The Power of Beliefs Over Mindset: Career Coaching with Howard Sambol

In this episode of Career Coaching Secrets, host Pedro sits down with Howard Sambol, a transformational coach helping professionals transition from corporate careers into work they truly love. Howard shares his journey from a PhD in mathematics to mastering serious astrology and entrepreneurship, revealing how he guides clients to align their careers with purpose while achieving financial stability.

They explore career reinvention, building self-trust, separating short-term income from long-term goals, and the power of belief-driven mindset over simple pep talks. Howard also discusses scaling a coaching business, managing priorities, and his LifeCrafting programs—including his promise-based game that builds confidence, momentum, and clarity.

Whether you're a mid-career professional looking to pivot or a career coach seeking strategies to grow your business, this episode offers practical tools, mindset shifts, and a holistic approach to designing the life you’re meant to live.



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Transcript

Howard Sambol 0:00

I take charge of my time pretty well. I I've never really been a kind of person where my, you know, whatever I do controls me. I I'm d I'm very uh firm and even I would say even fierce and independent, self-directed in how I manage whatever I do. And if I wanted to black out time, I just block it out. I just don't schedule anybody there. Or I give my team instructions of, you know, where to put people in my calendar or something to that effect. Or I add a new person to my team to cover things, or I shift the tasks on my team with who do who's doing what thing. Because priorities keep changing and you have to keep adapting to those priorities. So I'm not really uh I am getting busier, so yeah, I have to face that it's that reality, but but it's it's a just say it's a manageable.

Davis Nguyen 0:50

Welcome to Career Coaching Secrets, the podcast where we talk with successful career coaches on how they built their success and the hard lessons they learned along the way. My name is David Swin, and I'm the founder of Purple Circle, where we help career coaches scale their business to $100,000 years, $100,000 months, and even $100,000 weeks. Before Purple Circle, I've grown several seven and eight figure career coaching businesses myself and have been a consultant at two career coaching businesses that are doing over $100 million each. Whether you're an established coach or building your practice for the first time, you'll discover the secrets to elevating your coaching business.

Pedro 1:21

Welcome to Career Coaching Secrets Podcast. I'm Pedro, and today's guest is Howard Samble, who does transformational coaching and helps professionals transition from corporate careers into business they genuinely love. He works with successful employees who've outgrown their roles, conscious entrepreneurs seeking profitability, and creative leaders ready to turn passion into sustainable income. Through his live crafting system, he guides clients to clarify purpose, identify their niche, stabilize cash flow, and build the marketing, sales, and confidence needed for long-term success. His approach is holistic as a master astrologist and structured, designed to help people align their work with their unique gifts while creating real financial stability. Welcome to the show, Howard.

Howard Sambol 2:20

Thank you so much, Pedro. That was quite an introduction.

Pedro 2:24

Yeah, I'm excited on the day I met you, you know, even before we were recording the podcast. And you know, Howard, uh the time you've been in the game is long enough for me to ask you, you know, the origin story, which is which I I I actually love, you know, going backtrack a little and understanding what made you do what you're doing right now. So before we get into what you do now, right? I'm curious how this all actually started. So what was going on in your life when this was more than just an idea?

Howard Sambol 2:52

I told the story many times. I'll I'll yeah, I gave you the short version, right? Okay, in the interest of time. Okay. So I got my bathroom's and master's degree in mathematics, and I was teaching college, high school, and college uh for several years, mostly on the East Coast. I grew up in New York City, and I knew that my life was much, much bigger than that. There was no, there were just things well beyond that. And while I was pursuing my PhD also in mathematics, some some internships started to really happen. I was going through a lot of inner doubt questions, turmoil, you know, and and it turned out that the committee, the the doctoral committee, wasn't a hobby with my performance on the PhD oral exams. They wanted me to take the exam again, and I said no, thank you. And it's quite an astounding kind of thing, because no graduate students ever do that kind of thing, right? But I did it and I uh was very courageous, and that set me onto a new journey, a new path. And my first stop along the way was astrology from a spiritual perspective, not the uh popular, silly, predictive, psychic nonsense, but serious astrology, you know, was practiced by high-level professionals and that opened this whole gigantic doorway into multiple, multiple paths of learning and teaching and guiding others. So that's the short, the short version.

Pedro 4:23

Wow. Now that's a shift, right? We're talking about PhD in mathematics to serious astrology. You don't see happening that often, right?

Howard Sambol 4:31

Right. And also entrepreneurship, because you know the mathematicians are rarely, I mean, they're rarely entrepreneurs, they're academics, you know, that they live in the academic world. Wow, that's so interesting.

Pedro 4:44

Now, Howard, at what point did it stop feeling like a side thing or a calling, right? And start feeling like an actual business you were responsible for?

Howard Sambol 4:52

Well, you know, that's a great, great question. And I would say that that happened uh on a on a few uh a few points along the way. I uh hired uh various mentors uh who were brilliant, I mean, all through the years, and there are different you know types of mentors, and each one gave me uh a set of gifts, a set of gifts. But they also infused me with the ability to see a bigger picture and embrace you know the journey of entrepreneurship as the ultimate expression of self, the ultimate you know, journey of self-discovery growth, and you know, the freedom to be able to, you know, create my own reality, my own world, and make the impact that I really want to make.

Pedro 5:39

So some important mentors were in a way.

Howard Sambol 5:42

I can name, I could give you an example of one if you're curious. A man by the name of Michael Gerber wrote who wrote a he became pretty famous, and he wrote a book called The Demis. It's back in the 1980s. Uh, and and he was uh one of the leaders in the whole movement of you know the people moving towards entrepreneurship. And he was I had a very close relationship with him. He was he was giant. And then there were others with others along the way. And each time it became deeper and the commitment level became stronger. But totally honest, there was never any doubt in my mind that I was ever gonna, you know, not continue on this path. Once I, you know, I'm a Torah, so once I set my mind on something, I'm I'm gonna be relentless, relentless with.

Pedro 6:29

Yeah, the e-myth is a classic, I'll tell you that. I mean, wow, that's a great reference. Imagine having that guy as a mentor.

Howard Sambol 6:34

So that's I did, and we were we were actually pretty close. We had some really good, good conversations privately. Yeah.

Pedro 6:41

Okay. And once you were out there helping people, right, who did you naturally end up attracting? You know, when did you realize, yeah, these are the people I work best with?

Howard Sambol 6:50

Well, yeah, I think it uh it was it it became pretty classic pretty quick. It was basically mid-mid-career professionals, I'd say more commonly women than men, but also both. There were people who had uh dedicated themselves to a corporate career path, very classic, very traditional. Go to school, get your degrees, get a job, et cetera, et cetera, and then only to find that after a certain number of years, sometimes it was five or eight, sometimes twelve or fifteen, they hit the proverbial brick wall where it was no longer the path for them, but they didn't know where to go. They didn't know what to do. They were in a this very, very uh uh di difficult and challenging quandary of not knowing what they want to be when they grow up, essentially. Or be thinking, rethinking. And nowadays we use the expression reinventing yourself. It's it's become a fairly popular term. And so I created this thing called the reinvention toolkit, where which is a uh PDF document that you can download on our site that maps out the entire process of reinventing your yourself from soup to nuts. It's it's quite extraordinary. And it's you know a distillation of you know many years of of guiding people. But so if I nailed it down, midlife professional career women, some men who were ready to design the life that they were always meant to have and the career that they were always meant to have. And as it turned out, it wasn't ultimately it wasn't employment. It didn't take the form of employment. It was it was always entrepreneurship. And after a period of time, I lost so much faith and trust in in the in the world of employment and corporate, I just didn't pursue it anymore. So I haven't been in for a long time.

Pedro 8:46

Okay. Now, when we're talking about mere career professionals, right, I want to understand how how do they usually find their way to you in the first place, you know, marketing-wise.

Howard Sambol 8:55

Well, well, that's a great question, and there's multiple answers to it. So in the early days, when I would go way back, uh it was very much people-to-people contact, networking, connections, referrals, going to events, going here, going there. I would meet people, and it would they the telltale science science would be fairly evident. There were conflicted, confused, unsure, certain challenges with short-term income, not knowing again the future direction, or like we said earlier, you know, multiple interests, which one do I choose? What do I do? And uh and so that was easy. And then in later years, there was other systems in our in our company that we implemented. For example, one thing we did for a period of time was a signature speaking, a signature talk, a signature talk. When we would have a video of that, we would drive traffic to that, then people would schedule an appointment with me, and that would be, you know, that would generate our flow. Nowadays we're using a combination of social media with with a variety of other of the methods, you know, and a team and a sales team and people in the Philippines, et cetera, et cetera. So it's it's a it's a it's an evolving, evolving system. It's an evolving, growing system, and it does have multiple pathways to it.

Pedro 10:15

That is so true. It's so much evolving. And we're thinking thinking about like just out loud, for example, SEO, right? Google. Now that we have AI doing somewhat of that work, it's like there, I had like coaches telling me that uh Chat GPT were like sending them clients, you know, based on a conversation inside Chat GPT. So it's always and constantly evolving. But I want to dive in into the mechanics, you know, behind the scenes for a moment. Like imagine I'm one of those middle career, right? Your ICP or IDM client profile, and I want to work with you, right? So, what does that actually look like from my perspective? If I am like an onboarding client, for example.

Howard Sambol 10:56

Yeah, very good. Well, um, we would meet there's a very different version, but I'll give you one more common version. So I would may invite you to join our Facebook group as a as a real support and networking community. So it's a can it's a community where you get to meet a lot of people, share resources, uh, you know, talk about your what you do, what you do well, what you're seeking, et cetera, et cetera. It's a very supportive interacting community, but it's also oriented towards personal growth. So it's not just external to you, you know, it's what's going on inside you too. But what are your beliefs? What are your limiting patterns? What do you want to shift inside? And today people use the word mindset very frequently, and yet they have no idea what that even means. Because there's no such thing as mindset, it's just a word. What really mindset consists of is beliefs. And you need to become skilled to do real serious personal growth. You have to be learn about the patterns of beliefs and how they're formed and how to shift them and be able to be very precise and know the limiting beliefs that are get getting in your way. So that's the and then what happens is is from the starting point, I'll schedule a Zoom meeting with somebody, and I will help them, of course, get value and benefit from our community and our network, and I'll ask them some questions and I'll see where they are in regards to their to their journey. Like, are they, for example, in a job search on LinkedIn, for example, and with the with the blinders on. So they're in a job search and they can't see one little inch beyond that idea. I gotta get a job, gotta get a job. That's it. There's very little uh that I can do with a person like that because they're locked in with their belief system. On the other hand, if they're willing or and able to be a little bit more open-minded and perspective, then there's lots of things I can give them right at the very beginning, before they become a client, that are huge, like really huge. Like, for example, our core principle is what we call taxi job and career. Those are separating the short-term income needs from your long-term dreams, goals, aspirations. And that's the NASLA hierarchy of needs, essentially. But we're one of our sacred principles is don't mix those two. Don't try to do both at the same time. You'll kill yourself if you do. So by separating out the short-term financial needs, we can work with somebody with their skills, their gifts, their experience, and we can apply uh some very powerful methods and tools to help them resolve those short-term cash flow needs to giving them that stability and security that they need. And it's like a plateau where they can now say, okay, I'm relaxed, I I'm okay, I'm good, I can pay my bills. Now let's look to the future at my playground. What do I want to really do with my life? And then again, there we apply a completely different strategy for to resolve the questions in that that arena. This is, even though it's common sense, and like you know, most people have heard this, it's staggering to when you find out how many professional people have still not understood the importance of this simple separation. And they they must do that, uh otherwise they'll self-sabotage.

Pedro 14:30

Interesting. It's almost like if they're too deep, and you can correct me here if I'm wrong, but if they're if they're too deep into that scarcity mindset, I don't want to use wide set because it's belief, right? If they're too deep in that scarcity belief, they're gonna have a hard time uh bringing in something good, right? It's like it's almost a shift you need to make, but it's hard to make a shift in that belief, right?

Howard Sambol 14:55

Well, if you're if you're told all your life that a job is the only way you'll ever quote unquote earn a living, and you have accepted that belief, you know, a thousand percent, and you're terrified of stepping out of that little container for, you know, or bubbles for a time, that's gonna be difficult. But if you're somebody who has even just a little bit of open-mindedness and you realize that people do, even if you have the thought, well, people find jobs in many other, many different ways, other than just submitting their resume and getting an interview. Okay, so people do find opportunities in life in a variety of ways. That's it. Then you have a beginning point, you have a starting point where we can start really looking and looking at all the different things, and you can start becoming aware of what's generally called the pre-agent economy. You may have heard that expression somewhere. Well, it's vast, it's literally vast, and there's literally hundreds of millions, billions of dollars earned globally around the world without ever people ever submitting a resume, without ever going in a job interview. It's just people connecting with people and they're cutting deals and making arrangements and projects and contracts and everything you can think of, and earning way, way more money than than they ever work in a in a in a corporate environment where they're trying to control every penny and where they typically will throw you, you know, kick you to the curb and hire a kid out of college just to say save a few bucks, right? I mean, yeah, or the horror story. I don't have to tell you the horror stories of of uh corporate practices. I mean, I'm sure you could fill in blank on a few of those yourself, right? Right.

Pedro 16:40

Yeah, a hundred percent. Now, Howard, your work seems pretty involved, right? We're talking about the Zoom calls, we're talking about managing a team. You mentioned Philippines, but of course you have some support around you. So my question is, how do you think about managing your time and energy so the business doesn't start owning you, for example?

Howard Sambol 17:01

Well, that's that's a good question. I take charge of my time pretty well. I I've never really been a kind of person where my, you know, whatever I do controls me. I'm I'm very uh firm and even I would say even fierce and independent, self-directed in how I manage whatever I do. And if I want to take black out time, I just I just black it out. I just don't schedule anybody there. Or I give my team instructions of you know where to put people in my calendar or something to that effect. Or I add a new person to my team to cover things, or I shift the tasks on my team with who do who's doing what thing, because priorities keep changing and you have to keep adapting to those priorities. So I'm not really uh I am getting busier, so yeah, I have to place that it's that reality, but but it's it's a just say it's a manageable easy.

Pedro 17:56

Right. Now you're getting busy, right? So let's take a look forward a bit and understand what's the direction you're aiming this business. Okay. Are you thinking more about growth, leverage, building a team, or refining what already works? You know, what feels most exciting right now, Howard?

Howard Sambol 18:13

Yeah, let me tell you about that. I have given some thought to that. Our our signature program in lifecrafting is a very, very unique mastermind mastermind course. And we have a six-month agreement that some clients will do, and then we have a one-year, a one-year agreement. Okay, and they're they're they're continuous, which means a person can renew, they can do six months and then renew for another six months. What happens in that mastermind program is absolutely profound. It's it's off the charts, okay? Because we use all the advantages of what a mastermind is in a classic sense, and then we add this curriculum that is evolved in lifecrafting over decades that literally takes a person from wherever they're starting to this ultimate place I mentioned earlier, being in your playground, making money, doing what you love, and having the kind of impact in the world that you really want to have as far as quality of life goes. Where I think the cutting edge for me personally is now is realizing that that the format of the classic mastermind where you have to stop at six or eight people is no longer realistic because you then you can't scale. So the concern I've had, as many people have, is how do you maintain quality? How do you scale and get bigger and maintain the quality? Because it's so sacred to me to treat each individual and give each individual exactly what they need and what I want to give them because it's a gift and it's from my soul, from my heart, right? But now using a variety of resources, including AI, of course, in order in order to reinvent the structure or the form of how our mastermind will work in the future so it can scale. It can scale more easily. And that's the I would say a work in progress right now. Interesting. You know, and since you mentioned work in progress, you would say that's the main thing you're actively working on or trying to improve in the business right now, or is there anything there is another thing I'm working on which I can share if you're you're curious about the edge, like where my cutting edge is, if that's what you're asking about?

Pedro 20:28

Well, this is Career Coaching Secrets podcast, after all. And we like to talk with people that are under friction, right? Because out of the comfort zone and trying to improve and impact more people and serve others. And when you're trying to do that, it creates obviously friction. So I want to understand where the friction is so it can potentially help others.

Howard Sambol 20:48

It's only friction if you overstep your own boundaries, or if you don't know your own boundaries, you don't know what your values, what your principles are, what your commitments are to yourself, or if you don't care, if you don't do the proper, proper self-care uh and care, you know, and loving yourself. You don't love yourself, you can't love anybody, and no one can love you. Okay. So taking care of your own needs at all levels of your being is a foundational principle in any area of life, okay? But how you structure it, that's of course a real question. And that brings me to another one of our life crafting programs, which is probably the most innovative thing that I've ever in that I've ever done in my life, which is a game. And I won't say a lot about it here because the time is limited, but it's a game that's based around uh making promises to yourself. Uh and you make a series of promises to yourself, what happens? You build self-trust. And when you build self-trust, you can do we can do anything, right? So it's a cascading series of events from keeping promises, sometimes renegotiating down, but keeping Maintaining your integrity, building self-trust, confidence, momentum, productivity, and the and then you soar. Then you just soar and soar and soar. And you build what we call a confidence success spiral. From there, you go out of your comfort zone in small little baby increments, which of course keeps you moving forward. And this, of course, assumes that you're on a trajectory, you're on a path that's in alignment with your soul. How do you get on a path that's truly, truly, truly aligned with your soul? That brings you back to astrology again, because you need to really know yourself, to know the core of your being and feel into, not just in your head, but really feel into your life purpose and discover your life purpose in an experiential kind of way so that what you're living is in alignment. So the game, and you can people watching this, they can play the game for free, because we're in beta test mode. They can play the game for free, okay? They will be truly amazed, of course, involve some AI, but it's not a free of human human connection. And I'd love people to join, get in touch with me, ask me about the game. I'll give you how to join, how to how to play. And on my YouTube channel, we have videos on the game. So you can watch them and talk about it if you like. Interesting.

Pedro 23:22

Okay. Now, advice time, okay, because you've been along around long enough to see, you know, trends come and go. People give business advice non-stop, especially online, right? You're scrolling on social media, so it's like AI is dead, and the next post is AI is gonna take over, right? So, what's something you hear repeated a lot, Howard, that you think people misunderstand or overvalue?

Howard Sambol 23:46

Well, I think you've what you hear a lot is that like you were just saying a minute ago, this is dead, this is good, this is no good, this is you get all these opinions. Everybody's got an opinion about everything, right? Okay, so you want to be very cautious on what you buy into. Because the truth is everything is a belief, and you can choose what your beliefs are. But a lot of time we get indoctrinated or humans get indoctrinated into a certain belief system without even knowing that without even knowing that that's happening. So you want to be very discerning about what you accept to be true, what you believe. When you work with a mentor or a per person with a lot of experience who's been through decades in this field and work, you will get certain core principles and ideals that are time-tested, that are proven and time-tested. And you will learn how to make decisions on your own about what really is a fit for you. That's not a one-size-fits-all thing. And you'll be able to test your hypothesis, right? You put everything to the test because in business and in marketing, there's nothing that's absolute and you have to test it. But you will be able to test it within a support environment, within a support community, where you get the kind of feedback you need in order to make those critical ad adjustments along the way. And from that process, you're going to settle in on those tools, strategies, methods, concepts that are the right for you and be able to run and be able to run with them and create stability with that.

Pedro 25:23

Okay. And on the flip side, you know, what what's something boring or not as hype that you wish more people actually paid attention to?

Howard Sambol 25:30

Well, uh, okay. Uh I wouldn't say it's boring, but uh uh I will say that there are things that I've learned a very, very, very long time ago. Uh to be honest, before there was very much technology on the planet. And those methods have been sort of a sustaining uh toolkit or method methodology, or you know what I mean, that I've relied on. And it's it's shocking to me and and somewhat sad that what's happened over the many, many decades is that the technology has obscured those core principles and people have lost, or maybe they never even learned those core principles. Um, and they rely on technology, but they miss the boat because they're not doing the fundamental things. And so, and then and one example, and one example of what I'm talking about is networking. Now, networking is a word that's, you know, people say it a hundred times a day, but do they really know what it is? Do they really have an outcome in mind? Do they know how they're gonna do it and how they're gonna get that outcome? Do they measure their own effectiveness, success? Do they have methodology, a strategy, a plan? Are they able and willing to be expressive of their truth and and actually live in the moment, in the now moment where everything's happening? You know what I mean? Or there are they often some cloud, whatever, some recipe that doesn't apply because they're scripting, they're trying to script their life in some pattern. You know what I mean? So so there's a hundred different factors here. But I was very fortunate that I had some very early, early mentors that taught me what I sometimes call the magic, the magic of networking, that it that is shockingly still not understood. It's still not understood. And I think part of the reasons it's not understood is because in our world there's so much alienation that people have lost sight of the importance of sim a simple friendship, a simple alliance where people really, really do help each other and they really are in each other's tap. And and they'll help you make the contacts that you need to make, branch off in the directions where where you need to go. So I build that core understanding and principles and techniques into our environments and into our programs. But let me add one, let me add one small thing there. Anytime a person says that something is foreign, that's a symptom of a deeper problem. Okay. It's a symptom of a deeper problem, whether they recognize the deeper problem or not, okay? What is the the the ultimate antithesis of boredom? Or let me say it differently. Is boredom something that happens to you, or does it happen from you? In you, or is it some function of your environment? If you think it's some your environment because your friends and colleagues are not entertaining you enough, that's of course absurd, right? So what I've I've described boredom to be a state in which you are not non-creative because you're not engaging your own innate creative abilities. You can't be bored if you're creative. You just can't be. It's impossible.

Pedro 28:45

So boredom would you say is like in m PhD in mathematics?

Howard Sambol 28:50

No, boredom is a disconnect.

Pedro 28:51

No, boredom is a disconnect with Yes, but but to your point, I mean the origin story, right? You did you felt bored when you were doing math?

Howard Sambol 28:59

No, I I never felt bored with mathematics. And I never lost one iota of love, of love and and deep, profound respect for mathematics. Because I decided to pursue another path as my major my major life path, I never regretted my work in mathematics even for a single moment, nor did I ever ever lose the reverence, the reverence that I have for it. It's I love that it's literally sacred to me.

Pedro 29:26

I love that because it you're not looking like like let's pretend here, okay? Let's let's say I'm getting divorced and I got a new a new wife. You're not looking back at looking back at math or the divorce with resentment. It's just like you're chasing a new opportunity that's parked your your interest, something like that. Like, hey, it's not that I hate math or think it's boring. It's just like I would like to go to a different path.

Howard Sambol 29:48

Yeah, because right, because you life has its chapters and you complete a chapter and then you go to something new because you're evolving as a being. That's the reason why my clients will typically be in a corporate job for a number of years, and then you know hit that brick proverbial brick wall where they're they know they need to reinvent themselves and they're not sure how, because who they were when they started that job and all through those years, they were a certain person. And then they grew and evolved and changed. Their values changed, their interests changed, their priorities changed, right? And when you come back to astrology again, we can see all of this in somebody's bird chart. We can see the process unfolding that there this is going to be a time to rethink, to reevaluate, to reinvent. Because that's the spiritual process, is that you're evolving into the better, you know, fuller expression of who you really are. So that's something to be celebrated. Change is something to be celebrated as as a an opportunity and a and uh something fantastic, just like you whatever, like you you transitioned from anything.

Pedro 31:03

I love how you reframed that.

Howard Sambol 31:05

I really like that. Yeah, and and everything you did, you did for a purpose and a reason when you did it. You know, when you did it. The but the the love of that part of you that wants you to discover a deeper truth, that part of you that wants you to get that core sense of identity and living your life in alignment with that is the greatest gift uh God God could ever give you. And they have heard stories about people who go through NDEs and they come out the other end with a different uh value system or a different uh ideology or plan. And sometimes I say you don't have to die in order to do that, you can just do life crafting. Okay. But it's in life shifting, you're gonna get to that same place inside your divine center, your creative essence and your center where you know the truth, you feel the truth. You don't have to die to get to that truth.

Pedro 32:02

Howard, before we close this, you know, if someone resonated with what you shared and wants to follow your work, where should they go?

Howard Sambol 32:10

Okay, well, okay, so there's uh there are I'm assuming, of course, we can put a few links in a absolutely we'll be part of it. So I'll give you I'll give you all those links and people can click click on them. But you can always email me, Howard at lifecraftingprogram.com. So they can always do that. You can always go to uh Facebook and look up my name, Howard Samble, and friend me, or or just send me a note on Messenger and start a conversation with me there. That's always possible. Those are two really good options. And of course, on LinkedIn, you know, similar, you can find me on LinkedIn. But those are three three really good ones. And uh the other things that I'll mention here is when you see you know the program notes with the links, you'll be able to find our YouTube channel and you'll be able to find our reinvention toolkit, which is really a fantastic thing, and our game, you know, and our game. I'm not gonna even say the name of it here because people then want to try to, you know, whatever. It's better if they connect and and we sure share the game, okay? Now, I one thing I want to uh urge your audience, I know that your audience has career coaches, okay? And please don't be too horrified by what I said about jobs and employment, because i i if you're still really settled in and helping people get jobs and helping people revise their resume for the for the 50th time, and that feels right to you, keep keep doing that. You know, keep doing that. It's just you want to be real, uh, really uh caring if people are submitting uh you know application for jobs and waiting for nine months to hear that the to learn that their resume wasn't even read because it was who knows? It was on a big pile like that, nobody got a chance to read it, and they already figured out who they were gonna hire before they even advertised the position, right? So these are the horror stories you know we hear about. Just keep an open mind. And if you connect with us, we're gonna help you build your you know career coaching practice. If that's your path to be a career coach, that's fine. Avoid labels, avoid labeling yourself. Another piece of advice. Do you say I'm a coach or a toaster oven? Do not be a toaster oven, okay? Do not be a commodity, okay? Share your uniqueness, share your specialness, what is your brilliance and your genius. And no better, no matter what anybody has ever told you you are a gene, you are a genius. Albert Einstein, there's a famous quote from Albert Einstein about that, okay? And get in touch with us because we can help you, you know, you can be an affiliate with us and and we can partner. So there's all kinds of cool things there.

Pedro 34:55

Okay, you know, there were a few things from this chat that really stood out to me, you know, this conversation. I would say the the shift from PhD mathematics to serious astrology, that's like that's a very interesting shift. And you gave me a a quick origin background story. Uh I can bet we could spend hours on that solely, right? And uh I really love the way you framed it, looking at math without resentment. It's more like I just chose a different path that fulfills me, you know. So I I would commend you on that. Also, you know, understanding the changes in the marketing space, how you've been in the game long enough, and how up to date you are still, Howard, you know, when back in the day it was like to an extent, it's it still is, right? It's about connecting, networking, whatever you want to call it. But it's about having that conversation first. It's not about selling, it's not about being transactional. It's just like, hey, let's talk, let's see if it doesn't make sense. If it doesn't, it's all good, but I'm here to serve, you know. First of all, here to serve. I think people forget about the what sales really means, you know, which is serving. So if I cannot help you, I'll point into the direction that may be helping you in the future or right now. I would also highlight, you know, the mindset and belief differentiation you made. You know, I think that's very interesting because mindset is so much broader and so much less specific. When we're talking about belief, we get into the strategic, right? It's like, what exactly are you believing or something that is detrimental to you or your future?

Howard Sambol 36:38

People also think that you can change your mindset, which by telling yourself to think differently, which is nothing more than a pep talk. I mean, think about like years ago when sales teams bring in a motivational speaker or something just to rile people up so they get uh increase their sales. It's like essentially a pep talk, okay? You don't change your beliefs with a pep talk, and you don't change them with affirmations, you know, just pounding your brain with a new thought. You have to really recognize the mechanics of how beliefs are formed and how openly they they can be changed. But you can learn that. You can learn that the whole gym with us.

Pedro 37:19

I love that. You know, I really appreciated taking the time and being open with this, Howard. It was great having you on.

Howard Sambol 37:25

It was a pleasure. It was super fun.

Davis Nguyen 37:27

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