Rick Stewart is a coach, composer, and author of “Strategy For Destiny, What Were You Born To Do?”
His life has been a journey of following his passion, serving others, and heeding the call of a Greater Power. Throughout his 35 year career as a coach and faith counselor, he has provided direction to people who are frustrated, struggling, or navigating life transitions. With his book and coaching program he is calling everyone to answer their own unique calling and bring their gifts to the world.
In this episode, we discuss:
The importance of encouragement, and where to look for it
Where personal development “gurus” are falling short
Why your dreams are best, kept secret, at least starting out
Discover Coach Rick’s 7 action steps in his free eBook “7 Easy Steps to Live Your Dream Destiny” and masterclass,
“Your Dream Needs a Plan!” on his website: https://www.strategyfordestiny.com
Susi Vine: Welcome back. I am so happy to have you with us to day for our episode. And it is my pleasure, my privilege to introduce you to coach. Rick Stewart is an author composer and creator of strategy for destiny, a personal development online course, that answers that elusive question. What were you born to do for over 35 years?
His coaching career has provided direction to frustrated people. Many of whom are in their thirties, forties, and fifties, who are at a crossroads experiencing midlife transitions strategy for destiny guides them into discovering their plans. Their vision, their dream. Then they create their own unique action plan to finally make it happen.
Rick, I’m so glad you carved out a little time from your busy schedule to join me today. Thank you.
Rick Stewart: Well, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t miss it. You’re you’re you are rapidly becoming one of my favorite people. Yes. I interviewed this lovely young lady for a summit that I’m, that I’m doing. And I’ll tell you, it was so much fun that, that when, when you invited me to be on your podcast, there was no way I couldn’t say no.
I’ve been looking forward to it really very much.
Susi Vine: So. And we immediately, I mean, we were brought together by some wise wise, very far seeing soul who said you two should chat. And if you’re listening to this episode, while it’s still brand new, you still have time to check out coach Rick’s amazing summit.
He’s got a huge slate of speakers that are bringing their wisdom, because this is a man who is led by a heart for service, as you are going to find out as we explore through the course of this episode. So. We will share his information has contacted, will be in the show notes so you can stay connected because I think a lot of the pain that we experienced these days are people have, have put a lid on their purpose or their dreams.
And so the fact that you are so driven to bring this message, to give people an action plan, I think it’s really important too, to make sure everybody has access to this information. If they choose to take advantage. That’s up to them, but the best we can do is make sure they know it’s here. So I’d love to hear from you the question that you love to ask, what were you born to do?
And let me ask you if this fits in your explanation, when, like how old were you when you discovered that this was what you were born?
Rick Stewart: I have done so many things in my life, especially musically and I live in Nashville, Tennessee. Now we’ve lived here for 40 years and I I’ve sung for a myriad of country and Christian artists on, on their, on their, I was going to say albums, that’s really dating myself on their recordings and onstage with them, everybody from Dolly Parton.
To Amy Grant. And before that traveled around the world with my band entertaining troops during the Vietnam war, doing what are called USO shows that I grew up a lot by getting, getting in on, on a war. It was yeah, when I went back to college at 25 to finish up my music degree, I was a man among.
And and I actually studied, I actually studied because I wanted my degree instead of partying and, and beer and women, you know, so
Susi Vine: perspective is powerful. Isn’t it? And you don’t want to think that ability to get perspectives of what life is like around the world, especially during war time, unfortunately, but is a very unique and powerful opportunity.
Rick Stewart: Yes. And getting back to. What I was born to do one thing anybody has, who has ever known me knows that I’m an encourager. Another term for that is exhorter see, I grew up loving. I skipped fifth grade. I went directly from fourth to sixth grade because I was getting into trouble. I was bored. Okay. I w I was the egg head in the class.
Okay. And so all of a sudden I was a head shorter than the other boys and even a lot of girls. And so going into high school at, at age 13 and being five feet tall. I got picked on, even though I was the music guy, I was the drama guy in all of high school, but still I was little and I didn’t start growing until I was a junior.
Now I’m six, four. Okay. About 200 pounds. And nobody in a class reunion would ever recognize me. They just weren’t. So I’ve got this perspective of the little guy, the little gal, but one picked on the one who’s unnoticed. The one who is ignored. And I want to encourage that person. Okay. I’ll I’ll get these, I’ll get these little nuggets drop.
I blame God. You know, you can blame any, any whatever entity you want, but I blame God. It’s I’m in Walmart and it’s Rick aisle 14, go check out this dude. And it’s like, okay, well I know that little voice, well enough, I’ll go to aisle 40. I’ll tell him my wife got about four and she she’s, she’s used to this now.
And, and I’ll, I’ll see somebody. They’re not real easy on the eyes. Okay. And they they’ve got physical problems. They, they look down and out and that sort of thing. And I’ll just start up a conversation with them and say, Hey man, that’s a cool cap. What does that say on it? What does it say on it? Oh man.
That’s that’s the, where did you get that? And just go through or, or, or, or find some gal who. You know, like 400 pounds, but she’s got on really cool pink tennis shoes. Those are the, those are the cutest tennis shoes. Where did you get those? Just to start up a conversation, to say something that makes somebody feel good about themselves.
So, so the reason that I’m doing what I’m doing is because I had on. Incredibly a bad series of bad experiences in the business world and trusting people and getting shot down. Just shut down to the point where one boss. Left town with a huge gambling debt and left us without employment and without income.
We have so much debt that we had to declare bankruptcy. We lost our house and it was, it was just incredible. And I’m going okay, what is going on here? So I start listening to motivational guru. And this is what they said. Follow your dream. Oh, find your destiny. I’m going, what is my dream? Do I have a destiny?
And then when they get me all hyped up and I’m dancing in my chair, they say, that’s it just do it, but do what? Do what? So I am discover your passion, your vision. Then you create your own unique, one of a kind personal action plan based on the answers to the probing probing questions that coach Rick puts out there for you in these lessons and they’re tough ones.
And then you put together an action plan to actually make it happen, not just leave you hanging there. And that, that is a passion that is a passionate. That, that and music, I’ve got the two things going simultaneously. I am writing a modern or a tutorial. Isn’t that weird? You got, the people are going to have to look that one up the
Susi Vine: back.
We can call it a rock opera for the lay person,
but a modern oratorios sounds just about big enough to encompass the message that you have.
Rick Stewart: Well, I have found too in the past few weeks that are, that that are. And they’re and they’re slating themselves as modern oratorios. So once I get it up there and get it ready to go, I’m going to be in good company.
The oratorial has not been something that people have been writing for for a long time, but they are now we’ve had a
Susi Vine: little bit of time at home to really drop into the art, to call in the muse to bring in that divine inspiration. Yes, yes. Yeah. And, and we connect. On many levels initially, thanks to Cindy for introducing us.
But with that background of music, with that love of theater, with that recognition, that shared emotion and connection is so important. And that’s something we’ve really been missing over the last few years. But even before that we’ve been becoming more and more withdrawn and disconnected and thinking we’re added alone, the world is out to get us it’s us versus them.
And. So to create an opportunity for these probing questions to really come back to what were you born to do? That’s a gift. I think not many people are letting themselves even open that book. How do you feel people are, are in this space? Are they afraid to look down that path? What do you think is holding them
Rick Stewart: back?
I really think that the main problem is when people are good at something. They think, well, that’s just normal. I’m not, I’m not exceptional. I can’t coach someone. I can’t teach that. I can’t create a course who would, who would want to listen to me. And, and yet, and yet, no, one of my longtime friends who endorses my course, his name is Dave Ramsey.
He’s, he’s a financial wizard. And he had. He has taken people’s financial problems and put them into a course, the very first one. Cause we, we we’ve been with him for a long time. W financial peace and then financial peace university. And then all of these other courses, he’s created a whole industry.
Around helping people get out of debt and stay out of debt. And he’s, he’s, he’s highly revered at least in the United States for sure. And people don’t realize that they’ve got something that other people. To know other people want to learn case in point another gentlemen, up who has been a long-time friend, Dan Miller, who wrote a 48 days to the work you love.
His, his deal is he had so many courses and books and CDs and many books and eBooks, et cetera out there because he and his wife, Joanna, whenever anybody asks them the same question. A minimum of three times, they figure, well, people need to know this. People want to know the answer to that question.
They write a book, they create a course. They put out an ebook, they put out a CD, they put out something and then he, and then he does his he has a podcast. About those things all the time. And he’s got tens of thousands of people who listen to Dan EV every single day. And it’s, it’s amazing. So it’s, it’s discovering what you were born to do and not going, and that’s not important because it is important.
And you might be the only one doing that kind of gave you a, can I give you a case in point? Sure. Hey, young women. Quizzing him helping him because he’s frustrated. What are you doing? Going to law school? Why are you going to law school? I want to help people. What do you like about law school, blah, blah, blah, blah.
What do you not like about law school? Well, I don’t like pitting people against each other. I don’t like somebody to lose and somebody to win. And, and so I working with. Coming to all right. Well, let’s, let’s, let’s get on your hobbies. What do you love? What do you love to do? Or what do you do? List of hobbies?
What do you love to do? And when we got to cooking, he, his eyes danced. He went to culinary school, he dropped out of law school. He went to culinary school, a prestigious one. He is now a chef doing exactly what he was born to do, but he didn’t see that until he talked. Okay. Now it’s all in the book. Cause you know, as well as I do, it’s not just asking questions.
It’s asking the right questions. The big one being if money and time were no object and you knew you couldn’t fail nothing and no one could stop you. No one could stop you. No one in your family. No one you grew up with no one in your neighborhood, nobody anywhere in your boss, nobody could stop you. What would you do?
What would the rest of your life look like? And then the big one, Susie, what are you willing to do to get there? Otherwise, 2, 5, 10 years down the road, you’re doing the same thing. Making copies, pulling that lever, doing, living somebody else’s dream, helping them create their green. What about your dream dot Ghana?
Let’s get down and do. Yeah. And, and you know, when people take my course, I want them to, to listen to the audio book and I want them to take the video lessons that I narrate because I get to be passionate about them. It’s all about them. Where do you find something that’s all about you? They’re not out there.
No, it’s all about me hiring you or getting you to pay me money to do this. It’s all about, you know, it’s all about me. No. Sadly for Dusty’s all about you. Wow. I’m almost out of breath. Well, I
Susi Vine: think, I think you bring up a really powerful point because I believe that a lot of the struggles I see with people in terms of the stress in their lives or living healthy air quotes on that, if you’re just listening, Le living healthy people have been trained.
We’ve been indoctrinated that the answer lies outside. That I need to go listen to this guru and they have a plan and I’ll just work the plan. And if it works, if I do it right, then I win. And if it doesn’t work, I must be doing it wrong. It’s my fault. You know, we take on that responsibility. We’re so hard on ourselves and we have completely lost that ability to tune in to that inner voice, that voice that when it’s speaking to you, it’s.
Take a look over an aisle 14, but you know, the voice that, that starts in your heart and says, this brings me joy and it can be this simple.
Rick Stewart: And so many people don’t believe they deserve to have joy. They don’t believe they deserve to have happiness. They don’t believe they’re worthy to follow another path, a path that might include risks.
Always always includes risk and sometimes it’s big risk, but, but you’ll know in your. When you’re following the right direction, the right path, because there, there are enemies out there to your mind. There are enemies to your body. There are enemies to your heart that will tell you, do this, do that. Don’t go to aisle 14.
You’ve got to make a fool out of yourself, Rick, that that guy doesn’t want to hear you. He didn’t care what you think about his cap and. I go do it stubbornly because I know, I know that I know that this person needs to be encouraged. Somehow the pink shoes, they need to be pointed out. You know,
Susi Vine: we need cheerleaders.
And exhorters we need encouragers. And so I want to ask you if, if there’s more to the story, there’s always more to the story and I love your stories, but how did you get to this place where you now are connected to you are now living your purpose?
Rick Stewart: When the boss left town,
when things hit the.
My wife said I had been doing some, some interesting things. I’ll just suffice to say it. If someone wants to know more about my story, they can go to my website strategy for destiny.com strategy for destiny.com and sign in for the ebook. There are seven, seven easy steps to reach your dream target.
And then there, underneath that is a bonus video. And if people can click on that and immediately watch this, this video with slides and it’s about my life and they’re there and about their life and how the two. I need to meet. I need to meet them with the course and they need to meet up with me in the course or that sometimes they can talk.
They can talk to me. They can, they can, if they’ve got the budget for it, we can do one-to-one VIP coaching. We can do personal coaching. And that, that is wonderful. Good grief. After one of those sessions, I’m just flying because I know, I know that I know that I’m able to help. So I’m coming off of doing some menial, very menial things, very menial things.
And yet still doing the coaching, still doing the counseling and all of that, my wife just said, look, I’m going to go back to work already. Both of us are in our sixties. And she says, I’m going to go back to work. And you write the book, you know, is in you strategy for Dell. And you, you get it done. It’s been
five years in the making. I feel like I’m doing an epic film or something, but it’s been five years in the making and it’s ready to go. It’s ready to go. I’ve been doing the coaching, the counseling for over 35 years, literally hundreds of. A lot of that in in a megachurch here in, in Nashville. And I got all the tough cases.
I was on pastoral care and I got all the tough cases because people didn’t want to deal with them. Even some of the people in the, in, in the, the counseling wing would come get me. They called me pastor Rick then, and just say, well, I need you to come to my office. I don’t know what to do with this person.
And and, and, and I would get those. So I knew. That I needed to direct people to their passion, their vision, their dream. I knew that I had to do that. And so it was laid on me, just start writing and I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote and I wrote, and I wrote, then I wrote it. I wrote, I’ve got seven lessons and I mean, I go over it and I think, did I write this.
Yeah, it’s good. It’s the right questions in the right order at 4, 4, 4, the right people and the beta testing lady, all the beta testing was amazing. Turn people’s lives around. You know, one of those ones was the, the, the waiter that turned into the chef and there are, there are a bunch more of those. So I just knew if in my golden years, if I was going to make a difference I had to quit.
Beating my head about people who weren’t doing, what they were supposed to do and talking to young people and talking to people in the thirties and forties and fifties who were really at a crossroads, maybe it maybe a divorce, a job change, or I mean, I know of a dentist who at age 45 changed careers because he, he just, he wanted to do something.
Instead of dentistry, he was burned out on dentistry, think things like that. So that’s why I’m passionate. And and let’s look at it this way. I’m also passionate about getting my rock opera out there. We have a phenomenal symphony hall here in town, and I have connections there and I want to finish writing it and debut with there, but it takes a bunch of.
To do a full production with full orchestra, full choir known soloists. And I’m the narrator. Yeah. So
Susi Vine: it makes voice will be on stage feeling the house.
Rick Stewart: Yes. In my talks, I will be standing up there reading the narration. No,
Susi Vine: and I, what comes to up to me is you know, Dating myself. I was a few years out of college when September 11th happened in 2001 and the next day on the 12th, I went in and I quit the job that I was doing.
And I have felt that over these two years, we’ve had this opportunity. This is protracted nine 11 moment where we all got a chance to really re-examine what matters. What we can tolerate what we’re passionate about, where we feel dissatisfied. And, you know, the rumblings of this big shift started coming about a year ago, halfway through the social distancing.
And now we are in the thick of the great rescue. And the numbers keep going up. I heard 55% of people who are in jobs are actively seeking other work. And then I hear 60 and I think it is going to keep coming up. And it all goes back to this point that you say that, you know, we don’t give ourselves credit for what we’re good at.
When we do good work for other people, and we get recognized for that, however, minimally they recognize that work, maybe a promotion may be some, you know, way to go. We keep showing up for that. We keep doing good work for other people and we never give ourselves the credit. And so that’s another reason why I’m really excited that this.
Has been birthed at this point in time. There’s definitely a lot of people who maybe wouldn’t have given themselves that opportunity to take a fresh look at what matters to them. What if not now, then when, and so I’m so excited that you’re bringing your passion and your years of experience and breadth of experience to, to highlight this and to give people the roadmap, like you say, instead of the fiery speech, the motivational speaker that gets everybody all ready to go, and then.
Rick Stewart: Get on your own. You’re on your own. Yeah. Go get them. Don’t call me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But thanks. But thanks for the $2,000, you know? Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for letting me into your head. Yeah. Thanks for letting me get you so, so mad and so confused and so upset with your life. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. Yeah. I, I enjoyed doing it.
Right. And, and there are some really good. Speakers out there and trainers a lot of them, a lot of them. And I just have a tough time with the ones that don’t give a plan. Okay. Case in point, if I have appendicitis, am I going to go to YouTube, find a video on how to give yourself an appendectomy and then give myself an appendectomy.
I certainly hope not. Instead. I’m going to look for. I’m going to look for a surgeon who does this every single day, several times a day. All right. Another, I I’ve been indicted for triple murders and I, you know, and I wasn’t even anywhere near the, I wasn’t even in the same state, I have an alibi, but nobody believes me.
Okay. Am I going to plead my own case? Am I, or am I going to find an attorney? Who are a solid group of attorneys who will take on my case and get me off. Otherwise it’s electric chair or life in prison. Yeah. I’d better not represent myself. So why do, why do people stay in that sea of regrets? Horrible place to live for year after year after year after year after year, what I’m now I’m giving them.
Oh, God, I’m giving them an alternative. I’m giving them away to figure out how to get out. I get off that hamster wheel, if you will. And, and, and, and fill, can you see this, fill that hole in your soul? It has, it has to be filled with something and, and, and, and you have a way now to at least get a star.
Through my course, you got to get you at least get started. And for many people it does it, it does it. And by the way, I’m working on a companion course that once they’ve got their action plan and they’ve got their destiny figured out that, then they’re going to plug that into their destiny plan, which is their life now, what are they doing now?
And how does my, how does my destiny fit in? Do I need more education? Do I need to do this? Do I need to stop doing this? Do I need to work with this, or I need to volunteer for this. What do I need to do to fit my destiny into my life now so that I can eventually be doing the now doing with my life? What is my destiny and feeling so good about myself that I’m not working another day in my life.
It’s an old cliche, but it’s, but it’s true because most people’s passions with. Equate to something that, that, that potentially can support them if, if, if they do it right. And there are lots and lots and lots of, of courses out there about how to, how to put together a course and I’ve taken them. I spent thousands of dollars on how to do that.
And, and I’ve got a good one. So don’t try to do it yourself because where’s that gotten yet? I mean like, like, like they say the most how’s that working out for you.
Susi Vine: Well, and to your point, you know, when you talk about, and I think that people, if they’re really being honest with themselves, I think everybody to a degree can resonate with this situation where we feel a hole, we feel something missing.
And we look outside of ourselves for solutions. We look outside of ourselves for validation, proof that we’re worthy. We keep giving to other people rather than recognizing that we are already innately and inherently worthy. We are perfectly imperfect and we are where we need to be on our journey. We just need to be present for it.
And so when we stop looking outside of ourselves and use tools like this, Turn off the noise, turn down the volume, get present, and look within, take that time. Like you say, to answer the questions that you are willing to pose, it was that someone can answer to something authentically and honestly, and it, it might feel completely different than if you had done the course a couple of years ago or when you were 20.
Right? I mean, we evolve and change
Rick Stewart: the timing, the timing. At my age, I’m looking back and I’m saying, Hey God, I’m not 10 years younger, 20 years, 30 years younger, you got to get moving on this thing because I’ve had a lot to do that a lot to do. I’ve got another book in me and I, and I have to get that the the rock opera done and this course out to thousands and thousands of people.
I’m having a senior moment there. There was, there was another, another part of, of, of of trusting. Oh, it was, it was, it was so it was so, oh, w we, we don’t, we don’t trust ourselves to, to make something happen. We, we don’t, we really don’t because we don’t feel worthy. And yet there, there is a plan for your life.
You, it was, it was there before you were born. And I, and I I’m, I’m going to quote what started the whole book. Okay. I’m going to quote, it comes from the Bible, the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah, the prophet is saying to the people he’s saying, and there there’d been the destruction of Jerusalem, everything around them as Chrome has crumbled.
And God says to Jeremiah, tell my people this, you know, really? Yeah. Tell him this. Okay. So he says for, I know the plans I have for you to clarify. Plans to prosper. You plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future. Okay. That doesn’t mean that God’s up in heaven with a baseball bat saying three strikes and you’re out and that’s not, God’s saying you w you screwed up, you messed up.
You are no longer worthy. You started out. Okay. But now you’re a mess and I’m hands off. You’re on your own. You’re never on your own. But you’ve got to figure it out. You have to put in the work. It’s not just going to have some glorious. There, there might be some of those aha moments that drop on you, but you know what they do, they lead to, for me, the scripture, Jeremiah 29 11 led to the book.
The book leads to the course, the course leads to meeting and talking with Susie vine and knowing. There are going to be some people who are listening, who are going to get this, and they’re going to do something about it. And they’re going to tell their friends and people. Oh yes. Ah, the senior moment just subsided.
This is, this is a caveat. When you take the course, don’t tell anybody you’re taking. Don’t tell them anything about it. Don’t say mom, even your mother, you don’t say mom, I’m taking this course called strategy for destiny. It’s going to help me determine what I was born to do. And then I’m going to do this action plan.
And then I’m going to, I’m going to find out exactly what I need to do, and then I’m going to, I’m going to learn how to do it and all that. And in that great mom, he’s going to look at you and go, that’s nice, dear, pat you on the bottom and walk away and go, go back to her. Complicated life because nobody ready.
Nobody cares as much about your dream as you do. In fact, even harsher, nobody cares about your dream, except you. If you don’t do something about it, nobody is going to do anything about it. Nobody’s going to drop this plan in front of you, unless that’s the. If the plan is, but start, start somewhere. Do some, okay.
I’m just going to say it. Do something that gets God’s attention. Do something, take a course, read some books, listen to, and watch some of the gurus that I’ve told you. Just do something to move forward, to move upward to, to, to, to, to gain a better life. Because when you gain a better life, you’re going to, you’re going to influence other people in a way that improves their lives also.
And when you’re, and when you’re done with the course, when you know what your destiny is and when you’re, you’re, you’re working towards. Like I said, well, whatever it takes, the action plan gives you specifics and it’ll be so specific that nobody else has that same action plan. Then you can say, what happens is that people come up to you and say, Susie, you seem so you, you, you seem so on top of it now.
I mean, you’re, you’re, you’re just, you’re, you’re, you’re more bubbly than I’ve ever seen you. What’s what’s going on. Then you can see. I took this course. Otherwise, if you tell them in the middle of it, they’ll say, oh, you’re the wrong gender. You’re the wrong age. You’re from the wrong side of the tracks.
You’re you’re you’re this you’re that? You’re not this. You’re not that. Who do you think you are? You’re getting above your raise and stop it. Just get your money back. Can you get your money back? Oh, get your money back because that’s not going to help you at all because you can’t do that. I mean, cat cat, cat, cat, cat.
Yeah. And then. That voice and people that am I sent across the life of the guy with the cap, the woman with the, with the, with the pink tennis shoes. Am I sent there to say something or do something? Yes. Okay. Is that going to have, if I believe that that God boys told me to do that, I have to believe that there was a purpose in that there is a purpose.
Yes. Strategy for destiny. There are a huge purpose for everybody. So for me right now, it’s 35 plus years of doing what I’m doing, but the course is relatively new. Okay. The course is relatively new, getting it out there in different outlets and everything. But I’m, I’m looking, I’m looking for word of mouth to, to really get kicked in.
So anyway, I’ve said what I said, and I’m saying.
Susi Vine: I will, I will speak to to what you shared when I made another radical departure, like you have done a lot of different things. It took me a while to zero in on it here. But I have, I have heard that I have had people say to me, you look different, like you said, you’re so on top of it, look at how energized you are.
Look at how you don’t mind those extra hours. Look at how you have passion that you’re following people know that. The effect of it, but it’s so true. People want to protect, they want to cushion your fault. They want to predict failure. So keep it secret, keep it sacred, right? Like nurture this dream. Let this dream have an opportunity to break out of the seed to start to grow, give it, give yourself a chance to see what’s possible before you put it out there for inspection.
Rick Stewart: Yes. And, and most, most people won’t do that. And, and, and most people okay. Over 70% of people right now are in jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees. And over 70% of them are miserable. Okay. And that breaks my heart as an encourager that, that breaks my heart. And as the little guy growing up and getting picked on that that breaks down.
It just, it just does. I want, I want people to at least know what they were born to do. I can’t, I cannot possibly envision once they know what they were born to do. I can’t envision them not doing anything with it. I just can’t.
I mean, I give a 30 day money back guarantee on my course. Okay. You can get all the way through the course. And if you do it in less than 30 days and you can get your money back, but you know what you’ll be so darn excited. The first question on page one is, do you love your life the way it is right. And that a good one.
That’s a hook right there. Oh, I mean, yeah.
Susi Vine: And I want to point out too. So I watched your masterclass and I read your book, the guy that’s on your website. And I know that as people invest in your course, that then introduces them to the community that you were creating of people who are following their passion and.
So important because we don’t always see that inspiration in our inner circle. It doesn’t mean that our inner circle needs to get fired. It means we can upgrade the people that we spend our time with. We can surround ourselves with people who inspire us and call us forward. So I think that’s a really beautiful opportunity.
You’re creating.
Rick Stewart: Yeah, it, that that is, that is still in the creation process, but I’m looking forward to it. I’m planning on being on a Q and a with everybody, anybody who wants to attend at least once a week. And because for one thing, we are separated where we’re separated by everything that’s going on in this world right now.
And then communication. I build everything, everything that I do and everything that I teach is built on relationship. Communication and encouragement. And you, you can branch out anything from those it’ll, it’ll be one of those three that you, you, you need the relationship. That’s for me, it’s God, family, everybody else, everything else.
Okay. So the relationship when that’s, when that’s solid or you’re working to make it solid. Okay. You’re working at being that better person, following examples, et cetera. When you’re doing that, there’s that communication factor that needs to be there. It needs to be so that through communication, encouragement can happen.
And that’s that’s me, that’s me because I haven’t had it for so much up for so much of my life. Yeah. It was, it was difficult for my parents to be good parents because they were abandoned as, as young children by their, by their fathers. During the, during the grade. Way back in the, in the twenties and in the thirties.
And it was difficult for them. They, they didn’t have a father figure and they did the best they could with me, but through studying and just figuring out what it means to be a good. I’ve been, I’ll just say it I’ve been an excellent dad to my two kids, to my son who is doing exactly what he’s supposed to do in music.
And he’s a phenomenal composer and and instrumentalist. He does all of his own stuff. He’s a producer, fabulous, fabulous guitarist and singer. And my daughter is in film and TV. And there, and you know why they’re doing what they’re, what they were born to do because I’m their dad. And I had to learn, I had to learn and I’ve learned so much over the years.
And I just want to share that with people I really do, because if I made a lot of mistakes in life, do I have a lot of regrets? No. You know why? Because I go, do I say delete. That regret comes up and it’s delete, delete, delete, because if, if you ruminate like a hog in a hog, in a corn pen, if you ruminate in those regrets, that’s all the further you’ll ever get.
That’s all the further you’ll ever get. And, and you, you, you, you could be depressed all the time, even so. And you’re the stress release lady. Who am I talking to?
Susi Vine: But it’s so true. It’s easy to get on that hamster wheel to let that take the wheel. And I’m, I don’t know who originally said it. It certainly didn’t start with me, but you do grow through what you go through.
You have to make that choice and let that.
Rick Stewart: It’s choices. We are created with choice. We’re not robots. We’re not puppets. We’re created with choice. We can accept this, reject this, except this, reject this, do this. Don’t do this. Let that slide two years, five years, 10 years now, what? Okay. We, we it’s it’s in those choices.
That, that, that, that, that we grow if we make the right choices. And if we make a wrong one back up and start again, please, please. I want to see people happy. Okay. Joy is something that you. Joy is something that is that, that, that is built into you. If you, if you start that engine every day, I’m going to be joyful.
Okay. Lost my job. Kids aren’t, aren’t doing well. I’m not in good health, but I’m going to have joy. I’m going to be joyful. And I I’m going to positively affect my life today and the lives of other people, happiness on the other hand is a by-product of that joy, but that’s not always. That is not always there.
And, and we can’t expect. A lot of, a lot of the younger generations, I won’t necessarily, I, I said, I wouldn’t say millennials, so I won’t just expect to be happy. I’m going to change the world and I’m going to be happy. No, look, to have joy in what you’re doing, because you’re where you need to be right now.
But can you make some choices, some better choices that will, that will allow you to move on? That that will pull you along, push you along gently. There’s a Bible verse that says, and you will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it. When, whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left, this is the way to go, Suzy.
Yeah. That’s a little too far, right. A little, a little too far, like, oh, okay. I see. I see. Okay. You made that decision. Well, let’s go back, get on the right path, the straight narrow path here and, and I’ll redirect your thinking so that you’ll see why that choice was an error and what the right choice is.
And, and, and that’s, that’s the path that we walk on every single day. And it’s a narrow one. It is because it’s so easy for the herd mentality to follow the, the wide path and live, help somebody else live their dream or, or just get totally, totally off of their own dream and never realize it because nobody on their death bed says, I wish I’d spent more time at the office.
Just doesn’t have. This doesn’t happen now is I wish I’d spent more time with my family. I wish I’d followed that dream, et cetera, et cetera. How are we doing? Are we doing okay on time? Here we are. I
Susi Vine: think, I think that we have, we’ve opened enough lines of inquiry. I think. Brilliant ideas. I really, really encourage everybody.
Who’s listening, watching this episode to visit Rick’s website, to take a look at just the top, the top layer, the peak of the program that he’s created with this powerful ebook that starts seeding these questions. I’m so grateful.
Rick Stewart: Seven easy steps to reach your dream target. Yeah, it’s it’s, it’s a short ebook, but it will open.
Some, some, some of your brain parts that, that, that have died basically, or parts that you have gone? Nope. Nope. I can’t go there. I can’t go there because. I can’t do, I can’t do anything or even think about doing anything that doesn’t offer me security. It doesn’t offer me good benefits. It doesn’t offer me health insurance and
Susi Vine: yeah.
Yeah. We’ll table those can’ts we’ll put those sheds on a shelf for a minute. Yeah. And treat yourself to a little inquiry and exploration strategy for destiny.com. We’ll have the links in the show notes here as well.
Rick Stewart: I’m so glad you asked me to do this. I am
Susi Vine: so grateful for your time. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the results of the summit that you’re creating.
And what else is coming down the line? You might, you might have a podcast in you. I hate to get you too busy. I know you have a lot on your plate.
Rick Stewart: Well, that’s the that I think a podcast would be a lot of fun. Maybe, maybe you’ll be my my inaugural interview on a podcast. So then, and one thing I want to do with the podcast, I want to do teachings.
I want to do like, just me just being like 15 minute to 30 minute teachings on all sorts of subjects. Some of them are biblical. Some are not the truth is where you find it. Isn’t that a fact that is a fact truth is where you find it. And I don’t enjoy people who say truth can only come from this from this source.
That, that, that, that is that’s too narrow. And it can hurt. It can hurt people. So I just want to help people and I know you do too. Yeah. The, the anti-stress queen
Susi Vine: and the encourager. There we go. Thank you so much, Rick. I appreciate you. And the light that you bring to the world. Thank you for sharing your mission with us.
Rick Stewart: Thank you, bye. For
Susi Vine: now. Take a care.