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Everybody else's mouth is full, so I figured I would say, hello,
it's scary here along with straight Nate and Danielle and
there's Garrett. Damn it, Greg t is David Brody clockwise difference,
You're in the damn all you want practically second, So
what do you care? And the reason why people's mouths
are fulls because we got cookies here, brought by our
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friend Dan Mason. Good morning, Dan Mason's in the house.
No better way to start in Monday than with Schmackery's cooking.
Absolutely not a sponsor, not a sponsor. So um, well,
welcome back. It's Monday, and uh we're all here and
hanging out and this is fun. Yes, So what brings
you to town? Dan Mason? I have some meetings today.
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I'm gonna be talking with Elvis. I'm actually starting a
podcast here through the through the Elvis Storrand Network. So
excited about that. For anybody who doesn't know me, I
worked in radio for years. I'm a life coach now,
so I've worked with people in eight countries helping them
escape the corporate grind and create a life and create
relationships they love. So well. I think it's I think
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it's great. If you want to follow Dan on on
social media to Dan, it's at Dan Mason. It's actually
c SC Dan Mason on intram, c Dan Mason on Instagram,
and my website is Creative Soul Coaching dot net. Very cool,
same letters as the CSC, the company after your Twitter handle.
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It's a matter of fact, see I figured stuff out age. Yeah.
I mean, people listen to the fifteen minute morning Show
are predisposed to listen to podcast because they like this one,
and uh they'll they're pretty much. We tell them about
great new podcasts, awesome content that that's on the way,
and uh they'll follow it. So we can't wait for
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the launch of that. Yeah, it's coming this fall, so
probably next month. Looking forward to it. That's great. Do
you think you'll be able to incorporate any of your
recent experiences? I know, before we started the podcast, you
were talking about evacuating Florida because you live in Yeah,
I'm in St. Petersburg, Okay. And and the stories you
were saying, I can't even imagine the Walking Dead sort
of scenario that you were in. It was so like
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a movie. Uh, you know, just the mass evacuation, six
million people trying to leave the state. You can't even
get out. There's only two highways out of the state,
so it's a parking lot. Nobody has gased, nobody has food.
And then you like, my girlfriend and I found ourselves
having a conversation at one point where we're like, if
Hampa gets obliterated in the storm, which at that point
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we felt was a possibility, We're like, where are we
going to go to start over? Like that was actually
a conversation that you don't have every day, but we
just didn't know at the time. Thank god. Uh, it
wasn't as bad as we expected. Do you take anything
with you, like the important stuff? No, you know, it
really was. We we packed up our dogs, we packed
up a suitcase, and that was it. The first thing
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you grabbed when you left your left your house. First
thing you went four aside from the animals and your girlfriend.
Obviously it was literally I think clothes in the laptop
that was it. Now But for me it's different, Like
I look at all that stuff, it's all the material
possessions are nice, and I think there was a time
in my life before I was life coaching where my
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whole life was built on that, like on this stuff
I've owned. But when you're up against something like that
and you think a Cat four or five storm is
heading in, it's just like, you don't own any of
this anyway. The best possible scenario, you're leasing it. So
you get the things that matter and you and you
get out and you hit the road. Be honest, you
have a two seater Miata you take and the wife
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of the dogs, the girlfriend of the dogs. Yeah, I mean,
can we try to fit them on her? Laugh? But
I do think it's a great question. I think people
ask themselves all the time. You know, they say, man,
if I ever had a chance to do all over again,
I would do blank. And I think that, you know,
I understand that. You know, it was a crazy question,
it was coming up at the time, but really, in honesty,
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it's a great question to have, you know, not many
people get a second chance to start all over again,
and you have to so to choose to actually do that.
So where would you go if you had a second chance,
if you were going to start all over again? Where
was the answers? We literally had no idea. I mean
we didn't even have a full game plan. We were
just driving north with the plan of driving north. All
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the hotels through Georgia, the southern part of South Carolina
were booked anyway, So we went all the way up
to Virginia's my dad's place. Anybody here, Where would you
guys all start all over again? I don't know the
block you hadnest it all over again and you wanted
to and you really couldn't. And I'll say this, it's
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a very daunting question. I can't imagine anybody that has
a family and roots trying to go somewhere to start over.
Because when I was twenty three, I just packed up
my car, my clothes, my my desktop at the time
because laptops weren't as popular, and I moved to California.
I knew two people. And that is so daunting to do,
and it's I just did it. I was young and
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stupid and I just moved. But being somebody that has
a life family. I can't imagine having to just go
to a place and start over. I don't know. I mean,
if I had to look at Trish and it was
thought about this, if it was me a Trish and
the two girls were sitting there, and then we're at
the kitchen table and I go, you know what, let's
just do this. And we've actually talked about it, and
we go, let let's go. Where do we start all
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over again? God? For me, I'm not much of a
city person. I don't need the hustle bustle of the city.
I would look for a much quieter area, something more subdued.
I would look for, uh, somewhere close to and I
don't want to bring it up, Somewhere close to the water,
you know, somewherehere I can enjoy the sites and fresh air. Uh,
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possibly a boat, you know. Like That's where I would
be going, and that's the direction that I would be
headed in. I don't think we need a big home.
I don't think I need a living room. I don't
need a dining room. I I don't know what we
really need anymore in this world. I think things are
so much more, you know, dialed down. I don't need
all that anybody else here. I go to England because
I have family there and he had you know, my
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husband has family there, so we already have roots there.
So that's where I probably, I agree, I would go abroad.
I would move to a different country and see, you know,
the world through somebody else's perspective, the way they do things.
Go to Spain maybe, And isn't it funny that we're
having this discussion about like waiting until a potential natural
disaster to create these experiences in your life. Like one
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of the things I talked about it is when I'm
working with clients is we've all got these goals, we
have the next thing we want to achieve. But the
reason we set goals in the first place, it is
just because there's an emotion that we want to feel.
And when you can identify what that emotion is, really
life is about creating that in the present, creating it today,
Not when you get the next job, not when you
get the next house, not when you get the tesla.
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It's feeling those emotions right now. That's where the quality
of your life is. I'm kind of envious um of
some of you in the room because I've never lived
anywhere else other than the New York City area. I've
never had another job other than the one I have
right now, and I've become comfortable in this. I wouldn't
say complacent, because I'm happy but still enthusiastic, and I
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still love every day coming to work. But I don't
have the drive to want to start over somewhere else.
And I don't know if that's a good or a
bad thing, because there is this unknown factor of like
maybe I'm missing out on a better life, a better
opportunity like you guys can describe if you hit the
reset button then start over. But six of us in
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the room, and four of us have never lived outside
this area, and only one of us, Greg t, is
legitimately thinking about it, like Garrett and I. Garrett hasn't
said a word I mentioned he what he has to say.
Daniel is not looking to move to London. She's saying
for a life blew up, she would move to London
as a backup plan. Answer for you, I couldn't even
Dan and Nate are are more vagabonds. They're they're more
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willing to im I've never killed a date before, but
I think the difference. And I can't speak for for Dan.
But in Nate's case, Nate didn't grow up in a
destination location. People don't live their whole lives dreaming of
moving to Erie, Pennsylvania. No offense, no offend, unless unless
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you're in a suburb of Aria, and they're like, I
gotta get to area that we're superior, because we're not.
Never said the word superior. I'm saying I live in
a place that people dream of living in. So I'm
already here and I love it. But if I grew
up in a place that people dream of getting hell
out of, you'd be more open. You were born with
a knowledge of maybe I'd like to go to California.
I didn't grow up going God, I got a gout
of this one horse town. I got horses on my street, like,
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I don't need to move. Gets tough, especially in this business.
You hear you have to leave in order to come back.
But if you start here, it's tough to go to
Middle America where there's one windmill and that's the highlight
of the town. Wow, coming from there, right, I don't know.
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I don't know the answer that I'm gonna look to
Dan for this, he's the life coach. Oh yeah, but
getting to the next level in your life, whatever that
looks like for you. It doesn't have to be about
a location. It could be as simple as just picking
up a new hobby or trying something that you've never
done before. Really, at the end of the day, what
we're all looking for and when we get stagnant in
our lives and we hit that wall where we were
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just like what else is there? Because we want to grow.
And that's really the whole point is when you're not growing,
you know, you're metaphorically dying. I wanted to know, so Dan,
metaphorically dyeing. Would you like another cookie? The maple bacon
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is delicious? So so Dan, as you're in the car
with your girlfriend. You're a life coach and people turn
to you when they have probably they're facing life problems,
are trying to figure out what to do in their life.
Who do you turn to as you're running away from
a potential hurricane thinking what do I do with my life?
You know? The funny thing is is like for all
of it, I was totally zen in that moment. The
thought of like losing our condo, didn't that didn't bother me.
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I mean, I had all the things in that moment
that are important to me, and that's what mattered. But
I still had mentors. I have coaches in my own
you know. I think the biggest way to close the
gap between where you are and where you want to
be is find somebody who's accomplished what it is you
want to do and then latch onto them. Learn from them,
you know, figure out where their success came from, and
model it. M hmm. Nothing to say to that. There
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go that it's very sounded, made all the sense in
the world, I would thin anybody that wants to debate that.
I mean, my my mentor is a multi seven figure
entrepreneur who actually came out of the music industry. He
worked in music management and for a record label. Uh it,
lost that career because he got heavy into drugs couch
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surf for two years, lost everything, and reinvented himself as
an author and a speaker and a coach. And he's
created he's created a business that I hope to create.
And just in three months of working with this guy
at three x my business, Wow, I like that's a goal.
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What's going on? The Worst Podcast Elvis. I was listening
to you guys doing a podcast and this is the
worst fucking podcast. But I did bring you cookies. Those
are the cookie he said, had the maple, the maple
bacon one. This is the best one ever. Come hang out, Dan.
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Dan's talking about maybe, uh to tell him what your
Dan's trying to get scary to leave here and do
something better with his life. That we were talking about
how Dan had avoided the hurricane back and forth and
you know, you know, and he was thinking about being
in the moment and moving and what he would do
with his life, you know, and not caring about losing
at all, not care about starting over the reset button
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on the spot. I'm like, that's pretty brave. We shouldn't
we always approach life like that. We should stop caring
so much totally and just say, hey, effort well, especially
once you figure out the reasons why you care so much, Like,
is it that you're worried about the opinion of other people? Yes,
you know, is that what's driving you? Because by the way,
I love how you're sitting in Bethany's chair and now
Bethany's having to sit over there. Hi, Dan Mason. That happened.
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I hung out this weekend. She joined my cult. I know,
I thought, I finally I've just been a girl looking
for her cult, and I finally found my cult. If
you're upset about where you're sitting, because Dan's in your seat, Dan,
We'll talk to you with ten minutes and make you
never be upset about it to and I want to
read you guys something. This is on the This is
on the tails of what you're just saying to Mason.
I subscribe to Mark and Angel. Do you get their
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their news letters? They're They're excellent. They've got great life
advice every day. One mantro that will stop you from
taking things personally. People are toxic to be around when
they believe that everything happening around them is a direct
assault on them, or is in some way all about them.
That is the truth. Let that sink him. What people
say and do to you is much more about them
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than you. People's reactions to you are about their perspectives, wounds,
and experiences. Whether people think you're amazing or believe you're
the worst. Again, it's more about them and how they
view the world. It's not us. Watch your response to
people when they give you grief over something because if
they don't like you, it's because of them, it's not
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because of your underlying emotional trauma. I don't know what
it is, but I see it's to the point where
it's that's their problem, not yours. It's int this what
we're seeing in the world everywhere right now is people
responding to hate with more hate, and it just perpetuates.
It's easy because you take it personally and it makes
you It makes you feel like you've done something something
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wrong when actuality, they did something wrong by being hateful.
They started it. And at the end of the day,
what we're all looking for is just to feel heard.
Something necessarily about feeling that somebody agrees with you, but
you'd like to be heard and be accepted for that
opinion without necessarily feeling judged. In relationships, that's a huge thing.
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It's like we're talking about was scary a couple of
podcasts ago. We're scary. We'll continue talking even if we
all already understand what he's about to say. He'll keep going,
and it's just him needing to make sure that he's heard,
that he gets his full point across. Yeah, they said
it was psychological on one of these podcasts, yet he
did Scary was not anticipating us diving this far and
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psyche on the podcast is face, Why are you sweating?
I got nothing? This is that the podcast is over.
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