All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. And I'm excited to be in the studio today with Marco Lopez. Marco, how you doing, man? I'm doing great. I'm glad we can coordinate this. We got some crazy schedules going, but listen, before we get started, I want to make sure you like and subscribe to the podcast. We're going to be dropping a bunch of content here, and I really want to make sure that you don't miss out on anything. We're going to be talking about some upcoming events. And remember, if it's your first time, the reason I started The Daily Mastermind is to help you to get growth and progress and create that life you were meant to live, your mind, body, money, business, lifestyle. And so one of the reasons I asked Marco to come here is he's just, he's excellent at that mental clarity. And so let me give you a quick introduction for everybody that's tuning in. Marco is the founder and CEO of MindTune, and he's trained thousands of entrepreneurs, professionals, individuals. And kind of his specialty is he's got a system-based approach for mental clarity and handling resistance and trying to find ways in order to really cut through the noise. And so that's the type of stuff I want to talk to you about today. So I really appreciate you being here, man. I appreciate you inviting me. Yeah. Well, so just so people get a feel for like where you've come from, because we're going to talk a lot about your techniques and strategies and tactics today. Give us your backdrop. Where'd you come from and what got you into this whole space? Okay. Well, it is interesting. I think it's different than most people. It's pretty unique. So I come from a family of singers, and that's because of my mom. My mom was kind of like Maria from The Sound of Music and got us singing when we were kids. and we traveled a lot, which is why singing worked because we moved over 40 times before I was 10. My dad's from Mexico, my mom's from the States. They were trying to find a place where they could be happy and my mom has a huge heart and got us kids singing partly so that we could inspire our neighbors and the people we lived with. Oftentimes we would only live in places for a few months but at least we could sing for people and have a little bit of an impact and connect in some ways. And so when I was younger, I got a feel for the power to connect with people on a deep level or the power of sharing some level of hope with people. And so I felt that and I loved that. And so that really brought kind of my heart into helping people. And I mean, I realized that in phases, gradually, little by little, But I also, I like being out in nature. I like being, I like drawing. And so these creative things, I was a kid with a lot of, with a big imagination and really encouraged by my mom and dad to think big. But then I ran into a lot of limitations, personal limitations where. What career did you start in? I'm kind of curious. Oh, that's, okay, great. So I was in, I was at Qualtrics. Okay, because that's what I thought. I thought you weren't always in this space. No, no, no, no, no. Give me at least where did you come from and why did you pivot into that? Because I thought that was pretty interesting when we talked about that before. Okay, yeah, great question. So, yeah, I studied Latin American studies, got a minor in business, minor in music from BYU. And then I had this whole vision of what I wanted to do, but I landed in Qualtrics. It was this, you know, this, I was employee number 26. It was a small software company. I wasn't really confident or competent in technology. I didn't feel confident. But they could use my Spanish and Portuguese. And so I helped them open up that market. And I was going there strong for about four years. And yeah, going strong for about four years. Because you were doing well. You were doing well there. Had a family tragedy happen that caused me to rethink things. And so a lot of people were surprised because the company was growing like crazy. But I couldn't see myself there anymore. I had to pursue something more internal, something deeper. Okay. Okay, I'm glad you said that because that was the point that I was really surprised because you had all this – you had financial security in an area that was really moving in the right direction. But you chose to leave and start MindTune. So now come back to what you were talking about where you had some limitations and what made you pivot? When you said you had this opportunity but you decided to go a different direction, what made you decide to do that? Was it just what you felt wasn't right? You didn't enjoy it? You weren't passionate about it? What was it? I felt like there were a lot of people who could do what I was doing at Qualtrics, but there was only one person. Only I could do the things that were in my imagination, the things that I could see, the things that I wanted to do. So that really, I thought, man, I'm kind of following the money. I'm doing what's secure, but I don't know if what's secure is the most important thing for me. I have a vision, and I want to give myself a shot at it. Yeah, most people aren't willing to take that shot, especially when they're in a position that's going really well, right? But you mentioned growing up, early on, you tapped into kind of this, the music, the passion purpose type stuff. So that had been going with you. And you said imagination. So that's a key thing with what you talk. So what made you decide to start MindTune? And was that an evolution or did that happen right out of Qualtrics? That was an evolution. It was definitely an evolution. But I did have a goal. My parents were divorced when I was nine, and my dad, after the divorce, he had gone into mindset after that. He actually has written a lot of books about mental clarity, really focused and went deep on that, living in Africa, living in Mexico, being off the grid, places where he could just get inspiration. So his content is unlike anybody else's content. It's very, very unique. And that influenced you a lot, I'm sure, right? It helped me a lot with my own personal mental challenges my own blocks to bring me back to center And so I thought you know everybody needs this And so I when I left Qualtrics I had the thought in my mind I want to I want to move in the direction of my dad or with the types of things that my dad doing But he was kind of selling books wherever he went I like do I just start knocking on doors and selling books, selling his books? And what do I do? So I really had no idea how I would get started. So, so I just, I just thought, okay, well, I'm going to point in that direction. And so I, instead of, I was in a sales role at Qualtrics. And so I moved in the direction of training. So rather than just sales, I wanted to be training people, training groups of people. And so I was looking for a role that got me more confident in front of groups. Yeah. Yeah. And which takes time, right? It really does. Yeah. So with MindTune, what you do now, you focus on mental clarity. You focus on, because you took some leaps a lot of people aren't willing to do, but they can't do because they have a lot of things going on. So tell us what it is you do now with your business. What is your core of what you do to help, for the most part, entrepreneurs, business owners, individuals, solopreneurs to create growth in their life? What is it that you like to specialize in to help them? Well, I've had clients, the people who work with me say that what we have is more in depth than anything else that they've seen. So a lot of people say they teach mindset, but we've got like a whole mental clarity system, a whole system to help people flow. And my belief is that mindset is really the core of everything. We've all got limiting beliefs. We've got paradigms. We've got subconscious blocks that we can't even see that are preventing us from even higher levels of success. So I help, I'm a peak performance strategist, and I help already high performers achieve their next level of success in all areas of life and business through a strategy of changing the way that they think. doing things a little bit different, quieting their mind, quieting the busyness in their mind so that they can access their imagination and reach those higher levels. So it really is a whole system. And we've got everything conceptualized. And when we talk to people, we can see kind of where they're at. Because they fall into an area. I'm a big proponent of that as well. I think you and I are very similar aligned when I believe that the foundation of most success, life, fulfillment, purpose, passion, everything is your mindset. It's the foundation of everything. And unlike a lot of people think of personal development is like motivational and inspirational, and that's a component, I guess, but you're a very systematic systems driven approach to it. Yeah. And like you said, and yet you also know, and you've talked about the fact that creativity and imagination is really what drives that. So when you say systematic, help me to understand what that means for individuals that are like, okay, mindset, I get it. I want to adjust my mindset. I want to find ways to, you know, unleash my potential basically, and not just motivation. Where do you begin with somebody? Like how do you, and especially if they're a high achiever, right? Because high achievers are already doing well. And so they don't really want to change a lot because what's working is working. Right, right. But usually where do you find people struggle? And then how do you pull them into a systematic approach? That's a good question. So what's the door? How do we get them to, you know, what's the entry place so that they can go into this higher level of performance? The door is quieting the mind. It's calmness of mind because whether we like it or not, we're in some type of pattern, some type of routine. We're in a mind set that's set. And even though I throw around the term mindset, I don't want people to have a mindset. I want people to have a mind that's open, a mind that's always receiving new ideas and receiving higher, the higher, the greater, right? And when that greater comes in, then they can go to their next level. But we don't even realize that we're in this set pattern. And so when we can quiet, and quieting is hard because it means even releasing the things that you know. So the first thing that we've got to do with people is help them unlearn what they've already learned. So help them stop thinking about and get out of the pattern that they're in so that they can explore mentally, create with their imagination an even bigger vision of what they would like. And then once we get them thinking about that, then they can make a decision. And the way to get there is also that quieting the mind because it's the most powerful thing that people can realize about themselves is that they're a spiritual being at their core. they're a spiritual being, and that their greatest answers and their greatest tutoring is going to come from within because they're different. They're unlike anybody else. And so my path has been extremely unique, but your path is unique, and everyone's path is— But the doorway, like you said, is quieting the mind. The doorway is quieting the mind. Because you usually have the answers, right? Yeah, you've got it. Or at least be open to the answers, open to the creativity and imagination. I like that because I think that that's a tough thing to do for high achievers, you know, people that are go, go, go, quieting the mind is very difficult because you have a million things and you feel like you're the one who's going to get it all done and everything else. But I think clarity, at least I know when I've been in places where I can kind of slow down and the clarity comes out, that's when the growth happens too. So do you have techniques that you give people just on a simple basis? Like what's a technique you do to just quiet the mind? And maybe it's obvious, maybe it's not. Because I think most of the answers in life have been things that we know we need to do, but we just don't do. So what kind of techniques do you use for people to help them quiet the mind? Well, in just a few minutes, I can show people how their mind works, how their subconscious mind and their conscious mind works. But the conscious mind, it's using the conscious mind in a different way. Most people are really heavy on their analytical mind. They're using their conscious mind for things that belong to the subconscious mind. So they're analyzing, they're trying to figure things out. They've got a problem, so they keep repeating it in their mind over and over again, just keeping it up there when they could actually write it down, go for a walk, go outside. We live in a beautiful place here with mountains And so you can go and just go for a walk outside or even just focus on the present moment wherever you are and you allow things to come to you rather than trying to force it We're trying to muscle our way through to the next level of success rather than, you know, imagining where we want to go and then allowing those ideas to come and trusting those ideas. Yeah, it's ironic because, like you said before, I mean, we're running 90% of our mindset is subconscious programming. Oh, yeah. We're running this subconscious program that we've set our whole life. And yet we're taking the small part we can consciously affect and we're trying to muscle through it. And it's just, it's a real paradigm shift for people to think you've got to relax. It's like, you know, Harv Eker, we're doing a lot of events internationally. You'd say, you know, take massive action, but allow space for attraction. You know, you've got to find ways to do what you know you want to do, but you have to allow the rest to come. Yeah. And, but dealing with that 95% program that's already been set most of your life, that's a challenge. So how do you, cause I think one of the challenges, a lot of people I wanted to kind of ask you about everybody, especially right now, they're dealing with a lot of uncertainty. And when people are dealing with uncertainty, they want to figure things out. Like we, we need certainty, but we, and some uncertainty, but it's hard to live with uncertainty in the current, you know, marketplace and everything. So we just want to figure things out. And I like, by the way, your systematic approach of slowing it down. How do you tie that need for certainty with tapping into imagination and creativity? Because it's so ambiguous. Yeah, absolutely. Well, people are looking for certainty outside of themselves when you can actually go inside of yourself. You can go inside and you can find that certainty inside of yourself regardless of what's going on outside. So confidence really comes from understanding the laws, understanding the laws of the universe, the way that things really work, the way that you function, that you are a creative being, and you can actually take your ideas, you know, everything, the laptop in front of us, all these things, it was somebody's idea that became a laptop. And so when you understand yourself as a creatively evolved being, and somebody who creates your results, you're not a victim of circumstances. It doesn't matter what's going on out there. It's what's going on inside of you that will take you to the next step that will lead to what you get tomorrow. And so you stop worrying about everything on the outside. I don't even I don't really care to watch the news a lot. I don't care to watch everything that's going on. I've got my goals. I know what I want. And I just keep pursuing those things because I know that that I'm a creative being. I started off with kind of my creative background and singing and drawing and other things. And I think that the world of business needs a lot more creativity and needs to learn that it's not about all your outside resources. It's what you've got inside and nurturing that. Yeah, it's interesting because I think that's an answer not just for creating certainty. Because you can create certainty and, you know, I found really high successful entrepreneurs have the ability to create certainty in an uncertain world because they go inside, right? But that's a solution for confidence. That's a solution for all kinds of things, right? Everything. Yeah. Well, I wanted to ask you another question because you do integrate music and storytelling and things like that into your training and your work with high achievers. Is that because you have just a personal passion for that? Or do you find that that's a real tool, truly a tool to tap into creativity and imagination? Help me understand that. And what do you do differently? Because I I know you like to incorporate music and storytelling. So I thought that was maybe just because of your passion for it. But is there a bigger reason for that? There is a bigger reason for it. And I love the way you asked the question because it started out as a passion for me. It's like I felt inside, I've got to be singing. I've got to be using my music. I've got to be using my drawing. My whole little life, I was working on my, you know, I spent a lot of time drawing. I spent a lot of time working on my singing. I spent a lot of time out in the mountains. And so I thought, what is all that for? Like, is it for something? And so this deep sense of purpose has evolved. And I think it's just like messages from divinity to me, you know, just saying, Marco, you've got to do this. Like the world needs this. And so I've since discovered how powerful it is because people get into their logical mind, but a song or something that reaches the heart can help them bypass that logical resistance. Even brain-wise, right? A creative side, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it takes them to the creative side. It takes them to their heart side, where now there's infinite possibilities rather than the limits of, I just can't figure out how to do that. Then you feel it, and then you get to this next level. So yeah, we use, we take people out in nature. We've got international retreats. We've got a place in Mexico where we can take people just to be in a place in nature where they can really figure out what they want. That's a lot of people's limitations. They don't even know what they want. They're pursuing money. They're pursuing more, but they don't even know really what that unique thing is for them. Like for me, it was, it was using these gifts that I had had. And I knew I had when I was a kid, but what for, what's it for? What, what has all my background been for? Because it's, our experiences aren't just random. We have something that we can do. And when you discover that, then life and work becomes just, it becomes beautiful. It becomes, it becomes just so satisfying when you realize that you're doing the thing that you were created to do. Yeah. It's interesting. And, and it's, and, and I might be slow, but, um, this might've even just brought on more meaning for me with your company name, right? Yeah. Because I always thought of mind tune, like, excuse me, like tuning your mind. But now if you apply this to music and things like that, is that, is that why you, your company's called mind tune? Cause you're, you're not only tuning in, you're tuning the right frequency. It's musical related. Is that why you named it that? Oh yeah. So the initial idea that came for me was when I'm in tune, things work well. And tuned into what Tuned into like this higher frequency turned into the spiritual core of who I am my purpose my potential And so it tuning into something So I say now I say you tune your mind okay so that you can get in tune with who you are but then you mind your tune. So you tune your mind and then you mind your tune. You have to listen to that and follow that. And when you've got a goal, when you've got a goal that's out there, something that you really want, you then have to cut a lot of things out. Because if that's what you want, you don't have to do what everybody else is saying you should do. Listen to that tune, mind your tune. If that means letting go of certain habits that you have, if it means adopting certain new habits, then you do those things. There's a lot of obedience that's involved. Sometimes you've got to make, I wouldn't say sacrifices, but it's discipline. When you realize what you want, your life becomes way more simple. You're not trying to do everything. You're just minding your tune. No, I like that because, you know, and everybody probably, like you said, everybody's different. They're going to have different interpretations, but I think of it just like that. You know, tuning your mind is very important, but tuning in your surroundings and tuning in internally, but then I like your play on words there because I think, but then you've got to mind it. It's a discipline act. It's a daily, it's why I talk a lot about daily rituals. It is going to be for the rest of your life, one of the most important things you can do. And as a result, everything else comes. Well, let me ask you this. I wish we had more time, but I wanted to ask you, so if someone's feeling really overwhelmed right now and they just kind of, they just feel burnt out, they feel overwhelmed, whatever else, what is your advice to them before we take off? Like, what would you say to someone who's overwhelmed? Where do they start? And before you talked about you know, quiet in the mind. But like, what would you say to somebody right now that is just really feeling overwhelmed, anxious? You know, they've got this, you know, whether it's frustration or whatever else, what do you say to them that helps them to just kind of create some clarity? Well, I draw the picture for them. I draw a picture. And so that's where my art comes in. And I like to make things really visual. So I'll draw a picture for them of a lake or of their conscious mind, but as a lake, a circle with a lake in the middle. And I say, I say, your mind is stormy. Right now you've got the, you know, you've got the lightning, you got the clouds, you've got the thunder, you've got all these things that are creating that, you know, that turbulence in your lake. But so all that saying is that your machine, your mental machine is out of order temporarily. All you have to do is fix that and you get your clarity back. All you have to do is calm that down. You connect to this beautiful, creative subconscious mind that gives you all the answers. And so it's your mind is like a machine. It's very, very simple. This is where it becomes very logical and systematic. Just fix the machine. Let's just let's prioritize fixing machine because there's nothing else that you need to do. There's nothing else more important than fixing the machine. When you fix the machine, you'll find yourself again, you'll be back to yourself, You'll feel good. You'll feel like life is good again. But right now, everything that you're seeing and everything that you're viewing is skewed. And what's sad is that a lot of people do horrible things under that influence of that turbulent mind. take their lives. I mean, that's the worst thing, but they make decisions. They quit on their dream. And that's really why most entrepreneurs quit is because that storm gets too loud. And then they're like, I can't do this. Or it might be the resistance they're hitting, even at a high level, right? To break out further. Yeah, I got that. Right. So you hit that and then you just, you kind of crash. And so if you can learn that skill, This is the most important skill to come back to yourself, come back to who you are. So tune your mind. You find your tune or your song. Everybody has a song. And then you listen to that song and you follow that song. And that song is focused. Your song isn't everybody's song. Your song is your song. It's your unique thing. I love it. I love it. Well, we talked before we got started here that you have a lot of resources that people can kind of tap into. So where's the best place for people to kind of connect with you? What do you have available for them? and I'll make sure I put some links in the show notes as well. But where's the best place for them to connect with you? Awesome. Well, I've got a surprise. I've got a treat for everybody who's on this call. It's actually something that we've developed over 50 years combined, my dad and I. It's a training called Achieve Your Best Mind or Achieve Total Control Over Your Mind. And it's a 20-minute training that will give you, that will help you to be able to find that self again. So I invite everyone to download that. You go to marcolopez360.com, marcolopez360.com. So pull out your phone, go there, marcolopez360.com. And then at the top, you'll see a contact button. Click on contact, click send a message and send me a message with your full name and then your best email address and just hit training. You'll send it off to him. Awesome. And I'll put that link in the show notes if you're listening. So, no, that's great, man. I appreciate you doing that. And I think a lot of people are going to relate to this conversation, which is why I wanted to have it. So I appreciate you joining us. And listen, if you're listening to the show, you're feeling frustrated, you got a lot of clarity you're looking for, or whether you're just trying to get focused into what is your next step, make sure that you reach out to us. Let us know what you're working on. 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