Welcome back to the show my fellow extraordinary Americans. For today’s guest, we have Jim Lomot. Jim is the founder and CEO of Trinity Growth Solutions. He empowers leaders and entrepreneurs to simplify their lives more successfully and live the life that they were created for.

After a 20-year career in the financial world of Wall Street as well as corporate America. Jim realized his ladder was up against the long wall. Facing three seemingly impossible challenges to overcome, Jim went through his own transformational journey. It was during this time that he was able to develop a simple yet powerful three-step process that changed the trajectory of his life. Jim is passionate about living an intentional life and teaching what it takes to be a leader in the 21st century. I’m really excited to have him on the show. Jim, are you there? 

I am here. 

Thank you for taking the time to be on the show. I appreciate it. 

I’m happy to be here, especially for someone as extraordinarily extraordinary as yourself. 

The same goes for you, Jim. So, Jim, can you tell me in the audience a little bit about yourself, your background, and how you got started? 

Oh gosh, yeah. You know, listen, I was just a middle-class boy from Long Island living with a father and mother who grew up in the Great Depression with that generation. And, you know, I was like everyone else, you know, played ball, you know, worked hard in school. You know, but there are some other things that maybe we’ll unpack here today. 

Went to college, got my accounting degree, sat for the CPA exam, and realized I was going to go into investments and spend some time, you know, again corporately. In the financial world, only to realize again, I really it wasn’t my ultimate final destiny. So that’s the journey that I’ve been on since leaving corporate America in 2014. 

Well, Jim, so I know that you’ve worked on Wall Street, and you’ve been in corporate America. Can you tell the audience a little bit more about the process of how life was over there and then what got you out of that into what are you doing right now? 

You know, I think so many of us have a path that we almost get put on without even thinking. We are just kind of almost robotic, you know, the people in our lives and how they influence us, and I might even make a case with how the structures of schools sometimes don’t allow us to think for ourselves. We just kind of get guided right. What I found is that ultimately you know for me, I just always had an affinity for numbers. It was kind of natural to me. Worked hard mowing lawns as a young guy, put money away, and thought of having my first mutual fund. I was fascinated by money growing and it kind of came. You know, for me, you know, and the fascination, when I was growing up Cosmos, you had the movie Wall Street, Gordon Gecko. Do you know where? 

I knew that, yeah. 

Yes, greed is good, right?  

It was fascinating. And I worked for some remarkable companies coming out of school. Starting literally on Wall Street in New York, and that path took me kind of like three stages in those 20 years wherein the front end I learned the back end of the business. In the middle part, I learned how to build portfolios and then at the back end of the last seven years, I would teach people. How to invest for themselves was so gratifying on many levels, helping others, but ultimately it didn’t burn in the soul. It’s funny how the world will line up sometimes to direct us right because only ten days after leaving that financial career did, I get a phone call that changed my life. 

And what is? What is that phone call and what happened over there? 

I was running an office down in Florida. I came back to Tennessee to be up here with my family and that’s when the phone rang and my father, who was 90 years old… you want to talk about, you know, the greatest generation, right? He’s a living World War 2 veteran Cosmos. And the stories, right? But he had fallen on some ice. He was 90 years old, and he had a brain bleed.  

So, I was living in Tennessee, picked up, and that changed my life because then I went into caregiving. So where I then transitioned from corporate to caregiver for the next 2 1/2 years. I would do three weeks in New York and one week in Tennessee. I had a daughter, so it was back and forth, back and forth. And during that time, I realized my mother had dementia.  

So yeah, it was an unbelievable time of caregiving. And caregiving is one of the hardest things. Are there any caregivers out of their Cosmos it’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do and go through emotionally. 

What happened after that? Like, how did you go through that entire ordeal altogether? 

About two, a little over 2 years into this Back and forth. I got a call that no person wants to get. My mother passed away. I was in Tennessee at the time, but prior to that, I made a promise to her that she would never go into a nursing home when with dementia. And I kept that promise. OK, but my mother was, like, my greatest cheerleader at that point. Prior to that, the transparent part of this appearance here I want to share with you. You know, I have for many years, starting as early as grammar school. I started drinking alcohol. I was an alcohol abuser for many years. And that turned into being a verbal abuser for many years.

The combination of those two created a vicious, vicious cycle of depression. And when my mother passed away. I was at a crossroads in my life, and I had to make a decision. You know, was I going to continue down this destructive path or was I going to say, you know what, I’m not going to end my life this way? I’m going to. I’m going to own what did I do? And I was going to start the other C, the comeback. 

And then so like you were going through this like challenge and all of that, so like what was that transition point where you’ve fought back from this depression because I know like a lot of people once they get into like alcohol, alcohol is like it’s really hard to get out of that like depression and it’s really it’s one of the hardest things in the world. So how did you get through it? 

It is an absolutely great question, and you know what, I realized everything starts with the decision. OK, it starts with a decision, and I don’t care what it is, whatever is going to work to trigger the decision to go on the right path, in my case, my mother passed away very traumatic. But I made that decision and then all I what? I think where everything starts is, first of all, you have got to own what you did. I learned a very simple nugget early on in that process. You know, I wasn’t 100% responsible. You probably heard this before, not 100% responsible for everything that happened to me. But I’m absolutely 100% responsible for how I react. 

If I could teach that to young people today, you know, it’s how you react to things. And I knew when I started when I made that decision and just did a little bit of knowing that everything starts up here, it was all about, you know, first of all, I didn’t trust myself. I didn’t have discipline. I knew I had to have those things and the morning routine. 

It started with the morning routine, and I made these shifts where foundationally, it was about getting enough rest, getting proper nutrition, and exercising. Those are the foundational things. What I’m about to share. Look, there’s nothing new under the Sun. I think we repackaged it. OK. And fancy words. It’s the fundamentals. I’m, I’m all about the fundamentals.  

So, when you have those foundational, those three foundational things, then it starts with intentional living with intentional personal development. I had to get my mind right and that was the start. 

Can you expand on intentional living? Like how do you intend something? How do you make that personal decision and what is the process by which you go through the hardest moments I think our audience can gain a lot of Insights from this. 

Well, first of all, and this might sound a little bit harsh, but you know what we’re born alone and we’re going to die alone. OK, the fact of the matter is you got to take responsibility for your life. It starts there and maybe it’s a little bit of tough love but just realizing for any of it. OK, it’s making that decision to say, you know what, I’m going to own you know, you know what I’ve done up to this point.

And then real simple. Seek out mentorship. Seek out maybe someone who’s been a little bit further on down the road and for me even thought was kind of an individual journey. I tapped into personal development and it’s really that’s the first piece of advice. Find some personal development that you can go deep, not wide. You know we live in a world where we’re bombarded ceaselessly. With all sorts of noise and all sorts of information, and to me it’s about. Pruning and simplifying. Going deep with personal developing those habits. When I say intentionally, make a decision. Creating systems and structure OK you can do it because again consistency, these are basic principles, they are there. Again, there’s nothing earth-shattering. 

I just committed. I got it, I said. Maybe it’s, you know, people don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat. Maybe I just felt the heat, you know, I almost can’t describe it, but that first stage of intentional personal development, it really was just about getting the mind right.  

I want you to think about this. Think about it like a forest fire. Forest fires are natural to burn down, you know, those houses aren’t destroyed, you know. Or are environmentally needed to burn away the old? OK, in order for new things to grow, that’s kind of how I equate my life. 

Jim Lomont needed to burn to the ground when this happened. I was burned to the ground. I was burned from being the corporate to the caregiver and basically, I want you to envision, an airplane flying over. OK. Well, that puts out fires. But all these scenes of greatness needed to be dropped. And where I burned down and then those needed to be watered and get new water, new sunlight so I could grow up and grow into migrate. 

Any person can make the decision and start taking in personal development slowly, but it wasn’t until the second step of my intentional journey and that was basically with an intentional personal bug, you’re looking in. You’re looking inside yourself. You’re removing the masks. You’re getting a real Full Monty. But then it’s what the switch was Cosmos when you look out and up when you look out and up inside. And what I learned there is that it’s not. About me, the key point. It was not about me; it was about love. 

Interesting because it’s because a lot of people think that it’s them and it creates a lot of self-doubt and self-worth issues. What was that point where you realized it’s not about you but it’s about love? 

Well, when you look into the mirror and go, I’m just again if I’m being real, like the masks that I was trying to live like, you know, the idea that I was drinking and a verbal abuser. Remember your audience is probably a lot of people that want to do great things. But here’s another nugget. You can’t do great things on the outside if you’re not right on the inside. Right. 

This was about getting right on the inside. OK. And that’s where the masks came off, I realized I was, I was selfish, and look, this wasn’t a light switch, man. It didn’t just go off. This was a process. I think the thing to remember. Is all of this a process?  

And it’s when we want it bad enough. That we’re willing to keep grinding through the process to keep getting better and better, the consistency little by little. So going from looking in and being honest, I was selfish. And then you look out and you realize when you are living, when you’re leading with love, being service to others. Right, being able to help others win. Then something magical happens. 

Humility. I became grateful for everything, the good and the bad. And then love and forgiveness. Because I think what ends up happening. What happened to me? You know there’s no self-love. There was a loathing of myself. And how can you love and do great things? If you can’t love yourself, you might be able to do things temporarily. But not long-term. Not long-term.

So that’s what I think the intentional spiritual development did for me, and for me, it’s my Christian faith all right? And really it was just saying humility, man. I don’t have the answer. OK, it’s not about me. It’s about others. It’s about love. 

What you’re saying right now is, that it requires you to let go of your ego and have a lot of self-reflection. A lot of people are not able to do that because they associate letting go of their ego with a lack of pride or something. So, what would you tell somebody who needs what you’re saying? Like you’re absolutely right, but they’re not able to do it because the egos in the way or their self-image of themselves comes in the way because that’s one of the… 

Please, please, I was going to say my apologies for interrupting you, but I’m. I get super excited about this part because this is the key. Steps one and two. Step one look in Step 2, look out and up and what you’re speaking to is the secret sauce. 

See anyone can try to do #1 and #2 and it’s hard, man, when we’re trying. To do this. But see in step three what I realized, as my mother died, as my younger brother passed away unexpectedly. As my marriage was dying a slow death. I realized I had no circle. I get jacked up about this part because step three is the key. It’s the secret sauce. It’s the power of intentional connecting, intentional relational development, and that’s what I call the power of intentional connecting saying OK. 

Who do I want in my life? This idea about surrounding yourself with the right people? Not only that. Of getting intentional about it and I kind of… I didn’t, you know, trade market process, but I created a process you where you go, that’s the kind of person I want in my life.  

So, I was in a growth-minded community, and I identified people, and I simply used the power of my voice with technology today we could send texts and emails. But you know what, the power of my voice is what connects what we’re doing here communicating. You get to feel my passion, my story. What if we were just texting? You’re not going to feel the same way.  

So, by connecting and building a circle, I learned. You can build. An online circle. And it literally can change everything when you have a group of people that you can do life with. But if you still have that resistance, you’ve got to do the second part. You’ve got to release people you got to release people too, you got. So, I’m telling you the power is in intentional connection. 

I think I think like what? I’m getting at Jim is like a lot of people like they want to like they basically like they tend to have like self-doubt, or they hate themselves, but their pride gets in the way of actual self-improvement because that like I can tell like with our society like that’s a big issue like where we have like an image that we have to keep.  

So, you’re saying that. You have to have the right circle of friends, is there anything else other than that that can help with regard to understanding? Because I agree with your humility part. You have to be humble. But sometimes, letting go is the hardest thing in the world. 

You know it, it certainly is. OK. But don’t underestimate when you do find the people in your life. I literally decided to form a mastermind group when I had never done that before and essentially around 30 people from around the world. I led them through a 16-week program and literally became like a family with these people and it went so well that we did a full-year program, and I led it with love. I LED with humility. I was lacking in confidence. 

So, what did I do? I poured confidence enough. Notice This is letting go of pride and ego. And when you pour it in, that reap, and sow principle is real, and you pour it into others. And I got it back tenfold. Cosmos, it was amazing, in fact. There are people that I met during that process that I have never met in person, never, and yet I’ve been meeting with them weekly now for over three years. There’s Donna up in Connecticut. There’s Maribel in Houston, there’s a Cat in Australia and the goddess of Norway. That’s a story for another day, but it’s amazing.  

And again, I’ve never met them, but they fill my bucket, I fill theirs, and we make each other better. Don’t underestimate the power of when you have the right people in your life, it could mean I think it was a Harvard study if I’m not mistaken that said, up to 95% of success you can attribute. To the people in your life, that’s powerful. Don’t you think? 

No, totally like there’s, like a thing like you. We are the combination of the five people we hang out with the most, and it just so happens that a lot of people have the wrong five people in their lives. Right. Like I think you have to be intentional about whom you enter. As you were saying, like who we enter into our lives. And like whom we hang out with, but ultimately, we’ll start taking characteristics of what they are, you know. So, we have to be very careful about it. 

Yes, that and not only that, but we also get the danger of being conditioned right where we’re conditioned by our environment, and we go down a certain path when we were created for much greater things. But if we are on that wrong path, you could take a really extraordinary person. And have them in the wrong environment and this other person with not nearly as much talent in a loving environment. And that person in the loving environment, I think is far more likely to do great things because you don’t have that resistance. It’s draining when you have the wrong people in your life. That’s why I said you can surround yourself with the right people. But it’s that pruning.  

And it’s hard because some of us like it. Even in my world. I had a long-standing relationship. That I had to prune away. All I could say is there’s power. There’s just real power. And once you do those like the simple process and you start building momentum. You could accomplish anything. 

That’s the beautiful thing about this process, I could proudly say to you, I’m no longer an alcohol abuser. I’m no longer a verbal abuser and I’m no longer someone that suffers from the same mental challenges and in fact. I mentor and advise others to teach them how to do that. It’s beautiful when you can do that for people and change their life. It’s powerful stuff, man. 

So, if you meet somebody right, who’s gone to all this, and like you had to give them a gist, like on the three-step process in like about a sentence or two on how you would tell that person what to do in that case. 

Or in fact. You know when I think about it. You know when I formed Trinity for the growth solutions, it was based on a triangle. The foundation is I connect with people. It’s about connecting in order to establish what. You know, you know, first of all, you know, we see if there’s a good fit, if they’ll, if they’ll be coachable, we’ll they’ll listen because there’s no point in me talking to people if they’re. If they’re not. You know, if we aren’t open to listening. All right, that’s the first thing we have to be. And then it’s simply by clarifying where they’re at. So really, I just, I try to establish, let’s clarify where you’re at and then create a game plan for where they want to go.  

So really, it’s seeing where they’re at right now and being able to make those simple, subtle shifts and do them consistently, as I said. I think the area that we’re talking about is so over complicated by people that you know, smart people struggle with simple. But one of my core values is simplicity.  

And when we slow down and we prune and we create the space up here, Cosmos, our world, we’re almost like reflexively want to suck in more information. You know the best leaders I studied; they always kept that space. And have that quiet time to think and reflect in order to how they could become better, and I would just encourage people today. It is about pruning, getting off the electronics for periods of time, right, in order to have the thinking time to slow things down because we’re again we’re being bombarded. So really slows down. Slow down and figure out what you want. 

So, Jim, I was like talking to this another person like, you know, in a previous interview and then we were talking about the concept of pain and how pain can be… Like if you have the right perspective on it, it can actually be a means of attaining growth, transformational growth that can actually turn you over for the better.  

So like there is some there is a certain level of beauty. And like provided you see it in the right way and you see that it’s like happening for you, right, not to you like life like so we were talking about it and she was like, you know, like due to that I became the person that I am today.  

But it was without that pain or that suffering, I would not have been there, and I was just, like, thinking like, yeah, it’s kind of strange how it happens, right? The law of duality, where you have to go through these extremes like you got to toggle with these opposites. And then when you toggle with them, you ultimately reach a higher form of self-realization and self-understanding of who you are. And it ultimately makes you a better person. But I don’t know what your thoughts are on that. 

My thoughts are you know I can only speak to my story, and I would not trade. Not one thing about the struggle. And people say, yeah. Yeah, no, I. And I’m going to quote CS Lewis you know, for those that you know, get easily offended by faith. It’s a quote from a great writer, CS Lewis. I think he said, God whispers to us right in our pleasure, but he screams to us in our pain. 

So let’s say a group of people that don’t want to experience pain, but they want to grow at the same time. Like would, would you say that there’s a way to do that? 

Think about I was a gym rat. My whole life. That was one of the ways I released my frustrations and I used to blame people for everything, so I’d go to the gym and be all, you know, frustrated. But think about breaking down a muscle man. You’ve got to you got to break it down. The pain of breaking down the muscle for it to get stronger and bigger. 

OK. Yeah, the pain is there. Resistance is there to strengthen us. When, when we have it too easy. Then you know and we’re not challenged. I think it’s much more challenging to grow in that kind of environment. 

That is really deep, Jim like I agree. A lot of people ask why, why go through the pain and the struggles, let’s say you have a calling for a higher life, right? And you know that the higher power of God or whatever wants you to do and impact a lot of people and like, let’s and then you’re one of these people and then you’re and then you ask yourself, why do all of that when I can have the easy life.

I was reading this book where I talked about the story of Martin Luther King, right? And basically, Martin Luther King had an easy he had the opportunity for Easy life he had a proper job at the Christian, like at his church and also a university and he had the right network. He could have had an easy life, but he decided to choose the hard path. And what would you tell people that are like, why can’t the person just choose the Easy life, that’s Filled with pleasure versus this hard life that will lead to growth? Like, how would you go about it having a discussion? 

I yeah, what I would say. You can choose that if you want. Seriously. It’s like nothing’s stopping you. I think ultimately, it’s about what you want to accomplish. I mean, really, what does the individual want to accomplish? Because if you want to accomplish great things and I’m here to tell you. You’re never too old, to make that pivot with purpose towards your, you know what you want to achieve or your greater impact. Pivoting through pain towards purpose was really the title of my recent Ted talk. We make our decisions and then this famous quote and eventually our decisions make us the older we get. We make these decisions, and You can decide to go the easy way. 100%. But I think we were created for more I think most of us were created for more and we just drift, and we drift.  

Next thing you know, we’re looking back on what happened to our life and why do you think so many people have regrets later in life? I’m here to tell you I don’t. What I hope to do. I was on the path to destruction, man. There was no reason for me to pivot. Except answering your question was hard because it was that I think that soul-deep decision to say I was created for more than this. I chose a harder path to overcome because I couldn’t listen. Would it have been more pleasurable to keep drinking, to not care how I was yelling? No, that would have been easy, right?  Because I knew how to do it really well. 

So, Cosmos, I think we were created for more. And that’s where I get intense, and I want to pour into people and say snap out of it. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea and I get that. OK, but I’m not going to hold back because when we do overcome. We don’t want to waste what we’ve worked through right. This is about taking my pain and suffering and saying what good can I do with it? Make sure that it was it’s used properly so maybe I can smooth out someone. A learning curve, I don’t know. But we always have the choice to do that’s free will. Right. Free will. 

This is gold, Jim because I think like ultimately. It’s about having a deeper meaning and deeper fulfillment in our lives. And I mean just to like end with the decision why MLK did what he did like it ultimately brought more meaning to his life. 

And I think we’re all born for something extraordinary like each one of us has the potential. In fact, this podcast is to show each and every one of us that we can do extraordinary things if we fight against the odds and go through the pain.

And there is the easy way, right? But it’s going to lead to, like, a path that it’s not going to lead to anything. But then there is the other path, the path that is not taken. I think in school there was this poem about the two roads. Right, that’s right. And it was like the road less taken. And sometimes the road is less taken. And that is less taking, it’s taking, it’s the reason is it’s the harder path and we have to ultimately take the harder path that we want to reach where we want to be, you know and ultimately overall in the longer, grander scheme things, you’ll feel much better. 

You know, I love the fact I love the title of your podcast. I love you know when we talk about extraordinary people. I think that’s really subjective. You probably have some really important people running companies and all this kind of stuff and don’t get me wrong that is important. 

But you know what, every life matters, and if we can Pour into you never know who you’re who’s going to be listening in, and the great things that they could do in their lives. They could, in fact, just by hearing us talk about the simplicity of saying make a choice. All right, you’ve got greatness inside. You’ll hear me say you’ve got greatness inside of you, it’s your job to go find it. I love going to middle schools, and elementary schools, and talking to young children, and I think it’s a little intense sometimes, but I make sure they’re a little bit old enough. I used to do this not as much anymore. 

But I’ll say listen. You’re not going to be handed anything. Go out there. You’ve got greatness. Puff them up. You got greatness. But you got to work for it, right? You got to work for it. I think we’re getting. Think about what I told you earlier. My dad is a living World War 2 veteran, right? Think about that generation of 18-year-olds getting off a boat on the beaches of Normandy. And then we’re talking about things that are handed to young people today. That’s a big difference, don’t you think? I mean, a big difference. 

No, it’s a massive difference for sure. 

So, Jim, I wanted to ask you this one question. So, from your perspective with everything that you have learned from your life, how should Americans go about realizing the American dream? Because and how can they overcome the struggles when it comes to realizing the American dream? From your perspective. 

Yes, from my perspective. 

#1 We live in the greatest country. It’s not perfect and it’s got faults. But you know what? Honestly, there is nothing that we can’t … the freedoms… freedom is so taken, I think for granted from my perspective. Think for yourself. I think this is the best piece of advice. Especially when you think about news media and let’s face it, we could argue this one too, but everyone’s got an agenda. Everyone’s got an agenda and it’s not to be cynical. But everyone does not just news, but we all do. 

So really, it’s for me. It’s the challenge and I have an 18-year-old daughter who’s going to college next year and I told her one piece of advice. Just think for yourself. Slow down enough to think and not be the sheep to the slaughter. 

So, we’ve got the greatest country in the world with all these freedoms that we complain about. And we’re a bunch of followers, followers with social media. And it’s not about followers, man. I don’t care if you have a million followers. How many lives are you impacting? Be a free thinker. Think for yourself. That’s the biggest piece of advice I could give to anyone. 

I mean, it’s really simple when you say it, but a lot like most people get into groupthink like even with regards to everything that’s happening in the nation, it’s more like a group thing kind of things like you have to pick sides. No. We have got to think for ourselves and just see what’s really going on. You know, there’s beauty in a lot of things. As we like, we tend to look at only the negative stuff, but most of what’s going on is actually pretty good. And it’s just like in terms of the media, they only choose like the negatives, but it makes more money, yeah. 

I encourage people to live with intentionality, you know, wear our eyes and our ears go, so, your life will follow. 

So, Jim, you know, you know, American identity is about the pursuit of happiness, right? That’s what drove us to, like, basically be who we are.

From your perspective, how can Americans go about pursuing happiness from your perspective? Like after being on Wall Street and then like because a lot of Americans think that making money. And with a lot of money, we’ll give them happiness. Wall Street oh, these guys are rich. They’re probably they. They have it all made, but from your perspective like. What is the true way of actually, being happy and realizing the American Dream in the process? 

Life is about relationships. That’s what provides the most happiness you ask anybody… Look at the lottery winners. They had all the money in the world. Handed to them and how miserable they turn out to be. Money doesn’t buy happiness. Yes, it’s necessary. It’s needed to do things. But nothing fulfills the soul more like relationships. 

So, I would say. Focusing on some of the basic things we talked about today and working on powerful relationships, it’s amazing. I would not be standing in front of you today. And talking with you, if it weren’t for me reaching out and connecting with people because that led to more and better relationships and more doors opening up. And it gives us the ability to impact other people’s lives again. Relationships are where it’s at, man. Money is necessary. And I get that. But when we make everything about that… Something gets lost. You can’t buy that kind of satisfaction with money. 

I’m not going to lie, Jim. When I first came to America and I started doing college, it seemed like the pattern that the actual God in America is not Christ or the Father or whatever. It seemed to be the dollar, I mean, I could be wrong about that, but most people say they worship God, but through their actions, it showed that they and of course, money are important for financial freedom. But after a certain point where worshipping celebrities literally, with all the mansion and the yachts, that’s the idea of the American dream. But what you’re saying is that it’s about. Relationships are like a proper relationship and that’s where the real happiness starts coming in from. 

So, it’s an interesting understanding altogether. Because that’s where our society is. And culture is going towards like we’re worshipping the almighty dollar. But it’s only important to a certain point. 

You said something there. 

Watching what people spend their time and their money on will tell you everything you need to know about them. That’s all you need to know about them, how they spend their time, how they spend their money. I can watch and study anyone and tell you about them just by watching those two things. OK, so at the end of the day, you’re right. 

But I think that’s a bigger conversation. And again, I think it’s great. I’m going to go back to the incessant bombardment of marketing, manipulation, and how easily… that’s why unplugging is so necessary so that we can … they’re all tied together Cosmos, and I’m not saying I’m not even judging, saying good or bad. I’m just saying it’s happening.  

So, if we want to have at the end of the day when we’re on our deathbed, are we going to ask for our checkbook or are we going to wonder who’s surrounding us? You know, standing around us with us, we’re not going to be asking for our diplomas. We’re not going to be asking to see our cars, and yeah, this might sound… But it’s the truth. This is about… You want to live an extraordinary life in an extraordinary America. Make it about relationships. 

I could not agree with you more Jim, cause at the end of the day when we’re on our deathbeds, yes, our relationships are ultimately the thing that matters. 

But when we’re in our 20s and 30s and we’re growing up, we think that it’s all about success, fast money, cars… having problems. And I’m not talking about transactions in relationships, I’m talking about authentic Real deep friendships, and I think we have to do a lot of soul-searching as a nation and like find what truly will give proper happiness, and it starts with each and every one of us. And that’s what I would want my audience to do. 

Also, I think you quoted Martin Luther King, and I think if I’m paraphrasing him correctly if we all swept in front of our own houses, the world would be a clean place. 

Awesome, Jim. Yeah, that’s awesome. 

So, Jim, can you tell me in the audience a little bit more about your company Trinity Growth Solutions? And then I know you discussed a little bit about the three-step process, but can you describe that to the audience? 

Listen, you know, for me, my story is tied to the fact that…I almost feel like, and I’m going to go back to your audience saying, look, whatever, you’re doing, if you’re not happy, make a switch. Life is too short and that’s kind of what I you know, that’s how Trinity was birth. Trinity was birth. It was literally late and was laid on my heart, knowing that it was tied to my story of Who I was to where I’m going. 

So, what I try to do is take the wisdom and experience that I’ve learned, and I act in an advisory mentorship role with others. OK, it’s really like an umbrella and I work more with individuals. OK. But I also love talking to groups about 21st-century leadership because there’s a big shift from the way it was in the previous century to now.

And it gets me jacked up to help organizations. OK. And talk to them and speak. To them, in fact. You know, again it’s our journey, own it. Whatever you want to do for me, it’s stepping into the new role of speaking and writing. And I’m excited about that. But you know the process is what created all this. It created everything when I just. The things we talked about realizing that I made a decision I owned my past, I took very, you know intentional steps looking in, then looking out and up, and then finally in that third step it’s looking into the hearts of others in helping other people win.

That’s living a great life. So that’s really the end of it, the day Cosmos. All right, we can look within. We can whatever your guru is or wherever you get your personal development. It’s not about taking in all this content. The thing I want to stress, it’s about mastery. Going deeper. Not wide, and just taking in information. It’s how it is transforming you and how do we know through our actions? Right through our actions and then the spiritual journey. 

I think we all have a created, spiritual component. It’s really about choosing your path. I’m not here to tell anyone. Go down any one path. Right. But I do think we were created for a higher purpose by a higher person or thing. That secret sauce, man, that’s what I’m going to encourage people to just find the people. If you don’t have your people, be intentional, go out and find them. That’s what you want. You want real satisfaction. You want to live an extraordinary life. That’s what I found work. 

So I hope maybe. And I hope that helps a little bit again. I’m living my best life with Trinity growth solutions. And figuring out how to make the biggest impact in leaders’ lives and entrepreneurs’ lives based on. My own experience. And who knows when I write a book, I’ll come here and talk to You about it, you’ll get an exclusive. 

No, like you’re extremely inspirational and motivational because yeah, like a lot of people are, they need to know this stuff because they’re going through hardships like each one of us has our own hardships, but it’s not about. The hardships are necessary. How do we react and what’s our perspective and how do we overcome it? And it ultimately makes our life much better if we have the means and the mindset to overcome it, you know. And that’s the whole point. 

100%. You know, at the end of the day, man, I just want my daughter to be proud of me. Think about that. I could have all the money in the world, the biggest yacht in the world. And if she was not proud of her. It would matter nothing to me. That’s how we’re wired, man. 

You know that that is our operating system, our operating systems man are still 2000 years old. Those haven’t changed. They’re it’s the same operating system or it’s and I shared this months ago, it’s not the latest app that matters. It’s the aptitude. How we the aptitude we have what we learn. Apps aren’t going to change us. Our attitude and mindset. 

So Jim is there like is there any other project or work that you’re working on right now that you want the audience to get a glimpse into? 

Yes, it’s definitely a pet project you’ve probably heard of the term heroes’ journey before and literally. Going on my own hero’s journey during my comeback. Culminated in an actual year-long program called the Hero’s Journey, which was remarkable in itself. It was kind of wild how that kind of happened. I’m a big believer in the group component, the Community component, and the power of doing a hero’s journey, community and it’s something that I would ultimately like to… Take the roots … America was built and founded on hard work, honesty, integrity, and all these beautiful things. But I think we should never forget, and I would like to build this community of extraordinary people, where people can authentically talk about their struggles and ultimately make each other. They are going through their own individual heroes’ journey, so a kind of collective community called the heroes movement. That’s something that I look forward to building, but it’s going to take, we’ll see how long it takes. But right now, that’s kind of my bigger vision. I would love to see it. Because it made such an impact on my life. 

That’s awesome, Jim. So, Jim, how can my audience connect with you to get to know more about your work and also connect with you if possible? 

I think the best way is to connect with me on LinkedIn. If a people on LinkedIn, it’s just, you know Jim Lomont JIMLOMOT, and if they want to e-mail me directly. If they are looking for someone to maybe speak and inspire their group, their team, or just people that need to overcome big struggles cause again, I’m no stranger that they can e-mail me at jim@trinitygrowthsolutions.com. 

Jim, I’m really grateful that you took the time to come to this podcast and share your insights, share your story as well, because I’m pretty sure there’s somebody out there who’s like going through hardships and everything. This process can help them get out of it, you know, and I will definitely want you to come back at a later time in the show. 

I hope to do that. I hope, God willing. I’ll do that anytime for you, my friend. You are an inspiration. You’re doing great work here. And I’m excited to continue to follow your journey as well Cosmos. 

Thank you so much, Jim.

I want to conclude this show by telling my fellow extraordinary Americans that, hey, look, there’s an extraordinary within each and every one of us. And it’s our duty to awaken it and unleash it until next time. Bye for now.