Mar 1, 2013

James Malinchak's Interview with Stedman Graham Part 3

By Rubin Knox


When you're able to go in and say, "Hey, this is all laid out. This is turnkey. Here it is,," it's ready for you to say "Hey, I'm going to support your vision." That's what leadership is. One of the things that is missing in our world today is we don't have a vision for the people to develop themselves. That's why we have such a gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. That's why Occupy Wall Street now is complaining because they're saying, "Wait a minute. Hold it. I just graduated from Harvard University. I spent a lot of money. I'm in debt. I don't have a job."

You're not going to have a job because with the new world order you don't have any skills and nobody has time to be able to train you to get skills where they used to just hire you because you had the ability to think and because you went to Harvard University, an Ivy-league school. We're going to hire you and you'd be on the job for 15, 16, or 17 years. Now you can't find a job even if you graduate from an Ivy-league school.. The ability to be clear, have clarity, and be authentic is critical today; and having an identity is just as critical.

James: Last question. It's about your book. We have some amazing speakers, authors, trainers, coaches, information marketers, Internet marketers. Your book is coming out and share with everybody what it is. Give them an idea what it's about, how they could tell maybe their list about it to support it.

Stedman: First of all, I am focused on identity development as a way to get the message out. It's how you get the message to a worldwide audience that allows us now to raise the awareness of the people because you want to raise the awareness.

It took me 20 years to figure out what is it that you do and it comes down to one message: I teach people how to define themselves. I teach people how to take identity. I spent all these years to figure out what I do. All the women who believe they can't make it because they're a woman, wrong. All the black folks all around the world who believe they can make it because of the color of their skin - wrong; all the Hispanics, all the people of different cultures who believe they're less because they have a different color, wrong.

All the folks that are entitled, they live out in the suburbs and have families that got a lot of money and their kids and they think that they're supposed to just have what their family has, wrong. All the folks that are lost, depressed, and they have to use alcohol and drugs as a way out, to think they are somebody, wrong. All the folks that believe they can't make it because they're mother and father might have said, "Son/daughter, you're nothing. You're never going to be anything."

What I actually do is train them how to build a basis for progression based on showing them how to go and work on their key values which gives them a sense of self and gives them an identity for who they really are and then now shows them how to take their skills and talents and self-actualize that and change the way they learn and think about themselves.

You can't do it the way the system is set up. The system is set up only for you to be a worker. You've got to transform into a thinker which means this, ladies and gentlemen, you have to take control of your own life. It's impossible for you to create any more than what the world gives you or what the United States put in front of you or the global market puts in front of you because if you can't get beyond a worker mentality, you're going to be lost for the rest of your life. You've got to be accountable and responsible for your own growth.




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