Colin SprakeInvestor & Mentor Driving Multi-Million Dollar Growth

I Sold My Soul For An Event

12 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal reflection, the speaker recounts attending a disappointing real‑estate conference in Toronto headlined by Tony Robbins, which he describes as a bait‑and‑switch that left him feeling angry and regretful. He had taken time away from his family in Palm Springs to travel to the event, only to return feeling that he had sacrificed his personal life for ego‑driven ambition. On his way back, he stopped in Las Vegas to speak at a higher‑quality event with his close friend Dr. Brad Nelson of the Emotion Code, where he helped practitioners with business and marketing. This second event restored his sense of purpose and reminded him that his true “soul” lies with his family. He concludes with a clear lesson: future business decisions should feed the soul, not the ego, and he vows never to repeat the mistake of prioritizing ego over family again.

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I sold my soul and I will never ever do that again. Let me tell you a little bit about what happened. I went to an event in Toronto. It was an incredible event around real estate. The headliner was Tony Robbins, but the event organizers did nothing about real estate. The whole event was just not a good event. It was like a bait and switch and I absolutely hated it. I actually took time away from my family in Palm Springs to fly up to Toronto to go back to Palm Springs again. And on my way back to Palm Springs, I actually landed in Las Vegas to do another event with a very close friend of mine, Dr. Brad Nelson from Emotion Code. And I sat in the courtyard waiting to go on stage there to go and help his amazing practitioners and teach them how to do business and teach them how to do marketing. And I was like, I'm going to be on stage with them. This is so exciting, so amazing. And the event turned out to not be the quality of event I would ever go to again. That kind of stuff is shameful to me. I had compromised my own life, my own time with my family. I will always stay true to what my decisions were that day. I'm not going to compromise, take time out to go do something that I thought would be super uber fantastic because because it would feed my ego, not feed my soul. My soul was with my family back in Palm Springs. We're on vacation together, and I'll never do that again. Always look at, are you feeding your soul or you're feeding your ego? Because at the end of the day, that day I fed my ego. I went back to feeding my soul when I met Brad Nelson in Las Vegas. It was a game changer event for me, and I hope that you will see the value in this and do the stuff that's right for you and your business.