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Inspiring Lessons at the Pendulum Summit.

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This episode focuses on the transformative lessons learned at the Pendulum Summit, emphasizing personal growth through community, vision, and resilience. Key insights from Sugar Ray Leonard, Nick Santonastasso, and Ray Nolan offer listeners practical strategies for achieving clarity and success in 2025.

• Reflections on meeting Sugar Ray Leonard 
• Lessons from Nick Santonastasso on healing and personal growth 
• Ray Nolan’s advice on vision and decision-making 
• Importance of community for personal development 
• Sugar Ray’s metaphor of “doing your own road work” 
• The role of environment in shaping behavior and success 
• Invitation to Dr. John Demartini event in Belfast

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Guys, welcome back to the podcast and I want to wish everybody a happy new year for 2025. Hopefully the new year is kicking off well for you. I am recording this on a Sunday just after getting back this week from the Pendulum Summit in Dublin, spent a couple of days down there and it was absolutely fantastic, really, really good event. I'd been to the Pendulum Summit last year for the first time, travelled down on my own and really really enjoyed it. But then this year, earlier in the year, I connected with a couple of people that I'd seen at the summit last year. I'd been on their podcast, they'd been on my podcast, and meeting a group down there this year was absolutely fantastic Colin O'Brienrien, who we've had on the podcast. Um, we connected through linkedin and then he invited me into his group and it really really made the whole experience so different and just being with a group of like-minded people, sharing ideas, sharing business, sharing how we could help each other, etc. So, so powerful, and it's a reminder of how powerful it is to be around the right type of people, to be in a group of like-minded people if you want to progress and grow in 2025. But what I want to share with you this morning is a couple of insights that it took away. If you've been following me on social media, first of all I want to get this out of the road. If you've been following me on social media, first of all, I want to get this out of the road. If you've been following me on social media, you will have seen that I met one of my idols down there, which was Sugar Ray Leonard, and I couldn't believe it at the start that he was coming to speak and then when I got down there then I got to go and meet him.

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I was invited out that night again through Column to the CEO Dunner, so we actually went out for dinner. He was there for dinner that evening and I grew up watching sugary leonard with my dad. My dad was a boxing fanatic and we watched all the sugary leonard's fights um, just reruns and watched them back in videotape at the time and just constantly watched them. He loved them, I loved them. Everybody in our house had an admiration for him and it didn't disappoint. When I got to meet him, got a couple of selfies, got a couple of photos and what I really noticed about him was like how humble he was and just how, how much he wanted to actually just be there and get the photos, have the conversations. Even during the dinner. When we went for dinner that evening, people were coming up to him and he was only too obliging to get up and have a conversation and kind of have a wee spar and get a few photos and stuff like that. And sometimes they say you should never meet your idols. But um, I couldn't been. I couldn't have been more pleased to meet sugar leonard. He was an absolute gentleman from the short time that I got to spend with him.

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So that was a major highlight for me as well too, at the summit. But there was some fantastic speakers. In fact, there was a lot of fantastic speakers from personal development to business, to tech, to AI. But I shared a post and I want to share some of the tips from three speakers that I kind of took away Three highlights from each speaker. Now, again, there was a lot of speakers. So I basically took away three highlights from each speaker.

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Now, again, there was a lot of speakers, so I basically took what I got from the guys that kind of stood out for me and one was a guy called Nick Santano Tasso, if I'm pronouncing his name right, and Nick was born with one arm and no other limbs and he's been traveling the world, teaching, speaking, motivating, educating, and he spent four years traveling the world with Tony Robbins. And I got to meet him at the CEO dinner as well too and have a brief conversation with him, and I asked him I said what was it like traveling with Tony Robbins for four years? He says it was absolutely amazing, it was fantastic. And I says what's one big takeaway that you took away from being with Tony Robbins? What's one thing that you've learned most from him in that time? And he kind of paused and then he had to think about it and he said compassion. And what he meant was, and what he kind of explained, was that, even though sometimes you might not have a certain tool, a certain method, a certain thing that you think that you need to say in order to help someone, sometimes it's just actually being with that person and kind of feeling where they're at and empathizing with them and holding that space for them. It can be all the things that they actually need and could be the only thing that they actually need in order for them to make a shift, order for them to make a shift. So he says that was the biggest thing that he kind of learned from being along with Tony Robbins, traveling around the world with him, watching him, was his ability to open his heart to other people, to help other people. But he gave a fantastic talk and I'm going to share a couple of things that I noted down. And he said you can only heal people as much as you're willing to heal yourself. Healing requires feeling.

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Stop self-soothing or avoiding the hard stuff and face it head-on. Growth starts from within, and that small, like quote statement is so powerful because sometimes we do want to avoid the challenge, sometimes we only want the pleasure, sometimes we want to avoid the hard stuff that we need to go through, and sometimes it is a matter of just sitting with ourselves and going within and actually doing the work on ourselves. It's something that I know that I've done on myself for for years, doing a lot of my own work, doing a lot of internal work, um, moving past a lot of blockages and moving past a lot of my perceptions and belief systems, etc. And I think that if you're looking to progress in 2025 in any shape or form, especially in business, it's essential that you look within yourself. It's essential that you do the work on yourself. For everyone that I coach, they have an openness to that. That's what they come to me for, because we work on mind, we work on body, we work on all those things. So sometimes you have to be willing and open to doing that work on yourself in order for you to progress.

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Number two then was a guy called Ray Nolan, and Ray Nolan is a fantastic businessman. He sold his businesses, I think, for close to a billion, and he gave a fantastic talk. It was actually a podcast with a podcast host called Gary Fox, and there were some great conversations, but he said a couple of things, and one of the things that I took away and noted down was he said create the vision and make a decision. Create the vision and make the decision, or make the decisions, and everything has to be based on that vision. You say, once your vision's clear, every decision you make should align with moving you closer to that vision, closer to that goal. Clarity drives focus and success.

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And sometimes why we feel stuck, why we procrastinate, why we frustrate, is because we're not clear. We're not clear in our vision. We have it clouded because of other people's judgments. We have it clouded because of other people's ideas, we have it clouded because of other people's values, and that creates a lot of confusion. That can create a lot of feeling inadequate and it can also create a feeling where you don't feel like your own purpose. And this is something I hear a lot when I'm talking to people who reach out to me on LinkedIn or through YouTube or through Instagram, etc. The big thing that comes up a lot of the time is purpose.

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When we're clear on our vision and we're clear on our values, first and foremost, we're clear on our purpose. So once we start to get clear on our values, we can start to create a vision, because if we're not living in alignment with our values, you're going to be subordinate into somebody else's, which means you're not going to be yourself and you're not going to get to feel like yourself, which means you're not going to want to create a vision. Because you're not going to create a vision if it means not being who you really are or doing what you're really inspired to do and create, and you're not going to create a vision if it means pain and you're moving on the pain, doing something you don't like. There's a difference between having a vision aligned with your values, you'll be willing to pursue both pain and pleasure, challenge and support and it's pursuit. But if it's not aligned with those things, then it's going to be a massive challenge for you. So, as he said, create the vision and then make the decisions. Every single decision should be based on does this move me closer to this vision or does it pull me further away? And if it's pulling you further away, then are you again really clear on what you want to achieve?

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And then number three was a man himself, sugary leonard sugary um did a fantastic presentation where he related what he was, obviously went through in his career, his fights, his ups, his downs, his battles in relation to business and entrepreneurship and growth overall in life, and he did a demonstration of different videos and different fights, et cetera, and it was really, really good. But he gave a couple of insights and again I took notes and wrote a few things down and basically what he was saying was and he was making it relatable to every single person in the audience, but he was putting it in his words, in his language which is you have to do your own road work, whether that's hitting the bag or putting in the miles, never skipping that time, never skipping that progression. Stay committed, always get back up and never give up. And what I took from that was that might be you in your business, that might be you in your career, that could be you in your family life. It's staying on that path, it's putting on that work, it's getting up and getting at it when it's challenging, finding the answers when it's challenging, never skipping your own road work, whether that is in your own health and fitness journey, your own business journey, whatever it might be, not shying away from the challenge, moving towards what it is that you know you need to move towards in order for you to create that growth. And I thought that his talk was fantastic and again getting the kind of related back to life, business, career, health, fitness. He was relating his career and the challenges that he faced. One of them was, when he'd been retired for five years, coming back and fighting marvelous Marvin Hagler, who had been undefeated for 11 years. People thought it was nuts, people thought it was crazy. Again, that fight itself was something of a again of a challenge. Some people thought he lost it, some people thought it was a draw, some people thought Hagler won very clearly, but they even come back after five years of retirement. They go and want to fight. Someone like that shows you the man that he was and shows you the man and the fight and the spirit that he had within himself and the belief and the confidence that he had within himself to put himself forward and do that.

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And for me, when I'm listening to anybody, any speaker, and I'm listening to someone from a completely different industry, I'm learning the lessons and how I can relate that back to myself. I'm learning the lessons of how I can relate that back to the people that I'm coaching, working with you, listening to this podcast, and I thought that those three guys, um, and the three things that they said for me really, really stood out again. There was a host of fantastic speakers, really really good speakers, and the the full two-day event was absolutely fantastic. It's really really good. As I said, the biggest thing for me that made 2025's summit different, different from last year, was the group of people that I got to meet and the connections that we've made since then. On LinkedIn, we're in a WhatsApp group and it shows the power of community. It shows the power of being around like-minded people. It shows the power of being in the right type of environment in order for you to grow. Being in the right type of environment in order for you to grow.

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As I've said in this podcast many times and I've quoted James Clear in this many times environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior and, as business owners, career-driven people, entrepreneurs, people in general, sometimes we are unconscious that we're in the wrong environment. Sometimes we're unconscious that the shift that we might need to make is in who we're listening to, who we're surrounding ourselves with and what information we're taking on board. And when I talk about taking information on board like if you were to think about getting fitter, stronger and healthier and losing weight then the information that you take in as food is feeding your body information, it's feeding your cells information, and you become conscious of that. I need to become conscious of what I'm eating if I want to lose weight and get into shape. But if you are unconscious of the information you're taking in through your eyes and through your ears and who you're surrounding yourself with and it's doomsday advice and all that type of stuff then again that could be derailing you, keeping you stuck, putting barriers in place, limiting your belief within yourself, clouding your judgment, clouding your vision, all because we're completely unconscious of it.

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So, in 2025, progression, working towards what you want to achieve, working towards where you really want to be. Maybe the one thing that you could look at is one what am I taking on board? Who am I taking it on board from? What is the information that I'm opening up my eyes, my ears and myself to on a daily basis? Is that actually helping me grow? Is it pulling me back? Is it moving me closer to where I want to be, how I want to feel, or is it moving me back? So, the two days at the Penzlum Summit, being in the right type of environment, you come away feeling inspired. You come away with clarity again on what you really want to achieve, and getting in and around the right type of people and being in the right environment of like-minded people can help you do that.

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On that, before you go, guys, again, if you've been following me on social media, you will have seen that I have a massive event in Belfast at the end of February. I'm bringing world-renowned human behavior expert, dr John Demartini, to the Titanic Hotel February 24th for a fantastic evening to teach all about human potential, human awareness and understanding how we can get a real, clear vision for ourselves and our lives and our business, but also understanding ourselves. For me, I talked about how much I've learned from Dr Demartini over the years being in the institute and becoming a qualified facilitator in his institute using his method. How that's impacted my life, how that's impacted me, how it's impacted my business, how it's also impacted the people that I serve and coach literally all around the world. Learning from him has given me that confidence, and every time that I listen to him, I get clearer again and I get grounded a lot of the times as well, too, with the information that he shares.

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And this is going to be his first time coming to Belfast to speak live, and the tickets have been flying out. I think that there's 10 premium tickets left, and then there is five tickets left on a second table for the VIP table that we put on. The first one booked out in 24 hours. What I'm going to do, guys, if you're interested in the event, I'm going to put the link in the show notes. Go to the show notes, grab yourself a ticket. I would love to see you at the event 24th of February at the Titanic Hotel in Belfast. Dr John Demartini is going to be sharing his years 52 years of research, teaching and wisdom that he has learned and shared across the globe for the last 50 years. It's going to be a great evening. We've talked about environment again. Get yourself into that environment so that you can propel yourself forward in 2025. Okay, guys, speak soon. Bye.