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Time To Shine Today Podcast Varsity Squad This is Scott Ferguson, and I just had a really fun off mic off camera talk with my good friend Steve Gambling, and he’s got the silkiest smoothest radio voice.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:09:50

And he’s a he’s a this jockey veteran, and you’re gonna hear it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:09:56

But he’s also the motivational firewood Guy Steve blends positivity, visualization and humor help. You see your desired outcomes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:05

Understand your why and build action plans to achieve using this vision board his Vision Board mastery program which you’re gonna get to towards the end.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:13

So you gotta stick around for that. Coaching and events. Essentially, Steve’s helps to identify what your goals look like.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:19

Feel like sound, like an even smell like. And, Steve, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:25

The time to shine today. Podcast but first, what’s your favorite color? And why?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:10:29

My favorite color is black, because it is the color of 90% of my T-shirts that I’ve been wear ever since I saw a doctor.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:32

Whack!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:10:38

Johnny fever on Wkrp when I was 11 years old. So yes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:40

Bro. What a throwback and man I had! The I had 3 women I had a crush on in the seventh dude.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:47

Linda Carter, right Pinky, Tuscadero, weird from happy days in Lonnie Anderson, you know.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:10:51

Yup!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:10:54

Yup!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:55

And then, Daisy Duke kind of came around the eighties.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:10:57

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:10:57

So, but that’s awesome. Do that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:11:01

You brought a Wkrp. That, hey, man? Let’s get to the roots a little bit of Steve a little bit and just kind of kind of feel out where you were, how you got you are, how you’re helping people, you know level up being the motivational firewood guy.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:12

It goes right back to. When I was 11 years old I wanted to be Radio Dj. Because of Dr.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:17

Johnny Fever. I wanted to be a standard comedian because of Steve Martin.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:20

Thanks to my mom, she instilled the love of reading and writing.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:23

I wanted to write my own books and a fifth grade teacher I had to Mrs.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:28

Ferrand. Whenever I finished my work early, she would encourage me to help any of the other students who might be struggling so at 11 years old I wanted to be our Dj.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:37

A comedian, an author, and basically a coach to help other people.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:11:39

Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:41

And over the last I just turned 55 recently. So over the past 40 plus years I’ve done the all and people say, Wow, that’s a wonderful ascension.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:11:52

I’m like, well, hold on a second! I crashed and burned my entire life in between each one of these, and out of the ashes came next step.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:00

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:12:01

The next step. You know you take your nugget to gold from each.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:12:04

And I, just I basically describe my life as having a phoenix that rides a pogo stick is what it feels like some days.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:11

That’s awesome, though, like cause you with that, what I’m hearing is you built resiliency.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:17

You built the vision where you can laterally move, cause a lot of people set goals right, and goals are finished.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:24

And then what’s next? But if you have that vision seem like you’re set your vision and correct me. If I’m wrong.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:28

At like 11 years old. Still, your brain still developing. But you knew the course you wanted to go.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:12:33

Yeah, and it. And it went in almost direct interference with what my parents would tell me. You know.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:12:39

Get a good education, get a good job with a good company, put your head down for 45 years in retire with benefits.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:42

Sure!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:12:46

Well, my brain never wanted to go that way. I was all about the comedy, the writing 200, you know, creating all these things being on the radio and I used to play all the music at the parties, and I wanted to create build my own recording studio, and I had the most primitive the dual

[Scott Ferguson] 10:12:56

Right.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:01

Wow!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:13:04

cassette deck and the album. In a and I’m like I needed a third arm growing out of my chest to hit the buttons, but I used to create these little production, you know, for at the time my early teen masterpieces, which I wish I still had right now

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:16

Right, right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:13:18

I’m sitting in the second recording studio that I built in the last 20 years.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:21

Wow!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:13:22

So from all of those things I’ve been a speaker for 18 years.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:13:25

I’ve been a coach for 15 years. I did stand up for 7 years.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:27

Wow!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:13:28

I published 4 books, and I get to do everything I wanted to do. And I enjoyed a 10 year radio career as well.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:31

Wow!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:35

It’s amazing. So going back to your parents didn’t really want, I’m seeing that in their quotes, if you’re just listening here, Spot, they didn’t want you to go that route.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:44

But did they instill something of service in you when you were young?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:50

Were, they were they saying, Hey, it’s good to do this, and you just kind of took that subpoenaedly and ran with it because a lot of people come from different areas.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:13:57

Maybe the hood, or, you know, some broken down families, and they they’ve kind of transformed that way.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:14:06

Is that your story is your story? Your parents were very giving very supportive people, and if you don’t wanna answer that, that’s fine as well.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:11

Oh, no problem at all. Super giving super supportive my family, and I.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:16

We’ve always been close. My parents divorced when I was in my early twentys, but we’ve we’ve all we’ve remained close, and they were very supportive, although my dad would give you the side eye.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:26

You know I I remember one day when I was 17, I handed them the stack of notebook paper, and he thought it was a science project, and he was getting ready to, you know, analyze it and see what it was was me having rewritten syllable for syllable the entire song of

[Scott Ferguson] 10:14:26

I do?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:41

stairway to heaven all 8 min and 4 s of it about how much I hated my biology teacher in.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:14:44

Wow!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:14:46

Right, sitting in there doing it up.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:49

I’m sitting here all proud that I’m handing this to him, and he he looks at the first one he goes. What’s this?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:14:54

I said, Stay where to heaven? About my bio, teacher, and he looked at me, and he checked all the pages and he goes, if you put as much energy into studying as you did doing this silly stuff in years later, after I’d won international Awards.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:04

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:07

For the comedy bits I’d produced and written.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:08

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:09

I reminded him of that. He goes, yeah, I know what I had to say.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:12

The dead thing, and you were always proud, no matter what. If I was happy.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:13

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:17

There were happy, but they were there to pick me up each time I went back into the fire and burnt my tail feathers off the Phoenix.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:18

Right, love that man.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:25

Yet great family.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:26

That’s beautiful. My dad is the exact same way I remember those side eyes I was telling you off, Mic.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:31

You know my dad’s in, giant man. He just be like looking.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:34

He never wanted me to be the guy working on the line at General Motors.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:36

You always wanted more for me, and now he’s cool with everything but back then he’s like he’s like he called me Buck.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:15:40

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:44

He’s like Buck, really. He’s like you wanna do this.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:47

You wanna sell cars first, and I was dabbling and everything to find my way.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:50

I just never, because I did my time, the military. I never wanted to answer anybody.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:56

I always wanted to write my own ticket, punch my own plaque, so.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:15:58

But my dad now is super cool with it, but I got that side.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:01

Eye a lot. So, Steve, you work with clients, one on one or more groups, coaching clients.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:06

I do both. Yeah, I do both. As a matter of fact, some people, you know, they prefer maybe a little bit of anonymity of a group, but also the group dynamic.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:09

Sorry. Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:15

And then other people of course it’s a higher ticket price to do 101 other people say, Hey, Steve, I just want to be able to pick up the form we get on with you and just deal directly.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:17

Sure!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:22

Sure!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:23

So I do offer both. Yes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:26

Good, so let’s say you’re a discovery period with one of your one-on-one clients, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:31

Is there any secret sauce, if you don’t mind, Sharon, that during that initial discovery conversation that you start identifying that blind spot, they have?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:41

Typically, I’ll ask them what’s been going? Well, and then what’s been the most challenging thing is a lot of times what it comes down to is people believing this myth about work, life balance.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:16:51

Thank you.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:51

And that’s where so many people go off the rails because they think their lives are split into 2 things.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:16:56

Now you and I are both in this industry. We understand personal development.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:01

I burn on 33 year journey myself. I teach life in 8 major areas, physical health, emotional, well-being relationships, core values that guide you.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:09

Dude. You go. Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:09

Spirituality and faith connection to the world in a real way, and your work.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:12

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:15

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:15

There’s one, and your money all they did of these things are working together, leaning on each other, part of the foundation.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:19

Dude. Yes!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:21

24, over 7. Wouldn’t it be a fine idea to have some say in where you want your life to go?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:25

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:28

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:29

Would people see that they go? Oh, but then people go! Oh, 8 sounds like a live oh, hang on if you take care of your physical health, you get enough sleep, you eat better. Drink! Enough water!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:31

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:42

You don’t abuse the bad things you have more energy, you have more energy, you can work more, you work more.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:42

Yes.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:47

You can get more money, you get more money. You can buy back some time in freedom for your relationships.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:48

Sure!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:50

Also, if you’ve got good core values and ethics, you don’t have to look over your shoulder.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:53

Right, sounds like you could do it. You could do a comedy.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:17:55

One change affects all of it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:17:56

Bid on that with, remember the the the commercial, from the eighties, where I do more cocaine, so I can make more money, so I could work more.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:18:07

Okay. Yup.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:09

But you’re just kind of put it in the 8 area.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:18:11

Oh, yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:12

And this is the thing about you and I, brother, I mean, we’re only 4 years apart in age. Damn!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:18:16

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:17

We look good for ages, but but like a lot of people come to, I want balance, some like balance is 0 balances junk, you know.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:18:24

Yeah. Yes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:24

I’m about Harmony right? And you’re you’re a music guy, right? So I have the 8 pillars of life Harmony, you know your spiritual, your personal growth, family, community work, money, living environment, health and recreation.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:35

Right so. And I met, and you’ll love this cause. You’re a music guy.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:39

I liking it to a jazz band right?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:41

So you know your dad, or spiritual is the drums.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:47

Your money is the guitar. Your family is the piano. Whatnot?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:18:51

But if one of them is that it doesn’t sound great now, you don’t have to be Beethoven or Eddie, you know Van Halen, or whatever to be playing these interests instruments you just have to be good enough to make it sound good in each of those say I love

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:04

that we agree on that. Bro, that’s amazing. I’m all about the harmony.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:04

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:07

So, while you’re maybe in that discovery time, Stevie is.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:12

There any good question that you wish they would ask you? But never do.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:19

You know, I tend to get the questions that I’m looking for out of them.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:22

I’ve had some very unusual questions that people ask.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:24

Hmm! I’d love to hear these.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:27

Actually one of them happened yesterday. Somebody that one of my newer clients is going through the Vision Board mastery program.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:31

She was stuck on steps 2 and 3 out of 10 they’re all super simple steps, she said. I feel like I’m doing it wrong.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:34

Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:39

I said, let’s get on a call, she said. Well, is it gonna count against the calls that I get as part of the program?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:43

I said, No, no, no, you have a question or the program you call.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:48

And she said, I feel like I have an inner orangutan who gets confused, gets frustrated.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:51

Wow!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:53

And then just starts throwing stuff around the room, it just disturbed every oh, my gosh!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:19:55

Right turn, Clyde. Remember that.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:19:59

Believe me, if you knew the connection my dad and I had to that movie, Clint Eastwood, every which way, but loose with Clyde the Orangutan, which is why it resonated with me when she said that she said I have An Orangutan that gets frustrated

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:05

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:11

and just, you know, throws everything around and creates chaos in my whole life.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:15

So we were talking about it, and I said, first off, there’s no wrong way to do this program.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:19

Sure!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:20

It’s whatever works for you. I lay out the grid, the framework, I hold your hand guide you through.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:25

So earlier today, I was on one of my stock photo sites that I purchased from, and I’m going to find an orangutan wearing makeup in a funny hat.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:34

I’m gonna send it to her, and she’s gonna put it on her vision board.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:35

Love it.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:36

And that’s where I said I said why are you so scared of the orangutan?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:39

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:39

Well, she called chaos all the time. I said, Yeah, but you said your Adhd, and sometimes you get that to work for you, instead of being a victim of it and thinking it’s a bad thing, I said, why don’t we just find the sexiest coolest look at

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:45

Sure!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:49

Right.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:20:53

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:53

orangutan with makeup and a funny hat put that, and she’s by the end of the call.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:20:57

She goes. Oh, my gosh! I always thought that was the enemy!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:00

Oh, man, embrace that. Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:21:01

And it’s just weird. And she said I never even thought to put the orangutan on my vision board into into enjoy. It.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:07

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:10

Love it! Man!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:21:11

Yeah, I mean not enjoy, because it can cause chaos, but to embrace it and say, that’s just part of me in oh, I it felt so good to be on that call yesterday really did.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:16

I love that!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:20

Row. That’s amazing. Cause you’re almost for lack of being military. I call stress testing.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:25

You know, you’re almost kind of stress testing yourself to see that orangutan, and it opens up a little bit of comedy in there like you.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:33

That’s probably some of the reason why you did it, but also say, Hey, I can live with this.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:21:36

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:37

This is part of my strengths. I love it that you listen with your neck, and really lean into your clients.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:43

That’s beautiful, Steve. If you saw the movie back to the future.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:21:44

I did.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:45

Alright, man, I can’t believe it’s almost 40 years old.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:21:48

I know right?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:49

That’s crazy. Right? So let’s get that glory with Marty Mcfly. Man.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:53

Let’s go back to the double dues the 22 year old, Steve.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:21:57

Is there any knowledge on this? So much change thing is, your life has been pretty fun right?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:02

But maybe short, the learning curve blast through or level up, maybe just a little bit quicker.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:07

Would you tell us that, Steve?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:09

I wouldn’t tell that, Steve anything at all from 22 to 24.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:11

Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:14

Let’s see, 22. I graduated college by 62, one thousandth of a point which was my dad’s favorite stand-up comedy routine that his son graduated soon become this close.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:23

I was broken depressed, living on my grandfather’s couch for about a year and a half, just doing a little odd jobs, doing occasional carpentry with my dad, wishing I knew what to do with my life, and I had a friend reach out cause as friends, do why didn’t you ever follow your dream of

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:26

Hmm!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:40

being on the radio. And I just had excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse, and finally, in May of 92, I did it.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:51

I was 24 years old, went to broadcast school in Boston.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:52

Okay.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:22:56

That summer and drove back home. Got an internship at a rock station.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:22:57

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:00

We grown up listening to, and I drove to my friend’s house.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:04

And I, he said, where are you been? I said, radio school.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:06

He goes. No, I said, Yeah, he goes, get a job. It’s got an internship and of course I got the I told you so.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:11

Hell, yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:13

Yeah, of course.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:14

In the I’m proud of you. And all that. 3 weeks later that friend passed away.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:18

He was 23. I was 24, and I did.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:19

Sucks. Man.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:22

10 years on radio, and then blew that all the hell because I was exhausted.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:27

Wow! In 10 years.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:27

I did 15 years worth of hours, but it struck me that a friend believed in me when I did not, and that was the seat of me, becoming a speaker.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:32

Oh, that’s beautiful!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:35

Row that wow. That’s amazing that you go back. But almost 30 years or 30 years.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:43

And remember that. And that’s what really propelled you for.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:46

That’s amazing. Man. That’s amazing. So how do you, Steve, want his dash remembered that little line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date? Hopefully, it’s way down the road.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:23:47

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:23:56

Your life date, date, date. How do you want that dash remembered on that tombstone?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:00

I get asked this once in a while, and I say, you know what I just want.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:03

I I would love it, and be so honored, or people just said, Damn it was so much fun having this guy around because I either inspired them or encouraged them to feel better about themselves or believe in themselves, or somebody who is on the receiving end of an active kindness 200 my family and I have our

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:21

own little nonprofit called Beach bum philanthropy that was founded on leaving as many plus signs in our wake every day as possible.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:24:26

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:29

I would just. I would be honored if people just said my life was cooler because this guy was around, and I’m good with that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:24:35

That’s awesome. Yeah, that’s awesome.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:24:40

It. How about what do you think people misunderstand the most spusty?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:46

I think I have it all together, and we’re talking off the air about confidence.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:53

I had somebody blow me off for a call recently, and I finally tracked her down, and I said, Hey, you know we had a call.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:24:58

I just hope everything’s okay, she said. I’m gonna be honest. It’s kind of embarrassing.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:02

I was intimidated to be on a call with you, and I said, Why, she goes cuz you’re so confident your voice is so deep and rich, and all that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:04

Sure!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:08

Right.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:09

And I said, Well, first off, thank you. I appreciate that.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:13

But my confidence can barely drive a car, and it sure can’t buy a beer yet.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:18

You know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:18

You know it’s like you and I are Susie brothers from different mothers, because, like we might look like it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:25

We’re like a duck in a pond right?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:27

We’re floating around. But underneath Bro. We’re just treading that water ban and thank you for being transparent about that.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:32

Oh, yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:34

You’re welcome. I yep, good. I I have a dear friend who is a raky practitioner.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:35

So Steve, good. No, please go ahead.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:42

She’s also hypnotist, and one time she said, you know, I would love to to find out what your spirit animal is, and do a little guided imagery with you, and we’ve determined it’s a a rabbit racing.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:25:43

Nice.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:25:52

Across the field of tall grass toward a mountaintop. And I said, Did that rabbit happen to have a bottle rocket like duct tape to its back, because that’s the way it feels a lot of the time. And she and I still joke about that that was 10 years ago, and I.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:04

Jason Coyote being chased by a coyote, probably too.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:26:06

Oh, my! Gosh! Just racing around! But I absolutely love the authenticity and the vulnerability of it all, and openly just sharing.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:10

Love it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:19

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:26:19

This is where my life is. You know you and I are not about putting up this wall of you know the Lamborghini, the yacht, the mansion, the the private jet, the helicopter, the big Hong Kong Jewelry in the bank vault full of gold as representations of

[Steve Gamlin] 10:26:30

our lives. We’re just guys that figured it out.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:31

Yeah, love, it?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:26:34

Man. I just I love what I do. Yeah, I love this.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:36

They continue to do so as we go along. Man, that’s beautiful.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:40

So, Steve, if you in the past year give me something that you sped $100 or less on.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:50

That’s really helps you level up.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:26:54

Gratitude. Journal. Just a blank journal that I have underneath the back of my laptop, and every morning when I get up, when I hit my desk after my workout, I will write down the date.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:26:56

Beautiful, really.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:02

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:04

The words good stuff! And then 1, 2, 3 and in less than a line each.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:09

Love it.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:09

I’ve got to just describe as emotionally connected as possible my 3 favorite moments from the previous day.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:16

No broad brush, and we’re talking. Just boom, boom, boom!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:16

Love it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:19

Boom dial in it.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:19

Been doing this for 11 years, and every year I buy myself a brand new journal for about $9.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:24

Beautiful man that. Thank you. A lot of people struggle with that question, you know, because, like, Oh, man!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:27

Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:30

Upon a course, it was on, but but that just something like that is, you know, I each one of my clients says to either gratitude sandwich every day, and basically the first, line they write is they set their intention for the day in the middle is their worries for the day and underneath

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:43

Oh!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:43

it. 14 things that they’re grateful for and the fifteenth thing is, is a one sentence, love letter to themselves like Scott you’re great, that’s fucking. Go!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:50

Nice.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:52

Let’s get this done today. I love you, and they have to finish it with.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:27:56

I love you. And so the top layers, intentions, bottom layers, gratitude, and it squeezes out that middle layer of what they’re worried about today.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:27:56

Nice.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:04

And I love that you do that in the mornings, because it is a game changer.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:08

So, then, Steve, what is your definition of a life?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:11

Well, lived.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:28:13

Wife well loved, just putting your head down on that pillow at night, just smiling because you came out on the plus side today, you cause no damage, caused no pain.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:20

Yeah, though.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:28:23

You? Would you? Use your hands over and over to reach out?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:28:28

Lift some people up, even with just compliment, or holding a door, or something.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:28:32

So simple, and it’s a lesson.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:34

You and I. But we have got to meet the flush man, cause I make 2.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:38

I’m sorry, speaking this interview. I speak more than I ever have, just because I am so like you, and I like I make 2 New Year’s resolutions every year.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:45

One makes someone smile every single day in 2. Unless I’ve hurt you, disrespected you, or owe you.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:28:53

I don’t care what you think about me. Period never once I started doing that 9 years ago.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:28:56

Like that?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:01

I sleep like a baby before then it’s like tucked away.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:02

Kept awake, kept awake, you know, worried about stuff and love this man.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:05

This is this is, this is just awesome, and I squad.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:08

We’re good to take my really good friend Steve, gambling through our leveling up lightning round just as soon as we get back from thinking our sponsors and affiliates.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:16

Time to shy. Today we’re back in Steve.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:21

We will meet, I promise you. I’m gonna get you down here speaking in Florida, you know, in those cold months up there we’re gonna get you down here.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:29:23

Yes, sir.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:26

But you and I will probably sit and have a brain grenade, or if you don’t drink, we’ll have a coffee or tea or whatnot. We’ll discuss each one of these questions, maybe talk 1520 min on but today my friend, you have 5 s.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:40

With no explanations. They can all be done that way.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:42

Okay, because serious face, if you’re watching on Youtube here, we go.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:47

Steve, see what is the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:29:52

Best advice to ever see was to be yourself, and use your own voice.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:29:58

Wow! So sure one of your personal habits, and contributes to your success.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:30:05

Like, I said earlier, leaving as many plus signs in my wake as I can. All day long.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:30:09

It’s a game, and I win every single day that I do that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:12

Dude, I love that. You say that cause I’m gonna backtrack, and I’m gonna break my own rule here because I have a plus equals minus every day.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:19

Another thing might clients have got to do is plus I reach out to people that I respect and learn from them equals.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:25

It’s like you. You’re probably a little bit higher than the other coaching letter, but you know I we could share trade seekers and share things, love each other up in the minus is to lift somebody up, and I love that you do that on the daily and okay, steve back to my rules

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:40

if you see me walking down the street, you’re like, man Ferguson is doldrums.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:42

Man, what book that is really inspired? You might you hand me.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:30:46

Hans down the Go Giver, by Bob Berg and John David.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:30:50

Man. It is the single book that has impacted me personally and professionally.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:53

My neighbor Bro. He’s my neighbor. Yeah, I will.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:30:54

Mention my name.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:30:57

I will and I’m writing my breaking my rule. Dude.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:00

I’m writing my parable right now, and I give him like there’s a I’m doing it in the cities in Florida, and I’m making Bergstrom University and he laughed his ass often here because I see him for bright or seem at breakfast quite a bit you know around here that’s

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:03

Oh, nice!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:13

awesome. So you come down here. We’re gonna go knock on the store.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:16

This is beautiful. Thank you for saying that, man. It’s one of my 3 most his book, Viktor Francals.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:16

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:22

Man search for meaning, and and then, Andy Andrews, the travelers get beautiful, beautiful. So what’s your most commonly used Emoji when you text?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:26

Nice.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:32

Generally a laughing Emoji. Oh, yeah, rambling for from a radio days Ramblin gamble, man, after the Bob Seeger song, it’s how people remember my name. And yeah, I still got people calling me that. And when I hear it from like 50 feet away I go that somebody who knew me when I was younger thinner had a lot more

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:33

Beautiful nicknames growing Up.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:41

Good.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:47

Of it.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:52

hair.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:53

Just checkers are monopoly.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:31:55

Checkers.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:31:56

Yeah. Me, too. Go to ice cream flavor.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:01

Stachio.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:03

There’s a rambling in Sanwich. Build it for me.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:08

Double dose of kindness every day, a lot of laughter between, and a nice rust on that bread to just remind you that life is tough sometimes, and you just gotta keep biting through it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:21

I love it, I love it. I know you mentioned yours so you could say it again, so we could put it in the show notes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:27

But your favorite charity and organization like to give your time or money to.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:30

Locally. We worked with several nonprofits, one of which is called Liberty House.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:34

Here in New Hampshire, and they help homeless and in need. Veterans.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:37

I know you’re a veteran as well, so thank you for your dedication to freedom and we just want to give back and give these men and women who fought for freedom.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:38

Thank you for that, brother.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:32:45

Give them a reason to smile and believe.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:46

Thank you, brother. Appreciate that. And this one you have to answer it, because I know you’re gonna say it’s across the board, and you can actually explain yourself on this one a little bit.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:32:55

But what is the best decade of music? 60 seventies, eighties, or nineties?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:00

You gotta pick one, Stevie.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:33:00

I get a I got a well, I’ll tell you what, and I’ll give you the reason why the sixties, because every time we lost my dad 4 and a half years ago, anytime we’re doing carpentry projects together, we’d listen to oldies and I built this recording studio 2

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:13

Yeah. Man.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:33:15

weeks after he passed away I started building all I listened to was oldies the whole time, so that he was here with me.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:33:21

So I’m gonna go with 60.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:22

Yeah, I dread that day if I all live.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:33:26

Yup!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:26

My dad, man, you know, and it’s like I lost my mom 3 years ago.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:30

We had a really good connection. But you know, me and my dad dated.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:32

It’s just like the music that we would have on cause.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:36

I was thought you were, gonna say, the seventies. To be honest with you, but you know I’m a eighties, Guy, I went to.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:42

Yeah. I was born in 72, but whenever I’m editing a podcast or even writing my book, I had the seventies on cause.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:33:48

Yeah. Yes.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:49

They knew how to tell stories. Dude, you know, like from crochet the all those you know like foot to those folk guys to seeger and you could understand the words.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:33:59

And it’s just it’s beautiful in the eighties.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:34:01

This is kind of what I grew up in so many invasions from everywhere in the eighties, with you 2 and Duran Duran, you know stuff like that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:34:07

So. No, I appreciate, appreciate you saying that, and share that memory with your father. So, Steve, how can we find you, my friend?

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:14

Nice and easy. Steve gamlin.com g a m l I n.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:34:19

Love it, lovely, and I’ll have. I’ll use.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:34:21

You he’s pretty. He’s on every social network here.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:34:23

When I’ll put those all in the show notes. But Steve Tulsa, a little bit about your Vision Board mastery program.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:30

Yeah, one of the biggest things out there is. People here vision boards, visualization. They go.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:35

Oh, I went to a vision board party once, and I say, Oh, let me guess.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:38

It sounded like this. We’re gonna have wine, cheese cracker, scissors, glue sticks, glitter, magazines, poster boards.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:45

They go. Yeah, I go. What happened? Oh, it didn’t work.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:48

Here’s why here’s why I created my program when I blew my life up 20 years ago.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:53

Radio career. First, marriage and any shred of financial stability gone, I put it back together.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:34:57

Out of the ashes, and slowly learned all this stuff. And then I created a program because somebody said, Oh, Steve, I love what you did with your life.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:35:05

How can I do mine? I took all my notes, recorded them, and made a program out of it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:11

Oh!

[Steve Gamlin] 10:35:11

It is literally the journey that I took to put my life back, together with my voice guiding you.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:15

That’s awesome dude.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:35:18

That’s literally how it all came about. It was not this grand plan to fleece the world with another motivational project?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:24

Yeah.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:35:24

It’s actually straight out of my notes in my journey, and and I love it when it resonates for people in that they get it because of something that I struggle through, and just took a lot of notes on.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:34

That’s awesome. I believe what vision works.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:40

I have mine over here, and it looks nothing like a vision board.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:42

Most of my stuff is like postings in quotes, and you know, stuff like that.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:47

Actually, Bob Berg is right at the top. The 5 laws of chances are success right from the go giver.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:53

But you know, it’s it’s a because people would go through like motivation, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:35:59

You know. Firewood, motivation Guy, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:02

But when they leave, even if I speak, and I level up an audience, you know it’s they lose that they make it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:09

It wanes on them a vision board. If you set it up the way that works for you works, it keeps that subconsciously kind of coming into your peripheral.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:36:17

Oh, yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:18

I love it, love that you do that. And, Steve, if you could give me one last solid and leave us with one last knowledge target we can take with us, internalize and take action on.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:36:26

Yeah, know what your goals look like. Feel like, sound like an even smell like.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:36:31

Attach every sense to any goal you’re thinking about, and even more important, find it deeply, emotionally connected to your gut reason why you want something, and that is going to be the gas in your tank.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:36:45

The why is going to keep a little pebble from becoming a Jersey barrier, and the deeper you can connect to where I mean, if it makes you cry because you want it so bad you’re pretty close.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:48

Wow!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:54

Yeah, and you’ll get after that as well for sure and squad.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:36:56

Oh, yeah.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:36:59

I just had one of my funest conversations ever with somebody that kind of apired to be Dr.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:05

Johnny Fever from Wkrp, where Dayton ourselves a little bit, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:08

He? He enroll models like Daddy kind of looked at that role. Models.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:12

But you know things aspire to Steve Martin but he came from a family that was about service that always wanted to help, you know, and when he starts to work with clients he digs deep with powerful questions to find out what’s been going well, in their life.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:24

What’s been going wrong with their life? What is their biggest challenge?

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:27

And he’ll set up a protocol to help you work through it.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:29

Him, and I really agree with disagree, with harmony, I’m sorry, with Balance.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:34

Balance is kind of 0 people. We’re more about harming and taking his 8 pillars or my 8 pillars and mesh them together to to blend into just something awesome, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:43

Steve, someone that listens with all his senses, that and, like you mentioned just a minute ago, all his senses.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:49

But he listens, and I really believe he’s a coach that listens with his knack man.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:37:53

He really leans in and wants you. It wants to get your story, your why, so he can set up that plan of attack you know, in he loves he. I’ve really heard that he trusts his intuition, you know.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:04

Follows his dreams, and we didn’t know how to.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:08

He got us asking here and ask people to help for that guidance you know he wants to be remembered as someone had Dn.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:14

It was so much fun having Steve breathing air on this earth because he made people better you know, and some of this transparent that admits he doesn’t have that all together, and I absolutely love that transparent. That admits he doesn’t have that altogether and I absolutely love that transparency because Steve

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:27

is someone that I believe is planning trees. He’s never gonna sit in, you know, sit in the shade of.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:32

And that’s kind of people I want to line with, and I know that you want to line with as well.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:37

He’s someone that wants to go to bed. With a smile and a face, and he knows that he’s served, inspired, and lifted people up.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:42

He wants you to, and he knows that he’s served, inspired, and lifted people up.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:42

He wants you to be true to your own voice, and know what your goals look like.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:38:46

Taste, like to like touch like what any kind of senses emotionally connected those goals to your gut in your wire will show up in the protocol will appear, and that’s what my good friend Steve does.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:39:00

He levels up his health, he levels up his wealth. He’s humble yet.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:39:03

He’s hungry. He’s got that selfie sexy, smooth radio voice.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:39:06

So I just absolutely love this guy. He’s earned his varsity letter.

[Scott Ferguson] 10:39:09

You’re a time to shine today. Absolutely love your gusty. Thank you so much for coming on, brother.

[Steve Gamlin] 10:39:12

My pleasure!

[Scott Ferguson] 10:39:14

We’ll chat soon my friend

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