Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

Episode #645 - Scary Books VS Safe Books with Kary Oberbrunner, Founder and CEO of Igniting Souls

17 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Spoken excerpt from a YouTube episode advising entrepreneurs to transform past wounds and failures into sources of impact and motivation. The speaker argues that personal pain can be leveraged to create purpose-driven work and gives examples including David Goggins and an author of 'After the Flowers Die' who turned a family tragedy into helping grieving parents.

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I tell people that the area of your deepest wound is often the area of your greatest impact. Entrepreneurs who are listening to this, if you failed, if you've had a wound, if you've had pain, you could take that and you could leverage that. Like, David Goggins is pretty popular these days with just his extreme ultramarathons and stuff. But he took being a fat kid, in his own words and lazy and all this, and he took that, and he just turned it into this monster. He's the world's toughest guy or whatever. And I've had plenty of authors. One of my authors is after the Flowers Die. It's a story of when her son was killed in a hunting accident. She could have been devastated forever, but she took that pain, and now she helps other parents who've lost a child. So I do believe that you can leverage your past pain.