Wally Carmichael Men of Abundance

The Men of Abundance Community (http://menofabundance.com/) is a community of men who strive to be abundant in everything we do in life. The greatest men among us have an abundant vs. a scarcity mentality. No one man is better than the next, but we can all be better than the man we was yesterday. "Become the change that you wish to see in the World" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Yeah, Men of Abundance originally started out because I am writing a book called, Living Your Life of Abundance. As I was going through and writing the book chapter by chapter, I realized there's too much of me injected into the book and I didn't want all of me and all of my background and all of my lifestyle in the book, I wanted other people in the book as well.

In podcasting, as amazing as it is, I was introduced to Ryan Daniel Moran's Freedom Fast Lane. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

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Ryan wanted to get in contact and have one-on-one conversations with guys like Grant Cardone (http://www.grantcardone.com/) and they guys from the Shark Tank and all these different people in different industries. But of course, you would have to pay a lot of money to talk with these guys. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

So what he did was he created conference in Austin, where he would invite all of these speakers to come of course, and he would pay them. And then he had guests come who were gonna pay him so that he could pay his guests. I thought, "Well, that's amazing." That's about the time I discovered I could be a podcaster. I could start my own podcast and I did basically the same thing. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

I started my podcast so that I could talk with other influencers and gather information about other people living a life of abundance. Specifically, men, but I do talk to women on the show as well, because let's face it, we have a lot to learn from women, right? Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

Bruce: Yes.

Wally: So, really the whole thing about Men of Abundance is paying it forward. Living a life of abundance and everything that we do in life in our relationships, in our faith, in our vocation, whether it's a job or a business, or both.

If you have a job on the side also we talk a lot about that on the show. We talk a lot about fatherhood, I've had guests on out of the Navy Seal on, David who wrote the book about Navy Seals and how they raise their sons.

We talk a lot about relationships, quite frankly, we talk a lot about business. Since I'm retired, since I'm a veteran, an entrepreneur, I still work a full-time job as well. I attract veteran entrepreneurs, so we talk a lot about that. We just have a great time. We talk a lot about different stuff.

So generally, I want it to be 30 to 40 minutes, but hey, sometimes the conversations just go on, and they're very, very amazing conversations. We just have a conversation. We just talk and share our kick in the gut moment, I like for my guests to come on and share that moment in life, whether in personal or business that was just a kick in the gut.

Because anybody who's trying to progress in life you're gonna have failures. Don't try to avoid them. Those are fuel for your fire. Those are nutrition for your brain. Those failures are where you learn. Then we go right into talking about that pivot point, that enough is enough. That point in your life where you said, "This is enough, I'm not gonna live this way no more, I'm not gonna be consumed by porn and alcohol and drugs, I'm not gonna be consumed by working for some guy or some person that I just can't stand that doesn't treat me right. I'm not gonna live this way." And they make that pivot point, they make that decision.

We go into that and then we basically talk about what they're doin...