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than that um anybody can say oh you're
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mature for your age or you have a good
0:04
head on your shoulders or whatever it
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may be um but and part of it is because
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I'm from the Midwest but that that that
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feeling and that embodiment of what is
0:12
an old soul um goes very very deep with
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me so I do appreciate it and you know
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for anybody that is out there listening
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right I encourage you to take that
0:20
mindset as well of you know listen it's
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not just about the mindset that I bring
0:24
to the table or you know trying to act
0:26
what is above my age but it's actually
0:28
embodying what is that Soul mentality of
0:31
how you treat others how you show up and
0:34
having somewhat again you know rooting
0:36
it back to what I think is a little bit
0:37
of a theme of an episode or maybe even a
0:39
title right is the courage to be able to
0:41
make those b
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movs i i want to get into talking about
1:01
why for a second but first I I just
1:03
wanted to just hit you right out of the
1:04
gate with the the question I asked
1:05
everybody um because I would I just I'm
1:08
so fascinated by your perspective on
1:09
lots of things but this one in
1:10
particular um so we Define hope a little
1:13
different on here so I Define hope as
1:15
the ignition swis the point to get
1:16
started um and then you know hope is
1:19
pretty much useless unless you take
1:20
action and you're going to start down
1:21
that path and you might I don't know
1:23
pick a guru you might pick a whatever
1:24
and you'll start down that lane and
1:26
you're going to fail like everybody else
1:27
does and most of the people Define that
1:29
as a failure and they think the path
1:31
left them uh what we try to say is like
1:33
no Beyond ho hope project we steer you
1:35
back and show you the path didn't
1:36
actually leave it just moved a little
1:38
and you learned so with a definition
1:40
like that um if you could go back at any
1:43
point in Nick's life what would you what
1:45
kind of hope would you give that person
1:47
what age what time you know and what
1:49
would that hope look like to you yeah
1:51
you know was actually funny because I
1:53
last night I had the pleasure of and I'm
1:55
sure you're familiar with um I had the
1:56
pleasure of sitting down with John aser
1:58
off so you know leader well-renowned
2:01
entrepreneur executive author everything
2:03
in between it was just the two of us and
2:05
you know I shared with John that there
2:07
because hope is a very big part of my
2:09
life um just in general no matter what
2:11
meeting um you know we may see a little
2:13
bit differently or whatever that may be
2:15
but you know we're sitting there at
2:16
dinner and I told them I go John you
2:18
know I do want to be upfront and tell
2:19
you in the fact that you know first off
2:20
it's an honor that you had asked me to
2:22
dinner even in the first place right um
2:24
but then secondly more so the fact that
2:26
right there's a little 14-year-old kid
2:28
right now that's tugging at my you know
2:30
shirt and you know I looking up at me
2:33
saying you know what man from you know
2:35
the kid that was raised in a you know 7
2:36
to 103 10,000 person small town in the
2:40
middle of the Midwest in Michigan right
2:42
they're you know tugging on your shirts
2:43
saying hey man you're doing it right and
2:46
more than anything that you actually had
2:48
the hope the Courage the dedication and
2:49
the action to be able to back it up um
2:51
because when I you know first had left
2:54
kind of you know my roots which was is
2:56
in Michigan um and moved out to Southern
2:58
California to go to school and you know
3:00
pursue what was a career in sports and
3:02
entertainment um you know I always had
3:04
the perspective that I'm going to go
3:05
build a life not live one but build one
3:07
right and there's a big difference
3:08
between those two things and you know
3:10
for me if I was to give that advice to
3:12
my younger self it's the I would say
3:14
it's a dual edged sword in two things of
3:16
number one that have the hope but most
3:18
importantly have the confidence in
3:20
yourself that you are doing the right
3:22
things you're putting yourself in the
3:23
right situation surrounding yourself
3:25
with the right people and right that
3:27
aggregate progress of what is positive
3:29
Behavior right it's going to catch up to
3:31
you right but then number two um it's
3:34
also that image of Hope in the sense
3:36
that um you know I when you're in a
3:38
small town like that you have a very
3:39
small town mindset right and that's
3:41
shared between the community not that
3:43
it's a good or not that it's a bad thing
3:45
right but it was the The Hope and not
3:48
limiting yourself to understanding what
3:50
is a true level of abundance and that
3:52
there is more than enough of everything
3:53
in everyone um and that you know as you
3:56
go out and build that life with that
3:58
sense of hope with you um you your eyes
4:00
are going to be opened up to incredible
4:03
people incredible experiences but it
4:05
only it really only happens through your
4:07
hard work your dedication and your
4:09
consistency yeah and you just
4:11
Illustrated exactly why I wanted to talk
4:13
to you which you know we we connected at
4:15
an event and um that small town shared
4:18
thing you know I'm smalltown Ohio you're
4:20
smalltown Michigan you know we you know
4:23
we have uh an age Gap but was amazing to
4:26
me is you know um it was the idea of
4:31
what we shared was exactly what you just
4:33
described and I thought about when I was
4:36
talking to you like if I was 23 I had
4:39
that same belief that you're that you
4:42
just described but I didn't actually
4:44
believe it like it was like I I knew
4:47
that I had you know quote unquote bigger
4:49
things ahead for me but I was scared
4:53
shitless to even try so I'm curious from
4:56
a standpoint of your shoes where did
4:58
that come from like where do you find if
5:00
you trace that back to that like you
5:02
know I mean I knew for me I was like I
5:03
got to get the hell out of here I don't
5:05
fit here yeah was it the same for you
5:07
like what was the actual jump that you
5:08
took because you didn't just move to
5:10
like a bigger city you moved moved moved
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yeah no we we moved move and and it's
5:17
funny that you bring that up because you
5:18
know across the journey and whether it
5:20
was the day that right you take your
5:22
last drive through your hometown as
5:23
you're going to the airport or whether
5:25
it's years and years and years down the
5:26
road through you know the consistency of
5:28
you putting things into action
5:30
um you know for me what my guiding um I
5:33
guess Source was and I don't necessarily
5:35
mean this in a religious sense but it
5:36
was one simple word which is Faith right
5:39
faith in that that understanding of what
5:42
is more than enough in abundance but
5:44
also the faith in the sense of right
5:46
that that courage that the aggregate
5:48
Behavior will catch up to itself and and
5:50
having the faith that you know more than
5:53
anything you're going to fail but the
5:55
failures for me right don't get me wrong
5:58
I have my moments that right I got to
6:00
work through my own ego-based
6:01
Consciousness and fear and all these
6:03
different things to find the lesson in
6:05
it right but failure to me is nothing
6:08
but exciting because I know that it's
6:10
going to only only Propel me in a better
6:12
towards a better place let alone a
6:14
better situation right but you know as I
6:16
was making that jump um it really wasn't
6:19
so much the fact that I didn't fit in or
6:21
that I didn't love my friends or you
6:23
know the people that I had surrounded
6:24
myself with or even my community right I
6:27
still you know the moment that I take a
6:29
turn off of what is i96 in Michigan
6:32
right and I pull off at the Milford exit
6:34
I still get chills every single time
6:36
because it will always be home right I
6:37
have an M engraved in my heart for the
6:40
test of time right but for me it was
6:42
more
6:43
so you know I always had these very very
6:47
very large aspirations and dreams and an
6:50
understanding of how much the world and
6:52
the universe really had to offer and
6:55
more than anything you know when you
6:56
make that decision of where you're going
6:57
to go to college for example right you
6:59
you can make that easy decision of okay
7:02
I'm going to go to my state school right
7:04
which for me would be Michigan State go
7:06
green by the way um you know if I went
7:08
to Michigan State right what am I going
7:09
to put myself in this situation for yeah
7:11
there's great connection there's great
7:13
you know uh abundance of information
7:15
that you can absorb from being inside
7:17
the classroom but it's not going to make
7:19
me grow and expand as a human being as
7:21
much as I would like right because
7:22
you're naturally going to fit into what
7:24
is the 50 to 60 other friends that went
7:26
to your high school from your small town
7:28
right and you're going to have four
7:29
years of the same thing just on a
7:30
different level right and for me I knew
7:33
I didn't want that um and it was more so
7:36
uh the drive to go out and truly
7:38
experience life and kind of like I said
7:40
earlier go out and build it not live it
7:43
um you know I knew that going into it
7:45
right I was gonna it was going to push
7:46
my boundaries both mentally both
7:48
emotionally and especially spiritually
7:51
um but I knew that if I made that
7:53
decision now right because going to a
7:55
state school it's not like I'm going to
7:56
transfer in two years right you get
7:58
comfortable and then you you stay in
8:00
that ecosystem right so I'm going to
8:02
make that decision now and the reason is
8:04
is because the worst thing that can
8:05
happen is I go out there for a year I
8:07
learn a ton about myself I get a
8:09
lot more real world experience and if it
8:12
isn't something that's meant to be I can
8:14
always come back right but it was that
8:16
almost a little bit of fear in the sense
8:18
of if I don't P make that leap of faith
8:20
now it's always going to be that oh what
8:22
could have been right or what was left
8:24
on the table or not truly experiencing
8:27
and putting myself in a situation to
8:29
build the life that I wanted and to be
8:31
able to receive the abundance that I
8:32
knew was truly possible yeah I think I
8:35
think a lot of people um you know I I
8:38
meet lots of people that are my age that
8:39
think
8:40
that that the time has passed or they
8:43
think well it's easy for younger people
8:45
or they think all these things but the
8:47
big part I think that what most people
8:48
miss out on is that and I I really want
8:51
to encourage everybody to go back and
8:52
listen to everything Nick just said was
8:54
that it was all surrounded by bold
8:56
action like any growth that you're going
8:58
to have it's done through bold action
9:01
you you you really do need to like kind
9:04
of remove yourself from the way that
9:08
you've always thought and and kind of
9:11
roll the dice take a chance and I think
9:12
that scares the out of people so
9:14
much because they're afraid of that
9:15
unknown stuff like was there a
9:18
foundational thing when when you were
9:19
grown up like in your parents or and any
9:21
like thing that you read like what was
9:23
your what were your Heroes that kind of
9:24
like showed you that like it's okay to
9:26
dream crazy dreams and then go do them
9:29
because I think there's so many people
9:31
especially addressing that younger crowd
9:34
which I will say just so like a little
9:36
catch up from both of us like it's so
9:38
funny I just was inducted in that small
9:39
Town's Hall of Fame uh for all the stuff
9:42
that I've accomplished which the irony
9:43
of it is was this all the stuff that
9:45
everybody told me I wouldn't be able to
9:46
do uh which always cracks me up so like
9:49
what is like what was that for you that
9:51
was that marker I mean I know what it
9:53
was for me I'm just curious what it was
9:54
for you yeah so I I have to give a lot
9:58
of credit and really look forward to um
10:00
you know getting her feedback after she
10:02
listens back on this but um I gave a lot
10:04
of credit to my mother um I was raised
10:06
by pretty much a single mom um I had you
10:09
know what was my father was in my life
10:11
for you know a long period of time
10:12
especially throughout my childhood but
10:14
you know eventually as you get older and
10:16
you know I'm blessed to say right it
10:18
wasn't physical or emotional abuse or
10:20
anything along those lines right but it
10:21
was just more so I understood where my
10:24
priorities were I understood where his
10:25
priorities were and it was just a
10:27
natural you know different Paths of life
10:30
right and I've come to peace with that
10:32
most importantly because I forgave
10:33
myself which then empowered me to
10:35
forgive him right but my mother raised
10:38
me um I think and we share this right
10:40
you know coming from the Midwest you
10:42
have this almost this not unlimited but
10:46
a damn near unlimited source of
10:48
gratitude that you carry with you in
10:50
everything that you do um and that has
10:52
always been a foundation for me but um
10:54
you know I really give a lot of credit
10:55
to my mother because she raised me um
10:57
not only with Incredible values which
11:00
you know today I sit in a situation that
11:01
you know I serve as a vice president for
11:03
you know marketing and Partnerships for
11:05
um David Meltzer the speaker I know
11:07
you've had him on your show as well um
11:09
but it's something that right even the
11:10
values that we you know embody as a
11:13
company which are gratitude empathy
11:14
accountability and effective
11:16
communication right essentially the
11:18
reason that those resonated with me so
11:20
much is because it was in my innate
11:21
being because from a very very early age
11:24
right those were very very similar maybe
11:26
not the same terminology but they were
11:27
the same values my mother raised me with
11:30
right is it's the classic example of you
11:33
know when you're on an airplane and
11:34
you're traveling and there's that sign
11:36
in the bathrooms that says you know
11:37
please make sure to wipe the counter and
11:39
leave it better than you found right
11:41
those little simple lessons and the
11:43
foundation that she built me up with um
11:45
you know not only has developed me into
11:48
what I believe is a pretty darn good
11:49
person and someone that you know
11:51
contributes to society and treats people
11:53
right um but she was also the same
11:54
mother that you know when I was in love
11:57
with a motocross racer when I was a kid
11:59
and you know I really wanted to embody
12:01
that and Chase that dream and I wouldn't
12:03
reply unless you called me by his name
12:05
instead of my own right she would embody
12:07
those things as well and share those
12:08
with me right or when I fell in love
12:10
with Johnny Damon the baseball player
12:12
because I love the luscious locks and
12:14
standing out in the Outfield at Fenway
12:16
or whatever it may be it wasn't so much
12:18
of hey idolize that figure right and try
12:21
to take as many lessons as you can from
12:23
him but more so yes idolize that figure
12:25
and use them as a mentor from afar but
12:28
you can go out and do the exact same
12:30
thing it doesn't matter where you come
12:31
from because it all lies within in terms
12:34
of your own values your own
12:36
accountability and like you said in the
12:37
very beginning your ability to go out
12:40
and even though you have that fear and
12:42
anxiety that you know surrounds
12:43
different decisions or Pursuits of life
12:45
right you're not afraid to go out and
12:47
take bold action yeah well if mom is
12:49
listening I'll tell her she did a good
12:50
job um you you and I have had many like
12:53
private conversations and uh you're a
12:55
good kid and you know I don't mean kid
12:57
in the sense of like talking down to you
12:58
it's just odd because you're at the same
13:00
age as my kid so it's it's so weird to
13:02
like because when I talk to you you have
13:05
a very also unique thing that I find
13:07
about a lot of Midwest people is that
13:09
that old soul kind of vibe like it's say
13:12
you you got this like understanding of
13:15
and it's weird because like even when
13:17
meeting Dave it was like we had this
13:18
weird Crossroads of we're all Midwest
13:20
guys and it was like there was no like
13:22
hey how's it going it was like immediate
13:24
like oh I know you like and there was
13:27
never that and we all have this like old
13:29
soul Vibe about us that you kind of
13:31
almost can recognize in each of us so um
13:34
you know and I really appreciate that
13:36
because I'll tell you this is in just a
13:39
little bit of you know context for your
13:40
audience um I'm I'm 23 um you know in
13:43
terms of a little bit of my journey you
13:44
know I my 18th birthday was August 22nd
13:47
of 2018 um the next day was my move in
13:49
date to San Diego State University so
13:51
you know I moved 2,000 miles across the
13:53
country pretty quickly um and you know
13:55
from there again yes I was going to
13:57
school but you know my intention wasn't
13:58
to necessarily follow what a lot of
14:01
people thought was the reason I went
14:03
which was for you know the beaches and
14:05
the parties and you know the beautiful
14:07
women and beautiful people and so on and
14:10
so forth but again I wanted to build
14:12
right so I got heavily involved with
14:13
organizations whether it was you know
14:15
Greek life and you know being the vice
14:17
president of you know a chapter what was
14:19
a colony and then bringing back our
14:21
Charter right or whether it was our you
14:23
know Sports business initiative which is
14:25
actually how I got connected with David
14:26
in the first place um you know but then
14:28
you know when happens I had fast-tracked
14:30
my journey because I was getting fed so
14:33
much from what is that real world
14:35
experience and you know being an intern
14:37
with David and you know being in the
14:38
rooms and the relationships I was able
14:40
to you know manifest um that you know
14:43
from there I said okay listen if all
14:45
these classes are going to be online and
14:46
you know this is a great recommendation
14:48
to anybody that's somewhat in that
14:50
college realm or you know even relative
14:52
to my age is I said if I'm clicking on a
14:55
zoom at 9:59 for 10:00 class let me take
14:58
a step back here and let me use the
15:00
man-made construct of time and simply do
15:03
math based on my priorities right so
15:05
what I done is you know I was doing
15:07
eight nine classes a semester to
15:09
FastTrack I was basically what was a
15:12
full-time intern you know with David
15:13
building what I foresaw as my career or
15:16
at least a starting point for my career
15:18
but then I reverse engineered it to say
15:20
you know okay I have all these
15:22
opportunities that are feeding me some
15:24
more than others but at the end of the
15:25
day we got to make ends meet I got a
15:27
rent payment every month and so on and
15:28
so forth so I I I reverse engineered it
15:31
to say okay I'm going to take up a
15:33
part-time job and I took a part-time job
15:35
on campus at one of our you know housing
15:37
you know facilities and I was working
15:39
the desk but I would only work the desk
15:41
in certain hours 9: to midnight Midnight
15:43
to 3:00 or 3:00 to 6:00 a.m. right
15:45
graveyard SH now of course yes I had to
15:48
use math and the man-made construct of
15:50
time to make sure I was getting enough
15:52
sleep and taking care of myself and so
15:54
on and so forth um but it was also
15:57
something that I reverse engineered to
15:59
get paid for the activities that were
16:01
feeding me the most that I wasn't
16:03
getting paid for right until I was able
16:06
to be able to graduate of course then
16:08
fully transition full-time you know with
16:10
David um and then of course work my way
16:12
up to you know what is now a vice
16:13
president and you know kind of a
16:15
right-hand man um you know type role
16:17
which I'm unbelievably blessed with but
16:19
that compliment of what is an old soul
16:22
um Jason I I will tell you the moment
16:23
that the words old came out of your
16:25
mouth I knew what was going to follow um
16:27
and I automatically got chills up my
16:29
spine because um you know being somebody
16:31
and I'm so blessed to receive so much
16:33
you know gratitude and and um admiration
16:36
for the work that I've been able to do
16:37
and who I am at such a young age um but
16:40
that compliment within all is um there's
16:43
nothing that pulls up the strings at my
16:44
heart more than that um anybody can say
16:47
oh you're mature for your age or you
16:48
have a good head on your shoulders or
16:50
whatever it may be um but and part of it
16:53
is because I'm from the Midwest but that
16:55
that that feeling and that embodiment of
16:57
what is an old soul um goes very very
16:59
deep with me so I do appreciate it and
17:01
you know for anybody that is out there
17:03
listening right I encourage you to take
17:05
that mindset as well of you know listen
17:07
it's not just about the mindset that I
17:08
bring to the table or you know trying to
17:11
act what is above my age but it's
17:13
actually embodying what is that old soul
17:15
mentality of how you treat others how
17:18
you show up and having somewhat again
17:20
you know rooting it back to what I think
17:22
is a little bit of a theme of an episode
17:23
or maybe even a title right is the
17:25
courage to be able to make those bold
17:27
moves absolutely and I think that that's
17:29
the one of the big things that what I
17:32
was excited to talk to you about was
17:33
that this idea that like people they
17:36
they use ages some sort of definition
17:38
thing of like you know a person
17:39
shouldn't be able to you know be able to
17:41
do this at this age or they shouldn't be
17:43
able to do that at this age or whatever
17:45
it is people put these like stupid
17:46
filters on things that just doesn't make
17:49
sense and basically you know and I
17:51
really want to Echo this stuff like you
17:53
know what Nick is dropping is like some
17:55
gold nuggets for everybody to understand
17:57
is he went out and made made what he
17:59
wanted to be his life it's not like if
18:03
you're 50 you can't do the exact same
18:06
thing don't hold it against young people
18:08
when they're out there doing this stuff
18:09
and say that they don't deserve it
18:11
because he's busting his ass just as
18:12
much as anybody else is and I think
18:14
that's the big point is that I think you
18:16
your story serves not only to people
18:19
like my age that are kind of feeling
18:21
stuck but there's there's this young
18:23
voice out there that I think that I
18:25
could totally see you serving in that
18:27
world with the young people that are
18:29
that are basically getting jammed up by
18:31
all this crap that they're comparing
18:33
themselves to in life right now when
18:34
they're looking at all this stuff in
18:35
social media and I think that's what
18:38
when I first met you blew my mind was
18:40
this like you know here's this person
18:42
that's you know 23 I'm talking to him
18:44
and I and I feel I can feel the that old
18:47
soul energy and I I do in hearing you it
18:51
feels so familiar because it's what got
18:53
me where I was at at your age and it's
18:56
and I it it is like that little bit kind
18:59
of dawn me as you're talking I'm like my
19:00
God it's like I feel like I'm having a
19:01
conversation with where I was when I was
19:04
at this age yeah but the beauty of where
19:07
you're at is like you have this Clarity
19:09
that like God I if I could go back to
19:12
younger me and say that it's amazing
19:15
which you know uh we we have like five
19:17
minutes left I do have one last question
19:19
for you that that kind of Will Button
19:20
all that up so let's say let's say you
19:23
can go back you you mentioned the
19:24
14-year-old you I want you to manifest
19:26
that kid in front of you right now and
19:28
talk about the stuff that you're doing
19:29
because I I know that you've gotten to
19:31
meet some pretty incredible people from
19:33
our discussions stuff like that let's
19:35
say like little 14-year-old Nicks across
19:37
the table from you in that small town um
19:39
which I have I have you beat mine had
19:41
like 2,000 people so
19:43
um and you could talk to that person
19:46
like what do you think their reaction
19:48
would be and what would you then take
19:50
their reaction and feed what you're at
19:52
right now to build your next
19:54
thing yeah that's a beautiful question
19:57
and you know the first um you know
19:59
feeling that I get and I kind of get
20:00
chills as I'm you know saying it because
20:03
as much as I like to give and you know
20:04
I'm a servant Leader by definition um
20:07
you know I'm still practicing what is um
20:10
being able to fully receive right and
20:12
you know for me I I think that
20:15
14-year-old is sitting there and it I
20:18
I'm not a I'm not I can't quite cry like
20:20
David does but it does uh bring the
20:22
chills up my spine in the sense I think
20:24
he's sitting there saying I'm really
20:25
proud of you yeah and it's it's very
20:28
very
20:29
um interesting because being able to
20:31
receive what is the weight of that
20:32
message um is something that you know
20:34
I'm still even working through a little
20:36
bit but um you know I think he would be
20:38
able to sit back and say I'm proud of
20:39
you um for multitude of different
20:41
reasons but most importantly because no
20:45
matter what situation you were in no
20:46
matter what room you were in or who you
20:48
were conversing with um throughout all
20:51
the ups and downs the trials and
20:52
tribulations you've remained yourself
20:55
and that has been something that you
20:57
know since I moved out here and really
20:58
took full for lack of better words I
21:01
grabbed Life by the balls and said I'm
21:02
going to go out and build right ever
21:04
since that um that's kind of been what
21:06
has been my biggest non-negotiable right
21:09
is not take what is that um a little bit
21:11
of a self-proclaimed but reinforced by
21:13
Jason old soul right and don't let that
21:15
be compromised by anyone any anything
21:18
else or any uh you know situation or
21:20
opportunity um and you know as I would
21:22
sit here today and I would you know look
21:24
back across that other side of the table
21:25
and not only give that 14-year-old self
21:28
adice for him where he's at um but I
21:30
think the advice that he would continue
21:32
to give me is you know number one I
21:35
think don't be afraid to trust people um
21:38
that's something that you know whether
21:39
it's rooting back to father or whether
21:41
it's rooting back to different friends
21:43
that I think we've all shared different
21:45
experiences of you know you trust
21:47
somebody and that trust eventually gets
21:48
broken and burned right and you you
21:51
automatically build up what is this wall
21:52
for yourself and you know I think he
21:54
would give me that advice of you know
21:56
don't be so afraid to trust people um
21:58
but just be you know be hypercritical on
22:01
the people that you do trust in the
22:02
sense that you know make sure that they
22:04
are worth it you know for any pain that
22:06
you may experience from that
22:07
relationship or by letting down that
22:09
wall um and you know the advice that I
22:11
would give to him um is number one and
22:13
most importantly slow down because we
22:16
none of us can control time but you know
22:18
even when I was in those early days of
22:20
high school right is you know I would
22:22
sit there and don't get me wrong I was
22:24
grateful and I was unbelievably present
22:26
in every single moment but with that
22:28
that said I was also already thinking
22:30
about okay I'm a junior now I'm starting
22:32
to do these things I'm competing on you
22:34
know a national level and business
22:36
competitions and so on and so forth
22:38
right and I'm already thinking of those
22:40
next steps and if I could sit back and
22:42
give him that advice of listen just slow
22:44
down continue to be present and continue
22:47
to do what you do best which is truly to
22:50
be a sponge of everyone you surround
22:53
yourself with in any situation and room
22:55
that you walk into if you continue to
22:57
carry that on which I very very proud to
22:59
say that I have like when people ask me
23:01
you know what do you do or really what
23:03
makes you special yes I have great worth
23:05
ethic I'm midwesterner we work hard from
23:08
there's no sun up sun down no ninet to-5
23:10
we work until it gets done right I that
23:12
is non-negotiable right but I think at
23:15
the end of the day um you know being
23:17
present the ability to trust um but then
23:20
most importantly actually and continuing
23:23
to love the journey and never attaching
23:25
your emotions to an outcome um I think
23:27
especially with young people right we
23:29
say oh okay I'm going to make this bold
23:30
move and you know I'm going to move to
23:32
here and there and I'm going to do it
23:33
with this intention right but we
23:35
automatically attach ourselves not only
23:36
to the outcome but to a specific
23:38
timetable in which that is supposed to
23:40
happen for me right I never did that
23:43
right even when I said I was coming out
23:45
here yes I attached myself to a
23:47
timetable of a year to understand if it
23:49
was something that I wanted to continue
23:51
to feed but there was no oh I have to be
23:53
at this point by this time or anything
23:56
along those lines because then it's
23:58
going to take the Fulfillment it's going
23:59
to take the lessons and it's going to
24:01
take what is the true beauty of the
24:03
journey out of it for you and we all
24:05
know whether it's the houses or cars or
24:08
experiences or a title which are only
24:10
made for shampoos anyway right when you
24:13
reach there you will not be fulfilled if
24:15
you didn't enjoy the process and you
24:16
didn't enjoy the journey man Nick that's
24:19
a great answer my friend you know I I
24:20
just want to take a second we to before
24:22
we jump off here and just and just tell
24:24
you uh that I'm I mean I'm proud of what
24:27
you've accompl and I'm sure that your
24:30
mom is just beyond proud of what you've
24:32
accomplished and you know I just want to
24:34
take a second to celebrate you and just
24:35
let you know that man in the world of
24:37
being a human it's not easy and you are
24:40
doing a a a bang-up job of accepting who
24:44
you are and understanding those
24:45
adjustments and and realizing that you
24:48
know time is just that it's time like
24:51
and learning how to value that and I
24:53
will say as somebody that also had
24:55
struggled with receiving um that is
24:58
going to be a battle that you're going
24:59
to have to always be aware of and but
25:02
what you what you do in this is um is
25:06
just show up like you did and you know
25:08
in a weird way you may not feel what I'm
25:11
telling you right now but when you
25:12
listen back I want you to listen back
25:13
with this understanding that like man I
25:15
appreciate you sharing this journey with
25:16
me I appreciate being able to call you a
25:18
friend and I look forward to where this
25:20
all goes in the future I look forward to
25:22
seeing where you're going to go and I
25:23
just want to thank you for your time in
25:25
and joining us here and as always just
25:27
providing that little spark that you do
25:29
when uh ever we talk and it it's just
25:31
amazing so uh I appreciate you so thank
25:34
you so much I I appreciate you and all
25:36
the kind words first off and second for
25:38
you know anybody that's tuning in um
25:40
really really really appreciate um you
25:42
know not only any lessons that may
25:44
resonate with you but you know the only
25:46
thing that I would say in terms of a
25:47
call to action is please reach out to me
25:48
and let me know how you know not only I
25:50
can be of service but more importantly
25:52
how we can create collaborate and
25:53
Inspire together um I know that Jason
25:55
will put you know my contact information
25:57
or social channels or whatever it may be
25:59
in the notes um and more than anything
26:01
I'm grateful there's nobody I'd rather
26:02
share uh what is my first podcast
26:04
experience with than the man himself and
26:06
Jason so it's a true pleasure and an
26:07
honor I can't thank you enough for
26:09
having me on and I look forward to
26:10
coming back again in the future you
26:12
knocked it out man have a great day dude
26:14
beautiful all right you as well brother
26:16
thank you so much for everything man I'm
26:17
in a job all right appreciate you
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