The Soul of Innovation podcast

When I was in High School, I lost a basketball game for my school's team because I missed the game-winning shot. I wanted to die. I failed myself, my team, and the fans and I did it in front of everyone in the community. After the game, I found a secluded spot in the gym and cried my heart out. I was devasted at my failure. At the moment that I could no longer stand, an arm came around me and...

You walk around with thoughts of someone you love, someone you miss or someone you don't like. The thought is like a knife that stabs you whenever you are thinking about something else. You can not escape it. You remember it at the most inappropriate times. It consumes you. These are the wounds that you need to heal. These are the thoughts that are making you sick and holding you back from liv...

Do you buy stuff when you need to make yourself happy? Do you have a closet full of clothes from previous purchases that made you happy at the moment but just hang in the closet now? Do you still think that you are one bag or one car or pair of shoes away from total happiness? Stuff is a distraction from spending time with you. Stuff just makes that one single moment feel better but it does not ma...

How do you know if you are ready for when life gets difficult? You don't unless you practice training your mind and body for when times get difficult. You don't want to be a "victim" of life. You must be your own hero in your own superhero movie. In this episode, I share with you what I do to strengthen my mind, body, and soul during tough times. This is all about a mindset. A mi...

Influencers on the internet would have you pay them for a course or a .pdf that explains to you how to have an incredible life moment just like them. They would make you think that there is a trick. This is a lie. The trick or way to have a life moment is to shut out everyone from your thoughts and mind. Be alone with yourself and your issues. Then block out your issues. This next moment, which is...

Right now is when life happens, not tomorrow, and not when you think so much about yesterday, but right now. How much time do you spend in the now? 100%? How much time do you spend thinking about yesterday and tomorrow, probably 100%. Then you are not living but reacting to other people's Now state. You must be in the Now, feeling, breathing, loving, crying, and enjoying every moment with all...

Believing in yourself is your superpower. When you have self-doubt, you are holding yourself and your future back from emerging. Self-doubt is so destructive. Self-confidence is easy to say but hard to get there. The way to get there is to take a simple thought and think about yourself doing that thought well. Think about it a lot, repeat it in your mind, and replay it over and over until you have...

Why is it weird to smile to a stranger today? When I was growing up I was told that I must do this all the time. As an adult, its weird. Yet, isn't this the number one complaint you here from people. Why doesn't anyone smile at me? This young boy smield at me a the beach the other day and he reset my thought process on caring about what people think or say when I smile. I am going to smile...

To make big changes in your life you must set such ridiculously high goals that it actually scares you.  This is what it takes to break through the mental model and inhibitor that is holding you back from being all that you can be. You must break through the mental handcuffs that have stopped you from being more than you are.  Now, is the time.  I am going for it so you will not be...

When did it stop being cool to be the person who likes to be in shape?  When did it become weird to be the person who has dreams and goals?  When did it become strange to be exhausted from putting in the work?  I don't know but it definitely is no longer the thing to be and it really should. Don't listen to anyone define who you are.  Don't look at people and wonder what they t...

Why do you look around and care what people think about you?  Why do you hesitate before doing something and wonder who is watching?  Why do other people matter so much to you?   This is your insecurity coming out and torturing you when you should only be focused on y. Your life is your life to live anyway and anyhow you want.  You can do whatever you want and be whomever you w...

Your confidence is everything to your future success.  Period.  Want to achieve a goal, be confident.  Want to have tons of money, be confident.  Want to be happy, be extremely confident?  Your confidence creates your reality and your future.  I don't know how to say it any simpler and more direct.  If you are timid and passive, then life meaningful moments will...

Why did you decide to do what you just did?  Why did you buy that thing you cannot afford?  Why are you thinking the thoughts that you are having but are not supposed to be thinking?  You are so self-disruptive.  It is human nature to destroy our lives when things are going along so well.  The challenge is to not be like everyone else and be uniquely yourself and make the...

When you walk down the street, do you repeat a thought over and over?  Are you even aware that you are doing this?   Do you know that if that thought is of something negative, something painful, we see it on your face?  What thought defines you and why do you let it define you?  You think you are hiding who you are to the outer world yet we can see who you are on the inside by...

Are there times in your life when you cannot accomplish anything?  Do you feel that something is holding you back? Something is preventing you from being who you are supposed to be.  That is supposed to happen! In life you will have moments where you cannot get out of bed, you cannot run as fast as you want, and you will not be allowed to do what you could have done yesterday.  This...

There is no way you will ever know what someone else has gone through in their life.  The clothes we wear do not tell you the full story.  The way we talk does not tell you the full story.  Only by talking to people about what they have been through and how they have dealt with it do you find out who is the person you are talking to. Life hurdles have produced many unfulfilled dream...

How do you make decisions?  Do you make them based on the stress of the moment?  Do you regret having to make them?  Do you worry about the outcome of those decisions?  You have not found your inner self who is always there to help find your clarity of thought. Within you is a person who is never nervous and is connected to everything and everyone.  A person who sees what...

So many people say they are team players but they only think about themselves.  They think about how they can enjoy all the money they will make but not others.  How much attention they will gather to the detriment of others?  It is "me" to everything but not "we" to anything. Being a team player means we all win so you the individual does not.  So, let me ask you, are you a te...

Every day someone is watching you.  Someone is looking at you and saying to themselves, I want to be like you.  You might not think so but when you walk down the street, go into a store, or buy a newspaper, people are watching you and they are modifying their lives to emulate you. Now that you know this.  How will you walk down the street tomorrow?  You are a role model. ...

Life is sometimes overwhelming.  Things happen, emotions run high, events take you out of your comfort zone and you are left with a feeling of exhaustion, physically and mentally.  For physical recovery, that is just rest.  For mental recovery, what do you do? We don't think enough about our mental health.  What we mentally need to be the amazing person that we are.  Your...

Time travel is not that difficult.  All you have to do is do something that you are so proud of that you just want to smile and skip down the street for the rest of the day.  You want to hug everyone you meet.  You want to share with them your joy and pride in how you feel. Do you want to feel this way too?  Then be open to criticism.  Be open to growing from the advice of...

A woman smiled at me from across a restaurant.  It mesmerized me.  It stopped me in my tracks.  Why?  Because she was not afraid to show her love for the moment.  Her love for life itself.  When was the last time you smiled and made someone's day?  When was the last time you smiled without thinking of anyone else but you and the person you are smiling at too? Mak...

Being amongst some of the most powerful people in the world taught me that having a calm soul is key to being complete.  Having inner peace with who I am and what I am is critical to finding inner peace.   Inner peace is where we are supposed to be all day, every day.  It is the vibration that we want the world to see and feel when they meet you. Let go of your concerns, let go of y...

Who sets the rules for what you can do and what you can say?  Who told you that you are to be serious during the day and get drunk at night?  Who is this person who is dictating your life? Do you remember when you were a child and there were no rules or limitations on how much fun you could have?  Your imagination and curiosity took a boring tree stick and turned it into King Arhtur...

With all the things happening simultaneously in our lives, with all the calls, meetings, kids, spouses, friends, appointments, etc., happening all the time, it is impossible to be able to make the best decisions all the time, but there is a way.  Sometimes it is best to do nothing. When you slow down your life, when you eliminate all the noise and chaos, you will see clearly what and where yo...