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Published: June 6, 2021, 2:28 p.m.

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Brandon Handley 0:00
4321 Hey there spiritual dope I'm on today with David Sandercott a big thanks goes out they were just talking he, he and I were on together probably was about a month ago David and something in the ether chewed up. It's like, you know my dog ate my homework type of thing happened. And so Dave is back here again for a second round. I really appreciate coming back. So Dave is the author of 21 day meditation journey connect with spirit every day in a new way, a life and business coach and speaker, David is also excited to announce it he is now working with small businesses and large corporations. In 1998, David decided to be the shortest high fashion model ever. He also decided that he was going to meditate himself there. In 2001. David was the shortest male model ever to appear in Vogue magazine and the six page spread shot by Helmut Newton alongside supermodel Kate Dillon. Ever since David has been inspired to help others to achieve their dreams, David, thanks for being on today. How are you? Hey, thanks.

David Sandercott 1:04
Happy to be your brand. You got the longer older bio there from the website? Is that right? Yeah,

Brandon Handley 1:11
I did. I mean, I thought that was actually pretty short one I was I was happy. I was like, wow, you know, you don't have your whole life story there. Thank you.

David Sandercott 1:17
Hey, good. I like I like short BIOS,

Brandon Handley 1:20
is a good one. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. So well, you know, we start us off with the idea. Let's see if you remember everything that we did last time because it was perfect. The we start us off with the whole idea that source speaks through us for like just kind of this moment and purpose. And right now, you know, sources speaking through you to an audience member, and only the way that it can through you What does that message to that audience member today?

David Sandercott 1:50
Wow, that's a great question. Brandon was gonna close my eyes and connect a little bit just to make sure I get it right. You know, I think that message is, you know, above anything is to believe in yourself, to love yourself. And to know that if you have the inspiration in your heart, if you have that reoccurring thought of this thing that you want to do, or that pool to do something, that you have everything you need within you to do that thing. And if you're using the excuse of I don't have the money, I promise you that's not what's stopping you from doing it. You know, you're most people think of capital is money. You know, Facebook, Steve Jobs, apple, they didn't have millions and millions of dollars to start, they started with the capital in their mind, which was an idea. And it's just like, just like them your idea is your true capital. Does that make sense? Does that sound like something they want to hear? I

Brandon Handley 2:52
love I love it, man. Absolutely, absolutely. I think I think you know, you're being pulled to do it. And I think that that's something How can somebody recognize that they're being pulled to do it? And it's not just ego telling them that that's the thing?

David Sandercott 3:04
Yeah, that's a great question. You know, that's part of the art of life of you know, how to be human is learning how to be a happy human is learning to decipher between that voice that speaks to you that, you know, let's say Bugs Bunny, right, Bugs Bunny used to have the angel pop up and like the devil on one side. And so you have to learn to differentiate between those. And what I can most to tell you is that fear is the is the devil. And, and when it feels good, and your heart opens, you know that that's God, that's the angel. You know, I don't think I can give you some sort of linear way to tell you how to decipher those voices. You have to do it through practice, through learning to love yourself and trust yourself and through meditation and contemplation. But usually it feels good and doesn't involve fear. And then what was the second part of the question? I don't remember I was so that's alright. It was a great question. But how do you decipher? And then the one thing you said that you're being led, you know, how do you know that you're being led? And it's, it's simple. So two things, like one exercise I did is I wrote down 10 goals every day for a year. And it was like, what those what goals of those were left at the end of the year. Those were the ones that were really important. They kept the ones that kept coming up over and over and over again. And again, it's like that in your heart and in your mind, what keeps coming up. What do you keep thinking about wanting to do what inspires you when you think about doing it? And that's, that's the poll that I'm speaking of, and, and to some degree, it's also easy it because it's not that there's not challenges or obstacles, but it's some it's easy, it's easy when it's right. It's easy.

Brandon Handley 4:51
So being invoke was right and easy for you. Let's talk about that.

David Sandercott 4:57
Yeah, you know, someone interviewed me for that reason. Recently are, you know, we're talking about manifestation, the art of manifestation. She's like, and I bet you that you had some some struggles or some challenges, you know, leading up to getting in vogue. I was like, No, it was so easy and effortless, you know, it was part of it. I think that I was I was so young, that I hadn't had much, you know, adversity in my life maybe. And I just decided to do something. And I decided to meditate. And I decided to visualize, I decided to read affirmations and I decided I was gonna do this thing. And it Honest to God was the most easy and effortless thing I've ever done in my life, I think because it was right, it was divine, it was it was to show me that you really can do anything you put your mind to, if you believe in yourself, and stick with it.

Brandon Handley 5:50
You've got a lot of, you know, a lot of good stuff in there, right? I think that everybody feels like it's supposed to be a challenge, right? If it's worth it, it's gonna take work. If it's worth it, you're gonna have to put in the work and it's gonna be hard. And you know, you got to put in, like, you got to grind it out, and this other stuff. But when you do it in that manner, then you know, it's kind of like what you put out, there's what you get back. That's exactly what it's going to take, it's gonna take a grind, and it's gonna be hard and all this other stuff. But it sounds to me like what you did was you said, but here, here's another piece of this, too, that that I think we don't hear a bunch of and like the law of attraction world. If you don't know how to do it, and you just start doing it, then it the patches kind of opens up for you. Is that kind of how it went for you?

David Sandercott 6:40
Absolutely. Because that's where I want to say action is the key to success. Now, there's all kinds of action involved, right? There is there absolutely was and yes, that is how it started. All I knew I needed to have pretty pictures of myself. You know, I knew I needed that. So that was that was the first step. I knew I needed to be in great shape. But that's what I loved doing anyway. So there was a lot of work in the gym. But you know what, I? There's nothing I would rather do in my life than that. And then yeah, there was x and you just had to talk to agents. You know, I mentioned I went to New York, and this guy is just Oh, looking. Cute. Haha, you want a bottle? And you that didn't faze me. I was just like, you know, oh, yeah, I'm gonna be a model.

Brandon Handley 7:34
So when you're saying that to it when you said action, right, and I forget what I was watching. I was like another, you know, law of attraction, spin off, or the secret spin off for a bunch of people that were in there. And one guy's like, by the way, the word action is at the end of attraction, right? is in attraction. And I thought that that was pretty cool. But what you're also talking about too, and I'm hearing you say is like, you kind of had clarity and purpose and an intention. And you got behind it, you believed in yourself and you just aligned to it. Right? You did. And thank you for the recommendation, right? The dorthea brand, you know, um, you know, acted as if it actually as if it was impossible to fail.

David Sandercott 8:21
That's right. That's right. It was it was Yeah, it's such a great book. And so anyways, I mentioned thinking Grow Rich before I read the book thinking grow rich. It told me I could do anything I wanted to do if I believed in myself made a decision to do it and I meditated. So those were the three things I did exactly what you said I made a decision and I think that is where so many people falter that's where so many people that the decision they make is not to make a decision or decision they make is to make an excuse on why they can't make the decision when it was I made a clear cut decision that was gonna be the world's shortest high fashion model. And now I Honest to God could probably get into the Guinness Book of World Records with with everything that I had for doing that you know, that didn't necessarily mean to me though get in the world Guinness Book of World Records You know, that's not it was just get something that only a six foot two you know, Blue Steel type model could do you know, and and that was it that's filled it but I made the decision to do it. So I had to succeed. And then I believed in myself and I followed up with action. So there's the non action action of the daily meditation and the daily visualization was was equally and probably more important than the other daily actions of going to castings meeting people, you know, always be doing something right. And not doing something for the sake of doing something like modeling jobs, photo shoots, you know, etc, etc.

Brandon Handley 10:00
Sure, I think there's a lot of sounds to me what you're talking about is there's a lot of people that do these actions from this busy stuff. But there's no there's nothing behind it, right? There's no there's no intent, there's no alignment. There's like, Alright, well, I'm supposed to do these things, this thing, this thing, this thing and this thing. But if it's not aligned to an intention, or purpose or direction, or like this grand vision, I mean, we can call, we call what you had a vision of what you thought was possible for yourself. Right? Like, yeah, I think that I think another thing too, is that people are afraid to have a vision people are afraid to be visionary, because they think it needs to be something greater than it is right? You can, you can have many visions you can write, you can have these visions that these practice visions, we'll call them. Right. But you know, I think what you're talking about, too, is the idea of making a decision. Did you pull that out of thinking grow rich? And sub question, Are you a Bob Proctor fan?

David Sandercott 10:59
I did pull it out of thinking Grow Rich, those were the three biggest takeaways make a decision, believe in yourself and meditate that that was the key in all my life that decision making has been key was a huge like Bob. Proctor was really inspiring to me like 15 years ago, I don't really I mean, walked around thinking Grow Rich, and you know, so he, I haven't really been cued into them for a long time.

Brandon Handley 11:26
Now, fair enough. And the reason I bring that up, because he brings up the word decision, and the root of the word is like this

David Sandercott 11:32
huge array cut off from thinking grow rich. So once I make the decision, there's no other option, you know, you have to pick yourself off from all other options.

Brandon Handley 11:46
Well, look, I'm super impressed that you got that out of thinking Grow Rich, like even immediately, because it's a tough read. And if you're trying to read that on your own, without some kind of, I don't know, I want to say guidance, because it's a tough one to read. Like I certainly. And for me, I never I never pulled meditate out of there. Where did you pull that out? I'm like, I'm like, where'd you pull the rabbit out of the hat, bro.

David Sandercott 12:08
You know, it's I read it sometimes. And I'm like, and it is in there. And I am convinced that the older of the edition of the book you can get, the better they've taken stuff out over the years. There's this beautiful poem in there. That's not in the original unabridged version anymore. I don't know why. And maybe I'm making it up. But it was just as loud and clear to me in that book was you've got to meditate if you want to be successful. That's just what I saw. And I remember asking Mr. Van Asch, who was sort of like a mentor of mine, and I said, Do you meditate? And he's like, Well, no, but I drive home silently. for like an hour, I do this drive. And that's sort of like my meditate. So he knew what I was talking about, when we're talking about the book, you know? And so I don't know, but I got it out of there. And it is in there. He does say the word meditate, you know,

Brandon Handley 13:01
no doubt, I believe you, man, I believe you. 100%. And then you threw out a couple of words earlier there when we're talking about easy and effortless, right? The the idea of more meditation, but you talked about like, you know, kind of divine intervention, right? Like, when do you feel like you really flipped the spirituality switch for yourself?

David Sandercott 13:26
Yeah, that's a great question. So I've honestly the effortless way. I said, I'm teaching June 19 is the effortless way. June 19. I'm having a prosper event. But anyways, so again, I the spiritual switch turned on for me. And when I was, Well, honestly, when I was in my teenage, or even preteen years, I remember thinking about wanting to find my higher self like that being my driving force I really wanted, I knew there was something more. And then when I read Think and Grow Rich at that time, that was it, man. I was, I mean, less than a year late after that, I moved to LA. I was meditating an hour a day I was visualizing, but it's, I mean, it was just as soon as I got sober from like, a four year you know, run of being drunk. 22 I just, I was immediately called the Spirit. And that doesn't mean I didn't like break up with it during certain times, or like, neglect it and forget about it. And to some degree, it's if I had a regret that would be there, Brett I had in my life. When my all of my good friends started moving out to LA, I sort of shifted back kind of into the role that I played more with them instead of just sticking to the celibate, spiritual, and just I was a machine I mean, I was I. Yeah, it happened very early on, and then again, in 2011

Brandon Handley 15:00
So I think that I think that it's interesting that you kind of found it you recalled toward such a young agent, I don't I don't think that I think that somewhere around 20 we get called to that, right? It's and it's kind of like, you know, a window of an opportunity, right? And we either heat it then where we don't, right? For those of us that don't, myself included, you kind of go about life in this default mode, right? And you just, you're like, Alright, well, let me go do all these other things everybody else is doing because that's what looks like I should be doing. And then to me again, and just just based off of personal experience, but the other window of opportunity kind of opens up round, you know, when you get close to 40. Right? There's like it still here. Still here, if you want to hang out, bro. Right? Like, I mean, and, and, and spiritualities like that. It's like I listen, I'm hope you had a good time. It's time to get serious again, right? Remember me like? word Have you been man? It's been crazy. So I think it's really cool that you know, you kind of took hold of it. And you talked about the breakups. And the other piece that you're talking about is when your friends show up. It's interesting, right? When you go home, you're like, well, this is who I was when I left. And so people are still expecting me to be that way. And that's probably what it was when your friends come out to visit you like, you're like, Oh, this is the Dave they know. Right. Let me like, let me remind you revert back to something that's acceptable for the people that you know that that kind of what happened?

David Sandercott 16:25
Yeah, I just say it was unconscious, you know, to a to a large degree. But looking back now, yeah, I would say what I really want to express is the way not to fall in that trap is to really have a great deal of love and respect for yourself and recognize how what you're doing is working. Now, it was a lot of fun to fall back into that role, because my friends were all kind of like rich or had more money than me and at a beach house and hermoza. And I've seen we had I still I never drink or you know, but I still have a lot of fun with them. But they were all getting master's degrees and establishing careers. And I fell back into the guy who was just along for the ride, you know, not realizing that they're eventually going to get kids and not be able to take care of me get married have kids

Unknown Speaker 17:19
out? Yeah,

Brandon Handley 17:22
I get it, I get it. But what's interesting, though, too, is that it doesn't sound like you succumb to their way of living though either by feeling like it. Maybe you did. And like

David Sandercott 17:35
No, I didn't. I mean, I gave him stuff for Well, a lot of a lot. Not really. But I mean, I'm definitely the guy that people talk to you they don't want to drink so much.

Brandon Handley 17:45
I mean, not even just the drinking but like the the you know, the workforce, right, going back into the workforce, getting the education and doing you know, kind of doing that what's the social socially expected norm? Yeah, that's what your friend said, right? They finished school, got degrees, got married, have kids and fell into fell in line.

David Sandercott 18:06
They absolutely did it. And it worked for them to the degree they're happy. I'll say this this is coming up for me is like sometimes I give teachers or education a bad rap. But I had a fifth grade teacher named miss a miss Afro carrion, she was, she was great. The rumor was that during lunch, she smelled doobies in her like 1970s docks, and in the in the dots in the corner of the parking lot. But anyways, at the beginning of class, every single day, we recited the road less traveled by Robert Frost. And I have no doubt that that completely impacted me in such a profound way. Because everything I've ever done in my life, was the road less traveled was taken the road less traveled.

Brandon Handley 18:49
That's awesome. You know, I'm in agreement with you there, right, like, definitely, probably not as kind as I could be to the education system, but they're certainly the teachers that had a profound impact are the ones that you remember

David Sandercott 19:04
that as MIT right, Mr. Ben, he just retired and I made him a video, you know, someone in and I just let him know that you inspired me to start reading angry reading changed my life, you know, I'm not the stuff they gave you in school.

Brandon Handley 19:23
What do you what do you think the impact of doing something like that is reaching out to a past teacher? Did he reply to you? What, what are your thoughts there?

David Sandercott 19:30
Well, it was sent in like a group thing, like someone put it together. And I don't know, but I know he saw it. And so I had a rubber band ball that was like this big and he took it away from me. And I had went back like five or six years later, and he still had it. And then I asked someone to ask so at his retirement, he still had the rubber band ball that I gave him. So I know he remembered me. And so I'm sure that he was grateful for that message, you know, is great. You know, I was happy to do it because teachers get, you know, they get pooped on a lot to

Brandon Handley 20:04
it. And it's the same, um, you know, somewhere, and but, you know, to the idea that some of their for a job and some of their really impact lives and it sounds like you had a few that were there to really impact your life. Yeah, that's right. And, and I think, you know, I'm gonna segue that into kind of what you're doing right? You know, you're you're right now you're teaching some of these practices and principles that you've been able to find success with in your life. One of those is, I think that you initially kind of did a lot of work in the space by helping others to get their first You know, one grand five grand, and now you're working to help them get their first 10 grand, and in their, in their own respective faces. Let's talk a bit about that. What's your, what's your about in that space?

David Sandercott 20:49
Yeah. So after I read, Think and Grow Rich for that first time, it was like, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, I didn't know there was a thing called a coach back then, you know, but I knew that that's what I want to do, and mentor people and, and I did it as a wrestling coach. And I had, I had athletes come back to me a decade later, say, you know, that thing that you said, or, or, you know, I read thinking Grow Rich, and it really made a big difference in my life, you know, so I got to start doing it back then. And then I was a fitness trainer, because really, that's something that I was really passionate about sharing. And, and then around mid 2000s 2007 2008, I got into direct sales, which was like building a sales team. And then, you know, network marketing, like you buy something, essentially, and then you teach other people, then you get someone else to buy it and teach them to sell it is essentially how that goes. And that was really where coaching started. And two big things happen there, I helped several people are in their first $1,000 as an entrepreneur, which was extremely rewarding, and maybe even more impactful. It was, I went to New Zealand, essentially, for a long weekend to bungee jump, because it was on my list of things to do, and to see a speaker. And you know, I was gone for five or six days, I came back with $5,000 more in my bank account than when I left, because the sale went through because you know, there was leverage in this business and the system I was in. And so it was like I was on vacation, and I made $5,000. And it was like, That's it, I'm hooked for the rest of my life. No matter what I have to work, it's just something they pay the bills until I figure this all out. You know, I was an entrepreneur for life after that. And so that's where I started. And then again, it took that that business eventually one of the partners joined Scientology, and unfortunately, that whole business went away. And I found myself depressed. I broke my foot in five places I gained 40 pounds. I didn't I didn't have the business identity. I didn't have the bodybuilder identity. I was lost. I literally just wanted to end my life fetal position for weeks.

Brandon Handley 22:56
Yeah, let's pause on that for a second. Let's pause on the idea that getting caught up in our identity being what it is that we do.

David Sandercott 23:06
Yeah. Well, that's a big mistake. I encourage nobody, I always say at the beginning of my medication classes, you are not your job, you are not your socio economic standings. You are not what you do for a living.

Brandon Handley 23:18
So I mean, I guess you're sitting on the couch or in a fetal position, and you've lost your kind of sense of identity is what it sounds like. How did you how did you recover from that?

David Sandercott 23:27
Yeah. Well, so I did two things. You know, I got on my knees I surrendered my life to God, I asked for guidance. And I listened and and that was my all means the number one thing and that's that that's what guided me, right. That's what pulled me. The second thing is equal importance that I stopped being a victim, I stopped blaming the outside world, you know, that was part about it is that I had so many opportunities in my life to be in such a better position than I was. And instead of taking responsibility for it, I was blaming it blaming society and blaming other people. I was like, if you notice, one of the biggest trophies in the world right now is who's the biggest victim? I assure you that that is not the game you want to play for happiness and success. You know, it was it was taking responsibility for my all of my, you know, mess ups and life situation current circumstances.

Brandon Handley 24:25
Yeah, I mean, that's huge, right? When you can kind of recognize and I'm just kind of taking a leap here. But you can kind of recognize that all of your success or failure is coming from within, and it has nothing to do with what's outside of you. And when you do that, there's so much ownership, right? There's so much empowerment that comes from that because now you can be like, Oh, yeah, that was me. It wasn't me over here too. And, you know, these failures were me. But some of these successes, right? So you know, everything you know, is both both sides of the coin. Um, that's that's fantastic. So You know, we don't have a whole lot of time here, unfortunately but what you know you've got a course coming up right? What is the course called? What are you going to be teaching? What's it called?

David Sandercott 25:10
Yet would you 19th is its prosper but prosper prosper virtual event I'll be teaching prosperity consciousness, helping spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches healer to create the mindset, the prosperity consciousness to have their first $10,000 month the first 10k month.

Brandon Handley 25:28
Nice. Nice. And we'll share the link to that but the link is what again?

David Sandercott 25:38
Ah. I actually bought a URL just for it. But it's like David Sandler comm forward slash brought I

Brandon Handley 25:45
think, yeah, well, yeah,

David Sandercott 25:47
that's right. You can if you go to david Sandler, God calm That's right. It's right there.

Brandon Handley 25:51
Yeah, Paul's Frodo calm? I'll be sure to share that out. Right. And then, you know, this I told you before, this is kinda like a spiritual speed dating court like, right? And and the deal is, is like, there's 30 minutes, right? That's all we've got this, you know, somebody's gonna come on, and they're gonna decide whether or not they spiritual want to date David J. Sandra. So it's not a lot of time. And so one of the questions I'll ask is, is this one of our speed dating questions be? What does? What does it mean to live in the present moment? bachelor number one? Yeah. What

David Sandercott 26:24
does it mean to live in the present moment? Well, it means that if you're living in the present moment, you're going to be happy, fulfilled, and at peace, you're going to be okay, with the way everything is, no matter what you're going to be living your life consciously. And that's what we're here to do is to evolve our consciousness and the best way to evolve your consciousness is to be more conscious. And if you're living in the moment, you're being conscious,

Brandon Handley 26:53
elaborate on what you mean by conscious.

David Sandercott 26:56
Well, being conscious of your consciousness, there's, there's that which can observe yourself think. And there's the brain that can think there's a subject and an object. So keep your attention on that part of yourself that can observe yourself thinking, and really go one step more and observe the observer observing. It's all a play of consciousness, we is all a field of consciousness and and we are that consciousness. So it's, it's coming to know yourself. It's being conscious of the consciousness, and of as yourself as the consciousness.

Brandon Handley 27:35
Dave took us on a level guys like this to another level. there's a there's a great feeling when you become the observer to absolutely yeah,

David Sandercott 27:45
I always go like this. You say, I want to go like, this is where you want to live life from like three feet three feet back, you know, above yourself.

Brandon Handley 27:52
Yeah. Yeah. Well, dude, thank you so much. Again, David, for popping on, always enjoyed the conversation, you both of them. And we'll be sure to share this out. Is there anything that maybe we didn't touch on that you want to share out with the audience today?

David Sandercott 28:07
One quick thing, the last question you asked me, I remember the first time we did got me a little bit and it was like, What do you wish for the world? And it was like, you know,

Unknown Speaker 28:15
I didn't like my answer. I

David Sandercott 28:16
thought about it a little bit and what I would world is the exact same thing that I wished for me, you know, happiness, peace, prosperity and abundance in all areas of your life.

Brandon Handley 28:27
Yeah, yeah. No, that's, that's, that's great. That's funny. You remember the question? And I think that this is the part where some people get a little confused in the love thy neighbor as thyself kind of thing. Right? This has gotten me I look at it in the very same way, you know, so what you wish upon your neighbor is really what you're wishing upon yourself. And just in the same token, you just said, hey, what I wish on the world, what I wish upon myself, and when you do that, we look at the universe is kind of this force multiplier. What we put out comes back to us, I mean, right, so yeah, great answer. Thanks. Thanks for thanks for thanks for sharing that. And I definitely appreciate you being on. Yeah, I

David Sandercott 29:09
love it. Thanks for having me, Brandon.

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