Blaze Your Own Trail - From Orphan to Thriving Global Business Leader with Pascal Bachmann

Episode Date: January 24, 2023

About Pascal: Pascal Bachmann is an international speaker, author, life, and business strategist who empowers and coaches businessmen to be healthy and successful leaders in business and life. After being a professional athlete on a world-class level, having a praxis for Asian therapies, creating 7 businesses in 3 different industries, generating more than $20 Million, and coaching more than 20,000 people, he is in the position to share what he learned. The view and experiences from 3 different angles make him and his approach unique. He doesn’t share what he learned from books, but what real life taught him. Connect with Pascal: https://pascalbachmann.com/ Connect with Jordan: https://jordanjmendoza.com/m/social Thanks for listening to the show! To listen to past & future episodes, visit our website at: https://www.byotpodcast.com/ Installing strategic sales systems & processes will stop the constant revenue rollercoaster you might be facing which is attainable through our 6 Week Blazing Business Revenue Coaching ProgramBook a discovery call with Jordan now to learn more! Are you an entrepreneur?Join my FREE Group Coaching Community where we have live calls, Q&A and more! Our Trailblazer Ecosystem also enables you to network with other entrepreneurs and creator hub eliminates multiple subscriptions and logins creating a one stop shop to take action!Use code: FOUNDING100 for 12 months access FREE and Founding pricing for life! (While Supplies Last)Join now! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I had a total of 11 jobs between the age of 11 and 17, just trying to help and support my mom. When I gave away my ATS resume template, but I used to charge $3,000 for it. If I were someone that wanted to work with you, I think the thing that would resonate with me the most is a fact that you have been as far as they will fall. I gave her all my videos, and today she's a message saying I got my first client, and it could not be happier for her. On my show, one thing I love to do is really get context into people's journey. I saw eggs and I saw vegetables door to door. I saw newspapers. I do it because I truly care to help.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Blaze Your Own Trail podcast. I'm your host, Jordan Mendoza. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Blaze Your Own Trail podcast. My name is Jordan Mendoza. I'm your host, and I've got a very special guest today. His name is Pascal Bachman. And I'm going to have him tell you a little bit about who he is and what he does today. Hi, everybody. Nice to be here. Thank you very much for having me, Jordan. Who am I? Big question. That's actually what I ask everybody who's working with me. Who are you? Without your beard, without your job description, without all that stuff. And for me, who am I? Like I started with my name, but that's not who I am. Like you mentioned it, Pascal Bachman, I'm from Switzerland. I have a history in Switzerland in Switzerland.

I had many businesses over there. But I'm an individual that leads with empathy. I'm someone who do what he loves to do and he just enjoys everything. Like we talked about that before the show. For me, it's like everything that I do, I love to do. Love what you do and do what you love is one of the main motives for me. And what I love to do is to empower achievers, goal getters, doers, doers, to be healthy leaders in business and life. And what I mean by that is I had a practice for Asian

therapies. I'm going to probably talk about that in a minute. And I see so many people unhappy. They came in broke. They came in with physical and mental diseases. And I wasn't at the industry for years until I told myself, why don't you prevent them for stuff like this to happen? do you really want to have them come in with their problems, give you money, expect you to fix them, or is there a way how to, you can prevent that? Because we did so many studies and I figure out what the reason is in 95% of all the cases. So I build a business around there and this is what we do. We provide strategies on how to achieve healthy and successful business and life.

How do you get more productive? How do you create structure and systems in business and life, not just always all about business. Business is just part of life. So how do you build that frame, that foundation that leads you to fulfillment and everything you do? Love it, love it. Appreciate you sharing that. And I'm definitely excited to get into your journey. I know we've had a couple of conversations so far, you know, off air.

And I'm very intrigued by the work that you're doing. But what I really love to get into, man, my favorite part of the show is taking a rewind. I want to find out about Little Pascal, Little Pascal in Switzerland. So I know you grew up in Switzerland, but if you can share with the audience, you know, where were you born and raised? What kind of kid were you? So what kind of things that you get into as a kid where, I don't know, did you play sports? Were you, you know, into more academics?

And then let's kind of focus on elementary middle to high school years. We have a different system in Switzerland. We don't have these elementary and high school stuff. But I grow up in a family that had no harmony. I was born and raised in Lucerne in the heart of Switzerland. Lucerne is actually called the city of lights, beautiful city is where I was born. And my parents, they divorced when I was like three, four years old. And I ended up being in a, I think you call it orphanage.

Orphanage. Yeah, orphanage or foster. care. I mean, there's a few different things here in the U.S. Yeah. This is where I was in Switzerland from a very young age. And then I went my way. I think that that created a lot of my personality today. And I know I'm grateful for that today because I understand the pattern. And I learned a lot from me. But back then, I remember it was hard. I mean, you as a kid, you love both of your parents. You love your mom. You love your dad. And if you're dead always complains about about your mom and your mom always complains about your day and dad because you love both of them.

You try to satisfy both of them and you started to become a personality that is not honest because you don't live your core valleys because you don't even know them. But that's part of how I grew up and trying to be loved by both of them because I didn't feel the love in a way that I probably. or many, many kids would appreciate that or need that, not even appreciate need that. I started to try to get attention from other people. So Little Posky became a rebel. I went into the wrong crowds and drugs and all that stuff, fights,

and I beat up people for no reason and, you know, all that stuff. Consume drugs, like not the super hard stuff. but I was starting to deal with cocaine and all that stuff. And not the little things like kilos to the right people. And I was just in that scene. And until that one day, I steal a lot. Like I did pretty much everything that you're not supposed to do. And I didn't know why back then.

I was just that guy that everybody respects in school. After school, everybody wanted to hang out of me. And today, of course, I know why I was looking for something that I didn't get from my parents. I get that. I became that person. I was homeless at this time, like from 15, 16. I didn't have a home and decided to sleep in either. If it was raining, it was a garage like when you go down, a deep, like the garage beyond building in a big shopping center.

and when it was nice on the bench and I steal. I didn't have money, so I go steal my food until that one day. I had very long hair. That was the last time I actually, the second last time that I steal. I was in that store. I had a backpack on and it was full with food. And I remember the detective when I was paying the $5 thing and the rest in my backpack not.

Once I paid, this was a woman. She tapped me on the shoulder and turned me. around and I remember I'm dragging around her arms and slapped her one to run away. They didn't catch me. But when I did that, when I was outside, I was 16 at the time, I realized, man, you need to change something. You just can't go on like this. And like a few years before that, when I was 14, 15, I started to go and do martial arts, Taekwondo. And my master there, he was world champion, 68. He was in Vietnam. He was one of the

top in the airplane when these guards. He was Korean. So he was a very respected man. And he kind of became like a father for me, father figure. He'd teach me respect and all that. And I felt better and better and badder with what I did because I knew I did not what I was supposed to do and what I actually learned. In the age of 16, after that happened, I realized I need to change that. And I mean, all my friends, they were all similar to me. And I knew I have to cut them off. I cannot spend time with them anymore. It's not going to work out. And that was probably the harder thing I've ever did. Because what I did after that, yeah, I went from long hair to millimeter. That's why I said that was the second last time. I went and steal one more time. Nice

clothes. So I went somewhere and I was like floppy clothes and not nice. But I decided, okay, cut your hair to a millimeter. Go get nice clothes so people don't recognize you right away. And this is what I did. I went and go by clothes, had this short haircut. Yeah, I went on. And that was super hard because when I still were in the same environment, I saw my friends. I saw people that know me. And as soon as I saw them, I turned away and walk away. That feeling to make that decision, I knew 100% if I don't do that, I'm not going to be different. I knew it.

And still, you have years with these guys. And you have, you did so many things. with them and to actually do that and walk away, that was a tough thing. But I did. And from then on, I actually applied to be a butcher, like the meat guy. So I did the internship as a butcher, got up four o'clock in the morning, work, did what I did. And then I was working out every single day. I'm going to stop you right there for a minute because there's definitely a lot. I appreciate all the deep context. It's super helpful because there's going to be a lot of people that listen to this or that watch this that can relate to these situations, whether that's, you know, having parents separated

or divorced at an early age. I didn't even meet my dad until I was 12 years old, you know, and so I know what the, you know, longing to have kind of that father figure. I had a stepdad, but he wasn't really a great figure was an alcoholic, was abusive to my mom. So I didn't really have great examples of a father figure. So I can relate to wanting to have that. And similar as a kid, I would shoplift. You know, I did a lot of those things that you do to try to get attention, you know. So I can definitely, you know, relate in those cases.

I love what you said is you're like, well, this is the last time that happened. Well, actually there was one more, right? There was this one last time. And fortunately for you, you didn't get caught any of the times, right? Because, you know, that made your journey a little bit harder. But the other thing that you mentioned is that, you know, you lived on the streets. You know, you were homeless. And for everyone that's listening to this, you know, all of these things that he experienced,

this is all adversity. You know, these are things that we as human are going to go through. And there's going to be a point. And for him, it came at 16 years old and it came in the form of mentorship. You know, it's so important that we have people that are, you know, really in our lives that are involved, that are there to kind of help shape and mold us. And, you know, one of our good friends that can in connections, mutual friends, David Meltzer always says, hey, show me your five friends and I'll show you your feature.

And isn't it so true, right? If you look back at 16 and you look at your five friends in that moment, man, you knew what your future was going to look like. And congrats and kudos to you for having the self-awareness at 16 to turn around, man, and start walking the other direction. Because I know that wasn't easy to be able to do that. But I know as we kind of go through this journey, because I know where you are today, it had to have been a major pivotal moment for you. Thanks. Appreciate it. And I can't agree more. when we are in that state of being, like you said, to have that self-awareness. That was the key for me.

I remember one day I was breaking in somewhere in a big warehouse, and then there was a security guard, and the guy hunt us. He was so freaking fast. I was fast, but the guy was so fast. And I remember I was a little faster, and I had like maybe 20 meters. And I remember I went around the corner. He didn't see me. I knew that.

And I remember how I took out the freaking big knife, like not the small Swiss knives, like the big American Rambo knife. And I was waiting there. And when I thought back like a few days later, I realized if the guy would come around the corner, I would use the knife. When you realize that, when you're in that state of being, you do things without using your brain. It's fight or flight, right? you don't realize that. And then things happen. It goes, boom, a person is dead. You pull the trigger. You use the knife in a situation that you are not in control of something. And I'm so grateful when I think about moments like this that nothing happened. And the guy actually gave up running because he got more tired than I.

These are moments that give you life the direction and you cannot end up in prison. for doing one stooping thing, you can mess up your whole life with that one decision. And to know that you have the power of decision to turn it into another direction, that can give you a lot too if you learn how to control that and actually go for it. And this is what I did after that. Yeah, yeah, man. Well, I appreciate you sharing that. Appreciate you being open and vulnerable.

But that's what life is all about, right? We can't relate to people that are perfect because they don't exist. You show me a perfect person. I'll show you a liar. I mean, that doesn't matter who they are. We all are imperfect people on an imperfect planet. And we're all still trying to figure this thing out, right? We've got some knowledge and insight along the journey.

But the truth is, none of us have it all together. You know, we've all been through things, and we're all still on this learning journey. Exactly. That being perfect thing, I have a video that I did recently talk to people and say, hey, you hear that so many times everywhere, people tell you nobody's perfect. I'm here to tell you you are perfect. I see exactly where you're coming from and I agree. My explanation for being imperfect today based on my journey and my mentors and the things

that I did the last 20 years is I believe that we are all perfect. But I come to the bot in a second. The reason why I believe we are perfect doesn't matter the background you have if it's God or someone else, but I call it the light. If we all come from that one place, the light, and we all are part of that. This is where we come from. I believe that we all have that light within us. This is who we truly are. Now what happened with life, what makes us imperfect is we grow up in this world.

And now we create layer after layer after layer based on our experiences, which are taught to us. We grow up and we get teachings from people around us who have the same experience as we do. So we have different experience and we create different layers. And that perfectness, the light is covered off with many, many layers, different mosques. And now what happened while we grow up in today's world is layer, face layer. So in perfection, face imperfection based on the experience that we do. And what I'm trying to do daily or exercises, I know that there is the perfect part in every human being.

I know that there is a light which is perfect, the truth of every human being. And what I try to do is I try to connect and see that perfectness because I know it is there in all of us. So I really try to connect with that light because if we can connect with each other, knowing that we have a part of our, the true, the core of what we actually are is perfect. Then we can forgive. Then we stop judging. Then we understand things and don't take it personal. This is how I believe we can create a better world if we really focus on that because we know it exists. Awesome, man.

I appreciate you sharing that. I appreciate you sharing your perspective. I know that's going to open people's eyes and make people think, right? And that's what, you know, shifting perspectives is all about. It's making us think a little bit differently about the things that we're doing on a daily basis. So let's dive in a little bit more of the story. So by this point, you know, you're 16, you're starting to get training from a guy that is a master, right? Win's a championship in 68.

He's trained up. You know, he knows what he's doing. He's discipline. He's respectful. And it sounds like he's building character in you. And man, character, isn't that so important that we build really, really strong character? So the reason why I said character is you said something important about five or six minutes. go and it was that you started to work out every day. You don't start to work out every day for no reason.

You know, you do that because someone has shown you that way. Someone has coached you. Someone has said, if you want to get from A to Z, you got to go through B, C, E, D, E. Like, you got to go down the list. You can't skip. There's no skipping in results, right? You got to be repetitious. You've got to get consistent and you've got to put in those reps every day. So I'd love to really find out because to me at this point, your mindset has completely done a 360 degree shift. So share a little bit about, you know, what made you start working out every day? And then how did that help you in your daily job as a butcher? And then what happened from there? Sure, sure. What made me do that is when I decided to disconnect and to change my life, we all need to be connected. We all need to be part of something. And I had

nothing left. I didn't have a family that I feel connected. I run away from the orphanage back then. And I felt like I don't have any other place to go. What do you do? And the only family that I had was martial arts, taekwondo. I had someone who really care because he knew what I did in the past. And he teach me respect. He teach me how to be a gentleman. He teach me how to treat people. And he also show up very clear consequences what could and can happen if you don't. And I just realized that this is not just what I want to become, but this is, it felt like a calling. This is where you're supposed to be. This is the direction. is like the universe that tells you, okay, this is what you did. Now, here's a new path. Here is something. And again, that's cause and effect. I wanted to change something within me that that showed me or told me, you don't want that anymore. And I express somehow what I wanted and doors are open because this is what I asked for. That was the reason why I felt like I belong there. I'm part of it. These people

care about me. And that's why I decided to join more time there. So I end up being there every single day and did my belts until Black Belt and then went from there. I remember I got that opportunity. The master one day came in and said, hey, there's a world championship in Taiwan and we can attend three people. And I was in right away. I had goals. I wanted to be a world champion. And as a butcher, I felt like I was more disciplined. I showed up on time.

I was always late in the beginning. I steal meat. I mean, like there's the filamino and the stakes and all that stuff. Let's bring it home when nobody's around. So all that stuff didn't feel good anymore. It was a process. So I stopped doing that. Like I said, I was punctual.

on time I started to do my task with more responsibility. I wanted to do a good job. And so it was a transformation over time that I adopted from martial arts, from having that discipline, from having the right people around me and I have 100% degree what you said. Dave Meltzer said about the five people. I don't know why it's five, but if you take five people and then you do the average, this is what you are in all areas of life, in your bank account, with your

character, with your business journey, if your personal life, with your health. So I changed. I went on. I felt more and more comfortable because I started to leave my values. I didn't care so much about what people think about me. And I started to do my thing in a way that I actually felt comfortable and I was good at it. You don't go and fight on a world championship if you're not good enough. So to have that goal, to have this people, that environment made me really feel comfortable. And this is what I did. And it was a transformation of myself. That's why I showed up differently in my job, in my relationships, how I treat and communicate with people in general. I just went into the right group. One of my friends, he was world champion in

karate. He was the only white guy still until today who Japan owner as a samurai. His name is Andy Hook. He passed away now, but he was honored from Japan to be or as the only samurai, the white guy and he was a K-1 world champion for many, many times or many years. So I worked out with him because he was a butcher as well. So doors are open in different ways and I grow into martial arts. I went on and on until I decided to go to Thailand and live there. So I earned my money as a fighter in Thailand, Chiang Mai in Bangkok. and yeah these were the next steps awesome man appreciate you sharing that context and i love how

how everything that you did in martial arts in taekwondo translated into your regular in your personal life you know all of the disciplines it's it's amazing how when you start doing things like that they just immediately start to bleed in and it's not really noticeable that quickly but obviously hindsight's always 2020 so when you look back you're like, wow, that was fast. Like, that was a big shift in transformation. But I think you said at best when you said, you know, I wanted this, but most importantly, you needed this.

You needed this sense of community that you hadn't felt. You haven't felt probably that connected in your entire life. And so the fact that you got this and that feeling that you got from that, I'm sure that helped you, you know, keep that momentum going. But the biggest thing that you did, brother, is you took action. You know, because as we know, action, momentum and then momentum it creates consistency and consistency creates habits and habits create results and results right that turns into the success that we're all looking for so you know for

anyone that's going to listen to this or watch this what is that thing right now that you need to take action on we all have one we all have that one thing so for some of us it's fitness for some of us it might be our finances for some of us it might be our relationships but we all have that one thing. So think about it right now. Grab a notepad if you're listening in or you know, you can rewind this and write down that one thing that you should take action on and take action on it. Right, Pascal, take action on it. What's the worst that could happen? Exactly. You might fall on your face. It's okay. You can get back up, you know, but without action, guys, there's no momentum that we can create. So Pascal took action, guys. He went to Bangkok,

Thailand. And let me make this assumption. So, you're a Switzerland born and raised. I'm going to assume you didn't speak Thai, did you, before you went there? Actually, no, when I went there not, but I took class. Okay, so you didn't speak Thai. All right, guys. So he did not speak Thai, goes to Thailand to become a fighter, and you've got to, you know, you've got to basically kill, you know, you eat what you kill, right?

You're fighting for your food and living and paying for all that stuff. So what was that experience like and what was the culture difference like? Because it had to be a complete, I know for me, I'm actually going to publish this in a newsletter today about a trip I took at 16th of the Philippines that completely changed my life. So I can imagine when you went to Thailand, there had been some life-changing moments there. 100%. It's interesting that you said that because the big difference was, I didn't speak the language. And again, I believe singing music and sports is something that it's another language. People found each other.

And so I was there and I did what I did. I earned my money. But I made a test. I made a test because I was homeless before. And I think I was around 20 then. I run out of money and I would have an option to call someone to send me something. But I decided on purpose with that intention to figure out how it feels for me as a foreign in a different country to not have any money and sleep on the street.

What would that feel like? So I did that. I ran out of money. And while I was walking in Chiang Mai on that street and then all this massage my task, matas. And then I want to grab you in. And then I remember I was there, like, I think I had no money for about two days. So they asked me if I want to have a massage. And then I told them, I don't have money. And then it was like, okay, the tourists, he makes fun. And he just don't want. And they said, oh, guys, I speak a little Thai by then.

My me money. Like American Swiss Thai. And then I showed them. I literally don't have a anything. And what they did was super surprising for me. They told me, oh, really, like, come in. You can sleep here. They gave me food. They gave me a free massage. And these five, six women were eating together on the floor and they have a bunch, a lot of food. They asked me to join and eat with them. And that was like, in Switzerland, you go and steal your stuff. Nobody talks to you. Just like in the US here, many, many people turned away. And it's just that was a completely different experience.

So I was so welcomed there. And they even told me, hey, if you need a place to sleep tonight, you can sleep here. Stay here as long as you want. That was like, this is unbelievable. that people really care about how you feel. And, you know, that was an eye-opener for me, that there are other people who do other things, different things. And the world is not bad.

The world is good. It's our perception. And there are people who are different. And if my frequency is on a different level, I attract different people the same as my frequency. and this is what I experienced and that was a really wonderful thing to experience. Awesome, man. Appreciate you sharing that story. And, man, you know, I've experienced the same thing in Southeast Asia, you know,

my trip to the Philippines. Didn't matter what village, what town we went into, like everybody was just so nice. And even though these people were sleeping on bamboo shoots, you know, they're working for their rice to eat for dinner, they were happy. Like, you know, they were so happy. It's like, you know, they absolutely love life. and a kid that grew up, you know, on welfare and food stamps in the United States. I thought I was poor, but I realized real quick that I was super rich, that I had a lot more

than I really did because I looked at these people that had nothing and they had everything. They had it right. They had the joy. They had the kindness. They cared for each other for their neighbors, just like you experienced in Thailand. And, man, when you get to kind of see that, your whole world just shifts, right? you start to realize, like you said, that there are good people out there. There are people that are willing to put out a helping hand without expecting anything in return.

And for everyone that's going to listen to this, that's something I challenge you all to do. If you are in abundance, which is most of people that are going to listen to this show, you have access to the internet. You're in abundance. You qualify, go out and give to someone else, whether that's buying the person. 's coffee at the Starbucks drive-thru or someone's, you know, McDonald's, you know, that's behind you or something like that. But it doesn't take much to change someone's not only day, week, month, or year, but in your case, your whole life, right?

Your whole perspective gets changed. Right, right. I believe, I'm glad you mentioned that. I believe that's super important. My wife and I, just last week, we went into Starbucks, and then there was a girl. She was homeless, passed by, and she had. had that look when she passed. I could see fear. I think she was 20 years old, 22. I felt like she is afraid of man. And she went in and then she went out and went like somewhere below the

tree and then my wife was there and I asked my wife, hey, can you do my favor? Did you see that black homeless girl over there? I would love to talk to her and offer her some company. Can you please go and talk to her if she, if she would like to sit with us, have a conversation and we invite her. So my wife went there, talk to her. She came. And we had we talked to her two hours. We just gave her time. We, we told her, hey, you can do it. I shared my story and just wanted to give her company, someone who listened to her, someone who cares, someone who believe in her. You can change your life. I did. look, this is what I did.

Now look, Google my name. You can do the same. You can do it 100%. Everybody can do it. But we need to be at the point where we decide to change. And the right people will show up. And that's why I believe, like we do that often. If you see things, people around you, be aware of those people and just, I mean, what is it for us?

like it was like 10 bucks that can change someone's life with the time that we take to truly care and not just look away. Yeah, 100%. And a lot of times, guys, there's no monetary investment. It could just be a smile. You know, you could smile at someone who hadn't smiled in a whole entire month, you know, and all of a sudden you turn the corner with your big smile on your face and man, it brightens their whole world. So you just never know. who you can positively impact. My big believer in that. Let's talk and get into more of the journey.

So you're 20 years old. You're living in Thailand. You are experienced a completely different culture. You're experiencing a kindness in humans, making you believe that humans are good again. So tell us a little bit about what happened after Thailand. What did you end up doing? Did you head back to home or did you have other plans?

When I was in Thailand, I want to become world champion. then my best friend back then, or one of my best friends and Idol, Andy Hook, the World Champion just mentioned, he passed away. And I wanted to kind of step in his shoes. Then I had an accident, a bike accident. Like always when I, after a fight, I went into the mountains to relax a few days and come down. And somehow in the curve, when I drove down the mountain, there was sand in the curve. I'm on the bike.

I slipped away. So I ended up being in a hospital and they did something wrong. One of the bones was split up. Sand was in there. So they cut all this off, seal it, close it. But there was dust inside and my whole leg turned blue and they was close of taking off the leg. But we could save everything.

And so I was in this hospital. I had some healers there. So I experienced new things. It is possible to do it naturally with the mindset. I started to do Tai Chi Kwon and all that stuff. And then I decided, okay, I need a new goal. I wanted to be world champion. This is what I was looking for to be like the past like 10 years.

I was interested in that. I did a lot and I realized my dream was gone like this. Then I felt like, okay, I need a new vision in life. I need to find my purpose. What is it? So I started to work in the Chinese hospital where they treated me because I felt like I like that. And I see all these possibilities and things and techniques and strategies that they use to make people healthy.

So I started there and three years later, all in all, my trips in and out in Thailand was about three years. I went back to Switzerland and I opened a practice for Asian therapies together with a friend. And this is what I did for the next 10 years. I've treated a ton of people with acupuncture and just different. techniques. I started to do diploma after diploma. I had like the young me was there like between 20 and 30. The wall was full of diplomas and and certificates and stuff like that. To prove that I'm good in what I do until I was at the point of the 10 years, I don't need all that stuff. I don't like it. All this, this is not who I am. I distance myself from that stuff and decided to

open another business. We sold everything. And I opened a central Switzerland clinic where I started to grow because in my 10 years in the practice. I had many good connections and business people who came. And being a therapist in that area is also being like people that they talk to you about their life. Psychiatrist.

Yep. Right. So I started to give my opinion and then later my advice and all that. And I realized, hey, they do what I tell them to do. And they always come back and talk about the success they had and thank me. And they started to tell me really good politicians, rich people, successful people, like people who know how business works, complain and we narrow down, what is the problem? Why do you face what we face while I work on them?

And me giving my opinion and they actually do it was super surprising for me. And many of them came back and say, you should be a business consultant. And I started to become aware and started to build trust in my ability of doing that. So I created that business. It was pretty big. I invested like $300,000 there and started to build and started to have employees and stuff like that. And that was the start of me being an entrepreneur and actually started to build things and realize that I can do more than this.

And I want to help more people. And I don't want to help them once they come in broke with the attitude, hey, you're the expert. Here's money. Fix my problem. I expect that now from you because I paid you. And the whole thing started to shift my thinking where I was. I was at the point where I say, okay, how can I prevent people from experience these problems?

Because I realized that 95% of the people who visited me with problems, physical and mental, they had these problems. These were all self-inflicted civilization diseases. That was the result of the lifestyle. These people choose to live daily choices, subconsciously or consciously. And when I narrow it down, we did studies with, like I said, more than 20,000 people, we did studies. And what I found is most of diseases, and many people out there not going to like what I say now. Many or most of these diseases were the result of people getting up in the morning and live against their core values every single day.

They live in a relationship that they don't like. They don't love it. They work for a boss 15 years that they don't like. They do things every single day that they don't like. So in other words, they live their life against their core valleys because you are a being, you have valleys, you have things that are important for you, things that matter and living against that. And like we said in the beginning, for this person, this mosque, for my wife, this mosque,

for this, in the business, I need to be that person. This is not how we should live lives. and all this greediness, unhappiness, not being fulfilled, trying to be someone that I'm not, this is what creates heart diseases, strokes, cancer and all that stuff. This is what creates all these things. And that's why I'm so passionate about preventing people for that. You need to know who you are. You need to know your vision.

Why are you here? You need to make sure that you are on mission with how you think, act and feel every single day. And then you can live a life of on purpose. Your identity is in action, meaning you are on mission and everything is in line with who you truly are. And this is how we can change the world. I love it. I love it. And, you know, folks, if you didn't get, you know, if you didn't get it by now, you know, Pascal is a true trailblazer.

I mean, look at where we've been, guys. Look at the start of the journey where we've got, you know, a kid that. that goes to an orphanage, you know, is homeless, shoplifting, getting in fights, party, and doing all the things that, you know, teenagers can get into. And then he decides to take control of a situation, gets into martial arts, becomes more disciplined. And that leads him to fighting, which leads him into the medical field, right? I'm sure when you're living on the streets, you had no clue that you're going to be helping heal people down the road, right?

probably so you have blazed an amazing trail and and honestly I feel like it's just a beginning. I feel like you're just getting started. And, you know, the fact that you're helping people in their businesses, that is going to directly feed into their personal life because you said it perfectly a second ago. It all starts everybody with self-awareness. We've got to take that inventory on who we are because if we don't understand us, if we don't understand how, you know, we're wired and how we show up on a daily basis, how can we expect to understand other people? How can we expect to show up as the best version of ourselves for them?

It's very, very hard to do it if we don't take in that inventory and truly start to understand ourselves. And it's a constant journey, guys. It's not one of those things that's going to happen overnight. There is no red or blue pill for this. This is a constant work, a constant battle. of you trying to be better than the person you were yesterday. I love that. 100% agreed. When I talk to my kids, I have two daughters, 18 and 20. When it comes to what they want to do later in life, I told them I don't care about college.

I don't care about all that stuff. The only thing I care is I want you to be happy. I want you to do something that you truly enjoy. Everything else is a waste of your life because your life is your time. that you have and that's limited on this planet. You better pick something that you love to do. And there's a tool that I use and tell them also to do, which is, I call it the contribution finder, super simple. What do I like to do? What am I good at? Make a list of these two things. And then look at the top three on each side. And this is where you should found work as an employee,

become an entrepreneur, but this is where you should spend most of your time because these are the things that you're good on. These are the things that you love to do. You cannot not do these things. So do it and earn money with it. There are companies you need that need exactly your skills. I believe that's super, super important. No, 100%. You know, we've got five, five kids. I think you heard that the first time we chatted and I give them all the same advice. It's like, hey, I'm going to support you for whatever you want to do because that's what's important to me is to be supportive. You know, I'm not going to say they're over. There's plenty of people that I know are still dictating their kids' future like, hey, this is the path. You're going to do X, Y, and Z when, you know,

it should be their decision. It should be them, like you said, finding out where their gifts are. Where are your God-given strengths, gifts, and abilities? What are those? Okay. And if you actually like to do it, like you said, when you combine those, what are we doing? We're actually taking our strengths and we're increasing our strengths. If you live in your strengths every day and you like to do that, you think you're going to be grumpy getting up to go to work, you know? Probably not, right? Because you are literally living in the place that you're supposed to be. And when you can do that, you're going to put in more effort. You're going to put in more energy instead of the opposite, which is you get up, you're already grumpy, you get in traffic, all of a sudden there's traffic, right?

And then the person cuts you off and all these things. And it's just a cycle, right? We can get into these cycles, just like Pascal was in a cycle of, hey, how do I get by by being, you know, disruptive and stealing and things like that? Now it's like, hey, how do I help people become better versions of themselves? So look at that shift. And that's something that's been happening, guys. It's taken several decades for him to get there. But like he said earlier, like he said to that girl that him and his wife spent two hours with outside of a Starbucks, you can do it.

If Pascal can do it, you can do it. If I can have this podcast in my business growing up where I did in some of the things I've been through, you can do it. There's nothing difference between us. The only difference is we may have decided to take action on a couple extra things. We may have decided that, you know what, it is time that I stop being in the place that I'm at. Because if I want to get different results, I can't keep doing the same things. Exactly. Again, I can't agree more.

It's really all on us 100%. The perception that we have on everything that exists, but that we believe that exists, including ourselves, these limiting beliefs, these negative emotions. Everything is just up here in our head. Everything is in our head. I remember in one other video, I said something like, nothing in this world has a meaning,

not this mic, not this podcast, not you, not me, nobody. And many people were confused. And then I said, the only meaning that anything has is the meaning that you give. it. This cup doesn't mean anything to any other person on this planet. The award that I won here doesn't mean anything to anyone on this planet. The only meaning that thing has is the meaning that I give it. So what is the meaning that you give yourself? What is the meaning that you give your own life? What is the meaning that you give to the value that you provide to other people,

to your family, to whatever. And we are in control of that. This is all up here. We can decide. We have that freedom to decide what do we value how. If we start to believe in ourselves, and we know, like you said, we are not any different. We all have one head, one body, one hands, one feet.

We have that body. Even people who have a disability, they still have that one mind and that one heart. people can do it. We all can do the same thing at the end. It's all, if you think you don't have the skill, go buy a book and learn the skills, read. If you cannot read, watch YouTube video. If you don't can afford watching YouTube or whatever, you will found ways, become resourceful and learn. It's never cheaper to learn that today and all that knowledge brings it exactly to where you want to be.

There's a perfect saying like, and I think your listeners know that and hear that many times. Nothing happens to you. Tony Robbins always say everything happens for you. I would like to extend that phrase today and say everything happens through you. It's through you. Where do you set your mind to mindset? what is your belief? What are your thoughts? What do you try to achieve? What is it that you truly want? And if you spend time in that zone, you write down stuff, you think about it, make your

dreams become your reality. You can create that stuff. So your life is created through you by your thoughts. But if you watch news and see the world bad and negative and you focus your stuff, Dr. Joe Dispins, I always say where focus goes, energy grows. Again, I can't agree more. If we focus there, and I know this is sometimes hard, you are homeless. What can I think about the positive stuff? You can. It's a decision.

That's why I completely agree on that. This is how I went on in my life. And the thing is, it's never ending. We grow and grow and grow and grow and grow. So I build business after business after business. We scale up to 20 million in revenue. I built a franchise system, had 13 branches, a bunch of people working for me. We did start as we grow.

We were successful in different industries and money came and everything grow and grow. But I had challenges. I remember I had a business deal with someone. And based on that business deal, I made future decisions. And I knew I had like three conversations with that person that was an investor. I knew exactly. we had 15 millions that were okay handcheck we do that and I know exactly if that person say yes it's a 100% he's not going to back out because he was a well-known person and it was official

and and I knew okay I'm so released to close that deal and then I remember wanted to go and based on that agreement I made some mistakes business-wise I confirm other stuff before the contract was signed. So I needed to go to Germany the day after, after a long period of deals and conversations and stuff like that. So I wanted to go to Germany and the gentleman was older. So I wanted to make sure he doesn't forget it. And I called the evening before and say, hey, tomorrow three o'clock is still good.

Nobody picked up. Three hours later, I got an email from his wife, dear Mr. Bachman, I'm sorry to tell you that my husband passed away yesterday. And here I was, eight-figure bankruptcy. Within three months, I lost all my real estate, I lost all my retirement money,

and I had an eight-figure bankruptcy, business bankruptcy, and a personal bankruptcy. Within three months, everything was gone. I had two little kids, five and six years old, were married,

and not, happy in the marriage. So it never stops again. What do you do next? It needs decision. Yeah. Be the victim or I can look for solutions. Yeah, 100%. And guys, you know, this has been an honor to have you on, Pascal, learning about your trailblazing journey. You were definitely a trailblazer and you're continuing to blaze a trail. If you guys want to find out, like, what did he do next? What do you do after, you know, a double bankruptcy and losing it all? If you want to know, Pascal, let him know how to reach you.

There's going to be people that listen to this. They're like, man, you've left us on an icebreaker. Like, how did you figure this out? You know, because how long ago was that? Let's tell, let's share that little tidbit. How long ago did that happen? We won't tell them how you got out of it because I wanted to reach out to you because I know that there's going to be some people that you can add a ton of value to.

Yeah, that was. Around four to five years ago. Okay, four to five years ago, guys, four to five years ago, this happens. He's definitely in a much better place than he was when that happened. But I want you guys to reach out to him directly. Pascal, how can they reach you? I want people to reach out and ask you,

how did you do it? How did you muster up, you know, and get your mindset so dialed in that you could bounce back from this? So how can they reach you, my friend? The easiest way is my website, pascalbachman.com. I'm also on Instagram, Pascal Bachman, underline official. And I'm on LinkedIn, more and more.

We're going to get everything down on the show notes for you. These are the platforms where I'm on most. Perfect, perfect. Well, listen, it's been great, you know, learning about your story and your journey. I know that this conversation is going to add value to so many people that may be in a struggling place that may be facing an adversity similar to one of the many ones that you've gone through you and i both know there's many more ahead of us right there's going to be many more valleys that that we you know come through in peaks and and it's all part of the process and the sooner

that we can understand that uh the better it doesn't mean it's going to be easy it just means that we can at least know that and expect that things are going to happen and you know at the end of today, folks, it's not about what happens. It's about how we react and how we respond. So thank you, my friend, for coming on the Blaz Your Own Trail podcast. I will be talking to you soon. Thank you so much for having me. And I would love to talk to people who feel like, yeah, that would help me. I'm very open to have that conversation, hook me up, and we have a talk. Sounds good, my friend. Thanks.