Imagine stepping onto the battlefield armed with nothing but a paintball gun. Feel the adrenaline rush as you dodge incoming shots and strategize your next move. This thrilling experience is the backbone of our chat with Tim from the Frontline Paintball Podcast. He's here to debunk some myths about paintball and shed light on why this sport is much more accessible and affordable than you might think.
But we're not just talking paintball strategies - we're delving into the strategies of life itself. Ever wondered how your personal reality shapes your decisions and beliefs? We've got insights into that, referencing Dr. Joe Dispenza's enlightening book, "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself". Let's dive into the power of manifestation, the influence of our upbringing, and how our perspectives are shaped by external forces, including the omnipresent media. We also explore our attitudes towards money, the dangers of gambling, and the power of maintaining a positive mindset.
In the final moments of our discussion, we circle back to the theme of personal reality. We dissect how our beliefs, influenced by an algorithm-dictated world, shape our reality. We share our personal journeys, battles with negative thoughts and fears, and stress the importance of flexibility and adaptability. In a world constantly feeding us information, we remind our listeners that we have the power to choose our own belief systems. As we conclude, remember this: we are all loved, important, and capable of achieving success if we believe in ourselves. Join us for an episode that's more than just a game - it's a game-changer.
Imagine stepping onto the battlefield armed with nothing but a paintball gun. Feel the adrenaline rush as you dodge incoming shots and strategize your next move. This thrilling experience is the backbone of our chat with Tim from the Frontline Paintball Podcast. He's here to debunk some myths about paintball and shed light on why this sport is much more accessible and affordable than you might think.
But we're not just talking paintball strategies - we're delving into the strategies of life itself. Ever wondered how your personal reality shapes your decisions and beliefs? We've got insights into that, referencing Dr. Joe Dispenza's enlightening book, "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself". Let's dive into the power of manifestation, the influence of our upbringing, and how our perspectives are shaped by external forces, including the omnipresent media. We also explore our attitudes towards money, the dangers of gambling, and the power of maintaining a positive mindset.
In the final moments of our discussion, we circle back to the theme of personal reality. We dissect how our beliefs, influenced by an algorithm-dictated world, shape our reality. We share our personal journeys, battles with negative thoughts and fears, and stress the importance of flexibility and adaptability. In a world constantly feeding us information, we remind our listeners that we have the power to choose our own belief systems. As we conclude, remember this: we are all loved, important, and capable of achieving success if we believe in ourselves. Join us for an episode that's more than just a game - it's a game-changer.
just notes 6. Hi, welcome to another episode of life changes, and this is Mike. Today we have a special guest in the studio with us, so it's not just going to be me going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know what I'm saying, and we're recording in a live studio audience. Everybody in the audience? Please clap. No, we're still in my studio, it's just us. But today we have our special guest. His name is Tim. He's from Frontline Paintball Podcast, so that's Frontline Paintball Podcast and he's going to talk a little bit about his podcast. And they go live and they have video. A little more high tech, they have videos. So they go live Friday at 7pm weekly and you can see them live on the Facebook and YouTube and all you got to do is look up Frontline Paintball Podcast and we'll have the links in the description to all their social media as well. As they go live on Sunday at 8pm as well. But if you want to just tell us to him a little bit of what your podcast is all about, yeah.
Speaker 2:So first of all, thanks for having me on your podcast. Life Changers Paintball Podcast Brought a Life Changers for myself. Actually, I'll take it back to 2019 if you want. We can go all the way back. Myself and another friend, we were always paintballing and we went live one night for an event and we had a good hit. We had lots of conversations on there talking about the event, promoting the event, and then we showed up at another event afterwards and we talked about it and we decided let's run with a paintball podcast being sponsored. As a paintballer, you have to constantly be putting out content, at least something once a week. So we've decided sometimes we're not in events recording doing action videos. So we figured let's do something that we can constantly keep putting out, putting out information, showing people, different events to go to Action videos, interviews. We wanted to do all that. Give everybody one thing. So that's what we went with. And Frontline is because that's where you're going to find us. We don't hide behind bunkers, we don't do nothing else. We're on the frontline putting in work.
Speaker 1:It's awesome. So you started like is this podcast only for pros? Like, if I'm just an ad-vid paintballer, I just go on paintballing once a month or once a couple of times a year. Is it something a podcast you think I would be interested in, or is it just for pros?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Anybody can check it out, and that's one of our things that we try to focus on. Most is bringing the information to the players that they want. So we get a lot of new players that'll be coming in and they'll be in one of the Facebook chat groups or something like that and they'll be like where can we find this, where can we pick this up? What type of gear is the best? So we have episodes where we channel towards specifically helping those people out. Check out this gear. If you want to start off on entry-level gear, like you said, being a new player, you only play once a month, so you might just want to have, you know, basic gear. You don't need nothing hardcore, like a lot of the stuff I use is for real steel.
Speaker 1:So let's say, I'm listening to this podcast right now and I'm like I'm going to check out Frontline Paintballing podcast and I'm just thinking like, well, you know how much money is this going to cost me? I'm going to need like 10 grand to get gear to be like kick-ass quality To play or to do a podcast To play. I want to play with paintballing. I get all excited because I'm watching you guys. I'm hearing you guys talk about the events. I'm like, oh, is it going to cost me a lot of money?
Speaker 1:or is it just going to be something for fun, that I can do fun and spend a couple of hundred bucks.
Speaker 2:Well, it can. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, yeah, it's going to cost it can cost you a lot of money.
Speaker 2:But no, not really Like. If you want to start off playing like I'm a mag fed player and what a mag fed player is is we do like everything real. So I'm like like real markers. We don't have a hopper on top of our gun or nothing like that. Well, actually, not a gun marker. We don't have no, um, nothing like that. So no entry level. You can come in, you can buy a marker mag fed marker for two 300 bucks, buy your mags with it and you just basically need a dump pouch. Huh, you know. So when you're done using your mags, take them out, drop them in your dump pouch, continue going, come off the field, re-bomb them away. You go. A couple hundred bucks can get you in the game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, paintballing is a very fun sport. I used to paintball a lot when I was back in the day. It was fun. I thought we were good. We used to play every weekend with my buddies and on the same track up near our house in Quebec, canada. And then one time the police were there like their SWAT team version of the police were there and they're like nobody wants to play with us? Anybody want to play with us? I'm like we'll take you, but prepare to lose, because I'm like 16, 17 at the time. I'm like prepare to lose, buddy. Yeah, okay, man, no problem.
Speaker 1:And I actually have two episodes or three episodes where we talk about paintballing on on Life Changers podcast here. I'm a nice paintball, but anyways, and yeah, I remember we're all like okay. So we split up into two groups Me, I took about five kids well, five kids, five guys, we're all like 16 or 14. And then my buddy took five guys and we were doing the ones where there's two towers and a whole bunch of like houses in between and I was like after the flag style, so, with the, physically, climb their tower, take their flag, physically, run it back to our base. And yeah, I remember we're like we got this, guys, we'll just take it easy on them. We're all joking around and then we're like set up in our houses at the beginning of the field and I remember I just like, hey guys, I'm just going to take a look at what's what, see where they're scattering, and then let's go. I popped my head out and all here's look back at my friends. Do you guys hear that? They're like you were hit in the head.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh crap they hit me right in the ear and you know, I'm like, yeah, you have masks on and it's protected, and it's just still loud though. Oh yeah, so my ears were ringing. I was like, wow, we got wiped out and last on like two minutes. So I was like, okay, let's set up. I think the cops are like do you want us to take it easy on you, boy?
Speaker 2:No no, no, let's do this.
Speaker 2:I told everybody rush them, Everybody just rush, run, rush, scatter they can't shoot us all, and that's it, that's and see, that's, that's, um. So we have big games. I'm not sure if you're aware. So in Canada, here and in the United States, all across the world, they have big games, least every weekend in the summer. You can go somewhere and you're going to find a game that's going on. Some big games can vary from 3, 400 people up to, in the state you can get 3, 4000 people at a game.
Speaker 2:So you have a commander and he's command, and both of you is back and forth, back and forth, and that's one of my main things that I've always said as a commander when we have a certain mission and we need points, we don't mess around. We send the whole team in one direction because chances are, as teams are splitting up to get their missions done, one commander will send 10 guys left, send 10 guys to the right flank, and you know a bunch here and there. So if I were to send my guys out the same way trying to capture an objective, we're going to get into a bunch of little firefights. Some of our guys are getting hit here, some of our guys are getting taken out over here. But when I send in 150 to 200 guys and we're charging one objective. You ain't getting all of us. You might hit the first five or six, but charge them and be aggressive. Get the points, don't hesitate.
Speaker 1:Do it, do it and like the fields you play in, like this is just for fun, like the questions I'm asking, because I like paintball. I haven't been in a long time, now that I'm an old geezer.
Speaker 2:Oh, how you make me feel a little.
Speaker 1:No, I'm joking, I mean, I'm young, I'm young, but like the fields I played in, we had like just woods, open woods, there's nothing in between us. We had ones where you can see the other team, but they're far enough he can't shoot them. That's just tall grass in between, that's it. Bunker, like a hole, a hole. We're in our hole, tall grass, that's it. And you know I've been in some has bunkers. I've been somewhere. If you pay a premium you can ride a little slack line or whatever, and it's like you're in a helicopter and you're just unloading a machine gun and everybody below stuff like that with tanks and buildings and whatnot. So is this pretty much similar here?
Speaker 2:in Ontario. Oh yeah, very similar. We had a place here to shut down this year. It was our last year. It opened up in 2010. So we had it for 13 years. It was called PRZ. It was up in Picton, ontario, and it was in an old military training base and then it went down to the St Asylum. So we've played there for many, many years. Helicopters you can get I think it was like 50 bucks one year and you could pay cash 50 bucks and you could get a tour up around the field. You could shoot down out of the aircraft, out of the helicopter, and shoot it, but chances that you hit in anybody is next to none, right, especially with paintballs. There's zipping left and right with the wind and everything More for fun, yeah. But we get army tanks. We've had APCs where we're all in the back of a armor personnel carrier Wow, getting dropped off in behind enemy lines. All kinds of stuff. Night vision goggles in games, because they have hallways and it's pitch black. You can't see nothing.
Speaker 1:So you get some guys that are like totally kitted out with like yeah, like I see in some of the YouTube videos these guys are all decked out. Even I guess there's like airsoft, which is a different sport but similar concept. Yep, but yeah, they're all decked out with their gear and their hardcore.
Speaker 2:Oh, and you know there's. It takes you back to being a kid. Like you know, when I was a kid, we'd always be running around bang, bang, you're dead, and you'd have a stick that looked like a gun, or you'd use a pine cone that was a grenade. Now you know yourself, we have smoke grenades, we have airsoft grenades. There's all types of things out there now that we can use in with the game. That just makes it so much better. Yeah, get hit with a paintball. It's splats, you know, gives you that effect of being hit. I guess you could say yeah splats.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like the. I guess the thrill of paintballing and all that and joining a crew and playing on the fields and stuff with just random people is just bonding right, just having fun.
Speaker 2:It is going out and it's everybody's welcome, I'm sure like all ages are out there, so you can't really take a field until you're 10. Okay, but you will see some people that they're taking their kids for a walk of the field before the game starts or after the game or during lunch hours, because the kids like, when they're coming off they're hearing dad talk about the game, right, or here and mom talk about the game. They want to go see what's going on. And now they got gel blasters and everything to start getting these kids ready for paintball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's something called the splat guns or something. Yeah, splat masters. Yeah, splat masters, yeah.
Speaker 2:And the kids are ready to those, and you can get like 30,000 gel capsules like super cheap for the kids, right, and you can get like airfields too. So when you're showing up to these events you can build these little I guess you could call it like a field, I guess for the kids, and you can have blow up bunkers and stuff like that, yeah, so, yeah, so you know, while dad's on the field, a lot of the times mom's always traveling with right Cause it's a family thing Paintball really is.
Speaker 2:it's a big family thing. You see a lot of families getting involved in it, now more and more since COVID's hit too, because when COVID hit, let's be honest, everybody kind of stuck together, stuck to the family. And now what we're? Teams of many different players. Now it's like my son's playing, my nephew's coming up to play, you know so Nice. Yeah, it's a family thing.
Speaker 1:So, literally, what made you decide from being a paintballer to being like you know what? Let's launch this podcast and, like, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Well, like I was saying earlier, um, when I first started playing, paintball was a 2015, and I went to a couple of big games and I realized that this is what I want to do, Like this is my thing. And to get known, I wanted to get sponsored, get taken care of. So you have to have a minimum of so many subscribers on each year's social media platforms. You gotta have a good reach. Well, I was making content action videos but I wasn't um, it wasn't my main thing. I didn't. I like to do them for my own personal sake. I didn't like to do them to promote anybody else. It was kind of like a look back, like a memory kind of thing. Like this is how the day went. A year later, I could look back at that content that I made and be like yeah, I remember this, so you have to go to get sponsored.
Speaker 2:Like I said, they want to see numbers, they want to see you're constantly putting out content, you're constantly promoting. So I thought, do it a podcast would be the right way to go. You do a podcast every week. I can cover action videos, I can cover interviews, I can take care of sponsors. I could do all of that in one. So that was that was the main goal for pushing and meeting new people, learning why they're wanting to play paintball, the reason of that cause we don't do just mag fed interviews. We don't just do um load out um episodes. We interview people from beginners Like we've talked to young kids that are just coming into the sport, what they want out of the sport, what they think of it right To professional players that are just in Las Vegas two weekends ago just can't swear kicking ass.
Speaker 1:They're just kicking ass out there, right.
Speaker 2:We've got a Canadian girls team now that are new into the pro field.
Speaker 1:So that's awesome. So, once again, we have in studio. We have Tim with frontline paintball podcasts and he does live episodes on Friday at 7pm every week and he can see them live on this Facebook page and YouTube channel, which we'll have links. He's also on Instagram where they have a lot of photos and pictures and short videos. I believe on Instagram as well as Sunday they're live at 8pm and that's the same thing on Facebook and YouTube and we'll have the links as well, and also they play their older stuff. He can go back and scroll through and watch. So if you're a paintballer and you never heard of it, check it out. It's fun information, it's a lot of good stuff and you'll be able to hear all the different things and they do a lot of cool promotions as well as the giveaways and stuff like that on your podcast. And when you're out in the field and people come and say, hey, what's up? You know Tim from podcast. So if you're on the field and you see them, go talk to them and say hey, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, come up and say hi, like don't be shy. Like that was one thing I noticed when I first started into the sport. I was always shy going up and meeting people. But that's one thing that we need more of because, like, our sport is, a lot of people think it's a big sport but it's actually really small. Like you can meet any pro player you want to meet within a couple of conversations with a couple of people, like they're right there. It's not like you know, trying to get a hold of Wayne Gretzky or somebody, or Michael Jordan, you know, and you got to go through agents and stuff like that. So here it's basically just know the right person, reach out and you can be talking to that person pretty quick.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So let's get to the gravity of the situation Now that you're on life changers. So now we're going to shift gears and talk about changing lives and stuff like that. So have you been familiar or have you ever heard the terms of, like law of attraction and stuff like that before? And what did you think? Like when you heard about it? Somebody was talking about it, because the first time I when I heard about this stuff, I was like I was about 16 to 18 when I started hearing this and paying attention and I was like these people sound nuts. What's your take on life law of attraction? What is your perspective on it?
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, why would you say?
Speaker 1:it's nuts. Why? Because, well, when I was introduced to it, there was that book on that movie that came out called the Secret and that was really popular in the Christian world. Okay, and yeah, I did grow up Christian, if anybody's wondering. But yeah, when I came out, people were talking about it.
Speaker 1:I watched the video and all these people are like you know pretty much. You know I mentioned it many times in my podcast, but people were like you know, all I did is make a vision board. I'm like, oh boy, here we go. I took pictures of what I wanted in life, because law of attraction when I was pretty much told what it was is like you just wheel it into existence, you believe it will happen and it will happen. And they made it sound like there's no work, there's no give or take. It's just like I'm sitting in a room going where is my house? Here's my house. Oh, look, I got a keys and I have a house right and I was like these people sound like dirty hippies. I watched too much South Park in Oak Park, man dirty hippie.
Speaker 1:But that's the way I saw it when I first hearing about it and I guess maybe it's different because, like my dad you know we grew in my house was like, my dad is very Christian and he would be like, you know it's not. You know, universal guidance or not, it's God and this and that right, and you know I'd say it all the time on my podcast. I don't care what you call it. You can call it universal guidance, mother Earth, god, holy Ghost, gut feeling, I don't care, it's all you know. It gets you to the same place with the law of attraction. But what is your, I guess, perspective of the law of attraction and what you were introduced to before we decided to go either crazy or not crazy?
Speaker 2:That's a good question. So how do I want to answer this one? That's a good one.
Speaker 1:And no filters here, man. We just say what's on our mind. I don't even have a script. Where's your script? You got a script. No, I left it out there in the green room, that's right, no, ah, all I give here is a bottle of water. I don't even have snacks.
Speaker 2:But hey, actually you know I'm drinking a lot of water. I'm actually nervous right now. Why?
Speaker 1:You do podcasts all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I'm doing someone else's podcast. It's not too often I've been on another podcast, like I'm a little bit nervous, you got to give another podcast.
Speaker 1:I absolutely Um, because like it's just, you know, we're just chatting, having fun, and then we're going to talk about and see where the you know, where the I guess the mood or the trend will take us in our conversation. So, like I mean, you don't really have to answer if you don't want to, if you can't think of anything at the moment.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm just trying to like.
Speaker 1:Cause here at life changers. We're such big shots I make him nervous. Look at our studio.
Speaker 2:I just don't know where to start. You threw me off to your come on, run a podcast. I was like, yeah, let's do this.
Speaker 1:So now you got me um. So we were literally just hanging out talking and I'm like, hey, man, do you want to do a podcast? He's like, sure, I'll be a guest. I'm like we'll talk about your stuff and we'll promote you, but then we're going to talk about life changer stuff and I'm like we don't have a script or nothing.
Speaker 2:We just wing it. He's like okay. So, um, going back to what you're saying, love attraction maybe I'll come back to that one because it's a good one. I just don't know where to go with it. So many different ways I can approach that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so here's some basic information that I tell people about love attraction and stuff like that. I call it like the uh, you know, the girlfriend effect or the boyfriend effect or whatever you want to call it. Um, you know, but pretty much when we're chasing stuff, you know, here's a fun thing. I would talk about it all the time Cause you know, all my viewers listen to me and hear me talking and promoting all this stuff. But it's good to bring people and guests and the last guest I had, he didn't you know was you knew about love attraction, but you know it doesn't agree with all my crazy. Okay, but I don't expect people to agree with me and be with them. That's the whole point.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the whole point of this right Talking yeah.
Speaker 1:And, but anyway, so you know, with the girlfriend effect or the job effect or whatever you want to call it, cause you always hear people like you know, okay, Mike? So so I'm really trying to get this dream job and I'm sitting there meditating and trying to create the reality and all that stuff and getting my dream job, and I'm chasing my dream job.
Speaker 2:I'm like ha ha.
Speaker 1:Chasing. That's what you're doing wrong. If I'm chasing you, are you running? Hey, what are you doing, Mike? Why are you chasing? You want to talk?
Speaker 2:I'm running. If you're chasing me, I'm going the opposite direction, my man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the main thing is, uh, you got to set it and forget it, in the sense of when you're hardcore looking for a job and you're like I need a job, give me a job, you know you're putting in the universe lack thereof, like you black, like that, you don't have a job, you can't get a job. It's hard to get a job and that's what you're putting in the universe and that's what you're going to get in return. But do you notice, as soon as you get a job, you're not caring about it anymore. You have a job, whatever. Now you get phone calls from all these places and you're like how come they didn't call me earlier when I was so desperate? You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, and you know people are like yeah, that's just coincidence, right?
Speaker 1:I'm like meh, it's a coincidence, up to a point when it happens every single damn time. And the same thing with girlfriend or boyfriend. You know how I'm trying to find true love, you know. And blah, blah, blah, because every the main topics that a lot of people talk about for love attraction in their podcast or in their YouTube channels or whatever. It's just like how to manifest love and how to manifest this. You know, you can manifest anything you want, but when you're chasing love, love is going to run away from you.
Speaker 1:But when you find the specials person that you want to be with, then you're like well, look at all these other people that want me now. Yeah, yeah, where was my option a few months ago? Yeah, the only difference is is you're not putting lack, you know. So a lot of my conversations and a lot of my talks and my podcast and my experiments is going to casinos and people are like oh, it's impossible to win there. You'll never win, you always lose. It's against you, it's for the house, it's not for you. That's why you lose. Yeah, if you're going in with that mindset already, you're down, you're down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't go in with that mindset. You got to go with a positive mindset. I think, with mine going into it with the paintball is we had our goals, we knew what we wanted and at first it was. It was a rough start because we were trying to chase what we wanted. Like you were saying you can't chase it right, and we were like you know what? This is what we wanted, this is what we wanted. And then, as time went by, it just slowly started unfolding. We slowly stopped paying attention or we slowly stopped chasing it and just let it be, just let it naturally flow. It's going to be like this. It's going to come. It's going to come.
Speaker 2:We were more important because our podcast is more for giving back to the paintball community. So, like when our sponsors take care of us, 95% of the stuff our sponsors give us, we give back. And that was our main thing. Like how do we approach a sponsor? How do we get this going? How can we get this giving back to the people? And once we just kind of like you know what, let's put that aside, we'll let that come as it naturally comes.
Speaker 2:And the next thing I know we're getting one sponsor and it was like, okay, this is cool. And then it was like he said three more coming out of the woodwork, we like to sponsor you, we like to sponsor you. So then we just kept focusing on what we were doing. We just said you know what, let's not focus on the sponsors, because obviously we're doing something right, because they're coming to us now. So then we just kept focusing on that and stopped chasing it, because then they started coming to us and we wanted them. So it's like we were meeting each other halfway. There was no running. It's like, no, I'm running to you, I'll meet you halfway.
Speaker 1:Like, let's do this, you gotta set it on autopilot, yeah that's a good way of saying it Because, like you know, if I'm sitting here going, you know it's hard making a podcast. How do I get all these people to listen? How do I get out, how do I do this, how do I do this? And then you start figuring things out, but no one's going to listen to me because I'm not popular, I'm not famous, I'm not this, or I don't have enough money to advertise. I don't have. Well then, you'll never be successful in a podcast. And, like, for me, it's just I.
Speaker 1:My attitude was the university's telling me to start the podcast. So I started doing the podcast and I'm like I'm just going to set it and forget it. All these people that were around me were like don't put too much money into it because it's just going to flop and this and that. I'm like I said that's the same thing you told me about in 2019 when I started the home delivery service for what we do with the store here. And people are like oh, you know, that's another one of your ideas. You know, mike, don't put all your money and time and effort into it.
Speaker 1:But I'm like no, I know exactly how it's going to happen. I'm not going to control it. I'm just going to let it happen. But I noticed the moment I take control. I'd be like, oh, look how amazing I am. I started a podcast. I'm getting all these views. Oh, look at me. Then things start sucking. Same thing with the company. When I'm like, look how amazing I am, look oh, blah, blah, blah. And then the universe is like oh yeah, and now I'm trying to take control of it, I lose control of it. It's funny how it works.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've had things like that happen to me, where it's been trying to take control of things and you just can't do it. It's like you know what. You got to step back a little bit and, just like you said, put it on autopilot, let it run itself, take care and enjoy it, because podcasting, to me, is not a job, it's not an income. I want to have fun with it. If it's starting to become where it's like this is like a job, it gets to be like a like a hassle.
Speaker 1:No, that's fun, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not as fun. It's like because I like, like on a day that consists for me, I love getting up because I do a lot of the stuff for our podcast, Like I'll do all the thumbnails, I'll do the editing, I'll do all the posters, stuff like that. So there's a lot of work that goes in behind it. A lot of people think you just get on the screen, you talk, you know, you shoot the shit with your buddies and you have a good time, you bring a guest on, you learn a little bit. No, like you're doing research on your guest for you know, sometimes two, three weeks, sometimes even a month, you're doing research on your guest Because when they come on your show, let's be honest, you don't want to be sitting there because a podcast is constantly talking and flowing. You don't want to be sitting there, quiet and having crickets, right yeah, and with paintball you can only dive so much into somebody's background about, because a lot of people in paintball they don't share their life story. So this is where I'm from. This is what goes on. It's basically this is my style of paintball and this is what goes on. So to actually get to know somebody within an hour on the air. It's kind of hard, you know. So I'm the one that I like to throw the big questions out there too, the ones that people want to hear, not the ones that you know. That are just your basic.
Speaker 2:So how long you been paintballing? What got you into paintballing Nine out of ten times? Somebody's saying it was a birthday party or a wedding that they went to their best man or something like that that they went to. I want to hear more about it. Like, let's go back to when you were a kid. Like, were you running around pretending you were John Rambo? Like, were you somebody in your imagination playing outside with your friends? Like, what was going on?
Speaker 2:What brought you to play paintball? Because anyone can. I can be working with you today and say you know what? We're having a staff day and we're all going to go check out paintballing. Okay, that's cool, but what made Mike want to get us to go check out paintballing? Was it something that was going on with you when you were younger that just listen like maybe you wanted to be military, never were military. Or maybe you wanted to be police, like those police officers that you were paintballing against you were like you know what, let's go do it and just things and life changes. Something happened, so you couldn't go that route, you couldn't take that career. So now you're like man, I'm a big kid, I'm like 43 years old and I'm doing 15 year old things.
Speaker 2:12 year old things you know like they're on the field just having fun letting it go, and that's what paintball is. You know like some people might gravitate towards playing hockey or something else. For a stress reliever, you go to play paintball. Everything's left at the at the gate. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like you're not thinking of oh, I got a bill to do I got this, I got this to do.
Speaker 2:I got to work next week. You don't think nothing like that. You're just you're a kid again just having fun on the field with all the guys or the ladies, whoever's there, and you're just having fun, man.
Speaker 1:That's awesome and that's the whole point of I guess, like when you go out and do social events, it's just to hang out and have fun and meet people and talk to them and hear their story, cause you know, it's like like that song, right? Like everybody has a story to tell. Everybody has a thing, everybody you know, and whatnot, right? Yep, and it's funny to hear people's stories. Like I bring a lot of people on here and I say tell me your story. And like a lot of people I bring on, it's like you know there's a story, takes them to having their own podcast. Or like one of our other guests from not audio, his name is Mike. That's funny.
Speaker 2:Mike and Mike in the studio. You call the mic too. Mike and Mike on the mic. That's exactly what we say.
Speaker 1:But you know and like how it changes their lives and stuff, because you could plan for anything you want in this world. But I know this one, especially when we're kids, and I would say a lot of people plan for all this. When I get older, this house is going to be I've done the same thing. I'm like I'm going to be a businessman and this is how I'm going to be. I'm going to be so rich, I'll have houses everywhere and we'll be able to go to the Bahamas and do whatever I want. Well, no, now I'm sitting in the podcast studio recording.
Speaker 1:Life changer is Mike For the winner. So one thing I guess just like in paintballing and in life I always give advice to people when they ask me for advice is you just got to learn to roll with it, and that's one of the podcast episodes we have called just rolling with it. Just, you have to be willing to pivot and do whatever needs to be done where you feel yourself being pulled by the universe or, you know, in your case, like paintball community, when you're out in the field, you're not like okay, this is the plan, we're going to do this and execute it, no matter what, even if we, you know, get taken out of the game and lose points no no, we're going to pivot and go oh, now we got to do this.
Speaker 1:We lost Timmy. He's out of the game you got to reassess it, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, just like, just like anything, you know, something happens because there's games that we're going out to and you've got hundreds and hundreds of people and you have a game plan, but as soon as that horn goes, throw it out the window. Everything you put together is gone, it out the window. The only thing that you have that's the same as the players on your team. Everything else is totally changed. Right, you got these 10 people and, like when you're at a paintball field, you know it's like you're hurtling, hurdle, getting cows together, hurting hurting cows.
Speaker 2:Thank you, yes it's a hurdle, but, yeah, it's like hurting cats are, like it's crazy man, like guys are everywhere. And then A lot of people like when you're there as a commander, you'll have All your missions by the hour or every half hour that come in. You have new missions coming in, so you might need people with riot shields. You might need people with heavy gunners that are running box mags like 350 rounds, that they're just holding them one drum you know what I mean and they've got another six, seven hundred rounds on them. You have people that are running just pistols because they need to be like to run certain missions, to do different things, right, so you get all these people doing something, but then, at the end of the day, a lot of these people are recording, so what you need them to do goes right out the window, because they're thinking I need to make an action video. Right, I need to come in through this window like this and, like I said, I said where we played, yeah, and like I said where we played at PRZ, it was no, the same asylum and they had a three story.
Speaker 2:They had a two story warehouses, gym, nate, you name it. It was there, right, so it was like a real urban, a real urban feeling, and you would have like Explosives going off constantly, like they spent like nine thousand dollars on one game just for the Pyrotechnicians to come in and do things and it's pretty wild the things that they do to it. But yeah, a lot of your plans go right.
Speaker 1:With the window man, you got a role because if you keep the same plans, like, just like I tell people with you know that company we have here and next door. It's like you know, for us, if I was to do what I originally thought, which was packaging, package out, you know I wouldn't be in business no more. Because I realized, you know, people are ordering all this stuff and they get like 10 different packages. Well, that's expensive to send 10 packages back out.
Speaker 1:As well, repack them and, you know, put them together, so packages in one package out, and now it's feasible. Now we're actually, you know, good service and stuff. But you know, if I stay with the original plan, out the window and it's kind of like you know, life in general, right, like everybody's like, well, I had this plan and this is my tenure plan. Blah, blah, blah. I say you can make all the plans you want, but if you're not focused on living in the now, you keep on chasing and you're not like you know what I'm gonna, this is what I want, this is how I'm gonna attract what I want. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:And I trust that you know the universal provide, or God will provide or whatever you want to call it will provide right and just let it flow and then it will happen. But you gotta also understand it's not like magic, right where it's gonna happen, yeah, no, like you're gonna get opportunities and you gotta seize them and know which ones are which and stuff like that. And that's the whole point, that's the whole thing. Right, sacrifice, not even sacrifice, man. I never sacrificed anything in my life to get anything I want. I find I see it's like it's. I talk about a lot of my podcasts, because what's what?
Speaker 2:so like you, like when you like what I'm saying, sacrifice, like I'm talking, like I'll explain my big sack. Yeah, so when you ask me what my big sacrifice was, I'll explain that. But like what I mean. Sacrifice, like being away from family, being away, taking time out of everything that you, you're sacrificing something, because there could be something you could be doing right now that you're sacrificing for. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:I know you're saying, but I mean sacrifice maybe not the right word. No, what would we always be doing something?
Speaker 2:more productive or something where we're, like you said, we're not making money on podcasting, so we could be doing something where we're making a couple box or something, right, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, like yeah, when people so like you know, give you background. Some of our podcast is like the way I see the world is, we're all pre programmed. Like we talked about this before on one of our conversations is In movies. We're programmed to see as rich people as assholes, and rich people is crazy murderer, mother truckers, right, yeah. And we're just like huh, right, but subconsciously believe me or not, I don't care but subconsciously when we're hearing all this and absorbing it, when we're watching all this mainstream crap and some of it's pretty good movies like the matrix.
Speaker 1:The matrix stuff like that. But you know, when you're watching all the stuff and you're absorbing it all and you're not paying attention, that you're getting programmed to subconsciously be like Well, I never want to be rich because rich people are assholes and murderers. But I'm a nice guy, I'm not a asshole. I'm a nice person, not a murderer, right?
Speaker 2:I work hard.
Speaker 1:I need to be rich, I deserve to be rich. But yeah, that's the mentality we have, is well told. Well, want to be rich, well, deserve to be rich, but it's really hard to get. And you don't want to be rich because look how stupid and mean these rich people are. Yeah, they're so bored you don't want. You're not bored, you're a nice guy. You're not going to go around stealing money or making. You know they say you gotta be able to, like, screw over your family to make a buck, right, yeah, to be successful and rich in the world. So you're not that kind of person, so don't do it. And you know Russell, pre programmed to be, you know, victims, especially nowadays. Everybody's a victim.
Speaker 2:Right, everybody's a victim nowadays. You gotta watch what you say.
Speaker 1:You can't say certain things you can't like.
Speaker 1:It's totally changing now, especially here in Canada, right, yeah, but in general, like Even before covid, like now it's more prevalent, I guess in 2023, almost 24, but it's more prevalent now. But for the whole time, everybody's you know your program to be like A victim in the sense. Like, oh well, for me my family was well, we're victims because you know we're poor and no matter how hard you work for the rich guy, we're gonna make him richer and we're gonna be poor. So my dad instilled in me that we're victims, right, and that's where it all goes. With the pre program and stuff that I talk about.
Speaker 1:A lot of people might be like you're not, mike, I don't like you. I make my own decisions, do you really? You make decisions based on the information you have. Yeah, what you're watching, what you're absorbing, is only what you're gonna get right. Like for you. You know your world is paintball. Anything other than that is an afterthought, pretty much. What wakes you up in the morning gets you going to paintball. I get up in the morning and before I go into work, I get up and I have a cup of tea.
Speaker 2:During that cup of tea I'm editing some clips. I'm getting my post ready for the day, making sure everything's taken care of yep, and then throughout the day, whenever you get a moment when you can, your answering Comments. You're replying back to people. You're talking to field organizers. You're dealing with sponsors. You're dealing with Field owners asking you hey, can you promote this on your podcast? Can you do that?
Speaker 1:get busy, right, and that's your world it is, and that's your, your, your, your program that you're running, I would you know, in a sense, right, just like my program I'm running is a little bit of a Program I'm running is a little bit different, right? So I got my business owner, got a managing police, I also got the podcast that I bring people on and, as you can tell, I just wing it, I don't plan for shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's what we do on ours. We kind of have like a quick I guess would you say synopsis of what we're gonna go through for that yeah just a basic script to like punch lines that you gotta talk about Like we.
Speaker 2:you know I have here like all your information that we're promoting and stuff yeah, you just organically go through into it and just yeah, that's how we do it to, just same way, and just flow with it and go yeah, but in the end, what I'm saying is like everybody has their personal reality and for you, that's what's true.
Speaker 1:If I come into your reality and I'm like paintball stupid you're stupid for believing in paintball that's not gonna change nothing. He's gonna look at me and be like your asshole, mike Paintball, paintball, right. I'll be like well, I did and I lost. That's why I hate paintball, right. Every, like you said, everybody has a Background story of why they hate what they hate or do what they do or whatever, right? Yeah, or they have that experience with that one person. Well, I met a paintball or once and he was so mean to me. So I hate all paintballers, right, yeah, but it's all about personal reality. So in my personal reality is, like you know, puppies and rainbows is you're talking about a lot of my podcast.
Speaker 2:My motto is a Kunamata yeah, yeah, I've heard you say that a few times now yeah, but stuff like that and it's not wrong.
Speaker 1:So everybody in their own personal reality and their reality, everybody's right in the world according to their own reality, in their own self, so that for nobody's wrong. Who are you to tell me? But yet in my reality, if I was, you know, close minded and be like, well, everybody else in the world that doesn't believe what I believe is wrong. They don't believe in life changer.
Speaker 1:You don't believe in love attraction fuck you right, yeah no, you know, I promote on our podcast love Every and just understanding. Everybody has to understand that everybody's in their own reality and everybody makes decision. What's the information they're given? And this world, more than ever, is an algorithm we're talking about Mike are we in the matrix?
Speaker 1:We kind of are, in a sense, everything you watch. So if I watch something, I'm sure if I go on, log on to your YouTube channel and watch your, it's gonna be all about paintball, right. And then if you log on to my thing love attractions and I am and all this positive stuff, right, that he log on. So everything's an algorithm. So whatever I want to see, that I start watching, I'm gonna see. So if I'm looking up negative stuff all the time, I'm only gonna see negative, that's right. No conspiracy theories or whatever, right, but that's all the information you're receiving. Then you make your decision on life. That's what you put out and that's your personal reality and that's what you put out with the energy you'll attract the people that you're gonna attract. That I believe, what you believe in your community or whatever, right. And I just want people to understand that it's not just about you know, believe, everybody should believe. What I believe is funny, because we I had a friend of mine he would come on me like I'd be, like you know. Hey, you know, join cove ed. You know it's not a lot of work out here, everybody shut down, but you're still in business like you want to come to the Arctic, you want to get in the truck for 10 days with me, yeah, stuff like that. So, you know, hook him up, give him a job. And he came and work with us for a while and tell, everything opened up again for him and he got his job back somewhat back to normal, somewhat back to normal, the new normal, but it's a for him. He'd be interested, like you know, tell me about the law of attraction, oh, you know. And he's like what would you normally be doing if I wasn't in here with you and nobody was with you? I'd be like, well, right now be playing, you know, audio books of Dr Joe to spend or Michael, a singer, you know, and stuff like that, because I'm curious and learning all the stuff, right, right. So he's like, let's listen to it, right, so we find it. So far, few months he'd be listening and he's like, oh, that's a good, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. And then one day he's just like you know, you're trying to make me believe what you believe, but I believe different. I mean wick. I'm like, where did that come from? But you believe whatever you want to believe. Man, I said you're the one asking me questions and you know I don't tell people to believe what, what I believe. I'm not here to tell you. Hey, tim, believe what I believe, do what I do. It's gonna work for you. Because it won't you have to find this whole podcast. Just like your podcast, I'm sure, is you giving out all the information and it's up to people that are listening to be like hey, out of all this information, this might work for me. This doesn't work for me. Hey, this you know for you, like this equipment might be better for me, be the way you explained it, for left hand or right hand, so on and so forth. And then for me, when I'm talking to people, I'm like these are what works for me. I'm not telling people I cannot tell you I could.
Speaker 1:Here's a fun fact I mentioned to one of my podcasts and we're just having fun, you can always chime in and tell me to shut up. But one of my podcasts I remember telling somebody I brought somebody with me to the casino, with him and his wife, and I was like I could teach you exactly how to make money today At the casino, at the casino right away. They're like oh, yeah, right. I was like here's 20 bucks, and here's the basic functionality of casino machines and how they work, and then do what I say Not as I do and you will win. But it's also the frame of mind, right, and they're like oh yeah, okay, I'm just going to lose your money, right? So they take the money they put in the machine. It's only 20 bucks. I'm not like giving people hundreds of dollars. Here's 20 bucks. And and I'm like you notice, the guy that was sitting at this machine before you was max betting $25 a spin.
Speaker 1:They're like yeah, okay yeah, like, I guess I'm like well, you know, should have noticed. But notice, this guy put in a lot of money. He probably put in four or five hundred bucks. So you go with 20 bucks, right, mathematics states the machines have to pay out a certain percentage, no matter what. Eventually it's all about run random number generators for the big jackpots and stuff, but it still has to pay out a little bit of money. So you put in that 20 bucks, you do a lower bet of 50 cents a dollar, right? And then you're going to get line hits and win technically some of his money. And that's just a basic theory of it, right, mathematics, and all that stuff. And then you know they're like okay, and I was trying to tell them, but it's also about the energy, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like since, you know, since I'm here, I got all this amazing energy.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you that you're going to get some good, good vibes, good luck from you, right? Blah, blah, blah. Anyways, in the end they ended up turning that like and they're like okay, whatever.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I said look, you're not to keep the 20 bucks and walk away just like free play in a casino. You got to play until you double it, then you can keep it. If you lose it all, you lose it all. But if you double it, you can keep it and do what you want after that. And you know sure enough, they double the 20 bucks to 40 bucks, I was going to say, did they?
Speaker 1:double it, of course, but then they're like and then just like other things. I learned, right, when you're like oh look, I'm amazing, right, start getting not greedy, or like cocky, cocky, poppa, sass holes like I Even I've done the same thing where I'm like look at me, I'm amazing, right. And then you know they go to different machines and then they get. You know, that's how addictive stuff, crap starts. Right, you can't do all that stuff because that's when you lose and I've lost money doing that and then they're like okay, well, you know, that's cool, that's you know but, what about you?
Speaker 2:Do they think if they bet big they win big or something? Is that why they're betting big like right off the hop, like 20, 25 bucks? I'd be that penny pincher, 50 cents a dollar.
Speaker 1:It's the excitement, I guess, because when? Yeah, because the machine is gonna pay you a certain amount above what you're betting, right? So if you're betting Unless you win a big jackpot, if the machine's gonna give you a jackpot on any bet, then you might win the 10,000, 20,000 or whatever right on any bet. But some machines will be like you have to bet minimum three dollars or five dollars, but in order to hit that big jackpot some of them are like that, most of them aren't. But if you're betting $25 a hit and then, well, you get a line hit, it's gonna be a few hundred bucks, right, when you get into free play and stuff like that depends on the machine, right, and how it works, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:I've never been a gambler.
Speaker 1:You bet big, you win big. See, it's not call. I don't gamble. What do you call it? I just call it picking up a paycheck.
Speaker 2:I'm not there with that mindset, though, right like listen. I'm not here to gamble, because when you gamble, you lose, that's right. So I'm not here to gamble, I'm here to get my money.
Speaker 1:It's about personal perspective. I can go into casino and if I have the good energy, the good vibes, the perspective of, like you know, loving, happy-go-lucky, living in the moment, mike, I know I'm gonna be doing pretty well that night. But then if I start getting pompous, asshole or greed or Hmm, you know, cocky and stuff like that, I know for a fact I'll lose money. Time to leave, early time to leave. But you'd be surprised how many people when they feel that way, they're just like in the smack in the buttons hard, and that's me, know it's.
Speaker 1:But I don't do this for a living, don't get me. I just go whatever I feel and just have fun, and if I lose, I lose if I win the odds and win.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not yeah, it's all about my friend. Do you find you win more than you? Then you lose when you go to casino, because most people they lose more it depends on the Mind frame.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, like what the episode of me doing the real experiment on here is yeah, I won more than I lost with my profit loss perfect, I still made money, profit, stuff like that, but it's, it's what you believe. Okay, here's an example. She was talking about casinos. I was playing roulette and I think I believed, and those online roulette, like on an app through the OLG sounds like the OLG one, like the lottery and it's live dealer spinning a ball on TV, like on a camera, and then everybody bets and it's like roulette, but digital but with a live person. So there's no Chance of scamming or whatever right, it's literally by chance. And then I'm thinking, I'm like I want to beat real life.
Speaker 1:And then I came up with a concept on On, you know, betting on the board and stuff, and I I'm not even joking I truly believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that I just broke the system and I figured out how to make money and there's no way in hell I'm losing. Okay, and it sounds stupid how I came up with it, but I'm sitting there watching and I put a $5 chip and I put about $60 worth. So I put 12 yeah, 12 chips. Sometimes I add yeah, no, 12. That's 55. Then I added 13. So I'm covering in my favor.
Speaker 1:60% of the board is gonna be for me to win and the other 40% isn't me losing. But since I take out the double zeros, there's only one zero. It's 65% chance for me, right, 35% chance to be losing. And then I was like okay, and I wasn't paying attention to the big numbers of like on the board. I have $60 and then if I spin I hit One of my numbers and they're not on one number. I'm splitting numbers and stuff, right, all this weird fancy crap. I don't even know how it works, probably.
Speaker 1:Just mathematics, right, yep and cuz. You hear concepts. One people like you want to win. You know roulette. You put everything five bucks on red, yeah, and if it hits you just leave the five bucks, keep the profit because it doubles. And then, if it doesn't hit, you double it. And then if it doesn't hit, you double it.
Speaker 1:Don't want to hit, you actually won, you know five bucks, so you will eventually win your money back, if you just well, it depends how much money you're gonna put on there, because they say mathematics it's rare, but it does happen that it'll not hit More than seven times in a row. But you think if you put five bucks you don't hit, that's ten bucks, you don't hit. 20 bucks, 20 bucks, no hit, that's 40 bucks you gotta have enough money and I've seen it where sometimes it was ten times in a row.
Speaker 2:So someone's just chasing it, trying to get their dollar back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you end up putting all the money you have on you know so, stuff like that. But so I'm sitting here thinking so if I don't hit One of these, I double it. Right, then when I do hit, I should win. But actually I was winning a little bit, but not as much as I thought, because I'm gonna profit $30 on a hit Every spin, even if I lose. I'm profiting 30 bucks because I'll just keep on doubling.
Speaker 1:So what I do is I've spread the board, I Double it, but you gotta put your original bet back in. So if my original chip is $5, $60 if I don't hit, I got a hit double. But then I got to put my original bet on each other chip. So I'm adding another $15. Okay, and if you lose, I'm adding. Now, that's 15, I'm adding, I got a double it. Then I'm at five no, at 15, because you got to add what the original amount per slot. So within six spins or five spins, you got over five grand on the table. If you're losing, wow, right, but I will do it. I couldn't do it, but I wasn't thinking. You got to understand.
Speaker 2:I don't lose 5k like that, like I could have, like you know, like I could have something really nice for paintball for five grand.
Speaker 1:But I wasn't paying attention to that. Right, I'm just like doubling, and I'm looking at the original amount. Right, I'm like, well, it's only like a hundred dollars, but no, but there's a hundred times 13 out there. Now I'm doubling, I got a double. See, so if I have $1300 on one thing times 13. Oh, that's a lot of money you're putting on the table, right? So if it's $200, time it's a little like, and the table limits only 10 grand, so you could hit that limit and be bankrupt.
Speaker 2:But oh, oh, the point of the story is don't gamble.
Speaker 1:But no, for me, I truly believed. You know, like a kid truly believes, like you know, the Santa Claus exists or whatever I know, and they truly believe it 1000%, and like they're gonna get what they want right. So I truly believed 1000% that this was foolproof and I was not hitting more than three spins loss. And I wasn't. I was hitting, like sometimes I hit like ten times in a row, all my numbers. Then I lost twice. I just doubled add. So you're doing like double plus the original bet, double plus the original all the way Through. And I only did it, managed to get to three spins and then it would hit.
Speaker 1:And then who? Look, I Won, right, and the theory is I win $30 every spin. So you know how lost the three in a row on the fourth spin. Well, I'm gonna get all my money back, plus $30 profit on each spin. So then I got like, wow, this is, I'm amazing. So instead of five bucks, I put ten bucks. Oh, no, so now I got 120 on the board. No, no, and I'm going through like this. And I started I'm not even like joking I started with $3,300 because I like playing slot machines and you know, I started with a hundred originally and I got up to 3,300 by winning different games and stuff like that, and then I was like playing blackjack or poker and then I was like I think I thought you know, I created the system, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna do a thousand a day.
Speaker 1:And I was like so excited, like I I'm not even joking man I believe, like these kids believe Sanis, or I believe that I was not gonna win, no matter what. And here's the funny part In my heart I was like you know, I'm gonna tell my wife, I'm so excited, I'm gonna tell my wife, right, yeah, and you know. And then I kind of felt like, oh, I shouldn't tell her whatever.
Speaker 2:You're winning.
Speaker 1:I took it from 3,300 to 8 grand in two hours. Wow, okay. And I was like, oh my god, I figured it out right.
Speaker 2:And then you know I was like so are they watching you now in the casino, like I know, like Eight grand, like that's not one of us exactly so for casino. So when do they start watching you? When you start making this money and you're like I'm God, I'm making, but that's the bank.
Speaker 1:Let's go. Well, that's the thing I don't know. Like I'm playing on online, I'm playing in my house in the base.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, right right, right.
Speaker 1:When I play at a real casino, you got to be fast. I'm putting all these chips on and everybody's pulling. All right, that just pisses me off. At least this way, when I just click rebate Double right, simple, not running around chasing people, I'm trying to make sure I get mine. He's only got a certain amount of seconds.
Speaker 2:I need a drink.
Speaker 1:Lady with the cart right, yeah, but I had experiences when I was playing and Winning, like in blackjack and stuff, and then you see like some managers are coming over to look like because if you're winning a lot of money, but I'm only winning eight, you know I only won 4700 in two hours but there's people that are betting. You can see when they win that they're like boom, congratulations, so-and-so, just won like six grand and that's just one spin. Yeah, I don't know how much they lost, right, but it's funny Because I truly believed beyond a shout of it out. But then I went against my feelings and against the universal law.
Speaker 1:I guess I told my wife, hey, honey, and I showed her all the math and everything. And she's like yeah, but do the math and see if you lose six, seven times in a row, mm-hmm, how much money you're gonna put up and you could lose it all in a second. And then you won't buy the eighth spin or something. I'm not gonna be able to recoup my losses, yeah, so you gotta know when to fold them. Yeah, right, and I was like, oh, and then it hit me like a ton of fucking bricks, man poof, it isn't foolproof, you could lose. And now I have that feeling in my heart, in my body, that I could lose. And I could, oh my gosh, no.
Speaker 2:That's what I would have every time going in there, I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 1:So then I try. You know, I ended up playing some slot machines and stuff and I got it above eight grand. So I had an extra thousand above eight grand. So I thought about like to the same nine grand. I was like, oh, I'm gonna try for fun. Oh my, and now I'm losing. Mm-hmm, I'm losing. Every spin, I'm losing. I've got it. Oh, I won one. Oh, I'm doubling, oh, I'm tripling. Now I got no, the thousand left me like a fart in the wind man Just.
Speaker 2:So, like where you were, you betting, like afterwards, where you like you know, I got a double, I got a double down. Now I just lost a thousand balls. I got a bet 2k.
Speaker 1:Now I got to get that back well, in theory you're supposed to continue, but I was just like huh. I just want to prove to myself the law of attraction works because it does.
Speaker 1:When I truly believed in every man on my bone and I was hitting like I've never seen it that you know, I'm on a roll, yeah, yeah. And I didn't believe I could lose. I truly didn't believe I could lose. So I did it, because the law of attraction states what you're like, that energy you're putting out there is guaranteed to win. Right, in theory it's not guaranteed, but I really believed so I wasn't. I was like I'm only gonna hit for maximum, where I have to double down and add the original bet, so on, so forth. And then I'm, and I was doing amazing and I was confident that I could make a grand every damn day in less than an hour playing this way, and I Proved it to myself in two hours I made all this money and I was like Genius. But then, the moment my reality broke and like no, this is you know, now this is real. And look them out.
Speaker 2:I'm like Now I'm scared and now I'm losing it's like they say if you play with fire long enough, you're bound to get burned right. Exactly so you're bound to lose if you're constantly gambling. Gambling. Now, what would happen if you were this little test you're doing with yourself? What would happen if you were like Okay, I hit my G note, I made my grand for today. Before you started losing, you knew when to fold them. You got up. We're not. That one came back the next day. Yeah, have you ever done that? Come back a few days like cash out when come?
Speaker 1:back. Yeah, it keeps going. It's not that I see it. If it keeps going, I just feel like the energy is drained out, it's done, there's no more winning, and I leave and then I come back and I win.
Speaker 2:So you go. Have you ever passed off your energy to somebody else?
Speaker 1:Oh man, yes, and other podcasts, you'll see me talking. But yeah, when I meet people in a casino and I start talking and I'm like, I'm just like, hey, how's it going? Are you doing good? Are you winning? You're losing. And there's like, oh, I'm not doing good, I'm losing. When you have that negative energy, you're gonna dump every penny you own into that machine, thinking you're gonna win. But then I'm like, oh no, now you're gonna win because I'm here, I'm happy, go lucky. I'm Mike from life-changers Did it right.
Speaker 1:People are like this guy's weird. But then they start winning because I shifted the energy, yeah, shifted the belief system, because I, you know, I'm not here to tell you this is what, how it's done, do it and you're gonna be successful, like me, right? No, I'm telling people that this works for me. If you truly believe that Whatever you're doing is gonna work for you, 1000% of the time will work for you. But the moment you don't and you believe otherwise and this is how it started for me I used to rock climb all the time. I would climb to 300 foot cliffs, no problem, don't blink, I don't care, I would free climb up, not worried about nothing. But I remember the one day I started going because I don't know where it came from, if somebody put it in my head and all that. But I wonder how it's looking around going. What if this rope breaks? What if this rock falls out while I'm climbing? What if this, I, all these little I could?
Speaker 2:die, I could die, I could die.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I haven't been really rock climbing since, Because now I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 2:I put that my reality. Yeah, you manifest that in there and that can happen sometime.
Speaker 1:right, exactly so you know I say I never what was that word we used earlier? Like gave up something, sacrifice, sacrifice. I'm like I never really sacrificed anything, because I just everything I have, I kind of just like created and like put in my reality. Like you know, I don't focus on negative energy. I'm not the type of person to be the victim or be everybody hates me, you know, or whatever, and then things the whole world hates me. Now I'm an asshole to everybody in the world, you know, because I'm pre Determining that everybody needs gonna be an asshole. So I'm an asshole to them subconsciously, right? Yeah, but no, I feel like whatever I want, I'm gonna get. That's a good mindset, because I put in the universe and the next thing I put into that is Whatever I want I'm gonna get, as long as it's something that I need and that's okay what I put out there.
Speaker 2:I'm with you there as long as it's something that you need, right cuz like you know yeah, I, you hit me on my podcast sometimes.
Speaker 1:I'm like you know, it's such a piss-off that I'm not like Multi-millionaire making millions of dollars a week or whatever, because I would just give it away, you know. But see my me talking like that, as all my listeners are probably shouting right now. You're putting lack there of Mike. Exactly, I'm putting that energy out there you have to truly believe that if you want to accomplish something or create something in your reality because I'm telling you, this is the only world when you can put a thought, and it's proven with science and it's proven all over and over and over.
Speaker 1:Even people that's listening right now Going this guy sounds crazy, he's stupid, right? Even those people can testify To the fact that we can think of something and then create it in this reality, absolutely, and this is the only thing we could do that, like you could think of, you know, a type of water bottle you want. You can go ahead and create in this reality. I'm not saying you're creating it from nothing, but you're gonna find a way to create your reality. Yep, and All those people that are negative, energy negative oh poor me, I'm always sick. Oh poor me, I'm always dying of something, blah, blah, blah. Well, if you focus on that and let that become your reality, that's what you're gonna get and that's what I live is Happy-go-lucky Mike with his podcast life-changers, and I'm a successful businessman in my eyes.
Speaker 2:Well, you seem to be pretty successful. From what I've seen, that you have going on seems to be what you've been putting out, what you've been taking in and putting out. Has you been Reaping the benefits of it? It's not saying like you're getting filthy rich or nothing like that, but you know you got a roof over your head. You have other projects that you have in life that you want to continue going on and doing and Obviously you couldn't do that if you weren't being successful in this business. Right, this would help Pay for some of your future projects that you want going on right.
Speaker 1:But it's not only that it's the fact that I'm not putting the lack of thereof of needing money. I can care less about money because I'm at the point where I know, no matter what I can make money, if I want it, I'll make the money and get it. It's like what you know I used to grew up and you always hear we'll live paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1:I know and some people are behind, right, they take loans and they're behind a paycheck right to pay off things. And it's a struggle and I remember thinking like no, I don't want to be like this, I don't want to live paycheck to pay. I was 18 years old, working a job making $25 an hour. That's over 22 years ago, buddy, that's, I was making 25 an hour. That's when a bag of chips was like a buck 15, whoa right. A bottle of water was like 25 cents, yeah right. Pops were like a buck. Everything was cheaper back then. You know, oh yeah, gallon of milk or four liters for Canada of milk was like, you know, $3, $2, 50 cents, whatever. Everything was cheap.
Speaker 2:Gas was like 40, 50 cents a liter. I was gonna say I remember being like 67 cents a liter. Right, that's the cheapest.
Speaker 1:I can remember it yeah and that's you know where I grew up. But I still never had money because I was told you have to live paycheck to paycheck. We have to struggle because that's what poor people do. And then I was like, no, I don't want to and I just, you know, like that book I read that you hear me talking about in the podcast a lot. I don't know if you heard that part where I talk about you got to break the habit of being yourself.
Speaker 2:That's by dr Jordan Spencer and that's one of the hardest things, because that was gonna be one of the questions I wanted to ask. You was like what kind of advice would you give somebody that comes from a negative mindset? How? How would you get them to start thinking Positivity every day like you do? How would you? You woke up with somebody. You or, oh no, I have people.
Speaker 1:I know that I like okay.
Speaker 2:So how have you noticed yourself Seeing any changes in them from being around you like no energy that you put off. Do you find that they're slowly changing? Or are they just like Mike? You're crazy, this ain't working.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, see, I don't talk about my craziness to everybody that knows me in person. Okay, only certain people. There's been people that have been with me Buddy, mine, named John. He's been with me and saw me when I did my experiment. He was with me watching me win all this money. Like you know, I make it sound like Millions. No, no, for me I went in with a hundred and I'm walking out with like 800, 1500, 2500. And then Sometimes I went in and I went in and lot like lost everything. Right, I'm like okay.
Speaker 2:I'm leaving right, because it was an experiment.
Speaker 1:I want to test the law of attraction and see if it was BS or not. If it was real and I learned a lot, like you know, we've mentioned a little bit earlier how soon to get cockier or Selfish or greedy or whatever arrogant. Or if I'm playing the machine, I leave machine and that person wins on that machine, I'm like, oh, that motherfucker's winning my money. I'm gonna give it back to the old bag. Come here, then you're gonna lose everything you have. That's my experience. But when I'm like if I'm playing and let's say you're playing next to me in a machine and I'm like, hey, how's it going, guy? What's up? Are you winning? You're like, oh, you know I'm doing okay or I'm not doing too Well. I'm down a little bit. I'm like, don't worry, I'm good energy. We're all gonna get bonuses together. Let me start feeding off that energy.
Speaker 1:You might think I'm crazy, but usually you'll start hitting you like what? I got a bone and he got like two, three bonuses in a row and you're like this never happened before. And I'm like what come to lefty. That's what I was literally doing. And I'll just like happy for them and people would win more money beside me because now in their Reality they're like, holy crap, this guy, something different about him. He's, he's, I'm getting bonuses, I'm yeah, I never won like this before. And then they're like there's something with this. And then I'm, you know, winning. And then some of the people that work there, they know me, and they're all like, oh hey, mike, how's it going? How much are you gonna take out today?
Speaker 2:How much do I need for a paycheck today? That's what you call, it right?
Speaker 1:Check, I'm not here to gamble. I don't gamble. I don't see it as gambling. I go in there to have fun and play around and see what the universe wants to hook me up with, and sometimes it's nothing, because I'm an asshole.
Speaker 2:But you, you're still coming out of it with something, though.
Speaker 1:It's the learning. You know, the experience. Yeah, people, you can learn about business yourself and Spend all the money learning about it. But you could just listen to me, I spent all this for losing all this money in a business and at the casino. But yeah, other people beside me were winning and yet to this day my buddy would still be like, well, he's just, you know, lucky Mike, lucky, lucky. I could never do this, I could know, and he would play beside me sometimes. I'll try to convince him and here's okay, here's a fun example. You always hear this all the time and then I'll show you. I'll tell you the story in reality. Like, I know we're over an hour, but who gives a shit Already? Yeah, yeah, we're out, been on for an hour and five minutes now. Oh, just about, but anyways, we'll wrap it up soon. People, this is getting fun.
Speaker 2:I'm excited that somebody else to talk to we'll have to run another episode when I'm not so nervous, that's right but what's it called?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you always hear stories of people like winning and they're like oh, I just I don't care if I win or lose. I just bought a $10 ticket and they hit 50 grand or whatever, right? So I'm playing a table with my buddy, this guy named John, and we're playing ultimate Texas, hold them at the casino. And he's like you know, I only only have like 50 bucks. I'm willing to lose. I'm like, hey, man, don't say that, because you're gonna lose it all real quick, real quick. I was like you know. He's like okay, mike, I'm not here to gamble, but you know, you don't really believe it in your heart, right? So, the old you, the old program of you, but you know, mr Negative, I'm here to lose because that's what everybody tells you, right, you're gonna lose a casino no matter what.
Speaker 1:So he lost this hundred bucks pretty quick, I bet. And then I looked at him and said hey, you want to see something funny. He's like what's that? Well, I was already up. I said okay, I'm gonna give you hundred dollars on my chips. You're gonna play for me. I said you, you don't, I don't care if you lose it or win it or whatever. He's like I don't give a crap, it's not my money, it's your money You're, it's your funeral, right, right.
Speaker 1:I was like, yeah, but here's gonna be the funny part You're not gonna lose, you're gonna end up winning because you're not gonna give a shit, because it's not your money, you don't care. So now you're putting the universe of I have what, I have, abundance, I have everything I want, I don't care about this. And then you're gonna start winning because you're not gonna care about, you're not chasing the win Before you're chasing the win.
Speaker 2:So here's my question on that, then Yep, so you're not caring about what happens, as long as you're winning right, like it's not that you're not caring, it's that you're not chasing before with his money he was chasing the win. So here's my situation. My ultimate sacrifice that I did, right yeah, is when I was younger, growing up I Was, I was on the on the poor side growing up, right so, having brand named Nike shoes, a fitted hat, a Columbia jacket, that meant everything, right so yeah, especially back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially back then. So With that going on, when I joined paintball, I Learned, okay, like, okay, you can go to this level. You can go to this level. You can start getting sponsors. You can become a pro. You have to go through all these ropes, right. So I said to myself I'm gonna be a pro, I'm gonna do this, there's no stopping me. Yeah, I'm doing it. Yeah, and I remember saying to my son when I first bought a GoPro, I was like I'm gonna go pro. He's like dad is the GoPro. I said you watch, I'm going pro with this.
Speaker 2:So when I started doing the podcast, my ultimate sacrifice I lost a family that I had for 20 years married wife, two beautiful kids. I had it all. I had it all going good, right. And then I kept putting all my time and my energy Into becoming a pro. Yeah, you know, like I had to come home, I would. I would get my wife would pick me up From an event. Three hour car ride home. I would be on instead of talking to her about how was your weekend. Well, I was gone. What's new? What's going on? I'm constantly talking to people on the internet. Thanks for showing up today, tim, da da da, I hope to see you at the next one.
Speaker 2:And it was constant. I would get home soon as I would get through the door. The clothes are going in the laundry, I'm cleaning my guns, I'm cleaning my cameras, I'm uploading all my footage. I'm editing this. Now. It's like 11, 30, 12 o'clock at night. Next day would come and be like hey, driving the kids to school, you want to go for a ride? I'll be. Like I give me 10 minutes here. I'm just finishing this video. That I didn't do last night. Next thing I know it's like we're heading out the door. You coming, yeah, I'm coming right now. I walk out. They're gone already.
Speaker 2:Then it got to the next thing. It got to like going out for dishes I mean groceries. Then it got going out for dinner and then it's kept going to the next thing, the next thing, and I just kept Isolating myself away from all that. And next thing I know, yeah, I went pro, but I didn't have a wife to share that with. I have my son, I have my daughter, but I don't have a wife to share that with somebody. You know what I mean. Like we got separated and still been separated.
Speaker 2:So that was my ultimate sacrifice. But that's why I was curious on what would you lose by doing these sacrifices. Not so much sacrifice by you manifesting I'm gonna go to a casino or not just you, anybody else. What is the sacrifice? That's what I call it. The sacrifice like is the wife sitting at home wondering why are you always at a casino or why are you always at the racetrack. To me, I believe there has to be something that's being taken away to get the good, like your clothes in the door open at the door, kind of thing.
Speaker 1:I'm smiling and excited because he hit the nail on the head. You said I believe you have to lose something. I don't believe I have to lose shit for anything. There we go. There's that mindset again. It's the program. I tell this to people like I Don't know if you feel the energy shift in here.
Speaker 2:I do, I do feel it.
Speaker 1:It's, it's. It's sad, right that we are told our whole fucking lives that and some goods to come to poor people like us. Because I grew up like you dirt poor velcro shoes Going to the thrift stores. People are like making fun of me. Where do you shop sellers? Or Walmart?
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah and public school, because I want to go to English public school learning English, because I grew up in Quebec and it happened to be an enriched English neighborhood, right, all the English people have better jobs, right. I guess back to and I was like, oh, I can't afford Niki, right. But I was also told if I want to have that kind of stuff, I have to give up after lose, I have to make a sacrifice, right? So, and I was like, why, even my dad, we're making the sacrifice. I gotta work all these jobs and everybody see me anymore.
Speaker 1:My parents were the same way like we, that's, they were programmed. How poor they were, where my mom's like, oh, I'm gonna go get a career and a job, so I can, you know, you know, make the sacrifice, right, we're all making the sacrifice, but you don't have to make sacrifices for shit. I Think, you know, I'm not a conspiracy guy in the sense like it's the government programming us to tell us we have to sacrifice, to lose everything, so we're not gonna be happy to get what we want and so we don't want what we want. No, it's not that at all, it's just I don't want. Maybe, I don't know, I don't give a shit, yeah, yeah. But you said to now on the head you were told, and you said it, that you have to sacrifice to get what you want.
Speaker 1:Yeah so I'm not. You know, when I go to the casino. I'm not going to the casino all the time. I go, maybe once a month, once every couple months, just for fun. Shit's and giggles at this point because the experiment's over, right, my wife's like, hey, you know, I need you to go to this part of the city, blah, blah, blah. I don't like. Oh, that's an hour away. Hey, I'm near casino, so they kind of stop the casino, whatever, like we're all in cahoots, yeah, and you would be interested in the one episode that I've not recorded that I want to record is it's chasing love and and happiness and my journey on finding, and you know, what I call like the perfect Couple.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, I'm not saying I'm a perfect couple, but like we were struggles, but where we're in so perfect for each other, so much in tuned Right with each other, and stuff like those episodes will be like, oh, but yeah, it sucks. And it pisses me off when I hear stories of you know how you subconsciously not on purpose Figured out yet lose something to become pro. I need a little blues in your wife which sucks. Yeah, right, yeah, I don't know if she was the love of your life or not, maybe in the end good.
Speaker 2:That time he was yeah, at that time it was, you know like I was 20 years old when I met her. Well, I've known her my whole life.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right. But I was 20 years old when we got together and everything we did paintballing too it was done together. Yeah, the kids like everything, like road trips, everything. So sometimes, like when I take road trips, they don't even feel the same, no more. And I've been separated for three years. But being with somebody for 20 years and and having doing these activities together for so many years, now when I go up like I'll be traveling for three, four days you know most talented stuff like that is it? It's not that I I miss her, it's just I missed like the family, outing the family together. You know what I mean. I miss that. Like I'm past all that now. Like life's gone on. You know I've moved on, I've stayed positive about it. I can't dwell on it. I gotta don't. I gotta stay positive. I gotta move forward. I have a couple kids, I got a raise. You know I have work to do, yeah. So I've always tried to stay positive that way.
Speaker 1:But it sucks because like you hit the nail, like I write that again.
Speaker 2:Yeah like I was just about to say, like I did the sack, I had the sacrifice right, but so there's a point, but I didn't look at it like I'm sacrificing something I didn't, and I still don't look at it like, okay, I'm gonna put this all on the line to get this.
Speaker 1:No, it's just the way, but you happen it's the energy that you put out because, like you said, you mentioned to me, your wife was even playing with you. Yeah, you guys are going together with the whole family. You're both were playing. So you know logic should state, yeah, that's since you know you play together, he'll stay together. Yeah, right, because you're both doing it. But here's the kicker Subconsciously, you kept on in the back of your mind I want to be pro, I want to be pro. And then what are we programmed according? To you know, the world today is, if you want to be successful, you have to give up things, and even in mainstreet movies, we see all the time, yeah, yeah, these people that are living on the streets and all the Happen to give up all this stuff to get to now. Look at me. I'm Eminem, I'm famous. You know, yeah, you know, one opportunity, whatever that's right, but it's yeah, you're right and he sacrificed even his story.
Speaker 1:When he hear the story of Eminem oh, I sacrificed all this stuff. Same thing. He's not married anymore. He sacrificed all that stuff and he made it because he sacrificed. But I don't believe that my reality, that you have to subconsciously. I'm not saying you do it on purpose. Nobody does anything like this on purpose. They're like you know, it's just a Pre-programming. I say it all the time. So what I tell people that are negative or that are like what do I have to give up to get? You don't have to give up Nothing.
Speaker 1:You're not making a deal with the devil, yeah yeah, you know, that's where the concept comes from, right, and I guess, like Christianity is like, you know, when you sell these famous people and they're like, oh, they made a deal with the devil to get there. Yeah, maybe they made a deal with somebody who's gonna take all their money or whatever, but that's their problem, that's on them, that's on them. But when you're living the universal law of Living what you believe, okay, that's the key thing. So you believe you have to give up something to get something. I don't. I, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1:I used to believe I have to work hard to make money and the harder I worked, the less I made, it seemed like. And then I look up at management like these guys do nothing, compared to how hard I'm working and I'm only making six dollars and 50 cents an hour, yeah, and this guy's making 60,000 a year, right. And we look at that, oh, right. And we agreed oh, this asshole doing nothing. So if I work less, I make more money. That's cool when I get to management. And then that's how you get bad managers and bad owners.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah and that's why you get people that start companies thinking Without you know. Let's say, you own a company and a paintballing place and I'm like, hey, tim, without me you got nothing, I'm quitting, do my own thing, right. And then it just goes belly up. I come back. Right, it's all about frame of mind is that we're told To get what you want and to do this, but no, it's all about what you believe. You gotta live your belief system and your reality system. So when I read the book breaking the habit of being yourself by dr Joda Spenza, I don't read that. A lot of my podcast says I listen to it on audible. Yeah, and hey, you can listen to us on audible.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I've changed your mic.
Speaker 2:Oh, you get your podcast, yeah, or anywhere.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, when I read that I was like holy crap. And you gotta understand, dr Joda Spenza was like me he's out to prove that this shit was all stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he ends up proving it right because it's what you believe, what you're gonna get subconsciously and consciously, and we're all programmed to believe. We have to struggle, we have to lose, we have to do this in order to be successful. It's gonna be a hard climb right that, no matter how hard I work as it to be a business, it's gonna be so hard for me to be successful. I have to keep on. And if I believe that, and I'm struggling with that today. So when you mentioned to me how do I deal with negative people, Mmm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That's a daily battle. Even for me because, like in one of my episodes, I talked about the ego, or the voice in your head. Yep, and he's a little negative.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, but it's it's a constant battle where sometimes I think about like I'm watching a movie. It's hilarious. I'm watching a movie about people struggling and how poor they are and they used to be successful but they lost everything. And I start getting scared and nervous and I'm like what the fuck about money, about me losing all my businesses and me? Oh my god, I'm like this is bullshit. If I keep this and harness this feeling, I'm gonna lose everything. And because that's the reality, I'm deciding to program myself with.
Speaker 1:But I literally read in that book said fuck this, I'm gonna build my own belief system and that's what I'm gonna live by and that's what's gonna work for me. And Sometimes your body is trying to fight you to go back to your old self right now. Oh yeah, it's easier to do this and be lazy. It's easier to do whatever right or think this way, but it's a constant battle. But I'm that's the whole point of the podcast is to keep me on track. Yeah, is I Putting the programming that I want on my belief system? That I believe? You know I'm an amazing business person. I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:I trust the flow of the universe I live in the now. I don't give a crap about yesterday. I don't give a crap about an hour ago. Right, I'll give a crap about one minute ago. Yeah, I live in the now. I don't live in the past. And in this world, everybody's you see them the way they talk is always about the past, do you know? Right? And everybody dreams about the future, but never comes and never lives in today and never lives today, the moment. You can live today, you will achieve Anything you want that you put in the universe today, especially for the future. But don't live for the future, that's right. My dad lives for the future and it sucks for him because he's not living in the now.
Speaker 2:He's missing him now and he's gonna regret missing all the now, was your dad always chasing the dollar?
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, he works hard to chase the dollar and now that, like he sees me successful, I'm trying to tell him how I changed the way. I thought none of these was like no, you just finally figured out how to do business has worked that way dad and he lives for the future.
Speaker 1:He doesn't care about the now. And my mom's negative. She's a good person but negative mind frame right. Oh, we grew up with that stuff and that's probably where, like my negative energy, my head comes into play sometimes, where everybody's against me. Doom and gloom, you know, I used to watch these TV shows called a thousand ways to die. I'm like, oh shit, you could die at any second. What's the point of leaving the house? Right, you can't listen all this doom and gloom, all this bullshit, all this crap if you don't want it in your life. That's. That's the funny thing. You know, we mentioned a couple times COVID. If you were focused on listening about COVID and how, all this stuff, and trying to find out their conspiracies for or against, or whatever.
Speaker 1:It's just nuts it's gonna make you create just for me. I ignored it. I was like whatever, who cares?
Speaker 2:And you had a good way of ignoring it. Though You're in Florida, you got to see people like out on the beaches like. You got to see everything different from how the media was portrayed here for us, right?
Speaker 2:Yes, in Canada was different, I guess but I think took it the worst, like I hear a lot of people talking and I've watched a few plot podcast, one of the ones, joe Rogan and they were talking about how Us Canadians were so afraid compared to, like, the people in the States A lot of people in the States they're on lockdown or what not, but over here we were being isolated in our own houses, in our own rooms, away from people in our own house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it was weird in Canada. I was glad I was in Florida when I started. Yeah, everybody just kind of like quarantine because nobody knew what was going on for like three to four weeks and after that it was like that's normal.
Speaker 1:Yeah and that was it. But I'm not here to talk about that stuff. But, yeah, it is like whatever you bring into your reality. So, if that's all you're looking at, is all this negative publicity, all this oh no, no, no, like in Canada was pushing on their media, was all this negative crap. And you'd hear on the radio like these are how many people have COVID, these are how many deaths today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's just pushing for you to believe whatever they want you to believe real or not, who cares? Right? And all this negative energy makes you know the information you're given. You make a decision. You're either gonna be scared as fuck or just be like a fuck up. I'm gonna matter, motherfucker. I live my life and that's my motto.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, that's the only thing that you get out of today's podcast. Man is you got to reorganize and Choose what you want to build for your belief system. Yeah, I'm not what you were subconsciously told through movies, media growing up, whatever, I'm not saying. Like you know, this is a big plan to program everybody to be robots. But I just found the when I read that book and I changed the way I Lived my reality and I choose to live in my reality with these belief systems. Everything I want happens just like this. So you know what's the name of that book Breaking the habit of being yourself by dr Joe to spend. Okay, and it's not audible and it's like pretty cheap, like 12 bucks, 10 bucks, stuff like that. He can probably board from the library for free. But yeah, like it's sad when I hear that story, how you sacrificed, and I kind of felt that energy, how you're like. Well, what did you sacrifice to get successful in business? What did you? I sacrifice nothing. I.
Speaker 2:I love. I love how you say that like there's been no sacrifice.
Speaker 1:No, it's just been compromises, but there's no sacrifices. Okay, meaning I decided to quit all my good jobs to start my own business.
Speaker 2:So what makes that a compromise opposed to a sacrifice?
Speaker 1:So for me it was more of a compromise that like or is that just how you put it?
Speaker 1:in my head that's just how you put it in your head. I was making decent money traveling about. I was never home. I didn't see my daughter go for trick treating for the first time. I wasn't there for her first birthday, I wasn't there for this and that. So I made the decision where I'm like fucking I want to be home, I'm gonna start my own business and I trust to flow the universe and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I started researching more about the flow of the universe and all this stuff. And now I See my kids more often than not and I'm at home more often than not.
Speaker 1:That's a blessing it is like you know, I don't need to come to the office every day unless I'm training somebody, but you know, or if I'm doing a podcast or whatever right? Yep, and I'm at the point where, in my belief system, if I put I know for a fact, if I put 10 hours a week of Hardcore pushing certain things on my business, that I'll be more successful than I ever dreamed.
Speaker 2:It's so I'm gonna piss you off here. Do you think? Is you don't? You don't have sacrifices? No, you have compromises. So do you think Now you're gonna say I have no sacrifice? Do you think you did your sacrifice when you were younger, getting that mindset of being a Hard worker at 18 years old? Listen, I'm gonna sacrifice from hanging out with all my not, you weren't thinking sacrifice. Did you just look at it like, listen, man, I'm gonna. I don't want to be paycheck to paycheck. So you know what I'm gonna work hard. I'm not gonna go out party on Fridays and Saturdays with the friends as a teenager would or a young 20 year old would do. Do you think that was what? Was that a compromise or was that a? No, I mean again, I'm trying to go, because it's that negative mindset that I have that I'm thinking there's a sacrifice Somewhere down the line, like, did you sacrifice some of your, your youth, to have the mindset that you?
Speaker 1:have now? No, has nothing to do with it, because the mindset I have now I was introduced to it when I was younger but I thought it was all crazy, stupid people. Yeah, I only looked into it in the last five to six years or so or more now. Okay, so it's only since I'm an adult. But if I look back when I was younger, I chose to work because I did not want to have no money. I was tired of being poor.
Speaker 1:But if you some of my podcast, my brother, without knowing, bestowed upon me law of attraction attitude without me knowing. He goes hey man, you know You're, you're Mike, anything you want you know you get. Like that's just the way it goes. We get what we want because we want whatever we want, right, and that's just part of so. You know, I never thought I had a hard child. I hear people complain about school, talking about how hard their life is. I'm like, wow, it's pretty weird. I have a pretty happy, lucky life, right. But I was already in the mindset at a young age because my brother would say that to you Now we get what we want, stuff like that. That's all there's to it. And I believed him because I was a kid right, yep. And yeah, I started working at a young age and I didn't go to a lot of youth activities or hang out, but I still hang out with all my friends and I just had money and I paid for everything.
Speaker 2:So would that have like and this will be the last I ask you that have been a sacrifice.
Speaker 1:No, and my eyes today was not a sacrifice. Even when I did it then To me was like a compromise, in a sense. I could go out and play, be dumb, or I rather work and I still play on my days off. I'm spending all my money by hooking up all my buddies, right? I'm like let's go paintball, I'm paying for everybody, let's go to the restaurant, and they're all like I don't have money because I don't work, oh, I'll pay, I got you, yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And I always had good jobs. They were still in school. They started going to you know an adult, like when they turn 1617 in Quebec, we graduate high school and they start going college or university and started trying to get their careers. And I would still pay for everything because I was working to making money and I was moving up the you know the corporate ladder, as they say. Right, my jobs were, in the end, I was working for care of foods at 17 years old, making good money, and then I was like you know, I've done with this and I want to do the military security thing I talked about for a bit in some of my episodes, and then I was making $25 an hour at 18 years old.
Speaker 2:And then back then.
Speaker 1:And then I was like I'm gonna start my own company, you know, and I just did whatever I wanted to do and not think of a con, because there was no consequence, there was no sacrifice. It was like I don't want to do this, I'm gonna go do it, it's gonna work out for me because I'm motherfucking Mike.
Speaker 2:Consequence, I guess, would be having nothing, nothing, so you get fuck all right.
Speaker 1:And I still live that mindset where you know, like the older generation I guess, would live that mindset where if we're not working we're spending money, so might as well just work and have fun at work. That's still how I got through work and just to the point where I was like I just felt a pull that I need to start my own company.
Speaker 1:So I did and and well, you know, that's how my all my episodes go or talks about me's, was my company's. On all the younger episodes, anyway, yeah, we'll talk about how I manifested my own companies and how I truly, when I started learning about the law of attraction, manifested what you know, you see next door, yeah, and how that just came out of nowhere and I couldn't do it if I wanted to, and how Everything just works out perfectly when I'm fully in tune. So for me, in my reality, I Choose not to believe in sacrificing, because why?
Speaker 2:You already did the ultimate sacrifice for us. I guess, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Right. So why do you have to sacrifice anything? That's right, but no, just it is what you believe. If you believe you have to give up something to get something, you're gonna have to. If you believe you're not gonna be able to be successful because you're supposed to be poor, you're gonna be poor. And people listening to me that never heard this, like I did for the first time, they might be like You're fucking nuts, mike.
Speaker 1:But if you actually do the experiment, do what works for you and find what works for you, I'm bringing the energy flows that work for you and the mindsets that work for you. And if I could help you with that. And if you have people, have questions, you can always write us. You can click my email in the link in the description or write me at lifechangers mic at gmailcom and I'll be more than happy to bring it on the episode. And but yeah, it's all about what you truly.
Speaker 1:Your personal reality is how I put it and that's the only thing that makes sense to me. So, in your personal reality at this moment is shifting based on this conversation we have, and it's either gonna be your mind's gonna be like, yeah, but you know, you know, tim, you know your mind's going, don't worry. Mike's been doing this for years and that's it. He's yeah, but he had struggles and stuff. I'll just stay with your old mindset. It's easier. But if you choose to go through, fight through that like I did, a nice do every fucking day. It's not as easy as I make it sound on, you know podcast and stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, you gotta. You gotta get used to being um, you gotta get used to being comfortable while being uncomfortable. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah but it's, it's yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's, it's. It's like I'm not even doing half of what I know I need to do to in order to achieve even more success in my eyes, where I feel like in my reality I got to be better at meditating and stuff and Dr Joe to spend, so mentions a lot about meditating and stuff, and here's just a synopsis for you, since grabbing this conversation, I believe you'll help with the rest of this. Digesting of new information is think of your computer if you never turn it off to reset it, how it starts lagging and fucking up. Yeah, right, so you let me turn it off. It reboots. Ha, works better, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So we Think when we go to sleep that's what happens to our bodies, but it doesn't. We're actually more active when we're sleeping Scientifically with our bodies in mind, than we are when we're awake. So the only time you can reboot your computer here and your internal computer, your body, is through meditation and being nothing and nowhere and not putting you know through meditation, as Dr Dispenser puts it. And when you achieve that, you reboot and then you can. Yeah, you're wired for success. You're wired for success. You know and the anything you believe you create. Everything you don't believe you don't create and that's the story it is if you believe it's supposed to be. You know, sick on flu season every year, you're gonna be sick.
Speaker 1:If you believe you're not going to because you decided to get the flu shot, or you decided like, if I don't get it, whatever works for you works for you. But it's all about your belief. So it's up to you to decide what you want to believe and how you want to live your life. Do you want to live it being told what to do by whatever you see on TV? And you know, yeah, all these things, a robot, all these negative yeah, I know it just seems to be negative on mainstream. I could. That's why you see me watching the old stuff of Tool time you know yeah yeah, whatever it's called.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and see, that's how it's all. At that, programming like you were saying, right, they program you, program you to think like this, think like this, think like this, and then you're dependent on them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. Oh well, I'm not putting that out. I'm not saying it's like programming from the government or the media or whatever.
Speaker 2:It's just I feel like how you were saying like, how Younger, like when you're watching movies or you're watching the news and stuff like that, how they're constantly Pushing a certain agenda. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess yeah and then then we start thinking like, like, for example, covid me, I don't believe COVID was anything, I think COVID was just a scam in the whole nine yards, like, personally I do. I think it's just another thing that they're calling for the flu. Now, you know, we had this, we had that, we had smallpox, we had this, we had that, that so many different things. Now we don't hear none of that stuff. Now it's the next thing, then it's the next thing, like what was it years ago? Sars, then it was a swine flu, and then we have this, you know, so see it's not that, like you know, it's bullshit or anything like that it's.
Speaker 1:if it's brought into our reality and we believe this is something like it's gonna make A sick, we're all gonna get sick from that's what I mean.
Speaker 2:right, and it comes to that programming, right? You watching all the news, you watching, like you were saying the one day, how they were making movies and they were throwing things out in there, yeah, like little words we won't get into that they were throwing like little words out there that now is Very mainstream.
Speaker 2:Everyone's using these. Yeah, I mean pandemic and stuff like that. Right, like they were pre programming us back in 2018, 2017, for all of this, and now that's how we think. Like, soon as someone gets sick, now what's the first thing we think of? It's a new variant of cove. Oh, so yeah you know. So like we're all always thinking yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, now there's more germaphobes than anything in this world.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, but no, if you it's. You know the power of suggestion works. I mentioned that some of my podcast. But like, for instance, if you see somebody coughing and sneezing and you're like I'm not gonna get sick because that fucker, well, scientifically because I was a health and safety inspector for care foods, right, I know a lot about that stuff is so scientifically if you're coughing and sneezing and you're not really contagious, you're contagious a week before, yeah, yeah. So if you believe I need to tell you something, I'm gonna get sick now because I just saw, you know, mike was coughing to sneeze and all over the mic and I'm talking in it, right, and then I'm gonna be sick. Well then, yeah, if you program yourself your body, be like okay.
Speaker 2:I'm contract is now what that's called.
Speaker 1:I guess yeah, they're like that where someone's always thinking they're sick, they're sick.
Speaker 2:They hear this person's got a cold. Now they have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like what I'm saying to people is, if you don't want to focus on Negativity, then don't focus on it. If you say that the world is doom and gloom, well, stop allowing the algorithm of your you know, youtube or Google, because you're watching all that stuff is gonna program you to see doom and gloom. For me it's puppies and rainbows. Man, it's a cool amount that there is no worries. I don't care like. I live my life and some people like that's that's stupid, that's whatever, but you know what it works for me. Who gives a shit?
Speaker 2:I'm happy, all right, and you're healthy, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not stressed, I'm not getting. You know, gallstone, whatever you get from getting stressed, yeah. I'm just happy, go lucky.
Speaker 2:No ulcers, no, nothing yeah coulda metata.
Speaker 1:That's, that's all I'm gonna leave here. So I'm gonna close with saying, like you know, we talked a lot about different things and all that, but in the end, it's all about what you truly put in your belief system and in your reality, because I can come to you and tell you exactly how to make a million bucks and show you how I did it you know step-for-step, word-for-word and everything and you're just gonna be like, yeah, whatever that worked, yeah, no, it's not gonna work for me.
Speaker 1:So, then it's not gonna work for you. But you have to find what works for you in the sense of you know what ticks you, what makes you excited. You know you get out of the frame of mind if I have to sacrifice to be successful, I have to give up something to make money. Because you don't. But if you believe it, then you do. It's as easy as that. Yeah, so it's up to you how you want to do it. I recommend this. People listen this podcast for the first time and there's like there's a lot of crap. This guy they're talking about. Well, check out breaking the habit of being yourself by Dr Joe Spenza, because subconsciously you know it's not that people are programming us on purpose, like our parents or whatever, it's just right well, they were Todd.
Speaker 1:They were Todd that you work hard and whatever. That was their generation. See, the new generation is like I don't know what they're gonna like, just go on tiktok and make money. Ask a I do it. Ask a I to do all the work and make money. But you know what I mean. So it's it's all about believe. If you believe you're not gonna be successful and if you believe you're not gonna be making money, because, no matter how hard I was making $25 an hour and I still had the belief system that I was supposed to be poor. I never had money, but yet I was making $25 an hour back then, which in today's money would probably be closer to 60 70 an hour.
Speaker 2:That's why you shouldn't have been spending all that money on your friends. If you were banking it, then, right, that's probably why you were spending that money, because you're making this paycheck and you were pre-programmed to think you gotta be broke. You gotta be broke, you're gonna be poor. So here you are you're making this bank at 25 bucks an hour, getting home a $500 paycheck, but you want to go hang out with the friends and all this not well, there goes 350 tonight or over the weekend, and then you wonder why you're broke, right?
Speaker 1:so easy as that. So in the end it's all about you and you gotta understand like some of the next topics we'll be talking about is co-creating, how everybody is a co-creator of this universe and of our world. We all create our reality and we're all living in this together, or will that PC? Who's real? Are you real? You know it's gonna have fun with it and whatever you believe is real to you is real to you. That's all there is to it. So once again, thanks for coming, tim.
Speaker 1:We appreciate you Thanks for having me on don't forget to check out on, especially in the links in the bio for frontline pot, frontline podcast, frontline paintball podcast. And this is Tim. Thank you very much and remember everybody you are loved, you are important, you are successful. You just gotta believe it in yourself and you could do it. Thanks for listening.