Aug. 7, 2024

LEAD A LIMITLESS LIFE With Mark Fournier

LEAD A LIMITLESS LIFE With Mark Fournier

Episode Summary – CONCEIVE | BELIEVE | ACHIEVE – ANYTHING! In Episode 91 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show (links in the comments) titled, “LEAD A LIMITLESS LIFE” with Life-Mastery & Peak-Performance Coach and 3-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Mark Fournier. We start by looking at all that Mark has overcome and how he used his experience to build his RESILIENCE and LEARN TO MASTER APPRECIATION. He teaches about Quantum Consciousness and Meta Cognition to be able INFLUENCE FROM WITHIN and the WORLD AROUND YOU. Lastly zen-master Mark took me through an exercise about EMPOWERMENT VS ENLIGHTENMENT. Just awesome. Come BE LIMITLESS with us and listen, download, share and review this show. Check out Marks free apps OMNI COACH / LIFE BALANCE / The BALANCE WHEEL TEST.

Mentioned Resources –


Omni Coach - https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/omnicoach/id1667301875

Life Balance Test - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-balance-test/id1660950259

About the guest –   Lead a LIMITLESS Life You LOVE With Master Coach, Mark Fournier

A 3-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, psychotherapist, life-mastery & peak-performance coach, Mark Fournier (The Limitless Coach) is lauded as a world-renowned expert on ‘Leading a LIMITLESS Life’ & ‘Realizing our Greatest Potential’. He is also a patented inventor, award-winning writer, ‘#1 best-selling author’, columnist, keynote speaker, the founder and provost of LIMITLESS University, the visionary creator of OmniCoach, the world’s first 100% AI-powered, virtual life & business coach and the founding director of the nonprofit DoGood Hero Support Network. Mark has dedicated his life to ‘creating a better world’ by helping to raise human consciousness through his life-transforming insights and programs.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Transcript
Howard Brown:

Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly



Howard Brown:

Show. Oh my god, we got the coach of coaches. How many times



Howard Brown:

do you meet a Life Mastery a peak performance coach? Well,



Howard Brown:

I've got one here today, Mark Fournier. Welcome. How are you?



Howard Brown:

What's happening?



Mark Fournier:

Awesome. Thank you for asking. I mean, awesome



Mark Fournier:

in terms of how I feel and see the world today, and I'm just



Mark Fournier:

happy to be on this call with you and can't wait to hopefully



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inspire a few listeners and see if we can contribute to their



Mark Fournier:

lives.



Howard Brown:

Be well, we're gonna we're gonna make some



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impact today. So it's great. Let me tell you a little bit about



Howard Brown:

Mark real short. So Mark is a Life Mastery and peak



Howard Brown:

performance coach, number one best selling author, speaker



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trainer, and an Emmy Award winning filmmaker. And I love



Howard Brown:

this part the best. He calls himself a humanitarian, that



Howard Brown:

means he cares. And that to me, that's heart centered. Man,



Howard Brown:

that's great. I don't normally do this. But I'm so captivated



Howard Brown:

by your mission statement. And I just want to start the show with



Howard Brown:

that. And then we'll, we'll dive right in after that. So listen



Howard Brown:

to Mark's mission statement. Raising our level of



Howard Brown:

consciousness not only helps us flourish as individuals, it all



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it is also how we will end the atrocities of our world, for



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enlightened beings to become heroes by nature. As such,



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helping to raise human consciousness on a global scale,



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is his passion and his purpose. I'm just letting that sink in.



Howard Brown:

Because that's shining brightly my brother. That's that we are



Howard Brown:

aligned. It's it's incredible. All right. So now, normal



Howard Brown:

question, right? How do you shine brightly each day?



Mark Fournier:

Oh, thank you for asking that. You know what,



Mark Fournier:

maybe there's a kind of like a two part answer to that the, the



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first thing I do every single day is I go to a state of



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appreciation. It's a form of what we call disambiguation.



Mark Fournier:

Habituation is when we get so used to something that it's,



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we're no longer even aware of it. And that can be really



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helpful if you live next door to an airport or a train track. But



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when it comes to enjoying and appreciating our lives, it's not



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so good. Because you, you may have just moved into this



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beautiful home. And within a few months, you've habituated



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instead of thinking every day, Oh, I'm so fortunate to be in



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this home, you're thinking, oh, you know, this, it's an east



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west facing house. And now we're getting blasted by the sun. And



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you start noticing more of the negative things and taking the



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positive things for granted, as we do not only with our things,



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but with our people, with the people that we wake up next to.



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And so I go through this process every morning, of reminding



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myself of how fortunate I am, and I picture my children's



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smiling faces in my mind, and all the magic and wonder in my



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life. And it it's not about because I have more wonderful



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things than the next guy. It's because I spend more time



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thinking about them and focusing on them. And so the other half



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of that answer is there was a girl one day, it was she came up



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to me in the middle of a of a concert, or a seminar. And she



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told me, we've taken a break. And so I'm down there on the



Mark Fournier:

floor, mixing it up, and, and she told me that her mother was



Mark Fournier:

was in hospice, and she was dying. And she said that it was



Mark Fournier:

so hard to even be there. She said, we go there and



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everybody's so miserable. And it's just so hard. And it's so



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hard for my mom. And she said I don't know what to do. And I



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just smiled and said, Oh, it's really simple. Have you ever



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been someplace where there was there were challenges or was



Mark Fournier:

dark and depressing? Have you ever seen someone who refused to



Mark Fournier:

buy into that who refuse to be a victim to that those



Mark Fournier:

circumstances and decided they were going to bring the beauty,



Mark Fournier:

they were going to be the bright spot. And I said, you need to



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make this time. Let it be that you're the bright spot every



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time you walk in the door. They're looking forward to



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having you and she she cut me off. But isn't that



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inappropriate to be smiling and happy when you're with somebody



Mark Fournier:

who's dying? And I said, How would you like, what would you



Mark Fournier:

like if you were lying there in bed dying? Do you want a bunch



Mark Fournier:

of people crying and wailing? Or do you want somebody to come in



Mark Fournier:

with a smile and talk about what a wonderful life we're all still



Mark Fournier:

experiencing? And so on and so forth. And so she came back I



Mark Fournier:

saw a year later. And another seminar she says, Do you



Mark Fournier:

remember me? And after she explained her circumstances, I



Mark Fournier:

said, Oh my gosh, yeah, I do remember that. She goes, Well, I



Mark Fournier:

took your advice. And I put it it works so well. When I would



Mark Fournier:

go to the hospice. It lifted everyone she said so I have



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begun to apply it to every year of my life she says so I have



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now that's my new logo. My new everything is the bright spot.



Mark Fournier:

He says I like bright spot wherever I go in my life, and



Mark Fournier:

it's the happiest the best year I've ever Ahead.



Howard Brown:

Wow, that's impact. And I love that. So I



Howard Brown:

look in the mirror every day and as a guy that faced death twice,



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okay, I say that I am blessed, I am grateful, and I am very



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lucky. And how am I going to use my light to help myself and help



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others today, because most people look in the mirror, they



Howard Brown:

don't like what they see, right. And we all get knocked down in



Howard Brown:

life and in business and, and health and relationships. Got to



Howard Brown:

get back up again. And you gotta, gotta gotta gotta gotta



Howard Brown:

power through little baby steps, sometimes two steps back. So



Howard Brown:

let's dig in a little bit more sure, you know what life threw



Howard Brown:

you some curveballs share a little, you know, touch about



Howard Brown:

your background and what you had to overcome a little bit.



Mark Fournier:

I'll do that. Howard, thank you, without



Mark Fournier:

coming from a victim space, which we may have a chance to



Mark Fournier:

weave in and out of this conversation, because I'm really



Mark Fournier:

big on on the power of mindsets, which is not same as an



Mark Fournier:

attitude. It's not like you know, your attitude, you can



Mark Fournier:

change every five seconds, you know, I'm in a good mood. I just



Mark Fournier:

heard something bad. And I'm in a bad mood. A mindset is much



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broader. It's like in The Matrix, it is the matrix. It's



Mark Fournier:

the lens through which you're viewing the world. That is your



Mark Fournier:

mindset. And if you have an opportunity mindset, which is



Mark Fournier:

the opposite opposite of a victim mindset, the opportunity



Mark Fournier:

mindset, classic Elon Musk is there's an opportunity in



Mark Fournier:

everything. There's no such thing as bad news, there's just



Mark Fournier:

news. Even though somebody may say I have a problem with an



Mark Fournier:

opportunity mindset, it's not a problem. It's just an unexpected



Mark Fournier:

outcome. And you say, Alright, where's the opportunity in this



Mark Fournier:

cloud? You know, it's the cliche with every cloud has a silver



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lining, and so on. But cliches are real, they've lasted 1000s



Mark Fournier:

of years, because they're so true. So when, when you can stay



Mark Fournier:

in that space, that say the opportunity space, it makes it



Mark Fournier:

difficult to be in the victim space. And so, so imagine



Mark Fournier:

looking at everything through a lens up and what's great about



Mark Fournier:

this. And so when I describe my past, instead of it being Oh,



Mark Fournier:

yeah, you know, it was really nasty. And for me, it's Wow,



Mark Fournier:

yeah, there were a lot of memorable experiences. That all



Mark Fournier:

culminated into who I am today, I have no regrets. So, so with



Mark Fournier:

that upfront, I can say, yeah, there have been both emotional



Mark Fournier:

and physical challenges. And we can touch on the physical



Mark Fournier:

because we have that commonality, the surviving



Mark Fournier:

cancer and so on. But I have to say that the trickiest parts for



Mark Fournier:

me were my folks got divorced when I was born, my mom trying



Mark Fournier:

to raise four kids, without child support without the salary



Mark Fournier:

of a hairdresser. But she was like that bit like that. That



Mark Fournier:

bartender that everybody comes to for advice. Well, she was the



Mark Fournier:

hairdressers that they did that with and she was a philosopher,



Mark Fournier:

hairdresser. So on the one side, she didn't have a lot of time



Mark Fournier:

for us because she was working day and night, six days a week.



Mark Fournier:

On the other side, when she did have time with us, it was



Mark Fournier:

quality time. And she would spend that time helping us



Mark Fournier:

actually evolve and become more enlightened from his for as far



Mark Fournier:

back as I can remember. Eventually, she married a fella



Mark Fournier:

who turned out to be such a good such a great guy, abusive,



Mark Fournier:

alcoholic, and, and so through my formative years, it turned



Mark Fournier:

out that all the things she had been teaching me started to come



Mark Fournier:

into play. The book she was giving me at 12, she gave me



Mark Fournier:

PSYCHO CYBERNETICS by Maxwell Maltz. And thinking Grow Rich,



Mark Fournier:

which, you know, classic, after that I was hooked. And so



Mark Fournier:

because of the adversity, because we were being challenged



Mark Fournier:

with no dad, and then it stuck, you know, stepped out. Because



Mark Fournier:

of that, she gave me all these tools. And even though they were



Mark Fournier:

really just to help me cope with the issues, I was able to apply



Mark Fournier:

them again to every other area of my life. And that became,



Mark Fournier:

it's just woven into my, into my soul. So, from that point on all



Mark Fournier:

the challenges I continually would come back to, and how can



Mark Fournier:

I turn this into something? So I've had 19 major surgeries. 11



Mark Fournier:

were orthopedic from sports injuries, broke my neck,



Mark Fournier:

snowboarding, my back play in hockey. Now my latest one was



Mark Fournier:

total knee replacement playing pickleball so I'm a pickleball



Mark Fournier:

are



Howard Brown:

a danger? It's not supposed to be a dangerous



Howard Brown:

sport.



Mark Fournier:

Well, I know that I've learned that you're not



Mark Fournier:

supposed to dive for balls. Yeah. So anyhow, so you know,



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there have been other challenges. Of course, only one



Mark Fournier:

out of two people in our country gets get gets to skip divorce,



Mark Fournier:

and I wasn't one of them. So. So, you know, and it's funny



Mark Fournier:

when, when I'm coaching with somebody, and we started talking



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inevitably always about relationships and marriage and



Mark Fournier:

intimate relationships. I've had folks say, Well, how can you



Mark Fournier:

coach me on, on relationships, you got divorced. And I smell



Mark Fournier:

it, I say, so wait a minute. You You want somebody coaching you



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on relationships whose they they married, the perfect person



Mark Fournier:

never had to do anything to keep their marriage alive. Everything



Mark Fournier:

always was perfect all the time. You want that guy coaching you?



Mark Fournier:

And they're like, Well, I Is there such a person I go first



Mark Fournier:

of all, probably not. Secondly, you want somebody who's been



Mark Fournier:

there, but somebody who got there before you and had the ups



Mark Fournier:

and downs and the issues and challenges. So you know what, in



Mark Fournier:

the long run, it's in your best interest that I've seen, both



Mark Fournier:

the good and the ugly. And of course, some of the other things



Mark Fournier:

we talked about was like the cancer. So I had stage three



Mark Fournier:

thyroid, and they caught it in time and did a couple of



Mark Fournier:

interesting things to remove it along with my thyroid. And



Mark Fournier:

probably the most harrowing of all of them was I was diagnosed



Mark Fournier:

temporarily with ALS, they have this very rare neuromuscular



Mark Fournier:

disorder. And it's way more rare than ALS. So I had a chance to



Mark Fournier:

figure out what would it what really matters, because for a



Mark Fournier:

week, before I went back to get retested for a week, I got to



Mark Fournier:

believe that I was dying of ALS, I had less than two years to go



Mark Fournier:

and, and I got to choose between a respirator where I couldn't



Mark Fournier:

move at all like Stephen Hawking, or just letting it have



Mark Fournier:

its way and be done in two years. And at the end of that



Mark Fournier:

year, I discovered some really, really important things. So



Mark Fournier:

we'll, we'll I'll weave them into date. Today's conversation,



Mark Fournier:

I



Howard Brown:

know what we'll dive in there. Thank you for



Howard Brown:

sharing that because we've all had hardship. And we have to get



Howard Brown:

back up. And it's the lessons learned that you're starting to



Howard Brown:

dig into. I got asked the other day, what's my relationship with



Howard Brown:

cancer? And I sat there and I didn't give an answer right



Howard Brown:

away. And I said, it's love hate. I said, I hate that. I got



Howard Brown:

it. I hate that people get it. I hate actually the surgeries, the



Howard Brown:

chemo, the radiation, the side effects. But you know, what the



Howard Brown:

people, the heroes, the nurses, the caregivers, the amazing



Howard Brown:

people living with this, you know, ugly disease and keep on



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going, You know what, I've changed? I've changed and I know



Howard Brown:

what matters now. And you know, I wrote a book about it, I have



Howard Brown:

this podcast. But again, I've changed and we've all now



Howard Brown:

committed to, you know, making the world a better place from



Howard Brown:

your mission to my mission, as well. So I want to dig in a



Howard Brown:

second because in looking and studying you a little bit, and



Howard Brown:

I've dug deep on you, human potential. Okay, we all have it.



Howard Brown:

Talk Talk to us about the human potential and all of us.



Mark Fournier:

Oh, I love that. Thank you, Howard. Thanks for



Mark Fournier:

teeing up one of my favorite topics. Excuse me, so. So my



Mark Fournier:

moniker is the limitless coach. And in my nonprofit is, is it's



Mark Fournier:

a 501 C three is limitless University. So you hear this



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word limitless. And I use that for a reason. It's I may have



Mark Fournier:

been thinking Grow Rich, it may have been when I was 12. I'm 67.



Mark Fournier:

So what is that 55 years ago? Is it



Howard Brown:

that's the last Okay, the mat your matches?



Howard Brown:

Good. All



Mark Fournier:

right, so so the first time I ever heard the, the



Mark Fournier:

cliche, anything we can conceive and believe we can achieve,



Mark Fournier:

which has been assigned to so many different, they say that



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was how Henry Ford's said that it's that it actually goes back.



Mark Fournier:

millennia, it's been around, it's again, one of those



Mark Fournier:

cliches? Well, I did something that I don't know anyone who's



Mark Fournier:

ever done this before. Instead of just being inspired by the



Mark Fournier:

clever line, anything we can conceive and believe we can



Mark Fournier:

achieve. I actually asked myself, What if that's true? I



Mark Fournier:

mean, what if it's not just a platitude? What if it's actually



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true? And so I broke it down. Anything we can conceive? Let's



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start with that. Can you think of anything that the human mind



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is incapable of at least thinking of? If you ever watched



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a science fiction movie of your why that was we were talking



Mark Fournier:

about the matrix of yet. There's nothing we can't conceive. I



Mark Fournier:

mean, we can conceive of flat earth we can conceive of all the



Mark Fournier:

wonders of today the iPods and cell phones. There's nothing we



Mark Fournier:

can't conceive. So part one covered anything we can conceive



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part two, and believe. And why is belief such a big deal? I



Mark Fournier:

come to realize that we do what we believe. We don't do what's



Mark Fournier:

what's absolutely true. We don't always do what's right. We don't



Mark Fournier:

always do what other people want us to do. But we do. Do what's



Mark Fournier:

what we believe a perfect example would be um, For the



Mark Fournier:

folks who flew their planes into nine, into the buildings on 911,



Mark Fournier:

clearly, you can just reverse engineer it. They believed that



Mark Fournier:

what they were doing was the right thing to do. They believed



Mark Fournier:

that that Americans were these, the scourge of the planet, they



Mark Fournier:

believed that they were heroes, they believe that they're going



Mark Fournier:

to rescue the world by by eliminating this virus called



Mark Fournier:

Americans, right Western civilization, they believed it



Mark Fournier:

so strongly, that they not only killed all of these innocent



Mark Fournier:

folks, but they committed suicide, they gave up their



Mark Fournier:

life, because they believed it. If you believe that if you



Mark Fournier:

jumped off the highest building in the world, that you would



Mark Fournier:

float to the ground, and for being the first one to jump off



Mark Fournier:

that building, you would get the cure for cancer, world peace in



Mark Fournier:

a trillion dollars, if you believed it, and you'll be



Mark Fournier:

totally safe. I couldn't stop you from jumping off the world



Mark Fournier:

ties building, not because all those things are going to happen



Mark Fournier:

because they're not you're going to fall like a watermelon and



Mark Fournier:

splat in 20 different directions. And there'll be no



Mark Fournier:

trillion dollars or anything else. So it's not that we



Mark Fournier:

believe what is we only believe what we actually accept as being



Mark Fournier:

true. And the truth is, we can believe anything back to we can



Mark Fournier:

believe that the earth is flat, even though they've been out



Mark Fournier:

they've gone around it in spaceships, you know, so, so we



Mark Fournier:

can believe anything. Think of the crazy ludicrous things that



Mark Fournier:

people believe right now in our extremist, bifurcated political



Mark Fournier:

system and so on. So so now we back it up, okay, so we can



Mark Fournier:

conceive anything, apparently, we can believe anything. I



Mark Fournier:

thought. So that means that we actually can achieve anything



Mark Fournier:

because these things are true. And so I took that last one. Can



Mark Fournier:

we can anything we can conceive and believe. It doesn't say



Mark Fournier:

everything. We can conceive and believe it says anything. And



Mark Fournier:

there's a distinction there. Because if you pick something,



Mark Fournier:

and you put everything you've got into it, like in the movie,



Mark Fournier:

I use movies a lot, because they you know, they're so great at



Mark Fournier:

instantly telling a story in Apollo 13. You know, when it's



Mark Fournier:

when these this space, these guys were as good as dead. But



Mark Fournier:

the guy who was in charge said, Not on my watch, right? And he



Mark Fournier:

believed that they could find a solution. And so he focused



Mark Fournier:

hyperfocus, one guy comes up and says, Well, what about this one



Mark Fournier:

that goes wrong. And he goes, there's 300 things that could go



Mark Fournier:

wrong. Here, you're talking about 127, we need to figure out



Mark Fournier:

how to make this fit into that using nothing but these. And so



Mark Fournier:

let's focus on what's in front of us. So what I've realized



Mark Fournier:

over the years is anything. Not everything. Because everything



Mark Fournier:

if you believe, if you think of and believe a million things,



Mark Fournier:

and you're at nine years old, well, you might not make it for



Mark Fournier:

another 10 or 20 years, and you need 100 years to pull it off.



Mark Fournier:

So So what I tell people is, is make your list of if you were a



Mark Fournier:

limitless being, if there's nothing you couldn't do, make a



Mark Fournier:

list of all the things you do and then put them in order of



Mark Fournier:

priority. Because you might not ever get to 197, you might only



Mark Fournier:

get to the first three, well make sure those first three are



Mark Fournier:

something that you can live and die without regrets. And so this



Mark Fournier:

idea of the of this, of our potential, our potential is



Mark Fournier:

truly anything you can conceive and believe in once you can get



Mark Fournier:

to that point. There's just about nothing you can't do. And



Mark Fournier:

it's and they found the most successful people in the world



Mark Fournier:

and not that they're not, you know, better looking taller,



Mark Fournier:

smarter that they don't have, they didn't weren't born with



Mark Fournier:

with Infinite Wealth there. They average out to be. There's some



Mark Fournier:

that were attractive, someone somewhere had had a lot of money



Mark Fournier:

behind them. Some had nothing. There's no consistency, except



Mark Fournier:

for they came up with something they believed in it. And the



Mark Fournier:

third thing that is so critical, whether it's creating great



Mark Fournier:

relationships, or building a huge business, that one thing



Mark Fournier:

that all the most successful people have in common after



Mark Fournier:

there were studies on like, 1000s of people who were the top



Mark Fournier:

in their field, and they found there was one thing they all had



Mark Fournier:

in common. And it's something that anyone can have and it's



Mark Fournier:

perseverance. Once they believed it. They committed to it and



Mark Fournier:

they refused to give up. No matter what came along. They'd



Mark Fournier:

say, Okay, it's not a roadblock. It's a detour. I just need to



Mark Fournier:

find another way to get there. And they kept doing that until



Mark Fournier:

they figured out or created a solution. So not a short



Mark Fournier:

soundbite but an honest answer.



Howard Brown:

No, it's incredible. I so for those that



Howard Brown:

are listening or watching, you know what, you know, I always



Howard Brown:

look marks the smartest guy in the room today for sure because



Howard Brown:

I've got lots of other questions that go dig deep into quantum



Howard Brown:

consciousness and metacognition, but we don't have time for that.



Howard Brown:

But I am I do want you to do give me a short soundbite about



Howard Brown:

the difference between empowerment and enlightenment.



Mark Fournier:

All right, stated in a pithily empowerment in



Mark Fournier:

enlightenment, they each have their value. We hear



Mark Fournier:

empowerment. Almost everywhere we are teaching, we're



Mark Fournier:

empowering our children, empowering women empowering



Mark Fournier:

different cultures and so on. And what empowerment is, is it's



Mark Fournier:

the ability to influence the world around you. And what's



Mark Fournier:

wrong with that. Now, it doesn't say control the world around



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you, because we can't stop it from raining. Well, there's lots



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of things that we can't control. But we can influence the world



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around us. And the more empowered we become, the greater



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our influence becomes enlightenment, which is the one



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that I love the most of all, is the ability to influence the



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world within. And because we technically we live in the mind,



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that's 10 times more powerful, because you can actually control



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much of the world within, you can't control what's happening



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around me. But I can control this, I can control the lens,



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how I view it, how I respond to it, what I choose to do next, I



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have control over that. And, and that's enlightenment, the more



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powerful you are in regard to choosing what what stories you



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want you wish to write about yourself about the world around



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you a story is basically what do you think? What stories do you



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want to tell yourself? And what stories do you want to believe?



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That's really all reality is, it's just the stories you



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believe, that's your reality, there's not a reality. That



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reality, even if it exists, we can't see reality for what it



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truly is. Because in order to see, we have to put on a lens,



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just like in the old days, you'd have those cameras. And if you



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look through a camera without a lens, it was just blurry. So you



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put a lens on a zoom lens, a wide angle lens, whatever that



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lens was, that would decide it will not only help you see the



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world around you, but it will decide what that will look like



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a tiny spider and a wide angle lens looks like just nothing but



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a dot 20 feet away through a zoom lens, it says 10 foot tall,



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monstrous thing, two inches away, and you will respond not



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to the spider, which is really only this big and five feet



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away, you will respond to what it appears to be through your



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lens. So what could give us greater power than deciding the



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lens through which we see the world.



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I love it. And also a good friend of mine, Lauren belay,



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she



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talks about written energy and thought



Howard Brown:

energy is part of enlightenment. But anyways, the show is so



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short, we're going to have to move to put on your sunglasses



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now because oh my goodness, spotlight we are going to shine



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so brightly together. And again, this is a tease people are gonna



Howard Brown:

go find and dig deeper on you and, and seek you out. So tell



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everyone how they can get a hold of you. You have apps, you have



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books, you know you have programs, so tell people how



Howard Brown:

they should get a hold of you. And then let's let's go to the



Howard Brown:

show with some inspiration, share some inspiration with



Howard Brown:

after that.



Mark Fournier:

Okay, I'd love to thank you again, Howard. Thanks



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for having me on the show. And my, my primary website is the



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limitless coach.com. So that's easy, the limitless coach.com.



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And that's especially for those who are interested in in the



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possibility of coaching. I do one on one coaching is my



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primary contribution. My contribution to the world is



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through our our nonprofit, which we're building that site right



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now we just had finally got it registered the name limitless



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University registered and trademarked. We were waiting for



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that before and to get the 501 C three approved before we went



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really went into launch but so if you go there, there's a few



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things but please come back. Because we are launching all of



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my back catalogue is will all be for free. I've worked with some



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of the top personal development folks in the world. And we're



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getting all of their back catalogs and things that they



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don't really promote that much anymore. And getting them all to



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give it to the world for free. As many insights as we possibly



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can. And so the easy website for that is is limitless, the letter



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U limitless. you.org. And so those are two quick ways to find



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a little bit out. You can always email me directly. My my team



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won't, won't grab it and decide whether or not I can I get a



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chance to look at it if you send it to my direct email which is



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my name so it's mark at born yet inc.com And Fornia is f o u r



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and I er than letters I, NC. So market coordinating coordinate



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inc.com. And I'll answer one way or another, I won't be aI doing



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it. Although I do have some apps, and they're free. One, I



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recommend go to just go to your app store life balance test.



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That's how you get into it, it's free. It'll tell you where your



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life is in and out of balance 10 different areas. And it'll tell



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you how you run it out as a round wheel or a flat wheel. Are



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there areas that if you find that it's your score is low in



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some areas, that's where you want to focus. And then the



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other one is Omni coach, and it's all phonetically spelled.



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And Omni coach is the world's first AI driven, personal and



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career development coach. And that's, again, for the folks



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that they can't afford to coach with me directly. You can use



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Omni coach and it's incredibly powerful. When would you like me



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to segue into an inspiring close at this point,



Howard Brown:

let's give me some inspiration. Give it give it to



Howard Brown:

All right? All right. So



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let's go full circle. On something I said



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earlier about that week, when I thought I had ALS. The lesson



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was pretty simple. During that week, I came to terms with



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everything in my life, everything that mattered and



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everything that didn't, I discovered that very few things



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mattered. You know what car I was driving, it really came down



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to the relationships chips that I had developed. And had I



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earned my right to be here. Imagine we have to wait in line



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for a million years for a chance to come down to earth and



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there's an infinite number of souls waiting for this



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opportunity. And had I squandered that opportunity by



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watching 20 to 24 hours a day of television, had I made a



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difference in the world had I left any kind of a mark any



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legacy had I made a difference. And I had some things I was



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proud of and some regrets. But in the end, when they told me,



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We misdiagnosed and you're gonna be okay, you know, you're gonna



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have some issues and nasty side effects, but it's not going to



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kill you, you're gonna be okay. From that moment on. When we



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first started, I talked about appreciating life, about



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happiness and appreciation are just two sides of the same coin.



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And so you want to be happy, go into becoming a master of



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appreciation. Well, anything that happens to me no matter



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what it is, how unforeseen, how challenging, I always go to the



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same place. It's not ALS. It's not als can so see, we compare



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up. And that makes us feel terrible. We compare our lives



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to those who have more, we compare our health to those who



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have better, and so on, do the opposite compare down. There are



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a lot more people on this planet who are suffering than there are



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who've got it made. And so it's not that difficult. Once you get



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the hang of it to go, Holy cow, look at what I have compared to



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these, those people and this and this and that. And so don't let



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that something if you can carry that around. Without having to



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go through a week long diagnosis of ALS, just keep telling



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yourself. There's a show on I think it's either prime or



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Netflix called Gleason. And it's about a famous football player



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who ends up with ALS. And you see the whole progression of the



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disease. You you can't watch that show without walking away



Mark Fournier:

and saying this guy is making a difference in the world. If for



Mark Fournier:

no other reason, then he's showing us just how fortunate we



Mark Fournier:

are. Yeah,



Howard Brown:

so I love that Basler appreciation just a while



Howard Brown:

thank you for that. So this has been an amazing show, you're



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gonna have to you know, reach out to mark, check out the apps.



Howard Brown:

I mean, this is powerful stuff that can really move you



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forward. So you've been listening to the shining,



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brightly show. I'm Howard Brown, and you can reach me at shining



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brightly.com The books there, make bring me to your event.



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I'll make it shine, this podcast as well as my advocacy which is



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so dear to me and in cancer and mentorship and entrepreneurship



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and interfaith relations. And just a quick shout out to the



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people that make me look good. front edge publishing, read the



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spirit magazine, amplify you my podcasting group, and also



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diamond moments magazine. So this has been amazing and just



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remember, all right, if we choose to shine brightly, just a



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little bit each day for ourselves, take care of



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yourselves. Okay, and then shine brightly and lift up others we



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become a force multiplier for good and positive change. And we



Howard Brown:

do make the world a better place. Mark Fournier, all star



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guests. Thank you. I just enjoyed our short time together



Howard Brown:

when we need to spend more time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.



Mark Fournier:

Wonderful and thank you