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Shine On Success
Shine on Success is a dynamic, story-driven podcast where extraordinary entrepreneurs, visionary leaders, and resilient change-makers share their journeys to success, revealing both the challenges and the strategies that led to their breakthroughs. Each episode offers a unique blend of inspiring personal stories, practical business insights, and actionable advice, allowing our guests to connect with an engaged, growth-oriented audience ready to be motivated and uplifted. By joining us, you’ll not only have the opportunity to showcase your expertise and inspire listeners but also to be part of a powerful platform that celebrates ambition, innovation, and the courage to turn dreams into reality.
Shine On Success
How One Leader Rebuilt His Life and Is Changing the Coaching World
What if your darkest moment became the spark that changed everything—not just for you, but for hundreds, maybe thousands of others?
In this soul-stirring episode of Shine On Success, high-performance coach and visionary leader Faisal Ensaun shares the turning point that shattered his world and awakened his purpose. From a life spiraling through addiction and self-destruction to building a coaching movement that helps others unlock their fullest potential, Faisal’s journey is a raw, honest, and deeply empowering reflection of what’s possible when you stop surviving and start leading with intention.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, seeking clarity, or just craving a story that proves change is possible, this conversation will move you—because it’s not just about success, it’s about legacy, growth, and creating impact from the inside out.
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Welcome to Shine on Success podcast, where we dive deep into the journeys of trailblazing visionaries who transform challenges into triumphs and inspire others to do the same. Today we have an extraordinary guest, faisal Enson, a high performance coach, entrepreneur and community leader who has turned personal adversity into a powerful mission to help others unlock their true potential. So, faisal, can you tell me what is one thing you want people to know about you?
Speaker 2:First of all, thank you for having me here and thank you for the kind introduction. I don't know what would be useful for people. What I would, what I hope, is that, if I were to share anything, that everyone goes through struggles, and the reason why I feel like I'm here and I'm on that journey to grow is because I've struggled through a bunch of stuff and I've had the opportunity and the chance to work through them, and I continue to work through them as well. I don't claim to have figured out everything. I just I'm just a human being, just like everybody else, trying to work through all kinds of stuff. It's just that I've developed some, some awareness, a few skillsets and a cool network of people around me that continue to support me, and my hope is that all the things that I'm doing, it serves other people around me towards their own potential, towards the things that matter to them.
Speaker 2:And, ultimately, what I hope is whatever I've gone through, whatever adversity I've gone through, and whatever I've learned in the process the shoulders of giants that I've sat on, who have gone through all that stuff, picked up a few things that I can help people with so they can create, they can be a better human being, a better leader. They can go towards the things that matter to them and also build a community, a family, a set of people around them that they can connect with each other, grow together and serve for us. Because, ultimately, we're all on the same boat, whether we're not, then we're going to affect each other and I mean pretty much everybody on earth and we're literally on a boat that's hurtling through space and we have no idea where the hell we're going. We're very little about our situation. So let's make that boat a better place for everybody, and that's my hope with all the work that I do.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope that the same. Honestly, my goal in my life now is to affect as many people as I possibly can. From now until my last day and I feel like that I've been put through a lot of journeys to be able to share with others, to help them get through it, and so I always look at the adversity as where. Where is the other side of this, and when it comes it's going to be amazing. So, you know, I look for that now when I get something that pushes me in the wrong direction, or it hurts or it's hard. So I know that you've had quite the journey, and so I want to ask you what moment in your journey stands out as a turning point that set you on the path to where you are today?
Speaker 2:Well, there's one moment I share often, at least in my experience, in my memory, that stands out for me, and that was when I was in my 20s, early on, and I remember as I was coming out of the subway station. I came out, there were a lot of people around. I go to the corner. I wasn't feeling well. I was young, but I didn't feel young. I look around me, it was like everybody was talking about their own business outside of the subway station and I felt like my life was completely passing me by. I felt sick. I threw up. There was blood on the floor. I look at that.
Speaker 2:I wasn't really surprised because I knew I had an awareness that had been abusing my body for a while, and through alcohol, drugs, all kinds of distractions, and I've come to a point, even though I wasn't fully owning how I got to here. But I was confused, I was lost, I was frustrated, I was angry and in that moment, for some odd reason, as all these emotions and thoughts were going through, I felt it all. I felt the pain in all sorts of different ways, but then, in the same, few seconds after that, or a few moments after that, what I felt was a sense of peace, a sense of joy, a sense of connection, which was very odd to me. I didn't know how to make sense of that, but for some reason that moment changed things for me. In retrospect, from where I look backwards, I feel like that was a moment of grace. I don't think that was my own doing, I think it's just for some odd reason I felt it all and that made me see that you know what something needs to shift, and that gave me the initial motivation to let's do things differently.
Speaker 2:It reminds me of this philosopher who said we're not wise because we want to be, we're wise because we're forced to be. So I was in a sense forced to be by my circumstances, to start looking inwards. But and I'll kind of go back a little bit my family and I we came from a war-torn country and my parents literally had to flee the country on barely their clothes on their back, with five kids trying to get out of there and everybody in danger, and somehow they found a way to restart their life and then they had to restart again a few years and then they had to restart again. So I've seen a lot of adversity through the people that I've been around and, to be honest, when I look back, just that perspective has helped me that you know what they've worked through a lot of crazy situations.
Speaker 2:Why can't I work through this? So that gave me a sense. I think that's partly a sense, a hope, a sense of resilience that's borrowed. That helped me kind of. You know what I need to figure this out. If I come from a generation of people who were able to fight all these battles internal, external why can't I deal with?
Speaker 2:this yeah, and then I went on it. After that, I went on a long journey for the next decade or so, trying to figure out well, what went wrong, what can I do better, how can I grow as a human being? The more I studied anything from philosophy to spirituality, history, sciences related to human behavior, the more I realized I needed to learn more, I need to experiment, I need to apply, I need to be more intentional. That was a decade long journey as I was doing other things and then about decade 12, 13, 15 years ago my timelines are very blurry in my mind, whatever. So I think in terms of decades, I'm like that's what happened around that time.
Speaker 2:So I met my mentor, my coach, who kind of took me through this process that completely changed my life. It's as if I grew in six months the way I did in the last 15, 12, 13 years. That was incredible for me and it was not easy. Like you said, when you're going through that process. It was painful. It was like I was restructuring almost everything that I had been taught in my life. I was questioning things. I was questioning my identity, I was trying to figure out how I was going to show up and that's what actually gave me the initial push to jump into entrepreneurship at that time and I chose to show up in a way that he showed up for me. In a sense, I wish that was available 15 years ago, because that would have accelerated my growth. Now I can't go back in time, but how can I support others?
Speaker 1:so maybe you weren't ready at that time for it. You know, if it would have come, you might not even seen it. And I think that we go through these seasons and you say decades, but I say seasons. You know to, to learn from them all. And you, it might have been right in front of your face and you would have not that's.
Speaker 2:That's very, very well said. I might have not that one of the funny things. So all my clients who are in my programs, one of the things they consistently get is recommendations for books and eventually I tell them you just just make a, make a list of them, read it whenever you want to. Then at some point they will go through a couple of the books about six months later, a year, like I don't know why I never read through this. I was like you probably weren, probably weren't ready for it.
Speaker 1:I'm ready, You're more ready. So you've been through addiction and personal despair for sure. You've had a lot in your life and watching your family as well. So is there a key step or some realization that helped you break through to these struggles, to get to this idea of now I'm going to become a high performance coach? Like where was that shift?
Speaker 2:To be honest, I didn't even know what coaching was, even when I was being kind of coached or mentored my mentor coach. He wasn't really a professional coach in that sense I think he was. For many people, he never recognized it as that. He was just a leader in our community and I was fortunate enough to be in front of him and he helped me through and. But then the thing that had opened up for me in some of the most amazing things that he did was he just asked me. He didn't tell me what to do, he didn't tell me to go. He's like why is this important to you, that you're going towards this? What are you hoping to get out of this? What would it look like if you stayed on this track for 10 years? Do you think you'd be still interested? Why do you think you I think differently versus your other four siblings? You grew up in the same environment. Why do you think differently? I never can Like. I don't know. Maybe I'm special I didn't want to admit that, or maybe I'm not. Maybe I think differently, maybe I process things differently. You are in the same household, same process, but it started and why do you believe the things that you believe, like why do you believe in the way that, that you think about religion versus another person? Why do you believe about your culture the way you do? Why do you react to things of it? And these whys and hows and whats it drove them alone for long enough. Everything gets tangled. It goes towards chaos. My thoughts were tangled of chaos and then, slowly, I started unraveling in that process and as I did, then there was a point of decision. In fact, I was getting more and more miserable, as this was.
Speaker 2:A lot of people think that you'll be happy in the process of growth. There's this idea in personal development that you know what. You should feel happy, you should feel connected. You won't feel any of that shit. What you will feel is pain. What you will feel is misery. What you feel is confusion. What you'll feel is a sense of disconnection. But over time, as I kind of was in that journey, I realized I was getting more and more miserable. I need to make a decision here. I was at the time. I was with my wife and I'm like I don't see myself living the way most people live. I don't know if I'm special, I don't know if I'm not, but I need to make a different decision about life and it's not going to be easy. So I didn't actually have a clear plan. So I found somebody was Brandon Burchard. Online I saw one of his videos that said hey, you can turn whatever you're passionate about into something that you can do every day.
Speaker 2:And that sounded like the smartest thing for me to do is like I can grow every day and I can make a living out of that. I can learn every day, I can make a living and I'm like that's, that's like the best deal in the world. That sounds to me. That sounds like retirement Sounds fun for sure.
Speaker 2:So I'm like, okay, at least there's a possibility. That gave me an initial hope. And then I landed in a conference with 700 plus people from 47 different countries. I go there and you know, I grew up most of my life thinking that I was the only one who thought like this. Then I find this other odd person who was my wife. I'm like I think we're the two. It was funny when I met my wife around the time when we were just dating and we got engaged. It didn't click for us. But every person, every family member, we both felt like where did you find this person? Because they were just as surprised as I was Like where did you find this person? But then, when I landed at this event, I remember they were doing a group exercise Many of these events do or like everybody was sharing a little bit about what your mission is, what your mission is, what you want to do.
Speaker 2:I had no idea what the hell I was doing, but I was like trying to figure out what I was doing. Just, I want to do something. And I was listening to these five or six amazing people who were sharing their mission, their journey. Each one of them. They had something deep in their heart. They wanted to to. They had a deeper passion, they had a deeper interest and they wanted to serve people with that.
Speaker 2:And at the end of that time came for me and I didn't really know how to express myself. Truly, I didn't have my voice yet. This was a decade ago and I just looked at him and all I could come out with was where the hell have you people been? All my life? I thought I was alone in the whole world, and that was that gave me an opening. And actually that conference taught me a model to, hey, put yourself out there, no matter how difficult it might be. You can turn that into a path forward. And the rest is just.
Speaker 2:And, of course, the next three years was incredibly difficult to build a business. I'd never built it and I wasn't going out there to build a business. I just wanted to find something where I was interested in, I could provide for my family and I could move forward. And that gave me an opening. And I worked hard over the next three years and I tried to understand how these things work. I put myself out there when I was scared to do so and that somehow translated into a path where I could do the thing that I love. I could travel the world, I could be with my family, I could consistently and one of the things people used to say well, if you turn your passion into work, you're going to hate it. Actually, it's become better and better, as I've been on, at least for me. I can only speak to my experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I have to say I would agree with you. When I'm passionate about something, I love it so much, I don't. I don't think it's work, and so I would ask you this question. I think it's important. So you have coached such a diverse group of individuals, from students to multim millionaires. What's a common theme or challenge you see across these groups?
Speaker 2:I love how you're asking and most people. They put people in categories If I'm working with a student, if I'm working with a stay at home mom, if I'm working with a working class, I'm working with the head of an organization, If I'm working with a team, if I'm working with some very high, influential person in a community, they all have one thing in common and I'll say this, and hopefully not in a good way Everybody poops. Everybody has physiological functions. Everybody goes through the same goddamn thing. But we tend to like, oh, how did that person do it? Everybody's the same. Somehow they look different to us because I heard that the first time at a conference Somebody asked the question. They're like how do I talk to this person? Like, you do realize that everybody poops, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's so true and it's so funny that you even bring this up because it's been such a struggle with me my whole life. I remember when I was a little girl, my dad sat me down. I was like at the time Farrah Fawcett was like a major movie star, like even Farrah Fawcett poops, like that was like our thing, like they do too. You know you're not the only one, but it's so funny that you say that I'm going to go ahead with your story.
Speaker 2:People are people and I'll tell you this. There's this guy that most people might know about. He wrote this book. I have it right here, so I'm going through it right now Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Now, a lot of people, if they know history, they know Marcus Aurelius. Now here's this guy. He's the king of the world, literally controlling a quarter or more of the world. At the time. You might assume that this guy is like he must have it all, and he did. He had control over people. Now he sat there and wrote his journal, his problems and his thoughts and issues. He never meant to publish it, but somehow somebody found that and turned it into a book. Thousands of years later, we're reading it.
Speaker 2:You listen to you would think that you're listening to just a guy who has problems. Now the difference is that he was trying to grow. The difference is he was trying to be aware of this. He was a philosopher, king. He was trying to understand how, why he was reacting that way. He was trying to understand why people were reacting, and I think that's the difference between a leader and not a leader. Is that being intentional, understanding that there's something similar, just like everybody else, but there's something also unique about you and, just like that person who's a millionaire sitting there, there's a reason why that person is there. There's a reason for you to go towards something that you're meant to be Maybe not a millionaire, not a billionaire, maybe not somebody high status, but there's something you're meant to go towards that is unique to you. But unless you recognize that you're similar to everybody else, you will always put somebody else on a pedestal.
Speaker 2:There's nothing different about them other than the fact that they followed their unique path. That's why they ended up in a place and they recognized that all those weirdness, synchronicities, all the things that came up, it was meant to come up. I remember years ago I was about like I've been working from home for years now, but this was around COVID time. I was, my office at the time was right beside it was our bedroom and then my office was on that side and I would pass by our bedroom. My wife was sitting on the bed and she was on her phone and I had about 15 minutes to prepare for a session coaching session and I'm a little bit of a hurry, I don't want to be late.
Speaker 2:And I'm about to enter and I saw her there and she looks at me. She's like do you think I'm weird? I'm like is this a trick question? Right now, right before, all I could think was that I'm like. I looked at her like what's the most direct thing I can say right now? It's like yes, and that's why I married you, you did, what did you?
Speaker 2:say she's like, I don't like that. I think she was having a conversation with somebody, but the point being, there was a time if she had asked me that I would think about oh I'm weird, that's not a good thing. There was a time I struggled had asked me that I would think about oh I'm weird, that's not a good thing. There was a time I struggled with the fact that I thought differently. I had a connection with my unique side, but I didn't feel good, because we live in a social world. We all want people to understand us, connect with us, support us. But as soon as you start following your unique path, there will be a lot of misunderstandings. People will not accept you for a little bit understandings. People will not accept you for a little bit. People will not support you, and that's the problem in the whole process. But the reason why I said that to her is, like you know, I recognize my weirdness and I accepted it, and I saw your weirdness and I accepted that. Now we're both a bunch, a couple of crazy, unique people, and we were doing our thing. That's what makes this special and unique. That's it. And I think ultimately it comes down to.
Speaker 2:No matter who I've worked with. They have their similarities, just like human, other human beings, but they have their unique sides, and the difference between the person who is successful versus the person who is not in their own field, in their own context, is the person who tends to be successful. They've accepted certain things about themselves that other people have not. They don't put other people generally too much on a pedestal. They're like you know what, if they can do it, I can do too. They have some interesting beliefs that if that person can do it, I can do it too. If this is a difficult thing, I can get through it. What is it in me that's different that I can share with people? What is the thing that I'm interested in that I can do without burning out in the process? Now, they are either consciously or subconsciously asking those kinds of questions, and they're on a growth path.
Speaker 2:Now, the majority of the people don't do this. This is why they're. That's the definition of average. This is why they're average, because they tend to copy everybody around them and they haven't figured out what is it that I'm interested in? I would do this regardless of whether people give me credit for it or not, and, mind you, even when I got started as a coach in the beginning, I, for I, was so excited about this for the first year.
Speaker 2:I never did things, I just enjoyed doing it. So to me when I was doing it for free and now is exactly the same thing. In fact, I still do a lot of free stuff. It's just that I have understood offers and the business model, marketing, sales, all that stuff a little bit better so I can translate that into something of value in the marketplace. That translates so they say a lot of people are like why do you do a lot of free stuff? I'm like I enjoy the process. I don't care as like if somebody is paying me or not, I get to serve them. If they want to continue to work with me at some point I will charge them something and they will understand because it's valuable to them.
Speaker 1:Makes sense Giving and receiving. It all comes back Right. So I want to ask you about the coaching mastery community what motivated you to start it and what impact have you seen so far from it?
Speaker 2:So that's an ongoing experiment on myself and others. So after a while of being a coach as a high performance coach and I came across a lot of life coaches, high performance coaches, transformational coaches of all kinds and I realized a lot of things that I struggled with. They struggled with it too. But I also noticed that there are things that I was able to overcome, that they haven't overcome, and they kept asking me the same things over and over how do I do this? How do I get better leads, how do I get better clients, how do I get better as a coach? And the more I had those conversations in fact it started as a volunteer effort amongst a bunch of coaches and then eventually like, can we turn this into something? And then there was a vision that came out of it that hey, for me at least personally, the coaching industry if it is an industry gave me my freedom, my thought process, my ability to lead, my ability to connect like help me as a human being. In my day-to-day life I'm happier because of the coaching process. Whether I coach people or get coached, I'm more aware in my relationships, I'm more aware how to navigate things. I'm more open to admitting my problems. I'm more open to struggling through things. All that came from them and I've helped so many people. To me it's still a surprise, to be honest. I had an idea that this could help people. I thought my situation is unique, but when I've taken people through this process, individuals have completely transformed their life. They've moved states. They've started businesses. Leaders of organizations have completely transformed their company culture. Leaders of communities have shifted. I've worked with whole families. I hired a team of coaches that have helped with the whole work, with the whole community. Like the effect of that, the ripple effect of that, is so enormous.
Speaker 2:And the more I did this work and I would talk to another coach, they'd be like I'm struggling to understand this whole lead thing and niche. I'm like are you crazy? Do you know? How's a need here? So then the whole mission became how can we get more people, more coaches, who are actually passionate about this work and want to make a difference? There's a real marketplace for this and unfortunately, there is a whole, because marketers are marketers. They're really good about this stuff and I do marketing, but I don't really consider myself a marketer even to this day. I'm still learning the process, but there are some brilliant marketers that make a lot of promises that will pull a lot of these coaches and business owners and a lot of business coaches. They will waste your resources, time, energy and you will not go anywhere. And every coach I talked to I went through this program for 20, 30,000, nothing happened. Like what did you do in there?
Speaker 2:And I realized that a lot of these marketers, business coaches. They didn't know how to help coaches because they had never built a coaching business like that. They know some business, they know some marketing, but the model is different. To this day, I'm very careful when somebody asks me to do business coaching in a different model. Like I don't know your industry, I can be your high performance coach. That's different because that's connected to our role as a human being. But if I coach you in your business, I need to understand the industry very well. I understand some general themes of marketing, finance, sales, all that stuff, but the coaching business itself is actually very different than another type of business model. So a lot of times they get the wrong advice.
Speaker 2:So the vision became how can we bring more coaches to serve people? How can we connect more coaches to clients? We've also hired coaches in the process too, but our mission is really to help coaches develop business skillsets, coaching skillsets in a community environment so they can go out there and serve people. And they learn the skillsets in an environment. They can get challenged, ask better questions, they can push each other, they can learn a process to build their business from a team of coaches who've actually done this, not somebody claiming that they've built some multimillion dollar company.
Speaker 2:And, to be honest, most coaches don't need money. Most coaches what they want is a comfortable enough life so they can be free, they can spend time with their loved ones and they can do something they're interested in. And they're not asking for that much. It is not easy to do that, but a lot of times they get given they're given these weird ideas of you're going to become a seven figure coach, eight figure or six figure coach within three months and like, none of that is practical, realistic and whoever is claiming that they're probably going to be in trouble with some kind of organization later on. A lot of them got sued and they fall for that.
Speaker 2:So my hope is that we connect with more coaches, one to support them, but two I'm hoping it might be ambitious, but I'm hoping that this actually builds the industry into something that actually becomes an industry. Right now it's kind of a. It's growing but it's not really a standardized industry Nobody, everybody calls themselves. So we're hoping that as this moves forward, we create enough data so we can turn this into a real thing in the future and might be in the next five to 10 years, and with AI and so many things coming around, there are a lot of unpredictability. So how can we be around other business owners and coaches who are willing to serve other people? That was the idea behind Coaching Western Community. It continues to be an experiment. I enjoy the process and again, I'm doing this because I enjoy the process more than it being profitable, but it is also profitable in the process.
Speaker 1:So I love that, because I've been teetering on that idea too. You know, being in this business for 21 years owning a real estate brokerage with 200 people, I've shared a lot and I've coached a lot without being a coach. But I do see this standardization of coaching is just not there. So I personally have paid for a lot of coaching myself. Exactly what you said has happened to me, you know. So I understand it. Do I believe in coaching 100%? And even the coaching that I took that maybe didn't give me everything I needed, but I did get something from it, but I love what you're doing and this idea of bringing the coaches together and masterminding and having this community is incredible. So you're not just a coach, that you're a husband, a father and a community leader. Is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1:You have daughters you have girls, all girls.
Speaker 2:I have two girls. There's a boy on the way in the next month.
Speaker 1:That's cool. I didn't know that, so, so let's. What lessons do you want to pass on to not only your daughters, but your new son to be for future generations? What is the lesson that you want them to pass on?
Speaker 2:Thank you for asking that. So if you boil down all my mission purpose into one thing is, how can we leave the world, the next generation, with a little bit of a better model than the last version? My parents, grandparents, they worked hard to give us a better future and, to be honest, now it's our responsibility to pass that on to the next and hopefully we do a little bit better than the next one, and that's my hope. Is that I pass on something, and my hope is that. My hope is not I'm going to pass on a lot of money and all that stuff. I'm not interested. I'd rather make, get them to make their own money.
Speaker 2:My hope is that when they look at me, consciously or subconsciously, or look at my wife and I, they see a better model for a family and home. We're not perfect, but we're doing our best to move that forward. My hope is that when they look at us, they can see that you know what. We took risks. It was hard to make the decisions that we made, but we did it anyway and we persevered. We went through a lot of adversity and they watched us do it. We share a lot with them. My hope is that they see that we work hard and go towards the things that matter to us. My hope is that they see that we care about the people around us and we take care of them when we need to. My hope is that when they look at us, they see that there are a couple of caring people that try to make their world a little bit better, and they do better than us. That's all.
Speaker 1:It's beautiful and what a legacy to leave, so that's impactful for me, too. I just listening to you and seeing the expression on your face has been amazing. Thank you for sharing that. So let's talk about people that are stuck and unsure of their potential right now. Could you give one piece of advice to them? Because there are so many people that have that feeling and they, they, just don't know what to do. And what you said about you know, finding your thing like it's like your unique selling proposition. That's the marketing term of it, but it's totally different. It's what are you passionate about? What do you love so much? Can you share a little bit about that? What can I?
Speaker 2:do. I'll share a quick thing. My brother-in-law asked me the other day how did you get all this stuff started? Even though they watched me in the whole process, they didn't know how and why I got started. I'm like you know what? I was miserable and I got laid off from a job, but before that I was thinking about it. I'm like I need to find my way out of this.
Speaker 2:I had about two to three months of gap left before I really needed to go full blown at work. I spent those three months working through. I felt stuck. I felt disconnected. I felt all of it. I remember my wife used to come from work and she would ask me what did you do? I cried all day, but you know why did I cry all day? Because I was struggling through things. I'm like I don't know how to manage this, but I was working through it.
Speaker 2:I was reading books, I was trying to find courses that would help me. I was trying to find people that would help me. I was seeking for help and I can say if you feel stuck, if you've tried this for a while, ask, for I don't care if you ask me or somebody else find help. There are so many people that are ready to support you. Be careful, of course, about scams and all kinds of other stuff, but you don't even have to pay anybody. Go find somebody that you're inspired by and learn a little bit about them. People put out all kinds of free content everywhere. Look at their journey, get inspired, find out how does this connect to your story? How would you create a path forward?
Speaker 2:Now, I was inspired by somebody like Brandon Burchard, who has a multimillion dollar business and he's worth about 200, 300 million, something like that. I was inspired by him, but that wasn't my ambition. My ambition was you know what, if he can create that, I can create a version of that. That's unique to me. And then I went on. Okay, what did he have to deal with? Well, he had to deal with himself, his own finances. He had to deal with finding a path forward. I had to do that discovery and eventually, as I got more money, if you have resources, hire somebody, hire a coach, hire a mentor, get them to walk you through it. Somebody who was a little bit credible.
Speaker 2:But at the starting point, as always, it recognizes that, the recognizing that I'm stuck, and I've tried this for a while. It hasn't worked. Where can I find support? It's one of the hardest things for people to admit. Even as a coach, I struggled with this at time. I remember we were working through some things, my wife and I. We were both coaches. We struggled through it for one year and at the end, after I became vulnerable and honest, it was like I need to put my hands up. We don't know how to work through this. We need to find help. That helped us a lot when I hired my business coach, when I hired my other coach again. You don't need to spend a lot of money. Be honest about where you need help. There are books out there. There are courses out there. Start the process. It's not that complicated, but if you sit there and keep doing the same thing over and over, you'll get the same exact results on the other end every single time and I feel that I feel stuck too.
Speaker 1:And I'm 50, I'm going to be 57 in a couple of months and I look at my life and think I'm on the other side of time now, Like I want to impact people, I want to share my stories, I want to help other people be the best version of themselves, and every time I think that in my head it comes up on TikTok or on Instagram you want to be a coach? I'll help you be a coach. In three months, you'll be making $100,000 a year. It's amazing how that happens, but listen to what he says. It's important because there's a lot of people out there that are selling things that they've never done before. So thank you for sharing that. That was really good for me, especially listening being a part of this.
Speaker 1:I love the idea of coaching. I've had a coach out of my 20 years in real estate. I've 17 years I've had, I've been coached and there's a lot of people I learned from and a lot that I didn't. A lot of wasted money. So thank you for sharing that. So let's do something fun. What's your favorite place to travel?
Speaker 2:Ah, favorite place to travel. I love, love, love mountain regions. I have this love. I don't know if it's because I was born in the middle of Himalayas or what it is. I was in that there's. There's this sense of connection that I get as soon as I'm near a mountain or on top of a mountain. I don't care where it is, where I'm in Colorado or near California, or if I'm in a completely different country I've been back home. It's like when I'm around mountains I just I feel the sense of everything, my mind just shuts down and I feel connected. So you get me in front of a mountain, wherever it is. I'm in my happy place.
Speaker 1:So one book that has changed your life.
Speaker 2:So many books that have changed my life.
Speaker 1:So many. Me too. I thought it started to be hard.
Speaker 2:That's hard to pick, but one of the books that I keep going back to is Carl Jung's autobiography Memories, dreams and Reflections. Carl Jung's autobiography Memories, dreams and Reflections. He's considered one of the fathers of psychology. But when this is a human being that went through his own struggles and he kind of documented that whole process, he created the beginnings of psychology as well. But you see a real human being dealing with the deeper problems of life and his own consciousness, and then he used that as a way to serve people. That became a big inspirational thing for me. That actually got me to think you know what I could be doing that like him, and at the end he was struggling through it. He didn't claim that he knew anything, but to this day we're following, after almost 100 years, the things that he's taught.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for sharing that and also you did it. You're pushed through adversity many times so far in your life and I'm sure there's going to be more. That's just part of life, but thank you for sharing a little bit of it with us today. So how can our listeners find you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you might see my name there. So it's Faisal and soncom my full name. Or if you just type it on Google, you'll see all my social media, everything. Just go to my website. You can just download a PDF. One of the first things you can do is download a PDF. You'll get a lot of resources. I never ask people to work with me until they've really experienced what it's like to be in my ecosystem. You'll get a lot more value for free than most people will charge you for it, and then if you decide to work with me, great. If you don't, at least you will learn something from my experience and the people that I've learned from, and that might get you started. So so go to my website, download that and see what you gain out of it.
Speaker 1:So thank you for sharing that and for everyone. If you could like, subscribe and share this episode. You know, my goal has always been to affect one person, but now my goal is much bigger we want to affect many people. So if you could please share this for us and, you know, visit his website, find out more about Faisal, because he is very interesting and has great stories to tell, and I'm sure that all of us could use a little better coaching in our lives. It just sounds like you are making coaching something very special. So thank you for sharing with us today and I hope to see you soon.
