The Hidden Code That’s Been Controlling You | Markus Neukom on Breaking Free and Rewriting Your Life

Most people live their entire lives without realizing they’re running on someone else’s code.
Beliefs you didn’t choose. Rules you didn’t write. Outcomes you never wanted.
In this raw, no-BS conversation, Markus Neukom — creator of the Core Communication method — sits down with Kellan Fluckiger to expose how deep conditioning, emotional triggers, and hidden programming have been quietly running the show.
You’ll discover:
- Why you keep repeating the same mistakes.
- The 3 “control codes” buried in almost every human interaction.
- How to finally communicate without the fear, ego, and reactivity that destroy relationships.
- Why freedom doesn’t start with motivation — it starts with awareness.
💥 If you’ve ever felt trapped in cycles you didn’t choose, this episode will hit like a lightning bolt.
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00:00 - Untitled
00:11 - The Beginning of Truth
04:51 - The Journey of Service and Abundance
08:00 - The Journey of Self-Discovery and Stewardship
19:27 - The Turning Point: Seeking Help
28:05 - The Path to Stillness
35:16 - The Catalyst for Legacy and Influence
43:14 - The Journey from Hamster to Human: Awakening True Identity
46:03 - The Awakening of the Soul
This might surprise you.
Speaker AWhen I was born, I actually was born like that.
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Speaker AHey there.
Speaker BWelcome to this episode of your ultimate life, the podcast created to help you live a life of purpose, prosperity, and joy by serving with your gifts, your talents, your life experience, your skills.
Speaker BGrateful today to have a special guest with us, Marcus Newcomb.
Speaker BMarcus, welcome to the show.
Speaker AThank you so much for having me, Ken.
Speaker AIt's great pleasure.
Speaker BYou are absolutely welcome.
Speaker BGrateful to know you and grateful for who you're being.
Speaker BSo we had a brief chance the other day to chat, and so I learned a little bit about you, but nowhere near as much as I'd like to know.
Speaker BAnd you said something right before we started that said, I'm ready to serve.
Speaker BSo why did you say that?
Speaker ABecause it's literally what I'm here for.
Speaker AYou know, there's always this talk about servant heart.
Speaker AYou've heard that, right?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAnd I just realized that if someone has a servant heart, you rarely hear me talk about it, by the way, because I feel if someone talks about too much of having a servant heart, it makes me a little bit weary.
Speaker ABut for me, it's literally the foundation of my being.
Speaker AI realize when I surf, guess what?
Speaker AMoney is never shortage.
Speaker AFriends are never shortage.
Speaker AConnections are never shortage.
Speaker AOpportunities are never shortage.
Speaker ASo it's always almost like people are taking.
Speaker AHow do you call it in the US Taking the.
Speaker AThe carriage in front of the horse.
Speaker BCart in front of the horse, right?
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AAnd if you actually literally have the horse in front of the.
Speaker AOf the carriage, what actually happens is it is service first or serving first, which is not being a servant, by the way.
Speaker AIt's literally being in service.
Speaker AAnd that is the ultimate formula for me, for the rest.
Speaker BSo I believe you, and I agree with you 100%.
Speaker B100%.
Speaker BAnd I see it, the truth of that thought in my own life and business and everything.
Speaker BSo why is that important to you?
Speaker BLike, you weren't born knowing that?
Speaker BBecause we're not born knowing very much.
Speaker BSo tell me a little bit about what happened.
Speaker BTell me a little bit of a story, like, take me to how you got to a place where you sit here and tell me that service is first and money's not a problem and friends are not a problem and all that stuff you said, which is beautiful.
Speaker BAnd true.
Speaker BBut I want you to take me on a little bit of a trip.
Speaker BHow did you get to where you believe and live in that knowledge?
Speaker AThis might surprise you.
Speaker AWhen I was born, I actually was born like that.
Speaker ASo when I was born, I understood my life is a life of service.
Speaker ASo it took me nine and a half years until I experienced an accident which the aftermath made me forget what I had known before.
Speaker ASo it's a little bit different than most people.
Speaker AMost people come to this earth forget, and then they remember.
Speaker ABut I came and I knew.
Speaker AI remembered.
Speaker AI knew.
Speaker ASo then my decision was to protect my soul.
Speaker AAnd by protecting my soul, I went into a conscious forgetting.
Speaker ASo my journey from nine and a half, think about it.
Speaker AIt's very tender age from nine and a half until today.
Speaker AAnd at 53 years old was the journey of remembering what I once knew.
Speaker ASo imagine my soul was bold in.
Speaker ABut at the same time, it followed me all the time.
Speaker AIt always reminded me, marcus, you are a servant first.
Speaker AIt's not being a servant, you know, like under people, it's equal.
Speaker AIt's the.
Speaker AThe.
Speaker ABasically the attitude of service, which it was.
Speaker BIt's a choice about how to approach and live in a relationship.
Speaker BSo I get it.
Speaker AYes, it absolutely is.
Speaker AAnd what was interesting, you know, when I was an employee, I was an employee until, let's say 15, 15, 18 years ago, I don't remember anymore.
Speaker AAnd until then, I never had any issues with funding because why I always served first.
Speaker AFriends came, jobs came, everything came.
Speaker ABecause I just believe this is actually the real system of abundance.
Speaker ABe of service first and the rest will follow.
Speaker ASo, you know, this actually brings us to an interesting conclusion.
Speaker AWhat if the rest doesn't follow?
Speaker AIs it because the service is not ideally, you know, segmented?
Speaker AYou see what I mean?
Speaker BYeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker BIt brings someone to doubt.
Speaker BSo if I do, if I'm in service and all that cool stuff doesn't happen, then what?
Speaker BLike.
Speaker BAnd there's all kinds of ways to go out of that question, but I want to hear where you go out of that question.
Speaker BSo go for it.
Speaker AYou see, what's interesting, when we came to the US in October and I told you that I went on quite a journey, basically I went on a hero's journey and very accelerated.
Speaker AAnd I once asked the universe, why is it that so many, let's call it nicely, less intelligent people than I am, less skilled people than I am, less nicer people than I am, are millionaires, multimillionaires, and if not billionaires, why not me.
Speaker AYou know what the answer was?
Speaker BI don't.
Speaker BBut you're going to tell me and I love it.
Speaker AIt was very interesting.
Speaker AYou were protected because you first had to become who you are today in order to take care of the funding that will come.
Speaker ASo the challenge was me becoming corruptible, me giving in into, you know, it's as good as it gets.
Speaker ALike my spirituality doesn't have to be elevated.
Speaker AMore like we look, you know, at the spiritual scene.
Speaker AYou could think, gosh, this thing is filled of elevated and enlightened beings.
Speaker AThey're mostly people who say, you know what I'm like above most of the people.
Speaker AAnd I can rest of my loreal eyes.
Speaker AI'm rich now.
Speaker ABut the universe told me Marxus, we have prevented you from having that funding until you are ready to actually steward it in a way that you don't become big headed, that you don't become arty, that you don't become corruptible.
Speaker ABecause you know, money does often corrupt.
Speaker BYou know what, some of the listeners may know this already, but you're 100% right because I did it the other way.
Speaker BI pursued all that stuff and created wealth and status and jobs and money and everything else and at the same time struggled with misery and addictions and depression and exactly what you're describing.
Speaker BUntil I had to start over.
Speaker BUntil I had to, oh, you know, I can't and then take the journey that you're talking about.
Speaker BSo it doesn't surprise me at all that you say I was protected, that was delayed because I needed to get to a place where I could steward and manage these things.
Speaker BWell, as they came.
Speaker AI'd like to tell you a little bit more of your interest to Kellen.
Speaker BSure.
Speaker ASo what happened was I then wondered was it fair?
Speaker AAnd I had to say yes, it was fair.
Speaker ABecause I am someone who is not very competitive.
Speaker AThe only competition I have is myself.
Speaker AAnd that's playful.
Speaker AWhen I was employed, I asked myself how much can I charge for my company in order for people still paying my services?
Speaker AAnd it became up to $750 per hour.
Speaker AWhich was nice for the company.
Speaker AAnd then I met a management consultant because I decided to go solo to become an entrepreneur.
Speaker AAnd he said to me, marcus, this doesn't work anymore.
Speaker AYou are not in charge of the company anymore.
Speaker ANow it's you.
Speaker ASo you will need to slash your pricing by half.
Speaker ASo 750 divided by two.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker AIt's quite a reduction.
Speaker ASo when I became an entrepreneur, I received an email out of the blue from A previous client of the X company asking whether I would still do outplacement.
Speaker ASo I replied, yes.
Speaker ASo he said, look, I have a dear friend who just got fired.
Speaker AHe needs someone like you.
Speaker AHe has a budget.
Speaker ASo my wife asked me, how much are you going to charge?
Speaker AAnd I said, oh, before?
Speaker AShe said, why, you are going to charge $750.
Speaker AI said, are you crazy?
Speaker AThe other guy told me the half.
Speaker AShe said, was it the company that was the quality or was it you?
Speaker ASo I drove one hour to that place and I battled with myself, I can tell you.
Speaker AAnd in the end, I charged 750 and I got paid.
Speaker ASo that's the side story.
Speaker BNo, it's actually a really important story because there's a notion that there's some magic about all the rest of that crap that that can consultant had bought into.
Speaker BAnd the person that knew you before knew what you charged, and I don't know why they would have an expectation that suddenly you'd value yourself at half just because you were hanging your own shingle.
Speaker BThat's nonsense.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker ASo imagine what I did then is, okay, this was my first client.
Speaker AAnd then we went to Budapest and Hungary, and we came back and I had an invitation to a management summary.
Speaker AAnd so I went there and I had already paid for the gala dinner.
Speaker ASo before the gala dinner, I got so tired, and I thought, gosh, goodness me, now I have been in this award ceremony, and now I have to stay like two or three more hours and eat way too much.
Speaker ASo in the end I decided, let's stay.
Speaker AGuess what?
Speaker ATwo seats were free at my table, and one of the winners of this award, with his secretary, sat next to me.
Speaker ASo I did nothing else than just interview him, have fun with him, ask him questions, ask him questions, made it all about him.
Speaker ASo after, I think, 20 minutes, he said, sir, I have no bloody clue who you are.
Speaker AI know nothing about you.
Speaker ALet's make it now about you.
Speaker AImagine being a consultant having that curveball.
Speaker ALet's make it all about you.
Speaker ASo at the end of the night, he said, sir, I don't know yet how, but you and I are going to do business with each other.
Speaker ANo acquisition, absolutely nothing.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker ASo he calls me up in a couple of weeks and he says, sir, I need your help.
Speaker AWe have a fire in our house.
Speaker ASo I went there, like, not a literal fire, metaphoric fire.
Speaker AAnd he asked me, how much are you going to charge?
Speaker AAnd I said, you don't want to know that.
Speaker AHe said, yeah, but you can Tell me your hourly price.
Speaker AI said, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker AI'm doing something else.
Speaker AI'll ask you to go home, into your office and give it some thought.
Speaker AHow much would it cost you?
Speaker AOr how much would it be worth for you if I solved your problem?
Speaker AAnd I just looked at him and he said, okay, challenge accepted.
Speaker ASo we met again for dinner after lunch.
Speaker AAnd he said, okay, so what is your hourly rate?
Speaker AOh no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker AI have done my homework, he said.
Speaker ASo he presented me a budget of $20,000, which was unheard of as the first business or a company.
Speaker ANo references, absolutely no proof of concept of mine.
Speaker AAll he had was based on that 20 minute conversation, I made it all about himself.
Speaker AThat's apparently where he saw my quality.
Speaker AThink about it.
Speaker ASo it's much more the stillness that spoke then already than actually what I said.
Speaker ASo what happened later was then I met another management consultant.
Speaker AAnd guess what he said?
Speaker AHe said, markus, I'm sorry to burst your bubble.
Speaker AThis is not going to go on like this.
Speaker AYou have to do acquisition.
Speaker AYou have to learn marketing, you have to learn advertising, you have to learn how to persuade people.
Speaker AGuess what?
Speaker AI bought into it.
Speaker AYou know what happened?
Speaker AMy business declined.
Speaker AAnd that's when the universe said, that's when we took you into the university of life.
Speaker AThat's when we told you that it's not about people who actually sustain you.
Speaker AIt is us, the universe.
Speaker AAnd one day I even ask, how is it now?
Speaker AI have literally severed ties to almost all my connections, so I have no one anymore who can bring me business.
Speaker AAnd then the universe said something very straightforward.
Speaker ADo you really believe that one single cent has ever come from people, from organizations, from clients?
Speaker AAnd that was my wake up call, Kim.
Speaker AThat's when I understood money never came from someone.
Speaker AIt always came through someone, always through someone.
Speaker AAnd that was when I was, yeah, getting clear.
Speaker ASo I said, okay, dependencies are all gone now it's all trusting again.
Speaker AWhat I always trusted in that the universe does provide.
Speaker AAnd it does.
Speaker BThat's wonderful, you know, and it's true.
Speaker BIt's wonderful and it's true.
Speaker BI want to talk more about that and I want to ask you a little bit more about your business.
Speaker BBut before I do, I want to go back to nine and a half.
Speaker BSo before you had this accident, you said you were born knowing that you were to be of service, that your mission here was to serve.
Speaker BWhat did that look like for an 8 year old or a 9 year old before you?
Speaker BWhat did that feel like, how did that show up?
Speaker BLike, how does an 8 year old that knows I'm here to serve, what does that look like?
Speaker AIt's absolutely natural.
Speaker AIt's a natural love for people.
Speaker AIt's a natural love for wanting everyone else to do good because I was doing great.
Speaker ASo I had the desire for people to get to that point as well, that they remember that they are more than just what they believe they are.
Speaker AAnd basically you can say I was a ray of sunshine.
Speaker AAnd I believe that ray of sunshine.
Speaker AYou know, even when I went into my apprentice and everything, they always said, markus, you are like a ray of sunshine.
Speaker AAnd I believe that probably sums it up the most.
Speaker ASo I brought light where there was darkness.
Speaker AI brought hope where there was despair.
Speaker AI think that sums it up really well.
Speaker AI was just a normal kid.
Speaker BWell, it's interesting because my next question is going to be, okay, what happened when you were nine?
Speaker BBecause that marked a turning point or a change not in who you were supposed to be or ultimately would become, but in an interruption, I guess, in that flow.
Speaker BSo what happened?
Speaker BWhat was the accident that happened when you were young?
Speaker AIt's interesting.
Speaker AThe accident itself wasn't a catalyst.
Speaker AThree kids, and remember I was nine and a half, I was the oldest.
Speaker AThree kids almost died and I was accused of it.
Speaker AOh, wow.
Speaker ASo what happened was I was a member of a church, of an evangelical church.
Speaker AAnd the elders came to me and they said, marcus, we always warned you, your freedom will one day not only endanger you, but other people.
Speaker AGuess what I've done.
Speaker AI listened and I said, okay, now I definitely realize I am a danger for the society.
Speaker ASo I went to the church and said, okay, I hand over my freedom because apparently I am not only a threat for myself, but I'm a threat for other people.
Speaker ASo that's when I decided to go home, speak to my soul and say to my soul, you are in danger.
Speaker AI have just handed over freedom, so I cannot protect you anymore.
Speaker AAnd if you roam free, they are going to harm you.
Speaker ASo we decided to ball it in and that one day when I'm grown up, when I'm old enough, I will come back and take it out.
Speaker ASo what I did not know is that my soul always walked with me.
Speaker AIt kind of stayed walled in, but you know, the soul, it doesn't get stuck by a wall.
Speaker ASo it basically always roamed with me.
Speaker ASo that is, yeah, pretty much the summary.
Speaker BSomebody.
Speaker BThat's crazy.
Speaker BBut it's a really illustration of how powerful the mentor figures Whether they're parents, church, community, school have to us because they tell an impressionable nine year old kid, you're dangerous.
Speaker BAnd so you go home and say I'm dangerous, I better hide it, stuff it in, sew it shut, whatever, zip it up and put it away.
Speaker AThat's pretty much what it was in my life.
Speaker ALife changed like in an instant.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker APicture this.
Speaker AAn absolute blossoming child ray of sunshine.
Speaker AThe next day I would not even dare to walk into a restaurant where someone was bathing with me unless that person came and went into the restaurant first.
Speaker ABecause I was totally of the impression that I do not deserve that air in there, that it belongs to other people.
Speaker ASo it's from an absolute high as the nine and a half year old to absolutely loss of identity with an instant.
Speaker BSo when did you start to.
Speaker BWas it just a gradual process that began immediately or was there another initiating event that said wait a minute, this isn't right, I'm not supposed to be living in a place where I'm convinced that I'm not worthy and I don't deserve to breathe the air.
Speaker BWhere did that begin to change?
Speaker AI would say the one time that it really changed was when I decided Kalin to be the first of this church to go and seek help of a psychotherapist.
Speaker AThat was the first time?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo how old were you then?
Speaker AI believe I was in my 20s, early 20s, 15 years.
Speaker B13 years.
Speaker BYou lived in this contracted wadded up state under the influence of some person who either intentionally or unintentionally, I don't know, told you some stuff, you internalized it.
Speaker BFinally, after 13 years or something, you said this is this, this can't be right.
Speaker BI need to go talk to somebody.
Speaker BAnd you wouldn't talk to a shrink to say, hey, help me without.
Speaker BIs this right?
Speaker BAnd so that began.
Speaker AYou know what I did?
Speaker ANo, I'll tell you what I did.
Speaker AThat was crazy.
Speaker ASo I went to see a guy who I thought could be really become my mentor.
Speaker ASo at the end he said, okay, this is the charge which the insurance company is going to allow me to do.
Speaker AHowever, from you, I require another hundred dollars under the table.
Speaker ASo he ended up becoming my guide.
Speaker AI didn't want to play any role in that corruption thing.
Speaker ARight, right.
Speaker ASo I left and I went to the number two.
Speaker AAnd the number two was a probably he was in his 50s, I would say, a Protestant priest who knew what I was talking about in terms of my church bringing.
Speaker AAnd I went to see him with the words like I remember it was yesterday.
Speaker AI said to him, I want to learn machismo from you.
Speaker ABecause you can't imagine my background.
Speaker AEverything was absolutely out of line.
Speaker ALike, I had.
Speaker AWhat is it called?
Speaker AThe spine.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker AI had no metaphorical spine anymore.
Speaker ATotally weak.
Speaker AAnd I went to see him with the words, I want to learn machismo.
Speaker AAnd he looked at me and they said, okay, let's do it.
Speaker AWow, that's how it all started.
Speaker AYeah, I think it was in my mid-20s or late 20s, so it was almost 20 years in the system.
Speaker BSo life is always a set of experiences, and when things happen to us, they either ruin us or refine us.
Speaker BAnd sometimes we let things ruin us for a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, many decades.
Speaker BAnd eventually we can allow them or treat them as opportunities for refinement.
Speaker BSo as you look back that, nearly 20 years of clouding your light or living in a false belief or having been affected by the, you know, the opinions and teaching of this person, and you look at that situation now, is there something, anything about it that you say that was really beneficial?
Speaker BI learned this, that, and the other.
Speaker ALet me answer you differently, okay?
Speaker AOne and a half years in with my psychotherapist, he suddenly looked at me when I came, and he said, sir, I need to ask you a question.
Speaker AMany other people, probably most went through what you went through, would either have landed in an asylum, mental asylum, or they would have committed suicide.
Speaker AI just looked at him, and then he said, but if I look into your eyes, you have one of the most healthiest set of eyes I've ever seen.
Speaker ASo he knew the eyes are the mirror to my soul, right?
Speaker ASo he knew my soul wasn't damaged.
Speaker AHe said, how is that possible?
Speaker AAnd I said, look, it might surprise you, especially as a priest, but I always knew that this belongs to the path of my life, that this belongs to my becoming and to my arriving.
Speaker AAnd he said, yeah, otherwise it's not possible to imagine and to explain.
Speaker ASo I never blamed the people who caused the trauma in the end.
Speaker AAt church, so many people throughout my life said, marcus, if I had experience where you had experienced that one day, I would have cursed people.
Speaker AI would have cursed your parents, because your parents weren't there to defend you.
Speaker AThey even actually let you in the belief for 20 years that you were responsible for that accident, where there was a whole different reason why it actually happened in the end.
Speaker ASo, no, there wasn't one day where I thought I actually blamed someone.
Speaker ABut what it wasn't, I never Thanked the system for what it taught me.
Speaker AI thanked the universe for taking me into school and teaching me those lessons.
Speaker AAnd, you know, as I said, I'm 53 years old, killer now.
Speaker AAnd the universe told me probably half a year ago, he said, look, you had to understand what humans are going through in order to understand and to be able to help them.
Speaker ABecause unless you went through what most people never went through, you won't be able to really help them.
Speaker ABecause my psychology said, look, if you come to me with the business issues, I can't help you.
Speaker AI have no bloody clue from business.
Speaker AI'm a priest and I know psychology.
Speaker AI can help you.
Speaker APsychotherapy, right?
Speaker ABut I can't help you when you come with business things.
Speaker AYou will have to explain it to me as if you explained it to a job.
Speaker ASo guess what?
Speaker AThis does not happen with me if I work with somebody, because I went through the worst.
Speaker AI know what it means to lose your identity, absolutely.
Speaker ATo the point where you don't even know that you exist.
Speaker AWhere you feel that breathing does not belong to you, fresh air does not belong to you in a restaurant, because, no, there's a limited amount, right?
Speaker AToo many people in it.
Speaker AThere's no oxygen anymore.
Speaker ASo I thought the oxygen belongs to others.
Speaker ABut that totally disappeared over time.
Speaker AAnd I reclaimed was actually at my psychotherapist.
Speaker ASo I sat on the ground and I said, look, now I show you something.
Speaker ANow I'm showing you how I'm reclaiming my own term.
Speaker AAnd he said, look, it was crazy to hear you talk because you asked questions, sat on the ground before I even understood what you asked.
Speaker AYou already answered.
Speaker AWhy is that?
Speaker AAnd I said, look, I never came for you for answers.
Speaker AI paid you money, so you give me your four balls.
Speaker AI rented them basically to finally have a place where I'm allowed to speak my truth.
Speaker AAnd that's what it came down to.
Speaker AThat was the beginning of my healing, when I finally had a place.
Speaker ABut I had to pay for it.
Speaker AI had no friends who would do that.
Speaker AThey were in the system.
Speaker ASo I had to pay a professional.
Speaker AAnd he just listened to, so let's talk.
Speaker BLet's.
Speaker BAnd so the years have gone by and you've reclaimed that.
Speaker BAnd I want to get to what you're doing now.
Speaker BSo today, as you are an entrepreneur, you had a job for some time, you're an employee, you had a company, you then left that.
Speaker BAnd you told some stories about leaving that today.
Speaker BWhat is your focus?
Speaker BHow do you add good to the world?
Speaker BLike, I Know that you're.
Speaker BYour mission is to help others find their own light.
Speaker BLike you had.
Speaker BAnd you talked about people remembering over time, and you were and then weren't and are again.
Speaker BSo tell me what you do right now to add good to the world.
Speaker BThat's a phrase that I use.
Speaker BThat just means that's about your purpose and passion.
Speaker BWhat do you do?
Speaker AI think it's important to understand that a little while ago, I was quite a successful business consultant and executive coach.
Speaker AAnd I suddenly was taught over no executive coaching anymore, no business consulting anymore.
Speaker AAnd that's when I became a little bit weary.
Speaker ASo what I was told is, markus, you are becoming a steward of stillness.
Speaker AAnd I thought, okay, that sounds interesting.
Speaker ASteward of stillness.
Speaker AYou know, most people would think it's like yoga.
Speaker AIt's like meditation where you sit still.
Speaker AIt's the opposite.
Speaker ASteward of stillness basically means I am providing a room which is not like a physical room.
Speaker AIt's like for every meet, it's just stillness.
Speaker ASo what I'm doing is I'm providing a room for people where you can look at like this.
Speaker AThere's like a cloak over us where all the outside noise is silent, all the stresses are outside.
Speaker AAnd suddenly there's a coherence between your thoughts and your heart.
Speaker AAnd that opens the channel for the soul.
Speaker AAnd suddenly you begin to see things like, wow, I never looked at it like this.
Speaker AOr somebody else says, markus never told anyone what I'm going to tell you now.
Speaker AAnd that is when the channel is sometimes even for the first time in their lives, Keelan, look at that.
Speaker AFor the first time in their lives, they are so calm, there's so much in stillness that they hear their own soul speak to them for the first time in their lives.
Speaker ABecause, you see, why did I say I'm not a consultant and a coach anymore?
Speaker AIf you're a business consultant, you are here to solve the problems of the client.
Speaker ASo the client tells you what problems he wants to solve, right?
Speaker ALook at it from another point.
Speaker ALook at it from a doctor, an MD Medical doctor.
Speaker AYou will go to a doctor and say, doc, you know what?
Speaker AMy elbow hurts.
Speaker AI want this elbow treated.
Speaker AEvery good doctor would look at you and say, keelan, you know what?
Speaker ALet's have a diagnosis first.
Speaker AAnd he says, you know what?
Speaker AYou actually have a shoulder issue.
Speaker AAnd you would think, you know what, doc, I have an elbow issue.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker AIf you do not help me, I will find a doctor who helps me with my female.
Speaker ARight, sorry.
Speaker AThat's how consulting and coaching works.
Speaker AUnless I'm willing to help a client with the perceived problem.
Speaker AI am not a good consultant.
Speaker AAnd that's when the universe said, marcus, stop that.
Speaker AThat's bullshit.
Speaker AYou have to get people into stillness first, where the actual problems become evident.
Speaker AAnd based on that, you can coach and you can consult, but the prescription is not.
Speaker AOr the diagnosis is not done by the client, which is absolutely insane if you think about it.
Speaker AI have many friends who are doctors.
Speaker AIf I tell them how consulting work, they say, marcus is like, Charlotte, how can you even do that?
Speaker AAnd you know, a friend of mine, I was in a call recently, and she said, marcus, let's look at one question.
Speaker AWhy is it that there are so many consultants and even more bigger problems in corporations than ever before?
Speaker AAnd I said, you just gave the answer.
Speaker AIt's the consultants.
Speaker AIt's the consultants.
Speaker ASo that's when I realized, going into stillness, providing the people the room where their own voice, their own soul starts revealing the actual issues.
Speaker AThat's when real change happens.
Speaker AAnd anything else is basically, I've been doing it long enough.
Speaker AIt's basically superficial makeup brain, if you want to put it this way.
Speaker ABut if you really want to go into depth, I'll give you an example.
Speaker AA company has a huge turnaround, so what would you do?
Speaker AYou take care of the turnaround, right?
Speaker AYou help them with hiring.
Speaker ABut if you go in depth, you suddenly realize, hey, there is one person in silence, a silent killer, making sure that there is so much mobbing taking place in such a low, deep level that no one even sees it.
Speaker AAnd the problem is not the person who mobs.
Speaker AThe problem is the person who is the owner.
Speaker AThe owner doesn't have a spine.
Speaker AAnd that's the problem.
Speaker ASo when I start working with the owner and say, you know what?
Speaker AYou are actually the problem.
Speaker AThe problem is that you have no spine.
Speaker AYou have allowed this person to become a huge issue for your company.
Speaker AThat wouldn't happen because I helped.
Speaker AI was a great consultant.
Speaker AI helped with the hiring.
Speaker AI helped with the retention.
Speaker AYou know, we made sure that the image was corrected.
Speaker ANo, the problem was the owner all the time.
Speaker AHe had no guts to hire people who he really needed.
Speaker AYou know why?
Speaker ABecause he didn't believe he deserves to be successful beyond measure.
Speaker AThat's what most people suffer with.
Speaker AThat's when I understood stillness is the key.
Speaker BYou know, it's really interesting, the way you've described that.
Speaker BIt's a reflection of what you felt when that happened, that accident happened, and that stuff happened, and then you believed you didn't deserve to breathe the air.
Speaker BYou just told me about an owner who didn't believe he deserved this.
Speaker BThat and the other.
Speaker BThe other thing you said that's really interesting is you said, I rented the space from the shrink so I could hear myself think I could have a space to find things out.
Speaker BAnd then you said, what I provide is the four walls and the space for them to do what I did in the space with that shrink.
Speaker BSo it's interesting the parallels there about your own.
Speaker AYou're absolutely right.
Speaker AI love that path of growth and.
Speaker BWhat you provide now.
Speaker BAnd I find that.
Speaker BI find that over and over again that our path of development, whatever it was, is the very essence of what we have to offer to help people with, because it's what has helped us, caused us, allowed us to become what we are.
Speaker BAnd so in both those cases, parallel of don't deserve.
Speaker BDon't deserve the space to discover and the space to discover.
Speaker BSo that's really interesting.
Speaker AIt's beautifully put.
Speaker AAnd then actually add something else, which you find the kicker.
Speaker AI suddenly learned that I'm not only the steward of stillness, but that I'm the steward of the Institute of cfli.
Speaker AAnd that made me giggle.
Speaker AAnd I said, how the heck do I have a institute?
Speaker AThen it dawned on me.
Speaker AWherever I am, the Institute of Catalyst for Legacy and Influence is present.
Speaker ASo basically, I have my mobile four walls, which I move everywhere I am.
Speaker AIsn't that amazing?
Speaker ASo the four walls you just mentioned have become my mobile institute.
Speaker ASo when, if I travel to LA and I have a meeting there, the Institute materializes energetically.
Speaker AAnd when I leave again, I take the Institute with me.
Speaker BCatalyst for Legacy and Influence.
Speaker BIs that a company name or is that a descriptor of how you provide those four walls and the space for people to hear themselves think maybe for the first time?
Speaker AIt's pretty much who I am.
Speaker AI am the catalyst for legacy and influence because this is exactly what I'm doing.
Speaker AI'm helping people to find a legacy and thus become influential.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo that's.
Speaker BI love the way you've described it and the journey to get there.
Speaker BI mean, you know, I talk to lots of people that have a message, and the message is always about helping people step into their power, realize who they are, get out of their own way.
Speaker BAnd we've all heard all those different ways of describing, pointing at, I guess, a particular goal.
Speaker BAnd the way you described a little while ago is another way, and I love it, which is a coherence between your thoughts.
Speaker BAnd your heart so that your soul can come through that finally open channel.
Speaker BWhy do you think it's so hard?
Speaker BLike, so many people are talking about this, working on it, and you've got a miraculous story in power that you do.
Speaker BWhy do you think it's so hard to get our thoughts and our heart in coherence so that our soul can speak through?
Speaker AI would say it pretty much comes down to socialization, because as I said, most people are born having forgotten.
Speaker ASo the only thing they learn is what society teaches them.
Speaker ASo I don't think anyone is to be blamed who walks into that trap.
Speaker AAnd I believe my job is really to help people to remember that they are more than they actually were taught to be.
Speaker ASo I believe it very much has to do with the system.
Speaker AAnd there is a system which is not interested in people remembering, because as you can imagine, if somebody starts to remember, they become free.
Speaker AAnd if you are free, let's look at church.
Speaker AYou are not controllable anymore.
Speaker AYou know, suddenly love becomes the driver and not fear.
Speaker BIt's interesting that churches.
Speaker BIn the name of the divine, in the name of the Creator who created this soul and, you know, gave us all this stuff.
Speaker BIt is in the name of that creator that all that fear is exercised.
Speaker BYeah, isn't that interesting?
Speaker BAnd obviously that was not the design.
Speaker BIt's a perversion, distortion of that.
Speaker BAnd over time, you know, we have created a system where we suck the life out of everybody.
Speaker BWhether it's at birth or at two or at nine and a half or whatever.
Speaker BWe suck the life out of them and, you know, wad them up into this.
Speaker BYou got to do this to be okay.
Speaker BYou're supposed to do this, supposed to do that.
Speaker BAnd internally, everybody's feeling the chafing of this doesn't seem right.
Speaker BAnd there's so few that are willing to go explore that.
Speaker BAnd you're called to reach and empower and enable and wake up and provide the space and, you know, the Institute for Legacy and Impact.
Speaker BWhat is it?
Speaker ASay it again.
Speaker BSay cfli.
Speaker BWhat is it?
Speaker ACatalyst.
Speaker ACatalyst for Legacy.
Speaker AFor Legacy and Influence.
Speaker BCatalyst for Legacy and Influence.
Speaker BI love that.
Speaker BSo I love the catalyst word.
Speaker BAnd you notice on my screen I say alchemist, and I use both not interchangeably, because they're not quite the same.
Speaker BBut a catalyst really is something that is not in a chemistry, something that's not used up in the process, but something without which this particular reaction wouldn't take place.
Speaker BSo your catalyst, the four walls that you take with you to create the safety and the space and the peace.
Speaker BYou know, the steward of stillness, catalyst for legacy and influence, and the steward of stillness.
Speaker BLove both those descriptions.
Speaker BSo if people want to find out more, if they want to, you know, get more knowledge and connect more with Marcus and hear more about the steward of stillness, where do they go?
Speaker AHow do they do that?
Speaker ASo the easiest thing.
Speaker AKellen is definitely going on my LinkedIn profile, which is just my first name and last name.
Speaker AMarcus with a K. Then M E U K O M. And just send me a connection request.
Speaker AJust mentioned that they saw me on your show and I'm happy to get on the call with them.
Speaker BHow hard do you.
Speaker BSo I'm going to spell that again.
Speaker BM A R K U S N E U K O M. I do that because when you have a name like Kellen Fluker, pay attention to that sort of stuff.
Speaker BBut anyway, so how do you get people started?
Speaker BI mean, we've lived so socialized and buried in this noise, in this system for so long that it becomes the default operating system.
Speaker BAnd what you're doing is trying to create a pattern interrupt where they have space and an opportunity to get in coherence and to allow stillness to create the conduit.
Speaker BHow do you start with someone who is.
Speaker BKnows there's something wrong?
Speaker BThey're feeling that internal strife between who they.
Speaker BWho they ought to be and what's going on.
Speaker BHow do you get me started on that?
Speaker BIf I come to you and I hear you and I say, yeah, yeah, I want some of that.
Speaker BWhat do you do first?
Speaker AYou see what's really interesting.
Speaker AI give you a life example.
Speaker AI met the person and that person heard that voice.
Speaker AIs this it?
Speaker ARight, it's the soul speaking, because you mentioned it.
Speaker AThis is like, you know, yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker BThat's the conflict between the soul that knows there's a lot more, and the system.
Speaker BAnd the system or the ego or whatever that we learn to live inside.
Speaker BSo anyway, go ahead.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker ASo he got to the point where he said, markus, not one more day.
Speaker ANot do I want to, but can I stay in the system?
Speaker AAnd then he came to me.
Speaker AWe had several sessions and we're still in the process, by the way.
Speaker AIt can be quite a long process.
Speaker ASo he came to me and he suddenly said, markus, I have one question for you.
Speaker AWhat does it going to cost me?
Speaker AAnd I knew it's not money, he's asking.
Speaker AAnd I said to him, it is losing all your illusions, believing you know who you are.
Speaker AAnd Finding out you are not who the world told you to be.
Speaker AHe said, oh, shit.
Speaker ASaid, yeah, it's quite a lot.
Speaker ASo what do you have to gain?
Speaker AIt's total freedom.
Speaker AIt's finally getting to the point where you actually were meant to be finally leaving a hamster wheel.
Speaker ABecause, you know, this is something so shocking to me, Ken.
Speaker ASo many people actually believe they have become hamsters.
Speaker ANot only are they human beings running in a hamster, which I believe they are, they actually become hamsters.
Speaker ASo when they start working with me, what happens is they take one little hamster foot and put it on the ground outside of the wheel very carefully.
Speaker AThey're breathing out when they do that.
Speaker AAnd suddenly that little hamster foot touches the ground.
Speaker AGuess what?
Speaker AThey become human beings immediately.
Speaker ABecause right now they're human havings, they're human achievers, they're human doings, and they have no bloody clue what it means to be a human being.
Speaker AAnd that's when it happens.
Speaker AWhen the first time your foot, the little hamster foot, touches the ground and you suddenly become a human being and you think there is more, always knew it, there is more.
Speaker ABut that actually doesn't make sure that this person wants to do it because the foot goes into the hands of.
Speaker BIt could scare him to death.
Speaker BI don't know if I can live out here or whatever.
Speaker BI know exactly the devil, you know, versus the unknown, right?
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AAnd I can tell you this person has about 13 different hamster wheels parallel to each other.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AHas made them very cushiony, but he says, it's freaking me out.
Speaker AI, as a hamster, are running between the 13 projects all the time.
Speaker AAll the time.
Speaker AAnd I said, yeah, that would stop.
Speaker AYou would suddenly be able to leave that hamster wheel system, which actually condemns you to become a hamster and be a hamster.
Speaker AImagine how painful that must be to be a hamster when you actually know your soul tells you you're a human being, you're meant for greatness.
Speaker AYou're not meant here to be the person who makes millions for somebody else who refuses to listen to its soul and makes you its slave.
Speaker AAnd yes, pays you nicely.
Speaker A300,000.
Speaker A500,000.
Speaker AThere's a price.
Speaker AYeah, the price understood that.
Speaker BBut when they're buying, what they're buying is your soul.
Speaker BSo they paid you 300,000.
Speaker BThey bought your soul and you sold your soul for 300,000.
Speaker AThat's exactly it.
Speaker AThat's exactly it.
Speaker AAnd I tell you, the soul starts out, and I tell you from experience, the soul starts out as a wee little voice.
Speaker AAnd if Marcus didn't listen, guess what happened?
Speaker AIt grew into a bullhorn I could not ignore anymore.
Speaker AAnd guess what?
Speaker AI became ill. And I had one dream one night, eland which shocked me so much, I saw my soul as a little boy standing next to a tree with a little ax and start hitting it and wanting it to fall.
Speaker AAnd I ask, hey, stop.
Speaker AWhat are you doing, Marcus?
Speaker AYou don't leave me a choice.
Speaker AEither you destroy me or I have to destroy you.
Speaker AAnd that's when I woke up.
Speaker AAnd I said, okay, message received.
Speaker AYou know how many people suffer from shoulder pain, neck pain, headache, all sorts of issue pain, nerve pain?
Speaker AThat's exactly it.
Speaker ASo I went to see a doctor, and the doctor said to me, you know what, sir?
Speaker APicture this here are nerves, right?
Speaker ASo he went to, let's say, this much away from my skin here, and I was yelling in pain.
Speaker AAnd he said, I haven't even touched you.
Speaker AI said, yeah, it's enough.
Speaker ASo he went to the nerves here and just went close to it, and I stood up in pain.
Speaker AAnd he said, sir, your nerve system is absolutely laid bare.
Speaker AEither you stop or you end up in a wheelchair.
Speaker AThat was the wake up call back then.
Speaker AAnd I wish that the people who listen to us do not have to go that far.
Speaker ABut they will.
Speaker AI can tell you.
Speaker AThey will.
Speaker BThey will.
Speaker BBecause your soul's never going to give up.
Speaker BAnd you can wait until you die or.
Speaker BYou're right.
Speaker BI love the tree example.
Speaker BSo this has been really good.
Speaker BWe're just.
Speaker BWe're to the end of our time, and I'm really grateful that we have another opportunity to talk on my other.
Speaker BI look forward to it.
Speaker AYeah, yeah.
Speaker BBecause there's so much more of this I want to explore.
Speaker BAnd that's beautiful.
Speaker BSo is there any final words you'd like to give the audience before we're done?
Speaker AThere's basically only one answer to everyone.
Speaker AYes, there is more.
Speaker BThank you.
Speaker BThanks for being with me today.
Speaker AThank you for having me.
Speaker AGreat pleasure.
Speaker BYou're welcome.
Speaker BSo I want audience.
Speaker BListeners, pay attention.
Speaker BYes, there is more.
Speaker BThat's a beautiful summary.
Speaker BAnd it's the answer.
Speaker BAnd so when you're feeling that yearning, I don't care what you've got going on right now, the yearning is there.
Speaker BAnd it does get louder, as he said, if you choose to pay attention instead of ignore it today, it doesn't matter how many times you've ignored it before.
Speaker BYou can start right now.
Speaker BGet a hold of Marcus, find out his stuff.
Speaker BGo to LinkedIn.
Speaker BCheck it out.
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