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CrazyFitnessGuy Healthy Living Podcast - Igniting Your Inner Genius with Pete from Fire in the Belly
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Jan 1, 2025
Send us a textJoin us for an inspiring conversation with Pete, the host of the "Fire in the Belly" podcast. In this episode, Pete shares his journey from feeling lost and overwhelmed to becoming a proud author, mentor, TEDx speaker, and investor. Discover how he tapped into his inner genius and overcame challenges, including his experiences with ADHD and dyslexia. Learn valuable insights on setting priorities, managing time, and finding your passion. Don't miss this episode filled with motiva... Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/22662166?utm_source=youtube
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the autism spectrum to live Healthy Lifestyles if you think this podcast is only for people who are autistic then
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welcome your host Jimmy CLA who is a motivational speaker autism Advocate author and founder of crazyfitnessguy
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another episode of crazy Fitness guys healthy living podcast I got my friend Pete here today he hosts the podcast
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fire in the belly and uh we're just gonna have a an interesting conversation
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welcome aboard awesome thank you very much Johnny it's a absolute pleasure to be here so thank you thank you for your
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time so uh tell me a little about yourself oh tell me about me wow um lots
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I'm let's you a pro PR author of a new book called be heard to be rich um so of listen to your in a
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genius so that literally is there couldn't be any fresher off the press I think it arrived in yesterday and we
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launch next Thursday so um that's been great uh I am a mentor a speaker a tedac
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speaker uh father and investor so um yeah lots lots about me really but um
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really where a lot of this all Chang for me was about 4 years years ago and just took a massive turn in my life really I
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suppose and and it really was just from a point of just being a bit lost and and
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overwhelmed to where I am today I mean four years ago I certainly wouldn't have been coming on here having the
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opportunity to speak to yourself it would have been very different you know so a lot of things change and you know yourself Jimmy it's h sometimes you got
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to decide you got to make a decision to change and that's the stage I got to uh it didn't happen overnight and it took
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time but but uh but like I sort of try and say in in in the book there it's you know be heard to be rich is because you
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know quite often all the answers you need are within you and the reasons why you know we can inherit reasons why from
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other people but uh you've got to do it for you you know it doesn't matter what other people think at the end of the day
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uh it's down to you and you got to listen to yourself and and that's what I've done and that's what I help a lot of my Mente to to do so um yeah that's a
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very quick base here in in little old Ireland and uh yeah so and I've got the
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fire on the belly podcast myself which is just talking about people's passions so similar to yourself Jimmy really you
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know so how did you um so I have a question how did you uh so how did you
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get uh started with yourh tedex experience tedex experien is number of
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things happened that um a local guy actually sort of took on the local license and um really it was just sort
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of I've been sort of working with him and and uh liasing with him in terms of
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actually other events he was running so um just pretty much sitting as the in the background and just helping with the
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overall visioneering and the masterminding so pulling together a bit of a plan and the opportunity came up
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from that to say well listen you know why not come in and uh listen it's been a bit of a bucket list for me and I I
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love a a bucket list or a love list whatever you want to call it um you know you know it's uh it's really just
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putting it out there and so it was it was awesome you know something there a chance to put it out there and and put
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it into the world so it's great but like anything of course you get a taste for it and then you you want to do more and
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um so yeah hopefully there's more coming up but that's how the whole tedex experience came about and do you know
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what it's great fun to stand on the spot um it's bit of a funny year because obviously there was no audience so we
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were it was all in a TV studio um but it was great listen it was was awesome to
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to have it out there and to share so yeah no it's been a really fun experience so it's really good I'm
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jealous because I'm I really want to do one of those and and uh I have I have
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I'm basically down to the editing part and uh I even submitted uh to Ted Talk I
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submitted to uh just other places to share it and
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uh I'm so was trying to get to the editing part because uh that's the part
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where I dislike I like gotta shave this off gotta shave this off gota narrow it down
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I was like is it too long is it too short I don't know well there's a great there's a great book called um well the
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Ted Talk is one and then talk like Ted so there's actually two books and there's a great description in there is
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saying you you pick your idea what you like to speak about and then you divide it in half and then you divide it in
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half again and that's roughly you'll probably still have too much information so that's you know people they do that
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they've got 10 minutes and they try and you know put in their whole life journey and couple of the solutions and a few
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other things as well right you know so um 10 minutes is not long I mean mine came in at I think it was 11 minutes
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something um you know so it's it's but it's amazing how much you can talk about in 10 minutes and vice versa it's
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amazing how much you don't have time to talk about as well so it it's you have no time for space but listen some people
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turn up and wing it some people practice for a long time um you know I had a
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coach to to sort of help me as well because it's different it's not like a normal talk um you know so it's that's
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why taking a bit of time and I'm lucky it's it's been put on to all the the T platforms and you know it's out there so
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uh yeah it's fun but sure listen it's it's another thing ticked off so you'll get there join no time at all you know
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just keep being persistant at it you know definitely uh so how did you come
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up with the name fire in the belly for your podcast super interesting I mean really
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back in uh 2017 I I got to the stage um I I basically had as close to a
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breakdown as you can have and I got to the stage of searching in my life not knowing what it was all about um as
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close to a midlife crisis if you'd like to call it that as i' as anyone's ever had
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and I I kind of found myself we we just had we had to shut down a company um so
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we laid off staff and I had young kids and just sitting there going what's it
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all about you know conveniently at 37 and a half years of age and you know I now look back at it as
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you know that's sort of midlife crisis or midlife opportunity and and I was sort of saying yeah everything's great
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and we've a couple of years paid off the mortgage and the kids are sort of growing up or they're you know babies and and getting there and just when you
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should have your story together was kind of the one time we're going I don't know
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what I want you know we've literally just let go of a company kids are there and I'm having to do more be more I need
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to work harder I need to earn more and yet I couldn't work any harder I mean the stress levels were through the roof
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already so you're saying how do you do that and I got to meet the likes of ground Cardone and a few other people
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and you know you look at them and you saying you're you know you're working
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similar hours to me maybe more maybe less you know you meet different people and yet their outcomes are totally
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different you know so it's saying it's not a case of you know my original mindset was I need to work more and then
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that's when I it was a case of going I actually I my formula's wrong I need to change my
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formula and what happened basically over the following 12 months is you know as we had twin girls just shortly after
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that as well you know as if I hadn't enough on my plate at that time time and and I had depression as well I talk about that openly I've had two bits of
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depression in my life and um I I was pushing between girls up the road and
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I'm sitting here going how is it that some people are you know they they sort of get up in the morning and they go and
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turn on the TV and that's it you know and yet some people get up in the morning and go and reinvent the world
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they speak on stage they write a book they you know be crazy Fitness guy they
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do whatever they do right you know they they really want to excel they're hungry they're thirsty for more and more and
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more so it's like what's the difference you know and I just rotting through my head and it's kind of going I know my
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for is wrong so I mean how do they know do they go by gut you know God Instinct do they they talk about intuition they
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talk about you know this fire in the belly or they talk about you know your passion or your desires you know and you
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know that's fire in the belly it's like fire in the belly that's a really kind of it's a weird term but you know what's that about you know what does it
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actually mean and that's exactly I just started asking that question I literally I know the time and day that the whole
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fire in the B concept just dropped into my head but I loved it straight away simply because I can talk to you and
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we're thousands of miles apart and yet you'll know what I mean right and it's nothing to do with race or gender or you
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know nationality or anything right it can be applied to anything some people may not know the term some people may
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but when you talk about a passion or a burning desire like oh yeah I get that you know it doesn't matter who what age
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group you talk to and that's what I loved about it it was completely you know non- denom and so it actually
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allowed people just to so you to talk and so I I was asking the questions for
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me really and and I started off with my own family and my brother-in-law and sat down and going what is far in the belly
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mean to you and we ended up having like a two and a half hour conversation unintentionally it was just we got
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talking about it and like only for the fact I had to go and pick up the kids from school or from Nursery you know we
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would have still been talking right but it from the very very first conversation I just knew straight away there was
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there's something about fire in the belly and it's Unique to everyone um what does it for me Jimmy may not do it
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for you or vice versa and that's okay but when someone finds their fire in the
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belly or their passion you know because their energy level is high they're doing
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it you know even if they're not getting paid they're doing it because they love it or they think there's something there
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or there's a passion they want to share with the world so that's so common you know that people talk about that and you
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know you hit somebody's you know passion project if you like and they'll talk forever you know here's me for example
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I'll talk no problem you know so bit of a long-winded version but that's kind of how far in the belly came
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about and sounds better than my uh story of CRA how crazy Fitness guy got his
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name uh for uh I'll give you a secret um
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and tell you a funny story one may not really funny but but they uh I was known
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as a different name when I was uh back then and
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um uh but then it was infringing on someone's else's uh trademark uh I
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didn't know that at the time because well you can't figure out any government website uh I can read it I didn't know
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how to read it I didn't know how to work it so um I I kind of uh yeah I infringe
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upon it by accident and I can't say the name because I don't want to infringe upon it again uh I think I let it there
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on one podcast and I hope it doesn't bite me in the butt uh but yeah and then I changed my
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name and since someone had crazy Fitness guy registered I took it is see I told you it doesn't it's not
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it why not right you know because but when you see an opportunity because other people will see that and go well
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that's interesting whereas you had the passion in the energy to actually follow through with it right
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true I I just like your story better well it's it's it's taken a long
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time to get to my story there's a lot of pain and and even now it's like I it it's kind of weird CU people going well
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what's you know what's my fire in the belly and and what I find through this process and even writing the book there
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and doing all that is actually I love talking to people I love finding out their passion and you know and it's it's
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such an amazing thing cuz um we talk about it and saying when's the last time you got to talk about you for one hour
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two hours completely without judgment in an open space safe space you know
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and it's amazing actually the number of people that have never had a chance to do that it's really bizarre you know and
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it's generally people say well I maybe never have or it's been years or maybe if you have a counselor or
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something else but quite often even with a counselor right because we're looking at the past you know so it's very rare
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that you actually take this you know almost this sort of beach chair view of your life and you sit at 10,000 you know
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foot and and look back and saying well this happened when I was young and here's where I am today and here where I want to go in future and you know I I'm
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not there to judge them I don't know them so um but for some reason it just seems to actually you know light people
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up a bit you know because it is positive and we do say listen you know we pre-record but there is a high chance of it actually going you know out to the
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public um and for that reason it just it it kind of fills a very unique space and
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then for me listening and actually asking those questions it's it's quite key and quite often people don't even
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realize that language they use or they don't realize that certain things they'll emphasize or certain things
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they'll what's most common is actually I call it the seven-year pattern and it's so common there that people will do
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things in in seven-year Cycles so they'll have a job they'll you know they'll work hard at the job and then
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they'll get itch to your feet and they'll want a new job and but it tends to run in seven-year cycles and and for
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so many people you can actually plot it and you can see whether they're on the dip or they're on the peak of the cycle or where they're at you know and listen
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it's I mean you can read into that what you will but quite often it's just knowing where you're at and you know
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where you know where your options are Etc you know it's it's it's key it's key for a lot of people you know so that's
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super interesting I must say I really enjoy it and uh how when you speak um uh
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what are the topics that you speak about so my so my my background is I'm a
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property investor so um I started 20 21 years ago now uh buying property bit
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like Monopoly uh it just kind of got a little bit out of hand um so that's the
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one thing I've always had that in my background and I'm I'll save everyone the math I'm 41 so I started when I was
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20 um and it just made sense right because you you you know you bought the property you you took on a mortgage or
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you know a debt and you know as long as the rent was greater than the you know the cost of the debt then that's fine
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right you just you know you just collect the rent and pay the pay the mortgage um
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and that sort of went on but that was always in the background um we fast forward 21 years now and you know a lot
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of those properties that I bought 21 years ago now have double treble quadruple in value so that's done quite
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nice for me um you know so that's something and and I mean that that portfolio has grown um quite
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substantially so that's been awesome and I love you know that's essentially I Mentor a lot of people on not just
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property but assets because an asset I mean this this recording is an asset right you know
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because we're talking here today this recording can be used um put on a
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podcast it could be put on a YouTube channel but the point is it can always work while you're not working so you can
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go to sleep and people anywhere in the world could watch this and so that's that gives it an asset gives it a value
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so then what you do with it then you could transcribe this podcast you could take short clips you could do you know
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basically our challenge is always to try and more than 10 things with every podcast
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um and then you can do up to 99 things at least if possibly more but you know
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it's actually doing that so monetizing and really sort of pulling value out of assets and property is no different you
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know an asset an asset can be that book that book is is an asset you know it's anything there that you can own but you
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don't necessarily need to turn up to run so you know because if you if you have a
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job you know the is always that if you don't turn up for work how long do you think you'll stay employed
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zero so right so but where you know you put out your podcast show and you know
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if you sort of decide to lie in tomorrow morning and and not get up you know that hasn't an effect on the podcast I mean
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longterm yes it's a problem but short term you know there is no difference you can still listen to the shows you can
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still do all that so by becoming a asset-based person so it talks about all
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about assets and liabilities everything in your life is an asset or a liability um so I do a lot with people there is
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actually helping them to actually build wealth on their side I also talk to people about um depression my own mental
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health and like say my own two two phases of depression in my life but I suppose really the the fun part I like
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is is often is the the mentoring and you know the sort of the intuitive coaching
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quite often which is which is super fun and that's kind of a version from the
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podcast show but often I have a lot of shows that actually don't go to air because either it gets too emotional for
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people or uh it ends up that actually this it's the story is much bigger than
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they've said um so I realized straight away I was going this is this is not just a podcast show this is like could
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be sex shows it could be a book it could be you know a whole training program you
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know 50 different things so helping people to actually unwrap that you know and uh
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really should have pull that through and that's what I love to see and then you know when you're working with people and helping them Define their passion so
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that's just some of the things I do let alone being a father and being generally just busy and and being a podcast host
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and all the rest you know so busy life but probably property is the one thing that always come backs property and
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mentoring would be my my main things and most people would know me for the podcast
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so I know how you feel about being very busy the last few weeks weeks have been
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I took a Hiatus break this week of creating new content because um it just
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because I had so many different house showings at different times uh I also had uh I'm just going
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through uh like I'm getting ready for a season two of my podcast and I was like
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I want to be fresh for the ne for uh season two and I was like I'm not making
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anything plus I had a test for our college that landed on a Tuesday and so
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I was like wait that goes right into my editing day and I was like no not done it I'm not rushing I I'm not gonna go on
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Monday and edit the whole thing on Monday and get it up for this week because if I rush I'm going to miss
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something and mess up the editing or something it's not going to turn out the way I wanted to and I'm like nope I
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don't have a good feeling about this I like I'm taking a break like everybody doesn't like him I don't
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year no it's totally and and it's I mean that that it brings up a great point because I mean knowing what you're good
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at or what you've Ed for is absolutely key and this is something that took me a long time and I was only diagnosed with
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dyslexia and ADHD it was only about well it was two years ago now um and you kind
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of going you're 41 I mean you were diagnosed at 39 I was like Yeah because it was actually my got diagnosed and
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then with my girls I thought well if my niece has it and I know my sister you know and I would be very similar so it's
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like well I'll get diagnosed so then at least we know to look out for and my daughters and unintentionally that then
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you know I sort of going right well I was diagnosed straight away and um I hadn't expected the ADHD the dyslexia
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yes the ADHD was a bit of a curveball but um so from that you know
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because and even the assessor was saying do you ever notice that you know there's times when you can be
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super creative or there's certain things that always slow you down so I would go to a meeting and I'd be very interactive
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and then it would you know go to one hour meeting but it would take me three hours to write up the notes from the meeting and I would procrastinate on it
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and I would delay on it and I would do all this and essentially what what actually triggers and gives you that
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dyslexia diagnosis is that you know your reading and writing skills would be lower than average but yet for me anyway
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my create ity my int intuitive and visualization were above average so
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overall I'm above average IQ so it's not that I can't read and write I'll just never read or write for pleasure or
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Leisure so when you know that you know and and I it was only afterwards I saw
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there's so many things in my life I was doing so I would chat to someone was going will you send me an email with that yeah yeah yeah yeah three days
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later I don't know and suddenly it becomes like this mental burden so really since then that's why I've sayen
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with the I now have an editing team and I go guys love doing the recording there's a recording shout if you need
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anything yet Happy Days you know and because I know if when it comes down to that that detail that's just not me
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whereas before I would have given myself a really hard times like oh you're lazy you're silly you're you know you're not
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smart you're this you're that the other whereas now I'm going it's just not my thing you know let me be creative let me
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go intuitive let me I mean I'll I'll doodle on you know anything the size of a wall and we'll map out somebody's hair
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brain idea and we'll go crazy but ask me to write a list or read a page out of a
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book it's kind of ironic because I run reading groups but um you know ask me to do that without duress or pleasure or or
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you know any sort of focus I won't do it you know my wife's completely different she can read a book from cover to cover
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and she can then pick out which page it says XY Zed I in the meantime would have made four cups of coffee walk the dog
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gone and spoke to the Post man and probably gone into town and gone to the shop or something instead of sitting
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down and reading the book so knowing your pleasure or knowing your pleasures knowing your strengths I think
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there so many people don't always do that you know so that's the point of listening to your inner genius what what
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lights you up what just isn't your thing and it's okay you know it's okay to say
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listen I'm I'm just not I'm maybe not a good listener or you know I'm just not somebody that's interested in history or
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I'm not interested in you know anything you know just engineering you know we're
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all different creatures and sometimes I do think we try and wear a lot of caps when actually if you just reclaimed that
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that's just not your thing and said yes but my thing is this and anything that's
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not my thing then I will find somebody else or I will earn enough money to go and pay somebody to do it or I will
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accept that I have to do it for a certain time to then ultimately give it away you know but instead how often do
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we faster with something and say all will and we give ourselves a hard time you know my my sister's better at this
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or my dad did this or someone else did this okay they're not you but we do we hang on to it we we give ourselves a
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hard time instead of just going it's just not me and that's okay and that's
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not who I am and that's okay with me I'm happy Let It Go move on and that that
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for me you know it's been it's been huge I'm one of those people who can read a book to uh front to cover but uh
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it depends on what the book I'm reading and what it's for if it's for if I have
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to read something for school I get it done but it's like this
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is tormenting or this is I'm like uh this I'm like I give you an example my
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my English class back in um uh last semester like I did well in the class uh
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it was just so much depressing stuff we were reading I'm like I don't want to
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read this I like where did you find this the most depressing section of the internet or what because even I can even
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if I typed into Google a thousand different things there's no way I could find out all this depressing stuff
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myself I was like I I wouldn't even want to go looking for it yeah it's it's amazing what I mean it
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depends what you want to learn right and the reason why you know and before I had
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no interest in you know running a podcast editing software you know it just didn't even come on my radar but
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suddenly then it becomes relevant you know but even for me now running the podcast I know it's for me it's probably
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step three of 13 you know so the podcast is good but it's like it's only it's leading to somewhere it's not the end
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product you know so it's it's funny how you'll learn differently and whereas
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before I wouldn't have shown an interest in that or you know I'm not a cover to cover person you know the like yourself
30:34
who who does actually read stuff then you know sort of look down whereas I will you know I will actually sort of
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try it I'm I'm very kinesthetic so very much you know trying by doing by you know giving a go um sometimes it works
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and sometimes it doesn't that's okay you know it's whatever whatever is right really you know so uh I was wondering
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would you be willing to give me a little bit of insight of uh what it's like to
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live with ADHD or sure sure it's um it's interesting
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the so there there's two types of the the attention deficits you have hyper disorder so you have ADD you have ADD ad
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and ADHD so the the hyper bet is variable and interestingly even whenever
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they go through so I had my assessment very late in life really um I mean
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probably best to take you back to when I was roughly around 12 and I gone into
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you know year equivalent of high school secondary school here and what was
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happening was you know I was very much square peg in round hole and what tends
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to happen there when you can't either keep up or you're not necessarily fully understanding quite often you will do
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potentially disguising Behavior okay and for me that disguising Behavior was causing trouble
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bullying just generally being a bit of a menace the truth be told was that
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actually I couldn't necessarily either Focus or you know just the training or
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the the the sort of the learning program that suited everyone else didn't suit me
32:16
um and I love it I mean there's different quotes and and one J Sher talks about which is an older quote but
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he talks about you know why would you teach a fish to climb a tree right and that's kind of what it was for me um now
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some people will have ADHD or add at that young level I don't know because I was never
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assessed at that age what can tend to happen is that actually then the that will actually
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sort of wear not wear off but it becomes less prevalent when you become an adult you have another type where it's
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actually not that you know it doesn't occur that much as a younger person but actually becomes more recognizable as an
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older person so I I don't know I mean as I would suspect you know as as a young person I
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certainly had dyslexia uh I suspect there was ADHD in there too
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um what happened through school is that ended up I was more or less you know
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suicidal um simply because I was trying hard um and yet school was saying I
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wasn't trying hard enough and I wasn't focusing and I was causing trouble and you know I was saying well that was me
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trying my best you know and and they're saying well you know all my report cards always said you know if he just focused
33:33
or if he just tried he could do so much better you know shows so much potential but there's always a butt right and and
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you kind of eventually go do you know what I've tried hard I've tried focusing
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I've tried doing this I've tried doing that so you know what I can't win so instead I'll just go the other way you
33:52
know and that's that's through my that's why never recognize I mean the schooling system that I went through a very good
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schooling system but it just wasn't for me it just wasn't the right foot for me um really through adults what would
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happen is I would mixture of massive procrastination massive procrastination
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so you know you put things off you you know without sounding obvious but great
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ideas but then you know you you'd sort of not do certain things or if the certain tasks that were fairly menial um
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would then basically be like a huge speed bump that would slow you down and it wouldn't be until there was a lot of
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back pressure a lot of angst and worry and concern and then you know I used to talk about it about being you know s of
34:37
I was an arsonist firefighter and that you know I would wait till something you know was sort of
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you know basically you trying to do something and wait till it was getting really bad so I would set the building on fire metaphorically I would hasten
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out but I'd set the building on fire and then at the 11th Hour i' come and put the fire out and I was look at me I put
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the fire out how good am I yep yep you know that's me sorted out all the problems and that's great Until you
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realize going yeah you did and you did you know and that's where I'm most creative is at the 11th R when the
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pressure's on pressure pressure is for diamonds by the way but um you know but
35:17
onlyone to look back is kind of going you put the fire up but you also started the fire you know it's like this didn't
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need to be didn't need to be a huge big you know Panic urgent crazy C
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task because it could have been done days ago weeks ago whatever it was and
35:33
that's where ADHD started to come in or else you know I say to people and now it's like I'm going send don't send me
35:40
an email with any more than two paragraphs absolute maximum any more than two in fact sometimes even one more
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than one paragraph I'm not reading it you know and it's like I don't mean to be rude but it's just it's just not my
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thing and it's kind of hard cuz even my wife would s say oh can you read that or I sent you that link can you not just
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you could you not just go and read that and it's kind of going nope uh it's not that I can't but I won't sit still long
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enough and going through so there there's different things like that which you know it's it's kind of flashy attention you know
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it's you know just different ideas different suggestions but then you know a massive list of things you haven't
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done and that the problem is also that can then sit on your mind and go oh I failed at this and I haven't done this
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and there you know there's a World's full of things I haven't done um so you can then
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look at the medication route and I have gone on different types of medication I'm not on any any medication at the
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moment um so you have like rlin you I mean there all basically which is the form of speed it's a sort of micro doing
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forms um so there's different things for me it had a real impact on my sleep and
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know sleep up until pre kids uh sleep was always a problem uh just really you
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know really struggled uh very active I I mean I sort of came awake at 12:00 at night and that was my creative time I
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came up with some amazing stuff the problem is then I wouldn't get to sleep till 3: 4 whatever and then I'd be up
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for work at seven so it's only so long you can do that before you know and I
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would sort of almost this this paks and TRS of this hyper and then this crash hyper and crash hyper and crash that was
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very much me I was a high functioning uh that's probably where the the hyper bit comes in uh and you it's it's I mean
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it's like I think we're all on on a autistic scale I think we're all there somewhere but it's it's almost as well
37:38
in terms of almost a form of bipolar you know there's times when I'm Mass creative and very social and all the
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rest and there times where I'm not I just don't want to be so um again a
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really long answer to your question but sort of for me it's just understanding is when do I function best when is it a
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waste of time you know when am I sort of you know literally I'm banging my head off or what it's completely just you're
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telling me something that's bouncing off and going straight back again so you know really and that's
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that's been a huge thing over the last two years is getting my head around that and going you know what does it mean to be to dyslexic and that's that's why
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like writing the book it's kind of ironic and kind of go on okay so and this is the first we have probably three
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more books coming out this year and I'm helping six other people write their book and you kind of go on how does that
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work with a dyslexic right so well as you know now I have no problem with this
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hole in the front of my face so you can talk and that's the thing and the software is so good now that you can
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actually talk a book you know and you can talk your ideas and your structures and I go crazy with you know whiteboard
38:43
and static sheets in the wall and basically map it all out and then work with people that I need to instead of
38:48
giving myself a hard time and going I need to sit with a and bang all the keys and all the rest
38:55
you know that's not going to happen whereas I can say if I can get the structure right and I can get the
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content there I can then sit with somebody who does like the details so so somebody that can edit the book and
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understand what a good book structure is and then I can work with an illustrator and I can send them my pretty pretty scratch drawings and they can turn it
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into something funky and then I can work with the illustrators and the and the the the book designers and do all that
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so one thing for me is just being the stuff that doesn't float my boat or maybe it does float my boat but I just
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know if you want this done don't ask me because I will sit and I will designed the logo 42 times and I'll I'll still
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hate it I'll think it's good but I'll also hate it whereas I go if I give it to you I'll pay you and you'll come back
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with something and now that I've found my power team you know this is people I go to so if I'm looking for a mentor I
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go to this person if I'm looking to someone to help me edit the book it's this if I'm looking for a book Mentor I go for this guy if I go here it's you
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know the illustrator I go here here here and that's the key thing of anything right is finding your power team so with
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ADHD it's a case of going is is knowing what you're good at and doing lots of it
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and the stuff that you aren't good at get the hell rid of it you know Give It Away pay somebody do somebody because
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otherwise it will just keep tripping you up and the soon you realize that instead of going oh I'm just not a good person
40:13
because I can't design a logo okay that's just not the way your brain works
40:18
as opposed to going I can do it in PowerPoint and then I'll jump on to canva and then I'll ask the opinion of
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50 people on Facebook and I'll do this and I'll do this and do this and you'll never be happy yet when you
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find your passion you'll sit and you'll talk and you'll be the smartest person in the room you find your Niche your
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Niche and really is just find your Niche your Niche and and basically drill on
40:41
that drill on that as opposed to trying to be you know master of everything and actually you end up master of none you
40:48
know or I remember they saying that we end up with them being be the master of one thing you know and be if you can
40:56
reclaim you become a quitter become a quitter quit doing the stuff that just doesn't do it for you if you're not good
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at it fine let it go you know people panic and saying oh then you know then
41:08
I'll only be this it's like yeah but be that be the best person at that in the
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world you know so that's very long answer but hope that explains ADHD a
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little bit well I can I can totally relate to some of the
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procrastination uh I think one of the things I procrastinate on and I GNA
41:32
totally admit it because uh I have at the beginning of each year uh I don't
41:39
like set any uh New Year's resolutions I just set goals for throughout the year
41:44
because I like to give myself just something to shoot for and uh so I got a
41:51
lot accomplished already but there's this one daunting task that I'm not looking forward to do
41:58
and I get to everything else because it's like oh like I'm willing to uh I'm
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organizing uh I have a lot of different profiles not even just social media profile well I mean that too but I'm on
42:14
different sites with different profiles like different bios Etc and I'm I'm
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putting it them all in an organized space all in one of my tools called
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notion because I forgot to update one of the profiles and it's kind of I keep on
42:35
losing track of where I am on the web because it's like uh I'm on here right
42:42
and and and it's like oh well out of let's say 10 profiles I miss one and so
42:49
I got like nine out of 10 which is fine but it just like ah this got to be a
42:56
better way to make sure I have a consistent buyo across my my presence on
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the web so that's fine but the pro the tool the
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problem uh of one of the things I need to get to is transfer in all my Google
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photos to Shutterfly because Google is
43:20
uh is gonna be uh basically just dinging free storage users uh then not giving
43:27
unlimited space in Google photos anymore and they don't give a reason of why they're doing that I think they did
43:33
something that they they don't want it to admit and it's going to come out later but uh I don't have any proof
43:42
but out of all the years you offer free unlimited photos to Google photos and then you just change on a dime
43:49
something's a little fishy um but so I had to basically
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transfer all those and I tried downloading all the photos
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so I could just upload it all once to go to Shutterfly but then take that format
44:06
that Google exports it out of so I had to go through one by one by one by one
44:12
select each one then just transfer it over and even the the computer is doing all the work I basically had to select
44:19
each and every photo and like this is absolutely terrible and and like I have
44:27
many different uh Google accounts and so the other one I'm okay
44:33
with because uh of doing because I didn't have that many photos in there
44:39
but for my own account I've had since like 2013 in using Google photos and it's
44:47
like oh this is gonna absolutely suck and I had that I had the mindset of
44:55
that project because yeah I have better things to do in my
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life podcasting speaking on different other podcasts I don't want to do it and and I
45:09
was like and and like Google gave me these tools and like oh yeah here you
45:15
just transfer it here and it's like yeah but your transfer thing doesn't give me the right format it's like thanks a lot
45:22
it's was like I like a billion dollar company just can't give me the right to just like here just transfer
45:30
done can't get anything easy and then like I start Googling stuff and yep gire
45:37
is not an easy way to do it and my and I can't pay anyone because uh I
45:45
don't think anybody else would want to do it either it's think that um you know eat
45:52
that frog you ever read it Brian Tracy it's stuff like that which just holds you back it's just you know it's but yet
46:00
you'll then find a piece of software you'll sit down and do it and you'll have it done in a fraction of the time
46:05
that actually compared to the time thinking about it worrying about it being annoyed about it all the rest you
46:12
know it's um and that's the point of e frog is almost going listen you know the
46:17
things that are slowing you down either you don't you don't get to do the fun stuff till you've done that stuff or you
46:23
know yeah the amount of energy and ins say no different to life life how often do we do stuff just because you know we
46:30
we put off I that's the one thing for me I say to people is you know like being
46:36
normal or being okay is almost a curse because it's not bad enough to
46:42
change it but it's not good enough to say that yeah I'm really happy with this do you know it's kind of going well how
46:48
is your day yeah it's good so could have been better but it's not bad enough to actually you know do something different
46:55
tomorrow and that that is like that's like having you know a job for life or
47:00
whatever that is kind of going if I don't turn up I have to keep turning up to keep getting paid I have to keep getting paid to keep paying the mortgage
47:07
I have to have the mortgage so that we can live in this house so then I can be warm and dry then I can go to work and
47:13
that goes round and round and round you know and hamster real yeah it's crazy right you know and you just when you
47:19
look at it there and saying unless you can find a way of basically working or earning money while you sleep you will
47:26
always work you know and that is the thing of going you know how do you do that whether it
47:32
is write a book do a podcast you know get sponsored do you know something online
47:38
work with clients do something get a second job get a you know any of those things get retrained you know until you
47:45
do that you will always exchange time for money and and your future is predictable you know you get a job you
47:51
get a a promotion you get another promotion you'll move companies you'll do this you do this you get a bigger house bigger house kids grow up kids
47:58
leave get a smaller house smaller house smaller car SW around for a while and
48:04
die you know so what are you going to do you know what if what if you tried
48:09
something different what if you you know start a podcast what if you you know tried something different so I get it
48:16
listen I mean there's stuff there that you know does chop us all up you know and and my only encouragement would be
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to anyone is going be really honest with yourself are you actually going to it
48:28
you know because if you sort of go yeah well if I have time and all that it's going honestly will you ever have time I
48:34
years ago I bought a a music collection like and tens of thousands of songs and all the rest and you know long before
48:41
Apple Apple iTunes and all this carry on you know and it was going to catalog and
48:46
it was do going to do this and eventually I got to Stage like you know what you know and the C is like almost
48:52
like buyer's remorse so you buy it but yet you keep committing to it because you spent the money so you don't you
48:57
don't want to let go of it because then that would then admit that you bought the wrong thing or you've done the wrong thing and you know and so the hamster
49:04
wheel keeps going you know if it was a fresh decision you know we're just saying would I keep doing this if I had to Reby this would I buy it now it's
49:11
like hell no okay just because you bought it once doesn't mean you're committed to it for life you so how
49:16
often do we do that we don't we won't let go of something because it's going well I don't know what else I would do
49:22
if I'm not doing this I don't know I'll keep doing it or you know but nobody else has told me or I don't know how
49:29
other software works or you know I don't know do you know and that's the thing we
49:34
sort of get so hung up on on you know really sort of other things I mean of
49:40
course Google photo they loved that you were committed to them for so long you know and then they're not going to make it easy for you to leave you know and
49:47
that's should well yeah I mean but you know at the end of the day you are the product
49:53
you know people forget that you know Facebook you know where's the product you are the product you know that's the
50:00
weird thing it's like a huge dining plate and you are dinner you know advertis or circling trying to decide
50:06
who will pay the most to get in front of you you know none of us pay to get onto Facebook or Google or any of those you
50:13
know so it's just being very you know realizing that saying someone's paying you there's data houses there's servers
50:20
woring away somewhere so you know it just depends where you sit with it really yeah
50:27
and I think eventually I'm going to uh I
50:32
think I'm going to uh get to the project do that project eventually I'm just
50:38
finishing up my school semester and I'm not making excuses but I had like
50:44
two I had a test this week and a paper do all in one week and I'm just focusing
50:51
on the paper and I'm like you know as long as I get my other stuff done
50:57
and I'm so getting all my other stuff done work related podcasting and
51:03
blogging and uh and just writing on my new on the project I've been working on
51:09
I was like as long as I'm getting all to that not really being lazy I just I
51:15
don't have time for the other project at the moment and it's like it I don't even
51:20
think I'm even on the hamster wheel I just think I'm on the wheel of
51:26
I'm on the I'm on the I'm basically on the wheel of a never ending I'm on a
51:33
wheel that just goes anywhere run
51:38
around anything but do the actual thing yeah that's that's a that's a the sort
51:44
of a mechanism I recognize like I'm so busy yeah okay you know it's like I'm
51:50
doing I'm busy doing anything but this it's like well okay how quickly could you have that done no I get it I do get
51:57
it you know that's I don't know I'm being slightly fous but you know there's
52:03
there's a reason to say if you want something done ask of as you person you know because stuff does get done you run out of time whereas you know if if if
52:10
time is your own and I recognize that because the way I work quite specifically is for podcast show I let
52:17
people pick their time you they come on it's all the Majestics are sorted out for me um you know I say to people don't
52:24
phone me don't send me a long email if you want me let's jump on a zoom call you can record it so because don't
52:30
expect me to send you notes um and that works so I I have to almost commit myself to sitting in front of people to
52:37
doing actions otherwise it just doesn't get done me left of my own devices good luck with that it might get done
52:42
straight away or it might never get done you know and toss a coin as to which it's going to be and I don't do it out
52:49
of maliciousness you know some people say why can't you just do this and this you know but that's like trying to you
52:54
know have an educated discussion with the 2-year-old you know why are they being irrational I don't know cuz they're 2 years old right okay well
53:01
that's sometimes a bit like with my brain it's like why can't you just do this it's like because there's something
53:07
so important that has to be done over there it's like really yeah it's really important so so I I kind of call myself
53:15
out a lot I have to uh and that's why I surround myself either with you know commit myself either through time or
53:22
through resources or through something else uh and knowing like I mean and it's so weird because you know I have um um
53:30
have a bookkeeper and I have a PA and I have an accountant and I have all these people that doing it for me I used to do
53:35
it all myself and yet now that all these people do it for me I actually make more
53:41
money by them doing it for me because they do it better quicker faster you know and they actually end up means that
53:47
they find you know they sort of save me money uh and that actually can commit more and you know get me more organized
53:54
so knowing that if you want something organized I'm not your person if you want to come up with a new creative idea
54:00
and something you know really sort of map out a new book or a new business program or whatever or really sort of do
54:06
some intuitive work then I'm your guy but knowing when to get into the room and get out of the room that's that's
54:12
the one key thing which I I think to be honest not many people know that not people many learn how they learn you
54:18
know um I I will listen to BS like crazy I listen like mad you know listen to the
54:25
one and a half time speed uh that's my thing you know s me down to read a book unless I'm in a reading
54:31
group I'm not reading it you know so uh how often do you know that people work
54:36
they work best at night time they work best in the daytime that you know they can you know put themselves in the study
54:43
groups or do whatever instead we just try and do what we're always used to do that school said we should do this this
54:48
or this or you know my teacher or something else said this is the way to study and you just inherit it and you
54:54
when you don't do it that way you you sort of call yourself all sorts of names in your head you know where is going
55:00
okay what's let's look at my success pattern here what does work for me what do I do and what do I not do ask your
55:07
family what am I good at what am I not good at you know be real very real with yourself where's my forte you know
55:13
you'll do podcasts you'll do all these things but yet the certain things left undone and that's okay you you don't
55:20
need to feel hard about it just say well okay that's me I just think the reason I hav G to is because it's not on my high
55:29
priority to- do list uh I think
55:34
because I think it's because um since I'm managing everything else
55:41
I've uh I'm just I also think I'm I
55:46
think I and I did get a lot of everything else done I just don't feel like that it's like that it just I feel
55:54
like it's another project for just I think it's just a project an ongo
56:03
project that I I can just wait until like for one more month when my school's
56:10
over um my school's over like I think early May so it's like well okay I
56:18
waited this long and I was like I I'm going to I definitely know
56:24
I'm going to do it because I don't leave stuff just undone and
56:30
um I just think I kind of just having a buildup moment of hey now I have since I don't have
56:38
class now I have an extra hour 50 minutes I believe or another 35
56:46
minutes and so I think that would be better for me because I got it is that
56:53
and then I had a physical therapy and be nice physical therapy just done so uh
56:59
but yeah this I think I'm going to get there uh who knows maybe the next time when I
57:04
talk to you let's be done yeah and but sometimes we also need
57:11
to just call Bing ourselves too you know so it depends you know sometimes we are busy but quite often we we are good at
57:19
calling excuses you know so it's just being real real with all of ourselves
57:24
you know and listen I I'm I'm not throwing any Stones
57:30
because there's there's certain things that I'm just not I'm not good at but what I'm trying to do is just let go of
57:35
the stuff that's just not me you know and uh just not your thing that's okay and uh before we wrap up where can
57:42
people find you super simple so most of my stuff there is all through mighty.com so
57:49
mighty Mig HT P te so that's where you can find the Facebook link uh my book is
57:56
available well as of next week it will be on Amazon globally um so that is be
58:02
heard to be rich or listen to your iner Genius and um but yeah we'll have a link
58:09
on the on the website I'm on all the usual social media channels and all that and the podcast links Etc are available
58:15
on 25 platforms so fire in the belly super simple so it's fine the belly is
58:21
the podcast and Mighty Pete is where all my training education books and everything else are so thank you thanks
58:28
for being a guest and hopefully we can have you back super thank you very much I really appreciate it thanks thanks for
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longer which makes me want to drink more water throughout the day because you
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know there's nothing worse than drinking warm water
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go to hydro.com and and use the link in the show notes and yes I do get a small commission from
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Hydro Flask so which also helps support the show so uh tell them I sent you use
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the link below and uh yeah check out Hydra fl.com for more information
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