January 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Step into the world of VICTORHOOD with Dr. Clinton Bullock on this very special episode of Legend Magazine podcast hosted by Joseph Bonner. Dr. Bullock is an influential speaker and coach dedicated to empowering individuals to embrace their inner victor. In this episode, Dr. Bullock talks about his upcming book VICTOHOOD and explores the 1 of the 5 Keys to the VICTORHOOD Mindset, offering practical tools and wisdom to navigate life's obstacles and emerge triumphant.
Listeners will gain insights into building resilience, fostering a winning attitude, and unlocking their true potential for success.
Don’t miss the chance to be part of this enriching conversation!
For more information, visit clintonbullock.com or reach out via email at contact@clintonbullock.com.
Listeners will gain insights into building resilience, fostering a winning attitude, and unlocking their true potential for success.
Don’t miss the chance to be part of this enriching conversation!
For more information, visit clintonbullock.com or reach out via email at contact@clintonbullock.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I want to welcome everyone to today's very special episode.
I'm your host, Joseph Bonner, and welcome to Legend magazine
and founder one hundred podcasts. This next guest that we
have on today is no stranger to me and to
many of you out there. We probably haven't heard from
him in a while, but we're so inspired and encouraged
to welcome him back to the show. And that is
(00:24):
doctor Clinton, Doctor Bullock. Welcome back to the show. How
are you today, I'm doing I'm doing well. Thank you
so much. I appreciate it. Now for everybody out in
the world, we want to know, you know, it's kind
of like where is Waldough or where in the world
is Carmen San Diego? Where is doctor Bullock at in
the world right now.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
At this very moment. I am I'm in Europe, I'm
in Portugal. I will be heading back to the United
States next month and for reasons that we'll actually get
to but I will be heading back to the United
States next month.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, very awesome. And one of the things that I
love about being an entrepreneur and somebody who's a professional
in his craft and somebody who people look to for
device and insights speaking with you, doctor Borler, what I
love about your attitude through everything that you do and
(01:25):
even through the success that you achieve through your project,
is you continue to maintain such a humble and level
headed demeanor about yourself, which I think helps more people
to connect with you, you know, just personally, you know
what I mean. So we appreciate you having that mindset
an attitude.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Definitely. It's actually the only way to be I feel,
for me, what other way is there? Just to be yourself.
I come from humble beginning, something from the streets of Philadelphia, literally,
and you know, I don't know how to be anything else,
and I appreciate Here's the thing. I think one of
the things that keeps me grounded to be honest is gratitude.
(02:07):
I can't tell you how much that is a part
of my life, and honestly, I wish that that were
a part of the lives of other of many other
other people who uh But because you know, gratitude is
the is the reason that the reason, but the foundation
upon which everything I do is possible. Actually, the actual
(02:30):
like what I am, what I feel is important to
society is built into the concept of gratitude because without that,
I believe that we have we don't. We don't, we
don't have anything. You have to be. You have to
feel that what you're doing is number one important? But
(02:53):
why is it important? Because we can always complain about
certain things. But I think it's very important to be
to have a certain level of gratitude because, believe me,
we're not where we used to be or and we're
not where we could be, but we are definitely grateful
to be where we are.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, doctor Bullock, hearing that is no surprise and no
doubt speaks to you to your character. I do want
to talk a little bit more about your book now.
I know that we've talked about your book in the past,
but Victorhood is it is set to come out in
the fall. Can you share with us the inspiration behind
(03:35):
your upcoming book and what personal or professional experiences led
you to write it? And the three point question, what
key messages do you hope to convey to your readers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm gonna have to write down those all those questions
in one Let me start by let me start by
saying that I began by saying how I'm full of
gratitude all the time, and I think One of the
things is because I'm actually a three times number one
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best selling author from my first book, because that was
amazing how my first book did and how became number
one on Amazon three times. And I feel that that again,
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if you look at my background, I shouldn't be where
I'm at and where I was again, you know, born
to a teenage drug addictive prostitute. I'm the product of
my mother's prostitution. She was sixteen when she had me.
I witnessed very growing up domestic violence situations I was
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there was no word for when I was growing up.
There was no word for bullying. You just got, you know,
thrown in a trash can. That was all there was, right,
But but that that those types of things happened, and
it was very I grew up in a very abusive,
abusive environment growing up, and to the point that even
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as I got older, I have been discriminated against on
different continents, including in the United States. I've been called
the N word to my face, you know, and there's
there's so what happened was I could look at all
those situations and that have happened in my life and
I can easily say, you know, woe is me what
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you know, what life is there of you know for me?
But I never did. And my mother always said that
I wasn't a mistake because she had me, She got
pregnant with with me when she was fifteen, and she
always said to me that I was not a mistake.
So I could have, like I said, wallowed in my
pain and suffering of growing up and so forth and
(05:59):
so on. But I use that to actually become a
professor for the for the professor for the United States
Department of Defense, to uh become a three time number
one best selling author to affecting people's lives around the world.
And I really so that's where that that comes from,
(06:19):
that that gratitude because I am not who I used
to be because of where my mind brought me to
this point. And with respect to my my upcoming book, Victorhood,
The Three Keys to Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, and Victimhood, that's this.
(06:40):
This is going to be a fantastic book when it
comes out, and it is. I feel that the key
premise of it is just the rejection of victimhood. And
I think that we live in a world today where
being a victim is easy, where being a victim is monetized,
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and because it is monetized, it's a great incentive to
just play the victim. So my book counters I guess culture.
I was always taught it that we should not play
the victim and so forth. But they're in that in
the book. It's basically a Bible of sorts with reference
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to how to become your best self and the five keys.
These are the five keys that I've discovered after traveling
and redoing research around the world on four different continents,
that would give that do give light to how you
can achieve greatness in life despite your pastor present circumstances.
(07:52):
So I don't know if I answer your question, but
that's what I would like for the audience to understand
at the end when he hear this and when they
read my book, is that you are capable of accomplishing
anything you want despite your past or present circumstances. But
one thing that has to happen is that a mind
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shift has to happen, because at the end of the day,
you're only one mind shift away from attaining a life
that is undeniable and unparalleled.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Both said, thank you so much for that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So doctor bullet. Your book emphasizes by keys to success. Now,
with all giving us too much, can you give us
a sneak peek into what these keys are and how
they can transform someone's approach to life and work.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Definitely, So these five keys. Again, after having traveled around
the world have done research, I understand that these are
the base things that shift people's mentality, that shift people
paradigm so they can achieve greatness no matter who they are.
I won't go into all five, okay, because I don't
want to give it all away, all the secrets away, however,
(09:17):
all the keys away. However, I do want to give
you one particular key, Okay, just one key, one key
out of the book, and when you get the book,
you can you can you can read all about it, okay,
but I want to give you this right here, key
number four, which is the biggest key I feel, is
to never play the victim. Okay, So never play the victim.
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And I'm going to give you a story that expresses this,
because it's a really interesting story. I was a higher
education administrator in Los Angeles, Okay, doing well, moving up
in my career, all this great stuff. I was approached
(10:05):
by a very well known or company to head an
English school in China, Okay in two thousand, eighteen nineteen
nineteenenty nineteen, to head a a English school in China
(10:27):
with a possibility to actually open up because the company
was actually attempting to open up two hundred more schools
English schools in China within the next two years. That
was their goal. They wanted to do that, and they
wanted me to head that process with them, and I
(10:50):
was ecstatic about it. And we started the process and
I was actually so I was hired to do that,
and that was in September about twenty nineteen, pre COVID.
So what happened was I quit my job. I quit
my job and I was like, let's go going to China.
I'm going to open up a slew of English schools
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in China for this very well known company and it's
going to be absolutely fantastic, absolutely great. They hired me.
It was, it was fantastic. I was supposed to hear
back from them in by November twenty nineteen. I did
hear back from them, because we were supposed to get
visas done and so forth and so on. So I
(11:33):
did hear back from them, and they said to me
that they that the government of China would have denied
my processing for a visa to work in China because
I was I was a professor for the Department of Defense.
I had worked for the government and for the United
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States government as I was in a military as well,
and also I was a civilian as a professor working
for the United States Department of Defense. So I was
denied processing in a visa to work in China. Okay,
my world was devastated because I had had I had
already quit my job. I had already quit my job,
and I was like, what am I What am I
(12:14):
going to do? What am I going to do? What
am I going to do with this? I was very upset,
clearly right because I was going to China in January
of twenty twenty and I didn't. My world was upside down.
I was like, what am I going to do? I
quit my job? What was I going to do? So
I could have? Well, let me just continue with the story.
So what happened was is that I said, well, what
(12:36):
skills do I have? I thought, what skills do I have?
What can I do so that to produce the most effect,
to affect the most people the skills that I have.
Long story short is that I opened up Clinton Bullock
Coaching to push people's lives ahead personally and professionally starting
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into January twenty twenty and within six months, I created
a six figure business. That was and that was during COVID.
I created a six figure business in six months. That's
that's that's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And I was able to uh and into the next
two years, I had lived in five different countries, affecting
lives on different continents, doing what I loved to that's aspire,
inspiring people and giving them the strategies to succeed in life.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Regardless of culture, regardless of their circumstances. And for me,
that is the greatest gift. If you believe in God,
from God, from the universe, whatever, that's the greatest gift.
That's through me. That that that was I was able
to give to people. I feel, especially during COVID and
(13:54):
as as as that was happening, because what I provided
people was was not just inspiration, was a hope and
the strategies to succeed in such a turbulent time. So
I could have, as I end this story, said to myself,
woe is me. They didn't hire me for this job
in China, and what am else we gonna do with myself?
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And I could have done a whole lot of things
play the victim, and I'm not gonna lie to you.
Somebody that did creep up my mind like this is
BS and well, I me and some of those things
did creep up. And I have to, you know, coach
myself from time to time. But at the end of
the day, I focused really hard, and I just say, well,
what skills do I have? Focus? And I used my
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skills for the past, you know, twenty years to be
able to affect the most change in the world. And
that's what I did, and that's why we're here today,
and that's why I feel grateful because of how I
was able to not play the victim and to affect
positive positively the most lives in the world. What a
(15:02):
powerful story.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And we can see the impact of maintaining the right
mindset when you use these challenges and how that play
out in your own life, and why it's so important
to adopt that mindset in our own personal journeys. So
I'm really curious to see some of those details that
(15:24):
that you delve deeper into inside the book and how
we can capitalize on that mindset for you know, to
maximize just growth and personal and professional development. Very nicely shared.
Thank you so much for that. Now, as a speaker
and coach, Doctor Bullet, we know that you no doubt
(15:47):
have found a way to integrate these principles of victorhood
into your into your coaching and speaking sessions. Can you
give us an example of how you've seen these principles
impact your listeners and your clients.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So I think that these these these five keys are
are integral and the optimization of human behavior. Because when
things don't go away right, we become as a culture,
as another culture, as a people. It's just generally people.
Doesn't matter what culture we become. We we we can
(16:25):
go into a dark place. Why is this happening to me? Uh?
And I want to go back to the key, the
fourth key that I want to give you today, which
is never played, the victim. And I want to give
you this this little piece right here. So here's the thing.
Have I ever been victimized? Yes? Right, you know? But
am I a victim?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So, because being victimized is represented by a single event
that took place in which someone took advantage of you
that made you feel unsafe. Right, So for example, if
you're walking to your car and someone robs you, then
you've been victimized. But I'm not a victim because when
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you're a victim, you see victimhood everywhere. When you constantly
see it in your life, you see it in the
lives of others. And this this really important point that
I want to give personally and professional You can't play
the victim and be empowered at the same time. So
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victimhood carries no responsibility. Victim wood carries no accountability. And
until we own a responsibility right and we become accountable
right for our own lives, then that's when we are
we will be able to affect the most change and
realize our greatest potential. So no matter what you're experiencing,
(17:54):
whether you got fired, whether you didn't get hired for
that job and China because the government you know, revoked
your visa, or whether you are or you're you know,
wife or girlfriend left you after five years, whatever the
case is, what these are all opportunities for growth personally
(18:17):
or professional, and it is up to you to take
that and say what skills. Do I have to move forward?
What can I do? What do I have within me
so that I can make this moment into something fantastic.
After I'm gonna tell you something after after after I
(18:40):
was my visa got revoked to go to China, or
wasn't given to me, actually revoked, It wasn't even issued
to me by the government of China. I was like,
what am I going to do? A year later, not
even a year, not even about it exactly to the day.
You know, I graced the cover of Jam magazine, So
(19:02):
you know what I mean A year it was a
year later, a year later. If I would have just
wallowed in my in my pain and my sorrow, I
would have been I would have that would have never happened,
and a lot of other things wouldn't have happened. So
the point to all this is just that it's really
important that no matter what you're experiencing personally and professionally,
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every opportunity, and I mean every opportunity, is an opportunity
to grow because growth always lies on the other side
of discomfort. So think about it this way really quickly.
If you are if you ride a bike right, you
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have to fall down lots of times to learn how
to ride a bike. If you want to do anything,
it hurts, it's uncomfortable. The very least is uncomfortable. It
may it may hurt or not hurt, but it definitely
is uncomfortable. And the only way we're going to be
able to succeed in life is pushing through our discomfort
and so that we can be the people that we
were actually supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well said, well said, Wow, powerful, Thank you doctor. Well,
that is very encouraging, very encouraging.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now in your.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Experience, what are some common challenges that individuals face. I've
been trying to adopt the mindset necessary for success, and
what are some recommendations to overcome these obstacles.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
One of the biggest challenges, well, there's a lot, to
be honest, it depends on who you talk to, but
one of the most common ones revolve around hope. This
is why people actually off themselves, unlive themselves. I don't
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know what the proper terminology is on this platform, what
I will just leave it there, but this is why
because they lack hope, hope that it will get better.
And those are the biggest things that I hear all
the time with clients. It's just like, it's not going
to get better. It's not going to get better. It's
not going to get better with my mother, it's not
going to it's it's not going to get better with
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my job. My you know, my boss is not going anywhere.
You know, my children will always be like this, and
you know, I'm all, I'm just I'm always going to
be like this. They lack hope. And when you lack
hop you're you. You die simply, whether you physically die
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or you die inside. And hope is the only thing
that keeps us going when we feel like we can't
go anymore. So that's an obstacle that many people face
(22:04):
there that they lack hope. But sometimes let's go a
little deeper than that. Why do they lack hope? There
could be a lot of reasons. One of the main
reasons is the how do I say this, the their
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lack of self efficacy. So self efficacy is your understanding
of your own ability to be able to achieve X thing.
So if you don't believe right that, like you want
to do better, but history tells you that you felt
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at this twenty times before, a thousand times whatever times before.
How many times you felt about your lack of your
level of self efficacy is extremely low or non existent.
But let me give you an example of JK. Rowling,
who again't think her book was rejected something like one
hundred times she was a warfare and so forth. The
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fiftieth times, seventy fifth time her book was rejected, she
could have been whate is me, I'm just going to
sleep in my car being well for the rest of
my life, and so forth. And so she could have
she could have done that. She could have done that,
she could have and that's always an option Clinton, but
she didn't, and look where she is today. So the
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point is that at the end of the day, people's
self efficacy is low, contributing to their lack of hope.
I failed on the diet. I'm three hundred pounds and
I felt in this diet twenty times before, thirty times before.
What makes me believe, not even other people, what makes
me believe I can do it? There's nothing in my
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history it tells me that I can. Level of self
efficacy is very low, contributing to the lack of hope.
That's a big one. So what do they need to
do next? If they want to do that, you have
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to give them hope because without hope, you're not going
to get anywhere. You're not going to get anywhere with anyone.
That hope has to be there. And once you instill
that hope in someone, then you can give them strategies
to succeed or strategies to succeed. But you can't do
anything without hope. You have to implant that there is hope.
I'm going to show you a pathway and if you
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continue down this pathway, you will win. But hope needs
to be there from the beginning, that even as a slimmer,
a glimmer of hope. And once you do that, then
other things can be implemented to succeed.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wow, well said absolutely absolutely, Thank you for sharing them. Insights,
Doctor Bullock always always insightful. Now, given your background and expertise,
where do you see the field of professional development heading
in the next few years?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Where do I see the field of professional development heading
in the next couple of years?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, you know what, especially with I mean especially when
you think of in terms of man A lot of
things are going online. You know, you have the rise
of AI and AI power tools.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What are your thoughts there. AI will never be able
to take the place of human interaction. Genuine human interaction
will never So you can go up online and look
up five ways to make yourself feel better, you know,
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if you're slightly depressed, you can do that. Anyone can
do that. But what do people Let's just say, like
me bring to the table. We bring actual hope. Let's
just say we bring our ability to inspire, we bring
strategies to the table. Uh, so that you can succeed.
But one thing that people bring to other people that
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AI can't do is accountability. That's it. That's the key.
You don't get accountability with AI, you know, especially if
especially if you have a history of not being consistent,
if you have a history of being undisciplined. You don't.
You don't have a history of this. So people can
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keep you accountable. People do keep you accountable. So the
world of professional development is important to actually bring someone in.
I hope that in the world of professional development, AI
excuse me. AI can be used as a tool for
success and it makes it easier, especially when you're crafting
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presentations and doing things that you're trying to do. However,
it cannot substitute genuine human interaction and what humans we're
here to do for and with other humans, and that's
to inspire, to encourage, and to empower.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well said, very well said, thank you for sharing that.
So my final question for you, doctor Bullet, and this
has to do with advice for aspiring leaders. So lastly,
what advice would you give to young leaders who are
looking to cultivate their own paths to success?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, when I say to young leaders who are looking
to cultivate their own pathway to success, I would say this,
if you're in a world of entrepreneurship and you want
to speak to many people, be a coach or what
have you, I would definitely say, choose your niche and
and people don't know because you're young, how do you
do that? Right? What's something that you are passionate about
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and just go that way. People can spot fakeness, people
can spot that. But if it's something that you're greatly
passionate about and number one and it's an issue that
a lot of people have, then go for it. Be
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passionate about that thing, go for it. Because a lot
of people have issues with let's just say playing. They
don't know it a lot of times. But I clearly
see it and other people I've seen it. You know,
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I'm not saying that I am never play the victim either,
you know, but I'm aware and this is what's important
is to be aware. And the only way we're going
to be able to change behaviors is by being aware.
So I would just say, be choose something that you're
very passionate about, Choose something that will say plagues a
lot of people, and then go for it. So that's
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that's really the advice that I that I would give.
And then also they can also come and talk to
me too. Some of my door is always open. So
I think those are the three three things I would say.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, absolutely, and speaking of your doors being opened, doctor Bullock,
First of all, how do we get in contact with you?
Like you know you are?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You are.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
A leader and.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Public speaking space as well as in the coaching space,
and so for a lot of us who want to
tap into your expertise even sharing that inside and information
with our teams, our marketing teams are you know, our staff,
how do we get in contact with you to be
able to book you for a speaking event, our coaching event.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Definitely the main way would be through contact at Clintonbulock
dot com. That's contact at Clintonbulock dot com. You can
reach me there. You can reach me through all the
other social social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, those are the
other two and LinkedIn as well, so I'm sure maybe
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some links will come up here somewhere, but definitely contact
at Clintonbulock dot com would be the best way.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Well fantastic and Abs, you're absolutely right, So if you
are listening to this on one of our popular podcast
cast stations, you should just go to the description and
all that information will be there so that you can
contact doctor Clinton Bullock. Doctor Bullock, thank you so much
again for taking the time to be on the show again.
It's always nice to have you and you are always
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welcome back anytime. For those of you guys out there
again looking to transform your life and you're tired of
playing the victim card, certainly, Victorhood is a book that
you're on to definitely want to pick up. But even
before that happens, before this book launch happens, there is
so much more that we can learn from doctor Bullock
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by tapping into his repertoire of stories as well as experience,
and so I definitely encourage everyone to reach out to
contact at Clinton bullet dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, contact at Clinton block dot com. Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So make sure that you guys save that and stay inspired.
I want to welcome everyone to today's very special episode.
I'm your host, Joseph Bonner, and welcome to Legend magazine
and founder one hundred podcasts. This next guest that we
have on today is no stranger to me and to
many of you out there. We probably haven't heard from
him in a while, but we're so inspired and encouraged
to welcome him back to the show. And that is
(00:24):
doctor Clinton, Doctor Bullock. Welcome back to the show. How
are you today, I'm doing I'm doing well. Thank you
so much. I appreciate it. Now for everybody out in
the world, we want to know, you know, it's kind
of like where is Waldough or where in the world
is Carmen San Diego? Where is doctor Bullock at in
the world right now.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
At this very moment. I am I'm in Europe, I'm
in Portugal. I will be heading back to the United
States next month and for reasons that we'll actually get
to but I will be heading back to the United
States next month.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, very awesome. And one of the things that I
love about being an entrepreneur and somebody who's a professional
in his craft and somebody who people look to for
device and insights speaking with you, doctor Borler, what I
love about your attitude through everything that you do and
(01:25):
even through the success that you achieve through your project,
is you continue to maintain such a humble and level
headed demeanor about yourself, which I think helps more people
to connect with you, you know, just personally, you know
what I mean. So we appreciate you having that mindset
an attitude.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Definitely. It's actually the only way to be I feel,
for me, what other way is there? Just to be yourself.
I come from humble beginning, something from the streets of Philadelphia, literally,
and you know, I don't know how to be anything else,
and I appreciate Here's the thing. I think one of
the things that keeps me grounded to be honest is gratitude.
(02:07):
I can't tell you how much that is a part
of my life, and honestly, I wish that that were
a part of the lives of other of many other
other people who uh But because you know, gratitude is
the is the reason that the reason, but the foundation
upon which everything I do is possible. Actually, the actual
(02:30):
like what I am, what I feel is important to
society is built into the concept of gratitude because without that,
I believe that we have we don't. We don't, we
don't have anything. You have to be. You have to
feel that what you're doing is number one important? But
(02:53):
why is it important? Because we can always complain about
certain things. But I think it's very important to be
to have a certain level of gratitude because, believe me,
we're not where we used to be or and we're
not where we could be, but we are definitely grateful
to be where we are.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, doctor Bullock, hearing that is no surprise and no
doubt speaks to you to your character. I do want
to talk a little bit more about your book now.
I know that we've talked about your book in the past,
but Victorhood is it is set to come out in
the fall. Can you share with us the inspiration behind
(03:35):
your upcoming book and what personal or professional experiences led
you to write it? And the three point question, what
key messages do you hope to convey to your readers.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm gonna have to write down those all those questions
in one Let me start by let me start by
saying that I began by saying how I'm full of
gratitude all the time, and I think One of the
things is because I'm actually a three times number one
(04:07):
best selling author from my first book, because that was
amazing how my first book did and how became number
one on Amazon three times. And I feel that that again,
(04:28):
if you look at my background, I shouldn't be where
I'm at and where I was again, you know, born
to a teenage drug addictive prostitute. I'm the product of
my mother's prostitution. She was sixteen when she had me.
I witnessed very growing up domestic violence situations I was
(04:55):
there was no word for when I was growing up.
There was no word for bullying. You just got, you know,
thrown in a trash can. That was all there was, right,
But but that that those types of things happened, and
it was very I grew up in a very abusive,
abusive environment growing up, and to the point that even
(05:16):
as I got older, I have been discriminated against on
different continents, including in the United States. I've been called
the N word to my face, you know, and there's
there's so what happened was I could look at all
those situations and that have happened in my life and
I can easily say, you know, woe is me what
(05:38):
you know, what life is there of you know for me?
But I never did. And my mother always said that
I wasn't a mistake because she had me, She got
pregnant with with me when she was fifteen, and she
always said to me that I was not a mistake.
So I could have, like I said, wallowed in my
pain and suffering of growing up and so forth and
(05:59):
so on. But I use that to actually become a
professor for the for the professor for the United States
Department of Defense, to uh become a three time number
one best selling author to affecting people's lives around the world.
And I really so that's where that that comes from,
(06:19):
that that gratitude because I am not who I used
to be because of where my mind brought me to
this point. And with respect to my my upcoming book, Victorhood,
The Three Keys to Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, and Victimhood, that's this.
(06:40):
This is going to be a fantastic book when it
comes out, and it is. I feel that the key
premise of it is just the rejection of victimhood. And
I think that we live in a world today where
being a victim is easy, where being a victim is monetized,
(07:03):
and because it is monetized, it's a great incentive to
just play the victim. So my book counters I guess culture.
I was always taught it that we should not play
the victim and so forth. But they're in that in
the book. It's basically a Bible of sorts with reference
(07:28):
to how to become your best self and the five keys.
These are the five keys that I've discovered after traveling
and redoing research around the world on four different continents,
that would give that do give light to how you
can achieve greatness in life despite your pastor present circumstances.
(07:52):
So I don't know if I answer your question, but
that's what I would like for the audience to understand
at the end when he hear this and when they
read my book, is that you are capable of accomplishing
anything you want despite your past or present circumstances. But
one thing that has to happen is that a mind
(08:13):
shift has to happen, because at the end of the day,
you're only one mind shift away from attaining a life
that is undeniable and unparalleled.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Both said, thank you so much for that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So doctor bullet. Your book emphasizes by keys to success. Now,
with all giving us too much, can you give us
a sneak peek into what these keys are and how
they can transform someone's approach to life and work.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Definitely, So these five keys. Again, after having traveled around
the world have done research, I understand that these are
the base things that shift people's mentality, that shift people
paradigm so they can achieve greatness no matter who they are.
I won't go into all five, okay, because I don't
want to give it all away, all the secrets away, however,
(09:17):
all the keys away. However, I do want to give
you one particular key, Okay, just one key, one key
out of the book, and when you get the book,
you can you can you can read all about it, okay,
but I want to give you this right here, key
number four, which is the biggest key I feel, is
to never play the victim. Okay, So never play the victim.
(09:42):
And I'm going to give you a story that expresses this,
because it's a really interesting story. I was a higher
education administrator in Los Angeles, Okay, doing well, moving up
in my career, all this great stuff. I was approached
(10:05):
by a very well known or company to head an
English school in China, Okay in two thousand, eighteen nineteen
nineteenenty nineteen, to head a a English school in China
(10:27):
with a possibility to actually open up because the company
was actually attempting to open up two hundred more schools
English schools in China within the next two years. That
was their goal. They wanted to do that, and they
wanted me to head that process with them, and I
(10:50):
was ecstatic about it. And we started the process and
I was actually so I was hired to do that,
and that was in September about twenty nineteen, pre COVID.
So what happened was I quit my job. I quit
my job and I was like, let's go going to China.
I'm going to open up a slew of English schools
(11:11):
in China for this very well known company and it's
going to be absolutely fantastic, absolutely great. They hired me.
It was, it was fantastic. I was supposed to hear
back from them in by November twenty nineteen. I did
hear back from them, because we were supposed to get
visas done and so forth and so on. So I
(11:33):
did hear back from them, and they said to me
that they that the government of China would have denied
my processing for a visa to work in China because
I was I was a professor for the Department of Defense.
I had worked for the government and for the United
(11:54):
States government as I was in a military as well,
and also I was a civilian as a professor working
for the United States Department of Defense. So I was
denied processing in a visa to work in China. Okay,
my world was devastated because I had had I had
already quit my job. I had already quit my job,
and I was like, what am I What am I
(12:14):
going to do? What am I going to do? What
am I going to do with this? I was very upset,
clearly right because I was going to China in January
of twenty twenty and I didn't. My world was upside down.
I was like, what am I going to do? I
quit my job? What was I going to do? So
I could have? Well, let me just continue with the story.
So what happened was is that I said, well, what
(12:36):
skills do I have? I thought, what skills do I have?
What can I do so that to produce the most effect,
to affect the most people the skills that I have.
Long story short is that I opened up Clinton Bullock
Coaching to push people's lives ahead personally and professionally starting
(12:57):
into January twenty twenty and within six months, I created
a six figure business. That was and that was during COVID.
I created a six figure business in six months. That's
that's that's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And I was able to uh and into the next
two years, I had lived in five different countries, affecting
lives on different continents, doing what I loved to that's aspire,
inspiring people and giving them the strategies to succeed in life.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Regardless of culture, regardless of their circumstances. And for me,
that is the greatest gift. If you believe in God,
from God, from the universe, whatever, that's the greatest gift.
That's through me. That that that was I was able
to give to people. I feel, especially during COVID and
(13:54):
as as as that was happening, because what I provided
people was was not just inspiration, was a hope and
the strategies to succeed in such a turbulent time. So
I could have, as I end this story, said to myself,
woe is me. They didn't hire me for this job
in China, and what am else we gonna do with myself?
(14:15):
And I could have done a whole lot of things
play the victim, and I'm not gonna lie to you.
Somebody that did creep up my mind like this is
BS and well, I me and some of those things
did creep up. And I have to, you know, coach
myself from time to time. But at the end of
the day, I focused really hard, and I just say, well,
what skills do I have? Focus? And I used my
(14:36):
skills for the past, you know, twenty years to be
able to affect the most change in the world. And
that's what I did, and that's why we're here today,
and that's why I feel grateful because of how I
was able to not play the victim and to affect
positive positively the most lives in the world. What a
(15:02):
powerful story.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
And we can see the impact of maintaining the right
mindset when you use these challenges and how that play
out in your own life, and why it's so important
to adopt that mindset in our own personal journeys. So
I'm really curious to see some of those details that
(15:24):
that you delve deeper into inside the book and how
we can capitalize on that mindset for you know, to
maximize just growth and personal and professional development. Very nicely shared.
Thank you so much for that. Now, as a speaker
and coach, Doctor Bullet, we know that you no doubt
(15:47):
have found a way to integrate these principles of victorhood
into your into your coaching and speaking sessions. Can you
give us an example of how you've seen these principles
impact your listeners and your clients.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So I think that these these these five keys are
are integral and the optimization of human behavior. Because when
things don't go away right, we become as a culture,
as another culture, as a people. It's just generally people.
Doesn't matter what culture we become. We we we can
(16:25):
go into a dark place. Why is this happening to me? Uh?
And I want to go back to the key, the
fourth key that I want to give you today, which
is never played, the victim. And I want to give
you this this little piece right here. So here's the thing.
Have I ever been victimized? Yes? Right, you know? But
am I a victim?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So, because being victimized is represented by a single event
that took place in which someone took advantage of you
that made you feel unsafe. Right, So for example, if
you're walking to your car and someone robs you, then
you've been victimized. But I'm not a victim because when
(17:10):
you're a victim, you see victimhood everywhere. When you constantly
see it in your life, you see it in the
lives of others. And this this really important point that
I want to give personally and professional You can't play
the victim and be empowered at the same time. So
(17:31):
victimhood carries no responsibility. Victim wood carries no accountability. And
until we own a responsibility right and we become accountable
right for our own lives, then that's when we are
we will be able to affect the most change and
realize our greatest potential. So no matter what you're experiencing,
(17:54):
whether you got fired, whether you didn't get hired for
that job and China because the government you know, revoked
your visa, or whether you are or you're you know,
wife or girlfriend left you after five years, whatever the
case is, what these are all opportunities for growth personally
(18:17):
or professional, and it is up to you to take
that and say what skills. Do I have to move forward?
What can I do? What do I have within me
so that I can make this moment into something fantastic.
After I'm gonna tell you something after after after I
(18:40):
was my visa got revoked to go to China, or
wasn't given to me, actually revoked, It wasn't even issued
to me by the government of China. I was like,
what am I going to do? A year later, not
even a year, not even about it exactly to the day.
You know, I graced the cover of Jam magazine, So
(19:02):
you know what I mean A year it was a
year later, a year later. If I would have just
wallowed in my in my pain and my sorrow, I
would have been I would have that would have never happened,
and a lot of other things wouldn't have happened. So
the point to all this is just that it's really
important that no matter what you're experiencing personally and professionally,
(19:27):
every opportunity, and I mean every opportunity, is an opportunity
to grow because growth always lies on the other side
of discomfort. So think about it this way really quickly.
If you are if you ride a bike right, you
(19:47):
have to fall down lots of times to learn how
to ride a bike. If you want to do anything,
it hurts, it's uncomfortable. The very least is uncomfortable. It
may it may hurt or not hurt, but it definitely
is uncomfortable. And the only way we're going to be
able to succeed in life is pushing through our discomfort
and so that we can be the people that we
were actually supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well said, well said, Wow, powerful, Thank you doctor. Well,
that is very encouraging, very encouraging.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Now in your.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Experience, what are some common challenges that individuals face. I've
been trying to adopt the mindset necessary for success, and
what are some recommendations to overcome these obstacles.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
One of the biggest challenges, well, there's a lot, to
be honest, it depends on who you talk to, but
one of the most common ones revolve around hope. This
is why people actually off themselves, unlive themselves. I don't
(21:01):
know what the proper terminology is on this platform, what
I will just leave it there, but this is why
because they lack hope, hope that it will get better.
And those are the biggest things that I hear all
the time with clients. It's just like, it's not going
to get better. It's not going to get better. It's
not going to get better with my mother, it's not
going to it's it's not going to get better with
(21:22):
my job. My you know, my boss is not going anywhere.
You know, my children will always be like this, and
you know, I'm all, I'm just I'm always going to
be like this. They lack hope. And when you lack
hop you're you. You die simply, whether you physically die
(21:43):
or you die inside. And hope is the only thing
that keeps us going when we feel like we can't
go anymore. So that's an obstacle that many people face
(22:04):
there that they lack hope. But sometimes let's go a
little deeper than that. Why do they lack hope? There
could be a lot of reasons. One of the main
reasons is the how do I say this, the their
(22:27):
lack of self efficacy. So self efficacy is your understanding
of your own ability to be able to achieve X thing.
So if you don't believe right that, like you want
to do better, but history tells you that you felt
(22:48):
at this twenty times before, a thousand times whatever times before.
How many times you felt about your lack of your
level of self efficacy is extremely low or non existent.
But let me give you an example of JK. Rowling,
who again't think her book was rejected something like one
hundred times she was a warfare and so forth. The
(23:11):
fiftieth times, seventy fifth time her book was rejected, she
could have been whate is me, I'm just going to
sleep in my car being well for the rest of
my life, and so forth. And so she could have
she could have done that. She could have done that,
she could have and that's always an option Clinton, but
she didn't, and look where she is today. So the
(23:33):
point is that at the end of the day, people's
self efficacy is low, contributing to their lack of hope.
I failed on the diet. I'm three hundred pounds and
I felt in this diet twenty times before, thirty times before.
What makes me believe, not even other people, what makes
me believe I can do it? There's nothing in my
(23:56):
history it tells me that I can. Level of self
efficacy is very low, contributing to the lack of hope.
That's a big one. So what do they need to
do next? If they want to do that, you have
(24:17):
to give them hope because without hope, you're not going
to get anywhere. You're not going to get anywhere with anyone.
That hope has to be there. And once you instill
that hope in someone, then you can give them strategies
to succeed or strategies to succeed. But you can't do
anything without hope. You have to implant that there is hope.
I'm going to show you a pathway and if you
(24:37):
continue down this pathway, you will win. But hope needs
to be there from the beginning, that even as a slimmer,
a glimmer of hope. And once you do that, then
other things can be implemented to succeed.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wow, well said absolutely absolutely, Thank you for sharing them. Insights,
Doctor Bullock always always insightful. Now, given your background and expertise,
where do you see the field of professional development heading
in the next few years?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Where do I see the field of professional development heading
in the next couple of years?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, you know what, especially with I mean especially when
you think of in terms of man A lot of
things are going online. You know, you have the rise
of AI and AI power tools.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What are your thoughts there. AI will never be able
to take the place of human interaction. Genuine human interaction
will never So you can go up online and look
up five ways to make yourself feel better, you know,
(26:06):
if you're slightly depressed, you can do that. Anyone can
do that. But what do people Let's just say, like
me bring to the table. We bring actual hope. Let's
just say we bring our ability to inspire, we bring
strategies to the table. Uh, so that you can succeed.
But one thing that people bring to other people that
(26:30):
AI can't do is accountability. That's it. That's the key.
You don't get accountability with AI, you know, especially if
especially if you have a history of not being consistent,
if you have a history of being undisciplined. You don't.
You don't have a history of this. So people can
(26:55):
keep you accountable. People do keep you accountable. So the
world of professional development is important to actually bring someone in.
I hope that in the world of professional development, AI
excuse me. AI can be used as a tool for
success and it makes it easier, especially when you're crafting
(27:16):
presentations and doing things that you're trying to do. However,
it cannot substitute genuine human interaction and what humans we're
here to do for and with other humans, and that's
to inspire, to encourage, and to empower.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well said, very well said, thank you for sharing that.
So my final question for you, doctor Bullet, and this
has to do with advice for aspiring leaders. So lastly,
what advice would you give to young leaders who are
looking to cultivate their own paths to success?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, when I say to young leaders who are looking
to cultivate their own pathway to success, I would say this,
if you're in a world of entrepreneurship and you want
to speak to many people, be a coach or what
have you, I would definitely say, choose your niche and
and people don't know because you're young, how do you
do that? Right? What's something that you are passionate about
(28:30):
and just go that way. People can spot fakeness, people
can spot that. But if it's something that you're greatly
passionate about and number one and it's an issue that
a lot of people have, then go for it. Be
(28:52):
passionate about that thing, go for it. Because a lot
of people have issues with let's just say playing. They
don't know it a lot of times. But I clearly
see it and other people I've seen it. You know,
(29:13):
I'm not saying that I am never play the victim either,
you know, but I'm aware and this is what's important
is to be aware. And the only way we're going
to be able to change behaviors is by being aware.
So I would just say, be choose something that you're
very passionate about, Choose something that will say plagues a
lot of people, and then go for it. So that's
(29:35):
that's really the advice that I that I would give.
And then also they can also come and talk to
me too. Some of my door is always open. So
I think those are the three three things I would say.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, absolutely, and speaking of your doors being opened, doctor Bullock,
First of all, how do we get in contact with you?
Like you know you are?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You are.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
A leader and.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Public speaking space as well as in the coaching space,
and so for a lot of us who want to
tap into your expertise even sharing that inside and information
with our teams, our marketing teams are you know, our staff,
how do we get in contact with you to be
able to book you for a speaking event, our coaching event.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Definitely the main way would be through contact at Clintonbulock
dot com. That's contact at Clintonbulock dot com. You can
reach me there. You can reach me through all the
other social social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, those are the
other two and LinkedIn as well, so I'm sure maybe
(30:44):
some links will come up here somewhere, but definitely contact
at Clintonbulock dot com would be the best way.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Well fantastic and Abs, you're absolutely right, So if you
are listening to this on one of our popular podcast
cast stations, you should just go to the description and
all that information will be there so that you can
contact doctor Clinton Bullock. Doctor Bullock, thank you so much
again for taking the time to be on the show again.
It's always nice to have you and you are always
(31:15):
welcome back anytime. For those of you guys out there
again looking to transform your life and you're tired of
playing the victim card, certainly, Victorhood is a book that
you're on to definitely want to pick up. But even
before that happens, before this book launch happens, there is
so much more that we can learn from doctor Bullock
(31:36):
by tapping into his repertoire of stories as well as experience,
and so I definitely encourage everyone to reach out to
contact at Clinton bullet dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, contact at Clinton block dot com. Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
So make sure that you guys save that and stay inspired.
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