Unlocking Personal Growth Strategies: Beyond Your Default Podcast

You've got to remove people in your life that aren't serving any type of valuable positioning. And listen, I know I could get backlash, but I'm talking about family in this as well. I had a talk with a lady. It was after I did my first keynote speech. And when I started my first keynote speech, I had been told by Marcus Sheridan. He said, hey, you got to start your keynote with the fact that you're a high school dropout. I told him he was crazy. I'd been hiding from that for 25 years. I wasn't going to lead with that. And he said, until you're willing to be vulnerable in life, you're going to miss out on the magic moments. And so I said it verbally, because I didn't say it the first time. I just put the slide on and I said, no, I'm a high school dropout. And I went to tell the story of my math teacher and how he told me I would never amount to anything. And I believed him. And I was a high school dropout. Got to the end of the session, and. And this is where I'm saying, even if it's family, sometimes you gotta let it go. And if it's family, sometimes you gotta do extra work in your brain. I get done with this talk, and this lady comes up to me and she's like, hey, I really get your math teacher conversation. I was like, oh, thanks. I appreciate that. She goes, no. And she could tell I didn't understand the level of conversation she was trying to have with me, the connection she was trying to have with me. The we are bonded in a way that you don't understand until the words that come out of my mouth away. She said, no, I don't think you understand. For me, that was my mother.