Phil Bohol is a founder, coach, and entrepreneur known for his direct perspective on mindset, discipline, and personal responsibility. In this episode of his mindset podcast, Phil speaks to entrepreneurs and business owners who feel limited by circumstances, fear, or the belief that life is happening to them instead of being shaped by them.
This episode is for anyone building a business or life while questioning what is actually possible for them. If you’ve ever felt stuck in survival mode, unsure whether your background, finances, or environment are holding you back, this business and entrepreneur podcast episode challenges that assumption at its core.
Phil walks through the idea that reality is shaped by belief long before results show up. He shares personal stories from growing up with instability, starting businesses at a young age, and navigating life without formal education or financial safety nets. Rather than positioning himself as an exception, Phil explains how conditioning, self-programming, and follow-through shaped every outcome in his life.
The episode explores how belief influences energy, decision-making, consistency, and execution. Phil breaks down why most people stay stuck not because of lack of opportunity, but because they never fully commit to who they say they want to become. When belief is weak, fear dominates. When belief is solid, action follows, even when the timeline is unclear.
Phil also addresses the tension between faith, free will, and responsibility. He explains why purpose alone is not enough and why action, discipline, and self-trust are required to bring any calling to life. This is not about ignoring fear or pretending challenges do not exist. It is about choosing conviction over paralysis and commitment over comfort.
Throughout the episode, Phil emphasizes a recurring theme in his work. You cannot control time, but you can control how you show up daily. Results are earned by aligning behavior with belief consistently, even when evidence has not arrived yet.
This episode reflects Phil Bohol’s broader body of work on mindset, leadership, and execution. It is part of an ongoing conversation about building a life and business intentionally, rather than reacting to fear, history, or external conditions.
Listen with the intention to reflect, challenge your assumptions, and apply what resonates. Real change begins with what you choose to believe and how you act on it daily.
Imagine if you can create whatever you want in this life, your world, the thing that you think is controlled by other people. What if you could change everything in your reality just by thinking different? What I'm gonna be doing on my channel is bring you into my world. And the best way that I'm gonna do that is through my daily life, daily stories and uh, I've been.
Sick. My family's been sick this past two weeks or so. I'm the only one though out of my wife, two daughters that didn't really show any symptoms. And my wife kept asking me, how come you have so much energy? How do you feel so positive? How do you not feel what we feel right now? And there's a part of me that acknowledges, I probably had whatever they were sick with, a cold or runny nose, whatever the case might be.
But there's this part of my brain that's like, just don't believe it exists, and it won't. Don't believe you're tired, don't believe, or acknowledge that you're sick. Don't believe, or acknowledge that you're gonna get sick. Don't believe, or acknowledge all of the things that they're feeling. The tiredness, the runny nose, the sneezing, not being able to sleep, having to go to sleep.
Don't even regard it, act and operate as if it's just another day. And that's exactly what I've been doing and what I do up until today. And I think we are coming down from it all, but I have been able to persevere through it without it letting it affect my business, my life, my workouts, none of it. Why?
Because of. Conditioning programming, how I choose to believe what is my reality. And a lot of people will think, this is too farfetched, but stay with me. I mean, think about it. If you're new to me or if you've been following me for a while, you know that I don't come from money. I don't come from anything special.
I come from the Philippines, move to the United States. Went through a hard time being a kid, family, went through a divorce at a young age, started doing drugs, started drinking. Started going down the the wrong path. Barely graduated high school, never went to college. I probably have the least formal education in Most people never went to business school or whatever people do to become licensed for business.
And I've still dominated it in life and in business. How is that possible when there's so many other people that come from a third world country that come from the ghetto, that come from nothing? And stay in the nothingness of their life. Well, has a hundred percent to do with what I chose to believe is possible for me and what could be my reality.
I always had this idea, this vision of this beautiful, peaceful life, right? Because I lived in chaos for a majority of my life. I was like, man, there's, there's got to be a way. To live a peaceful life, making money, being comfortable, feeling secure, stable, all of that. And I wanted that since I was about probably 11, you know, when shit started going sideways, we couldn't afford, you know, a dollar, dollar 50 for lunch.
Shit got weird. So what I did was I started going on Google and from the myspace.com days, if you remember that. I learned how to customize my profile coding, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Google Codes and, and how to make your profile have only a top five or a top three to show who your real homies are, type of deal.
Um, and what that led me into was learning how to build websites. It taught me how to run Google Ads or AdSense, make money from that. As a boy, it taught me how to leverage other people who were 18 to open up PayPal accounts for me so I can run and operate a business. I started my first business at 13 years old because I, I could see that there's a way to make money different from the rest of the world.
I built my first business at 13, cashed out, did a big ass sale, uh, at 14, bought my first car cash, 1993. Black BMW 3 25 I. With the $5,000 in cash I did from a deal. So at 14 and a half years old, 5K cash. I think I put 4K towards the car or something like that. 'cause I had some money left over. Nobody could take that from me.
It was like this chip on my shoulder where I wanted to earn things for myself, where divorce couldn't take it from me. My mother, my father couldn't take it from nobody. It's mine. And I had that chip on my shoulder from a young age, which is a blessing, you know, a blessing in disguise. Why do I say all this?
Because imagine if I thought that as a kid I couldn't do anything. Imagine what I wouldn't have done. Imagine where I'd be. Imagine who I'd have settled being. But my life was different. You know, I got to buy my friends lunch, I got to buy us lunch. I got to buy me whatever I wanted. I got to buy myself a car.
I got to show myself and my family like I am just different because I'm willing to do different things in different people and I don't choose. I don't allow the beliefs of the world and the limitations of the world to change my vision of what's possible for me. Bring that all the way through my life.
All the way up until now, you know, I think at 26 years old is when I met my wife and I said, I'm gonna make my first million by the time I'm 30. And from somebody you know, from the Bay Area, it's not really normal to say or to do or to actually produce. And I think I was 29 by the time I hit my first million in business.
How did I do that? Well, I was relentless in my pursuit to prove to myself that I could do this thing, and it's not really to prove to myself more than it was to follow through on my word. I think that a lot of people have let me down in my life. You know, they've told me things. They've made promises. I'd have parents tell me, oh, you know, we're, we're putting aside money for you.
We're saving up money for you so that way there's ever an emergency or you really, you get stuck in life, like you have access to this stuff. And those same people when I was homeless and I said, Hey, you know, can I access that thing that you said you were like putting some money aside for just, I'll borrow it.
I'll, I'll pay it back, blah, blah, blah. Oh, you know, there's, there's complications. I wasn't able to do it, blah, blah. But the whole time, you know, I've had these people tell me, yeah, I'm putting money into it. I'm putting money, you know, like, like making themselves feel good lying to me about the security that they say they're creating for me.
That they never were shit like that. So you can imagine how toxic my mentality became on trusting people's word, and that's why people's word means a lot to me. And if your word doesn't mean anything for you and you just talk and you don't follow through, I don't believe your shit anymore. And I don't want you near me because I've had that for a majority of my life.
That's how I run and operate business. That's how I run and operate life. So when we think about programming your reality, what if everything you choose to believe is what is the creator of your reality? The only variable that you can't. You can't mess with, you can't control his time. Let's say for example, you genuinely believe and you fully heart, soul, and emotion believe that you will build a million dollar business.
And like there's no part of you that lacks any belief in that. You know, you don't know when you don't know how, but you know Right. Like you've programmed yourself to know. The thing is now you have to operate every day as if it's already happened. It's already like on its path. You already kind of know the destination.
You're gonna get to the destination. Now what you gotta focus on is just the left and right turns. What if that's all it took? And by you getting good with you can't control the timeline. Just like I didn't, I said, you know, four years. I don't know when. I don't know if it's gonna take all the way up until four years.
I don't know if it's one year, two year, three year, I don't know. And a lot of the days and the weeks and the months in between, I was like, I don't even. I don't even know if this is gonna be possible. Who I had to become in that process was extremely important. That came through basically hourly programming.
Imagine programming yourself every hour of every day. You're awake every week, every month, every year for years, that you just start genuinely believing you are who you say you are, and you start to act in accordance to who you are. Because you know who you are. Thus, once you always get the result that you started in, in here, in the mind as as a vision.
What if it was that simple? Not easy. I. I teach my guys and my brotherhood this stuff, I operate this way. I don't really share it too much because I think it really does go over people's heads and it's only the people that haven't achieved anything meaningful in life that start to talk about how woo woo or stupid it sounds when it's like, it could sound stupid too, you, but my life has changed dramatically.
My family's life has changed dramatically because these are what I choose to believe. There was this one guy. On my Instagram and he goes, man, you know, I can't imagine bringing a kid into this role. I wanna be a dad. But with everything going on in the world, uh, I don't think I could, um, handle them suffering.
And in my head, I said, well, why, why would that be your doubt or concern that they would suffer? Like, why would you allow them suffering? You see what I mean? Like, why, why, why is that your. Train of thought. And I said, if I thought that way, I wouldn't have kids right now because I'd focus more on the fear than the love that I I I wanted to create building my family.
He said, well, one day your children will suffer, and I can't handle that. I wouldn't be able to live with myself, especially with inflation, especially with where the economy's at, especially with how expensive it is to even like pay for myself, and I said. Again, like, if that's your belief, of course you're gonna be in a state of fear.
You know, when I had my first kid, I, I lost my job during 2020. So imagine where I was, you know? But did I ever once believe, like, um, oh, my kid is, I'm not gonna be able to do this. Maybe I thought it. I definitely thought it. I definitely had fears if I was gonna be able to follow through, but I always had more conviction to prove that I was never gonna let that happen than sitting in the fear that it would, if that makes sense.
So I told him again, I said, Hey, if that's what you believe, if you don't understand that when you have kids or when you start to elevate this thing in your life, you start to perform more and better than you ever have before, and you can't see that I'm not gonna be the guy to force you to believe in yourself like that.
What you believe is what you get in this life. So if it's true, what you believe is what you get in this life, what if what you believe is what the, what your reality becomes? And then people will say, well, what if God calls me to do this? Or, what if God's not calling me to do that? What if he is? What if you know you're called to do something, but nobody's gonna take or walk that path for you, which is where your free will comes into play?
Are you gonna step into who you're being called to be? Right? Nobody's gonna do that work for you, not even God. But what if God says, Hey, you have a bigger purpose, but you have to choose every day to suffer, to self-actualize, to become who I'm calling you to be. See what I mean? And some people in this world, a lot of people in this world will rather choose.
Not believing in themselves, believing the worst out of the world and out of situations and circumstance, and those are the people that end up losing in life. It's a choice to lose. Well, Phil, you don't understand my circumstance. You don't understand that. I, I might not know exactly, but I've had my fair share of reasons to stay losing, and I just chose that that wasn't gonna be my life, wasn't gonna be my kids' life.
Your life is what you allow yourself to believe. So you're gonna believe something that doesn't serve you, or are you gonna believe something that does? Think about it and start to shift your programming and ask yourself, if the world is normal and I want, I don't know, if the word is abnormal, abnormal results, do I really wanna listen to the 99% or do I have to get good with starting to think like a one percenter?
Deep reflection, deep thought is what I invite you to do. As always, if this is helpful, if this is expanding your mind and how you're viewing yourself, how you're viewing the world, how you're viewing business, like, share, subscribe, stay plugged in, follow the socials, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook. Stay plugged in, stay connected, and go through everything that I could possibly teach you because I'm talking about building myself from the dirt up.
The dirt up and everything that happened in between the drugs, the alcohol, the, the, the lack of belief, the fears, the survival instinct, survival mode, traumas, pain, darkness, all of it. I had to work through all of that to become who I am today. So there's a lot that I can impart into that I will continue to impart.
You just have to not only study what I teach, but you have to also apply. You have to execute. You have to use that knowledge physically in your world. Otherwise, your world will never change. See you on the next one.