Episode 212

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1st Nov 2024

ReSolve Riffs with Justin Castelli - Descript

In this episode, the ReSolve team delves into a profound conversation with Justin Caselli, a financial advisor and life coach, who shares his journey of self-discovery and alignment of spirit, mind, and body. He discusses how this alignment influences financial stability and the concept of living an authentic life.

Topics Discussed

• Justin's personal journey of self-discovery and the importance of aligning spirit, mind, and body for overall happiness and financial stability

• The concept of life design and the pursuit of an authentic life

• The role of introspection in understanding one's authentic self and how it impacts financial decisions

• The impact of consciousness levels on the effectiveness of financial advisors and the quality of their advice

• The concept of Life Design Planning and its role in helping clients live their best life

• How aligning personal values with financial planning can lead to a more fulfilling and financially secure life

• The concept of the 'authentic life' and how it influences financial decisions and overall life satisfaction

• The importance of living an authentic life and its impact on client relationships and business growth

• Justin's daily notes as a part of his process and his vision for them

This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the connection between personal fulfillment and financial stability. Justin's insights provide a fresh perspective on financial advising, emphasizing the importance of living an authentic life and aligning one's spirit, mind, and body.

Transcript
Justin Castelli:

I think the more clarity you have around what it is you want to do,

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the easier it becomes to find that time.

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At least that's how it was for me.

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Like once I realized what was most

important to me, then it became

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a lot easier to take time from

the things that, that weren't.

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So it's kind of like the,

is it a no or a hell yes?

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It has to be a hell yes or it's a no.

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And I think as you start to begin to

figure that out, then just like money,

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time becomes easier to allocate.

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Mike Philbrick: All right.

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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,

to the Resolve Riffs.

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We're welcoming back an old pal

from way back in the day, Mr.

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Justin Castelli.

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He's, uh, he's here to talk about aligning

your spirit, mind, body, and money.

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So you can live your authentic life.

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This is the guy who brought

you the authentic life.

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Be you.

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I remember back in the day, sitting

in some places and you had your

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good Michael Jordan kicks on.

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Justin Castelli: Yeah,

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Mike Philbrick: to, that's probably a

lifetime ago for you now as an advisor

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talking about living an authentic

life and building an authentic

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practice from that perspective.

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But what are you up to now?

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Justin Castelli: I just, it's been,

it's been an evolution and you've kind

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of Mike, you've seen the evolution.

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You've been a part of those conversations.

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I was alluding to our, our lunches

when I used to go down to eat the

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ETF exchange conference down in Miami

and pinging you and giving you ideas.

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I think Rodrigo is at one

of the lunches as well.

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still, I still have my Jordans.

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I haven't gotten rid of

those, still rock them.

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And it's funny, like I have different

outfits for how I'm feeling for the day.

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So some days I'm more trendy,

other days I'm more sporty.

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it just depends on what kind

of creative move I'm in.

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So Jordans haven't gone anywhere.

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it's just been an evolution of kind of

continuing to kind of live my authentic

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life and then learn what that means and

then try to help other people live theirs.

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the last couple of years have

been, have been like pretty

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big on the, on the growth side.

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Mike Philbrick: Yeah.

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Let's take us through the journal

journey for the last couple of years.

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Let's catch everybody up to where

you've been and where you've come.

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Justin Castelli: Yeah.

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So, I mean, From a logistics standpoint,

still in Fishers, Indiana, I still

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have my advisory firm, Arliss Wealth.

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Like those things are

all still a big part.

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The, the big difference has been

just kind of going through, I can't

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remember the last time we talked,

but really the big kind of leap

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forward personally was my time that

I spent at OnRamp and the startup.

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And, you know, going through balancing,

having all this wealth and taking

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care of my clients kind of in the

first part of the day, shifting

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over to startup mode in the second

part of the day, being a father.

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And ultimately it was kind

of a moment of, of burnout.

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And I don't love the word burnout

cause I didn't have any dramatic event.

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I didn't have a health scare, but just,

I realized that I was doing way too much.

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And that as much fun as being

in a startup was, it didn't

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really align with what I was most

interested in and that needed to go.

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And I had done an exercise thanks

to Jason Wank over at Altruist,

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where I planned out my ideal day.

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And what I realized was that if

I took On Ramp away, I had my

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ideal day sitting in front of me.

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so that was kind of like, all right,

if this is what I said, I would

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love to have and restructure my day.

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And it's in front of me,

like I have to go do it.

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Right.

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And, so I ended up leaving

On Ramp and that was when I

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started to Spirit mind and body.

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And I never really, it

wasn't even intentional.

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It just kind of happened.

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Mike, you introduced me to

John years ago and that was

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my introduction to meditation.

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And so I worked with him for

a while and learned about the

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brain waves and these things.

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And it, Kind of took, but

it didn't stay with it.

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And I tried meditating after that and just

never really was able to figure it out.

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realizing that there was

nothing to figure out.

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It took me a while to understand that.

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But once I, once I did and

realized there's no right

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way, I started to meditate.

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I got back to taking care of myself.

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One of the things I wasn't doing at

on ramp was working out regularly.

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I wasn't eating right.

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I wasn't getting rest.

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So I got back to taking

care of my physical self.

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And then I started to see

these things come together.

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I just realized how much happier I was

and how things were falling into place.

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And I had this greater clarity

of where I was supposed to go.

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And that was kind of when I first

started talking about the alignment

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of spirit, mind, and body, and then

being a financial advisor and that

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being my whole career, I ultimately

connected that, you know, if you have

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alignment of spirit, mind, and body.

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And understanding of who you really

are, which I think you find when

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you have that alignment, the money

kind of takes care of itself.

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you you're better able to

align it with your values.

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You're better able to

understand where it needs to go.

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And then even on a bigger picture, I

think sometimes money just magically

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comes your way, or you understand

that, Hey, all these things I'm

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trying to do to find happiness.

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It's really to please other people.

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And I know who I am and I

don't need to do these things.

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And, and now I need less money and

my financial situation's better off

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than I thought it was because I was

doing all these things to impress

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people when that no longer matters.

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Cause I know who I am and my

happiness comes from it from within.

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So when I started to understand

that, that's when I started

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writing my, my daily notes.

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I shifted kind of my podcast, to focus

more on talking about this idea of life

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design, plus designing the life that

you want, pursuing your authentic life.

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And I won't lie to you and tell

you that I have it all figured out.

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I was talking to somebody today and I'm

like, you know, I still feel like I'm

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in the phase of figuring out exactly how

to explain what the authentic life is.

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I haven't got the right clear message.

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That's kind of like easy

to understand right away.

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So I'm just going to keep on

exploring and writing and sharing.

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And ultimately those words will come.

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And along the way.

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I'll hopefully plant some seeds for

some people to realize some things

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about their life that they would have

maybe never understood or understood

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at a much later point in life.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: Justin, you

mentioned your ideal day when you,

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when you took all the froth away,

you had an ideal day in front of you.

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We didn't quite articulate

what was that ideal day.

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What does that look like for you?

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Justin Castelli: So my ideal day consists

of, you know, having the mornings to

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myself, to, to be there with the boys,

get them ready for school, drop them off.

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Like I want to be at home and be a part

of the morning routine, have some time

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to, to do my daily writing, get into

the office, take care of Arlo's wealth

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clients, but like what I really want to

do more and more and more of is having

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time to create content, to express myself.

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Like I really have turned into a creator.

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I think I am a creator who happens to be

a life planner slash financial advisor,

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not a financial advisor slash creator.

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And it wasn't always that way, but it

was creating all about your Benjamins

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and starting the podcast and continuing

to go that I realized I really enjoy

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creating and expressing myself.

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And a variety of ways

and trying new things.

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And then, and through that creation

and the content trying to help people.

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So it was finding more time to create.

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And one day I think the majority of my

time will be centered around writing

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and podcasting and speaking and video.

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And then time with clients

will be the smaller part as

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kind of things shift over time.

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My ideal day is simple time to

take care of myself, time to be

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with my family, time to take care

of my clients, time to create.

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And that's really all I want to do.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: You know, that's

an interesting, concept because

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literally Mike and I were having

an internal conversation with some

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employees about the difference between

working to get the operation done.

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Like you're doing your day to day,

uh, admin and feeling like you work

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really, really hard, then there's

a lack of working either on the

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business or on yourself, right?

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This idea of I'm going to create,

cause creating, establishing value.

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Once you establish value,

you have to execute it.

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And that needs to, you need to

have a tight team to do that.

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But how do you create additional value?

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I've always thought you need to create

space for yourself on a daily basis.

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To navel gaze and really have that.

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But I think everybody I

talk to struggles with that.

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What do you say to people that,

that feel like they're too busy

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to be creative or they're too busy

to work on themselves or work out?

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Like, how do you work?

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How do you deal with that

question with that barrier?

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Justin Castelli: I think part of the

problem might be not really knowing what

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it is that they're they want to create

or what it is that they really want to

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how they want to take care of themselves.

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I think the more clarity you have

around what it is you want to do, the

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easier it becomes to find that time.

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At least that's how it was for me.

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Like once I realized what

was most important to me.

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Then it became a lot easier to take

time from the things that, that weren't.

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So it's kind of like the,

is it a no or a hell?

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Yes.

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It has to be a hell yes or it's a no.

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And I think as you start to begin to

figure that out, then just like money,

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time becomes easier to allocate.

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So it might just take a little bit

of honesty and self exploration

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to figure out, okay, what is

it that I really want to do?

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And ultimately that's what I, the idea

of the authentic life is to figure out.

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What is it that you're

supposed to be doing?

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Like the concept of the authentic

life is I have grown to believe

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that we were all created to do a

certain, certain thing on this world.

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We all were given unique gifts and

talents that no one else has that we can

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do something better than anybody else.

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We can be the Kobe Bryant.

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We can be the Michael Jordan of

something, but we're not necessarily

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given what that is right away.

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So part of life is exploring

to figure out what that is.

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And I think one of the best.

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One of the best guides we have are

our passions and our interests.

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Like that's how I've operated.

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Like the reason you look back over

my career and you see me wandering

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all over the place, you know,

new podcasts, different themes.

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Like it was me exploring things

that were interesting to me.

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And in the moment I didn't really

know why I wanted to do it,

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but I was just following that

interest, following that call.

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And that was the guide that led me

to all these things to learn, to

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ultimately find where I am today, which

I honestly believe, I think that this,

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this concept of the authentic life.

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Bringing spirituality, mindfulness,

taking care of yourself to finance.

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I think that's my thing.

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I think that is the thing that I

had to go through all these other

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experiences to learn, to then be

able to bring my own unique way.

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And I've talked about, you know, I

have gifts and talents as a financial

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advisor and I'm good at being an advisor.

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I think I take really

good care of my clients.

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They seem to enjoy working with me.

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We've had good outcomes, but if I'm being

honest, you can probably pluck somebody

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else, another financial advisor down and

they can have the same outcomes as I can

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from the right capital output, output,

the portfolio output, my skills as a, as

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a financial advisor are interchangeable,

but my skills as a creator.

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And expressing myself.

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That's where I'm unique.

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Like nobody can do the things

that I can do as well as I can.

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And it's more about finding the right

setting for me to share those gifts.

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And that's where I find my lane.

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So I think the years of creating were

to learn how to enjoy myself and figure

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out what I'm good at and how to do these

things and how to get efficient at it.

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And then it was finding this

concept of the authentic life and

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aligning spirit, mind, and body say,

okay, here's where you go create.

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This is all that practice

was for this topic.

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And this is where you need to go.

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And if you look back

over the last two years.

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I really haven't deviated from this

concept of the authentic life and spirit,

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mind and body, other than continuing

to explore and go down that path.

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Previously, it was all over the

place learning different things.

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So to go back to your original question,

I think it's just, it's getting

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a better understanding of who you

are and what really makes you tick.

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And then that's where

you can find the time.

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Because if it's not something

you're really Attached to

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or emotionally invested in.

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It's easy to let it go to the side.

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That's why people, when they have a

health scare, that's when they find

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the time to start working out because

now it's a priority, we had a reason

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to get to the gym or clean up our diet

because we got spooked until then.

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It's it's, yeah, I know I should probably

do it, but it's not that important

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because we haven't had that experience

or that emotional attachment to it.

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So it's finding those things

that really make you excited.

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Then if it's not moving you towards that,

then it's easy to set those things aside.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: Mike, I, I,

can I just ask you a question,

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Mike Philbrick: crisis necessity change.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: it's always

Chris, if there's any change.

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I think Mike is a good example

of somebody who has been, has

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always found time for that.

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Especially the, uh, the

spirit and the body.

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Like you've always, you, I don't think

I've ever seen you miss a, a gym day.

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I also don't, I also think you're one of

the people that, that takes advantage of

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the weekend better than anybody I know.

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how much of that is planned?

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Like how much of that

came to you naturally?

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And how much of that

was you growing into it?

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Mike Philbrick: yeah,

that's a good question.

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I would say Yeah, if you want something

done, do it in the morning, right?

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It's the workout.

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I work out in the morning generally,

and that's because the, the

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puck hasn't dropped and things

haven't gone horribly wrong.

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So, you know, you're, you're

not responding to things.

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So prioritizing those things.

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that you, that, that are for yourself,

put your own air mask on when you're

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on the plane, then help the person

beside you, that sort of thing.

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I think that I've learned all

that though, to be honest, I came

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across, you know, thinking back

on it, I came across when I was in

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university and I was playing football.

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I came across a guy who introduced

me back then to meditation and to

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visualization through the avenue of sport.

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And, it was brought to my attention

You know, think about the competitive

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nature of any landscape that you're in.

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let's, let's go with sports cause it's

kind of easier in the sense that is

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everyone practicing harder than you?

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Or are they using better protein powder?

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Did they have better strategy and schemes?

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Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

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They probably don't have better

supplements or protein powder than

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you, unless you're, you're cheating.

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do you have better durability than them?

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You know, Michael Jordan and Kobe

Bryant are legendary for being

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able to have the durability to

practice at a level that most can't.

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so do you have that gift where you

actually have the durability to do more?

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Not everybody has that.

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but when you think about the idea

of meditation and visualization and

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and gaining clarity on some of the

things that Justin's talked about.

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Like, how do you decide where to go?

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What do you do?

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you can run from here to there doing a lot

of things, or you can sit and just silence

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your monkey brain for a little while and

see what presents itself, so to speak.

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So I think it's, I think it's, you

know, it's always nature and nurture.

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But I think there's a great deal of

it that you can actually prioritize

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and learn, but it does take time.

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And Justin, although you felt like you

learned nothing or you learned some things

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from that, but couldn't quite get it.

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in that journey of that first round

of meditation, you are always on

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the journey, but you are always

on a path getting somewhere.

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And then you'll come back to it later.

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And you're like, Oh, here it is.

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The light goes on all of a sudden,

sometimes you need a break.

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But, I would say that, that the thing

about the morning and prioritizing the

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things that you really want to self care

and things like that are morning items.

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5 a.

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type stuff.

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Justin Castelli: Like, I think you alluded

to something that's really important is

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that, like, We're in society, we're taught

to be selfless and that we think by, you

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know, skipping our, our workout to see

a client or to do something like that.

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We're being selfless and we're actually

doing people a favor when the reality

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of it is when you're not taking care

of yourself because you're selfless,

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it ends up being selfish because you're

only giving a fraction of yourself

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to the people who really need you.

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And if you just took a little bit of your

time, Whatever it is you need to do to

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put yourself feeling the best, whether

if it's the working out or if it's the

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meditation or whatever it might be, if you

take that little bit of time and you act

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a little selfish, you're actually bringing

more of yourself to the world and to

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everybody that cares about you and you're

actually doing a better service for them.

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But for that was one of the things

that I had to learn that, and

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I think you're the point it is.

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It is a lot of things

that have to be learned.

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I think conversations like this are

great because we can put these ideas in

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front of people for them to hopefully

experience it sooner rather than later.

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But like, no one's going to take

what we say today and actually change

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anything on their own, but they're

going to have a moment where something

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that we talk about registers and

the light bulb is going to go off.

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And then, Oh, that's what

they're talking about.

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Let me try this.

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And once you experience it,

that's when you're hooked.

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Like, that's why I'm

so excited about this.

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And.

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You know, passionate about it is I know

what all this stuff has done for me.

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And I want other people to experience

all of the good that I have

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experienced that's come from this.

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so I think that there's that

selfish versus selfless.

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Sometimes we get backwards

and I, I certainly did

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Mike Philbrick: Yeah.

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I think Rod, you and I were having this

discussion, as you said, with some, some

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employees about some things of, of the

idea of like, we just talked about crisis

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necessity change rather than thoughtful

introspection, planning and change.

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and those, it's hard to

complete that latter part.

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If you're not doing the latter part.

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And it's not one podcast or

one set of people talking on a

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podcast that are going to do it.

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It's the constant drip of

making this a priority.

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And this is where I'm coming back

to some of the discussions we

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were having, earlier today, Rod.

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It's the, it's the constantness of it.

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the, the fellow Voss, right?

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When he talks to the hostage

negotiator, who's been, um, Chris

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Voss, very popular, but He's a hostage

negotiator, but he uses his techniques

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when he orders a Starbucks coffee.

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The idea of being mindfulness and

centered and you're, you're always

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using that and you're always seeking

information that continues to reinforce

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those behaviors to some degree.

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That's in the fitness industry.

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When you're on a path,

you're, you're not watching.

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you know, how to party in Vegas all night.

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You're kind of like watching,

well, how do I do my squat better?

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Or, you know, so it's, it's a

constant journey of reinforcement on

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some set of, lifestyle choices that

you want to make to some degree.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: So, so Justin,

has that been the toughest part?

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the most challenging part?

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I, I certainly would, has been for me.

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But, you know, what has been for

you the most challenging part of, of

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you searching your authentic self?

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has it been that telling people that

you're going to be a bit more selfish?

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Maybe you can expand on that.

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Justin Castelli: not the telling

people I'm going to be more selfish.

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I'm still.

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So I know exactly what I need

to do to be feeling my best.

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It's getting up and going downstairs

in the basement and doing some type

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of movement, hopping on the Peloton,

doing a short tonal workout, getting my

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meditation in, doing Wim Hof breathing.

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You know, I go to yoga at 9 30, go do my

work day, lift weights in the afternoon.

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Like if I do that, That is

when I am peak performance.

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I'm feeling my best.

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Despite knowing that I don't

do that every single day.

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I, you know, we, I go to bed later

because the boys get home from practice

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late and I, okay, I need to get my

sleep because sleep is important

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and that pushes other things off.

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So the, it's not been my accountability

to other people directly.

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It's the accountability to myself that

I am going to do these things regularly.

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And what I've realized is that.

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In order for me, I think to keep on

moving in the direction that I want

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to go, I need to be the epitome.

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Of spirit, mind, and body.

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And you know, money is still

important, but spirit, mind, and body.

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I need to be the epitome of that.

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Whether it is when I'm at a conference,

you see me heading out to the beach

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in the morning to go do my meditation.

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when the food trucks are out

there, you see me eating health.

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Like it's not, I'm not doing it for

show, but you see that I'm living it.

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Or if you're around me, the energy

that's coming off of me is just like,

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this guy is, He is what he says he is.

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And I, and I am that way most of

the time, but I could be better.

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And I want to be better for myself.

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And I know that if I'm better for myself,

then that will be better for what it is.

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I want to help other people do as well.

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So I just need to get more.

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Discipline and stay with it.

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But I will tell you that when I, When I

noticed that I'm falling out of alignment,

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whether I feel it, or I just noticed that

the energy around me is not where I want

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it to be, I do prioritize those things.

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So it's almost like I give myself a

band that, okay, if, if I don't hit

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yoga every day, but everything else

is feeling really good, I'm okay.

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But if I start to notice things

aren't flowing the way I want it to,

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or my flow has been disrupted, then

I'm, I'm back to that discipline

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to pull the alignment back in.

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And then I give myself some, some room.

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Cause I don't want to be a robot either.

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Like I know these things are

important, but I don't want to.

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I don't want to become, you know, reliant

on them all the time to be my best.

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I want to kind of have some,

some freedom in my life to, to do

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the things I know I need to do.

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But then sometimes if I want to

take a break, I can take a break.

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looking to, you've created a community

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and you're looking to impart a lot

of those values onto the community,

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how do you, do you advise people

to pursue their authentic self?

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Like, what are the, what are the

some tactics that you generally,

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discuss in, in your groups?

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Justin Castelli: Yeah.

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So this is going to be where my, my

message is weaker and fails to some of

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like the, the big experts out there,

because I don't believe in absolutes.

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So I know to have like, A lot of

success with a message or a method.

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It's like, this is the only way to do it.

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And you either, you know, reflect

every people or you attract people.

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Like I, I do believe in the

alignment of spirit, mind and body,

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but where I don't have an absolute

is I don't care how you do that.

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So spirituality is up to the individual.

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I just think having a

connection to a higher power.

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It's something that's

really, really important.

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So I encourage you to do that and explore

that and do what feels right for you.

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Mind is more about being,

you know, control of your

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thoughts, controlling your mind.

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Our attention is one of the greatest

commodities that are out there.

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And everybody wants to get control

of our mind and our attention and

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just being mindful of that and being

aware of what you're putting into

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your mind and also what your thoughts

are, like our thoughts really are

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really powerful and they do create our

perception, which creates our reality.

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So being in control of your, your

mind, trying to be optimistic,

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finding the silver lining.

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I think that is very powerful and

moving in the direction you want to go.

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And then however you want to take care

of your body, whether it's weights,

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if it's walking, if it, whatever

it might be doing those things.

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So what I encourage people is to figure

out what are the things that you enjoy

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that feel right to you and then do those.

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And then the other thing is just,

I'm a big believer in all of the

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answers that we seek lie within us.

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Like we have all the answers inside

of us and it's getting everything

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out of the way that's been put

into us to find those answers.

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So really getting in touch with

your intuition and trusting it,

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following your heart's guide.

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I think that tail that that will take you

a lot of places you're supposed to go.

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and I, and.

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Like I wrote a daily note today talking

about how the last few months I've

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been in talks with a company to bring

all this wealth there, join their

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firm, create content to help grow it.

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It was the perfect situation.

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And ultimately my mind was telling

me, do it for all these reasons.

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And the mind was not wrong.

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But at the end of the day, my heart told

me I had to maintain my independence.

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Like at this stage of my life,

I need to be a free agent.

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I need to be able to explore the things

I want to explore, collaborate with the

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people that I want to collaborate with.

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And that despite the perfection of this

opportunity, it wasn't right for me.

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And I literally had the conversation with

him yesterday, letting him know that.

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And the deciding factor was my heart.

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How I felt about the situation because

on paper, it was the perfect opportunity

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for me to find somewhere to join, bring

my clients, still work with them, have

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them taken care of, be a part of a bigger

system that's building what I believe in.

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But it, My heart told me it wasn't right.

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And that's not an easy thing to trust

because we live so much in our heads

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that to like go against what our mind is

telling us, because it feels a certain

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way, like that's a scary thing to do.

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Cause we can, we can understand

reason, but like understanding a

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feeling it's kind of hard to do.

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But the more you do it, the more

confidence you get in trusting your

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intuition and listening to your heart.

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So one of the things I have to figure

out is I, I know I need to figure out

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a framework of like, do these things

and like, you'll find alignment, but

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I don't know if there's a uniform

framework for everybody to follow.

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So I just fall back to these kind

of broader things of figure out how

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these things bring you into alignment.

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And notice how you feel.

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Notice how the

opportunities come your way.

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Notice how your energy elevates.

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I'm a big believer in

the law of attraction.

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so what we put out is what we

attract and who we surround

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ourselves can influence that as well.

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But notice how life changes when

you find that alignment and then

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trust where you're being called to

go and you'll go in that direction.

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and I think that things

work themselves out.

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it's almost like it's, it's, it's like,

it's magical the way it works out.

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If you let it.

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but it's not always easy to do that.

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And I, you know, I have had to slow

down where I've being pulled at what

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I want to do because I have a family,

like what I would be doing today would

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look a lot different if it were just me.

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So I have to balance this idea of,

okay, there's a calling that I have

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and something that I really want to

do, but I may not be able to fully do

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that today because I have a family.

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And when I look at the calling

versus taking care of my family,

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Their happiness, our lifestyle

today is more important than that.

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So let me still move in their

direction of that calling.

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I just have to move a little bit slower.

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and then if one day things will change,

the boys will be out of the house.

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And you know, if I, if I still feel

like I'm called in that direction,

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I can go a lot harder into it,

but I can still move in that way.

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I can still be true to myself and

be authentic to myself and take care

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of my family the way that I want to.

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Mike Philbrick: Yeah, I think

intuition is underrated too.

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you know, especially the more

experience you have in a certain domain.

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And who has more experience

of being you than being you?

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but you know, your intuition, you know,

you can put things on a, on a piece

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of paper, but at the end of the day,

it's the unconscious that really has

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the capacity to do a lot of, reasoning

beyond the grasp of the reasoning mind.

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And, I think people should take the time

to build rapport with their intuition.

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as it's, a very powerful thing.

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And, uh, I think leads to, better

answers and not that you shouldn't

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go through the logical steps of

thinking those things through.

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You should, but at the end of

the day, what your intuition

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tells you is the unconscious

mind trying to give you feedback.

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And when the universe speaks

that you should listen,

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Rodrigo Gordillo: so.

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Justin Castelli: And this,

this all gets dismissed as woo

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Rodrigo Gordillo: I was going to, I

was about to tell you that my question

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there is what's the biggest obstacle

because the first thing that my wife

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says, whenever I bring any of this

up is that we don't believe my family

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just doesn't believe in self help.

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And so how do you, how do

you push back against that?

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Justin Castelli: the only pushback

I can give is to try to get people

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to notice the woo woo things

that have happened in their life.

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Because again, back to my early

comment, I can't convince people.

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We can't convince people that

the universe gives you signs.

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Until they receive a

sign and they notice it.

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So it's, it, to me, it's, that's

why I write my daily notes.

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It's why I have conversations like this

is just to put my experience out there

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as one person, and there's a lot of

people out there who are sharing these

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stories to just allow somebody to connect.

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Like one of the universal omens that I

have, like the Alchemist is my favorite

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book, like, I love that story and I have a

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Rodrigo Gordillo: I'll look well,

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Justin Castelli: it.

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I have, yeah, I have a custom piece of

art that's influenced by it over here.

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And.

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I just love it.

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And you know, the idea of the

personal legend to me is very much

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like the authentic life, but it

talks about following the omens.

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And one of my omens is another

tattoo I have now is the bald eagle.

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If anybody's followed me on social media,

you've seen me talk about bald eagles

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and it, it may not seem like a big deal,

but I never saw a bald eagle in the wild.

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Until I started to have this

alignment of spirit, mind, and body.

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So Indiana has a bald eagle population.

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I've lived here my whole life.

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It wasn't until I was like 38 or 39

that I actually saw a bald eagle.

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In, in the wild.

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And so I Googled like the, the

spiritual meaning of a bald eagle.

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And it is basically, a sign from

your, your Angie, your angels or

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power, higher power telling you

you're moving in the right direction.

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And just to show you how powerful this is.

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I mentioned the opportunity that I

was exploring as great as it was.

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And I wasn't looking for the

bald eagle to confirm anything.

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I never saw a bald eagle.

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And the first few months of these

conversations, everything felt right.

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All these other synchronicities,

but no bald eagle.

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And towards the end of the, the decision

making process, I started to really

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focus on my value of independence.

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And I started working with a coach.

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I was telling you guys with in the

first Thursday, I met with him.

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The theme was independence.

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I want to be able to do what I want to

do when I want to do how I want to do it.

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I don't have to answer anybody,

but my clients and my family, and

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just really felt good about that.

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I saw a bald eagle that evening.

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I'm not, I can't make it up.

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Like you can go check my social media.

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There's pictures of it.

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Like I saw, I saw a bald eagle.

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The next Tuesday is my next coaching

class coaching session with him

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because we had to move from Thursday

independence is the theme that evening.

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I see another bald eagle.

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And then the final bald eagle in this

trifecta and just a two week span.

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I was driving to Michigan

state on fall break with Leo.

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I was speaking at Michigan state.

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I was listening to the alchemist

on Spotify on the way up.

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It was four hours to listen to.

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My drive was four hours.

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I'd never listened to it before.

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I've read it multiple times.

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I'm at the point of the book where

they're talking, they're, they're telling

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Santiago to always follow the omens.

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And as I'm listening to the story, I'm

playing out this journey that I'm on.

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I listen to the book, I can see me in

this decision I'm making as I'm Santiago.

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Like it's a really cool visual I had

when I'm driving and I look off in the

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distance and I see this big bird and it

kind of turns a little bit and I think

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its tail is white, but I'm not sure.

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And Leo's with me.

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So I'm like, Hey Leo, look out there.

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That might be a bald eagle.

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And I kid you not.

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I turned to look back to the And a bald

eagle flies over us, like to the point

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where I can see its eyes and its beaks.

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So I'm at the moment of the book,

listen to the omens, and I'm visualizing

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myself and thinking about independence

and my personal omen flies over us.

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And I don't have a picture of that one.

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But I have Leo in the back

seat who can vouch for me

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that the bald eagle flew over.

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And I would be lying if those bald

eagle sightings did not weigh in on

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confirmation of what my heart was telling

me on this big decision that I had.

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So like, sure, you can try to

dismiss those as that's coincidence.

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And you're making something that's not

really there, but I've had it happen way

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too many times and for somebody else that

might be a Robin or it might be a Blue Jay

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or a Beetle or, or whatever it might be.

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But there are these things that are, that

show up, that let you know that, Hey,

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you're moving in the right direction.

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Maybe it's repeating numbers.

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Like I see, I catch 333 and 444

and 555 on the clock all the time.

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I don't have a, I don't

have an alarm to check it.

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It just, I, I happen

to catch those moments.

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And.

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To those of us that believe in

the universe and signs, those

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are just little winks of like,

Hey, you're, you're in alignment.

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You're in flow.

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You're where you're supposed to be going.

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Things are moving in the right direction.

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I can't convince somebody to

believe in that until they

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experienced that themselves.

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but I think that if you look back

over history, we're like, we're not

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the first ones talking about this.

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Go read John Templeton.

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John Templeton has a

daily book like of laws.

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I forget what it's called.

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And John Templeton was basically

talking about spirit, mind, and body.

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I've never heard anybody

in finance talk about it.

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I'll, I'll, I'll find the

book and send it to you guys.

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You can put it in the, in the show notes.

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Mike Philbrick: Soros talks about his sore

back and selling out of his positions.

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Justin Castelli: Yeah.

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And,

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Mike Philbrick: It's not, there's

lots of people who talk about the

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manifestations of these things.

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Go ahead.

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Justin Castelli: Albert Einstein, Benjamin

Franklin, like it's throughout history.

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You look at Think and Grow

Rich by Napoleon Hill.

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Like these things have been right

in front of us for so long and they

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just, for whatever, well, they have

been deemed as woo or crazy or not

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real, but there are a lot of people

that have subscribed to these things.

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You know, Bob Proctor.

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There's a lot of evidence out there

that there is some truth to these.

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And now there's even science.

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There's a book, it's called

mind magic or magic mind.

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I think it's mind magic that talks

about the science of visualization.

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That, you know, part of manifestation

is having a strong image and

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visualization, and that our brain

doesn't know the difference between a

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strong visualization and a real image.

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So that if you can hold this vision

of what your life could be, and you

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can believe in it, then you will

naturally begin to do the things

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and move into that direction.

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So whether it's this magical being of

manifestation, Or it's just a belief

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that pulls you in that direction

because you see it and you believe it.

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So now you're taking the actions.

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Like if, if you're holding this

visualization of you with a six

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pack and you believe it, and you're

visualizing it and your mind doesn't

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know that you don't have a six pack,

you're going to start eating healthier.

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You're going to start embodying

that version of yourself.

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And then ultimately you're

going to have the six pack.

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So whether it was magic that

manifested it, or you tricked

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yourself into doing the things.

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I don't care what you call it, but it

was because your brain believed it.

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And you saw it so much that it, that

it pulled you in that direction.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: it's the idea

of assigning a persona to yourself

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that you want to aspire to be

and saying, I am that person.

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And what does that

person act, feel, and do?

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How does that, how, how, how does

that person, execute their day?

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And

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Justin Castelli: there's a difference,

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Rodrigo Gordillo: that person.

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Justin Castelli: and there's a

difference in faking it till you make it.

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And then believing that that

is you and embodying that and

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moving

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Rodrigo Gordillo: It's an exercise

towards the, that belief of that persona.

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You are a fit person

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Justin Castelli: I think the,

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Rodrigo Gordillo: wake up and you do it.

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Justin Castelli: I think faking it

till you make it is, it's an external

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Fake it to the make it is okay.

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I don't have a million dollars, but

I'm going to buy the watch and buy the

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clothes that makes it look like it.

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And then I'm going to grow into

it, but you're doing it from an

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external standpoint and chances

are, you really don't believe it.

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And if you don't believe it, then

you're never going to achieve that

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status versus okay, If I had a million

dollars, how would I feel about myself?

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Like, how would I walk?

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How would I move?

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How would I talk?

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Like, how would I feel?

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And if you embody it from the inside,

to me, I think that's what moves you

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towards that, and then ultimately

you're doing the things, luck happens,

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the magic doors open, and then you

find yourself in that situation.

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So I think that like, I think it's

important to understand that when you

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are visualizing who it is you want

to become or what it is you want to

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accomplish, it starts from the inside.

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And it's not the fake it till you make it

where you present on the outside, because

701

:

if it doesn't match up on the inside, the

outside is not going to bring it there.

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The inside can bring it,

but the outside can't.

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I, I don't think.

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Mike Philbrick: Well, I think you

said earlier, the answers lie within.

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Justin Castelli: Right.

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Mike Philbrick: And which

people will tilt their heads

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and I'm, why is that confusing?

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Where do you think the answers

lie for you if not within?

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Somebody else is going to tell

you your authentic life and the,

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and the things that you should do.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: well, I just

don't think people are very

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introspective, generally speaking.

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I think there's this concept of

letting, letting life happen to

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you or you happening to life.

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And most people kind of just

let life happen to them.

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Like they, they end up where they end

up because they, they're a billiard

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ball that got pushed in a thousand

different directions over time.

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And all of a sudden you're an accountant

in, in a cubicle and you ask yourself,

719

:

like, is this, is this what life is about?

720

:

a

721

:

Mike Philbrick: No offense to

all the accountants in cubicles.

722

:

Justin Castelli: And

for, and for, but for,

723

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: if

it's your authentic self,

724

:

Justin Castelli: exactly.

725

:

For some people, that is

what they're supposed to

726

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: no judgment.

727

:

Right.

728

:

But the point is that I find when you

ask people, how have you, Have you

729

:

thought about what you want in life

and how are you going to accomplish?

730

:

And most people are like, I haven't

thought about myself in a decade.

731

:

I like, I had this

conversation this weekend.

732

:

Like I don't, I don't,

I don't have hobbies.

733

:

I make money and so that my wife

and kids going to have a good

734

:

standard of living and I'm stuck now.

735

:

So it really, the, the big break here for,

I would say 90 percent of the population,

736

:

if not more, is how do you get them?

737

:

To start being introspective.

738

:

And I think that's a really scary thing.

739

:

I think it's really scary to wake

up and be like, well, I can't, I

740

:

can't look at the last 40 years of

my life and realize that I haven't

741

:

done anything that I wanted to do.

742

:

Justin Castelli: Mm

743

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: Right.

744

:

So I think fear is what holds people back.

745

:

And there's the fear of, of

addressing it, of recognizing it.

746

:

And then there's the fear of

like, well, in order for me

747

:

to pursue my authentic self.

748

:

I got to burn the ships,

749

:

Justin Castelli: hmm.

750

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: you know,

like that is really scary.

751

:

So, you know, walk us through your

experiences of, uh, have you, have

752

:

you, where are you meeting people?

753

:

Are you meeting people?

754

:

Like once they're past the introspection

are ready to take action, like, are

755

:

you leading horses to water or are

they already drinking and you're

756

:

providing them, you know, better, better

mineral water for their experience?

757

:

Justin Castelli: like to think that

through my content, I'm leading

758

:

people to the, to the water.

759

:

But the folks that I have worked

with in Life Design Plus and doing

760

:

this, like they're already there

and they just know they need help.

761

:

And some of them are like,

okay, I know where I want to go.

762

:

And other people are like.

763

:

I just know there's something more for me.

764

:

I'm at that more like more money

is not going to make me happy.

765

:

More fame, more success is

not going to make me happy.

766

:

Like I understand that's not it.

767

:

There's something more in me

and I don't know what it is.

768

:

and that's where last year

I did George Kinder's, evoke

769

:

training, the life planning.

770

:

process.

771

:

My whole plan was just to go through

evoke and learn the process and kind

772

:

of cut out and not get the designation.

773

:

And I fell in love with the process.

774

:

so I've, I'll finish up the

designation and I'll actually have my

775

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: Tell us

a little bit about that.

776

:

I've never heard of this.

777

:

Justin Castelli: So George Kinder is

like basically the godfather of life

778

:

planning and real quick, like life

planning is like, I believe it's a

779

:

compliment to financial planning.

780

:

It's technically financial life

planning, but the focus of life

781

:

planning is the individual.

782

:

And what it is they want to, what

is it want their life to look like?

783

:

And George has three questions

that are really famous.

784

:

Um, I think that'll kind of help people

understand what life planning is about.

785

:

The first question is

centered around abundance.

786

:

So you have all the money in the world.

787

:

You wake up one day, your bank is flush.

788

:

You're never going to need money again.

789

:

Like what would you do and dream

big and have no restrictions.

790

:

There's nothing off the table and

just start letting yourself go.

791

:

Because I think so many of us don't even

allow ourselves to dream about what it

792

:

is we would do if money wasn't an issue.

793

:

And we hit like.

794

:

Not have to worry about money, but like

if you're at the beginning phases of

795

:

figuring out what's missing or what do

you want to do, just throw money at the

796

:

table and what would life look like?

797

:

And I think a lot of us sometimes think

our dreams and aspirations are going

798

:

to be so far gone that we can never

really achieve them, but I think most

799

:

people have reasonable goals in life.

800

:

Like you might have one or two people that

genuinely want to be billionaires, but

801

:

most people don't want a billion dollars.

802

:

They just don't want to have to worry

about money and they want to struggle.

803

:

So you can start to back down what we

think is going to be unreal and see

804

:

that maybe it's not that far away.

805

:

You just never allowed

yourself to dream about it.

806

:

So that's the first question.

807

:

Second question kind of starts

to get to our mortality.

808

:

You go to the doctor, you find out

you have three to five years left.

809

:

in that time period, you won't feel bad.

810

:

You'll, you won't be sick, but you

won't know when you're going to pass,

811

:

you know, restructuring your life.

812

:

What does that look like?

813

:

and then the final one is

really the most important one.

814

:

You've go to the doctor today.

815

:

You find out today's your last day.

816

:

What did you not get to do?

817

:

Who did you not get to become?

818

:

What was left undone?

819

:

And like from the life planning process,

that is whatever those answers are, are

820

:

really what focus a lot of our energy.

821

:

Because if, if you're honest and you

know what those answers are, then

822

:

thankfully today's not your last day.

823

:

How do we make those no

longer future regrets?

824

:

How can we, how can we change that?

825

:

So that in the future, if I ask you this

question, those aren't your answers.

826

:

And hopefully you might say, I've

done everything I've wanted to do.

827

:

I've been the person I wanted to be.

828

:

I can't think of anything.

829

:

Bronnie Ware wrote a book called

the five regrets of the dying.

830

:

And she was a woman who worked with,

and you know, palliative care and worked

831

:

in hospice and you were all around

all these people in their last days.

832

:

And they had these five and I haven't

memorized them all, which is a shame.

833

:

I just know the first one because

it's about authentically living.

834

:

It's I wish I'd have been more

true to who I was supposed to be

835

:

or who I felt I was supposed to be.

836

:

And there's other ones.

837

:

I wish I would have been a better friend.

838

:

And, but none of them around

money, none of them about prestige.

839

:

I'm about work.

840

:

It's all these other

things that we forget.

841

:

so those three questions, I think kind of

encapsulate what life planning is about.

842

:

It's about putting your life that you

want to live, what I would call your

843

:

authentic life at the center, and then

building the plan around that to bring

844

:

that life to become your reality.

845

:

And then ultimately, Part of

that becomes the financial plan.

846

:

Like there's some other

things you need to shift.

847

:

Like you said, you may have to burn,

burn the bridges, burn the boats and,

848

:

and, you know, start from scratch, or

maybe you don't, but there's things that

849

:

need to be planned for and obstacles

that need to overcome, in that play.

850

:

And then eventually the money comes to it.

851

:

And that's where I think

money solves itself in that.

852

:

When you have a clear vision of the life

that you want, you know, what's important.

853

:

So just going back to our

conversation about time.

854

:

Now I know where I don't need to

allocate my dollars because that doesn't

855

:

move me towards this authentic life.

856

:

And now I'm truly aligning my money.

857

:

With the life that I want to live.

858

:

And we have this beautiful

harmony that goes on.

859

:

And not to say that life is perfect when

you do a life plan or if you're living

860

:

your authentic life, like there's always

going to be ups and downs, but I've

861

:

just noticed that those ups and downs

become a lot easier to navigate when.

862

:

You're operating where

you're supposed to be.

863

:

So,

864

:

Mike Philbrick: when you have a why

865

:

Justin Castelli: yeah,

866

:

Mike Philbrick: thing, things are easy

when you know why you're doing them.

867

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: So a lot of this, I

imagine a lot of people that are going

868

:

through this, that are in your circle,

I imagine, have families already.

869

:

How often do you find that the individual

can do it on its own, on their own versus

870

:

having to bring their, significant other

into the fold and, and get that person

871

:

to, you know, join you in the journey?

872

:

Uh, do you find a lot of resistance there?

873

:

Justin Castelli: I mean,

ultimately the, the, the partner

874

:

has got to join the table.

875

:

Like the, the, the authentic

life and the plan for that needs

876

:

to be everybody bought into it.

877

:

So like, In the, in the evoke

planning process, each person goes

878

:

through answering those questions

and each person gets their own time.

879

:

So what ends up happening is you

kind of create two individual life

880

:

plans that need to fit together.

881

:

And so we're all on the

same page, an ideal world.

882

:

That's where we're flow, where you

can see some of the conflict is with.

883

:

Oh, not conflict, but resistance

is if one of the partners is

884

:

maybe a little bit more into this.

885

:

Maybe a little bit more connected

to their self and the other isn't.

886

:

that was one of my, one of my fears is

I was going through this personal growth

887

:

and like elevation of consciousness, if

you will, I was afraid that I was going

888

:

to progress through this understanding

and this growth faster than my wife might

889

:

keep up because she's not necessarily.

890

:

Into all the things that I'm into.

891

:

And I was afraid that there was going

to be this, this gap between us.

892

:

And that was one of my fears of doing

this was that I'm like burning things

893

:

down, that I was going to somehow ruin

my relationship because I was growing

894

:

at a different way than my wife.

895

:

And thankfully I feel like.

896

:

She has been moving up with me.

897

:

Like we may not be on the same exact

plane, but I think we're close enough

898

:

that there hasn't been any problems.

899

:

So going back to your, your question, I

think if, if one person is at a higher

900

:

level of consciousness, if we want to use

that term and another is not quite there.

901

:

You might not get the person who's,

who's well, Kind of a little bit

902

:

behind to really dive in and be honest.

903

:

But what I've noticed is once you

get into the process and you start to

904

:

see light bulbs go off and, and more

importantly, people connect emotions

905

:

to the things they want, finding

their why, then they start to kind of

906

:

speed up and catch up a lot faster.

907

:

So I think the biggest.

908

:

Resistance or the biggest obstacle to

overcome is just people being able to

909

:

go to the depths they need to go to, to

really uncover their, their why, because

910

:

the true answer of the answer to the

question of why is never the first answer.

911

:

It's like five or six iterations further.

912

:

And then you find out that the reason you

want this thing is not because, you know,

913

:

the original reason it's something rooted

in something you saw when you were a kid.

914

:

And then once you connect to that,

like one of my favorite stories

915

:

from, from The evoke training was

one of the advisors, like when you go

916

:

through this, you have a partner and

you actually life plan each other.

917

:

So instead of role playing and having,

you know, half assed answers just

918

:

to get through the process, like

you're actually answering honestly.

919

:

And one of the advisors that went through

it with me, long story short, shares

920

:

that he wants to have a beach house.

921

:

And going through the process and asking

why, getting deeper, he, he shares

922

:

with his partner that he wants a beach

house because his father never had the

923

:

opportunity to live out that dream though,

his, so his dad wanted a beach house,

924

:

but his dad didn't live long enough.

925

:

And then I don't know if he never

spoke those words, never made that

926

:

connection before, but then he

broke down and cried, like lost it.

927

:

And.

928

:

The, to the power, like now he knows his

why, like at first, Oh, beach house is

929

:

nice, you know, be there in the winter

surface level things, but now he knows the

930

:

real reason for it and it gives you more

of a reason to make that thing happen.

931

:

So the next day he comes back and

tells us how he shared the experience

932

:

with his wife and his wife had told

him, you know, I didn't know why the

933

:

beach house was so important to you.

934

:

Why are we waiting looking at it?,

and a really cool part of the program

935

:

is we have our mentorship for six

months where we get back together.

936

:

and continue to work on it and

he shared with us through the

937

:

mentorship that he and his wife had

narrowed it down to 2 beachhouses.

938

:

So within 6 months time he went

to thinking this beach house.

939

:

Dream!

940

:

might be 10 years plus out and maybe a

little bit of fear in his mind that he

941

:

would maybe have the same trajectory

of his dad and not even get to live it

942

:

to now they have, he might even have

the beach house now for all I know.

943

:

And like, to me that like,

that is exciting work.

944

:

If I can help other people have a similar

experience for whatever it is they

945

:

need to, because of the life planning

process, like that is really impactful.

946

:

Like that's changing lives.

947

:

It's great to help people

get to retirement and fund

948

:

college and do some cool trips.

949

:

But if you can help somebody

realize a life they never knew

950

:

was possible, but they always

wanted, like that to me is impact.

951

:

And going back to John, he had me

write out a mission statement and I

952

:

had to condense it down to one word.

953

:

And that one word was impact.

954

:

So when I think about my ability

to impact people's lives, yes, I

955

:

can do that as a financial advisor.

956

:

But if I put my life planning

hat on and coaching hat, I

957

:

can have a much bigger impact.

958

:

And to me, that, that is really exciting.

959

:

Rodrigo Gordillo: So, so you're actually

applying this in your financial planning.

960

:

Like, are you sitting down with families

and saying, we're going to deal with the

961

:

finances, but also, Hey, we should deal

with this bigger elephant in the room.

962

:

Justin Castelli: I am not forcing the life

planning process on my existing clients

963

:

because that's not why they came to me.

964

:

This has been an evolution.

965

:

I've always asked these questions,

but I didn't go through like, I'm

966

:

not a, uh, not usually a systems guy.

967

:

I'm not usually following by

the book, but I follow evoke.

968

:

Because I believe in the magic

of the way it's been structured.

969

:

So I'm not forcing it on them, but

they know that I want to do it.

970

:

But I've kind of shifted things that

the only clients that I will take

971

:

on as new clients will be through

this life planning relationship.

972

:

So my first couple of clients are actually

other financial advisors that we've gone

973

:

through the life planning practice or the

process, but, and now we're integrating

974

:

that version of their self and the

life they want into their business.

975

:

So to make sure that their financial

planning practice supports the life

976

:

that they want to live and like,

They have authenticity on both fronts

977

:

because what I think happens in our,

in our profession is advisors is some

978

:

of us build great businesses that as

we evolve as individuals, no longer

979

:

align with who we are because in the

early days, you got to pay the bills.

980

:

So you're taking on clients

that maybe aren't the great fit.

981

:

Maybe you don't love, but they need an

advisor and you've got mouths to feed.

982

:

And then you get to a status where,

okay, the business is running itself.

983

:

It's good.

984

:

And I, I like the people I work with, but

like this and this line of work or how

985

:

I'm doing things or how people perceive

me is not really true to who I am today.

986

:

And now I have this kind of disconnect of

maybe I'm not being a fraud or being fake,

987

:

but I'm not being my true authentic self.

988

:

And if I could start a firm from scratch.

989

:

Today, here's how I would do it.

990

:

So it's kind of like, okay, how do we go

from where you are to where you want to

991

:

be in a way that doesn't blow your firm

up and leave your clients stranded in

992

:

your family struggling, but moves you in

a direction that you can be more true to

993

:

who you want to be today, because I think

that allows you to be a better advisor.

994

:

There's a, a book called the, um,

it's something of consciousness.

995

:

David Hawkins is the author.

996

:

I'll send it to you.

997

:

I should know it by heart.

998

:

It's in my other office, but in it,

he, he comes up with, he has a study.

999

:

So he's a doctor.

:

00:50:02,540 --> 00:50:07,390

He does a study of medical

doctors and he has a way to

:

00:50:07,410 --> 00:50:09,140

judge levels of consciousness.

:

00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,620

And the only difference between

these two doctors that he studies is.

:

00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,070

So they have patients

with the same ailments.

:

00:50:17,350 --> 00:50:19,430

They give them the same medicines.

:

00:50:20,190 --> 00:50:22,640

The difference being one doctor

operates from a higher level of

:

00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,250

consciousness, and the other one's

at a lower level of consciousness.

:

00:50:25,510 --> 00:50:29,910

And after the trial period, the doctor

who had the higher level of consciousness,

:

00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,010

his patients were all cured.

:

00:50:32,610 --> 00:50:36,010

And the doctor with lower consciousness,

his patients didn't get better.

:

00:50:36,770 --> 00:50:36,950

Rodrigo Gordillo: Yeah.

:

00:50:36,950 --> 00:50:37,020

the

:

00:50:37,030 --> 00:50:38,450

map of consciousness.

:

00:50:38,660 --> 00:50:40,110

Justin Castelli: The map

of conscience is explained.

:

00:50:40,140 --> 00:50:40,450

Yeah.

:

00:50:40,860 --> 00:50:42,450

It's, I mean, it's, it's amazing.

:

00:50:42,450 --> 00:50:46,107

So I, I just look at that and I'm like,

okay, if there's truth to that, and he

:

00:50:46,107 --> 00:50:49,667

did a study of it and it's published and

it's, I think it's been peer reviewed.

:

00:50:49,967 --> 00:50:51,577

if that's true for doctors.

:

00:50:52,312 --> 00:50:56,092

Then I'm going to make the leap and

say, that's true for advisors as well.

:

00:50:56,552 --> 00:50:59,762

So how can we, as an advisors,

find ourselves operating at a

:

00:50:59,762 --> 00:51:01,072

higher level of consciousness?

:

00:51:01,092 --> 00:51:04,722

I think being true to who we are and

being more authentic to ourself allows

:

00:51:04,722 --> 00:51:06,282

us to be higher level of consciousness.

:

00:51:06,282 --> 00:51:08,412

And now we can do even

better work for our clients.

:

00:51:08,422 --> 00:51:12,552

And I think that that quote unquote,

better work is less about being more

:

00:51:12,552 --> 00:51:16,622

efficient with our portfolios and getting

more out of the returns and more about

:

00:51:16,852 --> 00:51:19,222

helping clients find what it is they want.

:

00:51:19,497 --> 00:51:23,307

That that higher energy translates

to them and they see us living that

:

00:51:23,307 --> 00:51:24,627

life and that rubs off on them.

:

00:51:24,627 --> 00:51:27,497

And now they're more in tune with

who they are and what they want.

:

00:51:27,507 --> 00:51:31,297

And now we can build real plans that lead

them to the life that they want to live.

:

00:51:31,347 --> 00:51:35,077

I think traditional financial planning

is great, but I think a lot of those

:

00:51:35,077 --> 00:51:39,437

financial plans are building lives

that people don't really care about.

:

00:51:39,867 --> 00:51:43,147

There's no why behind it other

than I'm supposed to work till 65.

:

00:51:43,407 --> 00:51:46,387

I want to travel then I want to

pay for four years of college.

:

00:51:46,397 --> 00:51:48,207

Cause that's what we've

been programmed to say.

:

00:51:48,607 --> 00:51:49,097

And.

:

00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:52,682

I mean, that all finds its way into

someone's life plan, but there's a

:

00:51:52,682 --> 00:51:55,202

lot of other things that are a part

of it that are way more important.

:

00:51:55,212 --> 00:51:58,402

So I look at it as life planning

is helping us build a plan

:

00:51:58,402 --> 00:52:01,342

towards the life people actually

want to live and experience and

:

00:52:01,342 --> 00:52:02,542

traditional financial planning.

:

00:52:02,542 --> 00:52:03,382

Well, not bad.

:

00:52:03,662 --> 00:52:05,872

It's just living, you know, it's

creating a life that somebody

:

00:52:05,882 --> 00:52:07,612

may or may not be excited about.

:

00:52:07,927 --> 00:52:08,277

Rodrigo Gordillo: Hmm.

:

00:52:08,802 --> 00:52:09,662

Justin Castelli: And

there's a place for both.

:

00:52:09,672 --> 00:52:13,622

I think, I think the process is

when someone's ready, I don't think

:

00:52:13,622 --> 00:52:16,402

somebody can, can really go through

life planning until they're ready.

:

00:52:16,422 --> 00:52:17,632

And that's that pain moment.

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00:52:17,642 --> 00:52:18,572

That's that understanding.

:

00:52:18,572 --> 00:52:21,752

There's something more, there's some type

of trigger to where they want to find out.

:

00:52:22,542 --> 00:52:24,322

They want to figure out what it

is they're supposed to be doing.

:

00:52:24,342 --> 00:52:25,872

They want to, they want

to live that calling.

:

00:52:26,922 --> 00:52:30,852

You start with that and then you go do

the financial plan, because if you spend

:

00:52:30,852 --> 00:52:34,112

all the time going through the numbers

and you create this financial plan that

:

00:52:34,112 --> 00:52:37,372

leads to a life they really don't want,

once they go through the life planning

:

00:52:37,372 --> 00:52:38,452

process, you're going to have to go.

:

00:52:38,907 --> 00:52:39,897

Start from scratch again.

:

00:52:39,927 --> 00:52:43,617

So just maybe if it's a new client, you

start, you do a real quick assessment.

:

00:52:43,627 --> 00:52:46,087

You make sure there's not any

glaring holes in insurance.

:

00:52:46,087 --> 00:52:47,347

Their estate plans up to date.

:

00:52:47,637 --> 00:52:50,167

You know, they don't have a lot of

debt, like make sure their finances

:

00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:53,557

look like they're pretty strong

and then focus on, okay, what's

:

00:52:53,557 --> 00:52:54,957

the life that you want to live?

:

00:52:55,187 --> 00:52:57,857

That's going to maximize your

happiness and bring you the

:

00:52:57,857 --> 00:52:58,937

experiences that you want.

:

00:52:59,257 --> 00:53:00,467

Let's figure out what that looks like.

:

00:53:00,487 --> 00:53:02,877

And then let's figure out how to make

that work from a financial standpoint.

:

00:53:02,897 --> 00:53:04,917

And then we build the

financial plan for that.

:

00:53:04,927 --> 00:53:05,997

So I think they go together.

:

00:53:06,832 --> 00:53:09,732

But I think the future, I think the future

of the profession is the combination.

:

00:53:09,732 --> 00:53:14,522

Like I think every firm is going to have

life planning one way or another, whether

:

00:53:14,522 --> 00:53:17,892

they call it that, whether they do kinder

or money quotient or when the other one's

:

00:53:17,892 --> 00:53:24,032

out there, they're going to have a team

member or an outsourced member who will

:

00:53:24,032 --> 00:53:28,032

help bring this deeper level of planning

to the clients who are ready to have that.

:

00:53:28,172 --> 00:53:30,872

And I think that from a

business growth standpoint.

:

00:53:31,252 --> 00:53:33,982

I don't know if that's the point of

this podcast, but from a business growth

:

00:53:33,982 --> 00:53:37,722

standpoint, if you're helping people live

lives that they want to live and having

:

00:53:37,722 --> 00:53:40,852

experiences that they've always wanted

to have and helping them do that, like

:

00:53:40,862 --> 00:53:42,212

that's stuff that people talk about.

:

00:53:42,672 --> 00:53:46,322

And if, if, if you're living your

best life and doing all the things

:

00:53:46,322 --> 00:53:48,862

you wanted to, and your advisor helped

you figure out what that was and

:

00:53:48,862 --> 00:53:50,152

build a plan to be able to do that.

:

00:53:51,152 --> 00:53:54,672

I want that to like make the intro today,

like get me connected with that person.

:

00:53:55,052 --> 00:53:59,092

so like my focus going forward

is, is doing the life planning.

:

00:53:59,492 --> 00:54:01,562

Doing some, some coaching

that goes alongside of that.

:

00:54:01,562 --> 00:54:03,752

Cause I, I enjoy that

aspect of it as well.

:

00:54:04,252 --> 00:54:07,922

And having a little segment carved

out for those advisors that want to

:

00:54:07,922 --> 00:54:09,922

do it and then align their practices.

:

00:54:09,922 --> 00:54:13,282

And then until I really get to the point

where everybody knows what the authentic

:

00:54:13,282 --> 00:54:18,342

life is and wants to live that, hold

myself out there to help other firms

:

00:54:18,342 --> 00:54:21,762

that have a need for life planning, but

don't have a registered life planner or

:

00:54:21,762 --> 00:54:22,962

don't want to send somebody through it.

:

00:54:22,982 --> 00:54:25,412

Like bring me in as your

outsource life planner.

:

00:54:25,562 --> 00:54:29,082

I'll come in, I'll take your clients

through the process with you right by me.

:

00:54:29,312 --> 00:54:30,762

So you're a part of that conversation.

:

00:54:30,762 --> 00:54:33,932

You hear all of the whys, you

understand it, craft the life

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00:54:33,942 --> 00:54:35,622

plan, go over all the obstacles.

:

00:54:35,622 --> 00:54:38,202

And then when that's done, I fade back.

:

00:54:38,262 --> 00:54:41,172

You run with the financial plan

and I'm off to do it again.

:

00:54:41,532 --> 00:54:45,122

I think there's a lot of firms that are

starting to see the value in it, but

:

00:54:45,122 --> 00:54:48,482

they don't have the demand for it to

where it makes sense to hire somebody

:

00:54:48,482 --> 00:54:49,602

or send somebody through the training.

:

00:54:49,962 --> 00:54:52,022

So I think there's a cool

opportunity to come in and do the

:

00:54:52,022 --> 00:54:53,272

work that I really want to do.

:

00:54:53,672 --> 00:54:56,242

It's not about, it's not about

building my business up and having,

:

00:54:56,302 --> 00:54:57,552

you know, a hundred more clients.

:

00:54:57,562 --> 00:55:01,432

It's about doing these life planning

engagements and helping people really

:

00:55:01,432 --> 00:55:02,562

figure out what they want out of life.

:

00:55:02,562 --> 00:55:05,632

And whether that's for my firm or for

another firm, to me, it doesn't matter.

:

00:55:05,652 --> 00:55:09,332

I just want to, I want to do that work,

get more reps in, get better at it.

:

00:55:09,452 --> 00:55:12,792

ultimately kind of be like a Rick

Rubin and just kind of come in and

:

00:55:13,022 --> 00:55:15,832

ask the right questions, work my

magic, help people create their own

:

00:55:15,832 --> 00:55:18,332

hits and then go back to do again.

:

00:55:18,557 --> 00:55:19,597

Rodrigo Gordillo: Rick

Rubin, the producer.

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00:55:19,617 --> 00:55:19,907

Yeah.

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00:55:19,952 --> 00:55:20,592

Justin Castelli: Yeah, yeah.

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00:55:20,647 --> 00:55:20,997

Rodrigo Gordillo: touch.

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00:55:20,997 --> 00:55:21,367

Yeah.

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00:55:21,367 --> 00:55:25,277

Well, I mean, that, that's

absolutely brilliant because.

:

00:55:25,632 --> 00:55:30,532

As we get into the more AI space and

people, there's often speculation of

:

00:55:30,542 --> 00:55:33,892

how, you know, financial advice is

going to go the way of the Dodo because

:

00:55:33,982 --> 00:55:36,822

everything's going to be automated

and we're going to figure it all out.

:

00:55:37,362 --> 00:55:41,412

What people fail to understand that are

looking at it from the outside is just how

:

00:55:41,412 --> 00:55:44,491

important it is, to have that human touch.

:

00:55:45,022 --> 00:55:50,242

To really connect with that, with your

clients, you know, as, as a financial

:

00:55:50,252 --> 00:55:54,752

advisor in the past, I, I recognized

that the relationship I had with my

:

00:55:54,752 --> 00:55:56,842

clients was, was an emotional one.

:

00:55:56,992 --> 00:55:58,532

It wasn't a database one.

:

00:55:58,882 --> 00:56:00,432

It was a trust.

:

00:56:01,082 --> 00:56:03,692

I remember, you know, when I first

started in the business, when it was

:

00:56:03,692 --> 00:56:07,442

a very young, trying to get advisor,

trying to get new clients, it'd be a lot

:

00:56:07,442 --> 00:56:10,192

of cold calling and then a year later,

I'd ask them like, how did we meet?

:

00:56:10,202 --> 00:56:10,732

Do you remember?

:

00:56:11,362 --> 00:56:12,872

And they're like, I can't remember.

:

00:56:12,872 --> 00:56:15,972

I just remember that you were

passionate and I thought that

:

00:56:15,972 --> 00:56:17,162

you were going to do right by me.

:

00:56:18,112 --> 00:56:25,432

That was their decision making and you,

as, as things that used to be a value,

:

00:56:25,442 --> 00:56:30,572

like giving me like back in the day,

being able to trade cheaply has gone from

:

00:56:30,572 --> 00:56:35,892

being able to create a portfolio, has gone

into financial planning, this business

:

00:56:35,892 --> 00:56:40,362

is going to have to evolve toward the

human things that nobody can replace.

:

00:56:41,112 --> 00:56:44,532

And I think the work that

you're doing is, is brilliant.

:

00:56:44,532 --> 00:56:51,035

I, you know, I hadn't, Mike and I have

been in this type of, self help, always

:

00:56:51,305 --> 00:56:54,735

looking at coaching, reading and trying

to improve ourselves, but, you know,

:

00:56:54,735 --> 00:56:59,405

connecting that to your business the

way you have, I think is fantastic.

:

00:56:59,465 --> 00:57:02,995

And, you know, your, your daily notes,

are also interesting because I think

:

00:57:03,445 --> 00:57:08,175

that's Has that helped you find your

way and therefore other people find it?

:

00:57:08,205 --> 00:57:10,225

Like, is that something you

would recommend for people to

:

00:57:10,225 --> 00:57:12,585

do to find their, their path?

:

00:57:13,255 --> 00:57:13,925

Justin Castelli: don't, yes.

:

00:57:13,955 --> 00:57:15,325

I don't necessarily think

you have to publish it.

:

00:57:15,710 --> 00:57:17,200

but I do think there's

value in publishing.

:

00:57:17,210 --> 00:57:19,450

Like the daily notes really

are like a public journal.

:

00:57:20,010 --> 00:57:23,740

I'm almost, so when I write those

daily notes, I don't know what I'm

:

00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:25,050

going to write until the day of.

:

00:57:25,110 --> 00:57:29,170

So like I wake up in the morning and I sit

down and write it after Silas gets on the

:

00:57:29,170 --> 00:57:31,650

bus and I write them in like 30 minutes.

:

00:57:31,650 --> 00:57:35,760

And when I first started doing it was in

the early days of finding my alignment.

:

00:57:35,770 --> 00:57:40,030

Like I would meditate first and it was

almost like I was downloading from my

:

00:57:40,030 --> 00:57:42,210

higher power, the daily note for that day.

:

00:57:42,610 --> 00:57:44,810

And now I just kind of wake up and.

:

00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,690

Whether I meditate or not, the message

finds me and then I just, I just write it.

:

00:57:49,980 --> 00:57:54,690

so like I'm 668 days in a row of

writing and not doing it for the

:

00:57:54,690 --> 00:57:58,150

string, but it's just, it's a part

of my daily routine and it has helped

:

00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:59,960

me kind of process some things.

:

00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:04,300

And the cool thing is like, you will be

able to go look back and say, Oh, like

:

00:58:04,340 --> 00:58:07,875

I remember what I was going through

at that time and like, If you go back

:

00:58:07,875 --> 00:58:10,765

over the last few months, now that you

know this story about me talking to a

:

00:58:10,765 --> 00:58:15,425

company, like you'll see the notes where

I am thinking out loud about processing

:

00:58:15,785 --> 00:58:17,595

this, this opportunity in front of me.

:

00:58:17,595 --> 00:58:22,755

So, I, I don't know why I feel

called to share them other than I

:

00:58:22,755 --> 00:58:25,235

feel called to hit publish every

day and put the notes out there.

:

00:58:25,235 --> 00:58:28,445

And it's been really cool because

You know, writing every day puts

:

00:58:28,445 --> 00:58:31,035

you at a risk of turning people off

because you're in their inbox every

:

00:58:31,035 --> 00:58:32,475

morning and they kind of get annoyed.

:

00:58:32,765 --> 00:58:35,605

And I get my fair share of unsubscribes.

:

00:58:35,875 --> 00:58:38,595

And so I have a weekly version where if

you don't want to get them every day, I'll

:

00:58:38,595 --> 00:58:41,665

send you a weekly note that has all of

them in there and like a podcast to share.

:

00:58:43,660 --> 00:58:48,180

The feedback I get from time to time

just tells me that these daily notes are

:

00:58:48,190 --> 00:58:49,750

helping people and resonating with them.

:

00:58:49,750 --> 00:58:52,240

And that's all I can help is

that write something that I

:

00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:53,750

enjoy, that I'm excited about.

:

00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,730

The only caveat is I want them to

be somewhere connected to spirit,

:

00:58:56,740 --> 00:58:58,610

mind, body, money, or creativity.

:

00:58:59,060 --> 00:59:01,600

And that's kind of where

those, those daily notes land.

:

00:59:02,075 --> 00:59:03,515

I have no bigger picture for them.

:

00:59:03,565 --> 00:59:06,625

I think it'd be kind of cool to put them

together, like in a coffee, a coffee

:

00:59:06,625 --> 00:59:10,165

table book one day, rewrite them to

make them evergreen and kind of take out

:

00:59:10,165 --> 00:59:14,065

maybe some of the personal sides of it

and have like a Rick Rubin type of book.

:

00:59:14,385 --> 00:59:16,875

but that's not necessarily something

that I'm actively pursuing.

:

00:59:16,875 --> 00:59:19,745

It's just part of my process,

part of my way to kind of share

:

00:59:19,745 --> 00:59:23,545

my message, plant those seeds and

then see what happens from there.

:

00:59:24,155 --> 00:59:24,755

Rodrigo Gordillo: Fantastic.

:

00:59:24,835 --> 00:59:25,325

I love it.

:

00:59:25,822 --> 00:59:28,672

So, you know, we're coming up on an hour.

:

00:59:28,772 --> 00:59:30,652

I dominated all the questions this year.

:

00:59:30,652 --> 00:59:32,372

I'm sorry, but this is

very interesting stuff.

:

00:59:32,372 --> 00:59:35,468

And, I'm just curious, where could

people like, what, what do you

:

00:59:35,468 --> 00:59:37,398

want people to, to search you for?

:

00:59:37,398 --> 00:59:39,748

Like what, what is the most

important thing for you right now?

:

00:59:39,748 --> 00:59:43,258

And for people to go to your

website and look for, there's a

:

00:59:43,258 --> 00:59:44,518

few things that you have out there.

:

00:59:44,918 --> 00:59:47,118

Justin Castelli: yeah, I would just

say if you go to justincostelli.

:

00:59:47,158 --> 00:59:50,313

io, That soon, depending on when

you watch this, I'm going to have to

:

00:59:50,313 --> 00:59:52,503

update to the justin, justincastelli.

:

00:59:52,543 --> 00:59:56,053

com that I own, because I don't know if

you guys saw this, like io might go away.

:

00:59:56,578 --> 00:59:59,778

So yeah, the dot IO is

for like Indian ocean.

:

00:59:59,788 --> 01:00:02,038

Like it's like, you know,

like dot CA is for Canada.

:

01:00:02,458 --> 01:00:06,708

So the IO is a, is a domain for an area.

:

01:00:06,738 --> 01:00:09,928

And that area was owned by

one country because of a

:

01:00:09,928 --> 01:00:11,598

treaty and it's being expired.

:

01:00:11,598 --> 01:00:14,278

So long story short,

like that, that, that.

:

01:00:14,723 --> 01:00:16,673

Area is going to change ownership in the.

:

01:00:16,673 --> 01:00:18,263

io is supposed to go away.

:

01:00:18,293 --> 01:00:19,973

So I own justincostelley.

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01:00:20,013 --> 01:00:20,293

com.

:

01:00:20,293 --> 01:00:23,573

So if this is like beyond:

it's probably justincostelley.

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01:00:23,813 --> 01:00:24,283

com.

:

01:00:24,553 --> 01:00:24,993

but justincostelley.

:

01:00:25,563 --> 01:00:26,403

io and that has everything.

:

01:00:26,403 --> 01:00:28,483

It's got my daily notes show up there.

:

01:00:28,483 --> 01:00:29,793

You can subscribe to it from there.

:

01:00:29,803 --> 01:00:32,513

My podcast, Life Design Plus is there.

:

01:00:32,783 --> 01:00:38,703

and like, all I want is to through those

means, encourage people to really like

:

01:00:38,703 --> 01:00:40,513

reflect on the life that you're living.

:

01:00:41,023 --> 01:00:44,143

And how much of it is what you

really want versus how much it is.

:

01:00:44,353 --> 01:00:48,170

Other people have influenced

you and no judgment on if you're

:

01:00:48,170 --> 01:00:50,800

living a life that someone else has

influenced and that's okay with you.

:

01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:51,430

Like, that's fine.

:

01:00:51,430 --> 01:00:54,160

I just want people to know, because

I don't think a lot of people back to

:

01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:58,150

your point earlier, they don't know

how they got to where they are and.

:

01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,630

You have more agency in your

life than you probably realize.

:

01:01:01,630 --> 01:01:04,680

And you have more control if you

just kind of take back the pen.

:

01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:09,660

I did a, I did a series of talks last year

and I turned them into spoken word poems.

:

01:01:09,660 --> 01:01:11,360

And one of them was who's got the pen.

:

01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,250

And the whole premise of it is,

is who's writing your life story.

:

01:01:14,770 --> 01:01:16,450

Are you writing it or is somebody else?

:

01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:18,980

And you can, at any point,

you can take the pen back.

:

01:01:18,980 --> 01:01:21,790

I actually have pens made

that say, you've got the pen.

:

01:01:21,790 --> 01:01:22,790

Like you can, I can't read it.

:

01:01:22,790 --> 01:01:23,420

But I.

:

01:01:23,790 --> 01:01:27,300

You have the pen and I just want people

to be aware that they can take the pen

:

01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:28,800

back and they could write their story.

:

01:01:29,170 --> 01:01:31,670

And I think ultimately when you

find the path you're supposed

:

01:01:31,670 --> 01:01:33,910

to be on, good things happen.

:

01:01:34,110 --> 01:01:36,120

it doesn't mean it's perfect,

but good things happen and

:

01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:37,380

it leads to better outcome.

:

01:01:37,380 --> 01:01:41,870

And if I take it to the highest,

highest level, if, if I am right, and

:

01:01:41,870 --> 01:01:45,190

we were all created for a reason and

we all find that reason and we all

:

01:01:45,190 --> 01:01:48,800

live our authentic life, then I think

we find ourself in a perfect world.

:

01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:50,320

Everybody's happy.

:

01:01:50,530 --> 01:01:51,770

Everybody's doing what

they're supposed to.

:

01:01:51,770 --> 01:01:53,750

We all compliment each other, you know.

:

01:01:54,260 --> 01:01:57,530

All of the, the, the, the debates and

the fights, all those things go away.

:

01:01:57,530 --> 01:02:01,610

And I know that's not possible, but if

more of us move in that direction, then

:

01:02:01,610 --> 01:02:04,750

at least we can make the world a little

bit better because more of us are doing

:

01:02:04,750 --> 01:02:07,680

the things we're supposed to, and we're

living happier lives and we're kinder

:

01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:08,920

to each other and all these good things.

:

01:02:08,930 --> 01:02:09,880

So there's a little bit of a.

:

01:02:10,405 --> 01:02:13,535

Altruistic view on what this

could lead to if it was possible.

:

01:02:13,905 --> 01:02:16,435

And I just think if we move

more people that way, it makes

:

01:02:16,435 --> 01:02:17,475

the world a little bit better.

:

01:02:18,188 --> 01:02:18,878

Mike Philbrick: Well said.

:

01:02:19,388 --> 01:02:19,798

Rodrigo Gordillo: Amen.

:

01:02:20,308 --> 01:02:20,868

Mike Philbrick: Amen.

:

01:02:21,388 --> 01:02:23,638

Justin Castelli: And I just want, I

want to thank you guys real quick, just

:

01:02:24,028 --> 01:02:27,848

for having me on and allowing me to

have this conversation, because these

:

01:02:27,848 --> 01:02:31,398

aren't the type of conversations that

go on at financial planning conferences,

:

01:02:31,598 --> 01:02:33,878

conferences, it's not going on at FPA.

:

01:02:33,948 --> 01:02:36,888

Like these aren't conversations

that very, very many advisors and

:

01:02:36,888 --> 01:02:38,928

investment folks are having publicly.

:

01:02:39,553 --> 01:02:42,413

But I can tell you, there are a lot

of us that share the same mindset that

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01:02:42,423 --> 01:02:46,263

the three of us have, because they're

hitting me in the DMs privately.

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They're sharing me the books

they're reading, but they don't

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feel confident to share it.

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And I just think that these are

conversations that need to happen

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because money touches everything.

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We're in a position where we can actually

help people to find what they want and

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align their dollars and live better lives.

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And I think that.

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The stigma of these things being woo

over time will go away as we have

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more conversations like this publicly.

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So I just want to thank you guys for

deviating from the investments and

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the other things that we talk about

and having this kind of, you know,

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bigger picture and more spiritual talk,

because I think it's really important.

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Mike Philbrick: Yeah.

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That's why we had you on.

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the authentic life and being authentic

and your real self has been something

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that you have, really been a proponent

for, for since I've, since I've known you.

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So it is absolutely amazing

to see the growth and the

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direction you've taken that.

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And, thank you for coming

on and, uh, yeah, everybody

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out there have some impact.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: Yeah,

I love that impact.

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Justin, thank you so much for

joining us and sharing your story

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and being so brave about it.

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I know you're not, you don't feel

like probably you're brave now, but

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when you first made that change,

I know it was a big shift, from

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technically oriented financial

planner to what you are espousing now.

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So, thank you.

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We'll definitely have you on again.

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And everybody, that needs to

know anything about Justin,

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01:04:02,003 --> 01:04:03,093

it will be in the show notes.

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01:04:03,473 --> 01:04:07,453

and if you have any questions, reach

out, he's also on, on, social media.

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So you can find them everywhere.

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01:04:08,373 --> 01:04:10,973

There's only one Justin Costelli

in this world and you can Google

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Justin Castelli: Appreciate it guys.

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Rodrigo Gordillo: him.

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And thanks, Justin.

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Resolve Riffs Investment Podcast
Welcome to ReSolve Riffs Investment Podcast, hosted by the team at ReSolve Global*, where evidence inspires confidence.
These podcasts will dig deep to uncover investment truths and life hacks you won’t find in the mainstream media, covering topics that appeal to left-brained robots, right-brained poets and everyone in between. In this show we interview deep thinkers in the world of quantitative finance such as Larry Swedroe, Meb Faber and many more, all with the goal of helping you reach excellence. Welcome to the journey.

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