Brett Gilliland outlines the many lessons he has learned from his guests on the Circuit of Success.
With a variety of industries and professions, each guest has brought new habits, insights, and motivation to those who listen to the podcast. Brett goes over the lessons that have made an impact in his daily life and overall great advice for those wanting to achieve a future greater than their past!

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Hello, what's up everybody, I'm Brett Gilliland, and the host of the Circuit of Success podcast. And I just wan ted to come at you this week a little differently. Normally, we have a guest on every week and we talked about whatever the things are that we talked about that they specialize in, or that or the experiences that they've had in their life, the sports, they've played, whatever it may be. But you know, the number one thing I probably get asked the most is, who is your favorite guest?
And, you know, what do you learn every week from this. And so what I thought I would do today is just share this, I think fourteen things, fourteen guests that I want to share some of my learnings from my perspectives on those and what it's meant for me throughout the year. And so let's all start, you know, with one of our first guests back in January 2022, it was Daniel Descalso. Daniel, for those that don't know, played with the St. Louis Cardinals among some other teams, but known here locally, as a 2011, world series champion for our St. Louis Cardinals, which was, which was phenomenal.
But we talked about a lot of things. And one of the things he talked about was the game will humble you, and it will humble you very quickly, you can go for it over. And I apply this a lot of things in sports to business. Because we can go through and over and over fifteen In baseball, maybe the 0-for acts in, in presentations to clients, if you're in sales, it may be the just random stuff that you have to do as a lawyer or a police officer. And you're just kind of what you would call in a slump. And I think what I liked the most is, he said, it's the work you put in when no one's watching, even when things are going well with your quote unquote, swing. That doesn't mean you get the results and we have to stay committed.
So what I think about there is going over fifteen In baseball, but still showing up every day and doing the work. Still showing up. And being committed to your craft, being a student of the game, doing whatever it is that you got to do, even when you don't want to do it. I know for me personally, there's plenty of days, right where you just you don't wake up and you're like, oh, running through a brick wall and you want to show up and go conquer your day and do all that. I think we're all guilty of that. Whether it's it's things going on in our life, it's maybe you were up, you know, traveling crazy for work. Maybe you were up late with kids sporting events. Whatever it may be, not every day, you're up and Adam and I think that what matters is when you show up, even when you don't want to. And that's what I took away from Daniel Descalso.
I remember him talking vividly about, you know, hitting line drives and hitting a ball that you think's gonna go over the fence and they rob it, hitting line drives right at the shortstop or the centerfielder. And they're not going the way you want them to go. But at the same time, it doesn't mean you've hit a bad ball, or you could have ripped one, it just happened to be right at him.
So we don't need to get so focused on the things that we're not doing well, focus on that good swing. But when no one's watching, you can work on your craft every single time and try to get a little bit better. So that was Daniel Descalso.
Next one is Trey Hardee. Now Trey was a great guest. Actually had him on along with Amy Coons, who I'll talk about next. And they did a joint podcast with my son, Drew Gilliland and Addison Baltus. And so it's another thing that I take away is these people, you know, are amazing. You know, I never would have imagined 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago, five years ago, the podcast was started about 10 or 15 years ago, that I would have the opportunity to meet these people. To just pick up the phone and call these people. It's amazing to me how many people at the top of their game are willing to give back to others, to help us all get better.
And so that's just a little sidebar note, but Trey Hardee, two time Olympian, also a silver medalist, is an amazing person. And here's what he said is you have to play the long game with your health. And I apply that to investments. You know, what I do every day Visionary Wealth Advisors for a living is you don't just put $1 away today, and it doubles and becomes $2 tomorrow. No different than I can't just go out and lift weights today, and expect to be stronger tomorrow, or expect to be healthier tomorrow.
And so when you said that is you have to play the long game with your health, it made a ton of sense to me made a ton of sense with my own choices with eating habits made a ton of sense with my own choices. I'm never a you know, a five times a week guy to work out. But I can tell you is I said here in November, middle of November of 2022. And I've been at it four or five days a week, every week with exercise since beginning of August 2022. For me, that's probably the longest spell I've gone in my life with exercise. And for me that hit home when he says you have to play the long game.
I don't like delayed gratification. I want the gratification now. Right? And I think a lot of us do especially in the world that we live in today. But playing that long game in my health was really important for me to hear to stop expecting to feel different tomorrow. Stop expecting to get the result tomorrow. Play the long game, show up again every day even when I don't want to. And it's amazing the benefits that you'll start to feel and actually how you'll start to like it, which is where I've gotten. So that was my takeaway from Trey Hardee.
Amy Kuhns. Same thing, an Olympic athlete, just an amazing human being. And I was shocked, you know, again, when I asked these questions, sometimes you put your mind of things that you think you may hear, and I said to her, what's the no miss item? Like if I followed you around the camera, Amy? What would I see that you do every single day? And her answer to me was kind of like, you know, very simple, but yet doing it every day having the discipline, and it was meditation, and gratitude.
Never did I think what I'd hear coming out of an Olympic athlete's mouth would be my meditation, and my gratitude. What are the three things I'm thankful for every single day? And you've listened this podcast, you hear that quite a bit, actually, it's a common theme that you hear is people focusing on gratitude. But for me to hear it from an Olympic athlete, that what got her to that next level, was her meditations and her gratitude. And she also said, emotions are liars. And I'll talk a little bit more about our emotions from somebody else. But, but that's true, right? So many times we can feel an emotion.
And it's not true. And I overheard a conversation on an airplane ride, I was just on that I'm conquering my fear of flying again, if people listen to this, I'm over that fear, because I faced it, and I did it. And I've done it numerous times. Now, I digress. I apologize. But this one flight attendant said to another flight attendant, it was a male and female talking and he was in the Army for years. And he said he was scared on all these flights and all the things he had to go do. And the other flight attendant said, Why did you do that? Why did you do with that fear? And he said, You know what fears are right. And we've all said this, we've all heard this, but it's false evidence appearing real.
And I think that so many times in our lives, we do have fears that hold us back. We have fears that tell us, hey, this voice saying I can't do this. This voice that says, Who do you think you are? Those emotions are liars of what I have found over doing what I do for the last two decades. We got to hear him, we gotta we gotta embrace our emotions, we got to feel our emotions. But we also have to understand that those emotions can be liars, and with the trust our gut, with the trust our instincts, trust our history of what we've done to be successful, and go out and make things happen.
So the next one was by Brooke Weinstein. It was a simple comment she made, but a very profound comment. And she said, I am doing enough. You know, if I had to ask him to listen to this right now, raise your hand if you ever feel like you're not doing enough. And again, I think a lot of us can feel that way.
But what she said is give yourself permission to know that you're doing enough. On a day, even though I just said show up and when you don't want to. But she said sometimes you just don't show up, you know, when she went through a very hard battle you can listen to on the full podcast, and it was her way to not beat herself up over not doing enough sometimes. Just just It's okay. Sometimes it's gonna be okay.
And for me, what I have found is throughout the year to give myself permission to feel that way. If I wasn't as productive as I was, sometimes I used to go home, I'd be upset, or maybe be mad at myself, whatever it may be. Just telling myself that I'm doing enough. And that's okay. So thanks to Brooke Weinstein for that.
The next one is Matt Adams, big city, World Series champ, again with the St. Louis Cardinals, I'm sorry, with the Nationals. But on a lot of playoff runs with the St. Louis Cardinals. An amazing guy. Gotten to know him. He's just a great person.
But he said it's mindset and preparation. So two different things, right, your mindset and your preparation. He said, When I go up to bat, and again, I'll apply that to the business room, I go into client meeting, I go into some presentation, whatever it may be.

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