I had the pleasure of interviewing Cory Groshek...It's tough to describe what Cory does, because he does EVERYTHING. So I'll let this awesome interview speak for itself.
Me: Pleasure to meet you. You are doing some awesome things…really, you do it all. You’re an author/blogger, investor, musician/entertainer, consumer rights advocate, metaphysician, and founder/CEO of Manifestation Machine. How do you find time for it all?
Cory: First, let me say that I don’t find time any more than I find “luck”—I create both, as does everyone (though they may not realize it). And the way I create time—and “luck”— is by focusing on what I want and why I want it. Three years ago, I wasn’t any of the things you just listed, and that was because I hadn’t yet decided that I wanted to be any of them. But as soon as I’d made the decision to become those things, the Universe, as it always does for those of us who, like me, have both clarity and conviction, began to bring to me the people, places, things, and circumstances I needed to, as you put it, “do it all”—and I’ve been having a blast ever since.
Me: Now some know you as Cory Crush. Can you describe your music for me? What instruments do you play?
Cory: My music is probably best described as hip-hop/rap with a little bit of rock and R&B thrown in, but you don’t have to take my word for it; you can find Cory Crush on ITunes, DatPiff.com, and Bandcamp.com. My favorite musical artists growing up were The Notorious B.I.G., Kid Rock, Eminem, Linkin Park, Brian McKnight, and Edwin McCain—quite an eclectic group, by any measure—so, knowing how very different those artists and groups are (they range from rap-rock all the way to soul/blues/folk), it should be quite easy to understand why my music sounds the way it does.
As for which instruments I play, while I am fairly skilled at using my old Roland Fantom Workstation and music production software for creating instrumentals (or what many artists simply call “beats”), I do not how to play any instruments live, and my strong suit is, and always has, been rapping, believe it or not. Why rapping? you might ask, when you consider that I grew up a white, lower-middle-class kid (not that that should matter) in the middle of Wisconsin: That’s easy—I can’t sing.
I’ve loved poetry that rhymes ever since I was a young child, and I’ve loved almost all music (especially rhythm and drums) since I was at least 11, so when I decided to start making my own music at the age of 17, making the transition into the world of hip-hop/rap was a pretty easy choice for me to make.
Me: You’re also a health expert. Tell me how you became Low Carb Cory and why it’s important to eat healthily.
Cory: I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m a “health expert”, but I am an expert on intermittent fasting, which is a tool I have used and taught others, as Low Carb Cory, to use for both weight loss and body detoxification. I’m also very knowledgeable with regards to the benefits of “low carb” lifestyles and ketogenic dieting, eating all-natural, organic food, and homeopathic/non-pharmaceutical remedies to a number of ailments. If you’d like to find out more about intermittent fasting and how it can help you lose weight and keep it off for life, make sure to check out my Respect the Vessel YouTube channel.
As for how I became Low Carb Cory, the short version is that I never intended for this “Low Carb Cory” persona of mine to take on a life of its own as it has, and I actually started my first-ever YouTube channel in/around the year 2011 not so much for other people, but as a video weight loss diary of sorts for myself, to simply help me track my weight loss progress and hold myself accountable. Much to my surprise, however, people from all around the world were inspired by the weight loss I achieved through elimination dieting, a “low carb” lifestyle, and the use of intermittent fasting, and they wanted to know how they could achieve results like mine. And with that, I essentially became the “godfather of intermittent fasting” in what is known as the “YouTube fitness community”, and I continue, to this day, to receive emails from people all around the world, seeking my advice on health, fitness, and fasting, despite the fact that I haven’t made a new video about fasting for over a year (because, really, how many videos can you do about something like fasting? I think the 100+ I’ve already done, to date, is more than enough, and I look forward to publishing a book on the subject in the very near future).
As for why it’s important to eat healthily, I’m afraid we don’t have enough time for me to get into as much depth on that topic as I’d like to right now, but I will say this: Food is more than just fuel for our physical bodies. It affects everything from how we look to how we feel, and everything in between. If you eat garbage, you will not only look but also feel like garbage, and I don’t know about you, but I’d rather feel good than feel like garbage.
So if you want to feel good, I suggest you ditch the GMO’s (genetically modified foods), the hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and refined grains and start eating what God intended for you to eat: The best organic meats and/or produce you can find. While organic good can be quite pricier, it’s still (and always will be) far less expensive than the frequent trips to the doctor and Urgent Care that most Westerners make because their diet is secretly killing them.
Cory: The fact that the public school systems don’t teach children what they really need to be taught, which is what my book actually teaches: The value of dreaming big, taking risks, trusting their gut, and choosing faith over fear in everything they do.
Our public schools today are nothing more than slave factories, designed to set our children up to be mindless drones later in life, who can do no better than “get a good job” somewhere making “decent money” (if they’re “lucky”), with the hopes that they will someday earn just enough money (after working like a dog their entire lives) to maybe not end up homeless and sleeping on a park bench by the time they’re 65. In contrast, my book is like a self-help book for children, cleverly disguised as an action-adventure/fantasy novel, designed to set them up for success.
So if you’re a parent and you are reading this, you need to do yourself a favor right now and go pick up a copy of ‘Breaking Away’ today, not just for you, but for all of the children in your life—nephews, nieces, grandchildren, etc.—that you love and care about, because there’s no better gift you could ever given to a child (or an adult, for that matter) than the gift of teaching them to think for themselves.
Me: When did you start writing?
Cory: I’ve been writing, in some way or another, since I was very young. I remember being in elementary school and writing and short stories and then graduating into drawing comic books and writing my own song lyrics between the ages of 11 and 12. Eventually I got into blogging, and then the next big challenge was, naturally, the writing of a book, with my first book being ‘Breaking Away’, which actually grew from an “early reader’s” book into the first book in a middle grade fiction series for ages 9-12 through a very interesting turn of events (which you can read more about in my blog at Manifestation Machine entitled “A Dream Become Reality (The Self Publishing Success Story of Cory Groshek)”).
Me: Perhaps my favorite thing that you do is Manifestation Machine. Care to tell me more about it and how you are helping so many people?
Cory: Manifestation Machine is a global personal growth and development brand and a worldwide community of like-minded, success-oriented individuals that will stop at nothing to achieve our dreams and create what I like to call “a life worth dying for”. The idea behind it is that “two heads are better than one, but a couple thousand—or million— are better”, when it comes to creating the lives of our dreams. You see, there is more truth to the phrase “there is power in numbers” than what most people know, and at ManifestationMachine.com, we’re putting that power to the best use we can, and helping people turn their dreams into reality every day. So really, it’s not me helping people, but them helping themselves, just by showing up and being a part of the community we’ve created.
Me: What advice would you give people looking to accomplish their dreams?
Cory: I would first tell them to take full and complete responsibility for everything they think, feel, believe, say, and do, because personal responsibility is the cornerstone of all success. This means no more “finger-pointing” or blaming other people for their problems and no more making excuses for why they aren’t who, what, or where they want to be in life. Second, I would tell them to figure out what they want and why they want it, because if they can do that, then the how of how they’re going to go about achieving it will reveal itself. As a wise carpenter from Galilee once said, “Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you.”
Me: Anything else to add?
Cory: Yes! Don’t forget to like me on Facebook at facebook.com/CoryGroshek and Manifestation Machine at facebook.com/ManifestationMachine, and also follow us on Twitter @CoryGroshek and @TheEther777. I’d love to hear from you so we can build a better world together!
