"Believe it or not there's much more to the story, in fact I have tons of stories where I think this theta and alpha thing really happened"

I joined Mindvalley because I think I've somehow tapped into my theta or alpha just before waking up one morning. I was able to start a successful energy company with what came out of that morning.

It was Jan 2016, I've always told the story with, "I wasn't awake or asleep", I had no idea what that meant until seeing Vishen's Mindvalley video. So I wasn't awake or asleep and this idea dropped into my head. I woke up I guess and it is an idea that changed my life in a big way. I had just lost my job and to me ideas were a dime a dozen. The trick is knowing which idea to put all of your energy into? I wasn't sure what to do. Out of college I had gone straight into working for a large fortune 500 company. I had never been on my own, not working for a company, making good money with a salary and consistency.

I prayed really hard about it and a name came to me. I looked up the individual on my phone and there his name was. It was a gentleman I had met 12 years earlier. We had met at a lunch and learn they were performing in our company. It was essentially free pizza. At the time I was so bad with names if I receive cards from people I would take the time to put them in my phone to reference them later. This time it paid off big time. Ever do something you're not sure why you do it but it's that one thing that you needed to do to help you out later?

Three weeks had to pass before I could meet with this individual. I had never been just me, by myself. I wasn't even sure what to call myself? Consultant? Engineer? I'm the kind of person that has to get his accreditation or whatever before I'll call myself something. All I knew is I really needed this guy to help me. They do specialty manufacturing, not very many companies can do what they do.

So the big day comes up and I walk into the building, he introduces himself and we walk to a huge meeting room with a large table. I'm feeling like a dummy, questioning myself at the time, what in the world do I think i'm going to accomplish here?

I remembered from my toastmaster days when you meet someone it's good to have an icebreaker so I came up with one really quick. I said, "Do you remember me from 12 years ago at the lunch and learn?" He laughed and said "Stephen, I'm lucky if I can remember something a month ago, 12 years is a long time." and he laughed. 

The next thing that came out of his mouth blew me away. He asked if my dad was Bob Crow?

What? This guy knew my dad? How could this be, my dad lived in the Dallas area his entire life, this guy is in the Houston area and Houston has millions of people living in it. How in the world could this guy know my dad.

It turns out my dad had just passed away 3 years prior to me meeting him. You can only imagine how impactful this meeting was becoming for me at that point. Not only that, when my dad passed, in the span of about 3 months I lost just about anything and everything dear to me.

I lost my dad, my wife, my job, a place to live, and my friends pretty much ghosted me.

My dad developed brain cancer, he had the original tumor removed and over 18 months it came back and ended his life at 67 years of age.

My wife at time was my 2nd wife, we had dated 2 years and were married 10 months before I cut her off. She didn't support me while my dad was dying, I would drive alone to Dallas and back to Houston, all the while not understanding how someone could be so... not even sure there's a word for it. Lets just say that after my dad died and with her not supporting me she ended up on the short list very quick.

My job, I was a very high performer, ranked top 5% of the company, was being groomed to be vice president of a fortune 500 company. I even worked on a project for 2 years while my dad was dying and went and executed it magnificently. I was called out in a huge meeting by the bosses, bosses, boss on what an amazing job I had done. He asked how I was able to do such good work and I told him nothing existed so I stripped down the challenge and built a solution one step at a time. On the day I came back from executing this 2 very successful test that took 2 years to build. Thinking I was going to get all kinds of that a boy congratulations and such. I received a pink slip and they escorted me out of the building.

Apparently my wife who worked in the same company, note they had close to 80,000 employees so it was possible, well she started walking around saying "I don't know what he going to do next and he owns a firearm." Welcome to Texas if you don't have a firearm you're not from here. Kidding, that just sounded like a Texas thing to say.

So the nice people at this large company must have thought to themselves. Steve's lost his dad and he's divorcing his wife, we should hurry up and fire him so he won't go postal on us. That makes no sense at all. What I do know it was the best thing they could have done. I'm very loyal and I'd still be at that place making patents for them instead of myself.

They fired me, she kicked me out of her house and I had to find a new place quick. That's what happened 2013 and I wouldn't change a thing.

It's the struggles we face today that are the stepping stones for our success later in life. I tell others to get excited when struggles come their way, that means a lot of growth is coming around the corner and with growth comes success.

Back to this gentleman and my dad, he asked if Bob Crow was my dad? Now that you know what a "S" show I went through just 3 years prior you can only imagine how I hung on every word coming out of his mouth.

He began to tell me a story of how my dad 20 years ago stood up for his company and he felt the success of his company was in part due to what my dad had done for him 20 years ago. 

That my friends was the board upside my head I was looking for. He later went on to tell me this idea I had was quite the stretch and they had never done anything like it before. But that he was very open minded to helping me figure out how to make it work. I left there in tears and never looked back. With the knowledge of knowing my dad was a large part of this I knew it was going to be successful no matter what.

If only it were that easy, bootstrapped the idea over 18 months, built a test facility and tested it, after being told it would never work so many times I lost count and it does actually work. Went on to partner with a large investor and we're planning to sell it soon for a ridiculous amount of money. It's essentially passive income as part of our exit strategy was for me to retire a year before selling it. We're able to show the company can run it self without the founder there in the day-to-day and that's going well.

I also, own a real estate company that's partnered up with two syndicates, both in commercial and residential spaces, one just closed an $80MM deal. The real estate thing is pretty passive as well.

My other two companies are consulting companies, one engineering, as I'm very innovative, have 25 Patents granted in my name. Nine of which are for my energy company noted above. I'm currently building out my 4th company which is a business consulting/coaching company. It's very exciting to take everything I've learned in business, from starting a company with a patent and a prayer to helping others overcome their struggles and make them superpowers. My way of making highly complex things stupid simple has done me well. It comes from overcoming may learning issues, let's just say my mom just told me last year that when I was 7 I could hardly put a sentence together. During my flight instruction I've been told of other issues and it's all making sense. Realizing now all that I've been able to overcome has me excited beyond belief. Learning about Mindvalley has be doubly excited!

I retired Jan 2021, it took me close to 8 months to not work, I eventually traveled to 9 countries over the last year and when I'm not doing that I'm also a private pilot, we own a Cirrus SR22 - G5 aircraft and I'm often seen pinching myself to see when I'm going to wake up. 

Talk about manifesting, I've learned you can't dream too big, after watching an airshow towards the end of 2019, my wife said you should go get your pilot's license, I literally walked into a flight school and told the owner I wanted to learn how to fly a Cirrus Vision Jet, it's a $3.5MM single engine jet aircraft. He first said "Adopt me" laughing and then assigned the instructor over all the other instructors to me. I did my first discovery flight that day and about 10 months later I actually flew a Vision Jet. As a bonus, because i'm always asking the question, should I be doing this flying with out money? On one of those European trips to Belgium, Switzerland, and Paris, our hotel room number was the same registration number of our SR22 airplane. Keep asking, you'll get the answers eventually.

Believe it or not there's much more to the story, in fact I have tons of stories where I think this theta and alpha thing really happened. I can't wait to get into the learnings and go there on purpose. I love helping others, my dad always said that the people we influence in a positive way will be at the gates of heaven when it's our time to go through. I would like to add that, I think our time on earth is an interview for eternity. I like to ask, how's your interview going? 

Always with love, 
Steve Crow
Entrepreneur/Business Consultant/Coach

Attached pix are my headshot taken for my coaching website and the other with the jet is for the part of the story where I was able to fly with some friends of mine on that fantastic day. I couldn't stop smiling for weeks, when flying our plane home it finally hit me that I had taken the controls of a $3.5MM plane. Had I realized it before I'm not sure I would have been so relaxed. My buddy even took a video of me landing, greased it!