Episode 7 - Tina Marie speaks with Mindset Strategist, Sean Osborn
Tina Marie speaks with Sean Osborn, Mindset Strategist, Successful Coach and Podcaster.
Sean Osborn is a mindset strategist and coach that specializes in getting people to their next level. I have spent more than 30 years developing my Thinking BIG Model, a framework that took me to start a multimillion-dollar tech company and managing high-level teams for some of the largest companies in the county.
"My true passion is coaching and empowering others who are unsure of how to get to their next level of potential. I coach others by equipping them with the tools, strategies, and philosophies required to be successful in all aspects of their lives."
Sean's Podcast: The show helping you think bigger into your life and potential. I believe by equipping you with the tools, strategies, and philosophies required to be successful in all aspects of your life, you can achieve anything you believe in. Empowering our own growth makes a deeply positive and lasting impact on our lives, community, and our world.
Sean's Website: Thinking Big
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Tina Marie (00:00):
Hello, I'm Tina Marie St. Cyr, and welcome to light your life. The podcast, I believe our dreams have energy calling and purpose and that when we move in their direction, our lives become even more joyful, fulfilled and effortless. This podcast gives you insights to the strategies. Our guests use to overcome obstacles and manifest their dreams in business career relationships, and in life. Listen to find new levels of energy perspective and courage, your journey to light your life begins now. Hello and welcome to another wonderful show. I'm your host, Tina Ray, Saint seer, and I'll as always, we invite in wonderful souls that have surmounted their own odds and have wonderful wisdom to impart to us from their journey. And today I get the honor to sit with another beautiful friend and someone who I can't wait to hear the depth of his story. It is Mr. Shawn Osborn. He has developed the thinking big mindset coaching program, and we're going to learn so much more about that and he sharing his story of how he went from being homeless to a millionaire. And you definitely want to sit back and take notes on this. Sean, thank you so much for being our guest today on the podcast.
Sean (01:46):
Uh, Tina Marie, thank you so much for having me on, and this is a honor to be on and I'm so happy to, uh, spend this, uh, spend this time with you. It's going to be fun.
Tina Marie (01:55):
It is going to be fun. And so I want them to know more about you as we began this journey and this insight into your life. Thank you for sharing that. I want you to know that Shawn he's been a mindset strategist and a coach for a long time. In fact, he's studied with some of the greats as well. And from that, and even his own life, he's developed this, this wonderful philosophy and strategy that he's going to be sharing with us today. And you can always find out more about him@thinkingbigcoaching.com. Sean has spent 30 years developing this thinking big framework, and it is, you know, this isn't something that's fly by night or borrow from other people. This is his own experience of how he had needed to shift his own mindset in order to surmount some pretty heavy odds at a young age, Sean, you found yourself homeless at the age of 14 and have gone from there to having a multi-million dollar tech company. Take us back to the time where you were homeless at a young age. That's a tender age of 14 to be in that state.
Sean (02:57):
Yes, that is a very tender agent. I liked one. I think if I go back, it's probably the best time of my life. I know that it's hard for people to see or to realize, but that was something that had I not gone through that I would have never learned in life. What I learned w I would not be where I am today without going through that experience and without, and it was all self-made. So here's the thing I grew up on, you know, great parents, uh, you know, had a great home life, no issues with that. I was a very wild child. So I was by 14. I had been through three drug and alcohol treatment centers, uh, was out on my own recovering and it was self. It was self-inflicted. So it's not something that, you know, I cannot, I take a hundred percent responsibility for everything that happened as should everybody. We're all where we are because of what we believe in. And, but I take full responsibility for that. And it was self-imposed, you know, I did it to myself, but I was still in the situation, you know, I was 14 years old. I was out on my own, right. Trying to make it.
Tina Marie (04:13):
So, you know, I, you know, each one of us is going to have that. We have to have our own hero's journey. Right. We come from these obstacles that could be imposed upon us given different circumstances and conditions, or like you're saying here we can. Self-impose those obstacles inside of our own mind. And I know that we're talking about mindset today. So take us back to the young 14 year old Shawn, in order to have those choices or make those choices, there would have had to have been a lower mindset in control of your decision-making at that point in time.
Sean (04:46):
Right? Absolutely. Absolutely. And here's the thing. I think I am a hundred percent believer that everything that we have, if you look around your life, everything that you have, everything that I have is a direct mirror of what our mindset is, what it is at that time. So, absolutely everything I was going through. That was my mindset. I was the dumb kid. I was the, you know, the drug addict. I was, you know, I was voluntold to leave school and in the ninth grade. So I didn't even make it out of, uh, you know, make it out of the ninth grade. And, Oh, I'll tell you from a personal growth standpoint, up until about, I'd say four or five years ago, nobody knew my backstory. Absolutely. Nobody knew who I was, where I came from. Never told me, my son is now 32. And, uh, until he was probably 28, 29, he never even knew my story. Obviously my wife did, but no one else did. It was something I never talked about.
Tina Marie (05:47):
And it's interesting, as you know, I've got some painful things in my story as well that you, it, it takes a lot of courage and it takes this. We get to the season of our life where that, that vulnerability or the need to tell our story, not even the need to it just simply transforms others. We realize we get to this place where our story is a beautiful tool for others. And I know you've arrived there as well, but otherwise we keep it locked in a box that we would otherwise think it's a Pandora's box instead of something that can create freedom for ourselves and others.
Sean (06:18):
Yeah. And it was so it was, you know, again, it goes back to a mindset. I always had the feeling that by telling someone they would think that I was stupid. They would think that I was dumb. And it's a whole mindset thing that you have to, you have to get over those self limiting beliefs. Those, those absolutely hold you back from where you, where you want to go, where you need to go. And it's those, those beliefs that, that keep us trapped, keep us, keep us in prison.
Tina Marie (06:46):
What would you say to our listeners on how they can start to unravel those limiting beliefs that are there? I mean, sometimes we don't even know where to look to see if those are running our decision-making in our mind.
Sean (06:59):
Well, for starters, we have to understand that they do exist. I think that was the biggest thing for me is I had to understand, you don't know what you don't know, and until you start learning about mindset and about how your beliefs control everything, you, uh, everything you do, uh, you just don't know. So the first thing is you have to start understanding that you have them, and again, I'll go back. You are exactly where you are because of your beliefs. So whatever your belief system is, that that is where you are. So you absolutely have belief systems and your beliefs keep you exactly where you are.
Tina Marie (07:32):
And so if we're inventorying where we are right now, if where we are as painful, if where we are feel stuck and I love the way, you know, somewhere you say in the, in the, the pieces of information you sent me, which was great is that stock is real. You know, it's not like it's a conditional norm that everybody needs to say that my life has stuck. And this is why it's not like something that you don't have power over. So if somebody right now is inventorying their life and going, okay, yes, there are parts of my life that feel painful may not be the entire across the board. Parts feel faint, painful parts, feel stuck. I feel like there's more to life and I don't know where to get to or how to get there. What you're you're helping us understand is the evidence of our life is the connection to these limiting beliefs. And whenever we start looking at them, then we can start making progress.
Sean (08:22):
Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And again, if you're having any issue in any part of your life, it goes back to back to your beliefs and the way I always like to look at it and at least start changing it is if I'm not happy, the only way to change my programming, the only way to change my inculturated mind, the only way to change that belief system is to act as if it was already done. We've got to, to me, the best way to reprogram my mind is to actually act as if I already have it act as if I'm there act as if I already won act as if whatever it is that I'm wanting, I've already got it because on a subconscious level, that helps me reprogram that belief system. It hacks that, I guess you could say it, fakes it out. It's a, you know, a trick that I use to, to fake it.
Sean (09:12):
So, you know, as an example, if you are not where you want in a relationship, or you are not where you want in, uh, you know, in your health, your, your it's almost like a thermostat. So in your health, once you get to a certain level, your subconscious, your belief systems automatically gonna take you back down. So if you're at a, you know, if you think of yourself as subconsciously in your belief system, as 150 pounds, 150 pound person, I don't care what you do, whether you go up, whether you go down, that belief system will automatically take you back to that thermostat, that 150 pounds, I don't care what you do. It's like going back onto autopilot. Once we lose focus. And if we start acting as if, uh, we're already there. So if I wanted to be 130 pounds, if I start acting as if I'm already 130 pounds, I go and I do the things that I would do at 130 pounds. I go, I wear the things I would wear to 130 pounds. I eat the things I would eat at 135. That's going to change my subconscious and bring me down. That's going to change my thermostat to a hundred, 130.
Tina Marie (10:17):
Amazing. I love this. I love where this is going. This is so fun. And I wanted to remind everybody who we're speaking with today. This is the wonderful Sean Osborn. And he is sharing his story of going from homeless to a millionaire. We're about to undercover uncover where he went from that 14 year old homeless version of himself, out of recovery centers to where did you tap in? And if you haven't yet written down his website, I want you to do this. It's thinking big coaching.com and there, I'm sure you're going to connect with Sean. And he's going to give you so much value. You want to go there. He also has a thinking big podcast that you're gonna want to start listening to and make one of your favorites. So Sean, take us to the place where you're 14 years old, homeless, what started shifting in your life to get you to this new trajectory.
Sean (11:07):
So I think there's always, there's always something that happens in someone's life to make them change what they want to do. And normally, normally it's pain. People will do things. They will change to avoid pain. They will do things much, much quicker than they'll do things for enjoyment. And they'll also do things. Yes. And they'll also do things for other people quicker than they'll do things for themselves. So at 16, you know, there was washing, you know, washing dishes, uh, trying to make a living. And my then girlfriend came to me and said she was pregnant. So there was, you know, 16 years old, 16 years old, uh, no education, you know, barely making enough to, to buy food. And I was going to have a kid and like, that's it, I've got, that was the catalyst that really, I don't know if I didn't want to be that bother. I didn't want to be that person. Right. But that was absolutely the catalyst that changed everything. And from that second, everything changed. The mindset changed. The belief system changed. The driver changed.
Tina Marie (12:13):
I want to take us down a little path that is, um, similar to what you're talking about. And I know we're going to end up in a wise Shaun moment in the past, given tribal cultures, there was a, you know, a, um, what do they call it whenever you have to, to surmount the odds? I can't think of it right now, but it's, it's a, uh, it's a becoming like you, you go through a trial or a tribulation. And from that place, you know, maybe you're cast out the tribe, says, go kill a lion or, and come back with the evidence of that. And, um, you know, in other cultures, we would have these ways of going from that younger version of ourselves and surmounting some odds and challenges to realize our strength and who we are. We don't have those in today's society as such.
Tina Marie (13:03):
It's more honestly, you know, that risk-taking with drugs that risk-taking with gambling or, you know, driving fast or risking your life, that risk-taking, you know, activity that we have within ourselves to go against the cultural rules and maybe have crime and things of that nature. And I've been seeing that in the youth of today that there it's a, what is that term? It's like, you, you, the statement of coming the becoming, whenever you coming of age, the thank you that is it the coming of age. Right. And it seems as though our culture has these, because we still need to take that risk to say, who am I, what am I made of? And so have you ever thought of that for yourself of that young Shaun? Um, that was your coming of age season, and then whenever your girlfriend was pregnant, then you, you cast yourself into this adulthood, more mature, responsible part of yourself.
Sean (13:56):
Yeah. And I think it goes back and I think we always go into these, into these things. We all have these events, we have these things. And I always like to look at them as either you either grow or you die. There's no standing still, my dad used to tell me, Sean, you either got to or get off the pot. There's no, sorry. You can cut that. Yeah. That was just saying, share, get off the bike. So you either have to grow or you die. And, you know, it's those, it's those little decisions. And it's those things that will change your belief that will change your trajectory in life, is getting outside of what you hear it all the time comfort zone, the terror barrier is, you know, you hear all of those things that people talk about, and those are the moments that you have to do that. And you do, you absolutely on those, you know, moments in life, you either change it or you, or you die there. There's no staying still,
Tina Marie (14:48):
Diane could simply be not progressing and staying stuck in these old limiting mindset you're sharing with us. And so we simply stay prisoner to an old belief system that, you know, maybe some people will say, I'd rather die than live a life like this. That feels so damned stock.
Sean (15:07):
Yeah. And I remember, Oh, go ahead. No, go ahead. You know, I remember back then the whole feeling of just complete hopelessness, uh, not necessarily worthlessness, but it was just complete hopelessness of, there didn't seem to be a way out there didn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. I mean, I was, you know, again, I was struggling just to put food, you know, in myself and, you know, but again, and one of my favorite quotes kind, I came in, I think it might've been, uh, I dunno, who did this, but, uh, you know, you were either at the table or you're on the menu and that goes right back to that. You're either eating or you're, you're the food. One of the two.
Tina Marie (15:50):
I remember. I, um, so I wanted to take the kids to, um, Africa and I wanted to go to a Safari for me, Safari is a photo Safari. So we're taking pictures of the animals. And I remember telling my daughter who was probably about five years old at that time. And her, her brother was seven and a half. And I said, let's plan a trip to Africa. And she immediately got really worried. You could see it in her physiology. And, and later, you know, I noticed that she was holding this anxiety and I said, what's going on Maddie? And she said, Oh, do we really have to go to Africa? And I said, no, we don't have to go to Africa. What's wrong. She said, the animals eat. People like me. I was like, her anxiety was, she realized she was smaller and possibly slower. And she was going to be a meal instead of something that was going to be fun. So that's a great quote of understanding where we need to go
Sean (16:44):
And seeing the sarcastic, maybe would've told my kid, well, you better start learning to run fast.
Tina Marie (16:50):
You know, irony. Ironically, she became an, a major amazing athlete and marathon runner. So maybe that was that
Sean (16:59):
I've ever learned to run
Tina Marie (17:00):
Threatening that we're going to go to Africa. We never made it to Africa, you know, the threatening moment. So in thinking big, you, your journey took you here. Yeah. And you became the helm of a company that you've taken to multi-million dollar effect of others. You know, whenever we hear business and, and I hear the size of companies, I, instead of visualizing the dollar signs, which are the, you know, proof of the size of the company, I see the effect that that company has had on so many lives, be it, their customers, and definitely their employees and all the people in between. And so one, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for leading and building an amazing business. Tell us about that journey from the, you know, Sean non-educated to taking his, his wisdom and his knowing and starting something that has had such impact in the world.
Sean (17:57):
And yeah, and I've gone through several different companies, but on the thinking big, the big, you know, that is actually, you know, a philosophy, a model that, and that's what took me from, from where I was to, you know, having the multi-million dollar company was that big model. And you hear it. Here's the thing. I think there is a law of success and I don't care who you read it from who you talk to. I don't care if it's from thinking grow rich. I don't care if it's from Tony Robins. I don't care who there is a law and I don't care how someone else explains it. There's still a law of success. And if you followed that law, it's just like, if I dropped a rock here, it would drop at the same speed. Every time there's a law of gravity, you can't change it.
Sean (18:40):
You can't do it. There's to me, there is a law of success. And if you follow that law, you will be successful, uh, without a doubt. And that's what the thinking big is. And that's, you know, it, again, it took me 30 years to fully develop and understand what that law was and, and how you, how you follow it. You know, the big is, uh, stands for beliefs, uh, your imagination and then growth. And it's a, it's a S it's a momentum circle. And again, anybody you talk to any, any growth person, anybody that does mindset stuff, they're going to have the same thing. Cause it's, they, they explained the law maybe a little bit differently, but it's still a law. It's still the only way to get from point. If I look at any successful person in the world, I don't care if it's in athletics. I don't care if it's in business. I don't care what it is. I can see that thinking big, you know, the model in every single one of them, without a doubt, you can't have it any other way.
Tina Marie (19:37):
So the beliefs that you shifted, if we go back to those beliefs, what did you take? Your limiting belief and one 80 it over into a belief that sustained you. What was that framework inside of your own mind?
Sean (19:49):
And we talked about a little bit. Part of it was, uh, acting as if so I went from being the high school dropout, uh, the person that, uh, you know, that didn't really know much didn't do much to literally within five years, I was in boardrooms with big real estate and investment, investment dries, like trust bond people, uh, angel funds. I was literally in rooms of billionaires, millionaires and billionaires saying, this is what you need to do. I had so much faith in what I was doing. So I transitioned my mindset from, I can't do anything to, I know what the hell I'm doing. I know what I'm doing is going to work and come hell or high water. It's going to happen. There, there is no stopping. It, it, it, there is no, maybe there is no, it is, it is absolutely a hundred percent going to happen.
Tina Marie (20:43):
I love that. I love that. I can feel the energy of it. Complete difference drain to Rainmaker. It sounds like, Oh yeah. Which is amazing. And you're saying every single person has this ability to transform their beliefs. And you also are tapping into the utilization of the imagination so they can see themselves in this place. What do you, what would you say to the people that go, I don't know what I want. I hear this so much. I don't know what I want. I don't have that visionary faculty to imagine what advice and wisdom would you have to that mindset?
Sean (21:17):
That's, that's part of the, you know, the first step is you have to get clarity on what it is you want, and there's tons of tools out there. There's tons of ways to do that, but you absolutely have to get clarity on what you want. And I think everyone knows what they want. They might not know how to get it. So there's tools like seven layers, deep that there's a lot of tools you can do to start diving in and getting clarity on what it is you want. I absolutely think everybody knows exactly what they do, what they want to do. They just don't know how to drill down and how to get to that precise thing. But if you're going to be successful at whatever it is, you have to have a very extremely clear picture on what it is you want. And when you want it, you have to have that. Otherwise you're not going to, you're not going to get it. You know, it's like building, it's like building a house. If you don't know exactly the house you want to build, and you don't have a timeline to get it built, it's never going to go anywhere. And that's, you know, that's, one-on-one, I mean, you have to have clarity on what it is that you want.
Tina Marie (22:21):
There's this place in the Texas Hill country that I visit two to three times a year, and it's a windy road to go down to this one particular bed and breakfast is on Lake Buchanan. And there's this house that's being built. And literally for the last 10 years, I've been seeing this house being built. It's not finished, it's being built. And then at the same time, just two years ago, another parcel of land was sold. And the developer, the person who owned that land came in and he built his house in less than six months. It's a beautiful, beautiful Lake house with a beautiful pier, beautiful drive done. And his family has been enjoying it. So when you send this, I had that visual of this house that's been being built, being built and everybody around it is like, you know, like when are they going to finally finish? And that sounds like those limiting beliefs that we could listen to the story of our mind of not ever reaching it. It's going to be too much work. It's not going to happen for me. You know, other people get there, but not me. And we keep trying and trying and trying yet. We never get there. Is that a good analogy of what you're saying?
Sean (23:36):
Yeah, absolutely. And it goes deeper. So if you, if you, I, again, I, everyone has the idea that thoughts are things and thoughts become and you know, everybody. Yeah. Tons of people teach on that. And that is true to the extent that what controls your thoughts, thoughts, aren't the start of things. It's your beliefs. So your beliefs drive your thoughts, which drive, you know, your growth and so forth. But if you change, so if your belief system has you at this level, you're not even going to be consciously aware of thoughts outside of that area. You know, as an example, let's go back to health. Cause everyone everyone's been through health stuff and that everyone wants to lose weight and stuff or get in shape, right. Get in shape, whatever it is. If you have a belief, if your belief has you add, you know, a couch potato that doesn't do anything, you're not even going to have the ideas to let's go start running five miles.
Sean (24:35):
Let's still go start running three miles. Let's go, sir, you don't, you don't even have that consciously aware thoughts. So yet thoughts do, do create the things. But if your belief system is, is at a much different level, you're not going to be aware of those thoughts. And, and one of the things, yeah. One of the things that I talk about is, especially for, you know, for guys, if we go buy a new car, all of a sudden we see that same car everywhere, right? It, people talk about this and it's same for women with clothes, with whatever it is. It's the same thing. Once you get it, once you become consciously aware, then you start seeing all those other things, your conscious mind is blocking out 99% of what you see. So if your belief system is down here, you're not naming it and be aware of these other thoughts to grow. So as you increase your beliefs, yeah. Now you increase your capabilities of thinking and using your imagination.
Tina Marie (25:34):
Um, so I've heard the term fake it until you make it. And that sounds like the imagination usage. However, I've also worked or known people that want to live a lifestyle or live something, and they simply sit there and they imagine it, or they simply sit there and talk about it yet. They're not taking the action steps to actually make changes happen. Um, what would you say to the people that, that will this new change? There's, there's other things that once they imagine it, there's going to be something that's coming through them that they need to take out.
Sean (26:09):
Yeah. You have to take action. If you, I want you to take your, you know, your wantless down to the bank and see what happens. They're gonna, they're gonna laugh at you thinking about it. Doesn't do anything. You have to mix it with. You know, you have to mix it with persistence. You have to mix it with the, you know, with the desire to get it done. And you absolutely. I mean, and that's what drives action is when you, when you do that, you drive action in which then again, increases your beliefs, which then allows you to think bigger things and imagine bigger things. Which so it's a vicious, vicious circle, but yeah, you absolutely have to take the action thoughts, thoughts by themselves, or just energy, nothing but nothing but energy, uh, that buy you nothing. They get you nothing.
Tina Marie (26:47):
I love it. You're, you're, you're talking to our souls here. Uh, you know, there's a part of that that resonates in each one of us that we know we're here for bigger things, no matter how much we've succeeded. I mean, you've got multi-million dollar firms and you want more, you know, you're contributing to others because of where you been and what you now know so that you can share so other people can learn and grow with you. And I noticed that behind you, you have a think and grow rich 14 day challenge. Would you mind sharing us sharing with us what that's about and how we can participate?
Sean (27:21):
Oh, absolutely. So I, I absolutely love to give back. And here's the thing it's from where I've been. The thing that probably hurts me more than anything is to see people that are stuck and they don't know how to get out. I was absolutely there. So I, I, I felt it. I know it I've been there. So part of the 14 day challenge is this is a free thing for you to go to. And it doesn't matter if you've ever read, think and grow rich or not. It absolutely has nothing to, it obviously has something to think and grow rich, but you don't have to know the book. You don't have to read the book. Uh, you don't have to understand the book. It goes there's 14 days every day. There's a video for that particular chapter, whether it's on desire, fade auto suggestion, all the, all the different steps within think and grow rich.
Sean (28:07):
And then there is a challenge that I developed each day. So a tool each day to help drive in that particular step within, uh, within thinking or rich, because here's the thing think and grow rich is another, it just, it does the law. It's the law of success. Same as, as thinking big, it's the same thing. I do it a little bit differently, but it's all the same, you know, all the same thing. And I, you know, speaking of think and grow rich, I think one of the biggest misconceptions of that book is that it's about money. It has nothing to do with money.
Tina Marie (28:39):
Yeah. I love this book. My, my, my dad gave me a copy of the book when I was about 10 years old and, uh, treasured, you know, copy and you're right. So speak to that. What is it really about inside of those wonderful pages?
Sean (28:55):
It is thinker, which is about being successful. And again, I don't care if it's in your health and your relationship, you know, so I've been able to, I wish I would have got this book a lot sooner. I, and again, you don't have to have think or rich to, to be successful. He just documented what 500 of the most successful people did. And it's just a roadmap to get you there so that I've taken 20 years. You can do it in, you know, two months and learn, you know, learn what I had to learn in 20 years. Uh, but it is a way to become successful. And again, I don't care if it's in relationships, if it's in, in health, anybody who's been successful at any of those things that you want. I guarantee you can lay what they did a map of what they did over think and grow rich. And it, every time they had the desire to do what it was they wanted to do, you know, they had the bait that they could do. It. That's the bleep system. They had the faith that they could do it. They were persistent. They never stopped. They use their imagination to think of how could they do things different than someone else? How could I make, you know, something better? How can I use my imagination to do something, to get to my goal? So it doesn't matter what it is.
Tina Marie (30:07):
I love it. I love it. And it is a wonderful framework for absolutely any growth we want to have in our life. You know, one of your mentors of mine as well. Um, his name is Tony Robbins and I was at one of my first live events. I took date with destiny. I went out of order. I took at first and didn't do the UPW walk on fire first. So I'm there at date with destiny, and they're all saying, make your move. And I had no clue what they're talking about, but I was like, okay, I'll make one up. Um, but he, this one quote, stuck with me and became, uh, a way of being like a mantra and understanding. It was like a light bulb moment for me. And it was that success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. And so many times there's our, I say our younger mind wants this level of success and we reach it or we go and we gain that thing or that status or that house, or that car, that degree or that relationship. And we think in our minds that, Hey, I've got it. And that success is there, but the missing pieces is something that's truly what our soul is desiring the whole time, which is fulfillment. Could we speak toward your understanding? Cause you help your clients reach this level fulfillment. Yes. We're in thinking grow rich and yes, you're thinking big, you're thinking big has so many wonderful components to it. And it does encompass this know the knowing of fulfillment. So take us into that, knowing Sean's words around fulfillment.
Sean (31:38):
So the way I like to look at that is I am absolutely grateful for everything I have. I am so thankful. I ha I have my wife. I have my kids. I am thankful for everything I have. I am not satisfied with what I have. There is a big difference between being satisfied, where you are and being grateful for what you have. I will never be satisfied, never in a day. Will I be satisfied where I'm at? Because if the way I look at it is the second I become satisfied where I'm at. I ceased to grow. I ceased to move forward. I ceased to get any bigger. So I've never, and I know some people will hear that and say, how can you not be satisfied where you were at? And again, satisfied and grateful are two distinctly different things. And I will never ever be satisfied if I'm doing this, it's not good enough.
Sean (32:30):
I've got to do it again. I've got to do it better. I've got to do it more. I've got to w to me, we always have to grow. We always have to push. And the second I'm you, the second you become satisfied. You stop, you stop growing. And actually, you know, a lot of my clients are people who have been successful and you know, they're in success and they're stuck. That's what I'm saying. Being stuck absolutely sucks. It doesn't care if you're a CEO of a company, but once they became satisfied with where they were, they made their, they got the nice car. They got the nice house. They got the, and they became satisfied. And the second you become satisfied, you become stagnant. You become unhappy. You become, we have to have that constant. It's not perfection. We got to have that constant growth.
Sean (33:15):
That's to me, that's, what's fulfilling is continually getting better and seeing progress. So when I get, when I have progress in something, that's when I'm fulfilled, that's when I'm, when I'm developing something new. That's when I get so excited and I'm, you know, I'm ready to share and I'm ready. You know? So that's what it's about. It has nothing to do with the monetary things. It truly doesn't. Those are nice to haves, but, and that actually goes back. So part of what happened in the story is after I made my first couple of million dollars off my company, I lost everything. Everything in the stock market all went to nothing. Zero. I still couldn't be happier. I couldn't be happier. People say, didn't that bug you I'm like, no, I don't give a. I had nothing before I have nothing again. And I'm still gonna grow. I'm still going to go back. I'm gonna still do the same thing.
Tina Marie (34:08):
You knew the law. Yeah. You knew the success formula.
Sean (34:13):
And, and here's the thing. The success formula works both ways positive and negative. And you know, you everyone's heard the saying the rich get richer, the poor get poor, the happy, get happier, the sad get more depressed. It's all a, uh, momentum loop. And that's part of the beliefs is, is it's a momentum loop. So yeah. I could care less that I lost all that money. Yeah. Oh, well time to do it again. Time to grow some more.
Tina Marie (34:37):
I love your attitude. I love your way of being. It's just infectious in a positive way, which is awesome. Thank you so much. So what would you share with the people that are listening that in their own vulnerability and more than likely the story inside of their mind that they're not letting other people hear or see that they're, they're battling, right. They're battling inside their own mind with these belief systems that you're hinting toward and waking them up about and saying, let's have the courage to take a look at these. What would you share for them to move from that less than version of themselves that feel stuck, stagnant stalemate into the next version of themselves that next season?
Sean (35:19):
Oh, there's so many ways that I could answer that question. And one of the things that pops up is, again, I didn't tell my story for years and years and years, and I was stuck in that mindset. I absolutely robbed the world of information by not telling it people when they don't tell their story, you are, think of it this way. You are stealing from someone else's growth by you not sharing what you went through. You are absolutely stealing someone's ability to grow because your story, what you went through, you can absolutely help someone else do the same thing. Yeah.
Tina Marie (35:57):
Oh, that's so beautiful. I just, we could sit here all day and share. It's awesome. I love where we're, where we're sharing today for everyone to understand how to start thinking big. Right. So let's talk about your framework. Let's talk about your way to connect with Sean. How do they find you? How do they reach out to you? What do you have as gifts for them? We've already talked about the thinking grow rich 14 day challenge. I can download and start today. Um, and what are the next steps that they would take with you as their coach?
Sean (36:32):
Well, the, the first thing is, yeah, follow me on the podcast. You know, I talk about this type of stuff on thinking big podcast, uh, and, and absolutely go do that challenge. Here's the thing it's, it's free now. I originally did it for 40. So when I first came up with that challenge, I did it for $40, but everybody that took the challenge, if they, if they made it through, I took all 40 in fed for feeding America. So everybody actual, everybody who did that challenge when I originally did it, a hundred percent of those funds went to feeding America because everybody did, they completed all steps of the challenge and all that money went to feeding America. And then I put it out here for, uh, for free. And again, I don't care where you are in your life, in your journey. You can absolutely get something out of that challenge.
Sean (37:18):
Uh, every one of those, uh, challenges for each, uh, each step will help you grow, help. You understand? And I think one of the most beautiful things about think and grow rich is that is one book that meets you where you're at. I don't care if you're a sticks in your old high school dropout. I don't care if you're a CEO, it will meet you where you're at. And it makes sense to you where you're at. So that's one of, that's why it's stood the test of time. That's, you know, been out over 80 years because it meets people where they are. So that challenge take it. I guarantee if you do it, you will get at least one nugget that will help you get to your, uh, get your goal. Same with the podcast. And then I do, um, you know, my coaching. Uh, so I do one-on-one coaching, uh, where I take people. So my coaching takes them through the big model, you know, from beliefs to imagination, to growth and, and create that momentum loop because here's the thing it's, uh, success builds success. And that's exactly what the bleep that's exactly what it is. Is success is building a building success.
Tina Marie (38:24):
Yeah. And being around success, true success. Yes. All success. Those people. I love that. You said that it's not being satisfied. I understand that I'll, I'll probably be satisfied for just like, take a breath and take it in. But it is that gratitude instead, it's appreciation for where we've been and where we are, and it's gratitude for what we have and what we can affect. And whenever we have that, that knowing inside of ourselves, it wants to grow. It's not, it's not that we're not, you know, I get the not satisfied it's at that life itself inside of us has this need to continue to grow and is growing through us. So we don't want to squash that out. I work with a doctor once and, um, he told me, he said, I've reached a level of success. I can literally go out. Cause I asked him, I said, what would make you happy?
Tina Marie (39:11):
What's the next level of happy for you? You had a great family, awesome kids, amazing practice. And he said, I don't know, really. I feel like I've reached every vision that I had whenever I came out of med school to do I've done it. And he said, the truth to you is I can go buy an $85,000 Austin, Martin today. I could just go pay cash. I could, you know, travel to the, with the Hemali is I could go to the ends of the earth. He said, I have all that. I have the friends, I have the support network. I have it. I don't know what my next place is. And I said, I asked him, I said, just sit with it. It sounds like you're forcing this to be an answer. Why not sit with it and get curious about it and allow it to speak to you as opposed to you speak to it.
Tina Marie (40:03):
And, um, he did, he went off on his own inner journey and placed silent time in his day. Instead of a lot of busy time. I know you do this as well. And what came forward is he said, I'm now being called that I'm going to take everything that I've done and how I've built my business. And I'm going to have this spread across the nation. And he has, he's now installed village family practice. He's now village medical. And he has consortium's, he's a major consortium helping all these doctors. And it is now gone from Texas all the way through Texas to Arkansas, Oklahoma. And now it's going up and it's in Louisiana and it's continuing to grow and he's using his success model to help others. So I know this is part of what the big framework is. It's taking who we are and what we are. And that's exactly what you do, Sean, is that you're taking who you are, where you've been, what you've learned and you're affecting the lives of many now. Yeah.
Sean (41:00):
And I think you said something that, uh, is very important. You know, I think meditation and reflection is probably one of the most important things that we can do because that's, to me, that's when the universe answers back to our questions, we can ask, you know, people have people don't, I believe that people don't have their own ideas. They become aware of ideas from, from the universe. And what most people do is if they don't meditate or they don't. And I don't care, even when I'm driving in essence, I'm meditating because I'll get ideas. And here's the thing when we get ideas. So when your doctor print, I guarantee he had that idea before that. But what most of us do when we get these ideas, these, these, this is our genius from the universe. When we get, when we tap into infinite intelligence and we get these ideas, we normally say, ah, that'll never work.
Sean (41:49):
And we dismiss it. And by meditating and actually trying to listen to what is being told to us, you know, that's when we get to our great ideas, that's when we, that's, when we tap into, you know, infinite intelligence, that's when we get that's, when we grow, that's when we use our imagination is when we, when we sit down, we have that quiet time and we start listening to, and we, and we pay attention when we get the w when we get the sound that says, Hey, you need to go do this, or you need to call this person and just say, yeah, as, as I like to, some people can get that with a feather. I normally need the two by four across the pace to before I understand it.
Tina Marie (42:28):
Yeah. The older we get, we start listening to the feathers, right.
Sean (42:36):
I've learned from the two by four.
Tina Marie (42:37):
I know. I love it. So thank you so much for your time today, Sean, it's been an amazing journey to hear your journey and to grow from that and to learn from that. And I know that you've shifted the beliefs of the people listening and led them to a curious place where they want to learn more. So everyone, please go to thinking big coaching.com, sign up for the thinking grow rich 14 day challenge with Shawn, sign up for his podcast, make that one of your favorites and do yourself a beautiful gift is increasing who you are in this world so that you can become more, to serve more, contribute more and feel more. Thank you, Sean.
Sean (43:16):
Well, thank you so much, Dana. Marie, it's been such a pleasure being on your we've been trying to do this for a while, so I'm so glad we were able to so glad we were able to do this. So thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Tina Marie (43:31):
That was so energizing. I have takeaways that will help my life, and I'm sure you do too. To get shownotes bonuses gifts for you from our guests and more head over to light your life podcast.com and be sure to bookmark this podcast is one of your favorites. I am Tina Marie St. Cyr, founder of bonfire, coaching and creator of the bonfire method. Thank you so much for being connected. Now, my homework for you summon the courage to let your life a little more and go make progress on your dreams today.
