Ep. 143 | Taking Control: Mindset + Money
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John Tripolsky:Hey, everybody, and welcome back to the teaching tax flow podcast. As I always like to say here at these now, in the intro or the show notes or the title, you know what we're talking about here, usually. But today, by intention, we wanna confuse you a little bit. So you're probably wondering why in the world we're talking about money and mindset. And even if you have an idea, what you think we're gonna talk about, we're probably gonna tweak that just a little bit.
John Tripolsky:So before we introduce our guest, I'm gonna have Chris introduce him in just a moment. By the way, great guy to talk on this topic because trust me, you do not want me or Chris telling you anything to do about this. More mostly me. You don't want me telling you about this. But as always, Chris Pacquero, welcome back to your show, sir.
John Tripolsky:We did allow you into the studio for recording this. So, hopefully, you bring something good for us, man.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:I'll try to bring something good, and it is amazing to be back. First of all, listeners, I don't know if I if and watchers, I have I was just thinking about this today. Like, genuinely, you. Thank you so much for trusting us, believing in us in the last two and a half years as we grow this content and and and allow us to be able to bring in amazing guests that I'm gonna introduce in a moment and go beyond your normal tax strategy topics. You know, teaching tax flow, the voice of tax planning, the goal is to legally and ethically help people reduce the tax they pay in their lifetime.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:And a lot of that pertains to a mindset in thinking the right way. I think anyone that has gone to the gym, right, for me, I don't act I you know, I love playing certain sports, which I will not mention right now. And I love running and walking, but I actually don't love going to lifting weights. But if I go to a class and I have someone tell me what to do, I like that. Or if I have an app that gives me my workout.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:But if you've ever gone to the gym with that good intention, the hardest thing to do, right, is to get up and get into the gym, but then you don't know what to do, and you look at the bench press and so on and all of a sudden, you're frustrated. So you have to have that right mindset before you go into the gym of what you're gonna accomplish. Same thing with money. So I'm so excited to have this guest on. I could tell you I did a personal session, with Curtis.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:I got a lot out of it. And he said I had so many things wrong with me that he's I'm beyond help, but that's alright. No. He's
John Tripolsky:instantly building credibility by saying that.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:The only thing is only credibility.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:I've gotta make better choices on my podcast cohost, but that's alright. We're we're gonna we're
John Tripolsky:Alright, Curtis. We're gonna go ahead and log you off. Thanks for joining us, buddy. We're gonna we'll catch you later.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:He also sent my wife a gift basket and said, sorry. But but, no, I'm really excited to have Curtis McCollum with us today. We're gonna talk about the money mindset, and you have to have the right mindset to be able to execute and in implement. We talk about in our in teaching tax flow and in our private CPA firm all the time, ideas are cheap, implementation's valuable. So talking about that that mindset.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So Curtis is a transformational coach. He is he's also a podcaster. He's the host of the Curtis McCollum Show podcast, which has amazing guests, which one may or may not be with you today, and expert in mindset and leadership coaching. So this is goes beyond just business owners. This is anyone that is unaware of what we call or he calls their blind spots.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So, Curtis, welcome to the Teaching Tax Flow podcast. How are you doing today?
Curtis McCullom:Man, thank you so much, Chris and and and John, for having me on the show today. I mean, this is gonna be exciting, you know, being an old financial guy myself, you know, so I know a little bit about that world. We were kind of measuring ourselves against ourselves. How many initials do you have? And I said, Well, how many initials do you have?
Curtis McCullom:And we kept kind of going down the alphabet and finally figured out that you had more initials than I had, but I'm still taller than you are, so there you go.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:I like it. I like it. You know what, though? I kinda like we talk about a little bit, and we have a mastermind group, peer to peer mastermind group for tax professionals that we talk about this a lot where there's a book called the gap and the gain and and living in the living in the gain. Right?
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So the gain is you can never be happy living in the gap. The gap is where am I at versus what what I think society needs me to be or what you are at or where you're at. I only can compete against myself and where I came from and where I'm at today. So but, yeah, I'm so excited, Curtis. Tell us about your and you've mentioned that you you're you're you come from a financial background, have several accreditations, including certifications for financial advisory, but now you had a calling to help people on a broader level.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So can you tell us about your your journey and what led you to where you're at today?
Curtis McCullom:Wow. Really quickly, what led me to this, where I am today, I started in financial services probably over forty years ago. And the reason I started in financial services is because I wanted to be a motivational speaker. So I went to Tony Robbins, Dennis Whaley, and all those guys and got all of those things. I used to have a in the day, we used to have cassette tapes.
Curtis McCullom:I know John don't remember cassette tapes. He's too young for that.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Oh, remember them though.
Curtis McCullom:So we used wear out too. Tapes. I used to have a university on wheels, right? So then forty years, we fast forward about thirty five, forty years later, my wife, we came into a situation where I could retire from doing that. And what I really wanted to do was to be an individual that helped people move their lives.
Curtis McCullom:I basically specialize with helping entrepreneurs and high achieving individuals get rid of the blind spots that kind of been dragging around since childhood. And so that we help them now live a life that prosperous, that is flowing, and that is loving, that is caring, and all those things that a person wished to have. You know, it's almost like this. A person had a will. If you had a will and your life was going for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, What I do, I help you smooth out those edges so that now you can run your life extremely smooth and to be the best version of yourself.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Yeah. I could tell you, when our session, just how I framed a couple things you pointed out, I realized that I was coming from fear of loss or instead of a instead of a and just in one little aspect of what I'm doing instead of striving for achievement. You know what I mean? And that was helpful. So I can't wait to dive in and and, you know, and understand.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So in in now that you're doing this, you've had this obviously huge success in the financial services industry. We were able to retire from from that, and now you're helping people with, you know, with this mindset. So what are, you know, what are some of the things that are common for people that that maybe have good intentions about being financially responsible, but they just are struggling to do so?
Curtis McCullom:The biggest thing, guy, this is the biggest thing a person has to understand. Think about your mind as an iceberg. Right? And on the top of the iceberg is your conscious mind, which only runs about 5% of our behavior. Reasoning, analysis, willpower, logic, and decision making.
Curtis McCullom:But underneath is our subconscious mind, which runs 95% of our behavior. So that's where your knowns, beliefs, your values, your attitudes, your memories, your languages, and all of these things are stored. So if a person comes and says, I want to make a 6 figure income. First of all, it's going to come to their mind consciously. Then it's going to go down into their subconscious mind and look at all those old beliefs.
Curtis McCullom:You know that mom said that money don't grow on trees, or you know that money is the root of all evil, so it comes back up and says, oh, I can't make money. So that's what I do. I help people change those beliefs underneath the iceberg so that now their conscious mind, 5%, and their subconscious mind, 95%, is running together versus fighting against each other. So think about this, Chris. If we were betting people, right?
Curtis McCullom:And you had 5% of something and I had 95% of something, I'll bet on myself every day. And that's what people are fighting against when you're talking about mindset. So you're talking about a person who wants to eliminate their attacks. First of all, they might have a negative relief about that. That has been drilled down since childhood because mama said you got to pay your taxes.
Curtis McCullom:So then that pops up. And so when it comes to you, it's kind of hard for them to kind of reconcile those two beliefs.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Exactly. And and that especially on tax planning and strategy, one of the reasons we did as we started teaching tax laws, we truly believe, you know, tax planning and strategy is for everybody, and we we feel strongly that the lower to middle income households are the ones that need tax planning and strategy the most, and they're the least exposed to it because that mentality is, well, you know, retirement plans are for the rich people or high asset people or tax strategies are for the rich. It's not really not true. You know? An extra 2% in someone's market as far as I is, like, spending money or or disposable income is a big factor for someone in lower to middle income versus someone in a higher or ultra high income.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:And and, Chris, tell tell
John Tripolsky:me oh, I'm I'm so sorry, man. I cut you off. No. Go ahead. Go ahead.
John Tripolsky:I see what happens when they get excited.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:What you're saying is yeah. No. What you're saying is a lot of those beliefs that are in our subconscious come from come from our upbringing, ages
Curtis McCullom:Oh, absolutely.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:The household you you grew up in, basically.
Curtis McCullom:Oh, absolute. Well, think about it. Think about most of the programming that's running within ourselves, and that's kind of what we did with you. We did some deep level alignment, is that most of that comes from age from zero to five. Wow.
Curtis McCullom:That means that we're running programs that we don't even know that are running, that we learn when we're between zero and five. So, that feeling that I'm not deserving, money is just for the ultra rich, all of those things happen between zero and five. And now as we move on this continuum on our journey, it shows up when they come to you and it says, No, this doesn't resonate with me. It's because of the fact that even though you see that it's something that they should be doing, right? Logically, a person should be saving 10% of their income, logically, Right?
Curtis McCullom:But on the subconscious level is they can't do it. Even though they want to, even because it's good for them, their subconscious mind reject it and make them feel safe in not doing it than doing it. Mhmm. Mhmm.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:And I guess I could work the opposite way because we're talking about people that are yeah. You know, they grow up in a very modest household. It could work the opposite way. Someone works in a grows up in an affluent household, but maybe everything's given to them too easy and they don't have any work ethic.
Curtis McCullom:Either one. I mean, you talk about a biblical principle. A biblical principle would be, Jesus says, Give and it shall be given unto you. Pressed down, shaken together, run it over. Whatever you meet out shall be meet back to you.
Curtis McCullom:That's a great principle. But the opposite of that is this, whatever you give out is going to come back to you negative or positive. So it could be a powerful concept of being freely giving in like this, the concept of growing, right? So the mindset goes really deep. People don't really get this is that whatever you put out is going to come back to you.
Curtis McCullom:Well, when we look at it on a positive side, that sounds great. But on the negative side is that if I'm feeding my mind negative concepts over and over again, then I look up and I'm broke, Whose fault is it? That, you know, it's like scary. Like, wait, because now I have to take responsibility for my thoughts and my actions. And that's kind of where I help people, individuals now change that so they can work more efficient.
John Tripolsky:You know, Kirsty, throwing a lot of words around here like mindset. I hope my wife does not listen to this, or I am really in trouble. If she bring if she says the word mindset at the dinner table, I'm calling you, buddy.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:You're calling
John Tripolsky:fault, and I'm in trouble. And then I'm moving in because she's gonna kick me out. They really, what I was thinking, you know, even from when we first started this conversation. Right? And I was kinda jokingly talking about, you know, how do you what is mindset and money and taxes?
John Tripolsky:What does this all have to do to each other? And you said something too that resonated pretty well. You know, you said a lot of people in layman's terms. Right? They're kinda living out their life and acting on things that they learned, did or didn't early, early on.
John Tripolsky:Right? And I almost think of this, and, Chris, you could probably add into this one. So long story short, I worked for my family. So my my grandfather, pretty young. Right?
John Tripolsky:I don't even know how I ended up I don't know. I wanted a dirt bike or something, and I dated a $100. I have no idea. And he's he always gave me personally so much freedom just to kinda go do whatever I want, not like, you know, go play in a playground. And now it's so easy for me.
John Tripolsky:I can literally form a company, like, structurally and and get everything by the time I leave my office and walk home, and it's about 200 yards. For some people, right, they'll never take that leap because they didn't they weren't surrounded in that. And it's almost the same to Chris, kind of what we talk about too with just taxes in general. Right? I think some people that may are afraid to take a leap, whether it's a different job or totally different career, start a company, do any of this stuff.
John Tripolsky:Right? They're afraid to take it because they think, oh, well, I can't control my taxes. I can't really control this. I can control my income, but I don't wanna give it all away, and everybody else is in control of everything Yes. Which is not the case, which I've learned from this handsome bald gentleman in the purple shirt for anybody that's watching over the years.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Her favorite color is on today. Gotta go with purple. Right? It
John Tripolsky:it matches your eyes, sir. It it it just goes very nothing of purple eyes. But, you know, but it's true. Right? Like, your surroundings really have such an impact on it.
John Tripolsky:And then, Curtis, what you're saying, basically, you know, your role and relationship with a lot of people now is just kinda resetting it, or I think you worded it as, you know, kinda getting rid of those edges Yeah. Or those hurdles that they have to, which is amazing. Right? Because some people probably don't even know they have them until somebody points them out.
Curtis McCullom:I mean, that's kind of where we talk about blind spots. Right? A blind spot is a is an area in our life have you ever been driving? Right? You're driving down the street, and all of a sudden, you get ready to move over to your left or your right and you don't look in your blind spot, the car is closer than what you think it is.
Curtis McCullom:You don't see it. It's there. It's always been there, but you don't realize until you get ready to make a shift. Now, and that's one of the challenges. Sometimes we don't even know that we have blind spots.
Curtis McCullom:It's like, we don't even know what we don't know until we need to know it. And then that's when it shows up. You says, okay, now I want to make more money. We'll just get that one, right? I wanna make more money.
Curtis McCullom:And then he's like, then you think about it. I wanna make a 6 figure income. That's the thought. That's the conscious mind. I wanna do that.
Curtis McCullom:Goes into subconscious mind and says, who do you think you are? You're not worthy. You're not capable. All of those old beliefs and values start to come up. And guess when they usually are planted between zero and five, you could have been on a playground and some kids says, You know what, John?
Curtis McCullom:You are whatever. And you accepted that belief at that age and now it's been traveling with you all your life, playing in the background, not knowing, but you notice, this is what you notice. The evidence is that something keeps happening in your life that's preventing you from actually moving forward. But I don't know what it is, but I know what it is. This is one, want to share this with your audience is this.
Curtis McCullom:Some of the programming that I was running, and I didn't realize, and I'm an expert at this, right? And I make transformations in people's lives that come like that normally take years to do it. I do it in really quickly. Even in my own life, I'm like, I'm making all these transformations in these individual lives, but what's happening in my life that's preventing me? So I had someone do the procedures that I do on me and come to find out that success meant to me that it was hard and difficult.
Curtis McCullom:That's what it meant, right? Once we did the procedure, we went back and figured out that something that happened when I was age two that I accepted or decided that success is hard and difficult has been traveling with me all the way to now I'm 60. So I pick up the phone and call mom. I says, mom, what was happening in my life when I was around two? Oh, she said, this is the wording she said.
Curtis McCullom:She said, oh, it was hard and difficult for you to be potty trained. That belief that was so buried at 18 was still running in the background of my mind all the way to now because every time I had success in my life, I would sabotage it. And I would tell myself when I was in financial services, was doing over a million dollars of production, a million dollars of gross commissions per year on a small team of just two or three people, million dollars of gross commissions a year. And my wife came to me and says, Curtis, this is your easy. You could do this with your eyes closed.
Curtis McCullom:I says, no. I looked at her says, no, this is hard and it's difficult. Not knowing that the programming that was running was something that I learned too when I was two. So with your audience is that when they come to you with tax plans and tax opportunities, if the programming does not meet the even logically, Chris is giving you some great information on what to do and how to do it. But down inside, it's hard for you to believe it because the old programming.
Curtis McCullom:It gets become very powerful, guys.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:That is phenomenal because, first of all, we just got John potty trained about six months ago. So, Curtis, you did a great job.
John Tripolsky:You know what? Now you're saying that. I gotta I gotta grab something from my shelf just to rub it in both of y'all's faces, so I'll be right
Curtis McCullom:back.
John Tripolsky:Alright. So but
Chris Picciurro, CPA:so that programming is is in our subconscious. It's hard to change because we don't even know it's it's there. Right? It's a blind spot. What would you say and it's really interesting zero to five.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:So what would you say are some of the common financial roadblocks people have in their subconscious that they don't even know about? And it's great because you shared a success story that was you. And then I'm gonna ask you about a couple of success stories, but, yeah, some of them, like, success is hard. The ones I'm just I'm just spitballing. You know, tax planning is only for rich people.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:I mean, are roadblocks. Right? They're I don't know what else you see.
Curtis McCullom:What you just mentioned what you just mentioned, Chris, is the limiting belief. Is it true Where it's only true to you because that's your perception of the world. So the question is sometimes one of the ways to overcoming that is questioning. Well, is there anybody in the world that's in my income level that are financially stable? Yeah.
Curtis McCullom:That means it's not true. It's like because some of the times the people I used to work with is like these guys, sometimes you don't even know they had money because they didn't show that they had money, but they were very well off. Then the people who were in middle class, who worked hard, who saved their money, then a person who was flashy with their money, would say we need to start a college playing with the person who was flashy with their money. They didn't have any money saved.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Right. Yeah. Oh, for sure.
Curtis McCullom:Because of the fact that their beliefs was that I got to show it to try to make people think, look like, feel like that I'm somebody, but deep inside they felt like they were not. So they have to show it. And then the other person who was able to retire as a postman on their salary, but they're a financial independent. What's the difference between the two? It's mindset.
Curtis McCullom:That's the difference.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:It's hard. And it's and I would imagine the older we get, the harder it is to change the mind mindset. Right? I mean, maybe I'm wrong.
Curtis McCullom:Well, basically, well, I would I would I would I would question is it is well
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Or is it an awareness thing? It doesn't really
Curtis McCullom:Basically, it's an awareness. I mean, the the the beauty part about what I do now is that regardless of where you are in your journey, I can get you to the next level, period. I'm very confident in that. So it doesn't doesn't it's really when are you ready to make a change? That's what it is.
Curtis McCullom:What what do you have a desire to change? Do you wanna change? A lot of people listen to the thing about it. I think you'll agree, Chris. They're like, a lot of people, you can't help them because they don't wanna be helped.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Agreed. Agreed. I we see that all the time in our so John and I would do do another podcast for tax professionals. We also do we have a mastermind group that I mentioned. We do some coaching, and and some of these folks, I don't know if it's self sabotage, but they almost in their mind, they run their business.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:They they walk into us let's say they have a really heavy tax compliance time a year, and they in their mind, oh, I gotta work a hundred hours week this week. Like, who why? Why do you because someone decided to give you their tax documents three days before the deadline? That's no. You gotta create we we talk about boundaries equal freedom.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Create some boundaries for yourself. If if a client's bringing their stuff in two day you can't do it in two days properly. It's a it you know, communicate your lead time. So what are can you give us a and I and I really appreciate you, you know, you shared your own personal success story. But can you give us an example of a couple other success stories that that you've helped people with some type of finances?
Chris Picciurro, CPA:And and Well
Curtis McCullom:well well, basically, one was a young lady who just came to me a few weeks ago, and we did some a similar session that we did with you. That session is more like an introductory session that I normally give individuals who come on my podcast, and and I will offer it to your audience. But that but that particular session, one young lady came in. Usually, guys, this is interesting, is money. And the one that came in just today, I had one today, I had a session right before we count on.
Curtis McCullom:And his ideal of money, or their ideal of money is that I just want to make enough money to survive. Or I just want to make enough money to pay my bills. Well, when we change that belief, once we release the energy around that thought, that limiting belief, now they are free to go out and make money. An example was one young lady we did a session with and we did some of the things that I do. Immediately, she called me back and says, Curtis, oh, I got a pain.
Curtis McCullom:I've finally got this gig that I was trying to get for five years. Just so happened once I cleared out all the baggage, they called me and they asked me to be the keynote of that particular of an event that she's been chasing now because the baggage is gone. What we find guys is that once you release the energy, the negative emotions around these beliefs, instantly your life changes because of the fact your model of the world or your perception of the world changes and everything changes for you. So it's like for most of us, especially on your show, who's dealing with taxes, it's a money issue. It's all about money.
Curtis McCullom:It's all about the fact that we've gotten beliefs and values and thoughts and feelings that we were taught to when we were kids. When you went to the store as a child and your mom says, son, we cannot afford that. And that now is running in the background and you walking around, I can't afford to do tax planning. I can't afford to do planning. I can't afford to get a college fund.
Curtis McCullom:Why? Where does that come from just back then? So yeah. Wow.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:That and and think about baggage. John, I will give you a compliment now after week three. John travels a lot, and he's really good, especially when he comes to Nashville at, like, being able to go somewhere and pack super light or just do carry on. So think about when you're traveling, the difference between walking around four bags, checked bags, and being able to throw your stuff on some carry on and be in in you know, you're still going to the same place, but it's sure gonna be a lot easier without all that baggage.
Curtis McCullom:Absolutely. And that's what we're talking about.
John Tripolsky:Cheap, and they charge for bags on pretty much every airline except for a couple. Let's give that secret. And and, honestly, you know what's funny, Curtis? And and if we kinda wrap this up, I think this is very fitting, just not ridiculous, which I'm kinda known for, is, you know, you mentioned a lot. So, obviously, mindset.
John Tripolsky:Right? It's it is something that could be changed, it sounds like. Right? And I and taking a little bit what you said and just kinda confirming it a little bit is so many people think that it's so so much harder to change that than maybe it is. Right?
John Tripolsky:Like you mentioned, you kinda clear the way for stuff and everything, you know, the old saying, I think it's what is it? The cream rises to the top, and you can tell I don't drink coffee or anything. But and and basically just getting stuff out of the way and just clarity, I think, is is a lot
Curtis McCullom:of it.
John Tripolsky:And then, again, kind of bringing everything full circle, I think sometimes people forget that they have some of the most valuable resources and relationships already in their life, and they and they have all sort of stuff in the way.
Curtis McCullom:Yeah. Oh, basically, this this is is my thing, guys. I wanna leave you with this. Number one is that I truly believe that everyone has all the resources within them to become the best version of themselves. The reason it is, is that there is been it's overclouded about all the baggage and all the things that we would carry and our limiting beliefs, our thoughts and our feelings, and all of these things that we've kind of tucked away to not knowing where they're coming from.
Curtis McCullom:So there is a process now, the process that is I can help individuals get rid of that stuff quickly, but it doesn't stop there. And the same thing I think you would believe is that we have to have now, we have to clear the vision, have a clear vision of where you wanna go. We have now have to take some actions to do that. But with a clear path without the baggage, like you said, when you're traveling, you travel in light, it's easier to travel light than without full baggage. If I can get rid of that baggage, now I can travel light.
Curtis McCullom:Now I can think, I can feel, I can move, I can be more agile, I can take more action. But this is the key to it, and I think this, we can learn with this, is that you have to condition the behavior. It's not a one and done. It's not a one and done. It's like every morning for dental hygiene, we brush our teeth.
Curtis McCullom:Why? Because that's important. Same thing with mindset. It's not a one and done. It's not like, Hey, I'm fixed and I'll have to work on it.
Curtis McCullom:No, every day you need to cultivate this powerful mindset. You need to understand what it takes to actually ward off all the negative thinking in order for you to always stay the best version of yourself.
John Tripolsky:That is incredible. That is incredible. And what I did grab off my shelf, I'll show you here in a second, and this will hopefully make sense. So everybody always told me. Right?
John Tripolsky:Oh, you have a kid on the way. So now she's now we have a four year old daughter. They said, you know what? When you have a kid, everything is gonna be clear to you. To me, I wanted to slap everybody that said that because that was not the case.
John Tripolsky:Sure. I pre prioritized some stuff. But believe it or not, and I haven't even told this to my friend of her family that gave this to me, right around my birthday last month, is they gave me this ridiculous little crown. You know, I don't even know if it fits.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Hey. It does. Look at that. Oh, nice.
John Tripolsky:I'll wear the I'll wear the darn thing. I gotta smash it on my dick.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Trying to get people to go to the YouTube channel if they're to listen on Spotify and Apple.
John Tripolsky:You know what? There you go. There's a fact. I'm gonna wear this stupid little crown for a little bit. So there's a big four zero on the front of oh, that hurts.
John Tripolsky:Yeah. I gotta take them off. And the big four zero on the front of this thing, and it's ironic that this now sits on my shelf right next to me about five feet away. And this is kind of a reminder that even though I am now over 40 or I guess they say over the hill back in the day, it's it's just the way you think. Right?
John Tripolsky:Like, I was waiting so long, honestly, like, during my whole wife's pregnancy. Oh, when the kid comes, I'll realize stuff. I'll realize stuff. I'll reprioritize stuff. It didn't happen exactly.
John Tripolsky:But now, like, this little thing that was probably $10 from the supermarket is more of a reminder, and it's crazy just thinking about that, and you can absolutely change everything And just making lists and
Curtis McCullom:realizing the focus, man. It's all about changing focus. It's all about it's it's it's you know, I tell people all the time, it's all about what you're thinking, and you have to be very careful about what goes into your mind extremely. I think the Bible talks about guard your mind because out of it flows the issues of life. Meaning guys, this is the one thing.
Curtis McCullom:You have to guard your mindset. You have to guard your mind because everybody is wanting to give you something. You know? It's like you watch these commercials and they dancing and singing and stuff, and then all of a sudden they pop up a a drug and says, take it. No.
Curtis McCullom:Right. No.
John Tripolsky:Great example. Those darn marketing guys can never trust them. Can never trust them. But awesome, Curtis. Well, honestly, Chris said it too.
John Tripolsky:Thank you so much for joining us on this. And in full transparency, when he first like, hey. I got some guy to talk on this. I'm like, how in the world are we gonna circle this together? But honestly, I couldn't think of a better way to do this.
John Tripolsky:Like, this is this is great, man. Like, your approach I mean, obviously, your background funneling into what you're doing now, who you're helping, how you're helping them, the outcomes of that is fantastic. And, you know, we might just have to get Chris a, you know, a punch card or something because, yeah, we gotta we gotta square this guy up a little bit. Maybe you can help him with his pickleball game. Apparently, he's pretty good, but, you know, I don't have that.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Know what? Honestly, well, I turned like, kinda like Jono, I hit the odometer this year. I turned 50 in January, and and conditionally, that was, like, old. I I and Curtis no. Curtis is a avid you know, eats real he takes real good care of himself, goes to the gym.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:We've talked about that. It's just different. I am so I was so excited to turn 50 feeling like, gosh. I feel so good. I'm very blessed.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:And and now I can play in the 50 plus, tournaments in pickleball. So I'll be the youngest guy instead of being the it was, like, 18 to 49 forever. But if if you're, if if if anything in this episode spoke to you, again, this is you know, we wall walk around with these this baggage. We all have things in our subconscious that we're not aware of. Please reach out to Curtis.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:His information will be in this session. And, Curtis, do wanna just talk one second? I know you about your podcast and where they can find you.
Curtis McCullom:Yeah. Basically, they can they can find my podcast on my on my YouTube channel at at at Curtis McCollum. You'll find the Curtis McCollum show. You can also find me on Spotify and Apple for podcasts. If you wanna reach out to me, I'm on LinkedIn.
Curtis McCullom:I'm on all social media platforms, so you can reach out to me there. And then we'll have some in the show notes as far as if you wanna direct message me and says, hey, Curtis, give me that free gift of that value session that I shared with Chris. I'll be more than happy. That's the one hour session guys. And that's worth, in my opinion, because of the time and the value that I put in with you.
Curtis McCullom:It's about $250 $500 session that I give you that I think is most valuable to let you know what programming is running. It's like now you can work with purpose on purpose versus just doing things just because you're doing it, and that's so important.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Yep. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes habits. So we might be practicing. We might be creating habits that we're not even aware of.
John Tripolsky:Yeah. Kinda kinda like doing great podcasts with great guests. This is you know, we should keep this habit going. Chris, you know what you know what I realized too? Is that these these shows and then I promise I will shut up.
John Tripolsky:That's been you know, it's it's been going on since I was two years old. I just never shut my mouth. They I love having guests because they make me and Chris
Chris Picciurro, CPA:look better. So No. That's what we get, which is great.
John Tripolsky:This is very true. This is very true. But, yes, for anybody that's been listening to this or watching this, even if it's a piece of this, this is something that I I think a lot of people don't realize. Right? Like, we were talking about those, the blind spots and just kinda getting things out of the way.
John Tripolsky:And, yes, this is absolutely related to taxes. Now it makes sense to me. Now that we got some of the blind spots out of the way and me trying to figure out how we're gonna do this, like I said, it makes absolute sense. So reach out to anybody. Reach out to Curtis.
John Tripolsky:Reach out to Chris. Heck, reach out to myself. I can come up with tax advice for you. It'll be wrong. It'll be it'll be with great intention, but it may be incorrect.
John Tripolsky:That's why I bring Chris in on these. But, also, think about those people as we talked about a little bit earlier on in this that you probably have in your life already. Reach out to those people. Maybe just make a list and see who's there and who's willing to help you. I will say this personally.
John Tripolsky:You'll be extremely surprised, almost regardless who you are, how many people are actually willing to help you. Just ask. That's all you have to do. And that's really the basis of teaching Tax Flow. Right?
John Tripolsky:Like, we've built this huge knowledge base, videos, podcasts, lessons, all this stuff. It is there. It's put out there for everybody to have, but it at the end of the day, it's on the individual to take advantage of it. So we'll close with that. Curtis, thank you for joining us.
John Tripolsky:Chris, I guess we'll have you back on another one of your own shows. We might as well.
Chris Picciurro, CPA:Made it a cut.
John Tripolsky:We'll think about it. But yes, everybody, we will see you back here again on the Teaching Taxable podcast next week. Different date, completely different topic. Have a great week, everybody.
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