THE ED MYLETT SHOW
Cracking the Hidden Code to Visualize Your Dreams into Reality | Ed Mylett
13 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
This is The Ed Milet Show. Hey, everyone. Welcome to my weekend special. I hope you enjoy the show. Be sure to follow The Ed Milet Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. Now on with the show. All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. So grateful that you're here with me today. Today's question was very simple.
Ed, how do I change my present right now? By the way, if you have a question you want answered on the show, you can submit it on my Instagram, at edmylett, E-D-M-Y-L-E-T-T, You submit it there, we get thousands of them, but there's a chance your question will get answered on the show. And so today is all about leadership and vision and dreams because I've been asked about this topic a lot.
And don't discount yourself. If you have a child, if you have a company, a business, if you are a human being, you're a leader in the context that I'm going to cover today, okay? So today's topic is this. I want you to write this down. Here's the title. It takes leaders with vision to help people with dreams. Let me say it to you again. This is big stuff.
It takes leaders with vision to help people with dreams. That's not my saying. I heard it somewhere many, many years ago, but I've lived by it. It takes leaders with vision to help people with dreams. What does that mean, Ed? Well, here's what it means. The first thing is it's a reminder that everybody you meet has a dream. Everybody's born with a dream. There's a heart that dreams.
As we get older, those dreams can change. They can evolve. They can even die and get buried. But every human being has a dream. That dream could be to be a multimillionaire billionaire. That dream could be to lead millions of people. That dream could be to be a mother or a father. That dream could be a particular career.
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Chapter 2: How can leadership and vision impact dreams?
That dream could have a particular body. That dream could be to live with a particular set of emotions. For some of you, your dreams as simple as my dream is to begin to be happy. I'm tired of living sad or down or worried or angry. But remember this, every human being you meet has a dream. It might be a big one that's long-term, and it might be just a short one.
Their dream might just be, man, can I get through today with a little bit of peace, with a little bit of bliss? But everybody's got a dream. And I've reminded myself of that when I meet humans, that they have dreams. Every precious person has one. And like I said, there's millions of them, and there's varieties of them. And some people have lots of different dreams.
But this is a context and a syntax that you begin to see your brothers and sisters differently. That server at the restaurant that's serving you, that you don't make eye contact with when they ask you, how's the food? Or what would you like to order? That person's got a dream. That dream might be just that you acknowledge them.
That dream might be that they want to be the best server that's ever lived. That dream might be that they want to have a big YouTube channel someday. That dream might be they want to write a book. That dream might be that they want to meet the love of their life. But that person's got a dream. That's why they were born. You were born to live a dream. You were born to make your dreams come true.
And I know this. And so what those people are looking for is a leader. And all a leader means is I can help you. I see something that you don't see. I see a potential. So as a leader in a company, many of you run companies or businesses. Remember this, it takes leaders with vision to help people with dreams. What does that mean?
That means that you need to begin to work on your vision because everybody you meet's got a dream. If you're a mother, what's the vision for your family? What's your vision for your children? Are you sowing seeds in them of, vision and visionary leadership in them.
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to have a dream?
I read a book a long time ago that really changed my life. It's an old book. It's written by a guy named Guy Kawasaki, and it's called Selling the Dream. And what he was really writing about was Apple. He was the guy that kind of marketed the old Macintosh for Apple. The entire book is the context of what Apple was doing to become a great company.
And if you really understand and study that company, Steve Jobs was a great dream seller. See, selling the dream is a skill and a talent you build. Listen to me. But most people are oblivious that it's important. Most people think that's only for the Steve Jobs of the world or the Ed Milets of the world. You want to be a great father?
You get great at selling a dream to your children and your family and your spouse. You want to be a great business person, entrepreneur? You get great at selling the dream and having a vision for where you want to go. You want to be a great anything. You want to lead yourself in life. You better have a big time vision. You be able to sell yourself on that dream. Life's about vision.
That's why the Bible talks about where there is no vision, the people will perish. They will literally die. You're a dead human without a dream. You're a dead human without a dream. So you should constantly be working on your dream muscle, your vision muscle, and your ability to sell yourself and other people on that vision.
I am talking to you today because I had a dream and a vision that I could help millions of people, that I could use an ability I thought I might have to communicate to reach people. Remember this, we constantly move in our life towards what we're most familiar with. We move to the familiar. We gravitate to the familiar. We develop patterns and behaviors that are familiar.
That's why when you drive home, usually from wherever you work, you don't even have to consciously think about how you're getting there. You just kind of pull right off the freeway when it happens, don't you? You're not even thinking about it because it's familiar to you. You get in the shower, you don't think, you know what, today I'm going to soap here first and then shampoo. You
You got to root, you just do it unconsciously. Your life, most of it is unconscious because your brain is trying to save energy by creating habits that are repetitive and that are familiar. Well, if you're only familiar with the tasks you have to do, or as a mom or a dad familiar with, I got to cook them lunch. I got to get dinner. I got to pick them up for school.
And you just do the monotonous stuff and you never have a family that's loaded with a vision. or a dream of where they're going, or for each individual child you have, or for your spouse, that you're selling them a dream and a vision of who they could be and how much you believe in them. Of all the things I'm not very good at, I'm amazing at selling people on themselves.
I'll tell people that all the time. Server in a restaurant is a great example. If I say, I say, man, you're awesome. You are awesome. You're amazing.
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Chapter 4: How do we connect our dreams to a greater purpose?
Thank you. Man, I... You're not even going to be here someday, are you? You want to do something out of here. I could see you out of here doing more. Or if they do want to be there, I'll say, man, I could see you running this place someday. With my kids, since they were little, I was selling them a dream and a vision. I used to say to them, dad, my lets are going to do something awesome.
I'm telling you, hey, listen to me. The my lets are doing something awesome. They still get text messages from me. Hey, let's do something great today. We're going to do something freaking great as a family. Woo! Kick some butt today. Making a difference. The Milets are leaders. We got a vision. And I'll sell them that dream over and over again. Think about all the people you admire in your life.
Think about them. What's one thing they all have in common? They had a big old dream, a vision, and a dream that they sold either themselves or you. Let's go through a few. And by the way, when I'm saying this, what about you? What vision are you constantly selling yourself on? What vision are you selling your colleagues on? What vision are you selling your spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend on?
Your children on? Your parents on? Do you do that? Are you conscious of it? Because that's called being alive. The ability to grab a vision and develop it is a muscle. And to do it repetitively, even when people are rolling their eyes at you going, I heard this before. And here's the kicker. Get good at selling it. That's the second step. Think about who you admire.
Let's just go through a few people. Let's say you're a follower of Jesus. Just curious, did he have any dream he sold? Do you have any vision? His vision, his dream was everlasting life for you. That's about as big as it gets. You bought the dream and the vision if you're a believer. Whatever your faith is, you've bought the vision and the dream of this person that is your deity.
In my case, I'm a Christian. And then what did he do? He sold the dream. He cast the vision, and he sold the dream over and over and over and over and over again. And then he built a team of people that sold it, and it's become the biggest movement in the history of mankind. Maybe you're not religious. How about Martin Luther King? Do you admire him?
Wow, that's interesting, because his most famous speech is, I have a dream. And he sold the dream. He did it with his oratory skills. He did it with his physical labor in the marches and the standing in the difficult times up against adversity. And then he had other people who caught that dream, like the Rosa Parks of the world, who started to carry that dream and that vision.
Okay, maybe you're into politics. Who do you like, Trump or Obama? Because you don't like them both, right? What did Obama have? Hope and change. If you loved Obama, you were all about hope and change. And he embodied that hope and that change that you love. Maybe you didn't like Obama. Maybe you're a Trumper. You love Donald Trump. Did he have a vision? Does he have a vision?
Make America great again. That's the vision. And he sold the dream on it. Now, it's even more powerful when you embody that dream. So let me give you some steps. You gotta get great at seeing a vision for yourself and other people. Then you gotta sell a big enough dream that the dream of everybody within your stewardship can fit inside the one you're selling.
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Chapter 5: What strategies help you sell yourself on your dreams?
It's a sales pitch you're doing on yourself, aren't you? It's a story you're telling yourself. There's a narrative that you're starting to speak to yourself. So is the other one. It's reselling yourself on the dream, on the story, on the narrative of where you're going and what it's going to look like. I just feel like in life, a better life is to sell yourself on the future.
Sell yourself on how great it's going to be when you get there. Learning to live fully present in the moment. Let me say something. When you're negotiating the price, you're not present.
Chapter 6: How can you reinforce your vision daily?
You've projected into the future more pain, more difficulty. You're not in the present. So if you've negotiated it already and you block that off in your mind, you go, I've already decided I'll pay that price. I've already negotiated that. That's already happened for me. Then and only then can you sell yourself on where you're going and what it's going to look like when you get there.
And when I say resell yourself, I'm a big believer that you need to touch your dreams. And so I said this a minute ago, but I want you to understand it. You got to sell yourself on stuff. So like, for example, like where I ended up living in my life, I would take a little vacation there on a weekend for like one night.
Chapter 7: What are the practical steps to touch your dreams?
I'll never forget this. I wanted to live in Dana Point, Laguna Beach, California, that area. And so when I would have a win in my business, I would go to one night at the Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, Laguna Beach. Just one night there. And I never had been anywhere like that in my entire life. And I had the feeling of driving up to the valet in my not-so-great car at the time.
But I remember just the feeling. It may sound hokey, but giving the valet my keys. And Mr. Milet, are you staying here? Yes, your name. Milet. Great. You write Milet. I'll never forget the first time the guy wrote my let on the, um, the valet tag and he gave it back to me. I saw my name, Ritz Carlton, uh, Laguna Niguel or Laguna beach.
And then it said, uh, my let, I remember putting that in my pocket. And I remember walking into the lobby and like the marble floor. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is incredible. And, and I'd watch how other people walked and talked that belonged there. Cause I didn't feel like I belonged there.
Chapter 8: Why is it important to have a non-negotiable vacation every year?
And then I checked into the hotel. And I remember back in those days, I would go play golf just to be around successful people. And my wife would go get a massage and lay out at the pool. And then we'd have a nice dinner. And I would just touch that drink just for one night, maybe every eight weeks, just one night. But what started to happen... is I started over time going, I belong here.
I belong here. I became comfortable in that dream. And our mind moves towards what it's most familiar with. And then I remember the first speech I gave being super uncomfortable. But I remember the more I did it, the more I felt like I belong here. I'm comfortable here. I moved towards what I was familiar with. And it's interesting.
The other place that I would go take my many vacations was to the desert, to the Palm Springs La Quinta area of California. And I would go out to this one resort called the La Quinta Resort. And I couldn't afford to be there for more than one night, but I'd get a deal on the room, you know, and I would just touch that dream for a night. I remember going, wow, these desert nights are so amazing.
And then we'd go out there maybe like three months later. But I would touch that dream three or four times a year, and I would touch the other one. Do you know that later in life, for many, many years, those are the two places that I lived? I lived in that area, and I lived in the other one. And I really believe it's because I had touched that dream over and over again.
Maybe your dream isn't anything like that. Maybe it's to be full-time in the charity or full-time in your church. Go take a day off and serve and just feel like it. Maybe do that every three or four months if you can and touch the dream. Because we move towards what we're most familiar with and we get in life what we believe we deserve and where we believe we belong.
And so long-term, if you're doing this negotiation thing, you just don't believe you belong there. And at some point, there's going to be enough pain that's going to prove you right. You're going to go, I knew I didn't belong here. I knew this wasn't for me. I knew this was for other people. I knew I'm an imposter. I knew I was faking it. What am I, crazy?
And I have to tell you, I have this happen all the time. I have something I'm doing right now in my life. It's a very major project. It's a property that I'm developing. And there's a lot of difficulty with it. And every time that difficulty comes up, I go, what am I doing? Am I crazy? That's not for me. That's for someone way wealthier, way more successful than me.
And I have this thing where I want to surrender. Right. I'm negotiating it. So I'm not perfect at this stuff. And so a lot of times when adversity strikes, it's like proving you right. The price is too great. The price is too great. I'm literally going through this right now with something. And I have to remind myself I'm reselling myself on the future. I'm actually today.
Tomorrow I go visit that place just to resell myself on the dream of being there, just to resell myself on the vision. It's so easy when you have a vision and a dream. And you have it. So you establish a plan and a goal. And then you start going through the stuff.
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