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Time To Shine Today podcast varsity squad. This is Scott Ferguson, and I’ve had to reschedule with my boy here a few times, basically on my behalf for things. And he’s just been so awesome with his patients. He’s fantastic individual. It’s funny, we were just off Mike talking and it’s like I’m looking in the mirror of myself literally 20 years ago. It’s my good friend, John Skomski He owns a financial planning practice where he specializes in the area of building sustainable distribution plants for high net worth retirees. He also has a fantastic passion project, which he is really leveling up, and it’s called Investing Inward, which we’re going to really dive into because there’s a lot of mindset stuff. But, you know, I’m a mindset conditioning coach and John is somebody that I mentally respect in this field. He has a podcast, which I can’t wait to rock the mic in. I had to reschedule on Felt Think Live Repeat, and it’s aimed at humanizing the process of success and helping early stage entrepreneurs level up their business and mindset. And I’m so blessed to have this guy on. John, please introduce yourself to Time to Shine today podcast varsity squad. But first, what’s your favorite color and why? Scott it’s awesome to be here. I’m going to go with green. And, you know, not because money and green, because I loved green long before I was interested in the fields that I am. I don’t know. It’s just it does something for me. You know, green is like rebirth, man. It’s like things can just always grow with the color green. Luckily, I’m here in South Florida, which I can’t wait to get you down here to rock some stages and speak. But everything’s green. Can we do it in either January, February or March? Please do it. Let’s do it. Awesome, brother. Seriously, man. Thank you so much for coming on John. And can we get to the roots? I mean, you’re a young man, but you’re also seasoned your light years ahead of most people that are your age. But can we get you to the roots of where this passion really started to develop? Yeah, man. I appreciate that because a lot of times, it’s easy to feel like you’re behind. You know, and and you look and see, oh, you know, this person’s here and this person here. And it’s a game of comparison, but it’s nice to take a moment and kind of realize where I was and where I am today. So I’ve been in the financial services industry close to a decade now, and I have my own financial planning practice. As you’ve mentioned, the Passion project that you referenced, investing inward was really just taking the concepts, the core concepts of investing and relating them to personal development. And the more I went down that rabbit hole, the more I realized the similarities are immense. And it’s just like, oh, but then there’s compounding. Oh, wait, there’s compounding in how we act and think and habits and direction and there’s time and there’s risk. Oh, there’s that. With how we approach our life and our business. So I was hit with really just kind of up the side of the head. And initially, what was transpiring all this was in 2020. I kind of had a personal crisis where in the period of about a month, I thought I was going to lose my wife. My business and my health and quite possibly my mind. And thankfully, I lost none of those things. But that set me on this journey of realizing I was in my own bear market, if you will. I had not invested in myself in terms of how to think intentionally and react to situations appropriately. And so that began, really, the journey that I’m still on now, but have made a lot of progress us along the way and then now have gotten to the point where I wanted to share what I’ve learned with others. Thus the podcast, think Live, Repeat speaking things. Thanks. Well, hey, we’re going to get you on there soon. So, yeah, this has been kind of just simmering for a while. What was it when it sounds like we’ll call it the quadzilla, there’s four things job, wife, family. What was the other one? Health. Yeah, we’ll call it the Azilla. I like it. So what was it, man, that pushed you through that? Because what I’m seeing and hearing, and correct me if I’m wrong, but this seems like. Lot of clarity came out of this crisis. Oh, yeah, right. So what was it, man, that really pulled you through? 2019 was a great year. Everything was working out. It was good to be me. Business was fine. I had just a little money at that point to start buying some toys. This, that, the other thing. Kids were held. Everything was great. Vacations. And then 2020 hit. Started with my wife having an anaphylactic reaction to what we believe was tainted fish and then hospitalized a couple of days later for mixed medication. Because of that going, I’m going to cut you off. Losing your wife means could have died. Yeah. Could have died. Not like she could have yeah. No, not like you or something. No, thank you for clarifying that. Yeah. Okay. Left me permanently, as in, like, died. So that was highly traumatic. A couple of kids, four and under at that point, I’m just like, this isn’t going to I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m going to do. A week later, I was hospitalized for what I thought was a heart attack. Turns out I was under an incredibly understandably amount of stress between that and the market, so I had a major, like, first ever out of nowhere panic attack. That I thought was just a heart attack. Aren’t they awesome? Yeah, they’re great. So we chatted off Mike about Seinfeld, and I have this moment etched in my mind the day after I was hospitalized. I’m sitting in the side room trying to watch episodes of Seinfeld. Just trying to calm down, but I can’t. My heart rate keeps going up. It’s like when you’re sick and you have the chills. Like, I’m just kind of, like, shaking. And I’m thinking, this sucks. Life is over. Am I losing my mind? And then, of course, what markets did through COVID and watching my business kind of just like AUM and all that just drop and clients freaking out. So it was a lot in a short amount of time. And it highlighted the cracks in my thinking, the fact that I had not invested in myself. I kind of just skated because life was easy. So it was kind of like a cliche turn, like a wake up call and really start investing in yourself and not just money. Bro I’m talking health mindset, all of that. What kind of exercises or protocol did you put in place to really take I mean, it’s only three years ago, bro. You’re pretty Russian. Yeah, well, thank you. So obviously started some therapy. Initially it was more working with a therapist and kind of transitioned to coaching. So a lot of it was aligning myself with people who refer along in the journey in helping me kind of isolate what mindsets it was. So for me, what I eventually learned was it wasn’t like I was absolutely it’s funny, I was asked about this the other day. It wasn’t like I was completely fine. And then one day wasn’t it was that all of the cracks, all of the deficits in my life and my mindsets were manageable. I was able to deal with them. So there OCD various things would come up and I would just deal with them. It’d be fine. And it got to the point where I just couldn’t. So for me, it was a lot of exposure. Therapy, the things that created the stress, basically, between me and my wife actually almost dying and me feeling like I was dying. I was convinced that we’re all just going to die. So at the drop of a hat, at a cold, and then COVID was there, so I was petrified of that. So I’m just constantly in a state of my own mortality, waiting to die. Like, not wanting to go anywhere, not wanting to get in the car, not trying to manage a business, but not see anybody. So for me, it was slow little steps, doing things that put me a little bit past my comfort zone and then acknowledging that I was okay and then kind of doing the next step and then not going down. That looking for triggers that I didn’t notice and then cutting them off early on before I spiraled into something that went dark emotionally and then ultimately had physical implications. Yeah, man, because I’ve been there in my early 30s, where I stood up from my desk, I laid down on the floor, I was dying. It was a panic attack. I hear you, man. You know what I’m saying? That’s right around the time. Because life gets real in your t years. Your sounds to me kind of correct me if I’m wrong, but you took kind of an inch by inch. It’s a cinch approach versus by the yard. It’s hard, right? You’re like, okay, dude, I’m going to do this, this and that. Clarity started coming out of the crisis. What I love about it, man, is you were taking Proactive. You got your asking here. Ask. You got it. And you asked for the right people to therapy, and I love that. Was your support system there? I mean, I know your wife is kind of going through this stuff, but she’s being as supportive as possible as well, right? Oh, she was huge. So she was honestly, as I reflected on this, I was kind of unfair. I was a little bit slow to the therapy and coaching, so it wasn’t all like the next day I signed up. There’s time in between here for the sake of the episode. But ultimately, she was who I ultimately and really to this day honestly relied on, but to the point of unreasonable and unfair to her in 2020. She was under such incredible stress. Less and emotional pressure for me because I think I’m losing my mind. I am not able to be a functioning human at various points, which then is it’s incumbent on her to then manage the House, raise the kids, and also support me and then wondering, is he going to be okay? Is he actually going down this very dark rabbit hole? So I credit her with ultimately, I think she’s the number one person who got me through this and was patient. But it also, in hindsight, wasn’t really fair of me to throw that on her all at once. It was heavy for her, for sure. That burden can get to you, man. And that’s just fantastic. And blessings for you, man. I was lucky. So investing inward, you’re really working with mindset and knowing that we’ve got to it. If we turn in, we actually start to realize what is there, because if we turn out, we’re getting opinions and whatnot. So tell me. This launch with investing inward. Yeah. So it really came with this idea of if I want to change my reactivity how I react to situations, I got to change my proactivity. I have to determine my input is determining my output. And if I don’t like how my output is showing up, then I got to change the input. And so I’m kind of an analytical person, probably to the point of a lot of times I wrap myself around the axle. I have a very hard time living emotionally. I feel like emotions aren’t trusted. You can’t trust emotions. So I have to get super analytical. Problem with that? As you go so deep, there are some aspects of life that are just emotional, that are just supernatural, that are just kind of like energy and vibes in that. So there’s no rhyme or reason or me. Exactly. No algorithm. No. Part of it was trial and error. But at the end of the day, I did realize if I want to live differently, I have to think in. And if I just think and let my feelings dictate how I think, I am not going to be happy with the output. I’m going to be disappointed every time. And so that’s where investing inward and the mantra thinking intentionally, living differently ultimately came out. It was born out of this struggle of, okay, how do I actually level up not just in business, but in my life? And it ultimately kind of grew into this idea of, okay, well, I’m certainly not here yet, but some of the best coaches in sports and mindsets and business, they didn’t arrive either. They’re like, just a little bit further along. Journey baby. Exactly. So I said, Well, I want to keynote. I want to talk. I want to spread this message to as many people as possible. But I had no proof of concept. I wasn’t on social media. I had no interest in of that. So I’m like, okay, well, that might be a little bit difficult to do. Be like, hey, I want to keynote your next event. Here’s my portfolio. Nothing. So I said, well, let’s just start. Podcast and start there and talk to incredible people, which I’ve done yourself and many, many other people. It is mind blowing in the last ten months, who I’ve talked to, people I have no business talking to, I’m talking to. It’s crazy, right? And now I’m sharing not only my story, I’m learning from these people, bro, real time. And then I’m delivering content that others can learn from as well and have been giving me feedback, saying they love it. So this has been like, the journey of it. And then hopefully, the next phase will then be starting to transition, actually on stage, but continuing the podcast. Because I love the media. Yeah, you have to. I’m speaking like, the next six weeks and I’m having I drop two to three episodes a week and interview people. I started mine December 19 of 19. Right. And it was a selfish to pick people’s brains like yourself or other people, and to level up my coaching and speaking game. This whole thing, which you mentioned COVID happened. I don’t know if anyone’s ever heard. But then it was just like people were needing that information, and it just blew up. So what I’m hearing a lot here is you started taking responsibility, okay, for everything in your life. So I want to know kind of what your definition of responsibility is. That’s a good question. Well, so part of it was realizing that nobody was going to change it it and nobody could change it. And I had people try to pick I mean, my wife, my parents, other acquaintances were like, just do these steps, do these steps. ABC, one, two, three, you’re golden. Sometimes I try them if I was open minded to it. Other times I was closed mind. I’d just be like, Forget it. But at the end of the day, I realized taking responsibility, taking ownership was, first of all, owning the problem, owning the situation, and realizing that I had to create the solution. Now it might be and it ended up being other people’s solutions. That I kind of worked into something that worked with me. I wasn’t, like, sitting there like some guru, like, coming up with original content all already out there. Yeah. I just had to assimilate it in a way that worked with how I thought. Right. And what I’ve seen is the times that if I’m lazy about it, if I’m just like, all right, here’s what so and so. Say I’ll just do that. Oh, it doesn’t work. Will it work for them? Well, because they’re not you and you’re not them. Right. And so I had to learn to take other people’s insights and then assimilate them to how I think and feel and act. And that was, like that personal responsibility moment. Like, I put myself here. I own it now I need to own the solution. I don’t have to be original. I just have to make application. Love it. And then also being aware of when try to give advice and help to people, knowing that I shouldn’t be like, one, two, three, just do what I did, and it’ll be fine, because no, it’s like, one, 2.33.4. It’s like everyone’s got their unique path. It’s just the same direction, just different pathways. That’s great. You say that because I’m a coach, not a consultant. You know what I’m saying? That’s like I believe that everybody knows what they want, but they don’t know how to talk themselves into it. And that’s why I help them. And that every problem or challenge they have that resides in them. The answer is there, too. The first step is responsibility. And this is my first coach, when I was 26 years old, said, listen, pergie the responsibility is nothing more than the ability to respond. It’s rooted right in the word. That’s good. After everything that you freaking said, bro, that’s exactly what we do. You weren’t reacting to it. You’re responding to it. And that’s beautiful, man. But let’s move a little bit into coaching. Are you coaching people now, or what’s your story? Right at this moment? Yeah. So at this moment, not outside of my practice. So I do kind of view myself as a wealth coach in the sense of the clients I work with through my financial practice. I’m certainly, like Vanguard, has done studies to show that the big. Part of the value that an advisor or planner brings to the table is not financial. It’s behavioral. In fact, as a certified financial planner, the certified secret sauce yeah, the certified financial planner board actually changed the exam to include a model of behavioral finance because the two are inseparable now. I did have an early stint of coaching right out of college. I kind of pursued my bachelor his degree in a nontraditional way through well, it was nontraditional at that time, online learning. And I had a coach who helped build out the degree and ultimately kind of walked alongside me and kind of morphed as a life coach a little bit. I was hired by that company and did that for a few years right out of college, coaching students through earning their online degrees. Then I pivoted into financial planning, where I am now. So at the moment, not in a traditional sense, but I do see that as an offshoot. People need it because you’ve walked a journey. It’s funny that 80% of my coaching clients that become speaking as well. Are gotten to me by financial advisors. I make it a point here in South Florida. I mean, I’m blessed to live in Palm Beach. Okay? Everybody kind of Tony Robbins, tom Brady. Whatever. They’re all down here. But the financial advisors here, they work with their money, but not their mindset. So I sit down with financial advisors and they say, Listen, man, I got a free hour power. I’d love to talk to anybody that’s that’s struggling, that maybe they’ll invest more money with you. And they’re like, Shit, dude, I got, like, three people for you. So that’s where I really started building it, was through financial advisors. And you’re such in a prime condition. So have you seen the movie Back to the Future? Yes. Let’s get in that DeLorean with Marty McFly. Man, I know you’re a young man, but let’s go back to the 18 year old John Scofsky. What kind of downshug gets would you drop on him? Not so much to change anything because you’re learning from crisis and clarity and everything is really awesome. But what might you drop on him to maybe help? Them shorten the learning curve maybe a little bit and blast through maybe a little quicker. It’s such a good question. So what I would probably say and I like that you said not change anything either, because you got to walk your journey. You got to go through it. What I would say is less of life happening to you and life happening for you, because at that early age, it was a lot of like, well, this is what happens, so it is what it is. It’s kind of like, this is what it is. So you just kind of like, whatever shows up, that’s what you take. And if it was good, great. And if it wasn’t, oh, that sucks. There was very little proactivity, both in thought, but even just in action, you’re just kind of like, okay, I’m out of high school now. I got to get a degree. Okay, now I get a job. Now you get married. It was just kind of like I didn’t really start thinking. I feel like intentionally or originally. Probably two or three years ago. And I feel like if I had kind of taken a little bit more ownership early on and looked for ways for life to happen for me, rather than just being on the receiving end of everything or looking for the abundance versus scarcity, it has taken me so long to start to have an abundance mindset. I was like, scarcity. Think part of it is just the way we were raised, and that has hung on for years. Still does to a certain extent. Always will, bro. Yeah. My father, I love him. Best friend in the world. My day one. Right. He worked on the line at General Motors. Right. And that’s what he is. And that’s fine. I love him. But it was like at the time, don’t laugh. Like the Jordan Jeans or whatever. Wasn’t able to get them, unfortunately, which put a chip on my shoulder, and I became a vulture. I’d pray on other people’s misfortunes. And then God, who I believe in, said, no, dude, I’m going to stop you in your tracks and not crash the market. Effed up, right? So how about your dash, man? Hopefully, it’s way, way down the line, but how do you want your dash? Remember that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date, your life date and your death date? How does Scomsky want his dash? Remember jeez, these are some deep questions, man. Time to shine today, baby. Yeah. Authenticity and empathy. I want to be known as someone who is real. I hate fake. I try not to be fake. Probably in some cases, I end up being too real, saying too much. But it is what it is. And empathy. I’d rather err on the side of giving somebody the benefit of the doubt sure. And relating to them, trying to put myself in their shoes and feel what they’re feeling than just turning a cold older. If people look back and say, he was authentic and he was empathetic, as you get older, it all becomes into the delivery, like right now. Now because these gray things and when I come in and I speak, I get a lot of, like I’m in the silverback time of my life. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? How you deliver things at your age versus how I can deliver them, but stand authentic and empathetic, like you said, it’s key. You’re killing it, dude. I’m so proud of you, man. This is actually awesome. So, Johnny, what do you think people misunderstand the most about you? It what do they misunderstand about me? Well, I think so, going with that empathy vein here. So I try to see both sides of an issue, whether it’s an argument, whether it’s a political thing, whether it’s a religious thing, whether it’s just business related. I really try to maintain a certain level of open mindedness thinking, okay? Like, human nature loves extremes. We will always go one way or the other. It’s just the way we’re wired. But the truth usually lies or the answer is somewhere in the middle or. Maybe it’s just different things to a different manifestation to different people. And so I think at times people look at that and just think there’s a wishywashy. Like, oh, John doesn’t commit to anything. John to an idea like, what do you believe in? And stand and I had a super conservative Christian upbringing and so I think that kind of open mindedness. Me too. Yeah, Baptist and of fundamental baptist, baby all the way is a little bit hard for them to understand. And maybe part of it was like a response to my upbringing, like, realizing that not everything is absolutely black and white and it’s either right or wrong. And obviously they’re right all the time. And so I think there is that perception of, like, oh, John, he’s just kind of wishy washy or whatever. And maybe in some cases it is, but in a lot of cases I’m, like, struggling in my mind thinking, how is this person feeling? What would I do? Is there a different way of looking at this is it situational? And I’m not talking about like, fundamentals and all that sort. Thing, but just kind of day to day life. So that might be one thing. I love it, man. Basically, you said human nature loves the extremes, right? But there’s a harmony. I don’t believe in balance. I believe in harmony. A lot of people will say balance, but balance is zero, bro. You know what I’m saying? And we hit that when we die. But in harmony, even, like, coaching clients, I like, in it to a jazz band or another metaphor that they might understand, like a football player or something like that, where you have different things like God, your spiritual, personal growth, family, community, work, money. And each one of those individually is like an instrument, right? So where your spiritual might be the guitar, the money might be the drums. The freaking living environment might be piano. But if any one of them is out of tune, you don’t have so much harmony. I’m not saying you have to be Beethoven or Eddie Van Halen, anything like that, right? But if anything’s out. So we really work with myself about getting them tuned in or, like, a football player might talk about linebackers and downline and whatnot. So I love I love that you’re really kind of rolling that way as well. And so, John, what what is your definition of a life well lived? A strong marriage. My wife and I are best friends, and we got married young, got married in her early 20s. What’s her name, by the way? Because natalie. Natalie. Natalie is awesome. So we got potential given age and health, hopefully maybe 60, 70 plus years of a life well lived. I want my kids to not just love me, but like me and ultimately want to hang out. And I’ve seen far too many times where kids kind of grow and they go their own ways and there’s just not that bond. So I really hope that I honestly don’t think you’re going to have an issue there, John. Life is early. Don’t want to kid myself into thinking I’ve won at this early stage. Just being known for someone who’s delivered value and helped people kind of just get over something. Ultimately, if I have a platform, and I’m not going to lie, I hope it’s a platform that somebody knows my name somewhere that I don’t die in die in obscurity, but that they can say, hey, no, I heard something John said and it just the next step. Honestly, most of my epiphanies have been mini and they’ve come as a result of a conversation like this or a conversation off mic or a podcast that I consumed. And it was like a puzzle piece. It’s just been steps. One puzzle piece next and then like five puzzle pieces later. You’re like, wow, this is a direction. You mentioned it early in this podcast. US, man. It’s called compounding. If I can be someone’s next puzzle piece, that’s beautiful for me. Yeah, that’s awesome. And squad we’re. Going to take my good friend John through our Leveling up lightning round just as soon as we get back from thanking our sponsors and affiliates. Time to shine. Today, podcast versus squad. We are back. And John, you and I are going to meet up. We’re going to rock stages. We’re going to have some fun. I’m going to be picking your brain for coaching clients that might be on the up like you are. And you’ve already reached out to me a couple of times. I’m happy to share what I have and we’ll meet up and we’ll probably talk 1520 minutes about a lot of these questions. But today, love it. You got 5 seconds with no explanations. No explanation. And they can all be answered. That might be my friend. You ready to rock? Let’s rock and roll. Let’s do it. Johnny, what is the best Leveling Up advice you’ve ever received? Mindset of it. Intentionally? Yes. Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success. US. Morning. Gratitude. Awesome. So if you see me kind of walking, maybe we’re at an event or maybe we’re just out somewhere. And Fergie, he looks like he’s in his doldrums. What? Book might you hand me? Going to go over the 5 seconds here. I’m going to say Simon sinnick. Start with y. That’s nice. Good call. There your most commonly used emoji. When you text, laugh out loud. Yeah. Laughing face. Laughing face. Nicknames. Growing up, Julius and Johnny. Love it. It give me a hidden talent or a superpower that you have that no one knows about. I’ve played piano since I was a kid. Cool. Nice, man. It’s not something I really build, but yeah. Chess, checkers are monopoly. Monopoly, right. What’s the headline for your life? Can authentic and empathetic? I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah, I love it. So go to ice cream flavor mint chocolate chip. Love it there’s. Sandwich called the Julius. Johnny, build that sandwich for me. Okay, so it’s got blue cheese, it’s got a buffalo chicken tenders. It’s on sourdough baby. It’s got pepper, Jack cheese, it’s got lettuce, tomato, maybe some pickles. It’s fat, it’s juicy with some French fries. Boom gold heart attack on a plate. And I would be right there just chowing down with it. Love it, love it. So it favorite charity and organization. Like to give your time or money to so that’s a good one. ATI anti human trafficking intelligence agency, so I’m passionate about anti human trafficking. Are you familiar with Deanna Kemple? I’m not. She has a label free podcast. She actually was human trafficking. I’m going to put you in touch. I’m actually going to her wedding tomorrow. Crazy beautiful. Yeah, that’s awesome. Last question. We can elaborate on this, but what is the best decade of music? Sixty s. Seventy s. Eighty s or 90s? Or at your age? 2000. Bro, I’ll go. 80s. Really? Oh, I love 80s. Give me some journey. Really? Oh, yeah. Give me some europe. What was I just I was going through toto recently originals that sang africa. I know. I like the 2000s rock too. Like shine down and others like that. But ninety s I kind of just it’s eighty s I kind of skipped to is. So transformational meaning. Like the rap got introduced with DC boys, run DMC, sugar hill gang, stuff like that. You had the long hair, don’t care. Glam rock. You had the invasions from like duran duran, you two that kind of came here and then the thing is, man, it’s like you listen to music today, they use the hook 80s songs. Like, if they do anything by pit bull, you’ll hear 80s, like the frame of the song. I’ve got one for you. Justin bieber is anyone? Yeah. Toto’s going home. Yes. Those two together, you think Justin the the beebs ripped them off, right? I mean, I’m not saying that on the air, but listen to it. Boom. Yeah. What’s old is new, right? In 70s music, I love because I graduated 90s, so 80s was my jam, right? 70s obviously goes back to memories with my parents, but 70s, they told stories in their song. Yes, yes. Very folksy, very story driven. And I enjoy that. No, we’re like brothers from different mothers. I’m old enough to be your kind of feeling. Like, that crazy. So, Johnny, how can we find your brother? Yeah. At John Scomsky on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn and the thinkliver repeat podcast streaming on platforms everywhere. And also you have the Jskomsky.com, right? And websites Jscomsky.com of it. You have to check out his podcast. It’s fantastic. And especially when I’m on I’m kidding. But no, any episode on there, he’s literally interviewed some big ballers that you will know. So hop over there after you’re done here and leave a review for his episode. But hop over there and check out. Think live, repeat. And John, do me one last solid and leave me with one last knowledge nugget we can take with us internalize and take action on. So you need your skills, your skill set. The skills for success are only as strong as your weakest thought. If you really want to level up, you’ve got to level up the mindsets. That will enable you to fully utilize your skills. Otherwise you’re going to be constantly just spinning your wheels only halfway there. The mindset is what unlocks the skill set. Go after it. Yeah, squad. This is light years beyond his age, man. I really hear them break down through his crisis area. It is inch by inches of cinch. One thing I want to tell John also that I got from him is that he might be working with people he went to high school with that are. Just bawling out making more money, but it’s more or have better life monetarily or how the world sees it. But the trajectory that John’s on, it’s not even going to be about the money. It’s about the service he provides. He reminded us that the compounding and how we act and think really actually matters. And again, he got clarity in crisis. But during that time, he got his asking gear and asked for the right question, the right people through therapy, coaching, and that unreasonable, unfair love story that Natalie has with them and how she really was. That puzzle piece. John wants to be for others. Yes. To put that up, he wants you to cut off the triggers from any anxiety that you have, or if you know, something comes up and you know that this is what’s happened, try to work to cut off that triggers like John was talking about, I want you to change, reactivity to proactivity. And he wants you to take responsibility. And again, responsibility is the ability to respond. He reminds us to live different. And think intentionally. Remember that less of life is happening to you and it’s happening for you. Huge. With me also is what he’s talked about abundance over scarcity your creator, god, whoever you believe in wants you to have good things. A lot of people are like, OOH, money that’s bad. But it comes from God. It comes from your creator. Get closer to that creator, really live in that abundance. He will be remembered as some of it’s authentic and empathetic. I mean, this kid I’m sorry, John, but you’re a kid, okay? You’re planning trees that you’re never going to sit in the shade of. You’re going to be that puzzle piece that is going to carry on. This blew me away. Where he said, human nature loves extremes, but the truth usually lies in your authenticity, and that is never wrong. Life well lived at John is that strong family connection with his beautiful bride Natalie. He delivered value on the daily lastly, which another knowledge. Blew me away is the skills for success are only as strong as your weakest link. So where you’re weak, get your asking gear and get help with that. And that’s what my friend John does. You know, he levels up his health, he levels up his wealth. He’s humble, yet he’s hungry. He’s earned his varsity letter here at time to shine today, brother. Absolutely love your guts. Thank you so much for coming on. Oh, man, it’s been awesome. Thanks for having me. Chat soon, Johnny.

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