Feb 16, 2025
In this episode of the Untrapped Podcast, Keith Kalfas gets personal and pretty inspiring as he talks about how even the smallest positive gestures can have a massive impact on the world. He shares some cool stories about passing on the right book at the right time or making a YouTube video when you least feel like it can be life-changing for others. Keith digs into how trusting your gut and doing random acts of kindness aren't just lovely things to do—they can totally transform lives, including your own. He also talks about the highs and potential lows of success, urging everyone to make the most of their unique gifts. It's all about taking action, being kind, and letting your light shine brighter than ever. Tune in for some real talk and motivation to double down on your goodness this year!
Check out these episode highlights 💡:
00:00 - Inspiring Impact Through Sharing and Connection
09:05 - Choosing Intuition Over Navigation Maps
10:14 - "Destiny Shaped by Tiny Decisions"
15:17 - Inspiring Entrepreneurial Success Stories
18:11 - True Fulfillment Beyond Success and Wealth
22:02 - Inspiring Others Through Random Kindness
25:41 - Reversing Roles: Buying for the Wealthy
28:55 - Navigating Success and Dealing with Envy
🔑 Key Takeaways:
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Harness the Power of Small Acts: Even the most straightforward act of kindness can set off a chain reaction that leads to significant changes. Whether it's sharing knowledge or a chance encounter, you never know the impact of your actions.
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Pursue Your Vision with Confidence: Moving forward with your dreams is essential, regardless of whether others see your vision. Your determination and courage can turn naysayers into supporters as your success story unfolds.
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Recognize and Use Your Gifts: We all have unique gifts and talents given to us, which, if not utilized, can be lost. Embrace these gifts and take action to fulfill your purpose, as ideas and opportunities won't wait around indefinitely.
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Transcript
(Note: this was transcribed using transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)
Keith Kalfas [00:00:05]:
My friend, you have power that goes way beyond what you might be
currently aware of. Something as simple as one positive interaction
with even a stranger can impact that person's life and create a
butterfly effect that goes on to impact millions of people's lives.
That's the power that you have. So, I wanna encourage you to take a
leap and double down on your goodness this year and reach deep down
inside of yourself and pull out the courage and the determination
to let your light shine. See, God made you in his likeness and
image, and he made you for a reason. And some other people around
you might not see the vision that you have and that's okay. They're
not supposed to so you don't have to waste any more time worrying
about what anybody else thinks because when you step forward
confidently in the direction of your dreams You start putting one
foot in front of the other and you don't ask for permission or
approval of anybody you just put together a plan and you start
taking action take that next step what happens is when you are
committed and you're 100% confident that's a foregone conclusion in
your brain. That's when the people around you that maybe might have
been naysayers or didn't believe, they'll back you up, and they'll
support you.
Keith Kalfas [00:01:35]:
And the support will come from nowhere, and it'll come too late.
You could have used it in the past when you really needed it But
it's amazing that all those things will come when you no longer
need them All the things you want in your life will show up when
you no longer want them so badly that cause you suffering. It's the
very suffering that pushes them away. So, you can start with small
things. Random acts of kindness is a good way to go. Sorry, I'm
stuttering. I just came from a wedding very loud for hours on end
so my ears are readjusting I'm in a hotel room right now in
Florida, a wedding I went to so There's people that came up to me
at this wedding that I didn't know they were friends of my friends
and I said like Keith, you're Keith, this Keith I've been hearing
about and then they wanted to thank me because they said that I'll
make this very short of talking about the power that you have Many
years ago one of my very very close friends I started loaning him
books because I love to read books like Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad
Poor Dad, and Cashflow Quadrant all these phenomenal books that
changed my life and really opened my eyes and My friend was very
ambitious at the time. I'd give him a book.
Keith Kalfas [00:03:01]:
I'd see him a week later and he'd be like I already read it I'm
like you already read the entire book? Right? And this went on and
on and basically a bunch of his dreams came true and I wasn't even
aware that he held me in such high regard as a friend who was a
catalyst for him that basically put the right information I don't
take any credit for any of his action but I put the right
information in his hands at the right time and since then he has
gone on to inspire many other entrepreneurs and it was so funny at
the wedding he's like this is Keith he's the reason why some things
have happened that and I'm like no no no no no and then these guys
came up to me and they're like no dude you have this impact and
it's interesting I see myself as a super-connector What do you see
yourself as? My YouTube videos have helped start over 10,000
businesses have prevented people from hurting themselves, and have
made a big impact in the green industry, and I meet people that
say, and you know why that is? It's because I made videos when I
didn't feel like it I've pulled myself out of bed at three and
04:00 in the morning because I felt in the bottom of my heart that
I need to make this video. Now I had to speak this and so in the
moment like me It's just me speak I'm by myself speaking to a
camera the microphone. What difference could that make? It's insane
to think anything other than this base reality very fundamental,
right? But with the leverage of technology and everything we have
at our disposal, these conveniences, a lot of them we traded our
rights for, that's a different conversation. It's fascinating that
when you use and you leverage technology if you have a message that
you want to share with the world or maybe you have a service
business, you know, I have a landscaping business You can impact
people in such a positive way. Here's my point You can become
instead of like candle is fine, a lamp post is fine. I'm talking
like a lighthouse, a watchtower for people and you don't even know
it that so you have a tremendous impact on the people around you
whether you're aware of it or not and there's people that love you
and care about you and they actually have your best interests at
heart and They love you so much that there's nothing you can do
about it. Think about that and I just really hope that you don't I
hope that you're not being hard on yourself or beating yourself up
and I hope that you're not seeing yourself in a negative light or
overanalyzing or psychoanalyzing any little negative thing that you
said or done to the point where you're not giving yourself enough
credit devaluing of your goodness so when you understand what's
really at stake in the responsibility, your ability to respond,
because once you have the information, right, now you gotta do
something because not doing anything is a choice. Doing nothing is
a choice. Sometimes that's the best thing to do is do nothing.
Keith Kalfas [00:06:27]:
Choose your battles wisely. But what I'm saying here is don't
despise small beginnings because small things can turn into big
things really quickly. I placed a newspaper ad years ago in my
landscaping business. I talked about this in a video. I couldn't
even find my debit card. I didn't even have a company credit card
yet.
Keith Kalfas [00:06:50]:
And I was on the phone with a newspaper company in the car
with my wife, and I was like, oh, never mind. I don't have my
question. My wife is like, no. You just take my credit card and run
the ad. And I was like, no. No. No. She's like, no. It's fine.
I'm like, sorry. I took credit card, ran, like, a little tiny
sixteenth of a page ad in a the city newspaper. Think about that
for marketing and advertising. You know, my for my landscaping
business, very simple ad, that ad, I got a phone call, and it was
from elderly woman who need a couple bushes trimmed. Right? And
then I went there, we trimmed the bushes. A tiny job. It was barely
worth it, but the neighbor came out and did a whole property
trim.
Keith Kalfas [00:07:35]:
Then the other neighbor needed some bushes trimmed, and this little
tiny job, this elderly woman's nephew turned out to be a real
estate guy and hooked me up with him, and we ended up doing, like,
all 25 of his properties for years. He's still my client today. And
then we launched the window cleaning side of the business, and then
we started doing tons of window cleaning and gutter cleaning, fall
cleanups, property trims, property makeovers. And then he
introduced me to other clients. Then that guy hooked up with, like,
my friend Eric Reno who did some roofs for him. I don't often
become friends with my clients, but I became friends with this
client and went out on his fishing boat one time. Right? And it was
fun. It was cool.
Keith Kalfas [00:08:21]:
And we became friends. And I was like, all this happened from one
little, tiny newspaper ad. It feels like Don LaPres, this marketer
back in the day. He's like, tiny little classified ads. So, this
type of butterfly effect thinking messes with my head and I'm
reading a book right now called You Are the Mountain I'm in
Florida, I'm hungry last night, you know, long flight, haven't
eaten all day and I'm like looking at some restaurants downtown
Fort Myers. There's restaurants to the left and to the right. Maybe
I want some seafood. I go to walk to the left and I stop
energetically, it's like, no.
Keith Kalfas [00:09:05]:
Don't go that way. Go to the right. But I look at my Google map,
and it's a much longer walk to get to those restaurants. And then I
was like, no. I have to go to the left, but my higher self-told me,
don't go that way. Go to the right. And then I stood frozen on the
sidewalk for, like, maybe thirty seconds. I was like, am I crazy?
Or should I just honor those gut feelings? So, I went to the right
I honored it, right? And I ended up downtown, and there was like a
party outside, there was hundreds of people everywhere, and I found
this amazing restaurant and I ate there and the food was amazing
and so I've become interested in like it's just like an experiment
what little tiny micro decisions affect literally reality affect
everything So I said if something is insignificant as if you walk
into the left or the right, how significant is it? I said, well,
you can actually do the recapitulation meditation, and you can go
back through your whole life.
Keith Kalfas [00:10:14]:
And I literally if I go back through my whole life, there is, like,
one little, tiny micro decision oh, I can think of it right now,
that made the difference or not of me eventually meeting and
marrying and being with for fifth I'll go fourteen years, my wife.
All the way back down to one little, tiny micro decision that at
the time, it didn't seem like anything, and it changed my entire
destiny, and my wife is my she's basically my rock. It has been a
huge part of the reason why I've been able to make videos like this
and inspire 80,000,000 views online. Podcast 750,000 downloads now
155,000 subscribers on YouTube hit the subscribe button so I asked
myself these higher questions like is all this ordained before the
foundations of the heaven and earth where you ordained with a
message, a mission, and a mandate? Or is it a privilege to even be
able to participate in what God is going to do anyways? So, this is
the answer I came up with I know you've been giving your all, but
you've been given gifts and callings and they come without
repentance which means there are people who have gifts really
phenomenally great people and there are people who have gifts
aren't so great people that are complete narcissists. Right? The
gifts are still true. So, what are you gonna do with the gifts that
God gave you? And if you don't use it, you lose it. The story in
the Bible where he basically it's the story about the talents If
you have a gift and you bury it and you don't do anything with it
and you're too scared to pull the courage out of yourself and start
taking some action It will be taken away from you, and the
opportunity will be given to someone else Just like if you have an
idea to invent something and you don't, and you watch it pop up in
the marketplace in six months or a year, and you're like, what? I
thought that thing up, and that's crazy, right? So, nothing can
stop an idea whose time has come who's going to be the executive
and take action on it is it going to be you? Because if you don't
somebody else will this is the great news None of this is neither
right or wrong nor good or bad. It's just relative to the
experience you are having, and others are having of you, and that's
all it is.
Keith Kalfas [00:12:46]:
And that's the good news. But now that you have the information and
you know, it's almost like double jeopardy to not put together a
plan and take action because it's like you've seen I had a friend,
Dave, once I was talking about responsibility. It's like, if you
pick if you help somebody or somebody helps you or pick somebody,
pick somebody up and takes them to a place higher than what their
feet can touch the ground that's beyond what they can do
today.
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Keith Kalfas [00:17:52]:
What's real and doable for them just hang with me for a second. Their feet lose contact with the ground, and if you let go, they fall back to where they were. So my buddy Dave, I'll close this loop. He basically said he goes, no. No. No. No.
Keith Kalfas [00:18:11]:
Because if you reach down and you help somebody else or somebody
helps you or something, they get to, for a second, see what's on
the other side, right, or what's past that mountain. And then they
go back down and they've had the vision, you know. And I love this
because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, and you can read
amazing books and autobiographies by successful people that live in
their imagination, who have been able to change the world and make
it a better place and so you can just be a phenomenal coach, a
phenomenal husband or wife or a phenomenal parent, or a phenomenal
service business owner, you can start a blog online and inspire
people, or you don't have to become freaking Jeff Bezos or Steve
Jobs or Elon Musk, right? And I can't imagine the level of
sacrifice unless that's part of what's truly rooted in your value
hierarchy that makes you truly fulfilled, that higher calling. What
are you comparing yourself to with the measuring stick of success?
And what I mean by that is once you realize that you're running
your own race and this is strictly between you and God, you start
asking how can I develop myself to deploy myself into the purpose
that was mandated for me? Not just go do something that makes a
whole bunch of money because I saw Tom or Joe do it and I want to
be significant like them I want to feel important and loved too so
I want to make a whole bunch of money because if the reason why you
say you wanna make a big difference in the world and you wanna do
all these great things, this is the scary part, is rooted in fear
of unlove or resentment or it's rooted in trying to get the
attention of people who you hope will love you it can be a scary
path where you end up at the top of success one day, and it's not
all it's cracked up to be. You might possibly it's like you climb a
mountain and you forgot to take your water bottle with you or,
like, the most important things, and then you have to climb back
down to go pick up the shit that you left behind because you were
too much in a frickin' hurry and I think it's putting the cart
before the horse I just know people who have put their careers and
their work and money and success and accolades before other things
that I mean this is according to my value hierarchy I'm not saying
I'm right putting things in the wrong order have a cost and
sometimes a very hard cost See, you notice how I'm talking about
this without getting into any specifics because you know what your
specifics are But I implore you to look deeper and say where is the
true value in my life? Where is the thing that makes me feel the
most deeply fulfilled? And I can probably promise you it's not just
money or something like that but my friend Joshua Latimer he says
something amazing. You know, God made him to make be really
successful so he can make a whole bunch of money so he can impact
other entrepreneurs and coach people and give money away. I won't
say too much of his business, but he said things to me on the phone
before like just little experimental projects that he does to help
people that he doesn't publicize. I'll just kind of stop right
there.
Keith Kalfas [00:22:02]:
I'm like, what? You're amazing, bro. You're you like, how would you
even think to be such a giver and a contributor, like, impacting
people's lives? So, he inspires me. Who do you have that inspires
you? So anyways, if you're down in the dumps by chance, I encourage
you random acts of kindness. If you give somebody who's homeless,
give them $20, give them a $20 bill. Say, God bless you. Walk away.
Don't tell anybody about it. And if you might have a negative
thought in your mind like, oh, what are they gonna do with the
money? That's between them and God and what you did was between you
and God or donate to something or help somebody close to you or buy
somebody in line I'm not trying to publicize what I did but I was
at Chipotle getting a carryout for my wife and I and behind me was
a guy who he looked like he had just gotten off work and I looked
back and he looked me in the eyes just kind of like a cold stare,
and I smiled.
Keith Kalfas [00:23:05]:
He didn't smile back. He was just like in like grind mode or
something. I was like, oh, yeah? So, when I got to the checkout, I
was like, hey, pay for his food too. Like that. In a different
obviously, separate bags, but I paid for his food. Right? And then
I just walked out real quick. And I walked out towards my truck,
and my wife was waiting. She's just scrolling on her phone.
Keith Kalfas [00:23:33]:
And I looked back, and the guy behind me, he was like, hey, bro.
He's like, he held the food up in his bag. He's like, bro, thank
you. Thank you. And he was, I look back, and we both smiled at the
same time. It was the biggest smile ever. And in that moment,
complete stranger, there was a currency more valuable than any
money. It was a feeling of abundance and love.
Keith Kalfas [00:24:00]:
Like he in that moment, I didn't even know this guy. He was my
brother. It was like we both felt it. All of a sudden, it released
all these endorphins in my body where I felt so abundant. And I
told my wife, I was like, I just paid for that guy's food. And,
like, he smiled, but and my wife is like, that's awesome. That's so
cool. And then she smiled, and then we smiled all the way home.
Keith Kalfas [00:24:25]:
Right? And I felt I felt good. I didn't even do it for that reason.
It was just a byproduct. And so one thing you can do is if you're
financially a little bit tight and you see some people in a
restaurant, maybe you shouldn't judge anybody, but let's just say
you, like, see a family that like a whole family eating and you get
the sense I'm gonna pay for the whole dinner, complete strangers,
and you just say, hey, put that on the tab. Right? Or you see,
like, I remember one time I saw the pastor at a church I used to go
to eating dinner with his family. Olive Garden. And I was not
crushing it financially back then. And I just had this feeling.
Keith Kalfas [00:25:14]:
I was like, pay for their dinner. And it was not cheap, and I paid
for the whole dinner. And I walked out, and I felt a little bit of
anxiety. It was a rush. Like, what did I just do? I was like, I got
this. It was a great feeling. Another time, it was a whole family
dinner at a restaurant with my wife's family, all my in-laws, and I
went, and I snuck to the waitress, and I paid for the whole table.
I'm like, you did what? Thank you, Keith.
Keith Kalfas [00:25:41]:
And I didn't even do it for thank you I just wanted to know what it
felt like to be the caretaker the provider the one who pays the
bill right because when you're growing up and you're just a broke
kid and there's always somebody who's paying the bill for you and I
wanted to know what it feels like to be the one who can front the
bill. Another thing that's really amazing, I know this is money
things, but if you ever get a chance to go out to eat, it could
just be lunch with somebody who is really successful or more
successful than you are, but sometimes really successful,
especially the millionaires. Get the ticket before they can and buy
their food and don't say anything and watch how they respond they
almost most of the time, they can't even handle it emotionally,
you'll see a different person come out and I've asked them because
I'm pretty open. I'm like, when's the last time somebody bought you
dinner? Like, I don't even know because they're rich, and they're
always paying for everybody's dinner all the time. They're used to
it, they expect it, other people expect it, and so when you buy
them dinner, they almost don't even know how to handle it because
they feel out of place and uncomfortable, they might even become
insecure because it's almost like, is this taking my power away?
Like, because sometimes they're getting used by other people. My
friend who's a a music artist, Hatch, he's a very brilliant guy. I
told him that and he told me, who was it? Now I forgot this really
successful guy, I think he's he's, like, famous or something. He
told the story of how he always bought everybody dinner all the
time.
Keith Kalfas [00:27:28]:
He paid for everything all the time because he's rich. Right? And
everybody expected it, but this one time at the dinner table,
everybody's out to eat at this really nice restaurant, and his wife
goes, you not gonna pay for dinner this time, just this once. He's
like, what do you mean I always pay? I have to pay. I always pay
for She's like; you are not gonna pay this time. Okay? Okay. So the
waitress brought out separate checks for everybody at the table,
and he just paid his bill, him and his wife, and then they signed
the check and he stayed calm and kept to himself and everybody else
was getting their separate check and they looked at their checks
and everybody at the table was looking around like, you know what I
mean, like, so everybody had to pay their own bill and when
everybody got up normally everybody would be shaking the rich guy's
hand and giving him a hug and high fives almost nobody even said
goodbye to him everybody was really awkward, and everybody just
kinda left the restaurant, and it was a totally different vibe, and
this guy was like, woah, all because they had to pay their bill?
So, there are some repercussions that come with being extremely
successful. Can you handle them? It's just the success tax. The
success tax.
Keith Kalfas [00:28:55]:
It's interesting. And people that sometimes that you want their
love the most can become nasty if they see you becoming very
successful, especially financially successful. And you have to
learn all the skills of how to deal with that. Right? So I'm
talking about some of the stuff because it could be some of the
roadblocks that come up that are these deeply embedded subconscious
pathologies in our nervous system that can inhibit us from doubling
down on our goodness and becoming the version of ourselves that we
dream of becoming like successful and I think I'm complete I just
yawned that my yawn means my subconscious mind is reshuffling the
deck and my nervous system relaxes I'm like I'm complete everything
is good so I'm fired up look at this You probably don't get to see
me dressed up this often. Look at my shoes. My wife is nice to
dress me. I should just wear this in every video. I just dropped a
couple thousand bucks at Banana Republic of all places anyways this
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