Embrace Who You Truly Are To WIN At Life | Colby Sharma

If we embrace the human experiences, though, that we've all had that have shaped us, that does help to dim the inner critic, because saying, I'm not going to let the past define who I am.

Guys, as always, I try to bring you some of the most amazing guests, some that you may not have heard of yet, that just happen to be really on the cusp of doing something a major. Well, that is no short story. Today I've got Mr. Colby Sharma here. Today, we're going to talk about life's curveballs. I mean, curveballs. Seriously, if you guys know anything about stuck to unstoppable, we're all about the curve balls. Colby, dude, welcome to the show, man. How you doing?

Even, man, Great to be here. Great to be with the audience and looking forward to the conversation.

Yeah, dude. So we're going to have a blast. So the first thing I want to kind of get into is like, why do we as people tend to step outside of the batter's box, if you will, and avoid the curveball?

I'd say we have an inbuilt bias against getting out of the comfort zone we want. We're too trapped in the egoic self, and we're not ready to embrace the heroic self. So as we see that tension and look at the book and how it manifests, he's unwilling to embrace the obstacles one base at a time, and he surrendered to outer perfection. And what I'd encourage the audience to take in is disregard outer perfection and embrace inner reflection once more. Such as we get into the new world beyond the pandemic.

Yeah, say that line again. That was actually really, really good.

Disregard outer perfection and embrace inner reflection.

Now, that is so transformational. I think it's probably underestimated. I'm curious to know that you learned that by experience or by research. Experience.

Experience. You know, I mean, when I had my challenges, like so many people that are going through so much right now, I had to surrender to the unknown. I had to surrender to the moment that I felt was adverse for me.

It took a lot of guts to come out of the comfort zone and embrace change, but that led me to get new friends, surround myself by so many great people. I've been very blessed to have as much as today.

Yeah, man, I love it. Well, look, when it comes down to it, like, one of the things I actually really enjoyed about the book, right, Is how you overlaid baseball over life. And, you know, I tend to use movies when I'm kind of communicating my points and stuff like that, but it got it got me to thinking, like, it's. So much of life is actually already in front of us. So much. So many of life's great teachers and things of that nature. You know, Bryce, the protagonist or the hero in the story, or soon to be hero in the story, so to speak, is. You know, I think one of the things I loved about him as a character is I think he struggles the way we all struggle, right? Maybe we have a string of wins for a while, and then all of a sudden we have a string of struggles for a while, and it's really easy in the string of struggle to just want to give up entirely. Right?

One of the things that Bryce did, though, is he, you know, he. He always stepped into the first pitch, right? And you know, he was. He was good at nailing the fastball, but he sucked it down on the curveball. Right. So what was like your. Your biggest takeaway as you were kind of, what were you ultimately trying to communicate to your audience at that time?

We have to embrace the smallest things. We can't have life, you know, just to get to the end goal, to get to, you know, the million dollar startup exit or to get, you know, the fast car. To get the booming business, though, we have to go through bases and stations in life sequentially. And if you look at a baseball diamond, tick off every base and then come to home plate. So we have to do that. And as humans, especially when our backs are up against the wall, we're feeling adverse, we're feeling that. That sickening feeling of adversity. And I can't. I must be in this because my ego is telling me, you're not gonna get to where you want to go. You're only gonna be in here right now. But we can say to ourselves, no, I have the power to choose. My responses, calibrate how I feel mentally, emotionally. And if you look at what I share in the book about choosing your responses, that's how we can seek to dim the light of the ego.

Yeah, yeah, no, I know. That's so good. I think one of the cool things about it is, I guess one of the biggest takeaways is there is a process to even deal with unexpected adversity. Right? There's adversity you feel when, you know, you're climbing a corporate ladder or, you know, you're getting a law degree, like I know you did, and maybe there's a bump in the road, like, you know, I gotta learn. I got a couple learning disabilities myself, like dyslexia and adhd and Some other. Other stuff. And you know, so there's. There's things that you can see coming. Right. Or there's things that you know are present that have to be dealt with. What do we do when the adversity is unexpected? Right. How do we keep from getting.

Not necessarily an ego check, but getting checked to the place where we feel like our worth is lower than normal?

If we take adversity on. On a spectrum and what's what I share with the audience, we can have so many moments of adversity, but what are the ones that are going to lead us to a place that we can strive and create our truest potential? That's what we want to really channel ourselves. And if we take the moments of adversity to use what I say in the book, we succeed because of adversity, not in spite of it. That sol, you go to the word, go to the ones that are really challenging you to bring your best self forward. Have yourselves an sor. Standard operated ritual. And that's how we can use to accentuate higher performance. And you know, when the going gets tough, the talk really do return to ritual.

Yeah, for sure. Well, and the interesting thought about one of the things I love about the book is you. You talk about a handful of specific emotional, what I refer to as emotional setbacks. Right. Things that we all face if we're human. Right? Right. Guilt, shame, self judgment, like self deprecation, because of the self judgment. Why was it so important for you in Curveball to make sure that you tackled those specific emotional triggers?

Because that's what happened to so many people right now. It's really a sign to say you're going through curveballs. And I want to help you.

Embrace the unexpected, to strive more than you thought you could before. And I wanted to do that in a way that was personal and deep to me when I faced my curveballs and my unexpected.

I want to dig a little deeper here because one of the questions that I went ahead and jotted down as I was making my way through the book is I wonder how Bryce really felt about himself. Right. It's almost like we can see kind of what we think the emotional arc is. But like through the first part of the book, what do you think Bryce is really going through emotionally that maybe he's not verbalizing to the coach or anybody else?

He's feeling, you know, what we so often feel when we're down. I can't believe my life has come to this moment when I'm on the bleachers and there's a bottle in a bag and always me. And it's so easy to get sucked into that victim mentality. I can't believe the great, glorious me. And if you look at a lot of the literature, the Pink Cloud syndrome, we think we're going to ride the pink cloud forever. And that really locks us into that belief that it's only going to be good. And brings us down when we have the tough moment with the coach when he says, you're going to the minors. How can I believe that this has come to that? And we have to really strive that much further to build ourselves back up? And when I try to create the hero's arc from the beginning to the end of the book, bring him down, but then build them back up. That was a very deliberate thing to do to save. Don't be in Pink Cloud forever.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it seems like that that really is our human trajectory. Right. You know, it's spiritual resilience, mental resilience, emotional resilience. All that resilience is developed only through adversity, only through pain, only through uncertainty, only through not getting what you expect that you're supposed to get in that moment. You know, one of the things. And then there was this other phrase that you had in the book. I'm going to read this off that I just like. It's a high. It was one of those highlighter moments for me. It's when the coach says, it's not about what you do, it's about what you need not do.

Where do we go wrong there? Because I feel like a lot of us are constantly striving and striving and striving and striving, and nobody's really resting and reflecting.

Totally. It's so easy to get on a hamster wheel. And you keep doing the same thing every single day. Because it's ingrained in me. And the part on the ritualization part at page 67, I see that it's not so much the rituals that.

You shouldn't be doing, it's what you should not be doing. So too often we have. I would keep doing this because it's served me for so long, but really reflect on yourself. Is that what's going to be good for me going forward? Even when we talk about creating the ritual, when I share page 68.

Look at those rituals that you're doing. Are they good for you? Are they healthy for you? And then reflect on that and see what you can take out. And delete, delete, delete, delete, Control, alt, delete, all the negative stuff that is really causing you to feel low at that moment in time.

Well, let's, let's think of maybe your own rituals. Right. Because this, you know, it's funny, I know as an author myself a lot of times there's, there's so much of my own story hidden in the story, if that makes any sense. So I assume there's some, there's some, there's some hidden Kobe in there as well. I'm curious, what types of rituals did you have to eliminate and what types of rituals that you have to pick up to become as successful as you are today?

Really saying to myself that when I work in law, really saying to myself, okay, this week, I'm not going to let the last week define this week. I'm going to really say to myself, what can I do that is going to be healthy and productive for me going into the next week? So I talk with mentors, I talk with friends, I nature, you know, getting coffee drinking in early hours of the morning around sunset time. That was very important for me to build going into the next week because that would sharpen my focus, that would allow me to accentuate my high performance to bring it on. It's game face for the next week. That's how I'm going to really succeed. And you know, I mean, I'm a big fan of movies and pop culture. I love the. I'm going to talk about rituals. Michael Jordan's the Last Dance.

Yeah.

Ritual is just so amazing. He wore the wrist guard on one specific part of his body because that was a ritual that when he faced setbacks, when he was going through the process, he had that and it served him very well. So that when we talk about a ritual and installing a set of rituals help you succeed and thrive, that's something that the audience can really take.

Now, have you taken the time to define even your daily ritual? You know, for example, I'm, I'm, I guess, I guess we consider myself, I'm part of the 5am Club, even though I'm not officially signed up to the newsletter per se. Right. I get up at 5am I spend, you know, half an hour praying and meditating, kind of getting myself together, you know. Then I head off to the gym for some physical fitness. What type? Like do you have a daily ritual that you've been following to elevate your own standards?

I love to play sports, sports wherever I can, whenever I can. I recently got into yoga, so I've been really trying to make that like a daily ritual. Whether it's morning yoga or, like nightly yoga, I might just roll around in it.

Are you doing the hot yoga? Are you doing the hot yoga thing where you're like, you know, having to get all sweaty and stuff?

Oh, man, this is even worse. This is power flow.

Positions are just changing and curveballs are coming my way. And.

Part of it.

I love it. Well, let me. Let's. Let's break down the ego for a minute. You know, somebody who I greatly admire and respect, and I know your father had a personal relationship with him, which is great. Which is Dr. Wayne Dyer, right. And he used to have this. This terminology around the ego that said edging got out, Right. What if. What have you found in your. In your research and your writing and your own experience that you can share about ego, whether it be positive or negative?

Well, I'd say ego is a mask that we have within us that prevents us from allowing ourselves to go deeper, that says we're succeeding even though we're manifestly, outwardly not projecting that. So it's. I mean, if you look at the Japanese concept of the three selves, there's one you share with family, friends, outside world, but there's one that you just keep hidden in the box. And I think that's very powerful. We talk about ego because it wants us to just feel shamed and guilted and just go into the box. Just be really down on yourself.

So what I've kind of done is I've kind of said, okay, how are my egoic moments being projected? You know, am I quick to cut others off? Or do I dispel advice that maybe, you know, someone's just not asking for because that's my egoic self projecting what others just see me as doing. And I have to say to myself, okay, is this real? Is this true? And calibrate my responses to my actions.

When. When we talk, when we look at Bryce in the story, what do you think his ego issue is? Is it too much of self or not enough of self?

It's interesting. So in the beginning of the book, there's not enough of self. There's not enough of self because there's not enough self desire to keep powering through the setback, to keep saying, I'm going to go to the minors, but how can I leverage the opportunity in the minors, get great at the minors to succeed again at the major level, though, even when I'm at X, y and Z age. But as we go to the end of the book, as the parable shapes out, he meets Rudolph, the South African baseball legend, there's too much of self because he's saying. And he's having to have this inculcated within him again.

When sometimes you kind of get to, like, the top of the mountain, but you disregard how many people brought you to that moment in time, how many mentors did you have to have, how many tracks did you have to take? That really sucked at that time, but really gave you a sense of perspective, though. And if you look at page 79, when he says.

You have to embrace where people have gone and taken you from, it's really shown to him. Okay, I've kind of been rude. I've kind of been arrogant. I've kind of had all these negative traits. And I'm having to apologize to others, and I'm having to say, you know, I ran and I made that horrendous decision to do the inside the park home run, and I injured myself. And. Because that's my ego speaking louder than my freedom element. And if you look at fear, fear, and we'll get freedom, though, between the heroics, between the stimulus and the response, therein lies our freedom. So getting all this stimulus, if you look at the first part of the book, it's stimulus, then it's the responses, and it's shaping him to find his freedom in the end.

Yeah, no, that's good. That's good stuff. I always like to dig in the ego a little bit because I find that more than anything else, when you. When you peel back all the layers of the onion, so to speak, it's always ourselves that's in the way of letting yourself move forward. It's not. Not always a friend or family member. Yes. That you can have outside influences that can kind of act like a ball and chain, where you're kind of dragging them, dragging it along. You can. You can kind of get into victim mindset thinking about this. Well, it's because I didn't get this because of that or because this person got in front, like, this kind of stuff. And I always think it's important to dig into the ego side because I feel like when we can better understand our own ego and kind of where we kind of fit into that, or we value ourselves too high or too low, then ultimately what happens is we get a greater perspective, which you just mentioned. Right. And I feel like that's a huge part of it. And I think that kind of leads me into the next question, which is, you know, how have you been able to overcome both with Bryce and the story and even with Your own life, the past. Voices of limiting beliefs. Because I feel like most of us struggle with a limiting belief of something kind continually that, you know, obviously can hinder us. So how do we break that down?

We break it down by saying, you know, T H E R e there, the human experience required for excellence and every experience that we've had within us can be used to our furtherance of our true potential to help us succeed and thrive in the ways we can that are positive. You know, we can't be fearful in saying, you know, we have to find a way to dim the inner critic. And that's where the inner critic and the inner saboteur, we have so much of the inner saboteur, which is, you know, things are going great, but let's just wreck stuff to shred normalcy. Because there's a bias against normalcy, especially when you get to adversity. You know, it wants us to feel complex and, you know, woe is me. And to go into the Japanese cell concept of being shamed and guilted, though. But if we embrace the human experiences, though, that we've all had that have shaped us, that does help to dim the inner critic. Because saying, I'm not going to let the past define who I am. I'm going to use it as a bridge going forward rather than a barrier. And I'm really going to try to put it into context to really further my end goal.

Now, you've obviously been very fortunate to be surrounded by a lot of great mentors, even parents along the way that I'm sure have encouraged you. I try to do the same with my own kids, Right. I got. My own son is an aspiring thought leader ten years from now. Right. And trying to make sure he understands. And it's really cool to hear him say things that I didn't think he even heard. Right. Like, I said it as a dad and I'm like, dude. And then like, he'll get on stage sometime and doing our live events. And actually I'm like, where'd that come from? Right? So I love that I'm curious to know when it comes to, you know, because not everybody has direct access to amazing mentors or parents, right? I was one of those people I didn't grow up with, with parents that could really pour into me. And I grew up in a kind of an impoverished environment for the most part, not, not solely where we. That I went weeks on end without eating and all that kind of stuff, but impoverished enough to know that things weren't good. Right. And I Used to, I used to wonder to myself, is there anyone out there that can teach me? Is there anyone out there who will pour into me? Is there anyone out there who just, you know, kind of come alongside of me? I was very fortunate I found that person because I kept asking that question. I'm curious to know what, what advice would you give someone who maybe doesn't have direct access to amazing mentors, like right off the go, where would you, what would you tell them to do? What kind of practical step would you give them?

I'd say go to conferences, I'd say podcasts. I'd say, what commonality do you share with people like that and leverage social media, leverage online, leverage all that stuff because it's free, it's accessible, and it's so ubiquitous. Really. Like, what commonality do you have? Have you go to the same school for myself, I find that very effective. Same profession or any of that stuff. To create links and then have a coffee, have a chat and say, I'm interested in what you've done. I'm at X, Y and Z place. Can you spare some time and share some of your wisdom?

No. That's really good and that's definitely a good tip. I was telling somebody recently, I discovered there's really four ways to get mentorship. Right? There's the, you know, your aspirational identity. Find somebody that you aspire to be and then, you know, digest as much of their content as possible. There's the peer to peer, like you and I hanging out and pouring at each other back and forth. Right. There's the, the historical mentor, which is, you know, a book like, you know, something that's history based, you know, and there's the digital mentor. And I think the digital mentor is kind of where you, where you definitely gave the biggest tip. And that's because it never has it been easier, never has it been easier in the history of man to have access to amazing info.

We have so much how nowadays, but we lack the why. We really lack a why. I want to write the book.

Why then, like, why write that book? I wrote the curveball because I wanted to have personal experiences that I wanted. Sure. Help others overcome their own curveballs and moments of risk and dump young people.

Yeah.

What is the why? So even if you talk to connections and you're at, you know, Rotary events, you're at, you know, public conferences, what is the why that you really want? And that's gonna. When you see from the why, and that will lead you to the how, and that will. That's how you'll have a very engaging conversation.

Well, speaking of why, let's go ahead and dig into the curve, Bob. Right. Why? Why curveball? Why now? Why not later? Why not before? Why now?

Endemic curveball for pandemic. I mean, you know, very ironically, back when it was like being written, it was called the curveball. And at that moment, I wanted to share personal experiences. So when I had a challenge. So my challenge was a learning disability that I went through, and that was a curveball in myself. I was scared. I didn't know what that experience was. I remember I was saying to my dad, I said, do I really have to go through this? Go to this place? But luckily enough, it changed everything. Gave me, taught me resiliency, taught me to embrace the unknown, taught me great levels of empathy. So that was my why for the curveball. I thought of myself, I can see that person right now. What could they use? How can I help them through my own experiences? Because if you look at the reflection of your own inner self.

Then came the pandemic. And I said to myself, this is going to make a lot of sense. Curveball for pandemic.

Yeah. Well, it's crazy because when the pandemic first happened, supposed to be two weeks at least in the United States, we're going to shut everything down for two weeks, turn into two months, then turn into two years, basically. Which just goes to show not everybody tells you the truth all the time. Pay attention. That being said, you know, one of the things that I was getting questions about either on Instagram or whatever, was the pandemic. I'm at home, what do I do? I was like, raise your value? Like, what do you mean, raise my value? What can you learn? How can you raise your value in the marketplace? So when things do return to some level of normalcy, how can you bring that new level of value to then propel yourself forward? And you look at the economy of the global economy, and about 35% of the people did that. They went and raised their value. They went and in some cases, started businesses while their businesses were failing and stuff like that. As they're going through that journey, there was a huge part of our population in the US that didn't do that. They took the stimulus money and they bought big screen TVs and all this kind of stuff. And rather than invest in themselves, they chose to invest in outside resources. What have you learned about the importance about continually investing in yourself more than anything else?

Well, I've learned that there's so much of Myself that I don't know, that I haven't figured out as that. And I'm still incrementally going through the bases one step at a time, one base at a time. And I'm trying new things and I'm doing, you know, building in new rituals, and I'm building in new levels of myself that weren't existent before. I didn't know, you know, keep going. Just keep going. Keep doing the yoga class, you know, keep showing up. And it's starting to have a lot of results. But it's doing that deliberate practice, which is important.

Let me hit on that for a second. Because one of the things that I took away in the book was, uh, you win one bat at a time. Right, But. And then you. You turn right around and say, but you have to choose your pitches.

Yeah.

So it's like, wait a minute, I'm stepping up to bat. I'm supposed to. I know I'm supposed to swing, but now you're telling me to hold on and be patient and then select the right moment to swing. Is that what I'm hearing? Like, how does that, how does that work out in a. A life mastery sense?

Well, because if you have, if you look at, like the strike zone, we have balls that go straight, we have balls that go around the strike zone, curveballs that dip below the strike zone. So you don't want to be powerless and say, okay, I'm going to only swing at ones that are not around the strike zone, though. But so many people, because they just felt the adrenaline urge and the sense to just swing at anything, they will just take any pitch. So it's being deliberate and saying, okay, in your strike zone of life, what are you going to do? How are you going to be deliberate in approaching matters in a sequential way? How are you going to go incrementally? What are the rituals that I'm going to do? How am I going to take the advice? And I'm going to really just lean into that. And if you look at in the life mastery session. Well, to paraphrase you, look at Thomas Edison, the quote was, I found 100 ways and 99 ways that did not work, but 0.1 ways that did work, though, that will add up so much greater than the ones that didn't work, though. So if we just take the ones that did work and say, I was deliberate with that, I really understood myself in my gut and trusted what I'm doing, and it's what I'm good at, that's how you'll Find success.

So if I'm hearing you correctly, one of the. What you're saying is the strike zone itself is basically the priorities, and everything outside of the strike zones is distraction.

Yeah, exactly.

Cool. Well, that makes me feel better because I was like, I want to make sure that I'm hitting the ball. Right. I want to make sure that I'm not swinging at the wrong stuff. Right. And I have done that. I have wasted a ton of money, a ton of time, and a ton of energy doing things that really weren't going to help my greatest level of priority. So, you know, for example, when I was trying to figure out my own life 20 years ago, when I was homeless and stuff, and when I was going through that, I was trying to figure out my financial picture, right? What. But yet I was focused on relationship like a girl. Like the girl was a distraction I couldn't even provide for myself, let alone a family or a girl. What I should have been doing is learning money mastery tips and techniques from anyone and everyone that would share them with me that actually had. Who are actually where I wanted to go. Is that right?

Totally. I mean, I've read so much of your story. How did. What got you out of that time in your life?

Well, I think for me, one of the. One of the most transformational moments was actually going into a public restroom after going through several very difficult days and just happened to have one of those movie moments where you raise your head, you lock eyes with yourself, and I could. It's almost like I could finally see my own soul that I had kind of been ignoring. Right. You're. You're in your intuitive conscious, whatever I think what Dr. Leaf calls your non conscious, that's always present, always consistent. Right. That's apparently below your conscious and your subconscious. But she just totally ratted my brain the other day. She's amazing. But in that moment, I think it was just that moment of really, truly seeing myself. And that's one of the things I picked up with Bryce in the story is he goes through the moment. He goes through all this, this. The struggle of not knowing himself, only to end up finding himself. And I think that's a human characteristic. And, you know, and I think one of the things that both Bryce and I shared in the story, and I'm sure you shared in real life examples, is this moment of radical honesty. I had to be radically honest with myself about where I really was, what I really needed, and the effort it was going to take to really move forward.

I mean, going Back to page 79 in the book. Sometimes we lose sight of what matters the most when we need it the most. And sometimes we lose sight of what is important, what really is important. If you look at. There's a great quote by John Siegel, by Richard Block. To transcend our outer limits, though, we must negate the limitations placed upon us by others. And it's a great book about. He transcends the flock. But take that into the context of the curveball. We have to transcend limitations, but we have to do that by not forgetting what made us who we are. And we have so many layers in ourselves. What is the most important layer we're going to take going into the year, the month and then the day and just working backwards.

Yeah, no, I mean totally. And interesting. The other thing that I was thinking of too is there's this moment of, you know, I've learned that incremental wins end up building lasting foundations. Like it's got to be incremental. However, I know that for myself and even from Bryce in the story, and probably for you, because we know that there's a little Bryce in you. Right. There's these moments where we set our expectation on here. Right. And we're actually having little micro wins, but yet we're so focused here that we're not paying any attention to just rewarding ourselves briefly for the micro wins. Right. How do we begin to see that we're actually on a journey and not a destination?

I think the first part is like, it's a societal like ingrained attitude, you know, just strive and the life will be great. When it gets to the exalted part, you know, World Series champion. Woohoo. You know, just everything is the panacea. It's perfect. It's where I want to be. But to go to the point of like, why don't we celebrate the little wins? Because we've forgotten so much of like the struggle. We've forgotten, you know, what made the past great and how that led us to where we're going. You know, one of the mentors that I've gained last year is Grant Cardone. You know, when he said, you know, on his tips on, you know, going to broken mentally figuratively. But that mentality is crystal clear. When you're talking about, you know, you're going to broke, you're forced to embrace the smallest wins. You're forced to really say, okay, how can I the past be better incrementally going into the future? And so will too often, so many people are. I pace to put the past behind them, though, but myself, I say to myself, what was I in the past, though? What feelings that I have that I don't want to take into the new year? Or what are things and habits and the state of beings and the state of mind that I'm in right now that I don't want to have for the next 12 months?

Yeah, no, that's perfect. In fact, Grant Cardone was one of our very first guests back in the day about a year ago, and Undercover Billionaire had just come out, and we were. We were chatting a little bit before we hopped officially on air, and I was like, so you did it, huh? He's like, yeah. I said, what'd you learn? He goes, I learned I don't ever have to do it again if I can help it.

But in all seriousness, I feel like the most transformational growth actually tends to happen when your back is really against the wall and you're ultimately have to fight your way out. You know, it brings back this memory of, if I'm not mistaken, I'm more. I'm much more of a hockey nut than a baseball nut. So forgive me on that. I love both sports. Right. But one of the things I remember is Babe Ruth. Yeah, he had. He had home runs out the wazoo, but he also had just as many strikeouts.

Right. He didn't just run off and just kill it every time. I think it was about 50% of the time he was up at bat. He didn't hit anything. So how does, how does, how does that play into us? Are we. Or do you think we're spending too much time swinging for the fences rather than trying to get on base?

Absolutely. I mean, the whole, you know, the whole of life right now is swing for the fences, swing for, you know, the hyper commercialism, swing for, you know, over leveraged or over this or over that, or your life will only get better when you cross, you know, the green monster, so to speak.

Transcend the next, you know, galaxy far, far away. But that kind of approach of like, it must be bigger and grander or it's not good enough.

Yeah.

And the curveball is really, you know, a tool to say step that back, though that does not serve, you know, that adversity is your friend and you will succeed because of that, not in spite of that.

Yeah, no, I love it. You know, I'm happy it's out. Came out in October. You guys have to check it out for sure. The curveball is amazing. It's an easy read, which I was thinking, I was mentioned to you before we hopped on there, one of my roles, obviously, in having a show and having wonderful thought leaders like yourself on is I have to prepare. And so I read a lot of books. Like, it's forced me to read a lot of books continually. Like, I'm talking like three to four a month. Like, and, you know, and as I'm going through this, it was just so nice to actually pick up something that was an easy read. It was enjoyable. Like, I love the stories. I love the analogies. I love the moments of transition and transformation. So it's, It's. It's as much a practical book as it is an inspirational book. And I think it's. I think it's perfect for anybody in the audience that has maybe had a really tough time the last two years, right. And maybe feels like they want to give up. Maybe they feel like they're not going anywhere. Maybe they feel like their efforts aren't measuring up. I found it to be a great reminder. Obviously, your journey's never over provided you stay on the journey.

Totally.

Right. So I'm curious, you know, a lot of authors that they have their special place they like to, you know, send books to or whatever. Where. Where would you prefer everybody go and pick up the curveball?

You can find the curveball on Amazon and ebook, paperback and audiobook form. You can connect with me on social media at Instagram. Is Colby Sharma official. C O L B Y S H A R M A official. Check out my mailing list on my website@www.colby sharma.com. if you found this helpful, get in touch with me about my private coaching for my scouting report coaching program while I work with you, one on one, one hour a day for 30 days so we can find where you're winning and augment any areas for improvement. And I'm also available for private speaking to companies and individuals.

Dude, I had no idea you had a coaching program. You didn't tell me about that. Shame on you. All right, we got another five. We're another five minutes on your coaching program. What's going on with your coaching program.

Called the scouting report? I work with individuals, one on one, one hour a day for 30 days. So it's really unique and great value. One hour a day for 30 days. You'll get me. We'll talk about where you're winning, find areas for improvement. So as we exit the pandemic, the Runway will be very smooth. There'll be no turbulence.

No turbulence, or just less turbulence.

Well, I mean, that's awesome, dude. Who's that coaching program really for. I mean, like, tell me about the person that is best fit for that.

It's individuals that are going through a lot right now that really feel overwhelmed, really feel there's too much complexity in the air, and I want to know how to mitigate that. That's the ideal archetype for the program, but it's also available for corporations, for a corporate group, different price points. But feel free to get in touch with me and sign up on the website through the Scouting report tab and I'll see you in the program.

That's awesome, dude. Well, let me ask you this. Is that. Is this something you have to come to you for because you're. Are you still in Canada?

I'm in the UK right now.

Oh, okay. Cool. All right, well.

So in that case, if you're in the uk, you can go stop by Real Time, and if you're in the us you probably want to do Zoom or some kind of video conference call at least to get going, right?

Colby, man, I've enjoyed it, man. I can't thank you enough for spending some time with me. It is a great read. It's a great book. It's a great heart behind it. I'm a big believer that certain books call you to write them. And it's clear in the manuscript itself, there's a lot of heart, a lot of intention, a lot of well meaning behaviors and practicality in there, man. So thank you again for taking the time to write it.

Stephen, thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it. Great to be here with you and thanks so much.

All right, dude, take care.

Peace. Be in touch. Bye.

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