In this short motivational segment, Evan Carmichael introduces a daily “Shot of Nespresso” with Joe Rogan and a co‑host (Speaker B). The central message is to treat one’s life as a movie and actively choose to be the hero rather than an extra. Joe repeats a mantra about waking up with espresso, discarding past financial, personal, or relationship failures, and deciding what the hero would do right now. He urges listeners to write down goals, standards, and past mistakes they will not repeat, then build momentum through consistent good decisions. Speaker B shares a personal story of overcoming body‑image judgments and emphasizes taking action to author one’s own narrative. Evan adds that many people avoid hero‑hood because it feels safer to blame external forces; he stresses personal responsibility, courage, and surrounding oneself with motivating influences. The segment ends with a call‑to‑action asking viewers to comment on what’s holding them back, reinforcing community engagement and daily encouragement.
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Good morning, Believe Nation.
Today's message is: Be the hero of your own movie. Over to you, Joe Rogan.
I wake up every morning with espresso, keep me going. Be the hero of your own movie. If your life was a movie and it started now, forget about whatever financial disasters you've had, personal failures, relationship failures. What would the hero of your life's movie do right now? Do that. Do those things. We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. We look at our past and we say, well, that's me. That's not you. You are this person right now. You're the person who's learned from those failures and you can choose to be the hero of your own movie right now. Write down your goals, write down things you want to improve, write down things you won't tolerate from yourself, write down things that you've done in the past that you never want to see yourself do again and go forth from But here, as the hero of your own movie, build momentum, build confidence and momentum with each good decision that you make from here on out. You can do it. Anyone can do it. We live in unique times. We live in one of the rarest times in human history where you can choose almost all the input that comes your way, whether it's the movies that you watch, the books you read, the podcasts you listen to, you can choose to be inspired. Do that. Do that and be the hero of your own movie.
So what do you think?
What I love about this is actually taking action for your own life. So being the hero, you're the one writing the narrative of your own life, not letting the past define you. So for me, for example, I had a rough past and I let that define me for the longest time. I was the girl who was not comfortable with her body. Then I became the girl that was too comfortable with her body, but not really. All of that was defined by the judgment from others. Now that I'm in my 30s, I'm going to take the action to actually write the narrative to my own story. I am strong. I am funny. I am inspiring. All of that. So taking action of your own life versus letting the past define you or letting others define you is not the way to go. That's what I discovered. So I love, I love this message because you take action for yourself.
I think people are just too afraid to be the hero. I think it's just, it's so much safer to be an extra in somebody else's movie than to be the hero in your own movie. And we're just constantly looking to other people for happiness or blame other people for our unhappiness, right? You're unhappy, it's your boss's fault, it's your client's fault, it's the president's fault, the government's fault, your city's fault. It's always somebody else's fault. And if that's your narrative, then you're never going to go off and do great things where if you accept the responsibility and say, "Look, I'm here because of me. It doesn't matter who the president is. It doesn't matter what city I'm in. It doesn't matter what background I came from or who my parents are or how much money I have. I'm gonna go make my life amazing." I think people can conceptually understand it. I think it's just, it's hard to do. It takes courage and it takes the willingness to go out and do something that maybe you've never done before. And so having those goals and having something that really is meaningful to you And then surrounding yourself with things that motivate you and inspire you to want to be that best version of yourself, I think is important. So that you can go out and write your own movie instead of being an extra in somebody else's.
So what I actually really love about what Evan said is that not allowing whoever your politician is or your circumstances, who your parents are, to define what you can do. When you take responsibility and take accountability of who you are, guess what? You are the person that could make things change. You're the one who could take action when you are responsible for your own life. So I love what you said. It was great. So the question of the day today is, what's holding you back in being the hero of your own movie?
I like it. Leave it in the comments below. We're gonna join in the discussion. So thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you have an amazing day. We believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. And we'll see you again tomorrow morning for another Shot of Nespresso.
