Willie Blake: From Dyslexic Kid Who Stayed Silent to High-Performance Coach

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in

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the world. I'm here with Willie Blake. Hey, Willie. Welcome

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to the podcast. Hey, Roy. Yeah, I expect this to

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be a really good conversation today. Yeah. So let's go

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back to Willie of old. Tell us where you grew

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up, how you became an entrepreneur, because that's what you

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are. Yeah. And what does that journey like? Yeah. So

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little Willie grew up mainly on the west side of

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the US over in Utah. Grew up there most of

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my life. And just Willie was just an adventurous kid,

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not shy to say things, just loved being curious. And

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then he was diagnosed with this thing called dyslexia, which

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for me struggle a really hard challenge with reading and

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speaking. So anytime I had to read out loud or

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read generally anything at all, it was very hard to

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get through. And so over as I continued to grow

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up, it was this. Saw it as a challenge that

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was in my life and up through middle to high

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school, up to college. I always felt behind, felt like

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I needed to catch up to everybody else. And I

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was always second guessing myself. I'd be sitting in class

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and literally I teach, would ask a question, we do

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the math with it, and I'd have the answer right

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in front of me. Five seconds would go by, 10

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seconds, 15 seconds go by, and then another kid over

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there would raise their hand, get the same answer, and

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I'm like, oh. Then you get the into your mind,

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right. And you start beating yourself up and everything. So

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then this outgoing, adventurous kid started to become shy and

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observant and not raising his hand. And it was about

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halfway through college, after experiencing what I did, to then

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be like, is that really how the world is that?

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We just get thrown this thing and it's just sucks

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and we have to deal with it the rest of

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our lives. When were you diagnosed with it? Diagnosed? About

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first grade. So about when I was six or seven.

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Yeah. And so, like, we caught it early and my

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parents helped intervene with some people to help me, and

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then extra time with flash cards and reading and games

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and such like that just grew up like that and

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from dyslexia. Not just dyslexia, but really anything as I

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was learning about this thing called business and this thing

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called coaching because I was really good at Monopoly and

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my mom's, you're good at strategy. Why don't you go

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into business? And I'm like, oh, that sounds really cool.

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And I started learning about it, and I saw dyslexia

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as this, the challenge of now being okay. What's the

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other side of it. And I learned there's a lot

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of advantages to it. And then I was like, okay,

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if that's with my challenge, what about other people? What

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about when it comes to some hard topics like miscarriages

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or cancer or even soft topics like trying to get

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married or trying to start a business or earn more

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money, and all these, like, specific things that could be

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considered bad turned into. Well, really, there's both sides to

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it. And you get to choose. So I grew up

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in Africa. My father was a pilot, and we would

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move house every six months, sometimes every three months. I

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went to 13 or 14 different junior schools. Yeah. And

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yeah, your. Your formative years form you. Right. So I

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had to really learn how to make friends quickly. But

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then I never had any deep relationships. It was only

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when we sit in a place. Yeah. And unpacking that

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now in our 50s, we start actually going say, oh,

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okay, this is where we are. Yeah. You go back

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and you look through these things, and yeah, you're right.

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The positive is I can go into a room and

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I can make a whole bunch of friends. And the

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negative is I don't have that huge circle of friends

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that are more deeper friends. But then I really value

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those five or six friends that are always there. Yeah.

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It's a strange. Everything has that good, everything has that

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bad. So at the end of the day, we get

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to choose. So I chose to be that resource for

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dyslexic adults and for my kids. Tell me about how

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you. Sorry to interrupt. How did you decide to start

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your business? Yeah, literally. So I watched a YouTube video

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by Grant Cardone. It was like five steps to become

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a millionaire and still one of my favorite YouTube videos.

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But then it led to this dude named Evan Carmichael

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who Does this top 10 success rules videos where he

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takes Tony Robbins, Oprah, of Win three, those people who

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are out there being successful and their top 10 rules

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of success. And so that kind of started all. And

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I'm like, okay, I've always wanted to be a teacher.

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That was back in 2018. So I was just low

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20s, about 22, 23. You were working. You had a

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job somewhere. Yeah, produce at Walmart. So it's that thing

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of going. So I'm digging in here because this is

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the moment that I love. Yeah, please, let's do it.

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Entrepreneurs are the most awesome people in the world. To

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me, that is great, because we see a problem in

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the world and we think, yeah, we can fix. I

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can fix that problem. I can help people fix that

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problem. And then we step Totally outside of our comfort

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zone. Right? Yeah. And we have a moment. We're like,

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okay, I'm letting go of the branch, I'm letting go

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of the tree. I'm gonna. I'm just going for it.

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And less than 2% of people in their lifetime was

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total business. I could believe it. Less than

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1, less than 1% every year. So that really makes

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us an entirely different type of people. And how many

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people do you sit and talk to? Everybody you know

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will be telling you, go and do it. I have

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this next billion dollar idea. It's going to make everybody

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money. Yeah. I was in the produce at Pick and

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Pay in South Africa. So when I was younger, what

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made you decide? What was that moment? That's what I'm

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after. Yeah, that moment. It was a statistic that

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came up because as I was figuring out what this

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business was and I was at college in the time,

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halfway through going to I was an accountant. But then

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I switched over to business. The statistics said 95% of

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CEOs read 50 or more books a year. And so

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my brain connected that and saying, be really cool to

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be a CEO and have my own business. So that

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just means I need to start reading more books. I

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knew that 50 was impossible, especially for a dyslexic who

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read maybe one book. But 12 book a month didn't

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seem bad. Got that little note card that had back

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in the school days, wrote 1 to 12 on it,

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went to my bookshelf, grabbed a small little book called

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Rich Dad, Poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki, opened it to

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chapter one and started to read. And that's where it

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just all started to unfold. I have Audible and

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I've got thousands of books in Audible. My new favorite

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book is who Not How. I haven't read that one.

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Who not how, just for business owners. It's really awesome

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because it's. Yeah. The way we think about growing our

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businesses. Yeah. This was. I think it was written in

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2020. And now we have AI and the who can

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become AI? I'm just super excited about that. So you

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started your business. Tell me about the first year. I

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call it the baby phase. Right? Yeah. You've just had

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a baby. Yeah, baby phase. Lot of planning, put up

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spreadsheets, no clients at all. I was doing all the

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back work, making sure everything was perfect and in place.

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And I was talking about it for sure. I was

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like, I'm just this. Because right now I'm not as

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specific with being a high performance coach for dyslexic. Professionals.

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Back then it was, I'm just this success coach. I

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want to help everybody become successful. And when you talk

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to everybody, nobody's going to listen. You're not talking to

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what actually hurts them and how to come up with

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solutions. And so yeah, first year, zero clients. Second year,

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one client, very excited. It was my cousin. That's

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just, that's the other thing with entrepreneurs, right? Tenacity. Yeah.

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You've got to be able to take I, my partner,

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she gets a bit irritated with me because I say

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I love failure. Yeah. Oh, I failed at that. You

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didn't fail. It's all these. No, I failed it because

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if I failed at it, then I can learn. I

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only learn from failure. And when I learn from failure,

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then I can do something better. Then I own the

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problem. Fail, fail. Fast fell forward, just how you look

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at it. If I'm blaming everybody else out in the

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world for failure, then I don't have any way to

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go in and fix it. But if it's my own

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fault, my own problem, then okay, how do I fix

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this? What do I do? What's the next step? So

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yeah, that was one of my big lessons through life.

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It's a great lesson. I think it was Tom Bilyeu

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who I also learned that from, where he just says,

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I take responsibility for everything. Literally. If a comet or

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meteor were to come and were to hit my house

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and my wife died, I would take responsibility for that

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because I'm the one that chose the house. I'm the

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one that chose to marry my wife and us to

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live in this place. And there's just this different type

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of power that comes back to you when you just

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accept everything and not in a guilty or shame way.

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Just I accept that what happens is on me. So

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if I want to create something, everybody else can do

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what they want. Yeah. But I can do it. It's

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all on me to create the future. I love that

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example. I've tested this and I did Del Carnegie's work.

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I did a lot of his work. One of the

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things he talks about is smiling. Just smile at everyone.

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How to win friends and influence people. And the thing

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is, you walk into a room and you've got a

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long face because you got up in the morning, you

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kicked the dog, you dropped the phone in the toilet,

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you lost the keys and. Yeah. And then you walk

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into the room and you've got their face and just

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watch how everyone reacts to you. Yeah, they all step

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and they go back and they, yeah, you've made the

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room. What it is, right. And then you're like, oh,

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Mary was nicer to me. Such as I tell her

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bad face. No, that's. You own that space. Yeah. And

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you control it. So your third year, tell us about

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your third year. Yeah, third year it went a lot

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better. Got the practice in. That's when I started to

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listen to Alex Rosi stuff as he was doing it

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and he was just like, yeah, start putting in the

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reps, do the rule of a hundred. Just send 100

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messages out a day. And I'm like, cool. Did that

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for five days, got a lot of traffic. 100, yeah.

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Then you just keep going. What else do you have

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to lose? And so that next year got a few

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more clients that worked one on one. And then in

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the background while I was doing that, I'm like, as

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I was asking them what's going great with the business,

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what's not going great? What would you like to, to

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see improved or added? Then it was, I want to

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get more of us together, like, where's the community? So

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then we started a community. It's like sweet. And then

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what's another thing now that we have a community then

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like I'd love to just get a group of us

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for like daily calls. So now we get every weekday

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daily calls going with people I work with and then

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from there it's just like, it's great, we talk but

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like, where's the in depth work that I get from

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a lot of coaching? So then now every other week

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with each of my clients we jump on it and

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it's just so cool. From like just one or two

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clients that happen in year three to like how it's

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built up to today of we got one on ones

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going on in depth from the community of amazing neurodivergent

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individuals, not just people with dyslexia, to then the group

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calls and everything that goes into with a business and

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yeah, just incredible. It's a super cool journey, I think

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so. It's my life. I think it's pretty cool. So

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that's with all of those things. I'm doing all of

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those things as well. Have you played with much of

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the AI yet? Are you in there? Oh, yeah, quite

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a bit. What's your most useful thing you've done? Useful

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thing I've done. I like every evening to go back

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and forth with ChatGPT, but after February 13th when they

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took away the 4.0 model and everything, it went a

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little Hayward and whatnot. We can go specifically into that

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if we want. But before that, like I love to

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just every night jump on it and just use it

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as a mirror. Be like, this is what I have,

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let's go back and forth on it. Or one of

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my favorite things to do would be what is one

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thing that I just am not seeing about myself that

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if I knew about it would stop hindering my business

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and actually make it grow faster. And if you program

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the AI right and it has the long term memory

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and the certain aspects in there, then you can have

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a good conversation. I just love using AI to help

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me self improve because of course you got the capabilities

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of everything else. But for it to help me improve

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faster, that's one of the coolest capabilities I found. And

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that's it. Yeah, I think that people don't realize how

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early it is. It's so early and so few people

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are using like this. I've literally just written a book

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and yes, I helped me with it and I had

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this real challenge of people think, they think I'm not

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a writer because I used AI and it's called thinking

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outside your brain with AI. How do you actually go

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through the process of using AI to help you think

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better? And I mentioned what you're talking about there. It's

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partially. I use it for the brain dump. I don't

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journal. I've never been able to write. I'm very untidy.

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I'm partially dyslexic as well. Yeah, I don't type, but

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I'm touch type. So I'm like, yeah. And so I'm

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like, okay, now get up in the morning brain dump.

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And there's a format for it. Right. I'm going to

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give you a stream of consciousness thought here. I need

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you to organize it. Stop and listen to myself. Listen.

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What's what Noises are in my head. Okay, go. And

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I do that three or four times until there's nothing

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left in my head. And then I say, okay, now

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this is my goal for the next two weeks. I

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want you to help me identify the list of things

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I put down here. And from that list of things

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that are down here, just put them in order for

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me as soon as I have it over. While I'm

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going in my head, I'm like, okay, that's my go

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to. Yeah. And yeah. AI. And tell me if you've

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seen this too as you're out there. We're getting a

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lot more creative entrepreneurs because now they're not bogged down

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by the nuts and bolts of having to have the

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perfect writing of the email to send to their clients.

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Or having to be able to create the perfect business

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plan from scratch just with them themselves and a pen

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and paper. Now you got AI that helps you out.

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So like that weakness that used to hold a lot

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of us back or neurodivergent, now that weakness is getting

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covered with AI. And we're able to now focus on

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the things which we do great at, which is the

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creativity, the problem solving, the perspective, seeing. Have you seen

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that? You're gonna love, you know, how you really are.

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Yeah, it goes into some of that for sure. I've

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seen that and I've taken that one step further. Do

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yourself a favor, get a Claude subscription if you haven't.

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Yeah, I'm looking into it. 100. So what I've done,

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I've been doing it for about three months now. And

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you come across notion, right? So, yeah, notions, awesome. Database.

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You can do pages, you can do databases. But I'm

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sure you've also had a massive overwhelm of threads.

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Yeah, I've got four. Yeah, I've got 400 threads. Damn.

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I had that great idea. What the hell? Where did.

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What happened with that? Yeah, yeah. Okay, let me fix

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this. So I went on to Claude, I'm like, right,

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what? How can I do this? And I had Notion

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and I built a couple of databases. And it's time

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consuming, right? You got to go in, you got to

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put the fields in. And I figured it out. Then

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I saw a notion connector. So I was like, okay,

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connect notion. So I'm like, okay, Claude, what can you

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do in Notion? Anything you want. What do you mean

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anything? I want your database. I can build your pages,

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I can do. Let's do it. So now what I

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do is Notion and Claude have become my pa. And

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if you've ever had a good pa, you will know

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how amazing that is. They sit next to you, they

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just take everything off of you. They just, just unburdens

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you in such a massive way. I've not had a

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good PA because they just can't. My mind works in

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a totally different way. And they're like three weeks in,

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they're like, roy, I'm done with you. So I

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started going through and said, ok, so now I've got

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this idea, I want to write this book. You know,

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go and create me. Put a workspace in there. Go

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and create me a database about the chapters, database about

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my stories, a database about this. Okay, put it in

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there. Then I'm like, okay, I'm going to now talk

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in my stories. Yeah, so. Because talking for me is

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so much easier. I talk too fast. It's just so

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much easier. So I'm like, okay, now, yeah, I've talked

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in the story. Now get my voice out of it.

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So create my voice. Okay, so now I've created my

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voice. I'm like, oh, I don't want to say this,

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I don't want to say that. Run. Make me a

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writing voice. Okay, now apply my writing voice to my

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stories and put them into my data, into my chapters.

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Yeah. So into my story bank. Yeah. I think Brunson

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talks about story bank. I did one of his courses.

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Good guy to look at if you haven't. And yeah.

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So now I'm like, I've got everything. It's out of

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my brain. It's there. Yeah. And as I'm going through

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my day, I'm just like, okay, Claude, I just had

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a good idea for a story. I'm just going to

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talk it in, pop it into my database for me,

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and it puts it in. Yeah. And every single idea

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I've got, database. I don't even need to know where

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it is. I don't even look at them. I'm just

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using the tool to be an outside brain. Yeah. Yeah.

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Really, really awesome. I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna

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end off. I'm just talking about wellness because that's a

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real subject that's close to my heart. I nearly died

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twice in 21. Oh, dang. Ended up was

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gonna commit suicide. Got to the top of 130 foot

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tower. Luckily, I've been doing Wim Hof breathing. I don't

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know if you've come across Wim Hof, but he's. He

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does cold exposure and breath work and I've been doing

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some of these things and I did some breath work

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and that was enough for me to take the next

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step. But at the same time, I was getting so

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stressed all the time, I was just on this edge

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with it that I ended up getting a burst colon.

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And I was literally in my flat trying to get

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to my phone across the couch so I could get

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someone to help me. I couldn't even move. Ended up

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in hospital with a burst coat on for 11 days

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on IV. And that just made me realize how important

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your mental health is and your physical health. What's been

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your journey through that? Do you have anything to add

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to this? Yeah, because I talk a lot about dyslexia,

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but when it comes to, like, mental health and our

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abilities, a lot of us feel behind, A lot of

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us feel as we just lay down at night about

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man, all I want to do is just distract. I

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want to scroll on my phone, I want to watch

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a video, I just want to play a game because

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goodness gracious, man, if I fall asleep, that just means

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the morning comes quicker. And with how my days are

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going, I just don't want to. I don't want tomorrow

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to come quick. I want to be able to have

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some control of my life a lot. And it's hard.

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It is hard, especially when it happens every day. It's

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not just this happens to 10% of the days. Sometimes

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it's upwards of 50 or even more, 60 or 70.

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And so being able to like having that real sensation

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you have those two people in my life that

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are not with us anymore. One was my cousin. We

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weren't that close at the time, but because of him,

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something shifted in me. Second one was my best childhood

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friend. Both of them took their lives within a week

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of each other. And you know as well as I

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do, and for those of you listening who you have

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had these moments, you know the exact place, you know

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the exact time. I was over at my college in

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Utah at Utah Valley and I was standing in the

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business department. I had my friend, his name was Spencer,

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standing next to me. I got the text from my

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mom telling me about what happened to my cousin and

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I'm like, that just sucks. Then a week

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later, same department, probably two or three feet to the

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right, got a text from my mom again saying that

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my childhood friend also took his life. And I remember

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that because of everything that went on. It was really

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sad, hard time. And I took out a post it

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note from my backpack and wrote something on it. And

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I can't remember what notebook it's in. I know it's

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behind me, I'm not going to go look for it

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right now. But on that note, sticky note I put,

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I'm never going to let people who I care about

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or who are around me suffer like those two did

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ever again. And so that's really when it took my.

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Not just like my business, but everything that I do

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brought it from now we're leaving with the heart, we're

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leaving with why. And my whole thing, if I could

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take my Y to one word, it would be light.

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And over six years of having my one word just

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be light, which is the opposite of darkness. I finally

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put an acronym to it which it's Love, inspire, gratitude,

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Hope and time. That's truly all that we have. And

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now everything that I do, from implementing it into the

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strategies of business to Just the relationships with my wife

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and my four kids to the people that are around

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me, my neighbors, the acquaintances and the clients and the

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people I consider mentors. Everything revolves around that. And it's

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those hard moments that we. Some people take as trauma

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moments and then don't do anything with it and their

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life continues to be mundane. And I'm just so grateful

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for past Willie of just taking out that little sticky

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note and just writing down. I'm never going to let

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this happen to other people. I'm going to be the

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hero. If that's what needs to happen. Do it. Just

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figure out the system too. We're doing this from the

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heart. Yeah. We're starting on the inside and working outward.

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Good. That's. I don't think we're going to top there.

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So let's end there. How do people get hold of

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you? What have you got to offer them? Yes. So

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best way to get a hold of me is to

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go to my website coach, willieblake.com and there you'll be

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able to find ways to connect with me on social

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media as well as if you are a dyslexic professional

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or entrepreneur yourself, you can be able to work one

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on one. The gift that I have for you who

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are listening is my free ebook called Break 3 the

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12 Limitations that Hold Us Back and How to Break

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Them. And it'll be right there smack dab on the

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website that you can click and go grab. But we

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limit ourselves so much and it's time to just break

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free from what holds us back.