Blaze Your Own Trail - Transforming Lives Through Charity & Contribution with Adam Gaskill

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Summary: Adam Gaskill, founder of The Nonprofit Creators, shares his journey of transforming lives through charity and contribution. He discusses the importance of finding fulfillment and creating a lasting legacy. Adam highlights the lessons he learned from playing soccer and basketball, including the power of being in the zone and the value of teamwork. He also talks about his decision to forgo college and dive into personal development, sales, and marketing. Adam emphasizes the significance of communication and persuasion in sales and marketing, and how it can be used for positive impact. He shares his experiences with mentors and the importance of gratitude. Adam concludes by discussing his current projects, including Innovate for Humanity and Love and Above Mastermind. Takeaways: Having a mentor who believes in you can make a significant difference in your life and help you achieve your goals. Expressing gratitude to those who have supported and guided you is important and can strengthen relationships. Creating a philanthropic arm for your business can increase your impact and attract customers who align with your cause. Innovate for Humanity is a project focused on contribution, growth, and love and connection, aiming to create a positive impact in the world. Starting a nonprofit or making a difference in the world is achievable with the guidance and support of organizations like The Nonprofit Creators. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Background 06:23 The Impact of Personal Development and Sales 14:12 The Importance of Mentors and Gratitude 35:00 The Attitude of Gratitude Work with Adam: https://thenonprofitcreators.com/ Looking for more tips centered around social media and entrepreneurship? Connect with Jordan below: LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanjmendoza/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join 18K plus other readers: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-you-want-start-podcast-actionable-tips-inside-jordan-mendoza-7dtpe/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/therealjordanjmendoza/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clapper: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clapper.vip/jordanjmendoza⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join my LinkedIn Trailblazers Facebook Group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/linkedintrailblazers⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.blazeyourowntrailconsulting.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.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Blaze Your Own Trail podcast. My name is Jordan Mendoza, and I'm your host, and I've got a very special guest today. His name is Adam Gaskell, and I'm going to have him tell you a little bit about who he is and what he does today. Hi, thank you, Jordan. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to speak and share my heart and soul with your audience and what you do. So thank you, first off. I'm the founder of the nonprofit creators. We transform lives through the lens of charity and contribution.

Most business owners are charitable-minded people. They're not fulfilled. So we help them have more impact and build a lasting legacy by launching successful nonprofits. And also co-founder of Love and Above Mastermind. And the new project we're launching right now is called Innovate for Humanity based on three things. Contribution, growth, and love and connection. So excited to deep dive and add value and see where this goes. Awesome. Awesome. Appreciate you sharing that. And, you know, one of my most favorite parts of doing this show for the last four years is really taking a rewind, right? Getting us getting some context into where Adam came from, right? So what we're going to do now is I'd love for you to share, you know, where were you born and raised? What kind of kid were you? What type of things did you get into?

Yeah. So born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. So right in the middle of the map, Midwest. I live there my whole life. Very quiet. I'm introverted. We'll get stuff done. My parents always get. gave us a strong commitment to excellence. You know, it was like a B average type of kid, right? Love soccer, loved basketball, and love to be in outdoors. Just finding the magic moments of just anything, whether it's from catching insects as a little kid to just loving the exercise feeling of being on the field playing soccer and then also basketball. So that's my hometown.

Shout out to Nebraska. Okay. Awesome. Awesome. So I played soccer as well. I played for 12 years, baseball. for 12 years. And I actually enjoyed fundraising more than the actual sports. So that was more of my thing, because I wasn't an introvert. I was definitely more of an extrovert. So I'd love for you to just

share with the audience, what are the top three lessons that you learned through soccer or through basketball that you would say has still really carried with you today? You know, you can't do it alone, especially in soccer. I'm a center mid and a left wing. So as you know, you played soccer, those are some key roles to play. And if you're not doing your duty and doing your job, and also going up to the front and going back, shoot. I mean, that's a recipe for disaster. And in basketball, I always loved Magic Johnson. So I was like a point forward.

So I'm six foot seven. But I wanted to be a guard and guard the best, play defense. The core fundamentals are so, so important. So that teamwork and then doing something you love and just literally getting lost in it, that was just so, so fun. Just, I mean, still to this day, whether it's hitting the gym for weights or going out intramurals are just going out in the park. That's just a passion of mine just to connect to the little things.

Yeah, it's interesting because I didn't play, you know, recreational basketball, but every Saturday, if I can, I'm out at the park and just playing pickup. And I'm during the week, I don't go to lift. I go to play basketball. And so that's something that's a big passion of mine. It's just like I'm in a whole other environment when I'm there. And I'm not thinking, like you said, I'm not thinking about the outside world. I'm just thinking about how I can compete.

Am I working hard? Am I shooting well? And if I'm missing, you just got to keep shooting. And so, yeah, I love that kind of back and forth that we have with each other and then also that competitive spirit. And so what I'd love to find out next is. So what was life like after high school? Did you decide to go to college? Do you have a different path that you went down?

I'd love to get that context. Yeah. So I have two older brothers. And I'm the youngest. And we're all eight years apart. My oldest brother, Brian, he went to school. He got his master's, his. Bachelors went to law school, was a straight-day kid.

My middle brother was more hands-on, mechanic, let's fish and hiking type of atmosphere. And I was a combination of both. One defining moment in my life was when my oldest brother was stacking up all the college bills and debts. And then my middle brother was making more money than him. And I was like, this doesn't make any sense. And then jobs were coming in.

And I hear this through the grapevine and through my family and through him, I'm overqualified. I was like, what a broken system. That did not resonate with me. So when I was 17 years old, right when I was graduating high school, I found what's called Tony Robbins' personal power. It changed my whole paradigm of what's called specialized knowledge and becoming the best people person in communications.

And then two weeks later, I found a thing called Persuasion Engineering, which is founded by Dr. Richard Bandler, the founder of Neuralinguistic Programming or NLP, who taught Tony Robbins. So this led me on a massive journey of the systems of language, subcommunication, the subconscious reprogramming and neuroscience on how it works to show up as the best self and also modeling. Like success leaves clues and studying the best. And then that just led me into huge sales and marketing. And I was like, well, I mean, sales and marketing, that's not going anywhere. Communication, resonance, intelligence, and relational, that's huge in how you show up internally and then

externally and I just fell in love with it. And I said, you know what? College isn't for me. So I just deep dove into tons of books, tons of courses and it was just excelling at my professions. Oh, I love that. And I love that you kind of dove into professional development at such a young age. You know, for me, it didn't happen until my mid-30s. But I did start doing sales. You know, we had an offline conversation when I was 14, you know, doing those door-to-door sales and really building up that tough skin, you know, because you never know who's on the other side of that door or what they're going to say or how they're going to react and respond. And so one of the things that I figured out, and I know this will add value to a ton of the listeners, is you have to get creative. You've got to

get good at thinking on your feet. You've got to leverage the environment, the surroundings around you and figure out how to break the ice almost immediately. Because if you don't, it's going to be a no. And noes are going to happen. And those are just, you know, I always tell my clients and something I learned early on at 18 was, you know, no equals next opportunity. You know, it's not the, it's not the end, right? There's something called the law of averages. And we have to speak to a certain amount of people to get a certain amount of results. But if you do what I did on day one and you go sit on the curb with lose your attitude, you're not going to get any sales.

Okay. But luckily, I showed up for day two. And I love, I love the fact that you went into that. understanding how powerful communication can be in the fact that sales and marketing is never going away. Because let's face it, everybody is in sales, right? Whether you're selling yourself, you're selling a product or a service or a company. We're always selling something. And if we understand the context and how to do it, man, it unlocks so many doors. And so I'd love to talk about some of those doors that it opened. And one of those doors, it sounds like, was knowledge.

So what was that first book that you picked up that had a very significant impact on your life? Yeah, and just to acknowledge what you said, amen to that. So the cold calling, the telemarketing, the different types of products and sales, the seven seconds from you on call to click, hammer the phone to how can we create rapport, add value, and come from integrity to move it to the next step, you know, just to buy that extra time. So we share that. I love that about you, man. That shares so much about your character and what you had to go through. That's a core foundation in my whole life growing up. It's like, okay.

But to answer your question directly, personal power tapes is a 30-day program from Tony Robbins. It came out, I think, 1989, one of the most profound best self-development courses based upon small actions but very unique knowledge. And it's compiled in such a way that rewires your nervous system. It takes little micro steps, but also gives you macro picture, clear vision, and also understands your values. And what's your programming? What are you doing with what you're doing and why you're doing it? So it's a combination of like simple and complex, but he weaves it in such a brilliant way.

And I fell in love with that, the book Persuasion Engineering basically took the veil off what's occurring through society, through TV, through marketing, through music, through sounds and elicitation. And I'm like, that blew my mind. We've all probably heard of the commercials. Nowadays, it's like a drug ad. And it's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, name, right? And then it comes up and then it changes the sound. And it's about to give you what could occur, what could happen.

And it's like, insert nice, melody, beautiful music. This could cause dead. This could cause internal bleeding. This could cause, it's like very interesting. And vice versa, car commercial, show products, show big, bold letters, excitement, passion. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Product. Boom, boom, boom.

Product. So all these formulas and different things starting noticing. It's like, wow. And then the terror alert system was a really big moment that took back from like 2011, 2001, you know, when then unfortunate event occurred in the United States. everyone recalls what happens or what day they were at where they were. This terror alert system was very interesting to me on understanding mass hypnosis and hypnosis of society. I know I'm going pretty deep here, but you're a deep guy, so let's do it. So imagine that system.

If we create a hallucinary construct of a color coding system, if everyone recalls, if I go from yellow to orange to red to dark red, you're supposed to feel differently between a color difference. Now think about that. Yellow to dark red. It's just a color. Don't think of anything else. But I'm supposed to get intense. I'm supposed to get scared and fearful from this. That opened up a lot of things to me.

I'm like, wow, what else is happening unconsciously and consciously that I can be aware of? And then that helps to, what if we did that for the positive? What if we did that for the good or the greater good? And that got me really excited. So persuasion engineering and personal power were just game. changers. That is awesome. And I love the fact that you're kind of spelling this out because there's always two sides to a coin, right? There's always a good and there's always an evil. There's always a positive way of influence and a negative way in influence. And yeah, if you really do think about it,

it's like, why should we get excited about potentially dying or bleeding out or, you know, all of this? And they are really programming people's minds to say, well, it may not be that bad. And then those are literally the side effects. Yeah, those are the side effects. And, you know, when I was, when I was younger, there were times in my life where I used my ability to influence for the wrong things, you know, whether that was shoplifting, you know, and or whether that was, you know, persuading people to do things for the wrong reasons. And I got convicted about that, you know, and a lot of that came to my faith. And I had to come to the realization that, hey, you've got two different ways to go. You can go down this way, and it may look good, and you may get some fulfillment here, but is it the right fulfillment?

Or you can leverage your influence and actually have a positive impact on people. And I'd like to share that because there may be some people out there that say, you know what, because of my past, because of these things that I did, this is my story. And I want to just tell you, it's not the end for you. Okay, there is a way to, like Adam said, reframe your mindset and look at it through a different lens that where now you can leverage your mess and turn it into your message and you can help people that may have been doing those same things that you were doing. So I really appreciate you sharing that. And it's so powerful. And even for myself, I was just like thinking of the colors and the emotions that those different colors were taking me through. It's a very powerful.

Thank you. Yeah, a couple of key quotes that always comes. came up, especially when I was telemarketing, I had this on my desk. It was like the past does not equal the future. And then it evolved over time from Tony Robbins. The past doesn't equal the future unless you live there. And then one call can change at all. As we know, it's a numbers game like you just mentioned, right? Like, okay, this past, no matter if I have a hundred calls and everyone hangs up on my face, the next call has no relevance and memory of those other calls unless I bring it to it. I change my cadence, my rhythm, my mindset, my attitude.

And then consistent efforts result and consistent success, right? If I show up consistently as a level 10 atom or a level 10 self, a level nine problem, there's nothing. I smash it. But if I show up as a level three or a level four, level nine, that's Godzilla. It's attacking me. I am terrified, right? Certain key things that's like blossomed and were planted within me as a good core structure

of I can always bring those back into what the goals and what's the outcomes that we're going after. Love it. Love it. So tell me where this led you because it obviously, it's such a young age, had such a profound impact. And I know you talked about sales and you talked about telemarketing. And so what were some of the things that it opened up for you because you were open to receive it, right? Because you were open to the possibility of what could be. I'd love for you just to share.

What were those next steps that you took? And how has the journey been? Yeah. So when I found sales and marketing, and then I jumped into multiple different sales rules, opportunities, you name it, some good products, some bad products as well. And, you know, always top 1, 2% in my field. Then I became a licensed insurance agent for mutual of Omaha in all 50 states.

This is where also I fell in love with systems and processes. They asked me to become a part of their change management team. So we worked with the vice president, and I was the voice for the call center floor, about 150, 200 people. We were doing Google sprints, creating product design and testing it on marketplace in five days. This was phenomenal. We were doing, in Tony Robbins, he has a program called Time of Your Life. We were using RPM formulas, result focus, purpose-driven, massive action plans.

And I had my book out and we were going through this. And it was just so phenomenal. I started learning quite a bit in regards to structures of a billion-dollar company. if we provide all the data, everything, we have the buy-ins from all the department heads. You would think naturally you'd be able to make a move. But no, you can't be nimble. It's not nimble, even if you provide all that data. That was very interesting to me.

I'm like, you have your vice president. You have all of these department heads. And we say, if we make this change, you're going to make this much revenue. And you'll have this much, the capital of people are going to be so happy. you can deliver in such a way, but six months, nine months out, we don't want to do that or we can't. That was interesting. So very, very truthfully, I was working in mutual of Omaha. I was getting, I was getting burnt out. I was a glorified high six-third or telemarketer. I was helping people, but I wasn't fulfilled. So I took another sales insurance, 100% commission. I was just one was like,

I want to test myself because at mutual vomo, they asked me to become a trainer. And I always had a goal of becoming a trainer and do sales training because anytime I'd be on my calls, my acute sensitively for listening, since I spoke to hundreds of thousands of people over this time, I could press mute and help and coach someone and they would get a sale. And they're like, how'd you do that? And it was just by on flexion, structure, and then just modeling and envisioning what's occurring. But I was not going to take a pay cut from a sales job.

I mean, you know sales. Like, you've got a sales commission and you're this and you're flexible and you're in full control. So it didn't make the most sense. So in 2020, I had something that was on my heart and my mind. And I felt suffocated in Nebraska for the conversations and I felt a yearning in my soul for more. I was like, man, this is not what I'm supposed to be doing here. Grinding, you know, push, pull, long hours, hitting quotas.

But it just wasn't that. So I had a quote from Great Zig Zigler on my heart in my mind. And I said, if I'm able to help more people reach their dreams and reach their goals now, hit mine. So 2020, I burnt my boats per se, and I had that on my heart. Let me serve my way up. By doing so, God, the universe opened up and brought me some incredible people. Dear friend Bob Berringer, certified super genius who built military intelligence, saved hundreds of thousands of lives, has three nonprofits, universities mentored me. He's like Elon Musk or smarter. We stayed with him. And then it went full circle. We ended up going to business mastery of

Tony Robbins and winning it and getting on stage with Tony Robbins for creating a charity in five days. And it was so awesome. I was just like, this is so cool. And I kept hearing charity, pay it forward from 2020 on, nonprofits, but I still wasn't listening. So I took one more job. I was a vice president of a United Stateswide car company. We taught people how to buy and flip cars using our money. And I was the operations guy. We launched a call center. Now, I had to leave, putting out way to psychology of the leadership, and for integral reasons, it was just had to move on. And then my aha was finally bestowed upon me, or let's just say, I finally listened to it. I said, wait, if I'm able to use my sales and marketing skills all the way back from age 17 to help mission-driven

people and nonprofits get their mission out to the masses, I never have to work a day in my life again. And I founded the nonprofit creators. About two and a half, almost three years going on now, is like I mentioned at the beginning, we transform lives through the lens of charity and contribution. When we first met Jordan, I'm like, what's the cause or what's the calling inside? Right. So a lot of people have a desire for giving back or they have some causes that they're already giving to. So we simplify it through what's called our creators paradise. So we do nonprofit formations, 100% success rate, premium website builds.

We have 100% success rate of securing six-figure grants every year for the rest of their life via Google. We do best selling book authorship. And we also inquire and integrate a relationship fundraising. And the biggest thing about this is take the tyranny of how off someone's plate, Jordan, and allow them to go to the mountaintop and scream their mission and vision. When we are able to do this, this is able to revitalize culture, increase productivity, follow your calling and your mission, because one thing I hate, and I don't use hate lightly. Tony Robbins has a quote.

He says, the road of someday leads to the town of nowhere. So someday I'll get to my dream. Someday I'll launch my charity someday. and then it's three months, six months, two years down the road. And it's still sitting on the shelf. I hate that. So I say, well, how can we create a fun system while someone's only spending an hour or two hours a week? Or if someone's full throttle and they're at a different stage of their business and now this is legacy time and they want to spend 20, 40, whatever hours is because it's not work to them.

They're helping, they're giving and they're building community. Awesome. So we meet people at where they're at. Now, that's still my art of fulfillment. That's my primary source. That's our primary business. But what's came from that is very unique and unusual to me. I was in this lens.

I was focused on it. Then spirit and people kept coming to me. And they were like, there's two forms of communication. What Tony says, he says it's an inspiration. Someone's sharing inspiring things or it's a cry for help. Help me. I need something. Where do I go?

And what we were noticing is a lot of these twos, these cry for help in sales, marketing, psychology, and integration. So I said to my team, I'm like, hey, guys, I know we have our clear vision, our focus, and our goals. But let's help more people reach their goals so we can hit ours. Are you guys cool with that? And they were all on board. So we are launching innovate free humanity. Within 30 days, we have three different community basis on what makes the, most sense to you. And it's based upon continuity of three things. So you have contribution,

growth, and love and connection with the heart in the middle of this triangle. So whether it's progress, expansion, or enlightenment type of model, some of them are do it yourself. Some of them are member spotlights, community, and then others are pure. I want to condense timelines. I want to go through it and get further faster. So this contribution up here, this is cause marketing. This is how can I create a philanthropic arm? How can we make an ecosystem that makes more money has more impact, right? The growth, this could be funnel hacking, this could be visionary architecture, this could be integration, this could be using some new AI or a combination. This could be the 80% psychology with the 20% mechanics coming together. This is so, so important.

And then the love and connection is where the love and above mastermind comes in. So this is, I know I probably went on a little quite long. Oh, it's great. I appreciate the context. And there's definitely a lot to unpack it. So I'm going to rewind it back to mentorship. You know, you have a mentor, a billionaire that for whatever reason decided to invest in you, right? I know I've had so many people feed into me in my lives.

And definitely at times when I feel like I didn't deserve it. I don't know why they took the time to invest. best in me. So can you talk a little bit about the importance of having people see something inside of us, maybe even when we don't see it in ourselves, and how your mentor has helped shape you and mold you to now you're doing maybe even more incredible things than you thought initially. So I'd love for you just to give that context. Yeah, absolutely. And just for clarity, my mentor specifically not yet is a billionaire if you look through the lens of the bank account. So very successful and just a couple people.

So in NLP, the books and the mentors were Tony Robbins and Doc. So they were in my headspace and in my corner and understanding what would they do, how would they show up, why they're doing it, and then understanding the systems and the structure for action. And then in the physical realm and the presence, it was Bob Berringer. Now, when you meet certain people that share insurm, inspiration, share you got this, share best practices, open up new lenses and doors to something you've never seen before and make it real and then show other leadership so you can show up or show you the path of how to get there. My goodness, I can never give greater thanks to the

individuals and the people I learned from. I'm just a culmination and integration with my own creativity drenched upon everything I've learned and the people I meet and the care. The power of this question unlocked the door to the mentors. How can I best serve you? When you literally trade expectation for appreciation and you care deeply about the answer to the question, you are not just stating the question, stuff happens. I get shivers just thinking about it. It's like, how can I best serve you?

And if they open up and you ask like a follow up question, sometimes people don't want to go deep their surface structure at the start, but if you ask the second one, they really share with you what's going on. and you have value to add, not just value, but massive value, right? It would be a value adding animal. Oh, my gosh. Like, that unlocked the doors. And it started, people started like, well, I want to invite you here and invite you here.

And then all we cared about is helping them reach their goals. And then naturally it was like, this isn't an integral. This guy's staying in his own presence. He's not hiding in his authentic, vulnerable expression and care and appreciation at new level. And then as we know mentors, they are always looking for tutelage. They're always looking for students. And once we're able to be that and we care and we honor their time and we add value to them as well, not just take a need. It's a different dynamic.

It's walking side by side instead of reaching for it and taking or being a succubis of an energy sucker. Because there's a fine line in between it and how you engage with it. So does that answer your question? 100%. Yeah. Yeah, no, it makes a ton of sense. And I think that, you know, there's plenty of people that have been caught up on the other side of that, right? Where they, you know, maybe their intentions were okay, like, we're okay, but they were out to get something.

And the fruit that comes from that is not as bountiful as when you truly are there to serve and to add value, you know, because, and, you know, I've planted a lot of seeds. And some of them are still growing. Some of them have started to peek out of the ground and some of them have already started to bear fruit. And we don't really know the timing of that. But what's important and really what I heard from you, Adam, is what's your intentionality with the relationship? Because if you're going for transactions, those are very easy. Those things can come like a fish in a barrel. But if you're going for transformation and relationships, that takes time.

And you've got to add value not just on. one thing but on another, but like you said, add massive value and give way more than you ever take. Yes, 100%. Like our mastermind with Bob, I met him in 2020. We're now launching it right now. The four years of relationship and the ups and downs and the learning lessons and the growth that I had to go to and he had to go through, et cetera, made this perfect divine time

and orchestration come together. If I tried to go in it right away, I wasn't ready and prepared for what's about to happen this full year, which is so exciting. So I believe in divine perfect orchestration and everything happening in divine order, right? So, and life doesn't happen to me. It happens for me. So it's like lessons learning. I'm always about constant growth and constant never ending improvement. So when it comes to mentors and this, it's, it's super, super vital. Thank you. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And I've had so many good mentors around me. I started going to a business group before I decided to, to kind of blaze my own trail into entrepreneurship. That was back in, I think, 2017. And I remember

trying to make the jump. And these guys were like, I don't think you're ready yet. I think you need to continue to hone your craft. And then when I was ready, the next time, they all knew and they all were like, hey, you're ready. So having those people in our corner, having the people that can be like, hey, no, don't do it now. Or, hey, yeah, you need to go now and do it. That's so important to have those people around us. You know, we become the sum total of five people we associate ourselves with the most. And I'm sure in your life and actually just in hearing your story, I'm actually starting to count the number. I think I've gotten to about three or four. There's probably a fifth person there that you're hanging out with a lot. And your life changes because of it. And what I started to realize is that

I'm actually making their life better as well, you know, because originally I didn't see the value in me. I'm like, who am I, this rookie guy? And what do I have to say that's going to help these guys? I start to realize that they don't know technology. They don't understand social media. And so I became a value add in something that after 2020, more and more people realize the necessity in being more visible in showing up more places. And I had that answer.

And so it became more of a partnership and a collaboration versus that tutelage. And it was like, hey, now I'm adding value to them in ways that I never even thought possible. Amen. And just shout out to a couple other people, too. Like Luke Wren, head speaker for life and wealth mastery for Tony Robbins, was my mentor for a long time and still as a dear brother or business partners too. He spoke on business mastery state for Tony 14, 15 times, did security for 10 plus years, was side by side with him. He's just a dear, dear brother. And just a couple other people along the way.

It's just a shout out to, you know, Peter Swain for the intelligence under the wing and shout out to Brian Gray, CPA for billionaires and just a brilliant care and knowledge. That's inner circle with Tony as well. And there's many more, but definitely agree with the top five and that. And I love what you mentioned about the paradigm shift. I of knowing your own value and then seeing it. So I'm going into the circles and I'm going to these events and I'm sitting it and, you know, I've studied, Tony Robbins in NLP for almost 20 years. I had the hallucination and the thought process.

They had the same knowledge and training. So I'm sitting front row at these places like, God, you know the triad. You know the physiology language. And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, and I was like, wait, okay, this is, okay, let me share. Let me devolved, let me guide, let me facilitate, let me ask questions and add value. And they're like, cool. That started clicking.

It started giving me the extra ability and the truth of not coming from me. ego, but just knowing your greatness and stepping into it even more. So you're able to help more people do more good and change the world and raise the collective consciousness as my purpose of my life is to be loving and joy serving humanity and to create a magical life for myself and others. When my conscious and subconscious came to enjoy serving humanity and my faith was fully embodied, everything changed. This led me into this. I'm in like a, as my dear brother, Gary Malkin is one the other key gentleman, wisdom of the world, portals of all. Wow, this guy is a wisdom keeper of the ages. When this connection occurred and we're in like an emotional time dilation. What I mean is like

these, it's so crazy. Like Jordan, we spoke probably a week ago, but it feels like a month and a half ago when you're working long hours, but it's not work. It's fulfilling. It's like you're following your purpose. You're following that golden threat. where you want to go. So it's and then one final thing note on that is expansion of identity is so important. Like it's so, so so important how you see yourself, how others see you and then how to be. Like who is your mentors, your models, your role models, what you're trying to get to as well or not there beyond there, like beyond the goal and beyond the finish line, right? So when I always had this underlying subconscious thing, I want to raise the collective consciousness. And what that

meant to me via the nonprofit creators was, let's find someone who has a calling, boom, okay? Now they become, they have a board. Now they have a volunteer army. Now they have tons of donors. Now you do that 100, 200 times. These are light workers that are spreading all over. And I'm like, whoa, this is super cool. And then it's like, you guys got to meet over here. You guys got to meet. And that's where Innovate for Humanity came about because I was like, how can we create a sacred space to allow these conversations to flourish? And I believe my hallucination of my guess is that's why you created blaze your own trail too, to bring inspiration together to showcase and give people in-depth conversations, but also to relate

and also inspire so they can say, hey, we're not that, you're not that far off. I mean, no one's better than you. Some people are just farther along, right? Percent. Yeah, no, I love that. And one thing I want to commend you for earlier is, you know, the gratitude that you gave. You know, I think in that conversation, you started to realize there's some people. that I need to recognize. And that's one of the most important thing to our listeners or our viewers.

There's somebody in your life that has believed in you when you didn't believe in you. There's someone in your life that said something to you that made you do a 180 or a 360. And it's so important, whether that's a text, whether that's an email, whether that's literally snail mail, showing and telling those people how much of a difference they make. And I came up with this quote a few years ago. And it says an attitude of gratitude expands like latitude and longitude. Because when you can show people how grateful you are, and they actually remember that, and man, it's, and I'm now getting goosebumps, kind of even just talking about it, because I've had people, you know, this weekend I spoke at my dear friend Amberly Logo's event. I got to speak to her private mastermind and share my story and

journey and then help them with LinkedIn. And, you know, all of them afterwards were just like, hey, thank you for sharing. And then after the event, the messages. And that gratitude just built an even bigger fire in me to want to get on that next stage and to want to go inspire and impact more people. So don't let that gratitude go unsaid. Okay. And that I think is going to help a lot of people. So, man, Adam, you're doing amazing things. One thing I want to do is that I give you a chance to share where can people actually go to reach you? Because there's going to be people to listen to this to say, you know what, I want to start a nonprofit. I want to be more impactful.

I want to blaze a trail for other people that I may not even meet one day. And so where's the best place to get a hold of you to learn more about the opportunities that you have? Yeah, amen. And not to deflect your question, but I want to put extra emphasis on what you said with gratitude. This is why love and above our mastermind is being launched. On a frequency scale of, you know, Dr. Hawkins, if love and there's negative energies, there's negative frequencies, but love, but there's stuff that's above love, there's the joy, there's the gratitude, there's bliss, and so forth.

If you have a foundation and you're vibrating and you're feeling love, joy, gratitude more often, everything changes. So how can we create that foundation in the full wheel of life, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, your relations, relationships, your family, how you show up in these different realms at work, at your purpose, everything, how you're taking care of your temple, your body, and all of the things, right? So super, super important. And that's why I'm super excited about that. And to answer your question, a couple of places. So the nonprofit creators net, so the nonprofit creators.net, book a call. We'd love to hear your cause and your calling.

You know, what is the passion behind it? So just to give a short overview, because sometimes people don't believe they're ready for that conversation. They need to get ready. So we work with four different personas. So first off, you could be an existing charity or a nonprofit doing great things. And we're here to connect world game changers to serve humanity. So we work with an amazing charity called International Religious Freedom Secretariat.

They're working with 1,100 NGOs in every war zone, connecting on mankind, universal love, no matter your faith, everyone has a space at the roundtable of what they create. So we have clients like that that come in and say, man, we need specific copyrighting, we need funnel architecture, we need to take it to the next level. Or there might be a lot of visionaries and how can we bring it together? in a cohesive leadership way and get all the troops and the soldiers on operation. How can we close condensed timelines and help more people faster? So that's the existing nonprofits, even though our name is the nonprofit creators, we still help them.

The other three are this. So if you're a serial entrepreneur or a business owner that's giving to multiple causes, and you don't have a lot of bandwidth or time. I say to you, don't change anything you're doing. You're already giving to incredible causes. is thank you. Now, I just invite you to hear this. If we can create a 501c3 charity and have that charity give to those exact same places you're already giving to, but now have a tax shelter, now secure six figures every year for the rest of your life and free advertising,

double, triple, quadruple your impact while you're only spending an hour or two hours a week, would that be beneficial? Normally the answer is yes, I want to know more. Love to talk to you, love to simplify it. Then the second persona over here, the third, excuse me, is I want to make more money and have more impact. No matter if you're a startup or you're an existing business that wants to do multiple things. You want to acquire customers. You want to rig, a vigorate culture. I mean, what's your purpose?

We can create a charitable arm. We have like brokerages or real estate agents come to us and we create a charitable arm similar to the name as well. But we follow their heart and it starts creating these ripple effects of good throughout their full organization, which is cool. So and cause marketing, if no one's familiar with that, I always give this example, if I own a puppy rescue and you love puppies, right? And you say 50% of all your proceeds goes to that puppy rescue in my case. Naturally, you want to do business with me. Now, why is that? Social proof, reciprocity, and familiarity is all transferred through the cause that you care deeply about.

And people care about social impacts. So I say, hey, follow your purpose, your dreams and make more money and take care of your. family simultaneously. To me, that's a win, right? And then the final one is could be an employee, a person that's called, they could be donating, they could be volunteering for 20, 30 years. They don't know anything about nonprofits. That's okay. 99% of everyone we meet that's not their core competency. So our team becomes the guide and helps hold your hand and becomes the family to take you to the next level. So the nonprofit creators.net. You'll see innovateforhumanity.com coming up and the next 60 days, love and above mastermind.

Reach out to us if you're interested in a world-class, sacred community that we're all about growth, contribution, and love and connection. I love it. Love it. Thank you so much for sharing that. So, folks, you heard it from Adam. If you are ready to blaze a trail and if you're ready to impact more people, if that's, you know, on your heart where, hey, I want to help more people, and I literally just don't know how,

make sure you reach out to Adam. The worst case, he'll add a ton of value to you. He'll resource you. He'll point you in the right direction. And, man, Adam, I thank you so much for taking the time. You could have been anywhere else in the world, anywhere else on the planet, the fact that you came to share how you've blazed your own trail. It's an honor. It was a privilege to host you on the show.

And we just got to give you a big round of applause here. Hey, thank you. Sincerely appreciate it. It's exciting. and I'm super excited to hear more and learn more how we can work together for the greater good. And I'll come out to Belgium as well, brother. Absolutely, my friend. Well, hey, keep blazing your own trail.

And until next time, everybody, make sure that you are taking action. Action creates momentum. Momentum creates consistency. Consistency creates habits. And habits will eventually turn into the results that you're looking for. Until next time, keep blazing your own trail. Adam, thank you so much, my friend.