Brie Moreau talks about “From near death to better biz leader” in this episode of Intuitive Leadership Mastery with host Michaela Light.
“…it's just about having a lot of gratitude for your life and, and, and basically making the most out of life that we have.”
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Show notes
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Gratitude for life, health, staff, clients
- We take life for granted
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How he nearly died
- Living in Bali, slipped in socks on marble stairs, shoulder dislocated
- Hospital gave him the ok, but he had extreme pain, didn’t realize the injury was so bad as it was.
- Then it got MORE painful
- Got Ketamine (a strong pain killer) from pharmacy
- Pain or out of it
- Girlfriend was looking after him
- Then she left overnight and stole some $$
- Couldn’t walk (semi paralyzed), talk well (muttering), couldn’t inject more pain killer
- Not eating as was high all the time
- Bali house keepers said nothing
- My employee Isha to flew from from Spain – was shocked at his state – called his sister
- Cold turkey from the drugs
- Still could not walk or talk – fear of veggie
- Plane to Australia – cold sweats, pain came back worse than before (10/10), peed in my pants (literally)
- Pain felt like a red hot poker into my shoulder
- Sister shame look
- Rock bottom
- Border control let them through
- Withdrawal nightmares at home, but couldn’t get a rehab to take him due to circumstances for 3 weeks.
- Went to rehab, fresh start, shaved head hair
- Team was running his company for 3 months with very minimal communication
- Second most painful episode in his life
- Piercing?
- But this went on for days
- Christian rehab center
- Former meditation retreat
- Trauma informed therapy → more self awareness
- Give zero fucks about other’s opinions /judgements of me
- Addiction is a symptom – the real cause is deeper, maybe from childhood
- Realized that I was delusional when I was on drugs
- Where else am make assumptions?
- A unquestioned belief
- Curious about things
- Where else am make assumptions?
- 12 step process
- Sister – renewed relationship with as her brother
- She is a paramedic who has saved other people’s lives too
- Changes from NDE (Near Death Experience)
- Before Brie
- Digital Nomad, living in Bali, girlfriend
- Bigger ego
- Running around – busy and literally
- After Brie
- Gratitudes
- Joke with team: don’t feed my ego
- More fragile
- Committing to Australia living, less travel, have a garden, grounded
- More self care
- Surrender
- Before Brie
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How running biz differently
- Super Boss Way book
- Leaders are different from followers, but are each different in different ways
- Push staff, train, AB Testing to find A-players with paid trial task, throw curve balls to reveal critically thinking, push to their breaking point
- “And then what?” on the task and sustain my interest
- 10 h, 20 h, 40 h, 4h/day
- Part of the A-team, like astronaut training or SEAL team special forces
- Hire right rather than scale too fast
- Build a strong, resilient company
- Got each other’s backs
- Get the vision
- Love
- “And then what?” on the task and sustain my interest
- Super Boss Way book
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Spiritual aspects of your NDE
- Before I would have philosophize about life – more intellectual
- Now spirituality is more tangible, a knowingness
- Humans have a spiritual part to them
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Recommend a deep spiritual experience to others?
- 5-MeO-DMT Elon Musk
- Sundance
- Aya
- Rehab
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Take aways
- Be happy and help others
- Insane talent women graduates from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Westernized, overlooked, sexist work world there, believe in them, thrive, gratitude from team daily, heart opening micro experiences
- Paid super well → donate to poor family members
- Company bought 10 water pumps for these poor villages
- Goat funnel for team in Pakistan – one goat for every free audit given
- Khadija
- Khadija was the first wife and the first follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
- She was a very successful merchant. It is said that when the Quraysh's trade caravan travelers gathered to embark upon their summer journey to Syria or winter journey to Yemen, Khadija's caravan equaled the caravans of all other traders of the Quraysh put together.
- Khadija is often referred to by Muslims as “The Mother of Believers”.
- It is said that she fed and clothed the poor, assisted her relatives financially, and provided marriage portions for poor relations.
- Material possessions less important
- Peter Singer Effective Altruism TheLifeYouCanSave.org
- Show other wealthy people how they can help others
- Hired Social impact manager to count the company impact
- B Corp certification
- Profits given back to staff education, family improvement, building a real carbon credit method PNP
- Make the world a better place
- Because it is cool, and fun and does good and builds a better world
- Direct client interaction
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Additional insight
- “Heaven has always been found within. Heaven and Hell are both in our own hands, in our personal perceptions of our human experiences. This is why some people who appear to have everything that “should” make them happy are still miserable and why some people who appear to haver nothing can find bliss in the nothing, and even in the suffering. Our internal reality determines our state of being.”
Mentioned in this episode
- Other NDE episode | 099 Lessons From Dying and Meeting Angels in the OR, with Tricia Barker
- Cold Depression ILM article
- Super Boss Way book
- Wild Wild Country movie
- TheLifeYouCanSave.org
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Bio
Brie Moreau is the owner of Golden Links and the founder & CEO of White Light Digital Marketing agency. He is focused on helping various professionals and businesses to increase their revenue by implementing my successful digital marketing approach, tailored to fit the needs of everyone in the business.
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Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:01
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Bremer ro who nearly died and totally changed his life and business. Due to this event. It was a little traumatic. It was a bit touch and go he's gonna tell us about the details of that in the show. But just in case you don't know Bree, he runs a golden links. And white hat digital light marketing agency does a lot of SEO. I met him originally at the DMS conference that he co founded many moons ago. And he helps various professional businesses increase their revenue while implementing successful digital marketing approaches gone. Am I reading from his bio with bated breath. And he is a great guy and very helpful and friendly, but he's even more spiritual and aware, I think, since he nearly died, just was it 11 months ago? Yeah, it's about 10 months ago. Yeah. And month she like a newborn baby. You're just like, you know, just coming up with a 10 month Yeah, I'm
Brie Moreau 1:06
Still shitting my pants
Michaela Light 1:10
There you go. What was the biggest takeaway from this to keep people you know, why should people listen to this episode? What? What happened?
Brie Moreau 1:19
Think like, I think that basically, it's just about having a lot of gratitude for your life and, and, and basically making the most out of life that we have. And for me, I'm playing with house money at the moment. So every day is a blessing and I'm just trying to do as much as I can and have as much positive impact on the people around me as I can because it lasts much more precious than we realize and we can lose it very quickly.
Michaela Light 1:47
So playing with house money, you mean that you know you got a second chance to live?
Brie Moreau 1:53
Yeah, I got a second chance. And I was I was saved by my one of my employees and my sister. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Michaela Light 2:07
How did they save you we like falling down I suppose. I suppose.
Brie Moreau 2:11
A bit of start from the from the bit of the start. So yeah, so basically, I I lived in Bali for six years and I was traveling around the world with my girlfriend at the time and life was amazing. Yeah, just you know, business is going well. I was a bit of stress in there but um, overall like life was going great and I had a you know, beautiful girlfriend and we'll travel around the world we've probably been to like eight countries in six months and and then we came back to Bali. And then I was running down the stairs and in my villa, and I just I had socks on and I just basically just slipped and just fell in a really really bad angle. When I got up I have a my my shoulder was dislocated and I got taken to the local hospital in Bali that it will sorry the expat hospital and I they relocated my shoulder and after they did that they did an x ray on me and said yeah, everything looks pretty good. There's like a little chip there but everything else looks okay. And you're fine to go and and so I left and soon as I got home and the painkillers kind of wore off because I slipped it groggy, always an excruciating amounts of pain, like I've never felt pain, like I felt pain like before, before it was relocated, and because I just put it in general anaesthetic to do the relocation. And I was I didn't scream credible amounts of pain. And my arm was hanging off. And it was very clear that I couldn't hang on Oh, sorry. Sorry that it was dangling. Yeah, my arm was dangling because I couldn't live like my arm couldn't I couldn't lift my arm hanging down because I ripped off and so what is my dominant hand my left arm actually because I'm a candidate.
Michaela Light 3:59
So you couldn't work.
Brie Moreau 4:01
Well no I couldn't work there's no I was in I was in excruciating pain and they kind of I didn't realize it was as bad as it was and I just kind of trusted that.
Michaela Light 4:11
You didn't your life it was bad. You were an extreme pain. No, no,
Brie Moreau 4:15
I realized it was I realized it was sorry I realized it was painful and excruciating, but I did not realize how serious it was the inquiry Yeah, the injury and I was like oh maybe this is normal and I wasn't really sure because that they looked they showed me the X rays and I just assumed that everything was one less that everything was fine. And then yeah, I trusted them and then and then like within 24 hours there's an excruciating amounts of like it just didn't die down just got worse and and I basically knew that I could get ketamine from the from the pharmacies.
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