Stay Outstanding

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about how he feels about AI after a visit to the gym and talking to the receptionist who is using ChatGPT to help with her friend’s research paper, and what this means for the future for the next generation.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Her friend used ChatGPT to take an exam and surprise, lo and behold, he failed. People are using these things for all sorts, and some things they work on and some they don’t. Sooner or later we’ll work it out, but in the meantime things are happening.
• From an NLP perspective you can ask it to write ‘in the tone of’, but you can’t ask it to write in the tone of Gav Scott because it doesn’t know my tone. Maybe one day it will? It’s left me concerned that the next generation is getting lazy. What we need is an educated society. I believe the institutional education system is broken.
• A friend told me that ChatGTP was asked to create a code for a financial model, which I’m sure is happening all over the world. But on this occasion they created a deep fake image of a politician and there was an explosion outside of the Pentagon which brought the US stock market down 3%. Was this deliberately done for financial gain?

BEST MOMENTS
‘I’m not perplexed that these people used chat modelling as a shortcut, I’m perplexed that they were willing to rely upon it.’
‘There’s no authenticity if AI comes in.’
‘Education is one of the most important things.’
‘I’m not sure we can be trusted with such powerful tools.’

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.
Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!
How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS
[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Tony Brooks about his journey into leadership psychology, coaching, mentorship and how survival thinking can hijack us.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The quality of a leader’s thinking is paramount because it will dictate how they see the world, and the actions and results that they get. Leaders can have the greatest strategy, but they can be hijacked by their thinking. Over the last couple of years I’ve been looking at how our survival instinct can play out way more than we believe and are conscious of. 
• Survival thinking can impact in five ways: 1. You can think you’ve got imposter syndrome which can definitely trip leaders up when they step into a more senior position. 2. The challenges of defensive mindset, where leaders aren’t great if there’s a mistake made or they get negative feedback. 3.  The challenges of ego and the need to protect self, which can be damaging to the leader themselves, but certainly damaging for the people around them. 4. Negative self-talk, often a lot of the thoughts we’re constantly having aren’t productive if they’re doubtful or negative. 5. Tribal behaviour, which can manifest in a number of ways including an ‘us and them’ mentality between managers and workers, or blame culture in different parts of an organisation, or you can get breakaway tribes where people that are potentially toxic can start to influence other people.
• Get a better grip and understand the way that you think and your ability to have greater control over that. That’s been the greatest life lesson for me: that ability, as a human being, to raise your level of consciousness above your thinking to be able to disconnect from your thinking and be able to make better choices with your thinking.
• A lot of our psyche is set up to make us feel not good enough. A lot of that originates from survival thinking because we are continually tracking and monitoring for things that can go wrong and we look internally at where we’re weak, vulnerable, and flawed. That leads the majority of people to spend too much time in that place where they’re not good enough – as an employee, business owner, leader, parent, husband, wife – and a lot of people under the surface are battling with that. You need to get to a place of self-love or where you feel good enough as a human being and contentment with yourself

BEST MOMENTS
‘Open your eyes to all the possibilities in front of you and don’t be uncomfortable making some mistakes and failing.’
‘If you’re having thoughts or behaving in ways that make you unhappy, why would you choose to do that? There isn't a clear choice going on there, you’re either making poor choices or you’re reacting in an unconscious way to what’s going on.’
‘People can get way too focussed on results and material success at the expense of the more important things that are the bigger things, in my opinion.’
‘A lot of our thinking is past- or future-focussed, and we spend a very small amount of our time actually being in the moment.’

ABOUT THE GUEST
Tony Brooks is an Inspirational Speaker, Leadership Psychologist, Coach, Author and Psychology Academic with a proven track record in delivering strong results for leaders, businesses and organisations.
Through his work as a motivational speaker and trainer, he has an enviable record of significantly raising the performance of leaders and their people, delivering sustained profitable growth and positive company culture.
His work as an inspirational and motivational speaker is based around his experience as a Leadership Psychologist, his Leadership Philosophy “Think. See. Do.” and his book PI Leadership, which is a practical guide to applying positive techniques to the way we view ourselves, our situations and other people, to achieve greater success and fulfilment.

CONTACT METHODS
https://thetonybrooks.com/

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.
Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!
How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS
[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about a conversation he had with a beautiful young lady who is not proud of being the heaviest she’s ever been, which inspired the idea for this podcast episode.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Muscle doesn’t float, so for my cross-channel swim attempt I put on 20 kilos of fat and I went to extraordinary lengths to do so : double/triple meals in the evening, double/triple patty burgers, not being able to eat but pushing it down. I cam out of the experience thinking that the best way to deal with it was a quick fix: do intermittent fasting for three months, a juice detox for a month, do certain things at the gym. Very quickly I began to realise that this wasn’t the right way, that I had to do it consistently and slowly.
• At the moment I’m at the gym five times a week, largely to do with rehab for the tendon in my shoulder from the swimming. I do wonder what would happen if I wasn’t rehabbing, would I relax out of the gym and go swimming full-time? When I do go back to swimming it’s got to be 65% swim and 35% rehab in the gym.
• Once you have the awareness that there is something that you’d like to do, something in your life that you’d like to change, it doesn’t matter what it is: the way you look, the amount of money you earn, the type of person you date, whatever it is. Once you have the awareness you can change the strategy, the action, the language, and you get different results.
• Instead of looking in the mirror and having that judgement against self, whatever that judgement is, if you change that and instead say to yourself: “I am loving this journey, I am one remarkable human being, I share my value with the world, and my greatest gift is to myself.”

BEST MOMENTS

‘In the fitness world there’s a phrase: Consistency over intensity. I’m more of an intensity over consistency guy. This is something I’m correcting on my journey.’
‘I haven’t always struggled with weight but I’ve gone through phases, 5-10 years where I was overweight, 5-10 years where I was at a good weight. People always, always – it’s a human thing – judge.’
‘There’s no substitute for a strong foundation.’
‘If we take judgement upon ourself, how can we expect others not to take judgement upon us? We have to release, remove that shame, that anger, that frustration, that guilt, and love, simply love ourselves for who we are now.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected]

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by David Cox, who was on the support team for Gavin’s endeavour to swim across the English Channel. He will be asking Gavin questions on the audience’s behalf about how his swim went. David will also be attempting the cross-channel swim in 2024.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mindset allows you to control all of your thoughts and the direction of your actions. Because it’s something I’m so practised in I had nothing else to think about which is why I looked so calm. All the questions that could come into my mind at the point of jumping off the boat, like am I warm enough, is it going to be cold, they didn’t even enter my mind.
• The first hour went really quickly, but there were moments I didn’t feel like I was going anywhere. Towards the end of the hour my shoulder started to suggest that it might be something more than just a scratch. I couldn’t see much of the boat, especially for the first four hours in the dark, because half your face is always in the water and half the time you’re facing the other way. 
• After 4 or 5 hours of swimming alone and facing my own demons and challenges on m y own. Then you jumped in and because we’d swum together in training all of a sudden I left the timing and speed up to you, I was released of a burden. We breathe on opposite sides so we were looking at each other while we were breathing and smiling at each other. But once you got back on the boat after your stint, you got in your chair, had a cup of coffee and a biscuit and under layers with a hat on and you fell asleep. I thought: You bastard, how could you do that to me?!
• I didn’t feel cold at any stage until I lost the use of one arm. I wasn’t going to let anything stop me from making that swim, but I got to a point where my arm just wouldn’t rotate and I then started going 25% of my speed and I began to cool down and get cold. The crew ran to the side of the boat, which was a concern because they don’t do that for no reason. We had 6 miles left and they said it would take about 6 hours, but with the tide changing, 9 and adding another couple because of the speed I was going. I could have been my old, immature, brash, childish self and carry on but at this stage it was obvious that I was going to encounter symptoms of hyperthermia within 6 hours, it didn’t matter how strong or determined I was, the body wasn’t going to be able to fight that off and I didn’t want to put anyone else at risk. I was very proud to make the mature decision to retire due to injury and live to fight another day.

BEST MOMENTS
‘My mindset was: Get in. Start Swimming. Don’t stop ‘til I hit land.’
‘When the idea came up about the depth below me I thought, that’s a fascinating idea, it’s quite childish, let’s grow up, and I pushed the thought to one side and didn’t think about it again.’
‘Success at the highest level of professionalism is so acute, you can change it by a millimetre and lose or you can change it by a millimetre and succeed.’
‘The day was a success, I don’t really have any regret, frustration or resentment. The only thing I’ve got is the burning desire to build bigger, better, stronger to successfully, in a single attempt make it to the beach in  France.’

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.
Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!
How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS
[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Roger Williams, a writer, adventurer and soon-to-be-published author of a book about his relationships with both his father and his son and how wrestling helped.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I had a pretty normal, angsty relationship with my dad for the first 20-something years, we had tough roads to haul through, but in the past 32 years we’ve had a breakthrough. He passed away recently, but we had 20 years where we were really honest and vulnerable which was hard for him because of his upbringing. We buried our stuff and had 20 good years.
• As children were never really taught to have empathy for anybody let alone our parents. When I recognised that it was difficult for my dad to be honest, affectionate and vulnerable because of his upbringing but I also recognised changes in him in the last 5 years of looking after his mother – who was not a nice person – where he became her best friend, I think it gave him the OK to share and be vulnerable.
• I’m very passionate about community. The biggest thing about community is that people should feel like they belong. For people to feel like they belong they have to be accepted from where they’re at, not from where you want or expect them to be. My goal is to always meet people where they’re at, try to find myself in that and work through that space to build relationships.
• Now we don’t have barriers and boundaries that keep us from seeing people. I’ve facetimed with my dad from halfway round the world. It’s so simple and there are no excuses holding us back from the technical side of things. The question is do we want to do it for our own benefit and the benefit of others. Life is about choices, do you want to make the choice to go out there and build relationships?

BEST MOMENTS
‘We have to make a choice every day whether to be empathetic to people.’
‘There’s not just two sides to every story, there can be four, five, or six sides, we just don’t know what other people are going through.’
"We need to be slow to be offended, if you make the attempt to contact someone and there’s no reciprocation you can’t get offended by that. Take people for when they can and want to engage.’
‘Train your brain into thinking the best of people rather than the worst.’

ABOUT THE GUEST
Roger Williams is a father of three, writer, podcaster, coach, adventurer, and Head Crosser Offer of his bucket list. After more than 30 years working in the youth development and teaching field, a year in quarantine, and two heart attacks, Roger embarked on an adult gap year to prioritise a life in which he is known not by his professional work, but by the way he lives his life and the people he grows relationships with. He recently completed a three month journey travelling around the world to cross items off his bucket list.
Roger is passionate about the benefits to living an intentional life through crossing items off his bucket list and helping others do the same. Whether it is through interviewing others on the Crossing It Off Podcast, being a bucket list mentor, or sharing his stories of his own bucket list journey through the book, Live Out Your List: Finding Joy Through A Bucket List Lifestyle his mission is the same: intentionally living out your bucket list is a great way to build confidence, get outside your bubble and bring yourself joy.

CONTACT METHODS
Podcast: https://crossingitoffpodcast.com/

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS
[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about his struggles with stagnation in his brain, with his own performance and with technology which has affected the smooth production of the podcast.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Historically, my relationship with technology has meant that I have not been compatible, which is a bit of a problem in today’s world where we have to use technology all the time. I had all my podcasts on my hard drive which was getting slow, so I moved them to the G drive and deleted them from the laptop. When I opened the G drive, the files weren’t there. Luckily the files were in iCloud. I moved those files onto my G drive and now they’re not on the G drive or the cloud.
• For the last two weeks I’ve been really disciplined and stayed away from my television, laptop, and mobile phone. I got out some pastels and paper and started creating this piece of art. Whilst it might not be the most incredible piece of art you might ever see, it is a piece of art, it’s something I’ve created, and it’s something that has brought me a lot of joy and satisfaction. I’ve been happy.
• We really need to get in touch with who we genuinely are, not who we think we are or who society moulds us to be, but in our soul. The best way to do that is to get quiet, listen, understand, welcome, and appreciate.

BEST MOMENTS
‘I may have lost a great deal of content.’
‘Any time I’ve connected with technology my brain has started melting.’
‘I’m in a renewed state. I’m more grateful for the technology, for its ability, for what it enables me to do.’

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?
Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?
Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS
[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Latarsha Haughton, an author and transformational life coach, about her life story including her transformation that lead her to become a coach.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I went through years of sexual trauma from my biological father, starting at the age of 8, then it stopped for a long time until I was 14, and I didn’t realise until I got older that I didn’t love myself, I was a people pleaser, I was always comparing myself to other people. I felt like I had no identity of my own, and it caused me to have a lot of bad relationships.
• When you come from sexual abuse you don’t know how to say “no” because you want to be obedient to this authority figure in your life. I became very promiscuous, would always say “yes, I’ll do it”, and didn’t know how to set sexual boundaries for myself or other people. Some people will get into alcohol, doing drugs, or start prostituting themselves, it all depends on that person’s mindset and what they want to do to numb the pain.
• I put a picture of myself as a little girl on my phone. Every time I made a decision I looked at that little girl and say: “Hey, is this good for her or not?” I was in a process of saving that 8-year-old little girl and that’s what helped me to set boundaries for myself. And it worked, I did it!
• I was in a marriage for 12 years and couldn’t understand why my husband kept cheating on me. It was excessive, he had three children with three different women outside of our marriage while we were married. I kept taking it but I was frustrated and I kept asking myself what was wrong with me and I’d blame myself. But, if I hadn’t been in that relationship I’d have never done therapy, which I did for 8 years and she helped my to understand that we were just two broken people in a relationship and that in order for me to understand myself, I had to go back to my childhood and deal with the sexual trauma and abuse and even having a child by my biological father. I’d suppressed so much and I had to re-learn a lot of things and the warped thinking I’d inherited from my father.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We were taught as children that “what goes on in my house stays in my house”, you didn’t talk about things like that and you didn’t hear other people talk about it.’
‘I can extend my hand and say “I’m not comfortable with a hug, but I will shake your hand” as opposed to me having to hug because that person wants to hug.’
‘It’s easy for you to forgive others, but it is so hard to forgive yourself.’
‘When you normalise abuse you don’t know what your triggers are. Once you begin your healing process then you’ll start to see what’s triggering you.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Latarsha Haughton: Founder of Breaking the Silence Healing the Pain, I endured decades of trauma – including sexual and emotional abuse. With the help of God, prayer, and trauma-informed therapy after 30 years, I broke my silence. Today, I’ve transformed that pain into purpose, and now I create community for other survivors.

My entrepreneurial work includes this transformational life coaching practice, guiding people as they release wounds and embrace their power. I also serve as CEO of an assisted living community in Baltimore, We Care First Assisted Living, LLC.

I currently sit on the board of directors at Women and Warriors on Route to Higher Heights Ministries (W.O.R.T.H.H.) and Journey to Joy Ministries, where I’ve received training in prayer ministry and abuse recovery. I hold an award for “Choosing to Live” from The Standing Still Alliance, an organization focused on domestic violence advocacy and awareness.

I believe that remaining committed to studying biblical principles and rooting my ministries in the compassionate love of Christ is the key to my success as a transformational life coach. I currently reside in Tampa, Florida with my husband and my son.

CONTACT METHODS

Website: https://www.latarshahaughton.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected]

In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about unconditional happiness, being happy now, not how a lot of us spend a lifetime looking for happiness, the secret recipe for it and the remedy to our sadness. 

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Why does happiness have to have conditions attached to it? Why can we not be unconditionally happy? When you create a sense of awareness around the things that you want to improve, tweak, and change – it doesn’t happen overnight, but with a sense of awareness, each time things will get heightened.
• I’ve always been an explorer, an addicted adventurer towards travel. I love to see new sights, smell new things, have new cultural exchanges, I just love travelling. Recently, I’ve looked back over the years and thought perhaps there were times where I wasn’t happy and I went travelling to fuel my happiness. I’d then come back and work and nothing really changed, I was still in the same state of happiness as before I went travelling. I was fuelling the dopamine hit of happiness by going off on adventures. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Forget every single thing that’s going on in your life and around you to be happy.’
‘We have to look at things to uncover and discover the growth gems and beautiful things that we couldn’t once see. We have to look back at things differently and how we acted then and in what circumstances.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected] 

In this episode of the podcast Gavin is joined by Kathy Thompson who talks about what it means to be a creator.

You can donate to Gavin’s JustGiving page for The Ocean Cleanup by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3DRZefO 

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to The Ocean Cleanup, so it's the most efficient way to give - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When I was little I never knew who I was, I was always in the shadow of my sister and my parents. While I was writing my memoirs I processed a lot and it was very therapeutic. I went from flying an aeroplane to an air balloon. I was in the Air Force training new recruits in boot camp for five years and eight years in the Navy where I helped train Marines, so there were a lot of experiences there. 
• Depression runs in my family. I got made bankrupt because I wasn’t looking after my finances. I lost everything, didn’t have any money left, I had no job and no way to pay the rent, and I considered suicide at one point. But, apparently I’m meant to be here for some reason and now I help other people, answering questions on Quora and teaching stress classes to the senior citizens in my senior community as well as volunteering.
• To beat stress is easy: Just take a few deep, slow breaths with your eyes closed and concentrate on everything around you. As you inhale and experience all the love that is around you and coming into you, when you exhale you give that love back to the world and the cosmos. It’s easy to do and you can do that any time, anywhere.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I was born with a pencil in my hand, I write stories, I design cartoons, a whole bunch of stuff.’
‘I wanted to prove myself to my mother, when I was younger I kept having to move in and out of her house. I wanted to get out and support myself.’
‘I like to be left alone to create, that’s not to say I don’t like an audience, but I can be by myself and entertain myself and do what I like doing.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Kathy received her B.S. in Business Communications from Wisconsin State University, River Falls, late in life, after serving 13 years in the military.

Born with a pencil in her hand. Kathy has been writing all her life; fiction and nonfiction.

Her passion for writing has made her a prolific storyteller.

Her stories are her legacy, that she is leaving to the world

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ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

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In this episode of the podcast Gavin talks about relationships, including our relationship with ourself, with others, in business, and personal relationships.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In the most integral part of our society there is planted this seed of doubt and it is endemic. The seed of doubt arises so often. You could be building a relationship with someone (personal or business) and at some point in time the person seeking something from the other has doubt in their mind. Rather than give the other person/their business/their client the benefit of the doubt, having confidence, belief, and faith in them, 99.9% of the time that person is going to make a decision based on doubt. When we do that we don’t get the best from the situation/scenario.
• It’s natural to doubt other because you’re reacting on past experiences and from the many experience you’ve had, you have reason to have doubt. But, in society today, it is endemic to go into a relationship with doubt. You doubt that person is genuine, you doubt that person has you best interest at heart, you doubt that it will all work out, you doubt that the person won’t effectively make you feel good. There’s doubt everywhere. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘I’m not saying don’t look after your own interests, certainly in business you must put your own interests first. But, at some point we must put our own interests first.’
‘Squeeze your lemons more. We’re not getting the most out of our interactions in society because we’re going in with a taking mentality not a giving mentality. We’re going in with doubt, not with confidence.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.

Gavin says: Over the years I have discovered that mindset is everything. Now, that might sound obvious, but it is! You see the number of awoken minds are very few in reality. Whilst acknowledging mindset is key it is absolutely different from utilising, influencing, impacting and effecting great change, for yourself, your loved ones, friends, colleagues and the wider public.

Why?

Like most of us I have had many ups and downs. I want to share the lessons learnt and promote a better environment for all, internally and externally!

How?

Through sharing my own experiences and hosting some fabulous individuals including some big household names to discuss key topics around mindset and the success formulas I hope the listener will become inspired to create space for change for betterment in their lives. I aim to inspire change by encouragement, not by force. I intend to inspire by education, not by regulation.

CONTACT METHODS

[email protected]