Training Your PIGG to Fly: Passion, Intention, Gratitude, and Grace with Martin Pigg

Episode Summary: 

In this powerful episode of Starve the Doubts, host Jared Easley sits down with motivational speaker, author, and fitness guru Martin Pigg to discuss the transformational power of mindset, personal growth, and relentless pursuit of one’s dreams. Martin shares his incredible journey—from a successful career as a pilot to taking a leap of faith into the personal development space, despite the risks and doubts from those around him. 

Throughout the conversation, Martin dives into the core principles of his PIGG framework—Passion, Intention, Gratitude, and Grace—as a foundation for living a fulfilled and purpose-driven life. He opens up about the challenges he's faced, including the loss of his parents, financial struggles, and personal betrayals, yet explains how he has continuously found the strength to push forward by maintaining faith in himself and the greater energy that guides us all. 

Listeners will be inspired by Martin’s transformational fitness journey, his shift into executive coaching and speaking, and his insights into recognizing "God Winks"—seemingly random but divinely orchestrated moments that help guide us toward our true calling. He also shares the importance of reframing our perspective on age, pain, and circumstances, emphasizing that they are myths and excuses that prevent us from living the life we are meant to live. 

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• Why your odds of being born (1 in 400 trillion) make you a miracle and how that realization should shape your self-worth.
• How to cultivate a mindset of gratitude, even in the face of adversity.
• The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people—those who lift you up rather than drag you down.
• How to discern a true calling or “God Wink” from fleeting thoughts or self-doubt.
• Why your passion, when pursued with intention, will either become your purpose or lead you to it.
• How to overcome imposter syndrome and take the first step toward achieving your dream life.

Whether you're feeling stuck in your current circumstances, struggling with self-doubt, or simply seeking inspiration to take bold action toward your dreams, this conversation with Martin Pigg is packed with wisdom, motivation, and actionable steps that will help you break through limitations and take flight.

Connect with Martin Pigg:
 

• Website: MartinPigg.com (For books, coaching, and speaking engagements)
• Instagram: @martinpigg

🔥 "Never allow the voices of mediocrity to silence the whispers of your own soul." — Martin Pigg
 
 
This episode is a must-listen for anyone who needs a push to break free from self-doubt, reclaim their passion, and start living a life of intention, gratitude, and grace! 🚀

Transcript

Starve the Doubts - Martin Pigg (edited)
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Speaker: [00:00:00] If you have a dream for your life, it's important that you surround yourself with people who lift you up, who push you forward, who believe in you, who want you to succeed and stay as much far away from people who are holding you down or negative because there's a lot of mediocrity in the world.

Speaker: There's a lot of settling for just average. And so never allow the voices of mediocrity to silence the whispers of your own soul. There's something you're meant to do with your life. Listen to that whisper, go out and change the world.

Speaker 2: Welcome back to the podcast. I am your host, Jared Easley, and I'm thrilled today to be joined with Martin Pig. Martin has been a friend for several years now. And Martin is doing big things, uh, getting into the motivational speaker space and just a, a fitness guru and, uh, just, uh, someone I'm proud to be friends with and I've been following [00:01:00] his story for several years.

Speaker 2: So Martin, thank you for taking time to chat today. 

Speaker: Hey Jared, thank you. It's great to be with 

Speaker 2: you, 

Speaker: my friend. 

Speaker 2: So I always like to start out the conversation with a random question and one of those is, um, what's the best concert you've been to? Probably, uh, Journey when I was in high school. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2: Yes. I'm a journey fan. 

Speaker: Yeah. It was, it was actually my first concert. I was 18. So that would be the best one so far. Where was that at? It was at the Astrodome in Houston where I was born. 

Speaker 2: Wow. So it was that classic journey or is that kind of the newer version of journey? No, no. That was classic with the real.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah. That's, that's the real band. Okay. Wow. Okay. So that was, that was, yeah, that was epic. It's going to be hard, hard to top that one for sure. That's fun. Okay. And, um, have you always lived in Florida? Because right now we're recording this in Orlando. Where are you from originally? 

Speaker: Well, I was born and raised in Galveston, Texas, so I lived there for three or four years.

Speaker: I moved around Texas. I was in the Dallas area. Up in the panhandle some, but uh, settled back down in [00:02:00] Houston, went to high school there, graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, and then have lived in several other places in the United States, and then in several places around the world too.

Speaker 2: Wow, fantastic. And how'd you end up in Central Florida? 

Speaker: Well, in 2016, My mom was living with me and she passed away and, um, I had been trying to get her to Florida for the last couple of years and I just never could get her to go because the winters in Virginia were really cold. 

Speaker 3: And so, 

Speaker: uh, I just, uh, said, you know what, with her gone, I'm going to make the move because I, I really, being from Houston, I was not crazy about winter, right?

Speaker: So I made the move down there. Take it out of the snow and the cold weather. 

Speaker 2: So at some point along this path, you decided, you know what, I really like to share with people. I want to have an impact. What's the story that leading up to you having that interest and not just an interest, but are willing to say, I'm going to go all in and really try to do this.

Speaker 2: Well, 

Speaker: I was influenced a lot by as many people were by the [00:03:00] book, The Secret when it came out. And I think that was around 2008, if I remember correctly. And so that's when I really started paying attention to the personal development movement. And in, my friend said I was crazy when I did this. It was 2010.

Speaker: I was making a lot of money, working very few hours. And I'm a pilot too. So I was flying all over the place, having fun flying airplanes. And I just had this, I felt this call to be an author, speaker, and coach in the personal development arena. And I just up and quit. My friends were like, You're making X number of dollars.

Speaker: You're working 20 hours a week. You're flying airplanes and you're going to quit. I just felt the call, Jared. I was like, this moves me. This resonates with who I am. And so I'm just going to do this. So I just up and quit. 

Speaker 2: And of course that was a few years ago. So, you know, this hasn't happened or, uh, turned into what you thought it could be overnight.

Speaker 2: That hasn't, uh, deterred you. So. 

Speaker: No, it's, it's interesting because actually. I've been at this for about the last 15 [00:04:00] years. And what I would say to a lot of your listeners is if you have a dream for your life, we're all going to have challenges, right? So. In this period of time, before I published my books, and before I started speaking, there was always something there that was difficult, that was a challenge that I had to face.

Speaker: And because my vision for what I wanted to do was so strong, and because my faith in myself, And our creator was so strong, I just kept going and I kept going until things started manifesting for me. I, you know, like I said, I published these books, had some good success with those, was doing executive coaching more recently.

Speaker: Executive coaching have had a lot of, uh, good success with that. It helped a lot of people. And, so I've just, the thing is, all along the way, just believing in myself, believing in my dream, and just continuing to make, move forward, and this is what's important. I wasn't always making big strides toward my dreams.

Speaker: Sometimes I was going through so many hard things, [00:05:00] just keeping my dream in front of me where I could visualize it was all I could do, but just holding on to the dream and believing in it and just keeping moving forward. Has what brought me here to this point today, 

Speaker 2: you know, I've been friends for several years and I remember when I first started, uh, being more familiar with who you were, you weren't the man you are now, meaning you've gone through a physical transformation.

Speaker 2: So I want to talk about that. You went from a guy who's just kind of like, Hey, this is kind of Martin and kind of a normal Martin. And now you're like, Hey man, 

Speaker: well, you know, it's interesting because the story with that was Like I said, my mom was living with me in 2012, she gave me a gym membership for my birthday because when I was in high school, I loved working out, but then I quit when I went to college.

Speaker: So 28 years later, she's given me a gym membership so that when she passed away and she was really my best friend in life, right? So when she passed away, I decided I [00:06:00] wanted to compete in bodybuilding competitions as a way to celebrate and honor her. Giving me the membership that reconnected me with my love of lifting weights.

Speaker: And so for the, I started, I started, uh, competing in 2018, and I say that at the age I, I was in my fifties right when I did that. And so I've just continued to do it all along. 

Speaker 2: Yeah. I love it. Well, okay, so there's, I'm sure there's guys that are listening and be like, you know, I can, I could probably be healthier, I could probably lose a little weight.

Speaker 2: And there's always that imposter syndrome like, oh man, that's. I got, you know, the family, I have the kids, I have the day job, I have, you know, that's easy for Martin to say, but you know, how can I do that? What encouragement do you say to that person that's kind of like, hey, I really want to do this and I'm kind of not sure on how to, how to get that going?

Speaker: That is an inside journey that you really have to go through and you have to get to the point where you love yourself. care of yourself because you realize that everything starts with you, [00:07:00] how you take care of your kids, how you take care of your family, your wife, your husband, you have to make sure you're on top of your game so you can be there for your family.

Speaker 2: You've recently, um, come out with a, A new version of a fantastic speech that you've been working on for a time. And I've had the privilege of kind of reviewing it and maybe even giving an opinion or two, which I don't think I deserve to do, but I want to talk through some of that because I think it's a, it's something that, uh, will resonate with our listeners.

Speaker 2: And so we're going to just kind of dive into this new speech and, uh, or this updated vert speech. And in this speech, you mentioned that the odds of being born are one in 400 trillion, making each of us a miracle. So how do you think this perspective can shift someone's mindset when they're feeling stuck or unworthy of pursuing their dreams?

Speaker: There's. Three things there that I [00:08:00] wanted to share with your audience and the first one is and you've read the speech So you're familiar with this. I want to point out to people just how unique they are That of the eight billion people on this planet That person is the only one with their gifts and when you realize that no one has ever been here like you No one is here like you now and no one will ever be You start to value just how special you really are, right?

Speaker: These gifts you have. And like you said, with the fact that you're a miracle, because scientists estimate that the odds of you being born were 1 in 400 trillion, so you're unique and you're a miracle. Now, here's the part that really drives it all home. If you call this energy that you come from God or the universe, I'm not going to, whatever your belief is.

Speaker: Yeah, there's different people that have different perspectives, yep. You come from the energy that created the world, because science, and you and I talked about this too, science, what we know from science [00:09:00] is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another. So what that means is, you were energy before you came into this world in human form, and when you leave this world for your next adventure, you will return to that same energy, Jared.

Speaker: So if you come from the energy that created the world, and you are a unique and miraculous being. You really can do anything with your life. Think about that. You're unique. You're a miracle. And look where you come from. So we, I'm starting to get goosebumps just talking about this. So it's like, there's, that's the reason why you can do anything that you really want, anything that truly matters to you in your life.

Speaker: That's why you can do it. 

Speaker 2: The acronym PIG, which is your last name, P I G G, by the way, you've come up with passion, intention, gratitude, and grace, which I love. So that serves as your framework for living a dream life. Please share a personal story of a time when one of these energies [00:10:00] was particularly challenged for you to maintain and how you've been able to overcome that obstacle.

Speaker: I tell you what, in these days and times, one of the most challenging can be gratitude. And because when we go through hard times, we lose a job, or we have an injury, or something happens to us, we want to just focus on that hard thing that we're going through while ignoring all of the amazing things we have to feel grateful for, right?

Speaker: So, to be able to create, or to feel, or to cultivate gratitude in periods of time Whether challenges, dark nights of the soul, whatever, to be able to switch to gratitude has been so impactful for me because you know some of my story. So some of the hard things that I went through to be able to get to where I am now, if I face a challenge, I'm actually grateful for the challenge and I'm grateful for all of the other things in my [00:11:00] life that offset all the beautiful things in my life that offset that challenge.

Speaker 2: So on that day, when you're just kind of like, man, this is a rough day, how are you able to flip that switch where you're like, okay, I'm just going to instantly be grateful. Well, it's 

Speaker: actually, there are two things you can do. You can switch to gratitude or as soon as you're feeling bad about your, your lot in life.

Speaker: Go do something for somebody else. 

Speaker 2: Ah, that's a good, good word. So 

Speaker: there, I want to give you an example. I was going through a hard time a week or so ago. But I had had a friend who had wanted me to help him with some of his social media stuff. So I'm sitting on the couch. I'm feeling really, really low because we all have those times.

Speaker: And immediately I said, go do this thing for your friend. So I hopped up and I immediately put all of my energy into helping somebody else. And that, I mean, that changed my, my mood instantaneously, 

Speaker 2: man, it really, that's a good word. When you can allow yourself to say, you know what, I'm going to let my focus be on helping someone else that really can open up that ability to be [00:12:00] more grateful.

Speaker 2: So yeah, I, yeah, well said. You talked about recognizing what you call God Winks as pivotal moments that guide us toward our dreams. What's the most unexpected or surprising God Wink you've experienced in your journey? And how did it alter your path? 

Speaker: That's a great, great question. Uh, with regard to God Winks I talk about Godwinks and how I define them is, well, Esquire Rushnell talked about Godwinks as a seemingly random event that is actually a signpost that can help you successfully navigate your life.

Speaker: And Godwinks really are inspired thoughts, like you were saying, they're inspired thoughts to guide you toward or away from people and actions that can alter your course for better or worse. So, for me A couple of, well, one particular Godwink that changed my life was Right after I experienced parasailing for the first time and the voice in my head said you should try flying airplanes.

Speaker: Flying airplanes [00:13:00] transformed my life. Flying airplanes is why I'm here today. That passion for flying and the intentional pursuit of that passion gave me the courage to To break away from the job I had before and to pursue the author speaker coach thing. So that was a Godwink that inspired me. And I will tell you right quick, Jared, this is a story.

Speaker: Without going into too much of the details, my ex had a situation that caused me to, to end the relationship, right? So, in the 18 months that I was with her, before we got married, There were at least a dozen times where, and this is important for your listeners to understand, there was at least a dozen times where my intuition told me break up with her, right?

Speaker: But I ignored it. And so what I want your listeners to understand is, God winks, are these inspired thoughts that we need to listen to and take action on? Because in that story, in that example, what that God we told me to break up, and I ignored it. [00:14:00] The lesson I learned from is when my, when my intuition speaks, I listen and I take action.

Speaker: In any area of my life, I'm very tuned in to that. So that's That's an example of listening to a Godwink and not listening to a Godwink.

Speaker 2: This may seem silly, but I'm going to ask. So how does someone discern a Godwink versus, Oh, I just had some, some bad fajitas, you know what I mean? 

Speaker: I think that's an excellent question. And I think it's really, does that. Thought that's in your head does, how deep does, does it align with who you are? Does it align with your core values, whatever your core values are?

Speaker: Is it connecting with or resonating with something deeper inside of you? Do you feel that? I mean, a guideway is going to be something strong that you intuitively sense as important for you in your [00:15:00] life. It's not going to be like, well, I think I'll go to the grocery store. It's like, okay, hold on, wait a minute.

Speaker: Think about this. Yeah, I need to listen to this. Those are the ones that are very deep, very connected with who you are, and aligned with, like I said, your core values and what you really believe. 

Speaker 2: I'm so glad you explained it that way, because it is very easy to say, okay, I had this idea, but maybe this is steeped in fear.

Speaker 2: So being able to determine what's steeped in fear versus what is an actual, uh, you know, calling, I think that's super important. I'm glad you addressed that. I want to go into, I got a couple of other questions here. Let's see if I can find my notes here. Okay. There we go. Uh, so in your speech, you've described age, pain, current circumstances as myths or excuses that hold people back.

Speaker 2: For someone listening who's feeling overwhelmed by all three, what's the first practical step they could take to start believing in themselves again? 

Speaker: Well, just right quick, obviously I go into it a little deeper in the speech, but if I, [00:16:00] if I just take each one kind of like bullet points and we start with age, we have to understand that age is a myth.

Speaker: It's not real. It was invented by people a long time ago. There are 365 days a year because somebody a long time ago decided that's the way we should live. And we have bought into that. And when I, when I work with, whether it's coaching clients or speaking to an audience, My main goal is to get them to understand.

Speaker: That we need to reprogram our mind with regard to age. And so, if you and I are talking and you walk up to me on the street and you say to me, Martin, how old are you? I will never answer that with a direct answer. I will never say, I am, I am is the two most powerful words in the English language because they lead to that next line, which just crystallizes who you believe you are at that point.

Speaker: I am broke. I am rich. I am 50. I am this. So if you were, you know, Jared, if you were to come up to me and you were to say to me, Hey Martin, Hey, You don't know me. How old are you? I [00:17:00] would say, well, my driver's license says that I'm 61. I'm never going to tell you I am, because I don't believe it. So we have to reprogram our mind regarding age and understand that it's a myth created by other people.

Speaker: Yes, we have to use dates and times for context. I understand that, but it's not real. So age, past pain, just really quickly with that, we have to understand that the things that What hurt us can be the things that heal us when we find the courage to look through the pain for the lessons that are waiting to be revealed.

Speaker: I learned so much from the lessons from the painful things that I've gone through and that's made me bigger, bolder, and a better version of myself. And then with regard to our current circumstances, the world you live in was created by the thoughts you think. And so, what we have to do is, we have to transform the way we think about what's possible in our lives.

Speaker: [00:18:00] Because the world you're living in now Is the world you created with your thoughts. And so those are just three quick things on age circumstances and 

Speaker 2: past 

Speaker: pain. 

Speaker 2: Yeah. It reminds me of a conversation I had with a buddy named Matt Pete, and we were talking about how, when you're getting potentially getting started with a new idea, I can, it just seems so risky and can be overwhelming and.

Speaker 2: And we both kind of laughed and said, but you know, there's opportunity always starts out as risk. Yeah. So it's kind of what, what your mind is telling you is that's, that's well said. Continuing on here. You've shared profound challenges like the loss of your parents, your financial struggles. Uh, you've had personal betrayals and yet you've continued to say, okay, I've got this dream.

Speaker 2: I'm going to pursue it. What https: otter. ai 

Speaker: That's a great question. Cultivating and having a genuine love for myself and understanding that I'm connected to something, an energy that's far [00:19:00] bigger than I am, and that that energy, whether you call it God or the universe, that energy wants me to thrive, wants me to be at my best.

Speaker: So if that energy is in me, that creative, loving energy, the energy that created the world, wants me to thrive. I'm already ahead of the game. 

Speaker 2: I've had some challenging seasons recently, and it's definitely made me wonder, okay, uh, you know, my, where's my identity. And so I'm thankful for that because I believe God's used that to remind me, Hey, your identity doesn't have to be wrapped around this.

Speaker 2: These are things that I believe are the things that I've made you and given you talents to do, but. Ultimately, your identity is, isn't completely found in that. And that's been freeing for me and, um, reminded me, okay, where's my trust? And so, um, yeah, I love, I love how you've, uh, you've been able to incorporate that through your own challenges.

Speaker 2: Let's talk about the pig to fly [00:20:00] concept. Uh, so the idea of training your pig to fly is a wonderful metaphor. I'd absolutely love it. So if you could visualize someone else's pig taking flight. What might that look like for them? How would you encourage them to get it off the ground? 

Speaker: Well, I, I, uh, you know, I talk about in a speech, when I talk about training your pig to fly, how to believe in yourself and go for your dreams, it's really starting with that passion, finding that, what I call your greatest passion, finding that greatest passion, which is a, and if I wanted to define that, I would say it's a passion that resonates with who you are at your core.

Speaker: When you find that passion, so the first thing I would say is, listen, if you don't know what could potentially be your greatest passion, just start trying different things that sound like fun, same things that sound like interesting. Okay, that didn't work. Yeah, it was good, but the thing is, it's almost like we're afraid to try new things.

Speaker: It's like try this. Yeah, that didn't work. That's not it. Okay. Yeah. Oh, I love this It makes me feel a [00:21:00] certain way it resonates with my core I want to pursue this so zero in figure out what that greatest passion is that thing that you love to do for me was flying airplanes and I have This thing called the big principle, which is when you pursue your passion with intention and gratitude Your passion will either become your purpose or lead you to it.

Speaker: And when you live with grace, you help other people find and live their purpose. The first part of that is, and this is what happened for me. My passion for flying led me to my purpose, my dream, which is what I do now. So it was in the intentional pursuit of my greatest passion. Where I found my purpose, because once again on that principle, when you pursue the passion with intention, your passion will either become your purpose or lead you to your purpose.

Speaker: And flying led me to my purpose. So I would say find that passion, pursue it with intention. Say live with gratitude because all of the great all of the things we forget how many things we have to feel grateful for Jared [00:22:00] Yeah, so it's find that passion pursuit with intention live with gratitude and live with grace because grace is about love and helping other people And when you help other people you're completing the circle of caring that began when somebody loved you and helped you

Speaker 2: You emphasize That we come from the same energy that created the world, making us eternal meanings with limited potential. How can someone tap into that energy daily to overcome self doubt and manifest their dreams? 

Speaker: What I would say to you about that is it all starts with loving ourselves. It's funny because I posted something the other day.

Speaker: Um, I think it was on Instagram and some guy, you know, who's a bodybuilder guy. He said, I don't know about this, this self love. It sounds too girly. Right. And I'm like. You don't understand. That's the key, Jared. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else. And the thing about it is, [00:23:00] that when we love ourselves, everything stems from there.

Speaker: And it's, when you love yourself, You know you can weather any storm. When you know yourself, you know that you have capabilities beyond what the world sees. So it's all about learning to love yourself, and that is a journey, because we don't necessarily love ourselves just automatically. But it's through meditation, through journaling, through gratitude practices, through just taking time to appreciate the beauty.

Speaker: Of who you are in the world and the gifts you have and just loving yourself. 

Speaker 2: Oh man. Well said. Yeah, I have, I struggle with this. Uh, so this resonates with me, but I, uh, through the circumstances that have happened to me recently with, uh, you know, different transitions and things, it's reminded me, Hey, what's my identity in.

Speaker 2: And it's reminded me of my identity and my faith. Specifically in my identity with Christ and that, that has reminded me, okay, [00:24:00] I can love myself because of, of what God's done for me. So I, I love the fact that this is an important part of what you're sharing with others. Towards the end, you ask if listeners are missing joy, focus, gratitude, or love in their lives.

Speaker 2: If someone identifies that they're missing one of these, what's a simple, actionable exercise they can do right now to bring that energy back into their life? 

Speaker: Well, it depends on the energy, but I would say I talk about joy, focus, and gratitude and love because that's related to passion, intention, gratitude, and grace.

Speaker: Because what I tell people is Passion gives you joy, intention gives you focus, gratitude gives you more to be grateful for, and grace gives you love. So we focus on joy, focus, joy, focus, gratitude, and love. If somebody is missing one or more of those, zero in on that. For example, if you are missing joy.

Speaker: Find things that bring you joy and focus on those things. Bring more joy into your life. Find something you love to do, something that makes you [00:25:00] smile. Sharing something with somebody or helping somebody brings you joy. Cultivate more joy. If it's, for example, intention. If an intention is focus, intention is the energy of what you do and who you connect to.

Speaker: So with intention, what is it that you're doing right now? And who is it you're connecting with that? Are they positive? Are they negative? You know, what's their energy? It's funny because I have a line in the speech where I talk about you can't, you can't soar with eagles if you hang around with turkeys.

Speaker: And what I mean by that is. If your group, Jim Rohn says you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Which I totally subscribe to. So with regard to that intention, what the energy of the people you connect to, if those people are dragging you down, find others that don't and move those people a little bit out more out into the periphery of your life.

Speaker: If they need to stay with you, gratitude is the same. We talked about finding more things to be grateful for or being aware of all the great things you have to be grateful for. [00:26:00] And then with grace. Self love, loving yourself, love other people, and be generous with your time, talents, and network. 

Speaker 2: Oh, man.

Speaker 2: Absolutely helpful. First of all, thank you, Martin. I appreciate you taking time to kind of walk us through some of these key things that are really essential. And, um, I want to close out with just a couple questions. One is, um, Who is doing something that interests you? It can be any anybody. It could be famous.

Speaker 2: It could be a friend. It can be, is there, is there someone in your life that's doing something that interests you? 

Speaker: You mean in terms of like my arena or just in general, just in general? Yeah. Well, I spend a lot of time in the gym and I'm around a lot of professional trainers and people like that. And there's some guys.

Speaker: There's one particular guy in there, a friend of mine who has a very unique style of working with clients, has a very positive energy. And I've been watching his business grow as he's got more people involved in fitness and the style that he has that he puts with that, I would say he would [00:27:00] be one person.

Speaker: And then with regard to just other people out in the world doing things. That's a great question. I have, would have to say, I have this author friend of mine, her name was Joy, and she had a passion for writing, and she wanted to write a book, right? And so, but she was going to be a first time writer, and they have this competition called NaNoWriMo, it happens once a year.

Speaker: And it's a national competition for people and it just forces you to sit your rear end down in a chair and just write every day to make sure you stay in the competition. She took that exercise and a rough draft and turned it into a book which she sold the publishing rights and got a 250, 000 advance on the book and they optioned the movie rights.

Speaker: And this is a woman who was sitting at home. She was a, you know, she was a teacher. And she just had this, this love of writing and had this idea and she did this idea and all of a [00:28:00] sudden, she's getting a quarter of a million dollars on an advance and, but so it says, you know, to watch her progress. And progress very quickly just because she had this passion and she loved it and she pursued it and then magic happened.

Speaker 2: Oh, that's fantastic. And congrats to her. What an awesome win. So Martin, I'm sure people are listening to me like, Hey, he mentioned he's an author. I want to check out his books. Uh, they likely want to connect with you on social media. What's the best place for people to connect with you online? 

Speaker: Probably the best place to go would be, I'll give you one or two different options.

Speaker: I'm on Instagram at martinpig. And it's B I G G, obviously. Yes. Martin Pig. Absolutely. And then also, you can go to MartinPig. com and click on contact and send me a message and I'll get right back to you. 

Speaker 2: And is that also where they can find some of the books and things like that? They can find the 

Speaker: books, uh, the books on there.

Speaker: Some other guides and courses I've created. If somebody has an interest in Talking to me about speaking, you know, you can contact me through the email and the executive coaching the same way. [00:29:00] 

Speaker 2: Yeah, and you may have been listening to Martin and being like, man, Martin would be great to have to come speak at our team.

Speaker 2: Reach out to Martin and, uh, you know, maybe there's a way to have your, uh, office bring him in. So, hopefully, we can, uh, Getting Martin some opportunities to, to be heard and, uh, get out there more. So Martin, thank you so much. And then in closing, we always like to ask, uh, do you have any final thoughts? 

Speaker: I do.

Speaker: I have a quote that I came up with on my own, which I really love and I live by. And if you have a dream for your life, it's important that you, you surround yourself with people who lift you up, who push you forward, who believe in you, who wants you to succeed. And stay as much far away from people who are holding you down or negative, because there's a lot of mediocrity in the world.

Speaker: There's a lot of settling for just average. And so you weren't born to be average. You were born to be magnificent. And so what I, my quote that I always tell myself is, Never allow the voices of mediocrity to silence [00:30:00] the whispers of your own soul. There's something you're meant to do with your life.

Speaker: Listen to that whisper. Go out and change 

Speaker 2: the world. Uh, Martin, I'm motivated, uh, I'm gonna go out and change the world today through just being grateful. I'm grateful for you, Jared. I'm grateful for you, Martin. And, uh, yeah, I look forward to catching up again, maybe here in a few months. Just kind of seeing what else is, uh, coming across your path.

Speaker 2: I look forward to it. Thank you so much. Thank you.