Dr. Gary Arnold has delivered over 1,600 keynotes worldwide and consults with healthcare professionals on delegation and focus. He credits his long marriage and weekly reading habit to his success, and emphasizes that trying to do everything leads to mediocrity.
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All right, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Business Blast Podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Wagner. Today I have Dr. Gary Arnold with us. He's a top international public speaker, digital marketing executive, strategist, business consultant, and as an expert in business PR, he has circumnavigated the globe 22 times giving over 1,600 keynotes and consulting sessions. So welcome to the show, man.
Great to be here, Tyler Wagner Wagner.
Great to have you on. So, um, let's dive right into the first one. The first one I got for you, Gary, is what is the What's the best story from your life that has an underlying valuable message?
Wow, it's gonna— I'll make it really quick. It's a longer story, but I'm gonna make it really quick. So I was adopted at the age of 2, and I just picked the parent lottery, and it was just wonderful, best, best friends. But at 33, by a confluence of circumstances, I had a company that I was doing a national rollout for that worked with adopted people. And I just happened to mention that I was adopted. And they said, well, do you know who your adoptive parents are? I said, no. Do you want to? I said, it never really crossed my mind. I love the parents that picked me up because they always called me a chosen child. Anyhow, I said, but I wouldn't mind it. So 2 weeks later, they literally dropped the dossier on my desk of my birth parents. And, uh, they were an hour away. And I read over the family and the history and all of this stuff. So I knocked on the door. I just knocked and my dog just went crazy.
That makes me mad.
It's okay. It's okay.
I love it.
No, that'll make the podcast more authentic.
It's good. So, so I went over, I introduced myself, we had a long conversation. And I introduced myself as someone that was doing study of the Partlow lineage, which was my birth name. And we sat down at a bar. She, she talked to me, was real impressed. And I pushed over my birth certificate and I said, do you know this name? And she, she looked at me and then she looked back up and she said, are you Earl Partlow, which is my birth name. And I said, yes, I am. And she got up off this bar stool in her kitchen and she picked me up out of this chair and she literally starts swinging me around. And she says, I can't believe you're Earl Pottlow. I can't believe you're Earl Pottlow. And we reunited to come to find out I had a brother 15 years my senior who didn't know he had a brother. And it was just an incredible event that they've both since passed away, but we were literally best friends. From that time forward. So I'm going to say, you know, to people, just take a risk. It's— life is too— has too many levels, too many dimensions, too many opportunities, just not to take a risk and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
Absolutely. Dude, that is an incredible—
it was wonderful.
Yeah, that's awesome.
So the next one I have for you, man, is what is the most valuable piece of information we should know that's within your expertise or industry?
Um, so I do business consulting and business strategy, and I do it for doctors, dentists, chiropractors, um, estheticians, that type of thing. And, and what I find is these are brilliant people. I mean, they're really brilliant people, but they, they're, most of them, brilliant in the segment of their expertise. And so they might be great doctors and not great business people. And I think most people should recognize that they try to do all things and they shouldn't. So, so the most successful doctors, dentists, chiropractors that I work with are the ones that delegate what they don't do well, and they find people that are experts like they are to help them out. And I see too many people, way too many people try to do everything to all people all the time And it screws them up. It literally leads them into the land of mediocrity.
Mm-hmm. And it could tie in, but then what's your best piece of overall business advice? So not necessarily industry-specific.
You know, I think you have to have a focus. I mean, if you aren't following something that really gets your juices flowing in the morning and follow that passion, get another, get another job. And, you know, you've got to have something that excites you. Life's just too friggin short not to get up and do what you love.
And if you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would that be?
You know, I was a risk taker when I was young. I was maybe a little bit too extreme of a risk taker. And I think when I was young, I'd say put a little bit more of the reins on so that I could use other people's expertise. And then the older I got, I'd say take the reins off and risk more.
And then so kind of going a little bit down a different path, in your opinion, what is the key to happiness?
Oh, I married the love of my life. And You know, we've been together almost 20 years, and we just have, we just have a great relationship. And one of the reasons that we do is we both love ourselves. And, you know, doing that, we can get together, and then we both love ourselves as a couple. But we love ourselves individually first. You know, I'm happy with who I am, and my wife's happy with who she is. So go out and try to be happy with who you are. And, and a lot of people aren't. You— a lot of people are you know, have a very thin veneer of happiness covering a big blob of miserableness.
And then what is the best book that you've read? What was the number one thing you learned from that?
Oh, you know, I'm a Tony Robbins fan. So I got to, you know, give a shout out to Tony. And I love The 4-Hour Workweek and the Tribes book. So Tim Ferriss is like a a guru for me. And, you know, I read a book every single week or listen to a book every single week. I'm an Audible fanatic. Yes. Yeah. So that's— and I would say, you know, both of those guys are, you know, entrepreneurs that have shared tremendously. And go out and listen to those guys because they're just They will help your expertise and broaden your expertise.
And what is your favorite quote and why?
Oh, my favorite quote. It— hang on one second. Life's too short. Oh, geez.
It doesn't have to be exact. It could be like a mantra.
Life's too short not to Go out and do your best. But, you know, I feel a little bit ashamed because my mother always had a quote. It's literally on the tip of my tongue.
It's okay.
Yeah, no worries.
So listen, thank you so much for coming on. The last one that I have for you before we let you go is where can our audience best find you online?
Well, they can see me at Wind Horse. That's WindHorse.org. And I've got an Instagram account, it's Instagram.com/DrGaryArnold and a Facebook page, it's Facebook.com/DrGaryArnold. So they can see us there. And I just want to give you a shout out too and say congrats on the butterfly book. You got to be proud of that one, Tyler Wagner.
Ah, thank you so much. Yes, that was a a client of mine. I guess it was about a year and a half, 2 years ago. Yeah, we did very well with that book.
You know, being a publisher is, you help a ton of people because people that can tell their story. Book writing has been a phenomenal thing for me. No, it's, I've written 18 books.
It's 18.
I didn't know. So it's, it's a, it's a phenomenal thing for me. You know, if we we had you on video here. But, you know, I've had quotes from the likes of— I had a couple quotes from Neale Donald Walsch that wrote Conversations with God. But I've had Dan Kennedy gave me an accolade. He's, you know, no BS marketing. You can't, you can't do better than that. And Joe Lake, who was an EVP for Children's Miracle Network, Bart Starr, Rocky Blair, 4-time NFL Super Bowl champion, you know, endorsed a couple of my books. Ken Blanchard did, and Michael LaBouffe did. Art Linkletter, even when I was writing a long time ago, wrote me an inside, you know, preface. So I commend you on doing what you do, and I'll really encourage people to use your services because it could change their professional life big time.
Absolutely, man. Thank you so much for that. And that is awesome, man. 18 books, that is incredible.
You know, if people realize they've got a story, they don't— does it sit inside of them instead of outside of them? They just, you know, tell it. It could help a whole bunch of other people.
Well, dude, thank you so much for that, and, uh, we will definitely be talking to you again soon. Thanks again for coming up.
Have a great day, and thanks so much for having me on. It's been fun.
