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Speaker 1: And so many times, if we're leading by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance,

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or apathy, you're gonna get yourself in trouble and you're

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gonna have what I refer to as a break in alignment.

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can't thrive and really be all you're supposed to be

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unless you're taking the time to really understand and know

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yourself from the inside out. So I think building the

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business starts with building yourself, and it's one of the

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lessons that I had to learn the hard way.

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Speaker 4: I'm your host.

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Speaker 3: Carrie lutz Well got an interesting guest for you to day.

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Believe it or not, he started his career out living

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in his car and from there has gone to nine figures,

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which is no mean task. Even if you didn't start

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a studio apartment in Manhattan, making it to nine figures,

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that's a worthy accomplishment. Steven Scoggin's, hey, you're writing, you're

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doing all sorts of stuff here. There's one lesson you've

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taken away from the bad years, the years that build character.

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Speaker 4: What would that be? You know?

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Speaker 1: I think that again it's going to come down to

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and first of all, thank you for having me on.

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I appreciate the introduction to your audience. The first thing,

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you know, but he always comes to mind, is not

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building a business without building yourself. Because you're up scaling dysfunction,

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you don't have to go back and do stuff all

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over again. Your processes, systems have your DNA written all

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over top of it. And so many times we're leading

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by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance.

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Speaker 4: Or apathy.

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Speaker 1: You're going to get yourself in trouble and you're going

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to have what I refer to as a break in alignment.

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unless you're taking the time to really understand and know

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yourself from the inside out. So I think building the

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business starts with building yourself, and it was one of

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the lessons that I had to learn the hard way unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: All Right, So, you know, building yourself when you have

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a setback in life, I find and we all have them,

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you know, even at your lofty perch right now. You

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get setbacks in life, whether it's personal, professional, It just happens.

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more importantly, there are opportunities to really build your self esteem.

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those those falls.

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Speaker 4: Steven, how do you get back up? How do you

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Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's probably a bazillion dollar question.

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I can figure out to solve that. For the world

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book been doing really well. I can tell you what

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a little bit silly, but I start with a mantra.

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the homeless atmosphere and finally was couch surfing on my

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dad's couch, which took about six months. I began realizing

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that everything that I was believing about myself had either

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been projected onto me or the experiences I have were

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bleeding into me. Okay, so if we know that as

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the being the catalyst of the breakdown, Like I give

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you an example, my father used to say all the time,

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he's like Skaggins, don't get ahead, they get by.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: It's because he had a business that had failed, so

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he thought he was saving me the pain and energy

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of starting a business, not knowing who I was going

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outside in, and the only way to combat that is

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to begin programming, show or reprogram yourself on the inside out.

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I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am wise, I'm

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a steward of the most high. And this is the

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most important one. This is gonna sound silly. I love you, Steven.

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when you repeat them over and over and over again

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that allow you to begin looking towards opportunity. And away

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from apathy and complacency. So many times we get stuck

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in apathy and complacency because we're judging all of our

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future aspects based on our past performance or past experiences,

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not realizing that you can actually move the needle if

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you focus more on what you want to become rather

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Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I'll tell you exactly what those those five

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Speaker 3: Activation codes, okay, because they shift your focus, your consciousness,

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your perception from what was to what will be. And

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quantum energy as you relate to the quantum. For sure,

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you cannot access to quantity if you're in Shane guilt

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and condemnation. You just can't get there, right, So you

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is if we can get people to open up their awareness,

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we can open up their opportunities more than anything else.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you're never defeated, You're never a failure unless you

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believe you are. That's right, and otherwise, every failure is

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an opportunity. And the guy from the Dilbert to Scott

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Speaker 4: And that's what we do.

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Speaker 3: And yet in the in the US and your parents

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do this to you, the school system does it. Failure

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be avoided. When you avoid failure, you avoid success. You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's really interesting. The other thing about too,

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at the result. Okay, the result wasn't what I wanted?

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Speaker 1: What created the result?

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a certain action. And if I could reverse engineer the thoughts,

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the motions and the actions, I was able to then

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open up kind of the learning lesson from it. And

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then it took away the meaning was that Victor Franklins

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that a man search for meaning, right, Yeah, suffering ceases

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to have meaning, right, ceases to have meaning when it

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you get to take the test again and again and

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again and again. So therefore you're actually calling in more

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the circumstances, more the failure that you really want to avoid,

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simply because you won't lead into the discomfort for a

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Speaker 4: Yep, it's so true. And everything in life is temporary.

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Speaker 3: One minute you're on top of the world, the next

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on the top. My mother always used to say, the

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buck is round, right.

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Speaker 1: That's true, That's very true. You know, as you're kind

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of looking at this, this whole thing, I think, you know,

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most folks want more outside this much So I work

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suite professionals in the executive room, and they all have

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to deal with setbacks and whatnot to come back from that.

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things that I'm really good at is helping them unpack

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the lessons to learn and then reframing them to repackage

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them to be more stepping stones. I've discovered that it

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is elite professionals, entrepreneurs, people who are really getting effort

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in business in the world in general. They all have

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one major thing in common, and that is they none

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of them think they're far enough ahead. It doesn't matter

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if they made one hundred million dollars, one thousand dollars,

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one hundred thousand dollars. Everybody feels like they need to

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be further, further, further, further, further, rather than aligning themselves

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with who they are in their authenticity. If love vibrates

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at one of the highest frequency, authenticity, I believe is

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the only frequency that vibrates higher. So you think love

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and you take authenticity. You bowled them together, and the

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of a recipe to rewire the entire environment in yourself

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what authenticity is. Steven another word

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Speaker 1: I always concurer a congruence, but I'm here.

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Speaker 3: Presence combined with truth is authenticity, yes right, Yes, you

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all know authentic people. We all know them. And they're unapologetic.

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the awakening that I foresee taking place in the country,

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in the world. It's going to happen. It's happening unabated.

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Nothing in this world can stop it. And you know,

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basically our torch bear bringing forward light to people who

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are in very dark places here. You know, I just

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believe that, I've always believed it. I know you do too,

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that all of your limitations are self imposed by your

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belief structure.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent.

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Oh is an old homebuilder in the area of what

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dad's employer met when I was a young man, and

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one afternoon he pulled me down off my dad's crew

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working in the summers, and he asked me two very

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difference a rich man and a poor man? I responded

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with money. You should have seem to look on his face.

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It was hought me in the back of the head.

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the next question was just as important, and this goes

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Speaker 4: He said, do you.

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Speaker 1: Want to learn? Do you want to learn to think

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like me? Or do you want to continue thinking like

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your father. One of the things that I think is

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that's happening as it's actually happening now. It's happening all

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around us. I'm seeing people that I refer to as

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light bearers or or people who are really guides not gurus.

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Speaker 4: Eh man, this is it torch bearers.

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bear like yourself, right and encounter the torch bearer. You're

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sharing as much as you can, as often as you can,

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as pure as you can, as authentic as you can

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at least from my perspective.

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Speaker 4: All right, well, we got to kind of cut it

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Speaker 3: I could talk to you all day, but we will

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some way to connect with you here on the web here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the easiest way to do it is

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right now is at Stevenskagas dot com. We actually have

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a brand new quiz we just launched called the Awakening

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Alignment Quiz. It's five five different questions, five takes by

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five minutes. But it you understand how integrated you are,

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regulated you are by and by folks who do that.

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They can find that at Stevenscoggin's dot com slash Alignment

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and other than that, may I appreciate the time with you,

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you and your audience. I can't wait to hang out

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with you more.

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Speaker 3: I likewise man, definitely a questions comments for Steven myself

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klatcarrielts dot com link in the show notes this interview

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on Financial Survival Network dot com. Well we ask as

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you sign up for the free newsletter when you go there, Steven,

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we'll talk to you again real soon.

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Speaker 4: Thanks all right, much love, take care, see you bye.

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