Enjoy the fun writing ignition energy Clint Arthur emanates during todays episode. Feel inspired to fully be yourself and to not hesitate showing it to the world. The vast wisdom shared from Clints life's experiences, his highlighting of others and those speaking with presidents, leaders and celebrities of all walks of life will catapult you forward.
With a fun lightness Clint Arthur share his personal vast life's experience wisdom with you. The stories ignite you to be more creative and resourceful, independent of you being an authors or not. Our conversation is infuses by great wisdom of the wise men Clint met and writes about in his fascinating memoir 'Wisdom of the Men'. Enjoy todays Moving To Oneness episode where you learn believing in your grandness leads you to great possibilities and exciting events.
Clint newest book of 21 is called: Wisdom Of The Men: How I Went From Taxi Driver to Working With Global Superstars & 5 US Presidents, Revealing All My Secrets, So You Can Do It Too
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Moving To Oneness, Nourishing Curiosity, Embracing Differences, Becoming One
Meilin Ehlke 0:45
That boyish smile got me. Made me curious and I'm so happy and laughing because this conversation is gonna be fun. Listen in, stay tuned in because this vastness that my guest brings today to you all the way from Acapulco, Mexico is gonna provide momentum to your life, inspiration. Do take time to synchronize to every fiber of him and sense it within your own body, and that will change your future.
Meilin Ehlke 1:25
Hello, everyone. I'm Meilin Ehlke the host of the Moving To Oneness podcast and today I have with me, for you, my guest, Clint Arthur, in Mexico, Acapulco. Thank you, thank you for being on my podcast.
Clint Arthur 1:44
Namaste.
Meilin Ehlke 1:47
Yeah, everyone, this laughter, you know, sometimes I do things in life and maybe you as well. You do things and you fall or stumble upon things and to be free in that moment to act on it is so important. Follow your instinct, you call it or maybe there's an inkling in your body or you just know you have to do it. So, don't plan too much in your life and leave these things open, so things can unfold, the unfathomed can happen. A professional or super man, who does this every single day in his life, I would say Clint, since a little kid, as a student, as an artist, it's so much more you invite things to appear for you and then you play with them, almost like a surfer on a wave on the ocean wave, and I love that about you.
Clint Arthur 2:50
I love how you know about me, because you read my book 'Wisdom of the Men'?
Meilin Ehlke 2:54
Yes, I did.
Clint Arthur 2:55
I'm very grateful to have a podcast host who actually read the book. That's really awesome. And I did talk about my whole life from when I was a child, all the way till now. And I've been so looking forward to this interview because of who you are and what this is all about and how you do stuff.
Meilin Ehlke 3:11
Thank you.
Clint Arthur 3:11
How you do these interviews. So, I'm excited to hear about that. Yeah, since I was a little kid, I have been open to taking opportunities to stepping into whatever the world presents to me and maximizing it because I don't live in fear. Maybe I'm dumb. Maybe I'm living ignorance is bliss, but I try not to live in fear. And that's one of the greatest things that came out of my participation in something called the Sterling men's weekend, which led to the title of my book 'Wisdom of the Men'.
Clint Arthur 3:11
See, the Sterling Men's Weekend was a seminar that dropped into my lap just because I wanted to get my website rebuilt.
Meilin Ehlke 4:00
[laughter] Yeah, genau.
Clint Arthur 4:02
That's how it happened.
Meilin Ehlke 4:02
That is how life happens.
Clint Arthur 4:04
I met this guy. He was the boyfriend of this girl whose radio show I was on, and he said hey, I really like what you're doing. And I'd like to help you by rebuilding your website. And all I ask is in addition to my regular $35 an hour fee, that you take this seminar about how to have more power as a man. And I said, "Wow, that sounds great. I love seminars and I would love to have more power as a man". And what I got out of that was, what I didn't realize was that by this point in my life, I was about... How old was I when I took the man's weekend? It was December 2000. So, I was 35 years old. By that point in my life, I had developed a fear of men.
Meilin Ehlke 4:48
Uh.
Clint Arthur 4:49
I was afraid of men. I was afraid of men hitting on me, raping me. I don't know where all these fears come from. That's how fears are and like in life, they just like start stacking onto each other I guess. And the great gift was when I graduated the men's weekend. I no longer had a fear of men. I loved men. I loved men and that really opened up a lot for me, because to go from fearing the whole half of the population to loving the whole half of the population, that was a great thing. It introduced me to the men's weekend and I joined the team and I stepped into the opportunity of becoming the leader of the team and when I was the leader of the team, that is what brought me to the 'Wisdom of the Men'. And the book which is now nominated for the Pulitzer Prize,
Meilin Ehlke 5:03
Congratulations.
Clint Arthur 5:20
Thank you, and our conversation today. Okay.
Meilin Ehlke 5:46
Yeah. So, you know, this is a really interesting thing, the fear of men or we also have fear of women. And it really is ingrained in us and it comes a little later because as children we are not fearful of each other's genders and we're together and we see each other as one. The outside does that, the schooling or the newspaper, right? We have been made fearful of the other, of all the things that can happen in this precious time were we supposed to get very close to each other and feel and embrace each other? I think sometimes I even miss it here in Germany, when I compare it to let's say the Persian women or Zaza women, where there is a much stronger community bond of women. Where they hug each other and they celebrate their sister and they massage each other. I didn't grow up this way. Right? Very separated. It has a reason, right? We're more controllable because of this.
Meilin Ehlke 6:49
But you never let yourself be controlled. Even though maybe that fear crept up. In you it was something else I noticed, you are very determined. So, in a way you have a true understanding that it's a certain purity about you. That you sense what is good for you or where to lead. You're finding your own way and this is where I take off my hat and I think fantastic, chapeau, even though you go and are curious about others, how they live their life and what made them who they are. You share so much about their wisdom with us in your book. But you always stayed who you are, you didn't emulate or you know try to become like them. You wanted to see the best of each person. And this I thought was really fascinating. And then you took the best in and put it together like into a new form. And to in a way optimize yourself. Also when the optimization is for some people maybe, oh, it is not perceived as this perfect career path you went on. You went into another way, where you delved inside and pushed out the outside world away. I think a lot of healers do that or people that want to bring out more of themselves, of who they are because it will be needed in the future. That's what I believe anyway. Your book is going to be needed. A lot of people are going to read it and get this new excitement within, that you're bringing them to be courageous and to go for what you desire and love. And that when they do it, they can sense "Oh, it's okay. People are smiling with me. They're gonna laugh with me. They're gonna have fun with me. It is not so hard. They are not going to judge me. Right? That is what so many people are afraid of and you're showing them how possible it is.
Meilin Ehlke 9:06
A lot of people restrain themselves from taking chances, from doing what they want to do really in their heart of hearts, because they're afraid of failing and looking stupid in front of their friends. And I truly understand, I chased a dream the Hollywood dream for 13 years, while all of my fraternity brothers from college were becoming millionaires and billionaires. I was driving a taxi in Los Angeles, a Wharton Business School graduate driving the taxi because I was writing screenplays. I was going on auditions. I was trying to be the dream that I wanted, which was to be an Oscar winning filmmaker and movie star. And I really believed it was possible.
Meilin Ehlke 9:46
Yeah.
Clint Arthur 9:46
Because I had succeeded in everything. But for 13 years, I chased that dream and when I got to 10 years I thought, well, it's got to happen any day. 11 years. Well, it's really got to happen. 12 years, 13 years, and finally I said I can't keep chasing this dream that is is going to destroy my whole life and consume what could have been something great. I had been such a high achiever my whole life and here I was not getting any waves. I used to have a saying you can't surf the waves that aren't there. And I wasn't getting any waves. And that's when I gave up on that and I had to learn how to trust myself again, because after 13 years of not making stuff happen, not being able to manifest the way I used to when I was young. I had to learn how to trust myself to be able to have success again. And that was a real process of step by step building on success after success. Regaining an understanding of how to be a successful person. And along the way, I met a lot of mentors, a lot of very famous and successful people and, you know, including five presidents of the United States.
Meilin Ehlke 10:03
That is fascinating.
Clint Arthur 11:00
A lot of people have a problem with that. A lot of people say, oh, this person is a deep state operative or this person is a criminal or this person is the wrong political orientation, I don't want to hear anything about them. How could you like this one? You know what, these are people who have been extremely successful in life. That's all I care about on my journey. It's not about politics in any way. It's only about what do they have? And when I met George HW Bush, the 41st President of the United States, we were in a kitchen at Wynn resort and I was visiting a client while he was mixing up a big pot of lobster bisque. And there goes George Bush and two secret service men walking through the kitchen. And I go, Holy shit that was the President of the United States and the chef who's like the Executive Chef of this major restaurant at the Wynn resort you can imagine how many millions of dollars he's doing through his restaurant there. He really had no idea. And I follow him into the restaurant into the dining room and I go up to the Secret Service agent and I say, "Can I get a picture with the President?"
Clint Arthur 12:13
I had attended another seminar with Mark Victor Hansen, who was one of the two impresarios have created a little series of books called 'Chicken Soup for the Soul'. You may have heard of that thing.
Meilin Ehlke 12:24
Yes.
Clint Arthur 12:25
They sold more than half a billion books. That's a lot of books. And he had advised all of us at his seminar, "You should always walk around with a little instamatic camera in your pocket in case you meet anyone who's special or famous, you'll want to get a photo with them." And that was maybe I don't know a year earlier and I had this camera in my pocket, and I pull out the camera, "Can I get a picture with the president?" And the Secret Service guy goes, "sure". I go over to the President. And he's wearing a tie with little parachute jumpers on it. I looked in the photo. I didn't realize that for years after taking that photo, when I zoomed in and saw the airship jumpers, and I said, "I voted for you sir". That was a lie. I just wanted him to like me more. I didn't vote for him. I didn't vote in elections. I never voted in an election until I voted for, I voted for Ronald Reagan way back. That was the first time I voted. The second time I ever voted was for Barack Obama. Okay, so that shows you the juxtaposition how I vote for the person. I vote for the speaker. I vote for the ideas. I vote for what they talk about. I'm not a political party person. I'm a people person. And I really believe people buy people. I bought Ronald Reagan and I bought Barack Obama. But I didn't buy George Bush. But I said I did because I wanted him to like me. And he said, "thank you". And I said, "Could I get a photo, sir?" And he said, "Why certainly". We take the photo and I like leaned against him. So, you could see we're really there. And then when it was over, I had the wherewithal to say, "Sir, what's the most important thing you ever learned?" And he said, "Well, young man, that's a very big question. But I'd have to say that you have to keep doing the things you love in this life". Now. That's not what's, what does that have to do with politics? That's the advice of a 75 year old man to a 40 year old man. That's what that is. That's that's all it is. And that's the wisdom of that man for me. And that's what the universe gave me. And that's how I really feel like all of these encounters with the international superstars, the presidents, all of this stuff, though, even in the women, the great, you know, there's several really spectacular women who made it into the pages of this book, even though it's called wisdom of the men. All of this I take as messages from the universe.
Meilin Ehlke 14:54
Yeah, that is so beautiful and you do it without judgment. And as this is, so beautiful, you don't put people on a pedestal and you let them be. Right? This is something very interesting, and I think people sense that. So, why does this yes, come or even why do you sense them coming? So, your awareness, you're very open. To be aware of who passes us is important. Yeah, if you go through a landscape, you have to feel oh there's an animal, so that you even see an animal or a bird or a cat.
Meilin Ehlke 15:29
I remember in college Clint... By the way, everyone when I started reading Clints book, I'm writing a book myself pulling up many stories. So, many stories, the first few days came out reading your book. I had to write notes and I barely could because of my pinch nerve and I couldn't hold a pen, so they're sketches or images. So, Clint for this I want to thank you in this moment for coming into my life. Because you showed all of your facets as a child and later on. And I said, "Oh my god, I forgot this and I forgot that." There was this ignition, ignition ignition, igniting, igniting igniting, and it was and it felt great, it felt lively, re-liveling. I became more alive and it became light and a little, you know, crisp. Life became crisp. And for this I want to thank you. It is important for me so I don't forget. And everyone, you may have the same experience.
Meilin Ehlke 16:45
And there was one moment I read your book and I said, "I saw that article" you were writing about, an article, I lived at that time in the US. And I had just brought a friend back to California, Santa Monica, and there was your article about the trash art exhibit because you're not just a writer, you're so much more. I can see, I can remember images. I saw that article. This is really bizarre. And now 35 years later, do you know something like this, we meet.
Clint Arthur 17:20
Wow.
Meilin Ehlke 17:20
This is fascinating and so why do we get to meet certain people in life? Why do we read certain things? This is something that fascinates me, Clint. There is always a reason behind everything. And that's why I love, that you're also so open because when we stay open, we let this happen. Yeah, this is I can't put words into it. I hope everyone who was listening and watching, that you sense the vastness and the possibility that is being created.
Meilin Ehlke 17:55
There's so much to talk about in that one thing. This is all a result of the mentorship of Frank McCourt, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, Angela's Ashes. He was my high school creative writing teacher and he told me, you need to, "you need to write". I I'm not going to be able to do his accent properly right now. Because I don't remember exactly how he said it. But you have to write what you know. And what do you really know you know, your own life. And what you're saying is that by reading about how I wrote about my life, it inspired you to write about your life. Is that is that when you said?
Meilin Ehlke 18:33
Yes, I mean, I started the idea already, but then you pulled more. I already had set intention. Right and I had found some already, I painted them down my ideas and stories, but you pulled deeper stories. Stories that I needed to read in your book, to recognize or see and help me remember, because you're right so fresh. You write. You don't cover up anything. You're so honest. What I love about your writing it is you share your mistakes, you share how you feel you're very open. You show your wounds, and I can feel them bleed, but I can also feel how you grow and how strong you are getting and that there is always like a little bit of, not a repetition about you, that there is a pulse happening with that. Right? As we get more and more and discover about ourselves, we pull more in and become grander and we can walk up more straight with the eyes directly forward. We don't have to hide or look down anymore and this is also something you are vibrating through your book.
Clint Arthur 19:53
I wrote in the book that in life, certain events change you. Writing this book changed me. I wrote this book during a 10 day period in Venice, Italy.
Meilin Ehlke 20:03
Wow.
Clint Arthur 20:04
This way I knew everything that was in the book because I it was all fresh in my mind. And I held nothing back because there was no one looking over my shoulder, that was censoring me or impacted my honesty. I was just 100% honest with all of this. And I knew what I had written and as I wrote more and as I was creating my life's work masterpiece, which is what I consider this to be. I was growing as a person, as a writer, as a man. And all of this was changing me this experience of writing this thing and looking back over my life understanding the events and how they interplay with one another was changing me in this whole process. And I hope the writing changes other writers too and shows them how you can write about your life in different ways. And comment stories from unexpected angles. That's what I really love to do to approach a story in a way where when you end up at the end, it's just amazing of how you began and how you got to the end. That's what I really love doing the most.
Meilin Ehlke 21:14
Yeah, one day I walked into the kitchen, I spoke with my husband, I said, "you know, it's amazing. So, often we think about the moments that we went wrong, but none of them went wrong." Each single moment or detour, I wouldn't even call the word detour anymore. We're really in the right spot. Or we are in certain places because certain processes or we think about things or we have to meet a person, right? Sometimes it's a sentence. We have to watch a movie, we have to eat a certain thing, we have to sense a different scent, landscape or be in another culture. Clint that's what I like, maybe because I'm rather similar to you, this could be it, right? I believe every experience forms us, it gives along us. Words that we speak a form us and it's important and you use that as well. That it's easy to write about it because you've lived it. As I, I want to write it and because you're so multifaceted and I also have so many facets right that the art or the dancing or the landscape architecture, the list goes on blah blah blah. Then weaving all these stories together but it cannot be separate. They need to be there to give the bigger picture and to give more depth to a tapestry or the more flavor into a soup full of ingredients, that can make that soup only taste that good because all of these awkward things are in there.
Meilin Ehlke 23:05
I don't know why I met George Clooney in a bar with my baby's mama, but I do know that he has impacted my life. I don't know why I met Snoop Dogg, but I did feel, you know, you talked about feeling the energy. That's how I felt George Bush come out of the different alleyways in the bowels of the Wynn resort. I felt an energy coming from the door and I when I looked there was the President of United States and the same kind of thing happened with Snoop Dogg. I was sitting in the lobby of the W Hotel in Hollywood, and I was texting on my phone. So many people today, we spend our lives just wrapped up in the little 6.5 inches of screen right in front of us. We don't see what's going on in the bigger world. It was funny. I was at a dinner last night and like everyone in the whole restaurant was texting and there was some beautiful woman getting photos of the sunset with with her in the foreground and her husband was taking the photos and everyone's texting and I'm looking at the beautiful woman in the sunset. I'm the only one, right? But when I met Snoop Dogg, I'm texting and all of a sudden I felt an energy and I look up and they're Snoop Dogg. Just going right by me, fast. And I said "wow, that was Snoop. I better go after him", and I followed him outside. And there we were standing on the red carpet by the valet parking and I said, "Snoop, can I get a photo?" and he just goes like that because my photo which is one of my best celebrity photos that I have. Everybody loves that photo and I've been using it for years. Then I said, "Snoop, what's the most important thing you ever learned?" He said, "Life's too short to smoke cheap weed", and then he got into a Rolls Royce SUV and drove away. And you know that is a great thing. Now I quit smoking weed in 2009 I'm not judging anybody do whatever you want. For me, it was given me fear, procrastination and doubt and when I quit smoking weed six weeks later I did my first of 111 television appearances. You can draw your own conclusions about whether weed was holding me back or not. In any case, I do believe that life is too short to smoke cheap weed or drink cheap wine, even though I gave up drinking more than eight years ago, or eating good food or buying the best clothing that you want or the car that you want or living in the house that you want. Life's too short to do anything you don't really want to do or to deny yourself anything that you really want.
Meilin Ehlke 25:39
I love that, the denying, or that we go after things we desire because I believe everything is medicine. We don't need much, but when we sense it is the right thing for us, that we don't censor ourselves or tighten ourselves or push it away. And in a way that's what you don't do. You don't push it away and you don't censor yourself. It accelerates you. There's always this little speed, you feel it and that's really interesting. I would love to know more. Can you hone into that? What is it that suddenly pulls you? Have you ever thought about it, because it happens over and over again. Suddenly you see people and you get pulled or you get pushed? What is it? More of a feeling? Is it more of a being pulled by the other person because you're supposed to weave all of them together in this life or in a book or in your experience? Because you're right there, the wisdom you sharing, you're going in conversation with them, even if it's for instant. We can exchange a lot in that single moment. How would you say it is?
Meilin Ehlke 26:48
You'r right? We do exchange a lot in a single moment. This is not in the book. When my daughter was born. My grandmother was in the hospital. She was mortally ill in the hospital. And we brought my daughter to see her and they were wheeling my grandmother from her room to the intensive care because she was declining so fast. And when we held the baby to her, she took her hand and she said, "I waited for you baby", and then they took her away and then she was gone. A lot can be transferred in a moment. And I've had a lot of those moments in my life and I feel blessed that I'm the kind of person. Tony Robbins says, there's two kinds of people in the world. Those who are inspired by wanting to be more and those who are motivated by fear and pain. These are the two motivators, you're either aspirational or trying to avoid pain. I'm fortunate that I consider myself a person who is aspirational. I am motivated by pain, don't get me wrong and you know, when the pain gets bad enough, I'll do stuff but most of what created 'Wisdom of the Men' was my aspirations to be more, to do more, to have more, to fulfill my potential, to be you know, everything that I can be in this world even though I don't really understand what's pushing me or driving me. I think it has to do with the fact that when I graduated from college, I went home to get the attaboys and my parents got into the biggest fight of all time. And my dad stormed out of the house and slammed the door. And I turned to my mom and I said, "You know mom the way he resents you all these years, have you been cheating on dad?" And I was thinking, Wow, where did that thought come from? I never thought that in my whole life. And then I'm thinking what kind of a rude son of a gun asked his mom a question like that? That's the rudest thing I've ever said to anyone. And then I'm thinking why isn't she answering the question? And then she says, "He is not your real father. Your real father was a doctor at the fertility clinic. We went in for six years, trying to have you and you look just like that guy". And that changed everything for me that...
Meilin Ehlke 29:18
Identity changed really quickly.
Meilin Ehlke 29:36
Well, you have no idea how much of your identity is based on the fact that you think you know, who your actual parents are. Even though according to an article I read in Forbes magazine, 30% of the planet doesn't really know who their father is. They think they do, but they don't really know or they don't know and they don't know.
Meilin Ehlke 29:55
It provided freedom though. It provided 'Sturm und Drang', right? Goethe said that. It is this strong storm suddenly that comes up a little bit. This burst and then that moves you forward. It also provides a freedom so you can become something new.
Clint Arthur 30:21
100% From that moment on, I no longer want to be an investment banker, I wanted to be a movie star. And I gave myself the permission. And it's fascinating because I went to high school with Robert Downey Jr. He was the star of the of the drama clubs play was the musical version of Hair. And I was the star of West Side Story. I was Tony in West Side Story and because we were both starts of school plays, we were in the same grade, we became friends. And he influenced me. And another kid who went to our junior high school was Jonathan Cryer. There was a little TV show in America called Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer.
Meilin Ehlke 31:03
It is also in Germany.
Clint Arthur 31:05
Yeah. And Jon Cryer was the star of that, you know, I mean, here is two gigantic stars. And the funny part is that the next year in 10th, grade, John, no ninth grade, in ninth grade, John, Cryer played Conrad and Bye Bye Birdie in the junior high school production of Bye, Bye, Birdie. And in 10th grade, I played Conrad in the high school production of Bye, Bye, Birdie. So why did those guys become giant stars, and I never did. I didn't even equate all of that. My father was an accountant. The man who raised me was an accountant. And he did his greatest pride was, that I went to the Wharton Business School. And I wanted, I made up my mind, that's what I wanted to do. Probably because I wanted to please my father. You know, I have a dog. And when I hold my dog and walk around with my dog, I constantly say Daddy loves you, baby, Daddy loves you. I realized my whole life has been guided by this search for the love of father.
Meilin Ehlke 32:14
Yeah. To be seen, to be seen. And now you are seen, you needed that though. Right? Because to be seen, that means you didn't feel seen. That brings out, that you love to highlight. This is something people feel so comfortable around you, because you really see them. First of all because you have all these seemingly unrelated experiences, or seemingly unrelated people you meet, or circumstances you are in, or places you're in. But that gave you an understanding of so much differences and unique viewpoints. And so you can really see people. Because we're all like this way and it is sometimes I sense a little sad that we're trying to be only one way. And Clint I believe many in this world want to be seen, they feel something is not true. What they are living is not true. And the only thing is they need someone now to see, "Oh, she or he is doing it. They're not afraid. They're showing their way and style and how they are in and if they can do it, oh, then I can do it, I want to do it or I'll try to do it". And this is so important, but for you to see people, and then you help them to see themselves. That's what I find so fascinating. And to make them also courageous enough then to move forward and not to fear to be judged by others that they approach.
Clint Arthur
33:56 I have walked the walk. And I think what you're referring to is the clients, the author, speakers, coaches, experts that I work with, in helping people to become celebrity entrepreneurs. That's what I call a celebrities in the eyes of customers and prospects.
Clint Arthur
34:08 Exactly.
Clint Arthur 34:09
And I've walked that walk, I quit writing twice, I quit writing immediately after college. Then I quit after my 13 years chasing the Hollywood dream. I quit writing again. 30 screenplays, 10 books, I drove a taxi, a Wharton Business School graduate, it wasn't worth it. And for eight years, I didn't write a word. You know, I've written so much in my life. And I've actually quit twice. And yet I come back. And now I have a Pulitzer nominated book. And, you know, I don't understand how they could not pick this book, because it's cool. Who doesn't want this book? I don't understand who wouldn't want to read this book, and who couldn't profit from this book? And I really put so much into it. And I you know, if I could get to this point in my life where I could be a successful writer, I make mucho dinero. Not necessarily from selling books right now. But as I explained in the book, selling books is not really the way most people make money from books.
Meilin Ehlke 35:12
Yeah. You give tips.
Clint Arthur 35:14
I found a way to be a writer, like the writing for me is the fun part. The writing for me is like painting the picture. That's what this is. It's the artistry is the writing. But I've found how to make money and earn a living and be very successful and profitable and wealthy from being a writer and a speaker. Which is what I am. People say, what do you do, I'm a writer and a speaker and too for me to be able to say that and to actually have created the lifestyle that I have, where I work with every major superstar on the planet so far, except the Rock and Kevin Hart. Those are basically the only two that I haven't worked with, and I'm looking forward to meeting them.
Meilin Ehlke 35:56
Kevin Hart, yeah, both I like a lot as well.
Clint Arthur 35:59
I love those guys, but I haven't worked with them yet. But I've worked with everyone else. Martha Stewart, Dr. Oz, Ice-T, new presidents, all of it. For me to do that as a writer, that's amazing, because I quit multiple times. So that's why. People they see and they see that hey, if he could do it, I could do it. Now. Unfortunately, what drove me to so much disappointment was the greatness of my mentors. Frank McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize after Frank McCourt, my college roommates father, and he was also my girlfriend's father and I met my college roommate sister, I started dating her and asked, after that happened, her father who won the Academy Award for Platoon, which he produced and got Best Picture Oscar, he became not only my mentor, but my inspiration as a storyteller, as a producer, and as a filmmaker. I wanted to be like him. And I thought, if he could win the Academy Award then I could win the Academy Award, that was delusional. And for so long, I thought, well if Frank McCourt could win the Pulitzer Prize and, and make a lot of money as a writer. Now I could do it too. And that was delusional. And, you know, I had to learn my way through this whole world, I had to figure out how to be a writer in a way that worked for me, so that I could not just survive, but thrive as a writer. And luckily, I continued to study with experts in the world of being a writer, a speaker, a coach and a seminar leader. I've spent a lot of time and money studying with those people, so that I can learn how to take my artistry, which is the 'Wisdom of the Men', and off the back of the book, make mucho dinero. And I teach other people how to do that too, because I think it's important. I think every person who wants to share their message should be able to do it. But it ain't easy. And it's not going to necessarily dump a lot of money in your lap. Certainly not the way you expect it to, especially when there's so many self published books out there today. But if you really want this you can do it. You just have to find your own way. And it's a beautiful world that we're able to find our way to being writers and speakers and coaches and have our own way to put our unique voice into the world.
Meilin Ehlke 38:32
Yeah and it is so needed now. I think the whole universe, cosmos, we were talking about the goals we had today, is that this is gonna happen. The ways of doing it as everyone else, has stagnated, has hurt people. They feel condensed, in a way. And so it is now the time to figure out what makes me the way I am? What makes me unique? Or even for me Meilin, I say, what's my Meilinish? And to bring exactly that out. There's also the timing, right? Why do some started out right away, some came in the middle age of life, some later? Even your teacher, right, he was in the 70s when he wrote his book. Then when it came out, it hits the world, because in that moment, the world was open to hear his words, to read about it. Right? Maybe 20 years earlier, they weren't there. And then it could go worldwide and could be made into a movie. And this isn't the other aspect and too often we you know, Clint, we start hitting ourselves on the head and say, "oh, I should have been a dadadada and why not yet?" Because it wasn't the time yet. Often the whole environment, the whole planet moves with one. We have a grander reasons. We're not just a human being, we have something we're bringing to this Earth. And it unfolds at different times, in different speeds, and different momentums.
Meilin Ehlke 40:08
I also think, you were in different professions, putting your energy in there, so it is also that your energy he was needed. It was a you know, and this is so important. And now it's needed here. And now it's gonna help others move them forward and bring out what is deep within to be. Have fun. That's so important. You bring this lightness and fun to writing about ourselves to voicing, it's not anymore this seriousness, this academic way, this observed way, this judged way. And this is you, just making it and it's done all over different. And for that. I love it, your book.
Clint Arthur
40:57 It was a different book than you've ever read before, isn't it?
Meilin Ehlke 41:01
Yeah. And it's but it is a little bit how I envisioned it should be a book, if it's a memoir. But it's a memoir with, what have I learned about myself? What made me who I am, and what do I bring out? What did others get from me or what I others getting from me and what I'm emanating out into the world? For me it's important, Clint, that people see that they're important, that there are no pedestals. That we as grand as the other and we bring beauty and love to each other. This is what I work for. You said energy, and the energy also what formed me to get more and more and create and do, so this energy gets into flowing. And even there's this time to go inside, where nothing happens one thinks, but there's always something happened because in those moments we dissolve. To create, we also have to dissolve you as an artist and writer you know all about it. There is this interplay and sometimes it takes much longer, it's more hard work. And especially if we dissolve old things or let realities collapse, as we say, in the shamanic work. And then we with more ease and with more lightness, we can create, then the new and what is coming. We are all moving into something very, very new, something that has been here ever before. So, that's why we all have to be who we are. And you invite all of us to be more and to embody our own wisdom, like all the men and the women, you ask the questions about the wisdom of their life, what they would provide to others. This is important, that we all say my wisdom, my knowledge is important for me and for everyone else.
Clint Arthur 43:06
That's how mankind has progressed to where we are now. It's from the collective wisdom of the people, helping everyone who comes afterwards to lead a better life. It used to be passed orally for from generation to generation around the campfire, now gets captured on pages or in audios or on videos. In 2013, I started teaching a class called Celebrity Launchpad. Celebrity Launchpad is how to make a difference and fortune sharing your message on local TV. And what I realized in that process was, that I am in service of messages. These messages come from energy in the universe. I believe messages exist independently. They are their own thing, their own energy out there. And one of the participants in Celebrity Launchpad, told us that she was bringing a message from a tree, that was 1000 years old. That was the message she shared it Celebrity Launchpad, and got booked on television with that message. And the 'Wisdom of the Men' is nothing except for a collection of energetic messages from all these superstars, all these presidents, all these amazing people, real regular people in my life, regular people who happen to be on TV a lot. It's all about the message. And I'm a service, I'm a servant of messages.
Meilin Ehlke 44:38
Beautifully said. Yes, that's what we are. Emanating out this energy for others to feel through the spoken word and through your presence and your written word and your videos, right, which is now also film. So, in a way you have so many videos. You have been so much on TV, you have done a lot of film. So, media was always part of you, even though you thought it wasn't. It just came as a new form. And who knows where it still will go?
Clint Arthur 45:11
We did a documentary a couple years ago. We did a documentary we won the Williamsburg International Film Festival, Best Documentary prize for Celebrity Entrepreneur. That is a pretty big deal Williamsburg, Brooklyn is like the hippest place in the world. We won, that film festival with the documentary. That's pretty amazing. So you know, I've made a lot of films and behind the scenes video. I do it all with the iPhone, and I do it all myself.
Clint Arthur 45:42
I wrote the book myself. A lot of people hire writers to write books. A lot of people hire me to write their books, and that's smart of them. Because I love writing books, I love getting to know people's stories, because what I've realized is, when I know your story, I know you. If I don't know your story, you're just a name, or a number on the list. But when I know your story, I know who you are. And that's what's so great about this book. And that's why I have all of my clients read this book, because when you read the 'Wisdom of the Men', then you know Clint Arthur.
Meilin Ehlke 46:19
Yes, that is true.
Clint Arthur 46:21
You really, you feel like, you know me, and you do, because I've told you everything in this book, it's all in there all the most important stuff in my life is in this book, as raw and as real as I can possibly tell it. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Some stuff I didn't think I would put in there, but I did, because I figured out why. Like the chapter on Ed Asner is what I am specifically talking about.
Meilin Ehlke 46:43
Yes, it needed to be in there.
Clint Arthur 46:45
Yeah, some women have a hard time with that chapter. I get a lot of hardship over that chapter, because they don't want to think, that their husband is like that, or they don't want to think, that their brother is like that. Or if it's a guy, they don't want to think, that they are like that. But I believe, I mean, this is my truth. I'm just sharing my 100% truth in this book. And I think, that's the role of an artist. I think if you want to be a good artist and hold true to yourself, you just need to put your truth out there and let the cards fall where they may. People can like it or not like it, that's up to them. But I needed to write what was my truth, I needed to share the truth of my life and my stories. And that's 100% what I did in this book, and I think that's what all great art should be. Because if you're trying to write what you think somebody else wants, I'm not writing anything, that I thought people wanted in there. I only wrote what I wanted to write.
Meilin Ehlke 47:44
Ah. I'm not gonna say anything any more. This was like a beautiful finish of the podcast. Everyone.,Clint, you can sense it he is so much more, than just the boyish man. Yeah, but you go back and forth, Clint and you bring that speediness like a speedy... Speedy Gonzales comes to my mind. You are now even in Mexico, right? He goes back and forth and brings all these ideas back and information back that is needed. So everyone, you will get that. I will put my hand in the fire for this, when you read the book, 'Wisdom of the Men': How I went from a taxi driver to working with international superstars, and five US presidents revealing all my secrets, so you can do it too. So, you can do it too, that intention does not come out of all, let's say many books. And Clint, thank you very much for doing exactly that, to help each person who's interested to give her or his story a voice and to impact others, nature and our planet. And they're in good hands with you or by reading the book. And how can people get to you. It's in the book, you do that really well. There you are over and over reminded how people can connect with you. But for the listener, what is the simplest way they can remember as they listen to you?
Clint Arthur 49:32
Clint.com CLIN TTT Clint with three T's dot com. Why three T's? Because one of my clients is an expert on the science of names. And she said, Clint, I wish you could add another t to the end of your name, because the T's always end up on top and I couldn't get Clint with two T's dot com, but I could get clicked with three T's dot com, and that seems to be working out pretty good. Clint with three T's dot com is how you find me. The book is on Amazon 'Wisdom of the Men' by Clint Arthur. You keep referring to me as a boyish man.
Meilin Ehlke 50:05
Yeap.
Clint Arthur 50:06
And the funny thing is, I talk about it so much.
Clint Arthur 50:08
You are so much fun. You make me smile and you always have a smile on your face. And wherever you are in this excitement and the living so this is why. But I don't want that people aren't thinking that you are like a boy. But this we should not lose, what a boy carries within him and keep it as you do in an adultness.
Clint Arthur 50:33
Amen. I feel like I'm the same guy I was when I was 19 years old. I really really do. But I want to tell you this, in the book I talk about how I met Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones. And in that chapter I talked about all the concerts, that I went to including Muddy Waters at the Beacon Theater when I was a senior in high school. I sat in the 13th row of Muddy Waters and he died shortly thereafter. And Muddy Waters greatest song is 'Mannish Boy'. So, I want to end this thing right now with a little tribute to Muddy Waters 'Mannish Boy'. This is how it goes.
Clint Arthur 51:08
"Oh yeah, everything everything everything gone be all right this morning. Oh, yeah."
Meilin Ehlke 51:25
Uh, hu. [laughter] Oh, this is life everyone. This is how we're supposed to live. I invite all of you live this way like Arthur and me. What is so fun, when people like this come together more laughter it's created, more joy. Let's all move that direction to being one with each other within ourselves. Clint, thank you very much for being on the Moving To Oneness podcast. Everyone, thanks for showing up staying listening and soaking in what the energy that was brought through. Take the time to contemplate what the energy is doing with yourself. Observe it, become aware what it also does over the next few days. So I'm Meilin, your host and have a wonderful day. Goodbye everyone.