Dr. Noah St John grew up in poverty in wealthy Kennebunkport, Maine, living in an unfinished house on a dirt road while surrounded by affluence. He battled suicidal thoughts before self-education and reading shifted him toward an abundance mindset, eventually becoming a success coach focused on personal development.
Noah, I find it fascinating that you're now known for being a success mindset guy, but it wasn't always this way. You heavily contemplated suicide. And it's a crazy duality to me because you're so positive, you're so on mindset. What's going on in your world and how in the heck, obviously you're here today, how in the heck do you rebound from that?
Well, just not to tell the entire story, but very briefly, I mean, I grew up poor in a rich neighborhood. Grew up in a little town called Kennebunkport, Maine, which is a very wealthy community, But my family was dirt poor. And I mean that literally because we lived at the bottom of a dirt road in a drafty unfinished house that my parents ended up losing to foreclosure. So I really grew up with that poverty mindset in my family. But yet literally right down the street, I saw that there was another way to live, that there was wealth and abundance. So I hated that life of poverty and fear and lack and not enoughness. So I just really, really tried to get out of it by reading books. And I really, really tried to make them work.
