Young and Profiting with Hala Taha - YAPClassic: Tim Storey, Top Life Coach’s Secrets to a Happy, Limitless Life

Episode Date: December 8, 2023

One day, when Tim Storey was at a 7-Eleven, he met a young, struggling actor who was begging for money. His backpack was stolen, so he did not have access to his schizophrenia medication. Tim helped this man reconnect with his mom and get psychiatric help at a mental health facility. This is just one example of the thousands of lives Tim has touched through his work as a humanitarian and thought leader. In this episode of YAPClassic, Tim will break down his secrets to success and how to live a happy, peaceful life through presence, alignment, and emotional stability.  Tim Storey is an acclaimed culture-influencing thought leader, life strategist, author, speaker, and counselor. Known for his insight and coaching among high-profile individuals who find themselves in a place of personal recovery and discovery, he has been labeled as the Original Comeback Coach. In this episode, Hala and Tim will discuss:  - How Mother Teresa inspired Tim to become a humanitarian - The Law of the Harvest - Tim’s advice for developing a miracle mindset - An unexpected tip for increasing productivity - How to know if you’re chasing the right dream - The secret to a happy and peaceful life - How to keep your cool in any situation - What does it mean to have a miracle mentality? - Tim’s secret to profiting in life - And other topics… Tim Storey is an acclaimed culture-influencing thought leader, life strategist, author, speaker, and counselor. Known for his insight and coaching among high-profile individuals who find themselves in a place of personal recovery and discovery, he has been labeled as the Original Comeback Coach. Whether one-on-one or in groups of more than 20,000, Tim Storey is able to connect on a personal level with people from all walks of life, from entertainment executives, business moguls, professional athletes, and celebrities like Robert Downey, Jr., Charlie Sheen, Grant Cardone, Lewis Howes, Vidal Sassoon, and Christina Hall, to adults and children in neighborhoods throughout America and in the most deprived and war-torn regions of the world. Resources Mentioned:  Tim’s Website: https://www.timstorey.com/  Tim’s Books: https://www.timstorey.com/books Tim’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timstoreyofficial/ Tim’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timstoreyofficial/ Tim’s Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/timstorey Tim’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TimStoreyOfficial Tim’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimStoreyOfficial Sponsored By:  MasterClass - Right now you can get Two Memberships for the Price of One at youngandprofiting.co/masterclass Relay - Sign up for FREE! Go to relayfi.com/profiting  **Relay is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services and FDIC insurance provided through Evolve Bank & Trust and Thread Bank; Members FDIC. The Relay Visa® Debit Card is issued by Thread Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and may be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted. More About Young and Profiting Download Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com   Get Sponsorship Deals - youngandprofiting.com/sponsorships Leave a Review - ratethispodcast.com/yap Watch Videos - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting Follow Hala Taha LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ TikTok - tiktok.com/@yapwithhala Twitter - twitter.com/yapwithhala Learn more about YAP Media Agency Services - yapmedia.io/ Join Hala's LinkedIn Masterclass - yapmedia.io/course 

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As always you can find all of our deals in the show notes. What's up, Yap Bam! Welcome back to the show! Today we're pulling my interview with Tim's story from the archives. Tim's a highly influential thought leader, life strategist and speaker, and he's worked with people from all walks of life, from entertainment executives and professional athletes to a-list celebrities and influencers like Robert Downing Jr, Grant Cardone, and Lewis House. He's also worked with thousands of adults and children in neighborhoods throughout America and in the most war-torn regions of the world. In this episode, Tim will help us tap into a miracle mindset. He's going to walk us through how to align with your most authentic self and how to keep your cool in any situation. He'll also

reveal the secrets to living a happy and peaceful life. This conversation is so inspiring. Tim is such a great guy and this interview first came out in 2020, which was the year that I started at Media, so I really resonated with Tim's views on alignment and purpose. And this was my favorite episode of that year, so I know you guys are going to love it. Without further ado, here's my interview with Tim's story. Welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. What a privilege to be on your show today. I am so excited to talk to you. You have so much going on. So you are an extremely successful

minister, life coach, author and speaker. You're known as the comeback coach. You've worked with a multitude of celebrities including Robert Downey Jr., Quincy Jones, Kanye West, Justin Amafu, even inspired millions of people. You've traveled to over 75 countries and you are also featured on Oprah's Soul Sunday. And now you've even dabbled into movie and Broadway production. So you do a whole lot of things. So for my listeners who may not be familiar with you, Tim's story, what is the red thread between all of these activities? Like what is your true calling and your purpose in life and what connects the dots between all of these activities? I love that question.

So the idea of the thread that connects is I am a humanitarian. I love the underdog because I was the underdog. I am drawn to the person that has a setback. It doesn't know how to have a comeback. So even since I'm a little kid, I love the underdog. So you see that all the way across everything I do. Though that's amazing. And speaking of you wanting to be a humanitarian

from my understanding, when you were 18 years old, you got very influenced by Mother Teresa, right? And so for my listeners who don't know you, you grew up in Compton, you were 18 years old, you were extremely athletic, not the typical thing for an athletic young man to wanna go do to seminary school and become a humanitarian. So what was it about Mother Teresa that you just got so inspired to change the whole direction of your life?

So it happened my senior year of high school. There was a young lady that I really respected and were still great friends to this day. And she was reading this book about the life of mother Teresa. And I noticed her on campus, she'd be reading it and I saw the cover. So I asked her, you know, what is it about? So she explained and she goes, you should read it. She goes, this is kind of like how you are. So that's an awesome thing about life. You know. Sometimes it's observation and conversations that can change your direction. Because my direction was I wanted to go to USC and I wanted to be a communications major

and be an entertainment. And so I read this book and I got so touched on how one lady who was a nun helped tens of thousands of orphans throughout her lifetime. So I decided, after really thinking about it, meditating on it, decided to go to seminary, and my life just continued to change. That's amazing. And so now you're really well known for being like a huge motivational speaker. And at the time, when you went to seminary school,

did you know that you were a good communicator or did you kind of like fall into that? How did that happen? I knew I was just a young person with an idea. And I loved to talk about this because I think sometimes in life we decide and sometimes we discover. So I wish I could just say that I set back and I just

decided that I would be well known. No, I just kind of like kept discovering things. So when I was in seminary, a friend of mine said, Hey, Tim, I'm supposed to be teaching at this ROTC class on the Bible. And it's a group of about 30 men. I can't do it tonight. Can you do it? I mean, a favor and do it. I go, no, no, no, I'm not a talker. It's a true story. I'm not a talker. And it's like, it's Tim. I really need you to do it. So I did him a favor and I did it and I had these guys laughing so hard. And I didn't know that I had that charisma on stage and then I had the ability to make people laugh. And so they said, you know, we love the other guy,

but can we get you next week as well? And that's how it started. Wow, that's amazing. And so I assume it was lots of hard work and practice and experience. And one of the most interesting things that I've heard you say and something that really spoke to me because I think it's like everything that I believe in. It's this concept of the law of the harvest

and you quote the proverb 12-11, he who works land shall have abundance whoever chases fantasies lacks wisdom. And so I think a lot of millennials need to hear this. People think like, oh, I have a dream. That means it's going to happen. But really, dreams require a lot of hard work and to accomplish your goals. You need to really put in the legwork. And so we live in a world where everything looks like in overnight success.

You look on social media, you think, oh, they just fell into it. And that could be me. And everybody wants to get rich quick. So talk to us about the law of harvest. Because I think this is so profound. I love it. Thank you. I love young people's energy

and I'm surrounded by young people who work with me on projects like from 17, 18 on because I love their creative energy. But I think this is one thing that draws them to me. We have people from all over the world trying to come to us in L.A LA to do an internship with us because they love my discipline. And the whole idea is dreaming is easy, but to do the dream is a whole different thing. Walt Disney walked into an amusement park in the 30s. And he said, one day, I want to build my own amusement park. Mine's going to be different, better, and more magical. Well, the thing about Walt Disney that I love is that as I begin to study him, his work ethic was at the next level.

So he really practiced these principles of the law of the harvest that you described, which is if you want to harvest, if you want to create Disneyland as he did in the 60s, after you saw the vision of it, you first have to plow the ground, then you have to plant the right seed, then you have to water the seeds that's every single day your hustling, and then you're going to reap a harvest. But then the proverb says, if you chase fantasies, then you lack wisdom. And you're right.

We have a lot of people, even my age, that are still chasing fantasies to the state. But you got a plow, you got a plant, you got a water, and then pay days on its way. Yeah. And so when I was thinking about this, I also heard you talking about something called the Miracle Mindset.

And you always talk about how having the right mindset is necessary, and it made me think that like in this whole analogy in terms of a farm, like the sun is kind of like your mindset at the end of the day. You can't do everything when you're in the dark, right? And so you also need to light. So tell us about, what is

a miracle mindset? What kind of a perspective do we need to have in order to be, you know, as productive as possible and move towards our goals? So the mindset is so, so important because, you know, it's not just to rhyme, but truly the mindset will create a mood set. So if you tell a little kid that he's going to do something exciting the next day, you've now put something in his mind and it's created a mind set. His mind is set on something. And so the mindset creates the mood set. Oh my gosh, now I'm happy. I get to do this thing tomorrow. So what I become a master at is creating my own mindset. Because when we were kids in

Compton, California, we had seven people in a two bedroom apartment, which is very, very crowded. And then we had seven people in a Volkswagen Bug, which is called illegal. You're not supposed to have that man. So I created my own mindset through the realm of imagination. So I started seeing things on TV, predominantly Disney things that we would see. They would come on Sunday nights, and my older sisters would watch,

and my mind just started taking off. So my mindset became beyond. I was thinking beyond, dreaming beyond. So my mindset changed my mood set that even though I was in cramped and crowded places, my sisters used to say, this guy, he walks like he's a king, but we were poor, but it was my mindset. Yeah, and so for those people who are struggling

to have this strong mindset, if they find them having themselves negative thoughts all the time and they just can't get out of it, like, what's your advice there? So, I'm going to be good at this question because I've just spent three years writing a book as, you know, called the Miracle Mentality. So literally three years I've been writing with an amazing editor, like, holy schmolley. This guy's so good. Teachers have Princeton. But here's what happens.

In my travels, I found out that people usually live in these categories. What I call the messy, the shoveled, the mundane, which is like the regular, the status quo, or many times lived in the madness. So they lived in the messy where their life was just the shoveled. Okay. Are some lived in the madness. So they lived in the messy where their life was just disheveled. Okay. Are some lived in the mundane where it's just mundane day after day after day after day with no break. And then some lived in the madness. And I found that if you are constantly in the messy and the madness, it's hard to make room for the magic. You got to make room for magic.

And so I teach people in my seminars, don't sprinkle magic on your messy. Like, oh my gosh, I'm going with my girls. We're going to Vegas, but you're like all living a messy life. But you're going to sprinkle like a magical weekend. I mean, that's great because you need to rest and live. But we got to deal with your mess to make some permanent room for magic. That's where I'm good. So, let's go back to working the land because I think this is like, it's so true. Like, you just need to work at what's actually in front of you in the moment. And I heard

you on an interview with Grand Cardone and you were talking about the importance of living in the moment. So how does living in the moment relate to working your land? So when I was a kid at 15 and a half, I got my first job as a dishwasher. And I remember the cook used to make fun of me because he would say, Timmy, why are you watching these dishes like you own the place?

And I remember I was just so happy about having this job. So I was just hustling. I was plowing. I was planting good seed. I was watering. And I would show up early every single day, just plowing, planting, watering. So the owner, Mr. Anderson saw this, and he said, Timmy, I wanna put you

from dishwasher to busboy. And so that was like a big deal. And I'll never forget that as a busboy, I was hustling, doing the same thing. I was plowing, I was planting, I was plowing, I was planting, I was watering, I was plowing, planting, watering. And then different owners of restaurants

would come into this nice restaurant and I was working at, and they would try to then different owners of restaurants would come into this nice restaurant I was working at and they would try to hire me. So I said to Mr. Anderson, now you know these friends of yours are trying to give me jobs. He goes, no, I know. He goes, Tim, cause you're a hustler. He goes, I can't believe you're mindset. And you're so happy about it.

I said, but I'm loyal to you. So he kept that loyalty and kept me there until I was 17. And then I went and worked at a really good restaurant called Jimmy's that a lot of people wanted to work at. But it was that plowing, that planting, that watering, but I was in the moment. I was fully present, fully feeling, fully alive. When I was a dishwasher, bam, I was there. Bus boy, bam, I was there.

Waiter, bam, I was there. So I think it's important, mostly for young people, to be in the moment, fully present, fully feeling, fully alive. Don't just do it to get you there, just do it, and excel where you are. Yeah, and also don't worry about where you're going to go next, right? So like, for example, when I was younger and I was in my internships, I just focused on my internship. I didn't worry about like, oh, am I going to get the job or, oh, I wish I was an employee already. It doesn't matter.

You've got to focus up the task at hand and where you are at hand and feel confident and happy that you're there, right? No, I like what you're saying there and let's just stop there for a moment if you don't mind because I think that you have really figured this out because if you plow the ground, plant the seed, water the seed, you're going to get a harvest. And what I have found is that people came looking for me. I don't go knock on everybody's door to get in places. People always say, how did you get in with Oprah?

She's one of my great friends. How did you get in with Steve Harvey and do a 20-city tour? How did you get in with him, or her, or Bam, or Boom, or Boom, or Bam? I never looked for one person. I was working my land. I was just loving people, coaching people, helping people, being a humanitarian and these people look for me. Let's hold that thought and take a quick break with our sponsors. Something we always talk about on this podcast is trusting your gut and leveraging your creativity

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You can sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com slash profiting. Oh my gosh, there's so much to talk about. Let's talk about plowing the wrong land. Is it possible to work the wrong land? And how do you know when you're working the wrong land? Okay. So people say Tim story, how do I find direction in my life? You got to stop. You got to look. You got to listen. So people say, we'll follow your heart, but we got to make sure your heart is purified.

So if you have the wrong things in your heart, let's not follow your heart. It's going to take you the wrong places. But if your intentions are correct, I like that word you used earlier. And your heart has the right motives, right? Then when you stop, you can look within and your heart is trying to talk to you. Why? Because your dream has a voice. So powerful.

Your dream has a voice. And there's times that you're going to date somebody. Some of you guys are watching. And your heart is telling you, no, but you do it anyway. So in those cases, you need to follow your heart. And so I feel that you can plow in the wrong areas. And if you feel like you've started to do that, whether it's a major you've started in college or jobs once you got out or a relationship you've been in for a long time, it's not working. You need to stop again, look again, and listen again.

Yeah. And just one more question on this. My listeners are young, right? And so a lot of the times when you're growing up, it's your outside influences telling you what you need to be doing with your life. What about like when you're getting all this pressure, like what do you suggest? How do you kind of like own that and take control of your life? So I don't really like blame certain parents to go like, you know, I created this empire

and go here or I created this empire and go here, or I created this and go here, because I started off mentoring and tutoring and life coaching famous people's kids, like the most famous celebrities you can imagine, they're kids. I started mentoring them when they were like young kids, okay? And then I saw them grow up and do big things, a lot of them. And so many times, if the dad or mom did great in a certain position, they would want the child to go there, because they had paved the way. But I believe this, that you could be the right person with the right plan, but you need the right partners. You need the right partners who are not just trying to take you how they see life from

their vantage point, their point of view, their mindset, but they're willing to listen to your heart and your calling. Because I think the calling calls you. So I mean, I see you right now. You are like right in the middle of your calling. No, calls you. So I mean I see you right now you are like right in the middle of your calling. Oh thank you. Right now you're just like flying. You're like this is me right? Thank you. Yeah. I really feel that way. So I'm glad that you did not become a doctor. I'm glad that you are doing this. You're going to be a writer, your speaker, your humanitarian, your global leader.

That's what I see in your future. So I'm glad you're that, because we need you to be that. Thank you, Tim. So let's take it back to your childhood. You're known as the comeback coach, right? And I think one of your first big comebacks happened when you were very young. And we're so positive, I hate to bring it there, but I think it's a lesson for the listeners, right? And I think one of your first big comebacks happened when you were very young. And it's, I hate, we're so positive. I hate to bring it there, but I think it's a lesson

for, for the listeners, right? And so when you were 10 years old, you lost your father, you lost your sister shortly after that. And it turns out your siblings dealt with this loss a lot differently than you did. So tell us about how your siblings dealt with it and how you dealt with it and how you dealt with it and why you think you were able to kind of deal with it in a more positive way. So I think it's something that happens to all of us in not the same way, but it's something that I've been

talking about for 20 years called life interruptions. Where an interruptions is when you're disturbed, somebody knocks at your door of life, and interrupts you with many things that we would have never ordered from life's menu. It could be asthma, I've seen people with lupus or Lyme disease or just something bad happens in your childhood. For me, my father went to go get my mother food, And so he was just going through a green light and it was at night time in January and blessed this guy's heart. He ran a red light, hit my father and my father died.

So the thing that was challenging is my father was the one that had really good energy in the family. My mother was stronger. My mother is Latin. Everything is like the way she does life, not all Latins, because I'm part Latin. But the way she does life, it was more like just strong willed. So we needed the energy of my father. When that was taken, it was like it was sucked out. Okay? And so that life, interruption, was something that my siblings did not know what to do with.

So most of them just got up and ran. They ran to like friends homes or ran to a boyfriend because they're much older than me. My brother, he ran to his friends. So a lot of times it's just me and my mother who worked at a donut shop who were in this house together. And it was really a sad situation. But what I did is I used my imagination again,

remember the power of the imagination. And I began to imagine things. And this is a real story. I told my mother when I was 12. I said, mom, do not worry. I said, when I am in my mid 20s, this is so strange that I said that, you will never worry about money again.

And that's exactly what happened. Oh. Exactly. Yeah. And so you talk about comebacks, you know, all over the world. It's one of your main speaking topics. What is your formula for getting out of a setback? So when you're in a setback, the first thing you have to do is you have to become awake. When you're in a setback, you want to, many times, pull the blinds, pull the covers over

your head, and just hope it's just gone. But number one, you have to become awake. Secondly, you have to become awake. Secondly, you have to take inventory. So you got to think like, you know, now that she left or now that he left or now that they left, what am I going to do? What do I have left here? So you become awake. Secondly, you take inventory.

The third thing you need to do is do what they're doing right now. They need to partner with power. Listen to people that have answers. Listen to people who know what it's like to go through things that are similar. As far as some sort of a setback. So you have to partner with power. Then the next thing you do, number four, is you have to find the right principles. Because I believe it's principles that get you through the

problems. It's not hype, it's not just positive energy, it's not just mindset, but the right principles can get you through any problem. Okay. So you become aware, you take inventory, partner with the right people, get the right principles, pardon with the right people, get the right principles. And then what do you do next? You proceed. You go forward. I am all about going forward. Oprah loves this quote. And she said to me, she goes, Tim, I love this one when you talk about a comeback is not a go back. Because a lot of people, when they have a setback, they think I got to go back and fix it all, but a comeback is not a go back. So when you've done all those steps that I said, let's go forward, let's proceed. So you've been known to be a comeback coach for celebrities, right? Everybody knows

that about you. They see you with Oprah and Kanye and all these big stars, but it turns out that you've also helped a lot of people who are just regular people, people who wanted to be stars, who became homeless and prostitutes in LA and things like that. So do you have any memorable stories that really stick out to you in terms of somebody that you helped that isn't necessarily celebrity

or they could be a celebrity, whatever really just sticks out to you right now in the moment. You know, the skills, the tools and the attitude are the thing that's going to take you from almost to most living. So my skills and my tools, they lie in the plates of, I'm a master locksmith. If somebody has a problem, I'm good. Like, what key is it going to be? You know, I can watch somebody on TMZ, and I'll tell one of my assistants watch within a week, their people are going to reach out to me. And I'm then I'm right.

Like, all day long, all the time, because I am a really good locksmith. But I never tried to be the locksmith to the stars, the comeback coach to the stars. That's, no, I love people. So I work with ARC, which would start up on my good friend Robert Downey in prison reform, I'm on the board, and then I work with Carrie Kasim. Kasim cares, the famous KC Kasim.

It's for elder abuse. I do a lot of work in the area of mental health and addiction. And also work with the homeless because I love people. So one of my favorite stories real quick is I was going into, I'll give them a shout out because maybe there'll be a sponsor someday, 7-11. I was going into 7-11, and I saw real sharp-looking young man who I later found out was 23 years of age, but very together. And he was asking for money, he was begging.

But he did not look like a guy that would be begging for money. So I asked him how long he'd been out here, and he said, well, for two weeks. And I said, I said, you don't seem like a guy that would be doing this. And he said, well, I came here to be an actor and a lot of bad things happen. But can I just have some money? I said, well, I'm going to give you a lot of money. And then he said, how much it was so funny. And I said, I gave him the amount. And so it was a lot. And his eyes got open. I said, how much? It was so funny. And I said, I gave him the amount and so it was a lot. And his eyes got open.

I said, but now you gotta hear my speech. I said, okay, so why are you out here? And he told me that he had problems with being schizophrenic and had somebody had stolen his stuff, like his backpack. And in there was his medication. So he didn't know where he was. And I said, are you hearing voices? And he said, yes, I said, don't put yourself down. I said, this

is what I do for a living. We're going to get it. You're going to be okay. It's not your fault that you're not taking your medicine. So I said, what's your mother's phone number? And this is so powerful. And he goes, I don't know. I said, but what state are you from? So he tells me the state. And I'm really good with like, with Eric codes. So I go like this, okay, I'm going to call your mom true story. So I get my phone, I hold it up and I go, okay, Eric code is, and I went, bam, bam, bam. I was writing the first three because I know that state. So I said, boom, boom, boom. And then I don't know where he goes. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. It gives me the rest of the number true story

So I call this number a lady answer the phone. She says hello. I Said miss. I said this is Tim story This is the God's honest truth. I said this I In front of Oprah Winfrey when I spoke for UCLA for Super Soul Sessions with Deepak Chopra watching me, Brunei Brown and everybody else. The lady said, Tim Story, the minister, I say yes. I mean, think about how big the world is. It's almost 8 billion people.

I looked again for years ago. It's almost 8 billion people. For her to say that. And I go, yes. And she goes, what happened? I said, I have your son. And she just starts weeping. She says, we thought we had lost him. We thought he was dead. I said, no, he's right here with me. This is one of my favorite stories ever, because he was lost, she was lost because he was lost. And it took somebody that was awake and that had been through his own pain to say, hey, I got this.

We ended up bringing him into a facility that I was connected to, getting them on the right track, getting them a doctor, a family member who came a few days later, about three days later. And I wanted them to stay two days longer in this facility. We put the family member up in a hotel tell he was ready to travel, change their life forever. That's amazing. And I feel like he must have felt that he was special or that, or maybe you feel that about everyone that everybody can be kind of like.

I felt there was somebody's son. So some man's son or some woman's son, and that's how I see people. Like, there's a guy close to my house, it's homeless and he walks around, he gets mad at me. And I pull over next to him, I did it again, like three days ago and then I give him money and then I have my talk and he goes, when are you gonna get off my back? I'm not going into shelter.

I go this, I didn't even say anything about a shelter. I was just telling you how nice the weather is. But why do I keep pulling over because that's somebody's son? Or if I'm helping somebody, a lady, it's somebody's daughter. We'll be right back after a quick break from our sponsors. So you work with all of these celebrities and regular people. And when it comes to celebrities specifically, it goes to show that, you know, you could have all this money, all this fame, and you could still be not happy with your life and just a mess like messy as you were talking about having a messy life. So you could still be so successful on paper, look great, your rich, your successful, you've got a beautiful wife car, whatever it is, and then you're still unhappy. So you've seen it all, what do you think is really the secret of a happy and peaceful life then?

I think it's a great build up and then great question. I think it's this idea of being true to yourself and truly being authentic and you know that word is almost overused nowadays but authenticity is really a powerful thing and I think what happens is a lot of these creatives that I'm around, which would be people that they would know. They started their craft many times with the right motives because they wanted to create, whether it was music or film or whatever they do, fashion, whatever they do, models. But then they got caught up in stuff, the system, and being a celebrity. But here's what I teach a lot of young kids in schools because I go speak at these schools for free and they get excited because I know all these people.

And I say that, you know, a lot of people want to be celebrities. I said, but you are a celebrity. A celebrity means to be celebrated. And you just have to find the right people that are celebrating you. And so when you learn to celebrate yourself and realize that there are some good people that celebrate you, then you won't have such a hunger and a thirst for that other stuff. So I think the key is to be authentic, to be yourself, and to be really great at your craft. I love that. I agree. And you have a famous saying, don't get dramatic in the midst of drama, right? So tell us about this phrase, and tell us how you keep her cool no matter what's going on. Great observation and great research and I get interviewed by everybody.

You're good. So when I was a kid, I saw a lot of my relatives getting very dramatic. Like my aunt would get mad because somebody in her family drank too much or this happened or that didn't happen or this took place and then I went to school and I saw a lot of dramatic people and I started watching them. And I thought, this is not paying off for them. There's three primary ways people learn. The three primary ways is education. Second is conversation.

Third is observation. So I am like a phenomenal observation list. All my friends go like Tim stories the best. I can come in and read a room, see where I should sit, who to talk to, who not to talk to. A star I can meet with them. One day they're super happy, three days later, bad mood. I read the mood, so I know what to do. I know what to do. Okay. Observation. Okay. So this whole thing about don't become dramatic in the midst of the drama. I noticed that being dramatic did not help things. Whether people argued or filed with a policeman because he gave him a ticket or got in a

terrible mood because of what was happening in the weather. So I decided to play things down, just play them down, just play them down. And play them down to a place where I can then say, okay, really what is my inventory? What am I really dealing with? And become a sensible thinker and really make better choices and decisions. So thank you for your observation. I'm known for this. In fact, one creative that you would love says this about me. She says, Tim Story walks around life like he has jazz music, cool jazz music, plain music.

I love that. The good jazz music, not jazz music, plain music. I love that. The good jazz music, not the stuff that goes everywhere. Yeah. So then do you never make decisions when you're angry? Like are you very like, you just know how to just take? No matter what it is. No. How about excitement?

I, and you know, I'm passionate, like people that have seen me speak. Yeah. I'll settle a whole stage on fire. Yeah, it's like you just won't go the negative route. It's like any energy that's positive, you'll go. I remember a long time ago I was dating this actress lady and still a great friend of mine today. And she laughs at this because she was trying to really get to me. And she goes, if you don't do this, it's over.

I am walking out right now and it is over. She did like this big speech. Okay. And then I go, I go, well, we should probably talk about it. She goes, you don't understand. This is not a threat. If you don't do this, then the other, it's over. And then I didn't do it. She wanted. So she got her purse and she just got up and just kept walking. And I just stood there.

And then she came back around the corner a few minutes later. She goes, you're not even going to chase me? And then she started laughing. She goes, only you, only you would not chase me. Everybody chases me. I go, okay. That's so funny. So let's talk about your new book. You did mention it earlier, the Miracle Mentality. Do you want to describe to us what a miracle mindset is? And more so like the fact that as we grow older, we kind of lose this miracle mindset. Tell us about this book in a nutshell. Well, I know the book is going to capture people's attention because I've done the speech

so many times. And when I do the speech, people go like this, like, I can even be like, because I speak at a lot of places that are stuffy, and they're like, life coach to the stars, work with this, that doesn't get them. They're like this. Okay? And when I talk about the miracle mindset, and I say things like this, watch, I was speaking to a group of kids in South Africa,

and I said to these little kids, they must have been about seven or eight. What do you want to be when you get older? A little kid said to President and a little girl said, a ballerina and a little little boy said, I want to be like LeBron James. I said, every one of them had a miracle mentality. A miracle is something extra ordinary, super natural, not common, not normal, not the regular. I said, when you are little, you have a miracle mentality. Now, you may not always say it, show it, act like it, but see most psychologists have found that even if kids do not say it or express it,

they still feel it. They feel like something miraculous can still happen. Even if they're being abused or in a bad situation, they're thinking, my mindset will somehow get me out of this mess and this madness. And so in this book, the miracle mentality, I'm not trying to get people to get something that they don't have. I'm trying to get people to align with who they really are. See, that's what I did. I align myself with who I am. Yeah, the miracle mentality. I love talking to you.

I feel like I can run a marathon right now. Okay, so the last question I ask all my guests is, what is your secret to profiting in life? I think for me, it's cooperating with who I'm supposed to be. I don't believe in chasing dreams. I believe in cooperating with what life has called me to be. So I believe that whatever your faith is, we've all been spoken over. And so I think that even when I was in my mother's womb, that there was a destiny for me. And I'm just, I'm just lining up with

it on a daily basis. I'm lining up. I didn't know that I'd be in 90 airports around the world. That just happened this week. When you walk through the airport, you'll see me on these big screens everywhere that I write every month for American magazine and United Airways magazines. I didn't know that I get to be interviewed by you. So I didn't know all these things. I just knew I needed to line up with who I really am. And that's what we've done. That's amazing. And where can our listeners go to learn more about you and everything that you do?

I think the best way is still the old-fashioned way. Just TimStory.com, and you'll put all that there. Because stories go STOREY. Some specialists you'll put all that there. Cause stories go STOREY. Some specials they put E in there. The Tim Story. TimStory.com it shows all the things we do. I love it. Thank you so much for this powerful conversation.

I'm sure everybody who's tuning in is feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to align to their true life purpose. So thank you so much, Tim. you