Welcome back to Inside personal growth. This is Greg Voisen, the host of inside personal growth and joining us from Laguna Beach, California, with that busy traffic behind him that I see there, Corey Gladwell, and he has a book out called, what if no one is coming to save you? And the subtitle is and 67 other meditative journaling questions to challenge your perceptions and change the way you live your life. Hey, Corey, how

you doing? I'm great. I'm great. How are you? I'm awesome.

It's glad. I'm glad to have you on the show finally and to get this together. And for all of you who want to know more about Corey, what he does and why he's so good at what he does. Go to Corey Gladwell, G, L, A, D, W, A, L, l.com, there you can learn more about him. You can learn what he does for authors. His digital media is web and mobile development is publishing. He also has authors.io as well, which we'll put a link to, and that's not spelled the normal way. That's right, that's right. We'll make sure that there's a link that well. Corey, this book is really quite interesting, and it's kind of a book that, if no one is coming to save you. I mean, I think the title is perfect, because really, all you can do is save yourself. You know, most part, it's an internal job, right? It is. This book presents 68 Okay, transformative questions. And I would say they are, when I got the Kindle version and started looking through and I was like, wow, it's there's a lot of opportunity for people to explore. And even if you bought this book and you only had one question that really moved you, it was worth it. So you're challenging readers to change their perceptions, about their beliefs, their mindset, and look at what structured that. Now, how did you select these specific questions? I mean, what, what brought you to these questions? Were you just really getting a spiritual download? And it all came in,

pretty much it, yeah, nutshell, yeah, I Yeah. So I had, I did have a, and we can talk about my kind of background story and all that stuff at some point. But I, after having kind of, you know, grown up poor and I was a kid, and then, you know, started realizing how I could make money as an entrepreneur, you know, I was like 23 to 25 I had, like, a nightclub, a restaurant, a vodka brand. I was really just doing, doing the most at that age, and and then, did you know, had a real estate company and a bunch of things. And so by the time I was like, 25 almost 26 January, 2012 I had a profound spiritual experience. I lasted for about three weeks this unconditional love, this oneness, this, you know, kind of three weeks of enlightenment, for lack of a better word, and after that, yeah, yes, exactly. It was kind of, and for those that are, yeah, for those that know, like yourself, it was like a reverse Kundalini, you know, Kundalini is kind of this bottom up, you know, root chakra all the way up thing. And this was the opposite. It was a crown chakra down. And, you know, I wasn't big into I study religions growing up, but I I wasn't trying for it. I was literally just at such a deep, disconnected state at that time, after having owned this nightclub and partying for, you know, every day of the week, that was my job, and I don't regret it. I, you know, got a lot of that midlife crisis out of my system at 2324 but I was really ready to be done with it. And so that that spiritual experience happening after that, I realized there was so much more to this world than just the physical material and and I began to meditate on a daily basis. And every day, since, I don't know, January something, 2012 I've meditated almost every day. And and so somewhere in 2012 I started writing my first book, the human experience. And then, then I was meditating to, I don't know, September, October, and that's when all of every single question and the what if book came to me literally in one meditation. I just started having all these like, what if this? What if this? What if that just kind of flooding in my mind. And I sat up and I wrote them all down. There was initially 111 of them and and I wrote 68 of them because it felt appropriate, but, but, yeah, it was just a that's kind of where they came from. And they,

I think you should have stuck with the 111 because, you know, 1111, has been seeing that number in my life for, I don't know that's it last 20 years. Yeah, huge significance in a spiritual impact that's being called by 1111. 111, whatever it might be, that'll be the part two. We'll add another. Part two will be the

hard number. That's right, that's right.

Well, so look, everybody out there is got these what ifs I'm I'm not enough. What if this happened, and we can talk about attachment versus detachment, and it's woulda, shoulda, coulda. You know, can you share a personal experience where confronting one of these what if questions led to kind of a very significant shift in your own life?

Yeah, so one of the biggest ones for me is what? What if everything works out exactly how I want it to? It's a it's a big question for me, that, and there's a lot of these, what ifs that really have shifted me? You know? What if everyone approved every decision I made next? You know? What? If there was no one else left in the world and it was just me? What would I do next? A lot of those things shifted. But the one that like, what if everything works out for me exactly how I want it to, or exactly how it's supposed to, that question really took me, I think, on the path that I'm on now to having a multiple seven figure business and being able to spend time with my daughter five days a week and only work two days a week, and be able to, you know, spend time with my parents and hang out with friends and travel every month. And I think that that moment that I first came to these questions through meditation, it's not like everything was perfect. You know, when these questions first came, things weren't perfect. And so, you know, I think it's sometimes it's hard to hear people that are in a position where I'm at now, where it's like you've gone through the journey, you've gotten the rewards and and you're there. It can feel when people that aren't there hear that like it's, you know, well, it's easy for them to say and so I always want to preface it with, you know, when I first came to these questions and writing books, I wasn't in that space. I wasn't everywhere I wanted to be and the person I wanted to be. And so when I would brush up against an idea of, like, hey, I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to publish my own book. I want to or I want to even write a book. You know, it's like, well, who the hell am I to write a book? Why would anyone listen to me? Why Does anyone care the story's been told, you know, and I talked to our publishing company, we talked to some of the biggest executives in the world, people that are working for the governments, people that are, you know, ex executives at Google, and, you know, X, DEA, people that are making decisions for the rest of us in the world, and they feel that same way. And, you know, so who's gonna listen to me? And I'm like, everyone would, you know, but when I, when I felt that question of, like, who's gonna listen to me, why should I write a book, and, and, and I wanted to, you know, start an online business and build my media agency. And, you know, those questions, of those fear that come up, and usually the what ifs are in negative ways where it's like, what if this happens? What if that happens? What if this fails? And we kind of have that fear based what if questions. And so I wanted to flip those questions around, you know, what if it all does work out for me? What if everyone does say yes? And when I started doing that, I realized, and a series of realizations that, like, there's usually not as much risk involved in in trying and getting to know. And this easy example is dating. You know, we get afraid to go ask a girl out and say something to her. Worst case, she's going to come back and just say, No, you know, it's like, so you're right, exactly where you are, except for your egos a little bruised. It's the same thing in business. Go if you have an offer to sell, you have a coaching or courses or whatever else. You want to become a speaker. You want to do a TED Talk. If you just try. The worst thing is you're going to fail, but you'll be right where you are. But if you don't, if you don't keep trying and trying and trying and failing and then finding out what that feedback is, because failure just means feedback. That's that's just, that's what I've experienced. Failure just means feedback. So if I fail, okay, then I'm getting feedback that this doesn't work that way, or the way I'm offering it doesn't work, the way I'm writing the book doesn't work, the way I'm doing the cover design, or the way I'm trying to sell this coaching or consulting isn't working. What can I use that feedback for? To just tweak it and change it and keep going. And when I have the base level of my mind, my perception, saying, What if everything is working out for me? And it seems cliche, but it's like, really believe that, that you can walk over and ask that girl out. You can go offer your your services, or, you know, your executive coaching, or your courses. You can go sell your books, or you can, what if everything's working out with me. For me, everything's working out for me. And you just keep having that mindset, it makes everything so much easier, because every No, again, failures, feedback, every no just means you're getting closer Yes, and you don't get hung up on the emotional kind of dramas that we create in our minds that just aren't really, real

well, we're great at, you know, creating those limiting beliefs. And then we create a belief, and then, and then we start living out what we what we created, right? And so getting kind of stuck it, you know, I let's call it the world of making shit up. You know, we make up stuff, then we believe what we made up, and then we live what we made up. So the reality is, that's it, it's, it's kind of all made up. But the reality for transformation in your case is you're trying to take this blended philosophical, psychological and personal growth and blend them all together and say, Hey, how can this create some transformation by having people ask questions? And I think, as a podcaster, as a fellow podcaster, you know, look, some most important thing we can do is ask very engaging, thought provoking questions of the other person. And when you do that, it gets somebody to to really think about their situation, right? And so I'm going to say one of the questions that you posed in the in the book was, What if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? And we all have those same 50,000 questions that go off in our mind all the time that reiterate, right, lay another and nothing ever happens. So they're the what ifs what if this happened? What if that happens? Right? How do you believe contemplating your finitude can actually lead to a more fulfilling life?

That's such a great question. So, and I know it's like you said, these questions kind of come up, and a lot of them can feel like, Oh, well, I've thought of that or whatever. But really sitting with it really like, actually sitting with the experience of, like, I'm gonna die tomorrow, you know, like, just, you're not trying to manifest it or create it, but, like, really thinking through, what if that happens tomorrow? What would I do today? And and really, for me, it's, it's getting present with my time, you know, with the the one thing that I have my time and spending, that's why I spend so much time with my daughter, why I spend so much time with my parents and my friends, why I focus on health? Obviously, I want to live for a long time, but I want to be healthy and happy and enjoy those moments, but I don't know when that time comes, and so when I can. And then this, this question itself, really made me really think deep after I had that spiritual experience, because part of me was like, Oh, I have this spiritual experience. The other part of me was like, I died, you know, or I stroked out, or something I don't know, you know, and so and so it led me to these kind of things like, well, what if I really, what if I am dead? What if I'm not actually alive yet, right? And what if I'm just trying to process this, this reality that I'm in is just me trying to process this transition from death or from life to death, I just haven't accepted it yet. So you can go down a rabbit hole. And not everyone has to go down that rabbit hole that far, but when you start to really try to understand, like, God, I would really miss this. I would really wish I could tell this person that I would I really wish I could have done this. A lot of the fear we have goes away. You know, if I know I'm gonna die tomorrow, I'm not gonna care if I get rejected, if I get those no's right, if I fail, I'm not gonna care. It's not the fragile ego exists because we feel like we are infinite. We feel like we can live forever. So we attach ourselves to our personality, to our name, to our identity and our preferences and our beliefs, and we establish that as who we are. And it's the same thing as me getting in my car and thinking my car is who I am, my car is not it's not me, right? It's a vehicle that I use. And same with this personality, in this body, in this mind, it is a vehicle that I get to use. And so when I can realize that this vehicle is going to crash out, just like the cars can, it's temporary. It's going to go away. Then I can start to realize, okay, like I only have these few moments here, and I want to be able to maximize every single opportunity that I have. And then the ego can start to go away. One of the things that I try to say a lot to myself when I feel my ego coming up and trying to get me to either hyper focus on something or or or prevent me from actually going out and talking to people and making connections and building that closer relationship with with the humans around me. Is things will come up and I'll say, Thank you, ego for showing me what I'm resisting. Because if I'm feeling triggered, right, that's the big word right now, triggered, if I'm feeling triggered, or if I'm feeling like my ego is bruised, or I'm feeling insecure or I'm feeling afraid, then my ego is just trying to show me something that I'm resisting, you know. And so big questions, like, you know, what if I'm going to die tomorrow? What if I do die tomorrow? It drops that ego, you know, like, my ego can't exist in the face of death because it it doesn't. Ego goes away. No,

yeah, exactly right,

you know? And so when it can go away, then it's like, Okay, now what would I do if I if I didn't really care, you know, like, what if I didn't care about that's one of the what if questions, what if I didn't care about that thing that I care about? We all have this thing that's happening at any point in our lives that we really care about that feels like a really big deal, that feels like stressful that I need to solve. And it could be something with the relationship, family, a business thing, a health thing. There's always one thing that at least one thing that's like a major thing we care about, that's like a big deal we need to change. But then five years from now, it's a different thing, and we don't give a shit about the thing that we thought was so important, yeah, five years ago, right? So if we can do that, what if I'm gonna die tomorrow? We can release

that fear of death. That fear of death Corey is the unexplained, the unknown. And I think people say, hey, well, I we fear public speaking as much as you fear the your own more mortality or finitude, right? But people who've gone through near death experiences and have come back from those near death experiences, explain that it's just like had a want to say. Maybe the best way to put it is, is changing clothes. That's

it, right? That's it. New car,

looking at it as it's over. But depending on what your belief is about life after death. It's not over right now, in my my philosophical viewpoint, there are a lot of people that just believe you're dead, you're done. The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. You know, that kind of thing. But the reality is, is that it is a shift in consciousness. Everybody here on this planet right now is working on evolving their consciousness to the, hopefully one of of a greater level of super consciousness, or radical awareness. So we're trying to come to this awareness, which you said the satoria came through you from the top down, and that's where you had this three day, amazing experience, three

weeks, three weeks actually, which was the wildest thing that's

even better. So no, this is wild. Yeah, yeah. This comes down to, you know, I just finished an interview on stop seeking and start finding. Intellectually. We all read a lot of stuff. The question is, who are we in our faith? To actually say, what is that faith? Are you just continuing to read books? I'm not saying you shouldn't read books, but to read books because there's another good book, because somebody says something great and boy, I really need to go out and run out and get get another book, because that's what Z has no find something that's giving you pause for reflection, like your book. This book gives pause for reflection because you're giving people time to actually write in it. Now, this brings me to something which is, you know, you state in the book. And many books say this, you know, this is a Buddhist philosophy. Suffering is a choice. There's going to be pain, but suffering is the choice. The big key here for you to discuss with me is, can you elaborate on how you have become aware, Corey, that suffering is a choice. And what have you been able to do to eject yourself from suffering, okay, from an emotional and mental standpoint, and what would you advise the listeners about ejecting themselves from suffering?

Absolutely, it's a great question. So when I So again, just to reiterate, pain is, is going to happen? Right? If I break my leg, if I cut, you know, my arm, whatever it is, I'm going to be in pain. Suffering, though, is the stories we make up and and the emotions we attach to those stories, right, right? And so an example of this is, you know, Alaska Airlines canceled one of my flights for 24 hours as an international flight. They put us in some random hotel. They won't give us any kind of additional credits or anything. Now I can make up a story, and I'm trying to keep it light so it's not like a super painful you know, people have bigger stories of trauma and abuse and those things, and I've had trauma in my childhood. I've had to work on but, but if I, if I attach to the story that Alaska Airlines is out to get me that it's Life's not fair that. And then people can use this story again, if you're going through childhood trauma, if you were abused, if you were in a relationship and you're breaking up, and you know, there's this story, I'm not good enough, and why does this always happen to me? And there's a there's all that emotional pain that comes the suffering, emotional pain that comes from it, the suffering on there because of the stories, and we get attached to them. And so the one thing, and I've gone through plenty of situations, and from childhood till till now, and I've worked on a lot of those things through, through those painful experiences where I realize, oh, okay, like I'm creating this suffering. I'm deciding to believe this story. Now I can process feelings and emotions without the story of the suffering. When I remove the story, then I'm just feeling the emotions like a duck. I fluff my feathers. The energy comes, the energy goes, I move on. And you see this with kids. I have a five year old daughter. She can get really upset about something, and she knows, because I've talked to her about this that you know, to take some space so she gets really upset. She needs some space, and she'll go take space, and she'll feel her feelings. She'll come back like nothing happened because she processed it, she felt it, and moved on. That's our natural instinct to do as human beings, but we've been trained not to do that. We have to make a story out of it, and then we share our suffering, and then we and now, and you know, we will that happen to you, that happened to me, and we, you know, we all get this sense of bonding, trauma bond, you know, for all of our suffering. And so where it switched for me is that when I start getting into that state, and I start getting into a story, because I get pissed off about something, or I get sad about something, and I realize, Oh, I'm causing my own suffering. Number one, instantly I realize, if I'm feeling any sense of suffering, I'm giving my power away. So if I'm giving my power away, right, I can acknowledge that I can take my power back. Once I realize, okay, I'm giving my power away, I take my power back. Then there's an ability to be able to process it and feel it and not have to be in this kind of endless loop of creating more stories and creating more stories and creating more stories and creating more pain and the more suffering, and so on and so forth. So it really that's the big thing is, where am I giving my power away? You know, if you're ever anyone who's feeling suffering right now and again, not physical, actual pain and certain things, if you're creating these stories, and you're, you're stuck in that mind virus on repeat. Where are you giving your power away? And then you just take your power back, because you don't need to believe everything the news says. You don't have to believe everything that your neighbor says you don't have to believe everyone that anyone comments on social media says you don't have to get so invested in it, you can pull, you can pull that back and realize that you're giving your power away. And then you get to decide how to change that so well,

I really like the correlation between what you just said and really, not only the book, but what your company does to help people. Okay, you know you're, you're the co founder and CEO of authors, a, U, T, H, R, S, dot, i, o, and the interesting thing there is, is you just talk stories. You talked about stories. People say, well, the books, the books not in me, or the book is in me or but I don't know how to write it, or I need help, or whatever. There's so many people that when I've interviewed them, hundreds and hundreds where it comes to this point where they're saying, hey, I want to write a book, or I'd like to tell my story, like I'd like to tell my story, I think there's something in my story, or I want to do it explain to the read listeners, if you would, because this is a perfect segue. How your personal philosophy is kind of influenced this approach to helping professionals publish books and meaningful books, and also helping people get traction on the with those books.

Yeah, so I, you know, a big thing for for me, after I wrote my first book, the human experience, and published it, you know, I got a handful of sales, but not, like, a ton of traction. At that very first part, I thought I was going to publish and sign, and I get a deal with Oprah and, you know, get to make a million dollars like Eckhart Tolle, it's going to be a whole thing, you know, you just make these assumptions that we all make, and, and so. But the follow, the year following, like, within that year of publishing my first book, I got invited to speak, and I got, I started doing some consulting, and I made an additional, you know, 365, $70,000 in new annual added revenue from that. And so after that, people begin to ask for, you know, hey, could you guys write my book? Could you publish it? What did you do? How'd you do that? And I was like, Yeah, you know, we could do that. Because initially I just had this media agency. We were doing websites, and we're doing, you know, branding and, you know, all this cool, fun stuff. But book publishing was, like, its own little thing over there. And so as we begin to get a lot of people interested in that, and realizing there was, like, a formula for how I did it, we started getting referral after referral, and now it's been over 250 people that have have worked with us, and again, a lot of high level executives and government, ex government people and all of that. And so our process is exactly this, right, like talking about with the stories and the questions, right? We do an onboarding call with a client, and we start talking to them about their their life story and everything they've gone through from that we begin, and we're asking very intriguing, thought provoking questions, right? That's the whole goal of it. Just like a podcast interview, we're interviewing them. We're getting that content out. Because when someone asks you a question, all of a sudden you can, you can talk about it, right? It's like you did get it to siphon through this gold that's coming through and just distill it down and find the the the nuggets in there. And so that's what we do. And we start to pull all of it out, and we realize, number one, they have an incredible story that they don't. Might not feel as very unique, but it's like, no, it's actually really incredible. There's a lot of lessons learned. There's a lot of insights there. And then our team and their their assigned writer and their client success manager and all that begin to put together their outline, their their their title and and and fill in all those chapters through what we call content calls, which are very similar to podcast interviews. We're interviewing them, and we're looking for key insights. And I talk about this sometimes there's a client that said we had a call, and they were like, yeah, and then I fell into a volcano. And then he just carried on talking about whatever. And I was like, Hey, wait, wait, wait, pause, pause, you fell into a volcano. Tell me more. And he's like, oh, yeah, I'll get to that later. And then he just didn't and then, you know, our the writer that was assigned to work on his book just for like, three or four months, was like, Dude, you got to tell us about the volcano. Like, we need to know more. Yeah, because to to most people, you know, like, your life is your life, my life is my life. It might seem very normal to us, the experiences, his experience of falling volcano was normal for him. It was just part of some stuff he was doing. But to a lot, to all of us, we have these unique things, and we get really excited about it. And so when I've been able to develop the team and with my business partner, be able to teach them how to find these ways, to seek these intriguing questions, to be able to extract this amazing content from these clients and then package it up in a way that has a beautiful cover and it looks like a thumbnail, you know, on YouTube video that you want to click on and you want to buy the book and and then we do a PR launch. We get them on podcast interviews, and we get them, you know, a nationwide press releases and Business Insider. And we show them how to get a TED Talk. We show them how to get paid to speak on stages. We show them how to land consulting clients. There's so much to being an author, and there's so many revenue streams that you can make as an author when you own the rights and you own the royalties and all of that. But it's really just understanding your story. We all have the story. We just don't know how to get it out, and we don't necessarily understand what parts are valuable and what's not, and how do I package it and and so that's what we're here to do, just from start to finish. You know, make sure it's as easy as possible. Well, it's

a good it's a good way that you've just explained what it is that authors IO does. And for my listeners, go to authors a, U, T, H, R, S, dot, i, o, there, you're going to be able to learn more about his process, what he does, what his team does, and how they help people. How do I call create a book from the ground floor up, and then get it out, and get it marketed, and get traction, and, you know, and then you get speaking engagements, and you get all kinds of things from that, whatever it is that you're seeking, Corey group and help you get there. And I think it's important that people know that, because the journey of being an author can be lonely, and you don't want to have to do it alone, people say, Oh, well, you know, is it a ghost writer? Is it this? Is it that the point is, is it? Sometimes you need a little help and you need a nudge the way he does it through the interviews. And this is my kind of commercial for you. I've done many books for authors as well. They've out. They've come to me and said, Hey, I want you to help me do the book. We do it the same way we we get otter AI, we record it, we take the transcript, we start to pull the pieces together, and it's a great way for you to do it. Now I want to go back to these questions about the book. It kind of emphasizes the power of those what if questions? Because there might be listeners out there right now saying, What if I wrote a book right? What if I wanted to be a public speaker? Questions to challenge and expand the usual ways of thinking. Because I know for me, when I wrote my first book, it was kind of in solitude. I every Saturday would go down and put headsets on, and I'd sit in a little office, and I'd literally just wait for my intuition to pick up on these thoughts, and then I'd follow it here and I'd follow it there, and I'd follow it here and I'd follow it there. Yeah, and I finally come up with what I wanted to write. I also realized this is a tip for people. If you do really want to write it yourself, versus having a ghost writer, you can don't read immediately. Right after what you wrote, don't read it.

Okay, I don't absolutely

the book was created by the Divine, by a message higher than yourself. Let it keep flowing through you. Okay, so how can readers, and this is and then we'll wrap this interview up. One more question off this, how can readers effectively integrate these questions into daily routines that would foster more continuous growth and improvement for themselves? That's a great

question. That's a great question. So yeah, and just to note to you, I hand wrote all of my books. I saw the journals where I hand wrote them, and even though we have ghost writers at our team and our company. I love handwriting. So people can absolutely write it themselves and let it come through them. But, but having a team would would have made it a lot easier, which is why I built the company, because I wish I would have so in the in the book itself, you know, the way it was written was to be able to have, kind of, like this, this coffee table book, right where you can kind of, you know, what, if you owned your emotions, you know, you can go through it and just pick a day, any day, you know? What, if you could change your mind about anything anytime, right? Like, wouldn't that be nice if I could change my mind about anything anytime, and you can kind of go through day by day. What if you spend a year following signs from the universe to decide your future? That would be a good one, right? So being able to just pick one of the ones for the day, you can go through it all at once in one sitting, or, you know, pick one one day and then ask yourself the questions. You know, there's a little bit of writing from me, my reference, my experience, the questions. But really, again, it's all about the questions. My, my, all my books are questions. And the reason they are is because, you know, if I tell you something, or I tell anyone something, tell a friend something is part of it sink in. You know, sometimes people can be really receptive to what you're saying, but unless they're in, like, a very emotional state, and they're, they really need some kind of clarity and answer. It's, it's not going to sink in fully, right? They're going to carry on doing whatever they were going to do. But if you ask them a question, right? And then later they go think about it, whether it was that day or a month later, a year later, that question is somewhere in your subconscious mind, the answer to that question is going to bubble up. When it bubbles up into your conscious mind, you're going to believe it's yours, right. You're going to believe that that that question and that answer and that everything, and because it really it is right. You you your subconscious will answer that question, whether you freestyle and journal stream of consciousness, the answer or it just is in your mind, the answer is going to come and it's going to be yours, and you're going to have that belief, and you're going to have that sense of ownership, because it's going to feel like it's your idea, because it is your idea, versus someone else telling you the answer to that question. And so that's why I love questions. And so you can do it once a day. You can do it again all in one sitting. I come back to this book at least every like three to six months, and I'll go through all the questions and try to answer them. To the point of something you said earlier is that we tell ourselves stories over and over again, and the stories that we create about our lives are are the way we experience life, right? I can see where I'm sitting right now, energetically, emotionally and mentally. That's as far along the horizon as I can see when I get up here, to a higher state, emotionally, mental, you know, mentally more clear. Emotionally, you know, more more calm and centered. Energetically, vibration, vibrating a little bit higher then I can see a little bit. I can see further over that, this next mountain, this next mountain. But while I'm here, I have no idea what that next horizon looks like, and I'm not capable of doing that unless I can expand myself to get there. This book is that is that tool to do that you can begin to expand your mind. One of my friends, I asked him one of the what if questions, like, What if everyone in your life approved of every decision you made. And he came from a family where they didn't do that. They didn't they wanted him to do a certain thing a certain way for however many years, because your family needs to be proud of you. They have to say yes. And when I asked that question, it took like, two years, but it finally sank in, right? It shattered kind of his thoughts on on what he needed to do with this life. He began to take ownership of his life, realizing that, like, this is his life, not his family's life, and again, this whole process redirecting everything he was going to do in life, because there's a sense of freedom and a sense of ownership when you're taking your power back and you're realizing that this is only yours. And whether you're people that are an atheist or they're Christian, or they you know, they're Buddhist, or whatever their belief is, when we die, it's it's not this anymore, right? This, this reality doesn't exist. It's gone. This reality is gone for us as the person we are right now, whatever the belief is or non belief, people say they have for after, after this life. So being able to have that ownership and have that sovereignty of your emotions and of your mind and of your energy and your body and your choices and decisions like that, is such a freeing feeling. And I don't know any other way that I'd want to live than to be able to have that, that sense of connection with myself and with the universe. So

free will live on. What if no one is coming to save you? Is a great all my listeners, because no one is. And I always say this, you know, it's always been like happiness is an inside job. If you're expecting someone to give you happiness or provide you happiness, you're going up the wrong tree, right? That's it. And the reality is, is that as my son came up with the title that he wants to write, I actually think he's gonna come Yeah, we were talking about it. We were talking about it actually called the guru in the mirror. And I think it's a great title, because we are our own gurus. We need to look in the media. Shout out to Chad. We need to take a deep look at that, right? So I appreciate you coming on the show Corey, not only talking about your book, but also talking about how you can help others get to the finish line with their book. And we'll certainly let our group of authors know that there's an easier way out there with authors.io and that's a u t, h, u r, s.io, definitely go there. Also go to Corey Gladwell, G, L, A, D, W, E, L, l.com, we'll put links to both of those in there. Namaste to you, buddy. Thank you for your time and being on my show. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. You certainly have a ton of energy around this, which is excellent, and it takes a lot of energy to actually publish a book. So if you want to draw off of the author's IO team or just Corey to get some of your energy to get you to the finish line, I'd say that's a good thing if you're not even interested in writing a book, but you want to make a personal transformation, and you need a little bit of a prod or a push. Go get this book, because these questions will put you in the new perspective, a new mindset to be able to do that. So Corey, thanks for being on. Thanks for sharing. Namaste, my friend, yeah. Thank

you so much for having me.