Aww Shift

In today's episode, our guest is Pam Christian, a motivational speaker, mindset coach, and host of The Juice podcast, where she features in-depth conversations with thought leaders across a range of industries. Pam's work encompasses helping her clients transform their lives by eliminating self-created barriers, maximizing their full potential, and dramatically increasing their effectiveness on both personal and professional levels. She built a successful career in real estate, where she was ranked among 100 Most Influential Realtors in New Jersey and earned the most prestigious awards in the industry. Today, she will share some tips and valuable insights that can help expand your mind and strengthen your mindset.

 

[6:33] What is a common hiccup that a lot of people are experiencing and have no idea that it’s really a detriment to them?

It all starts with our restricting assumptions about ourselves. Years of programming have spoken those restricting values into our subconscious. We don't even hear them. We hear the words that come out of our mouths. That's a manifestation of all of those thoughts that are culminating in our subconscious.

 

[8:39] How do you get people to find that consciousness to elevate how they see themselves?

I hold space as one of my methods. Allowing people to speak by standing by their side and holding their hands helps them learn about themselves.

[9:02]

Another thing is people are afraid of what they do not know. Their life may not be great, but they know it. They know what to expect. They know when to count and what is coming. They do not know what to do when they get thrown off track and deal with it. Therefore, they hide inside the comfort zone.

[9:17]

The third thing is that everyone is on a different journey, and we are all in other places. 

[9:43]

I like to recognize each person as creative, resourceful, and whole in and of themselves. I evoke the transformation within themselves rather than me solving the problem for them or telling them what to do or what not to do because at some point, they're leaving me, and they're going to go on their own, and they're not going to have the tools themselves. 

 

[10:52] What do you say to people who think that their mindset is good?

When you say something, check it and correct it. Make sure it’s in alignment with who you are.

[12:18] What’s your story of why you became a mindset coach?

It was the result of a lot of suffering, struggles, hardship, agony, intense sorrow, and reaching deep into myself and thinking, "I don't want to live like this."

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You have your regular thing where life hits you down over and over again. But if your foundation isn't solid from the beginning, it's hard to step up. I decided that at a certain point, I was going to make that foundation more solid.

[15:06]

My purpose became clear to me: I wanted to help heal society by empowering and encouraging people to live their better lives, whatever that meant for them. It's not my ideal life, so it's their ideal life.

 

[16:36] What is the thing that I do to at least figure out what smudges are on my “lens”?

Call the coach or call a friend for sure. Know what you like and enjoy. 

 

[25:08] What’s the outcome of working with you?

The coaching programs are all different there. I do one on ones, group coaching, masterclasses, webinars, and stuff like that.

[25:33]

I want it to be sustainable. I want people to leave me and take it with them for themselves and change their lives. That's what it's about, but it's also about tapping into that light.

 

[26:19] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

I would step into my power and shine my gift.

 

Key Quotes:

[13:31-13:34] “There’s no destination. It’s all in the journey.”

[14:12-14:21] "Whatever lifestyle you want to live, don't complain about not having it because it's all within reach. We have to choose to go for it and stay the course and not give up before it happens." 

[16:02-16:06] “Clean your lenses and keep cleaning them until you find the lens that serves you.”

[19:31-19:43] “When you start nurturing yourself, you’re going to feel good, and you’re going to be taken care of yourself, and your mindset is naturally going to shift.”

 [20:55-20:59] “Take it at your pace. It’s a journey. It’s not a destination.”

[21:56-21:01] “If you tell yourself what you’re not all the time, you’re mirroring the story you used to tell yourself.”

 

Learn more about Pam Christian on:

Website: https://thepamchristiangroup.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-christian-489bb142/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pamchristiann/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PamMChristian

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pmchristian

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjOs6CC6FdvU3h3YpGN09Q?view_as=subscriber

In this episode of Aww Shift Podcast, we have invited John Vuong, Owner of Local SEO Search. John has always been about fulfilling his endeavors. By founding an SEO company with his siblings, John thinks otherwise, taking the engineering and law route like a typical Asian mindset of success. Today, John discusses his thoughts about following your passion and why it matters. 

[03:24] Why should we listen to you?

I am passionate about life. I am all about giving, understanding, and curiosity. I always want to learn from others and, at the same time, impart my learnings to them. I continually probe and ask to serve others ultimately. 

[08:24] SEO Space

I started the agency in 2013, building on the foundation to continually improve and provide all the customers with a family value as the base the greatest return on their income. I like SEO because every business owner should recognize the most common and daunting commercialization tactic—this is a black box of unknowns. 

[13:14] Definition of Success

Early success is all about uncovering that your passion is your job, money is stability, and your career is work. Success for me is to give back, make an impact, build a community and tribe to help others achieve whatever success means to them. 

[24:01] Doing what you Love

In my life, I met people who were upset, sad, and ever irritated. You could direct them and even build a company for them with a golden platter, and they all need to do it. However, they are not yet prepared to risk it. It now leads you to understand the harsh lesson of life and steer you in the right way.

[25:37] Figure out what makes you happy. If you want to work nine to five every day, and that brings you joy, happiness, and content, don’t complain. Don’t live in regret. 

[26:07] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

It is all about giving me the freedom to express myself and to be the best human possible.

Key Quotes:

[09:24 – 09:37] “SEO is a kept secret for many business owners.”

[13:54 – 14:08] “Whenever people are happy, sad, depressed, or frustrated, it would be fulfilling if I convinced one person to get inspired in doing something greater than whatever they are doing.”

[15:40 – 15:46] “Learn from the smartest, greatest, and wealthiest people. Aspire to be better and more than what you currently are.”

Learn more about John Vuong on:

Website: https://www.localseosearch.ca/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-vuong-205b2917

 

Welcome back to the Aww Shift Podcast! Our guest is a speaker and author, performance coach, adventurer, and world record holder. He has a 98% completion rate for people to go, does a whole lot to serve, and finds ways to raise funds for cancer. Today he will talk about his mountain journey and how cancer could not stop him from being unique. Let us know more about Sean Swarner and his incredible story.

 

[7:22] What record do you hold?

 

I'm the only person in history to climb Everest, the highest mountain on every continent, ski to both north and south poles, and complete the World Championship Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. I achieved it all despite having two terminal cancers, a prognosis of three months to live, being in a coma for a year of my life, and I only have one functioning lung. I climbed Everest and did all those things with one lung. 

 

[7:52] What was your catalyst to do all of these?

 

I go through the two cancers at the ages of 13 and 16 years old. I developed a completely different perspective on life. I was worried about surviving. I wanted to use the world's highest platform to help the cancer community believe in themselves.

 

[10:05] What was the progression of all these things?

 

It was not easy as the first big mountain that I climbed was not Everest. It was finding sponsors, living on my money, and sleeping in the back of my car.

 

[14:25] What pushed you to do more?

 

Whenever you do anything that takes an extreme amount of effort, time, and energy, when you get home, you slowly forget about all the bad parts, and you remember all the good stuff. I remember the friends that I made. I also started thinking about what happened when I got to the summit of Everest. I just remembered being on the top.

 

[18:27] What are some of the lessons when giving your speeches?

 

I would tell people that I'm more afraid of not living than dying. I wish people would understand what I understand about life without going through what I went through. 

 

[20:20] You'd have to be more focused on what you want instead of avoiding what you don't, and consistency is more important than intensity.

 

[20:49] The last thing I want people to understand is that you have to believe it before seeing it.

 

[23:18] What is your ideal legacy in life? 

 

It kind of goes along the line of the concept that people will forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you make them feel. I want people to know that I made them feel empowered. I want them to know that I've always given them hope. And I've always been the ordinary guy from Midwest Ohio, who managed to accomplish something that no one has ever done before.

 

[27:46] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

The promise would be that I would change the world, one person at a time, to have that hope and respect for one another. 

  

Key Quotes 

 

[09:25 – 09:30] “I wanted to use the highest platform in the world to help the cancer community believe in themselves.”

[13:04 – 13:20] “It is about enjoying the journey. It's about enjoying the process. And by just being on the mountain was a success for me.” 

[20:20 – 20:26] “You'd have to be more focused on what you want as opposed to the avoidance of what you don't.”

 

Learn more about Sean Swarner on: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanswarner/?hl=en 

Website: www.SeanSwarner.com 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanswarner?lang=en

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanswarner/ 

 

In today's episode, our guest is Ellie Shefi, an attorney, entrepreneur, mentor, business consultant, keynote speaker, and award-winning author. Ellie is the go-to advisor with practical, easy-to-implement tools that produce outcomes and promote progress. She is a master problem solver and opportunity maker who is willing to change the world.

 

[8:14] Why should I listen to you?

I want to know who you are and what you stand for. What drives you, what's your why, what impact you make every single day. And through my curiosity, we're going to connect, and it's going to be a swear dialogue. And I think very quickly; we will find out that we have much more in common than we don't.

 

[11:29]What is it like to be a strong woman.

I come from an abusive background, and I was in domestic violence, violent marriage. I know what it's like to have my voice taken for me. I do tend to surround myself with more women. Because of your point, a lot of men don't know what to do with me. I know now that I will never again be silent. And I will never again let someone take my voice or take my power or take my identity. I will never again let anyone control that.

 

[13:19]What was the catalyst that woke you up?

I was a powerful child. I'm very headstrong, very determined, and then it got beat out of me. I learned through that process. It's easier to do what you're told and shut up. I had cancer in 2019, and for the last 21 years, and through everything, I'm using that to fuel my fire to find my determination. When I was in hiding, and I was dying. I had to learn to start over. I have to keep going, and I'm not going to stop, and that's all I can do. The road to recovery is a long, hard, painful one, but the road is worth it.

[17:05]I have this incredible opportunity to create anyone I want to be. I seized that opportunity. And the person I built as a result of hiding. Nothing even remotely resembles the person that went into hiding. I am starting over.

 

[19:26]Books and how do they help people.

One of my superpowers is to quickly identify gaps and come up with pivot and diversification plans. So I've continuously operated that way. And it becomes my superpower after so many decades. So, as a result of the April 5 call, I'm knocking your superpower eight steps to turn your existing knowledge into income was released in August. Many people need to know how to save businesses or start a business if they've lost their job or someone in their family has lost their jobs.

 

[22:19] Passion

And this moment, I have just launched the significant change the World Foundation, which is a global comprehensive youth movement with three main pillars. The first is youth entrepreneurship. The second is Youth Advocacy. It's a way for me to go into underserved communities and teach and train, equip them with the entrepreneurial skills needed to launch their own business in their community. That's the shift in the world. And again, that's primarily because of COVID.

 

[27:36] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

That I was made to change the world, and I would do it.

 

Key Quotes

[12:37 - 12:41] I will never again let someone take my voice or take my power or take my identity.

[13:56 - 14:00] Life is easier when you just do what you're supposed to

 

Connect with Ellie Shefi: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellie-shefi

Website: https://www.ellieshefi.com/

 

Mark Bowness – We Build Tribes

In this episode we have Mark Bowness with us who is an amazing person to be with. He is the founder of We Build Tribes and here with us today to share his journey alongside with his struggles on building the tribe of his own. 

[7:54] Why Should We Listen to you?

I'm passionate about building tribes and building communities that really make a bigger difference in the world. Our time matters and it is important the we spend it with the people who are important to us, people that we want to be with and people that you enjoy to be with.               

[8:55] How did the path looked like to you? 

I came up with a very crazy idea, the idea is to lease a 200-acre Island in Fiji, the other side of the world, then invite people from all over the world online to become part of the tribe I was building.

[12:59] Setbacks and things that slow you down

I realized I was hitting rock bottom when I began to see the revelation of my purpose. 

[14:27] Difference on how you approach opportunities over time

I think it's difficult to break the norm of the routine, there are only a few who wants to break away from the norm and approach opportunities differently.

[16:43] Transitioning to success 

I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that not long earlier, I googled quickest and most painless way to die. It made me realize how many people set their emotions on google. It came to me that we needed to have something where we can set our emotions out or have each other's back and work as a tribe.

[18:55] Road block to building a successful tribe

I think it is confidence, it really does go back to why would people want to learn from me. it's always the challenge on moving forward and thinking ahead. 

[23:45] First Steps on creating a tribe

The first place that we teach people to build tribes on is on Facebook groups, we gather everyone, share ideas, and made it a place where you can search and find your communities. 

[23:31] What promise did God make to the world when He created you? 

I just love being unstoppable in my life and achieving everything that I've been created to achieve. And, and it's an example to show to the world that, we can either just live life mundane.

Keynotes:

[8:15-8:22] The way to get the most out of that time on planet earth by hanging around with people who matter most to who really connect with us at a deeper level.

[13:53-14:02] “There's nothing stopping me from achieving that level of success, I became addicted to finding out what I could do on my own and who I was created to be.”

To reach and more information regarding we build tribes follow the group and go to their website: 

http://markbowness.com.au/ 

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In today’s episode, our guest is Bobbi Kahler, personal empowerment for 20 plus years to transfer this knowledge and information and heart to the next generation to help their lives the better. Today we will be talking about the different mentality of coaches on how you should run your business. Let’s dive into the episode! 

[6:30] Why should we listen to you?

I think it's because of a combination of three things. Number one, I get results. The second thing is, I've lived it, you know like you said a minute ago, you know, you learn something, you want to share it with others. I've lived with this in my life. And then the third thing is that this is what I've studied. 

[7:43] What has life taught you? 

I think it comes down to the future to create; the future can be changed, whatever our story is, to a certain point. That's just the story to that point.

And then the second thing would be, you can change your story. 

[12:24] How to get started.  

It begins with believing a new possibility exists, we have to have that hope, and hope is not passive for me. Hope comes from taking action.   

[12:51] it's all about how we get started, how we find a straightforward action that I think will lead me in the direction that I want to go, and how I take that action. 

[14:19] Approaching someone’s perspective in the past.  

Part of it is helping people test it. Sometimes that voice, can come from many different places; part of that is testing whose voice am I listening to? 

[16:09] Most challenging part on your journey. 

I think, personally and professionally, it recognizes a plateau when I hit it. That's why I constantly challenge myself to acknowledge the plateaus as they're happening. Because once I realize it, I can make it through. It recognizes it for me. 

[19:25] Coaching People 

When I'm coaching people, they're so hard on themselves, to the point where you even recognize how good you are, what you're good at, what your strengths are, and I think that's the other part of it. Sometimes we need that person to say, wait a minute, stop being quite so hard on yourself because you've got all this other stuff over here that's going on, and it's working. Well, let's acknowledge it so you can build on it. 

[22:37] What gets under your skin?

People can see all the action, just not taking action, but they don't take the steps. It doesn't matter. If you fail, it doesn't matter if you make a mistake. The big thing is trying something because you will learn from it. I'm a massive believer in that. If you take action, you're going to learn from it, and you will move forward. 

[23:21] Future of Coaching 

I don't see it dropping off in popularity. It'll be something that more people will turn to. it's going to be something where the world funding is at a point of realizing that like, it's a necessity. 

[28:06] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

That I would inspire people to seek their possibilities and not their limitations because what we seek, we tend to find, and I want people to see their possibilities.

Key Quotes

[9:28-9:36] “I think it comes down to the future is ours to create, you know, the future can be changed whatever our whatever our story is” 

[11:25-11:30] “Our greatest opponent is never the one on the other side of the net. It's the one on our side of the net.”

Learn more about Bobbi Kahler on:

Website: http://www.bobbikahler.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbikahler 

In today’s episode, our guest is Shiela Bella, owner of a beauty business and an online academy called Pretty Rich Bosses. She is also the president of the American Academy of micro-pigmentation, and a huge social media person of Beauty Tips and Tricks that she puts out in the world. She has a podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google podcasts. And today, she is going to share with us how she was able to make her business flourish and also being the voice of the artists in the beauty industry.

[8:13] Why should we listen to you?

I'm a voice for a lot of people. I am a leader in the beauty industry of a lot of hairstylists, estheticians permanent makeup artists in an industry where we're not taking that seriously. We're like the forgotten people. A lot of us don't have degrees. A lot of people think what we do is just playing hair and makeup. I do feel like my perspective also is that I'm an immigrant. When my father basically takes us from poverty to a middle class, you’ll know your neighborhood in a matter of two years. That's where I get my inspiration from where you just don't ask for permission. No one's gonna give you permission. Don't wait until it feels ready. until you feel ready, just go out and do it.

[11:54]  Do you think it's an assessment you’re like a prerequisite for success?

It's definitely like a mindset. There needs to be a certain amount of rage. I think you shouldn’t confine your feelings to being angry. The world tells you feeling angry is bad, and you try and calm down. Some of the best entrepreneurs have two things in common, they get frustrated and angry. It's just about how you use the fuel. How you use the energy and what you do with it. Like when you feel bad, you should use it, you should lean into it. Don't try to get rid of it like there's a reason why you feel bad. There's a reason why you're upset.

[14:26] How can you differentiate whether it can kill you or make you?

I think you need to have something in your life that feels better than success. Something that feels better than that dopamine hit, where if that thing is being compromised or not. It’s those moments in life that tell you that something checks throughout the universe that you are more than this moment.

 

 

 

[19:15] How is being been ungrounded, grounded you?

A personal reminder of what's important, slowing things down. There's something really primal about doing household chores. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself. My goal was not to make six figures a month, my goal was to make six figures a year. And now, we started making six figures a month within a matter of three years.

[23:25] How did you start to believe in yourself that this was possible when it never been shown to you before to be possible in your own real life?

We've kind of shown to me with the example of my father. He didn't have a degree from here. And you just had to work with what he had. My parents always told me that I should go to college, Why do I need that I didn't see that it was necessary for my success? It’s when you don’t how to fully use the resources that you have.

[27:07] Social media is a great equalizer. There are no great gatekeepers anymore. If you're a musician, you can go out and make music. You don't have to wait for somebody to tell you that you're allowed to be important.  We're living in a tremendous time in history where anybody can literally be anyone they want. You just need to decide that you're important now.

Learn more about Shiela Bella  on:

Website: https://www.sheilabella.com/prettyrichpodcast

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pretty-rich/id1431091834

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realsheilabella/

In today's episode, our guest is Steve Sims, founder, and CEO of the luxury concierge service Bluefish. He is also an author and published a book, Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen. 

 [6:05] Why should we listen to you?

I'm there to benefit you. I think too many people now talk to other people, whether it being in a conversation, zoom me in a clubhouse, and it's all about the quality help. Listen to me; I'm so wonderful to benefit me by association with you. You bring something that's the same as a conversation.

[6:59] Where do we get being something you do?

In East London, let's call it 15 onto a building site. And quite simply, if I knew I said the wrong thing to someone, I was elementary to understand. I went out trying to find out where I fit until I realized I wasn't meant to.  Along the way, I ended up developing the world's first experiential concierge firm before I went into speaking and coaching and teaching other people how they should communicate.

[8:17] I left that company about two and a half years ago. Wants to book bluefish in the art of making things happen came out and literally in a whirlwind, and we launched the book didn't even have a website. Because I thought no one's going to touch it. And it's now dragged me around the world speaking coaching media.

 [12:23] Finding connections and relationships.

I've been stood next to mighty people, and people walk up to them and go. And then you walk off with the natural assumption. You just made them uncomfortable. You just challenged them. So here's how it's done. You go. The first thing you've got to do is let them off the hook. I found three ways that it could fail ways and he found one solution to avoid one of those ways.

[17:54] Passionate about building a relationship

When you started doing whatever it was that you were doing in life, it began by you being aggravated about something. And I remember as a poor lad from East London. I never had any money at the age of 18 was the first time in my life that we got delivery food. We had never had a takeaway before the age of 18. Because we couldn't afford it, that's what wealthy people did. And I woke up aggravated going, why is my life got to be like this.

 

[22:06] How much of what you do can benefit someone who's trying to sell a product?

I did a course and it was terrible. So I pulled it down, and I opened up Sims distillery, which is now a community where simply we're constantly answering problems. I do have a little bit of a hesitation about anyone that gets into producing a course. I think more than anything; it's for that bank balance. But I do love it. When people develop communities, to get other people to do things differently. It's an excellent way to get people to think about things differently.

[25:08] Fear

I think there are people that we act in fear differently. When I get scared of something or intimidated by something, that's when I go at it. I'm not kidding you before that green light comes on, and I'm on the grid, I'm shitting my pants. I am terrified. My entire body is alive. And I think people get scared, and they stop. You know, you're in—time to go to work.

 [27:32] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

I was going to get uncomfortable and be comfortable in being with it. I want to go in and get irritated and thrive at that moment.

Key Quotes

[9:50 -9:52] “Don't leave a connection to chance.”

[20:38 -20:39] “Don't waste your time.”

[24:22 -24:23] “You only learn it when you do fail.”

Connect with Steve Sims:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsims

Website: https://www.stevedsims.com/

 

Welcome to the Aww Shift Podcast. In this episode, our guest is Mark Champagne. He is a Mental Fitness Practitioner who is obsessed with questions. He co-founded the journaling app (KYO) powered by prompts, which reached over 86 million people in under two years. Mark is also an author and host of the Behind the Human podcast, Top 50 in the Health category. Having studied people’s minds like Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Naveen Jain, and more, he decided to write a book profiling exceptional thinkers’ questions and mental fitness practices. Today, he will share his insights about Questions and how having them daily can change our lives.

 

[8:16] Why should we listen to you?

I would probably flip it around and start asking you questions by nature. What lights me up are questions and being curious about people’s journeys and whatnot. I spent the last decade studying powerful questions and the mental fitness practices of people. I’ve done everything possible to figure out how to take that information and their story or their knowledge and flip it into questions so we can implement that in our life. That’s probably what I would talk about. But I’d first start asking questions about what lights you up or what makes you smile each day.

 

[9:36] How did you get into the work that you do?

I was in the corporate world doing my thing and was quite happy working in brand management and product management in the healthcare space. But what I was doing in that job was reading, learning, and getting into these mental fitness practices. I started picking up these practices, specifically around reflection and journaling.

[11:03] 

When I left the corporate world, I was journaling every morning. But I was getting frustrated with the available digital tools, and I decided to leave that job and start the app. It did really in the sense of the number of people we reached at 6.9 million App Store impressions in the first couple of years. I became obsessed with questions when we reached that amount of people.

[12:55]

I just deleted this app, this business, and my identity for the last three years because it financially failed. It wasn’t until I asked what I wanted for my life that the motivation started to come back because that question led to the next. That’s why I’m passionate about questions. I think we’re all of us. No matter what we’re doing, we’re all one question away from a completely different life. What lights me up is trying to help people, not give them questions because we’re all unique and different, but help people with the mental fitness practices and framework to find that question that they need right now in their lives.

 

[14:59] How is it that asking questions led to where you are now?

I think the reason I like questions is that it offers us the pause that most of us don’t take because we’re on autopilot, and we’re just running our day every day. A good question allows us to pause.

[16:55]

Cal Fussman would never start a story or start writing a story with a blank mind. He would fire up his computer. If he didn’t have something, to begin with, he would write down the question and say, “What do I want to say?” And he’d go to bed. The first thing he would do when he would wake up is answer that question. It’s just another way to use questions. And to tap into that intuitive sense. We have the answers, and we need to pull it out of the fog that’s surrounding our minds with thoughts and relationships.

[19:08] Questions and Negotiations

Some of the questions I ask myself are what am I negotiating with myself constantly consistently. If that comes up, then you can use some practices or some mental fitness. One of the examples I use in that one is Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule. That’s a great way to get up out of bed. It’s just 54321 and out, just no negotiation. Just get out and start your day.

[20:39] 

For me, questions provide that pause. And they’re just millions of different options or variations of these prompts. But what I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t matter who you are. We’re all asking questions. And they’re either good ones, or they’re not so good one. My whole thing is finding that question that is well-timed because it needs to be well-timed. And that resonates with someone and provides that pause for you to make a decision.

[21:31] Why did you write your book?

This is my life, and this is what I’ve been doing. For the last decade now, it showed up in some capacity in an app format that ended up reaching a lot of people. Now, the format has morphed, and I took those learnings from the app, and now it’s in book format. But the principles and the idea behind it is are very similar.

 

[22:24] The Socratic Method

I knew of Socrates. But that’s kind of as far as my knowledge. When I dug into it, I noticed that this whole method of asking questions, clarifying questions, and question after question, has been around for hundreds of years, if not more. So it’s proven to work. But I noticed that it’s always discussed in an academic setting.

[23:24]

The idea with what I wanted to do with the book was I know the power of questions. We can leverage many different mental fitness practices to deploy these questions into your routines and rituals. But how do we use the backbone of the Socratic method and update that and modernize it? So it’s easy to think about that. And that’s what the book is. It’s broken down into three parts instead of the six big Socratic method questions.

[24:11]

Part one is all about questions to help seek clarity. The second part dives into living intentionally. So questions to help you focus on and borrow some of the stuff from the book from Ryan Holiday and stoicism. And then the third step is unlocking exponential opportunity. Because now when you can see and you’re doing the things aligned to your work and your life and whatnot, then all of a sudden you start seeing an opportunity, and stuff starts to happen.

[26:58] What promise did God make to the world when He created you?

To show up daily with a smile. Be happy and try to leave that to other people on the other side, whether listening or in conversation. That’s what lights me up.

 

Key Quotes:

[13:26 – 13:31] “All of us, no matter what we’re doing, we’re all one question away from a completely different life.”

[17:22 – 17:30] “We have the answers. We need to pull it out of the fog that’s typically also surrounding our mind with thoughts and relationships.”

[20:00 – 20:06] “It’s harder to not do anything than it is to do it because then I got to live with the fact that I’m now out of line with who I chose and said I was going to be.”

[25:28 – 25:40] “See if you resonate with the person or the question and just follow your intuition because that’s the question that will resonate with you most in terms of what you need right now in your life.”

Learn more about Mark Champagne on: https://bio.site/qtiGsn

Website: https://www.behindthehuman.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-champagne-14767b17/

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In today's episode, our guest is Will Rezin, a high-performance coach. He works with influencers, high-performers, coaches, and entrepreneurs to master themselves from the inside out. Also, he's an expert in helping people transform their lives and careers through deep, powerful inner work.

[7:38] Why should we listen to you?

I'm going to sit down, and I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to be present with you.

[8:36] When we take the time to be here, to be present, something happens. Something happens between you and me, even at this moment. I'd share myself with you in a way that might be different than other people.

 [9:44] How you got through trauma.

There's a nuance in connection in relationships. And those of us that have lived through hardship, through intensity, difficulty, and trauma.

[11:07] I think the connection point between you and I was group homes, foster care facilities. At 12 years old, I, between 12 and 15, lived in and out of different group homes. At 16, I moved to live with my father, who was beginning to transition to living as a woman. And I lived with him through that experience. I've worked with ordinary folks. I've made over 50 in a month, 50,000 and a month, and more. He's been arrested, lived barefoot, traveled; he's lived on $30 a month.

[15:00] How trauma created the guy you are now?

I was put in these situations where I had to adapt or die. I could assess a room; I could tell you who was a threat and safe in moments. Resilience is innate, and it's a part of us. I had the proper support. That's the key to survival, and it's part of who we are. All of us live through something that would be categorized as traumatic. It's a spectrum from more minor to larger. But we're all resilient; it's innate. It's a product of my resilience.

[17:42] Most pivotal support and Somatic experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological approach to treating trauma. They make the process of working with the nervous system to resolve the body's responses.

[18:14] Some people were there in my life during difficulty, were my tether, so to speak some sense of normalcy, support, and care. And when we have that, we can go on here; we have these three foundational needs as human beings. 

[19:20] How did you come out of the muck of going through all that?

I went through years of drug abuse, alcohol, psychedelics, and an assortment of other different things that were running away from me. I was avoiding feeling what's under the surface. And I had to find the help necessary to be with all of that. And it was bit by bit by bits, one step at a time. If we think about the mountain, we may not ever start. It's a constellation of many different things, a willingness to face myself, a desire to feel what was inside.

[23:16] Where people usually at and where usually leave.

Training companies, our practitioners, their coaches, their doctors, or therapists or facilitators, they're working in the transformation industry and or the helping industry and come in hungry to learn about how to support the people they're working with better. And when they leave, they leave a better understanding of the basics of what it means to be human. And then how to help people in the process of awakening to their humaneness.

Key Quotes

[16:31 - 16:35] “We are all resilient. It's innate, it's a part of us.”

[29:42 - 29:47] “We're here to live, to be here, to be present in this inside of every moment.”

Connect with Will Rezin:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/transformativeactions

Website: https://www.rezinconsulting.com/