How A Computer Engineer Became A Top Speaker

Lasada “LP” Pippen is a former computer engineer turned powerhouse keynote & motivational team building speaker who helps organizations & professionals break barriers and elevate their impact. He channels inspiring storytelling to ignite purpose, perseverance, and dynamic results.

His signature keynote, The Climb, equips audiences with the mindset and tools to rise higher—personally and professionally. Lasada “LP” Pippen, a former computer engineer turned motivational speaker, is renowned for his dynamic approach to leadership & motivational team building. A first-generation college graduate and bilingual STEM expert, Lasada has spent over a decade in the tech industry before pivoting to keynote & motivational speaking. His keynote series, "The Climb: How to move beyond barriers and elevate your impact," leverages his rich background to inspire corporate audiences. His presentations blend profound insights and personal anecdotes, empowering attendees to transcend professional barriers and enhance their impact.

Lasada’s unique ability to connect with diverse audiences makes him a sought-after speaker for corporate events, where he encourages professionals to harness their full potential through purpose, persistence, and perseverance. In each engagement, Lasada transforms standard speeches into powerful narratives of resilience and success, leaving attendees with practical tools to navigate their careers more effectively. His story, which begins in an underserved community and ascends to significant success in engineering and motivational speaking, underscores the transformative power of dedication and continuous learning. Attendees not only gain motivational insights but also practical strategies that can be immediately implemented to propel their careers and contribute positively to their organizations. Lasada’s ideas are designed not just to inspire but also to equip professionals at all levels to make the climb & elevate their impact.

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Speaker 1 (01:45):
Welcome to just mind in my Business Media. I'm happy
that you joined us today. I am so happy to
bring to just Minded my Business Media, Losada. LP tip
the who is a former computer engineer turned powerhouse keynote
and motivational team building speaker who helps organizations and professionals

(02:11):
break barriers and elevate their impact. He channels inspiring storytelling
to ignite purpose, perseverance, and dynamic results. His signature keynote
The Climb, equips audiences with the mindset and tools to
ross higher personally and professionally. Wow. So, LP, thank you.

(02:36):
I always love motivational books because you know the way
that I see it. You have to work from the
inside out number one, and it's a daily activity.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Absolutely thrill to be here. Thank you so much for
that introduction, beautifully said. I'm excited and had this conversation
with you and can be more three or four what
I get to do every day in my profession.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's just so powerful. People that are not there, they
just stay missing out, that's.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
All that's right. They don't know what they're missing yet.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
So you often speak about purpose, potential, and perseverance. How
did those principals shape your own journey?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, so I basically I leaned into those three things.
Those three things has been the anchor and the pillars
of my success and how I got to where I
am today. When I left engineering and corporate America and
shifted into this full time speaking and coaching, it was
purpose that called me out of corporate into this space here,

(03:53):
and so I leaned heavily on purpose, in purpose and
with purpose, and I grew very little resources, and you know,
we didn't have a whole lot. And so I learned
resilience and perseverance at a young age and I've kept
that mentality and I've kept that spirit of perseverance ever
since then. And potential. I just want to live my

(04:15):
life massed out. Once I get to the end of
the road, I don't want any questions. I don't want
a question of if I would have did this, if
I could have done this. I don't want any questions.
I want to leave here empty and I want to
live life matched out and that's Matt's not my full potential.
So that's how those three things intertwined in my life.
Having purpose, always persevering, and then that's out my full potential.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes, I love it because that should have, could have would.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, that thing is that's that's terrible to get to
the end and have to ask those questions. You know,
I just don't want to know. I don't want to
know the result of that.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
So absolutely, you know, it's always best to just do
the during.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Thing that's right, just do it.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes, yeah, wow, because I mean it's funny because you're
an engineer. I'm an IT professional. That's where I came from.
And you know, I recall I'm a certified coach, but
I don't practice that way. I practiced more or less
in the technology space, yes, because people go through so

(05:27):
much stuff when the computer don't work.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Oh, tell me about it. Yeah, because my first few
years in in tech wasn't it you know, and the
engineering part was the latter happened, So I kind of
had the best of both worlds. But yeah, I totally
understand that space completely.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, Yes, it's always a panic attack, you.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Know, absolutely right, absolutely, yes.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
So as a first generation college grad and corporate leader,
coming from an und undeserved community. What drove you to
climb into these spaces?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
The desire for more. I wanted more and I always
believe that, you know, when I looked around, you know,
not having a blueprint for to says, not having any
real role models or anything like that, always told myself,
I say, it has to be more this. It can't
just be a life of just average and just barely
getting by and just surviving. I said, life has to

(06:34):
offer more than that. And so I wanted to pursue
what that more was for me, and I wanted to
find it. And I want to live the majority of
my life in purpose and on purpose, and so that
that was a driving and a burning desire for me
and I still have it to this day. I'm still
a scrappy little fighter to get to where I want

(06:56):
to get to in life. And so that was a
drive for me, is knowing that that was more out
there to offer, and I wanted to experience that more.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, Yes, which leads me to the climb. M yep,
tell us about that.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, the climb is it's a growth mentality. That's really
what the client is. If you've ever seen mountain climbing,
if you've ever done it yourself, or if you've ever
seen rock climbing or anything like that. There are two
primary muscles that you use. One is that you're pulling
yourself up, and then the second is that you're pushing
yourself up. But either way, you're trying to elevate. That's

(07:32):
the whole objective, that's the entire goal. And so there's
a growth mentality. There's always there should always be this
burning desire to get better. Every day. We should seek
to get better every day. We should seek to elevate
to the next level. How do we become the best
version of ourselves? How do we get the most what
we have to offer to this world, to this life?

(07:54):
How do we get the most out of that? And
you have to climb to get there. You have to
push yourself all the time, and you have to constantly
pull yourself up when you fall down and when you
get knocked down, push and pull, and so the climate
is a growth mentality, it's a growth mindset, and that's
what that keynote is all about, is helping people to
reach their highest, most optimal level and to be the

(08:15):
best that they can be and to perform at their
best at all times.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yes, yes, and that's what it should always be. My
thing is being better than I was yesterday.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
That's right. Yeah. If we're not growing, we're dying. And
so I want to be on the side of growing
and getting better, even if it's about one percent every day,
I want the increase every single day. Yes.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
So how do you support other professionals to be able
to get into that mindset? Because I think there's people
that I'm going to just say, for lack of a
better word, stagnated. So how do you help someone see
that type of mindset?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah? You always start with the having the proper mentality right,
and we have to question our motivations a lot of times.
Are our motivations stemming from the right place? Are they
stemming from the right position, And so we want to
question those motivations. If you look at the word motive motivation,
it's two words and one is motivates the first part,

(09:22):
and then as it is the last part, and motive
we all know where that is. It's your reason and
then ation actually means action. So your reasons will always
drive your actions. And so when we're trying to get
into this space, this proper space of having the right mentality,
this proper space of making the climate elevating. You want
to start with the mentality first. And if we can

(09:44):
question our reasons, if we can point back to the
proper reason, it'll drive our actions. But if our reasons
are wrong, then our actions are going to be off
as well. And when the actions are off, you're going
to get the wrong results, and then you're going to
have to start all over from the drunk board. So
you want to question, question the The motivation to begin with,
ask yourself this question here is do you love what

(10:05):
you do? Do you love what you're going after? Because
this is how you walk into purpose, is that you
have to have something that you love that you are
totally obsessed with. I am obsessed with what I get
to do every day. I'm obsessed with speaking, I'm obsessed
with crafting dynamic messages. I'm obsessed with coaching. I'm obsessed
with everything that is in my world. And so it's

(10:27):
far to be average at something that you love and
that's something that you're so passionate about. And then secondly,
you have to ask yourself, am I good at this?
If you love it and you're not good at it,
then it's probably not your purpose. So you want to
love it, and then you want to be good at it.
And then number three, you want to find out how
does this help somebody else? Why do they need what
I have to offer? If I was giving somebody a

(10:49):
message today, I want to know how does it help
them and how do they apply it to their life immediately.
So that's the whole process that I kind of walk
myself through and then I walk others through. This is
how you get into that space and to this mentality
is that you want to question your reasons first, that's
going to drive your actions. And then you want to
make sure Hey, whatever I'm going after, I want to
make sure that I love it. I want to make

(11:10):
sure that I'm good at it. And then I want
to know how does this help somebody else? What is
the value that I bring to someone else?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes? Yes, And I like that you said that, because
at the end of the day, we're not here for ourselves, right,
We're here for others, That's right, And if we want
a service, then.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
What you're doing yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know that's
that's the real selling point is that when you can
figure out the value that you offer, the value that
you bring and how it helps someone else and why
it helps someone else. That's the sweet spot. That's when
you're really cooking with oil, you know, that's when you're

(11:54):
cooking with grease, as they would say, you know, And
so yeah, you find your sweet spot when you can
answer that question of this is how it helps somebody else,
this is why, and this is the value that it provides.
And if you can't answer that, keep working at it.
You know you'll find it. But that's what you want
to be able to answer.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
And a lot of times, you know, people when you're young,
like kids, they kind of already kind of starting to
walk into their purpose. Sometimes the elements around them dims

(12:32):
that and they and because people might be around them
saying what they can't do and not blah blah blah,
and you know that you know the words. Of course,
sometimes it gets pushed away and sometimes it's refound and
other times life happens and it's never refound.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
So how.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
That's a that's a huge thing to me.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I have such an appreciation for
my haters, and you know, I tell other people this too,
is that you want to embrace your haters, you know,
because for me, and I'm just driven this way, I'm
just wired this way, is that I need my haters.
I want them because I like to hear the noise

(13:23):
of what you what someone thinks you can't do, don't.
I don't believe in other people imposing what they think
about me upon me, you know. And so we put
so many values on or so much value on other
people opinions, and that has nothing to do with your purpose,
It has nothing to do with your calling, your gifting,

(13:45):
what somebody else thinks, you know. And so I embrace that,
you know, because I use it for fuel and it
excites me, you know, And I'm like, I must be
doing something right if I have that much noise, if
I have that many people talking about me. So I
find a way to embrace it. And I encourage young
people to do the same thing, because the more successful

(14:05):
you are, the higher that you climb in life, each
level that you go upon, you're gonna have a new
set of problems on every level that you go to.
So you might as well get used to it, you know.
If you think it's just going to walk through life
with no problems, no challenges, nobody criticizing you. Nobody you know,
saying things about you. If it's not true, then you

(14:25):
know you're gonna get being a root awakening. And so
embrace the fact that as you climb, as you get higher,
you know there will also be new challenges upon every level,
and so just embrace it along the way.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm glad you spoke on that because I'm
watching my my great grandson. He likes bugs, huh, you know,
and I can already see where he's going. Yeah, because
he'll Grandma, look at this bug, I mean, and he

(15:02):
every time, I mean, he likes playing with them and
be And I'm so happy that his mother sees that
as well. Yeah, it's not trying to sniff it out,
snuff it out, so to speak.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, she's allowing that freedom, that place of exploration, and
you know, because that could be his purpose. He could
have found his purpose this early in life, which is
a beautiful thing. And so yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yes, absolutely. So you talked about your coaching. People get
involved with your coaching.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah. So the easiest way is just to go to
Lasadapippen dot com. You can find all of the information there.
If you go to Losadapippen dot com slash coaching, it'll
take you directly to the coaching page and we help
people communicate at an effective high level. That's that's what
we do. You can be a professional, you can be
an executive, you can be an amateur, you can be
a shot person, introvert, it doesn't matter where you are.

(15:59):
We have a communications framework that elevates the communication of
anyone who is seeking better communication almost instantly. It elevates
your communication level with this simple framework that we've created
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
Speakin O God. All right, So, how so if someone
is coming to you, what is the process in.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Terms of going through the coaching program or the actual
program itself.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
In terms of okay, I'm signing up, what kind of
how do you know where I belong?

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, so we have an assessment that people can take.
That's the first thing that we do. There's an online assessment.
It's a series of questions. It's very short, less than
fifteen minutes, probably less than ten minutes, you know, depending,
but they're just a series of questions to help us
know where you belong, where you fit in, and how
we can help you. Once you take that assessment, we

(16:56):
produce a solution roadmap for you, and you don't have
to take the coaching. You have the option of taking
the coaching, but we provide you value even in the
solution roadmap of what we recommend based on where you
are and based on where you want to go. So
that assessment is the first thing that happens. After they
take the assessment, we provide a solution roadmap, and then

(17:16):
we decide how we want to go forward, how we
can help you, and how you can elevate your game.
So that's kind of a simple three step process.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Almost, okay, okay, And how is it orchestrated? Is it online?
Is it a group thing? Is one on one?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yes, there are both options. The assessment is done online,
the solution roadmap is provided digitally to you, and then
we have a call right after the solution roadmap so
that we can talk about the solution roadmap and then
how we can help you. So all of that's done online.
The meeting is done virtually and so forth. And if
somebody wants coaching in person, that is an option as well,

(17:56):
but most of it can be done right just like this,
you know, over a zoom gonna meet meeting and it
can be individual one on one, and we also have
group as well, because there are some people who come
and they want their entire team to go through this
communication coaching as well. But we can also do it
one on one. So both options are available and both
options are just as effective.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh okay, okay, good. I needed to know that. Yes, yes,
so let's talk a little bit about transitioning from to
a new career. Yes, yes, that's a scary moment.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, that was scary. It's fun now that you know,
when I look at it from this perspective as I'm
looking backwards, it was fun, but it was scary. I mean,
it was really scary. I was in engineering and I
had a great job. You know, I had great leaders
and great colleagues. So I left not because something was wrong.

(18:56):
I left because I wanted to get to that place
of purpose for me. I wanted to get to the
place where I have my highest impact, not because something
was wrong. You know a lot of people they leave
because something is wrong, but that wasn't my case. My
contract was coming to an end and I had to
make a decision. Am I going to stay here and
renew my contract? Because I had the option to do so,

(19:18):
or am I going to take this leap of faith
and go after what I really want to do, what
I really loved, who I really think that I'll have
my greatest impact. And so I was faced with a
decision and I had to make that decision, and I
jumped out there and I made that decision. And there
were times to where I was trying to swim my
way back to shore. I was trying to go back.

(19:38):
I was scared, and I had to wather. Those storms
are fear, And what I learned was that I needed
to coexist with fear. I'm not trying to get rid
of it anymore. I'm just trying to coexist with it now.
And so my faith and my fear they coexisted together.
And so that was a huge mentality shift for me,

(19:59):
is that I wanted to embrace the fear. And so
that's exactly what I did. I embraced the fear, and
I burned the boats once I got over to the island,
because if you don't burn the boats, you're going to
always try to find a way to go backwards. And
if we give ourselves a way out, we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Almost every single time, I'm blad I'm glad that you
talked about fear because you know, most coaches you know, eliminate, eliminate,
and when you think about it, you can't, yeah, because
you every new thing brings fear m. It's just it

(20:38):
goes with like you said, faith, because I mean, when
you have a thought, it's pairs, it's negative and positive.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
That's right, that's right. All thoughts yep, yep, even when
you're you know, even when you think about something as
basic as a heartbeat. If you look at a heartbeat monitor,
you know, a heart monitor, there an up down motion. Yes,
And so you're gonna have your mountains, you're gonna have
your peaks, but you're also gonna have your valley. And

(21:12):
alongside of every single mountain there is, there's a valley
adjacent to it. And so if we can embrace that
mentality that there are mountains and there are valleys, you know,
is that the only thing that you don't want, You
don't want a flat line. That's what you don't want.
So you have to be okay with the mountain, you know,
the times to where you are courageous to where you

(21:34):
have all the confidents in the world. But then at
the same time. You have to learn how to muster
that same confidence, that same courage when you're in the
valley because you know that you're on your way back
to a mountaintop. And so I embrace the fear. You know,
I don't tell people to try to get rid of it, nomore.
It's better if you can do it with the fear present.
And so I embrace it. I got a chair personalized

(21:57):
just for fear to sit down and say, we can
have a conversation every now, you know.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
So I'm no, that's right, because that's just part of
the process.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, it is. Yeah, and you want to go through
that process. The process is very important.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
And you're going to go through it, yep, you want
to or not. So in order to make it easier,
like you said, you got to embrace it.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, yeah, just embrace it, you know. And we spend
a lot of energy trying to get rid of it,
and you know, sometimes it's just better to invite it
in and you know, keep building your faith, but know
that fear is there as well.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
And that's okay, yes, absolutely, And I'm sure in your
in your coaching, that's probably the most difficult piece for
people to grabs.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, even when I first stepped into this space, you know,
I was I was fearful that I couldn't do it.
You know, I didn't always have the belief in myself.
I wasn't always confident. I didn't up a confident person.
You know. I had to learn and build those things,
you know, But there were times where I just didn't
believe I could do it. I didn't believe I had
anything to say. I didn't believe I offered value. So

(23:11):
all of those, you know, things of you know, the
lack of self worth and the lack of belief and
all of the fear, all of those things were playing
a number on me. But again I learned how to
embrace and lean into that and lean into my strengths
at the same time, and and you know, take that
first step forward.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes, yes, And that's so important, so important, because you know,
a lot of times, especially the younger people, they they
may not have traveled, they ain't old enough yet, yeah, right,
they just ain't lived long enough. Yeah, trying to sometimes

(23:51):
get that mindset over to them can be.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Very challenging, of course, course, yep, because it does take time.
It takes work, it takes energy, it takes effort, and
you know, we're in a society now to where people
want to take the shortcuts, and every time you take
a shortcut, you always get cut short, you know. So
don't try to skip the don't try to get there

(24:19):
the fast as you can. You know, you want to
get there on a solid foundation and you have to
build that. That takes time, that takes effort, energy and
hard work, and it takes all of those things. You know,
focus on the progress instead of you know, and don't
forget about the process, you know. So that's that's what
I coach, and that's what I teach in terms of

(24:39):
how you're going to get there. You're going to have
to go through the process and make progress along the way.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
And everybody's process is different, that's correct. You cannot compare
yourself with the person next to you. You know, maybe they.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Got it soon, that's correct. And you know that is
another challenge in and of itself, is that when people
begin to compare themselves to other people. And I always
tell people that's that's one thing you do not want
to do, is compare yourself to other people, because I've
never seen a positive outcome when we compare ourselves to
other people. Usually only two things happen. You know, somebody's

(25:14):
gonna feel superior and somebody's gonna feel inferior when you
compare yourself to other people. And just as they say,
comparison is the thief of all joy. So we don't
want to get caught up on what somebody else is doing.
You want to be focused in on you, what are
you great at, what makes you great, what makes you unique?
Focused completely on you. You can draw inspiration from other people,

(25:36):
you know, but there's a fine line between drawing inspiration
and comparing yourself to other people. We just someone to
lean on the side of comparing ourselves.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Absolutely, and I think social media lends itself.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
To that totally. Absolutely. It's a huge barrier for people
because we're watching what everybody else is doing, and you know,
we're watching how many followers they have, how many lights
they have, how many reposts and retweets and and reshares.
We're watching everything that we're doing. And every time we
do that, we're only diminishing ourselves. And so, yeah, get

(26:09):
out of the comparison business. Get out of that.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, for sure that that that definitely will keep you down.
Of course, absolutely, definitely and that's one of the problems
with the younger people, you know, they pretty much get
caught up. And then I think the older people we
at that place with we just don't give a damn.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, totally absolutely, I love it. Yeah, yeah, you got
to you got to learn how to get there. You know,
you got to go through some lumps to get to
that place where you just don't care, you know, yeah
that you want to get there though. You know, it's like,
now I'm not comparison comparing myself to nobody. I'm truly content,
you know, in my own space and in my own being.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
And that's a wonderful place to be, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yes, it is, you know. And you know, sometimes people say,
you know, they're they're trying to be happy, and you know,
happy can be fleeting a lot of times. And so
I was like, don't try to be happy. And if
you are happy, that's awesome, but don't try to be
happier than happy, and focus on getting content more so
than happy. And so I think contentment is a better

(27:16):
place to be because happiness can be depicted upon external
things and it can be fleeting a lot of times.
But when you're content, you know that's that's an internal space. First.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yes, I have to agreeve with you because people throw
that word around happy. All I want is to be happy,
And you're right. You can wake up in the morning
feeling so happy and later on for no reason that
you can muster up you ain't happy no more.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
That's right, that's right. It's so fleeting. I'm like happy.
It's no, I'm not seeking to be happy. You know.
The days when i'm happy, I'm very happy that I'm happy.
But I just want to be content, you know. Contentment
is a place of peace for me.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
So yes, yes, and it's very different, it is, it's
very different.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, yes, Wow, this has been amazing, Like I could.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Go on and on knowing talk yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Because I like working from the inside out. And you know,
I always say personal development found me because you know,
before I really got involved, you know, I didn't know
how much control I had. I didn't even know I
had control over what I feel, what I think, how

(28:47):
I think. You don't think about it, you know what
I'm saying. Because you're going through the motions of this
thing called life and you're doing you're doing, you're doing,
but you're not really we really paying attention what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Absolutely yep. And you know we we have one hundred
percent ownership. We have more ownership than what we give
ourselves credit for us. We do, yeah, we and we
we just have to take that ownership and the responsibility
of that ownership. But you're absolutely right, you can. Nobody
can control how you feel. They can't dictate you know,

(29:28):
what you feel. You know, you've probably heard people say,
you know, that person just makes me feel, you know,
and like, no, stop right there, that that person does
not control how you feel. Yes, you know, we give
them the freedom to control our space, but that's not
who's really in control, is really you? You have one
hundred percent ownership, yes.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yes, yes you do. And then once you realize that
life is full of ups and downs, like we've been
talking about that down valley, you know, mountains valleys, and
you really have to learn how to respond better to
those things.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yep, that's right, yep. How you respond can be more
important than what's happening in itself. Yes, yeah, it's the
response that matters the most.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
A whole lot, because that reactive thing will get you
in trouble.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Every time, every time.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, indeed, you know, it's just but you learn that
when you pay an attention to the moment, when you're
getting the moment and you actually paying attention, a lot
of things happen.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Absolutely. Yes, I wrote a whole chapter on the moment.
It's called a moment principle. That's literally what it's called.
And so because it does literally, what it talks about
is being present in the moment, focusing on right now,
not yesterday, not your past accolades, not your past laurels,
not tomorrow, not what you got planned in the future.

(31:10):
Now it's the best time frame that we have on earth. Now,
there's no better timeframe than right now. And so I
call it the moment principle. And it's all about being
in the moment of now and being present right here,
right now, because right now it's the only it's the
best control that you have. It's right now. You can

(31:31):
influence your tomorrow, you can influence your future, but it
starts right now.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
So how do we get that?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah, that's also on the website. That's on the sidefifth
dot com. You just go to my store. It's in there. Also,
the book is called It's just Not Common Sense and
it's just fits pragmatic principles that I talk about in
that book, you know, very practical. You know, you can
apply it almost immediately. It's a game changer in terms

(31:59):
of spective shifting and so forth. But when you said
that about the moment, that's what made me think of that,
is that, Yeah, I dedicated an entire chapter to you know,
being in the moment, you know. So yeah, but that's
all the side of people dot com as well, And
just go to the store and you'll see it right there.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
All right now. So I'm definitely gonna have to You're
gonna have to send me that so I can put
it in the show notes, so people can, you know,
because I think humanity needs all the help they can get.
Of course, especially now in these turbulent times when we
feel helpless. We need to know how to respond to

(32:42):
keep the contents, you know, the content, you know, because
some things we can control, some things we can't.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
How do how do we deal with that?

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah? Yeah, you want to focus on what you can control.
That's the best thing you can do. Just simply focus
on what's in my control, you know, you know, I
don't worry about nothing that I am not a participant
in I don't worry about nothing. If I'm not participating
in it, I don't worry about it at all. I
am so even killed for the most part, you know,

(33:17):
because I believe that balance is the key to life.
And you know, part of that balance is that's simply
focusing on what can you do about your life, Not
what somebody else can do for it or to or
anything like, but what can you do for it? And
what can you do about it? And so we want
to focus on the things that we can't control.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yes, absolutely so again LP, it's a lot to simmlar
one here. Yes, a lot of nuggets and stuff things
that people need to definitely shome on one. Yeah, so

(33:58):
that they can live their best life. Sell it again.
How do people connect with you?

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Yeah, all of my socials are at Lasada Pippen. Very simple.
It is just my personal last name and that's our
La s A d A. And then Pipping just like
Scotty p I p p e in and lasadapipping dot com.
Very easy to find, pretty simple process at Lasada Pippen
and lasadapipping dot com.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yes, yes, yes, indeed so Ladies and gentlemen you've been,
you've gotten your dues of personal development. Today, I hope
you continue the road because at the end of the day,
it's all about getting getting better than you were yesterday.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
That's absolutely right. We want to get better every single
day to reach our ultimate place of where we below.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
And it ain't just gonna happen because you say it.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Nope, you gotta you gotta do this. This one thing
you always tell people that you got to always push
and push. What that means in the world of LP
is that you have to persevere until success happens. That's
what pushed me. But you got to always push. If
you're not winning, if you haven't worn guess what. The
game is not over yet. And just because a chapter

(35:13):
ends in your book, your story is not over. It
doesn't mean that the book is over just because the
chapter end. So always push, persevere until success happens.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yes, and that on that note, thank you ladies and gentlemen,
and thank you.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
LP yep, thank you for having me. This is awesome.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Absolutely, thank you to our guests and you our values audience.
Let's stop you by. We truly appreciate you. Many blessings
to you and yours