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Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 11:39 a.m.

Join in on the conversation as Jeremy Todd from The Positive Side Podcast joins me today. We talk about what its like to find your self through the process of book writing.

Want to touch base with Jeremy? Want to let him know how great he was to come on here and share the truth of who he is?

Please email him jeremy@jeremytodd.com !

Brandon Handley 0:00
4321 Hey there spiritual dope. This is Brandon Handley, the voice of a generation. I am on with my good friend, Jeremy Todd from the positive side, you may ask yourself the positive side of what of everything. positive side of everything Jeremy Todd and I, we go way back. So you've got the podcast positive side, you've got your coaching, you know, just high level executive success coaching, that you've been running for years now. And I've loved watching you kind of grow that business and continue to grow yourself. And we're going to talk today a little bit about leading your life from a spiritual angle and doing it so that you're having a more fulfilling more successful life. How's that sound to you?

Jeremy Todd 0:48
Oh, that sounds perfect. Thanks for letting me on your

Brandon Handley 0:50
show. jacked up and fired up. Yeah. Yeah, I decided that Jeremy I think was my very first podcast and and man We couldn't GS Remember, we're trying to figure out how to even like talk to each other. I think you had to record on your side, I had to record on my side on a child, like the cast was terrible. But the conversation was magic. And the magic continues before before we get going, right, so the first thing I like to start us off with is, you and I were conduits for you know, the creative source energy of the universe, right? And when we when we put these podcasts together, when you and I are connecting, we're not connecting because you and I, like have a good conversation and we like each other. Yeah, it's because some type of message it's got to come out of this. And it's got to come through you by being here today. What's that message that the university Sangeeta?

Jeremy Todd 1:44
Well, for me, it's, it's it's a message that I've been really resonated with recently. I've always been resonating with this message, but recently, it's more important than ever that you know, it's that authenticity and being comfortable with myself and really being with everybody out there. It's, you know, the spirituality part. to even be comfortable with that. I think there's so many obstacles in our way and so many negative things that pop up on a day to day basis in our life with craziness going on. And it takes away from who we truly are. And it takes away our message. It takes away our spiritual spirituality. And you know, I'm tired of it. I'm ready to go the other way. I'm ready to really double down on my spirituality and double down on the positivity. Yeah. Because dammit, I'm tired of the negativity. And the only way we're going to do it is we're going to lead from the other side. And, you know, that's the side I want to be on. I don't want to be on the negativity side. I want to just, you know, trust and believe in myself with thee with the powers that I have already within that, I think, and they've been clouded for years. They've been clouded in the now with the craziness. They're even more clouded. But not anymore. Dammit, I'm tired. I'm sick and tired of this stuff. And you know, we talked briefly before this started about one of the things and again, I'm going on tangent, so I apologize but

Brandon Handley 2:54
other things as a message that somebody needs here. It's coming through you.

Jeremy Todd 2:57
Yeah, you know, we talked about you know, I'm ready to That book and I'm not here to talk about the book, but really here I'm talking about is the exercise of writing. I've never done it. I've never wrote more than three pages in my entire life. And now that I'm actually trying to put ideas down on paper, it's allowing me to go through this process in my head that I've never really been able to truly, not only just understand, but comprehend. Because things happen in my life and things happen in your life and in everyone's life that they're so hard for us to understand. And I try my small little brain, try and figure it out. And then you know, you lose topics, you lose organization in your own mind, because you go off on tangents, you think about other things. But as this writing process happens, and this is I guess, the biggest thing for everybody listening is write down some of those ideas. I recently had a piece of paper and pen next to my bed. So when I'm sleeping, I get an idea, boom, I write it down. But it's just being more organized and then being able to revisit that same thought, when I will. When typically in the past, when I would have an idea. I would struggle my way through it or fight my way through it. And another Understand why is this thought in my head right now? And then I'd be done with it, I move on with it, and then it would come back. And then I wouldn't be as clear as I am. Right. So throughout this writing process process and writing these things down that I've gone through in my life, it's given me a better opportunity to understand, you know, what the meaning was, at the time in my life. Why was it brought to me at that time in my life? And what have I actually learned and where I can build from that at this point in my life? So, man, it's just in the last few weeks, last few months, I've just been really magical. And you know, that's why it just ties right into this podcast. I was excited to get on the show to really talk about these things and talk about the things that typically other people don't want to talk about it don't know how to talk about it, or they know how to talk about it, but they're scared to talk about it. And I think that's a bigger thing. How am I going to get judged? Are these Yeah,

Brandon Handley 4:44
am I weird? You know, to me, this is a you know this. So first of all, thanks for sharing that message. To me. It sounds like a message of you know, trying to reacquaint yourself with yourself. Yeah, exactly. And it's also trying to capture Those images that you create in your mind when they're clear, and they're vivid, and they're fresh on a piece of paper so that at least when you come back to them, you capture the full essence of what that image was. And because those, those little flashes of insight are just so powerful. And if you don't write them down, like you're saying, when you come back to it, it's a faded version of what it was when you first saw Yeah, you're like, this doesn't seem nearly as potent as it was, like, 45 minutes ago, right? Yeah,

Jeremy Todd 5:30
exactly. Or I could completely forget about it. And then I'm like, damn it. What was that idea that I have? It's so powerful, for sure. Now, I can't remember it. All right,

Brandon Handley 5:38
that's Tammy. It's amazing. Like I'm just like little little short bursts of like, capacitor energy, like, you know, that's the I don't know what you know about electronics, right? But uh, so there's little capacitor there that the energy gets stored in so that when you take a picture with the flash, right, it's a high burst of energy in that capacitor. Okay. But then it dissipates. And it takes a while for it to fill back up.

Jeremy Todd 6:03
Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Oh, this isn't. And, you know, I just think that the journey that I'm on now it's one of the most powerful and exciting journeys I've ever been on my entire life because this is exactly like that. It's those ideas that I've never been really, really processed throughout, in my own head. And I've also mentioned this a lot lately is that, you know, I believe I have all the right answers already within me. But when I'm clouded by the darkness, or the negativity or just being busy, or all the other bullshit excuses, I can put in my own head and give myself away out. It just I've never really had the opportunity to sit down and be within myself and work my way through this and discover the answers that are right there in front of me. You know, like meditation.

Brandon Handley 6:44
You know, first of all my own throws out at you right? In this book. I love this book. It's called a more beautiful question, right? We have been taught to have answers, right. But one thing that we haven't really been taught well, and I haven't been taught well, right is how to ask better questions how to ask like those. Sure, deep questions. And if we don't ask those if we don't if we don't learn how to ask, we don't learn how to kind of do that deep seeking, right? I mean, that's part of coaching though, too, right? Like the reflective aspect of coaching. I want to I do want to lean back here for a second because you talked about being afraid to lead with like that. That's spirituality, right with that, because that could be perceived weird. And that was really kind of something I had held myself back with. Right. And I'm super glad to hear like that, you know, you you've been looking for a place to have that conversation. You've been looking for a place to have that kind of it's not necessarily exposed, but who can I talk to? That is going to understand where I'm coming from with this stuff.

Unknown Speaker 7:49
Hey, Brittany Haley. Absolutely. Hundred

Brandon Handley 7:51
percent. Right. Absolutely. And, and, and then like, you know, there's zero judgment from that, too. It's like, all right, yeah. I hear what you're saying. And I I agree with, you know, everything you're saying. And and the question becomes like, Okay, this is where you're at, just like coaching, right? Where do you want to go? What do you want to do with this knowledge? You know it, right? Yeah. Now it's, you know, that's what you want to do. So you're doing it through a process a book, right?

Jeremy Todd 8:18
Yeah, you know, and I think it's also understanding and just really have the mental capacity of understanding that, and I love this quote is vulnerability. vulnerability is my strength. By being vulnerable, being who I am and being being weird and quirky, that's my strength. And I've always shied away from that, like, you know, it's, it's, it's maybe not what so and so thinks I am or I don't want to get judged and all those other bullshit things that come in your head, but at the end of the day, none of that matters. And actually, the more authentic you are with yourself, the more powerful you become. And it's taken me a long time to even understand that point of it because, gosh, I mean, all these answers that I'm thrown out there within my life, people are attracted to me more now than they've ever been because it is different. It's what people have always wanted to do but they can't they don't have the power now they see, you know, they see you and they see me doing it. They're like, you know what, maybe it's okay. Yeah, those conversations are awesome to

Brandon Handley 9:08
know. It's always awesome to you know, and I know that even when I started on the father for the rest of us podcast, I was like, Alright man, step into your power. Yeah. Right. And, and but this is so when I met Jeremy guys, ladies and girls, ladies and ladies and gentlemen, I met Jeremy in person years ago at a, you know, a podcast meetup. And one of the things that stood out to me about Jeremy was, you know, you talked about having to have 100% faith in yourself, and belief in yourself. Sounds to me and you know, I'm not trying to be judged. You're not though it sounds to me like you kind of got disrupted with some of that, like over the past couple years, right. And that's been something that's kind of been eating you away, but now you're finding kind of a Marie Newell. of this. I'll call it you know, faith and self, you know, self belief. Is that what I'm here coming? Because I mean, you're bringing the energy so

Jeremy Todd 10:08
well, there's no question about it. And I think the biggest thing is, you know, it's that old saying act as if, And hey, if I'm gonna be honest, completely honest with myself, I've always tried to just keep telling myself Hey, everything's gonna be fine. If it's gonna be good. I'm gonna be super positive, but I've never really dealt with the reality of what I'm actually dealing with in within my soul. So, yeah, yeah, hey, that's me. And yes, I strive to stay motivated to stay positive. But man, it's those darker things that I've never really faced in the past. And now I'm to a point in my life that I just don't give a shit. Now. I mean, I just the more and more I self analyze myself, the better I become, and the stronger I become, and the happier I am. I've had this realization recently to it, and I'm doing right, a lot of writing about fear. And one of my fears was always about fear of being alone. And I really analyzed that about, you know, there's two ways, the initial way I looked at that Was selfishly the eagle Tell me why don't want to be by myself physically, like, like, I always want to have a partner with me. You know, I want to have a girlfriend, I want to be married, I want to have all this stuff. So I always felt like ask me, who what am I gonna do if I'm alone? I mean, how can I take care of myself? So it was all physical. Really the hard part of that one of the what I've really understood now is it's not the physical part of being alone. It's the mental part of being alone. How can I be alone with myself my own thoughts, I've got more time than ever now I've actually got to face these things. face these things that have always been right in front of me. All these things that I you know, my self doubt myself. You know, I'm critical of myself constantly. I don't think I'm this or I don't think I'm good enough or smart enough. So all these things now that I've understood that the fear of being alone wasn't the physical part is the mental part. And now that I'm facing that part of it, it's allowed me to grow exponentially. Because as I go through these things, I become happier with myself. I'm becoming my own best friend. Sure. And I think That's so powerful that you know we always and again this is me, I always thought I had to have that person Sure. Instead of understanding that I'm good enough and I can be my best friend and that was

Brandon Handley 12:10
that I think that there's a there's a huge there's a huge that that's how we're brought up man right we're brought up the chaser relationship once you've got that great relationship you become whole type of thing and you know two people complete each other and all this other jazz right but you know, that may be the end and then then the end result but those two people come together I love I think it's Wayne Dyer that talks about Thank you don't come together as two halves and create a whole you come together as two people. You're still two people. Right? With with Yeah, individuality is you got to come together as two whole people, right, loving yourself as for who you are and and before other people can love you. Correct. You

Jeremy Todd 12:55
can't come in halfway. You got to come in 100% because no one's ever gonna fill that void. That's something that's taking me a long time to really just wrap my head around that concept because I don't know what it was. I don't know if it's just a switch one day. I'm like, you know what, that doesn't make any sense. I mean, I kind of enjoy being alone, actually. I mean, it's all good. But man, oh, man, the more you get, you know, alone and you start thinking your way through Why don't you like little stuff? Jeremy, why don't you know why don't you give yourself excuses for not going to the gym? I enjoy the gym.

Brandon Handley 13:25
I heard you know, so here's what I mean. Let's talk a little bit about it. I know that I heard you kind of busting your balls on on your podcast about like, you know, setting up excuses for yourself and realizations and you know, your own but yeah, and weighs out more than anything. But let's talk about you know, endless I mean, that's, that's, that's, that's everybody, right? That's every human that's out there does this to a certain degree. What I want to talk about those like, you know, kind of what you're talking about is is kind of leading with spirituality where you you know, you've accepted the power within you, right? Yeah. And, and so let's talk about What that means to you?

Jeremy Todd 14:02
Well, I mean, it's almost for accepting the power of me is is tough because I don't know if I've accepted all the power within me. It's almost like I'm hitting, you know, analogy. I'm going going down a big hill and I still hold my hands on the brakes, not willing to completely let go. I'm going fast. We talked about earlier, take the hands off the steering wheel and just let it go. Right, right. I am. I'm getting closer. I believe in myself more now than ever. And, you know, you know, just to say, you know, I wouldn't enjoy some wins, and not that I've never had wins in the past, but I want to enjoy a win on the spiritual journey that I'm on now. Maybe it is when I get that book out. That'd be a winner in the accomplishment. Maybe I don't even know what what will it be, but it's almost like I'm just, this is the path I need to go on. Yeah, I feel comfortable with this path. I don't know what the end result looks like. But I've never felt so good about this path that I'm on that I've ever been in my entire life.

Brandon Handley 15:04
So let's talk. Like, let's talk a little about, like, so it's like you're kind of you're kind of shading your own light is what I'm hearing. Right? So you're kind of shading your own light. Because it's, it's a little scary to admit that what you feel inside is greater than anything that you've ever felt before.

Jeremy Todd 15:21
So exactly, right. Right. It is it is. You know, it's the self, you know, then you have the self, where am I worthy enough? You know, and these things are just there. And again, I'm not trying to say who was me and but believe me, it's the positive side guy, you know, I'm all good. But you know, in a different space, right? You're just so you're feeling when you dial down deep into it. Mm hmm. start identifying different things. It doesn't change who I am as a motivational guy, inspirational guy, but it's this new journey that I love picking this part about just to get better. And I love it. And love is challenging. It's difficult. It's extremely hard. And it's the best challenge I've ever been on in my entire life and Because of the decisions I've made in my life, they all brought me to this exact point for a specific reason. And I'm excited about where this is gonna go.

Brandon Handley 16:08
Would you call it the serve resurrection of Jeremy Todd?

Jeremy Todd 16:11
I kind of feel like that man I really do. It's it's doing things that I enjoy doing. If I don't want to do something, I just don't do stuff. I don't know how to even explain it.

Brandon Handley 16:20
But don't do things that don't bring you life. Right. Why would you?

Unknown Speaker 16:22
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Brandon Handley 16:24
And I think that though, you know, there's also there's a precipice here, there's a there's a, there's definitely caveats to this message, right? This is once you kind of step into this space that you're in, because prior to that people would take that as meaning Well, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna get wasted. I'm not going to do work yada, yada yada. That's not what we're talking about here. Correct. We're not talking about going out and doing whatever you want. I'm gonna go streak and I'm gonna windows and all this other stuff. You can do that. Don't get me wrong. I have a blast right there. Done that right. Don't be a jerk. Um, but talking about, you know, what are the things ones that are fulfilling you right and looking for those and then adding more of those moments in your life is that we're talking about here

Jeremy Todd 17:07
is exactly what I'm talking about and it's doing little stuff that I want to do like I you know, I went on that trip to Ireland by myself. Yeah, man, that was the coolest thing in the world but no plans just hit said hey, I'm going by myself I don't know anything. I don't know anybody. I don't know where I'm going but I'm just gonna go do it I'm gonna handle and it was a blast. I'm trying to plan my next trip and this is totally totally off the wringer but I want to go hunting for some reason never been hunting in my entire life. Right. Well, my buddy Dustin bond working you know, Dustin. Yeah, so I'm gonna go out and see Dustin Vaughn warranty and he doesn't know it yet. But I'm sure to plan a trip down to go go down to Texas and go haul Connie. Nice. I mean, I've never shot a rifle before in my life. But it just sounds interesting to go out and and again, I'm not trying to sound horrible but kill an animal. But actually not just killing the same. See, let it like actually consume the animal. And again, you know, hey, I'm eating you know, we all eat hamburger and cheese. And we don't actually see the beginning process. I mean I'm excited about the the mental journey I go on when I physically kill another animal and then consume that animal. What does that do with my perspective on day to day life with what may go and do you know, whatever, go to the restaurant get a hamburger. No.

Brandon Handley 18:18
It's a rite of passage for you is What is

Jeremy Todd 18:21
it? Yeah, it's just something different that I've always thought about to see what that process is actually, like, instead of just Hey, I'll take a hamburger. The hamburger comes you don't ever see any of that you don't see the cow Walker? You don't see it as a baby cow. Come on. Oh my god. It's so pretty and it grows up and you don't see any of that. Yeah. And I'm just really trying to get in touch with everything into my life. And that's just one small area that I can do it and hey, let's see how it goes. I don't I

Brandon Handley 18:45
mean, that can be that could that could very well turn you into a vegetarian you never know. Well, because I'll tell you I had an experience growing up as a kid I got the BB gun and there was sitting in the backyard of my grandparents house. There's a was like a little bird said On the mulberry tree, right? Yeah. And I shot it, but then when I shot it like there was this thing that kind of just went through me it was so weird, right? Like when you Yeah, you know you're ending something else's life that look, we all step on bugs, right? we all we all flesh ticks. But yeah, it has something to do with like this this this bird right and and you know other lives. So you know it's an interesting it is definitely an interesting experience to take another life and I mean, it's very different than fishing. Right fishing Yeah, sure, sure. Same thing, but you don't the same thing, right? You're taking something out. Take taking something that was natural element and eventually you're killing it and consuming it. Yeah, right. I mean, there's no, there's no way to sugarcoat that's exactly what you know. But at the same time, it's really, I think important. What it sounds like is you want to go on or that process and experience it for yourself. I mean, yeah,

Unknown Speaker 19:59
exactly. And

Brandon Handley 20:00
how's that any different than mine ground beef?

Jeremy Todd 20:05
Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, I would never shoot an animal but I'm gonna go buy chicken or meat. Okay, I have a big have a big steak, okay, hey, I get all that but it's just something I've thought about and I'd be really interested about the spiritual part about that is in how emotional is it going to be for me because I'm a big, I'm a big nerd. I'm a big softy. I mean, I'll probably cry

Brandon Handley 20:26
like a little baby. I think it's interesting. Um,

Jeremy Todd 20:28
but you know, if I'm going to kill it, I'm going to consume it. And I'm not going to just leave it out there and just waste it. But I'm also a big believer of everything you eat that you take the spirit of that animal to so the garbage food you do take on that animal spirit and that soul in that process, so if I go out to an animal and kill it, I'm taking on that animal soul. And I'm interested to see how that's gonna make me feel a little bit differently when I actually eat the meat is gonna be a little bit different, like, the whole process is just something

Brandon Handley 20:59
I'll never know. Doesn't, I'm definitely interested to see kind of how that turns out for you. Right. And and the thing is main thing is, is not everybody's journey is the same, right? Your journey is your journey. And like I said, I'm enjoying, I'm joined kind of the space that you're in. Because it sounds like you're kind of at this front end of it, exploring it more, you expose the, you know, call it the light, your spirit, whatever, within you accepted it. And again, now you're like,

Jeremy Todd 21:29
now what? Yeah, yeah. And that, and that's, I don't know if there's a right or wrong answer or direct explanation. But you know, it's interesting, you know, and obviously, you don't be pretty well in full disclosure, you know, coming out of a long term marriage. And, you know, it's interesting when you're in a long term marriage, and again, my perspective, no one else's perspective, but you begin to and this isn't all marriages, this is again, I'm just being very vague with this, but you begin to not develop as the person that you truly Are you almost become two people into developing and as one not this isn't anything wrong with that totally cool. But I feel like I've went down that farce down the road for so many years and so long that I'd never really identify with who I actually am because getting married at a young age, you develop each other's lives through each other through through each other's experiences and preferences and opinions and, and again, not to say there's nothing wrong with because it's shaped me to who I am today. But going through that whole process and now being and again, go back to that fear of being alone. That's part of this process is figuring out who am I actually, what do I actually enjoy? What actually does scare me? I don't know those answers yet. And again, I'd love it that I don't know the answers. Yeah. And I don't know if I'll ever know the answers because part of that process of trying to figure it out, develops the person that I truly am going to become Sure. It's like chasing, you know, chasing the sunset. You're never going to get But it's always bright and always looks good and I'm all for it. Yeah, but I mean, but hey, man, I it's exciting Dude, I I couldn't be happier. I couldn't be more excited about the future scared about the future all at the same time. But, man, if anybody out there, listen to the show, it's just an opportunity to really dive down deep within yourself and figure out who you truly are. And there's and the other thing about that is not that I have to say, but there's no right or wrong answer to that. It's not about I'm the right person or this is the wrong person. I was right. No, right or wrong. It's Who am

Brandon Handley 23:33
I? The important thing is what you're saying there is eliminate the judgment. Right? Don't judge don't judge who you are. Don't judge the experience. Just

Unknown Speaker 23:45
be

Brandon Handley 23:47
right and it's really and again, that's something that unless and until you do it, it's a very it's very, it's a that's a very interesting experience. Um, and I you know, I picked that up through headspace, right and meditation and it was like, Don't judge. It was like it was there was a I forget one of the meditations, but even at the very, very beginning, like, Don't judge XYZ don't judge this. And while I'm sure I never thought of myself as judging before, I recognize the difference between judging my thoughts and experiences versus not. And when you're not judging them either good or bad. There's like an elimination of like weight on attachment to that, because when you judge something as good or bad, you're investing emotional energy into that. And that's a hook.

Jeremy Todd 24:33
Yeah, that's well said. I mean, you're exactly right. Because when you use explain to court exactly perfect, because when you do put those emotions on things, they are heavy, and you don't need to put any emotion on them. These are the things that have happened. These This is what the decisions I've made in my past. This is who I am not right, they're not wrong. And it's interesting when you talk about judging people because we're judging. The first thing you always automatically is thinking about judging other people, but the first person you can't judge yourself. And we always skip ourselves, you know, it's like, oh, man, I'm gonna judge that person. I won't judge that person. But this person, we got to not judge ourselves and what has brought us to this point in our life is all the good decisions and the quote unquote bad decisions.

Brandon Handley 25:14
Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, you know, what I kind of what I kind of got it down to was, you know, I tried really hard and made a lot of stupid mistakes. Right, and, and growing up, and the things that I did the things that I put in my body, the experiences I put myself through, and if I'm still here today, yeah, there's a reason. Reason. Yeah. And so I'm exploring that my purpose changes. My purpose changes the month the meanings change, but I investigate that right. I investigate that and it sounds like again, this is kind of where you're at, right? You're investigating Jeremy's purpose. You're investigating Jeremy's self identity. And I'd like to, you know, separate those two words. myself right your yourself those are two separate words right those are two ways now when you separate those two words and you break down what is your self that's your inner being I mean you look up the dictionary self is like your inner being right yeah and and so that's the piece that gets so neglected man and you know we show up in our you know late later ages nothing is all beat the hell it's like it's like it's like you show up with a used car lot there's the one that's like got leftover because because they didn't even want to take this wasn't one it's another

Unknown Speaker 26:33
is yeah

Brandon Handley 26:36
nothing left on it right. And now we're like, I can resurrect this bitch. Yeah,

Jeremy Todd 26:41
yeah hundred percent. Well I think one of the biggest things like you were talking about there is that when when you are 100% comfortable with yourself. It gives you the ability to when other people come into your area. If you have a high level of your you know, your energies are super high. And then they're clean too, because you can have a high energy and not even understand your high energy. So when you're high energy and you've cleaned you have got no clouds of your head, and then someone else comes, approaches you you can sense their energies in one second. You know exactly what's going on. Hey, I can tell you're going through some stuff What's up? No, I'm not. Yeah, er, because I can feel it.

Unknown Speaker 27:19
Right, right. And then

Jeremy Todd 27:20
all of a sudden it starts spewing all these things that's going on because when you're super, super clean, and you have that high energy, man, you just see life differently. That's a different perspective. There's a lot of things that come to you that you're Yeah, you're blank, your brain would block before but now it doesn't block cc more you're more aware you're more alert and you just see the world in different way. It's it's powerful. It's it's the same as

Brandon Handley 27:45
saying the two is when you kind of release the fear and come at it with a clean energy. You're open and receptive things because you're you're not goes back to judgment. You're not cringing yourself. You're not afraid of that person. Because you're good with who you are

Jeremy Todd 28:03
correct? Yeah, you know, it's so funny having conversations with people now that you male, female, whatever the case is, and they don't want to tell you a story. I don't want to tell you that because I don't want you to think of me as this. I truly would never think of any differently than what we have right here. Right? I don't care what you did in your past. I don't care what happened because hey, what the past what you brought you to me, and now we're having this conversation. I don't judge. But people don't people. You know, it's almost like

Brandon Handley 28:30
if your story is funny and crazy, I'll tell you. Yeah. It was crazy, though. Yeah, but you did you did that. Exactly. Okay. Right.

Jeremy Todd 28:39
But again, there's no reason to charge anybody anything because we're all of our spirits are completely different. But we're all here. Like you said, we're all here. Everything just bad decisions. I made, quote unquote, bad decision. This brought me to this point right now and I couldn't be any happier.

Brandon Handley 28:52
Right? So I mean, talk to me how you feel, you know, a big part of this is leading with spirituality to for a more fulfilling life. Tell me how you feel like you're doing that now?

Jeremy Todd 29:03
Well, I think it's direct reflection of, of, of my podcast. I mean, I and again, I'm not here to promote promote my podcast but that's that's really what I do is I really promote a peaceful spirit, a peaceful body peaceful soul and being authentic and be comfortable who I am and experiencing that and telling people, it's going to be okay. Hey, I've got this podcast that I tell people, the most honest, brutal stories in my life. But I don't expect any judgment from anybody. I don't judge myself for the experiences I've made. But I'm living from a spiritual peaceful place them coming out just to help others. And I can't tell you how many emails responses I get from people all over the world that just call me randomly email me randomly Jeremy changed my life. Thank you so much. That you know I was going through tough times with the COVID I had a young lady that's in Las Vegas she emailed me two weeks ago and said Jeremy changed my life. I was searching for a motivational podcasts. I searched positivity and yours came up. And I was blown away. I lost my job. You know, I have no money. I've got a young child at home. I don't know what to do, right? But just having that mental spirituality, that peacefulness well come over to you, man, I'm telling you just makes a big difference and we will talk about it enough.

Brandon Handley 30:23
I think that um, you know, a piece a piece of that, right? Like, can talk to me like a little bit about what you're feeling when you say spirituality because here's another thing that, you know, I'm, I'm kind of tripping over the past few days, is when somebody says they're spiritual, but like, they don't believe in God or a higher source. There's like, I'm spiritual. I'm like, no, not. Because like that answers. It's void of weight and substance right sometimes. Sure. And so, you know, that's why, you know, I saved you. So when you're saying spiritual, to me, what do you what are you saying?

Jeremy Todd 31:00
I have a secret question. I am agnostic at best. I believe there's a higher power that I believe there's a higher source. I believe everything in my life happens for a specific reason. This is why I'm here. I don't think my mind is or my brain is big enough to comprehend what all is going on. What I do know is that everything that's happened in my life has happened for a specific reason. Whether that being a higher being whether that being God, whether that be Butoh, I mean, I've studied every possible type of religion in the world. But I believe there is something else out there, there has to be. And and again, I don't know what that answer is it. It's hard for me to comprehend. It's hard for me to work my way through it. But what I do know is that I continue to do what I believe is the right thing to do. Everything always has worked its way out every single time in my life. It always has and always will. So when you talk about my spiritual for a specific, you know, white God on top of the cloud with a white beard, right, that's not my spirituality

Brandon Handley 31:58
now, but it sounds like you've got a There's a grand design greater great. There's got to be like a universal intelligence that has kind of a design aspect. Otherwise you would have driven off the road that night. Otherwise you wouldn't have made it home safely that one time. Otherwise, you know, I mean, I do

Jeremy Todd 32:17
know. Okay, so it's it's a tricky thing to think about. Because, you know, typically when you hear the word spiritual, you're on Jesus and God and then well, that's the thing is that my spirituality? I'm sorry. I mean, it's great. And I and I respect that. I respect all religions respect everybody, but it's just not what I believe I

Brandon Handley 32:36
was just not the one that speaks to you right now. Right. So

Jeremy Todd 32:40
yeah, no judgment, obviously. no judgment. Yeah. So

Brandon Handley 32:42
so for me more and more recently, right. It's come to kind of my attention, right that this, every one of these religions is just kind of a framework to the place where you've gotten to right now place where I've gotten to right now. So we've got a set of have potential instructions. If we were to arrive at this point in our lives right now and be like, I'm freaking out, man, I know there's something inside me it's coming out. I liken it to like being a seed to write like, our bodies are spiritual seeds, right? This is this cell right here, right? And that you know sounds to me too like again I'm just I'm just coming pulling shit on my butt but like it sounds to me like you know that that spirit within you is starting to on fertile right just like a C correct and a show and there's no stopping it right it's like it's like asphalt doesn't stop like a grass seed from cracking through it, right? Yeah, exactly. And so you've got like this you've got like this life energy right now that is just unfolding, and you're letting it unfold within you right now.

Jeremy Todd 33:49
Right? And you know, there I've also you know, looked into there's a lot of studies or a lot of free legends have said that, that there is no god we are all our own God. Our God is within ourselves. We have all greatness we all we are everything that we want to be in candy. We just have to access that and work our way through it. That's another thing that you know, again, maybe that's the answer.

Brandon Handley 34:12
So so I can help you out with this one. Right and you just just from personal experience, right. So I'm in, But to your point earlier to what degree like you know, like I like you know, I'm holding the wheel just in case, right I actually got this number right, right, right. But it actually Joe dispenza Oh no, I think it was rah rah Robin Sharma or Joe dispenza. I've got 210 minute pieces that I listen to all the time from both of those guys to send them to me. Absolutely man. So one of his like you if you rise to your level of thinking, Okay, okay. So, if you rise to your level of thinking and your current level thinking is that you are a human being What's your maximum potential? Right here? maximum potential is your whom human being potential, which sometimes seems limited. Okay with that, well, if God is everything or you know, is it even within me then there's something godlike within me, right? At least I'm attached to God somehow and I'm a part of that. Now I've got a different level of thinking. Right? Because now my being has changed. Right? Or, you know, again, you know, we can you can play with like, which beingness are you right now? Yeah. hanging out in divine being right. I salute the Divinity within you right now. mistake. Sure,

Unknown Speaker 35:40
sure. So,

Brandon Handley 35:42
if you're a divine being, then you also are willing to accept grace, which is divine strength, outside strength, right, and kind of so that changes your level of thinking, I look at everybody as a divine being, right. So can we agree more, if we've got that and that's my level. Thinking, what's to stop me?

Jeremy Todd 36:02
Nothing. So I mean yourself. I mean, your your, your ego? I mean, I don't know. I mean,

Unknown Speaker 36:08
if you let that go, I mean, that's all stuff, you gotta let go.

Jeremy Todd 36:11
There's no question. You know, I think it's all those things that that that continue to work on is letting that go. But it's not. It's not like hitting a switch. It's not like often, you know, it's a process. Yeah, it's, that's what I love about it.

Brandon Handley 36:22
It's a slow build, you know, it's just like anything else. This is kind of a you know, and you can change again, you're like, Alright, well, you know, ratchet that different thinking, but if you rise to your level of thinking, What are you thinking about yourself? Right? Again, I'll separate those two words. Sure. What are you thinking about yourself? Is that is that an XYZ nature if it you know, what, what nature of the self? Are you sure? Yeah,

Jeremy Todd 36:48
no, I get it. It's a tough topic to talk. I mean, I don't want to say it's even tough. It's just for me, it's just working my way through that mental process. And I think to myself, Well, imagine what you know, like Three years ago, you know where I'm at now versus three years ago, were just gonna be three years from now. I mean, man, it's just working your way through this and getting better and getting smarter and getting stronger, and getting more free. I just I just love I just love life, man. I love the love the journey. I love the conversations. I love the deep topics. I just miss what we're here for. Right? Bam. So, again, I

Brandon Handley 37:22
feel like that's kind of where you're at. Right? you're you're you're working on this kind of determining, yeah, who the self is right? And then like, how are you harnessing it right, you're stepping into your power and making that determination for yourself every day? Yeah, I mean, tell me like I'll place you. Where's the practical application for this for yourself? Like where someplace you've applied this like way of thinking.

Jeremy Todd 37:48
I did everything. I mean, literally, I literally I mean I go to work. I'm that weird guy. I do my podcast. I'm not different do as a parent. I think that's one of the most powerful places you can do. It is not get caught up with Like being you know, I'm not I'm not a guy that's gonna like, I guess parenting is different for me than a lot of other people that I see because I had these deep conversations with my kids. And I tell them that, hey, it doesn't matter what happened, you know, if you made a mistake, it's okay. It's not a mistake. It's a learning process. It's becoming the better person that you are. My kids are weird. And I love it. I love them for it weird to society. You know, they're weird. Yeah. But they're brilliant. They're smart. And we have these deep conversations. And that's probably the most important thing that I can push on to them is that you know that the power of who they are the power of what they look like the power of their, their selves. The more with kids getting beat down over social media, their friends, and we're talking to them about different stuff that other parents aren't talking to our kids about. They can deal with this every day and this is not an easy conversation for them either. But the more we have it, the more we understand that that is okay and the stronger they become at a younger age. I would you know, no disrespect to My parents, but I would never had these conversations with my kids when I was a kid. You know, it wasn't even thought

Brandon Handley 39:04
of you never had that conversation. different times. Right?

Jeremy Todd 39:07
Correct. But you know, hey imagine 30 years from now what are my kids gonna be look like by having these conversations now? Hopefully I'm around for but my kids are gonna be so much more well off more happier within themselves more comfortable with who they are, and not get caught up in the craziness. That is that is life. So, right. That's by far the number one thing by far

Brandon Handley 39:29
your parenting so your planet, you know, and your parenting life. This is

Jeremy Todd 39:32
weird parenting, though it's just different and not weird, or it's just different parenting different from what you grew up with. Right? Yeah, and as many people do, but man, I just think it's the most powerful thing you can do right now is to teach that to your children. about spirituality. What does it mean? What does it mean to them? What does it look like? What do they believe? And then not bashing them? Like, you know, I was born and raised Catholic. That's the that's the only way you thought was born, raised Catholic.

Unknown Speaker 39:54
Sure. Jesus died on the cross God blah, blah, blah,

Jeremy Todd 39:57
Heaven and Hell and all that good stuff. That was all Have you thought anything different? You were on Galston?

Unknown Speaker 40:03
Yeah. But what literally?

Jeremy Todd 40:05
Yeah, literally Yeah. Yeah. I mean, literally you were, I mean, kicked out of school, this kid, this kid's got something wrong with them. But in reality, that's not the case. And again, I think that's one of the most powerful things that that I'm doing right now. And, you know, the mother of my children does, we're on the same page for that, too. So it's great. I mean, it couldn't be any better right now.

Brandon Handley 40:24
That's cool. So just integrating it with your daily life is kind of how you're applying it practically. And

Jeremy Todd 40:30
yeah, you know, again, it's it's it's easier said than done. I know, but I'm doing so often. I love the reactions i get i give such different opinions on different topics in different situations that I don't care what anybody says, This is how I truly feel. This is my opinion. It's not right or wrong, right. But I may see something different than may open someone's up someone's eyes instead of falling in line. That's what we get to do. This is what this is, you know, going to church on Sunday. You're doing this you're doing it. Oh, I mean, I am and I support that to do your thing.

Brandon Handley 40:59
Well, yeah. Yeah, look man, like, like we said, Yeah, everybody's path is their own path. Right. Yeah. I think that that's I think that you know, when they created this country that was the pursuit of happiness right the the freedom was a religion was those things right was you know, hey listen this is a true thing. A lot of us Christians here but uh you know

Jeremy Todd 41:23
that now religion one of the greatest the constitution one of

Brandon Handley 41:26
the greatest things ever and I love it Listen man I think there was a powerful document right and i think that that's just another one of those things that we take for granted.

Jeremy Todd 41:33
Right? It is and it's freedom of speech freedom of I mean for women they carry handgun freedom, you name it freedom. I just love it because I can be who I am and we're very, very blessed. But what are the chances? This is another thing what are the chances of us being born in this country at this time out of any other country on any other planet in any other situation? I mean, how lucky and blessed are we?

Brandon Handley 41:56
Well, I think that that's a huge part of the story. huge part of the entire outlook Jeremy, what you're saying right there is that, you know, if you look at where you are, and everything you do is what I'm here to say is like as a miracle,

Unknown Speaker 42:11
it is miracle that we're blessed

Brandon Handley 42:14
right then. And could you could you imagine a better time in the anytime to become yourself?

Jeremy Todd 42:22
No, no. I mean, can you imagine me being born with a horse and carriage? I would have been dead 25 years ago. You could survive. You

Brandon Handley 42:31
know, I'll tell you, man, I know. I know. Definitely growing up. I did a lot of like things that, you know, I should have gotten my ass kicked for. But I definitely would have gotten a shot for like an 1800s type of thing. Like,

Jeremy Todd 42:42
I mean, exactly. I am so soft and so fragile. I would have no chance 100 years ago, but I wasn't I mean, but hey, even now, I could have been born in South America or North Korea or meat. I mean, you name the country. Well, you could be born anywhere but

Unknown Speaker 42:59
here it is. Man, I'm just

Brandon Handley 43:02
so blessed. I think it's a beautiful time, man. I think it's a beautiful time we're in so Brother, listen, I know. I mean, we always love catching up on loving hearing your journey and you know how you're just you know, loving on your spiritual self and you keep growing that right and you're leading with that. Tell me like yeah, listen, people never heard you before. So where should they go check you out? If you haven't heard me,

Jeremy Todd 43:23
come on, come on rapidly for obviously, you remember the positive side podcast. It's the positive side podcast. You check out the positive side podcast calm, but more importantly, just hop on the show. And again, the intentions of the show truly, truly, truly are just to just tell my random stories through life, the stuff that I struggle with, to share those messages to understand that hey, if you are struggling, you are going through these tough times. You're not alone and we're all going to get to this together. We're all going to get better we're all gonna get stronger. So that's the biggest thing. Or you can always email Jeremy Jeremy at Jeremy Todd COMM But then, more importantly, Brandon, I love this show. Man. This is like the perfect show for you. It's this is like you wheelhouse bro. I've just been a long time ago. That's

Unknown Speaker 44:04
right. I was afraid.

Unknown Speaker 44:06
Sure. I get

Brandon Handley 44:07
it. I was afraid. I was afraid. And but it's where I wanted to be, which is the funny thing, right. And so what's what's funny is that it is opened up but is blown up and opened up like the reception. Yeah. And so me just going and doing that thing that I was so afraid to do so many years ago. Self permission. Yeah. Yes. I mean, I think that you know, listen, if you made it to the end of the podcast, that was the message that you need to hear today, man, this is like, self permission. So Exactly. Alright guys. Thank you so much, Jeremy. And we'll chat next time. Oh, hell yeah,

Jeremy Todd 44:45
brother. Thank you.

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