From Stillness to Success with Ken Kladouris

Ken is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, new media host, and wealth advisor.

He believes that by learning the tools and strategies that you need to shift your focus into overdrive, you can realize your true calling, set your targets, and achieve your goals. 

In this episode, Ken talks about his defining moment. How he had his great awakening from his deep slumber and how he got himself out of being stuck because of what society has been telling him to do throughout all the years he’s lived.

He also talks about how everything started. From getting his undergraduate degree in finance, got the job he wanted and worked his way up to being a branch manager in a financial services firm.

He had a lot of early success in his career, and it had gotten to the point where people in his circle were shocked at the level of success he had achieved. It took him aback.

This is when he felt “stuck”. He felt like he couldn’t go any higher. And every day was just the same for him.

It was only when he went on vacation to the Cayman Islands that he realized for the first time in a long time, he had nothing to do.

To him, it felt like all his limiting beliefs, and everything that he thought got him where he was felt kind of washed away.

It was an incredible experience for him. He felt full potential in abundance, with the ability to do anything I wanted. That was the moment when he decided that he needed to change his life, reach the next level, and be the best version of himself.

He had found his glorious purpose.

Episode 223 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast is a must-listen for those who want to go beyond and strive to be better, people who seek alignment in life so they can focus on moving forward, who are willing to learn more, grow more, invest more and go for more and those choosing their better future, to live the life they were meant to live.

“The Beyond Adversity Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is published weekly with the mission of helping people “Grow Through What They Go Through” as they navigate adversity and discover their promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. 

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Transcript
Brad Miller::

Ken Kladouris is with us today from kenkladouris.com.

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And he believes that you should live a life by design, and not by happenstance.

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And he is all about helping people to get more life in their years here and now.

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And we'll be talking about his expertise to financial planning field but other things as well,

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because he's a deeply rooted man in his in his thought processes.

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And he's going to help us to work through several things here today.

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He's got a deep connection to the environment through the ocean and other things that he's involved with.

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And his book is called get there in his course of stillness to success.

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Ken Kladouris, welcome to Beyond Adversity!

Ken Kladouris::

Thanks for having me, Brad. I'm excited to join you today on the podcast.

Brad Miller::

Well, I think we're gonna have good conversation,

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because we talk here on the Beyond Adversity Podcast about the things that keep people stuck.

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And there are several things get people stuck, that's mental health issues, physical health issues,

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and there is matters of life and death. And then there's also financial issues.

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And we're going to touch on several of those here today,

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and you kind of specialize in the financial field, but one of the things you talk about

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in some of the information we have about you is that you have had a great awakening in your life

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that led led you to do some of the things you're doing now.

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When I hear someone say something like you've had a great awakening.

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That means you had to awake from something

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that you were kind of asleep or something that used the metaphor there before.

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So I'd like to hear a little bit about your story a little bit.

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What was your life like when you are at whatever this asleep stage was?

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What was the defining moment that caused you to have a great awakening?

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And how that kind of leads you to what you're doing now?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah. So I'd say like, as you put it asleep, time was really kind of the adversity time of my life, if you will.

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And so, really, I just done what society had told me to do.

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And I feel like that is where a lot of people get stuck. And that's where I got stuck.

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So basically, I did my undergraduate degree in finance, MBA and finance,

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got the job I wanted, worked my way up to being a branch manager in a financial services firm,

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and had a lot of early success in my career.

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And I'd gotten to the point where people in my circle

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were shocked at the level of success I'd achieved.

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And I remember when somebody told me like, Wow, I'm so shocked you were able to do that.

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And it kind of it kind of took me back. And my mentors and things at that time

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didn't have the best mentors at that point.

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We all just kind of lived at the same level, and every day was kind of a routine.

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And that's why I think I was stuck. Right? I'd hit not necessarily glass ceiling,

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but the level of which I didn't think I could go any higher.

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And so every day was, again, right to go to the office, talk to people do the work,

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I needed to do go to happy hour, go to a networking event, whatever it may be.

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And that was kind of every day.

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And so with that, you know, I didn't know that there was anything possible beyond that, if that makes sense.

Brad Miller::

So yeah, you were in the financial services industry,

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but so you probably weren't actually technically punching a time clock,

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but you kind of had this mentality of go in at 9 to 5, you know, whatever it was.

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Do the same routine, the same things that happened, and obviously,

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you were not satisfied with that, because you made some changes.

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Was there any particular moment that you kind of had an aha moment?

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You said, Okay, you see, a lot of people can stay there in that situation for 40 years,

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whatever it is and they stay stuck in those situations you chose not to.

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Is there any defining moment when you just said,

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Okay, I just can't do this anymore.

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I gotta find some different way.

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Was there that kind of that thing that flipped the switch for you?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah. So there was a moment like that.

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An interesting thing, it what didn't happen in the environment of my everyday life, right.

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So in life in everyday practice, like I was content with where I was.

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It wasn't until I left that environment, and was actually on vacation at the in the Cayman Islands.

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And for the first time, in a long time, I didn't have anything to do.

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Really relaxed into the week I was gonna be there.

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And there was one day in the middle where we had no plans and for me,

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that was completely different than my everyday life. E

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veryday life was very controlling OCD. Everything has to be instructured,

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this is what has to occur through the day.

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So sitting there, you know, on the patio listening to the waves crash,

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having coffee with the whole day open, was very different than anything I was used to.

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And sitting there, just enjoying that moment,

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as the waves kind of crashed and like went back out into the water

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and came in and went out, it kind of like lulled me into very calm place.

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And all of a sudden, like a light switch went off, or on depending on how you wanna look at it.

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And I had felt like all of my limiting beliefs,

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all of my past everything that I had thought got me to where I was,

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had kind of washed away. And I was left sitting in full potential in abundance,

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with the ability to do anything I wanted. And it was an incredible experience.

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And that's the moment where I decided that I needed to change my life,

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reach the next level and be the best version of myself.

Brad Miller::

Awesome, awesome. So you have this moment of clarity, in a moment of purpose.

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that you are not satisfied where you're at, and you're going to do something about it.

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You had a moment of shift shifting direction in life,

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And so, I'd like to talk to you for a minute Ken, about what you actually did do about it.

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Because you know, there's a lot of people who go on vacation

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and say, oh, man, this is great to get back and relax,

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and then they jump right back into the grind when they get back in the office on the following Monday.

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You know, you know, you had a process and you were motivated to do some things.

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I'm interested in some of the actions that you took to accomplish this.

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This dream and venture I'm sure led you to write in your book

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and to change your your employment situation, and that type of thing.

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What were the actions that you took?

Ken Kladouris::

When I got home, my life was waiting for me just as I left it,

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and was right back into the grind. Right, I was managing an office,

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it was right back into that. But I think that I was lucky in the fact that

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I had experienced to my core, that feeling of abundance and freedom.

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And so I knew I could live in that place. I just needed to find the tools to help me do that.

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And so when I got back, I jumped into all of the personal development,

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I could whether it was meditation, stillness, Zen.

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I also did a bunch of sales, trainings, career training, double down on my coaching,

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whatever I could do to just get more information

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and really peel back all of those things that were holding me back,

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so that I can live in that place of abundance.

Brad Miller::

So you were dealing in areas that I'm assuming you were a little bit different,

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a little bit different than where you are kind of purely

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on the financial services or sales training, this type of thing.

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You're starting to get into self development now and meditations and other things like this.

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You mentioned stillness. And so I'm interested now then Ken,

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and then what you discovered in this time, it sounds sounds to me,

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like you went through what I often call my teaching a wilderness time.

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You got to have kind of a wilderness time when you kind of wonder

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and you learn and you kind of go introspective,

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and you deal with some you the pain and the discomfort that comes with this.

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And I'm wondering, in this process,

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if you were able to somehow make some sort of a connection to some something greater than self,

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or some higher power or some sensitivity that there is something more to life than this.

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And there's for some people, this is religion,

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some people's meditation, for some folks, it's something different.

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Maybe it's a great teacher. Was there anything like this with you?

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Where you made it connected to something a little bit metaphysical?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah, so definitely, for me, it was meditation and just tapping into that infinite possibility

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that is the universe that we live in. And stepping out of the noise

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and the chatter in my own head.

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So you step into noise and chatter your own head and what were some of things you did to do that,

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because you had to take some action, and you went to this deeper place.

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So what were some of the things you did?

Ken Kladouris::

So obviously, I learned how to meditate.

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Got my personal mantra and was meditating twice a day,

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reading a lot of the books on it going to different like seminars,

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really trying to get all the information I could in the meditation,

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and also, again, doing it twice a day, to really just drop back into that meditative state.

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Slip into that, you know, openness and that stillness in the gap of the meditations

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and continually do that every day to create more stillness and met thought clarity.

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And then from that, I think that the biggest shift I had after I started meditating was I did a week in silence.

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And that was really when, like, I took my meditations to the next level.

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Because you realize, for me personally,

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all of the thoughts I was having in my head aren't necessarily true, right?

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They're just thoughts and stories that I've created.

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And when you're in silence, you don't get to share those stories with anybody.

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You don't even get to speak them out to yourself.

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So you realize that that thought of whatever it may be, will disappear.

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And magically, another thought will appear, and that that cycle never stops.

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And when you can't, again, verbalize and make your thoughts real, they start to quiet down.

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And once I had that type of deep stillness, really everything changed for me.

Brad Miller::

It sounds like this is a real important time was a no,

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the topic of your course we're going to talk about in a few minutes is all about stillness,

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and how that was transformative for you. was so it was this stillness time, this week of silence?

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Was this a part of a organized group? You know, did you do this on your own?

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I'm familiar with silent retreats and these type of things.

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Was this part of some organized a process that you went through?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah. So I'm with a certified Chopra group, Chopar International

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as a meditation instructor, and that meditation retreat was with that group.

Brad Miller::

So you had some direction, some coaching as it were,

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and what to do during this process,

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because they're in that sub particles part of the portal,

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what you want to do, then in those types of things is what you did is not only go deep,

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but to go deep to find the next step and where you're going to go next.

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So some people want to try to get out here a little bit.

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Some people go inner life, and they did get kind of dissolved in their own misery,

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they could kind of dissolve in their own stuff.

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But they were, where I'm taking that,

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in writing your book and doing your course and the things you're doing now,

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you've transformed your personal transformation has led you then to be seeking to be helpful to other people.

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But I'm interested, before we get a little more into your book into your course,

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I'm interested in and what some of the practices you did

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after your time of transformation, compared to before, for instance.

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Was meditation and silent periods of time a part of your life and lifestyle

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before you had just this aha moment.

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Was it anywhere in there?

Ken Kladouris::

Not even your life? Nope. Okay. It wasn't even like, think about

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You're kind of whatever go getter and all that kind of stuff,

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corporate ladder, that type of thing, I assume, right?

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So tell me just a bit how in practical terms, kind of your day, you had this retreat,

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the Silent Retreat, but in day to day terms,

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and how you disciplined or the practices of your life, maybe daily routines, or morning routines, or whatever, how they are different now or after your transformation, compared before. I'm interested in the cognitive play piece here at Cannes, where we apply what we've learned to our everyday life.

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah. So before, there wasn't really any reflection or time for myself,

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it was reacting to whatever was occurring at the office, the thoughts I had,

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whatever I needed to do on a daily basis was just getting done,

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and there was no structure per se.

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So then you fast forward to like today,

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I have a morning routine, a night routine, and a lot more structure in my day.

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But the funny thing is that even with the more structure,

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I have more freedom, which almost sounds counterintuitive.

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But the structure allows me to be more productive in the time of doing things.

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And so to give you some insight on like my daily routine, right,

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I wake up, I meditate for 20 minutes. And then I go into like a gratitude journal.

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And then I review all of my goals for the day, for the year, and then long term goals.

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And then from there, I actually visualize and write out how I want my day to play out.

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And then I also list one thing that I want to try to attract or bring into my life

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that I think will help me move forward and my goals.

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And I do that every morning.

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And then I start working on whatever the most important thing is for the day.

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So if I need to create content or I need to write or if I need to call clients,

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whatever it is, that's going to be the most important thing of the day that gets done first,

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because as we all know

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Oh, at a certain point in the day to kind of start to lose control of it

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and that you don't know who's going to call or need something,

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or what's going to what fire is going to erupt, that you're going to need to take care of.

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So if I know that the most important thing is done before those things start occurring,

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at least I'm moving towards my goals on a daily basis.

Brad Miller::

And so you have kind of a prioritize,

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you've set your intention for the day with your meditation,

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and you have your priorities to accomplish.

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But it sounds to me just from just getting to know you a little bit here today,

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can you say that you accomplish more, and you're more productive?

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It says you also did a much more at ease and peaceful than whatever you had before.

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Perhaps it was frantic or angst ridden? I don't know. But is that fair to say in some regards?

Ken Kladouris::

Oh, yeah. 100%. I mean, before, I had a little bit of OCD,

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stressed out about everything, and really felt like

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I needed to control every aspect of my life and the people around me,

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just to get things done at some level, right.

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And now it's much more in flow and things just happen a little bit easier.

Brad Miller::

In that, that makes life a little more bearable to in terms of when when the bad things happen.

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Because they do you know, when when life happens, you know, when there's health matters,

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or financial matters, or whatever they are, they happen to all of us

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and how we handle it makes all the difference.

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And I think what you're given us here today,

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Ken has some directions and instructions out of your own life that may be helpful to other people.

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And I know you've you've written this book called get there

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and you have a course called Stillness to Success all at your website kenkladouris.com.

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And people can access those. But there's got to be a reason that you wrote those,

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it seems to me that this is you add some inclination,

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how this process that not only to serve your own productivity,

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but you had some sort of a moment when you said something to yourself the effect of okay,

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I need to share this with others, or you were compelled to do that.

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So tell us a little bit about that story.

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And I like to say that's when we serve others with love, we care enough about others

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that we want to serve them with love.

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So tell me about the story of how you ended up writing this book

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and do this course out of an inclination to want to help other people gain some sense of purpose as well.

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah, that's definitely the course, I would say that the book

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was written more for myself in that it was a goal of mine.

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Right, I kind of set the intention of I wanted to write a book.

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And so many people that I was talking to are like,

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Oh, I have a book I want to write to, or,

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Oh, I started a book I never finished. It's really hard, right?

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I was getting all this feedback. And I'm like, No, I know, I can write a book.

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And so that, for me was more of my commitment to my development.

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But it was the conversations I was having with clients, and things like that.

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But the book, again, was just me being committed to my goal.

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The course on the other hand, really,

Brad Miller::

The course just just in essence, the book is about financial planning services.

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And this type of thing is that's kind of the core of the book get there.

Ken Kladouris::

Um, it's more about it's a little bit of that.

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But it's really about identifying what your life financially you wanted to look like.

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Right, so many people don't know, kind of what their plan is,

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or have a clear understanding of what their goal is in retirement or for their financial life.

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So it helps you get understanding of that understanding of the compounding effect of money,

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how your spending habits can affect your ability to save,

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and different things like that.

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So it's really creating intention in your finances,

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to put together a plan and start to do the actions you need to do to create the financial future you want.

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And hopefully give people some peace of mind in that aspect of their life.

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Which is such a point of anxiety and adversity for so many folks.

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And yet, you really see like you poured your heart into this course

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called stillness to success. So tell us about that.

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What was your calling in my world? I'm the pastor, we talk a lot about calling,

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which is just a journey, and it's something you got to do, you got to do,

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and I sense this and you can do you felt like you had to do this course.

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So tell us what's involved with this course. What led you to do it? What's in your heart about it?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah. So in my financial advising and 1031 exchange business,

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I spent a lot of time networking and meeting with people.

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Basically every day and the conversations I was having with people were changing.

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Not I was trying to ask different questions or anything, but they were noticing the shift in me.

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And so they would start asking me questions about,

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what I was doing on a daily basis to be more at ease,

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create more success and still have this just like, fluid nature.

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Because, again, that was a big shift for me.

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And so as I was having these conversations,

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I realized that a lot of people could benefit from the information.

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And so I was teaching people, you know, how I was meditating,

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and how we're structuring my day, so that they can start to see the results.

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And, you know, during that time, I was like,

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I feel like this is really valuable information,

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I spent years kind of curating the content that's in the course.

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And I was like, I could distill this into a very quick, easy course for people

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to create more clarity and create the change they want in their life.

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And so it was with that calling or understanding that I was like, I need to do this.

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And that is how this course came to be.

Brad Miller::

So I think it's interesting, you know, when there's a whole lot of success courses out there,

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they are all in one form or another,

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you got to do action, a action b, and, you know, mindset and so on a lot of part of that.

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But the aspect you're focusing in on your success course,

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if you will, is the meditation, the stillness, the silence, that is here is

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how does that differentiate you you think, from other, you know, success courses out there?

Ken Kladouris::

When I was starting on my journey,

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I couldn't find anybody that was creating content that was about the communion

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or connection with higher power, or the universe or whatever, and creating that mental clarity,

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with success, right, it was kind of divided,

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either you were pushing really hard to create the success you wanted,

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or you were meditating in becoming a monk and living in a cave, right?

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There was no one in the middle that says, you could live both ways,

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and create the success you want with the happiness and have fulfillment in life.

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And so that is how I live my life. And so that's how I wanted to present the content.

Brad Miller::

And so I do, I do think it does differentiate, because I do agree, you know,

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Like I said, I'm a retired pastor, so I kind of come from that world.

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And yet, there is aspects of people who, you know,

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sometimes have a skewed view view of resources of money out of that world.

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And then there's the extreme on the other side,

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people who see resources, you know, money, that's where it's at,

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and don't pay much attention to the inner life and that type of thing.

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I happen to be one who believes that you not only can do both,

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but there's plenty of evidence biblically.

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And otherwise. That indicates again, you can have success in life with going the deep route, as well.

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And I'd love to hear you say that, because I think there's a lot of folks out there

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who are yearning and aching for some way,

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how can I have peace in my life, and prosperity, that one day we let's say,

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you're gonna be on the diversity, we help you find a pathway to peace, prosperity and purpose.

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And I love what you're saying there about that.

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So let's just say someone in our listening audience, and it's just taken

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Okay, man, this sounds interesting, me, what are they going to find in your course?

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What are you know, what are they? What are some of the tell us a little bit about the content?

Brad Miller::

And then maybe some exercises or what they are? Would it be have expectations about?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah, so the course foundationally teaches you how to meditate.

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So we give people a mantra, and give them some guidance on how to meditate

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and start to develop that mental clarity.

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And then from there, we outline their core values,

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create a vision statement for themselves in the life they want to create,

Ken Kladouris::

understand any themes or content that brings them fulfillment and happiness.

Ken Kladouris::

Also, what areas of life that they feel they're struggling in

Ken Kladouris::

and need to work through to get their entire life up to the level they want.

Ken Kladouris::

Also, the fact I guess it could be that they right are two focused in one area,

Ken Kladouris::

maybe it's in career, and it's at the effect of every other aspect of their life.

Ken Kladouris::

So we help them create that understanding.

Ken Kladouris::

And then we elicit again, their values.

Ken Kladouris::

And then from there, outline what it is that they want to achieve.

Ken Kladouris::

Not only long term, but within the next year. And then on those one year goals.

Ken Kladouris::

We break it down into actionable steps that are nice and small,

Ken Kladouris::

so that they can take them and then they get a copy of my journal,

Ken Kladouris::

which teaches them again, kind of what I do the five principles of gratitude,

Ken Kladouris::

the five things you want to get done today, visualize that his visualization for the day.

Ken Kladouris::

And then again, what is it that one thing that you feel you could attract into your life

Ken Kladouris::

that would help you move forward on your goals.

Ken Kladouris::

So it creates that whole structure for them that they can review on a daily basis

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to not only be consciously aware of it, but unconsciously aware as well.

Brad Miller::

So the results are going to come up with going through your courses,

Brad Miller::

they're going to have a plan, they're going to have a process to follow. Is that correct?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah, they're gonna have a process to create this success,

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defined as how they want success to be in their life, and then a plan to get there.

Brad Miller::

And that plan, may have a focus that is not only monetary,

Brad Miller::

is what I'm picking up on is not you know,

Brad Miller::

a lot of success things are just get X amount of money or

Brad Miller::

X amount of houses or boats or whatever it is.

Brad Miller::

But in your case, it's also having an inner, an inner purpose and inner success.

Ken Kladouris::

You know, really understanding if it is the material things that somebody's after, like,

Ken Kladouris::

what is the purpose behind that? That's really the fulfilling aspect of it.

Ken Kladouris::

Because yeah, I've, you know, I buy a lot of stuff.

Ken Kladouris::

And I can tell you, I've bought things that I thought were gonna make me happy.

Ken Kladouris::

And before the transaction is done, I'm like, okay,

Ken Kladouris::

I'm already bored with that, what's next. So the fulfillment doesn't come into things,

Ken Kladouris::

it comes in the deeper reasons behind why you're making those decisions.

Brad Miller::

Well, I think it's true, things are nice and everything, and having the peace of mind

Brad Miller::

that financial resources can bring is nice, but it's only that element,

Brad Miller::

it's not true cause and effect thing. It's not what I mean by that is there,

Brad Miller::

you can certainly have people who have a lot of money who are miserable,

Brad Miller::

you can people who have no money who are miserable.

Brad Miller::

Same token, you can have people with a lot of money who are

Brad Miller::

pleased and at peace, and people with very little money who have architecting their situation.

Brad Miller::

And it has to do with that inner life.

Brad Miller::

And so, but I believe we've had this pandemic, the last two years plus a COVID crisis,

Brad Miller::

but I believe we also have a pandemic, if you will, of anxiety out of meaning less nests in life.

Brad Miller::

And so people are seeking relief from the pandemic,

Brad Miller::

and other things in life from those type of things.

Brad Miller::

But they're also seeking your relief and meaning fullness in life.

Brad Miller::

And that's what you're being helpful to folks here.

Brad Miller::

And so, what I'd like for you to share, if you don't mind now,

Brad Miller::

Ken is about someone in you have encountered in your coaching,

Brad Miller::

or who's taken your course or read your books,

Brad Miller::

or maybe a personal encounter that you've seen,

Brad Miller::

something I've provided here has been helpful. I've seen some transformation here,

Brad Miller::

I'm interested in, you know, and based on a testimonial story about people who have described your teaching,

Ken Kladouris::

So the first person that comes to mind is kind of that person that was living,

Ken Kladouris::

that story you just shared, right? Kind of, in the pandemic,

Ken Kladouris::

very stressed, had a good job, but felt unfulfilled.

Ken Kladouris::

And because of the strains of the pandemic, on his relationships in his career,

Ken Kladouris::

he had gone from taking Xanax once a day, to three times a day,

Ken Kladouris::

just to get through the day, cuz he was so stressed.

Ken Kladouris::

And we were having this conversation,

Ken Kladouris::

you know about different things about the course he's like, you know,

Ken Kladouris::

I think that might help me, like, let's give it a shot.

Ken Kladouris::

And so, we started going through the process, and just the meditation alone.

Ken Kladouris::

A week later, he, you know, he called me was like, Oh, my God, I feel so much better.

Ken Kladouris::

I am relaxed. I don't take Xanax anymore.

Ken Kladouris::

Like, I'm starting to move in directions that I knew I should for years,

Ken Kladouris::

but I wasn't taking the steps, you know,

Ken Kladouris::

and he was starting to build momentum in every aspect of his life, just from that first piece.

Ken Kladouris::

And then we just kept accelerating it with, you know, the rest of the course.

Brad Miller::

And that's the type of thing that people can find in your course.

Brad Miller::

And it's certainly as gratifying to you and I think as of firming,

Brad Miller::

you tell me if I'm correct here.

Brad Miller::

All the transitions and things you've gone through it is gratifying to hear

Brad Miller::

when someone has taken your teaching is having success. How to stillness.

Ken Kladouris::

Correct. I mean, that's, that's why I created the course right is to

Ken Kladouris::

help people accelerate both on their learnings and create more success in their life.

Ken Kladouris::

Because I know that while I, you know, help him or any other student

Ken Kladouris::

that's gonna have an effect on their family, their community.

Ken Kladouris::

And as this gets larger, we can have an effect on the entire world.

Brad Miller::

Yeah, that's really awesome. It's all about joy and fulfillment, freedom,

Brad Miller::

all those things that come and and that's what folks can find. His name is Ken Kladouris,

Brad Miller::

and he has the book get there.

Brad Miller::

But he's really been focusing today about his course Stillness to Success.

Brad Miller::

And if folks in our audience here on Beyond Adversity want to find out

Brad Miller::

more about you can or about your book or about your course, how can they find out more about you?

Brad Miller::

How can they get connected to you?

Ken Kladouris::

Yeah, so all the information on our blog posts are on kenkladouris.com.

Ken Kladouris::

If they want some free resources, you can go to stillnesstosuccess.com.

Ken Kladouris::

And both of those are great resources for people to start their journey

Ken Kladouris::

to creating more stillness in their life and then more success.

Brad Miller::

And we'll put connections and links to both of his websitesat drbradmiller.com.

Brad Miller::

His website again, I'll just spell it just because of his name.

Brad Miller::

Spelling is kenkladouris.com.

Brad Miller::

And then they the other website of your course website was stillness to me again plays with

Ken Kladouris::

stillnesstosuccess.com

Brad Miller::

Fascinating conversation here today.

Brad Miller::

And for us to understand the true value of what is really valuable in life.

Brad Miller::

You know, money is success as a part of it.

Brad Miller::

But real true success comes from peace of mind having purpose in life,

Brad Miller::

and then the prosperity will come as a part of that process.

Brad Miller::

Our guest today on the Beyond Adversity Podcast, Ken Kladouris,

Brad Miller::

we thank you for being our guest today.

Brad Miller::

Thank you, Ken.