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October 28 2017

Power of Gratitude

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Date: October 23, 2017 Name: Power of Gratitude Presenters: Julian DeSchutter and Jaxon Howell The power of gratitude impacts many successful entrepreneurs. Moreover, the practice of gratitude has been proven to improve the mindsets of successful entrepreneurs. ManTalks invites Julian DeSchutter, the Co-Founder of Chasing Sunrise, and Jaxon Howell, the Founder of Nakedwood, to discuss how gratitude leads their life to have greater abundance, happiness and fulfillment. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will understand how gratitude can impact personal relationships. All presenters will share how they create the balance of health and well-being through their entrepreneur’s journeys. The Founder of ManTalks, Conner Beaton, wants all entrepreneurs to be inspired by the power of gratitude. People are facing challenges for gratitude. Many people have been a part of unwillingness space, but not everyone is aware of it. Sometimes people are giving the meaning to the wrong thing. People are carrying the responsibilities with meaning that is meaningful to them, which makes the purpose of life. Beaton wants entrepreneurs to focus on 5 main questions.

What moment in life is grateful?
What challenge moment that is grateful?
What do they avoid being grateful for?
Who is one person they are grateful for?
What moment in life that they will not set themselves free?

Interview with Julian DeSchutter Julian DeSchutter is the Co-Founder of Chasing Sunrise. He is a designer and author of life. His life work of creating companies, charities, projects, culture and communities have directed him to his life goal. He has founded Passage Labs, Passage Give, Hello Sandbox, Operation BundleUp, and Status New. He is also the Consultant for Investor Relations & Market Analysis. Moreover, his passion has connected many entrepreneurs and has helped many entrepreneurs chase their ultimate dreams. In November 2013, DeSchutter had the “over promise, under deliver” moment that defined his life direction. He changed his life by redefine his power of choice. He realized for the past 27 years of his life, he had a bright road with no abundance; however, things were starting to fall apart. He launched his company, but he was always constantly fighting what he knew that was mattered versus what was really matter the most. The reason that helps him get up every morning is the people who are surrounded in his life. He loves engaging moments. His believes what is right for him. Deep down, he is committed to his long life goal. DeSchutter realizes the current generation is conflict. It is important to deflect the voice from outside and trust the moment from within. The moment people give him the energy, it helps him get back on track of his life journey. In his perspective, there is no good or bad choice; in fact, the key is self-awareness and not looking from outside perspective. When there is a struggle, DeSchutter will remember 4 lessons he learned from his past.

Contradict of what he will do
Surround people who are good at what they are doing
Trust them that they are better
Put himself into “go for it” mode

DeSchutter believes when entrepreneurs use their lens to look through the world, they will find what they need to do naturally and the conversation usually follows. They know what they need to do, so they need to pay attention to those moments. These moments make up of purpose. A simple question entrepreneurs can ask themselves is “what are you grateful of?”. By putting themselves in the future self and have the tough question, they will discover their inner meaning of life. “Willingness to face what life throw at you” To maintain gratitude, DeSchutter will look for moments and feel the moment. People are not wired to be grateful, yet they are wired to survive. By having the moment of forgiveness, they can connect the feeling that matters. It is difficult to change and there will be struggle to implement. People will always have reasons. Therefore, DeSchutter wants entrepreneurs to create the habit and look for positivity first. Remember, it is not a checkbox, and they need to feel for it. They need to be aligned with their generous mentality. Gratitude is everywhere. Entrepreneurs will question themselves if they are on the right path. They should try to find a place that appreciate what goes on in their life. They need to trust the life ahead and not what other people say. People need to be accountable. They are not alone and they do not need to be alone. DeSchutter believes the key to build the right community is to first see difference of “look at” and “seen who you are”. The community should help people get real of who they really are when they show up. It should create the right space to have the right relationship. Entrepreneurs need to have the ownership of what is important to them. DeSchutter puts happiness in the equation of Chasing Sunrise. People are looking for huge things, but in reality, it is those small things or simple ways that count. Therefore, DeSchutter wants everyone to enjoy the experience. Technology can take people’s time away, but it is up to the individual to take back the ownership of what they really want in life. DeSchutter emphasizes it is impossible to ask technology to slow down, so utilize it to connect what matters the most in life. “The more open I am, the more people I discover that they are the same”

Journey of Jaxon Jaxon Howell is the Founder of Nakedwood. He is also a professional lifestyle photographer. Many entrepreneurs refer him as a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur. His work is alive and has inspired many of his clients. His passion connects people around the world and his life experience has shaped him to a lovable person today. Howell grew up in Ontario. When he was a kid, his family religion impacted his life significantly. His religion created his limitation and restriction. He never celebrated holidays and any of life achievements. He eventually developed built and shame. In the age of 21, he followed him the path that his religion had created. He married a woman that he was not passionately loved. However, he thought he was obligated to be on the chosen path. He felt trapped, but he could not do anything since in his religion, divorce was a sin. At the age of 24, he ended his marriage and disfellowship his religion. After the decision, his parents had never talked to him ever again for over 14 years. Howell mentions his second relationship was bad. He got a divorce at the age of 31. He felt unloved and felt like a huge failure. The guilt and the same overwhelmed his life. He was completely lost. He began to chase after money, but in reality, there was no fulfillment. He felt empty and alone. Until one day, he got caught for trafficking drugs. This could put him for over 10-15 years in jail. He was scared and he felt out of control. He could not sleep for the first night and the next 2 weeks felt like 2 months. During his time in jail, Howell got real with himself. He dug deep in everything happened in his life. He realized he was taking the easy way out. He started to read, journal, and make list what he wanted for the rest of his life. He thought about who he wanted to be. In those moment in jail, Howell chose to look at this moment as gift. After he got out of jail, Howell started to enjoy everything about life. He was grateful of his first marriage because it made him to see what insight he wanted to be. He followed his gut feeling and learned to love over fear. His put his energy into friendship. He made the distinction that his religion he grew up with was not aligned with who he really was. He is not grateful to people who help him: the freedom, the small things in life, and the ability to communicate at easy level. Howell believes the biggest lesson he learned is patient and gratitude. Howell shares his gratitude practice to all entrepreneurs.

5 things that entrepreneurs feel that they are grateful for
Make the effort to tell others how grateful they really are
Be grateful of the small things in life that others take for granted

Howell wants entrepreneurs to remember that the next time they are alone, remember who they want to be in life “The more gratitude you give, the more you see how your life really is”

February 4 2017

ManTalks – Goal Setting for 2017

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Date: January 30, 2017

Name: ManTalks – Goal Setting for 2017

Presenters: Jonas Caruana, Dante Luciani, Francis Piche

Many entrepreneurs are taught to set large goals; however, they tend to forget about the pre-game of goal setting. ManTalks invites Jonas Caruana, the Aussie Athlete, Dante Luciani, the Coach of Vancouver College, and Francis Piche, the Host of Resilience Element Show, the discuss about their perspective of goal setting. Each presenter will share their strategy to maintain goals. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will learn their unique methods and apply to their business and personal lives. Entrepreneurs will discover the pre-game of goal setting can be a huge factor in the long run.

The Founder of ManTalks, Connor Beaton, believes learning requires information and emotion. There is no secret sauce to achieve goals; however, sometimes the pre-game of goal setting is what matters the most. Sometimes people see others’ success as “easy life”. Unfortunately, they do not know what they been through. “Easy life” is just a perspective.

“Pre-game is what shows your true ability, not in the game”

“The truth behind the door is different than you think”

Story of Jonas Caruana

Jonas Caruana is an Aussie Athlete. He is currently training his first Ironman triathlon and breaking the record of swimming 3,800 meters in less of 3,800 seconds. For the past 12 years, Jonas Caruana helped many business owners with their financial. This included working in Lululemon athletica as Strategy Project Manager and Educator. Moreover, he was also the Co-Founder of Training Mobs.

In his 20’s, he worked at a big consulting company in Lindon. He was dealing with a horrible client, who frustrated him for a year. One day, he went to the gym and discovered his mind was blink. He lost touch of everything that meant for him. He realized he needs a change. He asked for help from people who could help him discover where he is in his life. He met a mentor. His mentor gave him 2 important life exercises that changed his life around.

The mentor asked Caruana to document anything that inspired him from his childhood memory. The list could be on-going. Afterwards, Caruana needed to document what inspired him at the current moment. These could be the experiences that touched him. After he completed these two lists, he stored it in a secret place.

After a while, he opened up these two lists and read it. Caruana discovered some common inspiration from these two lists. He saw 7 common inspirations and called it “7 clouds”.

Family
Fitness
Travel
Sustainability
Technology
Design
Entrepreneurship

“How to evaluate the goodness?”

Caruana believes everything he accomplishes connects to these clouds. When he takes on new opportunities, he connects them with his clouds. The process makes him think he is not crazy; in fact, it connects with things that are important to his life.

“Align your goals, it will stick”

Sometimes entrepreneurs will forget about their goals. It happens because when they set those up, they do not live up to it. Caruana suggests some tips to help entrepreneurs keep their goals align.

The first tip is smartphone lock screen. Entrepreneurs can set their specific goals on their iPhone lock screen. Every time they look at their smartphone screen, it reminds them the goals. The second tip is the inside of medicine cabinet door. Entrepreneurs can place a calendar and highlight the days to show progress. The third tip is on the fridge. Caruana suggests entrepreneurs to stick their tactical goals on their fridge. The forth tip is the back of the front door. This is used for personal goals.

Caruana believes entrepreneurs are living in distract time. Instead of trying to solve it, work with it. When entrepreneurs have the habit of creating positive reminder, it will highjack their attention and pull towards their desire goals.

Story of Dante Luciani

Dante Luciani calls himself “Delusional Optimist”. His energy level creates positive influence to people around him. He is a coach at Vancouver College. Many of his students are inspired with his teaching methods, which is foster a healthy and positive lifestyle. Dante Luciani was a Personal Trainer at HIPFIT Studio and a teacher at Halton Catholic District School Board and Collegio San Carlo. Aside from work, he trains as a competitive triathlete.

Delusional optimize works well for Luciani. He learned his principles from his parents. When he was young, he learned the importance of self-talk. He was taught to be ok to dream big. His parents believe in him, which helped him strive his goals.

Luciani will share this valuable advice “The 5B” that he got from his mother.

The first B: Breath in

Entrepreneurs are often influenced and inspired by people around them. The people who they listen to or follow can make a difference. Luciani believes it is important to recognize the environment. Luciani experienced people who told him to quit, but he surrounded himself with people who encouraged him to continue. It makes a difference.

The second B: Believe it

Whenever entrepreneurs think if they are correct or not, they are always right. The brain is like a computer. Imagination thought is like a file in a computer. The most important question Luciani wants to ask entrepreneurs is what files are they taking in, create, alter, or delete. The key is that where mind goes, the body goes.

“I do not just believe it, I decide it”

The third B: Behave it

Luciani believes in self-fulfilling prophecy. The positive feedback between belief and behavior can impact entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need to create positive loop with actions. Instead of asking for autographs, Luciani will ask leaders for advice on how to get to where they are. This gives them the permission to dream big, which also gives them the confidence.

“To create belief, follow belief”

The fourth B: Become it

Luciani emphasizes setting goals is a part of improvement. When entrepreneurs take their vision to career, it is the road trip that see the growth. It is important to look for a way to test potential.

The fifth B: Breath it to other

Entrepreneurs need to share it to others. This starts the cycle for someone else. Sharing the lessons entrepreneurs learn can create positive impact for others. Be grateful for it.

Story of Francis Piche

Francis Piche is the Founder and the Host of Resilience Element Show. He inspires many young people with his passion and message. In addition, he interviews many high-end professionals on his show to help young people discover their passion. Francis Piche is also a realtor at Century 21 in Town Realty. He was Volunteer Facilitator for Canadian Cancer Society; moreover, he volunteers as Ambassador at Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Francis Piche creates the term “Resilience Element” to help entrepreneurs reactive their passion.

Piche always have big goals. In grade 8, he wanted to go to camp, but he must sell 10 calendars. He managed to sell them all by door knocking selling technique. His passion of wanting to go was so high, he went back and sell more calendars. He was happy. He was resilient because he had the passion. The burning fire inside him was creating the drive.

Piche believes the foundation is to connect with heart.

After university, he had a choice of working for his father’s friend or go for international company. He chose to go for money. He went to the industry he did not like and he felt like “4 years in jail”.

Piche believes when entrepreneurs do not follow their heart, there will be consequences. He mentions he almost jeopardize his relationship because he did not follow his heart. When entrepreneurs are happy in their lives, they must connect their hearts. They need to give that gift to the world.

Piche will share his 5 components to reactive passion

The first component is clarity. Some people think too much small goals instead of big goals. Piche suggests entrepreneurs to try to do nothing for 3 days. In that 3 days, they need to avoid all distractions. They need to think of these 3 days as life or death situation. They will discover what they need to do with limited amount of time they have.

The second component is conviction. In order to make goals work, entrepreneurs have to believe. If entrepreneurs are having hard time figure out their purpose, Piche suggests them to

to look at themselves at the next 5 years. Entrepreneurs will discover they can do many things in 5 years. The life they want is fill with love and passion.

The third component is certainty. When entrepreneurs see themselves 5 years from now, they will see the detail, breakthrough, or experience that are important to them. Now they know the results, and it is up to entrepreneurs to create their path to achieve those outcomes.

The forth component is commitment. The key is to do it every day. No matter how many obstacles, they need to look forward. There is no excuse. Piche believes it is like retire saving plan, where entrepreneurs do not see it for a while. Dreams can be big, but commitment should be in small increments, which can create momentum.

The fifth component is courage. Entrepreneurs will hit the wall someday. This is growth. They need focus. They can ask people to be accountable for them. The important thing is to elevate the positive energy to crush these obstacles with courage.

The goals entrepreneurs set can be achieved by resilience element.

“What elements you need to get that goal?”

October 29 2016

ManTalks – Mindset and the power of mentors

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Date: October 24, 2016

Name: ManTalks – Mindset and the power of mentors

Presenters: Kevin Shaw, Daniel Fox, and Graham Young

Many successful leaders believe mentorship can be the only barrier between success and failure; moreover, mentors provide leaders the right mindset for growth and success. ManTalks invites Kevin Shaw, the Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at Renaissance Group, Daniel Fox, the Founder of WILD, and Graham Young, the Disruptive Performance Strategist of Graham Young Strategies, to discuss their journey of finding their meaningful mindset and the right mentorship. In this presentation, all presenters will share their experience on how they battle their obstacles and how they find their fulfillment.

Connor Beaton, the Founder of ManTalks, believes everyone has two different kind of mindsets: fixed and growth. Each mindset has their unique ways to pursue challenges, obstacles, effort, criticism, and success of others. It is up to leaders to discover their way to growth mindset with the help of mentorship.

The journey of Kevin Shaw

Kevin Shaw is the Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at Renaissance Group. He is also the co-Founder of Whisky Wisemen, and the board member of Hong Kong Canada Business Association. In 2010, he won Ken Shields Community Achievement Award from Canada West Basketball Association. Moreover, in 2014, Kevin Shaw achieved the NOTABLE.CA best Not for Profit Award. His success come from great mindset, discipline and determination.

Kevin Shaw shares many people look at situations with negative outlook; however, successful leaders look at situations in different view. Mindset is a choice and it is a decision to change.

Shaw shares his childhood experience. He grew up as a regular kid in the average household. His parents taught him a valuable lesson: the principle of commitment. Shaw never missed any class at school because he was afraid he will upset his mother’s expectation. Shaw attended basketball practice every day after school until his mother gave him his first job.

“If you do not show up, you will let your friends down and yourself down”

Basketball was his whole life. At the age of 13, he wanted to focus on basketball and set the goal for scholarship in university. He met his mentor, Glent, and he showed him what it takes to build and work for dream.

“A candle loses no flame to light another”

Shaw believes mentor is somebody who has others’ interest in mind. Furthermore, mentee must be coachable. In grade 12, Shaw had 2 signing offers: full scholarship in Capilano College, and partial scholarship in Simon Fraser University. He took the university offer because his mentor inspired him to realize his true meaning of his goals.

Shaw indicates there are 3 things he always follows in his life: goals, commitment, and beliefs. By combining these 3 words, it summarizes his definition of mindset. He believes belief is something leaders must earn and it correlates to leader’s confidence.

In the age of 25, Shaw came across a crossroad in his life. He had the vision to cycle across the country. His movement was towards the Movember Charity. He created the group “Mo ride Canada” and cycled along with 2 of his friends across Canada. It was not easy for Shaw and there were many obstacles. The right mindset can shape leaders. With the strong mindset, he pushed his body to the limit and accomplish the vision. This ride motivated Shaw more than his daily routine life. He managed to raise $160,000.

Shaw suggests leaders to set small goals to give them positivity. They need to set large goals because mentors will always be there for them. They also need to continue their goals with determination and discipline.

“To live in an unreasonable mindset, to not let the reason not to do something, be the reason that you don’t”

The journey of Daniel Fox

Daniel Fox is the CEO of Daniel Fox SEA. He is also the Founder of WILD. Many leaders know him as “The Explorer”. His love of nature inspires many young leaders. His photography and writing touch many leaders’ souls through the world of natural world. He participates The Wild Image Project that focuses on relationship with environment. Moreover, he continues to help young leaders to discover their connection with nature.

Daniel Fox shares the memory of his childhood was vague. There was no emotional memory in his childhood and he defines his childhood as the theme of loneness. Fox moved a lot when he was young. At the age of 12, he already moved over ten times. Every time he moved, he had to leave everything, including friendship. However, he found peace in nature.

Nature was the world of silent. It made him comfort and it was the value of his life. It helped him understand how to live in this planet. Nature is Fox’s mentor.

Fox was born in Quebec and he had the childhood dream of going with the whales out to the sea. During his university years, he wanted to become Marine Biologist; however, he went for business in Toronto instead. The change of path took him to a different route. He then moved to New York when he decided to leave his childhood dream behind. He tried to fit in and tried every job he could apply. However, his heart contained an artist and the studio was the nature.

He reassessed everything and the theme of loneness was still within him. He decided to drop everything and go back to nature. He brought a camera and travelled down south. Since he never done this before, he encountered many obstacles, including the tragic of losing his life.

He reassessed everything again. He had no idea what he wanted to do, but he knew going back was not the option. He decided to travel to Patagonia to explore the wild life. It brought him back from unhappiness and he search his life passion.

“Nature is the reason for what I do”

Fox has the passion to create photos and write. He often goes out and meet his mentor. He knows it is important to be vulnerable and learn what is offer. Fox believes mentor is an experienced and trusted advisor. Mentor can help leaders take stress out and lead them to peace. Mentor guides them towards exit when they are stuck. Moreover, mentor stands by them during their epic failures.

Fox believes mindset is the habits of mind formed by previous experience. Mindset helps leaders to remain humble and it teaches them reciprocity. Vulnerability is the key to find leaders’ light. Tension is the pulse of life. In nature, there is no good, bad or judgement. Leaders never know up until they know down. Life is messy; we learn through failures.

Fox started a group called “WILD” to help people to reconnect through nature.

“Just go for it; stop thinking you need to fix the system”

“Look up to remind a connection that is important to us”

The journey of Graham Young

Graham Young is the Performance Consultant, Coach and the speaker of Graham Young Strategies. He is also the Founder of Disruptive Performance and he was a director in the organization called “Contributing to the Lives of Inner City Kids”. He focuses on brain performance and his work show many organizations how brain performance can impact employee engagement, productivity and sales. Graham Young inspires many young leaders. His speech motivates many young business professionals to achieve their next level of success.

Graham Young shares a memory from his childhood. When he was 13, he found out his parents were getting a divorce. Young mentions people have different perspectives and experience. In reality, they cope their problems in similar ways. They solve things in very similar ways; in fact, they are very similar regardless the differences.

Young provides a list that many leaders are going through in their life journey.

Worry too much
Fear failure or rejection
Bad at making decision
Perfection
People pleaser
Never satisfied
Disorganized or lacking control

All these on the list comes from the past. When Young questions himself if he blamed for his parents’ divorce, he believes he could have done something to prevent it. When he was young, he already knew their parents’ change of tone. Their conversation changed. However, Young developed or coped something that started to create anxiety. It made him not to let go. He wanted to be normal, yet he was trying to gain control of things he did not understand.

Family is number 1 as kids. In fact, when facing problems, they tend to create other problems to avoid the bigger problem. It is a way to protect family as kid. When Young knew his parents were getting divorce, he felt he was a failure. He felt he was not good enough to keep his family together.

Young mentions everyone has his or her own coping mechanism. People worry about everything. People fear things, and people feel dissatisfied. When there are negative things in life, people’s brains want to reject those feelings. Brain wants to protect, so it forces them to control everything. When mind starts to think they are not good enough, it triggers the statement of thinking if they do not do something, they will lead to failure. Young believes this explains the reason why he became an impulsive note taker to avoid pain when he was a kid. When people are busy all the time, they end up being overwhelmed and fail at everything. People want to become independent because they want to in control of their environment. People have the fear of talking because they are afraid of being judge.

In order to change those negative thoughts, Young suggests leaders to start small and build their way up. For example, Young went to Starbucks to lead a random conversation to force him out of comfort zone. Young also force himself to do toast at his friends’ parties.

Often time, mentorship is a common advice in this generation. Leaders do not do that because they believe they are strong enough to do things by themselves. They do not ask for help. Young suggests leaders not to let their subconscious mind take their control. Young suggests leaders do not intentionally ask for mentor. Leaders can reach out over coffee. They should show their willingness to learn. Naturally, they will become their mentors. Moreover, leaders need to show relationship first.

Young also suggests leaders to stop thinking they are not good enough. They first need to understand there is a linkage between past and present. The beliefs formed a long time ago and those beliefs affect the mistake they are making in the future. Leaders need to reset the rules and change their definition of success. That is how successful leaders make powerful mindset.

October 11 2016

ManTalks – Rebuild

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Date: September 26, 2016

Name: ManTalks – Rebuild

Presenters: Jan Kasparec, Taylor Smith, Kelly Jablonski

There are moments when leaders feel they are broken down in their lives. Moreover, these individuals need to overcome the odds, battled failure and defeat. ManTalks invites Jan Kasparec, the Visual Artist in Vancouver, Taylor Smith, the co-Founder of Chasing Sunrise, and Kelly Jablonski, the CEO of Ultimate Skateboard Distributors, to discuss their life experience from bottom to top. Many leaders could not find the answer and they are stuck in survival mode. These leaders will show their vulnerability in this presentation to inspire people their valuable life lessons. This is a conversation everyone is looking for.

“The more you look into it, it appears not a problem after all”

“Until you are broken, you do not know what you made of”

Life journey from Jan Kasparec

Jan Kasparec was born in Czech Republic. He started to explore painting in 2004 and discovered his art talent. He opened his studio to the public showcase in 2012. His paintings inspire many young local artists and he is a mentor to many young talents in Vancouver.

Kasparec is good at art because his art creates abundance of what he loves in life. However, he discovered this life mission later in life. When Kasparec was young, he loved adventure. He describes his personality as “the baddest boy in school”. He had the burning love in nature and art. Kasparec had a dream of saving the Amazon when he was a kid.

Things started to change when he experienced a life incident that made him hatred. The hatred forced him to get revenged, so he began to lift weights and became the leader of a guys. The dark side made him fight every day. He thought he had no fear, but in fact, fear was all he had.

In the age of 17, he got arrested. He sworn to his mother he would change. People hunted him down and labeled him as traitor. He unleashed once again; however, this time he was sentenced to prison. He escaped to France without looking back.

Within the next 5 years, Kasparec faced many deaths. There was no shoulder to cry on. He could not go back home because he was listed as wanted criminal. He ego became pain. Finally, he hit rock bottom in military.

Kasparec discovered the true meaning of struggle when he had the opportunity to visit Africa in military. He cried and remembered his childhood. He worked his way up and got his life back until he was wiped out from the criminal status.

Kasparec realized his limits were further than he expected, and the pain could be dropped if shame and ego were gone. He decided to attend university. In the age of 28, Kasparec took a vacation to Argentina. He shifted his life style and discovered he needed to find himself once again. He travelled for 2 years and finally stopped at Vancouver. He believed he could rebuild his life in Vancouver.

Kasparec shares he stopped caring about title. He is full time as artists and has the passion to work hard in the field of art. After 3 years in Vancouver, he burned all his saving and started to ask himself an important fundamental question: “should I still paint?”.

The joy from art gave Kasparec the realization that he should continue. His vision of feeling positive from people starts to burn. His income and social media start to go up. He is now focus on creation.

“When I tap into joy, external stuff goes away”

Kasparec paints for people to have the feeling of who they really are. Kasparec wants leaders to remember that art is also a language that can touch people’s core. Kasparec only wants to become who he wants to be. Without discipline, leaders will not go anywhere. The power in mind is the only enemy leaders have and nothing can break down leaders when they discover the wisdom of love.

Life journey from Taylor Smith

Taylor Smith is the co-Founder of Chasing Sunrise. He has the ability to help people to push their body and mind to their limits. He creates a community that supports many leaders to chase what they desire and want. In addition, he is also the Project Coordinator for Brymark Installations Group.

Taylor Smith is the oldest of 4 in the family. He had a typical childhood and played sports all his life. He joined a Water Polo team and involved in many activities in his school years. He felt he was set and everything in life was going good.

In 2007, he got T-boned from a car accident. There was a pain in his back that changed his life. The doctor diagnosed he had 2 injured discs in his back. He quickly started the physio to recover the incident.

He went to Victoria for post-secondary education. His life started to fell apart. He failed everything and felt he was a failure to everyone. The emotional pain made him unwilling to attend classes and he began to start drinking. Smith moved back home after the first year of college. He could not know what he needed to do. He started to work and regained his passion of life back.

He moved back to Victoria again to complete his education, but he was still living in the life of lies. When people started to notice, he hid and retreat. He could not let others know he was down.

In 2010, Smith escaped to Calgary to start fresh. He started over and began to return to Water Polo. However, he felt the emptiness in his life from the wall he built. In 2012, he chose to end his life. He could not admit his failure, so he drove back and reconnected with his mother. He let all out to his mother. He started to feel the pain from the crack he could not repair once again. With the encouragement, he finally tackled the problem by going to therapy. He then tackled his stress.

He returned to work and found the thrive with purpose. He looked at himself in the mirror and began to tackle one by one. He regained his confidence by going to gym. The energy kept him going and he started to fill his calendar with activities. He felt he is in control in his life because he stripped things down and rebuild with the true meaning of why.

Smith hit the restart button in his life and now he lives every moment. He is now knowing who he is and he is grateful of everything.

Smith suggests leaders to get out there and live. Do things they want. He found the Chasing Sunrise to help people define life by figuring out what they want to do.

“It is ok to be broken or fail”

“Where you going in life, it is ok to succeed or fail. We can all rebuild”

Journey of Kelly Jablonski

Kelly Jablonski is the CEO of Ultimate Skateboard Distributors. He is also the Founder of Just Giver 4PD Cycling Club. Kelly Jablonski was also the Board of Director for International Association of Skateboard Companies for over 3 years. He was the recipient for 2010 Business in Vancouver Forty under 40. Moreover, his experience and journey inspire many new cycling members.

Kelly Jablonski shares a life experience that changed his life in 2011. He was on his way to Mexico until there was an oil patch leaking out of engine. The plane was forced to do emergency landing and that 15 minutes changed Jablonski’s life.

Jablonski was a boxer. He took up the interest of becoming a skateboard professional when he met his idol. He also went into motor cross racing. In the eyes of Jablonski, everything seems to go under control. In 2000, he broke his vertebrae and he needed to rebuilt his life. He wanted a change. He transitioned his career to cycling and founded 4PD Cycling Club. He believed big things start with small ideas. The charity raised over $315,000 with many priceless photo memories.

“Money is great, but awareness is priceless”

In 2011, Jablonski was the recipient of Business in Vancouver Forty under 40 award. He continued to cycle and create awareness. He signed up for the Schwalbe Tour and stepped into the plane to Mexico. The plane had an incident and it was forced to land.

In that 15 minutes, Jablonski shares he felt calm at first until the last 315 feet. He was scared. The plane hit the ground at 192 Kilometer per hour. He felt the flame burning in the plane, he thought he was about to die and everything was over. He was rescued by firefighters. The plane was crashed 2 Kilometer away from his home.

Jablonski had spinal surgery. His lung was burned and he could not speak. He managed to stand up after 4 days, but all his ribs on his left side were broken. With friends’ support, he was able to leave the hospital.

The recovery was painful. It was not easy for Jablonski to get back in shape. He weight was down to 130 pounds. He visited the remaining of plane crash and felt emotional.

In March of that year, he could ride his bike. He started to keep track everything. He would not let the past to be his present condition. He signed up a race in Europe for 7 days. He rode for 900 Km. Instead of competing, he stopped and enjoyed the ride. The experience was incredible.

“You can get support, but you have to do all the heavy lifting first”

“Do not quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as champion”

Jablonski mentions the plane crash killed 2 pilots. Without them, he would not survive. The accident did not change the course of Jablonski’s life; instead, it is the course of his life.

Leaders must remember the future is now. Time waits for nobody. Age wrinkles the body, but quitting winkles the soul. Things do not define leaders, only experience can define leaders. The difference leaders make and the experience they create for others will never take away from them.

Jablonski wants leaders to ask themselves a simple question: “what is your purpose?”

July 9 2016

ManTalks – Pro athletes and overcoming adversity

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Date: June 27, 2016

Name: ManTalks – Pro athletes and overcoming adversity

Presenters: Rob Friend, Shea Emry, and Manny Malhotra

Every successful leader will face uncertain adversity in their career lives. Moreover, when they overcome their obstacles, they will be on their way to the road of success in their respective industries. ManTalks invites Rob Friend, the former Major League Soccer player, Shea Emry, the all star middle linebacker in Canadian Football League, and Manny Malhotra, a Canadian professional ice hockey player, to discuss how they deal with adversity at the top peak of their athlete career. In this presentation, They will share their milestones of their journey and how they overcome fears. Leaders will learn the concepts and mindsets behind these successful athletes and transition to their business careers.

When things get bigger, leaders will face more stress. What makes up adversity is not the big things, it is the combination of all little things in life. Leaders need to step up and move forward. Leaders need to figure out what get in their ways. The question every leader needs to think about this main question.

“What centre you when you face adversity”

Journey of Rob Friend

Rob Friend, the former MLS player, started his athlete journey in Canada and moved to Europe playing for Moss Fotballklubb in Norway, Borussia, Monchengladbach. Later his career, he advanced to Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy. After his retirement, he started a foundation to support athletes who have retired and help them to start new career life.

Friend mentions when he was young, he was an average kid who loved to play all kind of sports. In his town, the odd of being a professional player was low. As a farm kid, Friend was grateful for every opportunity he had.

Friend took the path of being a professional soccer player because of a childhood incident. When he was 7 years old, he got injured from playing hockey. His mother forced him to stop playing hockey, so Friend decided to pursue soccer. In the age of 15, he felt stiff on his body. The doctor told him he was diagnosed with neuromuscular disease. Friend did not know what will happen to him. He got depressed at first, but he battled it by shifting his mindset. He wanted to be heathy again.

When Friend reformed his mindset, he started to take care of his body at highest level. The change of focus and started to take necessary steps. His career rise. During that phase of his life, there were only two things in his career: work harder and train harder. Friend wanted to be better than anyone else on the team. It was exhausted, but Friend never gave up.

Mentality is important. The injury made him think differently. When he met players who are young than him, two questions came to his mind.

How can I be better than them?
How can I beat them?

Both questions led to one answer, which is work harder than them. When he started to train to make up the missing time, he realized he is going up the ladder.

From outside, it is easy for people to criticize athletes. Friend states the result of game is a small percentage of work and majority is training. Friend believes athletes are always on 24-7. Stress and pressure come from 75,000 people who are on every action athlete makes. To overcome that, athletes must have thick skin.

Leaders need to learn to brush things off when pressure comes. Leader need to learn how to perform high performance on pressure. Friend emphasizes the best thing he had is his family. After a bad game, family will comfort his pressure. Friend realizes it is not just the sport.

“Expect having family will be stressful, but I am glad they are there”

During his peak, Friend’s mindset shifted to Finance, which led him to stress. Friend started to chase money because every action he had revolved around money decision. It killed his career. Chasing money was his biggest mistake in his career.

“As athlete, there is many voice going around”

Friend focuses on the value of family, health and career. He loves making money on the sport he loved in front of his fan. When 70,000 fans chanting, his life changes.

When he realized he had the opportunity to play the best league of the world, he took it. At the end, it did not turn out as he expected, but the memory was the best. The concussion took his career away. It was a dark time for Friend and he knew it was time to shut down. He felt he lost his identity overnight. Everything crumbled down on him.

Friend started a program for athletes to overcome these fears.

Friend suggests leaders not to put too much pressure on their kids. They must be rounded because each event is only a chapter of life. Leaders need to ensure that they are putting effort every single moment in their lives every day.

“Hard work every single night, success will come”

Journey of Shea Emry

Shea Emry is the All-star Middle Linebacker in the Canadian Football League. After his retirement from his injury, he founded the organization called “Wellmen” to help men to find their balance lifestyle. Emry also launched a fully mobile Axe Throwing Axe-perience called “Thrown”.

Many leaders refer to Shea Emry as the “Handsome Devil”. Emry was born in Richmond and played sports all his life. He had a wonderful childhood where he had many opportunity to succeed in life. Until one day, he realized he was not as great as he thought.

Emry pursued his dream of becoming professional football player. Emry mentions he had been wearing a mask. Everyone has adversity every time, and as a football player, he faced adversity every moment of his career. Adversity led him to depression, and he needed to take alcohol to relieve himself. He was not happy at all.

When he transitioned back home and tried for Canadian Football League, his career launched sky rocked. Later in his career, he got concussion and football had been taken away from his life. Emry knew he needed a change, so he started to read books and tried yoga.

Emry mentions during that moment, the only thing he needed was to talk to the right people. He realized it was easy to hide these emotions behind the football mask; until the stress appeared in his career, he needed to survive. Emry shares in his childhood, he was abused. It terrified him and it turned up his red flags when he was surrounded with people in the room. The question in his mind was “who is going to betraying and who got my back?”.

Emry managed to confront his trauma experience and it gave him the clarity of where he was going. Emry felt gifted by 4 important elements in his life.

Good looking
Good at football
Physical condition
Embrace the diversity

These 4 elements reframed his identify.

“When football was taken away from me, I started to see everything”

Emry found someone he could look up to and took him to a process. It was courage he learned from his journey and he was now able to share his story on stage. He was able to be real and became who he really was in life.

Emry believes how leaders show up in life will take away the adversity. He was given the gift of trauma, but now it became something he could share to people.

Emry reveals his hatchet. The hatchet is a symbol to cut the past and move forward. It is also the symbol for him to detach the limited beliefs in life. The company “Wellmen” is a place for men to find their voice. Many people could not do that because of their limited belief.

“When you put everything out there and take risk, you will succeed”

Journey of Manny Malhotra

Manny Malhotra is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with many major NHL teams, such as Montreal Canadians, Carolina Hurricanes, Vancouver Canucks, San Jose Sharks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars and the New York Rangers. He also participated in AHL with the Lake Erie Monsters.

Manny Malhotra grew up in a Canadian household. In the age of 4, the only sport he knew was soccer, but he wanted to play hockey. His family was supportive and there was zero pressure from parents with his decision. His parents will only ask 2 questions after every practice.

Are you hungry?
Did you have fun?

Malhotra grew up in multicultural environment. He never saw colour was a problem and never though he was different. Until a couple games outside of his hometown, he started to notice some “N” words. These moments triggered Malhotra to a question of “Am I belong here?”. Because of his family support, he overcame the fear.

“When someone told me I cannot do something, it triggers me. You dare me to play now”

Malhotra mentions even though hockey was his dream, he wanted to be a professional soccer player. Eventually, he needed to make a decision. Being a Canadian, hockey was the top of his list. He attended the training camp when he was 16 years old and for the first time he felt he was playing with men’s league. He realized he was one step away of making to NHL. It made him focus even more.

“Without proper guidance, it can deter your path”

“I have to focus to craft my own path”

Malhotra shares a childhood memory. His family had a strict rules. His parents requested him to finish homework before any sports activities. Because of the rules, he learned that he needed to keep things in line with any distraction. If he is off track, he knows his family will remind him to go back on track.

Every team Malhotra played was grateful moments in his hockey career. Columbus Blue Jackets was the birth of his career. During that stage of his career, he felt isolation. It was a wakeup call for Malhotra because it was the moment he realized his dream would be dead if there was no change. He started to work on 3 things in his career.

Refocus
Diet
Training

After Columbus Blue Jackets, he got traded to San Jose Sharks. It was a winning team for Malhotra. He continued the same routine: train, play, and train again. When he got drafted to Vancouver Canucks, the team took him to the next level. The culture of Vancouver Canucks took care of players’ families, so players could focus on the game. Malhotra loved playing with Canucks because of family culture value.

From start of his career, he got his play time. As his career continued, the play time got smaller. After getting trade and putted on wavier list, he started to think it was a wake up call.

During 2011, Malhotra was injured from puck in the eye. The doctor said he could not play anymore. It was a dark time for Malhotra. If it was not for his family support, he could not make it.

He needed to focus on recovering. He had faith he will be back, but it would take him step by step. He changed his mindset by shifting “I want to play” to “I have to play”. With his determination, his career went up to another level.

“If you think you can or you can’t, you are right”

“I do not care who says, I am going to do it anyways”

Malhotra thinks as parents, they should not put limits on kids. Whenever obstacles occur, Malhotra wants leaders to think about these 2 questions.

Who is holding you back?
What is stopping you from going forward?

“If you want to do it, go do it and go after it”

June 5 2016

ManTalks – Building your brotherhood

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Date: May 20, 2016

Name: ManTalks – Building your brotherhood

Presenter: Stephen Mansfield

Many young male leaders are experiencing society barriers that prevent them to achieve greatness. They need to find their “brotherhood” because the current society is fading the true meaning of “brotherhood” away from the world of men. ManTalks invites Stephen Mansfield, the author of “Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men”, to discuss the evolution of brotherhood in the current society. Brotherhood provides truthful relationship and unconditional support for men. In this presentation, Stephen Mansfield will provide his insight and perspective on brotherhood. Moreover, this presentation will enlighten young male leaders. Female leaders will also explore the sensitive part of men that will drive their success to the next level.

Stephen Mansfield, a New York Times bestselling author, inspires many men around the world. He released the book, “Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men” that helps men to reclaim their true manhood. His book, “The Miracle of the Kurds” made a stand against the evils of ISIS in the Middle East. Stephen Mansfield is also a motivational speaker who is featured on many media, such as FOX and CNN. In addition, he speaks on leadership, the lessons of history, and faith that support leaders in different industries.

Stephen Mansfield shares his turning point story. He was once stuck at Damascus dessert hotel. He met an old man at the rooftop party. They could not speak the same language, but they were able to connect with the word “son”. The old man announced Mansfield a new nickname and gave him a celebration of being a father. The next day, Mansfield felt different because it was his first time that he was welcomed in the stage of manhood.

Mansfield states many young men, including him, do not learn manhood when they are young. Furthermore, there is never a heritage of manhood pass down.

The Damascus event changed Mansfield’s life. He started to study about manhood and he realized the topic of manhood is broad. However, he discovered there is no confirmation of navigate manhood in this generation. Mansfield knew there were many books about manhood, but the question is, is it useful for men?

Mansfield believes there is a guerrilla theory of man. Traditionally, men were needed for building. The society needed men back then. However, the current society left out the navigation, and it causes men to decline in any measure. Men could not fit in this society and women were breaking the glass ceiling. There is a problem, but men do not admit. Many people assume it was women who took away from men, but the study shows it was not. Mansfield believes the global problem of this change from men has to do with no mentoring of manhood.

The world is not giving what men want. When Mansfield interviews men, he senses fear. They do not know what to do because there is no pass down from their father.

“We are waiting for solution, but we need to know we can fix it together”

Mansfield believes there are 2 goals.

Men need to build a manly culture with proper culture
Bring the boys in

Men need to come together and commit. They must have a common goal. They also need to initiate the boys. Many boys are traumatized because they do not have manhood. The statistic shows women are ahead in high school, but men will catch up in college. Therefore, men need to build manhood to protect.

When his son was 13 years old, he wanted to test his manhood by doing danger actions on a guy. The guy was going to arrest him for his actions. His son and the whole family were freaked out. However, Mansfield and the guy laughed at the end. Mansfield laughed because he knew in the age of 12, every man would lose their mind on something. They, as men, understand what was going on because it was a part of phase that every man will go through. Mansfield shares that men need to walk along with boys. However, not everyone has that opportunity. This causes many misunderstanding for men in this society.

Men in this society need to change their lives because no one is walking with them. Mansfield wants men to know that men should not wait for anyone; in fact, they are the one who can change this.

Building the band of brothers

Mansfield suggests the idea of building the band of brothers. A ban of brothers is a band of man that is noble to manhood. In this society, most men walk alone and most men do not have good friend. Because of this, they feel there is a list of things they need to do alone.

The band of brothers is a way to help men to build or help each other so they do not walk alone. Men need other men’s perspectives. Many men do not see themselves internally and they do not see themselves well enough. Men need men around them that are not afraid to say anything. Mansfield describes it as “free fire zone”.

Free fire zone is a place where men have no excuse to hurt each other; instead, they just help each other. The band of brother helps create men’s movement, which leads to accountability.

“We sometime hide things, so we need men that are close and tell us the truth”

Mansfield mentions an incident happened to his group. One day, a closed brother was cheating on his wife. The band of brothers sits together and forced him to commit to change. His wife did not trust him anymore, but she trusted the band. She trusted them that they could change him and fix him. Therefore, he was not walking alone.

Mansfield emphasizes the band of brother is not a study group; in fact, it is just men who want to be support each other. In sports, men do not ask permission to coach each other. They understand each other. Mansfield believes if it works with sports, why not do the same in manhood to help men to become a better man.

There is a need of peer mentoring for most men. They like to figure out what man’s life really is. There is about 50% suicide rate for men in this society. This is all because of loneliness. The suicide rate for men is rising and they need other men to kick down the door and get away the feeling of pushy. Men are too polite in this world and the reality is that nobody cares about it. Men should learn to do their best when they are in the environment of manhood. Men need to know the damage and start to connect and watch out for each other.

Based on a study, the effort on boy who has a biological father that teach him manhood and boy who has other men watch out for him is the same. Men need to move manhood into the culture.

Questions and Answers

Mansfield mentions it is easy to explain manhood in church because they have the same common definition of manhood. However, it could be hard because some churches still have traditional boundary. This can be narrow and this is main reason why Mansfield hardly hosts his event in church. He usually hosts in bar because it sends the message the audience that it is different than church. Mansfield believes manhood is wildly defined than what is in church.

Mansfield mentions many father do not teach their son to shave because their father did not teach them either. Teaching other how to shave can be the first step of manhood for most boys. Mansfield calls this “indirect relationship”. Men should pour all the resources together and start teaching.

“It is the ‘doing’ that provides the connection”

Mansfield will spend some time after his talk in school to teach boys at school the value and respect of manhood. Many schools are inspired with this idea and they made it as a necessary school curriculum.

There are other programs, such as Big Brother system, that offer the same concept. Mansfield wants men to be careful. Mansfield suggests men to start a network with people they know.

The biggest change in manhood that impact on men is the ability to manage. The damage can heal and the loneliness will dissolve. Men will become healthier and rounded.

Mansfield believes men cannot be the best man of all by doing it alone. This is the truth that most men think it is false.

Mother plays a strong role in manhood. When boys are young, they are closed to mother. However, there is a transition to father. Mother will still need to encourage their kids to be involved in manhood.

April 17 2016

ManTalks – School of Greatness

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Date: April 9, 2016

Name: ManTalks – School of Greatness

Presenters: Connor Beaton, Ryan Holmes, and Lewis Howes

All leaders have their own definition of the word “Greatness” in their life journey. Moreover, leaders who are able to live a life of greatness are the true visionaries everyone should look upon. ManTalks invites Connor Beaton, the Founder of ManTalks, Ryan Holmes, the Founder of Hootsuite, and Lewis Howes, the lifestyle entrepreneur and the author of “The School of Greatness”, to share their experiences and challenges that lead to their life of greatness. The presentation is hosted by Riaz Meghji. In this presentation, leaders will learn the value of different perspectives. All presenters will inspire leaders with their stories. In addition, this presentation is for leaders who are on their ways to search for their life purpose and legacy they wish to leave this world with.

The story of Connor Beaton

Connor Beaton mentions the idea behind ManTalks is to create a space for positive masculinity. It focuses on creating quality of personal life. Based on statistic, the suicide rate for men over 45 years has increased over 60%. This means men are 4 times more likely to suicide. Another statistic Beaton mentions is that 50% of men do not have a true best friend in their lives. ManTalks is a place for men to have great conversation.

Many people think greatness is a checklist. They believe by completing the checklist, they will be able to lead extraordinary life. However, Beaton disagrees. In order to achieve greatness, people need to know who they want to be first.

“If you want a great life, it is not what you get, it is what you give”

People need to ignite their passion and give freely to the world. Everyone has the gift of seeing what people want. For example, Richard Branson has provided a great working environment for his team. One day, one of his VP decided to leave. The reason of leaving was to give more to the world. Richard Branson understood the reason and created “Virgin Unite Charity Foundation” to give back to the world.

“Start thinking about giving, it is a purpose”

It is important for people to figure out their life purpose. Purpose can lead people to the right direction. Purpose can understand the inner self and the purpose can fuel people’s lives. Beaton shares his past. Before he got accepted in University of British Columbia, he was lost. He felt there was no meaning in life. Drinking and motorcycling were his form of escape of reality.

He got himself into street racing. It was illegal, but every time when he accelerated, he was able to unleash himself away from his life. He was living in this lifestyle day by day. When he realized he was about to leave everything behind, his body was torn.

Beaton remembers a day that changed everything. He was street racing in a pouring raining. When he was accelerating, he got hit by a jeep. Everything started to slow down and he saw the fear in the driver’s eyes. The bike slid and had a road rash. He got injured and unconscious. When he woke up, he popped back his shoulder. He stopped. He realized he was terrified in new chapter of life. Now he survived and he began to realize he is here for something. He continued to follow the passion and continued to move forward.

“We have deep scar inside, but we choose not to let others to know”

Beaton believes passion and purpose go hand in hand. Passion and purpose are the steps to greatness. Many people have the fear of not being good enough. There are 3 types of fear: lose, process and outcome. For leaders, the biggest fear is outcome. They are afraid the outcome is not what they expect to be. Beaton illustrates another example. When Jim Carrey was 15, he already had standup session, but he got bombed. He continued his passion and wrote a cheque for himself that he would cash this cheque one day. He never gave up on pursuing his passion. Finally, he was able to cash that cheque. However, he is now pursing money. He lost his original passion and afraid to lose what he had built.

Beaton shares during one of the mastermind session, he spoke to a person who worked with kids. This person shared with Beaton his map to change his life. Beaton asked him what is stopping him. He replied that he does not have the right tool. Reality is, he did not believe in himself the map will lead to what he wanted. Leaders need a compass. Compass is their guts. When they are off course, they need a compass to get back on track. Wisdom is different than knowledge. Leaders might have the knowledge, but wisdom takes them to success.

“Success without fulfillment is failure”

Beaton believes busyness is a choice. Busyness is a sign of success in society, but it is also an excuse. Leaders can commit to their excuses or they can commit to their dreams; however, they cannot commit to both. People do not judge what leaders say, yet they judge them by action. Talents can lead leaders to a destination, but determination can lead leaders to the end.

Beaton wants leaders to protect their most important asset, which is their health. Researchers conducted an experiment on a group of Navy Seals Snippers. With 8 hours of sleep, they maintained good accuracy. When researchers reduced their hours of sleep to 5 hours, their accuracy decreased. Researchers noticed they have 0.01 blood alcohol level when they have less than 5 hours of sleep.

To achieve greatness, people need to let go something, especially their wired belief. Beaton considers this as the art of letting go. Leaders are often have “sunk cost bias”, which means they tend to hold on something because they have it. Leaders associate more on things they already have. It is important to know that leaders can measure what they lost, but they cannot measure what they gain. Leaders need to build their tribe by letting go people who are weighting them down. Beaton indicates greatness might not able to have all the right answers in life, but it can have all the right questions in life.

Questions and Answers

Beaton believes the best way for leaders to build their tribe is to present their vision of way to the society. Building the community was a breakthrough moment for Beaton. It is like a “hockey stick moment”, where things can exponentially increases. The most important thing is to deliver the right message to the community.

Beaton notices sometime leaders will fail because they think too much. They need to be conscious on the impact of their lives. Many leaders forget to schedule themselves in their plan. To make the right choice, leaders need to believe in their strength of their internal compass. Keep everything simple. Reflection is leader’s best friend.

The story of Ryan Holmes

There are good hustle and bad hustle. Nevertheless, Ryan Holmes believes as long as leaders understand the core value of their hustle, they will direct themselves to the right hustle. Everyone is busy and it is easy to use that as excuse. Holmes wants leaders to be conscious on it and learn to say “no”.

Holmes creates Hootsuite because he wanted to create the space for entrepreneurs to fight affordability. Holmes defines greatness is passion. What gests Holmes passion is “legacy”. He sees the future of technology and he wants to build 10 more Hootsuite around the world. Holmes continued to pursue his passion. He built a hub for entrepreneurs and a place for entrepreneurs to learn how to build business. He saw many people go out and started their startups.

Holmes believes the element of any good pitch is the person. Holmes is able to sense if the person has what it takes to smash through any walls. He looks for problem solvers who will deal with the wall. Size and opportunity are also important element in good pitch. He believes ideas can grow.

“Entrepreneur first, idea second”

Holmes talks about the market that is currently underserved is Artificial Intelligence. He foresees the world of opportunity in Artificial Intelligence. Holmes mentions leaders get to learn so much more by owning small business. They get to know little bit of everything. Eventually, they will discover things they do not like and they will find the team to balance it out. The evolution of things leaders do is constantly changing.

Holmes shares the 3 core values for entrepreneurs to strive in business. The first core value is hustle. The second core value is passion, and the third core value is communication. Holmes wants leaders to remember to hustle with good reason, do not let passion run out and easy to start small but harder as it gets bigger.

One of the business failures Holmes experienced was managing people. In average, leaders can only manage 10 people max. As business increases to 100 or more, Holmes needs to build another layer of management. It requires new skill set on every layer. Holmes witnessed many great people in the team have decided to depart separate ways. However, Holmes gets to bring new talent to the team.

When it comes to distinguish many talent people, Holmes looks for culture fit. Leaders need to understand their sparks and patient and discover who they really are. The deal breaker is poor feedback from other companies. Therefore, leaders need to be persistent. At the end of every interview, Holmes will ask what he can do for others. Holmes looks for people with proactive attitude to strive and curiosity. In leadership, Holmes wants the best people in his team. In addition, he would still want to bring growth internally.

Holmes comments that Facebook Live is a unique tool to have because everyone has a television broadcast. Holmes still believes content is more relevant. He will try to find deep articles.

The biggest mistake people make online is to do the wrong action at the wrong time. The humor element is important, but good content can take care itself. Holmes hopes people would stop sharing dark and politics exposure. People should spend more investment on education.

To control emotion in business, Holmes will balance it with outdoor sports. In Holmes’ perspective, it is good to do things on the edge because it makes leaders think about the moment and forget everything else. It is great for people to step out and talk about social media. Smart people will attract the right tools to make their time wise. However, social media can disconnect the face to face conversation. Holmes believes this can be a detox even though social media can still have huge benefit.

To build the tribe, Holmes suggests leaders to find the balance from different skill set on partners. Leaders need to provide the right culture and excitement. It is never the case to motivate on money.

The story of Lewis Howes

Lewis Howes is the Founder of the school of greatness. He looks for way to achieve win-win for the audience. He shares his story of chasing fame that leads to his greatness.

In his young age, Howes always have the passion to become a famous guy in America. He told his father he would be a famous athlete, and his father encouraged him to chase his dream. In his school year, he got bullied. He was skinny and weak and people made fun of him, which made him feel pain, anger and frustration. Howes started to believe he was not good enough.

Every horrible moment in school was building up the message of “not good enough” for Howes. He was always at the bottom company with the school peers. He felt challenged, but he continued to chase his dream to prove others they are wrong. This fuel was powerful and it accelerated him to achieve everything. After he achieved his dream, he still felt angry and frustrated. He asked himself, “Why am I not fulfilled?”

He managed to play in national football league, but he was not satisfied. Until one day, his dream shattered. He was able to stand up and get everything back, but the feeling of “not good enough” still remained. He could not figure out what was missing.

Until these recent years, Howes realized he was doing it for the wrong reason. With the help from external source, he discovered the inner pain when he was a kid. He created the belief system to protect himself when he was young, which was a form of escape.

Many leaders chase money to become the king of wealth, but importantly, Howes wants to become the king of heart. Howes starts to realize his purpose has changed to how to make others feel.

Howes shares another past story. When he was playing basketball one day and he got the anger out. He blew up and destroyed the other player physically. It woke him up. He was terrified and he ran home like a coward. He looked himself at the mirror and asked, “Who am I? And why am I doing this?”. Before the realization, the thing driving him forward was holding him back. After the realization, the thing gave him the most pain had given him the most freedom.

Howes believes the secret to achieve greatness is generosity. Leaders need to be generous with their heart and generous with a smile. They will never know what kind of connection they will have with a smile on their face.

Howes wants the audience to do a staring exercise. Everyone will need to find a partner and start each other for 60 seconds. Afterwards, everyone will have the chance to talk about how they feel, what is their biggest lesson and what commit them to move forward. The purpose of the staring exercise is to give generosity with the most basic form of communication.

January 31 2016

Growing the wealth you want

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Date: January 25, 2016

Name: Growing the wealth you want

Presenters: Jason Butcher, Chris Biasutti, and Dan Harrison

Many entrepreneurs tend to believe wealth is direct related to money. However, they tend to not realize the true wealth will also focus on relationship, experience and freedom. Mantalks invites Jason Butcher, the Founder of Kickstart Business Catalyst, Chris Biasutti, the Managing Partner of Bluewater Investments, and Dan Harrison, the coach and Financial Strategist in FS Financial, to share their personal experience with their true wealth relationship. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will understand how true wealth can influence people’s perspective. Moreover, they will discover how to attract their wealth to achieve their financial freedom. The purpose of this event is to help entrepreneurs to discover ways to generate abundance in their journey.

“Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure”

Journey of Jason Butcher

It was not easy for Jason Butcher to discover his true wealth in his life journey. Butcher was living in fear when he was young. In the age of 5, the memory of his sister screaming terrified his childhood of not trusting anyone. He moved in with his mother after his parents got divorced. His life was in a bad shape.

Butcher explains in the age of 12, he needed to protect his sister. He stole a bike for food, but got beat up by his mother. He sought attention from violence because he did not want to be alone. Butcher shares he would sleep by a neighbor tree just to feel a bit closer like a family. During his teenager’s age, he did what he needs to survive. He filled his life with work because he felt work was the only way to connect until he lost his immune system from overwork. The employment insurance supported him to attend design course for further education. He asked his uncle to be his business partner, but failed again.

Butcher was unable to face himself anymore. He started to avoid everything in his life. He tried to work in car sales, but end up unfulfilled and dissatisfied. The car sales leaded to another business opportunity, but failed miserable. Later he found out he got his girlfriend pregnant. However, they relationship started to go apart, which lead him to depression once again. He started another company, but he tied in with too many bad people. He was selling his soul thinking they are his friends.

Pressure had pushed Butcher to a point where he could not handle anymore. Butcher says during that moment, he was not true to himself and he needed help. He attended a course that frees his mind without the distraction of technology. He was not love the one who he was and money was not the answer. When he discovered he has no attachment with money, he spent everything he had and started a new business called “Kickstart Business Catalyst”, a place for startups to support and make their ideas to dream.

Butcher believes everything he did before was fear, such as the fear of being alone, the fear of having friendship, fear of love, fear of commitment, and fear of supportive. By opening himself to being love can help him fully committed to what he do. Butcher discovers his true wealth to love himself again.

Journey of Chris Biasutti

When Chris Biasutti was a kid, his idea of freedom was to become a fighter pilot. In school, Biasutti had hard time making friends. When his mother told everyone that Biasutti would buy her a Porsche after Biasutti made his first million, his mind was wired with money pressure. Every decision he made was tied in with his mother’s statement.

During Biasutti’s college years, he was trying to figure out what he wanted to do. He studied history and pursued his post-secondary education in University of British Columbia. Nevertheless, the dream of fighter pilot was gone.

In the university, he discovered all his friends were doing well in Finance. His mother’s statement triggered and he wanted to pursue money as well. He believed his purpose of life was making money. After attending wealth workshop, he created his first vision board with 10 million dollars as his goal. After 5 years, he applied his knowledge and started to make his wealth in real estate. He was achieving his goals in his vision board.

There was only one problem. He felt miserable. He sabotaged everything but making money. He kept going because money to him was the direction of happiness. He felt insecure and depressed. He would pay other people money to make him happy. Later, he was invited to be a speaker at a conference called “One Last Talk”. When he was put on the spot, he could not able to say anything. He felt so ashamed to pretend to live the life he was in. He was literally killing himself slowly and He knew he was not fine. He began to cry.

“Never go to your mind unsupervised”

Biasutti began to realize he was pretending to be someone else. He needed to be honest to himself. Biasutti explains he needed to listen to his intuition. He clarified his why with his girlfriend. He was miserable because he was craving love and connection, but in order to have love, he needed to let go.

Biasutti believes wealth is to measure how much people can give to the world. The true wealth is to follow the true intuition. Biasutti emphasizes his life contains the purpose of helping other to discover their why. Moreover, the real question Biasutti wants to ask entrepreneurs is what is controlling them. By having real conversations with friends, entrepreneurs will be able to inspire others with their true wealth.

Journey of Dan Harrison

Being the person today from all life experience and the learning from different perspective in life, Dan Harrison is grateful to people who come in to his life. He would like to share his three moments of true wealth.

The first moment was when he discovered he exists. Exist is the perspective and foundation of wealth. In 2008, Harrison was in debt. He did not know how money works. After attending many seminars and reading different business books, he learned how conscious mind can influence people in the mind of wealth. He also discovered how the past has formed his paradigm. Relationship was his greatest growth and money was his greatest master. While working as financial consultant, his bank account was in deficit. Every time when he hit a plateau, he would repeat his decoration of wealth over and over again to regain his control in his thinking.

Until one day he lost everything, his life was falling apart. Everything he hoped for was not aligned with his mind. Harrison explains a new ways of thinking had released his mind. He moved to different city and started to work in FS Financial. He found a pattern from entrepreneurs. The pattern of “If I have money, I will be happy”. As these entrepreneurs moved forward, they were still trapped in the same position. They were not changing even if they wanted to

The second moment was when he was addicted to drugs, alcohol, and gambling. Harrison emphasizes guilt, shame and pretending were overwhelming his life. Later, he found 2 empowerment habits.

Reading
Meditation

Harrison fell in love with reading. He even started a book club to help accountable to a group of remarkable human beings that has different perspective. When he was meditating, his value shifted from hiding and escaping to learning and engaging. There was not time for him to continue his addiction.

The shift changed Harrison’s life. He got rid of everything and started to recognize in life to live align with values and integrity to be simple and organize.

“I value purpose, purpose to help people”

Harrison recommends a mobile application called Mint. It helps entrepreneurs to display their dashboard of their value system. It can discover their true self and it can start to shift their finance based on different values.

The last moment was a discovery to change the world. There is a muscle every entrepreneurs need to develop. It needs commitment because it provides creativity and empathy to the world. The muscle is called the charity of give.

Harrison is thankful to have this model in his life. His mentor believes in him and resonates his values. When culture puts in charitable spirit, it grows. For the last 4 years, Harrison is happy to be in this culture.

Questions and Answers

The definition of wealth will change as technology advances. Connor Beaton, the Founder of Mantalks, believes companies will focus more on triple bottom line. Butcher believes youth will incorporate more health, mind and conscious in their lives. Biasutti believes the purpose of their identity will shift and there will be a wave of entrepreneurs looking for change. Harrison believes the responsibility and awareness will change on companies.

Harrison suggests entrepreneurs to re-read the book “Think and Grow Rich”. Butcher recommends entrepreneurs to attend the Business Mastery’s Power in You seminar. Biasutti suggests entrepreneurs not to read, but go out and do something.

May 31 2015

ManTalks – In pursuit of purpose

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Date: May 25, 2015

Name: ManTalks – In pursuit of purpose

Presenters: Michael Muscari, Darren Jacklin, and Brock Tully

Leaders need to pursuit their purposes to be truly successful. Without the pursuit of purpose, leaders will not be able to fulfil the journey of success. ManTalks invites three different generation leaders to share their milestones. The purpose of this presentation is to help young leaders to gain clarity to their inner purpose and contribution. The insight from each leader will allow leaders in the audience to uncover what they need to fulfil their purpose of life.

Connor Beaton, the Founder of ManTalks, believes there are two generalization of purposes. The first one is intellectual thinking. In this stage, leaders will doubt their ability of thinking “Do I think I can?”. The second one is road block, which leaders will doubt their confidence of thinking “Do I deserve this?”.

Beaton shares the fundamental purpose requires to answer those two questions. Leaders need to find the space to answer those two questions.

“Intersection of being and doing is the purpose”

Journey of Michael Muscari

Michael Muscari is the owner of NanoNutra, a company that focus on creating healthy supplements. Muscari focuses on freedom, health and harmony. With the passion of helping people gain knowledge in their health, Muscari believes he can influence people to become more positive. Moreover, Muscari is also to co-Founder of NeuroGrade.

Muscari shares that in his life in the corporate world, he has no clue of what his life is about. Muscari has a great family and his parents had provided him everything he needed in life when he was a child. However, he never did appreciate it.

Muscari worked hard in his life to achieve what he wanted. However, he never satisfied the life of working in corporate. He shifted his career to become an entrepreneur, but end up failing miserably. Muscari received tips from his mentor to set meaningful goals. A couple years later, he got everything but happiness. The depression forced him to lose everything and Muscari started to question himself what went wrong.

The book from Napoleon Hill helped him spark his purpose in life. He realized without a purpose, there is no meaning in life even he achieved all his goals.

“Purpose must be larger than you”

Muscari starts seek information from personal development. He realizes leaders need ambition. Moreover, he understands his value comes from freedom, health, and financial freedom. His definition of financial freedom is to create value in his life and other people’s lives. He discovers he loves speaking, which motivates him to help solve other people’s problems.

Love is a big priority in Muscari’s life. He emphasizes there are two ways in life: the decision of fear and the decision of love. The purpose will help him to love the best he can from his conscious. Instead of fear, he choose to transfer to love.

Muscari believes there are two important steps that can fulfil his life. The first step is the experience of starting up his own supplement company that aligns with his purpose. The second step is to find harmony between the balance of work and marriage. Muscari made a hard decision of choosing to divorce his wife. He wants leaders to understand that life is like a compass. If leaders are being love, they are going north. If leaders are going south, it will change everything.

“I have a compass now, it is called purpose”

By defining his values, Muscari has found someone to fill his life. The purpose changes his life and he realizes purpose is a constant thing that requires trying, doing and retrying. Purpose makes him a better person and share the love with others around him. Moreover, purpose will motivate leaders to be the best they can be.

Journey of Darren Jacklin

Darren Jacklin is a motivational speaker that has the passion to mentor entrepreneurs and business owners. Jacklin travels to many different countries to help others strategize their business by turning passion into profits. His ability is recognized worldwide, and many media have capture his attention all over the world. Moreover, Jacklin involves many international boards of directors to continue his passion of helping people.

Talking used to be Darren Jacklin’s fear. In the age of 5, he encountered a family tragic issue that detached him away from society and had learning disability. In school, he was label as the one who will most likely not to be successful in life. Jacklin had many suicide attempts.

His father never encouraged him in his childhood, which creates the fear of not being good enough in life. Jacklin attempted many businesses, but they were all failures.

When Jacklin attended Dale’s seminar, he realized people are positive. He was not used to the environment, but it transformed his life. He started to build up his confidence and attend many toast master to improve his public speaking. He accepted many offers to speak in many institutions because he felt it was the opportunity to mentor someone. He volunteered to attend many places to do free seminar. Finally, he landed a contract from a fortune 500 company after at least 17 tries.

Jacklin has mentored many successful entrepreneurs. He believes success comes from many failures. In the life of entrepreneurship, people will call them crazy at first. Then they will call them lucky. Lastly, they will call them crocks.

“Either you come from a problem or heading towards a problem”

Jacklin suggests 7 important things entrepreneurs need to do to pursuit their purpose. The first thing is to create their lives as business. They need to focus and set a list of things they need to accomplish first.

The second thing is to have the attitude and gratitude every morning. The third thing is to write 20 goals every morning and every night to constantly remind themselves to work hard in their purpose. The fourth thing is to read books at least 10 pages a day.

“Instead of blame competition, just dominate the area”

The fifth thing is to ask questions. The sixth thing is to build network before entrepreneurs need them. The last thing is to understand the people who are living worst than them.

It is important to contribute to a great cause because it can set the misfortune free and make a difference. Jacklin emphasizes when entrepreneurs are stuck with something, they can go travel because travel can change their views. Many people are struggling in life, yet people should be grateful of living in a wonderful place in Canada.

Jacklin indicates if entrepreneurs attract new problems in their lives and cannot solve it, they need to go out of their comfort zone and find other groups to help solve the problems. Moreover, they will discover they are growing.

“Nothing is in your way, it is just on your way”

Jacklin wants entrepreneurs to know It is important not to make family as the excuse of their purpose; instead, they should make their purpose first and become the role model for their families.

“Become a go giver, not go taker”

Journey of Brock Tully

Brock Tully, the co-founder of Kindness Foundation, The World Kindness Concert, and Kindness Rocks, is the first person ever ride a bicycle around North America, Canada, and Mexico. Moreover, he publishes 9 books that helps people to reflect their purposes in life. In his spare time, he also coaches many sports teams and involves many different kind of careers.

Brock Tully believes it is hard to know the purpose, yet it is even harder to live with it. In 1970, Tully was one of the football athlete in UBC. However, he felt depress because no one really understand him. He started to ride bicycle to east coast, south Florida, Mississippi, and Mexico. He learned he is not the only one who are going through the same issue. After learning from many people, he decided to write books to express his feeling and reflect his experience to help others.

Tully reflects his life purpose, and he discovers goal to trophy is not the thing for him. Instead, he drives the goal to be happy. Tully describes many people put others down because they feel depress. They are showing they are looking for care. He summarizes his purpose to be the following statement.

“What is the best the heart of good of all?”

In Tully’s family, he was raised to never show love in action. His father is proud of him, but never ever say it out loud.Their way is to express by money, but Tully wants to change that.

During his bike ride, he received many moments of giving. He felt every moment touch his heart. Tully shares another moment at a grocery store. He met a 90 year old woman and said to her she looks beautiful. The woman could not believe he was talking to her. Tully walked her home and later realized her trip to grocery store is the only activity she planned for that day. Furthermore, he realized she dressed up for that day.

Tully believes many people do not share their kindness to each other anymore. He spends time at East downtown to understand the people. Tully wants entrepreneurs to know joy comes from the love of things they do. By following their heart, they can follow their dream. Happiness is not by how many challenge people have, it is how many challenges are handled.

People do not find purpose, they remember the purpose. Moreover, people need to reach out to people as of it is their last day.

Questions and Answers

The panelist shares their purpose statement. Tully believes it is important to just be at present. Jacklin believes it is important to conscious in planet. Muscari believes spread love. Beaton shares the quote that if entrepreneurs want to be billionaire, they need to solve problems for billion people.

To get back on the right path, Tully suggests entrepreneurs to look at signals. Jacklin suggests to discuss with advisory people and have private conversation with themselves by writing a journal. Muscari suggests to surround with good people. Instead of recommending books for entrepreneurs, Jacklin strong recommends entrepreneurs to focus from process to execution. Tully recommends entrepreneurs to give themselves enough credit and learn form failure.

“You are the author of your book”

May 3 2015

ManTalks – World Class Role Models, Fathers & Sons

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Date: April 13, 2015

Name: ManTalks – World Class Role Models, Fathers & Sons

Presenters: Andy Zaremba, Ricky Shetty, Horrasias Balabyekkubo, and Dai Manuel

Mentors and role models are important for leaders. With the right role models, leaders will able to exceed their limitation of what they can be and what they want to be. The purpose of mentors and role models are to help leaders to find their deep and long term success, fulfilment and happiness in their journeys. Role models can be powerful because they can awake leaders’ inner voice that can control the direction of their success. ManTalks invites Andy Zaremba, the Co-Founder of Float House, Ricky Shetty, the owner of DaddyBlogger, Horrasias Balabyekkubo, the founder of Cleft of the Rock Foundation, and Dai Manuel, the COO of Fitness Town Inc. The panel will share their experience, knowledge and life lessons to support leaders to develop inner connection with their mentors and role models.

Fatherhood experience from Andy Zaremba

Andy Zaremba is the Co-Founder of Float House and the Co-host of the Vancouver Real Podcast. He has a strong passion to strive to become the best man in his family. Moreover, Zaremba believes personal growth is ongoing process and he will continue to expand his living to life journey.

Zaremba shares his first experience of role model is from his father. His father wants him to step up; instead, Zaremba receives a strong pressure and later realizes it is not his father’s fault o put everything on him.

Zaremba indicates role models can be anybody who can provide attention to the audience. However, mentor is different. Mentors have more experience than others. They can help leaders to guide their lives and keep them accountable. Zaremba mentions his second role model that impacts his life is a doctor who is treating addiction. His honest and wisdom inspire his life and helps him to continue his journey.

“Live it now, takes the principle”

Zaremba starts to take people to meditation. He believes medication is the technique that can help people to go through rough times. Zaremba shares his rough experience that his wife is experiencing UTI infection during her second trimester. In the hospital, they might need to sacrifice their baby to save her life. In the end, his wife recovers, but the baby is premature. Knowing he has no control to treat the baby, he is scared to death. He uses medication technique to calm himself down.

After seeing the documentary, Zaremba learns premature baby will die without love and care. Physical contact is important. He believes the challenge is there for a reason. The risk is high, but he will get through it and keep going forward.

Being a father changes Zaremba. He changes his view of family and starts to take care of himself better.

“Take care of yourself first before being a role model for someone else”

Fatherhood experience from Ricky Shetty

Ricky Shetty operates a website called DaddyBlogger that helps father’s parenting. Shetty also conducts workshops and conference events to help improve bloggers’ personal growth experience. The passion from fatherhood helps Shetty to become a better father.

Shetty shares his parents are together from arranged marriage. However, from Shetty’s childhood, Shetty only remembers fighting and yelling. There is a lack of communication and as a child, Shetty becomes shy and broken. The family breakdown affects his life. In University, Shetty wants to find a way to change his life. His first role model is Vancouver Canucks and he is willing to line up to meet the players. However, Shetty realizes they are just models.

People look up celebrities, but mentors look into people and invest in them. A friend of Shetty is a father and willing to invest into him without any judging changes his live. Shetty indicates mentor is someone who has the ability to listen.

“When he believes me, I start to believe in myself”

Shetty shares his experience in Japan to teach English. In Japan, he is trying to find his purpose and his soul mate. However, he learns a broken man will not have any woman. If women leave her men, the men are reliable and need to man up.

“Feel like a coconut. Brown outside, white inside”

Travelling around Asia helps Shetty to find his spiritually from god. He is able to forgive his father to release his pain. Shetty wants people to know that when people who do not get married in late age, they usually afraid they will be like his father. Shetty wants those people to know they have choices.

Shetty is happily married and he cares about the next generation. He is able to find his identity of family. Shetty finds his purpose from blogging and see the success he can bring to people.

Shetty shares as entrepreneurs, they need 3 things

Mentor
Mastermind
Accountable partner

“Power of listening and the gift of listening and receiving”

Fatherhood experience from Horrasias Balabyekkubo

Horrasias Balabyekkubo is the founder of Cleft of the Rock Foundation and also the director of Nakyessa Christian Primary and Secondary school. His foundation utilizes the tool of entrepreneurship to educate people in areas of Uganda. He is also a motivational speaker and a writer of “Death of the Gospel”. His passion of creating opportunities for people inspires many leaders to engage community development.

Balabyekkubo believes he is born with a purpose of trying to create adventure for people. In young age, Balabyekkubo’s parents change his life around because his parents believe they can change the next generation. With singing and praying, his father is his mentor of true love. Balabyekkubo wants to become like his father, who provide the best to others with love.

Balabyekkubo shares his father is his role model. His father impact his heart and his father always believe Balabyekkubo is born for great thing. Following his father’s footstep, his soul purpose is to love the children. Balabyekkubo likes to take pictures because picture can capture the excitement. His conscious decision wants him to being the kind of father he has.

“Do not let children to feel their dad is not there”

Balabyekkubo’s children are his hero. When his children are born, he feels his father has passed down the mission to him. The mission is to show his children the savior of mankind. When everything falls apart, children look up to Balabyekkubo. Moreover, he wants his children to understand they are black. Balabyekkubo understand the reality can hurt them due to difference nationality and the outside world can be crude. However, it is his responsibility to protect, provide and presence to his children.

Many people save time on vacation more than their families. It is important to look at the life 10 years after to see the impact. Balabyekkubo’s father teaches him the power of love and the more love he gives, the more he gain.

“Teach people what is right”

Fatherhood experience from Dai Manuel

Dai Manuel has over 20 years of experience in health and fitness industry. He is also the COO of Fitness Town. Manuel has the passion to inspire and help the community. As a motivational speaker, his experience inspires many entrepreneurs through tough time.

Dai Manuel shares his moment of life changes. The biggest one is his grandfather. Manuel’s grandfather is deaf, but he always put “I love you” on a piece of paper. Action speaks louder than words. Manuel believes everyone is writing his or her own history and story, and he sees many similarities from people sharing their milestone.

Manuel’s parents are divorced at age of 9. Manuel creates the habit of eating to comfort the pain. The depression leads him to become over weight and thinking of suicide. He begins to seek for help by go to library and learn. Unfortunately, Manuel is still unable to accept the condition since the dialogue is running his mind over and over again. Manuel left Ontario to escape the reality.

Manuel believes his parents are his role model for work. As a workaholic, he stops listening to others. Moreover, he needs to have another deep conversation with himself. He stops drinking because of his wife. Manual does not treat his wife well which leads to separation. When his daughter is born, he starts to make promises to his daughter to change. 7 years later, Manuel experiences another rock bottom and got separated again with his wife. However, his wife still sees him as the person who can do more. This is what Manuel needs, which is mentorship. Mentorship can help people understand who they are.

“Who do you want your daughter to marry? Be that person”

4 things man need to know

I am sorry
I did not mean to
I love you
Please forgive me

Manuel shares that he thought he figure everything out, but he did not. Manuel wants his kids to be proud. In addition, he has the choice and he has the ability to change.

The panel

For daily practice, Zaremba does Yoga. Shetty reads 10 pages and pray. Balabyekkubo gives grace to others and Manuel reflects every night. Zaremba recommends leaders to be vulnerable and do not be afraid to be judged. Manuel recommends leaders to share as much as they can. Shetty recommends leaders to understand everyone can be broken sometimes. Balabyekkubo recommends leaders to show up as much as they can in their lives.

Balabyekkubo shares when everything is down, the decision of being the legendary man help him up. Zaremba suggests people to build up self-talk. Shetty suggests people to overcome the bad day with authentic mindset because bad day leads to better day. Lastly, Balabyekkubo suggests people to let things happen and step it up.

March 22 2015

ManTalks – Spirituality 5.0

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Date: March 16, 2015

Name: ManTalks – Spirituality 5.0

Presenters: Bradley Morris, Chris Brandt, and Mike Zaremba

One of the important topics in leadership is spirituality. When leaders expose to spirituality, they can unfold many obstacles and confusion. Furthermore, Leaders can discover the deep connection in their freedom, fulfilment and purpose. Mantalks, a community to rebuild relationship with deeper connection and living the truth, invites Bradley Morris, the founder of Cowabungalife, Chris Brandt, the Executive Director of Music Heals, and Mike Zaremba, co-Founder of Float House, to share their journey of spirituality. Their experience will provide leaders a guideline to access their deep understanding of their fulfillment and clarity.

Bradley Morris – Passion leads successful life

Bradley Morris lives as a lifestyle and business coach that educate entrepreneurs the meaning of life and career balance. Morris creates many effective meditation eCourses through his company, Cowabungalife, to support entrepreneurs in many countries. The inspiration and feeling of giving to the world is the fuel of Bradley Morris’ passion.

Spirituality has taught Bradley Morris the meaning of personal growth and discovers everyone has their own unique path to mastery. In Morris’ journey, golf has been his path to mastery. Morris was obsessed with gold since 12 years old. When Morris turned 18, he was determined to play in professional golf. However, work was not supporting his passion. He opened up an online company that sells man shirts, but he got himself into massive debt and got kicked out of the golf club. During his depression moment, he questioned himself and realized he needs to take up responsibility.

The depression forced him to be grateful of every moment in life. He became a speaker and an author. However, due to conflict of interest, he lost everything and lost his momentum. Morris was in depression once again.

Morris started meditation and tried to learn from nature. His life changed when he connected to meditation. He started to teach and conducted workshop; in addition, he launched many eCourses to help benefit people around the world.

The workshop and eCourses cannot sustain his current lifestyle, so he decides to pursue other career for additional revenue. With a rare opportunity, he accepts the job at a golf course and realizes his passion from youth. Morris understands the two worlds has become one and realizes all things in his life are preparing him to understand the missing link in his life. The tension from 10 years ago starts to come back. Morris believes it is time for him to pursue his golf passion once again.

The meditation and coaching have prepared Morris the clarity of his vision. Morris indicates his life has more energy than ever. The spirituality is in Morris’ mindset and now time is his control. Morris will do whatever it takes to conquer his new journey.

Morris recommends leaders to take one moment at a time and one step at a time. It is important to expand leader’s vision to next 10 years and understand what mastery looks like.

Morris shares the path of mastery includes 3 elements.

Connect to leaders’ breath
Penetrate leaders’ targets
Get rid of fear

“Either living in the alignment or moving away from the alignment”

Chris Brandt – Journey of a music spirituality

Working as an Executive Director of Music Heals, Chris Brandt creates awareness for music therapy. Chris Brandt has over 10 years of music experience, including releasing his own record label. His passion of music has broadened his career, such as music editor, contributing editor and radio show host. Moreover, Chris Brandt also teaches music in BCIT and yoga workshops in meditation and educates many people around the world.

Chris Brandt shares people have the conception of believing yoga and spirituality are connected. People are more into yoga than regular tradition. The experience in yoga changed Brandt’s life and believes the idea of helping others is essential. Brandt believes in yoga, people are projecting from the teacher; in fact, it is experience from yoga projecting them.

“Spirituality is like a swimming pool, it all starts in shallow end”

Brandt visits Peru to climb the hill of Machu Picchu. He is able to communicate with himself during the experience in cave. Next, Brandt visits Tibet. He discovers the shift of reconnection is a part of life experience. The region from Tibet grows on him. Lastly, Brandt visits Ashram. He feels the instant karma of able to figure out everything immediately. During his intensive 10 days silent meditation in Ashram, he accomplishes the difficulty of let himself out and communicates to himself.

Last year, he was diagnosed with cancer and he was depressed. However, he treated as the next life test. Brandt realizes this might be the graduate class from his journey. If he is able to relate it to his life experience, he is able to help others with his experience.

Brandt suggests leaders to connect themselves through spirituality. There is always something worth teaching and leaders should find something worth teaching for the next generation.

“Truth sometimes is ridiculous; instead, speak the truth now because it is going to change in the future.

Mike Zaremba – Journey of spirituality

Mike Zaremba, the co-founder of Float House, believes floating practice is an important spiritual practice that uses the contemporary medicine. Mike Zaremba operates the Float House over 20 years in Vancouver. Moreover, he always challenges himself into uncomfortable experience to discover more deep connection with his life.

Coming from a religious family background, Mike Zaremba shares his father believes “spirituality is a crock”. Zaremba received this awareness from his father and determined to research the topic of spirituality. Zaremba shares his 3 phases in his journey of exposing his spiritual life.

Phase 1: Curiosity of knowledge

Zaremba emphasizes at the beginning of his journey, he wants to know everything. He reads all kind books, but Zaremba feels like an empty vessel that is pouring in limitation. Zaremba believes when people describe what they know, they limit themselves. This is the idea of subjectivity. People develop a filter based on their previous experience, which can limit how others are able to communicate their thoughts and feelings. Moreover, Zaremba believes all books are similar and he needs to discover the deeper meaning through personal experience.

Phase 2: Primary experience

Zaremba starts to dive into a practice of yoga. Yoga is believed to be the great way to connect to the inner body. Zaremba also experiences meditation and it brings the awareness to another level. He is able to see the nature’s cons.

The second Zaremba experienced is Pranayama. He is able to sense the energy of his body and understand the way of inhale and exhale from breath work can help him understand his presence.

The third Zaremba experienced is floating. Floating uses a device of float tank to minimize the environment and forces to go within. The depth is infinite and it can embrace people to create dream.

All practices prepare Zaremba to understand the reality. Moreover, Zaremba is aware of his conscious.

“Conscious is like a sea, what is your relationship with these compound?”

Phase 3: Journey in Peru

After the end of Zaremba’s relationship, he realizes there is no conscious connection with his heart. By trying to develop this connection, Zaremba got a great advice from his mentor.

“Focus on your conscious in your mind and bring it to your heart”

When he discovers the way to connect, Zaremba is able to feel the sensation. Zaremba describes the feeling as the force takes him up above the cloud and beyond the space. When Zaremba wants it back, the feeling goes back down. It is considered as the heart connection. Zaremba believes it is important for leaders to understand the importance to have the primary space in their hearts.

Questions and Answers

Zaremba’s most inspired moment in his journey is during his road of recovering from surgery. He feels grateful of everything he has. Morris’ moment is when he realizes he is good enough to believe. Brandt’s moment is when he realizes he does not have to be great, but he has the obligation to help others.

Zaremba’s father quote has created the distance between him and his father, but it shapes him the life his has right now. Zaremba mentions the conscious mind connects him from awareness, sensation and to heart.

As leaders, it is important to do something they love. By connecting their inner self from disconnecting the noises, such as cellphone, from the environment, leaders can discover the force from small meditation. Meditation is considered as daily maintenance. It is a moment of clarity and freedom is a mindset. Fully commit and adopt spirituality.

February 15 2015

Mantalks – What women want – masculinity through a woman’s eyes

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Date: February 9, 2015

Name: Mantalks – What women want – masculinity through a woman’s eyes

Presenters: Krystal Gabriel, Kate Muker, and Kelsey Grant

Mantalks is a developing community of men that creates possibilities to connect and engage for stronger growth. By develop strong characteristic and personalities, leaders will improve and engage stronger relationship with others. This presentation will invite three local leaders, Kate Muker, Krystal Gabriel, and Kelsey Grant, to share their views of what their expectations from masculine men. Communication is the key for leaders and leaders need to embrace their conversations in social relationships. Moreover, leaders will be able to understand what feminine are looking for from masculine and they will enhance their insights to build interactive relationships.

Experience from Krystal Gabriel

Krystal Gabriel, the Solutions Engineer from Virtus, has the passion to inspire leaders in many organizations. She helped out with the launch of Mindvalley Academy, an online university that provides leadership education for many leaders. In addition, her contributions through a blogger and speaker impact the communities with many strong messages.

When Krystal Gabriel was young, she was taught to have a balance of characteristic traits of men and women. She witnessed a personal event that believe emotional is her weakness. Nevertheless, she built up a wall by being more masculine, such as never cry in public. Her childhood was influenced by men, and in relationship, she began to become the driver of her relationships. She realized her detective wall is influencing her relationship; therefore, she began to find ways to improve her feminine side. She went to seminars to discover herself.

In Gabriel’s relationships, she studies her men in her life. She was inspired by her mentor that people who are meant to be together in any relationship will do their best to keep their relationships up. Gabriel shares she has a declaration that combines her soft and solid skills.

Gabriel believes man needs three qualities.

Make each other better
Be someone others are willing to learn
Be tolerance

Gabriel understands many women still need their emotional safety net. Therefore, Gabriel suggestions in any relationship, it is important to find the balance between women and men. They need to communicate with each other to understand their agreement. Moreover, they need to invite each other to step up.

Gabriel shares the world need men who are intelligent, talent and have personality. Since everyone has their own stories, it is important to figure out if the other half is lean or repeal each other.

“Dive in and be yourself”

Experience from Kate Muker

Kate Muker, the CEO and Founder of Conscious Divas, has a strong belief that women need to discover their own authentic paths. She is featured in Vancouver Sun, and Globe and Mail based on her inspiration and empowerment with local women leaders. Moreover, her contributions lead to her passion and motivation to help local communities.

In her current 9 years of relationship, 6 years of her relationship are marriage. Kate Muker shares most of her relationships lasted 2 to 3 years. When she was 19 years old, she had a challenged relationship. She knew her partner involves crime, but her decision was driven by her emotion. She isolated her friends and deflated her life because of emotion. When she realized a voice in her heart tries to convince her that she deserves better, she stepped out of that relationship.

Muker started to do self-discovery to increase her self-worth. She learned she needs a relationship with fun and deep meaningful conversations. Money cannot buy happiness; in fact, Muker believes connection and feeling are extremely important in relationship. In her next relationship, she learned the value of friendship; however, she could not surpass the friendship. Therefore, she is on a solo trip once again.

In her current relationship, she meets her husband. She believes the journey of self-discovering will help in relationship. Muker believes there are 5 elements she believes every relationship needs. The first is relationship needs to have a commitment through emotionally and spiritually. Both men and women need to grow a path together share where they are at that moment. The second is relationship needs a strong communication. Both men and women need to be open, honest and receive to listen to others. The third is relationship has the equation of happy wife equals to happy life. Every man needs to understand what woman needs. Men need to have the desire to figure out. The fourth is relationship needs support and space. Furthermore, the fifth is to have the vision to pursue the dream in the world.

“Communication in relationship is like a window. If you throw mud on the window and it will be hard to see each side and need to wash up at the end”

Experience from Kelsey Grant

Kelsey Grant, the Relationship Coach, has the passion to people in the world to have balanced and happy relationships. Her coaching helps people to open up through a healing journey. Moreover, she connects with many women and aligned many leaders with their leadership and relationships. Kelsey Grant publishes “Sabotaged Love – The 12 Archetypes Keeping you from the love you want” that will help many people to find their space in their lives.

Kelsey Grant shares the common relationship problem theme is the unavailable capacity. In Grant’s early relationship, she admits it was her unavailable capacity and commitment that lead to the end of her most relationships. Grant went on a quest to create the habit of commitment by learning new guitar chords, upload YouTube videos and post love blogs online. She believes if she is able to show up for herself, she can show up to the world.

During Grants’ childhood, she would fall in love easily. However, most of her early relationship developed the relationship dynamic where people show up and disappear. Therefore, Grant realized she needs to look for a partner who can stand and clear to the world.

In Grant’s next relationship, she found the man who has similar interest. They are able to produce music and develop the sense of purpose in life. Since her life was surrounded by music, she believed it was necessary to connect relationship with her music. However, Grant realized music was not her life purpose and discovered her purpose was about love and help people. She started her search once again. There was a lot of ups and downs in her next relationship, but she managed to find the partner she had the connection with her life purpose.

Grant believes relationship needs emotion connection and honestly. If people want others to be honest, they must need to be honest first. It is necessary to create space in the relationship to grow. Both men and women need to be vulnerable to have personal access with each other.

“Without honest and clarity, relationship will fall apart”

Grant emphasizes love can bring everything in life alive. Both men and women need to be clear about the values and the boundaries. Relationship needs to have a purpose. Without honestly, there will be ego fighting on the stage. Therefore, Grant suggests every relationship needs these 3 principles.

Know who you are
Act in alignment with your mission
Courage to ask tough questions.

Grant believes all relationship need to have maintenance and promise to listen without over react is important.

The panel

The panel believes there is no checklist for a perfect relationship; instead, people need to concentrate on feelings. If there is respect, people need to navigate. Journey can be different, but strong commitment is always required. Connection can help people to find the right partners. Clarity at the early stage is essential. The panel suggests two questions for relationship follow up.

What is the purpose of partnership?
What can we each bring for each other?

The panel wants people to commit to personal growth and self-love to establish more understand about others. It is important to not over react on others’ reactions; instead, people can only react if they are at the same level. Men need to show commitment and clarity by stepping into masculine role. Women expect appreciation and connection. Therefore, men need to take time to nurture the connection and activities with women that can show they are unique and exceptional.

January 18 2015

ManTalks – Wealth Mindset 4.0

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Date: January 12, 2015

Name: ManTalks – Wealth Mindset 4.0

Presenters: Jonathan Becker, Franco Caligiuri, and Kyle Vucko

ManTalks is a community for men that helps them redefine their manhood. The community creates the space for modern men to connect with meaningful conversations and intensive discussions. The community is founded by Connor Beaton with the values of authenticity, community, purpose, accountability, strength and courage. This presentation invites three local leaders, Jonathan Becker, the founder of Thrive Digital, Franco Caligiuri, the owner of Capital Core Financial, and Kyle Vucko, the CEO of Indochino, to share their inspiration and success stories for entrepreneurs. In addition, the intention of this presentation is to address challenges and breakthroughs for many entrepreneurs.

The founder of Thrive Digital

Jonathan Becker started as a freelancer for 3 years before he hits rock bottom in his career. In age 26, Becker describes his life as depress and glass empty. He felt everyone was going forward and he was fallen behind.

He starts his soul searching to change his life around and reinvents his life by creating a solid foundation. His foundation includes the 3 principles.

Want a career, not a job
Want a technical skill
Want to make progress

Becker realizes his solution is to go back to school and focuses on building his future. He is inspired and interested by the topic of SEO and start learning everything about SEO. His new passion begins his new journey. In addition, it leads to Thrive Digital.

Becker believes the only constant in life is change. Entrepreneurs need to understand that people come and go all the time. The only thing entrepreneurs need to know about the future is that it will be different.

Becker learns successful leaders need to learn how to embrace failure. Many leaders think failure the wrong way; instead, leaders should grow from failure. Success and failure are connected together. Leaders feel unbalanced because they learn that failure is not an option. People can change dramatically by having a positive outlook. Life gets better as time goes on, so leaders should not feel failure is everything. Leaders need to understand failure is a natural and normal part of everyone’s lives.

Becker believes the definition of wealth mindset is the point of view people need in order to provide themselves with a powerful existence.

The CEO of Capital Core Financial

Franco Caligiuri shares a negative moment in grade 9 that impacted his life. He lost the hope of dreaming big when his grade 9 teacher told him he will be a failure. However, his grade 12 teacher empowered him by setting him to a different route, which made him believed anything is possible. Caligiuri believes the words to build is important in his path of success.

When his grandmother told Caligiuri the hidden secret of his father, he was devastated because his father was his role model. He could not accept the reality and make his vow that he will never put family in bad situation ever. Starting that moment, his life has a new meaning, which is work and work harder. During his trip to Cambodia, he was invited by the villagers to a meal with their generosity. He later realized the meal is for the whole village and he begins to make his new vow to give things to less fortunate.

“Why horn the money if it can only benefit one person?”

Caligiuri shares the 5 principles he would like his kids to learn about life.

Give more than what you receive
Put yourself in very uncomfortable situations once in a while
Invest in yourself
Learn to forgive
Just try

Caligiuri uses these 5 principles to accomplish his company, The Capital Core Financial, radio shows media interviews, and author of a book. Caligiuri believes journey is what leaders need to experience and journey is what leaders are looking for. Therefore, leaders need to enjoy the journey. Mentor is important, so leaders should surround themselves with people they can point them to the right direction.

The CEO of Indochino

Kyle Vucko grew up from an entrepreneur family when he was young. His family taught him a valuable money principle of “save before spend”. He was also taught of working hard will pay off and eventually will enjoy life one day. He always wanted to surpass his father’s success and believed starting his career young to mitigate the unnecessary risks. He became wealthy but felt success was not enough.

His father once asked if he ever going to take care of himself, his life purpose disappeared. He began to realize he needs to separate himself from work and observe things differently. His career evolves around his reflection and his mood swing, which makes him feel intensive and worry. In addition, he began to question his fundamental of relationship of success and the reason behind acquiring wealth.

Vucko shares the main reason why leaders acquire wealth is to achieve freedom of time and freedom of purchase.

Freedom of time

Time can separate leaders from work. It can change their daily routine. Vucko suggests leaders to budget every activity equally because it will force leaders to think and work differently. Leaders need to review and rank their goals every morning. Moreover, leaders need to be able to know how and why spend every minute of their life. Therefore, leaders need to learn how to spend their time effectively.

Freedom of purchase

The traditional purchase pattern is to be rich and buy the next best thing. This has to do with ego and comparison. However, leaders need to ask themselves the reason behind any purchasing by understanding what they already own.

Vucko has his 4 steps before purchasing. The first step is to find if there is any alternative. The second step is to look at long term if the purchase is feasible. The third step is to search for used items. The last step is to wait for a while before purchase.

Vucko believes researching products is important. Leaders can learn about themselves, such as insight and personality. It can also build deep connections and values. Leaders can change their wealth mindset by save better and spend better. Vucko hopes leaders can find the joy from researching because leaders can find their traits that leads to their personal wealth mindset.

“Head is free, clarity in life”