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L. Scott Ferguson: [00:00:00] Time to shine today. Podcast Varsity Squad. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode with Pete Taylor, the, a good friend from across the pond over in England. The guy’s story is absolutely phenomenal. He wants you to play big, play hard, live up to your potential. He’s going to drop so many knowledge nuggets in this that you must, first of all, if anybody that’s really not playing big enough for themselves, share this with them because they need to hear it.

I promise you. They need to hear it. If you like it, please hit the like and subscribe and all that other jazz really helps my sponsors and affiliates, but he gets really deep into how to be a high performer without sounding all rah rah like me or something like that. You just really need it. Really get into his story.

You actually feel it. I was like feeling really empathetic. I was moved close to tears man, because he’s so sincere So I just love you to sit back relax break out your notebooks because here comes my good friend pete taylor. Let’s level up[00:01:00]

Time to shine today. Podcast Varsity Squad. This is Scott Ferguson. I got my boy. A true leader. Some of that I immensely respect. It’s across the pond over in the UK in England. His name is Pete Taylor. He’s a growth coach and strategic advisor. You might know him as one of the founders of the Awakened Man Project, formerly running his own businesses for the last seven years, building a team of 20 staff and award winning company.

He now advises multiple businesses at board level and assist in the growth of others. He’s a gem in personal, personal development. I mean, if you’re watching this handsome dude, I need the Vimeo. Or YouTube or whatnot. He’s pretty well put together. And that, again, I respect that. And best of all, man, he’s a, he’s a outstanding husband and a father.

He’s the kind of people I like to bring on to level this squad up. So Pete, thank you so much for coming out. Please introduce yourself. The time to shine today, podcast, varsity squad. But first what’s your favorite color. And why?

Pete Taylor: You know it’s black. Nice, bro. Yeah, I just and you notice I’m [00:02:00] wearing black.

My background is black. Yeah. I just, I just like the dark, the darkness of it. You can go deep with that. So there’s my reasoning. No, I

L. Scott Ferguson: love it, man. And like a lot of people might say it’s used for swimming, but like, you don’t have that problem, man. He’s like pretty damn well put together. So, Hey, so let’s get to the roots, right?

Can I, first of all, if you don’t mind sharing, I can add this out. What’s your age? 36, 36. Okay. So you’re not. Young and you’re, you’re, you’re in that silverback timeframe where people really start to take you Rather seriously and whatnot, but like let’s get to the roots man Where’d you start and then how do you get to the point now where so this dude’s going to greece with like 25 ballers And he’s the leader of it and he’s putting them through Something that’s going to transform their life even more than he already does and you’re 36 years old, man Okay.

So I was just starting to get taken seriously at 36 Pete, right? People were like, okay, maybe, but you got 25 dudes going with you to Crete and they’re ballers and stuff like that. I want to hear the origin story, the roots, how you got to this [00:03:00] point.

Pete Taylor: Yeah. Interesting. My The more, the more I think about this, the more I’m able to connect a lot of dots when I look back here and my personal development journey started real young, started like, and I didn’t know at the time, obviously you don’t know at the time.

It started like when I was like 14 years old, right? So when, when I was like between, between the ages of 13 to 17, my bone and body structure, my muscle density was three years below what it should have been according to the doctors. Because this was a problem for me, and this is why we went to the doctors, why we went to the hospital, because I was way smaller than all the rest of the guys.

I got the nickname Little Pete really early on, didn’t do me any favors mentally. So, like, imagine this. I’m a 16 year old boy, or you’re a 16 year old boy, but you look 13, and when all your mates are growing up rapidly and you still look super young, bullied by the boys [00:04:00] physically, bullied by the girls verbally, I can, I can, I can pinpoint the, the moment I was like, fuck this, that something needs to change.

And then like I was, I was standing under a tree with my best mate at the time was a good looking guy. The girls liked him. I was 15 years old and the girls that we were with, one of them said to me, Pete, why are you so ugly? ? As, as though I’d have the answer for it. Yeah,

L. Scott Ferguson: I know right now, .

Pete Taylor: Oh yeah. I was just gonna, you that answer, but like externally, I thought, , I tried brushing that off internally.

That was like the worst thing anyone could ever say to me. Cause I knew like, I knew, like, I didn’t feel good about myself at the time. I’d never, never been with a girl, never kissed a girl, anything like that. And it was all I ever wanted. And a week later I joined the gym. I was like, I have to do something about this.

And a friend of mine, she worked at the gym and she said, oh, there’s an opening at the cafe there. [00:05:00] Why don’t you take the Saturday job? And it’s what I did. Little did I know that that would become like the catalyst as to like, rapid, rapid growth and like Fast forward a number of years, I’m taking the gym really, really seriously.

I’m, I’m noticing like massive, massive physical change, but also like mental change. I’m becoming very, very confident picking up books. Like the first book I ever picked up was how to talk to anyone. And, and, and I just like, I was just addicted to this personal development at a really, really young age.

And that in my early twenties took me into competing, took me into the bodybuilding arena.

L. Scott Ferguson: Let me ask some brother, were you You, cause I, when I grew up, I was super skinny, man, , right now I’m, I’m 6’1 I’m 240, , my waist is still a 33. I’m not like pretty well put together now, but I did it because of the exact same reason you did.

I was bullied, but I was scrappy. Like I would fight you. I didn’t care,[00:06:00] , were you like that? Or were you more docile?

Pete Taylor: Just curious. No, I had, I had what some might call short man syndrome. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like that, that definitely materialized during my, my school years. Like I would just flip, I get really angry, , split second.

And sure. And I would, and I, and I would absolutely scrap.

L. Scott Ferguson: Right. If people like, like people look at me like now, cause I’m 51, right. And people like, kind of, they kind of challenged the big guy. Right. And I just kind of laughed to myself. I’m like, dude, I was 135 pounds scrappy. Now I’m 240. If my experience is scrappy, things are going to get a little bit interesting for you guys.

Now that’s awesome. I thank you for being transparent and authentic on that brother. So let’s move it forward a little bit. And when did, did you start coaching people one on one from a fitness? Or from a mindset or which way did you go brother?

Pete Taylor: No, like this, my, my journey into like, if you said to me two years ago, Pete, you’re going to be in this like [00:07:00] space for like men’s work where you’re coaching hundreds of men and you’ll have thousands of guys that are in your community.

I’d have been like, what, one, what the frick is men’s work? It sounds weird. It sounds like guys, guys in the, in the woods, Kumbaya. Right, right. I like a couple of years ago, just rewind a couple of years ago, I was running a business, a bricks and mortar business. Like you could walk off the street and come and see me.

I was running, it was architecture, interior design, construction a team of 20 people. Yeah. And I built that over the course of six years, literally from our living room to one office to another office. And then we, and then we ended up buying an office in London. We had tenants on one floor, we fit out a co working space on the top floor and we had my team on, on the ground floor.

And and honestly from the exterior, it was Pete’s doing really well. Right. And I’m very fortunate. Like where I live in the UK, I live just outside of London in the countryside, but on [00:08:00] my doorstep, I have thousands of acres of like woodland and countryside. It’s, it’s, it’s beautiful. It’s awesome. And a couple of years ago I did what I always do.

And I take my dog for a walk through the woods and I take the same route every time. And I, , I’ve done this route hundreds of times. And, but this time around when I walk this route. Even though I knew the route, I felt mega lost, incredibly lost, like internally, I thought, what’s, what’s going on?

Like, I’ve got the house, I’ve like, I’ve got, I’ve got the model wife, I’ve got, I’ve got the Rolex watches, I’ve got the cars, I’ve got the big team on my company’s winning awards. I am really unhappy. Like, I’m like, something is really, really wrong. I’m in a really, really dark place. And like, I was getting to places mentally that I’d never thought I’d get to.

Like, I was always, I’m the strong guy. , I’m mentally, mentally very strong. I’m not going to get to those places where I think those thoughts. And they were happening. I’m like, something’s, something’s up. And I [00:09:00] got to do something about this. And a week later, Saturday. One of my team members messaged me as I always used to get messages from my team members with little problems.

And it was a bit about a bit of software. I had a problem with a bit of software and he was asking me to sort it out. And I was like, do what? Fuck this. That’s it. I’m out done. And within three months I’d left my own business. So I’d quit my own company. Really, really, really super fast transition.

And what. I then stumbled into was what I’m doing now. Like what I was, I was lonely. I was really, really lonely. Albeit I’d had people around me. I had my team around me. I spent most of my time with my team, but I couldn’t really, really talk to my team about what was going on internally and about all the problems and trying, facing, looking.

Yeah. Obviously he was the leader. He was the leader. Yeah. And if he the lead, the leader looks like he’s crumbling or he is crumbling, then the team will fall. Yeah. So I could never truly be like, like I could never [00:10:00] truly tell everyone what was going on inside. Right. And and I just, I hadn’t. I don’t have any boundaries, like, as a business owner and as a man, like, if you’d said to me, Pete, you need to put some boundaries up, I’d have thought you’d have meant a fence, or like a wall, , we did architecture, right?

Oh, do you want to build a wall? No, not about like… Me actually having like boundaries myself as a business owner, as a man, I didn’t have any of that. And because of that, I was the nice guy. I would always, I would always say yes. I’d never say no. I would always, Pete’s Pete’s the go to guy. He’s the fixer.

Don’t worry, just give it to Pete, sort it out. And I kind of prided myself in being that man over years and years of being that man. And. not having the difficult conversations when I needed to, both in business and in my personal relationships, it just leads to anger and resentment and, and then quitting your own company.

L. Scott Ferguson: Wow. And did you [00:11:00] have any kind of coach? During that time, okay, were you able to, , kind of white paper it with them, kind of bounce stuff off them. Did they give you that urge a little bit to be like, Hey man, you’re, you’re, you’re feeling this. And I’m not going to, I don’t want to say met for something more because you built something that was pretty, , substantial people.

Like what was the kind of coaching and consulting that was kind of going on during this time?

Pete Taylor: The coach. I wouldn’t even call him a coach, he’s a mentor. The mentor that I had at the time is now my business partner. Oh, beautiful. And so Yazin, who was my, is, , mentor, now is business partner, a very, very close friend.

He’s doing his PhD in positive psychology, built big nine figure business. He’s like, he, like, semi retired, was just sat on the board there. Is also a trained psychotherapist. And. He never told me what to do. He was very, very good at just like edging things out of being in coaching. And it was absolutely my, my decision to, to, to quit [00:12:00] and to do that.

He didn’t know I was going to do that. I just told him, you’ve seen, I’m doing this is what’s happening. I’m going to do this. But yeah, he gave me great mentor and he, and he absolutely like just shone a light. In terms of that, I am playing too small and I am letting things happen that I shouldn’t let happen.

And a lot of it, a lot of it stemmed down to, I just, I didn’t know how to be a man. I didn’t, I didn’t, I was like, like in my early thirties, I looked like a man, but I was very much a boy.

L. Scott Ferguson: And that, and that could stem back to that bullying and that insecurity, , again, I’m not a therapist. I leave that to the therapy people.

But when I’m coaching, I understand that we all know what we want, but we just sometimes don’t know how to talk ourselves into it. Right? And that’s where every challenge that resides in you, the solutions there too, right? So with that being said, it sounds like Ian really just kind of had you step into your greatness by saying, listen, this is what you [00:13:00] are and stop playing small and getting out there.

That’s beautiful. So what do you think then makes a great, you

Pete Taylor: know, coach?

What makes a great coach? I think what makes a great coach is, is, is just helping you figure out the answers to make you play a bigger game. Oh,

L. Scott Ferguson: that’s my amazing brother. And so when you’re meeting these guys. You’re really kind of taken on and you’re, , heart centered and you’re a go giver, , when you’re kind of starting to work with them, what do you notice, what is maybe some of your secret sauce that maybe if you don’t mind sharing that it helps them find their blind spot?

Pete Taylor: Okay. So we have, we have hundreds of guys and there’s a lot of commonalities. One of the biggest commonalities. With men, especially high performing men, is that they’re very, very clever, right? They’re very smart guys. They’re very, [00:14:00] very switched on. And they will overanalyze and overcomplicate everything.

And so rather than, rather than taking the simple step forward, they’ll think about that simple step forward for way too long. And whereas one man who doesn’t overcomplicate it will just, will, will take 10 steps forward within the week. The other man who’s very, very smart, very, very high performing in, in other, in other particular areas.

Right? We’ll still be thinking about that. And so like what I find is a lot of ’em just need to be a little bit more dumber. And just to, and just, and just, and just to move forward rather than overanalyze and most of the time it’s the basics. It’s, it’s like, let’s get your health right. Yeah. Let’s get you in a gym.

Let’s get, let’s get you tracking your food, like, like tracking your macros and I’m not, and I’m not saying you have to track your macros for the rest of the rest of your days. And, but [00:15:00] just, just, just build that skillset because it helps you build discipline. Yes. Going to, going to the gym is hard. It’s painful.

Put your body through pain mentally, physically, but tracking your macros is also, it’s, it’s a bit of a ball like. Right. You have to, if you don’t, if you’ve never done it before, you’ve got to learn. It’s difficult. And you’ve got, what’s these things called carbs and proteins and fats and how does that work?

And it’s, it’s a, it’s a skillset, but it makes a massive, massive difference to the way you look and you feel. And it also teaches you your discipline, which is an incredible trait for any man to have. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yeah. Discipline is, is something that I lack at times as well. I’m not going to sit there and say I’m perfect at it, but I, I just kind of was told when I was younger by my wrestling coach that, , discipline is doing what you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do it, but , you’re going to get it done.

And that’s, that’s awesome, man. So when you’re starting to work with these guys, Pete, is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do?

Pete Taylor: [00:16:00] Even if they don’t ask the question, I’m just gonna tell them, okay. But, but the, the question is, Pete, can you hold a mirror up to me and, and, and tell me where I’m really fucking, either fucking up or just not playing at the level that I should be? Yeah. Most, most, most guys that, that will come to us, they, they, no one’s ever telling them the truth.

No one’s ever truly going, here’s the mirror, right? This is the harsh reality. of where you’re at right now. Yeah, you may, you may be doing seven figures in your business. You may be doing great over there, but you’re a shit husband. Yes. Right. You’re, you’re watching porn. Yeah. And, and you, and you’re looking at girls on Instagram and you like the photos.

Right. There’s, there’s, , you may be, you may be a seven figure guy over here, but you’re not a seven figure husband, or you’re not a seven figure father, or you’re not a seven figure friend. And, and, and for most guys, they don’t [00:17:00] have anyone around them that will tell them the half truth and call them out.

Because

L. Scott Ferguson: they’ve made it to that seven figure, , situation. I love that you brought that up and I’m hearing a lot. What’s really important to you. You can correct me if I’m wrong, but like a lot of harmony, like I don’t like, I, I, maybe we agree, like balance to me is shit. I don’t believe in balance. I believe in, believe in harmony.

And like, I believe there’s eight peril pillars of, , your God or your spiritual personal growth, family, community work, money, living environment, and then health and recreation. Right. And it’s like. I liken it to a jazz band or something like that, where the horns are your health, the piano is your family, the drums are, , your money, whatever.

And if one of them’s out of tune, it’s not harmonic, right? So, I love that you bring people back into harmony and you want. The people that you have, you call them out when they’re not in that. That’s a beautiful thing, brother. That’s awesome. So you’re a little bit younger, Pete, but have you seen the movie back to the future?

I have. Okay. Let’s get in that DeLorean with Marty McFly, man. Let’s go back to the double deuce, the 22 [00:18:00] year old Pete. What kind of knowledge nuggets? Might you drop on him not to change anything because what you’ve went through is made you okay, but to maybe shorten a learning curve Blast through maybe just a little bit quicker.

Pete Taylor: Yeah, it’s a difficult what that’s that, , it’s a great question and And I’m always like, do everything that I’ve gone through? All the, , the ups and the downs is just, it’s just molded me into who I am now and it love it. And it’s, and it’s all happened for a reason. And, and the where I am now is because of the actions I’ve taken and because I’ve, what I’ve been through.

Yeah. If I was to say one thing to 22 year old, Is to just to not give a fuck of what other people think. Yes, dude! Stop caring so much.

L. Scott Ferguson: My man, brother, I make two fucking New Year’s resolutions every year, man. One, make someone smile every day, right? Two, unless I’ve hurt you, disrespected you, judged you, or owe you, I give zero fucks about what you think about me.

And that’s what really just freed me up because I used to [00:19:00] be like that pleaser and be like, Oh, I want you to like me and shit like that. And it just didn’t, didn’t work out for me. And now I attract more people by treating people with respect and I’m getting it. And, , it took me till I was about your age, 38, actually.

I remember when it happened. My little brother killed himself and that’s when it really set in, , right? So no, I feel you, man, that’s awesome. So how do you want your dash remembered? That little line in between your incarnation date, your expiration date, your life date and death date. Hopefully it’s way down the line, but how does Pete want his dash remembered?

Pete Taylor: Being an amazing father. Being, being the guy, the my son looks at me and said, that’s my dad. And I’m, and I’m proud that he’s my dad because I, I know, I know that I, that if I create that man, yeah. That I’ll have mega impact on plenty of other guys. That, that the ripple effect of me creating that man.

Absolutely affect everyone else around me and I and I’m fortunate enough that I have [00:20:00] communities and and and guys that follow us So I know the ripple effect there. Right? My focus is my son. You’re

L. Scott Ferguson: beautiful. That’s that’s beautiful brother you Just amazing amazing soul that you got going on right there, brother So, what do you think people misunderstand the most about you?

Pete Taylor: That is a killer question

I think they misunderstand the I am extremely empathetic And the, there is, I have a, I have a real soft side. Okay. So, but I think a lot of the guys, especially because I’m, , a bit more, a bit more active on social media now. Sure. Sometimes the softer side isn’t shown as much as maybe, maybe I should, maybe I shouldn’t.

But I find that the, the harder faced side, especially on social media, seems to just attract some more attention to get people into, get people into the world. It might just like. Trigger. So, what I, what I like to try and do is I’d like to trigger. [00:21:00] something in someone because I hope that the trigger will then make a change.

L. Scott Ferguson: I love that. And I just go back to your story and like that walk with your, with your dog, right, man. And it’s like, you just came to this epiphany that you got to give yourself some space and grace, right. And they just really kind of stepped back from it. And say that it just the light bulb that must have went off.

Did I just would have been like to been a mosquito in the air flying the wall during that time to see that transformation happen to you. That’s freaking awesome, man. So anything keep you up at night?

Pete Taylor: Do what? Not right now. Actually, I sleep really well, which is a great because it doesn’t didn’t always just sleep really well, right?

But if there was something that was going to keep me up. But it’s something that’s on my mind is that what’s, what’s, what’s the next move for me to play a bigger game? Right. That, that, that is, I, I like, I like that question. It’s like, Pete, what, what am I missing? [00:22:00] Like, what am I not doing just to play the bigger game?

Because I, ’cause that is, that is me. Like, I love the game. I love, I love playing the bigger game and, and I want to be able to go Fucking Well done mate. I’m proud Pete. of you stepping up and taking and taking those moments. Like what, like that, like the feeling of proudness of being proud is the feeling I want at the, at the end of my days.

Like if there’s one, the one feeling it’s, it’s to be proud, not to be happy. And it’s proud. I love

L. Scott Ferguson: that. And just when you show up, you want, , my, my good buddy, Eddie, my let put out a podcast on a month ago about when you get to where you feel you’re going to end up, whether it’s heaven or whatever, you want to meet that dude and be like, you’re the guy that I was expecting to meet, , not like shit, man, what happened to you?

, why didn’t you do this or why, , start the judgmental on yourself. I love that you’re always leveling up, man. He says this fits perfect. So what is Pete’s definition of a life well

Pete Taylor: lived?[00:23:00]

It’s day by day, it’s moment to moment, it’s remembering, it’s remembering moment to moment, it’s delaying gratification, it’s knowing that just in a second, you could die. Yeah. Just like that. Absolutely. Just like, just like your brother, just, my best friend at 25, car accident. Yeah. Just a couple of days ago, someone I know from, from work, she was, she’s 32 she got ill and, and she died.

And so, and, and it’s, and it’s remembering as best as I fricking can. I actually have a, I’ve got a coin here that I carry with me every day. It’s Memento Mori and it says you could leave life right now. And it’s just like that remembrance of like moments and moments and moments a moment to to live to my as best as my abilities Like to be the man that i’m going to be proud of and to live to my highest [00:24:00] potential And you

L. Scott Ferguson: have that little one that’s looking up to you all the time, man.

How old is your little? He’s two and a half. Oh, bro. Is it fun? Oh, mate. He’s… Your face, brother, just lit up.

Pete Taylor: It’s unbelievable. That’s amazing, man. When when I started the, or co founded The Awakened Man, one of the reasons I did that is because I wanted a space where I can talk to guys. And not necessarily, like, I didn’t want a space where I can go and cry and stuff like that, but it was just like, and just talk to guys about some things that I’m, like, questioning.

And when Leo was born… For the first probably three months, I had no real connection to him. It just, he just felt like this like thing in the house. And I was so worried about it. Like I hadn’t told anyone I didn’t hadn’t told my wife. I hadn’t, I hadn’t told anyone. I didn’t know what to do about it. I’m like, I’ve always wanted to be a dad.

Oh, it’s always what I’ve ever dreamed of. And now, now I’m a dad and I feel nothing. I just feel weird that I haven’t got this connection. And [00:25:00] I remember, I brought it up, at the time I had like a group of ten guys, and I was like, do what, these guys are good guys. They’re not gonna judge, they’re not gonna take the piss.

It’s like, brought it up, two of them had the same thing. And the other guys weren’t, they hadn’t had the same experience, but they were able to share, like, and just verbalize how they’d, like, navigated becoming a father. And it just like, I was like, oh, my shoulders dropped. I felt so much better about it. I became a better father because I knew, like, the pressure came off.

Yeah. You’re

L. Scott Ferguson: wondering if you’re doing it right. You’re wondering, you’re like shit. And then you have that validation be like, brother, you’re never going to feel like that. I know personal experience. I feel your brother. Yeah. That’s awesome. Time to shine today, podcast, varsity squad. We are back and Pete, I know we’re going to cross paths one day, whether it’s on page stage or on the mic again, man, but Like, maybe we’ll talk about some of these questions, , face to face and spend 15 20 minutes on them.

But today, you got 5 seconds, no explanations, and [00:26:00] they can all be answered that way. Are you ready to level up? Mm hmm. Let’s do this, brother. What’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

Pete Taylor: To become self reliant.

L. Scott Ferguson: Yes. Share one of your personal habits that contributes to your

Pete Taylor: success. Discipline.

It’s like I go to the gym every day without fail.

L. Scott Ferguson: Love it. And so you see me walking down the street, man. Fergie looks like he’s in his doldrums just a little bit, man. What book might you

Pete Taylor: hand me to level me up?

The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michaels. I’ve

L. Scott Ferguson: never heard of that. I’m going to look that up. Donnie, put that in the show notes, brother. Love it. Your most commonly used emoji when you text? Fist pump. Love it. Nicknames growing up?

Pete Taylor: Fucking little Pete. Oh, oh, oh, ah. Pistol Pete. Love it. When I started coming into my own.

Yeah,

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. So you’ve got a hidden [00:27:00] talent or a superpower that really nobody knows about until now. No,

Pete Taylor: no one knows about my talents. I’m very, if I’ve got a talent, it’s being showcased. Nothing that’s,

L. Scott Ferguson: that’s PG rated. I’m kidding, brother. Just checkers of monopoly. Monopoly. All right. Headline for your life.

The courageous man. Love it. Any superstitions or you pass on those? No. Beautiful. Go to ice cream flavor there, Mr. Fit. Pistachio. All right. There’s a sandwich named the pistol peat, man. Build that sandwich for me.

Pete Taylor: We’ve got chicken, avocado. There we go. Yeah, yeah. There’d have to be a layer of halloumi cheese in there as well.

And then, and then, then more chicken. And then some tomato just to finish that off, give it a bit of yeah, [00:28:00] and that’ll do us. Gotcha. Protein

L. Scott Ferguson: packed. Just missing the man candy, the bacon. I’m kidding. I love bacon, but I’ve been passing on it for years. I love it. Pete, any favorite charity or organization you’d like to give your time or money to?

Pete Taylor: We we’re in the process of setting up our own charity organization called Promise of Sight, where we help children in third world countries be able to see.

L. Scott Ferguson: That’s beautiful, man. Thank you, brother. And last question, you can elaborate on this one a little bit, but what’s the best decade of music, man?

50s, 60s, 70s, 80s,

Pete Taylor: 90s, or 2000s? I’d say, for me, it’s the 2000s and it’s the, it’s the dance, it’s the dance music. Awesome, man. No,

L. Scott Ferguson: I appreciate that. So how can we find you, Pete?

Pete Taylor: You can find me on Instagram, Pete underscore Taylor. I’m really active. You are. That’s awesome. And then website pete taylor. co. uk

L. Scott Ferguson: Awesome.

Tell us a little bit about the the, the time recovery calculator that, that men [00:29:00] can kind of access here on your website, brother. Yeah,

Pete Taylor: so the, the time recovery calculator is something that I’ll, I’ll use with a lot of business owners. It’d be one of the first things that we’ll go through. I love it, dude.

I find that like most business owners, they are the bottleneck in the business, right? Right. And one of the quickest things to do is look at where we’re spending the time. And, and then we, and we put the time into categories and then we figure out, How much of the time is being spent on the biggest needle moving highest value activities, the CEO, founder, top dog should be spending in the business.

We’ll figure out what we can, what we can remove, what we can delegate. What we can move around and, and, and work off leverage off the back of that. That’s

L. Scott Ferguson: beautiful, man. I love that you put this together. And you’re right, man, it’s all black, like all over the place, even on your site and, and everything, brother.

That’s fantastic. Pete, do me one last solid and leave us with one last knowledge nugget we can take with us and internalize and take

Pete Taylor: action on. [00:30:00] Just ask yourself in your life where your standard is not as high as it should be. What’s the standard that you should be living at? Yeah,

L. Scott Ferguson: I love it. And I, I, that’s my biggest thing.

That’s one that you can ask my Susan. I did. I’m like standards. That’s what I wake up and I say, I point just like this. I said, I’m a little older now, so I don’t just hop out of bed anymore. Cause the physiological shit that happens to you in life. I just say standards and that’s it, man. I get up. That’s what I live by.

My coach has me live by him. I. Demand my clients to as well and squad. My good friend Pete lives at the highest standards as well. He reminded us that the more he went through life, the more he was connecting , the dots in that his bone and body structure were lagging behind. He felt kind of like I did when I was younger, a little bit of that Napoleon complex, little man’s complex.

But then, , certain things started to happen. He got the job at the gym, start really kind of living in the gym. And he got [00:31:00] addicted to personal development, , he wants you to really find your boundaries and that business owners are usually the bottleneck in their own business and someone like that.

You might want to refer him to the recovery calculator and maybe just let me make a warm introduction to Pete. because they need to talk to him. And I’m so glad that I did as well. , his mentor said that he was playing too small. , I believe his name is Ian is playing too small. He’s letting things happen to him.

This shouldn’t be happening. So he decided to really kind of take control of his whole own life. He reminded us that high performing men, they’re pretty clever and they overcomplicate stuff. And he gives them the best advice ever dumb it down, dude, just get back to the basics, your health, , your spiritual.

, your family, your community, get, get your tribe and your vibe back to where it needs to be. I believe, , he’s a, he’s a big guy that inch by inch is a cinch, right? By the yard, it’s hard. He wants you to take things one step at a time. He didn’t build his body the way he did by just overnight.

He built it. He was short steps, long vision. He just kept kicking ass and look where he’s [00:32:00] at now. , he That wants you to live every day by day, moment by moment, and really enjoy that journey. He reminded us, I want you to check out promise the site. I’ll make sure that he lets us know when promise the site drops so we can start pouring into that foundation he’s setting up.

And lastly, ask, , what, this dude is actually planting trees that he’s never going to sit in the shade of. I can see it now. , and that he does it for the intention, not the attention. And that that’s the people that I want to be around that I want you to be around and that holds themselves to higher standards.

He plays the game that he teaches. And that is something that I love, dude. And he levels up his health. He levels up his wealth. I don’t know if you ever played sports. You’ve got your varsity letter here. Time to shine today, brother. Thank you so much for coming on. I absolutely love your guts, man. I hope to be able to collaborate with you sometime in the future.

Appreciate you Scott. Talk to you man.

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