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Now let's jump right into today's podcast. Are you ready to live the all-in life? Then welcome to the all-in podcast show. Sharing the defining moments of impact-driven entrepreneurs, industry pioneers and transformative leaders as they showcase their defining moments and when all in on their business and found true success.
From the early steps and their journey to the moment they truly took their commitment to their life and business to another level, we'll give you the insight you need to go all in on your dream life. Now here's your host, Daniel Giordano. Welcome everyone to the all-in podcast show. I'm excited to introduce you to Colin Morgan, who is a veteran podcast as well.
So I'm excited to hear his story and his journey on how he got to where he's at today. And Colin, welcome to the show. Daniel, thanks so much for having me, man. Appreciate it.
Excited to have you here. So I always kind of like to start here. I always like to hear a little bit of your backstory around where you started. Where you grew up a little bit about your history before you got to where you're at today.
All right, long story, but let's go. Small town, Canadian kid grew up in Canada my whole life. Father was an entrepreneur. Mother was an entrepreneur grew up in a very entrepreneurial family, as you can imagine.
So from a young age instilled in me was the ability to, was the ability for me to do what I wanted. I didn't have to follow a traditional path. From a very young age, sports was the one thing that I excelled in. And that was truly the thing I'd wanted to do up until I was about 24 years old and 30 now.
So six years ago that changed. But I was a multiple sport provincial champion here in Canada for people in the US. Those are equivalent to state championships. So I had a scholarship offers ended up going to a university for on a Fulbright golf scholarship, played for two years, turned professional, played some professional golf out in Arizona, Florida, where you are Daniel here in Canada.
And then slowly over time, I kind of realized that my passion for golf was kind of fizzling. And when you're when you're passion fizzles for something, so does your work ethic. And the minute you stop pushing yourself 100% and as the show titles, the minute you're not all in, the minute things are over. And I recognize that.
And, you know, there was a period of time to two, three years transition period out, transitioning out of becoming a professional athlete was super difficult for me. Tried a whole bunch of different jobs, failed. I was lost for a long time, but eventually I came in, I started working with my father. And he kind of taught me the ropes on what it would take to become an entrepreneur.
And since then I've kind of followed that path and I live a lifestyle, I would call myself a lifestyle entrepreneur. First and foremost, I believe that I match what I do with how I want my life to look and how I want my days to go. And that's kind of truly where I am. So in a nutshell, that's kind of a bit of a rundown.
Right. So from where we'll get into where you're at today, but like from where, you know, that journey from once you made that decision to go down the entrepreneurial path and transition out of golf, right? And to find what it was or truly passionate about. What was the, you know, what was the journey like?
Was it, was it, you know, it was, I think from the perspective of like there's, there's an arrived where, you know, not necessarily always we were not, we haven't totally arrived, but like there's always, you know, another level. But if you look at where you're currently at, right, and the success you've had, obviously in between there, right, it wasn't like this direct, you know, like this. No, right. No, no, there were some challenges, right?
So what were some of those challenges that you could share with people? Yeah, you know what, when I came out of golf, I think, you know, most people, they look at a professional golfer and you think, oh, you're making a whole bunch of money. You get to play golf for a living. It's a very lavish lifestyle.
It's not. That was one of the things I really struggle with is like staying in shitty hotels. I don't know if I can swear here, crappy hotels. Okay.
Eating shitty food, not doing what I wanted to do. I just didn't enjoy the day-to-day grinds of being a mini to a pro. And when I got out of that, I mean, the first thing that I think everyone looks at is how do I make money. And I went on a path of trying to make a quick buck.
And I tried and failed at many different businesses. I went first, obviously my passion was golf. So I'm like, all started an online teaching program and build an online course. Did it, created it, no one bought it.
I'm like, OK, let's try something else. I ended up in the car business. I almost opened a used car dealership because a friend of mine had one. He's like, why don't you do the same thing?
We're doing we're in-house financing. So we'd be financing to people who otherwise couldn't get a car loan. We would be the people to finance it for them. That fell through failed at that.
I got in the hotel industry. I was serving a bartending on the side to make some cash. I did so many things that in a short period of a short span that failed. And I looked at myself and I really for a while Daniel, I was like, can I do this?
Like, this is wild. Should I just go get a job? And it was really from kind of my family and my father pushing me telling me like, this is a part of it. You just have to keep learning and bettering yourself.
And there was a key moment in my life where things weren't going the way I wanted them to go up until that point. Everything had been linear for me. Like, did well in school, was a good athlete, made it to a certain level, played professionally. Like, everything was going according to plan.
This is the first time I faced a adversity in my life and I failed. And I didn't know how to deal with it. But I started to just go back and say, OK, what made me successful as an athlete? And it was consistency.
It was learning from others. It was being able to get a coach, putting in the time, realizing that the work I put in now, I'm not going to see for a year. So I had experience dealing with that. And that's why to this day, I always say that athletes and people who used to be in the military make the best entrepreneurs.
They just have it. Everything's instilled in them. And once I started to realize that I'm not the smartest person in the world, I don't have all the answers. I need to go and find those answers and learn from other people.
That's when things really started to kick for me. And even then, didn't see results right away. But I knew I was on the right path. And much like in sports and probably people listening and yourself, sometimes you don't see the results, but you know you're on the right path.
And you just have to have that belief in yourself that you're going to follow through and succeed with it. I just continue to put in the work. I continue to put in the work. And that's really what I think makes anyone successful, probably hearing from you too.
Yeah, definitely. So as you're sharing that, I was thinking about like, you know, obviously being in the tourist circuit and playing golf, right? Did you win every tournament? I did.
I know, absolutely not. I wish. But I think it's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of, you said a few things that are really awesome because you're talking about how that skill sets took me to have success there, right? At whatever level it was, right?
You obviously put a lot of time sweat tears into it to get there, right? Same thing in business and in life and relationships, right? Because you're going to get up to the time and right? And it's not going to all be perfect.
And like you said, like we're not the smartest guys in the bunch, you know, and I measure that by like some of the conversations I get to have with people I always sit there and think like, how did I even get on this call? Like I'm the dumbest guy, definitely the dumbest guy here, right? And I was like, then I know I'm in the right place, right? Because I don't want to do that.
Right? So, and that's how successful things are built getting the right people around you that are smarter than us, right? They know how do things that we don't know how to do or we probably should not spend our time doing, right? Sure.
And entrepreneurship is a funny game, right? Definitely. And you know, as you're sharing that, just I had that vision out. Did you happen to watch the Super Bowl?
For sure. I'm a big sports guy. So any sports I definitely watched. Yeah.
So just that one play with the homes, you know, far as you know, that guy dropped, you know, that should be fired. But in the game of the ball, I got instilled at the guy in the face. You know, it was like that was incredible. But that accuracy and just that commitment to always improving and being with big risk, you know, putting something like that out there, right?
So yeah, it's things that it's things you don't see. Like even Tom Brady who won a seven Super Bowl, he played in a charity golf tournament a month before and he showed up a couple hours early and was actually doing wind sprints on the golf course and someone went off to him and was like, what are you doing? He goes, I'm trying to win a Super Bowl here. And it's just like, that's the mentality that like I'm like, that's what you need because it doesn't matter what he does, he'll succeed no matter what it is because he has that mentality.
Yeah. Great. So that's a key thing obviously. One of the questions I would like to ask you can elaborate on it is sharing like the top, you know, the top things that you would tell people to say, look, if you just started your business or you're in this transition from one career to another, right?
And starting, you know, starting out, you know, what would be some of the things you would tell people? Yeah, looking at looking at what you would. So I have very results driven and having outcome goals and then performance goals to match those. So I would first and foremost say, what do you want out of life?
Like, what do you want your life to look like and how and then looking at where your life is now and it's very difficult to be truly honest with yourself. Because oftentimes you look at where you want to be and where you are and there's such a wide gap, but you need to understand what that gap is. And then you need to look at yourself and say, what habits, what daily routines, what are the things that I do that have got me where I am because where I am isn't where I want to be. And then it's learning to replace the daily habits, the daily thoughts, your scheduling coaches, anything in your life, it's learning to take what you have and transition it into war of a winter's mindset.
So it's taking those habits, turning them from negative to positive. And then the biggest thing is people can do that. People can very easily change those habits. We see it with people who work out.
They work out for a month. We see it January 1st. They get in the jam. They quit.
Consistency is so key. And the real secret, I don't know if this is a secret, but all I can speak on is myself is what drives me is my end result. It's the very first important thing that I mentioned about having a vision for your life. It's looking at yourself in the mirror when you wake up in the morning.
It's like, what do I want to achieve? What am I working towards? And on days that you don't want to go to the jam or you don't want to get up or you don't want to make those phone calls, that's what pushes you forward. And if you can create that consistency, replace those habits, have that vision, you'll end up with the results.
It's very process driven. But that's what I would say is just look at where you want to be, where you are, and how do we match your lifestyle to get you there? Perfect. I love it.
Right? Definitely a lot of alignment there. Right? Great stuff.
So when we look at the journey of what you've done with this, and this is a common problem for entrepreneurs, and I call it entrepreneurial ADV, where we go down this path, we think we're on the right track and then we see something else and it's like this shiny object and we start pursuing that and it takes us from our core. Have you ever experienced any of that on your journey? You know what I have? I will say though, having entrepreneurial ADV is a good thing.
There's so many people that told me that you have to focus on one thing. What is the one thing you're good at calling? And I looked for that for a long time. And I struggled to find that.
I didn't understand what that meant because I didn't, I mean sports had been my passion. So me trying to find something else I was passionate about, I was like, I don't know what I wanted to do here. So I believe in trying new things, I don't think you have to pigeonhole yourself ever to think that this is what I do, this is who I am. I think you can be diverse in anything that you do.
And that's really what I am. I mean, people ask me what I do. I'm like, I do a lot. I'm very diverse in all of it profits because I'm very business focused.
So I'm looking for different revenue streams in different places. But I don't believe that because I'm a podcaster, because I'm a business guy, that's all I have to do. I believe you can be different things and have different buckets. I truly do.
That's some great advice, you know, because a lot of times, you know, like you said, if you try and pigeonhole yourself in one specific area, you're missing out on potential opportunities. Yeah. And you have so many different interests in your life, you know, like I'm 30. I'm young, you know, like I still consider myself young, but I was at 28.
I had different interests than I do now at 25. I had different interests at 28. I'm sure at 32. And I'm sure you experienced that as well.
I don't ever want to put myself in a place where, you know, I'm a, I'm a this guy. It's like, you know what, in two years, if I have a different passion, I want to be able to pursue that. And I feel like at least for where I am right now, I have, I have multiple passions in my life, one being sports, one being business, one being just understanding people. And I feel like everything that I do fills those buckets up.
And as I evolve as a human, I want to be able to consistently fill another bucket up and maybe in a year's time, what I do in one area, I leave off. I don't have any emotional attachment to what I do. I just look at what am I interested in? Does it profit?
How can I profit and how can I work towards it? And if it does, I'm all in on it. That's simple as that. Right.
So what's the, you touched on the vision? So what's your life? What is it? What is it?
You're imagining 30, 40 years down the lane. Yeah. So I mean, difficult, I always say like difficult to look 30, 40 years down the world. Cause like I said, my life could change, but I truly for myself right now, what we're working for in our family is to live on a lake, to grow our own fruits and vegetables.
We have a dog, which we absolutely love to be able to provide her just an unbelievable yard. I mean, that's something that I look at. And then we want a secondary home somewhere warm, somewhere, you know, like Florida where we can go and play some golf in the winter time when it gets nasty here in the winter, which we do not like, even though, you know, as a Canadian, you get to play some hockey and things like that. We like the warm weather.
It's a little too long in our opinion, winter wise. So, and then we want to make as big of a positive impact on other people's lives as possible. So every decision that I do, every new project that I put on, I look and say, does it make a positive impact on other people's life? As the answer is no, I simply don't do it.
Right. Okay. And that's awesome because you just shared obviously a number of different areas of question on multiple categories are going to be all the way through to, you know, life and impact, right? Yeah.
And I think a lot of times maybe you've experienced this, we have conversations with people aren't clear on what they actually want, right? And they say in this perpetual cycle of, you know, not getting any results because they're not clear, they think they might be clear, but they're not, you know, actually really, as clearly defined, knowing exactly like even, I was like to share this is the home I live in. I knew was mine when I was on the 14th fee and I teed off and I looked over and I looked at my brother and I said, that's my house. And he looked at me like I was crazy.
That was a little too big. And I was like, that's my house. And I'm going to pull it off with mine. Right.
And it took me nine months to make it happen. Right. That's like I clear on. Right.
And I think there's much power in that. Just what you share like you clearly defined what here's what I want from my family. Here's what I want from my life. I get it's powerful when you have that because we have that clear intention.
You know, it works for me sometimes. I often say, I'm like, of course, you know, I do this more often. But also different game. Yeah.
Sometimes it would go where I visualize it. Other time it all right. And there's something that I like. Yeah, there was a, you know, I'll share with you a funny story.
I just read it was of a gentleman who took an SAT test and ended up with like a 2,400. So ended up getting a scholarship to Harvard, went to Harvard succeeded. He found out 25 years later that they messed up his SAT score. He didn't score 2,400.
He scored 1,400. But what he said at that moment was the minute he got that result back, he never thought of himself as a smart guy. And at that moment, he said, I am a smart guy and it completely changed his mentality. And like that from that one little result, like all of a sudden he transformed himself overnight into being that person.
And I think if that's a true story, which it is, anybody can do that. Like anybody can do that. So that's what's a, that's what I look at little stories like that. I'm like, well, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, that is a cool story. I like that. And it's interesting to see like supposedly the smartest people that are running these test made in state. Exactly.
There you go. So good stuff. So from the perspective of, you know, where you're clearing your vision, where you want to go and all of that, the impact you're having, right? So with your show and, you know, how the golf show is well that you started, right?
What's the process that you go through? Because I got to imagine being a golf in a little detail oriented, right? Yeah. So specific process that you went through to clearly define, okay, this is the thing I'm doing when you started the entrepreneurial podcast and when you started the golf line to help people identify some things that they made me struggling with.
What do I talk about? What do I do? Like, you know, that kind of stuff. So within a podcast setting say?
Yeah, I was saying a podcast setting obviously applies across the board and other areas, but how did you clearly define that for you? Right. Yeah. I mean, so that took me a while.
But say for a podcast setting and this relates to anything else, it's kind of a repeat here, but it boats true no matter what you do with starting with success criteria. Like you have to understand, why am I doing what I'm doing? What are the results I want to see long term? And then what are the metrics that we need to hit short term in order to continue to see that growth towards our goals?
So that takes a while to build out. It takes a thought and understanding of what you're doing. And then from that, I mean, you have to look at, say for a podcast, you're either going to have something that's educational or you're going to have something that's entertaining. Like really, there's no in between on that.
Like it's either entertaining or it's educational. So on one hand with a business podcast, I went educational and on the other hand, I went entertaining. And on each of those, you have different nuances, but it's very similar to understand, okay, who do I want to listen to the show? Like who is the ideal listener?
Who is your ideal client and really building out that profile to understand completely who they are? Because it makes so much, it makes a big difference, especially saying podcasting. Most people think I only make money through sponsorships. That's a complete myth.
I mean, I made money before I had my thousandth downboat. And that's just understanding business, which I'm sure you do as well. It's just a business and I treat it as such. But you don't know, you can't do that unless you have clearly defined success criteria and understand who you want to listen or who you want to be your customer and then building out your content to be able to suffice and really hit home with the person listening.
Right. Okay. That's awesome. So if you were to look at, now you've reached a level, how many shows have you done so far?
I have, oh geez, almost 700 total. Okay. That's awesome. So if you look at this one perspective, like when you were preparing for Dell, right, how many balls would you hit before a tournament?
Yeah. So I'll break it down. So I would hit, I'd be on the range for the minimum of two hours a day, but within that I had purposeful practice. So there's a difference between just hitting balls and then actually being able to put purpose behind that.
So it probably took me two buckets and two hours. I would chip in putt for hours to, I'd be on the golf course for eight hours a day. That's probably what I would look at now. A tournament day, you're going to get up a little bit early, have a good breakfast, make sure that your muscles are moving.
So you want to get some exercise in, then you show up to the golf course and I'd probably show up to the golf course anywhere between an hour and a half to an hour before. So I put in that work just to make sure my body was moving the way I did. And then I got a little bit of the preparation that goes into that before and then the day out, I guess. And the reason I asked that is because obviously the consistency, right?
And what the time, it's obviously in business and anything we do, right? So as you look at the amount of time you put in there, right? It's like for me, it's like the reason you asked me before, you know, it's like, hey, you do golf and it's like, I live on the golf course. I like to golf more, but one of the reasons I don't want to take too damn off, right?
It's like I got to carve out four hours and I'm kind of tired. It's like down here, it's a little hotter. Some gets the effort well and it's like it's beautiful to get out there once in a while, but you know, like I'm not passionate enough to get up early and go hit balls for two hours and go do that every day and be on the course of eight hours a day. Obviously that was your career at the time.
Yeah. So it's interesting to see so I want people to hear that or like consistency, right? If anybody like you're talking about bringing any of the successful people in sports, like they put in a mints amount of time. What we see is somebody like him consistently winning, right?
And you don't see all the blood sweat and tears they put in, right? You know, how much time it is, right? It is like that in business. If you want to get better, you have to put in the time like it, it takes so much time and it takes, it takes trial and error and it takes taking risks, like risks and other things, even in sports, the same thing as business, what you learn is you just have to learn how to calculate the risk.
So if you're on par five, you're trying to go for the green and two, like, is this the moment to do it? And it's the same thing in business. You look at a business. It's like, do I purchase this?
Do I wait? Like, is it the right moment to do it? And being able to think quickly and calculate in your head, very similar in sports and business. Yeah.
Right. Yeah. I'm just thinking of obstacles and golf, like, you know, like links for some reason that like my balls, right? Everything.
You stand up there. The outfit doesn't feel right. You think you look like a doofus. You guys, my ball too low and my holding the golf club right, look at the trees to my left, who's watching me?
I've got the pro shop behind me is my golf bag on, right? Like, there's so much. That's even before I take my first shot. And that's me who has like, a sense of knowledge and golf in the background.
Everyone else, they are. Their mind isn't absolute shambles before they stand up there. So it's probably the same thing. I understand why everybody falls wind up in my backyard.
Yeah. I'm 100%. You're like, how does someone hit it over here? Just wait.
Just wait. So as we started to close here, what would be one thing? And then you'd be able to probably be one thing. Or the one consistent thing.
the thing you tell people, you know, they can get to work with, you know, as somebody listening to this, thinking like, you know, what do I do next? Right? Or what's, you know, how do I, you know, how do I make this transition? Or how do I, what would be one specific thing you say this is an absolute must?
No matter what you do, you're in the people business. And you have to realize that every interaction that you have matters. And if you treat everybody with respect and everyone with kindness, no matter where they are, it doesn't matter if they have more than you or less than you. I used to put myself and put people on a scale based on money, you know, someone had more money, I thought they were more successful.
So I'd listen to them. But what you don't realize is people coming up from behind who maybe don't have that right now who will get there. And if you treat everyone the same way, and you really put, you take ownership of that and you make sure that every interaction you have when someone talks to you is a positive one, and it's a genuine one, like you know that they listen to you and they could feel that you actually mean what you're saying, that will take you further than anything else, because no matter what you do, you're in the people business and you cannot get far along. People will help you go over the top of it.
And that's perfect. Right? So so how do do people find out more about you? Yeah, if you want to, you can connect with me on my website, it's column Morgan.com.com.com.com.com.
If you want to follow me on Instagram, I have LinkedIn, TikTok, whatever you want to do. But all the time I website. Right. Pick your platform of choice, right?
Absolutely. Well, I appreciate you being here, Colin. I appreciate you taking the time to share with people. There's lots of great nuggets in that and just really appreciate you taking the time to be here.
Appreciate your time, man. Love what you're doing with the show. I know how much work it takes. If you're listening and you like what Daniel's doing, man, give him some love.
Hit the like button, subscribe to his show, leave a rating and review. Honestly, it helps so much. Daniel, appreciate you have me. We want to thank you for being all in with us on today's episode of The All In Podcast Show.
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