Universal truths are the principles that go beyond time, culture, and beliefs. They show the essential wisdom and values that it takes to achieve success and have a good life. In this episode, we have Cary Grant, the owner of Floor Seasons, a concrete coating company in Las Vegas. Cary unpacks his journey of achieving greatness and how he has discovered universal truths that not only apply to his business, but all areas of life. In this inspiring story, Cary shares honest truths about adults now and what it really takes for us to have changes in our lives. He also touches on mindset, faith, and more. Join us as Cary shares his wisdom on what it takes to achieve greatness and how to apply these universal truths in your own life.

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Cary Grant – Universal Truths

I am here with our guest, Cary Grant. Cary, how are you?

I’m good. You?

I’m doing well. I’m here with you. Cary is the owner of Floor Seasons in Las Vegas. Cary has owned Floor Seasons, which is a concrete coating company for the last 21 years. Cary and I have connected in a coaching and mastermind group that we’re in. With the energy and the knowledge that you bring to our group, I had to have you here on fuel. Thanks for jumping on the show. I’ll let you give a little bit more overview of what you do. Go ahead.

First of all, thank you for having me. This is my first podcast. Understanding what the context of your show was before I got on, my judgment is that it was based on real estate, and then how people got there. It’s not just selling millions of dollars worth of homes. There’s a skillset that was brought to it that attracts that kind of work to great real estate men and women.

That’s my background. My industry is in the mortgage space, which ties into real estate. This show is for universal entrepreneurs and how you get and achieve greatness in your life. It does tend to have a real estate-heavy focus, given my natural sphere. This is for any entrepreneur, public figure, athlete, or somebody that achieved great things in their life. We’re hearing about their journey to share and inspire others.

I knew that it had morphed over time. However, I thought that was the foundation of it. That’s great clarification. In my world, real estate is brokers, lenders, and all the umbrella. My claim to fame is concrete staining. I got there in the strangest ways. I’m an ex-drug addict. I had a very tumultuous childhood. I took a self-improvement course. It was the typical, “Are you living the life that you want? Do you have the woman of your dreams? Are you making the money that you want? Let’s go.”

You forgot a step. They’re like, “Write the check. Let’s go.”

I took this class and it began to attract different things to myself. I was a janitor for many years. I was feather dusting desks and vacuuming the floors in these big corporate buildings with my dad. I pulled away from him. I was at a community service project, and my friend took the course that I wind up taking three years later. He’s like, “When are you going to do it?” It was the whole thing.

I’m at this community service project and I’m laying tile, which I didn’t know how to do. The man next to me owned a janitorial service minus floor cleaning. I knew how to do floor cleaning. He was like, “We should have lunch.” I was like, “We should.” I built that part of his company over the course of a few years.

At one point, he was like, “I’m bored. I’m going to send you to marble shaving school.” I went and learned how to shave marble. If you got a scratch across your countertop, I can take that out. If you got a scratch across your marble floor or it’s not as shiny as it was when you first got it, I can handle that. I did that work at Mike Tyson’s home. I got an opportunity to work in his home to bring back the marble in one of his homes. A few years after that, he says, “We’re going to get into concrete staining.” I was like, “Ron, you’re bored again. I got it.” He’s like, “I’m telling you. It’s going to be the next biggest flooring on the planet.” I was like, “Ron, I got it. You’re bored. Pay me my hourly wage and we’ll figure it out.”

The tagline of my company is Art You Can Walk On.” When I stepped into concrete staining, for the most part, it was brown. My employer at the time wanted to do brown and leave. I wanted to have borders. I wanted to have tattoos for concrete. I wanted to make it personal. Back then, it was considered a southwest kind of flooring. You had to have cows or horses. It was an incredibly durable brown get-up. I wanted to see it in churches, banks, and things like that. I started to dream and create habits. He wanted to do brown, and I wanted to do more. That’s when I left to do my own thing. I had no idea how to open a company, much less run one. It has been a 21-year journey.

That’s awesome. You sent over some pictures. It is truly an art. It is cool. You’re in Las Vegas. I’m here outside Philadelphia. I haven’t seen a whole lot of that here in the northeast. When you sent that over, I was like, “That’s pretty cool.” You mentioned a couple of things in there. You didn’t know what you were doing. You didn’t know how you were going to do it.

That’s the fun part of what we do here on the show. We unpack people’s journeys so that other people can understand that you might not have the roadmap. You might not have the plan, but you had the vision where you were like, “I don’t want to do just brown. I want tattoos for concrete.” That is something that as an entrepreneur and as somebody that wants more, wants to push the envelope, and wants to think outside the box, not everybody has that.

That’s what’s crazy.

I would say they have it, but they may not want to bring it to life. They’re like, “You said brown. It would be cool if we did this, but you’re the boss. You’re giving me the check. We got brown. Let’s go.” It never blossoms.

What I was getting at is I got all the tools for me to create what it is that I want out of my life. Everyone has that inside of the subconscious, not the brain. The body is an avatar and the brain is the marionette of what happens subconsciously. It’s the idea of to think is to create. That has to be coupled with action.

Let me say it in a different way. Everybody has a genie inside of them. The genie can only be obedient to what I tell it. I feel sick and the little genie goes, “Okay.” I feel healthy with every breath that I take. I’m moving further away from not feeling so good. It’s like, “Okay.” I’m never going to amount to anything. It’s like, “Okay.” The subconscious can only be obedient. The problem is that I got programmed from a very young age.

The core iOS system that I was trained to be at 81% by the time I was eight years old is that I’m a low-class, White trash, piece of shit, trailer trash that is never going to amount to anything like the rest of us. That’s what my operating system was put into me by my mom and dad. That’s no more the truth than anything. However, I went out to set and make that true because that’s what the core iOS system is.

How many times do we wake up in the morning and there’s a new update for our phone? It makes it operate better. We’ll hit, “Let’s do that.” Our phone shuts down for a minute or two, and then poof. Our $1,500 phone operates better. The idea is when was the last time that we trained ourselves to operate differently from what usually is programmed by our parents? At twelve years old, I got beat up by a motorcycle guy. Now I think that all bikers are bad, or was it just the one biker? It’s not being able to go back and change those things. However, it is the ability to transform my thinking to get out of the core iOS system where I am capable. I have a solution. I just need to find it.

Another way of saying it is this. When we were small children and there was a cookie at the back of the counter. Let’s say we were 2 feet tall, and we wanted the cookie. We got it because we got a chair. We got this old thing called a phone book. We put that on the chair because we were so short. We got up on the counter and crawled across the counter because we were so small. We opened the cookie jar and got the cookie because we were capable. Through programming, we make decisions based on events that happen to us. People are like, “I’m Jewish. I’m Black. I’m a woman. I’m a man. I’m short. I’m tall.” None of that has anything to do with, “I want X and I am going to get it.”

I love that. That is the key. It’s that program. That is what FUEL stands for. Fuel stands for Foundations Under Extraordinary Lives. It’s the foundation on which your life is built. You’re a concrete guy. Sometimes, that concrete and foundation are perfect. You have a perfect life and whatever. Sometimes that foundation has some cracks in it. Your foundation is like, “You’re a low-class piece of shit White trash.” That’s the foundation that you’re built on, good, bad, or otherwise.

You have a choice, and you made the decision to say, “That foundation is not quite what I would’ve pictured or envisioned. That allows me to be this person. It allows me to be Cary Grant. It allows me to be resilient and be ready to crush the world because that’s my foundation.” Everybody has that foundation that they’re built on. You can look at it and say, “My parents did this and did that.” You can whine about it and say, “My foundation is fucked.” You can look at it and say, “This is not quite the way I would’ve written the book, but look at all of this stuff that I can do because only Cary Grant or Chris Swartz has experienced their foundation.”

You make the decision to do whatever you’re going to do. You can whine about it, cry about it, crush it, or whatever. That’s why I love you. We connected through our group with some great men. You’re involved in another group where you’ve done so much work. We mentioned universal truths and the things that you’ve studied and put a lot of time into. That’s why we’re here. That’s why I wanted to get you on the show. It was to talk a little bit more about the work that you’re doing and how you went from that foundation, which we’ve talked about being in the work that you do on yourself and achieving the greatness that you’re living.

Thank you for the accolades there. I appreciate you seeing me. As the young kids say, “Thanks for seeing me.” Ideally to what you’re saying, it’s knowing that I can do it. Those are very careful words. I’m bringing discipline and rigor to believing it and knowing it usually for 90 days. It takes 90 days to change a habit. I can sit and think, “I would love to communicate better with my wife.” That is a great thought. Now it has got to be coupled with action. I’m being mindful of what I’m thinking internally and what I’m saying externally and tracking it backward.

If I want to land on a hug and a kiss with my wife, that’s point B. How must I track that back to point A, then move toward point B? Once a universal tool or a universal truth is on my radar and I can see its value, I am unbelievably ravenous to own it and to be it. I’m not a human doing. I’m a human being. I’m being graceful. I’m being patient.

 

Once somebody notices something that they want to change, it’s being on high alert for some time to rewire what is going to be their new reality. Most people don’t have that discipline because they like Taco Tuesday. They’re nice and comfortable with the life that they think they’re meant to have versus, “I want something different. I know I can have it. I’m going to bring discipline and rigor until I own the tool.”

Before we go too much further down the rabbit hole, you mentioned it. I probably mentioned it, which are tools and the universal truth. I want to talk about that for a second. If I took the Bible and the Qur’an, which have deities and dogmas and it’s an actual religion and actual faith. What’s underneath it, meaning true of both, is what’s called universal truth. Inside the Bible and the Qur’an, they say a lot of things. They just say them a little differently. Those things are what’s called universal truth.

I study universal truth minus the deity and the dogma. Here’s what I say. If you’re a Christian and you’re doing great things on the planet, that is awesome. If green M&M’s is your jam and you’re doing great things on the planet, and you’re being of contribution, right on. It keeps me neutral about someone’s faith. Faith is awesome. Faith can create hope. From hope, fear can be present, and then courage can happen. Do you know what has to be present for the courage to happen?

Faith can create hope. From hope, fear can be present, and then courage can happen. Click To Tweet

Drop it on me.

Fear. It is impossible to implore courage to want something different from who I am as a man and his fear about it. There is going to be a change. There is going to be discipline and rigor. On the other side of it, I’m going to be a better father. I’m going to be a better husband. Minus those two things, I’ll be a better man so that I can contribute more. Fear must be present to have courage.

That is awesome. Thank you.

I’ve done so much work through a seminar company. I call it a bunk bed life. I’m heading up to my 65th staffing. The shortest one is eight days. It is a 7-day class, 8 days for the staff. The longest one, which is all men, used to be 10 days and 11 days for the staff. I’ve done 33 and 34. I’ll be leaving for my 35th of the men’s leadership seminar. I started that journey because of low vibration. I was an idiot. I was a drug addict. I needed to get my thinking different to have something different quickly.

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I knew if I signed up to staff for one, I would hear a $5,000 class for free. I was sleeping in a bunk bed, vacuuming floors, and making sure that the students had no wants other than to be a student. Through that part of it, rolling up on 65 times, I’ve learned how to be me, be authentic, and speak to all kinds of different people, whether they’re millionaires or in bankruptcy, grandfathers or nineteen-year-olds. I went through putting myself in those places to learn how to be authentic. That’s the big one for me.

I’m a foul-mouthed tattooed pirate. However, I’m an integrist, honest, intimate, and vulnerable. I’ve chosen to look this way. I did it out of abandonment issues. I wanted to push people away. I worked on being approachable for a few years too because nobody is going to hurt me anymore. No one is going to abandon me.

I made up this paradigm to, “Stand back until you know who I think I am,” which kept people away from me. They were scared of me, and for good reason for a while. I wasn’t going to get hurt. I wasn’t going to be abandoned. Once I started to learn, grow, and be of contribution, something different had to happen there. I was the guy that you walked on the opposite side of the street, and that was not what I wanted.

I want to acknowledge you right there. You don’t just flip a switch. You’ve lived that. You’ve got it all over your body. You’re like, “Stay away from me. I’m the badass with tattoos. You better get over there.” You don’t wake up one morning and you’re like, “I want to be approachable.” You’ve done a lot of work to not be approachable. I want to acknowledge and commend you.

I want to give you a high five, a fist bump, and a big ass hug. You’re so approachable and so relatable. Coming from that point of contribution, it pours out of you. To be where you were, we don’t have to go down the depths of what that was. People get the idea. We can all paint that picture.

We’ve all gotten locked in the glove compartment. That’s what I like to tell people. All of us got locked in the glove compartment at some point. What are we doing now? Most of us are adults clinging onto some type of event and polarizing it, good or bad, so that we can live the life from that moment that’s in the rear-view mirror. Memory lane is closed. It’s under construction. I used to have a 4×4 that could handle that road. I’m in a freaking Bugatti now. I honor that suspension. I honor the cost of that car. That road is not meant for me anymore because I’ve done the work.

 

That is so insightful. That is an awesome perspective.

It’s possible for everyone. That’s the thing. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this. What I’m fixing to say is important. It’s intimacy, into-me-I-see. It’s Love Guru. Mike Myers. There are six one-liners in that film and it was one of them. I was like, “That’s a T-shirt right there.” When I become a man of contribution, my want is to heal the world that I see. I have a six-year-old son. My duty or responsibility is to take myself on and be an example of what’s possible so that the world where I leave my son is better off from my presence.

Anybody can do what I’ve done. Ideally, when a teacher, philosopher, or coach puts himself on the playing field and is intimate, it makes the person receiving the information, whether they’ve paid for it or not, know that they can achieve it too. One of the worst things that can happen is getting on a pulpit and preaching a sermon without any kind of, “I’ve done it too.” It means it’s unattainable. You’re like, “Thank you, guru guy. I got it. You didn’t tell me how you did it, so I don’t know if I can do it.” I’m the guy you see now versus being intimate and saying what happened and how I got through it. They’re like, “I got it. I can do it too.”

That’s the game-changer. We’re talking about rear-view mirrors and how memory lane is closed. As we get to wrap things up here, what’s the future? Where are you heading? What’s in store for Cary Grant in this next phase looking forward? We’re not looking back.

The best way I can do that is by saying what’s true now, which is I own a 21-year-old concrete coatings company. My want is that in the next two years, that sustains itself to attract money to myself and its employees without my presence. I am going down on YouTube where I am looking at being branded. Shortly, I’ll have my class, and a couple of different podcasts myself. One where I’m being interviewed and one where I interview, and a book. I’m heading into teaching universal truth and professional mindset training.

I’m heading into mindset training because I’m the source. I’ve got all the tickets to live the life I can. It has become very clear to me in the last few years. By way of contributing to myself to learn the tools that I paid for and by doing the bunk bed life, I become a different man. My purpose, edge, and vision are to contribute at a much higher level than I have been. I’m heading into that now.

That is so clear. You took a little pause there, and then you nailed it. There was no hesitation after that pause. You’re so clear on going down that next pipe. I’m so excited to have connected with you and to see as this all evolves. To everybody here, I know you probably got a lot out of this. Connect up with Cary. Let’s follow this journey.

As you’re tuning into this, I’m sure and I hope that you got some nuggets out of this. The amount of work, time, and energy that you’ve put in to be able to share the insights that you’ve shared over the last 30 minutes or so is astounding. You are right there at the edge that you have figured it out. You’re like, “I need to put this business over here. I’ve built it. We can put some things in place so that can be self-sustaining. Here’s where I need to be to contribute in the way that I’m meant to contribute to this world.”

The course of agreeing with you and wanting to clarify what you said is this. It’s like a scale. I have so much in the win column of success and failure. It’s becoming easier for me to get what I want quicker because I filled my cup with success. I started over here failing. I’m like, “That worked. That didn’t work as well.” A lot of people are going to be possibly starting there. It’s okay. The idea is to improve every day, to fill the cup, to where it becomes this insatiable want to keep doing it.

 

I’ve filled my cup. I got enough evidence. I got enough proof that it’s possible. It will always be peeling off a layer of the onion until I’m 6 feet under. The process never ends. I’m with you in learning how to communicate differently with my wife. Yet, I feel like I’m a good communicator. I could never communicate differently until I die. What’s true is I’m peeling another onion layer back.

I’m realizing it’s coming from some wounds with my mom. It’s always having that want to improve. It’s never going to end. I’m never going to arrive. It’s putting coal on the engine so it starts to move. Sometimes, the hardest part is getting enough coal and enough evidence that it’s possible. Once that journey starts for anyone like you and me, it becomes easier. It becomes more profound. There is more lust for it.

It’s exciting. It’s a way of life. It’s amazing when you can look back after you’ve peeled the layer back. You’re like, “I did have a blind spot.” I love how you said it. It never ends. That’s what we’re here to do. We’re here to share a little bit of our journey and some nuggets. I hope that our audience got some good stuff out of this.

Do we have any more time?

We got a few minutes and we’re going to wrap it up.

I want to leave with this. This is going to be a great one. Unfortunately, I don’t know another way of telling this story without making it about men and women. A knight in shining armor. Have you ever heard that?

Yeah.

Do you know how sad that is? The knight in shining armor looks good. He’s taking selfies. He has a persona on Facebook that’s nice and pretty. Maybe we should be looking for men that aren’t so shiny and that have a chink in their armor, where the leather bands are wearing out to hold the metal on. It could be that I’m coming out of a battle and those leather bands need to be replaced. My sword, although razor sharp, can get sharpened after a battle, but there are still going to be chinks in the metal that will never come out.

If seeking someone to look at as an example, it most certainly isn’t the man who is a knight in shining armor. He’s never been battle-tested. Our scars, wounds, shadows, and traumas are designed to give us a place to come from fear and to have the courage to transform. We can’t change it. None of us can go back and change anything. However, we can transform how we’re going to go with it before or after. Those chinks and that worn-out leather are all good. It makes us who we are so that we can be of contribution to what we’ve been through.

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We can’t end on a better note. That’s awesome. That is the best analogy. Those battle wounds and scars are battle-tested. That’s how you’re going to get through. You’ve been through it. You’ve been to the lowest of lows to reach the highest of highs. I appreciate you sharing your journey. This has been awesome. We got you on your first podcast. This was awesome. We are going through a different journey that we’re on together for something different in our lives. Thank you for this contribution. Thank you for the connection that we have. For anybody here, if they want to connect with you, how can they find you?

At the moment, it’s a few sources. You can find my company Floor Seasons at Info@FloorSeasons.com. You can email me there. I’ll wind up getting it. You can go to my Facebook page, which is Cary Grant. There are a lot of Carrie Grants. My profile picture is a black-and-white picture of me, shirtless, with a white angel wing and a black angel wing. People can start the journey with me if they want to. I have no social media presence at all. It’s starting probably in a month and a half or so. Get on early.

We’re going to keep in touch and share anything that we can with our audience here at the show. If you got something out of this, do two things. One, share it with somebody on social media. Share it with a friend. Let them experience the same wisdom that Cary dropped with us here and enjoy it.

Also, give us a five-star rating on iTunes. It will only take a minute. I appreciate that five-star rating. Cary, before we jump off here, one thing we like to do is leave everybody with something they can take away. I’m going to ask you. What is a book that you’ve read that has had an impact on your life that you would suggest to our audience?

For parents, it would be Parenting with Love and Logic. I do not know the author. It’s a study on how to train our young ones to be logical and responsible for what’s going on. As far as a book mostly for men, it’s one that I read that blew my noodle. It was The Way of the Superior Man.

You and I finished that together. Those are two awesome books. Pick them up. On that note, we did it. We are out. Check us out on the next episode. Give us a five-star rating on iTunes, and connect with Cary Grant. Have a great day, everyone.

 

Important Links

• Cary Grant
• Info@FloorSeasons.com
• Cary Grant – Facebook
• iTunes – FUEL with Chris Swartz
• Parenting with Love and Logic
• The Way of the Superior Man

 

About Cary Grant

My name is Cary Grant and I have owned Floor Seasons in Las Vegas for 21 years… It is a concrete coatings company. I’ve also studied universal truth for 25 years and I’m heading into mindset coaching and corporate training as this is my passion. The company was started 21 years ago, and at the time I considered myself illiterate and had no idea of how to run a business.

Through the years we have gathered much a claim as to our stellar work and literally changing our industry standards for what is possible for concrete coatings. We have been written up in mini magazines and also how Also have the number one selling DVD on the planet to show you how to do what we do. Right before starting Floor Seasons, I’ve taken a typical self-help seminar of which I’ve been highly invested in a sense.

We’re taking the class with success and failure using the tools that I purchased I’ve brought an excellent to my work that has shown through for many years. Mindset as I believe to be the most powerful tool that I use is what has made the difference in my perfect record with the contractors board for 20 years.

 

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