Alfonso: Unstoppable Tracy, you are going to be blown away. She's not only a powerhouse from an inspiration and motivation standpoint. After over 50 million views in 2019, this woman is also a powerhouse in business, TV host. Unstoppable Tracy's the number one international mega speaker, mega success and TEDx speaker who spoke in 40 plus countries. She shared the stage and events with Dr. Phil, Jane Fonda, Mark Walberg, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, John Travolta and dozens more.
Her mind blowing story always gets standing ovations, pushing audiences out of their limitations in zones to take action. She has been in magazines such as Oprah's O, This is booster today as well seen as ABC, BBC, CBC, and many more global stations around the world as 2018 and 19 number one transformational leader, global female by the John Maxwell team out of 160 countries. She has represented companies such as Air Canada, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Uber in times of crisis where Tracy became the major distributor or normal resulting in outperforming the stock market.
Guys, we are so excited that she is gracing The REITE Club stage. Get loud, make some noise, Unstoppable Tracy.
Tracy: Research he's done, clearly very good in his job. Could I ask everyone on this side of the room when my arm is in the air, would you give a short altogether "oh", nice. I like it. I'm not even going to do a practice round. And on this side of the room, cause nobody's left behind. Can I ask this side of the room? Would you be so kind as to go "ah", when my arm is down low? Oh, I like it. I don't know if that last bit is more for me or for you.
I also have to confess, I didn't know it was going to sound so adult-like, shall we say all beings in the odds, this is what today is going to be with The REITE Club. It's going to be a day full of ohs and ahs. We're all ready. I'm already oohing and ahhing about some of the fabulous folks that are in this room. Be sure to shake hands with as many people as you can today, because there is some real movers and shakers in the room.
One of the other reasons that I do ohs and ahs is because each and every single time I walk in a room, people are oohing and ahhing. Sometimes they're oohing and ahhing and amazement, like checking out those thighs of steel. A lot of the time they're oohing and ahhing out of compassion. I know there's a place first for each and every single one in this room, including me. I have a short one minute video to give you a feel of my sailing day.
You are the extraordinary souls that love to bust through barriers. This photo here is of me scuba diving in a pool, testing out my equipment just before I dove a hundred feet deep in the St. Lawrence, Chile river. Folks often ask us or ask me and ask you when you're taking risky investments. I'm too afraid and I say, yeah, I was petrified. When we jump in, we do it in spite of fear. We're doing it still afraid isn't without fear. Courage is in spite of fear.
All of you, probably this week, have been faced with naysayers, maybe it's family and friends. What are you doing? Maybe it's just talking to your teenagers about not wearing that short top. Maybe it's negotiating with a neighbor, splitting the cost of a fence or wiring up and in this thing, some professional support for contracting your basement work, instead of trying to do it yourself and setting your house on fire. We did all of us today next week, last week, all of our lives we're faced with no. You're the kind of folks that are in a career that are trying to overcome and generate those conversations away from no.
Here in your current no, here a recent no, in my story. Here's a cool way to never be stopped by no again. My biggest no was at five years old. I remember the first day of school we were walking to school and all summer, my mother told me to get to school today. I'm all excited. Five years old, we're about two blocks away from the school. And the principal in my eyes was such a phenomenal soul that from two blocks away, he's waiting from the door of the school.
I've never been to school before. They weighed strangely because he was waving. Maybe that's the way they wave. My mom and I, we keep walking towards the school and we get to about half a block away from the school. I can finally hear what the principal is saying. He's shouting stop and the people close to me, you can see the hair standing up on my arm. It's when you have a car accident or a really tough conversation, or you get bad news, that every time you think of it all over again. It's almost like you can feel it all over again. Even though that was a gazillion years ago, I was five.
Every time I tell that part of the story, my stomach just goes cool. It makes my hair stand up. But then I shook my head. My mom said, I get to go to school today. You can't be talking to me. We take a few more steps towards the doors of the school. We do not take maybe two steps and the principal ones from the school. The sidewalk, he crosses the street and he runs to the right where my mom and I are standing. He's sweating, he's breathing heavily, just standing there, face to face.
When you're face-to-face with somebody and you can't politely walk away, you're just stuck there in this weird silence for a minute. And so my mom, she feels the air and she just says a little bit confused. Hello? I'm Tracy's Mom. He's still out of breath. He answers me non-verbally just shaking his head. And when he finally talks, he just says, I'm sorry, Tracy, can't go to this school. And of course my heart just goes. How many of you are ready to take on that principal right now?
My mom didn't skip a beat with her friendliest body language and her sweetest voice tone. She just said, how come? because the principal wasn't defensive and here's a shot of my mom. Beautiful mom, just a couple of years ago. She says, how come the principal is not defensive?'' He replies, he says, wow. He says, I know it's like the 1970s and you think we would have someone in the classroom, but children like Tracy needed to go to another school. Tracy's missing her hands and there's only one teacher and there's 30 kids. She's not going to be able to take time out to help
Tracy tire shoelaces and Tracey's missing her legs. She's not going to be able to help her go to the washroom, there's only one teacher and 30 kids.
He wasn't a bad guy. His hands were tied. My mom says, I understand. And then she counter offers. She says, can you just give me a week while I'm trying to find another school? And since we're here today, can we just try? And if it doesn't work out, no problem. There were 30 kids in that classroom and no assistance, but the principal said we can try. My mom says thanks very much. And then my mom and I walked to the door, the school I'm messing up the poor camera guy and we walked to the door of the school and we got to the door, the school, and everybody's waiting like we are right now.
My mom gets this panic over her face and she looks at me with a really big eye. She drops to her knees in front of everybody. What I don't realize at five years old, what she's doing is looking me eye to eye. And then my mom, that parental five fingers grip. The super grip of parental stay still controls. And so my mom, like five finger grips, both my arms she's on her knee. She's looking at me and she says, Tracy, it's really important that you and everybody's included. Nobody left behind. I'm five years old. I have no idea why my mom is so intense. I don't know that if I don't get outside at recess time, I don't get to play the principal thing. Now, his heart is in his stomach and he's I can't send her away on Friday.
Fast forward to recess time and he runs outside to try and find me. He's looking for me all over the playground. I'm not there. He said, give her five minutes. It's her first day. And so he keeps looking for me and 10 minutes go by, 15 minutes go by, the recess bell goes off. I never made it outside, which means I can't stay at that school. The principal is thinking, how do I tell Tracy's mom? She has to go on Friday. I got to find out what happened.
We goes inside to find my teacher and he asked my teacher, he said, couldn't Tracy tie her shoe laces? Tracy was the first one with her shoe laces tied. What do you mean? How come Tracy wasn't outside? Oh, her little friend couldn't tie her shoelaces. So, Tracy gave me a hand, what did my mom say? Thank you. It turns out none of those 30 kids could tie their shoe laces. By the time I tied 30 shoe laces, how come the only girl with no hands was required to be able to tie her shoe lace.
All of you are faced with these ideas. Will it make sense? You might not invest now. You might not sell now. You might not quit your job and become a full time entrepreneur. We all have standard operating procedures that make sense. It made sense that I wouldn't be in that class. None of us judged the principal when we figured out the teacher was all alone. I learned that day at five years old that no, when the principal said, no, he just meant KNOW. He just didn't know yet. I went from a very cheeky five-year-old to a very cheeky age that I am now. I'm not telling you, I walked into that one. No, just means they just don't know.
I had no plans that day. I just wanted to play in this school year. I didn't know that I was going to be the shoelace leader. And then I grew up this past year. John Maxwell is a leadership award out of 160 countries. The number one transformational female leader. I'm a girl from affordable housing. It was told no, if I can do it, you can do it. Got to take on adventures around the world. Teaching in Uganda, Mexico, Nepal climbing all the way to the Himalayas. Even becoming a world cup sailor, sailing against able-bodied men.
All of us here are the kind of people that showed up today with The REITE Club. We made the right decision because we are keen on disarming or limiting beliefs. You notice I'm not a very good speller. I spelled limiting. It's not a very good joke. When I got to spell it out. The secret is I was born this way. I was born lim(b)itless. I was born limitless. The bigger secret, you were born limitless too. We are limitless, we are unstoppable. It's not unstoppable Tracy, it's unstoppable you, unstoppable us, especially when we surround ourselves with folks like The REITE Club.
Three keys to the unstoppable you, the limitless secret. You walk out of here in 30 minutes or less, and today in our six hours together or less unstoppable version of you skyrocketing. I like to say Bobsledding, super speed. How many of you did sport like soccer or football or art or music or drama? Some kind of recreation in school and life a little bit deeper than average. I'm not surprised that 90% of the room put their hands up. 90% of you are the kind of people that would be in this career, in this place, sitting in this charity.
When you take on this experience, if you were to draw a three-dimensional graph with my arm right now, the more you practice, the better you get, the more skilled you are. Let's say, give or take 30 years to get to where we are today and we get better and better. But when you get a great instructor, when you get a great coach, when you get a great training and education experience, the right trainings, education experience that instead of spending 30 years getting to where you're sitting today with the right coaching or training in 30 minutes, you might in your skill and 30 hours you leap.
Instead of 30 years, this way in three hours, you go this way on the chart, you this leap of skill, a Bobsledding speed. I'm in this picture in the bobsled. I love bobsledding. I'm in a pink jacket and a gold helmet. You can just make it out. I like to call my friends in this bobsled to exceed uncertainty, embrace possibility and be independent. Exceed uncertainty feeling uncertain is no excuse for an action. This picture is from December, 2015 and there are 30 sailors on this world cup regatta's start line. This is a boat. I was trying out the boat. I sailed and had no adaptations. There were 30 sailors, 27 of them great big gigantic viking like sailors. Only three women were really good for my dating life, but I was one of those three women.
When I started sailing because I swam with my legs off. Like the legs are a little bit anchor cause I swim with my legs off. I sail with my legs up. And when I was in a boat at first the camera resolution was really bad. But on top of bad camera resolution, I was top heavy. All the weight was on top of that, my legs. I would fall out of the boat. Every wave or a bit of wind. I had a lot of trouble balancing the boat. I knew the parts of the boat. I knew the points of sail, but I failed that first summer because I couldn't stay in the boat. I spent more time swimming with the fish. All the other kids got their white sail level one.
Even though I was falling out of the boat, I knew what to do when I fell out of the boat. I learned how to get back in and I didn't just get back in. I spent all summer figuring out a way to get back in. Once I learned how to balance. I caught up, I got my white sail level one and two, but it turns out balancing and the boat getting my head out of the boat and looking outside of my boat. Where's the wind coming? Where's the dark patch of water that shows that it's windy. Once I got my head out of my head and out of my boat and learned how to balance in the boat, predict what's coming. It turns out that's a bronze level IV advance skill.
If you're not thriving this second today. You're Just doing your advanced study backwards. That summer I got my bronze level 4, 3, 2, 1. All my friends got their level two and I grew up to be a world cup. I was born this way. They don't know why. That's my sister, 11 months younger than me. I was born exactly the way I was meant to be my mom. Didn't say to that principal, she can tie her shoe laces. My mom said if it doesn't work out, no problem. She asked how come she didn't say why? Why is a trigger word, causing people to feel defensive? How come? And then she listened. What's his concern? He was worried about being stuck with me. She didn't count her offer. She can tie your shoe laces. She counter-offered, if it doesn't work out, no problem. We'll go to another school.
Speak to other people's listening, speak to other people's concerns. A lot of the people are writing notes. It really shows commitment and deep learning. It's awesome. Look at who's thriving in the room and you'll know they're the ones with pens in their hands. Exceed uncertainty, feeling uncertain is no excuse for an action. Embrace possibility. You might have no idea how you are going to become the millionaire you intend to become. I have no idea how I would ski. I wasn't going to figure it out on a computer, on a couch at home in my beautifully refinished basement. I had to get out there. I had to go for it, even though I didn't know how so I surrounded myself with who you surround yourself with.
Tracy: Is it the kind of go-getters that get extra training and education? I surrounded myself with skiers getting extra training and education, and I flew out to Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and I got to Corner Brook Newfoundland with all these expert skiers. I'm sitting on a bench with my legs getting ready to figure out how to ski people who are paralyzed or missing their legs. They use a sitting ski without rigor crutches with skis on the end, but because I don't have my hands, it didn't work for me. I get on this bench and my ski instructor is sitting beside me and he has great big, gigantic feet.
In my childish, inappropriate mind, I'm thinking he's got huge feet. I could put my thighs in his boots and then I got a light bulb. I could put my thighs in his boots and that's what I did. I put my thighs in men's ski boots backwards. Ski boots are angled. If I went forward, I was too far forwards. Because I was on my knees to ski, I was in the duck squat position, the backwards boots were at the right angle and I had no toes. We get on the chairlift and instead of the skis being underneath me parallel with the ground, they're perpendicular.
I'm on the chair lift and I'm going along on the chairlift with these perpendicular skis. We get to the ski Mount a little bit like my podium here, and we get to the ski Mount and don't the back tips of my skis hit the ski mound and slingshot me off. Try to pass the beginner run, past the medium difficulty, all the way to the double black diamond.
Is there anybody from the East Coast in the room? Nice, I love it. This is Corner Brook mountain. The name of that run, OMJ the Newfoundlanders call it. Forgive me, Lord. That's what you say, all of you are probably faced with this career that you've chosen this path with OMJ moments. You have no idea how you're going to take it on the only way to take on this run. When I was at the top of it was to take it on. I wiped out in the trees, 12 times, 12 times. What do you think I did on the 13th time? Got down, got to the bottom. You'd like to think so, wouldn't ya? I didn't, but he kept it fit.
The only difference between failure and success is one more time. Kept at it and kept at it. I eventually went on to get a bronze medal for Canada and get myself some better ski boots. Thank you. Exceed uncertainty, feeling uncertain is no excuse for an action, embrace possibility. Even if you don't know how you go about it, you don't avoid failure and you earn independence. But like this picture I look like I'm all alone and sometimes all of us. I feel all alone, but I'm not alone in this picture.
There's someone on my lifeline. There's someone on my belay line. That's all of you. I just moved yesterday. Someone like you set me up for success with investing and with my needs and all of the people in this room. It starts with The REITE Club. I love the name of this club. Who you surround yourself with is who you become.
Who's your lifeline? And you'll end up climbing the Himalayas. You'll end up climbing the biggest obstacles in your life. Believe you are capable. Don't avoid failure and jump, jump out of that airplane. Jump out of that comfort zone. Just make sure who packed your parachute. This was my lifeline madness. I drove down to find him and he got me into world cup regattas. I didn't earn independence alone. Who you surround yourself with is who you become. Earn independence bobsledding speed. The unstoppable version of you. Exceed uncertainty. Embrace possibility. Earn independence.
It's been so fun. It does not have to be the last time we speak. I'm unstoppable Tracy, everywhere. I have a book here today. It's double the price online. If you feel like a hard copy, if you'd like a free copy, you just visit unstoppabletracy.com and I'll email you a PDF. But for those that like hard copies and coaching questions, that's what the book is. Thank you so much.
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