The Facebook Ad That Saved a Life: Seth Greene on Ripple Effect, Service, and Spiritual Growth

Seth Greene built a life-saving marketing agency—but not the kind you think.
In this heart-wrenching episode, Seth reveals how a single ad campaign stopped a man from ending his life. What starts as a conversation about business becomes a raw, spiritual deep-dive into service, legacy, and becoming the kind of person your purpose requires.
If you’ve ever doubted that your work can truly matter—this is your wake-up call.
In this episode:
- Why your energy is more important than your marketing.
- How to transform your spiritual breakthroughs into business results.
- The power of ripple effect and why legacy starts inside.
- How this near-death health scare led to a life of impact and purpose.
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00:00 - Untitled
00:03 - A Turning Point
04:19 - The Impact of Marketing and Stories on Lives
10:24 - The Journey to Purpose and Passion
28:01 - The Journey of Personal Development
36:11 - Embracing Change: The Journey Within
I have the day marked in my calendar that I was going to kill myself.
Speaker AI couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker ABut I saw this Facebook ad that it found out you guys did, telling me I could get some relief.
Speaker ASo I said, well, I'll go to the seminar, which is in a couple of weeks.
Speaker AI can kill myself then if it doesn't.
Speaker AIf I don't like the seminar.
Speaker BWelcome to the show.
Speaker BTired of the hype about living the dream?
Speaker BIt's time for truth.
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Speaker BAnd Disney deserve your ultimate life.
Speaker BSubscribe, share, create.
Speaker BYou have infinite power.
Speaker BHello there.
Speaker BWelcome to this episode of your ultimate life, the podcast that we've created to help you create a life of purpose, prosperity and joy by serving with your gifts and your life experience.
Speaker BGot a special guest today, Seth Green.
Speaker BSeth, welcome to the show.
Speaker AThank you so much.
Speaker AIt is an honor to be here.
Speaker AI'm super excited.
Speaker BCool.
Speaker BSo as a question that I like to start with, not always, and I don't want you to be modest.
Speaker BI'd just like you to tell us, how does Seth choose to add good to the world?
Speaker AI believe that marketing saves lives.
Speaker AWe have proof that our marketing campaigns have saved people's lives, which is some of my favorite testimonials.
Speaker AAnd how do we add good to the world?
Speaker AWe are in the business of storytelling, so we tell your story for fun and profit.
Speaker AWe tell it to the right people to get them to give you money, save you money, cut your taxes, make you more money, all kinds of different ways.
Speaker ABut our goal is to get your message out to the world, to the right people who can expand your network and your net worth.
Speaker BSo tell me, like, obviously that's a little bit practiced, which is good.
Speaker BSomething that you do.
Speaker BAnd you, you.
Speaker BI love the emphasis on storytelling.
Speaker BAnd what is it about this mission that you're on that's in your heart?
Speaker BLike, why do you care about this?
Speaker ABecause of the ripple effect.
Speaker AI love the fact that.
Speaker ASo, for example, I started out as a retail financial advisor, and in that business, I was going to touch maybe a couple hundred people, maybe a couple thousand if I was lucky and worked hard over my entire career.
Speaker ABut as a direct response marketing agency, we might touch thousands of clients who in total, that ripple effect might be tens of millions of people that we reach.
Speaker ASo I love the leverage.
Speaker AI love the fact that every single day, our marketing on behalf of our clients is going to reach more people.
Speaker AThey're going to help them improve Their lives.
Speaker AAnd thus I get to affect a whole lot more people than I ever would on my own.
Speaker BSo that's magnificent.
Speaker BWhat are some of the more impactful, joyful things that you like?
Speaker BPeople come to you, they want help.
Speaker BMarketing.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BSome things you're like, I'm so stoked to market this thing.
Speaker BThis is wonderful.
Speaker BSo tell me about a couple of those.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker ASo at one point in time, and this is why I say marketing saves lives, we did, Mark.
Speaker AWe were helping grow the fastest growing chain of stem cell clinics in the country.
Speaker AAnd we.
Speaker AThey would pick a city that they wanted to open a location in.
Speaker AWe would do.
Speaker AWe would fill a seminar room of prospective patients.
Speaker AThey would do their presentation, close the business, and then open the clinic and then 90 days later, serve those people.
Speaker AAnd my favorite marketing story one of all time is we got a phone call from one of their patients and he had tracked down, called the local office, asked them who did the marketing, and called us, called me and said I had diabetic neuropathy so bad I couldn't even wear a T shirt.
Speaker AI was going to kill myself.
Speaker AI have the day marked in my calendar that I was going to kill myself.
Speaker AI couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker ABut I saw this Facebook ad that it found out you guys did, telling me I could get some relief.
Speaker ASo I said, well, I'll go to the seminar, which is in two, you know, a couple of weeks, I can kill myself then if it doesn't.
Speaker AIf I don't like the seminar, he goes to the seminar, signs up for the treatment, says the treatment's in 90 days.
Speaker AI guess I'll stay alive for 90 more days.
Speaker AI can kill myself then if it doesn't work.
Speaker AGot the treatment and then said my pain went from a level nine to like a level two.
Speaker ANot only am I wearing clothes, I'm playing with my grandkids, I'm running around in the backyard.
Speaker AMy whole life is different.
Speaker AI don't have to kill myself anymore.
Speaker AAnd I said, marketing saves lives.
Speaker AThank God we created that marketing campaign for that client.
Speaker BWell, that's not even a stretch.
Speaker BSo it's an absolute truth, and it's a powerful thing.
Speaker BGive me another story that has.
Speaker BThat's an individual incident, but about another thing, because I know you've done lots of different products for different people and different things that's near and dear to your heart about it means something to you, something you've helped grow or sell or spread or whatever the right word is you want to use.
Speaker BTell me something about that.
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker ASo I will.
Speaker AMy original core business was being a college financial aid negotiator.
Speaker AIt was helping families cut the cost of college tuition.
Speaker A$31,077 per year per kid.
Speaker AAnd I got into that business because my dad had driven me so nuts every semester I was in undergrad about how much it cost that I decided I wanted to solve.
Speaker AHelp solve that problem for other families.
Speaker ASo we've literally now saved people millions of dollars in college tuition.
Speaker AWe have a number of students this last.
Speaker AThis past year who were going to their dream schools who otherwise their parents had said, you can't apply there.
Speaker AWe can't afford it.
Speaker AAnd I said, if we work our magic, right, yes, you can.
Speaker AAnd those kids are going to schools and having opportunities that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten because they didn't know that they could pay less to get to college.
Speaker BSo that's a fabulous story, and it's exactly what I was thinking about.
Speaker BNot that story, but the principle, like, if you solve that for yourself, that's one thing.
Speaker BI mean, sometimes people overcome a problem or challenge, it's like, okay, I'm good.
Speaker BBut you.
Speaker BYou.
Speaker BYou said, well, I'm going to help other people.
Speaker BI'm curious about what it is about Seth that makes it so that he has an interest in, like, helping somebody else with this problem.
Speaker BWhat's going on in your world that makes that a priority?
Speaker AI mean, isn't in my.
Speaker AIsn't that what life's all about?
Speaker AI mean, you know, in the.
Speaker AIn the Jewish space, we call that tikkun olam, fixing the world.
Speaker AOur goal is to make it better than we left it.
Speaker AOur goal is to help others and lift everybody up.
Speaker AAnd other people have been very helpful to me, you included, along the way.
Speaker AAnd I've just always tried to reciprocate or pay it forward.
Speaker BSo that's an interesting thing, and I love that.
Speaker BThank you.
Speaker BAnd the fact that you characterize it, isn't that what life's about?
Speaker BI mean, we are literally built physiologically and spiritually to love and serve each other.
Speaker BWe feel good.
Speaker BNeurotransmitters, all this crap happens when we do good.
Speaker BAnd there's, you know, some spiritual equivalent of, you know, dopamine or serotonin or whatever.
Speaker BI don't know what it is, but there's got to be some, because our heart and our body feels good when we, me, do that.
Speaker BWhat I notice is that when people solve a problem for themselves, usually first, and they get excited about, you know, having something be better, there seems to arise at the same time, almost universally a desire to serve others, to help people with that same problem.
Speaker BAnd you said, you know, isn't that what life's about?
Speaker BThe answer is yes, it is.
Speaker BUnequivocally.
Speaker BNow my question is why do we.
Speaker BWhy do you think we live in a circumstance, in a world that we've created, that.
Speaker BThat promotes and advertises the opposite of that.
Speaker BI got mine.
Speaker BScrew you.
Speaker BWhat are we doing in that world?
Speaker AHopefully making it better, hopefully reversing that tide and reversing that trend.
Speaker AI think we probably got here with too much self interest, too much people focusing on themselves, on what they could get, as opposed to thinking that both the world and relationships are a place we go to give.
Speaker BIt is a place we go to give.
Speaker BAnd thank you for saying that.
Speaker BIs there anything like.
Speaker BI know you've got a family and you love them dearly.
Speaker BI saw a Facebook post the other day, I don't know how old it was, about you and some martial arts that you were doing.
Speaker BWhat is it?
Speaker AA couple months ago.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BCool.
Speaker BTell me a little bit about that journey.
Speaker BWhat is it about?
Speaker BBecause I, you know, I spent a lot of years in martial arts and competitive stuff, so I know the effort, energy, discipline, etc.
Speaker BThat that kind of work takes.
Speaker BIs that like.
Speaker BTell me a little bit about that journey.
Speaker ASo I've been a martial artist most of my life and I got.
Speaker AMy parents enrolled me in martial arts originally when I was in middle school because I was being bullied, I was being physically picked on and it was for me to learn self defense, which took.
Speaker ATook enough practice and repetition for me to actually stand up for myself and defend myself and eventually worked.
Speaker AAnd the bullies at the time left me alone after that.
Speaker ABut I remained fascinated and have taken many martial arts my throughout my life.
Speaker AThe post you saw was me getting my third degree black belt and Krav Maga, which is by far my favorite martial art I've ever done and the one I've stuck with the longest.
Speaker BWhy is it your favorite?
Speaker AIt's the most practical for those of you who folks may be watching or listening at home.
Speaker AI'm not that big a guy.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AI'm not.
Speaker AI'm not going to win a fight based on strength.
Speaker AYou know, someone who's going to pick on me as, or fight with me or mug me is going to most likely be bigger or stronger and I need to be able to win by being smarter or faster.
Speaker AAnd Krav Magaz, the Israeli military's martial art and their military.
Speaker AThe women serve right next to the men, so their martial art was designed specifically not to be.
Speaker AI'm just going to be stronger than you and win.
Speaker AIt was designed to be.
Speaker AI am a smaller, physically perhaps weaker opponent getting attacked and I need to be able to defend myself anyway and still win.
Speaker ASo it, it's the most practical one I've ever studied.
Speaker BThat's fantastic.
Speaker BAnd a third degree black belt is nothing to, to sneeze at.
Speaker BI have a second degree in a couple of different styles, but I didn't finish the third, so that's fantastic.
Speaker BAnd good on you.
Speaker BTell me a little bit about the things that drive you in life, because this podcast is about creating a life of purpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker BAnd you and I know from previous conversations I believe in and practice and live a life where I love every minute of every day.
Speaker BAnd I'm excited about that and I believe that's possible for anyone.
Speaker BWhen I say your ultimate life, what does that mean to you?
Speaker AI, I, I'm, I have been, as you know, you know, we've worked together in the past and I want that life of purpose, passion, and joy, of loving every single minute I've got.
Speaker AI, I feel like I have a lot of purpose, passion, and joy in my life.
Speaker ADo I love every minute of it?
Speaker ANo.
Speaker ASo I've still got some work to do.
Speaker AAnd why I do what I do is to help others make.
Speaker AAnd I'm trying to make the world a better place.
Speaker AAnd whether that's to help as many other people as I can along the way to make the world a better place, or simply the selfish goal of, you know, putting all three of my kids through college?
Speaker AI'll take all of it.
Speaker BOf course you will.
Speaker BAnd you'll accomplish all that.
Speaker BI have no question.
Speaker BDo you believe that it's possible for anyone that's really dedicated to create a life that they love?
Speaker AIt's like, who else is going to do it for you?
Speaker ASo, yes, absolutely.
Speaker AI think, I mean, my life wasn't always filled with purpose and passion and joy, and it took hard work and dedication to get there.
Speaker AI think we might, I think that's actually probably our natural state that we were born into.
Speaker AAnd then society or our family, mother, father, sister, teacher, preacher, whoever sent us in a different direction by their own misguidedness.
Speaker AAnd it's our job to kind of work to our way to get back there.
Speaker BI agree.
Speaker BAnd somehow we've created this world that focuses so much on negativity and there's all kinds of stories about the amygdala and saber tooth tigers and all that crap.
Speaker BAnd the truth is, nobody was born with hate.
Speaker BNobody was born with negativity.
Speaker BWhen someone comes to you and, you know, I know you do marketing, but I'm sure, sure, in the process of working with clients, or at least I think I'm sure there's someone that comes to you with a, this will never work.
Speaker BI can't do this.
Speaker BI've tried everything else.
Speaker BThey're all bunch of charlatans and somehow you have to help them see perhaps their own value and then allow them to see the possibilities that you present.
Speaker BThat's different.
Speaker BTalk a little bit about that.
Speaker ASo you are absolutely right.
Speaker AAnd our firm would probably be way smaller if I didn't hear that complaint several times a day when we talk to prospective clients for the first time.
Speaker ASo I, I will tell them that, you know what, you're absolutely right.
Speaker AWith that attitude, it's not going to work and we can't help you.
Speaker AAnd usually that disarms people.
Speaker ALike, what do you mean?
Speaker ALike, well, if you come at whatever we do with that type of spiritual energy, you will win.
Speaker AI cannot defeat your spiritual energy.
Speaker AIf you're convinced this won't work, then let's not do it.
Speaker ABecause we could do the greatest marketing campaign in the world and it will fail because of your spiritual energy that you're putting out into the world.
Speaker AAnd usually that sparks a different, a much more engaging conversation.
Speaker ASo I think that it's all about who you are being, which I know you talk a lot about, a lot about on this show and in your books, which I am a huge fan of, who you are being affects how well what you do works.
Speaker ASo when we've got clients who are excited, who are optimistic, who can't wait to get their purpose and their passion out into the world, magically, our marketing works better.
Speaker AIt's the same in my own business.
Speaker AOur geometric leaps in revenue expansion don't happen because I learned some new marketing trick.
Speaker AI mean, I wish they did, but they don't.
Speaker AThat happen most of the time when I haven't learned learn something new.
Speaker AIt's when I've become something new.
Speaker AWhen I have had an evolutionary leap as a father, as a husband, as a leader, as a spirit.
Speaker AWhen I've had a personal breakthrough or spiritual breakthrough, magically I become this bigger container and my business rises to fill it.
Speaker AI think that's why I tell people, spend more time working on yourself than you do your business.
Speaker AAnd if you do that, your business will rise to meet the new you.
Speaker BSo thank you for saying it and saying it so clearly because it's a funny thing.
Speaker BI have, you know, all kinds of clients, and most of them come to make more money in their business occasionally for other reasons.
Speaker BAnd it doesn't matter why they come.
Speaker BThe thing we end up working on all the time, first and most is who you're being, because every single thing that you do comes from that place of being.
Speaker BAnd so if you come from a sucky place, get sucky results or half baked results or whatever.
Speaker BAnd I know there's some studies that show that the biggest determining factor in hospitals about patients recovery, especially from serious illnesses, is their attitude about recovery.
Speaker BNothing to do with the germs, the drugs, the doctors, or anything else.
Speaker BIt's that, you know, I'm not dying from this kind of feeling.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker AAbsolutely.
Speaker BSo how did you land on this marketing stuff?
Speaker BI mean, you have lots of talents, you have lots of skills.
Speaker BYou know, I talk about people finding their purpose and their real purpose.
Speaker BPeople say, I don't know, my purpose is I have a process called the triple helix.
Speaker BAnd it's a mix of your skills, your gifts, and your life experience.
Speaker BAnd if you mine those three things, you'll find the thing that's your real purpose and light you up.
Speaker BHow did you land on marketing?
Speaker BI know you're passionate about it and have been for a long time.
Speaker BSo how did that happen?
Speaker AI had again decided to become a college financial aid negotiator about 26 years ago, a career that didn't exist at the time.
Speaker AThe Fortune 500 company I went to work for had me making 300 cold calls a day, interrupting strangers asking for money.
Speaker AI hated that process.
Speaker AI found the legendary marketing expert guru Dan Kennedy, who I then borrowed more than our house to go work with.
Speaker AAnd when the marketing he taught me how to do worked for my practice as a college financial aid negotiator at how to find money for college.com.
Speaker Aand I never had to cold call again.
Speaker AAnd all of a sudden, my ideal clients were coming to me.
Speaker AI said, oh my God, this is amazing.
Speaker AAnd other business owners, other advisors started finding out about it, reading about me in trade journals and saying, how did you do that?
Speaker AAnd I faxed Dan Kennedy back then, and I said, what do I do?
Speaker AAnd he said, you start a marketing firm and do it for them.
Speaker AAnd I said, I now have leverage.
Speaker AInstead of just helping the clients I can individually work with, I can now reach a whole lot more people by Helping other businesses, other professional practices market their companies.
Speaker AAnd I get to help a lot more people and make the world a better place.
Speaker BI love that it's true, and it's true in spades.
Speaker BAnd I love the ripple effect.
Speaker BHow long did you study or work with Dan Kennedy?
Speaker BAs you.
Speaker BAs you made that first initial change?
Speaker AFirst initial change happened over, I'd say, the first 24 months of working with Dan.
Speaker AI have stayed a student of his ev, you know, for multiple decades, ever since been to many, many events and bought every course, every product, every book, every tape, every.
Speaker AEverything he's pretty much he's ever offered.
Speaker AAnd I grow every single time I do.
Speaker BSo there's this feeling, maybe because of the atmosphere we live in or the society we've created, that, you know, the world is kind of stacked against us.
Speaker BAnd we get what I call the learned helplessness, right?
Speaker BAnd we end up feeling like, you know, the universe is not on my side or it's conspiring against me.
Speaker BWhat do you think about that phrase?
Speaker BIf I say the word learned helplessness to you, what does that say?
Speaker AI'd say that is beautiful that you learned it because that means you can unlearn it.
Speaker AAnd I would say that the world is what you make of it.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker AI am the center of the universe.
Speaker AI cannot see it from any other perspective.
Speaker AYou are the center of your universe, so why not make it one that you love being the center of?
Speaker BHow do you help somebody do that?
Speaker AI send them to you.
Speaker AThat's not my job.
Speaker AI can make their business grow, but I can't do what you do.
Speaker BSo tell me a little bit about your family, your relationship, if you don't mind your kids.
Speaker BAnd you said one of the goals you have is getting all three of your kids through college.
Speaker BAnd I saw one of them earned something in the martial arts, too.
Speaker BI think on one of your posts.
Speaker BIs that true or not true?
Speaker ANo.
Speaker ANone of my kids are in martial arts.
Speaker AHowever, I'll answer the relationship and the kids question.
Speaker AI am married to my soulmate, Rebecca.
Speaker AWe've been married for 20 years.
Speaker AShe makes me a better spiritual being every single day, and I attempt to do the same for her.
Speaker ALet's see our kids.
Speaker AAs we're recording this, max is now 18 and is headed off to Cornell University in the fall, which is probably what you saw the post.
Speaker BThat's what it was.
Speaker BI saw the post about him getting accepted or going.
Speaker BThat's what it was.
Speaker BOkay, keep.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker ASo we are super proud of him.
Speaker AFirst Ivy League Student, you know, college student in any one of our families.
Speaker ASo super excited about that.
Speaker AElla is 16 and is busy studying for her acts and wants to be a journalist and has started a independent news site because she's frustrated with the bias that appears in mainstream media.
Speaker ASo we're super proud of her launching that.
Speaker AAnd Lily, as of right now, is studying for her bat mitzvah, is about to be 13, and.
Speaker AAnd is crushing it at cheerleading and flag football.
Speaker BSo if you think about the energy that you bring to life as.
Speaker BAs a choice about who you are, are you any.
Speaker BAre you surprised at all at the level of work and performance that your kids are showing?
Speaker ANo.
Speaker AAnd yes.
Speaker ASo, no.
Speaker AAnd their mother and I both have incredible work ethics, huge goals, and amazing determination, and we have successfully raised them to do that.
Speaker AI think they've taken it to a level I never imagined.
Speaker ASo the amount of things Max has developed and the work he has put in to get into Cornell was beyond anything I could have imagined.
Speaker AElla, we literally have to say, tell her you need to take a break.
Speaker AYou need to stop.
Speaker AYou need to come swimming with us in the pool and relax and not work all of the time.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker AAnd watching Lily work so much to get, like, stunts at cheerleading or moves at flag football, or she recently just, you know, finished.
Speaker AIs getting her back handspring down because she wants to make a more.
Speaker AEven more competitive cheer squad.
Speaker ALike, I mean, I.
Speaker AIt warms my heart to watch them set goals, do the work and achieve things and become bigger, better, you know, people along the way.
Speaker BSo you talked a little bit earlier about ripple effect.
Speaker BI remember when your wife started her program, Whiny Palooza Mom, I think it's called.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BThe very first episode of it.
Speaker BI remember that.
Speaker BAnd I remember your kids when they were much younger than that.
Speaker BAnd the thing I'm thinking about is kids learn what they see.
Speaker BAnd so I.
Speaker BAs I look at you and have watched you over the years, I'm not surprised at all that they are choosing to create life.
Speaker BAnd that's really what this is.
Speaker BThey've had examples of people creating life and going through difficulties and struggles, and now they're choosing to create it, take it into their own hands.
Speaker BBecause you said, you know, the projects and things he did to get into Cornell, he did.
Speaker BHe created this with his hands, the moves for the cheerleading squad, all of those things.
Speaker BAnd there was a third child, too.
Speaker BThe.
Speaker BThe creation of those things is an act of self determination.
Speaker AAmen.
Speaker BAnd.
Speaker BAnd so you have modeled that in a powerful and.
Speaker BAnd Beautiful way for them.
Speaker BWhat do you think when you sit by yourself and there's just space, what comes to your mind?
Speaker AI'm very blessed.
Speaker AI am very thankful.
Speaker AI am very grateful for the opportunities that we've been given and created.
Speaker AAnd I try and focus on that.
Speaker BYou know, one of the things that's interesting about that neurotransmitter business is gratitude.
Speaker BPeople talk about gratitude, you know, talk about a rampage of appreciation or I find that what you're just describing there, consciously focusing on something to be grateful for until we have the neurochemical experience, if you will.
Speaker BThe actual experience of gratitude is so transformative because it pushes all that other stuff that could occupy our thoughts and minds out of our way, out of our heads and all the rest of it.
Speaker BDo you find that?
Speaker AI do 100%.
Speaker AI think you.
Speaker AWhen you know, I.
Speaker AWhat One of my quoting of my.
Speaker AOne of the things I say is when you're nervous, get into service, right?
Speaker ABecause if you're nervous, you're worried about yourself when you're in service to someone else, when you're helping someone else, the focus isn't on you and the butterflies go away.
Speaker BThey do.
Speaker BI'm going to come back to some client stuff.
Speaker BSo when you have a grumpy ass client that may be either complaining about something you either have or haven't done and doesn't seem to be appreciating the effort, and so it brings up the opportunity to be pissed off at that client or negative about that.
Speaker BHow do you balance that service?
Speaker BAnd it isn't nervous, but the service and frustration equation.
Speaker BWhat do you do on purpose to create life in that circumstance?
Speaker AI could get better at that.
Speaker AI work on that on a regular basis.
Speaker AThere are.
Speaker AI try and try and talk to myself about the opportunity, what a opportunity is to work with this person and the ripple effect that we're.
Speaker AWe're having through them.
Speaker AAnd try.
Speaker AI try and realize that whoever has the stronger emotion is going to quote, unquote, win that reaction.
Speaker ASo I have got to be the emotional leader for my client and lead them to where they need me to take them as opposed to getting sucked into their negativity.
Speaker BI love that.
Speaker BSo what is the strong emotion that you reference?
Speaker BBecause I think people running any kind of a business have, you know, struggles with clients that have either not done work or misused the product or service or whatever and have the opportunity.
Speaker BAnd sometimes maybe they're just mad at the ads or whatever because it's not providing enough clients.
Speaker BBut in any of Those situations.
Speaker BI like what you said.
Speaker BThe one that has the most powerful emotion is the one that will be able to exercise leadership and rule the day.
Speaker BWhat is the emotion that you look to, to give you that power?
Speaker AExcitement, optimism, gratitude would probably be some of them.
Speaker BOkay, good.
Speaker BSo you intentionally think about that.
Speaker BThe reason I'm having you drill into that is I want everybody listening to this to realize this.
Speaker BExcitement is a choice.
Speaker BOptimism is a choice.
Speaker BGratitude is a choice.
Speaker BI mean, the old funny story about the pile of horse crap and the kid walking in saying there's got to be a pony in here somewhere.
Speaker BThat's a choice, you know, and you, you get to create that choice.
Speaker BI want you to talk a little bit about because you, you didn't fall up this mountain.
Speaker BNobody falls up a mountain.
Speaker BTalk a little bit about your developmental journey to get to a place where you intentionally choose, even if there are moments or hours or whatever, frustration, where you intentionally choose to.
Speaker BTo be in a place of more service, more happiness, to.
Speaker BTo climb another inch up that mountain.
Speaker BWhat's your journey been like doing that?
Speaker AI am working on that still every single day and think always will.
Speaker AWe're all works in progress and you've helped me tremendously along the way and my work with you.
Speaker AAnd I think it's again, constantly not get sucked into the negativity and think about the opportunities that we've been given or that we make for ourselves and try and focus on the positive and things to be excited about like right in the wind journal of what, what wins did we have today?
Speaker AI think we as business owners don't celebrate enough and we get focused on the day to day and putting out the fire as opposed to really leading from purpose and passion and joy like you talk about.
Speaker ASo that journey has been ups and downs my whole life.
Speaker AI got into personal development on a hospital bed when I was 16 and was afraid, thought I was going to die and have been into it and a student of it and a protection of it ever since.
Speaker AAnd I.
Speaker AIt is really, really important to me to continue to evolve and grow so that I can have a bigger impact on the world.
Speaker BWhat happened, I love that.
Speaker BAnd you do have a big impact on the world.
Speaker BAnd I find everything that you have done with, especially with your kids and your wife and yourself to be precious and beautiful.
Speaker BWhat happened when you were 16 that caused a problem?
Speaker AI was diagnosed with a chronic inflammation, inflammation disease that happened to be focused on my digestive system.
Speaker AAnd there was a point where it got so bad I was hospitalized And I was on IV nutrition.
Speaker AI couldn't eat or drink anything.
Speaker AAnd I was a very scared 16 year old, you know, kid and was worried when they told me you may not be able to eat for months.
Speaker AYou know, I was, there were moments I was honestly worried it was going to kill me and I was going to die.
Speaker AAnd there are no accidents.
Speaker AOn the library of the seventh floor of Children's Hospital in Buffalo where all of the books were like C spot run, hop on pop.
Speaker ABecause it was a children's hospital.
Speaker AOne day I, you know, I had a tutor that came from the school district because I couldn't go to school.
Speaker ASo I got school done in an hour and a half a day and both my parents worked so I had lots of free time in a hospital.
Speaker AAnd I'm looking through the books in the library and again it's hop on pop, it's C spot run.
Speaker AAnd then for some reason, somehow, some way, somebody left a copy of Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins on that bookshelf.
Speaker AAnd that was the first personal development book I ever read.
Speaker AAnd I've never stopped.
Speaker AAnd I have worn out copies of that book along with yours and many others because I believe divine providence, or whatever you want to call it, put that book there in my path so that I could take a different path on my own journey.
Speaker BI love that.
Speaker BAnd you've made several references to the divine and to our spirit and those kinds of things.
Speaker BAnd that's a, that is a powerful and important piece of anyone's journey.
Speaker BI mean, we can choose to ignore that all we want and deny it and decry it and do whatever it is, but the truth is when things get really bad in life or even in large scale, you know, the first thing people do is say, pray for this, pray for that.
Speaker BAnd they go there and they don't even think about it.
Speaker BSo I want you to talk a little bit about, because helping people acknowledge and lean into that truth is so important.
Speaker BAnd I want you to describe a little bit your own connection, your own spiritual journey with the divine in terms of how that evolved for you, how much you trust intuition and inspiration in growing your business, which is very finance oriented.
Speaker BMoney produce results intangible.
Speaker BAnd I want you to talk about the relationship of those intangibles to that.
Speaker AI have had the most outward success when I've had the most inner success.
Speaker ASo when I feel aligned with purpose and the divine and when I'm not in resistance or in fear is when the magic happens.
Speaker ASo I literally started a brand new Podcast Launched a brand new podcast today.
Speaker AAnd I've been podcasting since, you know, three years into the very first podcast ever.
Speaker AAnd I launched one specifically that's all about the inner game.
Speaker AThat's all about doing the emotional and spiritual work in business as opposed to just about marketing.
Speaker ASo this is all part of that journey.
Speaker BDo you find it difficult in that respect since it is the most important part of any journey, no matter what you're selling or money you're making.
Speaker BDo you find it difficult to help business owners who are focused on the bottom line and expenses and everything, focus on intuition, inspiration, their own internal work and stuff?
Speaker BYou find that hard?
Speaker ANo, because I think it's part of why I'm here.
Speaker AI think it's part of my purpose to.
Speaker AAs I get.
Speaker AI launched the podcast Inner Empire.
Speaker AYet today, literally Monday is June 30th, is we're recording this.
Speaker AIt came out today.
Speaker AAnd I did that specifically to talk about the things that aren't talked about enough except on, you know, your show.
Speaker AI wanted to talk about the spiritual inner work that needs to be done and the things that get in our way.
Speaker ASo I realized recently in the last couple months that that was part of my purpose.
Speaker AIt was something that I had done for myself but hadn't really shared with anybody else.
Speaker AAnd it took a, you know, a month or two of soul searching going, wow, am I really going to air all my dirty laundry, all my fears, all my stuff that I worked through and are working on?
Speaker AAnd when I sent some people that I trust sample episodes, just, hey, this isn't edited or anything.
Speaker AThis is just what I'm thinking about.
Speaker AWhat do you think?
Speaker AEvery.
Speaker AI think the first 50 people said, oh, my God.
Speaker AIt was like you were talking to me.
Speaker AI'm going through that exact thing right now.
Speaker APlease air this.
Speaker AAnd I said, okay, I guess that's a message.
Speaker BIt is a message.
Speaker BAnd, you know, we.
Speaker BWe come into this world with nothing, right?
Speaker BWe're naked and come in as infants.
Speaker BAnd when we leave, we're also leaving with nothing.
Speaker BYou know, none of the houses, bank accounts, or anything else that we have created is going to go with us.
Speaker BAnd the only thing we're going to take home with us is what we've made out of ourselves.
Speaker BThat's it.
Speaker BAnd so the, the commitment and dedication you're showing to that, you know, whether you express it that way or not doesn't matter.
Speaker BThat's the truth.
Speaker BAnd the fact that you have started then.
Speaker BAnd of course it wasn't an accident that the book is there.
Speaker BThat was your first invitation to.
Speaker BTo recognize the truth of your opportunity for being here in terms of not only being a good market marketer and a student of Dan and others who are great at that part of business, but also to give permission to people to recognize and then develop those things.
Speaker BWhat is the most fun thing you've got planned for this rest of this year?
Speaker B2025 Inner Empire Podcast.
Speaker AI am most excited about the ripple effect of talking about the spiritual health, emotional health, mental health of business owners and what we can all work on to improve as spiritual and human beings.
Speaker BI love that you say that.
Speaker BAs you know, if you've been listening to some shows, my commitment this year is to reach 300 million people.
Speaker BAnd my year ends October 14th, which is three and a half months from now.
Speaker BAnd there's a whole story about why that's New Year's, but that's a different story.
Speaker AI remember the book.
Speaker BI know you do.
Speaker BAnd so that opportunity, your inner Empire podcast, your ultimate life, and all the things that are like that, that are willing to tell the truth and bridge the connection between the things in the world and the things inside, are going to be what makes the difference.
Speaker BSo when you think about what you're doing, what I'm doing, and others who are similarly, you know, inspired and called, how excited are you about the real of what I believe is the real opportunity to make a dent in the universe, to change the world?
Speaker AI am super excited about it.
Speaker AI think it'll make an even bigger difference than the best marketing campaign we've ever done.
Speaker BHow come?
Speaker ABecause it's not about the money, it's not about the business.
Speaker AIt's about us in spirit and how, you know, that's where inspire comes from.
Speaker ASo I think talking about things that not enough people are talking about will hopefully be the rising tide that lifts all boats.
Speaker BI often hear from people, stuff like that there's a change brewing, that there's this elemental, energetic shift going on that is in line with what you're talking about.
Speaker BDo you feel that?
Speaker AI don't think I'm.
Speaker AThe limiting answer I was about to give was, I don't think I'm qualified to answer that question.
Speaker AI can't speak to feeling a shift in the rest of humanity, but I think enough people are wanting more, wanting to become more, that we're doing it at the right time.
Speaker BOkay, I agree, and that's a good way to say it.
Speaker BThe results haven't showed up yet.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BBut there are certainly a lot of People and it making a lot of noise about feeling called.
Speaker BIt's time to use a hundred million different ways to describe it.
Speaker BBut it's time to end the addiction to the old, to the cash cow and the money and the worship of all that.
Speaker AAmen.
Speaker BYeah, Amen.
Speaker BAmen.
Speaker BSo what haven't I asked you about?
Speaker BI've asked you a broad range of things.
Speaker BWandering around, around.
Speaker BTell me something that you really want to leave and it doesn't have about anything you want that, that you think would help you express your true being and what you want and, and that kind of stuff.
Speaker BSo tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker AI'm gonna go back to one of my favorite quotes which is from actually from my brother in law, Dr. Corey Melnikoff and his book the Four Dollar Sandwich.
Speaker AAnd it has informed a large part of, let's say the last 15 plus years of my life.
Speaker AAnd it, we, we alluded, we both alluded to it.
Speaker AIt's the.
Speaker AWho you are being affects how well what you do works.
Speaker ASo if you want what you do work to work better, focus on who you are being better.
Speaker BThank you.
Speaker BThere's something that I notice that is sort of obvious when you think about it, but people don't do it very often.
Speaker BAnd that is if being is so important and we get to choose who we're being and we do.
Speaker BI find it super important to exercise our sovereignty and create ourselves intentionally every day to start the day with a process that's consistent with whatever it is you've decided to be.
Speaker BDo you do that?
Speaker AI would, I would like to do it even more.
Speaker BIt wasn't a trick question, dude.
Speaker BIt was just curious because we've talked about that before.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AAnd I'm working on doing it more.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BDo you think it matters?
Speaker AOf course it does.
Speaker BTell me the difference between days you do that well and days.
Speaker BYou either shortchange it or skip it.
Speaker AIt's night and day.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AI mean we're creating our own reality.
Speaker ASo you're, you're creating a totally different experience.
Speaker AAnd why wouldn't want, why wouldn't you want one that's as fabulous as it could be?
Speaker BWell, logic says you would, but we skip it.
Speaker BWe shortchange you, we make excuses, we get up late, we hit snooze, we argue with somebody, we lose the energy of creation, all of those reasons and we then give away our right to choose and create over and over again.
Speaker AYou are absolutely right and that is an excellent question.
Speaker BOkay, well that wasn't intended to be anything but it just turned out that way.
Speaker BSo that's good.
Speaker BSo tell me what the most exciting thing is that you love about your dear, beautiful wife of 20 years.
Speaker BI'm always touched when people are married for a long time.
Speaker BThat's powerful and special for lots of reasons that we won't go into here because we don't have time.
Speaker BBut I want you to, I want Rebecca, if she listens to this, to hear why you love her so much.
Speaker AShe makes me want to be a better man and a better spiritual being every single day.
Speaker BHow does she do that?
Speaker AShe inspires me who she is being, makes me want to be better, raise my own vibrations, elevate my own game in every way, shape or form.
Speaker BDo you have any plans to start another podcast?
Speaker BI mean, Inner Empire?
Speaker BHow many of you got running?
Speaker ASo we produce 27 a week at this moment for our clients.
Speaker AI host four.
Speaker AInner Empire is the fourth one.
Speaker ANo, I do.
Speaker AFour is enough.
Speaker AIt's funny, one of my producers for Sharkpreneur, which you've been on, just emailed me, said, I think we need to start airing three times a week to catch up to all the episodes you're doing.
Speaker AAnd I said, no, I need to slow down and focus more on Inner Empire because of the impact I'm hoping it'll have.
Speaker BSo I want you to take now a minute to tell everybody exactly how to find all your stuff.
Speaker BWhere's the podcast?
Speaker BIf you want to mention some of the podcasts you're hosting and helping for your clients, that's fine.
Speaker BI'm mainly interested in yours, how you're adding good to the world and what's important to you.
Speaker BSo how do we find you?
Speaker BHow do we get a little more Seth, you're very.
Speaker AThank you for asking.
Speaker ASo inner empirepodcast.com is the new show.
Speaker AThe others I the others I host are Sharkpreneur with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, which you've been on the registered investment advisory show for investment advisors.
Speaker AI host one for EO entrepreneurs organization.
Speaker AYou can check out the US as a company@market dominationllc.com and if you want 30% off the Amazon price of my book on the ultimate guide to growing your business with a podcast, go to ultimatepodcastbook.com and that link is especially for Kellen listeners.
Speaker BCool.
Speaker BThank you for that.
Speaker BSo say your website is the Website Market Domination LLC.
Speaker BLLC.com.
Speaker Bis that the main one to find everything else or do we have to go other places?
Speaker AIt's the main one to find everything else but the book offer for your folks is@ultimatepodcastbook.com and Inner Empire is Inner Empire Podcast or any podcast platform.
Speaker BGood.
Speaker BWell, I wanted you to say it again because one of the things I love most about you is how fast you talk and I wanted to make sure people were able to hear it twice because I want people to go and get the value.
Speaker BYou're welcome.
Speaker BThe last thing I want to say is I am grateful to you for who you're being and your willingness to spend some time and share some heartfelt thoughts and advice with the audience.
Speaker BThanks for being here.
Speaker AMy pleasure.
Speaker AIt was a lot of fun.
Speaker BI want you to take a minute and go back and listen to that, especially the end part where you can get all those resources.
Speaker BSeth is a powerhouse.
Speaker BHe's made great opportunities available for lots of companies and done some real good stuff in the world.
Speaker BAnd he's also a good cat.
Speaker BThat advice that he gave you and his example of how he walked up that mountain will help you as you move forward to create your ultimate life right here, right now.
Speaker BYour opportunity for massive growth is right in front of you.
Speaker BEvery episode gives you practical tips and practices that will change change everything.
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