Life After Death - What Greg Halpern Wants You To Know After Surviving 13 Near Death Experiences: An EOFire Classic from 2021

0:01Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. I hear brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like My First Million. Today, we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down life after death. To drop these value bombs, I hear brought Greg Halpern into EO Fire Studios. Greg is a creator of the Formula 4 Protocol, the renowned self-mastery and meditation course that people are calling the best thing you will ever get in your life. Today, we'll be chatting about how most people don't make meaningful change until the pain of that change is so great, they have no choice left.

0:40And so much more, Fire Nation. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Greg and our sponsors. Sales Evangelist, hosted by my friend, Donald Kelly, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Each week, Donald interviews the world's best sales experts, successful sellers, sales leaders, and entrepreneurs who share their strategies to succeed in sales right now. A recent episode you should definitely check out is the five ways to do daily outbound with LinkedIn. Listen to Sales Evangelist wherever you get your podcasts. Ever thought of giving a TEDx talk?

1:15It's one of the most powerful ways to share your message with the world. And four-time TEDx speaker Taylor Conroy from Thought Leader can help you get there. Visit thought-leader.com to join Taylor's free training where he teaches you how to land a TEDx talk and spread your message to millions. Greg, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. What's up? The idea that it's through your unique difficulties and challenges that you'll be successful. I don't believe that if you look at the global landscape of people that have suffered and struggled, the majority, the significant majority of people, meaning 99.9999 % of all people that have significant challenges and problems in their life, do not have an anecdotal story, do not have a success story built on challenges and struggles.

2:15Do not. So the notion that you should struggle or that the struggle is what makes you stronger, well, that may be definitely a character advantage. It's certainly, I don't believe, the key role or the important part of being successful at all. I believe the important part is having the right information. And if people ask me what's the secret of success, according to me, I would say it's knowing the 100 secrets and having them all mastered. Greg, you've had 13 near-death experiences. I mean, that is insane. I spent 13 months in Iraq and did not have that many near-death experiences. experiences.

2:52So let's take a second here. Let's talk about the stories. Let's talk about the lessons behind your 13 near-death experiences. Break that down for us. Sure. Well, the first was when I was five. I had a tonsillectomy. I hemorrhaged. And as I was bleeding to death, I had to go to the hospital and be cauterized. And to be cauterized, they have to mummy you down to a gurney. And then in this case, my dad has to hold you down, keep your mouth wide open and then they take a sponge that's like a giant loofah stuck in a pan that's sitting next to your head that smells pretty bad because it's been dipped in a giant jar of iodine solution and they hold it with the tongs like you flip a burger on a grill and they shove it down your throat hold it there for 30 seconds while you suffocate so that's the way they cauterized it at least back in when i was five years old in 1963 the year that john f kennedy was assassinated Now, I had that.

3:50And when I came out of that exact experience, I had a remarkable outcome. I developed a direct connection to what I call the Pleiadian sense of humor. The thing where everything you do is hysterical, first to you and to everyone around you. And the more they laugh, the more you drill them with it. And the more they laugh, and the more you drill them with it, the more hysterical everything becomes. So I mastered that sense of humor from that first near-death experience. And keep in mind, I can remember being born. So I remember being born. I remember the process of being born. And I remember the doctor hanging me upside down and spanking me right after I was born, which really hurt my back.

4:27And I was like, oh, dude, that really hurt. And they don't do that anymore, thankfully. But that was my first experience. I remember every day since then, which in and of itself is unique. My second near-death experience, I was seven. We were on the highway in a sedan to Ville driving to my grandparents' summer home in Nippersink to go out on the pond or whatever they wanted us to do. And if you can't make this stuff up, the fact that the story is there is ridiculous. A girl who was 14 years old, parents had gone out of town, left her with the babysitter. The babysitter had fallen asleep. And she got in her dad's MG Midget, teeny little car.

5:03It's like a go-kart with a body. And drove the full speed in the express lane on the highway at 78 miles an hour under the back end of our car. And my grandma never saw it. She drove into the guardrail, the little silver metal guardrail, up over it, upside down, landed on the roof, spun around several times, and was hit by six cars going the other way at nearly 80 miles an hour. And everything was destroyed completely except me and the three other occupants, my sister and my grandparents. they all had neck vertebrae fractures I have just two scars in my hand where a glass dagger from the not yet shatterproof glass which came about three months later and then the fireman who had a saw the car in half with a circular saw full of sparks later about three months after that they had what's called the jaws of life where they can pry the car open and that was my second and that yielded unlimited love for me I would each time go in a tunnel I would see a very bright light I would hear a voice saying, what are you doing here?

6:00And I say, this is great. This is going to work. You know, I want to get out of that place. This place is terrible. The people are awful. They treat each other bad. And that voice would say, get out of here and don't come back. Don't be looking around. You have no business here. There's a lot of work for you to do. And I'm like, what kind of work? And then I wake up again, like in the tonsillectomy, I woke up three days later from the hemorrhage and my mom was sitting there saying, do you want jello or ice cream? So after For each thing, something major would happen, and I would master love or master humor or master connectivity or master wealth.

6:31And people would ask me, speaking of entrepreneurship, your show, pretty cool stuff. They'd ask me, what are you going to be when you grow up? And every kid would be like, little Billy's going to be a baseball player and little Johnny's going to be a doctor and so on. I would just say, I'm going to be a millionaire. And they'd say, well, how are you going to do that? What are you going to make a million dollars with? I don't know, from making a million dollars. This is 1963 we're talking about. So there you go. Now, all those other experiences after that, I had, I was choked till I was unconscious.

6:59I was drug overdosed. I was shot at and slashed in one night, thrown down a flat of stairs, put into a coma, disintegrated all the distance in my low back. I was drowned a couple times, had another fatal car accident, many more car accidents, but one more fatal one. And then fast forward to my 12th near-death experience, because on my 11th, it was right before I got married, And I had a vision of being married. I had a vision to the woman I was going to get married to. And a minute later, I wake up from what I thought was the stoppage of my heart. And Cat Stevens song is playing on my radio called Morning Has Broken.

7:37And my dog, who was a Scottish Terrier, played soccer professionally, if you can believe that, was licking my face and my hands. And I was really optimistic. And from 30 years on, I was just heaven sent. Everything I would touch seemed to turn to gold. And to give you a quick backstory, there was a guy named W. Clement Stone. He was my neighbor and my first real mentor. He was the first billionaire, I believe, in America. The second was the guy he introduced me to, Earl Nightingale. Earl Nightingale, the modern father of self-help, self-improvement and mindfulness now called, was the founder of Nightingale Conan Corporation.

8:15And the strangest secret, which was the culmination of all of the work of Napoleon Hill and the work that he did in Think and Grow Rich and even the expanded versions, was the idea that you are what you think about, you become your thoughts and thoughts are things. And that became the modern foundation for self-help, self-improvement. And the next thing I know, I was a focus group researcher at Nightingale Conant in my mid-20s. And I had just come out of two years of planning to die every day because of the complete collapse of my health. And as a global martial artist, as an international champion in judo, having had 701 matches to that point, where the good chunk of my matches were me fighting as 135 pound lightweight against 200 pounded up open class heavyweights.

9:02But only having lost 22 of those matches, I suffered a lot of physical damage. And then health wise, I was very reckless as a young person. So all that combined, all these experiences, what I didn't know was they were actually creating a complete preparation of the mind, the heart, the voice, and the chi energy. All these things were coming together, but I just didn't know it. So as I prayed to die from 20 to 22 with a few little ailments that I had, like I had been thrown on a flat of stairs at 20, I'd been in a fight. I had this habit of getting in these very crazy fights because I thought that after I beat up a couple of bullies and broke their arms, that my calling finally was realized in my late teens as somebody that was to clean up Dodge or to be the guy that the little guy that everybody would come and cause a problem with them.

9:49Then I would say, wait, I'm here to stop you. And then I would stop them. But now fast forward to this first, uh, beginning part of my journey at 20, I'd just been thrown down a flight of stairs. I was at a party in rush street in Chicago, which is the honky tonk where I spent 49 years before moving to San Diego. And, and so I'm doing what I always did. I would confront these very bad people, these bullies in Chicago, because it was full of them and you could get an endless procession of people that were coming after you if you wanted to. I found out that the guy I was teaching self-defense to, Alan Dorfman, was really the guy who took Jimmy Hoffa's place.

10:26So he was the head of the Teamsters and then really kind of running the mafia show there for a while in Chicago. And so now I'm on Rush Street and I was at a party after a comedy club. It's really the honky tonk area. And this guy bumps me and I look up and he's bigger than, you know, the football player lineman on the Northwestern team or maybe it was on the University of Illinois. And I said, excuse me, I'm sorry. And he said, you ought to be sorry. And I said, okay, well, I said, I'm sorry, I'm leaving. I'm going to talk to that young lady over there. And he's like, maybe I ought to step outside with you and show you, you know, what I do to people like you.

11:03And I said, well, you could do that, but you'd probably hurt me real bad. The problem with that is that after it was all over, you'd be dead like a minute or two later. But that's the good news because you wouldn't be stressed out anymore and you wouldn't have to hurt people. So you'd be doing the world a big favor. and he just looked like he was in suspense like all the other bullies before him and he said how little man am I going to be dead and I said well for one you won't wake up and you won't be breathing it's kind of simple science and biology it's quite fascinating I check it out and he looked in suspense but I could see as all the other bullies that came before him that he wasn't prepared for that he wasn't prepared to die he didn't wake up that morning ready to have his life over but for me I'd been doing that as a way of life I'd actually been challenging you know in cars I'd going to go in this, you know, not the speed, but over the speed.

11:45I've been fighting bad people that there's no reason I should have been involved with at all and causing them all kinds of grief and heartache. And they would always, you could see the wind go out of their sails because they weren't prepared that morning when they woke up to die. So now we fast forward to, I'm 30 and I've gone through all this. I've become what's known as the health evangelist. I have a little company called the great health company. And I was actually went from being the most sick person on the earth because in that 20 to 22 period when I was tackled down those flat of stairs that night I left the party what I didn't say was that him and his two buddies this football guy were waiting by the door and they said where are you going with her and I said well we're just leaving and she didn't say anything and he said not with her and he grabbed me by the lapel on my jacket he picked me up and started swinging me around by the third time around I was like I'm not going to be fighting in the sky because number one, I gave up fighting last night when I was running up North Avenue where people shooting at me and my friend.

12:42And, uh, that night I got slashed in an alley. So I had given up fighting for good. And now I'm confronted with this guy flinging me around by my jacket. Literally I'm 135 pounds and I'm going around and around the third time around. I thought, geez, if this continues, he's going to let go. I'm going to fly into that wall and break my leg. So I pushed his face into the wall. He hit the deck and I ran for the stairs. His friend grabbed me from behind and I flung him on a shoulder throw, what we call a drop knee shoulder throw, down the stairs. And as I went to take my step to run out of there, his last buddy hit me in the middle of the back.

13:14I hit the top of the stairwell and woke up in the hospital three days later from a coma with all the discs in my low back disintegrating. Now, for the next two years, I prayed every day that I would die. I had a bleeding colon, a swollen prostate, inflamed chest cartilage known as Tate's syndrome discovered during that period. It's like a heart attack 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And I had this incredible pain in my back because all the discs were disintegrated. And it actually told me I'd probably never walk again or if I did, it wouldn't be normal. And all I could do was crawl. I was pissing blood, I was shitting blood.

13:46I mean, it was just a mess. Everything was falling apart. And I prayed to die every day from 20 to 22. and then I as a last resort you know with the 38 on the table contemplating my own you know end I heard a thud at the door and I picked it up it was a reader newspaper the newspaper was called the reader and it was the first time I'd ever seen it I opened it up and said go to James and Mary Lowe for acupuncture and I did and after three treatments I said for 75 bucks I'm an author already because by that time I've already had some mentorship and I was like I can't continue on so while I was giving up the universe was saying hey wait a minute we got this plan for you we've been telling you all about it I think it's time that you paid attention and started living the plan so finally I said well you know I'm going to need some other help and the next day I get this acupuncture and it doesn't help me and three weeks later I meet this acupuncturist daughter and she has a new Shiatsu school that she had just graduated and she had a new practice and she shows me a couple moves and I was able to cure my prostate problem in two days with acupressure at home that she showed me and then I started on this journey of health and so from then till 25 I became known as the health evangelist in my company the great health company I was all of a sudden just meeting with all these rich and famous people and flying in a private jet it sounds like the dreams of a very bizarre movie.

15:13And so all these things tied together. Next thing I know, 15 grand for three days of work, and I'm the health evangelist. And I just tell people what they need. They'll tell me their problem. I'll ask them some questions. It's not on a health history form. It's unlike anything you've ever heard. And the universe is streaming in answers for these people. They all had incurable problems, according to medical science. And the running joke and my business was that every time I would give people a program, they would get better a week or two later and they would go to the doctor who originally gave them their terminal diagnoses and they would say, there must have been a mistake with your diagnosis and we'll have to run all the tests again.

15:48And then they would be fine. And they would said, the original test must have been somebody else's test results. And this went on for a long time. Finally, 30, I get married, I have kids, everything turns to gold. You know, the entrepreneur's dream. And my mentor right before that was zig ziglar so earl ninegill has me doing reviews of zig ziglar and nito kabain and dennis waitley and brian tracy later tony robbins and all these people would come through with their ideas so i get to hear that you are you are out your thoughts you become what you think about and thoughts are things so i i said that road but i noticed that nobody was really changing from the information so i prayed and meditated on i got married had some kids and the next thing i know every business I start is like gold.

16:33And so then now we fast forward to 2005, my 12th near-death experience. I'm by my pool in Chicago. I'm living the dream. I'm like an entrepreneur's dream. According to Bloomberg and Reuters, you can look at the 2004, the company I built at that time, Circle Group, was a micro cap company on the Amex. And it went up 6 ,833%, making it the number one gainer in Illinois at the time. The following quarter had quadrupled, so 28 ,000 % gain in 16 months. And I said, I want to have more of that. And I'm by my pool, Chicago hot August morning, and I'm playing with the chlorine canister and I'm wrestling the frog head.

17:14It finally flips off and the chlorine tab had evaporated with the Chicago humidity and turned to gas. And I inhaled it. Now I could feel my trachea essentially disintegrating. I walk in my house, my wife gets up can't you shut the dogs up I'm trying to sleep and I said well I would like to but if you don't call a paramedic and get him over here pretty soon I'm gonna stop breathing in about three minutes go to the drawer drink a solution called oral saver that I invented a month earlier that could cure any oral lesion in the mouth in a few minutes and I drink it it's really made to swish and rinse but I decided to drink about half the bottle and then the paramedic was on his way to the hospital was a mile away comes over sticks a tube down my throat takes me to the hospital that night after I made a full recovery and they said my own solution must have saved my own life I was sitting by my desk in my office at home at a real nice home and it was the parade of homes people's choice award it was the same one that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys had built for himself and had a secret room with a bookcase that rolled in and behind it you could go there and everybody's like isn't your house the secret room house and I go yeah it's not such a secret it.

18:22And I'm sitting there and I'm writing down some ideas. I'm like, wow, that's a really good idea. The purpose of life is to create positive increase in all things good. I better write that down. So I start writing. And then next thing I know, at five minutes have passed, I have a whole page. I start typing. And three days later, I have 3000 pieces of information that according to all the research that's been done, it's been extensive. None of that information existed on earth before in the internet or in libraries or in books. Now keep in mind in 2004 and five, by this point, I had already had another very successful business.

18:55It was considered like one of the best up and coming businesses in Illinois. I had miracle technologies that I transferred from the government that turned corn holes into zero calorie fat replacement. And I'm living the dream. I have the nicest home. I have a great family. I'm homeschooling my kids. I delivered my three daughters literally at birth and I'm just living this dream. And all of a sudden I have this experience where I closed my trachea, then I survived with my own solution and I'm sitting there. And for three days I get this transmission. Now I invented crowdfunding in 98, raised 3 million online in a week.

19:30And I have been a gold medalist for the world judo competition. And I've done all these other things, written books at 19, but nothing compared to this because for three days, I got 3 ,000 separate principles of information that became the Formula 4 protocol. And I was like, well, I'm doing a lot of this stuff already, but this stuff is way more advanced. So I start following it. And then in 2009, my 13th near-death experience, I'm at getting rolfed at home. That's deep tissue work. And I'm sleeping through the rolfing. And three days later, I'm in the hospital saying, take out my appendix. And they said, why should we take out your appendix?

20:03I said, because a rolfer manually ruptured at three days ago. And they said, well, you couldn't be talking if that was the case. And I said, I have a very high pain threshold. They said, not that high. So they take out the appendix. They found out it's been ruptured for three days and that I have a very high pain threshold like they've never seen. And while I was recovering, somebody comes in that nobody can seem to find and they medicate me until I flatline and I see the end of the world in 2023. And then when I come to, I get all these visits and stuff from these Pleiadians said, that's all comes together now on, you're supposed to take this information and bring it to the people as Formula 4 protocol.

20:37So get busy. We've given you everything. The reason why everybody asks you how come you have this most amazing life is because everything you've asked for, this alternate universe and this amazing life has been given to you. So get busy because the world is running out of time. It's evolving, but you're going to have to make sure that people get this right so that we can live a good life. So your original question really is now coming back full circle because it turns out that 99.9 % of people don't have a crazy anecdotal story that they can rely on to create their brand like you and I might. And so what they have to rely on is good information.

21:13They have to have great answers instead of big questions. And the information I received, what I received with it was that this information will give everybody the unlocking, the answers that they want without the struggle. and so they don't have to go through that hell. They can just simply use the information for the greater good and get to what everybody calls it just dropped from the sky onto your lap. Interestingly, I was at a meeting of the artificial retina electronic implant. It's a nanotechnology that I first saw in the year 2000 and now it's come of age. It's this tiny little nanotech device that replaces your retina when your retina filament burns out under AMD, age-related and macular degeneration.

21:56And the guy behind it that put all the money into it mostly is Erwin Jacobs, the founder of Qualcomm, the guy that made half the chips in the world in your mobile device. And I was asked by them to go to this meeting and watch this technology because I was the first person to see it actually work in the world. And secondly, now that it had came of age, they wanted to know if I could help them get into human trials because they had proven the animals, which now it's gone through the human trials a couple of years later and it's ready to go. But I was sitting in the meeting and this is that fateful moment where all the story ties together i'm living this amazing life and i have this purpose now to bring this information to the world and i find out that you are your thoughts you become what you think about and what zig ziglar and those guys were saying the thoughts are things and they can make the difference but you really can't change anything with that hence you got people like tony robbins and they have these seminars and they start out by saying only two percent of you're going to make meaningful change and that's because that most people don't make meaningful change until the pain of not changing is so great that they have no choice left.

22:57And interestingly enough, as I was sitting there, I heard all the people go around there and there was 15 people in the room. They all told their backgrounds. One lady that developed it was a rocket scientist, like really a rocket scientist before she developed this nanotech that replaces your, your eye part that you need to see. And so I'm watching them all go around the room. And when they get to me, I was the only one that wasn't really known in the group. and I said well I could tell you a little bit about myself but I'm gonna break from that and say something I've never said in any meeting I said that I have the best life of anybody on earth and I said I know that sounds boastful and that's not at all the intent of it I said I said when I look at health happiness wealth purpose celebration living fully in every moment I said I just don't know anybody that has a comparable experience in other words I'm gonna be 63 now but at that time I was going to be 61.

23:49I'm going to have a recent DNA test to compare it to my last two DNA tests, which shows that my telomeres, the length of my chromosome ends, are growing 8 % a year, year over year. That's unheard of. So I lost two decades of age in that time period, that first three years of the information I received from this transmission that became formula four. And what ended up happening was I ended up reverse aging. There's a lot of people spending their billions to anti-age or slow down aging. I reverse aged. I actually now today I'm 38 years old in terms of the length of my chromosome ends, my telomeres, and I'm about 27 or 28 in terms of my free testosterone.

24:33That's the part that balances hormones for libido, immune system and recovery rate. And so with all of that information, I said, I don't want to sound boastful, but I said, I just am so happy in every moment. I celebrate every moment and I have health that's off the charts. I almost never sleep, which defies all the known science. And I said, I'm really living this amazing life and I'm so, so blessed and willing to share that with anybody that wants to know. Of course, everybody wanted to know after that, nobody took it as a braggart. And that's essentially the conclusion of all those things is bringing this information to the people so that they just have answers instead of questions.

25:13And with those answers, they can live a life of full celebration without struggle. So that was the culmination of all those experiences wrapped into one easy interview. Well, thank you for that culmination. I mean, Fire Nation, I hope yours mesmerizes me as going through the 13 near-death experiences. and more importantly, like what Greg's been able to turn this into. And we have a lot of focus on Formula 4 protocol when we get back from thanking our sponsors. The new year is upon us and that means new goals, more growth and upgrading your day-to-day workflow. While most sales folk are stuck in the mud of manual scheduling, digging into data and tracking down leads, let me share with you a better way to win so you can crush your Q1.

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27:39That's thought-leader.com slash fire. So Greg, we're back, and personally, I spend a lot of time on my personal health, on self-care. It is a very important thing. In fact, I'm really excited to be going through your course, Formula 4 Protocol, as soon as my schedule allows, which will be sooner than later. So take a minute for Fire Nation and talk about, number one, the importance of self-care. And why are people actually calling Formula 4 Protocol the best thing you will ever get in your life? Well, the most gratifying thing I can say, John, is really the things people are saying like that. One young girl said, and when they talk, I started to cry because all my happiness came back.