Discover Your Destiny with Michael-John Toste

Wouldn’t it be amazing to learn how you could fulfill your destiny? On today’s episode we’re joined by Michael-John Toste, author of “The Prophetic Matrix: Unlock the Secret Code to Your Destiny.” He’s also a musician, international destiny coach, and host of a weekly radio program. Michael-John is passionate about helping others discover their destiny, and this is what led him to write his book. He dives into what his book is about and what his subsequent books will offer. Throughout the episode, he also shares about his own life, experiences, and encounters with his own destiny. On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast: What inspired Michael-John’s musical interests. Why passion is a central value for him. Why his musical group disbanded (and what he did next). The experiences that prompted Michael-John to write his book. What his book is about. Why discovering your destiny is more important now than ever before. The unique way Michael-John launched his book. How the music from Earth, Wind & Fire tied into his book launch. Why you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help and be open to signs. The achievement Michael-John is particularly proud of. What he witnessed that he felt was God ordained. A big challenge he faced in his career (and how he dealt with it). The project Michael-John is currently working on. What kind of legacy he wants to leave. The common fear people encounter when pursuing their destiny. Why Michael-John says everything in your life is connected to your destiny. Connect with Michael-John: Email: info (at) yourdestinycoach.com Book Website: https://thepropheticmatrix.com/ Music Website: michael-johnmusic.com TRANSCRIPT Quick Links: Join the Live. Love. Engage. Community Intuitive Business Coaching The Live. Love. Engage. Book Support the Podcast with BuyMeACoffee.com Enjoying what you're hearing on Live. Love. Engage.? Subscribe on Goodpods or your favorite podcast platform, and click here to leave a 5 STAR Review. TRANSCRIPT You are listening to the live love, engage podcast on today's show. We'll hear from a former rockstar about why he's written a book to help you unlock the secret code to your destiny. Stay tuned. I am Gloria Grace Rand, founder of the love method and author of the number one, Amazon best seller live love engage how to stop doubting yourself and start being yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully love, deeply and engage authentically. So you can create a life and business with more. Act influence and income. Welcome to live love engage. Namaste and welcome. Welcome to another edition of live. Love. Engage. I am Gloria Grace Rand, and I've got, I can, I can say this with with actual certainty and confidence. I've got a rockstar in the program today. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you more about him, but first, I want to welcome Michael-John Toste to live love, engage. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Well, thank you. And, uh, let me tell you this gentlemen, he's no slacker he's, he's, done a lot of stuff in his life and including the fact that as I alluded to he is a musician. In fact, he was the lead vocalist of a concept rock group called the All Sports Band, which had hits back in the 1980s.,He's also an international destiny coach and an author. He's got a, a book out, that he released called the prophetic matrix, unlock the secret code to your destiny, which we'll definitely are going to talk about today and just, you know, and he's still a musician. He still has albums out. He's got with, you know, lots of Grammy winners and people on it. People like Denise Williams and Larry Dunn of Earth, Wind and Fire. So he is walking the talk and, and, oh, and speaking of talking, he's also, yeah, in his spare time, he hosts a weekly hour long radio program. So, so, you know, he's not a slacker. So I, I would love to have you share with our listeners and also viewers on YouTube… I want to get to the book, especially, but I think first let's, let's kind of start with your, your overall journey. I mean, how you started out as a musician and you're still actually a musician today, but you know what, what got you into doing that? And, and, and then how you evolved over the years, and now you're, you're being a coach now. Yeah, thank you. I, I noticed, your show has such a wide expanse of helping people from entrepreneurial areas marketing by the way, 30 years as a marketing coach, as well in Silicon Valley, probably in 15 different industries, I've helped CEOs, visionaries, entrepreneurs, executives take their business to new Heights and that's sort of what brought the book into the stars. We'll talk about that in a moment, but to get started, I started singing at three years old and my dad noticed that I sang in perfect pitch. And so he thought. I'm going to give him some music lessons. So we had a piano in the house. It was an old roll time type of piano with a roller. I don't know if you've ever sort of fun. And as a kid, I wondered how the mechanism worked. So you're going to be learning on that because your brother's playing guitar and I don't want you fighting over a guitar. So I got on this old piano that his dad had ordered from a catalog from Chicago and that's how they did it in those days. You didn't go to a piano store way, way back in the old days. And they had that piano for years, it became sort of a heritage and a legacy. And I began playing on that. I had a great piano teacher who told me a little bit of pop, a little bit of classical and a little bit of ragtime, which was interesting. And I, I actually started to become a classical pianist and went to a classical teacher after her. When she said, I can't teach you anything more. I went to a lady by the name of Pamela Rush in Silicon Valley, who was touring Europe and was quite an accomplished classical pianist. She was in her late twenties and her husband was a jazz trumpeter. And, so they were the family of music and really inspired me. I always loved singing and of course I had started with singing. I went back to it at about 17 years old, entered into the recording studio, began writing songs, put together a rock group. And by 20 I was signed to Atlantic Radio Records as the lead vote plus of the all sports band, which the manager, Tracy Coates auditioned 2000 lead vocalists for this band, corporate concept band. At that time Kiss, David Bowie, a lot of Village People, a lot of groups were very visual, uh, Twisted Sister. I could go back and give you all these bands of Cars, you know, out of a group of the Beatles. Right. But a lot of them were conceptual. And so we had a fun time putting sports and rock and roll together So on a stage that equated to a lot of energy, I would do Russian leaps on stage that's the on solid gold. I still remember when we were coming on solid gold, dead. They stopped framing when my feet were up in the air and my hands were touching my feet. And they said next to the all sports band. And then Andy Gibb Marilyn McCoo came out and introduced us. And then we're on American Bandstand with Dick Clark. That was a dream of mine. When I was a young kid, five years old on a small 11 inch screen at home, I was watching Dick Clark and I would see Elton John and Paul McCartney and all these great rock stars on singing songs they were passionate about. And we'll go in and add boy that past. Is what has gone through my entire life, no matter what I touch, I try to take the passion that God has given me and bring it out there to the world. Gives you a little background. I love that. And, and, you know, I can relate a little bit and I didn't have a piano growing up, but I had, my dad played the organ. So he had a, he had a Hammond organ and that's what I, that's what I grew up learning how to play it. I had lessons as well, and I same thing. It was like, you know, classical. And ragtime and, and pop. I have a lot of these big, the big fake books. I don't know if you remember those like sixties and seventies. And in fact I'm actually going through them again now. Cause it's like I've missed playing. And so I've started playing, playing again, just to kind of get my fingers back going to it. That's great that you're going back to your first love in a sense, you know? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And of course singing too, I've always loved to sing. My mom was the singer and she kind of encouraged me and that, so I love that, but, there's, it's really cool that you were able to do that. So how did then, did you, um, so obviously you, you left the, you left that group at some point. What, what prompted that or is it just sort of ran its course. And then, then what did you do after that? So how did you get that? 1983. Good question. And, we were doing very well, but a major recession hit and if you'll think back. The entire music industry almost stopped almost like this pandemic now where they no one toured a Linda Ronstadt canceled her tour, Led Zeppelin canceled their tours. And a lot of the groups were finding out there was no money in music and a lot of the managers lost interest. And the record companies, I remember Atlantic Records, which was with WEAH - Warner Electra, Atlantic were closing down offices. When I would order albums from my friends and call in, they'd say, oh, everything's hectic here. You know, music industry is just terrible right now, but then soon afterwards, a couple of years later, a record called Thriller came out with Michael Jackson and then following that, Cindy Lauper with She’s So Unusual, those sold millions of copies and there was a regenerated interest in music again, but at the time kids were spending their money on, on Pong and video games. You remember that time and that's when we disbanded,...