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The illusion that most business owners and entrepreneurs buy into at one point or another is that financial success will make them happy, or at least give them the opportunity to be happy. But Nick Unsworth insists that it’s not true. He’s confident about that because he’s experienced it and because he’s seen it proven true in the lives of many of his coaching clients. On this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Ryan chats with Nick about finding purpose and meaning in life. The point of the conversation is to help you avoid the pitfalls of success that make so many people rich but depressed.

How entrepreneurism makes some people’s lives worse.

Nick Unsworth is concerned that many people out there have been convinced that becoming an entrepreneur is what will make their lives better. But he’s not so sure it’s true. He’s seen countless people come through his coaching practice who bought that idea. Now they are working 60 hours a week in their own business, never spending time with their families, and more tied to the J-O-B than they ever were when it was a 9 to 5 gig. He thinks before anyone starts down the entrepreneurial road they need to assess whether the lifestyle is one that will fit the way they are wired. You can hear Nick’s insights on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

How a life vision helps people get into the flow of meaning.

Nick and Ryan have a bit of a disagreement on this episode (it’s kind of fun to listen in, so be sure you hit the play button on this one). Ryan asks Nick if he believes that every person on the planet has ONE calling or purpose they need to discover. Nick says that he does and Ryan isn’t so sure that’s true. Ryan’s belief is that we each have to figure out our next best step given the circumstances and opportunities that come into our lives. That doesn’t mean we are entirely victims of circumstance, but it also doesn’t mean that you’ll necessarily be able to find a clear vision for your life without walking the path to discovering it. You’ll enjoy the good-natured banter back and forth between these two sharp guys, on this episode.  

The “3 S” strategy to find your life’s vision or purpose.

One of the ways Nick Unsworth helps people uncover their life vision is to help them unpack the three “S”s of their lives - their Story, their Stance, and their Strategy. Their Story is exactly what it sounds like, the story each person has lived. Understanding what’s happened in your life so far and the effects it’s had on you is a powerful first step in seeing who those things have shaped you to be. The Stance portion has to do with what you are angry about, passionate over, or fired up to change in the world as a result of your story. When you have a clear bead on that, then Strategy comes into the picture. You can hear Nick explain it all on this episode, so be sure you listen.

What you need more than financial success to make life worth living.

Financial success is not the thing that brings happiness to life. It may be part of the picture but it’s not the only thing. You also need good relationships (love), a sense that you are making a difference in the world (purpose), and a few other important things. Ryan and his guest, Nick Unsworth, walk through what Nick calls the “4 pillars” of a happy and fulfilling life. They are hopeful that you will be able to clearly assess your own life in light of what they share. If you’ll take the time to do some self-evaluation you may find that you’re overlooking or neglecting some key areas of your life that could increase your happiness.

Outline Of This Great Episode

  • [0:05] Ryan’s introduction to Nick Unsworth, today’s guest.
  • [2:44] How entrepreneurship can make people’s lives worse.
  • [9:02] How Nick works with people who are not experiencing the life they want.
  • [11:32] The best way to find a life purpose through “how to” thinking.
  • [22:03] When money is the goal you don’t wind up happy.
  • [27:42] Does Nick believe that every person has ONE purpose?
  • [34:00] Do most of Nick’s clients refine a current business or go on a different path after working with him?
  • [37:33] The end point for entrepreneurs. Is it to build a huge business, sell it, and be done?
  • [41:45] Ryan’s journaling practice that defined a life purpose for himself.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GETTING STARTED: Start now figuring out your life vision. You can use the 3S strategy Nick uses and talks about on this episode. Or, you can use the journaling approach that Ryan mentioned at the end of the show. Any purpose is better than no purpose.

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Don’t get stuck thinking that financial goals and achievement are the most important thing. If you don’t have the pillars that make life enjoyable, you’ll find yourself to be a rich, depressed person.

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Back in the 1800s, the “rags to riches” stories of Horatio Alger and others were very popular reading material. They were designed to encourage youngsters to dream big and work hard to gain success over time. Today’s guest not only could have written one of those stories, he’s lived it. Wesley Chapman was born to a teenage mother and was severely abused and neglected in a number of situations throughout his childhood, resulting in his first suicide attempt at the age of 4. On this episode, which is a keynote address given at Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015, Wesley tells his story and the discovery he made that changed everything for him.

Wesley’s story proves that YOU have no excuses.

During his introduction of this episode, Ryan Moran, host of Freedom Fast Lane, makes this observation: Wesley Chapman’s story proves that nobody has an excuse for being a failure. Wesley had every reason to quit, to believe that he’d never amount to anything, and to live out the destiny that had been handed to him. But he didn’t. Through the belief and love of one person, he was able to change his beliefs about himself and begin moving in a more positive direction. Over time, that positive motion translated into a larger vision that includes helping teens build a positive future for themselves, no matter what they’ve been through. You can hear Wesley’s story and the impact he’s making, on this episode.

A traumatic childhood that got him labeled as “hopeless.”

At 3 months old Wesley Chapman was diagnosed as a “failure to thrive” baby. That label began a long childhood of tests, prescription medication, and hospitalizations that resulted in everyone giving up on him. Even his mother abandoned him at the hospital when she took him in for one of his many appointments. As he grew older he came to the false conclusion that the solution to all his problems was money. That drove him into a self-made sales career that was highly successful but ended in his own version of hopelessness, in spite of the financial success he’d achieved. What was it that he discovered at that point? You can hear him tell the story himself, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

“I had everything everybody wants, but it didn’t matter and I wasn’t happy.”

After rising from a dysfunctional and abusive childhood, building his own version of a successful sales career, and becoming a success by virtue of his own hard work, Wesley Chapman found himself on an exotic beach looking out at the waves. He thought about his life, where he’d come from, and where he was headed. It was in that moment Wesley realized that he still wasn’t happy or fulfilled. From that day on the beach, a series of events led him to his first opportunity to speak to middle school students at a California school and the outcome not only changed his life but the lives of hundreds of students as well. It’s an amazing story of lost direction, hopelessness, and the discovery of purpose. Take some time to listen to Wesley’s story on this episode.

The moment when he realized it was not about him, it was about them.

The first time Wesley Chapman spoke at a school event he was part of a team of inspirational speakers that made the rounds to different schools. He tried to be funny. He was as engaging as he knew to be. Still, he was bombing his presentation. He threw out an emergency prayer to God, asking for His help. Then everything changed and the school meeting turned into one of the most powerful moments of his life. You can hear what happened, how it happened, and how it led Wesley to become the youth advocate and speaker he is today, on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

Outline Of This Great Episode

  • [0:05] Ryan’s introduction of his guest, Wesley Chapman.
  • [8:39] Wesley’s story in his own words.
  • [14:40] His first suicide attempt at 4 years old.
  • [19:00] Adopted by a wonderful woman whose husband was abusive.
  • [23:17] The moment Wesley decided that money solves everything.
  • [27:32] The start of a sales career and service business as an adolescent.
  • [31:50] How Wesley discovered that money could not buy happiness.
  • [37:59] This is not about you, it’s about them.
  • [46:29] Getting excited about helping kids make the change they need to make.
  • [50:39] An exercise to discover the secret to success: Be You.
  • [58:01] Why every person has the potential to be great.
  • [1:02:33] How you can get in on the FFL LIVE event for 2016

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Get yourself connected to someone who truly believes in you. It may be a spouse or friend. It could be an accountability or mastermind group. But you can’t hit success on any level all on your own. You need others.

FOR GETTING STARTED: Figure out who YOU are. You won’t be successful by imitating someone else, you’ve got to be who YOU were made to be. It takes work. It takes time. But knowing yourself is where you begin in order to make the biggest impact.

Connect With Today’s guest: WESLEY CHAPMAN

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Every single one of us finds ourselves in a place of longing now and then, a place where we wish we had something other than what we are currently experiencing. Our brains trick us into thinking something different would be better - something in the past that we miss, or something in the future we’ve not yet attained. Even though it’s very natural, very human to be in that place, it’s a dangerous place if we remain there.

Everything you take for granted, someone else envies.

What I’ve come to realize is that everything that I take for granted, somebody else envies. It’s true. All I have to do is look at how I envision the “successful” people I see on Facebook or LinkedIn. They’re happy, good-looking, fit, rich - all fabrications of my own mind that are only possible because I don’t know the whole story of their lives. The moment I realized that I realized something else: someone out there is looking at my social media profiles and thinking the same things about me.

Our brains only know how to compare.

The comparisons I automatically make every time I get on social media are nothing new. And I don’t think they are necessarily wrong. They’re just ignorant. They are the idealistic images my own mind makes up simply because that’s what it’s wired to do. My own thinking is setting a goal, creating something it thinks is “better” for me, something to strive for. And my goal-setting brain is not taking into account the things about those people I envy that I’m ignorant of because that’s not its job. Its job is to push me to a higher place.

We are made to focus on the problems, because we are made to overcome them.

So I’m pretty convinced that the discontent we fight is a function of how we are designed as humans. Our brains automatically fixate on the problems, the obstacles, the things we don’t have or haven’t done - because we are wired to be overcomers. Discontent is a symptom of something very good; that we’re capable of so much more than we’ve experienced up to this point. But staying in a  place of discontent will drag us down if we don’t do something that the most successful people I know do on a regular basis.

The rare combination of extreme success and great happiness.

The people I call my heroes are people who are both incredibly successful and extremely happy. In their lives, I see a delight in every day rather than a continual discontent because they haven’t arrived  yet. How do they do it? They practice gratitude. They know how to be thankful for where they are instead of letting discontent and comparison bog them down in their own emotional swamp. On this episode, I’m reviewing these things out loud to remind myself how much I have to be thankful for and what it takes to truly be happy. I hope my ponderings help you as we walk this journey of life together.

Outline Of This Great Episode

 

  • [0:06] Ryan’s introduction to this episode of Facebook posts.
  • [0:43] Why Ryan felt compelled to share his thoughts about happiness, sadness, and more.
  • [2:00] The battle against discontent and the wiring to focus on problems.
  • [7:58] Why we see the polished version of people and what’s really going on.
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More money is NOT the answer to your happiness problem.

It doesn’t matter what your background. You may have come from a very poor upbringing. You may know the pain and restriction of poverty like nobody else. From that vantage point, it really does seem that money would make you happy. But the presenter on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane, Mark Jenney, would tell you that it doesn’t. He actually grew up in poverty and thought fulfillment and happiness would come when he got rich - which he did. And he discovered that happiness was NOT in the money. You can hear his story and what he emphasizes more than money, on this episode.

It doesn’t even take a high school diploma to be successful in business.

The traditional education model that is prevalent in the United States emphasizes graduation from High School as a step toward success. Don’t misunderstand, a high school education is a good thing - even today’s guest, who was a high school dropout believes so. But he is living proof that a high school diploma is not necessary to be successful in business. In fact, he was running a 6 figure business during his senior year of high school and didn’t have time to attend class. That is why he dropped out. You can hear Jenney’s story on this episode of Freedom Fast Lane.

The only person who will determine your success is you.

A high school teacher once told Jenney that he would never amount to anything if he didn’t pay attention in class and learn the things he was being taught. But he was determined that those words would never come true. He learned that nobody can determine your success except you. Jenny shares his story and how he became a success in spite of the negative words that were spoken into his life, but he goes on to talk about why his success didn’t bring happiness or fulfillment. You’ll want to hear this episode. It’s a great summary of why success alone is not what matters.

Why fulfillment and happiness are more important than exotic success.

There is nothing wrong with making more money. But today’s guest is eager to make you understand that you want more money AND happiness and fulfillment. The two don’t necessarily go hand in hand. You’ll hear Jenney’s story about how he realized that his huge bank account was keeping him from happiness, why he walked away from a company that was incredibly successful but that he couldn’t be proud of, and what he’s done to change his focus and establish a greater sense of happiness and fulfillment in his own life. It’s all from his Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015 presentation - and you get to hear the entire thing on this episode.

If you are not finding purpose in your business this is the time to pivot.

 

Focus on contribution and help other people get what they want - and you’ll get the happiness you’re seeking. That’s what Jenney has discovered as he’s evaluated his life, his success, and his way forward. He wants to make a difference in the world, not just make more money. It’s vital to him that what he does for a living makes a difference to humanity. Listen to this episode to learn the 4 questions you can ask yourself to evaluate the true value of what your business is accomplishing and make the pivot that can change everything.

Outline Of This Great Episode

  • [0:04] Ryan’s introduction of this episode.
  • [4:29] Ryan’s introduction of Mark Jenney from Jenney’s keynote presentation FFLL 2015.
  • [7:07] Why time is your most valuable asset.
  • [11:10] Jenney’s experience in business.
  • [13:40] Growing up in a storage room in an industrial garage and the motivation it provided.
  • [17:06] Why Jenney didn’t graduate High School and why he’d do anything to make money.
  • [21:17] Why the only person who will determine your success is you.
  • [25:42] Why the fun, exotic stuff doesn’t really matter in the end.
  • [31:01] The successful business Jenney walked away from.
  • [34:40] 4 specific question that can change the path you are on.
  • [40:31] Why it’s hard to find happiness and fulfillment when you’re a slave to money.
  • [45:08] What you really want instead of more money and how to get it.
  • [52:31] Your invite to Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2016.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Start thinking about what you can give to the world rather than what you can get from the world. When you are making significant contributions to others you will always be provided for. Make that pivot today.

FOR GETTING STARTED: You have to be determined that you’re going to succeed no matter what any authority or person in your life says. Get your mind right so you can make the rest of your life right.

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Grant Cardone was a very carefully selected keynote speaker at the Freedom Fast Lane LIVE event last year (2015). Ryan sought high and low for someone who could come to the event and unpack what it takes to effectively invest in real estate to build assets and wealth. When he came to see what Grant has been able to do via real estate he felt like he was the guy to do it. So he invited Grant, got confirmation, then started talking about what he would talk about. On this episode, Ryan shares what happened between the two of them and why he’s publically called Grant out for not delivering the goods.

When you agree to something, you should do it, Grant.

As Ryan Daniel Moran and Grant Cardone chatted about Grant’s involvement in the Freedom Fast Lane LIVE event for 2015 Ryan told Grant his own desire to understand how real estate investing works and made it very clear that the only thing he wanted Grant to address was the strategies behind successful real estate investment. Grant agreed. In fact, he said, “I’ll give the whole talk just for you.” But what happened when Grant got up on stage was something entirely different. Did he mention real estate investing? Yeah, he mentioned it. But did he lay out a framework for what it takes to get started in real estate investing? Not a bit. You can hear what happened in this episode.

The first mistake Grant Cardone made was to stay small.

Most of us don’t have enough courage. We feel inhibited or incompetent and let that rule us. That’s why we stay small. One of the things Grant Cardone spoke about in his keynote from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015 was the need to play bigger than you’re used to playing. He says that his first mistake was to stay small - but when he got past that and decided that it was OK for him to be loud, be obnoxious, and get attention, that’s when everything changed. You can hear Grant’s recounting of the mindset he had to develop to get past his limitations and get to success, on this episode.

Grant Cardone: More is survival, not greed.

The way things work is that everything winds down over time. Even monetary or business success. That’s one of the reasons you have to be pushing to gain more all the time. Growth only happens as you work to make it happen. That’s not being greedy, it’s being smart. In this keynote address, Grant Cardone tells why he is always pushing for more than he has now and tells why the results he gets are the only thing that keeps his business from going backward.

Why you need to feed the beast and starve the doubts.

Grant Cardone refers to his ambition and desire for freedom and success as “the beast.” His business philosophy is centered around feeding that beast and starving his doubts. What does it mean to feed the beast? Set big goals. Review those goals every day. Relentlessly work toward those goals day in and day out. Review them again in the evening and hit “reset” for the next day. How do you starve the doubts? You reset your belief in yourself every day and you fight the nagging voices that tell you that you need to play smaller. You can hear Grant’s approach to tenacity in business on this episode.

Outline Of This Great Episode

  • [0:04] Ryan’s introduction to this episode with Grant Cardone - and what happened behind the scenes.
  • [1:17] Ryan’s search to find someone who would speak about real estate investing.
  • [5:37] What happened with Grant Cardone at Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2015.
  • [8:20] The Twitter war Grant started with Ryan.
  • [12:07] Why it’s your responsibility to change your seat if you need to.
  • [15:11] The reason “entrepreneur” means “risk.”
  • [23:59] Why it is not a natural condition to be overwhelmed and why you will lose if you are.
  • [28:51] One of the biggest mistakes of Grant’s life.
  • [31:40] The difference between a complaint and an objection.
  • [35:30] What is your potential?
  • [41:00] Why Grant never wants to own a house again.
  • [48:52] Why debt helped Grant become wealthy.
  • [57:36] The choices every person has in life.
  • [1:00:16] Why Grant protects the wealth he has.
  • [1:05:20] Why you have to feed the beast and starve the doubts.
  • [1:10:44] Ryan’s summary and explanation of why he was disappointed in Grant’s keynote.
  • [1:11:15] What you can expect from Freedom Fast Lane LIVE 2016.

Action Steps From This Episode

FOR GREATER SUCCESS: Think bigger. You are capable of much more than you think you are. You can’t let the obstacles become hindrances.

FOR GETTING STARTED: Learn how to feed your ambition and starve your doubts. As you identify the doubts that are holding you back you’ll see more clearly how to increase your activity level to accomplish clear goals.

Connect With Today’s guest: GRANT CARDONE

Website: http://www.grantcardone.com/

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