Rewire, MANIFEST, Prosper: Change the PROGRAMMING That Keeps You POOR!

So that's the mind. The mind is like a GPS. It's a computer. It's someone wakes up, has a cup of coffee, they break the cup of coffee, and they usually say, "I'm gonna have a bad day." Hundreds of thousands of people over the years. It's like, I break a cup of coffee, something happens, see, I'm gonna have a bad day. And then the brain looks for evidence. So in New York, we go to the train, I get on the train, and the train is delayed. But the train is always delayed. But because I say I'm gonna have a bad day, the GPS, see, I'm having a bad day. Then I get on the train, right? And in New York, they have subways. I don't know if you ever took it. There's 3 seats. Seats, and there's me and someone else, and there's someone walking towards you, and you're like, I know they're not going to try to fit in between us. There's no way they're going to try to fit in between us. And then they come and they try to fit in between you, and now half of your skin is on the seat, and you say, see, I'm having a bad day. And then in New York, we have these people that we lovingly call the onion people because they have this odor sometimes, and when they sit next to you, you start tearing up. And, and so now I'm tearing up, and I say, see, I'm having a bad day. Then we get to the job and you get to the job and that coworker who doesn't give you a minute to like get your coffee, they're all in your face. See, I'm having a bad day because the mind, the brain looks for evidence. Neuroscience has shown that we have these pathways in our brain. I know you did a lot of work featuring Joe Dispenza and the pathways that fire together, wire together, right? So all that is is the program. You know, I'm not making a big enough impact is a program and then the brain looks for evidence. So we want to go into the program and rewire it.

All right, Believe Nation, we are back. Another episode of Tell Me Why I Suck, and we have a return guest, Mr. Devin Bandison, mindset coach for the stars. How we doing, man?

I'm doing great. Best day of my life, Ev.

So Devin was on before. That was actually a private conversation that we just decided to make public because Why not? Now this is the official one that we know we're going public with. And Devin gave me some homework of what I need to do from the last time. It was watch a movie like that he called The Black Godfather. Well, that is called The Black Godfather, which I did. Uh, what does 35 million subscribers feel like? And then what are some of the low-grade thoughts? And, uh, he texted me this morning, he, he Instagram DM'd me this morning. He's like, brother, bring your homework. I'm like, dude, you don't know. I was, I was reading it last night. I was refreshing it this morning. I've got my book right here in front of me. Like, I'm set. I'm ready to go. And round 2. So where do you want to take this, man? What do we do next?

Well, first off, I want to acknowledge you, man. You know, I think that— and Believe Nation and everybody who's tuning in, I think it's really important to see it's no mistake and success leaves clues. It's no mistake why you've reached the level of success that you are because the way you took on the homework was extraordinary. You're like my ideal client, right? Because you didn't just go through the motions, you took the essence of why you were getting the homework, right? There were 3 distinct assignments and I loved how not only you took it on but you shared it with your community. So if you haven't seen that part of the last video where Evan shares his like how he did the homework assignments. I think that in and of itself is a lesson for people of if you want transformation, right, you know, there's a difference between information and transformation. A lot of people get a lot of information in. It's like, let me just get a lot of information. But transformation is when you really take it into mind, body, spirit, and you look at everything like this assignment as how does this apply to me. Right? Like, you could have took on the Black Godfather like, I'm not Black, I'm not a godfather, but you didn't take it on like that, right? You took it on like, how does this apply to me? And I just want to acknowledge you for that, my man. It was really powerful. Cool.

Well, I mean, I love the movie. I've never heard of Clarence before. He is the Black Godfather. I took 2 pages of notes. I don't know if you want to kind of go through it or not, but I got 2 pages on the Black Godfather. I got 1 page on What does 35 million subscribers feel like? And I got one page on low-grade thoughts. And, uh, the reason for this show is to take people behind the scenes of, hey, I'm not perfect, tell me why I suck, bring experts on. They, they pour into me and in my learning, hopefully the audience learns something as well. So, uh, appreciate you coming back and giving me some extra feedback and I'm excited for round 2.

I don't know where it's going. So this is what we'll do, cuz we really wanna point towards the low-grade thoughts and rewiring our neural pathways, right? That's third. And I love that you said that was the least favorite of the assignment, right? You went in, you went into the sauna. So we'll talk about that whole experience in a minute. What I want to do first is, you know, there was something in our last conversation where I heard something in you, which is why I assigned the Black Godfather. And I think that you pointed to it in your homework, right? So what were the things that I think would be helpful. What were the things that stood out the most about that, um, watching that documentary and how it applies to you?

So first off, there was— it was a good documentary in that we shared— like, they shared his point of view and his interviews, and he had a lot of great quotes that I wrote down, uh, but then also there's a lot of people sharing their perspective on him. And so you get to see kind of the other side, whether it's Sean Combs or David Geffen, you know, a bunch of people from the industry sharing their thoughts. One of the things that came up consistently, and David Geffen said it at the end, and I got the exact quote here, was like, where was it? I don't know how he makes a living. He never used to charge for anything. Yeah. And that came up a couple times. And that was the number one feedback that I get when I'm with my peers and the people kind of, you know, big names in my industry. It's like, we don't know how Evan makes money. We don't know how we could pay him. And I saw that—

what's that? Sorry to interrupt. Like, you were in, I remember, Mastermind with Brandon Bouchard and the whole crew, and that's what they were pressing you on, right? Like, hey, you got to tell us how to make money.

Yeah, yeah. It was for that group, you know, everybody had their chance to go around and ask a question, and mine was, tell me how I suck. Like, I don't have a question. You guys know me. Tell me my blind spot. And it was Brendan and Dean Graziosi and Tom Bilyeu and Lisa Bilyeu and Jamie Kern Lima. Those are like the 5 main people who are kind of not beating up on me, but pouring into me. And that was the number 1 feedback. It was like, dude, I just want to cut you a check. Like, how do I pay you? I don't know what you do. You're always giving and helping us with what we're doing. And like, we've never paid you anything. I don't know how you make money. And their specific advice was like, you got to get clear on that because we'd love to pay you. Uh, and that was, you know, a takeaway. But then in watching The Black Godfather, like, well, Clarence kind of figured it out. So I was like, that was, that was a nice little aha moment there. Uh, I, you know, so that was kind of on the right path. Um, possibly. I'm still open, you know, like with all of this stuff, it's anything that I find that I am, uh, against is either nothing, you know, like if somebody gives me feedback, it's either and I don't receive it well. It's either nothing or it's the whole thing. It's like either I'm so blocked that, man, you're hitting on something huge if I'm that against it. I love how he was saying, "I don't have problems. I have friends." And, "I don't make speeches. I make deals." So, he was a big dealmaker. I don't know that I consider myself a great dealmaker, although I am very fascinated by business models. And so, that might translate into I see things differently in terms of how people can create deals, but I haven't been like the guy making the deals. So that's interesting. He had a lot of parties and always having people over and networking. And I, I'm definitely don't see myself as that guy. Like we don't really have a ton of people over introverts, but it's fine. It's like, it's taken the pieces that you can learn from. Uh, and it's like, okay, how did, how can I apply some of these things? To my life. One of the things I loved, like, he was always kind of on, on trend, on culture, fighting for equality, making sure people didn't get screwed on their deals. Um, you know, I'm not the expert on Black history, uh, in America, but he was the guy helping people get great deals. He got Hank Aaron, like, the biggest ever deal, like Coca-Cola as a brand sponsorship. Uh, he was making sure, like Sean Combs, that he was making sure that everybody in the community wasn't getting screwed over on their deals.

You know, one of the things I see in you, Ev, is that you in your own way are that guy. You're like the ultimate connector, right? So whenever people have come up in my world, even with if they want to scale their YouTube, right? Like the way you make yourself available, right, to connect with people, to like really be behind the scenes, I want you to see that you are actually a driving force for change and good in the world. In the area in which you serve people in your highest form. And I think that it's been people who spanned all kinds of cultures that I've sent your way, who you've been, and every time they come back and they're so grateful because you've taken them from here and then opened up a new opportunity for them to see a bigger way to serve. So can you see that? I want you to make sure you see that.

[Speaker:EVAN_CARMICHAEL] Yeah. I mean, in helping people, for sure. I, what I, what the missing piece for me is, I don't see myself as the guy who's like connecting other people together. I'm not saying like, you need to be with this person. Um, but maybe I do. I mean, I remember, uh, there's a channel called Charisma on Command. I don't know if you ever heard of them or not, but it's all about charisma. They've got bigger than me, like millions of subscribers. And, uh, we were at an event in California for YouTubers. And after that event, he made a video on his channel about how I'm Evan Carmichael was like the best networker that he's seen or something like that. He's like, me, what are you talking about? I have, I don't like connect with that at all. I'm shy and introverted and like not talking to people. But then when he broke it down, he was saying things like, uh, he made these introductions to me and all I did was listen. It was like, hey Charlie, you're, you're looking for this. Oh, you know, you should talk to Sean about that and you should talk to this guy. And so I just wanted him to not, it was his first time there. I wanted him to not feel. Kind of alone and like not knowing who to talk to. So I was just trying to make a couple of introductions from the limited people that I knew. It wasn't like that I knew everybody. Yeah. But then he made this, you know, he's the expert on charisma and then making this video about how I'm this master networker. So there might be something there.

You want to see if there's something, because I noticed that there was some resistance. It was like, you can connect with everyone, and then you went right to, I don't know if I connect with everyone. That's aspirational. I'm a pretty shy guy, right? So, so we just want to— it's just, just breadcrumbs, right? We just want to look at, at like what's possible there. The other thing that stood out, I know you learn from everybody, and I think the fact that you study business plans, you know, you can connect dots quicker than most. The other thing is it was a very quick rejection of the celebrity celebrity, right? It's like, I want to hit $35 million, I'm the celebrity celebrity. But, you know, I remember seeing someone that's very well known who said, you are like— they were singing your You are the guy. He was saying, you are the guy on YouTube. I— and, um, this is someone everybody follows. And, um, so we want to look at that, right? Where there's some resistance, just— it's just breadcrumbs. Because for you to, to create big, to 35 million, where you're going to create, you have to step into it. What got you here is not going to get you there. You got to step into a new way of being. And, um, I want to give you a distinction here, okay? Are you down?

I'm down. Yeah, I'm so down.

So this distinction is called the junction of creation, okay? And, and the junction of creation is like if, if you come to a crossroads, right, there's two people who come together and there's an opportunity to create big. Now, what happens is you're such a giver, Ev, and sometimes the best givers, well, not sometimes, the best givers actually have to also include being some of the greatest receivers, right? So I noticed that, for instance, like Celebrity Celebrity was a rejection, You don't call on your friends for help. Like you said, maybe I should call on your friends. That was part of your homework, right? Um, so the junction of creation is I want you to picture someone coming to you with a gift, and the gift is like, I'm giving you a cake, and, and you like cake. Let's say carrot cake, whatever cake. What cake you like? Do you like any cake?

Let's go with butter tarts. Butter tarts.

Yeah, let's go butter tart. So, so someone comes with you with, with butter tart to give it to you, and there's an actual opportunity to receive it in a way where you can receive it but they feel appreciated as well. But what most people do is it's like, uh, they, they don't receive it. They push it back to the person. It almost like— it's like taking the cake and slamming it in the face. And this is how it looks when someone gives you an acknowledgement There's something built into, you know, false humility is the highest form of arrogance. False humility is the highest form of arrogance. If false humility will get you a seat in your life in the stands of your life, it will get you a front row seat. You won't be a player on the court because it's like, if people, if I accepted how brilliant I am or how powerful I am or how much I make a difference, people wouldn't be able to handle it. So people shrink and become falsely humble, but it's actually a form of arrogance. So how that plays out, Evan, is people will come to give you an acknowledgement, just anyone, and instead of accepting the acknowledgement in the junction of creation, people do this thing like, "I don't know, that's just not me." Or they'll shrink or they'll say, "No, no, no, I'm not the, you the man. No, you the man. No, you the man." Or someone will give you an acknowledgement and you'll be like, "Well, you know." I couldn't have did it without you. They minimize the acceptance of the acknowledgement. Can you hear that?

Yeah.

Okay. So like the celebrity, celebrity, nah, I don't know if I'm kind of like that. You know, it's, you know, there's like a resistance, a push. So I'm going to give you, I'm going to turn you into either, you got two options here. You're going to either operate on a master's degree level. Uh, which is pretty good, or a doctorate level. Okay, so, so here's how the junction of creation happens. Because what happens is, in the junction of creation, if someone gives me an acknowledgment and I push it away, or I don't accept it appropriately, then there's no creation that happens. It just shuts it down. The person doesn't want to do as much for the other person. They might not even acknowledge them again. Because it just wasn't appreciated. So, I want you to just— I'm going to give you an example. So, I want you to give me an acknowledgement. Just any acknowledgement, just any type of acknowledgement.

Like for you? Yeah. Devin Bannison is the Celebrity Mindset Coach.

So, here's the master's degree response, just quick. Ready? Thank you. That's it. Okay, now give me another acknowledgment. I'm gonna give you the doctorate response.

You gave me some homework that I deeply appreciate, and I love that you followed up with me because it shows that you're a master of your craft.

Thank you for noticing. Thank you for noticing. So when you acknowledge me, Ev, and you hear from me, thank you for noticing. How do you hear that? How do you receive that?

Great. It still comes off as humble and not like you being full of yourself. And you're also praising me back because you're saying that I noticed. Right.

So that is what I call the junction of creation. So if someone's coming your way and they're saying, hey man, you're the celebrity celebrity. So I'm gonna tell— we gonna play it now. Hey, you are the celebrity celebrity.

Thank you for noticing, my man.

So now we got Dr. Evan Carmichael on the, on the set. So let's just give it up for Evan, Dr. Evan. So what I want you to start practicing as a distinction is when people are coming to acknowledge you You want to have that junction of creation expand. You want to receive, tell them thank you for noticing, because then it keeps you in the game to create big from there. When you shut it down, either internally or externally, the creation stops. So anyone you go around from now on, people are sharing stuff with you, I want you to be Dr. Evan, thank you for noticing.

It's, uh, good homework.

All right, good.

We're gonna do it.

All right, so let's, let's go on to the second assignment. What, what— let's go on to the— yeah, the second assignment you had.

Second assignment was, what does 35 million subscribers feel like? And for this one, uh, I mean, for The Black Godfather, I was pausing the movie. I mean, I think I upset Nina. I was pausing the movie so many times to like write something down. It's amazing. Made it harder to follow the storyline because I was pausing it so much. But anyway, so then for the 35 million, so the context is I had 3.5 million subscribers. The goal is to get to 35. How do we 10x that? And Devin said, what does it feel like? So be, do, have, right? What does it feel like? Who do you have to be to be that guy? And so this one, I sat outside. I took some time, just nice summer day. Just kind of let it flow through me. Yeah. So would you want me to read some of the things that I put down?

Yeah.

Okay. What does 35 million subscribers feel like? I put being an important part of people's daily routine, being able to put people on and give exposure, being able to open bigger doors and have a bigger impact, traveling more, spreading the message around the world, ripple effects into culture, fashion, politics, entertainment, sports, making imagine practical, which was the Lennon song. Yeah, making it practical, creating a real community for people, the family they need and never had, bringing more people together instead of pushing them apart, making it okay for people to suck at the start, launching products people probably wear and use, symbols of identity, partnering with titans outside of thought leadership, being a bigger unifier, creating easier programs for people to follow, spending less time on smaller projects and tasks, giving responsibility away to people sooner, better at capturing the magic that happens one-on-one, better personal brand storytelling, and then what I'm currently doing, just bigger, faster, and better.

Yeah. So when you did that, what was the things that stood out the most for you?

The combination of spreading more hope and belief and optimism. Uh, it feels like it's harder to win these days by being positive.

Yeah.

And so, it's like being that force for good when everything else is negative and being able to bring other people up. Like, it's not that people are negative, it's just the ones who are optimistic and positive aren't loud enough. That's all. And so, like being that voice, bringing people on, just being able to spread more hope and possibility. And then, the second part was just in the how of doing it of like, doing too many small things and moving to bigger ideas and projects and handing things off. I like tinkering, I like playing, I like being in the thing. But sometimes I stay— well, often I probably stay in it too long before handing it off to somebody else.

And this whole thought about being a force for good in the world, and like, this isn't a new story from you, right? Like that the negative is overriding the positive, it takes longer, it's harder for the guy who stays above it and really is a positive force. That's, that's been going on since at least I, I've known you. I know that's been a pretty strong thought, thought.

Yeah, I mean, that's always the thing that'll get me going the most. It's like, hey, let's go change the world, man. Like, when, when we sat and talked about your content, it's like, dude, we need more Devin in the world. You got man on the street, whatever it is. Like, the world needs you and your message. Uh, it's why I do this show. It's why I do all the content that I put up. It's why I help the people that I help. It's like, we— I want to spread more That's always the thing that's going to get me is let's go change the world and have a big impact.

Yeah. And I see, I mean, you just, like your whole physical energy lights up when we talk in that realm. And then on the other end, what I've noticed is like when you talk about the people whose voices are the loudest now, right? It's almost like this pull, I'm just paraphrasing just from me kind of knowing you, It's like, you still think that there's some kind of pull that like the negative voices are kind of outshining or maybe louder and being heard more, right? And maybe it would be, I don't know, here's a thought. Is it like maybe 35 million would go faster if I went to the other side and like was more negative around things like some of my colleagues have been?

Oh, I mean, for sure I would go faster, but it's like doing it the right way, right?

Right.

The first tribute video, top 10 that I did was on Kanye. Yeah. Because I said you can learn from him.

Yeah.

As a result of like my friend posting something and I made it just for him to like, go watch this because you should learn from Kanye. Even if he does some stupid things and may say the wrong things, like cool, you can still learn from him.

Right.

But if I did top 10 stupidest thing Kanye have said. Dude, that would blow up way faster.

Yeah.

But it's not just about hitting the 35 million, it's doing it in the right way. Because otherwise I would burn out. Like, how have I stayed consistent over what, 14 years of making YouTube videos? Yeah. Because I still love the thing, you know, I love the process. So yeah, it's not 35 million at any cost. It's doing it the right way.

So yeah, I love that. You know, one of my favorite questions I ask clients is like, what are you willing to you put at risk for your aliveness, right? So for me, when you talk about imagine John Lennon, like doing it the right way, being this force for good, I see Evan in his aliveness, right? So the question is, one, there's two, it's like what am I willing to put at risk and what am I not willing to put at risk for my aliveness? Right? So I think that there's something here of like, hey, I'm not willing to be out of integrity, uh, meaning like go negative and go dark on people. I'm not willing to put that at risk. But what are you willing to put at risk for your aliveness?

I don't know. I don't know what I— I guess how I'm trying to make that make sense is what am I not putting at risk that I might I maybe should. Yeah, I know there are, you know, I look at— this is exhibit at Walt Disney World. I don't know the last time you went to Disney, but—

oh yeah, I love Disney.

There's this really— there's a small exhibit that nobody goes to, which is Walt Disney's story. It's like the man behind the dream or the man behind the mouse or something like that. And I just like going through there and spending, you know, an hour in there just looking at the story. And the kids will go to the Indiana Jones spectacular thing and watch that, and I'll spend that time because they don't want it. It's too boring for them. And what always shocked me about it was he put everything on the line every time. Like, even when he didn't have a success, he put it all on the line again to launch the next thing. Like, all on the line to launch Snow White, all on the line to launch Disney World. Disneyland, etc. And it's like, I don't— I, at least maybe financially, I don't— I, I, I can't see myself doing that. And maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong, but it's, it's always inspiring. You know, it's like he believed in it so much that he would put everything on the line to go and chase this dream down.

Yeah.

So I don't know, that's where, that's where my mind went. As you—

yeah, and it's like, it doesn't have to be financial. It's like, for me, I You know, one of the things, and I see this in you, it's like what I always— they always told me, if I'm in, uh, if I'm the smartest in the room, you're in the wrong room, right? So I'm always looking to get into rooms where, you know, I'm learning, I'm growing. You see me most alive when I'm learning, I'm growing in rooms. We've been in rooms together, and that's my aliveness. So what I'm willing to put at risk, for instance, when I go to those rooms is I'm willing to ask a question somebody may think is a dumb question. I'm willing to not look good all the time, right? I'm willing to break an awkward silence, right? In my, with my wife, we have the most loving relationship in the world and in my, it's aliveness. Like this is the relationship where we are totally ourselves and we're alive. And what I'm willing to put at risk in my relationship with my wife is temporary happiness for me sharing honestly with integrity the truth. So we have a relationship where, you know, I remember one day I wake up and people ask me, you know, how you doing? And I always say, I think about it, I say that's a great question, and I say Today is actually the best day of my life, and I mean it. It's not just happy talk. It means like, you know, if I can't find today being the best day— because this is the only clock I have in my house now, right now, followed by now— if I can't find the best day today, then I'll be looking for it my whole life. And most people say, well, what'd you do? What happened? Did you win the lotto? No, no, no. That's the point. I don't wait for things or circumstances to determine my day. I just choose it. Right? So one day my wife was going through something in the morning. She wasn't feeling at her best. And she says, "How you doing today?" And I say, "Today is actually the best day of my life." And she looks at me and she says, "Can you please just not say that today?" Right? And I looked at her and I said, "I love you, and you can count on me that I will be saying that today." right? Now, in the moment, it was, it was temporary. She wasn't happy. But for my aliveness, right, I am not willing to like shrink in that moment. And, and what happens is she comes back to me late and says, I appreciate you because you're a stand, you know, you, you're not wishy-washy. So, so there's certain things, whether it's in relationships or in business, it's like, what am I willing to risk, put at risk? So for me, in that situation, I'm willing to put temporary happiness with, with, for my aliveness in the relationship, if that makes sense. So that's somewhere where you may want to look at, hey, what am I willing to put at risk for my aliveness of this, this John Lennon Imagine belief, you know, world that you're creating for people?

I don't know what I am willing to put at risk that I'm not currently And I guess that's the unlock, right? It's like, okay, so, you know, people would say I'm— even a series like this where it's like, hey, I'm not the expert, I'm the subject. Come and pour into me and like, let's make it public, you know? Yeah, I don't know where it's gonna go. Great. Uh, but it doesn't feel that risky either. Yeah, you know, like, I like pulling back the curtain and showing that I'm not perfect and what I'm working on and trying to get better at. Like, it doesn't feel like a big risk. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to increase the risk or what maybe would even be easy to give up that I'm not currently doing. I don't know.

So I love the answer, I don't know, because I have two responses to that for you. You ready?

Yeah.

Who should I ask? If you don't know, who should I ask?

Okay, I'm gonna ask Devin.

No, no. Right. Or, and here's the second one. If you didn't know, If you did know, what would it be?

If I did know, what would it be? Well, who should I ask? Devin Bannison? So then that just solves the problem and I don't have to ask the second one. Well, that's why we're here, ladies and gentlemen.

Now you know better than that, right? Because the greatest— see, if someone says, come to me, I'll solve the problem, run away. My power is in my listening, and I point back where the answer really is. Which is right there within you.

100%. Yeah. Like to that first one, I, I, it's, uh, people can just give perspective, but ultimately it's up to me to have to decide like who is, who is it, uh, who's gonna tell me what I should be giving up or risking? Uh, you know, I don't, I don't know. I don't have an answer, but it's like, it's something it's worth thinking about. If I'm looking at homework after that, it's like, what? What else do I need to risk that I'm not risking? But let's not just kind of cop out and give me until the next time to think about it.

Well done. Well caught.

What comes to mind immediately? You know, I think the first thing coming is the being liked may not be the right word, but I don't— I don't like controversy or confusion or negativity. And sometimes when you go— sometimes when I look at some of my peers, I guess, who are bigger, there's a lot of— they embrace the negativity and controversy. So like, how do I build it in a way where I'm not They're doing it, they're just doing their thing and sharing.

When you say that, you mean when they're sharing, they're focused more on negative?

Not necessarily. They're focused on— they're picking a side and they think it's the right side and that's fine, but there's very few things that I'll pick a side on.

Yeah.

The stuff that I'll talk about is a lot more generic, like belief and optimism and hope. I don't know how to solve the Middle East crisis. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to solve the who's going to be the next president and what, you know, I'll see both sides.

Right.

And I'm, I don't know if that, I mean, the positive is that you can, like, you can get along with anybody and, and I'm seeking to learn and try to understand. And the negative is you don't, you don't get as much strength in any of the individual communities. So, I mean, I don't even know where I'm going with this. I mean, I think, I think one of the challenges that I've had with my agent over the years is he always wants me to take a stand on things. Like, okay, so what, whatever's going on in the Middle East right now, what do you think? He's like, I don't know, I see both sides. It's like, you're the worst, man. You're like the most Canadian. But, and that's a positive, but then, you know, so I don't— a lot of the people that I look up to, they don't necessarily lean into the negative, but they're taking a side, which then by default becomes negative to some people.

Right.

So if anybody, like if you said, man, I talked to Evan and it was kind of a waste of time, or I talked to Evan and he told me to do something and I was really stupid, or, you know, and sometimes things get misconstrued, or sometimes I was wrong, or sometimes it was a 5-minute conversation, we couldn't go in deep, and like it was there wasn't enough context to make the right decision. Like if that— but if I felt that out of a call or a meeting or interaction that you were upset at me or I steered you in the wrong direction or I was a whatever, dude, that would like— I would have to make it up to you. You know, I'd have to make it up to you. We have a program called Movement Makers where we're training thought leaders and, you know, every now and then somebody leaves a program for whatever reason. And I'll, I'll make a personal video to everybody. You know, I welcome everybody, and I'll send a personal message to anybody who leaves. Yeah, uh, because I don't want anybody having a bad taste in their mouth. And that might be a limitation of, uh, you know, getting the— you're going to get the 35 million, you're going to get people who have a bad taste in your mouth. Um, and we already do have it. You're like, they're already— as much as we're trying to be positive and spread hope, that you still get the the random comments that, that show up. Um, yeah, so I don't want people having a bad taste— if I'm trying to spread hope and optimism and belief, I don't want people having a bad taste in their mouth when they're interacting with anything that I'm putting up.

Yeah, and where does that come from? How long can you track that back of like, I don't want people having a bad taste in my mouth? Can it— does it go all the way back?

Where does that come from? I don't want people having a bad taste in their mouth. I mean, probably childhood somewhere. Yeah.

Can you think of like the first time? So, so there's— before I say I don't want to have a bad taste in my mouth, there's something that occurs before that, right? So what happens is like in childhood, for instance, I remember at 6 years old being packed in the back of my Mazda's. My mom had a Mazda 626 and, and they had all the clothes and we were leaving and my father and my, my grandma was on the steps and I remember saying there was this thing, a command, like, you know, you're not lovable because you didn't keep your parents together, right? So what happened was, you know, there's this fight or flight that happens within us. It's like, I never want to feel like that again. So we create a personality and an identity. So I became kind of like the chameleon, the life of the party. I— the chameleon was like, I can, I can kind of get in any room and adapt to everyone because I didn't wanna feel like I'm not lovable. And what happened was this became my winning formula, right? It worked. The chameleon, the life of the party, it worked all these years. It got me a high level of success until it didn't work anymore. Until it was like the guy from Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, everybody loves Devin but Devin, right? Because I became this chameleon. And what happens is we do it, everyone has it, it's called a racket. One of my teachers used to call it a racket because, because it's like we're all racketeers. You ever heard of a racketeer? You know, like, what's a racket to you? Like when someone's running a racket?

I was thinking like numbers back in the day.

Yeah, yeah, numbers, right? So you remember the word fronting? Don't front. Yeah. What does that mean?

Don't be fake. Don't be, don't be somebody that you're not, right?

So where that comes from is back in the days, the racketeers had storefronts, right? So the storefront was like a candy shop, and, and you'd go in the candy shop not because something's wrong with you, because everyone loves candy. And you went in the candy shop because there was a payoff. Are you with me?

Yep.

Okay, so this is where we want to look for you. It's like, I—

if—

because you said something big, Dev— if you think I did something wrong to you or something, I have to make that up. I would feel terrible. So what we're talking about is mine was, I'm not lovable, and then I created I'm a chameleon. So if you go back to your thought, and we'll talk about a racket in a minute, it's like, what was the thing that triggered this? Hey, I gotta make sure people like me. What was the thing? It's a persistent complaint you have or command you say about yourself that goes all the way back.

I'm thinking.

Yeah.

The first distinction I would probably make is I don't, I think it's more, I don't need people to, I don't care if they like me. I just want them to not, not like me.

Yeah. Not like, so can you, can you track that back as far as you can? It's like, where was the first time where you like, I don't want them to not like me.

Yeah. Bad. I left someone with a bad taste in their mouth and it bothered me. If I don't know, who should I ask?

That's right.

Or if I did know, what would it be? Because we're going under the layers now.

This is why.

Yeah, I get it. It's just stuff I haven't thought about. The first time that I left someone with a bad taste in their mouth. I mean, I'm thinking of— I'm just trying to go back in childhood as far back as possible. I'm thinking about I remember in my art class, I had an assignment that my teacher didn't give me a good mark on. And it was like, draw or paint a window with a sunset or something. And I did that, but she wanted more. And then my mom went in and fought with her and said, well, listen, you asked him to do this and he did this. Why are you giving him a bad mark? I don't know if I was really— was I leaving a bad taste in my teacher's mouth that I really care?

Good.

Maybe.

Forget maybe. So if I leave a bad taste in my mouth, in other people's mouth, if I leave a bad taste or they have a bad experience of me, what is that? What did you— what does that mean at that age? What do you make that mean about you? Like if I do that, then I'm what?

Well, that I failed, right? I mean, I'm a failure. I mean, I didn't do well on that, on that assignment.

Yep. So let's just look at failure. I'm a failure. Can you, can you look at any other points in your life where that came up? It's like, because I can see in some of your other work, it's like, this is not happening fast enough, not impact, not bigger impact. People don't help me, the plan isn't working, right?

So that— yet we haven't even got to you.

I know, I know. But I'm going to connect this to you. So can you see where, like, if something goes wrong, is your first— like, you may have hidden it, but can you see where I'm a failure could come up?

Sure. Yeah. Okay. If I've disappointed somebody, then I'm a failure. Sure. Yeah.

So let's just say that that's your racket. Okay, I'm a failure. So if we're building a house underneath the scene, and this is before we even get to the next work, say your racket in here. We run a racket. All of us are racketeers. We all run a racket. I'm not good enough. I'm a failure. People don't support me. Um, I'm a fraud. Uh, I'm not talented enough. I'm not smart enough. Those are all rackets. They're not truths. They're just thoughts that we believed over time and they became truths. Okay? Now, the reason why we run a racket is because there's a payoff. We love going into the candy shop. Here's some examples of payoffs. You ready? It allows me to be right and make others wrong. It allows me to dominate or avoid domination. It allows me to win or not lose. It allows me to avoid responsibility. Okay, so the 'I'm a failure,' you run it not because something's wrong with you, you run it because there's a payoff.

Sure, yeah, 100%.

So out of those payoffs, what are the ones that stuck out the most for you?

Uh, the payoff would be that it leads to success. Like, if the people that I'm working with are happy with me then it leads to the things that I want.

Right now, I want you to see the other side. You're running a racket called I'm a failure. I'm a failure is behind everything, and the payoff to I'm a failure is it allows you to be right about it, be you being a failure, make other people wrong, avoid responsibility, dominate, not be dominated, win or lose.

Those are very specific ones. Okay. Domination is not— I'd probably just go win or lose.

Win or lose. Right. So, so right up until this point, the reason why you run, I'm a failure or I can't leave a bad taste is not because something's wrong with Evan, is because we love candy. We love going in the candy shop. So, but now you're in the candy shop and you hear the door lock. And you're like, uh-oh, there ain't no— and they say, come down to the basement. And now you realize, uh-oh, not only was there a payoff, in the basement they got all the bad stuff, the drugs, the guns, is like, you know, and they say, now you realize very quickly that there's been a cost. And here's some versions of what it costs us: satisfaction, fulfillment, vitality, self-expression, joy. So this running a racket, like, I don't want to leave a bad taste, I'm a failure if I do, right? There's something, there's a cost, it's costing you something. This, if I, if I did something to Devin wrong, I got to make it right, I got to make it right. Like this running this thing, this, this tech, this system, this technology in your head is costing you, and it could cost us vitality, satisfaction, fulfillment, self-expression. What, what comes to mind of what it's costing you?

Bigness.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, like if the goal is to get to 35 million subscribers, then the bigger you get, the more you're gonna disappoint people.

There you go. So up until now, what you want to see, Ev, is you've been running a subconscious program right, where being liked and winning seemed more important than your bigness. I don't want to leave a bad taste has seemed more important than your bigness.

Okay.

And it's costing you your $35 million. In many ways, it's costing you the aliveness we talked about, because, because the more people you serve— I see you when you're in rooms and you serve, you become more alive. So you want to know that, like, we don't run this because something's wrong with us. We run it because this is— up until now, the payoff have seemed more important than what it's cost you. You ever hear the old saying in relationships? They say, do you want to be happy or do you want to be right? And some people, their racket is it's way more important to be right than to be happy. So what I just want you to see now before we even get to this next work, which is going to all bring it together, is that you have a racket called I'm a failure. And how you run the racket of I'm a failure is I don't want to leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth. And up until now, the payoff of winning, you know, and being right about that has seemed more important than the bigness. So we have to make sure that, like, we understand that it's no— that payoff is not even worth what it's costing me anymore. It's the thing keeping me from this next level. Can you see that?

Yeah, 100%.

All right, anything you want to share about that? Anything you're noticing in this conversation?

Uh, the question I just wrote down was, okay, so If that's a scenario, then what would I do if I wasn't afraid of disappointing people?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, there goes the smile.

I don't know.

And look, and it's not— look, one thing I heard in my listening, it's like, it's not an either-or scenario. It's not like Ev takes the high road, he doesn't get involved in any of this, or he takes a stand, right? One of your brilliance is that you can see both sides. So maybe your power is in understanding, like, boom, there's a difference between seeing both sides and not just talking about anything, right? So it had— if I'm just gonna stay here, or I can see both sides and I'm willing to share about it. I have my Game Changer Live experiences. It's the most transformational weekend on the planet, and the people come. And one of the things I'm most proud of in this space is the diversity that I bring in the room. I mean, you can have billionaires, single moms, you got Black, white, uh, everything in the room. And what people start realizing very quickly is we're more alike than different. And, and we— what, what has been lost is that we have not learned how to disagree without being disagreeable. Like, there's this listening now in this world called, "I'm right, you're wrong." And I think that you have a real power when you're not worried about being a failure or having a bad taste in people's mouth. Your voice is really— that voice of seeing both sides is something that I would encourage you to embrace because that's where your power, your lane is. It's not this lane or someone else's lane. It's like the That's your superpower, that you can actually see both sides, that you can bring a listening, a neutrality to things to see, hey, I can see where their point of view and their point of view. What's the most valuable thing you're hearing right now in this conversation?

Oh, there's a lot. So thank you. I'm now like instantly jumping to, okay, well, so what am I going to do, right? Like, it's— you got to take some action here, guys. Who do I have to be so I can do these things? The two things pop into mind. I'm just trying to remember what the Tupac quote was of the, I'm not trying to be the president, but I'll light the mind of the next president or something like that. Do you remember what that— do you know that quote?

I forget the exact quote. Yeah, I know.

Yeah, but that whole idea of like, okay, well, I don't have to have— in having a voice, I don't have to have the answer even, but I'm trying to spark a way of thinking that somebody can come up with an answer.

Bingo.

Because a lot of these things, I may not even know enough to have a final answer. You ask me something about YouTube or entrepreneurship or whatever, I got a lot of answers. But other things, I may not know enough. But just the way of thinking could inspire the person with the answer. So that connects. And then I also took note of— I did a post on Instagram a while ago about Elon Musk and Larry King, uh, who were going back— not Larry King, uh, Stephen King, uh, they were going back and forth about the blue check and like it being $8 or whatever to, to pay for Twitter verification. Like they had this whole back and forth and my post was like, guys, you got like Elon Musk and Stephen King with all of these, you know, followers and influence and like just genius brains. Like what if they use their genius brains to fight for good instead of them squabbling over, you know, $8 verification or not. And so it's not just seeing both sides, it's, uh, it's changing the conversation and seeing a bigger picture. Lex Fridman does that really well where I, I, uh, there's one clip he had where he had, um, Mark Zuckerberg on, and at the time Zuck and Elon were going back and forth and are they going to fight or not in the cage match or whatever. And Elon had just said some really disparaging things from Zuckerberg. And so Zuck comes on and most people would ask Zuck like, hey, Elon said these things, like, here's your chance, man, big platform, time to punch back, you know, let's go. And that's how you get the clicks and the views on the video. But his question was, uh, you know, Elon said these things about you and it's unfortunate that he's being so negative. Um, what do you think he's done well in his first 100 days of owning Twitter. You know, this is like forcing a positive narrative.

Yeah.

And when they were thinking about the fight, everybody was thinking, well, Elon's bigger and he's stronger and he's got a longer reach, but Zuck is younger and has done some jiu-jitsu or whatever, uh, you know, who's gonna win? And Lex came out and said, well, I'm just— I'm happy that they're both picking up martial arts because like that does a lot for your, your mind and it does a lot for your inner peace. It's just taking the whole— like, I don't even see that angle, right? Taking it a whole different way. And so there's a— there's— I think there's a— even the fact that it inspires me means that there's seeds to turn that into something. And that's where I could risk disappointing people on that. You're taking— it's like somebody's going to be pissed. Lots of people will be pissed because they're firmly on one side and they don't want to hear that there's another perspective or point of view that you could even think about. Listening to the other side.

It's a real big insight. You want willing to put at risk. And, and one of the ways of being that I've created myself to be is called what people think of me is none of my business. I— and, and it's funny, it's because I can love people and I can love, you know, and people's opinion of you is going to shift no matter what. And it's like, who am I going to be to create the world that, that I see that I want to help contribute to. So I acknowledge you.

Thank you for noticing.

Yeah, there you go, doctor. Thank you, Dr. Evan. Um, all right, so here we go. Let's shift to that now. That is gonna really— that foundation of knowing your racket. I'm, I'm gonna fail you. And up until now, you know, the payoff has seemed more important than the cost, but now you're seeing that the cost of your bigness is not worth the payoff. It's not worth being a failure. It's not worth— I don't want to leave a bad taste. It's like, I need to understand that what it's costing me is, is way too much, and it's not worth the payoff. Can you see that?

Yep.

Good. So that leads us to these, these low-grade thoughts.

Yes. Okay, so low-grade thoughts. This was rough. Yeah. Uh, and I mentioned in my video, because when I anytime I go negative, it's like instant— I've like muscle twitch myself back to positive, which—

Can I stop you there?

Yeah, yeah.

So by the way, that is not by accident, right? Like, you have practiced over— and I think you said in the video, it was like, I, um, this wasn't always the case. So, so the fact that you have like had this response of I go negative and then I can go into a new pathway, a neural pathway It's just, uh, I acknowledge you for the work you've done to get here. So that's just—

thank you for noticing.

There you go.

So for this one, it's like, as soon as I came up with anything slightly negative, we're like, snap back to positive. Like, no, like, that, that serves me, and it's a, it's a pattern that helps. And for this exercise, I got to do my homework because Dev's going to come on and slam me if I don't get this. I promised I would do it, so I got to do it. So, I went into the sauna, cranked the heat all the way up, ripped the page out of my book and I started like— this page has dropped, like it's all dried now, but I'm sweating as I'm writing furiously to try to get stuff out. So, that was a very painful— I haven't been that dark, I don't know, maybe ever, but you want me to read what I—

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so low-grade thoughts from my crazy sauna session. I'm not growing fast enough. I'm not making enough of an impact. The plan isn't working. I don't know what to do. People won't help me. I won't figure this out. I can't get people to care. People come for the celebs, not my contribution. I haven't mobilized my subscribers. My content is not important enough. I can't pull this off. I'm not bold enough to do this. I'm not taking the actions fast enough. The dark is more powerful than the light. I'm not bringing enough value and I'm stuck.

Powerful. Real, really great, great work. And, and what I want you to see as we look at that is that, that list got 'I'm a failure' written all over it.

Yeah, I never said the words, but yeah.

Can you see that? So that's the interesting thing of the racket. It's like this subconscious program that we don't even identify until we see it. And how you know it's there is because you could probably track it back like you did to childhood. It's not something that just occurred a year ago, 5 years ago. It's like, I can track this back. Okay, so what I want you to do is we're going to do a process here, and this will be, um, the most loving thing you can do for yourself is these are the subconscious thoughts that are, that are occurring for you. So if we're building a house, how the world in which we step into is based on our listening and our language. And we get our listening from our, like, our thinking. So for instance, if someone wakes up, it's like a GPS. If I put 600 Green Street in my GPS, where do I end up?

Hopefully 600 Green Street.

If I put 1400 Waters Place, where do I end up?

1400.

If I put 600 Green Street in my GPS, I don't end up at 1400 Waters Place. So if I put, I'm not making a big enough impact, where do I end up?

Right there.

Right. So that's the mind. The mind is like a GPS. It's a computer, right? So it's, it's, it's someone wakes up, has a cup of coffee, they break the coffee. Did I tell you this story? It's like they break the cup of coffee. And they usually say, most people, not us, is like, I'm gonna have a bad day, right? They stub their toe, they're on the road, right? They break the coffee, they break something in the morning. Most people say that, right?

Wow, really?

Yeah, I know you know, right? Like, that's what a lot of people— I've been in room, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people over the year. It's like, I break a cup of coffee, something happens, see, I'm gonna have a bad day. And then the brain looks for evidence.

Right, 100%.

So in New York, we go to the train, I get on the train, and the train is delayed. But the train is always delayed. But because, because I say I'm gonna have a bad day, the GPS see I'm having a bad day. Then I get on the train, right? And in New York, they subways. I don't know if you ever took it. There's 3 seats, and there's me and someone else, and there's someone walking towards you, and you're like, I know they're not going to try to fit in between us. There's no way They're going to try to fit in between us. And then they come and they try to fit in between you and now half of your skin is on the seat and you say, "See, I'm having a bad day." Right? And then in New York we have these people that we lovingly call the onion people because they have this odor sometimes and when they sit next to you, you start like tearing up. And so now I'm tearing up and I say, "See, I'm having a bad day." Then we get to the job and you get to the job and that coworker who doesn't give you a minute like to like get your coffee, they're all in your face and See, I'm having a bad day because the mind, the brain looks for evidence. So these low-grade thoughts is like, these are the seeds of where— now you have had a practice where you, you, you catch and replace them, but we want to like really go in there and get rid of them. There's— so neuroplasticity, neuro— has shown the science of neuroscience has shown that we have these pathways in our brain Right? I know you've, you've did a lot of work featuring Joe Dispenza and, and, um, the pathways that fire together, wire together, right? So, so all that is is the program. It's like, um, I'm having a bad day, it's just a program, and then the brain looks for evidence. You know, I'm not making a big enough impact is a program, and then the brain looks for evidence. Evan, I'm not— this isn't happening fast enough is the program. And then it looks for evidence. Okay. So we want to go into the program and rewire it. Do you have any questions?

I had two things pop up as you were talking that maybe we'll address those and you can tell me they're relevant or not. Uh, I think it leads from all the things that we've been sharing. One is I had a close family member who was in politics for a while and, um, he ran a super clean campaign when everybody else was going like super dirty. As is politics. And he ran for the leadership of the party and ultimately got smoked, like did not do well. And that, I was, I don't know, 11 or 12. And that devastated me. I remember like I thought he was going to win. Like, of course, he's going to win. But then when he lost, we're in this giant stadium and then I just started crying and I can't believe we lost. Like, how did we lose? And there's probably something there, an imprinting of like, hey, you try to do good and be positive, you lose.

You lose.

Right? And so there's, I don't know, failure again or taking the high road. So that was the first thought. And the second one was around truth. And I haven't fully formed my thoughts around this. It'll come out a little messy, but when I'm dealing with people who are in a really negative spot, I don't believe in negative people, just people having, they're in pain and they're having negative moments and say, well, you gotta be realistic, Evan Carmichael. I'm just focused on the truth, right? It's like, well, it's the truth that you're choosing to see, right? The truth is you broke your coffin. The truth is onion man sat next to you, cool, but there's other truths too, like you get to wake up another day, you still got both your legs, there's air to breathe, there's so many amazing truths you could focus on as well. So, it's not to say that the truth you're looking at isn't true, of course it's true, but you're just— it's the truth that you choose to focus on. There's amazing things you could focus on too that are also true. And I came to that because a lot of the— there's one particular a creator who I loved who was very positive with his content and he went really dark, uh, for like how the world is ending and all this kind of stuff. It's like, man, I can't— you know, it, it bothered me that he went, uh, negative and it, and it, you know, got more views. Um, and he would say, well, this is the truth of what's happening. It's like, yeah, but that's the truth that you're choosing to see. There's still so many amazing truths that you get to be alive in this moment right now. So it's just, I don't know, those are the two thoughts that we could take in whatever direction you want.

Well, I love it. And we want to look at that like underneath of like being positive, like your family member who ran for that position and then got smoked is like, if I'm positive and this is all who you are in the world, right? Then I'm going to lose. And so now the brain starts picking up all the people who went dark, right? And seeing how they're winning. Right? So you, you— it's great. It's a great awareness. It's a great awareness. And also, you want to be careful with truth, right? Because to me, it's like there's facts and then there's stories, right? It's like, this is what happened. I broke my cup. Now, that's the only thing that happened, but the story is what I create, my interpretation of it. And now most people in the world are not dealing with each other based on facts. They're based on this story, the interpretation. I used to work with first-time fathers in the South Bronx in my old fatherhood programs, and there's a guy, Jamal, came and he was mad. I never should have, I never should have, uh, uh, been loyal. She's cheating on me, blah blah blah. And, and he's going off and he's about to make a really bad decision. And I say, Jamal, what? And I go, what happened? And he goes, she was supposed— she said she'd call me at 6 o'clock. And then I said, what else happened? She didn't call me at 6 o'clock, right? So I put that over here and I say, okay, what did you make that mean? She's cheating on me. I never should have been loyal. And now he's about to make a really bad decision, not based on what actually happened but on his interpretation, right? So even your person who, you know, when we're dealing with people, I always listen for what actually is happening. What's actually— what actually happened, not the interpretation of it. And a lot of people live off of just their story around things, right? Like, I'm gonna have a bad day is not what happened. What happened was I broke the cup. I'm gonna have a bad day is the story. And I always tell people, if you're going to create a story, feel free, but at least create a story that you can win. Don't create, don't create a, a game in which you don't win. And this whole like, this isn't, you know, I have to go negative for me to make it to $35 million, or this isn't happening fast enough, or, um, you know, being positive doesn't pay off. You're going to get smoked, is not a game you're going to win. So we're going to go through a process. Now I'm sharing this with you and your community. This is like first time ever, and I know I'm— so this is what I'm willing to risk because people pay a lot of money and we go through a technology we're going to share with you. So these judgments of yourself are not true. They're just judgments of yourself, not true. So read the first 3 that you, you wrote.

I'm not growing fast enough. I'm not making enough of an impact. The plan isn't working. Okay, you want it slower? I see you're trying to write it down.

I'm not growing fast enough. I'm not making an impact. The plan isn't working.

And the plan isn't working. Yeah, there you go. Good. I gotta listen to New Yorker. You can write fast too.

Yeah, write and listen. So, so you want to look at this. It's not True. Now you've created some timeline in your head, obviously, but it's not true. It's not working fast enough. It's the plan isn't working. It's just you have a judgment that it's not happening fast enough and the plan isn't working. Can you see that?

100%.

Yeah. Yeah. So we call these unpaid invoices because we're gonna— I'm gonna give you a process that you're gonna go back and do homework where you're gonna go and say, do I want to keep this or do I want to pay this invoice off? Right? Because there's— it's impacting, and, and we don't realize it's impacting. But it's almost like, it's almost like building a house and the basement is filled with these low-grade thoughts, so there's a shaky foundation. And then people think, if I just put positive stuff on top of it, then, you know, positive talk, and this is, you know— and they don't clean out the basement. The higher they go, the more likely it's going to crumble. So the higher you go, like, this is why bigness has a ceiling right now, because the basement is shaky. And if you just put happy thoughts on top of it like you've— people historically do, it would be putting like icing on a pile of, uh, doo-doo. Sorry for the visual for you people, but I'm gonna— I, I call it like I see it. It'd be like putting— that's what happy talk would be affirmations is great, but not if you have a foundation called I'm not good enough. So if I have a foundation called, you know, it's, uh, the plan isn't working, I can put all the happy thoughts on top of it, but the foundation is the plan isn't working, then it would just be putting icing on a pile of you know what.

So let me ask you this. So the— as I, as I read those three out loud, and I just wrote this down, like, again, I just muscle twitch into positive, but open to like, no, maybe that's just icing because I feel what I wrote down after is, dude, I could double my channel with one video. So what would that video be? Yeah.

So that's where we're going. So, so you, you've already done some work in this area. You're in great rooms. So, so like what you've taken up, I mean, that's why I say you're the ideal client because you're so committed that you're seeing that that twitch is going to serve us. Okay, so all we want to do is we want to slow down the twitch, and I'm going to give you a process to slow down. And this is where you're going to just listen to your intuition. Spirit's going to come through you, and there's stuff that'll come out from you that is like— you're going to be like, wow, that came from— you ever read a book and you read a book and something— and I know you, I love that you post those books like, made it to page 73 of this book, right? You ever read a book and there's something that you can that you have just, it hits your spirit so much that you've taken it on in your life. Like you could go back years and say, I remember this quote from this book. So when we do this, it could be quote comes out, it could be anything, but it's gonna be something that's embedded in your spirit 'cause it's already in you. So here's the process. It's called the presidential pardon process. In America, they have a thing called the presidential pardon. Do you know what you have to do to get a presidential pardon?

Be friends with the president?

Nothing. That's, that's the point. It's good. So, so this is great for people who have a lot of judgment for themselves, who think, oh my God, I'm not good, I, there's no way I can forgive myself, I got to do something, I got to punish myself. No, you don't need anything for a presidential pardon. You just need to, you know, the president. And you know the president, which is Evan Carmichael. So here's the process.

I get it. Okay, perfect.

Yeah, here's the distinction here, and the pathway to a new pathway is self-forgiveness. So I'm going to set you up. So what happens is self-forgiveness is a distinction that is way underused. People don't forgive themselves. They're very hard on themselves internally. And then we have this world in which people are hard on each other. So they give this kind of— there's a subconscious programming called like, I'm hard on myself so I can be hard on my kids and hard on my friends and hard on my— you know, it's just who I am. But, but like, there's this process where people internally start beating themselves up or they start believing this programming, like this plan isn't working, you know, the good guy always finishes last, right? So we want to look and understand that this isn't true. As you know, it's just there's a judgment that it's true. Like, there's just a judgment that the plan isn't working. So here's the process that I want you to— what we're going to do is— how old are you, Evan, or about? Let's give me approximate. If you—

no, no, I just don't remember. I'm 43.

Okay, good.

Look at the year.

You're amazing. So we got— so what we want to do is, in, in, um, what I loved about the old— I used to watch like, uh, John Gotti and, and all those guys who were like they had a thing called La Cosa Nostra, which was the Five Families, right?

La Cosa Nostra.

La Cosa Nostra. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I stand corrected. Now, La Cosa Nostra was like the Five Families. And if you— anything you wanted to make a decision on, right, you had to, you had to run it through the Five Families, right? So what we're going to do is we're going to create a process for you. It's like your board of directors, Your Five Families, La Cosa Nostra. And what it's going to be is you're going to, when you do go to your homework, you're going to bring in 43-year-old Evan Carmichael, 30, 33-year-old Evan Carmichael, 23-year-old Evan Carmichael, 13-year-old Evan Carmichael. And then we could throw 7-year-old Evan in there. Okay, okay. Now, yeah, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna take each of these. It's gonna take you a while, so you're gonna be uninterrupted. And this is the— this is what I want you to complete. Here it is. What you're gonna say initially to yourself is you're gonna sit. It's almost a meditation, and it's like— and here's the sentence: I forgive myself for judging myself as the plan is not working or the good guy always loses, right? You're gonna put your judgment, your low-grade judgment in that. I forgive myself for judging myself as I'm not going fast enough, right? For the new truth is— and you want to sit, and this is where, you know, you read the book and/or there's something in your life, someone says something, or you've experienced something, you're gonna just listen. You'll be surprised. So I forgive myself for judging myself as it's not going fast enough. For the new truth is and then listen to spirit and then see what comes up. And it could be the opposite of it, but it's not always the opposite. It's like, it's, it's like something that your spirit tells you. So let's take the first— let's take one of them. Which one stands out of your low-grade judgments that you want to work on from the first three? No, just from the whole thing. Just pick any.

Oh, that's a good question. Let's go with, um I can't pull this off.

Good. So what you want to do is we're going to say, I forgive myself for— so now I want you to picture in the room, we got 43-year-old Evan, 33-year-old Evan, 23-year-old Evan, 13-year-old Evan, 7-year-old Evan. You got to just picture them in the room around you. And now you're going to talk to yourself at 43-year-old Evan, and you're going to say, I forgive myself for judging myself as I can't pull this off. For the new truth is, and then listen to what comes out of you. Just, and whatever comes out of you, just say it.

Okay, so just so I got this again. So I'm me at 43 and I've got, you know, the other, the 5 other Evans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 other Evans in the table. And then who's saying it? I'm asking.

You're saying it to your 43-year-old self right now.

Just, I forgive myself for judging myself for thinking that I can't pull this off. Got it. And then for the new truth is, and then listen. Oh, and then, and then the 4 of them.

No, no, no. Then you got to slow down and just, you could close your eyes and just listen to see what comes out of you. Like you want to go here. It's not going to be here. So it's like you got to attach to kind of like head, heart, and guts got to be aligned. And you got, you know, I forgive myself for judging myself is You know, say someone said people are stupid. For the new truth is nobody's worthy of my judgment, everybody's worthy of my love, right? So, so that—

and so who's giving me— so, but where's the advice? Is the, like, the, the new truth is, is coming from the Four Evans?

No, it's coming— the new truth's coming from you, and then we're gonna go to the four, the four other Evans. We're not going there yet. We're going—

oh, they're not even in the room yet? This is just me talking to me?

They're just hanging out in the room. You're not talking to them yet.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, I forgive myself for judging myself for thinking that I can't pull this off. For the new truth is you're Evan Carmichael, you could do anything you believe that you can.

Yeah. So, good. So, what you would do is, and I would put it in the most powerful words vibrationally that I've found in human languages, I am. So what we want to do is we want to shift it to, I am Evan— would you say I am Evan? I didn't know your middle name.

Castrilli.

Castrilli Carmichael. And I can what? Do anything I put my mind to? What was it?

Anything that I believe that I can.

Yeah, anything I believe that I can. And you want to write that down as a statement.

Okay.

And now then what you do is you go to every— now you go 40, 33-year-old, I have 23, and you say the same statement to all your developmental milestones. So what you're doing is if there's anything that's like lasting over the years, we're just going to clean it up and we're just letting— even if it wasn't there when you were 7, you're just letting them know, la cosa nostra, that, hey, this is who I'm declaring myself to be.

And in that exercise, and I am becoming 3311 or I am talking to 3311?

You're just talking. So it's the same thing. It would be like, I forgive myself for judging myself as What was the—

oh, that I can't pull this off?

That I can't pull this off. You're saying the same exact thing to each developmental stage. You're not changing it. For the new truth is, I am Evan Carmichael, and I can do anything I believe I can do. And you're just letting all of the 5 families know.

Letting them know.

Makes sense.

Yeah. All right, we're not asking for permission here. We're just telling them.

You're declaring it. I am, right? Okay, so just do it with the rest of the families, the same one.

Oh, okay, uh, perfect. So 33-year-old Evan: I forgive myself for judging myself that the plan isn't working— sorry, that I can't pull this off. For the new truth is I'm Evan Carmichael and I can do anything that I believe that I can.

Good.

23-year-old: I forgive myself for judging myself that I can't pull this off. For the new truth is I'm Evan Carmichael, I could do anything I believe that I can. 13?

Yep.

13. Let me picture myself at 13. What was I doing at 13? 13. Okay, okay, okay, I got 13. Uh, I forgive myself for judging myself that I can't pull this off, but the new truth is I'm Evan Carmichael and I can do anything that I believe that I can. And 7, I forgive myself for judging myself that I can't pull this off For the new truth is I'm Evan Carmichael and I could do anything that I believe that I can.

Bingo. So now that's beautiful. I acknowledge you. Great work. What you're going to do is you're going to take all of those low-grade thoughts and you're going to take it through the same process and you're going to create a new document called— this is like your declaration. You're— I call it my created life, right? And that is kind of where we're going to go from. It's like, you know, in America they had a declaration. What was it called? The Declaration of Independence. Yeah. When they made the Declaration of Independence, there was no independence at the time, right? It was a declaration that they lived into, right? So there's a declaration. It was like I was a best-selling author before I wrote my book. Declared it, I lived into. But we have to clean up the basement first so we can, we can train our neural pathways to see the evidence of this. So what we're doing is that is the process you're going through. And then what we'll do is I'm going to give you practices in order to keep training the brain. Now, what you might not know about me, or I don't know if I shared this with you, when people ask me who I am, I go in the airport, I always answer the same way because I'm always like connecting with people and they're like, who are you? And I say, Do you want to know my name, or do you want to know who I am? Two different things. So if they say, like, I want to know who you are, I say, well, yeah, about 3 minutes 32 seconds, because that's how long it takes. Because I've created— I've taken this work that I do with myself, with others, and cleaned out the basement of the low-grade thoughts and rewired myself so much that This is a way of being. You know when we talked about, this is where it all comes together, Ev. Who do you need to be? Being is a manifestation of your thoughts and your emotions that gives a vibrational frequency around you, right? So you ever been around someone, you've been around me or you, and you get around them and you're like, man, something about their vibe. They're positive, right? It's not 'cause they're better or worse than anyone. It's because they're spending most of their time on higher frequency thoughts. Less judgment of self and others. And then you get around someone else, you've been around them and you're like, oh, I got to get away from her. It's not because she's bad, it's like she's spending more of her time on low-grade thoughts, more judgment of self and others. And then there's stuff in between, Ev. It's the stuff that people don't see that we're working on here, where Evan's a great guy, but there's these low-grade thoughts that are lingering that are leaking out that he doesn't even know. And those could be the things keeping him from making the biggest impact, getting the $35 million. So that's why we want to do this work, clean it out. And what's amazing is if I shared— if you had 33 minutes and 32 seconds and you want me to share who I am, I'll share. What you'll notice is that people say this about me without me even saying it. So this is where we're heading to, and I can share a video of it. Uh, or I can share it now if you ask me who I am.

Go for it. Who are you?

Well, that's a great question. Do you have about 3 minutes and 32 seconds?

Let's go. Should we time it?

It used to be 4 minutes and 32, and I, I do it, uh, a little quicker. You ready?

I want to put up— Christine, I want to put a little timer here as he's saying.

I think it would be 4 minutes and 32 if we're putting timer, right? Put the timer on. All right, here we go. This is who I am. I am love. I'm the divine light that illuminates every room I enter. I'm a miracle, and I create miracles with ease and grace. I'm the most attractive, handsome, passionate lover to my beautiful, intelligent, and inspiring wife, Jess. I am that the God in me honors the God in you. People inspire me through my listening. I listen generously without conditions. I honor that the person I'm with right now is the most important conversation I could ever be in. I am presence and slow down to the speed of love. That presence liberates others. I have all the time in the world as I'm always in the infinite time of now. I'm loving kindness. I'm vibrant. I'm a student and a teacher. My greatest teachers are my 3 extraordinary children, Kayla, Justice, and Omari. I'm the greatest father for my children, and I embody love, presence, patience, kindness, and joy. I'm abundance. I am wealth. I am joy. I am prosperity. I'm deserving of all the abundance, wealth, joy, and prosperity that freely flows to me and through me. I'm the master of the art of living, and I make no distinction between my work and my play. I create anything I desire with ease and grace. I'm deeply in love with the love of my life, Jess, and I'll Love grows deeper every day. I'm committed to Iloegu every day for the rest of our lives. I am the creation of love and devotion. I'm certain that my certainty and commitment are the most powerful forces of creation when coming from love. I trust everyone to do what they do. Nobody's worthy of my judgment. Everybody's worthy of my love. I am that my way is not the only way, and I stay open to different perspectives. What people think of me is none of my business. I'm a temple of perfect health. I'm always worthy of forgiveness. I love what is, including dying and death, which I fully embrace as divine. I honor that life unfolds perfectly in every moment. I am that my word and my listening create my world. I'm extremely confident in all my abilities. I respect everyone and everything, especially myself. I'm compassionate and accepting. I am fun and inspiring. I love freely and unconditionally. I give graciously and receive gratefully. I am loving service. And my parents named me Devin Ludwig Bandison, and my queen calls me king. Thank you. There it is.

I like it. So, so is that your declaration of Not independence, or is it independence?

So that's a practice, right? That I have trained my brain, my emotional state every day. That's the first thing I listen to in the morning, the first thing I verbalize every day. And so what's interesting is as I move through the world, people say some version of that to me without me even saying it.

So listen to it, meaning what, you've recorded it and you play it back in your ear?

Yep, that's going to be part of your homework. Because think about it, people turn on the news and they hear, you know, all these negative things, and that's how they fill their GPS. So what I want to do is the first thing in the morning is fill my GPS in into a creative way of being so my neural pathways start looking for the evidence of it every day. And that's how this work all comes together.

So let me ask you about that. Um, I haven't done this exact one. We've done this kind of various forms of it. I've historically have found that I get bored of the same thing and then it just becomes words and not feeling it. And so my adjustment hasn't been to do it in a different way. My adjustment has been to inject newness in. So my morning routine looks like this. First thing is, first thing I put on is I, while I'm going to the bathroom, you know, go to the bathroom, load my phone, and I start playing music.

Yeah, good.

I have, I have a playlist called the Believe playlist that's public. It's on my channel. I'm gonna go look. And they're all songs that I, I mess with and like gets me going, you know, it's all over the place. Uh, and like, now I'm starting to, starting to bounce, right, the jive, starting to, you know, then I put the AirPods on, go downstairs, and I'm like Full-on dancing in the kitchen.

I love it.

Getting my water and whatever else, just to shake me out of my slumber, right? And then I go for a walk, get outside within 15 minutes of being awake, and I'll put on a top 10 video from my own channel because I want Walt Disney in my ear or Elon Musk in my ear or Steve Jobs or whatever. And it's on my channel, so it's always positive, optimistic, hopeful, like I'll learn something from somebody. That's been my solution, but obviously totally open to new— I guess, how do you not get bored of the same thing? Or how do you— is it the fact that it's just you're repeating it and so like it just hits you deeper every time? Or I just get— I find the words just turn into nothingness after a couple times.

I'm going to give you specific practices so that doesn't happen. So what we're going to do is we're really going to look at really where we can make connections with these pathways. So it's going to be not only in your speaking, but in what you're seeing and how you're experiencing and how you're integrating it in your world. Because it's like you, it's like how you learn the best, right? How you learn is you go and you learn something that's knowledge, but then you apply it. So we need to make sure that it becomes part of you. So whenever I'm— I mean, there's some version of that that people will say about me mostly almost every day without me even saying those words because it's not only the brain, but it's my emotional state and the vibration I go into every arena. So here's the great news. I love your morning routine. I wouldn't change it. One of my old coaches used to say, you need LSD. I said, what? You telling us to take drugs? He said, no, laugh, sing, dance. It's the best way to get in a really high vibration. LSD, laugh, sing, and dance. But like, what we're going to practice here, Ev, you're going to see— it's interesting. There's going to be a shift in your— just, you're going to feel it in your way of being. And when we say the guy who started this conversation a month ago to the guy who's going to get this $35 million is not— see, my first question back then was, who do you need to be to be the guy who gets the $35 million? And what we're seeing is the guy who got us to $3 million, it was amazing. And he did that with a racket. He did that with a racket called, you know, I'm a failure. He did that with at the cost of his bigness. He did that with like, this plan isn't working. So the person you need to be to get to $35 million is not the person who got us to $3 million. So what we're doing is we're cleaning up all the stuff that got us here. We're acknowledging what got us here. We're cleaning up those low-grade thoughts and created— creating a way of being that's going to have you powerful beyond measure.

Let's go.

And because of your commitment, I have no doubt you're gonna see— put the number you got down now. I don't know how many subscribers you have right now, and, and we're gonna, we're gonna see this thing take off. Because the outside world is just a reflection of our inside world. When we get clean on the inside world, that, that goal line stuff— I tell people, like, I'm taking people to billion dollars, take people to All-Star Games. Like, like, that's the easy stuff for me. Because if, if we create the inner game and we, we create a way of being, that outer— which to do will be easy. The doing will become easy because you'll be so present in the being that the doing will happen like this.

I'm ready. What am I doing? What's my homework, Coach?

All right. So the homework assignment for you is now you're going to take the 5 families and you're going to take each of those statements and you're going to run it through the 5 families and come up with your new, like, your new created life being mostly in the I am. But if you listen to my created life, It wasn't all I AMs. So it doesn't have to be I AMs. And these are definitive. These aren't affirmations or mantras. Those don't work. This is why the book The Secret didn't work because it was just like people said, "If I just say this, then I'll feel this." It wasn't anything wrong. It was just one-third correct. What we need to do is wire the brain, match it with an emotional state, And then you have a way of being, a transmission that goes out in the world. So your homework is to go through all of them and create this new document.

So in the answers to the board of directors combined with the low-grade thoughts, that creates the Declaration of Independence?

Yep. So what's going to happen is it's like, remember, your new truth is the first one that you come up with. And then you just bring the same one to each of them, and that's number 1. Then you take the second one. It doesn't change for each of them. You take them, that's number 2. And then what we'll do is that is going to be, um, going to create a document for you. And then from that, I'll give you some practices to work on from that that will keep it going.

Okay, so what do you want to see in my document? You want to just see the new truth is for all the I AMs?

I am Evan Caselli, Caselli, Castrilli, Carmichael. That's why you corrected me on La Cosa Nostra, because you're a true Italian. My fault, my fault. And so you want those to be the new truths. And then quick, we'll get together and I just give you some, some practices that we're going to take off and then we can track your $35 million from that.

Okay, so how about we'll add it on to this video. I'll go through this exercise. I'll, uh, I'll shoot you what I came up with, and then you record a little whatever my bonus thing is I need to work on, and we'll, we'll include it in this video when it comes out.

That's it. So let me ask you this: what would, uh, what has been the most valuable thing that you've heard, thought, or experienced in our time together today?

Um, just your, your, um Your love.

I love you, brother. You're a power. You're a force for good in the world. Thank you for noticing.

Come on, you're taking my line away from me.

Dr. Evan, Dr. Devin.

All right, appreciate you, man. Thank you.

Appreciate you too, brother. Take care.

Okay, so that was a fun session, and now you can see why I love Devin so much. He gave me some great homework, and I wrote down 3 things that I have to do. I'm going to take you inside that journey. So number 1 was I wanted to find what that exact Tupac quote was so that I can reference it and think about it and use it as inspiration. Number 2 was, if I wasn't afraid of disappointing people, what would I do? That was a question that came up that I didn't have an immediate answer to in our session, but I think it's going to be commenting on something that's in the news right now. I've always kind of strayed away from talking about the news too much because I feel like I don't have enough context. I don't know enough about both sides, and I'm worried about saying the wrong thing and upsetting people. And as a result, I don't spread more belief. And so I'm gonna craft a tweet. Be my little homework today is craft a tweet and share it, and we'll see what happens. And number 3 was come up with my I am statements that come from talking with my board of directors and get that to Devin so he can give me some extra feedback and assignment. Let's go. All right, I've been busy at work. Let me show you what I have been doing. So step 1 is find the Tupac quote. That was an easy one. Let's get some momentum. So the quote was— it wasn't about being a president, it was, I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. And again, why I love that is, uh, I don't necessarily have to have all the answers to a lot of the things that are going on in the world, but the goal is to spark the brain, to spark the person to believe in something greater, to believe in hope and positivity and optimism. And if I could just be a voice to believe that that is enough. And so I want to spark the brain that might have that big change in impact. Number 2 was I went to ChatGPT and I asked them to look at the whole Lex Fridman thing. That was one of the topics of discussion with Devin. And I said, with the whole martial arts thing, hey, what are some of the characteristics that make up Lex Friedman's responses. And this is what it came up with, and I liked it. And ChatGPT is a great tool to use for brainstorming and just as a co-pilot. And this was their response: a holistic thinking, empathetic understanding, long-term perspective, constructive criticism, wisdom-oriented thinking, and optimistic outlook. And I like all of these things. I mean, I would add believe to that list for myself, but a lot of these I like and believe in, and it just gives an extra little point of perspective. So when I'm looking at some situation that's happening in the world, I could just run it through this filter. And then the next bit of homework was to use that to then craft a reply to something in the news that I might be afraid of disappointing people on. And so the one that I chose was about the Israel-Palestine issue that's happening right now. And I mean, it's been happening for a long time, but especially now with the the war going on. I'm filming this on November 3rd, 2023, and so my response is going to be deeply saddened by the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine. It's times like these we need more empathy, understanding, and strong leadership to pave a path towards peace and growth. Let's believe in a better tomorrow where unity triumphs over war. Now that may not seem like a big deal or anything that powerful, or a big step at all, but for me it's actually a big deal because I don't usually comment on these things because again, I feel like I need to have the answers. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna post this and we'll see what the response is, if there is any, and if there's any negativity or, or positivity, we'll see what it is. And it's a good step, it's a good step towards even more momentum. So step 1 and 2 of my homework is done. Now I got to work on step 3. Which is the deeper board of directors work and coming up with my I Am statements to give to Devin. Okay, so it's been a day since I posted. I posted to Instagram as well as Twitter, and let's go look at the results. So let's dive in. Here was my post, and listen, uh, I was surprised by all the love. Look at, look at the first comment. Mr. Devin Bandison. The first comment 'Love you, brother.' Uh, 'Retirement Transformer, thank you for posting this message.' 'I believe in humanity and oneness.' So a lot of love actually at the beginning, uh, from all the people. Most of these are the people who follow me. So this was great. I mean, it's always great to feel like the message you're creating is having an impact. 'Love always wins,' etc. This is— this was awesome. Uh, then I got a bunch of things that I kind of expected, right? People just sharing their own perspective. 'Stand with Israel. Free Palestine.' Free the hostages, uh, Free Palestine. The people on both sides, you know, uh, a lot of the Free Palestine here, other people coming on the other side. And this is, you know, basically what I expected. Um, the, the harsher ones are when it gets to be criticism. So, you know, these people are not, uh, they're not being critical, but some of them, you know, open your eyes For your heart. It's on both sides. That's just not too bad. Better tomorrow. Free Palestine. You know, then somebody for the Israel side. Bro, I like your content, but if it's to write such BS, just keep silent. It shows the exact opposite of empathy. Make me want to unfollow, to be honest. This is where, you know, it hurts a little more. And there wasn't anybody who I'm super close with. But it makes you look at, is it worth it? Is it worth it posting or not? So I'm still reflecting on it. You know, some of the other criticism, hey Evan, thank you for the message. Unfortunately, it's not really a war when one side has it. That one's not too bad. With all due respect, this statement is as reflective as silence. This is not a time to pick neutrality in statements like this. You know, so, you know, a lot more negative on that side here. Uh, if people just saying their own comments, that's fine, but it's when it gets more attacking, right? The— what we talked about with Devin about not liking to leave a bad taste in people's mouth. Uh, playing safe, not even mentioning all the genocide is happening, defending by bombing refugee camps and hospitals. A real leader is able to stand up and say the truth even when it's difficult. The truth is, is genocide. Are you able to stand up and call it out as such? So if you support Palestine, support their end. Okay. Unfollow after all Israel did. Are you still speaking about peace? Are you out of your mind? Right. And so do I respond to these? Do I just let it go? Do I, you know, still, still processing, still processing. So as you can see, it's a mix, and super grateful for all the people who are in my community who, who supported. I expect a whole bunch of people to come out with just their perspective and their opinions, and then the other ones who are going to be just nasty and critical. And it's less a reflection of me and more where they're at and the pain that they've been through. And they're— whatever you're taking aside Well, whenever you go into something where there are two sides, everybody has their own bias, you know, whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whether it's religion, whether it's whatever the thing is. And the hotter the flame, the more people are going to be agitated. And it's just a matter of making sure that I'm proud of the statements that are going out And I do believe in, in a better tomorrow. And I do believe that we need more belief. And I do believe that I'm not going to make everybody happy. And I don't have the answers. And again, back to the Tupac quote, I don't have to have the answers, but I hope to spark the brain that might be able to. And what I also remind myself in moments like this is all the people who didn't comment. You know, there's all the people who didn't comment on this who are just giving a heart, you know, they give a thumbs up, they give a like to it, but they don't comment. Or people who are just impacted. It's easy to look at the vocal minority of people who are either saying great things but also coming out and being, you know, attacking. It's easy to look at the vocal minority and make a decision based off of that, but it's all the other people who aren't saying anything, who are just liking it, who are hopefully being impacted by it, who— this is part of being the light in the dark, and whatever that version of looks like for you. So this is a good experiment. I like the push outside the comfort zone. I think honestly the hardest part of all of it was just what is the statement that I feel connected to, you know? There's a great message about we tend to play small because we see a faster path to a lesser goal. You know, the bigger goal, the big impact, you don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it. And it takes more work to do. And so we settle for a smaller goal because the path is defined. Where the biggest challenge was, what is the statement that I would be proud of releasing? Not so much the negative feedback, but what is a statement that I'd be proud of releasing? And that takes more work and more effort and more thought. And it may not even have been the most profound statement that I put up, but it was one that reflected what I was thinking. And so it's extra work, which is required to go hit your bigger goals. So I like to push outside the comfort zone and we'll keep doing it. So that's some of my homework done. Now I got to do the main one, which was the activity that Devin gave me of looking through all of the, uh, getting my board of directors together, looking through the limiting statements. And it's now a couple days later, it's Sunday, and I've dedicated some time to be able to sit down in my office and have some alone time, and I'm gonna go through it. We'll see what I come up with. Okay, so for every low-grade thought, I wrote down what the new truth was after forgiving myself for every age that Devin said. So here's what I came up with. The first is the low-grade thought and the second is the new truth. And there's some overlap between the responses. So, "I'm not growing fast enough" becomes "Every day is a new chance to make history." "I'm not making enough of an impact"—same thing—"Every day is a new chance to make history." "The plan isn't working"—the new thought or the new truth is "Great things come to me." "I don't know what to do"—the new truth is "Just focus on who I need to be." This is the one that comes up the most. "People won't help me"— became people want to be a part of something that matters. They will help if I ask. I won't figure this out becomes just focus on who I need to be. I can't get people to care becomes all that matters is that I care. People come for the celebs, not my contribution becomes it's never been about me and my story and perspective help people. I haven't mobilized my subscribers becomes I just need to give them something to mobilize around. My content is not important enough becomes every day is a new chance to make history. I can't pull this off becomes just focus on who I need to be. I'm not bold enough to do this becomes boldness is a choice, it's at my fingertips and I have access to it whenever I want. I'm not taking the actions fast enough becomes just focus on who I need to be. The dark is more powerful than the light becomes humans are good, they, they're just in a lot of pain. I'm not bringing enough value becomes every day is a new chance to change someone's life. And I'm stuck becomes just focus on who I need to be. Okay, so my next round of homework is done. It was a fun exercise to go through. Sometimes looking back on the younger you and thinking of, you know, who you were back then and the mistakes or choices you were making was helpful. And I love coming up with a new truth because it's a reminder of who I want to be and the game that I want to play, the impact that I want to make. And some of the key sentences there are things that, that I will need every day, every day, because every day I can go off and make history, or every day I can go and do the status quo. And so it's a great reminder and great seeds for my own Declaration of Independence. So I'm going to send this off to Devin and see what he gives me back. So I gave my homework to Devin, and he wants to hop back on another video call for round 3 to go even deeper into this. So we're going to end the episode here, and if you want to see the first episode in this series where he pushed me for the first time, that was supposed to be private but we made it public anyway, check the video right there next to me. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there.