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Unknown Speaker  0:13  

time to shine today podcast. Firstly, squad This is Scott Ferguson and weird episode 267 with a person who’s became a pretty good friend of mine, his went through a hell of a story. I’ll just start this off. You probably saw it in the title of this podcast, but he’s in jail and he was arrested by the FBI for some just crazy stuff in how he went through a very dark time and it took a good friend to kind of show up and visit him in jail to make him aware of what he is here on this earth to do and that’s to level people up so I’m going to shut up right now and just go right into the meat potatoes of the interview but you should really take some notes I pages upon pages of notes of the knowledge nuggets this do drop so without further ado, here’s the author of blank canvas. How I reinvented my life after prison Craig stanlon Let’s level up time to shine today podcast. Firstly, Spot This is Scott Ferguson and I got my boy Craig Stammen here, who kind of I’m going to leave the story to you but he got a little trouble with those three letters of the FBI. And we’re gonna have a book giveaway which he explains all of that in the end he has an awesome book blank canvas we’ll do a book giveaway at the end but I want you to stay through and listen to this cat stories a TEDx speaker man he’s out leveling people up one to one he calls himself really the reinvention architect man I really wish I would have came up with that before Craig did because that is frickin awesome reinvention architect empowers them to break free of their self imposed mental prisons so they can reinvent their lives with passion purpose fulfillment and meaning. And again his book which we’ll dig into more at the end blank cabinets how I reinvented my life after prison which is available on all Amazon whatnot but listen because lucky listeners is going to get a free book away. And Chris or Craig thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself to time to shine today pockets firstly squad. But first, what’s your favorite color? And why? Black, black? You know your everything’s built around that man. That’s awesome.

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Which is which is technically an absence of color. Yeah, for some reason, I’ve always been drawn to black. I’m a car guy. I love cars and black. I literally at the beginning of the pandemic, when J Crew announced that they were going bankrupt. They put on T shirts on sale for seven bucks. I bought 18 of them black in my closet This is lined with

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you weren’t kind of a black charcoal right now squad if you’re looking at this handsome devil. He’s got it rocking the black, the charcoal color here. That’s awesome. So great. Let’s dig into the story. Man. FBI kind of caught you doing something get your hand in the cookie jar kind of thing, which is a little bit bigger than that. I’m not downplaying it, but you really came back from it. If you don’t mind sharing your origins and that story, that’d be great.

Unknown Speaker  2:59  

Oh, absolutely. So I’m going to take us back to September 30 2012. At that time, I think people would say that I had it all. I had multiple homes. I had a successful career. I drove the nice cars. I wore the five figure watches. I mean, I was living the life married to an amazing, beautiful woman, then on October 1 2000. And actually I’m sorry 2013 is when I received the following voicemail. Mr. Stammen is a special agent McTiernan with the FBI. We are at your residence and have a warrant for your arrest, you need to call us and come home immediately, or we will issue a warrant with the federal marshals. And it was at that moment that I knew the fraud that I perpetuated for the previous 10 months against one of the largest technology companies in the world had caught up to me. It was at that moment that my life completely changed, and that I lost everything. In a second.

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Were you keeping this a secret from your family, like nobody knew what you were doing?

Unknown Speaker  4:06  

So people, I lied, this is very important. Transparent alfagar I lied to myself, I lied to my family. I had always wanted to create some kind of business of my own. And this fraud that I had created. I was calling that a business. So I shared with family, oh, your I got this amazing new business that I’ve started. I told my wife, it was a business. She knew very little about what I was doing. But she also knew if something didn’t seem quite right, she would say is this You sure this is okay. And I’d say no, no, it’s fine. It’s fine. You don’t know what you’re talking about anyway. And I just plan forward with it with reckless abandon, just reckless abandon just trying to fill myself from the inside with things and material assurance status. And I was trying to I’m trying to fill a broken glass and I was too blind to see that I never could. Right Right. So it’s just on that treadmill.

Unknown Speaker  5:03  

So what was the feeling you got when you showed up at your house? And the FBI is there? And were they cordial with you? Are they like Get on the ground? And like how that story if you don’t mind sharing? So,

Unknown Speaker  5:16  

of course, absolutely. So I have just started a new job in Manhattan. My home was in Connecticut, I had about an hour long drive, to, to try to figure out what was happening and an hour long drive to panic about what was waiting for me. And there’s no way I could have anticipated what was waiting for me, I entered the gates of my community. I took the right hand turn down the hill. And that’s when it came into view. It was like out of a movie. There were about 15 vehicles, including a SWAT vehicle, unmarked cars, local police cars, and tons of FBI agents. And I remember distinctly thinking, wow, they really do wear those blue jackets with a yellow lettering. That’s a strange thought. But I literally thought that and I come down the hill, they recognize my car. And using their bodies, they forced me into a wasn’t even a parking spot. Really, they just force my car off to the side of the road. And it was I mean, just sheer unadulterated terror.

Unknown Speaker  6:19  

Yeah, fear, man. Absolutely. Hear your fear and

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uncertainty. I get out of the car very carefully, because they’re still utilizing their body to control my movements. They asked me to identify myself, stammered Cragged. You know, I gave my name another very official way to empty your pockets. I threw everything onto my car seat. They frisked me. They turned me around, they forced me again. That’s when they brought out the cuffs. Wow. And I said, Please, don’t don’t cough me. There’s no need. Look at me. I’m, I’m a tiny guy, I weigh 140 pounds. I’m five foot four. Right? There’s not a no harm to anybody. They said it’s procedure. We have to Okay, turn me around. And they put those cuffs on me. And I’ll tell you they were they were heavy in a physical sense. Sure. And in a mental sense, because I knew that it was over. It’s over. And it was pure helplessness, right, having my arms behind my back and seeing all of these law enforcement there for me,

Unknown Speaker  7:21  

right? It was a family there when this happen.

Unknown Speaker  7:25  

It was I was married at the time, Jay, my wife was inside of our home, they would not allow me to see her, they would not allow any eye contact, they really wanted to make sure that there was no conspiracy. So they kept a distance between us and I didn’t get to see her. And I think this is an important part of the story, because she’s actually the one who opened the front door to those 15 agents with guns and assault rifles pointed at her chest and at her head. She’s the one who got to deal with them doing a search of our house. And you asked something in there, and I want to make sure that I answer it. They were very cordial. They were very cordial. They did not It’s not like in the movies, where they tossed the house and they throw everything. Right. They were very neat in their search. They were very respectful to her. And in all honesty, they were fairly respectful to me, they did a couple of things that are to be expected from law enforcement of pushing some buttons when they started asking me some questions in the back of the car, right. Other than that, I would say that they they were professional, and they were doing their job.

Unknown Speaker  8:33  

Gotcha. So due to time constraints here, we’re gonna kind of fast forward you’re you’re in jail. Correct.

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I ended up pleading guilty to one count of fraud. I was sentenced to 24 months of federal prison.

Unknown Speaker  8:45  

Okay, your thoughts while you’re in jail?

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My life is over. This is it. It’s done. I knew what I was doing was wrong. When I started the fraud, my heart spoke. And it said very clearly, stop. This is not the way right, this is not the path and I ignored it. And because I ignored it, that shame was so overwhelmed. It’s so consuming. Because I knew what I did was wrong. I saw the ramifications and the ripple effects of my actions on those that I love the most. And that shame just put me into a spiral where I literally said, I am never going to be worthy of love, joy and happiness ever again. And because of that belief, that’s when I started to contemplate how I would end my life.

Unknown Speaker  9:37  

Sure, which can’t blame you. For that side. I mean, there had been also a time where I’ve got caught bro by the IRS, right? It was like I Duck Duck Duck, they got me you’re not gonna win. But it was also like as heavy as it was in retrospect. And those cuffs were heavy and whatnot, but was also almost a huge weight lifted in a metaphorical sense as well, even though you’re going down a spiral, did you feel like at least that part’s out, you know, no matter how dark it was, or were you different than that, Greg?

Unknown Speaker  10:10  

No, not at all. I think that’s such an insightful comment to have. And I’m so happy that you brought that up. Did you ever see the movie Goodfellas? Absolutely, of course, right. At the end, when Ray Liotta is making the airport run, but the babysitter forgot her hat and the sauce needs to be stirred. And he’s coked out of his mind, and he’s just frantic and running, and all those things. Right. And, you know, just like running, I never did coke. I was a big drinker. But I never did coke. But that scene, it actually troubles me to this day to watch it because of the frenetic energy that’s involved with that, because that’s what my fraud entailed. There were so many balls up in the air that I was constantly juggling, that it was a, it was a terrible way to live. Sure, I thought that I was living this Highlife, but all I was doing was going, going going and it was exhausting. So to your point, when it came to a screeching halt, absolutely a relief. Yeah, you know, absolutely a relief to have to put all the balls to picture.

Unknown Speaker  11:14  

What was the you know, what was the clickable moment when you know you didn’t feel joy, love or happiness? What was that clickable moment that eventually got you back squat, I’m gonna have to bring Craig back in a 2.0 interview. But right now I want to know your, your, that that moment when it’s just like that love joy and happiness started to rise a little bit.

Unknown Speaker  11:37  

So I’m going to, and I’ll do it in a neat and quick way. But I’m gonna go back just a little bit. When I was in prison without shame. I had started meditating. And during that meditation, a, my mind came up with this short film of what my suicide would look like. And it was very graphic. It was very detailed. And it was with a pistol in my mouth and me pulling the trigger. And it played it played that little short film once said, Well, that’s strange. And I pushed it off because it was terrible to watch. But then it played it again. And it played it again. It played that short film, every second of every day for four months straight. It became ingrained in my neural pathways. And it became a state of being, I could actually feel the gun in my mouth, I could feel the bullet exiting the back of my head. It was visceral, and it was palpable. And I had to make it stop. And that’s when I literally got very serious about how I would get in my life. And I tell this story, because it was a Wednesday afternoon, four months into this this cycle of this video replaying sure my best friend of 30 plus years named Shawn emailed me out of the blue. Hey, man, can I come for a visit this weekend? And I said, Yes, you can come for a visit this weekend because I’m dealing with this suicidal video that I can’t stop. I can’t write Yeah, it’s on a loop. I can’t tell anybody. Because in prison if you mentioned suicide, they locked you in solitary confined, right? That scared the hell out of measure. So I had to avoid that couldn’t mention it on the phone, couldn’t mention it. Email, couldn’t mention any of my friends. I just bottled it up. But now that Sean’s coming for a visit, visiting room is not monitored. I could share with him that things are not good, right? He’s my He’s my boy. I can like I can be like very honest with him and transparent. We, we sit down for our visit. I’m so excited to share this with him to get this burden off of my chest. I opened my mouth to speak. Before I can say a word Shawn interrupts me and just starts talking his life is a complete mess. It’s getting a divorce. He’s got money issues. He’s got work.

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Problems.

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Me coming to me with his

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I’m not laughing at you, bro. I’m laughing at the situation, man. You know?

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Yeah, it was the most surreal thing. And I it caught me off guard and I snapped out of my need to tell the story because my friend who like I said, I’ve known for over 30 years he had a sadness in his eyes in his voice that I have never seen or heard in my entire life. And in that moment, I realized that I had worth my value outside of every single thing that I thought given what gave me worth and value. I was a friend, and nothing more. I wasn’t my panner I was I wasn’t my BMW. I wasn’t my job. My Shawn could have. He’s he’s so close and tight with his brother who lived a couple doors down. He could have walked out his front door, walked 100 feet and talk to his brother about this stuff. He chose to drove drive to federal prison to visit me because he needed his friend. That’s when that joy and happiness started. It didn’t. It didn’t click immediately. But that’s when I realized I had value. Yeah, that’s when that’s the second day my life changed.

Unknown Speaker  15:05  

That’s fantastic man. And there’s so squad, there’s so many messages in there that you can really take because it was, you know, I don’t believe selfishness is a bad thing. I think that we need to be selfish with ourselves to level up to help others but you’re being selfish in a negative way. And then a guy comes to you with a need, and it knocks you out of that negative selfishness. That’s a beautiful story, man. So let’s get a get a little bit of your coaching. Okay. Um, like, when you’re starting to work with people, one on one, is there any kind of secret sauce, I said that near quotes, if you’re watching, that you use to help them find their blind spots?

Unknown Speaker  15:51  

We want to get really clear in the beginning, what is it that you want to create? What do you want in your life? What matters to you? What’s important to you? And I’ll tell you, there’s something really funny that happens 99 times out of 100. When I ask somebody what they want, they’re going to tell me everything that they don’t want. And they think that that’s being very good.

Unknown Speaker  16:10  

Yes.

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They think we’re on what they want. Thank you. And yeah, it’s a bit of a, it’s a bit of a visceral punch in the face to them when I say that’s awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. You realize you didn’t answer my question,

Unknown Speaker  16:26  

right? Yes.

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What are you talking about? I just talked for five minutes. I just explained, everything’s No, let’s get really clear on what makes you happy. What lights you up? What sort of things we have, what do you want. And it can be as simple as I had, I had a client who lived a mile away from the beach, they could walk to the beach, they haven’t been there in four years and going to the beach is one of their favorite things. And there are nine themself that piece of joy. How are we ever going to be whole? How are we ever going to be complete? If we deny ourselves a piece of what makes us happy,

Unknown Speaker  17:01  

right? Did I ever going I moved to South Florida here. I’m looking at the Atlantic while I’m talking to you, man. You know what I’m saying is like beautiful. Yeah, you know, so it’s like, yeah, I get it. But there’ll be frickin weeks bro, where I could walk right there and I don’t go in. And finally my girls like you get the freakin water. Your energy’s way off. I go in. I’m done. I’m back. I’m homeostasis right around there. So when you’re working with clients, one on one, Craig, is there any good during the discovery period? Is there any good question that you wish they would ask you, but never do?

Unknown Speaker  17:34  

Oh, wow, this is this is really, this is a good one. And I’m gonna have to think about this for a second.

Unknown Speaker  17:42  

It’s time to shine today, baby. Gotta be ready.

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Gotta be gotta be go. I wish I wish they would ask me. I wish they would ask me what’s possible. When I let go of my current belief?

Unknown Speaker  18:03  

Yeah, that’s awesome, man. Because I’m sorry, I’m taking notes real quick. But like, you mentioned something earlier, that you know, positive thinking everyone’s like for you, man, you’re so positive and like, I’ll just have a shitty day on the golf course or a crappy paddleboard, sesh or whatever, right. And they’re like, how that positive thinking worked for you. I’m like, might not have worked. But I’ll tell you something that works. And 100% of the time is negatively. You know, I’m saying it’s like positive thinking. I can drop the neutral, right? And just be like, okay, man, I can reset and go. It’s like my girls like getting freakin ocean. It’s like, pushing me to neutral. And they get the ocean. I’m reset, right? And that’s what I’m hearing out of that is to let go of those negative beliefs. So what they can do to do that, that’s fantastic. That’s what everybody really should ask their coach squat, especially someone like Craig, who’s walked a dark path leveled up and is just actually absolutely crushing it right now. So Cray, let’s move it a little bit to the positive man a little bit here, which we have been because the story is fantastic. But what’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

Unknown Speaker  19:15  

Somebody read my book. And they told me it feels as if you agonized over each and every single word. Yeah, yeah. And that to me, because I did. Yeah. And I was like, wow, it landed. It really landed and that I just I love that they today’s. He said you were so deliberate with your word choice, and it comes through love and I said that I love that because I try to do that when I speak. I try to do that when I write because our words matter. Do

Unknown Speaker  19:49  

you stay present or that that that keyboard you were present? You know, that’s why it seemed like it I can’t wait in spite. I’m terrible that I’m read the book yet. And I Want to dig into it right away? So, Craig, what’s the best constructive criticism you’ve ever gotten?

Unknown Speaker  20:08  

The best constructive criticism I’ve ever received was I’m gonna actually go back to the book. And so I sent my book out to a bunch of beta readers. And I think it’s important for anybody who wants to write a book, have beta readers are going to give you honest feedback. If one person says they don’t like something, that’s an opinion, if more than three people say that they don’t like something is your problem. Got to get in. I’ll tell you. I was I am as raw and vulnerable, as transparent as I could be in that book. But there was one thing that I missed. And that was really getting into the details of my crime, because I thought people wouldn’t be interested. Hell yeah, they’re instructed. And I’ll tell you why. Now, Scott, I’ll tell you why. It was I can, I can pull apart myself no problem. But to go that extra distance of pulling apart, the crime rate was a place I was not exactly willing to go to. And the people were coming back and saying, We got it. We got to have more. We got to know what you did and how you did it. And it was painful.

Unknown Speaker  21:11  

Yeah, I was just gonna say, It’s freaking painful, man. Because that’s you’re having to relive the hardest frickin part. Right? And it’s like, it’s like the, you know, every frickin day starts at 12am, right? I mean, on the clock. It’s dark. Yep. At 12am. Right, freakin Sunday, come up for six more hours. You had to write those first six hours of the day, for that day to be complete, which is that book, right? Yes. Yeah, that’s I’m glad those beta testers did that. Because you wonder what my beta testers did. When I sent them a rough copy. Like three months ago, they said start over. That’s what they said to me, dude. So it’s like, dude, I’ll tell you what they ask of you is awesome. Dude, that that. Thank you for being transparent with that. And thank you for getting the book again. I can’t wait to get into it. So, Craig, how do you want you’ve walked past? How old are you? By the way? If you don’t mind, sir.

Unknown Speaker  22:01  

I am. I’m 48 Wow, dude, we

Unknown Speaker  22:04  

look good. You know your guy. I’ll be 50 next month. So like, we’re right in that same genre, bro. You know, anyway, yeah. Thanks, man. Awesome. So let me ask you something like this, then? What age physically no friggin lie to me. What age would you stay physically for the rest of your life? With the knowledge you’ve gained? And continue to garner knowledge? What age physically would you stay for the rest of your life quickly?

Unknown Speaker  22:36  

Physically, this is a good one. Mentally, I wouldn’t change thing physically,

Unknown Speaker  22:39  

right. That’s what I’m saying. You keep all of it. But what you learned to 48

Unknown Speaker  22:44  

I gotta go. I gotta go. Physically, I got to go back to my mid 20s. I was very cute. In the gym.

Unknown Speaker  22:50  

You do? Yeah. It’s like I say 28 to 32. Because, you know, I mean, I have to get on my ashtanga yoga mat. Now, I’ve got to do is my trampoline, I’ve got to just do stuff to clear my lymph system at 49 years old, before I can even frickin walk the dog. You know, I’m saying because I put my body through such a grinder with the military and bodybuilding and martial arts and stuff. So I thank you for being honest and transparent with that. So the path that you’ve walked is just frickin it’s, I say, awesome. But you know what I mean? You know, it’s like, it’s crazy. It’s very unique. And that’s why people are attracted to you to help them. But how do you want your dash? Remember, that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date? Lifetime death date on your tombstone? How do you want your dash room

Unknown Speaker  23:36  

he lived with integrity. Love it. And then, to add to that, he lived with his he lived by his values.

Unknown Speaker  23:48  

You overcame some sick obstacles to man, right? I’m sorry to add on to your life story. That’s what I get from you, man. It’s like your guys. You’re gonna be sliding across home plate, bombed, bruised, battered, but you’re gonna be bringing such a helpful support staff with you, man. You know what I’m saying? There’s people that’s been there.

Unknown Speaker  24:09  

Our, our, our pain, our pain is what creates art. Right? And that art can be coaching. It can be books, it could be painting, it could be music, but our pain is an opportunity to create our own art dude. And we have a very huge we’ve got, we’ve got it, we’ve got a, we’ve got an opportunity, we have a choice. You know, with that pain, when our lives come tumbling down on our burnt to a crisp, we can stay in those burn dashes. We can choose to stay in those burn dashes. Or we can choose to take that first step out of those burnt ashes into the unknown because we don’t know what we’re walking into. Because even though those burnt dashes suck, they become comfortable. They become our certainty and they become our identity. So to take that first step out is one of the biggest leaps of courage. that we can do is to take that step out and then to continue

Unknown Speaker  25:04  

and enjoy that journey during those shitty steps, right? It’s like you have to enjoy that time as well because I’m a big believer and no matter where you’re at, you’re grateful for your situation because if you’re ungrateful, there’s no way you can attract the thing so am I am I correct interviewer agree with that.

Unknown Speaker  25:21  

1,000% I have a I have a tattoo on my forearm, it’s upside down to you. It’s correct side up. For me. It says a more fatty and that is stoicism that is Latin, it means love of fate. And Nietzsche actually has a quote that I’m not going to get right. But he said my formula for greatness and a human being is more a more fatty, that one wants nothing to be different. And wouldn’t change anything for anything. And they don’t only accept it. They love it. Love it. And that is a really important thing to beat. That’s gratitude. That’s what I do. And about right now. That’s that gratitude for I’ve reached a point it took a long time. I’m grateful for being arrested by the FBI going into prison, absolutely everything getting divorced. I’m grateful, right, all of that because it’s created who I am today. And I’d love to add something on you were saying, to love the journey. You know, I think I think goals are great. I think they’re fantastic. I don’t get in a car without knowing where we’re going. Right now. We want to put something into the navigation. But I believe it’s who we become on the way to achieving our goal. That is the true reward. The process is the reward. If we’re fortunate enough to land on our goal. That to me is icing on the cake.

Unknown Speaker  26:36  

Yeah, absolutely. That’s a true reward. I love how you put that. So which Craig’s definition of a life well lived.

Unknown Speaker  26:49  

Knowing what lights you up, and spending as much time in that zone of genius as possible. And a huge component of that is service to others.

Unknown Speaker  27:00  

Yes. Well, that’s incredible, dude. Yeah, I’m writing I have a deep squat. I got like three pages of notes, man.

Unknown Speaker  27:10  

This is awesome. So time to shine today podcast versus swag. We’re back my awesome sauce friend Craig stanlon. And Craig, you and I could talk an hour easy on each one of these questions. We got five seconds. No explanations. You ready to rock?

Unknown Speaker  27:27  

Right. Let’s do that.

Unknown Speaker  27:28  

Alright, let’s love love. Greg, what’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received?

Unknown Speaker  27:35  

Fear is a compass pointing you in the direction you need to go.

Unknown Speaker  27:39  

Yes. Sure. One of your personal habits that contributes to your success. Meditation. Beautiful, beautiful other than your website Craig stanlon.com or time to shine today.com my shameless plug what website does Craig go to level up

Unknown Speaker  27:58  

Wow, you just caught me off guard I have five seconds. I’m going to I’m going to surprise everybody. It’s bring a trailer calm that’s a car website. And what that does is actually takes me out of my norm out of it takes me out of what I’m used to learning and it is one of my passions beautiful and that that is when I do some of my best thinking.

Unknown Speaker  28:19  

Beautiful yes get that that mind break beautiful so you see me like for you looks like he’s in his doldrums. It’s not he’s slumped over not looking too well other than blank canvas. What other book would you be handing me?

Unknown Speaker  28:35  

Man search for meaning.

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Yeah, Victor baby Victor,

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my man. And the alchemist.

Unknown Speaker  28:40  

Okay, Paul koito. Love it. Love it. Your most common use emoji when you text. Smiley face. Love it nickname growing up.

Unknown Speaker  28:49  

Stanley, Stanley,

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chess or checkers.

Unknown Speaker  28:53  

I want to I want to say chess because it makes me sound more intelligent. But I only know

Unknown Speaker  28:58  

how to say dude, you and I are checker Scott. Shut up. Last question. And you can elaborate a little bit on this one, but what’s the best decade of music 60s 70s 80s or 90s?

Unknown Speaker  29:09  

So I’d have to say taking a full decade ago. 70s. Okay, but my favorite band began in the 80s was your band. Metallica.

Unknown Speaker  29:20  

Okay, very cool. Like the 80s is my jam. You know, because one right? We you and I really grew up in the 80s in the 80s had the kind of the oncoming of rap, you know, with the Beastie Boys even whatnot right you’re but you also had like the British Invasion Irish invasion with you to Duran Duran big hair don’t care. It’s like do the 80s is the best frickin decade ever you every single song that’s new out there. It seems they have the hook of a song that was from the 80s like half of all songs are from like, you know, aha, you know, take on me, you know like that those songs are in the hooks are in songs today, so they can easily Ain’t man but but like the 70s brings me back to my mom and dad, like really listening and like watching them dance around a Seger Ted Nugent. You know, you know all the Allman Brothers everything. So I appreciate you saying that saying, the 70s and 80s. So I appreciate that. So Craig, we got to wind things down here pretty soon but how can we find your brother

Unknown Speaker  30:18  

Craig Stan levin.com. I’m on LinkedIn posting every single day hopefully adding value Craig sanland on LinkedIn, and Instagram posts their everyday as well Craig underscore staminodes

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Awesome in Swat all of those links will be in our show notes in Craig authored a book blank canvas, how I reinvented my life after prison. And we are going to do a book giveaway for anybody that puts in the comments. Whether it’s LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, anywhere, we’re going to just expose Craig out there. blank canvas, you put that in the the comments that will know you’ve listened to now and we will send you out time to shine today is going to purchase a book. And hopefully Craig will sign it to them and mail it to him and take care of it and Venmo you the money. But this this is just awesome. And Craig, quickly now leave us with one last Knowledge Nugget you want us to take with us internalize it take action.

Unknown Speaker  31:18  

Your past cannot define you without your consent.

Unknown Speaker  31:25  

Wow. That’s awesome. In squad we literally had a history lesson, a journey, a master class. And this guy, Craig stanlon. He wants you to feel worthy of your love, joy and happiness. He didn’t at one time and he found it by being really a go giver. To his friend that came to prison. He found slowly that love joy and happiness. You know, he wants you to find out what you want to create in your life. If you’re going to hire a coach, tell them what you want out of it, not what you don’t want. Because if you start with what you want, you’ll start attraction. That’s fantastic. And Craig some nuts, live with integrity and overcame some serious obstacles in such a go giver to help people level up, you know, he’ll remind us that our pain creates our art. So if you’re going through this shit right now, and the journey is hard. Remember, there’s a masterpiece on the other side, you know, in who you become along the way, on your journey is the true reward. It’s enjoying that journey, not just the end. But the reward is set within the journey. You want you to light, know what lights you up, and live in that zone of genius and do it from a place of gratitude. And finally, you know, your past does not define who you are without your consent. And I love this guy’s Guts Man Craig is fantastic. He levels up as healthy levels up as well. He’s humble yet he’s hungry. I can’t wait to collaborate with you in the future, my friend. Thank you so much for coming on brother.

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Scott, can I just thank you. And I want to acknowledge you very quickly for having this platform that people can come on and share their stories. And that we can impact change, because that’s why we do that is by sharing our stories and having these lines of communication. So thank you

Unknown Speaker  33:18  

love you, man. I really appreciate you saying that. We’ll talk to you soon. Okay. Absolutely, by now. Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of time to shine today podcast. proudly brought to you by Sutter in New Jersey real estate real estate excellence who can be reached at 561-249-7266 and online at www dot Sutter in nugent.com. If you’re a business owner or professional who would like to be interviewed on time to shine today, please visit time to shine today.com Flash gust. If you’d like this up, so please subscribe on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. There’s a link in the show notes to our website. Also there you will see a recommended resources. We hope that you will support our show by supporting them. If you like what you’ve been listening to, it’d be great if you could just give us a five star rating and tell your friends to subscribe while you’re at it. I’m your host Scott Ferguson. And until next time, let’s level up it’s our time to shine

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