July 24, 2025 • 40 mins
In this episode of The 3 Parallels Podcast, Dr. Jason Branch takes us on a ride that’s about much more than cars. It’s a personal and reflective journey through identity, growth, and how the things we desire often mirror the version of ourselves we’re either running from or growing into. Dr. Branch opens up about his long-standing relationship with cars not just as machines, but as symbols of aspiration, struggle, status, and transformation. He shares vivid stories about the cars he always wanted as a kid, the ones he worked hard to earn, and the dream cars that still whisper to him from the future.Through these stories, Dr. Branch invites listeners to consider the deeper parallels between what we drive and what drives us. He challenges us to think about what we’re attracting in our lives people, places, and things—not from who we’ve been, but from who we’re becoming.This episode is rich with metaphor, reflection, and moments of vulnerability that remind us: we all have a story about a car, or the lack of one. And in those stories are breadcrumbs that can lead us closer to the version of ourselves we’re meant to become.
🎯 3 Challenges
1. Name Your Dream Car
What car have you always wanted? What does it say about who you are or who you want to be?
2. Do One Brave Thing
Step into a space or situation this week that stretches your comfort zone. Even a small step counts.
3. Check How You’re Moving
Are you living like the version of yourself you’re becoming—or the one you’ve outgrown? Make one change to match your actions with your growth.
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🎯 3 Challenges
1. Name Your Dream Car
What car have you always wanted? What does it say about who you are or who you want to be?
2. Do One Brave Thing
Step into a space or situation this week that stretches your comfort zone. Even a small step counts.
3. Check How You’re Moving
Are you living like the version of yourself you’re becoming—or the one you’ve outgrown? Make one change to match your actions with your growth.
This episode is brought to you by our amazing sponsor:
J Branch & Associates: Schedule your free 15 minute consultation by going to www.drjbranch.com; call or text (404) 436-2540
Connect with The 3 Parallels Podcast:
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Download the 3 Parallels Music Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DCvaDp1wWypO59l1kearH?si=sy0X9tMcSNumk4ym-VZ9LQ
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Three Parallel, Three Parallel, Three Parallel, three Parallel podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome back to the Three Parallels podcast, which your hosts,
the Doctor Jason Branch, where we rediscovered who we were,
we embrace who we are, and we make room for
who we're trying to become. On today's show, we're finna talk, okay,
but more than often than not, you're going to listen
because I have a story to share. And this is
a story that I haven't shared publicly, and I'm excited
(00:33):
about sharing it because it can be impactful, informational, transformational
for you. And that's why I decided to share. And
on the show, if you're noticing, I'm sharing a little
bit more than I usually do, because stories are impactful.
If you think about any aspects of life, anything that
you do have, think, feel believe it connects two stories
(00:54):
and we all have them. And I'm a storyteller and
I'm sharing this story to help you determine who you are,
who you are you becoming, and it also gives you information,
tools and tips to rediscover who you are who you
are becoming. Because to me, those three parallels will always
remain the same, whether they're a parallel, being vertical, or horizontal.
(01:16):
You know, those parallels of who we were who we
are becoming are horizontal. The parallels of the attict Li
Li room and basement is horizontal. So we got vertical
and horizontal lines. All of it equates to us becoming
the best version of us possible. So what I want
to share is the future me, the fast meeting. They
(01:39):
currently related to cars. So I've been a car for
natic my entire life. As long as I can remember.
I've loved cars. I just like different types of cars,
sports cars, to be exact, I just love all types
of cars.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
My dad kind of kind of exposed me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
To cars, and it's just been a passion ever since,
just driving cars, just the dashboard, just everything about cars.
I've just been a fan of. And it's one particular
car that I've always dreamed about, but I didn't think
I could actually get it. I never thought I could.
(02:15):
So I want to talk about the future version of me,
you know, him him. So I celebrated a birthday recently,
and during my birthday it's been a common theme that
I'm more interested in experiences.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Rather than things.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So for this birthday, I didn't spend a dime on
me related to a thing, but I did spend time
on experiences, and the experience that I had.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Was to drive up the coast southern.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
California from Oceanside to Lagula Beach, and during this drive,
I would just stop at different places to pray, meditate, process, right, create,
that's the space I'm in.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And by the end of my trip, I.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Ended up at the Aston Martin dealership, which is wild
because for forty three years of my life I've never
stepped foot on an Aston Martin dealership. Didn't even know
it existed. However, just give me a little more insight
to me, and we're in the basement now. I've always
(03:20):
kept an Aston Martin Hot Will's car in the glove
compartment of any car that I've had since I left
college in two thousand and five because my belief is
that one day I'll be able to buy one. Now
I don't know when, where, how why, That ain't none
of my business. What I do know is I will
(03:42):
have the option to buy that car brand new cash
money one day. And this belief I've had since college
because it scared me then, it doesn't scare me as
much now. This episode is going to talk about these
experiences these changes. So that idea came from the law
(04:07):
of attraction, just attracting things into my life based on
what I think, what I feel, what I do, And
that car is something that's way out there because on
average it may run you, you know, between two hundred
three hundred thousand dollars, And for me, I never really
concerned myself about the car itself.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I concerned myself about the option to buy period.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And when I'm thinking about option that, I'm talking about
cash money, cash money.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Because that's how I see me. I'm talking about him,
future him.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You heard him a little earlier, right, So might be
becoming that version of me as the martus nothing because
it's just a car. It's the meaning that we give it.
And the meaning that I gave cars, specifically certain sports
cars or luxury cars or foreign cars.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Was prestige, privilege, wealth.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I looked at certain cars and gave meaning to those
cars that it meant that anybody that's driving it was
someone that was my belief. And it's true, based on
your beliefs. Whatever you drive, whoever drives was there's a
belief around it based off of the person driving it,
based off of the person looking watching somebody drive this belief.
(05:23):
For example, if you say, for some people, Mercedes, oh, Mercedes,
you know, it sounds like one of them, Hyaenas Online
King Mercedes, like you say Movasa, right, because Mercedes comes
with a certain prestige or BMW comes with a certain prestige,
depends on who you ask. For some people they just
say Mercedes because that's their norm. You know, state Mercedes wagon,
(05:46):
station wagon, it's the norm.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Not a big deal, but for some people it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And for me specifically, it is a big deal because
I never had like we had issues with cars.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
My whole life too loud lencoln or leaking gas, caught
catching on fire, cars and me and my life has
been a journey because none of them worked. From the
part it was a problem. It was.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It was yeah, the cars designed to go to A
to B, but it was a journey just to get there.
Even with my my my grandmother, you know, just culture
and how I grew up. My grandmother had a hard
time with cars, you know what I'm saying. There was
a car that she had that on you know, the
floorboard of the back seat.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
On the passenger side.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It was soaked with an a freeze right, and if
it wasn't sod with any freeze, it'd be soaked with
chitling juice or greene juice. Because we were transporting food
to the church. So whatever food that's in the back,
it's gonna spill. So you got anna freeze, you got
green juice, you got all kind of stuff. On the
right hand side in the back, and that's where kids
(06:55):
used to sit. Now on the left hand side, the.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Floorboard was eating alive by russ.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So if you push down hard enough on the floorboard,
you could see the road. I just want to talk
about it. That's how I grew up. That was the
car my grandmother had, and my mom she has. She
had some cars too. You know, one particular car I'm
at the I'm at the park, which is maybe half
(07:24):
a mile from my house, and I knew when she
was leaving the leaving the house from the park because
I heard the car start up, although it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Was half a mile away.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And then for me in college, I had a car
was just as loud because the mufflers it was it
was it was dual mufflers and they were super loud.
So cars, although I love them, the cars that I
had growing up were just death traps and I didn't
(07:56):
know if I was gonna make it or not. The
same apply for my day at my granddad. So cars
in my family has been a thing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
One car my dad had, you know, Regal. It was
an eighty two Regal Regal, and he drove it until
I was in college. And I was years later in
that same car.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
He came and picked me up from college and we
was on the way back home and it caught on fire,
so we couldn't get home. To this day, I don't
remember how we got home. But cars has been the thing.
So I had to give you the backstory to get
to the front story.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So here I am forty four years old at the
first time at a asked the Martin dealership because of
that car that's been in my glove box that I
never went to a dealership before.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So I'm at this dealership trying to figure out what
he would do because I was the current version of
me there, and I was actually an old version of
me as well, because soon as I walked, as soon
as I drove up to the dealership, I got nervous.
You know, I'm intimidated, I'm feeling insecure, Now I get
(09:09):
out the car, and I'm trying to put on this
face of who I'm trying to be, because one day
I'm gonna walk to a dealership and have the ability
to buy one of these brand new vehicles, but I
probably won't. Again, it's not about the car, it's about
having the option to buy it if I want it,
(09:30):
because my whole life there are so many cars that
I didn't have the option to buy, and I feel
some kind of worry about that. So now the future
of meeting has a chip on the shoulder because of
these experiences. Fast forward, as I'm there, you know, I
look around and see what's what, and I see a
few cars that I like, but it's not the car
that I had in my glovebox. So I know that
(09:51):
car is not here, and this isn't the dealership for
me at this time. But I said, I'm gonna play
it out anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So I walk in and say, hey, everybody walk in.
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I mean, it's plus. It's like they got somebody twenty
four hours cleaning. It's not a speck of dust anywhere
you can customize your car, you know, it's it's immaculate.
Everybody in there and suits all men. I didn't see
one woman on men. And there's cars on the showroom
and I was just there embracing it as him trying
to emulate who I think I would be at that time.
So I walk in and say I'm curious about the process.
(10:25):
So somebody said can I help you? And I say yeah,
And there was one person that got up. Everybody else
stays seated, and this person gets up and walks over
to me and say, hey, introduce yourself. I induce myself
and I said, yeah, I'm just curious about the process.
How do you go about owning one of these? And
he was like, okay, so are you interested in new
or used? Old me jumped out, I was like used.
(10:46):
The new me was like, hush, we're not buying nothing
used in here.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Anything we get in here is gonna be new. I said,
oh okay, my bad, My bad. He says, all right,
you're learning.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we go outside and he shows me to the
used cars and there's people cleaning them, and he's telling
me all the spects about him, and I'm just like,
let's look at the new ones, which I've been looking
at already. So we go to the new ones, and
he's talking sharing what he's sharing, and I'm getting bored
because I'm like, yo, I'm ready to buy. I'm curious
to know the process of buying this car, and uh
(11:18):
he shares the process, which is all I need to know.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I'm like, okay, cool man, thanks for the opportunity.
Now mind you. I'm still nervous, but I'm playing a
part of who I think I am. So I asked him.
I said, hey, do you do you do you own one?
Do you own ask the mart?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And he said no, not at all, Like you know,
it's way up my pay grade.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I said, really, does anyone here drive one? He said, nah,
not really. You know this is we do pretty well here,
but we don't do that well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I said, oh, okay, well, I'm kind of new to money,
so this will be my first time. Listen, I'm speaking
life into existence. I'm acting asaiaf. Why not we do
it our time, but not in our favor. Do what
you want with that. But it was a moment where
I'm playing this character and I enjoyed it. It was hard,
it was uncomfortable, but I'm trying to learn who I'm
(12:07):
trying to be, and he was a rookie too. That
wasn't coincidence. So we're both rookies. And I saw how
green he was, he saw how green I was, so
I said, man, thanks for the information. You know, I
will be in touch. I will be coming back. Do
you have any cards on you? He's like, nah, I
don't have any cards on me. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And I'm like, okay, knowing he old me get out
of here quickly, old me start running the show the inn.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So as he goes into the dealership, old me, get
to the card and get the hell up out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I left the dealership and my heart is beating so fast,
and there's so many emotions and feelings and laughter and fun,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just like, oh my god, I just did that. Although
I'm grown ass, man, I went right back to a
kid and I left whatever moving on in life because
every day I try to do something different, not uncomfortable,
on new especially for my birthday, I'm doing all kind
of uncomfortable things. So I went and I processed, like man,
that was exhilarating. It was exciting experience, and I recognize
(13:10):
how uncomfortable I was, which means I need to practice
this more often. Because when that time comes for me
to have the ability to buy one cash money, I
need to bring who I actually am and not who I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Used to be.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So I want to share a story about how I
used to be and how I overcame it. So, as
I mentioned, that's that's current right now, let's go back
to the past. As I mentioned, I love cars. So
the dream car that I had started back when I
was a kid, and that was a BMW. I never
(13:46):
was into the Mercedes didn't really do it for me,
but BMW, did you know? For those who don't know,
BMW means Barbarian Mortar Works. That's the name of the company.
Many people don't know that I knew that. I know
that because I studied the hell out of BMW's all
types of cars and one movie specifically Finding Forrester. I
(14:07):
was able to connect to being a black male in
spaces and places where people assumed who I was versus
who I actually was. I haven't seen it, go check
it out three parallels all day. So I learned everything
about this car because I believe one day I could
have it, just like I believe about this Aston Martin
(14:27):
today now.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So I always wanted a seven forty five.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I, you know, all black peanut butter guts, and that
talked back to me. You know, good afternoon, doctor Branch.
And I used to say that all the time, even
before I became a doctor. Yeah, I need y'all know
I'm talking this shit for a long time. Just decided
to let y'all in to say that even when I'm speaking,
doing it for things because I knew one day I
(14:53):
would have it, and it wasn't until I did my
first vision board. My first vision board was in twenty twelve.
That's when I got sposed a law attraction, which we'll
talk about speaking of life.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Into existence a whole night.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So twenty twelve was the first time I put a
BMW sign emblem on my vision board where I knew
one day I will be able to get it. And
what I'm going to share now is the story around
this experience. So twenty twelve were first put the emblem on,
(15:25):
and twenty fourteen was the year I found out exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What Karl wanted.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Now I've been wanting to semi with about for years,
but in two thy fourteen the BMW.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Three series of five series seven series. The other series
but those are the series that matter to me. So
I didn't want to do three. I didn't want to
do seven, and the five was like mmm, I was between.
I was between five and the seven. A BMW decided, Hey,
we're going to do a four series. So twenty fourteen,
(15:59):
BMWA came out with the four to thirty five I
of four series, which was perfect for me. It wasn't
a seven, it wasn't a five, it wasn't a three.
It was a four that never existed until that time.
And I saw I add four. I saw a commercial
for it. It was charcoal gray with red velvet interior.
(16:20):
I called it red velvet because red velvet my favorite.
K It's called coral red and metallic gray, but I
call it, you know, charcoal with red guts, red velvet
to be exact.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So I started changing the language.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I went from seven forty five all black peanut with
the guts hashtag reacie cup to a four thirty five charcoal.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Gray, red velvet interior, red velvet guts.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Guts is interior for those throwing a kind of educating
just case you don't, I want to make sure everybody's included. Okay,
we are inclusive over here. We respect the EEI can't
speak for everybody, but we do bring it okay. So
that's when it changed to two thousand four I knew
this is the car I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't know when we're how why, they ain't none
of my business. But this is the car. This is
my dream car because I don't think I could do it,
but a part of me believes that I can.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Meaning him, were always whispering, let me know, yeah this
one day, it's possible. So I've had this car on
my vision board. I've had to b MW on my
vision board since two thousand twelve. Twenty fourteen, I got specific,
how specific. I knew exactly what I wanted h M
sports package, whether for wheel drive, I wanted the whole
(17:35):
coop with the heads up display like I was in it.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That was twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mind you, I'm working as a clinical director of our
patent treatment center, and my clinical director, the CEO of
this company, has a three series three thirty one I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Coop drop top, which is what I wanted in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So I felt I was closer to it because of
this person. So I start moving in that direction. Fortunately
for me. The following year, twenty fifteen, I accepted an
opportunity to become a doc student an account l education
(18:19):
program at Alluring University. They recruited me, they found me.
Another story for another day. I will give you that
later on. We ain't there right now. So I started
a doc program. Mind you, I'm starting a doc program
from scratch. I was making well over six figures involved
in the profession and decided I'm out. I'm going to
be a student again. So I gave it all up
(18:39):
to be a student. Now I'm making about twenty thousand
a year, ramen, noodles and everything else. And because I
am who I am, I made a conscious choice to
do it, knowing that if I do this, then one
of the rewards I'll get when I'm done is that car.
(19:00):
Now there's several reasons why I got a PhD, but
one of the things that motivated me to finish was
a car that I didn't think I could ever have
in life.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So that car became the carrot for me. Now, w
challenge you find a carrot.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Whatever you're trying to do, whatever goal you want to accomplish,
find you a carrot, whatever that is. And the carrot,
as you know from cartoons, is when you put, you know,
a strap of carrot to the head of this character
to go in a certain direction. They never get the
carrot until they get where they're going, but they have
the carreat, which means they will always go. So my
(19:38):
carrot was a BMW four thirty five ive coral gray
red Evidentarior Sports Package twenty fourteen period. So I began
working towards it by working towards becoming him.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Who is him? Doctor Jason Ranch?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Ooh, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Some body do something with it. I can't I live it?
Go okay?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So when I started first year at the doc program,
I changed my screen saver for my computer for my phone.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Into that car, that specific car.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I would open up my laptop and the interior of
that car was there with all of the folders and documents,
but the interior was there, and on my cell phone
was the.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Actual outside of that car.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So either either where it go, I look at my
phone with my laptop, I'm in the car, I'm out
the car, out the car. And I kept that screen
saver for three years. It was a four year program.
I finished three I'll tell you about that another time
because I was determined to get done. When I finally graduated, well,
I couldn't say finally when I graduated. Twenty eighteen is
(20:47):
when I graduated. You know, my first job was a
faculty position, and I knew then I'm getting this car.
So every year I felt I was getting closer to it.
So what I started to do was create or curate
a playlist. So understand where the playlist came from. So
(21:07):
the three paer list playlist, three perer list podcast playlist
is another playlist that I created because I have a
playlist for every aspect of life. New dad playlist, son playlist,
Mary playlist, dating, like I would have a playlist for everything,
dot program playlist. But the first playlist that I started
to curate was this playlist for this BMW four thirty
(21:29):
five I. That playlist is on Spotify right now, and
I built it from twenty fourteen to twenty eighteen. For
four years, I was building this playlist because I knew
that one day I will be able to buy this car.
And that playlist is all I'm listening to because I
(21:49):
curated it for four years without ever listening to it.
Now I'll hear songs here and there, but I didn't
listen to it because I was preparing for that moment.
Fast forward. Life was life and regardless, I was on
a mission. I had goose and dreams. I was going
to get this car. And once I became doctor Branch,
(22:12):
it was at that moment where I.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Knew I'm getting it started.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
My first job got acclimated. I'm in Jersey at the time,
mind you. I look at this car once a week.
I look at this car once a week. I go
to the dealership every other week, and I just I
just hang out at the dealership. When I first started
doing this twenty fourteen, to see that car. I'm going
to dealership and I'm intimidated.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm terrified because of the old me. But I look
around and walk around people. You know, they asked me, Hey,
what are you going? Can I help you with something?
Ba I'm sill looking around, just looking around, or I
would talk to somebody I was going test drive.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
This went on for four years. For four years, I
would be inundated, but I would I bought myself a keychain.
I was just in it. I bought clothes and be
able to be closed. I was in it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Everything to prepare for the moment of actually getting it.
And it happened in November Thanksgiving weekend, November twenty eighteen,
six years later, four years to be exact related to
the specific car I was able to get it. Now,
(23:24):
let me share with you how it happened. So God
acclim made it. Started the job in August November. Let
me knock some debt out, get my life together, take
care of some stuff. You know, as a docs toub
when you get out of a dog program, you don't
know who you are. For those who have done it
were still doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Just no, just keep going. So I had to actually
make myself to this new version of me. And this
new version of me was driving you know, ninety seven
Bend the Court, all silver.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I called the Great Goose. Every car I had was great,
called the Great Goose, Great ghouls. Greg, it was two
or three going back to college. Another story maya business,
So Greg wos is all I drank in college? Another
story in another day. So it still followed me. And
so it was finally time to get the car. Because
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I've been watching it. I would go on BMW website
and look for this specific car and it was hard
to find. It was located in different areas here and there,
but it's hard to find. But when I found the
exact same one, if I was if it was less
than you know, fifty miles from where I lived, I
would go look at it. I would go check it out,
get in, you know, even with the testra I was
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started up, but I wouldn't drive, you know, because I
knew I wanted to drive it one time and I
was off the lot. So I would go and start
it up and look around, kick the tires, knowing I
wasn't gonna buy yet, but I would, So I did
everything for four years.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So I got a degree in BMW.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Now the moment of true finally happened, knocked all my
dad out, got some money saved.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm in a position to do some some serious stuff.
Mind you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
The cost of car, it didn't matter to me. I
was gonna get it. Rather, I was gonna Now, anybody
can buy a new car, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Not an issue. The issue.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The issue is can you keep it. Some of y'all know,
some of y'all been there, been there done. I got
a T shirt, got that got collections. Okay, some move
of us have been there anyway. So I was ready
to buy. So Thanksgiving weekend comes and I look online
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because I know I'm ready to buy, and the closest
place that I could find a car because now we're
four years later, so now the cars four years old,
it's hard to find. So when I did find the car,
I was in New Jersey at the time. I found
one car, and the closest.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
To me was in Iowa, Iowa. Y'all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Fourteen hours rid to Iowa. And I'm like, I don't care,
that's exactly what I want. I'm finna go get it.
So call the dealership.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Hey, looking at this four thirty five he got our
own sale, you know, Thanksgiving sale, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And I'm interested, but I'm nowhere near you, you know.
And my hope is we can cut a deal. This
is the car for me, and we can we can
find out what works for us, and I'll be out
there next weekend and pick it up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Can we make it happen?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And the God like, I don't know it's this is
that I say, Hey, man, I ain't trying here on
that shit. Okay, hush, this is what you all are
offering for the car. This is what I'm offering to
you for the car. Can we make this deal happen?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I don't know. I gotta check out my boss. I say, hey, hey,
I don't want to hear nothing else about excuses. Go
call your boss. Do whatever you gotta do. I'm ready
to get this car now, I can. I can. I said,
what's the nearest airport to your dealership? He told me
what it was. I said, cool, that's all I need
to know.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Check with your boss because you have a customer who's
ready to buy, So do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm trying to get your commission. I'm trying to take
care of you. I need to take care of me.
Can you handle that? Because I was him at the time,
he said, yes, sir, man, give me a few minute.
Let me talk to my boss and see what I
can do. Blah blah blah. Now he gets off the line.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I'm having the time of my life because me coming
at him with this energy, with this integrity, was because
I did my research. I learned how to buy, I
learned the negotiation. I learned what I needed to learn
to make sure I get this car again. I had
a four year degree in this. Within ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He calls me back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He said, hey, man, you know, talk to my boss.
It's Thanksgiving weekend. We want to give thanks. We can
do it for the price that you mentioned. You know,
it's below sticker blah blah blah blah blah, but.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We can get it for you. I said, cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Are y'all open on next Friday? Because I got work,
I got a life to do. Are y'all open on
next Friday?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He said yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I said, nearest, nearest airport. Can you pick me up
from the airport? He said yeah, And I was like,
it's done. I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Go and wash it up. Get the keys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I'm coming to get my ship, the Goos three, the
Goose three, I'm coming to get it.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
He said. Cool. We hang up. Man, I'm dancing, I'm
having a ball. I'm having the time of my life.
I'm telling you know, I got a very very small
select people that I told ahead of time. I'm going
to Iowa to get and they're like, Iowa, what what
gonna do in Iowa? I'm going to get the card
and I'm driving it back home. And man, it was
like you wow, you crazy? Yep, I might be. I've
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been call words. So the next week comes that Friday,
I fly out of Jersey, direct flight to Iowa. I'll
get out now. In Jersey, it's not snowing or like that.
I get the Iowa. The streets it's covered with snow.
It's it's snow and the streets are clean, but the
city is covered with snow. And I get there and
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my man picks me up in a nice five series.
He's trying to fail me another car. I'm like, hush,
take me to my baby. I get in the car
and we just chopping it up. We drive to the place. Now,
mind you, my motions and my.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Feeling mountain sweat. My palms are sweaty. I feel like
I'm gonna meet my new baby, you know. And we
get to the dealership.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's sitting out front and it's clean. They just washed it.
And I'm like, yo, that's it now, mind you. I
never seen this car in person, as far as you know,
the car, I'm buying it. You open the door. I
get in.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
He said, uh, you want a chest drive. I said,
I said, yeah, yeah, let me at least test drive it.
This is the first time I chest drive. So he said,
hold on, let me get the keys.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He go get the keys, and I'm just sitting out
there admiring this dream that's about to become reality.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And I got this playlist burning a hole on my
phone because I'm ready to play it. And the first
song tupop picture me rolling, first song on the playlist.
So we get in the car, load up, buffalo up,
and he shows me what the car can do, because
I've learned about it, but I've never experienced it. So
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he shows me sport mode and launch bold and all
these different things. So we're getting the car. We've been
the corner, get on the interstate. I open that thing up.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I said, Yo, I'm getting off first first inter station.
I'm getting off. Turn around, let's go drop the paperwork.
I was done, done done. We get back. Man, he's
grinning from ear to ear. I'm grinning from ear to ear.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And uh, it gives me the keys and roll no,
it's cold outside, roll the windows down and just let
it sit out there. And it had a little like
a little dirt from you know, a little snow from
going on and there stay can come back.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So he's like, man, I'm gonna wash it up again.
Make sure you're good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I need to go talk to the money man. Now,
I'm like, all right, cool, let's go talk to him
because I'm ready. I'm ready, right.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So he gets the car washed up again. I go
talk to my man and doing the paperwork. I'm talking
mad shit because I'm ready, and boom sign on the
dot of the line, and the deal was done. The
deal was done.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I get and before I did anything, you know, we
exchange numbers. It was like, you know, hey, we got
a holiday party coming up tomorrow. Man, We're inviting all
BMW customers to come. We got great goods, we got
all this stuff. And I'm like, man, I'm gonna be
here tomorrow. I'm on my way back home. Now I'm
gonna stoping Ohio, hang out with the fan, and then
I'm gonna go to Jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He's like, all right, cool. So I get keys. Now,
I got one bag with one outfit. I know what
I came here to do. I know what I came
here to do. Got the outfit. He gave me the key, despair,
I get the sticker, I get everything. Just throw it
all in the bag, put it in, put it in
the back seat.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So I'm in this brand new car coop full thirty five,
I twenty fourteen charcoal gray with red velvet interior, and
it's all mine. So what I've had on my phone,
what I had on my computer, what I had in
my mind, what I envisioned, what I thought about, what
I talked about, became reality in this moment.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And I started the car up and it purred like
a kitten, and I feel myself getting.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Emotional, and I'm like, all right, man, y'all can go now,
thank you, y'all could go Because everybody was out there
going to take pictures of me holding.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
The keys up and all that. I'm like, all right,
y'all can go now, because in my eyes they're welling
up and my eyes are filled with tears where if
anybody bumped me it was over, tears will fall.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So I needed to get the hell out of my waist.
I can go, and they finally, you know, leave or
or slowly go in the building. I turned a car
on and I'm next to this mall, so I drive up.
And before I even left the dealership, I turned on
the playlist, Hit Shuffle, Hit play pitching me rolling first song,
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and man, I drove up. I get to the first light,
windows down, top you know, the sun some roof down.
Mind you, it's negative two degrees outside.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I don't care. I don't care. And I get to
that first light and before I could even move to
the next light, I broke down in tears.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And these are all tears of joy, of excitement, of man,
I worked hard for this.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh my god, dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
And it's been six years, and all the things from
twenty twelve, or even me as a child, you know,
when we were growing up and say that's my car,
that's my car. And I'm in a place now years later,
this is my actual car, and I'm driving by kids
who looking at me saying that's my car.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
All of that came up to me and it was
this rust of emotion.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Where I'm boohooed Viola Davis on fences, trying to win
an oscar, crying grown man, tears so much so I
couldn't even start the road trip. I had to pull
over in that mall parking lot and just allow myself space,
grace and patience to just cry. And those tears was
(34:34):
of joy, of triumph, of overcoming of I did it,
and I did it on my own. I mean, I
had help from a village and all that. But I
did this on my own, and I became somebody I
didn't think I could be. And now I have the
car of my dreams that I never thought I could do.
And it was a moment I'll never forget as long
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as I live.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And so I finally got myself together.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I just opened up all the doors of trunk the
hood and I just took pictures, walked around, shared it
with friends and family because I had my moment.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Now I want to share my moment.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
And then I put everything up, locked it up, draw
my tears through the playlist song and started my road
trip from Iowa to New Jersey and stopped in Ohio
to show my mom, you know, Dad, my parents and
my family and everybody was just in awe, like, yo,
you did it, man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know we celebrated.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
This was before graduate no, this was after graduations, so
graduation was one thing, so this was the next thing.
And I did it, and I did it for me,
but it impacted everybody else around me. And from that moment,
I knew like I could do whatever I wanted to
do if I'm willing to do the work or become
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the version of me that attracts the people, places, and
things I'm supposed to have in my life.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I drove that car.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
All the way back to New Jersey and it was
one of the coolest cars in the faculty parking lot.
I was so proud of because nobody had it and
I knew the closest you could get to it was
in Iowa, and I got that one.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was a moment that I will cheerish for the
rest of my life. And if I can experience this
by becoming him, that means that you can too. I'm
no different. I'm no different. My hope is this story
impacts you, inspires you to decide who you.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Want to become, because when you become that person him
hurt them, you attract the people, places, and things that
you're supposed to have. I was supposed to have that car,
even since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I just didn't know it. I didn't know it because
I didn't know me.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I didn't know the version of me that I needed
to become to attract that car, and I got exactactly
what I wanted. This has happened to me multiple times over,
from a car to a relationship, to a marriage, to
children to a bank account to you name it, to
a podcast, to an audience, to a community, people, places,
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and things, because I became a version of me that
I didn't think was possible.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Again, I didn't care about the car itself. I cared
about the option to get it. My hope is that
this podcast, this particular episode, plans to see puts the
pebble in the pond does whatever it needs to do.
That's the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I share you this story with you now because that's
the BMW which is in my past, my future. There's
an Austin Martin with my name on it. I just
want to talk about it, and when it happens, I'm
gonna tell you about it, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And again, it may not even be me bounding a car,
is me having a conversation knowing that I could.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Whatever the case may be, that time will come and
I will become him because I'm becoming him now, and
if I am, that means you are as well.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Life work. I want you to.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Decide today who you're going to be old version, current version,
better version, because every day you get to decide if
this episode was helpful. Beneficial gave you anything provided something
for you to give it away.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Share it. You know somebody who likes BMW, share it,
know somebody who hates it. Share it because being in
that car.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
It solidified what I thought, what I felt by experience,
and I became the person that drove that kind of car,
and it was a phenomenal experience and it was a
gift that kept giving, not because of the car, but
because of the experience. If you think about it most
aspects of life, it's not the thing, it's the experience
that we have with the thing, people, places, and things.
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This has been another episode by the Three Paral Levels
podcast with your host, THEE Doctor, Jason Branch. Will we
rediscover who we were, we embrace who we are, and
we make room for who we're trying to become. If
this episode has impacted you in any way, shape home
a fashion, don't keep it to yourself, share it, give
it away, like comment, subscribe, share this Okay. I'm sharing
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me with the expectation that me sharing my truth and
telling my stories will gill other people the opportunity to
do the same, and that it will impact you in
ways that you decide to do something for you. I
appreciate you for rocking with me, for being here with me,
for listening, for paying attention, for investing in me by
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investing in yourself. And my belief is when you invest
in yourself, you will always get one hundred percent turn
on your investment.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
By investing yourself. I did it.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Look what I was able to accomplish. You can do
it as well. Look what you can accomplish. And please
know it's not about the thing, It's about the being.
Who you're becoming will attract whatever it is that you want.
Have a great day, great month, great morning, great year,
great life.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Peace,
Three Parallel, Three Parallel, Three Parallel, three Parallel podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome back to the Three Parallels podcast, which your hosts,
the Doctor Jason Branch, where we rediscovered who we were,
we embrace who we are, and we make room for
who we're trying to become. On today's show, we're finna talk, okay,
but more than often than not, you're going to listen
because I have a story to share. And this is
a story that I haven't shared publicly, and I'm excited
(00:33):
about sharing it because it can be impactful, informational, transformational
for you. And that's why I decided to share. And
on the show, if you're noticing, I'm sharing a little
bit more than I usually do, because stories are impactful.
If you think about any aspects of life, anything that
you do have, think, feel believe it connects two stories
(00:54):
and we all have them. And I'm a storyteller and
I'm sharing this story to help you determine who you are,
who you are you becoming, and it also gives you information,
tools and tips to rediscover who you are who you
are becoming. Because to me, those three parallels will always
remain the same, whether they're a parallel, being vertical, or horizontal.
(01:16):
You know, those parallels of who we were who we
are becoming are horizontal. The parallels of the attict Li
Li room and basement is horizontal. So we got vertical
and horizontal lines. All of it equates to us becoming
the best version of us possible. So what I want
to share is the future me, the fast meeting. They
(01:39):
currently related to cars. So I've been a car for
natic my entire life. As long as I can remember.
I've loved cars. I just like different types of cars,
sports cars, to be exact, I just love all types
of cars.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
My dad kind of kind of exposed me.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
To cars, and it's just been a passion ever since,
just driving cars, just the dashboard, just everything about cars.
I've just been a fan of. And it's one particular
car that I've always dreamed about, but I didn't think
I could actually get it. I never thought I could.
(02:15):
So I want to talk about the future version of me,
you know, him him. So I celebrated a birthday recently,
and during my birthday it's been a common theme that
I'm more interested in experiences.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Rather than things.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So for this birthday, I didn't spend a dime on
me related to a thing, but I did spend time
on experiences, and the experience that I had.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Was to drive up the coast southern.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
California from Oceanside to Lagula Beach, and during this drive,
I would just stop at different places to pray, meditate, process, right, create,
that's the space I'm in.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And by the end of my trip, I.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Ended up at the Aston Martin dealership, which is wild
because for forty three years of my life I've never
stepped foot on an Aston Martin dealership. Didn't even know
it existed. However, just give me a little more insight
to me, and we're in the basement now. I've always
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kept an Aston Martin Hot Will's car in the glove
compartment of any car that I've had since I left
college in two thousand and five because my belief is
that one day I'll be able to buy one. Now
I don't know when, where, how why, That ain't none
of my business. What I do know is I will
(03:42):
have the option to buy that car brand new cash
money one day. And this belief I've had since college
because it scared me then, it doesn't scare me as
much now. This episode is going to talk about these
experiences these changes. So that idea came from the law
(04:07):
of attraction, just attracting things into my life based on
what I think, what I feel, what I do, And
that car is something that's way out there because on
average it may run you, you know, between two hundred
three hundred thousand dollars, And for me, I never really
concerned myself about the car itself.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I concerned myself about the option to buy period.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And when I'm thinking about option that, I'm talking about
cash money, cash money.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Because that's how I see me. I'm talking about him,
future him.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You heard him a little earlier, right, So might be
becoming that version of me as the martus nothing because
it's just a car. It's the meaning that we give it.
And the meaning that I gave cars, specifically certain sports
cars or luxury cars or foreign cars.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Was prestige, privilege, wealth.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I looked at certain cars and gave meaning to those
cars that it meant that anybody that's driving it was
someone that was my belief. And it's true, based on
your beliefs. Whatever you drive, whoever drives was there's a
belief around it based off of the person driving it,
based off of the person looking watching somebody drive this belief.
(05:23):
For example, if you say, for some people, Mercedes, oh, Mercedes,
you know, it sounds like one of them, Hyaenas Online
King Mercedes, like you say Movasa, right, because Mercedes comes
with a certain prestige or BMW comes with a certain prestige,
depends on who you ask. For some people they just
say Mercedes because that's their norm. You know, state Mercedes wagon,
(05:46):
station wagon, it's the norm.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Not a big deal, but for some people it is.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And for me specifically, it is a big deal because
I never had like we had issues with cars.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
My whole life too loud lencoln or leaking gas, caught
catching on fire, cars and me and my life has
been a journey because none of them worked. From the
part it was a problem. It was.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It was yeah, the cars designed to go to A
to B, but it was a journey just to get there.
Even with my my my grandmother, you know, just culture
and how I grew up. My grandmother had a hard
time with cars, you know what I'm saying. There was
a car that she had that on you know, the
floorboard of the back seat.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
On the passenger side.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It was soaked with an a freeze right, and if
it wasn't sod with any freeze, it'd be soaked with
chitling juice or greene juice. Because we were transporting food
to the church. So whatever food that's in the back,
it's gonna spill. So you got anna freeze, you got
green juice, you got all kind of stuff. On the
right hand side in the back, and that's where kids
(06:55):
used to sit. Now on the left hand side, the.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Floorboard was eating alive by russ.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So if you push down hard enough on the floorboard,
you could see the road. I just want to talk
about it. That's how I grew up. That was the
car my grandmother had, and my mom she has. She
had some cars too. You know, one particular car I'm
at the I'm at the park, which is maybe half
(07:24):
a mile from my house, and I knew when she
was leaving the leaving the house from the park because
I heard the car start up, although it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Was half a mile away.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And then for me in college, I had a car
was just as loud because the mufflers it was it
was it was dual mufflers and they were super loud.
So cars, although I love them, the cars that I
had growing up were just death traps and I didn't
(07:56):
know if I was gonna make it or not. The
same apply for my day at my granddad. So cars
in my family has been a thing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
One car my dad had, you know, Regal. It was
an eighty two Regal Regal, and he drove it until
I was in college. And I was years later in
that same car.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
He came and picked me up from college and we
was on the way back home and it caught on fire,
so we couldn't get home. To this day, I don't
remember how we got home. But cars has been the thing.
So I had to give you the backstory to get
to the front story.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So here I am forty four years old at the
first time at a asked the Martin dealership because of
that car that's been in my glove box that I
never went to a dealership before.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So I'm at this dealership trying to figure out what
he would do because I was the current version of
me there, and I was actually an old version of
me as well, because soon as I walked, as soon
as I drove up to the dealership, I got nervous.
You know, I'm intimidated, I'm feeling insecure, Now I get
(09:09):
out the car, and I'm trying to put on this
face of who I'm trying to be, because one day
I'm gonna walk to a dealership and have the ability
to buy one of these brand new vehicles, but I
probably won't. Again, it's not about the car, it's about
having the option to buy it if I want it,
(09:30):
because my whole life there are so many cars that
I didn't have the option to buy, and I feel
some kind of worry about that. So now the future
of meeting has a chip on the shoulder because of
these experiences. Fast forward, as I'm there, you know, I
look around and see what's what, and I see a
few cars that I like, but it's not the car
that I had in my glovebox. So I know that
(09:51):
car is not here, and this isn't the dealership for
me at this time. But I said, I'm gonna play
it out anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So I walk in and say, hey, everybody walk in.
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I mean, it's plus. It's like they got somebody twenty
four hours cleaning. It's not a speck of dust anywhere
you can customize your car, you know, it's it's immaculate.
Everybody in there and suits all men. I didn't see
one woman on men. And there's cars on the showroom
and I was just there embracing it as him trying
to emulate who I think I would be at that time.
So I walk in and say I'm curious about the process.
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So somebody said can I help you? And I say yeah,
And there was one person that got up. Everybody else
stays seated, and this person gets up and walks over
to me and say, hey, introduce yourself. I induce myself
and I said, yeah, I'm just curious about the process.
How do you go about owning one of these? And
he was like, okay, so are you interested in new
or used? Old me jumped out, I was like used.
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The new me was like, hush, we're not buying nothing
used in here.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Anything we get in here is gonna be new. I said,
oh okay, my bad, My bad. He says, all right,
you're learning.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we go outside and he shows me to the
used cars and there's people cleaning them, and he's telling
me all the spects about him, and I'm just like,
let's look at the new ones, which I've been looking
at already. So we go to the new ones, and
he's talking sharing what he's sharing, and I'm getting bored
because I'm like, yo, I'm ready to buy. I'm curious
to know the process of buying this car, and uh
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he shares the process, which is all I need to know.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I'm like, okay, cool man, thanks for the opportunity.
Now mind you. I'm still nervous, but I'm playing a
part of who I think I am. So I asked him.
I said, hey, do you do you do you own one?
Do you own ask the mart?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And he said no, not at all, Like you know,
it's way up my pay grade.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I said, really, does anyone here drive one? He said, nah,
not really. You know this is we do pretty well here,
but we don't do that well.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I said, oh, okay, well, I'm kind of new to money,
so this will be my first time. Listen, I'm speaking
life into existence. I'm acting asaiaf. Why not we do
it our time, but not in our favor. Do what
you want with that. But it was a moment where
I'm playing this character and I enjoyed it. It was hard,
it was uncomfortable, but I'm trying to learn who I'm
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trying to be, and he was a rookie too. That
wasn't coincidence. So we're both rookies. And I saw how
green he was, he saw how green I was, so
I said, man, thanks for the information. You know, I
will be in touch. I will be coming back. Do
you have any cards on you? He's like, nah, I
don't have any cards on me. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And I'm like, okay, knowing he old me get out
of here quickly, old me start running the show the inn.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So as he goes into the dealership, old me, get
to the card and get the hell up out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I left the dealership and my heart is beating so fast,
and there's so many emotions and feelings and laughter and fun,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just like, oh my god, I just did that. Although
I'm grown ass, man, I went right back to a
kid and I left whatever moving on in life because
every day I try to do something different, not uncomfortable,
on new especially for my birthday, I'm doing all kind
of uncomfortable things. So I went and I processed, like man,
that was exhilarating. It was exciting experience, and I recognize
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how uncomfortable I was, which means I need to practice
this more often. Because when that time comes for me
to have the ability to buy one cash money, I
need to bring who I actually am and not who I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Used to be.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So I want to share a story about how I
used to be and how I overcame it. So, as
I mentioned, that's that's current right now, let's go back
to the past. As I mentioned, I love cars. So
the dream car that I had started back when I
was a kid, and that was a BMW. I never
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was into the Mercedes didn't really do it for me,
but BMW, did you know? For those who don't know,
BMW means Barbarian Mortar Works. That's the name of the company.
Many people don't know that I knew that. I know
that because I studied the hell out of BMW's all
types of cars and one movie specifically Finding Forrester. I
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was able to connect to being a black male in
spaces and places where people assumed who I was versus
who I actually was. I haven't seen it, go check
it out three parallels all day. So I learned everything
about this car because I believe one day I could
have it, just like I believe about this Aston Martin
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today now.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So I always wanted a seven forty five.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I, you know, all black peanut butter guts, and that
talked back to me. You know, good afternoon, doctor Branch.
And I used to say that all the time, even
before I became a doctor. Yeah, I need y'all know
I'm talking this shit for a long time. Just decided
to let y'all in to say that even when I'm speaking,
doing it for things because I knew one day I
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would have it, and it wasn't until I did my
first vision board. My first vision board was in twenty twelve.
That's when I got sposed a law attraction, which we'll
talk about speaking of life.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Into existence a whole night.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So twenty twelve was the first time I put a
BMW sign emblem on my vision board where I knew
one day I will be able to get it. And
what I'm going to share now is the story around
this experience. So twenty twelve were first put the emblem on,
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and twenty fourteen was the year I found out exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What Karl wanted.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Now I've been wanting to semi with about for years,
but in two thy fourteen the BMW.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So there's a.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Three series of five series seven series. The other series
but those are the series that matter to me. So
I didn't want to do three. I didn't want to
do seven, and the five was like mmm, I was between.
I was between five and the seven. A BMW decided, Hey,
we're going to do a four series. So twenty fourteen,
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BMWA came out with the four to thirty five I
of four series, which was perfect for me. It wasn't
a seven, it wasn't a five, it wasn't a three.
It was a four that never existed until that time.
And I saw I add four. I saw a commercial
for it. It was charcoal gray with red velvet interior.
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I called it red velvet because red velvet my favorite.
K It's called coral red and metallic gray, but I
call it, you know, charcoal with red guts, red velvet
to be exact.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So I started changing the language.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I went from seven forty five all black peanut with
the guts hashtag reacie cup to a four thirty five charcoal.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Gray, red velvet interior, red velvet guts.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Guts is interior for those throwing a kind of educating
just case you don't, I want to make sure everybody's included. Okay,
we are inclusive over here. We respect the EEI can't
speak for everybody, but we do bring it okay. So
that's when it changed to two thousand four I knew
this is the car I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't know when we're how why, they ain't none
of my business. But this is the car. This is
my dream car because I don't think I could do it,
but a part of me believes that I can.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Meaning him, were always whispering, let me know, yeah this
one day, it's possible. So I've had this car on
my vision board. I've had to b MW on my
vision board since two thousand twelve. Twenty fourteen, I got specific,
how specific. I knew exactly what I wanted h M
sports package, whether for wheel drive, I wanted the whole
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coop with the heads up display like I was in it.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That was twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Mind you, I'm working as a clinical director of our
patent treatment center, and my clinical director, the CEO of
this company, has a three series three thirty one I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Coop drop top, which is what I wanted in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
So I felt I was closer to it because of
this person. So I start moving in that direction. Fortunately
for me. The following year, twenty fifteen, I accepted an
opportunity to become a doc student an account l education
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program at Alluring University. They recruited me, they found me.
Another story for another day. I will give you that
later on. We ain't there right now. So I started
a doc program. Mind you, I'm starting a doc program
from scratch. I was making well over six figures involved
in the profession and decided I'm out. I'm going to
be a student again. So I gave it all up
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to be a student. Now I'm making about twenty thousand
a year, ramen, noodles and everything else. And because I
am who I am, I made a conscious choice to
do it, knowing that if I do this, then one
of the rewards I'll get when I'm done is that car.
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Now there's several reasons why I got a PhD, but
one of the things that motivated me to finish was
a car that I didn't think I could ever have
in life.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So that car became the carrot for me. Now, w
challenge you find a carrot.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Whatever you're trying to do, whatever goal you want to accomplish,
find you a carrot, whatever that is. And the carrot,
as you know from cartoons, is when you put, you know,
a strap of carrot to the head of this character
to go in a certain direction. They never get the
carrot until they get where they're going, but they have
the carreat, which means they will always go. So my
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carrot was a BMW four thirty five ive coral gray
red Evidentarior Sports Package twenty fourteen period. So I began
working towards it by working towards becoming him.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Who is him? Doctor Jason Ranch?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Ooh, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Some body do something with it. I can't I live it?
Go okay?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So when I started first year at the doc program,
I changed my screen saver for my computer for my phone.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Into that car, that specific car.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I would open up my laptop and the interior of
that car was there with all of the folders and documents,
but the interior was there, and on my cell phone
was the.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Actual outside of that car.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So either either where it go, I look at my
phone with my laptop, I'm in the car, I'm out
the car, out the car. And I kept that screen
saver for three years. It was a four year program.
I finished three I'll tell you about that another time
because I was determined to get done. When I finally graduated, well,
I couldn't say finally when I graduated. Twenty eighteen is
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when I graduated. You know, my first job was a
faculty position, and I knew then I'm getting this car.
So every year I felt I was getting closer to it.
So what I started to do was create or curate
a playlist. So understand where the playlist came from. So
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the three paer list playlist, three perer list podcast playlist
is another playlist that I created because I have a
playlist for every aspect of life. New dad playlist, son playlist,
Mary playlist, dating, like I would have a playlist for everything,
dot program playlist. But the first playlist that I started
to curate was this playlist for this BMW four thirty
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five I. That playlist is on Spotify right now, and
I built it from twenty fourteen to twenty eighteen. For
four years, I was building this playlist because I knew
that one day I will be able to buy this car.
And that playlist is all I'm listening to because I
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curated it for four years without ever listening to it.
Now I'll hear songs here and there, but I didn't
listen to it because I was preparing for that moment.
Fast forward. Life was life and regardless, I was on
a mission. I had goose and dreams. I was going
to get this car. And once I became doctor Branch,
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it was at that moment where I.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Knew I'm getting it started.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
My first job got acclimated. I'm in Jersey at the time,
mind you. I look at this car once a week.
I look at this car once a week. I go
to the dealership every other week, and I just I
just hang out at the dealership. When I first started
doing this twenty fourteen, to see that car. I'm going
to dealership and I'm intimidated.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm terrified because of the old me. But I look
around and walk around people. You know, they asked me, Hey,
what are you going? Can I help you with something?
Ba I'm sill looking around, just looking around, or I
would talk to somebody I was going test drive.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
This went on for four years. For four years, I
would be inundated, but I would I bought myself a keychain.
I was just in it. I bought clothes and be
able to be closed. I was in it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Everything to prepare for the moment of actually getting it.
And it happened in November Thanksgiving weekend, November twenty eighteen,
six years later, four years to be exact related to
the specific car I was able to get it. Now,
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let me share with you how it happened. So God
acclim made it. Started the job in August November. Let
me knock some debt out, get my life together, take
care of some stuff. You know, as a docs toub
when you get out of a dog program, you don't
know who you are. For those who have done it
were still doing it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Just no, just keep going. So I had to actually
make myself to this new version of me. And this
new version of me was driving you know, ninety seven
Bend the Court, all silver.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I called the Great Goose. Every car I had was great,
called the Great Goose, Great ghouls. Greg, it was two
or three going back to college. Another story maya business,
So Greg wos is all I drank in college? Another
story in another day. So it still followed me. And
so it was finally time to get the car. Because
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I've been watching it. I would go on BMW website
and look for this specific car and it was hard
to find. It was located in different areas here and there,
but it's hard to find. But when I found the
exact same one, if I was if it was less
than you know, fifty miles from where I lived, I
would go look at it. I would go check it out,
get in, you know, even with the testra I was
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started up, but I wouldn't drive, you know, because I
knew I wanted to drive it one time and I
was off the lot. So I would go and start
it up and look around, kick the tires, knowing I
wasn't gonna buy yet, but I would, So I did
everything for four years.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So I got a degree in BMW.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Now the moment of true finally happened, knocked all my
dad out, got some money saved.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm in a position to do some some serious stuff.
Mind you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
The cost of car, it didn't matter to me. I
was gonna get it. Rather, I was gonna Now, anybody
can buy a new car, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Not an issue. The issue.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
The issue is can you keep it. Some of y'all know,
some of y'all been there, been there done. I got
a T shirt, got that got collections. Okay, some move
of us have been there anyway. So I was ready
to buy. So Thanksgiving weekend comes and I look online
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because I know I'm ready to buy, and the closest
place that I could find a car because now we're
four years later, so now the cars four years old,
it's hard to find. So when I did find the car,
I was in New Jersey at the time. I found
one car, and the closest.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
To me was in Iowa, Iowa. Y'all.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Fourteen hours rid to Iowa. And I'm like, I don't care,
that's exactly what I want. I'm finna go get it.
So call the dealership.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Hey, looking at this four thirty five he got our
own sale, you know, Thanksgiving sale, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And I'm interested, but I'm nowhere near you, you know.
And my hope is we can cut a deal. This
is the car for me, and we can we can
find out what works for us, and I'll be out
there next weekend and pick it up.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Can we make it happen?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And the God like, I don't know it's this is
that I say, Hey, man, I ain't trying here on
that shit. Okay, hush, this is what you all are
offering for the car. This is what I'm offering to
you for the car. Can we make this deal happen?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I don't know. I gotta check out my boss. I say, hey, hey,
I don't want to hear nothing else about excuses. Go
call your boss. Do whatever you gotta do. I'm ready
to get this car now, I can. I can. I said,
what's the nearest airport to your dealership? He told me
what it was. I said, cool, that's all I need
to know.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Check with your boss because you have a customer who's
ready to buy, So do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm trying to get your commission. I'm trying to take
care of you. I need to take care of me.
Can you handle that? Because I was him at the time,
he said, yes, sir, man, give me a few minute.
Let me talk to my boss and see what I
can do. Blah blah blah. Now he gets off the line.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I'm having the time of my life because me coming
at him with this energy, with this integrity, was because
I did my research. I learned how to buy, I
learned the negotiation. I learned what I needed to learn
to make sure I get this car again. I had
a four year degree in this. Within ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He calls me back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He said, hey, man, you know, talk to my boss.
It's Thanksgiving weekend. We want to give thanks. We can
do it for the price that you mentioned. You know,
it's below sticker blah blah blah blah blah, but.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We can get it for you. I said, cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Are y'all open on next Friday? Because I got work,
I got a life to do. Are y'all open on
next Friday?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He said yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I said, nearest, nearest airport. Can you pick me up
from the airport? He said yeah, And I was like,
it's done. I'll see you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Go and wash it up. Get the keys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I'm coming to get my ship, the Goos three, the
Goose three, I'm coming to get it.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
He said. Cool. We hang up. Man, I'm dancing, I'm
having a ball. I'm having the time of my life.
I'm telling you know, I got a very very small
select people that I told ahead of time. I'm going
to Iowa to get and they're like, Iowa, what what
gonna do in Iowa? I'm going to get the card
and I'm driving it back home. And man, it was
like you wow, you crazy? Yep, I might be. I've
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been call words. So the next week comes that Friday,
I fly out of Jersey, direct flight to Iowa. I'll
get out now. In Jersey, it's not snowing or like that.
I get the Iowa. The streets it's covered with snow.
It's it's snow and the streets are clean, but the
city is covered with snow. And I get there and
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my man picks me up in a nice five series.
He's trying to fail me another car. I'm like, hush,
take me to my baby. I get in the car
and we just chopping it up. We drive to the place. Now,
mind you, my motions and my.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Feeling mountain sweat. My palms are sweaty. I feel like
I'm gonna meet my new baby, you know. And we
get to the dealership.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's sitting out front and it's clean. They just washed it.
And I'm like, yo, that's it now, mind you. I
never seen this car in person, as far as you know,
the car, I'm buying it. You open the door. I
get in.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
He said, uh, you want a chest drive. I said,
I said, yeah, yeah, let me at least test drive it.
This is the first time I chest drive. So he said,
hold on, let me get the keys.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He go get the keys, and I'm just sitting out
there admiring this dream that's about to become reality.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And I got this playlist burning a hole on my
phone because I'm ready to play it. And the first
song tupop picture me rolling, first song on the playlist.
So we get in the car, load up, buffalo up,
and he shows me what the car can do, because
I've learned about it, but I've never experienced it. So
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he shows me sport mode and launch bold and all
these different things. So we're getting the car. We've been
the corner, get on the interstate. I open that thing up.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I said, Yo, I'm getting off first first inter station.
I'm getting off. Turn around, let's go drop the paperwork.
I was done, done done. We get back. Man, he's
grinning from ear to ear. I'm grinning from ear to ear.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And uh, it gives me the keys and roll no,
it's cold outside, roll the windows down and just let
it sit out there. And it had a little like
a little dirt from you know, a little snow from
going on and there stay can come back.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So he's like, man, I'm gonna wash it up again.
Make sure you're good.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I need to go talk to the money man. Now,
I'm like, all right, cool, let's go talk to him
because I'm ready. I'm ready, right.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So he gets the car washed up again. I go
talk to my man and doing the paperwork. I'm talking
mad shit because I'm ready, and boom sign on the
dot of the line, and the deal was done. The
deal was done.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I get and before I did anything, you know, we
exchange numbers. It was like, you know, hey, we got
a holiday party coming up tomorrow. Man, We're inviting all
BMW customers to come. We got great goods, we got
all this stuff. And I'm like, man, I'm gonna be
here tomorrow. I'm on my way back home. Now I'm
gonna stoping Ohio, hang out with the fan, and then
I'm gonna go to Jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He's like, all right, cool. So I get keys. Now,
I got one bag with one outfit. I know what
I came here to do. I know what I came
here to do. Got the outfit. He gave me the key, despair,
I get the sticker, I get everything. Just throw it
all in the bag, put it in, put it in
the back seat.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
So I'm in this brand new car coop full thirty five,
I twenty fourteen charcoal gray with red velvet interior, and
it's all mine. So what I've had on my phone,
what I had on my computer, what I had in
my mind, what I envisioned, what I thought about, what
I talked about, became reality in this moment.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And I started the car up and it purred like
a kitten, and I feel myself getting.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Emotional, and I'm like, all right, man, y'all can go now,
thank you, y'all could go Because everybody was out there
going to take pictures of me holding.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
The keys up and all that. I'm like, all right,
y'all can go now, because in my eyes they're welling
up and my eyes are filled with tears where if
anybody bumped me it was over, tears will fall.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So I needed to get the hell out of my waist.
I can go, and they finally, you know, leave or
or slowly go in the building. I turned a car
on and I'm next to this mall, so I drive up.
And before I even left the dealership, I turned on
the playlist, Hit Shuffle, Hit play pitching me rolling first song,
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and man, I drove up. I get to the first light,
windows down, top you know, the sun some roof down.
Mind you, it's negative two degrees outside.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I don't care. I don't care. And I get to
that first light and before I could even move to
the next light, I broke down in tears.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And these are all tears of joy, of excitement, of man,
I worked hard for this.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh my god, dreams come true.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
And it's been six years, and all the things from
twenty twelve, or even me as a child, you know,
when we were growing up and say that's my car,
that's my car. And I'm in a place now years later,
this is my actual car, and I'm driving by kids
who looking at me saying that's my car.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
All of that came up to me and it was
this rust of emotion.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Where I'm boohooed Viola Davis on fences, trying to win
an oscar, crying grown man, tears so much so I
couldn't even start the road trip. I had to pull
over in that mall parking lot and just allow myself space,
grace and patience to just cry. And those tears was
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of joy, of triumph, of overcoming of I did it,
and I did it on my own. I mean, I
had help from a village and all that. But I
did this on my own, and I became somebody I
didn't think I could be. And now I have the
car of my dreams that I never thought I could do.
And it was a moment I'll never forget as long
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as I live.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And so I finally got myself together.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I just opened up all the doors of trunk the
hood and I just took pictures, walked around, shared it
with friends and family because I had my moment.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Now I want to share my moment.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
And then I put everything up, locked it up, draw
my tears through the playlist song and started my road
trip from Iowa to New Jersey and stopped in Ohio
to show my mom, you know, Dad, my parents and
my family and everybody was just in awe, like, yo,
you did it, man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know we celebrated.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
This was before graduate no, this was after graduations, so
graduation was one thing, so this was the next thing.
And I did it, and I did it for me,
but it impacted everybody else around me. And from that moment,
I knew like I could do whatever I wanted to
do if I'm willing to do the work or become
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the version of me that attracts the people, places, and
things I'm supposed to have in my life.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I drove that car.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
All the way back to New Jersey and it was
one of the coolest cars in the faculty parking lot.
I was so proud of because nobody had it and
I knew the closest you could get to it was
in Iowa, and I got that one.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It was a moment that I will cheerish for the
rest of my life. And if I can experience this
by becoming him, that means that you can too. I'm
no different. I'm no different. My hope is this story
impacts you, inspires you to decide who you.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Want to become, because when you become that person him
hurt them, you attract the people, places, and things that
you're supposed to have. I was supposed to have that car,
even since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I just didn't know it. I didn't know it because
I didn't know me.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I didn't know the version of me that I needed
to become to attract that car, and I got exactactly
what I wanted. This has happened to me multiple times over,
from a car to a relationship, to a marriage, to
children to a bank account to you name it, to
a podcast, to an audience, to a community, people, places,
(37:17):
and things, because I became a version of me that
I didn't think was possible.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Again, I didn't care about the car itself. I cared
about the option to get it. My hope is that
this podcast, this particular episode, plans to see puts the
pebble in the pond does whatever it needs to do.
That's the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I share you this story with you now because that's
the BMW which is in my past, my future. There's
an Austin Martin with my name on it. I just
want to talk about it, and when it happens, I'm
gonna tell you about it, because it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And again, it may not even be me bounding a car,
is me having a conversation knowing that I could.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Whatever the case may be, that time will come and
I will become him because I'm becoming him now, and
if I am, that means you are as well.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Life work. I want you to.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Decide today who you're going to be old version, current version,
better version, because every day you get to decide if
this episode was helpful. Beneficial gave you anything provided something
for you to give it away.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Share it. You know somebody who likes BMW, share it,
know somebody who hates it. Share it because being in
that car.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
It solidified what I thought, what I felt by experience,
and I became the person that drove that kind of car,
and it was a phenomenal experience and it was a
gift that kept giving, not because of the car, but
because of the experience. If you think about it most
aspects of life, it's not the thing, it's the experience
that we have with the thing, people, places, and things.
(39:10):
This has been another episode by the Three Paral Levels
podcast with your host, THEE Doctor, Jason Branch. Will we
rediscover who we were, we embrace who we are, and
we make room for who we're trying to become. If
this episode has impacted you in any way, shape home
a fashion, don't keep it to yourself, share it, give
it away, like comment, subscribe, share this Okay. I'm sharing
(39:31):
me with the expectation that me sharing my truth and
telling my stories will gill other people the opportunity to
do the same, and that it will impact you in
ways that you decide to do something for you. I
appreciate you for rocking with me, for being here with me,
for listening, for paying attention, for investing in me by
(39:55):
investing in yourself. And my belief is when you invest
in yourself, you will always get one hundred percent turn
on your investment.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
By investing yourself. I did it.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Look what I was able to accomplish. You can do
it as well. Look what you can accomplish. And please
know it's not about the thing, It's about the being.
Who you're becoming will attract whatever it is that you want.
Have a great day, great month, great morning, great year,
great life.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Peace,
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