Wait, K, do you actually think you're gonna meet T-Pain? (Kirk laughs) I dance in my car every day to Jason Derulo until I got him to comment. Then I did another series to Chris Brown and got him to post on his story. I'm gonna dance every day to T-Pain until I meet him. Like, achieving that goal showed people that whatever it is that they wanna achieve, no matter how big or how scary, it is possible if you stay consistent.
It kind of gives people permission to believe again in themselves or what they wanna pursue and gives them the proof. You know, if they join me, if they judge me, if they hate me, if they like me, whatever it is, I'm gonna keep being me. And that's like the message I'm trying to share. As you continue to do those things, you learn to trust yourself, trust God, trust the process that just gets strengthened. I love talking about trust because I think it's a trait that everyone desires.
But something I don't feel like is talked about enough is... (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Hey y'all, welcome back to Upbeat. Appreciate you being here listening. I am so excited for this episode with Cade Peterson, man. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic, man. Excited to be here. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, we're thrilled that you're here. And hey, I was checking out your Instagram stories right before we jumped on this call.
You've had some pretty exciting things, man, meeting up with T-Pain, it looks like. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Even hearing you say that is like, I'm still in disbelief of it even though it just happened. But yeah, we can dive deeper into that during this. Yeah, I mean, you put in the work. It looks like you did the jamming out to T-Pain in your car for what, like 80 plus days or something like that? Yeah, so did a series where I danced in my car every day to T-Pain until I met him.
And it was just under 90 days until I finally met the man. Yeah, we could definitely get into that. But first, before we get kind of into the weeds, I want to introduce you to the listeners and make sure they're caught up on who you are. So if you don't mind doing a quick rundown of what it is you do. And I mean, you could talk about the 30-day challenge. You could talk about your Amazon business, whatever you'd want to touch on. Yeah, so Kate Peterson, I'm from Utah.
Most people know me as the guy who does random, sometimes stupid things to get out of his comfort zone. So about three years ago, started this journey of doing things to intentionally make myself uncomfortable, whether it's physically, emotionally, mentally, to become the best version of myself. What I've learned is there's no growth that happens inside the comfort zone. So I've just really tried to live outside that comfort zone.
And the change that has happened in my life, I'm a completely new person from it. And I've documented this journey on social media, trying to inspire and help other people to do the same, overcome their fears, and become the best version of themselves. Powerful, powerful message. I can't wait to get deeper into it. But before we get there, I also want to kind of understand what little Kate was like, man.
Like what were you like growing up as a kid and maybe what kind of nudged you in this direction? Yeah, so growing up, I'm very creative minded and I like to do things not normally. So whatever it was, whether it's school, work, play, whatever it was, I like to make life interesting by doing things out of the ordinary. And as a kid, it was kind of just a for fun thing.
And then as I've gotten older, I've actually seen like a power in that and living life in a unique way, living life out of the ordinary, normalizing, not being normal. And yeah, so growing up, just something that my dad instilled in me at a young age is if you're not having fun, you're not doing it right. And I think that applies to every aspect of your life. And so just try to live life to the fullest.
But I would say somewhere along the way of growing up, I developed these fears and things that held me back. So for example, as a kid, I loved dancing. It was a huge passion of mine. It brought so much joy to me. But then somewhere along growing up, I feel like it was in high school, the age where people start caring about other people's opinions and you start behaving in a certain way to please people.
I developed this fear of other people would think of me and I came to the realization that if I want to achieve this goal in my life, I need to overcome that fear. And that was kind of what pushed me into the direction of doing things intentionally to get out of my comfort zone to overcome those fears. Absolutely love that. So it's kind of baked into your DNA a little bit.
And then growing up and having a father who kind of instilled some inspiration that pushed you this direction, was there like a moment where everything pivoted for you or where you're just like, okay, I'm gonna take this like super freaking seriously now? Yeah, 1000%. So it was about three years ago that I was in a stage of life where I felt like I could be doing more.
I was actually from like outsider's perspective, it would look like I was doing good but I just always feel like we can always be doing better. And I actually went to a seminar by the Iron Cowboy and for those who don't know, he's a guy who insane like ultra endurance athlete. He ran, well not ran, he did a hundred Ironmans in a hundred days, I think one of the most impressive human feats in the history of endurance sports.
And in the seminar, he asked the question to the audience, when was the last time you intentionally made yourself uncomfortable? Now I was in a stage where I was like trying to improve myself like reading self-help books, making goals, but that was the moment when he asked that question, it was like, I was like, whoa, why would I intentionally make myself comfortable? Like the goal of financial freedom and time freedom is to live comfortable.
But then as he kept speaking, I realized if you want to live a hard life, make it easy. If you want to live an easy life, make it hard. And so I was like, man, all of the things that make me uncomfortable, I'm avoiding those things. And that's what's holding me back from like becoming better. So I went home that night, started writing down all my fears, all the things that made me uncomfortable.
And that's when the uncomfortable 30 was born, where I did one thing every day for 30 days to get out of my comfort zone and stepped out of my comfort zone three years ago and basically haven't looked back since. Amazing, man, there's so many directions to go with that. I mean, number one, it reminded me of a guest I had on the show years ago where we talked about neuroplasticity and like rewiring the brain. I love that concept.
And that's what you're doing is like rewiring these neuropathways in your brain and like the way that you think and do things, which already in the last three years, I bet, you've noticed huge differences. But the second thing that came to mind was that it's outside, it's bigger than you. Like I know we're here to share your story and stuff, but like what you're doing is creating a movement for other people and inspiring them to go outside of their comfort zone.
And the 30-day challenge that you did, I mean, that's, I'm sure other people have done 30 days or three or a week or whatever it is for them. But have you seen that kind of, what's the word, reception to that, a good reception to what you're doing? Yeah, when I first started, it was originally, I was just gonna do it like by myself, for myself. And my brother was like, "Dude, you should document this on social media. Like I think this is a really cool thing that you're trying to do."
And I was like, "You know what? Like that would hold me accountable." And also I do think that there are a lot of people that could benefit from seeing this. Like, I don't know where this is gonna take me, but let's do it. So start documenting it. And yeah, one of the biggest reasons why I do social media is truly because it is bigger than me.
Like the T-Pain thing that we'll dive into here in a second, all of these goals, all these things that I'm doing, I can't do them without the people who are supporting me. And also the amount of people who see what I'm doing and are like, "You know what? Like I'm gonna get out of my comfort zone. I'm gonna go do what makes me scared." And then they message me and say, "Hey, I did this, this happened."
That is like, that brings the most fulfillment to me of everything that I do, nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people doing the thing that they fear and overcoming it. It's awesome. That is awesome. So how is that linked to the T-Pain thing? Because somewhere in there that triggered your T-Pain story. So I'm wondering what's linking it. Yeah, yeah, sorry. I was kind of all over the place there.
So with the T-Pain thing, obviously, so I'll give you some backstory for the listeners to understand what we're talking about when we keep bringing up T-Pain. One of my challenges during these 30 days, three years ago, was to dance in my car at a stoplight. Because I realized I love to dance. Like my social media used to be I wore a mask and I used a fake name because I was so scared of other people would think.
And that fear would stop me from dancing at stoplights because I was scared about what the other people would think of me. And so what I did to overcome it is I would dance. I would dance and if they join me, if they judge me, if they hate me, if they like me, whatever it is, I'm gonna keep being me. And that's like the message I'm trying to share is, live the life that you wanna live, not according to what other people tell you. So I did that in one of my challenges and it was super freeing.
I remember after, I was so scared for some reason, like why be scared of someone's invalid opinion of you? But it's a real thing. I think everyone shares that fear. And I did it and I was like, wow, that felt great. And it did well on social media and people were like, oh, I do this too. Oh, I gotta stop worrying about what other people think. And so I did a series right after that where I danced in my car every day to Jason Derulo until I got him to comment.
And it was kind of a fun series because I was so scared and like developing confidence, overcoming fears. It's like a muscle. The more you do it, the stronger it gets. And if you don't use it, you lose it. So like doing these things over and over again, I was developing more confidence of like, man, it really doesn't matter what people think. Like I'm gonna live the life I wanna live. And it was like super empowering.
And then on like day 36, he commented, you're just watching a bunch of your videos, big vibes, bro. And that was like everything to me. Two years ago, I was so stoked. I just got Jason Derulo to notice me. And then it helped me realize like what more I'm capable of. Like, wow, I don't care what people think as much anymore. Like this is really cool. So then I did another series to Chris Brown and got him to post on his story.
And that was like, whoa, like next level, Chris Brown, got him to post on his story. And then about eight months ago, I was like, okay, what like, I think I could go bigger and I could meet someone. And T-Pain came to my mind. And then for about three months, I couldn't get it off my mind. I was super scared. Cause like, I didn't know if I could meet him. Like I just, I'm a normal person. And who knows if he cares to meet me, but I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go for it.
I'm gonna dance every day to T-Pain until I meet him. And so then I have to answer your question of why it's bigger than just me, is one I could not have met him without the people who supported me. Every single day people are in the comments tagging him, saying like, you got this. It was such a cool group goal achievement where people are checking in every day, seeing how it's going, like motivating me and whatnot.
And like achieving that goal, showed people that whatever it is that they want to achieve no matter like how big or how scary, it is possible if you stay consistent. So it really was a group goal. And it was really cool to see all these strangers come together for some random goal of meeting T-Pain. Right. That's incredible.
And again, so many directions, but I think one thing that I wanna highlight or spotlight is what you just said, just reiterating, that it kind of gives people permission to believe again in themselves or what they wanna pursue and gives them the proof like, hey, this happened. And because it happened for you, it can happen for them and for me. And that's a really powerful message to get out there.
But another thing I wanted to ask though is, what is it in you that makes it so you're not gonna give up? Because I'm sure, I mean, you mentioned eight months ago. So that's a long time to, because you met him yesterday? It was last week, I posted about it. Yes, it was five days ago. Okay, yeah. So, and at the time of this recording, it's June 20th. This will probably go out later July, but maybe even into August.
Anyway, that's still a long time, eight months to post consistently, dancing in your car, jamming out to T-Pain until you meet him. Would you have done that forever or like how long? What is it that you feel inside, like in that interim where you're not hearing from the artist? Yeah, that's a funny question.
Cause I did, like even though there was a lot of support, there were a lot of doubters and a lot of haters, a lot of friends and family who would like approach me and be like, wait, K, do you actually think you're gonna meet T-Pain? And it's like, they're not telling me, I don't think you're gonna meet T-Pain, but like that question shows me that they are doubting. They don't know if I will. They're skeptical.
And so many people would comment and say, this is never gonna happen, like give it up, give it up. And it is a funny thing, like the difference in the people that believed in me and the people that didn't, but at the end of the day, when your wife is strong enough, and if you want something strong enough, like you'll make it happen. And so like, what's the secret? How did I get that discipline to stay consistent despite not knowing when it's gonna happen, despite people doubting me?
And at the end of the day, what I tell people is, motivation is, it's great and it's fun to be motivated, but it's temporal. Like you can be listening to this podcast and feel super motivated to go do something. Like you could feel super motivated to wake up early in the morning and go to the gym, but when that alarm clock goes off, is that motivation still there? Most likely not. So motivation can get you to the starting line, but it's discipline ultimately that will get you to the finish line.
And so how do you develop discipline? Like what, like I wanna be motivated all the time, that would be amazing, but discipline is doing things even when you don't feel like it. And I feel like that's the key to success in every aspect of life, whether it's fitness, like knowledge, finance, like business relationships, whatever it is, no successful person has ever gotten to where they've gotten by only doing things when they feel like it.
So that's the key is discipline, doing things when you don't feel like it. So now how do you develop discipline? A lot of people think it's something that you're born with, like, oh, this person was born with that. This, like that person's lucky, they have discipline. When in reality, discipline isn't something that's given, it's something that's learned and earned. And the easiest way to develop discipline is by doing things that you don't want to do.
So going back to what we talked about at the beginning, the neuroplasticity and doing things out of the comfort zone, the more that you do things that you don't wanna do on a daily basis, the easier it is to stay disciplined on the things that you really need to be doing. Like if you hit snooze every single morning, chances are later in the day when there's a task at hand that you don't wanna do, it's a lot easier to fall short on that task because how you do one thing is how you do everything.
So the more that you can stay consistent in every aspect of life and do things even when you don't want to do them, the easier it is when you are going after whatever goal. Does that make sense? It does make sense. Absolutely, yeah, thanks for sharing that. That's another power hitter and I would recommend people rewind and retake that in and make note of how you can apply it in your life today. That's a good strategy.
And it goes in with something that I wanted to ask you about because you're kind of notorious for the quote or for saying the best time to do something is when you least want to do it. I've seen that you've said that quite a bit. Which is amazing. So I'm curious, how do you push through the resistance? Because you're going to feel like not wanting to do it. What is that little extra thing that gets you to do the thing? Yeah, it's funny.
I wish there was a secret sauce where I could be like, "Guys, listen, when you don't wanna do something, "just do this and all of a sudden you'll do it." There's so many different strategies. There's a book called The Five Second Rule. I don't know if you've ever read that. Where it's like when the moment you don't wanna do something. Yeah, by Mel Robbins. Countdown to Five Seconds and take action right as you hit one.
David Goggins talks about the callous mind where the more that you do, the hard thing, the next time you're doing another hard thing, you can lean back on that and use that. And there's so many different ways, but at the end of the day, you gotta figure out what works best for you. And I think for me, it's just the repetitiveness of doing hard things that when I'm in that moment of, "Man, I really don't wanna do this."
I know what it feels like to do it and then come out on top and it's like, "Okay, I know I need to do it." Literally, anytime I don't wanna do something, I tell myself that exact quote of the best time to do something is when you at least wanna do it. The days when I don't wanna go work out, whenever I feel that, I'm like, it's kind of like a curse, because I'm like, "Dang, I know I need to do it."
And even if I go and do the workout and it's the worst workout ever, like half energy, not efficient, like that builds you up way more than when you feel like doing it. It's so easy to do things when you feel like doing it, but when you can do things when you don't wanna do it, like it's just, it's a very powerful thing. So I wish there was like a secret sauce. Everyone has different methods of doing it. I guess for me, it's just keeping that repetition and doing hard things.
And one thing I'll say is I'm not perfect. I still have so many things that I'm working on, and a lot of people think that I'm immune to fear and discomfort, it's like, no, I'm terrified to do a lot of things and I'm very uncomfortable doing a lot of things, but that's where the growth happens. Love that. Yeah, thank you for sharing.
And I would just say we might not have like the secret sauce, but I feel like we are kind of uncovering a blueprint of sorts just in all your answers so far, because we've talked about belief, holding on to hope, discipline. And I would say in your recent answer, momentum is coming to mind. That's a great answer. You're building momentum, and it's just easier to keep going once the ball is rolling. And there was one other one with momentum. Oh, trust. What was the last one? Trust. Trust.
Like building trust with yourself gradually as you continue to do those things, you learn to trust yourself, trust God, trust the process that just gets strengthened. Yeah. And one thing I would add with the whole trust thing, and I love talking about trust because I think it's a trait that everyone desires. Everyone wants to be trusted. Everyone wants to be reputable. And when someone, you commit someone to do something, you wanna follow through with them because you want that trust.
When someone says, "Hey, can you keep this secret?" You wanna keep the secret because you wanna keep that integrity in every aspect of your life. But something I don't feel like is talked about enough is the lack of trust that we'll have in ourselves. If we tell someone, "I'm gonna do X," we do it because we know the consequence of not doing it is losing trust.
But if we tell ourselves, "Hey, tomorrow I'm going to work at this time, and then tomorrow comes and you don't wanna do it," like it's so easy to be like, "Oh, I'm just not gonna do it." But we lose our trust with ourselves. The person that you need to be able to trust the most is yourself. Like if people can learn to do the things that they told themselves that they were gonna do even when they don't want to do them, that's where true trust is. That's where true honesty is.
And being honest with yourself is so important. I'm not just talking with commitments to yourself, but also recognizing your weaknesses, recognizing where you fall short, admitting to them and working on them. Being honest with yourself is such a powerful thing. Beautifully said, yeah, it is. And the more you build trust with yourself, the honestly more aligned you are, more happy you are. I appreciate you being vulnerable too and sharing all this and saying that you're not perfect.
I think that's something people are probably curious about just because when you go over to your TikTok, your social media, your Instagram, I think there's a pressure maybe to perform that we all feel to some level. And people don't get to see behind the curtain very often, which I think is important to go there sometimes on the podcast.
So is there anything that you would share that kind of lets people see behind the curtain, like what something is you struggle with that's not necessarily posted all the time? Yeah, 1,000%. And I appreciate you asking that question because like you said, social media, it's great, but it can be very crippling. And I think we all are guilty of getting on social media and seeing what people are doing and comparing our lives to theirs.
I mean, the whole process of starting social media and doing what I do started from a very crippling insecurity of what people think of me. And it's crazy to, like if younger Cade four years ago could see Cade today, he would be like, he would be terrified of like, what, you're doing that? Like that's crazy. And it's something that I think we're all guilty of is just caring what other people think. Like in every way, shape and form.
And I always ask people like, what would you do in your life if other people's opinions of you didn't matter? And people will like think, okay, like what would I do if people's opinions didn't matter? I follow it up and say, well, go do that thing because their opinions don't. And whatever weakness, whatever problem we have, we can overcome it.
So like this fear of what other people think, I could have let that consume me for the rest of my life and probably lived a great life, but by addressing it, recognizing that it's a fear and doing things that terrify me, like some of the things that I've done, I look back and I'm like, dang, I actually can't believe I did that. That's terrifying to think. And it's still like something that I try and do.
It's why I go on podcasts is to try and just get comfortable public speaking, like that's a goal of mine. I wanna be comfortable with the uncomfortable. And so coming on a podcast, it can be scary, getting questions that you've never been asked, but the more I do it, the more comfortable I get. And I mean, I could go on and on about different things that I'm working on and the way I'm overcoming them is by doing them. What I've learned, I'm kinda just going on a ramble tangent.
I'm passionate about this topic. No, you're good, yeah. But the more that you avoid the thing that you fear, the more control that fear has over your life. So if you do have like social anxiety, for example, the more that you avoid social environments, the more power that fear has over you. But the more that you can face it, the less power it has over you.
Love that, yeah, actually I'm forgetting her name, but I saw a video about that, like from a therapist where she talked about how the more that you put off or avoid those things that kinda challenge you or that bring you anxiety, the smaller and smaller your world becomes.
Whereas the more you embrace it, and the more that you lean into those things and grow through facing the challenges and adversities, the larger and more vast your world is, and the more you can do and the more you're capable of and the happier you are, all the things. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. It is. But it's uncomfortable. Right, and I like that. What's been the discomfort in the uncomfortable? What's been, I'm sure you get asked this all the time.
I try to strive to ask some questions, at least that people have never been asked. This one's, I'm sure you've been asked a lot, but what's one of the more uncomfortable things you've done? I'm sure you have a large list of things, but one or two that have been kind of too far almost. Yeah, the first ones that come into my head is, there's three that always come into my head whenever I get asked this question.
And they're totally, the reason why I list these three is because they're all unrelated, like totally separate. First one was an hour in the sauna, which is funny because I had all these like Finnish people and wrestlers that were like, "Oh, that's not hard." And it's like, it goes to show like, everyone's comfort zone's different. Like I suck in the heat and that was miserable.
I felt like I was just gonna pass out and I was just like, man, it was, and I don't, also it's funny that I don't recommend that. Like that's almost like too much. And a lot of my challenges, people are like, "Cade, how does that help you?" But again, just goes to the concept of the more that you do things that are uncomfortable, the more comfortable you are with discomfort.
Another one that came into my head was FaceTiming my ex-girlfriend that I hadn't talked to in a year and a half and asking her what my strengths and weaknesses are. Wow. That one, like again, just calling her was scary enough alone. And when she answered, she was like kind of confused and I was just like, you know me better than most. And I was just wondering if you could share with me like a strength and a weakness. And like, I don't got bad blood with her.
And so she was nice about it, but like that one was just like terrifying. I think for most people, you couldn't even pay them money to do that. (both laughing) Yeah, what's funny is I decided I was gonna do that one and I kept putting it off every day cause I just did not want to do it. That was one that took a while for me to do. Another one is I did a pull-up challenge. This is more of a physical one. So I mean, we're going over all the different phases. Did a thousand pull-ups in a day.
It took me eight hours, hands like shredded bleeding and like just the mental fatigue during that one. That one was definitely the hardest physical challenge. But I would say the challenge where I was the most uncomfortable, which people are surprised when I hear this was the one that I was most uncomfortable. And it goes back again to the fear of other people think is I got invited on a date by this girl I'd never met. And we went to do yoga.
And first of all, that already alone is uncomfortable. Being with a girl I've never met, going to do yoga, I suck at yoga. I suck at yoga. That is already uncomfortable. But just to add to it, my roommates somehow convinced me to show up with a shirt and tie trench coat, dress shoes and pants. And I showed up to yoga in the most opposite attire to ever exist in a yoga studio and met this girl and did yoga. And it was like my heart was racing before meeting her. I was super scared. But I did it.
And then I remember halfway through just laying on that yoga floor looking up and I'm like, wow, if I can do this, what can't I do? And that just goes to show the power of, I mean, yeah, people in the studio were like, what the heck is he doing? But at the end of the day, world still goes round. They're living their life right now. I'm living mine. The only difference is I overcame something I didn't want to do. Love that.
Do you find that when you've, this is what I thought of when you mentioned laying on your back like in the yoga studio, just being like, wow, like this is, you know, if I could do this, do you find that you feel once you've crossed the line, it's just not as bad as what you were making yourself think it was gonna be? 1000%.
Like you basically just nailed it on the head with a quote that I always say is, "Being comfortable is never as bad, nor does it last as long as your brain makes it out to be." And it doesn't matter in whatever instance that is, like to list common fears that people have, public speaking, heights, social interactions, ice baths, whatever it is, before you do that thing, like the scariest part of overcoming the fear is like the 10 seconds before you do it.
Like, I don't know, have you ever done an ice bath before? I have not. Okay, well this is a-- But I've jumped into like, like really, really cold lakes and stuff. Okay, well preface what it's like, and for those listening that had done an ice bath, before doing an ice bath, it's like, your brain is trying to talk you out of it. It's like, no, this is horrible.
And you're just like psyching yourself up, you get in, it's horrendous, but then after like 10 seconds, you're like, okay, like, I'm okay, I'm okay. After 30 seconds, you're like, okay, wait, this isn't as bad as I thought. And that's how it is with everything in life. Like, before you do it, your brain does a crazy thing where it comes up with like the worst case scenarios and tries to like do everything to get you not to do it.
But then you finish and you're like, oh, okay, that wasn't that bad. Like, public speaking, you're like so scared before, and then you finish and you're like, okay, that wasn't that bad, so 1000%. Love that, yeah, you reminded me of a previous guest I had on a couple of years ago. Have you ever heard of Kenyan Salo? Kenyan what? Salo, S-A-L-O. I haven't. So he is a professional parachuter, I guess, skydiver.
His job is he's one of the guys that parachutes into the Denver Broncos Stadium before the game was. But he had described to me before, that's kind of the feeling like when people are first, you know, getting in the plane and like getting ready to jump for their skydive. But then over time, you know, you build a callus, I guess, to it because he still gets the butterflies like every single time. It's just not as bad, and he knows that like everything's gonna be fine. Yeah, fantastic example.
Skydiving's a really funny one. Will Smith has a quote where he says, "The point of maximum danger is the point of like most enjoyment and the least amount of fear." Like the scariest part about skydiving is when you're in the plane about to jump out. But then like when you're free falling, you're like having fun, and then you pull the parachute and you're like, good. It's the moments before that are always the scariest. Our brains trick us and try and get us to avoid doing uncomfortable things.
True, couldn't have said that better. On this point, and then we'll pivot into some other things and kind of wrap up, but on this point, I wanted to just highlight that people are people, we're all human. I think that's another thing that comes up with this topic because no matter who you are, celebrity or not, jumping out the plane is gonna feel the same, right? We all put our pants on one leg at a time or we all have to go to the bathroom.
There's different ways that you've heard it said where we're all human. And if you are someone public speaking and you mess up, freaking lean into it, and then have everybody in the audience, half of them are gonna wanna just fully support you and be like, dang, dude, that would freakin, I feel for him. So we are all human. And I just wanted to spotlight that. I think so often our brains also put everybody else on this huge pedestal and we make ourselves feel garbage when that's not the case.
Powerful, dude, could not have phrased it better. Like, yeah, we all have our weaknesses, we all have our things that make us uncomfortable. And you see celebrities, you see influencers, you see people doing their thing. And I mean, I just said it, I do things on a daily basis to making myself uncomfortable, but I still get scared. I still have fears, I still have my anxieties. We're all human and we all have the things that we can work on.
And by doing the things that make us uncomfortable is how we're gonna overcome them. Right, and well, with the celebrities you've met, just last week being with T-Pain, I'm sure he felt pretty human and just normal. Yeah, I was actually shocked that man, he's the side note, he is the coolest guy, he's just way chilled down to earth. And it was like crazy just seeing him, his normal interactions, like meeting his family and like him eating food and just talking normal.
And I'm like, wow, this is crazy. I grew up listening to this guy for the last like 20 years and he's just a normal human, he's normal. Right, yeah, I love that. Cool, well, I wanna pivot here just a little bit and make sure we don't skip over what it is you do for work too with Amazon and all that and kind of what inspired everything and then we'll wrap up.
But what is it that you do with Amazon and maybe what advice would you have for people if they were to get started today or if you were to start fresh today, would that be something you do? Yeah, yeah, I love this because everything that I just talked about is because of my businesses. The business that I do is what has allowed me to have the time freedom to do the things that I actually enjoy. And so I love talking about this because people think I do content creation full time.
Content like social media, that's actually more of just a side gig for fun that I enjoy doing. And it's my business that allows me to have the time freedom and financial freedom to go do the thing that I actually love. So I've had kind of a crazy entrepreneurial journey but that's how every entrepreneur is of trial, error, failing, different business, trying new things to kind of wrap around how I fell into Amazon. I started selling on Amazon about six years ago.
My own products were designed and manufactured them overseas, sell them on Amazon. And that led to me discovering this new business that is kind of a newer business model most people don't know about but it's just the funnest thing ever where brands will pay you to make video reviews of their products. And it sounds crazy. But for example, like this product right here, product that was sent to me by a brand, they send me their product, I get the product for free.
I make like a 60 second video and say, hey guys, this is a carabiner. It's also a bottle opener. It's also a fidget toy. And just kind of going over the pros and cons of the product, basically just giving a real review from a real person. And that's what I do for work. It's the craziest thing. I just get everyday products showing up on my doorstep. The brands are paying me to send me those products. And then also I take those videos and I upload them to Amazon.
So I'm not uploading them to social media. It's totally separate. I upload them to Amazon. And then I get paid two to 4% commission every time my videos watch and the product is purchased. And one of the most beautiful things about the program is it's free to sign up. It's free to have an account. It's free to receive the products that you don't have to spend money. So it's a very unique business model.
And it's something that I always recommend to people if they're looking for a side gig, a little side income that they want to do from home. Or if someone, I mean, there's people that do this full time, but it's been super fun. Dang man, I'm gonna have to look into that. It's a blast, man. I'm not sure if you saw my story that I posted. All the packages. What? Just tons of packages, yeah. Yeah, so tomorrow I'm actually doing a garage sale at my house and it's the first ever free garage sale.
So me and my brother have accumulated about $20,000 worth of free product over the last month. And we were just kind of doing a little give back thing where putting all the products out on my driveway and people can come and just take a bunch of products. Because I mean, we got them for free and it's taking over our house. And so it's gonna be super fun. It's a very fun business model and great way to make a little bit of money.
That's pretty cool too, to give back and just like do good in that way, you know? Yeah. Because I'm sure there's gonna be people that go there that like really need some of that stuff. Yeah, and it's like we can easily sell it. And that's what usually what we do is like we sell stuff but we both just achieved some goals recently. My mind was meeting T-Pain and wanted to do something to celebrate. And it's like, what better way to celebrate than give back to those who made it happen for me.
Kind of like what we talked about at the beginning is the goal is a lot bigger than just me. And so yeah, it's gonna be fun. Commendable, yeah, absolutely love that. In all of this, what's been one of the biggest things or most important things you've learned about yourself in the process? Yeah, I would say that I'm capable of so much more. I think this goes for everyone. The only limits that we have are the ones that we place on ourselves. Each of us, we have like endless potential.
We as human beings, our potential really is endless but the only limits that we'll have are the ones that we place on ourselves. If we don't think that we can be financially free, then we won't. If we don't think that we can live a healthy lifestyle, then we won't. And so by doing all of these things, I'm learning, wow, I'm capable of so much more. Kind of like going to yoga with the girl wearing dress clothes.
Like as I was sitting there, I'm like, wow, how much of my life am I missing because of my fear of other people think of me? And same with business, like the more that I grow, I'm like, wow, I'm capable of more. And so whatever the listener right now, whatever it is that they're thinking that they can achieve in life, they can achieve way more.
And I wish that's like, if I could go back and tell my younger self something, that's what I tell them is that you're capable of way more but the only thing that's holding you back is you. Powerful. Yeah, and there's a word coming to mind there and that's control, like learning that you are in control, which is sweet. Is that kind of something you teach on too? Yeah, we're the author of our own stories. Like no one is going to tell you how to live your life. No one is going to control you.
Like you're the one in control. And if you don't take control of your life, then life is gonna control you. If you don't have a vision of what it is that you want to achieve, then life is just going to push you in whatever way. But if you know where you wanna go, that's going to affect the decisions that you make today. And yeah, taking control of your life is what's gonna allow you to get to that. Amazing. I have one more question.
It's part of a new segment that I'm planning on bringing to the show and it is called the meaning segment. The meaning? The meaning segment. Yeah, so I'm curious with all of this, what's like the meaning behind it, the deeper meaning for you? And then also with music, is there a song or a band or someone like that that's really resonated with you and what's the meaning behind that?
My goal and what I feel is my purpose in life is to inspire, help and influence as many people as possible to be the best versions of themselves. I feel very blessed for the experiences I've had and for the constant discomfort that I've put myself through because it's truly changed my life. Like I said, if Kate four years ago could see Kate today, he would be in disbelief. And I feel like it could be selfish of me to not take my story and share it with people because it's truly changed my life.
And that's why I share on social media and I get DMs from people every day saying, "Kate, I did 10 pushups today. Kate, I went and said hi to a stranger today." That's like what brings me the most fulfillment. It makes me so happy. And so, the listeners, if they ever have any questions, I love talking to people and helping them achieve whatever it is that they wanna achieve. I do my best to get to all my DMs and I'm happy to share wins and share other people's wins with them.
So that's like my bigger underlying meaning of everything is to help as many people as possible to be the best versions of themselves. And as for a song or artist that I resonate with, I mean, something that came to mind, I mean, I've been on a T-Pain grind so I can't not talk about T-Pain. Something I really like about T-Pain and that I resonate with him is a lot of people, when he first started his career, he got a lot of hate because he does auto-tune.
He was the pioneer to auto-tune and no one really was doing auto-tune before him and a lot of people thought he was using it as a crutch because he couldn't actually sing. When in reality, the man can sing. He's got an amazing voice. And he talked about the reason why he used auto-tune was to be different. There's tons of people who had great voices, but he just wanted to be different.
So he used auto-tune and now auto-tune is insanely popular in today's music and he was like the guy who started it. And what I really like about that story is he wasn't following what was normal. And even though he had people like Usher, for example, who told him to his face that he effed up music. To hear that from someone of Usher status, that's gotta be crippling for you. But he did things that weren't normal and that's what has made him to his success today.
And so what I really like about that story and why it resonates with me is I feel like my entire journey is the most not normal thing possible. And I always say normalize not being normal. Why be normal when you can be you? There's only one version of you. Go be you. Who has ever made a goal to dance in their car until they meet a fame like T-Pain? Like that's never really been done. It's not a normal thing, but that's what makes life so fun is living in a not normal way.
And we all have the things that we enjoy in life. And even if it's not normal, who cares? I just, I think the concept of not being normal is very powerful. It is, it is, man. So much that I wanna rant on right there. Man, okay, real quick, I just wanna say, I know the not normal thing because my whole story is going viral with a McDonald's cup beatboxing and like having that blow up and change my life and do like motivate, have it turn into motivational stuff which I never saw coming.
Cool. So you never know what's around the corner is a good message. But then also, yeah, I followed T-Pain for years and I knew that he could sing and I loved one of his collaborations on YouTube with a guy called Kurt Hugo Snyder where it was all like acoustic. It was not auto tune anything or electric anything. It was beautiful. Really? I'm gonna have to look at that. Yeah, I'll shoot you the link. And then he was on Masked Singer and people didn't know who it was.
And I'm just like, that's for sure T-Pain. (laughing) Hell, you know. I felt like I could recognize his voice. Really? That's the thing is I don't think, I think on a mass scale, like 90 plus percent of people just knew him for auto tune. Not for all the other stuff that he can do and for his actual skills that he does have. So that's a cool story. Thank you for sharing that. And thanks for being on the show, man.
We'll link your social media and everything, but is there anything else that you'd wanna share or plug before we wrap things up? I'll just leave you and the audience with an invitation that if something came to your mind during this podcast, a fear of yours or whatever it is, a discomfort, something that's holding you back, that's a sign to go do that thing. The moment you don't wanna do something is when you, the moment when you at least wanna do something is when you should do it.
So even if it's something small, you don't have a lot of people when they see my stuff and they think, oh, like that's too much. Everyone's comfort zone is different and you can start so small. You know, if you're scared to talk to people, go wave at someone, start something so small. And that's my invitation is just go get out of that comfort zone. Love it. Yeah, those thoughts are cues to follow the breadcrumbs from God, I like to say, and just go do it. So that's amazing.
Kate Peterson, everyone. And I'm gonna do a quick beat box for you on the way out of here. Sounds good. Let's hear it. (beatboxing) (beatboxing) Thank you Kate. (beatboxing) Let's go. No way, bro. You're talking about doing things not normal. I've never had someone do a beat box on a podcast. I was fired. Thank you so much, man. Thanks so much for being on that beat. (upbeat music)