Nick Anderson: You're Always Becoming Your Best Self | The Business Blast Podcast #64

All right everyone, welcome back to the Business Blast podcast. I'm your host Tyler Wagner, and today I have a special guest named Nick Anderson. He's a white kid from Idaho, so welcome to the show, Nick.

What's going on, Tyler? Appreciate you for having me on, my man.

Of course, man, thank you for coming on. I'll dive right into the first question. The first one is, is what's the best story from your life that has an underlying valuable message?

So the best story from my life, I guess you could say when I was in college and I was dating this girl at the time. And one night we were gonna go to a party, so bought a bottle for both of us. You know, I was in a fraternity, so that sort of lifestyle was pretty crazy. I, you know, long story short, she had one drink, I had the rest of the bottle, and we were on our way out and I was walking out of the walking out of the door, going down the staircase, and my goofy self tripped and fell down the entire staircase and landed headfirst at the bottom, knocked out cold, pooled my own blood. One of my buddies had to come and pick me up and drag me pretty much into the car. And I was out cold, unconscious. I came to in the ER with my girlfriend right there next to me. I was holding hands with her. And I was like, "What happened?" with a bag of ice on my face. And my lip was completely busted. My tooth was knocked back at a 45-degree angle. And I got in, you know, he stitched up my lip, right? And got me in a state where I was just like, pretty much fixed my tooth, right? That happened a few days later. But what happened was I was doing, I was selling stuff, you know, from overseas. I call them bootleg Beats by Dre headphones. And like snapback hats and jerseys and stuff. I was at a point in my life where I was just lost. I was lost. Maybe you're feeling that right now if you're listening to this podcast where you're doing something right now that you know isn't your purpose. That's what it was like for me. I was living a lifestyle that I knew wasn't going to be long-term. I was doing things that I knew wasn't empowering people, and I needed to make a change. So, I pretty much had a conversation with God. I said, "God." I was talking and making prayers and basically saying, "I need something in my life." that is legal, it's sustainable, it's long-term, it's my purpose, it's something that I know the reason why I'm here on Earth other than getting drunk every other night, going to parties, and selling bootleg Beats by Dre headphones. So, I made that prayer to God. And immediately, that's when network marketing came into my life. And one of my friends from the fraternity, he hit me up about it later. This was later in the summer when I came back home from school. And That's when my life just completely started to change and transform when I was 19 years old. So, you know, that was about like 6 years ago. And that little situation caused me, you know, to make the change.

Wow. And if you don't mind me asking, what was the network marketing company that like catapulted you?

So, so it was called Vemma. It was a health and nutrition company and it was basically like all about healthy nutrition, which was part of my interest too. You know, I was studying exercise science and health in school and Through Exercise Science and Health, you know, being a personal— wanting to be a personal trainer, it fit perfectly with my forte and the niche that I wanted to go into. Long story short, obviously, I mean, that was the first business. No longer with it, but I learned some great, great valuable lessons that are timeless and priceless that I took with me and applied into my current life right now and the businesses that I'm building right now.

Gotcha. And the next question I have is, what's the most valuable piece of information we should know that's within your expertise or industry?

Man, man, I would just say, you know, surround yourself with the people that you want to be like, not only from a financial perspective but from a lifestyle perspective. Because so many people, you know, they have mentors in their life, but their mentors, you know, are lacking in some areas, and they're taking all the information that they share with each other and adopting that as, you know, who they are and kind of modeling after that. So it's like, you know, surround yourself— you can have multiple mentors, you know, especially in network marketing. Most people think that, you know, their upline or the person in the business that is coaching them and teaching them knows all and has all the answers. But the reality is, like, when I was in my first business and I was asking advice from my upline, he didn't, he didn't have all the answers. He didn't know everything, and he thought he did, you know, at that time, because we're all young, you know, like operating based on ego, you know, which is edging God out. And, you know, he's teaching me these things which helped me out, you know. I'm very grateful for those lessons. But at the same time, like, he, he wasn't truly refined in that aspect in different areas of life. So I have multiple mentors in my life that I learned from through, like, Obviously books too, and audios, listening to on a daily basis. And then people in person that could teach me in different aspects of life, and modeling after their strengths, and seeing their weaknesses, and understanding that I don't have to adopt those weaknesses and allow them to become my own.

And so this ties in with the next question, or it might be the same answer, but what's your best piece of overall business advice? So not necessarily industry-specific.

So my best business advice, would be never stop learning. It's the most simple thing ever, but so many people, they, they get to a point in life where they think they know it and they understand it all, and that cuts off any future learning. So the best teachers are the greatest students. So if you want to be able to be a master teacher, you have to be a master student. Always be attending events, seminars, reading, listening to audios, and always learning. Because whenever you stop learning, you stop growing, you know. And it's like Jim Rohn would always say, you know, in life you're either growing or you're dying. There's no such thing as staying the same. So I hope that you make a choice to always be growing. Otherwise, you're pretty much like screwed, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And if you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would that be?

Well, I'm still a young man, so I'm still learning. But, uh, I would just say, you know, I would say be in the moment, you know, understand that you grow through what you go through and that your current situation is not your final destination. You know, these little incremental points in your life are just lessons, all right, that you need to learn from an emotional perspective. And being able to appreciate those moments, both negative and positive, because there is no negative or positive, there just is, right? It's like, you know, we can get into a whole tangent about this stuff, man, about time and everything, how it's an illusion and all this stuff, like The Matrix and all that. But at the same time, like my younger self, I'd just say, you know, have fun, enjoy the moment, you know, surround yourself with good people and just realize that, you know, life is a journey. You know, we're all along this crazy ride.

And in your opinion, what's the key to happiness?

Progress and good people and just being in the now. If you're not progressing, you're not going to be happy. If you're stagnant, you're going to slowly but surely, depression will start sinking in. If you're just doing the same thing over and over and over again, you're going to have a midlife crisis. I had a midlife crisis at 19 years old. I started to realize that the current life that I was living was just this state that wasn't allowing me to step into my true potential, my purpose. Once I finally found my purpose and I started progressing through that, it allowed me to feel like one year was an entire lifetime. Of lessons and just realizing that progress is what made me happy. When I stopped progressing, I wasn't happy. I had to do that. Living in the now too, just being in the present moment, it's so hard for people to do because they're either living in the future, which is where anxiety resides, or they're living in the past, which is where depression lives. In order to live in the now, that's why they call it a present because it's a gift. If you can figure out ways through meditation, to live in the now and surround yourself with good people and good energy that allows you to feel positive emotions the majority of the time.

And, what's the best book you've read and what was the number one thing you learned from it?

I would say "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy. And, the best thing I learned from it was how powerful our subconscious mind is and how we can heal our bodies and we store past trauma. Every single memory, think of our mind like a computer, Google, that is programmed into our minds everything that happens from our childhood, and every single traumatic event is stored in our bodies. Those traumatic events happen through our childhood to the point where we are today. Most of them we forget about, but they're stored in our mind. You can heal your body, right? You can heal your life. You can fix everything through your subconscious mind, which is like an iceberg, right? 95% of the iceberg is below the water that you don't see, which is most of the memories in your life. Throughout your whole life, there's certain significant events that you you might remember, but all these little events like at kindergarten, you know, what some girl said to you when you asked her out, right? Maybe she said no, you're gross, and that you store that in your mind, right? So tapping into all these memories that are holding us back from achieving what we want, bringing them to the surface and relearning them in a different way.

And what's your favorite quote and why?

Oh man, so many quotes. Um, I would say work harder on yourself than you do on your job to make an investment in your future. Because if you work hard on your job, you can make a living. But if you work harder on yourself than you do on your job, you can make a fortune. So, I've kind of adopted that as my personal philosophy. That was from Jim Rohn. He's from Idaho as well. And basically, just learning on a consistent basis and working harder on myself because most people, they let their schooling interfere with their education. And if you let your schooling interfere with your education, you stop learning from the point you graduate.

Dude, thank you so much, uh, for coming on. The last question I have for you is, where's the best place for people to find you online?

I would say YouTube, if you just type in my name Nick Anderson. Um, Instagram, Nick Anderson 208, or, um, Facebook, you can look at my name as well. I'm on there. Those 3 platforms I'm using consistently. And, um, you know, I love making videos. So if you guys love watching videos and learning and, uh, you're dedicated to the process of just like becoming your best self— because you never become your best self, you're always in a state of becoming your best self. So, you know, as I'm learning, as I'm growing, I'm just sharing my journey with you guys. And I'm not a guru, you know what I'm saying? Like Tony Robbins, I'm not your guru. I'm just sharing my experiences. If you guys resonate with that and you vibe with that, that's awesome. Uh, if not, no big deal.

Awesome, Nick. Thank you so much again for coming on, man.

Yo, I appreciate you, Tyler, and look forward to hearing all the other audios you got, bro.

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