Making Powerful Shifts with Linda Edgecombe (#72) — Transcript
Updated: Oct 26
THE PICTURE OF WEALTH · EPISODE 72
Dustin Serviss speaks with Linda Edgecombe about making meaningful changes in health, relationships, wealth and mindset. The conversation explores humour, personal experience and questions that can help someone choose a new direction.
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[00:00:01] Introducing the Picture of Wealth
[00:05:47] Getting past research and indecision
[00:13:30] Doing something for the first time
[00:18:25] Getting your bravery back
[00:23:53] Understanding the self-assessment scores
[00:28:06] Combining walking and mindfulness
[00:33:51] Choices beyond wealth building
[00:38:31] Making decisions around how you want to feel
[00:43:23] Asking for the story behind the surface
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[00:00:01] Show announcer: Welcome to the Picture of Wealth, a podcast all about living more of your life now yet being responsible for your future. Lifestyle experimenter, wealth scientist, and financial coach, Dustin Service, shares life hacks, wealth tips, and interviews successful entrepreneurs on how they're thriving in happiness, purpose, and prosperity.
[00:00:24] Dustin Serviss: Now when I think of the term my father used to say to me as I got older in life, shit or get off the pot, He was referring to make a decision, as in hurry up. And the origin goes back to when houses only had one loo, and whoever had to go the most got the precedence. If you were sitting there and not going, you were of less priority. Okay. You get it. Enough of that. But sure, in today's world, I'm not sure this would actually work because usually men, you know, currently the most accused, not sure it's fact or if science has confirmed it, but seem to take longer than previously checking social media,
[00:00:54] Dustin Serviss: classifieds, travel sites, essentially, you know, multitasking. But, wow, I'm off topic. The guest you have just heard the voice of is hall of fame professional speaker and author Linda Edgecomb. She wrote a book called Shift or Get Off the Pot, And it's a great story and great tools on how to make a shift in your life. That shift could be health, wealth, relationships, or mindset, all of which Linda uses humor to unpack and gives personal insight on... Into the the how or the why, you know, she has moved through life using these tools. She also gives us a a wealth tidbit on how she has lived in
[00:01:32] Dustin Serviss: twenty eight houses over thirty five years and that... What that has done for her wealth. We get into what I call the wealth edge, and you'll learn what Linda's wealth edge and her husband's key strategy is. She also gives you two very powerful questions to ask yourself right now that could completely change the trajectory of your life. Let's get into it. Linda, thanks a lot for being on the show today, and I am excited to move people from distraction and overwhelm to, being resilient and engaged. So I think for a lot of the entrepreneurs that are listening, you know, if they can get themselves like that, they might be able to get their
[00:02:06] Dustin Serviss: staff like that, and it might be able to create leverage so they have a bit of lifestyle to themselves. So thanks a lot for being on the show today.
[00:02:12] Linda Edgecombe: It's it's my pleasure. I mean, it took me a few times of postponing, canceling. I've I've got COVID. I can't speak. Well Nice. Hopefully
[00:02:23] Dustin Serviss: hopefully... Yeah. That's for another day for maybe a glass of wine discussion if COVID exists anymore because the media doesn't seem to think it does. But, today, we're gonna go on a journey. I think there's a couple scenarios I want you to unpack. You know, you're a, you know, hall of fame speaker. You're an author. You've got a couple books, written that we're gonna talk about. And I think that's a great place to start would be, you know, shift or get off the pot is a tagline in one of your books, and you're holding it up. So there it is. Shift or get off the pot. And I think there's there's some innuendo and some humor in there.
[00:02:55] Dustin Serviss: And, you know, give give us a a a teaser of what, you know, that, you know, that title means.
[00:03:05] Linda Edgecombe: Well, the reason I went with that title is my mother, who... God bless you. She's passed six eight... Six years ago, used to actually say it to us, not shift. She'd say the real thing, consistently, you know, which means, you know, make a decision already. Like, get on with it. Yeah. Stop just talking, complaining, theorizing. Just freaking do something. But the reason I went with the title Shifter, get off the pod, is because I often, for the last thirty now one years, speak about making shifts in our life. But my colleague from Ontario, who is quite a sassy speaker himself, you know, that's why
[00:03:47] Linda Edgecombe: I like him, when I was writing it, he said, Linda, if you title the book, twelve steps to being a better you, he goes, I will kick you in the ass. He goes, if you if you can't make this book, titled Sassy... And believe me, I ran a few titles by some people and they're like, oh, it's a bit... You know. And then a few people said, what is it? What is it about? Marijuana? The plot? I was never in the plot. But, anyways, but, anyways, it's funny. I... Like I said, I told you before we got on the on the on the call, that, on Monday, that's what this association chose as the title because they liked Sassy.
[00:04:26] Linda Edgecombe: And, of course, whenever anybody says it, they go, shift. And I, you
[00:04:32] Dustin Serviss: know, when
[00:04:32] Linda Edgecombe: when they introduced me in that book, anyways. But, I just, you know, I just... I just wanted people to just say, you know, we... Take a snapshot. What are you procrastinating on? It's actually pretty simple to move forward on things. We just need to literally move. Act on anything. Just start. And so that's what, people that's what people will ask me about. And so they'll also... When I when I finish a presentation, because I usually will have some of... Mostly scarves, we'll get to that maybe. I'll have both my books there, just a few of them, and they'll say, which one should I get? Shift or breaking busy?
[00:05:09] Linda Edgecombe: I said, well, shift is about starting something. Breaking busy is about stopping something.
[00:05:15] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:05:16] Linda Edgecombe: So so where are you at?
[00:05:18] Dustin Serviss: So how... Like, in today's world, I think, you know, that there's this, you know, we've really had a a, you know, trying on our sort of brains in the last couple years, but maybe it's just... It's been like that forever. But we have so much access to information that, you know, access... The more information we access, the smarter we'll be and the better decisions that we'll make. And, you know, so I would say, you know, when you're... You know, people get researching things. It's like, I need to make good decisions for the future, and so we're gonna... I'm gonna make a shift. I'm gonna make a change. I'm gonna do something.
[00:05:47] Dustin Serviss: I better do some research. Research, research, research. Oh, yeah. I just... I'm still at a crossroads. I'm still on the fence teetering. How, like, how do you cut through... And, again, this is... You can swear in the podcast. But how do you cut through the shit to get to starting that first move to get changing?
[00:06:06] Linda Edgecombe: Okay. So the research for most people is the easy part. Mhmm. It's never the thing. So it's never the let's get fitter or healthier or sleep better or have better conversations or spend more time with my kids. It's never those those things aren't the hard thing. It's getting to them.
[00:06:26] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:06:27] Linda Edgecombe: And motivation does not come from me blabbing with you or blabbing to whoever is listening to your podcast today. Motivation is physics. It's about literally putting one foot in front of the other and starting something. If you lean towards the the side of perfection, which fifty percent of the population lean towards the side of perfection, some people lean towards the far side of perfection. So they, you know, really hold themselves back because they... You'll never have... I'll say it. Your shit together. You'll never have enough information to start. And so my philosophy, and it's worked for me, I'm not sure if this
[00:07:03] Linda Edgecombe: is your philosophy, but I have sold things before I've even created them.
[00:07:08] Dustin Serviss: Mhmm.
[00:07:08] Linda Edgecombe: I sold breaking busy before I ever wrote it for a conference that was six months ahead of me, and I backed up what I had to do to get that thing done so it could be published so I could actually sell the whatever thousands of copies at this conference. That was my motivation. And if I hadn't sold it, I would have just put it off and put it off because it's getting to the writing, not the writing itself
[00:07:30] Dustin Serviss: Mhmm.
[00:07:30] Linda Edgecombe: That is the challenge. It's getting to putting your freaking shoes on and walking out the door, not the walk itself. So the research part is where we're comfortable. We're very comfortable in front of our computers because it's pretty safe to be there.
[00:07:44] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:07:45] Linda Edgecombe: And you know what? I think when you're reading stuff, we all... As we've learned in the last number of years, we only find the information that agrees with our perspective anyway.
[00:07:55] Dustin Serviss: Card in advance....
[00:07:56] Linda Edgecombe: You search, you keep on getting. And Yeah. You know, it depends on the decision. And decisions are something that... We're not we're not taught how to make decisions. And if you have a tough time, and I have certain family members and friends who have a real difficult time making decisions on what they wanna do because they never make decisions. So I always say start small. Decide what you wanna have for dinner tonight. Decide where you wanna go for... Like, make a decision. Just don't don't say, oh, no. No. You choose. Oh, no. You choose. And you... When you decide, you tend to act. And it literally... And who gives a sh...
[00:08:33] Linda Edgecombe: Whether it's perfect, you've got it together, nobody does. And most of us, you know, put a perception around us that, oh, yeah. I've got it so together. No one has it together.
[00:08:45] Dustin Serviss: Mhmm.
[00:08:45] Linda Edgecombe: We're all pretty much faking it, but some of us get more done because we act more often. We we launch more often.
[00:08:54] Dustin Serviss: I just, finished a book called, The Luck Factor, and I kinda got obsessed a few months ago with, like, luck and some... And it's just with clients. You know, their their investments are lucky. They buy out a building. Next thing you know, the the highways department wants it. Or just little things where I'm like, how are they so lucky? And, you know, one of the biggest things out of all the books that I read was lucky people, they they... You know, people that that just like, wow. That guy won another contest. Well, that guy enters way more contest than someone else. So if you're constantly, you know, swinging at the fence, then you've
[00:09:30] Dustin Serviss: got a better chance. Totally. And and, again, I don't know if you wanna... People should be buy... Buying lottery tickets every week. I don't know if that's a good thing. But those people, in theory, would be more lucky than than someone
[00:09:40] Linda Edgecombe: Absolutely.
[00:09:41] Dustin Serviss: Else. The the odds... You might wanna watch the odds. But you nailed it before of saying, you know, when people get stuck in a decision, they're usually worried about what the other people are gonna think about the repercussion of the decision after the fact.
[00:09:54] Linda Edgecombe: And the truth is, other people aren't thinking they aren't thinking about you at all. They're thinking about themselves and what they're not doing. Yeah. If we if we could just get a handle around... See, the the point to me always is, life is real simple. We all have stuff in our heads. Very few of us write it down. Because if you write it down, oh my god, you might have to actually see it. And very, very few of us ever tell somebody else. Because if we tell somebody else, this is what I'm thinking I might wanna do. And what if we don't do it? They're gonna think, oh, what a loser. What a failure. They're not thinking about you at all.
[00:10:28] Linda Edgecombe: But the truth is the boat doesn't land on your driveway just because you want a boat. The boat lands on your driveway. Well, maybe you'll see a picture of the boat you want. You figure out, oh, I can afford a couple thousand. Really, that's just a dinghy. But, of, you know, whatever you think you might afford to get a boat. And one day, you're out having a beer with your friend, and you say, you know, I'm thinking about getting a boat. This is what I can afford. You know, I'd love to have this or whatever. One day, your friend who you told this to is driving down some back road and somebody has a boat for sale on his driveway with that...
[00:10:58] Linda Edgecombe: With around that price... You didn't see it. That person saw it. It's not woo woo.
[00:11:03] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:11:04] Linda Edgecombe: So if it's in our heads and we write it down, and, yeah, you have to see it more often. It makes it a little bit more real. And then you tell someone, you got about an eighty five percent chance you'll get it done. It's not magic. That's the way... When you say, oh, the universe, you know, collaborates to bring stuff to you, that... That's what it means.
[00:11:24] Dustin Serviss: Yep.
[00:11:25] Linda Edgecombe: You say, gosh. I gotta start walking more. And someone at work goes, yeah. Me too. Let's go together. Well, then you all said got a little bit of an accountability piece.
[00:11:32] Dustin Serviss: Yep. Yeah. And it's so it's... One step in front of the other.
[00:11:37] Linda Edgecombe: It's physics. It's inertia.
[00:11:39] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. Get it going.
[00:11:41] Linda Edgecombe: Yeah.
[00:11:41] Dustin Serviss: So so, one, I'm kind of switching gears, but I I think, you know, I work with a lot of people who are, say, older. Sometimes I work with
[00:11:52] Linda Edgecombe: younger people.
[00:11:53] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. Well, no. It's just people who are making a change. Usually, they're selling a business. Usually, they've inherited money. Usually, there's something. And there's something about retirement planning that's easy, which is the numbers. Here's, you know, the step step step and if this all happens. But re... The reality of that, that isn't where the fun comes from. And where I see the most stress, you know, I I kinda jot it down a situation. So, you know, retired people, all of a sudden, you know, they're whatever age. They're looking at each other. Kids are out of the house.
[00:12:20] Dustin Serviss: They've lost their, you know, sort of passions and hobbies because life got busy. And, you know, you remember when you started dating your spouse through that picture of, you know, that the woman in her lulu golfing outfit or the guy in his hunting gear, and you're like, wow. I'm so attracted. He's such a man. And then you fast forward through the kids and sleep deprivation and, fuck, you find yourself, you know, thinking there's no way I could do anything I like anymore because I have no time. And, if I go do that, then my wife......
[00:12:46] Linda Edgecombe: Desire.
[00:12:48] Dustin Serviss: No desire. My wife or her husband will be mad at me for going and doing that. So, next thing you know, you are at home. You're with your partner. You're bored. You have lots of money, but you have no life. So people say, like, why the hell didn't my financial adviser tell me about this in my retirement plan? You know? So I have, you know, this thing of... You know, my question to you is, do you have any comments on what, you know, maybe a thirty, a forty, a fifty, or a six year old can do to ensure they don't lose their passions along the way? And I know this is a big question. But That
[00:13:21] Linda Edgecombe: is a big question. But
[00:13:22] Dustin Serviss: Tying back to your book, is there anything in the two books that address maintaining that balance?
[00:13:30] Linda Edgecombe: K. So this question here... So this has been my... Literally my hallmark quote for the last twenty five years as a speaker. And I have been a hypocrite with this quote, and I've dove back into it with this... For this quote, and I catch myself all the time. So I have been saying this quote, when's the last time you did something for the first time? Because when you say
[00:13:57] Dustin Serviss: something...... Again? Can you say it again?
[00:13:58] Linda Edgecombe: When's the last time you did something for the first time?
[00:14:04] Dustin Serviss: Thanks.
[00:14:05] Linda Edgecombe: And what you really wanna ask yourself is how old are the stories you keep rehashing with your good buds, with your spouse. Right? Remember? Summer eighty eight? Yeah. Yeah.
[00:14:18] Dustin Serviss: That
[00:14:18] Linda Edgecombe: was a good summer for me. Anyway, like, seriously. So here's... And here's why this is so important as we move through. And believe me, I'm on the cusp. Should I wind her down or should I keep going? And I have not... I've decided I'm gonna keep going for at least another year. I've committed to that. That just came to me last week, literally just came to me last week. And I have been in search of, and I call it aging wildly. And maybe that's my next book. I don't even know. I've I've done research. I've read books. I've read on what people call midlife because our retirement is not our parents' retirement. Right?
[00:14:58] Linda Edgecombe: Our retirement is repurposing all the skills and gifts and things we've learned and saying, okay, How could I do something a little differently? And where... You know, so how old are the stories? And here's why the story thing is so so important. The only thing we've had since we've been on the planet is been story to story to story to story. That's the only thing we've had. And the only reason we're on the planet is so we connect to each other. And the only way we connect to it is not about the detail of the spreadsheets or the minutiae or the whatever or even how much wealth we've gained.
[00:15:37] Linda Edgecombe: Because in the big picture, that's a comfort thing for sure and some opportunities, but that's not really the joy factor.
[00:15:44] Dustin Serviss: Mhmm.
[00:15:45] Linda Edgecombe: But the only way we actually connect with each other is through stories. Like, I've got to know something about you for me to connect with you, know you, be accountable to you, and you're gonna know something about me. Right? I like I like dogs. I've got dogs. My parent just passed. You know, where where where are you in your stories? You know, I I have had a hell of a time through COVID. Most people have. And, you know, I'm as exhausted as anybody is. And I do know what I need to do to help maintain that. I know what I have to do to help maintain my own mental health, you know, sleep factor, all those things.
[00:16:20] Linda Edgecombe: So I like to like to share those stories with each other. It's through the stories. But in order to share stories, we have to become more vulnerable, which means we have to open up just a little bit. And a good... Probably, you know, forty percent of your, listeners are introverted, meaning that they hold their cards. And, actually, I'm ironically more introverted than I am extroverted. So... But they hold their cards close to their chest. And people who are very introverted who do hold their cards, they don't like to reveal too much about themselves to other people. It's uncomfortable for them.
[00:16:52] Linda Edgecombe: It's exhausting being around you if you are because we keep trying, we keep asking, we keep reaching and nothing's coming back. And so what happens is we stop asking.
[00:17:02] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:17:02] Linda Edgecombe: So in order for us to really connect, because connection is really why we're here. Where we find the joy, where we find the peace, where we find the calm is in this relationship with peace. And so that's why the the the vulnerability piece. But if our stories, as I often say, are older than a year... Now right now our stories are probably older than two years for sure because we have not done a whole lot. And I don't mean... So in my business and in your business, we've had the privilege of being able to see lots of parts of the planet. I have. I've I've spoken on, like, all over the planet.
[00:17:40] Linda Edgecombe: And I don't mean that kind of a story because that's that's privilege. That's my work. Someone's paying me to go somewhere really cool. I get it. I mean, when's the last time you dared yourself, you scared yourself, you pushed yourself, you had no idea what the outcome was gonna be just because? What the hell? And I think what COVID has done, I've I've sort of... And I've done some cool things, pushed myself, like big big hikes, big treks, you know, base camp Everest. I've done that a few times. I've done... I've walked the Camino eight hundred and some kilometers by myself. Nobody there. But I... It's... That's also now five years old.
[00:18:18] Linda Edgecombe: And in the last two years, I've really lost my... I don't know. I call it my brave factor.
[00:18:25] Dustin Serviss: Mhmm.
[00:18:25] Linda Edgecombe: And I think COVID has allowed me to sit in this chair that I'm sitting in right now, you know, be on my computer, write that part. It's a very secure spot for me to get back out there and try new things. Kind of like, oh, I've got a little anxiety over that. And so, you know, I've been ending most presentations in the last, you know, month or so saying, we... Here's to getting our bravery back. Yeah. We've been so cautious about everything that becomes feel... That feels very normal to us right now. And I just think we gotta dust off that, our guts and get out there.
[00:19:01] Dustin Serviss: I'd may... I'd maybe give yourself some grace, though. It's it's habit forming because it's been so long where you haven't been able to make the thing and you just... It's comfortable. And the the thought of sitting down and getting on the computer booking something, this is something that Jody and I fight with, and that's like, oh, like, I'm I'm going... I'm doing something today out in the yard or you're just... But you have to do it. And... But where before it was you get get excited to sit down Yeah. Book, do the thing, and and check off the bucket list where, you know, the the whole premise of...
[00:19:39] Dustin Serviss: That we've been talking about in our sort of sphere of of this lifestyle revolution, if you wanna call it, is, well, I don't need to prove anything to anybody anymore. This bucket list, that's all these expensive things, and it was almost like a status check. It's like, oh, I've done that. I've done that, where there's more to it than that. There is the plan. And and this... I wrote... Make it... Made a note. I think, you know, I don't make too much notes in the podcast, but I I love that stories. How old are the stories? Because that is... Those things are their energy. Their energy pre, their energy after.
[00:20:15] Dustin Serviss: There's value in, in a talk that I do. We we talk about... You know, do a... An experience is an hour, and it costs two thousand dollars. And in in my example, it was a fighter jet pilot training course. And so you think, wow. Why would you ever pay that much? But the value... I broke I broke it down in this long thing that the amount of times you could tell the story in the first year was, like, worth... Is worth... I would have paid five thousand for it. So I I I appreciate you sharing, you know, those stories. And so so where do we move forward from here? You know, you say one foot after the other.
[00:20:52] Dustin Serviss: You know, we're so busy even though it's just a new busy. How do we start making that shift? How do we start just off the the bucket list again?
[00:21:03] Linda Edgecombe: I guess it could be a bucket list or you... If you wanna start smaller, like, if you wanna start smaller, I mean, how much time do we have? I would, I would I would ask... Honestly, I'd ask your listeners to, rate them... Just so they can get a snapshot of where they're at right now. Can I do that?
[00:21:18] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. Hundred percent.
[00:21:20] Linda Edgecombe: Okay. So I'd ask your listeners to rate themselves in four categories of their lives out of ten. Okay? The first category is gonna be relationships. And and when I say relationships, I mean, you know, the ones that matter to you. Yep. Personal, friendships, coworkers, the ones that actually matter to you. Some probably are working really well. Some probably need some time and attention. But give yourself a rating out of ten in the relationships of your life. And by the way, if you wanna, you know, win the longevity race on the planet, yeah, anybody who lives in a blue zone, the people that
[00:21:51] Linda Edgecombe: live, you know, a hundred years and beyond, this is their number one. Relationships. Communicating, you know, connecting. They take they take maintenance. They don't take care of themselves. Move over to, the second category, physical activity. Are you consistently physically active throughout the year? I don't care whether that's walking, running, golfing, gardening, you're an Ironman, you're cycling... Whatever you do. Right? Is movement a part of who you are out of ten? Alright? Careers. And careers and finance go together but but we will spend on average way more than our parents did. The boomers in your lives, in your careers.
[00:22:33] Linda Edgecombe: Do you love it still? Do you hate it? Are you counting the days to retirement? Because a lot of people do. Count the days to retirement. Is it energizing you? How much stress is it causing you? So give yourself a rating out of ten under careers. I have a more robust, I can tell people if they want to get a more robust personal audit, where they can find that on my site, which breaks these down even further so it's a little bit more detailed. And then the last quadrant I want you to rate yourself around is mindfulness. It's your mindset. Mindfulness slash spirituality. How you want to rate it is do you spend any time,
[00:23:11] Linda Edgecombe: and it should be in a day, but I'll move it to a week, just getting quiet enough to hear yourself think. And you do that on purpose and it's scheduled. It doesn't just happen. You carve it. Okay? And then I ask you to add those four quadrants up out of forty and see where your number lands. Now don't judge the number. Don't think, oh my god. That's low or oh my god. Look at me. It's high. But I will tell you that pre COVID, during COVID, and now we're hopefully coming out this, you know, the the back end of this experience, The numbers have not been that different where you think, oh, I wonder they would have been.
[00:23:53] Linda Edgecombe: Most people land smack dab in the middle seventeen to about twenty one. Most people do. The next largest portion is probably, you know, twelve to fifteen. And, few people land in the thirties, and and very few people land between... Very, very few people land between thirty and forty. Okay? And how people... If you wanna make decisions, you know, but how people land in the high numbers, like thirty plus, is they are very mindful, intentional human beings who know... Have practices in their daily lives. Meaning that they they they set themselves up for the best day possible.
[00:24:31] Linda Edgecombe: They gift themselves ten, fifteen minutes in the morning before they start the racquetball game of their lives. And they also bookend the end of their day with how they unwind their day so they get the best sleep quality of their lives. And in the middle of their day, when shit hits a fan, they have what I call the process of how they, you know, debunk the stress that's happening. They call a friend, they talk to a mentor, they have a coach, they go for a walk, they move their energy. That's a practice and a process for them. Okay? So saying all that, choose one of these areas that you feel need some time and attention. Not three.
[00:25:07] Linda Edgecombe: Maybe all four of them do, but choose the one that would give you the biggest payoff the quickest right now. And don't just say, oh god. I need to move more because number one that comes down every time is physical activity. Number two is mindfulness. Number three is relationships, and career hardly ever makes career hardly ever makes the list. So that's how it's that's how it's played out every time I've done this, and I'm talking you... I'm talking thousands of people I've done this with. Thousands.
[00:25:40] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. So
[00:25:41] Linda Edgecombe: So don't just say I need to move more. Get really specific. I need to take a walk today. I need to pick up the phone and call somebody I'm having a, you know, a little bit of tension with today. And if it's mindfulness, I'm gonna give myself ten minutes just by myself. Tell the kids to go away. Just go in the bathroom if you have to. I don't care. So can your child.
[00:26:01] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:26:02] Linda Edgecombe: But you... It's gotta be scheduled and planned.
[00:26:04] Dustin Serviss: But, Linda, you know what? I... All this it just seems, like, overwhelming to me. So I just wanna relax in life. No. I'm I'm putting a question out. So I'm Oh. I I just wanna, like, live my life and relax. So, you know, it's like, oh, I got another thing to, like, put on the agenda.
[00:26:21] Linda Edgecombe: Oh, you're saying that that that... So if I triggered that for you, if me doing this with you... See, the thing is you already knew all this, but I just did.
[00:26:30] Dustin Serviss: I'm I'm help... I'm helping move this. I'm...
[00:26:32] Linda Edgecombe: I know you.
[00:26:33] Dustin Serviss: I want you to break it down because I know lots of people will say that. It's like, hey. Oh, it's like, you know, why are you so disciplined? Why do you...
[00:26:40] Linda Edgecombe: I'm not disciplined. Oh my god. No. God. I mean, I have a dog, so I have to walk with my dog.
[00:26:49] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:26:49] Linda Edgecombe: Right? Okay. Other than that, you know what I do? How how I do discipline? I love cooking. I'm just... I'm just as an example. I Yep. Freaking love cooking. I love making... Whatever. And I make a deal with myself. I will work in my office and get this much done. And when I'm done that, I can go in the kitchen because that's what I love to do.
[00:27:11] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:27:12] Linda Edgecombe: So I have that little piece, of... That's that's discipline. I don't know. I don't know if that's discipline. But the truth is... Here's the truth. Everybody listening to this right now won't change a damn thing about themselves until it stops working for them. Mhmm. So relationships are falling apart. Your health is falling apart. And even then, some people won't change then until you're pushed. You lose a job. So... But I... I'm assuming that people who are listening to this podcast have have some jam, you know, know what it means. And I... Oh, and I also always say, don't overthink this. Tie the shoes on your feet and walk out the door.
[00:27:52] Linda Edgecombe: Ten minutes. Just just, like, literally stop this podcast and get out the freaking door. Stop the podcast and pick up the phone.
[00:28:03] Dustin Serviss: Or put your AirPods on and go out and walk with the podcast. And that's...
[00:28:06] Linda Edgecombe: That's true. But I also believe... So if you wanna get two for one, if you wanna get mindfulness and physical activity, don't put the AirPods in. I know I don't want them to not listen to your podcast, because if you can... I always say this because I... I've I've been a hiker for all my life. And, in order for me... And I realized the reason you wanna do my... You wanna walk outside without AirPods or music in your ears is so that you can just, you know, just be with yourself and lower cortisol stress hormone in your body. That's the only way it works. Mhmm. You gotta just be. However, whatever that just be means.
[00:28:44] Linda Edgecombe: So I jokingly say whenever I hike, I go up with God and down with the stones.
[00:28:50] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:28:50] Linda Edgecombe: So I go up in silence just so I can hear birds, whatever, and down with music.
[00:28:56] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:28:57] Linda Edgecombe: I always have done that. And,
[00:29:01] Dustin Serviss: I mean You're you're stacking the... You're you're, not stacking's the wrong word.
[00:29:05] Linda Edgecombe: But No. It's multitasking. But Yeah. But but here's another. This is this is, statistically, scientifically proven. The the actual magic for our physical and mental well-being so that you have the energy to go and do something, like pick up the the thing and book a trip. Because I can't even... I'm so exhausted. I can't even fathom going on a trip and having to test. Well now the tests are being dropped too. Thank God. But the magic is moving your body outside in nature has to be green space. So even if you're in a city, whether that's maybe a park, just some trees, some grass, just some... Just in nature.
[00:29:44] Linda Edgecombe: For those of us who live in the Okanagan, there's trails everywhere, for twenty minutes. That's the magic number. I call it the twenty minutes that will change your life. Outside, moving your body, in nature, twenty minutes. It just massively improves our mental health and our physical well-being.
[00:30:02] Dustin Serviss: What fits with, a a author that, you know, I I really, enjoy is Robin Sharma. Yep. And he talks in his five AM club book. And so he's got this whole premise, some people love to get up early, some people don't. But he calls it a twenty twenty twenty. And so right when you wake up five AM, twenty minutes of exercise, like sleep in your shorts, he tells you. So then when you wake up, you're like, oh, I got these shorts on. Oh, I gotta do this. And it could even be stretching. Twenty minutes of that, twenty minutes of a podcast or book, so you're gonna be... And then twenty minutes of journal.
[00:30:34] Dustin Serviss: So you've got this day where you you've already crushed it by the time six AM comes. So that's a bit of a side story. But you, in your sort of wealth picture, you have moved a number of times. And and, people ask me now, and in the investment world, you know, we bleed into real estate and we do, you know, help people buy real estate and, you know, we we build that into the plan and you've moved a lot. And so for somebody... And, again, side story, your husband's a builder, a commercial developer builder. So it's not just you, but it's also you as a team. Moving is a pain in the freaking ass. But somehow, you guys have Twenty
[00:31:20] Linda Edgecombe: eight times twenty eight times in thirty five years.
[00:31:23] Dustin Serviss: Twenty eight times. So we're at, like, basically, every year and two months, maybe, you're moving. And is that from a financial standpoint, or is that from a desire? So, you know, you've got a lifestyle you wanna live. Have you had twenty eight different lifestyles that you wanted to live and you've lived in twenty eight different houses? Or is it opportunity, gotta go, and then you move and then that's helped your wealth picture?
[00:31:50] Linda Edgecombe: Actually, I made a decision after... I got to think... Was it Harv Eker? I can't remember who it was. I went and saw one day... This is after probably about... No. We moved because of our jobs and this and that for the first little while and with the kids, you know, whatever. But it's what Kevin does extremely well. So so we just did that. I didn't really think much about it because every... We need... If you didn't like your laundry room, wait a year. So I ever said, I don't like my kitchen. I've bought new granite in another house. But I remember coming home from seeing a sun speaker, and I said, Kevin, let's pull the trigger.
[00:32:25] Linda Edgecombe: And so we started doing it with the intention of building, you know, equity. And we bought the cheapest lot in the best neighborhood up on Dilworth Mountain. That was the first time we did it with the mindful thought that we're going to flip this place.
[00:32:42] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:32:43] Linda Edgecombe: And... But Kevin wanted acreage. Kevin wanted acreage. As I always say, he just needs his own tree to pee on.
[00:32:49] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. I can appreciate that.
[00:32:51] Linda Edgecombe: Yeah. And, so once we got to the first acreage, we we were actually there nine years. So take that into consideration
[00:32:59] Dustin Serviss: Wow.
[00:32:59] Linda Edgecombe: Of the number of houses. Yeah. And then we sold it so he could build his first soul because we we gained massive equity with that place.
[00:33:08] Dustin Serviss: Yep.
[00:33:10] Linda Edgecombe: And, was... Which almost killed him to... Because he he loved the place.
[00:33:13] Dustin Serviss: And he almost For for the listeners, Seoul was an apartment building maybe Yes, sir. Thanks. To kinda build it.
[00:33:18] Linda Edgecombe: And now he's on to, like, Seoul seven.
[00:33:20] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:33:21] Linda Edgecombe: And, anyways, so then then that happened. Then he was mad at me, but we lived in one of his show homes, which was already built. That was an easy move into. And then that sold. And so then we moved into a place I really love, but he hated it because it was in the neighborhood. He didn't like going back to a neighborhood. So then he bought the current acreage that we're in right now, and we've been here five years, while I was actually on the road and away. He just said Right. Sit down and pull up your computer. He goes, this is what I bought today. And I'm like, okay. Here we go again.
[00:33:51] Linda Edgecombe: And so, you know, we think we bought, but since then since then, and there's a... This is not all good, but... I mean, it is all good, but it's not all good from a wealth building perspective.
[00:34:02] Dustin Serviss: Right.
[00:34:02] Linda Edgecombe: We've... He's... We've retained condos in every one of his buildings, And that... So we retain... You know, we keep on buying, you know, more more places, of which we Airbnb out three of them and, rent out others. And so that's become a a sort of a part of our mix. But if you look at the pie chart of where all of our investments are, the majority of them are in real estate. Very little are in what I call our RRSPs, tax free savings, those things. And, so we need to, mix it up a bit.
[00:34:39] Dustin Serviss: Well, I I use the term wealth edge when I'm talking to clients that... And my industry would hate me for saying this, but, you know, we'd say, oh, you gotta have as much in stocks and investments because that's how our industry is built. You know, we don't sell real estate and make commissions, so why would we tell you to buy real estate? But the reality for people is you've gotta get deeper and look at what their wealth edge is. You know, it's funny it gets edge, and your last name's Edgecomb, and your husband's nickname is Edgy. Edgy. So, you know,
[00:35:09] Linda Edgecombe: my company is Learning Edge Resources. Kevin's got a lot of edge, Okanagan. Yeah.
[00:35:13] Dustin Serviss: A lot of edge. So the wealth edge
[00:35:15] Linda Edgecombe: Driving edge.
[00:35:17] Dustin Serviss: For a realtor, like, a successful realtor I met, you know, in the last couple weeks, she was saying that. And I said, why why are you trying to put more into investments when you see stuff before it comes on the market? Like, that is your edge. You have that over... So someone else that is, you know, a dentist, their wealth edge is massive consistent income. So, you know, they could, you know, buy kinda whatever they want, and it might be good. It might be bad, but they can take maybe more risk because their income Right. Or maybe as long as they have a good disability policy, but they can
[00:35:49] Dustin Serviss: take more risk with their investments because their edge is their income. Right. If you're, you know, again, you know, plumber, you know, that... You'd wanna be doing rentals or something. You know? So I think there's this whole thing kinda like what you said. Well, maybe I will retire. Maybe I won't. That... There's there's shifts. There's changes that are happening about how we look at things. If you, in a speaking world, said, well, I'm gonna do five gigs a year. Yep. You would have to save a lot less and have a lot less in in investments because that might cover your spending. Yeah. Sure enough.
[00:36:20] Dustin Serviss: That would be the message that I would be trying to get out to people, and I think people get it for me, like a broken record. But the... It doesn't have to look like save, save, save till you're sixty. Hopefully, you have more money than the average person, and then you'll be happy. It could... You could work till seventy five if you're healthy. Maybe you're a yoga instructor for the last ten years of your career making thirty grand a year, but who cares? That's what you need. So any final comments on on what we've chatted about or what, you know, what message that you're the most passionate about right now when
[00:36:54] Dustin Serviss: you're speaking to crowds and you get the most reaction out of people? What is that right now for you that... That's helping people move to a better life?
[00:37:04] Linda Edgecombe: Okay. So, we don't have time. I was gonna... Anyway, it doesn't matter. I was gonna do another little survey.
[00:37:10] Dustin Serviss: I got another fifteen minutes if you got the time.
[00:37:14] Linda Edgecombe: Okay. So if you... If if your listeners really wanna know what they really want, like, you gotta figure out what do you really want so you can say no to what you don't want. Just pretend I'm the genie. Okay? And I grant you one wish. It could be anything you want. You know? The only thing you can't wish for is more wishes. That's it. And so write that down. One wish. What is it? A gazillion dollars? Is it a house on the ocean? Is it your your health? What is it? Boom. You've got it. I just granted it. Okay? The next piece is you need to see yourself now that you've got this new wish. Like, what's your life like? Is it different?
[00:37:50] Linda Edgecombe: Are you doing things differently? You know? Are you living differently? Do you have different friends? Do you have whatever? Are you eating differently? How's your life? You've got to see the picture of that and then when you look at all that, you've got the wish, you're living your life differently now that you have this wish, what does all that make you feel? What's the emotion attached to having that? So the real answer to the genie question is, if I'm the genie, I could grant you one wish, the real answer is the third thing you just wrote down there. You wanna feel more. Whatever it is for you. Common ones are peace, calm, content, proud,
[00:38:31] Linda Edgecombe: bliss, loving. You know, whatever the whatever the emotion is, that's what you want more of. So you can have that right now. It's an internal driver. It doesn't come from extrinsic things. And if you want, so what I'd suggest as another challenge for you is to, for the next couple of days, just make your decisions based on you wanna feel that. So that move you towards feeling that. Base, you know, what am I gonna what am I gonna do at lunch today? Am I gonna move my body today? Am I gonna talk to my friends or family today? All... Whatever that emotion is, make decisions over the next couple of days that bring
[00:39:07] Linda Edgecombe: you to that state more frequently because that's what you really want, to feel that more. And you can have that, and that doesn't have to cost you. That's just decision making, back to decision making. But to wrap it, I would say, you know, what what... How I normally wrap most presentations is, like, I have a cartoon and there's a couple of bees hovering over a bunch of flowers, and the captain says, where do you start in a state of overwhelm? Because people are overwhelmed. Like, you said this. Where do I freaking start? You just pick one flower and start there.
[00:39:43] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:39:44] Linda Edgecombe: You just pick your desk and start there. You pick your car, clean that up, start there. Pick a corner of whatever is distracting where the distractions... Just start there. Don't have to finish it. Just start. Just start anything. That's literally what I... Just start.
[00:40:02] Dustin Serviss: Get the inspiration fly... Flywheel turning, and it Yes. It leads to suit things. So the... I wasn't gonna ask this, but if you... Do you have a... You have bonus time? Do you have a couple minutes? Do you have one more question? So Yeah. You've been doing a lot of research, with yourself, about, do I lay off the gas? Do I keep it on? And I think, you know, staying sharp in your career is is part of what makes it electrifying. So, you know, I I wrote down, is there a fear of letting off the gas that it's a one way street to being unsuccessful in an empty bank account? Now, again, if if you've got property and, you know, you've got, you know,
[00:40:41] Dustin Serviss: nest eggs build up, but someone who's younger to say, like, I'm working so hard. You know, we talked with the construction industry. Just burn out, burn out. This... But you can't lay off the gas because your blue collar guy's gotta be inspired by your long days. But if I lay off the gas, then I'll be unsuccessful, and I'll have a small bank account. Is that fact?
[00:41:01] Linda Edgecombe: Well, I guess it's fact for people who actually feel that way. I'll I'll be honest with you. It depends on how much of your ego is attached to what you do. Okay? So in construction, they didn't have the opportunity like I have where I lost my business, I lost my income, and I lost my identity. Okay? And I say opportunity because that opportunity where I literally everything shut down for me, it took me about, I say, six seven months for me to take my head out of my arse and put the wine glass down and go, okay, is there another way I could do this? Which I did. I learned stuff. I'm not technical. I learned how to do my business virtually.
[00:41:42] Linda Edgecombe: And stumbled and whatever. Whereas in construction though, because it is a physical, but those guys they ramped up. That industry, it was certainly around here. Well, no, it has across the country. It exploded. It's exploded. So the the pressure and the opportunities just keep coming. You know, if you're in a job where you have... I don't care whether it's hard, whether it's labour, or whether it's intellectual or whatever, and you've got good leadership around you, you have an opportunity to move, change, switch, learn new, all that stuff. That is where the inspiration for any job or career comes from.
[00:42:23] Linda Edgecombe: My ego and my identity was way too wrapped up in what I did for a living, being on stage. And I always have said, as far as when I want to take my gap... My foot off the gas, is I always wanted to leave my business before it left me.
[00:42:39] Dustin Serviss: Yeah.
[00:42:40] Linda Edgecombe: I I certainly don't wanna be one of those people who are irrelevant. And, you know, so when you are in the... I'd call it the entertainment business, and, you know, I have colleagues where I used to be the young one. I used to be the thirty year old, you know, just Scott ramping up high. And now I've been at... The good thing is I've been at this a long time. The train's been on the tracks a long time. I still have a lot of business. And so... But again, I just... My... I have learned that I am not just Linda Edgecomb, the speaker and, and the writer or whatever researcher. I'm fascinated by people. I I love chatting about interesting things.
[00:43:23] Linda Edgecombe: Yeah. I like getting to know people and what's behind... I like I like the behind the scenes stories. Like, I have no time for bullshit anymore, so I just want... I want the backstory right now. You know? And most people, if you ask them good questions, they answer you. That's the cool thing about it.
[00:43:39] Dustin Serviss: Yeah. Well, I I sincerely appreciate you being on the show. I... This was inspired by a coffee meeting, and we've known each other for a number of years but never really chatted, in-depth. So, I'm really excited to see this come to fruition. I know that we have a lot more that we could probably unpack, and I look forward to having you on the show. Where can people find your information?
[00:44:01] Linda Edgecombe: As my dad would say, where where do I find you on the w w?
[00:44:04] Dustin Serviss: I said that.
[00:44:05] Linda Edgecombe: Literally called it the w w. Well, certainly, yeah. I mean, my website has, as my dad says, has more shit than Shinola. Just my name, linda edge home dot com. Go go to me. There's too much stuff out there. There is so much stuff. And, yeah, all my all my... I've got online courses and, of course, all the programs I offer in, my my blog. And, I've got a, a podcast that's going now called From the Hip, Real Ron Refreshing. And, and that's going really well. And so I've had some interesting different kind of conversations, meeting people and... Anyway, anything I find interesting, I like to talk about.
[00:44:43] Linda Edgecombe: But, yeah, it's pretty easy, pretty straightforward.
[00:44:45] Dustin Serviss: We will make sure that we have, those links in the notes. So thanks a lot, Linda, for being on the show.
[00:44:51] Linda Edgecombe: Yep. Thank you.
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