Neil Moore Links Music and Self-Expression with Science And

EPISODE Neil Moore 92 Show Notes at: http://www.aesnation.com/92 EPISODE Neil Moore Show Notes at: http://www.aesnation.com/92 92 Dear Fellow Entrepreneur, We are thrilled that you have joined us here at AES Nation, where we’re dedicated to accelerating entrepreneurial success—your success. We hope you find this transcript to be a valuable supplement to the podcast and encourage you to share it with like-minded entrepreneurs in your network. In addition to our five-times-a-week interviews with leading entrepreneurs, keep in mind that we have plenty of other resources to help put your success on the fast track: • Our monthly live, interactive webinars co-hosted with Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach feature today’s top entrepreneurs. These are world-changing entrepreneurs who have the insight to help transform your business. • Our virtual conferences showcase business leaders and experts in elevating your success and your life. 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I’m John Bowen. We’re at aesnation.com. Stay tuned, you do not want to miss Neil Moore. Neil, I am so excited to have you year. We’ve had the privilege of being in Joe Polish’s Genius Network Mastermind group for a long time together but we’re really, we’re both running so hard we haven’t sat down and done one of these yet. Neil Moore: I know. It’s great, actually. I’ve always liked you. You’ve just got that great energy about you. It’s really a terrific opportunity for me to spend some time with you John. Thanks for sitting down with me this morning. I appreciate it. John: Neil, you’re really impressive. You are executing. One of the things that we’ve talked in the pre-interview before we turn on the camera that you’re not a marketing guy and I go, I don’t know and Joe Polish is more of a marketing, CEO, mastermind group but I’m going to tell you, Neil has accomplished some pretty amazing things. I want to share, have Neil share with us what he’s done. Lot of the lessons he learned and he’s out there, executing doing some pretty interesting, new things that are coming out as well. Let’s go, Neil, one of the ways I like to start is start with a back story because you didn’t decide to be from day one a global player, the largest in the music-playing, educational business. How did this all happen? Neil: I’ve had an affinity with music since infancy, youngest of five kids. My relationship with music, even as an infant, if music was playing in the home, I was lying by the radio. You can put music on in any room at the home and I would roll to where ever the music was playing and that’s where I just wanted to lay. I have this affinity with music and began studying music at the age of seven. At around about three or four years of age, I discovered that I hear music and as I’m listening to music, I start to develop these pictures of two and three-dimensional shapes. When I began studying piano, my teacher would play the song that I was going to be learning and I could see those shapes across the instrument and really that was the basis of how I learned to play music. I was supposed to be learning to read like all my older brothers but I just, I didn’t have any connection with that at all. I actually thought I was doing the wrong thing. This way of learning music, I kept it hidden. It really wasn’t until my adult years that I began studying music formally and decided that I would transition into music education. I’d left school pretty young, John. I love learning but I passionately hated school. Page 2 of 18 EPISODE Neil Moore 92 Show Notes at: http://www.aesnation.com/92 I only successfully completed 10th grade and 11th grade I think I skipped class most of the year. By the time we got to finals at the end of the year, I had to fabricate a way to get out of finals because I knew I’d fail miserably. I convinced the family surgeon that they had to put me into a hospital and do an emergency surgery to remove my appendix just to get out of doing finals. I can’t believe that I did it but I was as committed then as I am now. I just wanted to get out into the workforce. I was working by the age of 16. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I just knew that I belonged to music but I didn’t really know what the professional opportunity would be there. I ended up becoming a restaurant owner. I had several restaurants that were successful businesses. For me, it was one of those cases of a successful business owner but, successful but unsatisfied. I really didn’t know what was behind that. I just thought, what do I do, I’m doing well financially. I have a beautiful wife, beautiful home, great cars, beautiful children but I just didn’t feel like I was doing what I was meant to be doing. I thought then the solution might have been get another restaurant. After a while, it had that same mundane emptiness. I’ll get another one, I just wasn’t getting to that point of satisfaction. I made a couple of bad business decisions and I went through a complete financial wipeout, total financial wipeout. I remember one day, in Australia in particular, where my home was being sold and my cars were being towed away. I just saw that I had been pursuing money. My view was to earn enough money so I could retire and just do music, whatever that means. I just saw that the equation of pursuing money to then do what I love was a broken equation for me. I just made a pact that from that day onwards, I would just devote myself to music and if that’s what I was meant to be doing then my hope was that the world would align in my favor and that path would reveal itself. Literally, that’s how it was for me. I came over here to the United States just over 20 years ago with my wife, my three kids, $5,000 to our name, life possessions in three suitcases and an idea. I began teaching music. I got a call one day from a government agency and they asked me if I’d take on teaching this young eight-year-old boy who was blind. For me, it was like, I want to teach this kid. I don’t know how to teach him because he can’t read music. I didn’t know what else to do. It wasn’t until then that occurred to me, hang on, I never learned to read music. What was I doing when I was a kid? That was really the first time that I brought consciousness to it. I sat down and began to reconstruct the way that I saw these shapes and patterns. I was able to show him what he was doing and he was doing brilliantly well. I discovered he’d been teaching his four-year-old sister how to play using the same technique which is a light-bulb moment. Wow, I wonder if I could show all kids this approach. As I began sharing it, kids were producing brilliant results and I thought still then maybe they’re getting such a great result because this approach is organic to me, maybe I could share it with other teachers and see what results they got. Page 3 of 18 EPISODE Neil Moore 92 Show Notes at: http://www.aesnation.com/92 As I began sharing that with other teachers, they came back saying, we haven’t seen results like this ever before. I think what happened is, I develop this into a system of learning with a focus on, I want, for me, every single human being, without exception, is profoundly musical, absolutely everybody. This world of illusion that we have that it takes a long time or you’ve got to start when you’re young or you need a special talent, none of that is true.

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