Ever faced the sting of rejection or wrestled with the fear of it? David Specht is back at the mic with me, sharing transformative insights on turning setbacks into comebacks. Together, we unpack the misconceptions around the overnight success of influencers and why the road to triumph is more akin to a marathon rather than a sprint. David, the entrepreneur and author behind "Old Dogs, New Tricks," brings his authentic wisdom to the table, challenging the narratives that hold us back from achieving our full potential.
What does it truly take to carve out a niche and foster authenticity in the cutthroat world of business and coaching? In this heart-to-heart, we dissect the pitfalls of trying to be everything to everyone and instead underscore the power of connection and impact. Drawing from lessons in David's book and our own entrepreneurial trenches, we're here to remind you that genuine success comes from aligning with your unique personal attributes and serving your audience with integrity and true value.
Finally, we're thrilled to announce our exclusive online community, WhatIfItDidWork.com, where personalized coaching and mastermind series await to catapult your personal and professional life to unparalleled heights. This episode is not just a conversation; it's a call to action. Join us as we stand shoulder to shoulder with you, ready to tackle the challenges and champion your journey toward a life far removed from mediocrity. Embrace the learning, open doors to opportunity, and let's transform the power of positive thinking into a tangible reality.
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Ever faced the sting of rejection or wrestled with the fear of it? David Specht is back at the mic with me, sharing transformative insights on turning setbacks into comebacks. Together, we unpack the misconceptions around the overnight success of influencers and why the road to triumph is more akin to a marathon rather than a sprint. David, the entrepreneur and author behind "Old Dogs, New Tricks," brings his authentic wisdom to the table, challenging the narratives that hold us back from achieving our full potential.
What does it truly take to carve out a niche and foster authenticity in the cutthroat world of business and coaching? In this heart-to-heart, we dissect the pitfalls of trying to be everything to everyone and instead underscore the power of connection and impact. Drawing from lessons in David's book and our own entrepreneurial trenches, we're here to remind you that genuine success comes from aligning with your unique personal attributes and serving your audience with integrity and true value.
Finally, we're thrilled to announce our exclusive online community, WhatIfItDidWork.com, where personalized coaching and mastermind series await to catapult your personal and professional life to unparalleled heights. This episode is not just a conversation; it's a call to action. Join us as we stand shoulder to shoulder with you, ready to tackle the challenges and champion your journey toward a life far removed from mediocrity. Embrace the learning, open doors to opportunity, and let's transform the power of positive thinking into a tangible reality.
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I never told no one that my whole life I've been holding back. Every time I load my gun up so I can shoot for the star, I hear a voice like who do you think you are All right.
Speaker 2:Everybody. Another day, another dollar, another one of my favorite episodes. Yeah, I'm always being biased. It's my podcast and this man needs no introduction. He's been a guest, he's been a co-guest with, with his lovely partner. Yes he's the man to myth the legend. He's an entrepreneur. He's a business coach. He's a health coach, he's a jack of all trades. He's one of my favorite authors. Read his book old dog, new tricks. Yeah, david, speck from speck health and soon to be a well, we'll make that announcement, going brother dude, it has been a minute.
Speaker 3:It has been a minute, uh, when we're recording this. I think a lot of us are coming out of the ice age here and across the, the Great us of a and and it's been. I haven't pivoted this much since kovat. Okay, so this has been one of those uh, crazy starts to a new year. Exciting, but, but just Things left and right, man, it's just. It's an entrepreneur's dream or nightmare, I can't decide which.
Speaker 2:It's been in the 60s here in south florida. Yeah, yeah, well, well.
Speaker 1:Hey man, it's all right, we're not my dad, he's ready.
Speaker 2:You know it's not like the mirf. I've been looking at your videos, man.
Speaker 3:Holy smokes oh it's, it's been it's been ridiculous and uh, but the. What I've learned, though, through that, is you know the work from home was never a thing, you know, five years ago, and now it's. So it's such the norm that stuff is still getting done, even when you can't go anywhere to do it, and that that's you know. As long as the internet's working and you got some power in the house, you can, you can work on some things, and I got a lot of stuff done when I couldn't leave the house. It was, it was. It was pretty glorious. Now I was going stir crazy, but it was still glorious nonetheless.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, looking at it, it snowed like heck in in the mirf, but surprisingly, uh, louisiana, southern Louisiana, yes, didn't get any. It got cold weather. Now, if it would have snowed it would have brought me back to the day I graduated. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3:They said it would snow in Baton Rouge when you'd finally graduated.
Speaker 2:Dan home. Mr Morris was right, my assistant principal. Oh, you know that that story almost never hit my, my Ted talk. Well, I told you that right, that.
Speaker 2:Oh really Word for word. Oh yeah, it was For to be a Ted speaker, ted X speaker. You have to go through the motions, you have to send like four or five like tapings of the actual you doing it. Then you have to give them a script and you can't riff, you can't do anything. Well, you know, I'm not the type of guy that colors between the lines, right. I I always know how to skirt around the issue.
Speaker 2:So I got a little Emotional at the end. So the last couple of minutes I ad lib because I love to ad lib and thought nothing of it. Nobody told me anything. And then I got an email like on think Thanksgiving, and the guy's like oh, by the way, uh, this might never air because, you know, if it's not word for word, sometimes you're gonna have to prove that it actually happened. And I'm like all the, all the stats, everything in there is real dude. The only thing that it was only the filler at the end, man, but wow, my old self, I would have blown off. Or I've been like dude. I'm like nobody would have taken, nobody can take the experience away. I, you know, I can say I was a speaker, so, and you know, I didn't make a fuss, I didn't say anything, I didn't go up the bat, and just I got another Email, like four weeks later or whatever. Oh, here's the link Congratulations.
Speaker 3:I was like woohoo, and you know that's no small feat. I mean, I know you know there's 10x talks all across the nation, but it is not a small feat. I and I know I know you've gotten several pads on the back, but I just want to publicly say congratulations, man, to not only be chosen for a 10x talk but then to to go through the process and, like you said, it's it's a lot of work and I don't think a lot of people appreciate the amount of work it takes to get to that state, dude, nobody.
Speaker 2:You know I had to pay my way to get to houston. No, there's no, you know, it's just something to add to your mantle, sort of like us, you know, being self published. But everybody thought, you know, it was like a Nobel Peace Prize that you know, the limo came out to get me and you know I was like with Greta and you know we were just partying.
Speaker 3:And now you're sharing a box with jason kelsey and taylor swift. I mean, we just know that. That's how it's going to be right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, maybe in my mind, but but but it wasn't even that and it was just like all that. And for a guy that I, I mean I hate rejection or I feared it so long. I'm still getting rejected because to become a tedax speaker you have to apply for like 40 different ones.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I'm still getting rejection letters. I feel like sending back hey to to like brother. I'm already a tedax speaker bitch.
Speaker 3:Oh, if people just only knew. You know, and but, but, but it gets back to you know you and I talk mindset all the time. Right, we talk about you know you've you've built an entire uh book and business around Thinking about the things that would work, what, what if it did work? You know, go ahead and taking that step, putting yourself out there. I talk about the thing between your ears. It's holding you back from overthinking to to you know, the transformation Of your mind. You know you got to go there first in your mind before your body can go there.
Speaker 3:So it really is a scenario where you're never not going to face the things that you have feared all your life. You just get better at facing them, and I think that's the thing people don't get is like, oh Well, he's successful now or she's successful now, she doesn't have to deal with it. Dude, everybody who's ever feared rejection it doesn't matter if you're edmile, it doesn't matter if you're johnny karson, it doesn't matter if you're ronald reagan or barack obama you still have that sense of if I do this, I might get rejected and you have to Do will yourself pass that mark?
Speaker 2:Nobody likes to do all the elections. We're going through the republican primaries. The indian dude, the back, or whatever his name is, my governor, ron, losing socks. I don't think anybody was like, oh well, you know, I came in second or I got a lot of votes. No, it's crushing man, it's rejection. I don't all of them. Man, nobody likes to lose, whether tiller or clinton mccain, all these people you know, paul song is a million years ago all these people, nobody likes it. Man, rejection Is always something that we always have to fight through. And yeah, heck, I don't like being rejected. I don't like getting fired. I don't like somebody telling me I'm not good enough, or you know, and it happens to us to this day, hey, can I be a speaker? Crickets, you know You're gonna laugh at this one.
Speaker 2:It's in tampa. I had a guess Our couple, I guess fitness experts, whatever, and they're, they're having a function in tampa, which is, you know, three hour drive. I mean, I've flown into new york to speak. I've flown to the murphy's boroughs, I've gone to houston and they're like yeah, yeah, we're considering you. And they never told me I was rejected. I didn't think I was cool enough. I find out through all the promos. I say I'm like, oh well, what happened? And they're like their excuse was well, you know, we thought it was too far for you. And I'm like it's like. And then they like, yeah, they throw it back at me and it's like okay, yeah, it sucks because I got rejected, you know, at the end of the day, hey, you didn't think I was worthy enough. Nobody likes it.
Speaker 3:No, and Again, you get better at handling it, but it's always there. It's always there and there's always In every life. And I don't mean to get so philosophical, although that's kind of my, that's kind of my wheelhouse, but like in everything that's important, there's a wall of resistance to it. There always is. I was talking to a group just the other day that were that I've been career coaching and and and they want like the smooth path. You know what's the, what's the Paths of least resistance to get me where I want to go. How do I go without ruffling feathers? How do I go? And I like, have you ever watched the Super Bowl or any major championship? They're like well, yeah, I said. What's the first thing they say when they stand on the stage? I don't know. Uh, I love my mom. I say no, no, no, no. Every single one of them, I don't care who they are, whether it's the coach, the MVP, whatever. They all say the same thing.
Speaker 3:We have overcome so much adversity during this season that that and and now we? You know we, we made it. If you're looking for a life without adversity, you're not going to live much of a life, and so understanding that adversity is part of the package and you know fear of rejection, resistance, all all of those things are part of the package. Now, all of a sudden, you have the ability to say, okay, I know it's coming, I know I have to deal with it. Now I got to walk through it.
Speaker 3:I posted today that you know many times people you know they pray, they, they work, they want to get you know out of things when really they really want to get through things, because through is where the character's built, through is where the strength happens. I mean, I want to. You know, I want to have a great physique Without going to the gym. I wish there was something that could get me out of going to the gym, but no, I have to go through the gym to get a decent physique, you know. So that's just part of the deal.
Speaker 2:Then why? Why do you think in your opinion People don't see the the b Through the y? They they might hear the origin story, they see the success and all these people talk about it. And then Robbins had a living, his friggin Bulk's wagon bug. I don't know how that guy fit in there. Grant cardone had his adversity, his drug addiction, getting fired a million times. All these people will talk about it, but yet everybody glosses over through it and says, yeah, I want to open up a business.
Speaker 2:I want to be a multi-billionaire. I want to be making it rain. I want to be a celebrity. I want to do all this without you. Know the struggle, without the heartache, without, Without the times that you think you're not going to ever hit it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I To answer your question, I would say the short answer is they're being lied to, and what I mean by that is, for every Anthony Robbins that tells the truth, there's 50 guys standing in front of lambos on instagram saying I made my first million in 30 days. And it's just unless you hit bitcoin or some Weird tick tock that you that went completely viral and you got stupid famous. It doesn't happen like that. It's a grind. They call it a hustle. They call it a grind for a reason. And you got to have you know.
Speaker 3:Number one you got to have intestinal fortitude that I'm going to stay the course until I till I either Realize beyond a shadow of a doubt that what I'm doing is not going to work or, number two, that I break through and it starts to work. Number two I got to have somebody in my corner. That's not only amen in me, but it's also holding me accountable and really speaking truth to me about where I'm falling short. And then the third thing, and probably the most important, is to have a circle of people who are all kind of doing the same thing, not necessarily in the same lane, but they're all striving, because then you can have the war stories of god just sucks today and you're like, yeah, it sucked for me last week but I made it through. You know, those three things will help move you forward.
Speaker 3:But we're being lied to so much by by the influencers air quotes up in the air that that it just. It's like everybody thinks it's a I hate using old, old cliches, but it's true. They think it's a microwave when it's really a crock pot. Man, success is a freaking crock pot.
Speaker 2:Hey, trust me, I know I spent plenty of money on now I've spent money on on the, the legit people, but on all the fly by night or all the you know the, all, I can make you into a diamond within 30 days or 60 days. Or here, just self publish with me or do this, do that and you know it, they, they just want to have your Wallet pretty much, yeah, I mean yeah, my, my, my, my LinkedIn.
Speaker 3:Every, every stinking day, it has at least two new messages from somebody going hey, I see you're in the coaching space. I can you know how? You know how I can help you attract, you know, 5 000 clients a day? Or I can help you go Grow your Instagram following. All right, and it's like there's so much noise in that that you don't really know how to filter what is the truth. And so you know, I, my question is always back and I don't answer most of them, but the few that I do answer is like show me the proof, give me the actual Person that you took from 100 followers to 10,000 followers and then let me look at those 10,000 followers to make sure that they're not like some bots out of china or something. Yeah, now if anthony robin showed up, if you know amy portafilts showed up, you know If michael hyatt showed up and said hey, david, I want to help you grow your following, I want to help you grow your business. Yeah, I'm the first guy that raised in his hand. Now, if, if, if the same person is like I want to help you and 50 000 other people do it over a over a one day, you know, webinar, ah, I need a little bit more hand holding than that. I need somebody to be involved in my life a little bit more than that. So so, and there's a cost involved, obviously. So, yeah, that's that's the problem.
Speaker 3:It's it's just so much noise, it's become a buzzword. How many people and I think it's hilarious, how many people have you been into a, a training seminar Like you went to? Maybe it was sales training or leadership training, but yet it was a whole bunch of people that were trying to get into leadership training and sales training as their business. It was like I want to learn how, you know, I want to go in there to a sales training thing. I want to have, like, car dealers there and real estate agents there. You know everybody who's learning how to sell, not a bunch of people who want to become Sales presenters. You know sales seminar runners and that that's what I've seen is that the circles Are all the same type of people. There are all people trying to to push their course, their program, their community, their whatever, and it's like I'm tired of it. There's just too much of that going on, that something's got to give, something's got to be different out there.
Speaker 2:Well, and everybody drinks a Kool-Aid and wants to be a carbon copy Of, like their hero, whether a mini Grant Cardone or a mini Anthony Robbins, mini Brennan Burshard, and it's like there's already one of those. The world doesn't need two, the world doesn't need three. Why don't you become who you are, be the best version of who you are and find your niche? I mean, I, you're gonna laugh. I know One consulting firm zero niche. You know we always talk about, know your audience. Been in business two years. Guys spending daddy's money that died. That that's the way to success. Only one client, but he's chasing the wellness, or his company's chasing wellness. His company is chasing real estate, construction, restaurants. It's like brother. Why don't you just pick one? If, like you know, you always hear me say this if Disney World, if Apple Doesn't have a hundred percent penetration Starbucks, then how can you have a hundred percent audience? Right?
Speaker 2:Oh, I agree, they're their money they're their ad spends way bigger yeah and they know not everybody.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, when I wrote, when I wrote my book Old Dogs, new Tricks, um, I knew that you know, some 20-something is not going to get it. That was not who I was aiming for and it's funny. I find myself in so many rooms lately of people that are just like the over the top personality and I'm not that guy. Yeah, and that's what I tell people. I'm like look, if you want the over the top ra ra guy, that's just gonna be like, let's do it, let's go. If you want Jocco in your life, go find Jocco. But if you want somebody who can listen to you and maybe see some things in what you're saying that you didn't see and give you a broader perspective about a certain situation, I said I'm your guy and I didn't know that it would translate into a coaching business. But I've been doing it again. I've been doing a lot of career coaching lately and it's funny how somebody will see something in their organization and they're like my boss is a jerk, or this is going wrong, or that's going wrong, and I'll be like okay, now let's look at from your boss's perspective. I'm not saying this is a perspective, but if this was what they're now. How do you feel about it? And they're like, oh well, if I knew that, I said, well, then you need to ask the question to see if that's their perspective. And so being able to help somebody, you know, take that step back, is really where my niche is.
Speaker 3:And so, as I'm moving forward and things that you and I have been talking about, we don't need another David Goggins. We don't need another, you know, we need an old mom, a drama, who knows what it's like to go. You know, make money, lose money. Make money, you know, and overcome certain things as an introvert, overcome certain things as a fear of rejection. You know, the whole nine yards. They need a David Speck who's in a, you know, you know, honed his entire life in an industry that now has, you know, flip flopped and is completely changing itself, but yet learned a lot of valuable leadership lessons through that. They need what we have and I'm not gonna go stand in front of a Lamborghini, even if I owned one, because that is not the type of person that I'm trying to help.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to help that individual who's trying to make an impact on this world, trying to, you know, do what's right by their family, by, you know, god and Jesus Christ, and you really resonate. Because when you connect, that's when the magic happens. It's not when you, you know, scatter, shot out there and pray that you know, out of the seven billion people on planet earth, a hundred thousand of them by your you know, by your $10,000 course, you know, the idea is, when you impact the right lives, the money will follow, the influence will follow. So I'm looking for my people, not, you know, I'm not looking for Cardone's people. I'm not looking for Robin's people, although you know we may have some similarities. I'm looking for David's people.
Speaker 3:You know, I'm looking, you know, omar's, looking for Omar's people. And that, I really think, is going to be the differentiator moving forward as the space gets more and more crowded. Because it's just like when I was in health coach man, everybody and their mama called themselves a health coach If they lost 50 pounds, you know, drinking nothing but water. All of a sudden they're a hydration coach. That's just, that's the easy thing to call it. And that's not where we are in this world. Now. People are actually looking for results. Oh my gosh, you know they're tired of the hype and they want the actual results.
Speaker 2:Speaking of hydration out there. This is a fact 100% of the people that drink water will die.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it's a given, it's a fact. One in one, one out of one.
Speaker 2:It's funny though you talk about the Lambo, it's this world of influencers. I mean. I got invited at a discount. I wouldn't even pay full price 10,000, but a heavily discounted buddy offer to get content shot. You know, driving around or riding a Lambo or in a mansion. Now it'd be cool if it was Hugh Hefner's. I mean the Playboy Mansion. I dig that.
Speaker 3:It doesn't even exist anymore. I think they're all run down and haunted now.
Speaker 2:The guy that the heir of PBR owns the oh god, yeah, owns the Playboy Mansion, but I'm sure he gutted it out and did whatever. And you know the Lambo, the yacht and all this. If nobody's ever seen any videos, if you see me talking about it is a hustle, it is a grind. You're gonna have to work at it for a long time but all of a sudden I'm like, hey, guess what? Then I sold my, and usually I'm a person of my principles that they might not be up to everybody else's, but I'm not fake when somebody tells me oh, I read your book and you're just like your book yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't wear a mask, you know I'm not. Hey, well, this is me in the podcast. Yeah, I'm the same guy. Podcast book, videos, webinar, whatever you invite me to, if you don't like what you see, then don't invite me, unless it's in Tampa, because that's too far. But besides that, it's stick with who you are and just be the best version of who you are. You know, clearly our target market wouldn't be the T-Swift crowd, taylor Swift, we're not young women, so it'd be tough to even relate to a woman. So if obviously we're a little older, mature, so we would be we're seasoned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seasoned Like wood. I can't be immature because I remember as a teenager and then my 20s and my 30s. You'll grow up. One day you'll be mature. I hit 50, I'm still pretty immature. So maybe in my 70s.
Speaker 3:I think the wisdom level goes up the older you get, but the immature thoughts and sometimes things that come out of your mouth, my mouth are still there. It's funny. It's like have you ever done this? Have you ever like saw a picture on Facebook of somebody and you're like, wow, that person looks old. Then you realize you went to high school with them.
Speaker 2:All the time.
Speaker 3:Or you're reading the obituaries in the paper to see if you see any names you recognize, and now they're dying of things like old age or long-term illness instead of tragic accident. Age happens to us all and I believe that we have something again. I'm about to be mid-50s, you're just 50. And we are in the actual prime production times of our lives and we have think about this for just a second. At the age of 50, you now have 30 years of adult life experience in whatever it is you've done. And then it depends, right, right and so yeah, there's a crude joke there and so.
Speaker 3:But if you were looking to hire somebody for a job and the guy says, look, I got 30 years of experience in this, you would at least listen to them, you would go through the interview process with them. And so to discount somebody because they're, they dress like an old man or they don't drive a Lambo or whatever, doesn't discount the wealth of wisdom and knowledge that they bring to the table. And I think that the people would be shocked to find out how old Anthony Robbins really is.
Speaker 2:People would be shocked to know how old Anthony is. Well, technically he's not that old, because his birthday is February 29th.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's an elite beer guy, so I think he's old.
Speaker 2:He only ages once every four years, yeah, so technically he's not that old, but no, but these guys they're passionate, but they're all old. Grant Cardone, Anthony Robbins, they're long in the tooth.
Speaker 3:I love these people who are like all about manifestation right now. And it's like you realize Bob Proctor's dead, or at least so old that he's got a foot in the grave. No, he died last year, yeah. So I mean it's like the teachings of Bob. Some guy takes it up as his mantle and in his mid-20s and everybody's like, oh my gosh, this is the newest, greatest thing. And it's like come on, people, go back and figure it out. There's so much wisdom to be brought to that.
Speaker 3:And it gets back to what we were talking about. It's look, we aren't any better. We don't have any less things we deal with than people half our age. We've just been dealing with them for so long that we have some tools, some techniques, maybe just some determination of how to get through them or overcome them or deal with them, that we can help shorten that cycle. For somebody else, if they're like hey, david, I'm an overthinker my boss tells me hey, I wanna talk to you tomorrow and I can't sleep that night because I don't know what they're dealing with. You know what? I've dealt with that more times than I can count and I can show somebody hey, this is what you do. It's not gonna be perfect. But here's some steps that you can take. No, don't get drunk the night before to where you will walk in with a hangover. But here's some steps you can take to help calm that, calm that brain down, calm those nerves. As you go or maybe it's a you jump in and you say, hey, I would really rather not wait till tomorrow, and here's why let's go ahead and meet now. So those tools that we can give people because we've been doing it for more than half of our lives bring tremendous value to people.
Speaker 3:And I tell people all the time you're gonna get some of the best advice from people who've been there longer than you. Now. They may be setting their ways. They may not know what chat GPT is and then an artificial intelligence all they can think about is a Terminator because they're Gen X. But at the same time they know how a lot of things work and they have had to overcome so much in their own life the whole adversity challenge. And they can help you and we can help people. It's funny that the number of times I try to advise my own children and they're just like right over blank stairs, but then they hear it from some third party and they're like dad, you'll never guess what I heard. And you're just like doesn't that sound familiar? No, I've never heard it before. Are you sure you've never heard something like this before? No, no, this guy's brilliant, or this guy was brilliant like no. Principles don't change. Principles don't change Methods of delivery. Change the sound of the voice. Who's giving the principle may change, but principles don't change.
Speaker 2:To me, it's all based on personality, because what people don't understand is it's all common sense. Anthony Robbins, grant Cardone, brendan Burshard we can go down the list. Action do it on a consistent basis. Find your balls, you know, suck it up common sense.
Speaker 2:Do you like the person's personality? Nobody has yet come up with the cure for cancer. Of all these people, everybody has a similar message Different personality, similar message. Do they like each other? Not really, because same reason why Ford doesn't like General Motors and Chrysler. Limited amount of people, limited amount of money, and not everybody believes in person development, business development. So you have to have the good guy, the bad guy, plain and simple. We all need the hero, we all need the villain in every story.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Another thing that I've learned is in different perspectives. While the principles don't change, depending on where you grew up, depending on where you've lived your life, you may have heard the same principle in a different way that then you can bring to the table that will seem like a completely new idea or a new phrasing in that place. I grew up and spent most of my adult life in a small Louisiana town, went to a country church, had a pastor who would use phrases like look like a cow looking at a new gate, those types of things, but a lot of the principles out of the Bible that he taught. He would teach in such a way and I would use that phrase theology with somebody from I don't know DC and they're like I've never heard that before, but it makes perfect sense. And I'm like well, yeah, it does make. I've used the phrase don't let your man get your money, meaning take that space before you react. They're like I've never heard it phrased like that before. Well, I've heard it phrased like that 5,000 times. Again, there's no new principles. Principles don't change. There's no new ideas. We've heard that before. But sometimes you need to hear it from a new voice. You need to hear it from a in a different phrasing, for it to really take a hold in your life, and then you'd be able to apply it To me, the idea of needing that second set of eyes to look at the broad picture as an operator and you're an operator too yet sometimes we don't see the big picture.
Speaker 3:We're too busy putting out the fire here, working on the plan there, or we got to get sales up, we got to get costs down, and never taking that opportunity to take that step back to look at the big picture and say, well, where's this machine going anyway? And that's why that second set of eyes comes in and says hey, david, you're missing this over here. This over here is the key to everything. But you're so busy worrying about this over here because it's right in front of you that you never took advantage of this over here. And I believe that's where the space that we're talking about, the coaching space, the personal development, that's where it all changes. It's not that some business owner desperately needs to improve their personal development game. They need to improve their personal development game because it helps them see a broader picture than they've ever seen before.
Speaker 2:Well, dave, we're gonna reverse the roles. Usually I'm the emotional guy. Usually I'm the hype guy. You usually I'm the loud guy. So I'm gonna put you outside your comfort zone. Why don't you do the huge announcement?
Speaker 3:Okay so it's something we've been working on for a long time. For those of you who do not know, omar and I have known each other for well over a year, probably going close to two years now. We found a lot of similarities, some oddities. He's a LSU grad from Florida. I'm a Florida fan from Louisiana, so it's purple, gold, orange, blue and all kinds of other heinous colors involved. But what we have done is we have taken the principles that he has been teaching and what if it did work? The principles I've been teaching in Keep this in Mind, which is the name of my podcast and the name of my video show and we are bringing them together to help people move things forward in their life, whatever that looks like. What if it did? Workcom? What if it did?
Speaker 3:Workcom is going to be the exclusive online community. I know this sounds like the same pitch every guru out there makes, but no, this is going to be different. This is going to be individualized. This is going to be geared to what you're trying to do you being the listener, you being the viewer trying to do in your life, your business, your world and we're going to tailor it individually for you. Bring you together with people that are trying to do great things in their lives. But we are going to individually work with you, either through Mastermind Series, one-on-one coaching, et cetera, at the level that you're ready for to really move the ball down the field, to help you get past that adversity, to help you to get past that resistance that's in your life, that's keeping you from getting where you want to go, helping you get the Y that helps you get to the B, helping you get the tools you needed, whether if you want to write a book, we're going to help you write a book. If you want to do a TED Talk, we're going to help guide you through the process to get on that stage. If you're wanting to move your business and increase sales by 25% in the next year, we're going to give you the tools that you can use.
Speaker 3:Now the caveat is you're the one that has to take the action. We're not going to sit here and go run your business for you or run your life for you or chase your dreams for you, but we are going to give you the very best advice from our I'd hate to put years to it, but probably 50 plus years between the two of us of life experience in leadership and business space to help you do you better. That's really what it's all about. And we've bought all the garbage systems. We've drank enough Kool-Aid that my tongue is red. I've drank so much Kool-Aid. We know what the others are saying. What we're saying is we're going to be there in the trenches with you, helping you do the work, holding you accountable to the work that you say will lead you to the place where you want to go, and I believe that is what's going to make what you and I are doing together different than 95% of the people that are out there.
Speaker 2:And this is something that I'd love to add. Yes, we talk about mind, body, spirit, dave and I. Entrepreneurs so many quote unquote gurus, business coaches or even the small people go pay some money to some of the people I love so I'm not going to say it to become a certified business coach. Well, how many years of business are they in? Zero, just a certification. That's like getting on a plane flying to Las Vegas or, we'll put it, flying to Steamboat, flying to Vale mountainous areas which are very hard, that need an experienced pilot and the pilot goes. You know what, man? I was great at that flight simulator. Well, how many hours of flying do you have, man? You know what? I've been flying flight simulator since the Apple IIC came out. I can crush it. No man, dave and I had the experience, we had the knowledge.
Speaker 2:We have podcasts. Do you want to get on a podcast? You want to create a podcast? You want to be a guest? We know how to do that. We know how to grow an audience. You want to be on a TEDx stage? Yes, I think I can handle that. I've got journalism. I've got two degrees in writing. Mom paid out of state tuition for all of us here. So I think we could handle that, and then that AI stuff. You know, oh, you can write a book AI. Shut that shit up.
Speaker 2:You're a read-a-AI book. Yeah, exactly, man. I mean, I know people that think that you can run a business on AI. No, man, we had the experience. We had the experience in the small to mid-sized business. We can help your sales. We can help train sales staff. We have a lot of experience. We've gone through pandemics. We've gone through economic meltdowns.
Speaker 2:You know the banking crisis is an entrepreneur. We have that and you know not to toot my own horn or Dave, but you know we are frigging honest people. You know our clients and all that can find us. You know I paid 40K for a year of personal development mentoring and all I got out of it was a fucking trip to West Palm and another one to Napa Valley and I hate wine and that's all I got out of it. It was two trips. I was like holy smokes. I could have gone all over the world and probably hung out at the Valley. Llamas wrote him a check and hung out with him. So no, we don't chase money, we don't see you as a checking account, but we are dream chasers and we can help you create and solve your dreams and solve that life that you were always meant to be living.
Speaker 3:And you know to add to your point, and again, we're adding on to adding on, and you know we're going to get our. We're going to dig ourselves into a hole we can never completely dig out of. Is it going to be a perfect system? No, there's no such thing as a perfect system. Is it going to be a launch and tweak meeting? We're going to start something, try to figure out what works as far as how to do it, completely right, yeah, but we've been doing this so long that we know the basics and we know how to get people moving in the right direction, and that's really what we're bringing to that we know how to connect you to the person that you need to be connected to to move it. You want to be on a podcast? Guess what? We know? Podcasts host all over this world Canada, across the Continental US. I know some over in Great Britain. We can get you on some shows.
Speaker 3:If you want to write a book, you know what? Omar and I have been down that road. We know editors. We know book marketing people. We are book marketing people. I made my Amazon bestseller and Amazon bestseller all by myself.
Speaker 3:So we've been there, done that. We've launched businesses. We've seen them fail. We've learned from the mistakes. We've launched other businesses that sort that had a life cycle, that recognizing okay, when is it time to move on to something else? So I just want to reiterate this is not the same thing that you've heard from every other person on a podcast. This is not the same thing that you've heard from every person on every stage you've ever gone to.
Speaker 3:This is going to be different and if it doesn't work, you know what. We're going to take feedback and we're going to pivot and go a different direction. But I guarantee you you'll go out of it going. You know what? Not only did I get my money's worth and it's not that high folks. You'll see we don't have some fancy-smancy landing page where it's like you know, bob in Arizona just bought five tickets. No, that's not how we're doing this. You will see what it's about. You'll see what you get. We will deliver on what we say we're going to deliver on, and I believe you'll come out of it each and every month going. You know what that was? Money Well Spent.
Speaker 2:Ultimately, too, I do want once a year to have a live event, and I love the Murph. Maybe it's nefarious, it's where I got my start, but considering you and I have spoken in Nashville and we have ties in Burfysboro, I think it's a beautiful place. I love that little town square. When I visited you, that was actually the first time.
Speaker 3:The first time you went down to the square, yeah.
Speaker 2:It has a good college feel. I know Middle Tennessee State sucks in every sport. The Blue Devils maybe they need a change in the name. Evangelicals they change the name of the Devil Rays drop the Devil. They started winning right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they started winning.
Speaker 2:I thought that was the biggest bullshit, but they've been good ever since. After 20 years of crap, they need a change in their name. But all serious aside, you have to have dreams and all. Yeah, Dave and I. This guy's the limit. Who knows? A real retreat, though Not a retreat, hey. 20k and we have yet the Motel 6 and drinking Kool-Aid and ayahuasca and crap like that.
Speaker 3:I would say, as the cynical prospect and I am the cynical prospect, you are the cynical prospect you may be asking yourself why are they doing this? What is their end game? Are they trying to make a lot of money? I'd be lying to say if I said we weren't trying to make money. But money follows impact. Money follows changing people's lives. Money follows meeting a need, filling a gap.
Speaker 3:We're going into this going the more people we can help, the more we can help those that are in our ecosystem, the more money we will naturally make. We're not going to sell 100,000, $99 a month subscriptions and call it a day. This is not why we're doing this. We're doing this because we feel called to do this. We feel like this is our purpose, that everything that has happened to us up at this point in our lives has prepared us to help others in this way. If you're sitting on the fence, gosh, I'm starting to sound like a freaking telethon, but really, if you're like, I've listened to the podcast. I know I've heard these guys before. I like what they have to say.
Speaker 2:You grew out of beard. You sound like Billy Mays.
Speaker 3:Yeah, get a little flex seal going to it. We'll all be happy between flex seal and gosh. What was Billy really known for, though? You got me thinking about that now. Talk about a squirrel moment.
Speaker 2:Anyway, the flex you always his last one, but he had so many different products I couldn't really tell you. He was like the guru of like infomation.
Speaker 3:He had a way too much just for men in his beard, yeah.
Speaker 2:Maybe it was chupon. Nick Saban would have been proud of him, since Nick Saban has like zero gray at like 90. I know right.
Speaker 3:But truthfully, we're here to help. We're funny and sometimes a dark way, but at the same time again, I hate to my own horn, but you know what Sometimes you have to. You have to champion yourself because nobody's going to champion you. The truth of the matter is, omar and I can really help you. We've been there, we've done that, we've got the bruises and the scars to prove it and we'll get you where you want to go. That is our promise to you. We will help you get where you want to go. If you do the work, you'll get there.
Speaker 2:You hired Dave and I just to show you how Gen X I am. It's like bone for Pedro. You can make all your dreams come true. And also, aside, things don't happen to you, they happen for you.
Speaker 2:Ed Milet says that all the time we wanted to hit the cliche people the start of the year, but God, jesus Christ, the universe, everything out there made sure that Dave and I were sick for like oh gosh, yeah, six weeks, seven weeks, eight weeks. So I was so sick People wouldn't take no, like hey, can we reschedule this podcast? Man I was and I'd have to keep on hitting the mute button while I was like coughing up phlegm. Oh wow. And people don't understand that Like I'm an overachiever and I might throw you a bone. If I love you, I'll put you on. Like this one's going to be on next week because we're producing this. But, dude, I've got some people 13 months out. So if you're a dick, literally there's, and it's funny because I'll hear people go. You know what. This one didn't sound as good, as you know, the previous ones.
Speaker 3:It's like, yeah, no shit, this was from way this is like over a year old.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say that I still have some like that, but that's one thing we can't help people with.
Speaker 3:If you're a dick, I can't help you not be a dick. I'm sorry, that's just not in my wheelhouse.
Speaker 2:Oh, and you know what? We're not going to help people that scam? Yeah, we're. It's a win-win. Yeah, and that's how our personalities are. Have I been attracted to narcissistic people? That's something I have to deal with. You know my limiting beliefs growing up or whatnot. But yeah, I mean, I know I might have been giving money freely to people like that, but that's not who I am, that's not who you are Right. And I mean anybody that's ever hired me knows heck if I'm, if it's a code read out there and you need me, if I'm on vacation or whatnot. I'm always at a text, a phone call, a DM, a fax, a Morse code, a telegram away.
Speaker 3:I'm, I'm there and I and I would let let me give honor where honors do Folks. I was a client of Omar's before. I was a partner to Omar and, without fail, he was always reaching out to me. It could have been just a daily text or something, or weekly Zoom call or here and there, but he was always checking in on me. That's what makes the difference. That lets you know that that person cares about you, the individual, not you, the pocketbook. And for me, that made all the difference, and we've. That's how we're going to structure this business moving forward is that it is about the individual. It, you know, even if we had a thousand clients, and you know, we're going to structure it in a way that every client knows that we know their name, we know what they're trying to accomplish and that we give a flip and want to see them succeed.
Speaker 2:Heck man in Tennessee. I thought my last name was Medrana, that somebody I gave over a hundred K to. You know it's. It's well, everybody knows it's Medrano. Unless you're in Louisiana, southern Louisiana, they try to cajunize my name. It's Medrano with the EAUX. I would hear that all the time and I would never correct them, except for I almost became Omar Madran, m E D R A N D Cause when I went to LSU for a full 13 months. They wouldn't change the error in the grammar probably cause my handwriting sucks. And finally, the last woman. She's like are you sure my last name was an M E D R A N D administration? I'm like yeah, I'm pretty certain.
Speaker 3:Because there were so many Bertrands down there, they just figured it was mid-drand.
Speaker 2:Exactly, Exactly. You know that I forgot to tell you that, that impersonation, I forgot who cause my short term memory. You really sounded like Ed Erger on there, man.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna go B, d O C somewhere, but I don't know where I'm the DC or the, I don't care. I'll make it 20 million. Go into the house.
Speaker 2:But you see that that all about mindset. People laugh. But okay, nick Saban, all said and done. Guy smoked everybody in the SEC but he had the mindset, a winning mindset. If he, if he won a national championship, he was thinking the next day that's where our the 24 hour rule comes in what are we going to do to win another one, Right? Ed Erger was like I'm going to get a divorce, I'm going to go out, date young women and the whole, this whole, everything went to shit overnight because that's what he focused on.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, with what people realize is, most people have that personality of going complete Hollywood, instead of being so disciplined and saying you know, like that Kobe Bryant, that Michael Jordan, that Nick Saban, that Wayne Gretzky we spoke to Wayne Gretzky. He would talk about the losses and not winning a championship for the Rangers and stuff like that. But that's a winner compared to look how much money you know to this day. I laugh. Ed goes on any podcast anywhere and tells the story oh, they said they're a fire me, paying me 17.1 million. I said what exit would do it? Do you want me to leave? Yeah, it was like happy about it and he still talks about it like dude.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we could do a whole podcast on LSU football about that, about that era of LSU football. And was it Orger on's natural championship? Or was it Joe Burroughs, because Burrough ran the team, but no, it was in Dave Aranda and Dave.
Speaker 2:Aranda it's.
Speaker 3:Minger, all of them, joe.
Speaker 2:Brady the players I mean historically, after they left, it was Ed or it was Ed's coaching the same thing that he did. I will miss the same reason why USC never gave him the full-time job.
Speaker 1:It's you know.
Speaker 2:We become who we if you're setting your ways. People always say well, nick Saban had Alabama, which is, like you know, the big bully historically, but he awoke a sleeping giant, unless you. He beat Michigan at Michigan State and Michigan State's like the step, the step child, yeah, just like Mississippi State in other schools, and number two sucks in that state and he could have gone anywhere and I think if he would have picked another job. Now I'm not saying, go go to Akron or Middle Tennessee State or FIU or some, run a win. But, yeah, champions, but it's all about a process and that's that's what we're gonna help people is you're gonna have to create a process.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you're gonna have to get rid of not the negative thoughts are always gonna be there, but we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to create a new foundation because You're limiting beliefs or you can. You can be working out all the time, but if you're not losing weight because you're, you know I worked out for 40 minutes at Crunch or I worked 45 minutes at CrossFit or whatever, but now you know I'm eating two desserts a day and I'm wondering why I'm not losing weight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's, you know, habits and and here's the thing, and this is one of the beauties of what what we teach is that you can overcome bad habits with good structures.
Speaker 3:You can overcome Resistance or fear through a structure, or you know, I can't tell you how many times there's things I don't want to do during a day.
Speaker 3:Maybe it's a conversation I don't want to have because I'm non confrontational in a lot of scenarios. But if I have it on my to-do list, if I've got to get it done, I'll put that bad boy up at the top of it and say you know what, suck it up, do it, let's get, let's get past it on the list and then I can get down to these things that I enjoyed. So these structures like this will help somebody who, who seems to be on the on the hamster wheel, not getting anywhere, will help them move forward, even if they they only move forward one step today, then another step tomorrow and then maybe, maybe they slip back a little bit, because you know that old habits it's there and snags them, but then we can help them. Take three steps in the next week. That's where the real progress rate is. Again, you don't go from one to 100, you go from one to sometimes one and a half.
Speaker 3:And that says but that's a good, you see, you celebrate, you celebrate it all along the way. You know, hey, at least I you know, I don't, I don't, I don't want to make light of anything. But let let us say you were, you drank a, you know a six pack a night, and that's how you unwind. And now you're starting to work into some unwinding, and now you won't. You go three days without a beer. So you celebrate that three days. You may go back to a six pack for the next three and then, yeah, again, it's all about the progress being made. It's not like none of us have arrived. We're always on the journey. I'm gonna learn things, new things next week that I didn't know or that were rephrased to me, that I embraced in a different way. That is, that is the beauty of this life, is that it's always unfolding, you're always learning and you always have opportunity. And if you're and if you're on the journey together, it's even that much more fun.
Speaker 2:You know, we live in abundance.
Speaker 2:You know, and we want to see everybody win. And we know, not everybody was gonna hire us or Not everybody's gonna like us, but you know what? That's okay. There's a billion people out there and Well, we know our target. You know, we're definitely not gonna be with the teenagers, male or female. We're out there for for the underdog. We're out there for the guy that Is tired of being on the sidelines, the guy that keeps on Just treading water in his business, the guy that Just doesn't realize that God created him, the Be all that he can be, the with more, could be more to do more.
Speaker 2:And now I'm not gonna go into a prosperity. I'm not Joel Osteen. You know we're not gonna be prosperity preachers, but you know, think about it. What's wrong with that? I, I and heck, I'm Catholic, and the one thing that I agree with all those prosperity Preachers is you were meant for success. That held it. God didn't want everybody to be middle management or living paycheck to paycheck or or Living off $200,000 debt. Not, it's just bullshit, man. Just, you know, a pop on board our, our friggin. It's gonna be a great ride. Now You're, you're gonna promote, you're gonna plug, so we're gonna be fine. This amazing.
Speaker 3:So Find us. Well, I think, actually I think the very best thing to do, omar, and I know we're kind of like having your staff meeting, staff meeting right here on the podcast, but there's a public Facebook group called what if it did work? Omar's the administrator of it. It costs you nothing. Oh you, you're the administrator.
Speaker 2:Oh, hey me.
Speaker 3:I got promoted, guys, you know what.
Speaker 2:You know why I had to have all my stuff Now. It has to be pre-approved by me and now by you.
Speaker 3:What were you doing? Getting spammed by people from China?
Speaker 2:So it was horrible porn people were. You were telling me other people, you know I hadn't posted, you know, for a day or two and there's like five or six and you know it. I Don't know what people get out of doing that. I don't either. I mean, are they getting big or are these bots or, and you know, some people were getting offended. It was like they're not. None of those actors are me.
Speaker 3:Deep faked. Omar's been deep faked. No, I think that's the best place to start. Plus, it'll give people access to us because we're going to be posting there regularly and you get to look and see. And if you go to, you know what if it did work com? Again, it's a landing page website. It tells you what we're offering, what we're doing, how much it costs. You can order right then and there we get the notification and we will start the ball rolling.
Speaker 3:But really, truly, we're not gonna sit here and do a pitch. We're not gonna sit here. Yeah, there's going to be things coming up. We are going to do webinars, but guess what? The webinar is not gonna be a pitch fest. It's not gonna be leading you up to oh, if you really want to know the secret, you're gonna have to spend a little bit more money. No, we're gonna lay it all out there and if you find value in it and you use it, fantastic. It's our hope that then you'll say well, you know what, it's where it's worth. You know engaging with them at a higher level. So this is what we're doing. I encourage you go to Facebook, go to what if it did work com, go to the what if it did. Work group on Facebook. Follow us.
Speaker 3:I'm David, a spec. Wherever you find me. Yeah, I'm already he's, I forget. Well, yeah, you can tell him what you are. But you know, read the book. Heck, I'll give you a copy of the book. Reach out to me and say, hey, david, I want to copy the book. You know what? I'll buy a copy and send it to you Because I think it's that important that, if you want to check me out and make sure that I'm the kind of person that I'm saying I am right now, I Want, I want you to check me out, I want you to stop me, I want you to ask the questions. I want because an informed buyer and we all learn this in in in in sales class and informed buyers the best buyer because they're not asking the stupid questions and they're not getting that buyers remorse. We don't want you to have buyers remorse. We want you to know, going into any relationship with us, that you are getting what you're looking for.
Speaker 2:There's not gonna be any buyer remorse. Neither one of us has any experience so selling used cars.
Speaker 3:So Nope, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2:I'm super stoked, I'm super excited about it. We're gonna be doing lives. We're gonna be doing lives on LinkedIn and Instagram, the what if it did work page. You know we're From. We're gonna do the three Ps when it comes to marketing promote, promote, promote. You see, it's our job to make sure the one billion people know who we are Planting simple and it's your job to just decide yeah, are we worth your time?
Speaker 3:and if you're listening to this podcast, you already have an idea that it's worth your time. So we're just asking you to lean in a little bit harder and Really put yourself on the pathway, because you know what? What if it did work?
Speaker 2:Dude, you know you answered the question, my final question, that I always ask people, so I'll ask you something. I'll ask you something funny and then I'll out one of those Ones that people always seek wisdom and knowledge. One, the funny one, sunbel Billy. Does he survive 2024?
Speaker 3:Oh, why would you ask me that question? I would say yes, unless somebody better comes along. Let's Nick decides to come out of retirement, or Mike Vrable just didn't want to really go where he ended up going, or yeah cuz, cuz.
Speaker 3:Here's the thing. Yeah, and this is in sports talk, obviously, guys, billy is a good coach. I don't know if he's SEC good, because you can say, well, you know, there's the transfer portal or it's nil or it's this or it's that. At the end of the day, you got to be a field general on the sidelines and he has not been a field general in two years.
Speaker 1:He's a good year.
Speaker 3:Three is his last shot. If he doesn't, if, if we don't have a winning season, or if we don't go to a, if we're not at least eight and four or nine and three, he's gone, in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Well, sunbel, billy's gonna be back in the Sunbel or in conference USA or or division two or an OC somewhere. Okay, no, now here's. Here's my question to you All, all these people defeated because, yeah, it's already the third week of a new year they said new, new me, new year, all that stuff. It's out the door, the gyms are thinning out, but their dreams are slowly going away. Why us? Why now, after so many times of being defeated?
Speaker 3:Here's the thing. It gets back to the same adversity adversity discussion we had at the beginning of the podcast. Adversity is a given, resistance is a given and sometimes we need help getting past the resistance, getting past the adversity, and I believe that we can help Individuals get past that because we have faced similar adversity. You talk about new year, new me and that a lot of times is it has to do with going. You know physical fitness, you know nutritional health. The number of times that I have started a diet or I have said I'm going to the gym and and this is day one, you know this is the first Monday the number of times I've had to reset in my life along those lines. I Could fill a book of nothing but the resets.
Speaker 3:But here's the thing with every reset is the opportunity to Move that much closer to your dreams. And I believe that if you're feeling like new year, new me is not working out right now, I was gonna hit the ground running in January with all the things, but then all the things hit me. Hey, man, we've been there. We just talked to you about how sick we were for the almost all of January here. But here's the thing the goal doesn't change. Our goal hasn't changed to help people and to create a life of helping people for us, and your goal should not change. Maybe your methodology needs to change, maybe some of your habits need to change, maybe your structure needs to change and maybe you need just a little bit of help from somebody to do that. I Would suggest let us try to help you and let's see where this thing can go, because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3:You're gonna find out that every successful person had defining moments where they finally said enough is enough and I'm gonna. I'm gonna push forward, whether it kills me or I become successful. And it's any area again. It could be business, it could be health, it could be, you know, reading your Bible. I'm gonna read it. I'm on. I miss the first two weeks of reading my Bible. Our church is going through the Bible in a year, but guess what? I started wherever I was at, and I'm two weeks in now of reading the Bible. So you can do it. You just have to make the decision and then follow that decision with action and then allow somebody to help hold you Accountable to the action that you said you were gonna take, and I believe we are the ones to help you do that.
Speaker 2:I Believe so too at my. My final words are you know what's the worst that can happen? Dave and I are Only a text, only a call away, only a DM away. We'll give you a free 15, 20, 25 minute coaching call for free.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:I give you, make you drink the Kool-Aid. The only Kool-Aid you're gonna be drinking is a Kool-Aid of your own success, because, dave and I, that's what we we live for, we, our wins are is when you win. So what's the worst that can happen? Just ask yourself better questions. Ask yourself what if it did work? Love you, dave. It's, and you know this tic-tac society. We go any further. You know People start Social media.
Speaker 3:We lost all the 14 year olds already, so All right, brother.
Speaker 2:well, I love you All right man Take care.
Speaker 3:It's Manger Alvin Joe.
Speaker 2:Brady, the players I mean historically, after they left, it was Ed or it was Ed's coaching the same thing that he did at Ole Miss. The same reason why USC never gave him the full-time job it's you know we become who we if you're setting your ways.
Speaker 2:People always say well, nick Saban had Alabama, which is, like you know, the big bully historically, but he awoke a sleeping giant at LSU. He beat Michigan at Michigan State and Michigan State's like the step, the stepchild, just like Mississippi State in other schools and number two sucks in that state and he could have gone anywhere and I think if he would have picked another job. Now I'm not saying go to Akron or Middle Tennessee State or FIU or some runaway. But yeah, champions, it's all about a process and that's what we're going to help people is. You're going to have to create a process.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you're going to have to get rid of not the negative thoughts are always going to be there, but we're going to have to change. We're going to have to create a new foundation. Because you're limiting beliefs or you can be working out all the time, but if you're not losing weight because you're, you know I worked out for 40 minutes at Crunch or I worked 45 minutes at CrossFit or whatever, but now you know I'm eating two desserts a day and I'm wondering why I'm not losing weight. Yeah, it's habits.
Speaker 3:And here's the thing and this is one of the beauties of what we teach is that you can overcome bad habits with good structures. You can overcome resistance or fear through a structure, or you know, I can't tell you how many times there's things I don't want to do during a day. Maybe it's a conversation I don't want to have because I'm non-confrontational in a lot of scenarios. But if I have it on my to-do list, if I've got to get it done, I'll put that bad boy up at the top of it and say you know what? Suck it up, do it, let's get, let's get past it on the list and then I can get down to these things that I enjoyed.
Speaker 3:So these structures like this will help somebody who seems to be on the hamster wheel, not getting anywhere, will help them move forward, even if they only move forward one step today, then another step tomorrow, and then maybe they slip back a little bit because you know that old habit sits there and snags them. But then we can help them take three steps in the next week. That's where the real progress rate is. Again, you don't go from one to 100. You go from one to sometimes one and a half, and that's, but that's excess.
Speaker 3:Progress, you celebrate. You celebrate it all along the way. You know, hey, at least I. You know. I don't want to make light of anything, but let's say you were. You drank a six pack a night and that's how you unwind. And now you're starting to work into some unwinding. And now you go three days without a beer. You celebrate that three days. You may go back to a six pack for the next three and then start yeah, again, it's all about the progress being made. It's not like none of us have arrived. You're always on the journey. I'm going to learn new things next week that I didn't know or that were rephrased to me, that I embraced in a different way. That is the beauty of this life is that it's always unfolding. You're always learning and you always have opportunity, and if you're on the journey together, it's even that much more fun.
Speaker 2:We live in abundance, you know, and we want to see everybody win. And we know, not everybody is going to hire us or not everybody is going to like us, but you know what? That's okay. There's a billion people out there and we know our target. We're definitely not going to be with the teenagers, male or female. We're out there for the underdog. We're out there for the guy that is tired of being on the sidelines, the guy that keeps on just treading water in his business, the guy that just doesn't realize that God created him to be all that he can be to live more, to be more, to do more.
Speaker 2:And now, I'm not going to go into a prosperity. I'm not Joel Osteen. You know we're not going to be prosperity preachers, but you know, think about it. What's wrong with that? And heck, I'm Catholic. And the one thing that I agree with all those prosperity preachers is you were meant for success. That hell. God didn't want everybody to be middle management, or living paycheck to paycheck, or living off $200,000 debt. It's just bullshit, man. Just you know, hop on board our frigging. It's going to be a great ride. Now you're going to promote, you're going to pledge, so we're going to be finding this amazing.
Speaker 3:So how do you find us? Well, I think, actually I think the very best thing to do, omar, and I know we're kind of like having a staff meeting, staff meeting right here on the podcast, but there's a public Facebook group called what If it Did Work? Omar is the administrator of it. It costs you nothing to do, so are you? You're the administrator.
Speaker 2:Oh, hey me.
Speaker 3:I got promoted guys.
Speaker 2:You know why I had to have all my stuff Now. It has to be pre-approved by me and now by you.
Speaker 3:What were you doing? Getting spammed by people from trying to Porn?
Speaker 2:And it was horrible porn People were. You were telling me other people, you know I hadn't posted, you know, for a day or two and there was like five or six and you know I don't know what people get out of doing that. I don't either. I mean are they getting paid, or are these bots? Or, and you know, some people were getting offended. It was like none of those actors are me, or none of those actors are with me. I have been with Deep faked.
Speaker 3:Omar has been deep faked. No, I think that's the best place to start. Plus, it'll give people access to us because we're going to be posting there regularly and you get to look and see. And if you go to, you know WhatIfItDidWorkcom again, it's a landing page website. It tells you what we're offering, what we're doing, how much it costs. You can order right then and there we get the notification and we will start the ball rolling. But really, truly, we're not going to sit here and do a pitch. We're not going to sit here. Yeah, there's going to be things coming up. We are going to do webinars, but guess what? The webinar is not going to be a pitch fest. It's not going to be leading you up to oh, if you really want to know the secret, you're going to have to spend a little bit more money. No, we're going to lay it all out there and if you find value in it and you use it, fantastic. It's our hope that then you'll say well, you know what it's worth, you know engaging with them at a higher level. So this is what we're doing. I encourage you go to Facebook, go to WhatIfItDidWorkcom, go to the WhatIfItDidWork group on Facebook. Follow us.
Speaker 3:I'm David A Speck. Wherever you find me, I'm already he's. I forget what you are. You can tell him what you are, but you know, read the book. Heck, I'll give you a copy of the book. Reach out to me and say hey, david, I want to copy the book. You know what? I'll copy and send it to you because I think it's that important that, if you want to check me out and make sure that I'm the kind of person that I'm saying I am right now, I want you to check me out, I want you to stalk me. I want you to ask the questions Because an informed buyer and we all learn this in sales class an informed buyer is the best buyer because they're not asking stupid questions and they're not getting that buyer's remorse. We don't want you to have buyer's remorse. We want you to know, going into any relationship with us, that you are getting what you're looking for.
Speaker 2:There's not going to be any buyer remorse. Neither one of us has any experience selling used cars, so no, and I'm excited about it. I'm super stoked, I'm super excited about it. We're going to be doing lives. We're going to be doing lives on LinkedIn, Instagram, the what If it Did Work page. We're going to do the three Ps when it comes to marketing Promote, promote, promote. You see, it's our job to make sure that 1 billion people know who we are. Plain and simple.
Speaker 3:And it's your job to just decide are we worth your time? And if you're listening to this podcast, you already have an idea that it's worth your time. So we're just asking you to lean in a little bit harder and really put yourself on the pathway, because you know what? What if it did work?
Speaker 2:Dude, you know you answered the question, my final question, that I always ask people, so I'll ask you something. I'll ask you something funny, and then I'll one of those ones that people always seek wisdom and knowledge. And the funny one, sunbel Billy. Does he survive 2024?
Speaker 3:Oh, why would you ask me that question? I would say yes, unless somebody better comes along. Let's Nick decides to come out of retirement, or Mike Vrable just didn't want to really go where he ended up going, or you know because? Because here's the thing you know, and this is a sports talk. Obviously, guys, billy is a good coach. I don't know if he's SEC good, because you can say well, you know, there's the transfer portal, or it's Nell, or it's this, or it's that. At the end of the day, you got to be a field general on the sidelines and he has not been a field general in two years.
Speaker 1:So I think year three is his last shot.
Speaker 3:If he doesn't, if, if we don't have a winning season, or if we don't go to a, if we're not at least eight and four or nine and three, he's gone, in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Sunbel, billy's going to be back in the Sunbel or conference, usa or division two or OC somewhere. Okay Now, now here's. Here's my question to you, all these people defeated because, yeah, it's already the third week of a new year and they said new, new me, new year, all that stuff, it's out the door, the gyms are thinning out, but their dreams are slowly going away. Why us? Why now, after so many times of being defeated?
Speaker 3:Here's the thing. It gets back to the same adversity adversity discussion we had at the beginning of the podcast. Adversity is a given, resistance is a given, and sometimes we need help getting past the resistance, getting past the adversity. And I believe that we can help individuals get past that because we have faced similar adversity. You talk about new year, new me, and that a lot of times has to do with going physical fitness, nutritional health, the number of times that I have started a diet or I have said I'm going to the gym and this is day one, this is the first Monday, the number of times I've had to reset in my life along those lines, I could fill a book of nothing but the resets. And here's the thing with every reset is the opportunity to move that much closer to your dreams. And I believe that if you're feeling like new year, new me is not working out right now, I was going to hit the ground running in January with all the things, but then all the things hit me. Hey man, we've been there. We just talked to you about how sick we were for almost all of January here.
Speaker 3:But here's the thing the goal doesn't change. Our goal hasn't changed to help people and to create a life of helping people for us, and your goal should not change. Maybe your methodology needs to change, maybe some of your habits need to change, maybe your structure needs to change and maybe you need just a little bit of help from somebody to do that. I would suggest let us try to help you and let's see where this thing can go, because that's what it's all about. You're going to find out that every successful person had defining moments where they finally said enough is enough and I'm going to push forward, whether it kills me or I become successful.
Speaker 3:And it's any area Again. It could be business, it could be health, it could be reading your Bible. I'm going to read it. I'm on. I missed the first two weeks of reading my Bible. Our church is going through the Bible in a year, but guess what? I started wherever I was at and I'm two weeks in now of reading the Bible. So you can do it. You just have to make the decision and then follow that decision with action and then allow somebody to help hold you accountable to the action that you said you were going to take, and I believe we are the ones to help you do that.
Speaker 2:I believe so too. My final words are you know what's the worst that can happen? Dave and I are only a text, only a call away, only a DM away. We'll give you a free 15, 20, 25 minute coaching. Call for free.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I give you a make you drink the Kool-Aid. The only Kool-Aid you're going to be drinking is a Kool-Aid of your own success, because, Dave and I, that's what we live for. Our wins is when you win. So what's the worst that can happen? Just ask yourself better questions. Ask yourself what if it did work. Love you, Dave.
Speaker 3:It's over an hour it's over an hour.
Speaker 2:And you know, in this Tic Tock society we go any further. You know, people start social media stuff.
Speaker 3:We lost all the 14-year-olds already. So true, True.
Speaker 2:All right, brother.
Speaker 3:Well, I love you All right man Take care, what if it did work?
Speaker 1:What if you took action and made it happen? It's gonna live in this out of your purpose. What if it did work? Right now you can make a choice to never listen to that negative voice, no more. To never listen to the negative voice, no more. The hardest prison to escape is our own mind. I was trapped inside that prison all for a long time. To make it happen, you gotta take action. Just imagine what if it deep world.