Cam Armitage

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[00:00] SPEAKER_02: It's VanCouver's podcast on the Canada's Podcast Network.
[00:07] SPEAKER_01: Hello everyone, I'm Angela Faye, Hub Builder and Co-host of British Columbia's Podcast.
[00:13] SPEAKER_01: Part of the Canada's Podcast Network, we've sourced for great insights from entrepreneurs
[00:18] SPEAKER_01: from across Canada.
[00:20] SPEAKER_01: We talked entrepreneurs who are making it happen here so you can listen, discover, and engage.
[00:26] SPEAKER_02: Today I'm super excited to introduce you to Cam Arbitage, who is based out of VanCouver.
[00:31] SPEAKER_02: We'll hear his story in a moment.
[00:33] SPEAKER_02: Cam is actually a full-time professional firefighter, which is super exciting.
[00:39] SPEAKER_02: And he has a side hustle CEO, side hustle is CEO of Cam Arbitage, where he is a creator,
[00:47] SPEAKER_02: an author, a speaker, an entertainer, and a motivator.
[00:52] SPEAKER_02: And he's got a fantastic message that obviously comes from the part and personal experience, Cam.
[00:59] SPEAKER_02: So just tell us a little bit about your entrepreneurial journey.
[01:04] SPEAKER_00: Well, first off, Angela, thank you very much for having me on the podcast.
[01:07] SPEAKER_00: I'm super excited to be a part of what you guys are doing and it's awesome.
[01:11] SPEAKER_00: So thank you very much for having me.
[01:13] SPEAKER_00: I will start with the entrepreneurial thing sort of came out of after living a life that was
[01:21] SPEAKER_00: something to be sort of examined after I became a little bit older and did realize some success
[01:27] SPEAKER_00: in my own life. And I was encouraged to look at that story and whether or not it could be used
[01:32] SPEAKER_00: to help other people. So last year I decided to write that down into what was the beginnings of a book.
[01:38] SPEAKER_00: And I eventually ended up putting it together in a book and publishing that once I realized
[01:43] SPEAKER_00: the story had a lot of value for other people. So that sprung was a springboard for some speaking
[01:49] SPEAKER_00: engagements. I had some people bring me in to talk about my story in particular.
[01:54] SPEAKER_00: And once I saw the response from people in the audience and they came up to me and young people
[01:58] SPEAKER_00: and old people, but they were really coming up to me and saying, hey, this part of your story
[02:02] SPEAKER_00: really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing that. And once I did see that there was a big impact
[02:07] SPEAKER_00: on people that were listening to the story and learning some things about it, I knew I had
[02:12] SPEAKER_00: something that I could really go with in terms of making a difference. So that's sort of where we're
[02:15] SPEAKER_02: now. And so how do you find time in your schedule to do professional work and all of this side hustle?
[02:26] SPEAKER_00: Well, fortunately for me is I have crafted a life in which that I have been able to find the time
[02:33] SPEAKER_00: because of my rotational shift work. So I have an advantage in that sense and that I do
[02:38] SPEAKER_00: for on and for off. So I have a little more time technically than probably the average person.
[02:44] SPEAKER_00: However, it wasn't always that way. And I did work at nine to five for a long time. Monday to
[02:50] SPEAKER_00: Friday, the regular work schedule that most people hold. And I was able to do a lot of things
[02:56] SPEAKER_00: during that time too. And I think that's very important for people to understand.
[03:01] SPEAKER_00: There's a big difference between your job and your work. And those are two different things that
[03:06] SPEAKER_00: need to be talked about. So your job is what typically you do to pay your bills, keep the lights on
[03:11] SPEAKER_00: and put some food on the table. So I think sometimes people think that after they work their eight-hour
[03:17] SPEAKER_00: day and they've gone to their job that that's kind of it. And we look at relaxation and going home
[03:22] SPEAKER_00: and living our life. And that's perfectly okay for a lot of people. However, when the growth period
[03:28] SPEAKER_00: comes in is Tony Robbins talked about it a lot about when he came home from work and he put in his
[03:34] SPEAKER_00: second shift after about six, 30 or seven PM at night, he'd worked till two o'clock in the morning.
[03:39] SPEAKER_00: Again, when you look at a lot of stories of people who have found some success in their life
[03:43] SPEAKER_00: and found a place where they're really happy with what they've created,
[03:47] SPEAKER_00: nine times out of 10, these people have done so while working full-time jobs are paying the bills
[03:53] SPEAKER_00: at the same time. I think that's really important to understand. So I say this to people,
[03:58] SPEAKER_00: if you're not excited going to your job, that's okay. Find a place where you are excited,
[04:05] SPEAKER_00: whether that's leaving your job and going home, be very excited about that space. Create a place
[04:10] SPEAKER_00: where you can be excited to go to even if it's not that eight-hour day job. Have that excitement
[04:16] SPEAKER_00: and that project at home that you go, wow, I can't wait to get home, have a quick shower and dinner
[04:21] SPEAKER_00: and get off to work for about four or five hours. And that's where your real true-lice work happens.
[04:27] SPEAKER_02: I would just like you to articulate that in a little bit more detail, the difference between a job
[04:32] SPEAKER_02: and what is work for you. What does it mean when you know you're doing your life's purpose or
[04:39] SPEAKER_02: the work you're meant to be doing? Whether that means... Sure, sure. So I'm fortunate enough that I really
[04:44] SPEAKER_00: do enjoy my job and I love my career and it's very fulfilling. So I get a kind of double-edged thing
[04:49] SPEAKER_00: now that I've worked very hard to get there. I do get enjoyment out of going to my career. However,
[04:53] SPEAKER_00: my work is when I leave and go home, that's now my place to be myself with no rules, no one telling me
[05:02] SPEAKER_00: what to do, no limitations. And that's one thing I like about the actual work that I want people to
[05:07] SPEAKER_00: understand is you have a lot of freedom to pick and choose what you're going to do with your work.
[05:12] SPEAKER_00: And your work is your time, your effort, your energy, your heart, your emotions. What makes you
[05:20] SPEAKER_00: really tick and get excited and I tell people to say, well I don't know what that is yet and I say,
[05:24] SPEAKER_00: that's okay, you don't have to think about what you really get excited doing and it might be something
[05:30] SPEAKER_00: very obscure but it just, it really turns your crank, you know, like you're like, oh wow, it's one of
[05:36] SPEAKER_00: those things where you could lose two hours very quickly and go what happened to the time, it's out
[05:41] SPEAKER_00: to window. Pay attention to those things that you're doing and it might not always be what you think it
[05:46] SPEAKER_00: is but your work is where you get to play. Work should feel like play, it's not like
[05:52] SPEAKER_00: yeah, just pounding a nail into the wall, constantly going on my wrist hurts, this is a lot of work.
[05:59] SPEAKER_00: And so that's more like a job, your work is that place where you get to just play and just have fun.
[06:06] SPEAKER_00: It should be enjoyable now is there parts of it that are work and hard and I don't know what I'm
[06:12] SPEAKER_00: doing and I have to learn new things of course it is but when it's in the framework of your life's
[06:17] SPEAKER_00: work it takes on a different connotation, it's not something that's treasury all the time, right?
[06:23] SPEAKER_02: So permission to just dig a little because we kind of skirted what your story is, you're happy
[06:29] SPEAKER_02: to go down that path, okay. Of course. So and it's maybe easy to say because you're, you've
[06:35] SPEAKER_02: bounced out of it and and here you are today but go back in history a little bit and tell us a bit
[06:41] SPEAKER_00: of the camp story. So you know in a nutshell really from an early age I was in a circle of people
[06:49] SPEAKER_00: and there were some circumstances in life that I got exposed to sort of drugs and alcohol at a very early age,
[06:55] SPEAKER_00: about 12 years old and that obviously as a young person you want to experiment, you want to be a part
[07:02] SPEAKER_00: of the group, you want to be you know if you're being told something's okay then you assume it's okay
[07:06] SPEAKER_00: and so that really led me into a world of experiencing substances in alcohol very early.
[07:13] SPEAKER_00: You know by the age of 14, 15 we started dabbling in the hard drug stuff and again it was a culture
[07:19] SPEAKER_00: that was accepted at the time and with the groups of people I was with including adults so I really
[07:25] SPEAKER_00: didn't know much better. That got me into a world of trouble at school you could imagine trying to
[07:30] SPEAKER_00: pay attention in class while you're doing drugs and under the influence of drugs and things like
[07:36] SPEAKER_00: that so expelled from school at 16 petition the school board once I realized I needed to go back to
[07:42] SPEAKER_00: school around you know getting close to 17 they let me in I struggled further in an alternate program
[07:49] SPEAKER_00: watching my friends graduate ahead of me was very depressing so I dropped out for good at the age
[07:54] SPEAKER_00: of 18 so at that point you know I was getting into a lot of trouble I had a lot of influences in my
[08:00] SPEAKER_00: circle that weren't positive for me. Criminal circles a lot of drug related sort of professions
[08:07] SPEAKER_00: things like that and it really led to a place of unhappiness and depression and a lack of
[08:13] SPEAKER_00: purpose and a future is really what I like to touch on with people is is they're you know having
[08:19] SPEAKER_00: hope about a better day tomorrow is a big deal for a lot of people and I think once you get to a
[08:24] SPEAKER_00: desperate place where you don't feel that value or you don't feel like there's a point in tomorrow
[08:29] SPEAKER_00: that's where you can get into some pretty dangerous stuff so luckily for me I was able to turn
[08:34] SPEAKER_00: things around I got introduced to a golf coach and she sort of took me under her wing and I
[08:41] SPEAKER_00: I had another mentor at my job who really helped me through that time and I had came to realization
[08:47] SPEAKER_00: that I was short-changing myself I was short-changing my parents my family my friends really you know
[08:53] SPEAKER_00: when you start letting yourself down you let up other people so it comes back to don't let
[08:59] SPEAKER_00: yourself down start with yourself first I think we we like to please other people in our lives
[09:04] SPEAKER_00: but when we're letting ourselves down that's a hard one to stomach because we're the ones that have
[09:09] SPEAKER_00: to live with that so I'm very fortunate you know my story is is quite lengthy with a lot of
[09:17] SPEAKER_00: interesting turns and twists in it but essentially I got accepted to University in the United States
[09:21] SPEAKER_00: of America on scholarship I was able to finish high school at night school while working my job of
[09:27] SPEAKER_00: course like we talked about so there was a lot of hard work a lot of discipline a lot of cutting
[09:34] SPEAKER_00: the the people out of my life that I knew were we're not helping me with a healthy future and a
[09:41] SPEAKER_00: situation that was good for myself so I think understanding also what I call the inner circle of
[09:48] SPEAKER_00: your life is people that you can probably count on one hand and that's very important I think
[09:54] SPEAKER_00: for people to know that they don't need to have 50 60 70 80 90 friends and these big groups of
[10:00] SPEAKER_00: friends and circles that are acquaintances that's okay go and no party and hang in out that's okay
[10:05] SPEAKER_00: but the inner circle in your life is is counted on one hand and it's a very few people in your
[10:10] SPEAKER_00: life that truly care about you truly want you to do well truly have your well being at heart those
[10:16] SPEAKER_00: are the people you need to build your team around you need to find those core group of people that
[10:21] SPEAKER_00: are going to make sure you're doing what you need to do and keep you accountable so I was able to
[10:25] SPEAKER_00: develop a really strong inner circle I rely on them to be honest with me whether I want that
[10:31] SPEAKER_00: honesty or not they they provide it and sometimes it hurts but it's good so it's been a wonderful
[10:38] SPEAKER_00: journey and I'm just here to encourage and guide people and help them through those processes themselves
[10:43] SPEAKER_02: well and as as we met each other and I heard a little bit about your story it's super relevant
[10:50] SPEAKER_02: for me because I have a a son that two days ago turned 13 so I think he's really on that you know
[10:57] SPEAKER_02: that important life lesson of of which path do I go and who are my scares of influence that are
[11:03] SPEAKER_02: great influences you know with having a golf pro take you under your wing really there was just one
[11:09] SPEAKER_02: key metric that was kind of a pivot for you right so there's some I think that what we talked about
[11:15] SPEAKER_02: and the reason why I love your story and I love your persona is that you can relate to that
[11:20] SPEAKER_02: you know that youth age group that 13 to 18 year old age group that knows that it just takes one
[11:27] SPEAKER_02: you know bit of inspiration from a cam and maybe one mentor for for people to really get
[11:33] SPEAKER_00: their lives in a direction that feels good that's so correct and thank you for sharing that
[11:38] SPEAKER_00: with me that's really good and one thing I've learned Angela is the adult world is a lot similar to
[11:46] SPEAKER_00: the youth world in that what I'm finding now and of course I'm really focusing on that 13 to 18
[11:53] SPEAKER_00: year old age group and those are the people I want to be around and but I'm learning that in the adult
[11:58] SPEAKER_00: world oftentimes they behave a little bit the same way and that they are influenced by what other
[12:03] SPEAKER_00: people are doing so yes you know the thing I really want to help these young people learn and
[12:09] SPEAKER_00: understand is it's okay to be yourself it's okay to be different it's okay to stand out it's okay
[12:16] SPEAKER_00: to not do what everyone else is doing because what happens is I find that people who don't develop
[12:22] SPEAKER_00: those skills will end up often being adults in the same situation at 50 or 60 absolutely absolutely
[12:29] SPEAKER_02: and they find themselves they're not passionate they're maybe not driven to you know to keep
[12:34] SPEAKER_02: even if they've started their own business or they're on you know started on the path of entrepreneurship
[12:38] SPEAKER_02: what got you here is not necessarily what's going to get you there right I'm excited how did you decide
[12:44] SPEAKER_02: that publishing was your was your stick I mean what's uh you know I confess I haven't read the book yet
[12:52] SPEAKER_00: but um what why publishing okay so I have understood a few things in my short time in my journey
[13:00] SPEAKER_00: in entrepreneurship and I will say that self publishing you know did did cost me a fair amount of
[13:06] SPEAKER_00: money it's not overly cheap however two things traditional publishing is very difficult to get into
[13:13] SPEAKER_00: okay so I learned that very quick after researching that and I thought wow I could be giving
[13:17] SPEAKER_00: manuscripts and things to publishers for years I mean there's people who tried for years and they
[13:22] SPEAKER_00: never get accepted I uh one of my my keys to success in my life that I followed to this day is I
[13:28] SPEAKER_00: take very quick action once I decide make a decision once I make a decision it's go time and I do
[13:35] SPEAKER_00: not have a lot I do not have years to sit around and wonder and twitle my thumbs I don't operate that
[13:40] SPEAKER_00: way and in my profession as a firefighter we don't have the luxury of time on our side so I've been
[13:46] SPEAKER_00: trained to operate very quickly so when I look at the the math and the and the situation I said well
[13:53] SPEAKER_00: for me to make a financial investment self publish this book within a calendar year I had written
[13:59] SPEAKER_00: the book in six months published it in six months one year totally zipped up the book is on the shelves
[14:04] SPEAKER_00: the book is in amazon it's now for sale so my key is for me I thought well if I want to make a
[14:12] SPEAKER_00: serious goal of presenting and being a speaker and being someone who's taken seriously and has
[14:18] SPEAKER_00: some credibility I better get a book out there that they can show and prove I'm doing what I'm
[14:23] SPEAKER_00: talking about and here's my story so really for me the book is a door opener a calling card a resume
[14:30] SPEAKER_00: a business card so a lot of a lot of business opportunities I've had have opened up because I've
[14:36] SPEAKER_00: actually handed people's physical copies of my book when I walk into a meeting we talk about it
[14:41] SPEAKER_00: they find it intriguing I pull the book out of my bag and I say well here let me sign a coffee for you
[14:46] SPEAKER_00: and have it and that's really opened up a lot of doors people take you seriously you've completed
[14:51] SPEAKER_00: something you've shown them at your serious so there's more to it than just saying you're an author
[14:57] SPEAKER_00: or you have a self published book or whatever it's the idea and business that people want to know
[15:03] SPEAKER_00: what you have can you be taken seriously and can you finish something and follow through I think
[15:09] SPEAKER_02: there's a lot of things there and how did you um where did the financing come from for this first
[15:14] SPEAKER_00: project so I find that's a great story because I financed it myself okay and I fight fires and I've
[15:23] SPEAKER_00: been I've been investing in my business myself with my job and that's brought it its own set of
[15:28] SPEAKER_00: challenges and there were times along the way which I love to tell people and some people you know
[15:33] SPEAKER_00: maybe in business or in their dreams would not like to tell you the honest truth about things but
[15:39] SPEAKER_00: I don't mind doing that because I think it gives people a good idea there were days where I let my
[15:44] SPEAKER_00: fridge go empty there were days where I could pay some of my bills and there was days I was
[15:49] SPEAKER_00: pacing my apartment and I was really hungry and I kept going back to my fridge because it's a
[15:54] SPEAKER_00: reflex in the first world that we know the fridge has food in it once I discovered the fridge didn't
[16:00] SPEAKER_00: have food in it anymore I was able to get to work and work even harder because I thought well I could
[16:05] SPEAKER_00: stand here staring at my empty fridge or I could go back to work so I want people to know that
[16:12] SPEAKER_00: it's not going to look and feel like it's supposed to it's not going to look and feel like you think
[16:18] SPEAKER_00: it's going to feel and you have to really separate yourself from the logistical things like oh no
[16:24] SPEAKER_00: I may have to skip a meal today oh no I'm not sure I can afford to get that
[16:29] SPEAKER_00: show those shoes or that shirt or whatever you normally think you're doing in a lifestyle you might
[16:34] SPEAKER_00: have to make an adjustment to make the moves to what you want to do for your future so there's
[16:40] SPEAKER_00: a great saying somebody said if you want something you've never had before or you want to be somewhere
[16:46] SPEAKER_00: you've never been before you're going to have to become a person you've never been before
[16:50] SPEAKER_00: wow so that's a really great saying because I think that sometimes people we really want to get
[16:55] SPEAKER_00: somewhere or get something but we're not sure that we can change who we are in the short term so
[17:02] SPEAKER_00: get out of your comfort zone become a different person to get different results and that's
[17:06] SPEAKER_02: an awesome message for today absolutely hey can so you're in Vancouver is where you born a bread
[17:12] SPEAKER_00: in Vancouver so I was born and raised in North Delta that's just outside of Vancouver by about 40
[17:17] SPEAKER_00: minutes and I was born and raised there and once I got the job as a firefighter just just about five
[17:23] SPEAKER_00: years ago I moved down to Vancouver obviously I didn't want to make that commute and also the kids
[17:28] SPEAKER_00: Alano community and lifestyle is definitely for me and once I landed here and got a taste of it I
[17:35] SPEAKER_00: have not been able to leave ever since and I'm not sure I'll leave anytime soon well and part of our
[17:40] SPEAKER_02: our story here at Canada's podcast is actually you know describing and showcasing some of the
[17:44] SPEAKER_02: communities we live just give me a sound bite on kitsalano what's a life kitsalano if you love the
[17:50] SPEAKER_00: fitness lifestyle the beach lifestyle the restaurant lifestyle the great attitude and smiling people
[17:58] SPEAKER_00: lifestyle successful individuals people who care about living their lives to the fullest kitsalano
[18:04] SPEAKER_00: is definitely for you I don't even need a car I can go to the beach one day I can play around a
[18:11] SPEAKER_00: golf I can have my workout at my gym shop at local farm markets if you like organic food there's lots of
[18:17] SPEAKER_00: foodies here I mean this has got to be one of the best places to live in North America and I'm not
[18:23] SPEAKER_00: just saying that because I live here but it's an amazing place so that's my kitsalano club
[18:28] SPEAKER_02: absolutely well can you give us a little bit of insight on to what inspires you do you have
[18:34] SPEAKER_02: a mantra or a saying on your wall or something that you know when you look at it you just get
[18:41] SPEAKER_00: to juice is willing yes I do and so my my philosophy now it's sort of where I'm at in my journey
[18:48] SPEAKER_00: and my age is it's not about me and this is a very important philosophy it's not about me so I
[18:56] SPEAKER_00: understand we live in a very self centered world we do we take pictures of ourselves where we're
[19:01] SPEAKER_00: just we're focused on the person if you look at the names of the products now I find it very funny
[19:06] SPEAKER_00: iPad iPhone ii it's a lot of eyes and it's a lot of me's we're in a very centrally focused
[19:13] SPEAKER_00: society where we focus on ourselves a lot now there's a right time for that when it comes to self
[19:18] SPEAKER_00: development but then there's an unhealthy part to that where it just becomes a little bit narcissistic
[19:23] SPEAKER_00: and sort of self-absorbed I'm really trying to follow the mantra right now it's not about me it's
[19:28] SPEAKER_00: about other people in my life so I get to choose who those people are so for me a big motivator's
[19:35] SPEAKER_00: my parents my sisters I have goals to be once I'm in a place of financial freedom that I want to
[19:42] SPEAKER_00: do a lot of things with my parents I want to go on trips I want to send them places I want to go
[19:46] SPEAKER_00: on trips with my my sisters and my nieces and nephews and and really take care of them I want to
[19:51] SPEAKER_00: donate to groups and people that I find to be valuable and when I say it's not about me now I'm
[19:57] SPEAKER_00: focusing on these youth demographics when I speak when I perform when I write books when I do
[20:05] SPEAKER_00: content I really need to think about the other people and what I'm doing so I'm almost just like a
[20:11] SPEAKER_00: vessel for information and value and it's not about me anymore whatever happens from that
[20:17] SPEAKER_00: when someone says something nice about me and compliments me that's terrific but I just don't take
[20:22] SPEAKER_00: it to heart as much as I might have you know a few years ago I just say well thank you very much
[20:26] SPEAKER_00: let's put that in our gas tank or what's fueling us which is other people so trying to get that
[20:32] SPEAKER_00: going is something that found has been very helpful well and something that we talked about
[20:37] SPEAKER_02: earlier was up is and you say the mimic your words vessel is a vessel for energy you know I mean part
[20:44] SPEAKER_02: of your role as an entertainer and speaker and author is is motivate people yes and you know if
[20:52] SPEAKER_02: you could leave say your ideal audience right that that routine with one message one takeaway that
[20:59] SPEAKER_02: they are going to put on their little plaque on the wall what would that be you cannot be stopped
[21:06] SPEAKER_00: and and it's so important that I think that that what we've done is in in in our first world
[21:11] SPEAKER_00: place now is we've taken away a lot of the dangers and things that we had hundreds of years ago
[21:17] SPEAKER_00: you know we're not dying from the flu tigers aren't chasing us in the jungle we're not starving as
[21:23] SPEAKER_00: much in this part of the world so we've taken away a lot of the issues that we used to have so now
[21:30] SPEAKER_00: people are finding that they're they're suffering from depression because of social media
[21:35] SPEAKER_00: we're having issues where someone took my parking spot so I'm going to have a bad day or they didn't
[21:40] SPEAKER_00: make my latte corrected Starbucks right first world problems yeah exactly so this first world
[21:45] SPEAKER_00: problem idea has actually led us to a place where we believe that all these things are wrong and
[21:51] SPEAKER_00: and then we have all these limitations it's not true you cannot be stopped and I want these young
[21:56] SPEAKER_00: people to know that no matter what it is no matter how big that dream is or how crazy it is or how
[22:03] SPEAKER_00: many people are going to tell you can't do it you cannot actually be stopped and most of the time
[22:07] SPEAKER_00: the people who are telling you that you can't have no means to stop you anyway they just want to say
[22:13] SPEAKER_00: those things right so um that's right but it does come from within right that that really does
[22:19] SPEAKER_00: stopable really yes so come from within exactly and believe it or not you can be this world into
[22:25] SPEAKER_00: submission and I don't mean to say but if you uh dental Washington has a has a great saying he said
[22:32] SPEAKER_00: if you hang around the barber shop long enough you just might get a haircut you know and so
[22:37] SPEAKER_00: what he meant was how many times he got told no in Hollywood before he finally had a breakthrough
[22:42] SPEAKER_00: and that's really it you cannot be stopped just keep going fantastic one is there a particular
[22:47] SPEAKER_02: resource that you would love to sort of showcase and and demonstrate gratitude worth it to that has
[22:53] SPEAKER_00: gotten gotten you on your journey and in terms of resource do you mean something I do well and we
[23:00] SPEAKER_02: I'll give you the little hint we were talking you you said you wanted to uh mention your publisher
[23:04] SPEAKER_00: how much yes great resource that was yes and so that is a great resource but I I think something
[23:11] SPEAKER_00: more relevant and my publisher's great and and that stuff people can go online and and shop around
[23:16] SPEAKER_00: look for publishers look for something that suits you so I wanted to publish my book and here's
[23:23] SPEAKER_00: how it is with self publishing I didn't want to go ahead and learn every single thing there was to
[23:28] SPEAKER_00: know about how to get a cover design made how to get book binding and finding a printer you can and
[23:34] SPEAKER_00: I bet you you know the next time around I could probably do that myself but what I wanted to do
[23:38] SPEAKER_00: is get the thing done and the project done so basically with a self publisher what you're doing is
[23:42] SPEAKER_00: your paying people to put together your work the way that you want it put together so you're the
[23:48] SPEAKER_00: CEO of the operation and you're telling people what to do and there's right this what you want
[23:52] SPEAKER_00: that's a great resource I actually want to say something today just because I know this is much
[23:57] SPEAKER_00: more accessible to people especially with cell phones I really this may sound crazy to some people
[24:03] SPEAKER_00: they go yeah I already go on YouTube YouTube now has something that we haven't had in a long time
[24:10] SPEAKER_00: which we're now at the tip of the spear is information you can get from other very successful people
[24:17] SPEAKER_00: and and I really want young people to take this to heart watching YouTube and watching cats roll
[24:22] SPEAKER_00: around and do funny things every now and then it's really funny I was laughing at some videos last
[24:26] SPEAKER_00: night totally ridiculous and I found myself having a good laugh there's nothing wrong with that
[24:30] SPEAKER_00: however when you can go on YouTube and you can type in someone like Ray Dallio one of the greatest
[24:36] SPEAKER_00: investors of all time or you can listen to Michelle Obama you can listen to speeches by Oprah Winfrey
[24:41] SPEAKER_00: we are at the tip of the spear in terms of transparency with some of the greatest minds of the entire
[24:49] SPEAKER_00: world that we've ever seen since when have we been able to step into Oprah Winfrey's kitchen and
[24:54] SPEAKER_00: have her tell us absolutely he's done to be successful so number one you can do it today you have
[25:01] SPEAKER_00: your cell phone take 20 minutes every day and look somebody up it's very influential and pick
[25:06] SPEAKER_00: their brain in terms of what it is that makes them tick why did they become so successful
[25:11] SPEAKER_00: and the story and and really the message behind that is be very curious if you're a very curious
[25:17] SPEAKER_02: person explore that love it stay curious right that's it that's it's the possibility
[25:22] SPEAKER_02: can I answer anything else you would like to mention today for the audience here at canna's podcast
[25:28] SPEAKER_00: you know what I thought about it and I do want to mention something there's something coming down
[25:32] SPEAKER_00: the pipe that I'm very excited about it's been in the works I've just been working on it a little
[25:36] SPEAKER_00: bit in the last while and I have decided to go ahead and start the plans to make my own youth
[25:42] SPEAKER_00: conference in Vancouver that I'm going to be hosting yeah so we're coming up with the names
[25:48] SPEAKER_00: in that and we're looking at something like the next level conference and what we're doing is we're
[25:52] SPEAKER_00: taking that very specified group about the 13 14 to 18 age we've noticed there's a lot of self
[25:59] SPEAKER_00: development seminars for adults and workshops and they beat themselves to death and I'm going you
[26:04] SPEAKER_00: know what it's time we get that group younger and we get them to start off in a group where they
[26:09] SPEAKER_00: can network they can learn we're gonna bring screws in and so we love that idea because as much as
[26:17] SPEAKER_00: we love the education system curriculum takes time to change and we have changed very rapidly so
[26:23] SPEAKER_00: this is almost like a new school we want it to be really awesome we're gonna bring kids in and we're
[26:28] SPEAKER_00: we got that planning so look out for 2020 we'll make sure we get on that in terms of
[26:33] SPEAKER_00: uh marketing and advertising and let cool know where to be how it's available all those kinds of
[26:38] SPEAKER_00: things so I'm really very excited about that I will be launching that myself and that will be
[26:42] SPEAKER_00: on the back of sort of my second company that I'm ready to launch so very excited about that and
[26:47] SPEAKER_02: keep your ears and eyes open for that I'm sure there's lots of people that would love to get behind
[26:52] SPEAKER_02: you on that so we'll help spread the word uh cam thanks again for joining us here in Canada's
[26:58] SPEAKER_02: podcast it has been a pleasure I have to wrap up with one fun um saying that we came up with at our
[27:04] SPEAKER_02: first interview is uh you know historically cam's been a you know good at being a badass and now he's
[27:12] SPEAKER_02: really bad at being a good ass so I love that I love that I love that I love that so we get
[27:20] SPEAKER_00: to get a good way in a good way exactly all of that yeah it might help you in business you never know
[27:29] SPEAKER_02: perfect awesome again thanks for joining us cam and uh how can people get a hold of you post
[27:34] SPEAKER_00: podcast what's the best way the best way would be linked in that's a place where I spend a lot of
[27:39] SPEAKER_00: time yeah and I think if anyone especially young people if you're looking to get into business and
[27:44] SPEAKER_00: you want to be taken seriously yeah work on a LinkedIn profile don't just do the Facebook and
[27:48] SPEAKER_00: Instagram get on LinkedIn start kind of thank you so we will see you on LinkedIn after today
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