Success Strategies, Mentorship, and Leadership Insights with Karim Ellis

Alka Sharma welcomes Karim Ellis, who shares his journey and insights from his book "GPS My Success," focusing on strategies for achieving success. They discuss adapting to changes, the influence of AI, and mental strategies for success. Karim highlights the importance of mentorship and prioritizing progress over perfection. They explore building a sustainable brand, the significance of feedback, and leadership's role in shaping culture. The conversation covers faith in action, goal setting, personal growth, and overcoming distractions and impostor syndrome. Karim offers three life lessons on character and success. The episode concludes with ways to connect with Karim, a special offer, and a preview of the next episode.

Episode Transcript

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Amazing.
Welcome to the show, doctor Elias.
It's so great to meet you.
I do believe we probably know each other.
I mean, your your name, I've heard of yourname.
Mhmm.
But I have met you as well.
We met in Vegas.
Yeah.
Well, what I what I found out is this, is theworld is much smaller than we can possibly

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believe.
Yes.
We keep doing these things and going incircles.
Eventually, we we just run across people.
You know?
So we haven't met officially, then it's it'sjust a matter of time.
It's a matter of time.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Well, I'm so excited to get to dive into yourstory.
I know you've got a very powerful story.
I've heard your story in Vegas when you werepart of the panelist at the speak off.

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What a powerful story.
And this is what drew me to you to have youcome on the show because, doctor Elias, the
imprint that left in my mind was the prop youheld in your hand, the bullet.
And I just want everyone to listen to yourstory.

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But before we bring you on, doctor Ellis, Iwanna introduce welcome to everyone to ask the
experts podcast.
Welcome to another episode, to another powerfulepisode that is going to be.
And I want each and everyone to hear doctorEllis' story.
It is so powerful.

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I was fortunate to hear him in Vegas this pastMarch.
And we want to always bring you valuablecontent and amazing guests.
So welcome to another episode of Ask theExperts podcast.
Doctor.
Ellis is the number one breakthroughstrategist.

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He is a global thought leader, a masterspeaker, a coach, and trainer.
Doctor Ellis is the author of GPS My Success.
This is a powerful guide for those who areready to navigate to unlock the highest

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potential.
Doctor Ellis, he works with individuals andorganizations to unlock clarity, purpose, and
an unstoppable, yes, an unstoppable momentum.
Doctor Ellis, welcome.
It's a pleasure to have you on Ask the Expert.

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It's a a pleasure, a privilege, and an honor tobe here as well.
Amazing.
So doctor Ellis, why don't we as as I stated, Iheard you in Vegas.
Your story and it was a very powerful story,and I wanna start off with your story.
I want the audience to get to know you, to getto know about your story.

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So if you can share it then we'll talk aboutyour book and the other questions that I have.
Yeah.
So a little okay.
I got you.
So off the bat I'll say that I believe that oneof the most important things you could possibly
do is discover your purpose.
And I think that is the very thing or the veryreason why God put you here.

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Right?
Many of us are are blessed to be able to walkin our purposes because our purposes not only
affect us but affects everyone who comes intocontact with us.
There's a select few out there that haven'ttaken any time to figure out their purpose, and
then there's the middle ground.
There's the group that knows their purpose butthey lack the courage and the middle fortitude
to walk that thing out because there's gonna bea lot of changes.

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And so for me personally, went through allthree of those stages, but everything shifted
for me back in 02/2017.
See, prior to that date, I heard this powerfulquote by Miles Monroe, and he said the
wealthiest place in the world is a cemetery.
Because when people die, they pack thissuitcase full of goals, dreams, hopes,
ambition, things they supposed to give birth towhen they had time.

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But unfortunately, their time runs out.
And once it gets buried, it never comes back upagain.
Now, like I said before, I didn't really careabout that when I heard it the first time back
when I was 19 years old.
I did in 2017 because that was the year my lifegot flipped upside down, because of a simple
nine millimeter bullet.
I got into an altercation where an individualpulled out a gun, and before I know it, the gun

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goes off.
And that gun struck me directly in my rightkneecap.
And so by the time they admitted me into theER, one of the things the nurses dropped
directly in my lap, she said, hey.
I I don't know the extent of the damage to yourknee right now.
However, we're gonna run you back an x-ray toget a better look.
But there there may be a chance we may have toamputate you from the knee down.

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Right?
And in that moment, I'm sitting there in a at aat a high level of distress because I didn't
think by 02:00 in the afternoon, they would betalking about possibly removing the bottom half
of my leg.
And so as I'm sitting in that ER trying tothink up anything that I can use to hang on to
and grasp onto because I got family and friendson their way to comfort me, give me words of
encouragement, but it's a little bit of timebetween them leaving where they're at and

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making it to where I am in the hospital.
I'm going through my mind for every piece ofwisdom and advice I've ever heard from every
parent, every teacher, every religiousinstitute, and I come across something my
mother had drilled in me from childhood, whichis as a man think of so he is.
Mhmm.
As a man think of so he is.
As a man think of so he is, which means yourthoughts over time will govern your results.

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So I begin to speak out loud.
I'm gonna keep my leg.
I'm gonna keep my leg.
I'm gonna keep my I'm gonna keep my leg.
They run me in the x-ray.
They bring me back out, and they say, yeah.
We got great news.
You are definitely going to keep your leg.
The the it seems that your bone was strongerthan the bullet.
So there's some fractures.
We're gonna have put some screws in your leg tostabilize it.
Right?
You're gonna go through physical therapy forabout six to nine months, but you're definitely

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gonna be able to keep your leg and learn how towalk all over again.
Now believe it or not, that wasn't the pivotalmoment in the story.
The pivotal moment for me, and this I didn'tget a chance to share this with you guys
because we only had two minutes to talk on thatsame thing.
Right.
Yes.
The pivotal part
was waiting on them to transport me from the ERto my own room.
Because because with hospital care in in in TheUS don't don't get me wrong.

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I love our hospital systems.
But the the speed Right.
The efficiency of how they give you your ownroom, you may be in that ER for a little bit of
time.
Right?
Right.
So they have me on medication, so I can't feelany pain.
And I'm looking down at the hole in my legthinking this is gonna be a cool battle story
sometime.
I can tell people I got shot and lived.

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And as I'm sitting there, there's a curtainseparating me from the other patient.
So I can't see what's going on over there, butI can hear everything.
And as I'm sitting there, I eavesdrop and hearthe nurses talk about how this man was 60 years
old.
He was working on his roof, fell off theladder, landed the wrong way.
He's not going to make it.

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They're doing everything they can to get hislast akin there to say their final goodbyes.
And so as I'm sitting up inside my gurney,watching family members cross from my side of
the room and disappear on that side of the roomwhere I can't say anything but I can hear
everything.
Right?
I'm hearing them, talk about how they're gonnamiss each other and how much they love each
other and all the arguments we had whether Iwas right or you were wrong or you were wrong

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and I was right.
It doesn't make a difference because in a fewminutes, you're not gonna be here with us
anymore.
And as I'm listening to that conversation,forgetting about what happened to me early that
day, I hear the voice of God firmly in myheart.
What if that man pulled that trigger a secondtime?
What are the things that you've beencommissioned and designed to do that's not

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gonna get done because you keep thinking yougot all the time in the world?
What I told the audience on that 10 x growthstage is the same thing I'm telling you
listening to the audience right now.
Believe it or not, my story and my message isnot actually about me getting shot.
It's about the fact that the cemetery reignsundefeated year after year because most of us

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walk around with this belief that we got allthe time in the world.
And tomorrow has never been promised.
Yes.
On that stage, I said, I think it is unAmerican for you to discover your purpose and
choose not to walk in it because it's always achoice.
So I think it's time that we rob the graveyardof his greatness.
Let's bankrupt the national GDP of the cemeterybecause what God placed inside of you, it was

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never designed to get buried.
And that was the cusp of the message, to liveyour best life but to live full and die
completely empty.
You're not supposed to bring a suitcase withanything because you're supposed to leave it
all here.
Doctor Ellis, wow.
Wow.
Very powerful.

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Very powerful indeed.
The second time I heard you the first time,very powerful.
And ladies and gentlemen, if this story, justnow what you heard is not powerful, but it has
a lot of meaning, you know, what is yourpurpose?
And if we don't know what is our purpose, I'malluding to your story now.

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If we don't know what is our purpose, how canwe live our full potential?
Because we know what we we know the abilitiesand the capabilities we have to to do so much,
the potential that we have.
Your book, GPS My Success.
Mhmm.

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If you don't know how to unlock your fullpotential in life, you won't get to your
destination.
And I love that so much to know yourdestination.
You know, it's in those moments, though, doctorEllis, that we do we don't know how life
happens.
We don't know in those moments as to, you youknow, what is happening.

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But in order to do that, how can we even get toour success?
So can you expand, elaborate more on that onyour on your book?
Yeah.
So with me originally, I use myself as theblueprint for this.
Right?
Uh-huh.
So with me originally, the way I kinda knewthat I wasn't walking in purpose, I I walked
around with a sense of accomplishment but lackof fulfillment.

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I'm a say that again because somebody didn'tcatch that.
I walked around with a lot of accomplishmentsbut a lack of fulfillment.
Because I was knocking all these things out.
I was achieving all these things and hittingall these benchmarks of success, but then it
was like I still feel like there's an emptyspot that I can't fill up with these different
things.
And what I came to realize is there's a pieceof you that will only feel complete and whole

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when you figure out the very thing you've beenput here to do.
Wow.
Right?
Mhmm.
And so that's where the journey started off at.
And so some of the things that I had to figureout is number one, who am I?
Because until you know who you are and whoseyou are, it's very hard to put yourself into
the right situation or circumstance that cancreate that positive win.
I say a lot of people are spending forty hoursa week with a mismanaged mindset.

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Because a lot of us just jump into occupationsand we don't think about whether or not this
occupation is in alignment with our calling andour purpose.
Right.
We'll chase a paycheck and still feelunfulfilled.
Right?
Not realizing that fulfillment comes fromshifting into what it is you were designed to
do, not what you're here deciding to settle todo.
And a lot of people sell at Jazza because ithas nothing to do with their passion and their
purpose.

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So with me, was figuring out number one, who amI?
Unapologetically.
The authentic version of me.
Not the version that I think is politicallycorrect that's gonna make everybody happy, but
who am I authentically at the core?
Meaning I'm looking for my strengths, but moreimportantly I'm looking for my weaknesses.
Right?
The next thing I'm doing is I'm looking at myGod given gifts, talents, and my expertise.

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Because I don't believe God is gonna give you acalling or an assignment without giving you the
basic resources to pull it
off.
Right.
In other words, if I believe my calling is tospeak all over the world, one of the
prerequisites, God, is I'm gonna have theability to communicate.
I would be horrible at this job if I didn'tknow how to talk.
Right?
Once you can figure out the gift and thetalent, then you have to spend time in the

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trenches mastering it.
You gotta master it.
Bruce Lee says it takes ten thousand hours ofpractice to master a thing.
Bruce Lee also said that I don't fear the manthat knows 10,000 different kicks.
I fear the man that knows one kick that he'spracticed 10,000 different times.
Yeah.
Because if he ever lands that particular kickin a fight, it's game over.

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He has mastered that technique.
And so what happens with a lot of us, we'lldiscover our gift and talent or what we're the
expert at, but we haven't spent time masteringthat thing.
So when we met out of the 10x Growth Con, andthat that auditorium was crazy.
It was
supposed to So much energy.
Yeah.
At at that level of the game, you don't get onthat stage without have mastering your gift and

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your talent.
Right.
Those that got a chance to get on a stage, theyspent time and practice mastering that thing.
So you gotta master it, but then after that,you gotta plan it in the right environment.
Because whatever gift and talent God gave toyou, once you master it, because that mean that
means you have discipline over top of it, thatgift and talent still is not designed to
operate everywhere.
Mhmm.
My favorite animal is a cheetah.

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Cheetahs run at 70 mile per hour speed.
They can do that on African terrain and soil.
They can't run 70 miles per hour on arctic iceand snow.
So that means proximity to the rightenvironment gives me power.
Wow.
I
gotta know what's best what the bestenvironment for my gift.
If you look at Michael Phelps, he will go downin history as one of the greatest Olympic

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athletes for swimming.
You don't see him out there on the track andfield.
You don't see him out there throwing thejavelin or the discus throw.
He's in the water because that is theenvironment for his gift and that's why he
dominates in it.
You gotta figure out what is my environment.
And then last but not least, which is one ofthe most important ones, you gotta be in
control of the gift.
Because the person that controls your gift willtypically control not only your payday, but

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your lifestyle or the lack thereof if you'renot careful.
So I wanna know that I'm in control of the giftso that way I can dictate what my gift is
actually worth versus somebody telling me whatit's actually worth.
And that's how that's that's how my journey gotstarted.
I applied those four things once I understoodthe direction I wanted to go in, and I was
aware of the gift.

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Exactly.
Know your gifts.
Know your talents.
And, you know, keep working at that because wecan all master anything that we want, you know,
speaking, anything.
But you gotta be disciplined.
You gotta be motivated enough and practicemany, many hours and many times in front of the
mirror if you wanna get into speaking.

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You wanna be the best in the world.
My next question.
Sure.
A lot of people want to be the best in theworld.
Right?
In your opinion, what makes an individualnumber one in the world, or what makes an
individual number one in what they do?
So when it comes to the topic of number one,best in the world, I don't think that any of

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the greats out there that do it, I don't thinkthey look at themselves as the best in the
world.
Mhmm.
Here's my problem.
And I see this happen in in the mentor menteegame a lot where you you have your mentor, have
your mentee, and your mentee is studying tocatch up to you.
Right?
And if they think about possibly surpassingyou, which they do, they're number one.

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But where is it to go from there?
Right.
Right?
Mhmm.
I look at a life of longevity and a life oflegacy, which means that and I got this also
from my mentor, Les Brown.
There's no such thing as a perfect speech.
In other words, the speech that I haven't givenyet, that will hopefully be my next best
speech.
But I will never look at my work as somethingthat's perfected because there's always room

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for growth.
Right.
The problem happens with a lot of us, we thinkwe hit mastery and perfection and we shut down
the ability to evolve.
The one thing I have learned from the dinosaursis if you don't evolve, you'll eventually die.
That happens not only with our finances, thathappens with our education, that happens with
our gifts and talents.
As the world begins to shift, I have to figureout how do I evolve myself and everything

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connected with me so I can elevate on a newplatform.
With the current shift we're in right now, withthe administration in this country, and with
the rules and the laws and the things that arechanging, there are a lot of people that have
not prepared themselves to evolve and transformto fit the new shift.
And those are some of the ones that will beleft behind in this transition.

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And transition also, I you know, with as wetalk about, you know, changes that are
happening, changes globally, economically, andalso changes AI.
You know, artificial intelligence is here tostay.
If we don't adapt to using AI in ourbusinesses, we are gonna get left behind.

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And so that's one thing we we just don't wannado.
It doesn't matter how fearful you might be.
Most people are thinking, well, is AI gonnareplace me?
Well, in certain businesses, yes, you will bereplaced, but you gotta adapt to it.
That's right.
You gotta learn everything yes.

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I I call it the double a.
I I say you gotta adapt and you gotta adopt.
Adapt to what's coming and you have to adopt itbecause it there's no way around it.
Right?
Right.
Yeah.
And some of these jumps to where because we'vebeen hit with so much over the last decade
alone.
Like if you just think about how the worldshifted after COVID shut everything down,

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there's a lot of things we do now that weweren't doing before COVID.
Yes.
And it made life simpler so we're not goingbackwards.
So there's a lot of industries that findthemselves in trouble because they can't go
back to business as normal, but they didn'tprepare to shift.
They didn't prepare to shift.
Exactly.
Adapt and adopt.
Yes.
I love that.
So, doctor Ellis, mentally, when people saythat they wanna be the best in the world, they

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want to, you know, they wanna achieve so muchin life, mentally, what do people need to do in
order to strive to to be the best and achievethe success that they want?
Mentally, what do they have to do?
Yeah.
So I think there are are three things I wouldfocus on.

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Right?
And it's something I I've I've taught aroundthe world called the VSM matrix.
The VSM matrix.
And this trifecta really focuses on threethings.
Number one is setting the right vision.
Mhmm.
One of my favorite scriptures in the book oflife says write the vision and make it plain.
When I wrote my best selling book GPS MySuccess, it was based on the concept of vision.
A GPS is a vision machine.

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Where in the world do you wanna go?
So the very first thing to being the best, Ithink it starts with vision.
And the more specific the vision, the greaterthe chance you'll rise to the top.
In other words, as a speaker, I can speak abouta multitude of topics, but there's only a few
select topics that's gonna take me to the top.
Right?
So I wanna be specific about what not what, butwhere I'm trying to get to.

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Then once I understand the vision, the nextthing is what's the strategy?
Meaning, I could be out here all day longtwiddling my thumbs or is there a specific set
of action steps that I'm gonna take day in andday out to get a positive result?
Or for the person that may not be picking upwhat I'm putting down in the words of Myron
Goulton, if you've ever played football orwatched football, when the offensive team goes

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into the huddle between downs, they're notthere just shooting the breeze, talking about
anything and everything.
They are trying to figure out what strategy dowe wanna run when we come out of this huddle
that's gonna get us a minimum of 10 yards downthe field.
Why 10?
Because 10 is all we need to get a first downto keep the ball in play.
10 yards at a time, 10 yards at a time.
So what is my strategy that I've that thatthat's connected to my vision that's gonna take

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me up the field 10 yards at a time?
So often we think about the football gameswhere they're sensationalized because there's
zero seconds the clock.
There's no time outs.
The the the the the team you wanna win is downby, like, five points or something goofy.
And everybody goes deep.
The quarterback goes back and throws the longbomb downfield, and everybody's running with

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their hands open.
And then they catch it with no time on theclock and everybody goes crazy.
Right?
Those are the plays that we call miracles.
But in the in the in the aspect of what we'retalking about here, right, for strategy, you
don't have to throw long bombs to get to theend zone.
10 yards at a time.
What am I doing every day or every week thatmoves me just a minimum of 10 yards closer to

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my to my finish line, to my to my end zone.
Right?
And then once I understand the strategy and Iput it on repeat, then I wanna find the mentor.
Right.
That's the person who's been there, done that,they understand what I'm trying to do.
They could possibly show me shortcuts that'llget me there quicker and faster, and most
importantly, I will learn from theirchallenges, their setbacks, their failures,

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their defeats, because I'm a walk on the sameline as you, I'm a come to same hurdles and
challenges as you.
And I don't wanna be stuck there for five yearsif your accumulated wisdom can get me past that
in seven days.
Right?
Yes.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Having a mentor, you know, gets you to thatshortcut.
Gets you to that shortcut, whatever you wannaachieve, whatever you wanna go, having a mentor

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will allow you to do that.
And, also, what I love, you talked about youknow, also what I read is not being perfect,
but it's the progress to, you know, having that1%, being that 1% closer to your goals.
And I what what I do in my life personally, II'd like to measure.

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Where am I today, and where do I wanna go?
And what are those steps that I am taking?
So I'm measuring my yardstick every day that isgonna allow me to see, oh, wow.
You know, I've made this progress.
So I used to be I used to be on the verge ofbeing perfect.
But there's no such thing as being perfect.

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But just put your like, you're on social media,it's don't make it perfect.
Just put it out there.
Just put your content.
There you go.
There you go.
Yep.
Figure it out as you go.
Figure it out you Figure it out as you gobecause, you know, you always will.
So as entrepreneurs, we will do that.
Doctor Ellis, what are the markers that you canshare with us that you have used in your

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business to build the sustainable brand?
What would you say are the markers that youwould have used?
But you okay.
So I couldn't hear the first part.
I think you you asked me what are the markers?
Yeah.
What are the markers?
Yes.
Markers?
Okay.
For building my brand.
So number one, you want to first of all makesure your brand is something that's important.

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Because a lot of people get out there and theypush a product or a service that nobody's asked
for.
The number one rule of money to me isunderstanding that the reward for solving a
problem is your payday.
So if I know what my gift and my talent is, ifI know what my expertise is, who around me is
in need of what it is I have to offer?

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Like the biggest tragedy I saw, because I I'vebeen in corporate America and I've an
entrepreneur for twenty years, the biggesttragedy that I saw was a lot of us growing up
in school, we weren't really pushed towardentrepreneurship.
And there's nothing wrong with working a job.
Don't get me wrong.
Right?
But I feel like I got more freedom with mylife.
I can chase my purpose of calling quicker andfaster when I'm in the driver's seat.

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Right?
There's something to be said when you're insidea car.
If you're not if you're not behind the wheelwith the keys, you're riding shotgun, and you
don't control where the vehicle goes.
You're at the mercy of the driver.
So your goal is always to have the keys and notbe waiting on someone to let you out or take
you here or take you there.
You wanna be in control of it.

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Yeah.
Number one, I wanna figure out how am I goingto monetize what it is I do.
Where's the money gonna come from?
Like who is in need of what I the solution thatI could sell or I can offer?
Right?
And then number two, have I spent time sharingwhat I do with the world to create a level of
expertise?
I'm amazed how many people I see on socialmedia that have a gift, have a talent, have

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expertise, have a product or service, but theydon't pummel it into people's minds every day
to remind them that this is what I do.
People get on social media and they accusethem, I condemn you of being the best kept
secret that no one has ever heard of.
They'll spend more time showing other people'smeans and motivation, and will spend no time
telling the world what you do exceptionallywell.

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Mhmm.
So how can I utilize you to solve my problemand reward you with money if I don't know that
you solved that problem?
So the second thing is I will spend a lot oftime putting as much content out as possible to
remind the world what I'm known for and what Ido exceptionally well.
There is a John Maxwell leadership principlethat I love, but I kinda took it and tweaked on

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it.
John Maxwell says leadership is influence,nothing more, nothing less.
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothingNow I I I had to remix a little bit.
I said leadership, influence, opportunity.
Because when you spend your time showing theworld what you are good at, you become known as
a leader at that.
And that's what you want.
Right?
The more people see you as a leader, the moreinfluence you create over the world.

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People start to do things differently becausethey spend time listening to you or they took
your thoughts into accountability.
Right?
And the more influence you create, the moreopportunities start to knock on your door and
come to you.
You're not supposed to be up every day outthere chasing opportunities every five seconds.
There should be a point in your growth whereyou are so well known that the opportunities

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are now chasing you down.
Right.
Right?
Yes.
But that doesn't happen until I let the worldknow what I'm a leader at doing.
If I'm a leader in motivation and breakthrough,that's my job to remind the world every single
day.
There shouldn't be a day I get up where I'm notreminding the world what I do because the goal
is for one person to take a look and say, Wehave needed this person's products and

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services.
The question is how much do the products andservices cost and can we afford that?
Right?
But you gotta show up every day.
Exactly.
Being consistent.
Being consistent every day to you know, withour messaging.
You know, having a sustainable brand is onething.
I mean, that's not the logo.

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Your brand is not just your logo.
Yeah.
Your brand is more than
yeah.
Yeah.
It's it's it's it's your images, everythingthat's connected to you.
Like I see a lot of people put a lot of a lotof energy into the logo.
But I always felt like me as the person, theface of the brand, I can carry more weight than

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just showing you a symbol.
Because in essence, I am the symbol.
Right?
So the goal for anyone is to be the number one,to be likable.
Like, you wanna be a likable brand.
You wanna have a likable be around me muggingand looking at people ugly all day, you know.
You wanna you wanna have a likable brand wherepeople want to do business.
They wanna listen to you.

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They wanna buy into what it is you have tooffer and sell.
So I think number one is this likabilityfactor.
Right?
Exactly.
The likability.
But having a sustainable brand, a brand initself, like you said, as an entrepreneur, as
the leader of the brand
Mhmm.
You have to you you gotta show up.

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Yes.
You gotta show up.
You gotta be consistent with your messaging.
You gotta show up.
You've got to let people know what you do.
But, also, I read that, you know, how peoplehow brands or companies can fade.
They can fade away only because they eitherthey were, like we said, you know, AI, they

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were afraid to go digital to be in that space.
Yeah.
Companies did not want to try.
And, you know, Amazon, these big companies justtook over, and so the retail space is actually
dying.
But then some of the brands and especially whenyou're starting out, you've got to you've gotta
be consistent.
You've you've got to show.

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And, yes, absolutely.
I I, you know, agree with you.
You've got to you've got you can't beinvisible.
You gotta be visible to the world so peopleknow you, and that's how they're gonna like and
then trust your your products as to what you'reoffering.
Mhmm.
I agree.
I totally agree with that.

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Exactly.
I'm a big fan of reinvention from time to timetoo.
Sometimes I think you have to reinvent yourselfto keep your brand a little edgy and little bit
fresh.
Exactly.
Otherwise, yeah, you you to.
Everything's constant.
You gotta be constantly evolving.
And let's talk about leadership.
And, you know, leadership, what they stand forand leadership, the feedbacks.

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And I'm more I wanna talk more so aboutfeedbacks.
How important is feedback to an organization?
So the feedbacks that we get from theleadership of the organization to the team
members, to peers, or coaches?
How important is feedback that we receive, theinput that we are getting?

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How important is feedback, and what can we doso that we are improving the organization as a
whole?
Sure.
So I think that when it comes to growth,feedback is actually I will say the second most
important thing.
The first most important thing
is action.
Because you can know you go in a differentdirection, taking no action have no results.

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Right?
Uh-huh.
But feedback is the second part of that becauseI can be taking action.
Right?
But I can also be taking action in the wrongdirection.
Right.
Right?
So I wanna make sure that my actions are inalignment with growth, and that's where
feedback comes into place.
I look at feedback like an autopsy report.
TD Jakes, a few years back when he released oneof his best selling books, he talked about why

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it was so important to have the autopsy beforeyou bury the body.
And the reason why this is so important,because we wanna understand the exact reason
why this thing died.
We gotta know so that way we can fight it inthe future or pop or possibly prevent it from
spreading.
So you never wanna say goodbye to something andgo in a new direction without first doing an

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autopsy report to figure out what caused ourslowdown, what caused things to die down.
Otherwise, what'll happen is we'll end up,dying down the road from the same thing that we
could have figured out if we just got feedbackand paid attention to what was necessary.
Right?
So I think that's the second thing that'svaluable after action.
But, I think when it comes to organization andthis is gonna be different across the spectrum

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because I've I've talked to a lot oforganizations, some big organizations, some
smaller organizations.
But given the employee the mindset that theiropinion and their and their their concepts, it
counts.
A lot of times the folks that are out there onthe floor, they don't realize or they don't
feel that their feedback will make a differenceor change anything.

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We get orders for the day, we do this for eighthours, we're done.
So they don't believe.
So the other thing is making the entirecompany, the entire team feel like their input
is not only necessary, but it's there to make adecidable difference.
People back stuff they believe in.
It's the reason why people show up to voteevery four years.
They believe that their vote counts, and theywant their vote to count.

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So I think the same thing happens here.
If you want necessary change, and you wantauthentic answers, you know, give give the give
the team the belief, the the the understanding,the mindset that you're a part of this.
Right?
And we're all here together.
Absolutely.
Exactly.
Would you say in those moments when, you know,a leader, a supervisor, manager of the company

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that that, you know, everyone's rallying aroundas to how you can improve culture?
And I also think culture is important to anorganization, but the culture stems from the
leadership, stems from the hierarchy.
Right?
And so if we have a conducive organization, theleadership how the leadership is run as a

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whole, how can they improve the culture?
So I think culture also matters as to Sure.
The employees.
They're gonna be more productive most you know,if you're not productive, you may
procrastinate.
How important is culture mentally in anindividual given the work performance that, you

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know, is very important to them?
But how can they improve their tasks if they'renot so if they're not mentally in that right
space, if they're not motivated to to performbetter?
Yeah.
So I I love that question because this istaking me back to my corporate days when I

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manage teams.
And one of the reasons why my teams absolutelyoutperformed every other team in the
organization was because before I just jumpedin the leadership role, I wanted to understand
the culture of my team.
It was not to change the culture of the teambecause the culture of the team as it was right
there was their most effective version of them.
Right?

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My job wasn't to change that.
In other words, I'm sitting here holding thisoak tree seed.
Right?
And in order for this seed to transform intothe only thing it's designed to be, this seed
is only designed to turn into an oak tree.
Right?
The transformation only takes place when it'splanted in the right soil.
Right.
I can leave this seed on my desk for ten years.
It'll never turn into what it's designed to be.

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It only happens when I plant in the right soil.
So as a leader, my team, my squad, my staff,they're seed.
And my job in order to get the fruit out ofthem, I wanna make sure I put them in the best
environment possible that's gonna producemaximum growth.
Right.
That's the leader's job to set the temperatureand the tone for that.
Right?
And then once that happens and you consistentlywater with praise and admiration and validation

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and let them know that you support them, thatyou back them, instead of barking orders, let
them be part of them, lead firm, firmly to bepart of them.
You'll see magnificent growth every singletime.
But it's always remembering this is seed.
What soil is best to get the growth out thatteam?
Can you live without feedback?
How important is feedback, and can people livewithout feedback?

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And how would that affect an individual if youif they don't want to have the feedback, for
example?
Yeah.
So I think that if you are a leader, bydefault, you should already sign the dotted
line, for personal development and professionalgrowth.
Like, that's unnecessary.
I don't know any leader that could be aneffective leader that's not willing to grow

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over time.
I've got two trees in my yard right now.
One is healthy and alive with a bunch ofbranches and leaves, and the other one, the
same height is dead.
It is dead.
They're side by side.
Now during the wintertime when all the leavesare off the tree, they both look like they're
dead because they look similar.
The only way I know this one is alive and thisone is dead is this one is still growing, this

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one stopped growing.
The leader that stops growing here is the samething as that dead tree.
You don't produce anything.
And after a while, you become brittle andyou're easy to break.
And when I say break, break means when you putleadership under pressure, under the wrong
situation and circumstances, you will see abreak come through.
And we've seen that play out, literally acouple times in this past year where people in

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leadership roles where they broke under thepressure because they stopped growing.
Right?
Mhmm.
So if you wanna be the best leader, you have toalways be in the mindset that I'm never done
growing.
I'm always reading up on the craft ofleadership.
I'm always studying other better, brighterleaders because you become what you think
about.
Right.
Yeah.
Exactly.

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That is so so powerful.
So true.
When it comes to our past, GPS, input of yourlife that gets to your destination Yes.
In life, we have two paths, easy or hard.
When life becomes hard, in those momentsmentally I mean, I like to be under pressure

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because when I'm under pressure, I know for mepersonally, I can do I can do so much better.
I can perform.
I I I'm so much better as if I'm not.
Can you share with us the strategies to ourviewers?
If you are choosing the two paths today
Mhmm.

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What are the implications mentally that you areaffirming to yourself?
Wow.
Okay.
So I'm I'm a I'm a tackle this question, butI'm a tackle.
Because I'm an analogy guy.
I love using analogy because I know theaudience will get it no matter what happens.
This thing go over to and so I'm a selfproclaimed gym rat.

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I'm a workout for I'm in the gym at least fivedays out of the week.
Right?
And, what I noticed is if I wanna get strongerto lift something very, heavy, I have to put on
muscle.
So in order to do that, I can't go in the gymand and try to bench press a 20 pound barbell
and think I'm a put on some serious musclegain.

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Right?
It's too light.
I gotta lift something that's heavier than mycomfortability.
Yeah.
So I go to lift maybe 250 pounds on the on therack.
Right?
And and and I may be a little bit worried aboutgetting crushed by the weight, but I can always
find a strong guy in this gym and say, hey,brother.
You might come over here and spot me to help melift this weight so I can manage this weight.

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And what I'm saying here, number one, is if youwant to be great, you you can't be great by
going easy.
If I wanna
put on muscle, I gotta be willing mentally tosay I'm willing to tackle lifting the heavier
weight.
And we live in a society that loves easythings, but that's why they don't have
sustainable growth.
So number one, I have to be mentally ready andtell myself I'm ready to lift heavy.

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It doesn't mean I gotta do it on my own.
So in case we're looking at the idea of megetting this big buck dude to spot me so I
don't drop the weight on me when it gets tooheavy, Your accountability partner because
that's who that is has to be somebody thatwants to see you get bigger, wants to see you
get stronger.
For some of you that's your significant other,for some of you that's your family and your
close friends, but you need to make sure thatyou're not trying to lift weight that's too

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heavy that you're fearful of.
Make sure you got someone on your team who isspotting you, holding you accountable in times
of turmoil, holding you accountable in yourbest times and your worst times so you don't
chicken out from the process.
That's number one.
Number two, after I lift heavy, number two, Igotta eat the right food.

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If I lift heavy in the gym and I wanna put onmuscle, I can't eat junk food to do that.
I can't go have cookies and and Twinkies andZingers and put on muscle.
I need protein.
Right?
So that means I'm gonna eat chicken breast andsteak and fish, all the protein needed to put
that muscle on.
Now what that means is if I wanna be great, ifI wanna have lasting success, as kids when we

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grew up, we heard you are what you eat In thephysical sense, but in the mental sense.
So what am I consuming brainpower wise?
Who am I listening to?
What books am I reading about the arena I wannadominate in?
Because this is what I should be feeding thismuscle so it grows stronger.
That's number two.
Then the last and final piece when I land aplane is all about rest.

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When I go to the gym and I lift heavy, like I'mcurling heavy, I don't put on muscle in real
time.
When I go to eat that steak, I don't pop poppop put on muscle in real time.
I put on muscle when I sleep because the bodyis repairing itself at rest.
This is a lesson for somebody right now becauseyou have to lift heavy in order to get what you

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want.
It's gonna be uncomfortable.
You have to feed yourself the right things youneed sustain you.
But there are moments, seasons, and cycleswhere you have to put stuff down and step into
a period of rest because your growth comes,where you're able to put everything down and
internalize what journey you just gone throughand what steps will actually take you to the
next level.
And for some of you out there, the reason whyGod has not blessed you with that thing you

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asked for is not because he's not gonna do it.
He's looking at you and saying, the blessingI'm trying to give to you, you're not strong
enough to lift that.
You not you're not strong enough.
You can't dead lift this.
You can't bench press this.
It is so big and so heavy that you in yourcurrent form, you can't handle this.
So I need you to get your faith into alignmentand strengthen your faith muscle.

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Wow.
The stronger your faith, the bigger yourdesire.
There was a moment in time where I had littlefaith, and so I was walking this planet saying
my speaking fee was $500 for an hour.
Right?
I had little faith, so I got little reward,little return.
When I got big faith, I started saying myspeaking fee is $20,000 an hour.

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And it was my faith that dictated what Iactually received.
But I couldn't get under the weight of $20,000an hour until my mental muscles and my faith
muscle was strong enough to lift it.
I could lift the 500 easy.
That 20,000 for an hour, that's a hard one tolift.
Get your faith into alignment.
Get into the gym.
Start asking for things by faith and goingafter them.

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And as you progress on success, you'll getstronger and start asking for bigger things.
I love that.
Very powerful.
Love it.
Affirming is one thing.
Affirm affirming to yourself what you want.
Again, I wanna get stronger.
I wanna get I wanna have successful business,but we can affirm all day long.

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Sure.
Having a faith to go alongside as to whatyou're affirming, as to what you want is also
but for individuals who are doing everythingand they're affirming as to what the the
success they want, the GPS, how their life isdetermined or destined to be.
Mhmm.

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How easy is that for most individuals?
Because some people, for some, it may not beeasy.
How can they achieve?
What what are the strategies?
What do they need to do in order to have whatthey want, what you've just said, have your
faith be aligned with your actions?

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Yeah.
So in the GPS mythology, there's only fivethings we're focused on.
Number one, we're setting an address inside ourlife's GPS.
Everybody here understands GPS technology.
You know it only works when you know where youwant to go.
So that means you're responsible for puttingthe address inside the GPS of where you want
your life to take you to.
Right.
Right?
Mhmm.
Make no mistakes about it.

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If you don't put an address in the GPS, itstill will take you somewhere.
It's it's the it's the destination callednowhere.
You won't do anything with your life.
So you wanna be clear, write your vision, makeit plain.
So that's number one.
Number two, you wanna move with clarity overconfusion.
A confused mind will always say no.
So the more clear you are about what it is youwant, where it is you wanna be, how much you
wanna make, what it is you wanna do on the timeframe, the quicker and faster your subconscious

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mind starts to create a blueprint or a gameplan to get you there.
Like, I'm amazed how many people don't realizethis.
The more clear you are about a goal, it comesquicker and faster.
You start to spot opportunities around you thatwere in plain sight all this time, but because
you weren't clear on what you wanted, how comeI didn't see that before?
It's always been there.
Right?
So the more clear I am, the more I avoidconfusion and slowdown.

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Number three, I wanna be properly connected.
And what that means is with GPS, technology ispretty simple.
As long as I got a strong WiFi on my GPS and itconnects to that that telephone pole, that
telephone pole hits that satellite, that GPSwill take me anywhere I wanna go.
Right?
And and this works the same exact way here,which is if I'm using my GPS to get me to my

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finish line, who do I need to connect or tapinto that's gonna be a powerful resource that's
gonna get me to my finish line quicker andfaster?
Meaning, the education that I need to absorb,the coaches, the mentors, the friendships, the
organizations.
Right?
Even the mentors or the mentoring.
Because I think with some people, their lack ofgrowth is not because they don't have mentors

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in their life, but they're also not mentoringother people.
Some point in time, you gotta pour out what youknow in other people.
You can't take it with you.
That's the whole message of of arriving at yourgraves empty and leaving that suitcase behind.
You gotta be willing to pour it out.
That's the law of tithing.
Right?
But even with a GPS, it can always get caughtup in what we call the dead zone.
And a dead zone is that space where you loseyour signal, and so you're driving blind for

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three to five seconds because there's noconnection.
If you're not careful, you'll shoot right pastyour exit ramp.
Right?
Because you lost the signal.
So I challenge people to say who, what, andwhere are the dead zones in your life right
now.
Because for some people understand out of myvoice, their dead zones are they families and
they friends.
Never have a word of encouragement.
Never wanna see you do big things.

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Uh-huh.
We'll give you 10 reasons why you can't do it,but won't give you one reason why you can.
Yeah.
Those types of folks, when I get around them, Ilose my signal and I lose my way.
So if I know where the dead zones are in in mylife, my job is to steer clear.
So I wanna keep a strong signal so I can stayfocused.
Right?
So we got the dead zones.
And then number four, we gotta be willing torecalculate.

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No matter how many times I've used my GPS, if Imake a wrong turn because I was distracted off
on la la land, or if I'm driving down thestreet and the road is blocked off, or it's
traffic or an accident, the GPS doesn't saylet's call the quits and go back home.
The GPS begins to recalculate and reroute otherways to get to the finish line.
May cost me a little bit more time.

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It may cost me a little bit more gas, but youbest believe if I follow the blueprint, if I
follow the game plan, if I follow the road, ifI follow the directions and instructions, I
will get to my finish line.
Most people lose because they are so hell benton thinking there's only one way to get there.
And they don't understand there's a multitudeof ways to get to your finish line.
But you have to be open to receive it.

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Right?
Right.
And then last not least, you gotta check thehistory log.
If I were to ask you for your GPS right now andI go to the history log, it's gonna tell me
every address you went to since you owned thatGPS unless you erased the history log, it's
gonna show me.
And that tells me one key thing.
Where your focus goes, your energy flows.

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So if you are focused on going to thosedestinations, that's where your energy is at.
The big dilemma I see with a lot of people whenit comes to their personal, their life GPS, if
I look at the history law, the history log isfull of addresses that belong to everybody
else.
The jobs address is in there, family andfriends address is in there, the church's
address is in there, the the homeownersassociation.
Like, you chasing all these people's thing.

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Where's your where's your address?
Is it the goals and dreams God gave to you?
I don't see them in your GPS, which means youain't been going there.
You are guilty of cheating on your goals anddreams because you're chasing everybody else's
agenda.
And that's powerful.
That is so powerful.
Right?
That is So that's
the five step methodology.
Yeah.
That's the five steps right there, but thathistory log is important.

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That is very powerful.
Wow.
That so amazing.
Yeah.
The GPS absolutely you could have put thecoordinates in in order to go to destination.
If you don't put the coordinates in, it's justlike, you know, you're sailing on a ship.
You're the captain of the ship.
If you don't punch in where the ship is going,it's gonna hit the iceberg perhaps, like the

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Titanic.
But perhaps that that's what happens.
If you don't put put the coordinates in in whenyou're driving, you you don't put in the in the
the satellite as to where you're going, where'sthe destination.
You you're just gonna go anywhere.
So absolutely just love this.
Very powerful.
Doctor Krum, you help individuals andorganizations to help unlock their highest

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potential.
Mhmm.
Were there moments in your career that you'veseen individuals who had the highest potential,
but for some reason, they did not meet theirpotential?
Has that been have you seen that happen in yourcareer?
And how can as viewers listen, how can theyavoid?

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Or what what what what mental state do theyneed to be in to achieve the potential that
they're that they have?
Yeah.
So I love these questions.
Right?
So there's two things I've seen.
So I gotta give it two ways.
Right?
Yes.
Number one, impostor syndrome stop people frompersonal greatness.
Wow.
Uh-huh.
Right.
I'm a use a biblical story.
Know we got people here from all types ofthings.

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I'm not Yes.
Prefer nobody, but I love these stories.
Right?
Go ahead.
Yes.
We we we see prior to the Hebrews walking intotheir promised land when they got freed from
bondage from pharaoh.
The thing that stood between them and theirpromised land was they they found out the
promised land was full of giants, and they werefearful.
Two spies said, let's go.
The other one said, no.

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Right?
And and the thing that blew my mind the most isthey were so fearful of the giants, but they
never once asked themselves if rumors of themhad made it to the giants' doorsteps and how
the giants look at them.
Wow.
What people don't understand is from thejourney from from coming out of slavery all the
way to the promised land, they were getting inbattles against different tribes and wiping

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them out.
They were wiping enemies out.
We don't know if rumors got back to the giants,that there's this band of Hebrews coming and
they taking out in in the giants' eyes, theymay have seen them as giants.
Right?
Imposter syndrome stopped so many people.
I was a victim of imposter syndrome.
Because I would look at all the greats that Iwas around and say, I have the moxie to be up

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here with these greats, to be able to be on astage with a Les Brown?
Right?
Impostor syndrome is there to keep you fromplaying full out.
So number one, I wanna be clear about who I amand who who I wanna be clear about whose I am
and who I am.
Because until you see yourself as a giant,you'll never walk, talk, and act like a giant.

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I'll say that again.
And two, you see yourself as a giant.
And I don't care what level of your journeythat you at.
I don't care if you just started yesterday.
See yourself as a giant now.
Right?
Mhmm.
Your thoughts produce results, and that's whatis key.
If you go into battle thinking I'm a mouse, I'ma mouse, I'm a mouse, that's what you're gonna
show up as.
So to beat impostor syndrome, I have to get incontrol of this.

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That's number one.
But the second thing came from my personalmentor, mister Les Brown.
He said don't let your character take you to aheight no.
I'm sorry.
He said don't let your success take you to aheight that your character can't sustain you.
Say that Don't let your success take you to aheight that your character can't sustain you.
That the prisons are full of politicians andand and pro ball players that had all the

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talent in the world that rose them to the top.
But it was the character that caused the mightyfall, caught up in scandal and all types of
things they shouldn't have done, and theydeprived the world of what what they gifted
talent had the potential and the possibility todo.
Right?
So I think that's the second thing is alwaysmaintain your character.
And you sharpen your character based on who youchoose to hang around.

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Exactly.
Well, you're you're the you're the five peoplethat you do hang around with, and those
individuals that you hang around with is whoyou become.
Yep.
It's who you become.
Hey,
Jim Rome.
Absolutely.
Exactly.
The five people that you hang around with arethe most powerful.

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So know as to who, you know, you are hangingaround with that's gonna infiltrate the
positivity because there's just so muchnegativity that's just happening, and people
are just misusing as to what is happeningaround the world that really affects their
mind.
And as a result, they're not able to focus intheir, you know, in in their jobs.

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So this is yeah.
So your final question, doctor Ellis, and thishas been such a powerful conversation.
Wow.
It's just absolutely just amazing.
Your final question, what are the three lifelessons that we can learn from of all the
accomplishments that you've had thus far?

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What are the three life lessons that you canshare with us?
So the first life lesson would be figure outyour purpose as fast as you can.
The first life lesson is figure out yourpurpose as fast as you can.
The most valuable resource we have is notmoney.

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Money is an idea.
You are one idea away from all the money youever want or desire, but you gotta give birth
to it up here, which means I have to getmentally knocked up or mentally pregnant with
the right idea, give birth to it, and then seethat thing to fruition.
Right?
One of the wealthy millionaires that I hadtalked about on stage many years ago was the
creator of the pet rock.
And I remember asking my parents for pet rock,my father said, you think I'm gonna take you to

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the toy store and spend $15 on a rock?
You got all the rocks you want in the backyard.
You can have a rock family reunion.
You better get out there and pick some
of those
rocks up.
Right?
But this man took a rock, put it aside a acardboard crate, put some hay inside of it and
some twine to to create a leash on a rock andcalled it the pet rock.

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It was the Beanie Baby craze before the BeanieBabies came out.
Oh, wow.
So
all was an idea.
Right.
That's all the you gotta give birth to it.
Stop taking your best ideas and giving it toother people so they can get rich and start
putting faith behind your best idea that Godgave to you.
So that would be the first thing right there.
Right?
Number two is I'm gonna say mentorship.

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I'm gonna say mentorship.
Because if we're everything we're doing isbased on time.
On my last day when I get before God, I'm inbecause I I I I've already accepted everything
so I'm in.
Right?
But there will be judgment on what I did andwhat I didn't do when I was here.
Wow.
Maybe I gave you a gift I gave you a talent.
What did you do with it?

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Yes.
What was the rate of return?
In the world of investing when you invest insomething you want a greater rate of return
than what your investment was that went intoit.
Non performing assets get dropped.
So if I have a gift and a talent and Iunderstand the direction of my purpose and
calling there's now accountability andresponsibility to did you use this gift to the
best of your ability or did you half ass it ordid you ignore it.

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Right.
So number two, I wanna be clear about thatbecause I wanna be a good steward of what I
have.
Right?
And then number three, I'm gonna say live alife that lacks regrets.
I'm gonna say live a life that lacks regrets.
I think that most of us are afraid to be ourauthentic selves because of the conditions and

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the conditioning that we've been subjugated toall our lives.
One of my favorite books from Napoleon Hill iscalled Interview with the Devil and in this
particular book he has somehow subdued Satan,Right?
And Satan is forced to give all truths.
He cannot lie at whatever Napoleon asks him,and this is in a dream.
And he starts to ask him certain things.

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And Satan says the reason why this planet is soamok is because 90% of what you think is fact
is also is is actually somebody's well placedbelief opinion.
Some of it is lie.
But since we receive it from figures around usthat we believe have a authoritative
standpoint.
Parental figures, teachers, parents, we justreceive without question and it becomes the

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formation of our new truth.
Mhmm.
So if I grew up in a household where I wastaught that being rich is evil, stay humble,
live below your means, you don't need all thesetrappings of success, money is the root of all
evil, which so many people mess up, that's notthe case, it's the love of money.
If I love money more than the God that gives methe ability to get it, I have idolized it,

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right?
But my truth comes from the environment that myseed was planted in.
And if I don't like my results, oftentimes I'mrecalled to go back and do something painful,
which is go to the place the seed was buried,remove the seed, and then replant it in a clear
environment where I can learn it all formyself.

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A lot of times we think we know everything weneed to know.
We we haven't even scratched the surface of itbecause a lot of our thoughts are tainted based
on the environment.
When I decided to jump into entrepreneurship, Iloved my nine to five friends and buddies, but
I had to take my seed and plant it over herearound other entrepreneurs because that soil
was tainted for what it is I was trying to do.
They couldn't see the sacrifice, but they alsocouldn't understand what the success was gonna

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look like.
It was nothing against them, but it was all onme to say I deserve better for myself.
So that means it's up to me to question thenorms.
And we can do that.
We can we can look at stuff that doesn't makesense to us and challenge it.
That's the good thing about being alive.
You can challenge what you don't like.
Right?
If you wanna develop the two point o version ofyourself.
So that would be my third thing.

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Absolutely.
So powerful.
This has been such an amazing conversation, avery powerful conversation.
So so glad to have you on the podcast today,doctor Ellis.
And thank you so much to each and every one ofyou who who have tuned in on the show today.
Doctor Ellis, how can we find you?
Where can we connect with you?

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Well, I'm glad you asked.
So at this point in time, I am literally allover social media.
Especially after that con after that contest,I'm viral at this point in time.
I mean, I was
always kinda I'm sure you must be.
The one one site has over 2,000,000 views onthat two minute talk.
Amazing.
Yeah.
But to find me, you can go to my website atwww.kareemellis.com.

(58:09):
Kareem ellis Com.
I'm on every social media platform fromLinkedIn to Instagram to TikTok.
So if you do a Google search, you'll find methere.
I'm also on YouTube under Kareem Ray Ellis.
So you can find me everywhere.
The one thing I would do I would love to dothough is I would love to bless your listeners
and your viewers with the free gift just forthem giving us the most viable resource in the

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world which is their time.
They gave their time to watch this today so Ilove to honor them.
So if you are following me on Instagram and ifyou go over to Instagram and say that you heard
me on this podcast today I'm only gonna giveyou seventy two hours.
Seventy two.
Don't come to me.
It's hour seventy four, seventy five.
Seventy two hours is the cutoff.
Go to me on Instagram.

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Follow me.
Send me a DM saying you heard this powerfulpodcast, and my team will give you a free
digital copy of my best selling book GPS mysuccess, which is what we just talked about.
But you only get seventy two hours.
After seventy two, you gotta go to Amazon andbuy it for $20.
Exactly.
Amazing.
Well, we'll put it we'll put it in the shownotes about, you know, your book and the links

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or all your links.
So thank you so much to each and everyoneyou've just heard.
Connect with doctor Ellis on Instagram and allof his social media.
I'd be more than happy to connect with you.
I get his book GPS, my success.
And we wanna thank each and everyone for tuningin week in and week out.
We value you.

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Without you, the viewers, there would be noshow.
So we wanna make sure that we always providevaluable content, have amazing guests on.
So stay tuned for the next episode of ask theexperts.
And in the meantime, be you know, challengeyourself.

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Life is all about challenging.
Life is all about the growth that you arehaving today.
Seek a mentor and really be on the goals, havethe vision that you have in life so that you
are always achieving your highest potential.
Thank you so much each each and everyone, andwe will see you on the next episode of Ask the

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Experts.
Bye for now.
Thank you so much, doctor Elias.
That's been so amazing.