January 27, 2026 • 31 mins
Meet Nelson Paredez-Parks, a dynamo renowned for his eclectic skill set and embodying multiple roles. As an acknowledged expert in the entertainment industry, Nelson is known for his leadership of The ESI Network, a premier talent management company with over 30+ years in the entertainment world. He’s an expert in getting your kids into show business as well as navigating the entertainment business with healthy boundaries. Nelson website: https://www.helpandanswers.com/ Show notes: https://successgrid.net/sg253/ If you love this show, please leave a review. Go to https://ratethispodcast.com/successgrid
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hallo, I welcome to the Success Great Podcast with also Stale.
I am excited to introduce you to a series of
conversations with some of the most successful and sparing individuals
from various industries. My aim is to dive into their
stories behind their success and explore the knowledge, strategies, habits, mindsets,
and wisdom that have propelled their success. Each episode of
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the Success Great Podcast will feature a different guest who
will share their unique journey, the challenges they faced, and
the reasons they have learned along the way. I would
also be covering topics from entrepreneurship and innovation to leadership
and personal development. Whether you are inspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned
business profession, or just someone looking to improve your life,
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the Success Great Podcast is for you. My goal is
to bring you valuable insights and inspiration that will help
you achieve your own success in business and life. So
get ready to learn and be inspired. The Success Great
Podcast starts now. In this episode, we are going to
be talking about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and life.
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My guests in this episode his name is Nilsen Parade Sparks.
He's a dynamo and now it for his eclectic skill
set and embodying multiple roles as an acknowledge expert in
the entertainment indust industry. Nielsen is known for his leadership
of the ESI Network, a premier tenant management company with
over thirty years in the entertainment world. So, Nielsen, I'm
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so grateful that you are with me on this ebisode
of The Success Great Podcast. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for having me on
the show. You know, I appreciate and I really want
to just be able to talk to your community and
impact and have a little conversation see kind of what
we talk about today about regarding entrepreneurship.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Also most of you. So first of all, because this
is the Success Great Podcast and you have long term career,
you are dealt with the lack of people in business
and life of course, So what do you think or
I've seen as of now of this experience and what
you are doing. What is success is to you? And
what do you see others see or have said a
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misconception about what success is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So to just distinguish what successes for me, It's like
I want to make sure that there's like a fine
balance between like a work life and a personal life balance,
you know, And I think as an entrepreneur, I mean
I've been I started my business when I was super young,
you know, I at the age of seventeen, had a business.
At the age of eighteen, I moved out here to
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Hollywood to pursue, you know, my dreams in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I briefly worked as an actor and booked a bunch
of jobs, but then decided I wanted to get on
the other side of the business, and I worked in
casting for a while, and then I taught thousands of
young kids and teenagers as an acting coach, and then
started managing. And I've been managing now for thirty years.
And I've had clients that have been very successful over
the years. I've built them from absolutely no credits on
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their resume to you know, clients that are as series regulars.
I've taken clients to the Emmys, the Oscars, so it's
been a really wonderful journey. I've traveled all over the
world with my clients. I've been to India and Africa
and Europe and you know, all over the US. So
it's been a really exciting adventure to be able to
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like manage clients. And I've seen them from you know,
the total beginning of their careers where I'm helping them
get their first television credit to like at the top
of their success when they're like you know, walking down
red carpets and going into vanity fair parties and like,
you know, going to the Emmys, and so it's been
a fun journey. And so you know, as a talent manager,
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you know, I'm here to guide, motivate, wisely, set up
a structure and plan for an actors career. And the
interesting thing that I've been doing over the last couple
of years now during the because when the pandemic happened,
one of the things that happened was the entertainment industry
obviously completely shut down, and then we had the actors
strike and that caused more problems. So I started really
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thinking out of the box and I started another brand
and called help Answers dot Com. And so what help
an Answers does is it helps entrepreneurs and businesses scale
up their business and and really go next level with
their brand. So you know, I've always been in the
world of like trying to make an impact, trying to
make a difference. And I always have life coaches that
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coach me, but I also now am a business coach
that coaches entrepreneurs and entertainment people how to move their
brands and career to the next level.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, so you had like you had some kind of
a major ten But I would assume in general, someone
when they are becoming an actor, they would like want
to pursue this kind of career, right, And you did
that for a while and then you decided to switch
to becoming in management or threein actors. That's what happened.
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So what like, what is was the tending point for
you to decide to switch.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, honestly, I think, you know, I started my management
company at a very young age, you know, as like
twenty one, twenty two, and I started doing this. So
I worked as a teen actor in Chicago. I trained
go Second City touring company, you know, as a teen,
and you know, it was a great experience to be
in front of the camera. But honestly, I got more
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satisfaction from impacting and really helping people reach their goals,
helping actors live out their dreams. So I just decided that,
you know, I felt more excited about doing that side
of it, and honestly, as an actor, I didn't want
to go to my acting classes. I didn't want to
do some of the work that it really takes to
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be an actor. So I kind of had like a
real reality check with myself and I said, you know,
I think it's time to maybe do something else. So
I made that decision at a young age. But I
was always you know, at the age of sixteen seventeen,
I started the lawnlowing business and a snow blowing business,
and so I've always been an entrepreneur, thinking out of
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the box, trying to find ideas or creative ways to
make income.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's amazing what you wanted to do with the people
around in the community and being other people. But what
draws me here, Uger people when they are in the
path of like becoming famous or they see this type
of career that they will be famous, the hugely pursue
that what you mentioned here is right. So you mentioned
that you weren't like interested in learning acting as an
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acting to be like some kind of a professional actor
as we see in Hollywood nowadays in them in these
big bustar movies. Right, So why do you think you
had the calling on the other side and of this side.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, honestly, I think that I realized the ups and
downs of what it takes to be an actor, Like
you can have a year where you make a lot
of money and then you could have a year that
you know, you make next to nothing. So for me also,
I also would forget my lines. I mean, I'll tell
you a little story. I remember I was working on
a film called What's Love Got to Do With It?
With Angela Bassett, you know, And I remember working on
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that project for about a week and every time I
got up to say my lines, like, I forgot them
three or four times, And honestly, it was so embarrassing
to me that I was like, you know, I don't
know that acting is really what I want to do.
And it was funny. I went to the film I
and I invited a bunch of my friends, and I
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was completely cut out of the film. You saw my
names and the credits. Still I was excited about that,
but I'm like, wow, you know the highs and lows
of this business. It wasn't something that I wanted to do.
And I just thought, you know what, I'm actually really
great at business and I'm great at systems and structures,
and I'm really good at helping people and building a
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road plan and game plan for someone's life. So now
what I like to do is I like to make
sure that we have a wise business plan for your business,
but also for your personal life as well. My belief
system is that, you know, if corporations all have business plans,
so should people. People should have their own business plans
so that they have a plan for what they're up
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to in their life.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I agree with that, but you have to die and
those like I assume in general, like in business you're
own business, there are highs and lows of highs and
lows also, So did you have that fear when you
moved into business and entrepreneurship, Like did you think that
there is competition? Did you think that I want to succeed?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Did these negative thoughts affect you in any way or
did you think that business is different? Because, for example,
I'm not that much interested in acting. I do want
to help other people achieve what they want to achieve,
and I want to see other people succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, you know, I've always been of the belief that
you want to keep your cup, you know, half full,
so that you have the ability to expand and grow.
So for me, I've just really wanted to make a
difference and impact people. And I don't think I mean,
I've probably foolish. When I was younger, I just always
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had the confidence and believe that I can do it.
If I didn't know how to do it, I would
go figure out how to do it. I would find
a mentor, I would get a coach. I would work
with someone that could help me figure out how to
get things to the next level. You know. So I'm
I'm always thinking out of the box. You know. One
of the recent projects that I just took on, I
started marketing this book. It's called Conflicting Loyalties. This is
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a book about a guy that was actually in the
mafia when he was at the age of nine and
then he became a DOJ informant at the age of
eighteen and he actually it's a very fascinating story. And so,
you know, this is like the kind of example of like,
you know, I was talking to a friend of mine.
He said, oh, I have this book that I want
to market, and I said, great, let's figure out let's
how to do it. Book marketing was not necessarily what
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I was an expert in, but I always come at
it from like a yes, I can do this situation.
So when I have business owners or people bring me problems,
I come up with their solutions. I'm the guy that's
going to help you figure out, how are we going
to make this work? How does this work? I'm always
looking at, you know, the glass half full, not happened empty?
What are all the possibilities we're going to be able
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to create or generate out of this situation? So, you know,
I'm pretty much always in action. I've always like lived
like that. I've always taken a lot of you know
classes myself. I always have a business coach that's coaching me. Also,
you know, I've done lots of different you know, self help,
self development programs. You know, I have thousands of books
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at home where I'm always reading on how to get stronger, better,
or wiser. So I think that, you know, if you
really want to succeed, you have to have this go
getter attitude, and you have to surround yourself with a
lot of smart people around you. Like I. When I
look at my team, I want to make sure that
like my teammates are actually all better at what they do,
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you know, versus what I do. You know, like I
need to stay in my lane, and I want to
make sure that I'm hiring experts and hiring great people
alongside of me so we could truly, you know, succeed
and move the needle forward.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
That's when there's like, for example, I'm getting you two aspects,
like for example, your mindset. You thought yourself early on
though you were young, but your thought yourself, this is
not the thing that I want to do, and do
something different, and you will that way and discovered certain
things and shortcuts and you cut it early. Some people,
it's a great idea to have certain I guess passion
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for something and keep pursuing until like you are maybe
bored or whatever it is of it. But times we
have to know sometimes like maybe limitations maybe that we
have met that really wanted to be invested in that
thing that we're doing, so we go to a different
path and do drive into that path instead of a
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drive in the path A instead of the path B.
And also tooken here about the team, which is like
it's it's it's great. Like when someone business owner talks
about the interpnal about that the teams that they are
hiring that they want them to be like, we cannot
do everything at full capacity at our everything like whatever
it is, there's multiple things to do, one hundred things,
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So do you cannot do that at full potential? Like
you need to have this type of team that is
they are great what we are doing, and these people
that are going to drive the business forward. And this
is the kind of mindset that you have, like it's
going to the next day, is going to the next level,
which is highly important. So do you see the other
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way around with people always thinking that they don't really
need to hire good people sometimes thinking that this mindset
or insisting on certain passions. And do you think that
passions involved in all of this?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, I think one of the important things you have
to look at is you have to have like a
real reality check and put a mirror your face and
get really good with your time. You know. One of
the things that I did when I was younger is
I would always wear a stop watch around my neck
and I would time every single thing that happened in
my life. I would learn how long it takes me
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to walk a block, how long it takes me to
eat a sandwich, how long it takes me to take
a shower. I would I would look at everything in
my life and I would time it, and I started
getting really good with my time, you know, because time
is really that resource that like, we're never going to
get back, so it is actually the most important thing
in your life. It is so important to manage your time.
One of the things that I do in my help
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and Answers program as I as I business coach people
is I actually have the map out all one hundred
and sixty eight hours of your week. Most people, when
I ask them how many hours are in a week,
they don't even know. Well, it's it is one hundred
and sixty eight and we all have one hundred and
sixty eight hours of our week, and it's really about
how you manage that in your life. And you want
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to be thinking of, you know, the concept of Pareto's rule,
which is the you know, generally known as the A
twenty rule, you know, and what that rule kind of
goes over is like, for example, eighty percent of your
company's output, you know, is produced by twenty percent of
its workers. Eighty percent of the six that will come
from twenty percent of your ideas. You know, eighty percent
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of the stress that you have in your life is
caused by twenty percent of the stressors. So do you
want to take you know that rule and really look
at implement it in your life. The inverse of that
is like twenty percent of your phone apps get eighty
percent of your usage. So like when you're on your phone,
it's like when you have all these apps, it's like
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twenty percent of the tools that you're using on your
phone gets eighty percent of the usage. So you want
to analyze every area of your life and see, you know,
what tasks you should be doing and what tasks you
shouldn't be doing. So you want to make a master
list of all the many things that you're doing in
your day, make a total list of what that looks like,
and then analyze it and go like what should I
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be doing on a day to day basis and figure
out what is the twenty percent of the activities that
you should be doing that will make the biggest impact,
because that's how you're going to get your business to
the next level. If you're trying to just do everything
that comes at you, you're gonna be frazzled, you're not
going to be focused, and then you won't get to
the goals that you want to get accomplish in your
life because you're just coming. You're reacting to everything instead
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of like making the important important and the urgent urgent.
Most people live in the urgent. I want to make
sure that I'm putting my time in what's important. So
for me, I think it's so critical to make sure
that you're using your time effectively.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like you mentioned something very important mea during the time,
like how many hours a day we have? How many
hours a week we have? Like you put actually of
work that I have done in this hour on the
next six hours, which is very important. And we as
a humans usually take time for granted, like maybe I
do it tomorrow, maybe I do it next week, maybe
I do it next year or whatever. I still have time,
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But you don't know. You have you have to kind
of a plan. Maybe you don't achieve it on time,
for example, but you have to have some kind of
a framework or measurement where you are going. And also yourself,
how do you know, Like you mentioned talking about important
and urgent you, how do you measure the important? Like
generally people have this kind of diagon for themselves like
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important and important urgenty square. You know about what, I'm sure,
So how do you do you think that you would
advise someone to put the important first and know that
this is important. Do you think that, for example, in business,
that the money making activities are the things that business
owners should focus on, or do you think, for example,
there are other examples that could be there.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well. One of the things that I do with my
program helping Answers dot Com, I have over one hundred
different resource sheets that are sheets that help you figure
out the systems and structures in your life. So I
actually use these sheets myself to make sure that like
I'm analyzing things and making you know, the important wise decisions.
I mean, I think about things in my life like
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I I will even make a list of my relationships
and my friendships in my life, and I ask myself
deep questions with help and Answers dot Com. Like, the
concept behind that is the powerful questions that you ask
yourself and your life will have you have the life
that you have or have you have the life that
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you don't have? So it's really about the questions that
you're asking yourself on a day to day basis. So
I have dozens of helpful forms and sheets that will
help me outline and figure out what should I do
with my time, what should I do with my money,
what should I do with my resources? And it's a
program that has you really look at all the aspects
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of your life. We go through you know, your dreams
and mission, your habits and routines, your time, your systems
and structures, your finances, your projects, and I'll go through
and analyze every one of those things. And I do
this for clients like in my sleep, but I also
do it for myself, like I have this thing called
CEO hour. CEO hour is that time that I'm planning
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and building and getting really clear with my vision. And
the weeks that I don't have my CEO hour with myself,
I'm really hurting myself and I'm really hurting all the
many people that I'm impacting and all my clients. So
it's been a very important time to take assessment of
like what is it that I'm building, you know, And
it's making the distinction of working in your business versus
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on your business. And so I find that so many
entrepreneurs are just working in their business and doing the work,
and in essence they have a job and job In
my aspect, you know, my frame of mind stands for
just overbroke, like you can't get ahead if you have
a job, you know, and I break up money in
different categories. You have today money, you have future money,
and you have future future money. It's like today money
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is like you have a job, like you're doing a task,
you exchange hours for pay. Future money is like you
make some sort of income that's residual based and you're
making residuals.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You let's say, as an actor, you shoot a commercial
and you'll get paid your today money of today, and
then you'll also get paid your future money, which is
called residuals, and residuals keep continuing to pay you dividends
and money over time. Every time that commercial errors, you
get to check. And then future future money is activities
like such as real estate or let's say there's a
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book that you wrote. These are investments that you build once.
They take a long time to really get into fruition,
but there are structures that will just produce dividends for
years over time. So what you want to do is
you want to make sure that, like you know, you
might be at a place in your life where all
you can do is have that job, and if that's
the case, work that job and work it well, you know,
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because you want to make sure that, like how you
do anything is how you do everything. So you want
to make sure that you're doing a good job, you know,
at your job. But then you want to make sure
that you take two or three hours that you're building
something in your life that's like for future money activity
and then also future future money activity. So that's the
way I break up my time, and that's the way
I break up my money. And I find that a
lot of people just don't take the time to really
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sit down and assess. And that's really why we came
up with a help and Answers concept. We want to
help entrepreneurs, business owners and people that truly want to
kind of take a stop in their life and measure
and figure out is there another way to do this?
Is there a more effective way to do this? And
we do that by asking a series of questions that
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have you start to impact your life very very differently.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's very important, like I think Jim Rohn said that
work on yourself harder than you work on your job
something like that. So yeah, you need to do that.
But do you think if there was only one question
someone could ask themselves right to be honest with themselves,
Like you were honest with yourself. You knew what you
wanted to do and you took that detwil right, So yeah,
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it's so do we ask ourselves the question about time
because we have limited time here? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah? I mean I think that the important question to
ask ourselves about time is like what am I doing
with my time? You know, every day? And you really
need to analyze that. I don't know that there's like
maybe one question that I ask I ask myself question
all day long, Like all day long, I'm just writing
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down like well, you know, how should I handle this situation?
And I mean I really put a mirror to my
face daily to see how I can be more effective.
So I think it's more about just setting up your life.
So you're always asking yourself questions. You're always inquisitive. You
always want to know, well, how does that happen? And
how do you learn about that? Or you know. I
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think it's a mindset of just like perspective, and I
think the friends of mine that like are always willing
to be humble enough to honestly just ask themselves questions daily.
I every single day have realized that I know very
very little, you know. So I think it's important to
just be honest with ourselves and be like, what am
I good at? What am I not good at? And
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then if you're good at those things and like doing
those things, focus on those things, and everything that you're
not good at, hire out, hire someone else it's better
at you, you know, at that task, and don't spend
your time in your life on activities that you don't
love doing or that don't excite you. I mean, obviously
there's things like Okay, I don't want to necessarily do
my tax return, you know, but it's something I have
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to do each year, you know. But I make sure
that I have a good tax professional that helps me
with that, and I handle the couple things that I
need to do to make sure that I have my
taxes ready for my tax guy. But you really want
to be analyzing your time daily, and so I have
a sheet that I've created that kind of walks through
like planning out every minute of your week kind of thing.
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And you know, for any of the guests to kind
of hear this podcast, if you want to have me
send you a free copy of that sheet. If you
go to help and Answers dot com website and you
book a consultation with me or someone on my team,
we'll make sure that we send you that sheet. Well, actually,
you know, we'll send you three different information sheets that
are helpful forms and tools that could help you. Know,
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all the viewers out there, all the people that are listening,
if you'd like to find out how to have some
better systems and structures in your life, set up a
free consultation and we'll we'll send you a couple three
sheets that will give you a little bit more information
on how you can get your life and business to
that next level for free.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So, throughout the years, throughout your career and business, what
was the worst advice that you ever received or someone
told you?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know, it's funny, what are the pieces of advices
that I one of the pieces of advice that I
was given when I was early on and said, I
was told focus on only one thing, and there's pluses
to that, and there's minuses to that. I've learned that
for me, I thrive when I have a couple different
things that I'm working on in my life. If I
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just didn't focused on one thing only for me, that
just didn't work. Because a lot of times I'll get
my best ideas or my best situations come out of
having two or three kind of things I'm working on
in my life and they all somehow come together if
I ask myself the right questions on how to put
those things together. Now, on the flip side, if you
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are spread out way too thin, you'll never get any
one project to move that that next level, and you
actually need to get some success with something so that
people actually start listening to you. So I think it's
about finding that fine balance of like, you know, people
are gonna give you advice, and you want to listen
to advice. You know, it's it's all. It's also wise
to have a multitude of people that are giving you advice.
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But at the same time, if you're listening to advice
from way too many people, then you get bogged down
and you don't know where to focus. So I think
it's finding that balance, you know that that really makes
the impact difference.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, definitely, listening to too many people is could be distracting,
Like what advice is similar advices? Should I do this?
Should I do that? You will have options like one
hundred options that you would like. Could you would stay
where you are until the time will pass by without
actually because the most important thing is to learn and
not to to make it knowledge. To learn and to
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actually apply it and take it into action. This is
the most important thing because when we apply we would
know if this works, will or will not work, and
we will learn from it and we will keep going
or we will have some kind of editor for example. Right,
this is very important. Yeah, definitely. So what do would
you say some of the tools, resources or books that
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you would personally read or recommend?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh goodness, I mean there's just so many tools out there.
I think one of the habits, like I'll share with
you a structure that we use for a lot of
our actors that we wrap. We actually have two different
resource sheets when that goes through all the helpful books
that one should read, and we want to make sure
that you're reading books in different categories like you know,
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Robert Kiwasaki books, rich Dad Poort ad always you know,
have really great investment ideas or I mean ideas on
like how to think of money, you know, so you
want to make sure that you're reading another book about boundaries.
You know, a lot of my clients need to make
sure they have boundaries in there. So I think it's
more about it's not about one particular book to go read.
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It's about the habit of reading. It's about making sure
that do you have a new book, you know, on
your shelf every single month that you're reading to learn
something new or listening to audio podcasts, you know, Like
I do that all the time. So I think, you know,
sit down with yourself and like just make a master
list of like what are all the areas in your
life that you would like to learn a little bit
more about, and read one book on money, read book
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one book on time, read one book on how to
be more effective in your life, how to balance. So
I would just go through every aer of your life
and ask yourself, where do you want to have more
breakthroughs in your life? And then find the top two
or three books that are the most successful out there
and just learn something from each person and take that
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one or two golden nuggets from each book you read.
But it's really the habit of continuing to read and
keep learning on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, definitely, it's very important. I'm not sure to say that,
but I think someone said it's not like it's a given.
But if you read, for example, five books in a
certain topic, you would be like better off than ninety
percent of the world population in that topic. So five
five books is not that much. So if you read
a book a month, so that's five six months, take
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it a year, so a book every two months, so
that's not that much. So in a year you could
be one eighty degree is different. So that's very important, Yeah,
exactly so. And so where can people learn more about
you so they can get in touch with you and
see what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well, a couple of places. I mean, my personal instagram
is at Nelson Parades Parks, So any ls O n
paradees p A r EED Easy Parks, p A r
k S. My company is called the ESI Network, that
is my talent management company. And so just look up
the e SI Network and we're based here in Los
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Angeles in centricity. Uh. And as far as helping answers,
just go to Helping Answers dot com and you can
actually book an appointment with me and I can set
up a time to be able to chat. But yeah,
go ahead, and you know, look up my socials and
love to connect with you. And you know, I think
that we're in a very exciting new time, especially with AI.
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And what was what is going on with AI. One
of the other initiatives that I didn't really talk about
that I'll share briefly on is we started another resource
center called the AI Experts. The AI Experts is really
creating intelligent solutions for AI and and the and the
entertainment industry. And how that came about is one day
(28:42):
I was just kind of thinking, well, wow, there's so
much happening in the AI space, and I thought, you know,
I called a bunch of my friends that work in
the entertainment industry and I said, well, how much do
you know about AI? And nearly every one of them said,
I barely even understand what chat shipt is. So then
I thought, wow, there's definitely like some information that needs
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to be communicated to the entertainment community. So I started
a resource center called the AI Experts dot com. And
uh so that is just an informational site that has
information about like AI and entertainment. So again, I as
an entrepreneur, I'm always just thinking of out of the
box concepts, figuring out how to team up with interesting
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individuals and making sure that I'm like impacting and making
a difference with all my communities.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Definitely, I love that you have this kind of idea
for something, and as we talk to you about is
to turn it into action as fast as you can,
Like keeping on the building is Isn't that a good idea?
So you need to take action and step into it,
like on the guys, as fast as you can with yourself,
with people around you, with the relationship that you have.
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Is bitter than just keeping it the idea is that
can you read and thinking about it and not doing
anything about it, I'm not seeing what it could be.
So that's very important.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, because honestly, he's saying, like, you never know which
idea is going to hit. You really don't know. So
it's a lot of times, like some advice that I
got from a very successful friend of mine has built
a huge corporation here in the US. He said, try things,
just try keep trying things until you figure out the
one thing that works. And you never know what that's
gonna be. So I think each day is about like
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figuring out, like what new thing, what new idea, what
new perspective are you going to try on? Just try
it on as a hat, or try it on to
see what what's going to work for you, you know,
because you just never know where those gold nuggets are
going to come from. So it's really about just staying
in action and then planning your week effectively and trying
to impact as many relationships with people in your life,
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and out of that you just start to create the
kind of life that you love.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Definitely, definitely well and listen. Thank you very much for
joining me for this episode of the Success podcast Amazing
you show the Amazing Story with us, Like it's really
rare to see someone who would have a foot into
acting and would have to make the decision to switch
into different things and see different things and build businesses
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and help other people do that. But the most important
thing is actually when someone gets an idea, you need
to leave take a leap and start making action toward
it to make it shine. Otherwise it would stay in
the in the closet and nobody will see it and
not yourself. So that's very important. Thank you very much
for joining me.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You got it. Thank you so much. I really appreciate
it and excited to come back someday and chat about
other stuff with you.
Hallo, I welcome to the Success Great Podcast with also Stale.
I am excited to introduce you to a series of
conversations with some of the most successful and sparing individuals
from various industries. My aim is to dive into their
stories behind their success and explore the knowledge, strategies, habits, mindsets,
and wisdom that have propelled their success. Each episode of
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the Success Great Podcast will feature a different guest who
will share their unique journey, the challenges they faced, and
the reasons they have learned along the way. I would
also be covering topics from entrepreneurship and innovation to leadership
and personal development. Whether you are inspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned
business profession, or just someone looking to improve your life,
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the Success Great Podcast is for you. My goal is
to bring you valuable insights and inspiration that will help
you achieve your own success in business and life. So
get ready to learn and be inspired. The Success Great
Podcast starts now. In this episode, we are going to
be talking about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and life.
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My guests in this episode his name is Nilsen Parade Sparks.
He's a dynamo and now it for his eclectic skill
set and embodying multiple roles as an acknowledge expert in
the entertainment indust industry. Nielsen is known for his leadership
of the ESI Network, a premier tenant management company with
over thirty years in the entertainment world. So, Nielsen, I'm
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so grateful that you are with me on this ebisode
of The Success Great Podcast. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for having me on
the show. You know, I appreciate and I really want
to just be able to talk to your community and
impact and have a little conversation see kind of what
we talk about today about regarding entrepreneurship.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Also most of you. So first of all, because this
is the Success Great Podcast and you have long term career,
you are dealt with the lack of people in business
and life of course, So what do you think or
I've seen as of now of this experience and what
you are doing. What is success is to you? And
what do you see others see or have said a
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misconception about what success is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So to just distinguish what successes for me, It's like
I want to make sure that there's like a fine
balance between like a work life and a personal life balance,
you know, And I think as an entrepreneur, I mean
I've been I started my business when I was super young,
you know, I at the age of seventeen, had a business.
At the age of eighteen, I moved out here to
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Hollywood to pursue, you know, my dreams in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I briefly worked as an actor and booked a bunch
of jobs, but then decided I wanted to get on
the other side of the business, and I worked in
casting for a while, and then I taught thousands of
young kids and teenagers as an acting coach, and then
started managing. And I've been managing now for thirty years.
And I've had clients that have been very successful over
the years. I've built them from absolutely no credits on
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their resume to you know, clients that are as series regulars.
I've taken clients to the Emmys, the Oscars, so it's
been a really wonderful journey. I've traveled all over the
world with my clients. I've been to India and Africa
and Europe and you know, all over the US. So
it's been a really exciting adventure to be able to
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like manage clients. And I've seen them from you know,
the total beginning of their careers where I'm helping them
get their first television credit to like at the top
of their success when they're like you know, walking down
red carpets and going into vanity fair parties and like,
you know, going to the Emmys, and so it's been
a fun journey. And so you know, as a talent manager,
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you know, I'm here to guide, motivate, wisely, set up
a structure and plan for an actors career. And the
interesting thing that I've been doing over the last couple
of years now during the because when the pandemic happened,
one of the things that happened was the entertainment industry
obviously completely shut down, and then we had the actors
strike and that caused more problems. So I started really
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thinking out of the box and I started another brand
and called help Answers dot Com. And so what help
an Answers does is it helps entrepreneurs and businesses scale
up their business and and really go next level with
their brand. So you know, I've always been in the
world of like trying to make an impact, trying to
make a difference. And I always have life coaches that
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coach me, but I also now am a business coach
that coaches entrepreneurs and entertainment people how to move their
brands and career to the next level.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, so you had like you had some kind of
a major ten But I would assume in general, someone
when they are becoming an actor, they would like want
to pursue this kind of career, right, And you did
that for a while and then you decided to switch
to becoming in management or threein actors. That's what happened.
(04:48):
So what like, what is was the tending point for
you to decide to switch.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, honestly, I think, you know, I started my management
company at a very young age, you know, as like
twenty one, twenty two, and I started doing this. So
I worked as a teen actor in Chicago. I trained
go Second City touring company, you know, as a teen,
and you know, it was a great experience to be
in front of the camera. But honestly, I got more
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satisfaction from impacting and really helping people reach their goals,
helping actors live out their dreams. So I just decided that,
you know, I felt more excited about doing that side
of it, and honestly, as an actor, I didn't want
to go to my acting classes. I didn't want to
do some of the work that it really takes to
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be an actor. So I kind of had like a
real reality check with myself and I said, you know,
I think it's time to maybe do something else. So
I made that decision at a young age. But I
was always you know, at the age of sixteen seventeen,
I started the lawnlowing business and a snow blowing business,
and so I've always been an entrepreneur, thinking out of
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the box, trying to find ideas or creative ways to
make income.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's amazing what you wanted to do with the people
around in the community and being other people. But what
draws me here, Uger people when they are in the
path of like becoming famous or they see this type
of career that they will be famous, the hugely pursue
that what you mentioned here is right. So you mentioned
that you weren't like interested in learning acting as an
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acting to be like some kind of a professional actor
as we see in Hollywood nowadays in them in these
big bustar movies. Right, So why do you think you
had the calling on the other side and of this side.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, honestly, I think that I realized the ups and
downs of what it takes to be an actor, Like
you can have a year where you make a lot
of money and then you could have a year that
you know, you make next to nothing. So for me also,
I also would forget my lines. I mean, I'll tell
you a little story. I remember I was working on
a film called What's Love Got to Do With It?
With Angela Bassett, you know, And I remember working on
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that project for about a week and every time I
got up to say my lines, like, I forgot them
three or four times, And honestly, it was so embarrassing
to me that I was like, you know, I don't
know that acting is really what I want to do.
And it was funny. I went to the film I
and I invited a bunch of my friends, and I
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was completely cut out of the film. You saw my
names and the credits. Still I was excited about that,
but I'm like, wow, you know the highs and lows
of this business. It wasn't something that I wanted to do.
And I just thought, you know what, I'm actually really
great at business and I'm great at systems and structures,
and I'm really good at helping people and building a
(07:38):
road plan and game plan for someone's life. So now
what I like to do is I like to make
sure that we have a wise business plan for your business,
but also for your personal life as well. My belief
system is that, you know, if corporations all have business plans,
so should people. People should have their own business plans
so that they have a plan for what they're up
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to in their life.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I agree with that, but you have to die and
those like I assume in general, like in business you're
own business, there are highs and lows of highs and
lows also, So did you have that fear when you
moved into business and entrepreneurship, Like did you think that
there is competition? Did you think that I want to succeed?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Did these negative thoughts affect you in any way or
did you think that business is different? Because, for example,
I'm not that much interested in acting. I do want
to help other people achieve what they want to achieve,
and I want to see other people succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, you know, I've always been of the belief that
you want to keep your cup, you know, half full,
so that you have the ability to expand and grow.
So for me, I've just really wanted to make a
difference and impact people. And I don't think I mean,
I've probably foolish. When I was younger, I just always
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had the confidence and believe that I can do it.
If I didn't know how to do it, I would
go figure out how to do it. I would find
a mentor, I would get a coach. I would work
with someone that could help me figure out how to
get things to the next level. You know. So I'm
I'm always thinking out of the box. You know. One
of the recent projects that I just took on, I
started marketing this book. It's called Conflicting Loyalties. This is
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a book about a guy that was actually in the
mafia when he was at the age of nine and
then he became a DOJ informant at the age of
eighteen and he actually it's a very fascinating story. And so,
you know, this is like the kind of example of like,
you know, I was talking to a friend of mine.
He said, oh, I have this book that I want
to market, and I said, great, let's figure out let's
how to do it. Book marketing was not necessarily what
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I was an expert in, but I always come at
it from like a yes, I can do this situation.
So when I have business owners or people bring me problems,
I come up with their solutions. I'm the guy that's
going to help you figure out, how are we going
to make this work? How does this work? I'm always
looking at, you know, the glass half full, not happened empty?
What are all the possibilities we're going to be able
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to create or generate out of this situation? So, you know,
I'm pretty much always in action. I've always like lived
like that. I've always taken a lot of you know
classes myself. I always have a business coach that's coaching me. Also,
you know, I've done lots of different you know, self help,
self development programs. You know, I have thousands of books
(10:25):
at home where I'm always reading on how to get stronger, better,
or wiser. So I think that, you know, if you
really want to succeed, you have to have this go
getter attitude, and you have to surround yourself with a
lot of smart people around you. Like I. When I
look at my team, I want to make sure that
like my teammates are actually all better at what they do,
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you know, versus what I do. You know, like I
need to stay in my lane, and I want to
make sure that I'm hiring experts and hiring great people
alongside of me so we could truly, you know, succeed
and move the needle forward.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
That's when there's like, for example, I'm getting you two aspects,
like for example, your mindset. You thought yourself early on
though you were young, but your thought yourself, this is
not the thing that I want to do, and do
something different, and you will that way and discovered certain
things and shortcuts and you cut it early. Some people,
it's a great idea to have certain I guess passion
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for something and keep pursuing until like you are maybe
bored or whatever it is of it. But times we
have to know sometimes like maybe limitations maybe that we
have met that really wanted to be invested in that
thing that we're doing, so we go to a different
path and do drive into that path instead of a
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drive in the path A instead of the path B.
And also tooken here about the team, which is like
it's it's it's great. Like when someone business owner talks
about the interpnal about that the teams that they are
hiring that they want them to be like, we cannot
do everything at full capacity at our everything like whatever
it is, there's multiple things to do, one hundred things,
(12:04):
So do you cannot do that at full potential? Like
you need to have this type of team that is
they are great what we are doing, and these people
that are going to drive the business forward. And this
is the kind of mindset that you have, like it's
going to the next day, is going to the next level,
which is highly important. So do you see the other
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way around with people always thinking that they don't really
need to hire good people sometimes thinking that this mindset
or insisting on certain passions. And do you think that
passions involved in all of this?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, I think one of the important things you have
to look at is you have to have like a
real reality check and put a mirror your face and
get really good with your time. You know. One of
the things that I did when I was younger is
I would always wear a stop watch around my neck
and I would time every single thing that happened in
my life. I would learn how long it takes me
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to walk a block, how long it takes me to
eat a sandwich, how long it takes me to take
a shower. I would I would look at everything in
my life and I would time it, and I started
getting really good with my time, you know, because time
is really that resource that like, we're never going to
get back, so it is actually the most important thing
in your life. It is so important to manage your time.
One of the things that I do in my help
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and Answers program as I as I business coach people
is I actually have the map out all one hundred
and sixty eight hours of your week. Most people, when
I ask them how many hours are in a week,
they don't even know. Well, it's it is one hundred
and sixty eight and we all have one hundred and
sixty eight hours of our week, and it's really about
how you manage that in your life. And you want
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to be thinking of, you know, the concept of Pareto's rule,
which is the you know, generally known as the A
twenty rule, you know, and what that rule kind of
goes over is like, for example, eighty percent of your
company's output, you know, is produced by twenty percent of
its workers. Eighty percent of the six that will come
from twenty percent of your ideas. You know, eighty percent
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of the stress that you have in your life is
caused by twenty percent of the stressors. So do you
want to take you know that rule and really look
at implement it in your life. The inverse of that
is like twenty percent of your phone apps get eighty
percent of your usage. So like when you're on your phone,
it's like when you have all these apps, it's like
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twenty percent of the tools that you're using on your
phone gets eighty percent of the usage. So you want
to analyze every area of your life and see, you know,
what tasks you should be doing and what tasks you
shouldn't be doing. So you want to make a master
list of all the many things that you're doing in
your day, make a total list of what that looks like,
and then analyze it and go like what should I
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be doing on a day to day basis and figure
out what is the twenty percent of the activities that
you should be doing that will make the biggest impact,
because that's how you're going to get your business to
the next level. If you're trying to just do everything
that comes at you, you're gonna be frazzled, you're not
going to be focused, and then you won't get to
the goals that you want to get accomplish in your
life because you're just coming. You're reacting to everything instead
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of like making the important important and the urgent urgent.
Most people live in the urgent. I want to make
sure that I'm putting my time in what's important. So
for me, I think it's so critical to make sure
that you're using your time effectively.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Like you mentioned something very important mea during the time,
like how many hours a day we have? How many
hours a week we have? Like you put actually of
work that I have done in this hour on the
next six hours, which is very important. And we as
a humans usually take time for granted, like maybe I
do it tomorrow, maybe I do it next week, maybe
I do it next year or whatever. I still have time,
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But you don't know. You have you have to kind
of a plan. Maybe you don't achieve it on time,
for example, but you have to have some kind of
a framework or measurement where you are going. And also yourself,
how do you know, Like you mentioned talking about important
and urgent you, how do you measure the important? Like
generally people have this kind of diagon for themselves like
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important and important urgenty square. You know about what, I'm sure,
So how do you do you think that you would
advise someone to put the important first and know that
this is important. Do you think that, for example, in business,
that the money making activities are the things that business
owners should focus on, or do you think, for example,
there are other examples that could be there.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well. One of the things that I do with my
program helping Answers dot Com, I have over one hundred
different resource sheets that are sheets that help you figure
out the systems and structures in your life. So I
actually use these sheets myself to make sure that like
I'm analyzing things and making you know, the important wise decisions.
I mean, I think about things in my life like
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I I will even make a list of my relationships
and my friendships in my life, and I ask myself
deep questions with help and Answers dot Com. Like, the
concept behind that is the powerful questions that you ask
yourself and your life will have you have the life
that you have or have you have the life that
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you don't have? So it's really about the questions that
you're asking yourself on a day to day basis. So
I have dozens of helpful forms and sheets that will
help me outline and figure out what should I do
with my time, what should I do with my money,
what should I do with my resources? And it's a
program that has you really look at all the aspects
(17:30):
of your life. We go through you know, your dreams
and mission, your habits and routines, your time, your systems
and structures, your finances, your projects, and I'll go through
and analyze every one of those things. And I do
this for clients like in my sleep, but I also
do it for myself, like I have this thing called
CEO hour. CEO hour is that time that I'm planning
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and building and getting really clear with my vision. And
the weeks that I don't have my CEO hour with myself,
I'm really hurting myself and I'm really hurting all the
many people that I'm impacting and all my clients. So
it's been a very important time to take assessment of
like what is it that I'm building, you know, And
it's making the distinction of working in your business versus
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on your business. And so I find that so many
entrepreneurs are just working in their business and doing the work,
and in essence they have a job and job In
my aspect, you know, my frame of mind stands for
just overbroke, like you can't get ahead if you have
a job, you know, and I break up money in
different categories. You have today money, you have future money,
and you have future future money. It's like today money
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is like you have a job, like you're doing a task,
you exchange hours for pay. Future money is like you
make some sort of income that's residual based and you're
making residuals.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You let's say, as an actor, you shoot a commercial
and you'll get paid your today money of today, and
then you'll also get paid your future money, which is
called residuals, and residuals keep continuing to pay you dividends
and money over time. Every time that commercial errors, you
get to check. And then future future money is activities
like such as real estate or let's say there's a
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book that you wrote. These are investments that you build once.
They take a long time to really get into fruition,
but there are structures that will just produce dividends for
years over time. So what you want to do is
you want to make sure that, like you know, you
might be at a place in your life where all
you can do is have that job, and if that's
the case, work that job and work it well, you know,
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because you want to make sure that, like how you
do anything is how you do everything. So you want
to make sure that you're doing a good job, you know,
at your job. But then you want to make sure
that you take two or three hours that you're building
something in your life that's like for future money activity
and then also future future money activity. So that's the
way I break up my time, and that's the way
I break up my money. And I find that a
lot of people just don't take the time to really
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sit down and assess. And that's really why we came
up with a help and Answers concept. We want to
help entrepreneurs, business owners and people that truly want to
kind of take a stop in their life and measure
and figure out is there another way to do this?
Is there a more effective way to do this? And
we do that by asking a series of questions that
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have you start to impact your life very very differently.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's very important, like I think Jim Rohn said that
work on yourself harder than you work on your job
something like that. So yeah, you need to do that.
But do you think if there was only one question
someone could ask themselves right to be honest with themselves,
Like you were honest with yourself. You knew what you
wanted to do and you took that detwil right, So yeah,
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it's so do we ask ourselves the question about time
because we have limited time here? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah? I mean I think that the important question to
ask ourselves about time is like what am I doing
with my time? You know, every day? And you really
need to analyze that. I don't know that there's like
maybe one question that I ask I ask myself question
all day long, Like all day long, I'm just writing
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down like well, you know, how should I handle this situation?
And I mean I really put a mirror to my
face daily to see how I can be more effective.
So I think it's more about just setting up your life.
So you're always asking yourself questions. You're always inquisitive. You
always want to know, well, how does that happen? And
how do you learn about that? Or you know. I
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think it's a mindset of just like perspective, and I
think the friends of mine that like are always willing
to be humble enough to honestly just ask themselves questions daily.
I every single day have realized that I know very
very little, you know. So I think it's important to
just be honest with ourselves and be like, what am
I good at? What am I not good at? And
(21:44):
then if you're good at those things and like doing
those things, focus on those things, and everything that you're
not good at, hire out, hire someone else it's better
at you, you know, at that task, and don't spend
your time in your life on activities that you don't
love doing or that don't excite you. I mean, obviously
there's things like Okay, I don't want to necessarily do
my tax return, you know, but it's something I have
(22:05):
to do each year, you know. But I make sure
that I have a good tax professional that helps me
with that, and I handle the couple things that I
need to do to make sure that I have my
taxes ready for my tax guy. But you really want
to be analyzing your time daily, and so I have
a sheet that I've created that kind of walks through
like planning out every minute of your week kind of thing.
(22:27):
And you know, for any of the guests to kind
of hear this podcast, if you want to have me
send you a free copy of that sheet. If you
go to help and Answers dot com website and you
book a consultation with me or someone on my team,
we'll make sure that we send you that sheet. Well, actually,
you know, we'll send you three different information sheets that
are helpful forms and tools that could help you. Know,
(22:48):
all the viewers out there, all the people that are listening,
if you'd like to find out how to have some
better systems and structures in your life, set up a
free consultation and we'll we'll send you a couple three
sheets that will give you a little bit more information
on how you can get your life and business to
that next level for free.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So, throughout the years, throughout your career and business, what
was the worst advice that you ever received or someone
told you?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know, it's funny, what are the pieces of advices
that I one of the pieces of advice that I
was given when I was early on and said, I
was told focus on only one thing, and there's pluses
to that, and there's minuses to that. I've learned that
for me, I thrive when I have a couple different
things that I'm working on in my life. If I
(23:35):
just didn't focused on one thing only for me, that
just didn't work. Because a lot of times I'll get
my best ideas or my best situations come out of
having two or three kind of things I'm working on
in my life and they all somehow come together if
I ask myself the right questions on how to put
those things together. Now, on the flip side, if you
(23:58):
are spread out way too thin, you'll never get any
one project to move that that next level, and you
actually need to get some success with something so that
people actually start listening to you. So I think it's
about finding that fine balance of like, you know, people
are gonna give you advice, and you want to listen
to advice. You know, it's it's all. It's also wise
to have a multitude of people that are giving you advice.
(24:18):
But at the same time, if you're listening to advice
from way too many people, then you get bogged down
and you don't know where to focus. So I think
it's finding that balance, you know that that really makes
the impact difference.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, definitely, listening to too many people is could be distracting,
Like what advice is similar advices? Should I do this?
Should I do that? You will have options like one
hundred options that you would like. Could you would stay
where you are until the time will pass by without
actually because the most important thing is to learn and
not to to make it knowledge. To learn and to
(24:54):
actually apply it and take it into action. This is
the most important thing because when we apply we would
know if this works, will or will not work, and
we will learn from it and we will keep going
or we will have some kind of editor for example. Right,
this is very important. Yeah, definitely. So what do would
you say some of the tools, resources or books that
(25:18):
you would personally read or recommend?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh goodness, I mean there's just so many tools out there.
I think one of the habits, like I'll share with
you a structure that we use for a lot of
our actors that we wrap. We actually have two different
resource sheets when that goes through all the helpful books
that one should read, and we want to make sure
that you're reading books in different categories like you know,
(25:44):
Robert Kiwasaki books, rich Dad Poort ad always you know,
have really great investment ideas or I mean ideas on
like how to think of money, you know, so you
want to make sure that you're reading another book about boundaries.
You know, a lot of my clients need to make
sure they have boundaries in there. So I think it's
more about it's not about one particular book to go read.
(26:05):
It's about the habit of reading. It's about making sure
that do you have a new book, you know, on
your shelf every single month that you're reading to learn
something new or listening to audio podcasts, you know, Like
I do that all the time. So I think, you know,
sit down with yourself and like just make a master
list of like what are all the areas in your
life that you would like to learn a little bit
more about, and read one book on money, read book
(26:26):
one book on time, read one book on how to
be more effective in your life, how to balance. So
I would just go through every aer of your life
and ask yourself, where do you want to have more
breakthroughs in your life? And then find the top two
or three books that are the most successful out there
and just learn something from each person and take that
(26:47):
one or two golden nuggets from each book you read.
But it's really the habit of continuing to read and
keep learning on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, definitely, it's very important. I'm not sure to say that,
but I think someone said it's not like it's a given.
But if you read, for example, five books in a
certain topic, you would be like better off than ninety
percent of the world population in that topic. So five
five books is not that much. So if you read
a book a month, so that's five six months, take
(27:18):
it a year, so a book every two months, so
that's not that much. So in a year you could
be one eighty degree is different. So that's very important, Yeah,
exactly so. And so where can people learn more about
you so they can get in touch with you and
see what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well, a couple of places. I mean, my personal instagram
is at Nelson Parades Parks, So any ls O n
paradees p A r EED Easy Parks, p A r
k S. My company is called the ESI Network, that
is my talent management company. And so just look up
the e SI Network and we're based here in Los
(27:58):
Angeles in centricity. Uh. And as far as helping answers,
just go to Helping Answers dot com and you can
actually book an appointment with me and I can set
up a time to be able to chat. But yeah,
go ahead, and you know, look up my socials and
love to connect with you. And you know, I think
that we're in a very exciting new time, especially with AI.
(28:21):
And what was what is going on with AI. One
of the other initiatives that I didn't really talk about
that I'll share briefly on is we started another resource
center called the AI Experts. The AI Experts is really
creating intelligent solutions for AI and and the and the
entertainment industry. And how that came about is one day
(28:42):
I was just kind of thinking, well, wow, there's so
much happening in the AI space, and I thought, you know,
I called a bunch of my friends that work in
the entertainment industry and I said, well, how much do
you know about AI? And nearly every one of them said,
I barely even understand what chat shipt is. So then
I thought, wow, there's definitely like some information that needs
(29:02):
to be communicated to the entertainment community. So I started
a resource center called the AI Experts dot com. And
uh so that is just an informational site that has
information about like AI and entertainment. So again, I as
an entrepreneur, I'm always just thinking of out of the
box concepts, figuring out how to team up with interesting
(29:25):
individuals and making sure that I'm like impacting and making
a difference with all my communities.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Definitely, I love that you have this kind of idea
for something, and as we talk to you about is
to turn it into action as fast as you can,
Like keeping on the building is Isn't that a good idea?
So you need to take action and step into it,
like on the guys, as fast as you can with yourself,
with people around you, with the relationship that you have.
(29:53):
Is bitter than just keeping it the idea is that
can you read and thinking about it and not doing
anything about it, I'm not seeing what it could be.
So that's very important.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, because honestly, he's saying, like, you never know which
idea is going to hit. You really don't know. So
it's a lot of times, like some advice that I
got from a very successful friend of mine has built
a huge corporation here in the US. He said, try things,
just try keep trying things until you figure out the
one thing that works. And you never know what that's
gonna be. So I think each day is about like
(30:24):
figuring out, like what new thing, what new idea, what
new perspective are you going to try on? Just try
it on as a hat, or try it on to
see what what's going to work for you, you know,
because you just never know where those gold nuggets are
going to come from. So it's really about just staying
in action and then planning your week effectively and trying
to impact as many relationships with people in your life,
(30:45):
and out of that you just start to create the
kind of life that you love.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Definitely, definitely well and listen. Thank you very much for
joining me for this episode of the Success podcast Amazing
you show the Amazing Story with us, Like it's really
rare to see someone who would have a foot into
acting and would have to make the decision to switch
into different things and see different things and build businesses
(31:10):
and help other people do that. But the most important
thing is actually when someone gets an idea, you need
to leave take a leap and start making action toward
it to make it shine. Otherwise it would stay in
the in the closet and nobody will see it and
not yourself. So that's very important. Thank you very much
for joining me.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You got it. Thank you so much. I really appreciate
it and excited to come back someday and chat about
other stuff with you.
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