Episode 91
LEAD A LIMITLESS LIFE With Mark Fournier
Episode Summary – CONCEIVE | BELIEVE | ACHIEVE – ANYTHING! In Episode 91 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show (links in the comments) titled, “LEAD A LIMITLESS LIFE” with Life-Mastery & Peak-Performance Coach and 3-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Mark Fournier. We start by looking at all that Mark has overcome and how he used his experience to build his RESILIENCE and LEARN TO MASTER APPRECIATION. He teaches about Quantum Consciousness and Meta Cognition to be able INFLUENCE FROM WITHIN and the WORLD AROUND YOU. Lastly zen-master Mark took me through an exercise about EMPOWERMENT VS ENLIGHTENMENT. Just awesome. Come BE LIMITLESS with us and listen, download, share and review this show. Check out Marks free apps OMNI COACH / LIFE BALANCE / The BALANCE WHEEL TEST.
Mentioned Resources –
- Email - mark@fournierinc.com
- Website - https://thelimitlesscoach.com/
- LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-fournier-a8294613/
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/markfournierpresents/
- Apps
Omni Coach - https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/omnicoach/id1667301875
Life Balance Test - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-balance-test/id1660950259
About the guest – Lead a LIMITLESS Life You LOVE With Master Coach, Mark Fournier
A 3-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, psychotherapist, life-mastery & peak-performance coach, Mark Fournier (The Limitless Coach) is lauded as a world-renowned expert on ‘Leading a LIMITLESS Life’ & ‘Realizing our Greatest Potential’. He is also a patented inventor, award-winning writer, ‘#1 best-selling author’, columnist, keynote speaker, the founder and provost of LIMITLESS University, the visionary creator of OmniCoach, the world’s first 100% AI-powered, virtual life & business coach and the founding director of the nonprofit DoGood Hero Support Network. Mark has dedicated his life to ‘creating a better world’ by helping to raise human consciousness through his life-transforming insights and programs.
About the Host:
Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.
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Transcript
Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly
Howard Brown:Show. Oh my god, we got the coach of coaches. How many times
Howard Brown:do you meet a Life Mastery a peak performance coach? Well,
Howard Brown:I've got one here today, Mark Fournier. Welcome. How are you?
Howard Brown:What's happening?
Mark Fournier:Awesome. Thank you for asking. I mean, awesome
Mark Fournier:in terms of how I feel and see the world today, and I'm just
Mark Fournier:happy to be on this call with you and can't wait to hopefully
Mark Fournier:inspire a few listeners and see if we can contribute to their
Mark Fournier:lives.
Howard Brown:Be well, we're gonna we're gonna make some
Howard Brown:impact today. So it's great. Let me tell you a little bit about
Howard Brown:Mark real short. So Mark is a Life Mastery and peak
Howard Brown:performance coach, number one best selling author, speaker
Howard Brown:trainer, and an Emmy Award winning filmmaker. And I love
Howard Brown:this part the best. He calls himself a humanitarian, that
Howard Brown:means he cares. And that to me, that's heart centered. Man,
Howard Brown:that's great. I don't normally do this. But I'm so captivated
Howard Brown:by your mission statement. And I just want to start the show with
Howard Brown:that. And then we'll, we'll dive right in after that. So listen
Howard Brown:to Mark's mission statement. Raising our level of
Howard Brown:consciousness not only helps us flourish as individuals, it all
Howard Brown:it is also how we will end the atrocities of our world, for
Howard Brown:enlightened beings to become heroes by nature. As such,
Howard Brown:helping to raise human consciousness on a global scale,
Howard Brown:is his passion and his purpose. I'm just letting that sink in.
Howard Brown:Because that's shining brightly my brother. That's that we are
Howard Brown:aligned. It's it's incredible. All right. So now, normal
Howard Brown:question, right? How do you shine brightly each day?
Mark Fournier:Oh, thank you for asking that. You know what,
Mark Fournier:maybe there's a kind of like a two part answer to that the, the
Mark Fournier:first thing I do every single day is I go to a state of
Mark Fournier:appreciation. It's a form of what we call disambiguation.
Mark Fournier:Habituation is when we get so used to something that it's,
Mark Fournier:we're no longer even aware of it. And that can be really
Mark Fournier:helpful if you live next door to an airport or a train track. But
Mark Fournier:when it comes to enjoying and appreciating our lives, it's not
Mark Fournier:so good. Because you, you may have just moved into this
Mark Fournier:beautiful home. And within a few months, you've habituated
Mark Fournier:instead of thinking every day, Oh, I'm so fortunate to be in
Mark Fournier:this home, you're thinking, oh, you know, this, it's an east
Mark Fournier:west facing house. And now we're getting blasted by the sun. And
Mark Fournier:you start noticing more of the negative things and taking the
Mark Fournier:positive things for granted, as we do not only with our things,
Mark Fournier:but with our people, with the people that we wake up next to.
Mark Fournier:And so I go through this process every morning, of reminding
Mark Fournier:myself of how fortunate I am, and I picture my children's
Mark Fournier:smiling faces in my mind, and all the magic and wonder in my
Mark Fournier:life. And it it's not about because I have more wonderful
Mark Fournier:things than the next guy. It's because I spend more time
Mark Fournier:thinking about them and focusing on them. And so the other half
Mark Fournier:of that answer is there was a girl one day, it was she came up
Mark Fournier:to me in the middle of a of a concert, or a seminar. And she
Mark Fournier:told me, we've taken a break. And so I'm down there on the
Mark Fournier:floor, mixing it up, and, and she told me that her mother was
Mark Fournier:was in hospice, and she was dying. And she said that it was
Mark Fournier:so hard to even be there. She said, we go there and
Mark Fournier:everybody's so miserable. And it's just so hard. And it's so
Mark Fournier:hard for my mom. And she said I don't know what to do. And I
Mark Fournier:just smiled and said, Oh, it's really simple. Have you ever
Mark Fournier:been someplace where there was there were challenges or was
Mark Fournier:dark and depressing? Have you ever seen someone who refused to
Mark Fournier:buy into that who refuse to be a victim to that those
Mark Fournier:circumstances and decided they were going to bring the beauty,
Mark Fournier:they were going to be the bright spot. And I said, you need to
Mark Fournier:make this time. Let it be that you're the bright spot every
Mark Fournier:time you walk in the door. They're looking forward to
Mark Fournier:having you and she she cut me off. But isn't that
Mark Fournier:inappropriate to be smiling and happy when you're with somebody
Mark Fournier:who's dying? And I said, How would you like, what would you
Mark Fournier:like if you were lying there in bed dying? Do you want a bunch
Mark Fournier:of people crying and wailing? Or do you want somebody to come in
Mark Fournier:with a smile and talk about what a wonderful life we're all still
Mark Fournier:experiencing? And so on and so forth. And so she came back I
Mark Fournier:saw a year later. And another seminar she says, Do you
Mark Fournier:remember me? And after she explained her circumstances, I
Mark Fournier:said, Oh my gosh, yeah, I do remember that. She goes, Well, I
Mark Fournier:took your advice. And I put it it works so well. When I would
Mark Fournier:go to the hospice. It lifted everyone she said so I have
Mark Fournier:begun to apply it to every year of my life she says so I have
Mark Fournier:now that's my new logo. My new everything is the bright spot.
Mark Fournier:He says I like bright spot wherever I go in my life, and
Mark Fournier:it's the happiest the best year I've ever Ahead.
Howard Brown:Wow, that's impact. And I love that. So I
Howard Brown:look in the mirror every day and as a guy that faced death twice,
Howard Brown:okay, I say that I am blessed, I am grateful, and I am very
Howard Brown:lucky. And how am I going to use my light to help myself and help
Howard Brown:others today, because most people look in the mirror, they
Howard Brown:don't like what they see, right. And we all get knocked down in
Howard Brown:life and in business and, and health and relationships. Got to
Howard Brown:get back up again. And you gotta, gotta gotta gotta gotta
Howard Brown:power through little baby steps, sometimes two steps back. So
Howard Brown:let's dig in a little bit more sure, you know what life threw
Howard Brown:you some curveballs share a little, you know, touch about
Howard Brown:your background and what you had to overcome a little bit.
Mark Fournier:I'll do that. Howard, thank you, without
Mark Fournier:coming from a victim space, which we may have a chance to
Mark Fournier:weave in and out of this conversation, because I'm really
Mark Fournier:big on on the power of mindsets, which is not same as an
Mark Fournier:attitude. It's not like you know, your attitude, you can
Mark Fournier:change every five seconds, you know, I'm in a good mood. I just
Mark Fournier:heard something bad. And I'm in a bad mood. A mindset is much
Mark Fournier:broader. It's like in The Matrix, it is the matrix. It's
Mark Fournier:the lens through which you're viewing the world. That is your
Mark Fournier:mindset. And if you have an opportunity mindset, which is
Mark Fournier:the opposite opposite of a victim mindset, the opportunity
Mark Fournier:mindset, classic Elon Musk is there's an opportunity in
Mark Fournier:everything. There's no such thing as bad news, there's just
Mark Fournier:news. Even though somebody may say I have a problem with an
Mark Fournier:opportunity mindset, it's not a problem. It's just an unexpected
Mark Fournier:outcome. And you say, Alright, where's the opportunity in this
Mark Fournier:cloud? You know, it's the cliche with every cloud has a silver
Mark Fournier:lining, and so on. But cliches are real, they've lasted 1000s
Mark Fournier:of years, because they're so true. So when, when you can stay
Mark Fournier:in that space, that say the opportunity space, it makes it
Mark Fournier:difficult to be in the victim space. And so, so imagine
Mark Fournier:looking at everything through a lens up and what's great about
Mark Fournier:this. And so when I describe my past, instead of it being Oh,
Mark Fournier:yeah, you know, it was really nasty. And for me, it's Wow,
Mark Fournier:yeah, there were a lot of memorable experiences. That all
Mark Fournier:culminated into who I am today, I have no regrets. So, so with
Mark Fournier:that upfront, I can say, yeah, there have been both emotional
Mark Fournier:and physical challenges. And we can touch on the physical
Mark Fournier:because we have that commonality, the surviving
Mark Fournier:cancer and so on. But I have to say that the trickiest parts for
Mark Fournier:me were my folks got divorced when I was born, my mom trying
Mark Fournier:to raise four kids, without child support without the salary
Mark Fournier:of a hairdresser. But she was like that bit like that. That
Mark Fournier:bartender that everybody comes to for advice. Well, she was the
Mark Fournier:hairdressers that they did that with and she was a philosopher,
Mark Fournier:hairdresser. So on the one side, she didn't have a lot of time
Mark Fournier:for us because she was working day and night, six days a week.
Mark Fournier:On the other side, when she did have time with us, it was
Mark Fournier:quality time. And she would spend that time helping us
Mark Fournier:actually evolve and become more enlightened from his for as far
Mark Fournier:back as I can remember. Eventually, she married a fella
Mark Fournier:who turned out to be such a good such a great guy, abusive,
Mark Fournier:alcoholic, and, and so through my formative years, it turned
Mark Fournier:out that all the things she had been teaching me started to come
Mark Fournier:into play. The book she was giving me at 12, she gave me
Mark Fournier:PSYCHO CYBERNETICS by Maxwell Maltz. And thinking Grow Rich,
Mark Fournier:which, you know, classic, after that I was hooked. And so
Mark Fournier:because of the adversity, because we were being challenged
Mark Fournier:with no dad, and then it stuck, you know, stepped out. Because
Mark Fournier:of that, she gave me all these tools. And even though they were
Mark Fournier:really just to help me cope with the issues, I was able to apply
Mark Fournier:them again to every other area of my life. And that became,
Mark Fournier:it's just woven into my, into my soul. So, from that point on all
Mark Fournier:the challenges I continually would come back to, and how can
Mark Fournier:I turn this into something? So I've had 19 major surgeries. 11
Mark Fournier:were orthopedic from sports injuries, broke my neck,
Mark Fournier:snowboarding, my back play in hockey. Now my latest one was
Mark Fournier:total knee replacement playing pickleball so I'm a pickleball
Mark Fournier:are
Howard Brown:a danger? It's not supposed to be a dangerous
Howard Brown:sport.
Mark Fournier:Well, I know that I've learned that you're not
Mark Fournier:supposed to dive for balls. Yeah. So anyhow, so you know,
Mark Fournier:there have been other challenges. Of course, only one
Mark Fournier:out of two people in our country gets get gets to skip divorce,
Mark Fournier:and I wasn't one of them. So. So, you know, and it's funny
Mark Fournier:when, when I'm coaching with somebody, and we started talking
Mark Fournier:inevitably always about relationships and marriage and
Mark Fournier:intimate relationships. I've had folks say, Well, how can you
Mark Fournier:coach me on, on relationships, you got divorced. And I smell
Mark Fournier:it, I say, so wait a minute. You You want somebody coaching you
Mark Fournier:on relationships whose they they married, the perfect person
Mark Fournier:never had to do anything to keep their marriage alive. Everything
Mark Fournier:always was perfect all the time. You want that guy coaching you?
Mark Fournier:And they're like, Well, I Is there such a person I go first
Mark Fournier:of all, probably not. Secondly, you want somebody who's been
Mark Fournier:there, but somebody who got there before you and had the ups
Mark Fournier:and downs and the issues and challenges. So you know what, in
Mark Fournier:the long run, it's in your best interest that I've seen, both
Mark Fournier:the good and the ugly. And of course, some of the other things
Mark Fournier:we talked about was like the cancer. So I had stage three
Mark Fournier:thyroid, and they caught it in time and did a couple of
Mark Fournier:interesting things to remove it along with my thyroid. And
Mark Fournier:probably the most harrowing of all of them was I was diagnosed
Mark Fournier:temporarily with ALS, they have this very rare neuromuscular
Mark Fournier:disorder. And it's way more rare than ALS. So I had a chance to
Mark Fournier:figure out what would it what really matters, because for a
Mark Fournier:week, before I went back to get retested for a week, I got to
Mark Fournier:believe that I was dying of ALS, I had less than two years to go
Mark Fournier:and, and I got to choose between a respirator where I couldn't
Mark Fournier:move at all like Stephen Hawking, or just letting it have
Mark Fournier:its way and be done in two years. And at the end of that
Mark Fournier:year, I discovered some really, really important things. So
Mark Fournier:we'll, we'll I'll weave them into date. Today's conversation,
Mark Fournier:I
Howard Brown:know what we'll dive in there. Thank you for
Howard Brown:sharing that because we've all had hardship. And we have to get
Howard Brown:back up. And it's the lessons learned that you're starting to
Howard Brown:dig into. I got asked the other day, what's my relationship with
Howard Brown:cancer? And I sat there and I didn't give an answer right
Howard Brown:away. And I said, it's love hate. I said, I hate that. I got
Howard Brown:it. I hate that people get it. I hate actually the surgeries, the
Howard Brown:chemo, the radiation, the side effects. But you know, what the
Howard Brown:people, the heroes, the nurses, the caregivers, the amazing
Howard Brown:people living with this, you know, ugly disease and keep on
Howard Brown:going, You know what, I've changed? I've changed and I know
Howard Brown:what matters now. And you know, I wrote a book about it, I have
Howard Brown:this podcast. But again, I've changed and we've all now
Howard Brown:committed to, you know, making the world a better place from
Howard Brown:your mission to my mission, as well. So I want to dig in a
Howard Brown:second because in looking and studying you a little bit, and
Howard Brown:I've dug deep on you, human potential. Okay, we all have it.
Howard Brown:Talk Talk to us about the human potential and all of us.
Mark Fournier:Oh, I love that. Thank you, Howard. Thanks for
Mark Fournier:teeing up one of my favorite topics. Excuse me, so. So my
Mark Fournier:moniker is the limitless coach. And in my nonprofit is, is it's
Mark Fournier:a 501 C three is limitless University. So you hear this
Mark Fournier:word limitless. And I use that for a reason. It's I may have
Mark Fournier:been thinking Grow Rich, it may have been when I was 12. I'm 67.
Mark Fournier:So what is that 55 years ago? Is it
Howard Brown:that's the last Okay, the mat your matches?
Howard Brown:Good. All
Mark Fournier:right, so so the first time I ever heard the, the
Mark Fournier:cliche, anything we can conceive and believe we can achieve,
Mark Fournier:which has been assigned to so many different, they say that
Mark Fournier:was how Henry Ford's said that it's that it actually goes back.
Mark Fournier:millennia, it's been around, it's again, one of those
Mark Fournier:cliches? Well, I did something that I don't know anyone who's
Mark Fournier:ever done this before. Instead of just being inspired by the
Mark Fournier:clever line, anything we can conceive and believe we can
Mark Fournier:achieve. I actually asked myself, What if that's true? I
Mark Fournier:mean, what if it's not just a platitude? What if it's actually
Mark Fournier:true? And so I broke it down. Anything we can conceive? Let's
Mark Fournier:start with that. Can you think of anything that the human mind
Mark Fournier:is incapable of at least thinking of? If you ever watched
Mark Fournier:a science fiction movie of your why that was we were talking
Mark Fournier:about the matrix of yet. There's nothing we can't conceive. I
Mark Fournier:mean, we can conceive of flat earth we can conceive of all the
Mark Fournier:wonders of today the iPods and cell phones. There's nothing we
Mark Fournier:can't conceive. So part one covered anything we can conceive
Mark Fournier:part two, and believe. And why is belief such a big deal? I
Mark Fournier:come to realize that we do what we believe. We don't do what's
Mark Fournier:what's absolutely true. We don't always do what's right. We don't
Mark Fournier:always do what other people want us to do. But we do. Do what's
Mark Fournier:what we believe a perfect example would be um, For the
Mark Fournier:folks who flew their planes into nine, into the buildings on 911,
Mark Fournier:clearly, you can just reverse engineer it. They believed that
Mark Fournier:what they were doing was the right thing to do. They believed
Mark Fournier:that that Americans were these, the scourge of the planet, they
Mark Fournier:believed that they were heroes, they believe that they're going
Mark Fournier:to rescue the world by by eliminating this virus called
Mark Fournier:Americans, right Western civilization, they believed it
Mark Fournier:so strongly, that they not only killed all of these innocent
Mark Fournier:folks, but they committed suicide, they gave up their
Mark Fournier:life, because they believed it. If you believe that if you
Mark Fournier:jumped off the highest building in the world, that you would
Mark Fournier:float to the ground, and for being the first one to jump off
Mark Fournier:that building, you would get the cure for cancer, world peace in
Mark Fournier:a trillion dollars, if you believed it, and you'll be
Mark Fournier:totally safe. I couldn't stop you from jumping off the world
Mark Fournier:ties building, not because all those things are going to happen
Mark Fournier:because they're not you're going to fall like a watermelon and
Mark Fournier:splat in 20 different directions. And there'll be no
Mark Fournier:trillion dollars or anything else. So it's not that we
Mark Fournier:believe what is we only believe what we actually accept as being
Mark Fournier:true. And the truth is, we can believe anything back to we can
Mark Fournier:believe that the earth is flat, even though they've been out
Mark Fournier:they've gone around it in spaceships, you know, so, so we
Mark Fournier:can believe anything. Think of the crazy ludicrous things that
Mark Fournier:people believe right now in our extremist, bifurcated political
Mark Fournier:system and so on. So so now we back it up, okay, so we can
Mark Fournier:conceive anything, apparently, we can believe anything. I
Mark Fournier:thought. So that means that we actually can achieve anything
Mark Fournier:because these things are true. And so I took that last one. Can
Mark Fournier:we can anything we can conceive and believe. It doesn't say
Mark Fournier:everything. We can conceive and believe it says anything. And
Mark Fournier:there's a distinction there. Because if you pick something,
Mark Fournier:and you put everything you've got into it, like in the movie,
Mark Fournier:I use movies a lot, because they you know, they're so great at
Mark Fournier:instantly telling a story in Apollo 13. You know, when it's
Mark Fournier:when these this space, these guys were as good as dead. But
Mark Fournier:the guy who was in charge said, Not on my watch, right? And he
Mark Fournier:believed that they could find a solution. And so he focused
Mark Fournier:hyperfocus, one guy comes up and says, Well, what about this one
Mark Fournier:that goes wrong. And he goes, there's 300 things that could go
Mark Fournier:wrong. Here, you're talking about 127, we need to figure out
Mark Fournier:how to make this fit into that using nothing but these. And so
Mark Fournier:let's focus on what's in front of us. So what I've realized
Mark Fournier:over the years is anything. Not everything. Because everything
Mark Fournier:if you believe, if you think of and believe a million things,
Mark Fournier:and you're at nine years old, well, you might not make it for
Mark Fournier:another 10 or 20 years, and you need 100 years to pull it off.
Mark Fournier:So So what I tell people is, is make your list of if you were a
Mark Fournier:limitless being, if there's nothing you couldn't do, make a
Mark Fournier:list of all the things you do and then put them in order of
Mark Fournier:priority. Because you might not ever get to 197, you might only
Mark Fournier:get to the first three, well make sure those first three are
Mark Fournier:something that you can live and die without regrets. And so this
Mark Fournier:idea of the of this, of our potential, our potential is
Mark Fournier:truly anything you can conceive and believe in once you can get
Mark Fournier:to that point. There's just about nothing you can't do. And
Mark Fournier:it's and they found the most successful people in the world
Mark Fournier:and not that they're not, you know, better looking taller,
Mark Fournier:smarter that they don't have, they didn't weren't born with
Mark Fournier:with Infinite Wealth there. They average out to be. There's some
Mark Fournier:that were attractive, someone somewhere had had a lot of money
Mark Fournier:behind them. Some had nothing. There's no consistency, except
Mark Fournier:for they came up with something they believed in it. And the
Mark Fournier:third thing that is so critical, whether it's creating great
Mark Fournier:relationships, or building a huge business, that one thing
Mark Fournier:that all the most successful people have in common after
Mark Fournier:there were studies on like, 1000s of people who were the top
Mark Fournier:in their field, and they found there was one thing they all had
Mark Fournier:in common. And it's something that anyone can have and it's
Mark Fournier:perseverance. Once they believed it. They committed to it and
Mark Fournier:they refused to give up. No matter what came along. They'd
Mark Fournier:say, Okay, it's not a roadblock. It's a detour. I just need to
Mark Fournier:find another way to get there. And they kept doing that until
Mark Fournier:they figured out or created a solution. So not a short
Mark Fournier:soundbite but an honest answer.
Howard Brown:No, it's incredible. I so for those that
Howard Brown:are listening or watching, you know what, you know, I always
Howard Brown:look marks the smartest guy in the room today for sure because
Howard Brown:I've got lots of other questions that go dig deep into quantum
Howard Brown:consciousness and metacognition, but we don't have time for that.
Howard Brown:But I am I do want you to do give me a short soundbite about
Howard Brown:the difference between empowerment and enlightenment.
Mark Fournier:All right, stated in a pithily empowerment in
Mark Fournier:enlightenment, they each have their value. We hear
Mark Fournier:empowerment. Almost everywhere we are teaching, we're
Mark Fournier:empowering our children, empowering women empowering
Mark Fournier:different cultures and so on. And what empowerment is, is it's
Mark Fournier:the ability to influence the world around you. And what's
Mark Fournier:wrong with that. Now, it doesn't say control the world around
Mark Fournier:you, because we can't stop it from raining. Well, there's lots
Mark Fournier:of things that we can't control. But we can influence the world
Mark Fournier:around us. And the more empowered we become, the greater
Mark Fournier:our influence becomes enlightenment, which is the one
Mark Fournier:that I love the most of all, is the ability to influence the
Mark Fournier:world within. And because we technically we live in the mind,
Mark Fournier:that's 10 times more powerful, because you can actually control
Mark Fournier:much of the world within, you can't control what's happening
Mark Fournier:around me. But I can control this, I can control the lens,
Mark Fournier:how I view it, how I respond to it, what I choose to do next, I
Mark Fournier:have control over that. And, and that's enlightenment, the more
Mark Fournier:powerful you are in regard to choosing what what stories you
Mark Fournier:want you wish to write about yourself about the world around
Mark Fournier:you a story is basically what do you think? What stories do you
Mark Fournier:want to tell yourself? And what stories do you want to believe?
Mark Fournier:That's really all reality is, it's just the stories you
Mark Fournier:believe, that's your reality, there's not a reality. That
Mark Fournier:reality, even if it exists, we can't see reality for what it
Mark Fournier:truly is. Because in order to see, we have to put on a lens,
Mark Fournier:just like in the old days, you'd have those cameras. And if you
Mark Fournier:look through a camera without a lens, it was just blurry. So you
Mark Fournier:put a lens on a zoom lens, a wide angle lens, whatever that
Mark Fournier:lens was, that would decide it will not only help you see the
Mark Fournier:world around you, but it will decide what that will look like
Mark Fournier:a tiny spider and a wide angle lens looks like just nothing but
Mark Fournier:a dot 20 feet away through a zoom lens, it says 10 foot tall,
Mark Fournier:monstrous thing, two inches away, and you will respond not
Mark Fournier:to the spider, which is really only this big and five feet
Mark Fournier:away, you will respond to what it appears to be through your
Mark Fournier:lens. So what could give us greater power than deciding the
Mark Fournier:lens through which we see the world.
Mark Fournier:I love it. And also a good friend of mine, Lauren belay,
Mark Fournier:she
Howard Brown:talks about written energy and thought
Howard Brown:energy is part of enlightenment. But anyways, the show is so
Howard Brown:short, we're going to have to move to put on your sunglasses
Howard Brown:now because oh my goodness, spotlight we are going to shine
Howard Brown:so brightly together. And again, this is a tease people are gonna
Howard Brown:go find and dig deeper on you and, and seek you out. So tell
Howard Brown:everyone how they can get a hold of you. You have apps, you have
Howard Brown:books, you know you have programs, so tell people how
Howard Brown:they should get a hold of you. And then let's let's go to the
Howard Brown:show with some inspiration, share some inspiration with
Howard Brown:after that.
Mark Fournier:Okay, I'd love to thank you again, Howard. Thanks
Mark Fournier:for having me on the show. And my, my primary website is the
Mark Fournier:limitless coach.com. So that's easy, the limitless coach.com.
Mark Fournier:And that's especially for those who are interested in in the
Mark Fournier:possibility of coaching. I do one on one coaching is my
Mark Fournier:primary contribution. My contribution to the world is
Mark Fournier:through our our nonprofit, which we're building that site right
Mark Fournier:now we just had finally got it registered the name limitless
Mark Fournier:University registered and trademarked. We were waiting for
Mark Fournier:that before and to get the 501 C three approved before we went
Mark Fournier:really went into launch but so if you go there, there's a few
Mark Fournier:things but please come back. Because we are launching all of
Mark Fournier:my back catalogue is will all be for free. I've worked with some
Mark Fournier:of the top personal development folks in the world. And we're
Mark Fournier:getting all of their back catalogs and things that they
Mark Fournier:don't really promote that much anymore. And getting them all to
Mark Fournier:give it to the world for free. As many insights as we possibly
Mark Fournier:can. And so the easy website for that is is limitless, the letter
Mark Fournier:U limitless. you.org. And so those are two quick ways to find
Mark Fournier:a little bit out. You can always email me directly. My my team
Mark Fournier:won't, won't grab it and decide whether or not I can I get a
Mark Fournier:chance to look at it if you send it to my direct email which is
Mark Fournier:my name so it's mark at born yet inc.com And Fornia is f o u r
Mark Fournier:and I er than letters I, NC. So market coordinating coordinate
Mark Fournier:inc.com. And I'll answer one way or another, I won't be aI doing
Mark Fournier:it. Although I do have some apps, and they're free. One, I
Mark Fournier:recommend go to just go to your app store life balance test.
Mark Fournier:That's how you get into it, it's free. It'll tell you where your
Mark Fournier:life is in and out of balance 10 different areas. And it'll tell
Mark Fournier:you how you run it out as a round wheel or a flat wheel. Are
Mark Fournier:there areas that if you find that it's your score is low in
Mark Fournier:some areas, that's where you want to focus. And then the
Mark Fournier:other one is Omni coach, and it's all phonetically spelled.
Mark Fournier:And Omni coach is the world's first AI driven, personal and
Mark Fournier:career development coach. And that's, again, for the folks
Mark Fournier:that they can't afford to coach with me directly. You can use
Mark Fournier:Omni coach and it's incredibly powerful. When would you like me
Mark Fournier:to segue into an inspiring close at this point,
Howard Brown:let's give me some inspiration. Give it give it to
Howard Brown:All right? All right. So
Mark Fournier:let's go full circle. On something I said
Mark Fournier:earlier about that week, when I thought I had ALS. The lesson
Mark Fournier:was pretty simple. During that week, I came to terms with
Mark Fournier:everything in my life, everything that mattered and
Mark Fournier:everything that didn't, I discovered that very few things
Mark Fournier:mattered. You know what car I was driving, it really came down
Mark Fournier:to the relationships chips that I had developed. And had I
Mark Fournier:earned my right to be here. Imagine we have to wait in line
Mark Fournier:for a million years for a chance to come down to earth and
Mark Fournier:there's an infinite number of souls waiting for this
Mark Fournier:opportunity. And had I squandered that opportunity by
Mark Fournier:watching 20 to 24 hours a day of television, had I made a
Mark Fournier:difference in the world had I left any kind of a mark any
Mark Fournier:legacy had I made a difference. And I had some things I was
Mark Fournier:proud of and some regrets. But in the end, when they told me,
Mark Fournier:We misdiagnosed and you're gonna be okay, you know, you're gonna
Mark Fournier:have some issues and nasty side effects, but it's not going to
Mark Fournier:kill you, you're gonna be okay. From that moment on. When we
Mark Fournier:first started, I talked about appreciating life, about
Mark Fournier:happiness and appreciation are just two sides of the same coin.
Mark Fournier:And so you want to be happy, go into becoming a master of
Mark Fournier:appreciation. Well, anything that happens to me no matter
Mark Fournier:what it is, how unforeseen, how challenging, I always go to the
Mark Fournier:same place. It's not ALS. It's not als can so see, we compare
Mark Fournier:up. And that makes us feel terrible. We compare our lives
Mark Fournier:to those who have more, we compare our health to those who
Mark Fournier:have better, and so on, do the opposite compare down. There are
Mark Fournier:a lot more people on this planet who are suffering than there are
Mark Fournier:who've got it made. And so it's not that difficult. Once you get
Mark Fournier:the hang of it to go, Holy cow, look at what I have compared to
Mark Fournier:these, those people and this and this and that. And so don't let
Mark Fournier:that something if you can carry that around. Without having to
Mark Fournier:go through a week long diagnosis of ALS, just keep telling
Mark Fournier:yourself. There's a show on I think it's either prime or
Mark Fournier:Netflix called Gleason. And it's about a famous football player
Mark Fournier:who ends up with ALS. And you see the whole progression of the
Mark Fournier:disease. You you can't watch that show without walking away
Mark Fournier:and saying this guy is making a difference in the world. If for
Mark Fournier:no other reason, then he's showing us just how fortunate we
Mark Fournier:are. Yeah,
Howard Brown:so I love that Basler appreciation just a while
Howard Brown:thank you for that. So this has been an amazing show, you're
Howard Brown:gonna have to you know, reach out to mark, check out the apps.
Howard Brown:I mean, this is powerful stuff that can really move you
Howard Brown:forward. So you've been listening to the shining,
Howard Brown:brightly show. I'm Howard Brown, and you can reach me at shining
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Howard Brown:I'll make it shine, this podcast as well as my advocacy which is
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Howard Brown:diamond moments magazine. So this has been amazing and just
Howard Brown:remember, all right, if we choose to shine brightly, just a
Howard Brown:little bit each day for ourselves, take care of
Howard Brown:yourselves. Okay, and then shine brightly and lift up others we
Howard Brown:become a force multiplier for good and positive change. And we
Howard Brown:do make the world a better place. Mark Fournier, all star
Howard Brown:guests. Thank you. I just enjoyed our short time together
Howard Brown:when we need to spend more time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Mark Fournier:Wonderful and thank you