I Spent $100K On Coaching, Courses, and Masterminds Last Year
The Amplified Impact Podcast
January 30th, 2023
In this episode of Amplified Impact, Anthony shares his experience and insights on investing in personal development.
He reflects on the most impactful investments he’s made in himself, which includes fitness and nutrition coaching.
Anthony reveals how working with a personal trainer and focusing on nutrition has helped him achieve his goal of being in the best shape of his life at the age of 40.
He discusses the benefits of combining exercise with a healthy diet, such as improved sleep, energy, and mental clarity.
Anthony provides valuable tips and recommendations for listeners looking to invest in their own personal growth.
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“I’m a big promoter of investing back into yourself.” – Anthony Vicino
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Anthony: [00:00:00] Hey guys. I love, love, love that you’re listening to the podcast. I truly hope it’s bringing you just a ton of value. But if you ever wanted to check out the video version of these podcasts, then you should head over to YouTube. You know, they’re going to have more effects, more visual, stuff like that, and that that can help the message.
Anthony: Sometimes just hit a little bit different and, you know, reinforce the, the lesson in a better way. So you can check that out. It’s completely free. Go over to YouTube, search for Anthony Sino. It’ll. And if that’s not what you’re into, then cool. Just enjoy the show and let’s get to it. Welcome to Amplified Impact.
Anthony: This is the podcast where we talk about how to build better businesses, invest in real estate, and how to hyper focus on the things that matter most so that we can maximize our return on life. I’m your host, Anthony Vicino, and I’ve written a few bestselling books, built a few seven and eight figure businesses, and currently manage a 70 million real estate portfolio.
Anthony: But the thing I’m most proud of is that I managed to turn my ADHD into a super power. This podcast is all about the stories, lessons, and strategies I wish I had learned sooner in the pursuit of living a [00:01:00] life beyond the apex. I’m psyched to have you here now. Let’s go make some amplified impact. Hello and welcome back to the podcast.
Anthony: It’s fantastic to have you here. I’m super psyched. Today we’re going to talk about how in the last year, I was doing the math on this. I was like going through all my expenses and I realized I’d spent over a hundred thousand dollars on courses coaching masterminds, network. and of all that money, like I’m, I’m a big promoter of investing back into yourself.
Anthony: You know this, like, I think the number one investment any of us can make is into our skills because those pay compounding interest for the entirety of your life. And so I, I spend a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of money on trying to sharpen my skills and become better, whether that’s preexisting skills or it’s, new, new ones.
Anthony: And so as I was going through this, I was thinking, okay, what were. The most impactful coaches or lessons or masterminds, like what was the most bang for my buck, best [00:02:00] value that I’ve gotten. And I wanted to share that with you guys because, hopefully it gives you something to think about where maybe in the next year you could be spending money.
Anthony: Like where would be a good investment? Number one is fitness and nutrition coaching. So about four months ago I started working with his name, this guy named Phil Dar. Who was like the, the personal trainer for Dustin Poirer and all these other MMA athletes, and I, I’ve been training Brazilian Jujitsu for the last year and, you know, I’m getting older.
Anthony: I’m almost 40 now, and I, I want to be able, I want, I set a goal for myself that I wanted to be in the best shape of my life when I hit 40. Like I want, I want to be at my peak. I want to be. Fitter than I ever was in my twenties, which is a tall task. Because if you know my backstory, I was a professional rock climber.
Anthony: So like physically I was operating at a pretty high level. Well, I decided I needed to get serious and attack this at all, from all angles. So got really serious about my nutrition, my weightlifting, my, my jiujitsu, my [00:03:00] conditioning, all of it. And so for the last four months I’ve been going hard at this. And, it has, I can easily say been the best investment I’ve ever made in my.
Anthony: Hands down, truly the, the, the, the fitness side of things is great. Lifting weights, doing heavy things, doing hard things, making yourself sweat, that’s great. However, I’ve always had that part figured out. So that’s, for most people, that’s like where you need to start, start moving your body, getting to the gym, lifting heavy things.
Anthony: Great. And you’re going to see massive dividends just from that alone. But the thing that really paid the biggest for me was the nutrition side of things. Now Phil just provided the macro plan. My girlfriend did all of the work. I eat five meals a day, she does all the meal prepping. She’s a goddamn godsend.
Anthony: Like without her, none of this, this works, but I’m so thankful for it because I feel better right now than I ever have in my life by orders of m. I sleep [00:04:00] less, but I sleep better. I wake up refreshed. I wake up energized. I have high levels of energy throughout the day. They’re consistent. There’s no drop off.
Anthony: I feel mentally clear. I feel purpose-driven and motivated in, in a way that I, I’ve, I haven’t felt in a very long time. And it’s all stemming from just getting the nutrition really dialed in, eating clean, getting rid of the sugar, getting rid of the gluten, getting rid of the dairy, getting rid of all of the things that you don’t realize, the toll that they’re taking on your body.
Anthony: So that’s the number one investment that I would, I would recommend is get your nutrition figured out. I know it’s hard, but I, I can’t even imagine. I. It, it’s so night and day different, how I feel now versus how I did just a couple of months ago. In that time period, I’ve dropped from 185 pounds down to about 168 pounds.
Anthony: So lost weight. Feel great. It’s awesome. All right. The second best investment that I made this year [00:05:00] was in a YouTube coach. So I started with, started working with Nikhil Pandey, who is, captain Sinbad, if you guys are familiar with his videos on. And I decided I wanted to get better at storytelling. I wanted to get better at video.
Anthony: I wanted to. I wanted to share my story in a more impactful way, but to do that, you know, I’ve always thought of myself as a good storyteller, but I’m good with the written word. I’m not necessarily good on a camera. I wanted to improve, and so I started working with Nik and within three months we had about 30,000 subscribers.
Anthony: We went from zero to 30,000 subscribers. We had one video. , depending on when you’re watching this, it might already be over a million views. It’s right now, at 800,000 and still just climbing, which is ridiculous numbers to me guys, like it’s bonkers. It’s bonkers, but the most impactful thing, it’s not the numbers, it’s not the growth.
Anthony: That stuff doesn’t actually all, it doesn’t matter. That’s just vanity. The part that makes me so grateful for having worked with Nik is the, the [00:06:00] comments, the feedback that I get from listeners like. Reaching out who have seen the videos now, and they, they’re like that, that changed my paradigm. It changed my perspective.
Anthony: It made me see the game in a different way. It made me see my life in a different way. It made me feel not alone. It made me feel like I had a path. It gave me the tools necessary to move forward. That’s the coolest part. And that’s an investment. That’s like a, an infinite return on the investment in just the coaching.
Anthony: So that’s my, that’s my number two investment. The third one is, I’m going to, it’s, it’s a twofer because I think that one of the most valuable skills that anybody can acquire is the ability to communicate more effectively. And one of the best ways to do that is to learn how to write better. Now, you know, I’m a writer.
Anthony: I’ve written a, a bunch of books and so it, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that like, this is something I’m obsessed with. But I do think that becoming a more compelling writer, it makes you a better thinker and it makes you more, more influential just in life in general. And I took a course this last year called Copywriting Course by.
Anthony: [00:07:00] I, Madera, I think is his last name. I can’t remember it, but you can go to copywriting course.com. That’s great. I, you know, you don’t necessarily even think that you need copywriting, but the ability to write influentially and persuasively, I think there’s so many downstream benefits to it. I highly recommend it.
Anthony: Now, the two for them I’m going to give you is I also. Took this, got this little product, it was like 150 bucks, this little deck of cards called Storytelling Tactics by PIP Decks, P I P D E C K S. Go check them out. This is like, if you want to become a, a better storyteller, which I think you should want that because story is how we communicate with the world.
Anthony: It’s how you know we connect with other people and it’s how we move mountains. And so your ability to tell a really good story is like, it’s everything. And this is a really cool little resource of, of cards that you can pull out and each are thematically different. And then they have instructions. Like how to formulate your story and then to tie them together like links in a chain.
Anthony: It’s just [00:08:00] a really fun, technique. And, you know, I, I felt like a pretty competent storyteller before, but this is just, it’s a fun way to take the skill and continue honing it and becoming better, because I think there’s always room for improvement even amongst the skill that you consider to be like a master at.
Anthony: So those are the, those are the skill or those are the, the courses, the coaching. The things that I found really valuable in this last year. I’m curious to hear from you guys though, like as I’m looking next, next year, like it’s not just a one-time investment, it’s continually like, how do I keep pouring back into myself to continually get better?
Anthony: I’d love to hear from you, get some feedback on like, what are the coaches to courses, masterminds, or whatever that you’ve personally invested in that have had like the biggest bang for your buck on your life. Let me know what that is, reach out, share on social media. Let me know because I want. I’d love to maybe even explore them and, and, you know, see how they work for me.
Anthony: So take the social media, do that, and as always, guys, like I appreciate you being here. It, it’s, it’s always rad. So keep being great and I’ll see you in the next episode.[00:09:00]
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