Your mindset is a key to overcoming adversity and empowering ourselves from victim to victor. How we think and speak about ourselves is a strong determinator of our reality and this episode is all about using your disadvantages to your advantage and overcoming anything In life.
I sit down with Doug Bopst, a former drug addict and convicted felon who found transformation while serving jail time. He turned to drugs at 14 years old as a way to cope with an emotionally dysfunctional and broken home life including abuse, severe bullying, and the challenges that come with parents of divorce. This lead him down a spiral of addiction and selling drugs, and he was eventually pulled over and caught with drugs in his car. What seemed like the worst day of his life, turned out to be his greatest blessing. Doug speaks a powerful message in this conversation to help others harness the power within them to “kill your excuses” and live life to their greatest potential.
In this episode we cover:
- Doug’s background and how the narrative about himself growing up shaped his reality
- Self talk, mindset, and sense of sense being hugely important in life
- How we can get to the root cause of behavior/feelings in childhood before it becomes self destructive
- Being a victim of something versus living in victimhood mentality
- How Doug’s cell mate in jail deeply impacted his mindset and what was instilled in him that he never herd before
- Life is a lot of times about perception and how you look at a situation makes or breaks you
- How do we learn how to be comfortable being uncomfortable?
- Creating your own reality
- If “pulling yourselves up by your bootstraps” is a privileged mentality. What about those living in extremely hard circumstances?
- How to turn shame or regret from your past into purpose
- How can people set goals and stay inspired to show up consistently?
- Advice for those who feel stuck in their circumstances and have a hard time believing in themselves and their capabilities
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