The Miracle Mindset | JJ Virgin

Hey, it's jj and welcome. First, welcome to my living room. We're live here, and I'm sharing with you today, really, for the first time in a deep dive, what's happened over the last four years that I've been going through with my son and my family. It's called the miracle mindset. You'll see that I've got an upcoming book, a documentary and program that I've been developing around this. And the idea is, show up, step up. You're stronger than you think. And really, as I've been talking over the last couple years, sharing my story to friends, to peers, what I found is that it helped give them strength. It helped give them courage. And I realized that I had to take this out much bigger. So if you're new to the community, you may not remember me back in the days of Dr. Phil. Gosh, that was, what, seven years ago or so? And then I moved into being on Freaky Eaters for a couple seasons where they made me wear those dreadful cardigans. And then I was on a variety of shows. I've been really fortunate to be on some of the coolest shows with awesome people like Dr. Oz and Meredith Vieira and Rachael Ray. And I've had four New York Times bestsellers, including the Virgin Diet and the Sugar Impact Diet, and had a super fun time speaking on stages. And I'm a mom. And, you know, when you look at all this, these are my two boys, you say you might be tempted to think, wow, that looks like she's had it easy. And I think we do that a lot with people's lives as we look. And we don't see the pain, we don't see the struggle. And I found in sharing the pain and struggle, it's helped other people be able to show up and step up in their own lives. Because what I'm going to share with you today is very specific, and it can be a little bit graphic, so I'm going to warn you that, too. But stories that are specific have universal lessons, and the lessons that have helped me both get through what I've gone through in the last four plus years. And by the way, I'm going through it actually right now, and I'll share a little bit about that. Are the same lessons that can help you, whether you're looking at your life right now going, you know, I just feel like I'm in a rut. There must be something better out there, or you're going through your own big challenges with your own health or Finances or career or a member, a loved one, a relationship. These lessons can help you break through. They can help you lean in when you're scared and you want to lean away. It's not about being fearless. It's about knowing how to lean in, how to be courageous and how to navigate through these times and how to really get there so you can live that big life that you're meant to live. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to pull back the curtain and share with you some things that I really haven't shared before. And. And in the hopes that in kind of showing some of the things that I've kept on the down low, that it can help you too. And the first one starts with, I probably shared this picture. You may have seen this before, but I didn't really share the kid in the picture. And that kid in the picture is me at seventh grade going off to school in a horsey shirt with some really bad glasses and a big zit on my chin. And that's the story I often tell, because I'll tell it around you. You know, discovering that dairy was an evil for me when I talk about the virgin diet or what sugar used to do to me before I learned about the sugar impact diet. But the reality is the girl in that picture was a scared, scared little girl who never felt good enough. And largely because I'm an adopted kid and, you know, hey, I'm fortunate, you know, anyone who gets adopted into a family means that family had to really want them. But at the end of the day, an adopted kid always goes back into this place of, but my mom didn't want me. My mom didn't want me. The first person who's supposed to love you unconditionally more than anyone in the world gave you away. And that was one I always kind of carried with me of, you're not good enough, you're not lovable. My household was challenging. Everyone was doing the best they could do, but my adopted brother was always different. And then he got diagnosed as schizophrenic. And literally, that movie, A Beautiful Mind that you hear about, when you see that and you see the guy in the basement with the war going on, that was my house, and it still is. And so it was a very strange thing to grow up with, trying to understand what was reality. And my dad's coping mechanism for all of that was to drink. And so that was what I grew up with. And it was challenging. And I always thought, you know, what? I'm going to have, like, a stable family and, you know, a stable place for my kids, and it'll be great. Except that wasn't the case, and that wasn't what happened. I waited until my early 30s to get married and have kids, but I married someone who's a great dad and has been amazing over the last couple years. Grant wouldn't be alive without him, but he wasn't really great as a husband and provider. In fact, I became the sole financial support for the family, which was exhausting. When you have a baby and the kids are a year apart, like, almost exactly. They're called Irish twins. So just an exhausting time and a frustrating time, a stressful time. And I felt really let down, down by my partner. So we got divorced, and I got sued for both alimony. Alimony and my business. So super stressful time. And at the same time as this is all going on, if that were not enough, my dad. And my dad, besides being an alcoholic, was also a smoker. And I still remember in high school when he promised me he'd quit smoking. He promised that I went down to his car to get something out of his car, and I could smell the cigarette smoke in his car. And I pulled out the ashtray out of his car. I brought it upstairs, and I threw it at him, which those are like. That was like, you know, throwing a weapon. But I was just so. I felt so betrayed by him that he would do this to our family. And he died over four years of lung cancer the same time that my marriage was blowing up and that we discovered that my son Grant had some issues, some emotional issues that we finally diagnosed as bipolar. Now, at the same time, I wrote some books, and I keep them as blank covers here because you probably never saw them. The first book I wrote with a partner, and I didn't have an attorney back then. I didn't really realize what one would need one for. And so we signed a book contract, and it basically gave him 50% of anything I ever did for the rest of my life. So I got to give him the book, plus a lot of money to go away to get myself out of that relationship. Otherwise, he would have owned everything I ever did from that moment forward. And then the next book I wrote, it got published, but I really had no idea how to get a message out and how to start a movement. And so it really didn't do so well either. And, you know, I. But I was out there pushing it because I, again, was going to provide for my kids. And so I got this show on ABC. And at the time, I was on Dr. Phil, and I did a show called Extreme Makeover. So I met the ABC people, and I went and auditioned for this show, and I got this show, and I thought, oh, my gosh. It ended up taking me off of Dr. Phil. I did it and I thought, this is. This is it. This is the big break. It was all around my program and teaching people everything that I do to eat well, except that you probably haven't ever heard of this because it never made it on air. What it actually did was took me completely off the air because I spent so long doing this. And then my contract said I couldn't do anything else while they were waiting for it to air. So that basically took a lot of momentum out of my career. And with all of this, even though I kept getting back up, I was like that song, you know, I get back up, I get knocked down, I get back up. That over and over and over and over and over and over. And it finally got to the point where, you know, things were just really challenging financially. And I'm still the sole financial support of my family. I've got these attorney issues from those books and the alimony issues. And I remember my. I mean, you'll never forget this when someone does something like this for you. My office manager put her life savings in my bank account because it was the holidays, it was Christmas time. I was afraid of how he was even going to pay the mortgage and feed my kids that month, that week, for that matter. And she stepped in. I mean, something like, you just don't forget. You just don't forget these struggles ever. But, you know, I always thought, still to this day, it's like, if everything's okay with your kids, life is fine. And I thought, you know, I can just. I can handle anything as long as my kids are healthy. And this is a picture of my kids when they were in. I think they were like, maybe 8 and 9 at the time. Bryce has got the blue shirt on. He's behind me with that little visor. And that's Grant in the front, red shirt. And, you know, Grant. They were. It's so interesting if you're a parent, to have kids that are so opposite from one another. Bryce would wake up in the morning, and I still remember this. He'd walk into my bedroom. I'd have a night going on, and he'd say, mommy, you look so pretty in that dress. I can't believe it. And I'm like, who is this kid? And then Grant Would come in and go, I don't like you. And I'm like, what? What is different here? And Grant just was one of those people. There was a dark cloud and gosh, we just a lot of struggles. But finally in his teenage years, we got that turned around and he had a girlfriend, he started doing well in school. It was a lot of work to get there, but I was like, finally. And you know, it finally felt like things were on track. I was on the show Freaky Eaters. I just sold a book called that was getting ready to launch called the Virgin Diet. I taped a show called Dropped 7 Foods for Public television. And I remember it was on a Sunday, thinking, oh my gosh, you know, like everything is working out. I've worked so hard. I'd struggle so much. There'd been so much going on. And it was like John and I were getting along again. That's my ex husband, who's their dad. Everything felt like, finally I can breathe. And again I look at it and I go, okay, as long as everything's good with my kids, my kids are happy, my kids are healthy, my kids are safe. All is good with the world. Well, that was Sunday and Monday I went and I taped my some of the things for my upcoming book and public television special. And I remember coming home and it was about 5 o' clock and I was tired. I'd been taping these things all day long. And Grant had left school that day because he had had a migraine. And our rule at the house was like, if you can't get through school, then you really can't go do the fun stuff after school. Totally reasonable. And I guess if you've got kids, you've probably seen the miraculous turnarounds kids can make when they go from sick at school to coming home and their friends want to play. So Grant wanted to go to martial arts. And I go, you know, hey, you were sick. Our rule is, if you couldn't make it through school, then you don't get to do the after school things. Well, he got madder and madder and madder at me and kept raising the bar about this. And I go, grant, you'll go tomorrow. And I didn't back down and I didn't raise my voice, mainly because I was so tired. We just. I was like, you're going to do it tomorrow. Just it'll be fine. And I remember he was barefoot. He was in, you know, sweatpants and a T shirt. And he looked at me and he said, mom, I'm not as strong as you think I am. And he walked out the door and shut the door and he, my other son Bryce, who was 15 at the time, Grant was 16, walked out of his room and goes like, what a jerk. I go, I know, right? And so I went into the gym, we had a garage with some equipment in it and I was going to go blow off some steam. And the next thing I know I'm in there and Bryce and John come running into the garage and they said, grant's been hit by a car and airlifted to the local hospital. Now, you know when someone's airlifted it is bad. But we couldn't get any information because he was basically a John Doe at the hospital. So we are driving to the hospital not knowing really what to expect, except that we know that's bad. And we are greeted, and this is a cleaned up picture of what we're greeted by. We were greeted by this news. Your son is a torn aorta that kills 90% of the people on the scene. He's got multiple brain bleeds, he's in a deep concussion, deep coma and he's got 13 fractures. I will tell you, looking at him, it's something you'll never forget. Like he had literally had bones sticking out of his legs. He had bones sticking out of his legs, he had road rash all down one side of his body. It was the most brutal thing. But what came next was even worse. And there's the dog because see, this is live. So what happened next was the doctor said your son was the victim of a hit and run. And he's sometime during the night, his aorta, which is held by an onion, it's like onion skin at this point, it's like ruptured down to the third level, is going to rupture. And we can't repair it here because it requires a blood thinner to repair. And if we give him a blood thinner, his brain will bleed out. So basically you can choose his brain or his heart, but you can't have both. Alright, so luckily John said, well, what would you do if it was your kid? And the other doctor there said, well, there is a doctor who can do this without a blood thinner. And the other surgeon said, yes, but here's the deal. The chance he's going to survive the night is slim. And the chance he'd survive the airlift is even slimmer. And even if he survives the airlift, he probably won't survive the surgery. And even if he survives all of that, he may not ever wake up. And if he does, he's going to be some brain damage, that it probably won't even be worth it. Think of hearing that if someone you love is lying there and Bryce is listening to this 15 year old, my 15 year old son. And Bryce says, so like a 15, a 25% chance of him making it. And the doctor said, it's about right, son. And Bryce says, well, we'll take those odds. And I remember walking outside and thinking, you know, at first I was like, well, what do we do? Do we do this? And then I thought I had like this divine hit of like, you've got to fight for this. You've got to fight for this. And I was like, we're overruling you. So we overruled the doctor. We airlifted him to the local, to the hospital in la. And what was amazing is what had to happen for him to be able to have a surgery there. But basically, the doctor there, Dr. Carlos Donaire, who's an angel and he's in my documentary, saved his life and then came out to tell us he'd saved his life. And he goes, now I'm just the plumber. I fixed that aorta. I don't know about the brain and the rest of it. So Grant's now in the icu. He's in a deep coma, but he's alive. And I've got the virgin diet coming out in a matter of weeks. Now. I've invested everything that I have and I've borrowed to help get the virgin diet out there big because I knew what it could do for people. So I remember at the time someone posted on Facebook, you know, trying to be kind but not understanding the situation, don't worry about your job. It will be there waiting for you. Just take care of your sweet boy. And I remember thinking, okay, so the challenge is, I don't have a job. I run a business. I actually have all these other people who work with me whose families and lives depend on it too. And I'm going to depend and rely on this business to help me provide for my son. So actually, success is not optional. I can't quit that. And here I am standing in the hospital knowing that the third leading cause of death is death by doctors, death in hospitals and wrong prescriptions. And it's easy to see how that can happen through no one's fault, really, just because there's so much going on. I mean, Grant had a chart this thick and so I knew I had to be there. I had to be there for Grant. I'm not leaving him. But I Had to be there for this book too, because this book is what was going to allow me to save Grant's life. I had to be all in for both of them. So what I decided was that I was going to focus on three things. Basically, I was putting the oxygen mask on myself first. And so I did three things. Extreme self care, essentialism and support. Let me walk you through these. The first was what I call. I don't call it self care. This is like self care on steroids. This is extreme self care. And this is where having a daily routine can really save your life. In fact, I credit my routine, especially my morning routine, with saving Grant's life. Because every morning I would get up and, you know, we actually got a bunch of questions. I've been talking about this more and I talked about it on Facebook live with people going, how did you do that? And how did you keep your mindset and everything so negative? And how do you stay strong? One of the first things that I did, and I'm doing it right now, my son is back in the hospital right now. And I start every morning and I take out my journal and I think, what am I grateful for? Because you know what, if you woke up, you got something to be grateful for, right? There's always things. You've got a roof over your head, you've got something to be grateful for. Heck, I've got a buddy who had to live in a bathroom for eight months with his father. You know, if you've got food, you've got something to be grateful for. Friends, there's always things you can find. But every morning I start out and go, what am I grateful for? Write it down. And then I would go, what am I focusing on today as the thing that's our win, that we're going to have the big goal, the big dream. And I do that every day. And then, and I still do it today. I have been doing for 20 plus years, I think, gosh, now 25 years, I've been starting the day with the shake. And when Grant was in the hospital, first he was in the hospital at harbor ucla, then he was over to Children's Hospital in la. I lived two and a half hours away, so I had to stay in a hotel. So I literally had a nutribullet with me. In fact, I took it to the hospital too. So I had my nutribullet, I had my shake mix. Hey, guys, let the dog out. My dog is now wanting to get. My dog needs to come out. And I did my shakes every Single day. Sometimes I did them for breakfast and dinner. I did burst training. Now, what was interesting is I would go to the hospital. I had like, my little outfit I'd wear every day to the hospital, which was basically yoga pants, workout shoes, a sweatshirt, and a workout top. And so during the day, I would run out. If everything was stable, I'd go and I'd run the stairs and do my burst training that way. And all right, I admit the one thing that I, that I did as a habit that maybe is not the best thing, and I'm still trying to get back off of this, is I kind of gave myself a total hall pass on as much coffee as I wanted, which was a little tough because there was like coffee everywhere. But you know, when you're getting up, I would get up at 4, 5. I do my morning routine. I drive to the hospital so I could be there for grand rounds. I made sure that I had healthy food at the hospital. I'll show you how I did that in a minute. And I was doing my burst. But darn, sometimes you just need a little. A little boost to help you get through the day. The other thing that I did is I looked at it and I went, if this isn't going to move my book forward or my son's life forward, it's not happening. So. So think about this in your own life. How many things in your own life do you actually not have to do that you think you need to do? I mean, I still remember when the kids were little and I was in graduate school, I was sole financial support for my family. Running, I owned a gym, was running that, doing nutrition. And I had my babies, and they were, I think, like five and six at the time. And they had, you know, GI Joes, Legos and dinosaurs. And I felt like I needed to organize all these things. And then, of course, the minute I had them organized, they kind of toodled out there and dumped them all over again. Look at things in your life, if you got down to, like, this is the thing that I have to do to make sure, like, life or death. There's a whole lot of stuff that really isn't that important that we might be majoring in the minors about, like the dinosaur Lego GI Joe story, and then support. And this was one of the biggest things for me and really something that I'd always been good at giving, but I'd never been someone who'd asked for support. In fact, what I had to do was I did it on my Facebook page and to my community the morning that this all happened, I sent an email out to my community. I posted a letter on Facebook, and it wasn't. And I remember one of the lines there. I explained what had happened, and then I said, I don't want your sympathy. I want your support. I need help here. Like anything that, you know, that's working out there in the world of brain injury, in the world of recovery. And what started to happen was people came in droves, and I had so much wild salmon and kale at the hospital. I remember the nurses are like, who are you? Why is all this here? But, you know, I never had to worry about what I was going to eat because, in fact, Whole Foods caught wind of it, and they started sending baskets over, too. So I was taken care of. And when Grant woke up, I started feeding him the same way we were taken care of. But. But having that community of support was a critical lifesaver for me. And in fact, I looked at it because basically, I launched a New York Times bestseller from the icu. That's what you see me doing in this picture. I'm sitting next to Grant. And here's what I would do, because I would watch this. And in fact, these emails that we've been getting, someone said I was in a coma, and I could feel. When someone walked in, I could feel their energy if they were anxious and stressed or if they were calm. And so I managed the environment around my son, and I would sit in there and I'd talk to him, and I'd tell him what I was up to, and I tell him that he was going to be 110% and he was a warrior, and that we had this and not to worry, and he was going to be better than ever and just talk to talk to talk, and I could feel it when I'd walk in the room. His blood pressure would come down, and we were just. I could feel that connection with him. And what's interesting after the fact is he told me that a couple years ago, and this, like, just stopped me cold because I always felt like. Like he knew I was there and he could hear what was going on. And he said, you know, mom, when I was in the coma, the gray man came down and talked to me, and he asked me if I wanted to live or die. And, mom, I didn't want to live. I didn't want to live, but I kept hearing your voice, so I told him I wanted to live. Now, over the course of that four and a half months, I was in Harbor UCLA with him for Two and a half months. Then we moved to Children's Hospital, and the virgin dye became a New York Times best seller. And I did the public television show Drop 7 Foods. Feel better fast. And I was on Rachael Ray. I was on Access Hollywood, the Today Show. And then, I mean, all this stuff was going on, and I would leave the hospital, John would jump in, I'd come back, and we were making this all happen. And then I put on this event, and I have this group that I lead called Mindshare. It's kind of known as the health mafia. And I was leading that, and I would never put it on, but it was already all scheduled, and everybody was coming. And so I thought, well, you know what? Maybe this will be good. And it was in January. Grant had just gotten out of the hospital, and we sat down at this summit, and, you know, everyone's like, going, how the heck did you do this? And what was interesting is I was at that summit, and there were maybe 60 of us at the time. And I remember Dr. Alan Christensen was there, and Cynthia Pascuala was there, and Dr. Pedram Shojai was there. And we were all sharing, like, these stories because, you know, for the last couple months, I didn't know how I was doing it. I just knew that my son had to live and not just live, that he was going to be 110% and that this book had to be the biggest success ever, and that was it, you know? And meanwhile, I had to make sure my other son was taken care of. John was doing a great job with that, and they were coming down on the weekends, but I was on total, like, Focus Pilot, right? And so then I had this chance to go, like, what was it like? What was it that happened there? And, you know, you look at these things and people are like, like, were you superwoman? And, you know, some of it was, hey, I was super healthy. And this is why I'm such an advocate for taking personal responsibility for your health, because if you're sick, you don't go in the icu. So. So there was that. But the reality of it is the near bankruptcies, the divorce, my dad dying of cancer over four long years, the business failures, all that stuff, the challenges I'd gone through over the years, those were what enabled me to get through this. See, we tend to look at these things like, oh, my gosh, poor you, you've had these things. What if your challenges were your biggest opportunities to. To be able to grow and handle more and more and more? And it Turns out that there's actually a lot of research on this. Who knew? And one in particular. This. You can tell, like, just from the title, whatever doesn't kill Us. This was a study that looked at lifetime adversity. And what they found was that people who dealt with stuff, you know, not. Not extreme, but not wimpy, you know, just medium amounts of adversity all through their life, that those people actually were more confident, more successful, happier. They were more resilient. And as I started to look at this and listen to Pedram and Alan and Cynthia and really all these stories of people who were successful, because I always say success leaves clues. Successful however it is in life. Maybe they're a great mom or, you know, they've. They're a great teacher, or they've launched a cool business, or they're started some incredible foundation. All those people have gone through their stuff, and they've gotten stronger. They've built that resilience muscle. And that was the biggest thing I realized. It's like, wow, you know, I've got to take it back to going to the gym. That's where I. My world I came from is, wow, what if this is a muscle and you can actually develop it? And so I started to pay attention to this, because what I started to see was that people were hearing my story. And I was like, you know, talking about it at parties, talking about it at events, and then they were sharing, you know, I heard you, and I was going through this thing, and I kept thinking, well, if J.J. could launch a New York Times bestseller with her son in a coma at a hospital bedside, I can do this. In fact, I had a girlfriend who nearly lost her twins when she was pregnant. She goes, I kept going back to this. I kept going back to this. And I said, if you can do this, I can do this. I thought, oh, my gosh, I have to share this. I have to share this. I've been an advocate for health for my whole life. It's been my passion for my whole life. And we did a little survey last year with the community, and we found out that the people who weren't taking care of their health weren't taking care of their health because they didn't feel worthy. And it made me realize that on top of everything, whether it's your health, whether it's your finances, whether it's your career, your relationships, your spirituality, if your mindset's not dialed in, you won't be able to be successful in those areas of your life. And when your mindset is dialed in. You can be successful in all your years of life. It's like you just took the blocks away. It's so big. It's so much bigger than I realized that it was. And so I will tell you, the last 18 months I've been working on this and I've been working on a documentary on it and I've been working on an academy on it and it's been super painful to do and I've been hearing other people's stories, but I have to do it. I have to do that. So this is what I'm going to share with you today. And I'm going to also share with you a little bit about what I've got coming up with the book and documentary and the Academy. But I'm going to share these lessons with you today again because I know that I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a general lesson, tell you a specific story and what I want you to be thinking about is like, how does this fit into my life? Where am I now? You know where, where are you? Are you in a place where things are good but you know there's something more out there that you should be doing that you want to leave the place better than you found it, that you're looking for that legacy or maybe you're just almost feel like giving up. Wherever you are in your life, this series of lessons forms a miracle mindset that can let you break through it. And it starts with this. And this is, we gave you this during the webinar. If you haven't got it yet, download it, we'll give you the link to do that. I'm sure all that stuff's magic to me, but what I discovered is that it was really these seven lessons related to seven mindsets that collectively created this miracle mindset, this invincible mindset, this resilience mindset. And those mindsets are forgiveness, abundance minded, resilient, action taker, lives in the present when I always struggled with collaborative and courageous. And here's what's cool about a scorecard because you hear those things and you go, how the heck would I measure this? But you know what? You actually can take these subjective things and make them objective, which is fantastic because what you measure, you can improve. And then if you dial yourself into a community of support, which is so key to success and happiness in life, and you share it, then you can succeed exponentially. So it starts with measuring. So my first lesson is don't wish it was easier. Make yourself stronger and When Grant was young and I started to first see these challenges with him, and because I had a schizophrenic brother, see, the benefit, the value, the gift in having a schizophrenic brother is as soon as I started to see some things with Grant, I'm like, you know, I better check this out. Because in my family growing up, my brother Brad always had problems. My whole life, I was telling my parents, you know, there's something wrong with Brad. There's something wrong with Brad. And they didn't. They wanted to pretend it wasn't there. And so the first sign of this, I'm like, I'm not going to do that. Because I keep thinking now with my brother, who is basically in a home, is he could have had a life. You know, he could have had a life. But things were so much different back then. There was such a stigma. And there shouldn't be a stigma about mental illness. Like, 26.4% of the population has it, and it one point in our lives, 50% of us have it. Why is this stigmatized? So early on, I took him to a therapist, and the therapist. I was talking to the therapist, and he's sharing with me what I need to do to be able to help my son. And I'm listening to this, and I go, I'm just not strong enough. I mean, it was when my marriage was struggling, and I'm like, you know, I'm looking at all of these things, and I'm just not strong enough to do. Do this. And he goes, well, you're gonna have to be. I had a great mentor early on. She said, don't wish it was stronger, easier. Make yourself stronger. You know, you're never better than when you're challenged, really. So early on, I. When I was on Dr. Phil, I kept thinking every day I would drive to the studio. And I was on Dr. Phil for two years, and when I would drive to the studio to do the shows, we did a lot of stuff behind the scenes. A lot of stuff behind the scenes and a lot of taping. And then you would do your live. The shows, they would tape them at the studio. So I drove to the studio, and every single time I drive to the studio, I expected that when you go through the lot, you have to show them your driver's license. And I expect them to say, ma', am, you know, you're not on the list, right? And then I expected, like, when I got to the dressing room, it wouldn't have my name on it. And because I Felt like such an imposter. Like, who am I to be doing this? Who am I? And when Grant was hit, it was so interesting to see how quickly the limitations were put up for him. You know, we're just trying to get him through the night. We're just trying to keep him alive. And he had this funky heel thing. And, you know, first he had this torn aorta. So all I was focused on was fix the torn aorta, because that was the first thing that was going to kill him. Then the next thing was he was in a deep coma with this brain injury. So I was like, okay, he's got to wake up. And he had these 13 fractures. And it's amazing because I still think back to when Bryce broke his leg, and it was, oh, my gosh, like, you know, sleeping in the hospital and just horrendous. And now Grant's got 13 fractures. And I'm like, yeah, you know, comparatively. I was like, okay, so he's got some fractures, but one of them was a crushed heel. And apparently a crushed heel is a game changing accident. That's what the orthopedic surgeons told me when they walked in the room. First they told me as they're standing in the room with my son, they said, oh, we're just trying to get it so he might be able to walk again. So I ushered them out of the room because I managed all of that talk around him because, you know, we hear these things. I said, listen, I want you to treat him like this. What would you do if Kobe Bryant were in that bed? That's what I want you to do. That's Kobe Bryant. He's an athlete. And guess what? You know what? That heals great. And Grant's an athlete. He's playing tennis, he's running, he's doing all the things they said he wouldn't do. In fact, we started to call him Grant. Never gonna. And it was because the first day, the first day in the hospital, I was standing there in the icu, all the machines around me, beeping, beeping, beeping. And I've got the full garb on because he's got hole coming out of his head, you know, tube out of his head, tube out of his neck. He's on a respirator, all these alarms going off in a deep coma. I'm in a mask and gown and gloves. And I'm standing there holding him and looking at him. And I just found out that his name, Grant was actually meant he was a warrior. And I said, grant, this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to you. That ever happened to you, me, our family, we are going to touch hundreds of thousands. Now, I know it's going to be millions of people with this story. You are going to be 110%. And I operated from that principle. And think about it in your life, what would happen in your life if you went for it 110%. So you fall short a little bit. Like right now, I'd say, and some things grants 110% and some things grants 70%. So maybe we're hitting what, about 85, 90% right now. But if I'd gone along with some of those doctors were telling we'd be sitting at 50 because they were just trying to keep them alive. Now, I want to share with you, I'm going to take a little short, short pause just in case you have to jump off, because I've got a special invitation for you with me here today. And it is what I've been working on now for the last, gosh, 18 months. And it started because I started hearing everyone comment, wow, I need some help with this. And again, we just did a Facebook live and I'm reading these comments and questions and I'm like, you know, we've got to do this together. And so I've got a book coming out in February called Miracle Mindset. It's a memoir. I've got a documentary coming out in February that's amazing that a documentary producer put together. You are Stronger Than youn Think. But I wanted to give you opportunity. I wanted to give you a special invitation as a member of my community to join me now in helping me. I've put together what I call the Miracle Mindset Academy. And it's everything that you need to help you break through any of those blocks, deal with challenges, you know, life. And we've put it together. But what it really needs next is you. So I'm going to introduce a couple of things in there. I'm going to jump back. We got five more lessons to go. So stay with me. Let me share with you what's in this. And again, I'm going to go through this pretty quickly here. You can learn more by just going to miraclemindset.com join. It's got the scorecard. Now, you're going to be doing the scorecard. The minute you sign up, you'll take your scorecard. You're also going to be setting your goals and you're going to be following a progress tracker that's going to follow you in all the important areas of your life. Your spirituality, your health, your career, your finances, your relationship. And you'll be taking that scorecard at the beginning and the end of the lessons that we're taking you through, because again, what you measure, you can improve. And as I've been reading through this, these are just skills. This is a muscle that you can develop, and when you develop it, you'll be able to take on things in your life you never would have imagined right now. Two days ago, I did a Facebook Live, and 20 minutes before the Facebook Live, we started having all these challenges with a therapy. We just done with Grant, and it was almost like he was just coming out of the coma again. And we ended up having to hospitalize him. And it's been very touch and go and very scary. And I just used all of the techniques. I'm going to talk about a couple of them to be able to just get through this. And my team was like, how on earth are you doing this? I go, I've got this. I've got this because I've built that muscle. And so that's what I'm going to share with you. I've got skills, seven video training lessons where I'm going to share with you how I walk through each of these ones. I'm going to share with you other stories from some of my friends and other experts of how they've done it, how they've mastered this. And then I've got incredible exercises so that you don't have to go through what I've gone through to get to this level. Like, I would really like that not to be. When people say to me, gosh, jj, I can't imagine, I go, I actually don't want you to imagine it, but I do want you to have the strength. I do want you to have this courage. I want you to have this resilience. I've created a touch technology that can allow you to hack your mindset in minutes. When I had to go on Facebook Live two days ago, and while we were working on hospitalizing my son, and, you know, my team's like, you don't have to do this right now. I go, but this is what I'm teaching. Yes, I'm going to do this right now. Watch how I'm going to do this. And so I used that. I've also got host of technologies and different hacks to be able to get yourself shifting if you do start to go down that dark hole. And we all do. We all do. I started to have a little pity party yesterday, I'm like, you know, pity parties of one are nowhere to go. So I've got the ways to pull myself out of it. Of course I'm going to talk health. And what I'm going to share with you is what I call miracle health training. And I've got a blueprint for this. Because I was in the hospital. I was in the hospital 12 plus hours a day and I was working. And if I wasn't there, then I wanted to be with my other son. And so I needed to do everything I could to stay uber healthy because I could not be sick and pull off what I was pulling off. So, you know, when you have that extreme health, it makes it super easy. If you put this into play, I'll show you how to do this and most important thing in minutes. In minutes a day plus. And, you know, I'll tell you, I did this talk with my mom the other day. She was sitting as I was talking about this and I'm like going, when this all came to be, I actually had to build a community. And she wasn't in it because I knew my mom was so freaked out and so scared and I couldn't have that energy. I had to have the energy of people going, we're praying for you in France. You know, they were just all over the world praying and sending things and coming to the hospital and positive and like, of course he's going to be 110%. You need to surround yourself with those people. You know, we are the people we surround ourselves with. So if you don't have that community right now, and I saw in here and it broke my heart that people don't have that community of support, you will have that community of support. We'll be together like draws, like, and because we're creating this together and this is the only time I'm doing it this way. We'll be doing group coaching calls, we're going to be sharing stories. We're all going to be going up together. And you're going to see one of my lessons talk specifically about this. Plus, I've created this great amplification video that you'll be able to have as a screensaver. You can have it on your phone. So if you start to. Again, I'm looking at everything. If you're going, I'm going down. Like, how do we shift you? How do we shift you? And I've had to do that with my son. If you are someone who's been around, someone with a brain injury and I didn't realize this, our kids, it's the number one cause of death in our kids. But brain injuries are this silent epidemic. They look fine. My son looks great. But there's so much that you have to do to be able to shift a mindset quickly and someone with a brain injury, because it can get deep, dark, and scary fast. Plus, what I realized was the mindset sits on top of everything. I've now reflected on my own programs coming from Health of the Virgin Diet and Sugar Impact Diet, and went, wow, when you put the mindset on top of that, you're invincible. You're unstoppable. And so whether it's health or spirituality or career, finances, relationship, it impacts everything. So I went out and got the baddest people, the most amazing people in each area. So I got Gabby Bernstein. You know, I'm like, so lucky to have such cool friends. I must tell you, I've got Gabby Bernstein is going to share, like her, how she masters that miracle mindset and spirituality. I've got Dr. Mark Hyman in health. I've got, let's see, I'm trying to remember who. Oh, gosh, John Assaraf in finances. I've got Marie Borleo in career and Ariel Ford in relationships. Come on, like, dream team. So this is our chance right now. Sneak peek before everything comes out in February. You're putting this together with me. We're building it together. Your invitation to join me@miraclemindset.com join. Now, I'm going to jump over because we got five more lessons to go here. Here's a biggie. And you know, in a lot of ways, I wonder if the Virgin Diet became what the Virgin Diet was because of this. If you want to take the island, burn all the boats, you know, think about it. What would happen in your life if success wasn't optional? I hear from so many people, oh, I'll try that especially. Let's face it, I've been in the weight loss and diet world for three decades. What do people say, I'll do it tomorrow. I'll try it. You know, like my favorite philosopher Yoda, do not try. Do make success not optional. When you get down to that essential of what is it? Like, I look back over this next year and what is it at the end of this next year that's going to make me say, that was the best year ever? And honestly, I look at it and I think, okay, one could look over the last four years and go, those were the worst years ever. Or they could look at them like, I do. And I go, they were the best years. My son's alive. My other son's alive. I have multiple New York Times bestsellers. I'm making a difference in the world. So what is it? And did that all happen because the boats were burned? Man, I had to take that island. Success was not optional. And I believe this is when we show up as our best self. People say to me, gosh, I don't know how you do that. I could never have done that. And I go, you would have absolutely done that. You might have done it even bigger and better than I did. You don't know because you weren't challenged. Challenge yourself. We're never better than when we're challenged. I was reading through these and again these. Just like this morning I was reading these questions that had come up from the last Facebook Live. And I'm like, we got a lot of work to do. Just, there's so much. Our world's in a crazy place. This is how we change the world. And it sounds insurmountable, but when you think about it's the little hinges that swing the big doors. You know, I talk about grant getting to 110%. You don't get to 110% when you start out at zero when someone wakes up from a brain injury. I basically had a 16 year old starting back as a baby. He couldn't talk, he couldn't eat, he couldn't brush his teeth, he couldn't go to the bathroom by himself, nothing. We started all over again, 1% by 1% by 1%. And you know what? I looked for the littlest things, things, the littlest things to say, I've got success. Here he is on a walker. He was in a wheelchair forever. He had that heel. So he hadn't stood or walked forever. And now all of a sudden, you know, we've got to get him mobile again. Well, you don't go from being bedridden for four months to walking over overnight. It takes weeks. And the first thing that they did was they just had him stand up and stand up in their. You know, he had to get his balance back, his proprioception. So he stood up and there was a little like table in front of him and he'd play with things on the table, sit back down, stand up, sit back down, stand up, sit back down. And then we'd get him in a walker and he'd wheel it a little bit and it just went on and on and on. 1% by 1%, little hinge by little hinge by little hinge. And you know, what was so important there? And it's a way I talked about framing your day and starting out the morning, but what if you take the night? And this is what I did. And it was so interesting because you know how Facebook does that thing where it's like, it takes you. Flashes you back four years ago. Well, this was four years ago. So I've been flashing back every day to what I posted on Facebook because I used Facebook as my way to communicate with people and be like, it was a great day today. Grant fluttered his eyelashes, his eyelids. It was a great day today. Grant tracked me with his eyes. Those are small wins. I celebrated them every day. They kept me hopeful, they kept me positive. They kept me in forward motion. A rising tide lifts all boats. I live my life by community and collaboration. I think that one of the most dangerous things we've got going on is isolation, is that lack of connection when this happened, and it was tough for me because, you know, I am very comfortable giving help and receiving help was very challenging for me. In fact, I would do everything I could not to ask for help. And some of that went back to being this adopted kid and feeling like, you know, I'm not worthy. But when your kid's in a life or death situation, you ask for help. You ask for help. And I got help with. I was getting help all over the place. But then what happened next was Grant's home from the hospital, and he feels like he has no purpose. And it was so. It's been. It's been super painful. I will tell you, there have been amazing highs and just as amazing lows bringing him back. And if you've had anyone coming through any kind of a, you know, near death experience, brain injury, bad injury, or accident, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And so it was Christmas time the following year, and he's like, I have no purpose. I shouldn't even be here. I should have just let, you know, the car hit me. I should go walk out and let another car hit me. I'm like. And I thought, you know, when you feel like that, what do you need to do? You need to go out and help other people. When you're feeling, like, helpless, go help other people. And so what we did is we went to Toys R Us, we bought a bunch of toys, and we went back to Children's Hospital where we'd spent the last holiday season. Because I remember being in Children's Hospital during the last holiday season, and here it is. They've tried to make it cheery. And, you know, it's a hospital, all right? It's a rehab floor. Some kids are never coming off that rehab floor. And they've got a Christmas tree up there, and they've got stockings, and, you know, they've got special people coming in to try to cheer up the kids. And there are little kids with heads shaved with wheeling their chemo carts around and their little kids crying in their room because their parents couldn't be there. They had to go back to work. And it just. I would be. So I'd be there all day long, and then I would leave and get into LA traffic, and people, like, honking at each other because they didn't move through the green light fast enough or fighting over a parking spot. And I'm thinking, you know, you need to go to the. You need to go up to Six north at Children's Hospital and go see what's up there. And you will knock it off. And so, you know, that came back to me. I'm like, okay, Grant's gonna have a pity party. I'm gonna have him come do this. And I took him up to Six north with all these toys, and he gave away these toys one by one to all these kids. And then he walked around and he started talking to the kids and parents and sharing his story, because his story is about as hopeless as it gets. I mean, he was never supposed to. He shouldn't have even gotten off the road or made it through the night. And, you know, there's been multiple times that he nearly died. Again, this story has gone on and on and on, but he's telling this, and people are like, you can see. I call him walking Hope you can see. They're like, if he could make it, my kid can make it. If the kids are thinking, well, if that boy made it, I can make it. And there was a girl there who was his age, Alicia. And she had leukemia, and she was there with her parents. She had leukemia. And how she found out was her brother had leukemia, and they were trying to find a bone marrow donor who matched him. And so they found. They tapped her and found out she had leukemia. Three months earlier, her brother had died, and now she's at Children's Hospital. Her parents are at the Ronald McDonald House. They'd come from Guam. They didn't have any money, and they had three other daughters who were back at home. And I'm talking. I'm listening to Grant talk to her, and she's talking about how much she misses her Sisters. And she just wishes her sisters were there, and that's what she really wants for Christmas. And I'm like, you know, still, it just kills me to think about this. And I just sit there and I'm like, oh, I'm going to get these sisters here. And I'm looking at the moment. I mean, these parents, what they're going through, right? And I'm like, I'm bringing your sisters out. Because I'm thinking in my mind, I'm thinking, well, you know, I've got airline miles. I can totally do this. So I tell Mom, I like, I got loads of airline miles. I will fly your daughters out. She goes, you can't do that. I'm like, I'm a mom. I can totally do this. I totally get where you're at. I'm absolutely doing this. And so then I go and I call the airlines to do this, and I find out my airline miles are not flying those girls from Guam to la. Like, American Airlines doesn't fly that way. But I'm like, I'm doing this. And it's super expensive, by the way, to go from Guam to LA and didn't have that money just lying around. But I was all in. And it's so interesting because you look at things in life, and I look at, like, the top, most important things in my life. And if you look at the top, most important things in their life, it's not the house you bought or the car you have or the degree you have. You know, what happened at your wedding, it is someone you helped. It's saving my son's life. It's an amazing experience I had with my other son, Bryce. It's being able to bring this girl's sisters in to spend her last days with her. Those are the things that I will take with me. A rising tide lifts all boats. This is where we change the world by collaboration. And now, when Grant was at Children's Hospital and actually way back when was at harbor at ucla, I'll tell you this one, because I'll never get this visual out. He started waking up, and you don't wake up from a coma the way I thought you did. And it was very interesting because what I was told by the doctors was, when he wakes up, it'll be ugly. And so I thought, like, it'd be ugly for, like, a minute. I didn't mean think that that meant it could be ugly for years. And so I thought, because, you know, I've seen the movies, that you wake up from a coma, you look at the person lovingly, and you say, oh, I love you, I've missed you. Not what happens, let me tell you. And so he wakes up from a coma, and he's staring off into space and just moving. He only had one arm that wasn't bandaged. Everything else had casts and bandages. He had one arm that wasn't bandaged. He just moved that back and forth all day long, back and forth and stared off into space. And he started coming out of the coma more and more. I kept pushing him. I would give him. Bring him suckers. I was doing aromatherapy because one of my friends, Dr. Ann Meyers, brought aromatherapy, and I was doing all sorts of stuff. But he got to a point where he had done most of the medical crisis stuff, had been handled, and now he really needed rehab. And Harbor, UCLA wasn't set up for that, but they didn't want to transport him because his blood pressure was still so unstable. That happens due to a brain injury. And he had that crushed heel, and the crushed heel was. He had a wound that wasn't healing. He had a pin sticking out of his heel. And he was in a wheelchair. And the rehab hospital didn't normally take people in wheelchairs. And UCLA didn't want to let him go because he wasn't stable enough, but he wasn't progressing. And I walk in one day and he is, and I didn't even know these things existed. He was straight jacketed to his bed. And I'm like, that's it. And so I called Children's Hospital, and The doctor there, Dr. Kevin Craig, came over and said, you know what? If we can get him ambulatory enough, he can do transfers and stuff, we'll get him to Children's. And so we overruled harbor and we took him over to Children's, and he started to really progress there slowly. But, you know, it was the right thing to do, even though it was difficult to do. I knew we were stuck and that you can't course correct standing still. And that sometimes, as my girlfriend, Lisa Sasevich, says, you just have to take imperfect action. You don't know where it's going to be, and some of it's going to be failing. Sometimes I feel like I fail forward fast. But you know what? You don't get anywhere standing still. You don't get anywhere trying to make things perfect. And so the same thing happened at Children's Hospital. We got to a point where we were stuck again. And he every day, all day long, when am I going home? When am I Going home? When am I going home? It was like Groundhog's Day. Every minute we had a big sign up because he couldn't remember anything. I'd tell him when he was going home, and five minutes later, when am I going home? He didn't remember that I answered the question. Yes. So I had a big sign of what things he had to accomplish to get home. And the team wanted him there for another month or two. And I'm like, you know what? When we get these things that he's medically stable enough, we just set the stuff up so he could be home and we took him out early. And again, maybe it wasn't the best thing to do. There were definitely challenges at home, but I knew we needed to do it now. Once we got him home, it was interesting because it's been great and challenging all at once. And the Virgin Die became New York Times bestseller. And then I sold three more books, got a three book deal. Wow. It was awesome. And I did another show and all this stuff is happening and my sons are alive and they're at home and I am, like feeling nothing. Flatlined. What they, you know, you hear about with ptsd, I'm just, you know, people are saying, aren't you excited about that? And I'm like, uh huh. You know, But I feel like I don't feel anything. And I've got a buddy. One of my closest friends on the planet is Dave Asprey of the Bulletproof Diet. And thankfully, I credit him with being one of the ones who saved my life. And he said, JJ, you have to come do this. 40 years of Zen. And I'm like, what the heck is this? Well, what I didn't know, I just trusted him and went. And there I am with Vishen Lakhiani of Mindvalley and Joe Polish with these electrodes on her head. And Joe definitely had an advantage being bald, but I didn't know what I was going to do. He just said it was going to be brain training. It's going to help with this ptsd. And I knew that I was going down. I knew I was in trouble. And actually what it was was that you put these electrodes on and you did this training and you watched your brain waves when you went through forgiveness protocols. It turns out the most amazing thing that you can do to change your life and elevate your positivity, your alpha brainwaves, everything is to forgive. And they had a protocol for how they do this that actually I built into the Miracle Mindset Academy because once I learned it. I'm like, well, it's great to have the electrodes, but I can actually do this at home. And it's probably the most powerful thing that you can do. Forgiveness sets you free. But I remember when I found out what we were actually going to be doing and that we were going to be forgiving. And as I started to go through, even though I didn't focus on the woman, my son was a victim of a hind hit and run accident. My neighbor saw a woman get out of the car, look at my son, gas, get in the car and drive off. People afterwards kept saying, well, what about that woman? Have they ever found that woman? In fact, we had one gal who wanted to put a $10,000 reward out on that woman. I'm going, I'm like, I'm saving my son's life over here. I cannot focus over here. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But ultimately, I did need to forgive that woman. And ultimately I needed to forgive my son for, you know, being mad and running out of the house. And ultimately I had to forgive myself for, you know, I kept imagine me just going, why not just let him go to martial arts? I had to forgive my adopted mom, who did the best she could. I had to forgive my birth mom and gave me up. I was like going, I'm going to be here a long time. This is definitely an exercise you need to have in your back pocket. But you know what? Midway through that week of doing this, Dave looked at me and he goes like, you have a glimmer in your eye. And I was like, I actually start to feel happy again. I start to feel. I'm starting to feel joyful again. Forgiveness, it's the most powerful thing you can do. Carry that around. You're mad at someone, you're resentful, that just stomps on your joy. You can't be happy and joyful with that stuff around. When the kids were young. And if you're a working parent, you know exactly what I'm talking about here. And just even in life, you're experiencing this because it's so challenging to be present now with so much. Like, you can be online and you can be on your phone and hopefully you're on one of those right now because you're watching. But, you know, it's. There's such a gift of presence. And when my kids were growing up, I was a working mom. And, gosh, when I was with my kids, I felt so guilty if I wasn't getting, like, I was Kind of thinking about work and what I needed to do and money and, you know, things were so. We were so broke, and it was so stressful. And then when I was at work, I was worried about them and feeling guilty I wasn't with them, and, like, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. And it's so interesting because I was so focused on being more present for my kids, and I was writing it down in that journal every single day. I'm more present for my kids. I'm more present for my kids. Well, you know what? When you don't do what you commit to do, the universe turns up the volume, you know, and that's night. When I was standing at the ICU and I went outside and I go, what do I do here? And I remember standing there, and it was like. It was the first time I'd been present in forever. I still remember it. Like, I could see the stars. I could feel the coolness of the air. I could smell the trees. And I got a divine hint that was like, you saved your son, Mama bear. Now, my kids had, you know, because of their difference in their personalities, they hadn't gotten along really well as kids. They'd fought a lot. And this situation brought them closer together. I got the chance to see them become brothers and be more present for each other in each other's lives than I'd ever seen. What a gift is that? And, you know, Grant, who in high school never was thinking about, what do I want to do with my life? Never cared about his purpose. Now he's. This is a big driver in his life, is, what am I going to do? How can I help other people? What is my point? And one of the things that he's taken up is art. This was not an artistic kid ever. Bryce was the one I thought was going to be artistic. And these are the types of things, in fact, I included them in. This is the final page in the book, the Miracle Mindset. And all throughout the Miracle Mindset Academy, all throughout the lessons, I included as art. It's just crazy. It's amazing what he's coming up with that he just dreams up out of his head. And one of the things I'm the most proud of him for is throughout all of this, he has never once said, you know, I'm so angry at the woman who hit me. I'm so angry about this. I'm so angry about this brain injury. He's been grateful. He's been thankful. And I remember early on, I was speaking, speaking. I was going to lead this workshop And I went into this hotel room and there was a sign there that said, there are no victims, only volunteers. And I'm like, wow. And that might, you know, you might take offense at first when you hear this. I kind of did. First I'm like, well, sure, there's victims, but what that actually does when you think about this is what it's really saying is the power of decision is within you. Yes, a bad thing may happen to you, but that worst year can become your best year with how you decide to react to it, with the mindset you bring to it, with the attitude you bring it to it. And so as I reflected over this year, as I went through all of this stuff, I realized as I started to talk to so many people, as they start to share their stories on my Facebook of I heard your story. And I kept thinking about this as I was going through my own adversity. And it helped me through. Thank you. And I'm like, I gotta share it. I've got to create it. And again, kind of, it's one of those things. I'm glad I didn't know then what I know now because I thought this will be super cathartic. Well, it's yes and no. It's actually, it's been interesting because I've been reliving it and reliving it and going deeper into it to really understand how this can help you and putting this, this academy together. And again, the book will be out in February. The documentary will be out in February. I am super proud of them. It's a book that I've had a bunch of my peers read. And they go, you know, these are people who are like. They're normally like, skim a book. They go, I read the whole thing. I couldn't put it down. It's one of those books that can change your life and help you wherever you are. You know, if you're in that, Ruth, if you're just like, gosh, you know, I just feel like I'm just as good as it gets. Or if you're just. You feel like you're down the black hole or if you're ready to go to the next level. And so what I'm putting together, that will be with the book. Because I always like to have this. This is where my brain always goes is I want to put as much out there so that you've got something to grab hold of. If you see what I've been doing in my community, we've been putting out more quote cards. I've Been taking my podcast and integrating in some mindset stuff. I changed it from the. I don't even remember what we used to call the podcast, but now it's the lifestyle show and we've included in mindset. And I've been working more mindset into my quotes and into my talks and so that you can grab onto that and that can help you in your everyday life. And then I know some people will read the book and that'll help them. And some people will be able to watch the documentary and that'll help them. And then some people want to go deeper, as they've done with the Virgin diet and the Sugar Impact diet. That's what the miracle mindset academy is. Show up, step up. You're stronger than you think. This is what I've been putting together. And now the next missing element, my personal invitation, is you. We are going to do this together. This is the first time. This is the sneak peek. This is the exclusive opportunity. It's starting October 19th, but the minute that you register, you're going to get your mindset scorecard. Now, maybe you've already done one being on the webinar, I sure hope so. But if you haven't, I want you to do it right. Do that mindset scorecard, because what you measure, you can improve. And I've taken mindset and I've taken the subject and I've made it objective. And we're going to be sharing that in our community, too, and we're going to be seeing how we can improve in every area of our life so that these challenges become opportunities. We'll have a progress tracker that you're going to be checking in right as you start in your health, in your wealth, in your career, in your relationships, in your spirituality. Where are you in those places? And then we'll check in at each lesson to see how the lessons are impacting you. And it's so interesting because, you know, it's like you'll think, oh, I'm doing a lesson that I'm focusing here. But again, mindset is on the top of everything that you do. Wherever you are in your life, you can't outrun your mindset. And then I've got seven video training lessons and what I've included here. And of course, you always get the videos, the audio and the transcripts because some people just like to pull off the transcripts and highlight. I know, I like to read, too. But I've also included in some interviews with some of my buddies because as I was going through this in fact, I was just talking to Dean Graciosi yesterday and he's become a really close friend who I just adore. And he's, you know, he literally lived in a bathroom with his dad for eight months. He is one of the top success trainers in the world. He lived in a bathroom with his dad. So I brought out people that, you know. Lewis Howes. How'd he get there? Pedram, Shojai, Bo Eason, Amazing stories. Along with my lessons, I also included exercises because, again, a lot of these exercises, hey, I was in the trenches. I, like, learned as I went through them and I thought, well, what if you don't actually have to go through what I went through to increase your resilience? You can do it through exercises. And what if you can take those exercises to take you to the next level? So I have exercises with the lessons to help you lock them in so that you can exercise and build this resilience muscle. Plus, I've created a bunch of different things to help you hack your mindset, but specifically a touch technology I used two days ago when I had to go on Facebook live, literally as everything was blowing up, and I was like, I got it, I got it, I got it. So these are the things that I use to get through all this. The big questions I had coming up here were like, how did you get through all this? I'm like, I'm going to share all this stuff because success leaves clues. I've looked back now, I've gone through it and like, what have I done? And then I've talked to my other friends and go, what have you done? And so I've got some amazing resources, some from some of my other friends, things that we've used to be able to hack our mindsets that can allow you to make that shift, get out of that pity party fast. And this touch technology is the most powerful one of all. And then of course, I'm going to take you into what I did in the hospital to be able to stay at peak health, because in whatever you're doing, you know, the fastest thing to take your health down is to get, get stressed. It's like whomp. It just destroys your immune system and you cannot get sick when you are going through peak performance. You got to have your health. So I'm going to share with you how I did this because it couldn't be complicated, it couldn't be hard, it couldn't take time, right? And that's what I did. So you'll get my miracle health training and Blueprint, of course we'll all be together. And honestly, that's the most powerful thing of all. That is what has allowed me to be successful throughout all of this. You guys were all there with me on Facebook, and that's what's. We're gonna be all going through this together. Sharing our stories, supporting each other, having each other's backs. I was reading through here, and it was breaking my heart. Cause people were like, well, what if you do. If you're the strong one and you're just not feeling strong enough? And I'm like, you find stronger people and you grab ahold group coaching calls. This is me, you. We're talking, and I'm gonna do this two different ways to see which ones that you prefer. We're gonna do some calls, and then we're doing some Facebook lives. I kind of want to meet you where you're at. We'll see what, what. What we like the best to do. But this is a lot of interaction, a lot of sharing, a lot of coaching through. I. I saw these questions today. I was like, gosh, I just want to jump in right now. Like, let's. Let's all get together right now. In fact, come on over to my house. Like, come on into the living room, and let's do this. Because, you know, we can get through this together. We can get through this, and we can be better. And then I told you about this before. I am just so blessed with some of the people that I've been able to spend time with. And John Asrap's going to help with finances. He's the number one guy in personal development now in finances. And he's got ways to flip your finances in minutes. Just so. I mean, these are the miracle mindset masters. Each of their areas. Ariel Ford on relationships. Marie ForLeo on career. Dr. Mark Hyman on health. And Gabby Bernstein. The universe has her back on spirituality. Then we created this amplification video. In fact, I want you to be surrounded by this. I want you to crowd out all the negativity, crowd out all this. It is purely turning challenges into opportunity, creating a positive space for you. So this video can roll on your laptop, it can roll on your iPad so that you can just have it there and go, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, right. I'm here. I'm good. I'm stronger than I think. Plus, here's a little sneak peek of what things look like when you're filming a documentary. There I am with Elian, who's the producer and director in my kitchen. You've probably seen my kitchen if you've been following me at all on Facebook Live. And you're gonna get the sneak peek on this. And what I did was for the first 50 people, you are actually gonna get the DVD of you are Stronger Than youn Think. Now. It's right now it's in rough cuts. We're putting it together and you'll be the first ones getting it mailed out to you. So first 50 people, I always like to, here's why I do this, just so you know. You're like, what I've seen that people who are most successful, who make the biggest changes in their life, who really go out there and get hit it out of the park, they take action. They take action. So if this helps you take action, that's why I'm doing it. There you go. And that's the Miracle Mindset Academy. There's also, of course, some cool bonuses and surprises and stuff showing up for you too. But everything that you need to help you either break out of a rut, get out of that black hole, or take you where you are to where you want to be. The just big question is, are you ready to come with me? Yes, you are. Show up, step up. You're stronger than you think. And to get started, you go to miraclemindset.com join remember right away we're going to get you into goal setting doing your progress tracker. I've got my welcome video so you're going to get started right away. You'll jump into the community. Our first call starts October 19th. This is the only time I'm doing it this way. This is it. We're doing it together. This is the time I got to share this quote as we're getting ready to wrap up. I just have a huge girl crush on Elizabeth Gilbert. Such an amazing quote. The people whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because things worked out. They got that way because things went wrong. And they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those people are my superheroes. So things are really wonky right now in the world and you might be sitting here thinking, what can I do? You might be feeling powerless. You know where the change starts. The change starts with you. And you know where the change really starts. The change starts between here. It starts with your mindset. You are stronger than you think. And together we are stronger than we think. And together we can change the world. Come with me, Sa.