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20th Jul 2025

ADHD, Entrepreneurship, and Mindfulness: An Unconventional Path to Success

From ADHD to Mindfulness: Entrepreneur Rick Culleton's Journey to

Happiness

In this episode of Social Skills Coaching, host Russell welcomes

entrepreneur, author, and mindfulness advocate Rick Culleton. They delve

into Rick's life journey from growing up with ADHD, to his

entrepreneurial ventures across multiple countries, to his amazing

accidental sobriety story, and his ongoing pursuit of mindfulness and

happiness. Rick shares his experiences with meditation, creating a

'morning stack,' and the impact of cold plunges on his life. Tune in for

insights on building a successful team, overcoming personal struggles,

and living a fulfilling life.


00:00 Introduction

01:11 Rick Culleton's Background and Entrepreneurial Journey

02:29 Challenges and Experiences with ADHD

07:26 Building and Managing Successful Teams

14:52 Accidental Sobriety and Mindfulness Practices

21:24 Developing a Morning Routine for Success

26:25 Balancing Fitness and Recovery

27:19 The Importance of Techno Fasting

27:55 Optimizing Sleep and Recovery

29:37 Morning Routine Efficiency

32:26 Cold Plunge Benefits

34:08 Martial Arts Journey

41:02 Building a Morning Stack

44:16 Cold Plunge Alternatives

47:51 Influential Books and Final Thoughts


#SocialSkillsCoaching

#RickCulleton

#Entrepreneurship

#ADHD

#Mindfulness

#Happiness

#Sobriety

#Meditation

#MorningRoutine

#MorningStack

#ColdPlunge

#Fitness

#Recovery

#TechnoFasting

#SleepOptimization

#MartialArts

#PersonalGrowth

#SuccessMindset

#Leadership

#Productivity

#WellnessJourney

Transcript
Rick Culleton:

whoa, wait a minute.

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I, I'm not here to quit drinking.

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I'm perfectly happy with

my alcohol consumption.

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I've been drinking 38 years and

I have no intention to quit.

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Finally they cut me loose at 17, gave

me a diploma and said, don't come back.

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There's nothing like sparring

there, there's nothing that

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brings you so in the moment.

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I, I've not?

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Found another thing that I.

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Can do that makes me so focused.

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you, you're just right there.

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You have to be, there is

not a choice, you know?

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Yeah.

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I've got lots of great memories now.

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If you can scrub away all the anxiety

and everything else that we have that's

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just kind of layered up on top of us.

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once you clean that slate,

you're left with happiness.

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And that's what we're trying to show

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wherever you are in life and whatever

you've been through, it has nothing

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to do with where you're going.

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past has no bearing on your future,

and you're free to change the direction

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you're headed at any time you want.

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Russell Newton: Hello listeners

and welcome back Social Skills

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Coaching I'm your host Russell, and

our guest today is Rick Culleton.

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Rick is an entrepreneur, an

author, and a mindfulness advocate.

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And Rick, with just those three

descriptors, introduce us to

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yourself and, tell us how each of

those fit into your approach to,

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what we're gonna talk about today.

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Rick Culleton: kind of all over the place.

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I started life as an entrepreneur.

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I'm working on my second book right now.

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I've got businesses in the US and

Costa Rica, and I like to travel

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and find myself all over the world.

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Russell Newton: You

have a book already out.

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Tell us about that.

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Rick Culleton: my first book is Messed Up

Like You, and it's, it's about, growing

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up and, and thriving with A DHD entering

the world of entrepreneurship and of the

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pluses as well as the minuses of, of going

through life with, with A DHD and, and

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the, you know, considering the, the way

people look at it, and a lot of it focuses

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on childhood and what they try to do with

you and then moves on to young adulthood

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and, and then having, a, an entrepreneur

with A DHD and all the benefits that.

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go along with it.

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And it's a story that's framed

around me getting my pilot's

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license, which was a pretty unusual

thing to happen in the first place.

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it's got some great stories in it and

it's inspirational probably to anybody

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who's trying to get by with a DHD.

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Russell Newton: So tell us what a DHD

is and let's start with, as a child,

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because I don't think we have a real

understanding of some of the struggles

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that, that, diagnosis brings, to,

to children and their development.

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Rick Culleton: you know, as a child,

I think most of the problems I

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had was the way that I was looked

at by, by others, by adults.

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I didn't really, I don't think I

would've even realized that there was

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an issue if someone hadn't told me.

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But was younger, they called it.

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ED in the seventies and it was,

I was attention deficit disorder

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with an emphasis on hyperactive.

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And I believe that for the most part, I

am now technically diagnosed as a DHD,

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attention deficit, hyperactive disorder.

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and that is primarily what the

diagnosis is across the board.

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there's, there's some different, you know,

there's some varying degrees, but that's.

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Pretty much all encompassing today.

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And when I was a child, they

were all over the place.

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should we medicate 'em?

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Should we not medicate 'em,

put 'em in a special room.

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one point in the third grade, they

moved me into an accelerated class

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and put me with third and fourth

graders, the idea that I would skip

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the fourth grade and go right into

the fifth grade, which didn't happen.

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And I went from that class to the

fourth grade the next year where

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they thought they should hold me

back and keep me there an extra year.

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And then finally they cut me

loose at 17, gave me a diploma

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and said, don't come back.

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And so it was a bit of

a rollercoaster ride.

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And, you know, again, I didn't

really see I had a problem learning.

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I knew that I was all over the place,

but as a kid you didn't know that

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everybody else wasn't too, so it

didn't really seem to me to be unusual.

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I was just, I had a hard time focusing.

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I'd easily become bored in class.

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And the way this usually went was you'd

walk into the classroom, the teacher

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would start to talk first day, first week.

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And you would, feel that you're above and

beyond whatever It is they're teaching,

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and this is just not entertaining at all.

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And you zone out and then you

tune back in either at the end of

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that class or a couple weeks from

there, and you realize that you're

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completely lost and you have no idea

what algebra's all about after all.

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And, you're struggling from there on out.

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And that happened a lot.

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Russell Newton: It is interesting

that, you knew you were diagnosed.

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But it, I speak with people and you

hear frequently, we grew up poor,

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but we didn't know we were poor.

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So you grew up a DHD and you

knew, but it, it did wasn't

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really an impact on your life.

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I'm a, a late baby boomer, an

early Gen Xer by appearances.

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so at that time it was very

different than it is now with,

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diagnosis and medical treatment

and, and schooling in particular.

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Rick Culleton: Yeah,

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Russell Newton: accurate?

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Rick Culleton: it was much different

and you know, they were still learning

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how to deal with people like myself.

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And, you know, I might've been a

little bit, the extreme end because

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I was one, you know, now I think

there's a far greater percentage

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of people diagnosed earlier on.

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And at that point, I was in a school

that our grade had about a hundred

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people in it maybe the only one.

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At that time, I don't remember

anybody else being diagnosed, so it

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was a much smaller pool of diagnosis,

and no real tools to deal with it.

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It was like you just kind of shuffle

'em around, give them to somebody else.

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The teachers in the beginning didn't

put, I don't even know that when I was

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in that third, fourth grade situation

that there was a label put on me.

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Yet it was just a problem kid.

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You know, this guy's troubled, you

know, he's trouble in the hallways.

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He doesn't learn in school.

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He Is not living up to his potential.

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those were the early diagnosis

as, troublemaker and, inattentive.

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I think the formal diagnosis came

later on and suspicions arose.

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I was never offered medication or anything

like that as a child I was probably nearly

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40 years old before anyone ever suggested

I start taking any type of medication

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and that was a very short-lived, trial.

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Russell Newton: Again, for our listeners

that don't know and, and are interested,

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a diagnosis like this, at least now with

the DSM five, I think is the current one.

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that diagnosis is a very specific, list of

symptoms or activities that a person does.

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And it is very clinical,

of course, by definition.

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at that time, was that how

the diagnosis was made or was

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it just he's outta control.

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Let's call him a DD

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Rick Culleton: of what I remember,

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Russell Newton: Or were you aware that

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Rick Culleton: most of what I remember

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Russell Newton: Yeah.

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Rick Culleton: have any

type of label on at all.

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they were just trying to contain me,

keep me from causing any problems or

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disrupting the rest of the school.

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That was a primary objective.

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They weren't really interested

in diagnosing what could

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potentially be wrong.

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Russell Newton: I taught

for 10 or 15 years.

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started teaching in 19 84, 85 school year.

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So that dates me.

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and I remember the first parent I

had that came to me and said their

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child had a learning disability.

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And I was not schooled in any of that.

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Of course, my degree in secondary

education, like many college

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degrees, doesn't prepare you

for the occupation at all.

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I had no training in what to do

with, anybody that had a learning

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disability, even what they were.

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So it took me completely by surprise,

my lack of experience, So maybe

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that's why I'm hitting it a little

more deeply than we need to, or

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that you'd like to at this point.

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So I appreciate your candor with

that and sharing that information.

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you are an entrepreneur.

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You have several businesses, in

several countries it sounds like.

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Are they related?

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Are they a wide variety of things?

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It sounds like you dabble

into a lot of different areas.

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Rick Culleton: very similar at all.

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And I deliberately look for things

that are, different challenges

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to keep me entertained, you

know, and I prevent the boredom.

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But my, oldest company I have

is about 20 years, 28 years old

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now, and it's based in Texas.

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We sell refurbished computer equipment,

a place called Discount electronics.com.

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we still have retail stores, as well

as website sell online, and, I'm still

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involved with that company every day.

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I'm still the CEO and president,

although I take more of a marketing role.

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That's the part that I enjoy the most.

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I'm web developer some

days, firemen, others.

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and over the last 20 years or so,

I've been investing in real estate and

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opened a company in Austin that does

primarily, purchases, real estate,

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Fixes it up, rents it out.

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Commercial, residential,

multifamily, single family.

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We've expanded that into Colorado

and a little bit into Costa Rica

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where I got into the hotel business.

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started with vacation rentals down

there, that I moved an operation from the

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states into Costa Rica, and then later

changed the building type from homes

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and apartments and such into hotels.

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Russell Newton: are these businesses that

you, I mean, you're involved daily in

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them it sounds like, are, these things

you developed to try and get to a point

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where they would just go on their own

and you're looking for something new,

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you find some reliable people to run that

business, or are you working 27 hours a

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day to keep track of all these things?

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Rick Culleton: I enjoy working, so it's,

a labor of love I have great people,

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and I couldn't do this without them.

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that's a big part of being

successful is to have the right team.

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we've got some of the most

fantastic people both in the

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United States and in Costa Rica.

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the folks I work with, the

discount electronics, many of

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'em have been there decades.

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we're a family.

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It's a small company, 30 employees.

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we've all worked together for

a long time and I think we

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all enjoy our jobs very much.

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I've still got, one employee who's about

to hit the 10 year mark down there.

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the hotel manager's been there

since the day we opened up one

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of the hotels is on the beach.

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It's a beautiful spot to be.

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I'm not such an awful boss.

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they've got a pretty good job

and they enjoy life down there.

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And then the, the real estate company

is more of, on demand type thing, where

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I'll, you know, we have tenants, we

manage a lot of that with software.

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And then when we need people,

we sub out, we have regulars

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that we sub to all the time.

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One who used to be an employee who

now is a subcontractor that just

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does his own thing and works for

me in a variety of other people.

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but that's pretty much my work.

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You know, my email is very interesting.

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WhatsApp, you never know what's coming in.

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You open that phone up and you

don't know what language it's gonna

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be in, and you have absolutely

no idea what it's gonna be about.

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But I guarantee every morning.

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It's interesting.

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Russell Newton: I imagine,

so some two things come from

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that, those last few sentences.

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Obviously, you're not a terrible boss.

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If you've, if you've had people with that

kind of tenure within your organizations,

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So two questions that may, I'm pretty

sure they, they dovetail into one another.

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Building a team, finding the right

members for a team has, has to be crucial.

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in any organization like that, you,

we hear frequently, you know, surround

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yourself with the, the best people

and then let them do their job.

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You know, hire the right person for

the right job and let them do the job.

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how do you go about building that team?

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What do you look for?

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expand on that, and then when you

have a team together, obviously

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you're doing some things very right

that keeps that team together.

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Can you talk to both points?

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Rick Culleton: to hiring, I, I really

look for self-motivated people.

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I am not an over the

shoulder kind of boss.

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I don't know where anybody is.

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I don't know what time they

come to work, when they go home

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or where they're working from.

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And for that, you know, it just requires

somebody that's got self-discipline

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that knows how to get the job done.

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I don't care if you work

four hours or 12 hours.

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I prefer you don't have

to work 12 hours and.

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It's just a matter of getting

the job done, you figuring out

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how to do it and getting results.

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The hotel's a little bit different

in that, you know, we have places

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there where people need to be, you

know, somebody's gotta be sitting at

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reception, so there's a schedule and

they need to be there to check people in.

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And, you know, it's a little bit different

hiring there because you need somebody

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bilingual and there's a lot of other

requirements, but this kinda electronics

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and most of the folks that have been there

long time, have had varied positions.

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You know, they'll come in the door

as one thing, you know, one of my

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favorite stories is a guy that we

hired outta the Home Depot to lay

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bricks at the construction of a

new store back in:

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And when we finished up, I gave everybody

a little bit extra money, thanked

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them for the work, and said goodbye.

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And the next day I came in when

the store opened and he was there.

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And I said, well, you know,

Fernando, what are you doing here?

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And we're done.

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And he goes, no, I'm gonna work.

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And I'm like, any work for you.

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And he goes, I'll do whatever you need.

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I'm like, well, I don't need anything.

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He goes, you got this store.

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Somebody's gotta work here.

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Right?

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and he barely spoke English at the time.

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I'm like, you know, I, I'll find

something for you for now, but you

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need to find a job It's now 2025.

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That was 2010.

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He is our number one computer technician.

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He, he's never left, got married,

had some kids, and has turned

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out to be quite the employee.

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Russell Newton: Fantastic.

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That, that's incredible.

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From brick layer, to the computer

technician all within the same company.

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That's a great story.

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Rick Culleton: what anybody's capable

of until you give them a chance.

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Russell Newton: that is exactly the truth.

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And it's seeing that obviously he had

some tenacity to come back after the

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brick laying was done and to put himself

in the open store, and ask for something.

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But, you were able to see that in a person

and I find that, you kind of wanted.

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To give him the credit for it, but

for someone to see that, to give them

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the chance to encourage them, there

had to been some times where, you

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went an extra step to make sure he was

educated or had the tools he needed

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or learned the things he needed to do.

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so developing an employee like that,

is that a part of your process?

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Is that something you

consciously do or look to do?

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Rick Culleton: for that, but Fernando

found his own way, and most of

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my employees do, I'll give them

the way to make it on their own.

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but I'm not there for handholding

and I'm not that type of leader.

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I give them the space.

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I tell them what's expected of them

and oftentimes what it is that I tell

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them I'm expecting from them in the

beginning is not what the job entails

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in just a few months or a year.

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Most of the people that work

for me have had multiple jobs

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except for possibly my CFO.

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Just about everybody at that

company has moved around.

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Oftentimes, we'll find someone in a

retail store that looks to have promise.

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They'll be selling computers

in one of the stores.

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And, I'll have some interaction with

them and say, this is somebody I think

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we wanna bring in, move them over to the.

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main building, and what they're gonna

do from there is anybody's guess.

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then they kind of find their own way,

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you like coding?

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Do you wanna be a salesperson?

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You know, what's your, what's your fancy.

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Russell Newton: I, I'm not, I don't

wanna seem like I'm just flattering

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you, but the mindset there is the top 95

percentile of bosses I've had and seen.

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your employees obviously respond to that.

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They stay with you.

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they stick with an organization

because you make expectations clear.

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You give them the room to do

it, but you're also looking for,

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ways to enhance your organization

by enhancing your employees.

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that's unusual.

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It's well above the

curve in my experience.

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your bio talked about a journey through

A DHD, which we've talked about, and then

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it mentions a phrase I've not seen before.

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Accidental sobriety.

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what does that refer to?

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Rick Culleton: you know,

that's an interesting story.

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I was on a path I was having a

lot of anxiety, which I think is,

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Pretty typical for entrepreneurs.

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And, sometimes we don't even

realize how much we're living with.

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And, mine had gotta the point where

I'd wake up in the morning trembling,

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like literally shaking in bed

and have to get outta bed quickly

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because it was just gonna get worse.

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when I'd stop and think about

what was causing the problem,

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I really couldn't get to it.

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There were acute things every single day.

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It was something different.

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Or sometimes it would be the same things.

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It could be money, it could

be this, it could be that.

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And you'd see a recurring theme,

that once this problem left

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my mind, another one, fill it.

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and I knew that, these weren't

really problems of the severity

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that I was giving them credit for.

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And I received an email one day from a

woman by the name of Julie Hutchinson.

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it read, would you like to Wake Up Happy?

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And then the email proceeded to.

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Sound like she'd been peering

through the windows and watching me

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because it was just very spot on.

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And I showed it to my wife and I

said, this is just kind of crazy.

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And so I responded to the email.

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It turns out that Julie,

was a family member of some

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people that I knew very well.

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two of her family members

had worked for me.

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One of them, her niece and I

had worked together very closely

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and had traveled together.

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And, so that there was a

little bit of trust there.

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And, I started a course that she

took, called Core Performance.

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And, was tricked a little bit, maybe

outta my own naivety in, in a few ways.

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But the first one was that we started

breathing exercises, which is a meditation

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practice that I still use every day.

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I do the same, meditation

that we learned back then.

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Did it today, and I'll do it tomorrow.

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during this process, as we were getting

in here through this, she told me about

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a month in, she said, Rick, you know,

you're gonna find, when, when this

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anxiety leaves and you get all of this

under control, you're probably not

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even gonna need the alcohol anymore.

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And I said, whoa, wait a minute.

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I, I'm not here to quit drinking.

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I'm perfectly happy with

my alcohol consumption.

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I've been drinking 38 years and

I have no intention to quit.

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And, a couple months went by and I

was in Manhattan in my apartment one

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day and had gone to see an old friend.

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I bought a bunch of beer that

morning and I loved, IPA still do.

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I just drink it without the

non-alcoholic version now.

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beer down the street from my apartment,

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brought it back, put it in the fridge,

walked around town most of the day and

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came back at about five o'clock threw

it and all the rest of the alcohol down

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the trash chute from the 45th floor,

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a hit the bottom and I

never had a drink again.

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Russell Newton: Wow.

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Rick Culleton: what

caused that to be the day.

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I mean, it was something

I contemplated before.

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one day when the doctor tells me that

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my liver's gonna jump outta my body

or something that I would quit, I

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drank every single day of my life for

38 years, except for two days when I

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took my son in a Boy Scout camp out.

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Russell Newton: And give us this person

you mentioned Julie is in the business

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of, she offers seminars and that type of,

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Rick Culleton: has a, she's got an

ongoing business called Core Performance

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and runs an evergreen program where

there's always folks coming in and

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out, and you've got people in all

stages of, this runs About six months.

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there's a lot more to it than just the

breathing exercises and meditation,

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but that seemed to be the part

that I needed and really clung to.

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It's, you know, there's a gadget

that hooks your ear and you

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measure your results in your phone.

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And I'm a data guy, so I just love making

the bars move in the right direction.

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And it was pretty amazing to me that

when I did it right and the things

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appeared on the screen the way they

were supposed to in the amount of time

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they were supposed to, how good I felt.

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And cumulatively, you know, if I did

this day after day, it got better and

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better and better until, you know,

you have that same, I think a lot of

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us do this with almost everything.

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Like, you don't need the cure

anymore because you're fixed.

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And I got to that point where

I would skip once in a while.

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I'm like, you know, it very quickly

realized that I needed that, that this

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was a going to have to be a forever

thing if I was gonna be forever healthy.

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Russell Newton: About what year was

that, that Julie got in touch with you?

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Rick Culleton: at the end of the year.

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Russell Newton: Oh, okay.

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Rick Culleton: Yes,

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Russell Newton: recently.

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Rick Culleton: maybe 15 months

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Russell Newton: Okay.

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It just, it struck me with the mindfulness

and the meditation, obviously in our

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podcast and in our books, there's a lot

of emphasis on mindfulness and achieving

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that through meditation or through

mindfulness practices and so forth.

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and that brought to my mind, the whole

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biofeedback, fad that went through.

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I don't know if you ever had any

dealings with that, but, I remember,

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popular mechanics or popular science.

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Had plans to build yourself a

biofeedback machine so that you could

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monitor your breathing and your body

temperature and learn to control them.

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And honestly, I haven't seen a meditation

or mindfulness process that had the

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physical feedback that that has.

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Is that something of Julie's

or is that, just a another

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product that she recommends?

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Rick Culleton: It's, the app

called Inner Balance that we use.

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the little gadget that hooks to my ear

is made by a company called HeartMath.

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They have their own app.

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I think you can use either one of

them and works on a point system.

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You work up through levels.

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I started at level one and you

try to get to 400 points and then

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you'll move up to level two and

level four is as high as it goes.

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these days I, get 600 points

in as little time as I can.

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I stay there until I get 600 points.

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If it's a bad day, that

might be 20 minutes.

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Uh, if it's a good day, it might be eight.

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And I, you know, as long I have

found that if I stay the duration

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and get that much work done, that,

that brings me where I need to be.

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Russell Newton: A completely

different slant than anything

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I've heard on mindfulness.

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Uh, almost a mindfulness competition.

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I like that.

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I like keeping score and, and tracking

the numbers and those kind of things.

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So it, it, it takes your daily steps, you

know, 10,000 steps a day to a whole new

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level, kind of in the opposite direction.

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Rick Culleton: I'm a

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Russell Newton: Uh, HeartMath was

the name and what was the app it

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now?

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Rick Culleton: Yes,

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Russell Newton: was the in

ear piece and Inner Peace,

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inner Balance, inner Balance, and a

HeartMath, uh, produced piece of hardware.

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Fantastic.

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Thanks for that.

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Um, I,

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sorry, just looking over my notes here.

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I want to phrase the

next question correctly.

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Um, so your bio, again, your information,

the journey through A DHD, we talked

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about at length, accidental sobriety, I.

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Thanks for that story and

your own personal development.

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Uh, you now help others find

true and lasting happiness.

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Does that relate to, another

entrepreneurial adventure you have

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going is that personal relationships

are, are you a coach or a, a counselor?

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Rick Culleton: means of doing that

right now is through the second book.

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but you can find out more

about that1@mymorningstack.com.

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And then when I did it in the

day seemed to really matter.

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And I learned within a couple

months that the earlier in the day

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I did it, the better off I was.

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That became one of the first things I did.

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And then I, I, I took that piece that

came from having done the meditation

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and thought, you know, I'm gonna make

use for the, of this for a little while.

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And I developed a, morning

stack that I follow.

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And the second piece of that is something

I call techno fasting, which is where

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we, you just stay away from technology

for as long as possible in the morning.

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You don't wake up with a cell phone.

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But this is where we're going with this,

is to try to help people build their

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own morning stack and find That comfort

zone, that peace, that can be there.

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I believe that we're

all happy and peaceful.

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If you can scrub away all the anxiety

and everything else that we have that's

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just kind of layered up on top of us.

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once you clean that slate,

you're left with happiness.

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And that's what we're trying to

show is that, you know, you can get

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to this with just a little bit of

work, but it's a continuing effort.

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It's not, you know, the gym, you can't

go to the gym for a month every other

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day and get done at the end of 30 days

and go, look, I'm strong and fit and I'm

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gonna be great for the rest of my life.

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And, and.

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is the same way.

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You know, it's a, it's a,

it's a lifelong practice.

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If you want to be mentally healthy, it's

the same as being physically healthy.

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it's something you need

to work at all the time.

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You can't eat good one day and

then live on cotton candy and

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expect to maintain your health.

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So this is where we're going with this.

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it's a starter plan that it'll

get you going with your stack

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and then instructions as to

how you can develop your own.

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Russell Newton: Wow.

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I wanna make sure we have the

books, distinguished and labeled

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for our listeners, your first book.

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So let's take a step back.

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I didn't get the, I didn't

jot down the title for it.

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I'm not sure that we made it clear,

what it is, what it's about, where

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it's available, those types of things.

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Rick Culleton: book was messed

up like You, and it's available

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on Amazon Barnes, anywhere.

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Russell Newton: Yes.

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Rick Culleton: aimed at, people with a

DHD, parents of people with a DHD, maybe

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someone who has a friend or relative.

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And it's interesting and

funny at the same time.

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And I wrote that book aimed at maybe

a younger version of myself, or

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maybe if I could go back in time and

could have given it to my mother.

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You know, it's not for everybody,

but if it does fit, I think

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you'll find it very useful.

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And the second book

doesn't have a title yet.

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It will be out this year.

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but it's more of a guide.

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it's gonna be a very short, concise,

pocket sized book that is meant to be

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there as a companion to help you get

through the day, create this foundation,

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this morning, stack as you can, and

adapt it as you need to, depending on

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seasons where you live, what you're doing.

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You know, mine is very involved.

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my stack today is daunting.

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And, I enjoy it very much,

but it involves a lot.

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everything from running to going to the

gym to cold plunge and, it, so it's,

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you know, it's, it's something that is

obviously evolved over a long period

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of time for myself, and I'm trying to

give everyone else kind of a starter.

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you don't need to, you can do 20% of

what I do and get 80% of the results,

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and that's where we're gonna start.

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Russell Newton: We talk a lot on

the podcast about an evening ritual,

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you know, a sleep ritual to get.

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Wound down from the day

and get your mindset there.

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And we talk about morning routine, but

this is morning routine on steroids.

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I mean, this is, take us through

your, if you don't mind, what

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does your average day look like?

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What are some of these things that you're

doing that you're willing to share?

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Rick Culleton: I have a special stack that

I brought with me because I'm traveling.

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I'm in Europe right now, so I

don't have a cold plunge that

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could carry around with me.

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I'm working on that, but

at the moment, I'm without.

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So, it starts out pretty easily.

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I get up very early, so I'm up at

about normally five 30 in the morning

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and, one of the very first things

I do, I drink a glass that's pretty

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much salt water, it's got magnesium

in it and so forth to rehydrate.

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And then I head outside, not looking

at light through the windows, but

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actually get out, get outdoors and

help reinforce my circadian rhythm

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and make sure that, you know, I'm

keeping my sleep cycle, in sync.

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And then I come back inside and,

meditate for whatever amount of time

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it takes me to get my 600 points.

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And then I do 25 pushups and I stretch.

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I've been nursing an achilles tendon

injury and I just started running again,

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so I'm being kind of cautious with that.

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I journal after I get done stretching.

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I have a quirky thing that I

picked up about a year ago or

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a little less with my journal.

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For the first paragraph I

write with my left hand.

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It's a neuroplasticity trick

that, on top of, keeping all

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the neurons firing in my brain.

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enough, I've learned to write pretty

well with my left hand, even in cursive.

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I'm impressed.

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I've even impressed myself.

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And so, you know, this is probably

where I would leave most of the people

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is like, this is where, you know,

if those things work for you, that's

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a great foundation for your day.

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You know, you're talking

about 40 minutes or less.

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So, I think that's that type of stack.

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It doesn't need to be those things.

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And then where I go from there is,

there's physical exercise every day.

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It's either gonna be running or

the gym and I'll go back and forth,

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and then I take at least one day

and sometimes two days a week.

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To recover.

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And I'm a gadget junkie, so I've

got an aura ring on one hand and

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a Garmin watch on the other hand.

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And, you know, I'm always looking

at the data and I listen to it too.

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So when it says, Hey, you need to

back off, time to take it easy.

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I do.

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I learned, just recently how

important the recovery part was.

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I was always go, go, go, go, go

ignore, you know, they're, they're not

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talking to me when they say slow down.

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So I was pushing it and I started to see

some data signs that looked really bad.

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Rate, my resting heart rate was going up,

my heart rate variability was going down.

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And so since I've started to listen

to these gadgets a little bit

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more closely, I'm doing better.

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So, you know, every other day I'll run,

every other day I'll go to the gym.

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and then once I finish that routine,

you know, it's then my workday really

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starts, you know, so when I get

that stuff out of the way, that's

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when I, go and on the computer.

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and one thing I left out in that

whole routine is the techno fasting.

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And that, you know, I

stay away from the phone.

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So my phone stays and do not disturb

all the time, every day, all day.

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But I do need to use it in the

morning for the meditation.

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I have a tone that plays, so

my breathing is, asynchronous.

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It's the same amount of time

in and out, which has been a

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very important part for me.

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So I do need that gadget for that part.

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But, you know, I don't

use it for anything else.

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When I'm done with the

meditation, I put it down.

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and then, you know, it's usually at

least two hours before I pick something

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up electronic or turn on anything where

you've got any screen or any even audible.

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I don't even let the news play

in the background or anything

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Russell Newton: So you're familiar with

the Garmin, Your recovery today was

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delayed by an excessive amount of stress.

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you probably used to see that often, but

maybe not so much anymore since you've

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gotten things, adjusted a little bit.

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Rick Culleton: I still, I'm learning,

I play with a lot of that stuff.

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I'm working now on closing that

window of time that I eat, and I

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have found the data that comes out

of that to be really interesting too.

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my resting heart rate is

dropping earlier in the night.

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I still don't get the

amount of deep sleep.

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I get enough that I feel very rested.

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I'm just not impressed with the numbers.

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I rarely get an hour of deep

sleep, and that's a little

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troubling I can ask my eight sleep.

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I can ask my Aura ring or my Garmin.

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They're all gonna tell me I didn't

have enough deep sleep, but.

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maybe I'm wired just a little bit.

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differently, but I do, I still play

with a lot of that stuff and, you know,

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eat, stop eating earlier and earlier

in the day and get that resting heart

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rate to drop earlier in the night.

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sleep's an incredibly

important part of the day.

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You know, we can't even talk

about a morning stack if you

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haven't had a good night's sleep.

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There's no point at all.

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Sometimes I'm just in it, you know,

I go out and see the sun when it's

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setting as well as when it's rising.

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So you get some of that light, at sunset.

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It doesn't be right at sunset, but

it's really important to send that

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signal to your brain that this

is the end of the day, especially

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for someone who moves around.

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And it's not just about going from the

states to Europe, but when I move from

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Colorado to New York, that two hours

difference, it's really important that

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I get reset, stay reset, then, you know,

if I need to at night, I use this little

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electronic gadget that makes you drowsy.

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It's got damp sponges.

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You put in your temples.

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It's called TDCS.

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Transcranial something.

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anyway, that along with Bin Beats

and knock myself out in seconds.

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Literally, I mean, literally

it's probably five minutes with

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that stuff and I'm, I'm out.

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Russell Newton: Okay.

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Yeah, binaural beats have come up

a few times in the, in the podcast.

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I find those interesting.

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As you were running through your morning

stack, I thought, wow, it, it's gotta

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be 10, 10 30, 11 o'clock in the morning

before you're done with these things,

631

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but you're, you've accomplished that in

40 minutes because you're going outside.

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It sounds like this is

not a 30 minute walk.

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It might be is that, you know, things

you're doing 25 pushups can take,

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like, take me half an hour maybe to do.

635

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But your 25 pushups probably take

you about two or three minutes.

636

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Your outside time is probably, I'm

guessing, maybe five or 10 minutes.

637

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So when listeners say, I don't

have time to do all those things

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in the morning, any of us can find,

you know, a some amount of time.

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nobody has a schedule that's

full on a regular basis.

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So to do all that in 40 minutes is great.

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it's kind of mind boggling, that

you've perfected things to that point.

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Rick Culleton: stay after myself.

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I mean, I'm no superhero.

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I get distracted, you know, I pet the cat.

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You can find a million excuses

not to get into a cold plunge.

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I can tell you that firsthand.

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when I'm in Texas or almost everywhere.

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except on the road, cold

plunge Is part of that too.

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But you can stack these in such

a way that on a day that I run.

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I don't go outside to get the sunlight.

651

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As soon as I'm done meditating, I got the

running shoes on and I'm out the door.

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So I've killed two birds with one stone.

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I don't wear my sunglasses.

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I'm getting the sunlight that I

need to set my circadian rhythm.

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At the same time, I'm getting

the cardio exercise that I need.

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Now, if it's a day that I go to the gym,

I'm gonna go outside and walk around.

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And if it's bright out, five, seven

minutes is enough for me and then I'm

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back inside to continue on with that.

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So I don't want to put off getting

to work until too late in the day.

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for example, if I'm traveling and I sleep

until eight o'clock, I know that, by 10

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o'clock I need to be working because my

brain is only gonna be, its best until

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noon, maybe one o'clock in the afternoon.

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And then you, you're diminishing returns

for me anyway from that point forward.

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So I might break that up.

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And on a gym day, I might go to

the gym later in the afternoon.

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That might be something

is done later in the day.

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' cause the reality is we

all have to work right.

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Russell Newton: Is that that is true.

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you're like the, the rocky of self-help.

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Everything you say are things that

are repeatedly given in our books.

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that habit stacking, getting, a

new habit attached to an old habit.

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So one flows into another.

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Those set routines, a morning routine,

an evening routine, the cold plunge,

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even those, the physicality of it, the

mindfulness you're putting into practice.

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I'm gonna say 80% of some of the

most common, self-improvement

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advice that's out there.

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And I find that quite admirable

that you have the motivation and the

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determination even on a difficult

day, to get yourself into the process

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because you know the payout, you

know the benefit of doing that.

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And you know, the downside

of not doing it possibly.

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Rick Culleton: I learned a

good lesson on this trip.

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I cold plunge all the time,

and this is the longest trip

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I've taken in quite a while.

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it was an accidental kind of a funny

mistake, but I went to fill the cold

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plunge one day, set the timer, said

Google, tell me when, whatever time is up.

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And I go upstairs and I hear

the timer go off and I run

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down and the tub had overflown.

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Luckily the floor, it was a place where

it could get wet, it didn't matter.

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I'm like, Ugh.

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So I turned the hose

off, let the chiller run.

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I just got back in town and I got

in the cold plunge the next day.

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The water spills over the top.

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It's up to my chin.

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43 degrees, 10 minutes.

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Couple days later, and I'm like, you know.

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My pinky and my right hand doesn't

tingle anymore at all, and my

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shoulders feel so much better.

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I got here, I'm now 10

days without a cold plunge.

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My shoulders are killing me.

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I mean, I, I'm 58 years old.

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I've fought TaeKwonDo for a decade.

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I've been, I have put my body through some

stuff and cold plunge makes me pain free.

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I forget about the endorphin

release or the, the weight

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Russell Newton: Really.

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Rick Culleton: the mental,

I am pain free and it's.

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Without it, it came back quick.

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I think it was day seven

without a cold bunch.

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Like here it comes.

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And, the same pain that I've probably

been living with for decades in my

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shoulders and neck didn't bother

me that much then, because I was

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accustomed to it when it came after.

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I've had relief for a

while, and it comes back.

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It's just a reinforcer is, and the lesson

behind all that is that, you know, once

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you learn the benefits to these things,

to eating healthy, to going to the gym,

715

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to getting enough sleep, it's not hard

to stay focused on them because it just,

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you know, do you want a great life?

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Do you want to be happy and healthy or

do you not, you know, it's your choice.

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Russell Newton: So if you did

TaeKwonDo for a decade, you're what?

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Second, third degree did you did?

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Rick Culleton: I went to a very

tough school, a very tough school.

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I'm a slow learner.

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:

It took me eight of those 10 years

to get my first degree black belt,

723

:

and then I enrolled in the second

degree program and couldn't cut it.

724

:

I stayed in the school and I taught a lot.

725

:

I taught a lot of children.

726

:

I really enjoyed that part of it.

727

:

but as you, if you read my first book,

it's about me getting my pilot's license.

728

:

So to get a pilot's license

is 40 hours of instruction.

729

:

it takes more to become a yoga

teacher than a pilot anyway.

730

:

to become a pilot takes

40 hours of instruction.

731

:

failed my test after two years

and a hundred hours of instruction

732

:

and had to go back to school.

733

:

I am not the world's fastest learner,

so, a decade to get my, eight of those

734

:

10 years just to get my first degree,

but I enjoyed every minute of it.

735

:

I love that school.

736

:

It was Third Coast Martial Arts in

Austin, You know, all of those programs

737

:

probably worked pretty similarly in

that you teach when you get to a certain

738

:

level my wife and I taught Little Dragons

together and I taught some older kids too.

739

:

But that was a very enjoyable experience

and a very enjoyable part of my life.

740

:

Russell Newton: You learn a lot from that.

741

:

My kids, all were involved in it,

and then that dragged us into it.

742

:

I did it for two or three years.

743

:

Our dojo, our school was much more

family oriented, so the testing process

744

:

was, A 10th of what yours sounds like

it was in the school you were at.

745

:

And I, I'm kind of jealous because

I wished we had been pushed, maybe

746

:

not to the level that you were

pushed, but, a little bit more.

747

:

but I enjoyed that a lot of the benefits

that you see in some of the things you're

748

:

talking about with the mindfulness and

the breathing and that kind of stuff can

749

:

be learned in association with a martial

art if your instructor, leans that way.

750

:

So, a decade now you're having, on the

physical side of it, you say you're, you

751

:

still have continual pain from whatever

activities, but these are things that

752

:

are, your workouts are not inducing,

are you working out at that level?

753

:

You, you're not sparring or

competing anymore, doesn't sound

754

:

like, but are you working out the

level that keeps the pains going?

755

:

And that's where the cold plunge comes in.

756

:

Rick Culleton: the workouts

are causing the pain.

757

:

I fought a lot.

758

:

I was in.

759

:

the ring every weekend.

760

:

I'd go to every tournament I could,

761

:

Russell Newton: Yeah.

762

:

Rick Culleton: sparring night every night.

763

:

And at the time I thought, you

know, I'm loaded up with headgear.

764

:

And it's, well, when I recently had a, a

problem and they got in there about two

765

:

years ago and took a look, and he's like,

did you have, you had a really traumatic

766

:

injury to the right side of your neck?

767

:

No.

768

:

Nothing at all.

769

:

And he showed me the, the picture

and I was like, I don't even really

770

:

understand what I'm looking at.

771

:

And he goes, well, this, this

calcification on the right side.

772

:

This is really bad.

773

:

He goes, I, I don't

know what happened here.

774

:

I'm like, ah, you know, I did

fight for a few years, but I,

775

:

you know, I had headgear on.

776

:

And he goes, yeah, that

doesn't help your neck.

777

:

So, you know, I'm always getting hit, with

the right foot and The neck took a lot

778

:

of the trauma but, it's very manageable.

779

:

the cold pl does it.

780

:

And I don't have any debilitating, you

know, I've got mild pain and I'm not even

781

:

sure that that's where it all came from.

782

:

I've had motorcycle accidents and

you name it, my body's been put

783

:

through the ringer a few times.

784

:

Russell Newton: The fifth or sixth decade

things, have an cumulative effect as you

785

:

go through and they build up over time.

786

:

Yeah.

787

:

The whole, the sparring thing

is addictive, is it not?

788

:

Rick Culleton: you know, if there's

anything I've given up in my life, you

789

:

know, I was a cyclist for a long time and

790

:

Russell Newton: I.

791

:

Rick Culleton: there are days that I

miss that, but there's nothing, there's

792

:

nothing like sparring there, there's

nothing that brings you so in the moment.

793

:

I, I've not?

794

:

found another thing that I.

795

:

can do that makes me so focused.

796

:

you, you're just right there.

797

:

You have to be, there is

not a choice, you know?

798

:

Yeah.

799

:

I've got lots of great memories now.

800

:

Russell Newton: I found myself one time

in the preparing for a sparring class,

801

:

and I thought as I'm getting ready, I

thought, you know, when I started this,

802

:

I came in with a GI and that was it.

803

:

You know, I put on the uniform and

went to class, and now here I am, I am

804

:

armored up with soft padding everywhere.

805

:

You know, I'm taping up toes.

806

:

I've got, shin, any, everything from

foot guard to shin guard, all the

807

:

way up to the headgear, and you know,

my finger, my hands are wrapped.

808

:

It's like.

809

:

Where did this evolve from a,

a simple thing into this, this

810

:

competition that I've made it.

811

:

But yeah, it, it was fantastic.

812

:

It was a lot of fun.

813

:

and when you get the right

instructor, amazing what they

814

:

can do and what you can learn.

815

:

We had, I'll indulge myself, myself with

a short story on one of my instructors who

816

:

was a third or fourth degree at the time.

817

:

and this was in a, a large

TaeKwonDo organization.

818

:

So the, the testing was nowhere

near, it was a family oriented,

819

:

but he could do things sparring

that just were superhuman to me.

820

:

And I learned so much from him,

the amount of ground he could

821

:

cover, the control he had.

822

:

And I found he could easily break a bone

at any time he wanted with a kick or a

823

:

punch, and he would hit you hard enough

that you felt it, that you knew you got

824

:

hit, but he would control it enough.

825

:

Unless he needed to, that

he wasn't gonna hurt you.

826

:

So the right instructor in the right

environment, can really change your life.

827

:

Rick Culleton: that is true.

828

:

Russell Newton: Yeah.

829

:

time has flown by.

830

:

We're coming up on about 10 minutes left.

831

:

I just want to scan the notes

here 'cause I wanna make sure

832

:

I didn't leave out anything.

833

:

I think we've covered most of the things.

834

:

one thing I did wanna say, mindfulness

and meditation you talked about in a way

835

:

that was similar to your morning routine.

836

:

These are not things you start on the

first day and go into a 45 minute process.

837

:

your mindfulness built up from,

I, I'm assuming if you're like.

838

:

you're not like most people, I don't

think, but if you went, maybe you

839

:

had a quicker buildup into it than I

would, than I've had when I've worked

840

:

on it, but it's, you know, the first

time if you get through two or three

841

:

minutes, that's a bit of a victory.

842

:

Or when you're building your morning stack

if you get one or two habits and then you

843

:

build, do you find it to be cumulative,

something that you work on over a period

844

:

of time and it becomes a big part?

845

:

Or did you jump into a large

part of it and just to maybe

846

:

expand a little bit from there?

847

:

Rick Culleton: is something that I.

848

:

had to work on.

849

:

And like I say, I'm no

different than anybody else.

850

:

The meditation was on my list to

do, and in the beginning it didn't

851

:

get done in the morning, and it was

oftentimes anxiety causing because

852

:

it was on my list of things to do.

853

:

And here it is, five o'clock and it hasn't

been done yet, especially when I was still

854

:

Russell Newton: I.

855

:

Rick Culleton: And six o'clock

is right around the corner.

856

:

So you, you know, that

was a big, you know.

857

:

I would do it, but it would be

late in the day and it didn't

858

:

have quite the same effect.

859

:

I would find that, I wasn't

getting the score that I needed.

860

:

I wasn't getting the relief from the

anxiety that I had gotten at other times.

861

:

And then if we had a scheduled class

or a meeting and I was doing it

862

:

earlier in the day, I felt better.

863

:

I didn't jump into it at all.

864

:

I had no morning routine whatsoever

other than, wiping off my hangover

865

:

and heading for the espresso machine.

866

:

Russell Newton: And what was

the first thing that you started

867

:

that started building your stack?

868

:

Rick Culleton: The very first thing

that I did for my stack was pushups.

869

:

and I don't even remember

where that started.

870

:

Probably inspired by somebody

watching some YouTube video Almost

871

:

immediately, within a couple days

of starting with the pushups, I went

872

:

into stretching, just because I was

having so much flexibility, so many

873

:

flexibility issues all the way around.

874

:

And later on when I was having problems

with my Achilles, they reinforce that

875

:

thought with, you know, I don't really

have it, and Achilles tendon injury,

876

:

it's, the upper chain is just so tight.

877

:

I was somebody who just went to

the gym and just lifted all the

878

:

time and didn't pay much attention

to anything else other than that.

879

:

So that was the next thing.

880

:

It was pushups and stretching.

881

:

And then I don't even remember

What got put in there next.

882

:

the abbreviated version of techno

fasting came on pretty quickly.

883

:

I knew the phone and the computer

were big triggers for me.

884

:

I would use them all day long to.

885

:

Aggravate myself looking at things that

I shouldn't be looking at, whether they

886

:

were sales numbers or stock quotes.

887

:

it's crazy how self-destructive.

888

:

You can become with something like that.

889

:

You know, your body's doing something

that you know is gonna do all the

890

:

wrong things, just screw up your

endocrine system and send all these

891

:

signals that you don't want yet.

892

:

You do it anyway.

893

:

You know, like putting

your hand on a hot stove.

894

:

And so I got to the point where

I was laying back on the tech.

895

:

and this is about maybe a couple

weeks into having nothing more than

896

:

push up, stretching and a limited

amount of tech in the morning.

897

:

I was starting to already feel better.

898

:

it was kind of like, you know, I

think there's something to this.

899

:

let's see if it sticks.

900

:

And I just stayed with that?

901

:

for a couple weeks.

902

:

And I think the next thing that

I added to it was going outside.

903

:

for a while I was standing outside

because I was grounding naturally.

904

:

Now, I put a grounding mat under the

computer, and put my feet on it while

905

:

I'm working on the computer just to kind

of get one thing outta the way without,

906

:

you know, even thinking about it.

907

:

Um, but.

908

:

Russell Newton: What is that?

909

:

What is a grounding mat?

910

:

Rick Culleton: the, the frequency that

your body's in, a lot of people believe,

911

:

and there's some science behind it, that

you need to put your feet on the earth

912

:

for a certain amount of time, barefoot.

913

:

Whether it's, it can even be concrete.

914

:

It doesn't need to be dirt, you

915

:

Russell Newton: Mm-hmm.

916

:

Rick Culleton: earth, wet is better,

sand is fine, wet sand is great

917

:

and just kind of, for lack of a

better term, sync up with a planet.

918

:

That might sound a little Okie-doke,

but that's just kinda what you're

919

:

doing is you're getting your body back.

920

:

You know, we didn't wear shoes.

921

:

I was at an island one time, and

the natives didn't wear shoes.

922

:

you could tell the people who had

moved to the island versus the people

923

:

who were born there, because the

people born there didn't wear shoes

924

:

and the, in the supermarket, in church

anywhere, they never had shoes on.

925

:

And I was going outdoors to ground for

a while and get sun at the same time.

926

:

and just slowly built it up.

927

:

And my stack is ever changing,

you know, it's always evolving.

928

:

I've just started running

again in the last month.

929

:

So sometimes running and the

sunlight exposure get combined.

930

:

I think it's important to be

disciplined, but at the same

931

:

time, be sensibly flexible.

932

:

If you can make this better and work more

efficiently, make the changes needed,

933

:

that doesn't mean get lazy and sit on

the couch, watch Netflix and eat donuts.

934

:

it's not something that

needs to be terribly rigid.

935

:

Russell Newton: I had one last, I

wanna go back to the cold plunge

936

:

thing about the, you have a dedicated

pool, a cold plunge tub or whatever.

937

:

What are some substitutes?

938

:

If you, if our listeners wanted to get

the advantages of a cold plunge, are

939

:

there some things they can do without

investing in the hardware there?

940

:

Rick Culleton: used cryotherapy for many

years before I even got into cold plunge.

941

:

affordable than cryo is because

I don't have a hundred thousand

942

:

dollars cryo chamber in my house.

943

:

You can set up your own cold

plunge now for under a thousand.

944

:

Russell Newton: no you don't.

945

:

Rick Culleton: it is a

more affordable, version.

946

:

I.

947

:

was paying

948

:

Russell Newton: I.

949

:

Rick Culleton: every time I walked in

there and getting cryotherapy three

950

:

times a week and it made me feel good.

951

:

The initial ones, you know, you

didn't even get your head in them

952

:

because they were all nitrous

and you couldn't breathe it.

953

:

And now, you know, with the, at the latest

version, we're using electric chambers,

954

:

which were a little more systemic.

955

:

But, there's, in my opinion, and I, I

don't have any data to back this up.

956

:

The cold plunge is a much

therapy than, than cryo.

957

:

I feel much better using cold plunge,

but there's other things to play.

958

:

I use a cold plunge every day, and I

was doing cryo three times a week, so,

959

:

you know, there's half a dozen one.

960

:

I don't know what's what, but I can

tell you that if you take 10 minutes

961

:

at 43 degrees every single day up to

your chin, you're gonna feel amazing.

962

:

and it only hurts the first couple times.

963

:

it's amazing.

964

:

Russell Newton: Interesting.

965

:

Rick Culleton: times were

very difficult for me.

966

:

You know, I, I one of the people

967

:

Russell Newton: Oh, okay.

968

:

Rick Culleton: where I tried it

969

:

Russell Newton: Okay.

970

:

Rick Culleton: was afraid I was gonna pass

out in the thing or panic or whatever.

971

:

And I, you know, my goal was to

make it 45 seconds and I made it 30.

972

:

And after a while you realize,

look, it's the first 45 seconds

973

:

that you feel anything at all.

974

:

And when I get in there now, my,

heart rate and my breathing are the

975

:

lowest they are all day long while my

respiratory rate and everything else

976

:

is the lowest while I'm in that tub.

977

:

So it's a relaxing, you know, something

that, I use this as an example for a lot

978

:

of things, but when you, when there's

something that you don't want to do,

979

:

the hardest part of the cold plunge

is getting your first foot in there.

980

:

and there's so much of life that's like

that, you know, once you're in, it's over.

981

:

Russell Newton: But isn't that,

yeah, that's, that's 95% of the

982

:

things that we dread going into.

983

:

And once you get into

it, it's like, oh, okay.

984

:

I got this.

985

:

I have a few questions that I

say for the end for everybody.

986

:

We've gone through one of them

already, I think, but I've, I'm gonna

987

:

give you a chance to add to this.

988

:

I refer back to Stephen Covey's book, the

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

989

:

You've listed many things,

and we appreciate that.

990

:

The concrete actions that you do

that are non-negotiable in your day.

991

:

Is there anything, beyond the ones

we've talked to that you'd like

992

:

to add to that, that listeners

should consider implementing?

993

:

Rick Culleton: you know, I'm a huge,

994

:

Russell Newton: Maybe

we've covered 'em all.

995

:

Rick Culleton: so I could go on for days.

996

:

Um, you know, everything from Win-win to

keeping it out of the urgent quadrant, you

997

:

know, it's just, um, life's an ongoing.

998

:

Russell Newton: Oh, that's, yeah,

that's a whole episode in itself.

999

:

I appreciate that.

:

00:47:14,259 --> 00:47:17,139

Rick Culleton: life is, um,

is one big lesson, you know?

:

00:47:17,139 --> 00:47:21,399

And if you're willing to, to, to pay

attention and, and learn along the

:

00:47:21,399 --> 00:47:23,589

way, life becomes so much better.

:

00:47:23,649 --> 00:47:28,669

You know, I think when I was a

young man, I looked to, to old age.

:

00:47:28,729 --> 00:47:32,299

What now where I am is what I

thought was old age to, to be

:

00:47:32,299 --> 00:47:33,949

something, to dread and fear.

:

00:47:33,949 --> 00:47:37,009

And I'm so much happier today

than I ever was in life.

:

00:47:37,059 --> 00:47:40,509

and it's because I've learned the way,

you know, as you're going through life,

:

00:47:40,509 --> 00:47:45,519

you pay attention to what makes you feel

good and What, you should do, what you

:

00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:47,769

shouldn't do, and then act accordingly.

:

00:47:47,769 --> 00:47:51,249

And it's a great lesson it's something

that's just very, very enjoyable.

:

00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:55,988

Russell Newton: What, if you could

list two or three of the most

:

00:47:55,988 --> 00:47:58,658

influential books, that you've read.

:

00:47:58,758 --> 00:48:01,568

can you give our listeners a rundown

of your top recommended books

:

00:48:01,568 --> 00:48:04,988

that are out there in addition,

of course, to messed up like you.

:

00:48:05,598 --> 00:48:09,284

what else would you recommend for our

listeners, to implement into their lives?

:

00:48:09,584 --> 00:48:14,954

Rick Culleton: that changed my life, um,

were Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

:

00:48:15,824 --> 00:48:19,484

seven by Dr.

:

00:48:19,484 --> 00:48:24,134

Covey and, uh, rich Dad,

poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.

:

00:48:25,626 --> 00:48:25,976

Russell Newton: Great.

:

00:48:25,976 --> 00:48:26,176

Yeah.

:

00:48:26,176 --> 00:48:29,081

Very well known, very

popular and for good reason.

:

00:48:29,131 --> 00:48:30,331

Some excellent works there.

:

00:48:30,741 --> 00:48:34,281

do you think Napoleon Hill is still

as widely regarded today as he

:

00:48:34,281 --> 00:48:37,011

might have been in previous decades?

:

00:48:37,011 --> 00:48:39,711

it is dated, but it is invaluable.

:

00:48:39,722 --> 00:48:43,202

Rick Culleton: You know, I don't know

whether you younger readers are, are,

:

00:48:43,262 --> 00:48:45,332

are, are reading Napoleon Hill or not.

:

00:48:45,332 --> 00:48:49,592

I, I found the stories ENC chanting, you

know, not only with the lessons in there,

:

00:48:49,592 --> 00:48:53,012

but you know, as you're listening to

these stories and you know, he's talking

:

00:48:53,012 --> 00:48:57,002

to Edison and Firestone and four, I mean,

it was just, and the stories about those

:

00:48:57,002 --> 00:49:05,282

guys being together you know, I think

about that time and those people at that

:

00:49:05,282 --> 00:49:11,502

moment and the people today, I don't wanna

create any controversy in your podcast,

:

00:49:11,502 --> 00:49:14,802

but the people today to me represent.

:

00:49:15,732 --> 00:49:19,342

we have great things happening

now that are gonna dwarf that.

:

00:49:19,342 --> 00:49:24,012

And that was an incredible time, you

know, the stories of Edison and Ford

:

00:49:24,012 --> 00:49:28,542

and all of these guys it was just a

magical time and a magical place to be.

:

00:49:28,542 --> 00:49:32,532

And to hear Napoleon Hill describe all

these things and how he got himself

:

00:49:32,532 --> 00:49:35,892

through the door to talk to all these

people was just as enchanting as

:

00:49:35,892 --> 00:49:37,452

the lessons that he had to give you.

:

00:49:37,452 --> 00:49:41,482

And his lessons are, so simple

that they'll apply forever.

:

00:49:41,782 --> 00:49:44,962

Russell Newton: and, a last thing and

then we'll use this as a sign off.

:

00:49:46,342 --> 00:49:51,902

I tend to think in conversations

our guests have a question, maybe

:

00:49:51,902 --> 00:49:52,832

that is a favorite question.

:

00:49:52,832 --> 00:49:56,412

One, they look forward to answering

or, something they hope to bring

:

00:49:56,412 --> 00:50:00,652

up in any podcast, that I might

not have brought to the fore.

:

00:50:00,652 --> 00:50:05,162

Something you wanna mention, a plug you

wanna make, or a final piece of advice

:

00:50:05,162 --> 00:50:06,662

that you would leave our listeners with.

:

00:50:07,272 --> 00:50:10,332

if you have something in mind

there, we'd really appreciate

:

00:50:10,332 --> 00:50:11,172

you sharing that with us.

:

00:50:11,172 --> 00:50:13,442

And then, after that I

think we'll sign off.

:

00:50:13,573 --> 00:50:16,193

Rick Culleton: thing that I'd like to

finish with is that, wherever you are in

:

00:50:16,193 --> 00:50:19,713

life and whatever you've been through, it

has nothing to do with where you're going.

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past has no bearing on your future,

and you're free to change the direction

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you're headed at any time you want.

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Russell Newton: Wow.

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Rick Culleton: I.

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Russell Newton: Simple

but amazingly powerful.

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that's great.

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Rick.

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Rick Coton with us today, author

of Messed Up, like You Currently

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Available, and another book in the

works entitled The Mornings Stack,

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Rick Culleton: a website,

my mornings stack.com

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Russell Newton: the website.

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Rick Culleton: and,

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Russell Newton: Okay.

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Rick Culleton: we're still

working on the title.

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I think that'll be the last thing,

the second to the last thing that

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happens right before, 'cause we need

that for the cover, but be at the end.

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Russell Newton: Okay.

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All right.

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that works.

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a very YouTube approach, right?

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Get your content, then make your marketing

material or make what's seen most.

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Rick, thank you very much.

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A fascinating, conversation.

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Thank you for your time.

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Listeners, thanks for joining us,

and we'll see you again next week.

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Social Skills Coaching
Become More Likable, Productive, and Charismatic
While everyone wants to make themselves and their lives better, it has been hard to find specific, actionable steps to accomplish that. Until now...

Patrick King is a Social Interaction Specialist, in other words, a dating, online dating, image, and communication, and social skills coach based in San Francisco, California. He’s also a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author with the most popular online dating book on the market and writes frequently on dating, love, sex, and relationships.

He focuses on using his emotional intelligence and understanding of human interaction to break down emotional barriers, instill confidence, and equip people with the tools they need for success. No pickup artistry and no gimmicks, simply a thorough mastery of human psychology delivered with a dose of real talk.

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