Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Tim Storey - Life Coach to the Stars on Building a Miracle Mentality

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Welcome to this week’s episode on The Radcast! Get ready for Tim Storey, the World-Renowned Motivational & Inspirational Speaker, Author, & Life Coach Acclaimed author - Pastor at Congregation Family!In this episode on The Radcast, host Ryan Alford talks with guest Tim Storey about the roadmap to transcend negative thinking leading to a transformed life with bigger adventures, more opportunities, and deeper meaning.They also dissect the importance of personal branding, the inspiration from his book Miracle Mentality, and his views in regard to religion and spirituality.To learn more about Tim Storey, follow him on LinkedIn or by visiting https://www.timstorey.com/If you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, let us know by visiting our website www.theradcast.com or leave us a review on Apple Podcast. Be sure to keep up with all that’s radical from @ryanalford @radical_results @the.rad.cast If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now? Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. Hey guys, what's up? It's Ryan Alford. Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. Come to you live from Greenville, Southolina at the home of radical the baddest coolest greatest whatever we want to enter here agency on the planet that is radical joined by a good friend soon to be partnering crime i don't know tim's story what's up man i got so so many ways i want to go with this i'm just going to to say, welcome to the show. Ryan, loving what you're doing, been studying what you're doing, and your podcast and everything you're about. What a privilege to be chatting today. It's going to be a good conversation.

Yes, it will. Yes, it will. And you fit the mold, man. When I started the podcast, I was like, yeah, we're marketing and business, but I wanted to talk and have radical conversations with radical people. And, you know, man, you fit the mold. You know, I love your spirit. I love what you're about. I love what you're doing. I want to get into Miracle Mentality, your latest book, which I'm about a chapter and a half into, admittedly, on the limited plane rides I've had and raising four kids, the time you get to read is minimal, but really enjoying it and just love

everything you're about, man. That means a lot. And I'm wondering why I'm drinking from like a raccoon cup. No, because Ryan, you know know I'm from Compton, California. Dude, what's happened to me? I don't know, man. Straight out of Compton. Drinking hot tea out of a raccoon cup. What's happened? I know.

I know. Well, Tim, you know, coach to the stars, pastor. Can I call you pastor? I couldn't find pastor anywhere. And I don't know if you consider yourself. You lead people. I lead people. So my doctrine is in world religion.

I consider myself a humanitarian. And I speak in all settings, synagogues, Catholic churches, Protestant churches, mega churches around the world. But I do lead a church that's doing quite well. It's only six years old. It's not bad when you start a church and in the grand opening, Smokeyinson performs for you no not bad at all yeah so we got a cool church so we have a you know a good-sized church in southern california but we have a lot a lot of people online we got a congregation of about 10 000000 online. Wow. So dare say mega church getting in there. I know that's frowned upon as a term, right? But either way, you're leading a lot of people in a lot of the right ways, right?

Yeah, but I think you'll see from my tempo and you've studied me, I love people from all walks of life. Just because somebody was raised in another culture, I don't think that it's our business to tell them they're wrong. So I treat everybody like they're made in the image of God, and I try to lead by example. You know, it is the golden rules. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. the golden rules, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And so a lot of principles of the Ten Commandments even come into play,

no matter what religion or belief. A lot of that core beliefs start there. But I know, look, Tim, your story is out there, and I encourage everyone to go check them out. Google Tim's story, S-T-O-R-E-Y. We'll get into all of the ways to get in touch with Tim at the end. But you can go find every bit of his backstory and all those things. But on the Radcast, let's go down to just a couple of different angles. You know, in telling your story, I did just want to talk about what motivates you.

You know, like what has i know and have read and listened to you on bradley's podcast a mutual friend uh you know some of those some of those influences and things but you know at the end of the day what's kind of molded your story and your evolution as you've moved along and kind of your journey leading people um great question. So I'm going to lead you to a story. I remember in eighth grade, we were running in PE. It was a long distance. And in long distance, in short distance, there was a guy named Don. And he was either number one or number two in short and long distance. So I was either one or two. We would beat each other back and forth.

And we took it very, very seriously. So we were going to race this day with the rest of the PE group, and it was long distance, and Don, man, he was tall already for eighth grade, and he had these doggone long legs. But this particular day, I was like right on his shoulder. And I said, I know where he starts to slow down. So I kicked it in front of him. And any time I'd ever been in front of him, it did something to his head and then he would not win.

So this is a very important story, Ryan, because I was beating Don and he was a tall Italian guy and I'll never forget as I was beating Don and we had to go two more laps, I saw this kid, Freddy, who was a kid that was

a little bit out of shape. He was holding his side. He was breathing real hard. I thought, oh, he's probably just got like a cramp. But when we came around the second time, I saw that he was really gasping for air. And it was just something deep. I stopped the race. Don continued.

I went back to Freddie and I said, are you okay? And he said, no. He said, I'm having an asthma attack. Now, why was that so important to me? Because I come from a family of five and my third sister, she suffered with asthma. And so as a kid, I remember my parents having to take her to Children's Hospital, you know, at least a couple of times a year because of an asthma attack. So I stopped beating this guy, Don, to see what was wrong with Freddie. I called Mr. Smith, the teacher, and he ran over because it's serious stuff. We got to Freddie's inhaler and, you know, got him better. This is what I'm about, is that I am a humanitarian.

And my vision is to uplift people, change people, help them find their way. And, man, that just showed what I was about because I was winning, but I stopped. So that's what motivates me is helping people's lives. It's empathy, man. I mean, that's what I'm hearing. You know, like we like to think, and it's a word that's thrown around a lot, but it seems like that it's in the core of you. I mean, that's kind of was my takeaway, but hearing you describe that was like, I'm running, I'm a beast of an athlete. I can dominate this. I figured out how to win this race. But in your moment of glory, you're thinking and worrying about others. And that can't be taught. That's innate, I think. thinking and worrying about others. And that can't be taught. That's innate, I think.

It's totally innate, no doubt about it. So I believe it's my calling. And in 12th grade, when a really cool girl named Kathy was reading a book about Mother Teresa, she said, Tim, I think for some reason you like this book. So after she was done, I read it. Man, it touched my life because the lady was a school teacher, heard the cries of the orphans and said, I got to deal with what these orphans are going through. And so I went from thinking I was going to USC and I was set up. USC is a great school. I was set up with great, but I was also set up with connections. I had the connections.

And so I decided instead to go to seminary because I wanted to be a humanitarian. And that's what I became. And I've now been to 75 different countries working with underprivileged people. Good night. I mean, just the scope and the depth of the impact that you've had can't be, I mean, it's hard to even wrap your head around. When I hear 75 countries, you know, I feel like I'm well-traveled.

But that is like on another level. And then doing what you're doing, the impact that you're having. You know, I know you coach, you know, whether you like this or not term, and we can extant it, whatever we got to do, life coach of the stars. I mean, like that's what you're known for on some levels amongst all, you know, all the other people you've touched. What's, all the other people you've touched. What's that like? I mean, it's all this glamour is put into celebrity. And I've heard you speak about both the opportunity that social media and other things have afforded, but at the same time, the negative side of that, same thing with the negative side of celebrity but talk about you know being the coach to stars and and and how that came about and both you know how you deal with it i think

the thing that's cool is that that was never the goal at all like i was the way i got found by stars is by doing my inner city work and And some famous people found out about it. And here's what they said. They said, we have money and you have a gift. Let's connect. So we're going to sponsor what you're doing. So these were famous NFL players, but at the highest level. And so a lot of athletes know entertainers.

And so then it started to move into entertainers. And then it was cool because then an older entertainer started to get me in with like Charlton Heston and Jack Lemon and, you know, Vidal Sassoon and Lee Iacocca, Quincy Jones. So I was living a pretty crazy life for a guy in his 20s. So I was working with those guys. I was doing an inspirational meeting in Beverly Hills

with one of the most famous actresses of all time. And I will not say her name right now, but she's my friend, but that's what I was doing. And then these guys would say like, hey, I got a nephew who's struggling or I got a daughter who's struggling or a son. And so that's when USA Today coined me. He's the life coach to the stars. And then now I work with over 300 entertainers from around the world, and the biggest in the best.

And, you know, what's fascinating, amongst other things, is we put celebrities and athletes and everyone gets put on a pedestal as having a life and not being human on some level. And we make them out. We forget that they, you know, live and breathe and feel the same way we do, you know, every day. And I think, you know, you get to experience that firsthand, which is they have this, you know, they may not have money problems at the time they're talking to you. They may not have money problems at the time they're talking to you, but every other problem is at their doorstep or in their mind too, right? Yeah, I just wrote this down because I wrote down humanity versus fame.

And so what is not correct is that people that want the famous to be unhappy, that's not always the case for people that want the famous to be unhappy. I know a lot of famous people that are super happy. I mean, look at Tom Hanks. Look at Jerry Seinfeld. These are really happy humans. Okay. So a lot of famous people are extremely happy. Look at Will Smith. Look at,

look at my great friend, Steve Harvey, Oprah, great friend, super happy. Robert Downey, super happy. So,

but you have, you have the fame, but you also have the humanity and the humanity side hits up his, it's all of us because all of us have to deal with what? Our spiritual life, our mental life, our physical life, our job, our finances, our family. We're dealing with all those things. So I think the thing about celebrities though

is that when they get in trouble, it gets amplified. Because if somebody who's not famous gets in trouble, it might just be a local problem. But if Charlie Sheen gets in trouble, then they know about it all over the world. That's right. It brings me to this question. I hear this and I'm like, Tim's story is a human too and you deal with everyone else's problems and it can probably be assumed

that you live the perfect life or you have it. Who do you go to for inspiration or, I don't know, what's your guide? And maybe it's God and the Bible. I don't know. No, but Ryan, that's a great question. I think that I've been very fortunate that, number one, I have a lot of discipline in my life. one, I have a lot of discipline in my life and that for me, because of

the faith that I have in God, it's not religion though. I don't do it for religious reasons. I do it out of a relationship. I really believe that God's my father. So every day I read the Psalms and the Proverbs and I feed my faith. Okay. So I do that every day, every day. I did it today already.

But the other thing that I feel is it, and I think it's happening for you because you've got a great spirit, is you reap what you sow. So I've given out so much. Man, I got guys that will die for me. Like really cool male friends that check in on me nonstop. Like, are you good? Do you need anything? Let me give you an example. So I used to work out at the Gold's Gym down the street. And they kept closing it and opening and closing it.

So one of my friends who does well said, man, can't have that. I can't have you getting COVID. So he said, let me look in your garage. And, you know, the garage is very organized. And so he says, Tim, I'm'm gonna build a gym in here i go no no no no no well about 15 days later there was like a 35 000 gym in my garage was state-of-the-art And him saying, I've hired my trainer to train you three days a week. But those are the kind of friends I have that really care about me. But I think that it's a cool thing that there's a lot of really good people out there that care.

So I have people that I can go to. Me and you exchanged numbers already today. We're friends. We're going to be even more friendly. So yeah, I feed off people. I feed off people. What's your feeling? Obviously, we're a business and marketing podcast, but personal branding has become such a thing today. You know, the Tim Story brand is such a strong brand and for all the reasons. And there's all these positives that come with that. What's your feeling on personal branding and, you know, the good and the bad of social media as it relates to all of that? I think the idea is to build a good brand

you have to master something and so that's a little bit of malcolm gladwell but other people have been saying that forever he just happened to put like 10 000 hours you know that's his idea but what i say is you got to build your spot and life will put the spotlight on your spot. Okay. Like, let me give an example. Magic Johnson, great basketball player, great friend of mine. So while he was playing for the Lakers, Jerry Buzz starts teaching a business. So he's playing basketball and learning business.

He starts to step out barely. You know, here's what I like, baseball metaphor. Just hit a doggone single. Quit going for like the doubles, triples, home runs. Hit a doggone single, okay? And Ryan, I think you would agree, right? Okay, so Magic starts with fat burgers, which is like a burger chain.

Then he goes to Magic Johnson Theaters. Then he owns some, you know, Friday's restaurants. Then he goes to Schultz, the head of Starbucks, and gets some inner city Starbucks. Then he starts buying big old shopping centers. Then he gets into entertainment. Then he owns part of the LA Dodgers. It's crazy, right? Now he's doing all this new huge stuff with Barack Obama that hasn't even come out yet.

So what has he done? He's built his skills, his tools, and his attitude. He's built in his spot skills, tools, and attitude. And now you could helicopter that to Fatburger, Magic Johnson Theaters, and the LA Dodgers. And that's how I do it same doggone way. And you have done it. I mean, I look at Tim's story live. I look at the church. I look at the books. I look at your coaching.

If, you know, it's so interesting to hear you say that. And as you were talking, I've been researching you for weeks, you know, as I've known this is coming, you know, we've been getting to know one each other and I've been researching you, but you are living and breathing example of exactly that happening. And it's fascinating. And so many people get detoured into what you just said, trying to get too far outside of the box or too far. We had another guy on the other day that talked about, you know, owning your category and different things and, and transplanting that in different places. And I think you just encapsulated it perfectly. Yeah. And I, I secretly am in the restaurant business with the best of the world. And I was looking at some other, I just wrote down a few businesses. Uh, I own part of genie cast. Okay. That is such an amazing company. They're the ones that do even the holograms like Tupac. I own part of something called the Wonder Dome that we do amazing projects for, you know, huge celebrities.

And I'm launching in two weeks, Tim Story Insurance. Oh, all right. I honestly think that'll be one of my biggest things I've ever done. That has nothing to do with humanitarian work because we have such a big platform and people trust me. So I'm launching Tim Story Insurance with an amazing guy who's been in the insurance world for over 35 years. And it's going to be worldwide. But I'm also part of another company called Blue Cloud. And that is in the medical field. I own part of that company where we have over 2 million people that are members of Blue Cloud. And I'm part of that company, too.

Owned part of that. But that's just little Timmy from Compton. Just learning skills, tools, and attitude. I'm not letting that go. Little Timmy from Compton. Oh, little Tim's story. Oprah Winfrey's personal coach. Just little Timmy.

Yeah, with the rack. I buy a lot of what you're selling. I ain't buying little Timmy no more. Tim's story, the brand, the mega brand. Yeah, but I'm telling you. But see, Ryan, you do this for a living. Yeah. You see that, you know, there's a joy that I have.

I live in this joy. I live in this peace. For real, I do. And that this stuff that just happens, it's because you get good at something. And then people go, hey, he's good at that. Bring that rascal over here. So, again, build your spot and life will put the spotlight on your spot. That's for sure.

So Miracle Mentality, the latest book from Tim Story. I'm talking about Tim Story, the brand. I'm just going to call you the brand here. I like that. But let's talk about Miracle Mentality. Both the premise, the inspiration. I've really enjoyed the little bit i've gotten into after talking to you now i might finish it tonight i don't know but uh i uh let's talk about it though what um what inspired it what um what what can people

expect that they pick it up yeah you know the cool thing is is that is that at this stage in my life, I don't have to sell a book to make money. So I don't feel like I'm selling something. I wait about five years in between books because I want to really study the subject, get the right people on the subject with me. I hired a gentleman who teaches at Princeton University to be my editor. It's brilliant. So here's what I found, is that the miracle mentality is in us since we're children. It's innate.

It's a fact that every child is flowing in their imagination. And you say, no, no, no, not my child. He's quiet. Well, he's thinking things quietly. Or no, he's had terrible things happen, or she's had, well, they might be imagining getting out of the house, but they're imagining something.

It's a fact. So a miracle is very close to the word magical. Magical means uncommon, not regular, okay? Supernatural. Little kids play with things like Spider-Man, Superman, Iron Man. That's deep, right?

They want it out there. So the question is, how can we become like 13, 14, 15, 16, and we start to let people, situations minimize us? I help align us through this book, which is essential reading. So all you people that are listening, this is essential reading. Like when you take a class and they go, you've got to read this book. People, it's essential because I take you step-by-step how to get back to magical thinking in your personal life, in your job, in your finances, in your family,

in your conduct. And so I'm very, very excited about this and it's working. This book has really taken off. And I think part of it is COVID because a lot of us just kind of went singular. And this book teaches you how to go plural. Yeah. And it reminded me, my five-year-old graduated from preschool this morning, literally. And the pastor, he goes to a Bible church, and it's a preschool. And the pastor of their church, whatever, came on, and he talked about that very thing. If we could all be more childlike in our way of treating one another, while also how we embrace the opportunity that surrounds us. And it's almost, you know, and I had read enough, you know, a chapter and a half in to the book, and knowing I was going to be talking to you today, I was like, this is just, you know, I guess God works in mysterious ways, but it was all.

I love that. And so congratulations to your little guy graduating from preschool. I think that's super cool. Well, I've got four boys, you know, so it's 5, 9, 9, and 11. We're the Brady Bunch. you know, so it's 5, 9, 9, and 11. We're the Brady Bunch. We brought two 2-year-olds and a 4-year-old together,

both of us having been divorced and then have another one together, Nash. So Nash graduated preschool today. I love it. So you know firsthand about the miracle mentality in watching your kids. Yes. They're out there. They want to play. Like little kids wake up. Can I play?

Yeah, but then you got to go to school. But then can I play? But then you got to eat lunch. But then can I play? They want to play. Why? Because there's something about that. We turn off our imagination.

I don't know what happens. I guess we get scarred by life and other things. We turn off our imagination and our ability to. We're very self-limiting as a people yes can i tell you the main reason please is responsibility because you look at even your children now already like early on third grade fourth grade fifth sixth grade, major homework coming in. So they're feeling responsibility. But then you've got to also take that class, that class, do that,

do ballet, do gymnastics, do this. Sometimes it's good, but sometimes they're feeling too much pressure up front, and they lose that playfulness. and they lose that playfulness. And so I think that even as adults, we need to take time to play. And one of the ways I do it, Ryan, is through music. Like, let me just push a button in you. Like, what do you like that takes you back

to when you were younger? Maybe Journey or like what group would take you back? Dave Matthews Band for high school. Maybe the Counting Crows, you know. Awesome. So if I was life coaching you, that's what I would do. I'd trigger you and I'd say like, dude, here's what we're going to do for five days in a row. I want you to go, go back when you wake up in the morning for the first, you know, 20 minutes of the, of

your morning, trigger yourself through that old music. I tell you, it'll make you let go. it'll do something to you i trigger myself like that every single morning what i do is motown because that's my culture yep so this morning already dude i put on stevie wonder i was like i grew up in a musical family and the first first eight-track, was it eight-track? Am I saying eight-track? Yeah, the big one. Look at this. Look, you need friends to put it in the container. Yes, my parents, all they listened to were Four Tops.

It's all Motown. All Motown. Stevie, Smokey, Marvin Gaye, Motown. I know we got to let you roll. You're a busy man. I hope we can do this again and spend a little more time. 100%. And Tim, where can everybody keep up, find the book, keep up with you,

keep up with all things the Tim Story brand? So thanks for having me on. I really mean that. And I love who you are so um you can get the book right now on amazon and you get the actual book you read it here it is you just get it look you just read it and or you can get it on audible and it's my voice because I like to read out loud. I've been reading out loud since I was in the third grade because my third grade teacher challenged me, Mrs. Cook, to do that.

And I've been reading out loud several times a week since I was in the third grade. So I read the book. And I think there's something to the tone of my voice that you'll like. And so get it right now. But it's essential reading. And it'll help you to align yourself with who you really are. Best way to find me is, and you guys will put it there, timstory.com. timstory.com.

Then it shows you the things that we're doing. You'll see that in all the show notes. That's timstory.com. And Tim, really appreciate it. And I can't wait to further along our discussions. I'm going to text you my information and we'll go from there. But we really appreciate Tim Story for coming on today. Keep up with him at timstory.com. You know where to find us, theradcast.com. All the content, all the highlights, everything about me is at Ryan Offord on Instagram, on TikTok, where I'm verified. Learn all about Radical. We'll see you next time on the Radcast. Yo, guys, what's up? Ryan Alford here. Thanks so much for listening. Really appreciate it. But do

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