what's up everyone welcome back to hustle s fault life motivation I am here
to serve you as always and you are here because like me you believe that
holistic success is not only possible but it is something that is your goal we
all come here to learn from amazing guests so we can follow in the footsteps
and essentially reached the same level of success that they have managed to
reach and also create the same extraordinary results that they have
created for themselves today I'm joined by somebody really
really special his name is G Brian Benson he is absolutely phenomenal he's
the founder of reawaken media he is an award-winning and number one
best-selling author filmmaker after a TEDx speaker and he is also a four times
Ironman triathlete so with that please help me welcome Brian to the show Brian
thanks for being here thank you oh my pleasure it's a pleasure to meet you
thank you so Brian you have done so much and and just before we started recording
we were talking about the other products that you're working on right now and you
actually started in your family's business so I know there's a fantastic
story you know behind all of this so let's start there let's start with that
amazing story of how you were in your family business and then you left that
to venture out into the unknown and created such extraordinary results for
yourself sure thank you basically I'm from Oregon and my family we had a Golf
Center it was a driving range and a retail store and a nine-hole for a three
course and I kind of grew up working there and I ended up running it for 11
years after I got out of college and after a while it just I just kind of
felt like I was done growing there and I felt like I was supposed to do something
else with my life I had no idea what it was at the time but I had a conversation
my dad and said you know III want to leave and and they I mean I would have
done it either way but thank thankfully he was accepting of that he
just you know he wanted me to be happy and so that was great but it ended up
taking me a year from that conversation to actually leave because we decided to
sell it and so you know how to go there the whole process of listing and
interviewing potential buyers etc so during that year I was just ready to hit
the road and just start my new life whatever that meant
and I was I found myself becoming kind of out of balance and so one day I just
sat down and wrote down five things that I felt would help me stay in balance
during this period but and they really did you know and after a little maybe a
month or two my intuition was saying expand the list and write a book and I
never written a book before so I sat down and the tail end of being at the
job I just kind of had this simple book on how to stay in balance pour through
me and I did that and I end up self-publishing it in 2009 and I didn't
even think Amazon had creates space then if they did I didn't know about it I
just found an editor and a layout person in order 2,000 copies probably too many
but it ended up winning a couple of awards which really surprised me and Wow
but yet that is kind of what pointed me on this whole journey that I've been on
since you know I was terrified to speak in front of people and it will flip me
rephrase this verse right after I left the business I ended up moving to Reno
Nevada to be near my son who was just entering high school then and so in
addition to you know reconnecting and being there for him I also kind of
started to reinvent myself but I was terrified to speak in front of people
and I knew that I would need to if I wanted to share the book I need to get
better at that and so I forced myself to take Community College speech classes
and I signed up for Toastmasters for a while I thanks I did a whole bunch of
things to step out of my comfort zone I I created a workshop for
book that I can give to people I made it interactive so I didn't have to talk the
whole time but I found out that it worked really well that way guys I I
hired someone to be a co-host with me on an internet radio show who had been
doing it for a while because I was terrified and I and I sign up for an
acting class because I thought that would be another thing that might help
me just get more comfortable I know what no plans on acting so they're after the
acting class finished I I had a dream about this idea which I woke up and
wrote down and I met a young filmmaker just randomly and I said hey I had this
idea that might be kind of a fun short film I don't know how to make one but
would you do it with me and he said sure so a couple weeks weeks later we found
ourselves on the streets of Reno Nevada making guitar man and it was really an
empowering experience for me because number one I've never acted before
number two I've never played guitar in front of
anybody I was always a closeted guitarist and yet I did both of those in
the film and it ended up doing kind of well at film festivals and so I mean
feel free to pop in if you have any questions I mean there's just one thing
leads to another leads to another you know what I mean sure but somebody saw
that short film and invited me to be in their short film and the female lead was
a really talented actress who's been in Hollywood forever and she's in her 80s
now but her mom parents were actors her mom was in Citizen Kane way back in the
30s but so I met Jill and it was a really sweet short film and we stayed in
touch she lived in LA I still lived in Nevada and one day we were chatting and
I just felt like my intuition was kind of telling me to come move here and she
said out of the blue was moving out apparently she had a studio attached to
her house so I moved there for the first two and a half years and it was nice
because you know I knew someone and it kind of made it a little easier to
navigate all the newness of a big city and exposing myself to a really
beautiful yet difficult yet industry you know of acting there's another word I'm
trying to think if it's not coming to me right now but but it's it's acting's
been really great for me because I started studying as soon as I got here
and it's been such an important part of my self growth process you know I've
learned to just be able to feel more and just not only obviously become more
comfortable in front of people but just it's really really helped me gain get
some more you know self-worth and and and and come to grips with with some
areas that maybe I will listen compl it's just been really magical you know
has no ways been easy obviously and then during that whole process I also wrote
another book and then I also put together a couple kids books and so it's
just really been a matter of kind of like I said my TEDx talk I just happily
expect the unexpected you know I have an idea
of I want to do what I do kind of on a bigger scale and I'm not really here to
tell anybody what to do but I kind of feel like I'm supposed to be just an
example for others to just try to live as authentically as they can and to to
share you know and be themselves and if they have any creativity inside of them
to share it I mean I did not know any of this was inside of me until it kind of
started unexpectedly appearing so I'm just letting things continue to evolve
brilliant that's awesome great story right and thank you for
showing that um do you think it's more important to have a plan in place before
you go ahead and start to following your you know intuition and start taking
action or do you feel that we have to wait for the right moment where you have
clarity where you have the inspiration and then go ahead and take out I think
it's a combination of both both I think you need to really when making a
decision run it through your your heart filter you know what I mean and really
try to get honest with what the information you're being told I'm you
know maybe sometimes we might we use this too much but you know what I mean
it and and our decisions are based on out of feet here maybe your that or what
they think we should do and so you know it's hard not to completely get all of
that out but for me I just early on it was just all systems go I'm doing what I
feel like I'm supposed to do and I didn't let any editor I didn't let my my
head get in the way now my head's gotten in the way along all on the routes as
certain things have happened and as I feel like maybe certain things are
supposed to happen and my expectations get build up and and instead of just
really trying to stay grounded with it you know I let some disappointment come
in when something doesn't happen the way I hoped it would which can ultimately I
feel like it will but it I think for me expectations in some ways have kind of
helped nullify some of the joy of this the journey that I've been on I mean
I've been it's been great but yeah that's also been painful in a lot of
ways too because I haven't I'm a very driven
person and I haven't sometimes celebrated my wins like I should have
and patted myself on the back and taking a brief moment of just reflection on the
really cool thing that maybe I was able to produce or accomplish it was always
kind of like what's next you know to get me to that proverbial finish line which
there is no finish line it really is about just enjoying the moments that
you're in whether it's creating whether it's connecting with somebody whether
it's you know whatever it is walking yeah I I beat myself up along the way he
doesn't know it hasn't all been rosy yeah I mean you know what I can relate
to that very strongly I'm very much like that I'm sure people in the audience as
well they can relate to that where you accomplish something and once you've
accomplished that you you don't take the time to celebrate it you don't take the
time to really you know kind of internalize what you managed to do once
you manage to create a bunch in order to achieve and you then we want the next
thing and I'm definitely like that I doing one thing it's like okay fine
television what's next let's go crush that Brian but do you think we do that
to ourselves Wow well I think there's a variety of reasons one you know ever has
to do with self worthiness and I know I've had to work on that a lot and a lot
of people would think with all that I've done she's got that licked but you know
there's parts of me that I'm still trying to really fully love and accept
myself hmm and so I think for some people the
accomplishment temporarily feeds their self-esteem and that's where they get
their sense of being from but it's short-lived you know as you know because
it's got to come from within and it's something that you know I've understood
and I'll actually forever but yet until you really sometimes it's just that I
don't know you know it's it takes things to happen or we're just not ready for it
to really sink in but I'm getting the place where I'm really you know getting
more comfortable myself and not feeling the need to to grind like I do I mean I
have goals I mean when I was three I told my mom and I split her to inspire
people you know so I feel like I'm I want to share on a big scale and then
you know I don't feel like it's ego driven I hope not I mean we all have
some ego and probably we need to have a little bit to kind of keep us moving
along but that that knowledge that I told her that and that's you know
holding out of that it's kind of probably been a blessing and a burden
because I since I feel like I know where I'm supposed to go that's kind of driven
me maybe sometimes in ways that have not been beneficial to me right right yeah
so Brian when when you talk about the fact that you want to share the message
and you want to make an impact how important is that for you
and and why do you feel that that is something that you have to do I think
some of that still remains to be seen I mean part of it I think was just what we
just talked about the whole self worthiness thing I mean there's part of
me that felt like I needed to do that too to allow myself to feel worthy but
it's interesting I've been changing quite a bit lately I don't know if it's
maturity or astrologically whatever but it's just like I'm I'm not okay I was
about to say I'm not caring as much caring is not the right word it's just
I'm letting go and surrendering even more to the process and try to just find
joy in creating and and and letting whatever I create be whatever it is
supposed to be yeah I'll give you a pointings an example about a year and a
half ago and I released my first children's book you know I was really
proud of it I felt like it turned out great and actually reached number one on
Amazon in its category for a couple days well which was awesome but yet I was
depressed for the whole week after that I think I just I put I don't know what I
expected it's just that I kind of the straw that broke my camel's back though
because I felt like if I'm not gonna have fun doing this and I'm gonna put
all this pressure on myself I don't want to do it anymore
yeah and so it that really was a big game changer for me and it's helped me
just chill out and just try to come into my my being
authenticity even more you know what I mean and just and just share in the open
and just let things land where they're supposed to land awesome
so Bryan you you've mentioned it a few times of our living authentically how do
you define that what's your definition of living
authentic you I think it all starts with just total self acceptance you know and
honoring what you have to work with and
boy you know the love for ourselves is a foundation for everything I mean if we
can love ourselves everything else just seems to kind of fall into place you
know we don't carry some of the fear that we might you know hold on to when
we're not sure of who we are or we're trying to be somebody else or we don't
we're not carrying all that extra energy of just like you know worry and and you
know should I say this or what are people going to think if I say this or
you know what I mean it's just there's a huge level of freedom that comes when we
can just totally accept ourselves and I think that's where authenticity starts
and then it's just a matter of just honoring your feelings and being
truthful about them you know yeah love it I absolutely love it that's that's
the spray and I struggled with that I struggled with that and I'm sure people
in the audience can relate as well and then I'm sure some of them struggle with
this as well what did the forces look for you like for you where you learn to
love yourself and you learn to you know walk on yourself and follow your
intuition what did the process look like for you yeah what did it look like I
don't know if I can explain what it look like for me but I mean it's definitely a
process and I think just it's it can be slow at times and sometimes we can have
epiphanies you know it kind of popped through something but I mean it's it's a
process for sure yeah do you have any pauses sorry I was one
if you have any plans that allow you to go yeah yeah yeah yeah let me say this
one thing first before I just check some of those so all the projects that I've
done whether it's the books or some of the short films you name it they've all
been extensions of myself growth process mmm
for example short film that came out a few years ago called searching for
happiness and at the time I didn't really realize it but if you look at it
now it's just like it was my own search for happiness you know as I I won't
spoil the film it's it's on YouTube and my website but it's it's it's done in a
creative way and this person is searching for happiness they're reading
a book called searching for happiness as well and they're just kind of observing
and watching life and some some interesting things happen in a unique
way that kind of enables the the character to understand where true
happiness comes from but but so that was just an extension of me but as far as
practices go exercise has always been a big part of my life that helps me you
know just to feel better about myself fairly healthy eating makes a big
difference you know I like to meditate I like to walk that that's huge what else
I probably don't read as much as I should but after the chat we had earlier
that you inspired me to start doing that more so thank you that yeah you know
just just trying to surround myself with I'm blessed I have a lot of really kind
positive acquaintances in my life and friends and so that that plays a big
part as well you don't know yeah surround yourself with other people that
are vibrating at a higher level and and just inspire you to you know continue
the process absolutely absolutely and with the reading thing to be honest I
actually am part off an online book club to hold me accountable yeah to hold me
accountable essentially because if I'm not then I
let things slide you know you just get busy with other stuff and let things
slide but my goal is to read a book a month and you know that that's because
I'm part of the book club so you know I'm forced to make sure that I I'm gonna
be held accountable so I have to read those books so that might be a good
strategy for for people who are you know wondering how they can start to read
more it's just join a book club or put them together you know get some friends
together and see you know if you can start yeah you know for some reason it's
always been hard for me to read during the day I always feel like I should be
doing something I don't know more physical or I don't know and I just need
that I need to let that go because reading is a form of meditation as well
yeah you know absolutely and I think with nowadays it's not just you know you
don't have to have physical books you can get audio books you can get podcasts
you can listen to you know lectures online all sorts of stuff right so it's
all available to him so it's not it's really I think you know for anybody
really you don't really have an excuse for I don't read books anymore so you
know I have audiobooks I I listen to a lot of podcast my you know journey to
and back from work is something where I'm always listening to an audiobook or
a podcast I also read a book a month and and sometimes I read more than once you
know because some months you you have more time compared to you know other
months or some weeks of better so you just sit down and just like rush to
books in a month sometime but that's that is something that I i'm using an is
kind of working for me so i thought i'll share that yeah thank you yeah problem
so Brian let's take in a different action do you believe in holistic
success sure do me a favor and explain maybe a definition of holistic success
because I'm definitely a fan of holistic methods
so basically what this is that for most people they have goals in terms of their
career their jobs their businesses what card they want what others do want to go
on what house they want to live in how much money the one in the bank account
you know what investments they want to help or assets they want to own what
kind of relationship they want but mainly what they do is they focus on one
area or you know just few areas but they are not looking at everything else so
they might be ignoring their health they might be ignoring your spirituality they
might be ignoring their finances their relationships while they are just you're
going after that one thing now I believe that it's possible to have holistic
success by which I mean you can be successful in all areas of your life now
not you you won't be able to maintain the same level of say success in every
area all the time but it's something that you can work on all the areas and
accelerate and improve on all those things so it's not just that your
marriage your personal relationships have been the same for literally years
and decades you have not made any progress you have not had any you know
more insightful conversations or for example in terms of your you know
personal development you haven't read any more books or you know go and
connecting with any different people so I believe that holistic success requires
you to go ahead and take a lot of action in all those different areas of your
life so you can accelerate all areas of your life I totally agree with you you
know I I think anybody that becomes successful in just one thing and
negative number one I don't think they're gonna be that happy
or it could be short-lived you know and I don't think you just need to have a
strong foundation to to allow success to be sustainable and if you're just
focusing on one thing I don't think it can be yeah I mean if you know all the
other areas are successful or we're spending
some some attention on them and we have great relationships with family and
friends or maybe even a loved one you know in that in and of itself is can be
very inspiring and it's just you know
just solidifying yeah yeah I actually love the word that you use they're
sustainable all right I love that word so let's go further that let's define
holistic success as success that where you were accelerating all areas of your
life but you're able to sustain it over a long period of time and not just a
matter of you know you have a great relationship at home with your family
for say a week and then obviously that gets pushed to the back of the pile why
actually go and you know tackle something else right you know something
just popped into my head it may not be true but it feels like if somebody is
just focusing on one thing that can be maybe ego driving it and that in and of
itself is not gonna allow it probably to be sustainably successful either yeah
yeah and but but I do believe that in the very short term sometimes it's very
even you know it's it's required of you to just focus on one thing because
either there's a problem there that needs to be solved or the fact is that
you will not you know accelerate that area of your life without that kind of
very focused input so in the short term yes there might be a time where you need
to put in a lot of effort and a lot of energy into just one area but overall
but you look at the bigger picture you really need to be looking at holistic
success and not just in like I need to be a millionaire in the next you know 10
years or so I totally agree in it you know as we talked off the air prior I
told you right now I'm just basically Oh focusing on down by the June and in some
ways I felt like it has been a kind of a joy
to rest my brain and all the other things and balls that I've been juggling
to just focus on that but it won't be forever but it's just you know so yes I
agree with that awesome awesome because I think that if
you want to accelerate any area of your life you're gonna have to put
disproportionate amount of time effort resources money etc into that one area
to actually move it to the next level and then you can go and go back to
focusing on other areas but definitely for that one area to go further you have
to allocate disproportionate kind of resources and effort and time into that
for the short term and then you can go back and look at the other areas and
make sure that you're you know accelerating them as well yeah and I
while you're saying that I'm saying I'm looking back at the last eight or nine
years that I've been on my journey I've tried so many different things and
they've you know been landed well but just a lot of it stuff I haven't really
honed it mm-hmm and really even so I think I'm not gonna
beat myself up for it because all the different things that I've done have
open doors in different ways which have been great and then sometimes maybe a
certain door open because of all the different things that I'm doing rather
than I'm at the point now where I I need to take it one step further and hone
even more yeah yeah absolutely perfect awesome so Brian thank you Brian
I know that you're working on your book right now your latest book at the moment
can you tell us a little bit about what the book is about sure right now we
don't have a title but in a nutshell it's gonna be a whole bunch of different
things that I've done the last eight or nine years that have helped me build my
foundation and I'm gonna even know little inspired ideas in a whole bunch
of different areas that have helped me and so I'm gonna talk about them you
know how I learned through them as well as maybe share some personal stories so
it I'm wanting it to be kind of a fun inspiring
book that also gets people thinking and helps hopefully give gives them some
great ideas to help strengthen their foundation - fantastic
awesome and Brian where can people go to find out more about you and to connect
with you and how can they actually help you right now thank you well my website
is the letter it's G Brian Benson calm and got a lot of stuff on there my short
films and TEDx talk and you name it I tried to make it a fun site and you know
as far as how can you help me I'd love to just to keep in touch and then
maintain a friendship and just kind of continue the dialogue perfect awesome
awesome well there you have it guys are amazing
conversation with G Brian Benson he is absolutely amazing he had some really
amazing insights and I definitely have some really big takeaways form from this
conversation including the fact that you have to just take action and not wait
for inspiration and hopeful clarity to fall in your lap and the fact that we
have to follow our intuition and that is the only way we will actually find
clarity also Brian talked a lot about you know living authentically and what
that actually means and how you can actually achieve it you talked about his
daily practices of meditation just taking a walk and finding the joy in
small things because guess what if you try and chase after the horizon
you'll never be able to cast it because it just moves further and further away
the closer you try and run to it and the fact that we are all here for holistic
sustainable success we shouldn't just be focused on one area of our life that I
have to become a billionaire or I have to actually you know have that job or
have that career I have that car or half that house it's about creating a life
and life requires you to focus on all areas including spirituality and
relationships and your personal life and your time and your energy
your physical health and your mental health and all those things are
important and we need to be focused on that so this was an awesome conversation
right it was a pleasure to have you on thank you so much for being here thank
you brother I appreciate it awesome guys as always I really
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