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The power of a mentor can change the course of your life, forever. Some people are blessed from a young age to have a mentor who gives them guidance and direction. That could come from a parent, a family friend, or someone in your school. For today’s guest, it was from his high school coach, and it changed the very course of his life and many others he encountered.
If you have yet to set out your goals for 2022, then you’re absolutely in the right place.
If you have, then maybe this anecdote will help support your courage to achieve them!
As we wrap 2021, most of you overachievers have likely already mapped out your 2022. But for some of you, goal-setting (actually really writing it down) has not been a regular practice.
Well, today’s guest credits his practice of goal-setting since age 19, I mean really committing it to writing, to becoming a 4-time All-American athlete, hitting over $1.3 Billion in sales, retiring “early” by age 32, and ultimately finding his current passion: Regenerative Capitalism.
Jim Gale, CEO of Food Forest Abundance, is a remarkable and inspiring human, and this interview is a great way to wrap this current year. I believe it can help vault us into the New Year by breaking down Jim’s story and success markers so that you and I can enter into the next year ready to set a new bar for personal growth, self-expression, achievement (if that’s what’s important to you) and excellence.
And, if you’re curious at all about what the heck Regenerative Capitalism is, well, Jim explains it all in the interview. But the short version of “what the heck is he doing?” is building resilient and self-sustaining food systems that are easily duplicatable using his team’s proven “blueprint” along with clean renewable energy, to provide true off-grid sustainability for anyone, anywhere! Jim has dedicated his life to helping us learn to become self-sufficient with what he has coined “food forests”. A food forest is a diverse, perennial garden that mimics a forest ecosystem and patterns found in nature. Through layers of design, life extends in all directions producing food, medicine, sanctuary, and habitat. But food forests, in the context of Jim’s latest venture, Food Forest Abundance, also provide a sustainable source of revenue and a viable business opportunity for thousands around the world seeking a way to provide for their community while also providing income for their own family.
If that sounds interesting and you’d like to start your own food forest, you can get started by going to www.mysuncast.com/foodforest. Jim and his team are there to help you get everything set up, and get you on your way to personal freedom and abundance as you head into 2022.
BOOKS MENTIONED AND RECOMMENDATIONS:
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES:
“When people ‘succeed’ they tend to party, when they ‘fail’ they tend to ponder.”
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an Idea whose time has come.”
TERMS DEFINED:
What is a food forest?
Designed forest that mimics natural systems that produces food
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Nico Johnson is the creator and host of SunCast, consistently rated a top solar podcast in the clean energy sector. The content of the show is geared towards listeners looking for insights on where the markets are headed, how to position themselves or their companies, and what today's market leaders do to stay ahead of the pack.
Nico is an Investor, Executive Coach, and 15-year veteran of the solar industry, having led development in the US and Latin America for global companies like Trina Solar and Conergy.
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