Kip Brooks is a certified Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and holds certificates in Leadership Development, Neuroscience, Root Cause Release, and Hypnosis. He is a best selling author, certified international Speaker, and an Empowerment and Breakthrough Coach and co-founder of Brooks Empowerment Academy along with his wife Marina Brooks.
Kip has been featured on Entrepreneurs on Fire and was involved in the movie rendition of Think and Grow Rich, the Legacy. Out of 10,000 possible picks, he was chosen as part of a team of 250 coaches brought in by the President of Paraguay to teach transformational and heartfelt leadership to many leaders throughout the nation in a movement called Transformation Paraguay.

Things weren't always so great for him though. He had his first thoughts of suicide at eight-years-old. He began drinking regularly and taking prescription antidepressants at age 15. After over a decade of mental and emotional anguish and various drug use and multiple suicide attempts, he finally had enough. He quit cold-turkey and went looking for a better way, refusing to believe that depression was "just who he is." As his children came into the world, they only fueled his desire for a better life, a better way. Then, after the passing of his daughter in 2010, he refused to live in vain anymore and vowed to leave the world a better place because he was here, not because he left it.
He's been homeless and heartbroken but instead of being bitter, it's only made him better.
At 14-years-old, staring down the barrel of a gun he made a promise that if he ever found a way out of the darkness and live in the light then he would spend his life helping others do the same and now, he's' doing just that.

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Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on kindle amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.
Welcome back to the fuel your legacy show. We are excited to have on this week's guest, Michelle jewsbury actually went to a coaching seminar. I go to a lot of seminars, anything I Do to level up my game. I'm doing it and chews upon on stage on a panel and shared her story. And instantly I knew it'd be a perfect fit for this podcast, my master, Hey, would you be willing to give me some of your time? 45 minutes an hour so we could get your message out there and share it because it's so powerful. And thankfully she said yes, months. And that's why we're almost in February recording this you won't hear this probably till maybe April or March, April or May but she has just done so much in life. It's gonna be hard to kind of summarize this, but ultimately, she has a mission to help people who've been through domestic violence of various sorts, who feel like they've been silenced, and not be able to share and share their story and get the help that they need. And either through personal experience or other experiences. She's going to share A lot about that what are some of the obstacles that people go through the breakthroughs that are necessary to one be willing to share? If you're in that position, what things are you struggling with personally? And why wouldn't you go? Help yourself and share that but also how to help others who may be going through that. So, so, so, so excited to share this with you. First, share something that nobody knows about you? Right? Not too secret, not too personal, but something that few people will say few people know about you.
I love the water. And I love dangerous sports. So I'm a danger seeker. So I love you know, I want to go skydiving I scuba dive all the time I've been Of course parasailing and bungee jumping. But I love extreme sports, skiing. You name it.
Cool. Awesome. So what we're gonna do, I'm gonna have you just in Introduce yourself and give a lot more history of your background kind of where you came from what got you into following this passion and where it's taken you in traveling and the people you've been able to help?
Great. Yeah, so my name is Michelle jewsbury. And I was brought up in a wonderful household with a loving mom and dad and I've got a younger brother as well. My daddy was in the military, so I didn't see him often growing up. So my mom pretty much raised us when my dad worked a lot. I mean, my mom worked as well, but she was the primary caregiver. And, you know, we moved around a lot. My father was military. So I've been to shoot like six different schools at least, and I learned how to make friends and then leave. So it was troubling, but it was our life. And we were brought up knowing that our family would stick by each other and we would help each other out. Well, test for a little But my mom trained me in the restaurant industry. And I had spent over 12 years in the restaurant industry from hosting to serving to bartend and manage. And I knew that I wanted something more. I knew that there was something more out there. So roughly 2011 I moved to California to pursue an acting career. I love acting. And I was doing well. I was producing my shows. And it was going great. So I was on my way. And then I met this beautiful man, blue-eyed blonde hair, swept me off my feet. So we started dating roughly the beginning of 2012. And four months into the relationship, my head went through the drywall. So that's kind of what started propelling me in the direction I am now. I didn't realize or understand what I was going through. I didn't understand that. It was The beginning of a domestic violence relationship. I never experienced that my parents didn't hit each other. I wasn't hit as a child. I mean, the occasional spanking, but I wasn't beat. And, this was something that I, I had no idea how to get out of. I also had no idea what it was. So I stayed with him for roughly four years. And in those four years, I was beaten multiple times, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, and of course, physical abuse. Much of the emotional manipulation kept me there. Well, when I finally escaped, I started documenting what happened. And when I started documenting that started coming out in a play format, because of my background in theatre, and I wrote and performed a 65 minutes solo show in 2016. All about my experience in my abusive relationship. Because I did that so many people, primarily women, but a lot of men as well came up to me and told me their stories about domestic violence. About what they've gone through. And I started to realize and understand that I'm not alone. And there are hundreds of thousands of people all over the world that experienced this. So I decided that I wanted to do something more. And I ended up starting a nonprofit organization called unsilent voices in 2017. We help survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and now we're starting to be advocates against sex trafficking worldwide. When Ghana and Sierra Leone Africa, we're expanding to Nepal, and we're doing our first-ever event in Los Angeles in the US area, May 30. So super stoked about that. But I knew that I needed to speak up, I knew I needed to be the voice that to give voice to the voiceless. And I then started developing a course called our masterclass where we help people overcome obstacles because a lot of people experience trauma, depression, you know, top-level CEOs, for example, 30% of them have severe depression. So how do we break free from that? And then you also have to look at the statistics for domestic violence in your workforce. One-third of the women to one-quarter of the women experienced domestic violence. And then we're also talking about one to 10, one to 11 men experiences as well. So that's kind of how I started on the trajectory where I am now.
That is just so crazy. There are so many
ins and outs of that that I'm sure you're keeping out of the story. Having haven't gotten to that yet. No, none of it. I just told you everything that happened to me.
Let you ask me some questions.
So I'm curious when you say I'm four months into this relationship, you
experience this tragic I mean, I, in my mind, that's tragic. Your head goes through a wall. It's not like a small deal. It's not you're like, Oh yeah, that's normal.
What was the psychological process of a?
Got to see. So I have this premise in my head. We'll start with this, okay? I have a premise in my head that we have a very, very small few moments in our lives that end up dictating our lives. And often those moments come in either time of extreme elation or ecstasy, that are like deep emotional or like from a neuropsychological perspective, searing certain highways in our brain of how things are going to happen. So we have these emotional reactions and they're very brief. And then our body switches into and because of protection, either from Fight or Flight, or standstill and just and just let it happen or remove your yourself from the emotional attachment to your body so that no matter what's happening to your body, it's not happening to you emotionally. Right? So there's there are different ways that we deal with different types of abuse, but not just abuse, we deal with this. with happiness, we deal with this in all different areas of our lives, we have this small moment, of the reaction of feeling, and then immediately our body switches into how are we going to interpret this feeling? Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. So what I want to know is, what was that moment for you at what point did you like? Did the feeling of extreme betrayal or feeling of like, what the heck is going on? And the deep rejection? When was that in that story, okay. And then what did you go to as far as how did you deal with explaining that to yourself?
So that very first incident I told myself that Paul, we'll call him Paul. He was just super stressed at work, that it was an accident that it was a mishap that I must have triggered him some way. And what's crazy is there was emotional manipulation that led up to this very first incident. And that emotional manipulation was him. You know, blaming me for things it started our relationship started wonderfully. He courted me flowers, we went to ballgames we laughed, we dance, but his praises slowly turned into insults. And it was like a Jekyll and Hyde. So he would show his vulnerable, vulnerable side and show how amazing he was out in public. And then behind closed doors, he would still show that side except he would also start putting me down like why are you doing that? That's stupid. Don't be an idiot. You deserve more than that. Things like that, where I started to question myself and my values and what I wanted in my life. So when, when that first thing happened when he pushed me so hard, my head went through the wall. I walked back and then turned around and looked at the big dent. And I was like, Huh, I got a patch that that was the only thing that I thought I got a patch that I did. That's what I did. Right? And then slowly but surely, it got worse. The physical abuse, the emotional abuse, it all got worse. And I'm a very strong, independent woman. I came from a great household. I, of course, we all have some issues growing up. So some of that impacted me, allowing myself to st

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Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.

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As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.

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Welcome back to fuel your legacy this week. We have another guest from England man I just love We are criss crossing the globe with our guests here but Julie Barbara, she is the CEO and founder of spark

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consulting. She's a specialist in preparing startup investment companies

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really to go get investors really to get started. And that's one of the main concerns a lot of entrepreneurs is how do we fund our dreams? How do we fund this thing we believe is going to be the next big thing. And so in that tune, she authored her first book. Are you investor ready, and it's going to be coming out in the spring of 2020. Depending on the month, it may already be out here, which is exciting. I don't know exactly. When your books coming out. Maybe you don't either. Well, I had to have

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I released the book and so I know how that happens. Sometimes you think, Oh, it's gonna come out this month, and then it's the next month and then the next month, so I totally get it. I'm sure my listeners have been like, oh, when Sam's book coming out again. When's it coming out again? Well, what's gonna be Christmas? I don't think we're gonna have it ready by Christmas.

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And so yes, it's always an interesting thing. But that's how authorship goes making sure it's ready for the public. So go ahead and

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Julian let us know kind of where you came from why you You're so passionate about helping other people get their dreams out to the world and and make those dreams become a reality show. Um, so my, my career has really been

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20 years in large corporate financial services, working across consultancy regulators, banks,

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and doing a mix of

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strategy work and

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delivering big change across big organizations, and also working in innovation. So helping those organizations to change how they act and the way that they do things for the better hopefully.

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And that

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I guess I've been an organizer since I was kid

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I've always been a list maker and an organizer. And I've always loved

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change, positive change. Since I was a since I was a child as well. So my favorite books even when I was

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reading the children's classics when I was six, and seven and eight were things like the children of the New Forest, which was all about children who had transplanted from the life that they knew and dropped down somewhere else where they had to make a new, a new life for themselves and, and that always captured my attention, that kind of newness and that possibility for for change. And so through my whole career,

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that's kind of always been something that's, that's present in in all the roles that I've had.

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And then kind of towards the end of that 20 years in large court

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I'd got married, I'd had my son who's now four and a half. And I really started to hit the point where

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the standard corporate life wasn't feeling like it fitted anymore. And when with the lifestyle that we wanted, I wanted the flexibility to be around for my family when I need to. And 25 days of standard holiday doesn't really allow that to happen.

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And also, standard hours standard needing to be in the office, a set number of days a week, all of those things. Were starting to feel pretty constricting.

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And then alongside that, where I was doing innovation work in some of these large corporates, some of that involved being on panels were a startup company.

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came in and pitched to these large corporates for either investment as a as a corporate venture capitalist or,

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or for corporate sales. So they were trying to sell whatever they, whatever their service or product was to the, to the large corporate.

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And I was getting increasingly frustrated because I was seeing them have this amazing opportunity in front of massive global organization. And they've got that far. And then they would fall on their face, because they weren't ready. They didn't understand enough who they were talking to, they weren't aware enough of what that audience would worry about. And so that, you know, really hampered them and, and really prevented the large majority of them from progressing, which, when you've managed to get to that point where we're a large, a large global corporate has said come

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And and talk to us to then mess up at that point is is awful. And so so that kind of combination of

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getting frustrated at those startups wanting a different lifestyle.

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And a lot of what I've done over those years in that large corporate job,

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involve pitching to corporate boards, and persuading corporate boards to dedicate large amounts of money to various programs and projects and what have you. And so I know I understand what it takes to to reassure people enough to make people feel that what you're asking them to invest in, is important enough will actually achieve what you're saying your will, to make them give you that give you the money and so I decided to

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To kind of test my perceptions, and I went round and started interviewing startups who'd successfully raised investors across the full gamut

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from everything from family offices, angel investors, VCs, crowdfunding platforms. And to find out what they said, was what they looked for, what were the things that worried them? What were the things they wanted to see what were the things that that would make them throw their hands up in disgust and walk away?

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To confirm whether you know that the things that I was looking for were the same things, whether there were commonalities across all of those what the differences were. So and then in doing that, that actually built up into enough content that I decided to turn that into the book which you mentioned, are you investor ready, which will hopefully

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be out in March.

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But we will like you say, see what that release timetable turns out to be. So So that led to me

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launching, launching spark consulting. And so now I get to work with a wide range of startups, everything from Tech to healthcare to food and drink companies, to product manufacturers.

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And I get to work with them and really help them to, like you say, turn their dreams into a reality by helping them achieve the funding that they need. So

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yeah, so it's really exciting for me.

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That is incredible. I think that this is, I kind of alluded to this when I was doing the introduction for her but this is really one of the main concerns of a lot of individuals. It's

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How'd they get funding? I've been through it my time myself at times where

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if you're a certain type of business, and there's no collateral, there's nothing. It's just an idea. No bank is going to give you money. Like there's certain people that are like, how do you get invested in yourself? And there's a book, one of my favorite books, I think, by I believe it's by Brian Tracy. And, and I think it's called the secret of closing a sale. I'm not positive, but he talks about

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the concept of

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every day, you have to think of yourself as a company and you're the CEO of your company, and every day you're attempting to sell other people's stock in your company. And the reason I bring it up and framing it that way is

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as you're saying, Listen to this. You might be a mom sitting at home taking care of two or three kids, you might be a dad who loves his job working as an employee for somebody else. You might be somebody who just isn't really doing much and he might be a teenager or high school student.

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No, but just because you don't have this a company per se to bring to market and go and pitch to somebody, the skills, the things that people are looking for. I'm gonna ask more of these, but I'm guessing they're very similar across the board in many areas of life, not just what I put money there. But you have to think about yourself, if you're single and looking for a spouse,

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you've got to know what they want. You got to do your research. And then once you find that out, you've got to present in a way that that person is going to say, yes, these are the skills of learning how to present are just as incredibly important as what each person needs to see for them to put their trust in you because ultimately, money is just value and doesn't matter if you're in Britain or in Australia or in Africa. It doesn't matter what the monetary exchange is, it's just value and if somebody is going to put value on the line

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For your dream, you've got to make it a persuasive argument.

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Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, definitely. And, and

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it's really, that the really key thing is, is being able to be objective, being able to look at either your company or yourself in and understand how other people would see what you're doing. And and, and be able to understand the things that they would worry about the things that they would want to see.

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And then you can you know, once you know those things, then then you can really figure out how you can a assess where you're at. So has my company

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kind of got ticks in all those boxes are actually other gaps and do we need to do something about that before we go and try and get investment.

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And be then you know, you can make sure that that when you're

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When yo

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