February 1, 2024 • 35 mins
In this riveting episode of "Grassroots Matters," Sally, our host, introduces us to the awe-inspiring saga of Scotty Scheller. From a former professional hockey player to a content creator, influencer, and life coach, Scotty's life-story is an embodiment of resilience, determination, and personal evolution.
We follow Scotty's journey as he combats a potentially career-ending injury and descends into a tumultuous phase of depression and despair. Igniting an untamed flame of determination, Scotty then embarks on a journey of self-discovery, learning the intricate science behind the human body, brain function, and the power of the mind-body connection, marking the initiation of his path to recovery and eventual transformation.
Learn from Scotty's escape from his comfort zone as he delves into the world of fashion modelling and later influencing, evolving his ability to educate others about health and nutrition into a burgeoning business. His life story metaphorically captures the human ability to withstand and evolve despite the harshest trials and tribulations.
The episode unravels Scotty's multifaceted routine where he manages his work as a content creator and health coach while focusing intently on his own health, especially after being diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease. Uncover the secrets behind his daily routine which includes carefully chosen supplements, gym sessions and heeding to his body's signalling system when it comes to meals.
Delve deeper as Scotty reveals his ambitions of fatherhood, his love for music and the constant urge to keep learning and experiencing new things. This episode of "Grassroots Matters" reinstate the power of self-education, perseverance, and positive thinking in transforming lives and coping with health hurdles.
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Music.
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With our host, Sally, from Grassland Nutrition, and special guests and collaborators
on the topic of nutrition and more.
All right, let's dive headfirst into this episode.
Music.
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Hello, it's Sally from the Grassland Nutrition team with another episode of
Grassroots Matters, where we talk to individuals in our community with inspiring stories.
Today, meet Scotty Scheller, a serial reinventor, life coach,
male model, and influencer.
Scotty talks to us about his exceptional story. No crumbs for this episode,
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it's a straight dive in, as there's no intro that would give this story justice.
This morning, I want to chat to
you about how we came to know one
another through kind of grassland nutrition and I know
it's been quite a long time and the
first time we spoke I was quite surprised at you know
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how far back that was and what led
up to that and we first got
talking I had no idea about your fascinating background I know that you used
to be a professional hockey player and and then there was an intervention that
took you into you know what you're very successfully doing now with your content
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creation and your influencer status.
So would you would you mind you've warmed
up the vocal cords already this morning yeah exactly i
just don't stop talking that's the problem not at all yeah take the show scotty
please yeah well yeah i mean i'm for those of you who are watching i'm scotty
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scheller i mean i love i feel like i'm in an interview right now but no i my
story is is an interesting one just just because when you see me now,
you wouldn't really think my story is what it is.
Like you're saying, I did play hockey for a very long time. And that was my
career. And that was where I was going with it.
And I really thought that that was going to be my life. And when you identify
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as something, that is going to be your thing.
That's what I really try to tell people is that you are going to become what your identity is.
But the problem with that is, if you identify as something too hard,
once that's ripped away from you, you're kind of stuck, you know,
because then you have to re-identify and re-identifying is something is so hard to do.
And basically, my entire story, I was playing hockey, first real game of the
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season and got put up against the boards and a stick went across my neck.
Guy ran into me and basically broke my neck, stage 10 concussion, out like a light.
And that started a new life for me. So basically woke up,
had no recollection of what happened, obviously can't move, obviously can't, you know, do anything.
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And it was just this process of, okay, we'll just break down the story from
a long story to short story.
It was this process of, you know, doctor to doctor, to doctor,
to doctor, to doctor, to doctor.
Okay. You have a physical injury. We can see a physical injury here,
but the rest of the stuff that's going on in your body, the rest of the stuff
that's going on everywhere, we can't I really do anything about it because it's
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your neck that controls everything.
We'll give you some medication, go home.
And unfortunately, unfortunately, that happened and continued to happen for five years.
So I was in and out of hospitals, in and out of doctors, you know,
traveling everywhere I possibly could, you know, to digestive doctors,
to hormone doctors, to brain doctors, to literally because people don't realize
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that your nervous system all runs through your neck. It's channeled there.
You know, and every signal comes from your brain.
So you mess up those two, you know, you're kind of setting yourself up for just
failure in a sense. I mean, there's just, there's not a lot you can do that.
And the more I realized that, you know, it's kind of like this long ongoing
just trail of doctor, okay, we'll try this medication.
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Okay, we're going to shoot you up with this. Oh, your hormones are low.
Okay, we're just going to give you hormones.
Oh, this, that, and that's, you know, at the end of the day,
you're sitting back and you're like, I'm just a lab experiment at this point.
You know, like I don't feel any better.
I don't look any better. I'm losing weight. I went from 185 pounds to 140,
you know, and I'm like, I can't eat.
Every time I eat something, I just, my body rejects it.
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It's like, okay, let's go back to the bare roots of what a human being is,
you know? And I really started like get down on myself because I was,
I'm sitting in a hospital.
I'm like, I have all these people taking care of me and my family here.
They're giving up their lives.
I just don't have a life. I'm basically dead.
And so I got super, super, super, super, super suicidal and super depressed.
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And I was like, and it came to the point where I was like, I wrote out my note
and I was like, you know, I'm going to take my life. I'm done.
I don't want to be here anymore.
I'm making everybody else miserable. And in your own head, you think you are,
but people are there to love you and stuff like that. But in my head,
I was like, you know, I'm just wasting everybody's time.
And so I'm gonna give myself six months. I'm going to give myself six months
if I can't figure this out by on myself. So like, I'm done. I'm capping out.
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And I just went on the journey. I ordered every single textbook I could on the
human body. I got every course in the human mind.
I got every, everything I could possibly get about being a person.
I tried to learn it, you know, and that meant taking college courses that meant,
you know, just dropping money on, you know, on these random courses and people
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all around the world who are dropping knowledge, you know, trying to get in in touch with podcasts,
trying to get in touch with anybody who could help me if you give me a little bit of knowledge.
And I went on this six month journey of just learning the body. And.
And that was probably the best thing that could ever happen to me because I
started finding little things like, okay,
you know, how neurons connect and how the brain is majority fat and how,
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you know, like your neck and all of the tissues in between all of your spinal
columns or in your vertebrae are all, you know, like the collagen that is basically what you take in.
And I was having no collagen and stuff like that. And so I'm implementing these
little things dietary and I'm like, oh, well, I feel a little better.
But you're not like you're it's not like a night and
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day it's like oh i kind of my
stomach's working a little bit better or like oh i'm starting to like
i started i remember the first thing i noticed is like my stomach started would
start gargling and it never did that and it
was like i wonder what that is you know and i was just taking notes i'm so diligent
they're like the lowest things because people don't realize like we take so
much for granted you know there was a time where i couldn't move around like
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this you know like and i couldn't breathe and like put my and talk and and eat
by myself and do all these things. And so it's such a limiting factor.
And so what I realized in this through going through it is I started to realize
that a lot of this stuff is in your head. A lot of stuff is in your brain.
That's the same thing of when you think about throwing up, nobody wants to think about throwing up.
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Nobody wants to think about that. But the second you start to think about throwing
up, even if you're not sick, if you sit there and you just focus on throwing
up long enough, enough, you will bring yourself to throw up.
You just will. You can convince your body to do whatever it wants to do.
And I took that and I was like, well, if that's the case, I've been laying in
a hospital bed for six years.
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People have been telling me, you're sick, you're this, you're that,
you're this, you're that.
Okay, you're broken, you're this, and you need these medications,
you need that. I started realizing that,
I've been telling myself this for the last six years that I'm sick.
I'm not going to get better. I need another doctor. I need this.
I need this person. I need this medication. I need that.
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And I just, I couldn't fathom that it couldn't be that easy.
It couldn't be like, well, if I just change my mood and change my mindset on things, do I get better?
And I read a book by Dr. Joe Dispenza, and he was talking about the power of
the mind and how your mind controls literally everything.
And it's like and i was like yeah because we
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all hear that that your brain has all this power but you never really think
about it you're like oh cool like you don't really but when you're at the end
of your rope and you're like i got six months here like i'll believe anything
you know i'll pray i'll do whatever you know i'm definitely a devout christian
but i was like you know in those moments you're like i mean who else is here
to help like you know you're kind of like you know you're praying like hell
but you're like okay like god like point me the right direction but i can use use anything.
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And I think Joe Dispenza came into my life at such a crucial piece because he
had a very, very severe injury as well. And he was able to bring himself back.
And he's also got so many people that follow him and have come back from cancer
and have like eliminated like these life threatening diseases from their body
just by changing their outlook on it.
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And I broke it down really heavily into, okay, my nutrition is on check.
I've got that dialed in. The only thing that's missing is this mindset thing.
And so I started just changing my mindset every single day was,
you know, I'm not sick. I'm fine. I'm better.
You know, and I'm talking to people. If somebody asked me how I was doing,
even if I wasn't feeling that good, I was like, dude, I'm feeling perfect.
Like, I don't know, man. Like, I just, I feel amazing. Or like somebody would
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be like, well, like, like your hormone panels don't look like this.
I'm like, those aren't my hormone panels.
Like, I don't know what you're talking about. That's not, I don't want to see
them. Like, that's not, I don't want to talk about it. I know that they're,
I know that they're healthy. I know they're healthy.
You know, I was, I was living in, living in the future. And you know,
know, there's, there's like this part of everybody who goes,
well, isn't that faking it till you make it?
And it's like, there's nothing wrong with faking it till you make it.
If your intent is making it, you know, if you're not hurting anybody,
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you're not lying to anybody.
If your intent is just, I need to get better, go for it, fake and make it happen,
you know? And that's what manifestation is. And, you know, that's the law of attraction.
It's seeing it before it happens, you know, and then living in it every single
day. And so I started doing that.
And And I found that within like three months, I had brought myself back to like 80%.
You know, I brought like feeling back into my hands. And like,
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I could actually like, I could actually enunciate. I wasn't stuttering.
And I like, I could eat and I could talk and I could, you know,
elaborate on what I was thinking about. And the brain fog was gone.
And like I said, it was such a slow progression.
And the entire time you're kind of fighting yourself. But every time you look
back, you're like, I wasn't able to do this a month ago.
I wasn't able to do this a month ago. And you start stacking these little wins.
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And through this process, after the six-month mark, I went right by it.
And I looked back after eight months, and I was like, oh, I was supposed to be dead right now.
And I just, it was this moment of, I am in full control of everything in my
life and I can do whatever I put my mind to.
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If I could do that, what else could I do with this?
And through this process of getting better, I was having people reach out and
like asking how I was doing.
Of course, I'm like, I'm begging till I make it and I'd ask them how they're doing.
They'd be like, yeah, I'm great, but you know, like my mom is sick or my mom's
got this or something like that.
I'm like, I'll tell you a little bit more about it because I'm not doing anything. I just want to talk.
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I want to hear people that are talking about it and they'd be like,
well, you know, my mom's been suffering with a sadamine condition for like decades now.
We can't figure it out and I would just happen to be like, well,
I was actually reading in a book about that
three weeks ago and they said that these are all the main causes is like
have you tried all these and they're like yeah we've tried everything like obviously
when you when you get sick you google everything you know and so you've tried all
the base layers but i was so far deep in information
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that i was like i was learning little things that like well there happens to
be this little this little weird bean that's grown in peru and it's broken down
and it's in this supplement i mean maybe try this supplement remove all this
stuff and then also if she's eating like look at all the stuff she's eating
if it comes in a bag just look for this this random little ingredient.
And they would take up that random little ingredient and get so like dissect
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it super, super hard like I was doing.
And I'd call them back in like three or four weeks and they'd be like,
oh, like, dude, I didn't tell you. Like we got our blood work done and she's
completely in remission.
I'm like, okay, that's awesome. You know, like, whatever, like, that's cool.
And that would happen over and over and over again. And when you start to see
patterns like that, I was like, well, now I've got an act where I can help people.
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You know, people are looking for knowledge, and I just have knowledge.
You know, I'm not a teacher, and I'm not the smartest guy in the room.
But I have information, you know, and one of my best qualities and one of my
biggest gifts is I can relay information. information.
And so I was like, well, I'm getting out. I don't have a career anymore.
What if I started a career as a nutrition coach or just a coach in general who
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can help you out and give you information?
And it was one after the other where people would just start talking about me
and talking to their friends and saying like, hey, like Scotty helped my mom
out or Scotty helped my brother out. He did this.
And all of a sudden I've got a clientele basis of 150 people who I'm just talking to.
And I went from a hockey player to not doing anything to now I'm this coach
to now having a successful business with more people than I could possibly take care of on my own.
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And now I'm this guy who's like, okay, now I'm a business guy.
So I've got to hire people to help me.
And so now I've got people underneath me, I'm teaching people,
and I'm now bringing a community to me to work underneath me who had the same
thing that happened to me in a different sense, who brought their health back
in order, who just want to help people.
You know and so i built that business up and it got to the point where i was
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like okay well i love this and but i got comfortable i got complacent with it
i was like you know like i still love helping people but it's just it's not
my passion anymore and so i went well,
if i can turn this into something that somebody is worth that's something worth
buying i wonder if i could sell this and i started just working on myself okay
if i'm gonna be the guy who sells businesses i gotta learn everything about
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business and i am now a business i'm a business owner i'm I'm a guy who sells businesses.
And over the next year, I built this thing and I found the right people.
And I found a nutrition company to take over my business and buy all my clients up.
Sold that. And it was like, great.
Now what do I do? And it went back to, okay, well, you can be whatever you want to be.
What do you want to be? And I didn't know. And there was another moment of my identity gone.
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And it's just a reoccurring thing in my life where I trade identity for identity
for identity for identity.
It's kind of like addiction. I don't, I never say that anybody's going to get
rid of their addictions because addiction is one of those things that you can't kick.
You just simply trade your addiction for another addiction. And that's why you
see a lot of people who are on drugs or drinking end up in the gym full time
because they traded that.
And now they're so addicted to working out and being healthy that they're never
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going to go back to that lifestyle, but they have a new addiction,
you know? And so now we have another problem where it's like,
okay, now they're way too into their health and they end up,
you know, hurting themselves on that metric.
So it's a constant balance. but with the identity thing, I was like, what can I do?
That's just so out of the league for me that I just, I don't,
I don't even think I could do it. And I was like,
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I wonder if I could be a male model. And I don't know where it came from.
I think it was one of my buddies and I were talking about it.
And he was like, you ever think about being a male model? I was like, no.
Back then, I wasn't taking care of myself in a sense of I had long,
just shaggy hair, wasn't really caring about it.
And I was like, well, let's give it a shot.
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And I went on and I started learning all I could fit about the male modeling industry.
And I was like, well, okay, I need to get a haircut. cut i need to
like start portraying myself a little bit more in shape start dressing a
little bit better learn everything i can about fashion and you know getting myself out there
and taking pictures and all this i started doing i started living in
it and i went okay if i want to get people's attention i need
to get in front of the biggest brand and so what i would do is i i started shooting
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commercials with my friends but i luckily had a lot of people around me who
are really good content creators i started shooting commercials as if i already
worked for the brands you know so i'm shooting i'm sure i started shooting things
for you know like express Express Clothing and Gap and, you know,
Cuts Clothing and all of these other, like, manufacturers,
and just sending it to them and being like, hey, like, I hope you like this.
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And I got a couple back that were like, when did we hire you to do this?
And I'm like, you didn't hire me to do this. I just did it, you know.
But then I have other companies who are like, oh, appreciate it.
Like, what did we owe you?
Thinking that they had hired me. And I was like, okay, well,
you don't owe me anything.
This was just, you know, free on it. And I hope you guys, like,
enjoyed it. If you ever need me again, let me know.
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And it kept happening that like two or three weeks after that,
they'd be like, Hey, we really liked what you did. Like, would you mind if we
like gave you a contract and like you started shooting? I'm like, absolutely.
Why not? You know, I'm already doing it, you know?
And that started my male modeling career. And yeah,
That kind of took off and did its own sense where that kind of led into the
influencing side of things.
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We know where brands are kind of reaching out and they want you to talk and
they want you to help sell products.
And it just keeps rolling like that where life's a natural progression.
And if you don't get in your own way and you're not a goalie,
life just happens to happen for you. It's always happening for you.
And people don't realize that. The problem with most is they get in their own
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way or they're scared of success.
And that's a real fear that I found a lot of people is they're scared of being
successful because they don't know what that looks like.
And what it comes back to is if you want to be successful and you're scared
of that success, though, it's simply sitting down and writing out your vision.
What does a successful person look like to me? What do I look like as a successful person?
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So that way, once it happens, there's no fear because you've seen it come and you welcome it.
You get out of your way. went, you know? And so that's what I do now is it's,
it's the influencing side of thing.
And all I do is just have fun with my life and I'm constantly in a creation
of a new space, but my clientele that I coach, it's all about changing your
perspective and your identity on life.
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And that's kind of where we're at now. And you and I got together because I
was so involved in nutrition and learning about, you know, like how organ meats
are so important for you and learning how, you know, iodine is so incredibly
important to your thyroid, no matter what anybody anybody says.
It's like all these things. And I was like, okay, well, while I was in the hospital,
I'm diagnosed with Hashimoto's. Okay, well, what's that? Okay, it's a thyroid disease.
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Okay, well, what does it mean? It's like, well, basically, you're stressed out
and your thyroid is basically attacking itself.
How do we take care of that? Well, we eliminate stress, we get the right nutrients
in and we take care of it. And one of those things is iodine.
Well, I don't want to just take a capsule of iodine. I'm a whole foods nutrient
guy. So let's find the best way we can do it.
I found the beef liver and kelp capsules, started taking those and it was one
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of the supplements that I took that I was like.
This actually feels right. There's so many supplements that you take in your
interest. It's insurance.
I hope it works. I hope it's doing something. But the liver and the kelp supplement,
I would take it and I would actually feel energy and feel like it was doing something.
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And then I would run out of it and be like, all right, well,
that was cool. It was nice. And then a week later, I'd be like,
I don't feel good. I'm cloudy.
Something's happening. thing like what's like and i realized that okay
i just eliminated a bunch of stuff so i ordered all the supplements i had
eliminated and started going through them one by one and it was literally one
of the only like two besides like a really potent vitamin d3 that actually felt
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different i was like okay i can't go without this stuff and so now all i do
is you know every single morning six pills,
right down the hatch first thing and it's it it gives me energy that's all i
can say is it gives gives me energy.
And then you have your other products and you have like, you know me,
I'm the weird one who eats beef chunks by the handful and beef heart chunks
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and beef liver chunks and kidney chunks.
And that kind of food, people don't realize there's an energy to your food.
And if you're eating stuff that has such a quality energy to it,
you're going to feel the energy.
It's gasoline for your car. You wouldn't just go out and dump like,
I'll be the first to to admit, like, I do love a diet Dr.
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Pepper every once in a while, but I know if I have a diet Dr.
Pepper, I'm not going to either. I'm not going to feel anything or I'm going
to feel terrible, you know, and I'm ready for that. So.
And it's one of those things that, okay, choose your poison here.
And I'm going to choose to put the best ingredients in my body.
And I want rocket fuel. And that's exactly the supplements you have.
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And so that brings us to where we're at now where we're sitting down,
we've developed this friendship.
And you might be thousands of miles away from me, but there's this connection
that nutrition and my story brought to us.
And there's nothing wrong with that. And I wouldn't give up my story for anything
because it brought a friendship.
Together yeah and you're and you're channeling life
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and everything that you want in your life is coming
to you because of how kind of you're operating as
well and just coming back to those six pills scotty i'm just curious right what
else what else is is in that little you know medley of supplements yeah so yeah
so i take yours obviously i take
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a vitamin d3 just because i I believe everybody's deficient in vitamin D.
I think you should get your blood. I'm a big fan of blood work. So get blood work done.
See where you're at. That is like, and I always say like, invest and get a comprehensive
one. Don't just go to your doctor and get like the general.
Like get a, like it's going to be expensive. I'm not going to lie,
but it's a one-time investment.
See what your body is doing, you know, see what's in there.
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And so I always say like, get as detailed of a blood sample as you possibly
can, because then from there you can build out a program and then you don't
have to do it again for months.
And then if you have any markers that are off, all you do is order those six
months later and see if you change.
But in that, I've got the vitamin D3. I take a ton of fish oil.
So fish oil is like omega-3s are my jam, especially for brain health.
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Oh my gosh, like it's just, that's it. A very potent resveratrol,
just because that's also very good for brain health and inflammation.
And then besides that, I take a very quality zinc zinc to colonate along with
copper because if you just take zinc, you're going to deplete your copper levels.
And besides that, a very potent magnesium. And that's it. Very simple.
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Yeah, great. And okay, can you take me through one of your typical days?
It sounds like you really don't have a typical day.
Yeah, really? No, but I could take you through. What a cliche question.
But I'm fascinated with how things, you know, how things have gone from,
you know, the beginning, and then you reinvented yourself now where you are now.
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And this now state seems to be really vibrant and just giving and you seem to
be jamming with this space. So yeah. Yeah.
So a typical day, a typical day for me starts about 4.30 a.m., 5 a.m.
Just because I have clients that are all over the United States, you know?
And so I really like to like, you don't really know, like especially with what
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we're going through, like the time zone stuff, you know, you never know what
time somebody's gonna be working.
And a lot of my people that I work with are very high performers.
And so they're up super early, you know? And so if they're going to be up super
early, I got to be up super early to talk to them too.
And so it starts about 4.30. I get up, I do a good amount of time in prayer
as I'm getting ready for the day.
You know, I've got my Bible and I've got like, you know, my devotionals playing.
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And then after that, jump on the phones. And I'm normally on a phone call.
I'm normally on phone calls from about 4.30 to about 6, 7 a.m.
And you know, that's this typical.
After that, I try to go for a
walk because I need to clear my head and get everything kind of going. on.
If it's a content day, I'll normally have a call with my videographer,
my assistant, just to kind of see, you know, what we're doing for the day,
what brands we're working with, what we need to shoot.
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And from there, it kind of just gets going. It gets started,
you know, grab a cup of coffee and look at my script, look at everything I need
to do, set it up, get the lights ready to go, camera, ready, set, action.
That starts at about 10 a.m., I'd say.
And it's normally shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, batch film as much as I
possibly can, 10 till, you know, one o'clock.
One o'clock is normally where I'm gonna have my first meal just because everybody
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asks if I intermittent fast.
I don't really think I intermittent fast. I'm just not hungry until then, so it's unintentional.
I don't think that you really need to do it, but that's just how my body works,
and I'm one of those guys who believes in following what your body says.
So if I wake up and it's four and I'm starving, I'm gonna eat something,
you know? But normally it's one o'clock.
Have some food at about one. And then after that, I'll normally get all of my
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footage, get that over to my editor, start uploading everything.
And then I'll normally have a couple of calls in the afternoon.
So that could be new brand deals. That could be a coaching session that somebody missed.
That could be new client integrations. It could also just be a call with my
team just to make sure that everybody's on pace with what we're supposed to be doing.
If we've got new clientele, I want to make sure that they are on with the right
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person to talk to and just kind of being the boss for a little while.
After that, try to get to the gym, get a workout in.
And at some point or another, I love to cook.
And so a lot of my content has become cooking content just because I love to
do it. And I was like, if I'm going to be cooking, I might as well film.
That's just how it goes. Let's see, you trade one thing for another.
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And so I'll try to come up with a dish or try to come up with a recipe and go
out, get some groceries or have my assistant go out and get my groceries.
Trees and then you know about five o'clock start shooting that and you know
starting to kind of about five o'clock is when i try to start to unwind you
know do a little bit of reading a little bit of prayer put on my blue block
my blue light blockers and turn on some red light.
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And you know just kind of go about the rest of my evening my it sounds like a very very boring day,
there's just it oh it doesn't it sounds yeah yeah
and that's kind of how it has to be you know
it has to be like that and it's it but it's also that's
a content day you know i'll also have days like today where
it's podcasting and it's you know interviews and it's
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it's woke up at 4 a.m and was
able to walk and get a cup of coffee and take a walk this morning you know and
you know had an hour gap where nothing's going on and then we're doing this
right now and then i get to turn around and go to the next podcast you know
and then it's and then the rest of my day is just back filled with everything
that needs to get done and especially like we talked talked about at the beginning
of this call is got to get out and do some Christmas shopping, you know?
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So it's finding those little periods of time where, no, that's the cool part
about the life that I've built for myself is I'm in full control of it.
And so if there's ever a moment, besides trying to make sure that everybody
else is happy and everybody else is working and everybody else is there,
if I have these little pieces and gaps where it's like, okay,
I could be shooting right now, but I don't need to,
I can go, okay, you can take a second to step back, take a breath, go do your thing.
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And that's one of the things that a lot of people kind of come to me with.
They're like, how do you not get burnt out?
You've got so much coming on. And I'm like, people tend to feel burnout coming
before they get burnt out.
Burnout just doesn't happen. You know, it's not just one of those things that
I'm burnt out like no like you're gonna feel it coming the problem with people
Who get burnt out as they feel it coming?
They don't do anything about it and then they sacrifice a ton of time afterwards
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instead of sacrificing a little time for themselves right now You know,
and so that's what I try to really focus on.
Yeah Okay, so you you just know, you know from previous experience when those
triggers are coming Yeah, when you're feeling the brain fog when you're feeling like dog tired.
Yeah Yeah, take some time out for yourself. And so over the Christmas period,
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then when you actually get to that point, because it's happening really soon,
will you take a bit of time out for yourself?
I, I think that you should take time off when you feel you need time off,
you know, never, there's never a moment where I'm like, okay,
I'm going to plan a vacation.
I'm going to plan this. I'm going to plan that. It's, you know,
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because let's say that I planned something to have, I planned to like take some
time off, but I, that could be like my most productive time, you know?
And I get to that point, I'm like, okay, well, I could have been getting all this stuff done.
And now I'm, I have this guilt on the back of my mind of, well,
now I'm just relaxing, relaxing, doing nothing when I have all this energy,
you know, like that's where my mind always goes with it.
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And I don't know if that's the healthiest way to look at it, but I just don't plan it.
So if I start to feel like, okay, I'm getting a little shaky here,
I can feel like, you know, anxiety is building up a little bit.
I've got a lot on my plate.
That's normally the first thing I'm going to do is text my assistant and be
like, Hey, do we have in two weeks, what do we have going on?
You know? And like, I try to schedule out a little bit ahead of time.
Cause I know by about two weeks is when I'm going to hit that mark of,
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I need to take a break, you know? And so we'll plan something out,
be like, hey, we just have this little structure and this little communication
of, hey, things are shaky. And she knows exactly what that means.
It's like, okay, cool. Two weeks from now, I know that we're not booking anything
for three days. You can go do whatever you want to.
I have a day to myself, go get a massage, have a full day of just not doing anything.
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And that could literally just be me going and driving up to Sedona,
Arizona and just walking around for a day and just walking and doing nothing.
And then I come back, I'm clear and I feel great because I didn't have anything to do.
And then I'm recharged. You know, that's it. You know, it's over.
It's your battery's refull. And I'm like, okay, cool. I did what I needed to do. I took some time off.
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Now it's time to go back. But I also don't force myself to come back if it's not time.
And I think that that's, and I'm blessed in the sense where I can control my
time like that, where it's, you know, if I need a little extra time,
I can give myself a little extra time.
I'm not forced. I don't have that anxiety that I always call the next morning
flight anxiety, where you have a flight in the morning and you can't sleep because
all you're thinking about is flying and getting up in time.
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And so I never have that anxiety of, I need to get this done at a certain time.
And I think that's a blessing that I've been given and I don't take it for granted.
But it's also, it took a lot of work to get here.
And once you come to the fruition of all of your labor, I think it's just,
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it's such a beautiful place to be in bliss.
Because you realize that you created something from nothing.
And now you're in control.
Is there any time you still blacken up? Is there anything you haven't quite
nailed in your... Oh, Hans.
That's the thing. If you don't... I'm guessing you're talking just like success-wise
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and like what I want in life?
Yeah, yeah. So is there anything that kind of knacks at you a little bit and
you're like, okay, like I've got all these things down pat and,
you know, these things are jarring really well.
However, you know, I want this for myself or this isn't, you know, tracking as well.
And that's kind of the cool part about life is I don't think you should ever
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get to the point where you're like, I've got it.
Like, woo, like that's like, that doesn't, that doesn't hit me because my thing
is I don't think you should ever want to win.
Like, I don't think you should ever want to beat life because at that point, that's death.
You know, if you win at life, you're dead. You know, like that's like,
that's the finish line, you know? And so I always try to chase,
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I think Matthew McConaughey said it so well.
He's like, they asked him like who his biggest inspiration was.
And he's like, well, my biggest inspiration is me in 10 years,
you know? And they're like, well, okay.
Like, what is that going to look like when you get there? He's like,
I don't know. Ask me in 10 years.
And they got to 10 years later and they asked him the question.
They're like, well, like, did you get everything you want? Like,
who's your inspiration? Did you finally find your inspiration? He goes, oh, no, no.
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My inspiration is me in 10 years. And you keep pushing it back because,
you know, if I just have that end goal, it's like, okay, now what?
What, you know, and that's the identity piece that I kind of try to coach people on a lot.
It's, you can't identify with an end. You can't identify with a single metric.
And so my thing now is, you know, I'm 29 years old and my next role in life
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is going to be a father, you know, in order to be a father, kind of need a mother,
you know? So it's like, you know, now it's like the relationship thing where
it's like, I put so much time into my business and developing myself.
Now it's time to start focusing on outward. Okay.
Who is going to help me take that dream and make it a reality?
And being open to, you know, before it was business, business,
business, business, business.
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Now it's how do I learn how to control business and have my schedule and my
stuff, but also allow a woman into my life to, you know, grow and attain a future to get,
you know, and I'm not perfect by, by any means, you know, I'm not, I'm not even close.
And so it's now going back to the drawing board going, okay,
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I need to figure out how to time allocate time to me, time to work,
time for family, time for business, time for this.
Once I figure that out, then I can bring a woman in and go, okay,
because I'm one of those guys who, if I'm going to have somebody in my life, it's your everything.
And that's everybody in my life. When I'm with anybody, my friends,
my clients, anything, in that moment, you are everything. You're it.
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I don't have my phone. I'm not talking to anybody else. This is it. it.
And I need to find that balance and get better at that.
Because that is a lacking point where I'm constantly like in creation and content creation.
It's a, it's such a blessing, but you're constantly on your phone.
You're constantly talking to people. You're constantly editing.
You're constantly, you know, it's like, you're constantly going through looking
for the newest trends, the newest this, newest that.
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At the end of the day, you can go back and you're like, my dopamine is so depleted
because I've given it all to this little thing that's in my pocket, you know?
And that's, I think I think that's another thing I'm trying to really work on
is that dopamine addiction, where it's, okay, is this a need right now that
I need to do this? Or is this my dopamine fix getting hit?
And it's having that gentle balance of, is this work? Or is this just me sitting in comfort?
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And I think that's like the biggest one right now. And so biggest one for success
is definitely, you know, taking relationships a little bit more seriously.
And then ultimately just, you know, enjoying life. I think that's the biggest
one is I do really love life, but there's, I do, I know there's so much more,
you know, and I just don't want to die. I want to die completely on E.
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And so it's always fighting for those, it's fighting for those things that you
would never think you'd be into.
And so I'm constantly, I'm constantly looking for new music,
music, new things, new different ways to look at life.
And I think that's my biggest one is always attaining new hobbies and new skills.
What's your latest hobby? Latest hobby. Like I said, music has been a big one
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for me and not playing music because I am, you know, my coordination with music
is like watching an otter trying to open a Bible.
It just like, it's, you know, they just fumbles. So that's an interesting analogy.
It's just, it's, it just fumbles with it. Okay.
It doesn't fit. It doesn't work.
But I love diving into creative and so listening to somebody and just putting on,
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listening to lyrics and even just listening to the way that people put just
sounds together and really breaking it down of what were they feeling and what's the emotion here?
Here because everything I believe that everything has an emotion to it everything has an energy
to it and so it's that's one of my biggest things recently
and it calms me down and if anybody is looking for a way to like de-stress or
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take away anxiety I found that that has
been such a game changer big thanks to Scotty for being a joy to talk to as
always and sharing how he has harnessed positive energy to get what he wants
and share his knowledge with others to help them we are really excited to see
what unfolds next Scotty and are poised for the next installment,
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Thanks for listening. See you next time.
Music.
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With our host, Sally, from Grassland Nutrition, and special guests and collaborators
on the topic of nutrition and more.
All right, let's dive headfirst into this episode.
Music.
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Hello, it's Sally from the Grassland Nutrition team with another episode of
Grassroots Matters, where we talk to individuals in our community with inspiring stories.
Today, meet Scotty Scheller, a serial reinventor, life coach,
male model, and influencer.
Scotty talks to us about his exceptional story. No crumbs for this episode,
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it's a straight dive in, as there's no intro that would give this story justice.
This morning, I want to chat to
you about how we came to know one
another through kind of grassland nutrition and I know
it's been quite a long time and the
first time we spoke I was quite surprised at you know
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how far back that was and what led
up to that and we first got
talking I had no idea about your fascinating background I know that you used
to be a professional hockey player and and then there was an intervention that
took you into you know what you're very successfully doing now with your content
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creation and your influencer status.
So would you would you mind you've warmed
up the vocal cords already this morning yeah exactly i
just don't stop talking that's the problem not at all yeah take the show scotty
please yeah well yeah i mean i'm for those of you who are watching i'm scotty
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scheller i mean i love i feel like i'm in an interview right now but no i my
story is is an interesting one just just because when you see me now,
you wouldn't really think my story is what it is.
Like you're saying, I did play hockey for a very long time. And that was my
career. And that was where I was going with it.
And I really thought that that was going to be my life. And when you identify
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as something, that is going to be your thing.
That's what I really try to tell people is that you are going to become what your identity is.
But the problem with that is, if you identify as something too hard,
once that's ripped away from you, you're kind of stuck, you know,
because then you have to re-identify and re-identifying is something is so hard to do.
And basically, my entire story, I was playing hockey, first real game of the
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season and got put up against the boards and a stick went across my neck.
Guy ran into me and basically broke my neck, stage 10 concussion, out like a light.
And that started a new life for me. So basically woke up,
had no recollection of what happened, obviously can't move, obviously can't, you know, do anything.
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And it was just this process of, okay, we'll just break down the story from
a long story to short story.
It was this process of, you know, doctor to doctor, to doctor,
to doctor, to doctor, to doctor.
Okay. You have a physical injury. We can see a physical injury here,
but the rest of the stuff that's going on in your body, the rest of the stuff
that's going on everywhere, we can't I really do anything about it because it's
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your neck that controls everything.
We'll give you some medication, go home.
And unfortunately, unfortunately, that happened and continued to happen for five years.
So I was in and out of hospitals, in and out of doctors, you know,
traveling everywhere I possibly could, you know, to digestive doctors,
to hormone doctors, to brain doctors, to literally because people don't realize
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that your nervous system all runs through your neck. It's channeled there.
You know, and every signal comes from your brain.
So you mess up those two, you know, you're kind of setting yourself up for just
failure in a sense. I mean, there's just, there's not a lot you can do that.
And the more I realized that, you know, it's kind of like this long ongoing
just trail of doctor, okay, we'll try this medication.
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Okay, we're going to shoot you up with this. Oh, your hormones are low.
Okay, we're just going to give you hormones.
Oh, this, that, and that's, you know, at the end of the day,
you're sitting back and you're like, I'm just a lab experiment at this point.
You know, like I don't feel any better.
I don't look any better. I'm losing weight. I went from 185 pounds to 140,
you know, and I'm like, I can't eat.
Every time I eat something, I just, my body rejects it.
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It's like, okay, let's go back to the bare roots of what a human being is,
you know? And I really started like get down on myself because I was,
I'm sitting in a hospital.
I'm like, I have all these people taking care of me and my family here.
They're giving up their lives.
I just don't have a life. I'm basically dead.
And so I got super, super, super, super, super suicidal and super depressed.
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And I was like, and it came to the point where I was like, I wrote out my note
and I was like, you know, I'm going to take my life. I'm done.
I don't want to be here anymore.
I'm making everybody else miserable. And in your own head, you think you are,
but people are there to love you and stuff like that. But in my head,
I was like, you know, I'm just wasting everybody's time.
And so I'm gonna give myself six months. I'm going to give myself six months
if I can't figure this out by on myself. So like, I'm done. I'm capping out.
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And I just went on the journey. I ordered every single textbook I could on the
human body. I got every course in the human mind.
I got every, everything I could possibly get about being a person.
I tried to learn it, you know, and that meant taking college courses that meant,
you know, just dropping money on, you know, on these random courses and people
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all around the world who are dropping knowledge, you know, trying to get in in touch with podcasts,
trying to get in touch with anybody who could help me if you give me a little bit of knowledge.
And I went on this six month journey of just learning the body. And.
And that was probably the best thing that could ever happen to me because I
started finding little things like, okay,
you know, how neurons connect and how the brain is majority fat and how,
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you know, like your neck and all of the tissues in between all of your spinal
columns or in your vertebrae are all, you know, like the collagen that is basically what you take in.
And I was having no collagen and stuff like that. And so I'm implementing these
little things dietary and I'm like, oh, well, I feel a little better.
But you're not like you're it's not like a night and
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day it's like oh i kind of my
stomach's working a little bit better or like oh i'm starting to like
i started i remember the first thing i noticed is like my stomach started would
start gargling and it never did that and it
was like i wonder what that is you know and i was just taking notes i'm so diligent
they're like the lowest things because people don't realize like we take so
much for granted you know there was a time where i couldn't move around like
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this you know like and i couldn't breathe and like put my and talk and and eat
by myself and do all these things. And so it's such a limiting factor.
And so what I realized in this through going through it is I started to realize
that a lot of this stuff is in your head. A lot of stuff is in your brain.
That's the same thing of when you think about throwing up, nobody wants to think about throwing up.
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Nobody wants to think about that. But the second you start to think about throwing
up, even if you're not sick, if you sit there and you just focus on throwing
up long enough, enough, you will bring yourself to throw up.
You just will. You can convince your body to do whatever it wants to do.
And I took that and I was like, well, if that's the case, I've been laying in
a hospital bed for six years.
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People have been telling me, you're sick, you're this, you're that,
you're this, you're that.
Okay, you're broken, you're this, and you need these medications,
you need that. I started realizing that,
I've been telling myself this for the last six years that I'm sick.
I'm not going to get better. I need another doctor. I need this.
I need this person. I need this medication. I need that.
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And I just, I couldn't fathom that it couldn't be that easy.
It couldn't be like, well, if I just change my mood and change my mindset on things, do I get better?
And I read a book by Dr. Joe Dispenza, and he was talking about the power of
the mind and how your mind controls literally everything.
And it's like and i was like yeah because we
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all hear that that your brain has all this power but you never really think
about it you're like oh cool like you don't really but when you're at the end
of your rope and you're like i got six months here like i'll believe anything
you know i'll pray i'll do whatever you know i'm definitely a devout christian
but i was like you know in those moments you're like i mean who else is here
to help like you know you're kind of like you know you're praying like hell
but you're like okay like god like point me the right direction but i can use use anything.
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And I think Joe Dispenza came into my life at such a crucial piece because he
had a very, very severe injury as well. And he was able to bring himself back.
And he's also got so many people that follow him and have come back from cancer
and have like eliminated like these life threatening diseases from their body
just by changing their outlook on it.
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And I broke it down really heavily into, okay, my nutrition is on check.
I've got that dialed in. The only thing that's missing is this mindset thing.
And so I started just changing my mindset every single day was,
you know, I'm not sick. I'm fine. I'm better.
You know, and I'm talking to people. If somebody asked me how I was doing,
even if I wasn't feeling that good, I was like, dude, I'm feeling perfect.
Like, I don't know, man. Like, I just, I feel amazing. Or like somebody would
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be like, well, like, like your hormone panels don't look like this.
I'm like, those aren't my hormone panels.
Like, I don't know what you're talking about. That's not, I don't want to see
them. Like, that's not, I don't want to talk about it. I know that they're,
I know that they're healthy. I know they're healthy.
You know, I was, I was living in, living in the future. And you know,
know, there's, there's like this part of everybody who goes,
well, isn't that faking it till you make it?
And it's like, there's nothing wrong with faking it till you make it.
If your intent is making it, you know, if you're not hurting anybody,
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you're not lying to anybody.
If your intent is just, I need to get better, go for it, fake and make it happen,
you know? And that's what manifestation is. And, you know, that's the law of attraction.
It's seeing it before it happens, you know, and then living in it every single
day. And so I started doing that.
And And I found that within like three months, I had brought myself back to like 80%.
You know, I brought like feeling back into my hands. And like,
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I could actually like, I could actually enunciate. I wasn't stuttering.
And I like, I could eat and I could talk and I could, you know,
elaborate on what I was thinking about. And the brain fog was gone.
And like I said, it was such a slow progression.
And the entire time you're kind of fighting yourself. But every time you look
back, you're like, I wasn't able to do this a month ago.
I wasn't able to do this a month ago. And you start stacking these little wins.
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And through this process, after the six-month mark, I went right by it.
And I looked back after eight months, and I was like, oh, I was supposed to be dead right now.
And I just, it was this moment of, I am in full control of everything in my
life and I can do whatever I put my mind to.
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If I could do that, what else could I do with this?
And through this process of getting better, I was having people reach out and
like asking how I was doing.
Of course, I'm like, I'm begging till I make it and I'd ask them how they're doing.
They'd be like, yeah, I'm great, but you know, like my mom is sick or my mom's
got this or something like that.
I'm like, I'll tell you a little bit more about it because I'm not doing anything. I just want to talk.
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I want to hear people that are talking about it and they'd be like,
well, you know, my mom's been suffering with a sadamine condition for like decades now.
We can't figure it out and I would just happen to be like, well,
I was actually reading in a book about that
three weeks ago and they said that these are all the main causes is like
have you tried all these and they're like yeah we've tried everything like obviously
when you when you get sick you google everything you know and so you've tried all
the base layers but i was so far deep in information
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that i was like i was learning little things that like well there happens to
be this little this little weird bean that's grown in peru and it's broken down
and it's in this supplement i mean maybe try this supplement remove all this
stuff and then also if she's eating like look at all the stuff she's eating
if it comes in a bag just look for this this random little ingredient.
And they would take up that random little ingredient and get so like dissect
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it super, super hard like I was doing.
And I'd call them back in like three or four weeks and they'd be like,
oh, like, dude, I didn't tell you. Like we got our blood work done and she's
completely in remission.
I'm like, okay, that's awesome. You know, like, whatever, like, that's cool.
And that would happen over and over and over again. And when you start to see
patterns like that, I was like, well, now I've got an act where I can help people.
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You know, people are looking for knowledge, and I just have knowledge.
You know, I'm not a teacher, and I'm not the smartest guy in the room.
But I have information, you know, and one of my best qualities and one of my
biggest gifts is I can relay information. information.
And so I was like, well, I'm getting out. I don't have a career anymore.
What if I started a career as a nutrition coach or just a coach in general who
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can help you out and give you information?
And it was one after the other where people would just start talking about me
and talking to their friends and saying like, hey, like Scotty helped my mom
out or Scotty helped my brother out. He did this.
And all of a sudden I've got a clientele basis of 150 people who I'm just talking to.
And I went from a hockey player to not doing anything to now I'm this coach
to now having a successful business with more people than I could possibly take care of on my own.
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And now I'm this guy who's like, okay, now I'm a business guy.
So I've got to hire people to help me.
And so now I've got people underneath me, I'm teaching people,
and I'm now bringing a community to me to work underneath me who had the same
thing that happened to me in a different sense, who brought their health back
in order, who just want to help people.
You know and so i built that business up and it got to the point where i was
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like okay well i love this and but i got comfortable i got complacent with it
i was like you know like i still love helping people but it's just it's not
my passion anymore and so i went well,
if i can turn this into something that somebody is worth that's something worth
buying i wonder if i could sell this and i started just working on myself okay
if i'm gonna be the guy who sells businesses i gotta learn everything about
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business and i am now a business i'm a business owner i'm I'm a guy who sells businesses.
And over the next year, I built this thing and I found the right people.
And I found a nutrition company to take over my business and buy all my clients up.
Sold that. And it was like, great.
Now what do I do? And it went back to, okay, well, you can be whatever you want to be.
What do you want to be? And I didn't know. And there was another moment of my identity gone.
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And it's just a reoccurring thing in my life where I trade identity for identity
for identity for identity.
It's kind of like addiction. I don't, I never say that anybody's going to get
rid of their addictions because addiction is one of those things that you can't kick.
You just simply trade your addiction for another addiction. And that's why you
see a lot of people who are on drugs or drinking end up in the gym full time
because they traded that.
And now they're so addicted to working out and being healthy that they're never
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going to go back to that lifestyle, but they have a new addiction,
you know? And so now we have another problem where it's like,
okay, now they're way too into their health and they end up,
you know, hurting themselves on that metric.
So it's a constant balance. but with the identity thing, I was like, what can I do?
That's just so out of the league for me that I just, I don't,
I don't even think I could do it. And I was like,
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I wonder if I could be a male model. And I don't know where it came from.
I think it was one of my buddies and I were talking about it.
And he was like, you ever think about being a male model? I was like, no.
Back then, I wasn't taking care of myself in a sense of I had long,
just shaggy hair, wasn't really caring about it.
And I was like, well, let's give it a shot.
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And I went on and I started learning all I could fit about the male modeling industry.
And I was like, well, okay, I need to get a haircut. cut i need to
like start portraying myself a little bit more in shape start dressing a
little bit better learn everything i can about fashion and you know getting myself out there
and taking pictures and all this i started doing i started living in
it and i went okay if i want to get people's attention i need
to get in front of the biggest brand and so what i would do is i i started shooting
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commercials with my friends but i luckily had a lot of people around me who
are really good content creators i started shooting commercials as if i already
worked for the brands you know so i'm shooting i'm sure i started shooting things
for you know like express Express Clothing and Gap and, you know,
Cuts Clothing and all of these other, like, manufacturers,
and just sending it to them and being like, hey, like, I hope you like this.
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And I got a couple back that were like, when did we hire you to do this?
And I'm like, you didn't hire me to do this. I just did it, you know.
But then I have other companies who are like, oh, appreciate it.
Like, what did we owe you?
Thinking that they had hired me. And I was like, okay, well,
you don't owe me anything.
This was just, you know, free on it. And I hope you guys, like,
enjoyed it. If you ever need me again, let me know.
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And it kept happening that like two or three weeks after that,
they'd be like, Hey, we really liked what you did. Like, would you mind if we
like gave you a contract and like you started shooting? I'm like, absolutely.
Why not? You know, I'm already doing it, you know?
And that started my male modeling career. And yeah,
That kind of took off and did its own sense where that kind of led into the
influencing side of things.
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We know where brands are kind of reaching out and they want you to talk and
they want you to help sell products.
And it just keeps rolling like that where life's a natural progression.
And if you don't get in your own way and you're not a goalie,
life just happens to happen for you. It's always happening for you.
And people don't realize that. The problem with most is they get in their own
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way or they're scared of success.
And that's a real fear that I found a lot of people is they're scared of being
successful because they don't know what that looks like.
And what it comes back to is if you want to be successful and you're scared
of that success, though, it's simply sitting down and writing out your vision.
What does a successful person look like to me? What do I look like as a successful person?
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So that way, once it happens, there's no fear because you've seen it come and you welcome it.
You get out of your way. went, you know? And so that's what I do now is it's,
it's the influencing side of thing.
And all I do is just have fun with my life and I'm constantly in a creation
of a new space, but my clientele that I coach, it's all about changing your
perspective and your identity on life.
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And that's kind of where we're at now. And you and I got together because I
was so involved in nutrition and learning about, you know, like how organ meats
are so important for you and learning how, you know, iodine is so incredibly
important to your thyroid, no matter what anybody anybody says.
It's like all these things. And I was like, okay, well, while I was in the hospital,
I'm diagnosed with Hashimoto's. Okay, well, what's that? Okay, it's a thyroid disease.
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Okay, well, what does it mean? It's like, well, basically, you're stressed out
and your thyroid is basically attacking itself.
How do we take care of that? Well, we eliminate stress, we get the right nutrients
in and we take care of it. And one of those things is iodine.
Well, I don't want to just take a capsule of iodine. I'm a whole foods nutrient
guy. So let's find the best way we can do it.
I found the beef liver and kelp capsules, started taking those and it was one
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of the supplements that I took that I was like.
This actually feels right. There's so many supplements that you take in your
interest. It's insurance.
I hope it works. I hope it's doing something. But the liver and the kelp supplement,
I would take it and I would actually feel energy and feel like it was doing something.
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And then I would run out of it and be like, all right, well,
that was cool. It was nice. And then a week later, I'd be like,
I don't feel good. I'm cloudy.
Something's happening. thing like what's like and i realized that okay
i just eliminated a bunch of stuff so i ordered all the supplements i had
eliminated and started going through them one by one and it was literally one
of the only like two besides like a really potent vitamin d3 that actually felt
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different i was like okay i can't go without this stuff and so now all i do
is you know every single morning six pills,
right down the hatch first thing and it's it it gives me energy that's all i
can say is it gives gives me energy.
And then you have your other products and you have like, you know me,
I'm the weird one who eats beef chunks by the handful and beef heart chunks
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and beef liver chunks and kidney chunks.
And that kind of food, people don't realize there's an energy to your food.
And if you're eating stuff that has such a quality energy to it,
you're going to feel the energy.
It's gasoline for your car. You wouldn't just go out and dump like,
I'll be the first to to admit, like, I do love a diet Dr.
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Pepper every once in a while, but I know if I have a diet Dr.
Pepper, I'm not going to either. I'm not going to feel anything or I'm going
to feel terrible, you know, and I'm ready for that. So.
And it's one of those things that, okay, choose your poison here.
And I'm going to choose to put the best ingredients in my body.
And I want rocket fuel. And that's exactly the supplements you have.
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And so that brings us to where we're at now where we're sitting down,
we've developed this friendship.
And you might be thousands of miles away from me, but there's this connection
that nutrition and my story brought to us.
And there's nothing wrong with that. And I wouldn't give up my story for anything
because it brought a friendship.
Together yeah and you're and you're channeling life
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and everything that you want in your life is coming
to you because of how kind of you're operating as
well and just coming back to those six pills scotty i'm just curious right what
else what else is is in that little you know medley of supplements yeah so yeah
so i take yours obviously i take
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a vitamin d3 just because i I believe everybody's deficient in vitamin D.
I think you should get your blood. I'm a big fan of blood work. So get blood work done.
See where you're at. That is like, and I always say like, invest and get a comprehensive
one. Don't just go to your doctor and get like the general.
Like get a, like it's going to be expensive. I'm not going to lie,
but it's a one-time investment.
See what your body is doing, you know, see what's in there.
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And so I always say like, get as detailed of a blood sample as you possibly
can, because then from there you can build out a program and then you don't
have to do it again for months.
And then if you have any markers that are off, all you do is order those six
months later and see if you change.
But in that, I've got the vitamin D3. I take a ton of fish oil.
So fish oil is like omega-3s are my jam, especially for brain health.
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Oh my gosh, like it's just, that's it. A very potent resveratrol,
just because that's also very good for brain health and inflammation.
And then besides that, I take a very quality zinc zinc to colonate along with
copper because if you just take zinc, you're going to deplete your copper levels.
And besides that, a very potent magnesium. And that's it. Very simple.
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Yeah, great. And okay, can you take me through one of your typical days?
It sounds like you really don't have a typical day.
Yeah, really? No, but I could take you through. What a cliche question.
But I'm fascinated with how things, you know, how things have gone from,
you know, the beginning, and then you reinvented yourself now where you are now.
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And this now state seems to be really vibrant and just giving and you seem to
be jamming with this space. So yeah. Yeah.
So a typical day, a typical day for me starts about 4.30 a.m., 5 a.m.
Just because I have clients that are all over the United States, you know?
And so I really like to like, you don't really know, like especially with what
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we're going through, like the time zone stuff, you know, you never know what
time somebody's gonna be working.
And a lot of my people that I work with are very high performers.
And so they're up super early, you know? And so if they're going to be up super
early, I got to be up super early to talk to them too.
And so it starts about 4.30. I get up, I do a good amount of time in prayer
as I'm getting ready for the day.
You know, I've got my Bible and I've got like, you know, my devotionals playing.
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And then after that, jump on the phones. And I'm normally on a phone call.
I'm normally on phone calls from about 4.30 to about 6, 7 a.m.
And you know, that's this typical.
After that, I try to go for a
walk because I need to clear my head and get everything kind of going. on.
If it's a content day, I'll normally have a call with my videographer,
my assistant, just to kind of see, you know, what we're doing for the day,
what brands we're working with, what we need to shoot.
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And from there, it kind of just gets going. It gets started,
you know, grab a cup of coffee and look at my script, look at everything I need
to do, set it up, get the lights ready to go, camera, ready, set, action.
That starts at about 10 a.m., I'd say.
And it's normally shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, batch film as much as I
possibly can, 10 till, you know, one o'clock.
One o'clock is normally where I'm gonna have my first meal just because everybody
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asks if I intermittent fast.
I don't really think I intermittent fast. I'm just not hungry until then, so it's unintentional.
I don't think that you really need to do it, but that's just how my body works,
and I'm one of those guys who believes in following what your body says.
So if I wake up and it's four and I'm starving, I'm gonna eat something,
you know? But normally it's one o'clock.
Have some food at about one. And then after that, I'll normally get all of my
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footage, get that over to my editor, start uploading everything.
And then I'll normally have a couple of calls in the afternoon.
So that could be new brand deals. That could be a coaching session that somebody missed.
That could be new client integrations. It could also just be a call with my
team just to make sure that everybody's on pace with what we're supposed to be doing.
If we've got new clientele, I want to make sure that they are on with the right
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person to talk to and just kind of being the boss for a little while.
After that, try to get to the gym, get a workout in.
And at some point or another, I love to cook.
And so a lot of my content has become cooking content just because I love to
do it. And I was like, if I'm going to be cooking, I might as well film.
That's just how it goes. Let's see, you trade one thing for another.
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And so I'll try to come up with a dish or try to come up with a recipe and go
out, get some groceries or have my assistant go out and get my groceries.
Trees and then you know about five o'clock start shooting that and you know
starting to kind of about five o'clock is when i try to start to unwind you
know do a little bit of reading a little bit of prayer put on my blue block
my blue light blockers and turn on some red light.
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And you know just kind of go about the rest of my evening my it sounds like a very very boring day,
there's just it oh it doesn't it sounds yeah yeah
and that's kind of how it has to be you know
it has to be like that and it's it but it's also that's
a content day you know i'll also have days like today where
it's podcasting and it's you know interviews and it's
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it's woke up at 4 a.m and was
able to walk and get a cup of coffee and take a walk this morning you know and
you know had an hour gap where nothing's going on and then we're doing this
right now and then i get to turn around and go to the next podcast you know
and then it's and then the rest of my day is just back filled with everything
that needs to get done and especially like we talked talked about at the beginning
of this call is got to get out and do some Christmas shopping, you know?
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So it's finding those little periods of time where, no, that's the cool part
about the life that I've built for myself is I'm in full control of it.
And so if there's ever a moment, besides trying to make sure that everybody
else is happy and everybody else is working and everybody else is there,
if I have these little pieces and gaps where it's like, okay,
I could be shooting right now, but I don't need to,
I can go, okay, you can take a second to step back, take a breath, go do your thing.
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And that's one of the things that a lot of people kind of come to me with.
They're like, how do you not get burnt out?
You've got so much coming on. And I'm like, people tend to feel burnout coming
before they get burnt out.
Burnout just doesn't happen. You know, it's not just one of those things that
I'm burnt out like no like you're gonna feel it coming the problem with people
Who get burnt out as they feel it coming?
They don't do anything about it and then they sacrifice a ton of time afterwards
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instead of sacrificing a little time for themselves right now You know,
and so that's what I try to really focus on.
Yeah Okay, so you you just know, you know from previous experience when those
triggers are coming Yeah, when you're feeling the brain fog when you're feeling like dog tired.
Yeah Yeah, take some time out for yourself. And so over the Christmas period,
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then when you actually get to that point, because it's happening really soon,
will you take a bit of time out for yourself?
I, I think that you should take time off when you feel you need time off,
you know, never, there's never a moment where I'm like, okay,
I'm going to plan a vacation.
I'm going to plan this. I'm going to plan that. It's, you know,
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because let's say that I planned something to have, I planned to like take some
time off, but I, that could be like my most productive time, you know?
And I get to that point, I'm like, okay, well, I could have been getting all this stuff done.
And now I'm, I have this guilt on the back of my mind of, well,
now I'm just relaxing, relaxing, doing nothing when I have all this energy,
you know, like that's where my mind always goes with it.
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And I don't know if that's the healthiest way to look at it, but I just don't plan it.
So if I start to feel like, okay, I'm getting a little shaky here,
I can feel like, you know, anxiety is building up a little bit.
I've got a lot on my plate.
That's normally the first thing I'm going to do is text my assistant and be
like, Hey, do we have in two weeks, what do we have going on?
You know? And like, I try to schedule out a little bit ahead of time.
Cause I know by about two weeks is when I'm going to hit that mark of,
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I need to take a break, you know? And so we'll plan something out,
be like, hey, we just have this little structure and this little communication
of, hey, things are shaky. And she knows exactly what that means.
It's like, okay, cool. Two weeks from now, I know that we're not booking anything
for three days. You can go do whatever you want to.
I have a day to myself, go get a massage, have a full day of just not doing anything.
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And that could literally just be me going and driving up to Sedona,
Arizona and just walking around for a day and just walking and doing nothing.
And then I come back, I'm clear and I feel great because I didn't have anything to do.
And then I'm recharged. You know, that's it. You know, it's over.
It's your battery's refull. And I'm like, okay, cool. I did what I needed to do. I took some time off.
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Now it's time to go back. But I also don't force myself to come back if it's not time.
And I think that that's, and I'm blessed in the sense where I can control my
time like that, where it's, you know, if I need a little extra time,
I can give myself a little extra time.
I'm not forced. I don't have that anxiety that I always call the next morning
flight anxiety, where you have a flight in the morning and you can't sleep because
all you're thinking about is flying and getting up in time.
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And so I never have that anxiety of, I need to get this done at a certain time.
And I think that's a blessing that I've been given and I don't take it for granted.
But it's also, it took a lot of work to get here.
And once you come to the fruition of all of your labor, I think it's just,
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it's such a beautiful place to be in bliss.
Because you realize that you created something from nothing.
And now you're in control.
Is there any time you still blacken up? Is there anything you haven't quite
nailed in your... Oh, Hans.
That's the thing. If you don't... I'm guessing you're talking just like success-wise
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and like what I want in life?
Yeah, yeah. So is there anything that kind of knacks at you a little bit and
you're like, okay, like I've got all these things down pat and,
you know, these things are jarring really well.
However, you know, I want this for myself or this isn't, you know, tracking as well.
And that's kind of the cool part about life is I don't think you should ever
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get to the point where you're like, I've got it.
Like, woo, like that's like, that doesn't, that doesn't hit me because my thing
is I don't think you should ever want to win.
Like, I don't think you should ever want to beat life because at that point, that's death.
You know, if you win at life, you're dead. You know, like that's like,
that's the finish line, you know? And so I always try to chase,
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I think Matthew McConaughey said it so well.
He's like, they asked him like who his biggest inspiration was.
And he's like, well, my biggest inspiration is me in 10 years,
you know? And they're like, well, okay.
Like, what is that going to look like when you get there? He's like,
I don't know. Ask me in 10 years.
And they got to 10 years later and they asked him the question.
They're like, well, like, did you get everything you want? Like,
who's your inspiration? Did you finally find your inspiration? He goes, oh, no, no.
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My inspiration is me in 10 years. And you keep pushing it back because,
you know, if I just have that end goal, it's like, okay, now what?
What, you know, and that's the identity piece that I kind of try to coach people on a lot.
It's, you can't identify with an end. You can't identify with a single metric.
And so my thing now is, you know, I'm 29 years old and my next role in life
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is going to be a father, you know, in order to be a father, kind of need a mother,
you know? So it's like, you know, now it's like the relationship thing where
it's like, I put so much time into my business and developing myself.
Now it's time to start focusing on outward. Okay.
Who is going to help me take that dream and make it a reality?
And being open to, you know, before it was business, business,
business, business, business.
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Now it's how do I learn how to control business and have my schedule and my
stuff, but also allow a woman into my life to, you know, grow and attain a future to get,
you know, and I'm not perfect by, by any means, you know, I'm not, I'm not even close.
And so it's now going back to the drawing board going, okay,
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I need to figure out how to time allocate time to me, time to work,
time for family, time for business, time for this.
Once I figure that out, then I can bring a woman in and go, okay,
because I'm one of those guys who, if I'm going to have somebody in my life, it's your everything.
And that's everybody in my life. When I'm with anybody, my friends,
my clients, anything, in that moment, you are everything. You're it.
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I don't have my phone. I'm not talking to anybody else. This is it. it.
And I need to find that balance and get better at that.
Because that is a lacking point where I'm constantly like in creation and content creation.
It's a, it's such a blessing, but you're constantly on your phone.
You're constantly talking to people. You're constantly editing.
You're constantly, you know, it's like, you're constantly going through looking
for the newest trends, the newest this, newest that.
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At the end of the day, you can go back and you're like, my dopamine is so depleted
because I've given it all to this little thing that's in my pocket, you know?
And that's, I think I think that's another thing I'm trying to really work on
is that dopamine addiction, where it's, okay, is this a need right now that
I need to do this? Or is this my dopamine fix getting hit?
And it's having that gentle balance of, is this work? Or is this just me sitting in comfort?
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And I think that's like the biggest one right now. And so biggest one for success
is definitely, you know, taking relationships a little bit more seriously.
And then ultimately just, you know, enjoying life. I think that's the biggest
one is I do really love life, but there's, I do, I know there's so much more,
you know, and I just don't want to die. I want to die completely on E.
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And so it's always fighting for those, it's fighting for those things that you
would never think you'd be into.
And so I'm constantly, I'm constantly looking for new music,
music, new things, new different ways to look at life.
And I think that's my biggest one is always attaining new hobbies and new skills.
What's your latest hobby? Latest hobby. Like I said, music has been a big one
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for me and not playing music because I am, you know, my coordination with music
is like watching an otter trying to open a Bible.
It just like, it's, you know, they just fumbles. So that's an interesting analogy.
It's just, it's, it just fumbles with it. Okay.
It doesn't fit. It doesn't work.
But I love diving into creative and so listening to somebody and just putting on,
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listening to lyrics and even just listening to the way that people put just
sounds together and really breaking it down of what were they feeling and what's the emotion here?
Here because everything I believe that everything has an emotion to it everything has an energy
to it and so it's that's one of my biggest things recently
and it calms me down and if anybody is looking for a way to like de-stress or
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take away anxiety I found that that has
been such a game changer big thanks to Scotty for being a joy to talk to as
always and sharing how he has harnessed positive energy to get what he wants
and share his knowledge with others to help them we are really excited to see
what unfolds next Scotty and are poised for the next installment,
(35:23):
Thanks for listening. See you next time.
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