
Speaker:the bottom of the barrel moment
Speaker:if you can listen
Speaker:to other people's bottom of the barrel
Speaker:moments and channel
Speaker:and tap into the transformation
Speaker:that's occurring for them,
Speaker:you can channel that
Speaker:without actually having
Speaker:to lose everything
Speaker:in order
Speaker:to make super powerful decisions.
Speaker:So what I would say to them
Speaker:is don't let your evidence
Speaker:of your current circumstance cage
Speaker:you into
Speaker:someone who doesn't have a vision
Speaker:of what's possible.
Speaker:So what many people will do
Speaker:is they'll build their current identity
Speaker:based on their current evidence
Speaker:of their circumstances.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Like so what I what we have to do
Speaker:is there's one word, faith
Speaker:faith. Okay.
Speaker:Like these moments,
Speaker:if you're listening and,
Speaker:you know, maybe you're channeling where
Speaker:I was at at 20, 16, like
Speaker:this is
Speaker:going to test your faith and any other
Speaker:you're going to say, no
Speaker:worlds out to screw me.
Speaker:Everything's going against me.
Speaker:And you wave that flag, right?
Speaker:And essentially
Speaker:you move
Speaker:into what we call victim energy
Speaker:where you're blaming
Speaker:everybody else
Speaker:for why
Speaker:your life is the way that it is,
Speaker:by the way, that you see me, right?
Speaker:Well, so-and-so did
Speaker:this and so-and-so did that.
Speaker:And that's how I lost everything
Speaker:and look at me,
Speaker:woe is me in this one room
Speaker:studio with no car.
Speaker:And see, that's the victim energy
Speaker:to my circumstances, right?
Speaker:Maybe somebody has a job
Speaker:that pays them well,
Speaker:but they're miserable.
Speaker:And so then they blame well,
Speaker:I've got my family and my kids,
Speaker:and I got to pay for,
Speaker:you know, school tuition and clothes.
Speaker:I could never leave my job, you know?
Speaker:And so then you stay miserable
Speaker:and then you start resenting
Speaker:everybody around you.
Speaker:So the most important
Speaker:decision, number one, is have faith.
Speaker:Have faith that even in the moments
Speaker:where it doesn't seem true,
Speaker:the world is working for you,
Speaker:not against you.
Speaker:See, I always say to people,
Speaker:it's in your hardest moments.
Speaker:Can you still keep your philosophies
Speaker:to Jesus to go,
Speaker:the world is working for me when
Speaker:everything's working great.
Speaker:Can you
Speaker:still believe the
Speaker:world is working for you?
Speaker:The universe is working for you.
Speaker:God is working for you
Speaker:in the moments
Speaker:where your evidence doesn't
Speaker:seem to be telling you that
Speaker:see, the reason I can say that Montreat
Speaker:is that I look back and I'm like, Now
Speaker:I realize
Speaker:that 2016 was the best thing
Speaker:that ever could have happened to me.
Speaker:Now, friends of mine
Speaker:might have looked at me back then
Speaker:and thought I was a lunatic
Speaker:if I were to tell them, Hey,
Speaker:what's happening to me right
Speaker:now is the best thing that could happen.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:but it really is.
Speaker:So I really encourage your listeners.
Speaker:Can you see the silver lining?
Speaker:Can you ask yourself,
Speaker:how is this a gift to me right now?
Speaker:Can you ask yourself,
Speaker:what would you regret not having done
Speaker:in your lifetime
Speaker:if you just were to stay
Speaker:running
Speaker:in the life that you're in right now?
Speaker:So these were the questions
Speaker:that motivated me,
Speaker:and it was deep faith and it was
Speaker:some almost bolt loose
Speaker:crazy
Speaker:that this has to be going
Speaker:in a good direction.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:that's amazing.
Speaker:It reminded
Speaker:me, I think, what caught my eye
Speaker:one of the
Speaker:famous Indian coin musical
Speaker:about a translator was the meaning.
Speaker:But he said that sometimes, you know,
Speaker:I got so many problems for me
Speaker:that it became easy to handle
Speaker:because so many
Speaker:it couldn't have gone worse,
Speaker:that it became easy.
Speaker:That only thing you could have done in
Speaker:that point was to think,
Speaker:how could I change it?
Speaker:And I think that's what happens.
Speaker:But that comes with the faith.
Speaker:What is faith?
Speaker:Do you all look like
Speaker:when you think faith
Speaker:is such a big one
Speaker:to some people,
Speaker:especially just some people
Speaker:just believing in something?
Speaker:How do you see faith for yourself?
Speaker:What is it for you
Speaker:Thank you for asking that.
Speaker:That's that's this deep.
Speaker:And this is the real right here.
Speaker:You know, faith for me is
Speaker:and I'll just speak in my language
Speaker:and your listeners can translate
Speaker:for whatever makes sense
Speaker:because I really want everyone
Speaker:to hear that I, I truly have no belief
Speaker:system that I feel
Speaker:anybody else needs to believe.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We have so much divisiveness
Speaker:in the world
Speaker:around belief systems, right?
Speaker:Your God verse, my god.
Speaker:It's like, well, I just believe
Speaker:I don't
Speaker:I mean, this might get
Speaker:a little uncomfortable for some people.
Speaker:I grew up, you know, my, my,
Speaker:my father is from South India.
Speaker:My late mother was from rural
Speaker:upstate New York.
Speaker:She came from a Christian background.
Speaker:Father comes from
Speaker:a Hindu robin background. Right.
Speaker:I mean, we got some, you know, complex.
Speaker:Yeah, right.
Speaker:And so I'll
Speaker:be honest with your listeners.
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:I was always super
Speaker:confused in all these faith systems.
Speaker:And so what about age 13?
Speaker:I just simplified it down.
Speaker:I would go to India
Speaker:and I would go to all the temples
Speaker:and I would go to upstate New York
Speaker:and I'd go to the churches,
Speaker:and I was like,
Speaker:Well, like all these people,
Speaker:I think everybody else is wrong,
Speaker:you know?
Speaker:And we had this
Speaker:very kind of binary, right, wrong world.
Speaker:And so for me,
Speaker:my Montreat at 13 years old
Speaker:faiths simplified,
Speaker:it just was like, Well,
Speaker:I don't really know who's right
Speaker:and who's wrong,
Speaker:but all I know is that there's a God
Speaker:and I'm pretty sure I'm connected to God.
Speaker:And that was it.
Speaker:And I was like, You can call it
Speaker:whatever you want.
Speaker:You can build whatever buildings
Speaker:and all of that. And that's beautiful.
Speaker:And that's why
Speaker:I can go around the world
Speaker:and I can feel a spiritual connection
Speaker:wherever I go
Speaker:because I don't,
Speaker:I don't really see the divisiveness.
Speaker:I just believe in a connection
Speaker:to the divine,
Speaker:whatever you call it, like,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:source, universe, God, Yahweh, like.
Speaker:So for me, it is a my faith is in
Speaker:the fact
Speaker:that there is a divine universal wisdom
Speaker:that when we tap in
Speaker:and open our consciousness,
Speaker:we get to tap in.
Speaker:And that
Speaker:that wisdom gets to pour through us.
Speaker:We just get to be channels of that.
Speaker:And when we can trust
Speaker:that there is an orchestration afoot,
Speaker:even in the moments
Speaker:like when my mother died in my arms
Speaker:in the bathroom of her home
Speaker:and I carried her dead body
Speaker:searching for the pulse in her neck,
Speaker:which is one of the stories I
Speaker:talk about in the book,
Speaker:how did that work for me?
Speaker:Not against me.
Speaker:Now, you might in the moment.
Speaker:It was devastating.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But now, you know, 13 years later,
Speaker:it was a huge gift to me,
Speaker:even though I never wished for it.
Speaker:But it changed my life irrevocably,
Speaker:and I've changed my life for the better,
Speaker:even though I didn't desire it.
Speaker:So that's my faith is now,
Speaker:whenever things get complicated,
Speaker:whenever things don't
Speaker:seem to be going right,
Speaker:maybe it's in my business,
Speaker:maybe it's in
Speaker:my, my personal relationship.
Speaker:I trust, I trust.
Speaker:And I lean into faith
Speaker:that I'm supposed to be
Speaker:learning something
Speaker:in that moment,
Speaker:that there's a gift in the moment.
Speaker:Even in the hardest of the moments.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker:that's beautiful.
Speaker:I have heard, you know,
Speaker:mother's story, and
Speaker:every time it touches me
Speaker:because just take
Speaker:into that moment, like, I can go and see
Speaker:how, you know,
Speaker:some can feel
Speaker:with the mother
Speaker:because it's a very special bond.
Speaker:And learning from that
Speaker:is just that you would so
Speaker:thank you for sharing that
Speaker:and thank you for,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:talking about the faith,
Speaker:because I think so
Speaker:many people are afraid these days
Speaker:to just talk about what they believe in
Speaker:is because they're afraid of judgment,
Speaker:because they are
Speaker:so many people with the opposite
Speaker:thoughts.
Speaker:And just because people have opposing
Speaker:thoughts doesn't mean one is true.
Speaker:I mean, both would be true.
Speaker:But how does that truth
Speaker:come across at the moment?
Speaker:And and I think that's
Speaker:what is happening in the world today.
Speaker:2020 is
Speaker:just bringing it up
Speaker:you mentioned that, you know,
Speaker:when we are in that moment of despair,
Speaker:when we don't nothing
Speaker:and we have the faith
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:and just like you cannot uplift millions
Speaker:and you knew it was just something.
Speaker:But, you know, you made
Speaker:you were able to receive that something
Speaker:then to become,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:something bigger
Speaker:than at that point setting
Speaker:you probably didn't know like,
Speaker:you know, it was just uplift millions.
Speaker:I mean, right.
Speaker:To somebody who is down there
Speaker:who doesn't know how to listen
Speaker:or how do I receive
Speaker:because it's not like Alok has magic.
Speaker:He has something that he has magic
Speaker:that he only he gets it.
Speaker:So somebody
Speaker:always said, I want to listen more,
Speaker:but I don't know where to say, yeah,
Speaker:well, listen to this divine wisdom
Speaker:or whatever
Speaker:they want to call it all to the faith
Speaker:where I am able
Speaker:to receive what life which I me
Speaker:00,
Speaker:another word I'll share with
Speaker:your listeners is magic and magic.
Speaker:So I would say
Speaker:the first step is literally
Speaker:can you open up
Speaker:to the wonder of life's unfolding
Speaker:and we either believe that magic happens
Speaker:or it doesn't.
Speaker:I just finished a team call this morning,
Speaker:and rather than
Speaker:get into all the strategies of,
Speaker:you know, our next marketing campaigns
Speaker:and conversion events
Speaker:and all this, have
Speaker:I told them the story of
Speaker:something that
Speaker:literally unfolded on Friday
Speaker:that had so many layers of
Speaker:another word
Speaker:of synchronicity, serendipity?
Speaker:You might hear certain
Speaker:people say, You'll never believe
Speaker:what happened to me, right?
Speaker:Like you
Speaker:people will start noticing
Speaker:that certain things
Speaker:kind of keep opening up and unfolding
Speaker:for some people, but not others. Why?
Speaker:And I would truly
Speaker:I truly believe at this point that it's
Speaker:those people
Speaker:actually believe in a magic
Speaker:underneath it all.
Speaker:And then those things are happening
Speaker:more and more and more.
Speaker:First and foremost is
Speaker:if you're looking to connect
Speaker:to the divine,
Speaker:you're looking to tap into that
Speaker:universal consciousness
Speaker:or that universal wisdom,
Speaker:or you're not even sure what the heck
Speaker:this guy's talking about.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:right now,
Speaker:what I would say is, first and foremost,
Speaker:you don't need any other humans
Speaker:to connect you with God or divine
Speaker:a lot of other humans will tell you
Speaker:that you need them
Speaker:in order to get to God.
Speaker:And a lot of our humans
Speaker:probably will charge you a bunch of money
Speaker:you know, in various forms to be your
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:I truly believe you already
Speaker:are directly connected to God.
Speaker:You already are.
Speaker:And express version of God's wisdom.
Speaker:You're already you know, it already is.
Speaker:It's already happening inside of you.
Speaker:It's not like a thing
Speaker:you have to search for or right
Speaker:but can you listen here?
Speaker:Here's a question that I ask often.
Speaker:God, what would you have me do right now?
Speaker:And then I stop talking
Speaker:and I just listen.
Speaker:I'll sit by my fire on the balcony
Speaker:and I'll just listen.
Speaker:And then maybe,
Speaker:maybe I'm having a conflict
Speaker:with my partner, Caitlyn,
Speaker:or and I was literally say, God,
Speaker:what would you have me do right now?
Speaker:What would you have me say to her?
Speaker:And just start noticing that
Speaker:that truth will emerge in your mind,
Speaker:and that is source speaking through
Speaker:you in that moment. You
Speaker:that is beautiful.
Speaker:And I mean,
Speaker:I've been through
Speaker:feeling like I was raised.
Speaker:So I have had those values
Speaker:and even though I wasn't very religious,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:I had the faith like I knew
Speaker:there was something right.
Speaker:And but I will admit that I wasn't
Speaker:as which is aware as I am now in this
Speaker:season of my life.
Speaker:And one of the things I love is, is
Speaker:when you start to become a wave,
Speaker:you start to listen like you are
Speaker:small.
Speaker:Small things will start to show up.
Speaker:And, you know, magic synchronicities
Speaker:like this wouldn't have happened
Speaker:if I was not listening to it.
Speaker:Literally, I was still busy with my job.
Speaker:Me and a lot of possibility.
Speaker:Right. So
Speaker:you know, for the people listening,
Speaker:just like
Speaker:a log that
Speaker:you don't have to go to somebody, just
Speaker:ask a question.
Speaker:And this is where I think we are
Speaker:not taught.
Speaker:We we are taught
Speaker:in organized allegiance and our faith.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You go to church, temple
Speaker:you know, you ask God for how they're
Speaker:not taught to ask
Speaker:help when you're sitting
Speaker:anywhere in your place, like
Speaker:you could be sitting in a couch
Speaker:and a toilet and a bath,
Speaker:just ask for help
Speaker:and and then just be shut up with
Speaker:that has.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:I think it's brilliant
Speaker:because a lot of times we ask help
Speaker:and we don't listen.
Speaker:That
Speaker:that is amazing.
Speaker:So, I mean, I've had to ask
Speaker:I've had as spiritual moments in,
Speaker:you know, know,
Speaker:the some of the temple towns
Speaker:in South India
Speaker:as I've had at some of the cathedrals
Speaker:in England,
Speaker:as I've had sitting
Speaker:at the rim of the Grand Canyon,
Speaker:as I've had sitting in the bathroom of
Speaker:my house. Yeah,
Speaker:actually, bathroom is a
Speaker:phenomenal place.
Speaker:It is the place where you most
Speaker:this is the place
Speaker:you go to a long like really
Speaker:and that's what it can happen.
Speaker:If you can get enlightenment,
Speaker:the chances are bathroom
Speaker:is the place, one place you.
Speaker:So
Speaker:this is one of the best moments
Speaker:ever, right?
Speaker:Here, by the way,
Speaker:this is an instant classic.
Speaker:I hope everybody's listening
Speaker:because that is
Speaker:that it might be the biggest
Speaker:golden nugget that you're getting
Speaker:maybe the title of this trip that picks
Speaker:how to get light in and bathroom.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:Listen, listen,
Speaker:to what emerges in the bathroom.
Speaker:And
Speaker:so,
Speaker:you know, coming to you
Speaker:from your successful
Speaker:you have since 2006
Speaker:and since you thought
Speaker:I uplift millennial,
Speaker:I've been very successful
Speaker:coaching business.
Speaker:And this is why I'm excited because
Speaker:when and you promise you don't
Speaker:you don't know this.
Speaker:So when I came to know a lot
Speaker:because I wanted
Speaker:to more get into the coaching business
Speaker:I was already speaking to somebody else
Speaker:where it's similar money.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It was in that it was very different
Speaker:but there was something about you a look,
Speaker:when I spoke to you,
Speaker:I didn't have that many objection
Speaker:anymore. Right.
Speaker:Simone
Speaker:Probably the same content,
Speaker:the way it was driven like that.
Speaker:And but it was energy and
Speaker:and this is why I think it's good point
Speaker:to bring your book into it because
Speaker:you talk a lot about how big money,
Speaker:energy, your money,
Speaker:energy changes to consciousness.
Speaker:So let's
Speaker:talk about your new book, Maximum Impact.
Speaker:I don't have the book yet.
Speaker:I'm still waiting, but
Speaker:talk about what it is about
Speaker:and who is it for.
Speaker:And then when we get into that energy
Speaker:side of things, energy side of things.
Speaker:Yeah, the book
Speaker:is the book is my 20 year
Speaker:journey to build impact
Speaker:driven businesses.
Speaker:But to be honest about read
Speaker:the book is not about me. Yet.
Speaker:You might end up
Speaker:with some stories in there,
Speaker:you know, that have to do for my journey.
Speaker:But the book's really not about me.
Speaker:The book is about you.
Speaker:The book is about you.
Speaker:And everybody out there
Speaker:whose lives
Speaker:it might come in contact with.
Speaker:I really want the reader,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:if you go to Amazon
Speaker:or Barnes Noble
Speaker:or wherever your whatever
Speaker:your platform is
Speaker:and you pick up a copy of Maximum
Speaker:Impact Potential,
Speaker:it please read it as a book about you
Speaker:and read it
Speaker:as a reflection of your journey.
Speaker:Read it as a signpost along your path.
Speaker:This is really yeah.
Speaker:This is, this is
Speaker:this is not like some brag fest
Speaker:or whatever.
Speaker:It's really just
Speaker:I want my desire is, you know,
Speaker:for people who don't necessarily
Speaker:have four figures or five figures
Speaker:to invest in a coaching,
Speaker:you know, for 18 bucks,
Speaker:I want to lay out a path
Speaker:that can lay the foundation for anybody
Speaker:to tap into what we call IP
Speaker:is maximum impact potential.
Speaker:What is your maximum impact potential?
Speaker:So a lot of entrepreneurs
Speaker:will read this book,
Speaker:but I also believe people in corporate.
Speaker:How are we shaping businesses and culture
Speaker:from a lens of uplifting other
Speaker:other people?
Speaker:And so it really
Speaker:it shares
Speaker:a lot of the gems in there
Speaker:for anybody
Speaker:who actually cares
Speaker:about changing the world for the better,
Speaker:I truly believe it will change their life
Speaker:So you mentioned
Speaker:just in the name of maximum
Speaker:impact potential for what is impact.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:why should somebody cared about impact
Speaker:making my money?
Speaker:I'm making my living. What is it
Speaker:you have?
Speaker:For me,
Speaker:impact is both positive and negative,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:We are making impact
Speaker:every single day thing
Speaker:if I live in the United States,
Speaker:just simply being alive and the decisions
Speaker:I make will have an impact.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So once you realize that you're actually
Speaker:not just making money
Speaker:and going to your job
Speaker:and coming home and,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:microwaving a frozen dinner
Speaker:out of the freezer
Speaker:and you think you're just
Speaker:living your life
Speaker:and it's not really about impact,
Speaker:but your life is impactful.
Speaker:The question is what impact will it make?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And so once
Speaker:we start awakening and going, huh,
Speaker:I'm going to make an impact,
Speaker:like all of your decisions
Speaker:add up to your impact anyway.
Speaker:So now we start going, well,
Speaker:some some of us are beginning to say,
Speaker:well, I'd like my life to matter
Speaker:yes.
Speaker:I'd like my life to matter.
Speaker:I'd like to feel like my life
Speaker:made a difference.
Speaker:I'd like to.
Speaker:A lot of us,
Speaker:you know, if you go from the Tony Robbins
Speaker:world, there's
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:those six human
Speaker:needs
Speaker:and one of them is to his contribution.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Or significance, I think he calls it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:The need to feel significant well,
Speaker:what does that mean?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:In my case, I want to get to my
Speaker:I had a spiritual experience
Speaker:actually driving in North India
Speaker:and 19
Speaker:going from Delhi
Speaker:to Agra to go see the Taj
Speaker:and it was a hair raising drive.
Speaker:And my 80 year old self basically sat
Speaker:next to me and asked me, you know,
Speaker:what did you do with your life?
Speaker:Did it matter
Speaker:and who'd you spend your time with?
Speaker:And I And that changed everything for me.
Speaker:Everything I was,
Speaker:I was going to be an investment banker.
Speaker:I literally was like the
Speaker:brakes on my life got hit
Speaker:I went back
Speaker:to university,
Speaker:rebuilt the entire path
Speaker:because I was like,
Speaker:I, I want to live a life of purpose.
Speaker:I want to live a life that I feel like
Speaker:I'm contributing
Speaker:to the improvement of,
Speaker:of other people's lives, not just my own.
Speaker:So when we move from I from me to we.
Speaker:Hmm. What does that mean?
Speaker:So if you're thinking about impact, it's
Speaker:not that you got to, like,
Speaker:go do something around the world.
Speaker:No, but what is your biggest contribution
Speaker:to the improvement of circumstances
Speaker:for someone other than yourself?
Speaker:And then when people start tasting that,
Speaker:they're like, Oh, that good?
Speaker:I want to do more of that.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And so we start unlocking their maximum
Speaker:impact potential during their lifetime.
Speaker:And it is true, like I was reading,
Speaker:there was
Speaker:I was listening to
Speaker:trying to remember whether it was Tony
Speaker:Robbins or somebody.
Speaker:They mentioned
Speaker:that there was a study done
Speaker:actually with Lewis Hall with me.
Speaker:He mentioned there was a study done
Speaker:in the study said that
Speaker:they basically looked at all
Speaker:the people who
Speaker:to be been successful, all walks of life,
Speaker:and people are successful
Speaker:and they were trying to figure out
Speaker:at what point money becomes irrelevant
Speaker:and and the impact comes in.
Speaker:And they say said once you're
Speaker:you know, daily needs are met,
Speaker:which in the US has about 70,000
Speaker:different countries.
Speaker:But once you get to that line
Speaker:that's when you start asking, okay,
Speaker:what is there?
Speaker:Because now
Speaker:you have the money
Speaker:to make your daily living.
Speaker:Then you start to feel like, okay,
Speaker:this is not getting me that cake
Speaker:or what I wanted from my life.
Speaker:What is there next?
Speaker:And that's when people start to find
Speaker:the impact, the significance
Speaker:and it's so true.
Speaker:I've seen it
Speaker:and a lot of people who don't realize it
Speaker:because they are still
Speaker:in that sleep mode, I say because I was
Speaker:sleeping for a while
Speaker:and and
Speaker:that's where I think your book brings up
Speaker:a important discussion on money
Speaker:and energy was this.
Speaker:Well, technology, right?
Speaker:You want to talk a little bit about that?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You know, it's so I talk about
Speaker:there is a concept
Speaker:I have called
Speaker:for circles of contribution.
Speaker:And many of the entrepreneurs
Speaker:that come into my orbit
Speaker:want to change the world. Right.
Speaker:And so I used the
Speaker:four circles of contribution to help
Speaker:people are first
Speaker:and foremost to come to terms
Speaker:of where they're at.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So the first circle's in the middle,
Speaker:and that is where you're able
Speaker:to earn enough to take care of yourself.
Speaker:And then the second
Speaker:circle of contribution is
Speaker:where you earn enough,
Speaker:where you can take care of yourself
Speaker:and you can provide for your family Hmm.
Speaker:Third circle is where you earn enough,
Speaker:where you can provide for yourself,
Speaker:your family,
Speaker:and now you can start
Speaker:taking care of your community right
Speaker:Maybe you're able to donate
Speaker:to local nonprofits
Speaker:or invest more time into causes
Speaker:that matter.
Speaker:The fourth circles
Speaker:where you earn so much money
Speaker:that you can start
Speaker:making ripple effects around the world.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So I just say to people, identify
Speaker:which of those circles you're at.
Speaker:And in order to move
Speaker:to one of the out of circles,
Speaker:we need more money, energy
Speaker:to flow through us.
Speaker:And so this is where we talk
Speaker:about the intersection of what
Speaker:we call wealth, consciousness
Speaker:and impact consciousness.
Speaker:Historically,
Speaker:there's no shortage of people
Speaker:that have impact consciousness, right?
Speaker:Meaning I want to make the world better.
Speaker:You know, I want to help this
Speaker:I want to do that.
Speaker:But many times they're broke, right?
Speaker:They've got no money
Speaker:flowing through their ideas.
Speaker:So I'll let the listener imagine,
Speaker:you know, how that worked out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Likewise, there were in history
Speaker:no shortage of people
Speaker:who cracked the wealth
Speaker:consciousness code.
Speaker:They learned how to make money
Speaker:come to them. Okay.
Speaker:I truly believe the future
Speaker:of moving the world
Speaker:in a better direction will come
Speaker:when you have both equal parts,
Speaker:wealth, consciousness
Speaker:and impact consciousness.
Speaker:Yes, you have the consciousness
Speaker:that can increase the flow of money
Speaker:through you,
Speaker:and you've got the consciousness of,
Speaker:Yes, here's
Speaker:what I will do with that money
Speaker:to make other people's lives better
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:And so here I think you are right.
Speaker:I mean, that's
Speaker:why we have this great designation,
Speaker:because the wealth consciousness
Speaker:is not working people.
Speaker:One,
Speaker:you know, the people at the top
Speaker:just about wealth consciousness.
Speaker:If the companies,
Speaker:especially the companies
Speaker:who are doing very well
Speaker:and 20, 20, the distorting
Speaker:getting people
Speaker:fired or giving them furloughs,
Speaker:whereas these are the same companies
Speaker:who call them families before right.
Speaker:And when the time the time came,
Speaker:actual families showed up. Right.
Speaker:The reality of the family
Speaker:slide, people are leaving. So
Speaker:I truly believe that to that
Speaker:not only because you need to have
Speaker:this wealth consciousness
Speaker:impact consciousness
Speaker:because you want to build a business,
Speaker:but even for people to come and work
Speaker:because they want to feel
Speaker:that they are making that difference
Speaker:like you know,
Speaker:you don't want to just work
Speaker:for somebody anymore.
Speaker:Was just about money to do
Speaker:this.
Speaker:Uplift millions and uplift millions.
Speaker:This is what we
Speaker:we call blue zone leadership.
Speaker:And there's a
Speaker:there's a massive movement afoot.
Speaker:And, you know, the old way of doing
Speaker:things was
Speaker:and your listeners
Speaker:may be familiar with this,
Speaker:which is profit at all costs, right?
Speaker:Burn down the environment.
Speaker:Poor people are expendable.
Speaker:Women are expendable.
Speaker:Brown people are expendable.
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:as long as you make profit at all costs,
Speaker:you're a good business.
Speaker:Leader, right?
Speaker:That's the old way.
Speaker:And I call this red zone leadership.
Speaker:And when I was at a ceremony
Speaker:in Costa Rica, I had a
Speaker:I had a big aha that 20 years of my work,
Speaker:it literally came into
Speaker:my vision was like, oh, the world is red.
Speaker:Right now.
Speaker:Meaning it's primarily
Speaker:has historically been led by red
Speaker:zone leaders running red zone businesses
Speaker:that have,
Speaker:you know, at times not been beneficial
Speaker:for a collective whole,
Speaker:a very extraction free form of business.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I truly believe there's
Speaker:an emergence of what we call blue zone
Speaker:leaders, right?
Speaker:These are leaders
Speaker:who value the environment,
Speaker:who value women, who value
Speaker:people of color. Right.
Speaker:Who are beginning to say,
Speaker:wait a second,
Speaker:those old ways
Speaker:like just earning profit, like
Speaker:is not the only form of joy
Speaker:that a business can enjoy.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And so I think
Speaker:there's more and more leaders.
Speaker:And by the way, ask
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:I'll challenge
Speaker:your listeners to ask this.
Speaker:Do you think in 50 years, workers
Speaker:will be
Speaker:picking which companies they work for
Speaker:based on the same reasons
Speaker:as 50 years ago
Speaker:The pandemic has only accelerated right
Speaker:that workers are wanting to work
Speaker:for employers that
Speaker:that where there's
Speaker:a shared set of core values
Speaker:that's a very
Speaker:different conversation
Speaker:than ten years ago.
Speaker:Yeah yeah yeah that definitely
Speaker:and and just because
Speaker:it makes sense that shift has happened
Speaker:not only the people at the top
Speaker:have to shift workers
Speaker:are shifting to at what I saw
Speaker:and you know
Speaker:coming from engineering background
Speaker:you know a lot of times
Speaker:when people and I've seen it both levels
Speaker:as an engineer they get a job
Speaker:and all the focus is on their hard skills
Speaker:this job skills
Speaker:they may do a course if the company
Speaker:of course they'll do that
Speaker:course and sort of
Speaker:you know
Speaker:step up the ladder in the company
Speaker:similar to the bosses and the executives
Speaker:just feel like you know
Speaker:that they've arrived and determined that.
Speaker:Whereas when I look
Speaker:at the
Speaker:what you call
Speaker:views on leadership,
Speaker:these are the leaders
Speaker:who are always investing
Speaker:like, well, I look at you
Speaker:only you're investing in your
Speaker:leadership skills.
Speaker:You're
Speaker:investing in your spiritual growth,
Speaker:your investing in your physical growth.
Speaker:And that's the people
Speaker:you want to be with.
Speaker:So when somebody is, you know,
Speaker:so let's say somebody was an engineer
Speaker:just getting a job or
Speaker:have been in the career,
Speaker:they want to ship,
Speaker:they want to bring about transformation
Speaker:in their life so they can have
Speaker:and not only the impact,
Speaker:not only the wealth, but they are
Speaker:they are
Speaker:they may not be the interpreter,
Speaker:but they are the blues own people
Speaker:How do they bring that up
Speaker:or how do they cultivate
Speaker:that transformation?
Speaker:Yeah, they don't you know,
Speaker:people don't have to be an entrepreneur.
Speaker:To be a blues own leader. Right.
Speaker:You might
Speaker:you might be
Speaker:a middle manager in a company.
Speaker:You might be a senior manager
Speaker:in a company.
Speaker:You might even be C-suite in a company.
Speaker:Right. And you get to start
Speaker:asking yourself,
Speaker:how can I start leading with
Speaker:more heart than just greed?
Speaker:With more heart than just greed?
Speaker:Knowing that
Speaker:that shift actually is what will create
Speaker:a vibrational frequency of attraction
Speaker:for high level talent into your orbit.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's an amazing thing.
Speaker:We, you know, used to be seen
Speaker:as like a sacrifice, right?
Speaker:Like, okay, let's
Speaker:bring some heart,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:and do it for a good report to the board,
Speaker:you know?
Speaker:No, it's like it actually
Speaker:is going to create a workplace.
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:what we're seeing is that workplaces
Speaker:driven by fear
Speaker:are actually less productive.
Speaker:I mean, so we have evidence.
Speaker:It's no longer even anecdotal
Speaker:all these are positives to make.
Speaker:So I would just
Speaker:I would say to the listeners,
Speaker:you know, how would you lead?
Speaker:Because you're all leaders
Speaker:you know, I'm not here
Speaker:to collect followers.
Speaker:I'm here to collect leaders.
Speaker:I want leaders around me, right?
Speaker:Like whatever your position is,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:when I lost everything
Speaker:in 2016
Speaker:and I had to swallow my pride,
Speaker:swallow my ego,
Speaker:and in order to put food
Speaker:on the table for my son,
Speaker:I took a customer service job inside
Speaker:and a company that a friend of mine said,
Speaker:you need exposure to this company.
Speaker:And I, I literally had a swore
Speaker:I had to beg for that job
Speaker:because my desc profile aligned me
Speaker:with the CEO of that company,
Speaker:not with the
Speaker:customer service agents of that company,
Speaker:but you know, in so doing you get to see
Speaker:and realize like, oh wow.
Speaker:Like, yeah,
Speaker:you might have to make
Speaker:some short term sacrifices but
Speaker:when you open yourself up to growth
Speaker:and you open yourself up to learning,
Speaker:the universe will literally
Speaker:lay out a magical path for you
Speaker:that just might not be
Speaker:what you ever
Speaker:thought was going to happen.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And this is why I'm in you,
Speaker:because you humble it open your heart.
Speaker:Like here
Speaker:you have to follow that ego to that
Speaker:hard to get over that
Speaker:and have a very different impact
Speaker:driven company that I have
Speaker:because I've worked
Speaker:with the people that you work.
Speaker:So I know firsthand,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:if I was in the job market,
Speaker:I would be reaching out a lot.
Speaker:I want to have everything because I know
Speaker:it's not about the money.
Speaker:It's about the impact that I can create.
Speaker:And I know
Speaker:that I won't be treated like
Speaker:so many times
Speaker:people going to the companies,
Speaker:they know they will be here. Right.
Speaker:When I went to four years,
Speaker:when I went to my annual appraisal
Speaker:I knew I would be treated right.
Speaker:And people go in there
Speaker:and they don't have expectations.
Speaker:They are like, Okay, I'm not going to
Speaker:get anything
Speaker:and they and
Speaker:it was becoming normal and I'm so glad.
Speaker:20, 20 is just like, it's not normal.
Speaker:It's not normal anymore.
Speaker:Kind of restrictions.
Speaker:Are changing
Speaker:and people who are not changing are
Speaker:not going to be there for a long time
Speaker:because, you know, guess what?
Speaker:People are finding the jobs that attract.
Speaker:So one of the things I used to hear
Speaker:when I worked in corporate
Speaker:America was business you know,
Speaker:and this
Speaker:was coming from business leaders.
Speaker:As a business leader, I am unemotional
Speaker:that I don't make
Speaker:emotional judge decisions
Speaker:and I could never understand.
Speaker:Like if you're dealing with people,
Speaker:how could you be an emotional about that?
Speaker:Like you?
Speaker:Yes, I understand in a investing
Speaker:with the rational thinking, but
Speaker:dealing with people
Speaker:and not being unemotional,
Speaker:how does that work?
Speaker:And as a person,
Speaker:my running the company
Speaker:now with so many people,
Speaker:what's your take on whether
Speaker:somebody should be emotional, empathetic,
Speaker:opening up to the people
Speaker:that they work with
Speaker:or they should out just like this?
Speaker:Had you
Speaker:you just worked for me
Speaker:and I'm your boss
Speaker:and let's just get the business done.
Speaker:Yeah, I've always been the leader
Speaker:that was accused of being like the naive.
Speaker:What's the term
Speaker:idealist?
Speaker:Naive idealist, right?
Speaker:Which is, oh, that that
Speaker:thoughtful, sensitive, visionary leader.
Speaker:He'll grow up one day and have and
Speaker:and realize
Speaker:that business is not about emotions,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:That that's that my whole journey
Speaker:I've had business partners.
Speaker:I've had so many people sort of almost,
Speaker:you know, coddle me, right?
Speaker:Like you'll grow up one day and become
Speaker:unemotional in business.
Speaker:And I'm so glad I didn't listen to them.
Speaker:That's the old way.
Speaker:That's red zone leadership, right?
Speaker:There's no feelings.
Speaker:This is just about making money.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And are we going to do a deal
Speaker:or not do a deal?
Speaker:I couldn't disagree more with that,
Speaker:especially if you desire
Speaker:to be what we call
Speaker:a heart centered leader,
Speaker:one who actually
Speaker:is building things
Speaker:based on a collective good. Right.
Speaker:So if we're not just looking
Speaker:to take care of ourselves
Speaker:and not just needing to
Speaker:focus on our family,
Speaker:but really starting to think
Speaker:into that beauty of the collective whole
Speaker:which is that unity consciousness
Speaker:that you and I opened our talk
Speaker:with here today in a different form.
Speaker:Right, that forced unity of the pandemic.
Speaker:We're realizing
Speaker:that we get to come together here.
Speaker:And so my my view is that
Speaker:emotions are actually
Speaker:rocket fuel for your business.
Speaker:Not a hindrance.
Speaker:Not an inconvenience.
Speaker:And what we're seeing
Speaker:is that businesses
Speaker:that can actually build old, rich,
Speaker:real human connections
Speaker:are the ones that are set up for
Speaker:huge futures so I believe the opposite.
Speaker:Well, the one thing I will say here
Speaker:is that where I have grown
Speaker:is that, sure,
Speaker:within running a heartfelt business
Speaker:there are some decisions
Speaker:that do get to be made unemotionally,
Speaker:right.
Speaker:So it's not an either or,
Speaker:but in our culture,
Speaker:it is emotions driving.
Speaker:And then it's identifying
Speaker:the unemotional moments
Speaker:that I do have to make,
Speaker:whether it's firing
Speaker:somebody, letting them, you know, like
Speaker:those are not the easiest
Speaker:they do need to be made.
Speaker:But even when we let people go,
Speaker:I do it
Speaker:with to my best of my ability, with love,
Speaker:with care, with an intentionality of
Speaker:can we help them
Speaker:get another position on
Speaker:somebody else's team,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:so, you know,
Speaker:love and care can be part of your culture
Speaker:at all?
Speaker:Part of the process.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker:And you said the important work culture.
Speaker:How can you have a culture
Speaker:without emotion? Right.
Speaker:You're not building.
Speaker:That's not a culture.
Speaker:That's activists.
Speaker:Amazing.
Speaker:Amazing. All right.
Speaker:Now off to some lifestyle.
Speaker:A lot of hard sell
Speaker:thinking.
Speaker:How does a law you know?
Speaker:Well, when he's not working is coaching
Speaker:side of things and he's just being a law
Speaker:father as Ben What do you do for fun?
Speaker:What brings joy to a law outside the work
Speaker:I love pouring candles
Speaker:I love pouring candles.
Speaker:My name means light.
Speaker:I don't know if this was intentional, but
Speaker:I, I love pouring candles.
Speaker:Yep. You've got one right there.
Speaker:I hand for every one of those.
Speaker:It's fun, it's meditative,
Speaker:relaxing, I love the smells.
Speaker:I love thinking about
Speaker:other people, enjoying them and smiling.
Speaker:We love to travel.
Speaker:I love road trips
Speaker:and driving through random places
Speaker:that don't seem to be much of anything
Speaker:but usually are
Speaker:absolutely fascinating to me.
Speaker:I love eating ice cream
Speaker:and, you know,
Speaker:I love watching movies
Speaker:and just hang in and chill in and and and
Speaker:just be it being together.
Speaker:Caitlin and I sat by the fire last night,
Speaker:and we
Speaker:we just enjoyed being
Speaker:and that's something
Speaker:I'm looking to do more of.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Amazing.
Speaker:Though.
Speaker:You know, one last question.
Speaker:I know I said no more work.
Speaker:Talk about one thing just popped up
Speaker:and I thought it would be
Speaker:good for the people.
Speaker:Since you have had privilege
Speaker:of coaching more than 500 people,
Speaker:helping them
Speaker:take their businesses
Speaker:to the next level,
Speaker:somebody getting from scratch to line
Speaker:somebody from scaling up.
Speaker:You know, when some people
Speaker:when somebody is not able to take
Speaker:their business
Speaker:and control of scale
Speaker:up or not able to make a shift in their
Speaker:what is one or you know,
Speaker:what are a couple of things
Speaker:that stop them from going to the next
Speaker:and what can they do.
Speaker:I know you must have noticed
Speaker:some things that
Speaker:just stand out every time
Speaker:people are not moving.
Speaker:First and foremost, your race,
Speaker:your pace, your race, your pace.
Speaker:So don't compare your progress
Speaker:or your speed
Speaker:to somebody else's
Speaker:because they don't only create suffering
Speaker:which are only actually slowed down
Speaker:your progress.
Speaker:It won't speed up your progress.
Speaker:So your pace, your race.
Speaker:And and it's also to understand
Speaker:that your timing
Speaker:may be different than somebody else's
Speaker:The seeds that are planted
Speaker:might take a little bit
Speaker:more time to germinate.
Speaker:That doesn't make you a failure or make
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:it's just to allow that your timeline
Speaker:is going at
Speaker:exactly the pace
Speaker:that your timeline is meant to go and
Speaker:to not succumb to frustration
Speaker:and and, you know, as my bracelet
Speaker:says, that we make my
Speaker:hand is never give up,
Speaker:never give up
Speaker:just one foot in front of the other
Speaker:keep going.
Speaker:I want you all to know I have
Speaker:I have fallen down multiple times.
Speaker:I've had multiple ideas
Speaker:that I put my full heart
Speaker:and soul in my life
Speaker:savings on the line for.
Speaker:And it hasn't always worked out.
Speaker:Keep going, keep believing in yourself.
Speaker:Keep asking for more help.
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:my earliest challenges were because I was
Speaker:embarrassed, insecure, worried
Speaker:that people would think I was a fraud
Speaker:if I asked for help.
Speaker:And so then I would just fake it
Speaker:until I made it,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:and and compensate with hard work,
Speaker:longer hours or grind.
Speaker:Get up earlier,
Speaker:stay longer at the office.
Speaker:No, raise your hand, surround yourself
Speaker:with with with mentors and coaches
Speaker:and leaders and guides.
Speaker:Whatever you want to call
Speaker:it doesn't really matter.
Speaker:Surround yourself with community
Speaker:and other people.
Speaker:Who are powerful creators.
Speaker:It's not just about
Speaker:the coach of the mentor, right?
Speaker:It's like,
Speaker:what are other people doing, right?
Speaker:What what can you learn from them?
Speaker:How can you uplift them?
Speaker:How can you contribute?
Speaker:But I would just say that
Speaker:the simplest answer is if
Speaker:if something
Speaker:is not clicking in your business,
Speaker:number one, don't quit.
Speaker:Don't give up.
Speaker:You might have to give up
Speaker:on that particular business,
Speaker:but don't give up on yourself. Yeah.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:Any individual
Speaker:business idea
Speaker:may or may not gain traction,
Speaker:but don't quit on yourself.
Speaker:Number two,
Speaker:don't build businesses
Speaker:that you want to build.
Speaker:Build businesses that other people need
Speaker:right.
Speaker:The factor after 500 clients,
Speaker:the ones that end up
Speaker:getting the biggest results
Speaker:and not even necessarily the fastest,
Speaker:but just over time.
Speaker:Most courageous, most coachable
Speaker:and those that are open to simplicity.
Speaker:So they'll rather than being stubborn
Speaker:or resistant,
Speaker:they'll just allow the universe
Speaker:to guide in the direction
Speaker:that they're supposed to go.
Speaker:And they'll take clear action.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So it's courageous.
Speaker:Then there
Speaker:is the evolution of being right?
Speaker:So the version of this person
Speaker:that you're talking about
Speaker:who might be struggling in their business
Speaker:is not the same version of themselves.
Speaker:Who's going to fix the business?
Speaker:Who's going to actually get it
Speaker:to turn the corner? So courage
Speaker:up level
Speaker:your being beingness
Speaker:and then raise your hand
Speaker:and ask for help.
Speaker:And then
Speaker:be super coachable to make the changes.
Speaker:Go vertical.
Speaker:Beautiful.
Speaker:That's the mic drop right there.
Speaker:Yes, it was, I think sums it up.
Speaker:Whenever you're
Speaker:in the journey of transformation,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:if you do all these three things,
Speaker:something that's going to go, you
Speaker:work out.
Speaker:So how can people find more and
Speaker:more of your work?
Speaker:How can they connect with you?
Speaker:What's the best way?
Speaker:I think the best way, honestly,
Speaker:is to go two weeks out, uplift millions.
Speaker:Dot com
Speaker:we got uplift millions of dot com show
Speaker:notes.
Speaker:Yeah, we've got a full eco system.
Speaker:There's trainings in there.
Speaker:It's an amazing ecosystem
Speaker:of incredible people,
Speaker:primarily entrepreneurs, right.
Speaker:Who want to lead with their heart.
Speaker:But eventually the platform
Speaker:is going to really be
Speaker:a portal for anybody,
Speaker:no matter what they're doing to
Speaker:who wants to participate in uplifting,
Speaker:millions can go there.
Speaker:So I would just say go there
Speaker:begin to soak in what's there.
Speaker:I do a lot of free events
Speaker:and lots of other things,
Speaker:but that that's a great starting place
Speaker:and then go pick up the book,
Speaker:which is uplift
Speaker:millions dot com slash book,
Speaker:uplift millions dot
Speaker:com slash book maximum impact potential.
Speaker:They'll have them in or send
Speaker:you know, I can say
Speaker:to everybody
Speaker:from my own experience
Speaker:because I can only
Speaker:give from my experience,
Speaker:I wouldn't be having a look here
Speaker:if I didn't experience
Speaker:something six months prior.
Speaker:This experience
Speaker:that brings in
Speaker:and I can vouch for I love one thing
Speaker:like I mentioned, it's their energy
Speaker:you can sense
Speaker:you can have
Speaker:somebody for a salesperson talking to you
Speaker:but if you just for a minute
Speaker:sit down, quiet,
Speaker:you sense that energy
Speaker:and that's the energy unlock.
Speaker:You know, one is authentic is good.
Speaker:I'll give you results.
Speaker:Sorry, not results.
Speaker:He's got to give you
Speaker:things that can get you results.
Speaker:You have to get the results out.
Speaker:But he is the help you need.
Speaker:He'll give you that help.
Speaker:And if he can articulate that, we cannot.
Speaker:And that's I think the blue is open.
Speaker:Beta is affordable.
Speaker:So thank you all for all this time.
Speaker:I loved I picked up so many things,
Speaker:my thought
Speaker:and the best part of this is
Speaker:I can replay.
Speaker:I can replay
Speaker:and this is why I do podcast
Speaker:because I get to learn from
Speaker:blues only
Speaker:grows like you and I can be player
Speaker:and I can ask for help again and again.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Well, much Joy.
Speaker:I'm free.
Speaker:Thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I hope you enjoy the show
Speaker:as much as I did
Speaker:and got some valuable nuggets out of it.
Speaker:If you liked it.
Speaker:There are other shows you can watch.
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