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Introducing Michael Tamez
Michael Tamez is today’s guest joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots podcast interview.
He is a man who has had an amazing journey through a physical transformation, leading to his own successful business.
As he says ” I was in a bad state. I was morbidly obese, had severe obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and advanced gum disease.
But instead of it allowing it to be my legacy I did something about it.
So not only did I lose 105 pounds (47kg) and reverse all of those lifestyle related health conditions, I also transformed the dysfunctional relationship I had with food, my lifestyle, and my true self.”
Now this was a journey that has taken over 13 years to occur, a difficult transformation experience that was intensified when he also lost five family members within eighteen months.
Because of the tremendous impact of these losses, he was forced to have major mental, emotional, and spiritual breakthroughs in some the most difficult times of his life, which lead him to writing a book and finding his thing.
How The Dots Joined For Michael
And that thing is what you maybe asking?
His mission is to educate people who want to fully experience living a healthy and balanced life by reaching all their wellness goals.
By supporting their health through nutrition and balanced living, he inspires a permanent, transformative shift in the way people eat, think, feel, live and love.
And that my listeners seems to be a very good mission to have?
So was he always on the path to health issues, or was it simply a case of overindulging over a long period of time?
And is the transformation towards a physical change started by making the mental change, or does it not matter?
Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Michael Tamez
Show Highlights
During the show we discussed such weighty subjects with Michael Tamez such as:
Why he feels that the dashing of his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player, was the catalyst to all his health issues. He lost his passion and found junk food.
How he found the relationship with food was truly a metaphor of him stuffing his emotions down as far as he could from his heart.
Why he remembers following the footsteps of his father even though he hated very minute of the next fifteen years of doing the job.
And lastly………
How Michael believes that the future of business is firmly found in the land of live video streaming. Building real live connections with the world.
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Full Transcription Of Michael Tamez Interview
Intro [0:00]
When we’re young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be. But somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join Up Dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. This is your blueprint for greatness. So here’s your host live from the back of his garden in the UK. David Ralph.
David Ralph [0:26]
Yes, hello there, everybody. Hello world and hello to Mike. On a two on a two. I think that’s how you say your name from Tupelo, Mississippi when you were much. I think that’s where he came from. Thank you very much for contacting us and asking us some questions. And hopefully you enjoyed the personal message that we sent back. And of course, we didn’t do the Elvis impression on that because that would have been unprofessional. And that’s not what we do on Join Up Dots because we are the show tries to bring you different stories, the kind of stories that will inspire you to go For your own personal dreams, and as I was saying to the guests, just before we press record, not necessarily the let’s create a 5 million global business model kind of stuff that you listen to and think that’s interesting. Yeah, I could do that. And I think today’s guy is going to be one that takes a lot of boxes because he’s a man who’s had an amazing journey through a physical transformation, leading to his own successful business. As he says, I was in a bad state. I was morbidly obese had severe obstructive sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and advanced gum disease, but instead of allowing it to be my legacy, I did something about it. So not only did I lose 105 pounds and reverse all of those lifestyle related health conditions, I also transformed the dysfunctional relationship I had with food, my lifestyle and my true self. Now, this was a journey that has taken over 13 years to occur, a difficult transformation experience that was intensified when he also lost five family members. We’ve been 18 months now, because of the tremendous impact of these losses, he was forced to have major mental, emotional and spiritual breakthroughs in some of the most difficult times of his life, which led him to writing a book and I suppose finding his thing. And that thing is what you might be asking, what does he do? What does he do? Well, his mission is to educate people who want to fully experience living a healthy and balanced life by reaching all of their wellness goals by supporting their health, through nutrition and balanced living inspires a permanent transformative shift in the way that people eat, think, feel, live, and love, and that my listeners seems to be a very good mission to have. So was he always on the path to health issues? Or was it simply a case of over indulging over a long period of time? And is the transformation towards a physical change started by making the mental change? Or does it not matter? What else find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Michael Tamez. How are you Michael?
Michael Tamez [2:59]
Hey, David. I’m wondering Thank you so much for having me on the show. It’s It’s a pleasure.
David Ralph [3:02]
It is great to have you on because you are in the home of the mouse, aren’t you? You are in Florida looking out your window at probably old men in long white socks and beautiful ladies running around in bikinis is that the vision that you’ve got?
Michael Tamez [3:19]
Not necessarily but um there’s a big stereotype on what Florida really is. But it’s it’s definitely an awesome place and you know, I love it here and you know, it’s it’s really great.
David Ralph [3:30]
I’ve been to blow the many times and the last time I actually settled into it. It was it was a weird experience. I actually said to my wife for the first time I feel like I could live here and the reason was, I think I bought in the to the pace of it. As in you go to the theme parks, busy, busy, busy, busy, but the real beauty of Florida is away from the theme parks and it’s this sort of laid back attitude to life is that conducive to a healthy lifestyle? would most people need to slow down is that Place of starting.
Michael Tamez [4:01]
Oh, absolutely. I mean, I moved here from Chicago. So it was a big it was a big shift in the pace of life because it was like, Okay, well, I order a drink or I order something and it’s like, you’re there on Island time here. So it’s like, you know, you’re gonna, you’re gonna wait a little while because you know, things are just things are just chill like that. And, and it really got me to be present to how, how hasty I was, I was being back up north in Chicago. And it’s kind of cool because it got me to really look at myself in a different way and slow down a little bit and be more present.
David Ralph [4:36]
I remember being in Australia once and talk about Ireland’s time. I don’t know what time they were on. But they were slow, slow place. And I’d come from London. And I remember going into a bank to cash some money. And it literally took me 30 minutes, and I was the only person in there. And when the guy came up to me quite rudely, but I was a bit sort of het up by this time. And he said to me as you want Your money might I’ll just say look just quickly, that’s I don’t care how I have it just quickly, and he kind of looked at me and then another 15 minutes passed, you know, but in a way, that is how life should be, isn’t it? You know, I talked about this a lot, the seasons Don’t rush, and everything gets done, but you know, own human lives right below that we have to get up and run around like maniacs and ultimately, something’s gonna suffer and more often than not, it’s our energy.
Michael Tamez [5:26]
Exactly. I mean, it really is. I mean, when you look at it, when we live a life, we live fast paced, paced like that so much. A lot of the time we tend to get stressed out and then stress leads to physical health problems and then other stuff starts to fall apart and everything starts to unravel when you’re trying to rush through life and not really enjoy it and experience it and live it feel it, be it you know what I mean?
David Ralph [5:49]
So do you love your life now, or as you are an entrepreneur creating your own business there’s, there’s a certain amount of hustle and hassle that comes to being an entrepreneur. Yeah, so do you love every day? Or are there some days that you think, oh, that was a bit rough?
Michael Tamez [6:06]
Well, I mean, I love I love what I’m doing now because I’m, you know, I’m my boss. But to say that every day is amazing would be an absolute lie. I think anybody that’s an entrepreneur doing their own thing can agree with that. I mean, there’s some days that are amazing. And there’s some days that suck. I mean, it’s just a given take that you have with running your own business or, you know, launching your own product or having your own service. It’s just, that’s just the nature of it. I mean, that’s just how life is in general. I mean, some sometimes are going to be amazing. Sometimes they’re going to be challenging and just having a balance with that is, you know, trying to figure out where a middle line is, you know, that’s, that’s where the true that’s where the true happiness comes because you’re always going to have the ups and downs. That’s something you can’t prevent, but how you react to them and how you go through them, then that’s going to be you know, your ultimate Happiness.
David Ralph [7:02]
So ultimately your kind of key is about balance through life balancing diet, balancing health, but just before we sort of answer that question, what would be an amazing day for you when you climb into bed at night? And you just sort of drift off anything? Yeah, that was that was bloody brilliant today what kind of makes your life amazing?
Michael Tamez [7:23]
Well, I’ll tell you what starting off with an amazing interview with a great podcaster is a great start to my day and then
David Ralph [7:29]
don’t have to suck up might have already on the show.
Michael Tamez [7:34]
No, it really is. I mean, this is this is an ideal start to my day I mean getting having a conversation about what I’m up to and what I’m what I’m wanting to inspire and people to be up to, is a great start to my day. And then you know, obviously doing my morning ritual on top of that, and then you know, doing my my answering my emails and stuff and then pitching out to other other podcasts or other other avenues for me to do You know broaden my my visibility or my reach and then you know just winding down with with my wife with an amazing dinner and then you know going for a walk or doing some exercise and then meditating at night and then when I’m laying my head down on the pillow, I’m thinking wow that was a very productive yet you know I got some movement in and I got some good food in balanced you know, I feel good when I go to sleep at night knowing that I was balanced today. You know, this day when I did all this that’s that’s a typical balance day for me.
David Ralph [8:33]
So on today, today is a Thursday now today is Join Up Dots recording day so I batch so I do six or seven interviews. So I know pretty much from eight o’clock in the morning to around about 10 o’clock at night when I just flop my energy has gone then I know that I’m gonna be in my chair doing the do now is that something bad in your experience, I should get up even earlier and build exercise. In all, Ken, can you allow one day to just pass knowing that he’s going to be 100% total effort for you to then get your balance back the next day?
Michael Tamez [9:10]
Well, I mean, I think like I said it all it all has to do with balance. I mean, if you’re, if you’re you know, working long hours doing something you love, that’s something different than you’re working long hours doing something you’re dreadful or you hate. Because when you look back at it, if you feel accomplished if you feel that you were successful, if you feel that you you reached out and you touch someone’s life, or you you inspired someone to do something amazing, then that’s, that’s a big difference than if you’re doing mindless work or you’re doing something that doesn’t agree with your, with your purpose or what you believe in or what you have passionate about, then you know, it’s different. But there I think there really should always be a balance because our health, our health really is our greatest wealth, because without good health, you can have all the money in the world. You can have all the bonds, stocks, investments, 401k is all this stuff, but it really does. matter if you can’t enjoy it because you have poor health. So having setting aside some time for yourself, whether it be you know, walking, running, jogging, exercise, meditation, gardening, whatever it may be, you know, having something set aside and really support your health and then give you more vitality, more energy to create more of the, of the work that moves you or that you know that you’re passionate about that, you know, that can bring in more money to sustain you financially. So,
David Ralph [10:31]
no, that’s that’s how I feel it. Yeah, well, what were you talking about? It makes perfect sense. But for many years, it didn’t make any sense to you at all. And I went over to your website, and it’s hard to actually look at the younger version of you and see the version now. You know, I’m a straight man, but you are a sexually attractive individual, sir. And you were anything back when he was younger, you know, I would have been surprised if he’d got laid at all. Now what was the case of just gradual overindulgence or was that how your family operated? Did you all eat a lot? Was that just sort of standard practice?
Michael Tamez [11:08]
Well, it’s interesting you asked that David because it’s actually all connected. And what I what I do with health coaching is kind of integrate every area of people’s lives. And what I mean by it’s all connected is not only was my physical health, imbalanced, but it was due to me really not following my passion and then my life going into a direction that I didn’t foresee going into. So a long story short is in high school when I was about 17. I was um, I was a, like a really, really talented baseball player in high school and I had a lot of potential to to make the major leagues in the United States. And, you know, I had I had professional scouts looking at me college scouts and everything. And my coach was all over, you know, he said, You know, you’re going to go very far. You’re You have incredible talent. And I didn’t have a back up plan. That was my, that was my career path. And I had it, I knew it. I from the age of five, when I started playing t ball. I breathed, I ate I drink. I lived baseball. It was my life. It was my goal. It was my passion. And I knew that I was going to reach that goal. And then I was going to be a professional baseball player. When I grew up. That was there was no doubt no question in my mind. And I didn’t have I didn’t you know, I didn’t have any plans on you know, like, you know, any plan B’s like a doctor or lawyer, you know, the typical things that you know, a lot of people or a lot of parents say, you know, I want you to go for this vocation. I didn’t have any of that because I knew baseball was it. So I got into relationship with this girl in my junior year of high school when I was about 17. And long story short is I fell in love and she had a child and we’ve been raise a child for over a year. And I found out that the child wasn’t mine that she she was cheating on me the whole time that we were together. So that created a very unhealthy and very depressive state in my life. And I just, I got to a point where I didn’t give a crap about anything, and I just started eating junk food. I eat fast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I just I ballooned I gained about 70 pounds in the course of about a year and a half and that just took a very big toll on my life
David Ralph [13:31]
okay, don’t be a bad Michael but it didn’t your coach say Hang on, Michael. You’re starting to look like you’re putting a bit of weight on did they not say that at all? Or is it standard fare, but baseball players might be a bit hefty?
Michael Tamez [13:42]
No, actually, he was trying to he was trying to understand because I was not only I was doing I was cutting class to I was skipping school. And I was just dropping my grades were falling and everything and I just didn’t care. You know, my the coach actually called my parents and said, Hey, you have a talented so I’m here and he’s pissing it away with, you know, being with this girl and skipping practice and not going to school and cutting class and everything. And my parents tried to address it and I was like, I don’t care, you know, I’m just I’m with this girl. And it’s just it’s, it’s it was a very interesting part of my period in my life. And like I said, it caused a lot of emotional, emotional trauma in my life. And, and I think and I firmly believe that that’s part of the reason why I just started eating to cover up the the sadness and the anger that I felt from that experience that I had at such a young age. I mean, we’re talking, we’re talking in our a late teenager, you know, my balls about 19 when when I found out that that child wasn’t mine, I mean, that’s something at that age. It’s very, very heavy to deal with, you know,
David Ralph [14:47]
I kind of understand what you’re saying, but Well, I’ve always been a skinny guy, I naturally I’m skinny, you know, I’m not a foodie at all. And if you could give me a pill that I could just take in the morning and that’s all my dinner’s done for the rest of the day. That would be brilliant.
Michael Tamez [15:02]
Now, so I’ve never shared Welcome, welcome to America. That would be one instant gratification.
David Ralph [15:08]
Yeah, that would be perfect. Now my wife on the other side is somebody and got big ears this episode, but she is constantly on the battle towards her weight, you know? And I always say to her, it’s easy. You just reduce your calories and you exercise more. And she goes, it’s not as easy as that. Now, when you were going through that, and you got to that point where you were carrying the weight, did you shift it quickly? Was it like I say, or am I being simplistic? Is it a naive view, because I’ve never had a problem with the weight?
Michael Tamez [15:42]
Well, it’s interesting that your wife said that because I totally 100% agree, and can personally attest to that being being true because anybody can lose weight. I mean, you know, you just like you said, less calories in more physical, physical activity out and you will lose power. You’ll lose inches, you’ll lose weight. I mean, it’s not it’s not difficult. But what makes it more challenging is the emotional attachment to being overweight. Like I was, like I was saying, getting to the root of what was causing me to overeat or to eat junk food was the hardest thing that I had to deal with when it came to being obese. And when I looked back, everything stemmed from that, from that relationship that I had that experience of raising that child that wasn’t mine, caused me to, to stuff my face with actually it was metal, stuffing my face with food with junk food was a metaphor for me stuffing my emotions down, deepen away and not dealing with them and processing them and saying, okay, so you went through this traumatic experience, and instead of, you know, doing what I had to do to heal and grieve it, you know, cry or do whatever I had to do, I just ate food and it comforted me and It made me feel good. And that was an understanding that was the hardest thing. And then once I understood that, then actually working through that and transforming it into to healthier habits, that’s that’s where the, that’s where a lot of people that have never struggled with their weight, don’t understand someone that’s struggling with weight. Because it’s a very it’s a different side of things because it’s a side that you can’t physically see. You know, you can’t see what they’re emotionally mentally dealing with, physically, when you look at them. You know what I mean?
David Ralph [17:31]
Yeah, I can totally understand that. Because at the moment, I’ve got cholesterol problems. He runs in our family. And as I say, I’m a very skinny guy, and I had to go through a blood test. And it turned out that I was about six months, our heart attack, so it was suddenly Oh, Blimey, I’ve got to do something about it. And so I’ve started walking, and I enjoyed the walking, but it’s hard to get into the routine of life, where more often than not, I’ll say, Ah, yeah, okay, we’ll do it tomorrow because I didn’t quite get it done today. And then I find that one day I do it twice. So I haven’t got that kind of balance. So I can totally understand what you’re saying. It’s not the losing the weight, it’s the restructure in your life to be able to do it. That is the difficult thing, especially when you’ve got a family. And I know mothers spend a lot of time struggling with weight because they’re feeding their kids, they’re feeding their husbands and they’re doing all that kind of stuff. And so the last person that I look after themselves is themselves so he is very, very difficult. Right See that?
Michael Tamez [18:27]
Right? Yeah. And I also I totally, I totally get that and I also see mothers pushing jogging with their strollers and I see even see father’s doing this now in parks, you know, and in recreation area. So I mean, there’s, there’s solutions for the busy lifestyle and having you know, children and everything. So I mean, it you know, it’s the question is, the big question is, Are you looking to lose weight Are you looking to to live a healthy and balanced Live to have to have the help that you need to be able to sustain yourself not only for your children and your spouse but for your career and for your friendships and for your family and for every other area that you know that makes you who you are. No.
David Ralph [19:16]
Well, let’s play some words. And then we’re going to delve back into that moment when you realised that you was actually on to something but your weight loss could actually be used for good. Here we go. Jim Carrey.
My Father [19:29]
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn’t believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job. And our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
David Ralph [19:55]
Now, with you, it seems to be that it doesn’t quite fall into that category. It was a very found you somehow that that the effort of transformation actually became the first steps on the path towards something. Do you remember when you actually thought, hang on? I’ve got an idea here.
Michael Tamez [20:15]
Well, actually, what’s interesting about that is I can relate very closely because in a lot of ways, I followed my dad’s footsteps in what he did. He was a maintenance mechanic. And when I, when I was telling you about my baseball career, it you know, when I went through all the health stuff that completely disappeared to my life, and I was in a place of, whoa, I don’t know what I’m going to do now because I didn’t have a plan B. So I just accepted the normal day to day lifestyle, and I started doing the nine to five job, you know, I just and and, and I accepted it, and I did it for about 15 years. And I hated every moment of it. And what’s in First thing is that I was doing the similar type of work that my dad was doing, but a little different. I mean, he did, like electrical and maintenance, like plumbing, he and I did more of a electrical, electric, electromechanical electronic repair and servicing. But the interesting part I like about what Jim Carrey said, and it really resonated with me was that, you know, just accepting that as the norm. You know, I look at the whole corporate lifestyle, in that we are replaceable. I mean, if you think about the whole linear income concepts, when you work somewhere when you work for someone, a corporation or just you know, when you’re an employee, you’re kind of like a number and that number can be rewritten once you either resign or you’re terminated. And it’s like as if you never even existed. And that’s I mean, then that’s fine if that works, you know if that if that reporting to a job and you know, doing that day in and day out if that if that really resonates with you and that’s fine. But I like to inspire people and encourage people to find something, something deep within yourself, whether it’s it’s a creative nature or if it’s something that you’ve been through like myself and the transformation that I’ve had, there’s something within you, that you can make money off of. And, and just don’t see it as that I mean, see it as a, as an opportunity to inspire people to reach out to people to actually transform people’s lives to, to make a difference or an impact somewhere in someone’s life or it’s in a community even that you may or may not have ever seen. Because that’s where that’s the point where you become irreplaceable. When you when you hone in on that and create something out of that then you can’t be replaced. Your boss can’t say, well, I’ll just have someone here two weeks from now and there’ll be as if you never even you know, he never even existed here. Never walked away. It’s a very interesting concept when you look at it. That’s when I heard that. That quote from Jim Carrey, that’s what really stuck out with me was that the opportunities are endless. If you know you just really explore them.
David Ralph [23:12]
I’ll tell you why. Yo, yo, you you are talking my language, sir, because I say this to my wife, Allah say it amazing how my life has changed round because as long as somebody doesn’t take the internet away, and I think it’s unlikely to happen, Michael, I think there’ll be a lot of angry children going, it’s not all I can’t get my tablet to work. I can literally do this show wherever I I go. There’s a there’s a guy called john Lee Dumas who’s got a show on Entrepreneur on Fire. And he was in Maine, and then he moved to somewhere rubber and he ended up in San Diego where a lot of the entrepreneurs were, and I think he’s just moved to Puerto Rico or Puerto Rico, whatever you say. And because he just needs internet and a microphone and the beauty of it is But I his choice B C’s business. And as you say, you can’t get it taken away from you. Now, when you aren’t doing an entrepreneurial leap, it is scary at the beginning. But I couldn’t go back. There’s no way but I would go back into a corporation where my face doesn’t fit. And then one day they say, hang on, we’re having a restructure. And you’ve either got a choice of doing that job that you’ve done 15 years previously for half the money, or walk away from it like you see time and time again. It is it is amazing to me that you save that because it’s so true, but so many people don’t get it, that your actions start building something. And that’s very difficult to be taken away from you.
Michael Tamez [24:47]
Exactly. I mean, when you really hone in on what you what you’re capable of. No one can take that away from you like my situate for my example, no one could take away my journey of losing 100 Five pounds, and reversing all the health conditions that I had. No one could take that away, you know that that’s something that’s going to be with me forever and it and when I got to the point that I was exploring what was going on with, with with my life, I didn’t know what to do because I no longer was in baseball and I was too late to get back into it. So I figured, well, wait a minute, hold on a second. I have, I have something here that I can make a career out of. I have, when you look at it, the United States alone, the country that I live in, has the highest rate of obesity ever recorded in history. were two or I’m sorry, one out of three people are considered to be obese. Two out of three people are considered to be overweight. And I have, I have information I have knowledge, wisdom that I can impart with people that can like that can significantly impact that, that issue in this in this country and other parts of the world. have this problem too. It’s like okay, well, I have a solution to a problem. Hmm, interesting. Wait a minute, and I’m and I’m stuck in this place where I hate my job. I don’t want to be in this career path anymore. Mm hmm. Wait a minute, this is where the dots start being joined here. Now I see a pattern okay. Ah, now See, see, this is this is perfect. This is the perfect podcast for me to be on because this is how the dots are connected. Look at your life, where is somewhere and what is happening or what is going on? What are you passionate about that you can offer a solution to a need to a problem going on in the world, in your country, in your community, in your neighbourhood that you can hone in on and monetize. I mean, that’s, that’s what I’m doing. And that is what I encourage everyone to look at. You know, there’s something there. Oh, absolutely. There is something there.
David Ralph [26:49]
If you Join Up Dots. I at a point in my life, I wanted to be a TV host and I wanted to be a radio host. I like the thought of broadcasting and ultimately I went into public speaking and training and presentations and stuff. So it wasn’t a million miles away. But now I’m doing this. And that is basically a radio host. It’s a global radio host, which is hugely exciting. Now, just before we started recording, I was having my lunch. And I was watching a few things on Facebook. And I’m very intrigued by live Facebook streaming, where you basically create your own TV station that you can broadcast on the world. And on Facebook live.com, you can actually pinpoint where people are broadcasting from across the world. And there’s this thing called webcast, I think it was, and you get a couple of camcorders. And while you’re talking into the microphone and talking into a webcam, you just switch a switch and it naturally brings on the other webcam so you have transitions. So it’s like you’ve got multiple cameraman around you. And this has blown my mind. And I was watching it this morning I was for business then next stage. I couldn’t have dreamt that this was gonna happen before I started talking into this microphone. But literally, I can create Join Up Dots TV and broadcast across the world. Now once you get that personal connection, and we see that time and time again, you build a business and the greatest business in the world is not a business unless people trust you and buy into you. And one of the things that are so useful for that is webinars because they can see you. And it’s a personal interaction. If you get your business as you’re doing now, on to as I say, Facebook Live, and you get people coming in. And every day you’re talking about health tips, and I think this is a game changer. I think it’s an absolute game changer for live companies. And funnily enough, just after you I’ve got a guy coming on who believes but cable and satellite and terrestrial has had its day. It’s all gonna go on to the internet and be live streaming. hugely exciting, but you can’t get to one without the other. You’ve got to at least start Don’t you?
Michael Tamez [29:01]
Yeah, you know what’s so bizarre? It’s so ironic and actually synchronistic that you have brought that up is I just watched a free webinar on exactly that Facebook Live. And it said that they wholeheartedly believed that and this is this is a person that has a million followers on Facebook. So you know, this person knows what they’re talking about. So, they said that the secret to success as a small business owner or an entrepreneur, is to do live video. Because there’s so many reasons. The biggest reason is obvious. The obvious reason is that people you get in front of people, they see you, people like that people get to feel you out, they get your energy, they connect with you, right? They see your face, they see your expressions. The second best thing I have because it’s live there’s no editing, you know, it’s all raw. It is in its purest form, so they see you in your natural state. So people like that people like when you mess up people People see that you’re human, you know, and they connect with you even more because of it. And the third thing is that because of those two, they are actually the rapport is built because of the the trust that they established with you because they see you they feel you they see you’re a real person, they connect with you, they get it. I really believe like you are 100% correct that that’s where things are going. And I’m definitely going to delve into that more because I feel I agree with 100% on that’s going to be like the new thing.
David Ralph [30:36]
All right. Well, I think so i think is as I say, an absolute game changer. Now, obviously we’re talking about the future and the technology that excites us. But when did it start coming together for you? When did you actually get your first client and and how did you connect with them because that’s one of the things that I think our listeners struggle with. They will get a business but actually getting their first maybe Three or four paying clients that van Foster’s that belief in them, but hang on, I can do this. And I don’t actually have to then go back and get a job. This is something I have to work out.
Michael Tamez [31:12]
Well, I mean, I, I knew that I wanted to do health coaching when I realised that I had over 10 years of research experience and knowledge that I that I gained, but I wanted some kind of formal education. So I actually went to I attended an online training course it was a year long is called the Institute for integrative nutrition. And it’s a year long programme and you become certified as a holistic health coach. So I did this programme so I could have a certification. So that would give me the credentials behind backing every you know, all the personal experience and knowledge that I gained over the years. So once I had that then I became more confident. And then I started marketing myself and I made business cards that created a website. It started a blog, I did all the social media platforms. And I just started putting my name out there and and then I started actually contributing articles to well known well, very big wellness, health and wellness websites, blogs. And I actually gained a lot of clients through doing that, because, I mean, they’re unpaid articles. But the exposure is to is to the reach is is the potential of millions of people. And I got a lot of clients that way. And from that I started marketing through out through Facebook and Twitter and other social media platforms as well. And connecting with people. I mean, actually, LinkedIn is one of the probably one of the most the places that I’ve made a lot of business connections with. And I’ve actually manifested a lot of podcast interviews through LinkedIn and a lot of people have actually contacted me they’re asking for my services. And it’s interesting because I didn’t I always thought that Like, LinkedIn wasn’t, you know, gonna be, you know, give me that kind of out, you know, that kind of reach. But I’m very surprised that well, what you know what I got out of LinkedIn, it’s a really good networking platform. But I mean, all of them everything combined all my efforts combined, it was just staying at it that really started getting, you know, getting me clients and not you know, throwing in the towel because I mean, there’s been so many times where it’s like, well, there’s a million in one health and wellness websites out there and everyone’s saying that they know the right way and you know, got all these diet books and all these gurus and all these nutritionists who’s gonna want to listen to this guy, you know, coming from, you know, the streets of Chicago, who’s gonna want to listen to what he’s got to say, you know, what makes him so unique and so different. And I was like, Well, you know, I had that mentality for, you know, a long time and then I realised, well, yeah, who wouldn’t want to live Listen to what I have to say no, who has experienced losing under five pounds, having sleep apnea, losing five people in 18 months, having a child and the whole the whole story with, you know, raising the child that wasn’t mine, following career path for 15 years that I didn’t like, and then creating this, like, who can, there’s no duplicate. And that’s what like I was saying a little while ago, find your uniqueness. And you know, and I encourage you to do that, because you can actually create something out of it that can, you know, make you you know, make you money that can possibly create financial freedom, or at least give you some kind of passive or residual income that can free you up from from working linear jobs. You know, your whole life because I don’t, I don’t subscribe. And I used to think that, that that was the way to go. I mean, this was the mentality that we’ve had for so many years. You work 2530 3540 years. At one job, retire, and then you have pension or you get, you know, the benefits. And that was a way to go, that was your life, right? you retire. And then now you can live life the way you want to because you have all the money that you worked for your whole life.
David Ralph [35:13]
So Well, you’ve been saying that, let’s just jump in there because there was so many nuggets of gold there. But first of all, you got your business going by starting that was a simple way of saying, but then then you started reaching out and connecting, and those connections build, but you didn’t know they were going to build at the beginning. They were just things you were doing. You felt that they were the right things, and some of them might have panned out big time. Some of them not at all, but you still didn’t know you were still doing it. But the bottom line is, when you become yourself, that’s when the power hits. There’s millions of podcasts, but fortunately, people seem to like what I talk about, so they come over to me but I could have easily have gone, who’s gonna listen to me when they could go over and listen to this person or listen to that person. And so self limiting thoughts that pull you down, you snap firm and become yourself. And somehow Michael, things become easier and more profitable. But it’s a hell of a journey, isn’t it to get to that?
Michael Tamez [36:13]
Absolutely. I mean, the biggest, the biggest obstacle is you yourself. The biggest obstacle for me in reaching my goals with Mike with my health career was me myself. I mean, and that’s a lot. And I really firmly believe that a lot of people out there can relate to that because we really are our biggest obstacle. And once we get out of our own way, then the space opens up to create whatever you want, I mean, the space is empty, so you can put whatever you want in that empty space. That’s that’s so powerful for me and I think that resonates with a lot of people because people and me included I mean, I, I went many, many months, not a couple of years when I was starting my my health coaching business up thinking Well, all these people are you know, there’s so many obstacles, I have so many rejections and people go like this and this and that, and that and this and I’m looking externally for every answer externally. But I fail to realise that the only answer that I needed was within the only thing blocking me was me. And once I got that out of the way, then I opened up a space for, you know, for infinite possibilities. And that’s what I’m that’s what I’m encouraging people to look at. Where is it in your life, in your thoughts in your in your in your thinking patterns? What is blocking you from read for from pursuing your passion, whether it be creativity, music, art, drawing, speaking, writing, you know, there’s so many avenues of creativity you can explore, or even something that has happened in your life that you can share with people that can inspire and impact people, where is it that you can hone in on and really put that out there to the world? In a space, a place that it’s needed, offering a solution to something that people are thirsty for giving them quenching the thirst of what they need, you know what I mean? That’s, that’s where I it’s just amazing once we get out of our own way, and the possibilities that can open up Yeah,
David Ralph [38:17]
absolutely. This is one of the reasons I created my coaching platform, Dream starters Academy. Just that starting point, I had this dream of getting people going so that I could get them to personally believe and one of the problems with the starting point is until you see rewards, it’s very difficult to keep going. So we found a way of nurturing that we’re having such success in It is unbelievable, and that success breeds success with the other people. And you get to a point that you can’t stop it. It just keeps going. Now, I had a guest on the show, and I talked about this quite a few times, because it was a real eye opener to me. And her name was Liana Shaolin. I think so I might be butchering that But um, afterwards she said to me, how are you finding the show david? And it was at a time when I think it was his hardest. And I said to her, Well, I’m still pushing the boulder uphill. And she said, No, you’re not. I went, well, yes, I am. And she said, No, you’re the Boulder. And it was all kind of mystic like Yoda. Yoda Botha. And I thought I don’t understand what you’re talking about. But it kind of stayed with me this this thing. Now I look back on it, I think Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I was the boulder all the issues that I had, by not quite believing or not quite reaching out far enough or not quite embracing who I am. That was what was holding me back. Now. This thing, Michael about building up connections. Over the last few weeks, I’ve started getting into Twitter. Now I’ve never used Twitter and I will hold my hands up. I pretty much did it in a spammy way. I didn’t get really bad. It was about connecting. So I set everything up on automatic pilot to just blast blast, blast blast. Now remember a guy called Fred or Frank do apologise once again from Alaska, who sort of told me you realise you’re sort of doing a spammy thing here. And I sort of said, well, it’s promotion because I didn’t quite get it. This last couple of weeks, I’ve been following people. And when they follow me, connecting with them and saying, Have a nice day and all that it’s great fun. And I’ve got so much business out of that it’s untrue. It’s an absolute eye opener. But if you connect and say, Hello, and don’t try to sell anything, but build up the relationship, more often than not, they will say, Oh, I went over to your website, and I saw x y, Zed. Do you think that would be good for me? And I always say to him, Well, you can always test it out as 30 days guarantee on it, you know, it’s up to you. I think it would be but obviously, you got to try it out. And business is blocking my way, all by building those connections based on value, realism, and not the sort of spammy sales tactics, which I think most of us bought into at the beginning when you start young Can you because he’s so desperate to get money in? you kind of think, boy, I’ve got this book, I’ve got this PDF or buy it, buy it, buy it. And of course, nobody’s gonna do that. But we we all kind of think that’s the way to do it. But the simple way is just be real, isn’t it?
Michael Tamez [41:15]
I agree, I totally agree. Because when people see your reel, then they’re more likely to trust you. And when they’re more likely to trust you, then they’re more likely to buy your product or, or subscribe to your service. It’s just makes
David Ralph [41:28]
so much sense. You know? So just before we play the words of Steve Jobs, who created the whole theme of the show? What kind of people will seek you out for the listeners out there? Where’s your super talent in the health sort of world? What do you deliver that other people can’t?
Michael Tamez [41:46]
What I deliver is just the transformation of health. Like what is it that what is it that what health goal do you have that you want to achieve? That you may have failed that before or may have had setbacks? Previously, what what? What area is that that you’re confused about with all the conflicting information on nutrition and healthy living that you want? You want to get straight without guilt without blaming without judgement or any of that stuff going on? Just having a life conversation like we’re having right now is what my health coaching is all about what my book transformative nutrition is all about. Just the conversation. Hey, what works in your life? Okay, great, what doesn’t work? Okay, great. Let’s figure out the steps we need to take to make what doesn’t work work so that way, your life works all around, not just what you’re physically eating, but do you like your job? Are you in healthy relationships? Do you like your friends? How’s your spirituality, how’s your spiritual life? How’s your social life going? You know, all these areas, looking at all that, you know, if you want balance and all that, that is what you know my approach is geared towards you. is getting everything in balance so that way you can live a healthy and balanced life and feel the the vibrancy that you know you have the right to feel. I mean, you have the right to feel amazing and look amazing and be amazing. And that’s my goal is to get you to that point.
David Ralph [43:16]
And how do you do that you do that virtually? Or do you go around their house? How do you do it?
Michael Tamez [43:21]
Well, if the person lives in the Gulf, Gulf part of Florida, I can do it in person, but typically, it’s usually through Skype or through you know, through a phone call.
David Ralph [43:31]
He’s unbelievable in Skype, isn’t it? You know, we’re on it now. But I never lose the thrill of thinking, My God, I’m speaking just outside London, into Florida. We could be looking at each other face to face. You literally can, as we talked about before, create a business. Absolutely global and my wife is a funny old lady. And I should say Oh, but um, she still can’t quite get that global is the end Today, she still kind of has this local row of shops. So I say to her sometimes Oh, I didn’t get many downloads today. And she say, Oh, yeah, but it was a national holiday. And I said, Well, it wasn’t a national holiday in Australia or America, you know, it might be here, she can’t quite get that. But once you do get that, that literally 24 seven, you could be creating a business, from a computer in your bedroom, providing value through Skype, talking to people, it you know, it’s amazing. It’s totally amazing.
Michael Tamez [44:31]
It really is. And you know, when you actually when you start monetizing things to seeing that seeing that income coming in, you know, at two in the morning, you know, you get a commission or something from a sale or something that you you have a product or service you have out there that you can make money on while you’re sleeping. I mean, that’s, that, to me is an amazing sense of accomplishment. So, so far beyond the normal working and getting paid the whole linear thing. concept where you don’t get paid if you don’t work, but this, you put something out there once you can get paid over and over and over again for the rest of your life.
David Ralph [45:09]
Do you remember your first payment mine was one pound 78. And it was AdSense. AdSense on a website, and I built this website and I used to press f5 all the time to see the money. And it was only pen, but it was still hugely exciting that I was getting pence.
Michael Tamez [45:26]
So was that f5 to refresh? Yeah, I was just pressing.
David Ralph [45:30]
I used to do that. Yeah, all the time. Yeah. Oh, there’s another one. And there’s another one. Yeah, it’s brilliant. I’ve still got that website. And I don’t do any work on it. I just kind of host it and pay for the URL and stuff every year. And it brings it brings me quite a nice bit of money each month and I don’t do anything for it. It’s it’s actually based around your neck of woods. It’s like a holiday place in Florida. And people I get, I don’t know, thousand people a day go to it and a few people buy houses. And different stuff, but it was my first foray into kind of entrepreneurial well, but I never forget that first bit of money to come in. It was amazing.
Michael Tamez [46:09]
Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I mean, mine, my first payment was $3 and 23 cents from this article content, Article content that doesn’t even exist anymore. I used to be Yahoo contributor network, which used to be associated press back in the late 90s, early 2000s. And they said, they went down they went under, but that was my first payment. And I was like, Oh my god, I’m so excited. I got paid for something that I created myself that I didn’t, you know, go to work for. I did it all myself. It’s like, wow.
David Ralph [46:40]
But that’s probably some words from a man and he created these and these are gonna provide value time and time again, Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs [46:48]
Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very clear looking backwards. 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots. Looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.
David Ralph [47:23]
So those words obviously we hear them every day on Join Up Dots and I asked the same question almost What was your big.do you have a big dot when it all come together? Was it a series of dots?
Michael Tamez [47:36]
It was a series because you know, like just like Mr. Jobs said. I was looking forward. When I was in high school like I had all my eggs in the in the professional baseball playing basket, and I didn’t have any possibility for any other eggs anywhere else. That was my only nest. But now when I look back now, presently to that moment, To that, to that time period in my life, everything that I’ve been through with my relationships and my health, I look back and it’s like, wow, I actually had, I actually created a whole plethora of eggs of baskets filled with eggs because of that experience of going through all that stuff. And from that, from that experience and all those baskets of eggs, I now have the the experience and knowledge to do what I do now. And that’s health coaching and sharing my message about nutrition and about healthy living, and about people following their passion in life because of the things that I’ve been through in the past. And that resonated with me a lot because it because he said that and I can totally relate to the power in those words. And it really, it really makes a lot of sense to me.
David Ralph [48:50]
Do you think those words will always make sense do you do you think, you know, generations that come we’ll go Yeah, I can still see that. That’s true.
Michael Tamez [48:58]
I think that people Have to go through the process to get it. You know, I mean, if someone would have told my younger self, hey, you know, you’re gonna, because you’re experiencing this right now because you’re overweight and having all these health issues that is gonna create opened up an opportunity for you to be to be an entrepreneur and be financially stable yourself with something you created. Someone told me that back when I was 20 years old, I would have laughed at them. And you know, in those days, I was kind of a, you know, defiant kid, you know, and I would have been like, okay, sure, whatever, okay, as I move on to clean eating from eating fast food and smoking cigarettes, but, you know, you know, that’s just the kind of mentality that we have when we’re that age. You know, it’s like we’re, we’re invincible. We think we can do anything and nothing matters. But I think that as things evolve in time moves on, then we grow older and we get become more wise and we’re not we’re more open to possibilities and we’re more open to things that we may have never seen before. Before we see him in a different light, now’s a different, a different perspective on things. And I think that’s just the whole evolution and the whole ageing process that we become more wise. I mean, I think that’s just the nature of being human. You know, we, we have to go through the, the experience of life to actually get what we need out of it to be able to create what we want,
David Ralph [50:23]
you know, I don’t know if we do become more wise, I think we’ve just sort of made a lot of the simple mistakes leading on to the big mistakes if you know what I mean. Right?
Michael Tamez [50:31]
I think we learn from them you know, yeah, we
David Ralph [50:34]
we learn from them. But I used to say to my kids, oh, you know, when you get older, you learn from the UX mistakes and it’s all experience and stuff, and I’m still making stupid mistakes every single day. I make mistakes. But that’s the exciting thing because it’s your own mistakes. You laugh at them, or sometimes you cry at them. But you keep on going. You just keep on going because it’s it’s that path isn’t it is that path littered We’ve successes, mistakes, trials and tribulations. And ultimately, I believe a pot of gold at the end.
Michael Tamez [51:07]
Absolutely. I mean, it’s those mistakes, it’s the setbacks. It’s the failures that create who you are presently. And no one can take that away from you. Just remember that, you know, no one can take who and what you are, what you believe what you stand for what you’ve been through the crap that you put up with in your life, the stuff that you’ve overcome, no one can take any of those things away from you. And that is what makes you so unique, and so different. And that’s what enables you to create a service or a product or something that’s going to be so unique and stand out from everyone else that’s doing something similar because you have something that someone else doesn’t have or have has a different story on something that someone else doesn’t have
David Ralph [51:46]
reading, and you can start a podcast and I will teach you how to do it because believe me, it made no difference to me. There’s too many people out there. Never think to yourself that because somebody else is doing it. I can just do it. Do it better and do it in your own way. And you will win the game and there is support on every turn. Well, this is the part Michael when we’re going to send you back in time to have a one on one with your younger self. And if you could go back in time and speak to the young Michael, what age would you choose and what advice would you give? Well, we’re going to find out because I’m going to play the theme when it fade Europe This is the Sermon on the mic
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Michael Tamez [52:50]
alright brother Listen up. You think that you got it all figured out? No, you and you probably do i mean i i can see that you do mean you doing the best way You with what you have right now. And I acknowledge you for that. That is amazing. It’s incredibly courageous. However, I want you to know that, you know, you’re going to experience some things in your life and what you’re up to right now that you may not, you may not see that you may not foresee that can lead you into something that you’re not, you’re not aware of that can actually open up something incredible for you later on in in your life. And just don’t make yourself wrong for anything. Let yourself experience what you’re going to go through. Because I can sit here and talk about all the stuff that you shouldn’t do. Right now, at 17 years old. And I could tell you don’t do this. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t do this. But I’m going to be wasting my breath trying to do that because you’re going to do it anyway. Because I know you. I know you very well I know you won’t. I know you more. I know you better than anybody could ever know you. And that’s why I’m saying just be yourself. Like yourself experience life as it is. And just don’t resist it. Because resisting is gonna push everything you want to achieve further and further away. And so take that resistance and get out, just get step back, step back and let yourself live your life. Because you’re going to come to a point where you know what you need to do and the steps you need to take to create what you want out of life. And that’s what’s so amazing about your life right now is that you’re in a position to create whatever you want. And I really, I see so much amazingness for yourself, and it’s amazing and I want you to share that with the world. Once you once you get to that point where you know what it is that you have to offer to people. Keep that in mind, because you’re a good kid.
David Ralph [54:51]
Michael, what’s the number one best way that our audience can connect with you?
Michael Tamez [54:56]
best way is to go on my website. My website is Go Doctor yourself.com that’s go doctor yourself calm is my website you can connect with me on all my social media platforms. I’m on Facebook forward slash transformative nutrition. I’m on Twitter at at transformative and and also Pinterest same thing. And LinkedIn. It’s under my name Michael Tamez. And every everything on my website I have my my book is available there on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, apple, Kobo. And I also have an amazing newsletter with expert written articles that I’ve personally written. And I have recipe ideas, free giveaways, free book downloads, and that’s my newsletter and it’s all available on my website. And that’s go Doctor yourself.com.
David Ralph [55:44]
professionally done you you add that down, then yeah, you as with the law, we’ll have all the links in the show notes people. And so if you do have any issues at all, just connect with Michael and he will be able to point you to way to balanced health brilliant stuff. Well, Michael, thank you so much for spending time With us today, joining up those dots, please come back again when you have more dots to join up, because I do believe that by joining up the dots and connecting our past is the best way to build our futures. Michael Tamez, thank you so much.
Michael Tamez [56:13]
Thank you, David. It’s been an absolute pleasure. You’re, you’re an amazing podcaster. And I’m really grateful for the opportunity people have to share this message with people because it is truly inspiring for others to follow, you know, this same, same route.
David Ralph [56:26]
Thanks very much, buddy.
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David Ralph [56:31]
So you might be sitting at home overweight, huffing and puffing, struggling to climb up the stairs, all those kind of things and think to yourself, it’s alright for everybody else. I’m just having trouble putting my socks on at the same problems, but he did something about it. And the best thing is by listening to him, if you do have those issues, then connect with him connect with Michael and see what he can do. And there’s always a way out of any issue. If one person’s done it, then two people can do it. Three people, four people, five people, and it’s the same in whatever you want to do. If somebody can launch a podcast, then I think I could do that as well. And of course, I can teach you guys to do that whatever you want in your life. This is the platform for you Join Up Dots. Make sure you connect with us on Twitter, make sure you’re connected with us on Facebook. Any questions, just drop them, drop them through to us. We love hearing from you, because we’re here to help. Thanks very much. And we will speak to you again. Cheers. Bye bye. So if you’re sitting there listening to podcast after podcast, reading book after book and still fed up with a life you are living waiting for something amazing to happen. I have one thing to say to you and this is it. Nothing is going to change your life unless you start taking action. It’s 100% down to you. Stop making excuses and get yourself out there. Start working towards what you want in your life now. We work with people like you every day of the week who need the help to change their life. We plans targets accountability, or just offering a shoulder to cry on when needed. Our members are seeing dramatic changes in their lives. They’re breaking free from the things that are stopping them earning the money they want. Finding the love they want or just loving their life. They are making it happen. So I need you to stop listening to podcasts and start shouting. This is my moment. I’m starting today I’m going for it. I need you to stop making excuses. Come over today. Join Up dots.com forward slash get the dream and begin the rest of your life. I look forward to personally working with every single one of you. Bought you’ve got to start. This is Join Up dots.com forward slash get the dream