Jeff Brown MA, BA, MSP

Jeff Brown Quick Facts

Main Areas: Self-esteem, Motivation, Intuitive Understanding, Achievement, Education, Career Counseling
Best Sellers: Education: A Waste of Time?; Motivational Quotes: Recalling Your Past; Give and Grow Yourself Rich, Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe; To Die at the Age of Man
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Entreprenuer
Affiliation: Inner Projection

Jeff’s Bio:

 

Jeff is CEO of  InnerProjection.com : working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation
system creating a plan to ensure being of the 30% of college grads who
don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the
table.

Previous to owning Inner
Projection, Jeff worked as a computer programmer and in tech. support,
but hated it enough to move from his home in Connecticut to do stand up
comedy in Boston where he worked with such comics as Bill Burr, Dan
Cook, and Billy Martin and wrote for people like Mz. Michagan who
needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles
to do more stand up, but found being a college professor more
fulfilling. He's married with 3 children.

Looking for a fast paced, fun, inspirational read?: Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Amazon.com).

Even
though his studies have taken him into diverse fields (philosophy;
theology; math; science; literature; logic, reason, and ethics) he
feels that his intuitive skill is his greatest asset. Since a
young boy Jeff has been aware of this skill, yet because of a desire to
help others over the last ten years he has intensified his study of the
intuitive.

Jeff believes in a hands-on approach to understanding the human
condition and has interviewed and spoken to hundreds of people
regarding a wide variety of issues. For a great portion of his life, he
also unknowingly practiced much of what he now preaches. He
believes that walking the walk and talking the talk not only lends to
his credibility but to his authentic desire to help and not merely to
seek self-promoting fame and fortune. For example, he has gained
extensive insight into addictive behaviors by doing hands on in-class
study through attending a 12-step program over a period of several
years.

He has written 100s of articles, several books, and logged
over 1000 class hours. His rapport with students, dry wit, insight, and
teaching / speaking ability has drawn hundreds of clients.

Why I Began Inner Projection: The Business of Building Ourselves Inside / Out

Fifteen years ago, I began suffering from a deadly disease.
What was it? I didn't know. I just knew that a doctor had to find out
what it was. Initially I went to general practitioners. After several
visits and a clean bill of health, I began going to specialists:
neurologists, urologists, cardiologists, and so on. Nothing. Nothing.
Nothing.

So what was this thing I was dying from that nary a doctor could find? After much frustration, I to a therapist and after three short visits, amazingly enough, I was on my way to a cure. My counselor gave me insights into blocks in my life that had been holding me back.
For me, this was a turning point, a point of demarcation in my life.
However, the experience being fresh, I didn't realize it back then. And
interestingly enough, at this demarcation—this beginning of the
healing—my inner voice, my intuitive voice, began to speak louder, to develop to a greater extent, to grow and breath.

I realize now that this was the healing point that put me over the
top—my tipping point, so to speak—the beginning of my inner healing in
earnest. It is interesting to note that after the experience—this
purging—my life began. I
took on greater challenges, found greater growth, and made great gains
in my intellectual faculties, understanding, and spiritual growth at
speeds unknown to me previously. This was all the beginning of a
remarkable journey.

Many if not most have a similar experience but don't act on it correctly or at all. BIG MISTAKE.

Let me continue with the story. Shortly after hearing this life
altering information from my counselor, the healing was intense and
profound, yet not complete, of course. The emotional scarring that came
from years of conditioning would take years of conscious work to heal.
But just the knowledge—actually, the answer being addressed
directly—pulled from me (always there, just waiting for someone to
point it out) began my healing in earnest. Nevertheless, it was such a
personal, psychological, healing revelation, as if a 2000 cc dose of
"everything's all right" passed through my veins and cauterized my
wounded heart and soul.

The bottom line here is that we must begin to heal ourselves in
earnest (with considerable effort, with considerable growth) before we
can reach the intuitive voice and begin to work toward mastering it
and, more importantly, begin to help, heal, and assist others. (The intuitive voice is a main feature of my book Give and Grow Yourself Rich [See excerpt below under "Free Articles and Book Excerpts."]).

For what greater worth does our existence have? Being pretty? Slim?
Muscular? Rich? Popular? These things are of the self, self-serving and
affecting only a party of one.

At times, after spending days without sleep, watching the clock move
until it brought birds and sunlight, and after acquiring my new,
empowering intuitive voice, I listened. I listened carefully,
respectfully. I was to leave my home, my family and friends and go solo to a
city hours away to eventually leave my “safe” job and venture out into
the unknown, the world of entertainment, or more specifically, standup
comedy.

At this point you may say, what was he thinking? But it all makes
sense, especially now—years later. The intuitive voice was leading me
away from home to help me grow and get out of my comfort zone. For if
you don’t in your life, a child you are and a child you will remain. I
was alone, on my own with no negating voice coming from family or
friends. I had to stand on my own. Sink or swim. I was going into
standup comedy. Alone.

Now, to show you how much the negative voice had entered my head and
tied me down, how inactive, inert, dead of heart, emotion, and soul I
was, I will convey a story that will enlighten as to why going into
comedy was essential, imperative for my emotional, experiential, well
being.
Remember that this is simply an example to enable you to see the
importance of personal growth through getting out of your comfort zone
to do the unthinkable, if need be, but not the impossible, to greater
personal power and strength.

In junior high, I was given some papers to give to another teacher
who was teaching a class. All I had to do was knock on the door, walk
in and drop the papers off. However, seeing the room full of students
stopped me dead in my tracks. I turned, went outside and placed the
papers under a bush and went to my next class. A while later, I was
called into an office to speak to the two teachers involved. As they
asked me questions, I did what I normally did when confronted. I said
nothing. Because I had been conditioned to not respond to a parent who
marked me wrong no matter what I said, I sat silent and still. Taking
neutrality and the consequences of my inaction— and usually a lesser
emotional thrashing or penalty—over saying the wrong thing (or the
right thing?) and getting beat up about the emotional ears more
thoroughly.

Now, in order for me to overcome myself, a self that had been driven
into the inner depths of my being, I had to begin by getting in front
of people as often as I could to pull my self outward so that I could
function more successfully in my personal and professional
relationships. Maybe I didn't quite put it into those words at the
time, or any words for that matter, but I knew I had to do something to
overcome a debilitating shyness that was hampering me in every aspect
of life. Over time I have come to the realization that at the core of
any success (family, work, community) is the ability to communicate and
function well with other human beings. All of us need to, even if we
rationalize it as not being so.

I had much to over come. I was introverted, shy, depressed, suicidal, angry, and suffered from remorseful hoplessness. I WAS A MESS! But it was MY responsibility to clean up the mess. SOLELY AND ONLY MY RESPONSIBILITY.

So to overcome this being driven deep within, I had to come out. In a BIG WAY.

I
began to volunteer any time someone was needed at an event. Of course,
I still said little, stammered and stuttered, but slowly began to come
out of my shell. Even before going into comedy, I had joined a band and
played the guitar so terribly due to nerves that I almost died. But
amazingly enough that didn't happen.

Even my first standup gig was horrifying. Imagine being the shyest
person ever to exist (yes, I've talked to the dead) getting up in front
of total, complete strangers, miles away from home, alone, with no
support whatsoever. The first time I was to perform five minutes at an
open mike night (a situation where anyone can perform), I lived in
abject fear 24/7 for two weeks. Take your most fearful moment and just
imagine that lasting for two weeks, twenty-four hours a day.

The night came. And even though I had practiced for hours a day for
weeks, due to nervousness, within the first minute I forgot everything.
What did I do? I banged the microphone on my head and talked to the audience.
I finished after about four minutes, got off the stage, went to the
back of the room and stared into space. I could have crawled under the
belly of a pregnant ant.

So what did I do? I got up and did it again and again and again. Week
after week. Month after month. Year after year. Of course I got to the
point where I was pretty good. No one in their right mind would torture
themselves for that long without good cause. I moved from five minutes,
to ten, to twenty to half an hour, and began to get work at paying gigs
and established a reputation.

Did it get easier? Somewhat. There still were times I was so
scared I could barely talk. One such occasion was when I performed in a
biker bar with bikers playing pool as I performed. Before getting up to
do my fifteen minutes, a few comedians were by the bar talking. I tried
to participate but nothing came out. Amazingly enough, I got up,
performed, and left to an enthusiastic round of applause. Believe me,
miracles still happen.

The bottom line being here that I survived and thrived. My healing
and growth continued. Growth is an essential component to our existence.
For example, medical experts have stated that the way to avoid diseases
such as Alzheimer's is to stay active physically and mentally. Keep
exercising and keep reading and learning. Zig Ziglar, the great
motivational coach, says that if we stop growing on the inside we don't
grow on the outside.

With my growth in high gear, nevertheless, it was time to move on. I had been in Boston four years and according to my plan it was time to move to Los Angeles. However, there was one problem. No money.

This little part of the story conveys my budding ability to tap into
the intuitive voice, the sixth sense, the divine, that can speak to us
all, only if we are willing to heal ourselves and grow, and very
importantly, to listen and obey.

When I moved to Boston,
I took a programming position to support my comedy career, but I had
lost the job because of layoffs that were hitting hard in Boston and the North East in the mid 1990s. I had no money but I knew I was going to Los Angeles. I just knew. Like I said before, you have to listen and have faith in the inner voice. To complicate matters, a month before I was to leave I had gotten into an accident.

I was initially told that I'd get the car back in a week but because of
additional damage found, one week turned into two, three weeks into
four. I finally got my car back. When? The morning of the day I had
planned to leave a month previous. Did this happen because of intent?
My belief that things would work out? Or should I say because of my
certainty that things would work out. Was a greater, external force at
work here? You be the judge.

I was days away from leaving and yet had no money. You're thinking at
this point, he's out of his mind. A poor planner. Go back home. Get a
job. Move in with friends. No. No. No. No.

If you know why you're here, what your purpose is, what you need to
do to positively affect the lives of others and to use your given
talents to grow as a human being then no, you go.

To make a long story short, upon getting out of a friend's car, she
asked me if I needed money for my trip. (Being prideful, I wasn't going
to ask.) I told her $300. For some reason, she was inspired to give me
$600, which was what I needed almost to the penny.

Regardless, getting to LA I increased my spirituality ten fold, I
obtained my BA and MA, met my wife (we now have three children), gained
my teaching experience, studied and researched extensively . . .
everything that I've done out here has only expanded and solidified my
life's goals.

The major point being that my life did not begin until I began to move
in earnest along the path that would create not only the greatest
challenges but greatest growth in my life. The two go hand in hand. After
I began my journey, it has been the latter third of my life where I
have gained 90% of my growth, knowledge, experience, understanding, and
most importantly, JOY!

Bottom line? Do what you know deep down what you have to do and you
and the universe will find a way to not only get you where you need to
go but you will learn eternal lessons that will serve you and others
throughout your life.

God bless and get going.

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