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⚔️ What if success isn’t about finding yourself… but creating yourself?

In this powerful episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Joey Pinz sits down with executive coach, martial artist, NLP expert, and Swords of Illumination author David C. Olcott for a deep conversation on identity, subconscious programming, presence, fulfillment, leadership, and what it truly means to live with purpose.

From growing up in the Florida Keys and diving at age 12 to working in politics, luxury real estate, and alongside Tony Robbins, David shares how life experiences shaped his philosophy around congruence, intentionality, and self-mastery.

The conversation explores why many successful people still feel empty, how subconscious beliefs shape our lives, the danger of living from ego, and why being fully present may be the greatest competitive advantage in business and life.

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  • ⚔️ Why “creating” yourself matters more than “discovering” yourself 
  • 🧠 How subconscious programming controls behavior, money, relationships, and confidence 
  • 🔥 The connection between martial arts, pressure, presence, and leadership 

This episode blends philosophy, psychology, performance, business, and spirituality into one unforgettable conversation.

 

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SPEAKER_01

David C. Alcott. What a wonderful perspective. What a great conversation with David. You know, I uh um learning about him, fascinating background or origin story as we say now, grew up in in the keys of Florida, was a diver, had a very difficult household, and uh was able to learn from the tourists that went there about how people became successful and uh eventually got out of there, went into politics for a while, and now he helps people being present. He's got a great book that we learn about. Uh, and what he worked Tony Robbins before that as well, by the way, and was it really able to uh understand how he works and how he controls an audience and a real strong uh disciple of NLP. I'm not sure if you know what that is or not, but really, really great conversation with David. I really enjoyed his perspective. Uh he's present, he's patient, excuse me, he's patient and he uh, you know, he's liberate, he's he's pleasant, he's open, uh just a really, really great individual to spend time with, and I really appreciate it. David, thank you so much, and thank you for watching and listening. Hi, I'm Joey Pins, and here's my 45-second introduction. After starting my business in the 90s, I started developing poor habits of eating in my diet because of working way too much. Before you know it, I found myself 340 pounds. The doctor told me if I don't lose the weight, I'm not gonna see my daughter graduate. Took the next seven months, lost 130 pounds. People think there's some secret. Ask me, how'd you lose that weight? Like there's some secret. There is no secret. How'd I lose the weight? Just one word. Discipline. I've had other successes in life, and I attribute them all to discipline. Now I'm not the king of discipline, but I believe that it can help all of us. Friends, colleagues convinced me to start a podcast. The podcast mission, how do we better ourselves and society? I talked to interesting people in health, fitness, sport, wellness, business, technology, science, art and culture. And I eventually asked them how discipline plays a role in their life. Podcast Vision, growth through learning from others. Person, David Alcott, see Alcott, thank you very much. You do a keto and motorcycle racing, those are very different disciplines. What's the what do you get out of them?

SPEAKER_00

Wow. Uh, I just finished a weekend, as a matter of fact, at the Yamaha Champion School, where some of the fastest riders on the planet taught us how to ride motorcycles at a whole nother level. And they were all on race bikes, and I was actually in a GSA, which is a big, like big bagger bike, like an Indian or Harley, a BMW, it's actually. And I just spent two days with some of the most fascinating people on the planet teaching us about how to get around a track faster and safer. And it's just a great metaphor for life. So one of the things I love to look do in this lifetime is love, love to learn. And learning is just one of those cool things that really gets me excited, gets me out of bed. And I think that has to do a lot with my philosopher kind of concept that I have of my lifetime.

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SPEAKER_00

It's a road racing, so it's on road. Uh there's dirt bike tracks and stuff like this, but this is a road racing track to be able to go onto, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I see. And how long have you been doing it?

SPEAKER_00

Gosh, I've been motorcycle riding for 25 years, just about the same time about uh of doing martial arts. And I've been racing motorcycles. I stopped racing in 2005 competitively. Um and after a friend of mine passed away on the track, I was just like, okay, there's some other things I want to do with my life kind of stuff. Um it truly, truly is, and it's something to be truly respected. And you know, it has a lot to do like with business. I think there's a lot of great metaphors that go along with this. Matter of fact, I'm talking to the guys from Yamaha Champion School about how to bring that school into corporate America and start talking about risk mitigation. So it's a powerful metaphor for that for sure.

SPEAKER_01

It sure is. And of all the martial arts, why a keto?

SPEAKER_00

A keto is based upon the art of the samurai, and samurai success, of course, is our company's name. So yeah, that's the connection. Yeah, you got it. You got it.

SPEAKER_01

So it's a Japanese martial art. It is a Japanese martial arts. Hype. Hmm. And I uh I did a little jujitsu for a while. I got hurt and I never went back. Um, you know, I cracked a rib, you know, David, and you know, if it starts affecting my golf and my tennis, you know, you know, but I but I loved it. Yeah, but I loved it. But it's just like it's just you're rolling around with men and you know you can get hurt. Is it keto contact? I don't know anything about the discipline.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's not this competition that you see in most of the things. There is a competitive field of aikido, but most of it is actually caught to work, which means you're practicing to be able to deal with events in your life, if you will, street fights, those kind of things. But you know, jujitsu is much more built for if you're in a street fight, Aikido is much more about the thinking way of being able to prepare your mind and your body for a potential event like that, a street fight. Um, I have never used Aikido in that street situation, though.

SPEAKER_01

Good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What martial martial arts taught me at a very early age was to not to fight, right? To be disciplined and not people think it's the opposite. It'll make you tougher, but it it actually teaches you how to avoid it and simil similar with that discipline at Aikido as well.

SPEAKER_00

Very much so. As a matter of fact, um that's my experience as well as your show. It's like I fought a lot when I was much younger, and I was like, okay, I don't need to be doing this anymore. Because I really, I really felt bad after every single fight. I know that sounds strange. It's like, what do you mean you felt bad? Well, I felt bad because either I was getting hurt or I was hurting somebody else. And that was not my outcome, man. It was just here I was dealing with a situation where I was typically in a defensive position. I wasn't starting the fight, but I had to prepare to be able to defend myself or family members or whatever it was. And I still felt bad afterward. And I was like, how do I get myself to a mindset where I know so much that I don't have to prove to myself I can win a fight? I already know that I've won the fight, and that's what martial arts has taught me.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know, I I was in a see those competitions, and you win, but you felt like you lost, you know. It's just um yeah, it's it's very tough. But the way I think society as a whole just would be a lot would run a lot smoother. There'll be more happiness if everybody took on some degree of martial art.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think a more powerful statement has ever been said, brother, because I think there's two things you should definitely do. You should definitely be a waiter this lifetime, and you should definitely learn martial arts. You it's it's such a humbling perspective to understand about being in service of others, and that's that's what samurai loosely translated means. So that's why my passion this lifetime to be samurai, to live as samurai, is to truly live that life and be in service at multiple different levels, at very high levels or very low levels of things, but I'm prepared for all those things, and that's my training.

SPEAKER_01

David, tell me about yourself before 18. You grew up in the Keys, you spend more time in and on the water than on land, you swam with the dolphins. So tell me what it was like to be down there in the in the Keys.

SPEAKER_00

Oh gosh. Have you ever been to the Florida Keys? Oh, yeah. Okay, well then you know how magical a place that is. Uh it's it's heaven and hell, though, because if you're visiting there, it's heaven. If you live there, the the folks say it's hell. And and the reason for it is because it's so cut off from everything else that you don't really get a perspective because everybody coming down there is incredibly rich, they're on vacation, they're they're free, you know. I mean, it's not real life, if you will. Um, and but it gave me a unique opportunity, brother, to be able to interview. I didn't call it that. I just was asking questions. I was just a kid. I was just so curious. How did you be successful? How did you do this? And for all those years, when I was on the dive boats or the other, you know, fishing, uh, spear fishing, tropical collections, whatever I was doing, I was always meeting people that had already got to some pinnacle of success that I was chasing. And I was like, I need to interview these people. How did you do it? And I just started coming up with a set of questions that really started isolating themes in my life and their lives that made people really successful. And that has been my curiosity this lifetime. How do successful people really get successful? And there's two groups of those people: people that are just jerks and been really successful, and people that are incredibly humble and been successful. And I was very thankful to meet both groups, and then I could choose which ones I wanted to be part of.

SPEAKER_01

Was there a uh a common trait amongst the jerks and amongst amongst the humble?

SPEAKER_00

Very much so. As a matter of fact, they were uh the intentionality is what shifted between the two groups of people. And it really came down to this were they being in service to themselves, were they being in service to others? The intention really changed. So when you boil down all those conversations over the years, that's what I finally came to is that foundational uh elements of intentionality is who are you being in service to?

SPEAKER_01

So you you talk to these tourists, I guess you want to call them, visitors, and you would you would you'd be working and you'd say, How how'd you get your fortune? I mean, people love to talk about themselves, right? I mean I was gonna say, it doesn't you don't have to crack the shell too much, and uh it's and you're at a young age, just like a teenager?

SPEAKER_00

Basically, yeah. As a matter of fact, I I had my first job, I remember when I was 12, and it was uh uh 11-8 stand, and then I moved into delivering newspapers, and then I started diving, and that's really at 12 years old, I got my first certification uh for diving, and I just fell in love with that. Now, I had a precursor to that because one of my famous people in my life was a gentleman named Jacques Cousteau. And if you grew up during my time, you know him very well, of course, the Jacques Cousteau television show and everything else. Well, his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau, came to the Florida Keys when I was nine, and he was helping create the Lou Key Marine Sanctuary. And I met him, and it just it did something to me to meet my idol's son, to be that connected, right? Just really pulled me in. And after that, I was just in love with diving. And I've I think I have over 800 dives in my lifetime. Um, but it just is a it's a an amazing world, it's a dangerous world, yeah, and it's a powerful world, and I love both those aspects of that.

SPEAKER_01

Is diving, snorkeling, scuba, like define diving?

SPEAKER_00

So diving could be either a freestyle where you just dive with, you know, nothing, a mask on, if you will, and you're just diving down, you can throw a snorkel in there or whatever. Um, and then there's scuba diving, which is the self-contained breathing apparatus that you you know put on your back, or some kind of hose that you have a hook or rig uh that you dive with. But all those things allow you to stay down in the ocean a little bit longer. So, I mean, I think my max time for diving when I was really young, you know, was about four or five minutes that I could hold my breath. And you know, you really develop that skill set, you know, 120 feet, you know, was pretty much within my range. Uh 90 feet was where I felt really comfortable, but the fish don't care where your breathing stops, they keep going into where they keep safe. So you had to be able to really extend past that. Scuba allows you to get to several hundred feet. You just got to know how to play that because it becomes a lot more gang. I mean, you as soon as you get one foot underneath the water, it becomes dangerous. Um, as soon as you get to 90 feet and different these different atmospheres they talk about, the rules completely change. You got to know how those rules work. And a lot of people lost their lives to teach us how not to do certain things. Um, and you have to understand that discipline. And so learning again about how to be able to do that and stay safe.

SPEAKER_01

You're a long way from Key West now. You're in the Denver area. Do you miss diving?

SPEAKER_00

I do. As a matter of fact, I I still dive. I, you know, as a matter of fact, I have the that's funny, the the dive school that's right down the road from me where I go and I I work, we go all over the world kind of stuff and still dive those things. So I I miss it, but I still have access to it. So I don't live in the ocean. Now, interestingly enough, we're we're looking at a place in Virginia Beach will put me back on the ocean, so that's exciting.

SPEAKER_01

So, how do you get a diver there in the keys and then you become you become a politician? You get on the state senate. Is it state senate?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I was actually the chief of staff for the Senate Appropriations Chairman in Florida. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01

How tell me how did that happen?

SPEAKER_00

Interestingly enough, I was in school and uh fraternity brother called me one day and I just graduated. Uh, this was during the banking crisis, so I studied finance. So here I am. I'm thinking, I'm top-notch. I've done all the student government work, I've done all the work that I need to, I've gotten all the connections, I've done all the philotrophic stuff, and I'm starving to death. You know, I'm I'm a kid in college eating ramen and you know, chili with kidney beans in it. Um, and I'm just looking from, I don't know where I need to go. I don't know what I want to do with my lifetime. So I studied finance because I thought that's where I wanted to go. I thought I was gonna go into law enforcement as an FBI profiler, switched careers kind of stuff, mid-you know, college, and started financing because business was always something intriguing to me. It was like, because that's who I'd met in Florida Keys, all these business people, right?

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_00

So um studying finance, I sit down with one of the 12 vice presidents of Sun Bank at the time, and he is so excited. He looks at my resume, he goes, This is so impressive. I can't believe you've done all these things. And I'm like, oh, thank God, I'm hearing all the stuff I want to hear. And he says to me, we're gonna offer you a job for $13,500. And my expectation was $80,000. And I was like, Well, that's quite the big gap between those two places. And so that's the banking industry because it was crashing at the time. This is 1991, it was the banking crisis. And he says, you know, by the time you're 35, 40, maybe you can be a bank president, you can be Viteller. And you, and I was like, that's not how this is gonna work. So I was like crushed, and I was sitting in the Florida keys, diving, you know, making some money. And a friend of mine called me and says, Hey, we've got this opportunity to get involved in as a campaign manager to this woman who wants to run for the same Senate. And I said, Well, I'm not really doing anything else. That sounds like an amazing adventure. Let's go for it. And so we campaigned with her, and she became the youngest woman at that time ever elected to the state house.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_00

She also now became the chairman of the Democratic National Party, uh, which is an interesting thing because most of my family are Republicans. So you can imagine Thanksgiving, where I was the campaign manager to a Democrat, where the house is full of Republicans. You can imagine, Joe, how that conversation may have gone. But I will tell you, understanding people's perspectives from different things, Republican, Democrat. Yeah, um, we're humans, and we're very much the same. We just have very different perspectives from those different positions. And understanding that has been my life's you know, purpose, reason, understanding how people really work.

SPEAKER_01

Good people can disagree.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, sir. And we've lost that. We need to get back to it.

SPEAKER_01

We have, we have, unfortunately. We see a lot of people kind of digging in and polarization. And so the responsibilities of chief of staff is what?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I pretty much was accessed to the appropriation chairman, which, you know, in in practical terms, that was $38 billion worth of budget. That's why everybody wanted to get to Ken. Ken was the governor maker. If you wanted to become Ken Jenny, was the name of the gentleman I was working with. And um he's had a quite an interesting career, if you ever look him up, kind of stuff, after I left. Anyway, um, it was his job was to make sure that the money got appropriated, not just from the budget, make sure, but the money got budgeted throughout the entire state. And you had to come to him if you wanted to be a governor on the entire East Coast of America. That's how powerful this position is. So I was the gatekeeper for him for that many years. And it was just one of those things where at that young age, I mean, that you had to be that young to work the kind of hours that we worked. I mean, hundred hours was typical, and I I really mean that. I don't mean like, you know, theoretical, I mean 100 hours was pretty typical that we were working on our weeks. Um and it just it just burned people out like crazy. Um, but it was an amazing time to meet some extraordinary people. And one of those people I got to meet, then of course, was my next adventure meeting Tony Robbins.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Tony Robbins was next. But did you after the experience of working for the government, did it solidify and make you more stronger and believe in the system, or did it put more doubt in your system? Like what was the outcome? Because I'm sure you saw a lot of things you wish you didn't, and you saw a lot of things that you're glad you did.

SPEAKER_00

In politics, at the level I was playing at, which was right underneath the presidential level of this country. I mean, Ken was that kind of level of things. We did more in one hour meeting than I've seen people can do in four years. Seriously, the decisions that were made, the pressure that we were under, the things that affected stuff was so massive. It was unbelievable to watch that information coming in, how quickly decisions were being made, and how much impact it could have in such a short period of time. Right. So that was impressive. But I also was absolutely solidified. I love that word you said. I was absolutely convinced there's a hundred percent chance that politics is not the way to change the world. If I wanted to have the impact that I want to have this lifetime, politics was not my way to get there. The universe gave me very clear um experience that that was not going to change because politics is not about change, it's about keeping power, it's not about changing power.

SPEAKER_01

So one would hope that it would be about change, but it really isn't, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00

That's right. That was the my was my experience. Now remember, this is 35 years ago, right? So this is quite a little time, but not much has changed, it's only seemed to accelerate it to this higher level of intensity, and and we're we're definitely at a tipping point of getting to maybe we've done enough this way, and the pendulum's about to swing, hopefully the other way, to be able to say, you know what, we've done it this way, it doesn't work. What about this way? And let's start experiencing some new things where politics can be a vehicle for change, but we haven't seen the person who's going to lead that charge yet.

SPEAKER_01

Do you think you'll ever go back in?

SPEAKER_00

I know I've been called back in multiple times for campaigns and things like this, and I've said, you know, graciously, no, that I didn't want to do that. But I think if there's a real opportunity and a real gifted person that really wants to make a change and is really driven to do it, I would definitely add my services to that. Because it is a powerful ally. Like I said, there is no other place I've experienced this lifetime, even with some of the people I've worked with, that you can make that much change and have that kind of impact, put the right intention in there, brother. It changes everything.

SPEAKER_01

Sure does. Yeah. How'd you meet Tony Robbins?

SPEAKER_00

So I went to work right after politics. I got involved with a gentleman um in real estate um in South Florida, and I was very fortunate to he became the number one selling real estate agent in the world when I was with him. I was his business manager, and we collectively created a team. So um at the time, selling millions of dollars of real estate was just unheard of. It was just you can't you can't sell 12 million dollars worth of one house. Today we do that all the time. But that was the big breakthrough at the time was that you can't do that. Well, I was in the middle of Star Island, Miami Beach. We were selling Sylvester Salone, Madonna, Prince. I mean, all the celebrities, all the Heat players, they all came through our offices to buy real estate. Whether they had the representatives or not, we eventually met most of those celebrities, those kind of things. Um, and I was pretty comfortable with celebrities at that time because I'd been working in politics and I met a lot of those folks a long time, but it was in a very different environment. Uh in politics, they wanted something from us, you know, and things they were looking for real estate that we could provide. So it was a very different intention. Uh, but yet, you know, the dynamics and relationships are very similar. So I felt pretty comfortable there. Now and remember, I'm 26 years old. So right, it was like, wow, you should you shouldn't be this mature. Well, I had so much intense experience during that time, it forced me to be much older in that you know, that experience. So I was really fitted for that. It was a really good time. And then when we got really successful, we were started traveling around the country. Uh, there was a seminar system that had where it's teaching systems to be able to be, much like we had done. So when Carlos would get up, he would teach the sales side, and I would teach the team building side, the organization, the structural side of things. And so we were on stage in Palm Springs Desert. And Joe, listen, at 26 years old, we had just rocked the house. I'm I'm telling you from a pure ego standpoint, stay with me here because. There's a humbling experience for sure, as usual. But we're on the stage. There's 10,000 people in the room. They're all in Armani suits. These are high-level executive folks, you know, in that room with us. And they're all listening intensely. They give us a round of applause, standing ovation kind of stuff. I'm at the top. We walk off stage. Seriously, this is like within two minutes of walking off stage. I'm feeling so good about myself. And oh my God, we did so well. And then there's this roar of this crowd in the background, like behind the curtain. I'm standing like two feet from it. And I'm like, what is going on? And this place is going bonkers. And I'm like, what is happening? So I had to peek through the curtain. As I peek through, I look up and there's this six foot seven, you know, 300-pound man standing there controlling this crowd like I've never seen before, influencing them, motivating them. I've never seen a performance like that before. With all my experience, I'd never seen anything. And that gentleman was Tony Robbins. So I was so blown away by this. And I'd never read any of his books, I'd never seen his tapes, nothing. And I was like, there is a whole new level of understanding human beings. So I used my political connections to be able to get his home phone number in Delmar Castle at the time, left him this cocky message. Oh my God. I told him I was going to be his number one sales guy. I told him this, dah da, blah, blah, blah. And he called me back. I'll never forget the voicemail. He called me back. He says, All right, you cocky son of a gun. And I'm being nice on this podcast. And he says, he says, I like what you had to say, but can you prove it? He says, My team's in Miami. If you go meet with them and you're all that you say that you are, I'll hire you. And that was it. So I went and met his team. I got hired, spent the next couple of years with Tony, um, and you know, achieved that outcome of being his number one sales guy for a number of years. And so it was very, very, very fortunate, man.

SPEAKER_01

Tell me what it was like going to meet his team in Miami. What were they like? What kind of questions did you get asked? What was that? Paint a paint a picture, please.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so meeting that group of people, I mean, these it was an absolute uh uh cluster of information that I was walking into this hostile environment of how dare you come in here and why is Tony calling me to be able to get you out. So I walked into uh just the swarm of who is this guy? And it was all about demonstration. So I had to show up and they they read people really well. And the the only thing that saved me was because I dealt with that level of pressure most of my life at that point. Uh so it was such an important aspect of how they were really fierce at me, they know the hazing process that most men put you through. Well, there was also women in there that were also very powerful, and they put me through it, man. And they were like, okay, we just gotta see if you're really the real deal. And once they had a good sense of that, they reported back to Tony to uh be able to hire me and bring me on board.

SPEAKER_01

And tell me about your first interaction with Tony after you're hired.

SPEAKER_00

Gosh, first interaction with Tony was intense. He they had just gone out of New York. I was just I've just been hired in Miami. They had just finished up the New York cycle, and things had not gone well. So Tony came in to have his motivational talk with his financial team, like, hey, how much investment he'd made, how much this, and how they underperformed. And I was like, holy crap. I mean, this is this is I was used to these kind of meetings, but I was like, I wasn't expecting it for sure at that level. And it really kind of set the tone for why I wanted to really perform really well and do really well for the company because I understood they had really high standards and um offset with that, you know, was coming right into Christmas. And the thing he did at Christmas with with his whole group of people in San Diego, he brought in this money in a vault truck, you know, one of those trucks with the big vaults, you know. He brought in all this money for bonuses and had Santa Claus take these bonus bags out and hand them to individuals. It was it was such an entertainment and presentation that I had never seen before. I'd been in politics, everything was stale, and you know, this is the way it is, every factual in corporate America. And here I was in front of an entertainer for the first time, experiencing and working for a guy like that. I mean, everything was super over dramatic and and and and purposeful, I think is the right word to say. And it just had such an amazing impact of what life could be.

SPEAKER_01

And what were your biggest takeaways from your experience with the Tony Robbins company?

SPEAKER_00

Intention, man. Going right back to what I learned when I was much younger. I met some really extraordinary people on both sides of things. I will tell you that there was a small group of people there that were really about being in service of others, and there was a much larger group that was there and being in service to themselves. And that's the part that really was like, okay, I can learn here, I can stay here, I can train and practice, but this isn't my home. I know that I had to move on. Now, what was even tougher was we studied a thing called NLP and neurolinguistic programming, which I'm manager certified in. Um, but I will tell you, with that kind of technology and the bad kind of intention that I saw, it's, and by the way, this isn't just Tony's company or Tony or anything else like this. I think his intentionality is very different, but his team was very different at that time, and I had a lot of conflict with them. It was my stuff, not theirs. And I had to work through that. But I really wanted to be in service in a very different way using that technology because that technology can be incredibly manipulative in the wrong hands.

SPEAKER_01

How do people, how should people work with others in in you know, in a work environment when we see that their objectives are so clear and different than our own or different from the company? How do you know how do you handle that kind of conflict, David?

SPEAKER_00

I think that conflict really resides within each one of us first. And once you resolve that, and what I mean by that is a lot of the work that we do with our clients is that we don't realize how powerful our identity statement is. Once you know who you really are, not your programming, because most of us don't understand that who how we behave is based upon our subconscious programming. How we manifest things is based upon our subconscious programming. Now remember, when I say subconscious programming, this isn't conscious. You're not you're not even aware that you're doing a lot of these behaviors. But a lot of those behaviors are driven by your belief systems, and those belief systems and that behavior is something called programming. That programming is designed around every single subject of your life, from your weight to your relationships to love, to how much money you're going to make, how much money you're not going to make. All this subjects that you have in your life is pre-programmed by the time you're seven years old. When you're seven years old, something happens in the brain which is really amazing. It moves out of a theta-based frequency into a beta-phrase frequency. Right now, you and I are having a beta-based frequency conversation. It's very conscious, very thoughtful, but it's not changing my programming. You're hearing my subconscious programming spoken to in my verbiage, but most people aren't aware of that that's happening. So if you really want to change something now that you're 35, 45, 55 years old, we don't realize that all of our programming based upon the subject you're dealing with right now is based upon how you're programmed by the time you reached that seven years old. You got out of that database frequency, where all of your subconscious programming is available. You're programming all those things using that database. Once you move into beta, you do not program things any longer. If that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01

And how does one tap into that?

SPEAKER_00

Ah, that's been my life study, brother, for the last 30 years is about how to tap into that. And we found there's five distinct ways so far to be able to do that. First one is hypnosis. Um, we don't use hypnosis here, we use something called autosuggestion, which is a Napoleon Hill concept from Think and Grow Rich. Auto-suggestion is the verbiage you use over every single day. The things, the things you say to yourself over and over again, the concepts you're having in your mind, that self-talk you're having, that's reprogramming your brain to behave a certain way. So if you don't change that conversation programming, you will not change that behavior over the long term. Short term, sure, you can have an event in your life, you can use motivation, discipline, willpower to be able to change it. But over the long term, unless you change that subconscious programming, you're not going to change the results of that particular subject. And that is the fascinating part that we do here at Samurai Success. Number one is hypnosis. Number two is being in love. When you're in love, the whole model changes. You start manifesting from a conscious part of your brain. The love has a frequency, by the way. And so when you're in the frequency of love, this honeymoon effect, all of a sudden you start affecting people very differently. You are affecting the world very differently when you're in love. But love typically fades out of the way and you go back to your subconscious program. Number three is through practice. Just like I did over this last weekend, if you practice things enough times, then it's going to really have an impact on your subconscious. So most people believe that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes permanent. So when you're practicing something really poorly over and over again, it's just teaching your subconscious brain to do that poorly, not perfectly. Well, perfectly poorly, it would be a great way to say that. But this whole idea about practice, it really does have impact. So be careful what you practice because it will become a permanent thing about how you respond, react, and the results that you're getting in life. Number four really starts focusing on Psych K or NLP. These are technologies, human-based technologies about how to affect and change that programming. The fifth one is very unique to Samurai Success. It's called the IM Studio. We actually take you through a year-long process about how to change your programming around all these different subjects in your life and start including your soul in the conversation, not just your ego. Because that intentionality we talked about is a big part of this. Because if you keep seeking your ego to solve problems, you're going to create more and more problems. Your soul has a different answer. It has different access to in the realm of pure potentiality, the spiritual realm, if you will, not to get too far down the rabbit hole of that. But there's another access place where you can get to as a human that you can actually get answers to things that most people don't have access to. And developing that skill set takes practice to be able to do it. So then once you have that, we then take you into the studio. We actually record your voice, your tone, your words. And then we use theta brace frequency then to incorporate that into a meditative state where you listen to it twice a day, and it actually reprograms your subconscious mind to get the results in those particular subjects you're after.

SPEAKER_01

Your first kind of pillar there, uh, which was hypnosis, auto-suggest, is it it sounds like a practice of gratitude.

SPEAKER_00

By the way, the feeling state you're saying, a frequency of vibration, gratitude is a powerful ally because it falls into abundance or love as opposed to scarcity, right? Or rage or anger or any of those other things. There were 34,000 emotional states that you can choose from.

SPEAKER_01

Really?

SPEAKER_00

Gratitude is one of those. So think about the vastness of all those different things. Most of us are only aware of about six of those, but we have access to so much more frequency and vibration that actually changes the subconscious mind to get the better result that you're after.

SPEAKER_01

David, your book, uh Swords of Illumination, what do you want the reader to come away with?

SPEAKER_00

Exactly what we're talking about. The elements of that programming, if you really want to live a life of purpose and fulfillment, that's what people call them noisys. It's like I'm doing really good. I have really good money. My my my lady and I, my guy and I, we're doing really well. My relationships are growing, but I don't get up every morning. I don't, I don't jump out of bed, you know, excited about life. I don't feel like I'm living with purpose or on purpose. And a lot of that has to do with your subconscious programming, if not all of it. So, how do you then change your subconscious programming to be able to live that life of purpose and fulfillment? Because all this stuff isn't coming from your conscious part of your brain, it's coming from the subconscious part of your brain. How do you get access to that? Well, the elements of that programming are those two books. So the first book has been published. We're working on the second book. When you combine both books, you now have the 12 swords of what we call illumination. Each one of the swords is engraved with a very clear principle about what you need to focus on to create and design this life of purpose.

SPEAKER_01

How long have you been practicing this?

SPEAKER_00

Well, samurai success is now going into its 30th year. But I gotta tell you, brother, for some reason, I know this is gonna sound strange, but I know I've been here before. I just I don't know why I know that, Joe. I just had known that. And it gives me a sense of acceleration because, well, I'll just be honest with you. Um, I had a real fear that I've worked so hard to gain this knowledge that I was like, when I if I'm gonna come back, right? Let's just imagine that's true, right? Just for a minute. If I'm gonna come back, I gotta start all over again. And it drove me crazy. I don't know why it drove me crazy. It just did. I was like, you know what? I'm gonna write a love letter to me. So what if I come back? I'm gonna find that letter and I'm going to read it and I'm gonna have access to all this knowledge again right from an earlier age. I won't have to go through this whole process again about getting all this knowledge. And because then I can start applying it. Because most people believe that getting the knowledge is the important part. I have found that is not true. I meet people with knowledge all day long. If you don't take that knowledge and apply it, then you don't understand true power. Application is the key. So you got to get the knowledge first, then you have to apply it. Then the power comes from that. But without that application, and that's one of the big themes within that book, is to remind people, you gotta apply what you know. If you don't, then it's just knowledge. Knowledge is not power. Knowledge applied is power. Okay, good. So I was like, okay, if I wrote a love letter, but what if it gets stuck somewhere? What if it gets you know somebody's chest or somebody's book or maybe gets burned? How do I ensure that that letter gets back to me? Well, finally it came to me as like, write a damn book and get it into as many places as possible, and then I'm going to have access to it again. So I know that sounds selfish, and it is, but if I had this technology when I was much younger, where would my life have gone? I mean, I've lived an extraordinary life, and I have so many more years to go with this knowledge. What if I started younger? What could I do with it then?

SPEAKER_01

And I heard you say, uh maybe I misheard, but I heard you say that you made somebody a guarantee that if you had on this knowledge, if you understand it, you would share it.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, sir. Well, my connection with the universe, with God is very important to me. And so I gave my word through prayer that I said, Father, I said, if you share this with me, I give you my word that I will share it with the world. And voila, there it is. Publishing the book is also a benefit to me, but it also is to the rest of the world. And now doing podcasts like this, media events, you know, speaking events that we're doing all over the country right now, and been invited to multiple other 22 different countries so far, um, getting the word out is what we're doing now, is putting this thing out there so people get access to this information. Um, and that's the real gift that I I that's my give back to the universe for providing me such amazing information. And and let me be really clear with this. This information is not new, but the way it's put together is very new. That's what people are saying to us. It's like, I know this stuff, but the way you put it together, just it's so organized, it's it's it's that's undeniable. And that's where it gets fun. Because once it's undeniable, then you can start applying it right away.

SPEAKER_01

Let's go back like 10 years, David. About 10 years ago, was there something you believed firmly in that you no longer believe now?

SPEAKER_00

Hmm. Was there something I believed firmly in that I don't believe now? Yes, great one. I believed, and maybe it was a little bit longer than 10 years, maybe that was my sticking point. But in my earlier life, I was so convinced. I mean, you couldn't convince me. I every movie I watched, every book I watched, every speaker I listened to, every my parents, everybody was saying that you're here to discover who you are. And I I lived that life because I was searching for everything. I went into all these experiences, I went into all these other jobs, I went into these different careers, I was training with everybody I possibly could because I was looking for who David Allcott was. And then I met a master. And he says, I hear you, and it's a great adventure you've been on. Congratulations. But you're not here to discover who you are, you are here to create who you are. And I'm having a goosebump moment, man, because I remember that moment of looking in that man's eyes and hearing that and how it blew me away because instantaneously it resonated so powerfully with me. When you look at celebrities, if you look at presidents of the United States right now, you have to understand what he just said to me is exactly what these people are applying. The most powerful people that we admire, dislike, whatever word you want to give that, the ones that are being successful on this planet, understand this technology and apply this technology every single day. They are creating everything about them, they're creating this whole persona of who they are. Their identity is self-created, it is not created by other people. The biggest thing that I can tell you about that is the singular KBI, key behavior indicator that I see in this, which is different from a key production indicator, but a behavioral indicator, right? That's a human aspect of things, is that they cannot be talked out of it. That's when you know you have found a self-created individual who is living and being congruent. And I will tell you that's the thing that I understand the most this lifetime is that the universe rewards congruency, not conscientiousness.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you talk a lot about congruency. Life doesn't happen to you, David, right? Does life happen to you, or do you do you tell me tell me about that? I think that's what you the lesson you learned. It doesn't happen to you, you make your own life, or you should.

SPEAKER_00

Well, there's actually three aspects that I've seen, if you want to break it down that way, that life can happen to you, and that's usually called the victim, right? Things are happening. Oh, I can't believe that happened to me again. And by the way, I've lived some part of my life like that. I still do it today where I go in that place, but I spend a little less time there, and that's the secret of it. Then there's things where things happen from you, where you think you're the self-creator of things, where your ego really gets involved. It's like, I'm doing all this, and you see a lot of aspects, you see a lot of people living that kind of life, and that's a different experience. Neither one of them is right or wrong from a spiritual term. But then there's this third level that I've been after, where things not happen to you or from you, but they happen through you. And I will tell you, the conversation we're having right now is not David Alcott's words. This is words of the universe that is coming through me, downloaded, if you will, because I've practiced enough way to be able to get the hell out of my own way so that I could listen to what the universe is really talking to me about. And because I can hear it, I trust it, I can speak it as if it's coming from me and it's not, it's coming through me. And that's a really important distinction because when you can destroy David Alcott all you want, you can destroy the messenger. But I can't destroy the message because this message has been spoken for thousands of years from all the great masters on this planet because they've been using the same technology of having information flow through them. When you get to that place, and that's the place I'm evolving toward or want to get to this lifetime, when you get to that place, life is extraordinary.

SPEAKER_01

David, is there a question you wish more people asked you?

SPEAKER_00

Is there a question more people ask me? Probably there is if they would. I think a lot of people still, even though as much as I talk to them about it, is believing in themselves. So the question really is how do I get myself to trust myself? How do I get to know myself so much that I can listen to the internal master within me? And there is an internal master, Joe, inside of you, just like there is me. And oftentimes we don't trust that. We've been talked out of it, it's been stolen from us, whatever it's happened to us, kind of thing. Um, but there is an internal master that when we get in touch with, all the secrets of the universe unfold to us. Maybe not all at the same time, but every answer you've ever wanted to like people come to me with conspiracy things all the time, and they're like, What about this? And what about Kennedy? And what about this? And what's going on with Trump? And and I'm like, what does your source tell you? Well, I got all no, that's the information you're getting from media, that's the information you're getting from other people. There's another source within each one of us that we have access to this information that you can know everything on this planet, you can know all the solutions to it. You just have to practice getting there. And the best way to do that is you have to get Your ego out of the way so that your soul can talk to you.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

All the time. As a matter of fact, it's it's it's really a verbiage situation we're dealing with here, Joe. And that is, is it this or is it this? Well, this symbol that's right behind me reminds me every single day that it's not this or that, it's this and that. And that is a game changer. And I know it sounds so simple, but usually the simplest things are the most powerful and profound. That's why we just glaze over them. They're not to be glazed over. Because once you start applying them, that's the whole thing. You can have all this knowledge base until you apply it. And when you apply it, that's when the secrets reveal themselves. But if you just have all this knowledge base and you're just talking stuff, they never reveal themselves. They're not designed that way. You're not a true student, you're not a true initiative of the subject you're looking into. So if you just stay at the surface, the universe will provide surface answers to you. It's you diving deeper into stuff, spending time with it. And most people are so impatient these days that they're not willing to do that. So then they seek out someone who is willing to do that. My job is to help you turn that around and start having the patience, having the tolerance to be able to do this and start listening to that internal master so that you can understand this stuff has always been here for us. It's always going to be here for us. Even if you're denying it, it's still available to you and it takes some work to be able to get there.

SPEAKER_01

Who won't you work with?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I've gotten to a place in my life where I read people pretty well. And if I sense someone's intention is going to be um, you know, mischievous or malicious or you know, manipulative, just is not worth doing that. And the universe takes care of it by itself, even if we do get involved with someone like this. We have, um, but I'm less tolerant of those things these days. I'm really looking for a group of people on this planet that really want to make a change, and they've got to start with the change inside them. And if they're not willing to do that, no, everybody always says, well, I want to make more money. We're not interested in the money. We're after the mastery. The money comes if you master things. It's like being on the racetrack this weekend. It's like the race finishes will take care of themselves if you learn the techniques to be able to do this. The wins will take care of themselves. Everyone's focused on the money. We focus on the mastery of things. If you're that kind of person looking for that, if you really stop wanting to mess around with all this stuff, you finally get reached a place of I've done it by all the rules. And by the way, the book is about this. There's a gentleman named Tom who's played by all the rules. He's married the woman of his dreams. He has this beautiful child. He's living what most people would say this life, but he's in debt up to his eyeballs. He's miserable. He's he doesn't want to get up and life anymore, and he's scared to death. And if you're there, you really want to make a shift, those are the folks we can have the most.

SPEAKER_01

When you were at some of the low points in your life, what what did you do to get out of it? What have you learned about those low points?

SPEAKER_00

Most of those low points are based upon my personal experience of the event itself. So when, as human beings, right, understanding these three dimensions, human aspect, physical plane, and the spiritual plane, and how they interact with each other. And do we have any influence on that? That's been my quest. So understanding that most of us say that I want to go change the world. I said that. I've said this in this interview when I was in politics. Politics isn't a place to change the world. Interesting. What if it wasn't about changing the world? What if it was about changing your experience of the world that already exists? And that's the game changer. So really getting to that place of understanding that it's my experience of those things that really changes the events of things. Events are going to happen. A hurricane is a hurricane. If I'm not prepared, then I'm going to have a different experience of the hurricane. If I am prepared, I'm going to have a different experience of that hurricane. So it's all about how you prepare for life events that you don't even know are coming yet, is the whole game.

SPEAKER_01

Are you do you you feel that you're empathic or intuitive? Do you think you have any of these skills?

SPEAKER_00

Very much so. My father and I, fortunately or unfortunately, he taught me how to be a high-level empath. I would have to walk into my house every single day and feel his emotional state, how he was dealing with things, and see if I was safe or not.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_00

So I really thank him for his training. Now, going through the experience was hell, I have to be honest with you. But I'm very thankful for that today because being a high-level empath allows me the ability to really understand what people are really saying when they're saying it and they got their face on, but I can feel that that's not really what they want to go to. I can get past the mask and be able to really get to that with their permission. Because I definitely have done that without permission in my younger time, and that does not is not successful. People don't want you to know them better than they know themselves, right? So you gotta be careful with that art and that technology, and being humble keeps me in a good place for that.

SPEAKER_01

And you can turn it off and turn it on if you're in a crowded place or you're on stage or wherever, you're able to turn it on. Thank God.

SPEAKER_00

As a matter of fact, there's a shielding process that I can use, or there's some other techniques that I can be able to use to be able to dim it down a little bit. I can't really turn it off necessarily, but dim it down a lot so I don't have being so triggered by people. Because if I'm in a conflict, like I'm in a martial arts situation and I'm in a combat situation, I don't want to be sensing that other people's feelings that intensely because it'll shut me down.

SPEAKER_01

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

If I'm on a racetrack, I'm being competitive. I don't want to feel my competitors racetrack then because they're if they're scared or anything else, it's going to impact me. I want to stay much more self-contained. So dimming that down is a technique that I've had to learn, and that's one of the things we teach with other empaths as well.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I've I've had the good fortune to speak uh to empaths before, and it fascinates me because there's it's a spectrum, right? Some can't turn it off, you know, and some can, and uh some have a very small degree of it. And I think we all to some extent have some of it. You know, I've spent some time in some bad situations, and I just can read sometimes people better, and sometimes I can't, and I'm not sure where kind of reading somebody nonverbally and empath starts, but it really doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I've met a lot of people that have the empathic skill but just don't trust it, so they just shut it down. Or as a matter of fact, that's how powerful our belief systems are. Even though most of us are very empathic, we don't want to trust it. And we don't trust it, we just kind of go, Oh, that's not something I'm gonna talk about, or I don't want to talk about it at a dinner party, right? You're an empath. What does that mean? Well, being an empath is a great gift if you know how to use it, much like everything else. If it starts using you, it can destroy you.

SPEAKER_01

So, David, I started my business back in the 90s. I was uh, you know, in my 20s. I felt I was invincible, right? So I'm working these 14, 16-hour days. You talked about a hundred-hour weeks. You know, you're running your own business, you're just working all the time and putting exercise in the back and you know, not paying attention to yourself. Uh, next thing I know, I'm in front of the doctor. She tells me I'm at 340 pounds. So I had gained all this terrible amount of weight. I knew I was getting big, but I didn't know I was that big. Yeah. And she says to me, look, if you don't lose this weight, you're not gonna see your daughter graduate. So my daughter was just born. Scared the life out of me, right? I'm driving home. Not only did it scare me, it angered me, right? And, you know, I can eat all I want. This is my pie hole. You know, I I can abuse myself all I want, but I've got a bigger, you know, I'm it's much bigger than me now. I've got this beautiful, beautiful girl that somehow I'm responsible, bringing into this earth. I've got to look beyond myself. Spent the next six, seven months, lost about 120 pounds, and you can't look at these things as finishing lines, right? These are lifelong changes you have to make. So when I tell people this story, I can always, you know, what you do, what's your secret? And there's no secret. I just say discipline, right? I say, you know, focus, motivation, routine. I feel are all under discipline spectrum. How does discipline play a role in your life?

SPEAKER_00

Well, it's interesting. By the way, congratulations, brother. I I mean, I'm blown away that I'm looking at a body, what do you what do you 180 pounds now?

SPEAKER_01

About about a deuce now, a little more than I'd like, but yeah, I was 340.

SPEAKER_00

You said 340?

SPEAKER_01

340. Yeah. My God, man. That is 46-inch waist. Yeah, I'm 32 now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Well, I went on a similar path. I actually got involved in powerlifting. So part of some of my experiences over the years is I do these crazy things, or you know, I want to go change my program. Like I went ice hockey playing for a couple of years, I played poker for a couple years, I went skydiving for a couple years. I mean, I've done some really crazy because I wanted to change my programming, right? I wanted to see if it really worked. So I was up at about 230 pounds because I was powerlifting and I always wanted to bench 400 pounds. And so when I finally got there, I kept eating like I was still benching, you know, like kind of, and I just blew up. And I'm like 5'9 with heels on. So 200 plus pounds is not healthy for me kind of stuff.

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Right.

SPEAKER_00

So I got up to about 230 and I was like, okay, this is, and by the way, I had a moment like you did where it was had to be bigger than me. And that literally, Joe, is about getting the hell out of the way. That's exactly the metaphor for this. You had to make this bigger because I have the right to do this. This is my thing. I can eat McDonald's when I want. I want, I, if I wanted, I well, it creates certain results and it creates certain experiences when you have that kind of attitude. That's programming that causes us to do that. So your willpower, your discipline had to go through, you went through number three, practice. I had to keep practicing it. I used willpower, I used motivation, I used whatever I needed to do to be able to keep that practice of eating healthy so that I could start seeing a different result. It's tough the way you did it, brother, because, and by the way, huge character building, and I'm really proud of you for this because now you know you can do that. No one can ever take that away from you, right? That's the power of understanding. I did that. That's my real value and proposition. And that's what this whole physical plane is about: having the opportunity to experience that which you say you are through practice results and those kind of things. So my journey with this was I did it a little easier than you did. I realized that I just had to change my programming. So I literally wrote down who I am when my health aspect. So in the book, there's these 10 categories of balance. And you take an aspect of this, these subjects we're talking about, from financial to business, and I wrote an identity statement about who I am. Now, here's the key thing to it. I really want you to hear me on the show because this congruency thing you brought up before that I keep shouting about is that the congruency is what makes this work. If I say I'm a world-class athlete and I sit on that couch over there eating Cheetos, those two things are not congruent. If I'm going to say I'm a world-class athlete, I have to do certain things that connect and resonate with that identity statement. That is congruency. And that's what the universe rewards. Out of congruency, you're not going to be there. Powerful, powerful thing. 1996, I crashed a party. Um, there was the gala event, the um the Met Gala in Washington, DC. Was it Washington? Um, I crashed a party. I shouldn't have been. There was $10,000 a plate. Now, remember, $10,000 today is like what $100,000. Right? 1996. Um, I crashed a party. I shouldn't have been there. I was in a rented tuxedo. I was with a group of guys. We crashed it. We got in. Uh, I met Larry King was there, by the way. He introduced us to everybody because Larry King and Tony were very close friends. He recognized us because we'd just been in his studio like a week before and he'd gotten some suspenders from a guy that was with us. He introduced us to, I mean, he took us literally around and met Calvin Klein, um, all everybody that was there. I actually walked Tony Braxton up on stage. Huh? Me personally, I walked her up on stage. How does this kid do this? What's happening here? And by the way, that was not even the highlight, because the highlight of the night was meeting Princess Die six months before she passed. So congruency is what got me into that place. Now, congruency, you got to be careful with this today, especially after 9-11, because you know, you start acting a certain way. The only reason I got into that place is because I believed I belonged there. My part of my brain was like, I didn't pay for this, I didn't do this, I shouldn't be here, but I stopped that and I was congruent about going into that place. You'll find that when you're congruent like that, people will respond very differently to you. This congruency thing is important. So now taking that other thing out of that manipulation side, but they're getting something I wanted, going to that Met Gala, now taking and just saying, hey, now I want to be successful in life. If you are a financial person, you want to be successful, there are certain characteristics that you have to understand, you have to be willing to do that people have been teaching ever. If you are wanting to be financially successful and you refuse to do budgeting, you are not being congruent. You will not get to that place. And even if you do get to that place, Joe, you will lose it in the long term. This congruency is everything we're talking about. Having a clear identity and then doing the things that support that identity is congruency. So when I reprogrammed my health, I reprogrammed food. Because I used to think food was just something I did. As a matter of fact, I skipped meals, I ate whenever I could, I was all over the page with timing and stuff. Now, dude, I tell you, I have a regimented schedule of when I eat, when I eat carbs, when I eat protein. I went and studied it. I went and sat down with a nutritionist, a master of the universe when it came to food. And now I know that if I do this cycle of food, I stop eating at seven o'clock and I don't eat until my breakfast, breakfast, break fast at nine o'clock in the morning, is that I have this pattern. I have this cycle that is programmed into my brain that doesn't allow me to do any of that other crap. I don't go eat McDonald's anymore. I don't go eat that stuff. When I go into a place that doesn't have food that's healthy and nutritious for me based upon my identity, I don't eat it. I go find something else. I'll have my whole friends go into a restaurant. I'll walk to the restaurant next door because I'm looking at the menu going, I can eat that. I'll go eat it, I'll go join my friends. But I don't allow those behaviors in my life because they're not part of who I am. And that is what keeps me in that other space of having things flow through me. So when I meet someone like you, they're all the stuff I've got going on in the world, writing the book, writing the business, creating a movie from the book right now. We've got all this stuff going on. My wife lives in Oregon, kind of stuff. We're moving right now. We got all these things going on. There is nothing more important than this moment with you and I. Nothing. That power of being present. I love that about me. And when I can do that, I can really be in service of other people.

SPEAKER_01

Where does imposter syndrome play in convergency?

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely. As a matter of fact, that's when your conscious part of your brain and your subconscious part of your brain do not align with each other. There it is. And when you align, when you when you change and you reprogram your subconscious brain to be in alignment with your conscious vision of who you are, the imposter syndrome gets smaller, never goes away. It just gets smaller and dimmer, and you just don't spend more time there. Powerful ally.

SPEAKER_01

David, I wonder if you'll indulge me for a moment. When I talk to friends, colleagues, acquaintances, you know, and I I have I ask a lot of questions. I, you know, Socratic method since I'm a kid. And as I get older, I find I have more questions than answers, you know. But I find that this is completely anecdotal, that they get stuck in one or more of three ways. First one being they're trying to control things they can't control. All right. It happens all the time. Two is the whole holding off on happiness. I'll be happy when this happens, or I'll be happy if this happens, when of course they're in complete control of their happiness. And then third, I find is uh looking too far in the past. I've uh this happened in the past, uh, therefore I'm this way now. Or this is going to happen in the future, therefore I'm going to do this now. Completely anecdotal. I wonder what you think about those three.

SPEAKER_00

First of all, man, good for you. And by the way, you are a true student of life this lifetime. I I admire your mastery with this because most people want to stay at the surface in these podcasts with me kind of stuff. I love that you're diving in deep, brother. Good for you. I really admire that. Um, so let's really answer the question. I think we could go a lot of different ways with that. There's a lot of questions to be able to answer in a minute. Let's see if we can get to the core of it. I think what you're really asking me is what's the secret of really being connected with other people? And I will give you one word to be able to do it: being present. What I mean by that is that if I start stressing out, I know what causes stress. When my brain and my mind start separating from each other, when my mind starts going too far into the future or too far into the past, my brain is here, but my mind is like a drone and it can fly into the future or it can fly into the past. And as the further it gets away from my center of my brain, the more stressed I get. So I the more stress I'm feeling, the intensity of that stress lets me know that my drone is too far out there and I need to bring it back. What brings it back from both those locations is being present. And I will tell you, man, I have solved more problems faster by staying present than worrying about something that hasn't ever happened, will never happen, and never solves a problem anyway. The power of being present, brother, is so awesome. I cannot express it enough. It is my absolute ally. And whenever I start doing it, and I do this, I'm as human as you are. It just takes practice to be present, which means this. What does presence really mean? What are the elements of being present? Now, here's where it gets tough. You have to train your brain to stop giving meaning to things. What? That's the whole purpose of the brain. Okay, well, if that's your truth about things, I admire it. I respect it. I will tell you, you're gonna live a very different experience than what you're asking me about. If you constantly give meaning to things when you don't have all the information, then you're gonna be making stuff up, making stuff up that isn't really real, and it's going to stress you out. But Dave, I'm dealing with real issues. Being present will actually help you to solve them and answer them faster than all this variance of worry and stress and frustration and confusion about what do I need to do? What do I need to do? Here's the thing: most of us stress out and aren't able to stay present because we're wanting to figure out how things work. Now, here's something really interesting, brother. The universe already has everything figured out. And all the hows, all the answers, all the solutions already exist in a dimension called the realm of pure potentiality. You as a human being, me as a human being, have access. It is our greatest gift that we've ever been given, other than free will. We have access. It's open sesame to the greatest treasure you've ever imagined in this universe is this realm of pure potentiality. And inventors that you've heard about, Nikola Tesla, Edison, Einstein, all these you know, people that uh what's going on with Elon Musk. Whether you like the guys or not, it's not important. What's important about that is that the quote that Einstein said imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination exists in that realm of pure potentiality. I want to train this body and this brain and this mind to get the hell out of the way so I can have access to that imagination on a consistent basis. Because all the answers to all my worldly problems. Already exists there. What's the science behind that? Well, if you believe in the Big Bang Theory, and I know there's a lot of controversy right now that that may be not as accurate as we thought, I give you that. But if the world was once this little piece size thing, this whole galaxy was this little thing, then everything was contained within that singularity. And then it expanded. The expansion tells you that everything's already contained within that. It's already here, brother. You don't have to figure out how to do things unless you want to. Because that's when things happen to you, and that's when things happen from you. If that's the life you've chosen, then you're going to have to figure out how and you're going to be stressed and be frustrated. Stop bitching about it and enjoy it. Be grateful for it because that's the way you've designed it. If you don't want to do that anymore, there's alternatives now. I'm sharing with you today there's a way to have things move through you. And that's my goal for my lifetime. And to teach my family that and teach my friends and teach my clients and teach as many people that are open to that, that you don't have to figure out how to do things anymore. How already exists. You're not in control of that. Getting people to hear that, see that, can only happen one way through practice and experience.

SPEAKER_01

David, as you talk about being present, I a word keeps on coming up in my mind, and people have been overusing this word and kind of dragging it around too much. But I still I wonder what your feedback was being authentic, authenticity. It's there, genuinity, another synonym, perhaps.

SPEAKER_00

So we've been talking about authenticity from my perspective, my experience this lifetime is when you're being this and you're doing this are in perfect alignment. That's authenticity. So we have something called the differential triangle that we use here with Samurai Success. And basically, listening to people over the years, they would always describe themselves as adjectives. Um, I'm good. How you doing? I'm great, I'm excellent, I'm a star, I'm I'm you know, I'm I'm fantastic, I'm legendary, I'm elite, I'm the greatest of all time. True. There's a there's a yes, there's this list of adjectives that you go up that goes, well, how do you go from good to elite? How does that happen? And how does it form with the physical plane? And how does it feel with this this spiritual energy kind of thing we're talking about? How does it all become practical? Well, as you move up that triangle, you recognize one characteristic that allows human beings to experience moving from good to being the greatest of all time, their ability to deal with pressure. Imagine a star athlete who we all, you know, say makes millions of dollars and all these other things. Okay, let's say all that's true. They live this extraordinary life kind of stuff. What is the single characteristic of all those human beings? How many cameras are on a basketball court or a football field? Think about that. Think about your job. Seriously, as we're talking about this, think about your job. And there are 50 cameras all focusing on different aspects of you doing this job today. And then not only those 50 cameras, but there's now 50 other talking heads that are going to be on ESPN talking about your performance all week long. About diving into it, picking it apart, doing all these other things. And then the worldwide audience, who are the armchair quarterbacks, right? That we all talk about. How many millions of people are discussing your performance? We don't live under that pressure at all. What are we bitching about, man? But those people do. How does a Michael Jordan become a Michael Jordan? His ability to deal with pressure is his value proposition in this marketplace. Yet, in our society today, Joe, we're looking for ways to take pressure off of us. We're taking off our kids. We're wanting to eliminate the bullies and stuff like this. I will tell you today, I'm so thankful for the kids that bullied me because they taught me how to deal with a bully. There are always going to be bullies. You're never going to eliminate bullies. Why would we want to keep our kids away from that as opposed to teaching them those exists? What are we doing? We've lost our minds.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We're not thinking clearly. We're wanting to be able to pressure is an absolute companion with us to have this thing we call an experience. We can mitigate that pressure. Because if I have a situation, I've dealt with that pressure before. Like if I have a, if somebody sends me a subpoena, I freak out. I've never had a subpoena before, but my attorney has had thousands of them. Why does he or she deal differently with that subpoena than I do? Because they've dealt with it. They've experienced it. And now we want to take that way. What if I hired an attorney who'd never seen a subpoena in their whole life? Why would I want to work with them? I wouldn't. There's no value for me in that. I want someone who has already experienced that. So we've got to really start shifting our brain around this idea behind pressure. Because as you move from good to great to all the way to lead, it's a different mindset, skill set, tool set that you need to develop and you need to practice, and you need to put part of your subconscious programming that just says, I can deal with that pressure. So when it shows up again, it's easy and effortless.

SPEAKER_01

David, is there something in the last month or so you changed your mind on?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I going over this, you know, I've been riding motorcycles for a big part of my life, 20 plus years kind of stuff, probably even longer than that. Um, and I will tell you, just this weekend of training that I went to um really shifted about, I didn't know that I could go into a corner, turn my bike sideways, and start applying the brake at a very slower rate and actually slow the bike in a corner. I could go really fast in the corner, which sped up my lap times. So I could actually go faster. So I would go in there, I would then brake really hard, I would turn the bike, and then I would accelerate and go in. Over the weekend, they taught me that I didn't have to apply the brake or I could apply the brake at the same time. I could just require less pressure of the brake, go further into the corner, which allowed me to go faster, and then turn and go. And it's I I took two seconds off my lip time over the weekend. By the way, two seconds in a lap is so huge, Joe. I can't even tell you. It's not it's like that's not possible. That one technique taught me how to do it. But do you know how much programming I had to do to trust that teaching? If I didn't have the programming to trust the teaching, I would never trust that teaching enough to apply it to be able to see from the experience that it actually worked. So changing your mind isn't just coming from the technique or strategy you're being taught. You've got to convince yourself, you've got to convince your programming through application and practice that it actually works to be able to apply it again.

SPEAKER_01

What motivates you, David?

SPEAKER_00

Great question, brother. Great question. And I've spent a lot of time really thinking about this. My passion this lifetime is I love to learn. I truly love it. There is, I know it sounds strange of everything that's available on this planet, all the pleasure centers, all the other things, learning for me seems to be the most powerful ally I have. I know that because being a philosopher, the person who loves to learn is a philosopher, right? Not someone who goes out and speaks and talks about stuff. Um, it's being able to learn. So I love to learn. So the universe provides me plenty of learning because I asked for it. Not a lot of people like to learn. Matter of fact, most people going into the learning curve, if you will, don't like it. I've actually taught my brain, I've reprogrammed my brain that when I get confused, I love being confused today because I'm about to have a breakthrough. What's on the other side of confusion? Breakthrough. If I never get to confusion, then I never get to the breakthrough. I love confusion where most people fear it, don't want to deal with it or anything else. I don't have to have the same meaning everybody else does. Because if I have the same meaning everybody else does, I'm gonna get the same result. If I want a different result, I've got to change my meaning. This is Einstein again. If you continue to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result, that's insanity.

SPEAKER_01

Insanity.

SPEAKER_00

I'm insane in different ways.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, the day I stop learning is the day I die. You know, so given that as motivation of learning, how do you measure success?

SPEAKER_00

So how I measure success is how I can take that what I've learned and put it into structure. I will tell you it's the foremost of everything that I we do here at Samurai Success. Because the differential triangle we just talked about is a structure. Everything we talked about with the fraud triangle, the learning curve. All if you don't, if I don't keep structure in place, then everything I'm learning becomes perishable. Now that's something I don't like. I don't like things to be, I learned that before, and then I got to go to learn the lesson again because the mistake is not making the mistake, the mistake is continuing to do the mistake, right? So I don't want to do that. I'd like to do it differently. So I take what I learn and I meticulously work on it, think about it, talk about it, and write down structure. And then by the way, it doesn't always come through one time like the differential triangle came through in just one setting. This was years of filling thing, then working through it and shaping it and understanding it and experiencing and applying it. Now, here's the one cool thing that every human being does on the planet. Do you know what that is? One thing, eight billion of us all share the same characteristic we forget. Every single one of us does it. This whole physical plane is designed that way. We're actually swimming in an ocean of forgetfulness that has a frequency, has a name. It's called Maya energy. We're swimming in this stuff, and it's designed this way because the real reason your soul is here is to have an experience of who you say you are. If you remembered everything about you, if you remembered your true identity, if you truly remembered your spirit, your divinity, if you remembered that that fast, the game would be up. There would be nothing else to do while you're here. Because all the confusion would go away, everything would go away, the possibility for experiences would go away. So forgetfulness is such an important part of who we are as human beings in this physical plane. But I want to remember as much as I can. And because of that, and because I remember more often of who I am and what I'm here to do and what my purpose and intention are, when I go into situations that usually cause me to freak out before, I'm very clear about how to make decisions, man. That's a powerful ally.

SPEAKER_01

So what would you have to stop doing not to be successful?

SPEAKER_00

Well, success is one of those really interesting words, right? I mean, samurai success. So success is in our word, right? So we better have studied this. So success, when I talk to people about that, I know you have done this as well. What is success? What's success? And by the way, there's a thousand different answers to that. There's no not a wrong one. Exactly. There is no wrong one. But there is one component that must exist for success to exist. It must be duplicatable. If I do something successfully one time, what's that called? Luck. Right? Or perchance. I've got to be able to repeat that success in order to be able to have it be successful from most people's perspective. That duplication. What allows me to duplicate stuff? Structure. Once I have the structure of things, I can go back to that structure and repeat that process, repeat that structure, repeat that recipe, repeat that blueprint. You've heard all these terms before.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

Best way to reach us uh is called Samurai Success, S-A-M-U-R-A-I success. Um, and really we have 200 plus videos on there for you guys to explore and have some fun with it. Plenty of information, content, all kinds of stuff that we've been working on the last couple of years to be able to get out there. But that's our center point for being able to really do some more research on us. I love that you love the podcast, I love that you love the philosophies, but it's gonna take more for that to be committed to really the work that's necessary to get you where you want to be able to go. So start there, explore that, then reach out to us and see how we can be of service.

SPEAKER_01

Samurai Success.com. Of course, you're on Facebook, Linktree, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, all over the place. David, I thank you so much for the time. Next time I'm in your geography there in Denver, perhaps we'll get together and have a cup of tea.

SPEAKER_00

Outstanding, sir. I would love that. I would absolutely love that.

SPEAKER_01

Thanks again. You'll be well.

SPEAKER_00

Thanks, Joe. Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01

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