#23: Nicole Arbour
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Arbour is a comedian, singer, and actress with millions of followers and billions of views generated.
In this episode, Nicole shares her journey from NBA cheerleader to "clown school" and standup comedy career – and what she's learned about truth-telling, mental toughness, and defying censorship.
She also shares how a car accident left her with severe nerve damage and related health challenges for years... and how she was finally able to recover only once she took full ownership over her medical regimen.
Nicole also speaks about:
-Why the best comedy comes down to speaking the truth
-Censorship and free speech
-How cheerleading taught her important life lessons about encouraging others, teamwork, and perseverance
-Her story about having a strange feeling and almost not going to a stand-up show, and then getting into a life-threatening car accident
-The negative effects of medication and her opposition to pharmaceutical companies
-Her struggle with feeling like a disappointment and wanting to commit suicide, but ultimately finding motivation to keep going after hearing "God's voice" telling her it's not time to give up
-Her course on how to become "pain-free" in 2023
-The importance of addressing physical pain through root-cause healing
-The culture of narcissism on social media and the dangers and challenges of being an "influencer"
-How she had no idea how to handle money until she met people who taught her about investing and the mindset of making money easily
-Balancing contentment and ambition and how she manages her time
-Why she "knows" aliens are real
-The importance of cutting out people who don't align with your values
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Nicole’s charitable cause:
The CANUSA Games, whose philosophy is to “demonstrate the practicality of a community approach to International goodwill between the cities of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and Flint, Michigan, U.S.A., through the vehicle of amateur athletics."
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
The Bible
Connect with Nicole on socials:
www.instagram.com/ibnicolearbour
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I laugh. I'll be like, ha ha, I need this much money because I would like to do the following things. |
| 0:07.0 | And then I get a call the next day, hey Nicole, your book for this thing. Perfect. |
| 0:10.0 | Yep, great. |
| 0:11.0 | And people call me with amazing opportunities to partner with them on different investments and whatever, and then they go really well. |
| 0:18.0 | And I invest in things I believe in, and it's a lot of fun. And it's been a great game for me. |
| 0:23.1 | And I'm still just learning. |
| 0:24.5 | So I just love it. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. |
| 0:31.7 | That is me, where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. |
| 0:35.7 | Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs that have guided their journey |
| 0:39.5 | with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. |
| 1:10.9 | Hey, it's Brandon. So I'm a big believer in letting guests be their authentic self and tell their authentic story. So a quick disclaimer. This episode may have some content or language that might not be for little ears. So be warned and be prepared for a great episode. |
| 1:17.8 | Nicole Arbor, welcome to the Seashed. Thank you for having me in your Seashed, Seashed, Seashed by the Seashore. |
| 1:22.7 | Yes, this is going to be good. So I know you, I've followed you online forever. I know you as a singer. |
| 1:32.4 | You have music videos, actress. I don't know if you, do you call yourself an actress? I mean, you act. I've done a much acting. Okay. So actress, we got a comedian, obviously. I've heard you're funny. We're going to find out today. We're going to test. I've heard you're funny. |
| 1:35.8 | An influencer? Yeah, I guess so, huh? Yeah, I know. That's super weird to call yourself an influencer. |
| 1:40.2 | It's a really weird word. I feel awkward about it at this moment. Let's take into that a little bit. |
| 1:45.3 | Like, well, how does that make you feel? |
| 1:46.4 | Millions of followers on social media and over 1.5, but now 1.6, you say. |
| 1:52.0 | Billion with a B, views, which is absolutely insane. |
| 1:55.2 | But I want to go back way before that, because that's how I know you, but I don't know you before that. |
| 1:58.2 | So will you take us back? Who is Nicole Arbor before Nicole Arbor was that? |
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