Leanne Woehlke
It is a pleasure. It's an honor to have you here. And I appreciate you just for who you are, and for your willingness to make time for this. So thank you.
Tim Storey
You're very welcome.
Leanne Woehlke
I have to say when we first met you were talking about growing up in Compton, and, you know, the parts of LA and my dad grew up in Lincoln Heights in Boyle Heights. And so I felt this connection immediately to you.
Tim Storey
We would have been neighbors.
Leanne Woehlke
Yes. Yes, for sure. Tell us a little bit, Tim, if you can, about your background, you've got such a beautiful backstory. But how you grew up, and I think that shaped so much of who you are.
Tim Storey
Yeah, I think that, you know, predominately, my childhood was very happy. Um, I am innately optimistic. I see things a lot through the eyes of humor. I love comedians, ever since I was a kid, back in the days, you know, you had the big albums, and there were various comedians that were big at that time. And I would listen to those albums over and over again. So I So a lot of lot of life through comedy. So even though we were lower income, seven people in a two bedroom apartment to start with, it was interesting guys because I didn't really see us that way. I just saw that it was cramped. And but I was always thinking big and small places. So, you know, raised in low income family father was a steel worker 10th grade education, mother sixth grade age education, worked at a place called winches donut shop. Have any of you ever been to a winches? Please lift your hands.
Leanne Woehlke
Yes.
Unknown Speaker
And so um, we used to get the day old donuts. We had to wait till they were a day old. And then my mother would bring some home so yeah, That's how we that's how it started. But I think that that worked for me because I had a drive to do better. That's that's that's my, the genesis of Tim's story.
Leanne Woehlke
So when did you know you were destined for greatness?
Tim Storey
I knew I was destined for goodness.
I knew I was destined for at least goodness. When different people started to see that I had something to me. My sixth grade teacher, Mr. Robert asked me to stay after class. And he says, Timmy, I want to tell you that I think you are and I didn't know what he was going to say. And then he said, I think you are brilliant. Because you're brilliant. I want to see if you want to read some books from my personal library. And one of the books was a book written by Irving stone, about the life of Michael Angelo. Little did I know some 30 years later, I would meet the wife of Irving Stone, Jeanne Stone, who's now in heaven, and tell her this story and bring her to tears. Because by reading that book as a 10 year old, it just made my mind just go boom of what this Michelangelo guy did. And so I feel like I had a lot of very positive instructors who built me up anywhere from my school teacher, to my coaches in sports.
Leanne Woehlke
It's beautiful. It's amazing that you know that you were receptive to it and open and that you had those people that believed in you those believing mirrors to elevate you, and to really call forth the goodness inside you talk About a god idea versus a good idea, I've read your book and loved it. And how can you tell the difference? If it's something of you versus something of, of God?
Tim Storey
It's not easy at first, because I think number one, we're made in the image of God. And so because we're made in the image of God, I think within us we are creators, because God is a creator. So we're creators. And that's why you see little children. You can leave them on on their own for a while, and they are already playing. I'm a princess or a little boy, you know, I'm a fireman, I'm a policeman. And they're playing games because made in His image. We're, we're, we're creators, but I think that it's very important for us to be put in the right environment where we can allow ourselves to soar. And I find in my studies that a lot of people do not soar. Because the ceiling in their household, or the ceiling in their relationships are too low. And they don't allow them to go beyond the ceiling. And so that's very, very, very important that we let the creativity rise in all of us. And so, we learned three primary ways, education, observation, and conversation. And through education, I have learned through observation of even watching all of you on the screen, I'm staring at all of you, I see what's going on observation, but also conversation can change your life. One conversation can change your life forever.
Leanne Woehlke
For good or for bad. I think when I was growing up, I had a neighbor I was the kid that wanted to have the popsicle stick houses and I was convinced it was going to be this huge endeavor and we were going to make millions and neighborhood carnivals and did everything under the sun. But one of my neighbors said, Oh Leanne, and her big ideas, and so no longer Was it okay for me to have my big ideas. And the ceiling was lowered.
Tim Storey
Yeah. 100%. So that's why it's important to have more than one conversation was you I would have said, Hey, so and so said this. Hey, Carmen, what do you think?
Leanne Woehlke
I think I was like nine. Thankfully, I did have more conversations and my crazy idea. Continue now, as these guys can all attest to what would you say? A lot of people I work with People in the heart based entrepreneurial space primarily. And a lot of them as soon as that doubt comes up, they question Is this the thing to do even right now in the light of this interesting situation we all find ourselves in. People are doubting and what I'm finding is people are just throwing the towel in. What would you say?
Tim Storey
Well, I would say that we have to truly understand what life is about and that life is seasonal. Just as in many parts of the nation, not all, but there is a there's a winter that feels like winter. Because in LA doesn't really feel like winter. But there's a winter there's a spring there's a summer and there's a fall and that's how life is. And the great writer of Ecclesiastes, he's said says there's a time and a season for everything. There's a time to terror time demand. Time to be silent and a time to speak. COVID-19 is simply a life interruption like we've never seen before. Usually we'll see an earthquake in a certain part of the world or hurricane, a tornado that takes place 911. So those are usually found in locations. COVID-19 is the first of its kind, to literally hit every corner of this thing called the planet. And so it's a life interruption. But those of us that are all watching at one time, we have to be mature enough to realize that life interruptions are going to come and it could be you having a test done and finding you have cancer, or as a child, people get molested or people get delayed. Horse never thought that would happen. And so COVID-19 is just a bigger version of a life interruption that's touched a lot of people. But I do believe that it is innate. It is inside of us to handle these things. Because there's there's a, there's a scripture in the Bible that says that God's people are like a palm tree. And in my research about the palm tree is a palm tree can go as as far as 30 feet deep into the ground. The other thing is that in its trunk, it has built in elasticity. So watch how powerful this is. You Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, bounce, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben bounce. So to all of you that are there watching me and then all of you that are listening to us, hey, how many times if we think we were going to break for good but we we were bending Bending, bending, bending, bouncing back. So the bounce back is in you, you run deeper than you thought. And no, you know, no matter what you're going through, I believe that you'll find a way through it.
Leanne Woehlke
You tell a story about bounce, and you talk about how you used to play a lot of basketball. And you talk about how people sometimes lose their bounce. And it's like trying to bounce a partially flat basketball.
Tim Storey
I like it. You did do research on my basketball, illustration. Yeah, so I remember one time you were all excited, you know, we're kids, so I was like nine. And one of the kids Mikey, Mikey Gibson said, Timmy, do you have a basketball? I said, Yeah, he's because mine's flat. So I went into the garage into the area where we had this nice bin because everything was organized at my house and I got the balance. basketball. It felt awful, though when we got to the court, and I went to take my first dribble it was semi full and just kind of went kind of a not a complete flop. But it was not a high bounce. And I think if you're not careful, life cannot the bounce out of all of us. And so that's why it's so important that we have self care that we feed our faith and starve our doubts. That we strengthen ourselves. So that when, when the challenges of life hit, that we are filled with the air and the oxygen, so we maintain our balance.
Leanne Woehlke
It seems like pre COVID-19 a lot of people maybe lost their balance a lot of people that that were around Are you know 46 As their kids start to grow up, they have this epiphany like, Oh my gosh, how did I get here? What's the rest of my life? So in this eight week pause, they've kind of reconnected to themselves to something bigger than themselves, implemented some good habits. But I heard from one of our our clients going back to work and Tennessee just started to open back up this week and the end of last week. They're hitting up against that resistance again, because they're going back into something that no longer fits.
Tim Storey
Yes. So the reality is, is that in order to do well in life, we have to have internal motivation. So I have notes on motivation, that means inspiration, stimulation, enthusiasm, but I like these to drive and initiative. What most people have is inspiration that's kind of on the outside that lasts so long. And then it begins to leak out. For when somebody has internal motivation, stimulation, enthusiasm, driving initiative, it's hard to shake that out of them. So it's very important to realize that in the midst of life, there's two things you have to have. And number one, that's a healthy soul. A healthy soul that you have to you have to guard your daughter, son, your heart, and because you got to guard your heart because that's where the issues of life come from. joy, peace, strength, goodness, all come from the heart. The second thing you have to guard and that's your healthy mind. Because without a healthy mindset, you will not create, inspire and even want to work. So, in the COVID-19 isolation, or outside of isolation, please guard your heart, guard your mind. And if you do that you're pretty hard to stop.
Leanne Woehlke
Can you talk a little bit about what practices and principles you have to implement that yourself?
Tim Storey
I'm gonna make this super deep. I like to listen to Stevie Wonder. He builds me up. If you watch my instant story this morning, I was Bebop into other music. I love music. I'm moved by music. I love Marvin Gaye. I love music, Motown. I love music of today. And I'm friends with a lot of the people to do music of today. But I'm, I'm very moved by the 70s in the 80s because it it, it was in my years of development. So I go back there a lot. I use music to build me because of my faith. I do a lot of studying of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, it builds my faith builds my faith and starts with my doubts. And then I hang out with very positive people. I have an unfair advantage of most people is that most of my friends are extremely positive. And most of them are very smart, like this whole panel here. So yes, that's how I stay up here.
Leanne Woehlke
Top now yesterday, I guess it was Sunday, Mother's Day. I know you had a panel One of the people on that panel was Deepak Chopra. And he was talking about in this time of that we're in that people are going almost through stages of grief. And he said, the one stage that was super important that people get through to kind of transition through this whole process is the stage of meaning.
Tim Storey
Yes.
Leanne Woehlke
So what would you say? What is your meaning that you're creating through this COVID-19 time you have put yourself out there in amazing ways?
Tim Storey
Well, number one, thank you for thinking that. I think that, to me, is that meaning to me is goes back to creation and the fact that God created the heavens and the earth and he created human beings. I'm into I'm into human beings. So even though I may have a certain philosophy or follow a certain religious teaching, or I may be a person that was raised, you know, in an African American environment. What I'm into is human beings. And so, in a time where human beings are suffering, that's the thing that makes me rise up. So, I think stages number one, you live your life and out of living your life, fully present fully feeling fully alive. When you are full, you begin to overflow. See, I think too many people are giving just from their place of sacrifice, and their place of I'm giving because I have an empty tank and it's gonna make me feel good. A lot of my giving comes Out of my full tank. It really does. And if I feel like my tank is not full, I'm gonna go find a place to fill it. So, I'm in the meaning I'm in the matter. I'm in the purpose. And right now the world needs all of us to roll up our sleeves and help in our various ways. In one ways, I am helping us in the area of helping with the prisons COVID-19 hitting the prisons. I'm on Robert Downey Jr. His board, he created something that we're doing called Ark and prison reform. Now run by amazing people with my buddy Scott by Nick, and also with Sam who's running everything. So, you know, out of the fact that I care and then all you care, we step out and we extend our hands.
Leanne Woehlke
See, I know you talked a little bit about How you fill yourself up with music with Scripture in your face. But you talked about how you How else do you ensure that your tank is full?
Tim Storey
Ah, talking to you?
I think we're just making it like too robotic. Yeah, like I woke up today. And the first thought out of my mind was not like I feel so alive with the sound of music. Now I woke up in my body that's in my 50s said, Ah, that was the first thing I thought. Ah, okay, so then I decided to wash my face and brush my teeth. Usually I get to go right to the gym right from that, but now I can't. So I had some other things that I needed to do like I like to study And do devotions. And I like to exercise. But I went from out and then I went to my music is an amazing thing. They got these things nowadays. I don't know if you guys have seen them, the call phones. They play us. They play music and everything pleasing. Yeah. And if I don't go to that I go to TED Talks, YouTube channels. I love to watch documentaries and interviews. So yeah, I don't I'm not very robot robotic in this. And there seems to be a lot of people depending on me. But I don't really like go so deep in it like, ooh, they're depending on me. Come on, Tim. psych yourself out. No, I am a I'm a human being not a human doing. A child of the Most High God, and I'm tapped into the source and he flows through me.
Leanne Woehlke
Mm hmm. Yeah. And I think it's, you know, I think when people have even like a, like a toolbox of things like, Okay, if I'm noticing, I'm not feeling the way I want to feel. I can go to these things and they can help bring me up and you just listed off a ton of things that you do.
Tim Storey
Yeah. But then I don't mind the toolbox. toolbox could be watching Rene brown on YouTube. She's amazing. Reading a Brene Brown book. Some people exercise some people do yoga, some people go to meditation, some people listen to Joel Osteen in the morning. Some people do a lot of things. But don't be robotic in this. Be free flowing. Little kids when they wake up. They're looking for two things. Give me sugar and give me cartoons. The sugar is found in the cereal that these parents are in such a rush for like, here, little Kirsten, here, little Kylie, here's some cereal and watch the TV why mommy gets dressed, okay? And so kids are just flowing, they're going with the flow and then they get on the bus, or their parents driving to school and they're, they're there. They yell at their friends when they get to school. We got to get back to a lot of that spontaneous lifestyle. So guys, I've been going at it already for five and a half hours straight. My energy show doesn't seem like that way does it? In the last five and a half hours, I'm working on gigantic books. I'm working on movies. I'm working on a plank. We're doing a giant convention in Europe next year. We're doing no next month. We're doing another one in Africa next month. Hey, I'm not running out of juice because
I'm fully alive.
Leanne Woehlke
Has it always been that way for you, Tim?
Tim Storey
Well, there was one month...
I would, I would say, I would say I'm human. So there's there's times where things have happened to me that I created that were bad. Or that happened. So be it. You know, there's times and seasons for everything. I don't pride myself on being like an inspirational talker. I'm a, I'm a human being. That's an artist who is creating by the grace of God to pretty good art. And yeah, so if I don't feel good, I might stay in. If I'm having a hair, bad hair day, I may wear a hat. So
Leanne Woehlke
Well, that's that that makes perfect sense. You know, I think it is, is that sometimes, especially with social media, is we see the highlight reels of everyone's lives. And sometimes people think like, Am I the only one having a bad day or a bad hair day or the only one that can't get to the hair person because of we're locked down.
Tim Storey
I am totally okay with being undone. Jerry Seinfeld, you guys get to watch his new special on Netflix if you have not seen it. Because I'm a Seinfeld fan. And I've seen him in person. And in fact, Seinfeld came to watch me speak, which was pretty cool. And it came with Tom Hanks, so that's even cool. So I like Seinfeld. And he talks about how in your 50s you don't care as much. As you're sitting in your 60s. You don't really care that much what people think, and your 70s Forget about it. So I'm going to try to tell you because all of you look younger than the 50 mark that I'm over. I'm over 50 and I'm good with it. And so I don't mind being slightly and done. I don't mean mind being slightly disheveled at times. I'm known for being a good dresser. I'm known for having some style. I'm known for being pretty doggone good on a stage. But if I have a semi off day, whatever doesn't throw me off at all.
Leanne Woehlke
I think that that definitely turned 50 this year and it's definitely been like the the caring what others think has exponentially dropped. And I saw some other head shaking and people are like so i think it's it's a truth point. Talk about you elaborate on speaking things into existence. I know it originates in Proverbs. Can you share your stories around that?
Tim Storey
Yeah, I think that number one is that God gives us a revelation and that revelation is a calling.
So God God gives a calling, but then you have to cooperate with the calling. And I speak these this evening the secular crowds and they agree. So, so the revelation comes in your heart. It's like a calling your calling calls you. It could be for you guys that are watching. You care about pets. Your calling is to help pets or your calling is to feed the poor, whatever your calling is, but the calling comes but then you have to cooperate. That's where A lot of people break down they don't cooperate with the calling. The third thing is you have to build character. You're constantly building character to handle the calling from the building of the character, then comes the courage ah for I lose a lot of you guys, you got to have the courage to step out of the calling. Because God will always call you to something that seems slightly out of grasp. You know, like Abraham have a child, he's like, Hey, I'm 90. No abilities Ark, haven't seen rain. So all of us that are watching today, you have a calling. You should cooperate with that calling. Life will build character for that calling. Many times it'll come to coaches that we don't like instructors that we don't like. Sometimes even relatives we don't like.
And then we need to have the courage to step out.
Leanne Woehlke
So what do you think is your big calling?
Tim Storey
Um, what's big and what's small? My calling is to be great to my 89 year old mother. My calling is to be great to my two children who are not so small anymore. My calling is to show up on time for this amazing program you're having, which I did. What's big and what's small. I mean, I got a new deal with AMC theaters. I got a new book with HarperCollins. I'm working on a $25 million play. I have three new TV shows coming out next year. Whatever, what's big and what's small, big was seeing my mother the other day, but having to be 10 feet away from her. That's how I see life. Totally. I'm not limited by I'm not moved by what other people think is big.
Leanne Woehlke
Right. And that's I guess more so is what is it that? You know, you talked about having the courage to step into that next thing.
Tim Storey
I think that the courage is built up. Some of you remember how many of you remember going to a swimming pool, like at a high school that had three levels of diving boards? Or at least two. You all had to lift your hands or you lived in neighborhoods that were not good. Okay, so number one, you had the low dive, the middle dive, and the high dive. Here's how to build your courage. Do the low dive a lot. And you'll go like, look at me. I'm diving off to Lodi and then little Jenny will go Hey Amber, we're gonna try the mid dive. And now you get a little older, but Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo go up. And you guys jump off the mid dive, then you see one of your little rascally friends has the audacity to go up on the high dive. And then you do that. That's what I do. So there's a lot of things I'm not that greater, greater, but I'm getting better. Like, I've been asked to act in several movies. So I'm looking for my acting book of acting book around here. So I'm taking acting lessons, but I might end up being awful. But that's the low dive. I'm going to keep trying. Maybe get to the mid dive, and then I'll make sure and congratulate you guys. When I hold up my Academy Award.
Leanne Woehlke
Yes, please do. Are there people that you look to for inspiration You get higher inspiration for
Tim Storey
all of you. Lan I look to Betsy Amanda, Valerie, and dm l Y and N must be Lin.
Leanne Woehlke
Dawn.
Tim Storey
Yeah, I I get inspired by the guy at Panera Bread. I get inspired by the guy at the gas station. There's a kid at this gas station I go to he's an amazing artist. I get inspired by my friend Oprah Winfrey, getting to sit in her backyard and talk about life. I got inspired by people like Walter Matthau jack Lemmon. eating dinner once a month with Tony Curtis. I get inspired by a lot of types of people. Yeah, I get inspired by humans.
Leanne Woehlke
Beautiful and I love that you make it such a point to not differentiate who's other might think are big people and little people.
Tim Storey
No, come on. I mean, the thing is, is that I know some guys who deliver water that are happier than guys who are playing in the NBA making $9 million.
So, you know, I'd rather I'd rather be like a farmer. And super happy if that's my assignment, then be the guy. But I definitely do want to do my assignment and my assignment at this stage in my life is to influence people. So that's why that's working for me. But someday I might be a farmer, we'll see.
Leanne Woehlke
Well, in some ways you are because you're farming people. Right? You're growing people so pouring into people and helping them grow. So maybe you are a farmer.
Tim Storey
Okay. I'll take that.
Leanne Woehlke
You talk about pessimism, canceling faith. And in this timewhere there's so much unknown how would you suggest someone keep their faith?
Tim Storey
Pessimism will at least alter your faith. And faith is a Greek word pistas. It can be spelled p is p is faith in God or spiritual things. The more you study on a certain subject, your faith can grow. So let's say if you fly a lot, and you start to realize what these pilots have to do, to really fly an airplane, it'll build your faith. Because you'll say, Wow, they have to go through all these hours and they continue to train. So if you get on American Airlines, your faith is built, you don't need to go knock on the door and see if there's a gorilla in there flying the plane. Your faith is built, okay? If you if you find a dentist, if you're smart, you should at least Yelp them find out like could be nine people in a row like ah they used a drill on me that was illegal. So what I do to build my faith is I try to become educated on the subject where I did not have faith. And so if you if you want to have faith in God, then build yourself by reading the Bible. And that's going to give you more faith in God you want to be have faith in getting into an airplane, then, you know, study with a pilot has to do in order to fly. So if I want to have faith on now stepping into the Broadway world and doing it $25 million dollar play. It's taken me four years to build my faith to this level I've already had somebody that said they give me all the money but here's what the guy said he's very famous you guys know who he is he goes but Tim, but don't don't do anything dumb don't don't don't get in a deal with people because I have famous people involved in this thing. So the reason I have not jumped into it even though I have access to get into the money to do it, is because I'm still building my faith just because Cats worked forever, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, there's so many other plays that don't work. For all you people that don't know this. I mean, I think the percentage is up to as high as 90% of Broadway plays don't work. So I'm going to do my research to see if I want to step out for real In that area of faith,
Leanne Woehlke
Can you tell us what the play is going to be about?
Tim Storey
Yes, I'm doing a play on Michael Gabriel and he and Michael Gabriel, and Lucifer before the fall of man. It's very surface slay. And it's all how heaven was rhythmic. And it's out of this world. The music is out of this world. The famous musicians I have that have said there'll be a part is out of this world. You're gonna feel the angels fly by, you're gonna feel the wings, the energy. Yes, that's what that plays about. Angels.
Leanne Woehlke
And you wrote this?
Tim Storey
I wrote about 70% of it.
Leanne Woehlke
Okay, how did you come up with this idea?
Tim Storey
Sitting at home At home one day, ladies. No I, I'm always like, intrigued by things. So I started being in these conversations and people from all walks of life and all these faiths kept talking about angels. And so it started out made me think then I would start seeing, like, women were wearing angels or people were really talking about angels. So I thought, let me start studying about how many people believe in angels, and it's most of the world from all faiths. And there's limited understanding on angels. And so I just decided to start seeing some shows, and how sometimes they would use something that looked angelic. And then I started getting costumes on angels with my partner who's helping me with this and we would get costumes to look at what the angels would look like. And then it just started going wild. Then I went to probably one of the three most well known artists in the world today. And they said yes, I'm interested, then I knew I was onto something.
Leanne Woehlke
That's beautiful. I love that you are able to see those signs of when something keeps showing up again and again and that you're willing to trust it. I feel like sometimes I get like a kinesthetic feeling like I need to go talk to this person. And actually, you were one of those when I first met you. And the first night, when we chatted a bit, I didn't ask you and then the next day I was like, Well, I have nothing to lose. What can I you know? Why not?
Tim Storey
Tell them how nice I was. I was told these ladies right here.
Leanne Woehlke
You were amazing. You were amazing. So we met the first night at a reception where you spoke for a little bit up at Jason's place. In gosh, like up in Hermitage way far away. And then the next day you spoke at the City Current event. And then he was doing photos and things after. And I went and I asked him, and I said, and I had just started my podcast. And I think at that point we had charted at 58 that day, which was pretty exciting for me for not really knowing what I was doing. And I said, Hey, I don't know if this is possible, but what would it take for you to be on my podcast? And you said, it's not impossible. And you told me how to reach out and I did. And Joseph was amazing.
Tim Storey
Yes. So let me tell you, on that day, on a scale of one to 10, I felt that three so for about six months, I was dealing with something that I never even had heard of heard of ladies, gut health. So for some reason for Long time I started getting dizzy, I was dizzy. I was dizzy all the time. And I was losing my energy. And I was going to the gym had a young little cocky trainer who pushed me too hard. And I was eating pretty good. going to the gym in shape for guide my age and dizzy, tired. Brain fog. I didn't know what it was what I went and spoke at that event that you're talking about, on a scale of one to 10 I felt that three. In fact, I was so bad but I never told anybody this first time I've said that that's how I felt at that event. Even to get from the car to the place where I was going to go speak. I was completely dizzy. When I got up I was completely dizzy. But never said I'm dizzy. Was on my game took pictures with 111 million people. Kissed babies. And that's how I see it. Sometimes you got to play heart hurt and just keep quiet about it. It's the first time I mentioned that. Just because all the ladies here look so compassionate I thought, let me share my "I'm hurt" story.
Leanne Woehlke
But I think it's important because you're like there's always that decision is do I allow my physical state to determine how I show up in any situation?
Tim Storey
Come on. Every one of us is playing hurt. We're going through recovery discovery one side at the same time. So it could be you're hormonal, it could be it could be your your hair's getting grayer and you You don't know where to do it because the salons are closed. These are huge challenges people. It could be can't sleep at night. We're all going through something, recovery and discovery. And what I love about humans is how it's built in us to play hurt. We are resilient. I remember my mother, who was Spanish, I'm mixed heritage. My mother is Spanish Besintita Gonzalez is her name if thats not Spanish enough. We were watching Telemundo. The news and there was a picture of Britney Spears, when her babies were smaller. And that in that picture- and watch in the picture. She was almost dropping her baby. She was she was coming down and stepping and almost dropping her baby. And I said Mom, look that Britney Spears almost dropped her baby. My mom says "I used to drop you all the time."
Yeah. Because Listen, we're all we all got faults, flaws and failures, big deal. Big deal. Like I could pull it together pretty good ladies, you know, I got to run with my little Beverly Hills crowd. But in the midst of that, sometimes I'm showing up, hurt, not feeling good. And sometimes not even liking some of those people I got to hang around with. But we're all going through something. Is that true, Amanda?
Amanda Jones Valero
That's very true. I agree. Absolutely agree.
Tim Storey
So you got built up today. You learned a little bit.
Amanda Jones Valero
I feel good about it. Yeah. We'll try sourcing stuff I've jotted down into the journal.
Tim Storey
Good.
Yeah, absolutely.
Amanda Jones Valero
Appreciate you sharing with us
Tim Storey
the privilege any any other questions from any of the ladies on this amazing panel. Speak now or forever hold your peace. Lift your hands if you would like to say something.
Valerie Neill
So I question I'm from a small town And I'm pretty, kind of from a very rural kind of family upbringing and country folk and that sort of thing. And so one of the things I've always kind of struggled with is this kind of abundance scarcity mindset, like I have a growth mindset that's been innate in me, and I totally am vibing with a whole we're created to create that. That's deeply resonant. Um, but I usually am, like, I'll go go, go and I'll like wanna cuz I'm enneagram six, I'm like, I'm going to take fourth, I'm going to be loyal. I'm going to learn this I'm going to grow and then I hit a roadblock. And then I'm just like, No, I'm just like these people over here. Oh, like, you know, and then I listened to the voice, you know, never amount to anything. And it feels like I'm always kind of the push pull of them grow like the scarcity and abundance mindset and I feel like it's I kind of I'm studying sociology and all of that, like, that's kind of also my background. And so I look at pockets of America. And if you look at certain pockets of America, and especially where there's poverty and things like that, the mindset is very much in a scarcity mindset. But if you it's taken people to get out of that, but not everybody escapes, right? Not everybody gets out of it. And I almost feel like I am almost like between two worlds. Always like I, I just, I just, I just go back to it. So what would you say to that? I don't even know if that's a real question.
Tim Storey
No, it is it. It's a it's a comment. But it's also a real question that I love. Now, let me tell you what I've found in traveling, because I've been to every state in America but to and I've been to 75 countries of the world. I believe that certain people like in Kansas are much more happy than some of my really wealthy friends in West Palm Beach. I'm convinced by that they don't like traffic. They weren't built for all that traffic. They weren't built for all the noise. And so they have found a lifestyle where they feel like this is the lifestyle that I have, what I believe in is prospering where you're planted. So let's say if you live in Idaho, prosper and Idaho small town in Wisconsin, prosper there, New York City, prosper there. But but one person's way of prospering may not be another person's way of prospering. Like for you Do you have children
Valerie Neill
No.
Tim Storey
I think with Valerie, is that if I was life coaching her, I want her to be uniquely Valerie. You've been born in original don't copy. I don't want anything out of you to manifest. It's not you. And so Valerie may be quietly be an amazing writer. She may be a therapist someday. She may write a screenplay. She may just raise amazing kids and that's an amazing life. So the key is to prosper where you are planted. And don't let this society put this undue pressure on all of us of what we're Supposed to be achieving, achieving, achieving, I believe that this quote unquote achievement comes out of the harvest that you get from plowing the ground, planting the seed watering the seed, then you reap a harvest. Oh, my goodness, that was amazing Tim Storey, and that's why we're all applauding.
Leanne Woehlke
That was good. Very good. I gotta wonder, Tim, do you think that the people that you're friends in in LA and Palm Beach and wherever, that part of why they appreciate you so much and why you are such a well sought out life coach to all kinds of celebrities and so forth, is because you keep it so real.
Tim Storey
Yes, that's the answer. No doubt about it. Because there's only two of us that are at this level one is a psychiatrist. So he's dealing mainly with them on psychiatric problems and then, but in this, I would be the first guy. It's not by accident. If seven sought my attention, then you know you're onto a good little business. When it gets into the hundreds, then you know you're onto something. When so hundreds worldwide, then you know you're really onto something. And part of it is my approach is this. You could see a person on TMZ and they'll look for me the next day. And they'll want to talk about the dilemma. And they'll say, Now, Tim, you know what happened to me. I mean, you probably saw it's all over the news. And I'll say, you know, somebody told me You are a golfer. When did you start playing golf? And they'll go when I was nine, like, out of all the courses that you've been to Kimmy your two favorite courses, and I do this all the time and after the session, many of these stars will go. What the heck did you do to me? All I know is I feel better. I said, because you came with this massive dilemma. Okay, and you want to drop it on my table, and you wanted me to solve it in an hour. It's not gonna happen. This problem you created it took you 26 years to create. So sometimes to untie a knot. Look, you guys just take your time. I'm a master at untying knots. And don't ask me to cook. It's not gonna be good, but a master at untying a knot.
Leanne Woehlke
So I know you had an event scheduled in Nashville that got postponed due to things is that rescheduled?
Tim Storey
Yeah, it's gonna come up that's with me and coach Bert. Coach Bert is fantastic is my good friend. He's gonna be on my Tim Storey live, which is averaging about 150,000 people watching those on Sunday nights. So we will do that later this year. We're going to Nashville, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles. And the whole idea is turning your setback into comebacks. So that's going to be good. And also, if you don't mind me talking about something that I'm doing called the World Shakers Network every Monday night, I just dialogue with people. I'm teaching on the hundred traits of the greats. So each Monday I take one of the traits, so so, so, so, so good, and it's such a difficult price of $19 and 99 cents a month.
How many can afford that?
You better Lift your hands, guys. Have some faith. And so all my friends like, why is it so inexpensive? Because I like humans. So I like dialogue. So you know, it's gonna be thousands of people. But on zoom, you can now have thousands of people I spoke to 9300 people the other day on zoom. So the world shakers network, just go to www.timstorey.com. It says everything there, you should invest in yourself. You're worth $19 a month.
Leanne Woehlke
And then how else can people keep in touch with you?
Tim Storey
I think the best way is my Instagram. We seem to do a lot of posts on there. And that is @TimsStoreyofficial.
