132. Brandon Gaydorus - Changing the World Together Through Public Speaking

On today's episode Colette introduces us to Brandon Gaydorus, Founder of Warm Heart Life. Brandon shares his journey of breaking boundaries and cultivating success against the odds. He is the epitome of ambition and adaptability, and reveals how he defied conventional wisdom to author a book that propelled him into a thought leadership role. 

His compelling story—from a golf pro hopeful navigating internships to a confident business mentor and mastermind behind Warm Heart Life—shows that the road less traveled can indeed lead to remarkable destinations.

In this episode, Colette delves into Brandon's early life lessons instilled by his parents, his tireless pursuit of personal development, and his unwavering commitment to community building. As a speaker, author and coach, he has touched many lives, demonstrating his belief in joint growth and the positive ripple effect of community.

Listen in as Colette and Brandon engage in candid conversations about seizing opportunities, connecting with the right mentors, and the vitality of nurturing relationships. It's an insightful dialogue that's bound to inspire you to step out of your comfort zone, embrace growth, and walk alongside others in the journey towards a fulfilling and prosperous life.

This is "Limitless Healing with Colette," and you're about to discover how life truly gets better when we grow together. Get ready to be motivated because today's episode could be the catalyst you need to step into your greatness!

Episode Highlights:

05:37 Consistency and reliability are crucial for growth

08:32 Brandon shares  his struggle with with making friends

11:27 Strong work ethic from his parents

15:23 The results of receiving business coaching, networking and mentorship

18:52 Personal development events

22:45 Mentors priceless advice

29:53 Four-week speaker school focused on repetition

35:16 Making it happen before ready - unofficial announcement of speaker school 

36:56 Committing to climbing mountains and achieving dreams together

41:19 Surround yourself with successful people then learn and apply

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Link to Brandon’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Brandon-Gaydorus/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABrandon+Gaydorus

Warm Heart Life: https://www.warmheartlife.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-gaydorus-26289a84/

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Transcript

Colette Brown [00:00:00]:

Welcome to the Limitless healing podcast where everyone is welcome to take a front row seat and listen in on inspiring conversations, stories of healing and action steps to help you live your best life. My name is Colette Brown and I am passionate about all things wellness, mind, body, soul. Inspired by my own personal transformation from unwell and not knowing where to turn to thriving and flourishing and motivated to help you do the same. I share this platform with medical doctors, wellness practitioners, chronic illness survivors, meditation and mindfulness gurus, innovators of products from food to technology and more. Think of it as a one stop shop for wellness resources where you can listen to professionals from around the world to help you thrive. Join me Mondays and Wednesdays while sipping a cup of tea or making your favorite meal as we explore the world of wellness together. This is the Limitless healing podcast. Our next guest leads by example.

Colette Brown [00:01:14]:

Ambitious, adaptable, forward thinking, community building, thought leader and always looking for ways to break through to achieve not just for himself, but those around him. After being told he shouldn't write a book until he was, quote, older, he paused for a minute and then decided to do it anyway. He's published multiple books. He helps the world with his public speaking and teaches others how to step into their own personal power and get on stage. Through teaching what he has learned through the years, he draws from his own experiences to inspire others. He connects with audiences on a deep level, making a significant impact on many. Through his empowering messages and storytelling, he started the warm heart life. He's going to have the a to be con which is going to be in person in May.

Colette Brown [00:02:07]:

It is my great honor to welcome Brandon Godoris. Welcome, Brandon.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:02:12]:

Thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate that. It's funny when you're so in the moment when you're going after a goal with everything that you have, sometimes you forget about all the things that you have done or moments that you shared, like when that mentor told me, hey Brandon, I think you should wait ten years, get really good at what you do and then write a book. I wonder if I listened to her. I wonder if I listened if I would be anywhere near where I am today. And I remember that moment thinking, man, I guess I shouldn't write the book. And for two years I didn't write the book.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:02:52]:

And then when I saw a guy who wrote his first book at 25 years old on stage in front of 10,000 people who had the things that I wanted, I was like, screw that, I'm writing the book. And then the crazy thing that happened was about a year or two later, I got voted top 50 in America at what I was doing at that time, and I was the youngest person on that list. And I feel like the book was a big credibility asset that I had to be able to get nominated for that because very few people had a book in that field.

Colette Brown [00:03:26]:

It's. It's great, and it's a testament to also showing up in life wherever you're at, because if you're ten years older, you're not going to identify with your demographic as good as you could being in the moment, and it's like speaking their language and also our message iterates through the years. So whatever you have today is so relevant. And what you're going to learn tomorrow is also important. And combining those is great, but doing the work along the way is essential. So I'm. I'm happy that you did. I'm happy that you're a disruptor of sorts, of pushing through the boundaries, and you've got some great stories that you tell.

Colette Brown [00:04:11]:

And, um, I love how you inspire all of us. I first want to take you back to childhood, maybe to a memory that you have good or bad, inspiring or something that's led you in today. And tell us also where you grew up.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:04:26]:

Yeah, so I grew up in a home in upstate New York where my dad actually left his job when he had three little kids. I was the middle and my younger brother was about four years younger, and he had just been born. My dad quit his job and was totally reliant on my mother and the money he saved and just said, screw this. I hate what I'm doing. There's no way I'm going to be able to provide the life for my kids that I want them to have if I stay doing what I'm doing. And I remember him when I was in probably preschool that age. I remember him dropping me off at the preschool, going to college. And then I would see him just studying at night.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:05:12]:

And I saw that all throughout my years growing up. Like, my, I saw my dad just studying at night, studying. When my friends or the people I knew at school, their parents were social, they were going out. My dad was always studying for the next certification. And I saw a work ethic. I saw my mom. She always would follow through on her promises. She was always there when she said she would pick us up.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:05:37]:

She would always show up to different things. They planted two seeds on me that I credit a lot of my success to, which is following through on your commitments and showing up. So that happened there and I owe them a lot of credit for the things that I've done because when I was a personal trainer, my biggest attribute was showing up. I realized that I could be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if I'm not reliable, if I'm not showing up, then people aren't going to want to work with me. And I don't know if I ever took a sick day. I don't think I ever. In the years I personally trained, I don't think I ever took a day off because I was sick. Obviously, if I was traveling, I would let people know in advance, but I don't remember missing more than five scheduled appointments over the stretch of seven, eight, nine years.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:06:32]:

Yeah. And it's just, it's one of those things. I owe my parents a lot of credit. Following through on promises and showing up, it was just instilled at me at a very young age. And so it's refreshing to hear someone ask that because I feel like I don't give my parents enough credit sometimes.

Colette Brown [00:06:49]:

And I think the older we get, the more we see the. What it really takes to. To raise children. You don't have children yet. I do. But you're going to be a great dad, by the way, when that moment happens. But when you have children and you're raising or you have a business, a business is like a child, too. You got to show up when you're an entrepreneur and meet your commitments, no one's pushing you, no one's telling you what to do.

Colette Brown [00:07:15]:

You have to do it yourself. You've built this amazing organization, and I want to think it's a passion project because of your ethos in life, of who you are. And you're also a really good golfer, too, right? That's something you did? Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:07:34]:

Good. Compared to most people. Like, I got my golf pro card and all that stuff, but compared to people who are good, they would crush me.

Colette Brown [00:07:42]:

But I love it. Yeah. So you had a fantastic childhood. You learned all these things from your parents. Thank you, mom and dad, for doing that for Brandon, because you're a great guy and you're doing good things in the world. So what? Where did that take you when you left home? Did you go straight to college?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:08:02]:

Yeah. So I knew I owe my parents a lot of credit for various things, but one thing that I knew I needed to learn, that I didn't really learn was social skills. And so I didn't go to a lot of parties in high school. I didn't have girlfriends. Like, I didn't know a lot of this stuff because that's just. I wasn't taught a lot of that stuff. They were doing their thing. Everybody has different ways of parenting, but one of those things that I knew I needed to learn was social skills.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:08:32]:

It's not like I didn't have friends in high school, but I didn't really know how to go into a room of new people and make friends with them. I didn't know what to say. I would try and figure it out in high school and I would learn different things. But in college, I said I knew the school part of college was going to be easy. Like, I just. For me, it was just a joke. A lot of the stuff that we had to learn in college, nothing against my university because I owe them a lot of credit, but just the school part of school, it just wasn't an issue for me. I was like, I'm not going to be a 4.0 students.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:09:10]:

My dad said, just get enough to keep your scholarship, which I think I needed to keep a 30. And I think I ended at a three one for my four years. The school part was just like, it was what it was. But I said I wanted to go away and I wanted to understand how to make friends and to build a community of people that I could trust, that I could reach out to for advice. And so that was my number one goal in college. I wanted to make as many friends.

Colette Brown [00:09:39]:

As possible, and that's important. And you have continued that on through your warm heart life, and why don't you tell us a little bit about that? And when did that come into play?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:09:50]:

Yeah, so I went to school to be a golf pro and that was a nice experience because I got to do internships every year and so I would be forced into. I would be put into a totally new city, a totally new state where maybe I knew a couple people but pretty much knew no one. And every summer, that's the situation I got thrown into. At one summer I had a mentor who really helped me out because my first internship, I got a d. I literally. They graded us, I got a d. And I didn't know how to do a lot of the customer relations stuff because that was one of the things that I felt like I didn't understand. I didn't understand like, I knew work ethic.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:10:35]:

So I showed up, but I didn't know how to dress, I didn't know how to talk on the phone. This is irrelevant. But I didn't know how to wrap gifts. There was just so many things that there was one time I was vacuuming the shop when a customer was in there, and my boss goes, what the heck are you doing? Like, you can't be doing that. And me, I'm like a 1819 year old kid. I just had, no, you say it now, and you're like, how could you? I didn't know this stuff. I didn't. I didn't know.

Colette Brown [00:11:06]:

You don't know what you don't know.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:11:08]:

Yeah, and I wasn't taught. I wasn't trained. I got. It was one of those jobs where you just get thrown in there. It's a mess. There's so many things going on, and you're just expected to know what to do. And I didn't. I knew how to show up and I wanted to work hard, but if I wasn't taught certain things, I just.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:11:27]:

I didn't even know I was doing stuff wrong, you know what I mean? So the next summer, I said, whatever internship I get, I am going to be the hardest working person there. Nobody is going to work harder than me. And so I was looking for a place that would allow me to do that, and I found a place in Cape Cod that they said, yeah, you can work inside, you could work outside, and you can even caddy, and you get the full experience. I said, boom. Because at this point, I knew I did not want to go in the golf pro direction, but I stayed in the industry because I love these. This ability to go to a different city in the summer, make money, and meet new people. So I go to this place in Cape Cod, and this guy who was the assistant Caddy master, this was his kind of retirement job. He had just had a heart attack probably two, three months before the start of the season.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:12:24]:

And he came back right when I started and I started to get to know him. And I feel like he looked at life a little bit differently because he was still young, he was maybe 62. And I felt like he kind of looked at life like he had a second chance. And little Brandon came into his life at the right time because he was a manager, he was a leader his entire life. Like, he. He managed a grocery store for a period of time that did, I think, over 50 million a year. And don't quote me on that, because it may be the wrong numbers, but it was just like it did a lot of revenue, and he had a big team of people that he was the manager of. And so he just knew so many things about leadership, about management, about customer relationship, that I was just so intrigued by the stuff he would tell me, I was taking everything in.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:13:19]:

There was one time he was like, hey, Brandon, bring drinks to hole number two. This guy will take care of you. I'm just super busy right now. Just bring him four drinks for his playing partners, and he'll take care of you. So I go out there, and I bring them four drinks. Meanwhile, they pay for the four drinks through their numbers, so it's already paid for. He doesn't have to do anything besides just accept the drinks. And the guy gives me $100, and he said, hey, give some of that to Ken, too.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:13:48]:

I owe him some money. And so I go, Ken, this guy just gave me $100. Here you go. And he goes, you didn't have to give me that. Like, you could have kept it all. And Ken gives me $50, and he takes $50. And so later that day, the guy finishes the round of golf, and he gives Ken more money. And Ken comes back to me.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:14:11]:

He goes, hey, blah blah blah. Just gave me more money. I want you to get half of it. And that just taught me so much. One, if you take care of people, they take care of you with the person playing. But then Ken taking care of me there made me want to continue to take care of him. But there was so many things throughout that series of time that Ken taught me and my buddy who interned there that I accredited a lot of what I did in that industry going forward. And then when I got into the fitness world, but then I would visit Ken every year.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:14:48]:

So Ken was my mentor from 20 to 23, and he was the guy who helped me understand how important it was to take care of people. That's why when I heard a business guy talk about how people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for his advice, and he says the same thing every time. You just got to care, that's when it really clicked with me. I want warm heart life to be developed around that one word, which is care. And so Ken was the mentor who taught me so much about the world, and I needed that. So I had my parents, who taught me work ethic. They taught me showing up. And then I had Ken, who taught me how to take care of people.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:15:23]:

And then when I was 23, this guy, Thomas Plummer, came into my life, who was a business coach. And Tom started to help me understand different principles about business, and he really motivated me. I went to his conference. I was 23 years old, and I would go to the cocktail hour after and just hang out and get to know people. And I got to know the sponsors, which turned out to be something you want to do at these events? So I would go have drinks with the sponsors, and this just happened to be in my town, and a lot of them were coming from out of town. I showed them around the town, took them out. It's not like I was paying for them, but like, I showed them the bars to go to, hung out with them, and then the last day, most of the attendees left and the sponsor stayed and my mentor stayed, and they invited me out to dinner. And meanwhile, my mentor didn't know me at this time.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:16:19]:

He called me the new guy. So we go out to the dinner, and it's at the Capitol grill, which when you're 23 years old and you're at a dinner where a steak is about $50, give or take, depending on what it is, you're a little thrown off guard because you're like, this is not a $1 hamburger for McDonald's.

Colette Brown [00:16:38]:

This is my budget for a week.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:16:40]:

Yeah. So I'm like, whoa, it's a little pricey because again, I wasn't exposed to this growing up. I never been to a lot of these types of things, like where I grew up, if you made $100,000 a year, you're a baller. Where I live right now at Stanford, Connecticut, if you make $100,000 a year, okay, good for you.

Colette Brown [00:17:02]:

That's what you need, at least at a minimum.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:17:04]:

Yeah, exactly. And so I'm at this dinner, and I was a little late because I went home and I came back and they go, all right, this one's on the new guy, and I think it. There's ten people at the dinner, plus me, so.

Colette Brown [00:17:21]:

And they probably had expensive wine and.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:17:23]:

Cocktails and bottles of wine, and I'm like, all right, but my credit card, even I had money saved. One thing that I learned growing up was to save money. So I had money, but my credit card only had a $1000 limit.

Colette Brown [00:17:41]:

That's not going to touch.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:17:42]:

Yeah. So I couldn't spend more than $1,000 at a time, like for the month. So I'm like thinking, I don't know what to do here, but I'm just going to play cool, be like, all right, and then figure it out. Because I was thinking maybe they could charge the card, and then if it was more than 1000, I could pay off the balance on the app, and then I would be okay. But I don't know if that would work, but I'm thinking maybe it will work. So the end of the dinner comes, and they literally put the bill right in front of me. I'm looking at this bill, it's $1,100. And I am just like, I don't know what to do here, but I'm just going to put my card in there and see what happens.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:18:23]:

I put my card in there, move it to the middle of the table, and the sponsors are looking at me like, I can't believe you just put your card in there. And after about a minute of my heart just going like this, holy crap, this is not going to end well. They just put three of their cards in there, throw my card back to me, and they said, we got your back. Like, you're. We're going to take you in. So one that really motivated me to be able to pay for that dinner someday, right?

Colette Brown [00:18:51]:

Absolutely.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:18:52]:

So my first personal development event, I remember I had about a 40 person dinner and open bar, good food, and I remember the tab being like $3,000. And I was so excited to be able to put that card down that day and be able to pay for it. And then the next year, I think it was 5500, and I was so excited to be able to pay that. And then last year, I think was like 17 grand. And as hard as it is to write checks like that, I was excited because that motivated me to want to be that guy someday, to be able to pay for those dinners, to be able to take care of people, to be able to give people an experience. And two years later, I went to his speaker school, and that's where everything changed. And I realized that there was an avenue for me to go in with a lot of these things that my parents had taught me. My mentor, Ken, all the different experiences, the people I would meet at the bars that would share stories with me.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:19:54]:

In 2018, I came up with a goal. To go on ten dates without dating app. In this world, that's, like, unheard of. Oh, like you're single and you're not using a dating app. It was like, no, I want to learn how to talk to people that I want to talk to.

Colette Brown [00:20:11]:

Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:20:12]:

Whether it's in a business setting or whether it's just someone I think is cute. So I bought all these programs. I was learning so much there. And Tom was like the guy who allowed me to see a vision for myself that I couldn't see. And I said, this was the most valuable thing I've ever invested in my life if I practice it on a consistent basis. So I said, I'm going to make four posts a week. Meanwhile, all I had was core values for it was called warm heart fitness and entertainment. At the time, I was trying to combine entertainment and fitness, and it wasn't working.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:20:48]:

But I had core values that were working and the fitness business was working, but it wasn't working. Blending the entertainment personal development side of things. And so I switched it. I broke it into warm heart fitness and warm heart life in 2019. And I had done about a year of videos, of consistent videos just posting since 2018. The speaker school, I've just been doing about a year of videos, and I had my first event. It was a musician showcase night and learned a lot. And I said, I think there's direction here.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:21:22]:

And I was ready to do another one. I was in the office in March of 2020 ready to do another show because I thought I was going to have a gym that had the best concerts for up and coming artists at night.

Colette Brown [00:21:36]:

Okay.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:21:37]:

But the mentor side was always in me. Like, I wanted to work with up and coming musicians and give them an opportunity to get in front of people to work on their craft. And so that's the direction I was going to go. I was going to, I was going to buy a gym or lease a place, and then I was going to have concerts at night. And. But before I did that, I wanted to get some experience with the music industry, and I was ready to have my second show because I had worked the big shows in 2017, and there I am in 2020. And then the pandemic hits. So it's, what do you do? Yeah, you just sit.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:22:15]:

We could probably all think of that time in our life where you just sitting there in March of 2020, like, what the heck?

Colette Brown [00:22:21]:

Yes. Yes. Everyone had a pause where it was a big. Take a big breath. And I've heard so many stories that today have turned out to be monumental experiences when they thought initially it was going to be devastating. So you did not have your gem slash entertainment, new concerts. What did, where did you go from there?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:22:45]:

Yeah. So I called my mentor. I said, what do I do? And he said, brandon, I don't know what you should do right now, but I could tell you one thing, you should be there for your people. And I said, oh, okay. So I totally switched my fitness business and got that going the direction it needed to go, because with warm heart life, I knew from personal training that I needed probably about three years to get really good at what I was doing. And so I designed warm heart life, all the different phases of warm heart life where I could do it on top of my fitness business, because my fitness business, I was able to make ten fifteen k a month just easily while I was building this business. So I was putting like 40, 50 hours a week into that. And then I was putting all my other time into warm, hard life for years.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:23:38]:

And barely any revenue was coming in for warm heart life. But because I had revenue with the fitness side and I didn't have much expenses, I was able to save money and I was able to try and build my skillset with warm heart life. So the first thing that I started doing in personal development after the videos was I said, okay, if I got to be there for my people, who are my people? And I was like, I know high school and college kids, they need someone to turn to right now because school's getting shut down, internships are getting turned away, nobody knows what to do. And I said, okay, I got to be there for my people. So let me start a mentorship internship program. And I ended up posting a thing on indeed saying that warm heart life was going to have an internship program, and I didn't. I had the book, the care principal, so I use that as some credibility. And I just think because nobody was getting opportunities, people signed up.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:24:35]:

Like, I would have phone calls with people, would submit their resumes. I end up getting ten people in this program, and I didn't charge for it. They weren't paying, but I was giving them internship credit if they wanted it. And the only thing that I was doing in this program was teaching them how to get their dream internships because I felt like that was the most valuable thing that you could do is get your dream internship, because that's what I knew really well. I had done nine internships.

Colette Brown [00:25:04]:

Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:25:05]:

So I did that for almost two years. Turned that into skip college. Read this. And I say almost two years because when I had my first event in 2019, I had four interns, and I felt like I just mentored them the whole time. It felt like I did that for about two years, from like, August of 2019 to October of 2021. And I had my first event in October of 2021 in personal development. So that helped me become a better speaker doing that for two years because I was constantly teaching, I was constantly educating, and I was even taking clips from those sessions and putting it out there. So warm heart life started to build a name for itself, but still, there was still not much going on outside of that for warm, hard life, except for I was doing one on one coaching.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:25:58]:

I said, you don't have to pay me until you get to 21,000 a month, and then you could pay me once you get there. And so I was working with all these people and I was becoming such a better coach because I was meeting with them once a week and I was doing that in 2020. I was doing that in 2021. And I got my 1st $1000 check in October of 2021 for coaching. And I was like, oh, this is nice.

Colette Brown [00:26:26]:

Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:26:27]:

And what's crazy is those kids who I worked with there that gave me that first check. I started working with the one guy and then he had his two college buddies that they started the business together. I started working with him when he was in college and I worked with them for two years. They were doing two to five k a month. I stopped working with them in January of 2023. They did about 380,000 that month. Yeah. And they were like 23 years old.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:27:00]:

And I think last year we had a call. I think they did about somewhere between five to 10 million last year. About 24 years old.

Colette Brown [00:27:08]:

Amazing.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:27:09]:

Yeah.

Colette Brown [00:27:10]:

What was their product?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:27:11]:

They did lead generation for high ticket and businesses.

Colette Brown [00:27:15]:

Okay.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:27:16]:

And it was cool to see. I've never built, I've never built a 510 million dollars business, but I saw it every week. I was on phone calls. We were working out the problems and working with them for two years. I saw what it take to really build something special. And so people may say, brennan, why would we do business coaching with you? It's, listen, I've seen what it's like to build million dollar businesses. I've been with multiple people who built million dollar businesses and have started to scale it into something bigger. That is a very good example.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:27:48]:

But I've seen that with other businesses, too. And I just knew I needed to hear problems. I needed to help people solve problems because that was one of my biggest skills was problem solving. It was a core value of warm, hard life. We will look for solutions to problems. And that is a core value in warm heart life. That really sticks with me. And seeing that 1st $1000 check, having my first personal development event in 2021 when no one was doing events that actually went pretty good, was cool.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:28:20]:

And then my mentor said, he said, brandon, you're ready to start teaching a speaker school.

Colette Brown [00:28:25]:

Wow. Okay.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:28:27]:

Yeah. Because he used to guest speak on my mentees calls every once in a while. So he saw what I was doing, he saw how much better I was getting and I thought he was crazy. I said, are you kidding me? That's your thing. Why are you telling me to teach at speaker school? He said, you have a big enough following. I've seen the growth that you've had. You've got two books out now in personal development, he said, you're ready to start teaching at speaker school. So after two months of thinking he was nuts, I was laying in my bed.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:28:58]:

I just gone out the Saturday night before. I was laying in my bed on a Sunday morning. I was like, man, I need to be productive today. I just hit the town last night. I'm hungover. I need to be productive today. And I started putting together a flyer for speaker school. And I called the best speaker who I knew in the area.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:29:17]:

His name was Carl Michelle, and he had made his living speaking around the New York City school system. So I was like, hey, carl, do you want to start teaching a speaker school? Heres the flyer I put together. Hes like, yeah, we can do it in my place. So we gave ourselves ten days to get ten people. We were going to do it once a week for four weeks, and we got ten people signed up, and we did it at his place. This was honestly a joke. Ill be honest. It was just like, all right, how can I make more money? How can I challenge myself? And so we did it.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:29:53]:

We did it once a week for four weeks. And we didn't know what we were doing. We designed the speaker school after we got everybody signed up and we sat in his office the day before and we designed the four weeks there. But we knew, yeah, but we knew we could do one thing different than a lot of other personal development programs, speaking schools, which was focused on repetition. And so that's what we did. We started doing the drills with the speakers and we started seeing ourselves become a lot better. So after a to b con number one. Cause the first one was called a different name, then a to become one happened.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:30:30]:

And we, I just had the first speaker school and then a to become one. So I just had my second personal development conference, and we decided to do a virtual speaker school and an in person speaker school. So we did that. That went really well, still in a four week format. And then we did one later in the year that went really well, and they started selling out. Like these things were. We were packing the rooms for these. And then we did another one in the spring.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:30:58]:

But I said, hey, if you want to do that, if you want a little bit more, we're going to do a mastermind at the end of this where we have two days in, in person, and it's going to be $1,200. So it is an investment. It's going to be two days. And if you want to do it, we're looking for twelve people we ended up getting, I think, 13, actually. And because my mentor said, he said, always get one more than the number you want, because someone would drop out. So, fitting enough, we got 13. And then one person the day of said, I can't do this. And so anyways, we had the first two day mastermind, and I'm like, okay, there's something here.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:31:40]:

And because I'd never gotten feedback like, I got after that, because at this point, we had been doing this for a year. I've got a corporate speaker school that I did as well. I did two for them. So I'm at, like, ten of these at this point. I'm like, I think there's something here. And a to become two happens. We blew it up. We had 238 tickets sold.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:32:02]:

We had one of the top ten highest paid comedians in 20. 1617, 1819, one of the faces of Las Vegas, he came and he shared some words. So all of a sudden, this is just blowing up. I did more revenue with warm heart life in January, February, and March. This is the last year than I did with my fitness business. And I said, I think this is the sign that I need to do this full time, because.

Colette Brown [00:32:30]:

And you're helping people by enabling them to cultivate their message and be able to present it on stage through techniques that you teach. And like you said, repetition, and getting over that stage fright or little things that you don't notice that could throw people off how to dress. I like that, too. You teach people how to dress on stage?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:32:54]:

Yeah, and at a to be con, too. We had no intention of doing a speaker school again. Like, I just. I didn't have anything planned, but people kept saying, brandon, I want to get on stage next year. Brandon, I want to be able to speak like you. Brandon, when is the next speaker school? So I sat there for a couple of days, and I was like, hey, Carl, do you, like, do you want to do an international tour?

Colette Brown [00:33:21]:

Take this show on the road?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:33:23]:

And my mentor warned me, he's like, brandon, these things cost way more money than you think. But he did tell me, he said, brandon, do whatever you got to do to make it work. And he gave me both sides, and I said, screw it. I'm just going to do this. And we did Laguna beach. That was a dream of mine. Shout out to Collette, because you were one of the people who encouraged me to do it out there. You're like, hey, if you do one out here, I'm going to do it.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:33:47]:

And I have a lot of people that say stuff like that. And then they don't. And you did. You signed up right away.

Colette Brown [00:33:52]:

Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:33:53]:

And I owe you a lot of credit for the success of Laguna, because that was my. Even though I had taught a ton of speaker schools, that was my first event outside of where I live. And it was across the total end of the country, complete. And so it helped to get someone from around there who believed in it right away. And so that ended up going really well. And still to this day, those are the two best days of my entire life, was the Laguna beach speaker school. So we did Laguna beach, we did Toronto, Canada. That's why I was international.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:34:27]:

So we did Toronto, we did Chicago, then we did New York City for the elite one. And at this point, I'm doing this full time. I have 2025 coaching clients that's helped support warm heart life, the business side, and then the speaker schools. And then I was like, okay, I'm looking at my goals for the following year. And I was like, I really want to take warm heart life to a million, because the goal is to take warm heart life to a billion dollars, where it's the most impactful education system in the country, and we have 10,000 student universities. So I was like, if I'm going to take it to a million in 2024, I think I do need to have an AdbCon, because I think I need to get a lot of momentum created for what we're doing here. And AbCon is a big commitment. But.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:35:16]:

But in that speaker school, I announced it unofficially, and it was nice to have people like you, people, other people in that room who believed in it and said, hey, we want to be a part of it. And that core group of people really pushed me to make this happen. And now it's crazy thinking that someone asked me, they're like, Ed Milette's probably your dream speaker for Ada be con. And I said, he used to be. But to be honest with you, I really like who we got here. We got Jen Gottlieb and Alex Morton, who are rising top motivational speakers in the country, and some of my friends, who are very good speakers, doing incredible things in the business world. They get to have their names next to those two for five months. And now the vision of warm heart life has never been more to life, because the whole goal was to grow together with people.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:36:13]:

I never said I knew everything. I said I wanted to grow with people who wanted to climb the mountain. I'm climbing a mountain I want to climb with people. And so to see people like you who not only are getting better at their speaking, not only inspiring their friends, but you, you have a business that I think it could be in almost every grocery store or every whole foods, wherever you want it to be in the country. And to be able to witness that, it's one of the coolest things because like when I was sitting there at 26 years old, I got voted top 50 in America. And what I did, it was so lonely. And I said I understand how to climb the mountain. Like, I don't need to talk about what I did to get there.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:36:56]:

I know what it takes to get to the top. With that said, the next mountain I climb, I'm going to pour all my energy into it and we'll tie this back to what you said in the beginning, which was this kind of seems like a bucket list thing for you. It is, because I said, if I'm going to climb a mountain, I am going to have a lot of fun with it and I'm going to grow together with a lot of people. And that's when I said I'm going to just put a dream out there and I'm going to go for it. And if it works out, amazing, if it doesn't, I'm going to meet a lot of cool people along the way. I'm going to have a some incredible experiences. And I came up with that goal in 2021 in the summer to have 1010 thousand student universities across ten of the best cities in the United States. And there was phases of it.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:37:41]:

First I needed to become a better speaker, become a better leader, and I needed to focus on mentoring the high school and college students. Once I got past that aspect, I said I need to help people make money. So now that ive proved to myself that I can help people make money, that ive seen businesses grow, ive built a lot of confidence with that and thats very important to the education, the foundation of warm, hard life. Now I need to work with big businesses. This is the next phase is working with big businesses. Speaking school allows me to do that. Communications programs with these companies allows me to do that. Theyre not going to hire me for as a business coach.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:38:23]:

They will hire me for public speaking help communication, help presentation helps. So this skill set that I've developed is now allowing me to get in these big businesses. Like the biggest business I work with right now is 100 plus million. And to see the trust that they give me, it's so cool to be a part of.

Colette Brown [00:38:43]:

Yeah.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:38:44]:

And this is going to be about two more years. I need about two more years working with big businesses, continuing to help people make money. And then after 2025, that's when I believe that I'll be able to just go full time in the education system, and I'll be able to go back to helping that college age range, and I'll have a big community, people that will talk highly about warm heart life. They will want to send their kids there, they'll want to refer people there. And that's the plan. And I'm excited to see not only the growth of warm heart life, but the growth of people like you, people like John Mendez, people like Carl, just that, everybody just seeing the growth that people are having, it's one of the coolest things in the world. And I'm grateful for you. Your belief, not only in me, but in warm heart life, but most importantly, yourself.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:39:37]:

It's one of the coolest things. People always say, Brandon, like, you've helped out so much. What's one thing we can do for you? I'm like, go after your dream. Just chase. When you go after something fun, it inspires me. It proves that when you go after something, you can create something special. And when you create something special, you impact people around you. And the whole idea with warm heart life is, I can't change the world.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:39:59]:

You can't change the world. But collectively, we can change the world. If we just have more plus ones, if we have more warm hearts, there's going to be less depression, and there's going to be more excitement, there's going to be less health issues, more people are going to be healthier, more people are going to be happy, and people are going to be more fulfilled financially. They're going to be more fulfilled with their relationships if they're around people who are having those.

Colette Brown [00:40:24]:

So you're naturally motivated. For people that are a little trepidatious, what is three things that you could give them to get out of themselves, out of their shyness or stuckness, and to see the big picture. What are three things that somebody could do?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:40:42]:

Three things that someone could do to overcome shyness, to get out of themselves.

Colette Brown [00:40:46]:

They might be motivated, and they might, for whatever the reason, it could be because they're shy or they don't know what the next steps are. They might not have grown up to see an example, like, you saw something in your parents, but you didn't see the socialization, and you naturally took it on yourself. You're like, I'm going to do this. And some other people might not have that vision, but they might be feeling stuck so, yeah, maybe three things that somebody could do to rise above that to be their best version of themselves.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:41:19]:

The first thing is get around people who can make you better. Get around people who have the things that you want. So if you can get around those people, then your eyes are going to open to more opportunities. And then once you get around those people, get a better understanding of how they got to where they are. Because the fastest way to get to where you want to be is to learn from the people who have what you want. If you don't know what you want, it's okay. Find people who have some of the things that you want and then go learn from them. Now, once you go learn from them, apply what they say.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:41:49]:

So it's simple. Get around the people who have what you want, figure out how they got that. And then once you do that, apply. That's the biggest key. So many people are stuck. I get stuck all the time. If people think my life is perfect, it's the farthest thing. But whenever problems happen, that's what I do.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:42:07]:

Like, I went through a breakup in December. What did I do? Who are the people who have what I want? So I started studying people like Matthew Hussey. I started studying, like, dating by Blaine. And I started figuring out a lot of the things that were running through my mind, and then what did I do? So I found the people who had what I wanted, and then I started learning from them, and then I started applying what they were saying. And my mental state is so much better now than it was in December because I just did those three things. That's the process that I follow.

Colette Brown [00:42:39]:

You're so inspiring to me, Brandon. Really. Just embody caring and compassion. And this also deep motivation to help other people succeed. Because when we can succeed, we can share our mission, we can reach more people in the world. And it goes into the ethos of warm heart life and everything that you do. One question that I ask my guests toward the end is, if this was the last message that you could have to broadcast out to the world, what would it be?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:43:14]:

Life's a lot better when you grow together.

Colette Brown [00:43:17]:

That's beautiful. Simply put, I like it. Brandon, please share how people can find you. And please give a plug for the adbcon, which I will be speaking in on May 4. So how can we reach you?

Brandon Gaydorus [00:43:32]:

Yeah, best way to reach me is just instagram. It's Brandon Ghidorah, or warm heart life, and just shoot me a direct message. And I'm usually pretty good at replying to those but, yeah, reach out to me. A to b con 3, May 4. Would love to have you there. Collette's just gearing up to deliver one of the most valuable speeches you've ever heard. We definitely hope to see you there. Shoot me a message.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:43:56]:

I love meeting new people. That's probably the best way.

Colette Brown [00:43:58]:

You're in good hands with Brandon. I can vouch for that. Else you'd like to add today.

Brandon Gaydorus [00:44:02]:

Brandon, I just want to say thank you for having me on. If you've listened this far, appreciate you listening, and I'm looking forward to continuing to grow together.

Colette Brown [00:44:11]:

Beautiful. Thank you so much, Brandon. I appreciate your time and you sharing from your heart with us today and everyone else. Until next time, be well. You just finished another episode of limitless healing where we dive into all things wellness. If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to me if you would share it with your friends and family. Together, we can plant seeds of hope that leads to transformation in our lives and the lives of those we love. Let's get healthy together.