#75: The Fundamentals of Influence: Building a Dream Life with Corey Poirier, Founder of bLU Talks
The Fundamentals of Influence: Building a Dream Life with Corey Poirier
In this inspiring episode of Beyond The Pills, we welcome Corey Poirier, a multiple-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author, Forbes and Entrepreneur columnist, and founder of both The Speaking Program and bLU Talks. With over 6,500 interviews with the world’s top leaders under his belt and appearances on major networks like CBS, NBC, and ABC, Corey brings a wealth of wisdom on influence, leadership, and living life on your own terms.
We explore the fundamentals of building a dream life—what it really takes, why it's often simpler than we think, and how influence can be a powerful catalyst for personal and professional transformation.
Whether you're an aspiring speaker, a heart-led entrepreneur, or someone craving more purpose and impact, this conversation is your blueprint for bold, authentic living.
🔥 Inside this episode:
- Corey's journey from humble beginnings to global stages
- How to master the fundamentals of influence
- What 6,500+ interviews taught him about success and fulfillment
- The surprising truths about building a dream life
- Behind-the-scenes of TEDx, bLU Talks, and elite speaking programs
📲 Connect with Corey Poirier:
LinkedIn: Corey Poirier
Website: bLU Talks
💡 You were made for more—and it’s easier than you think when you know the path.
Transcript
Welcome, welcome to this new episode.
Speaker:Hello, hello, everybody.
Speaker:My name is Josh Remini,
Speaker:pharmacist turned healer.
Speaker:And today's guest is someone
Speaker:who's not only mastered the
Speaker:art of influence, but has shared stages,
Speaker:stories,
Speaker:strategies that have impacted
Speaker:lives all over the globe.
Speaker:Corey Poirier is a multiple-time TEDx,
Speaker:Mo Mondays, and PMX speaker,
Speaker:host of the top-rated Let's
Speaker:Do Influencing radio show,
Speaker:and founder of both The
Speaker:Speaking Program and Blue Talks.
Speaker:I can't wait.
Speaker:The best-selling author at Barnes & Noble,
Speaker:Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo,
Speaker:Corey is also a columnist
Speaker:for The Entrepreneur and Forbes.
Speaker:and a featured voice on networks like CBS,
Speaker:CTV, NBC and ABC.
Speaker:He's interviewed over sixty
Speaker:five hundred people around the world.
Speaker:Top leaders spoken at
Speaker:Harvard and has even been
Speaker:featured twice in the world
Speaker:renowned Entrepreneur on Fire podcast.
Speaker:I love talking entrepreneurship.
Speaker:So today he joins us on this
Speaker:episode of Beyond the Pills
Speaker:to share the transformative
Speaker:fundamentals behind
Speaker:building a life of your dreams
Speaker:and why it may be easier than you think.
Speaker:Welcome, welcome to the show, Corey.
Speaker:Well, thank you so much, Josh.
Speaker:I am super stoked, really, to be here.
Speaker:It's amazing.
Speaker:I love how organically...
Speaker:the podcast guests are
Speaker:flowing to me right now.
Speaker:Like there's just this
Speaker:natural vibe that's
Speaker:happening when we're
Speaker:talking about these
Speaker:interconnected things about
Speaker:empowerment and, and, and,
Speaker:and transformation and
Speaker:healing and this is a
Speaker:beyond the pills podcast we
Speaker:speak everything ancient
Speaker:wisdom modern science for
Speaker:true healing and let's just
Speaker:get started like let's talk
Speaker:about you what's your
Speaker:origin story like you've
Speaker:built this incredible body
Speaker:of work I love reading
Speaker:these bios it's like oh man
Speaker:let's dive in on that uh
Speaker:but you know tell us a
Speaker:little bit about who you
Speaker:are what you're doing and
Speaker:and we'll go from there
Speaker:Well, thank you so much, Josh,
Speaker:for the invite,
Speaker:for sharing that gracious bio.
Speaker:I so appreciate it.
Speaker:In terms of who I am,
Speaker:You know,
Speaker:it's interesting because these
Speaker:days we place a lot of the
Speaker:focus on just like my bio, right?
Speaker:He's done this, he's done that.
Speaker:What you do, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:what you do versus who you really are
Speaker:at the core.
Speaker:And I feel like who I am at
Speaker:my core in two ways,
Speaker:like both sides to what drives everything,
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:On one hand, I mean,
Speaker:it probably seems a little
Speaker:hokey in some ways, but being a Gemini,
Speaker:I feel like...
Speaker:And I don't know if this is
Speaker:the case for all Geminis.
Speaker:That's why I say this.
Speaker:So it could be just a coincidence.
Speaker:But I have both sides to me.
Speaker:So I have a very artistic side,
Speaker:creative side,
Speaker:and I have a very business side.
Speaker:And so I think that in some
Speaker:ways makes me – and this is
Speaker:why I think maybe it's not all Geminis.
Speaker:It makes me a bit different.
Speaker:And when I say that, for instance,
Speaker:when I started as a speaker –
Speaker:Where I went,
Speaker:where most people didn't go
Speaker:at the time was I mixed both worlds.
Speaker:So I would, for example,
Speaker:my talk about customer
Speaker:service was called getting
Speaker:standing ovations from every customer.
Speaker:And it was a Mary of how do
Speaker:the Rolling Stones sell
Speaker:tickets for five hundred
Speaker:bucks and sell out?
Speaker:And then how does a big box
Speaker:store sell more than their
Speaker:competitor by a landslide?
Speaker:And what are the actual
Speaker:things they're doing?
Speaker:What are the four steps that
Speaker:we can replicate or learn from that?
Speaker:But what it was really doing
Speaker:is marrying the business
Speaker:and artistic world.
Speaker:So that's one side of what informs a lot.
Speaker:On one hand, I could be... And these days,
Speaker:I've kind of put the
Speaker:artistic side to the side a little bit.
Speaker:But on one hand, in the past,
Speaker:I could be writing a book
Speaker:or writing a song or
Speaker:playing guitar or playing
Speaker:music or what have you.
Speaker:And then an hour later, I could be...
Speaker:writing a business bio or an
Speaker:article for a magazine or
Speaker:doing a video around business.
Speaker:And so I think that made me different.
Speaker:And then the shorter other
Speaker:side to it is grew up in a small town,
Speaker:raised by a single mother,
Speaker:barely graduated high school.
Speaker:I got a forty nine plus one
Speaker:in a class I needed a fifty in, which,
Speaker:by the way,
Speaker:I know deep down means the
Speaker:teacher gave me the plus
Speaker:one and I probably didn't get forty nine.
Speaker:I got like forty seven.
Speaker:He bumped it to forty nine
Speaker:and gave me the plus one.
Speaker:So I'd always remember I
Speaker:didn't really graduate legally.
Speaker:Legally, I did.
Speaker:But ethically, I didn't, I guess.
Speaker:And then on top of that,
Speaker:when I did graduate high school,
Speaker:I didn't know the
Speaker:difference between fiction
Speaker:and nonfiction.
Speaker:Didn't read my first book
Speaker:till age twenty seven.
Speaker:And my single mother,
Speaker:I really believe because I
Speaker:was raised by only my mother,
Speaker:I took on a lot of those traits that like,
Speaker:for example,
Speaker:multitasking that they say
Speaker:men are terrible at.
Speaker:I may be.
Speaker:took it on and still do and
Speaker:even though I know it's not
Speaker:the right way to do it I
Speaker:know that focus is the
Speaker:answer there's many times
Speaker:when I find myself
Speaker:multitasking and people
Speaker:like how can you juggle
Speaker:those two things and jump
Speaker:between them and I think
Speaker:it's because of having the
Speaker:influence of my mother who
Speaker:was also a multitasker and
Speaker:so those I say those
Speaker:because I think josh that's
Speaker:who I am uh and I'm also uh uh
Speaker:a father of two,
Speaker:a seven and a four year old,
Speaker:a common law wife.
Speaker:And I grew up in that small town,
Speaker:left for a long time and
Speaker:came back and now live in
Speaker:the small town again.
Speaker:So that's, I think,
Speaker:who I am versus what I do.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I think it's important
Speaker:because we're humans.
Speaker:We're not like people that
Speaker:have professions, right?
Speaker:It's like, oh.
Speaker:And speaking that as an
Speaker:entrepreneur is really fun because
Speaker:know I I tell I love the and
Speaker:right the and I can do this
Speaker:and this at the same time
Speaker:I've been working through
Speaker:that my whole life and you
Speaker:know I think it's it's
Speaker:interesting because you get
Speaker:in the in the the room with
Speaker:entrepreneurs and the first
Speaker:thing they want to know is
Speaker:like what do you do what's
Speaker:your business and how much
Speaker:are you making right it's
Speaker:like all those things don't
Speaker:resonate with me it's like
Speaker:oh no who are you as a
Speaker:person which is is so much
Speaker:more defining of like how
Speaker:how you show up in the world
Speaker:and what you do, right?
Speaker:Like what you do for people.
Speaker:So I love that.
Speaker:Cause I, I've been, I've been in the,
Speaker:and I just, for me, it's funny.
Speaker:It's like the same thing.
Speaker:It's like you,
Speaker:you're artistic and you have
Speaker:all these things.
Speaker:And then also you're very
Speaker:business oriented entrepreneurs.
Speaker:Like for me, it's like, I tell people now,
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:I speak science and woo at the
Speaker:same time I can do both.
Speaker:And so there's not one or the other,
Speaker:which is beautiful in this
Speaker:world because I,
Speaker:we're moving towards this
Speaker:like non-dualistic kind of
Speaker:way like how everything is
Speaker:working in that way so I
Speaker:love how people's people
Speaker:have evolved and have
Speaker:become in that space and so
Speaker:that's pretty cool um
Speaker:yeah it's just like you so
Speaker:you've interviewed
Speaker:thousands of leaders like
Speaker:where did you come up with
Speaker:this stuff right like
Speaker:you're I I didn't read a
Speaker:book until I was twenty
Speaker:seven to being a
Speaker:best-selling author right
Speaker:and and being a an
Speaker:influencer and all these
Speaker:I've I've been speaking on
Speaker:stage mostly for
Speaker:pharmacists and wellness for a long time
Speaker:So I really do follow
Speaker:speakers and I follow the
Speaker:process of speaking.
Speaker:But when I'm hearing things
Speaker:like Mo Mondays, TEDx, you know,
Speaker:these big speaking gigs on TV,
Speaker:like where did where did
Speaker:that come from your voice?
Speaker:I mean, it's a really good question.
Speaker:And I think it's in some
Speaker:ways fascinating to explore
Speaker:because to your point, you know,
Speaker:I lived a certain amount of
Speaker:my life not in this path.
Speaker:And, you know,
Speaker:so much so that I battled
Speaker:hypochondria and
Speaker:generalized anxiety for
Speaker:about four years in my early twenties.
Speaker:And the irony of that, Josh,
Speaker:is I was at the same time a
Speaker:few years into a corporate
Speaker:career that I was having
Speaker:tons of success with.
Speaker:So it's also funny sometimes
Speaker:how one part of our life
Speaker:can be in shambles.
Speaker:And nobody knows that nobody
Speaker:was the people I was
Speaker:working with weren't
Speaker:dropping by the walk in
Speaker:center to see that I was
Speaker:there every second day
Speaker:because I thought I had something new.
Speaker:They were just seeing this
Speaker:guy super successful at work.
Speaker:And I mean,
Speaker:it's much the same as we can
Speaker:see a CEO that seems to
Speaker:have all the success in the world,
Speaker:but the kids don't know his middle name,
Speaker:that type of thing.
Speaker:So there's that side to it,
Speaker:meaning that probably
Speaker:explains why I wasn't into
Speaker:the personal development
Speaker:world and all that stuff earlier on,
Speaker:because if I would have been,
Speaker:maybe that would have
Speaker:helped me counter what was going on.
Speaker:But ultimately, I was in sales.
Speaker:So I was in the corporate world.
Speaker:I was in communication.
Speaker:I was starting down the path.
Speaker:where I ended up but I
Speaker:certainly you know I could
Speaker:have easily stayed in sales
Speaker:the rest of my career and
Speaker:never went down this path
Speaker:so I think this goes back
Speaker:to the point about my uh
Speaker:creative side so what what
Speaker:actually started changing
Speaker:things is I started record
Speaker:like I had played music uh
Speaker:wrote music since I was
Speaker:twelve and started playing
Speaker:at clubs when I was really young
Speaker:And then just stopped.
Speaker:Like, it was like,
Speaker:I was terrified of the stage.
Speaker:I didn't want to be, uh,
Speaker:playing in front of people.
Speaker:Like it was,
Speaker:it just stopped completely
Speaker:pulled in my tracks,
Speaker:went down the corporate path.
Speaker:And then I was living in
Speaker:this larger city than when
Speaker:I grew up in quite a bit larger,
Speaker:like grew up in a town with.
Speaker:At the time,
Speaker:three thousand people barely
Speaker:they barely called it a city,
Speaker:but it really wasn't.
Speaker:And I moved to a place with
Speaker:seven hundred thousand people.
Speaker:So it was like overnight culture shock.
Speaker:And now I'm going around
Speaker:selling photocopiers door to door,
Speaker:driving in my car to walk
Speaker:into people that don't even
Speaker:want to see me.
Speaker:And it was just a big culture shock,
Speaker:which probably why,
Speaker:even though it's having success,
Speaker:why I was having the
Speaker:anxiety and everything else
Speaker:is because I was pushing so
Speaker:much on myself at once.
Speaker:But what happened is I met
Speaker:this dude that was at my
Speaker:office who wanted to, he had a studio,
Speaker:like a home type studio.
Speaker:And he wanted to start
Speaker:recording music and
Speaker:figuring out how to do that.
Speaker:And I was like, oh,
Speaker:I'd like to start recording.
Speaker:finishing writing songs,
Speaker:writing the rest of my songs,
Speaker:playing some music,
Speaker:all that kind of stuff.
Speaker:And so I started over again
Speaker:and I recorded a couple of CDs with him.
Speaker:I went out and started
Speaker:playing music locally.
Speaker:And that I think is kind of,
Speaker:it sounds strange,
Speaker:but what sort of started me
Speaker:down this path that I'm in now.
Speaker:So then what happened is I did the music,
Speaker:again, terrified being on stage.
Speaker:And then I moved across the country again,
Speaker:back closer to where I grew up.
Speaker:And I wrote the stage play
Speaker:that I put in a local fringe festival.
Speaker:And halfway through the play,
Speaker:one of the actors,
Speaker:the lead actor actually, sprained his,
Speaker:more than sprained,
Speaker:broke his ankle basically.
Speaker:And he kept doing the play
Speaker:for the rest of the four-day run.
Speaker:It was a seven-day total run.
Speaker:And I had to write new lines
Speaker:because now he needed more
Speaker:time for costume changes.
Speaker:So what happened was I
Speaker:realized I was the only person,
Speaker:other than the actors that
Speaker:were already busy, that knew the lines.
Speaker:So I had to write myself
Speaker:into the play that I didn't
Speaker:want to be in.
Speaker:Like I was supposed to be
Speaker:the writer and director.
Speaker:And I didn't want to be on the stage.
Speaker:Never wanted to be on the stage ever.
Speaker:I wanted to be a
Speaker:screenwriter or a stage play writer,
Speaker:songwriter.
Speaker:But what happened was I
Speaker:wrote the play so that I,
Speaker:this sounds crazy,
Speaker:but I could have my back to
Speaker:the audience wearing a big wig.
Speaker:And I had like,
Speaker:I think a Triple H wrestling t-shirt on.
Speaker:Like I just didn't want to be seen at all.
Speaker:And the funny part is the
Speaker:actors were the only ones
Speaker:that could see my face
Speaker:because I was facing them.
Speaker:So he was a busker.
Speaker:playing music.
Speaker:And I was like a person that
Speaker:was like going up saying Claymore,
Speaker:Bob Seger and throwing pennies at him.
Speaker:Like that was my character, one of them.
Speaker:And so I was sitting there
Speaker:covered in sweat and they could see me.
Speaker:So it was like the actors,
Speaker:it was like for them,
Speaker:it was throwing them off
Speaker:because I was covered in sweat,
Speaker:but nobody could even see my face.
Speaker:Like, why was I covered in sweat?
Speaker:Nobody could even see me.
Speaker:They could barely hear me.
Speaker:But at the end of the run,
Speaker:I said to one of the actors,
Speaker:do you know how I get over this?
Speaker:Because this could happen again.
Speaker:And he goes, dude,
Speaker:I don't know if this is
Speaker:what you're looking for.
Speaker:But he said,
Speaker:I signed up for the local
Speaker:local stand up comedy
Speaker:workshop at the university.
Speaker:Did you want to come with me for that?
Speaker:It's like two weeks.
Speaker:And I said, oh, my God,
Speaker:that sounds horrible.
Speaker:But I said, you know,
Speaker:I could maybe learn about
Speaker:writing and stuff while I'm there.
Speaker:So sure, I'll give it a go.
Speaker:Went to the two-week workshop.
Speaker:And then after the two weeks,
Speaker:the guy running it said, hey,
Speaker:we should do a local show
Speaker:and then study the comics
Speaker:and talk about what they
Speaker:did right and wrong.
Speaker:And so we were like, sounds great.
Speaker:So we promoted it, filled the club.
Speaker:About five minutes to show time, we said,
Speaker:where are these comics at?
Speaker:And he looked at us and said,
Speaker:you're looking at them.
Speaker:Oh, I didn't tell you.
Speaker:You guys are the comics tonight.
Speaker:So we found out with five
Speaker:minutes notice we were
Speaker:going to be performing stand-up comedy.
Speaker:There were fifteen of us.
Speaker:Eight walked out the front door.
Speaker:I've never seen any of them
Speaker:again in my life.
Speaker:I was one of the seven
Speaker:foolish that stayed.
Speaker:I told this story that, which is true,
Speaker:I went inside the bathroom sweating going,
Speaker:where's the exit window?
Speaker:Can I crawl out the window?
Speaker:Because it was like the main floor level.
Speaker:There was no window.
Speaker:It was like barred shut.
Speaker:I'm like oh my god I'm stuck
Speaker:here so I was like maybe I
Speaker:can walk at the front door
Speaker:and I went and I leaned on
Speaker:the stage like just like I
Speaker:I sorry leaned at the bar
Speaker:and I was almost like like
Speaker:almost about to pass out
Speaker:god I didn't know what I
Speaker:was gonna do and then I had
Speaker:this vision of uh me
Speaker:sitting at the bar with an
Speaker:older guy both of us next
Speaker:to each other and some
Speaker:young person performing
Speaker:stand up on stage and me
Speaker:going I was gonna do that
Speaker:one day would it not have
Speaker:been cool if I had that in
Speaker:my life vision like if I
Speaker:could say that that was
Speaker:part of my life my legacy
Speaker:And that was what did it.
Speaker:I said, I don't I think I'm terrified,
Speaker:but I think not doing it,
Speaker:the regret of that is going
Speaker:to be worse than going and doing it.
Speaker:So the comics all started
Speaker:debating who's going up first.
Speaker:And it's like ten minutes
Speaker:after showtime now and nobody's going up.
Speaker:So I walked up and grabbed
Speaker:the mic because I had been
Speaker:to one Toastmasters meeting
Speaker:and I learned if you're going to do it,
Speaker:face it head on, go first.
Speaker:But I didn't have any material.
Speaker:I didn't know what it was.
Speaker:I just jumped up,
Speaker:started telling what I
Speaker:thought was funny to dead
Speaker:silence and no laughs, silence,
Speaker:which is worse than heckling.
Speaker:Told a second joke, this time, again,
Speaker:dead silence.
Speaker:But I jokingly say now I
Speaker:think I saw a tumbleweed
Speaker:going by the back.
Speaker:That's how bad it was.
Speaker:Until the guy called me over
Speaker:the corner stage,
Speaker:gave me a schmuck in the head and said,
Speaker:you idiot.
Speaker:What are you doing out there?
Speaker:We haven't even turned the
Speaker:mic on yet to start the show.
Speaker:so I was out there like
Speaker:telling my jokes nobody
Speaker:could even hear them we
Speaker:turned the mic back on I
Speaker:told the jokes and guess
Speaker:what josh they bombed again
Speaker:so I think I'm the only
Speaker:comic to bomb twice with
Speaker:the same material in ten
Speaker:minutes having said all of
Speaker:that story that's what
Speaker:started it all because then
Speaker:somebody brought me to tony
Speaker:robbins events and can you
Speaker:believe he's getting paid
Speaker:to do this I said oh my god
Speaker:people get paid
Speaker:They don't have to go in
Speaker:front of hecklers and pay
Speaker:for their own gas to get
Speaker:there and what have you.
Speaker:And I said,
Speaker:I want to know more about that.
Speaker:And that we can go deeper in that.
Speaker:But that's what started the
Speaker:journey of me getting into
Speaker:the speaking world.
Speaker:And then the rest is history.
Speaker:But we can talk about the
Speaker:history if we need to.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:No, it's I love the synchronicities,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Like.
Speaker:you got it's,
Speaker:this is how I feel like a lot
Speaker:of people's callings happen, right?
Speaker:When they just literally are like,
Speaker:they have no time to think
Speaker:and they're just shoved into it.
Speaker:Like the universe just says, here you go.
Speaker:You're, you're on stage.
Speaker:You're,
Speaker:You got no time to think
Speaker:about it and you just have to do it.
Speaker:Cause I think we,
Speaker:obviously you talk about this,
Speaker:but like we, we,
Speaker:we get in our heads and all
Speaker:of a sudden it's like this whole thing.
Speaker:And then I love what you
Speaker:said is like not doing it
Speaker:would be worse than trying
Speaker:and getting through it.
Speaker:Because I think a lot of what happens,
Speaker:what happens whether we call
Speaker:it transformation growth
Speaker:healing uh well and like
Speaker:moving lifestyle changes it
Speaker:doesn't matter when we're
Speaker:changing or we're doing
Speaker:something that doesn't feel
Speaker:comfy inside right
Speaker:like we just get pushed into
Speaker:it and we get it done.
Speaker:And then it wasn't,
Speaker:it's never as bad as we
Speaker:think it would be.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's like, Oh, I bombed,
Speaker:but I'm still here.
Speaker:I'm still like alive.
Speaker:I'm breathing.
Speaker:It didn't really, I even bombed twice,
Speaker:but guess what?
Speaker:You're you move through it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We always put all that
Speaker:emphasis on the moment.
Speaker:So I love that.
Speaker:Like you kind of got nudged
Speaker:into it without even knowing.
Speaker:And that's,
Speaker:that's just how I love having
Speaker:these conversations with people because,
Speaker:it's the, the,
Speaker:the formula is generally the same.
Speaker:It's like some random event
Speaker:happened in their life that
Speaker:sparked the thing that got
Speaker:them to bestselling books and TEDx talks.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Which is awesome.
Speaker:It's like, so cool.
Speaker:Then you go like, Oh, and then, you know,
Speaker:and then Tony Robbins comes and then I,
Speaker:Oh, I could do this.
Speaker:And then all of a sudden it's this and dah,
Speaker:dah, dah, dah.
Speaker:So thank you for, for the backstory.
Speaker:It's really cool.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:So you talk a lot about
Speaker:building the life of your dreams,
Speaker:transforming.
Speaker:Where are we right now?
Speaker:A lot of people,
Speaker:we're in this
Speaker:transformative space in life
Speaker:and careers and jobs and
Speaker:the world is all changing.
Speaker:going nuts.
Speaker:And so people are moving in
Speaker:these directions of trying
Speaker:to figure themselves out.
Speaker:And you've interviewed
Speaker:thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs,
Speaker:which I love talking.
Speaker:And, you know, what, what's,
Speaker:what's kind of the vibe for
Speaker:like this day and age,
Speaker:this kind of message,
Speaker:because I want to talk about blue talks.
Speaker:And I want to talk about the
Speaker:things you're doing in your
Speaker:book and everything.
Speaker:But like,
Speaker:I just kind of want to give your
Speaker:sense of like,
Speaker:where things are right now and, and,
Speaker:and how it's looking
Speaker:because there's a lot of
Speaker:people that are just like,
Speaker:they're over anxious and
Speaker:they're just really in this space of like,
Speaker:what in the heck is going on here?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, there's honestly, Josh,
Speaker:there's so much to impact
Speaker:there because of the fact that
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:I hate saying because I don't want
Speaker:to be doom and gloom, but I mean,
Speaker:we're more divided than
Speaker:we've ever been before.
Speaker:I put a post up recently on
Speaker:social media and I thought
Speaker:about putting another one up today.
Speaker:I don't know if I will,
Speaker:but I put one up recently
Speaker:on Facebook and basically I just said,
Speaker:regardless of your political beliefs,
Speaker:your beliefs, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker:I just want you to know that I love you.
Speaker:And the reason I put this out because,
Speaker:and I'm bringing this up for a reason,
Speaker:so many people right now
Speaker:say it's terrifying out there.
Speaker:It's the worst it's ever been.
Speaker:I always find that comment
Speaker:fascinating because I love
Speaker:this quote that says, in times like these,
Speaker:it's always important to
Speaker:remember there's always
Speaker:been times like these.
Speaker:know so like you say it's
Speaker:the worst it's ever been
Speaker:I'm pretty sure the civil
Speaker:war was pretty bad you know
Speaker:like I'm pretty sure there
Speaker:were times that were as bad
Speaker:um and people you know say
Speaker:this is the worst I've been
Speaker:it's the worst it's ever
Speaker:been in our lifetime is
Speaker:what they're really saying
Speaker:but having said that um you
Speaker:know we see I see so much
Speaker:political divide on social
Speaker:media and I'm not by the
Speaker:way I'm not getting
Speaker:political when I say this
Speaker:I'm just sharing my
Speaker:thoughts around what you
Speaker:asked is that there's so
Speaker:much political divide in
Speaker:terms of I hate this
Speaker:person because they have
Speaker:this belief and what have
Speaker:you but what I find wild
Speaker:right now is people are
Speaker:saying I'm overwhelmed
Speaker:there's so much tension and
Speaker:negative energy and then
Speaker:I'll watch the same people
Speaker:say that post on here
Speaker:saying this and again I'm
Speaker:using political party could
Speaker:be anything but these
Speaker:people with these beliefs
Speaker:are evil and then they
Speaker:start all they're evil why
Speaker:they're evil and stuff well
Speaker:you just said that you're
Speaker:over stress but now you're
Speaker:actually engaging not just
Speaker:not just getting hit by it
Speaker:you're engaging and
Speaker:creating more of what you
Speaker:say is stressing you out
Speaker:That's what fascinates me.
Speaker:Or people that have a
Speaker:certain belief and say, respect my belief,
Speaker:but then say, that's terrible.
Speaker:How could you think that way?
Speaker:And don't see that, you know,
Speaker:it could be four members of
Speaker:your family that you were
Speaker:raised with and you now
Speaker:have a different belief
Speaker:than them or vice versa.
Speaker:And you've always loved them and still do.
Speaker:But yet you're saying that
Speaker:people that believe the
Speaker:same thing that they are are all evil.
Speaker:a hundred percent all evil
Speaker:but what you know from
Speaker:firsthand experience
Speaker:they're not because you
Speaker:know regular people like
Speaker:you have the same beliefs
Speaker:they do and so what I'm
Speaker:getting at is I that that's
Speaker:to call a spade a spade or
Speaker:pick the elephant in the
Speaker:room but what I think
Speaker:the takeaway I want people
Speaker:to have from that is you
Speaker:need to disengage from that.
Speaker:So in other words,
Speaker:one of the things I talk about in,
Speaker:I told you about the book
Speaker:that we put out.
Speaker:One of the things I talk
Speaker:about is it's a fictional book,
Speaker:but it's loosely based on
Speaker:my life is when my mother
Speaker:had a cervical cancer,
Speaker:which she had for a number of years.
Speaker:And she, um,
Speaker:Went to the doctor and the
Speaker:first appointment she had with him,
Speaker:he wrote on a prescription pad,
Speaker:like an actual prescription note.
Speaker:The prescription he wrote
Speaker:was don't watch and read
Speaker:the news anymore.
Speaker:And so what that started is
Speaker:my mother went on a news detox.
Speaker:I joined her on it.
Speaker:I've been on a news detox ever since.
Speaker:That's probably now, Josh, or almost.
Speaker:And what I'm getting at is
Speaker:people always ask me,
Speaker:how are you so positive in
Speaker:such a tough time or when
Speaker:so much is going on in the world?
Speaker:It's because I've taken the steps
Speaker:to deflect from that,
Speaker:to give myself the Teflon,
Speaker:to build up what I need to
Speaker:be able to deal with that
Speaker:stuff without it bringing me down.
Speaker:And so a real example,
Speaker:real tangible example is I do what I call,
Speaker:I mean,
Speaker:I just put a little name on it for
Speaker:fun to be hokey,
Speaker:but I put a name on it called posits,
Speaker:but I put positive deposits in daily.
Speaker:So daily I'm interviewing,
Speaker:having great conversations like this,
Speaker:interviewing people to
Speaker:learn their way of thinking,
Speaker:reading powerful books, what have you.
Speaker:I deposit daily so that now
Speaker:if you look at it,
Speaker:if I had a bank account
Speaker:that you could physically see it,
Speaker:I've made all these deposits.
Speaker:And so now when somebody
Speaker:wants to pull me into a
Speaker:negative conversation or I
Speaker:happen to see the news for
Speaker:whatever reason,
Speaker:because I'm still on social
Speaker:media or whatever that looks like,
Speaker:now it's only one
Speaker:withdrawal and I have all these deposits.
Speaker:So I have so much built up in the bank
Speaker:that one withdrawal isn't
Speaker:gonna make a difference.
Speaker:And so what I'm getting at is I hear,
Speaker:and this is not to take
Speaker:away from the fact that
Speaker:there's a lot going on.
Speaker:A lot of people are being
Speaker:dehumanized and all these
Speaker:other things are happening.
Speaker:I'm not trying to pretend we
Speaker:turned a blind eye or it's not happening.
Speaker:But what I'm saying is at the same time,
Speaker:It's like who you hang
Speaker:around with is a lot of
Speaker:ways who you become.
Speaker:So in other words,
Speaker:if you continue to engage in that,
Speaker:that's what you're going to get more of.
Speaker:And so for me,
Speaker:my feeling was that I want
Speaker:to be the change.
Speaker:I want to be the person
Speaker:that's not engaging in that.
Speaker:And part of that is I need
Speaker:to daily put more positive
Speaker:in than negative.
Speaker:and so the takeaway from
Speaker:that is I went into news
Speaker:detox and I literally
Speaker:started thinking about how
Speaker:much negative is in my life
Speaker:daily and how much positive
Speaker:and this came from the fact
Speaker:that my anxiety started
Speaker:coming back after it
Speaker:eventually I eventually
Speaker:gotten rid of it in a lot
Speaker:of ways and it just I could
Speaker:start to feel a little bit
Speaker:of a coming back so I did
Speaker:this list of who I was
Speaker:spending my time with
Speaker:because I had always heard
Speaker:that you have five years
Speaker:time will be a reflection
Speaker:of the books you meet and
Speaker:the people sorry the books
Speaker:you read and the people that you meet
Speaker:And I knew I had the books
Speaker:covered at that point.
Speaker:I was putting the right stuff in.
Speaker:But I thought maybe it's the people.
Speaker:And I did this little overview.
Speaker:And I realized that, like,
Speaker:sixteen of the people that
Speaker:I've seen regularly were negative.
Speaker:Gossipers, negative, what have you.
Speaker:Only,
Speaker:I think it was two or three were
Speaker:positive.
Speaker:So I had to make changes.
Speaker:And so those changes continue today.
Speaker:But that's how I stay
Speaker:positive is I make sure I'm
Speaker:putting more positive in
Speaker:the tank than negative.
Speaker:And not to – you'll maybe
Speaker:like this because of what
Speaker:you talk about often.
Speaker:But not to –
Speaker:deviate a little bit but
Speaker:that anxiety and
Speaker:hypochondria I mentioned
Speaker:people often ask me like
Speaker:how did you get rid of it
Speaker:and pretty much I don't
Speaker:want to say cure I don't
Speaker:like the word cure but I
Speaker:I'll just say it hasn't
Speaker:come back other than that
Speaker:one time I could feel it
Speaker:and I made changes and you
Speaker:know what the only thing I
Speaker:did that was different is
Speaker:it went back to that night
Speaker:at stand-up comedy so this
Speaker:is a full circle moment is that um
Speaker:When I did the standup,
Speaker:I went back to work the next day.
Speaker:I bombed horribly on the stage,
Speaker:but I went back to work the
Speaker:next day and people said, oh my gosh,
Speaker:you seem different.
Speaker:Like you seem to have a glow about you.
Speaker:Did you meet a girl last
Speaker:night or something?
Speaker:And I said, no, I did stand up comedy.
Speaker:They're like, well,
Speaker:you need to do more of that.
Speaker:And I went back every week.
Speaker:I ended up doing a seven
Speaker:hundred shows over nine years.
Speaker:And but going back and but
Speaker:it was the taste of it was
Speaker:like I ultimately found out
Speaker:speaking was more of the
Speaker:passion and comedy.
Speaker:But here's the thing.
Speaker:Just that little bit of
Speaker:passion coming into my life
Speaker:because I had no purpose at that point.
Speaker:No passion.
Speaker:It changed everything.
Speaker:Like within weeks,
Speaker:I forgot I had had hypochondria.
Speaker:I forgot I had anxiety.
Speaker:and so what I call it now
Speaker:josh is vitamin p so I say
Speaker:I took vitamin p which is
Speaker:passion or purpose and I
Speaker:say it's the only vitamin
Speaker:you can't buy in the store
Speaker:but it's maybe the most
Speaker:important one you'll ever
Speaker:take and so I take vitamin
Speaker:p that's how I deal with it
Speaker:so when you say what does
Speaker:it look like out there in
Speaker:the world part of it is
Speaker:figuring out what your
Speaker:purpose is and living on
Speaker:purpose because when you're
Speaker:grossing your purpose you
Speaker:have a much harder time
Speaker:being pulled down by the
Speaker:negative stuff happening
Speaker:and then secondly taking an
Speaker:active effort to put in positive
Speaker:more than you get negative in.
Speaker:And then the last piece I
Speaker:would say is to be willing
Speaker:to do a news detox or some
Speaker:way to actively say,
Speaker:I'm going to have less of
Speaker:this in my life.
Speaker:So that would be the overall.
Speaker:No, I...
Speaker:a lot of it resonates with me.
Speaker:I was, I'm glad you got into that.
Speaker:I haven't watched the news
Speaker:for since COVID probably.
Speaker:Like I just don't watch the news.
Speaker:Like it's just one of those things.
Speaker:And it's not that news isn't happening.
Speaker:And of course we can,
Speaker:I don't get political much, but like,
Speaker:I think it's really important to,
Speaker:to detox from the negativity.
Speaker:Let's call it that.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And moving because you are,
Speaker:you're correct.
Speaker:Like it's the same thing that I've done.
Speaker:It was like,
Speaker:you choose to engage in that
Speaker:belief or philosophy.
Speaker:It's okay.
Speaker:And I love to say that, you know,
Speaker:one of the things I'm here
Speaker:on the planet for is like you said,
Speaker:I love your posts.
Speaker:Like it's okay.
Speaker:I love you.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Like part of my philosophy,
Speaker:one of my biggest things in
Speaker:my world is can I
Speaker:unconditionally love everybody?
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:that's one of the things I want to do
Speaker:in my world before I leave.
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:but I'm still conditional because I'm
Speaker:a human, right?
Speaker:Like, I'm not Buddha yet, right?
Speaker:But I love the deposits
Speaker:because it's it's funny
Speaker:because there's science in that, too.
Speaker:It's like we know that if
Speaker:we're filling our love
Speaker:bucket and we're filling up
Speaker:our positivity.
Speaker:And to me,
Speaker:all that means is am I acting in
Speaker:and moving towards what's resonant to me?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:If I'm moving towards what's
Speaker:what's enlightening to me,
Speaker:what lifts me up, like you said,
Speaker:vitamin P. I love that.
Speaker:I may use that is because
Speaker:I'm a purpose mission driven person.
Speaker:And so if I'm doing this
Speaker:podcast and that lights me
Speaker:up because I love having
Speaker:these conversations with
Speaker:awesome people doing good in the world.
Speaker:And I can talk wellness and
Speaker:I can talk healing and I
Speaker:can help people move beyond
Speaker:prescriptions and move into
Speaker:the realm of what's possible.
Speaker:Like that all lights me up.
Speaker:So I'm filling my bucket with that stuff.
Speaker:And then, yes, shielding yourself.
Speaker:from not just negative people,
Speaker:because I also believe that too,
Speaker:the books you read,
Speaker:and the people you hang out
Speaker:with are who you become.
Speaker:Because it's that's what happened.
Speaker:And so I think we've spoken
Speaker:a lot about that is like,
Speaker:how do we detox from the things that are
Speaker:depleting us and how do we
Speaker:improve upon the activities
Speaker:that are improving and
Speaker:vibing us up and so that
Speaker:balance just becomes
Speaker:natural like you said yes I
Speaker:don't use the word cure but
Speaker:what I would probably put
Speaker:in there for your anxiety
Speaker:would be uh-oh we all right
Speaker:we're back somehow the
Speaker:universe just like exploded there
Speaker:We dropped and your computer
Speaker:screen went nuts.
Speaker:Who cares?
Speaker:Like, it's just good.
Speaker:We're having a good conversation.
Speaker:Where were we?
Speaker:For me, like,
Speaker:Passion, resonance,
Speaker:spending time with people
Speaker:that are lifting you up.
Speaker:I just call them my tribes,
Speaker:like my dad tribe, my spiritual,
Speaker:I call them my soul pod, right?
Speaker:The people that are just like,
Speaker:they're there to win it with me.
Speaker:All that matters.
Speaker:And I think people lose
Speaker:sight of that because they
Speaker:get stuck on the scroll of
Speaker:death and they're listening
Speaker:and engaging to all that stuff.
Speaker:I call it depleting now
Speaker:because I think all
Speaker:feelings need to be felt
Speaker:because we're humans.
Speaker:We can't let them sit.
Speaker:We can't let them engage
Speaker:inside of us and hold on to them.
Speaker:So I'm glad that you brought
Speaker:all that stuff up and how
Speaker:and why it's something that
Speaker:you've been doing.
Speaker:So thank you for that.
Speaker:Let's...
Speaker:And you did talk about your
Speaker:book a little bit,
Speaker:but tell people a little
Speaker:bit about what the book's called.
Speaker:What's the name of the book again?
Speaker:Well, for those that can see this,
Speaker:I can show it's called The
Speaker:Enlightened Passenger.
Speaker:And, you know, in a quick,
Speaker:quick nutshell on it, it's a person,
Speaker:like I say, it's a fictional parable,
Speaker:but it's a personal
Speaker:development fictional parable.
Speaker:So comparison wise,
Speaker:and it's only if people
Speaker:have heard of these books,
Speaker:there's not a lot of
Speaker:well-known fictional parables,
Speaker:but examples would be The Alchemist.
Speaker:yeah one of my favorite
Speaker:all-time like parable books
Speaker:for sure another one is the
Speaker:celestine prophecy it was
Speaker:really in the mid-nineties
Speaker:um anything pretty much by
Speaker:augmentino so like the
Speaker:greatest salesman in the
Speaker:world as an example uh
Speaker:richest man in babylon's
Speaker:another one a lot of people have heard of
Speaker:And so those are examples of parables.
Speaker:And my other books that I've done,
Speaker:none of them have been, well,
Speaker:I'll correct that.
Speaker:One was a parable, but it wasn't really,
Speaker:I'll correct that again too.
Speaker:It wasn't necessarily a
Speaker:parable in the traditional sense,
Speaker:but it was,
Speaker:it goes back to what I talked
Speaker:about earlier.
Speaker:It was a book about, actually, it's funny.
Speaker:I never have it,
Speaker:but I'm going to show you
Speaker:guys because I happen to have it nearby.
Speaker:And it's also similarly very, very small.
Speaker:This was,
Speaker:I wrote this book a number of years ago.
Speaker:I never sold a copy of my life.
Speaker:So it was never meant to be sold.
Speaker:But basically,
Speaker:it's about what I talked about earlier.
Speaker:How do you get a standing
Speaker:ovation from every customer, physical,
Speaker:I mean, figurative or literal?
Speaker:And it's a book about stand-up comedy.
Speaker:A guy at a big box store
Speaker:like a Staples goes to a
Speaker:stand-up comedy club and
Speaker:sees this comic at a
Speaker:standing ovation and says,
Speaker:I wonder if what he did in
Speaker:that stage could be applied to business.
Speaker:And so then he brings the
Speaker:comic in for lunch and they
Speaker:go over the four things the
Speaker:comic realizes he does.
Speaker:And the guy wants to get a
Speaker:promotion at the store.
Speaker:But then he ultimately
Speaker:learns that he really wants
Speaker:to learn about how to treat
Speaker:customers well versus just the promotion.
Speaker:So I wrote that book, but it was very...
Speaker:intentional the book the
Speaker:idea was what if I could
Speaker:get this message in front
Speaker:of CEOs who could bring me
Speaker:in to share their message
Speaker:with their team so I
Speaker:actually sent the book away
Speaker:to give it away for free so
Speaker:I did write a parable once
Speaker:before this is the first
Speaker:parable I've ever brought
Speaker:to a publisher ever sold
Speaker:copies of and the idea
Speaker:behind it was I I won't say it um
Speaker:don't want to reveal or ruin
Speaker:anything so I'll just say
Speaker:uh it was built around a
Speaker:certain question that I've
Speaker:been asking and the idea
Speaker:and so I came up with the
Speaker:idea and the interesting
Speaker:part is I knew the ending
Speaker:first then I knew the
Speaker:beginning next and then I
Speaker:knew the middle and so uh
Speaker:and I just kept sitting
Speaker:with it and toying with I'm
Speaker:gonna write this soon and
Speaker:never did much with it and
Speaker:then we went on a two-week
Speaker:vacation with the family
Speaker:and my wife said you know
Speaker:you don't swim with us
Speaker:you're not a swimmer uh
Speaker:we're gonna go to the beach
Speaker:a few days why don't you
Speaker:write the book either on the
Speaker:beach or in the cabin you
Speaker:know I know you've been
Speaker:talking with that book and
Speaker:you never get you know you
Speaker:never do it because you're
Speaker:always too busy so I wrote
Speaker:half the book in two weeks
Speaker:and then then it took
Speaker:another year josh for me to
Speaker:finish because then I got
Speaker:busy and I would write four
Speaker:pages at a time and move
Speaker:away and come back and so I
Speaker:wrote the book but what's
Speaker:interesting is every time I
Speaker:did sit down to write it was effortless
Speaker:which I would love to
Speaker:pretend that's normal.
Speaker:Also, I do believe,
Speaker:I remember I was
Speaker:interviewing James Redfield
Speaker:who wrote Celestine years ago.
Speaker:And he said, you know,
Speaker:you got to write a bad book
Speaker:before it's a good book.
Speaker:You edit it into a good book.
Speaker:And that's been my
Speaker:experience for most of my books.
Speaker:That's not been for this.
Speaker:I literally did this book
Speaker:and then I wanted to have...
Speaker:feedback or a focus group.
Speaker:So I went out to people and said,
Speaker:who wants to read the book first?
Speaker:Give me feedback.
Speaker:And I was looking for like,
Speaker:what are some things I'm missing?
Speaker:What needs to be changed?
Speaker:What's not resonating?
Speaker:Most of the people said,
Speaker:you need a lot of work on
Speaker:the grammar and spelling
Speaker:because it was not proofed
Speaker:at all when I sent it out.
Speaker:But almost everybody said
Speaker:that this book needs to be
Speaker:in stores tomorrow.
Speaker:so I was like whoa this is
Speaker:the first draft that's not
Speaker:normal normally it should
Speaker:be like horrible crap so
Speaker:the reason I say that is
Speaker:not a compliment to me is
Speaker:to say I feel like the book
Speaker:was channeled it was like a
Speaker:gift to me it was like
Speaker:somebody needs to write
Speaker:this book here you go
Speaker:here's the concept and so I
Speaker:put the book out and the
Speaker:premise um with it is I
Speaker:said it's like personal
Speaker:development almost like the
Speaker:alchemist or what have you
Speaker:just like those books it
Speaker:has lessons so the
Speaker:alchemist and celestine
Speaker:prophecy has nine um
Speaker:insights so this book has ten lessons
Speaker:But what I think makes it
Speaker:somewhat unique is it's
Speaker:based on those thousands of
Speaker:interviews that I've done.
Speaker:These are the ten things I
Speaker:always say that I would
Speaker:teach my kids if you locked
Speaker:me in a room with them for
Speaker:twenty four hours and said
Speaker:you could only teach them
Speaker:ten things for the rest of your life.
Speaker:These are the ten things I
Speaker:would teach them.
Speaker:So stuff came out if I
Speaker:didn't feel it was in those ten.
Speaker:So it's ten life lessons.
Speaker:It's called the flight that
Speaker:changes everything,
Speaker:but it's ten life lessons
Speaker:that could potentially
Speaker:change a life or your life forever.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I'm definitely going to grab
Speaker:a copy because these are,
Speaker:people learn through story too.
Speaker:They learn through these ways, right?
Speaker:Knowing that we've learned
Speaker:through stories and I love
Speaker:how it's a parable and
Speaker:Alchemist is one of my
Speaker:favorite parable books.
Speaker:So amazing.
Speaker:How can people get ahold of that book?
Speaker:Is it on Amazon everywhere?
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:I mean, it's- Do you have a website or-
Speaker:Yeah, I'll give a website,
Speaker:but it is everywhere.
Speaker:It's at Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble,
Speaker:Amazon, as they always say,
Speaker:all the books.
Speaker:Wherever you get books these days,
Speaker:you can get it.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:I just want to make sure
Speaker:because sometimes people are like, no,
Speaker:you can't do it that way.
Speaker:Yeah, no, but it absolutely is.
Speaker:However,
Speaker:the easiest way to get it is
Speaker:online for many of those retailers.
Speaker:And then,
Speaker:but to answer your question more directly,
Speaker:we do have a website.
Speaker:It's thisisthebook.com.
Speaker:So thisisthebook.com.
Speaker:What's unique about it is
Speaker:when you go there, you can actually,
Speaker:it'll direct you to the
Speaker:places where you can buy it.
Speaker:So in other words,
Speaker:instead of you trying to pick which one,
Speaker:you can go there and have the links.
Speaker:You don't even have to search it.
Speaker:You just go to that website.
Speaker:I love that website.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:and having said that right now and it
Speaker:could change tomorrow,
Speaker:I don't want to make promises,
Speaker:but by the time you hear it,
Speaker:it may or may not change.
Speaker:But right now, if you go do it,
Speaker:you buy the book, you go to that place,
Speaker:let's say Amazon,
Speaker:get your order number and
Speaker:you come back to the website,
Speaker:put in the order number and
Speaker:you get a bunch of free
Speaker:bonuses immediately.
Speaker:So, you know,
Speaker:usually that's only available
Speaker:when people do the book launch.
Speaker:We just haven't taken it down yet.
Speaker:But it's like it's powerful
Speaker:stuff like exclusive
Speaker:interviews with Lisa
Speaker:Nichols and Les Brown that
Speaker:have never been aired before.
Speaker:Stuff like that.
Speaker:Like it's, you know, and then training.
Speaker:We have training on what I
Speaker:talked about earlier,
Speaker:how to build your business.
Speaker:what I call now your
Speaker:relationship inventory,
Speaker:like the list of who you
Speaker:spend your time with.
Speaker:I go through that in real
Speaker:time and how to do that and
Speaker:so on and so forth.
Speaker:So yeah,
Speaker:so there's a bunch of bonuses if
Speaker:you get- I love that.
Speaker:And that's the goal for me
Speaker:in this podcast is when
Speaker:people are resonant to what you're saying,
Speaker:like in the episodes and
Speaker:where they're hearing this is like,
Speaker:what can they do?
Speaker:Like, what's the thing to do?
Speaker:Because we don't want to
Speaker:just sit and thought,
Speaker:I'm going to do into action, right?
Speaker:There's one thing about
Speaker:saying you're going to,
Speaker:you know, get rid of your energy,
Speaker:get rid of your depleting
Speaker:energetic relationships.
Speaker:And it's another one to actually do it.
Speaker:And then,
Speaker:and then experience what life is
Speaker:like after that, right?
Speaker:That's what we're really looking for,
Speaker:where the experience of
Speaker:moving through this thing,
Speaker:like just in transformation,
Speaker:I say it all the time,
Speaker:the only way forward is through.
Speaker:It isn't about sitting here
Speaker:and talking and listening
Speaker:to the podcast and then
Speaker:going on your day.
Speaker:It's like, oh, there's real things to do.
Speaker:This is the book.com.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Get some vitamin P. I know
Speaker:we're winding down because
Speaker:we both have some hard
Speaker:stops today and we'll
Speaker:probably get on another one for sure.
Speaker:I love what's going on,
Speaker:but I want to talk about
Speaker:Blue Talks because this is
Speaker:something that I think is really cool.
Speaker:And when you described it to me,
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:the first thing I did was like,
Speaker:I leaned in.
Speaker:I was like, ooh, this is cool.
Speaker:So talk to people a little
Speaker:bit about Blue Talks.
Speaker:Yeah, so Blue Talks,
Speaker:as far as first and foremost, the name,
Speaker:it's BLU and it stands for
Speaker:Business Life Universe.
Speaker:And so that's, again, all intentional.
Speaker:The backstory and the
Speaker:current story is that
Speaker:people were asking me saying,
Speaker:I wish there was like a
Speaker:spiritual TEDx stage.
Speaker:And also people were saying,
Speaker:I wish there was like a
Speaker:stage where it was focused
Speaker:more on the experts so that
Speaker:they could deliver their
Speaker:message to the viewers and
Speaker:the listeners and what have you.
Speaker:And so enough people asked
Speaker:that eventually I did a survey,
Speaker:proof of concept basically.
Speaker:I went in and said,
Speaker:who would be interested if we did this?
Speaker:And it was a big response.
Speaker:So ultimately decided to launch this thing,
Speaker:which I said to you is like,
Speaker:I kind of say it's like if Chicken Soup,
Speaker:TED Talks and Mindvalley
Speaker:all got married somehow and had a baby,
Speaker:Blue Talks would be the
Speaker:baby because it's a mixture between them.
Speaker:And basically it's a mixture
Speaker:between the business.
Speaker:So what we would have say on
Speaker:our live stages would be
Speaker:people speaking on business,
Speaker:people sharing life stories,
Speaker:people talking to things
Speaker:like spirituality or
Speaker:synchronicity or Reiki or
Speaker:anything like that.
Speaker:And it's a mesh between them all.
Speaker:It's like a mashup between business,
Speaker:almost like what I said earlier, right?
Speaker:My creative and business world,
Speaker:this is like a mashup
Speaker:between business and spirituality.
Speaker:And what it looks like in real,
Speaker:and now I'm telling you how
Speaker:it started and what it's about,
Speaker:but what it looks like in
Speaker:the real world is,
Speaker:We run live events almost every month.
Speaker:So we have eleven more coming up this year,
Speaker:for instance.
Speaker:And we run a live event
Speaker:where speakers show up just
Speaker:like a TEDx if you picture
Speaker:TEDx and they share their message.
Speaker:Twenty minute talk.
Speaker:They share their message
Speaker:with the audience there in person.
Speaker:But the biggest audience is
Speaker:always the video later
Speaker:because we're on so many networks now.
Speaker:We just got on to Binge Network.
Speaker:Like we're literally it's it
Speaker:hasn't gone live.
Speaker:It's like going live today or tomorrow.
Speaker:We're on Connect TV at Hollywood.
Speaker:We're on the Apple Roku TVs,
Speaker:all those type of things.
Speaker:And so that's the video.
Speaker:And then we also put out a book regularly.
Speaker:That's like an anthology
Speaker:book or a compilation book
Speaker:with multiple authors.
Speaker:We usually have a big name feature author.
Speaker:Like we've had the late Bob Proctor,
Speaker:Ken Honda, Dr. Joe Vitale, Marie Diamond,
Speaker:and so on as the featured authors.
Speaker:And then we have a podcast
Speaker:and a virtual stage.
Speaker:So that's like the four
Speaker:platforms where we kind of
Speaker:bring Blue Talks to the world through.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:I can't wait to dive in
Speaker:because I think it's, I love,
Speaker:the entrepreneurial side of health,
Speaker:wellness, healing.
Speaker:And it's got this whole, like, I, I,
Speaker:it's perfect for me.
Speaker:I like,
Speaker:I can't wait to dive in on more of this.
Speaker:I'll probably get a lot of,
Speaker:hopefully get some, some,
Speaker:some guests from that on my
Speaker:show because it's, it's,
Speaker:it's right in line.
Speaker:I was like,
Speaker:I speak woo in science and I
Speaker:love being an entrepreneur.
Speaker:So it was like,
Speaker:I'm already automatically
Speaker:connected into that space.
Speaker:So I'm sure we'll talk
Speaker:offline and I want to figure out,
Speaker:where are these stages?
Speaker:Where do people go?
Speaker:Like, I want to, I want to participate.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:but I think that's a lot of like our
Speaker:listeners are there in that
Speaker:spiritual or finding, you know,
Speaker:the way I look at
Speaker:spirituality is like when
Speaker:you start looking at things
Speaker:that are bigger than you, right.
Speaker:That's the life is bigger than you.
Speaker:Like everything is like the greater good.
Speaker:And all of a sudden it's like,
Speaker:I tell people I'm not very religious,
Speaker:but I'm highly spiritual now.
Speaker:And that's because I've gone
Speaker:through my own stages of,
Speaker:healing and transformation.
Speaker:And I love the science and I
Speaker:love the business.
Speaker:So I think there's a lot of
Speaker:people that I'm connecting
Speaker:with right now that I think
Speaker:could definitely love that
Speaker:and move forward.
Speaker:So we know how to find it.
Speaker:I can't wait to dive into your book.
Speaker:What else?
Speaker:As we're wrapping up here in
Speaker:the next few minutes,
Speaker:when people are working through
Speaker:you know, building this new life,
Speaker:building the life of your dreams,
Speaker:and you say why it may not be,
Speaker:it may be easier than you think.
Speaker:I want to kind of drop some
Speaker:breadcrumbs for people today,
Speaker:because I think
Speaker:I think we want to move
Speaker:people in the right
Speaker:direction move them and but
Speaker:change is difficult and so
Speaker:what are some like one or
Speaker:two things people can be
Speaker:doing as it relates to
Speaker:living their best
Speaker:purposeful authentic self
Speaker:Yeah, happy to share that.
Speaker:And one thing I don't know if we did,
Speaker:so I'll make sure I add
Speaker:this because somebody may wonder after.
Speaker:One of the other things I'll
Speaker:share is if people want to,
Speaker:like if somebody's
Speaker:listening and they're like, you know what,
Speaker:I think I could be a good
Speaker:fit to speak on that Blue Talks.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Like how do people get a
Speaker:hold of you and how do people move that?
Speaker:I would definitely want to
Speaker:get through that, too.
Speaker:yeah so I mean it's pretty
Speaker:easy I think the easiest
Speaker:path is because it's it's
Speaker:one of those things you
Speaker:know as we've seen here
Speaker:it's hard to summarize
Speaker:something so big in a short
Speaker:amount of time so I always
Speaker:say if it's if it works for
Speaker:the person jumping a call
Speaker:with us and the easiest way
Speaker:to do that is speak on blue
Speaker:and it's blu speakonblue.com
Speaker:I mean, the other option, Josh,
Speaker:is people can always reach out to me.
Speaker:I'm very accessible.
Speaker:So that could be either on
Speaker:social media or my email
Speaker:address actually is Corey
Speaker:at BlueTalks.com.
Speaker:C-O-R-E-Y at BlueTalks.com.
Speaker:But yeah,
Speaker:if you want to jump on with our team,
Speaker:speakonblue.com.
Speaker:We'll take you right there.
Speaker:And in terms of the other
Speaker:side of what would I recommend people do?
Speaker:There's so many things,
Speaker:but the one that popped into my head,
Speaker:I always go by what pops
Speaker:into my head when you ask the question.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:That's all I want.
Speaker:and so I would say actually
Speaker:I can give two very quick
Speaker:ones like in a matter of a
Speaker:minute or so uh one is
Speaker:write your own personal
Speaker:mission statement it can be
Speaker:terrible at first but all
Speaker:the companies that you look
Speaker:at that are thriving
Speaker:typically know they have a
Speaker:mission statement if their
Speaker:employees don't know it
Speaker:verbally they know they
Speaker:know what it means so for
Speaker:example disney's mission
Speaker:statement is to make
Speaker:everybody especially children happy
Speaker:And so their employees might
Speaker:not know that is the actual
Speaker:mission statement.
Speaker:But what they know is if you
Speaker:drop your ice cream cone,
Speaker:they're allowed to get you a new one,
Speaker:which makes you happy.
Speaker:So they know the action to take.
Speaker:So first of all, have a mission statement.
Speaker:And mine is to be the guy that motivates,
Speaker:donates, educates,
Speaker:entertains and inspires.
Speaker:Now you can, I mean, it could be,
Speaker:I wanna be the best dad in the world,
Speaker:like start basic.
Speaker:But what that allows you to do is,
Speaker:and this goes to the second
Speaker:thing I would tell people,
Speaker:is you need to start saying no more.
Speaker:And so the mission statement
Speaker:allows you to do that.
Speaker:So if somebody asks me to
Speaker:take something on,
Speaker:I can look at those five
Speaker:things I just told you and say,
Speaker:does it cover those off?
Speaker:If it's zero, Josh,
Speaker:it's the easiest no I'll
Speaker:ever say without regret in my life.
Speaker:If it's four of the five,
Speaker:it's probably an easy yes
Speaker:I'll say without regret.
Speaker:And so having a mission
Speaker:statement allows you to
Speaker:decide what a yes and no is.
Speaker:And the secondary part is
Speaker:when it comes to a yes and a no,
Speaker:a soft way to do it,
Speaker:like when somebody says, hey,
Speaker:can you help me do this?
Speaker:I would say you need to
Speaker:start practicing the muscle
Speaker:because most of us inherently say yes.
Speaker:So the easy way to do it
Speaker:could be if somebody emails
Speaker:you and sends you a, you know,
Speaker:emails you and says, hey,
Speaker:I want you to do this.
Speaker:And it's, you're not interested in it.
Speaker:It's not a good fit.
Speaker:Usually you might ignore it.
Speaker:I would say, just say no.
Speaker:Like take the time to say,
Speaker:I'm thank you for reaching out,
Speaker:but it's just not a good fit for me.
Speaker:Then you're working and
Speaker:flexing your no muscle.
Speaker:And then the last piece is
Speaker:if you don't want to burn bridges though.
Speaker:So for the people that you know that ask,
Speaker:An easy way not to burn a bridge.
Speaker:I learned this from Shailene Johnson,
Speaker:who was the turbo jam
Speaker:creator from P-Ninety X.
Speaker:But basically say, look, you know,
Speaker:I have to talk with my family.
Speaker:It depends what they ask is
Speaker:I have to talk to my family
Speaker:or my employees or what have you.
Speaker:Is it OK if I get back to
Speaker:you tomorrow with an answer?
Speaker:If I can't help you,
Speaker:I'll find somebody who can.
Speaker:Does that work?
Speaker:Who's going to get mad at you?
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Those are beautiful lessons, right?
Speaker:It's like, you'd never burn your bridge,
Speaker:but how do you not burn the bridge?
Speaker:It's exactly that.
Speaker:I say it all the time.
Speaker:I would love to help you.
Speaker:And if I can't,
Speaker:I will find someone that can.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's hugely powerful.
Speaker:And so I tied the two of them together.
Speaker:Like you need to understand
Speaker:that most people that are
Speaker:impacting a lot of lives
Speaker:have to say no to more
Speaker:things than they say yes to.
Speaker:And everything you say yes
Speaker:to is actually a no to something else.
Speaker:So be careful of your yeses and your no's.
Speaker:But knowing that it's
Speaker:important to start doing it
Speaker:before you need to, if you can.
Speaker:So start doing it with those little no's,
Speaker:as I said,
Speaker:and then write that mission statement.
Speaker:So it helps you figure out
Speaker:what is the yes and the no.
Speaker:That would be what I would
Speaker:sum up in a couple of minutes.
Speaker:No, that's beautiful.
Speaker:I really appreciate the
Speaker:clarity and just the simplicity of that,
Speaker:because the mission
Speaker:statement is really your why,
Speaker:it's where you're going,
Speaker:and it's a big filter, right?
Speaker:The filter is,
Speaker:you can easily say yes or no to it,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:Like, is that a yes or a no to that?
Speaker:So it's almost like you're
Speaker:making that the problem, not like, oh,
Speaker:I don't want to
Speaker:don't want to make like I
Speaker:don't want to like lose
Speaker:somebody I don't want to
Speaker:have somebody you know all
Speaker:that stuff because yes we
Speaker:all say yes especially in
Speaker:the the giving healing
Speaker:world it's hard to say no
Speaker:and so I think that's a
Speaker:really nice place but then
Speaker:you can say no with love
Speaker:you can say no if I can't
Speaker:help you I'll find someone
Speaker:that will would that be
Speaker:okay with you those are the
Speaker:okayness I love the the why
Speaker:wouldn't I questions right
Speaker:those are beautiful
Speaker:This was an amazing episode.
Speaker:I think we could talk for
Speaker:another one to two hours,
Speaker:probably just on the things
Speaker:we're talking about today,
Speaker:because there's so much in
Speaker:here and I'm really
Speaker:appreciative of just you
Speaker:being on the stage with me today,
Speaker:exploring these new opportunities.
Speaker:Go check out his book.
Speaker:This is the book.com speak on blue.com.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I'm going to be already on there.
Speaker:So just,
Speaker:Be careful.
Speaker:I'll be right there.
Speaker:I'm excited for you.
Speaker:I think these are such great
Speaker:avenues for people to explore.
Speaker:It's in such alignment with
Speaker:who I am and what we're
Speaker:doing on Beyond the Pills.
Speaker:So, Corey,
Speaker:thank you for coming on the stage today.
Speaker:Thank you so much, Josh.
Speaker:It's been an absolute pleasure.
Speaker:I appreciate you.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:That's a wrap, guys.
Speaker:Until next time, stay well.
