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April 29, 2021 15 mins

We call on our friend Dan Manson who is a LIFE COACH to talk about having a feeling that your stuck in a rut!We also discuss how to cut ties with corporate and thrive in the YOLO economy!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
firms show, so a very different fifteen minute morning show podcast.
Finally we're doing one that has substance, something that can
help someone rather rather than chip away at your soul

(00:25):
and crush your heart. So here we go. H on
the podcast today, We've got Froggy and they're Scary, and
there's Danielle, and there's Garrett and Gandhi Senior Nate, Straight
Nate and their Scotty b And we're trying to get
David Brody in the room. We're having trouble there. Oh,
there is high Dave Brody and our special guest, our
friend Dan Mason. Hi, Dan, welcome to the show. Not

(00:48):
to be back, guys, it's so good to see you.
What's good to see you two. Let's get let's just
get to business. Of course, you can always listen to
Dan's podcast on the I Heart Radio. It's called Life Amplified.
And uh, you've been You've actually been a great life
coach for our show in a private setting, and you've
also worked with a lot of our listeners throughout the years.

(01:09):
Let's talk about where we are in life now. We're
crawling out of of a of a pandemic ditch, and
we're learning that opportunities are waiting for us, and so
maybe we don't have to live in a dark hole.
We can do fun new things with our life. Let's
talk about let's talk about getting back to life. What
do you want to do? Yeah? Yeah, Well, you know,

(01:29):
The New York Times just post uh published a big
article that articulates everything I've been sort of evangelizing on
the Life Amplified podcast since seen they're calling it the
Yolo economy. And it's interesting when you think about it,
because like a year ago, we were all losing our
minds in lockdown, like dying to get back into the office.

(01:50):
And now a year later, there's literally a large segment
tens of millions of people all over the country that
are like, if they make me go back to the office,
I'm gonna quit. So we've really reevaluated our priorities right.
The past year has given us all time to self reflect,
and there's a lot of people who realize that they

(02:10):
bought into the biggest lie that I think corporate America
has sold as for the past fifty years, which is
you've got to work your eyeballs out and you've got
to obtain a certain level of financial security before you're
allowed to address your own emotional needs. And over the
past year, a lot of people have really taken to

(02:31):
the work from home lifestyle. They've liked having time with
their kids, They've liked having the autonomy to schedule their day,
to not be fighting along commute into work and to
and to really protect those boundaries around the things that
help their emotional wellness. So the question is, now that
the world's reopening, do we have to go back to

(02:52):
the hustling grind? And of course, my big message that
I preach to people is absolutely not. It's a perfect
time to redesign a new vision for your career in
life moving forward. Well, uh, it sounds easy. Let's just
do it like that. So, in your opinion, which is
very valued in this room, how do you begin the process?

(03:14):
How do you how do you get on that treadmill
and start making it go faster and faster? Yeah, I
think the number one mindset shift if anybody is on
the ledge and the yolo economy right now is about
the people who were thinking about you know what. Like
according to LinkedIn, fifty percent of job seekers right now
are considering starting their own business or going freelance rather

(03:36):
than being, you know, tied to the endless hamster wheel
of corporate America. But that's scary, right, Like, you know,
for a lot of us. And I tell people that
anytime your subconscious mind links anything in your life to safety,
it's hard to let go of. That's why people have
a hard time quitting smoking. Like a lot of people
will tell me, well, Dan, cigarettes, relax me. It's not

(03:58):
so much that the cigarette does, it's what do you
do when you're smoking. It's a deep inhale in blow
it out, you know, but you make me want it
so But a lot of people think that corporate America
is their link to safety. Yeah, I guess. But over
the last year, haven't we seen a lot of people
get laid off, be asked to take pay cuts because

(04:22):
the economy went down, in their employers not looking out
for him. Safety is generated within, and you do that
by moving from an employee mindset, which says I gotta
hustle and work for someone else's dream, to an entrepreneur mindset,
which says I don't necessarily need a job to survive.
I just need income. I need to figure out a

(04:42):
way to get financial resources to flow to me. The
best way to do that is to figure out what
are the skills and gifts I have that solve problems
for people? The entrepreneur the entrepreneur mindset is just solving problems.
This is all why we love Shark Tank. Right. Somebody
figured out that people have problems in the bathroom, built
a squatty potty and made like twenty million dollars off

(05:05):
of it. So that's the big thing. Stop absessing over
will my needs be met? And figure out how can
I serve what's within me? What is the problems that
I've overcome? What are the skills that I have that
are really easy for me that aren't easy for other people?
And I can show up in service. When you're doing that,
financial resources will float to you quickly, I must assume, though, Uh,

(05:29):
it's hard to come up with these answers in your
own head. It's good to have someone to bounce ideas
off of a partner. Not necessarily someone you want to
do business with partner, but someone who's you know what,
I know what you do for a living. Have you
ever thought about this? You need someone to give you
those aha moments. So I mean, how do you what's
a great way to identify someone in this world who

(05:50):
can help us figure out where we need to go?
Should we hire a life coach? I mean? Or short
of that, you know, what do you do? Where do
you turn? You can? You can certainly hire a life coach.
Some people use therapists. Another thing is to go to
the important people in your life and just start asking them, Hey,
what are the things that you think are special about me? Like?

(06:12):
What are the things that you see within me? Uh?
That or maybe a blind spot that I can't see?
Another question you can ask yourself, or what are the
things I can't shut the hell up about? After about
three glasses of wine? Because those things that are natural
to you, that you're passionate about are usually clues that

(06:34):
will lead you in the next right direction. Wow, you know,
I want to turn it over to everyone in the room,
but I will say my favorite resource to get me
motivated to think forward, uh is I follow Barbara Corkrane
on Instagram. She always has great advice and it's to
the point she doesn't screw around with you, and she

(06:55):
reminds us And I think this is a great idea.
You need to surround yourself with people who are extreme
the successful at what they do, more successful than you are,
and maybe what they what they do rather than how
you are with what you do. Surround yourself with those
people who aren't stuck. They're actually they've already pulled themselves
out of the mud, or they've never been in the mud.
They can give you great advice. Hey, does anyone have
anything to talk to Dan about? This is an excellent

(07:17):
excellent thing for everyone watching or listening questions what's up? Gandhi? Okay,
So you were talking about kind of breaking free from
corporate America if you can, because it feels safe, and
I think one of the big things that feel safe
about it is the constant paychecks. So do you have
advice for people about finances, like where they can go
if they need to start somewhere with money to start

(07:37):
their own company, or ways that they can save. Any
tips that you have as far as the finance side
of that goes. Yeah. I think a lot of people
think that I'm just like, you know, pushing people off
a cliff and will appear that that was the route
that I took. It's not the route for everybody. And
what I will tell you you know to your point, Gandhi,

(07:59):
I had a nest egg in the bank when I
left corporate, where if I didn't make a penny as
a coach, I would have been okay for a certain
period of time. Believe it or not, that was actually
a negative for me because I had so much security
in the bank, I wasn't really taking courageous action to
fully put myself out there and announced what I was

(08:19):
doing with the world. So I had to get down
to a point where I hit the oh shit button
what I looked at my finances to really start taking
massive action. But there's multiple ways to get there. Yes,
you can quit cold turkey. I've had clients, including a
listener of yours that I worked with, who cut to
part time hours at her job because she wanted to

(08:41):
start her own architecture design firm, and she thought that
she would be working a part time schedule for six
months while she slowly built out her business. It turns out,
freeing up an extra twenty hours a week, she generated
so much new business she was able to transition in
six weeks. She went part time for six weeks, then
quit and was making like ten grand a month in

(09:02):
her business and said see you later. The other thing
that you can do is, look, you can be the
hair or you can be the tortoise. I've had clients
who very slowly, over the course of twelve months, build
out their side hustle, build out their business, get a
client base. And you know, sometimes they're doing it in
their office at four pm, like once they've wrapped up

(09:23):
their obligations at corporate for the day, and then once
they feel comfortable, then they ease their way out. So
there's multiple ways to get there. But you don't need
But you know the thing is that you don't need
a huge audience. People think, oh, I need like a
million Instagram followers. I have a client who was a
school teacher in New Jersey who was tired of being

(09:45):
underpaid and tired of the red tape. She quit and
in the pandemic, she started her own business teaching those
learning pods that you've heard so much about. Doubled her income,
working half the hours, and she did it making one
post on Facebook asking her friends like, hey, what families
need help? So there was no website needed. It was

(10:07):
just basically a servant's heart knowing she could help parents,
knowing she she could help kids. She's happier than hell
right now. She's living her best life. You know. Gandhi
is actually a great example of this. I mean, during pandemic,
she and her boyfriend really got into creating art and
it was sort of a fun thing at the very beginning.
And now you're selling art. I mean, are you at

(10:28):
the point now where you could just walk away from
this crap job and just sell art? I would never
do that, but it has been never Who's gonna Who's
gonna be? That's not our listeners. I'm assuming with what
you're doing, you can you can now see you have
a vision of how it is possible. Absolutely. I never
ever would have thought that it would be as successful
as it has been, and it's been really fulfilling and awesome.

(10:50):
So that's why I'm so interested in all of these things.
You have to say, not to leave this place, but
just to know how to form something different on the side,
because I don't know how. And Gandhi, let me askew.
Now that you're pursuing this art and you have this
outlet and something that lights you up, do you feel
like your emotional wellness is in a better place because

(11:11):
you have an outlet away from work that allows you
to express yourself and something that's meaningful to you a
thousand percent. I was telling them that starting a project
and finishing it is something that we don't ever really
get to do with the jobs that we have right now.
It's always okay, what's next. But with this, with art,
I can start something and finish it. It's mine and
it's done, and it does feel great. And during the pandemic,

(11:31):
it's been great to have an outlet of something that
I feel passionate about that I can focus on that
is in my control. It's been awesome. So there's the
other option too. If you're doing what you love even
while you're still in corporate, you notice you feel better
there in that What are you thinking, Froggy. You know,

(11:51):
my wife is working full time as a marketing director,
but at the same time, she has always wanted to
to get into real estate and she had to get
a real estate license. So she took her spare time
when she wasn't working, and she was actually able to
get her real estate license. It took her a little
longer than than some people who just you know, locked
down and just do it all at one time. But
she was able to get that done and so now

(12:11):
she's actually able to do her her own job, but
now do real estate on the side and is looking
for that to become her full time job. So she's
able to do two things because there's been more time
during the pandemic. Damn, have you ever had to tell
somebody listen, that is not a good idea? Not good question? Like?

(12:32):
What what was that? What? What are some bad ideas?
There was a guy. There was a guy I met
one time. It's sort of like a Very. He would
be more of your stereotypical life coach Very, sort of
Granola California, you know, and he wanted to work with
women to help them connect to themselves, and his his

(12:52):
marketing pitch. He's like, I want to help women find
their internal flow. Man. I was like, are you trying
to get are you trying to sell people their minstrel cycle?
What does that even mean you? It was the worst
idea I've ever heard. That's right there, totally. So so

(13:18):
that's why it's good to have someone to bounce things off. So,
I mean, even if you think you have it's a
perfect pitch, a perfect everything, it's good to have someone
go maybe. Look, Dan of course is announcing a one
day online seminar. We're talking about this earlier. His seminars
are very very popular and for good reason, a lot
of our listeners have participated. It's a one day online seminar.

(13:40):
It can help you cut ties with corporate, take back
your life, create a prosperous second chapter. Uh. And if
you're listening to our show, you can join the waitlist
and get first DIBs on tickets, because well, we've got
nude photos of Dan Mace when we were in Miami.
Don't worry, Dan, I know exactly you found. You found

(14:01):
my secret only fans account if you If you want
to know more, go to Creative Soul Coaching dot net.
We will post this on our Elvis Duran show Instagram
to make it very clear if you need to recall later.
Creative Soul Coaching dot net. And of course, his Life
Amplified podcast is on our I Heart Radio app as well. Uh. Look,
we could go on and on and on and on,

(14:22):
because it's it's fascinating because we are all at a
point now, whether we have secure jobs or whether we're
just we want to help friends or whatever, we need
to know like how this world is going to start unfolding.
It's opening up, the flowers are blossoming, and it's time
for people to get back to life. And maybe it's
a new life, a life they never had a year
and a half ago. So I think that's pretty cool. Um,

(14:45):
And there you go. Ali is saying, we're gonna post
all this information for Dan in conjunction with a podcast
on all social Yes we are so Elvis Duran Show
on Instagram. Dan, You're fabulous. Any last closing thoughts, something
to pump us up for the the day. Hey, you know,
just just connect to your internal flow today. I'll think,

(15:08):
may may we all connect to our internal I'm a
fifty seven years old I stopped flowing years ago. Anyway,
I love you guys. All right, thank you Bye. The
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