Miracle Maker Tim Storey | Coffeez for Closers with Joe Shalaby Ep. 61

0:03What's up everybody and welcome to another episode of Coffees for closers where success is served daily. Today, we have a special guest, renowned for his transformative influence and motivational prowess. He's a celebrated author of over 10 books and a dynamic speaker who has traveled to over 75 countries, inspiring millions with his message of hope and resilience. As a mentor, he has coached high-profile individuals and celebrities such as Kanye West and Robert Downey Jr. helping them navigate personal recovery and discovery. He has spoken to audiences of over 85 ,000 people and has been featured on Oprah, Steve Harvey, and CNN.

0:55Get ready to be inspired by the original Comeback Coach. One of the best intros I've heard, and I've heard a lot. Thank you, Tim. That was good. Yeah, it's an absolute blessing and honor to have you on today's show. we've been following you for a while and you know it's great to see someone like you a man of faith a man of God who's really in the public eye and is not like deflecting the word of God who's embracing the Holy Spirit and the transformative nature that the Holy Spirit can provide to those who need it most and those who are in the public eye so like folks like Robert Downey Jr Kanye West like people that are true A-list celebrities who really you know aren't going no no like look to look inward or look whatever you know look to some other idol like no look to your heavenly father and that's who's going to help you really make radical change I like that yeah I think that it's more simple that people make it I mean if there is a God which we both know there is and God has a plan for us.

2:10There's a difference between a good idea and a God idea. And if you find the God idea for your life and get in alignment to your assignment, things work out a lot better. And that's what I teach people all over the world. That's awesome. Get in alignment to your assignment. Yeah, pretty simple stuff. So I like to start the show with the same question I ask everybody and then end with the same question I ask. so everyone that comes on the show, I like to just get into their morning routine. So what is Tim's story's morning routine? I wake up super early. So I wake up about 4.45 a.m. and I just do it.

2:52I'm just awake. There's no alarm clock. And brush my teeth, wash my face. And then I'm a devotional guy. so from five to seven i'll listen to the bible on tape or i'll watch a sermon or youtube video something that's going to feed my faith and starve my doubt and part of that is i like what carol dweck says from stanford university that we need a growth mindset and not a fixed mindset so every every day i like to grow and get better so two hours a day seven days a week i study you study the word of god yes that is deep and that's a lot i wish i i can commit that much time i usually like listen to the word of god concurrently while yeah working out or something else it's not nothing that i'm even going to speak so i don't i'm not studying something to speak so right now there's a guy named nt right he's been around for a long time and he's a theologian and he writes on different biblical characters and he's writing on the apostle paul it's so dope to get the book on tape and just hear about paul's journeys and how everything that he did was in christ through christ in christ through christ and then he's the one that said in philippians and Jesus made himself of no reputation.

4:21That's what I was studying today. So I do that because I then want that to be ingrained into my personal lifestyle and constantly be transformed into the image of who God wants me to be. Now, it's so fascinating, your story. You didn't seek out to be a pastor, but how did you get started in all of this? so what what happened to me when i was in high school i i wanted to go to usc which i had the grades to do and i had um great tutors and great teachers so i wanted to go to usc had the connections to go there and i was planning on going there i was going to do business and i was going to do communications because as you we like to communicate um somebody in one of my classes handed me a book about the life of mother Teresa, my junior year in high school.

5:22And I said, why do you want me to read this book? And she says, Tim, this is so you, uh, because I was always like the caretaker, even though I was a good athlete, I liked everybody. I loved the underdog. So I said, I'll, I'll read it. So I read this book about mother Teresa on how she was a nun. She was a teacher, but she heard the cries of the orphans. And I'm trying to tell you, I got emotional and I thought man I think this is my life I want to spend my life helping broken people and I made a decision talked to my counselor at the high school who was just such a cool guy he says Tim this is so you so I went to seminary is what I did and then after seminary what'd you do?

6:08Well, I was in seminary. I was already very fortunate. The story of my life is very Forrest Gumpish, is that I've always had people that felt I want to help him. So in seminary, some older guys saw that I had a gifting and they took me out on what they were doing. They were doing these inner city outreaches like speaking to kids giving kids backpacks back to school supplies and I said do we have a curriculum for this and they go like what do you mean I said we should create a curriculum it's just something that hit my mind so I literally created this curriculum on how to get up and out out of your situation that was just phenomenal paid a lady who went to my school to actually edit everything and type it all out and it was like a 70 page curriculum that I created at 19 and so I started using this curriculum in inner cities all over Florida when I was going to school and I really got seen and heard from people from the NFL football.

7:25Some of the guys had heard about it. I had gone into their inner city, and one of them, who was a famous, famous guy, said, listen, hey, man, little guy, little brother, you're amazing. I got money, and you got a gift from God. Let's go. And so that's what happened. I started going to inner cities all over America doing this kind of work. and then an nfl player spotlighted you 100 and then that's kind of how that was your introduction to the celebrity influencers yeah it was and and again i never looked for that because that's not something that was even on my uh radar on my radar so this guy who is famous he introduced me to about seven guys who were just as famous so think of all pros these guys run at the all pro level so some of those guys not all they know entertainers so the next thing you know these guys started saying hey tim can i get your phone number this is before cell phones and i'd say yeah and they go i want to talk to you about i'm having trouble with my girlfriend or my cousin's always trying to borrow money and so i started life coaching before life coaching was even a deal.

8:43So my doctorate is in world religion and my master's is in therapy. And so I was life coaching already when I was 20 and 21 years of age. Interesting. Wow. I didn't know that you had your PhD in world religion. Yes. So the way I have that is that I could have earned it, but the seminar was nice enough to take studies that I had already done and they applied it to the PhD program. But I am a nerd. I like school. So school is not something that was difficult for me. It's something that I continued because I could have got out because I was already becoming pretty well known by my sophomore year of seminary.

9:29Amazing stuff. So your biggest, so what, your motivation when you started this journey all derived from reading a book on Mother Teresa? I would say part of it. I think most of the drive is being born in Compton, California, with seven people in a two bedroom apartment and seeing what it was to be cramped and crowded and also seeing what it was like to live an almost life. Almost means not quite. so if you saw the kids at school with Levi's you got like Plevi's or you wanted Converse you got something else that was like that and to me it just never settled in my heart that that's what I was supposed to be and so I would say born in a lower income family that was cramped and crowded that was driving a Volkswagen Beetle, seven people in a Beetle, that's called illegal, something in me just said, I think I'm going to do something else.

10:37But you didn't choose a path of monetary gain. You chose a path of servitude. Yeah, the money came through the favor of God that's on your life and my life. So I remember the first time I got paid to speak, I was 18, and I went and I spoke at this group, and they gave me a$50 check. And I said, what's this? They said, it's for your speaking fee. And I go, no, no, no, no, no. I can't take it. So I saw that as, no, I'm not going to get paid for my services. I'm going to make my money in another way, like in business or something else. so the side of starting to make money later on in life by writing books and having a lot of educational material and then i remember i think i was like 22 and they asked me to speak at a big amway convention like the multi-level marketing yeah and they paid me like ten thousand dollars when I was 22, I was like, yikes.

11:50It was not something I expected. And then I started doing more and more of these kind of conventions for Herbalife and other ones, and I was getting those amounts of money and higher. And actually, it wasn't like I was loving it. It almost made me nervous. I just wanted to make sure I didn't become a sellout. and then you were still using you know godly concepts in these in these uh these rallies yes were you ever you know told not to mention god when you were doing speaking agents yeah all the time and so i think that um because of my personality of being so down to earth what i would say to guys is that number one i'm not a preacher i'm not preaching um I'm telling my story.

12:42And my story is when you're in hardship in the neighborhood we were raised, and then your parents take you to church, when you're four and God touched my life at four, I'm just telling my story. And it was interesting that even some of the ones that were in opposition to me telling my story became people that said, you know what? I like you. Just tell your story. So I think it's pretty cool that in the world that I get to live in now, so one minute I could be with the Dalai Lama, I could be with Deepak Chopra, I could be with some of these new age gurus, the biggest in the world, and I talk about Christianity and what Jesus Christ has done in my life.

13:34Now, being associated with all these celebrities and knowing all of them, do you ever get swayed by their lifestyle and does it ever impact your belief system? When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, maybe a little bit, and the reason I say that is because you have to understand I'd never been exposed to always eating lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel are always eating at Spago's with who's who of celebrities. Not like these little D-level celebrities who they call celebrities now, but guys who are the biggest actors and actresses of our day. Yeah, like Kanye is not a social media influencer. Kanye is Kanye.

14:26Kanye is not a YouTuber. Robert Downey Jr. Those aren't Insta-famous folks. Kanye is like a little brother, but I met him in 2006. But let's go before that. Let's take 1992. When I'm spending time with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, I've become friends with Charlton Heston. Later in the 90s, mid-90s, I'm hanging out with Lea Iacocca. And Lea Iacocca says, you teach me about God, I'll teach you about money. and then around that same time Quincy Jones is taking me up to his mansion in Bel Air and we're talking about God and life so to really be respected by the people who ran Hollywood literally the biggest agents the biggest managers those are the guys I was around and I was always like 20, 30 years younger than them.

15:28So what happens when you get influenced by that, sure, there is some temptation that comes with that because I thought, wow, I've never been exposed to that. But I think that I always had good people around me that would challenge me, like, is that really where you should go? Is that really what you should do? And I'm a person that likes to listen and I'm a person that likes to get better. Clearly. I mean, you work on yourself personal growth every single day for two hours. Yeah, I need to. We all need to. Now, can we carve out that much time for personal growth? I mean, I like to do in other ways, do a little bit of quiet time and then more like physical exercise just to clear my brain.

16:13But I definitely need that more. I need to spend more time in devotion. But I don't think if I was coaching you, even if you gave me 30 minutes you can get it done my my thing is i'm working with so many people so let's say 300 at a time right now but guys that are moving and shaking the world i was talking to a guy from a whole other country at 4 a.m the lady that just called me as we were coming in here. That's a famous celebrity from a whole other country. And so my life is very unusual. So I think that I have to be more prepared because I'm giving out so much. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Now I'm just going to use simple people.

17:05What's Kanye's daily devotion time? Well, let's say when he was doing better, I would say that he first started coming to church with me in 2006 his mother Donda was a friend of mine we had great talks me and Donda West I've had good talks with Kanye's dad but when Kanye was doing better in his Christian walk he was very very into it and growing I can't get too much into his life because we're live and that and he's like my little brother so I watch what I say about people but just as an example for a layman if a star can do 30 minutes of prayer and quiet time every morning what's your excuse just for the general public to use as a framework Robert Downey Jr.

18:04Kanye West let's take over let's say if I have over 200 entertainers that I work with now which is probably around the amount I'm really the average of those I'm really into this book called Jesus Calling yeah there's so many variations of that right it's a devotional but that's like a one minute devotional but then if you get into all of the text that's required so what I do with a lot of these guys because some of them are Jewish some of them are Muslim some of them are no religion they're new age and I'll say have you learned to trust me we've been working together six years yeah or six months even or two months yeah I trust you let me buy you this devotional or you have your team buy the devotional and just start reading it every day it's amazing what the word does to people and so I think where i've become a pro is that i never pull people into like a church setting because a lot of people don't want to go to church but they are looking for god and so once they come closer to god i say god reveal yourself to them and how is he going to reveal himself he's going to reveal uh jesus christ to them so this is what i see a lot so it's almost like a like you hear like a click funnel like a funnel yeah i bring them through the funnel of daily devotional talk to god ask him if jesus is real reveal jesus to me and then this is what happens so they go through the so everyone's going through the g's calling book going through the scripture required the associated readings yeah that's a 15 20 minute clip right there yeah yeah and i think right there And then I believe in this idea of prayer and meditation.

20:02Prayer and meditation is a biblical idea. Absolutely. So Psalms 1 says to meditate on God's word. Yeah. So you can spend time meditating and being in a place of meditation 10, 15, 20 minutes. Plus, I'm not opposed to all my buddies who are doing the ice bath. A lot of my guys are doing that. a lot of them are doing breathing exercising yeah i'm okay with all that too so you know like i'm i like jesse itzler he's really into that greg cardone is really into that they're into the ice baths i like the sauna more and more because i'm you know north african and we can't do ice so yeah so uh i don't think everybody needs to do it this way this way is something that i enjoy number one because i like to learn and secondly it helps me um to constantly stay in a state of flow like you saw i came into your office and i just started flowing with you guys did you see that absolutely everybody you flowed with everybody yeah the guys walked in is like tim stories here man his his energy is unreal like he just comes in controls the room giving everyone positive vibes yeah but I'm not thinking that and I didn't learn that from how to win friends and influence people so even though I read that book that's not where I'm coming from I never come into a space saying I'm gonna win this space over I come into this space saying you're gonna meet people that are made in the image of God and treat them good serve them be good to them because you never know what somebody's going through that mindset right there allows you to be so approachable and to you know everyone we had we had to kick people out of the room to start the show because everyone just wanted to keep talking to you yeah you know and it wasn't it's like oh tim's story that it's not from a starstruck perspective they were like they're like it was brotherly you know conversations you were having with everybody but i but i appreciate that i was i was i won't say which one but it's either abc CBS or Fox so I was at one of those studios just recently and the same thing happened they were all coming out of their cubicles and one of the heads of that company said what the heck this is like crazy like Tim we get the biggest stars in the world coming through here and they're not jumping out of their offices I go it's a different connection and in all all of it was always like man Tim your messages are changing my life or man I was in a tough situation I read your book turning your setbacks to comebacks so it was it was really spiritually based of a person who really helped bring change but that excites me because that's really the vibe of a mother Teresa and the vibe of somebody like a Nelson Mandela now explain to me how you made that transition from seminary to life coach because it's a pretty big transition because you're either going you're going for some to seminary to be a pastor yeah but you went from seminary and then you became a life coach which is actually yeah way better i think so what happens in life as you know some things you decide it's like you could be freshman year at usc and they'll say okay declare your major and some people have thought it through but some are like trying to think of their major on the spot so for me i just knew i was in seminary to learn more about god and to learn about helping people so then when doors started to open up where people started inviting me i started getting invited to europe to speak at uh high schools that were not christian but to do motivational speaking at high schools okay and then i started getting invited to do more inner city things where it was what we call secular but also i put a christian slant to it then i started being invited to speak at churches but i i thought to myself i think that's for somebody else I think that's more for like a Billy Graham type that I will always speak at churches but I don't see myself as a traditional preacher so I know a lot of the traditional preachers all over the world and I think that they're amazing guys many of them and amazing women doing a very good job but I don't I don't label myself just that I label myself as a servant of god and a humanitarian to people now on that note because you're well known not just in the church yeah scene but you're very well known in the secular scene which is the uh you know the aspire tour the 10x tour all the biggest business conferences in the world you are always one of the keynote speakers.

25:31Yes. So how did you make that transition from a godly, faith-based guy? And I know Dan Fleischman and Grant Cardone and all the leaders of industry, they're godly people, but they're not like preachers, right? But it's amazing. And I know their values are all godly values, but because they have to cater to the masses, they like slip you in you know like they slip in like a man they they they have to slip in so you know like just to let everybody know like we're not atheists here just so you all know like we are all faith-based people but they have to sadly in this world this world we're all fed uh you know hoorah about you know yeah so it's amazing that they these industry titans um can bring you in and they chose you to kind of be the spearhead of bringing the word of God in a massive audience and it's just fascinating to see number one they chose you number two how did you get that's a big role ordained by God you know to bring the word in these massive business conferences um and you're the only one doing it like no one else like none of the other speakers are coming out there like with that narrative right so it's just fascinating that how they chose you and why they chose you yeah and how did you become that guy i i see it number one as an assignment by god that god gives people assignments and that then he also gives you favor favor is that little extra so when i met grant cardone maybe almost 15 years ago i was in his office and he just kept staring at me he goes man i i don't know why why i love you so much man i don't know why i love you so much and we started doing things instantly like i'm about to do an event with him we're we're we're doing an event just in a few months it's myself grant my friend jesse itzler whose wife created spanks and became a billionaire uh john max will be there but also guys like rick ross so could you imagine that i get to just like be me in those settings how about speaking on stages with dalai lama are so many with deepak Chopra so many with these other people that would be considered new age gurus and for them to take me in but I am a Jesus guy so it's like the disciples said I cannot deviate from what I have seen and what I've heard yeah so this is me for a period of time I'm still young enough I'll do it for a period of time and then someday I'll slide out of this physical body and live eternally but until then I'm just grateful for the assignment and one of my assignments today is to hang out with you and what a privilege what a privilege for me as well I gotta ask though what is it like being a Jesus guy and then having a conversation with the Dalai Lama I didn't get a chance to have a conversation with him because he was so protected um he had his guys around him but um when i do get around others those new him yeah but are at a pretty high level pretty much the same um phenomenal and what i find is that they want to dialogue with me because they're they're wondering how I got to the masses.

29:42So I realized that a lot of people are very curious about people that have done well in life. So as you know, I life coach a lot of people that have done extremely well financially and that are very, very, very famous. And a lot of people in sports, in the highest level of sports and highest level of film and entertainment and comedians and rappers and so it's funny a lot of these guys they know about that they want to talk about that stuff like who's this how's that guy like or what's she really like or how did this really happen so i think god gave me the favor for many reasons to get into that world but but one is it got the attention of so many people like when you're life coaching robert downey jr or Kanye like are you doing this on zoom on phone you go to their house like how how does that even commence so let's let's take it into just so many people so uh let's let's take my friendship with Charlie Sheen um I've been friends with Charlie since the 90s so I started life coaching him helping him.

30:57We would do events at his house. Charlie admits he's undone. Charlie admits he's been through a lot. And that's one reason I love him so much. But you know, Charlie used to call my house to just talk to my mother because he can speak in Spanish and my mother speaks Spanish. That's her first language. And is he Hispanic? He was Hispanic, huh? His father speaks Spanish so in his home with him and Emilio there was Spanish that was being spoken and so Charlie Sheen can speak Spanish but you know I spent a lot of time with him alone and I would spend time with him on the phone or on Zoom just yesterday I spoke to some of the biggest stars in the world.

31:55This is a weekly occurrence of the biggest soccer stars, American football stars, music stars, but it's a daily occurrence of just entertainers of some sort. But can I tell you something? I think everybody's a celebrity. If you work at 7-Eleven and somebody celebrates you, then you're a celebrity i see everybody as special but i do give honor where honors do for these guys that have crushed it like an al pacino you know yeah i give them credit yeah and it's it's nice to be around so many brilliant minds like you know we're we're part of a kind of the same group in this in dave melzer's masterminds group and he really has done like a great job bringing you know the top celebrities entrepreneurs CEOs and yes getting them to get together collaborate and envision and do something for good yes you know donate to charity yeah very very good job feed the poor help the poor come up collaborate on on doing God's work and he's pretty vocal about being you know a servant of God and and he knows so many amazing people the most amazing people yeah he does from from sports entertainment yeah and as you know uh you love him i love him he's a family man i'm so proud of who he is yeah and it's it's just phenomenal that he's he gets you know all these these athletes these celebrities servants and everyone's like minded you know we're all here we're just here to serve yeah we're here to do god's work it's not about money yeah and it's not about you know glory because everyone when we set these groups and i go to these dinners it's like these are full dinners open bar yeah not one drink nobody's drinking nobody's like you know everyone is faithful everyone's seen everyone's like there everyone's no one's eating desserts served the finest desserts no one's eating the dessert you know But I want to say this because I am here to serve.

34:11I'm here to give, but I'm here to make impact. So I don't play. I'm here to shake some stuff up. So being to 81 countries, and as you say, speaking to 85 ,000 at one time, I'm not just sitting there very calm. I got a fight in me. I help people in prison reform. Been part of a group. I was on the board for years. My tenure ended, called ARC Arc. It was started by a famous celebrity. I still work in prison reform. I'm in the recovery world where people are dying. I'm helping people in mental health. I'm big into that. I own part of nine psychology centers. so I'm here to make impact I'm here to bring change I'm a revolutionary On that note where do you think that drive and that motivation to create a long lasting impact is derived from?

35:20It's not ego, it's definitely God because there's a side of me that's so laid back, I love music, I love art I love plays and so So this fight in me to bring change, I believe, is a God assignment. So I teach this. I say, number one, you have a God idea. Secondly, you should be obedient to that God idea. Thirdly, somebody is waiting for you on the other side of your obedience to your God idea. So I say, don't keep them waiting. So I got to give you props. I'm loving these offices. I get to go into a lot of offices. I just was at Jeff Fenster's office just recently in San Diego. He's running that amazing program with all those stores that he has.

36:09I get to go into so many amazing offices for different reasons. I love the flow here. I love the energy here. And it starts from the top, and that's you. Thank you. Thank you. I love what you're doing. And like I told you in the beginning, our number one pillar, we got five company pillars here. Our number one pillar is service, number one. And I tell everybody, you serve your clients with all your heart, all your might, all your soul. You serve your vendor partners, your lender partners, and each other with all your heart, all your might, all your soul. That is our number one pillar. You serve, serve, serve.

36:48And then our second pillar to stack on top of that is community. Everybody within the organization is a community. we're a community now everyone uh that we serve whether they're lenders vendors appraisers you know all part of our community so community is everything here and through that community we are able to foster a community of collaboration yes you know because like there is no like you're not my competitor now we're 900 there's 900 loan officers here they're all independent brokers or bankers or business owners. So can you imagine there's 900 people who are all entrepreneurs, who now you have resources, you have access to all these people as brothers that are there like, we're here to serve.

37:34Like, oh, did we, there's oftentimes these people within this organization, they stumble upon another person's client. It's like, oh, you're with eMortgage. Oh, you're working with eMortgage. And you're talking to, they never met the guy like, oh, he's great. Stay with them. We don't step on each other's toes. As a matter of fact, I'm going to help you get everything to them ASAP. So we really try to foster and embrace a community of collaboration and servitude. And our third pillar after that is relationships. Everybody within the organization is a lifelong relationship, and our clients are lifelong relationships.

38:04You sit with me for 30 minutes now, we're 40 minutes now. Now we're going to be buddies for life. So we're going to foster this relationship forever. I believe that. So we're always embracing relationships, the community, servitude. And then I just say that all day long. Service, community, relationships, wherever forward, we're always progressing. We're always changing things up. We're always trying to evolve. That's our fourth pillar. And then we're all thumb pointers here. We're all accountable for, you know, you screw up, it's your fault. You don't go, his fault. No, it's my fault. What did I do wrong?

38:40Where did I go wrong? So that's our fifth pillar. And we call that the acronym for all that. It's our secret. that's our secret to success yes service community relationships ever forward thumb pointers i love that yeah so that's that's what we try to push uh you see those little icons when you walked in the kitchen there's that our pillars are plastered on the wall we try to you know really push push that narrative all the time and uh you know keep preaching it i love it and i like that you uh have a ping pong table here basketball basketball we gave me some good tea yeah yeah and you're gonna get that mug too flowing and we're flowing we're trying to do whatever we can now we want to talk about because you're you're the comeback coach yeah so on that note like what's the greatest miracle that you've seen in the 30 plus years you've been doing this yeah um you don't have to give names if you don't want to but watch how cool this is a comeback is to get back to a place that you previously were okay so most people when they have a set back to set means to fix so to solidify to lock something most people sit in a setback settle in a setback cement themselves in a setback um i say while you're feeling the sting of your setback god is preparing your comeback.

40:12So I think that even while a kid is lost, God's already preparing the comeback, the miracles in motion. Even while a business is awry, God is preparing the comeback if you are looking for God to do that so I think I have so many comeback stories because again I I work with the greatest minds and entertainers etc in the world but without going into the story of it, I would say to watch some of my friends who look like they were finished and then they won the Academy Award without saying names because that would be four people. Or it looks like they were just done and something big happened. I was in Milan the other day, Italy and I ran into George Clooney and I've known George 25 years and all that he was saying is about me and God and me and the things of God and me and all the people I've helped and me and all the friends that I've helped.

41:40So George is a solid man of faith. No, George is George. I don't know what George is like that. I mean, I know George as my friend but like here's what I think and you're not doing that but we have to be careful to say that just because I saw so and so with Tim's story that they must really be going for this 100 percent and they must be going to a mega church no sometimes they're just looking for answers want to talk about faith want to talk about god what george is is a very smart man and a very nice man and always been great to me yeah as long as he's a good human right and he's a yeah i mean listen we're all on our journey so whether it be uh um tony hawk the skater or george clooney or Kelly Slater, the surfer.

42:39I think everybody's on their journey. And that's what Jesus was. I think he had 12 disciples. Judas decided to really go the wrong way. And Jesus was very patient with people. I'm very patient with people. I work with, you know, at one time, out of the seven biggest rappers, I probably worked with five in the world, the biggest five in the world out of the seven and they would sometimes cuss in front of me on accident or i'd go into the studio they forgot i was coming and it was just blazing with weed and then they would oh and they'd bring it down so i don't judge and i always say you may not be what you want to be but thank god you're not what you used to be that's good and that i mean that's good for them that's powerful that's a powerful statement now um you've seen a lot of these celebrities experiencing pretty big pitfalls yeah kanye notably robert downey jr i mean those are like but they came back and they came back better than ever yeah so let's leave it off those two guys for a second just because those guys are like my brothers.

43:59So I won't always say what's happening to my brother because these are my brothers, and that's why we're so tight. I've remained tight with these guys for some 30 years, some of them. Yeah. So I don't say everything. So let's just say in general, I think that anybody that is willing to look to God in the midst of a setback, their life will be changed. David said in Psalm 77, I cried out to God and he heard me and he delivered me from all my sorrow. That's it right there. So whether I'm dealing with somebody you see on TMZ, like if you see him on TMZ, it's a good possibility Tim's story is working with him.

44:59So if somebody cries out to God, okay, with all their heart, he's going to answer and he's going to look for ways to deliver them. And to me, that's awesome. You're like, so how does this, Once a celebrity is going through hardship, is there just a network that just reaches out to you? Yes. Called Agents, Managers, Friends. I have been the life coach to the biggest agents and managers in the history of Beverly Hills. So they're just like, I got a guy for this. 100%. And you're the guy. Almost every week of my life. you're the you're like the the celebrity i mean you are the celebrity comeback coach but you you're in all their managers and agents rolodex not all but don't ask me to like cook you chicken florentine um don't ask me to uh fix your boat but in the in the area of turning a setback to come back i do not think i could be beat that's not that's incredible that's incredible i mean your story is incredible what you've done for so many people who need your your service you know your servitude your faith your you come in like a shining light of armor right in in darkness for these folks and i just can't imagine the darkness that some of these guys are in yeah where you're i think you're you're saving a lot of their lives like and with and with boldness so when i say in that i cannot be beat in fixing a tire i can be beat in ping pong you were just beating me I smoked you and what Grant Cardone does he's whooping me and what my buddy Ed Milet does he's whooping me in setback to comeback I just cannot be beat because I put my whole life into this why do you think that like from setback to comeback what is it that makes you the greatest in that space I think you would have to ask the people that I helped who's the greatest.

47:30So that's like if you had Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson. They were all great for Motown. Who are they to say, I'm better than bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, and this is the reason why. So it's what people say about me and how they look for me from 81 countries of the world. Like people are looking for me all day long that's why i keep my ringer off and if i'm driving with people that are close to me i try to take the bluetooth off so i'm just not staring at everybody looking for me people are looking for me 24 hours a day so i don't think i have the answer to say the reason i'm the best is these five steps but i've worked hard at it there's an understanding there's a grace and I get results results is a big thing let's get results yeah I mean listen here's my answer to that question you're just divinely appointed I like that answer by you but you can't in your humility you you can't you know you're not gonna say that but I firmly believe that no but I'll take that from a younger good-looking guy like yourself so I'm just doing what I do, but there will be a time I'm going to exit this earth.

48:57My mother's 93. I hope I go like mid nineties or late nineties, but healthy. I want to go healthy and strong. And then I'm cool with it because I'm, I'm doing my assignment and I'm living my life. I'm living my life by the grace of God and work through problems still we all have challenges but I thank God for his grace amazing now I want to ask you is there like a popular mindset or principle that you like to instill for the comeback yes yeah a comeback is not a go back a comeback is not a go back watch If a man who's a powerful businessman loses a lot, I'm going to get that back. Charles Barkley, Charles, if you're watching this live, you said in an interview, so I could say this, that when you would lose millions of dollars in Vegas, you could hardly sleep thinking, I got to get that money back.

50:12See, that's how a lot of people are. I got to get back what I lost I got divorced I got to get my reputation back I fell on my butt I got to get my reputation back that's not how I think I think this you have to be quick to ask for forgiveness ask God to help you forget and ask God to help you go forward forgive, forget, go forward that's how I roll I love that I love and I don't even know how to even you know do a follow up to that you know I want to close out with that but I got a couple more questions because don't even try to don't try to mess with that Jay-Z rhyme right there because that was dope yeah forgive forget go forward that is amazing what is your favorite quote?

51:06one of my own sometimes you got to go left before you go right come on man that's awesome sometimes you got to go left before you go right man i dated all the wrong men a woman will say sometimes you got to go left before you go right my my business has failed sometimes you got to go left before you go right every person god ever called to do great things he allowed them to be left before he got them right and now what's the best piece of advice you've ever received. One of the best pieces of advice to me was by Quincy Jones, the Quincy Jones. And he said, little brother, you can't help yourself.