855 Make the Perfect Case for What You Want

VISUALIZE YOUR BEST LIFE Do you find it challenging to achieve goals? Often, we get lost when we have a destination with no map. It’s time to visualize your future and lay out the steps. Keep your eye on your objectives. Think like a Navy Seal. Map out each step and stick to the plan. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Kimberly Guilfoyle, where she shared her strategy for achieving goals and going after your dreams. Kimberly Guilfoyle is a powerhouse woman, and among many accolades, she is the former co-host of The Five on Fox News, a bestselling author, a former public defender, and a mother. Learn how to make the perfect case for your future on Episode 855. In This Episode You Will Learn: The Building Blocks for creating a perfect case (3:00) The steps to visualizing your future (3:30) Why it’s important to be clear about the scenario you want to create (4:00) How to map out the steps to achieve your goal (4:30) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes, and more at http:lewishowes.com/855 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:09Lewis Howes?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle is an incredible woman and I had such a fun time connecting with her. For those who don't know, she currently serves as a co-host of Fox News The Five and is part of a rotating panel on Fox News Channel's Outnumbered. She also appears regularly on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and other programs. And prior to the Fox News Channel, Guilfoyle served as a legal analyst for ABC News and was featured regularly on ABC's Good Morning America. She has covered major legal cases, including O.J. Simpson, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jackson. And before her career in broadcast television, she served as an assistant district attorney at the San Francisco and Los Angeles District Attorney's Offices.

• 0:55Speaker 01

  Honestly, I think you have to be very, you know, very certain about what you want, your goals and your objectives. And even if you write these things down, I'm not even kidding you, you put it down on paper and help like go through it. It's one thing I like to visualize and see like, okay, if I could create my, you know, perfect scenario, what would it be? And then you really like piecemeal go through and say, okay, these are the steps, these are the types of things I need to be doing, I should be doing in order to move towards the X. And I think about it like in a military way, because a lot of friends that are special forces guys, these deltas, brays, seals, and they talk about the target, moving on target and getting to the X, right? So when you think about it that way, I visualize it, I'm like, okay, what am I trying to get to? What's my objective? What's my mission objective?

• 1:40Speaker 01

  So then I map it out like that. But that's what they do, right? When they're trying to go on a mission, they practice, they go through it, they map it out, and they say the steps that they need to take in order for that to be achieved. And it's like that whether you're asking for a promotion, you know, you're trying to, you know, get a job, anything like that. And like, for example, when I first was coming back and forth doing television appearances, right? I heard about a job that might be coming up at Court TV as an anchor. So I want to move from, let me just talk about the Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant case to actually hosting a show. Well, they're not going to just hand that out to you. It's not like I had ever anchored, you know, television before, right? But I thought, how hard can it be?

• 2:22Speaker 01

  There's got to be a first time, so how do I get somebody to let me do it once?

• 2:27Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 2:27Speaker 01

  So I can say I've done it. But anyway, so, um, having done the television stuff, I found myself one day going to do Catherine Crier's show at Court TV. And it was in two thousand and three, October two thousand and three, when they had the big power outage for days in, in New York, okay? So I was supposed to be there to do her show. All of a sudden, you know, lights out, nobody can get a hold of cars, nothing. So I walk like forty-five some odd, some odd blocks, yes and heels, and get there to Court TV, show up just in case the lights go back on, so I hope perfect attendance thing. And I was like, I just like flew out here from San Francisco. I gotta go back tomorrow. Are you kidding me? I gotta make this trip worth it. I gotta make it count. So I showed up there, everybody's gone, but I know the CEO is still there, Henry Schleif,

• 3:11Speaker 01

  um, who's a great business guy, has done a lot of stuff. He's done Investigation Channel, um, Discovery, all kinds of things. And then he was the king of Court TV back in the big time day with me and Nancy Graves, all the people were there. So I show up, I convinced his secretary to let me go in to say hi. I go, hey, I just want to say hi to Mr. Schleif, I've got to fly back tomorrow, this may be my one chance, you know, by the time I have to meet him and say hi and say thank you for having me on his show, just take a couple seconds of his time, just wave and say hi. Fine, because I know I need to get in the door, so, and then I can do the ask. So I created that opening, got in. You don't go, oh, hi, can I see him because I want to make a job pitch because, you know, it's kind of creepy, the lights are out and I would like to come in and frighten him. Yeah, so I just wanted to say hi and say thank you and put smiling, bubbly, and I was already dressing the part.

• 3:56Speaker 01

  I was dressed in one of my nice little like legal outfits, ready to go. Fine, got in there, had a conversation with him. He's enjoying the company because he's kind of stuck there and he can't leave. And I'm, you know, pleasant enough, pleasant enough. So we're chatting and then he brings up about Ricky Kleiman, who was married to Bill Bratton, and he was leaving to take the top, you know, cop job in Los Angeles at the time, leaving New York. So I said Ricky's gonna be leaving. Looks like Vinnie Palitan needs a co-host. Why, I've done all the research about Court TV. I knew their whole lineup inside and out, etc. I was always prepared. So I ended up making the pitch, telling him, "Listen, I think you don't need to look any further. Let's not waste anybody else's time. I'm everything you need, full package." You know, I said, "Listen, I've tried to have profile cases, I'll have their respectable,

• 4:41Speaker 01

  you know, the viewers. I already have me in a new variety from doing these cases. I'm LA DA's office, I'm San Francisco DA's office. You've got all these people who have never even worked at a prosecutor's office, but technically they're attorneys, you know, on the air. You know, feast your eyes on the real deal, okay?" So, he's like, "Yeah, sounds good." He ended up, I'm like, "Listen, if you do not like, if I do not do a good job, if your numbers do not improve, you can have your money back." Money back guarantee. So my agents don't like that, but I feel pretty confident about it.

• 5:15Speaker 03

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