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The Sheldon Cooper of Self Help with Dr. Noah St. John

• Dwan Bent-Twyford • Season 7 • Episode 392

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Your mind is either your greatest asset or your worst enemy – especially in real estate. When Dr. Noah St. John joins Dwan Bent-Twyford on this episode, he pulls back the curtain on what's really holding most real estate investors back from explosive growth.

Known as "the Sheldon Cooper of self-help," Dr. St. John breaks down success into two critical components: inner game and outer game. While most experts focus exclusively on strategies and tactics, Noah's work with thousands of entrepreneurs reveals a startling truth – 90% of the $3 billion he's helped clients generate came from fixing their inner game first.

Through powerful stories like the real estate investor who tripled her investment in just two weeks before they even discussed business strategies, or the agent who generated $95,000 in commissions in just 12 days (and subsequently moved from Boston to Aruba), Noah demonstrates why what happens between your ears determines your income more than any marketing funnel ever could.

The conversation gets deeply personal as Noah shares his journey from growing up poor in wealthy Kennebunkport, Maine, in a house his parents lost to foreclosure, to paying off his dream mansion 27 years early using his own techniques. "Money isn't money," he explains. "Money is options, money is power – not power over others, but the power to choose."

If you've ever felt stuck at an income ceiling, overwhelmed by your business, or trapped in the "hustle until you drop" mentality, this episode offers a refreshing alternative. Learn how to make more in 12 weeks than your previous 12 months while actually winning back time in your life. Your breakthrough might be closer than you think.

Take the free Inner Game Scorecard at myinnergame.com to discover what's been holding you back and take your first step toward reclaiming both your power and your life.

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Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Hey everybody, Welcome to The Most Dwanderful Real Estate Podcast Ever. I'm your host, Dwan Bent-Twyford. I'm America's most sought-after real estate investor and I have some really good news to share with you. Thanks to all of you, we reached 1 million downloads, and I was so excited to get the email with my certified 1 million downloads. So thank you for doing that. Keep doing it, Keep downloading and let's see how fast we can reach two, Because, you know, more is always better. Now I have a really great guest today, Dr Noah St John and he and I are going to have a super fun conversation. As you know, we talk about everything. If you are interested in getting some free things or taking my really fun real estate investing quiz kind of shows you where you are you can go to dwanderful. com D-W-A-N-D-E-R-F-U-L. com and, as you all know that have been following me, I took Dwan, my name and wonderful and made Dwan-derful, so it is a happy Dwan-derful day today, so we're going to jump into it. So, Dr Noah, how are you today?

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

GUEST I'm doing great Dwan, Great to be here.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm excited. I love all your books, thank you. So we over here we like to do

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

things a little bit different, I think, than most people. I like for you to just tell us in a couple of sentences what you do and I want you to give all the ways everybody can find you, because I always like that in the very top of the show notes for the people that just scan and then don't read the rest, and then I'm going to ask you some questions and you're just going to be surprised.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

All right. Well, let's see. Well, my name is Noah St John. You can go to NoahStJohn. com, just like it sounds N-O-A-H-S-T-J-O-H-N. com. That's our main website, and I have tons of books and free resources for you that I'm sure we'll be talking about.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So, basically, what I do is I help entrepreneurs, and particularly real estate investors, to make a lot of money in a very short amount of time while winning their lives back. So I'm known for helping people make more in just 12 weeks than they made in the previous 12 months, while actually winning back one to three hours per day and, you know, eight to ten weeks per year, which is a lot of time. So a lot of people talk about, you know, make a lot of money, but their whole thing is, you know, just work till you're dead, basically. And that's the hustle bros that we've all heard a million times, and I'm not saying that they're wrong, there's nothing wrong with that but I'm like, I don't know about you, but I want a life. I want to live, and not only that, I want my business to serve me, not the other way around.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And so many entrepreneurs and real estate investors you know who I talk to they are doing it the other way around, meaning they're they're living to serve their business, and I'm like you know what it really needs to be in the reverse, and that has to do with the systems that we help people put in place, and that's really one of the reasons I'm able to help people make more in just 12 weeks than they made in the previous 12 months, while winning their lives back at the same time. So that's pretty much me. That's what I do.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I love it. You know, I really like the saying about winning your lives back.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Yeah.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Because so I'm 66. And so I'm a boomer and I was raised by the parents of the Midwestern super hard work ethic. You know, work until you die for the man. And it took me a really long time to get out of that mentality that I don't need to work 80 hours a day to prove I'm valuable and I don't need to work so hard. I need to work smarter. And even for my own self.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I probably didn't really make changes on the level of work till I was like 50. And I was like man, I'm freaking tired, I just I work, I speak, I rehab, it's like, oh, when I have time off, I just want to like lay in bed and watch movies all day. And so I. So I did through reading books and various things. I did learn to put myself first, my health first. I did do that. But I got to tell you what, when you have been the person that helps everybody, does everything for everybody, and then you start saying no, there is a lot of pushback, oh yeah, I start saying no to people like no, I can't do that, and I go what? Well, I just I can't do it. I'm taking care of me first, I'm first, and that doesn't fit and I can't believe. Even from my own family, even from my own family, it's like what is wrong with you, definitely.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

What is wrong with you? So I love all of it. So what I would want to know is, like a person like myself, who I think I just became more self-aware from being in business, writing books, being at conferences exposed a lot of people, what would be one of the first things someone would need to do to recognize that they need your help? Like what's the day where they wake up and they go, oh, I need something. Like where's that?

Dr. Noah St. John:

Well, actually it's perfect that you're asking me that, because I have several tools that are available to help people with precisely that thing, and one of them is called the Inner Game Scorecard, which is free, and you can just go to myinnergamecom myinnergamecom, just like it sounds and you can take my free Inner Game Scorecard. So it's literally you get a score of how you're doing with your inner game. Now let's talk about what I mean by that.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

All right, so when we look at success I think that's where we hang up today, so tell me about it.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Yeah. So when we look at success now, I am known as the nerdiest nerd in the personal growth and business growth industry. I'm like the Sheldon Cooper of self-help. I Sheldon.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Cooper of self-help. I love Sheldon Cooper.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Who doesn't right? We all love Sheldon at least us nerds do, Anyway. So I'm like the super nerd of self-help, and so when I say that, what I mean is that one of the things that I love when I teach, you know, when I do my seminars or keynote speeches, or even my coaching, I use a lot of Venn diagrams, right, and Venn diagrams are basically circles that tell a story. Okay, so, here's my very, very favorite Venn diagram of all time, and I'll just explain it to you. It only has two circles, okay, so, and I again, I talk about this in my books and my coaching and everything but it's basically what is success, right? And success boils down to two main elements, and that is inner game and outer game. So, if you picture two circles that meet in the middle, all right, so on one hand, you have the inner game and on one hand, you have the outer game. Now, what does that mean? Well, your inner game is everything that happens between your ears, that you can't see directly, but it affects everything that you do. That you can't see directly, but it affects everything that you do. And I'll give you an example when I speak to, you know, real estate corporations or organizations or teams all across the country and around the world.

Dr. Noah St. John:

One of the things that I'll do is I'll say all right, everybody, why don't you tell me one area of your life where your beliefs don't affect you? And here's what people do they go and I go exactly. There's no place your beliefs don't affect you. And here's what people do, they go and I go exactly. There's no place your beliefs don't affect you. Right, right, think about it. Your beliefs, right. They affect your health, your wellbeing, your stress level. Your beliefs affect your money, your finances, your business, your career. Your beliefs affect your relationships, right, your marriage, your family life, your social life and everything else. Your beliefs are affecting everything. But here's the funny thing you can't see a belief, you can only see the effects of a belief.

Dr. Noah St. John:

All right, and that's why you can be doing really well in one area of your life, but maybe you're stuck or struggling in another. For example, maybe you're making a lot of money but your health is suffering. Or, conversely, maybe you know you're really healthy, feeling good, but you're not making the money you want, see. So it's not cookie cutter, one size fits all. It's a very customized and personalized approach that we take at my company, successcliniccom, and you know, with my coaching and everything else, okay, so that's your inner game. And then we have your outer game.

Dr. Noah St. John:

All right, so that's the other circle. Now your outer game is everything you can see directly. That's all the systems and strategies, the, the funnels, the traffic, the offers, all of the stuff that the marketing dudes are talking about incessantly. Now, over the last 30 years which I've been in business 30 years now I've been coaching people all around the world for three decades and what I have noticed is and I've helped my clients make over $3 billion collectively. That means I've helped people add multiple six figures, seven figures, eight figures, even nine figures. I mean that's a lot of money, right?

Dr. Noah St. John:

That's a lot of money, a lot of money. But what's fascinating is 90% of that money that I've helped my clients make has come from Intergame. See everybody else. I'll give you a quick example. I was working with a real estate investor from Arizona. Her name's Tamisa. Now she's great, great personality. You know just really bubbly, just doing, you know really really smart. But she was hitting an income ceiling right Now. She was doing six figures in her business but she'd been just plateaued and hitting that, as I call it, an income ceiling. Now she was a self-described seminar junkie going to all these seminars. Maybe some people can relate to that.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know, going to all these seminars and spending all this time and money.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I know a lot of people can relate to that because they see you Right, exactly. But so she was running around all these seminars and, you know, doing well but still hitting that income ceiling. So a friend referred her to me and she joined one of my coaching programs, which is called the 12 week breakthrough. You know, like I was talking about earlier, I help people make more in 12 weeks than they did in the previous 12 months. So she decided to join my coaching and in two weeks she tripled her investment. In two weeks, tripled in two weeks. We hadn't even gotten to the money part yet.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Okay, this was all just because of me bringing to her awareness how she had been holding herself back without her conscious knowledge. So that is an example of how powerful your inner game is. And so again, I'll just reiterate that if you go to myinnergamecom, inner game is. And so again I'll just reiterate that, if you go to myinnergamecom, get your free inner game scorecard and you can literally see how you're doing. It's 20 questions in different areas of your inner game and then there's a score at the end and then from there you know, you will say you know, do you did you score high, medium or low? And then we have different processes to help you, of course, really master For everyone listening to this program.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know, I just I can't tell you how much I agree with what you do. I know from just years that we have so much negative self-talk.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I think it's like what is like 95 percent of the self-talk in our heads is negative. Yeah, and it's hard. What is it Like? 95% of the self-talk in our heads is negative? Yeah, and it's hard to stop doing that. Like I tell you, like you can't just overnight.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I remember many, many years ago, probably in my 20s, I went to a Tony Robbins seminar. I can't remember the guy that was talking, but he was talking about negative self-talk and he put out a challenge like write down all your thoughts every day. And every time you get a thought, think about, write it down. Like you know, I'm gonna do that. So every time I had a thought, I'd write, you know, as much as I could. And after like two weeks I thought, wow, I can't believe how much negative stuff I think, and I mean stuff just like oh, girl, your hair, oh you just like anything, like just any little thing. And I was like, wow, he is so right.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So I ended up buying the program and I had to learn how to change my negative mindset to always be positive, and I mean it took me a couple of years. It was work, work and I mean, and I worked on it, one day I was like, hey, you know what I have all these great positive thoughts. I pray, I talk to God all day, I'm feeling good, I'm doing this and doing that. How about that? It's hard and I don't think that most people even recognize that.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Right, they don't.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Sometimes I always tell people listen, your mind is your worst enemy. But you get it under control, like you're talking about, and you change the way you think about things. Nothing changes for you.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Absolutely. You know, and, and you know I grew up poor in a rich neighborhood and that's, that's my background. And so I grew up in this little town called Kennebunkport, maine, which is one of the wealthiest communities in New England, in fact in the entire country. But my family was dirt poor, and I mean that literally, because we lived at the bottom of a dirt road in a drafty, unfinished house that my parents ended up losing to foreclosure when I was just 15 years old. So if any listening to the program has either gone through a foreclosure or knows someone who has, you know it's a very traumatic experience and it certainly was for me and for my family.

Dr. Noah St. John:

So from a very young age I made a decision, a conscious decision, that I wasn't going to be poor. But I knew that because, you know, my family was poor. I didn't really have any help. I'm like, what am I supposed to do? You know I don't want to be poor and of course nobody wants to be poor.

Dr. Noah St. John:

But you know, I made that determination from a very young age because what I realized is, you know, that dichotomy between the haves and the have nots. You know the haves was everyone else in the community, the have nots was my family, right, yeah? And so I realized that when you don't have money, it means you don't have choices, you don't have options. So, as I always teach my clients, money isn't money, money is options, money is choices. Money is power, not power over others, but the power to choose.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And so I realized when you don't have that, then you don't own your life, and I said that's not acceptable to me. So I did the only thing that I could think of to do back then when I was growing up, which is I went to the library and I read every book in the self-help section. I just immersed myself in this literature of success and personal growth. You know way back in the in the seventies, and you know, of course, this was long before the internet. You know all way back in the 70s, and, of course, this was long before the internet.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Oh yeah, I know I did the same thing the whole 80s. Every book I read was self-help there was no internet. We didn't have internet, we had to figure stuff out.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Exactly. And then fast forward many years and in 1997, I realized exactly what was missing in all of those books and all those trainings that I'd spent so many years and hours of my life studying. And that is really what has what led me to you know, write these 25 books and 18 languages that I have today and do the coaching and training and keynote speaking that I do, and you know really what's amazing about that, dwan, is that real estate. That's why I'm so thrilled to be here on your program today, because real estate is one of the areas that I've helped people make the most money. And why is that? Well, because, as everyone listening to this program knows, 90% of your success in real estate is right here between your ears. It is the inner game, which is what I've been talking about. And so anything when you have a sales organization or a sales team or something that is very sales heavy, like real estate, that's your job.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Well, guess what? Who are you fighting? Like you just said, you're fighting yourself a lot, let alone your competitors. But my point is that real estate is one of the areas where I have the most and some of the largest success stories in the industry. I'll give you one quick example. Another example I talked about Tamisa a moment ago. She's one example. Another great example is Brian. When I met him, I was speaking at a seminar and he came up to me and he said hey, noah, I love what you do, it sounds great. And he decided to sign up for my coaching, like on the spot and, you know, similar to what I was talking about earlier. You know he was hitting that income ceiling. He was doing fine, doing well, but still couldn't break through that ceiling. Now, when I coached started coaching him, he was living in Boston right and you know he was doing well.

Dr. Noah St. John:

So in just 12 days not 12 weeks and not 12 months, 12 days he, because of what I taught him about the inner game, he ended up scoring ninety five thousand dollars in commissions. Ninety five thousand dollars in 12 days. I like to hear Hello. And now guess what? Now he has his own podcast. And guess what? He moved from Boston to Aruba as a result of all this money he made. Let's say Boston to Aruba. You're welcome, I think I would choose Aruba over Boston, you think.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know what I'm saying. So another great. I got a lot of them Because in Colorado we got to put a snow.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Exactly. Anyway, I'm like. You're welcome Brian.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Anyway, I'm like you're welcome, Brian. Yeah, See, I just I love that so much and you know it's like my mom. I love my mom dearly, but she's a good example. She was raised very poor, like really poor, and then when she married my dad, like they were, you know, middle class, they had all that. But she's still to this day, she's 88 years old, and she'll still to this day say, oh, I can't do that, I'm poor and it's like but poor and broke are two different things. You can be broke ass, but you're not poor If you're poor. That is a mindset that if you can't overcome that, you're always going to be poor. And I always help people like listen, poor and broke. I've been broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, no-transcript, and I never would, because that's a negative mindset. And being poor, like you said, being like dirt poor, like my parents were raised with, you know, no running water, no plumbing.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

My grandmother's only got indoor plumbing when I was 16. So I would go to Tennessee to visit and have to use an outhouse and I was like what is this nightmare that's?

Dr. Noah St. John:

outside Exactly yeah, and.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I was terrified. I was like, oh, my God. So when they got into plumbing, I was like, oh, thank the Lord.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I know Right.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And my parents were raised that way, you know, and it's just, it's the mindset, and but people do get stuck. So tell me, what do you think in your opinion? What do you think in your opinion? What do you think? One is the number one reasons why people get like stuck at a level. Is it their surroundings? Is it their mind? Is it lack of exposure, like, what do you think is like the number one?

Dr. Noah St. John:

Well, there are three main problems that I fix when it comes to inner game. Three main problems, ok, and they have three corresponding solutions, all right. So the first problem that I see so many people have. So, and let me back up for a second. So I want the for the folks listening to this program. I want you to think about your goal like it is a destination, all right. So that is the destination where you're driving to, all right. So going for your goal is like driving in a car, all right. You want to go from point A to point B, right, and of course, you want to get there as quickly and efficiently as possible, right, with the least amount of time, energy and money wasted, right, that's what we all want. So you know, one of the common goals that you know most entrepreneurs have is having that million dollar lifestyle business, just having that million dollar lifestyle business.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Now, I'm using that term very specifically. Now, let's say, you're listening to this program, you're like, well, no, I'm already making a million, that's nothing, okay, fine, make it 10 million, I'm making a hundred million. I don't really care what the numbers, but what I am saying is, when you look at the second part of that phrase lifestyle business. I will reiterate what I said earlier, which is I want and I would think you want your business to serve you. That's what I mean. In other words, I'm doing this so I can live, so I can live the lifestyle that I choose. That's why most entrepreneurs do it. I saw a fantastic sign the other day on social media. It said we don't do these things because they're hard. We do these things because we thought it would be easy. The entrepreneur's creative. I'm like. That is so true. I love that.

Dr. Noah St. John:

You know, because they told us it was going to be easy. All these girls, oh, it's easy. I'm like, no, it's not easy, no, anyway. So, going back to that point, so there's your goal, right? So, a million dollar, seven figure lifestyle, whatever number you want. Ok, so the three problems that most people have when it comes to that. The first problem is a lack of direction, right, a lack of direction. That means, remember, I just talked about that you know you're driving in a car. Well, imagine if you're driving a car, you don't know where the heck you're going right.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Let's see. I don't know, I don't know. Let's see.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I don't know, I don't know Right. So, and you know, the problem, or another problem is that you know, you can see if you have this problem by. You know if you have, like constant overthinking, been exacerbated, of course, by these wonderful tools that we have at our fingertips called smartphones, and all the social media companies which are, which their job is to addict you to their platforms. Their job is to addict your brain to their platform so that they can show you more advertising, so they make more money.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah.

Dr. Noah St. John:

That's how it works, folks.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I agree.

Dr. Noah St. John:

So anyway, so lack of direction, huge problem number one. Huge problem number two is lack of focus.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Lack of focus? All right. So those two go hand in hand, right? If you don't know where you're going, then it's awfully hard to focus. Exactly Right. So that means you're like, man, I really should do this, I really need to call that person, or I need to write this article, or I need to, you know, film this video. But you know what? I think I'll watch Netflix, you know. So you're just getting this procrastination.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And then what's amazing is you tell yourself oh no, I'd love to do that, but I don't have the time. Really, you don't have the time. How many hours are you watching Netflix again? You know, I'm not saying you shouldn't have fun or enjoy your life.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I get it, I think everybody.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Exactly.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

All right, so that's the procrastination loop.

Dr. Noah St. John:

OK, and then and then just having trouble following through, right, like I'm the king of follow through, because I know exactly where I'm going and I have just this laser focus on what I want. So when you have that, then of course it's easier to follow through. If you don't have that, then you know it's hard to follow through. So those are the first two problems. Then the third problem that I see so many entrepreneurs making you know, especially real estate investors in many cases, is isolation and overwhelm, just isolation, because as an entrepreneur it can be very lonely, it can be a lonely road.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And why? Well, because, number one, we weren't taught this in school, right? Remember that entrepreneurial class you took in high school? Of course you don't. Because you didn't, because there wasn't. No, it doesn't exist. And so we were taught. Like you were saying a moment ago, you know, we're taught. You know, get a job and work 40 years and retire, we were all taught, I mean, most of us were taught this, certainly of a certain age, and it's like what? So you know to be not that, to not go in that direction. Well, guess what You're?

Dr. Noah St. John:

you're weird, you're strange, you're not normal, you know, so that can be very isolating and you can feel very overwhelmed because you're like you know, I don't ever want to talk to you. You can't talk to your family because they're all working in jobs. And you know you start talking about your problems as an entrepreneur, their eyes glaze over. You're like, ah, you know, forget it, so you don't have the right support system, you're feeling overload. And then you really get that self-doubt spiral, that self-doubt downward spiral, and it's like, ah, I don't think I, maybe I should just get, maybe I should just go get a job. You know, we've all faced that. I mean, I've faced that hundreds of times in the last few years and you're like, ah, you know, geez, maybe it's just not worth it. So that is really, really tough if you don't have the right support system.

Dr. Noah St. John:

So the way that I fix that and help people with that is very simple. So there's three problems. There's three solutions, all right. So the first problem is what I said is lack of direction. So what do we do? We fix that with the right plan. Yep, Right, so we get you the right plan for you.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Now, remember, for them this is and this is another reason I love, you know coaching real real estate investors, because I use a lot of house analogies and so real estate investors are used to dealing with homes and apartment buildings and so forth. So one of the things that I talk about is building a house. So imagine if you wanted to build a house and you don't have a blueprint. How's that going to go for you?

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Not going to work.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Not so much, but yet this is what so many entrepreneurs are doing. They wake up in the morning and they go wow, man, I need a house. What do I do? I don't know. Well, I don't know. Let's. Let's start slapping boards together and hope a house shows up. So they're busy and the end. Why is it so cold in here? Because you don't have a plan.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I was like I so hear you no-transcript.

Dr. Noah St. John:

That's what so many entrepreneurs are doing. They're like you know hey, let's pick out the curtains on the third floor. We haven't even poured the foundation yet.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

That's true.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Okay, so anyway. So that's the first we have the right tools, and that fixes the problem of lack of focus. The second problem right, right tools, all right. So again, building a house, right, okay, you've got your blueprint. There's the plan. Boom, boom, boom, we're doing this to this. Well, let's see. What do I need to do that?

Dr. Noah St. John:

Well, you need the right tools right when I started in 1997, I was living in a 300 square foot basement apartment. I had $800 to my name. I had no money, no connections, no list, no marketing, no sales experience. I didn't know anything about running a business. You know, the only funnels we had back then were funnel cake. There was nothing, nothing. So we had no, no tools whatsoever, nothing, you know. But what I did have was what I bet almost everyone listening to this program also has, which is a deep burning desire to make a difference, a deep burning desire to help people, to make an impact. Yes, and I had that and that that saved me from really a lack of knowledge and a lack of experience. It was that one thing that kept me going all those years.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Nice.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I love that. But now you know, of course we want to make it. I don't want people to, you know, go through the same torment and agony that I had to go through. I mean, I had to go through years and years and years and paying all these you know so-called gurus so much money, only to find out they can't teach their way out of a paper bag. There's no there there.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

They don't tell you anything.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I said I just paid you all this money, now tell me what to do. Well, you know, go do it. You know, get leads. No kidding, I'm what. Hello, what are?

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

you doing you know you're literally speaking my life, I hear you oh my God, it was awful.

Dr. Noah St. John:

All right, so that's the second. So now we remember we got the right plan, what we're doing, the right tools, how we do it. And then what's the third element? The right support. All right, so you've got to have the five people you spend the most time with yes. And that I think that's pretty accurate.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I think most people would agree with that.

Dr. Noah St. John:

So, you know, going back to my example, and like what you were talking about earlier, duann, you know I grew up poor in a rich neighborhood. So who was I around? Well, I was around poor people in my family, but when I went to school, I was around rich people. So I'm like Hmm, uh and, and you know, there's really not a heck of a lot of difference, except money. And I'll tell you another funny story, uh, and a true story. So, um, a few years ago, uh, my wife and I were living in a house here I live in Northeast Ohio and we had a. It was a nice, middle-class neighborhood, you know it was, uh, you know, a nice house. Yeah, nothing really to write home about, but it was nice, right, nice neighborhood and everything. And all of a sudden, one day, in fact, it was the Saturday before Thanksgiving of 2020. Now, this was the height of the pandemic, if you can remember back that far.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Oh.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I remember, and I woke up with a vision. And this vision said you're supposed to move. And I was like what, what do you mean? Move? Everything's fine, we're not. What do you have you ever get those visions or that just sort of inner knowing, that inner prompting, and it doesn't make any logical sense. Well, I've been doing this long enough to know you got to listen to those visions, those promptings, whatever it is, and I said okay, even though it didn't make any sense, and I said all right. So I said you know, I got up it. So I said you know, I got up, it was six in the morning and I just started looking on, you know, online, to different real estate places and I and I found this house and it was just this beautiful, beautiful home and it was literally eight minutes down the road from where I live.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And the the next day the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2020, there was going to be an open house. So I said, honey, would you like to go see a house tomorrow? She's like, yeah, sure, we drove up the driveway. She turns to me and she says I'm packing tonight. 12 weeks later, we moved into this home right here, which is a 5,000 square foot mansion on a hill. It is literally better than my dream home. A lot of people tell you hey, write your dream home. I'll tell you and this is true If I would have written my dream home, it'd be like here. This house is like here. It's better than I could have dreamed of.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So why do?

Dr. Noah St. John:

I share that story. What does that mean for everybody listening? The point is number one when you listen to those inner promptings, even sometimes it doesn't make any logical sense, but you listen in here with your heart, your gut, wherever you want to say it comes from. That's when you're overcoming your fear. Right, Because your fear will tell you not to move forward. Your fear will tell you it's stupid. Your fear will tell you it'll never work, It'll never happen for you. Don't listen to your fear. Listen to that inner prompting, Take the action. If I hadn't taken the action, we wouldn't be here, right?

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I know, now you have this beautiful house. That's amazing, exactly.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And because of using the very things that I teach my clients, I was actually able to pay off the mortgage 27 years early on my dream home, 27 years early. So that the point of the story is if it works for me, it can work for anybody. That all happened in 12 weeks, just 12 weeks. That's where the name 12 Week Breakthrough came from, because I realized, wow, if I can change my life in 12 weeks, that means I can help anybody do it, and that's the power of having the right plan, the right tools and the right support.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yeah, I love your all of it.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I love all of your story and all the things that you say, like having the direction and you know, and not having the focus and not having especially the support. Because when I started working for myself, I was rehabbing houses by myself, so I was going to the job and, like my friends helped me on my first couple houses. I hired a few people but, like I didn't have any real estate friends this is, this is before even those real estate groups came to fruition, so I didn't have anyone else and so I would come home a lot at night. But I have, like nobody to run ideas by, because everyone in my family was like you're a single mom, you need to get a job, insurance and be responsible, but being irresponsible working for yourself, who do you think you are? And I'm like I don't know. I'm a person that worked in a factory for two weeks after high school because everyone told me to and thought if I had to live here my whole life, I'm killing myself that's right but I can't do this.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And when I got laid off I was like thank you, jesus, I am thank you right I actually left the state.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm from ohio. I'm like I'm moving out of the state because if I stay here I'm gonna get bullied into work at a factory, because general motors is big in this. I graduated high school in 77 and get married and have kids and, like all my friends, got married out of high school and everybody worked at the factory and I got a factory job and it was like the worst six weeks of my entire life. It's so horrible and so and I was like I don't know, I've never been in a factory. It's like it's so hot.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Erica, you're standing on concrete and I thought why would my people that love me want me to do this for 40 years? Why would I even ask my dad? I was like, why would you want that for me? He goes oh well, you work for the man and then you retire and then you can live your life. But I don't want to live my life Because, you know, when you're 18 or 19, people that are 60 are like, wow, how are they still alive? You know, and I was like I don't want to live my life. I'm in my 60s, I'll probably be dead. I don't know how y'all are still alive right now.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Right, I was like I want to live now. So I went to Florida. I was like I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm going to figure it out. But it's not going to have anything to do with a factory. Married your kids. There, you go and everybody like you'll be back, you'll be back. I was like, no, you don't understand, I will not, I'm not ever doing that. And I've got friends that did all the fact, all the stuff, and now they're my age and their bodies and they've never, done a thing and it's like Kelly.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So that's why I tell people like, just make the changes now, work for yourself. So I love your 12-week breakthrough. It's like work for yourself, figure it out, get someone like you. A lot of people, but I'm telling all my Dwanville people you definitely need Dr Noah because I can help you with the real estate and making all the money and show you all the tricks to that. But your mindset is the number one thing that'll hold you back and I don't really teach a whole, whole, whole lot about other than like, read some books. And now we have you, they can refer people to you because they need help when they're. I mean.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm not that I encourage them, I teach them. I'm always like the biggest cheerleader, but when they don't have anyone else around or they don't have the mindset I can share with them all day, but they still fall back, and that really is the cycle.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Yes, I'm telling all of you.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Dr Noah take that quiz. So inner game myinnergamecom. I am going to take the quiz. So absolutely. That's a plethora of information. I love it.

Dr. Noah St. John:

That's wonderful. I just also want to mention, if you go to BreakthroughWithNoahcom just like it sounds BreakthroughWithNoahcom I'm known as the Breakthrough Coach again the 12-week breakthrough, but BreakthroughWithNoahcom if you really just want to get on the fast track and you know, want me track and want me or one of my coaches to help you, just go to BreakthroughWithNoahcom and there is a quick video there and you can just select a time and answer a few questions and then me or one of my coaches will get on the phone or Zoom with you. They'll do a 15-minute business evaluation and you'll walk away with three tips you can implement immediately to skyrocket your business. And all of that is available at BreakthroughWithNoahcom.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I love it. So, folks, he's giving you all his stuff. It's in the show notes. You can't tell me you can't find the guy, okay, so we're going to turn things around a little bit. We want to learn something about you. So what is your favorite band of all time?

Dr. Noah St. John:

Bon Jovi.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Ah, bon Jovi, I love Bon Jovi.

Dr. Noah St. John:

There you go.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I do and you know I am such a concert person. I've been to thousands and for whatever reason I was kind of going through a list of who have I not seen. I don't know why I have never seen Bon Jovi.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Wow.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

That's like next time they roll through Denver. I don't care when or where I'm going to go. I love Bon Jovi. What's your favorite food?

Dr. Noah St. John:

lobster.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I'm from maine, so it's lobster I tell you what maine has those uh, I can't remember the name of that place those little lobster sandwiches that are like just yeah, they're called lobster rolls lobster oh, cooked in butter, it's like love those every time I go there, that's the first place I go oh yeah and then I go every day for like a week. It's like, oh, you cannot eat enough of those yes the lobster rolls are so unbelievably good. What is your favorite time of the day? Where is your happy place in your day?

Dr. Noah St. John:

You know it's 6 am. That's like when I woke up I had that vision. I was telling you I just I like getting up, you know, a little bit early, and I know a lot of people are like on the 4am, 5am, I'm like you know what, I just get up when I feel like it. It's not like I have to get up at 6am, but that's when I just feel very creative, get a lot done, and you know I'm usually done by, you know, one or two in the afternoon. So I am the opposite of the hustle and grind bros. I mean like go ahead and work 18 hours a day, man. But I want to live, I want to enjoy life. My wife and I, we sit by the fire, we have a koi pond in the backyard, we watch the birds and the fish and we have deer and everything. And it's just wonderful to just enjoy life and not work, work, work all the time.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I could not agree with you more. I've interviewed so many people. They're like oh yeah, I'm up at 4am, I'm in the gym and my mind now I'm just like but why, why are you up when it's literally the middle of the night, it's 4am, Like I don't even get it. So I don't know, I don't get it, I I naturally wake up about 7.30.

Dr. Noah St. John:

I haven't set an alarm for 30 years, so no, I just get up when I feel like it, unless. I'm doing a workshop or something, a lot of times I'll start working. You know, if I'm starting work at 6 am, I'll go back to bed. I'll take another nap.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I've been known to do that too. Okay, so what is so? Just to review everyone once you go Noah stjohncom, you have the 12 week breakthrough myinnergamecom. And what was the other one? Breakthroughwithnoahcom, breakthroughwithnoahcom.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And are you on Instagram and all the stuff? Oh yeah, absolutely. Just search noahstjohncom Facebook, instagram and especially my YouTube channel. Make sure you go to check out my YouTube channel. We have a lot of really cool videos and things like that. Every that we release, you know, on a consistent basis to help you, you know, with your inner game and your outer game. So we help people in both ways.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

And I love your whole inner game out of you Really. It's just, it's really it's amazing what you do and I just don't think sometimes people realize how much they need this kind of training, because your mind is either really helping you or it really is your worst enemy. And it's hard for people to untrain the things they've heard have been taught so much negativity in the world and videos and the news is like oh God, you guys are too much.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So, um, so again, folks, if you happen to be new, this is the most wonderful real estate podcast ever. I'm on wonderful Facebook, wonderful Instagram, wonderful YouTube, wonderful LinkedIn, wonderfulcom. So opt in, take my little quiz and you can see where you're at in your real estate investing. You take Noah's quiz and see what you need to do to help you get where you want to go. And so one last. I have two last things, and one is what is something that the Dwanerville family can do right now to help you reach your next big goal, and what is it? What is your next big goal?

Dr. Noah St. John:

Well, I just really want to, of course, help more people. That's my mission is to teach people about the power of the inner game and really give them back their power. I think a lot of us have lost our power, have given our power away over the years, and so I want to give people their power back, showing them that it's already inside of them. And so really, for the folks listening I mean number one you can have me come in and speak and do trainings for your team, your organization. Number two you know I do keynote speeches, whether live or virtually. So have me come in and do that for you. Just contact me, you know, on my website or on social media, and then just spread the word. I mean just really say hey, you know what I heard, dr Noah on the DeWonderful podcast, you should check it out. But really, that's it. I've got lots of books and trainings and coachings and keynote presentations and I'd certainly love to help all the folks listening to the program today.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay good, I always want to see how we can help you, because if you have a set like you're working towards this, I always want to help and I always tell all my people like, hey, let's help everybody else reach their goal, because when you're helping other people reach your their goals, somehow you tend to reach your own goals.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

That's right and I also just quickly, uh want to ask the audience to do me a favor. If you had fun today, you learned one thing you laughed, you think think Noah's so adorable, or, of course, you know I'm always the wonderful. I want you to find the podcast and like, subscribe, and leave a five star review and also write a comment. And what is your podcast name?

Dr. Noah St. John:

For me.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Yes.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Oh, I don't have a podcast, I'm just a guest on other people's podcast so I was gonna say, go to your podcast and leave a review too. But no, I I don't have one right now. I just enjoy being a guest now be a guest.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

You know, be a guest guests are fun. I love doing the podcast and I was on them for like a decade. I think I should start my own, but I'm gonna tell you it's a labor of love. Yeah, what you, what you do, big guess You're an amazing guest. So, anyway, podcasts can't grow without your help. So I just always ask you if you enjoyed it, loved anything, learned anything, laughed anything five stars, write a comment and say how awesome both of us are. And last thing for you, noah, is I want you to give us a word, leave us with a word of inspiration, but only, or motivation, whatever, but only one actual single word empower.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Okay, that's it. And the reason I said that is because wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Hold on, I'm gonna get there.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Okay, I don't tell people ahead of time, because I don't want them thinking about their word and trying and then they can't figure out. So I just want to hear the word. So. So what we do is the word of the week at dwanderful is now in power, so we have a word of the week and I have everyone put on a little sticky and put on your mirror and use and say the word Empower, empower, empower, empower. And then we do actually now want to know what it means to you.

Dr. Noah St. John:

It means to claim the power that you already have inside of you. I think a lot of people have lost or given away their power. I know I did. You know I did that for years I let people walk all over me and I was a total doormat, and so it took a long time for me to learn how to stand up for myself, to claim my power, to find my voice. So now I'm able to help people do that, and really in many, many cases it does change your life.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

It does, I love it. Empower is a very great one. I any cases, it does change your life. Empower is a very great one. I like to always get the word that I want to tell everyone that's our word of the week, but then I always want to know what it means to you, because empower means many things to many people, so we're always curious what it means to you. But you know, I like the fact that you say like to claim your power and take your power back.

Dr. Noah St. John:

And.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

I think I'm going to start using that as my description of empower, because it is so easy to give your power away, do too much for everyone you're you know, or be too much of a people pleaser or whatever, and when I made the decision to like stop doing that, it is hard to take your power but now they have it back. It's like and and nobody taking my power.

Dr. Noah St. John:

That's right.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

Now it's like now I got my power, but it was not easy and I love that to claim the power. Take back your power. That's a great word. That's a great word. So that's going to be on my mirror. In a minute I'm going to go right and put in power up on my board. So I everyone. First of all, thank you. You are such a pleasure as a guest. I've enjoyed so much talking to you today. You're just so fun and you're interesting and you're so motivated and you like the best music and you eat my favorite food. So next time I'm in Ohio, we're going to have to go find us a lobster roll somewhere.

Dr. Noah St. John:

Let's do it.

Dwan Bent-Twyford:

So, oh, I love those things somewhere, let's do it so oh I love those things, I thinking about now it's like, oh, I feel like just flying over there. All right, so great, so great, um, and everyone will be back next week, same bat time, same bat channel. And remember that the truth is in the red letters. All right, guys, thank you, and noah, thank you. We'll be back next week.