Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Allen Rubin

We recently had the chance to connect with Allen Rubin and have shared our conversation below.

Good morning Allen, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? When was the last time you felt true joy?
I can say that finding one’s life’s purpose(s) is what always brings true joy. After all the many ventures I have done, the numerous paths I have walked, and the eternal question “Is this what will connect me to my soul’s purpose, I think I have found it. I have started Law School. Everything I read, everything I learn, it all makes my soul feel fulfilled. It’s like a part of me that was dormant. Succeeding at passing the first step, the Baby Bar, with high scores is a confirmation that this is the right path. Scoring the highest in all of the classes also lets me know that my joy comes from within!

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My story(ies) begins with a kid who would go door to door trying to sell flower seeds, customized Christmas cards, cookies, and whatever would come my way. Along the way towards entrepreneurship, I also did things that I enjoyed like practicing the martial arts, nunchakus, scuba diving, becoming a pilot, and so many more things that let me feel free. As I grew up, I would try to create businesses that combined my multiple loves. Martial Arts/Jewelry to create Dragon-Ear Jewelers, Fashion Clothes/Jewelry to create Hennesey Jewelry (and invent the Tie Knot Cover), Martial arts/Movies to create a casting company for Martial Artists, Acting, Stunts, producing martial arts movies, then to creating a website design company South Bay Website Design (www.SouthBayWebsiteDesign.com) since 1997, then an app development company The Phone App Company (www.ThePhoneAppCOmpany.com). These latter 2 have had me filing trademarks and corporations for clients, which led me to going back to school to become a paralegal, and now Law School for the full Monty. The journey is everything and the destination keeps moving forward. Since beginning paralegal classes I had another idea. Part of it is now alive. Allowing the public to find the right paralegals and attorneys by creating the National Paralegal Directory (www.NationalParalegalDirectory.com) and National Attorney Directory (Coming very soon), where people can search for the exact type of paralegal and attorney they need. This is far from the end….

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
From the beginning, I knew that I was different. Hyperactive, a bit hard to control myself, yet always believing in God. Since I was 8 years old, I would be told to grow up. Isn’t that ridiculous? Who tells a kid at 8 years old to grow up? I guess this is when I formed the belief to never grow up and never grow old. 😉 Telling a hyperactive kid what to do usually makes them do the opposite. And that is what drove me all my life. People saying you can’t do this, you’ll never be that…It only made me have to prove to them and myself that I could be and do anything that I desire. You can never be an actor, so I ended up in many films and shows, acted alongside of my heroes like Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme. being seen in Wayne’s World. Not only did I prove myself, but I had also so much fun doing it!

When you were sad or scared as a child, what helped?
As a kid I was a small one. I graduated high school weighing only 123 pounds. Even though I was in the martial arts, that doesn’t make you a superhero. But even that fear didn’t compare to the fear of success. Not the fear of failure, it seems I got along well with that. Each failure was a true lesson of growth. But the fear of succeeding is what can cause people to get in their own ways. Why fear success you may ask? Well, having fun doing all the things I love is great, but becoming successful creates a bigger responsibility. First of all, seeing many successful people who are not happy in their lives doesn’t help matters. It makes you think, why if they have everything are they miserable? Secondly, if I become successful will that mean I no longer will have the time to do all the things I love, when I want to do them? And lastly, will becoming rich/successful/famous make it so that I can’t trust people and their sincerity or their “agendas”. I love people and losing that trust would be a very hard thing for me to live with. What has helped me may sound strange to some, but I found Kabbalah. What’s Kabbalah? It’s an ancient spirituality (Jesus was a Kabbalist) that is supposed to be the mystical part of Judaism. I don’t like to say it’s Jewish because it for everyone. It’s the rules in the game of life. Everything is energy. It teaches you how to understand those energies. It’s not about being religious, it’s about knowing what the tools are and how to properly use them. How can you play football if you don’t know the rules or what to do with the ball?

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What’s a cultural value you protect at all costs?
My cultural value that I believe in and protect is HUMANITY. We are all connected to each other. We must practice the simple art of “common human dignity”. Treating others as we want to be treated. Obviously, things can set us off. Today there’s a lot of needless hatred. Protests against one defending themselves. Blind following the blind. There needs to be a point where politics stop and caring begins.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
Allen was a man of true love. He came to change the world for the better. He taught us all how to reduce the ego and become beacons of light. He taught us how to transform ourselves from receiving for the self alone to receiving for the sake of sharing. The more you share, the bigger your vessel becomes, so the more you can receive. Imagine a cup, if you pour a liquid into the cup and it only receives, eventually it will spill over and go to waste, but if what comes in also goes out, then nothing is wasted, and your “cup” can grow as big as possible and the potential to receive would be endless.

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