Ian Luebbers Tribute: The Purpose of Creating a Legacy with Ian Luebbers and Matt Kohn

today we talk about building a platform that serves not just yourself and not just your audience but the world welcome to episode number 33 of the Ian lubbers journey and today I have my my good friends here Matt cone and he's visiting me for a few days and we've we've been talking about some really interesting stuff and

in particular something that we both feel very strongly about is the idea of observing of becoming an entrepreneur to serve both yourself and the world and and we think that a lot of people forget the part about serving the world so what's your what's your take on this how would you succinctly describe why you feel so strongly

about this yeah well you know we have people in our society who have all the influence and impact that they could ever want and they choose to use that platform that they have built to sell lipgloss or to promote their self-image and you know that's nice but I feel like it's so much more meaningful and so much

more impactful to use the platform that you have created to genuinely impact and serve the lives of other people because that impact is going to create a domino effect that is not going to impact just your life and not just the people that you're impacting but it's gonna impact the people that they come in contact with and

you know I think as a society we really should start challenging how many people use their platforms so does that kind of actually question 100% yeah and I particularly like the idea the idea of a ripple I saw I talk about legacy a lot and and one of the things I focus a lot of my mental attention

on with clients on is legacy and in thinking about what you want your legacy to be and I actually think the best the best metaphor that I use for legacy is is a ripple is how can you create a ripple that impacts people in a positive way and the the answer to this really is as I've discovered

as the changes that you make in people's lives so and sometimes this is really small they just read something you post it on Facebook and they have a slightly better day and that has sort of the butterfly effect that you can't even protect but there's also these massive changes one of the reasons I love working one-on-one with

clients is because it allows you to create this this unprecedented level of personal change and when that happens when you can completely change somebody's worldview in their their prospects you can create an unimaginable Ripple a lot of people forget that when you make an impact on somebody it doesn't end there it actually follows sort of an exponential

curve meaning that impact spreads to two people and in four people and then ten people and it really is a ripple and it doesn't matter how small the pebble is it can fill the entire pond absolutely yeah and I mean you know everybody wants to live forever right and you know I have some friends who actually of

like committed their lives to science and technology and discovering ways to live forever but you know I think they might end up ironically dying through those efforts but I think the best way to live forever is to leave an impact and leave a legacy and create that effect that survives you that survives the immortality of yourself because

again that's what changes the world and that's what lasts when you're gone so yeah that make sense yeah yeah one of something that I I constantly remind myself of is I don't so I went through a very difficult portion of my journey where I was very depressed and and had a lot of mindset issues and the thing

that that really drives me more so than then money money is nice and necessary and allows you to make an impact but it doesn't give me anything like the feeling that I get when I help somebody who could end up falling into a situation like I was in and I've had multiple clients in situations like this where

if you know maybe if they don't find the right mentor or if they don't find somebody who's been through something similar during that time they'll just fall into a downward spiral and go through something like I went through and knowing that I can help people avoid that or pull themselves out of it or basically my unique experience

and suffering now gives me a unique opportunity to help others in similar situations that feeling of impact and that feeling of being able to just serve people in that way that is what drives me there's nothing can match the feeling that I get from from somebody telling me you've changed my life like I wouldn't be where I

am without you and this includes people that I've done stuff for completely free like it's completely independent of money and more than anything that that that ripple those are the things that will survive me and and that's really what drives me boom boom all right times up let us know in the comments if if you have recently

seen this is something I'm curious about or what actually what are your favorite examples or favorite example of people using a platform for an incredibly empowering purpose and we'll talk tomorrow pace