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From Struggle to Owning the Climb - Stephen Scoggins #6284 · Financial Survival Network

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  Speaker 1: And so many times, if we're leading by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: or apathy, you're gonna get yourself in trouble and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have what I refer to as a break in alignment.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have a break in alignment, you really
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  Speaker 1: can't thrive and really be all you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: unless you're taking the time to really understand and know
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  Speaker 1: yourself from the inside out. So I think building the
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  Speaker 1: business starts with building yourself, and it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: lessons that I had to learn the hard way.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
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  Speaker 4: I'm your host.
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  Speaker 3: Carrie lutz Well got an interesting guest for you to day.
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  Speaker 3: Believe it or not, he started his career out living
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  Speaker 3: in his car and from there has gone to nine figures,
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  Speaker 3: which is no mean task. Even if you didn't start
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  Speaker 3: out in your car, even if you started out in
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  Speaker 3: a studio apartment in Manhattan, making it to nine figures,
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  Speaker 3: that's a worthy accomplishment. Steven Scoggin's, hey, you're writing, you're
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  Speaker 3: doing all sorts of stuff here. There's one lesson you've
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  Speaker 3: taken away from the bad years, the years that build character.
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  Speaker 4: What would that be? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I think that again it's going to come down to
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  Speaker 1: and first of all, thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the introduction to your audience. The first thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but he always comes to mind, is not
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  Speaker 1: building a business without building yourself. Because you're up scaling dysfunction,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to go back and do stuff all
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  Speaker 1: over again. Your processes, systems have your DNA written all
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  Speaker 1: over top of it. And so many times we're leading
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  Speaker 1: by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance.
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  Speaker 4: Or apathy.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get yourself in trouble and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have what I refer to as a break in alignment.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have a break in alignment, you really
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  Speaker 1: can't thrive and really be all you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: unless you're taking the time to really understand and know
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  Speaker 1: yourself from the inside out. So I think building the
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  Speaker 1: business starts with building yourself, and it was one of
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  Speaker 1: the lessons that I had to learn the hard way unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, So, you know, building yourself when you have
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  Speaker 3: a setback in life, I find and we all have them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even at your lofty perch right now. You
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  Speaker 3: get setbacks in life, whether it's personal, professional, It just happens.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they're important because they're learning opportunities, and
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  Speaker 3: more importantly, there are opportunities to really build your self esteem.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of people never get back up from
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  Speaker 3: those those falls.
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  Speaker 4: Steven, how do you get back up? How do you
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  Speaker 4: keep going?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's probably a bazillion dollar question.
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  Speaker 1: I can figure out to solve that. For the world
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  Speaker 1: book been doing really well. I can tell you what
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  Speaker 1: works for me. I actually this is going to sound
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  Speaker 1: a little bit silly, but I start with a mantra.
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  Speaker 1: And I learned this as I was breaking free from
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  Speaker 1: the homeless atmosphere and finally was couch surfing on my
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  Speaker 1: dad's couch, which took about six months. I began realizing
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  Speaker 1: that everything that I was believing about myself had either
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  Speaker 1: been projected onto me or the experiences I have were
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  Speaker 1: bleeding into me. Okay, so if we know that as
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  Speaker 1: the being the catalyst of the breakdown, Like I give
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  Speaker 1: you an example, my father used to say all the time,
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  Speaker 1: he's like Skaggins, don't get ahead, they get by.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's because he had a business that had failed, so
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  Speaker 1: he thought he was saving me the pain and energy
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  Speaker 1: of starting a business, not knowing who I was going
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  Speaker 1: to be and what kind of drive I had. So
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  Speaker 1: what happens is is you begin getting programmed from the
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  Speaker 1: outside in, and the only way to combat that is
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  Speaker 1: to begin programming, show or reprogram yourself on the inside out.
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  Speaker 1: And here's how I do it. I have a mantra
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  Speaker 1: that I literally say almost every morning. I've done this
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  Speaker 1: for a long long time. It's just a handful of words.
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  Speaker 1: I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am wise, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a steward of the most high. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: most important one. This is gonna sound silly. I love you, Steven.
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  Speaker 1: Those different segments right there do something to the psyche
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  Speaker 1: when you repeat them over and over and over again
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  Speaker 1: that allow you to begin looking towards opportunity. And away
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  Speaker 1: from apathy and complacency. So many times we get stuck
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  Speaker 1: in apathy and complacency because we're judging all of our
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  Speaker 1: future aspects based on our past performance or past experiences,
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  Speaker 1: not realizing that you can actually move the needle if
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  Speaker 1: you focus more on what you want to become rather
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  Speaker 1: than what you are.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I'll tell you exactly what those those five
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  Speaker 3: mantras are.
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  Speaker 4: Those are what we would call.
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  Speaker 3: Activation codes, okay, because they shift your focus, your consciousness,
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  Speaker 3: your perception from what was to what will be. And
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  Speaker 3: we also call that bending the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, It does absolutely change your residence, your
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  Speaker 1: quantum energy as you relate to the quantum. For sure,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot access to quantity if you're in Shane guilt
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  Speaker 1: and condemnation. You just can't get there, right, So you
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  Speaker 1: have to start from the inside out. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the things that I love about what
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  Speaker 1: you guys do and how we kind of relate here,
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  Speaker 1: is if we can get people to open up their awareness,
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  Speaker 1: we can open up their opportunities more than anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you're never defeated, You're never a failure unless you
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  Speaker 3: believe you are. That's right, and otherwise, every failure is
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity. And the guy from the Dilbert to Scott
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  Speaker 3: Adams that he wrote a book failing his way to success.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we do.
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  Speaker 3: And yet in the in the US and your parents
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  Speaker 3: do this to you, the school system does it. Failure
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  Speaker 3: is always perceived as a negation. It is something to
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  Speaker 3: be avoided. When you avoid failure, you avoid success. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Capitalism without failure is like Catholicism without exorcism.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, that's the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's really interesting. The other thing about too,
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  Speaker 1: is if you avoid failure or avoid the I would
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  Speaker 1: u I I don't even use the word failure. I'm
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  Speaker 1: either learning a lesson that I can learn from I
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  Speaker 1: And I began doing that because I just began looking
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  Speaker 1: at the result. Okay, the result wasn't what I wanted?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: What created the result?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was a certain thought, a certain emotion, and
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  Speaker 1: a certain action. And if I could reverse engineer the thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: the motions and the actions, I was able to then
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  Speaker 1: open up kind of the learning lesson from it. And
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  Speaker 1: then it took away the meaning was that Victor Franklins
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  Speaker 1: that a man search for meaning, right, Yeah, suffering ceases
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  Speaker 1: to have meaning, right, ceases to have meaning when it
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  Speaker 1: has a meaning.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So you take all these different things and you change
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  Speaker 1: the way that that corresponds to it. You mentioned something
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  Speaker 1: a second ago that I thought was really powerful when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, you know, success and failure, this failure component.
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  Speaker 1: I also believe that if you avoid learning the lessons,
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  Speaker 1: you get to take the test again and again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again. So therefore you're actually calling in more
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances, more the failure that you really want to avoid,
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  Speaker 1: simply because you won't lead into the discomfort for a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, it's so true. And everything in life is temporary.
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  Speaker 3: One minute you're on top of the world, the next
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  Speaker 3: minute you're on the bottom of the barrel. You're back
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  Speaker 3: on the top. My mother always used to say, the
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  Speaker 3: buck is round, right.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, That's very true. You know, as you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of looking at this, this whole thing, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: most folks want more outside this much So I work
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of entrepreneurs and a lot of C
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  Speaker 1: suite professionals in the executive room, and they all have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with setbacks and whatnot to come back from that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's so interesting you go want to open the
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  Speaker 1: show with that because I feel like one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I'm really good at is helping them unpack
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  Speaker 1: the lessons to learn and then reframing them to repackage
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  Speaker 1: them to be more stepping stones. I've discovered that it
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  Speaker 1: is elite professionals, entrepreneurs, people who are really getting effort
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  Speaker 1: in business in the world in general. They all have
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  Speaker 1: one major thing in common, and that is they none
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  Speaker 1: of them think they're far enough ahead. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if they made one hundred million dollars, one thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars. Everybody feels like they need to
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  Speaker 1: be further, further, further, further, further, rather than aligning themselves
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  Speaker 1: with who they are in their authenticity. If love vibrates
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  Speaker 1: at one of the highest frequency, authenticity, I believe is
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  Speaker 1: the only frequency that vibrates higher. So you think love
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  Speaker 1: and you take authenticity. You bowled them together, and the
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, now you actually have a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a recipe to rewire the entire environment in yourself
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  Speaker 1: and around you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what authenticity is. Steven another word
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 1: I always concurer a congruence, but I'm here.
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  Speaker 4: What's yours. It's called truth? Yes, truth.
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  Speaker 3: Presence combined with truth is authenticity, yes right, Yes, you
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  Speaker 3: all know authentic people. We all know them. And they're unapologetic.
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  Speaker 3: They don't make excuses, right yep. And they move ahead.
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  Speaker 3: They've learned their lessons and they keep going, they keep pushing.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll talk to you a little bit about this,
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  Speaker 3: the awakening that I foresee taking place in the country,
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  Speaker 3: in the world. It's going to happen. It's happening unabated.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing in this world can stop it. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: basically our torch bear bringing forward light to people who
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  Speaker 3: are in very dark places here. You know, I just
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  Speaker 3: believe that, I've always believed it. I know you do too,
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  Speaker 3: that all of your limitations are self imposed by your
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  Speaker 3: belief structure.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's so interesting to bring that up because I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I had to do myself
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  Speaker 1: is change my entire belief medality. You know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things I used to share share from stage a
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  Speaker 1: lot was I my first mentor's name was Steve Mark
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  Speaker 1: Oh is an old homebuilder in the area of what
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  Speaker 1: dad's employer met when I was a young man, and
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  Speaker 1: one afternoon he pulled me down off my dad's crew
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  Speaker 1: working in the summers, and he asked me two very
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  Speaker 1: important questions. First one, he said, is what is the
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  Speaker 1: difference a rich man and a poor man? I responded
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  Speaker 1: with money. You should have seem to look on his face.
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  Speaker 1: It was hought me in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 1: He said, absolutely not, it's the way they think. But
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  Speaker 1: the next question was just as important, and this goes
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  Speaker 1: to the belief structure.
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  Speaker 4: He said, do you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to learn? Do you want to learn to think
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  Speaker 1: like me? Or do you want to continue thinking like
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  Speaker 1: your father. One of the things that I think is
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  Speaker 1: so powerful, that is so underrated, is the power of choice.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the a great awakening. There is an awakening
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  Speaker 1: that's happening as it's actually happening now. It's happening all
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  Speaker 1: around us. I'm seeing people that I refer to as
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  Speaker 1: light bearers or or people who are really guides not gurus.
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  Speaker 4: Eh man, this is it torch bearers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and exactly. But at the same time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so let's say, let's say the audience encounters a torch
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  Speaker 1: bear like yourself, right and encounter the torch bearer. You're
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  Speaker 1: sharing as much as you can, as often as you can,
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  Speaker 1: as pure as you can, as authentic as you can
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  Speaker 1: on a regular basis, Yet the ear right still has
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  Speaker 1: to hear it, right. Yeah, And see, this is what
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  Speaker 1: a torch bearer does, is they they put the words
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  Speaker 1: into the ethos that people need to hear. But it's
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  Speaker 1: up to the person listening to actually listen and awaken,
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  Speaker 1: at least from my perspective.
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, we got to kind of cut it
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  Speaker 4: short now.
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  Speaker 3: I could talk to you all day, but we will
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  Speaker 3: definitely have you back on the show. You got a book,
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  Speaker 3: some way to connect with you here on the web here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the easiest way to do it is
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  Speaker 1: right now is at Stevenskagas dot com. We actually have
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  Speaker 1: a brand new quiz we just launched called the Awakening
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  Speaker 1: Alignment Quiz. It's five five different questions, five takes by
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. But it you understand how integrated you are,
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  Speaker 1: regulated you are by and by folks who do that.
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  Speaker 1: They can find that at Stevenscoggin's dot com slash Alignment
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  Speaker 1: and other than that, may I appreciate the time with you,
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  Speaker 1: you and your audience. I can't wait to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with you more.
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  Speaker 3: I likewise man, definitely a questions comments for Steven myself
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  Speaker 3: klatcarrielts dot com link in the show notes this interview
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  Speaker 3: on Financial Survival Network dot com. Well we ask as
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you again real soon.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks all right, much love, take care, see you bye.
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