Greg Reid – REAL TALK

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Today I am so excited and honored to have
this incredible guest of mine, Greg Reid.
Welcome Greg and this is
so exciting from San Diego
to LA and being on live on real talk Tuesdays.
So thank you very much.
Absolutely. I don’t know if I ever told you this or
not with the first girlfriend I ever had was your name.
So I don’t know if you still got my letterman
jacket or something but I want a bad.
That’s a good one. Let them know about this, right?
So before we go any further I want to
share just a little bit about who Greg.
Reid is. If you give me a moment all my viewers.
This is why I’m excited because today I have the award-winning author, speaker,
film producer, Greg Reid. For over 25 years,
Greg has inspired millions of people to take
personal responsibility to step into their own greatness.
And his life of contribution has been recognized by government leaders,
foreign princes as well as luminaries in education, business and industries.
So, Greg has published over 150 books.
38 and more have become best sellers. It’s been translated to 45 different languages.
And some of the books are listened to this.
The power of perseverance, the millionaire mentor, three feet from gold.
And I know you have collaborated with some of the greatest books and everyone else.
And his latest is the personal development.
Is that correct? That’s it, personal development.
You know, this book is so excited about my name on the cover.
The perfect guy is a mentoring for guests.
And you don’t need to put your name on it.
But Greg is known best for being the founder of
Secret Knock, which is one of Forbes and Inc.
magazines, top rated event.
Not because it’s just an event. I am grateful to
say I have been attending for the last five years.
And you know what? It’s no longer a secret,
Greg. So welcome to Real Talk Tuesday.
There you go. The crowd’s going wild. Great as well.
It’s always. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome.
We’ve all the stuff we’ve gone through and
the people we’ve met and all that good stuff.
But I got to say intentionally I left my name off and I’ll tell you why.
It was all about the messages and not the messenger.
I think that’s what’s getting complicated in the Instagram.
Everyone’s putting themselves up as these gurus and stuff.
When at the end of the day, all it is is the same amazing
information that’s been passed on from generation to generation.
And that’s what that looks meant to be.
You just segued into exactly what my question
is because you’re such a great storyteller.
Even when we are in secret, not with all the
millionaires, billionaires, amazing human beings.
This from the first time I met you, you had the green jacket on like an Irishman.
You were going up and down the hallway and when I was introduced to you,
you turned around, you looked, you did your sideways thing and you hit this.
And that’s what you are known for.
It’s with at that very moment you can stop you pause and just
like an orchestra, you know how to tell a story with a look.
So how did you become such a great storyteller, Greg?
I great mentors. You know, it’s interesting.
I was trained when I got brand new in the industry by
the legendary Les Brown and Dr. Hanson and you know,
Brian Tracy and my mentor Dave Corbin, all these amazing people.
And you know, there’s always one little nugget.
I remember when I first met Les Brown and I want
to be a speaker like you, give me one nugget.
Just one thing I could do different and he did.
I hunted him down a month later and said, “Mr. Brown, I met you a month ago.
I asked for a nugget. You gave it to me. Here’s what I did. What I do next, sir?”.
He was so shocked as someone to hold up and
follow through that he became, no, he might buddy,
but now we go back and forth and we help one another.
And here’s what is nugget. It’s so simple.
He says, “When you’re holding a microphone, you can tell
a senior speaker from a brand new person by one thing.”
I said, “What?” He says, “How they hold the mic?”.
And he says, “If you hold it right here, like a rap
artist, you cover your face, people can’t see you. This is what you do to hide.”
He says, “No, it’s all my photographs. I hold it at
the end and I keep it out here so people can hear me,
but you can still connect with the audience.”
That’s the only one little tip, but I started implementing it.
And then I realized every time I spoke behind me was a black backdrop.
And when I had a black suit on, I’d be like a dancing head.
So by wearing just the slightest little bit of
different colors, you pop off the back of the screen
and people will feel like they connect with you using NLP right away.
Perfect, which is you are right there with the folks.
And so if we would want to talk about story, stories are always just
like an orchestra at the beginning, the body, and at the ending, right?
So let’s go back to who is Gregory, not the one
that everybody knows on websites and everything.
You come from harsh beginnings.
Hmm. Well, I joke about my harsh beginnings,
but they’re not like most people.
I mean, I grew up in the mean streets of Del Mar, a lot of
the beach, and our family did quite well in the whole bit.
So, you know, I say I was in the street game growing up in San Diego at night.
We break into mausarodies and we detail them.
You know, I don’t.
I really don’t have that thing.
I had personal demons where I’ve been facing my sobriety.
So a lot of people might not know, but I’m 36 years sober guy.
But again, I’m glad. Thank you.
I quit when I was 24 so it was a lifetime ago.
And so, you know, I don’t even fight that anymore.
It’s just part of the daily life of who I am today.
And, you know, we all have trials and tribulations.
For example, I can go, yeah, I’ve been divorced three times.
But let me tell you the other time.
Yeah, but I guess what?
I’ve been divorced three times in the state of
California without one lawyer ever involved.
Because if you don’t lie, cheat, steal, and you’re honest and you can communicate,
you can transfer your relationships and still stay in touch.
In fact, my current ex-wife, you know,
Alyn is one of the greatest human beings in the world.
I got the greatest ex-wife on earth.
Yeah. So it’s really interesting.
I don’t believe our hardships and our tragedies have to be something
that we carry around with us like an anchor for our whole lives.
You know, not only you have a great relationship with Alyn, but she’s
involved in not necessarily in your daily life, but with your son.
And Colin, which is one of the most amazing
kids that I have met beyond his age, smart,
regareous and everything. But your family is involved,
even at SK when we come at the end, your mom is there.
So this is so beautiful.
It’s like what I believe in.
It’s how you nurture friendships and relationships.
Yeah. So I think we would feel like three different topics here.
So yeah, my son, Colt, is absolutely amazing. He’s a dynamite 12 year old kid.
And, you know, I’ve got guests here at the house right now,
as you know, and I’ve been in the big, between meetings.
And we’re talking about this because we
understood the power of teaching our kid EQ.
Like, focus on IQ.
And we did EQ, which is emotional intelligence.
And so we said, look, if our kid can communicate, you shake your hand, look in
the eye and negotiate a ham sandwich and trade for a twinkie on the playground.
Then he knows how to, you know what he wants in life.
So that was the mentality that we went at.
And back to the storytelling. Yes.
So the way that I do speeches is I do something called songs.
And the song is about three minutes long. There’s a beginning, middle and book.
And then the audience sees themselves through the journey.
And that’s what we work on. I’ll give you one
right now. In fact, you can pick any topic.
And I’ll do a song based on it. Go ahead. You’re on the spot.
Give me any topic in the world.
Healing. You know, it’s been said that we’re a reflection.
The people we hang around the most in our income are attitude and lifestyles.
The average of the group if you hang around,
amazing people, amazing things come to be. One of
my favorite interviews I ever did was a guy named
Steve Wozniak. He started an Apple computer with jobs.
And I said, how is it that you guys had so much success?
And he says, we embraced our lack.
And he goes, we didn’t run from it. We ran toward it.
He goes, most people when they have adversity, they feel pain, whatever.
They do everything to hide and to avoid it.
He goes, we ran right directly towards the eye of the volcano.
I said, what he means is, well, when these
microchip processors came out, they were expensive.
He goes, job sold as car. I sold my calculator.
We pulled our money to buy one of these magical devices.
The Hewlett Packard and IBM would make machines.
They go from point A to B with 20 chips.
And all the money of God, they could do whatever they want.
He said, so I’d pull away five and figure out how to go from A to B using 15.
And then I’d pull away five and get it to work with 10.
Eventually, I found a way to go from A to B using our one chip.
He goes, we weren’t trying to be innovative or cool or whatever.
He goes, we get a four to one chip.
He goes, but by embracing that as an opportunity,
we found the shortest cleanest path.
And we changed the way people do personal computing for the rest of the world.
He says, where could you be in your own life?
If you stop looking at everything as a challenge and obstacle,
but it could just be a greatest blessing and opportunity in the skies.
There you go, beginning, middle, and won’t.
Done. Right.
So you can literally just like Les Brown.
He says, when you’re keen, he phrases, key stories.
And then you’ll integrate them exactly where you need to
and have the the opening and then put the story into it.
And at the end, you close it.
Right. So at the beginning is always the same.
The ending is always the same.
The middle part is never the same.
And instead of trying to focus on doing a 20 minute talk or
a 60 minute presentation, I just master my two minute songs.
And when people say, hey, you have an hour to speak,
we only got 12 minutes.
No problem. I’ll just do my three greatest hits.
If people say, hey, someone’s, you know, didn’t,
they’re playing didn’t come in. Can you go
along? I say, yeah, I’ll do my best of album.
So to me, it really is, it’s simple and easy.
And I get a mix up my music, my set list, just
like a musician would when they go do a concert.
And I get to do it with space, the best
stories on the audience, which I’m speaking to.
You’re a fan.
You know, in your book, the book with three feet.
From goal.
One of the parts of the story, we can relate
anything, any part of that to our lives.
It’s like we keep doing it, doing it, and
then we see it’s not working and we give up.
How do you mentor?
How do you pick the ones that you really want a mentor knowing
that they will go the extra mile to hit the
gold, which in the fact you become the Rainmaker,
but you’re in the back, back stage, making them shine.
And I’ve seen so many, you pick from audience,
they, you bring them to the hot seat,
and then you’re after their thriving because you’ve helped them.
How do you pick who, whose story is who you want to work with?
To say yes, a lot, but with caveat.
I’ll give you an example. Someone comes up to me and says, hey, will
you mentor me? My answer is always, yes, all you’ve got to do is
text me at 10, 10 AM on Tuesday and say X, Y, Z.
That gets read at 99% of people because there’s work involved.
And then the person who does text me at 10, 10, I
say, great, Thursday I’ll meet you at this restaurant.
All I need you to do is bring two empty lobster shells in a baseball helmet.
Well, that gets rid of the other 99% because there’s more action.
But the person who will text me at that time, show up and do what they’re directed.
The chances are when I give them, you know, things to accomplish,
and they know that there’s some challenge to
it, but they’re willing to take that action.
Those are the people that I know will thrive and excel,
but more importantly, teach others to do the same.
That’s how Napoleon Hill started by.
Yeah, and it’s interesting. There’s so many different,
very important stories between Napoleon Hill and
W. Kilimanimuth Stone and, you know, with Carl, you know, all these different people.
But one of the coolest things that Hill did do is he started applying the messages.
You know, we all need another seminar book or a program like a whole notepad.
Well, we really need to do a start taking action
with the information that we already have on hand.
I call it a mirror mentor in the new book, personal development. What
does that mean? But no matter what you’re going to say in front of me,
you’re only going to give me the best version of yourself.
So I can only give you direction based on that information.
However, if you look yourself in the mirror and say, “Look,
Nickelhead, this is, you’re not doing what you need to do.”.
And you only could give yourself the best
direction because you know what you need most,
but here’s the best part. You also know what you’re willing to do.
So I can sit there and give you the greatest feedback and the road map,
but if you’re not willing to do that, then chances are you’ll fail.
So I believe it starts with a mirror mentor.
Look yourself in that, you know, reflection and
say, “Hey, I’ve had enough and it’s time to go.”
How many times does someone, you know, you’re smoking and someone say,
“That’s bad for you, it’s going to kill you.”
You got it. But, since, tell that day you look in the mirror and go,
“What am I doing?” That’s the day it’s done.
That was going to be a great segue.
Who has been?
I know you talked about Les Brown.
I know you talked about Tracy and everything.
But when you are stuck in a challenge, other than the mirror,
who do you go to? Who’s your mentor?
Go to a person, then you can pick up the phone
and say, “I need five minutes of your time.”
Do you have someone?
Yeah, I see council and not opinion.
Council on wisdom, knowledge, mentorship,
or opinions based on ignorance, lack of knowledge or in experience. If
I go to a family friend and say, “Hey, I want to write a book, they’ll
talk to me out of it.” Because I’m dyslexic and they never
written a book. If I go to Mark Victor Hanson or wrote
Chicken Soup, he’s going to say, “I said how?”
Here’s what you need to know and give you counsel.
So, depending upon the circumstance of which I’m at,
who is getting the results that I want for myself at that moment, and I seek them.
So, it’s not an actual individual, it’s somebody who’s excelling.
When I wanted to make a movie, I wanted to people that want Oscars and make movies.
When I wanted to write a book, I wanted to people to wrote book.
When I wanted to be a speaker, I wanted public speakers.
Got it.
Talk about movie. I remember years ago, over
10 years ago, I was on Zoom with the shankoets.
And you interviewed Mr. Shankwitz, whose background
was a police office, or no, he was a police officer.
He was a police officer, wasn’t he?
Right. Right.
Yeah, 100%.
And then when you interviewed, when he
started, make a wish foundation and everything,
and you asked them what was his, the reason that he did.
And then he said, “I wanted to make an impact.”.
And with one word, you turned around and
said, “I will make your wish become reality.
Your wish, which he had made and impact in so many people’s.”
And you started the movie.
I know you had others helping you.
But if you had one wish today, what would your wish be?
It’s interesting, when I was a kid, young, 17, 18,
I made a bucket list of like 60 impossible items.
And I remember I crossed them off when I was 50 years old,
and it was just incredible things.
And people say, “Well, what do you want next? What’s your next thing?”
I realized for myself, I feel like I lived a pretty good existence already.
So back to my son, Cole, if I sat him down and said, “What’s your bucket list?”. And
he started putting crazy stuff on there, and I started helping him cross those off.
So to answer your question is, “My wish is to help him achieve his wishes,
because I get so much more fulfillment to see someone else succeed than myself.”
It’s the same thing. If someone gives me a $2 raise at work as one
thing, the “Watching your kid graduate college,”
that gives you more fulfillment than anything.
So my dream and fulfillment is to watch other people succeed.
That’s beautiful.
This is why my heart goes out.
And every time I come to Secret Knock, I learn more nuggets.
Sometimes we hear it all the time, and it doesn’t sink until we are ready.
And I remember one of the clues that I have utilized with my clientele is the CPC.
Do you like to share about that?
Yeah.
Well, I did a book called Wealth Made Easy,
and I interviewed people worth $100 million to $1 billion.
And I kept asking them, you know, they’re secret of success.
And one person named Mark Anthony Bates said this is a CPC.
It stands for clues, patterns, choices.
And he says it’s about accountability and
responsibility. Everything happens as you’re appalled.
He says, “If you go out on a first date and she’s 20 minutes late,
that’s a red flag, but that’s your first clue.
But every time you go out on a date, she’s late. That forms a pattern.
A pea.” It goes, “Then it’s your choice, whether you deal with
it, you yell at her, you break up, you tell her a different
time.” But it’s not her fault, she’s just late. He said,
“Stop trying to change people to fit in your own paradigm.
But we’ll see people that will cheat your best friend in business.
You do business. Things don’t go wrong in your mad at the person.
You saw the clue you followed the pattern, but you made the choice.
It’d be like seeing a rattlesnake rattle, bite your kid’s sister.
You pedicate bit in your mad at the snake.
Looking back in life, rarely will it be angry at relationships that failed
or negotiations that fell through, or matter ourselves.
Because we saw the clues. We saw the patterns, but we made our choices late.”.
I’ve had so many Mike drops with you already.
One of your quotes that I love is, and you share this from a state, from everywhere.
A dream written down becomes a goal.
A goal broken into steps becomes a plan.
A plan backed by action is where it becomes a reality.
So, how can you share with our audience?
And they say, “I’m struggling. Life is this.
I’m a single mom or a single dad.
Everything, no matter what’s happening outside,
wealthy is a state of mind, but being rich.
What is richness? How can someone say, “Yeah, it’s
easy for you to write it, but how do I become it?”
Become rich or become like, what’s the question?
The question is, how can you help share for them
to shift their mindset to become the wealthy,
to become the rich from heart and in person?
I know you break it into steps, but if they are reviewing right here right now,
and Greg, you’ve got a star on in Las Vegas. You’ve accomplished so much.
Or some of the SK interviews that you have done, how do we believe to become wealthy?
Even Napoleon Hill, we can follow steps, but
what does it take to become the wealth, the rich?
I think for myself, I’m still chasing it.
Anything else in certain people’s world, you think I was doing pretty well.
I hang out with people and you’re not.
Unfortunately, we live in a comparison world.
It’s the most frustrated thing in the world. No matter
what you’re doing, I remember one time as interesting.
I was at this guy John Aseroff’s house, and he was in a movie called The Secret.
It was all about the vision.
I was in that house that he had the vision for and all the
stuff, and I was making my first movie called Pass it On.
I’ll never forget this thing is a mansion in the richest area.
It’s just incredible. We’re walking out, and someone
says, “I don’t think I’d want to live here.”.
I said, “Why?” I go, “This incredible. The story
behind me goes, “Yeah, but look up on the hill.
Look at that house.” I go, “What about?” I go, “No matter what. Every
time I walk out, I’d see that house and think I should be there.”
Oh, what a hole. That’s rough.
I did realize on the quest when we’re doing “Walk Made Easy,”
this is going to be a different answer than you’re expecting.
I would not wish someone to be $300 million to $700 million.
I wouldn’t trade lives with that person for anything. I just wouldn’t do it.
The most miserable people I ever met in my life were right in that gap.
The new Beverly Hillbillies, the rich people, are $10 million in below.
These are people I had an exit. They did good little
score, something good happened to them in inheritance.
Things of this nature. They get a fly first class to live this life.
Their family’s got everything. These are the happiest people. Billionaires?
Pretty happy. I’ve never met a jerk, billionaire. Not yet.
Everyone seems to be pretty happy, but these
people that are worth like $300 million.
It’s crazy the number that is that you and
me, to them, you’re so far from that B number.
You’re thriving and striving and you got three cell phones and ulcers.
It’s just really interesting to watch just for myself.
Going on this quest, like I said, I wish
they have $10 million in below or $1 billion,
but that middle part, that doesn’t seem to be this sweet spot.
I haven’t found a happy $300 million area.
Kind of why.
I think you are, you come from the heart, even though
you have all this and the people that surround you,
yes, all the founders, the Cece suites and everything.
But you’re more of an impact and heart-centered.
And I’ve seen it not only with the people you
surround yourself, but how you make an impact.
And that one time at your house, you had, I can’t remember
his name, but the guy with the animals and the snakes.
That has the reptile zoo.
Yes, they grew. Yes.
And right before you started Prosperity Camp, we were outside
and filming on a heel talk Tuesday and he was interviewing.
He put a tarantula on my arm and then
afterwards you asked me, how was that tarantula?
And until that very moment, believe it or not, I didn’t know
that a tarantula is more vicious or scarier to have than a snake.
So you brought the most amazing people in there.
And I can say, my fear of snakes, I overcame them and tarantula.
You know they’re worse than snakes.
But you surround yourself with people
not only who they are, but have compassion.
And they sit with you.
It’s amazing in secret now, you may have a billionaire
sitting next to you and you wouldn’t even know.
Yeah, the whole idea is even at ever events are only rules be cool.
What does that mean?
Look, if the water runs out, don’t complain, go get some
water and then bring it back to the table, be
normal. If trash on the floor, throw it away, just
just be normal. And that’s our mindset. And by the way, I’m
speaking of that, I’ve got to get back to my people that are here.
Of course, of course. And so any last question that I can answer for you?
Yes.
Would you complete the sentence?
Greg is.
A great father.
Thank you so much for this opportunity for this interview and
for who you are, making an impact in the lives of so many.
And for all our viewers, thank you very much for being here.
I look forward for our next interview and Greg again.
Thank you. Until we see you next week God bless you and may the universal light
surround you always. Keep smiling!

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