Dr. Noah St John talks about growing up with poverty and a feeling of not being enough. He describes his journey from lack to abundance and what drove him to change his mindset about scarcity.
So from a very young age, I was painfully exposed to the gap, the chasm between the haves and the have-nots. The haves was everyone else in the community and the have-nots was my family. Now, I'm sure everybody listening to this program has heard motivational speakers or gurus and they get up on stage and they'll say something like, well, we were poor, but we were happy. We didn't know we were poor. Well, I'll tell you what, in my family, we freaking knew we were poor. Because my mother, bless her heart, reminded us every day that we were poor and miserable. So no, it wasn't happy. It sucked. And so from a very young age, I hated that life of poverty and fear and lack and not enoughness. That's what I grew up with. But I saw that right down the street, there's great wealth and abundance. So I literally said from the time I was a little kid, how the heck do I get from here to there?
