July 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Raymond Aaron shares his extraordinary journey of running a 350-mile race to the North Pole at age 62 and how at 80 he continues to live with passion and purpose while challenging the limitations of comfort zones.
• Trained for two years, 1-10 hours daily before completing the grueling Arctic race
• Discovered most people live in tiny comfort zones, using only a small fraction of their cities and experiences
• Rejection of retirement at 65 after learning it means "to be taken out of useful service"
• Decision to live in abundant health until 120, continuously seeking new adventures
• Authored 147 books by partnering with others and sharing compelling life experiences
• Created transformative spiritual workshops where participants achieve seemingly impossible goals
• Found both his life partner and received a $1 million check within three months of his own workshop
• Encourages everyone to practice leaving comfort zones through small, consistent actions
• Less than 2% of Americans ever buy a non-fiction book after leaving school
• Excitement for future innovations that don't yet exist, similar to how AI suddenly emerged
Connect with Raymond:
Website: www.aaron.com
Podcast: http://Resparkyourlife.com
Sponsored by: Waiz Ahmed
Contact: 416-876-9960
Email: waiz.ahmed@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's strange, like I'm horrified, how people are
willing to die in their comfortzone as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast, where we
unlock real estate and businessinsights, one question at a time
.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hi there.
This is Wyze here from SaveMaxSuperstars Realty the Wyze guy
of real estate.
If you are a buyer on the fencewaiting to buy, this is the
time to buy.
What are you waiting for?
So why should you buy?
Here are a couple of reasons.
We've got skyrocketinginventory, we have low interest
rates and we've got sellersdesperate to sell, and in this
(00:51):
market you can definitely get agood deal.
So if you're looking to buy inOntario or Dubai, I'm your guy,
the wise guy of real estate.
Call me at 416-876-9960.
Get your deal done.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast.
I am your host, mario Lamar,our guest on today's show.
I'm so happy he's here.
At the age of 62, he completedone of the most toughest races a
350-mile trek to the magneticNorth Pole in minus 40 degrees
Celsius weather, while hauling ahundred pounds sled and dodging
(01:30):
polar bears.
Now 80 years young, hecontinues to teach, inspires,
create, proving that purpose andpassion has no expiry date.
Welcome, raymond Aaron.
Welcome to the show, raymond.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
My pleasure.
My pleasure, by the way.
It wasn't a trek at all.
Treks are long and lazy.
It was a race.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We were on guard every second, racing against our
competitor teams, and this iswhy using the proper words makes
a difference, and you're goingto teach us that in a couple of
questions.
But thank you for therectification, Raymond.
The concept of the podcast isreal easy.
(02:11):
I ask five questions and we getstraight to the point.
You ready?
Yes, Okay.
First I got to ask you.
You ran a 350 mile foot race tothe North Pole at 62.
What pushed you to take on suchan extreme challenge and what
did it teach you about fear?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I took on the challenge just because I have no
bridge between think land anddo land.
If I think of something, I juststart doing it.
It's just the way I'm made, andso my life is a sprinkling of
the craziest, most adventuresomethings you could ever imagine.
(02:55):
So Polar Race was indeed one ofthem.
I trained for two years, fromage 60 to age 62, to age 62,
every single day, one hour to 10hours a day for two years.
And if I was tired one day anddidn't want to exercise, I'd say
to myself maybe not exercisingtoday is what will stop you
(03:17):
getting to the North Pole.
I said, oh darn it, and I'd getout and train for a few hours
that day.
But what lesson did I learn?
I learned a gigantic lesson.
I learned that people don't live.
They don't live in their city,they don't live a life.
They live in the tiniest,tiniest little piece of life.
(03:41):
For example, no matter how longthey've lived in a city, 90% of
the roads they drive on are thesame 10 or 20 roads.
90% of the restaurants are thesame.
They go to all the time and,even worse, when they get there,
they order exactly the samething at that restaurant every
single time.
If people like 72 degreesFahrenheit as the temperature
(04:05):
inside their home, if it happensto go to 74, they go straight
to death.
They say I'm boiling, and if itdrops to 70, they go straight
to death, I'm freezing.
And so I found that I was for amonth in the high Arctic, so far
(04:26):
out of my comfort zone.
There was no comfort zone.
It was insane.
I had to do 20 miles in a dayto make it.
That was like the gold standard, if you can do 20 miles in a
day, which actually is roughly40 miles, hauling 100 pound sled
on ice.
(04:46):
And the reason it's double isbecause I had to keep track of
where the sun was and what thetime of day was, to figure out
where north was.
And I was out by 20 degreeseither way, so I would meander
to the North Pole, not gostraight to it.
Furthermore, there would bebumps, and the bump would, of
(05:07):
course, be an Island.
We the race was completely onthe Arctic ocean, so we had to
go around it.
Well, once we went around it, Iwould just have to pure guess
where North was.
And so, 40 miles in a day onice, hauling a hundred pounds,
minus 40 degrees on ice, hauling100 pounds of lead minus 40
(05:28):
degrees, yeah.
But so the biggest answer toanswer your question number one
is that I noticed that Iactually live in the city I live
in and most people just existin the tiniest portion.
I'll give you an example.
I was giving a speech in Texasto support a program that I was
teaching in Florida and one guycame up to me, looked like 50,
(05:50):
60 years old and he said Florida, this is Texas.
I was born in Texas, I've livedin Texas all my life.
I've never left the state lines, state lines, texas to myself
(06:10):
and this, and you're proud ofthis.
And so that's an example ofpeople.
They just cuddle inside theirtiniest comfort zone.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You're a true inspiration when it comes to
getting out of your comfort zone.
You did it in a in a big,non-fashion way, but the
slightest details, the slightestchange that someone can bring
in their life, such as changingthe routine, like you say, can
(06:38):
impact your life tremendously.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
People go to exactly the same movies.
They read exactly the samemagazines.
Yeah, read exactly the samemagazines.
I go to movie theater sometimesif I'm alone.
If I'm with my wife, I havedifferent considerations, yeah,
but if I go alone, I willpurposely choose a movie I would
never go to, like a children'smovie or a horror movie.
I don't like those movies, butI go to it and I'm surprised
(07:04):
that I have a preconception ofhow terrible they are.
But I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, we'll go to question number two because,
again, talking about inspiration, now you say it you're 80 years
old and you're still producingnew content and leading
workshops.
Producing new content andleading workshops what's your
secret to staying inspired anddriven when most people are
(07:33):
slowing down?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
When I was 65, I asked my coach if I should
retire and he said look it up.
I said, look it up.
I know what retire means.
He says look it up.
I said look it up, I know whatretire means.
He says look it up.
So I looked it up and it saysretire to take out of useful
service.
I said, dear God, I don't wantto be taken out of useful
(08:02):
service.
But I noticed that people whohate their jobs or who don't
like their jobs, they are eagerto retire eager, in fact, in
unions they actually know thedate, 20, 30 years from now,
where they're actually going tobe able to retire.
Well, I've decided to live inabundant health until age 120
and die on my birthday.
That's truly amazing.
I told my coach that and hesaid you're going to be in
(08:25):
abundant health forever at age120?
I said yeah.
He said well then, why wouldyou die in abundant health?
And, furthermore, how gruesometo want to die on your birthday.
I said okay, I didn't think itthrough very well.
The point is I'm eager, I'malive, I want new excitement, I
(08:45):
want new things to do.
When I was nearly 70 years old,I flew with some friends to New
Zealand and we bicycled aroundNew Zealand.
Well, I've never done thatbefore, I'm not a bicyclist but
we hired a team and they gave us.
You know, they followed us witha truck and they handled all of
(09:09):
the provisions and the hotels,and so I do weird things all the
time.
I just keep myself excited byhaving goals in the future that
are fascinating to me.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And it keeps you, like you said, it keeps you
motivated.
You can still see.
You have something next week,next month that you're looking
forward to, and that's what alot of people don't have is
those small goals.
It can be small, it doesn'thave to be doing a race in the
Arctic.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Let me tell you how small it can be.
I attended a speech made by thepolice chief of the city of
Toronto and he said somethingwhich has stuck with me for the
last 50 years.
He said in all of years ofbeing a policeman, there's one
thing that he's learned.
(10:06):
I said oh man, I can't wait.
And he said no one has evercommitted suicide with a lottery
ticket in his pocket.
It's true, even the tiniesthope for the future is enough to
keep you alive.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, let's move on to question number three.
And you've authored now I gotthe right number 147 books.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Indeed, I've written 147 books.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And how do you tap into such consistent creativity
and maybe what's your process inwriting and publishing with
impact every time?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, some of those books I've written myself, I
have a lot of ideas.
Well, some of those books I'vewritten myself, I have a lot of
ideas.
But I'll be chatting withsomebody and they'll say
something interesting abouttheir life.
I'll say that's fascinating, Iwould like to write a book with
you on that.
And they say write a book, ohmy gosh.
And then I use my writingskills and their content.
(11:07):
Use my writing skills and theircontent, I mean, if they tell
me something fascinating, howthey've overcome some horrible
situation in their life, andwill people want to know that?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, people don't think that their situation
matters to other people justbecause it's their own lives.
But you never know the impactyou can have on someone just by
sharing your experience livesbut you never know the impact
you can have on someone just bysharing your experience.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, yes, somebody might, for example, be a dentist
, and so they'd automaticallythink, well, I've got to write
my book on dentistry.
But they may have gone througha horrible divorce, and many of
their friends went through ahorrible divorce, but they
somehow handled it better thantheir friends.
They didn't get mired in it,they didn't feel horrible, they
(11:56):
didn't tell their friends howterrible it was.
Well, people want to know howsomeone can get through a quote
horrible divorce effortlessly,even though he thinks that his
income is from dentistry.
Yet he might want to write abook that will help a lot of
people in a completely differentfield and that always surprises
(12:18):
people.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, well, that's.
It's truly amazing.
And then this goes with what Ibelieve is partnerships.
You haven't you said youhaven't written all of the books
yourself.
You partnered with people usingtheir story, and this is where
we can go further in life.
(12:40):
Yes, don't try to do it alone.
Partner with people you neverknow.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go withthe team.
That's an African proverb andit's true.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's true.
Question number four we talkedabout your speeches and your
workshops.
You taught over 5,000 timesacross five continents.
Which moment or which speechstands out to you as truly
life-changing for either you oryour audience?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I teach a spiritual workshop three days long in
which you actually get what youwant.
You take a sheet of paper atthe first minute of the first
day of the class and you writedown whatever you want, as crazy
as it is, and you get it, nomatter how crazy it is, you
(13:39):
either get it inside the threedays of the class or you get it
within three months of the classending.
And I was single for 10 yearsand I hated it.
I went on first date afterfirst date after first date and
I said you know, I should teachthat course again.
And instead of imagining thatI'm just the teacher, I should
imagine, since I'm in thephysical room, that I'm also a
(14:00):
student and I should ask foranything I want.
And I asked for the woman of mydreams and to earn a million
dollars faster than anyone onearth has ever earned a million
dollars.
To earn a million dollarsfaster than anyone on earth has
ever earned a million dollars.
And after 10 years of lookingfor the woman of my dreams, she
(14:21):
was sitting in the front row ofthat spiritual workshop and
within three months of thatworkshop, one of the hosts that
likes to ask me to speak ontheir stage, put me onto the
biggest stage they had ever hadin their life 17,000 people in a
giant conference center andbecause I was the most loved
(14:49):
speaker and offered a productthat everybody liked, she wrote
me a check for $1 million.
So I got the woman of my dreamsand a million dollars in 90
minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's truly amazing, and if anybody has something to
take away from this is it's notjust words, it happens, it's
for real, yes, and you see itall the time because you teach
that workshop.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So Teach that workshop a few times a year and
everybody gets exactly what theywant.
Could be health, it could bemoney, could be relationships,
whatever, whatever they wishanything that they've been
working on that they haven'tbeen able to.
Could be health, it could bemoney, could be relationships,
whatever they wish Anything thatthey've been working on that
they haven't been able to do orto accomplish.
It's an astounding workshopbecause it's based on the fact
(15:40):
that there's two universes thephysical universe and the
spiritual universe.
And number one nobody knowsanything about the spiritual
universe.
And number two if you askpeople which one is the most
powerful, everyone will say, oh,the spiritual universe.
So they all know it's morepowerful, but nobody knows
anything about it.
So I teach the basic laws ofthe spiritual universe.
(16:01):
People go nuts and are able touse the laws of the spiritual
universe to achieve anythingthey wish in the physical
universe.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Our last and final question, raymond, for today.
With everything you'veaccomplished, what do you
believe is still ahead forRaymond, and how can others
create a future they're excitedabout too?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Aha, Well, the biggest thing in my future I
can't imagine yet, because twoyears ago, no one had ever heard
of AI, right, and 20 years ago,no one had ever heard of a
phone that you can carry in yourpocket, and thousands of years
(16:50):
ago, no one had ever heard offire or the wheel.
And so I'm totally lookingforward to something that
doesn't even exist yet, and I'mlooking forward like, just like
AI burst out of the scene.
No one even knew it was coming,for gosh sakes.
I'm looking forward to the nextthing, and it's going to be
soon and it's going to be biggerthan anything ever, and if you
(17:13):
can imagine it like robots, forexample, then that's not it,
because it's going to besomething you've never thought
of before.
And how can other people do it?
You can practice leaving yourcomfort zone in tiny, tiny ways.
Go to the genre of movie thatyou wouldn't normally go to, buy
a magazine or a book that youwouldn't normally, for gosh
(17:36):
sakes, even buy a book.
Do you know?
This is horrible statistic.
Less than 2% of americans everbuy a non-fiction hardcover book
after leaving school less thantwo percent per lifetime, not
per year ever they finish school.
And that's it.
(17:57):
Education's over.
Go buy a book on some topic,learn a language, do something,
learn the basics of calculus,like anything.
Just do anything outside yourcomfort zone, just in little
ways, so that you can get usedto leaving your comfort zone and
getting some positiveexperiences, because most people
(18:18):
are just trying to creep safelyto their grave.
They're just like.
Sometimes I give talks oninvestment and I'm 80 and
someone in the audience will say, well, it's not for me, I'm 50.
I'm shutting her down.
Shutting her down, you'retrying to die already.
Like I'm 80 and I'm investing.
I'm teaching you how to investand they say, no, no, not for me
(18:41):
, I'm.
It's strange, I'm like I'mhorrified how people are willing
to die in their comfort zone assoon as possible.
They say they want to live along time, but each year is so
similar, why bother?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
yeah, people are, are not?
They're just programmed bysociety in a certain way, where
it's, if the, if you just openyour, your, your uh I forget how
to call it the horses, oh, theblinkers, the blinkers.
If you just take off theblinkers, you see that the world
(19:14):
out there is so much morebigger than you imagined it, and
I've traveled probably aquarter of the world in the last
four years and in countriesthat I never thought I would go,
and it's so beautiful.
I encourage everybody to do thesame.
It's it opens your eyes intointo your, your mental state,
(19:36):
into other things.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yes, and that's one of the reasons I respect you so
much that you not only do it,but you teach others fascinating
new ways to invest, fascinatingnew ways to live.
You're a model for everyone inthe world.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, thank you very much.
Great job, raymond.
It was a pleasure talking withyou today.
I hope that our listeners takea piece of your wisdom on their
journey, as they can change andbetter themselves with your
counsels and your experiencesthat you gave us today.
(20:14):
We will talk again very soon.
I hope Not.
I hope I know and thank youagain for being on the show.
Thank you, thanks for tuninginto the 5 Questions podcast.
If you enjoyed today's episode,don't forget to subscribe, like
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Stay tuned for more insightsand tips to transform your real
(20:38):
estate and business game.
See you next time.
It's strange, like I'm horrified, how people are
willing to die in their comfortzone as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast, where we
unlock real estate and businessinsights, one question at a time
.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hi there.
This is Wyze here from SaveMaxSuperstars Realty the Wyze guy
of real estate.
If you are a buyer on the fencewaiting to buy, this is the
time to buy.
What are you waiting for?
So why should you buy?
Here are a couple of reasons.
We've got skyrocketinginventory, we have low interest
rates and we've got sellersdesperate to sell, and in this
(00:51):
market you can definitely get agood deal.
So if you're looking to buy inOntario or Dubai, I'm your guy,
the wise guy of real estate.
Call me at 416-876-9960.
Get your deal done.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome to the 5 Questions Podcast.
I am your host, mario Lamar,our guest on today's show.
I'm so happy he's here.
At the age of 62, he completedone of the most toughest races a
350-mile trek to the magneticNorth Pole in minus 40 degrees
Celsius weather, while hauling ahundred pounds sled and dodging
(01:30):
polar bears.
Now 80 years young, hecontinues to teach, inspires,
create, proving that purpose andpassion has no expiry date.
Welcome, raymond Aaron.
Welcome to the show, raymond.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
My pleasure.
My pleasure, by the way.
It wasn't a trek at all.
Treks are long and lazy.
It was a race.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We were on guard every second, racing against our
competitor teams, and this iswhy using the proper words makes
a difference, and you're goingto teach us that in a couple of
questions.
But thank you for therectification, Raymond.
The concept of the podcast isreal easy.
(02:11):
I ask five questions and we getstraight to the point.
You ready?
Yes, Okay.
First I got to ask you.
You ran a 350 mile foot race tothe North Pole at 62.
What pushed you to take on suchan extreme challenge and what
did it teach you about fear?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well, I took on the challenge just because I have no
bridge between think land anddo land.
If I think of something, I juststart doing it.
It's just the way I'm made, andso my life is a sprinkling of
the craziest, most adventuresomethings you could ever imagine.
(02:55):
So Polar Race was indeed one ofthem.
I trained for two years, fromage 60 to age 62, to age 62,
every single day, one hour to 10hours a day for two years.
And if I was tired one day anddidn't want to exercise, I'd say
to myself maybe not exercisingtoday is what will stop you
(03:17):
getting to the North Pole.
I said, oh darn it, and I'd getout and train for a few hours
that day.
But what lesson did I learn?
I learned a gigantic lesson.
I learned that people don't live.
They don't live in their city,they don't live a life.
They live in the tiniest,tiniest little piece of life.
(03:41):
For example, no matter how longthey've lived in a city, 90% of
the roads they drive on are thesame 10 or 20 roads.
90% of the restaurants are thesame.
They go to all the time and,even worse, when they get there,
they order exactly the samething at that restaurant every
single time.
If people like 72 degreesFahrenheit as the temperature
(04:05):
inside their home, if it happensto go to 74, they go straight
to death.
They say I'm boiling, and if itdrops to 70, they go straight
to death, I'm freezing.
And so I found that I was for amonth in the high Arctic, so far
(04:26):
out of my comfort zone.
There was no comfort zone.
It was insane.
I had to do 20 miles in a dayto make it.
That was like the gold standard, if you can do 20 miles in a
day, which actually is roughly40 miles, hauling 100 pound sled
on ice.
(04:46):
And the reason it's double isbecause I had to keep track of
where the sun was and what thetime of day was, to figure out
where north was.
And I was out by 20 degreeseither way, so I would meander
to the North Pole, not gostraight to it.
Furthermore, there would bebumps, and the bump would, of
(05:07):
course, be an Island.
We the race was completely onthe Arctic ocean, so we had to
go around it.
Well, once we went around it, Iwould just have to pure guess
where North was.
And so, 40 miles in a day onice, hauling a hundred pounds,
minus 40 degrees on ice, hauling100 pounds of lead minus 40
(05:28):
degrees, yeah.
But so the biggest answer toanswer your question number one
is that I noticed that Iactually live in the city I live
in and most people just existin the tiniest portion.
I'll give you an example.
I was giving a speech in Texasto support a program that I was
teaching in Florida and one guycame up to me, looked like 50,
(05:50):
60 years old and he said Florida, this is Texas.
I was born in Texas, I've livedin Texas all my life.
I've never left the state lines, state lines, texas to myself
(06:10):
and this, and you're proud ofthis.
And so that's an example ofpeople.
They just cuddle inside theirtiniest comfort zone.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You're a true inspiration when it comes to
getting out of your comfort zone.
You did it in a in a big,non-fashion way, but the
slightest details, the slightestchange that someone can bring
in their life, such as changingthe routine, like you say, can
(06:38):
impact your life tremendously.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
People go to exactly the same movies.
They read exactly the samemagazines.
Yeah, read exactly the samemagazines.
I go to movie theater sometimesif I'm alone.
If I'm with my wife, I havedifferent considerations, yeah,
but if I go alone, I willpurposely choose a movie I would
never go to, like a children'smovie or a horror movie.
I don't like those movies, butI go to it and I'm surprised
(07:04):
that I have a preconception ofhow terrible they are.
But I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, we'll go to question number two because,
again, talking about inspiration, now you say it you're 80 years
old and you're still producingnew content and leading
workshops.
Producing new content andleading workshops what's your
secret to staying inspired anddriven when most people are
(07:33):
slowing down?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
When I was 65, I asked my coach if I should
retire and he said look it up.
I said, look it up.
I know what retire means.
He says look it up.
I said look it up, I know whatretire means.
He says look it up.
So I looked it up and it saysretire to take out of useful
service.
I said, dear God, I don't wantto be taken out of useful
(08:02):
service.
But I noticed that people whohate their jobs or who don't
like their jobs, they are eagerto retire eager, in fact, in
unions they actually know thedate, 20, 30 years from now,
where they're actually going tobe able to retire.
Well, I've decided to live inabundant health until age 120
and die on my birthday.
That's truly amazing.
I told my coach that and hesaid you're going to be in
(08:25):
abundant health forever at age120?
I said yeah.
He said well then, why wouldyou die in abundant health?
And, furthermore, how gruesometo want to die on your birthday.
I said okay, I didn't think itthrough very well.
The point is I'm eager, I'malive, I want new excitement, I
(08:45):
want new things to do.
When I was nearly 70 years old,I flew with some friends to New
Zealand and we bicycled aroundNew Zealand.
Well, I've never done thatbefore, I'm not a bicyclist but
we hired a team and they gave us.
You know, they followed us witha truck and they handled all of
(09:09):
the provisions and the hotels,and so I do weird things all the
time.
I just keep myself excited byhaving goals in the future that
are fascinating to me.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And it keeps you, like you said, it keeps you
motivated.
You can still see.
You have something next week,next month that you're looking
forward to, and that's what alot of people don't have is
those small goals.
It can be small, it doesn'thave to be doing a race in the
Arctic.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Let me tell you how small it can be.
I attended a speech made by thepolice chief of the city of
Toronto and he said somethingwhich has stuck with me for the
last 50 years.
He said in all of years ofbeing a policeman, there's one
thing that he's learned.
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I said oh man, I can't wait.
And he said no one has evercommitted suicide with a lottery
ticket in his pocket.
It's true, even the tiniesthope for the future is enough to
keep you alive.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, let's move on to question number three.
And you've authored now I gotthe right number 147 books.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Indeed, I've written 147 books.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And how do you tap into such consistent creativity
and maybe what's your process inwriting and publishing with
impact every time?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, some of those books I've written myself, I
have a lot of ideas.
Well, some of those books I'vewritten myself, I have a lot of
ideas.
But I'll be chatting withsomebody and they'll say
something interesting abouttheir life.
I'll say that's fascinating, Iwould like to write a book with
you on that.
And they say write a book, ohmy gosh.
And then I use my writingskills and their content.
(11:07):
Use my writing skills and theircontent, I mean, if they tell
me something fascinating, howthey've overcome some horrible
situation in their life, andwill people want to know that?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, people don't think that their situation
matters to other people justbecause it's their own lives.
But you never know the impactyou can have on someone just by
sharing your experience livesbut you never know the impact
you can have on someone just bysharing your experience.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, yes, somebody might, for example, be a dentist
, and so they'd automaticallythink, well, I've got to write
my book on dentistry.
But they may have gone througha horrible divorce, and many of
their friends went through ahorrible divorce, but they
somehow handled it better thantheir friends.
They didn't get mired in it,they didn't feel horrible, they
(11:56):
didn't tell their friends howterrible it was.
Well, people want to know howsomeone can get through a quote
horrible divorce effortlessly,even though he thinks that his
income is from dentistry.
Yet he might want to write abook that will help a lot of
people in a completely differentfield and that always surprises
(12:18):
people.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, well, that's.
It's truly amazing.
And then this goes with what Ibelieve is partnerships.
You haven't you said youhaven't written all of the books
yourself.
You partnered with people usingtheir story, and this is where
we can go further in life.
(12:40):
Yes, don't try to do it alone.
Partner with people you neverknow.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go withthe team.
That's an African proverb andit's true.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's true.
Question number four we talkedabout your speeches and your
workshops.
You taught over 5,000 timesacross five continents.
Which moment or which speechstands out to you as truly
life-changing for either you oryour audience?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I teach a spiritual workshop three days long in
which you actually get what youwant.
You take a sheet of paper atthe first minute of the first
day of the class and you writedown whatever you want, as crazy
as it is, and you get it, nomatter how crazy it is, you
(13:39):
either get it inside the threedays of the class or you get it
within three months of the classending.
And I was single for 10 yearsand I hated it.
I went on first date afterfirst date after first date and
I said you know, I should teachthat course again.
And instead of imagining thatI'm just the teacher, I should
imagine, since I'm in thephysical room, that I'm also a
(14:00):
student and I should ask foranything I want.
And I asked for the woman of mydreams and to earn a million
dollars faster than anyone onearth has ever earned a million
dollars.
To earn a million dollarsfaster than anyone on earth has
ever earned a million dollars.
And after 10 years of lookingfor the woman of my dreams, she
(14:21):
was sitting in the front row ofthat spiritual workshop and
within three months of thatworkshop, one of the hosts that
likes to ask me to speak ontheir stage, put me onto the
biggest stage they had ever hadin their life 17,000 people in a
giant conference center andbecause I was the most loved
(14:49):
speaker and offered a productthat everybody liked, she wrote
me a check for $1 million.
So I got the woman of my dreamsand a million dollars in 90
minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
That's truly amazing, and if anybody has something to
take away from this is it's notjust words, it happens, it's
for real, yes, and you see itall the time because you teach
that workshop.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So Teach that workshop a few times a year and
everybody gets exactly what theywant.
Could be health, it could bemoney, could be relationships,
whatever, whatever they wishanything that they've been
working on that they haven'tbeen able to.
Could be health, it could bemoney, could be relationships,
whatever they wish Anything thatthey've been working on that
they haven't been able to do orto accomplish.
It's an astounding workshopbecause it's based on the fact
(15:40):
that there's two universes thephysical universe and the
spiritual universe.
And number one nobody knowsanything about the spiritual
universe.
And number two if you askpeople which one is the most
powerful, everyone will say, oh,the spiritual universe.
So they all know it's morepowerful, but nobody knows
anything about it.
So I teach the basic laws ofthe spiritual universe.
(16:01):
People go nuts and are able touse the laws of the spiritual
universe to achieve anythingthey wish in the physical
universe.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Our last and final question, raymond, for today.
With everything you'veaccomplished, what do you
believe is still ahead forRaymond, and how can others
create a future they're excitedabout too?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Aha, Well, the biggest thing in my future I
can't imagine yet, because twoyears ago, no one had ever heard
of AI, right, and 20 years ago,no one had ever heard of a
phone that you can carry in yourpocket, and thousands of years
(16:50):
ago, no one had ever heard offire or the wheel.
And so I'm totally lookingforward to something that
doesn't even exist yet, and I'mlooking forward like, just like
AI burst out of the scene.
No one even knew it was coming,for gosh sakes.
I'm looking forward to the nextthing, and it's going to be
soon and it's going to be biggerthan anything ever, and if you
(17:13):
can imagine it like robots, forexample, then that's not it,
because it's going to besomething you've never thought
of before.
And how can other people do it?
You can practice leaving yourcomfort zone in tiny, tiny ways.
Go to the genre of movie thatyou wouldn't normally go to, buy
a magazine or a book that youwouldn't normally, for gosh
(17:36):
sakes, even buy a book.
Do you know?
This is horrible statistic.
Less than 2% of americans everbuy a non-fiction hardcover book
after leaving school less thantwo percent per lifetime, not
per year ever they finish school.
And that's it.
(17:57):
Education's over.
Go buy a book on some topic,learn a language, do something,
learn the basics of calculus,like anything.
Just do anything outside yourcomfort zone, just in little
ways, so that you can get usedto leaving your comfort zone and
getting some positiveexperiences, because most people
(18:18):
are just trying to creep safelyto their grave.
They're just like.
Sometimes I give talks oninvestment and I'm 80 and
someone in the audience will say, well, it's not for me, I'm 50.
I'm shutting her down.
Shutting her down, you'retrying to die already.
Like I'm 80 and I'm investing.
I'm teaching you how to investand they say, no, no, not for me
(18:41):
, I'm.
It's strange, I'm like I'mhorrified how people are willing
to die in their comfort zone assoon as possible.
They say they want to live along time, but each year is so
similar, why bother?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
yeah, people are, are not?
They're just programmed bysociety in a certain way, where
it's, if the, if you just openyour, your, your uh I forget how
to call it the horses, oh, theblinkers, the blinkers.
If you just take off theblinkers, you see that the world
(19:14):
out there is so much morebigger than you imagined it, and
I've traveled probably aquarter of the world in the last
four years and in countriesthat I never thought I would go,
and it's so beautiful.
I encourage everybody to do thesame.
It's it opens your eyes intointo your, your mental state,
(19:36):
into other things.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yes, and that's one of the reasons I respect you so
much that you not only do it,but you teach others fascinating
new ways to invest, fascinatingnew ways to live.
You're a model for everyone inthe world.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh, thank you very much.
Great job, raymond.
It was a pleasure talking withyou today.
I hope that our listeners takea piece of your wisdom on their
journey, as they can change andbetter themselves with your
counsels and your experiencesthat you gave us today.
(20:14):
We will talk again very soon.
I hope Not.
I hope I know and thank youagain for being on the show.
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