Meet Nate Tutas

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Nate Tutas. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Nate below.

Hi Nate, appreciate you sitting with us today. Maybe we can start with a topic that we care deeply about because it’s something we’ve found really sets folks apart and can make all the difference in whether someone reaches their goals. Self discipline seems to have an outsized impact on how someone’s life plays out and so we’d love to hear about how you developed yours?

Have you ever had one of those moments where either all or part of your life flashes through your mind in an instant? I had that happen to me nearly 13 years ago and it changed my life forever.

My wife and I had recently gotten a Siberian Husky puppy, which was a breed of dog I’d wanted since I was a kid. Shortly after we got him home I was on the ground playing with him.

We were rough housing and he was lunging in and snapping at me with his little puppy teeth and I was pushing him back and watching him slide across our wood floors.

At one point I went to do a push up and from my chest resting on the floor to my arms reaching full extension life flashed before my eyes.

You see, I’d been a machine gunner in the United States Marine Corps and in that moment I realized I’d been ignoring a gift I received from the Corps.

I realized that it was the first time I’d been “nose to dirt” since I’d received my medical discharge. And more importantly I’d been ignoring one of the greatest gifts I had received. The gift of self-discipline.

I’d embraced the ease of being a civilian, enjoying our modern comforts and ignoring my ability to do anything I set my mind to. Because when I was in the Corps, if I decided something was going to happen, it became a non-negotiable agreement with myself and I made it happen.

In that moment I decided to reengage my self-discipline, and challenged myself to do more and be more. I committed to waking up at 0400 every morning. I committed to working out every day. I committed to changing my habits and becoming a better husband, leader, and now father and entrepreneur.

That commitment has stayed with me since that day. Now, nearly 13 years later, I’ve yet to miss a day and I’ve started and grown a successful coaching business.

We all have amazing gifts, but sometimes, we need to be reminded that they’re there.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I’m the founder of Mind Vault® and we’re a business strategy and funnel building company for experts, coaches, and info-marketers.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in business, coaching, and personal change including Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Russell Brunson, and Dr. Richard Bandler (co-founder of NLP). That experience, combined with my time in the Marine Corps and 16+ years in B2B sales has given me unique insight into what works and what doesn’t in business.

Now, my greatest passion is sharing the lessons I’ve learned and distilled down to what I call The Four A’s of Business™, helping to streamline and guide business strategy, and building systems and processes that automate the business on the backend.

Previously, I’ve only shared this framework with my private clients, but on May 8th I’ll be hosting a Masterclass to share this process with those who want to grow and expand their business.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

1) Insatiable Curiosity. Most people research something and only discover the first layer of information before moving on to something else. I always wonder what else I could discover if I kept digging deeper and deeper. When you go deep into the topics that interest you, you’ll discover a world of epiphanies and ideas that others miss.

2) Strategic Thinking. It’s hard to say where my strategic thinking originated from, whether it was back when I was a point guard in high school, a machine gunner in the Marine Corps, or from being the youngest of four kids.

But if you want to improve your ability to think strategically start using a gap analysis for everything you do. Simply grab yourself a piece of paper, put a dot on the far left hand side and another on the far right hand side and draw a line to connect the two dots.

The dot on your left represents the beginning or where you are now. The dot on your right represents your desired outcome or end state and where you want to get to. The line in between represents the gap.

Now, think through the key milestones you need to reach in order to go from where you are now to where you want to be, and draw a vertical tick mark along the horizontal line for each milestone you create.

If the milestone is a large task representing a number of separate activities, use this same exercise to break that milestone down into a more manageable chunk.

Now think through the most effective and efficient way to move from milestone to milestone and close the gap. Do this with everything you do and your ability to think strategically will naturally improve.

3) Knowing that The Map Is Not The Territory. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we say that “the map is not the territory”. In essence this means that each of us, from the moment we’re born, all the way to the present moment are creating our own maps, models, or representations of the world.

To one person $100 seems like a lot of money, to another, it’s “chump change”. The same is true for any thought, idea, or activity. Things are what they are based on how a particular person thinks about them, and nothing more.

Knowing, believing, and acting upon this allows you to adapt to infinite scenarios and you stop judging the person and get curious about what they think and believe about the world around them and how that’s influencing their behaviour.

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?

In October of 2024 I was sat in a mastermind and someone said something that hit me like a ton of bricks. He said, distraction is your enemy.

In that moment, I remembered a conversation I’d had with Dean Graziosi two years prior. I was in the same mastermind and had the opportunity to ask Dean a question about my business.

I shared with him that I wanted to start another business and laid out my plan to get it started. Dean heard me out and then asked what would happen to my current business if I started working on this other idea. Now, unfortunately I didn’t have the systems in place for the business to run on it’s own so Dean told me to spend the next six months replacing myself within the business.

It was great advice, and I tried to do what Dean suggested. But after three months, I wasn’t seeing results fast enough, so I decided to start the other business anyway.

Long story short, both businesses grew, but eventually hit revenue ceilings I couldn’t seem to break. And when I heard the phrase “distraction is your enemy” it all clicked.

Within a week I shut down my other business and focused all of my efforts on my core business. It’s now grown more in the last few months then it had in the previous two years combined.

Focus is a super power. When you learn how to harness it, you avoid distraction. That in and of itself has been one of my biggest areas of growth and it now overflows into all areas of my life.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.mindvaultllc.com
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@natetutas

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