8AM Podcast with Arlin Moore
Welcome to the 8AM Podcast with Arlin Moore. In this podcast, Arlin explores the stories of people who used their mindset to carry them from a place of hardship into a place where they are happy and fulfilled. Guests include celebrities, multi-millionaires, social media stars, artists, and everyday people who have found their internal happiness and created a life they perhaps at one point never thought possible. The hope is to provide the listener with actionable advice and inspiration to inspect their own mindset to make the changes they need to achieve success and fulfillment in their own life. If you'd like to support the show and learn more about 8AM, go to 8AMhouse.com or simply share an episode with a friend!
8AM Podcast with Arlin Moore
My Friend is a Black Belt in Meditation
Embark on a riveting exploration of personal growth and creative mastery as we navigate through a day teeming with artistic innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. My time with Val, a visionary travel videographer, showcases the awe-inspiring potential of social media to captivate and inspire. Alongside him, jiu-jitsu renchi Jesse Catalano and fitness influencer Greg O'Gallagher share their secrets to melding passion with profit, while meditation maestro Milan from Parker offers tranquility tips to rival the discipline of martial arts. Each story weaves a rich tapestry, a celebration of the synergies between discipline, creativity, and seizing the moment.
The plot thickens with a close-up of our adrenaline-fueled ventures, from crafting Instagram-worthy video magic with Val to transforming a casual tip from Crypto Dan into a profitable NFT gamble. The day's narrative is punctuated by a dinner with the irrepressible Greg O'Gallagher, where fitness and life lessons mesh with the clink of cutlery. And a cameo from Zach Delmonico illuminates the surprising intersection of social media with the construction industry. These encounters are not just moments; they're the building blocks of innovative partnerships and financial wizardry.
As the curtain falls, the episode transcends into a realm of introspection and profound wisdom. A powerful meditation session with Milan offers a glimpse into the soul, leading to ego-shattering epiphanies best left unrecorded. The transformative energy carries over into a public speaking event in Aueira, Portugal, where the embrace of affirmations and a shift in perspective elevate my stage presence to new heights. With each story shared, our journey underscores the everlasting pursuit of knowledge, self-discovery, and the joy of life's unexpected twists. Join us for an episode that promises to stir the soul and ignite the imagination.
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Yo, welcome back guys to the show. Welcome back to the show. Yes, it's me. Hello, I'm back on the show. Here we are and you're here too. Hello, it is an exciting day. Okay, I just wanted to.
Speaker 1:I'm really excited today. I'm excited like almost every day, but today I'm very excited because I had such a fucking good day yesterday, like I ever just have. Such a good like. The day was so electrifying and so good on so many levels that I just wanted to tell you about it and I just wanted to talk about it, and I'm excited. And now I'm driving out to my workout. I've got my hands-free podcast set up because I'm a ninja Dude chick. Listen, whoever you are, let's go. Today is good. I'm watching. I hate to say this, but I literally just watched what looked like an Oompa Loompa wobble across the street and get into a car and that was crazy. But, yo, this is a good day. You're gonna have a great day and we're gonna talk about the day because it's a great day and I'm excited. So today, yesterday, what happened yesterday? So yesterday, was the Okay.
Speaker 1:So yesterday I had an interesting day because I had been planning this day with some of my friends to do essentially like a collaboration on a video, on a video for my Instagram about being a ninja-preneur. I had my friend, val Valentin his name is Valdez on Instagram. Val is a really interesting character because he has been a videographer for probably two decades I don't know exactly how long, but he was like one of the OG travel videographer influencers. He was on Instagram posting high quality content before anybody else. We forget, I think, sometimes that Instagram hasn't been around that long. I'm 27,. Instagram was kind of getting popular around the time I was like 17. I had it in my Instagram account when I was maybe, maybe there was a senior in high school, maybe a junior. I went to. Instagram kind of started being a thing and everyone was downloading and trying out all these apps and I guess people really clicked with Instagram right, and Val was like a high, very high quality, like posting these really cool videos, really cool photos. This was just in a time when the iPhone camera was shit. He was uploading 4K footage to Instagram and the iPhone was on iPhone 5s. It was just like it stood out. He's just such a master at this. I invited him over to shoot the video. This has so much to do with the ninja-preneur stuff. I invited him over to shoot the video.
Speaker 1:I invited Jesse Catalano over, who has been in the internet marketing space for a long time, but that's not why I invited him over. Actually, I invited Jesse over because he's a fourth degree jiu-jitsu black belt. I found out last night he's not even a sensei. A sensei is someone who's brought a, has actually taught someone how to become a black belt, like from white to black belt or no belt to black belt, and he's done that three times. So he is actually above a sensei. He's what's called a renchi, a renchi, and so Jesse's like, quite literally like he is a master martial artist and that, just like he's a ninja. Jesse is legitimate as it comes. He is a ninja, he kind of dresses like a ninja, he's got the whole vibe Like he dude, it's so dope, like his skill set is so cool. And so I invited these guys over.
Speaker 1:This was kind of the plan. I had also invited Greg, greg O'Gallagher, who I'm sure many of you know. Greg's a very famous and influential fitness influencer and Greg has. You know, greg has great energy and he's a great guy and we kind of been jamming back and forth past four or five months and we've hung out a couple times, but I invited Greg. Greg ended up having to do some like work with his team and his like supplement line, and so he wasn't able to make it during the day, but let me just tell you how the day went. So, yep, so Jesse comes over at around 10.30 in the morning and we drive into this village that I really like and I recorded a whole podcast that I released probably the day before this one comes out about, about our morning, about Jesse and I just having a conversation. It was a great podcast and we were talking about, like you know, just a lot of you know sensei wrenchy wisdom and stuff like that. It was really cool, really great pod, and we were talking about making money online and you know a lot of stuff. And, wow, I'm right now just to set the scene for you now as I tell the story.
Speaker 1:Then Sorry, I just have to. There's beautiful ocean. I'm driving by on the PCH, there's people biking, there's people running, people getting healthy. On my way right now to actually hang out with my friend, my friend Milan, who's like, quite, I got the most cool friends. Dude, I got the coolest friend. His name is Milan. Milan is the co-founder of Parker. You probably have been seeing me talk about Yassine a lot. Yassine and Parker are business partners and Yassine and Milan are business partners on Parker. Milan is quite literally initiated in Korea yoga with like Sri Yuktasvar's mentor If you read the autobiography of a yogi, you know, you would know what I'm talking about and something like that Not Sri Yuktasvar's mentor, and I don't have Sorry to my Indian listeners that I didn't say that right, but he's like initiated in Korea and he's like a literally a monk Like he is, like he is a yogi, he is a level Like.
Speaker 1:He's like a black belt in like meditation. Basically, he's a black belt in fucking meditation. How dope is that? How like he's a black belt in doing fucking nothing. He legit does nothing. That's what he does. Nothing, Black belt. What Are you kidding? You're a black belt in nothing, bro. Okay, so that's that's what he does and I mean it's dope.
Speaker 1:I want to be a black belt and I mean I'm probably like I would. I would I don't want to pump my own tires too much I'm probably somewhere near a black belt in meditation, but I would say he's like a third or fourth degree black belt, like he's, but now he's probably. Hmm, this is a good question. This is actually a very good question because I've been meditating, for I Think I have my black belt. I don't know if I have my second or third or fourth degree, but I think I most certainly have my black belt in meditation and I would say that I, you know, I'll have him on the podcast because I'm gonna hang out with him. But, yeah, the podcast I was gonna be.
Speaker 1:This man has a black belt in meditation, fourth degree black belt in meditation. That's so dope, that's so dope. Okay, all right, back to guys. I haven't even had my coffee yet. This is just how I woke up.
Speaker 1:So I go to Jesse and I go, we got coffee, we're talking about all the school stuff or the podcast. We come back to the house, to my crib, my new spot, the dojo, and we start just jamming and talking about stuff and I'm showing them some of my ninja, you know, tech gear and software gear, and we're just exchanging ideas. And then Val comes over and me, val and Jesse just pop the fuck off on just like ideas and content and and just like cool dope shit, just like ideas, content and and like just life in general and we're just sharing philosophies and we all just I mean Val's like a genius, creative, like he's just so tapped into these creative visions and and he creates that. I mean he's, he literally Creates, you know, some of the most impressive cinematic content that you'll see, and he understands lighting and they're like all this stuff on a level that is a master's level. He's got the black belt in, in, in, like in videography and like cinematography, and Jesse's got the black belt jiu-jitsu, and I would say I've got, you know, I've got the black belt. Now I've got a few black belts I got the black belt of meditation. I've got the black belt in like sales and personal branding. I've got the black belt in networking and opportunity spotting and and and and. I think I've got a black belt in a few things you know.
Speaker 1:And so I Am just ecstatic because the energy was so good and so genuine, so real, and I just Like we were just ascending all day, like that's what it felt like the day felt like, and I I'm just so pumped because I haven't had a day like this in a Little while, like that. We were just like ascending all day long. All day long it was just like up up energy, up up like we're. The more we did, the more energy we expended, the more energy we had. It was like this crazy, this crazy loop of energy. So it was great.
Speaker 1:By the way, I hope that you listen to this while you're exercising, like biking or on a walk or on a rolling machine or you know, could this, this is meant to like fuel you. This is meant to fuel you better than your fucking Stupid rap music like this is meant to fire you up, but probably better to do it, probably better to fire you up on like a cardio thing, you know, like a soul-cycle. I'm like a soul-cycle instructor, I'm like a fruity, sexy, glistening soul-cycle instructor that records Content for you. That's me. Tee-ho shit. Ninja KK, olivia Bye, all right. So yeah, so like we're just jamming, then Val whip, okay.
Speaker 1:So here's what happened. So we were, we're on the beach, we're fucking walking and talking on the beach, and we just like did like a little hike too, and then I'm like, oh shit, I forgot, I have my call. That's supposed to be on Sundays with my ninja group. I have, that's supposed to be on Sundays, but I rescheduled it to Tuesday because Tuesday, you know, because I had a Sun, sunday, something happened. Oh, we're Disneyland with that, with Noah, with baby Noah. We brought Noah to Disneyland. So I couldn't do a Sunday, so we did Tuesday and I kind of forgot, because I'm not normally doing calls on Tuesday, and I was like, oh, we got to do this. But like I was like you know what was gonna be great, you guys are both gonna present to the group and Jesse Starts and I introduced Jesse.
Speaker 1:Like Jesse, fourth degree black belt guys, the first official ninja call. Jesse is a real-life ninja. He's going to do everyone's going to stand up on this Google meet call. We're like 30 guys on the call and the ninja in the ninja community, in the ninja group, in the dojo, everyone stood up and and was watching this Jesse instruct them. And Jesse was putting me in like wrist locks and like showing, like just showing me this dope stuff and showing everyone all this cool stuff and just packing it into a lesson. And it was a virtual Ninja Jiu Jitsu class and it was the coolest shit. And Jesse just went full on flow state and it was. It was just the most amazing energy. It was the most amazing energy. So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1:And then Val Came on and Val gave like a sermon on on the, on the era of authenticity and creating content and and how like basically, you know the best Content right now. It's just super authentic. It's just it's like kind of like this right now. The reason this is Designing with you right now is because it's just so raw and so authentic and you feel the soul like you feel me, you know, you just feel me as I'm presenting this to you, and it feels good and I feel good and you feel good, we just feel good and that's just kind of the vibes. And so we just talked and shared some value to the group and that was great.
Speaker 1:And then, after that, we had to get filming and so we started filming and Val is like you know again, val's like this master, you know filmer and and and like cinematographer, creative, and we're filming like one of the coolest videos I've probably released in a long, long time and it was really fun. I had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun doing it and the videos, you know it's in production now, it's got it edited and and yeah, it was just so good. So that was in the end of the day. So we recorded a bunch of scenes. We did some like ninja moves. I've got some cool shots like getting ready, getting all set. And Then we went out to dinner and we met Greg for dinner.
Speaker 1:Greg Greg attacks me early. He's like, yeah, I can't come today, but like, let's grab dinner. So we went to dinner at catch steak and we went to catch and it was great. It was so much fun. It was a Lot of fun. It was like the energy that we had accumulated all day. We just added a little keenobody action, a little Greg O'Gallagher action and it just made the vibes like 10x and I also oh, I forgot a whole part of the story. So you guys remember okay.
Speaker 1:So Daniel, the crypto Dan that I did a, I like promoted his thing because, like you know, daniel's helped me a lot already this year. But in the middle of the day, when Jesse was over and vowels are like, literally when Val was arriving, I had to mint this NFT that Daniel told me to get and I didn't really know what's gonna happen. It's like on this third party kind of chain and like. But Daniel's like, trust me, he has like connections and he knows that. He has like a whole thesis about why certain NFT projects are gonna blow up. He's like, trust me, this is it. This is like, just do it. So, like I had three different wallets open, I had to mint these NFTs. I had to mint these NFTs. He texts me like an hour later he goes they're up 10x. Oh fuck. So they're up 10x in an hour and he's like don't sell, they're going to 200x. I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna do whatever Dan tells me to do and when the market cap hits 200 million, I'm going to act, I'm going to exit. So, anyway, that was like another thing. And I've been talking about Daniel on Instagram and a bunch of people have joined the mastermind that he's, that he has and the course he just released and it's been great, and so that's good.
Speaker 1:And so we're out of dinner and Greg is a true ninja. We're talking about like apparently Greg's been in like six fights, like bar fights, and just like he's clocked a few people and he's been clocked a few times and we're talking about that. And yeah, it was man, it was just so good. It was just so good Like the energy all around and Jesse was talking about his stuff and Val was talking about his stuff and like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, like it was just. It was like it was great, it was really great.
Speaker 1:So I'm pulling into the parking lot right now to my trainer, lou, and then after this, so Milan is training with Lou, and then after this I'll have Milan kind of jump on the pod. Probably I'll drive him back. We can rip some stuff. There he is, he's getting after it. He's getting after it, the Lou pain locker. Okay, I'm going to pause this episode and we'll be right on back with Milan. All right, guys, we're back.
Speaker 1:We took a little break, actually like a two or three day break, but we are. We took a three day break. It's a little bit of a break, but now we are back and we are back in the car on our hands, free setup and, zach, can you actually get navigation to the place? So we're a couple of days in. I told you I think I told you earlier in this podcast that we're going, that we were going to have a. We're going to have Milan the monk on.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if it's proper to call him a monk, but we said we were going to have Milan on the show and we did hang out with Milan that day, you know, after he worked out with Lou and after a bunch of stuff, you know a bunch of stuff went down. But just to fast forward to right now, it's the second day of the live event with Marcel and I spoke yesterday and oh, that was shit. And I spoke yesterday and it was really fun and really interesting. That's a whole story to get into. But today, for the next like 25 minutes or so, we will be driving and I have Zach Delmonico in the car with me. Zach introduce yourself.
Speaker 2:Hello, zach, from New York here.
Speaker 1:That's Zach. Tell him a little about yourself.
Speaker 2:So there's some context yeah, I live in New York. My dad owns a construction company based in New York which is Red Rock Industries. Red Rock Industries builds luxury car dealerships really any car dealership parking garages, recycling facilities, getting into apartments.
Speaker 1:Now Project yourself a little more because of Mike, yeah, because I know to speak loudly, because I know the volume, like the gain on the mic. But, yeah, just project a little higher, start over. No, no, you're good, you're good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wasn't able to work in the field when I was young, so instead of going into actual construction, I basically do all the videos and photos, basically manage Red Rock social media content on all the platforms and something that I love to do. I love creating and I wanted to scale it. So my father and I now partner together in Red Rock Studios and we basically do the same exact thing for Red Rock Industries, for car dealerships and other large companies. So got that going on. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Zach is out here and I'm working with him and really I guess his dad on branding their company, on social media strategies and personal development in general. Zach is here attending the Limitless event as well. To be honest, I mean I spoke yesterday, but I'm kind of also attending because it sounds like I'm just like hyping up my boy, but Marcel is so fucking impressive when he's on the stage doing stuff, so I don't know how else to say it. He's really good, it's extremely impressive. I'm learning a lot personally. I've experienced a lot of personal growth, actually, and I'll get into that.
Speaker 1:But what I do want to do for this episode is I want to dive back in to where we started with, or where we left off with Milan. So I was explaining. My friend, milan, is a co-founder of a company called Parker, which is they've raised a quarter billion dollars and they do tens of millions of dollars a year. They have 400 brands with making over three million dollars a year using their cards, spending money on ads etc. And yet Milan, you know, goes to India a couple of times a year to meditate with his guru and it's just. It's so cool. It is so cool and it's something that I am very interested in, particularly because in the last year or so, I have felt, I felt very disconnected from my meditation practice. I felt like it turned into something that I was doing not to do but to achieve an end result and I found myself feeling like, you know, I'm already pretty tapped in to you know, to God, to the source, to the creator of the universe, whatever you want to call it. I'm already pretty tapped in.
Speaker 1:So why would I meditate? Like, why would I do it? You know, my thoughts are generally pretty clear. You know I feel connected Like. Why would I do this? Like most people, the purpose of meditation is as advertised as like reduce anxiety, get a clear head, you know, get inspiration. Like you're doing it to get a result, whereas, you know, milan is someone who meditates four hours per day. He already has an extremely successful company. Why the fuck is he meditating? It's obviously not to, you know, get, you know, some end result. So I asked him you know it was one of the first questions I asked him. I was like hey, you know, one of the reasons I'm excited to hang out with you today, milan, is because I'm, you know, I feel kind of like I'm disconnected from my practice and I feel like there's something you know that I don't know. That was really you know what I was excited for, especially because he goes to India and he has an act like he has a legit guru that he meditates with, not not like Sadguru or you know someone that does this for profit, like literally someone whose life is about this. So, and of course, you guys, if you really follow my stuff, you know that the past year I spent it exploring religion and I was sure look at that wave I was, I spent it. We're driving along a PCA train now and some beautiful waves.
Speaker 1:I spent the last year not the whole year, but like a lot of my free time studying religion and trying to understand people's world, beliefs and and how it you know, what benefit it gives to their life and what meaning, and so I'm like I want to learn from a true Hindu, like how do the Hindus view this? How does a meditator view this, a true, real meditator? And so I asked Malani. I said you know it's.
Speaker 1:It is interesting because the purpose of meditation for me is not necessarily to just sit there and achieve a clear mind. The purpose for me is to connect to God and I, and that that was interesting. It's like it's kind of like it almost felt like it was a respect thing, like he's not doing this for himself. He's he's doing this to humble himself. There's a difference, right, it's not doing this for himself. He's doing it to humble himself at the footsteps of the divine creator, being God of the universe.
Speaker 1:However, whatever you would like to view it, you know what? And even if you don't believe there's a creator, there is a extremely powerful base reality, vibration of this universe. Even if you're coming from a scientific foot, right? This? So I mean, I guess the most like scientific way to view it would be you are viewing, you are, you are viewing like the base frequency, energy of the universe, that like from from which everything that we're seeing and this reality is unfolding and you're just tapping into that power. Okay, and that's, that's what it is for for Milan. So we, you know a few very interesting things happen. So we worked out there's a great workout. Zach got in from New York and Zach got fucking toasted by Lou his first Lou workout. How did you feel after that?
Speaker 2:Burn. Burn so good Burn yeah it was.
Speaker 1:It was a good lift. I got burned too and and so, you know, after that we had to get some fuel. We got, we went to Erwan, we got some food and some smoothie or something like that, and then Milan met up with us and we went back to the house. Then, as I mentioned, I think, early in this podcast, or maybe even in the one before, I had Jordan visiting Jordan Greenfield, who's the founder of Hubi and Jordan. Jordan's been just a little bit stressed. You know he's got a lot going on in the company. He's growing very fast and you know he's stressed, and so Milan has is just like a bit step ahead of where Jordan's at. He's been through a lot of where he is, and I just watched Milan like basically consulting for Jordan, just just just for fun, just for fun. You know Milan is no steak in in Hubi, but he just wanted to help and seeing the way that he thought, with the clarity that he has in his mind and and just his experience in, you know, in business, was really cool and it was. It was very interesting because the next day after Jordan and Milan spoke, jordan had a massive breakthrough in the company and and you know and and he's doing like significantly better than than he was prior, and so that was really cool to see that we spent about four hours there with Jordan.
Speaker 1:Now the next thing that we did is we took because we were actually like we're pretty drained just from the whole session, because it was like a lot of it was just like it was like handling a lot of different problem sets essentially at the same time. It was pretty exhausting. So we went on a drive. We came back, I had my hair cutter meet us at the house, which is a life hack. To save time, I'd recommend having your hair cutter come to your house instead of going into the office. Just saved a trip.
Speaker 1:And then we sat in the sauna after that and Milan like basically gave us a lesson in, like Eastern wisdom and in meditation and told us about what was, what was like the main topics we talked about in the sauna, like religion, religion. So we talked about religion and the word and the meaning of the word and why, how it was constructed that way. Religion, if you look at the word, means re legion. What is a legion? A legion is a group of people, right, and re means like you're returning to your group of people. Now, this could be viewed in several ways. I think we'd have to really look at the word legion and see what it means, but it basically means you're reconvening, at the way we interpreted it is, you're like you're reconvening with your original group, which is what, which is essentially God. You know the creator of the universe. You are reconvening with essentially God. Okay, your group, your original group where you came from, and all religions Christianity, hinduism, buddhism are methods of reconvening with God. They're all methods. Okay, so from there, you know that was an interesting discussion.
Speaker 1:Zach was very tired because he was still on East Coast time. It was like it was like approaching midnight, which was like 3am for Zach, and Milan does a meditation every night before bed and I wanted to join him for this. So he walked me through some Kriyas and a couple other exercises and I had one of the most intense meditation sessions that I'd ever had. It was very, very cool. I felt like I connected to the source, my ego like dismantled a little bit, which was a little bit scary. But you know, I came back and, yeah, I just had some really profound you know, realizations about meditation in general, the reason I didn't have Milan on the podcast was because I, just to be honest, I just like selfishly.
Speaker 1:Well, there are a couple of things. One, milan treats his practice and like everything he learns from his guru with so much respect that I didn't like, I just didn't. The vibe wasn't right, like I didn't want to kind of like I don't know how to really describe it. It's like there's so much respect around it that I didn't want to just turn on the mic and just like start recording. You know, like I wanted to just okay, on one hand I want to just ask him whatever I wanted, without like having a microphone, kind of being the second audience. I wanted to just hear what he truly authentically had to say because, like, like I said, like his guru that he meditates with it's not on social media, you know doesn't want to be famous, doesn't you know want? He just doesn't even pay him. I found out he does not even pay his guru. Like he doesn't accept money as a thing, it's just only I've been like donations. He's like, yeah, you know, I tip him like $5 every time I go. I'm like what $5? I guess that's like a lot more money over there. So that was super interesting.
Speaker 1:Now, the next day, zach and I went to the free event the limitless free event with Marcel and we were I mean, it was pretty fucking impressive.
Speaker 1:Like Marcel did a couple of interventions I think he's gonna do some interventions today, good, yeah, yeah, and basically what he does, he has someone on stage who, like has a serious problem. He calls them up on stage and he works through it with them and there were some pretty legitimate things. Like there were some people who were suicidal, some people were, you know, in like really like one girl like thought she was going to prison, like there was some dark shit and in front of us. It took maybe between five minutes for one, like for the easiest person, to about 40 minutes for the hardest person, but every single person he got on stage he was able to just snap them out of it, identify their limiting belief, rewire their subconscious mind and they're just a new person after that, and so it was really really cool and, yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience that day one and Zach, anything stand out to you from the first day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, help people put up a guard on themselves. And then Marcel tried to help them out and he one of the guys he actually got sucked into.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so how strong that energy can be. Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's amazing at figuring out the limiting beliefs, the values and what you want and just done, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:So, basically, guys, what Zach's talking about and the way it works is you have, you have like your, you know, you, you okay, and you are comprised of basically two parts the conscious, mind and the subconscious. And in between the conscious and the subconscious there's there's sometimes lodged in the subconscious there's a, there's a limiting, there's some kind of blockage that's preventing you from getting what you want. And what Marcel does is he identifies that thing, that's in the way, that belief, that value, and he removes it or he transmutes it and replaces it. So one guy was very difficult, very difficult to to figure out what was preventing him, because Marcel kept trying to put him into trance, kept trying to put him into the hypnotic state and he was resisting, resisting, and he was like he looked hopeless, like he looked like a lost cause. It was almost like the more Marcel tried to work on him, the worse he got. And that's when Marcel realized that he himself had fallen into this guy's frame. And the frame that this guy has built and the reality that he was living in is what's called the victim mindset. And so this guy and Marcel, you know, is usually very, very quick, but he just missed it with this guy. Real Marcel realized this guy is operating from a paradigm of I'm a victim and so every like. Basically he was getting rewarded.
Speaker 1:For being a little bitch he was being rewarded for and this, by the way, this guy was like in and out of jail or maybe bit of jail once, I don't know exactly. And he also kind of confessed, like his, he has brothers and sisters. His brother, his brothers are all successful. He's not. And his mom gives him the most attention. So in his family the reward system was if you're the little bitch, you get the most love from mommy. And so this guy has grown man. He was like 28 years old or so. Actually might have been older, he's probably a little, probably like in his 30s, but still he's operating from this paradigm If I'm a little bitch, I get love. If I'm successful, like his brothers and sisters, they don't get as much attention. So he has this like super ingrained in himself from childhood. Believe that if he's in trouble he gets love and attention. And we all want love, we're all driven by love, and if you don't get love you get depressed. But what if depression is the way you get love? So this guy's literally operating from the more depressed I am, the more love I get, which is a difficult pattern to be in because eventually you just you get so depressed that you end up taking your own life. This guy was suicidal.
Speaker 1:So basically Marcel identified it. Then he created a disassociation. He literally, once he realized he was like, ah, I see what's happening. You're, we are literally feeding into your frame of being a little bitch and us feeling bad for you, which makes you reinforce the pattern, become more of a bitch right in front of our eyes as we give you more love, more attention. So what we, what Marcel did, is he literally put him in a light trance, he disassociated the guy from his bitch self and he put it in front of me. He said, here, look at yourself, look at this little bitch version of yourself, and shit on it. So instead of giving it attention, we gave it punishment, we punished, we disassociated him, punished his bitch self, and then he actually Marcel, let him go look at himself in the mirror and like staring at himself in the mirror, like calling himself a little bitch, and that led to the breakthrough.
Speaker 1:He now, his new pattern, is not looking at himself like a little bitch, sorry, looking at the little bitch version of himself, like a little bitch not looking at the little bitch version of himself, like, oh, I'm needing to like cuddle him and give him love and feel bad for himself. So that was interesting. Now the next day was like the official start of the day one of Limitless and like of the event and so far it's been really cool. Yesterday was like yesterday was fucking crazy. I don't even know where to start. Like what's stuck out to you, zach Pineapple Pineapple.
Speaker 2:Okay, explain that explain that Marcel brought these five people on the stage basically as an exercise to show people what he's really doing and what's going on within the brain subconsciously. And at the end of it he had these five people saying I love Marcel whenever they heard the word hypnosis. And then at the end of the event he actually rewired it so that people would jump up in their seat automatically and say pineapple, and this one guy jumped up so quickly and so high, he basically threw the table over, which was hilarious yeah.
Speaker 1:I unfortunately wasn't there for that part, I had to leave a little bit early, but yeah, it was pretty funny, I mean the entire day that I was there, like, yeah, it's, I don't know, it's very fascinating, very fascinating, what else? I think there's a lot, there's a lot of stuff. Oh, yeah, I spoke right. That was crazy too, because I've okay. Now here's how I know the shit works, because I spoke to a room of 40 people. Sorry, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1:The Portugal event. Yeah, the Portugal event was 40 or 20. I think it was 40. Yeah, the Portugal event. I think was 40 people. Yeah, so I had an event this summer. Geez, my voice is like going.
Speaker 1:I had an event this summer in Portugal, in Lisbon. Actually, it was in Aueira, that's what it was called Aueira in Portugal, on the beach in Portugal, Branded out, this mansion had three day event, jeeps, everything. It was very cool and through this event and 40 people show up the first couple hours of the event, I had a presentation prepared and I'm standing there ready to give the presentation to 40 people in a room and, by the way, these are guys that I actually I know that they all look up to me, they all respect me, but I was nervous Like I remember. My heart was pounding out of my chest. I was standing there, I was giving the presentation, but I was genuinely. I had like a lot of adrenaline pulsing through me and I was nervous and I was thinking to myself like damn, like that was hard To give this one at Marcel's event I've got to do in front of 160 people, so like the room is four times the size and there's strangers in the room. 50 people are from my audience, the rest of the people are from either ads or Marcel's audience, not to mention there's 100 people on Zoom. So in total there's 260 people watching. And I'm like man, it is different when you're in the like. I obviously talk on social media every day and do this podcast, but to see, you know, couple hundred people right in front of you, you've, like it's just a different thing. That does to your psychology or physiology.
Speaker 1:And coming up to the, to me speaking, I was getting nervous. I was getting nervous. I was feeling, you know, I was feeling myself like my heart was pounding, like I was getting nervous. 30 seconds before I go on stage, marcel's up there introducing me, you know, telling the audience about who I am and what my skills are, and he makes some subtle suggestions and he's basically like this is my friend Arlen. You know, no matter what he tells you about, you know, he's never been on stage before and he's never spoken to this much. And if he tells you he's nervous, none of that's true. Don't believe it. He's one of the most talented public speakers. In fact he's more talented and I've learned more than him than he's learned from me about public speaking. So, arlen, welcome to the stage. In that moment he made that suggestion, he did some hypnosis shit. My nerves went to fucking zero and I got up there and I performed like I've been public speaking for years. I swear to God, zach, you can attest to it.
Speaker 2:How was it? And I look nervous? No, not at all. Not in the slightest.
Speaker 1:I was extremely confident. It was crazy. Like 30 seconds before I was shitting my pants, marcel says one thing puts me in a little trend. Like I don't know how he did that. It was across the room too right. I mean, I was actually thinking to myself before. I was like maybe I should like go into the bathroom or something with Marcel and have him like hypnotize me. But he just did it in five seconds in front of everybody. I was like, oh fuck, okay, well, guess there's nothing to be concerned about. So yeah, that happened. That was. That was fucking crazy.
Speaker 1:Now, where it looks like we're about 15 minutes out, man, I don't know, it's really fascinating stuff. It's really fascinating. The other thing is like this idea of like having an unlimited stream of consciousness is also very tied into what I was talking about with Milan, because when you're tapped in to the unlimited creator of the universe God right it's much easier to speak forever because you're connected to an eternal creator. So that I mean I was kind of. The other thing that I did, zach, that I didn't tell you, is I set an intention before I went on and I was lit because I saw Tony Robbins does that and I was like I was literally just like God creator, whatever you are, ultimate power, please use me to deliver an amazing experience to this audience. And I said just do whatever you want with me and I let that force take over and I do the same thing.
Speaker 1:Now you know, as I'm talking, I'm like hey, I'm just a vessel. Whatever you wanna do with me, go ahead. I surrender, I give my you've maybe heard the term like let Jesus take the wheel. That's the same thing. It's just like let that ultimate power take over your actions and surrender and do this on a daily basis. Your life is not for you. It is for the greater power to use you and to serve others. That's really it. It's on top of being used by that divine power.
Speaker 1:The purpose is to make the world a better place, to serve people, to inspire people, to lift people up, and when you do that, your energy, like your energy, goes from oh my God, I'm so close to my box. What do people think of me? To expansion and to just being a light and being a source for everyone. And you stop worrying about how you feel. Even you know you might feel a little bit nervous, but that just goes to the side, you might feel like, ah, I don't wanna talk about this anymore, but that doesn't matter, you're there to serve. So, zach, I wanna ask you some questions now. I wanna ask you what has been the top three most impactful things that you've learned in the past 72 hours from the experience, whether it was from me, from Sensei, master, jesse, katalana, black Belt, Juditsu, from Milan, from Jordan, from, I don't know, maybe even Chloe, I don't know, from Marcel, people at the event, like what's been the top most impactful things, go ahead.
Speaker 2:From Milan. Meditation is more about connecting with God.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:That is huge.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That was powerful for me, especially when we were doing the meditations in the actual sauna. Yeah, yep, that was powerful for me. The next thing is what you were actually showing me with the what do you call it? Acridims, Acridims Like GCC or something that people don't understand. Oh right, yeah, yeah, I could elaborate on that.
Speaker 1:So basically, I was explaining to Zach a principle in sales persuasion influence is creating a status delta, which basically puts yourself at a higher status than the person that you're talking to. So, on social media, often I'll do this where I'll talk about a concept that either I made up or that I understand as high level and I will just use the word and I'll just run over the word. And I know that 90% of my audience doesn't know what it means. But because they don't know what it means, they assume that I'm smarter than them. So it creates a status delta. So, for example, I might tell you guys about NRR N-R-R this is a term in business that maybe you've heard of MRR, everyone should know what monthly recurring revenue is and, by the way, right there, even what I just did. If you don't know what MRR is, now you feel like I'm even smarter than you because you don't know what MRR is. And I'm telling you about N-R-R, which, if you know what MRR is, I guarantee you you think you're smart, but you're not right now because you don't know what N-R-R is and you're probably Googling. You're like what the fuck is N-R-R and what I might do, and I'm not gonna do it right now I'll actually explain it. But N-R-R what I might do in this situation is I might say so, what I did. I was looking at my N-R-R for my business and thinking about how I can improve this metric and hear some things I did. I won't even explain what N-R-R is. I just use the term and you're left to be like whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, he's explaining. I need to know what this means. I don't know what it means. How much more does Arlen know that I don't know? Okay, so, on purpose, not explain it Now. Often I'm not too mean and I don't do that too often, but I do it sometimes. Now, just for your sake.
Speaker 1:N-r-r is like a term used to measure the health of a business and it combines several metrics churn rate, which is again another one that you should know, but churn is essentially the drop off on customers on a subscription product on a monthly basis. So if you have like, take Maxi, right, maxi's churn is like eight, nine percent, meaning it loses eight or nine percent of its customers every single month. The lower the churn, the better. Okay, so if you have like a 2% churn, that's really good. That means if you get 100 people subscribing at the end of the month you have 98 customers, okay. Two months later you have like 96. Three months later, 90, yeah, you're losing. There's maybe a little bit more because the churn stays consistent, right. So maybe it's two, the first month, three, the second month, five, the third month, right, so that the lower the amount of like.
Speaker 1:If you have 0% churn rate, that means your customers are just buying your product and they never change, they never leave. That's the goal, okay. So you combine churn with your current MRR and there's kind of an equation for this. That's a little bit complicated, so what I would actually recommend doing is just Googling the definition of net, and NRR stands for net revenue retention. So you wanna actually look this up. It's a combination, it's a very realistic picture of your business and it gives you a number and so that number can be used to quantify stuff. There's some very interesting stuff you can do with the number. Anyway, zach, that was the second thing you learned. What's the?
Speaker 2:third. Next one is who, not how.
Speaker 2:Yes, that is so big One of the things that I've been learning, especially if you're looking to build something big, looking to have a big team, is figuring out who is great at doing the stuff that you're not great at. Who can basically you basically build a team that builds a product instead of focusing on building the actual product? Yes, exactly, that was huge. And then, see, I had something from Marcel that just left my mind. Oh, marcel yesterday was talking about lottery tickets and how. I don't know if this story is true.
Speaker 2:When he was young, marcel went to a gas station and he was determining whether by the gas for his car or by a lottery ticket. And then he all asked us do you think you would win the lottery? Half of the room raised our hands, or whatever. The whole point was we all have a winning lottery ticket in our life and that's our goals. And the point is many people don't think they have the winning lottery ticket meeting. They don't think they're gonna achieve their goals that they want, so they never go into cash it in. Yeah, right, but his success code that Marcel was talking about was if you just keep on going, you keep on pushing right, before you give up is the time that you double down. When you do that things will start to click and you just keep on going and you don't stop. That was huge. From yesterday yeah, I think that was yesterday, or was it the day before? No, that was yesterday at the end of the night. Oh, it was.
Speaker 1:Oh, I've heard him talk. He told me that one, I think, maybe either on a podcast or one to one. It was basically the way at least I interpreted it was you have like, okay, marcel told the story is like, one time he had this lottery Yo dude, don't fuck with me, what's he bitch? Okay. So Marcel was like. He was like, if you have just to reiterate from my perspective, you have a lottery ticket, right? Or he had a lottery ticket at one point in his life and he was feeling like you know what? I feel like I have a winning lottery ticket.
Speaker 1:Now, obviously, winning the lottery is very low odds, right, but he believed he had it. So he was like you know what? I'm just gonna go to the store, I'm gonna go to the station and, like you know, see if it is a winning lottery ticket. And he went and he found out it wasn't right. And he compares that to your goals. If you believe that you're going to accomplish your goals, you take action, you get out of the house and you go do it. Now, what Marcel found out about the lottery ticket was that he didn't have a winning lottery ticket. Okay, but that's when it clicked for him, whether he did or he didn't doesn't matter, because if you, if he, if you sorry, if you whether you're going to achieve your goals or not fuck, he explains this so much better.
Speaker 1:Whether you achieve your goals or not, if you don't think you're going to achieve them and you just don't take action, you never will. But if you do believe in yourself, you will take action and you might not accomplish them, but the only chance of you actually accomplishing them is if you believe that you can. So if you don't believe you can, you cut yourself off from the beginning and and yeah, you just you suck. So, yeah, that's basically it. All right, guys, we're pulling in. Now. I'm gonna end the podcast here. I hope that you guys enjoyed and, yeah, it's gonna be another amazing day here. At the event, I hope that you guys are having a great day and that oh, what the fucking pothole. They should probably take a look at that Lobby and parking this one right. Yeah, okay, all right, guys, have a great rest of your day. We'll see you in the next episode.