The Journey to Freedom Podcast
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Colin Watson shares his raw journey from financial ruin in the #mortgage crisis to rebuilding his life through #health and #purpose.
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Just barely coming out of foreclosure, just got our mortgage redone, just to go right back into it. So my nervous system is all over the place and I'm asking, like, why, god? Like what? I mean, we just pulled this out. What are you pulling this back in for? And we borrow from our friends. We borrow, we survive six months. We're borrowing the mortgage payment. We're like thinking we just got to hang on six months. Six months come six months. To the day I reach out to the bank and said, hey, it's been six months, can we give us our money? And said no, actually, yeah, they gave us $40,000. And so the rest of it they were going to keep for penalties for damaging the MasterCard brand.
Speaker 2:All right, welcome to another yet amazing edition of the Journey to Freedom podcast. And I am Dr B, I'm your host and, man, something about doing these shows just rejuvenates me. I just got done with it. I was just telling Colin, I got done with doing a web class that took an hour and it ended like a half hour ago and I was like, oh, I got to get going ready for the next one. And then, soon, as I you know, before the show, when I talked to our Ooh, I got to get going ready for the next one. And then, soon, as I you know, before the show, when I talked to our guests that I started talking to Colin, I just got, man, I can't wait to do this show. And all my energy just came back and got excited again, because the journey to freedom is special.
Speaker 2:The journey to freedom came from from me going to a trusted leadership seminar that I did with a guy named David Horsaker and I've interviewed him on my Living Boldly with Purpose podcast and just an amazing individual and just you know, talks about how we begin most of our conversations and we start out with trust, and whether we trust an individual or not right away can determine that relationship. And so this is this incredible, he's probably one of the world leaders on trust leadership. I go to the seminar it's got 500 people in the room and there's 30 folks of color in the room and even less black men in the room. And so I go home and say how can I make a difference, how can I take this information? Because our community somehow is not running in the circles that would go to this event in Minneapolis, minnesota or wherever the heck we were in Minnesota that would say you know, this is something that's important. And so I came back and that was birthed the Journey to Freedom podcast. That said OK, how do we begin to talk about some of these issues? Podcast that said, okay, how do we begin to talk about some of these issues?
Speaker 2:And you know, as I was praying about it and you know, I said, you know, god, I just want to work with people of color. I think this would be great. And then it came super clear to me you need to work with black men. And then I said, well, lord, I don't know if I want to work with black men, because black men are hard, they can be tough to talk to. They get, they got their own opinions and they get you know.
Speaker 2:But what I found over the last 175 episodes that I was absolutely in the right spot, that I have been able to find from all walks of life, successful black men that have stories, that have been through stuff and then have come out of being able to make a difference in people's lives stuff and then have come out of being able to make a difference in people's lives. And then what's so neat about the story is I get feedback from people who've watched the episodes and seen the episodes is like there's now like a renewed belief that if he could do it and go through that, I haven't gone through that. There's no reason I can't do that. You know whether I'm talking about a physician, an attorney, you know, or an actor or an athlete, or you know whether they're Super Bowl folks or NBA folks, or you know I did Ronnie DeVoe for New Edition. I mean we've had so many just incredible shows of what people's lives have been like. Who you know? He was in prison for 19 years and it happened to be that he was in jail when the crime was committed and was still in prison for 19 years. You tell me how that works. I mean, it's just and wasn't bitter and has come out and has done some amazing things.
Speaker 2:And so today, as I was talking to Colin, I said what are you excited about? He's excited about his business and the momentum that it has and the things that he's going to be able to do, and not only that, but the people that he's going to be able to help and the communities that he's going to be able to impact and to be able to do. And so he's just. You know, I would say I'm the luckiest person because I get I got all 176 of these people that I got to ask selfish questions too, because I know it's going to help my life.
Speaker 2:And today is not going to be any different. I'm going to ask the questions, not that I hope that you guys would want to know as well, but the ones that I know that are going to springboard my business and my life, and the things that I do and the things that he's been able to do and the things he's been able to accomplish that have made just an impact already, and the things that he's ramping up to do. You guys are going to just be so excited to see wow, there's another person that I can look at, that I can say and most of our guests, and I'm sure, called the same way is you know if you really wanted to reach out to them because you had a specific question. I have yet to find one of my guests that would say absolutely not, you can't talk to me. You know it doesn't matter whether they're multimillionaires or they're in the community making a difference. They know that in order to make a difference, they need to be available and so, just so neat that you're on call.
Speaker 2:Thank you for being part of the show. Thank you for your willingness to take your time on a Friday, when you know, as we're recording this, it's a Friday and it's just. You know it's a beautiful day outside and you know he happens to live out by the ocean, so he could be running out and, you know, doing ocean things, but today he's spending it with us. So thanks for being on. Please start with your story. Tell us who you are. I think that's what people love to hear more of who you are than you know that kind of stuff. So, uh, and give us your story.
Speaker 1:I'll be here about to be on. Thank you, you know, I didn't know I was going to have such a latitude. You say someone tell your story. You know, I'm 63 years young, I'll be 64 in a couple of months, and so I have a lot of life right and so, um, I'm going to try and think of the highlighted parts that I think really, really shaped my life right.
Speaker 1:You know, I grew up, I was born in Washington DC, but I went with my parents to Jamaica. My dad was Jamaican, my mom was from Virginia when I was at the age of two, so I grew up in Jamaica until the age of nine, and it was a very different culture. In Jamaica, you know, we walked to the schoolhouse that's on the hill, you know, there's, like you know, there's, like you know, maybe 12 people in the class, and then my dad came to. My dad and mom left Jamaica, left, my sister and I with our, with my grandparents, my paternal grandparents, and my younger brother was only two. They took with them to California.
Speaker 1:I think that was like my first abandonment wound that I recognized through life, that I was thinking to myself well, what's wrong with us? Why aren't we going? We didn't understand. You know, at seven and six and seven at the time that you know my dad was going to take the you know the boards and you had to go and try to raise the family and you know that was a little. It was too expensive to take all of us. So I just remember that that was kind of like a troubled time. But my grandparents were amazing, you know, my grandmother was very loving and my grandfather was very stern.
Speaker 1:So but the reason why I'm sharing that because we fast forward to our parents finally called for us and we came. We came here to the states and here you have. You have two black, you know, my sister and I. We have this heavy jamaican accent and we're thrown into you know this school system and at the time we first landed in los angeles but stayed there for a very short period of time. My dad mom bought a house in the san fernando valley in sherman, california. So now you have two of only I four kids of color in an all-white elementary school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as you were saying, san Fernando Valley, because I know Southern California very well and you said how old you were. I can't imagine You're in LA where, yeah, there is a community of folks of color. San Fernando Valley not so much.
Speaker 1:No, not so much. I mean, we did go to school in LA for a little while, even with the Jamaican accent. We got chased home all the time. It was like somehow we just stood out and that wasn't a good thing. Back then, then we even stood out even more because that's the first time, because in Jamaica, if you've ever been there, you have all-color Jamaicans, you have Indian Jamaicans, japanese Jamaicans, you have Indian Jamaicans, japanese Jamaicans. So everyone has a Jamaican accent. Everyone thinks the same, you look the same, you don't think anything about it.
Speaker 1:Coming to, you know, san Antonio Valley, an all-white school, coming with this, you know heavy Jamaican accent and because we kind of had our schooling was so, you know, concentrated that all the books that they were reading, you know I would like I read that book. I read that book, I read that book and I felt really smart but also realized that was the fastest way to get alienated by all the other kids. So now you have a heady accent, you're black, you don't look like anybody and you're raising your hand, because that's how you would talk raise your hand and answer questions. So it was interesting. Within a matter of probably my fourth or fifth grade, my reading level started to retard. I started to realize all of a sudden, all of a sudden, my, my, my sixth grade teacher, mrs Parks sweetly, I still remember to this day because she, she took pity on me because, because, uh, if you know anything about Jamaican men and your dad's a doctor, the last thing you want to hear is that your kid is reading below school. You know age level. So, my, you know.
Speaker 1:So, like I, I didn't know the difference, I was just trying to fit in, but I realized that I went for b it's super outgoing, super smart, to actually kind of dummy myself down and my dad, without you know, god bless him, you know the best way. He only knew how to try and teach me how to try to make sure that I could read effectively. Every sunday he would tell how to try and teach me how to make sure that I could read effectively. Every Sunday. He would tell me to go get the Sunday paper and bring it in and start reading the Sunday paper out loud to him and of course I'm reading words now I've never even seen. So every time I stumbled over a word, he would smack me in the back of the head and go what are you stupid. What are you stupid? It's so-and-so, unbeknownst to him and unbeknownst to me. That's like pavlov's theory when you start, you know you can anchor in a term and a thought process and a belief system. Uh, you don't realize how that can affect you later, right?
Speaker 1:So I so, academically I struggled in school super good athlete, not so good student and I started to believe that I was dumb for a very, very long time. For a very long time. I mean I went through very long time. I mean I went through my. So I so, basically, you know I went through school.
Speaker 1:You know I graduated high school, went to junior college, then my dad went to Howard University. And so you know, I was the oldest son, so in my dad's mind that I was going to be the next dentist in the family. Academically, of course, I didn't want to be a dentist. I couldn't stand going to the dentist. But that was kind of like the predisposed thing, that I was told that that's what I was going to be and I did my best to live up to those expectations. And so you know, I had barely a CGPA. And then I go to my dad, says, ok, I'm going to get you into Howard. I go to my dad. Uh says, okay, I'm gonna get you into howard. I go to howard and now it's culture shock again for me. So now you have a black kid that grows up in a predominantly white community even though they started busing kids in the 70s, but it was predominantly white and then I went to an all-black university, feeling completely out of place again oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yes, of course, because I had the big afro and I was wearing, you know that, you know the, you know the surfing clothes and that kind of stuff, and it's like culture shock city and um, lo and behold to me, I just felt out of place and um, and I, you know, I wanted to come home within the first semester and and of course I wasn't allowed to um, but I still noticed that I just, I still was struggling at school and my parents got the point with we're not paying for school if you're not getting, you know, a's and B's, which I wasn't. So I decided that I was like I'm gonna come home for spring break and I wasn't going back to college because it wasn't my thing and my brother, my sister, had already graduated from college. My younger brother is now in college and so I'm the only one in my family that doesn't get a college degree and that's like the badge of shame, right. What I learned later so you know, to labor into the thing what I learned later about myself is that every job I had as a young teenager or in my young 20s, I got fired from because I was not employable. You know, I couldn't check the clock and come home at 8 o'clock and leave at 5.
Speaker 1:And that's when I realized that I was an entrepreneur but I wasn't made to work a job as an entrepreneur. So I left school and I started to decide. My brother said hey, why don't you go do loans? I was like loans like mortgages, like you just give people money and they pay. You never heard of it. But I went and got a suit and went to this company and interviewed and said I want to be a mortgage broker. And the guy said how much money you want to make? I go I don't know. Fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1:Right then I thought that was a million bucks yeah, of course yeah, right, and he's like he said're hired and I thought I didn't realize it was a full commission job and then I had to learn how to do it.
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Speaker 1:Lo and behold, for 25 years that became my career. That's where I made my first million dollars in the mortgage business and I was good at it and I loved doing it. It was my passion and I ended up building my own mortgage company, married my third wife, which is my current wife, which is for 25 years we've been married. I already had two previous daughters from my previous mother and then a son, and then my wife had two sons and so we had a blended marriage, blended family. The mortgage business is taking off. I'm doing extremely well. We had a couple offices and I'm doing my thing. We had a couple offices and I'm doing my thing.
Speaker 1:You know, what was suffering was, you know, my health. I mean, I was driving, you know, going to work, having a frappuccino, having a frappuccino at lunch, eating out every day. So physically I was not the specimen I am today. I was actually in pretty bad shape, but I was doing well financially and life was good. I came into the mortgage business at 18% interest rates. People were begging us to give them loans. I went through the 09, the 1990s crash, no problem.
Speaker 1:Everyone's talking about the crash of 2007. And my ego told me I've been through it all already. I've been doing this for 20 years. It can't be that big of a deal. We had a little bit of money put away.
Speaker 1:I'm now living in a $4.2 million home by the, you know, in Hermosa beach. By the beach, I think. I have life by the ass she's my French and the bottom falls out of the mortgage industry. And the thing is is that when you have, when you have a single source of income, no matter how much money, that is right, and I want to say the mortgage company was probably doing maybe $10, $12 million a year when your income stops overnight and you realize like, is it going to start again, or what Is it going to start again? And you realize this is when you saw the whole world panic, right, the banking system completely imploded and even though it's still trying to do loans and still trying to figure out how to make people happy, how to get people into houses, the scariest part for me, dr B, was I woke up one day and went. I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, and it's the only thing I've ever known how to do that I was really really good at. And so you talk about identity. That was my identity. And when you take the passion away from something that you love doing and then you have no other skill set, you have a you know, a $15,000 mortgage and cars and all that kind of stuff and the money's not the bank accounts dropping by the day.
Speaker 1:I was terrified. I was not terrified as much as losing all the stuff that we were losing. I was terrified that I had no direction. I didn't know what. I was terrified. I was not terrified as much as losing all the stuff that we were losing. I was terrified that I had no direction. I didn't know what I was going to do. What was you know? How was I going to make a living? And and that interesting was where kind of God led me into a direction that I didn't even see coming.
Speaker 1:So I'm telling you that I wasn't as healthy as I could have been. I was a type two by diabetic. As healthy as I could have been, I was a type 2 diabetic. I watched your journey, you know, reversing type 2 diabetes. Love, love, love it. Sleep apnea, high blood pressure. My mother died of a massive heart attack at my age. Now, at 63 years old, my dad dies from heart, diabetes-related heart failure and kidney failure. So I'm thinking I'm going to. I am now repeating the family curse and the doctor tells me you they're sleep apnea. You stop breathing like 81 times a night, you always have a couple of mores and you don't wake up. It was interesting enough that I got those diagnoses way before this moment happens to me.
Speaker 1:But I'm still getting dressed in the morning, still going to our office that we downsized, but I'm still. My thing is that we're going to get through this bubble, get through this. You know we're going to figure out. There's going to be another way to get to the other side. You know, I don't even know. I'm not passionate about it. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Speaker 1:I get up on monday morning to go put on a suit. I had tons of suits. That was my uniform. You know it's like I. I mean that's never happened to me and I took the next suit down. Same thing, the next suit down. I could get it snapped. But my belly's hanging over it's tight, no-transcript tears.
Speaker 1:I'm standing in my closet sobbing and I felt like I can't tell you the words. I was telling myself, like what are you doing here in your closet, crying you can't, you can't fit your clothes, and I'm sure it was the pressure of all the other things that was going on you, the houses like you're in foreclosure, the car you're being repossessed I mean we're talking about the financial crisis of all time for me, and all I can think about is I'm in my closet. I can't fit in my clothes. This is like the thing that breaks me right, uh, and I walk out of the closet, I walk into the kitchen and my wife looks at me and she's like what's wrong? And I go, I can't get into it. I literally ate myself out of my freaking clothes. I can't get into my clothes. And she's like is it that bad? I go, it's like I can't get dressed to go to work. I mean I can't, it's uncomfortable and and I was like going something, I gotta do something. And I think people may get.
Speaker 1:Maybe this may be a lamp for some people, but in that moment in my life there was nothing that I could control like the financial world was going. I mean it was like there was only so much I could do to generate revenue from a business that just got basically shut down. Um, I go. The only thing I can control is not dying. At this point, the only thing I control is not dying. So I've got to get control of this and maybe if I get control of something in my life, I can start controlling other things.
Speaker 1:And so I started looking for solutions and I'm going through all the different things and looking at all the different gurus out there, all these weight loss protocols Tried many of them for months Like a bodybuilder. All I got was fatter, did all these different things, so did the, did all the acting's diet. I bought the um Nutrisystems food, I mean everything, and it's nothing's working for me and I'm extremely jaded, I'm frustrated, I can't seem to figure out something works for me and all of a sudden I I've stumbled across this at the time was like a 60 year old um weight release protocol that that uh, some guy writes a book about and said it's the weight loss secret, the cure for fat loss. And I'm, and I'm super skeptical and but I'm desperate and and so I started, I started googling. Where can I find this, this thing, this protocol that you can lose a pound a day of fat. It's gotta be BS.
Speaker 1:And I find this doctor in Orange County and I and my wife and I go down this year and I and I understand the money's tight. And this guy go to this doctor and he said, yeah, I can give you this stuff. It's a hormone you got to take. It's going to be three thousand dollars, twenty nine, ninety seven, and I'm like three thousand bucks and but he's like, yeah, but it'll work. And I was like, uh, okay.
Speaker 1:So I look at my wife and she's like, if this is what you got to do, I mean you got, you got to do it. So I actually got the amount, I got the package and I basically split it with my wife because I was like you got to do this with me, because I just know me, like if you decide to go eat something, I'm going to cave and we can't afford to blow this money. So I decided to follow this protocol. So I decided to follow this protocol and because I was so jaded and so skeptical my it's funny that my my philosophy in my mind was I'm not going to deviate one iota from this thing so I can go back to this doctor and tell him that he's a snake oil snake oil salesman and he's full of crap. I followed this protocol and, unbelievably, in 37 days I released 48 pounds of fat Whoa, and if people are going to stop and go on this thing like this, I literally every day.
Speaker 1:I'm getting on the scale. I'm like going, this is cannot be possible, can I be possible? And it's just like I'm like, and all of a sudden I'm just noticing my blood pressure is normal. I had to stop taking my medication. The sleep apnea is gone because of the weight around my, because when your neck is a certain size, you actually it's one of the reasons why you have sleep apnea. Yeah, right, and you know, the type 2 diabetes A1C is now in line. I'm like this is crazy. And so I said, okay, it's funny.
Speaker 1:I was trying to figure out other ways to make money online. That's when they were doing the make money online. All these schemes and scams were going on. People were flashing cash and all that kind of stuff. And I'm like trying to follow the footsteps and all I did is I'm walking out to my neighbors and my neighbors are looking at me like, like what? Like how? How do you look? Look like that. And the first question I do ask you is like, are you okay? Because when you release that much weight, oh gosh, yeah, they think you're dying or something like that.
Speaker 1:But the difference was I was like all the all the time I was putting in the gym that you couldn't see because of all the inflammation and the fat, I was actually really like, look, really I look like I could. I was like they were like their mind was boggled and and uh, and I would stop. And, because I just wanted to share it with people, I would stop and have a 45 minute conversation trying to explain exactly where they had to go and what they had to do, and my wife goes okay, I love you, baby, but you got to put this on a website or something, because I can't't, we can't stop every time we're late for you know, late for things. I didn't even think about that stuff.
Speaker 1:I was just thinking about you know, whatever, and so I go on I go okay, I figured out how to make a blog and I and I go on youtube and I literally do a video and say this is my before picture, this is my after picture. I can't sell you this stuff. I had to go to a doctor to get it. If you put, you're like me and you tried something, everything else, and nothing ever worked for you. I just want you to know something does work. This is crazy. I can't sell it to you. But if you have any questions, here's my telephone number and everyone's like why are you putting? You can't put your telephone number on YouTube, man, you're going to have all these quacks calling you. I'm like I know, but I just want to help somebody. I want to get. That was my thing, was God? If you get me out of this, I will dedicate my life to do something for other people in a different way.
Speaker 1:And my phone started ringing and I started creating this blog and I was and I was, and so this is kind of how the business kind of organically jumped up. So I'm I can't get these people this hormone because they have to go to a doctor and get a prescription. And then I find out that there is a Canadian pharmacy that people could drop, shift stuff to and that the laws were if you were buying a medication any kind of FDA approved medication for your own personal use, that you could order it and have it delivered to your house. And that was fine as long as you had a 90-day supply for your own personal use. And so I became an affiliate Before I even knew what an affiliate was. I became an affiliate and I put the link to this pharmacy in my blog and I was just obsessed with learning everything about this protocol to possibly know. And all of a sudden I got this commission statement and it said I made $2,000. And I was like I made $2,000 just like writing a blog.
Speaker 1:This is crazy. And I actually looked at the statement and it said I sold $20,000 worth of this promo and I was like what Wait a minute, so wait a minute? So my mind goes, if I could get rid of the middleman there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like 10% right, 10% yeah.
Speaker 1:If I could get rid of the middleman and this is how God works I know faith is a part of your questioning. It's like I thought I spoke it If I could get rid of the middleman, then we could have a business again, we could make some money doing it. And so I didn't know how to do that. And literally, because of the blog posting I was doing, I was like I said I was obsessed with just literally. I got like a PhD and how this hormone works, Right, and now I became the number one guy in the world. That's how I use it.
Speaker 1:The point was back then I just just every time somebody asked me a question, if I didn't know the answer, I'd go research it and find it or experiment on myself. And also I have this, this farm, this other pharmacy from overseas reached out to me and said, sir, I see that you're becoming this expert in this hormone ATG. We can drop ship it for you if you want it to. And the price was like now, a tenth of what I paid this doctor for. And my thing was how can I get this into the average folks, Right? So I'm thinking about my people.
Speaker 1:Most people cannot afford $3,000. And so I go and I then I saw the actual price of the hormone itself and I was like this is big. I mean this is crazy. And uh, and I'll get into the whole big pharma thing, because Big Pharma doesn't, they try to ban it because they can't make money on it. Right, I believe it is probably the best, safest weight release process protocol on the planet, bar none. So I answer their email, I get in contact with them, we have a conversation, we make a deal and I said, okay, you'll drop ship it to people, I'll create a website and then I'll get all the other stuff they need, all the other supplies together and we'll package up these little packages. You drop ship the hormone, I'll drop ship the packages and my wife and I out of our, out of our house that was in for going in foreclosure.
Speaker 1:Then I kept fighting the bank off and off and off and off I ended up fighting that bank off for five years, by the way, yeah, we have to be able to, but I mean, we in our house we created we were just packaging up packages and shipping them out and I remember going you know, I could just, if we could just make like 500 a day, I think we would be back to we're like it just to be hope that there's something that I can do other than mortgages, because that's all that we've done. And we hit that number. Then it was a thousand dollars a day and then it was like then it was like then it just kept going and going um, and that was like. That was like we oh my god, we just figured out a way to come back and it was. It was that was from like 2010, I think.
Speaker 1:We launched the site and then, by by 2013, all of a sudden, uh, we're getting people, customers are coming to our website, go hey, we can't check out man, we can't check out your website, we can't check out your website. I'm like, well, they may catch it out. I go to the website and the merchant account shut. I shut down. I'm like what happened? The?
Speaker 1:bank said I called the merchant account and they're like yeah, I'm sorry, but your, your brand and your product violates our terms of service and so we're shutting you down. Now we had just come out of a big holiday sale there's like $180,000 in sales that are due to be paid out seized. We had what we call like.
Speaker 1:You had your reserve account that we didn't think about it was like they keep 10% of your sales in a reserve account and after six months they're supposed to give it to you, but if you don't ask for it, they keep it. Well, there's another $300,000 and something thousand in the reserve account. So now there's almost a half a million dollars in the bank's account and they say we're going to hold it for six months and they will release it to you. And I'm devastated but I'm thinking well, we got to survive for six months and we can make it happen. And back then you didn't have the Zells and the.
Speaker 1:It was like once again, the bottom comes out right, just barely coming out of foreclosure, just got our mortgage redone, just to go right back into it. So my nervous system is all over the place and I'm asking why God? I mean, we just pulled us out. What are you pulling us back in for? And we borrow from our friends. We borrow, we survive six months. We're borrowing the mortgage payment. We're, like you know, thinking we just got to hang on six months. Six months come, six months. To the day I reached out to the bank and said, hey, it's been six months. Can we get us our money? And I said, no, actually. Yeah, they gave us $40,000 and instead of the rest of it, they were going to keep for penalties for damaging the MasterCard brand. What All of it? We got 40 grand. 40 grand just enough to pay off the people that we borrowed money from, and and that's what that knocked me to my knees, oh my god, that knocked me because I didn't you know.
Speaker 1:That's when I realized that, oh man, these guys have the power to hurt you really bad like, because I had no way to fight them like, was it legal, was it right? But I, when I went to attorneys, you're like, by the time you pay me, and by the time even if we took it on contingency, by the time that we get your money back, you're gonna owe us most of it anyway in attorney fees. And I gotta tell you that I was, I was, I was angry and bitter for a couple of years, and that anger and bitterness probably kept us from really bouncing back faster, because I was just, I was just just waddling in the unjust that you're the injustice of it all, and but still pushing through because that's what I do, right, I mean, I got a family to feed and I take care. So we end up getting like another merchant account from overseas. It was a lot more expensive, it took a lot longer to get paid, but we were able to kind of tread the water and still still do what we, and we just went on with that. And I think then is when, you know, we kind of started making money again. We came out of it. Then, after a couple of years, we started getting all these different apps, paypal, other things that we could start using. Subsequently, they all ended up getting shut down, but it was always like the next one we could put in place. And so we put in place, and so we scaled back up, but now we were always waiting for the next shoe to drop, like waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Speaker 1:And this is when my beautiful, amazing wife because all during the house coming, you know losing, you think we're losing the house and everything and my wife looked at me and said you know what? I just want you to understand I don't need this stuff, I don't need this house, I don't need the cars. I just need you to be alive and to just be with me. Right, which for a man who thinks that he's got everything on his shoulders and is taking putting everything on his shoulders for his spouse, so that you know that it's not about the money, it's not about the lifestyle. I ain't going anywhere. You and I gotta be in a pine box with with him. We have one son left in the house, then um, young son left in the house, like we got to do right and I remember having to empty the sparkly spot. I should throw all my change in the sparkly spot like the big sparkling bottle. I remember when having to take that bottle to the to ralph's and throw it in the coin thing to pull the cash out to get groceries.
Speaker 1:And so when I say I felt the bowels of what financial ruin can feel like and how important having an amazing partner and having God in your life is, because God and I have an interesting relationship, like I went to God on a 411 all the time. You know I went to God on a 911 all the time. 911, yeah, 911. God, okay, can you help me out? God? I'm in this room. God, can you please come through to me? I really went to God on a 411. And so my relationship with God was pretty much I didn't trust the masculine, I didn't really trust my father, so I don't really think I trusted God, but he always came through for me, even though I didn't think he was coming through for me.
Speaker 1:And then my wife said one more brilliant thing that took all the pressure and I hope this lands on some other brother out there that maybe they can do in the grind. She said these businesses are not our businesses. These are God's businesses. Our job is just to steward these businesses. Therefore, they're going to be and do whatever. You are not doing what you. You're not doing it all, like you think. You're the one that's building it. You're the one that's creating it. You're the one that's bringing all these customers or not bringing these customers, it's not about you. All we got to do is suit up, show up, live heart-centered and let God take care of the details. The day she said that to me, that landed in my soul. I no longer have the pressure of being the guy to have to do the thing. So cool, so I don't know if we're going to keep going or are you going to pause?
Speaker 2:We got to get to now, Like you're like still in the 1990s.
Speaker 1:Still not All right. So now we're in the mid-2000s, okay, yeah, so now we're doing. We still got the house, but in 2017, we put the house in the market In our mind, you know, we got a buddy of mine to sell the house for us. He wasn't real well-versed, he lived in Orange County, he wasn't really well-versed in the South Bay, but he was a buddy. We thought we'd save some money. He felt like he knew what he was doing. We put the house on the market for $5 million. We're thinking by eating up the money we owe the bank. They got rid of the second. We're calculating that we're going to walk in cash in his house.
Speaker 1:After fighting the bank for five years, they finally gave in and we won the battle, which that was a whole thing by itself One guy fighting an entire conglomerate of banks. But it was like we think we're going to sell the house and it's the wrong timing, the wrong price, and the house just sits and sits and sits and sits. So we had no sale in the house in 2017. On a short sale, we literally walked away with nothing. Like we got a refund from our homeowner's insurance policy, was the check that we walked away from and it felt like someone had lifted an anvil off of my shoulder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because for all those years where we weren't paying the mortgage, I felt like an imposter. I couldn't even look my neighbors in the face If I'd be on the balcony, you know, trying to take in the ocean view, and they'd walk out of their house. I'd walk in my house because I was so ashamed for look like I'm posing living in this, you know, four plus whatever million dollar house and we're barely, you know, we got enough money to pay to live.
Speaker 2:I still owe this bank money.
Speaker 1:We got enough money to pay to live, but I still owe this bank money, and so when we finally sold the house and walked away from it, it was literally the most liberating thing in my life.
Speaker 1:Once we got over the fact, we're not making any money on it. It was like, yeah, but we don't have this anvil around our neck Now, what do you want to create now? What do you want to create now? So we actually moved to Orange County by the invitation of the same friends that sold our house. We stayed there for two years, didn't jive for that, and then we moved back to the beach and this is where I think life really started. It was right before COVID, literally right before COVID happened, and we got this little condo on the beach and it had this beautiful ocean view, the big, big, big pane window, and it was right across the street from the beach in in uh, in redondo beach, and I could look. Every morning I woke up, I would have my cup of coffee, I'd look out the window, I'd see the dolphins and I would just have. Thank you god in my heart, thank you god in my heart, yeah, and it's like that gratitude that I just felt every day for being alive. We just had a small little place. It's just the two of us. The kids are doing okay, the business is doing okay and I'm just waking up with gratitude.
Speaker 1:I started doing what's called my three-page letter to God. I started that in Orange County. I'm going to tell this story because I think it's important. I used to love it, I used to listen to his podcast all the time and I said that my relationship with God was more on a 9-1-1 than a 4-1-1. And so I had this Bible. I've had for 20 years.
Speaker 1:Every time I opened the Bible and tried to read the Bible, I just felt stupid, I didn't understand it. And so I would read it in the V, the vowels, the vowels, whatever, and I couldn't understand what it really, what it was saying to me. And he has tim's story on his podcast and I think ten stories talking there. And he said in celsius scripture, he, you know, he who, um, he who works his land shall prosper. And he started giving examples, like a mother raising her child and she's working her land. You know a man running his business, he's working his land, he goes. And he said it doesn't say you will or you can prosper. He said he who works his land shall prosper. And I was like he just spoke to me, um, like I understood what he said. He just translated some, a verse in the bible that actually I understood.
Speaker 1:And so I'm sitting there in orange county at my dining room table and he would have a sunday sermon. And I started to. I said I, I started to turn on this guy's sermon because his church wasn't very far from us in Orange County. I said let me just check out his sermon first, right Like before I go physically into this thing. And I'm listening to this sermon and he gets to the end and he said I just want you to close your eyes for a minute. It's going to make me, it's going to make me choked up. I want you to close your eyes for a minute. And he said close your eyes. He said, and all he said is that God will fix your finances, god could fix your health, god will fix your relationship. And it was like one of the things Now at the time which I kind of skipped over is that I had broken my back and in the gym I had injured my back.
Speaker 1:I thought I just tweaked it and um ended up three weeks later having really bad sciatica pain. The next thing I know my leg is left leg is dragging. I go to the orthopedist. He's like you got a really severe herniated disc. If you were an nfl player you'd have been in surgery. You know, in two days. You've been walking around for almost a month like this. You got to get into surgery. He wanted me to go to a certain surgeon. I had a ppo insurance company that I had to use. The surgeon from the actual insurance company, yeah, um, had the surgery, walked out of the hospital, felt great. I was like, oh, thank you, it felt well great.
Speaker 1:24 hours later, uh, I got up to get out of got a bed to go to the back, get up for the bathroom. My back buckles and I fall to the ground and I can't stand up. And I call my wife. I'm like I can't stand up. And I call my wife. I'm like I can't stand up. And so I. Finally she got me out there. But I was kind of bent over and we called the doctor. He's like you know, you're a husky guy, you're. You know you're muscular. You just give yourself a couple of days, weeks. You know you just came out of surgery. Two weeks go by and I'm trying to get back into him and say you know, this is, this is I can't, the pain is so bad, I can't stand up. Finally, my wife I married an angel she goes. I'm taking you to the emergency room, because if I go to you, go to the emergency room, they can't deny seeing you and the doctor's got to come and take a look at you. She takes me to the emergency room.
Speaker 1:They do an MRI. They see like a little pocket, like a little pocket on the. On the scan they think it could be water. Is it water? Is it an infection or something? Because it doesn't make sense to have all this nerve pain that I was having. And he goes in there and finds out that the vertebrae right before where he did the surgery had broken. And to come to find out that I had a l4, l5 and he did surgery on L3 4. And he shaved it to where the vertebrae breaks and that's why I couldn't stand up because the vertebrae was banging against each other. And when I get out of surgery, he goes yeah, we figured it out. Somehow you broke the vertebrae so I had to fuse you with L3 4. And I didn't know what that really meant. But I was like, okay, as long as I can walk, I I be fine.
Speaker 1:I got out, walked out, you know, got out of surgery, um, still, I didn't have the immediate pain that I had, um, but I still had this length in my leg and he said you know, it's going to take about 18 months for the nerve to come back. Um, it may not be permanent at this point, but you're going to have to wait 18 months. So I waited 18 months and that's the 18th month I'd gone to Orange County because the other half was in Formosa. And so I'm sitting there listening to Tim's story. I'm still in pain now, coming out of surgery, and I end up having seven back surgeries. Just, you know, in a six-year period of time, seven back surgeries.
Speaker 1:But this is where he says that. And he said close your eyes and I hear God say I'm going to heal your body, I'm going to heal your finances, I'm going to heal your marriage. Because my wife and I were like the pressure, all the pressure. We were not on divorce court but we were not really connected. And I just start sobbing. It was like it's something that spoke to my soul. I just started sobbing and my wife walks in again and she's like what's going on? I go, this is going to sound really crazy, but I think God just spoke to me and I told her what he said and, uh, and I just had left.
Speaker 1:I had just been with a client of mine and we went to a seminar in Arizona and she she kept telling me about cause she was sober for like years and she kept saying she writes these three page letters to God and I was like, well, how do you like I don't, can you tell me more about that? And she goes yeah, I get up in the morning and I have three categories. I write gratitude, I got. What am I going to? What am I willing to give up? Behaviors, belief systems. And I co-create with God. I create, I build my dreams and I go that I never look at them. I can't read my own writing. And she had an old lady there Her name was B, I think, and she was her sponsor. And she goes when are you going to give up that story? And I was like, huh, I go, you don't understand, I really cannot read my own writing. I said I should have been a doctorepad and I just started writing.
Speaker 1:I just started writing and I'm just sobbing because I'm hearing like I'm writing and I'm hearing like, literally like scripture in my head that I've never read in the Bible or at least I remember reading in the Bible and I'm writing the scriptures down and so I'm writing and writing, and writing and writing, and the first couple of days I can read part of it, and so I was in every morning. Now I'm starting out this I'm going to write this three page letter to God. I started this practice and so next, by day three, day four, I look at it and I actually can read what I'm writing, like my handwriting literally changed where I could read what I was writing. I still do that practice to this day. Every morning I get up at 5.40 am and I sit down and I write a three-page letter to God. And the reason why I'm sharing that? Because everything that I've written in those scriptures we see I have my gratitude. I have things I'm going to give up, such as behaviors, thoughts, limiting beliefs, even if I didn't show up for myself. The most powerful way I get to give up that behavior and then co-create the car that's in my garage was inside those notes. This house that we live on, the 6,500 square foot house we live on the beach here in Oxnard Shores, was on the beach are in these letters to God. I have journals up here. If I could show you they're all stacked journals up here if I could show you they're all stacked. Of all, every day, since since 2018 and 19, 2019, I've written a three page letter to God, and everything that I put my, all my co-creations that I've put in there have manifested themselves, primarily manifested themselves in my life.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we fast forward to now. I had my had my last back surgery two years ago. I had two districts to do, two disc replacements um, I still have a limp in my leg because, unfortunately, I didn't have any permanent permanent. I don't like to speak that. I'm not gonna speak that with myself. I still have limited nerve impingement in my left leg, that that that shows itself as a limp currently, um, but I, I'm able. So I, this building, this business that I've built, that shows itself as a limp currently, um, but I, I'm, I'm able. So I, this business is this business that I've built.
Speaker 1:Right as I, as, as I was going through the back surgeries if you see my pictures with the steroids and all the different pain pills and medications, my body blew back up, back Like I looked, like I did when I first started this journey and I decided that I needed to, I need some motivation to get back in shape. And so at the time we were in Orange County, I saw this guy in the gym and he was just shredded. And I go, I want to look like that guy. And now this is the guy that I've had that probably on my fourth back surgery or fifth back surgery right now, so it's not my last one. But I go, I got to do something to get myself back in shape. I'm coaching. You can tell my face feels like I look like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1:If you're on pregnancy or on a long period of time, you see what happens to people's bodies, absolutely. So I see this guy and I walked up to him and said, excuse me, you can tell he competes and stuff. I go, do you train or coach people? And he goes, yeah, he goes, here's my number. And he goes, yeah, he goes, here's my number. Come to my office, you know whatever friday and we can talk about it.
Speaker 1:And I said I want to look like you again. I said I've gone, I've told my story, my backstory, all my back problems, and I said I I can't be in this body any longer. It's incongruent with who I am. I'm coaching people. And I said, and to me it's not really about weights, like I have all this information in my body, and he says are you, are you willing to compete? I said no, I can't do that. I can't get on a stage. And he's like I really can't coach you and I go why? Because he goes, your why is not big. I understand you want to get back into your body, but that's your ego. You got to have something beyond yourself. That you're scared, that scares the crap out of you. That you're willing to do and the fact that you said no so quickly tells me that's where you got to go. So if you decide you want to do that, I can work with you.
Speaker 1:I drive home and I go to the NPC site for the competitive site and I started looking around. I realized there's this master's division like for over 50 people. I'm 59 right at the point in time and I go how bad, do you want this? And so I sign up for this. I sign up for it. It was like 16 weeks away. I signed up for this 16 weeks competition. I send him text, him the enrollment thing, that okay, I signed up. He said, now we can get to work. And lo and behold, almost 16 weeks today. I remember, I remember I even did my social media because I'm the kind of person that if I'm going to do something big so I can't back out of it. I tell the world.
Speaker 2:I tell everybody, so I, so I, they saw me.
Speaker 1:I said I'm doing 16 weeks to shreds bill. I'm going to take this body. We go, this 42 inch waist Now that all of this inflamed body, and I'm going to take it and I'm going to go and compete on this. I don the stage. That's. My only goal is to make the stage and um, and so I I go in there, I'm doing two-day trains, I follow his resume to the letter, um, and we're like one month out of one month out of competition time.
Speaker 1:And then last month, you know, I don't know if you've ever talked to competitors, but you have to go into the real cutting phase and and then you have to do all these different things and I've never done this, never done this before. You have to do all these different things and I've never done this before. You have to have posing coaches and all that kind of stuff. And I hired a posing coach because my guy disappears. No way he disappears. He's from Brazil and apparently he got some kind of marital spot with his wife and he left the country and went back to Brazil and I'm now in the last 30 days of my and you don't have your coach.
Speaker 1:I got nobody, and I'm now in the last 30 days of my coach and you don't have your coach and I got nobody. I got my coach, I got nothing and I'm like I go, I can quit. I mean, I'm in pretty good shape now, but I go. No, I've already told everybody, everybody that follows me, I told them I'm doing this thing.
Speaker 2:Now I'm going to show up to watch the game. I can't back out.
Speaker 1:So I go, my wife comes with me, my two friends come with me and I don't know what I'm doing. I, like you, know I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm really gonna invest in my life, but I don't have not even prepared, like you're supposed to bring candy bars and all this kind of stuff. You're supposed to pump up at a certain time and luckily, like these competitors to pity on me, they could tell I was just lost and a couple of guys who gave it their candy bars and they, they coached me through it get on on stage, I do my thing and as you can see it. But I got two trophies back there. One was third place and then fifth place overall. But they talked me into competing even with a 30-year-old. I did the third place for 50 and 45 and up and then I got fifth place overall competing with 30-year-olds. I was the oldest person in the competition by by almost, uh, 20 years or almost 15 years, and to me that was just like. I didn't care about the trophies, but it was like I said I was going to do something and I got my body into a, into a level of fitness that I had not seen, um, probably for quite some time, even though I was really good shape for most of the most things.
Speaker 1:I learned this, but it was kind of my way of going. I think I could do anything, like I can accomplish anything, and so that took the brand to a whole nother level, because, when you compete, all of a sudden I started getting people reaching out to me like, hey, how do you do that? I want to do that too, and so what we did to get into the what we do for a living really now that kind of costs over this protocol Right, so I, we show people how to utilize this hormone to basically put their body back into homeostasis, to get rid of the inflammation, to reverse a lot of the medical problems that come from obesity or severe inflammation, and get them back to baseline and then transition them to into the next level. Okay, so, basically, what we did is that my that we also realized, though, too, because I've been coaching people in the space for quite some time and they would lose the weight, and I'm going to say lose the weight, but they, whatever you, whatever you lose your program to find, so they would find the weight back six months, a year later, what have you? And then we decided that we're not here to lose weight, we're here to release the weight. And to release the weight we have to also release the emotional trauma, the limiting beliefs, that's stuck in your fat cells.
Speaker 1:I have now witnessed that a lot of times. People think it's about the food they eat. But it's really how you feel about the food you eat, because everybody has a person that they know that can eat anything they want and they go that they just have. What do you think the difference between them and you? They must have a fast metabolism. They're just, you know, they're just skinny.
Speaker 1:Whatever my belief, and what I think I've proven with the clients I've worked with, is that if you have your your friend sally, that is inviting you to she's, I want you to go to my pizza. It's the best pizza I've ever had. I love this pizza. I eat it every week.
Speaker 1:And you have someone who has a weight problem that thinks pizza is probably not the thing I should be eating if I'm wanting to get healthy or lose my weight. So when you and sally go into the pizza restaurant, or you and jim go into the pizza restaurant, you sit down and uh and this is like for men, let's say you and you and your buddy jim go to jim's fit and he does. You think he's just because he's got great metabolism. He works out all the time and you have a little bit of weight on you and you both sit down and have the pizza. But this is jim's favorite pizza place. So when jim orders his pizza, he's ordering his favorite people's pizza with all the toppings on it. You're like I'll have whatever he's having or I'll have whatever.
Speaker 1:When jim sits down and eats his pizza and he bites into it, he's like, oh my God, is this like the best pizza you've ever had? Like, oh my God, it's the best pizza. Jim just loves the pizza. He's not making stories about it Like I shouldn't eat this pizza. If I eat this pizza, it's going to make me fat. If you start attaching shame and ridicule and judgment to the food you're eating, what do you think it does in your body? Where do you think it goes? Jim's going. I love pizza and his body goes. I love the pizza too. I know exactly what to do with it.
Speaker 2:I'll take whatever nutrients I need and I'll get rid of whatever I don't.
Speaker 1:You over here are going judgment, shame, ridicule and judgment, shame. In my opinion, it stores its fat. So when I talk to people and I coach people, I go. You think it's about the food. Now, granted, we live in a society that our food quality is not very great. There's a lot of inflammatory things in our foods that I would tell you to stay away from at all costs, and how you feel about the food and what you were raised with make a difference, and so what we teach people to do is play the outside game, which is a protocol following the protocol, the protocol works and playing the inside game.
Speaker 1:How do you feel and pay attention to what you're feeling, not just when you're eating, but when you're not eating, when you're going to the glass of wine at night or when you're going to the refrigerator? What's going on? What emotion is present in your body? Most people are not cognizant of the actual conscious thoughts that they're having. The subconscious mind is running the show, and so what happens is they find themselves feeling stressed, or feeling angry, or feeling sad. They don't want to feel those emotions, so they distract with something. It could be video games, it could be TV, it could be the ice cream in the refrigerator, it could be the glass of wine every night. So what we do basically in our coaching business is that we get. We get you, we hold you in what we call the greenhouse and I continue where we watch you, when you check in every day and we, your life goes through the same thing, it always goes through. But then we start paying attention to what are you feeling. So every one of my clients I don't care if you're a top executive or stay home mom, every one of our clients starts their day coming into our greenhouse, going I'll be here. What feelings in your body, where is it located, what size is it and what color is it? But it shows up and then we want to show you how to. Again, I want you to move that energy to your body, because emotions are just energy.
Speaker 1:Emotions, feelings are what we made. Those emotions mean, made those incidences means. Every time we're going through an emotional state, it's usually a memory of something you went through before, between one and seven. So that's what we started teaching people how to do so, be really, really present with their feelings. And we started realizing people started releasing weight faster, because emotional weight in the body and physical weight. They both take up the same amount of space. You could be a man this would be, you know, six foot and say 195 pounds.
Speaker 1:But if you're holding sadness, grief, shame, guilt, anger that you're not allowing your body to express, when the body's body's a finite container, when you don't give it space to move the energy, what does it have to do? It's got to expand and expand and expand and expand and expand. So people start to realize that the body they're looking at is part of it is abnormal fat stores and visceral fat. You want to get rid of it. A lot of it's emotional weight that you don't know how to get rid of, and that's what we do. So that's kind of takes you full circle, to kind of how we've gotten to where we are and what we do.
Speaker 1:And so what I do is I help them get their, get their uh, their BMI back on their normal, get their body back in homeostasis with our protocol.
Speaker 1:And then we just opened up our telemedicine division to where now we can take people onto peptides and hormones and keep them balanced, cause most of my clients are, you know, 40 and up, right, so I have, you know, as old as 71 year olds in my program and as actually as young as 35 year olds in my program, and that's kind of how we do what we do if that makes sense, but that's you know.
Speaker 1:There's so many, there's probably so many nuances of the story that I've skipped over because it's just I've had a lot of life, but I gotta tell you that that that that first day of putting my telephone number on the internet saying I can't sell this stuff to you but I can help you with it, to now being able to now allow you to get access to it at a great rate, to now coach people all over the world on how to actually release weight permanently Um kind of fast forward from coming from building a brand out of nothing, uh other than uh, other than a desire to kind of help people get the same result. That I did has changed my life, but it's also allowed us to change thousands of lives in the process.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's so cool, thank you. Thank you for your story. I mean it was, I was tied, I was on the edge of my seat, I was, I was seeing myself in a lot of the things that have been. You you know, like you know, even when you talked about Ed Milet, you know I was in an office with Ed Milet from 2000 to 2009. Yeah, I mean I saw him every day, every day, you know. But then I've had two back surgeries. I haven't had seven, but I've had two, I know what it?
Speaker 2:feels like when they do the surgery and then it don't work. And then you, you know, oh man. But I guess the one thing I'll ask and then you know we're going to have to extend this on another time, because I want more of what you're doing, but your identity, because one of the things that has been constant, no matter how far you go down, has been constant no matter how far you go down, you still are able to pick back up, and that's something that seems to be a trait with folks that are super successful. What would you say to the person who, I guess, they go down and then they can't find a way to pick themselves up? What, what advice or what kind of? Because I don't know what that is, because I'm the same way. You know, like 2000 I was in the mortgage business.
Speaker 2:2008 happened, it really happened, and you know, I paid employees for six more months afterwards and continue to do it. But I'm good, right, I mean, it's like I just got back up and say, okay, this is just a blip. But then there's other people I know that are still reeling from 2008, like we could talk about it's something that happened, but it just it happened. But they're like, yeah, it devastated me to the point. So what, what would be your thought? You know, as your coach, you're coaching all kind of people, so you gotta have some yeah, yeah, number one.
Speaker 1:I think the number one belief that I that actually absolutely believe 100 is that life happens for me, not to me. So if I look at it that way, I know that whatever I'm moving through, even though it doesn't feel comfortable right now, there's a reason for this and there's something better coming for me, coming ready to open up for me. So if a door closed for me, I know another one's being wide open Now. It took me, having to see it happen over and over again, to believe that. So if I had to tell somebody, if I tell my son or somebody that's younger than I am, or even somebody that's been knocked down, that just know that the knockdown was intentional and it's to get your attention. And you get to open your eyes and open your heart and go okay, lead me to where you want me to go.
Speaker 1:And every time I've been willing to do that, to actually get out of my own way and say just tell me what you. But listen, I mean think about it. I went from mortgage broker to fitness guy. You know, I married. I married a fitness instructor, right, but it was like that was like not the thing that I was even thinking I'd be doing so. You never know what direction the world is going to put you in, so I just know that anything that happens to me is that it's happening for me, not to me, and that knowing and belief system knows that. Oh okay, so this is just God steering me in a direction that's not for my highest good, and I think that allows me to be open to the next thing coming.
Speaker 2:Congratulations for, you know, turning your body around and turning it all around, I mean that's. You know you don't look like you're in your 60s, right, because you don't feel like you're in your 60s. You don't feel like you're. You know, you feel better now than you did in your 40s. Oh, I, I just turned 60 last month and I'm like I feel better now than I felt in years and years and I can't wait for the rest of my life to continue. So I want to have, I would love to have you come back and we're going to do a part two that we can schedule it.
Speaker 2:But I want to make sure here you tell people how to get a hold of you, how to get a hold of the things that you're doing, how to be able to follow some. Have you written a book yet? Cause if you haven't, there's, there's a whole shelf I don't know if I'm pointing the right direction a whole shelf that you've written a book. I need to read it. So we need to get you in the book protocol If you haven't written it already.
Speaker 1:I just read the book about the protocol called aces your body for life, uh, and so that is the book that still show people how to do this protocol, and I do have a book in the in the in the works right now about the story that I just broke down. Yeah, no, that's what I'm.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm well, the fact that you've written a letter to god every day for the last seven years, yeah, and that, and what god has done through you as a result that that book itself is that, oh my gosh, oh.
Speaker 1:I love it If anybody gets anything from this podcast, if that's the one thing they sat down and did. Uh, and really, and don't make it, don't make it complicated. Just sit down and describe what you're grateful for Anything you're willing to give up and just dream. Dream like you're a five year old kid. Don't take, don't put a governor on what's possible for you. Yeah, I would love to walk away with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's so cool about today? I mean, I know there's there's an art of when you write in the way that it transfers. But you know, I was a special ed kid that said that I wasn't going to be a rewritewriting, that kind of stuff. And so now I've written three books, but every single book that I've written is I'm speaking to the computer, so I'm able to take my thoughts and then put them into a spot where now, whatever the AI, whatever the computer stuff is, you can now take it and make it legible for people. And so I think about what a great thing I can literally talk. You know, if I'm not a good writer and and you know, it slows down your brain to write. So I think there's some really good things in that. But if that's something that that hinders you from writing it, I'd rather you write it and use the technology than not writing at all, because you're worried about writing, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. The technology now has made it available for anybody to take your soul story and put it out to the world without having to be able to type or write, and so, trust me, I'm using that technology to this day to make it happen.
Speaker 2:So so, yeah, absolutely what does typing have to do with the stuff that goes in your brain? It'll pay, but don't tell you all day. Well, I said it in a diaper. Well, good for you, not me. I have fine motor skills to be able to do it. I got other stuff to do with my life. So tell us how to get a hold of you, how to get a hold of us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our brand is Soul, body, mind, so it's soulbodymindfitnesscom. That's where we cover everything the soul, the body and the mind Right, and then our telemedicine vision is soulbodymindfitcom. So if they go to any one of those things, they can, they can reach out to us. They can, uh, you know I'm happy to talk to anybody. You know I can say my. My goal is if I can just point you in the right direction.
Speaker 1:Uh, I love that you did your series about reversing diabetes, especially around our people. It is like my family died from that disease right Early, and so that's one of the main reasons why I'm in this. Doing what I do is to tell people that they don't like. You talked about 60s. These are the best years of our life and we were actually designed to live to be well over a hundred, and it's never too late to start reversing those things now. So, absolutely yeah, so, and it's never too late to start reversing those things now. So, absolutely yeah. So, soulbodymindfitcom or soulbodymindfitnesscom, I'll be there to help you guys If you have any questions. It'd be great, and thank you so much, dr B, for this platform. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and thank you for being on. And again, the website is soulbodymind. You need to go to it SoulBodyMindFitnesscom.
Speaker 2:The company is SoulBodyMind. Soulbodymindfitcom. Fitnesscom, fitness. Absolutely, get on there. We'll put the links on. He's going to come back, so just got to hang on.
Speaker 2:That's the suspense that I'm putting out here right now.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you I'm going to have Colin Watson back on our podcast and we're just going to more, because there's so many gems.
Speaker 2:I hope you go back and listen to his story because there's so many things that we could follow that could change your life, especially if you're going through something right now, because he gave you example after example after example, when things didn't go right but God was still working on him. Things didn't go the way that he expected to, but God had showed him a way, still went through this great life that he had had to lose it and came back and now he's in a better place than he's ever been in his life and there's so many clues and paths I mean you know Tony Robbins talks about successfully clues all the time and there are so many clues in this journey and so thank you for being on, go ahead and subscribe and notifications and all those things. You're going to need to put notification if you're going to know when we're going to talk about this again. We'll get this out, you know, so that you know we're going to have a conversation and I can't wait to see more. I can't wait to come out to California.
Speaker 1:I'm coming over your house, so I'm going to be live.
Speaker 2:We're going to come, we're going to go, go sit out and look at the beach together. I just invited myself, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2:It's going to be so cool to spend some time, because I know I have a friend, not only in the God, but I have a friend that helps other folks make a difference. Hey, so, if you are ready to let you know that God, your God's greatest gift, he loves you, if you allow him to, and my goal is that you allow him to love you in a way that you can achieve and do the things that you were put on this earth to do as you deserve it. And so we'll talk to you on the next one. Have this amazing, incredible day today and we'll see you on the next. I'm out.