Speaker 1: And so many times, if we're leading by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance,
or apathy, you're gonna get yourself in trouble and you're
gonna have what I refer to as a break in alignment.
And if you have a break in alignment, you really
can't thrive and really be all you're supposed to be
unless you're taking the time to really understand and know
yourself from the inside out. So I think building the
business starts with building yourself, and it's one of the
lessons that I had to learn the hard way.
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Speaker 3: And welcome you are listening to and watching the Financial
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Speaker 4: I'm your host.
Speaker 3: Carrie lutz Well got an interesting guest for you to day.
Believe it or not, he started his career out living
in his car and from there has gone to nine figures,
which is no mean task. Even if you didn't start
out in your car, even if you started out in
a studio apartment in Manhattan, making it to nine figures,
that's a worthy accomplishment. Steven Scoggin's, hey, you're writing, you're
doing all sorts of stuff here. There's one lesson you've
taken away from the bad years, the years that build character.
Speaker 4: What would that be? You know?
Speaker 1: I think that again it's going to come down to
and first of all, thank you for having me on.
I appreciate the introduction to your audience. The first thing,
you know, but he always comes to mind, is not
building a business without building yourself. Because you're up scaling dysfunction,
you don't have to go back and do stuff all
over again. Your processes, systems have your DNA written all
over top of it. And so many times we're leading
by fear insecurity, arrogance, ignorance.
Speaker 4: Or apathy.
Speaker 1: You're going to get yourself in trouble and you're going
to have what I refer to as a break in alignment.
And if you have a break in alignment, you really
can't thrive and really be all you're supposed to be
unless you're taking the time to really understand and know
yourself from the inside out. So I think building the
business starts with building yourself, and it was one of
the lessons that I had to learn the hard way unfortunately.
Speaker 3: All Right, So, you know, building yourself when you have
a setback in life, I find and we all have them,
you know, even at your lofty perch right now. You
get setbacks in life, whether it's personal, professional, It just happens.
And I think they're important because they're learning opportunities, and
more importantly, there are opportunities to really build your self esteem.
But a lot of people never get back up from
those those falls.
Speaker 4: Steven, how do you get back up? How do you
keep going?
Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's probably a bazillion dollar question.
I can figure out to solve that. For the world
book been doing really well. I can tell you what
works for me. I actually this is going to sound
a little bit silly, but I start with a mantra.
And I learned this as I was breaking free from
the homeless atmosphere and finally was couch surfing on my
dad's couch, which took about six months. I began realizing
that everything that I was believing about myself had either
been projected onto me or the experiences I have were
bleeding into me. Okay, so if we know that as
the being the catalyst of the breakdown, Like I give
you an example, my father used to say all the time,
he's like Skaggins, don't get ahead, they get by.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It's because he had a business that had failed, so
he thought he was saving me the pain and energy
of starting a business, not knowing who I was going
to be and what kind of drive I had. So
what happens is is you begin getting programmed from the
outside in, and the only way to combat that is
to begin programming, show or reprogram yourself on the inside out.
And here's how I do it. I have a mantra
that I literally say almost every morning. I've done this
for a long long time. It's just a handful of words.
I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am wise, I'm
a steward of the most high. And this is the
most important one. This is gonna sound silly. I love you, Steven.
Those different segments right there do something to the psyche
when you repeat them over and over and over again
that allow you to begin looking towards opportunity. And away
from apathy and complacency. So many times we get stuck
in apathy and complacency because we're judging all of our
future aspects based on our past performance or past experiences,
not realizing that you can actually move the needle if
you focus more on what you want to become rather
than what you are.
Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I'll tell you exactly what those those five
mantras are.
Speaker 4: Those are what we would call.
Speaker 3: Activation codes, okay, because they shift your focus, your consciousness,
your perception from what was to what will be. And
we also call that bending the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, It does absolutely change your residence, your
quantum energy as you relate to the quantum. For sure,
you cannot access to quantity if you're in Shane guilt
and condemnation. You just can't get there, right, So you
have to start from the inside out. And I think
it's one of the things that I love about what
you guys do and how we kind of relate here,
is if we can get people to open up their awareness,
we can open up their opportunities more than anything else.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're never defeated, You're never a failure unless you
believe you are. That's right, and otherwise, every failure is
an opportunity. And the guy from the Dilbert to Scott
Adams that he wrote a book failing his way to success.
Speaker 4: And that's what we do.
Speaker 3: And yet in the in the US and your parents
do this to you, the school system does it. Failure
is always perceived as a negation. It is something to
be avoided. When you avoid failure, you avoid success. You know,
Capitalism without failure is like Catholicism without exorcism.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, that's the devil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's really interesting. The other thing about too,
is if you avoid failure or avoid the I would
u I I don't even use the word failure. I'm
either learning a lesson that I can learn from I
And I began doing that because I just began looking
at the result. Okay, the result wasn't what I wanted?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: What created the result?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Well, it was a certain thought, a certain emotion, and
a certain action. And if I could reverse engineer the thoughts,
the motions and the actions, I was able to then
open up kind of the learning lesson from it. And
then it took away the meaning was that Victor Franklins
that a man search for meaning, right, Yeah, suffering ceases
to have meaning, right, ceases to have meaning when it
has a meaning.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So you take all these different things and you change
the way that that corresponds to it. You mentioned something
a second ago that I thought was really powerful when
you're talking about, you know, success and failure, this failure component.
I also believe that if you avoid learning the lessons,
you get to take the test again and again and
again and again. So therefore you're actually calling in more
the circumstances, more the failure that you really want to avoid,
simply because you won't lead into the discomfort for a
few minutes.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's so true. And everything in life is temporary.
Speaker 3: One minute you're on top of the world, the next
minute you're on the bottom of the barrel. You're back
on the top. My mother always used to say, the
buck is round, right.
Speaker 1: That's true, That's very true. You know, as you're kind
of looking at this, this whole thing, I think, you know,
most folks want more outside this much So I work
with a lot of entrepreneurs and a lot of C
suite professionals in the executive room, and they all have
to deal with setbacks and whatnot to come back from that.
So it's so interesting you go want to open the
show with that because I feel like one of the
things that I'm really good at is helping them unpack
the lessons to learn and then reframing them to repackage
them to be more stepping stones. I've discovered that it
is elite professionals, entrepreneurs, people who are really getting effort
in business in the world in general. They all have
one major thing in common, and that is they none
of them think they're far enough ahead. It doesn't matter
if they made one hundred million dollars, one thousand dollars,
one hundred thousand dollars. Everybody feels like they need to
be further, further, further, further, further, rather than aligning themselves
with who they are in their authenticity. If love vibrates
at one of the highest frequency, authenticity, I believe is
the only frequency that vibrates higher. So you think love
and you take authenticity. You bowled them together, and the
next thing you know, now you actually have a bit
of a recipe to rewire the entire environment in yourself
and around you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what authenticity is. Steven another word
for it.
Speaker 1: I always concurer a congruence, but I'm here.
Speaker 4: What's yours. It's called truth? Yes, truth.
Speaker 3: Presence combined with truth is authenticity, yes right, Yes, you
all know authentic people. We all know them. And they're unapologetic.
They don't make excuses, right yep. And they move ahead.
They've learned their lessons and they keep going, they keep pushing.
So I'll talk to you a little bit about this,
the awakening that I foresee taking place in the country,
in the world. It's going to happen. It's happening unabated.
Nothing in this world can stop it. And you know,
basically our torch bear bringing forward light to people who
are in very dark places here. You know, I just
believe that, I've always believed it. I know you do too,
that all of your limitations are self imposed by your
belief structure.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting to bring that up because I think
one of the things that I had to do myself
is change my entire belief medality. You know, one of
the things I used to share share from stage a
lot was I my first mentor's name was Steve Mark
Oh is an old homebuilder in the area of what
dad's employer met when I was a young man, and
one afternoon he pulled me down off my dad's crew
working in the summers, and he asked me two very
important questions. First one, he said, is what is the
difference a rich man and a poor man? I responded
with money. You should have seem to look on his face.
It was hought me in the back of the head.
He said, absolutely not, it's the way they think. But
the next question was just as important, and this goes
to the belief structure.
Speaker 4: He said, do you.
Speaker 1: Want to learn? Do you want to learn to think
like me? Or do you want to continue thinking like
your father. One of the things that I think is
so powerful, that is so underrated, is the power of choice.
You mentioned the a great awakening. There is an awakening
that's happening as it's actually happening now. It's happening all
around us. I'm seeing people that I refer to as
light bearers or or people who are really guides not gurus.
Speaker 4: Eh man, this is it torch bearers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and exactly. But at the same time, you know,
so let's say, let's say the audience encounters a torch
bear like yourself, right and encounter the torch bearer. You're
sharing as much as you can, as often as you can,
as pure as you can, as authentic as you can
on a regular basis, Yet the ear right still has
to hear it, right. Yeah, And see, this is what
a torch bearer does, is they they put the words
into the ethos that people need to hear. But it's
up to the person listening to actually listen and awaken,
at least from my perspective.
Speaker 4: All right, well, we got to kind of cut it
short now.
Speaker 3: I could talk to you all day, but we will
definitely have you back on the show. You got a book,
some way to connect with you here on the web here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the easiest way to do it is
right now is at Stevenskagas dot com. We actually have
a brand new quiz we just launched called the Awakening
Alignment Quiz. It's five five different questions, five takes by
five minutes. But it you understand how integrated you are,
regulated you are by and by folks who do that.
They can find that at Stevenscoggin's dot com slash Alignment
and other than that, may I appreciate the time with you,
you and your audience. I can't wait to hang out
with you more.
Speaker 3: I likewise man, definitely a questions comments for Steven myself
klatcarrielts dot com link in the show notes this interview
on Financial Survival Network dot com. Well we ask as
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we'll talk to you again real soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks all right, much love, take care, see you bye.
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