Welcome back to the show. My fellow extraordinary Americans, today’s guest is Dr. Kamin Samuel. 

Doctor Kamin is a business advisor, entrepreneur, speaker, and author. She’s also an international rapid transformation coach, guiding executives, business owners, and coaches in rapidly growing their careers and changing their lives. She has a unique gift for transforming limiting beliefs and behaviors so clients can be more decisive, communicate more effectively, improve their executive presence, and create strategies to influence organizational change. 

Dr. Kamin is the US Navy’s first female African American helicopter pilot. She served as the Global VP of Website Operations at a billion-dollar company. She has a background in information technology, web development, and online merchandising and a PhD in positive neuropsychology. She is also an award-winning and best-selling author of several books. 

Her most recent book is the Conscious Luck Workbook. She co-authored with Doctor Gay Hendricks, a New York Times best-selling author, and Wealth Creation for Coaches Co., written with Steve Chandler. Dr. Kamin is now a filmmaker. Her documentary film, Courage to Thrive will be completed in 2024. 

She serves on the board of the Educare Foundation, a large after-school program provider in Los Angeles, and the President’s Advisory Board of the USS Iowa. She has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles, such as San Diego Veterans, Pivot Tribe Global, and LA Parent. She’s an extraordinary American, and I’m glad and honored to have her on the show. Doctor Kamin, are you here?

Yes, I am Cosmos. Thank you so much. It’s so good to be here with you.

Thank you, doctor. I’m honored that you’re here to do this show with us. Can you tell the audience more about yourself, your background, and how you started?

It’s a big question. I’ll try to give you a high-level answer. So, I spent nine years in the Navy as a Navy helicopter pilot, flying the H-46 helicopter. And then I had always wanted to be in business. There was something that, even when I started the military, I originally thought I would go towards the business track of supply core and learn how to do business in the military. But aviation was the path that came to me. And then, when I left the military, I was in business for myself, and I failed miserably. I failed and ended up in bankruptcy and foreclosure of homes. I even wanted to, you know, not survive that mess that I had created. 

Now and then, because I loved computers, I learned HTML and got a web developer job at a prominent company, which grew my career that way. I then went to another company as an e-commerce executive, so they had that bug to work for me was always there, and this and the ability to help others were always there, so about 13 years ago now, I left corporate and went and began working for myself as a coach, which I have been doing ever since, and now I am doing some more entrepreneurial things as well.

So, what was your strategic vision like when you were in the army, and what made you want to do business? Then you ended up in corporate America. Then, from there, you became a business coach. Like what? How did your strategic vision evolve over all these years?

I’d love to say I had a strategic vision, but I didn’t. 

So, I went into the Navy like I was graduating from college, and it was in the first semester. And my mom was like, what will you do with your life? And my mom is very structured. And I was like, you know, I think I’d like to go into the Navy. She’s like, you know why? And I was like, I wanted to see the world. I wanted to travel. I didn’t want two weeks of vacation. 

My dad had been an entrepreneur, so I think I partly picked it up from him that I wanted to have my own business, but I knew I didn’t know enough to do that. I was coming right out of college at the time. 

And so, having a strategic vision, it was more I would do yearly visions, especially after I got out. Or, as I was at the end of my career, thinking, what do I want to create from here? Like, what do I want to experience? I knew I wanted more education. I knew I wanted to help people. I thought about going there. I was in college. I was in medical school. I was pre-med. I didn’t do well on that, so I chose. I had to go to a liberal arts degree to finish, so I considered going into psychiatry or psychology after coming out of the military. However, I also grew up using computers. 

I’m older than I look. So, I’ve been there since the first Personal Theaters were created, which fueled me. Then, I got my dream job at the time, Gateway Computers, and worked my way up through there. And so, each year, I kind of kept recalibrating what that strategy or vision was. Of what I wanted to create in my life, so it’s more about knowing what it had to include. I’m always doing something with computers. I’m always doing something to help people. That’s kind of broad as I had it—how I would do that kept shifting over the years.

So, one of the things that I noticed is that many people like it when they come out of the military. It’s like a very structured mindset. They create a disciplined, structured mindset, and we already know that business and entrepreneurship require adaptability and doing things on the fly. 

So, my question is: How did your mindset evolve from joining the military to doing business, and what would you advise other military personnel interested in pursuing entrepreneurship after they leave the military?

You have great questions. So, first of all, you’re right. I went from being structured to working for myself, and that’s part of the reason I failed and ended up in bankruptcy. I’m paid when you’re used to everything being taken care of. Well, my housing is covered. Even after my master’s, I was paid a full-time salary. Everything was, you know, medical health. All of that was handled. 

For me, so I left there and went directly into working for myself, and it was a mess. I was a mess. I went into sales. It’s not the organization’s fault that I went into it. I was not in alignment with it. I just chose whatever came to me first. 

And so, I am. I didn’t know how to structure my day. I was also used to only talking to military people, so I have a certain vocabulary. It’s easy to talk to people that way. And coming out of there, now I have to talk to the civilians who are messy and, in their mindset, they don’t follow.

We were that messy.

Coming from the military, it felt very messy and unstructured. Now I have to have a conversation to find commonality with somebody with whom, you know, I have nothing in common. But I haven’t thought about it yet. 

And so, I had to learn those skills, and honestly, I had to fail. I had to fail and rebuild myself because I realized it was actually. The words I was saying to myself were the reasons I was going. Fail. I predicted my failure. When I came out, I had expected the military to pay me a lot of money because I had saved up all my vacation, and I was expecting a full paycheck. And when I went there to get myself, it was a paycheck. It was a fraction of what I needed or expected. And I remember saying out loud, I’m going to have great energy.” To file bankruptcy. I don’t remember having that thought before. 

Fast forward 14 months, and I had to file, and it was because I didn’t have the best way to say it. I didn’t have the roots to know how to be an entrepreneur, take care of the bills, and handle things when I’m fully 100% responsible. And in terms of making money, there was no extra money. It wasn’t like I had a pension or retirement coming in, but there was nothing.

It was all on me. Your second part of your question is, What would I advise somebody coming out of the military to use everything at their disposal? The transition programs that the military has now are much different than when I was coming out because there are so many. People have failed. 

And so, there’s training programs. There are apprenticeship programs and different ways for people to learn their craft. And then practice it before they leave the military. And that’s normally for those who are retiring. And so, the more they realize that they have, the more they will be responsible for taking care of themselves and start living in that while they have it. The more the military there to support them,

So, one of the things that I wanted to ask as the continuation is that I’ve talked to many people, like military people, who became entrepreneurs. And the other thing is that the transition is one of the hardest things, right, and it’s really hard to like transition and like we’re doing that time and entrepreneurship like that transition was. One of the things that they had to tackle, but my question is, how did you overcome this period? 

This dark time, when you had to go through bankruptcy and the full closure of two homes, is one of the hardest things people can endure, and it takes a certain mindset to overcome it. What was your mindset during these times, and how did you get out of it?

You know, it’s again another good question. I think one of the things that happened was. There was a weekend when I got the bankruptcy notice—two foreclosures on homes and an IRS audit, all within a few days. And yeah, I took my breath away. That’s when I considered not surviving. That’s when I was in the kitchen and looked across the kitchen.

Oh wow.

See the knives, and I think I could end it right here, right behind that thought, Cosmos—this thought of weight. I created the bankruptcy by rehearsing the bankruptcy. If I rehearse suicide, if I rehearse not being here, I’m not going. It’s going to have momentum and take over. And if it’s going to, it will result in something. I’m not sure I want something permanent in a temporary situation. And so, at that moment, I realized this ability. I am blessed to have gone through the military; we were taught much about the military mindset. As Navy pilots, we had to learn to classify whatever was happening in our lives. If you put that aside, it goes into a little box. You can handle it when you’re done. 

As a former flight instructor, I used to teach that to my students. They might come and cry because their boyfriend or girlfriend broke up with them. Back in the box, we’re about to fly. Bring it together. This is our mission focus. 

So, I think being mission-focused is part of my success for me. The other thing that I knew on that day with those knives looking across the room was that I couldn’t play with the thought anymore. So I knew it would come in, but I couldn’t rehearse it. I couldn’t think about it. I had to pivot my mindset immediately. The third thing that I knew was that. I had that if I could. I could create the bankruptcy in my mind; I could uncreate it.

So, part of it was like. Well, how did you? How do I Replace the thoughts with better thoughts? How do I not succumb to my mind and the? I was rehearsing things that I didn’t want them to rehearse. I had. I knew enough that I had to feed it new thoughts, so I went on a quest. I read books. I went to the library; I was broke. 

So, whenever somebody asked me if they could buy me a birthday or a holiday gift, I’d ask for a bookstore. Gift certificates and I’d spend hours in the bookstore in the self-help section, learning and reading and buying the one that resonated with me the most. And one of them was The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. And it has a spiritual approach. And it’s really about how you shift your mind. There’s a passage in there that is used in all of my books. Pretty much as. Just using the word wealth,” what would that feel like?

So, I started using those tools to figure out if this was not where I wanted to be, and I lost the home I had to live on somebody’s couch. I had to. I rented a room, and so it was just like. Mayhem, embarrassment, and shame. I had to figure out how to crawl emotionally up and create a new future for myself.

Wow. The doctor is coming to say that this is so intense and insane, but I want the audience to know this because this is basically how you come back and attain success. You have to detach and realize you’re not your mind, you’re not your thoughts, and you’re not your emotions. You’re like you’re like the awareness behind it. 

And you have to be able to transform that through your will, and that’s what you did. You took a step back and observed, and you became aware of your thoughts in a certain way. I would say you disidentify with those thoughts, and then you start altering, which is something that 99% of people are not doing. We are all running in these thought patterns, and it’s just going on. 

These are all destructive thought patterns that we have in ourselves. And it’s just like you mentioned; it’s like momentum. The more you think about it, the more emotions you give it, and the more it feels. But we can also change it, and we can choose what part. And that’s what’s so liberating, Dr. Kamin.

Truly, because many people will tell me, well, you know, it’s just my thoughts and what I’m like. Yes. And we get to control those thoughts. We have more power than we know, and we get to reconstruct those thoughts because we want to start to focus and pivot toward what we want to create. What is it that is calling us? Inside of us is trying to get out so we can answer and move in that direction.  As soon as it’s correct, we must do it 1000 times a day, sometimes cosmos, because our minds are inherently negative. As humans, we have a negativity bias designed to protect us from and keep us alive. It’s our survival mechanism. We don’t realize that we allow the mind to think,

Oh, I’ve got a money challenge, which puts it in the same box as the tiger chasing us like money will kill me. No, it’s not. It’s just money. It’s just energy. Money is simply energy. So, if we begin to flip that switch and see. Oh, I have the power to control what I focus on, and I have to do it. I still have to do it because whenever we’re growing or reaching for something new, that negativity bias comes in. After all, it’s designed to protect us. 

So, we just want to make friends with it—that there’s no tiger. There’s nothing here that’s going to eat us or kill us. We just need to take a step forward and make it more familiar, and then we can move forward.

What do you think most people do when they have their thought patterns and everything? And what steps can they take to start developing these habits and mastering their thoughts? I think this is a very important conversation.

It’s one of my favorite conversations with my clients, and what I write about is this idea of what you are rehearsing. We have to wake up like I did. I rehearsed the bankruptcy, and I created the bankruptcy. Where are my thoughts right now? I’m rehearsing. I’m not enough. You know, somebody told me that I’m not good at anything. I wasn’t good at school. I’m not good at math. I’m not. I’m an introvert. I’m not. 

Cosmos, I love to tell people that I’m a hermit-level introvert. Most people can’t see it because I’m also what I call a situational extrovert. I grew up in a very public family. We had a lot, and we had to show up as kids. We had to smile. We had to talk, regardless of what was happening in our world. But left to my own devices, I would be on an island alone, and my husband would choose, so this ability to overidentify in our thoughts with anything like I’m not enough. And generally, I’m not enough. Something that hinders most people. I’m not good enough. I’m not smart enough. I don’t know enough. 

What people can start to do is first wake up to: What am I rehearsing? What is the predominant thought that I’m holding each day? I can’t make money. I like to say I specialize in helping coaches and entrepreneurs right side their businesses because something is out of alignment if they cannot make the kind of money they want to make. Right. 

So, we want first to see what that thought is and then change it to something more helpful. I don’t know enough, is that? Indeed, you don’t know enough. Especially with coaches, they often just need to be a step ahead of somebody else to help that person up. That’s all we want: to help the next person behind us. I’m not good enough. Is that true? 

We want to question those things we are rehearsing and then say, Wait, I am. I’m enough; often, my clients take whiteboard markers or lipstick and put them on their mirrors. I am enough. I have it at 11:00 every day. My watch tells me I am enough. I keep the thoughts in front of me and move forward. I was working with a client this morning. Who are they? They have a small business. They have to do performance reviews. They’ve never done them before in a concerted way. 

And they said I don’t know how to do this. I’m OK, so let’s work on that because I’ve been in corporate. I know how to do it by the end of working on it. With her, she’s like, oh, I can do that. And I’m like, right now, the first thing we have to do is give them an idea of, you know, an assessment of how they would rate their performance. Then we get it back. We view it and then plan to talk with them about what’s next. 

And so, the more we realize this is unfamiliar because most people will say, I’m scared. I’m scared to do it. And the truth is, it’s just unfamiliar. Once we start to put some familiarity behind it, we get training, or, you know, we learn something and put it into action. It also actually calms that negativity bias down.

This is great, but one of the things that, as the devil’s advocate, I’d have to look for a lot of people who would say, right, they would call themselves the realists whenever you want to confront them. They’re like, I’m not being pessimistic. I’m just being realistic. This is how the world works and everything like that. Let’s say you have people like that. 

How would you respond to people like that? What you say is true about changing a taught parent: to achieve anything, you must have those thought patterns and believe you can do it. And I’m seeing this because this is what’s preventing them from doing entrepreneurship and business in the first place. They don’t think they can do it, and they think that’s them being realistic. What would you have to say about something?

I’m laughing because you know my mother. I love my mother, and she’s amazing. And she’s like, we weren’t meant to be entrepreneurs. 

So, when I failed the first time, it was like, oh, I’ve just lived into that since then. I’ve also discovered that many of my great-uncles and grandfathers are entrepreneurs, and I like to say they’re imminently unemployable. Some of them were. They were imminently unemployable because they were great thinkers and didn’t fit into a box. 

So, the realists who you know want to hold on to that, I’m going to say really, because I can get caught in that. It’s like there have been people who told me. Well, it’s the economy. The economy is bad, so I can’t do this. I’m wondering if it is the economy or what we believe about the economy and so on. Is it the economy? Yeah. Is it the economy or what? We believe in the economy. Right.

I have to hear that again because it is pretty profound. 

It’s the same thing, isn’t it for me? Four years ago, with the pandemic almost to the week, was it the pandemic that would take us off and fail our business, or how do we think about it? I stopped all of my clients that week when the world shut down. 

And we pivoted the ones who had brick-and-mortar businesses—professors, studio owners, whatever—and flipped them on. We shifted the coaches’ mindset because it’s all mindset, which is what we believe about what’s possible now for those realists who are, you know, double down on being realists and what’s possible. I also say, Let’s test it. Don’t trust me? Test it. What would you like to test? We can create a vision of what we want to create. I want a business. I want a coaching practice. I want to be prosperous. 

The vision is one thing. The strategy is going to change. What took me almost out of Cosmos was that I thought I was a failure when my business failed; I was overly identified as a failure, not knowing I wouldn’t learn this part for decades. The strategy failed, not the vision. All the strategies have to change, so if we separate failure into testing and experimenting like scientists, all the great scientists worldwide have failed in many things.

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times.

10,000 times, but… The truth is, it was like he’s got his little notebook, and it’s like, OK, OK, expert #133 did not work experience #144, so we can depersonalize—our actions, our strategies, and not take it personally. I worked with some coaches this last week, and I’m working with them on their fees. I said it doesn’t. You don’t have to have emotional thoughts about what you’re charging. Is the skill that? You’re bringing something to the table that warrants that fee. That’s it. 

Most people you asked are also wondering what else takes entrepreneurs offline. Most entrepreneurs and coaches, those kinds, get stuck in. Am I worth it? Their skills are not worth it. That’s the right question. Do I have the skills to charge what I want to charge? Not inherently. Am I worthy enough? 

So, the more we pivot to data, and part of the reason I have a Ph.D. in positive neuropsychology is that I wanted the science behind all the Woo Woo stuff that I know, like the mindset and, oh, the tracks.

Right. What you think about what you bring about is that I’m in a new resonant pool and will attract those that resonate in that vibrational pool. Everything is energy. So, a lot of times, what we have to do for those people who want to become entrepreneurs is think about the energy of an entrepreneur, the energy of a prosperous code, and the energy of whatever they’d like to create, and that starts to inform us, raise our vibration, and raise the resonance that we start to hear. And learn new things that will support that new awareness of what we want to create.

Suddenly, an email shows up that is exactly what you’ve been thinking about: a program, a book, or whatever. The only thing is that it is Something I have to work with a lot. I’m a high-level learner. I love to learn. I have to move from learning into action, and I have to constantly work at flipping that switch and moving into action with my learning. That’s something that I have to reaffirm and commit to regularly.

So, Doctor Kamin, what you’re saying is true, and that is how you deal with the realists, especially with the last part. What do you think were the biggest limitations you and your clients encountered during your time coaching clients and people in general? What do you think is people’s greatest limiting belief in general? And what should be the next step to overcome that?

I think the greatest limiting belief is fear of rejection. In addition to I’m not enough right, the next one is fear of rejection, and the fear can be like. Something bad is going to happen to me. If I fail, Rate, and so many times, I’m asking the question. What? So if you fail, then what? Well, then, I’ll lose my business. I’ll have to lay off my employees, OK? And then what? Well, then I’d have to start over again, and then what? I’d start over again, and then what? Who are you now that you started over again? Do you think you’d make the same mistakes again? And they’re like, “No.” 

OK, so let’s pretend we don’t have to go there. Let’s change and learn from this moment because my prayer has always been. I don’t want anybody to have to go to the level of depth that I went to and learn from here and just say, Look.  It seems like something is off.

So, I love right-siding people, coaching, coaching practices, and businesses because something happens when we’re not making the money we want and think we’ve. Been. We’ve been believing in it. We’ve been focusing our minds every day. Then, something is out of alignment. My vision when I started was to be in business strategy. I picked a sales company, but it’s not my thing. Those are not reasons why I couldn’t have done it. I did it fine for a little while. Bit. But I love to help people and see them thrive, grow, and learn. Be the impetus for them to move to the next level, and I was always doing that. 

And so, with this ability, I also have people who are like, well, I don’t know what. I want to do it. I want to do something, but I don’t know what I want to do. A lot of times, I’ll go to those age ranges between 7 and 14. And I asked him, what did you do? Want to be there? The one challenge with that is the military. Military people often put those hopes and dreams in a box. To serve their country. 

However, the longer they’ve been in, up through 20-plus years, their dreams have been in a box. And finding ways to open that box and permit them to dream again is an interesting process.

Wow. Interestingly, you mentioned all these limitations, the first being the fear of rejection and then the fear of feeling like we’re coming across these different things, and everything that you’re saying is true about how to overcome them. You have to switch, you have to take control of the narrative in your mind, and you have to perceive and believe things. In a certain way, one of the greatest things I realized right in my time interviewing different entrepreneurs and meeting different people is that they want to change. Still, their environment, their families, and their friends have that negative mindset. 

So when they do, it’s like the crab in the bucket mentality. Well, they are now starting to transform and are in their infancy. It’s like a sprout; they’re starting to have different beliefs. But then there are the people that they care about. Most people are still living in the old ways of doing things, so I know that when it comes to making acquaintances, it’s possible to just, like, let them go and everything. But when it comes to things like family, close friends, and everything like that, what do you think somebody should do if they want to create this new mindset and narrative? 

One thing is that when I wanted to be an entrepreneur again, I left an executive salary and an executive job to work for myself again, and my family had a lot of fears and worries. Like I’m going to create the same financial mayhem I did the first time decades earlier. 

And so, I protected the dream. I protected it. I protected it. I didn’t share much about it when I had conversations with them; I would tell them, oh, things are going great, and I’d move on. I didn’t talk about it too much. I’m learning. I’m growing. Are you making money? Sure. Are you? Yeah. Sometimes, it might be a little money, but it was money. 

This ability to protect the dream and protect. It’s really—this ability to create a bubble around the dream. And around your mindset, sometimes you might have to get up early in the morning and focus on your focus and your mindset before the family gets up. As I call it, I also stay away from land mines and my family.

Wow, That’s the first time I’ve heard this. But it’s so true.

Away from those because if you’re at a family gathering and they want to talk about business or bring up your past or anything like that, just move on and focus. People love to talk about themselves. Get them talking about another topic. Yeah. We’re doing great enough with me. Tell me more about you. 

And so, this ability to Start brings it to Cocoon because people want to… They don’t mean to bring you down, but it’s safer if you’re with them than if you’re out in them. The world is doing great things. And so, what we want to do is just hold it closely. Don’t share much until you get moving because it’s not. It’s not even that they’re worried about you. They’re worried about them. They have their fears, and they’re projecting those on you. 

So, if you can protect and care for it and get off the topic, don’t share. Don’t overshare about your challenges. Get a coach, get a peer coach, and get somebody to work with them. Then you can take the challenges that you’re having to them. Do your best not to share those with your family because they will just want to make you safe. And they will reflect your worst nightmares sometimes. And so we want to be mindful of that, you know. 

And so, that’s just an opportunity. The same thing happens when I work with executives or people growing their corporate careers; it’s the same. Be excellent at what you want to create, and then, as you open up, share, and see success, you might let them in a little bit, but it’s really about protecting what’s coming from within you.

You have to protect your dream, and the people who are more likely to nip it in the bud are the closest to you. And for people listening to this, you cannot let that happen. If you have a dream, you must cherish it and create a realistic plan for achieving it. Because if you don’t achieve it now, when will you? Right. 

Speaking of dreams, we have something called the American Dream on a national level. But most Americans now feel like it’s going out of their reach, with stagnant wages, inflation, debt, and all of that stuff. From your perspective, what do you think most Americans should do to retain and protect themselves? The dream that they have and like to attain is what they want to achieve in their lives.

The first thing is for them to think it’s possible. To see the possibility of anybody doing it, they can do it. I tell this all the time. If I can be successful as a coach, and I am, anybody could be successful as a coach because I truly am a hermit-level introvert talking to people as anxiety-ridden. I’ve just had to learn when I’m in a new social setting. How do I have three five cards of questions? Where did you grow up? Like, I had to train myself to do that. 

So, if people think about the American dream, it’s impossible for any reason. I will challenge that because more people are thriving in new ways. AI is changing things, and people might say, well, AI will take my job. You’re going to have to pivot.

I had a conversation with somebody the other day about AI and automation and all of that. It was, yeah, pretty interesting.

You’re going to have to. It’s interesting, and it’s an opportunity. For us to learn, grow, and be kind of getting above. Our mindset is now to see the landscape I have held, and I used to say this a lot, especially during the pandemic; it’s like this is the most creative time in history. We need more inventors and innovators and people who can support those innovators and inventors—people who coach and guide people in their mindset. 

One of the principles of coaching and mindset work that I have as a tennis player. It has a box full of coaches. When they’re on the national and international stages, why would we regular humans not need a coach? Why? We always need someone outside of us who believes in us, champions us, and helps. To some degree, it holds us accountable for taking action toward our dreams.

What you’re saying is pretty inspirational and true. In today’s political climate, especially for 2024, we have elections. Many people seem to have a negative mindset on both sides, but we, as entrepreneurs and businesspeople, know that mindset is everything. So, from your perspective, how should we create a positive mindset on an individual level that can counteract all the negativity around us?

One thing we can do is live our dreams. If we’re focused on our dreams, helping others, and serving others, then we have less time to focus on the negative and US versus them. You know, there’s a phenomenon when there’s a national tragedy: it doesn’t matter what race, creed, color, or political party you’re in; everybody rallies. We can do that without a national tragedy. We can do that at any moment to serve humanity and each other. 

And so the more that we stay focused on positive and seeing good, it’s that it’s that story of if somebody moves to a neighborhood. And they have only had negative experiences. They’re going to replicate that again. 

But if you move to another neighborhood, you’ve only had positive experiences; you will replicate that again. So, in any given moment, we want to shift and pivot our mindset and realize, Oh, what am I listening to? I don’t watch the news. I don’t. I don’t want to talk about it too much because it does. It can throw me off, and it has me focused on something that I actually can’t control. 

So, what can I control? Well, I could control talking with you, being of service, talking with my clients, and helping my clients thrive to new levels. I love working with people on their money, beliefs, and what they believe is possible about their business and opportunities. If they think that there aren’t opportunities, create an opportunity. I created the job description for all the jobs I had in my corporate career because they didn’t exist. I was like, I’m ready for a promotion. What would that promotion look like? And I’d write a job description and then present it to my boss. And he’d say no. 

And I’m like, OK, well, I’ll live into that until he sees it. He saw it in a few months to six months, maybe even a year, and then I got promoted to a coach or business owner position. Same thing. This ability allows us to see. We have the power to create our circumstances. All we have to do is move the needle just a bit and move the needle a little bit more to be of service. Create something, innovate on something, design something, and share it. Share whatever is in our hearts to share.

You couldn’t have said it better. We only have it when we change ourselves and the surroundings around us. We just do the little parts we can do, and others do the same. That will create a national transformation of positivity because it’s all about mindset. It’s all about transformation. Like we as entrepreneurs, we know that the key is right, and yes, you’re right. We should not listen to the negativity on both sides because they get their power through fear, and we should strive to change our lives on a personal level and then do it for the people around us. 

And so, I know you wrote these two books, Conscious Love Workbook and Wealth Creation for Coaches. Can you tell the audience a little bit more about these two books and the premise of how you wrote them?

Yeah. These are the books: 4:00 and 5:00, the conscious luck workbook. This book came from reading the Conscious Luck Book by Gay Hendricks and Carol Klo. Who are both New York Times-bestselling authors? And so, when I read it, I literally couldn’t put it down. And when I put it down, I’d buy one for my clients. Because it’s all about how we consciously create luck in our lives, and we coined the phrase Lucifer. The goal: How do you like it if we have an idea we want to create? There are three questions we can ask ourselves. 

So, whatever we want to create, we want to create a new business. How has that made that goal meaningful to us? How does it light us up? And how does it benefit others when we can answer those three? And whatever we’re creating, whether it’s a set of businesses, a coaching practice, or becoming a teacher or corporate, whatever it is we want, how is it meaningful, how does it light us up, and how does it benefit others that give boosters? To the goals that allow us to thrive at a new level, Bills. In my last book, Wealth Creation for Coaches, I wrote with Steve Chandler, the Godfather of Coaching. 

And he wrote with another gentleman, Rich Lippman, and the prosperous coach, Steve. I’ve had the brilliant opportunity to work for Steve for over ten years. Steve tells you a lot about prosperity and the importance of being a prosperous coach, but he doesn’t say how. I’m a former flight instructor, so I’m always tactical. Like, what do you do next, and what do you do next? This one is a workbook to take people, and entrepreneurs love it. For coaches, creation is important because it deals with mindset. What are you rehearsing? What do you need to believe? How do you design your career, break through the financial bail, and where does wealth come from? 

So these two are what I love; they’re opportunities for us to shape our mindset in a whole new way. With that, we are where luck and wealth come from. We have just to shift how we think about ourselves and our possibilities.

Well, that’s amazing. I would recommend my audience check out these books because they’re really what we need. We need to have a mental transformation. We know what narratives we put in our minds, which helps with success. And I know you’re now doing a documentary film called The Courage to Thrive. Can you tell the audience a little bit more about this?

Well, thank you for asking because the courage to thrive came from the wealth creation for coaches. It’s this idea of how I get these principles to everyone, to people who would never maybe know who I am or work with me. 

And it’s the film. It’s a universal story, and it’s really about women under-earning and undervaluing themselves, and it’s told through. Several women of color, including African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic army veterans, all extraordinary women, follow along. I’m working with him on redefining and rewriting what success means from the inside. Now, the lens is through these stories, but I think it will resonate with everyone about how they start to take a step-by-step approach—increasing their wealth and success from the inside out to create greater fulfillment, freedom, and impact.

That is amazing. How can the audience connect with you and learn more about you? Through the work that you do.

You can go to my website, KaminSamuel.com, and learn more. Those of you know all my books are there, and there’s a lot of opportunity. If somebody who’s an entrepreneur or coach wants this book, there’s a wealth creationforcoaches.com link that goes directly to my website. And it has a lot of videos, so if they buy this, make sure to sign up for the downloads because I’ve created a whole. There is a whole background area for people to learn how to enroll, talk with people, and set up because you’re isolated when you’re moving as an entrepreneur. 

So, coaches may not always think of themselves as entrepreneurs and vice versa. This is why I have a whole section on client creation time. How do you start to talk to people? Where do you get ideas so they’re not coming up with them from scratch? 

But they’re starting, like there’s a daily checklist of things they can use to get their business moving. And there are step-by-step approaches to really growing your business. And this before, whether you’re new or not, I’ve had seasoned multi-figure coaches who found it. It is useful to be able to step into the next level. We don’t want to leap in so much as to start to look. Oh, this is who I am, and I can do this, giving themselves positive messages.

That is awesome. Thank you so much for taking the time to come to this podcast and share your wisdom. Even though I’ve heard this from many other entrepreneurs, it’s coming from you. It gives a fresh perspective on the importance of your mental state and mindset for success. 

And how it can take you out of even the darkest of times. It’s all about having the right mindset and thought process controlling your narrative. And I’m so grateful you took the time to explain limiting beliefs to me and the audience. I do hope that you come back at a later time.

Oh, well, thank you. Anytime. I’d love to come back, and I just want to say to entrepreneurs that whatever you are dreaming about is dreaming of you. And we need you out there. Just test it. Keep working on it. Get the learning and keep moving forward because we need whatever you are trying to create.

I mean, totally. Doctor, I couldn’t agree more. I want to conclude this episode by letting my fellow extraordinary Americans know that, hey, look, there’s something extraordinary within each of us. We must awaken it and unleash it until next time. Bye for now.