Tim Storey
Appearances
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So that's one way. And the other thing is that a lot of people think that, oh, I need to get to know that person. That person is doing what I like to do. What would it take? I need to get to that person. I don't think that way. I think I may want that person's ideas so I might read their book. I may want to know more about them so I may read articles about them or I may watch a documentary.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So there's heroes of mine and people that I respect like a Malcolm Gladwell that I've still never met. In fact, I was at a meeting not so long ago and some people said, hey, Jeff Bezos and Malcolm Gladwell are in the back. Come on, I want to introduce you to him. I said, I'm good because that's not really what I need to do.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So congratulations to Jeff Bezos, what he's done, and Malcolm Gladwell, but that's not what I needed to do. I'm building my spot and cultivating my land and believing that doing that, that people would start looking for me, and they did.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I think, again, it's the opposite of what most people would think. And that is because there was no expectations of an end result. So the end result did not look like I will live in Beverly Hills. The end result did not look like I will have an office on Cannon Drive.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
The end result did not look like I would speak to up to 85,000 people at a time and be interviewed by Oprah a lot and be in her books and documentaries. There was no end result. It was... Build your spot and life will put the spotlight on your spot.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So just as much as I enjoy being on the NBC Today show, I love to go into prisons and I'm involved in prison reform and try to educate people to get up and out. I still work in the rehab business, real big. I go into rehab centers for free and volunteer my time to speak to people, to try to help them turn their step back to come back.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So to me, what's big to one person is not necessarily big to me.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
2008, with the housing crisis and everything that went on, I obviously see the challenge. I'm realistic about the challenge. I'm realistic about the economy in America. I'm very realistic about division in America. You know, many of my friends who are politicians have wanted me to get into politics and starting when I was probably 27 years of age. I spoke to the US Congress at 28 years of age.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
That is a way I could have gone. So I'm very aware of the challenges that we face. But the way I look at it is that life is seasonal. There are winter, springs, summer, and falls. And so if we are in a winter season, I want to know what should I learn from this winter season? How can I grow? How can I get better? How can I be more prepared for the other seasons?
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So even though I'm doing well in my jobs, plural, we all have our own challenges. It might be my mother aging. She's 94 now. Or it might be another situation in my life. So that's how I see life. I'm not looking just for a life of summer so I don't get let down on rainy days.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
The miracle mentality I started studying about 30 years ago. So a mentality, as you know, is a mindset. It is a perspective. And a miracle is something that's just very simple. Extraordinary. uncommon. And little kids have a miracle mentality.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
You could take any four or five-year-old into a toy store and they think their parents can buy them anything in the store because they have a miracle mentality and they're connected to their parents and they feel like my parents are the source. I tease about this in a talk. A mother could say to a daughter, oh, here's the Barbie.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And then the daughter at five will say, but what about the whole Barbie house? And the Barbie house is huge. And the mom knows she can't afford the house, but she can afford the Barbie. But the daughter doesn't understand because she has a miracle mentality. And so when we're little, we believe. But not only do we believe... we expect.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And so I maintain my innocence that I stay in a place of belief and expectation, no matter what is going on. I mean, everything could be hitting at once and I find a way to maintain my innocence. I think that's a real strength of mine, no matter what takes place.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
One of the things we need to do is we need to go back to the place of innocence. For me, I trigger myself through music every single day. I said every single day. So for me, as a person of color, I was raised on Motown music. Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Jackson 5, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin. So seven days a week, I listen to motel music. I already have today. So music triggers me.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Old movies trigger me. Once in a while, even though it's really not that healthy, I will go through a supermarket and I'm shopping for other things and I will buy cereal, like Trix or For Kids or Sugar Smacks. They're not healthy, but I'll buy them And usually I'll just take a few bites and then like I'm over it. It's too sugary. But I do that to trigger myself to stay in a place of innocence.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I'm excited because we're friends. So we're going to have a great conversation.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
It's a very complicated world. So I stay innocent like a child, but I get things done like an adult.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
There's never been as much pressure as there is right now on human beings because of the digital world, as that the idea of exposure to things, you could maybe as a child be driving down the street and you may have seen a billboard and you saw a person smoking. So a child may say, well, what's that? Oh, that's somebody smoking. Well, what is smoking? It was a billboard. It was a magazine.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
It was a commercial. Now, because of the phone, we have alerts. What is an Amber Alert? What is this? What is that? And with all the apps that people have, that a lot of them use, Instead of 50,000 thoughts that come to our mind is what a lot of psychologists have felt that that was a good number. I think you like double it now.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Things are just flying at you like meteors just coming at you nonstop. So to me, I have to find a way to silence the thoughts and silence the noise. And I do. I'm a pro. at going to what I call the holy ground and not just living on the battleground.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So this is a human example of how things happen to us that are awkward and unpleasant, and we did not order them from Life's Diner, where you just wake up one day and nobody thinks that you're going to chip your tooth or that your dog's going to be ill and it doesn't look good. or some bad news comes. So I was in Detroit, Michigan, and I was going to speak for this big event. It was snowing.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
This was two years ago. I get out of an Uber. It's a big car, like a sports utility. And the gentleman that is driving me says, hey, these must be these guys from here to get you. It was three big guys, almost bodyguard type guys. And they had big coats on. So they came up and when I was getting out of the car, it was pouring down snow.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And I said to one of the guys, you think it's safe to put my foot there? And he said, yes. So I put my foot down and I instantly slipped. And when I slipped, I twisted my ankle so bad, it just went like all the way on the left side. I mean, it was so painful. I was on the floor. snowing on me. I'm in a suit. They paid me a lot of money to speak up front already. So I've got to deliver.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So much of our life in the formation of it is before age 10. So if we go birth to 10, those are really rough years for me, birth to 10. Because what took place in our lives is that we were struggling financially, struggling with leadership in the house where my parents were not in a great relationship. And so my parents were raising five children with a lot of instability in their own lives.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So I'm on the floor and the guy's trying to yank me up and I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I said, I'm an athlete, but I know my body. So just wait one minute. I got to see if I didn't break my ankle. So they're all nervous because the guy said, yeah, you're okay. Step out. So I felt and I moved it. And it just ballooned.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And I'll work through this story quickly because there's a lot to it that's positive. And so I got up, the guys held me, I started limping. Now, this has not happened since high school sports. So one of the guys gets very nervous. He goes, oh my gosh, I have to go tell the owner that this happened to you and you can't speak. And I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
No, I didn't say I can't speak. He goes, well, you can hardly walk. I go, yeah, but it just happened to me. I didn't say I can't speak. Well, when am I supposed to speak? Well, the guy looks at his phone, looks at the clock and he says, you're on in 30 minutes. I go, okay, just take me to a side room. I'm in so much pain. So I have a severe sprain and it was so thick in my ankle.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So I'm just sitting there, I'm in so much pain and it was hard to even stand. So I said, you guys, being that this is an office, find me some duct tape, strong tape and some scissors. So they go and find it. I said, now, can you guys leave the room? And then the one guy said, I don't feel comfortable doing that. I said, well, be comfortable. Leave.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
You're going to get a kick out of this because you're a go-getter, too. I pulled my pants up. I duct taped my ankle from the bottom all the way to my knee like a peg leg because I wasn't about to be stopped. And it was a big crowd. And I told the people, don't introduce me until after the promo video. So there's a promo video that we run. And so the promo video was going on.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And then the next thing you do, you see is me on stage. And I go, it's so good to be here. Can we give the owners a clap? Oh my gosh, I love everybody. I was in so much pain. So no one ever knew because I stood in one place and just moved and smiled. I was charismatic up here, but I was hurting down here. Wow. So the moral of the story is we all play hurt and I'm okay with that. That's just life.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Perfectly. They survived a season they did not see. It's almost like the weather reporters saying this is going to be the weather and then it's not. Right. You know, I remember like way back to 1988, people always have sayings like in 88, it's going to be great. And then it wasn't. So I don't know what they've come up with for 225.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
But, you know, people have these slogans and these sayings at the beginning of the year. You're right. We learned to survive a season we did not see coming.
Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
The thing about my approach, which is, again, out of that place of innocence, is build your spot in life and put the spotlight on your spot. But people don't realize that I'm in the technology business. I'm in the AI business. I'm in the furniture business. I'm in the jewelry business. I'm in the entertainment business. I'm doing Broadway plays. I have my own talk show coming out next year.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I have my own talk show in 92 airports of the world right now. I write for magazines. So I'm doing all those things while sitting here with a Beatles shirt on. Did you just catch that?
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Okay, so to me, it's like this idea of the duck that underneath, on top, underneath,
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I'm a machine. I'm up early. I study two hours a day. If you say meet me at eight, I'm there at 10 to eight. I'm very, very disciplined. I never used to miss school. I got good grades. If I hurt your feelings, I'll apologize. If I let you down, I'll ask you why. There's a lot of discipline involved in what I do. But to me, I don't do it just to get great results.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Then the fact of being more lower income that added to the equation. But in the midst of that, I had a very good attitude and I had a very good sense of humor.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I do it because it's the right thing to do. And then that gets me great results. So I think that too many people are so result-oriented that they're constantly looking for the result. Where's the results? Three months. I've been in your program for three months. Where's my results? Three months. Where's my results? No, I do it because it's the right thing to do.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I want to do everything at the highest standard that I can.
Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I wish I was more in the moment, fully present, fully feeling, fully alive, because I had so many amazing moments and then a new opportunity yanked me out of that moment. I'll never forget, I was at a wedding. I was actually officiating the wedding and Donna Summers was there. And Donna Summers was a friend of the people that were having the wedding.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And Donna asked to sit next to me and she said, I'm such a huge fan of yours. And I used to love Donna Summers' music. And I'd never met Donna Summers. And we're having this amazing conversation. And one of the guys that works with me taps me on the shoulder and he goes, Tim, we got to go. And I go, already? Because we had another obligation.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So I had so many obligations of this thing or that premiere or this situation or now fly here and now move there that I was not in the moment many times when just brilliant things happened. had unfolded and I wish I would have stayed. Or being with amazing people and they say, hey, I know we've been here for two days. If you would like to stay one more day, I think it'd be beneficial.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And I'm talking about with some brilliant people, let's say even in business. And I had obligations. So in the stage of life that I'm in now, I really try not to overbook myself and I try to really stay in the moment.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Yes.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And thank you. And I mean this. Because with you at your place in life, because you're a phenomenal leader of leaders, and I mean that with all my heart, is that you could get so many other speakers. There's great communicators, facilitators out there. What a privilege to be on your platform. And I really loved your community and the culture of your community.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I definitely felt it. And the way I felt it is when I started to play sports. So when you played sports, let's say in baseball, So you had to get these Little League shoes. They called them cleats. And then I realized that some of the other kids were getting very nice ones, like maybe Adidas. And then I wanted certain types like them, and we could not afford them.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Thank you. Thank you. Been great talking with you.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And with the sports side of things, I started to realize it was school clothes. realized it. Birthdays of Christmas, realized it. But it wasn't something that I talked about, but I saw that something was different.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
Yeah, and I think that it's something that all of us that are watching right now and listening, we've all faced what I call a life interruption. An interruption is a disturbance. It is like a knock on the door that you do not expect. It's a call at three in the morning. Usually something is not good. If you have family members, you wonder like, what's wrong?
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So the life interruption was my father wanted to get my mother food. So he called a local restaurant, ordered food for my mother and my father. And it's an interesting thing. The reason he ordered food for my mother is because we had eaten that night. And I just asked her this about two months ago. And I said, well, why did you need food?
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
And she said, because this was common when you're cooking for five kids and they keep saying, do we have any more? Do we have any more? It's easy for the mother to sacrifice and then say, I'll find something else to eat. She said, but that particular night, I had nothing else in the house.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So your father went to get me food and he was going through a green light and a person ran a red light, hit him, and then my father passed. Now, so it was an accident. The man that was driving did not do it on purpose. He was looking down for paperwork. But the interesting thing about it, he was actually a police officer who on duty, in the police car. So that was a very strange thing in life.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
We've all faced what I call a life interruption. An interruption is a disturbance. So the life interruption was my father, he was going through a green light and a person ran a red light, hit him, and then my father passed.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
For one day, my father was there. And then the next day, he was not. And there was a lot of added pressure to pressure that we already had. But when I'm saying all this, it's not like a downer because we found our way through the storm. But that's just the reality of what happened at that time.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I was fortunate enough to have three older sisters and then a brother. I have a sister eight years older, seven years older, six years older, and then a brother three years older, and then I'm the youngest. So my older sister is just a leader of leaders and still is. So she was very wise in the area of education. So even when we were in tough neighborhoods, she saw that we all did our homework.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
We knew how to really pull together. Everybody knew how to do the dishes, but at a high standard. Our house was small, but always very, very clean. Those things were important because we were able to rely on each other. So instead of there being pain and then panic, And then separation, there was pain, probably some panic, but then we learned to try to come together to heal each other.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I think what happens is that if you were to watch the movie King Richard and see Venus and Serena Williams, so that is a good part of the parts of LA that we were raised in. There was a lot of challenges in that area, but there were in inner city Detroit, Chicago, New York City, certain parts. But I was raised in an area where you really had to guard yourself and
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
You had to really make sure you made the right choices because the wrong choices at an early age could really take you to the wrong place fast. So I have people that are my cousins. They are the children of my aunts or uncles that are still incarcerated to this day. And I've been around a while. They're still incarcerated to this day. They're in jail. They're in prison.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So they did not make the right choices. So going to church was a big thing for me. I found that to be a safe place. I found sports to be a safe place. I played the traditional American sports, basketball, baseball, football, and my coaches were fantastic. My coaches played a real key in my life, in my development, in bringing out the champion that was inside of me.
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One hundred percent. Because when you think of my sixth grade teacher, now that we had moved out of Compton, we were in another part of Los Angeles. He was Caucasian. And he said to me, Tim Story, can you stay after class? I stayed after class. He says, I think you are brilliant because I think you are brilliant. I want to see if you would like to read one of these books from my library.
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And I chose this book on the life of Michelangelo. But for this guy to call me brilliant, I'd never heard that word before. So he literally branded me brilliant is the way I say it in my talks. But the thing that I was wise enough to do at that age is not push away what he said. What he said, I think you are brilliant. I didn't question it. I took it and I just put it here.
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If you build your spot, life will put the spotlight on your spot. My spot was to be very good in understanding human beings. I was constantly studying, constantly learning, constantly serving, plowing, planting, watering is repetition, and then the harvest came. But the harvest came so much more than I ever thought.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
So people like that made a big impact on me and definitely has encouraged me to be what I am today and encouraging other people.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
What happens is that the teacher says to me, tell me a story. Can you stay after class? And then there's like a, ooh, all the kids listen. So I go to his desk. He offers up three books. He says, you got to be done in three weeks. You have to check it out like you do at a library. He had a card. I had to sign it. I was only in sixth grade.
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I read the book and literally all these years later, I'm like 30 years of age and I'm living on top. I'm already known as the life coach to the stars. I'm talking to people like Charlton Heston, Elliot Gould, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Vidal Sassoon, Lee Iacocca. And my life had exploded into this amazing place. getting over a thousand invitations a year to speak.
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And I'm going to Maui to speak, 30 years of age. And I'm sitting in first class with this very classy lady next to me. And she's in her 70s. We started to talk and she says, young man, I've been watching you before we got on the plane, you walk like you walk on clouds. And I said, oh, that's interesting. She goes, no, you have this real thing about you, this real piece about you.
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And she says, tell me about your background. So we talked a little bit. I could tell she was very, very smart and was definitely somebody that was accomplished. But at that point, I didn't know who she was. So she said, who are some of your early influences? And for some reason, I decided to tell that story of the sixth grade teacher. And I said, and he gave me a choice of books.
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And she said, well, which book did you choose? I said, I chose a book about the life of Michelangelo. And then she gave me a kind of an interesting look. And she said, do you remember the name of the book? I said, yeah, it was The Agony and the Ecstasy. She goes, do you remember the name of the writer? I said, yeah, it was Irving Stone. And she says, that would have been my husband.
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My name is Gene Stone. And she started crying. So the fact that Jean Stone's husband, Irving Stone, wrote that book that helped change my life when my sixth grade teacher gave it to me. And she was the editor of that book. And then we became friends. She was a very powerful lady in Beverly Hills. I later moved to Beverly Hills, not far from her. And we became very good friends.
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I mean, what an amazing story.
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Tim Storey: Turning Setbacks Into Comebacks and Achieving Unstoppable Success | E105
I really do believe this, that if you build your spot, life will put the spotlight on your spot. So my spot was to be very good in understanding human beings. So my doctorate is in world religion and then master's in counseling therapy. So that was a spot I built. I never built that spot thinking that I would become really well known for building that spot. At all. But I wanted to build it.
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So when I say build it, I call it the law of the harvest. You got to plow the ground. You got to plant the seed. You have to water the seed and then you get the harvest. So I was constantly studying, constantly learning. constantly serving, plowing, planting, watering is repetition. And then the harvest came. But the harvest came so much more than I ever thought would happen.
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And that was through this ability to help people that people in the entertainment business started to see. And very famous people that we were raised watching their movies. I mean, the most famous. started to look for me.
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I'm very non-traditional in the way I approach this. I think that the average book would say you have to find a way in the room. I do think that that is one way. Even the community that you've created is a great room to be in. Because like attracts like. And there's things that we can learn from each other and gain from each other than possibly collaborate through the power of partnership.
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One of the things we need to do is
Living The Red Life
How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
This idea of what I call life interruptions. So you could be moving with momentum, and then an interruption comes. An interruption is a disturbance. It's like a knock on the door at 3 in the morning that you don't expect. So when I look at one of my setbacks in business, it is my right-hand guy of 14 years who stole so much money from me.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
mostly when you decide to be you. So if you're rolling around Miami in a red coat, that's really a cool red coat, then it's gonna be different. So I gotta tell you this story real quick. So when I was 19, I was in a nightclub with some of my friends and we watched this guy and they said, and let's welcome to the stage Prince. So Prince was only 21, I was 19.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Good to see you. And how much do I love your offices in this space? Like, wow.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
And I remember he had one song, I'm gonna be your lover. And then like the second, third, fourth song, people didn't like him as much. I promise you, they started booing Prince. And one of my friends says, bless this guy's heart, man. He's going nowhere. But I promise you, I said, no, he's a star. He's just going to find the right songs, right? But it's so true that when you choose to be original,
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
The resistance is going to hit you even stronger, but you got to stay with your originality.
Living The Red Life
How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So first I got to ask you a question. How did you get to where you like float into a room? Because you never just enter.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I'm being so serious because I'm around everybody. You know that. Yeah. Dude, you float into a room and I love it.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah, so in your originality in what you do, I did this in the thought leader space. where when I speak, I'm more of an artist. I'm creating art on stage. So I never studied speakers, because I think most speakers are not that great. I studied comedians, because comedians have the best timing. Because they're storytellers. They want a response from you. The idea is every minute and a half.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So they're looking for laughter. So I learned that way. And then also the typical thought leader or speaker vibe, I never became that guy. And I think that that's what made me a person that has now been to 81 countries of the world where I've been able to take that gifting that came out of Compton to the world because of being original.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
100%.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Okay, so I'm going to give them the final point on this. So you have to take inventory. And then remember we talked about you got to partner with the right people. Then you have to find the right principles. Then you get the right plan. The next thing is you have to learn to be persistent. Mm-hmm. And that's where a lot of people fail is that they're not persistent long enough.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So like you got to keep being a dishwasher, right? You got to keep being an entrepreneur, even though they took your money. So it is true. The whole thing that people said probably a hundred years ago, persistence breaks resistance. And that's one thing you are. That's one thing I am like, there's nothing going to stop.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
When you look at yourself and Gary Vee, some of the other guys that have hit it big, it was the fact that we started seeing your faces over and over and over and over. And then you start to say, like, who is this person? What's behind that brand? Maybe I should follow them. So you're right. It is that persistence and just sticking with it.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah. So originally born in Compton, California, same as Dr. Dre, the Williams sisters. And mother worked at a donut shop. Our father worked at Bethlehem Steel. We were lower income. But I remember my mother said this. She said, we're lower income, but not lower class. I like that. So everything was like discipline. Like we were super disciplined. We had to do well in school and we did.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Biggest win would be, I'm in the recovery space, like owning recovery centers to help people get better. Right. Love it.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I would say biggest challenge would be the one we mentioned is trusting people that are on your team because you promoted them. You even mentored them. I mentored them. And then for them to then be Judas Iscariot to you.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah, but I would like to just close with this on that subject. But I did learn to forgive this person because if you don't forgive, forget, go forward, you're in trouble. And so I released that person, and I don't wish him any harm. But I learned a great lesson. So you have to forgive, forget, go forward.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I think just timstory.com. So story spelled different, S-T-O-R-E-Y, which you're familiar with in England because they have that there more. But timstory.com.
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I love sports like you love sport. And so very, very disciplined individual.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I like how you say that because it's really prospering where you're planted. So wherever you're planted in life, like we were talking about the part of England you were from, wherever you are planted, you have to learn to prosper. And that's what we did as a family. And then we all turned out well.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
And this was a guy that I was great to as kids, amazing to his wife, and I was in shock. of how we stole the money, how calculated it was. Yeah, yeah. But you have to find your way through it. The challenges that you face and I face, for both of us, we chose to learn from those setbacks and not sit in a setback, not settle, but decided to find ways to rise back up.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I would say most. Yeah. Because I think you're either running to something or running from something. I find that the biggest successes are running from something.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah, I think that there's three things. Number one is skill. Secondly is your tools. Third is your attitude. So the skills are just so important. So Malcolm Gladwell, as you know, 10,000 hours to master your skill. Yeah. But there's also like a proverb in the Bible that says, do you see a person skilled at their work? They will be ushered into greatness.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
And so even when I look at your life, and I really am so proud of you, I feel like you have mastered a skill set to where guys that are older than you, like myself, I was like, this guy's like amazing because I saw you years ago, right? I just saw you coming up and then now dominating. But that's because you've mastered a skill set and it ushers you into greatness.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So the skill set, the tools are also things that me and you teach about like tools would be things like your habits, your discipline, your mindset. So skills, tools, and then attitude, The mindset is yours to set.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So let's go there for just a second. Okay, because this idea of what I call life interruptions, So you could be moving with momentum, and then an interruption comes. An interruption is a disturbance. It's like a knock on the door at 3 in the morning that you don't expect. So nobody expects that their employees that they trust are going to steal from them.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So when I look at one of my setbacks in business, it is my right-hand guy. of 14 years who stole so much money from me. And this was a guy that I was great to his kids, amazing to his wife, gave him too many bonuses. And I was in shock of how he stole the money, how calculated it was. But you have to find your way through it.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah, I like that you're saying that because with a guy who dresses as nice as you do, plus you have nice eyebrows and everything else, you get them plucked or something?
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So they always say, like, guys like us... Don't fight with business on a weekly basis, but we do. Oh, yeah. So you're going to see that I like to rhyme, okay? So you can have the sight of a good business. You have the right to it, but it's going to be a constant fight. Constant. So as you know, a fight is a struggle. It's contention.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
And you know this even as an athlete. Think about even fighting through injuries.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Does happen. All the time. Or they get the flu. Yeah. But this idea of the challenges that you face and I face, For both of us, we chose to learn from those setbacks and not sit in a setback, not settle, okay, but decided to find ways to rise back up.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Okay, so there are steps to the comeback. Number one.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Okay, so there are steps to the comeback. Number one, you take inventory. So you have to look at where's my life like realistically, my mindset, where are my finances, my relationship with somebody that I'm dating or married to, or as a single person. So you take inventory. The second thing that you do is you have to partner with the right people. And this is where people miss it.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
OK, so I'm so glad about your community. Your community is huge because you're constantly educating people to get up and out. And that's what I'm doing as well. So you, number one, take inventory. Number two, you got to partner with the right people. But then thirdly, you need the right principles. And again, you're not going to learn everything from TikTok.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Because there's some good people saying good things and some good people saying bad things.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah. Okay. So inventory, partnering with the right people, the right principles, and then a key, the right plan.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So let me ask you a question. When did you start to find the plan for you in America as your life started to evolve into what I now see?
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Okay, so I love this. So what you're saying, I'm just going to put a hook. Yeah, please. Another Tim Story rhyme. Some things you decide, some things you discover. So I think too many people are focused on the decision and that really gets them like uptight in their mind.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Oh, good. Yeah. Okay. So you have some things you decide, some things you discover. So if you look at a Pharrell Williams, there's no way he thought he'd be running Louis Vuitton.
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It was just like him and Chad, right? In Virginia, doing what they do. And as you know, I've been around Kanye West since 2006. And I remember when he was recording Stronger, it was just me, him, and two engineers in the studio. And then one day, Pharrell comes in like at one in the morning. He's like, yo, if I was you, I would do this, that, the other.
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And because Pharrell's so dope, Kanye listened to him.
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So he brings in Timberland, and then Pharrell says, dude, you ought to bring in Def Punk. Uh-huh. which is European out of France, right? And it was a trip because I had to leave for four days and I came back and Kanye goes, I said, who are these guys? He goes, those are the dudes that usually wear the helmets. He goes, they're punk. So the reason for that story is to tell you
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The creative side of a person who's not just making decisions, decisions, but they're discovering. I saw that even on that song Stronger, they just let it find its way and became one of the most popular songs in the last 20 years.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I'm loving this. Let's let's stay here for a minute, because I think that. entrepreneurs need to know this about this discovery zone, right? In a discovery zone, it's important not to be impatient because I think that some of the best plans have to marinate.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
Yeah. See, and mostly when you're younger, you don't want to wait. But I guarantee you, you got to take your time. Let it marinate. Let it discover. Like the best books are not written overnight. The best songs are not always written on a napkin overnight. Let your thoughts marinate and let that discovery take time if it needs to take time.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
I love what you said about the first love, but I think at the same time, we have to treat it like it is.
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How To Overcome Any Set Back w/The Come Back Coach To The Stars Tim Storey
So like when I was a dishwasher at 15 and a half at a restaurant, I bet that job was dope. I loved... Because I was making money for the first time, right? Yep. So I didn't know that I was going to like graduate from the dishwasher to the busboy. And then, you know, I went, kept taking steps.
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I love that question. So the idea of the thread that connects is I am a humanitarian. I love the underdog because I was the underdog. I am drawn to the person that has a setback, doesn't know how to have a comeback. So even since I was a little kid, I loved the underdog. So you see that all the way across everything I do.
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Okay, so people say, Tim's story. How do I find direction in my life? You got to stop. You got to look. You got to listen. So people say, well, follow your heart, but we got to make sure your heart is purified. So if you have the wrong things in your heart, let's not follow your heart. Then take you to the wrong places.
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But if your intentions are correct, I like that word you used earlier, and your heart has the right motives, right? Then when you stop, you can look within and your heart is trying to talk to you. Why? Because your dream has a voice. So powerful. Your dream has a voice. And there's times that you're going to date somebody, some of you guys that are watching, and your heart is telling you, no.
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But you do it anyway. So in those cases, you need to follow your heart. And so I feel that you can plow in the wrong areas. And if you feel like you've started to do that, whether it's a major you've started in college or jobs once you got out or a relationship you've been in for a long time that's not working, you need to stop again, look again, and listen again.
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So I don't really like blame certain parents that go like, you know, I created this empire and go here. I created this and go here. Because I started off, mentoring and tutoring and life coaching famous people's kids. Like the most famous celebrities you can imagine, their kids. I started mentoring them when they were like young kids, okay?
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And then I saw them grow up and do big things, a lot of them. And so many times if the dad or mom did great in a certain position, they would want the child to go there because they had paved the way. But I believe this, that you could be the right person with the right plan but you need the right partners.
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You need the right partners who are not just trying to take you how they see life from their vantage point, their point of view, their mindset, but they're willing to listen to your heart and your calling. Because I think the calling calls you. So, I mean, I see you right now. You are like right in the middle of your calling.
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Right now, you're just like flying. You're like, zoom, this is me, right?
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So I'm glad that you did not become a doctor. I'm glad that you are doing this. You're going to be a writer. You're a speaker. You're a humanitarian. You're a global leader. That's what I see in your future. So I'm glad you're that because we need you to be that.
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So I think it's something that happens to all of us and not the same way, but it's something that I've been talking about for 20 years called life interruptions, where an interruption is when you're disturbed, somebody knocks at your door of life. and interrupts you with many things that we would have never ordered from life's menu. It could be asthma.
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I've seen people with lupus or Lyme disease or just something bad happens in your childhood. For me, you know, my father went to go get my mother food. And so he was just going through a green light and it was at nighttime in January and bless this guy's heart. He ran a red light, hit my father and my father died.
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So the thing that was challenging is my father was the one that had really good energy in the family. My mother was stronger. My mother is Latin. Everything is like the way she does life, not all Latins, because I'm part Latin. But the way she does life, it was more like just strong-willed. So we needed the energy of my father. When that was taken, it was like it was sucked out, okay?
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And so that life interruption happened. was something that my siblings did not know what to do with. So most of them just got up and ran. They ran to like friends' homes or ran to a boyfriend because they're much older than me. My brother, he ran to his friends. So a lot of times it was just me and my mother who worked at a donut shop who were in this house together.
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And it was really a sad situation. But what I did is I used my imagination again. Remember the power of the imagination? And I began to imagine things. And this is a real story. I told my mother when I was 12. I said, Mom, do not worry. I said, when I am in my mid-20s, this is so strange that I said that, you will never worry about money again. And that's exactly what happened.
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I love that. Yeah.
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So when you're in a setback, the first thing you have to do is you have to become awake. When you're in a setback, you want to many times pull the blinds, pull the covers over your head and just hope it's just gone. But number one, you have to become awake. Secondly, you have to take inventory.
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So you got to think like, you know, now that she left or now that he left or now that they left, what am I going to do? What do I have left here? So you become awake. Secondly, you take inventory. The third thing you need to do is do what they're doing right now. They need to partner with power. Listen to people that have answers.
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Listen to people who know what it's like to go through things that are similar to as far as some sort of a setback. So you have to partner with power. Then the next thing you do, number four, is you have to find the right principles. Because I believe it's principles that get you through the problems. It's not hype. It's not just positive energy. It's not just mindset.
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but the right principles can get you through any problem, okay? So you become awake, you take inventory, partner with the right people, get the right principles, and then what do you do next? You proceed. You go forward. I am all about going forward. Oprah loves this quote, and she said to me, she goes, Tim, I love this one when you talk about a comeback is not a go-back.
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So it happened my senior year of high school. There was a young lady that I really respected and we're still great friends to this day. And she was reading this book about the life of Mother Teresa. And I noticed her on campus. She'd be reading it. And I saw the cover. So I asked her, you know, what is it about? So she explained and she goes, you should read it.
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Because a lot of people, when they have a setback, they think I got to go back and fix it all. But a comeback is not a go back. So when you've done all those steps that I said, let's go forward, let's proceed.
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You know, the skills, the tools, and the attitude are the thing that's going to take you from almost to utmost living. So my skills and my tools, they lie in the plates of I'm a master locksmith. If somebody has a problem, ooh, I'm good. Like, what key is it going to be? You know, I can watch somebody on TMZ, and I'll tell one of my assistants, watch.
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Within a week, their people are going to reach out to me. And then I'm right. Like, all day long, all the time. Because I am a really good locksmith. But I never tried to be the locksmith to the stars, the comeback coach to the stars. No, I love people. So I work with ARC, which was started by my good friend, Robert Downey, in prison reform. I'm on the board.
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And then I work with Carrie Kasem, Kasem Cares, the famous Casey Kasem. It's for elder abuse. I do a lot of work in the area of mental health and addiction and also work with the homeless because I love people. So one of my favorite stories, real quick, is... I was going into, I'll give them a shout out because maybe there'll be a sponsor someday, 7-Eleven.
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I was going into 7-Eleven and I saw real sharp looking young man, who I later found out was 23 years of age, but very together. And he was asking for money, he was begging, but he did not look like a guy that would be begging for money. So I asked him how long he'd been out here and he said, well, for two weeks. And I said, you don't seem like a guy that would be doing this.
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And he said, well, I came here to be an actor and a lot of bad things happened, but can I just have some money? I said, well, I'm gonna give you a lot of money And then he said, how much? It was so funny. And I said, I gave him the amount. And so it was a lot. And his eyes got open. I said, but now you got to hear my speech. I said, OK, so why are you out here?
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And he told me that he had problems with being schizophrenic and had somebody had stolen his stuff, like his backpack. And in there was his medication. So he didn't know where he was. And I said, are you hearing voices? And he said, yes. I said, don't put yourself down. I said, this is what I do for a living. We're going to get it. You're going to be okay.
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It's not your fault that you're not taking your medicine. So I said, what's your mother's phone number? And this is so powerful. And he goes, I don't know. I said, well, what state are you from? So he tells me the state. And I'm really good with area codes. So I go like this. OK, I'm going to call your mom. True story. So I get my phone. I hold it up. And I go, OK, area code is.
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She goes, this is kind of like how you are. So that's an awesome thing about life. You know, sometimes it's observation and conversations that can change your direction. Because my direction was I wanted to go to USC and I wanted to be a communications major and be in entertainment. And so I read this book and I got so touched on how one lady who was a nun,
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And I went, bam, bam, bam. I was right in the first three because I know that state. So I said, boom, boom, boom. And then out of nowhere, he goes, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It gives me the rest of the number. True story. So I call this number. A lady answers the phone. She says, hello. I said, miss, I said, this is Tim's story. This is God's honest truth.
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I said this in front of Oprah Winfrey when I spoke for her at UCLA for Super Soul Sessions with Deepak Chopra watching me, Brene Brown and everybody else. The lady said, Tim Story, the minister? I say, yes. I mean, think about how big the world is. It's almost 8 billion people. I looked again four days ago. It's almost 8 billion people. For her to say that, and I go, yes.
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And she goes, well, what happened? I said, I have your son. And she just starts weeping. She says, we thought we had lost him. We thought he was dead. I said, no, he's right here with me. This is one of my favorite stories ever because he was lost. She was lost because he was lost. And it took somebody that was awake and that had been through his own pain to say, hey, I got this.
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So we ended up bringing him into a facility that I was connected to. getting him on the right track, getting him a doctor. A family member came a few days later, about three days later, and I wanted him to stay two days longer in this facility. We put the family member up in a hotel until he was ready to travel. Changed their life forever.
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I felt it was somebody's son. So it was some man's son or some woman's son. And that's how I see people. Like there's a guy close to my house that's homeless and he just walks around. He gets mad at me. And I pull over next to him. I did it again like three days ago. And then I give him money. And then I have my talk and he goes, when are you going to get off my back? I'm not going into shelter.
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I go, this, I didn't even say anything about a shelter. I was just telling you how nice the weather is. But why do I keep pulling over? Because that's somebody's son. Or if I'm helping somebody, a lady, it's somebody's daughter.
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helped tens of thousands of orphans throughout her lifetime. So I decided after really thinking about it, meditating on it, decided to go to seminary and my life just continued to change.
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I think it's a great buildup and then great question. I think it's this idea of being true to yourself first. and truly being authentic. And you know, that word is almost overused nowadays, but authenticity is really a powerful thing.
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And I think what happens is a lot of these creatives that I'm around, which would be people that they would know, they started their craft many times with the right motives, because they wanted to create, whether it was music or film or whatever they do, fashion, whatever they do, models. But then they got caught up in stuff, the system and being a celebrity.
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But here's what I teach a lot of young kids in schools, because I go speak at these schools for free and they get excited because I know all these people. And I say that a lot of people want to be celebrities. I said, but you are a celebrity. A celebrity means to be celebrated. And you just have to find the right people that are celebrating you.
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And so when you learn to celebrate yourself and realize that there are some good people that celebrate you, then you won't have such a hunger and a thirst for that other stuff. So I think the key is to be authentic, to be yourself, and to be really great at your craft.
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Great observation and great research. And I get interviewed by everybody. You're good. So When I was a kid, I saw a lot of my relatives getting very dramatic. Like my aunt would get mad because somebody in her family drank too much or this happened or that didn't happen or this took place. And then I went to school and I saw a lot of dramatic people and I started watching them.
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And I thought, this is not paying off for them. There's three primary ways people learn. The three primary ways is education. Second is conversation. Third is observation. So I am like a phenomenal observationalist. All my friends go like, Tim's story's the best. I can come in and read a room, see where I should sit, who to talk to, who not to talk to.
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A star, I can meet with them, and one day they're super happy. Three days later, bad mood. I read the mood, so I know what to do. I know what to do, okay? Observation, okay?
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So this whole thing about don't become dramatic in the midst of the drama, I noticed that being dramatic did not help things, whether people argued or fought with a policeman because he gave him a ticket or got in a terrible mood because of what was happening in the weather. So I decided to play things down, just play them down, just play them down.
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and play them down to a place where I can then say, okay, really, what is my inventory? What am I really dealing with? And become a sensible thinker and really make better choices and decisions. So thank you for your observation. I'm known for this. In fact, one creative that you would love says this about me. She says, Tim Story,
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walks around life like he has jazz music, cool jazz music playing in his mind.
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The good jazz music, not the stuff that goes everywhere.
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I knew I was just a young person with an idea. And I love to talk about this because I think sometimes in life we decide and sometimes we discover. So I wish I could just say that I sat back and I just decided that I would be well-known No, I just kind of like kept discovering things.
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No.
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I, and you know, I'm, I'm passionate. Like people that have seen me speak,
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I'll set a whole stage on fire.
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I remember a long time ago, I was dating this actress lady and still a great friend of mine today. And she laughs at this because she was trying to really get to me. And she goes, if you don't do this, it's over. I am walking out right now and it is over. And she did like this big speech. And then I go, well, we should probably talk about it. She goes, you don't understand. This is not a threat.
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If you don't do this, that, and the other, it's over. And then I didn't do what she wanted. So she got her purse and she just got up and just kept walking. And I just stood there. And then she came back around the corner a few minutes later. She goes, you're not even going to chase me? And then she started laughing. She goes, only you, only you would not chase me. Everybody chases me. I go, okay.
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Well, I know the book is going to capture people's attention because I've done the speech so many times And when I do this speech, people go like this. I could even be like, because I speak at a lot of places that are stuffy. And they're like, life coach to the stars, work with this, that. That doesn't get them. They're like this. Okay.
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But when I talk about the miracle mindset and I say things like this, watch. I was speaking to a group of kids in South Africa. And I said to these little kids, they must have been about seven or eight, what do you want to be when you get older? And little kid said, the president. And little girl said, a ballerina. And little boy said, I want to be like LeBron James.
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I said, every one of them had a miracle mentality. A miracle is something extraordinary, supernatural, not common, not normal, not the regular. I said, when you're little, you have a miracle mentality. Now you may not always say it, show it, act like it, but see most psychologists have found that even if kids do not say it or express it, they still feel it.
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They feel like something miraculous can still happen. Even if they're being abused or in a bad situation, they're thinking my mindset will somehow get me out of this mess and this madness. And so in this book, The Miracle Mentality, I'm not trying to get people to get something that they don't have. I'm trying to get people to align with who they really are. See, that's what I did.
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I aligned myself with who I am. Yeah. The miracle mentality.
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I think for me, it's cooperating with who I'm supposed to be. That I don't believe in chasing dreams. I believe in cooperating with what life has called me to be. So I believe that whatever your faith is, we've all been spoken over. And so I think that even when I was in my mother's womb, that there was a destiny for me. And I'm just lining up with it on a daily basis. I'm lining up.
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So when I was in seminary, a friend of mine said, hey, Tim, I'm supposed to be teaching at this ROTC class on the Bible. It's a group of about 30 men. I can't do it tonight. Can you do it? Do me a favor and do it. I go, no, no, no, I'm not a talker. It's a true story. I'm not a talker. And he goes, Tim, I really need you to do it. So I did him a favor and I did it.
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I didn't know that I'd be in 90 airports around the world. That just happened this week. When you walk through the airport, you'll see me on these big screens everywhere that I write every month for American Magazine. and United Airways magazines. I didn't know that I get to be interviewed by you. So I didn't know all these things. I just knew I needed to line up with who I really am.
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And that's what we've done.
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I think the best way is still the old fashioned way, just timstory.com. And you'll put all that there because story is S-T-O-R-E-Y. I'm special. So they put an E in there. So Tim's story, timstory.com, it shows all the things we do.
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And I had these guys laughing so hard And I didn't know that I had that charisma on stage and that I had the ability to make people laugh. And so they said, you know, we love the other guy, but can we get you next week as well? And that's how it started.
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Thank you. I love young people's energy. And I'm surrounded by young people who work with me on projects, like from 17, 18 on, because I love their creative energy. But I think this is one thing that draws them to me. We have people from all over the world trying to come to us in LA to do an internship with us because they love my discipline.
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And the whole idea is dreaming is easy, but to do the dream is a whole different thing. Walt Disney walked into an amusement park in the 30s. And he said, one day, I want to build my own amusement park. Mine's going to be different, better, and more magical. Well, the thing about Walt Disney that I love is that as I began to study him, his work ethic was at the next level.
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So he really practiced these principles of the law of the harvest that you described, which is if you want to harvest, If you want to create Disneyland, as he did in the 60s, after he saw the vision of it, you first have to plow the ground. Then you have to plant the right seed. Then you have to water the seeds. That's every single day you're hustling. And then you're going to reap a harvest.
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But then the proverb says, if you chase fantasies, then you lack wisdom. And you're right. We have a lot of people, even my age, that are still chasing fantasies to this day. But you got to plow, you got to plant, you got to water, and then payday is on its way.
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So the mindset is so, so important because, you know, it's not just to rhyme, but truly the mindset will create a mood set. So if you tell a little kid that he's going to do something exciting the next day, you've now put something in his mind and it's created a mindset. His mind is set on something. And so the mindset creates the mood set. Oh my gosh, now I'm happy.
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I get to do this thing tomorrow. So what I've become a master at is creating my own mindset. Because when we were kids in Compton, California, we had seven people in a two-bedroom apartment, which is very, very crowded. And then we had seven people in a Volkswagen Bug, which is called illegal. You're not supposed to have that mindset. So I created my own mindset through the realm of imagination.
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So I started seeing things on TV, predominantly Disney things that we would see. They would come on on Sunday nights, and my older sisters would watch, and my mind just started taking off. So my mindset became beyond. I was thinking beyond, dreaming beyond,
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So my mindset changed my mood set that even though I was in cramped and crowded places, my sisters used to say, this guy, he walks like he's a king. But we were poor. But it was my mindset.
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So I'm going to be good at this question because I've just spent three years writing a book, as you know, called The Miracle Mentality. So literally three years I've been writing with an amazing editor, like, holy schmoly, this guy's so good, teaches at Princeton. But here's what happens.
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In my travels, I found out that people usually live in these categories, what I call the messy, disheveled, the mundane, which is like the regular, the status quo, or many times lived in the madness. So they lived in the messy where their life was just disheveled, okay? Or some lived in the mundane where it's just mundane day after day after day after day with no break.
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And then some lived in the madness. And I found that if you are constantly in the messy and the madness, it's hard to make room for the magic. You got to make room for magic. And so I teach people in my seminars, don't sprinkle magic on your messy. Like, oh my gosh, I'm going with my girls. We're going to Vegas.
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But you're like all living a messy life, but you're going to sprinkle like a magical weekend. I mean, that's great because you need to rest and live, but we got to deal with your mess to make some permanent room for magic. And that's where I'm good.
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So when I was a kid at 15 and a half, I got my first job as a dishwasher. And I remember the cook used to make fun of me. Because he would say, Timmy, why are you washing these dishes like you own the place? And I remember I was just so happy about having this job. So I was just hustling. I was plowing. I was planting good seed. I was watering.
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And I would show up early every single day, just plowing, planting, watering. So the owner, Mr. Anderson, saw this. And he said, Timmy, I want to put you from dishwasher to busboy. And so that was like a big deal. And I'll never forget that as a busboy, I was hustling, doing the same thing.
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I was plowing, I was planting, I was plowing, I was planting, I was watering, I was plowing, planting, watering. And then different owners of restaurants would come into this nice restaurant I was working at and they would try to hire me. So I said to Mr. Anderson, now, you know, these friends of yours are trying to give me jobs. He goes, no, I know. He goes, Tim, because you're a hustler.
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He goes, I can't believe your mindset. And you're so happy about it. I said, but I'm loyal to you. So he kept that loyalty and kept me there until I was 17. And then I went and worked at a really good restaurant called Jimmy's that a lot of people wanted to work at. But it was that plowing, that planting, that watering, but I was in the moment. I was fully present, fully feeling, fully alive.
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When I was a dishwasher, bam, I was there. Busboy, bam, I was there. Waiter, bam, I was there. So I think it's important mostly for young people to be in the moment, fully present, fully feeling, fully alive. Don't just do it to get you there. Just do it and excel where you are.
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No, I like what you're saying there. And let's just stop there for a moment, if you don't mind, because I think that You have really figured this out because if you plow the ground, plant the seed, water the seed, you're going to get a harvest. And what I have found is that people came looking for me. I don't go knock on everybody's door to get in places.
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People always say, how did you get in with Oprah? She's one of my great friends. How did you get in with Steve Harvey and do a 20-city tour? How did you get in with him or her or bam or boom or boom or bam? I never looked for one person. I was working my land. I was just loving people, coaching people, helping people, being a humanitarian. And these people look for me.
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I love that question. So the idea of the thread that connects is I am a humanitarian. I love the underdog because I was the underdog. I am drawn to the person that has a setback, doesn't know how to have a comeback. So even since I was a little kid, I loved the underdog. So you see that all the way across everything I do.
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Okay, so people say, Tim's story. How do I find direction in my life? You got to stop. You got to look. You got to listen. So people say, well, follow your heart, but we got to make sure your heart is purified. So if you have the wrong things in your heart, let's not follow your heart. Then take you to the wrong places.
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But if your intentions are correct, I like that word you used earlier, and your heart has the right motives, right? Then when you stop, you can look within and your heart is trying to talk to you. Why? Because your dream has a voice. So powerful. Your dream has a voice. And there's times that you're going to date somebody, some of you guys that are watching, and your heart is telling you, no.
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But you do it anyway. So in those cases, you need to follow your heart. And so I feel that you can plow in the wrong areas. And if you feel like you've started to do that, whether it's a major you've started in college or jobs once you got out or a relationship you've been in for a long time that's not working, you need to stop again, look again, and listen again.
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So I don't really like blame certain parents that go like, you know, I created this empire and go here. I created this and go here. Because I started off, mentoring and tutoring and life coaching famous people's kids. Like the most famous celebrities you can imagine, their kids. I started mentoring them when they were like young kids, okay?
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And then I saw them grow up and do big things, a lot of them. And so many times if the dad or mom did great in a certain position, they would want the child to go there because they had paved the way. But I believe this, that you could be the right person with the right plan but you need the right partners.
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You need the right partners who are not just trying to take you how they see life from their vantage point, their point of view, their mindset, but they're willing to listen to your heart and your calling. Because I think the calling calls you. So, I mean, I see you right now. You are like right in the middle of your calling.
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Right now, you're just like flying. You're like, zoom, this is me, right?
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So I'm glad that you did not become a doctor. I'm glad that you are doing this. You're going to be a writer. You're a speaker. You're a humanitarian. You're a global leader. That's what I see in your future. So I'm glad you're that because we need you to be that.
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So I think it's something that happens to all of us and not the same way, but it's something that I've been talking about for 20 years called life interruptions, where an interruption is when you're disturbed, somebody knocks at your door of life. and interrupts you with many things that we would have never ordered from life's menu. It could be asthma.
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I've seen people with lupus or Lyme disease or just something bad happens in your childhood. For me, you know, my father went to go get my mother food. And so he was just going through a green light and it was at nighttime in January and bless this guy's heart. He ran a red light, hit my father and my father died.
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So the thing that was challenging is my father was the one that had really good energy in the family. My mother was stronger. My mother is Latin. Everything is like the way she does life, not all Latins, because I'm part Latin. But the way she does life, it was more like just strong-willed. So we needed the energy of my father. When that was taken, it was like it was sucked out, okay?
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And so that life interruption happened. was something that my siblings did not know what to do with. So most of them just got up and ran. They ran to like friends' homes or ran to a boyfriend because they're much older than me. My brother, he ran to his friends. So a lot of times it was just me and my mother who worked at a donut shop who were in this house together.
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And it was really a sad situation. But what I did is I used my imagination again. Remember the power of the imagination? And I began to imagine things. And this is a real story. I told my mother when I was 12. I said, Mom, do not worry. I said, when I am in my mid-20s, this is so strange that I said that, you will never worry about money again. And that's exactly what happened.
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I love that. Yeah.
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So when you're in a setback, the first thing you have to do is you have to become awake. When you're in a setback, you want to many times pull the blinds, pull the covers over your head and just hope it's just gone. But number one, you have to become awake. Secondly, you have to take inventory.
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So you got to think like, you know, now that she left or now that he left or now that they left, what am I going to do? What do I have left here? So you become awake. Secondly, you take inventory. The third thing you need to do is do what they're doing right now. They need to partner with power. Listen to people that have answers.
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Listen to people who know what it's like to go through things that are similar to as far as some sort of a setback. So you have to partner with power. Then the next thing you do, number four, is you have to find the right principles. Because I believe it's principles that get you through the problems. It's not hype. It's not just positive energy. It's not just mindset.
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but the right principles can get you through any problem, okay? So you become awake, you take inventory, partner with the right people, get the right principles, and then what do you do next? You proceed. You go forward. I am all about going forward. Oprah loves this quote, and she said to me, she goes, Tim, I love this one when you talk about a comeback is not a go-back.
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So it happened my senior year of high school. There was a young lady that I really respected and we're still great friends to this day. And she was reading this book about the life of Mother Teresa. And I noticed her on campus. She'd be reading it. And I saw the cover. So I asked her, you know, what is it about? So she explained and she goes, you should read it.
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Because a lot of people, when they have a setback, they think I got to go back and fix it all. But a comeback is not a go back. So when you've done all those steps that I said, let's go forward, let's proceed.
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You know, the skills, the tools, and the attitude are the thing that's going to take you from almost to utmost living. So my skills and my tools, they lie in the plates of I'm a master locksmith. If somebody has a problem, ooh, I'm good. Like, what key is it going to be? You know, I can watch somebody on TMZ, and I'll tell one of my assistants, watch.
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Within a week, their people are going to reach out to me. And then I'm right. Like, all day long, all the time. Because I am a really good locksmith. But I never tried to be the locksmith to the stars, the comeback coach to the stars. No, I love people. So I work with ARC, which was started by my good friend, Robert Downey, in prison reform. I'm on the board.
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And then I work with Carrie Kasem, Kasem Cares, the famous Casey Kasem. It's for elder abuse. I do a lot of work in the area of mental health and addiction and also work with the homeless because I love people. So one of my favorite stories, real quick, is... I was going into, I'll give them a shout out because maybe there'll be a sponsor someday, 7-Eleven.
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I was going into 7-Eleven and I saw real sharp looking young man, who I later found out was 23 years of age, but very together. And he was asking for money, he was begging, but he did not look like a guy that would be begging for money. So I asked him how long he'd been out here and he said, well, for two weeks. And I said, you don't seem like a guy that would be doing this.
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And he said, well, I came here to be an actor and a lot of bad things happened, but can I just have some money? I said, well, I'm gonna give you a lot of money And then he said, how much? It was so funny. And I said, I gave him the amount. And so it was a lot. And his eyes got open. I said, but now you got to hear my speech. I said, OK, so why are you out here?
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And he told me that he had problems with being schizophrenic and had somebody had stolen his stuff, like his backpack. And in there was his medication. So he didn't know where he was. And I said, are you hearing voices? And he said, yes. I said, don't put yourself down. I said, this is what I do for a living. We're going to get it. You're going to be okay.
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It's not your fault that you're not taking your medicine. So I said, what's your mother's phone number? And this is so powerful. And he goes, I don't know. I said, well, what state are you from? So he tells me the state. And I'm really good with area codes. So I go like this. OK, I'm going to call your mom. True story. So I get my phone. I hold it up. And I go, OK, area code is.
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She goes, this is kind of like how you are. So that's an awesome thing about life. You know, sometimes it's observation and conversations that can change your direction. Because my direction was I wanted to go to USC and I wanted to be a communications major and be in entertainment. And so I read this book and I got so touched on how one lady who was a nun,
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And I went, bam, bam, bam. I was right in the first three because I know that state. So I said, boom, boom, boom. And then out of nowhere, he goes, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It gives me the rest of the number. True story. So I call this number. A lady answers the phone. She says, hello. I said, miss, I said, this is Tim's story. This is God's honest truth.
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I said this in front of Oprah Winfrey when I spoke for her at UCLA for Super Soul Sessions with Deepak Chopra watching me, Brene Brown and everybody else. The lady said, Tim Story, the minister? I say, yes. I mean, think about how big the world is. It's almost 8 billion people. I looked again four days ago. It's almost 8 billion people. For her to say that, and I go, yes.
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And she goes, well, what happened? I said, I have your son. And she just starts weeping. She says, we thought we had lost him. We thought he was dead. I said, no, he's right here with me. This is one of my favorite stories ever because he was lost. She was lost because he was lost. And it took somebody that was awake and that had been through his own pain to say, hey, I got this.
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So we ended up bringing him into a facility that I was connected to. getting him on the right track, getting him a doctor. A family member came a few days later, about three days later, and I wanted him to stay two days longer in this facility. We put the family member up in a hotel until he was ready to travel. Changed their life forever.
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I felt it was somebody's son. So it was some man's son or some woman's son. And that's how I see people. Like there's a guy close to my house that's homeless and he just walks around. He gets mad at me. And I pull over next to him. I did it again like three days ago. And then I give him money. And then I have my talk and he goes, when are you going to get off my back? I'm not going into shelter.
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I go, this, I didn't even say anything about a shelter. I was just telling you how nice the weather is. But why do I keep pulling over? Because that's somebody's son. Or if I'm helping somebody, a lady, it's somebody's daughter.
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helped tens of thousands of orphans throughout her lifetime. So I decided after really thinking about it, meditating on it, decided to go to seminary and my life just continued to change.
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I think it's a great buildup and then great question. I think it's this idea of being true to yourself first. and truly being authentic. And you know, that word is almost overused nowadays, but authenticity is really a powerful thing.
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And I think what happens is a lot of these creatives that I'm around, which would be people that they would know, they started their craft many times with the right motives, because they wanted to create, whether it was music or film or whatever they do, fashion, whatever they do, models. But then they got caught up in stuff, the system and being a celebrity.
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But here's what I teach a lot of young kids in schools, because I go speak at these schools for free and they get excited because I know all these people. And I say that a lot of people want to be celebrities. I said, but you are a celebrity. A celebrity means to be celebrated. And you just have to find the right people that are celebrating you.
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And so when you learn to celebrate yourself and realize that there are some good people that celebrate you, then you won't have such a hunger and a thirst for that other stuff. So I think the key is to be authentic, to be yourself, and to be really great at your craft.
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Great observation and great research. And I get interviewed by everybody. You're good. So When I was a kid, I saw a lot of my relatives getting very dramatic. Like my aunt would get mad because somebody in her family drank too much or this happened or that didn't happen or this took place. And then I went to school and I saw a lot of dramatic people and I started watching them.
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And I thought, this is not paying off for them. There's three primary ways people learn. The three primary ways is education. Second is conversation. Third is observation. So I am like a phenomenal observationalist. All my friends go like, Tim's story's the best. I can come in and read a room, see where I should sit, who to talk to, who not to talk to.
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A star, I can meet with them, and one day they're super happy. Three days later, bad mood. I read the mood, so I know what to do. I know what to do, okay? Observation, okay?
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So this whole thing about don't become dramatic in the midst of the drama, I noticed that being dramatic did not help things, whether people argued or fought with a policeman because he gave him a ticket or got in a terrible mood because of what was happening in the weather. So I decided to play things down, just play them down, just play them down.
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and play them down to a place where I can then say, okay, really, what is my inventory? What am I really dealing with? And become a sensible thinker and really make better choices and decisions. So thank you for your observation. I'm known for this. In fact, one creative that you would love says this about me. She says, Tim Story,
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walks around life like he has jazz music, cool jazz music playing in his mind.
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The good jazz music, not the stuff that goes everywhere.
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I knew I was just a young person with an idea. And I love to talk about this because I think sometimes in life we decide and sometimes we discover. So I wish I could just say that I sat back and I just decided that I would be well-known No, I just kind of like kept discovering things.
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No.
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I, and you know, I'm, I'm passionate. Like people that have seen me speak,
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I'll set a whole stage on fire.
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I remember a long time ago, I was dating this actress lady and still a great friend of mine today. And she laughs at this because she was trying to really get to me. And she goes, if you don't do this, it's over. I am walking out right now and it is over. And she did like this big speech. And then I go, well, we should probably talk about it. She goes, you don't understand. This is not a threat.
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If you don't do this, that, and the other, it's over. And then I didn't do what she wanted. So she got her purse and she just got up and just kept walking. And I just stood there. And then she came back around the corner a few minutes later. She goes, you're not even going to chase me? And then she started laughing. She goes, only you, only you would not chase me. Everybody chases me. I go, okay.
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Well, I know the book is going to capture people's attention because I've done the speech so many times And when I do this speech, people go like this. I could even be like, because I speak at a lot of places that are stuffy. And they're like, life coach to the stars, work with this, that. That doesn't get them. They're like this. Okay.
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But when I talk about the miracle mindset and I say things like this, watch. I was speaking to a group of kids in South Africa. And I said to these little kids, they must have been about seven or eight, what do you want to be when you get older? And little kid said, the president. And little girl said, a ballerina. And little boy said, I want to be like LeBron James.
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I said, every one of them had a miracle mentality. A miracle is something extraordinary, supernatural, not common, not normal, not the regular. I said, when you're little, you have a miracle mentality. Now you may not always say it, show it, act like it, but see most psychologists have found that even if kids do not say it or express it, they still feel it.
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They feel like something miraculous can still happen. Even if they're being abused or in a bad situation, they're thinking my mindset will somehow get me out of this mess and this madness. And so in this book, The Miracle Mentality, I'm not trying to get people to get something that they don't have. I'm trying to get people to align with who they really are. See, that's what I did.
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I aligned myself with who I am. Yeah. The miracle mentality.
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I think for me, it's cooperating with who I'm supposed to be. That I don't believe in chasing dreams. I believe in cooperating with what life has called me to be. So I believe that whatever your faith is, we've all been spoken over. And so I think that even when I was in my mother's womb, that there was a destiny for me. And I'm just lining up with it on a daily basis. I'm lining up.
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So when I was in seminary, a friend of mine said, hey, Tim, I'm supposed to be teaching at this ROTC class on the Bible. It's a group of about 30 men. I can't do it tonight. Can you do it? Do me a favor and do it. I go, no, no, no, I'm not a talker. It's a true story. I'm not a talker. And he goes, Tim, I really need you to do it. So I did him a favor and I did it.
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I didn't know that I'd be in 90 airports around the world. That just happened this week. When you walk through the airport, you'll see me on these big screens everywhere that I write every month for American Magazine. and United Airways magazines. I didn't know that I get to be interviewed by you. So I didn't know all these things. I just knew I needed to line up with who I really am.
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And that's what we've done.
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I think the best way is still the old fashioned way, just timstory.com. And you'll put all that there because story is S-T-O-R-E-Y. I'm special. So they put an E in there. So Tim's story, timstory.com, it shows all the things we do.
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And I had these guys laughing so hard And I didn't know that I had that charisma on stage and that I had the ability to make people laugh. And so they said, you know, we love the other guy, but can we get you next week as well? And that's how it started.
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Thank you. I love young people's energy. And I'm surrounded by young people who work with me on projects, like from 17, 18 on, because I love their creative energy. But I think this is one thing that draws them to me. We have people from all over the world trying to come to us in LA to do an internship with us because they love my discipline.
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And the whole idea is dreaming is easy, but to do the dream is a whole different thing. Walt Disney walked into an amusement park in the 30s. And he said, one day, I want to build my own amusement park. Mine's going to be different, better, and more magical. Well, the thing about Walt Disney that I love is that as I began to study him, his work ethic was at the next level.
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So he really practiced these principles of the law of the harvest that you described, which is if you want to harvest, If you want to create Disneyland, as he did in the 60s, after he saw the vision of it, you first have to plow the ground. Then you have to plant the right seed. Then you have to water the seeds. That's every single day you're hustling. And then you're going to reap a harvest.
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But then the proverb says, if you chase fantasies, then you lack wisdom. And you're right. We have a lot of people, even my age, that are still chasing fantasies to this day. But you got to plow, you got to plant, you got to water, and then payday is on its way.
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So the mindset is so, so important because, you know, it's not just to rhyme, but truly the mindset will create a mood set. So if you tell a little kid that he's going to do something exciting the next day, you've now put something in his mind and it's created a mindset. His mind is set on something. And so the mindset creates the mood set. Oh my gosh, now I'm happy.
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I get to do this thing tomorrow. So what I've become a master at is creating my own mindset. Because when we were kids in Compton, California, we had seven people in a two-bedroom apartment, which is very, very crowded. And then we had seven people in a Volkswagen Bug, which is called illegal. You're not supposed to have that mindset. So I created my own mindset through the realm of imagination.
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So I started seeing things on TV, predominantly Disney things that we would see. They would come on on Sunday nights, and my older sisters would watch, and my mind just started taking off. So my mindset became beyond. I was thinking beyond, dreaming beyond,
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So my mindset changed my mood set that even though I was in cramped and crowded places, my sisters used to say, this guy, he walks like he's a king. But we were poor. But it was my mindset.
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So I'm going to be good at this question because I've just spent three years writing a book, as you know, called The Miracle Mentality. So literally three years I've been writing with an amazing editor, like, holy schmoly, this guy's so good, teaches at Princeton. But here's what happens.
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In my travels, I found out that people usually live in these categories, what I call the messy, disheveled, the mundane, which is like the regular, the status quo, or many times lived in the madness. So they lived in the messy where their life was just disheveled, okay? Or some lived in the mundane where it's just mundane day after day after day after day with no break.
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And then some lived in the madness. And I found that if you are constantly in the messy and the madness, it's hard to make room for the magic. You got to make room for magic. And so I teach people in my seminars, don't sprinkle magic on your messy. Like, oh my gosh, I'm going with my girls. We're going to Vegas.
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But you're like all living a messy life, but you're going to sprinkle like a magical weekend. I mean, that's great because you need to rest and live, but we got to deal with your mess to make some permanent room for magic. And that's where I'm good.
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So when I was a kid at 15 and a half, I got my first job as a dishwasher. And I remember the cook used to make fun of me. Because he would say, Timmy, why are you washing these dishes like you own the place? And I remember I was just so happy about having this job. So I was just hustling. I was plowing. I was planting good seed. I was watering.
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And I would show up early every single day, just plowing, planting, watering. So the owner, Mr. Anderson, saw this. And he said, Timmy, I want to put you from dishwasher to busboy. And so that was like a big deal. And I'll never forget that as a busboy, I was hustling, doing the same thing.
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I was plowing, I was planting, I was plowing, I was planting, I was watering, I was plowing, planting, watering. And then different owners of restaurants would come into this nice restaurant I was working at and they would try to hire me. So I said to Mr. Anderson, now, you know, these friends of yours are trying to give me jobs. He goes, no, I know. He goes, Tim, because you're a hustler.
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He goes, I can't believe your mindset. And you're so happy about it. I said, but I'm loyal to you. So he kept that loyalty and kept me there until I was 17. And then I went and worked at a really good restaurant called Jimmy's that a lot of people wanted to work at. But it was that plowing, that planting, that watering, but I was in the moment. I was fully present, fully feeling, fully alive.
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When I was a dishwasher, bam, I was there. Busboy, bam, I was there. Waiter, bam, I was there. So I think it's important mostly for young people to be in the moment, fully present, fully feeling, fully alive. Don't just do it to get you there. Just do it and excel where you are.
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Tim Storey: The Miracle Mindset Every Entrepreneur Needs to Bounce Back | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
No, I like what you're saying there. And let's just stop there for a moment, if you don't mind, because I think that You have really figured this out because if you plow the ground, plant the seed, water the seed, you're going to get a harvest. And what I have found is that people came looking for me. I don't go knock on everybody's door to get in places.
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Tim Storey: The Miracle Mindset Every Entrepreneur Needs to Bounce Back | Human Behavior | YAPClassic
People always say, how did you get in with Oprah? She's one of my great friends. How did you get in with Steve Harvey and do a 20-city tour? How did you get in with him or her or bam or boom or boom or bam? I never looked for one person. I was working my land. I was just loving people, coaching people, helping people, being a humanitarian. And these people look for me.