Hey, this is Ken Jensen. I beat bipolar disorder in an all natural fashion back in the mid 2 thousands. Believe it or not, that’s not even the coolest part of my story.

What I learned through that process and what came next and how that applied to bipolar and why bipolar was ever even part of the process, was mind blowing to say the least.

Bipolar has hidden within its strengths. I’m gonna show you what I mean and how they’ve shown up in my life so you can do the same.

Welcome fellow trauma survivors. This is episode 63. Let’s take our pain pro. Slight difference. Did you catch that? Big difference happening over here down in the pod pit.

I have changed the focus of this show from 1 of purely bipolar I’ve expanded it to well, here’s the new my line helping trauma survivors create an online business to share their story. Why the big switch, Ken?

Hang on. Big cough. I don’t know if I’ll edit that out or not. That thing’s been bothering me for a while. I think maybe you should joy it with me, the relief I felt. There is a lot going on this weekend, this past week.

I’ve been in my head quite a bit It’s it’s why I did that last episode, hurting satellites. I believe that was my subconscious kinda pushing through into the podcast made me think of that.

The ideas and my plans, they swirl around my head dipping in and out almost like a bug light before they land and become part of my whole become part of, you know, whatever it is I’m about to do next.

I think that’s why I did that last episode. Now on this episode, I should say this week.

Oh, man. So many things are bothering me bothering me right now. Even in this house as I’m trying to create this episode, there is so much shit going on that I hope doesn’t get picked up on the mics.

And is breaking my attention because there’s just been a lot going on just this weekend with this show and the online machine that I had to edit all over the place to fit my new approach.

It’s not that much different, but 1 of the things was I honestly was struggling to talk about the money making aspect of sharing 1 story.

I brought that up in the past, but I I never could I couldn’t I couldn’t get my head around like, why is this so tough to talk about?

We all need money. We’re all trying to get paid for what we do. I’m trying to put the dream situation together of getting paid to do what it is I love doing best. That’s this show and the website and everything about it, the coaching.

So why is that so damn hard to talk about? Now I feel the way I had to show up to this point was with such a focus on helping people heal from bipolar. Or or helping high functioning people to build something off the back of bipolar.

It was it was all bipolar. It was purely focused on bipolar. That was 2 niched down, niched, niched, It was too fine a point. It was limiting what I wanted to say and how I wanted to proceed. How I wanna live my life.

Even in my day to day life, I bring up my story in the in the day job I have, and then just in talking with people, There is a time and place when I can make mention of my bipolar past, but it’s it’s almost like an aside It’s awful grim to bring it up at most times, and, you know, it just doesn’t fit.

It doesn’t fit socially. And then even when I’m doing something that’s sort of related to mental health, it’s I don’t even feel like talking about it all the time. Not about all the ins and outs.

I use I use it strategically to prove points to give context to let other people know I understand their pain. And there’s things I learned in fighting bipolar that just had me it forced me to change how I live my life period.

So I think about these things sometimes. I’m talking to people just on the on the day to day. But in general, I’m pretty tired of bipolar. I beat it. A long damn time ago, 20 almost 20 years now.

And yet, I’m very proud of what I did. I’m still blown away by what I did. I’m blown away by the bipolar years. I’m blown away by the years that preceded it because it was so much bizarre, odd, weirdness.

You know, before it even got bad. And then when it got bad, forget about it. It was just pure insanity at times. And then what I went through after, like, I’m still I’m proud of it.

I’m enamored. By it with it? Not sure what follows enamored there. But I don’t mind it per se, but I don’t live it entirely in everything I do all the time. I didn’t even wanna keep calling the show a bi pole or anything.

I wanted to go something a little broad And I probably will at some point. That’s that’s the way my site was. My old site, some years back, was outsider’s journey. It’s still alive, but I got it hidden.

Part of why I made this move besides my own discomfort and getting fed up would not be able to talk about the things I really wanted to talk about which is making money online, building an online business off the back of my story.

I got tired of just keeping too many things in and getting confused when they would enter my mind.

As I was making this show, So I’m I’m not I’m not bothered that anymore. I’ll probably lose some listeners over that, but I think even if you’re a bipolar person, right, I’m not looking to coach bipolar people into wellness.

I’ve said that time and again, That’s, like, doctoring stuff. That’s not where I’m at.

I’m a coach. I’m rallying the troops to take the hill. Doctors are saving people. I don’t wanna save anyone. I wanna work with people that are somewhat stable. I don’t want them to be all the way stable. Where’s the fun in that?

But they’re stable as far as what we all understands, you know, how to get a life done. They’re stable. And I wanna push those people onwards and upward to do great things with whatever it is that makes them interesting.

I’ve said all that before too, but still I had these things these restraints on myself that III didn’t know what to do with them.

So anyway, now we’re this new thing. But if you’re a bipolar, I would say you still wanna check-in with the show because you wanna see what a former bipolar person’s up to.

And even though I’m former, I still feel whatever I don’t know what part, but but some part of bipolar still flavors me. I don’t have the illness. There’s nothing about me that I can go into a doctor’s what’s in store?

Into a doctor’s office, and they can pin bipolar. There’s just there’s nothing. So so now I’ve gone a little larger by helping other trauma survivors do the very same thing I’m doing with this by with this podcast and the website.

The funny thing is, also in my daily life, where appropriate It usually isn’t because because most people are just happy to go to work or or resigned.

I never was. Neither of those things. But Every now and then, I get somebody that wants to build a small business or or even just a really wild leap into a larger career path that’s practically the same amount of stress.

Same amount of fear, same amount of risk. I love helping those people see a way through those ish to become something greater than what they are.

I absolutely love it. It’s what I talk about the most the loudest and and I I strive to find moments in my life where someone will give me that window. Like, I stay open to it, I should say. That makes more sense.

So part of what took me down this path was Dan Co. K0E, he talked about how you start 1 way. And then he said, as long as you Give about 20 percent of your material is still on the original point, which for me is bipolar.

The rest, you can talk about anything you want and you should be. You shouldn’t be hammering away at 1 single thing.

Now as you step back here and tell you, you’re gonna hear here’s another thought that’s in my head all the time. The 2 sides of a coin, you are going to hear as you try to build something like what I’m building.

You’re gonna hear completely diametrically opposite advice, both of which pieces of advice are completely valid, rational, and and you’d wanna do them, but they oppose 1 another. I have been doing this so long online.

I’ve studied under so many people either directly or just passively consuming material in website or newsletter. It’s very hard to figure out who to listen to when and why. My 1 of my my my oldest coach.

Jason Leister. Jason, he had told me some time back. He’s like, don’t go too small because then you’re stuck right there. The very last coach that I paid to help me come up with a high functioning bipolar people said the opposite.

You you wanna go just for these very specific people because they’re your people. What you say directly impacts them so strongly, they know you’re your people and they will pay to have you coach them.

Both those things are true. They’re both true. But what I’m finding is trying to constrain myself to just talking to and finding high functioning bipolar people it was strangling me.

Now I know they’re out there. I’m still gonna talk to high functioning bipolar. Of course, I am. This still fits. This fits exactly.

I’m just letting in the other trauma survivors as well because again, particularly with my day job, I have met more people that have overcome shit just as nightmarish as what I went through with bipolar and and and some of them had bipolar and some didn’t have it at all.

They had completely different sources of pain. I am amazed at what people can overcome. And it’s it’s just it’s interesting. It’s bipolar was so disgusting. It was weird in a disgusting fashion. And it was packed with fear.

Huge, huge, huge fear. The likes of which a A sane person will never know. You need to be something like bipolar for that part of your brain to kick in the gear. And then you will You will know of fear, the likes of which.

It’s thermonuclear. Everything up to that point has been BB guns and small caliber rifles coming at you, not nuclear bombs. So We all think the thing we’re in is the worst, and I have to keep reminded myself.

It’s just an it’s just a thought. It doesn’t impact anything. There’s other people that have gone through things I never went through that sound just as bad to me and they pulled through. They listen to what I say.

They can’t even fucking imagine the the bizarre side effects that happened with bipolar and, you know, my 3 to my 3 to 4 hour long panic attacks. The shit like that, but like people can’t even imagine, of course, you couldn’t.

But then I couldn’t imagine a lot of those things I’ve met or heard about from people that have lived on the streets, just just that, or the drug addicts how how far down the hole they get particularly what’s out there now for them to consume, whether they know it or not.

They weren’t in the problems that are just as colossal, just as life almost ending in in in negative. And I want all of them in here telling their story.

1 of the things I picked up on I was able to piece together was I frequently would want someone on my podcast to tell their story, but their story frequently, they had nothing to do with bipolar. I couldn’t help myself.

It was like a knee jerk reaction when I when I heard someone story. I’m like, you should be on my podcast. But since I was only aiming and high functioning bipolar people who have AAA He passion, they wanna turn into a larger mission.

Most people don’t have any of that. And yet their stories are magnificent for the good and the bad. I wanted them on a podcast. And then I’d wonder, well, how am I gonna make sense it out?

How am I gonna shoehorn that into the show so that it’s fair to my listeners who are there as high functioning bipolar people or something very similar. And then so I ended up not as you may have noticed, almost no guess.

The guesses I had that were bipolar, I was trying What do I know about interviews anyway? I, you know, I had some and they were good and I’ve been interviewed which is way easier than for me than giving an interview.

I tried to get those people to tell me what what what they thought might have been the positives and bipolar for them. And it was very clear in in the interviews that I did, none of them felt anything was positive.

I knew that then, but then I sat on it for many month many, many months. Thinking about what that meant to the progression of my show and my business.

I knew something I mean, it was clearly off because they didn’t don’t think they agreed with me. They were being polite about it, but they didn’t agree that there was positives.

What I was getting at now, I see, at at at least to this degree. Was their strength, just their strength. This illness can kill people. I read once somewhere that it it’s the most suicidal illness there is.

I don’t know. Don’t come at me for that if it’s wrong or, you know, maybe it was right 1 time and it no longer is. I don’t know. I know it’s gotta be in the top 3 after what I lived through. I don’t know how I didn’t end.

But these people I interviewed, they they they weren’t seeing the positives. Now that’s partly because I could see the positives in them that they don’t know, but they don’t care because they don’t they’re just glad it’s over.

And then they went on to do something different, whereas I address the illness directly as a path forward for marketing and building a business and helping people, they did completely different things except for 1 of them.

And but again, even that person didn’t see any eyes would have been it.

It just needed to end. Be eradicated. So all of this together just has been digging at me and and Interesting side note, my human design chart says, I I go there’s a few major pieces to it, but 1 of them is how you make your decisions.

And in my case, this actually, you you wouldn’t think it’s so, but I go with my gut. I feel it. I physically feel if something’s a hell yeah or a hell no in my gut.

And I’ve not been feeling that bipolar excellence has been hell, yeah, for a little bit now. And I’ve been trying to make things fit and not liking what it meant, and I’m I’m getting ready.

I thought it was gonna happen this weekend, but then I had to make this shift. So I had to redo a lot of images and and copy all over the place in different places where I was, you know, where I I market myself.

I had a update to the new mission, so I didn’t get to the the LinkedIn marketing machine that I’m about to turn on.

I did get into the course, and start reviewing it because it’s it’s a bit to get your head around, but I have it now, and I’ve seen enough examples on LinkedIn.

Everybody follows sort of the same format. Oh, there’s more to it than that, but, you know, I get the gist of it, and it’s how my head works, the longer I sit in something, it comes clear even if I’m not working on it directly.

So I wanted that to get going because I am reaching a point where I don’t know how much longer I can tolerate remaining employed.

That does not mean I’m gonna become bipolar. I’m not going to have an event. I I’ll just I’ll have I could do something drastic like quit or or take some other new job and I’m I’m all out of trying new jobs.

This has to happen for my sanity. And I know it will. I’ve known for quite some time at will. I know too much about how things work online. I have no fears. I just needed it to happen quicker than it did.

You will hear everybody say that about their business. I’m not alone there. But just based on, you know, I’m older. I’m older than most of the people I learned from. I’ve I’ve had more years who run out of steam than them.

They’re younger. They can keep going. I’m pretty much done. At the same time, I am blown away by what I have built online and where I know it’s headed next. And and I have I have no fears.

But I have to stay on point and I have been. I worked yesterday. I’m back to work full time, which sucks. After my dad died, I took this thing called family medical leave, and I was working 3 days a week with partial pay since August.

And separate from my dad dying. I worked for over 4 months straight just just getting his estate all all straightened out in helping my mom who’s in her mid seventies.

Just do a lot, plus we were both dealing with the loss of my dad, which sucked because he was fucking awesome.

And and Now I’m back to work in full time and that was that was a dramatic that was a car crash in my head and my heart. I’m doing it, but I’m even unhappier about it than I thought I’d be.

So this is driving me. This is driving me to push even harder than already was. Yesterday, I’ve been getting up early in the morning and instead of working late at night. That seems to be helping.

That’s surprising. I didn’t see that coming. I’m a night guy. But I’d be getting up real early instead and then going to bed very soon after getting home. And that that seems to be working. In Saturday, I put in Oh my god.

I put in about 14, 15 hours at my desk just working on all of this stuff. Revamping it for the new mission statement. And then and I was pumped. I just kept pushing through. I I had many points where I just hit up, you know, I’d seize.

My brain would seize, and and I would get kinda depressed even. I’m like, I just I can’t. Now I gotta fucking rebuild this page and then I I’d do something and then I click something on that page.

I’m like, okay. That’s done and it goes somewhere. I was like, oh shit. That one’s connected. I gotta fix all the words on that 1 now. It was like that kind of a thing. But Even as those moments hit, they wouldn’t last very long.

I just kept assaulting my my will to complete these tasks. I I just kept assaulting the situation. And 1 of the good things about doing what I’ve been doing so long is even when you can’t stand it, it’s muscle memory.

You start, the words come. The way you want the page to look comes. The the thing you gotta learn to new shit, you gotta learn on the new software. You learn it faster than ever before.

I’ve been doing this too long to fail. I’ve been doing this too long even getting my own way for very long. So if you’re listening to the show, purely out of a state of being bipolar, And you have not gone to bipolar excellence dot com.

You should. Go there. It’s gonna say different things now. Not gonna address dealing with bipolar directly, but on the homepage where you can sign up from a newsletter.

I now I still nothing changed as far as the guts. You still get the system that I created for beating bipolar without without meds. And it’s just I’m giving away for a different reasons net reason now, but it’s still there.

So have at it. And I’m gonna always leave that there because that was a that was a thing I decided no matter what. I wanted people suffering with this thing to be able to get my information for free.

The problem is when you offer something for free, no matter how off awesome it is people are trained in their heads to think free is shit. Nope. My thing is awesome. It’s an entire system. I should be selling.

I’m not gonna but if you are bipolar, I’d I’d really want you to to take a look at it, but just keep in mind the whole the whole thrust of the show now is creating an online business to share your story as a trauma survivor.

So you’re gonna want if if your if your aims purely bipolar, you’re gonna have to you’re gonna just to adjust and do like I do.

There are people I follow online where there’s 1 or 2 or 3 things about them that I absolutely adore or need to know. And I will never hire them. I’m not interested in their larger mission.

Some of them, I don’t even know what the hell they’re talking about sometimes. I can’t remember why I signed up. But I know there was a reason and I hang a little, like, weeks later, they say something like, that was fucking awesome.

So I’m glad I hung out with that guy, that girl, whatever. And and I could be that guy for those of you that are just purely fighting bipolar.

And if nothing else, I made it out and I turned it into all of this. You might wanna follow along just for the sense of maybe You don’t have to do what I did, but I got out.

Maybe just following along with me, offers something that helps at least to keep you going and to keep trying and and to lessen your nightmare if if possible.

But for everyone else, I I am now all inclusive with the pain. If you survived, Anything hideous. I wanna talk to you. I wanna work with you.

So come over to bipolar excellence dot com. Get on the newsletter list. Get my free system because you’re gonna need it because my system is good for anybody trying to do anything and keep their head about them and and be healthy.

You know, bipolar doesn’t need to be in a picture at all to to benefit from what I offer. I’ve been singing that for almost 20 years since I built a damn thing.

Everybody should be doing some version of what I put in that system. And honestly, if you follow any health and wellness people, most of what I say they’re doing something awful similar.

I just have very particular products and services I found that don’t get hardly any airtime that even other wellness people aren’t talking about.

We’re talking about the same kind of general plan. We just have specific tools. You’re gonna wanna see the ones I found.

And you don’t have to pay to see them. Just get on the newsletter. For you podcast listeners, go over to Apple and give me a nice big, many starred review. So that more people get the word about what I’m doing.

And, well, that’s it. That is my time. So Stay tuned. I’m feeling a lot better about this. Maybe you’re picking up on that energy. And for now, the the site still remains bipolar excellence as does this show.

That could shift some time, but right now I got enough on my plate. I’m I don’t feel like turning over 1 more you know what I’m saying? Alright, guys. Talk soon. Oh and be well.

Hey, this is Ken Jensen. I beat bipolar disorder in an all natural fashion back in the mid 2 thousands. And believe it or not, that’s not even the coolest part of my story.

What I learned through that process and what came next and how that applied to bipolar and why bipolar was ever even part of the process, was mind blowing to say the least.

Bipolar has hidden within its strengths. I’m gonna show you what I mean and how they’ve shown up in my life so you can do the same. Hello, bipolar prone folk. Welcome to the show.

This is episode 55. Know yourself. Stay small to go big. I was going through my morning routine and some ideas popped into my head and I had a record this show based on how strongly I felt about an idea that just popped into my head.

On a Saturday instead of Sunday, which will then buy me time to lift weights on Sunday. Conveniently. Not conveniently. Oh, with just less stress, and I’ll have to try to fit it in.

This show takes a lot of concentration. It’s not just the labor. It’s the concentration and I can’t lift prior. Because then I can’t think straight after because I’m all pumped up mentally and physically.

And doing the show puts me in kind of a zen state. Along with a slight amount of frustration that affects how well how much I’m willing to then go work out and and it eats up time.

Welcome to my little my little world of of what’s that word is picking any a thing, picking nanny, picking any.

Looked that up Google that little problems that that nibble at me sometimes and and add up to bigger problems if I don’t get a control of them.

Know yourself, stay small to go big. For years, I tried to build many businesses actually off of the skill sets I had or because of the the proximity to somebody who had the power to help me go big if I just help them do what they did.

Directly, like physically taking part in whatever they did because I was smart enough to do so.

The universe spanked me time and time again as it taught me, that’s not what I’m about. I’m the man behind the throne. My job is to motivate people who themselves are on some larger mission.

And in my case, bipolar prone people because I understand them best to help them go do big things that are either out of my pay grade or I’m not even interested in pursuing.

But I love watching you guys launch something or improve something you’re already in the middle of doing.

Being that you’re flavor with bipolar means you’re There’s gonna be something slightly unusual about the approach or the goal or the tools we use, and most definitely the people we interact with to build your thing.

I love that to no end. I love the artist personality. I love those kinds of people. They’re utterly fascinating. I don’t care who you are. Those are utterly fascinating people. You are utterly and hating people.

So I realized eventually, I’m at your side, Like a like in the military I’d be the sergeant major to the general you make the calls You have to come up with the plan but then I facilitate. That’s how I stay small to go big.

I do it vicariously through you so to speak. Everything I built on my own blew up in my face because it was all stuff I was good at. I basically approached it even though I was attempting to build businesses.

I was I was approaching it like I would any other job. Grit you know, Grint and Barrett are more like grit my teeth than Barrett. And it wasn’t you know, my heart wasn’t fully into it.

Sometimes I couldn’t always see that. Because because I’d I’d be excited about being part of somebody’s larger picture. And this takes a lot of this this takes a lot of teasing out of of details and subtle differences.

And mostly in my case, well, journaling journaling and meditation played a big part in that because sometimes you just gotta think. And sometimes you just got a vomit ideas on the paper just to see what your brain’s up to.

When you see it something changes and how you think about it. Can’t let stuff just rattle around in your head. You get nowhere with that. Shit. That’s part of what helped drive me into bipolar in the first place years ago.

You need to fine tune what you’re all about and I ended up not III recently had to do that yet again In a way I never had before, because I’m getting ready to do something huge on LinkedIn.

And partially Twitter. And I’m not a social media guy. Most most of what I’ve ever seen on social media does not appeal to me in the slightest. I get just as emotional as everybody else does about all the things.

But I realized that gain that only that not only gains me nothing. It tracks from what I’m trying to do with my life. It breaks my focus, and and and and I run down the same path everyone else does.

That lead to just a loss of time and energy and a gain of of bad feelings and and thought processes that ruin my day. Or if it’s on a positive angle, III entertain myself for who knows how many hours and and got no work done.

So I I over the years, I I just I just went away from I never did Twitter because that never appealed to me. Facebook just slowly angered me more by the day, and I realized I could just stop looking at it.

And I wouldn’t know anything about what anybody was doing or saying or writing. And they’re for my opinion of them would not be impacted at all by that trivial horse shit. And I could remain thinking nice things about people.

I just didn’t have to go look at this stuff that, like I just said, it’s just waste of time and a and a denigration of my good feelings and and my wellness really. My wellness bipolar prone folks. You want your wellness to increase.

Get the hell off of social media if all you’re doing on it is trolling and interacting on shit that you you you have no it’s not gonna change anything in your life. Other than the act of doing it, nothing’s gonna change for the better.

Now, I mentioned I’m gonna be back on LinkedIn and Twitter. It’s for marketing purposes in in large part. But LinkedIn in particular is professionals. I call it I call it the grown up platform We’re all in there doing business.

You see a little bit of some stuff that could be, you know, you’ll you’ll even see people complain. This is not face book? Why did you just share that horse shit? But that’s it’s really minimal.

And as you find people that resonate with you, And I suggest everybody does this. Your your I don’t know what they call it in LinkedIn. Your timeline becomes filled with stuff you actually want to see and is helpful.

So back to the topic of staying small that go big. I think that’s all I wanted to say about this. There was uploader little things and I knew I’d forget them and I did.

I swear to god 1 of these days, I’ll make a little itemized list. I’ve tried it. And somehow that breaks my attention too just looking at the list but we’ll we’ll see.

I’ll have to come up with some hybrid sit a deal with this because there’s different things I mean to tell you guys, and I just they get lost in the the making of the episode.

But I started saying about how I had to do a different version of knowing myself.

There’s a guy named just Justin Welsh, and he has a couple they’re they’re extensive, but they’re they’re simple enough that you can get your head around it easily easily enough.

He has a way of getting your personality and your brand and your information out to LinkedIn and Twitter and Twitter in this case.

And it starts with knowing your your backstory. Now my original backstory that I leaned on for years was how I fought and overcame bipolar without drugs. And I wrote a book about that. I was a public speaker about that.

And what it ended up becoming was a lot of bipolar people who were very deep in the illness and had no money and no support would come to me begging for help and answers and not be able to pay me to feed my family as I help them for free.

I was willing to do that for quite some time just because, well, 1, I didn’t realize what it what it was becoming.

I didn’t realize I was murdering myself. 2, You have to martyr yourself initially just to see where a thing leads. And 3, eventually, enough time, enough years had passed, that I got sick of talking about bipolar all the time.

I had I had other shit that interested me. I had other really good things going on in my life that I wanted to talk about and build upon.

And bipolar was like it just be it eventually just became compartmentalized. It was something that happened and yet It was no longer the main focus and yet it it underpinned everything about me. So I got stuck.

I got stuck for a few years, possibly more depending on how you look at it. Where I was trying to figure out how do I use my bipolar backstory. Without drawing people to me who I I really can’t help beyond the sharing of my information.

And I don’t get paid for the attempt. It’s good to help people and I give a lot of free help out all over the Internet a lot, and I’m glad to do it.

But I restructured everything in a way that I can do it and to where it doesn’t hurt me. It only builds up my credibility, builds up the karmic points, and and I I’ve set it up in such a way that I’m I’m more than glad to do it.

And it all leads to what I do on bipolar excellence dot com, which is where the money resides, which is where I can be hired to do things for people like you.

And it’s where I want my life to go because I then get paid literally to live the way I want. I’m going to talk to folks like you. No matter what, all the time. I have done so for many years.

You’re drawn to me. It’s not like every bipolar person within a 50 foot radius knows. You know, hey, there’s a bipolar or prone guy. It’s not that. But there’s just it’s a general flavor of person that’s attracted to me in real life.

And I love talking to those people. Lot of them don’t have any bipolar but there’s always some related something because particularly because I’ve been exposed to so much.

I’ve done so much. I learn fast. I get good at things quickly. I experience a lot. I pick up a lot of knowledge and experience and wisdom, and then I move on.

So when these people approach me, no matter what they say, I know a little something about some part of it to where I can be of of help or if nothing else just have a fulfilling, enriching, entertaining conversation, which That’s how I wanna live.

That’s a big part of how I wanna live, those conversations. But I can’t do it for free. Who da do you go to work for free? No. You expect to get paid no matter how much you love the job Take that paycheck away.

Let me know how much longer you hold that job. Let me know what you do and instead. You gotta get paid. So back to the original, how do I use that backstory?

So I had to come up with a new backstory and I did it following Justin Welch’s suggestion because then it clarifies how you’re gonna create content to appeal to the right people to know that you’re the guy to help them.

And I’m not gonna it would take too much time.

I’m not gonna go into, you know, what ended up writing for him, but his his process, which I will share this, it involved the obstacle the internal struggles the external struggles the change event the spark the guide and the result.

When I went through his first course, I wrote up my first version of what that was.

That was weeks ago. I’ve been busy doing stuff on the website and busy building out a lot of other things on LinkedIn that ate up a lot of my time. And I knew that I would have to refine that, you know, it was a first draft.

I’d have to refine it, which I just did last night. And I and I did it more than once. I refined it and refined it and refined it because you want it to be real simple.

And this is the story I will tell all the time to any anybody that’s interviewing me or even meeting me that wants to know what I’m about. They’ll get some version of this new story. And it tightened my focus in a way.

I I didn’t I didn’t see coming and I’m I’m so grateful because Nothing new was revealed to me. It was just a a way of clarifying this stage of my life that I I didn’t have at the ready until I had did what Justin told me to do.

It then informed how I edited the homepage on my website and it even changed what it is I give away for free.

To entice people to sign up for my newsletter so we can learn more about each other. Now I give away my whole wellness system that I used to sell. I give it away. It’s the same system that’s in my book.

It takes guts to be me, how an ex marine beat bipolar disorder. However, it’s it’s been edited before and updated for the times. If you do ever get a copy of that book, everything in it’s it’s good to go.

The basics, good to go. It’s just some details. I’ve learned some things. Some details change, my understanding of certain things changed. So I make that clear in the course.

And then I have videos in the course that go in in depth explaining what’s on the page and why and and adding my own my own life experiences to give context to why I put that stuff on that page. That’s all free now.

You go to bipolar excellence dot com and and just sign up for the newsletter and you’ll get that. You’ll be made a course member and knock yourself out. It’s I I know it’s highly valuable to buy polar people if you’re still suffering.

I cannot coach you through its use, but I can answer questions about it and I will I will respond sharing what I experience because that’s all I can ethically do. That’s all I want to do.

I’m not a therapist. As I learned when I got a big discovery when I became certified as a life coach some years back, few years back. I never knew there I didn’t know there was a difference between therapy and coaching.

And I was doing both, and it was a muddled a muddled result and I wasn’t happy. But therapy is when someone’s hurting and you’re just trying to bring them up to 0.

Coaching is you’re at 0 or more likely higher. You’re doing quite well. And now you’re getting cocky and you wanna do something huge and you need somebody familiar with that process to help you go be huge.

That is my sweet spot. I’ve been doing it for years anyway but until I got certified as a life coach I had no idea that there was a difference like that because there’s a lot of similarities between therapists and coaches.

I’m a coach. I got therapy potential in me, but I’m a coach. I will motivate the shit out of you.

I will take all your information and and boil it down into something that’s a little easier for you to make use of I will have insight you don’t currently have based on my experiences with getting well, building a business.

And what I’ve learned from people ahead of me, I’m a big distillery of information. I’m a big index of facts and resources and fresh perspectives.

And I wanted to somehow make clear that that’s where I was. Without upsetting the people that are just simply suffering from the illness and maybe based on something I wrote or expecting me to be this other thing that I really am not.

Even though I have pieces of it, I’m capable. It’s not it’s not what I am. It’s not what I wanna do. And you gotta do what you wanna do in this life. What else is the point? This was a years long struggle sorting this out.

And it it came to final completion with me trying to fill out my backstory the way this this man Justin Wells suggests you do. He’s on LinkedIn. Go find him if you’re if you’re on LinkedIn. If not, get on LinkedIn.

You need to be on LinkedIn. If you’re going after a big dream, you’re gonna need help. And and and from far more than just me. I’m gonna go on and on about what that all is and that’s not the point of this episode.

So I’m gonna end it right there and I’m so excited because that that point and a few others that I made tonight are they were very important to me, and I’m very excited that tomorrow now, I don’t have to put my focus on what’s the podcast gonna be?

I can put my focus on lifting. When I lift, I don’t just go into gym and lift.

It’s it’s whole process. It starts the night before when I write in my log book what I’m gonna do and I start I I sleep on it, and there there’s a whole thing I do. And it’s practically religious in nature.

And it takes just as much for me to do that right as does this podcast and all the other stuff I do online to help you guys. So I’m real happy that tomorrow that can be my sole focus tomorrow being a Sunday.

And my tit, I’m gonna end on my personal high note right there. Hope this was helpful. Let me leave you to run final thing. Alright? I’ve never felt like doing this before, but I’ve I’ve since been taught it’s it’s necessary.

If you go to my website and click on the podcast page, You’ll see or any other podcast episode. You’ll see a thing about leaving a review. I need Apple reviews. I need Apple reviews so more people can find out about me.

So if you’re digging the show, go on over to the site, please, and leave me a nice review about how listening to the show has helped you. I’d really appreciate that, but I’m I’m not gonna beg I’m in your head.

I’m helping you. If it moves you, do the right thing. I do it all the time. You guys do it for me, and that’s how we all get better together. Teamwork. Teamwork makes the dream work. Alright. Take care guys.

Hey, this is Ken Jensen. I beat bipolar disorder in an all natural fashion back in the mid 2 thousands. And believe it or not, that’s not even the coolest part of my story.

What I learned through that process and what came next and how that applied to bipolar and why bipolar was ever even part of the process, was mind blowing to say the least.

Bipolar has hidden within its strengths. I’m gonna show you what I mean and how they’ve shown up in my life so you can do the same.

Hello, bipolar prone creative types. This is Ken. Welcome to the bipolar Excellence podcast. This is episode 51. LinkedIn much. So I’ve had me quite a row.

Lot of goings on going ons going ons. I’m not sure with LinkedIn over the last Well, I don’t know. The last few days in particular, I’ve been driving hard to build my presence on LinkedIn and polish it off and learn the ins and outs.

It’s it’s been a lot of work And the reason I’m sharing this is well, when you get the message out, you’re you wanna get it to the people who can both serve you best and who you can help best.

Now honestly this is moreover this is more about what I feel serves me best. The reason I picked LinkedIn was because people on LinkedIn are seeking partners to do business with and help to do their business better.

It’s mostly all about business. There’s far less fluff and chatter that you would find on pretty much every other social media platform.

Most of those don’t appeal to me be they they just don’t. They’re just a waste of my time. And honestly, I can get sucked into inane blather josh as easily as everybody else.

I will sit and scroll through things and get highly emotional about stuff that has no bearing on my life and yet motion emotionally involved I do become.

That’s stupid. And I’m I’m I’m just as easily influenced by by all the rest of you. Like all the rest.

Yeah. It’s It’s an annoying thing to be aware of about oneself, but at least I’m aware of it. Facebook in particular, I go in there because there’s a lot of people that message me there and it’s the only way they they contact me.

So I check out I check on what those people are doing and I have trained myself and it was not easy to not even glance at the what do they call it the timeline?

I breathe better. My heart beats less rapidly if I never even look into that thing. So LinkedIn for what I’m trying to do, for what I’m ultimately trying to do, I’m trying to put this together.

I have notes. I have notes. I never have notes. But there was a number of things that happened today and over the weekend and within the last week or so even before the last episode that pertain to this LinkedIn issue.

I wanted to make it clear. This might not directly apply to you but the spirit of the thing will.

I’m looking for a high ticket coaching clients. That’s how I want to run my life. I want a life that allows me to get paid extremely well far better than any job ever could, exponentially better than any job ever could.

And the kinds of people that can afford to hire me at that level are doing things I desperately want to be a part of.

Desperates are rather overly emphatic word, a little bit hyperbolic, but I don’t think it’s all that far off. I’ve said before how I was part of a media production commune. That’s how they referred to themselves in the halls.

I was part of something where the 50 or 60 small companies that were in the 3 floors of that building all worked together to a certain degree and they had to agree to that in order to even pay rent and be in the building.

At least that’s how it was when I was there. The holeways at that place positively crackled with electricity and potential.

I swear to God, you could feel it. You could feel the excitement in the air. Every now and then some kind of celebrity used to show up in the halls of of any sort. Anybody famous for doing whatever.

And you never knew which office they might be headed to to do some kind of work, but but It was a cool thing to walk in and see a famous singer, famous actor, famous politician, famous author, famous painter.

There was a band in there of some sort. No longer remember who they were because it wasn’t my music, but but they were very cool guys to talk to.

There was a movie producer in there. Who I made friends with who was just a fucking wild man, and and he didn’t give a shit who knew it.

And he was successful. On the Independent movie front and he was such a blast and pure pleasure to talk to and hang out with. And he taught me a lot of things.

I wove my way through almost every business in that building looking for ways to be of use and just hanging out like a groovy. This is going back some years and and I I want something like that back in my life.

I have pieces of it now with some people and I’m looking to expand on it. That’s why I’m in LinkedIn. People are doing big things on LinkedIn. Some people are on LinkedIn looking for a job.

That’s fine and I can even help those of you that are Wanting to do that, you you want a job and somehow bi polar’s in the way or you’re looking to see if your bipolar aspects can help you get employed they can, but you need to handle things well.

You need to present yourself in the right way so that the big glaring ugly stigma of bipolar doesn’t get in the way of the your hiring process.

But essentially I’m looking to work primarily with other up and coming or established business owners.

It’s been very stressed Linkedin is something I’ve only ever dabbled in lightly and whenever I dug in deeper with all my experience with everything online, it still flaunt enough that I I just couldn’t get that enthused to even push harder than I however much I did.

Up until recently, and I ended up taking a course, and it was weird how I got to there. There was a gentleman named Adrian Shields lives in Spain. Sounds like he’s from Australian.

Australia, I have no idea if that Australia part’s true, Adrianne, if you ever hear this. I apologize. I’ve been studying a lot of his free material on his blog, on his website, which I found through LinkedIn.

He mentioned 1 guy in particular that helped him figure something out about about content creation and automation for the use within LinkedIn that gentleman’s name is just Justin Welsh.

Justin is not in my industry at all but creating content is creating content and I bought 2 of his courses.

1 is just how to use LinkedIn period and and I finished that yesterday. That was a hard slog. That was college that was college study time kind of stuff.

Something I haven’t done in quite a while that that like consuming that amount of knowledge as fast as I did and then putting it into play. It was very draining but very satisfying once I got all the major pieces completed.

Here’s another course that is just about making content which I haven’t even touched yet and my buddy Adrian mentioned that that’s who taught him how to do it.

I have dug in deeper and Adrian stuff and realized I’m gonna probably get his course as well because there’s differences about Adrian.

He he helps primarily call coaches and consultants. That’s me. Justin has more to do with selling software and working with business to business sales and things.

It’s more of a corporate It’s it’s it’s not in it’s not in my my wheelhouse. So both men brought solutions to the table for me that I am so grateful for. So that’s what I was working on.

Now I’ll mention this next thing. I guess by way of 1 of your veteran, you should know this. And 2 for the rest of you that are not veterans, You never know who is part of a group that helps somebody that like like you.

You’re you’re somehow in need of whatever they offer. In my case the VA offered a free year of premium LinkedIn. Which unlocks all kinds of tools to help somebody make the most use of LinkedIn possible.

If you don’t buy, you get you don’t get to play. I have been aware of this for a long time. I don’t know how long this has been available, but I’ve been aware of it for a long, long time.

And I wasn’t committed to using LinkedIn yet because I hadn’t settled out into my mind and heart just how hardcore I was taking this on the business side.

I I knew how hardcore I wanted to take it in an abstract sense. And all I can say is over the last week, I committed to something new.

In LinkedIn, is where that commitment’s being placed. So I I got all excited when I remembered about that link. When you get the VA newsletter, it only has about 4 and a half thousand links on it. It it’s so helpful.

It’s it’s not helpful. But as someone who’s used to researching and sifting through tons of knowledge and and and just everything trying to find answers. I know how to scan a really complex page and the things I want leap out at me.

So I finally got the that in, and that’s like 20 some odd bucks a month. So there’s like 02:40 a year I didn’t have to spend. And this time, you know, a year from now, 02:40 is going to be nothing.

I will I will gladly and easily cover that that bill at that time because LinkedIn I know enough about LinkedIn that it’s it’s where I belong. So enough about LinkedIn directly I think. Right? Yeah. Looking at my notes.

Another in other cool news on the Apple Podcast directory. When you do a search for somebody for a podcast, you throw in a keyword and they’re not gonna present everyone that has that keyword associated with their show.

They show like somewhere around 30 potential shows that have that keyword connected to them in my case bipolar.

And based on however their algorithm works, you either do or do not show up in that directory. When I first launched this podcast, I showed up within a week.

I was excited. I thought I was off to the races. I didn’t know a whole lot about how that worked. Well, that didn’t last very long. I made a couple 2, 3 episodes and eventually I was I was never to be found in there again.

Then a couple 2, 3 months went by and I popped up again and then a little a little after that was when my dad passed. And threw my world into a big well, everything slammed shut on on on the the business and websites of things.

I wasn’t podcasting. So for many months, I wasn’t in that directory at all because I would still check obsessively just out of curiosity to see if I was in there, and I just I just wasn’t anymore.

Since I’ve started, podcasting regularly again and I I think due to a few other things I do on my site that feeds the Apple thingamajigger I not only started showing up in that directory again.

I’d say for maybe 2 weeks, I’ve been in it all the time.

Now that’s where they show list shows. Above that they list episodes. I don’t know why but I never I never showed up in that that short stack you gotta like click to open up the entire list.

I never showed up in that short stack, so I was trained to not even bother looking at it. No reason. That’s just how I did it. So I go in there, not too long ago maybe 4 or 5 days ago.

And episode 50 as an episode, all by itself shows up in that list. Terribly exciting time in the pod studio for Kenny, what I saw that. In that 1 episode, it’s the only 1 right now, but 1 episode has stayed put.

It’s listen, I’m only just so much further down the road than some of you I’ve laid in an extreme amount of ass and squeeze blood out of rocks when it comes to money to put this all together and run it and afford it.

And any validation that you’re on the right track and winning is deeply satisfying and you’re gonna have to do a lot of work and hang on in faith before these little notifications even appear, but you you’ve got it you’ve got to do what everyone else doesn’t You keep going.

You keep learning. You keep pushing. Don’t stay in your comfort zone too long. I’m not a type a person where I could just go go go, marine or not. I don’t have that in me. I’m I’m like bursts I’m project minded.

A beginning and end, I can work myself real hard through the middle if I know when the end is coming. And then I don’t wanna do anything or I can’t do anything much for quite some time while my battery recharges.

So When I see these little things that show I’m winning, deeply satisfying and it and it refills my my my hope my hope battery.

The let’s see. What was the other thing I saw? Oh, and my stats So I use who do I use Blueberry? I use Blueberry to host the podcast itself.

You don’t wanna you don’t wanna host movies or anything with with audio on your website. If you’re gonna go that route, it eats up too much bandwidth. For your host slows your website down, does a bunch of other things.

You you have to host through some other company where their servers, their computers just hold that massive amount of data, and they’re built, they’re designed to provide it at speed.

Your website can’t do that. So blueberry is my podcast host, and they have stats.

They have a separate stats website and my dashboard with them. I can click to it from my website And the other day, IIII feel I shouldn’t jinx myself, but based on what I do understand so far, I’m I should be in good shape.

The best I’ve done as of now in the beginning of 20 23, I get like 30, 40, 50, downloads on 1 particular day, very thrilling stuff in its own right.

And then it starts quickly dipping down and on the lower double digits down in its singles. And then every now and then, you know, an episode lands, it’s especially well and not that I get another spike.

I got 1 of those spike charts. And the other day the oh, and the the blueberry stats thing doesn’t always update correctly or in sync with my website.

So I’ll see some numbers and and they look a little little low, a little disheartening, and then by the end of the day or the next date.

They refresh themselves and I find out, no, all kind of shit happen. It just takes a system a while to catch up. Something like that just happened.

I had almost 400 people listens, 400 listens to something. What am I so it’s multiple. I don’t know. And it’s only registering in 1 area of the stats website and it’s been driving me crazy because it’s the New Year weekend.

It’s an it’s a 3 day weekend. The I I’m I’m assuming this thing needs Tuesday when those guys come back to their office to straighten it out and make sure it updates well.

I’m waiting for a solid confirmation that I had like a like a 7 or 8 times increase in listenership on 1 particular day.

The 1 number keeps holding. Yeah. I’m up to 2300 and some odd downloads. And I have I’m running at about 82 percent of those downloads.

Are episodes that have been listened to 75 to a hundred percent. I believe that’s out of this world. I don’t I don’t think I don’t think most podcasts get people listening to that much of an episode in general on most podcasts.

Like I gotta look it up to find out, but I know that has to be through the roof. So that’s very exciting. The only other thing I really wanted to mention separate, I’m onto a new topic now.

In episode 50 which is where I explain why I believe in bipolar people’s ability to do great things. I wrote about mania on the website and in a podcast directory, but I I didn’t actually address it.

I don’t think hardly at all. In the episode, I slid slid right past that fact. Mania definitely is a problem if it’s running the day the moment, your life, mania is just crazed activity that is just It’s a bottle rocket without a tail.

It’s no good. Light mania could be helpful depending on how well you have a handle on it.

But I just wanted people to be sure or to be I wanted to make understood that I am aware When I say I believe in bipolar people’s ability to do anything, that mania does play a part and if it’s too much of a part, you’re you’re not gonna create anything subs it’s not gonna work well.

It’s just not gonna work well. For all kinds of reasons. So part of what I’m I’m about is working with high functioning.

So a big part is high functioning bipolar people. So I just wanted to make that clear if you come my way and we’re gonna work together. That’s something I’m gonna search for.

I’m gonna ask you if that’s a thing if that’s if that’s going on And even if you can afford to hire me directly as your coach, if I get to sense that Manny is playing too much of apart in things, I can’t help you.

You need the other side of things. You need the therapeutic help or, you know, whatever. Something other than coaching and it wouldn’t be fair of me to take your money thinking, you know, what whatever.

You got the money and you’re on fire and it’s all fun and exciting because it is. But I’m not gonna I’m not here to do that.

I need to know that when I help you, you are for the most part in a solid frame of mind Would a clear enough head and the way we’re we work together makes sense and nobody takes advantage of anybody.

I have had less shinier moments as a human in the past or I’ve been in desperate desperate times where I just needed money And I’m talking about anything now where I’ve let people hire me and it’s it just sours.

It sours usually in more than 1 way. Feeling get hurt. Reputations can get damaged. It’s just it can get ugly.

And I don’t want that ever again and then and I sift for that as much as possible with how my website’s designed I hope that people by the time they get to a phone call with me where we see if we even match, they already know that I’ve made it clear that you you need to have your shit together to a high degree, or we just can’t work together.

And you and and you need a more help in the areas that are not mine.

It’s a way I keep me safe and to a degree I keep you safe. I will end on I have spent thousands to sometimes tens of thousands of dollars while manic seeking answers to my problems.

Back into bipolar days, which was from which was for me prior to 2006. It’s it’s choppy, it’s messy, it’s stressful, money runs away from you like water down downhill. It’s it’s bad and I I won’t take part in it.

I won’t do it to you and I won’t let you do it to yourself. If you get to a point where you pick up that phone and we have a discovery call to just see if we wanna work together, I’m gonna be looking for that.

It’s how I keep us both safe. I don’t need 1 slim penny that bad. And I don’t want to hurt anybody through my own over eagerness or greed or or just Well, more like over eagerness. It just everything sounds so good.

We go. It has to be a a damn near perfect fit so that we both stay safe and I just I just wanted you guys to know that that’s part of how I approach what I’m doing with you. Should you get to that level with me?

On the on the other far end of the scale, I have courses and there’ll be more courses and other offerings that I have planned if you don’t wanna coach with me or can’t and you’re just looking to see what I’m all about, there’s gonna be very minimally priced stuff just to give give you a hand and get to know me better.

But I I do want to have things available for those of you that are hurting that can help you.

It’s not gonna be my coaching. That’s not where you’re at. This show this show has drawn people to me that simply are bipolar and are hurting, and I knew that that would happen. It’s it’s been problem for me as a business builder.

It’s been very hard up up until recently to figure out how to approach this to separate myself from that and to to not get myself wrapped into something I shouldn’t and to also mitigate you know people’s expectations so that they don’t hope for more than I can give But there are things I can give an offer that will be of help to those of you that just are still in the storm.

Just know that it’s it’s gonna be digital stuff that you consume on your own and I I won’t and can’t have a part in helping you use any of it in a direct sense.

That’s not what I’m about anymore and really I found out the hard way nor should I ever have them. So this is all you chalk this up to knowing yourself.

You don’t really know yourself until you try something. You’re gonna face this too even with my help. You need to try things to learn. You can’t sit around and try to make things perfect and then launch them and it all works.

That’s just not how life is. If you’re old enough you already know this, there’s no way to learn but go out and do. You’re gonna fall on your face more often and not gonna be wrong more often than not.

You’re gonna make assumptions that just aren’t true more often than not. I do it to this day. But this day, I am established in such a way that I would have never dreamed possible 10 or 12 years ago when I started all of this.

What I have learned, what I feel comfortable with sharing and how well I know that I know it, how deep my understanding is of different things.

And the really cool experiences and people that have come my way because I kept trying and going even when I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, It’s been worth it, and I wouldn’t have got here if I hadn’t have done it.

Even with my help, you’re gonna end up doing the same but with my help, you should shorten your learning curve and when there is a car crash of a learning experience, I’ll help you heal faster.

Alright, guys. This 1 went longer than I thought it would, but lots to share.

And that’s it. Brain is tapped. I am done. I am in a good place. I thank those of you out there. So so much for tuning into the show. This is a lot of hard work to fit in. It’s a lot of effort. I don’t always feel like doing it.

And I do it because we need each other. If I don’t do this, we’re both suffering for it. So ultimately, I’m glad to be here for you. And I’m supremely grateful that you’re there for me. Alright guys, be well.