442 The Mindset That Creates Miracles with JJ Virgin

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is episode number 442 with New York Times bestselling author JJ Virgin.

• 0:08Lewis Howes?

  Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week, we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

• 0:34Lewis Howes?

  JJ Virgin is one of the nation's foremost celebrity nutritionist experts, public speaker and media personality. Her 25 years in the health and fitness industry, the past 10 in holistic nutrition and functional medicine, have earned JJ recognition as the go-to weight loss expert who can unlock the door to lifelong weight management through her sensible, no-fail approach to nutrition and fitness. Now, she's worked with some of the biggest performance athletes, CEOs, A-list celebrities from around the world. She's appeared on major media shows like Dr. Phil, ABC's Extreme Makeover, and many others.

• 1:12Lewis Howes?

  She's also a four-time New York Times bestselling author, podcast host. Guys, she has done it all. And in this interview, we go a little bit more vulnerable, a little bit deeper, a little bit on a separate topic, but also related to nutrition, the mind, and spirituality. We talk about an experience that is near and dear to JJ's heart. And some of the main notes that we cover are whether the spiritual side of health is as important as the physical side. Also, what JJ learned about her biggest fears because she was adopted. The surprising truth about what is actually holding our health back.

• 1:52Lewis Howes?

  The story that inspired this new book she has, where her son nearly passed away. And also why forgiveness is the number one thing you must do if you want to live a happier, more fulfilling life. Guys, this is a powerful interview. Make sure to share it with your friends, lewishowes.com/442. And let me know what you think. And without further ado, let me introduce to you the one and only JJ Virgin.

• 2:27Lewis Howes?

  Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatness Podcast. Very excited about our guest JJ Virgin in the house. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. You have a new book out called Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son, and Life's Hardest Lessons. Make sure you guys go pick it up right now. You can get it ASAP. You are a New York Times bestselling author, four-time New York Times bestseller, correct, of many different nutritional and health-related books. And you're a celebrity nutritionist. You're among many things. And you've been doing it for a long time. And you're looked at as one of the leaders in the space. You know, every book you do is a huge hit, and you heal so many people through your message. But this

• 3:09Lewis Howes?

  is a different message. It's not necessarily a nutrition, health-related message, although there's a different type of health related to it. So can we talk about why Miracle Mindset? Why making this transition? And what is it exactly about?

• 3:26Speaker 02

  Well, you know, it's so interesting is it seems like, you know, I've been going down this path and I went, but the reality is, we queried my community a couple months ago, and we said, all right, if you are not where you want to be in your health, why is it? Now, I expected to hear, I can't give up my cheese, right? Or I've been like, I'm a sugar addict, right? Okay. Because I mean, come on, like, you know, I'm all about getting rid of gluten and dairy and lowering your sugar impact. So what I heard was blew my mind and not what I expected. Here's what it was. I don't feel good enough. I am not worthy. And I realized

• 4:07Speaker 02

  that, you know, heck, strategies abound, right? There's no shortage of strategies on how to lose weight, how to get more energy. But if your mindset's not dialed in, if you don't feel good enough, if you don't feel worthy, we're trying to hit a mindset issue with strategies and we'll fail every time. So in reality, it might look like I've taken this, you know, diversion. But really, this has to sit up on top of everything you do in your life. Whether you're trying to work on your business, or your finances, or your relationship, or your health. If you don't believe you're good enough, if your mindset's not there, you're going to be limited to wherever it is.

• 4:45Lewis Howes?

  Right. Wow. Okay. Have you always felt like your mindset's been worthy enough?

• 4:49Speaker 02

  I've never thought about my mindset prior to this whole thing. You know, so

• 4:54Lewis Howes?

  But you were creating extraordinary results in your business, making multiple seven figures, New York Times bestseller, multiple, you know, Dr. Phil, all these different shows you've been on multiple times. Did you feel

• 5:02Speaker 02

  That all sounds really great.

• 5:04Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 5:04Speaker 02

  And I'm thinking, wow, that's a really great, wow, that's amazing. Who is that?

• 5:10Speaker 02

  And the other side of that is, I was on Dr. Phil, and when I was on Dr. Phil, I got my own primetime pilot on ABC.

• 5:18Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  You never saw it. Because I signed the contract, I taped it, and it went in the can. And it took me off TV and I never saw it. You don't know about my first book because it sold a thousand copies. The book before that actually never even came out. I had to give my business partner 50% to leave me alone because he was going to own everything I ever did for the rest of my life. You know, you don't see the near bankruptcies. The reality is, it's not the Dr. Phil or the New York Times that gave me the mindset. We don't grow when things are fabulous. That's what we tend to look at. But the things that brought me to those places were all of the challenges that I've gone through every, you know, all through my life. That's what created it.

• 6:01Speaker 02

  And I never thought about the mindset piece until after what this book was written on, this whole accident where my son nearly died. And people went, how the heck did you do it? You know, and at first I thought, well, it was because I was really healthy, you know, and But the reality was that wasn't, didn't have anything to do with it. It had to do with my mindset and how I decided to show up.

• 6:22Lewis Howes?

  Right, right. So what happened with your son, for those that don't know?

• 6:25Speaker 02

  Yes, so about six weeks before the Virgin Diet's coming out now, I'll set this whole space.

• 6:33Lewis Howes?

  Which is the biggest book launch you're ever gonna do?

• 6:35Speaker 02

  Biggest book launch ever. I, I get this book advance, I take the entire book advance, I invest it into launching this book, and then I go borrow some too.

• 6:45Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 6:45Speaker 02

  I do a public television special. I have lined everything up because I know that this is my breakout, breakout thing. I've been using it, testing it, getting amazing results. This is it, right? So, six weeks before, now, six weeks before a book launch is mass insanity of all the things you still have to get done, right? Okay, so it's craziness. And I've got two sons. They're 15 and 16. I'm a single mom. I am the financial support for my kids. My 16-year-old is bipolar, so things can be topsy-turvy. You never know what you're coming home to. And I come home one afternoon and he is in a bad mood. Now, he'd missed school that day. He'd gone to school and come home because he had a migraine, right?

• 7:29Speaker 02

  That he'd miraculously recovered from, and now he wants to go to martial arts. But the rule is, like, if you couldn't stay in school, you don't get to go to martial arts. So I'm saying no, and he's escalating the situation, and I'm holding my ground. And I was actually super proud of how well I was handling this whole thing because I was tired. So I was like, not reacting. He gets madder and madder and madder, and storms out of the house. He looks back at me, he goes, "Mom, I'm not as strong as you think I am." He has nothing. He's got a pair of shorts, t-shirt, no shoes, nothing, storms out. It's dusk. I look at that whole thing. I think, should I go get him? And I think, eh, let him go, walk it off, go to a friend's house. I go into my garage to burst train.

• 8:10Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 8:11Speaker 02

  And the next thing I know, my 15-year-old son comes running into the garage and says, "Mom, Grant's been hit by a car and airlifted to the local hospital."

• 8:22Speaker 02

  The weirdest thing, it was like I wasn't even in my body anymore. It was like I was watching myself go get my stuff, you know, throw all my stuff into a tote bag. I ran out the door with my 15 year old son Bryce and my ex husband and we drive to the hospital and we're trying to get information as we're driving, but they won't tell us anything because he's a John Doe. We get there and first of all, they're making us sit in the waiting room and not telling us anything and everyone's looking very grim. So, you know, we're just sitting there freaking out. Then we get ushered into a conference room. And then the doctors start asking me questions and finally, like, what was he doing? Why was he barefoot? And why was he out walking by himself? And I'm

• 9:07Speaker 02

  like, hold it, you know, like, we're not on trial here. What is going on with my son? And they say, your son has been in a serious accident, hit and run. Remind me to tell you what I found out later about the hit and run, blow your mind, but hit and run accident. He's got a torn aorta. Now, a torn aorta kills 90% of people on the scene. His was hanging on, he said, the doctor said it's like an onion skin. He had multiple brain bleeds, diffuse axonal injuries. He was in a deep coma. It's called a Glasgow III, deepest you could be in. He had 13 fractures. In fact, when we were brought in to see him, he had bones sticking through. He had road rash covering one half of his body with glass. I was pulling glass out of him for months.

• 9:49Lewis Howes?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 9:50Speaker 02

  And the doctor said, we can't fix his torn aorta here because we'd have to use a blood thinner and he would bleed out.

• 9:58Lewis Howes?

  Just so I'm aware, what's an aorta?

• 9:59Speaker 02

  So, this is what's, this is what's going to be pumping your, your, the blood into your heart. So, no aorta, no, no, no blood, no heart. So, think of either heart or brain because that's basically the choice we were given. You can either, you can either have his heart or you can have his brain, but we, if we don't fix his aorta, you know, he's not going to have a heart and he's gone. And if we fix his aorta, his brain bleeds out, he's gone. However.

• 10:27Lewis Howes?

  No good solution.

• 10:28Speaker 02

  Well, yeah, but it turns out that there is a doctor that can do this without blood thinners. Now, you always have to ask the right questions. My ex-husband was a medical malpractice trial attorney. He goes, well, you know, what are the options? He goes, well, there is a doctor that could do this without blood thinners, but he'd never survive the airlift to that hospital. Even if he did, he'd never survive surgery. And even if he survived both those things, which is so slim, the chance he'd ever be normal, he's going to be so brain damaged. And my 15 year old, listening to this, so he goes, so like a point two five percent chance. And

• 11:05Lewis Howes?

  So you're saying there's a chance.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, right. All we need. And, and the doctor goes, that's right, son. He goes, here's my 15 year old. We'll take those odds.

• 11:15Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 11:15Speaker 02

  And from that minute, I was like, we're in. What are you doing standing here? We're overruling you. And, and so, and that's why I say, there's the start of it. There's the mindset, the mindset that says, hey, I'm going to go with abundance, not scarcity. I hear point two five percent. I don't hear, there's a 99.75% chance he's going, you know, he's dying here. We heard there's a point two five percent chance he's going to make it. We're grabbing that, right? And so that was the first thing that we did was like, okay, we're overruling you. And, you know, I, I think back to that night because shortly after that, another kid came in with a brain injury to that hospital and died there.

• 11:55Speaker 02

  And I was trying to reach the parents going, get him out, you know, because so many people will hear that first opinion and go, oh, okay.

• 12:03Speaker 02

  Instead of going, what are, what are all the possibilities? How can we be open to possibilities? So we airlift him. We have no idea if we're going to pick up a corpse, you know, or if we're, I mean, that was a tough drive. And this, by the way, happened in the middle of the night. So at midnight, we did the, we're overruling you step. Now they had to get the doctor to agree. There's like this one doctor, right? They fax the hospital. I'm like, we're really doing this. They get ahold of this doctor. They get ahold of this doctor at 2am now, this is all getting set up. The doctor has to now assemble not only his team, because when a doctor, when, when another hospital takes on a case, the first hospital gets to go, here, it's all yours, right?

• 12:44Speaker 02

  So, this next hospital doesn't know if they're getting, you know, a corpse, or if there's anything they can do. They've agreed to this case, because the doctor had to get them to agree to the case. Now, this vascular surgeon has to assemble his team, the orthopedic surgery team, the neurosurgery team, the critical care team, both for adults and peds. And, he had to get the stent that he was gonna use. But the stent he wanted to use was part of a study that had been discontinued two weeks ago, so no stents at his hospital. He had to get one flown in from another hospital, and then he was gonna use it on my son, who's 16, and was only approved for adults. And he said to us later, he goes, "Yeah, I figured I'd ask for forgiveness." Right, right. I think if we could do that, once he's alive. Sure.

• 13:29Speaker 02

  So great. And I remember when I walked into that hospital, literally walking in going, you know, you wanna run in the door, and then you don't wanna go in at all, because you're just like, what is going on here? And that doctor walked up to me, he goes, "Is that your son?" You know, and my, there is full court press going on around my son, there's all these teams working on him, and I'm like, "Mm-hmm." He goes, "I got this." Wow. "Don't even worry." He goes, "I do this all the time. I had someone thrown off the overpass last week, I fixed him, I'll fix him, don't worry, you go to the waiting room, I'll come get you." That's nice. I'm like, "All right." I went up to the waiting room, it's now like 5:30 in the morning, I'm like, "I've gotta put my brain somewhere else, I'm writing blog posts." Ah, nice.

• 14:12Speaker 02

  And, uh, it's funny, we sat in there for two and a half hours, and my ex-husband was wearing a red shirt. He hadn't been wearing the red shirt earlier, he'd been wearing, he changed and put that on and drove to the hospital. My son later goes, "You know when you and dad were in the waiting room, dad was in that red shirt?" I'm like... Wow. Wow, yeah, we, we He remembered. He saw us. He left, he left what he was doing, came over, checked us out, went back over there. Yeah, he's told us a bunch of stuff. I'm like, huh. I've always been fascinated by the whole near death thing. I didn't necessarily want to like, experience it in this way, but it is super interesting.

• 14:50Speaker 02

  So he came through that surgery. The doctor came out to tell us everything had gone great. He goes, now, I'm just the plumber. I don't know if he'll ever wake up. That's not my part. You can talk to the neurosurgeons. And so it was like, kind of like, we're high, we're back low. And we go in to talk to the neurosurgeons. We're like, oh, you know, he's so brain damaged. And I'm like, you know, I'm not listening to this. I'm just, I'm not going to listen to this. And I went in to see Grant and I stood there and I thought, you know, I, I kind of was standing there going, do I, what do I do? You know, freaking out, you're trying to control all of these negative thoughts because I don't want anything to enter my brain, anything negative, because, you know, it, it felt like then that would become reality. I've just got to hold on to the positive.

• 15:34Speaker 02

  And it was funny, I was in there and I get this text from a client. And I don't know this person especially well. She didn't know I had kids. You know, I'd been coaching her on nutrition. And this text says, Grant is worried about you. He said he's going to be fine. You need to, you know, be stronger. I'm like, okay, all right. It was just like, it was like, you know, that moon strike, snap out of it. I just went, all right, game on. I looked over and I said, Grant, you're going to be 110%. We've got this. Your name means warrior. We're going to do this. It's going to be the best thing that ever happened. And I just kept repeating that to him. And when we were in the hospital and people would come over and say, we don't know if he's ever going to walk again. I'm like, no, uh-uh, get him out of the room. You know, I didn't let anyone around who was saying anything negative

• 16:19Speaker 02

  about him not waking up or not being able to walk. And later he said to me, because I literally, he was in the hospital for four and a half months. He was in a coma for weeks. Now I'm in my book launch. Yeah, yeah. That's still going on too. Book launch is still going on. And I can't postpone that. You know, I remember, you know, someone said, you don't worry about your job. Yeah, right. You just go take care of your sweet boy. Your job will be waiting for you. I'm like, no, I go, not only will my job not be waiting for me, I'll be bankrupt. And As much as, you know, publishers are human, it's a business and this is it. And if I'm not there, that book is gonna go.

• 17:00Lewis Howes?

  And it affects the rest of your books in the future and your.

• 17:02Speaker 02

  Oh, I'd be done. It was a, I looked at this and went, here's my son, he's lying in a coma. I'm gonna do whatever it takes to bring him to 110%. That's not gonna be cheap.

• 17:14Lewis Howes?

  I need the money to make it happen.

• 17:15Speaker 02

  I gotta make this happen. And so this book launch just got 10x'd. Like now there is, now I burned all the boats. You know, I am taking this island. And I realized that there were two things I had to do. Be with my son. Third leading cause of death, death by doctor, all the stuff that goes down in hospitals. Third leading cause of death. First leading cause of death for children, brain injuries. So I'm like, I'm not leaving here, but I've got to make this book a huge success. So I'd literally sit next to my, there's pictures of me in the hospital talking to him. And working on my book launch, you know, just sharing what I'm doing, talking it out.

• 17:56Speaker 02

  And later he said, Mom, the gray man came to the hospital and came down and asked me if I wanted to live or die. And I did not want to live. He goes, but I kept hearing your voice.

• 18:07Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 18:07Speaker 02

  So I told him I would.

• 18:09Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 18:09Speaker 02

  I know crazy stuff.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  So yeah, so I got very essential. I love that book Essentialism or then the one thing. And I am really bad at doing that. You know, all of us, too many ideas and all these things you want to do. But you know, that I, I credit the reason Virgin Diet was a huge success is I didn't have any option. It wasn't, I was gonna, I wasn't gonna try to make it successful. It was like, oh no, this is, this is a lifesaver now. This is it. So.

• 18:39Lewis Howes?

  Wow. And how is your son now?

• 18:41Speaker 02

  So it has been.

• 18:45Speaker 02

  A you would think that the four and a half months of the hospital were the hard part.

• 18:50Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  No, no, the four years have been since then have been the hard part. And it's made me realize that I have a way bigger purpose out there in terms of getting information out about brain health. So, you know, obviously hit a severe brain injury. Turns out 17 million people a year have a brain injury.

• 19:11Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 19:11Speaker 02

  17 million. Well, think, have you ever hit your head?

• 19:15Lewis Howes?

  I play football, so I hit my head many times.

• 19:18Speaker 02

  Yeah. And so we think about, you know, football, soccer, volleyball is actually one of the big sports that's problematic. You know, all of our veterans, anyone who's been in any car accident.

• 19:28Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 19:28Speaker 02

  I was in a car accident where I was hit head on and rear ended in the freeway and it cracked my Lexus SUV in half. So this was a hard hit. And, you know, I passed out, came to and went to the hospital and they go, okay, well, you know, it's just gonna take time. I'm like, just time. When Grant was coming out of the coma, they said it's gonna be ugly. Now, I had no idea. I've only seen movies and in movies, people come out of comas, they look at you lovingly. I love you. So I thought like he'd wake up, he'd go, I love you, mom. It's not what happens.

• 20:00Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 20:01Speaker 02

  It is not what happens. Um, 25% of people who have brain injuries try to kill themselves or think about it. You know, it's, it's a major scary thing. The last four years, um, I have committed myself to making them a hundred and 10% and figuring it out and then getting that information out to everybody. Because when someone has a brain injury, it's not just them who's affected. It affects every, yeah, it's amazing. So he's probably tried to kill himself now 10 times over the last four years. And I have jumped him. We have, I'm like going, I did not just go through all this. Like you are not doing this, not on my watch, you know?

• 20:39Speaker 02

  But it's, it's like they're a prisoner in their, their brain. It's a scary, scary thing.

• 20:44Lewis Howes?

  It's challenging. I think I mentioned to you last time we talked, my dad was in a car accident about 11 years ago and really traumatic head injury, was in a coma for many months and never been the same, you know, it's it's even 11 years later, I can have a conversation with him. You know, he, he has some of the characteristics from the past, but he's just, he's not

• 21:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:03Lewis Howes?

  The dad that I used to, you know, have. He's a completely different person and he needs a lot of care and a lot of help and isn't able to function, you know, with his words and the way he wants to. He forgets a lot. He's a lot of, he needs us. We can't remember a lot of things.

• 21:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:20Lewis Howes?

  He repeats himself over and over. It's just like, it's a challenge.

• 21:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:24Lewis Howes?

  You know, there's been growth and, you know, I'm so grateful he's still around, but it's also like, it's really challenging, you know?

• 21:32Speaker 02

  Well, you can heal the brain at any time. There's so much information that needs to be out there and I was lucky in that the minute this happened. So I've got ideas for your dad. The minute this happened, I put an SOS out to my community. Like, listen, I don't need your sympathy. I need your support. What you got? You know, Daniel Aiman's in the hospital with me right away. You know, so I mean, I have amazing resources. Barry Sears was helping me with the whole fish oil thing. Dr. Michael Lewis. I got, you know, I got the guy who figured out the progesterone stuff. They're all, I'm, I'm talking to them. So I was super fortunate with all of that. Um, he's been doing high dose fish oil. He did progesterone. Um, we've been doing interthecal stem cells. Right into his, growing his own stem cells, injecting them to his spine.

• 22:16Speaker 02

  It is waking him up. He, his memory, he has memories back of when he was three and four years old now, like everything is shifting. Because I'm coming from a place of, I believe that we can fix this and I'm going to make him a hundred and 10%. Because there's things that make him better because of the accident, because now he's empathetic. He's never been a victim. But, um, you know, these, these stories that we all have, everyone's had someone touch with a brain injury and yes, it can change them forever. But your brain can, you can continue healing at any point. So

• 22:49Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 22:49Speaker 02

  We've done fish oil. We've done, obviously I was bringing also, I had a Nutribullet in his, in the hospital. As soon as he was starting to show that, you know, he could eat, he actually split up his own feeding tube and I was like, okay, I'm all in now. I was making him smoothies, um. We couldn't get the hospital to do the fish oil like I want them to, so I just did it anyway.

• 23:08Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 23:09Speaker 02

  Um, and the progesterone cream, but it's been the stem cells and then neurofeedback ping pong.

• 23:16Lewis Howes?

  Yep.

• 23:16Speaker 02

  There's been a lot of things that we've done, but um, the neuro, the stem cells have to me the biggest hope. And something you, I'll, I'll share with you after that would be for your dad because honestly, um, you look at what happens after a brain injury, depression, anxiety, uh, memory issues, and then you think about the fact that at any one time, 50% of us have something going on with depression, anxiety, mood issues. 26 and a half percent of people uh, in their lifetime are going to have some kind of mental illness and you go, huh? You know, what, is there a correlation here? I think there is. I think we're misdiagnosing head injuries because we, we don't think about it.

• 23:56Speaker 02

  I just had a friend post on Facebook and I, I amped her. I'm like, um, you've got a problem here. She goes, my husband rolled off the top of the van as they got caught in the beach towel while he was putting the surfboards up and he not got knocked out. Then he was talking kind of nonsense, but we took him to the hospital and they said he's fine. He doesn't have a head injury. I'm like, of course he has a head injury. How could he not have a head injury? Right?

• 24:18Lewis Howes?

  Crazy.

• 24:18Speaker 02

  But these are the things that we need to treat. We need to teach people that no, it's not just about time. Right?

• 24:23Lewis Howes?

  Yep.

• 24:24Speaker 02

  And you know, yes, there's tons of things you can do and you can do it forever because everything keeps healing. So your dad's still got, there's still a lot of stuff that you can do.

• 24:33Lewis Howes?

  And he's doing a lot better, your son, after four years. I mean, you've been through a lot.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  So, yeah, so I will tell you that some things he's 110%. There are parts of him that were better than before the accident. He's more empathetic and nicer. He's never blamed this woman. There was, he got hit, um, this woman hit him, got out of the car, gasped, got back in the car and drove off.

• 24:52Lewis Howes?

  Probably scared and.

• 24:53Speaker 02

  Uh, yeah. And you know, people are like, did you find the woman? And it's one of the parts of the miracle mindset is forgiveness. And I go, I never focused on that. I had to focus on saving my son. And I go, and I don't know, like, okay, she shouldn't have driven off. But I don't know, maybe she had kids at home. She was like, I have no idea what her situation was. It didn't matter. She saw another person pull in to protect him. And I don't know who, who was at fault here and nor does it matter. It's like, this is where we're at now. She's got her own life to deal with.

• 25:24Lewis Howes?

  He might have ran in front. Who knows what happened?

• 25:26Speaker 02

  We'll never know. No one saw it.

• 25:28Lewis Howes?

  Cause he's not, he doesn't remember. Yeah. So who knows? And if you didn't know who she is.

• 25:33Speaker 02

  It doesn't, what? You know, it was interesting because when I was in the hospital,

• 25:39Speaker 02

  my ex-husband called and said, okay, they found the woman and all of this stuff came up, like this mama bear stuff. I was like, where is she? You know, and I was like, and then, and that's when, you know, you kind of realize I've got to work on this forgiveness part. Because if you are, you've got to actively forgive people. It doesn't just happen of, okay, I'm not going to focus on that. I'll focus on saving my son. I had to go back and forgive her. I had to forgive my son for going and doing that. I had to forgive myself for not stopping him. You know, there's a lot of forgiveness that had to go on just to be okay with all of that stuff. And you can't just put that in the closet.

• 26:15Lewis Howes?

  Is there anything you haven't forgiven yet?

• 26:17Speaker 02

  You know what? I've got a lot of stuff I need to forget. I went, so our buddy Dave Asprey.

• 26:22Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 26:22Speaker 02

  Last, two summers ago, he, you know, strong-armed me as, you know, he can be so bossy.

• 26:28Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 26:29Speaker 02

  He said, JJ, you have to come to 40 years is then, because he saw, what happened from all of this is I got some pretty bad PTSD, right? As one could imagine and I, nothing was giving me joy. I hit, I got the virgin diet. It became a New York Times bestseller. And then I did three more books and I didn't, I forgot I even did it. Someone said, what did you do? Cool in the last six months? I go, nothing. I totally even, I mean, it was just, nothing was like, I just was flatlining and he goes, you're coming to this thing. And I'm, it was, it was a week of neurofeedback. You stick things in your, your hair. Like those guys were all lucky. None of them. I was with Joe Polish and Vish. And I'm like, no one else has to deal with all this.

• 27:12Speaker 02

  You know, you had to stick electrodes in your head and you literally were down in these chambers. And they didn't tell me what it was when I was going. I just like, all right, I'll be there. And it turns out you work through forgiveness because the fastest way to raise your alpha and to be more creative and to be happier is to forgive. Because if you're angry, it will just smoosh your joy.

• 27:32Lewis Howes?

  Absolutely.

• 27:33Speaker 02

  That's a scientific term. And so as I'm going through this first couple of days, working on forgiveness, I'm thinking, I'm going to be here all year.

• 27:42Lewis Howes?

  Right. It's been a lifetime of forgiveness.

• 27:44Speaker 02

  This is a peeling of onions because you go, okay, well, I need to forgive Grant. Well, then I got to forgive this woman. Well, I got to forgive myself, but then we've got to go back to everything that led up to that. And, you know, I kept going back further and further and further. And Dave's one of my very best friends and I'm going, you know, I think I need to forgive my birth mom. And he goes, you think? I think you might even need to go back further. I'm like, oh, my gosh, okay. You know?

• 28:04Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 28:04Speaker 02

  So, yeah, it's, I think that's an important point to bring up is forgiveness is a process that you're never done with, you know? And, uh, because there's stuff that comes up all the time.

• 28:15Lewis Howes?

  Absolutely.

• 28:16Speaker 02

  And I kind of check in, I was really mad at someone for a couple of weeks and I just, I was like, you know how to go through this forgiveness stuff? Let this one go like, and it's not a matter of just going, oh, it's fine. You have to actively forgive someone. You have to go through and feel all the reasons you're so upset with them and then step over to their side and go, all right, let's look at it from their side. Let's be them for a minute, which is huge, hugely eye opening. And then find the gift in the whole thing because there's always a major gift, you know? You're not going to grow when like, everything is perfect.

• 28:47Lewis Howes?

  Right. That's true. Well, I'm curious about, um, what do you think is the misconception around people who have life altering event, events or experiences? You know, you've went through one with your, your son. I've been through one with my, with my dad. For people who haven't been through one, what do you think they, I guess their, their misconception is around it?

• 29:08Speaker 02

  Their misconception. So biggest thing people have said to me since Grant got hit is, oh, I'm so sorry. And I look at and I go, well, he didn't die. Right. Right? You know, um, and I think that our misconception on anything, whether it's that or just a really bad thing happening. So let's say that someone, you know, you're bankrupt or you went through a divorce, anything like that. What if we flip that to being this is going to be the best thing that ever happened to me? I will be better because of this. I'll be a better person, a better father, a better husband, whatever it is, right? You know, there's always something in there and in the moment, I mean, heck, in the moment with Grant, I was scared to death. When we were

• 29:53Speaker 02

  making that decision that we were going to overrule those doctors, I stood outside at the hospital and um, I just got totally present, which has never been very easy for me to do. I just stood out there. It was, you know, now like 11 o'clock at night and I just stood out there and listened and I went, Grant, what do you want me to do? Cause here was my big fear. Overrule the doctors, go charge in there, be, you know, bossy, tell them what they're gonna do. Right, right. Have no problem doing that. And he is a vegetable. Right. He is so damaged and, and I went, I want to do what's going to be best for him. You know, that's the hope. What do I do? And I just stood out there and got quiet and

• 30:37Speaker 02

  it was, it was funny. I was describing it to um, this guy Roz who founded Hoffman Institute and he goes, you know, you had a divine experience there. That I was like, was? You know, cause I just stood out there and it was like, just like lightning bolt of boom, save your son. And I was like, I marched in, I'm like, that's it. You know, this is what we're doing. It was like, I knew exactly what I needed to do. But there are still times along the way, I would sit there. When he came out of a coma, he was staring off into space. He was staring sideways. I have pictures. You can see that no one's home, moving his arm back and forth for days. And I'm thinking, uh oh, is this what I, what did I do here? You know, so I had to so manage all of that fear. And that's why I just held on to the hope, you

• 31:18Speaker 02

  know? And, and so if you say, okay, my plan is he's 110% and I, here's what I'm going to do to do that. And every day you look for any little win that tells you that you're going in the right direction. And sometimes it was a very small win. Yeah. You know, he wrinkled his nose. I mean, there was not for months and months and months, years, any sign he was going to be 110%. At all. But I just figured, you know what, I'm gonna go with 110% because if I make it to 80, I win.

• 31:47Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 31:47Speaker 02

  And, uh, and we're already past 80. I, I, we, we kinda go between 90 and 110 right now.

• 31:54Lewis Howes?

  That's great.

• 31:55Speaker 02

  And there's some really bad times, but they're few and far between compared to the really good times.

• 32:00Lewis Howes?

  You know, there's bad times with people who are healthy.

• 32:01Speaker 02

  I know.

• 32:02Lewis Howes?

  You know what I mean? It's like there's horrible times with people who have the brain and everything figured out. You know what I mean? So it's all good, you know, we're never gonna be perfect. I'm curious though, you, you know, you've been teaching nutrition and physical health for many years. And now you have this experience of kind of like this spiritual, mental health experience. What did you learn about, um, from this process? And, and is the spiritual side of well-being just as important as the nutritional and physical side now for you? Or has it always been that way?

• 32:32Speaker 02

  Um, I haven't ever paid attention to it before. You know, when you talked about mindset, it just was who I was and I never really looked at how you developed that. And I think the reason that, I'm very left brain.

• 32:43Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 32:44Speaker 02

  So I think the reason I always focused on nutrition and, and exercise was they were so measurable.

• 32:50Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 32:50Speaker 02

  It was so obvious. I could draw out an algorithm. I knew exactly your labs are this. You need to do that, you know? And all of a sudden, uh, people are going, well, how'd you do that? And I'm like, uh, and, and then as I was going through this, I went, could I teach this? Like, is there a way to help someone develop this mindset? Once, once we know that you're not in a fixed mindset, you're not a victim, that life doesn't happen to you, that you can be responsible for your life, control it, build it, create it because of your mindset. Then the next question is, can you make that? Can you build that? Is it like a muscle? So that's, I decided, okay, let's, let's say that mindset's a muscle, you can develop it. So what is it exactly? Cause I have to measure everything, right?

• 33:32Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 33:32Speaker 02

  So I actually create, yeah, can you measure it? And so then I broke it up to what were my attributes that I saw in me? And then I started going around, like when we interviewed you and we interviewed just a group of people I look at and I go, okay, you're doing amazing things. And here was the common denominator. Every single person I know in my life who's doing amazing things has gone through some crap. Yes. Every single one of them, all of them. And as I went through, I went, what are the common attributes? Things like abundance minded, right? Courageous, resilient. So I just built all of those up. And then I created a way to evaluate them. Cause that's my little left brain can totally deal with that. And then I took a group of people through it.

• 34:16Speaker 02

  I want to see, could I train this? And here's what's crazy. Cause it's like, all right, you know, cause I never saw myself. I, I am sitting here doing this and, and selling this PD book. And I'm like, but I'm not a personal development person. I'm a nutritionist. And, but, but in reality, aren't we all personal development teachers? All of us at any level, right? A mom is a personal development teacher. Yeah. So, you know, so I'm taking this group through this. And this has never happened, by the way, when I've taken people through a diet program. You see people have amazing results and it does impact all the other areas of their life. But this is the first week of a coaching call. And we're going through this first exercise to build resilience.

• 34:58Speaker 02

  And this gal gets on and she goes, I want to do that, but I can't. And I go, okay, why not? What's in your way, right? And she goes, I don't feel good enough. I don't feel worthy. And I go, well, if you were worthy, if you did feel that way, what would you say about yourself? And she goes, well, people wouldn't believe it, but I am smart. And I go, okay, that sounds good. What else? You know, and she starts listing out all these things about herself. And I'm putting it on our Facebook group page, you know, angel is smart. Angel is kind. And then I put an angel is worthy. And all of a sudden, all these people on this call are on this page and they're putting it angels worthy, angels.

• 35:39Speaker 02

  And I'm watching this, my team, and I've got some big guys, you know, are crying. They're crying in the office, right? And I'm going. Wow, uh, cause I had been leaning away from this and I tell people if something's scary, that's where you need to go. Like if it's not scary, you're not playing big enough and this has scared me to put doing this scared me terrified me.

• 36:02Lewis Howes?

  Nutrition all you can do all day. Yeah, yeah.

• 36:04Speaker 02

  It it's easy and that's why honestly, why am I doing this? Because it terrifies me. And I know I have to and I see the difference in people when they do this. You you go through and up level your mindset, you can go take on your health. You know, you can, you can go change your business, you can get a better relationship. All those things are going to uplift, but you don't fix your mindset and you have a fixed mindset that believes that you can't do it, that life happens to you, that you're the victim. No amount of our great strategies are going to do a thing.

• 36:36Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 36:37Speaker 02

  Right?

• 36:38Lewis Howes?

  So what's it come down to worthiness first? Is that kind of the foundation of what you teach is how to build that or building the confidence or?

• 36:44Speaker 02

  So I actually, what I do first is measure again, because I'm, I'm always evaluating. And then I just start them, I have seven lessons that go along with the lessons in the book. And again, it was like when people started to go, how did you do this? My first response when people were like, how were you able to do that? I go, well, I was really healthy when I went into the hospital.

• 37:02Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 37:04Speaker 02

  And I was, I mean, I went in and I was super physically healthy. I was under ridiculous stress. So I decided that my self-care came above everything else. And and I know people that are looking going, well, that's so selfish. I go, it actually was the most selfless thing I could do because you don't go into the ICU if you're sick. And so I went, you know, if I'm going to be making life and death decisions and I'm going to pull this out, I cannot even have a sniffle. This is I'm going to take, so I was getting my eight to nine hours of sleep. I was burst training in the hospital stairs. I had friends sending in food. I was on it, right? I totally nailed that stuff. And at first, when people said, how did you do it? I go, I was super healthy. And then when I realized no, that was not the case at all. It was the decision above that. And then I

• 37:45Speaker 02

  went, well, what, how would I take someone through this? And so it's really taking them through a series of lessons and looking at each of those things. How do we move from a scarcity mindset to abundance mindset, you know?

• 37:56Lewis Howes?

  How do we?

• 37:57Speaker 02

  How do we? Um, I actually have a really crazy exercise that I take people through that someone took me through. I had a mentor in my twenties that had me do this silly exercise. And, uh, so she has you take out a sheet of paper and write down everything you want. Okay, and fill it up.

• 38:16Lewis Howes?

  Like physical things or achievements?

• 38:19Speaker 02

  Physical things. So I want, I want, you know, this car. She says, I don't care, you know, just be materialistic. You know, what kind of vacations, jewelry, shoes, everything, write it all down. Fill up the paper. And I still remember sitting in this room. I remember where I was writing it down. And I remember the things I wrote on there. I wanted a teal green Jaguar. And I wanted a condo in Maui. And I thought I was like thinking huge, big, big, big. Okay. So then she says, all right. So tell me what's on your list. Right? And we're, there's a bunch of us in here, but she, I was, she was my mentor. So I'm like listing out. She goes, oh, that's, that's great. So I just have a question for you on the, on the Jaguar.

• 39:02Speaker 02

  So, um, why just one? And I said, well, I don't need more than one. She goes, I didn't ask you what you needed. She goes, so that condo in Maui, like, why just a condo? And I go, okay, I'll take a house. She goes, well, why did you want a condo? She goes, well, you know, I don't need that much. She goes, no, this isn't about what you need. Just why not the house? And I go, okay, house? She goes, well, why not like Maui? Just take, and it was like crazy when you start to realize that we limit ourselves every, we always do it. Right? So just that way of starting to go, huh?

• 39:40Lewis Howes?

  Physical possessions, yes.

• 39:41Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, and that's just, that's just a sign of it. I mean, if you do it in one, the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. Right? But I'll tell you that to me, and I always look at this, this is going to be my, my vegetable analogy. Because in health, I think, gosh, so many things would just get better if people would just get a good night's sleep and eat more vegetables. A lot of stuff gets better. You know, we're so worried about it. Am I getting enough of this micronutrient? I'm like, eat your vegetables. Right? Gratitude is to vegetables, you know, right? It's like gratitude. We think of vegetables for health and gratitude for personal development. You want to get more resilient, you know, you want to change your life. The best thing that you can do is start every single day in gratitude.

• 40:23Speaker 02

  And when I looked back and went, what helped me get through all of this stuff in the hospital? The biggest thing was making sure I had my morning routine dialed. And every day it was get up and what are my things I'm grateful for? Three things, write them down. And find something, right? Find something. They're like, I don't have anything. I'm like, you're awake, you're alive, you know?

• 40:44Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 40:44Speaker 02

  Your eyes are open, you can do it.

• 40:46Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 40:46Speaker 02

  So, so those are some of the things. I've built the lessons, but that was the big question mark is could this be teach without you having to go through all this stuff? Right? But here's the other thing is you never know when this stuff's gonna happen.

• 40:58Lewis Howes?

  Never know.

• 40:59Speaker 02

  And are you ready? And how do you get ready? Well, you have to lean into fear. You have to do things that scare you. You have to get out of your comfort zone. So, and you know, you have to actively pursue that, otherwise you won't. Which is why I think it's great to have coaches and support communities that all cheer you on from going, doing the hard things. Cause in life, we tend to shy away from doing the hard things, right?

• 41:22Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, yeah. And in the book, you have all the examples of how to build this mindset and all these different lessons, correct?

• 41:27Speaker 02

  Right.

• 41:27Lewis Howes?

  Okay, cool. Um, I want to ask a few more questions before I, I finish with the final few. Is there a question you wish people would ask you?

• 41:34Speaker 02

  Uh oh, the final few.

• 41:36Lewis Howes?

  Yes. Before I ask the final few questions, is there a question?

• 41:40Speaker 02

  You didn't warn me about the final few.

• 41:43Lewis Howes?

  Before I ask them, is there, is there a question that, uh, you wish people would ask that they don't?

• 41:50Speaker 02

  Hmm. Yeah, you know?

• 41:55Speaker 02

  What I'd love to be asked, because I think that there's a perception, uh, when you look at someone and you know, you sat down, you said, okay, you've been on Dr. Phil and, and you've got these books and it looks like it's been easy. And you know, that you just kind of roll through and go jump on a TV set or write a book and, and I, what I want people to see is the struggle. Because I think when we just see that and then we're not there, we all judge ourselves and go, well, I could never do that. Look, they just like plop those books out. They just got on that TV show and you know, we're all scared and we all struggle. And so I think that's the big thing that I, I'd like to pull up more in interviews is what, you know, what's scary and you know, what's the struggle?

• 42:41Lewis Howes?

  Okay, well, what's scary and what's the struggle right now?

• 42:44Speaker 02

  Um, you know, I've really looked at a lot of what's been super important and I was just talking to my fiance about that and I go, you know, there's not a lot of things that scare me. Um, you know, you can take all my money away and I'll go work and do it again and I don't need to have a whole bunch of fancy stuff and, you know, don't take my shoes away. But, um, what, what would scare me is losing the people around me who I love. You know, that's the big one. That's the big one. And so what's the struggle really is, um, I am an adopted kid and you, there's a thing with adopted kids and I've, I never really want to talk about it because I always thought it makes me sound like a whiner, like I'm

• 43:28Speaker 02

  ungrateful because, you know, when you're an adopted kid, back when I was adopted, my parents had to really fight for it to get to be able to adopt a child. They actually matched you. But my birth mom gave me up for adoption. She was engaged, my birth father, and he wanted her to drink quinine and abort. Wow. Thankfully, she said no. And she went to a, a home for unwed mothers in San Francisco and gave me up. And then they put me into a foster home for six weeks. They made you have a holding period. I'm like going, well, that's the worst plan ever. Like six weeks of limbo for a baby during that most important bonding thing. Wow. And then put me into, um, this place with my adopted parents who have done the

• 44:13Speaker 02

  best they can, but I'm so not, there's just not that, there's never been that bond, you know? It's like that bond. So you grow up feeling unloved and unworthy, right? You know? And it's like, so that's the biggest thing. When I came down to like, when you start to look at what you want in your life and then you go, well, why do I want that? Why do I want that? Why do I want it? And you can dial it all back. I was like, ultimately why I want all these things is you just want to be loved. Yeah. And so actually you don't have to do a whole bunch of that stuff because it's not so important anymore. You can just go. Be loved. Be loved. Love and be loved. It's so much easier. Wow. Love people and let them love you. I didn't know this about you. Well, do you know your parents? Yeah. Have you, have you met them or no?

• 44:55Speaker 02

  So yeah, I met my birth parents. Um, I got rejected again. So not once, but twice. So, um, yeah, my ex-husband reminded me of that. I have a super great relationship with my ex-husband, but I, I went and sought out my birth mother because how could you not want to know? Of course. And again, my, my adopted parents, you know, Were great parents, tried hard.

• 45:16Lewis Howes?

  And they were open about it from.

• 45:17Speaker 02

  They were open about it. They always told me about it. You know, and it's funny because the big, the big fat lie to adopt kids is that you're so special because more people wanted you. I'm like, no, not really. Your mom, like, I'm a mom. You, as clearly as you've seen, you would have to kill me to take my kids away. Like, I will do whatever for them.

• 45:37Lewis Howes?

  Sure.

• 45:38Speaker 02

  And I mean, that's just in our DNA. So, you know, when you've got someone, and I know, I know, because I went through the forgiveness protocol, because Dave's like, yes, I think we need to go there. You know, of what it was like for her to be a scared, unwed mother who was engaged to this guy who now wants her to abort. And she doesn't want to give me up to his crazy mom. And so, hey, she did the best she could do. And now I've really fully, like, all of a sudden, I was like, okay, I forgave her, I forgave, you know, my mom, everybody.

• 46:07Speaker 02

  But I met my birth mom and, and I met my birth dad and he made me take a paternity test. And ninety nine point nine nine nine, I'm like, okay, we'll do this.

• 46:18Lewis Howes?

  How old were you?

• 46:19Speaker 02

  I was twenty five. So my birth dad had never told his wife, he was still in love with my mother. That made it kind of weird. Because when I met him, he's like, oh, my gosh, you're just like her. And I'm like, okay, stop it. But he married a debutante, like Miss Oregon, just the kind of person who's not my type of person, you know?

• 46:42Speaker 02

  And they lived in a little, they're very provincial. They'd never really left Oregon, literally white picket fence. And I, like, show up. It's like, uh oh. Right? He goes, I never told her about you. I'm like, well, you know? So that was, that was the problem. Yeah. So I met everybody, but there was no, it's not like they're your family. They're not your family, you know? When people talk your real parents, your real parents are the people who had to deal with you growing up, right? Those are your real parents. They're whining and crying, you know? Those are your parents. These people were my biological parents, but they're not my parents. So, so kind of puts you as like, there's really no place for them, but you know, it just.

• 47:23Lewis Howes?

  What's the biggest lesson you learned about your biological mom? What's the biggest lesson she's taught you throughout your life, whether she's told you something or not, but something you've learned?

• 47:34Speaker 02

  Um.

• 47:37Speaker 02

  You know, she taught me by not doing, and it's, it's interesting because I believe that, you know, sometimes negative role models can be the most powerful of all. I understand now that she gave me up because that was what she believed to be the best thing. I still think it whenever possible that birth kids should be with their birth families because there's this genetic. I mean, when I met her, I got off the plane and looked at a woman dressed just like me, same taste, same. I am, I grew up in a very like Ward and June Cleaver family with parents who golf and dad who has a job waiting for a ship to come in, you know, just very, very unlike me. My dad is a massive entrepreneur. My mom

• 48:18Speaker 02

  is a scientist and her whole family are athletes. His family are models. It was like, you finally met your tribe, right? And so, um, but it was funny when I met her again, she was very judgy and you know, the one thing that you-

• 48:34Lewis Howes?

  At 25, when you were 25?

• 48:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, she was just kind of judging who I was and how I was. And it was interesting to see because I'm a parent and I may not love all the choices my kids make, although it's rare that I have issues with them. But I mean, they might do things I disagree with, but I love them unconditionally. That will never change. And so it was interesting to see that because I was like going, you know what? I think that the most powerful gift you can give your kids is the gift of unconditional love. That's, that was the big lesson that I learned with this.

• 49:07Lewis Howes?

  Wow. Amazing. Um, okay. Well, thank you for sharing and letting me know that that's what you want people to ask you about.

• 49:14Speaker 02

  There you go. Well, now they don't have to because they heard the answer.

• 49:17Lewis Howes?

  Exactly. Exactly. Um, is there anything else you wish people would ask you?

• 49:21Speaker 02

  Hmm. Um, no, I'm now totally nervous about this speed round thing.

• 49:27Lewis Howes?

  Okay. Well, yeah. A few fun questions. You'll be great. This is called the three truths. And it's many, many years from now, you've written however many New York Times bestsellers, you've achieved everything you want to. Uh, and, um, anything on the list of dreams that you write down now, you may happen. You have this abundant lifestyle. Anything you want, you create it. And it's the last day for you, many, many years. And for whatever reason, all your books have been erased, all your videos, all the work you've put out there is gone. And it's the last day and your whole family's there. And some great, great grandchild walks up to you and gives you a piece of paper and a pen and says,

• 50:10Lewis Howes?

  "We don't have anything physical to remember ourselves or be remembered by you. Um, can you write down three things you know to be true? Of all the lessons you've learned, of all the experiences you've had, of all the people you've met? What are the three things, the three truths that you would leave behind? And this is all we would have to remember from your three lessons."

• 50:31Speaker 02

  Lesson one, has to do with integrity. So I've always lived as if anything I do, you could publish in the paper that I'm being true to myself, my message. So live with integrity. Number two, you know, put your family and your loved ones above everything else. They are your, your biggest gift.

• 50:56Speaker 02

  And number three, forgive as quickly as possible.

• 51:01Lewis Howes?

  Hmm, that was great. Thank you.

• 51:05Lewis Howes?

  I want to take a moment, JJ, to acknowledge you for forgiving all the people in your life and for developing this incredible mindset because the things that you've learned and the things you've been through have been challenging. But they're creating so many blessings in the world for so many people. So I want to acknowledge you for the gifts you have and your creativity, your hard work, your overcoming all these challenges. And also for showing up differently now than you ever have because of this struggle that you went through. So I want to acknowledge you for all your incredible gifts and I appreciate it.

• 51:36Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 51:37Lewis Howes?

  You're welcome. There is one final question I want to ask you. Before I do, make sure you guys pick up the book. It's called Miracle Mindset. Go grab it right now. More lessons on how to have this abundant mindset and to really overcome challenges in your life. So make sure you guys pick it up.

• 51:56Lewis Howes?

  Final question I want to ask you is, what is your definition of greatness?

• 52:01Speaker 02

  It's pretty simple. Leave it better than you found it.

• 52:07Speaker 02

  That's the big thing I strive to do when I, when I leave this planet is I want to make sure I've left it better than I found it.

• 52:14Lewis Howes?

  There you go, JJ. Thanks for coming on. Appreciate it.

• 52:17Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 52:20Lewis Howes?

  There you have it guys. I hope you enjoyed this one. If you did, make sure to check out the full show notes, lewishouse.com/442. JJ has had an incredible career, but this is her most powerful work. Make sure to check out the book. Again, you can get the book at lewishouse.com/442. There'll be a link to where you can get it, or you can get it in bookstores, wherever you're at in the USA. Make sure to connect with me over on social media, @lewishouse on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook, and post a picture of you listening to this interview, whether it be on the iTunes or SoundCloud, or just you listening to it anywhere in the world, and tag me @lewishouse over on your Instagram

• 53:02Lewis Howes?

  story, and I'll make sure to reply to you over there if you tag @lewishouse. I'm so glad you decided to take some time today and listen to this interview. Again, please share it with your friends if you know anyone that this would inspire or help along their journey. lewishouse.com/442. We've got some incredible guests coming up, some huge people who I want to introduce to you and bring to light their story of how they've overcome some extreme tragedies, how they overcame being broke and broken down, and how they were risen to the top. The actions they took, the strategy they took, the mindset that helped them get there. We're bringing it all to you on the School of Greatness Podcast,

• 53:47Lewis Howes?

  and I am so pumped that you are part of this powerful community. Guys, it keeps growing and growing. Every single day, we are infecting the world with positivity and greatness in people's hearts. Get ready to take your life on in a whole new way. Get ready to attract the people in your life that you want to support you in achieving your financial goals, your relationship goals, your intimacy goals, all these things. It's coming, but you've got to prepare yourself. You've got to prepare for greatness. If you are prepared, you don't have to get ready at any time, because you're always ready. You're always setting yourself up to win. You're always...

• 54:29Lewis Howes?

  Setting the stage, you've got the habits in place, you've got the learning in place, the mindset, the relationships, the team. You are ready. You don't have to get ready. And the School of Greatness podcast is giving you the tools you need to stay ready. My friends, thank you so much for being here and you know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.