March 14, 2024 • 49 mins
In this episode, Tania Kolar interviews an Audi Sport Expert for a great discussion on cars and personal development and how our choice in cars correlates to our self-worth. They also discuss navigating life’s tough terrain and the importance of refuelling to live your best life.
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The views expressed in the following programare those of the participants and do not
necessarily reflect the views of Saga ninesixty AM or its management. Well,
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hello and welcome to the Mindset mentorhere on Saga nine sixty I'm Tanya Colar,
helping you live your best life.Well, today I thought it would
be a really great conversation to talkabout driving your worth forward, because your
self worth is the most important thing, and remember that you really need to
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put yourself first. I know alot of people still today have a hard
time doing that because you feel thatit's really you know, selfish to do
that. But again, you know, you got to put your oxygen mask
on first so that you can liveyour best life and also allow others to
thrive in your environment. So todayI brought my good friend and audi sports
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expert on the show speaking of drivingright. So what we're going to do
is we're going to talk about thecorrelation between you know, personal development right
and our self worth and cars andwhat they have to do together. And
it's so interesting because you know,how we do one thing is how we
do everything, and how we purchasevehicles is also indicative of our values and
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our self worth or certainly can be, not always, but it's a really
interesting conversation. So how about wesay hello and welcome to a dear friend,
shah Hodwicks. We go way back, longtime friend. We used to
work together on the Shopping Channel,and here we are again having a great
conversation. A pleasure to have youon the show here today, Shahan.
Thank you so much. Tanya.It's a pleasure to see you and to
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talk with you. This is agreat segue for both. I think our
transition from being live on air tobeing on radio and being on video and
different careers and whatnot that we've goneinto coming back together and sharing some of
our experiences that we've had together.Yeah, I love that. You know.
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One of the favorite quotes that Ihave is by Steve Jobs, and
he says that you cannot connect thedots looking forward, you can only connect
them looking back. And it's sointeresting. It's because you know, if
we do look back, it's like, oh my gosh, everything that we
have done. I'm talking about everythingeverybody, not just us. I'm talking
about you know, all the thingsthat you've done in your life. It's
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so interesting to see how it reallybrings you to the moment of where you
are, and you know where youare right now in this moment is exactly
where you're meant to be. SoI think it's really, you know,
interesting. So it is great tohave this conversation with you again, Shahan,
to kind of catch up and youknow, and we're going to talk
about some of the great things thatyou are doing in the car world.
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You are the Audi Sport expert inMidtown and also captain for the Twin Cup
competition at twenty twenty three in Germany. So first of all, congratulations,
I know you came back second prizein the world. Pretty cool, that's
right. So Canada led the way. Basically a lot of the countries were
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afraid of Canada and unfortunately but theUS did prevail first, but they were
told to watch out for the Canadiansbecause we had a reputation of beating them,
and we beat out twenty six othercountries around the world. So it
was a great experience for me justto go out there meet all these other
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countries, how they see Audi inthe world, and how we met and
basically competed and it was a skillscompetition knowledge base and also using a vehicle,
We got to drive around the racetrack, we got to go on the
Autubahn with certain vehicles, and itwas a life altering experience. I have
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to say, it was a meez, that's amazing. You know. I
love the sounds of that. Alife altering experience, and you know,
I think it's those moments that reallyteach us a lot about ourselves, and
it's the ability to move forward nomatter where we are in life and to
sort of just go after it.And I also love that you will be
going back to go for that championshipnumber one right for twenty twenty four.
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And I think that is also keybecause you know, you said something about
how okay, so you know usScott number one, and that's okay because
in life, you know, wehave to continue to strive. We're not
always going to be number one inanything that we do, but there's always
the ability just to move forward.And I think it's so important to take
action because the universe rewards action andthat's where the magic happens, and you
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don't have to come back with firstprize and anything. It's about take action
because it really starts to build andcreate an incredible sense of confidence and self
worth. And I think a lotof the issues that people face today,
and you know, including myself inthat when I say people, that's me
too, right, is the isthe lack of our belief in ourselves.
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And it's so important that we rememberhow magnificent and extraordinary we truly are.
So I just love to have theseconversations to put things into perspective for people
and just give them a way tolook at how they do things. And
it's just sort of a shake upsometimes and a wake up call to say,
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well, am I living my bestlife? And if I'm not living
my best life? How do Istart to live my best life? And
it's interesting, Sehan, the connectionbetween our choices in cars and our self
worth. Right. I think somepeople believe that they can't have a luxury
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vehicle, right, and it's notfor them. And what do you say,
see when you have people coming into sell that cars. That's one
of the things that people will saythat you know, I don't think I
can afford an Audi, right,but you don't have to get a brand
new one. I always say,you know, you don't have to an
right is the race car that weall know that out he's known for.
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It's great if you can afford toget to that point, but let's start.
You have to start somewhere. AndI always tell people, hey,
maybe you want that RS five,but maybe we start with an A five
and then you know, in threeor four years we progressed and see how
your life is changing and if you'redoing better, and maybe yeah, now
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I go to an S five.Then I go to an RS five,
So more performance, and with thatit also comes prestige and people will always
see that. So I think thereis that look to all strive for more.
And I know with myself and competitions. We had what's known as national
walkaround competitions and I would compete.I got the regionals, then I went
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to nationals, came in third.Well that was great that year. And
the following year I did it,came in second. Great, keep going,
you always keep building. Then Igot to first and I won for
the whole country. And then itturned out that the following year they said,
okay, you've made to first,you can't compete anymore. Done.
But the point is I actually kepton going, and I think people need
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to If you fail, you needto keep on going because if you're consistent
and you realize, hey, whatdid I do wrong? Where did I
go wrong? How can I dobetter? That is what you got to
strive to do. What can Ido to help myself for the next time?
Right? And I think some peoplewhen it comes to cars, they
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think, oh, I can't affordthis right now, and I understand that
maybe it's not a new car,maybe it's a used one. Maybe we
start there and that gives them thatability. For me, it was always
like, hey, I don't thinkI can't even afford a Navvy. And
then I thought, this is mygoal. I want to get to that
where I can afford. But Iit's a goal in my life, even
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though it's a car, but it'swhat I do with my life to get
to get that car. Right.It's that mindset you have to strive for.
And you're going to come across barriersand people that will say no,
right, and no, I don'tthink you can. But you've got to
put all that negativity aside and justgo for what your goals are and strive
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for that. Yeah, And Ithink that you know, that's that's an
interesting point and put that all aside. When people say no, you can't
have that. But I think sometimeswe can be our own worst critic.
Sure we don't believe that we canhave that. And by the way,
for everybody listening, when we talkabout you know, the Audi r age,
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right, the luxury vehicle, thatreally is a metaphor for anything in
life that you are striving for.Okay. So you know, we're having
a great discussion today about driving yourworth forward, so an empowering discussion on
the correlation of you know, carsand car ownership and personal growth. But
again, you know, the caris a metaphor for anything that you want
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to attain in life and anything thatyou want to achieve. It's so important
to continue to have those dreams.Now, for anybody listening out there,
I just want to be very clear. I'm not saying that, you know,
you need to have a car tolive a great life. Absolutely not.
That's not what we're saying at all. You know, you have to
give yourself permission to have the thingsthat you want to have in life,
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and that might be a car foryou, you know, and that might
be you know, not a carfor you if that's not what you want,
and that's okay. But to youknow, expand and go beyond our
comfort zone and to go beyond thebelief of what we think is impossible,
right, and to create what's possiblefor us. I think that is really
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key in how to move forward inan empowering way exactly. And I think
the more you get that no,you have to kind of push yourself over
that barrier and say yes I can, and try and start small like people
say baby steps, right, youhave to start somewhere. And I remember,
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actually, one of the best quotesI've ever heard, and this is
coming from another alumni of the ShoppingChannel is rose Lee Brown, and she
would say, if you rest,you rest, and we know what great
shape she's in because she always exercises, and you would not believe like she
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she's amazing in what she does,you know, promoting Jim equipment or exercising
or constant health. And I thinkthat's the one thing. You got to
just keep on going, Just keepon going. And a lot of people
have had opportunities, Well they gotthe door shut in their face, But
how many doors did they get shutin their face before one door opened and
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finally let you in. If youdon't do anything, the answer is no.
It's always going to be no ifyou stop. But if you keep
on doing it, eventually something's goingto open up for you. Yeah.
I love that. I mean aboy, I've had so many doors closed
slammed in my face, let's say. And you know what, you just
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keep on opening and you keep ontrying. That is so important. So
I love that. It's so true. So you said, you know,
if you rest, you rust andkind of totally fitting for you know,
a vehicle as well, right,those those cars that get neglected, Uh,
you know, the tires start towear or tires fall off. You've
got the rust and the corrosion.And that's where the inactivity is. And
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that's how it correlates to our life. The the you know, the moments
of procrastination where we're so immobilized,where we don't want to move forward.
You know, we all can procrastinatea little bit here and there, but
we don't want a lifetime of procrastinationbecause you can never live your best life
if you're not trying trying for something. Right, it's so important you just
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get up and you keep on going. You don't have to have all of
the answers. You don't have toknow the how, and that's where we
can get in our own way.We believe and we try to control everything
and we feel like we have toknow what's going to happen, but you
really don't. But you do haveto show up. You have to show
up for yourself. I think sowholeheartedly. Like you need to keep pushing
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yourself for one and set your goals, whether it's a house, a car,
a trip, you know, orjust another job. Right Like you
want to excel in what you do. You have to set those goals in
life, because I mean, Inever thought I could be on the shopping
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channel. I was a jewelry designerin the beginning for like twenty plus years,
and then I shifted away from jewelryand went into the car sales,
and I just found that you've gotto find something that you're really passionate about.
And for me, I always lovedcars. I used to go car
shopping with my father when I waslittle, and I think I did more
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of that than anything, And justthe fact that we did that, I
kind of think that that had aninfluence on how much I loved cars.
If you have a passion for something, just go for it, and for
me, it was a passionate aboutlearning about the vehicles, about what it
could do. And then by doingthat, people would see that, hey,
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I'm not just there to sell youa car, but I'm there to
help you along with it, becauselike I would have a tutorial page on
YouTube and I would teach people howto use things because I found that there
was a need that, you know, I would go through the car for
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about an hour with the client whenthey pick it up, or we have
a delivery specialist who does that,but you only retain so much right and
you kind of need to learn itagain and again. So I would create
a video for everyone on how todo that, and by doing that,
I created a following, and byhaving that following, the word spread.
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And it's that passion that I loveabout vehicles and the new technology and things
like that. Now we're going fromgas to electric vehicles, and I was
one of the first people as asalesman in about YouTube get my own electric
vehicles. And I've had about threeyears, three or four years now experience
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with it. So it's a differentmindset in driving, and you have to
learn how to adapt with society.I think that's the main thing. Things
are changing around the world and wehave to learn to adapt. We can't
just say, oh, I'm tooold for that, like I can't do
it anymore. Like No, wecan all learn. There's ways we can
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learn. Whether it's slower or itcomes to us quickly, we can all
learn about it and sometimes we justneed some guidance. I'm here for that.
I think that's such a great featureto have and a great service that
you provide. And you know,also it ties right back into being passionate
about what you do. You know, going the extra mile. It's joyful
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as opposed to know a chore todo something and most people wouldn't even think
of doing, you know, avideo to help explain those features, right,
I mean, that's not part ofwhat you are required to do.
So that's going above and beyond.And I think that when we pursue our
passion, things become just so fulfillingthat you love to do these extra things
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right that are equated to that you'relistening to the mindset mentor I'm Tanya Kohlar.
My special guest today is Shahan Wicks. He is an Audi sport expert
and today we are talking about drivingyour worth forward because you are so worthy
and you know so many people livea life feeling like they are not enough.
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Well, we are here to tellyou that you are more than enough.
You are magnificent. You are extraordinaryand certainly worthy of living your best
life. Stay tuned to be backafter this break No Radio, No Problem
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stream is live on SAGA ninety sixtyam dot com. Welcome back to the
Mindset mentor Antonio Kohler helping you liveyour best life. Joining me today is
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my dear friend Shahan Wicks, whois an audi sports expert. He is
here to share, you know,not only some great information on cars,
but we're having a great discussion oncars and personal growth and our mindset.
You know, we talked a littlebit earlier before we took a break about
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you know how our belief systems canreally impact the way that we select a
vehicle. We believe sometimes that we'renot able to have that luxury vehicle.
It's not for us, it's forother people. Well, what if it
is for you? What if youtrained and developed your mind mindset to believe
that you are worthy and you canhave all of the wonderful things that you
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that you want. Well, that'swhat we're going to discuss today and we'll
continue the conversation with Shahan Wicks.Thank you for joining us today. Oh,
thank you for having me here.This is a great opportunity. I
wanted to express my sins here,appreciation for you know, working with you
again, because we used to workso well together on the Shopping Channel and
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now we've kind of gone into differentpaths and this is great to meet up
again and express what we're doing here. Yeah. You know, we all
have purpose and meaning in life,and I think that it's so important to
remember how valuable you are. Everybodylistening, I want you to remember how
valuable you are. You know,life, we can get bogged down and
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inundated by the stressors of daily living, you know, financial situations and all
these things that are you know,considered let's say, obligations, and then
we can forget our passion, wecan get our dream, and we can
start to feel like we don't havepurpose. And there's always meaning and purpose
and in fact behind all of yourexperiences combined. But when you're stuck in
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those moments that don't feel fantastic,you know, I want to encourage you
to know that you're not alone.We've all been there, you know,
and we will get there at somepoint. You know, life is a
cycle and we're always evolving constantly,and it's the ups and downs, right,
it's the myriad of emotions that wehave as humans, the spectrum of
emotions. So it's normal to havethe highs and the lows in life.
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But please don't ever feel like givingup and that you're alone, because you're
never alone. And it's never toolate to shift your mindset, to shift
your belief system, you know.I know for me, for decades,
I struggled with a very limiting mindset, subconscious beliefs that we're running in the
background, the silent programming that reallyled me to live a small life.
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And I learned how to reprogram mymindset. And if I can do it,
then anybody can do it. Youcan do it. And remember that
we have, you know, avery sort of plastic brain where where you
know, we it's malleable. Wecan shape and shift and really build and
learn new things. When we learnnew things, when we try new things,
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when we achieve our goals, whenwe strive for that, we start
to build new neural networks, thatneural pathway. It's like a cluster a
network, you know, a clusterof those nerves where we're starting to regenerate
and build. And so the moreyou do something, you know, the
more the easier it becomes. Soif you're feeling things are difficult right now,
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no matter where you are in yourlife and whatever it is that you're
doing, please know that things willget better. But you have to take
action, continue to take action,and it could be a tiny little step,
and that is so valuable. Solet's talk a little bit more or
sean about some of the beliefs thatyou have seen coming in and the handing
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somebody the keys to their first luxuryvehicle. You know, have you seen,
you know, a shift in people, like even our physiology can change
when we start to realize that weare worthy of attaining something that we've desired
in life. Definitely, I findthat some people they might have a new
job or they've excelled in their job, that hey, I can afford to
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get this vehicle. And when theydo get that car that they've always wanted
to and it could be just itmight be a dream, small dream of
theirs that you know, this issomething I wanted to attain for several years,
and I can finally afford to getthere. I'm not saying that like
Audi is like the most expensive vehicleout there or the most prestigious, but
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what I'm saying is for a lotof people, it's that goal. And
I had those small goals as well, that hey, there's certain models I
want to get to, and Ican finally go there, but I have
to do certain things. And it'sthat repetition of either in your work,
where you're striving forward constantly and keepingthe negativity aside and trying to do better
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at what you do. And youknow what, if you get criticism,
use it. Take that criticism,embrace it and say, okay, so
that's what I did wrong, Butwhat can I do better to help?
And I find that even in carsales, you know, there might be
something that people misread other people.And I've seen it or heard it just
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in women going out and buying acar for themselves and they said, I
went with my spouse or I wentwith my boyfriend, and the car salesman
they kept directing all the questions athim, and he's looking at me,
going, I'm not the one who'sbuying the car. It's her. Why
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are you asking me? And I'vehad friends tell me they went and bought
a car on their own, andthen before they were about to sign it,
they asked them, well, doyou need your husband to go through
this with you and make sure thisis the right vehicle? And she's like,
I'm not with anybody. This isfor me. Do not see the
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fact that? And people need tostop diminishing like a woman's value as opposed
to a man, because first ofall, women live longer than men.
It's a natural fact. So Isee it all the time. When men
come in and buy a vehicle,they call their wives or they call their
spouse and say, hey, isthis the right color? Is this the
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model? Are these the features wewant? They will have that discussion.
If you're married, you know this, right you find out, or if
you're with the significant other, youknow this. You always do things together.
But when people start diminishing the factthat, hey, you know,
as a woman you should have morevalue than what people are portraying to you.
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And I don't diminish that at all. I let them. I direct
it towards them and say you tellme, because the funny part about it,
Like I said, they're going tooutlive us all, so guess what
who's going to be left with thecar? Right? Yeah, right,
exactly. You know that's a reallyinteresting, you know, observation, and
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you know, I think that sortof indicative of life. Well, I
would imagine most people have experienced atime where somebody has not valued them and
they just don't see your worth.And that's that's when it becomes our job
to really know and have a verystrong sense of inner belief in ourselves and
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have that worthiness because yes, youknow, there might be people who just
don't get us, but they're notmeant to get us, right in that
moment, that's okay. You know, there's in every exchange there is a
lesson and an opportunity unlesson we learnedsomething about ourselves or to teach something to
someone else. And maybe in thatcase the scenario that you gave, maybe
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that salesperson needs to learn something andhow the value in others and you know,
and it's a process that they're goingto experience. But really it doesn't
matter, you know, as theysay, it's not what other people believe
about us is none of our opinion, right, it is none of our
business that you say, right,because what really truly matters is your own
belief in yourself and to not takeit personally when others don't value you,
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and I know it feels tough sometimes. I mean, you could have grown
up in an environment where you feltinvisible because people just did not value who
you are. But I can tellyou that if you've been in that experience,
there was a great learning opportunity inthat. And now you probably you
know, easily can recognize the valuein other people, and people probably gravitate
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to you because you are that personwho can really appreciate others. You know,
there's an energy that we exude whenwe do value and appreciate others.
And trying to not take it personally, I think is good. I remember
pleased to say that all the time, Oh, don't take it personally,
don't take it personally, and Iwas like, well, how could you
not take it personally? It's personal, it's all personal. But I've come
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to realize what that actually means.And when you have a very strong belief
in yourself, it doesn't matter whatanybody says. And also to that point,
you know, just to be veryclear, again because as we're talking
about this discussion, we're talking aboutcars and we're talking about our personal growth,
right, But we don't need tohave external things in order to feel
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valuable. But that doesn't mean thatwe don't strive for valuable things and want
great things. But you know,it's just about the awareness. That's the
most important thing is that I wantedto discuss is having the awareness and when
you're not validating yourself and sometimes youneed other people to not validate you to
also realize that you do the samething. Right, do you see what
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I'm saying. It's kind of likeother people in mirrors and shine a light
on our personal belief systems. Ihate to say, but with social media
and people, you see it withyoung people, right, they're so influenced
by everything that's out there in themedia and they see like a picture of
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a woman who's like beautiful skin,beautiful hair, those kind of things.
But what they don't realize is what'sin the background of that and altered because
we've seen that, right, there'sphoto editing. There's so many things that
can change your perception of what realityis. And I think you have to
strive for what you are doing inyour life and not concerned with other people's
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lives and just I always get thatquestion, oh, do you see like
how well we did today or anything. I'm like, no, I'm looking
at how well I did today,right, Like, rather than always being
in a competition. It's great tobe competitive, but don't let it bring
you down either. You have tobe I think competitive with yourself and see
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how well you can do for yourselfon that and in order to grow.
I really do think that you needthat kind of you know, perseverance to
strive forward with what you want todo in your life. And by doing
that, you'll, like sell andpeople will see that too, that hey,
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this is a person who is growingand you know, anything you throw
at them, they adapt. AndI think adapting these things is probably the
best thing you can do. There'sso many things that are happening in the
world right now, and I thinkyou need to adapt or you're going to
get left behind. Yeah. Ilove that. That's a really interesting,
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you know concept adapting. And that'swhy it's so important that we, you
know, maintain a growth mindset versushaving a fixed mindset where we believe that
we can't you know, change orwe can't learn, we can't try new
things. Having a growth mindset opensyou up to limitless possibilities and the opportunity
to you know, reach your potentialand to actually like blast through any sort
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of ceiling potential that you thought youhad. And to that point, to
bring it back to cars, let'stalk about some of the you know,
progression that we've seen through cars becausewe're now adapting to ways to eco friendly
you know, modes of transportation andvehicles itself. So let's talk a little
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bit about what's happening, you know, in the in the world and the
adapting that we need to do there. Well, that's exactly what's happening right
now. We can see that transitionfrom gas to electric and whether it's hybrid,
mild hybrid, or full plug inbattery electric vehicles, that is happening,
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and I think by about twenty twentyfive, which is only a year
away, we're going to see alot of new electric vehicles coming into play
with all the manufacturers across Canada,across the world. And by doing that,
a lot of people think, well, you know, I have all
this power, it's great, Idon't have to pay for gas but there
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is a different mindset to driving anelectric vehicle, and I think in the
first few years people didn't realize itor they found out the hard way.
Yes, it has a lot ofpower, and when I say power,
it's I'm talking about off the lineright zero to sixty, and they're fast.
But you have to think of itin terms of a gas engine.
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It's like driving a V eight ora V ten engine, like a really
high performance supercar. Because when youstep on the gas or the power pedal,
now you're and you're heavy, youhave a heavy foot and you're going
fast. You're draining that power meterdown and people are like, well,
I thought I was going to getlike over four hundred kilometers. But it's
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also the way you drive. AndI've learned to adapt. Now I'm out
a sport expert, and which meansI get to I get trained on the
racetrack with the ra called the RSmodels whenever something new comes out. But
now that we're transitioning over to electric, I've learned that I no longer drive
in the fast lane or the thirdlane on the highway, you know,
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and where you're doing maybe over onetwenty or whatever. Right I'm now in
the first lane, the slow lane, And I'll tell you why, because
now your mind is adapting to thefact, Hey, I want to conserve
energy. Now my distance for travelis about thirty five kilometers, and if
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I leave in the morning and wantto be there for nine o'clock, I
mean, I know on the highwayI'm in trapping, but I'm actually going
south. So it's a slight deepline. So in an electric vehicle, I
said it at one oweight, right, so I'm not at one hundred.
Nobody really wants to go one hundredand over one oweight. And if a
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car comes in front of me,my car will slow down because I have
adaptive crews. And it's that mindsetthat I'm thinking, Okay, it's I'm
going slower, but I'm actually regeneratingthe battery. And I'm gaining to the
point that sometimes if you're in stoppinggo traffic and the car is doing all
the driving stop and go with adaptivecrews, where it can actually slow down
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to a stop because of the carin front of you is slowing down,
it's actually regenerating your battery and givingyou more mileage. And I've had it
where Let's say I had three hundredand fifty kilometers when I left my house
and now I'm at work thirty fivekilometers later and I have three hundred and
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sixty kilometers. Well, I justgained ten kilometers. How is that possible.
Well, that's the mindset that youhave to understand how electric works versus
the gas. Yeah, you coulddrive fast in the fast lane and get
to work maybe five minutes earlier.At most half the time, I'm passing
everybody in the first lane because everybody'smoving to the fast lane. And then
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if everybody's in the fast lane,it's moving slow, so I'm actually passing
everyone else. Don't tell anyone mysecret for getting to work out time a
lot more. Everybody's in the firstlane now. So I find that,
you know, things that happen onthe road. People get upset, they
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try to cut in, you know, get a little road rage. I
put that all aside. Like Iwhen I'm driving electric now, I invite
people to come in front of me. Like people want to like cut in
front of me, and they youknow, you've got like two feet of
space and they want to cut infront of you. I'm like, you
know, I just backed off andlet them go. You know, there's
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no point getting upset. It's it'sthat mindset of like, hey, don't
worry, go ahead, wave atthem, not the finger saying wait right,
I've been waved that before with thatfinger, So I'm just saying,
like I always tell people, goahead, you know, go right ahead.
Now my car is labeled up likea race car as out e Sport
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Expert dot. But like, ifthey want to go in front of you,
let them go in front of you. Did it really need to start
like a battle between you and someoneelse in a car? Like, no,
there's no reason too. Yeah,right, that's that's interesting. So
you know, oftentimes that road rage, you know, it's a trigger,
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right, someone has a trigger pointand somebody's buttons were pushed, right,
so now they are misdirecting their anger. It turns into rain rage at a
stranger on road, you know versushealthy healthy you know, expressions of emotion
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in their life. It's when weblock those and repress emotions that it does
start to lead to anger and youknow, discord in our lives. So
it is important to process our feelingsand our emotions, uh, and not
to stuff down any of those beliefsor or feelings, because it does come
out eventually. Right. The bodyholds onto everything, holds onto our trauma,
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our emotions, and when we don'thave a healthy outlet, it is
going to come out in an inopportunemoment, like perhaps on the highway somebody's
cut you off, and then youknow, we can maybe say or do
things that we don't necessarily want todo. Now, I've always looked at
that and go, why would peoplebe so upset, you know, at
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a stranger and then this road ragehappens, you know, But there's been
times I'll admit that, you know, we've got a little little bit angry,
you know, a little bit angryat somebody getting angry at me,
for me not even realizing I potentiallycut somebody off, right, But then
I sort of bring it down anotch and realize that, wait a second,
it's not them, it's me.It's how I'm feeling that particular day.
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Right, It's a trigger point,it's somebody's pushing our buttons, and
it's really, again, really importantfor us to have the awareness of what
our triggers are and try to havehealthy ways and options to handle those triggers
that potentially come up. Yeah,we need to learn how to manage our
own triggers. I think for sure, if you talk to any colleagues of
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mine, they think I'm one ofthe calmest people here. I mean,
I've gone through a lot in mylife that little things don't FaZe me so
much anymore. I'm like, youknow what little things can There's worse things
happening in the world. Thank goodness, we're not in a different part of
the world right now, right andwhat we're experiencing unfortunately with some people out
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there, So be thankful for whatyou have. You know. It's that
mindset that you said, like weneed to grow, We need to put
aside some feelings that you know,maybe you just need to breathe, like
take five seconds and breathe and justyou know, like let it all out
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imitation. Yeah, exactly, right, get into that zen flow. You
know, definitely help, very helpful. You know, deep breathing. You
know, a few deep breasts willgo a long way into palming. Uh,
you know the system down. Yeah, cut yourself down exactly. And
I think you know with that comesgrowth, and when you grow, you're
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you're not back pedaling. Right,If you if you keep getting in your
head like this is bothering me,this is bothering, this is bothering me,
there's no room for growth because you'rejust bringing yourself down. I think
you just have to just keep striving. Put those negative feelings aside. I
mean, everybody needs to feel,but I think misdirected anger. You know,
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it's not healthy, and it doesn'tAnd one thing I always said,
when you're working in the workplace,and if you don't enjoy what you're doing,
don't don't do it because half thetime, those people who are complaining
about their work, they're making ithorrible for everybody else around them. Right,
So, if you don't like whatyou're doing, do what you will
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like doing. Figure it out.You have to figure out what makes you
happy and try and do that,because then it doesn't feel like a job
or it doesn't feel like work.Now, some people don't have that opportunity
to actually do that. They haveto take whatever they can, but try
and be the best at whatever itis that you're doing. And this is
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what I'm looking for and it helpsabsolutely all Right, Well, we're going
to continue to help the listeners whenwe come back. We're going to take
a break here on Saga nine sixtystream us live at Saga nine six am.
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Welcome back to the Mindset mentor Hereon Saga nine sixty, we are
going to continue the conversation on drivingyour worth forward. Remember that you are
worthy, You're magnificent, and youare meant to live a magnificent life.
So I want you to keep ondriving. The life road can be very
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challenging. We've got the bumps andthe highs and the lows, the red
lights, the green lights, theyellows, all of that, the on
rep off reps, and you know, it's it's about remembering that you have
a journey and we're getting to ourdestination and there's so many different routes that
we can take to get to thatdestination. But it's important to know where
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you're going and our goal can guideus. And I think it's important to
remember that you know you have adream and those things that you love to
attain for yourselves, go out andreach them because they are there for you.
We're going to continue the gat theconversation with my guest, Sohan Wicks,
who is an audi sports expert,and we've been talking about the correlation
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of uh, you know, carslinked to our mindset and personal development.
Sean, you said something before wetook a break on. It was on
electric vehicles, and you talked abouthow the car actually regenerates itself, you
know, in that sort of powerregenerates exactly. Yeah, we actually get
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more mileage out of that that thatvehicle. But that's really interesting because as
you were talking about that, Iwas thinking about how important it is to
to rest and regenerate and rejuvenate ourselvesin our lives so that we can actually
have more power, more mileage,so to speak, in doing the things
that we'd like to do because wehave the energy to do it, versus
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being exhausted and depleting ourselves. Yeah. I think that's even like a correlation
of your health with your go gogo, But then you don't rest and
take time to sleep because I knowsome people, myself included, I used
to sleep like three hours four hoursa night, and I felt like I
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could just keep going. But yourbody, your mind might say that,
but your body doesn't. And it'ssame thing with electric vehicles, Like you
can drive in a straightaway for aboutfifteen to twenty minutes and you watch the
power deplete, but as soon asyou start slowing down, there's battery regeneration
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which helps with the power and givesback power to you. So think of
that with your health. I meancars, you need to maintain them,
just like we need to go toa doctor and just get a checkup.
I do a yearly checkup. Ijust did one actually yesterday. So it's
something that we have to remember thatour health is our most valuable asset,
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right because without our health, ifwe're not just like a vehicle, whether
it's a gascar or electric car,not putting the right fuel, not putting
the electricity in the car, justlike our health, we're not putting all
the garbage into ourselves, right,it's not going to run as well,
right, and so does our health. Our health is if you can you
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know, exercise, eat the properfoods, drink plenty of water, you
know, and then rest as well, do your exercises, walk, you
do things that help you with yourhealth. Your body can go further,
your mindset is better in terms ofyour brain being active as well, and
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then we find that it can striveto do more with ourselves and for a
longer period of time, right,So I think in a sense, you
know, when we're talking about carsand people, there's a correlation there.
Like we go for a yearly checkup to the doctor, same thing with
the car. You do that aswell. In order to keep it going
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right, we need to do thosethings for ourselves to you know, learn
and to grow in you know,cars come in, they get like an
update. We need to learn toget an update and adapt to that.
And we were talking about adapting andgrowth, and I think that is one
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of the big things that changing ourmindset to old ways of thinking and new
ways that are coming through that wehave to learn to adapt to and just
strive for more in order to getwhere we want to be in life.
Yeah, change can be scary.I think a lot of people fear change.
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But if we can sort of dissectour lives and you look back over
the years, it's those moments ofchange that have been the most impactful and
that was great. I mean,I know, like in my life too,
there's been times where I'm like,oh, things are amazing, you
know, I wish my life neverchanged and things that continue like this.
But then I'll look back at thosemoments and the belief that I had at
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that time, and I'm like,oh, thank goodness they changed, because
you know, there's this great evolutionand sometimes the universe knows, you know,
better, and gives us things thatare beyond what we can even imagine
for ourselves. And it really isabout expanding beyond the comfort zone so that
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you can achieve extraordinary things, becausewe're all extraordinary beings and we are meant
to have an extraordinary life. ButI think that we forget that, and
it's so important to remember who weare are and find that inner value and
that inner worth and know what ispossible for you. You know, often
it's it's we put limits on ourselves, or we allow other people to put
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their limits on us through their beliefsystem and we sort of adopt their belief
system as our own. But reallyit's about dissecting you know, those beliefs
are are they truths? And you'llfind that most of those are falsehoods that
we truly believe and we hold onto dearly. But it really does impact
the quality of our life. Youknow, you talked earlier Sean about sleep
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and how important sleep is, andyes, we need to heal the body
and rejuvenate, and we do thatthrough getting a great night's sleep. I
find that sleep is very underrated.But if we don't have that sleep,
we all know what it feels likewhen we wake up, and where our
tolerance is lower, we don't feelhealthy, are cognitive function declines, and
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that's not a allowing us to liveour best life. So it can be
the small things incorporating, you know, a better sleeping habit, you know,
maybe going to bed a little bitearlier, drinking water, those deep
breaths that we talked about, justto help to you know, calm the
nervous system down, alleviate some ofthe tension and the pent up you know,
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angst anxiety that you have. Youknow, it's it's really important to
find ways to express that and toallow you to thrive. Yeah, and
you need sleep to recover and alsofor your muscles to grow, right,
so there's growth even when you thinkthat it's downtime. You need that downtime
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for you to grow and your bodyhelps heal itself that way. Meditation is
one of those things too that peoplelook towards right just to put their body
at ease and at peace. Idon't know if anybody's ever been to a
spa or to a meditation clanning,those kind of things. But those sometimes
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we're going, going, going,and we need some time for ourselves to
heal. And I don't mean byjust like you know, you cut yourself
and put a bandig on it,but the mind, the body, everything
just sometimes needs to relax. Andwe're we're in a fast paced world.
You're going to work, you're withthe kids, those kind of things.
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You know, you're taking care ofother people, and sometimes you need time
for yourself just to you know,get peace and one with oneself. Yes,
you definitely need that tune up sothat you can reach out and claim
that extraordinary life. And we areout of time. So I want to
say thank you seahan Wick so muchfor joining us, and to all the
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listeners out there, thank you somuch for tuning in and remember that you
are worthy. Take care of yourself, take care of your mind, take
care of your body, and thrive. I really want you to reach out
and claim the extraordinary life that isthere for you. Stay tuned Thursdays here
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The views expressed in the following programare those of the participants and do not
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hello and welcome to the Mindset mentorhere on Saga nine sixty I'm Tanya Colar,
helping you live your best life.Well, today I thought it would
be a really great conversation to talkabout driving your worth forward, because your
self worth is the most important thing, and remember that you really need to
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put yourself first. I know alot of people still today have a hard
time doing that because you feel thatit's really you know, selfish to do
that. But again, you know, you got to put your oxygen mask
on first so that you can liveyour best life and also allow others to
thrive in your environment. So todayI brought my good friend and audi sports
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expert on the show speaking of drivingright. So what we're going to do
is we're going to talk about thecorrelation between you know, personal development right
and our self worth and cars andwhat they have to do together. And
it's so interesting because you know,how we do one thing is how we
do everything, and how we purchasevehicles is also indicative of our values and
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our self worth or certainly can be, not always, but it's a really
interesting conversation. So how about wesay hello and welcome to a dear friend,
shah Hodwicks. We go way back, longtime friend. We used to
work together on the Shopping Channel,and here we are again having a great
conversation. A pleasure to have youon the show here today, Shahan.
Thank you so much. Tanya.It's a pleasure to see you and to
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talk with you. This is agreat segue for both. I think our
transition from being live on air tobeing on radio and being on video and
different careers and whatnot that we've goneinto coming back together and sharing some of
our experiences that we've had together.Yeah, I love that. You know.
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One of the favorite quotes that Ihave is by Steve Jobs, and
he says that you cannot connect thedots looking forward, you can only connect
them looking back. And it's sointeresting. It's because you know, if
we do look back, it's like, oh my gosh, everything that we
have done. I'm talking about everythingeverybody, not just us. I'm talking
about you know, all the thingsthat you've done in your life. It's
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so interesting to see how it reallybrings you to the moment of where you
are, and you know where youare right now in this moment is exactly
where you're meant to be. SoI think it's really, you know,
interesting. So it is great tohave this conversation with you again, Shahan,
to kind of catch up and youknow, and we're going to talk
about some of the great things thatyou are doing in the car world.
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You are the Audi Sport expert inMidtown and also captain for the Twin Cup
competition at twenty twenty three in Germany. So first of all, congratulations,
I know you came back second prizein the world. Pretty cool, that's
right. So Canada led the way. Basically a lot of the countries were
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afraid of Canada and unfortunately but theUS did prevail first, but they were
told to watch out for the Canadiansbecause we had a reputation of beating them,
and we beat out twenty six othercountries around the world. So it
was a great experience for me justto go out there meet all these other
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countries, how they see Audi inthe world, and how we met and
basically competed and it was a skillscompetition knowledge base and also using a vehicle,
We got to drive around the racetrack, we got to go on the
Autubahn with certain vehicles, and itwas a life altering experience. I have
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to say, it was a meez, that's amazing. You know. I
love the sounds of that. Alife altering experience, and you know,
I think it's those moments that reallyteach us a lot about ourselves, and
it's the ability to move forward nomatter where we are in life and to
sort of just go after it.And I also love that you will be
going back to go for that championshipnumber one right for twenty twenty four.
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And I think that is also keybecause you know, you said something about
how okay, so you know usScott number one, and that's okay because
in life, you know, wehave to continue to strive. We're not
always going to be number one inanything that we do, but there's always
the ability just to move forward.And I think it's so important to take
action because the universe rewards action andthat's where the magic happens, and you
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don't have to come back with firstprize and anything. It's about take action
because it really starts to build andcreate an incredible sense of confidence and self
worth. And I think a lotof the issues that people face today,
and you know, including myself inthat when I say people, that's me
too, right, is the isthe lack of our belief in ourselves.
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And it's so important that we rememberhow magnificent and extraordinary we truly are.
So I just love to have theseconversations to put things into perspective for people
and just give them a way tolook at how they do things. And
it's just sort of a shake upsometimes and a wake up call to say,
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well, am I living my bestlife? And if I'm not living
my best life? How do Istart to live my best life? And
it's interesting, Sehan, the connectionbetween our choices in cars and our self
worth. Right. I think somepeople believe that they can't have a luxury
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vehicle, right, and it's notfor them. And what do you say,
see when you have people coming into sell that cars. That's one
of the things that people will saythat you know, I don't think I
can afford an Audi, right,but you don't have to get a brand
new one. I always say,you know, you don't have to an
right is the race car that weall know that out he's known for.
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It's great if you can afford toget to that point, but let's start.
You have to start somewhere. AndI always tell people, hey,
maybe you want that RS five,but maybe we start with an A five
and then you know, in threeor four years we progressed and see how
your life is changing and if you'redoing better, and maybe yeah, now
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I go to an S five.Then I go to an RS five,
So more performance, and with thatit also comes prestige and people will always
see that. So I think thereis that look to all strive for more.
And I know with myself and competitions. We had what's known as national
walkaround competitions and I would compete.I got the regionals, then I went
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to nationals, came in third.Well that was great that year. And
the following year I did it,came in second. Great, keep going,
you always keep building. Then Igot to first and I won for
the whole country. And then itturned out that the following year they said,
okay, you've made to first,you can't compete anymore. Done.
But the point is I actually kepton going, and I think people need
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to If you fail, you needto keep on going because if you're consistent
and you realize, hey, whatdid I do wrong? Where did I
go wrong? How can I dobetter? That is what you got to
strive to do. What can Ido to help myself for the next time?
Right? And I think some peoplewhen it comes to cars, they
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think, oh, I can't affordthis right now, and I understand that
maybe it's not a new car,maybe it's a used one. Maybe we
start there and that gives them thatability. For me, it was always
like, hey, I don't thinkI can't even afford a Navvy. And
then I thought, this is mygoal. I want to get to that
where I can afford. But Iit's a goal in my life, even
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though it's a car, but it'swhat I do with my life to get
to get that car. Right.It's that mindset you have to strive for.
And you're going to come across barriersand people that will say no,
right, and no, I don'tthink you can. But you've got to
put all that negativity aside and justgo for what your goals are and strive
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for that. Yeah, And Ithink that you know, that's that's an
interesting point and put that all aside. When people say no, you can't
have that. But I think sometimeswe can be our own worst critic.
Sure we don't believe that we canhave that. And by the way,
for everybody listening, when we talkabout you know, the Audi r age,
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right, the luxury vehicle, thatreally is a metaphor for anything in
life that you are striving for.Okay. So you know, we're having
a great discussion today about driving yourworth forward, so an empowering discussion on
the correlation of you know, carsand car ownership and personal growth. But
again, you know, the caris a metaphor for anything that you want
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to attain in life and anything thatyou want to achieve. It's so important
to continue to have those dreams.Now, for anybody listening out there,
I just want to be very clear. I'm not saying that, you know,
you need to have a car tolive a great life. Absolutely not.
That's not what we're saying at all. You know, you have to
give yourself permission to have the thingsthat you want to have in life,
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and that might be a car foryou, you know, and that might
be you know, not a carfor you if that's not what you want,
and that's okay. But to youknow, expand and go beyond our
comfort zone and to go beyond thebelief of what we think is impossible,
right, and to create what's possiblefor us. I think that is really
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key in how to move forward inan empowering way exactly. And I think
the more you get that no,you have to kind of push yourself over
that barrier and say yes I can, and try and start small like people
say baby steps, right, youhave to start somewhere. And I remember,
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actually, one of the best quotesI've ever heard, and this is
coming from another alumni of the ShoppingChannel is rose Lee Brown, and she
would say, if you rest,you rest, and we know what great
shape she's in because she always exercises, and you would not believe like she
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she's amazing in what she does,you know, promoting Jim equipment or exercising
or constant health. And I thinkthat's the one thing. You got to
just keep on going, Just keepon going. And a lot of people
have had opportunities, Well they gotthe door shut in their face, But
how many doors did they get shutin their face before one door opened and
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finally let you in. If youdon't do anything, the answer is no.
It's always going to be no ifyou stop. But if you keep
on doing it, eventually something's goingto open up for you. Yeah.
I love that. I mean aboy, I've had so many doors closed
slammed in my face, let's say. And you know what, you just
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keep on opening and you keep ontrying. That is so important. So
I love that. It's so true. So you said, you know,
if you rest, you rust andkind of totally fitting for you know,
a vehicle as well, right,those those cars that get neglected, Uh,
you know, the tires start towear or tires fall off. You've
got the rust and the corrosion.And that's where the inactivity is. And
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that's how it correlates to our life. The the you know, the moments
of procrastination where we're so immobilized,where we don't want to move forward.
You know, we all can procrastinatea little bit here and there, but
we don't want a lifetime of procrastinationbecause you can never live your best life
if you're not trying trying for something. Right, it's so important you just
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get up and you keep on going. You don't have to have all of
the answers. You don't have toknow the how, and that's where we
can get in our own way.We believe and we try to control everything
and we feel like we have toknow what's going to happen, but you
really don't. But you do haveto show up. You have to show
up for yourself. I think sowholeheartedly. Like you need to keep pushing
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yourself for one and set your goals, whether it's a house, a car,
a trip, you know, orjust another job. Right Like you
want to excel in what you do. You have to set those goals in
life, because I mean, Inever thought I could be on the shopping
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channel. I was a jewelry designerin the beginning for like twenty plus years,
and then I shifted away from jewelryand went into the car sales,
and I just found that you've gotto find something that you're really passionate about.
And for me, I always lovedcars. I used to go car
shopping with my father when I waslittle, and I think I did more
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of that than anything, And justthe fact that we did that, I
kind of think that that had aninfluence on how much I loved cars.
If you have a passion for something, just go for it, and for
me, it was a passionate aboutlearning about the vehicles, about what it
could do. And then by doingthat, people would see that, hey,
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I'm not just there to sell youa car, but I'm there to
help you along with it, becauselike I would have a tutorial page on
YouTube and I would teach people howto use things because I found that there
was a need that, you know, I would go through the car for
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about an hour with the client whenthey pick it up, or we have
a delivery specialist who does that,but you only retain so much right and
you kind of need to learn itagain and again. So I would create
a video for everyone on how todo that, and by doing that,
I created a following, and byhaving that following, the word spread.
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And it's that passion that I loveabout vehicles and the new technology and things
like that. Now we're going fromgas to electric vehicles, and I was
one of the first people as asalesman in about YouTube get my own electric
vehicles. And I've had about threeyears, three or four years now experience
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with it. So it's a differentmindset in driving, and you have to
learn how to adapt with society.I think that's the main thing. Things
are changing around the world and wehave to learn to adapt. We can't
just say, oh, I'm tooold for that, like I can't do
it anymore. Like No, wecan all learn. There's ways we can
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learn. Whether it's slower or itcomes to us quickly, we can all
learn about it and sometimes we justneed some guidance. I'm here for that.
I think that's such a great featureto have and a great service that
you provide. And you know,also it ties right back into being passionate
about what you do. You know, going the extra mile. It's joyful
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as opposed to know a chore todo something and most people wouldn't even think
of doing, you know, avideo to help explain those features, right,
I mean, that's not part ofwhat you are required to do.
So that's going above and beyond.And I think that when we pursue our
passion, things become just so fulfillingthat you love to do these extra things
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right that are equated to that you'relistening to the mindset mentor I'm Tanya Kohlar.
My special guest today is Shahan Wicks. He is an Audi sport expert
and today we are talking about drivingyour worth forward because you are so worthy
and you know so many people livea life feeling like they are not enough.
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Well, we are here to tellyou that you are more than enough.
You are magnificent. You are extraordinaryand certainly worthy of living your best
life. Stay tuned to be backafter this break No Radio, No Problem
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stream is live on SAGA ninety sixtyam dot com. Welcome back to the
Mindset mentor Antonio Kohler helping you liveyour best life. Joining me today is
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my dear friend Shahan Wicks, whois an audi sports expert. He is
here to share, you know,not only some great information on cars,
but we're having a great discussion oncars and personal growth and our mindset.
You know, we talked a littlebit earlier before we took a break about
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you know how our belief systems canreally impact the way that we select a
vehicle. We believe sometimes that we'renot able to have that luxury vehicle.
It's not for us, it's forother people. Well, what if it
is for you? What if youtrained and developed your mind mindset to believe
that you are worthy and you canhave all of the wonderful things that you
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that you want. Well, that'swhat we're going to discuss today and we'll
continue the conversation with Shahan Wicks.Thank you for joining us today. Oh,
thank you for having me here.This is a great opportunity. I
wanted to express my sins here,appreciation for you know, working with you
again, because we used to workso well together on the Shopping Channel and
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now we've kind of gone into differentpaths and this is great to meet up
again and express what we're doing here. Yeah. You know, we all
have purpose and meaning in life,and I think that it's so important to
remember how valuable you are. Everybodylistening, I want you to remember how
valuable you are. You know,life, we can get bogged down and
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inundated by the stressors of daily living, you know, financial situations and all
these things that are you know,considered let's say, obligations, and then
we can forget our passion, wecan get our dream, and we can
start to feel like we don't havepurpose. And there's always meaning and purpose
and in fact behind all of yourexperiences combined. But when you're stuck in
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those moments that don't feel fantastic,you know, I want to encourage you
to know that you're not alone.We've all been there, you know,
and we will get there at somepoint. You know, life is a
cycle and we're always evolving constantly,and it's the ups and downs, right,
it's the myriad of emotions that wehave as humans, the spectrum of
emotions. So it's normal to havethe highs and the lows in life.
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But please don't ever feel like givingup and that you're alone, because you're
never alone. And it's never toolate to shift your mindset, to shift
your belief system, you know.I know for me, for decades,
I struggled with a very limiting mindset, subconscious beliefs that we're running in the
background, the silent programming that reallyled me to live a small life.
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And I learned how to reprogram mymindset. And if I can do it,
then anybody can do it. Youcan do it. And remember that
we have, you know, avery sort of plastic brain where where you
know, we it's malleable. Wecan shape and shift and really build and
learn new things. When we learnnew things, when we try new things,
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when we achieve our goals, whenwe strive for that, we start
to build new neural networks, thatneural pathway. It's like a cluster a
network, you know, a clusterof those nerves where we're starting to regenerate
and build. And so the moreyou do something, you know, the
more the easier it becomes. Soif you're feeling things are difficult right now,
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no matter where you are in yourlife and whatever it is that you're
doing, please know that things willget better. But you have to take
action, continue to take action,and it could be a tiny little step,
and that is so valuable. Solet's talk a little bit more or
sean about some of the beliefs thatyou have seen coming in and the handing
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somebody the keys to their first luxuryvehicle. You know, have you seen,
you know, a shift in people, like even our physiology can change
when we start to realize that weare worthy of attaining something that we've desired
in life. Definitely, I findthat some people they might have a new
job or they've excelled in their job, that hey, I can afford to
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get this vehicle. And when theydo get that car that they've always wanted
to and it could be just itmight be a dream, small dream of
theirs that you know, this issomething I wanted to attain for several years,
and I can finally afford to getthere. I'm not saying that like
Audi is like the most expensive vehicleout there or the most prestigious, but
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what I'm saying is for a lotof people, it's that goal. And
I had those small goals as well, that hey, there's certain models I
want to get to, and Ican finally go there, but I have
to do certain things. And it'sthat repetition of either in your work,
where you're striving forward constantly and keepingthe negativity aside and trying to do better
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at what you do. And youknow what, if you get criticism,
use it. Take that criticism,embrace it and say, okay, so
that's what I did wrong, Butwhat can I do better to help?
And I find that even in carsales, you know, there might be
something that people misread other people.And I've seen it or heard it just
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in women going out and buying acar for themselves and they said, I
went with my spouse or I wentwith my boyfriend, and the car salesman
they kept directing all the questions athim, and he's looking at me,
going, I'm not the one who'sbuying the car. It's her. Why
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are you asking me? And I'vehad friends tell me they went and bought
a car on their own, andthen before they were about to sign it,
they asked them, well, doyou need your husband to go through
this with you and make sure thisis the right vehicle? And she's like,
I'm not with anybody. This isfor me. Do not see the
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fact that? And people need tostop diminishing like a woman's value as opposed
to a man, because first ofall, women live longer than men.
It's a natural fact. So Isee it all the time. When men
come in and buy a vehicle,they call their wives or they call their
spouse and say, hey, isthis the right color? Is this the
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model? Are these the features wewant? They will have that discussion.
If you're married, you know this, right you find out, or if
you're with the significant other, youknow this. You always do things together.
But when people start diminishing the factthat, hey, you know,
as a woman you should have morevalue than what people are portraying to you.
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And I don't diminish that at all. I let them. I direct
it towards them and say you tellme, because the funny part about it,
Like I said, they're going tooutlive us all, so guess what
who's going to be left with thecar? Right? Yeah, right,
exactly. You know that's a reallyinteresting, you know, observation, and
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you know, I think that sortof indicative of life. Well, I
would imagine most people have experienced atime where somebody has not valued them and
they just don't see your worth.And that's that's when it becomes our job
to really know and have a verystrong sense of inner belief in ourselves and
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have that worthiness because yes, youknow, there might be people who just
don't get us, but they're notmeant to get us, right in that
moment, that's okay. You know, there's in every exchange there is a
lesson and an opportunity unlesson we learnedsomething about ourselves or to teach something to
someone else. And maybe in thatcase the scenario that you gave, maybe
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that salesperson needs to learn something andhow the value in others and you know,
and it's a process that they're goingto experience. But really it doesn't
matter, you know, as theysay, it's not what other people believe
about us is none of our opinion, right, it is none of our
business that you say, right,because what really truly matters is your own
belief in yourself and to not takeit personally when others don't value you,
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and I know it feels tough sometimes. I mean, you could have grown
up in an environment where you feltinvisible because people just did not value who
you are. But I can tellyou that if you've been in that experience,
there was a great learning opportunity inthat. And now you probably you
know, easily can recognize the valuein other people, and people probably gravitate
(26:18):
to you because you are that personwho can really appreciate others. You know,
there's an energy that we exude whenwe do value and appreciate others.
And trying to not take it personally, I think is good. I remember
pleased to say that all the time, Oh, don't take it personally,
don't take it personally, and Iwas like, well, how could you
not take it personally? It's personal, it's all personal. But I've come
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to realize what that actually means.And when you have a very strong belief
in yourself, it doesn't matter whatanybody says. And also to that point,
you know, just to be veryclear, again because as we're talking
about this discussion, we're talking aboutcars and we're talking about our personal growth,
right, But we don't need tohave external things in order to feel
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valuable. But that doesn't mean thatwe don't strive for valuable things and want
great things. But you know,it's just about the awareness. That's the
most important thing is that I wantedto discuss is having the awareness and when
you're not validating yourself and sometimes youneed other people to not validate you to
also realize that you do the samething. Right, do you see what
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I'm saying. It's kind of likeother people in mirrors and shine a light
on our personal belief systems. Ihate to say, but with social media
and people, you see it withyoung people, right, they're so influenced
by everything that's out there in themedia and they see like a picture of
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a woman who's like beautiful skin,beautiful hair, those kind of things.
But what they don't realize is what'sin the background of that and altered because
we've seen that, right, there'sphoto editing. There's so many things that
can change your perception of what realityis. And I think you have to
strive for what you are doing inyour life and not concerned with other people's
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lives and just I always get thatquestion, oh, do you see like
how well we did today or anything. I'm like, no, I'm looking
at how well I did today,right, Like, rather than always being
in a competition. It's great tobe competitive, but don't let it bring
you down either. You have tobe I think competitive with yourself and see
(28:37):
how well you can do for yourselfon that and in order to grow.
I really do think that you needthat kind of you know, perseverance to
strive forward with what you want todo in your life. And by doing
that, you'll, like sell andpeople will see that too, that hey,
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this is a person who is growingand you know, anything you throw
at them, they adapt. AndI think adapting these things is probably the
best thing you can do. There'sso many things that are happening in the
world right now, and I thinkyou need to adapt or you're going to
get left behind. Yeah. Ilove that. That's a really interesting,
(29:22):
you know concept adapting. And that'swhy it's so important that we, you
know, maintain a growth mindset versushaving a fixed mindset where we believe that
we can't you know, change orwe can't learn, we can't try new
things. Having a growth mindset opensyou up to limitless possibilities and the opportunity
to you know, reach your potentialand to actually like blast through any sort
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of ceiling potential that you thought youhad. And to that point, to
bring it back to cars, let'stalk about some of the you know,
progression that we've seen through cars becausewe're now adapting to ways to eco friendly
you know, modes of transportation andvehicles itself. So let's talk a little
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bit about what's happening, you know, in the in the world and the
adapting that we need to do there. Well, that's exactly what's happening right
now. We can see that transitionfrom gas to electric and whether it's hybrid,
mild hybrid, or full plug inbattery electric vehicles, that is happening,
(30:26):
and I think by about twenty twentyfive, which is only a year
away, we're going to see alot of new electric vehicles coming into play
with all the manufacturers across Canada,across the world. And by doing that,
a lot of people think, well, you know, I have all
this power, it's great, Idon't have to pay for gas but there
(30:47):
is a different mindset to driving anelectric vehicle, and I think in the
first few years people didn't realize itor they found out the hard way.
Yes, it has a lot ofpower, and when I say power,
it's I'm talking about off the lineright zero to sixty, and they're fast.
But you have to think of itin terms of a gas engine.
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It's like driving a V eight ora V ten engine, like a really
high performance supercar. Because when youstep on the gas or the power pedal,
now you're and you're heavy, youhave a heavy foot and you're going
fast. You're draining that power meterdown and people are like, well,
I thought I was going to getlike over four hundred kilometers. But it's
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also the way you drive. AndI've learned to adapt. Now I'm out
a sport expert, and which meansI get to I get trained on the
racetrack with the ra called the RSmodels whenever something new comes out. But
now that we're transitioning over to electric, I've learned that I no longer drive
in the fast lane or the thirdlane on the highway, you know,
(31:57):
and where you're doing maybe over onetwenty or whatever. Right I'm now in
the first lane, the slow lane, And I'll tell you why, because
now your mind is adapting to thefact, Hey, I want to conserve
energy. Now my distance for travelis about thirty five kilometers, and if
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I leave in the morning and wantto be there for nine o'clock, I
mean, I know on the highwayI'm in trapping, but I'm actually going
south. So it's a slight deepline. So in an electric vehicle, I
said it at one oweight, right, so I'm not at one hundred.
Nobody really wants to go one hundredand over one oweight. And if a
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car comes in front of me,my car will slow down because I have
adaptive crews. And it's that mindsetthat I'm thinking, Okay, it's I'm
going slower, but I'm actually regeneratingthe battery. And I'm gaining to the
point that sometimes if you're in stoppinggo traffic and the car is doing all
the driving stop and go with adaptivecrews, where it can actually slow down
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to a stop because of the carin front of you is slowing down,
it's actually regenerating your battery and givingyou more mileage. And I've had it
where Let's say I had three hundredand fifty kilometers when I left my house
and now I'm at work thirty fivekilometers later and I have three hundred and
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sixty kilometers. Well, I justgained ten kilometers. How is that possible.
Well, that's the mindset that youhave to understand how electric works versus
the gas. Yeah, you coulddrive fast in the fast lane and get
to work maybe five minutes earlier.At most half the time, I'm passing
everybody in the first lane because everybody'smoving to the fast lane. And then
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if everybody's in the fast lane,it's moving slow, so I'm actually passing
everyone else. Don't tell anyone mysecret for getting to work out time a
lot more. Everybody's in the firstlane now. So I find that,
you know, things that happen onthe road. People get upset, they
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try to cut in, you know, get a little road rage. I
put that all aside. Like Iwhen I'm driving electric now, I invite
people to come in front of me. Like people want to like cut in
front of me, and they youknow, you've got like two feet of
space and they want to cut infront of you. I'm like, you
know, I just backed off andlet them go. You know, there's
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no point getting upset. It's it'sthat mindset of like, hey, don't
worry, go ahead, wave atthem, not the finger saying wait right,
I've been waved that before with thatfinger, So I'm just saying,
like I always tell people, goahead, you know, go right ahead.
Now my car is labeled up likea race car as out e Sport
(35:00):
Expert dot. But like, ifthey want to go in front of you,
let them go in front of you. Did it really need to start
like a battle between you and someoneelse in a car? Like, no,
there's no reason too. Yeah,right, that's that's interesting. So
you know, oftentimes that road rage, you know, it's a trigger,
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right, someone has a trigger pointand somebody's buttons were pushed, right,
so now they are misdirecting their anger. It turns into rain rage at a
stranger on road, you know versushealthy healthy you know, expressions of emotion
(35:42):
in their life. It's when weblock those and repress emotions that it does
start to lead to anger and youknow, discord in our lives. So
it is important to process our feelingsand our emotions, uh, and not
to stuff down any of those beliefsor or feelings, because it does come
out eventually. Right. The bodyholds onto everything, holds onto our trauma,
(36:05):
our emotions, and when we don'thave a healthy outlet, it is
going to come out in an inopportunemoment, like perhaps on the highway somebody's
cut you off, and then youknow, we can maybe say or do
things that we don't necessarily want todo. Now, I've always looked at
that and go, why would peoplebe so upset, you know, at
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a stranger and then this road ragehappens, you know, But there's been
times I'll admit that, you know, we've got a little little bit angry,
you know, a little bit angryat somebody getting angry at me,
for me not even realizing I potentiallycut somebody off, right, But then
I sort of bring it down anotch and realize that, wait a second,
it's not them, it's me.It's how I'm feeling that particular day.
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Right, It's a trigger point,it's somebody's pushing our buttons, and
it's really, again, really importantfor us to have the awareness of what
our triggers are and try to havehealthy ways and options to handle those triggers
that potentially come up. Yeah,we need to learn how to manage our
own triggers. I think for sure, if you talk to any colleagues of
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mine, they think I'm one ofthe calmest people here. I mean,
I've gone through a lot in mylife that little things don't FaZe me so
much anymore. I'm like, youknow what little things can There's worse things
happening in the world. Thank goodness, we're not in a different part of
the world right now, right andwhat we're experiencing unfortunately with some people out
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there, So be thankful for whatyou have. You know. It's that
mindset that you said, like weneed to grow, We need to put
aside some feelings that you know,maybe you just need to breathe, like
take five seconds and breathe and justyou know, like let it all out
(38:00):
imitation. Yeah, exactly, right, get into that zen flow. You
know, definitely help, very helpful. You know, deep breathing. You
know, a few deep breasts willgo a long way into palming. Uh,
you know the system down. Yeah, cut yourself down exactly. And
I think you know with that comesgrowth, and when you grow, you're
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you're not back pedaling. Right,If you if you keep getting in your
head like this is bothering me,this is bothering, this is bothering me,
there's no room for growth because you'rejust bringing yourself down. I think
you just have to just keep striving. Put those negative feelings aside. I
mean, everybody needs to feel,but I think misdirected anger. You know,
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it's not healthy, and it doesn'tAnd one thing I always said,
when you're working in the workplace,and if you don't enjoy what you're doing,
don't don't do it because half thetime, those people who are complaining
about their work, they're making ithorrible for everybody else around them. Right,
So, if you don't like whatyou're doing, do what you will
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like doing. Figure it out.You have to figure out what makes you
happy and try and do that,because then it doesn't feel like a job
or it doesn't feel like work.Now, some people don't have that opportunity
to actually do that. They haveto take whatever they can, but try
and be the best at whatever itis that you're doing. And this is
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what I'm looking for and it helpsabsolutely all Right, Well, we're going
to continue to help the listeners whenwe come back. We're going to take
a break here on Saga nine sixtystream us live at Saga nine six am.
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Welcome back to the Mindset mentor Hereon Saga nine sixty, we are
going to continue the conversation on drivingyour worth forward. Remember that you are
worthy, You're magnificent, and youare meant to live a magnificent life.
So I want you to keep ondriving. The life road can be very
(40:34):
challenging. We've got the bumps andthe highs and the lows, the red
lights, the green lights, theyellows, all of that, the on
rep off reps, and you know, it's it's about remembering that you have
a journey and we're getting to ourdestination and there's so many different routes that
we can take to get to thatdestination. But it's important to know where
(40:57):
you're going and our goal can guideus. And I think it's important to
remember that you know you have adream and those things that you love to
attain for yourselves, go out andreach them because they are there for you.
We're going to continue the gat theconversation with my guest, Sohan Wicks,
who is an audi sports expert,and we've been talking about the correlation
(41:20):
of uh, you know, carslinked to our mindset and personal development.
Sean, you said something before wetook a break on. It was on
electric vehicles, and you talked abouthow the car actually regenerates itself, you
know, in that sort of powerregenerates exactly. Yeah, we actually get
(41:43):
more mileage out of that that thatvehicle. But that's really interesting because as
you were talking about that, Iwas thinking about how important it is to
to rest and regenerate and rejuvenate ourselvesin our lives so that we can actually
have more power, more mileage,so to speak, in doing the things
that we'd like to do because wehave the energy to do it, versus
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being exhausted and depleting ourselves. Yeah. I think that's even like a correlation
of your health with your go gogo, But then you don't rest and
take time to sleep because I knowsome people, myself included, I used
to sleep like three hours four hoursa night, and I felt like I
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could just keep going. But yourbody, your mind might say that,
but your body doesn't. And it'ssame thing with electric vehicles, Like you
can drive in a straightaway for aboutfifteen to twenty minutes and you watch the
power deplete, but as soon asyou start slowing down, there's battery regeneration
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which helps with the power and givesback power to you. So think of
that with your health. I meancars, you need to maintain them,
just like we need to go toa doctor and just get a checkup.
I do a yearly checkup. Ijust did one actually yesterday. So it's
something that we have to remember thatour health is our most valuable asset,
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right because without our health, ifwe're not just like a vehicle, whether
it's a gascar or electric car,not putting the right fuel, not putting
the electricity in the car, justlike our health, we're not putting all
the garbage into ourselves, right,it's not going to run as well,
right, and so does our health. Our health is if you can you
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know, exercise, eat the properfoods, drink plenty of water, you
know, and then rest as well, do your exercises, walk, you
do things that help you with yourhealth. Your body can go further,
your mindset is better in terms ofyour brain being active as well, and
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then we find that it can striveto do more with ourselves and for a
longer period of time, right,So I think in a sense, you
know, when we're talking about carsand people, there's a correlation there.
Like we go for a yearly checkup to the doctor, same thing with
the car. You do that aswell. In order to keep it going
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right, we need to do thosethings for ourselves to you know, learn
and to grow in you know,cars come in, they get like an
update. We need to learn toget an update and adapt to that.
And we were talking about adapting andgrowth, and I think that is one
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of the big things that changing ourmindset to old ways of thinking and new
ways that are coming through that wehave to learn to adapt to and just
strive for more in order to getwhere we want to be in life.
Yeah, change can be scary.I think a lot of people fear change.
(45:05):
But if we can sort of dissectour lives and you look back over
the years, it's those moments ofchange that have been the most impactful and
that was great. I mean,I know, like in my life too,
there's been times where I'm like,oh, things are amazing, you
know, I wish my life neverchanged and things that continue like this.
But then I'll look back at thosemoments and the belief that I had at
(45:29):
that time, and I'm like,oh, thank goodness they changed, because
you know, there's this great evolutionand sometimes the universe knows, you know,
better, and gives us things thatare beyond what we can even imagine
for ourselves. And it really isabout expanding beyond the comfort zone so that
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you can achieve extraordinary things, becausewe're all extraordinary beings and we are meant
to have an extraordinary life. ButI think that we forget that, and
it's so important to remember who weare are and find that inner value and
that inner worth and know what ispossible for you. You know, often
it's it's we put limits on ourselves, or we allow other people to put
(46:12):
their limits on us through their beliefsystem and we sort of adopt their belief
system as our own. But reallyit's about dissecting you know, those beliefs
are are they truths? And you'llfind that most of those are falsehoods that
we truly believe and we hold onto dearly. But it really does impact
the quality of our life. Youknow, you talked earlier Sean about sleep
(46:36):
and how important sleep is, andyes, we need to heal the body
and rejuvenate, and we do thatthrough getting a great night's sleep. I
find that sleep is very underrated.But if we don't have that sleep,
we all know what it feels likewhen we wake up, and where our
tolerance is lower, we don't feelhealthy, are cognitive function declines, and
(46:59):
that's not a allowing us to liveour best life. So it can be
the small things incorporating, you know, a better sleeping habit, you know,
maybe going to bed a little bitearlier, drinking water, those deep
breaths that we talked about, justto help to you know, calm the
nervous system down, alleviate some ofthe tension and the pent up you know,
(47:19):
angst anxiety that you have. Youknow, it's it's really important to
find ways to express that and toallow you to thrive. Yeah, and
you need sleep to recover and alsofor your muscles to grow, right,
so there's growth even when you thinkthat it's downtime. You need that downtime
(47:40):
for you to grow and your bodyhelps heal itself that way. Meditation is
one of those things too that peoplelook towards right just to put their body
at ease and at peace. Idon't know if anybody's ever been to a
spa or to a meditation clanning,those kind of things. But those sometimes
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we're going, going, going,and we need some time for ourselves to
heal. And I don't mean byjust like you know, you cut yourself
and put a bandig on it,but the mind, the body, everything
just sometimes needs to relax. Andwe're we're in a fast paced world.
You're going to work, you're withthe kids, those kind of things.
(48:28):
You know, you're taking care ofother people, and sometimes you need time
for yourself just to you know,get peace and one with oneself. Yes,
you definitely need that tune up sothat you can reach out and claim
that extraordinary life. And we areout of time. So I want to
say thank you seahan Wick so muchfor joining us, and to all the
(48:49):
listeners out there, thank you somuch for tuning in and remember that you
are worthy. Take care of yourself, take care of your mind, take
care of your body, and thrive. I really want you to reach out
and claim the extraordinary life that isthere for you. Stay tuned Thursdays here
on Saga nine sixty of Mindset mentorNo Radio, No Problem, stream us
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