Today, on Moving to Oneness Meilin talks with inspirational keynote speaker Clinton Young, who share his insights into becoming the best you can be in the speaking arena. He speaks about his vision to ignite the human spirit, through training others to become world class speakers, so their message can be felt and heard around the world. Watch and listen to the advice and examples he provides, to help with any speaking engagement. Enjoy...
Clinton Young, an inspirational keynote speaker, shares with Meilin his vision to ignite the human spirit, through training others to become world class speakers, so their message can be felt and heard around the world. Watch and listen to the fantastic tips and techniques, Clinton shares, to help with any speaking engagement.
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Meilin 1:01
Welcome, everyone. This is Meilin, your host of the Moving to Oneness podcast sitting here in Germany. It's getting dark outside ... winter is approaching. And I have a wonderful guest from a much warmer place this morning, Clinton. Hello, thank you for joining us from San Diego, California.
Clinton Young:
Yes, Meilin. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
Meilin Ehlke:
Yeah. And you know, what is so funny? Clinton, I didn't even say your last name. It's a Clinton Young for you who are listening. And for everyone. I do put all the notes how you can connect to our guest later into the show notes... where you will be able to find them. Yeah, Clinton and I met at an event where we in seconds, I think there was a mutual understanding. And I would even say a curiosity about each other. We do a few things together in this similar things, but in a different way. And I would like, maybe that it takes on this, this route of the speaking and what drove us to speak our message to the world, right? I sit mostly at home, on my couch with my plan behind and I have a view out to my trees and so I can hear the birds. Yeah, and get my thoughts going. And you Clinton, you travel the world, maybe not so much at the moment, we have Corona. But you have traveled now for decades, the world and you're bringing your message out to a little different audience. So share a little bit about your passage in the word ... the rite of passage.So this is probably hidden, that is for you to be spoken out.
Clinton Young
Yes, I love it. The rite of passage, we'll back into that. I'm going to start off with just a little bit about myself. Hello, everyone. My name is Clinton Young. As Meilin mentioned, I'm what you would call an international keynote speaker. So if you're in the speaking world, if you're not in the speaking world, what that means is when you're a keynote speaker, organizations pay you to speak, right, whereas I also can do some free speeches once in a while. And a lot of times, that would be called a platform speaker. So if anyone's interested in speaking, that's kind of a little bit of a difference, different model. So I'm a keynote speaker, I speak at a lot of organizations, companies, universities, a lot of entrepreneur groups, as well, all around the world. I have been very, very fortunate to get on some great stages. And part of that rite of passage is speaking for free, by the way. You got to speak for free and get the repetitions and get on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of stages, to elevate our awareness so that we can become more impactful. Because I'm the type of speaker and also coach and mentor for aspiring speakers. Who I work with mission driven entrepreneurs that are out to create an impact. I don't work with people that are just trying to make a bunch of money. I work with people, and I am somebody who is out to create a massive impact in the world. I just happen to use the vehicle of speaking and I help other people use the vehicle of speaking to be able to get their message out to millions. So that's a little bit about me.
Meilin Ehlke:
With this audience, you have a lot of people that are curious, that they all have a mission. They want to have passion. They all have a calling. So it doesn't matter if you come from a peace work. Are you a singer or you do music, you're an artist life artists ecologically. So yeah, so they all come from all realms of work. And they would be rather interested in your way of supporting them to produce and create impact.
Clinton Young
Yeah, that's, that's, that's wonderful. And I want to just say one more little piece that really differentiates the type of people that are probably on this call that I also work with. And I call myself a coach and mentor for aspiring world class speakers, not just aspiring speakers, but world class. And I want to, I want to just spend 30 seconds here sharing what that means. Because that does not mean somebody that wants to go out and be the next Les Brown or Tony Robbins, or speaking all around the world ... it can. I can help people get on stages around the world and teach them what to do to do that. But that's not what I mean by world class. I don't mean speaking all around the world, you can definitely do that. I also don't mean somebody who's going to go and make, you know, $10,000 per speaking gig. I can help them if they want to move into that more keynote speaking role and move to that level of fee structure, as well. But that's also not what I mean by world class. What I mean by world class when we think about being an impact speaker, right? Impact speaker, it is this ... every single conversation we have, whether it's one on one, or one to over video, or whether it's in person, or whether it's speaking to 1000 people in an auditorium or a hall, there is this invisible wall of resistance in a lot of cases.
This invisible barrier that separates us as speakers, when we're speaking a lot of times from nervousness, from our head, or most people are nervous on stage or when they're on a video, right? And we go to our heads. And there's this wall already there between us and the audience. And what becoming world class is, is being able to distinguish and become aware of and fully identify the pieces of that wall. And then how do we dissolve that wall, so that we actually can be connected to our audience, and speak right to their heart. So that's what I mean by world class. Because in order to make the level of impact that I am out to make, that you're out to make, that all of your listeners that are ... would classify themselves as mission driven, or purpose driven, right, they have a purpose, or they're seeking this purpose and meaning in their life, they want to make an impact. The only way we're ever going to be able to make the level of impact that we are born to make, and that we deserve to make is by becoming a world class speaker ... world class communicator. It doesn't mean you have to become a professional speaker, like that's what you do as your primary business. What it means is, whether you're a business owner, or even if you have a job, when you become a world class communicator, that's when you're able to truly impact the world and yourself. So that's what I mean by world class.
Meilin Ehlke
in a way it's what it's for me if I in my language is to set an intent of your intention. So you have to become very crystal clear. And say, I'm gonna go out for it and whatever comes nothing is gonna waver me away from it. So like, I cannot not bring, I bring wisdom to this world, if you put me away I could be quiet and I would do you know, lying down sleeping. But yeah, I cannot not do it. But this is the beautiful way then we can so now to really intensify it, to move it forward with more speed, to get there with more speed, to reach more people. Yeah, to use the tricks of the trade in a way. It is to set a very clear intention ... become very clear on what you desire to change in the world and how to impact a person ... the audience as grand, right, because we can shoot for, shoot at most think about an arrow or we can use Gandalf. Right. Harry Potter's wand to provide this healing provide this inspiration for a single person to get into movement into action. Right, but at the same time collectively, so people can have an understanding that they can have hope and begin to believe in themselves and that it's possible. And that's what you are really standing in the world for, Clinton. I think you're showing everyone that it is possible and the more precise you become in your trade in your vision, the better and faster you get there. So what were some little tricks you learned yourself ... that got you there?
Clinton Young
Great question. Great, great question, Meilin. And then you were your mind is going right where my mind was going. I want people to know, like, how can you accelerate on your path. Because we all have to go through the motions, there's no skipping steps. To become masterful at anything to become world class, we need to accelerate our awareness. Right, we need to deepen our awareness. And there's a way to accelerate that process. So if you look at any world class athlete, let's just say a world class athlete, if you somebody out there, and when you're listening, just visualize a world class athlete. And you think about what makes them different than you. Well, there might be body structure difference, like let's say you have the same exact body type, same exact muscle structure, everything's the same, same height, same weight, same everything, same physical ability.
What the only thing that separates them from being world class to you, perhaps not being world class as a swimmer, for example, if we use, Michael Phelps as US swimmer, the most decorated Olympian of all time. And the only thing he has, is a deepened level of awareness. He has a deepened level of awareness about himself, about his strengths, his gifts, his talents, his weaknesses, he has a deepened level of awareness of the water, the mechanics of the body in the water, and how things flow, he has a deepened level of awareness around all the different strokes that he does. He has a deepened level of awareness. So as a entrepreneur, as a person that is purpose driven. If we want to have more success and make a greater impact, we need to find ways to deepen our awareness. Right, I'm kind of simplifying this down to sort of the base, granular base unit of measure, if you will, it's just awareness. We need to deepen our awareness.
So there's three ways that we can deepen our awareness if we want to become truly world class, in whatever message we have. And we have this burning desire to share this message with the world, we need to deepen our awareness. So how do we do that ... we do that I already alluded to the first step, we need to get massive repetitions. It's not sexy, but it's the key to success. We need to get massive repetitions, we need to do it over and over and over and over. It's just like a tennis swing, or I'm playing this new sport in the US called pickleball. It's kind of taking the world by storm, if you haven't heard of it, it's amazing. It's like ping pong and tennis, had a baby and it was really, really an awesome baby. Okay, it's an amazing sport. And it's like lazy man's tennis, it's, it's so much fun. So, if we want to deepen our awareness, we've got to get the repetitions. We can't just watch videotape. That's ... it's important. It's good for us to watch maybe videos or read a book, but you can't read a book on becoming a world class, communicator, speaker and become world class ... You just can't.
You can deepen your awareness by reading that book. But you're not going to get to world class. You've got to get on the court or get in the gym, for going to use the sports analogy, we got to get in the gym and get there what are called repetitions right in, in lifting, they call them get the reps, right, you got to get the reps. So we've got to get on stages, we've got to get on podcasts like this, we've got to get on YouTube videos. We have to be in motion around it to do because and every single time we do that, we're going to have a deeper level of awareness, we're going to realize, wow, the audience really responded to this key principle that I shared that that beats is becoming one of my principles, right.
And I work a lot, Meilin, with early stage entrepreneurs that, like I said, have this burning desire to share and one of the things I share with them is you don't need to figure it all out up front. You need to be in motion, get on the court, get in the gym, get the repetition. And as you communicate over and over, you're going to start to see some of the puzzle pieces shift into place. And all the sudden your methodology of what it is that you teach comes into focus. And now you have these principles like I'm sharing right now I'm teaching one of the principles.
It's my three step process to accelerate your awareness. It's the repetitions, right? The second one is watch your game tape. It sounds goofy, but like if you think about a world class athlete, they're all watch game tapes. They all record their video, they record themselves on video, and they watch that video and they slow it down and they pause it and they rewind it and they like I know again, this is getting very granular. But this is how you develop world class mastery of anything. You have to deepen your level of awareness. You realize, oh wow, my hand was ... was not in the right spot on that serve, on that on that return or in speaking. Oh wow. Look at the audience. They're totally tuned out when I'm talking about all these facts and details, and but when I start telling stories I noticed that they lean in. I need to tell more stories. That's actually a world class principle. Tell more stories. Facts tell, stories sell ... facts tell, stories sell. Not that you're trying to sell. That's just, this is a terminology, right, stories. And we can talk more about ... that I have seven world class speaker principles that I will give to your audience at the end for free, that I've literally invested 10s of 1000s of dollars to get and literally hundreds and hundreds of hours on stages, to be able to get clarity around. And I'll give those to your audience at the end if you think that would be valuable. So number two is watch your game tip.
Meilin Ehlke 15:43
Okay, go ahead.
Clinton Young 15:44
Okay, number two is watch a game tape. And number three, just like anything that you want to deepen your level of awareness around and become a master at ... hire a coach, get a mentor, surround yourself with other like minded people that are on the same mission as you.Because you're going to get guidance from people that have been there, done that. And they're going to be able to help you shorten the process and accelerate your awareness. So the combination of those three things ... again, sometimes people are like, oh, well, that's too simple. Well, guess what? Principles are sometimes the most simple things on the planet. But there's this ancient Chinese proverb and some people say, Stephen Covey made it up, but other people say Lao Tzu made it up. And it's this ... to know, and not to do, is not to know. To know, and not to actually do, is not to know. So principles are, a lot of times the most basic things. But when you develop mastery of them, you see them from 1000 different angles, not just one angle. And that's when they're internalized. And that's when they become like, just the natural flow of who you be in the world. You don't even have to think about them. That's when they're integrated principles. And that's what literally getting the repetitions, watching the game tape, and hiring a coach so that you can get that higher level guidance. That is what's going to allow you to accelerate your awareness as a speaker, and you can use that same model for anything that you do. Anything that you do.
Meilin Ehlke 17:20
Yeah, that fits in everywhere. And so I think at the moment, which is so beautiful, so many people as never before, I know on virtual stages, provides opportunities to speak. And just everyone be courageous ... say to yourself, Yes, I'm gonna try. And you said also, when you get a coach, right, you have that people think alike, or maybe they're not a coach, but their friend and you go with them, they want to also start. So I also have a few friends. And I love that because they gave me the first opportunities to be interviewed, or to be on the summit, right? I didn't even go out for the month, but I had built a relationship with the people where I feel very, very comfortable, where I sensed all I can be myself most of the time and then that became more clear and clear that oh, I really want to be myself. If I'm not myself, I'm not even going to be with people or speak to people. So I honed into myself what makes me feel comfortable. So for me, I have to be rather comfortable.
Something memorized, I was on stage. Remember Las Vegas, they wanted something memories. I had the hardest problem just memorizing a little poem that I wrote. And it gave me enough time to scan then the energy of the room. And then the story is as you said so beautifully Clinton, my own life stories, my own life experiences because that's the story right. It shares it gives the opportunity for me to share my experience, people can sense the energy that was in those experiences. And that is really what creates then the inspiration, right, because they have something to connect to. If someone would just pull information. It may be most of what not theirs and the audience can sense that in feel and also often everyone just start slowly because you will notice what you become more comfortable to share from your life. Yeah, we can see we are in the story, maybe we it's easier to write down but then to speak it out, to bring those tones out of you, because your body tightens up if you don't right. And probably, Clinton, you teach people also to relax, to be fully in their presence when they come as a keynote speaker, right that everyone is looking at you because you're in front of an audience. They want to also sense your presence as you walk in there with charm, and you know what you're talking about, and in a way you don't care so much about, but you just show yourself how you are.
And this is also important. And this comes with slowly being more of who you are practicing. Yes, I also believe Clinton. There's also saying, right, you have to do something 10,000 hours, and then you can do it. Exactly. Even, Yeah, as a chairman, the beginning or when I started singing at the beginning, I was so scared, I couldn't share with the people. I sang to the trees. Then I sang to some others, right. And then I enlarged the audience. So you know, now when the 200,000 people come to the radio show, I don't mind because I can hold that space. But physically, that's not the interesting part is I was really tired, because now it's my sixth year, this month, the next week. At the beginning, I remember I put down the phone at that time was still the phone, and I was tired. I had to Yeah, or then the energy kept me up on other days, I couldn't sleep until early in the morning. Yeah, but after a while, because you practice you feel your energy, you hold the energy of the audience, right? Then suddenly you I can hang up and go to bed if I need to be and I don't feel so exhausted. So this is an another thing that you slowly build up your vibration. Right? Like an athlete too. They build up muscle. It's also the muscle, because you're holding that energy within your body.
Clinton Young 22:06
Yeah, you know, that's great. And there's a quote that I love by Maya Angelou and she says, people don't remember what you say. They don't remember what you do. But they always remember how you make them feel. So our job anytime we have the honor to hold a stage, whether it's a podcast interview, that we're pre recording, and nobody's even listening until down the road, right when they find it online, or whether it's a YouTube video in the same manner, or whether you're live in front of five people or 5000 people. It's an honor, it's a privilege, it's a right, it's a responsibility, right to be able to touch the hearts and the minds of people. And, in order to access the mind when, it's my belief, that in order to access the mind, we need to first access the heart. Right? I have just a little bit of credibility here. I have a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in organizational psychology, and I've been geeking out on neuroscience and human condition for the last 1520 years, right. I'm not the foremost expert, but I know more than the average person, right. And in order is my belief that in order to truly access the mind, and that barrier that I talked about, right, that subconscious barrier that's just there, right? It's there from 1000s and 1000s, of years of physiology of running from saber toothed tigers right in there. So we we are going go on a whole not her talk on that. But I won't I won't go there. But in order to get there, we need to actually access the heart. And I actually teach three things, another three, sort of Power of Three here that I want to share really quick. So we talked about the world class speaker principles, right? And those are the things that everybody always wants to know ... what are the tips, what are the tricks, right, and tips and tricks? Really, is it almost cheat ... that cheapens? The principle principles are like, everlasting.
Meilin Ehlke 24:06
Oh, I like that. Right.
Clinton Young 24:07
There are everlasting tips and tricks they're like, and those are like the little, that's not meaningful. But people want to know the principles. But that's only one leg of a three legged stool in order to become world class. The other two you alluded to wonderfully and I'll just put another little bit more color commentary on them. And that is number two, after the World Class speaker principles, in no order here, is authenticity. We have to be authentic. Right. And what I mean by that is we have to go from our head to our heart. You see when we're nervous because speaking is I think the number one greatest fear in the world above death. It's kind of crazy. It is.
Even me by the way ... out there. I've spoken hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times on tons of stages all around the world to literally 1000s and 1000s of people and I get nervous every single time I go up on stage, every single time, and I'm going to give you a trick right now, and this is this is actually this is a little trick. And that's okay. We can have principles. And we can also have tricks that allow us to trick our brain and our body to change physiology. You see, if you were to think about that last time, you had to speak in public right out there, you might have just raised your hand in a classroom or in a work setting, or maybe you are on a stage in front of 100 people, or more, maybe you're on a video. And you had that that physiological response, that sort of tingly feeling in your body, you know what I'm talking about, right? That feeling that you have that's a feeling of you being alive, first of all, but what we what our brain tells us, subconsciously, we don't even think this through, we think danger. That's why we assign a meaning ... think about this, when you when you're walking down a path in the woods, and you come up to and you come across the bear. Oh my goodness, right, you're gonna feel this feeling, this tingly feeling and you're gonna say danger.You're not gonna say it out loud. But in your brain, it's gonna say danger. Now, let's have another scenario, you're in a plane, and you have a parachute on, and you're an excited enthusiast and you love to jump out of planes. You're going to get to the edge, and you're going to feel this feeling, it's going to be the same exact feeling ... the same exact physiological response, this fight or flight type of response, these chemicals coursing through your body, the same thing is going to be happening to you. But you're going to assign the meaning "not danger", you're going to assign the meaning "excitement". The only difference in those two experiences is the meaning or definition that you assigned to that feeling, the same exact feeling. So when we get on stage, all we need to do is we need to find a way to shift our definition or meaning of that physiological weird little tingly feeling that we feel in our stomach and in our legs and in different parts of our body. And we need to assign the meaning. And this is what one of the things I say, and I would write this down, if anyone's listening, I say, I'm about to do something of significance.
And as a speaker, as an entrepreneur with a message, you are about to do something of significance, You're in no danger. The only reason why we think we're in danger is because we've assigned this meaning of danger, we let it happen unconsciously. And like you said before, you've got to have intention, right? You're just not being intentional when you're allowing that to happen. So what we can do is we can be intentional and say, I'm about to do something of significance. And we what happens is that a lot of times that will shift our focus from our head down to our heart, right. And that is being authentic. That's shifting our concern from ourselves, and oh, I'm not going to look good, or I'm going to sound say something stupid, or they're not going to listen to me or I'm not prepared over to put yourself in the audience's shoes, and get yourself over there in their heart and their mind.
And, and this leads to the third principle. And that is vulnerability. Right. So I said world class skill set speaking skill, set, Authenticity, shifting from our head to our heart, and then vulnerability. We need to connect with the pain, the collective pain of the audience. I'm going to say that, again, we need to connect with the collective pain of the audience. And when you become a savvy entrepreneur, and business owner or speaker, or mission driven entrepreneur, you're going to have more and more and more clarity when you work with people like Meilin or other people that maybe are your coaches or your mentors. And you're going to have more and more clarity of who you want to serve. And then you're going to find opportunities to get in front of the audiences that have a high percentage of those types of people. And when you're able to do that, and you're able to truly understand your audience, your ideal person that you want to serve with whatever solution you have in your business, you're going to know automatically, the collective pain of your audience. Because one of the things might want my mentor shared with me a long time ago is he said, fall in love with your audience, with your client, not with your product. Fall in love with your audience, because your audience will tell you what they need. And then you design your product or your service around what they need and what they want, more importantly, what they want. Right so.
So we need to find ways to understand that collective pain of our audience. And again, as a seasoned entrepreneur, and you start to really understand your audience, you're going to know that automatically. If you don't, and you're just starting out, well, there are ways to find out who's in the audience, right? Talk to the host, the person that is bringing you on their podcast, who's your Who's your typical person that you're trying to impact, because those are probably going to be the people that are going to be in the audience. Okay, speak to that pain. And when you do that in a way that is, is authentic, and you share stories about your life that are aligned, to demonstrate and illustrate that you understand their pain, and that you have a solution to solve that, that's being vulnerable. And that is when there's true connection in the audience and in the room, or over the video, right? So world class speaking skill set, you've got to know those you have to, to become world class, and you got to get the reps, and watch the video and have a coach to help you accelerate your awareness. But you also have to have vulnerability, and authenticity, or authenticity and vulnerability. So those are the the three key pillars or, or legs to the three legged stool, if you will, that you need to become world class.
Meilin Ehlke 31:05
Yeah. And on your journey, I heard some, you speak more often. So you spoke often about also trusting your intuition, right? Your whole journey, and how you also take time in the middle of the day or wherever you work, that what I found so fascinating. Even in front of people, you don't care, you meditate, Allow your style, right? For me, I just have to sit in the sun room, that's Yeah, meditation I had to think about. But you you do that. So give future ...What did you say? Not mind trip? World Class Speakers?
Clinton Young 31:48
Yes.
Meilin Ehlke 31:50
some insights out they can, or I don't want to use the word tips now. Um, let me think about opportunity, no opportunity to practice and to create while they also at the same time to hone in to their own intuition.
Clinton Young 32:13
Okay, got it. So I'm going to share something that's not speaker related that this is this is relatable to any entrepreneur or even non entrepreneur that is, that has sort of cracked that that awareness space, right. So there's, I'll start with this there. Let me just write this down. So I remember Okay, so I'm going to, I'm going to share with you in a moment, I will give you a cliffhanger about what I call black sheep habits. And I'm going to give you a four, a four step process to totally supercharge your awareness, your clarity of what you want, and your momentum in getting that which you want that which you desire,
Meilin Ehlke 32:54
I love momentum, bring it on.
Clinton Young 32:56
Beautiful. So we're gonna go there in one sec. Before we do that, there's two main types of people in the world, people that believe anything's possible. And people that believe nothing's possible. Right? So that's, that's this is my belief, this is just kind of where I'm going here. Now, inside of the people that believe anything's possible, and they typically have what I would say, a possibility mindset, or they, they're positive, they're not toxic. They're not the people that you go up to and say, hey, I want to do this. And they're like, well, how are you going to do that? Right? That's not the possibility that's more of a toxic person, you kind of don't really want to surround yourself with those people. So vital, who we surround ourselves with.
So even the people that have a possibility mindset, I have found that they're in one of three places. Okay? They are, they either don't know what they want. They believe anything's possible, but they actually don't even know what they want. Right? You asked, If you want went down the road and ask 10 people, what are you passionate about? I can almost guarantee nine of them will stare at you with a blank stare and be like, Wow, I've never thought of that. So that is also something that can happen. When somebody is experienced a seeming failure, like, like, I'll share in a moment. I'm going to share also how I came to have my speech be called Reigniting your Human Spirit. Okay, and what happened to me. And then how can I help potentially a listener today that may be experienced a failure, and their confidence is shattered. And how can I help them dig out of that and really emerge from that even more powerful than when they started? So another cliffhanger here, we're going to come back to that.
But that can sometimes happen when you have a failure. All of a sudden, you're like, I don't even know what I want. I don't know what I want. Right? So that's the first first of the three types of situations for people that even have possibility mindset. They believe anything's possible, but they're like, I don't know what I want, Okay, number two is they know what they want. But they believe anything's possible. They know what they want, but they just don't know how to get it. Right. And maybe they're even actively seeking a coach or a mentor or the How to like ... how do I do this? I know what I want, how do I do it? Right. And then the third is the one that breaks my heart. And that's because I spent a lot of time in this third one. Okay. And anyone that's gone through any sort of failure can probably relate to what I'm about to say.
And that is you believe anything's possible. Right? You have this great possibility mindset. You know what you want. Yeah, you even know how to get it. But you don't believe that you can do it. That other people can do it. But you can't do it. It's possible, but I can't do it. Right. So that's the one that breaks my heart the most. And I bring that up, because, you know, there are things you can do. There are habits. And again, habits are not sexy. But they're the key to success. Habits are not sexy, but they're the key to success. So what can we do right now? Well, I have I have eight black sheep habits, I'm going to share four of them right now that are super powerful. And I'm going to give you a bonus like elixir, if you will, this magical elixir that just really fires the whole thing up.
So if you don't know what you want, there's a few things you can do. And some of these things, the reason why I call them blacksheep habits is because a lot of the general population are not willing to do these, they think they're weird, or they don't understand them. They're like, Oh, that's, that's just weird, or people don't. Okay, so the first one is meditation. You mentioned this already. And I even sometimes meditate in public, I don't care. I just don't care ... if I want to close my eyes and just be present. And if you don't know what meditation is, I would imagine most people that are listening to this know what it is. But there's a lot of different types of meditation. Right? Sometimes I just close my eyes, and I just try to think of no thoughts whatsoever. Any thought comes into play, I just let it go and release it. And I just try to see black or white, either color or any color right in front of my eyes. That's all I do. It's very simple, right? And I just focus on my breathing, just and if anything happens that I'll make myself wrong for it, just gently release it. Just come back to your breath. Just come back to your breath. Right. And you might sound think that sounds goofy, but that's actually been that's proven. There's actually science around this now, that proves the medical benefits of meditation, it's actually becoming a lot more mainstream, as many of you probably are aware.
So it is real, right? It is real, you will start to as you start to meditate, you'll start to then have new awarenesses new insights, clearer thinking. So a lot of times, what I'll do is I'm going to give you these four, right in a row, and I do them a lot of times in this order, not always on the same day, sometimes back to back to back on the same day, though. So you want to quiet your mind first, meditation quiets your mind. Right? There's so much chatter going on, especially in this over information, over stimulation of information that we have these days, with elections and social media and just crazy a pandemic, all this stuff, all this fear, all this information. Even when there's not crazy stuff going on. There's way too much information, right? We need to quiet our mind, to tap into our intuition. We need to quiet our mind to be able to actually connect to whatever we believe our source is and get this level of connection and communication and insight. So meditation, that's the start. Now what we can do is we can go out and do what I like to call contemplation.
Okay, contemplation. Number two, how can we do that? Let's go take a walk in nature, by ourselves. Take a walk in nature, be in nature. Even if you live in a city, go somewhere where there's a tree, something where you feel like you are in nature, the deeper in nature, the better. But just get where there's grass, take your shoes off, walk on the grass, and be by yourself. Be by yourself. She liked that you get that negative ion exchange with the ground. It's a beautiful thing. Even if you don't understand it, there are things happening in your favor. Just like you don't need to understand how electricity works. You just flip the switch and the light turns on. Don't worry about how it works. Just it know that it works. Okay. It works. So contemplation will allow those things that that were sort of that clarity that was created during meditation, contemplation allows those things that are the right things to emerge. The right thoughts, the right connections, the right ideas will emerge and bubble up inside of this contemplation.
Right contemplation you are actually thinking, but it's very intentional, peaceful thinking. It's like It's like walking meditation really, it's mindful walking meditation, you just walk in nature be with nature and let things emerge. And a lot of times be by yourself. So you don't have to talk and just let things emerge. So that's number two. These are black sheep habits, right? Because sometimes you have to be willing to stand, step away from the herd and stand out from the herd and be that sort of black sheep. Kind of like being an entrepreneur. It's not the normal thing to do. Right? It's, it's like you're breaking from the mold, if you will. So that's number two.
Number three, is when you get all these ideas, we've got to write them down. And there's power in journaling. There is power, the first time someone told me to keep a journal, I'm like, come on, that's, that's silly. Or that's, you know, if you're a guy you might be like, that's a girly thing to do. No. Journal, I'm telling you write things down. Right? You don't have to write about rainbows and butterflies unless you feel that, but like, just write what happened to you that day. Right? What what emerged, a great practice is to literally wake up every morning and just to free write. Don't think about what you're going to write, just start writing, just start moving your hand and let whatever comes out comes out. It's powerful.
Meilin Ehlke
When my son was tiny, is sitting Atlanta would get up. But I do did it for two weeks. I'm not a big writer getting up early, but I did it at that time. So I started writing with no full stop, no comma, not German, English mixed. No, no worries. Now then we moved over back to Germany. And a few years later, I found a book unpacking glass box. And I read it. I was so surprised. And this is this is what you're what you're hinting to, because we have visions, right? When we contemplate when we go through nature, we are so connected to everything that exists. All of these things happened. I looked at it, you know, I only have like, you know, I don't know, 20 pages, 30 pages written because I did it only for two weeks.
Oh my god, it all happened. So that is ... this is what the power is of the setting the intention of manifesting it in in right in the cosmos, and then materializing it here on this earth. So the moment you do write it down, it's manifesting that what and that creates the materialization,
Clinton Young
Totally 100%. And just like I said earlier, especially if you're somebody like me, who I call myself a verbal processor, right, so I get my most clarity, when I'm actually speaking, When I'm speaking things out, that's when I get clarity. Now, not everybody's like that. But what I do find is when you're in motion, when you're in motion, if you think about water that's stagnant in, in a pond, it's like got some turbulence going and some eddy currents going around in circle, there's a lot of mud in the water, and it's all muddy. The way to clear that is not to let it sit still, but to actually flow water through it. And it acts like a filter. And as you flow water through it, right, you just flow it through nice and gently, all of a sudden it becomes clear. So we get in our flow when we're in motion.
Meilin Ehlke
It so technically. Yeah,
Clinton Young
Yeah. So so we want to journal and as we journal and we write things down again, things are going to solidify. We're going to start to see patterns, we're going to be like whoa, okay, this is cool. And then you're going to have more and more awareness and more and more clarity. So journaling, and it's slippery. A lot of times these thoughts you have when you're when you're meditating, or you're contemplating, they're slippery, right? You'll have it and then it'll be gone. And you're like dang it. What was that thing? Write it down, write it down, put a date on it. So that's number three.
Number four, let's say now ... fast forward. You are clear about what you want. You're like Yes, I got it. I'm clear about what I want. Right. Now in order to accelerate the actual physical reality of that thing. There's a lot of science behind what I'm about to say. But we're not going to really get into a lot of it right now. But we want to do the granddaddy or grandmommy of them all ... of all black sheep habits. Again, there's eight, I'm going to give you four right now, this is the fourth one. This one here is the biggest one. And it's this one right here. The top fighter pilots in the world, the top entrepreneurs, top CEOs, top entrepreneurs, etc, etc, etc. You name it top athletes, world class Olympic athletes, they do this fourth one, they do well, probably many of you this fourth one. And there's science behind the power of this fourth one of how it creates manifestation or things arriving in your in your life. And that's visualization. Visualization, we have to visualize what it is that we want.
I'm gonna share a quick story about Michael Phelps I shared about him earlier. He's a, like I said, world class athlete. He used to be in the Olympics. I don't think he's doing anymore. But he had like, he has 20 or 28 gold medals, something like that. And 23 of them are gold medals. It's something ridiculous. And it's just it's not ridiculous. It's amazing. And he says, before every Olympics every four years, right, he would spend eight hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, by the way, folks, that's every single day of his life for four years, eight hours a day in the pool, and working out ... weight training, or being in the pool. So actually physically working out. And even he says that visualization was his secret weapon. And visualization was his secret weapon. And he shares his story on a Forbes article, a video. You can probably Google this and find it. I have it. I share this in my presentation sometimes. He talks about how in the last Olympics he was in. He was doing a I'm not a swimmer. So I don't understand the back and forth. And I'm not on the metric system. So it's something like 200 meters, I have no idea. It was like eight lengths of the pool. And about two lengths of the pool and he's doing the butterfly, which is a really hard stroke. Where you're jumping in and out of the water and coming Way up high. He said his goggles filled up completely with chlorinated water. He could not see a thing. Couldn't see a thing, Meilin and he swam the whole rest of that race about three quarters of that race totally blind. Not only did he win gold, he set a world record in the butterfly.
Meilin Ehlke
Totally in the zone.
Clinton Young
He was totally in the flow. And he was just he visualized. He could see it. Every single stroke, every single kick, every single everything about it. He could see he'd already run or the raced that race hundreds of times in his mind. And he won every single time. So if nothing else
Meilin Ehlke
He created a rhythm and would because he couldn't see ... he really tuned into his own rhythm. You're right, because they measure a stroke. They know when to turn. And they've done it so often. So it's easy to switch. But he also went into his own he trusted himself extremely. Yeah, it could have just got not said I'm done I can see. But there's the difference. He trusted himself. He was confident in his actions and he knew he has to swim ... that's again with you know this this calling, he cannot not swim and he cannot not give up.
Clinton Young
Yes. So when we visualize it, it prime's, our brain for success, it prime's our brain for success. And the the quantum physics around this we won't get into, but you start to attract things in your life. You start to become aware of things in your life that were already there that you could not see previously, because you did not have that level of awareness. That's what starts to happen in your life. So there's a lot we can talk we could talk about that all day. And yeah, that's, that's the fourth one, the fourth powerful black sheep habit. And we'll just we'll stop there on the black sheep habits. But if you're confused, or if you don't know what you want, or you're having challenging times, do these four practices ... meditation, contemplation, journaling, contemplation is the walks in nature, journaling and then visualization. And you tell me that magic and miracles don't start happening in your life. You just tell me reach out to me and let me know if they don't. Okay, let me know if they do.
Meilin Ehlke
Probably the more you do your your black sheep exercises. Everyone gets more comfortable. So you sense it within your own body, right? If you're even visualizing the right thing, you become very in tune with your own movements. Yeah. So that is why I like you. That you combined it, that you go for a walk, you feel confident, it's more and more you relax into your own vision.And what I believe always, I always say, you let your vision pull you.
Clinton Young
Yeah, I love that. I love that. That's great. So I don't know if we have time to share how I came up with my reigniting your mind spirit story.
Meilin Ehlke
This way you have, okay, chest, treasure chest.
Clinton Young
Okay. So, again, this speaks to anyone out there that maybe is having challenging times right now. There's obviously this crazy pandemic going on. And, you know, think of it what you will, it's obviously created some changes in your lifestyle and in your business. So I experienced something similar. It wasn't a pandemic, but it was the in 2008, 2009, 2010, we obviously had a, you know, international global financial crisis, right, there was very challenging times for a lot of people. And so at that time, I had been an entrepreneur for about four years. And I'd already done the whole corporate in the US or corporate America type thing and, you know, worked for several years and different director level positions and also some some basic positions as well, and went to grad school, traveled overseas, it is amazing experiences and all of a sudden become an entrepreneur. Having these amazing time, amazing mentor, first time I ever made six figures. And then 2008 happens. My business literally crumbles in like three months, like three months crumbles completely. My I lose my business, I lose my credit, I lose my property.
My confidence is shattered. And here I am getting ready to walk into this broke down call center. Okay, on the first day of my brand new job, I'm going back now to a job right now in my life and this story. And this job, I had to cold call local businesses to sell them advertising space on High School, which is like 16, 17, 18 year old, you know, education system us in their high school sports calendars. And I'm making $8 an hour. I'm making minimum wage. So I went from several six figures down to that. Now there's anything wrong with that job or making that level of money. But it's felt like that was a massive step back for me. So I'm going to tell you the whole story there. But my confidence is shattered, okay, absolutely shattered. And I'm lost. I'm confused. I once believed everything was was right in the world. I've always been someone who followed my intuition. The story I alluded to earlier about graduate school, and I lived overseas, and I always just had this feeling and I would just go do it. And it would always work out. And it would usually work out better than I ever thought and in a totally different way than I even thought and it was always perfect. Even when it wasn't perfect, it's always perfect. That's one of my beliefs. And in this moment, I I actually will fast forward a little bit. I'm in a seminar. A couple months later, this was December, no, August 2010, I believe. And I'm in a seminar about 10 years ago. And I'm at the front of the room. I'm about to picture this 200 people all around, I'm at the microphone, I'm certainly not leading this seminar. Like I said, I'm lost. I'm asking the question at the microphone. So I'm standing up in front of 200 people, and the seminar leader looks right at me. And he says Clinton, you are dead inside.
And I was just like, Oh, it was like a stake to the heart. Right. But he spoke right to my soul, like he knew. And I was dead inside. And in that moment, I realized why I was so shattered. It was because I'd always been someone who trusted my intuition. And I felt like in that moment. Wow, my intuition failed me. I bet you see for 2005, I bought these two properties 2005, 2006 and I bought them for all the wrong reasons. I see now. I bought them from the wrong people. I was I was in a totally wrong area. I bought them for the wrong reasons. And they were they were like chewing me apart ... the lots of gory stories around that like negative cash flow and just it was bad. And that definitely lent itself to my ultimate downfall. Of course, the global crisis didn't help either. But that definitely was a huge thing that was weighing on me and I realized I'm standing there in the front of the room.
My intuition failed me. That was my whole, like model of how the world worked ... intuition, you get a feeling you follow it, it always works out. And I didn't realize it was in my unconscious brain, my unconscious mind, I didn't realize that I thought my on my intuition had failed me. And in that moment, I realized, and I'm like, wow, that makes so much sense. My intuition failed me. And so I go, and I fast forward a little bit, and I start practicing the black sheep habits. Anytime, when my mentor, Justin, he always says, you're ever experiencing any challenging times go inward. Always go inward. Don't seek for answers outward, go inward. That's where the answer is. So I start meditating. I start taking walks in nature and contemplating, I start journaling, not yet visualizing, because I don't quite know what I want. I am visualizing just a better life. But ultimately, I'm focused on those first three, yes, healing totally. And on a walk in nature, with my wife, I was actually my wife this time, so you can contemplate with other people, but I like to do it alone. This day, I'm with my wife. And I'm walking, and I'm contemplating and I'm realizing all of a sudden, I realized it, like hit me like a flash of lightning. I was like, oh my goodness, my intuition didn't fail me. I failed my intuition.
And that's why I was so broken up about it. You see, I remembered in that walk, that it wasn't my intuition. My intuition did say, Clinton, what are you doing? These people are not the right people. Why are you buying, you're not doing enough due diligence, you're not doing the work here. You're buying these for the wrong reasons. And I just chose to, for whatever reason, many reasons at the time, I just put, dampen them down and put them in the back of my mind just said, Forget about, its Autumn. It's going to be fine. Right. And it did speak to me, but I failed it. I failed it. So that's why I was so shattered. And it just didn't it the world didn't make sense. And I spent the next four or five years healing from that process and learning to trust my intuition, again. Because when I trust my intuition, magic, and miracles happen. When I trust my intuition, magic, and absolute miracles, and I have an actual formula. But I learned through that whole process, we could go into that and how you can actually do that. How you can literally simple three step formula to trust your intuition to learn to hone to hone into it, and feel it and use it to create momentum in your life, perhaps another conversation.
So why is my speech called Reigniting Your Human Spirit? Well, a lot of people always say, why is it reigniting? Why isn't it just igniting? And I'm like, because when we're born, when we're little kids, when we're souls that you know, whatever you believe, right? All of a sudden, you're a new human on the on the earth. We have this massive light, anything's possible. Everything's possible. We can do anything. In fact, when our moms or dads or our people older than us, when we're little kids say you can do anything in the world. And we're just it falls on deaf ears. We're just kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's actually true. It's actually true. Like we can do anything. It would be a cruel joke, cruel joke from God, source, or whatever you believe, whatever your higher power is, it'd be a cruel joke. If you had the ability to visualize something and see something and have an idea about something and not actually have the potential to achieve it. It would be a cruel joke. So anything that you can actually see in your mind, you can actually create, you can actually have in your life.
So Reigniting your Human Spirit, well, a lot of times things happen, and our light goes out, or our light gets flickered or, you know, there becomes this sort of film around it, and we can't see through it. We get confused. We don't believe it's possible, or we don't know how to do things. Well, my speech and what my body of work is all about, is how do we re ignite our human spirit? How do we reignite our human spirit and unlock our full potential, access our intuition, access our true souls purpose, and live an extraordinary life and be in service to others inside of our greatest gift. How do we do that? That's, that's, in my opinion, for me, that's a life worth living. And that's my vision. I'll end with this. My vision is to co-create, right and co-cause I'm not the one I'm not Neo from the Matrix. I'm not the only one right. But I want to be a part of this movement to create a global tipping point in possibility consciousness by December 31, 2029. So I've got about a decade to do this.
Meilin Ehlke
We'll be there faster
Clinton Young
Good, and that's why I'm not just a speaker, coach. Like that's totally diminishes what I do, that's not what I do. I do coach and mentor people that want to become world class speakers, but it's not because I want to help people become speakers. It's because I want and I'm committed to creating a global tipping point and possibility consciousness. And I know I can't do it alone. So I'm on a mission to ignite over 1000 World Class mission driven entrepreneurs as World Class speakers inside of that same timeframe, inside of the next decade. To help me uplift humanity. So that's my mission. And that's my vision.
Meilin Ehlke
Everyone who's meet you, they'll just be able to synchronize. I love right. This is so the power way when we find someone we sense there is something to discover, right? It's because they carry or you do carry so much information, because you have lifted again, you have you went through these experiences. So you're teaching really what you've discovered how you resolved the trauma, and, you know, feeling it close, and then open up again. And it's easy then for anyone while get to synchronize to your wisdom. So the easy way everyone ... meet him, stand next to him and go like, you get a lot of it. Yeah, people going back to intuition. That's how we can pull a lot of information already. Right? We don't need to speak so much. But at the moment, everyone do connect with Clinton, because I think he has a lot more to offer than he's speaking about. And even voicing, and I think Clinton that will change also for you. You're gonna share much more of what is inside you. And there are things you can't fathom yet that you will be speaking about,
Clinton Young
we're just scratching the surface
Meilin Ehlke
And that what drives you? Yeah, I think that's, and I can't wait to meet all of your 1000 plus New World Class speakers. They have a platform here, right, so I can shine, shed some light on them, to get this big calling to change this earth, to heal this earth, to help us humans to get this clarity, again, what our natural state feels like that they can experience how this state feels like. When we're connected to everything and understand everything and sing the same song, right? The same language. It will be a fantastic day. And I believe it's coming faster than 2029 because there is speed that is building up. So everyone is gone. It's not going to be easy. There's comes a rough time, I do have to say that with a big smile, because I sense what's coming, behind and bless it be it'll be an adventure, see it as an adventure and travel with it. And you've got a lot of tips today from Clinton to use his black sheep habits tips, right? To familiarize, always connect to nature. You have him. You have me and many others that are speaking already for a while. Ask them ... connect to them. Don't be afraid we don't bite. Yeah, yes. With Clinton, whatever you desire, or watch his YouTube, so you have probably a lot.
Clinton Young
Yes. So would you like to get me to give away my my top seven world class speaker principles?
Meilin Ehlke
Yes, that would be, that would be a huge gift to everyone. Yeah.
Clinton Young
Okay, excellent. I'm going to do that. And then I'm going to end with a six word story. Only six words. Okay. Sort of sums up what I believe and what I think can help people on this, this call and this podcast video. So these top seven world class speaker principles, just to give you some context, literally just one of these, I paid one of my mentors, who is a world class speaker over $5,000 just for this for one of these, just for one of these. And that one alone, has allowed me to earn 10s of 1000s of dollars as a speaker, and entrepreneur with a message. And more importantly, it's allowed me to become and move into my goal, my vision of becoming a world class speaker. So there's a lot of value in these I'm going to give you all seven for free. And these are things that I've learned again from my own hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours on stages, as well as from some of the top speakers out there on the planet that are committed to moving humanity forward. So you can get all seven for free at World Class speaker secrets.com. So if you spell that out world class speaker secrets.com, you can get all seven of those. And I actually have a bonus eighth as well, that I put in there. So if you do that, go there now and grab those, I'm sure Meilin will put them in the show notes, the link, and I'll make sure you have the appropriate link. If anyone would also like to just connect with me as well. You can go to Clinton Young.com. That's just my main website, you can see me speak on there as well. And there's also a button there to get over to World Class speaker secrets.com. And then I want to end if it's okay, I want to end with a six word story. Okay. And this is what I challenge everybody listening on this call in this video today. And that is, to think Big. Say Yes. And Take Action. Think big. Say yes. And take action and magic and miracles will open up in your life. Thank you, Meilin so much for allowing me to contribute to your audience and and get more further connected with you as well. really had a great time today. Thanks again.
Meilin Ehlke
Well spoken Clinton, thank you for very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to be on the Moving to Oneness podcast. So everyone, I wish you a wonderful time digesting what you've soaked up while you were listening to Clinton. And act on his tips on his wisdom and implement it. Because also, I believe when you raise a certain amount of currency, we can or you can implement it into the healing of this earth for people, for animals. As a landscape architect, my big reason is also to plant a lot of trees ... plants that are suited for their specific ecology. And this is the very good vehicle to get there very fast so on your mission, so everyone have a wonderful time. This is Meilin, goodbye.