The Enough Already Movement with Colin Kingsmill

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One person can make a difference.

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So for me, I'm always saying to people, wake up, participate, get into action, be involved.

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I think it's so easy to be complacent, right?

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And to watch the evening news and to feel like you don't have a voice, even though you're one individual and I'm saying you have a voice, you have the power.

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Welcome to The Wayfinder Show with Luis Hernandez, where guests discuss the why and how of making changes that led them down a more authentic path or allow them to level up in some area of their life.

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Welcome back to the wayfinder show.

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I'm your host louis hernandez And today's guest is colin kingsmill.

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Colin is a globetrotter where the story is diverse as his destinations from a successful career in Swiss banking and a whirlwind of high flying lifestyles to personal reinvention and overcoming adversity Colin has seen it all After a decade in international finance and navigating both glamorous and challenging experiences, he's now settled in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and started the Enough Already movement to help people remember who they are and who they will be and change the world.

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Colin is on a mission to help people rediscover their humanity, live in integrity, be fearless, and become free from suffering that is holding them down.

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Colin, welcome to The Wayfinder Show.

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The Wayfinder Show.

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It's quite the introduction.

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Thank you.

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Was that?

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I can't believe that's me.

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Yeah.

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Well, you've had quite the life,

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It's been a fascinating one.

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It's been, a very interesting one.

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Um, I certainly didn't plan it this way, but, yeah, it's been great.

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well, tell

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us a little bit about your origin story.

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I know you spent your childhood kind of going back and forth between Canada and the Swiss Alps and, you know, take it from there.

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Yeah, I mean, I kind of see my life in three chapters, you know, the first chapter of my childhood, I grew up in, in Western Canada.

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And, then a little bit later, I started to go back and forth to Switzerland because my mother was Swiss.

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not for, not because I wanted to go skiing or anything like that, but it was, it was just a family thing.

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My mom was Swiss and my dad is Canadian.

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that first chapter when I did after university, when I did move, move back to Switzerland was all about, and I actually have a coach that's called it Seeking Fabulous, right?

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this idea of wanting more, wanting to have more, be more established, present myself in a certain way, it was all about the external factors of success, right?

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I had to get the checklist.

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Right.

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So the travel, the cars, the family, the house, you know, it was all very external.

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and I hit a wall one day for sure.

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And, that was probably my enough already.

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I didn't wake up to the fact that, enough already happened 20 years ago, but, I hit a wall and I started chapter two and chapter two was me moving back to British Columbia, back to Canada and, starting over in a space and place that was more tangible to me.

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and that was in the real estate development world.

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So, and now chapter three is kind of international real estate development done, and now it's being back in, the Maritimes in Atlantic Canada and, really working with people on how they can get to, get to themselves faster than I did.

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it took me a very long time to get, to get to this place.

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And, I think it's important that people can get there faster than me, because we live in very complex times and people are suffering, people are sick, and you see the number, you see the evidence of that in mental health statistics and so forth.

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So yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, those are, those are kind of my chapters.

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Yeah, I like how you broke that down.

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I didn't realize that your background was in real estate development as well.

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I think we share that.

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I also, it's one of those, areas, Industries and where, where, you know, I think most people who go through it suffer some real financial hardship at some point, right?

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We all think of real estate developers as being, you know, these big successful glamorous, but it's the failure rate is actually Incredibly high, right?

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And it's very easy to go broke in real estate development,

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right?

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Yeah, I think the failure rate is really high.

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I don't have the statistics on that but certainly it are My space was always real estate development in, in destinations.

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So it was all about placemaking around tourism and hospitality.

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So whether it was Whistler, British Columbia or San Destin in Florida or Mont Tremblant up in Quebec and other places.

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It's a very, very tough game.

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I remember in 2009, we were brought over, by a Canadian investor to do a project in Montenegro.

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And here I was, it's like, all right, how do you sell luxury condominiums in a post communist emerging market?

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That's really hard to get to.

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It's not known for luxury.

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It's not known even for international real estate development.

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so yeah, I mean, you learn, you learn a lot along the way in that field.

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Cause it's a tough space and place to work in.

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Right.

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Cause the developers and the investors are putting down very large commitments of financially.

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And then people like you or me have to go and figure out how to sell it, how to connect that product to the audience.

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And, yeah, it's, Very, very, very challenging, but also a great school of life.

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Right.

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So,

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I think, in business, there's a lot of people, there's different seasons, right?

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And we all go through the hard seasons.

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I find that in real estate, particularly in real estate development, the seasons are very long, right?

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Just because, you think about development, the time of entitlement and permits for years, and then it takes, more for fundraising.

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Then the cycles, the market cycles change and delay it more.

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I found that the people who have been in development and had failures there took longer to recover than many other areas myself included.

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both emotionally, spiritually and as well as financially.

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it's very, real estate is a get rich slow game.

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And I think it's a comeback slow game as well.

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Would you agree?

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yeah, that's an interesting way of putting it, you know, perhaps it's because something like development does take so long.

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Right.

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you're not selling a quick and easy commodity like a car, let's say, I think it makes perfect sense.

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The commitment is larger, it's greater, it's more in depth, Because you're also dealing with, something very tangible.

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You're dealing with something where people's humanity is involved, whether you like it or not.

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I mean, whether you're building, you know, affordable housing or social housing, in a particular place or whether you're building a high end destination in Bora Bora or the Maldives, you're still dealing with, and I've always taken the role very seriously.

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You're still dealing with the creation of memories and spaces and places where humanity exists, right.

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And where humanity creates stories and memories and emotions and legacies and all that.

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So.

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It feels as though certainly it's felt to me that that commitment in the tangibility of the land and the place and the placemaking has been harder.

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And it's been harder when the dream doesn't get realized.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Over the promises that were thought up, don't get promised.

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And, I think you're right, it does take longer to recover.

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also because nobody teaches that in school.

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Right?

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Nobody teaches failure.

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Nobody teaches.

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You know, what happens when you fall off your bike, you know, metaphorically, right?

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from a career perspective or from a, from a project perspective, it's not, it's not taught and it's also almost shunned upon, right?

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The idea that you can fall, dust yourself off, get up and get back on the bike.

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But from a real estate perspective, you know, those are bigger and those are big numbers.

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They're tangible and you can see it, right?

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Like it's not like a factory.

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That, you know, off in some obscure place you can see when a real estate destination or a place making project or development project has the right energy and it's flowing and it's going or when it's not quite and, you know, I've spent a long time, working with people on, figuring out The why behind the real estate development right like why, what are you really doing, why will it matter who will care.

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And those are questions that a lot of developers don't really necessarily like right, because, and I'm probably rambling on but so often.

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I think real estate development is done through the lens of the Excel spreadsheet, right?

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Or the numbers spreadsheet where, you know, what am I going to earn per square foot on this project?

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And I think we're entering an era and I think maybe we've probably already entered it where people living in the age of knowledge and living in the age of information want more.

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I think, and I don't, I don't know if you can see this in the markets that you're working in, but It requires greater, a greater commitment, a greater relationship with the audience, real language, brand promise that makes that, that, that is authentic, right?

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Do you remember, remember years ago, we could push out almost anything right into the marketplace and the market space and language was lighthearted and not particularly, deep, But nobody believes any of that anymore.

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So how do you navigate in today's landscape?

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is kind of what I've been working with clients and other developers and things like that.

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Yeah.

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It's an interesting time.

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So, after, some of your past development failures, did you decide to go back in at all, or do you call it good?

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look, I'm always open to going and doing a project that has the right energy.

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I think in the past, I probably said yes.

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I said many, many times I have said yes to the dress, right?

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Yes to a project.

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Without necessarily knowing the details, right?

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Without this, just kind of going, all right, let's try this.

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Let's see what, we'll see, see what happens.

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So I probably, should have learned to be more pragmatic in the past and dive deeper into the numbers and understand who I'm dealing with and, be more, what's the word?

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Critical, if you want, have a critical lens on what the stories are.

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we're what stories were being sold to me, right?

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Whether I was dealing with a, 35 million per condo development or, fascinating projects in the lower valley or whatever it was.

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but that's how we all learn, right?

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what I've done in the last few years is I'm less about the shiny object, right?

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And whether the developers on the UK rich list, or whether the owner of a project is, Baron Bic or some other celebrity or whatever.

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I used to dive into that and just say, yes, let's go for it.

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I'd probably be more attentive now today.

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but, yeah, you, you, you all brilliant learning experiences.

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I wouldn't, I wouldn't, and some of them, some of them are hugely successful today.

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They might have been in a lull when I had to leave or so.

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Yeah, I'm not, I'm not too worried about them.

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Okay.

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It hasn't totally burned me is what I'm trying to say.

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You are in it.

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I'm an optimist.

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At heart.

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Maybe I'm more hopeful at heart.

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but now today I only do projects where, there's a real soul to what's going on.

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And, I trust my instinct more than, the idea of, of seeking fabulous.

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So it's more the projects that I'm doing today are more inward focused.

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Less outward focused.

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And, you know, I love placemaking.

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I love destination making.

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I love all of that.

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there's incredible things happening in the real estate world as well.

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Like, I don't know if you follow Realm Global, but Realm is creating a platform.

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it's just Realm, realm, global realm, R-E-A-L-M, realm global.com.

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They're creating a platform.

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That is absolutely revolutionary around the real estate industry.

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And that allows all of the silos of the real estate brands, right.

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Whether it's Sotheby's or England Volkers or Keller Williams or whatever.

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It's basically matching properties and matching owners, on like three or 400 lifestyle tags.

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So very, very different.

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And the way real estate was conducted in the past.

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So, there's incredible things happening in that, in that industry, like, like, like what realm is doing.

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So, yeah, it's hard to check them out there.

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Yeah.

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You, you really should.

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Okay.

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so what made you now, what you're doing with enough already, the movement is, is completely different, right?

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Tell us a little bit more about that and how, how you got into it.

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It's totally

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different.

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after many, many years of sort of international travel and projects around the world, I, I kind of, I developed a natural ability to, to coach and to mentor and to work with people who might not have seen as much as I've seen, right?

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So I'm very grateful to the sort of international destination placemaking past that I've had.

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And that goes from Bora Bora to Saudi Arabia to the Maldives, right?

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And everywhere in between.

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so about six years ago, I started coaching.

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And I was doing a lot of coaching and mentoring and advising around fear and overcoming fear and in the last couple of years, I've just kind of expanded that lens through which I work and through which I see life.

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And I started to think, you know, this whole world of coaching and leadership development.

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Not just in the real estate world, but in so many sectors has felt for myself and my colleagues, like we are working in an emergency room triage, right?

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So you come in, you have your hour of coaching for 400 or whatever you're going to spend.

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And then you go and you do a workshop and that feels great for the three hours that you're in there that afternoon.

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But, the problem is when you go back into your regular life is where the suffering and the hardship And the trauma management and the burnout and the anxiety and the stress and all of these things are really impacting people.

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So we've said, we started to say enough already around leadership development.

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Right.

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We started to say, we have to do things better.

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we have to reimagine, things differently.

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so I've just started to kind of run with that.

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And I've been thinking, well, if you.

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And the four pillars of Enough Already are humanity, integrity, fearlessness, and freedom, right?

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And if you look at life through the humanity lens and believe that we are all one lineage on this little rock flying through the galaxy, you begin to think differently, right?

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You begin to treat people differently.

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if food corporations began to think differently and had humanity within them, how different would our food supply look like, you know, if healthcare had care in it as opposed to just profits.

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So you're right.

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I agree.

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it is a bit of a right angle turn on what I've done in development and real estate development in the past, but just looking at where the world is today.

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I think we can no longer be complacent.

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The world is sick.

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And I don't know if you've seen this in the work that you do, but.

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Everybody, especially our younger generations, they're sick, they're burnt out.

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We are living in an era where the epidemic is around, anxiety medication and depression medication.

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And I just keep saying, it doesn't have to be like this.

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What is going on?

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That's the reason to start it.

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And if you look at life with a, with a more humanistic approach and you begin to live in your real integrity and start to be fearless, I think you can become free from psychological suffering.

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So that's the whole idea around the movement is look at life through the lens of humanity, begin to live in integrity.

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Be fearless and through that process you can become free from the suffering That's really just tethering you down.

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That's holding you down.

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So, yeah, that's the idea with the movement

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I think we have a pandemic you could use it now I find it extraordinary because I have two teenage daughters and I am almost envious of their life and yet they are burdened with anxiety and stress and all that.

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And I think when I look at the opportunities that they have in their life, the stability that they have in their life, I just think the safety they have in their life at this age and I'm thinking like, wow, I'm very proud to have been able to help provide that for them, but yet they are.

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So, they feel the stress and anxiety and fear like nothing else.

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And, imagine, I mean, to the point, my daughter, my oldest, didn't, she graduated high school early.

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She kind of went online just to hurry up and get out of school because she didn't want, and now with college, she's been delaying it for some time.

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and now it's almost happening'cause she gets so much into anxiety about it.

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And,

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it must be incredibly difficult for a parent like you and, you know, Abigail Schreier recently published a book called, Bad Therapy.

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the whole premise of the book is we are living in an era where this generation, the generation of your daughters, they are the most medicated, okay?

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They are getting the most therapy, and yet they're still the sickest.

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They are, they're all suffering.

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So you know, It's, I think it's so easy to look back and criticize our forefathers for what they did, right, or what they've done.

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And you can have all kinds of in depth conversations around things like colonialism and things like that.

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But I wonder what, what are we doing today that is going to be abhorrent in the history books in years to come?

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And I think it's what we're doing.

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to our younger generations, they are completely sick and can't cope.

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it's just not right.

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and I think it is a global issue.

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I mean, I'm in the United States and I can speak to the U S but I do read and talk to a lot of folks from all over the world and I'm realizing, these are issues that are happening almost all over and in the countries that are prioritizing, good health.

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Good food.

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these kind of things are suffering even more so economically than by our lens, you know, and I think about, for example, Japan, Japan has, you go there, it's a very healthy lifestyle in terms of the food you can get and the quality of life and all of that safety, all those measurables, but yet their economy has been shot for, 30 years, and it doesn't seem like they really care there so much,

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I don't really know the geopolitics, about Japan, all that much, but, I don't think being attentive about your health is necessarily connected to the economic results.

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I mean, you look at some of the Nordic countries, like, Norway and Denmark and Sweden and Finland.

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They all seem to be very, very productive.

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And at the same time, they're also thinking about these things.

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So the ingredient list on a bag of Kellogg's, In Denmark is going to look very different than the ingredient list that you and I might have here in Canada or the US.

00:21:14.074 --> 00:21:14.693
very good point.

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Yes.

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So I

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don't think I don't think those two are correlated necessarily.

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But, I do think there is a direct correlation between the quality of the food supply.

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And the level of mental health, or the mental health parameters in any given country.

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And, I don't know if you follow somebody like Kaylee Means or Casey Means, you know, he's the whistleblower from Coca Cola.

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Kaylee Means is C A L L E Y.

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And then means M-E-A-N-S.

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And his wife Casey.

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Kaylee, was at Coca-Cola, and he has since left, obviously he, he was a whistleblower about, you know, the reports they buy and the studies they buy and the things they pay for and the incentives that they give to universities and, and, journals and things like that.

00:22:03.584 --> 00:22:10.314
And his, his wife Casey was working in Stanford University and, Anyway, it's a long story there, but the U.

00:22:10.314 --> 00:22:10.473
S.

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medical system divides the body into 41, I think it's 41 different segments, right?

00:22:16.854 --> 00:22:18.913
So it's ears, eyes or ears, throat.

00:22:18.933 --> 00:22:24.513
No, like there's 41 ways to dissect the body and 41 specialties at a medical school.

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Nobody is looking at things holistically, right?

00:22:28.134 --> 00:22:31.213
Anyway, I'm rambling on.

00:22:31.903 --> 00:22:33.173
No, I think you're right on though.

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What are, so, I'm curious.

00:22:36.834 --> 00:22:38.693
We've identified some of the issues.

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Have you thought then more about that?

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The causes outside of just healthy foods.

00:22:45.189 --> 00:22:46.638
Well, yeah, I know.

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So for me, for me, for me, the biggest challenge in today's world is the legal entity of the corporation that has a Decoupled humanity from the entity.

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Okay.

00:23:03.473 --> 00:23:58.315
and what I mean by that is, let's say a food, production business or any large scale, the banking industry, the military industrial complex, the healthcare industry, or the medical industry for me, the root cause is that the corporation has decoupled humanity from the endeavor that they are working on, so it allows them to make food that isn't food, do healthcare that isn't care, so that for me is the issue, and I'm not saying everybody needs to be a Marxist or a socialist, on the contrary, but I do think that corporations and business, need a rethink because we're hurting ourselves at every level from, you know, even you look at the environment, right?

00:23:58.565 --> 00:24:06.954
and how we so easily turn a blind eye to what's going on around us from homelessness to addiction.

00:24:07.515 --> 00:24:15.095
Right and you look at some of the videos of the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles these days and it's just like it's unbelievable, right?

00:24:15.805 --> 00:24:16.805
Where has humanity?

00:24:17.365 --> 00:24:19.025
Yeah, where's humanity gone?

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Like how is it possible that we can be stepping over our fellow humans?

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Something has happened in recent history that has allowed us to travel with blinders on and has also allowed us to, yeah, just be able to produce food that's not food or produce a banking industry that doesn't care, even though they, you know, pride months lasts three months and they say they care and it's like, wait, what, but it's not, it's all sort of virtue signaling and performative.

00:24:50.285 --> 00:24:52.015
that, that, that we're seeing today.

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Yeah.

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That, that's interesting.

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I was listening to, have you heard of the Lex Friedman podcast?

00:24:57.954 --> 00:24:58.375
Oh yeah.

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Lex.

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Love Lex.

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Yeah.

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It's fantastic.

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I don't know if you listened to the episode with Shank, Ugar.

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He talked a lot about this.

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he's from, he has a, like one of the longest running podcasts on YouTube, called the Young

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Turks.

00:25:10.984 --> 00:25:14.075
he's incredibly profound and thought provoking, right?

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And he talked quite a bit about this, and he said, really what we've gotten away from, you know, our, yeah.

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Our countries are run by corporations now and to serve them.

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and the politicians are really, servants of theirs to pass.

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Sure.

00:25:31.154 --> 00:25:31.336
which is interesting.

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I think the whole incentivization, is wrong it's not serving you and me.

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It's serving, some distant shareholder.

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And, you know, frankly, it's making us sick.

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Yeah.

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And it's making the planet sick.

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So again, back to this idea of It's time to wake up.

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It's time to participate.

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And again, it's not about going, you know, turning into another, you know, having a Marxist revolution.

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I'm totally against that as well, but we can do things better.

00:26:01.944 --> 00:26:03.345
We can do them much better.

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Yeah.

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If we just started to think that humans are at the end of the food supply chain or humans are at the end of whatever.

00:26:12.605 --> 00:26:19.825
Industrial complex you want to talk about, whether it's the military industrial complex or the banking complex or anything.

00:26:20.424 --> 00:26:23.005
we've forgotten that humans are at the end of it.

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And so this idea for me, this idea of remembering your humanity should mean that you could and should treat things.

00:26:32.589 --> 00:26:35.529
differently in the endeavor and the business that you're working in.

00:26:36.069 --> 00:26:45.599
this has a danger of going off into, one of those Talk shows that we just start to go off on what's wrong with the world, right?

00:26:45.710 --> 00:27:07.579
And my natural inclination is to want to go there But the truth is I like to try and focus on what we can do about this As normal citizens that aren't, incredibly influential or well capitalized just normal Joe Schmoes, what can we do, for ourselves to feel better.

00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:08.460
Right.

00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.450
so that's a great question.

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I would challenge you to play with the idea of normal and play with the idea of.

00:27:18.095 --> 00:27:28.634
when you said something about, just, you know, regular folk, I think what we need to do is reclaim our power, one person can make a difference.

00:27:28.684 --> 00:27:33.785
for me, I'm always saying to people, wake up, participate.

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Get into action.

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be involved.

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I think it's so easy to be complacent, right?

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And to watch the evening news and to feel like you don't have a voice, even though you're one individual.

00:27:45.865 --> 00:27:48.875
And I'm saying you have a voice, you have the power.

00:27:49.335 --> 00:27:50.755
There's, there's a lot of Interesting.

00:27:50.755 --> 00:27:56.154
there's people that have gone on crusades and changed the face of the way certain corporations work.

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Right.

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there was somebody recently that you guys have a fast food chain in the U S that it's like fast, healthy food, like fast salads and stuff.

00:28:04.204 --> 00:28:04.744
Oh, mad green.

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And somebody said.

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I don't know if it's that company, but it's another one, said, you guys need to stop using seed oils and I'm going to create a movement so that you stop using seed oils, which are highly inflammatory, right?

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And unhealthy for you, whether it's canola or vegetable that doesn't have any vegetables in it.

00:28:23.523 --> 00:28:25.169
and they changed.

00:28:25.669 --> 00:28:33.828
So, you know, and there's been boycotts recently and there's been movements around, many industries where one person has said, that's enough.

00:28:34.219 --> 00:28:38.249
there's a whole movement called no farmers, no food out of the UK.

00:28:39.213 --> 00:28:43.193
And that's one guy started it made a logo and started it.

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I think we all have the potential to have a voice and you don't need to be highly capitalized.

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And you don't need to be an MBA and you don't need to be anything except a human being willing to participate and willing to raise your hand.

00:28:57.778 --> 00:28:59.358
And say enough already.

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Let's do something about this.

00:29:01.769 --> 00:29:08.169
and that might not be wanting to have a Nobel Peace Prize, but it might just be changing the way things happen on your city block.

00:29:08.939 --> 00:29:18.439
And that's what I keep saying to people, you see a lot of complaining, online and you see, protests here and there for various things.

00:29:19.374 --> 00:29:29.884
You have to remember that all you have to do is walk outside your front door and there's somebody homeless, there's somebody addicted, there's somebody that's lonely, there's somebody in need, there's an elder that needs help right out front your front door.

00:29:30.394 --> 00:29:35.663
So, buckle up and participate.

00:29:37.253 --> 00:29:40.953
what are some of the strategies you teach to help overcome some of that?

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Well, one of the things I do is I call it the inventory of stories and, what that is, is identifying all of the self limiting belief stories that you are telling yourself every day.

00:29:58.013 --> 00:30:01.003
And you know, we have 80, 000 thoughts a day, right?

00:30:01.854 --> 00:30:12.023
So, the idea is that if you can, and what happens is we, we kind of spit out of control and we get depressed and we get anxious and we, spiral into negativity.

00:30:12.023 --> 00:30:20.993
But, If you can do an inventory of all of those stories that you're telling and you're telling yourself in your head, you can begin to look at the flip side.

00:30:21.013 --> 00:30:25.003
But what people don't do today is quantify that fear.

00:30:25.013 --> 00:30:31.453
So it might be, I'm afraid of financial success, or I'm afraid of lack, or I'm afraid of financial ruin or things like that.

00:30:31.723 --> 00:30:32.872
what are the 20?

00:30:33.362 --> 00:30:36.192
Elements that make up that belief system that you've got.

00:30:36.201 --> 00:30:43.172
So for me, it's really about, working with people and deconstructing the stories that they are telling themselves in their head,

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if

00:30:44.961 --> 00:30:45.882
that makes sense.

00:30:46.862 --> 00:30:56.342
So what you can do is once you begin to deacon, once you identify, you can begin to deconstruct and you can begin to rebuild the inventory.

00:30:56.777 --> 00:30:58.656
Of stories, just like in accounting, right?

00:30:58.886 --> 00:31:09.737
T bar, you can begin to rebuild the other side of the stories that are working for you as opposed to depleting you and keeping you down in that, that space of fear.

00:31:11.696 --> 00:31:22.047
Yeah, so like, I suppose if we were to, let's use an example, you know, I'm afraid to, I'm afraid of financial ruin as a, as a story I have in my head, right?

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would that look like?

00:31:23.977 --> 00:31:26.136
How would you go about deconstructing that?

00:31:27.426 --> 00:31:31.126
Well, the first, the first thing I would do is can you describe what that means?

00:31:31.576 --> 00:31:31.886
Right?

00:31:32.346 --> 00:31:33.727
What, what is that?

00:31:35.527 --> 00:31:36.007
Yeah.

00:31:36.166 --> 00:31:36.527
Okay.

00:31:37.497 --> 00:31:38.866
and how would you get there?

00:31:39.541 --> 00:31:39.781
What?

00:31:39.791 --> 00:31:40.061
How?

00:31:40.061 --> 00:31:41.092
What is the number?

00:31:41.201 --> 00:31:42.442
What is ruin mean?

00:31:42.531 --> 00:31:43.602
Define ruin.

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What is the opposite of that?

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What do you think you need not to be financially ruined?

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and you know, what's the matter if you did have to start from scratch?

00:31:52.162 --> 00:32:02.332
So it's all about breaking it down into the Smallest denomination that you can break them down into and then questioning each one.

00:32:02.362 --> 00:32:03.162
Is that correct?

00:32:03.201 --> 00:32:03.981
Is that true?

00:32:04.061 --> 00:32:04.821
Is that right?

00:32:04.892 --> 00:32:05.582
Is that wrong?

00:32:05.622 --> 00:32:06.491
Is it serving me?

00:32:06.771 --> 00:32:07.771
Is it working for me?

00:32:07.781 --> 00:32:08.692
Where did it come from?

00:32:09.102 --> 00:32:14.271
And often in that process of identification, right?

00:32:14.571 --> 00:32:23.932
And of, you know, really segmenting out that one phrase, I'm afraid of financial ruin, you'll often get to you.

00:32:24.201 --> 00:32:29.521
some signals or some hints about an origin story, right?

00:32:29.912 --> 00:32:34.311
so once you begin to identify it, you can go and look at the origin story.

00:32:34.311 --> 00:32:37.112
Well, where did that actually come from?

00:32:37.811 --> 00:32:38.321
Okay.

00:32:39.291 --> 00:32:43.051
And so often it's rooted in a trauma.

00:32:43.692 --> 00:32:44.102
Yeah.

00:32:44.352 --> 00:32:47.662
A small T trauma doesn't have to be a big T, a big T trauma.

00:32:48.241 --> 00:32:57.781
and, once you identify where the origin story comes from, then all of those little pieces become clearer and clearer to understand.

00:32:59.761 --> 00:33:01.132
so that's really how I would do it.

00:33:01.781 --> 00:33:03.021
That's the starting point anyway.

00:33:03.541 --> 00:33:04.882
Yeah, no, that's interesting.

00:33:05.942 --> 00:33:06.632
I like that.

00:33:06.682 --> 00:33:10.501
I think you are absolutely right that we create all of these.

00:33:10.876 --> 00:33:20.027
Stories, you know, in our heads, that of what can, what can go wrong essentially, and it, it, it's rooted somewhere and we need to figure out where that root is and pull it.

00:33:20.656 --> 00:33:20.987
Yeah.

00:33:21.426 --> 00:33:21.747
Yeah.

00:33:22.126 --> 00:33:22.557
Very good.

00:33:23.366 --> 00:33:23.896
Well, call it

00:33:24.116 --> 00:33:25.946
safe, safe space to do it in.

00:33:25.987 --> 00:33:27.096
Yeah, totally.

00:33:27.576 --> 00:33:27.797
All right.

00:33:27.856 --> 00:33:35.146
Colin, we're right around that, point where we get into our world famous wayfinder for, and since you are in another part of the world and it is truly world famous now.

00:33:35.507 --> 00:33:38.717
So, if you could share with us a hack.

00:33:39.356 --> 00:33:43.237
That you use every day, some kind of, Oh, sure.

00:33:43.797 --> 00:33:44.497
Meditation.

00:33:44.836 --> 00:33:45.247
Okay.

00:33:45.307 --> 00:33:46.676
How did I know you were going to say that?

00:33:48.057 --> 00:33:49.467
Meditation changes everything.

00:33:49.477 --> 00:33:52.386
Meditation allows you to be mindful, right?

00:33:52.666 --> 00:33:57.176
And it also allows you not to react to the situation that you have in front of you.

00:33:58.057 --> 00:34:05.336
And it also allows you to recognize that a thought is just a thought and you can change it and you can change direction very quickly.

00:34:05.906 --> 00:34:09.737
So a meditative practice is, crucial, I think.

00:34:11.286 --> 00:34:11.686
Excellent.

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How about a favorite?

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