Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show - 208. Watch This If You're Stuck in Life | EP. 208

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

I've been stuck before — living in a one-bedroom apartment, $126,000 in debt to my first mentor Jim Franco, with no clue what to do next in life. Today my net worth is over $200 million... and the exact strategies I used to get unstuck are what I'm handing you in this episode. It doesn't matter if you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond — young guys have time and energy as their advantage, us older cats have experience and work ethic, and either one works with focused effort. In this episode I break down the 4 steps to get unstuck and caught up in life: build self-mastery first (the winning morning routine, gratitude texts, and why the snooze button is your first L of the day), plug the money drains, develop money-making skills like sales, marketing, and AI, and learn how to find doors and open them through networking — the same way I turned a free training session a week into my first mentor and my first company. Stop noodling on being stuck and start stacking wins. Average is the enemy — let's get after it.FREE - subscribe to my weekly Domination Download Newsletter packed with real world tactics and strategies to win in business and in life.https://bedroskeuilian.comTry the TruLean Wellness Shot - 30 day supply for half off and free shipping when you use code BEDROS during checkout.https://www.trulean.com/pages/bedrosOPEN A FIT BODY GYM.A High-Profit, Scalable Gym Franchise Opportunity Driven By Impacthttps://fbbcfranchise.com/

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If you don't know what to do when you want to get unstuck, the very easiest thing to do is take control of the things that are most controllable, and that is building and developing self-mastery. Welcome to the Bedros Koolian show. If you're a driven individual but you're stuck, you're not sure what to do next in life. This episode is for you. Guys, welcome to the Bedros Kulian show.

I'm Bedros Kulian, and today's episode is to help you get unstuck and caught up in life. It doesn't matter if you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s, you can still get caught up if we do focused work. Now, obviously, the older you are, the harder you have to work and more focused. you need to be. The younger you are, you have time as your advantage. But as we are older, and if I were stuck today, what do I have? I have life experience and wisdom as an advantage.

So young people have time and energy as an advantage. We older cats have experience and work ethic as an advantage. So with that said, these are the same strategies I've used to take me from being broke and in a $126,000 debt to my original mentor, Jim Franco, to turning my life around completely and actually putting myself in a position where I've got a net worth of over $200 million. I've got great companies like Fit Body Boot Camp franchise, Truling Supplements. I'm partnered up with Fuel Hunt apparel and FitPro tracker software and all of these platforms make money and give me freedom and are scalable and growing. and how did I get there from that guy who was living in a one-bedroom apartment, $126,000 in debt,

and trying to figure out how he's going to get his life together when I was stuck and unsure of what to do. I can tell you that here is where it's going to start for you. I want you to start with building self-mastery first. That's the first step you want to take is to build self-mastery. Because right now you're like, I'm stuck. I don't know what to do next in life, right? Hey, I get it. It happens. You lost momentum. Maybe some kind of disaster took place or chaos took place in your life. Maybe you're recovering from a divorce or a family member who was sick or you got over some injury or illness and you're in financial debt and you've lost momentum and you're stuck. That happens. What is not acceptable is to stay in that pattern and constantly swirl around in that toilet bowl. At some point you're going to get sucked down into the sewage, right? And so what you have to do is become a active participant.

in saving yourself from the shit that you are experiencing right now. If you don't know what to do when you want to get unstuck, the very easiest thing to do is take control of the things that are most controllable. And that is building and developing self-mastery. What does self-mastery look like? That means building a winning morning routine, right? Instead of sleeping in and waking up at fucking eight, nine o'clock in the morning, hitting the snooze button and then drinking energy drinks and coffee

and not necessarily exercising and not eating clean and scrolling through social media, that's a losing routine. A winning routine would be the exact opposite. You go to sleep early. You go to sleep by 9.30 or 10 o'clock. You wake up by 5 or 6 a.m. You never hit the snooze button telling your subconscious mind, I've already stacked my next and first win,

which is not hitting the snooze button. Because that's what happens, man. When you hit the snooze button first thing in the morning, you think you're just getting like five or 10 more minutes of interrupted sleep, What you're really getting is your morning L. You're a loss for the day. You're a morning, right? I'd rather get a W first thing in the morning by turning off the fucking snooze button on my phone

and not hitting it and not resetting it to get another five, 10, 15 minutes of bullshit, crappy, interrupted sleep. So if you can go to sleep early, 930 or 10 o'clock, wake up between 5 and 6, and then you wake up and you literally start focusing on the things that can give you value. What are those things? Let's talk about them. So the three gratitude text messages that I've been sending out for well over a decade now. I wake up and when I grab my phone, I'll send out three gratitude text messages to three

random people in my life that I'm grateful for. Maybe they gave me help when I needed it. Maybe they made an introduction at one point in my life. Maybe they were there for me when no one else was. And I'll just send a gratitude text message. Why? It automatically puts me in a state of gratitude. Then I'll drink my 30 ounces of water that I've got sitting on my nightstand.

And then boom, I'll jump in the shower. Notice no social media, not hitting a snooze button. Because if I'm on social media, that is the fastest way to start goomsrolling and again stacking your next L, right? So then you hit the snooze button and then you finally wake up. You're not drinking water. There's an L. You're scrolling social media.

You're wasting time. You're not going to find time to work out. You're not just going to magically produce time. The average American dude is on social media. Spends three and a half hours a day on social media. You can start a whole new fucking company if you have three and three. and a half hours a day to spend on social media, you could start a whole new business and create yourself another multimillion dollar income stream over like a five or 10 year period, right?

Or you can get that cheap dopamine hit by scrolling and killing time up to three and a half hours a day. So when you start stacking a morning routine that actually sets you up to win, when you start developing habits like eating clean four, five, six times a day, high protein, moderate carbs, low fat. You actually go and work out first thing in the morning, not late in the afternoon, because you make that promise. I'm going to work out at the end of the day. And then guess what?

The day's beating the shit out of you. And if you even make it to the gym, it's not going to be your best workout. Made it! Made it! Part of the Beast is the must-see adventure of the year. It's just you and me, boy. One of the most extraordinary on-screen bond you'll ever see. I'll get you home.

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you're fatigued, you're defeated, right? And so you know what? I'll do it tomorrow. Then you start falling into the trap of tomorrow. So start building positive habits. If you create a winning routine, the next thing is positive habits to help develop self-mastery. Those habits are start tracking your macros. How do I want to look and feel in terms of energy and strength and muscle and and, and

cardiovascular capacity. See, these are all things within your control. You might not know what you're going to do in life to make more money right now. But there's something you can do immediately to start feeling better about yourself. Go to bed early, wake up early, send out gratitude text messages, don't hit the snooze button, drink your 30 ounces of water, then start working out, eat clean throughout the day, high protein, moderate carbs, low fat, ask chat, GPT or clod, what your macros should be or get a good online coach and have them run you through a fitness program where you're going to be held accountable and that's specific to your wants and needs right and now what you're doing is you are starting to build self-confidence you are starting to stack wins

throughout the day and people that are stuck in life are usually stuck because they've lost that momentum of stacking wins see the thing is when you stack wins in one area of life they typically will bleed into other areas of life. And so I'm telling you, start stacking winds in an area of life that you can absolutely control your self-mastery. And so imagine how the compound effect works. Now that you're actually stacking dopamine and endorphins from your workout and eating clean and sending out gratitude text messages, not hitting the snooze button, you're waking

up on time and you actually feel good about yourself. There's so much positive momentum, magically things start happening in your favor. Then what happens is creativity opens up, right? Creativity opens up. because now you're reading a book. You picked up a book and you're reading maybe five to ten pages a day. You're actually reading, not just listening to an audio book. You're actually sitting down and reading.

Why is that important? Because not too many of us spend any time in silence. And when you're done reading your five or ten pages a day, which should take you what? Maybe 15 to 25 minutes. That's easy enough. Just sit there in your own head for 10 minutes. Just not even meditate, but just be in your own thoughts. Hear what consciousness has to say.

Let God speak to you. The problem is we are so connected that we have to actively disconnect to allow God to speak into us. And so if you've had a great morning routine, your habits are structured where you're working out and eating clean and drinking water and avoiding coffee and energy drinks and you're reading a book on the tail end of that book, once you shut it, just chill for 10 minutes. and being your own thoughts. And when you do that, God, consciousness, start speaking to you, right?

Your higher self starts speaking to you. And now all of a sudden you start seeing opportunities for yourself. So then you move on to step two. Now, I don't care how much money you're making right now while you're stuck. Whatever you're making, you're probably spending more than you should be. So what you need to do is you need to plug the drain.

And so anything frivolous that you're spending on, Maybe you have a subscription site membership to this site and you have your you buy a lot of clothes or shoes or or because because you know that retail therapy feels good to you. Fuck all that shit. Right. Stop wasting money. Plug the drain that's sucking out money so that you can start developing some financial capacity. I don't care if you're working for minimum wage or I don't care if you have a 50 to $70,000 a year job right now. Or maybe you're an entrepreneur and you're like, you know what?

When I started this gig, I felt good about myself and I was happy about starting this business. It's been five or eight, 10 years. Money's good, but I feel stuck. Great. If you actually end up saving some money, you might be in a position where you could sell your business off or you can bring on a majority partner, right? Sell off some equity. And now you've got some money. And money buys you time.

Money gives you access to opportunities. No matter how little you have, money is a capacity. and when you have emotional capacity, time capacity, financial capacity, when opportunities exist and open up, you can walk through those doors, right? And so you've got to plug those drains no matter how little you make. The next thing is I want you to develop money making skills, right? Whether you're going to pivot from a career or you're going to sell off a company and you're going to go do something different, you still need to know how to make money, right?

So if you're stuck in life, maybe you're broke, maybe you don't know what to do next, you think entrepreneurship is the way for you. Awesome. Before you become an entrepreneur, become an entrepreneur. Work for someone that you respect, that you can get paid mentorship from, because that's really what it is. If you work for someone in an industry that you like and that leader that you're working for is someone that you respect, now they're giving you an hourly or salary, and by virtue of

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Sales skills, marketing skills, leadership skills, AI development skills? Like can you be the person to go into someone's organization and introduce AI into there to create more efficiency and profitability, right? That's a money-making skill. Can you learn to sell? If you're like, I've never sold before. Great. Develop the skill sets to sell and start making commission,

adding more value to that company as an entrepreneur, right? Become the marketer. Learn how to get paid ads, create funnels, design offers for that company. Because if you can help the boss start making more money, that boss will take you under their wing and end up mentoring you, coaching you, giving you essentially the experience that they have while also paying you. so that over time you can go on to do things yourself.

And so develop those money making skills because you not only need it as an entrepreneur, but you're going to need it as an entrepreneur once you start your own business. No matter how small you're going to need to sell, market, and have some level of leadership, right? And finally, if you're stuck, learn how to get doors to open, right? Find doors and open them. And what I mean by that is start building a network of connections. Now, that doesn't mean you have to go to a big live event and buy a ticket and go to it.

Hey, look, I'd love for you to come to BK Live next year, right? But maybe you're like, I can't afford that at that time. Who knows? If you can't, I bet you there's a BNI network, right, in your town, in your county. I bet you there's a small business administration, right? I bet you there is the Rotary Club. I bet you there's some kind of community meetup for entrepreneurs. I bet you could be the one to go find local entrepreneurs and business owners and say,

hey, you guys want to meet up once a week at Starbucks for 30 minutes and talk about our wins and opportunities? By doing that, you're networking, you're connecting. And then if you've got the financial means to get your ass on a plane and buy a ticket to an event, come to a mastermind, a workshop, a seminar, and don't just be a wallflower. Actually, shake hands, make connections, and instead of saying, hey, what can you do for? me say, hey, here's the skill sets that I've developed. I can sell, I can market, I could deploy AI, I can lead a team for you.

What could I do for you, right? That is how you network. When I met Jim Franco, my mentor, my first mentor in my early 20s, I was immediately thinking, how could I add more value to his life? Not what he could do for me. Because I knew if I added more value to his life that he would take me under his wing. So he had purchased personal training with me that was three times a week. I gave him a fourth week or four sessions a week.

The fourth session was free every week. It was on me. Why? That gave me opportunity to connect with him one more time a week and ask questions during that session since it was free to him anyway, which then he started to make connections and introductions and kind of bring me into his network. And I started to, for the first time in my life, started to meet high net worth individuals.

It was scary as fuck because I didn't know what to do with these people. But I knew that I got to do what I did with, with gym, add value to their life. How can I make their life better, easier, help them get fit? Like, what are the superpowers that I have? I was a personal trainer. Okay, at the time, I didn't know how to sell well. I didn't know how to market. I didn't know how to lead a team. I was a personal trainer working at LA Fitness. So I started making nutrition plans for all of his friends and training programs for them and say, hey, man, I'll train you once a week. I mean, you can go do it on your own the rest of the time. That way I'm adding value to their lives, right? And over time,

they started to help me and make connections. And that's how my first product, high tech trainer came to be where Jim Franco and a couple other dudes that he introduced me to became business partners of mine, right? And high tech trainer went on to become a before the app store even existed. Back in 2003, it was on the Sprint jukebox network, like 25,000 subscribers paying $2.99 a month. We're doing our workouts on a sprint phone, flip phone, all because of the connections and network that I was able to build through Jim Franco. No social media. And then from there, as I started to find more money, I would go to Dan Kennedy events, right, seminars, workshops to start developing my sales, marketing leadership skills.

And before you know it, I have business opportunities. And that's what it takes to get unstuck. But the problem is, most of you out there who are stuck right now are constantly noodling on the same thing. I'm stuck. I don't know what to do. I guess I'll scroll on social media. and I hope an idea pops into my head and when it does, I might execute on it.

It doesn't work that way. You need momentum. You need momentum. The best way to get momentum is to start a thing number one, which is to build self-mastery, take control over yourself. Master the human animal, my friend. And if you can master the human animal, develop yourself into a human being who has structure, a winning morning routine, positive habits and routines.

reading a book, doing some introspection, going internal for 10 minutes at a time, and then stacking all those wins first thing in the morning, it's inevitable that your day is going to be a win as well. And if you want to get that second workout in the evening, hey man, God bless you. I'm all for it. But guys, this is what it takes to get unstuck. It's action and momentum sitting there and just dwelling and noodling on the things that are swirling around in your head and being frustrated about it and overwhelmed about it, it's not going to, creativity is not going to pop up in a stressful environment. You have to put yourself in a creative environment where you are pumping out positive dopamine,

positive endorphins, you're seeing positive change in your physique, in your energy, in your health. You're in a public gym and you're meeting people and networking and connecting. maybe you join a running club, maybe you join a book club, and you just start connecting. And the more people who are positive that you put yourself around, the more of their energy you begin to absorb. And that positive energy will override the negative energy that you've been carrying. And before you know, it creativity flows when there's more positive energy than negative energy in you. And there you go.

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