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#76. From Pizza Shop to Marathon Runner: How Pete Ciotti Reset His Life at 45
Could the best years of your life still be ahead of you? That's the question Pete Ciotti asked himself at age 45 after running several businesses, touring with a rock band, and starting a family. His answer led to a complete transformation that he's now sharing through what he calls "The Five Fs" - a framework for becoming an expansive human being.
Pete takes us on his journey from serial entrepreneur (running Big Pete's Pizza for a decade and later managing the iconic Jambalaya venue) to his current landscaping business and budding coaching career. But the heart of our conversation explores how Pete's spontaneous decision to wake up at 5AM and go to the gym snowballed into a life-altering routine that led him to ultramarathon running, sobriety, and a rekindled faith.
With refreshing candor, Pete breaks down each component of his Five Fs framework - Family, Friendship, Faith, Fitness, and Finance - explaining how strengthening these five areas leads to what he calls the Four Gs: Gratitude, Grace, Grit, and God. His insights on forgiveness (particularly self-forgiveness) and replacing negative influences with positive ones offer practical wisdom for anyone feeling stuck.
As a father of four children (ranging from a high school senior to a newborn), Pete shares how prioritizing family relationships through consistent communication creates the foundation for everything else. His perspective on viewing wealth as "richness of life" rather than material possessions challenges conventional definitions of success.
Whether you're facing a mid-life reset or simply looking for a more purposeful approach to daily living, Pete's framework provides a refreshingly straightforward blueprint anyone can follow. The question now is: are you ready to become an expansive human?
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and friends of all ages and good neighbors. It's Scott Hammond with the 100% Humboldt Podcast, with my new, very best friend, the amazing Pete Ciotti.
Speaker 2:Ah, did I say it right? We're besties. You did Ciotti. Yeah, you nailed it. Wait, is that Italian? I think so.
Speaker 1:I think. So, wait, go to 23andMe. No, you can't, because they're out of business. See, you can't because they're out of business. Snuck a joke in right away. So you're my first. I was talking offline. You're my first guy in my regular guy series. There's nothing regular about you. You're actually a pretty complex dude, so let's just get right into it. Tell us the Pete Ciotti story. What do you? Maybe what you do now, but where you came from? Elementary school, junior high, wherever you want to go, oh boy that's a long story.
Speaker 2:Go for it A little short. We got all kinds of things. Right now I am a father of four. The fourth baby just came five weeks ago Beautiful baby. So I think that's the biggest title I want to hold in my life is being a father. Four kids, one about to graduate high school and a baby just came into the house. So we kind of reset Wow, that's awesome and that's going really well. Bring it closer. There you go. And yeah, other than that, I have a landscaping business called Ciotti Yard Maintenance. I've had that for a few years.
Speaker 1:It's like a big truck.
Speaker 2:You've got a killer diesel yeah, it's out there hogging the parking lot. You've got a humble growdozer yeah, we got two trucks on the road. Now Started that business a few years ago with basically what a weed whacker in my wife's car and just taking work wherever I could, and then it just kind of like snowballed from there. But I've always been kind of like a serial entrepreneur since I was like 26. So when I was 26, I started a pizza shop called Big Pete's Pizza.
Speaker 2:It was around for 10 years Arcata, and we had one in Eureka too. Oh, you had two. Yeah for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Let me use my prop real quick. Arcata is right up there on the top of the bay. Yeah, humboldt Bay, right. And Eureka California, which is all Northern California and don't say by San Francisco, because that's more central. Yeah, right, right. So where's the big pizza in Eureka?
Speaker 2:It was. Do you know where, like I think it's called, sammy's Barbecue is now, and it was a pizza hut before that. So right when it was a pizza hut and they went out, we took over that building. We had it for just a few years. Oh, wow, it was a big endeavor for us. Um, it didn't work out, yeah, um, just a high rent and a lot of going on, a lot overhead, and I was just spread way too thin trying to run back and forth. But the Arcata store was open for 10 years. Uh, it was a staple in North town Arcata. It was awesome and when I left there, I, I I'd gotten married in that timeframe.
Speaker 2:Um, and my wife's uh, sister and brother-in-law owned the jambalaya and they kind of wanted we're getting out of it whatever. It wasn't working out. And I kind of got involved with my wife and her parents and before we knew it we were running the jam. So we kind of transitioned, closed the pizza shop down, became the owners of the jambalaya. Well, uh, called it the jam and I started booking all the bands. So that was my main thing. There was bringing entertainment. We built a new stage, put in a new sound system, started booking out-of-town bands. It was really fun and we ran that all the way till basically right before the pandemic. We sold it three months before the pandemic Perfect time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Not for the guy who bought it, unfortunately. Yeah, sadly I feel bad, but for us it worked out.
Speaker 1:Who were your best bands that you ever booked?
Speaker 2:Oh man who was?
Speaker 1:memorable Dylan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that would have been cool. We did have Rich Robinson from the Black Crows came and did a solo show with his band and that was really a really fun night. We had a lot of DJs, big name DJs, we had everything. So we had a venue that had music basically seven nights a week and that was really hard to do. It's hard, and at one point for a few years we didn't even have food. We were just literally a nightclub, so we'd open the doors at 8 o'clock to be music till 2. And that was it.
Speaker 2:We would bartend. And it was pretty fun.
Speaker 1:no-transcript me, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep, believe it or not. So how many years? So I haven't drank alcohol since the New Year's Eve 2019. Crazy Good for you, yeah. How's it feel I'm done, yeah, I don't mess with it at all.
Speaker 1:Who needs it yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean whatever, it's his own.
Speaker 1:I just it doesn't work for my life at all yeah, my dad got sober when I was 13. Yeah, I remember you telling me that, yeah, stayed sober 40 plus years until he died.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, drunk tomorrow. And he goes yeah, tomorrow, that's gonna happen. Kept saying it, kept saying it never happened. Yeah, get stressed out. Yeah, nah, I'm gonna get drunk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll get wasted tomorrow for sure yeah never did, I guess I just started seeing, as a bartender too, like a lot of people, um, even my age and younger, whatever just coming in and deteriorating over time and just realize that alcohol is just there's nothing healthy about it. And I think a lot of people use it as a crutch to socialize and then they, just before they know it, it's just taken over their lives, and I've seen it taken over a lot of friends' lives and I just it's just not for me, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a friend that said don't let stuff. It's okay to have stuff, just don't let stuff have you Exactly. So it's kind of like reverse is true. So where'd you end up going to school, Were you raised down south?
Speaker 2:So I yeah, okay, so I was born in Florida moved to New York when I was like I don't know a baby. I grew up in New York, upstate New York, near the Ithaca area. I went to school there and my parents separated when I was nine years old so my dad moved back down to Florida. So I kind of spend my time grade school in New York, middle school in New York, then I went to high school in Florida, went back to high school and back again, so I ended up graduating high school in Florida. But I kind of had friends in both states.
Speaker 1:Upstate, where it's frozen tundra.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Florida, where it's like crazy humid.
Speaker 2:Way humid hot Like yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So you kind of get a little too much of one or the other and move around, Right. But you know it was cool. And then, you know, I graduated high school and moved back to New York and lived there for a year and just realized I wanted something completely different than the East Coast. And so my friends were all planning, we all worked together, we're all first year in college. My friends were planning to move to California. They didn't know exactly where, but they were like we don't want to really be in a city like San Francisco, we want to be around there. So when you were saying central and northern, they ended up finding out about what was Humboldt State at the time, and so they moved out to Arcata and I was going to go with them. But I just kind of hesitated.
Speaker 2:And then two weeks had gone by and I looked around and I was like, oh man, all my friends are gone. They just up and went. So another friend of acquaintance, friend of mine, was like hey, I'm going to go out to Oregon for a little bit. Do you want to? Do you want to ride out to the West coast and see what it's like? And I'm going to come all the way back, you know. So I was like, yeah, well, you're going to come back, Cool. And uh, I ended up not coming back. I ended up living in Oregon and Mount hood for like about a year and then I made my way to Humboldt and, with my friends, that's east of.
Speaker 2:Portland, right East of Portland. Yeah, wow, yeah, it was pretty awesome. I literally I got there in May and I think I camped out, exclusively camped around the mountain until October, until I just couldn't anymore. That's too cold. And then I finally got a place, yeah.
Speaker 1:A lot of berries grown up there.
Speaker 2:Berries, yeah, berry territory, salmon berries, I think maybe.
Speaker 1:Very, very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very good. So where'd you go to college? So I went to college a little bit in New York, went to college a little bit at Mount Hood actually community college and then, when I got here, went a little bit of college at CR, got in a car wreck pretty bad car wreck and I was fine, but the car I had that would get me to school and whatnot was totaled, didn't make it, and so I kind of dropped out at that point and joined a rock and roll band and we toured around the country for years. Makes perfect, perfect sense. Yep, did we all? Yep. Uh, it was funny, cause, like we had a, we were, we were coming home from the studio recording our first album and all our gear was in the car and I was on Unionola road and I was driving. It was in the afternoon and, um, a drunk driver lost control of her car, going about 90 miles an hour right at three corners.
Speaker 2:Market no way there and I had to just like kind of swerve a little bit or she would hit head on and she flipped us up into a ditch and my buddy guitar player, also named Pete, was on the ground. I was up in the air and I pulled him out like we got out, we looked at each other and we were like not ejected. Our gear was ejected up on the hill. I bet.
Speaker 2:And broken, except for his guitar was totally in tune. And I looked at him, he looked at me and we were like how do we not have a scratch on us?
Speaker 1:Like nothing.
Speaker 2:Wow, and that was one of the first times as an adult I realized that I had God on my side, that I was protected, and it was like wow, like I cannot believe I'm here. I mean literally our car was totaled, her car was totaled, she was fine, we had a fire hydrant, there was water going spurting all over the road. We got checked out and they took us to. St Joe's just to check us out.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 2:We heard her screaming in the other room and they arrested her and the next day we had such bad whiplash, but other than that we were fine and then. So anyway, I got the settlement from the insurance and the money back. I should have just bought a car and go back to school. And my buddies were like, we're going to buy a van and we're going to go tour the country. And I was like, of course we are, let's do it.
Speaker 2:So there it is, so you questioned yeah, and that was my life in my 20s. Just we put out records and toured around the country and had a blast.
Speaker 1:Reminds me I had a guest, Terry Vorman. She's yeah, she was with the three gals that got hit by the drunk driver and killed, killed their friend. Yeah, pretty heavy deal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really heavy. Not terribly far from there, I think. Yeah, no, it was on that road, it was on Bayside Road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Huh, we were talking about the other day.
Speaker 1:So you never did get a degree, although you're totally financially.
Speaker 2:No, in fact, I'm back in school now, just chipping away little by little online school with CR, working on that psych degree that I should have got 25 years ago. Nice, yeah, you know, whatever College is always going to be there, it's like anywhere. Rock and roll? Maybe not, so I had to go for it.
Speaker 1:you know we watched Good Will Hunting last night with Matt.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And the end scene is him leaving to go west. He goes I got to go see About a Girl. Yeah, I love that one. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's so good.
Speaker 1:I guess that sucker stole my line. Robin Williams man. Robin Williams man he thought he was funny.
Speaker 2:He's a great actor. Great loss that was a huge loss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what an amazing dude. Yeah, so you have this entrepreneurial thing going with business, so you must be good at business. You're teaching the five F's, so tell us about the five F's. Oh, the five F's.
Speaker 2:Is it four or five?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's five Uh so this is a and we'll address them kind of in order, if we-. Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:So this is kind of a uh, it's the beginning of a sort of a live talk or webinar, if you will, that I'm putting on Um. It's going to be this Saturday. I don't know when this comes out, but it's going to be. I'll probably do it again a couple of times, but I'm putting it out there and it's just kind of like a theory. It's it's I mean it's it's not completely original, but I have this theory about being an expansive human and it's just, it's a. It's more of a theory than it works for me. It works for my life. Like I said, I'm a father.
Speaker 2:So here it is, being expansive humor is these five Fs that lead to the four Gs? Okay, so you have these five Fs that lead to the four Gs. Here's the five Fs, and then we can talk about them. It's family, right, friendship, fitness, finance and faith. So I feel like if you have those five F's going in your life and working together, you get to the four G's, which are gratitude, grace, grit and the biggest one, god.
Speaker 2:So I think they all are interconnected and I can break it down really quick for you how I feel like they're interconnected. So if you can be, if you can have strengths in these, in these five F's, then you're going to lead, live a life with purpose, with balance, and let's, let's let's start over. Let's just start from the very beginning. The fact that you and I are sitting across from each other having this cool podcast and we're in this room in the space right Says that that's the miracle right there, and you can break it down however you want, but it's a miracle that you are who you are in the DNA, that you have the life that you're living right now. It's a complete, it's a billions and billions and billions and billions of things had to happen for you to exist who you are and for me to exist who I am.
Speaker 1:And hey, the man, the myth, the legend, Nick Flores, exactly.
Speaker 2:Hey Nick, for us to all be here in this time and space, it's true A lot of miracles and so when I look at that, I go why wouldn't I want to live a life with purpose every day?
Speaker 2:Why wouldn't I want to live God's plan for me? Why wouldn't I want to step out each day, wake up each morning with that enthusiasm and that purpose and that balance? Because I'm still here and I have a lot of friends that aren't still here and I live for them every day too. So I just, you know, I look at that. So when I so I have a family and uh, it's now there's six of us in my immediate family and and you're only what, 40?, 47. Oh, we'll say 40. 40. So, uh, so, yeah. So I, you know, it's like for me it's like, yeah, and it's starting over, because we just had a baby five weeks ago, so yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, with the family thing, I always say little things to people like, hey, if you have a, if you have a mom and dad, if you're lucky enough at your age to still have your mom and dad around, why are you not calling them every week and checking in with them? Like I wish I saw my grandparents. I'm lucky to sell my grandparents around, I'm lucky to still have my parents around. So I call them every week. That's strengthening that family bond. You know, and you want to show me success in a human being. Let me look at their family and how strong and tied they are to their family and I'm not just saying their immediate family, their parents, their community, they're around anything. So it's just so important to not let your parents be isolated and never talk to them Like so I'm lucky to have my mom and dad around still, and up until just a few years ago, I even had my grandma around, which was pretty special and my grandfather he passed away in 2012, but I always like tried to get every story I could out of them and I always had them repeat stories to me over and over again.
Speaker 2:Like let them continue to tell their story over and over again because it's so important and it's so enriching. So, having a strong family bond, and with your kids too like your kids just want to be with you, man, I mean, that's what they want more than anything. Everyone's so worried out here in this world about messing up their kids and like I'm going to do something wrong, I'm going to do this wrong. They just want to be with you. That's all they really want when they're little kids.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait. I have to object.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You think that, but they do?
Speaker 2:They just want your time. They want your attention, they want your presence. They want you not on a cell phone. They don't want you giving them an iPad, even though they say they do. What they want is your attention, your, your you in the moment, like being with them now and not in the future. Now I'll get around to it, because I'm really busy working. None of that. Just sacrifice everything you're doing for your family first. Family is first before a job, before anything. Yeah, in my theory of it being expansive, you ever heard this one Love is spelled T-I-M-E.
Speaker 1:I like that, yeah, anyway. So family's number one, so family of all kinds, so we all have different versions of family, exactly Okay.
Speaker 2:And then you got friendships, and people overlook this as they get older. They kind of like they let their friendships deteriorate. Maybe they're because they have a spouse is their only friend and this happened for me. I mean, my wife is my best friend, of course, but, like you know, I watched some of my friendships dissolve and I was like, oh, I really care about that person. I don't want that dissolve. But on the other end of that also comes who are you surrounded with?
Speaker 2:If you don't feel, if you feel miserable, or you feel like your life is full of toxicity, or you feel like, why do I always feel down and out, or negative or grumpy or whatever? Take a look around what you're surrounding yourself with. And I had to do this hard inventory, self inventory, with my friend list recently and I hate to say it, but like a couple of years ago, I realized there's some people around me that are bringing me down. Their influence on my life is not positive, it's actually the opposite. They've leveled out this is as far as they want to go and everything below that is misery. And so they want you to stay miserable. So you, so they can be comfortable With their misery and I had to just wish them well, tell them I love them and say you know, I can't be in your life right now until you can make some changes boundaries to be better. I, yeah, you have to have boundaries. So Once I did that and then all of a sudden, a year went by and I replaced a lot of that with positive influences and I got these new friends about a year or so ago.
Speaker 2:I can I mean I can give them their names. They're amazing local people and I started hanging out with them and running was the biggest one. They're all runners and I mean their influence on me is powerful because they want to go to places I want to go. I can see them going where I want to go and they also could see they wanted to go places I want to go. I'm older than these friends, they're younger, we go together, not that age matters, but I'm just saying like I started to realize I want to be the dumbest person in every room. So right now I'm the dumbest person in every room. So right now I'm the dumbest person in this room. There's no doubt about it. Sure, I mean it's just amazing in here to see this whole production. It's a debate. It's cool. I'm like so overwhelmed by it. I'm like I want to have a cool podcast like this. And you know, scott, every time and then when I feel like I've got something, you just take it to the next room and keep leveling up your life.
Speaker 2:So friendship is networking. Friendship is just so important in your life. But on top of that, I have older friends, people I grew up with since preschool, and I dial in with them once a week, just like I do with my parents. I have a buddy and his name's Eric Castor. If he sees this, one of my best friends. I've known him since preschool. What's up, castor EC? He's EC on PC. Yeah, and like we still talk and man, we kind of rekindled over the last year and every time we talk we're like he's a dad and I'm a dad and it's like we talk about that. We talk about life, we talk about spiritualism. He's really into Buddhism, I'm a Christian, but like we can really chop it up and it's just amazing. So like checking on your people. That's what friendship's about checking in on your people, always making sure they're good and hope that they check on you when you need it. So friendship's powerful. And then I'm looking at your list over here Friendship my list.
Speaker 2:What else we got? Faith, faith. Here's the thing. When I first started thinking about this five Fs, when someone told it to me the shakiest thing I had of all of them was faith, I didn't know how to like. I was trying to write a couple paragraphs of each and I had like a sentence for faith. I was like, well, god is mysterious. That's all I had, that's all I could think, and it's because I had my faith had fallen out a little bit. I grew up Catholic Italian, you know. It was kind of forced on you. It's like eating pasta on Sundays and making the gravy Part of the culture. Yeah, it's just it, that's not bad.
Speaker 2:It's not bad, I liked going and I got some stuff out of it, but it just it's so forced and so ingrained and I just fell out of it. I just made religion seem like archaic and I wanted a pathway to god and not all this on all these rituals and all this stuff. I just wanted to talk across the aisle with god. I wanted to be here at a table with God. That's what I want. I want it to just be easy like that, without all the rules. And so I fell out and explored other things. I explored Buddhism, I explored the Vedas, you know all different kinds of things. I took classes in religion and I just kind of started to just believe in the quantum world and energy. You know, that was my belief that we all are energy, the force, and I still believe that. But, um, but recently I got back with this, like a year ago, and, um, I just started to really be in touch and, um, something really profound happened one day that it's it's kind of like Forrest Gump. It was, uh, this is a story basically Black Friday. Um, irest Gump, it was. This is the story Basically Black Friday, or no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:It was Thanksgiving night. We were eating Thanksgiving and I went into my room and I started feeling like why am I always in the fog? Why can't I think clear? And it boom, just out of nowhere. All of a sudden the fog lifted and I don't know if it was a voice. I'm not going to say it's a voice that came over me but it was just like why don't you try doing something radically crazy tomorrow and change your whole rhythm up, your whole schedule up, wake up at five in the morning and just walk into the gym. What would that be like? To activate your whole body? You feel like you're in the fog. You feel like you got this like beer gut, you're not in shape whatever, and you think that maybe that's going to motivate you. Just do something crazy. Wake up at five in the morning, right.
Speaker 2:So I went, I was in, I lived in eureka time and bought a house in eureka, I'm living there and I'm like I'm gonna go to this health sport. I've never been to, but I'll go. And I walk in and, um, I had a membership at the Arcata one, so it worked there and uh, but I never used it. And I walk in and I was like totally intimidated, like anyone would be going to a gym for the first time in a long time On a black Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I went in and I just started working out. At five in the morning and there's people in there and they're doing their thing and they're, they're really into it at five in the morning. That crowd is way into it. And I started just getting into it like I'll get on the treadmill, I'll get in a sauna, I'll go over here and lift some weights, and that's the day. And then I did it and I was like what would it?
Speaker 1:be like if I did it again.
Speaker 2:I did it again and I did it again and then it became like three weeks in a month, and two months and three months. And I'm like whoa, I'm a different person. I'm a bar at two in the morning and sometimes a broken window or drunk fight or cleaning up the bar. By the time I got out there was five in the morning crazy. I'd get home and fall asleep at five in the morning, uh, you know, and then have to go take my kids to school at seven, so that's why that got old. But anyway, uh, now here I am waking up at five all the time and getting enough sleep to do that and working out. And so all of a sudden it was like, well, I'm working out, I'm getting, I'm doing all this stuff, but what am I doing it for? And I was like maybe I should do something crazy. I've always wanted to run a marathon, so I and this will take us right to fitness, we'll get back to faith, because we know we're going to talk about that no-transcript.
Speaker 2:I literally felt God like right there running with me. I mean, I knew that's what it had to have been. It blew my mind and I was like, wow, like I'm not alone out here. You know I'm running. This is really hard, this is difficult to get into and I like called it out. I was in the middle of forest, nobody around, so I didn't feel weird about doing it. I just said are you here? Oh, cool around, so I didn't feel weird about doing it. I just said are you here? You know, and I honest prayer. There was no, no voice that came back or anything, but the presence, the energy thing. Realist could be looked up into the redwoods and knew that God was there and he was saying get your ass to church. You know, get your ass to church and go pray.
Speaker 2:And uh, I don't know if I can say that on a podcast I'm a cool. So yeah, I reached out to Bethany and I said I, you know some. I don't remember what I said, but I ended up, so you knew Bethany and Jason already. I knew Bethany and Jason for years.
Speaker 1:Oh, Catalyst Church.
Speaker 2:They used to come into big pizza in the pizza shop, and all that with their when their kids were little, little little. Um, yeah, and, and I always knew them as Blue Lakers and I knew they had a church and everything, but I didn't know much about it, just friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're just friends, just acquaintances, seen them and then, but I'd said these are like the perfect people to help me to rediscover my faith again. You know, and like, sure enough, you know, you start going to that church and you're just like, and Wes went there too, and he's my neighbor and all them, and so, yeah, I just found it right away. Man, I remember I'll never forget like I think it was the second time I ever went to church there. And you know Ray, who does all the music there, was singing some songs and I'm singing along and I don't know if it was something to do with the way the song was or the words in it, but it was the first time I had cried in church, like ever I never cried in a Catholic church.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:Ever and it was overwhelming feelings and that whole summer went through a lot of things where it was overwhelming feelings of God and it made me be able to write more about my faith and get stronger in that F and it also led me to fitness, which we just talked about, and and I think that that's a that's a huge, and now you lead the running group at Catalyst Church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a run group at Catalyst on Tuesdays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Super fun. Um, yep, joni was out yesterday or Tuesday and we had a lot of fun. We just walk sometimes, but um, how many people showed up this week? Uh, this week was just me, joni and Paul, but a lot of times we'll.
Speaker 1:We we've gotten as many as like nine or 10 people there, which is really cool for a brand new running club. Yeah, yeah, just loop.
Speaker 2:The marsh Run club culture is a big thing for me. Um, it's, it's huge as far as uh, checking off that fitness box, because when you go running by yourself and you try to run like five or six miles, it can be really hard. Um, you're in your own thoughts, you're in your own mind, it's, you're just, you're just putting too much pressure on yourself. You're putting we were talking about limits earlier, but off air before we started like you put all these limits on yourself. But what, uh, when you get out there with a group, when you're talking to your chat and you're cruising and everyone's got, like I said again, friends, right being those rooms with people, they're trying to go places. The run club culture is amazing. Everyone is for you winning right there, everyone's a winner. Showing up is a win. Yeah, right. So like you have to walk, you have to walk. Who cares? They just want to finish. They just want you to finish what you started. And they're so encouraging and I mean dang if they didn't encourage and influence me to run ultras, which I never thought I would do. But here I am. I've run 10 marathons. I've run a couple ultras. I tried 100 miler back in February. I've got one coming up in September. These people will influence the heck out of your run club. Culture is amazing.
Speaker 2:So it started with raccoon run club on Mondays with Thomas Nolan, who is one of my best friends, and talk about replacing your life with positive people. That's the name drop. I'm going to give you a Thomas Nolan. Hey, tom, what's up? Thomas and Damien are like my two best friends now. I hang out with them all the time. Yeah, they're a lot younger than me. They're such influences in my life just because of just their story is just amazing. You know, the Dolans are two hours down from us Right.
Speaker 1:I know that's so awesome.
Speaker 2:Hey, tom, you need to have Thomas on here.
Speaker 1:Hey.
Speaker 2:Phyllis yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, break, break. If you're just joining us, I'm going to make this a smooth segue. If you're just joining us, I got my new best friend, pete Ciotti, regular guy from Humboldt, talking to us about his life, his journey and the five Fs, and then we're going to get to the four Gs. Let's do it yeah, then there's, I think, a three Gs the hay and feed store, but that's not this, all right, not that funny. Okay, so went from faith to fitness.
Speaker 2:And it's interesting those collide, they do they cross over, For me anyway, I think, for a lot of people. I think like when you do something hard, that's where grit shows up. Like you do something hard, you do something challenging. There's pain involved, but it's temporary, but that's a good. But on the other side of pain is hope. On the other side of pain is hope. On the other side of pain is grace, humility. On the other side of pain is God, um, faith and everything you're going to believe in. So you just got to stick, stick at it, stay at it. A lot of people want to quit and you just can't have quit in you. You can't have quit in you, Um.
Speaker 2:And I think the last F is finance. Interesting one, right. This isn't like a get rich quick scheme. This isn't me trying to say everyone should be a millionaire or anything like that For finance. What I mean is like, if you have a household and you're a father like me, you got to provide and you got to be smart about your money, and for years and years I wasn't smart. Provide and you got to be smart about your money, and for years and years I wasn't smart. Those businesses I mentioned before all went into debt. I owed IRS way more money than I'd want to say.
Speaker 2:I've had all different kinds of financial issues in my life and what I've learned is you need to sit down First of all. Number one sit down, create a budget. But number two is remember that your hard work is worth something and you have a value. A lot of people devalue themselves just to get work, just to do something. You know they're like I got to stay busy, I got to stay active. Well, there's a lot of power in saying no, and I learned that the hard way. And until I finally learned it and really put it into action, you know, some people just aren't right for you. They're not meant to be your clients, your customers, whatever, and others definitely are. Uh, so you gotta be smart with that. And then, um, I I really learned from this author called Mike McAulowicz, who put out a book called profit first, which is amazing book, because if you're in a business, if you've been a business owner I've been a business owner for 20 years but an entrepreneur for 20 years Um, if you I've been a business owner for 20 years, been an entrepreneur for 20 years If you start to look at your business as profit first literally like when money comes in the profit needs to be there.
Speaker 2:You're not just running a clubhouse, and for years I felt like in the pizza world that's what I was doing, just running a clubhouse. Oh, I want it to be fun. I want to curate this thing, I want it to be really niche and cool, but like that's all well and good. Are you making money? Are you supporting your family? Like, are you growing, Are you scaling your business or are you just playing clubhouse? Good one, and so I.
Speaker 2:That was a big slap in the face for me and I started to learn that, like, whatever I'm going to do, moving forward has to move the needle every day in my life and it has to definitely support my family and you have to get real serious about it and you have to be able to say no, Sure. Those are some really fine-tuned principles to the whole finance thing. For me is just everybody's a yes guy. I got to say yes, Everyone wants to be a people pleaser, Right, Everyone.
Speaker 2:If you look around, every business is going to say I have good customer service. You're really. What you're saying is I'm a people pleaser. Always I have to please everybody, Correct. But are you making money? Are you profitable? Because sometimes you have to draw a hard line and say no to people and that that's hard. It's the same thing with, like having toxic friends that you have to be like I love you but I have to move on from you. You have to do what's right for your business and you have to look at it as business and your family, Because people walk all over you.
Speaker 2:Family budgets. Yeah, and family budgets are so important, knowing where everybody's credit is at, you know, and like how they're going to grow, how we're going to scale. It took us a long haul to buy our first house, but we did it. And I can't believe we did it. It was mainly on the back of my wife, who was just complete badass. I mean, she went from taking care of our kids to getting a job at Costco to just saying she already had a college degree and she was like, oh, you know what I'm going to do, I'm going to go become an engineer. And I was like, wow, I mean, she has the brain for it. I'm like, yeah, do it. So she went back to Humble, got her degree as an engineer, interned for a while, worked for a company. Now she's all the way working for Laco. By the way, when you're an engineer, you have to take like a series of these really ridiculously hard.
Speaker 1:Super hard.
Speaker 2:It's like a foreign language tests and you have to take them out of the area and they're like eight hour tests. She's taken all of them and crushed them and like she's just moving up the ladder and she's so smart and she works on projects that are just way over my head that I can't even like fathom. You know, shout out to Bell, bell, hey, bell, yeah, and so talk about just being so smart with all of it and beautiful babies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she's a saver. She knows what she's doing. I mean, without her I'd be in a gutter. So you know. Yeah, you married up like me. Yeah, so make sure you keep your finances in order. I'm still learning about that. I can't say that I have all this money in the bank and all these things.
Speaker 1:I don't have any of that. How about Dave Ramsey?
Speaker 2:Dave Ramsey is amazing. I think I told you that I took one of his classes, financial Peace University. Yeah, oh, I've read that book too, and Dave will talk about the Rainy Day Fund, which is another big thing I would say about. Finances is like if you're starting out and you want to save some money and get financially sound and you want to get to, what Dave Ramsey is going to say is financial freedom.
Speaker 1:Which is being able to be a giver.
Speaker 2:Eventually in your life, you want to be able to be a giver.
Speaker 1:Total giver.
Speaker 2:You can make so much money that you can give it away. Can you dream of that? How about that? And do you limit yourself? Do you say no, I can never be that guy, there's no way, I'm too old to get there, it's never going to happen for me. Or you can say, yeah, I'm going to make this happen. I think it's important to speak life into everything. I think it Bob Marley. What did he say? He said the richness is of life. I don't have the richness of life. You a rich man because you have material goods? Are you a rich man because you have a richness of life? Yeah, so for finance, it's the richness of life. I wake up every day grateful that I have four children. They're all healthy, no-transcript. Finance is the richest of life and people overlooked that. Some people are just like running the rat race, running the nine to five, and they don't stop and see. What we're going to lead to is the four G's, and the first one being gratitude.
Speaker 1:Let's do a break. Break Ready, let's do a break. So here we go. It was suggested we do this. Hey, dick Taylor, oh, weird, I have a. So, dick Taylor's, down here in Old Town, eureka, which is right over there, they make this amazing chocolate. Have you ever had it? Oh, I had the qu. Yeah, there's a flavor of the month. This one's a ginger snap. Ooh, and you know I've never done this where we actually showed how beautiful the envelope is. So this chocolate, be it $10 a bar, would be the equivalent to scotch that's $500 a bottle. Yeah, talking to the sober guy about scotch, sorry, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1:You want to try a piece? Absolutely, let's do it. This looks really good. I haven't had. Actually, it's been a while since I've had this one, and the whole idea behind this I'll just throw it to you, yeah, here you go Is just savor it. So Pete's going to demo. We're breaking like communion. Yeah, it's only two ingredients, right, cacao and sugar. That's the crazy part, and you could eat a whole bar of this, which I don't recommend. It's 140 calories or something crazy.
Speaker 2:Is that milk chocolate? Huh, is that milk chocolate? Or yeah, no, no, dark chocolate.
Speaker 1:It's dark chocolate. Wow, I'm sorry, this one actually has a little bit of milk. A little bit of milk, that's really good, not too shabby. Pretty good, yeah, can you believe that's like here, local I know, you know, oh, these guys we had to places, airports, I think in Europe. I saw these guys yeah.
Speaker 2:Belle got, yeah, and she tried to get all the kids to go and they're like no, we don't want to do it, we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1:She's like what are you talking?
Speaker 2:about, it's a chocolate tour.
Speaker 1:She had a great time. Fun part about this show at halftime we do the quiz Ready All right For the Dick Taylor chocolate bar and other prizes. So if you could go anywhere today and go for a run, hike all day, woods, whatever, where would you go?
Speaker 2:I would to the Monte Blanc.
Speaker 1:Where's that?
Speaker 2:So it's in Paris. So it's a race that is 100 mile, or I believe, or maybe a little more. It goes from Paris, from France. I know it's not Paris, sorry France, into the mountains of Italy, into Switzerland and back to France. Rad know it's not Paris, sorry France, into the mountains of Italy, into Switzerland and back to France.
Speaker 1:Rad yeah. So if you could run in Humboldt, where would you go? If I could run in Humboldt, or a hike.
Speaker 2:My favorite spots are either doing Grasshopper Peak, which I love, but I really want to run the Lost Coast Trail at some point, point to point to point. So I want to run all the way to Black Sands and back, so it'd be 52 miles.
Speaker 1:So it's Black Sands to mouth of the-.
Speaker 2:Or the opposite Petrolia, petrolia. So you start from yeah Matole to Black Sands and then go Black Sands back. But you kind of got to time the the tides, the tides, yeah, but it's really hilly too right. Oh, it's everything, and I've hiked it once. I hiked it when my wife was five months pregnant with our first kid, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, many years ago. Just ever sleep in the lighthouse. No, that's really cool. Back in the day you could. Yeah, oh, really, it's all redone now. Oh, wow, I think it's off limits. Question two you and Belle get to go to dinner. It's on us. You got the babies. Yeah, where would you go?
Speaker 2:Oh boy, in Humble right, mm-hmm, it's on the spot because I like. I'm a restaurant guy so I should like a lot of them. You're the freshest.
Speaker 1:I don't want to let anybody down for not staying in their place. Yeah, top three.
Speaker 2:Well, my top restaurant ever is no longer. That was Foley Deuce. It's gone. Foley, it's gone. Holy Deuce is amazing. I used to love that place, maybe like Larapin, or maybe that New Cuban place, what's it called the New Cuban Cubano. Cubano yeah, is that good. We went once and it was really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, that's the Jacoby Storehouse upstairs in Arcata.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're more of like a lunchy brunchy kind of thing. We like the Farm Stand in Bayside and the. Beachcomber. Those are really good spots. Beachcomber's delicious yeah Trinidad, yeah Trinidad.
Speaker 1:Nice, yep, all right, good ones. Last question Cup of coffee. Are you a coffee guy? I am Right. Where would you go for a cup of coffee?
Speaker 2:Oh man, For like a coffee shop or like actual local coffee, whatever, because they're kind of two different things. Yeah, they. Well, yeah, could be I. My favorite coffee shop probably is North Town Coffee, because shout out to Holly, who owns North Town Coffee now.
Speaker 1:I've been just going there, back when it was even Muddy Waters which is probably my favorite coffee.
Speaker 2:I think they roast up by we're out in Dallas Prairie, muddy Waters, yeah, yeah, and back when it, back when North Town was even Muddy Waters and they roasted at their Northtown. I've just been a Northtown guy forever because my pizza shop was there. But I mean you throw a rock and you're going to hit a good coffee shop in Humboldt. I mean it really is not a bad one. Brio is good. Yeah, they're all good. Actually, my buddies just started a coffee company like two years ago called Fogline, which is really good.
Speaker 1:That. So, yeah, yeah, north town, all the guys, the bike shop guys, went and vids a day back in the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you got Scott Winfield at Redwood Yogurt.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, scott.
Speaker 1:What's up, scott? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew all that.
Speaker 1:He's a legendary guy. Oh, he's legend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's a great guy, always the coolest guy Just walk in, just the G's here.
Speaker 1:So review the five family, friendships, faith, fitness and finance. You got it, gosh, you know. Good foundation.
Speaker 2:Good foundation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's not. The love of money is not the root of all evil. No, I'm sorry, it is. Money's not the root of all evil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's loving money.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's okay to have money, just don't let money yeah, yeah, don't let it run your life, yeah don't let it run your life, but let it let you know you obviously need it for security and foundations and things. But like, don't let it run your life and I think you know one interesting, as every time I go through these five f's, I think about adding a sub f and that's forgiveness. Ah, and I think because after we had that speech at church on sunday.
Speaker 1:I wanted to add it as a sixth F almost. Yeah, shout out to Jeff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was an amazing speech and his last time talking to church was great too. But you really start to you kind of forget about forgiveness and how crucial it is. A lot of people hold on to trauma, a lot of people hold on to things that just don't serve them anymore, but they keep telling that story. Oh boy, you know what I mean. And it's just like man just forgive and move on and like, let it go, man, you'll both feel better. You know, like you'll open up, and it just like I feel like forgiven. If you don't forgive, there's energy that's blocked and you can't receive and you can't give it. It's terrible and the more you forgive, until you completely forgive everything in your life and forgive everyone, and they forgive you. And you know we just move on.
Speaker 2:Hey then the energy is able to flow again, and sometimes that energy has been blocked for 15, 20 years. It could be between family members. Oh, my God Right, I've seen that firsthand. And tragic. All of a sudden you lift it and it's like you get a rush energy and you're like, oh, my. God, you know. So forgiveness is huge, you know, it's just so important.
Speaker 1:The big one for me is forgive, forgive yourself.
Speaker 1:Yep, absolutely, please do Don't look at that mirror at that person and forgive them, because you're pretty hard on them most days. Yeah, and that's not okay. Yeah, it's not. It's not godly, it's not biblical, it's not cool. No, it's. It's. It's a form of retaining that toxicity. Yeah, love yourself, always love yourself. And just a quick note Jeff Woodkey six and a half years in Al-Qaeda captivity in northern Africa Unbelievable, basically chained to a tree every day and he's talked about being in a box for like four months.
Speaker 1:Four by four by four, box, jeez, crazy man. So if you ever get to see that, it's Catalyst Church, jeff Woodkey last Sunday here in late March of 2025 already. Hey, the 5Gs, 4gs, 4gs. What are the 4Gs?
Speaker 2:So we'll start with gratitude. If you do the five and a half Fs, you'll get the 4Gs. 4gs, yeah, no-transcript. Oh, I'm grateful for the sports car I drive and I'm grateful for the jet ski that's parked in the driveway and I'm grateful for all this, all these material things that have. That's in spite of the person who has nothing. No, that's not gratitude. Gratitude is simple, simple, simple. Get as simple and refined as you possibly can. I'm grateful that I got to breathe air this morning. I'm grateful that I took a breath in and I took a breath out.
Speaker 2:Everybody take a deep breath, like my shirt says Yahweh, right, yeah, I'm happy to take a breath. And then from there, you know, I'm happy that I can stand up upright on my two feet and walk to the kitchen and get a glass of water. I'm happy, I'm grateful that I have children in the other rooms that are breathing, that are healthy. I'm grateful that I get to take my dog for a walk. It's just simple, simple stuff. And you start to see like, yeah, I truly am, I feel it, I feel the energy of being grateful for these things. They really bring they, they give me energy.
Speaker 2:I'm watching them every morning fill me up with energy, positive, powerful energy. It's actual power. I'm watching them every morning fill me up with energy, powerful, positive, powerful energy. It's actual power. And I'm able to get through my day. I don't need a cup of coffee now. I'm set, I'm ready to go, yeah. So gratitude is huge, grateful for everything. And you remind yourself to be grateful when you're down and out, when something frustrating happens or things didn't go your way. Today, or like yesterday, I was working and my mower got stuck and I actually had to call a tow truck company to tow me out and I and I was like 125 bucks. And then I. Then it got to the next lawn and my, uh, my, the belt on my mower broke.
Speaker 1:Oh geez.
Speaker 2:It was just but and then, like I tried to do that webinar and I was going in and out cause the internet wouldn't work, it became so frustrating that it was kind of comical. It was like there's a reason for this. Right, it's just not my day. God is saying maybe you're going to send your message another day, hey, no problem, but I still managed to go. Put some gratitude on that, like some hot sauce on a burrito. Put a little gratitude on that. Yeah, it doesn't taste well today huh.
Speaker 2:Today doesn't taste good to you, today doesn't feel right to you, let's, let's splash a little gratitude on there and see what happens. Change your whole mood. I got a bad burrito day, dude. Yeah, we all know stress is a killer Sure. We all know stress can kill us. We all know we hold stress in our bellies, we hold it in our bodies. You get a little gratitude going. Stress melts away. So with these five Fs you get to the gratitude.
Speaker 1:That's huge.
Speaker 2:Then from there we got grace. You just said it right Love yourself, forgive yourself, give yourself some grace. Give yourself some grace's space. They rhyme right. Give yourself some opportunity. Give yourself a little bit of space to breathe, to digest, to take it in. Like, don't be so hard on yourself. Every day, everybody wants to win. Every day, everybody wants to have all these actors, everyone wants to have this money in the bank account and these big things.
Speaker 2:Right now, we live in an instant society. We live in a society that wants fast food. I'm not talking about the actual food. I'm talking like everything to be fast food from the information we get to the love we received, to energy, everything's timed, everything's fast. Give yourself some grace and explore and like space out and just like be, be okay with it. Like you know, move in your body and be in the moment. Too many people are just future traveling. Be here now. I mean, I think I heard Jim Carrey say that on an interview once. It's like the problem is is you're all? Everyone is just travel. Future traveling yeah, future surfing. You're stressed out and you're freaking out in this world because you're thinking about what's happening in a time that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It has. It has. No, it has no reference to anything. You don't know what the future holds, yeah, so you place all this value in the future or you place all these things in the future that are just not realistic. So stay centered, stay here now and have grace, super important.
Speaker 2:And then the other one of the three out of four of the G's is grit. Grit is the way you get to everything. Everyone wants everything to be simple. Nothing should be hard. Again, it's the whole fast food culture. Everything should just be handed to me. I shouldn't have to work hard for anything. Never going to happen. Never going to happen. You can do all things through him. Right, grit? You have to do, you have to activate, you have to get into the world and move it around and grind it out. Got to grind, dude. And sometimes it can be a situation, as you get older, where you start to realize all the grinding I did in my 20s and 30s or whatever. I'm buying back my time right now. You know I'm buying back my time by getting gritty, you know. So you just got to get in it and with grit comes this whole. We have this, I feel like more now in another way, of this culture has a fear of failure.
Speaker 2:Oh boy more now, another way of his culture has a fear of failure. Oh boy, like they're just like. If I fail, that's it, I'm done. I'm never gonna try that again. And you gotta get some grit, because failure is just part of the process.
Speaker 2:Everyone anyone that's ever been successful in life has failed big time, millions of times, and anyone that has failed has taken probably two different avenues. They either said I'm never doing that again, I quit. I'm just going to punch a clock the rest of my life, or do this the rest of my life, or just let somebody else dictate my life. Or they said I'm going to try it another way. I'm going to try another way because you only have to be successful once. You taste it one time bam.
Speaker 1:Let's name some gritty people Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2:Abraham Lincoln gritty, this is going to be a silly one. This is the one I always say Go. Colonel Sanders Didn't get famous until he was almost 70.
Speaker 1:Colonel Sanders.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't care for KFC or anything like that, but it's just the idea is true that he kept throwing recipes out and throwing recipes out until someone finally hit and he you know, the rest is history.
Speaker 1:I got one, Les Schwab, les Schwab, les Schwab. He put the tire business on the map, the West Coast.
Speaker 2:And I got the biggest gritty person of all time and that's Jesus Christ. It's totally gritty. What did he face? Death.
Speaker 1:Everything, he faced death.
Speaker 2:He knew he was going to die, sure, and he carried. He knew he was going to die. He had followers. He went through it. He knew what he was facing and he still spread the message. He had the Romans against him. He had the Pharisees against him. Did you watch the Chosen? Yet I did. Yeah, I've watched it all Pretty good. It's amazing. Watch the.
Speaker 1:Chosen, it's on everything.
Speaker 2:I think the movie's out now. Season five is a movie.
Speaker 1:Correct, it's all of Boise. Idaho was sold out. Really Got two tickets. Yeah Said it was great. I think it's chunky, though it's broke up in two episodes.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I did. I was going to share with you. Well, you know it because. But Philippine, what is it? 4.13 is like Steph Curry's favorite Bible verse, right, steph? Steph Curry's favorite Bible verse, right, steph Curry? He's got grit. Yeah, and it's a Bible verse about grit. Patrick Mahomes, he's got grit. 413 says I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Wow, right, so that's grit To me. That's like saying I can do all things. I can do all hard things. Yeah, you want me to sit in an ice bath for five minutes because I know it sucks. I'll do it, sure, and I did it for 90 days. I sat in last year. I sat in an ice bath every day after work for 90 days, knowing it was the most incredibly hard thing and I hated every bit of it, and it was just but it like it started to just slowly change the mindset to say you don't like this, is this, is you getting comfortable, being uncomfortable, and this is how you're going to get grit.
Speaker 2:You know, this is how we're going to change. This is one little hack of changing our mindset. Running is another one Just doing things that you don't really like to do, but you got to do them anyway. That's our, that's our plight as fathers. I mean, there's a lot of times we got to grind and we got to grind, and so you're never going to grow if you don't do hard things, if you don't get gritty. So gritty is huge and then that gets us all the way through it to the final thing, which is God, finding God in your life. Through all these things you get balance, find God and you realize that you're not walking alone. You realize that when you're out on a run and you think you're alone in the woods and you're scared that God's right there. And you realize that, uh, when your baby comes, your first kid is born and you don't know what it's going to be like to be in a father.
Speaker 2:I mean, I, when my first kid was born, I almost passed out. I was so much anxiety Like this is changing. Bro, 29 years old, here comes a kid. I was just in a rock band and touring around and got a girl pregnant and all of a sudden I'm like what is this going to be like? And I almost passed out as he was born. I was just worried, I just wasn't used to it. And he was born at home and you know, there it is, there God shows up. In that moment there's a humble thing.
Speaker 2:I mean the whole room became white light and it just overtook me. And it happened again with my daughter was born. Just amazing, and it happened this last time, when my baby was born. I saw a sunrise as my baby came out, five weeks ago, and it was just like God shows up, power moment. God shows up If you work on these things and you believe and, of course, if you have faith and you get gritty with it. And faith is interesting because there's times when you're asked to believe in something you can't see and you don't know what truth is behind it. This seems like scientifically, it could never happen, that he could rise from the dead, that he could heal the sick. Where's the science in any of that? Right, that's where you have to believe and that's where you got to have your faith. And like you're being asked to believe in something that shouldn't be real, it sounds like magic.
Speaker 1:I heard today at lunch when Jesus left, he said I have to go away because you'll never get the power of the Holy Spirit until I go. We're not talking information, we're not talking about indoctrination. We're talking about the power that you're inferring and referring to specifically, and I would call that the Holy Spirit. In terms of your believer, he's a Mago Dei, your image of God. He's entwined, like the scripture uses rope that we can be like with rope, with the Holy Spirit, and that's the power of God and that's, I think, god gives those images, those thoughts, the gratitude thing. I love it. Look at me tying it together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's cool, right, yeah, you start to get, and then we all start tying it together, this whole thing that we're talking about here and we just start to go all right, now I can, I can live a life with purpose. Now I can take something I'm laser focused on and put it into immediate action and watch my life grow. And, by the way, you can do this when you're 45, you can do this when you're 55, you can do this when you're 65. It's endless. It doesn't matter. You're nobody's too old to do this. Nobody's too stuck in their ways, colonel Sanders yeah, colonel Sanders, nobody's too old. So, like you can continue to do this and continue to reset every day. That's the gift. The real power in this gift that we were given here is every day we can reset it and re-challenge ourselves and refocus ourselves. So there's really no fear of failure anymore. It's just like keep going for it.
Speaker 2:Like this next chapter that I'm moving into is coaching, which a lot I've I've gotten some hate on. People are like that's just silly, why would you do that? Why would you try something totally weird like that? Like, why are you going? And it's like well, it's, it's just a calling that I have. I have a passion for it and I want to live my best life. I want to believe and now I do, cause at first I put it in action. I said do I? I asked myself, could the best years at your 40, this was when I was 45, I'm 47 now I asked myself two years ago. I said could the best years of your life be still be ahead of you?
Speaker 2:after all, you've done been in rock band right, traveled the country. You know all these things you've done, had kids, could. Could your best years still be ahead of you? Nah, couldn't be right. You've already done it all.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you start to live like this with this blueprint that we put out here and you go oh yeah, Huh, there's definitely some. I'm not going to future travel too much, but there's definitely going to be some really good stuff coming up, Some real meat on the bone coming up, and I'm just super excited for it. I'm like that's what drives me and gives me purpose right now.
Speaker 1:So there's future travel in the sense of dream A little bit. Dream big, yeah. Dream with detail, yeah a little bit.
Speaker 2:You go there, got an imagination, but you just recenter yourself, take some deep breaths. What's today? Yeah, I'm going to grind today.
Speaker 1:I like the coach approach yeah, idea, and I think you are a great coach and say, hey, pete, coach me up. Yeah sure. I don't know, but I'm sure you would come up with a business model if you don't have one already, instantly.
Speaker 2:I'm working on it. I'm going to launch a business that's going to be sort of endurance coaching, like coaching, running and nutrition stuff at the end of the year. But I'm also going to get my. I'm going to be a certified life coach, if you will, and I'm going to be a certified life coach, if you will, and whatever that means, and start coaching and helping people get unstuck by the end of the year. That's my plan. How would you get a hold of you? Well, just all the usual ways. I have an Instagram page at Pete Ciotti IV, which is four, because I'm the fourth. Pete Ciotti, how do you spell Ciotti? C-i-o-t-t-i? It's like it sounds.
Speaker 1:It's like it sounds.
Speaker 2:Pete Ciotti 4? Yeah, like the IV, the Roman numeral. Oh, iv, right, right, because I'm the fourth Gotcha. You can find me on Instagram pretty easily. I'm on there a lot. I post content, a lot of what we were just talking about, that content's on Instagram a lot. I should have a website up pretty soon for the coaching thing. Tiktok Facebook, no TikTok. I have a Facebook. Same thing, same username.
Speaker 1:Pete Ciotti's Humboldt County.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can find you the fourth or whatever.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm on the social media.
Speaker 2:I have a business website for my landscaping and lawn care ciottiyardmaintenancecom. Gotcha, If you need your lawn done or you're in some landscape you can call me up too.
Speaker 1:Call it up. You know, Nick, I was going to ask you about your lawn real quick. It's kind of long out there.
Speaker 2:Looking long out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Just kidding man.
Speaker 2:I got to go door to door right now because it's a spring rush and get everybody signed up.
Speaker 1:Our backyard is like a jungle in McKinleyville.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like a jungle in McKinleyville. Yeah, it's so crazy, it's wild. Well, hey, thank you man. Thank you for coming For sure. Thanks for having me. What a great story. Yeah, parting shots. My office mate hates that. Parting shots, what is that? It's when you have something else to say.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't have a whole Five F's Family, friendships, faith, fitness and finance Yep which, if practiced with regularity and strength and strength and consistency, lead to the four G's. Four G's.
Speaker 2:Which is Gratitude, grace, grit and God, God.
Speaker 1:I like the God part. Yeah, me too. I like the God part. Yeah, me too. Thanks, pete, appreciate it. Hey, thanks for joining us everybody. This will be my sign-off. This is where it's really very smooth and clever here. Can't wait, yeah, hey, everybody. Scott Hammond, 100% Humboldt, thanks for joining us. Thanks, pete, my new best friend and you know, follow us, review me, come on board YouTube, instagram, all the socials, of course, all the podcast platforms and watch us on local Humboldt Access TV. Appreciate it, yeah, and like us, love us. Write a review and win one of these bad boys, along with one of these, the Dutch. You know how big Dutch Bros is in Santa Rosa, huge, there's one store. Yeah, it's like chick-fil-a, like.
Speaker 2:Everybody goes there yeah, it's crazy, didn't they start in grants pass too grants.
Speaker 1:Pass two brothers. Wow, yep, they were. Uh, they started roasting up there and uh, they're literally on every corner in medford, I think sometime you have to check out youtube the dutch brothers parody.
Speaker 2:It's really funny. It's pretty funny. Yeah, it's all about you, just got to see it.
Speaker 1:They're great guys. They really supported the mountain bike community up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's cool.
Speaker 1:There's a young lad that ended up dying of cancer. They did a ride for him every year and they're just really community guys and these guys here locally are great. Well, hey, thanks, pete. Thank you, appreciate.
