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My guest today is Damien Andrews.
He's a consultant that has, uh,
a lot of experience in kind of
getting into the nitty gritty,
figuring out what problems are with
very large organizations and helping to
rectify them. Damien, thank you
so much for joining us today. Um,
why don't you introduce yourself and
tell us a little bit about yourself so my
guests get to know you.
Yeah, gday mate. Pleasure to be
here. Uh, gday from Australia for,
for those of you, uh, wondering where
I'm from and why, why the gk Yeah,
my background. You know, I, um,
had a bit of a mixed background and,
and probably from other people's
perspective as well, you know,
just to give, give the detail. My my
parents, you know, broke up when I was in,
started high school, uh, which
kind of affected my life. And,
and I'm sure a lot of people have
experienced that where, you know, they,
their life is a bit turned
upside down when that happens.
And as a result of that, I was very
good at school. I was, you know,
you know, getting straight A's
effectively. Uh, and then after that, my,
my education sort of went
downhill a little bit. I, I,
I kind of lost my way a little
bit. And the later part of,
of high school, um, before
college, I think it is in America,
that you have, uh, I didn't
really want to be at school.
My dad said I wasn't
allowed to have a job. Uh,
I wasn't allowed to have a
leave school unless I had a job.
And so I, um, said, uh, well,
he said, yeah, you can't leave
school unless you've got a job.
About a couple of weeks later,
the Army recruitment people, uh,
came round to our school, and I thought,
that sounds like a good
option to get outta school.
And I joined the Army as a result
of that. I ended up at the,
the actual end and up at the, the
Special Air Service Regiment, which is,
you know, Australia's special
forces equivalent of your, I think,
the green braze or, or what
you have in America. Um,
so I got to do a lot of
things like jumping out of
airplanes and repelling into
cl um, to caves and, and all
sorts of things like that.
My dad says that the Army sort of
sorted me out a little bit, and it,
it probably did. Uh,
but I did have some good foundations
from my parents as well. Uh,
some good character foundations as
to some disciplines and things like,
like for example, when I got into
the Army and in basic training,
I could already fold, make my bed,
<laugh> <laugh> in, in Army style.
I could fold it to, that's how my
mum insisted, don't make the bed.
So I had a bit of discipline there.
Uh, after doing that, I went in, um,
so I did my time in the Army. I got out,
uh, I was a bit lost again, not really,
you know, knowing what
to do. Um, so, you know,
had pretty good income in the, in the
Army, but didn't really save any of that.
And when I got out, I was, um,
fluffing around, wasn't doing much. Uh,
friend said there's good money up in the
mine sites in Northwestern Australia.
That's great. And I, I, I said I
really wanted to get a job there and,
and I was pretty insistent
about it. And what I did,
and this was back in the days before,
I didn't have a computer back then. Um,
so, and, and so this is going
back quite a a bit of time.
I'm a bit older than I look. And I, um,
I wrote a letter handwritten,
wrote a letter to,
I found out who were the main
contractors, the companies,
the construction companies
working up there.
And I wrote a letter to them every day.
So I think there was six, six companies.
And I hand wrote a letter
every day, and after two weeks,
one of them called me up and said,
you, you seem pretty keen. We'll,
we'll bring you in for an interview,
<laugh>. And, uh, I got an interview, uh,
and I got the job and I went and
worked up in Northwest Australia,
owner a lot of money up
there, which was, was great.
But then I got a bit homesick
after that, came back to, um,
uh, to Melbourne, which is back on
the other side of the country. Um,
so the equivalent of going from,
you know, LA to New York, and
I, again, I was fluffing
around a little bit,
worked in a little bit of real estate. Um,
I was a ballroom dance teacher
for a little bit and did a,
a number of different things. And then I,
I decided this education thing that my
dad was harping on about when I was in,
in high school was probably a good
idea. And so I went back to, um,
university or college in,
in your vernacular and studied
commerce and accounting.
And from there, I, I worked in corporate
recovery for about eight years.
So doing, um, finding essentially if for,
for those who remember the movie Pretty
Woman, I was basically, you know,
Richard Geer breaking up company,
taking over and breaking up
companies and selling 'em off. That,
that's how I like to, to describe
it. Maybe I didn't look as good, but,
you know, <laugh>, that that was the
kind of thing that we did. <laugh>.
The question is, did you get the woman.
<Laugh>? We won't go there cuz I,
yeah. <laugh> this, there's, um,
I, I did have, I did have some
very lovely girlfriends, um,
<laugh> throughout my, my life. Um,
and then I trans from there, I,
I moved into doing
consulting for myself. So I,
I started consulting in the corporate
recovery space and then that transitioned
more into working with a, a lot
of large construction companies,
which is where I still, still work. Um,
so I still work with a lot of large
construction companies, but I, um,
also have brand do fair bit with
manufacturing and, and other, other,
other companies. And we find, you know,
ways to make the companies more efficient,
and especially in today's environment,
work with making companies, uh,
an employer of choice.
Cause it's difficult to find with labor
shortages that exist and skill shortages
that exist. It's difficult
to find, uh, employees.
So how do we make the
company more attractive for
employees to want to not only
stay, uh, to come there, but to
stay there as well. So that's,
that's pretty.
Much, and these are large corporations,
these are large companies
or organizations, um,
doing annual revenue
of 80 million plus, or.
Uh, no, billions. So we're working
with, oh, billion National. Okay. Yeah.
National and multinational company.
One of the companies I worked with, um,
this was going back
eight years ago. It was,
it was doing 800 million and it was,
it was goal was to get over the
billion turnover. Yeah. So big,
big companies with, you know, tens
of thousands of employees. Yeah.
Sure. Now, your personal
financial journey as, uh,
as we were talking before we got on
the, the show was that you were, uh,
making money but not really
saving money and investing.
And on our show we'd like to talk about
all of the hard issues, money, politics,
religion, um, yeah.
And so we wanted to have you on the show
to kind of discuss with our listeners,
um, what approach you took to, you know,
actually putting some of that money in
the bank and what were some of the good,
uh, financial steps that you took and,
and how did you stay disciplined and,
and continue down that road?
Yeah, that, that's a very good
point there. And, and yes, I, I,
I must say all the money I own went
in the bank, but then a lot of it,
pretty much all of it come back out
again. Certainly in my early days. Um,
and that's part of, I always
had this philosophy that,
well, I dunno if philosophy
is the right word,
but I always wanted to have a
lot of money. And I, I certainly,
when I was working the army, I was on a,
a reasonable wage. It wasn't, you know,
super great, but it was, it was good,
certainly for my age. But, you know,
I didn't really have as
much as I thought I wanted
to have, um, to money, I, I
really, it wasn't who I was.
And this is something that I,
I work with people and with companies
on is it's not so much whether you have
the goal, it's whether who you are, your
identity is congruent with that goal.
Cause a lot of times we say we want to
do things and we set all these goals,
but our, our unconscious
isn't aligned that way.
And this is one of the things a lot of
people I, from my experience don't know,
is that when we act and
action is, well we, we know,
but we don't know that it's linked to
your goals is like when you, when you act,
if you were to pick up that coffee
cup on your, your desks there,
you don't consciously think about how to
pick it up. It's an unconscious action.
And when we set goals and our,
our goals are not aligned with our
identity, exactly what you're doing now,
you didn't consciously think about that
as you picked up that cup of coffee.
You unconsciously thought
about it. And we have,
I think we've all had that experience
where we've thought we've understood
something, then we've gone to do it
and we haven't done it very well.
And then there's other times where we've
had an experience where we thought we
didn't understand it, and then we
surprised ourself how well we did,
which is to know something
is a conscious function,
but to do something is
an unconscious function.
And this is where the military is
very, that's why military has the,
the drills that it does, it drills
into you to, when something happens,
you react a certain way. Um,
because that's unconscious action.
And for a large part of my
life, as much as I wanted money,
I had this goal of having
money, having lots of money.
I didn't actually have
the unconscious, uh,
identity of having money. So it was
always, you know, earning money. And,
and when I worked in the,
the mine sites, for example,
I owned a lot of money
up there. Um, but a,
a lot of it just went because I didn't
have this unconscious persona of holding
onto that money. And
then when I changed that,
when I changed to the unconscious, it
becomes, it's not about discipline.
Discipline runs out. Uh, willpower
runs out. It, it takes effort.
You get tired and you don't
do it when you actually,
your identity is that of
a person that has money.
It just becomes something that you do
as much as just picking up a cup of
coffee, um, know you, whatever your
normal routine might be, that you get up,
you do something, you have a shower,
what whatever that standard
routine is your normal day,
it becomes your normal day. It's not
something you have to think about.
It's not something you
have to put effort in.
And it doesn't matter what level
of income you are, cuz I've,
I've gone through many times having
lots of income and having no income. Um,
but once you've got that identity there,
it automatically happens because
having money, um, is, is quite simple.
Most things in life are quite simple. We
just overly complicate it. An example,
when we think about it, if
you think about the, um,
there's one great book called,
uh, the Richest Man in Babylon,
which is by Georges Carlson, which is
written nearly a hundred years ago.
If you haven't read that book, um,
for the listeners grab, grab the book.
It's a simple read, but it, it
outlines three key steps to have money,
to have wealth. One is to, you know,
have a surplus from
whatever it is you earned.
It doesn't matter how much you
earn, you have a surplus from that.
You take that surplus and you invest it,
and the income from that
investment you reinvest.
Now those are pretty simple instructions,
you know, it's not, that's not hard.
What it is, is,
the reason we make it difficult is our
identities and linked to doing that.
And that's where you need to
change your unconscious, um,
thinking so that that becomes
part of your identity.
And then all of a sudden that becomes
just a natural process. And I know people,
um, a friend of mine, uh,
many years ago, she was, uh,
extremely on a very, very low income.
She had a child to look
after the dad had left, um,
and she had saved $40,000.
Um, how she did that,
I have no idea, because she didn't, you
know, she didn't earn that much money,
but her identity was, I
need this money to have a,
a security for my to look
after my child. And she just,
just made it happen and it wasn't a
big effort. Um, whereas, you know, the,
and on the other side of
things with earning money, the,
the other part of that rule,
so there's the three parts to,
to accumulating wealth. The,
the, the very, the, the,
the part to earning money, and
there's one part to that is add value.
And that's, especially in
today's environment where
there's a, a labor shortage.
Uh, I, I tell the,
the joke of the two people walking
in the jungle and a lion jumps out,
one person starts putting on their
running shoes and the other person says,
why are you doing that? You can't
outrun the lion. And the other,
the person putting on their shoes
says, I don't have to outrun the lion,
I just gotta outrun you. Um,
and this is in today's environment,
it's not that hard to be better than
the competition out there. It's with,
as an employee. Um, an example is, uh,
for someone, for example, let's say you,
you put in an extra hour's
work a day in the office,
what that results to it, it's
not an extra hour in pay.
It's a 40% increase in your
salary. So for an extra hour,
which is not, you know, that's not a 40%
increase in your, your daily work. Um,
but then if you add to that being working
smarter as opposed to working harder,
you can actually, that hour,
you can compress into 10 minutes and
do what most people can do in an hour.
You can do in 10 minutes if
you're efficient about it
and get that 40% increase
in salary. Um, there, there's all
these things that you can do and,
and things that I have learned to do,
uh, over my, my life. But it really,
having the money is quite easy.
It's that process of making it unconscious
within your mind. And when you,
when you do that, it's, it
just happens naturally as,
as naturally as it is for
you walking down the street.
Sure, sure. So Damien, we have to
get to our first break today. Uh,
but we're talking a little bit about
finances and the discipline it takes, um,
to, you know, save a
little bit in the bank. Um,
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My guest today is Damien Andrews. And, uh,
Damien is from Australia. Uh,
he's talking to us a little bit about, uh,
his financial journey throughout
life. And, uh, Damien, you know,
through my, uh, connections,
the people that I've known,
I've known people that
have made, um, you know,
good six figure salaries, uh,
yet they've been cash poor.
Uh,
and then I've known people
that make 35 or $40,000 a year
and they seem to have money in the
bank. Um, you know, why is that?
Is there really no difference
in difficulty, uh, to save,
you know, regardless of
the income level you're at?
Yeah. Again, I think that really
does come back to that perception of,
of where you see yourself at and what
is your, your motivation. I mean,
you look at, you know, Warren Buffett's
a great example. Um, you know,
Warren Buffett's incomes, you know, off
the charts, yet he still lives in a,
a modest home. He lives, you
know, drives a modest car. He,
he doesn't need to do, um,
spend all this money. So he, he,
as he says, he has simple needs. Um,
and I think that's the
difference between people
that that accumulate money and the
ones that don't. It's not
income. I know some, uh,
some people that earn substantial
amount of money, um, and they,
they don't, I mean,
they, they spend a bit,
but they don't spend everything
they've got. Um, their,
their philosophy again is, is about having
a friend I had lunch with yesterday.
Um, he's, he's retired.
He's, he's not old.
Um, you know, he, he's retired. Um,
he was showing me this old Packard that
he's got 1930s, five Packard. He's,
he's got seven collectible cars, which
are, you know, these beautiful things.
And, and he spends his day. There's,
what we have here is, um, this,
it's called the Variety Bash. And you've
got a, it's, it's a rally, a car rally,
um, with, with old vintage
cars. And you, it raises the,
the pro is to raise money, um, for
a child, uh, kids' charity. And,
um, I think there's, uh,
there was a NASCAR driver that has a ride
across America that has a similar sort
of thing where it's a, it's a, it's
a ride to raise money for, for, um,
for children. So similar sort
of thing. But his, you know,
he is income. Uh, it
never looked like he had,
you know, I've, I've
known him for 15 years,
15 to 18 years, and it never
looked like he had, um, you know,
a substantial, uh, amount of, of that.
He was accumulating a substantial amount
of wealth. He did. He wasn't flashy in,
in where he lived and things like
that. But now his life is retired. Him,
him and his wife live
between Australia and London.
So they spend half their time in
Australia, half their time in London. Um,
they fly, you know, business
or first class, you know,
and that's a long trip and not
a cheap trip. Um, you know,
regularly backwards and forwards between
Australian, London. He has his seven,
you know, collectible cars. They've
got, um, they, they've, you know,
we've got a couple of
Teslas, which, you know,
one in each country that they use
as their, their everyday cars. Um,
a couple of, uh, properties. And,
and that was his thing. He, he,
he accumulated these items that
earned money. That was his focus.
Um, he, his needs were,
it wasn't about, um,
I I, I do wonder whether it's
about this need to impress people.
Um, and, but he was happy in his
own self and what he wanted to do.
He didn't need stuff to, um, to have,
I guess it, it comes down to that
delayed gratification as well.
He wa he didn't spend everything.
He, I mean, he had fun.
I know when I knew him, he,
he'd go out and have fun,
but he didn't spend everything, um,
everything that he had, he had a, a,
an idea of what he wanted long-term. So
maybe that was the difference as well,
having this long-term plan
that he wanted to have, um,
this set up. And again, that.
Oh, go ahead.
I was gonna say again, that unconscious
behavior as well, it was a, you know,
it was just something
that he did naturally.
Cause it wasn't something
that he had, um, uh,
to, to put a lot of effort into.
It wasn't a lot of discipline.
I do think that, uh, that to get
to that unconscious behavior,
um, you have to consciously
innate yourself to that practice,
just like they teach you the drills
in the military. Um, yeah. You know,
you may not be familiar with
them at the be at the beginning,
but it becomes second nature by the end.
Correct. You used Warren Buffet as, uh,
as a example a couple minutes ago,
and I recently read a, uh,
profile of Warren Buffet,
I believe it was in, um,
in the Wall Street Journal,
or in the Business Times, one of
those, uh, publications. And, uh,
whether you know this or not,
Warren Buffet goes to McDonald's
for breakfast every single morning.
That's right, yeah.
And, you know, people, people would
think, well, maybe that's, uh,
a little bit frivolous to eat out. Um,
but Warren has one menu item
that he gets. He gets a, uh,
sausage and cheese McMuffin, no egg,
because the egg is an extra
20 or 30 cents <laugh>. Um,
and he doesn't get a coffee because
there's coffee brewing at the office.
So why pay for overpriced
coffee? He says, yeah. Um,
and one day a week he treats himself
to the egg on the sandwich, <laugh>,
he allows him to put the egg on,
but the other days of the week he eats
no egg because, you know, that's 20,
30 cents. The man has, uh,
has billions of dollars.
He has basically unlimited
money a as we would think of it,
but he's concerned about 20 or
30 cents a day that he is able
to save. And, um, and that
has to come to him innately.
It has to be second nature that, you
know, I'm just, I'm not going to,
not going to, uh, to spend
that, you know, I, I think of,
uh, of my own thought process and I wish
that there were times when I was that
disciplined. Um, you know, when
I go, go out to eat, which, uh,
which is relatively often, uh, I'll
think to myself, man, you know,
I've really worked hard for this. I
should reward myself and get a, uh,
super, an appetizer. Well,
there I've just added eight to
$10 onto my meal, and if I do it,
my wife and kids are probably gonna
follow lead and do the same thing <laugh>,
and automatically we've
added $40 to the tab for
dinner that evening. Yeah. Um, you know,
because there's four of us, you know,
so I, I think there has to be a mindset
that has to click for the individual.
Um, it's, it's a different way of
thinking. And, uh, you know, I don't,
I don't know if you agree with
that and, and if you did, if,
if you could expand on that a little bit.
Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's
something that I teach, uh,
people within the organizations I work
with. Cuz the aim is to get, you know,
people to work from an unconscious
behavior, which is creating habits,
which comes down to beliefs as well.
And, and Wayne Dier described, you know,
he said, a belief is just a thought that
you've repeated over and over again.
What we don't realize, um,
and, and I think, well,
I think what we don't really appreciate
is how easy it is to change a belief or
how easy it is to change
thinking. It really, I mean, in,
you've probably read somewhere, I
mean, the book ATO Atomic Habits,
there's a number of books on habits
and the roughly always talk about,
it takes about a month to change a habit.
Now, when you look at it, you know,
and, and the reason they say it's a
month is it's an action repeated 28 times
roughly. And once you
start, do that 28 times,
that that thinking process in your,
your unconscious thinking process
has made a significant change. Um,
so you don't have to do it once a day,
you could do it three times a day.
So you reduce it from 28
days to a third of that.
And it's, it's that process of going,
okay, I want to change in Yes, the,
the first bit is like, like
drill, you know, in, in the army,
when I was in the army, and, and you know,
I use that as an example when I'm working
with people is, you know, you need to,
you, it's good to have a coach with
you or someone where, you know,
like you are, you are married, um, you
can work with your wife and say, and you,
you, you remind each other at the start,
okay, this is what we're gonna do.
This is the big objective. Um, and that's
where if you, if you go to my website,
there's a free downloadable, which
shows partly how to do this. Um, it's,
and we set, I, I have, you know,
we set goals in three areas.
One is your finances, the second is,
you know, you're learning type goals.
And the third is your fund goals.
And you, you focus on what are the,
because often, and Warren
Buffet does this as well,
this is make a list of everything
that you want to do, um,
and then cross everything off except the,
the top five and only focus on
that and similar sort of thing. I,
I only have two. So while I
have six two in each category,
and when you get,
so when you work with someone like your
wife or someone that you say, okay,
we're gonna, this is following that,
that downloadable on my website, um,
damian andrews.com. If you go, um,
if you work with your,
your partner or whoever,
someone is significant to you for that
first part, like in the Army with,
with drill, you had a sergeant that
was saying, um, you will do this,
you will do this. And
you didn't have a choice.
And then all of a sudden it became that
habit. And if you do that together,
you can actually create this change
very quickly where it then becomes, um,
uh, an unconscious habit and then you are,
you are doing that just naturally.
It doesn't require discipline because
the other thing that I teach people is
you've gotta remember anything that you
do. Procrastination. People talk, oh,
I'm procrastinating
under-achieving goal. Well, no, no,
you're not in that moment. If you
are binging, binge watching Netflix,
that's cuz that's what you want to
be doing in that moment in time.
That's your focus. I want to binge watch
Netflix. Your unconscious is, you know,
that's where you, if you can set that
up so you have these triggers, you,
you, you are, then you've got
this trigger that says, ah,
I'm binge watching here. That means
I'm focusing on binge watching.
I'm not focusing on my goal. You
bring yourself back to the goal.
If you've got someone to work
with, to then create that,
you can actually make that happen
really, really quickly. Um,
and then it becomes easy.
Well, Damien, we have to
get to our next break, uh,
but we'll be back in just a minute.
We're talking with Damian Andrews
today here on commonalities about, uh,
his financial journey. And, uh,
hopefully you can gleam
some advice from, uh,
from his story in a way to live
a healthier financial life.
We'll be right back.
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My guest today is Damien Andrews,
a consultant from Australia who is
talking about his financial journey and
uh,
how he consciously chose
to train himself to
make unconscious decisions
that would better himself, um,
financially and to help
himself reach all of his goals.
Not just financial goals, but uh,
his goals for how he wants to
live his life and how to have fun.
Damien, thanks for being with
us on the program today. Um,
we talked a little bit in the last
segment about your website and the
resources you have there,
and I just wanted to, uh,
discuss that a little bit more and
have you shout out that u r URL again
for our listeners so that
they know how to, uh,
contact you or how to find some of the
resources that you've been talking about
during this program.
Yeah, definitely. I mean, my website,
if you google my name Damien Andrews,
I mean I'm all over the
front page of Google.
I think I'm every link now on the
front page of Google. But, uh, and,
and with the information that's,
excuse me on the website,
so there is a free downloadable
which talks about how to set goals.
And one of the things I wanted
to expand on that is, you know,
we're all told, you know, work
smarter don't work harder.
And from a financial
perspective, you know, uh,
I was doing probably the
opposite of that. And you know,
we've, you've had people will tell you,
you know, spend less than you weren't.
And I was doing that, I was trying
to do that. And that's, that to me,
to be honest, really sucked cuz it,
it involves all this discipline.
And then things like, for those who
you can see the video, there's a,
there's a Lego bat wing up here and, and
I have a, a le massive Lego collection.
I love it. Huge amount. But if I
was spending less than I earned,
I wouldn't be able to do
that. And I decided, you know,
taking it from the
perspective of thinking, uh,
working smarter, I
changed it to let's, um,
why don't I earn more than I spend?
So I changed my thinking from I'm gonna
spend less than I earn to earn more than
I spend, which then changed a
whole process within your mind.
Cause within your mind you have
your reticular activating system,
which I explained in that that
downloadable how that works,
that filters what you see.
All of a sudden I saw all these other
opportunities to earn extra money and it's
amazing how many times when things got a
little bit rough that other things came
into my life where I earned money to
fill that gap and still be able to,
to buy that Lego, uh, because I was
earning more than I was spending.
That's where that's makes a, again,
a difference working smarter than
harder. It's something if we, again,
do from an unconscious perspective,
we open the doors to all these different
things so that those things are
available on my website.
And we are here in the month of
January when a lot of people, um,
at least in the United States, set goals
and resolutions for the coming year.
So this would be a great time
to visit Damien's website,
get that downloadable and,
uh, and set those goals.
And then each month, um, you know,
maybe on the first or on the 15th,
kind of reevaluate where you are and
are you keeping to those goals. Um,
but this could be a way of making, uh,
yourself a very productive 2023. Um,
and, and getting started here on the
right foot during the month of January.
Damien, we have just about two
minutes left in our program for today.
I wanted to give you the opportunity
to share your final thoughts with our
listeners.
Yeah, definitely. Um, thank
you for having me on the show.
It's been a a pleasure
being here. Feel free. Uh,
I normally work with large corporations,
but I do allocate time to work with
individuals. So if there are any, uh,
people out there that
do wanna work with me,
feel free to contact me through my
website and, and I'll, you know,
work something out to, to help you
out. And, um, yeah, just remember,
life doesn't have to be hard.
It, it actually is quite simple.
If you can train your unconscious to
just do things as a matter of a habit,
as simple as when you normally
go for a walk down the road.
Absolutely. And, uh, you know,
here in the, uh, the Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania area, we, uh,
were very familiar with Mr.
Rogers. I don't know if you've ever seen,
uh, his program over in Australia, uh,
but Mr. Rogers, uh, one of
the things he said was, um,
that it is, uh, better to live a
life that is deep and simple than,
uh, a life that is complex. And,
and I think we have the ability
to make that choice. Uh, you know,
I want to thank our listeners for
tuning into commonalities today.
I'm your host, Matt Dowling. My guest
has been Damien Andrews. Damien,
one more time.
Why don't you shoot out the URL for your
website so that people can contact you
before we sign off today?
Definitely.
You can contact me at Damien
Andrews d a m i a n andrews.com
or just Google Damien Andrews
and you'll find my link, uh,
you'll find my LinkedIn profile there. Uh,
you can contact me via the email on the
website or I even have a US number you
can call. Uh, so feel
free to, to reach out. Um,
I'd be more than happy
to have a chat with you.
Well, thank you so much for being
on the program today, Damien.
You have a good day.
Thank you. Pleasure being here.
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Hello Uniontown Mayor, bill Gerkey here.
There's nothing quite like the feeling
of home, that sense of belonging,
those fall Friday nights under the
lights, those winter nights in the gym,
watching our red Raiders, those refreshing
spring afternoons at Bailey Park,
rooting on our Red Raider,
softball and baseball teams.
I am grateful for those memories and
hope our community's children and
grandchildren can enjoy those
memories too. But to do that,
we have to plan for the future.
During my first term in office,
the city has got Bailey Park back
to a place where we can be proud of.
Begun our city's first
comprehensive plan in over 20 years.
Started work on the city's
section of the Sheep Skin Trail,
worked on eliminating blighted
properties and are rebuilding the city's
neighborhoods. We've updated the faulty
equipment in the parking garages,
and we're bringing a more
competitive, reliable, faster,
and less expensive internet
service to our city residents.
We have done a lot, but there's
still more to do. So I Bill Gerkey.
I'm running for a second term. We're
Uniontown proud. We're Uniontown strong,
and together we can continue to
rebuild Uniontown for the next
generation.
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