
Join us in this empowering episode of Dead America Podcast as host Ed Watters sits down with Nick Yerhart, the inspiring host of The Infinite Abilities Podcast and a certified 10X business and life coach. Battling cerebral palsy, Nick shares his journey of self-improvement following a difficult period in his life, and how he became a motivational and business coach dedicated to helping others. From overcoming depression to launching his own business, Nick’s story is a testament to resilience and the power of self-education. Tune in as Nick discusses the significance of having a purpose, stepping outside of your comfort zone, and the transformational power of gratitude.
00:00 Introduction: The Power of Education
00:56 Meet Nick Yerhart: Overcoming Challenges
02:22 Nick’s Journey to Self-Development
04:50 The Importance of Taking Action
07:52 Building a Coaching Business
09:49 The Role of Gratitude
12:13 Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
17:23 Nick’s Writing Journey
21:13 The Power of Podcasting
24:54 Overcoming Physical Challenges
38:30 The Importance of Asking for Help
41:27 Continuous Learning and Self-Education
44:29 Final Thoughts and Services
48:05 Conclusion and Farewell
Links
https://www.nickyerhart.com
/ @nickyerhart
/ nick.yerhart.5
/ nickyerhart
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Ed Watters: To overcome, you must educate.
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Educate not only yourself, but
educate anyone seeking to learn.
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We are all Dead America,
we can all learn something.
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To learn, we must challenge
what we already understand.
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The way we do that is
through conversation.
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Sometimes we have conversations with
others, however, some of the best
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conversations happen with ourselves.
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Reach out and challenge yourself; let’s
dive in and learn something new right now.
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Today, we are speaking with Nick Yerhart.
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Nick is the host of The Infinite
Abilities Podcast, he is also a 10X coach.
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Nick, could you please introduce
yourself and let people know just
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a little more about you, please?
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Nick Yerhart: Of course, and first I want
to thank you for having me on the show.
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I’m excited for this.
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But yeah, I’m Nick Yerhart.
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I do have cerebral, uh, palsy,
but I don’t let that stop me
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from doing much of anything.
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Um, over the past four years,
I’ve dove headfirst into self
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development and improving my life.
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And along the way, I became a
certified 10X, uh, business coach.
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But I’m also a life coach, so I
definitely like helping people improve,
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improve their lives the way that I did.
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Ed Watters: I think it’s very
important what you’re doing and,
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you know, excuses are out the
window before we even get started.
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When it comes to speaking with Nick, he
doesn’t allow himself to use excuses.
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I find you so inspirational
in many ways, Nick.
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And it’s comforting to know
there’s people like you out
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there doing what you’re doing.
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What got you started into trying
to develop yourself and then launch
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that into the 10X coaching system?
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Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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So, like, my whole life, I never
really accepted my disability.
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Like, I was always very
negative towards it.
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And, you know, about four years ago,
you know, shortly after I, I lost
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my dad, you know, my whole life got
turned around and I went down into
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a hole, you know, a depression,
suicidal thoughts, I was just not okay.
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And I knew that something
needed to change, otherwise the
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outcome wasn’t going to be good.
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So, thankfully, I had already been
listening to Grant Cardone, who owns,
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uh, 10X, and I’m certified from him.
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But throughout listening to
him, I, I started to realize
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that there’s more to life.
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Like, I, I could do something for myself
instead of working a W 2 job, like I
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have been doing since I was sixteen,
I could start my own, uh, business.
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So that kind of got me
excited, excited, you know?
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And throughout listening to him, and
I started listening to a podcast, and
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I ended up finding a podcast called
The Mindset Mentor by Rob Dial.
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And that podcast changed everything
because Rob’s all about improving your
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mindset, believing in yourself, loving
yourself, growing your self confidence.
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So I started to take the actions that he
was, you know, teaching in a podcast and
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I started to become happier with myself.
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And then that just spiraled into, I just
wanted to learn everything that I could.
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And that’s how I ended up becoming a,
uh, 10X business coach because I seen an
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opportunity, I took it, and here we are.
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Ed Watters: That’s, that’s huge.
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Opportunity, it happens.
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And if you don’t take it when it
does happen, it’s really frustrating
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because you’ll always regret it.
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You’ll always look back at that
moment, that time and say, Oh man,
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I wish I would have done that.
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Don’t be one of those people, it’s simple.
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And, you know, action, taking that
action step, that is critical.
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A lot of us, we sit on the couch
and sit back, and we, we mumble,
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we grumble about things, but we
don’t want to take the action step.
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Tell us what, what courage was,
what courage did it take for
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you to take that action step?
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Nick Yerhart: So, you know, like a
couple months before I got started
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into the 10X program, you know, I
had already been posting on social
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media, just getting myself known.
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Because I know that, you know,
being well, well known really
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helps a lot in a business.
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And I originally wanted to get into real
estate, but then I seen the opportunity
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to become a coach and I felt like
I could help more people that way.
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So, but as far as what action
I took, so I had already been
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taking action and I set up my LLC,
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I got that going.
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I didn’t really know what exactly
I was going to do with it yet,
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but I was like, you know what?
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I want to, I commit.
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So if I pay the money,
set it up, I’m committed.
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So now I have to do something.
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So I think that’s important.
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Just commit first and
figure the rest out later.
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So then one day, you know, I got a
call from, uh, Grant Cardone’s office,
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they offered me the opportunity
to become a coach with them.
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And right away, I was
like, I wanted to do this.
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I don’t know how I’m going to pay
for it, because I definitely didn’t
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have that much money at that time.
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But I said, Let’s go, I’ll figure it out.
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And I did.
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So, I just, I truly believe that if
you see an opportunity and your gut
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is telling you that you should do
it, it doesn’t matter if you have the
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financial means or the know how, just
do it and then figure it out later.
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Ed Watters: Yeah, that’s a huge step
and that takes a lot of courage.
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So, talk to us about your dream or
your vision for your business and what
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does that look like in the future?
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Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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So the people I really want to help are
parents who have children with special
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needs, I prefer to say special ability.
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Um, I started my coaching
business towards them.
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But I quickly found out that,
unfortunately, they don’t have a whole
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lot of extra income a lot of the times.
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So, I sat down and I was like, Alright,
what can I do to, you know, grow my
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business so then I can help them?
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So what I decided on is, I’m more
focused on, uh, business coaching.
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Because businesses need help.
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I have all the tools and resources to
help them, so I can do, I can do that.
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So what I’m doing is I’m building my
business to a point where I can start
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a foundation and then I can help the
people that I really want to help.
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So my, my goal is to help one billion, uh,
people improve the quality of their life.
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Ed Watters: That’s awesome.
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And you know, I, I like it that
it’s not about a short term goal.
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You have the broad, big picture
in, in focus at all times.
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And, and when we’re painting
a masterpiece, we really have
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to inspire it by the size of
the canvas that we start with.
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So don’t limit the canvas, that’s
really one of the big things.
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And, and a lot of that takes gratitude.
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What is your take on
having gratitude in life?
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Nick Yerhart: Oh, it’s so important.
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You know, I wake up every morning.
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I have a morning routine.
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And one of the things in my
routine is I journal three
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things that I’m grateful for.
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So it’s, it’s always good
just to recognize the things
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that you’re grateful for.
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Because if you don’t, you can tend
to like, be kind of negative and
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not appreciate things in life.
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So I think it’s very important just
to appreciate everything that you can.
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Ed Watters: Can you share an
example of gratitude with us today?
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What, what are you grateful for?
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Nick Yerhart: Well, I am so grateful for
the followers that I have on social media.
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And now when I say that, I’m not
grateful because I have, you know,
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tens of thousands of followers.
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I’m grateful because there’s tens of
thousands of people that are following
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me that I help every single day.
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I post videos every day, and every
video is going to help someone.
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So that’s another thing that I do.
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I wake up every morning with the intent
to help at least one person that day.
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So yeah, I’m just super grateful.
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Ed Watters: Yeah, I like that a lot.
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Yeah, you have to be grateful.
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And, you know, when we have intention
like that to wake up and have
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something in mind, a purpose every
day, that is a good way to do our life.
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Because if we don’t have intention,
we fall into depression and, you know,
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these self doubting, negative, self
talk images that we often get into.
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We’re social and we need that interaction.
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So, what are some of the things
that encourage you to take that step
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of getting out and being social?
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Because sometimes being social
is very tough for many of us.
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Nick Yerhart: Oh, yeah.
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Well, honestly, I was a
big introvert years ago.
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Like I was shy, I would not
talk to people I didn’t know, I
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got very nervous out in public.
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But now I know my purpose
and I have a voice.
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And if I don’t share that,
I’m not gonna help people.
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So it, it makes it very easy for
me to get outta bed in the morning
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because I have a, a purpose.
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I, I know that today I will
help at least one people.
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Now, honestly, these days, it’s, at least,
a hundred I would think I help a, a day.
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But my goal is always to help one.
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So yeah, I, I think it’s just
important to have that purpose
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and know what your purpose is.
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And if you don’t know what your purpose
is, then every day you should be waking up
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and have the purpose to find your purpose.
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Ed Watters: I like that.
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That, that is an applause right
there because, you know, a lot of us,
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we’d rather stew in our own despair.
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And, you know, find the purpose.
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And it really takes that self
motivation and the want or the
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need to get something else.
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And, you know, it really doesn’t
come with comfort, you know,
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action often takes discomfort to
propel you into something else.
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Can you talk to us about the
discomfort that propelled you
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into trying to find yourself?
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Nick Yerhart: Oh, yeah.
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You know, I talk about this a
lot in my social media videos.
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You know, you need to step
outside of your, uh, comfort zone.
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That’s the only way that you’ll
grow, that’s the only way you’ll
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learn, and that’s the only way that
you’ll get further along in life.
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So for me, as far as the discomfort
I went through, Man, I was so scared
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to do my first social media video.
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Because I’m someone who, up until that
first video in February of 2023, I
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had never recorded myself on a camera.
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Because I didn’t like the way I looked,
I didn’t like the way I talked, I
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didn’t like the way I moved, and it
was very hard for me to hear myself.
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So that first video I did, you know,
I really had to push myself to do it.
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And if I’m gonna be honest, it did take
six shots of Jack Daniels before I had
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the courage to actually record that video.
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But I did it.
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And then after that, it was
almost daily I made a video.
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And now, you know, I post between
two to five videos every day.
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And when I record a video
now, man, it’s super easy.
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Like I don’t have to really think
about, you know, it’s just, it’s so,
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it’s good to know that, like the things
that you find are, you know, outside
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your comfort zone, just do it and then
do it again, and again, and again.
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And then guess, guess what happens?
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It’s no longer difficult.
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It’s easy, it’s normal.
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Ed Watters: Yeah.
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And you get very good doing it, and
it really surprises you looking back.
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You know, I have an immense
catalog of back episodes that
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I often go back and I look.
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I’ve got episodes that people don’t
even know how to find that I go back.
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Because it’s at the very beginning and
sometimes I look at those and go, You
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were very uncomfortable and that’s very
refreshing that you stepped out of that.
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I, I, when I first started recording
episodes, I hated my voice so much
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that I went and bought music to
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have to hear myself speaking alone.
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You know, so that discomfort really
can help you grow in many ways.
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And if you decide to step in and lean
into that discomfort and acknowledge that
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it’s there, that’s when we find perfection
and you, you can really build yourself.
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Nick, I, I, through researching
you, I noticed you wrote two
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books and one’s on Amazon.
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Could you talk us, to us
about your writing experience?
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Because a lot of us, we want
to write a book but, again,
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that discomfort holds us back.
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Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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So, I actually have three books.
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Um, but my first one, my first one was,
uh, uh, one of my coaches through the
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10X, uh, program, uh, she recommended
that I write a short little ebook
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just to have something that I could
either sell for cheap or give away.
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So with that one, you know,
that one’s a lot about building
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yourself, uh, confidence.
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Um, I, I should probably
read that one again.
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But I want to say it was 20 Tips on
How to Build Your Self Confidence.
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It’s a short book, I think
it’s thirty-six pages.
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And that one’s extremely helpful.
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You know, it’s got some of my own life
stories in it and everything like that.
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And the coolest thing about that book
though, this book, I don’t think I’ve
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told anyone, is what I did for that
book is, at the time, when I was making
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social video, social media videos, I
was doing mixed, uh, content, uh, tips.
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So, I had a whole bunch of tips
that I would make a video about.
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And what, what I did was, I took the
videos I made and turned it into,
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uh, text and put that in the book
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and then I just added a couple
of stories here and there.
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So, if you’re trying to think of,
you know, trying to write a book,
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you know, think about the things
that you’ve done in the past.
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And a lot of times, you can save
yourself a lot of time by going back
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and using that to write your book.
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And then, my second book
is Empowering Motivational
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Strategies, which is on Amazon.
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It’s a short, a forty-six page book.
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It takes, you know, half an
hour-forty-five minutes to read.
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That one was more of a challenge
to, with my accountability group.
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We’re all challenging each other
to get something done and out
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there to help our business.
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And I chose to write a book on
how to have more motivation.
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So all I did was took the principles
that I had learned over the past,
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you know, two years at that time, and
just turned it into a book, you know?
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And you just, if you’re writing a
book, especially like a book like
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that, like that isn’t really about
your life or anything like that, it’s
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more of an educational book, I mean,
just use Google, just do some research.
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And just get ideas, and then start putting
those ideas on paper in your own words.
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So yeah, I mean, it’s really cool.
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And then my third one is another ebook
and that’s about, uh, podcasting,
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the power of, uh, podcasting and
how it can help your, uh, business.
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Ed Watters: Well, that’s interesting
because podcasting can help your
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business immensely in many ways.
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You know, I find the power of
podcasting to be so immense because
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it helps people in so many ways.
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They educate themselves.
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You know, for instance, I, through
my podcasting journey, it’s helped
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me read better, it’s helped me study
better, it’s helped me grow immensely.
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And the best part is I get to
meet fabulous people all the time.
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And there are so many inspiring
stories that propel you to
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your next level of podcasting.
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you do a podcast and it’s pretty cool.
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Could you tell people about your podcast
and what inspires you to do the podcast?
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Nick Yerhart: So I want to start with
what inspires me to do a podcast.
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And that really goes back to me
listening to podcasts years ago that
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actually changed my life and helped
me improve every aspect of my life.
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So I started my podcast to help
others, that’s what it’s all about.
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Just to help others, help people
get through their struggles, help
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them with their business, help them
get ideas for starting a business,
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you know, everything like that.
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So yeah, my podcast is called
The Infinite Abilities Podcast.
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You can find it everywhere.
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And some of my guests I bring on have,
you know, special needs themselves, so
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they can share what it’s like to live
with what they have and also to share
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how they overcome, uh, challenges.
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Because that’s not only going to
help people understand what it’s
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like, but it’s also going to help
those who are in similar situations,
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get through their challenges.
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So I love doing that and
I always learn something.
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And then I also bring on entrepreneurs
to share their story, share why they
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do what they do, how they help people,
and really promote whatever they do.
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So then it helps them and
it also helps my listeners.
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And I get to learn a lot from
entrepreneurs who are, you know, doing,
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you know, they’re one step ahead of me,
so I can get ideas for what I should do.
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Ed Watters: Yeah.
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That, that’s really the idea in
growth, Nick, is when, when we
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want to increase our ability.
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We have to actually go to
where that knowledge lies.
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And that is often with other
podcasters in this case.
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I’m, I’m constantly watching
other podcasters and it helps me
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develop new skills in podcasting.
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So, and, and it’s not about being
better than somebody else, it’s
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actually about being better myself.
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And then if others choose to
follow, well, that’s a great thing.
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So yeah, it’s, it’s pretty cool.
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You know, when we talk about
overcoming challenges and
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difficulties, you, you excel here.
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You drive a garbage truck on top of
everything else, and this amazes me
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because the way you adapt to be able
to do this, it’s challenging for many
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people to do things, but you are a master
at overcoming and developing skills.
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I like how you shared the video of
you driving the garbage truck and how
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you, you know, developed the skill
of implementing your wristwatch.
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And talk to us about how you did
that and overcome the challenge
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in your mind of getting into
that big monster and driving it.
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Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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So, you know, one thing I live
by is I don’t say I can’t.
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I say, How can I?
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Because now I’m searching for solutions.
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So with anything I do, you know, almost
everything I do daily is a challenge.
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You know, I don’t do things
like everybody else can.
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I have my own way of doing things.
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So, as far as driving a garbage truck,
now, driving the truck itself is no
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different than any other vehicle,
you know, and I can do that easily.
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But with the truck that I shared
in that video, that’s one of the
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trucks that has that arm on the
side that picks up the garbage can.
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So because of that, there’s a joystick
inside the cab to operate the arm.
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And in the video, there’s a little lever
on top of the joystick, which, which is
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what operates the, the little fingers
on the arm that actually grab the can.
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Well, when I first started
driving that truck, I would have
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my left hand on the joystick.
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And then I had to reach over with my
right hand to operate that little tiny
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lever because my, my thumb doesn’t
work, you know, like everybody else’s.
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So like everybody else
could just use their thumb.
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Well, I couldn’t do that.
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And I’m not saying I can’t do it, I’m
just saying I have my own way of doing it.
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So after, and, you know, a few hours
of reaching over, you know, to hit
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that little lever, my back started
to hurt, my arms started to hurt,
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so I was like, Alright, there’s
gotta be a better, a better way.
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And I just, I sat there and I looked at
them like, alright, how can I do this?
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And I was just like, Huh, I wonder
if my watch will, my watch band will,
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like, go underneath the little head
of the lever so I can use my watch?
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And it worked.
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So then from that moment on,
that’s exactly what I did.
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And as you’ve seen in the video,
it worked out really good.
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Ed Watters: Yeah, it just blew me away.
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It’s like, never say
you can’t do something.
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You know, it’s so inspiring when people
can see that sort of a video and it
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makes them question themselves so deep.
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And I love that to the core.
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I want to also talk about, I witnessed
a video where you explained that
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position was threatened by a doctor.
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How did that feel?
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And what did that make you feel
like when that instance occurred?
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Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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So, I mean, it all started
when I went to get my, you
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know, regular driver’s license.
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And when I went to get that,
they told me I couldn’t.
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And I was like, Well, I can because,
you know, I grew up on a farm.
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I got my first pickup when I was
eleven years old, I have already
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been driving for four years.
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So I was like, Don’t tell me I
can’t do something that I’ve been
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doing for four years, you know?
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So I did have to go see doctors,
neurologists, and go through a bunch
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of tests for them to, you know,
approve me to, to drive, you know?
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And it, it was just annoying.
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It was just like,
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like, I understand, but in the same
sense, don’t say I can’t at first.
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Because that’s what they did.
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They said, Nope, you can’t get a license.
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Don’t do that, that’s wrong.
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Just simply say, um, Unfortunately,
due to your disability, there’s laws
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and we have to, you know, follow it and
you need to go get more testing done to
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make sure that you are safe to drive.
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That would be totally cool
but that’s not how it goes.
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But you know, I went through, I
did all the tests that they wanted
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and then I could finally go and
do the regular, you know, driver’s
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ed class and the test with that.
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So I had to go through, you know,
five times the amount of testing
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as anybody else, but I did it.
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I got my license at sixteen,
just like everybody else.
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And, you know, uh, five years later,
you know, my dad owned a garbage
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company so obviously I needed to get
my commercial driver’s license so I
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could drive all the, uh, uh, trucks.
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So I thought it was gonna
be easy like everyone else.
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Because I was like, Well, I
already have my license so,
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you know, there’s not much difference
between driving a garbage truck and a car.
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I mean, obviously they’re bigger,
heavier, they have air brakes instead
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of, you know, hydraulic brakes, but
like, I already knew all about the
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trucks because I had been around them
since I was like thirteen years old.
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So I already knew what
everything did, how they worked.
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And so I go to get my CDL
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and, you know, you have to get
what’s called a medical, uh, card.
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So basically, you go get a physical,
you take a drug test, you do all
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that, and then you get this, uh, card.
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And every two years, you have to
renew it to keep your, uh, CDL.
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Well, when I went to go get
that, I got denied by a doctor.
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And the doctor said, you will, will, will
never get your, your C, your C, a CDL.
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once again, I had to fight and go
see more doctors, and get more tests
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done, and go through all that again.
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And then I was able to get my CDL.
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Now, the part about that that sucks is,
you know, I’ve had my CDL for, what is it?
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Twelve years now and I’ve gotten
it taken away five times just
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because of that medical card.
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And, you know, the laws were changed so
then the paperwork changes and somebody
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didn’t check this box or this box.
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So another thing I did, it was
just, the, the physicist or the
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doctor that did my, you know,
medical exam didn’t do things right.
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So therefore I would lose my license.
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And there was one time where I lost it
and the doctor I was going to, you know,
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said that they couldn’t do it anymore
because, you know, something changed and
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they’re not licensable or whatever it was.
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So I went to see a new, uh, doctor that,
you know, this isn’t going to be a big
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deal, I just go get the physical again,
I can get my medical card and then
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they’ll reinstate my license, you know?
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Oh no, this, this was a big challenge
because the doctor walks in and within
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five minutes he says, Nick, I’m not
going to do your physical because I’m not
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approving you to get your medical card and
I’m also going to take your normal driving
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license away from you because I don’t
believe that you should be on the road.
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I looked at him and said,
Hmm, what tests have you done?
418
00:34:52,570 –> 00:34:55,240
And what do you know about me?
419
00:34:56,210 –> 00:34:57,590
He’s like, Well, I can see you.
420
00:34:59,120 –> 00:35:04,910
I said, Oh, so the way I walk, the
way I walk and the way that my hands
421
00:35:04,930 –> 00:35:08,879
work, you can make that judgment?
422
00:35:09,740 –> 00:35:10,380
He said, Yep.
423
00:35:12,309 –> 00:35:17,465
So, that was a big, you know,
challenge to get through but
424
00:35:18,845 –> 00:35:20,605
we made it through, you know?
425
00:35:20,655 –> 00:35:27,645
I got a different doctor and, um, I,
I don’t know if that doctor lost his
426
00:35:27,715 –> 00:35:32,705
job because of that, I, I hope so
cause that, that wasn’t right at all.
427
00:35:33,685 –> 00:35:38,245
And, cause I, you know, I’ve
been driving since I was, well,
428
00:35:38,395 –> 00:35:44,345
eleven, but on the road since I was
sixteen and I have no accidents.
429
00:35:44,345 –> 00:35:49,635
Though, I have, though I’ve
been involved in a couple, but
430
00:35:49,655 –> 00:35:51,185
none of them were my fault.
431
00:35:52,425 –> 00:35:57,434
So, but it’s like, I have more
hours behind the wheel than
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00:35:57,435 –> 00:36:00,655
that doctor did, I guarantee it.
433
00:36:00,675 –> 00:36:03,484
And I have basically no accidents.
434
00:36:03,494 –> 00:36:07,084
So it’s like, Who are you
to tell me I can’t drive?
435
00:36:07,954 –> 00:36:13,305
You know, it’s just, things
like that just, it gets old.
436
00:36:13,535 –> 00:36:14,615
It really does.
437
00:36:18,335 –> 00:36:22,985
Ed Watters: Yes, and I, I
very well understand that.
438
00:36:23,004 –> 00:36:27,880
You know, when we’re dealing with
those, uh, people that, make you feel
439
00:36:27,880 –> 00:36:31,240
inferior, it’s really discriminatory.
440
00:36:31,640 –> 00:36:36,639
And it’s obvious that you,
you have a passion and a
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00:36:36,640 –> 00:36:39,920
drive to do good in the world.
442
00:36:39,950 –> 00:36:45,219
And it’s hiccups when we
run across people like that.
443
00:36:45,810 –> 00:36:51,465
You know, it’s not about a disability,
it’s about what abilities you do have.
444
00:36:51,665 –> 00:36:55,685
And that can change your whole outlook.
445
00:36:57,495 –> 00:37:03,055
So, yeah, you know, start looking at the
people’s abilities, not disabilities.
446
00:37:03,055 –> 00:37:11,664
Because, you know, after me receiving
my own disability, I, I’ve come to
447
00:37:11,664 –> 00:37:13,724
the conclusion we’re all disabled.
448
00:37:14,710 –> 00:37:20,650
You know, if, if we really take
that focus away from being disabled,
449
00:37:20,660 –> 00:37:26,980
because it’s really, we just have to
readjust and rediscover new ways of
450
00:37:27,039 –> 00:37:30,129
doing things like the watch, you know?
451
00:37:30,129 –> 00:37:33,870
And that’s really important
for people to figure out.
452
00:37:33,890 –> 00:37:38,030
And I’m, I’m just now getting to
that point, Nick, where I’m figuring
453
00:37:38,030 –> 00:37:41,350
out I, I don’t have to be disabled,
454
00:37:41,360 –> 00:37:45,080
I can actually share my abilities.
455
00:37:45,530 –> 00:37:52,830
And this is where, you know, I’m older
now, but yet I have so much to give and I
456
00:37:52,860 –> 00:37:54,910
don’t want to sit around and do nothing.
457
00:37:54,910 –> 00:38:02,885
So I have to educate myself and try
to understand and develop a way to
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00:38:03,015 –> 00:38:10,285
come at life in a different, new
perspective, and that, that’s kind of a
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00:38:10,285 –> 00:38:12,325
challenge that we all have to live with.
460
00:38:12,374 –> 00:38:20,425
And we don’t need people that are
going to be putting dampers on us.
461
00:38:20,425 –> 00:38:26,535
We, we want to be around people that
uplift us, and encourage us, and sometimes
462
00:38:26,645 –> 00:38:29,655
help us, because we all need help.
463
00:38:30,595 –> 00:38:34,550
Talk to us about needing
help at some time.
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00:38:35,820 –> 00:38:36,270
Nick Yerhart: Yeah.
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00:38:36,270 –> 00:38:43,920
I love this topic because, you know,
like I said before, I don’t say I can’t.
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00:38:44,530 –> 00:38:46,560
Instead, I say, How can I?
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00:38:47,230 –> 00:38:54,099
And now with that, there’s some
situations where if I need to do a
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00:38:54,099 –> 00:39:02,030
task, instead of me saying, Oh, I
can’t do that, I find someone who can.
469
00:39:02,960 –> 00:39:05,380
So I ask for help, you know?
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00:39:05,670 –> 00:39:12,290
Cause there’s things in life where,
you know, I don’t use knives, not
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00:39:12,310 –> 00:39:15,300
a good idea for me to use a knife.
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00:39:15,629 –> 00:39:21,470
So therefore, I ask family or friends
to, uh, cut my food or whatever.
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00:39:21,850 –> 00:39:24,520
You know, I don’t use the oven.
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00:39:24,740 –> 00:39:29,545
Because, me trying to get something
out of the oven, I will get burned.
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00:39:29,635 –> 00:39:30,905
I guarantee it.
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00:39:31,075 –> 00:39:34,485
So I’m just not gonna put
myself in that situation.
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00:39:34,805 –> 00:39:36,915
So therefore I ask for help.
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00:39:37,394 –> 00:39:41,885
And a lot of people have a
problem with asking for help.
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00:39:42,505 –> 00:39:45,665
You know, they just want to
do everything themselves.
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00:39:45,815 –> 00:39:46,215
Well,
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00:39:48,385 –> 00:39:52,005
yes, it’s good to figure out
what you can do for yourself.
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00:39:52,445 –> 00:39:58,335
So, I mean, I always try
something at least once.
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00:39:58,395 –> 00:40:00,535
You know, I have cooked in the oven.
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00:40:00,935 –> 00:40:06,615
I do occasionally use a knife,
but I try not to, you know?
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00:40:06,784 –> 00:40:10,175
So it’s good to know
that I can if I need to.
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00:40:10,805 –> 00:40:17,000
But if it’s something dangerous, or
something extremely difficult, or maybe
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00:40:17,910 –> 00:40:23,430
it’s literally going to hurt you if you
do it, don’t be afraid to ask for help.
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00:40:23,740 –> 00:40:28,840
And people are always more than
willing to give you a hand.
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00:40:29,349 –> 00:40:38,500
But with that being said, don’t take
advantage of it, don’t use people.
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00:40:39,430 –> 00:40:43,275
You know, don’t be lazy, don’t
make people do stuff for you just
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00:40:43,415 –> 00:40:45,705
because you don’t want to do it.
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00:40:46,605 –> 00:40:50,865
You know, instead, make sure that
if you need help, it’s something
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that you actually need help with.
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00:40:55,245 –> 00:40:56,754
So yeah, that’s what I think.
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00:40:58,524 –> 00:40:58,964
Ed Watters: Yeah.
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00:41:00,375 –> 00:41:01,675
Yeah, that’s powerful.
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00:41:01,874 –> 00:41:06,855
You know, taking advantage of
people is not a good thing.
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00:41:06,865 –> 00:41:13,965
And many of us, you know, we don’t
have it in us to live right at times.
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00:41:13,975 –> 00:41:20,455
So by sharing these stories,
people can actually look on and
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00:41:21,285 –> 00:41:23,855
learn to emulate these stories.
501
00:41:23,875 –> 00:41:27,184
And that’s what the
power of podcasting is.
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00:41:27,685 –> 00:41:30,075
You know, education is important, Nick.
503
00:41:30,425 –> 00:41:35,415
I need to know, how do
you educate yourself?
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00:41:35,455 –> 00:41:40,190
Because I think it’s a long,
lifelong thing and every
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00:41:40,190 –> 00:41:42,050
day we learn something new.
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00:41:42,470 –> 00:41:46,850
So take us through the
journey of educating yourself.
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00:41:48,320 –> 00:41:57,139
Nick Yerhart: So number one, podcast, I
love listening and learning from podcasts.
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00:41:57,680 –> 00:42:05,390
So I listen to a lot of podcasts, but
the next thing that I do is, um, I,
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00:42:05,610 –> 00:42:09,780
I read at least one book every week.
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00:42:10,940 –> 00:42:16,490
And sometimes I don’t actually
physically read, I listen on Audible.
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00:42:16,970 –> 00:42:22,649
Um, but with Audible, I can usually
get through two books a week on there.
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00:42:23,480 –> 00:42:32,775
So what, what people need to know is,
there’s somebody out there who has the
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00:42:32,785 –> 00:42:39,075
success you want, or has the marriage
you want, the relationship, the family
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00:42:39,075 –> 00:42:41,865
you want, and guess what they did?
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00:42:42,315 –> 00:42:44,265
They wrote a book about, about it.
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00:42:44,975 –> 00:42:48,294
So, books are so powerful.
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00:42:48,675 –> 00:42:53,495
There is a book out there to teach
you anything you need to know.
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00:42:54,065 –> 00:43:02,975
So, I highly recommend getting Audible or
just buying a physical book and reading.
519
00:43:03,455 –> 00:43:09,165
And, you know, they say that the
average American reads one book a year.
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00:43:10,195 –> 00:43:14,590
And, on average, I read one book a week.
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00:43:15,260 –> 00:43:21,280
So I read fifty-one more books a
year than the average American.
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00:43:21,770 –> 00:43:26,529
Now just think of where that
puts me at the end of the year
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00:43:26,740 –> 00:43:28,600
versus the average American.
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00:43:30,370 –> 00:43:33,740
You know, and it’s something
as simple as that, you know,
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00:43:34,200 –> 00:43:36,830
read a book a week, you know?
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00:43:37,600 –> 00:43:41,370
You know, your average
book, it takes what?
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00:43:41,479 –> 00:43:43,999
Five, six hours to read.
528
00:43:44,820 –> 00:43:47,270
So there you go, an hour a day.
529
00:43:48,339 –> 00:43:55,050
Sit down at night at the end of the day,
I think that’s the best time, and just
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00:43:55,260 –> 00:43:58,220
read, you know, I think it’s so important.
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00:44:00,120 –> 00:44:00,360
Ed Watters: Yeah.
532
00:44:00,360 –> 00:44:05,970
And, and it also helps build
the cognitive function with
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00:44:05,970 –> 00:44:08,200
you, you know, keep you sharper.
534
00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:13,300
And it really is something, if
you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.
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00:44:13,730 –> 00:44:15,829
And it’s so true.
536
00:44:17,360 –> 00:44:24,100
So have we missed anything in our
conversation today that you think
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00:44:24,140 –> 00:44:26,600
that people really need to know?
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00:44:29,010 –> 00:44:35,835
Nick Yerhart: So I just wish that I
could see more people out there who are
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00:44:36,285 –> 00:44:45,204
striving for the life that they actually
want instead of settling for the life that
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00:44:45,204 –> 00:44:48,035
they were told they were going to have.
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00:44:48,785 –> 00:44:54,615
You know, we all grow up and our
family, our friends, they live a
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00:44:54,615 –> 00:45:01,735
certain way and we tend to follow in
their footsteps instead of discovering
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00:45:01,955 –> 00:45:04,295
who we are and what we want.
544
00:45:04,865 –> 00:45:11,735
So I would encourage everyone, sit down
and think about your, your, your life
545
00:45:12,355 –> 00:45:18,884
and what you want out of life and what
you want people to remember you for.
546
00:45:19,695 –> 00:45:27,064
And after all that’s done, set
some goals, find people that can
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00:45:27,064 –> 00:45:31,185
help you reach your goals, and
get out there and make it happen.
548
00:45:34,435 –> 00:45:34,795
Ed Watters: Yeah.
549
00:45:34,915 –> 00:45:36,445
That, that’s good advice, Nick.
550
00:45:36,835 –> 00:45:42,105
So let’s, let’s end it by telling
people a little bit about your
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00:45:42,105 –> 00:45:46,695
services, your business, and
how you can get ahold of Nick.
552
00:45:49,085 –> 00:45:52,655
Nick Yerhart: So you can get
ahold of me by going to my
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00:45:52,655 –> 00:46:01,050
website, it’s nickyerhart.com,
N-I-C-K-Y-E-R-H-A-R T.com.
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00:46:01,590 –> 00:46:04,950
And on there, you, you
find everything I, I do.
555
00:46:05,040 –> 00:46:07,970
You’ll find my social
media links, everything.
556
00:46:08,650 –> 00:46:14,915
Um, the services I offer, I
do offer life, uh, coaching.
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00:46:15,365 –> 00:46:21,460
So if you need some help, you
know, improving your mindset, your
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00:46:23,000 –> 00:46:28,929
confidence, your marriage, like
we kind of cover it all, you know?
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00:46:28,930 –> 00:46:33,729
And, you know, some people may go,
Well, I don’t need help with that.
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00:46:34,579 –> 00:46:39,880
Well, I would encourage you to
get on a call with me so we can
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00:46:40,230 –> 00:46:45,030
chat because you might realize
something that you don’t know yet.
562
00:46:46,020 –> 00:46:53,225
And then I’m also a certified 10X
business coach with Grant Cardone.
563
00:46:54,115 –> 00:46:59,985
So if you have a business and you
want to take it to the next level,
564
00:47:00,155 –> 00:47:04,585
which I don’t know why you wouldn’t
get ahold of me because I have
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00:47:04,595 –> 00:47:10,865
all of Grant Cardone’s tools and
resources to help your business grow.
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00:47:11,455 –> 00:47:16,625
And then the thing that I’m really
enjoying right now is I help
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00:47:16,635 –> 00:47:18,735
people with their, uh, podcast.
568
00:47:19,265 –> 00:47:23,295
So if you have a podcast,
I can help you improve it.
569
00:47:23,295 –> 00:47:26,335
I can help you generate
revenue through your podcast.
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00:47:26,755 –> 00:47:31,144
If you don’t have one, but you want
one, which you should because podcasting
571
00:47:32,255 –> 00:47:37,014
is awesome, then get ahold of me
because I can help you get started and
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00:47:37,014 –> 00:47:38,755
get everything rocking and rolling.
573
00:47:39,095 –> 00:47:44,395
And again, help you create
revenue with your podcast.
574
00:47:44,825 –> 00:47:47,820
So, let’s, uh, make it happen.
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00:47:49,810 –> 00:47:50,870
Ed Watters: I like it a lot.
576
00:47:50,930 –> 00:47:54,570
You know, when, when you
talk about getting it done,
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00:47:54,570 –> 00:47:57,300
you have to start someplace.
578
00:47:57,340 –> 00:48:02,309
And that means reaching out
and getting a hold of somebody
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00:48:02,309 –> 00:48:04,160
that knows what’s going on.
580
00:48:05,410 –> 00:48:09,960
Nick, it is such a delight
having you on the podcast.
581
00:48:09,990 –> 00:48:14,190
It’s awesome to have somebody
that’s so inspirational and I
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00:48:14,200 –> 00:48:17,020
really do appreciate what you do.
583
00:48:17,310 –> 00:48:22,265
And I want to say thank you for
being part of the podcast today.
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00:48:24,445 –> 00:48:25,085
Nick Yerhart: Of course.
585
00:48:25,105 –> 00:48:27,565
It was awesome, thank you so much.
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00:48:32,145 –> 00:48:33,704
Ed Watters: Thank you
for joining us today.
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00:48:33,845 –> 00:48:40,005
If you found this podcast enlightening,
entertaining, educational in any way,
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00:48:40,535 –> 00:48:46,255
please share, like, subscribe, and join
us right back here next week for another
589
00:48:46,275 –> 00:48:49,305
great episode of Dead America Podcast.
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00:48:49,535 –> 00:48:54,365
I’m Ed Watters, your host, enjoy
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