- Hey, this is Mat Boggs,
and we have something special for you today.
We have a bit of a tradition here at this channel,
where every year around Halloween time,
we bring you a special Halloween video
to add some entertainment into your life
and hopefully bring you some good teaching along the way.
And so today, we are unpacking the best of the highlights
from our past Halloween videos just for you.
Check it out.
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So as you know, my name is Mat Boggs.
I'm the co-founder of the Brave Thinking Institute
and the founder of our Love & Relationships Division.
And every week we bring you videos to empower you
in your love life.
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that get released, that we're creating for you.
And this particular video
highlights over the past series of years
something that I love, which is Halloween.
I love to take my kids trick or treating.
Growing up I used to love dressing up.
I find it a really fun holiday.
So I was always thinking, how can I bring Halloween videos
into the topic of love and relationships?
And if you wanna stretch creativity, man,
that's how you do it.
And so I thought, "That would be fun."
We found some really creative ways
to bring topics to you that I thought would matter to you.
And so we're gonna unpack them
and bring you behind the scenes in this particular video.
So the first series of Halloween videos that we did,
I was talking with my editor,
and we thought, "What could we do?"
And I was getting emails from women
describing their horrible date stories.
And so it dawned on me one day as I'm reading this email
and it was like a horrible date story.
And I thought, "Oh my gosh, this is just like a nightmare!"
And I thought, "Oh my gosh,
"this is like nightmare on date street."
And so I thought, "Let's do a series
"called Nightmare on Date Street,
"where we will feature women's horrible date stories,"
so that you watching this.
If you go on a horrible date, you know number one,
you're not alone and hopefully,
it's not as bad as some of these stories.
So we're gonna share just a couple of clips
from Nightmare on Date Street.
This comes from volume two.
And notice the little dog that I have next to me,
check it out.
The next Nightmare on Date Street story
was sent in by a woman named Bronwyn.
Now Bronwyn writes in and she says
that at the end of the night,
her date leaned in for a kiss, and whispers into her ear,
"Don't be afraid if my tooth falls out."
(gun bangs)
It's okay, Bronwyn, I'm not scared.
(woman screaming)
Our next story is submitted by Michelle.
And it's called, The Man Who Wasn't There.
(logo whooshing) (suspenseful music)
(woman screaming)
Michelle writes, "I went to a fancy place.
"He ordered the most expensive meal in the restaurant.
"He later went to wash his hands and never came back."
- [Man] A total douchebag.
(Mat laughs)
I love that.
You know who that was?
That voice was the voice of Rich Boggs, my brother.
I called him up and I was like, "Hey man,
"we need a voiceover for this section of the video."
And he said, "What do you want me to say?"
And I'm like, "Can you say total douchebag?"
(Mat laughs)
He laughed at me and he was like,
"Yeah, man."
And he recorded it and threw it in.
So, thank you, Rich Boggs, for that special audio cameo.
Now the next video that we have for you,
this next highlight,
we decided to move forward from the Nightmare on Date Street
and bring you a bit of a deeper concept involving zombies.
Now, my editor found a zombie pack.
And he's a creative guy.
And he was like, "I would love to be able
"to use these zombies in one of your videos."
And he found it in like June.
I'm like, "Man, I don't know how we're gonna use zombies
"in any normal love and relationship video,
"maybe the Halloween video,
"but we've gotta tie it in.
"How can we tie this in?"
And here's a principle.
If you're ever looking for a solution, for an answer,
trust that your subconscious mind
can access that answer for you.
And the practice is to ask a question
and then just give it up to the universe, let it go.
And then you'll be amazed
at when that answer comes back to you.
You've probably had this experience
where you're thinking of, who is that artist
that sang this song?
And you couldn't remember, and then
you just forgot about it.
And like the next night you thought, oh my gosh,
it's Prince, Prince sang that song.
It just comes to you.
That's because while your conscious mind moves forward,
your subconscious mind
is continually looking for that answer.
So I put out there, how could we use the zombies
in actually a meaningful video for you?
And one night I got the answer.
And the answer was that often when we fear something,
then 95% of the time, the thing that we fear
never actually comes true.
Is that it's a paradigm that's trying to hold us back.
And when we shine the light of truth on the paradigm,
when we say is this real?
Is this fear that I'm feeling about giving myself
another chance at love about
maybe putting myself online or whatever it is
that you wanna move forward in your life,
if you shine the light of truth on whatever the fear is,
oftentimes the fear disappears.
And so I thought to myself,
"How cool would it be to do a video where
"I'm getting attacked by zombies
"but then I pull out a flashlight
"and I shine the light of truth on the fear
"and it disappears?"
And here's what we came up with.
Check this out.
(zombies growling)
(suspenseful music)
(zombies growling)
(gate clanking)
(zombie growling)
(man screaming)
Oh, why do we get scared at movies?
We know it's not real,
it's happening up on the screen and yet our bodies will get
charged with fear.
Now, I don't know about you,
but I thought that was pretty darn cool
the way that came out.
And we shot that whole scene in the back alley
of the house that I used to live in,
in Huntington Beach, California
and none of those zombies were there.
We just imagine them being there,
and then my editor put them in later.
And then a buddy of mine has a movie theater in his home,
and so that's where we shot the movie theater scene.
It was funny because I apparently I wasn't giving
my editor a big enough fear reaction,
so he was pushing me to go bigger, bigger, bigger
and finally, we got this blooper take, check it out.
- [Editor] Mat, more scared.
- Yeah, okay, alright.
Bigger, okay.
- [Editor] Scared.
- Ooh!
- [Editor] Okay, dammit Mat, super scared,
like you're like a little girl, super scared.
(Mat chuckles)
- Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, you gotta let me get into it a little bit.
Okay, I wasn't ready to be eaten yet.
(Mat laughs)
Okay, I'll mark you.
- [Editor] Action, then eating.
- Oh!
How's that?
- [Editor] That was too much.
(Mat laughs)
- Now, this final Halloween highlight video
that we have for you comes from the idea that
in order to move from good to great in your life,
you've gotta walk through the doorway of the unknown.
And often what prevents people from creating
great results in their life,
a great experience in their life
is the fear of the present good, losing that present good.
In fact, one of my coaching clients recently said,
"Mat, my life is so good.
"I have so much independence.
"I have so much freedom.
"I live in a great space.
"I would love a relationship to add to this,
"but I'm afraid that if I bring in a man into my life,
"it's gonna cost me the current good that I have."
That is the fear of moving from good to great.
And it's like going through a doorway.
And so we decided to put together a little Halloween video
about the fear that exists on the other side of doorways
and how often just by walking through that doorway
we realize that there's really nothing to fear at all.
Check it out.
(eerie music)
(footsteps padding)
(floorboards tweaking)
(child laughing)
(suspenseful music)
(bouncy music)
Hey, buddy.
It's you all alone.
(Mat laughs)
Okay, all right.
So my question for you is what helps you overcome fear?
Because when you think about it,
it's fear that holds most people back.
If you ever wanna create great results in your life,
it's fear that tries to thwart you,
the fear of what if you get hurt again?
The fear of what if this doesn't work out?
The fear of what if I look like a fool?
All of that, you have to move forward
if you ever wanna create some great results in your life.
So my question for you is what helps you overcome fear?
Go ahead and put that in the comment section below,
I'm wishing you a very happy Halloween season,
happy fall from my heart to yours.
I appreciate you.
Thanks for watching.
And I'll see you soon.
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