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Scott Ferguson
Meet this Weeks Guest: Scott Ferguson
L. Scott Ferguson is a Mental Conditioning Coach, a Lifestyle Optimization Artist (fancy term for ‘Life Coach’), a Relationship Creator, Micro Influencer and the host of the award-winning Time To Shine Today Podcast. His mission is to NOT have ANYONE feel like they have NO-ONE.
Scott has figured out, through being coached and actively Leveling UP others that: Everyone knows what they want, but do not know how to talk themselves into it. And through powerful transformational conversations, Scott’s passion is to help YOU Level UP to your human potential!
Scott’s story was highly sought after by people in the entertainment business, which he was not ready to share until now.
At Time To Shine Today Scott shares Knowledge Nuggets to help individuals and teams to Level UP both in business and personal.
Scott is a Veteran of the United States Navy with multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc in the early to mid 1990’s. Scott considers himself a Real Estate ‘Junky’. Loves to give, live intentionally, Jiu Jitsu, the beach, fitness, yoga, rescuing fur-babies and volunteering.
Show Notes from This Episode
We know first-hand the struggle of trying not to take the job home with us and let it affect our families. We know the toll the law enforcement career can have on marriages and relationships. And we also have been frustrated by the lack of authentic leadership in our agencies. This Law Enforcement Podcast was designed to help you overcome the mental toll of the law enforcement career and the negative effects it can have on your personal life.
Hosted by active-duty law enforcement, we bring you two weekly podcasts. On Thursday, in The Interview Room we sit down with amazing guests who provide actionable advice on leadership, mental health, and relationships from their lived experiences. On Monday, in Morning Roll Call, you and I enjoy a cup of coffee and discuss current events, offer encouragement, and discuss practical steps for achieving the life we were meant to live.
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00:00:00:09 - 00:00:23:16
Scott Ferguson
Hey, this is Scott Ferguson, mental conditioning coach with time to shine today. And if you really I mean, really want to learn how to level up your life, you should be listening to the on the Blue Line podcast with my good friend Wayne Mulder. Let's level up.
00:00:23:18 - 00:00:42:09
Wayne Mulder
Welcome, my friend, to the On the Blue Line podcast for law enforcement. I'm your host, Wayne Mulder, and this is the podcast that helps law enforcement officers overcome the mental health toll of the profession to become better leaders and protectors on and off the job. How was that intro? A little bit different. You've already got to meet this week's guest in the interview room.
00:00:42:09 - 00:00:59:05
Wayne Mulder
That is Scott Ferguson. A great shout out from him. And I tell you, he's an incredible guy. But more on that in a minute. In this episode, we discuss everything from rescuing dogs, the importance of gratitude, his time in the military, on and on it goes. We hit a lot of topics, and I'm sure you're going to enjoy this.
00:00:59:07 - 00:01:05:15
Wayne Mulder
So another fun episode is in front of you, the On the Blue Line podcast. Well, it starts now.
00:01:05:17 - 00:01:13:05
Because, you know, it's going to get better. The seasons know when to change.
00:01:13:09 - 00:01:20:01
Scott Ferguson
Feather wanted to show leadership in the face of disease when there's, you know, dissenting.
00:01:20:01 - 00:01:46:20
Wayne Mulder
Opinions and arguments and you know we just have to weeks. All right. Well, welcome to the podcast. I'm going to get a couple of news items out of the way. Just real quickly. We've been releasing a morning roll call every week. They come out Mondays at zero 500, and it's available on all sorts of platforms. But if you just want to go to either the YouTube page or the rumble page or to the website on the blue line icon, be sure to check out the other podcast.
00:01:46:20 - 00:02:02:16
Wayne Mulder
So right now we have Morning Roll Call comes out on Mondays and we have the interview room that comes on Thursdays. And I've got something in the works that I am hoping I will be able to tell you about in about two weeks plus or minus that I think you're going to enjoy as well. So that is coming.
00:02:02:16 - 00:02:20:11
Wayne Mulder
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00:02:20:11 - 00:02:45:17
Wayne Mulder
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00:02:45:17 - 00:03:10:09
Wayne Mulder
It makes a huge difference to trying to get this out to more people to see it, and I really appreciate the positive feedback from each and every one of you. So this week's guest, Scott Ferguson, needs very little introduction. He's a mental conditioning coach, a lifestyle optimization artist, pretty much a fancy word for being a life coach, but relationship creator, micro influencer and the host of the award winning Time to Shine Today podcast.
00:03:10:11 - 00:03:36:01
Wayne Mulder
And his mission is to not have anyone feel like they have no one. And I love that sentence and we talk a lot about it as we go through today's podcast. He's a coach. He loves to work with people and powerful transformational conversations that he has with people from all over, and he is highly sought after by people in the entertainment business to tell his story, which he actually shares a little bit of here.
00:03:36:01 - 00:03:54:01
Wayne Mulder
And I know you're going to enjoy that. He calls his love of his insights, knowledge, nuggets. And I had the privilege of being on his podcast, and now I've had the privilege to sit down with him and get to ask him the questions, which is what I bring for you today. So without taking any more time, here's this week's guest, Scott Ferguson.
00:03:54:02 - 00:03:55:18
Wayne Mulder
Yeah, welcome to the show.
00:03:55:20 - 00:03:56:23
Scott Ferguson
Hey, wait, How are you doing, brother?
00:03:57:00 - 00:04:01:15
Wayne Mulder
I'm doing great. It is awesome to be able to link up with you yet again.
00:04:01:17 - 00:04:20:00
Scott Ferguson
And oh, it's like back to back weeks. I know. Kind of back to back. Me. Well, your show just dropped last week. You absolutely killed it. Fantastic. You I'm sorry. I have to say 4800 downloads so far. That's pretty damn good, man. So I really appreciate you coming on, man, and dropping those knowledge nuggets. Well, you're blessed to be here, man.
00:04:20:02 - 00:04:30:20
Wayne Mulder
Scott, every time I've had the privilege of spending time with you, it's been absolutely not only an expansion of knowledge and education on my end, but it's just a good time. And for that, I thank you.
00:04:30:20 - 00:04:36:01
Scott Ferguson
So I appreciate you because I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants and passing forward what they give me. Dude.
00:04:36:03 - 00:04:38:02
Wayne Mulder
That's to really be ready.
00:04:38:04 - 00:04:39:10
Scott Ferguson
Absolutely.
00:04:39:12 - 00:04:46:09
Wayne Mulder
Well, let's start with my easy questions. These are the softballs, if you would sit coffee or tea.
00:04:46:11 - 00:04:48:00
Scott Ferguson
Or coffee all day. Coffee.
00:04:48:00 - 00:04:54:10
Wayne Mulder
All right. Now, is it black or do you add something to it? Or a specialty coffee or what's your thing?
00:04:54:10 - 00:05:24:19
Scott Ferguson
Scott I add stevia, and every once in a while add a little kratom to it. It's it's a leaf that's found in Southeast Asia. It's helped with PTSD, which I have dealt with and also other veterans. And Kratom is is relatively new is 100% legal but it's kind of really helps with focus takes away a lot of the pain in your body and and I do you know I had maybe just a third of a teaspoon of brought them in with like a packet of stevia.
00:05:24:21 - 00:05:30:20
Scott Ferguson
There you go. Not not that junky stuff. Stevia is actually the monk fruit in the in the sweetener pulled from the monk fruit.
00:05:30:22 - 00:05:33:02
Wayne Mulder
Right. Not some chemical concoction that they dream.
00:05:33:02 - 00:05:42:00
Scott Ferguson
Yeah. Yeah. I don't believe in ultra high process anything if my grandma couldn't make it in the kitchen. I try not to eat it but you know pretty wise.
00:05:42:03 - 00:05:47:08
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. What's your favorite place to have that drink?
00:05:47:10 - 00:06:04:11
Scott Ferguson
Well, there's this thing right here. A lot of blue, and it has some white stuff on the top form, and it's called the Atlantic Ocean. So I like I'd like to kind of look at it that and let my people run along the water and my rescue pedi statue and have I enjoy my coffee in the morning and gratitude.
00:06:04:11 - 00:06:07:09
Scott Ferguson
And so my intentions for the day now, it's awesome.
00:06:07:11 - 00:06:14:14
Wayne Mulder
Yeah, I find that that question always lends to either mountains or beaches or woods or some space where we can decompress.
00:06:14:16 - 00:06:22:20
Scott Ferguson
Absolutely. Yeah. It's funny you want to get amped up for the day, right with the coffee, but you want to decompress at the same time. So I love it.
00:06:22:22 - 00:06:25:05
Wayne Mulder
So now I don't see those things as mutually exclusive, you.
00:06:25:06 - 00:06:26:18
Scott Ferguson
Know, like they need a.
00:06:26:18 - 00:06:27:21
Wayne Mulder
Little bit of both.
00:06:27:23 - 00:06:33:09
Scott Ferguson
Right? It's like a systemic thing, you know, both of them, they kind of run your whole day, which is beautiful.
00:06:33:11 - 00:06:39:06
Wayne Mulder
You're absolutely right. So do you have a best or worst travel story?
00:06:39:08 - 00:07:03:18
Scott Ferguson
You know, being in the military, which I know you're going to probably touch on Singapore, man, is where I went there four times on trips over the Gulf, Persian Gulf and Afghanistan and whatnot. But like, I've been back twice and it's the most beautiful, excuse me, city where there's no littering. If you litter, if you chew gum in the street, you're going to jail.
00:07:03:20 - 00:07:17:01
Scott Ferguson
But it's so modern, it's so beautiful. And that's that said, I haven't really had any bad travel stuff. I've had bad things, but I'm out to make great memories. So even with that, I can deal with that.
00:07:17:04 - 00:07:21:06
Wayne Mulder
I love the positive outlook, but we'll get more into that as well. But I love the way you frame it.
00:07:21:06 - 00:07:23:02
Scott Ferguson
Scott Thanks, man.
00:07:23:04 - 00:07:27:14
Wayne Mulder
So do you have a favorite or most meaningful nonfiction book?
00:07:27:16 - 00:07:47:04
Scott Ferguson
My favorite nonfiction book is a traveler's gift on which was handed to me in a very, very dark time of my life. Basically, it's just a business parable. It's by Andy Andrews. He's a Christian. He's a Christian comedian, believe it or not, are super funny, like Eddie Murphy's had brought him on like other people brought him on just because he's so funny.
00:07:47:04 - 00:08:09:23
Scott Ferguson
But he's clean. And I'm not a do gooder by any means. But he wrote a book of travelers from a guy is he loses its corporate job, daughters die and gets fired from his hardware store jobs. I came here. If I run my car into a tree, I can kill myself and my family will get the insurance money so my daughter can be take care of what would be hits.
00:08:09:23 - 00:08:27:13
Scott Ferguson
The tree, wakes up in 1945 and give them hell. Harry Truman's office the day before he dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And he's taught him a lesson. And he went to see King Solomon. He taught him wisdom and Frank for happiness in the book was Enemy in a time where in 2009 I've read it 17 times since.
00:08:27:15 - 00:08:39:16
Scott Ferguson
It just it is so cool. The people that this man travels through time gets lessons to really level up his life, and I implement them all in my coaching and in my life as well.
00:08:39:18 - 00:08:46:05
Wayne Mulder
That's powerful. I will definitely look that up. I've seen some of Andy Andrew stuff, but I don't know that I've read that book so absolutely. Check that out.
00:08:46:05 - 00:08:51:22
Scott Ferguson
Right. And if Andy, if you listen, I got to get on my podcast, man, you're your team I think is blocking my emails and stuff. It's weird.
00:08:51:24 - 00:08:58:02
Wayne Mulder
It's funny how that happens, isn't it? But you never know what someone may never.
00:08:58:02 - 00:08:58:18
Scott Ferguson
Know, man.
00:08:58:18 - 00:08:59:10
Wayne Mulder
So you got to.
00:08:59:10 - 00:09:04:22
Scott Ferguson
He said he's listened to it, he likes it. It just his timing is crazy because of his travel schedule, which I do believe that.
00:09:05:00 - 00:09:27:05
Wayne Mulder
I absolutely believe that as well. So let's get started. You've got a powerful story kind of growing up and kind of, you know, those beginning years or the old what they call an origin story these days, I guess. Would you mind just kind of taking us there? Because I think it I think it really feeds into a lot of what you're doing today in the show, through there, through the journey that brings us to now.
00:09:27:07 - 00:09:44:01
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, man I appreciate your for asking us more than somebody to just turn 51 and that's one of the Philippine Islands and the Vietnam War is still going on. At that time, I, my American biological father, kind of had a little Liberty Port of Liberty, little time off in the Philippines and kind of knocked up a little Filipino woman.
00:09:44:03 - 00:10:09:15
Scott Ferguson
And he just went off to Vietnam. And at the time mixed breed bastard male children were literally after birth being taken from the mother and shipped to Spain because Spain controls the Philippine Islands. The reason why they did that is I'm 61, I'm about to 40 to 50. I'm pretty well put together. And they didn't want have people my size or even because the average Filipinos man is about five three about 40 right.
00:10:09:17 - 00:10:28:09
Scott Ferguson
They didn't want a lot of us like mine in your size way and running around and taking over the country physically. That was their thought process. So literally they were being shipped to Spain by an Air Force couple that was stationed in Subic Bay, was looking. They had two kids. They wanted to keep a child. And so they said when I was born there, literally handed it to the Mr. or Mrs. Donald.
00:10:28:14 - 00:10:50:01
Scott Ferguson
It was the family that was going to adopt me or that tried to start. They took me. Her father got the woman was going to die. Her father got sick in California. So they got me a temporary passport, which I still had to the state. Temporary passport brought me to California. Her father dies. She goes schizophrenic. They can't raise me because the father was basically raised on his own, too, On their own.
00:10:50:01 - 00:11:10:09
Scott Ferguson
And I'm still infant. I'm about 14 months old. And so they ended up put me in an orphanage, man, I hung out there for a few years and I ended up I don't remember much of it, but what I do was not fun and I ended up getting adopted by a family here in Michigan. My father, my mother, who I call my mom and dad.
00:11:10:11 - 00:11:25:14
Scott Ferguson
And but my father was a Vietnam vet at the end of the battle, you know, because they didn't have the programs to really help people come back from a war that no one thought they were going to we should be in anyways. And he was the bottle. They couldn't raise me. They divorced when I was like three and a half, four years old.
00:11:25:17 - 00:11:46:16
Scott Ferguson
Now four or five years old, there's an orphanage for it. And and so I was shipped off and I was raised for five or six years by a police officer, ex-Marine, hard core dude. Everything was sir. Yes, sir. No, ma'am. Everything. He believed in the in punishments the way that they kids these days get time out. We got knocked out.
00:11:46:20 - 00:12:00:12
Scott Ferguson
We got out of line. Right. So they raised me and I love them. I still call them my mom and dad, even though my father was my best friend that ended up adopting me. He's my best friend. And we hang out. We talk all the time. But you know, my Uncle Johnny, my iPad, Dad, there's still a mom and a dad.
00:12:00:12 - 00:12:19:02
Scott Ferguson
And they raise me. Mother, My father got sober, went back to live with him, excelled at sports. But they and I got looks from from schools, but they didn't like my 1.8 grade point average. So my dad is like, dude, if you're going to live here, you're going to start paying us rent, get a job. And I'm like, Oh, so a friend of mine is like, Do what about the military?
00:12:19:04 - 00:12:39:00
Scott Ferguson
And so I joined the Navy in 1990, you know, did some time in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Afghanistan, a bunch of western Pacific cruises as well. Had a great time, built a family. The closest that I know to family at the time where we were just close and really leaned on each other. The other military built three successful businesses.
00:12:39:02 - 00:13:00:00
Scott Ferguson
They fell through went through a time where I was, you know, in the real estate when I was building them, I was printing money. Man, I'm very arrogant with it and just lost everything because I didn't listen to my advisors. From there, I lost stuff, but I made sure all creditors were paid back and it was just me and a rescue Rhodesian ridge back.
00:13:00:02 - 00:13:14:14
Scott Ferguson
We were hanging out, living out of a car. This is no joke, man. It's not a car living at rest stops and stuff. And a friend of mine, I was in the real estate business too. I was taking this rage back to all my showings and, you know, a car that was 12 years old. And a friend of mine, as I came by, my sister has moved to Florida.
00:13:14:14 - 00:13:34:05
Scott Ferguson
She wants you to sell their house. It's run down. It's rancid, you know? So they moved to Florida. I moved into their house without them knowing and stayed there. I went to a library because that's the only place I could afford to go. And I had to be that book, The Traveler's Gift, Man. And I read it, devoured it and everything else by Andy Andrews and really started to put together.
00:13:34:05 - 00:13:50:07
Scott Ferguson
I was coming from a place of service then where before, as a vulture man, I preyed on your misfortunes. All you lost your house. Sorry. We'll take it from you. You know, stuff like that. And it just really turned around. That's why I watch Time to Shine today. Or it was actually time to shine like an idiot. I didn't trademark it.
00:13:50:09 - 00:14:04:13
Scott Ferguson
And I added today on it, and we we've been going, I guess it's 13 years strong. We just don't want to have anyone to feel like they have no one man. So that's my 30 foot 3000 foot view. And some crazy times, but good times. Very grateful.
00:14:04:15 - 00:14:16:04
Wayne Mulder
Absolutely. And knowing you, what I love about it is I can see how the tapestry weaves together, you know, And it's really amazing. I know that the listener, you know, the price. Then they're like, Man, that's a lot. That just needs.
00:14:16:04 - 00:14:17:22
Scott Ferguson
It. Yeah, don't pack it up.
00:14:17:24 - 00:14:30:19
Wayne Mulder
But knowing you, I really see kind of the beauty through, you know, those times of tragedy and setback. But we'll get a little bit more into that as we go. I got to ask, what what were the sports that you were what was the what were you concentrating on that.
00:14:30:19 - 00:15:00:12
Scott Ferguson
Really good at? That I should say good. But I was I excelled at wrestling. Okay. You know, I love the individual sports. I did play baseball at a pretty decent level, but it was it was mainly my main sport was wrestling. Okay. So get looks from Michigan to such a hard state to wrestling. It's kind of like your Iowa was and you're Indiana's and Ohio's when it comes to wrestling Pennsylvania's and it's so it was like I never want to see championship but I came down close and you know it just it taught me when you're wrestling you stand alone.
00:15:00:17 - 00:15:15:19
Scott Ferguson
There's no one to pass the ball to. There's nothing that you and I should be wrestling partners like I could wrestle weight class above you. We're going at it all day. So there's a team aspect. When I walk out in that matter, you walk out of I can't help you no matter how much I want to. Right. You stand alone and I dig that.
00:15:15:19 - 00:15:33:16
Scott Ferguson
I really like it. So which is helped me, really. So it's been a kind of like a bad thing. I won't call it a bad thing. Maybe a little bit of a negative thing, because it's hard for me as a person to reach out to other people for help. And a lot of that stems back to individual sportsman, you know what I'm saying?
00:15:33:16 - 00:15:35:08
Scott Ferguson
So but I've gotten better.
00:15:35:10 - 00:15:55:19
Wayne Mulder
As you said, there's pros and cons to that because I think there is sometimes a strength in that individualism, right? In that ability to to find something deep within ourselves, to put it through and so forth. But then there's a failure if we lose the concept of community or we lose this ability to communicate.
00:15:55:21 - 00:16:19:23
Scott Ferguson
Right. And I found an awesome jujitsu family up in Michigan. And then another one here in Florida where I can still compete. I'm 51 years old, still getting after it. But again, it's just that family and building that solid team around you and supporting them is they're going to levels that are just going to blow mine all the water, but still they're there for the old man to get on the mat and compete as well.
00:16:19:23 - 00:16:22:01
Scott Ferguson
So it's kind of cool. Yeah.
00:16:22:03 - 00:16:42:12
Wayne Mulder
Another take away. Well, let me first ask, so during your time in the service and speaking more from a philosophical standpoint, is there any lessons that kind of came out of it? Like we're talking a little bit here of teamwork, we're talking about some of these excellent central concepts was because it seems to me like that was kind of a turning point in some ways for you.
00:16:42:14 - 00:16:47:24
Wayne Mulder
You go into the service. So what were some of those lessons that you kind of gathered during those years?
00:16:48:01 - 00:17:08:03
Scott Ferguson
The biggest lesson that I really learned is two things. One is don't take life too seriously. You're never making it out alive, right? So the military, there's a lot of downtime. All you see on TV is, you know, yeah, that's still after let's get out, kill the bad guy, whatnot. There's a lot of downtime. And during that downtime, you have a lot of time to think.
00:17:08:05 - 00:17:29:13
Scott Ferguson
You start thinking about the negative things. So I had some really great people that I worked for the military that said that and come to find out it was a one liner from a funny movie, but it was a it's something that really stuck with me. And the second thing is like I was raised really Christian, so I rebelled against Christianity in faith in God.
00:17:29:13 - 00:17:50:16
Scott Ferguson
And I'm not a holy roller Bible, but I have a relationship with my God. And when you're in lesson that I learn is you can get a really big ego during that time. And I've learned henceforth and in even with my clients and coaching them is everything you want. That's good. It's close to your creator, right? Whether it's making money, love.
00:17:50:18 - 00:18:10:01
Scott Ferguson
And the further I got away from my creator, the bigger ego I got. So, you know, edging God out ego, right? So that's what I really learned is, you know, another senior chief had said to me, man, ego, he wrote, Edging God out. It's like, wow, you know, it could be your career. So it could be ego. For some people, it's edging your creator out.
00:18:10:05 - 00:18:32:08
Scott Ferguson
You know, I don't want to go, you know, with my faith. But ego is a big thing that I dealt with that the military helped me put in check and get me closer to my creator about. And I didn't. I got close, but then I got that my creator gave me that abundance, that monetary abundance I wanted, you know, But I again, I was that douchebag at family reunion showing up at $100,000 car.
00:18:32:08 - 00:18:53:01
Scott Ferguson
Look at me, look at me. But I was still edging that my creator out again by not staying close to him for really being thankful for the abundance I have. So lessons learned along the way, man. Both of those. You know, I don't take life too seriously. Not making it out of life right into, you know, just don't edge got out or edge your career out.
00:18:53:03 - 00:19:08:20
Wayne Mulder
Yeah, I think that's powerful. I think that is something I grew up in the church as well. That was my story. In fact, I went to a small Christian school, so like I was literally there every time the doors were open, which for Independent Baptist, that's literally every day. And so, you know, I was there all the time and.
00:19:08:20 - 00:19:11:11
Scott Ferguson
I was raised Southern Baptist wrote in Michigan.
00:19:11:13 - 00:19:13:23
Wayne Mulder
So you are you understand?
00:19:14:00 - 00:19:41:15
Scott Ferguson
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And my whole family's from the Bible Belt. We'll call it. You know, in Alabama, Alabama touches Georgia and Tennessee, right in the Smoky Mountains there. And they were sharecroppers. Their cotton said, oh, there's these big three thing going out, you know, Chrysler, Ford, GM, that's all drove north, right? And then all those people that went to work for the big three, the Saab plant, churches and every third church was the Southern Baptist Church, you know, from people.
00:19:41:17 - 00:19:55:16
Scott Ferguson
Yeah it's crazy bro in the around the Detroit because I know you have your family on the west side of the Mitten. You know, but the east side where Henry Ford started building out the $5 work day back in the day and whatnot. You know, you have a lot of Southern Baptist there, brother.
00:19:55:18 - 00:20:22:15
Wayne Mulder
That's fascinating. Yeah. On our side of the state, it was more the Reformed church that was just all over western Michigan there. And where I actually grew up was northern Indiana, down the Fort Wayne area. And in that area, yeah, we went to an independent Baptist church. But I found myself going through that same cycle that I think sometimes there's a danger and I use that word cautiously, but there's there can be a danger when you're around it all the time to not realize how much you need relationship.
00:20:22:17 - 00:20:46:21
Wayne Mulder
And so, you know, you you have a lot of information, but you don't really have that relationship. So then you graduate or, you know, like you said, things can be going really good or you're just, you know, not going bad and you don't realize what you need until, Lord forbid, a crisis comes or a wakeup call comes or some moment comes where you're kind of forced into, like you said, that whole ego in my age and got out.
00:20:46:23 - 00:20:49:08
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:20:49:10 - 00:21:00:09
Wayne Mulder
So the other thing from your story I wanted to quickly touch on before we go on is clearly your love for strays has been a long time Love since you mentioned the Rhodesian ridgeback.
00:21:00:09 - 00:21:02:18
Scott Ferguson
Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:02:20 - 00:21:06:19
Wayne Mulder
Is that something that's always been kind of ingrained in you since you were growing up?
00:21:06:19 - 00:21:30:16
Scott Ferguson
Or. It took my coach to make me understand why, You know, I have five surgeries and they all range from life, business, fitness, you know, it kind of like mastermind coaches and stuff like that. It took one coach just Yeah, because I tell her, you know, I've adopted pets, you know, my whole life and it comes from my, my background that, you know, just being kind of tossed around, abandoned.
00:21:30:18 - 00:21:56:12
Scott Ferguson
And I mean, I always had someone there for me, but I can't help enough of them. You know, Susan, I spend a lot of time at Peggy Adams Animal Rescue. You know, when Ian hit the West Coast, you know, I went over there and grabbed up dogs and took them to our shelters here in the best part about it was like taking that when the owners were searching for their dogs and me putting them in a van and then taking them back to the west coast of Florida or Florida and having to reunite and stuff.
00:21:56:12 - 00:22:20:16
Scott Ferguson
So, yeah, I mean, I've rescued the last three rodeo was a Rhodesian ridgeback that I got. He was ridgeback are the ones that hunt lions right. And they also are fearless. So this douche bag community in Flint, Michigan, I don't care. I'll call it out. You know, it's using them to fluff up and get pit bulls riled up before their fights.
00:22:20:18 - 00:22:43:11
Scott Ferguson
And yeah, they just really messed up. So Rodeo is my dude and I have stitch my rescue. Petty and rodeo live to 16. You know it's like I'll never get another dog now whatever, dude. Stitch was in my house seven months later and he's just awesome. He's taken over everything and I got two black rescue kitties that, you know, one of them, Suzanne, found behind a restaurant that she works at.
00:22:43:11 - 00:23:04:02
Scott Ferguson
And the other one I adopted because I wanted a friend for and another one for Stitch. And my mom had passed away and her name was Diana and that was my mom's name. And she has exact same personality as my mother, the one that adopted me. So, yeah, she's ornery, but very loving. That's right. Yeah.
00:23:04:04 - 00:23:35:03
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No. And those are powerful. And I really I love. That's one of the things that really I love about your story is and we'll get to it as we go through this. But it is so much about taking what some would interpret as a tragedy and really having a heart for service for others. Like every time I'm around you and we have these conversations, it's if if the listener takes anything out of this conversation, it would be to me something of introspection, something of having a moment say, where am I making a difference in the lives of others?
00:23:35:04 - 00:23:46:14
Wayne Mulder
Because I think so many of us missed the mark by, like you said, ego or, you know, our own. We just get so myopic in our viewpoint that we fail to see the bigger picture in that. The bigger picture is others.
00:23:46:16 - 00:24:17:14
Scott Ferguson
Right? Yeah. I appreciate you saying that, man. And like yourself, like I strive to plant trees that no one's going to sit in the shade of that I'll never sit in the shade of right. And have it kind of be an evergreen thing. That's why I grow time to shine today from a micro scale. You know, people have asked me, Hey, man, do this big and that because I'm boisterous and I'm loud and I can carry a stage and stuff, you know, I mean, I do have 165,000 subscribers right at the time, and they actually open my emails and stuff.
00:24:17:15 - 00:24:40:12
Scott Ferguson
I'm blessed for that, but I don't think that I can have that shade for the world. I want to just have my part of it. And if it stretches and stretches and stretches, that's fantastic because, you know, greatness, you know, great greatness is starting something that doesn't end with you. Yeah, that makes sense. You know what I'm saying?
00:24:40:14 - 00:25:01:03
Scott Ferguson
And it I guess maybe the beginning something that doesn't end with you. And it was something that I probably picked up in one of my readings along the way. But it always sticks in there is, you know, what does the future look like from this for other people? When I do stuff, I wish I would have made that ask myself that question and some of the stupid stuff I in place.
00:25:01:05 - 00:25:03:00
Wayne Mulder
But you and me, both brothers.
00:25:03:00 - 00:25:07:08
Scott Ferguson
By God's got a plan, man, and I just kind of go buy it. So. Absolutely.
00:25:07:10 - 00:25:22:00
Wayne Mulder
Absolutely. So you you touch on just a little bit, but you are a self-proclaimed or self labeled real estate junkie. Yeah. What kind of led you into it? I mean, clearly, once you mentioned the one house and so forth, but obviously at some point you just kind of fell in love with it.
00:25:22:02 - 00:25:43:20
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, man, it was, you know, I was kind of squatting in that house when I owned over 100 properties, 114, to be exact, with investors. And when I got out of the military, I was personal training people. And, you know, one of the, you know, was a really super high end personal training studio where you can just go there to work out.
00:25:43:20 - 00:26:03:10
Scott Ferguson
You were assigned a trainer and I was assigned these very wealthy trainers. And again, I love my father, but he worked in the line at General Motors and didn't have that prosperity mindset was never passed on. And I would listen to these guys talk and pick their brains. And you know, this guy, gentleman, Gary SHAPIRO, who is a Jewish man from in Michigan there.
00:26:03:12 - 00:26:20:00
Scott Ferguson
And he said, Hey, kid, we'll find a piece of property. If I like it, we'll buy it. Because I always ask him, because, you know, not only was I personal training, but I was bouncing at night. So I get home at two in the morning and hear these, you know, money down by real estate. Now, talk these guys about, I'm going to do it.
00:26:20:00 - 00:26:36:06
Scott Ferguson
They're like, No, you're not. It's a legal sin in Michigan. Don't even think about it. And then Gary said, Listen, I could find a lot of property and I'll buy it and then teach you how to do this. I'm like, All right, because I turned his life around from a personal trainer point of view. You know, his wife was attracted to him.
00:26:36:06 - 00:26:54:12
Scott Ferguson
Again, all these, all this stuff. So I would bring in properties that other realtors would give me. And he's like, it was like that scene when Charlie Sheen walks into Michael Douglas and Wall Street and it's like he's like, Oh, that's a dog. Which leaves basically you'd be like, That's junk. That strong. I showed him one, which is in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where Eastern Michigan University is.
00:26:54:14 - 00:27:19:14
Scott Ferguson
And he's like, This is it. Let's buy it. You know, it really is a can we still only to this day, that was 1999. Okay. So we've converted it and I was just a graduate kind of thing, has four rooms in one place, the common area and that just kind of snowballed into other real estate. And I became a real estate agent, a pretty decent one, a Detroit Tigers realtor, Detroit Pistons realtor, you know, and and I love real estate.
00:27:19:14 - 00:27:35:08
Scott Ferguson
Real estate to me, was kind of like your high school girlfriend, maybe where you always love her. Maybe she was your first. You know what I mean? First of all, kinds of different ways. You'll always love her, but you're just not in love with it like you used to be. So I'm still a junkie where I'm looking for deals.
00:27:35:10 - 00:27:58:00
Scott Ferguson
I'm just not the big one to go out and be that big real estate agent like I did before, because it really crossed into coaching. Because as a realtor, which I'm sure you've worked with a couple of them in your life, not only is the realtor your realtor, but he's also your marriage counselor, your psychiatrist, sometimes your babysitter, because if you're out looking at the house, your kids are running all around the realtors babies.
00:27:58:02 - 00:28:22:23
Scott Ferguson
So it's just really my coach is like, you are born to coach because of your 24 years of experience. I've been I guess it was 17 years as I've been coaching for a while now, but it's just really the real estate junkie part comes from just love looking at deals. I get deals, proximity, that's every single day. I have three to look at right after we get off here because, you know, Florida, as you know, is a not only is it a sunny place for shady people, Right.
00:28:23:00 - 00:28:43:10
Scott Ferguson
But is also happens waiting room. So people a lot of times save up their money to move here and die or pass away. Me That sounds. Me But they moved down here and they passed away and sometimes their families are estranged or they don't want to come down to Palm Beach area because they stop at Disney. Yeah. So I can really pick up good deals through probate attorneys, you know?
00:28:43:10 - 00:28:57:15
Scott Ferguson
So I still look at deals every day because they know I'm cash. They have investors. They're looking for a really good returns. So, yeah, I mean, I do look at deals every day. I'm just not as in love with it as I was. So maybe I'm a recovery real estate junkie. Maybe that'd be.
00:28:57:15 - 00:29:19:21
Wayne Mulder
A better way to put it. But no, I, I find it fascinating. Let me ask you something. When you talk to real estate agents and so forth, you talk about this idea of work life balance and you've done some coaching and stuff for real estate agents. And I thought there may be some applicability there to law enforcement as well, because it's another one of these professions that can very easily take over your life with the demands and so forth that you have going.
00:29:19:22 - 00:29:30:21
Wayne Mulder
Right. So when it comes to things like time and mastering your scheduling, mastering your time and work life balance, what are some of those knowledge nuggets, as you put it, that you could give us on those areas?
00:29:30:23 - 00:29:54:15
Scott Ferguson
You know, I don't mean this disrespectfully, but balances jumped to me. I don't believe in balance. I think balance if you if you put a scale and you put £10 on one side, it's on balance. Right. But if you put £10 on the other side, it's balanced and that's called to zero. It's nothing to me. I live from a life of harmony, you know, a quick plug to the new book coming out, harmonica.
00:29:54:15 - 00:30:15:00
Scott Ferguson
So I'm just getting well know I believe in harmony, man. I believe that, you know, you have different pillars in your life, like God, spiritual, personal growth, family, community, work, money, living, environment, health and recreation. And what I do, even with my clients is I say, let's liken this to a jazz band, right where God and or your spiritual is the drums.
00:30:15:02 - 00:30:42:09
Scott Ferguson
Personal growth is the guitar, family is the horns, and on and on. That's like you don't have if one of them is out of tune, okay, it's going to sound not great. And I'm not asking them to be Beethoven or Eddie Van Halen or Jon Bonham on any of those instruments, but I just want them to really work to bring it back into harmony and make it sound good, right?
00:30:42:09 - 00:31:02:06
Scott Ferguson
Because you're always going to be off balance. There's no way ever will you be fully balanced. There's no way. I'm says you could have something where you're at your job, which is you know, people the blue back to blue, please anyways like you're at your job and you're thinking you're just going to have, oh, I'll pick up Tommy for T-ball and then something happens.
00:31:02:06 - 00:31:24:24
Scott Ferguson
And you know, you said something in the podcast with me is that you are the only good thing in someone's worst day. Yeah, You know what? I'm saying? And that is a privilege for a police officer. But that just threw that balance out the door because you ain't picking Tommy up. All right, So balance or Harmony would be like, Hey, babe, listen, man, this is what's going on.
00:31:25:02 - 00:31:44:10
Scott Ferguson
And if your family's right, babe is going to say, Hey, you know what? I'll call my mom. I got you. Right? So it's just I really believe in a harmonic life versus balance, but analogy, I get that I would have to take those eight pillars, liken it to whatever. Maybe you're heavy metal band. I don't care. You know, you maybe your church choir.
00:31:44:12 - 00:32:04:24
Scott Ferguson
Well, I don't care. But make it something that each one of them has got to stay in step or you're not going to sound great. And again, I'm not asking to be perfect at them because nobody can except for the man upstairs. Right, Right. So just that's what I do is just find that harmony in life and and things will start to click.
00:32:04:24 - 00:32:21:08
Scott Ferguson
And with my coaching, it's nice because I have clients that I wish they had fired me after three months because I don't feel like I'm doing a good enough job with them if they haven't fired me. But if they stay on, they'll be like, Hey, I'll just ask them. They know me well enough. Like, What pillar are we tackling with our conversation today?
00:32:21:10 - 00:32:42:00
Scott Ferguson
Right? And finding out that the pillar that has to do with personal growth really is stemming from their spiritual side, right? So the other interest instrument, you know, you think that guitar is, but it's really the drums. And that's what I love about coaching because I get to really get to the root and the behind the scenes of what's really going on and then help them tackle it.
00:32:42:00 - 00:33:06:01
Scott Ferguson
And I'm not a consultant. I don't tell them what to do. I believe that everybody knows what they want, but they don't know how to talk themselves into it, Right? Yeah. And you know, the problem that you have, the challenge that you have that resides inside you, when is the solution is right next to it. So a coach like myself, I'm going to work with them and I'm not a consultant.
00:33:06:01 - 00:33:25:14
Scott Ferguson
I'm not going to tell them what to do because I don't want you coaching, you waiting, and then you go and say, Fergie, that just sucked. It didn't work. But if you come up with it through our conversation, you're going to do everything that you can to make that work. And if it didn't work, we worked together to readjust, kind of like when Brady would go sit, Tom Brady would go sit down on the sidelines with Josh McDaniels.
00:33:25:15 - 00:33:39:06
Scott Ferguson
Right. And just look at that. You know, he's just coach. He's not out there in the field doing it for him. I'm not up there playing your drums, your your guitar, your horns, but we're going to plant seeds and make sure that you're ready for whatever comes up.
00:33:39:08 - 00:33:49:03
Wayne Mulder
Yeah. No, that's great. I love I love the name. You use a lifestyle optimization artist. I think that's a great, great way of saying life coach.
00:33:49:05 - 00:34:05:05
Scott Ferguson
Bro. It's funny because they'll introduce me like that on stage and people roll their eyes and stuff like that, but like you guys like that, it's a fancy word for life, coach, you know? Then they just laugh and, and so I break that ice because, you know, again, you and I are big dudes, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:05:05 - 00:34:22:02
Scott Ferguson
You're pretty well put together. You're a big dude. I'm big guy, pretty well-put-together. And we walk into a room, people are going to be like, Whoa, is he a jerk? Is he a bully? You know, I'm saying if I can make them laugh from the get, it's over. You know, I'm saying I, I build relationships by that. That's self-deprecating, right?
00:34:22:02 - 00:34:38:17
Scott Ferguson
I'm just making a little fun of myself because I feel that I'm really good at what I do. Yeah, right. And I feel that I really care more about your success than really me being successful. Because if you're successful, the success is all about you going to come my way, period, no matter what.
00:34:38:19 - 00:34:57:24
Wayne Mulder
Absolutely. And humility is not self-deprecating. And if you come to things in a humble approach, in, you know, having that mindset when you enter the room or when you step right stage or even when I'm in uniform coming into a seeing bro, you know, if you bring that into it now, obviously there is, you know, it's a little different.
00:34:57:24 - 00:35:11:22
Wayne Mulder
There are times where you have to, you know, command presence and all these things come into play. But yeah, from a day to day perspective, like you said, a little humor, a little bit of being able to, you know, diffuse the situation. And absolutely, it can make good police officers.
00:35:12:03 - 00:35:30:15
Scott Ferguson
I want them to be I'd like him to be humble. But if they're not, I don't care. You know, I really don't. Because if they're cocky or whatever, I'd give them a pass serve as firefighters. You know, I just do doesn't mean you know, I make Junior's resolutions every year. MAN one I'm going to make someone smile every day, period.
00:35:30:18 - 00:35:50:04
Scott Ferguson
Right now, I just want see, I just got it right, too. Unless I've hurt you, disrespect to you or you, I give zero. You know what's about what you think about me, right? If as long as I did not disrespect that guy in blue, you know, hurt him, steal from him or whatnot, I don't care what he thinks about me, as long as he's doing the utmost of his job.
00:35:50:04 - 00:36:08:02
Scott Ferguson
And if his demeanor is made up of that, that's great. You know of being cocky in a sense. Right. I think as they get older, they become more confident and cocky. You know, it's like that movie colors. I don't know if you ever saw that movie, but with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn, it was in the eighties and nineties.
00:36:08:05 - 00:36:16:04
Scott Ferguson
You know, Sean Penn was as well. And Robert Duvall was like, No, dude, this is what's going to happen. You know. So it was it was awesome.
00:36:16:04 - 00:36:23:15
Wayne Mulder
And I've seen that cycle. I like how you worded that because that's exactly true. Confidence is what kind of takes the place of that cockiness, especially as you rate.
00:36:23:15 - 00:36:24:00
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, so.
00:36:24:00 - 00:36:24:05
Wayne Mulder
Forth.
00:36:24:10 - 00:36:26:01
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, right. Yes, sir.
00:36:26:03 - 00:36:29:23
Wayne Mulder
What does a level up mean to you and how are you actively doing it.
00:36:30:00 - 00:36:56:03
Scott Ferguson
A level of is is funny because you're only a few years behind me when do you remember Sega? The game I did, Nintendo and Sager were the big ones. So those are the military, you know, I was all about working out and just going doing ruck runs and just getting after it every day. And the fellows that I worked with because I was never physically gifted.
00:36:56:07 - 00:37:13:23
Scott Ferguson
A lot of the guys I was with were very physically gifted and I'd be like, I got to go improve. And so they came, Man, just sit here. We're going to play some Madden 93, You know, some of my stuff right there. We're going to level up. I'm like, You losers level up. I'm going to go out and do the real level up.
00:37:14:04 - 00:37:37:21
Scott Ferguson
So that's where it really stemmed from. This is back in the day, you know, where, you know, I'm leveling up, like I've said it my whole life. Wow. You know, and leveling up to me now that I'm 51 is, you know. Am I following the protocol daily from my morning routine throughout my days, how I handle clients, how I do this interview to beat that guy in the mirror from yesterday.
00:37:37:23 - 00:37:58:00
Scott Ferguson
Yes, he looks a heck of a lot different than he did in 1993. I got these things that called grays hairs and it takes me a lot more time to get up and going in the morning. And I'm you know, I'm on the Jets match, you know, at 6 a.m., five days a week, you you get to match, you know, 60 and five days a week.
00:37:58:00 - 00:38:18:14
Scott Ferguson
So but I had to get up at four to be ready for that. So that is a version of leveling up, man, you know, But really just beating that dude from yesterday because every day that goes by, he's going to look a little bit different. But if I can stay ahead of that dude, you know, that's that's it's my own guy, you know?
00:38:18:18 - 00:38:29:03
Scott Ferguson
And the only way I'm going to do that is through service and to myself for the first 2 hours in the morning. And then the rest of the day really is is about others.
00:38:29:05 - 00:38:49:08
Wayne Mulder
I think that's such a great mindset. And I think that can benefit all of us, both the listener and me, because sometimes, again, it comes back to what's really become a theme in this episode is really just moving outside of whatever it is that we're dealing with right now. Whatever those struggles might be, and just really starting to see the bigger picture of humanity kind of going down that road.
00:38:49:08 - 00:38:53:17
Wayne Mulder
What just quickly, speaking about volunteering is we're getting short on time here, but.
00:38:53:19 - 00:38:54:01
Scott Ferguson
What.
00:38:54:01 - 00:39:00:04
Wayne Mulder
Causes being the most of right now? And how can what are some of the causes right now that mean the most.
00:39:00:04 - 00:39:15:14
Scott Ferguson
To you right now? St Jude I mean, it's kind of cliche, but I do like my mentor in Detroit was like, you're going to go to Detroit, receive in hospital and work in the pediatric wing. And when I held the kid, they allowed me literally to put my hand under another person's hand and see a kid the size of my hand.
00:39:15:14 - 00:39:50:05
Scott Ferguson
He's having an open heart surgery. Okay, dude, I got it. I got to help with this. Also, children awaiting parents cap, kids that are born, you know, maybe they're retarded. And I'm not seeing that bad with like, they're just not all their monthly have this disabilities and stuff. They're they're unadoptable, you know, so they live in different places and and I definitely give to them so and then this are giving back to to our future our teenagers through reaching higher program I go to high schools and teach kids how to maybe balance a checkbook, even though Check says but little bit about myself, they're not going to be taught.
00:39:50:07 - 00:40:13:04
Scott Ferguson
And then obviously the veterans I mean they do a lot of pro bono work through the mental hygiene at the VA. So I don't charge you know, they'll they'll send veterans to me that they're in the mental hygiene, but they're looking for visions versus goals because everyone has goals. I'm a vision guy. I can really get people, you know, set up because with their future and I just see many people with a foot in the future.
00:40:13:04 - 00:40:20:17
Scott Ferguson
But in the past, they're being all over the president, right? So I really set their present their and get their visions out. But I do the all that pro bono it's huge with the budget.
00:40:20:19 - 00:40:37:22
Wayne Mulder
It's awesome and just for the listeners I'll have everything we've discussed today linked up from the books to these as well. So definitely anything that is something you feel led to get involved in, by all means, we all should be doing something. There are so many different roads I wanted to go down, but let me just start.
00:40:37:24 - 00:40:39:15
Scott Ferguson
I'm sorry. I got long with stuff like, Oh.
00:40:39:15 - 00:40:41:23
Wayne Mulder
No, no, it's we'll just have to do it again.
00:40:41:23 - 00:40:45:12
Scott Ferguson
Scott's just works right to point those on both sides. Absolutely.
00:40:45:12 - 00:41:02:07
Wayne Mulder
There we go. I have to at least mention your mission because it's right in line with everything we've discussed today. And I believe it's your mission. Maybe you could tell me differently. But to not have anyone feel like they have no one. What what what kind of obviously, it just kind of came through your life story. But I want to hear it in your words.
00:41:02:07 - 00:41:03:00
Wayne Mulder
Not that mine.
00:41:03:02 - 00:41:19:06
Scott Ferguson
Yeah. I mean, you know what? No. Nine When I lost everything, my little brother stuck a gun in his mouth and killed himself. Right. And I'm just like, there's no way. That's why to come on my show, to be Fast-Track, to come on my show, you have to donate at least $10 to Suicide Lifeline, which you did. Thank you very much.
00:41:19:08 - 00:41:43:05
Scott Ferguson
And so suicide, you know, is is something that really sticks in me and through my show so far, we've saved three lives, meaning someone's listened to our show, read our about page and said, Man, I'm losing it, dude. And I know three counselors that are like four. You call me any time and and they've saved lives. So that's the biggest means.
00:41:43:05 - 00:41:59:16
Scott Ferguson
I'm not talking about the people that I put with the right coach and you know, the right coach made $50,000 off of them. And of course, they give me back a little bit of the money, you know, for an affiliate introduction or whatnot. But just to have those three people still breathing air on this earth is a frickin win.
00:41:59:21 - 00:42:03:10
Scott Ferguson
And that's where we don't have to have anyone to feel like they have no one brother.
00:42:03:12 - 00:42:11:22
Wayne Mulder
That's so powerful. And as you know, that's very much in line with our story and our absolutely. When we started in 2019 and we lost a officer to suicide, so.
00:42:12:00 - 00:42:12:15
Scott Ferguson
Stockstill.
00:42:12:18 - 00:42:26:00
Wayne Mulder
So powerful and really out to anyone listening to this, just know that nobody should feel like they don't have anyone. And most people out there like what Scott's doing and like what we're doing, where a phone call, you know, we're an email away.
00:42:26:00 - 00:42:43:00
Scott Ferguson
So a thank you for saying that, friend of mine that writes NLP neuro linguistic program he wrote that and it took me three times to read it and get it. And that's the reason why he wrote it. Meaning like, you know, we don't want to have anyone to feel like they have no one. They don't get it when they first read it.
00:42:43:02 - 00:42:56:20
Scott Ferguson
Yeah. So then they read it and they read Now I get it, you know? So I love that he wrote it that way. That's not me, you know. But he took the feelings that I have for time to shine today and put it in writing. So I'm so grateful to Jared for doing that.
00:42:57:00 - 00:43:04:18
Wayne Mulder
That's awesome. Well, that was the perfect Segway as well. So time to shine today. We want them to go to Time to Shine Today.com. But what can they expect?
00:43:04:20 - 00:43:32:18
Scott Ferguson
If it's anybody out there that is wants to have a a fun conversation? I love my whole mission. Every day is to meet somebody, find and interesting. But if you're in a spot where you just want to have a an impactful, high performing conversation and any of the pillars that I talked about or any of the instruments that I talked about in my metaphor that you're struggling with, I have a free hour power, you know, and it's a real hour.
00:43:32:20 - 00:43:51:20
Scott Ferguson
I'm not going to sell you anything at all. It's just an hour with me. And when you leave, I guarantee you'll you'll feel like you've came up with a solution to what is happening now or you and you will come up with it. I'm not going to, but I'm just going to be a little bit of the help.
00:43:51:20 - 00:44:18:10
Scott Ferguson
So that's what they can expect there. And also make sure you check out episode 361 and our time to shine today dot com slash podcast with my good friend Wayne Molder. But seriously, bro, you rocked it. I appreciate it. I did like people. I have cops that have listened to it and said, that guy gets it. Especially at a point where you said that you may be showing up the worst day of their life and you have got to stay neutral right?
00:44:18:12 - 00:44:45:00
Scott Ferguson
And neutral doesn't mean you don't give it crap. It means you have to stay neutral. And that's where all my coaching comes from because as you're thinking, I do believe in it, but it's not right 100% of the time. But what right is right? 100% times negative thinking it'll never work for you, Right? But if you can stay neutral, that's why you know, people I said a foot in the future.
00:44:45:00 - 00:45:04:08
Scott Ferguson
Foot in the past appeal over the present man where I coach people in person, I go out to their car and I sit in it. So that rearview mirror that you're past this dashboard, this is your future and this is where we're going in anywhere. So you put that seatbelt on it, the start button, you know, and that's where neutrality is.
00:45:04:08 - 00:45:09:13
Scott Ferguson
Everything. You have to go neutral if you want to get through any situation.
00:45:09:15 - 00:45:14:18
Wayne Mulder
That's a completely different way, I think, than how most of us look at it. And yet it's so powerful.
00:45:14:20 - 00:45:36:13
Scott Ferguson
It's so weighty, man. It is because you look at anybody, I'm sorry, we're going my but if you look at like Tom Brady, bro, and I'm not a fan of Tom's, okay just not but I respect him or if you pick anybody and he just threw an interception. Right. Can't get it back, man. Right. You got to rely on the defense to get him a stop.
00:45:36:15 - 00:46:00:21
Scott Ferguson
Can't do anything about that. He's got to stay neutral on the sideline. He's got his fancy iPad out and looking at the defenses and seeing how he's going to run his next play. Yeah, right. It's not always going to go your way, you know, But if you if you just sat there and sort of put his head down and eat a hot dog or whatnot, he's just he's never going to win.
00:46:00:23 - 00:46:19:00
Scott Ferguson
Yeah, he might get lucky with it, but it just doesn't happen. You have to stay neutral, man. Neutral. Does it mean do nothing? You know, the engine's still running if you put it in neutral. Yeah, it just is, you know? So you're just saying, okay, man, usually people you get lost. You don't sit there and cried like a baby.
00:46:19:00 - 00:46:25:19
Scott Ferguson
No, you stop. You put it in park, you get your GPS to Where are we going? Yeah. No, that's.
00:46:25:21 - 00:46:42:16
Wayne Mulder
That's a great way to look at it. And you're so right when it comes to the negative side, because I found myself in the past, you know, finding myself in that area where you. Right. Nothing positive comes out of negativity. No. We can get ourselves to this point of neutrality that you're referring to. What? Give it a powerful way to look at it.
00:46:42:18 - 00:46:50:08
Wayne Mulder
So what's next for you and your mission.
00:46:50:10 - 00:47:14:07
Scott Ferguson
I just want to continue doing it for the intention, not the attention I'm saying, and just make sure that I'm living every day doing scared stuff, stuff that makes me scared, I guess. And, you know, just consistently meet fun and interesting people and whoever I can help along the way wide open for them.
00:47:14:09 - 00:47:32:12
Wayne Mulder
It's awesome. All right. My very last question that I ask everybody that comes on the show, what is the one takeaway, the one thing that we all typically law enforcement officers, because they're the primary listeners, but what is the one take away the one thing that we all can do that's going to make a difference in our personal lives?
00:47:32:14 - 00:47:59:02
Scott Ferguson
I would say to be absolutely a good jillion percent grateful for things and put it in frickin writing. My clients are required. If not, I fire my clients to do a gratitude sandwich day. And what I mean by that is the first line is set your intentions for the day, right? The second lines is your concerns for the day.
00:47:59:04 - 00:48:19:18
Scott Ferguson
Third line is your who you're going to send good vibes to right in the fourth. And I have almost 14 things that they're grateful for and they've got to do the gratitude after they put everything else down, because there's no way your senses can be truly locked in and happy. You can't be grateful and unhappy at the same time.
00:48:19:20 - 00:48:37:07
Scott Ferguson
It's impossible if you really get into the gratitude. Yeah. So you know this 14 things. You're in my gratitude blog, brother. You know, 13 things you're really grateful for. And then you write a little love letter to yourself that says, you know, they'll be like, When you're kicking butt, man, you've made your rank. You know, you go out, you have a safe day.
00:48:37:10 - 00:49:01:20
Scott Ferguson
See, when you get home. Does your kids love your wife? I love you. I write that to myself. Scott You know, you're Rocket or Scott. You lost a big deal yesterday. Coaching client went bad. But that's okay. We're going to come back to this, this and this. I absolutely love you. So gratitude is absolutely huge. It sounds fruitful, but when you start doing it, you start seeing things brought in that puts you closer to your creator, right?
00:49:01:22 - 00:49:17:03
Scott Ferguson
Oh, absolutely. You get closer to that. The creators like, here, have some more good stuff. I'm sorry. It's just again, you know, people that I said, God and Christianity, I'm in an offense. You I'm sorry. You have a creator. Everyone has a creator, but that's where the good stuff is located. So get closer to them.
00:49:17:05 - 00:49:20:02
Wayne Mulder
So the best way for people to connect with you.
00:49:20:04 - 00:49:50:10
Scott Ferguson
You know this, we have a direct line. It's time to shine today, man. a5614403830. Or you can visit our consistently revamping website. That actually stinks, but it's going to look good here in the next a little bit at a time to shine today.com. And then also there will be a time to shine today dot com slash pop, which is for our power and you got a time to shine today dot com slash hop and you can get a free no selling hour of power with me.
00:49:50:16 - 00:49:55:15
Scott Ferguson
We're going to talk about whatever part of pillar that you feel might be cracking a little bit.
00:49:55:17 - 00:50:10:18
Wayne Mulder
Perfect all that if you guys just go down to the show notes it's all down in there takes you on its way the page and let you connect with the great things that Scott's doing. Scott Truly, I appreciate it. I always have a great time when we're together. Thank you again for coming on.
00:50:10:20 - 00:50:13:05
Scott Ferguson
Crusade. You got me. I love you guys, brother. Thanks, man.
00:50:13:07 - 00:50:36:02
Wayne Mulder
Thanks. So I hope you enjoyed that podcast. You know, Scott, I've had the privilege of knowing for a while now, and I've had the privilege of having dinner with him and just he is such a great guy and always positive, always uplifting, always upbeat. So just a wonderful guy. And I hope you really enjoyed this podcast. Thank you for watching or listening to this week's podcast on whatever platform you watched it on.
00:50:36:05 - 00:50:52:12
Wayne Mulder
For more show notes, what we're doing on the blue line dot com on the blue.com And that's all for today. So I will see you next Monday in the morning. Roll call. I'll see you next Thursday in the interview room. But in the meantime, and as always, I'll see you out there on the blue line.