Tim Storey
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916 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Sep
Tim Storey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, what an amazing story.
I really do believe this, that if you build your spot, life will put the spotlight on your spot. So my spot was to be very good in understanding human beings. So my doctorate is in world religion and then master's in counseling therapy. So that was a spot I built. I never built that spot thinking that I would become really well known for building that spot. At all. But I wanted to build it.
So when I say build it, I call it the law of the harvest. You got to plow the ground. You got to plant the seed. You have to water the seed and then you get the harvest. So I was constantly studying, constantly learning. constantly serving, plowing, planting, watering is repetition. And then the harvest came. But the harvest came so much more than I ever thought would happen.
And that was through this ability to help people that people in the entertainment business started to see. And very famous people that we were raised watching their movies. I mean, the most famous. started to look for me.
I'm very non-traditional in the way I approach this. I think that the average book would say you have to find a way in the room. I do think that that is one way. Even the community that you've created is a great room to be in. Because like attracts like. And there's things that we can learn from each other and gain from each other than possibly collaborate through the power of partnership.
So that's one way. And the other thing is that a lot of people think that, oh, I need to get to know that person. That person is doing what I like to do. What would it take? I need to get to that person. I don't think that way. I think I may want that person's ideas so I might read their book. I may want to know more about them so I may read articles about them or I may watch a documentary.
So there's heroes of mine and people that I respect like a Malcolm Gladwell that I've still never met. In fact, I was at a meeting not so long ago and some people said, hey, Jeff Bezos and Malcolm Gladwell are in the back. Come on, I want to introduce you to him. I said, I'm good because that's not really what I need to do.
So congratulations to Jeff Bezos, what he's done, and Malcolm Gladwell, but that's not what I needed to do. I'm building my spot and cultivating my land and believing that doing that, that people would start looking for me, and they did.
I think, again, it's the opposite of what most people would think. And that is because there was no expectations of an end result. So the end result did not look like I will live in Beverly Hills. The end result did not look like I will have an office on Cannon Drive.
The end result did not look like I would speak to up to 85,000 people at a time and be interviewed by Oprah a lot and be in her books and documentaries. There was no end result. It was... Build your spot and life will put the spotlight on your spot.
So just as much as I enjoy being on the NBC Today show, I love to go into prisons and I'm involved in prison reform and try to educate people to get up and out. I still work in the rehab business, real big. I go into rehab centers for free and volunteer my time to speak to people, to try to help them turn their step back to come back.
So to me, what's big to one person is not necessarily big to me.
2008, with the housing crisis and everything that went on, I obviously see the challenge. I'm realistic about the challenge. I'm realistic about the economy in America. I'm very realistic about division in America. You know, many of my friends who are politicians have wanted me to get into politics and starting when I was probably 27 years of age. I spoke to the US Congress at 28 years of age.
That is a way I could have gone. So I'm very aware of the challenges that we face. But the way I look at it is that life is seasonal. There are winter, springs, summer, and falls. And so if we are in a winter season, I want to know what should I learn from this winter season? How can I grow? How can I get better? How can I be more prepared for the other seasons?
So even though I'm doing well in my jobs, plural, we all have our own challenges. It might be my mother aging. She's 94 now. Or it might be another situation in my life. So that's how I see life. I'm not looking just for a life of summer so I don't get let down on rainy days.
The miracle mentality I started studying about 30 years ago. So a mentality, as you know, is a mindset. It is a perspective. And a miracle is something that's just very simple. Extraordinary. uncommon. And little kids have a miracle mentality.
You could take any four or five-year-old into a toy store and they think their parents can buy them anything in the store because they have a miracle mentality and they're connected to their parents and they feel like my parents are the source. I tease about this in a talk. A mother could say to a daughter, oh, here's the Barbie.
And then the daughter at five will say, but what about the whole Barbie house? And the Barbie house is huge. And the mom knows she can't afford the house, but she can afford the Barbie. But the daughter doesn't understand because she has a miracle mentality. And so when we're little, we believe. But not only do we believe... we expect.
And so I maintain my innocence that I stay in a place of belief and expectation, no matter what is going on. I mean, everything could be hitting at once and I find a way to maintain my innocence. I think that's a real strength of mine, no matter what takes place.
One of the things we need to do is we need to go back to the place of innocence. For me, I trigger myself through music every single day. I said every single day. So for me, as a person of color, I was raised on Motown music. Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Jackson 5, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin. So seven days a week, I listen to motel music. I already have today. So music triggers me.
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