Nick Cavuoto’s message is inspiring, energetic and actionable. His combined passion and decades of expertise for what is possible through inner alignment creates meaningful impact for all who hear it. True alignment is the pathway to greater impact, abundance, and fulfillment. When you’re aligned, you honor, acknowledge, and flow through your emotion, which is energy in motion. Maybe you’ve tried to “make it happen” either on your own or following the advice of others. But no matter what you do, something feels “off” the ease, flow, and results just aren’t there in your business, your team, or your life.



Brett Gilliland
Welcome to the Circuit of Success. I'm your host, Brett Gilland. Today I got Nick Kabuto with me. Nick, what's up buddy?
Nick Cavuoto
How's it going, man? It's great to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
Brett Gilliland
Absolutely. You're coming in from Nash- Vegas. I'm coming in from the St. Louis area here in O' Fallon, Illinois. You're a NewNash- Vegas guy in Nashville, Tennessee. Right?
Nick Cavuoto
That's right. We spent a good amount of, uh, the last, you know, half a decade or so out in Denver, uh, originally from, uh, from New York. And, um, dude, it's been a journey, you know, I had to go west to find myself. Becoming an entrepreneur seems to have that, you know, um, seems to have that effect on people where they have to really dig deep and go like, man, what is the bigger picture here? What do I want in life and what do I need to do about it? So.
Brett Gilliland
Yeah.
Nick Cavuoto
It's incredible.
Brett Gilliland
Well, that's awesome, man. Before we dive into all this stuff, um, you are a four time CEO and founder, a Fortune 500consultant, a private equity investor, a keynote speaker, and global business leader. Um, man, you're just helping tons of people and I can't wait to chat about, uh, all that.
But before we get started, if you can just kind give us a backstory, man, what's made Nick, the man you are today.And, uh, then we'll, we'll rock from there.
Nick Cavuoto
For sure, man. Well, you know, uh, to, to keep it brief and simple, uh, my dad was a drug dealer who found Jesus. Okay? So that's my origination story, is that's the stock that I'm coming from, which is actually pretty incredible because, you know, it talks about a story of transformation, of going in one direction, finding truth, and then going in a different direction.
And that was my dad's story of course. But, um, you know, coming into the world, uh, you know, I grew up sleeping under pews at you know, three years old, uh, because my dad ended up becoming a pastor and leading a congregation of people.And, uh, so my life started in, you know, very, um, uh, disruptive, encouraging, thought-provoking environments.
Um, and I've seen public speakers since I was three years old. I've, you know, been a part of really epic movements since I was a young kid. And so my life has just surrounded the idea of transformation, of awakening and surrender. Of being on a journey of finding the highest and most true version of who we are and what our greatest contribution could be in the world.
And, uh, for that, I'm incredibly thankful, man. So yeah, I've done a lot of really cool things in the business world. Um, but, you know, life's a labyrinth, man. We, we come out the same door that we went in and I'm just finding myself now in a different position going like, I helped a lot of people uh, a lot of companies and it's time for me to help a lot more people.
Brett Gilliland
Yeah. And so how, how did you get into that? Like what made you go from that role? Obviously, the what you just, uh, very transparently shared from drug dealer who found to your dad, who found Jesus and, and, but you don't just wake up and consult with the people that you're consulting with and having conferences and do those things.
Kind of walk us through that journey as the young Nick, not that you're not young now, but the young Nick. Uh, what, what were you doing back then on that grind on that journey?
Nick Cavuoto
Yeah, man. Well, you know, uh, let me, let me look at my, my story at 19. I fell outta college for the second time and uh, you know, I ended up going back home. I was in South Florida, you know. What I was up to. I mean, it's a pretty easy story to kind of, you know, connect the dots, right? Fell outta college and you're in South Florida. I mean, it's pretty simple. So I went back home and I asked my dad, I was like, man, I need to come home. And, and, and my dad was like, you know, it's kind of a prodigal son moment of where his arms are open. Why? Like, come on back, man. I got you. And I just said, dad, I don't know what I need to do with my life, man. I don't, I don't know how to get it back on track. And he said, you need to serve, and I understood the concept growing up, you know, and basically a business that required volunteers, right? Uh, people being there, not because they're getting paid, but because they wanted to be a part of something, they wanted to belong.
And my dad taught me, you know, really the power of servant leadership. And so I showed up and I kept showing up. And I remember this dude, you know, real tall, skinny guy walks up to me, you know, at, at the church that, uh, my dad suggested I volunteered at by that time he was finished. And, um, he just says, Hey, your dad said you know a lot about technology.
I could really use a hand if you're open to it. And I was like, I'd love to. I still work with that guy now, 15 years later.
Brett Gilliland
Wow.
Nick Cavuoto
We still collaborate. He still films my events. I mean, it's, it's absolutely incredible. So, you know, I think that's the power of service man, of showing up, doing the right thing, following, you know, the path of life and trusting the process.
Man, I, I can't even explain how many times I've had to rely on an inner-knowing trusting that God saw the picture more clear than I did. And for those of you who might have a different belief system, that's okay. This is just my dialect. It's like my accent, if you will. It's just the way that I talk cause of the way I was raised.
And um, at the end of the day, I just truly believe that you have to be in a place of where you can trust the greater process and uh, and lean into that. And, um, that's where my help comes from, you know, and everything that I do, I have a deep reliance on knowing that something greater has my back.
Brett Gilliland
Yeah. And so when you're 19 falling out of college and you're going back home, I mean, how, how do you though. Yeah, I'm, I'm putting this visual out there, right? You're, you're in this hole. Maybe there's a ladder sound like there's a ladder, there's at least a hand down right from dad that's gonna pull you up. Um, but man, even on the days of dark days, right? What, what were you doing if I were back there following this guy around at whatever, 25 years old, what, what were you doing day in, day out to get where you're at today? What was, what was that like?
Nick Cavuoto
Well, you know, at 19 I said, I'll serve and I just helped. And then I got greater and greater responsibility, so I just show up. I was uploading podcasts. It was the first thing that I did. Once a week I'd go in and upload a podcast. Well, after you show up for six months, everyone's like, who the heck is this guy? Right? Like he still showed up for free. And after that, then they said, Hey, you know, we have a, um, we have a location in, in our, in the downtown, in, in the downtown area in the city. And they were like, we need someone to help launch an initiative to feed the homeless. And I was like, I'm in. Like, let's go. Let's do it. I think that with, you know, if you truly want to be great in life and you wanna do great things, it requires a deep level of personal responsibility. And when the things come your way, I've learned in my life how to wait for the, invitation. How to let things come to me like a hunter in the woods.
Like, I'm like, I'm gonna let this thing walk towards me. For me, it's about being in the right place at the right time. And that's really the trajectory of what I learned from that season because after that I ended up going into ministry. I volunteered for two years. I went from going, you know, for two hours a week to going to 40 hours a week, volunteering for zero.
And I was working full-time at Verizon. It was the first like real job I ever had. And I got, you know, working there in the call center because I didn't have a degree and I was kind of working it out. And ended up going to number two in the organization at that church, which we had 50 employees. I mean, I was managing an eight figure budget at 24.
Um, you know, and I took that church from a thousand to 10,000 people every weekend. And that was on the back, of course, of a, of a lot of people who were given it their all. Um, I don't take full credit for that whatsoever, but you had to have a lot of valor. You had to be a champion. You had to be in there going like, you know, have the courage do it.
Scared, push through. I, I didn't question my, you know, inabilities cause my dad always told us, he said, God will always make room for your gift. It's about being accessible and available to the greater things that are, that are happening in your life. And so that's what I did.
Craig Rochelle's a great principle. Better is an open hand than a closed fist. I kept my hands open and that's, I think that's where we become that circuit. The transmission of energy is when we can receive and we can give. And we can give and we can receive, yeah. That most people have a problem receiving, which is actually what cuts off the line from them being able to do their grace work.
Brett Gilliland
Wouldn't you also think that that's the abundance mentality there? I mean, hearing what your dad said to you, hearing what you just said, right. Open hands, give and receive, both those,

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