April 29, 2025 • 32 mins
Feeling lost trying to "find your passion"? You're not alone—and maybe that's not even the right thing to be chasing!
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Paul Davis, creator of the Genius Code, to uncover why passion fades, purpose sticks, and how true inspiration can unlock the life and business you were meant to build. (Warning: you might get a little teary in the best way possible.)
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Carly Ries (00:00):
Is following your passion actually leading you
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away from your true purpose? Inthis episode, we're joined by
Paul Davis, a man who might justmake you rethink everything
you've been told about findingyour purpose. Forget find your
why, test out your ikigaidiagram, because Paul dives deep
into how to uncover your geniuscode, the blueprint you were
born with that can unlock abusiness and life that finally
feels aligned. So if you'retired of chasing shiny objects,
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feeling burnt out, or wonderingwhy your passion projects fizzle
out, then this one's for you.You're listening to the Aspiring
Solopreneur, the podcast forthose just taking the bold step
or even just thinking abouttaking that step into the world
of solo entrepreneurship.
My name is Carly Ries, and mycohost, Joe Rando, and I are
your guides to navigating thiscrazy but awesome journey as a
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company of one. We take pride inbeing part of LifeStarr, a
digital hub dedicated to allaspects of solopreneurship that
has empowered and educatedcountless solopreneurs looking
to build a business thatresonates with their life's
ambitions. We help people workto live, not live to work. And
if you're looking for a get richquick scheme, this is not the
show for you. So if you're eagerto gain valuable insights from
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industry experts on running abusiness the right way the first
time around or want to learnfrom the missteps of
solopreneurs who've paved theway before you, then stick
around.
We've got your back becauseflying solo in business doesn't
mean you're alone. So Paul, weare so excited to have you here
today. One of the reasonsselfishly, I think is because
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we're currently writingSolopreneur Business
For Dummies. So we're writing abook. I know you also just
published a book that I can'twait to get to in a bit.
But as we've been writing, oneof the things I've been
realizing after speaking withour community is that a big hang
up is just purpose and drive andcreating a business not to make
millions and millions ofdollars, but one that really
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fulfills them and and makes themrealize what they are meant to
do and and happy to do and tocreate a business around it. So
you cannot be coming at a moreperfect time today. Welcome to
the show.
Paul Davis (02:04):
It's great to be here. Thank you so much.
Carly Ries (02:06):
Yeah. Well, let's just dive right in. Because for
these individuals, what commonmistakes do you see people
typically make when trying tofind their life purpose, and how
can they combat it?
Paul Davis (02:17):
Yeah. I've seen a trend happen over probably the
last ten years or so. It mightbe a little bit longer. So
there are two things that reallycome to mind. One is what we've
always been told in conventionalwisdom is to follow your
passions.
And if you discover what you'repassionate about and pursue your
passions and build your career,your business around your
passions, well then, basically,for one of a better word, you
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won't have to work another dayin your life. That's as the old
adage goes. But what you find isthat passions are transient. So
you'll be hugely enthusiasticabout your passions, but they
tend to be transient if you'reoperating on it with your
passions on an ongoing basis. Sothat that that's one aspect.
But another thing kinda came tofore again over the last ten
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years was to find your why. Andpeople interpret it from the
point of view of, well, if youfind your why, well, that's
gonna give you a meaning,purpose, fulfillment. And some
people actually interpret it asbeing your purpose. But actually
your why is slightly different.And I think the meaning that was
taken from find your why wasmore around, okay, how do you
get a team of people in acompany to get behind a purpose
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or a mission for a businessitself?
Your true, absolute true why, Iprefer to use the word
inspiration. call it your geniusinspiration. The word genius
comes from gignery. It's a Latinword. And that genius to
gignery, the actual meaning andthe source or the origin of the
word gignery is that inherentspirit that was present since
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birth.
So everybody has a naturalgenius. Inspiration comes from
the art again, the origin of theword inspiration comes from
inspirare, which is the breaththat is blown within, which is
divine guidance. So I prefer touse inspiration. And you you
can't you can't alterinspiration. So inspiration are
those moments where you've gotthat wow moment, you're
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overwhelmed with sheer sensejoy, of just wow, of amazement.
And everybody will have anemotional response to that in a
good way. So it's not thatthey're crying for sadness.
They're actually crying for joyor for wow or for amazement . So
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inspiration is more to do withwhat we are actually being
prompted to from our unconsciousto actually pursue what our
purpose is. And so, again, overthe last number of decades, I've
developed a methodology thatactually finds an individual's
like purpose, and that's it'sdifferent to conventional wisdom
in terms of find your passions.
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Ikigai is another one, and it'sJapanese concept and people will
recognize by intersectingcircles. There's find your why.
there's find your values. Andagain, each one of those will
help to, I suppose, give you anelement of happiness. However,
it's not your true purpose.
When it goes to solopreneurs,and the vast majority of my
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clients are solopreneurs andprofessional services, what I
find is a lot of people will setup a business because they've
either come in touch withsomething. Now that could be, a
life coach or it could be somemethodology or some modality
that they found that they had areally regret experience from,
and hence they're passionateabout it and want to serve the
world and want to bring theirmessage or bring their treatment
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or whatever might be that theyfound out into the world. And
that comes from every singleindividual's desire to want to
make a difference. So when youcome to this entrepreneur,
they'll set up a business, but avast majority of people don't
know, well, how do we create abusiness? So how do we get more
clients?
How do we price our fees? How dowe increase our fees for one
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better word? How do we manageour time? Because typically as a
solopreneur, it's justourselves. And then what you
find is after a couple of years,they get exhausted because, they
don't know how to develop thatmethodology in relation to get
more clients and increase thebusiness and get a steady
revenue stream.
And now they fall back to beingdisgruntled, not fulfilled.
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They've lost their passionagain. They've lost their mojo
in a lot of cases, and they comeback to search for, well, okay.
So what should I do now? Andthat's the circle I see an awful
lot of solopreneurs actuallyfall into.
Joe Rando (06:25):
It makes sense. It's like, you know, they get burnt
out, and they can't then see away out of making that passion
work and try to find some newand I don't wanna call it shiny
object, but some new thing that,you know, seems like it's less
painful.
Paul Davis (06:40):
Yeah. I definitely see that. I refer to it as shiny
object syndrome.
It is that case where, yeah,people find something new and
they chase after that and say,maybe that will make me happy or
maybe that will be the secret ofwhat's actually gonna make me,
happy again.
Carly Ries (06:56):
Mhmm. Paul, I feel like Joe and I should just leave
because I just wanna hear youtalk forever. I'm so intrigued.
You don't even need us to behere. I just wanna hear what you
have to say. But you keptreferring to your methodology,
which you referred to as thegenius code. So can you explain
those core principles and howthey can kind of facilitate
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personal mastery?
Joe Rando (07:19):
And can I add an angle to that too as you're
going through it? Can you kindacompare and contrast a little
bit with things like find yourwhy and ikigai?
Paul Davis (07:27):
Yep. Absolutely can. Cool. So okay. So let me start
off with the genius code, thefirst part of that is what I
refer to as genius unlocked.
Now I call it genius unlockedbecause it's unlocking the
genius within an individual, Andit's a methodology that'll bring
people through in order to findtheir true purpose and their
true innate genius. So yourinnate genius is the genius that
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you were actually born with. Sothere's four elements that makes
up that's contained withingenius unlocked. There's your
genius drivers and your geniusdrivers is what gives you your
joy, fulfillment, your zest forlife, your mojo. it literally
increases if I talk from aspiritual perspective or from
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you know, some people talk alongthese lines in terms of what's
going to raise your vibration,what's going to raise your
energy levels.
That's what your genuine geniusdrivers will actually bring to
you. So it's your joy, it's yourfulfillment, it's that sense of
just it's pure zest for life. Sothat's what I call your genius
drivers. Then there's yourgenius quest. And the definition
of quest is a long and arduousjourney to find a solution to
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something or to find something.
Every single individual has aunique genius quest. It's been
with them since birth and itcontinues throughout their whole
life. And I that's againcontrary to what conventional
wisdom or some people will sayto enrich and to life purpose in
terms of your purpose changesthroughout your life. It
doesn't. It never ever everchanges.
It goes throughout your wholelife and it starts from
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literally when you're born. Mostpeople are nudged by their
unconscious. And what I found byworking with so many clients
over the years, what I found isthat in around the ages of
between six, seven, and eight iswhen their unconscious is really
trying to implant on them whattheir genius quest is. But
again, as we grow up in societyand parents and all the kinds of
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things, we forget about thatquest and we don't pursue it.
But our unconscious isconstantly trying to bring us
back to fulfill that questbecause it's a soul contract.
It's a life contract. You haveto fulfill that mission for one
better word. So Eugenius Questis your mission life. It's your
what. And what an awful lot ofpeople when they're trying to
find what their purpose is,they're trying to find what they
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are specifically here to do.
Then there's your genius role.Now I've identified 10 different
genius roles. So for example,one of them is the parents, the
other one is I'm a guide, andthe other one is a leader. So
there are 10 different geniusroles. Now a person will play
one of those genius roles againthroughout their whole life.
It's what they naturally do.They don't even think about it.
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They don't have to go to schoolabout it or college about it.
They don't have to learnanything. They literally just
naturally play one of thosegenius roles.
Now there's a shadow side andfrustration point to each genius
role, and that's what causesself sabotage. But being a
solopreneur, you're actuallywearing a lot of different hats.
So you're delivering declines,you're doing your operations,
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you're doing your marketing,you're doing your finances,
you're doing everything. Soyou're wearing different hats
throughout being a solopreneur.But once you identify what your
genius role is, now youstructure your business around
your genius role.
That's your genius role. That'show you're best to fulfill your
mission. And then there's yourgenius inspiration is what I
referred to earlier on, whichagain comes from the origin word
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that says for inspirare. Andpeople will have that, again,
that response. It's you cancreate it.
Your conscious mind can createit. It's unconsciously created.
It's divine given. but yourinspiration is always directly
linked to your genius quest.Always.
And all the genius elements workso perfectly with everything
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else. As in your genius role,your genius drivers, your genius
quest, your genius inspiration.They're all hand in hand with
with each other. That's howperfect the universe is. It's
literally nothing's evermissing.
Everybody has everything withinthem that they need in order to
actually fulfill what theirpurpose is. Now that's what I
call genius a lot.
Joe Rando (11:24):
Can I ask you a favor before we go on? Because it's a
lot. It's a lot, and it's good.It's great. I love it, but it's
a lot.
Can you give, like, an example?Like, just a person either that
you've coached or just a made upexample of somebody in each of
these characteristics and howthey fit together. That would
really help me.
Paul Davis (11:41):
Yeah. So say okay. So let's say the genius role has
been the parent. Okay? Now theparent I've called it the parent
because stereotypically like aparent, they actually operate
quite similar.
But in the business format, itworks from the point of view of
the parent wants to bring thefamily together. They want to
bring a group of peopletogether. So the parent will
naturally be drawn towardswanting to have social
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gatherings, want to build acommunity, for example, online
or face to face. That's whatthey wanna do. And they want
everybody working together wellwith it within the actual
community or within theenvironment or within the
company that they're workingwithin or whatever.
That's the natural thing for theactual parent. However, the
shadow side and frustrationpoint is they look after
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everybody else's needs first. Sothey're the ones that are always
last to be fed. So they'realways last to be sat down at
the table while all their, youknow, their partner or spouse
has been handed their meal,their kids have been handed a
meal, and they're always thelast one to be sitting down at
the table. So they'll actuallylook after their own needs last.
So what's really, reallyimportant for the parental role,
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meaning that the parent, thegenius role as a parent, is self
care. It is everybody needs selfcare, but the parent genius role
absolutely needs more self care.So that's really how that might
kinda manifest in real life.
Carly Ries (13:00):
Did you just really get teary eyed? Because that
resonated so well with me. I waslike, yeah, you're right. I do
need more self care. I'm theparent role.
Paul Davis (13:09):
Yeah. is the guide. So being a guide is all I wanna
do is bring people from a to zas quickly as possible. That's
what the guide wants to do. Andthey want to advise them, they
want to help them, they want toencourage them, that's what the
guide does.
But however, on the flip side ofthe guide is they feel that
they're not good enough. Theyfeel that they need to know more
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information, more knowledge orwhatever in order to be able to
answer the questions for clientsor other people. So that's the
shadow side of the guide. Soagain, every genius role has its
own downside as well as positiveside.
Joe Rando (13:44):
Cool. So we got the genius role of parent where you
said parent. So but now we'vegot three other components here
that can you tie them alltogether just so I can get a
whole picture of a person beforewe go on to beyond the genius
unlock?
Paul Davis (13:58):
Let me go through mine because that's probably the
easiest example.
Carly Ries (14:01):
Okay.
Paul Davis (14:01):
Okay. So my genius drivers are experiencing,
advising, and learning. Okay? Solet that sink for a minute.
Joe Rando (14:09):
Okay.
Paul Davis (14:09):
So experiencing, advising, and learning. So when
I'm advising, just like I'mdoing on this podcast in terms
of I'm answering questions, Iabsolutely love it. It's what
literally boosts my energy. AndI always get more energy, either
I'm a higher energy at the endof a podcast interview or any
other type of interview or whenI'm having client meetings and
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advising a client's meeting. I'malways at a higher energy than I
am at the beginning of thesessions. So the English
language is so limited that weonly have a certain number of
words to describe certainthings. But the definition that
an individual have to theirgenius drivers is absolutely
unique to them. So experiencingfor other people could be
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anything. Alright? It could beexperiencing glass of red wine.
It could be experiencing a walkin nature. For me, if you
probably look at my background,I have a lot of aircraft on on
my background. For me,experiencing is really an
experience that not many peoplewill do. Like, there's a tiny
percentage of the population inthe globe that will actually do
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the kind of experiences I do. Sofor example, my last experience
that I did was I got strapped tothe top of a biplane.
I was brought up to 4,000 feetin the air, and we did
aerobatics in the air. And notmany people are gonna do that.
So that's my type of experience.
Joe Rando (15:31):
Yeah. I'm out. I am out. I'm one of the six steps on
a ladder, and I'm calling aprofessional.
Paul Davis (15:40):
But that for me, that's what gives me joy, gives
me the sense that gives me like,it's what I absolutely love to
do. So they're my geniusdrivers. When it comes to my
genius quest so it's gonna go alittle bit deep now. Okay? So
just a warning and just kind ofa bit of a initial, setup on
this one.
Since the age of 10, I've beenasked myself the question, what
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would keep me here on this life?Because bottom line is I just
did not want to be in this life.I wanted out even at the age of
10. So it's not that I grew upin an abusive childhood and it's
nothing like that whatsoever,but I just like, I'm an empath
naturally and I'm highlyintuitive on another side as
well. So growing up in anenvironment, I literally every
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single day, I was just thinking,I don't wanna be here.
So I'd look at every single wayof how I could check out of
life, but equally, on the flipside of that, I was looking,
okay, so what would actuallymake me stay? So my quest is
actually about how what wouldactually make me stay? So that's
where it put me on the quest inorder to discover and find out
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what does an individual's lifepurpose is. What would actually
make them want to stay here inthis life? Hence, the reason why
all the different elements tothe life purpose.
And I'd have people that wouldcome to me that would be either
have contemplated checking out,have planned it, have attempted
it, and so on. And once theydiscover what their life purpose
is, now it gives them whatthey're here to do. And once
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they start living their life inalignment with that, now it
starts to dissolve thosethoughts suicide ideation, for
example. Okay? that's my quest.So my mission, for a while,
about a word, is to try and putpeople on the right path. That's
that's my mission. That's what Ido every single day. It's what I
advise doing in relation to my,the podcast interviews, my
business that I do, as well asgrowing and developing business
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from that perspective as in onceyou got your find your purpose,
now it's building the businessbecause the pipeline is the
ripple effect of that is huge.
So if a person is designingtheir business around what their
purpose is and developing andgrowing that, the impact that
they have on individuals ismassive. So I'm kind of leave,
June, for one better word, ontrying to get as many people on
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their life purpose as possiblebecause for them to do their
work then is huge. So that's inreal life from my perspective.
Now all the other people that Iwould've worked with to discover
life purpose wouldn't be as howwould you like, wouldn't be for
lack of a better word as dark asthat, but it will be very
specific to that individual andtherefore the work and the
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intention that they need to havewithin their business. Even if
they're a life coach or aconsultant or makes no
difference what they are.
But when they have the intentionof the impact that they wanna
make in the world for theindividuals that's completely
aligned with what their purposeis, what their sole contract is,
now things start to change.Start now they're in flow. Now
they're into achieving the levelof success that they absolutely
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desire. And that's where theGenius Code then comes into play
in relation to how they can makethat an awful lot easier and
reach the level of success thatthey want.
Carly Ries (18:43):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for sharing
all of that.
Joe Rando (18:46):
But I'm sorry. just there's one more. There were
four. Right?
Paul Davis: So When I observe and see something where some one has been recognized for the difference they've made, I'm like a baby. I (19:07):
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I literally bawled out andcries. So that for me is the
inspiration. Now if you look atit and the two of them are
joined forever whereby I'mobserving something whereby
somebody has reached reachedtheir full potential and they're
getting recognized for for thepotential that they've actually
achieved. And I'm balling like ababy observing that.
And so when I see clients, it'syeah. I need a box of Kleenex.
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Let's put that way. Okay? Thatis directly connected with my
quest From the point of view ismy quest is here in vision,
getting people on the righttrack.
When people fulfill theirmission and reach their full
potential, that's when they'veachieved. So your inspiration is
directly linked to your mission,always directly linked. That's
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how the two of them worktogether. So when I see that,
whether it could be in a movie,it could be in an event, it
could be the clients that I'mworking with, that for me is
giving me the unconscious nudgebecause that's how everything to
do with your life purpose isunconsciously given. So the
universe is constantly trying tonudge you in order to fulfill
your purpose.
So every single time I observethat, that's the unconscious
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saying, yes. That's what you'remeant to do, which needs you
need to know your quest in orderto understand that part of the
inspiration. Does that makesense, Joe?
Joe Rando (20:21):
It does. It does. It helps so much. Thank you.
Carly Ries (20:24):
What happens though if people just cannot figure out
their quest? If they're justlike so stuck, where like how do
they yeah. How do you how wouldthey approach it?
Paul Davis (20:35):
Yeah. I've never failed on discovering what an
individual's quest is or all theother matters for that matter
for that for all the otherelements for that matter. So the
way I devised the methodology,so first of all, I mentioned
earlier on I'm an empath, I'mintuitive, I was born the
seventh son, I was seventh onthe seventh. Here in Ireland,
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there's a huge amount offolklore between the seventh
son. So what I was able to dofor clients was give them all
the information that they neededin order to know what their life
purpose was.
I wanted to find out that sameinformation for myself because I
could never find so hence thereason why I've tried all the
other things to try and findout, okay, so what's my purpose?
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And it never gave me the answersthat I was seeking. And that
will be common for pretty muchevery single client that I've
come across and everybody that'sgone through my course to
discover what their life purposeis. They always come out and say
that the level of clarity andcertainty that they get is huge,
and it deeply resonates withthem. So the methodology is
based on finding the evidence ina person's life in order I call
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it a bit like the e fairy taleor the fable Hansel and Gretel
whereby you find thebreadcrumbs.
So when you look back and youfind the breadcrumbs, that's the
evidence in your life that yourunconscious has been guiding you
in order to fulfill yourpurpose. So just as much as I
said, when an individualresponds in an emotional way to
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something that they observe orsee or hear, that's their
unconscious trying to suggest tothem that, this is something
that they should pursue. Now I'mnot talking about, for example,
watching a movie and watching atearjerker movie because that's
created. I'm talking aboutsomething that's nobody else
around them is having anemotional response, but they
themselves are having anemotional response. That's their
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unconscious trying to nudge themto say, here's what you're meant
to do.
Okay? So what I do in in all thequestions that are in the
methodology, I pull out thosebreadcrumbs, I pull out that
information, that evidence in aperson's life. When we bring it
all together, now they canactually see all those different
elements, your role, yourdrivers, your quest, and your
inspiration. And now it's in thebook form. So I again, I
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developed the course to try andreach as many people as I
possibly could to bring themthrough the the methodology.
And then that was such a hugesuccess that it then turned into
a book, a gang trying to reachmore and more people globally to
try and bring them through themethodology.
Carly Ries (23:03):
So cool. Can you give an example of a solopreneur
that you've helped? And youdon't have to use their name or
anything, but just kinda theirstory of like, being kind of
lost and directionless, and nowthey run a successful one person
business.
Paul Davis (23:18):
Yeah. There's a few that flood in my mind every
single time I think of this.I'll go through one first of
all. One of them is a couple.They're married, when they came
to me, their relationship wasn'tgreat.
Okay? And the husband hadalready plans and attempted to
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check out. So when they came tome, they in a pretty much
desperate space. Alright? But Iworked with them in order to,
again, outline for them.
But again, it can be very, veryquick. So, again, for somebody
to say that's once thisdiscovered their life purpose in
the way that I teach it, theycould do it literally within a
half a day. That's how quick itis. journaling or meditating up
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top Of Mountain. It's nothinglike that whatsoever.
So by me working with them, theywere able to define did it for
both and then I aligned both thepurposes together and how they
each served each other. Becauselet me put it this way, the
universe is so perfect. Nothingis ever missing and it's so
perfect. So what I mean by thatis when you get a husband and
wife, they generally be mirrorsto each other, but they don't
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know that. So the things thatthey'll see for example, let's
just take a husband and wife.
Okay? The things that they willget annoyed about, that the
husband will get annoyed aboutit, say, and the wife are things
that they have within themselvesbut they haven't owned. So the
wife is there as being a mirrorto the husband. Equally, the
husband is there to be themirror to the wife. So just in
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order for and again, so theuniverse brings these people
together in order to get intorelationship, to learn from each
other, to develop, to evolve,and to grow spiritually.
So to cut a long story short,that's part of the work that
he's doing with them in order todevelop such a partnership for
one of the word together thatliterally did the because when
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you bring those energiestogether, that's phenomenal.
Because long story short,because I outlined for them in
relation to what their missionis, what they're to do. Now,
okay, could say they'resolopreneurs in their own right
in terms of they come together,but what I said to both of them
was you need to do one aspect ofthe work and your wife needs to
do another different aspect thework, but you can still work
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together serving the sameclients if that makes sense.
Alright? Good long story short,they are literally traveling the
world and their business isgoing phenomenally well.
So it depends on your definitionof success. Some people, it's
money and I've got loads ofclients that literally probably,
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you know, if I was to gauge it,they're probably quadruple on
average, they probably quadrupletheir income within the space of
two years. So that's from afinancial perspective. Because
again, as a business consultant,the second book that I came out
which is specifically forsolopreneurs and people in
professional services was how toget more clients, more fees,
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more time. So when you merge themethodologies and how to grow a
business with your being alignedwith your purpose, now you're,
as we say in Ireland, you'resucking diesel.
You're really in the flow atthat stage. So, again, depends
on the level of success. Incomewise, people would have
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quadrupled their incomes,increased their fees
significantly in terms of thecharge because the genius code
is all about building confidenceand being aligned with your true
self being in flow when you'rewith that and you're able to
manage master your emotions. Noweverything becomes an awful lot
easier. So now if you build yourself worth and your confidence,
well, now what you would chargewill be an awful lot higher than
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somebody else, for example.
If it comes to relationships,again, the genius code is all
really about if you think of itthis way, the way I probably
best describe for clients isimagine a ground 04:00 and if
you're familiar with the ground04:00 where you got that
pendulum and the pendulum swingsfrom left to right. Every single
individual is I call the geniuspendulum. That genius pendulum
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operates an individual level,but also on a global level. So
you'll see it in politics.You'll see it in countries.
You'll see, you know, countriesgoing from war to peace. You'll
see it in politics going from,you know, democratic to
republicans and so on. But alsoon a micro level with
individual, each one has agenius pendulum. And every
single time we get triggered bysomething or we have a reaction
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to something, our geniuspendulum has been swung either
left or right, but the universehas to bring us back into
equilibrium. And when we're inequilibrium, now that's when
we're in flow, what people referto as bliss or love or, you
know, just share gratitude foreverything.
That's when you're inequilibrium. And now that's
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where everything starts to flow.So when it comes to people use
the word manifesting in yourlife. Now when you're in
equilibrium, you're manifestingpretty much what it is that you
want more quickly than you wouldwhen you're out of equilibrium.
And people wonder why they can'tmanifest.
The reason being is that they'reout of equilibrium. People that
I've worked with will that'spart of the work that we're
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working on in relation to removeand dissolve as many of those
triggers as possible. Sotherefore, they don't have fear
in their life. They haveconfidence. it's a confidence
not from you know, a cockinessperspective.
It's just a surety that theyhave. And so they know who they
are. They're completelyauthentic to themselves, and
they're just going through lifeas they are meant to be. And
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that's literally what weachieve.
Carly Ries (28:56):
That's amazing. And Joe, I just think this ties in
so well because our wholebusiness is around creating a
business that serves your life.And so everything you're saying,
I'm like, I like this guy. Well,Paul, I feel like we could talk
forever. I'm so curious, though.
We always ask our our guestswhat their favorite quote is. Do
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you have a mantra? And it seemsvery fitting that you have a
mantra over a quote. I don'tknow why, but I'm like, that
makes sense.
So what is the mantra that youwould like to share?
Paul Davis (29:28):
Yeah. It's just a simple mantra call it fail fast.
And people will be familiar withit. But it's to fail fast learn
from your failures because it'sabout trying everything. A lot
of people get hung up about, oh,everything has to be success.
And then when it fails ordoesn't have the outcome of what
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people expect, now they start togo inward and say, how did I
fail? What did I do wrong? Andso now they're self deprecating
themselves. Whereas if you had amantra from the front of you of
just fail fast, just trysomething, and if it works,
Brilliant.
Then now you move on to the nextstep. And if it doesn't work,
well then, okay, move on again.Just find the next thing and
(30:10):
move forward. But you gottalearn from your failures. It's
not about wallowing in yourfailures.
Absolutely not because there'salways a learning from every
single failure that you comeacross.
Joe Rando (30:19):
100%.
Carly Ries (30:21):
Well, Paul, we've teased your book. Where can
people find it, and where canpeople find out more about you?
Paul Davis (30:26):
Sure. My website is probably the easiest, which is
davisbusinessconsultants.com.
Joe Rando (30:31):
D a v I s?
Paul Davis (30:33):
D a v I s. Yeah. The Welsh version is ies, but yeah.
That'sdavisbusinessconsultants.com.
And on that all my resources,all my books. My books all
available on Amazon anyway. Andyeah. So my latest book Genius
Unlocked. My first book wasEvolve.
My second book was How to GetMore Clients, More Fees, More
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Time, and I'm currently writinga fourth book. but if you wanna
keep in touch, you can sign upto the newsletter too, I'll let
people know. So just go to ourwebsite
davisbusinessconsultants.com.
Joe Rando (31:06):
You have my respect. Writing one book actually
writing half a book as Carly'swriting the other half. That's
been journey all by itself, sodeep respect.
Carly Ries (31:15):
Thank you. Yes. Well, Paul, thank you so much
for coming on the show. I justthink so many listeners will get
so much from this, and justthank you so much for what you
do.
I think it's really important.And listeners, thank you so much
for tuning in. You know thedrill. Please leave that five
star review. Subscribe on yourfavorite podcast platform, and
we will see you next time on TheAspiring Solopreneur.
Joe Rando (31:35):
And I'm gonna jump in here because I've been wanting
to do this for a while. Really,really, really write that five
star review. Please. We needthose. We need them to get this
podcast out.
We need for more people to hearit. And by doing that, you will
help make that happen and helpmore people. So do your part.
We're working hard here for youand leave that review. Thank
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you.
Carly Ries (31:58):
You may be going solo in business, but that
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Is following your passion actually leading you
(00:02):
away from your true purpose? Inthis episode, we're joined by
Paul Davis, a man who might justmake you rethink everything
you've been told about findingyour purpose. Forget find your
why, test out your ikigaidiagram, because Paul dives deep
into how to uncover your geniuscode, the blueprint you were
born with that can unlock abusiness and life that finally
feels aligned. So if you'retired of chasing shiny objects,
(00:25):
feeling burnt out, or wonderingwhy your passion projects fizzle
out, then this one's for you.You're listening to the Aspiring
Solopreneur, the podcast forthose just taking the bold step
or even just thinking abouttaking that step into the world
of solo entrepreneurship.
My name is Carly Ries, and mycohost, Joe Rando, and I are
your guides to navigating thiscrazy but awesome journey as a
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company of one. We take pride inbeing part of LifeStarr, a
digital hub dedicated to allaspects of solopreneurship that
has empowered and educatedcountless solopreneurs looking
to build a business thatresonates with their life's
ambitions. We help people workto live, not live to work. And
if you're looking for a get richquick scheme, this is not the
show for you. So if you're eagerto gain valuable insights from
(01:11):
industry experts on running abusiness the right way the first
time around or want to learnfrom the missteps of
solopreneurs who've paved theway before you, then stick
around.
We've got your back becauseflying solo in business doesn't
mean you're alone. So Paul, weare so excited to have you here
today. One of the reasonsselfishly, I think is because
(01:31):
we're currently writingSolopreneur Business
For Dummies. So we're writing abook. I know you also just
published a book that I can'twait to get to in a bit.
But as we've been writing, oneof the things I've been
realizing after speaking withour community is that a big hang
up is just purpose and drive andcreating a business not to make
millions and millions ofdollars, but one that really
(01:53):
fulfills them and and makes themrealize what they are meant to
do and and happy to do and tocreate a business around it. So
you cannot be coming at a moreperfect time today. Welcome to
the show.
Paul Davis (02:04):
It's great to be here. Thank you so much.
Carly Ries (02:06):
Yeah. Well, let's just dive right in. Because for
these individuals, what commonmistakes do you see people
typically make when trying tofind their life purpose, and how
can they combat it?
Paul Davis (02:17):
Yeah. I've seen a trend happen over probably the
last ten years or so. It mightbe a little bit longer. So
there are two things that reallycome to mind. One is what we've
always been told in conventionalwisdom is to follow your
passions.
And if you discover what you'repassionate about and pursue your
passions and build your career,your business around your
passions, well then, basically,for one of a better word, you
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won't have to work another dayin your life. That's as the old
adage goes. But what you find isthat passions are transient. So
you'll be hugely enthusiasticabout your passions, but they
tend to be transient if you'reoperating on it with your
passions on an ongoing basis. Sothat that that's one aspect.
But another thing kinda came tofore again over the last ten
(03:02):
years was to find your why. Andpeople interpret it from the
point of view of, well, if youfind your why, well, that's
gonna give you a meaning,purpose, fulfillment. And some
people actually interpret it asbeing your purpose. But actually
your why is slightly different.And I think the meaning that was
taken from find your why wasmore around, okay, how do you
get a team of people in acompany to get behind a purpose
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or a mission for a businessitself?
Your true, absolute true why, Iprefer to use the word
inspiration. call it your geniusinspiration. The word genius
comes from gignery. It's a Latinword. And that genius to
gignery, the actual meaning andthe source or the origin of the
word gignery is that inherentspirit that was present since
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birth.
So everybody has a naturalgenius. Inspiration comes from
the art again, the origin of theword inspiration comes from
inspirare, which is the breaththat is blown within, which is
divine guidance. So I prefer touse inspiration. And you you
can't you can't alterinspiration. So inspiration are
those moments where you've gotthat wow moment, you're
(04:05):
overwhelmed with sheer sensejoy, of just wow, of amazement.
And everybody will have anemotional response to that in a
good way. So it's not thatthey're crying for sadness.
They're actually crying for joyor for wow or for amazement . So
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inspiration is more to do withwhat we are actually being
prompted to from our unconsciousto actually pursue what our
purpose is. And so, again, overthe last number of decades, I've
developed a methodology thatactually finds an individual's
like purpose, and that's it'sdifferent to conventional wisdom
in terms of find your passions.
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Ikigai is another one, and it'sJapanese concept and people will
recognize by intersectingcircles. There's find your why.
there's find your values. Andagain, each one of those will
help to, I suppose, give you anelement of happiness. However,
it's not your true purpose.
When it goes to solopreneurs,and the vast majority of my
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clients are solopreneurs andprofessional services, what I
find is a lot of people will setup a business because they've
either come in touch withsomething. Now that could be, a
life coach or it could be somemethodology or some modality
that they found that they had areally regret experience from,
and hence they're passionateabout it and want to serve the
world and want to bring theirmessage or bring their treatment
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or whatever might be that theyfound out into the world. And
that comes from every singleindividual's desire to want to
make a difference. So when youcome to this entrepreneur,
they'll set up a business, but avast majority of people don't
know, well, how do we create abusiness? So how do we get more
clients?
How do we price our fees? How dowe increase our fees for one
(05:54):
better word? How do we manageour time? Because typically as a
solopreneur, it's justourselves. And then what you
find is after a couple of years,they get exhausted because, they
don't know how to develop thatmethodology in relation to get
more clients and increase thebusiness and get a steady
revenue stream.
And now they fall back to beingdisgruntled, not fulfilled.
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They've lost their passionagain. They've lost their mojo
in a lot of cases, and they comeback to search for, well, okay.
So what should I do now? Andthat's the circle I see an awful
lot of solopreneurs actuallyfall into.
Joe Rando (06:25):
It makes sense. It's like, you know, they get burnt
out, and they can't then see away out of making that passion
work and try to find some newand I don't wanna call it shiny
object, but some new thing that,you know, seems like it's less
painful.
Paul Davis (06:40):
Yeah. I definitely see that. I refer to it as shiny
object syndrome.
It is that case where, yeah,people find something new and
they chase after that and say,maybe that will make me happy or
maybe that will be the secret ofwhat's actually gonna make me,
happy again.
Carly Ries (06:56):
Mhmm. Paul, I feel like Joe and I should just leave
because I just wanna hear youtalk forever. I'm so intrigued.
You don't even need us to behere. I just wanna hear what you
have to say. But you keptreferring to your methodology,
which you referred to as thegenius code. So can you explain
those core principles and howthey can kind of facilitate
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personal mastery?
Joe Rando (07:19):
And can I add an angle to that too as you're
going through it? Can you kindacompare and contrast a little
bit with things like find yourwhy and ikigai?
Paul Davis (07:27):
Yep. Absolutely can. Cool. So okay. So let me start
off with the genius code, thefirst part of that is what I
refer to as genius unlocked.
Now I call it genius unlockedbecause it's unlocking the
genius within an individual, Andit's a methodology that'll bring
people through in order to findtheir true purpose and their
true innate genius. So yourinnate genius is the genius that
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you were actually born with. Sothere's four elements that makes
up that's contained withingenius unlocked. There's your
genius drivers and your geniusdrivers is what gives you your
joy, fulfillment, your zest forlife, your mojo. it literally
increases if I talk from aspiritual perspective or from
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you know, some people talk alongthese lines in terms of what's
going to raise your vibration,what's going to raise your
energy levels.
That's what your genuine geniusdrivers will actually bring to
you. So it's your joy, it's yourfulfillment, it's that sense of
just it's pure zest for life. Sothat's what I call your genius
drivers. Then there's yourgenius quest. And the definition
of quest is a long and arduousjourney to find a solution to
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something or to find something.
Every single individual has aunique genius quest. It's been
with them since birth and itcontinues throughout their whole
life. And I that's againcontrary to what conventional
wisdom or some people will sayto enrich and to life purpose in
terms of your purpose changesthroughout your life. It
doesn't. It never ever everchanges.
It goes throughout your wholelife and it starts from
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literally when you're born. Mostpeople are nudged by their
unconscious. And what I found byworking with so many clients
over the years, what I found isthat in around the ages of
between six, seven, and eight iswhen their unconscious is really
trying to implant on them whattheir genius quest is. But
again, as we grow up in societyand parents and all the kinds of
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things, we forget about thatquest and we don't pursue it.
But our unconscious isconstantly trying to bring us
back to fulfill that questbecause it's a soul contract.
It's a life contract. You haveto fulfill that mission for one
better word. So Eugenius Questis your mission life. It's your
what. And what an awful lot ofpeople when they're trying to
find what their purpose is,they're trying to find what they
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are specifically here to do.
Then there's your genius role.Now I've identified 10 different
genius roles. So for example,one of them is the parents, the
other one is I'm a guide, andthe other one is a leader. So
there are 10 different geniusroles. Now a person will play
one of those genius roles againthroughout their whole life.
It's what they naturally do.They don't even think about it.
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They don't have to go to schoolabout it or college about it.
They don't have to learnanything. They literally just
naturally play one of thosegenius roles.
Now there's a shadow side andfrustration point to each genius
role, and that's what causesself sabotage. But being a
solopreneur, you're actuallywearing a lot of different hats.
So you're delivering declines,you're doing your operations,
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you're doing your marketing,you're doing your finances,
you're doing everything. Soyou're wearing different hats
throughout being a solopreneur.But once you identify what your
genius role is, now youstructure your business around
your genius role.
That's your genius role. That'show you're best to fulfill your
mission. And then there's yourgenius inspiration is what I
referred to earlier on, whichagain comes from the origin word
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that says for inspirare. Andpeople will have that, again,
that response. It's you cancreate it.
Your conscious mind can createit. It's unconsciously created.
It's divine given. but yourinspiration is always directly
linked to your genius quest.Always.
And all the genius elements workso perfectly with everything
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else. As in your genius role,your genius drivers, your genius
quest, your genius inspiration.They're all hand in hand with
with each other. That's howperfect the universe is. It's
literally nothing's evermissing.
Everybody has everything withinthem that they need in order to
actually fulfill what theirpurpose is. Now that's what I
call genius a lot.
Joe Rando (11:24):
Can I ask you a favor before we go on? Because it's a
lot. It's a lot, and it's good.It's great. I love it, but it's
a lot.
Can you give, like, an example?Like, just a person either that
you've coached or just a made upexample of somebody in each of
these characteristics and howthey fit together. That would
really help me.
Paul Davis (11:41):
Yeah. So say okay. So let's say the genius role has
been the parent. Okay? Now theparent I've called it the parent
because stereotypically like aparent, they actually operate
quite similar.
But in the business format, itworks from the point of view of
the parent wants to bring thefamily together. They want to
bring a group of peopletogether. So the parent will
naturally be drawn towardswanting to have social
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gatherings, want to build acommunity, for example, online
or face to face. That's whatthey wanna do. And they want
everybody working together wellwith it within the actual
community or within theenvironment or within the
company that they're workingwithin or whatever.
That's the natural thing for theactual parent. However, the
shadow side and frustrationpoint is they look after
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everybody else's needs first. Sothey're the ones that are always
last to be fed. So they'realways last to be sat down at
the table while all their, youknow, their partner or spouse
has been handed their meal,their kids have been handed a
meal, and they're always thelast one to be sitting down at
the table. So they'll actuallylook after their own needs last.
So what's really, reallyimportant for the parental role,
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meaning that the parent, thegenius role as a parent, is self
care. It is everybody needs selfcare, but the parent genius role
absolutely needs more self care.So that's really how that might
kinda manifest in real life.
Carly Ries (13:00):
Did you just really get teary eyed? Because that
resonated so well with me. I waslike, yeah, you're right. I do
need more self care. I'm theparent role.
Paul Davis (13:09):
Yeah. is the guide. So being a guide is all I wanna
do is bring people from a to zas quickly as possible. That's
what the guide wants to do. Andthey want to advise them, they
want to help them, they want toencourage them, that's what the
guide does.
But however, on the flip side ofthe guide is they feel that
they're not good enough. Theyfeel that they need to know more
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information, more knowledge orwhatever in order to be able to
answer the questions for clientsor other people. So that's the
shadow side of the guide. Soagain, every genius role has its
own downside as well as positiveside.
Joe Rando (13:44):
Cool. So we got the genius role of parent where you
said parent. So but now we'vegot three other components here
that can you tie them alltogether just so I can get a
whole picture of a person beforewe go on to beyond the genius
unlock?
Paul Davis (13:58):
Let me go through mine because that's probably the
easiest example.
Carly Ries (14:01):
Okay.
Paul Davis (14:01):
Okay. So my genius drivers are experiencing,
advising, and learning. Okay? Solet that sink for a minute.
Joe Rando (14:09):
Okay.
Paul Davis (14:09):
So experiencing, advising, and learning. So when
I'm advising, just like I'mdoing on this podcast in terms
of I'm answering questions, Iabsolutely love it. It's what
literally boosts my energy. AndI always get more energy, either
I'm a higher energy at the endof a podcast interview or any
other type of interview or whenI'm having client meetings and
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advising a client's meeting. I'malways at a higher energy than I
am at the beginning of thesessions. So the English
language is so limited that weonly have a certain number of
words to describe certainthings. But the definition that
an individual have to theirgenius drivers is absolutely
unique to them. So experiencingfor other people could be
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anything. Alright? It could beexperiencing glass of red wine.
It could be experiencing a walkin nature. For me, if you
probably look at my background,I have a lot of aircraft on on
my background. For me,experiencing is really an
experience that not many peoplewill do. Like, there's a tiny
percentage of the population inthe globe that will actually do
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the kind of experiences I do. Sofor example, my last experience
that I did was I got strapped tothe top of a biplane.
I was brought up to 4,000 feetin the air, and we did
aerobatics in the air. And notmany people are gonna do that.
So that's my type of experience.
Joe Rando (15:31):
Yeah. I'm out. I am out. I'm one of the six steps on
a ladder, and I'm calling aprofessional.
Paul Davis (15:40):
But that for me, that's what gives me joy, gives
me the sense that gives me like,it's what I absolutely love to
do. So they're my geniusdrivers. When it comes to my
genius quest so it's gonna go alittle bit deep now. Okay? So
just a warning and just kind ofa bit of a initial, setup on
this one.
Since the age of 10, I've beenasked myself the question, what
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would keep me here on this life?Because bottom line is I just
did not want to be in this life.I wanted out even at the age of
10. So it's not that I grew upin an abusive childhood and it's
nothing like that whatsoever,but I just like, I'm an empath
naturally and I'm highlyintuitive on another side as
well. So growing up in anenvironment, I literally every
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single day, I was just thinking,I don't wanna be here.
So I'd look at every single wayof how I could check out of
life, but equally, on the flipside of that, I was looking,
okay, so what would actuallymake me stay? So my quest is
actually about how what wouldactually make me stay? So that's
where it put me on the quest inorder to discover and find out
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what does an individual's lifepurpose is. What would actually
make them want to stay here inthis life? Hence, the reason why
all the different elements tothe life purpose.
And I'd have people that wouldcome to me that would be either
have contemplated checking out,have planned it, have attempted
it, and so on. And once theydiscover what their life purpose
is, now it gives them whatthey're here to do. And once
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they start living their life inalignment with that, now it
starts to dissolve thosethoughts suicide ideation, for
example. Okay? that's my quest.So my mission, for a while,
about a word, is to try and putpeople on the right path. That's
that's my mission. That's what Ido every single day. It's what I
advise doing in relation to my,the podcast interviews, my
business that I do, as well asgrowing and developing business
(17:31):
from that perspective as in onceyou got your find your purpose,
now it's building the businessbecause the pipeline is the
ripple effect of that is huge.
So if a person is designingtheir business around what their
purpose is and developing andgrowing that, the impact that
they have on individuals ismassive. So I'm kind of leave,
June, for one better word, ontrying to get as many people on
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their life purpose as possiblebecause for them to do their
work then is huge. So that's inreal life from my perspective.
Now all the other people that Iwould've worked with to discover
life purpose wouldn't be as howwould you like, wouldn't be for
lack of a better word as dark asthat, but it will be very
specific to that individual andtherefore the work and the
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intention that they need to havewithin their business. Even if
they're a life coach or aconsultant or makes no
difference what they are.
But when they have the intentionof the impact that they wanna
make in the world for theindividuals that's completely
aligned with what their purposeis, what their sole contract is,
now things start to change.Start now they're in flow. Now
they're into achieving the levelof success that they absolutely
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desire. And that's where theGenius Code then comes into play
in relation to how they can makethat an awful lot easier and
reach the level of success thatthey want.
Carly Ries (18:43):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for sharing
all of that.
Joe Rando (18:46):
But I'm sorry. just there's one more. There were
four. Right?
Paul Davis: So When I observe and see something where some one has been recognized for the difference they've made, I'm like a baby. I (19:07):
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I literally bawled out andcries. So that for me is the
inspiration. Now if you look atit and the two of them are
joined forever whereby I'mobserving something whereby
somebody has reached reachedtheir full potential and they're
getting recognized for for thepotential that they've actually
achieved. And I'm balling like ababy observing that.
And so when I see clients, it'syeah. I need a box of Kleenex.
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Let's put that way. Okay? Thatis directly connected with my
quest From the point of view ismy quest is here in vision,
getting people on the righttrack.
When people fulfill theirmission and reach their full
potential, that's when they'veachieved. So your inspiration is
directly linked to your mission,always directly linked. That's
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how the two of them worktogether. So when I see that,
whether it could be in a movie,it could be in an event, it
could be the clients that I'mworking with, that for me is
giving me the unconscious nudgebecause that's how everything to
do with your life purpose isunconsciously given. So the
universe is constantly trying tonudge you in order to fulfill
your purpose.
So every single time I observethat, that's the unconscious
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saying, yes. That's what you'remeant to do, which needs you
need to know your quest in orderto understand that part of the
inspiration. Does that makesense, Joe?
Joe Rando (20:21):
It does. It does. It helps so much. Thank you.
Carly Ries (20:24):
What happens though if people just cannot figure out
their quest? If they're justlike so stuck, where like how do
they yeah. How do you how wouldthey approach it?
Paul Davis (20:35):
Yeah. I've never failed on discovering what an
individual's quest is or all theother matters for that matter
for that for all the otherelements for that matter. So the
way I devised the methodology,so first of all, I mentioned
earlier on I'm an empath, I'mintuitive, I was born the
seventh son, I was seventh onthe seventh. Here in Ireland,
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there's a huge amount offolklore between the seventh
son. So what I was able to dofor clients was give them all
the information that they neededin order to know what their life
purpose was.
I wanted to find out that sameinformation for myself because I
could never find so hence thereason why I've tried all the
other things to try and findout, okay, so what's my purpose?
(21:20):
And it never gave me the answersthat I was seeking. And that
will be common for pretty muchevery single client that I've
come across and everybody that'sgone through my course to
discover what their life purposeis. They always come out and say
that the level of clarity andcertainty that they get is huge,
and it deeply resonates withthem. So the methodology is
based on finding the evidence ina person's life in order I call
(21:43):
it a bit like the e fairy taleor the fable Hansel and Gretel
whereby you find thebreadcrumbs.
So when you look back and youfind the breadcrumbs, that's the
evidence in your life that yourunconscious has been guiding you
in order to fulfill yourpurpose. So just as much as I
said, when an individualresponds in an emotional way to
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something that they observe orsee or hear, that's their
unconscious trying to suggest tothem that, this is something
that they should pursue. Now I'mnot talking about, for example,
watching a movie and watching atearjerker movie because that's
created. I'm talking aboutsomething that's nobody else
around them is having anemotional response, but they
themselves are having anemotional response. That's their
(22:25):
unconscious trying to nudge themto say, here's what you're meant
to do.
Okay? So what I do in in all thequestions that are in the
methodology, I pull out thosebreadcrumbs, I pull out that
information, that evidence in aperson's life. When we bring it
all together, now they canactually see all those different
elements, your role, yourdrivers, your quest, and your
inspiration. And now it's in thebook form. So I again, I
(22:47):
developed the course to try andreach as many people as I
possibly could to bring themthrough the the methodology.
And then that was such a hugesuccess that it then turned into
a book, a gang trying to reachmore and more people globally to
try and bring them through themethodology.
Carly Ries (23:03):
So cool. Can you give an example of a solopreneur
that you've helped? And youdon't have to use their name or
anything, but just kinda theirstory of like, being kind of
lost and directionless, and nowthey run a successful one person
business.
Paul Davis (23:18):
Yeah. There's a few that flood in my mind every
single time I think of this.I'll go through one first of
all. One of them is a couple.They're married, when they came
to me, their relationship wasn'tgreat.
Okay? And the husband hadalready plans and attempted to
(23:43):
check out. So when they came tome, they in a pretty much
desperate space. Alright? But Iworked with them in order to,
again, outline for them.
But again, it can be very, veryquick. So, again, for somebody
to say that's once thisdiscovered their life purpose in
the way that I teach it, theycould do it literally within a
half a day. That's how quick itis. journaling or meditating up
(24:08):
top Of Mountain. It's nothinglike that whatsoever.
So by me working with them, theywere able to define did it for
both and then I aligned both thepurposes together and how they
each served each other. Becauselet me put it this way, the
universe is so perfect. Nothingis ever missing and it's so
perfect. So what I mean by thatis when you get a husband and
wife, they generally be mirrorsto each other, but they don't
(24:31):
know that. So the things thatthey'll see for example, let's
just take a husband and wife.
Okay? The things that they willget annoyed about, that the
husband will get annoyed aboutit, say, and the wife are things
that they have within themselvesbut they haven't owned. So the
wife is there as being a mirrorto the husband. Equally, the
husband is there to be themirror to the wife. So just in
(24:52):
order for and again, so theuniverse brings these people
together in order to get intorelationship, to learn from each
other, to develop, to evolve,and to grow spiritually.
So to cut a long story short,that's part of the work that
he's doing with them in order todevelop such a partnership for
one of the word together thatliterally did the because when
(25:15):
you bring those energiestogether, that's phenomenal.
Because long story short,because I outlined for them in
relation to what their missionis, what they're to do. Now,
okay, could say they'resolopreneurs in their own right
in terms of they come together,but what I said to both of them
was you need to do one aspect ofthe work and your wife needs to
do another different aspect thework, but you can still work
(25:37):
together serving the sameclients if that makes sense.
Alright? Good long story short,they are literally traveling the
world and their business isgoing phenomenally well.
So it depends on your definitionof success. Some people, it's
money and I've got loads ofclients that literally probably,
(25:57):
you know, if I was to gauge it,they're probably quadruple on
average, they probably quadrupletheir income within the space of
two years. So that's from afinancial perspective. Because
again, as a business consultant,the second book that I came out
which is specifically forsolopreneurs and people in
professional services was how toget more clients, more fees,
(26:19):
more time. So when you merge themethodologies and how to grow a
business with your being alignedwith your purpose, now you're,
as we say in Ireland, you'resucking diesel.
You're really in the flow atthat stage. So, again, depends
on the level of success. Incomewise, people would have
(26:40):
quadrupled their incomes,increased their fees
significantly in terms of thecharge because the genius code
is all about building confidenceand being aligned with your true
self being in flow when you'rewith that and you're able to
manage master your emotions. Noweverything becomes an awful lot
easier. So now if you build yourself worth and your confidence,
well, now what you would chargewill be an awful lot higher than
(27:04):
somebody else, for example.
If it comes to relationships,again, the genius code is all
really about if you think of itthis way, the way I probably
best describe for clients isimagine a ground 04:00 and if
you're familiar with the ground04:00 where you got that
pendulum and the pendulum swingsfrom left to right. Every single
individual is I call the geniuspendulum. That genius pendulum
(27:28):
operates an individual level,but also on a global level. So
you'll see it in politics.You'll see it in countries.
You'll see, you know, countriesgoing from war to peace. You'll
see it in politics going from,you know, democratic to
republicans and so on. But alsoon a micro level with
individual, each one has agenius pendulum. And every
single time we get triggered bysomething or we have a reaction
(27:49):
to something, our geniuspendulum has been swung either
left or right, but the universehas to bring us back into
equilibrium. And when we're inequilibrium, now that's when
we're in flow, what people referto as bliss or love or, you
know, just share gratitude foreverything.
That's when you're inequilibrium. And now that's
(28:10):
where everything starts to flow.So when it comes to people use
the word manifesting in yourlife. Now when you're in
equilibrium, you're manifestingpretty much what it is that you
want more quickly than you wouldwhen you're out of equilibrium.
And people wonder why they can'tmanifest.
The reason being is that they'reout of equilibrium. People that
I've worked with will that'spart of the work that we're
(28:31):
working on in relation to removeand dissolve as many of those
triggers as possible. Sotherefore, they don't have fear
in their life. They haveconfidence. it's a confidence
not from you know, a cockinessperspective.
It's just a surety that theyhave. And so they know who they
are. They're completelyauthentic to themselves, and
they're just going through lifeas they are meant to be. And
(28:53):
that's literally what weachieve.
Carly Ries (28:56):
That's amazing. And Joe, I just think this ties in
so well because our wholebusiness is around creating a
business that serves your life.And so everything you're saying,
I'm like, I like this guy. Well,Paul, I feel like we could talk
forever. I'm so curious, though.
We always ask our our guestswhat their favorite quote is. Do
(29:18):
you have a mantra? And it seemsvery fitting that you have a
mantra over a quote. I don'tknow why, but I'm like, that
makes sense.
So what is the mantra that youwould like to share?
Paul Davis (29:28):
Yeah. It's just a simple mantra call it fail fast.
And people will be familiar withit. But it's to fail fast learn
from your failures because it'sabout trying everything. A lot
of people get hung up about, oh,everything has to be success.
And then when it fails ordoesn't have the outcome of what
(29:49):
people expect, now they start togo inward and say, how did I
fail? What did I do wrong? Andso now they're self deprecating
themselves. Whereas if you had amantra from the front of you of
just fail fast, just trysomething, and if it works,
Brilliant.
Then now you move on to the nextstep. And if it doesn't work,
well then, okay, move on again.Just find the next thing and
(30:10):
move forward. But you gottalearn from your failures. It's
not about wallowing in yourfailures.
Absolutely not because there'salways a learning from every
single failure that you comeacross.
Joe Rando (30:19):
100%.
Carly Ries (30:21):
Well, Paul, we've teased your book. Where can
people find it, and where canpeople find out more about you?
Paul Davis (30:26):
Sure. My website is probably the easiest, which is
davisbusinessconsultants.com.
Joe Rando (30:31):
D a v I s?
Paul Davis (30:33):
D a v I s. Yeah. The Welsh version is ies, but yeah.
That'sdavisbusinessconsultants.com.
And on that all my resources,all my books. My books all
available on Amazon anyway. Andyeah. So my latest book Genius
Unlocked. My first book wasEvolve.
My second book was How to GetMore Clients, More Fees, More
(30:56):
Time, and I'm currently writinga fourth book. but if you wanna
keep in touch, you can sign upto the newsletter too, I'll let
people know. So just go to ourwebsite
davisbusinessconsultants.com.
Joe Rando (31:06):
You have my respect. Writing one book actually
writing half a book as Carly'swriting the other half. That's
been journey all by itself, sodeep respect.
Carly Ries (31:15):
Thank you. Yes. Well, Paul, thank you so much
for coming on the show. I justthink so many listeners will get
so much from this, and justthank you so much for what you
do.
I think it's really important.And listeners, thank you so much
for tuning in. You know thedrill. Please leave that five
star review. Subscribe on yourfavorite podcast platform, and
we will see you next time on TheAspiring Solopreneur.
Joe Rando (31:35):
And I'm gonna jump in here because I've been wanting
to do this for a while. Really,really, really write that five
star review. Please. We needthose. We need them to get this
podcast out.
We need for more people to hearit. And by doing that, you will
help make that happen and helpmore people. So do your part.
We're working hard here for youand leave that review. Thank
(31:55):
you.
Carly Ries (31:58):
You may be going solo in business, but that
doesn't mean you're alone. Infact, millions of people are in
your shoes, running a one personbusiness and figuring it out as
they go. So why not connect withthem and learn from each other's
successes and failures? AtLifeStarr, we're creating a one
person business community whereyou can go to meet and get
advice from other solopreneurs.Be sure to join in on the
(32:19):
conversations atcommunity.lifestarr.com.
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