James Bracken on Creating a Wealthy Lifestyle: Impact, Fulfillment, and More

In this episode of The Happy Wealthy Show, host Neo Phalora dives deep into the true essence of wealth, exploring it beyond just financial success. Join us as we discuss the importance of impact, fulfillment, worthiness, and authentic relationships in creating a wealthy lifestyle. 

Neo and his guest James Bracken, shares personal stories of overcoming childhood trauma, the significance of self-discovery, and how to embrace the journey of life without being bound by societal expectations. Discover how coaching can change your perspective and empower you to define what a "good life" means on your own terms.

Tune in to learn actionable steps to cultivate a life filled with happiness, purpose, and abundance. Subscribe now and help us spread the message to heart-centric changemakers everywhere!

Transcript

Welcome to the happy Wealthy show. My name is neo. Neo for Laura. Just call me neo. How do you create a wealthy lifestyle? Well, it's much more than money. So let's redefine wealth as a matrix of impact, fulfillment, worthiness, success, relationships, and revenue. We'll explore the definable and digestible steps to get you there, and how we can live the highest quality of life along the way.

00:00:31:17 - 00:00:39:20
Speaker 1
I know that we can be happy and wealthy. And I'm here to show you how I.

00:00:39:20 - 00:02:29:17
Speaker 1
Neil, you were such an amazing speaker. So grateful to be here with you. And so excited for this conversation. Before this, we chatted a little bit, and, we could just. We can go in rabbit holes, and I'm excited to go down them.

00:02:29:19 - 00:02:45:04
Speaker 1
Well, firstly, we were speaking about somatic work a little bit before this and something that, from having a lot of, people on my podcast that speak a lot about that kind of stuff. Something that I realized was when I was born, I was passed away, I had five blood transfusions, pretty much was almost dead.

00:02:45:04 - 00:03:00:09
Speaker 1
I was as white as, a piece of paper when I was born because I had so little blood on my body, I didn't realize. But because of that, that experience, I grew up with a lot of anxiety because it was just a part of my body, and I didn't really have much of, a way to get past that.

00:03:00:09 - 00:03:15:17
Speaker 1
And I don't think a lot of us realize it, but a lot of things that happened in our childhood we may have no control over, and it may even be our parents or our grandparents or whoever it may be that went through trauma, but we endure it. And so, my father, my uncle, both passed away at 37 years old.

00:03:15:17 - 00:03:35:23
Speaker 1
So I would think I was like 6 or 10 around that time when my uncle and father passed away. And so that was just another kind of felt like, just life was like happening to me. It was a life happening to me moment. And my grandfather passed away a few months before his retirement. And so when that happened, it was really an awakening for me, because it was this realization of so many of us are trying to get to retirement.

00:03:36:00 - 00:03:53:14
Speaker 1
Well, I've seen like countless, positions in my life where I see some of us don't even get there, and some of us may just almost get there and not even get to experience it. And so why are we living for some, perfect day in the future, as we were speaking about before this, when most of us don't even get there.

00:03:53:15 - 00:04:06:05
Speaker 1
And most of us will never get there, regardless if we get to retirement or whatever that may be, because we never really define what success or what happiness or what a good life looks to us. And so that's what I want to create for other people, is like helping them get to that. What's that good life now?

00:04:06:05 - 00:04:45:13
Speaker 1
And it doesn't have to be in the future.

00:04:45:15 - 00:04:54:00
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:04:54:02 - 00:05:13:05
Speaker 1
Man. I mean, funny enough, I. I listened to his audiobook, but I just forgot his physical book not too long ago, and I find that his work. It always reminds me back to this, this grounding, knowing that so much of what we feel, what we experience, comes down to our belief about what we're experiencing or what we believe is happening because of it.

00:05:13:07 - 00:05:32:21
Speaker 1
And I think so much of his work was just is is a continuous reminder. And I say great grounding experience because we get so caught up in what we think we know that we don't remember that we don't actually know. We don't actually know what is happening. We don't actually know. Like a lot of the overthinking that happens in the world is because we feel we know something is going to happen in the future.

00:05:32:23 - 00:05:49:11
Speaker 1
And so a lot of his work and a lot of what I try to remind myself of is I really don't know. And holding on to the I don't know, kind of perspective. And we kind of caught on, caught up about this when we first connected is is okay. And I think a lot of us have this negative connotation around, I don't know, I don't know what I'm feeling.

00:05:49:11 - 00:06:12:20
Speaker 1
I don't know why this anxiety's popping up or whatever trauma we've experienced, but it's okay and it's okay to not know. It's okay to not know where you're going. And I think a lot of that is what comes up for me.

00:06:12:22 - 00:06:48:22
Speaker 2
And.

00:07:22:09 - 00:07:40:00
Speaker 1
Yeah, absolutely. And even if you feel like you know what the path is, most of the time is going to change. And so five year goal, ten year goal, 20 year goal. Could be even a one year goal. I could not have imagined where I'm at right now from when I first started three years ago. And so who am I to have this unwavering idea that I know what's going to happen?

00:07:40:00 - 00:07:57:16
Speaker 1
Or I know that even if I plan it all together, it's going to turn out exactly as I hoped. I think one part of that is coaching, because, of course, if it's really hard to see the picture while you're in the frame, it's really hard to see the problem while you're so close to it. It's really hard to go through things when you are so consumed by them like we are.

00:07:57:20 - 00:08:25:07
Speaker 1
We are jaded by the illusion of what we think is happening, when we're not really sure on how much our fear of our perception is clouding that. And so I think getting an external perspective first and foremost was the thing that really helps me not only get a different perspective and take different action, but I think investing in yourself in general and whatever that looks like is so, so powerful because it helps you show up as a level of yourself or a version of yourself that you probably didn't even really know existed.

00:08:25:09 - 00:08:46:01
Speaker 1
And that could be in any area of your life, whether that's fitness, business mindset, whatever it may be. I've hired coaches in all three. I think it's so valuable to get an external perspective just in general, like the amount of people that I know that are very, very wealthy or they're in a position in life where they don't need to work anymore, but they still hire coaches outside of them just for accountability.

00:08:46:01 - 00:09:10:15
Speaker 1
Like nothing else but simply accountability because they know that they want to get things done is absurd. And to think that we have to do everything on our own, or we should do everything on our own, is just foolish.

00:09:22:13 - 00:10:10:12
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:10:10:14 - 00:10:32:13
Speaker 1
Yeah, absolutely. I think what I got started, it was even more difficult because I think when we think of just leaving high school, for example. It's crazy. I even use that as an example. But leaving high school was this. Everyone's going this way, whether that's a trade or a job or, college. And I went completely left. I went like, I went in a direction that no one could have possibly seen.

00:10:32:13 - 00:10:54:11
Speaker 1
I could never have seen it. And so it was really difficult. But again, I think the coaching is so powerful for this perspective because I joined, a program of over 1000 coaches, not at once, but there was a thousand coaches in that entire program. So I'm the I'm 17 years old. I'm connecting with 30 year olds, 26 year olds, 27 year olds, 50 year olds, people that are way further along in life.

00:10:54:13 - 00:11:24:12
Speaker 1
They still have the same exact imposter syndrome that I have. They still have all of the fear that I have. And so as much as it was, isolating from the people that I knew, it allowed me to step into a community of people that I was so grateful to be a part of. And that opened my mind up to all the entrepreneurs and people I get to speak to now, and whether that's through the podcast or outside of the podcast, I am so much more selective of the people that I surround myself with, because I know of how impactful it is to me and my future and what I want that look, what I

00:11:24:12 - 00:11:44:11
Speaker 1
want that to look like. And so I feel, it's got easier over the years, but I think it's just allowed me to be even more selective of who I really surround myself with.

00:11:44:13 - 00:11:52:07
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:11:52:09 - 00:11:58:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:11:58:21 - 00:12:11:01
Speaker 2
So.

00:12:11:02 - 00:12:44:04
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:12:44:06 - 00:13:07:12
Speaker 1
Yeah. I would even say with my first coach, I looked up to him as, like, the person that, you know, was had the life that I thought I wanted. And I agree with the don't meet your heroes in a way where it's that you're, you realize that they're not actually your heroes, that we put people on pedestals because we think that they have something that we want, but in reality, it's it's we only see so much of someone's life.

00:13:07:14 - 00:13:29:06
Speaker 1
And so I think for me, what did more than anything was it didn't help me denounce my desires or renounce my desires, but it helped me, I guess just take a different perspective on what I thought I wanted. And it's not to let go of what I still set for myself, goals wise or whatever that may be.

00:13:29:06 - 00:13:52:21
Speaker 1
But I think it's it's really helped me take a good look at what like we kind of spoke about before is like, what is a good life for me? Because more doesn't always mean that there's a lot of people that have a lot of Instagram followers, they have a lot of podcast downloads, they have a lot of money in the bank, but there's some of the least happy people I've met, like the amount of people that I've had on my podcast personally that work with CEOs, billionaires.

00:13:52:21 - 00:14:08:02
Speaker 1
I had someone on, recently that works with, she's an executive coach for multiple billionaires in the world, and she even said it herself that every single one of them is driven by fear. Every single one of them is driven by insecurity. And and they're never going to get anywhere. Right? They're like, there's no amount of money that you can get to.

00:14:08:05 - 00:14:31:09
Speaker 1
And so more than anything, it really in a weird way, it helped me want like almost have less goals in a way and just be more present where I am and kind of go back to where I started. Because when you get down this journey, like you said, it's very isolating. You want to achieve and then you get caught up in this, this thought process of, I'm supposed to want more, but what if that wasn't actually true?

00:14:31:10 - 00:15:22:18
Speaker 1
Like, what if you didn't have to want that? And you get to choose what you want? You get to choose your desires. But a lot of us are just driven blindly by what we think we want or what we think we're supposed to want more. So, and I think it does help me realize that I don't want a lot of those things that I thought I did.

00:15:34:11 - 00:15:53:15
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:16:35:14 - 00:16:53:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:16:53:21 - 00:17:04:14
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:17:04:16 - 00:17:26:23
Speaker 1
I will say that what I was told by a lot of coaches that I worked with early on was that I'm very good at creating a space. Simple. Simply put, like, we like, we chatted where there's nothing. A lot of my fear when I got into coaching at 17 was, I'm 17. How can I be? How can I be a quote unquote life coach when I've barely lived any life?

00:17:26:23 - 00:17:46:03
Speaker 1
And I've heard it a lot, right? And then when I started working at one of my first clients I worked with was 43, and so I was 18 years old. What gives me the credibility to work with this person? Will I make them feel safe? I give them a space for them to be honest when they've never been honest with, let alone their partner but themselves before.

00:17:46:05 - 00:18:04:08
Speaker 1
And so when I'm able to ask someone questions and really get down into the core of why they feel a certain feeling, why you're not taking action on the thing that they want to take action on, whatever challenge that they're dealing with. I'm just able to provide a space for someone to actually be vulnerable for once in their life, and most people never really find that space.

00:18:04:10 - 00:18:28:06
Speaker 1
Most people are never truthful with themselves, and that's why we deal with a lot of the same problems we recycle through them throughout our lives. Right? It's like one problem goes away and then it's it's replaced with a different problem. Problems don't go away. We just get to choose the problems that we want to deal with. And so if I work with someone, that's someone that actually wants to deal with their shit at the end of the day and a lot of people don't want to face the things that they say deep down that they want to face.

00:18:28:12 - 00:18:46:19
Speaker 1
And so I think my superpower is just giving people a space to be vulnerable, open and honest with themselves. And most people never find that in their life.

00:18:46:21 - 00:19:03:20
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:19:52:00 - 00:20:10:09
Speaker 1
That's a great question. I want to say first that, there was a coach that I had on my podcast, Jason Goldberg. If you guys haven't been connected, I'd love to connect to you guys. We hit it off immediately. And, he's a coach for celebrities and, mindset coach. And the thing that he frames coaching is it's permission and reminders.

00:20:10:11 - 00:20:23:20
Speaker 1
It's so funny because this is really a lot of what coaching is, is where we're giving people the permission that they, for some reason, feel they can't give to themselves. And then we're reminding them of what they already know deep down. But don't live out. And so I just wanted to say that because I find that that's so powerful.

00:20:23:20 - 00:20:39:00
Speaker 1
What comes up for a lot of people is, you know, one of the funny things is when I hop on a call with somebody and let's say that they had action steps from last week that they were supposed to take action on. And as soon as they're about to tell me, like, first things first, we go over wins.

00:20:39:00 - 00:20:54:00
Speaker 1
Like, what are some wins? What did you do? What didn't you do all that kind of stuff. And as soon as they're going to try to tell me an excuse of why they didn't do what they said they would do, they catch themselves immediately because they know that they can't lie to me, and they can't lie to themselves when they're they're investing in themselves to make the change.

00:20:54:02 - 00:21:14:09
Speaker 1
So the reason that they made an excuse has no reason. There's no foundation for that. And so what I find is when you have someone that believes in you more than you believe in yourself, it helps instill a belief in you that is unwavering. Eventually, once you go through the reps and you put it in and you give yourself proof and evidence for why you should believe in yourself.

00:21:14:11 - 00:21:38:15
Speaker 1
And so what I do is I give a lot of people belief to take the action, because belief drives behavior, behavior drives belief. And so a lot of it is just helping someone believe in themselves more than they previously did, so that they can take the action to reflect that belief and give them more reason for it.

00:21:38:17 - 00:22:13:03
Speaker 2
Yes.

00:22:13:05 - 00:22:29:20
Speaker 1
I have two that come up every time someone asks me this. I'll tell you. The two, break in the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza. As I stated before we chatted, I. I truly believe, like, if everyone read that book, they would have so much more of an understanding of why they do the things or don't do the things that they do in their life.

00:22:29:22 - 00:22:54:16
Speaker 1
I really feel people need to understand that book. In the second one is A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I think that's another one where it's just a lot of what we know intuitively, but we weren't told outwardly. And so I feel that is a book that just everyone should read in their lifetime. And then a third one, because I'm currently reading it and I did recommend it to you, and I think everyone should understand it is awareness by Anthony Demello.

00:22:54:18 - 00:23:12:09
Speaker 1
His I'm listening to the audiobook currently and it's him speaking. It's not actually a book, but they made it into book form and just hearing his seminars from 1980s and the fact that it's more prevalent than ever right now just shows a test of time. And I think everyone I think it should be a requirement to be an adult in the world to read that book.

00:23:12:09 - 00:23:21:00
Speaker 1
Truthfully.

00:23:21:02 - 00:23:31:22
Speaker 2
No.

00:23:32:00 - 00:23:48:21
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:23:48:23 - 00:23:54:05
Speaker 2
Okay.

00:23:54:07 - 00:24:22:07
Speaker 2
Of course.

00:24:22:08 - 00:24:32:01
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:24:32:02 - 00:24:32:11
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:24:32:11 - 00:24:52:18
Speaker 1
Man. I think, the one of the reasons that New Earth is so, prevalent for me is I. That's the one I've read multiple times. I haven't read, the other one. I've read it once, a few years ago. But what comes up for me is life shows you where you aren't free. It just gives you every every notice.

00:24:52:18 - 00:25:09:03
Speaker 1
But. But if we're not looking for that, if we're not open to receiving it, we're just going to get slammed with the same challenges over and over and over and over again and wonder why we're dealing, why. Why we feel life is so scarce, why we feel life is coming after us. Because we're not open to receiving what life is trying to show us.

00:25:09:05 - 00:25:24:10
Speaker 1
It's giving us an opportunity to deal with the challenges that we're going through. But if we never deal with them, it's like I say often, that a lot of our problems we face at a surface level, and there's no wonder we can't overcome them. It's we're facing them. We're facing a symptom. We're not even facing the actual problem.

00:25:24:12 - 00:25:43:22
Speaker 1
And so I think why both of those books are great, and all of them that I've mentioned are it's it's dealing at, an intellectual level, but understanding it at a physiological level, like really understanding it in your body, not just like a oh yeah, that makes sense in my brain, but like more so, like you said, with this conversation, when you feel it, it's undeniable.

00:25:43:22 - 00:25:54:21
Speaker 1
You can't really you can't let go of that.

00:25:54:23 - 00:26:37:14
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:26:37:16 - 00:26:42:23
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:26:43:09 - 00:27:06:00
Speaker 1
Yeah. I think it's a question that I, I, I'm challenged with often because I am such a day to day person that I really try not to think too far. I really try not to think too far. Because again, like, it's the the I don't know mentality is something that I've lived by for so long because if I, if I attach to this idea of what I hope to happen, it's like there's a difference between desires and, preferences.

00:27:06:02 - 00:27:21:05
Speaker 1
It's like we have we have a desire to do something. I mean, I, I would prefer that this goes this way, but I don't want to hold on to the desire because then I attach my my meaning, my fulfillment out of it. And so a lot of what it is now is just going with what intuitively feels right.

00:27:21:05 - 00:27:41:10
Speaker 1
Because my intuition, my intuition, has never led me astray. And so a lot of what I'm doing right now is just saying yes to a lot of things while I can, because I know the older I get, the more responsibilities I'll have, and the less I'll be able to say yes to things. And I know for a lot of people they say yes or something and they stick in it for so long with this sunken cost fallacy, if this is what I'm good at, so I should stick to it.

00:27:41:12 - 00:27:59:08
Speaker 1
And for me, I'm in this phase of life of just trying a bunch of stuff and seeing what excites me because I don't want to get bored. I don't, I don't like I never like the idea of retirement. I don't want to get away from doing this work. And so just finding other pathways to, impact the world in a way and in business in, you know, personal development through podcasting, whatever that may be.

00:27:59:10 - 00:28:04:08
Speaker 1
It's just trying a bunch of stuff out and seeing what sticks and seeing what I enjoy and seeing what

00:28:04:08 - 00:28:28:22
Speaker 1
my true, I guess nature aligns with.

00:28:29:00 - 00:28:39:03
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:28:39:05 - 00:29:05:23
Speaker 2
Big.

00:29:06:01 - 00:29:22:09
Speaker 1
Saying yes to more things. I think so much of it is like allowing ourself to suck at something really like. Well, like, if for anyone that's listening to this, when's the last time you did something and you sucked at it? Like for me, right now, I just started jujitsu not long ago. I suck at it like like I I'm it is a it is a challenge.

00:29:22:09 - 00:29:43:01
Speaker 1
It is a humbling sport, as I like to say. And, I golfed right before this. Golf is a really hard sport. There's some days I love it. There's some days I hate it. But just trying new things because we're so confined in what we're used to and what we do and what we just feel like we want to do things that we're good at, we're proficient in because it makes us feel better about ourselves.

00:29:43:01 - 00:29:57:10
Speaker 1
But how often do you try something that you're not good at? How often do you change your job? The amount of people that I know that are at the same job that they were for eight years ago, it's like their life is just there's so much more to life. When you try new things and you put yourself out there and you just suck at stuff.

00:29:57:10 - 00:30:13:06
Speaker 1
When I started on social media, when I started the podcast, I start my podcast in my car. When I started on social media, it was like I. I was sending DMs from my bed, like I didn't even have a desk in my room at the time. Like just trying new things and exploring and seeing what feels in alignment to you.

00:30:13:08 - 00:30:31:02
Speaker 1
And just not saying no every time to things, because I think that's that's something that we just automatically say.

00:30:31:04 - 00:30:49:08
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:30:49:10 - 00:31:00:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:31:09:23 - 00:31:24:23
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:31:25:01 - 00:31:29:15
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:31:29:17 - 00:31:30:13
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:31:30:15 - 00:31:51:12
Speaker 1
Yeah. I think we need to find more ways to just invite play into our lives and and do more of that. Like gay Hendricks speaks so much about it. But we need to just allow ourselves to be more sincere about things and not so serious. We get so serious about being proficient in things automatically that, like the first part, is getting over the hump of getting started in something.

00:31:51:16 - 00:32:15:02
Speaker 1
The second hump is actually allowing yourself to suck at it and continue doing it. Most people are just don't consistently. You have to be consistently terrible to be eventually. Okay at something, and a lot of people just aren't willing to drop their ego, to drop their pride and allow themselves to just do things that they've never done before and try out new things, whether that's a job or a hobby.

00:32:15:04 - 00:32:26:22
Speaker 2
As a result.

00:32:27:00 - 00:32:47:07
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:33:38:18 - 00:33:49:04
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:33:49:06 - 00:34:08:06
Speaker 1
Yeah. I think most responsibility when it comes to that scenario comes down to placing on yourself truthfully. Like, there's a lot of responsibility I've taken on single mother. Have a sister that's older than me. It was just always. It was always there. No one ever gave it to me. Whether my father died or he didn't pass like that was.

00:34:08:08 - 00:34:22:22
Speaker 1
He passed when I was six years old. So I don't ever remember having a father and everyone memory of him. So the fact that it was like it was never it was never there, never really had a father figure. It was always on me. There was never an option otherwise I never I never seen it as is otherwise.

00:34:22:22 - 00:34:50:19
Speaker 1
So, I think that's a responsibility I take on. I guess.

00:34:50:21 - 00:35:05:03
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:35:37:18 - 00:36:05:14
Speaker 1
Yeah. I mean, I think one thing that I've realized with through the podcasts is that I don't put these people on pedestals anymore, but I still take in, I still take what I like from each person. And so a lot of what I realized is I like the lifestyle of a writer, for example, like, I, I love, I love diving into books, and I love understanding that a lot of books that come out nowadays, it's not any new information, it's just regurgitate information in a way that makes sense to you and hopefully make sense to their audience.

00:36:05:19 - 00:36:30:00
Speaker 1
And so in the future, I'd love to write some books, that get out to people in a way that makes sense to me and reaches an audience that most self-help books, I guess, don't usually reach because it's from a standpoint of like, don't. Spence's work is not an introductory kind of book that you read, you know? And so finding a way to make the knowledge that I've gained over the three short years I've been in this work more accessible to more people.

00:36:30:00 - 00:36:55:08
Speaker 1
I'm coaching one on one right now. And of course, the podcast is able to reach more people, but I'm really just trying to find more ways to impact more people at a broader spectrum. And that's really what I'm really trying to figure out right now is what do I want to do? That still gives me energy. It doesn't take energy away from me, because I know a lot of people that have built a business that when they first started, that's what they thought they wanted, and then they continue doing it because that's what they've built up for so long.

00:36:55:08 - 00:37:08:00
Speaker 1
But it's not really what they feel excited about anymore. And that's one thing that I've realized is I have the privilege now to wake up every day excited for what I get to do now. How can I amplify that to an even, another level? And so that's kind of where I'm at right now.

00:37:38:08 - 00:37:43:01
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:37:43:03 - 00:38:02:08
Speaker 1
I think what's standing in most people's way is that they're looking outside of themselves. So as we we spoke about this a little bit earlier, what what gets in people's way is they're they're always looking for what is happening and not why it's happening. And so if we look to the core of say they, they say they have a goal, but they're not taking action towards it.

00:38:02:08 - 00:38:22:07
Speaker 1
Well, you say that you have an external goal that is achieve $1 million a year, but you have an internal goal that says, I don't really want to do that. I kind of like my stable job. I like what I have going on right now. That feels a lot safer to me. And so I think a question to ask is, what am I getting out of accepting what I'm accepting?

00:38:22:08 - 00:38:39:19
Speaker 1
What am I getting out of that? Because we're always looking for what we think that we want more of. But there's a reason that you haven't created it. There's a reason that you haven't been able to create it. And so I think at the end of the day, what we what how we get in our own way is not being really honest with ourselves at the end of the day about why we are where we are.

00:38:39:22 - 00:39:03:13
Speaker 1
I think a lot of us are a hell of a lot more capable than we say we are. But but we get in our own way from it. And so I think at the end of the day, that's, that's, that's what comes up for me.

00:39:03:14 - 00:39:28:00
Speaker 1
Yeah.

00:39:28:02 - 00:39:40:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:39:40:21 - 00:40:07:20
Speaker 1
Amen. Amen.

00:40:09:04 - 00:40:29:21
Speaker 1
Yeah. We we are the. At the end of the day, if you look at all of your problems, what's the common denominator. To you. Right at the end of the day it is it is always you. And so like what am I getting out of dealing with this problem. Like how are my my judgments, clouding the my ability to see this problem for what it actually is.

00:40:29:21 - 00:40:46:19
Speaker 1
That's why again, like I say, coaching is so powerful or just anyone like anything, just investing in yourself. When you pay, you pay attention. Sometimes we are just way too close to our problems to see the path forward when. And you could just it's it's it's just right there like it is so, so close. But again we just we get in our own way from it.

00:40:47:00 - 00:41:12:23
Speaker 1
And I think that's the core of it.

00:41:13:01 - 00:41:38:04
Speaker 1
Man, I've never been asked that. And I honestly couldn't even tell you. I've always felt like he was a ghost because my mom and dad got divorced when I was two, so he passed when I was six. I don't have a memory of them. I would just say thank you because I'm here. I'm here for you.

00:41:38:06 - 00:42:12:04
Speaker 1
Absolutely. James Bracken, I've on Instagram and all socials. And I believe that's on YouTube as well for the you can do podcast on all those platforms. And thank you so much for your time. Thank you for having me, man.

00:42:12:04 - 00:42:17:05
Speaker 1
I.

00:42:17:07 - 00:42:38:05
Speaker 1
Thank you for listening to The Happy Wealthy Show. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review. It helps us reach more people, and through a little bit of your generosity, we can help those impact driven, heart centric changemakers out there like yourself. I.