Do you believe you can’t have everything you want in life? Business and lifestyle coach Ian Lobas sits with Chris D. Roberts to prove otherwise. Ian heads the Men on Purpose coaching team and helps gentlemen find fulfillment and master a regret-free life. All you have to do is choose to reveal your authentic self. Listen in and let Ian spark some inspiration in you.

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Men On Purpose: Ian Lobas On Living A Fulfilling And Regret-Free Life

We are excited to have Ian Lobas with us. Thanks for coming. I appreciate having you on because you cover an interesting topic. It is Men On Purpose. I’m looking forward to diving into what you do, what makes you tick, and what drove you down this path. First, we want to ask you, what is one thing you attribute to your success? That could be in your personal or professional life. Everybody has a different definition of success, but we would love to know, in your words, something that drove you down this path of entrepreneurship.

As cheesy as it may sound, my wife is the reason for my success. I can tell you that I’m an expert at building systems, procedures, processes, leverage, and all those things built in business and making businesses tick and scale. I can tell you without a doubt that I would not be the guy I am. I would not be where I am, the level of success I have, and the type of lifestyle I live.

Lifestyle does not mean money. It means freedom and doing what you want when you want. Although I run several successful businesses, I am where I am now because my wife had a belief in me that I did not have at the time when we needed it. I tell people all the time, “If you are not confident with yourself, that is okay. You have somebody in your life that believes in you probably more than you believe in yourself at that moment. You need to lean on them and have unconditional and unwavering trust in what they believe in.”

Most of the time, our spouses know the real us, not the facade, not the guy that puts on the show, and not the ego-driven person who is after cash and success to form or keep an identity rolling. They know the real version, and that is beyond power. As quick as an explanation as I can give it, that is my reason for the success I have had thus far. My wife was there.

I ran my dad’s shipping business for eight years with him when I got out of college. The economy from 2008 to 2010 hit a lot of people hard. We had a lot of companies that we worked with for a very long time go out of business and leave us with a very large account receivable. One of the lessons I learned from that was to ensure your accounts receivable. We would not have been in as much trouble if we had insured those because it was millions.

Leaving my dad’s business was one of the toughest decisions I have ever had to make and one of the toughest conversations I have ever had to have. I went home and I didn’t know what I was going to do. I started teaching swimming lessons for $10 an hour. This was back in 2012. It was the only thing I knew where I was an expert. I needed to get back to something because I was broken and lost without money. My identity was gone. I was broke and living in my dad’s warehouse by choice and necessity, too.

My first Valentine’s Day with my wife was spent in that warehouse. I laid candles out on the conference room table. We drank wine that I made in the warehouse. I did not have any money. I was just with her as who I was at that point. That is why our relationship flourished so well because I was not trying to put on a show and trying to flash money or cars. I did not have anything. I had to be what I thought was me and she liked that. She was a different type of person.

Lifestyle doesn’t mean money. It means freedom, it means doing what you want when you want.

I needed to find something that I was an expert in to feel I mattered and was important. Teaching kids swimming lessons for $10 an hour was my life. I had tinted goggles and I cried every day in those goggles. No joke. It was not an exaggeration. Most of the instructors took pool water out, and I was dumping tears out into the pool and putting them back on.

I came home one day from the grocery store and I said to my wife, “I found something to do.” She was like, “What is that?” This is after a couple of months. I said, “My buddy down at Wegmans offered me a job stocking bananas and it comes with insurance.” Wegmans is a grocery store. She looks at me, and she was like, “You are joking.” I said, “No. It seems pretty cool. Maybe I will do that for the meantime.”

Let me give you a preface here. I made a vow to myself that I would never write a resume because I never wanted a plan B. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own time, checks, and destiny. My dad told me that writing a resume is the equivalent of failure for an entrepreneur. I believe that. Whether he was BSing me for the moment, I took that as the gospel.

During college, which I did not want to go to, my parents paid for it. I feel very fortunate. My dad said, “You got to get this piece of paper.” I went to resume writing classes, drunk or high on purpose. The teachers would be like, “I can’t believe you do not take life seriously.” I’m like, “Little do you know that this is me taking it seriously and honoring my commitment.” It was a dumb way to honor a commitment back then. However, it worked. Not that there is anything wrong with stocking bananas. It is fine if that is what you choose, yet my path was a lot different than that, maybe bigger.

My wife said to me something that was very pivotal, which was, “I did not sign up for that.” Anybody who reads this and knows my wife, she is calm, caring, consistent, and steady. She does not care about flash and material stuff. She does not care about money. I was like, “What do you mean?” She said, “I did not marry a loser.” I was like, “Stocking bananas at the grocery store does not make you a loser.” She goes, “Being a guy that gives up on his dreams does.”

That chokes me up still. The power that she had to say that, knowing that I was in this fragile state, ignited something in me. I said, “What do I do?” She goes, “You are a salesman. You can sell anything to anybody. Find the most expensive product and sell it” I was like, “I know what it is.” She goes, “It is real estate.” I was like, “Okay.” I went and got my license, and I obsessed over it. I taught swimming lessons all summer. It was enough to put gas in my car.

For some context for the audience, I set goals every week. I was not a very structured person yet. I knew that if I got up at the same time, studied the same amount of hours every day, and did practice tests every single day, I could set a goal to get 100% correct on my real estate exam. That is what I set out to do. 99%, 98%, 92%, 70%, 65%, or whatever passing grade was not acceptable. I wanted to get 100%.

I set out to do that, and I did that. When I hit the button on that final question and it came up green, I burst into tears. I was like, “I’m on. This is possible and this can happen.” I was so scared, anxiety-ridden, panic-ridden, and depressed. I was anxious. It was a nightmare and a roller coaster ride of emotions because all I thought about was, “What if I do not get this? What am I going to do?”

I’m supposed to be a provider. I was trained as an entrepreneur, a provider, and a multi-millionaire when I was in my twenties, but now I’m broke and teaching swimming lessons for $10 an hour. My aspiration is to stock bananas. What do I do at that point? I made it a non-negotiable. It was not an option. I wrote myself a fake life insurance certificate that said, “The caveat is that you have to pass the real estate exam or you have to walk into traffic.” I had no plan B. I was either going to succeed or die.

I had no choice. My vision was so clear of the successful person that I could be. I was terrified to do it on my own and fill in my dad’s shoes of a successful entrepreneur in this family. I became obsessed and I hit the ground running. I said to the manager at the office that I started at, “I need you to train me because I had heard on Million Dollar Listing on Bravo that the best thing you can do if you are new is to get a great mentor or coach.”

 

I believe in the power of coaching and mentorship from day one. We were rolling pennies to eat and we ate at my sister-in-law’s or my parents’ house almost every night. We could not afford anything. I made a deal with the manager. I said, “If you train me every night, I will stay on and answer the phones, close any deal you throw at me, and train people. I will do whatever it takes. I just need you to train me.”

She did. Every night, we would drink Grey Goose together and she would train me on scripts, door-knocking, and contract negotiation. I’m very grateful for that time. We hit the ground running and sold a lot of real estates very quickly. I called it slinging crack rock real estate like, “Do you want my corner? I’m knocking you off fast because I’m not going to eat if I do not sell real estate.”

To add fuel to the fire, I got a call from the bank who said, “We are putting your house in foreclosure because you have not made a mortgage payment in two years.” I played a game with the bank. I figured out their little game. In my first six months in the business, I made good money, and that all went to save my house from foreclosure. I should have let it go, but I felt proud. I decided to take more chances. I started a team and changed brokerages, but it did not work. I ended up at the brokerage I have still been at for all these years.

In the beginning, I set out to be number one because I needed to be seen, approved of, and loved. That is what I figured out through my journey. I set a target and I had to beat anybody that was number one. It took whatever I had to do to beat them, not unethical or illegal. I needed to be number one. I had to be number one because if I’m not number one, I’m not seen. If I’m not seen, I’m not loved. If I’m not loved, I’m going to die. That was my process.

That is some stripe you have gone through. I know people who were managers of corporations that were all of the sudden pumping gas in their lives, and they were top of their game. They went through hardship and were struggling. I know several people that have foreclosed on properties or lost their businesses and livelihood.

Often, we tie ourselves that our identity or value is our wealth, business, or what we perceive is who we are. It is not right because we are so much deeper than that and more than that. We are emotional creatures. We have so much more to give than our physical beings and the stuff we buy and through that trial and tribulation, aside from your wife’s encouraging words, which I can attribute because my wife is amazing.

You have somebody in your life that believes in you probably more than you believe in yourself. You need to lean on them and have unwavering trust in what they believe in.

I attribute my success to my wife because she is a great foundation for me. The most encouraging about a good, significant other in your life is that they will push and challenge you when you do not want to hear it. When you might push others away, you tend to take it because it is your significant other. You have to because that helps you grow through those trials and tribulations.

I would ask you, aside from her encouragement, what drove you? You’ve used a lot of words about, “I have to win. I have to succeed. I had to be loved.” Aside from perhaps your own personal feelings of embarrassment for doing whatever you are doing, none of these jobs are bad jobs. It is just you put yourself in a certain caliber because you have earned that. When you go backward, in your opinion, whether it is income, a job, or a title, it feels bad. You cannot get away from it. What draws you to keep pushing? It is hard work to get back when you fall. What drove you specifically to keep doing that?

The first answer is money. Money made my identity. If I was not making money, I was not a great provider. If I was not a great provider, what husband and man am I? That is society’s definition. Looking back on it with clarity, what was driving me was I knew that that real estate business was not mine forever. I knew that it was the midpoint to get somewhere.

 

It took me from 2012 to 2018 to realize through an Ayahuasca ceremony and whoever spoke to me and said, “Instead of hating the business you are in and being annoyed at the fact that you got to sling real estate every day, go out on Sundays, do open houses, drag these people around, show them houses, and scratch their back to get them to sign a contract. Try being grateful because this is the means to an end. What the universe is doing is providing you with a stable foundation to build something upon.”

At that point, I realized what it was. One of the things that I started doing to push myself to learn faster is every single thing I learned, whether in business or personal development. I went back to my office and taught every time. If you want to learn faster, teach somebody what you learned at a Tony Robbins’ Landmark seminar or by reading this, teach it to somebody. It is awkward, uncomfortable, and it sucks sometimes. You got to know your stuff. If you want to learn it to soak in, teach somebody. That’s what I did, and I fell in love with that.

In 2017, I had been coaching for a couple of years unofficially. I decided that I was going to start a coaching business and teach personal development as I was learning. I got ramped up after that ceremony in 2018. I knew that was my path, but I did not know how to build a coaching business and a physical real estate business.

An online coaching business where you do not see people in person was challenging. I had to figure it out. As I started making positive and purposeful impacts in people’s lives, I knew that this was where I was supposed to be. My relationship with the real estate business changed. I thank that every day for giving me the space so that I did not have to build a coaching business to try and make my mortgage payment. I got to build a coaching business with this solid granite on marble and concrete foundation for the future.

By the end of 2019, I had a business partner empty an account with $600,000-plus in it. It bankrupted that company. It was millions that I took on and paid back by selling my assets, liquidating, and cashing stuff in. By early 2020, I had started podcasting a podcast called Real Estate Rock Stars. My buddy, Pat Hiban, had let me co-host with him and then took the podcast on. I was practicing podcasting. By early 2020, I was on stage at a podcast convention talking about podcasting, which I felt was a huge fraud, yet I still knew some things.

Somebody approached me and said, “I have this brand you would be perfect for. If you do not take it, I’m going to scrap and mothball it.” That was their exact words. I was like, “What is the brand?” She said, “It is called Men On Purpose.” I got that gut feeling and I was like, “I got you, universe. I hear you. Give me a second.” One of my practices is journaling. I went back to my journal, and I looked at all the names of podcasts that I would want to start or run, and Men On Purpose was in there. I went back to her and I said, “I will take it.” That was a hockey stick at that point. COVID hit a month later.

One of the lessons I learned in podcasting and real estate was to practice in private. A mentor of mine used to say it is seven Ps, Pay the Price of Practice in Private to Perform Perfectly in Public. I took that to heart. I practiced my interviews in the mirror, where my mic would go, and how my cameras lined up.

Humans are emotional creatures. You have so much more to give than your physical being and the stuff you buy.

I’m not into my studio now because my parents are here and my dad is using my office. That seven Ps is how I live my life. If you want to be flawless and professional, practice. Do not practice on your clients. Practice on yourself and your friends, and then you are practiced to your client or audience. That is the only way to go if you want to be a pro.

You make some great points here. To our Charging Forward crew, I want you to take away a ton of stuff that we have talked about. Ian highlighted how important it is to have a structure in your life. That structure, in his case, was his significant other. Settling down, having that pushback, and tough love is important.

Use those downfalls as an opportunity to propel you versus something to dwell on. When you have a downturn in your life, struggle, challenge, or strife, you do not dwell, worry, complain, grumble, or make a big deal about it. You learn from it and use it to push you forward and drive you. That is a good way to live your life.

I love how you talk about Men On Purpose. I want to dive into that a little bit more, what you guys do and how you help people. I find it interesting how the world worked out for you as it relates to the name that you had already picked out. I’m sure you work through this with people, but would you say that oftentimes folks don’t know how to get out of their own way and they are not focusing or prioritizing?

For example, you said you have to practice. You have to sit there and almost think about how it would be on the other side if I was listening to myself. Am I articulate? Do I sound like my knowledge is being applied correctly? Am I fumbling and stumbling? Am I looking a person in the eye? When you are coaching people, it seems like they do not even know what they do not know yet.

They do not realize all these fundamentals because they are running in the rat race so fast. You cannot even slow down to get the fundamentals right. I would ask your opinion on your coaching business. When working with people, what are some of the things you start out with folks to try to get them aligned right and realize their purpose or how to focus and build structure in their lives? Maybe you could elaborate a little bit on that for the readers.

I learned something from Jimmy Iovine. He is the guy that started Interscope Records. He is Dr. Dre’s partner and the guy who came up with the concept for Beats headphones, subsequently selling it to Apple for $3 billion. If you watch the show called The Defiant Ones or you listen to Jimmy Iovine’s interview on Howard Stern, Jimmy Iovine said, “I have two practices that I run my life by. One is always be of service. Regardless if a billionaire or not, always be of service. The second is, make fear your tailwind, not your headwind.”

 

I took that so seriously. “Be of service and constantly push yourself to the next fear bubble,” he says. Do not be afraid that the next fear bubble is coming. It is given and going to happen. You are a human. If you are pushing yourself and not plateaued, you are going to interfere. It just is. If you can change your attitude, habits, and mindset around fear from pushing on your face to pushing at your back, you will have a much better time dealing with that fear.

You will go into a situation understanding you’re going to be scared and uncomfortable. If you are, that’s fine. You’re a human. Leave it alone and move on to your next thing. Understand fear is inherent in anything you do if you are pushing yourself. Fear is inherent if you are afraid of heights and standing on a deck. Fear is there. Embrace it.

Would you mind repeating? You said always be of service. What is the second one?

Make fear of your tailwind instead of your headwind. He describes the moment he walked into a studio and John Lennon was sitting there. He was young. He walked back out and said to his boss, “What do I do?” The boss said, “Be of service. Find out what that man needs. That is not John Lennon in there. That is a client.” John wanted tea. He made him tea, and then he came back in. John was like, “Do you know anything about mixing?” That is how he started on John Lennon’s record. I thought that was so cool.

One of the practices I have is studying successful people and listening to their stories to pick up clues that could work in your life because not everything is going to work for you. If you are going to model after somebody, do not model after what they have or what they have done. Model after who they are. If you model after what someone has done, you are not aligned. You model after somebody because of what they have, like a plane, a successful business, or a big house. You are missing the boat. If you model after who someone is and take that first, then you can grow because what you are going to do is adopt their philosophies of the person they are. You are going to adapt them to your life.

You are going to get a lot of stuff they have subsequently because you are modeling who they are. You asked the question, “What would I start with in coaching?” I coach thousands of people. I run a big coaching practice. The number one thing we start with is understanding somebody’s mission and purpose for being on this planet.

In my experience of thousands of people we have coached, 98% of them do not know why they are here. Whether they are 21 or 65, they do not know why they are here. When you can dial in somebody’s mission very clearly, what does the world look when you have accomplished this mission? Answer that question for your readers. What is the world look like when you are done? Answer the question about your vision. What do you see is possible for yourself and the world? The last one is, who do you need to be to accomplish that? That is the piece that people do not remember or think about.

They go, “Here is my goal. I want to own 100 units. I want to be a millionaire,” yet they are not thinking about the person that will achieve that goal. You set a five-year goal of being a millionaire. You could probably achieve it in one year if you become the person that can be a millionaire or achieve millionaire status. I help people with their vision, mission, and purpose in life. From there, you get ultimate clarity and awareness around the moves you need to make next. Most people are making moves buffet style, but we want to make moves chef-designed, plated dinner style. We want very to be very intentional.

The universe always provides you with a stable foundation to build something upon.

I’m glad you brought it up that way. You sliced it and diced it with the chef’s comment for everyone to understand clearly. It is a very important point. I want my Charging Forward crew to take this to heart. When you think about it, a lot of folks are chasing money and fancy things. They are chasing something. It is usually a thing and not chasing being purposeful or giving, being a better person in general, being a better lover, or opening up to be loved more.

You have to almost be coached to learn that because we do not learn that. We watch TV and our neighbors. We go through life thinking that we got to keep up with the Joneses. If you are not wearing the fancy things or you do not have posts every day, then you are not hip and in. You almost have to be coached to go back to the most simplistic version of yourself to feel who you can be.

I had a goal of getting to a financial number and, fortunately, achieved that a lot earlier, which was great. When I got to that level and realized I was at a financial point where I could buy whatever it is that I wanted to buy because I had no debt and I had lived below my means. I have been smart with my money. We invest and we buy a lot of real estates. It was not I needed to make more millions or something. It was, “This is great. What else can I do? How can I give back? How can I make a difference in other people’s lives? How can I mentor people?”

It was a bigger purpose beyond the financial means. It would be great if people could achieve that level of clarity before they strive their whole lives to get to the financial means because it would be a more fulfilling life. What is interesting about what you said is you are trying to help people understand that early and give them the tools to achieve that so that they have a more purposeful life as they are trying to achieve their financial dreams or freedom. It is defined in different ways by different people.

I ask people, “What is your goal?” They go, “I want to be a better business owner, husband, and father.” I go, “That has nothing to do with what you are going to do. It has to do with who you are going to be.” It is so simple. It is yin and yang and it is being versus doing. There is a quote that says, “Be, do, have. Not do, be, have or do, have, be.”

When people say, “I want to be a better husband,” I’m like, “Go be a better husband. Figure out who you need to be and how you need to show up as this new version of you to have a better marriage, a different reaction from your wife, love or intimacy back, or for your children to run to you when you get home and not go, ‘What’s up, dad?’” Who do you need to be for that? Do the activity and you will be so much clearer.

Our coaching platform, our Men On Purpose Community, do a lot of free coaching there. For any of your readers, join The Men On Purpose Community. You can get free coaching from me all week long. That is the gift and value I want to add to the world. I tell people, “Our job is to remove distractions.” A lot of people are avoiding stuff and distracting themselves from dealing with deep-seated things.

When you can face that and you can say, “I am going to evolve as a human here to achieve these goals easier than if I read a bunch of business books and try a bunch of tactics that are external. I can live a more complete and purposeful life.” At the end of the day, nobody wants to get to millionaire status. Tons of people do. It has happened to me. Nobody wants to pop a bottle of champagne or send me some flowers.

 

I was empty because the goal was empty. I did not pay attention to the person. I paid attention to the external goal. Why spend five years grinding to achieve this goal when you could spend those years purposefully living, intentionally aiming at that goal, being the person enjoying the activities of life and the present moment, and have your mind attentive to the future, yet you are enjoying now? Every single day for the next 1,500 days, you know who you need to be and show up to accomplish that goal as quickly or as purposely as possible.

You are going to enjoy life more. You will have way better relationships, impact and influence the world in a much better way. You are going to be a leader, and your life will be worth it. You’re not just sitting on some yacht alone because you are worth $5 million. You have a ton of crew with you. What Men On Purpose are, we are models to the world, especially to other men, of what it means to live a life on purpose, full circle, well-rounded, not just money and relationships.

We have this exercise called the Ten Domains. In it, we break down the ten areas of life where we spend the most time, money, and energy. We call those the use of resources. Most people account for making money, investing, business, and a little bit of family. There are six other domains. If your readers want, shoot us an email. You can private message me on Facebook or DM me on Instagram, @MenOnPurposePodcast. I will send that exercise out. It is powerful as hell. They will get clarity and structure in every area of their life. The number one thing that you got to focus on is who you are going to be in each one of these categories to achieve the goal in that category. It is that simple.

It is hard, especially for men. Often, we are out there trying to provide. A lot of us are strong-minded and do not want to open up to get help from others. You realize often it is getting around like-minded individuals and buddies. Everybody is sharing ideas and trying to help each other grow. It is critically important.

I have had mentors throughout my life, and I have read a ton of books. I love podcasts, the educational stuff, but you would only listen to that stuff so long. You have to engage with people. You have to have real conversations, and face-to-face is even better. The program that you run is a strong program. It is good for anybody that specifically lacks direction. They are just so focused on the day-to-day. They cannot focus on how they are going to grow, mostly not externally but internally. That is a critical piece of what you guys do.

I will give you the mission of Men On Purpose. It is to educate, elevate, empower, enrich, and evolve men to be on purpose to reveal their most authentic self and live the most fulfilling and regret-free life possible. That is a big mission. Think about how many people go through life. They got the money, Facebook status, pictures of the vacation, car, and house, yet they do not understand who they are.

Our job in Men On Purpose, as leaders of this movement, is to help men understand who they are for their children, wives, husbands, legacy, future, and other generations. That is a real powerful work. If we can accomplish that goal, which is ten million men possibly purposefully and powerfully affected, that will change the world, not in a cliché or a cheesy manner.

It will change the world because kids are not looking at their dads as a walking bank account who like, “Dad buys a ton of stuff. We got a cool house in Hawaii,” but they are like, “My dad comes home and spends time with me, talks to me about my feelings and emotions, helps me manage my own growth, reads books, takes time for me, and listens to me. I feel heard.” How cool is that to change a generation of people?

Fear is inherent in anything you do. So, embrace it. Make fear your tailwind instead of your headwind.

We are paying attention to things like that and not just like, “I’m bringing a paycheck home and I’m putting dinner on the table.” That is your job. Do it and don’t complain about it. Be a well-rounded man. Sit down with your kid and ask him how they feel. Ask your wife how she feels, and then have a conversation around that. That is a Man On Purpose.

You mean a real conversation, not the internet conversation or a text message from across the living room. You make some good points. How does a rockstar like you, who is doing all these great things to inspire people to get everyone to realize their purpose and vision and help them structure their lives? That is a big task. How does a guy like you in this crazy world of internet and data available to us stay motivated and inspired? In other words, what is the name of an individual, a book, or something in your life that you lean to keep you focused on track or something that inspires you regularly?

In my office, I have got tons of positive sayings. I got a canvas, pictures of the mountains I have climbed, and different things that fired me up. There are lots of different things at different times that get me motivated. Sometimes, it is jazz music. What about you? Is there one thing you might want to refer to the readers? It could be a book, an author, or whatever.

This mission is huge. That motivates me every day. When I get on a mic in front of a camera every day and get on a phone call with somebody who is struggling, I make it my mission to have a conversation so powerful that they will never forget for the rest of their lives. That is my commitment. When they thank me or say, “I have never seen it so clear,” that is so motivating to me. The other side of that is my kids are like, “I am in charge of changing this next generation.” I’m in charge of making sure that my children do not think the things that I thought or experience the same things that I did. There is that.

I love reading Tao Te Ching. That is a super motivating book to me. I love anything by Philip Shepherd’s, like Radical Wholeness, which is his book. I love anything by Michael Singer, The Surrender Experiment or The Untethered Soul. Those books motivate me. The other motivations I have are, “What is possible for me to build these businesses? How many men can I affect and how big can I make this thing?” Reaching that potential motivates me.

 

The other thing is listening to other people like Jimmy Iovine’s story and what they were able to build. They cleared a path, me on my path, and my mission. I know that I can affect ten million men. That is going to happen. I love racing fast cars, fast BMWs, especially. I live in Southern California. I race through the mountains with my car clubs, fly planes, and have scuba diving and other cool hobbies that motivate me.

You are a fired-up individual. I love it. It is awesome. You get tons of energy. It is a blast talking with you. Why don’t you tell the readers how they can find you directly? What is the best way to reach you?

Get access to us, to me and my partner, Aaron, on The Men On Purpose Community on Facebook. We will get you in there. It is free to join. All I want is your email because I want to inform you about the cool stuff we got going on. You can hit me up on Instagram, @MenOnPurposePodcast or Facebook, Ian Lobas.

If your readers hit me up, DM me, or private message me, MenOnPurposePodcast@gmail.com is our email. If you hit me up, even if I do not have a conversation with you, I will give you something of value right away so that I made some positive mark on your life, and you know that The Men On Purpose Community is somebody that helped you along the way.

We have got a mastermind that we run every couple of weeks. We bring twelve select individuals in. If somebody is looking to go through our coaching programs fast, it is 100 days. You get private and group coaching with us. You get thirteen proven exercises and a very succinct, structured framework. If somebody is looking to get their life changed now, hit us up, get on the community, see what we got going on, and inquire about the mastermind. I will get on the phone call with you personally and have a 15 to 20-minute conversation about how we can help. I will give you some advice on the challenges you are facing. I will give you some value and then you can make a decision as to whether the mastermind is good for you.

It has been great talking with you. Thanks so much for sharing all the value with the readers. I hope some of you guys take full advantage of Ian’s offer. He is going to give you some freebies. If anything, you can learn from him and his website. There are an awful lot of people on that Facebook page. It will be good for some of you to get in there and check it out.

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We finished a great interview with Ian Lobas of Men On Purpose. The two takeaways from the interview here that I wanted to highlight were when he quoted Jimmy Iovine. Jimmy Iovine said, “Always be of service and make fear of your tailwind, not your headwind.” Ian starts diving into what that means to him and how he uses that to drive him in his everyday life. It is worth tuning in to hear how he describes that. It is cool.

He talked about an experience he had when he was on some Ayahuasca during the ceremony event that he went to. If you do not know much about that, you might want to look it up. It is interesting stuff, from what I hear. It allowed him to figure out what his purpose was, which drove him down a journey to educate others in doing the same.

That is why he built his coaching program for helping men to figure out their vision, purpose, and how to get what they want out of life, It is good stuff. Those are the two things that I highlighted in the interview. There is a lot going on in his story. It is dynamic and amazing. He has a lot of highs and lows that he talks about. I encourage you to jump in if you want some inspiration. Thanks for reading.

Important Links:

• Ian Lobas
• Real Estate Rock Stars
• Jimmy Iovine
• @MenOnPurposePodcast – Instagram
• Tao Te Ching
• Radical Wholeness
• The Surrender Experiment
• The Untethered Soul
• The Men On Purpose Community – Facebook
• Ian Lobas – Facebook
• MenOnPurposePodcast@gmail.com
• https://www.Facebook.com/MenOnPurpose

About Ian Lobas

Ian is a sought-after executive coach who refuses to simply do window-dressing. He is setting a new standard in coaching by insisting that clients deeply understand the power their past holds over their lives. He knows first-hand that it’s pointless trying to move forward with new skills if you haven’t examined the effect your past has on your present and future. It’s at the root of how and why you make decisions.

Ian took a long hard look at who he was, what he was doing and who he needed to authentically be. First on his agenda was saving his marriage, which was headed for disaster. He came to understand what it means to be the best husband, best dad and best friend that he could be. Time to pursue his personal interests also became a non-negotiable.