82. Pete Cann Finds Money Funny

This week I speak to Pete Cann, a man on a mission to bring laughter to a million people in 2021.

Pete previously had a very poor relationship with money and battled with a gambling addiction for many years. With the support of this wife and Gamblers Anonymous, Pete managed to conquer this addiction and create a much healthier financial relationship.

When Pete discovered the health, happiness and wealth benefits that laughter can bring he made it his life mission to bring laughter to more people through Laughter Yoga.

You can check out Pete’s work here.

If you or someone you know is struggling with a gambling addiction, there are resources there to help you.

Episode Transcript

Jason Butler 0:00
Hello. In this week's episode, I take a look at the annual general meeting of Berkshire Hathaway. And what Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett had to say, and have a fabulous interview with an amazing guy called Pete can. Hello, and welcome to the real money stories podcast. I'm Jason Butler. And I invite you to join me as I have intimate money conversations with people from all walks of life. Whether you're just starting out on your money journey, or well down the track, there's bound to be something you can learn from these stories about taking more control of your money, so you worry less and enjoy life more. Real Money stories is sponsored by Vanguard bringing value to 30 million investors worldwide. Visit Vanguard investor.co.uk for more details. And remember, the value of investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest in the Annual General Meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, which is the company that Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger controlled is always always worth listening to. Because Charlie, and Warren, take questions from shareholders, both that have been pre submitted and also on the day. And they don't know what the answer, the questions are in advance. And they unbelievably at 90 and 97 years of age respectively, spent four hours at the beginning of May this this year, taking questions from people. And I listened to all four hours of it. So you don't have to. And here's just a quick sort of overview of a couple of great little nuggets that I got from there. Now there are asked about what they thought of crypto, which is, you know, is is all the rage everyone thinks it's the answer to It's the new digital gold. And Warren Buffett just said he, he said it's not going to end well, just like tulips or anything else. And the reason is because crypto doesn't produce anything. It's got any real utility as he, as he says, No dividends, no coupon. And he doesn't actually fulfill any sort of social purpose. And in fact, Charlie Munger was even more QST castigating of it and just said, it is terrible. And he said, it's a very bad thing for society. Now, whether you think that's, you know, they're out of touch, and you know, not with it, or, or you agree with them, it's still very interesting to listen to very experienced two very experienced very successful investors, like Warren and, Charlie, my personal view on crypto is I don't think crypto itself is anything of lasting value. But I think the blockchain technology on which it's based, is going to and is already starting to change things. I hold a very small amount of crypto myself a real small amount for research purposes. But see, the thing with crypto is that it just consumes so much energy to, to mine it. And that's really not, that's not really sustainable when it comes to the long term. And when we're thinking about sustainable investing, crypto is not where it's at. So I wouldn't be, I'd be listening to Warren and Charlie. And if you are going to put some money into crypto, put a tiny amount in it, but make sure you get your basics right. Warren also looked back at 1989. And he looked at the I think it was a top 30 companies be focused on the top 10 in America at that stage, or rather, in the world. And it was quite interesting, because what he said was looking at today's top 10 companies and top 30 companies is that virtually none of the companies are the same. So and also, whereas in 1989, I think it was five of the top 10 companies with Japanese. Now it's it's I think their top 10 there are five of us and there's Chinese, there might be one Dutch company there. So that was interesting. what he was saying was that if you're trying to pick stocks, so he tried to pick the winners, that's very difficult to do, because things change. And whilst the Fang stocks, like stocks, like Amazon, and Google, etc, are poor or riding high. Now, it doesn't mean to say that they are going to continue in the next 30 years to be the best thing since sliced bread. What they were really saying was, and Warren has said this many times, he just said, Look, if you just bought a low cost, global index fund, you know, you're probably going to do okay, to the extent that the equities deliver reasonable returns. And he said that really trying to he can't pick stocks and neither can Charlie. And that's why they are well known for their buy and hold strategy. I mean, they do buy and sell stocks on the edge. But but that was interesting, another reinforcement, the index fund, low cost index funds, it take a lot of beating. It's not about shooting the lighthouse, but getting your fair share of returns whatever they market is deemed to deliver and having a successful investment experience. So, so that was that was that was Warren's view there. And the final thing that I want to share with you from that annual general meeting

there Ask questions about climate change and, and other things, various other things. And they just said, Look, we don't know. We don't know the answers to that, and we don't think many people do. So that's a really important one is that when someone asks you a question, if you don't know the answer, it's okay to say, I don't know. Because sometimes we don't know. And we can't be sure. And the only thing we do know is what we don't know. So it sounds a bit weird that one but there's a very good one. And that is how people like Warren and Charlie have stayed successful for so long. Bear in mind their 90 and 97 and doing four hours of questions and still sounding like they did 30 years ago. Unbelievable. So you know, being humble and not knowing, accepting you don't know everything is I think another good thing there. So you can listen to that on. If you go to YouTube, you can find it from Yahoo Finance, all four hours of it's well worth a listen, while you're pottering around doing stuff perhaps and listen to it on your phone. But they were the they were my three sort of takeouts from this year's annual general meeting. Now my guest this week is a fabulous guy called Pete can he's known as p can. The laughter man. And I met him completely by chance on top house when I was was on a in a room there as one of the speakers. Really interesting guy, he's on a mission to get a million people laughing. But behind the laughter there's also some sadness and a very fascinating story of how he pulled himself back from the brink. And also, how he his wife helped him. Be the person he is today. So I think you're gonna enjoy this. Let's go over to Pete can the laughter man

Hello, hello there again. Thanks for joining me on another edition of real money stories. I'm your host Jason Butler. And today I've got a real treat for you because I've got Pete can the laughter man Pete.

Pete Cann 6:53
How are you doing?

Jason Butler 6:59
Yeah, Rocking. Yeah, like the shirts nice. You've got sort of hints of some of their Got it? Yeah, really? It's freezing here in Suffern always like down that where you are. But it's freezing. We got a foot of snow. But we got sunshine and more importantly, laughter in our hearts. Do you want to just tell everyone who you are because you are a bit of a character I we bumped into each other on clubhouse, didn't we? Which is a rapidly growing audio social media platform. If you're not on it, check it out. It's very interesting. So Pete, over to you.

Pete Cann 7:28
Yeah, so I, yeah, I MP Canada. Laughter mine, I've not always been the laughter man. But I run a business as well run a chef agency in Bristol have done for 11 years. And that, unfortunately, took a bit of a kicking at the beginning of lockdown. It's still there. It's still bubbling away slowly. But I discovered laughter yoga in 2016. And it's been, it's been a passion of mine to bring laughter to people's lives after I discovered it. And what was happening was when I was the managing director of the chef agency, I was I kept getting pulled people that you can see me I'll see the red hat. It's just out there. I kept wanting to put the red hat on because I knew this is what I really wanted to do. I had the passion and the drive. But I kept getting pulled back to my core business because that was bringing the money in. And obviously what's happened once lockdown came along it literally just cut that that arm of finance out. And I just like, well, if I don't do it, I mean, I'll do it now. And I've just gone all in. And yeah, things are starting to move nicely now. which is which is fantastic. So yeah, so my mission is to bring laughter to 1 million people by the end of this year.

Jason Butler 8:39
Crikey. So you've got what 410 half months left, by the time we're recording this. So by the time it goes out might be sort of nine months or nine half months. So what does that actually mean, in terms of bringing laughter to a million people?

Pete Cann 8:55
So what does it mean? It means that I just want to I want to be able to give people the benefit, why just be able to laugh and a reason I want them to be able to have that and know that they can laugh for no reason. No, that laughter is within us all. And I think that's really, really important, especially right now, you know, is basically people have in so such a gray space with everything that's going on in the world. But ultimately, you cannot change any of that you can change your mental attitude and laughter is a perfect tonic for that. And that's what it means to me. It's just basically finding all these different platforms that I can get on to to just say, look, you don't know what laughter yoga, if you've never heard of it, you didn't know that you can laugh. And the reason you didn't know your body doesn't know the difference between fake and real laughter, which is the magic because actually by doing sort of 510 minutes of fake laughter real laughter comes in, you just get all the benefits of laughter and that's what it means to me. It's just that if I can just wander Well, I've got two things. I bring laughter to one person every day, but that's not going to make a million that's going to be 365. I'm pretty good. Math, you know, but ultimately, I know to bring it to a million people, I need to up my game, I need to create platforms that I can get out to mass people I can look at, you know, and again, learning all these different techniques and tactics that I've learned over the years from my other businesses, then all of a sudden, you're bringing it into me being that being the business, I am the business the laughter man. So

Jason Butler 10:24
yeah, so I love that, you know, this, this show is called real money stories, because what really trying to do is break the taboo, we're talking about the role of money, our beliefs, our money, our associations with money, and how we use money, right? So what's really interesting about this particular initiative, and why I was really keen to get you on the show, was that you're taking First of all, you're pivoting, if we can use that overused term, but you know, you've had a financial hit to your situation, because you run in a chef agency business, right, fair enough. Secondly, you've got something you've really loved and that really makes brings joy in your life, and you really want to sort of fulfill makes you feel fulfilled. And thirdly, you want to deliver value to people and hopefully in in the course of doing that through laughter there's a way of monetizing that in due course. So that's a wonderful story. So take us back to kind of like your early experiences of work money, spending and that kind of stuff. You know, it was like growing up when you were a boy.

Pete Cann 11:18
So do you know what my my Okay, so when I was growing up, I had a few like paper, our usual story, I would say paper out, you know, you spend the money like get paid, you get paid to paper money straight in the shop buying, and then you know, spend on sweets, that's just what I did. And then and then I'll be honest, I just I got into gambling into fruit machines. And then my my connection with money then was just like, yeah, there wasn't a connection with money. It was just

Jason Butler 11:47
a stage up when you got into the

Pete Cann 11:49

1414. quite young. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely 14 till I was, Well, basically, I went to GA, in the end, when I've met my, my wife now. But you know, right at the beginning of our relationship, she was like, look, I think you need to just go and seek help. And I did. And I'm happy to admit that because it's, it's changed my mindset with money.

Jason Butler 12:12
I'm so pleased that you've raised that because I've done a blog recently called is your addiction, keeping you broke. And it's something that's recently just come out new piece of research about gambling and how social gambling starts in the teens often, and then it becomes regular gambling becomes a real serious problem. And there are half a million people spending between 12 and 24,000 pounds a year on their gambling habit.

Pete Cann 12:38
It doesn't surprise me doesn't surprise me. I mean, I literally This was my life back then. You know, hopefully I can just talk about this. It's, you know, I used to work in a pub. Okay. So when I was working in the pub was behind the bar, I used to sit there, I used to watch the fruit machine, I used to see the people go and get their change from me on bumbum knew that my break was coming. I knew I didn't have any money, but I had a debit card that I could charge. Yeah, get some money. So then I take 20 pound out get changed strength and machine 20 pounds, 20 pounds, 20 pounds. And before, you know, and it got to the point where, you know, I was selling stuff that wasn't mine, you know, my parents, some of their records, you know, and I've read, you know, I've spoke we've, we've, we've, we've spoken about, and we've gone through all of this. So that's, yeah, that's the word. Thank you. So but, you know, again, it was it was a case that the money came in, and it just went out really quickly. It just like, I didn't even have the money in to be found.

Jason Butler 13:34
The gambling that drew you in because this is a serious problem. And I think it's really humble view and really enlightening for you to talk about it.

Pete Cann 13:41
loneliness, I would say one, definitely just finding you know, solid somewhere, just to Yeah, just lonely just hanging out by a machine. I would also, you know, man, we got to do today. So, you know, I was also very overweight back then. So, you know, as a teenager, like a lot of my mates were out doing, you know, just being being boys and girls and doing their thing, and I just couldn't that wasn't part of my life. I've just

Jason Butler 14:09
excluded from that. Yeah, okay. Yeah,

Pete Cann 14:10
completely. So then I just, I suppose fruit machines were my were my go to place basically where I would just go and hide and just just be one in that in that place. Really? So. Yeah, so that's sort of where that went. Really. And yeah, I don't know what else to say about that. Really.

Jason Butler 14:31
This Okay, that's fine. And thank you for thank you for going and showing your vulnerability because it takes a lot of guts to do that. And if anyone is listening at the moment who've got any kind of feeling that they've got a gambling issue or an addiction of any sort, or they know somebody close to them, you're not alone. These things creep up on you, but you can't creep out of them. Okay, no one's gonna judge you right? This is a heat we're human right human we're made of this in perfect situation, but in fact, we are perfect and it comes normally from voids, doesn't it addictions and from one to To avoid pain so, so you met your wife, you are your now wife. And she said, You've got to get some help. And you went and got some help and and how did you how did you change your association with the whole gambling and get from that, and it stopped having its grip on you? Because I suppose it's like being an alcoholic is it's always there. You've just got to manage it.

Pete Cann 15:17
Yeah, so I, okay, so when we first got together with Chloe, my wife, I didn't gamble them because I didn't you knew love basically. Obviously, I need things to keep me busy. And then after a while, probably about six to eight months into it started, Chloe started asking some questions because we moved in together quite quickly, which is why we've got no money. And then and then it was a slight, that's when I opened up to I said, Look, I've been to the free machines and spent the money and she said, Look. And she said, Let's go to gamblers anonymous. So she took and that happens quite a lot is the the partner will, will like come along and the partner can then sit in a separate room and you go into another room. I went to ga for I think probably about six months, I went and the first time I went in there. And we all like anyone who's listening to this, you everyone feels that they're in control of it, they feel that they don't have a problem. And then you go sit in the room. And even your problem doesn't feel this magnitude, you know, as some other people, you know, and again, I don't need to mention names. I didn't know names, but the one of the conversations was a guy that was spending a lot of money on the horses, didn't have the money, lost a marriage lost his house, or lay on lay on the railway line. That was his story. Oh, yeah. But he was he was in you know, I think it was about two and a half years into ga so. But the point is, it doesn't, it doesn't go away, it doesn't go away. So I went to ga managed to then suddenly I started listening to the stories maybe go, I don't want to go there. Because at that point, actually, I was starting to go to the casinos as well. So I started just to smash 100 quid on the roulette just like that. And Pete

Jason Butler 16:58
and Pete can let's just be clear, is it the case that what happens is it becomes you need more and more of a hit, right? And then also not doing it becomes like withdrawal, you've got to have it so it becomes become you become a climatized to it or a customized pletely

Pete Cann 17:11
Yeah, exactly. And then you know, it's like anything, it's just the worse, you get that little spike, then you have dopamine, endorphin when you when you when you have one, and actually just quickly loop, you know, you get that spike when you laugh. So that's, you know, this is, you know, so so I've, so Yeah, I was gonna, like say to ga and then that, that really Yeah, really helped really, really helped to hear other people's stories made me realize that actually, money was more valuable. It still took me a few quite a few years to actually start making some money to actually then investing the money. We've got a couple of investments now. But again, we're still nowhere near I would say where we want to be. And that's why I'm quite interested to be on this. Open up a little bit today, actually, so.

Jason Butler 17:56
So do you find that? Do you find I mean, what a wonderful lady, Chloe clearly is she cheats. So in other words, her wanting you to go and get some help. And her support you did that sort of reinforce the fact she was all even with you, okay, and therefore you were lovable, and you're wonderful. I never again, too heavy. But what I mean is, if your partner is showing you that much commitment, that is just a tremendous, that must be a really must have been a big epiphany for you at that time you thought Hang on a minute, she's invested in this, she wants me to come through, therefore, and I love her, therefore I want to get it through. So if anyone's listening, their partner suggesting is they're not attacking you, or putting you down, they're actually showing love.

Pete Cann 18:34
Yeah, yeah. When this is, you know, again, I do I thank her, you know, not not every day every week, but there are times where I just say to her, you know, when you know, in any relationship, you've got your pluses in your mind, between the two of you. But you know, and I always say to her, you know, if it wasn't for you, I would have like, kept on gambling, I would have been in a different place. I used to DJ and everything that came along with a nightlife DJ. And so that's another addictive personality I had, you know, so all of these things that.

Jason Butler 19:03
Yeah,

Pete Cann 19:03
yeah, completely and isn't it? It's like, who you hang around with. It makes such a big difference if you hang around with the right people. Like look at those six people that you hang around with the most and if they are like achievers and positive people and runners, for instance, I hang out with runners now because I run you know, it's, it's so important, but

Jason Butler 19:22
that's not who you are, isn't it? It's who you are now, as opposed to that was then who you were then yeah. So yeah, tell me tell me about the journey, that whole coming out of the gambling. So tell me how your relationship with money then started to change as you started to get what I call some control over those addictive personality traits and change in your environment. During the meetings, talking openly to Chloe, except me how that evolved. You started to now build assets rather than just squander the money.

Pete Cann 19:49
Yeah, so I've been I mean, initially, I'd like to surrender my card. So I didn't have access to my money. That was my first step. Say,

Jason Butler 19:57
yeah, yeah, big step. Really big step. Yeah.

Pete Cann 20:00
Yeah, they're literally asking. And I've been through it before. And the parents, you know, I have to ask for 20 pounds, so I could go and do something then. So that was the first step. And then the next step was then we started making, you know, started having a bit of money in our jobs. And we then started saving up for a house. So that was our next step of the ladder. Once we found the house, and you know, then I suppose then you don't realize this, when you first buy a house you I've got to find that money, but then you forget that you're the builder that everything does, it does. So I became like, but yeah, not my, I suppose my relationship with money became different as well, because it started like, this was still DJing. Yes. So I started promoting club nights. So I was making money. And I was like, Oh, this is quite good. Actually. I'm doing something. Can they get money for something that I enjoy doing? And so but not investing? None of that happened? Yeah, the investment will lie saying, yeah.

Jason Butler 21:03
The money coming in. You fix the money coming in? Yeah. Going out the leaky bucket on the gambling, then it was starting to direct it. Right.

Pete Cann 21:12
Yeah, completely, completely. And then. So then, Chloe, and I went traveling around the world for 14 months. So we needed a bit of money for that, too. You know, so yeah,

Jason Butler 21:21
I'll never forget that. Well, you I mean, you've got that.

Pete Cann 21:23
Yeah, exactly. And, again, it was one of these things where, you know, we came Okay, we came back with two credit cards maxed out.

Jason Butler 21:31
Okay, yeah. But you deviated it's okay to deviate. It's okay to flex. It's okay to fall off the wagon. Right getting back

Pete Cann 21:37
on. Your urine. You're in Australia, you can swim with whale sharks. Right? Yeah.

You got to put

Unknown Speaker 21:48
the heck yeah. Yeah, I get it.

Pete Cann 21:50
So. And it also cleared, you know, it's cleared now. So but we came back. And then that's when we started the business. Because we came back in the recession of 2009 2009. The best time

Jason Butler 22:00
to start a business is a recession

Pete Cann 22:01
yet. Wow, this was it alone. But the thing is when we've had to come back, I mean, we're in South America and people there was a lot of Brits coming over like I won't go back home. Yeah, I was like, Well, we've run out of money, we need to go back. So we came back, I got laid off of the job that I had. I went back in and basically one month later, I got laid off last first last year, first out started for what can we do started an agency which wasn't shaft it was waiting at first. And then it was morphed over the years. And we've just grown with it. So the relationship again, with the money side of things they're getting it was tight at the beginning, because we were out working the jobs we were, you know, we were out charging for ourselves and a couple of other friends to do the job.

Jason Butler 22:45
Leveraging it through bringing other people you did it yourself to start with him brought some people in? So yeah, what how did you then get that to become a more established business? Was it just a case of being around and keep doing keep turning up being reliable word

Pete Cann 22:56
of mouth? coaching? Right, Coach, you, you got a coach? Yeah, we've been through, we've had five different coaches over the 11 years. So the first coach we had really helped for like, that was in the first couple of months, actually. And I remember sitting in our spare bedroom, and the coach was like, this doesn't usually happen. It's like, Well, you know, in Lloyds Bank have said, we should get a free coaching session. So we were sat there, he put all up, all our p&l was up together, you know, forecasting sheets, and, and we still use those sheets now, today, little tweaks here and there. But so we had that coaching at the beginning. And then a couple of years later, that's when we started investing in marketing, learning how to market ourselves, because you know, if you can turn that tap on then everything else is all

Jason Butler 23:45
about your prices.

Pete Cann 23:46
excetera etc. Yeah, and plenty. Yeah, completely. Yeah. So and then. Yeah, and I think also after sort of five, six years, you start getting a reputation, you know, a lot, a lot of businesses go out of business quite quickly. So actually been around for five, six years. And then the last coach we've been using was all about scale. We were scaling, to scaling to exit, however, like that, yeah, yes. On the back burner now because ultimately the business is sort of fizzled out. But

Jason Butler 24:14
there's a couple of good things there, though, that you've got some proper, what I call training help, right? So you, we don't all know all the things that we need to know. So we need to sometimes hire good help to help us whether that's a coach, whether it's a counselor, whether that's a mentor, whether that's a mastermind group, whatever it is, you know, there's someone else out there who knows the answer to your problem has been through it right. So don't suffer in silence. That's brilliant. And secondly, you you you carried it you just turned up and you carried on our longevity. I think a lot of people particularly in social media world think that is this overnight success, you're going to become a Grant Cardone and be a billionaire in a week. Actually, sometimes, you know, an overnight success took me 20 years to begin to become successful, and if sometimes just turning up, so that's a really good point there. So okay, let's Just bring it up to date and when the pandemic hit, and obviously the bottom fell out your business. What did you What did you suddenly What? How did you react to that?

Pete Cann 25:10
Okay, so I think the first Yeah, do you know? The scary thing is Jason like it was probably about six weeks before we went into lockdown like Chloe and I were sat in front of our coach we're like, it's about to get really ugly. And and he was a bit like oblivious really to what was going on. I think really like No, seriously this is this is gonna go Yeah, like

Jason Butler 25:33
early February last year.

Pete Cann 25:34
Yeah, we probably Yeah. Yeah. back then. And then literally like I mean, clearly at the at the chart was like this should actually go and get roughly we were watching Italy and Spain and just seeing what was happening in the hospitality. Once it locked down. Obviously, the phone calls were coming in then it was just basically pubs and restaurants. Everybody kept canceling my shifts. Fair enough. Chefs then come into us going, what's going on? How am I going to make the money? So then we've got that that hole sitting in the middle just tighter. Yeah, so that was really, really tough. And, and and actually, there was some really, like, quite emotional moments of the really early time because, you know, 11 years I first baby Jason

Jason Butler 26:13
Yeah. You're right. Yeah.

Pete Cann 26:16
completely, completely, you know, so it was like 11. Like, and there was definitely some emotions were really high at that point. And then, I think, you know, you've probably similar to myself, a lot of people listening, like, if you can plan to know, okay, it's gonna last six months. Right, cool. Let's get it all down. But yeah, we're all. Yeah. But then after a while, we start somewhere. Well, actually, we can't plan for this. Because we don't even know what no one knows what's going on. No one knows the end of this. And so I was like, I was getting I was laughing. I was laughing daily. already. I was laughing for probably eight months.

Unknown Speaker 26:50
Laughter was,

Pete Cann 26:52
yeah, was my coping mechanism. Yeah. So for eight months prior, I was laughing in the morning with a group of people on zoom. For 10 minutes. Now, that was my superpower. Because basically what I would do laugh at 10 minutes, get to uncontrollable laughter, finish the call, finish the call, and then get creative. Right content, right content design stuff, because he like it opens up your creative mind. And this is the thing that I keep, like, this is one thing, like this is really, really powerful tool. And so I was doing that. And then once locked down, kicked, I joined forces with these four ladies. And we set up four times a day that people could just kind of laugh with us just live for free.

Jason Butler 27:31
clinic sort of thing. Yeah,

Pete Cann 27:33
basically, exactly that and just trying to just just just just for ourselves. And then people started coming in and have some rooms there was like 20 of us just laughing together, which was really, really good. And after, it probably was about three weeks in that I just sat there and went because then I'd already started doing laughter sessions in businesses. I've been into other businesses doing this this thing. And also on zoom thinking this works. Actually, this is a business in itself and then my business mind switch then I was just like, right, what can I do here to like, monetize this and then I started like, I started testing like 150 pounds for a session right and call people started biting me for that I was like, okay, that's cool. And then And then from there, it just started building and then also not like right okay, we've got a bit of it we've got some government funding like the loan we've got, we've got the bounce back loan, and sort of asked Mrs can cap in hand and said Can I can I have a couple of 1000 pounds so I can get some photos and videos just about the brand. And then just go on to the ad go onto LinkedIn and just all of a sudden just like saying it's just it has gone boom. And I'm just at the start of it now because I think I said to you on the phone the other day that I'm pushing the snowball at the top of the hill and I'm literally at the top and I can see I'm not just to pop it and then as soon as it goes it's just gonna go And the amazing

Jason Butler 28:53
thing that I love that so so what did you learn? What did you learn about yourself about the role of money about the role of business and more importantly there about the power of finding stuff within yourself and not being the victim but being the victim for over the last year? What is it taught you?

Pete Cann 29:11
Okay, so I okay, so Money, money, money comes and goes for a start, right? Money, money is in your health. Health is not where like health is your wealth. That's one thing I would say, the most important thing. There's a lot of people out there with less, there's a lot of people with more money. If they're not good in a headspace, then it doesn't really make any difference anyway, to that big one. One thing that the thing about myself is the fact that sort of, I am a strong, strong mind, I've got a strong brain and laugh, laugh, you know, again, I've shifted three stones, it's locked down. I've not drank since locked down. And I'm not saying this to show off. I'm just saying this is what I've done at the end. And it's so that's what I've learned. I've learned that actually, when you when you feel that fire in your belly, anything you can achieve anything that day. anything you put your mind to, and you attract what you put out as well. So,

Jason Butler 30:05
yeah, law of abundance complete completely.

Pete Cann 30:06
And, you know, like, financially wise, we're still like scraping a little bit around the edges. So no, I'm not gonna lie, but I could feel where the I could feel how it's done.

Jason Butler 30:19
Yeah. So you're not stuck in the weeds, you're not just focusing on the here. And now that's important. You've got to make sure you got enough for the family keep a roof over your head, but you can see sunny uplines that you're working towards is there's light at the end of the tunnel. It's not a train coming to you. It's actually you're going into this this new phase of your life. And actually, it's probably been as beautiful. I mean, to what extent do you think that actually lockdown was an opportunity to give you the shot to do what you should have done? Because you're in a comfort zone before when you?

Pete Cann 30:44
Yeah, it's the best thing, the best thing now, you know, and I say that, you know, because there's obviously been lots of bad stuff that's happened, but unless you stop watching the news, I say that you agree with you? because she'll get in the car will pick her up. She's in our bubble. So pick her up or come and she's like this and know that it's like, watching the news today. Like what? What? Yeah, that's good today. Yeah. She's just like, well, you just live in your bubble. It's like, Yeah, and I love it. And yeah, yeah, yeah,

Jason Butler 31:17
baby, before I let you go, you are thank you very much for your vulnerability and your honesty. That's, you know, it's very, something very close to my heart about teaching people about addictions, because it is a big problem. But also the fact that none of us are perfect. We're all on a journey that things happen in our life, and we can only control certain things. So before we let you go, I want you to just let's go through and do your simple laughter thing that you do, right, so that everyone who's listening can do this with us do what what P is going to do now I'm going to do it right. It works every time. I love it. And I always love to finish an interaction with Pete with the laughter the little routine. So go on,

Pete Cann 31:53
let's do it. Perfect. Okay, so right, yeah, everyone loves listening. I just want you to just take a nice deep breath in and fill your lungs a deep breath in. And just breathe out. This time when you take a deep breath, and I want to just allow a long, hard deep breath in.

This time to go out to house Okay, so we want to take a deep breath in and we're just gonna get haha deep breath in.

Ah,

okay, so wait for it guys. This is the power of laughter now we're gonna take a deep breath, and we're gonna hold it for five. And we're gonna laugh like we haven't laughed before. Now we're gonna laugh for at least 15 seconds now. Jason. Okay. Can I want us to look at each other in the eye as well? Yes.

Yeah,

deep breath in. Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it on. stuff.

Jason Butler 33:07
You get me every time tell you what that is that a brilliant start. So what I've already done to it all fails work. But that's pretty that's got me going again. Got to go for a walk with a wife now. So I'm going to be making sure she does that as well. P can the laughter man How can people find out about you and check you out and follow you and try and get some laughter into their life?

Pete Cann 33:25
Just basically let me just type in hashtag there. Laughter man, I'm on all platforms. The main platform that I'm most active on is LinkedIn, or clubhouse comm in the clubhouse. And if you're listening to this, like I said, at the beginning, I'm on a mission to bring laughter to a million people by the end of this year, I have got a GoFundMe page going at the moment to build this laughter app that I'm looking to create. So again, find me on the channels if it's something that you want to donate a little bit, I would appreciate it from my heart. And thank you for the time Jason

Jason Butler 33:53
no pleasure. They can the laughter man, check him out. He's gonna be massive in the future. And more importantly, he's bringing joy and love and light to people's lives. So thanks for being on the show. Appreciate it. Thanks for listening to real money stories with me Jason Butler. If you like what you hear, please do tell your friends. And more importantly, please rate us on your preferred podcast app, because it really does help us get the message out there. So until next time, good luck with your money journey. Real Money stories is sponsored by Vanguard bringing value to 30 million investors worldwide. Visit Vanguard investor.co.uk. For more details. The value of investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invested.

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