Pod Insights The School of Greatness 829 Mike Tyson: The Mind and Journey of a Champion Fighter About this episode TREAT OTHERS HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED. Kindness seems like a basic idea, but when you’re a champion it’s not high on your list. The Golden Rule isn’t always easy. Especially when you’re focused on yourself. But you can be the best and be good to others. It takes discipline. It takes mentorship. And it takes a commitment to what’s important in life. No matter what you’ve done in your past, you can always reinvent yourself. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I dive deep into never giving up from a champion who went through dark times: Mike Tyson. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the World and won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old. Mike Tyson is learning to forgive himself and be grateful. He also shares his feelings about discipline and how visualization helped him believe he could be a champion. So get ready to learn how to be a champion and why it’s never too late for a comeback on Episode 829. Some Questions I Ask: Did you know who you were at 25? (6:00) What was your biggest fear in your early 20s? (10:00) If your 25 year-old self was sitting here, what would you tell him? (14:00) What are you most proud of? (36:30) In This Episode You Will Learn: About Mike Tyson’s spiritual journey (4:30) The power of visualization (19:00) When Mike started to feel more peace in his heart (32:00) Why you should think outside the box (42:30) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/829 and follow at insagram.com/lewishowes. Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
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0:01 Lewis Howes? This is episode number 829 with Mike Tyson. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, a 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.
0:36 Lewis Howes? Muhammad Ali said, "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it." Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. Again, the great Muhammad Ali said that. And today, we've got a powerful episode with Mike Tyson. If you don't know who Mike Tyson is, he is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world who won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the first
1:18 Lewis Howes? round. He holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA, and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years old. He is also an actor and author, having appeared in multiple films and panels, as well as written two books, Undisputed Truth and Iron Ambition. Mike also started the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation to give kids a fighting chance by working with innovative centers that provide for the comprehensive needs of kids from broken homes. And in this interview, we talk about how he overcame his biggest internal struggles, and he has many of them. The power of discipline, and how to keep going even when you hate
2:00 Lewis Howes? what you're doing. The truth about toxic masculinity, the best advice Mike has ever gotten about becoming the champion, and when he has felt the most at peace with his life. Now, I've been promoting this over the last week before the release of this episode, and so many of you said that you're excited about this interview. There were a few people that said, You know, that they weren't excited about it because of his past. And I can tell you this, we all have different things that we've gone through that we're not excited about, that we're not proud of. And Mike talks about these things in the interview. And when I was on his show, on his podcast, he talked about them as well. And the thing I love about Mike is his ability to have humility
2:43 Lewis Howes? and understand where he made mistakes in his life and tries to move forward and improve those mistakes by giving back and improving his life. And I think you're going to see some of that in this, which was really inspiring for me. So get ready, make sure to take notes, share this with your friends, lewishouse.com/829, because it's going to be an inspiring, powerful one to share with your friends. Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatness Podcast. We've got the legendary Mike Tyson in the house. My man, good to see you.
3:13 Mike Tyson? Thank you, brother. You have these cameras mounted everywhere. I don't know where the...
3:17 Lewis Howes? Everywhere, man. Yeah, you're here.
3:18 Mike Tyson? Look here. Okay, I'm here.
3:20 Lewis Howes? You're here, you're me, yeah. Man, I'm excited that you're here. We, I came on your show a little while back. I'm excited for that to come out. I want to make sure everyone watches that hot box.
3:29 Mike Tyson? Thank you.
3:30 Lewis Howes? It's a great show. You've got so many big names on there. You've been inspiring people with your message.
3:35 Mike Tyson? Really think so? God, my message is really crazy. I think it's having fun and being a flat stick, God.
3:40 Lewis Howes? You're doing good, man. You're doing good. And I'm really inspired by you, Mike, because you've gone through a lot of darkness. You've gone through a lot of darkness in your past. You've, and we talked about this on your show, which is why I was so excited to have you here, that, you know, you went to prison for a few years. You did a lot of things that you said you weren't proud of. But now you've gone through this spiritual journey that you're really looking to inspire as many people as you can and heal yourself. And I think it's really cool what you've been able to do by overcoming all that. So I just wanted to acknowledge you to start by, by, by everything. And you were talking on, on the show that we did about some of the lessons you've learned from your past. And I wanted to see if we could start with that.
4:23 Lewis Howes? And here, what do you think are some of the, the biggest lessons you learned about who you were? Twenty years ago compared to who you are now.
4:31 Mike Tyson? Sometimes, I don't know, sometimes it's hard to accept who you are. You know, sometimes I see young kids out here, they commit suicide and they don't like who they are and they're in prison. And it's really difficult to accept who you are in this world because really we don't know. But then in order to have friends, you have to be put in this particular kind of, I don't know, you have to be labeled so to speak. You know, so we don't know who we are.
4:55 Lewis Howes? Right.
4:55 Mike Tyson? Till we get, I guess, to a certain degree of evolution.
5:00 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm. Do you feel like you, you knew who you were when you were twenty, twenty-five?
5:05 Mike Tyson? Had no idea.
5:06 Lewis Howes? Yeah, I mean, you were the world champ at twenty.
5:08 Mike Tyson? Had no idea what was going on outside of that. Know what the world was really about and we had to really, um, be accountable, hold yourself accountable.
5:19 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
5:20 Mike Tyson? I had no, I had no idea what that was all about in another world.
5:23 Lewis Howes? Did you feel like you held yourself accountable to anything except for your training and dominating in the sport?
5:29 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
5:30 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
5:31 Mike Tyson? That's why I just held myself accountable for when I was young, yeah.
5:34 Lewis Howes? When did you feel like you started to realize who you were?
5:38 Mike Tyson? When I got married for the third time, my wife Kiki, we really had to, what can I kind of establish by saying? We had to really make a choice what we wanted to do in our life. Like a really bad no-win situation and we had to establish some kind of foundation for our life. So that's really what I had to see what I was made out of.
6:01 Lewis Howes? How old were you then?
6:02 Mike Tyson? What, probably in my forties.
6:04 Lewis Howes? Forties?
6:05 Mike Tyson? Forty-two.
6:06 Lewis Howes? And so during the marriage, was it not working at some point where?
6:10 Mike Tyson? Oh, it was never working.
6:13 Mike Tyson? It was never working and, um.
6:15 Lewis Howes? Why was it never working?
6:16 Mike Tyson? Because marriage in itself is, um, is an interesting dynamic.
6:23 Mike Tyson? Because there's nothing you could prepare for. It's something you have to grow into. You can't prepare yourself for this. I don't care how many girlfriends you had, how many romy, romy, romy your relationships you had. You cannot prepare yourself for this. You know that been involved in this kind of matrimony. That's the word, matrimony before. And so it didn't work for a while and then we realized we didn't kill each other. Since we didn't kill each other, let's see, let's see if we can make this work. We still love each other. We're not dead, all the stuff we went through, we're not dead. So let's just see if we can make this work. And some bizarre reason it worked. It just works and stuff.
7:04 Mike Tyson? And sometimes every now and then we get our, I guess our buttons.
7:10 Lewis Howes? Pushed.
7:11 Mike Tyson? Pushed everything and something, something has a reminiscence of the past. And which wasn't good in our memories, you may respond in a certain way. But it's just triggered. I had [BLEEP] with this.
7:25 Lewis Howes? Yeah. How do you learn to overcome the triggers today still from the triggers of your past? I think I read that you were in, you know, got arrested thirty something times before you were a teenager.
7:36 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
7:38 Lewis Howes? So it seemed like everything triggered you then, right?
7:40 Mike Tyson? But from that perspective, everything changes when my class is changed. You know, I never understood my struggle. You know, I had everything I wanted, but still I was, I was fighting the light. My dark spirit was still fighting the light. That was my struggle. You can't, I couldn't get anything done.
7:59 Lewis Howes? You were winning everything, you were in the top of the world, but what was the big struggle internally for you during those highest moments where everyone wanted to?
8:07 Mike Tyson? It didn't appear real because at that time I lost my mentor, everybody was dying. Because I met them when they were pretty old and I was very young.
8:15 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
8:16 Mike Tyson? And everybody started dying and I didn't understand that. I started thinking that, duh, they were old when they met you, they're fifty seven, or close to sixty when they met you, Mike. So of course they were going to die mentally. You need to become a man, these guys are going to die. I don't know, I couldn't deal with that for a minute. And then the world just came in on me and it just was overwhelming. I just had to learn from life experiences.
8:40 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
8:40 Mike Tyson? How to conduct myself.
8:42 Lewis Howes? Yeah. What was your biggest fear in your early twenties?
8:46 Mike Tyson? No one loving me.
8:49 Mike Tyson? Not being accepted, being a nobody.
8:53 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
8:54 Lewis Howes? Wow.
8:56 Lewis Howes? Did you not feel like anyone loved you or accepted you even though you were the champ?
9:02 Mike Tyson? Well, that was a funny dynamics in itself because I come from an eat dog, eat dog kind of world and stuff and I met somebody and he showed me the basics of life. Be kind to people the way you want people to be kind, you know, it's the basics of life. But my main objective was to be the best in the world in this particular discipline. Yeah.
9:26 Lewis Howes? It's hard to be kind when you're trying to be the best at the same time too, huh?
9:29 Mike Tyson? Yeah, but that's the part of discipline, discipline is separating it too. You know, you have to do what you hate to do, but do it like you absolutely love it with vigor and do the end.
9:38 Lewis Howes? What did you hate doing and practicing in your early twenties, early teens?
9:44 Mike Tyson? I hate the whole aspect of the warrior mentality and the duration of it. That's probably the main part, the length of how long you have to go through that.
9:55 Mike Tyson? That psychological warfare and it takes tolls on people.
9:59 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
9:59 Mike Tyson? That kind of stuff. It's just really rigid. If you become the best, you have to almost become fanatical. This is my life, this is what I live for, this is my air, this is everything.
10:13 Lewis Howes? Wow.
10:13 Mike Tyson? Yeah, I guess most athletes feel that way. They have one of those old time trainers in there. Have that particular type of method of training.
10:22 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
10:22 Mike Tyson? This becomes your life, so you could do this in your sleep, could this so regimented.
10:27 Lewis Howes? Right.
10:28 Mike Tyson? Almost like we're zombies.
10:29 Lewis Howes? I know.
10:30 Mike Tyson? Robots.
10:31 Lewis Howes? It's like militant, yeah, very like army. When do you feel the most loved? Today.
10:38 Mike Tyson? When I'm harassing my kids.
10:39 Lewis Howes? When you harass your kids?
10:40 Mike Tyson? They don't like it, I harass my kids. And sometimes they might be tortured to know because sometimes they have to grow up, they're living in this make believe world and I say, hey, listen, you can't. Sometimes, you know, you have, we bought this house for you. You can't have a slumber party over there. This is not the real world. These people didn't pay any rent. They're paying you rent to live in your apartment. And they, that we pay for. We need to learn responsible. We have to be responsible. We have to also be reliable in whatever it is that we do. We have to be accounted for.
11:17 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
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13:16 Lewis Howes? What do you think is the biggest regret you have from everything that you've been through?
13:21 Mike Tyson? Many regrets, many regrets. What do I say? I have many regrets, but they say these regrets are something we shouldn't worry about. But I have many regrets. You know, we should always spend more time with my kids, in my youth.
13:36 Lewis Howes? Spend more time with your kids?
13:38 Mike Tyson? Yeah, we should do that. Because I'm trying to catch them now and it doesn't work. It really doesn't work.
13:42 Lewis Howes? Right. They're getting older now, huh?
13:44 Mike Tyson? Yeah, they are.
13:45 Lewis Howes? They got their own lives.
13:46 Mike Tyson? They don't relate to my path. It's just that you're a [bleep] alien.
13:51 Lewis Howes? You don't know what we're up to, yeah.
13:55 Lewis Howes? What's the message you would say to yourself now that you've gone through? Because you've gone through a lot of transformation. You've gone through different experiences, transformation. You've done a lot of work on yourself. You're wiser now. If your 20-year-old or 25-year-old self was sitting right here where I'm at, and you could sit down and have a conversation with him, what would you want to say to him?
14:17 Mike Tyson? You know, he should prepare on developing what makes him happy in life. And strive on developing that and cultivating that, what makes you happy. And have that strong reliance within yourself on what makes you happy and never break that. Because that's all of our... Really true. When we get a hundred million of the [inaudible 0:01:55]. What is happiness? Not only ha, ha, ha, who, who, who, ha, ha, he's funny. What is the essence of happiness? What does that mean? Everybody has a different definition. Well, we got 7 billion people up here, 7 billion different definitions.
14:55 Mike Tyson? Some people may have dark happiness. They like to do dark stuff and that makes them happy. But it's still happy. So what makes necessarily happy a good thing?
15:05 Lewis Howes? What makes you happy?
15:08 Mike Tyson? Simple stuff. And I don't know if that's happy. I take it for granted. Sometimes I give everyone else my kids and stuff. And I have to, you know, not worried about going to prison, not worried about paying my bills and having my lights on. And my lights being cut off or my water being cut off, yeah. It's being stable in my life.
15:28 Lewis Howes? Yeah. So you would tell him to start pursuing happiness more?
15:33 Mike Tyson? You know, that's the word I would use, you know, but that's the only thing that's gonna stimulate us.
15:38 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
15:39 Mike Tyson? You know, we drive, I don't know if happiness, we call it happiness.
15:43 Lewis Howes? Sure.
15:43 Mike Tyson? Why is it the word happiness that makes us think this is something that we really should, you know, I mean, fucking ascend to?
15:50 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
15:51 Mike Tyson? Why happiness? Because it really looks at the reason, yeah, we look at the response of happiness, what it looks like.
15:58 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
15:59 Mike Tyson? We should always ascend to happiness.
16:01 Lewis Howes? Yeah. I'm curious, you've been on both sides of the spectrum. I would say that some people might consider your behavior, you know, 20 years ago was very toxic, right? This image of toxic masculinity. I feel like I've been there in a lot of ways. I know Evan's been there on a lot of people. I think a lot of men have gone through this phase. What would you say to the women listening who maybe wanna support the men in their lives? Maybe it's their father, it's their brother, it's their boyfriend or husband who maybe are experiencing toxic tendencies, types of behaviors? What would you say to the women on how they can best connect with men in their life who might be hurting them?
16:43 Mike Tyson? I can't give a woman any perception of any aspect of a man because there's so many men. I don't know how any man in the world conducts themselves.
16:53 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
16:53 Mike Tyson? Or act in the pain or suffering. We're all so totally different. So my, my opinion on anything, it'll only be the men that I'm accustomed to, which is myself.
17:05 Lewis Howes? Right.
17:06 Mike Tyson? You know, I could never just say how, how we're gonna understand men, we'll think differently.
17:13 Lewis Howes? What do you think women could have done to, to understand you better? Back in the day, when you were going through different challenges, how could women have shown up differently in your mind? Or is it nothing they could have done to change the way you thought about yourself? Or you thought about the world?
17:28 Mike Tyson? No, women, I don't know what they may have, but I don't know. I don't have no particular aspect of how I think about them individually.
17:37 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
17:37 Mike Tyson? This and that. I don't know all the women in the world have an opinion about how they think about me or anything.
17:43 Lewis Howes? Sure. How do you think men should be raised in this time in the world right now? Because I think there's a lot of conversation about toxic masculinity. How, you know, what advice would you give to men who are maybe hurting or angry or living in a toxic way? What would you say to just the men of the world?
18:00 Mike Tyson? Hey, listen, there's truly nothing to say to anyone that's living in a toxic, unless he comes for help. You know what I mean? Some people realize, hey, I just can't stop this lifestyle. I can't stop this conduct in my life. I wanted to change, but I can't stop. So what do I do?
18:17 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
18:18 Mike Tyson? You know? But some people love, most of the people that have this conduct, this mess, this is their identity, this is their ego. I don't want to get a [BLEEP] you, Mike. I want my toxic identity [BLEEP] you.
18:29 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
18:29 Mike Tyson? The girls love it.
18:30 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
18:31 Mike Tyson? That's what they think.
18:33 Lewis Howes? But it never makes you feel fulfilled deeply inside when you live that way, right?
18:37 Mike Tyson? Nobody feels fulfilled. You know what I mean? We all fulfill at different stages of our life. At 18, I'm fulfilled in this particularly difficult or fun fulfillment. And then 28, I like this. I don't like that no more. I like doing this. You know? People are fickle. Very few of us are really confident in what we continue to do and stay with it for a long period of time.
19:06 Lewis Howes? Yeah. What does it take to be a true champion? To be the best in the world at something? You lived it for a long time. What does the mindset have to be like if someone wants to be the best at what they do?
19:18 Mike Tyson? It's just dedicating and sacrificing your life to being a particular way you wanna be. Like you wanna conduct, say you wanna be like Tony Robbins. You get all the information you can about Tony Robbins. And you conduct, you're like, this is how I wanna live my life. This is almost like, this is your manuscript.
19:35 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
19:35 Mike Tyson? You know what I mean?
19:36 Lewis Howes? Your blueprint, yeah.
19:36 Mike Tyson? Yeah, this is what I'm gonna do.
19:38 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
19:39 Mike Tyson? I'm gonna live like Tony, I'm not gonna be Tony Robbins, but I'm gonna live it. I'm gonna conduct myself like Tony Robbins.
19:45 Lewis Howes? Yeah, so you gotta live it, you gotta breathe it.
19:48 Mike Tyson? And you have to be that before you actually become the person.
19:50 Lewis Howes? Interesting.
19:51 Mike Tyson? You're not gonna become the person, like, you think you're prepared to be Tony Robbins right now? Right now, tomorrow you're Tony Robbins. You didn't know, it's gonna take time, so I'm gonna become this guy. You know, I'm gonna be this guy before, 'cause you're not ready. But when the time comes, you're gonna be ready. You're gonna be Tony Robbins, this is my life, I'm accustomed to this. Of course I got this role, of course I got this job, of course I got this ready. I'm prepared for it. You wouldn't even be surprised.
20:14 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm. Before you became the champ the first time, were you visualizing and imagining?
20:19 Mike Tyson? Yeah, since I was 14, this is who I am. This is who I'm gonna be, I'm gonna conduct, this is the guy. You have to be the champ before you be the champ. You understand it, does that make sense?
20:27 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
20:28 Mike Tyson? This is not really, 'cause it sounds like you have to be him before you can be him. You can't just pop it by training and doing pushups and knocking people out. This is I'm the champ, no, you have to be the actual champ. Your conduct, your lifestyle, have to be the champ before you actually wear the belt. Maybe that's better. You have to be the champ before you can even wear a belt.
20:48 Lewis Howes? Wow, so you were saying, I'm gonna be the champ, you were living like the champ?
20:52 Mike Tyson? That's what I did, I would read books about them, that's what I did. Read books about them, watched them fight, that's my life. When I wasn't in school, and I wasn't training, I was watching them or reading about them.
21:02 Lewis Howes? Watching the greats?
21:03 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
21:04 Lewis Howes? Wow. What's the best advice you ever got from a champion before you?
21:09 Mike Tyson? Most of them, the advice they gave me about life, and they said, you have to live your own life. 'Cause you can't live your life like me, I can't live my life like you. We're just all different. Some of them say, "Take care of your money," you know? They regret about that.
21:26 Lewis Howes? Right.
21:27 Mike Tyson? Yeah, I used to learn from afar. A lot of these guys, I just watched the way they conduct themselves. They're always dignified, most of them. Last one had some mental issues. He had damage from boxing. They're a little bit outrageous. But other than that, most of them are very dignified in the classroom.
21:43 Lewis Howes? What was your biggest weakness when you were the champ for so long? As you were knocking guys out in the first round, first few seconds? What was the biggest weakness in your game and also in your life?
21:57 Mike Tyson? I don't know. I think I was a glutton. I just wanted everything.
22:00 Lewis Howes? Material things, to win, women, this?
22:02 Mike Tyson? Everything, wanted everything, yeah.
22:04 Lewis Howes? Wanted the world.
22:05 Mike Tyson? Right now, no. I totally wanted it now. I didn't want it yesterday. Tomorrow, I want it right now. It's instant.
22:13 Lewis Howes? Wow.
22:14 Mike Tyson? And if you can't give it to me, I don't want it no more.
22:17 Lewis Howes? If I can't get it right now?
22:18 Mike Tyson? I don't want it no more. Yeah, anything, anything I couldn't have, anything I couldn't have, I despise and hate it.
22:24 Lewis Howes? Wow.
22:24 Mike Tyson? Yeah, if I couldn't have that girl, I hate her fucking guts.
22:27 Lewis Howes? Wow.
22:28 Mike Tyson? Can I have that car? Fuck those cars. They might have drove that car.
22:32 Lewis Howes? Why do you think that was? If you couldn't have it right now, you didn't like it anymore?
22:35 Mike Tyson? Because I didn't need no distractions.
22:37 Lewis Howes? Oh, wow.
22:38 Mike Tyson? They make me feel anything that I'm less than immortal.
22:41 Lewis Howes? Wow.
22:42 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
22:43 Lewis Howes? So if you couldn't get it right now, it made you feel less than immortal?
22:45 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
22:46 Lewis Howes? So you were like, "Get it out of my life."
22:47 Mike Tyson? Exactly.
22:49 Lewis Howes? Wow. What's the craziest thing you wanted that you got right now? That you were like demanding everything? And what did you, someone, I mean, what was? Something flew in from Dubai overnight? And you got like a steak dinner from somewhere or?
23:02 Mike Tyson? I never thought about that. But I'm sure it was bizarre or something.
23:07 Lewis Howes? Yeah. I want a tiger right now. Give me my tiger.
23:11 Mike Tyson? It's just the mentality. It's just the way I was raised as a fighter, I think. Because it would, um, if you couldn't get it, it would distract you. Why can't I possess that? If I'm so great, why can't I possess that?
23:24 Lewis Howes? Wow.
23:24 Mike Tyson? It distracts you from me, goals in life.
23:27 Lewis Howes? What do you think is your greatest weakness right now? This time of your life?
23:31 Mike Tyson? Oh, my friends and my kids and stuff, family.
23:35 Lewis Howes? It's a weakness?
23:35 Mike Tyson? Yeah, because people are losing so many people. They say, "He's dead, she's sick." My friend's mother just died yesterday. Everybody's so dying, everybody's so sad, and they're wow.
23:45 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
23:46 Mike Tyson? They said, "Instead of..." You know, we should always look at death as something glorious. Because, listen, life is very interesting, listen.
23:56 Mike Tyson? We got it for nothing, look at all we received. We have kids, we have grandkids, all this stuff. Well, it's not your mother and father, and they saw each other, and they, "Hey, we love them." We're here, look what you do, look at your show. It's because these people were in love. This is glorious.
24:14 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
24:15 Mike Tyson? For free.
24:16 Lewis Howes? Free, we don't have to pay anything to be here.
24:18 Mike Tyson? Nothing. We can't give man when it's our time to go. It's free.
24:23 Lewis Howes? What do you think about with death?
24:25 Mike Tyson? Death is beautiful. How could life be beautiful if death is not beautiful? Because there wouldn't be life if there wasn't death.
24:32 Lewis Howes? Hmm. Wow. So death isn't something you're afraid of?
24:37 Mike Tyson? At one stage in my life, you know. And then you reach 52, and you say, "Well, I'm not going to get another 52."
24:43 Lewis Howes? Wow.
24:45 Mike Tyson? And then you remember, wow, what happened to that time? My whole perspective of life is different. My whole perspective is what I needed, what I wanted. That was all about what I needed, what I needed for someone else that I love. What am I leaving when I'm gone? It's very bizarre, right? When you have the actual confrontation, the aspect of immortality, no longer existing.
25:09 Lewis Howes? Hmm. What do you think is your biggest superpower right now? Like your biggest strength?
25:16 Mike Tyson? I think it's me, what I am.
25:20 Mike Tyson? My essence, my existence. When I'm no longer here, it doesn't no longer exist.
25:26 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm. How do you want to be remembered now?
25:30 Mike Tyson? Just remembered, it doesn't matter how.
25:33 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
25:34 Mike Tyson? You know how many thousands of years are going to go by once I die? It's no longer, it no longer matters.
25:40 Lewis Howes? No one's going to remember, yeah, a couple dozen years, yeah. So what is the biggest fear for you right now?
25:49 Lewis Howes? You don't have any big fears right now?
25:51 Mike Tyson? Besides, you know, eventually, I wouldn't want my kids getting sick. I want them to have a life like I had.
25:57 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
25:57 Mike Tyson? And see the world like I seen.
25:59 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
26:00 Mike Tyson? Other than that, no, I'm, I'm prepared to meet God, yeah.
26:04 Lewis Howes? Wow. What was the biggest mentor you had when you were in jail? Was there anyone in jail that, that taught you anything, or no one?
26:16 Mike Tyson? Oh, he just told him, oh, yes, I was just radical in jail, and my mentor, I need to run it all. It all needs my.
26:22 Lewis Howes? Really?
26:22 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
26:23 Lewis Howes? You were like, I'm gonna run this whole place?
26:25 Mike Tyson? I wanted to be in control. I wanted to do this. I wanna have my food brought to you.
26:29 Lewis Howes? Wow.
26:31 Mike Tyson? It's a mindset you get once you get put in a situation. You know, it makes me maniac in.
26:37 Lewis Howes? Wow. What was the biggest thing you learned about yourself during that time?
26:42 Mike Tyson? Back then, I learned that I didn't wanna be there.
26:45 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
26:46 Mike Tyson? I was afraid.
26:48 Lewis Howes? To be there?
26:49 Mike Tyson? No, I was afraid that I lost everything that I had at once.
26:53 Lewis Howes? You lost all your, you lost all of your money at one point, right?
26:55 Mike Tyson? Yeah, but no, well, no, no, not that time. It wasn't that. That time I still had money. When I was in prison, I still had money. It wasn't no bankrupt and stuff. I couldn't do nothing, so I would, I would call, I would call my counselor, send money to her, somebody needs money. I would still take care of my friends and their bills and stuff.
27:11 Lewis Howes? You're afraid you lost everything else?
27:12 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
27:13 Lewis Howes? Like the titles, like the respect?
27:15 Mike Tyson? No, no, just things you could have done if you didn't have this fucking, what do you call this? Garbage money. What is this garbage, yeah?
27:25 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
27:26 Mike Tyson? You didn't have this garbage, what you could have come off. There's a lot of things, a lot of people, it's fucked it up. Oh, man.
27:36 Lewis Howes? What do you think you could have accomplished had you not gone to jail?
27:40 Mike Tyson? Really good stuff. I've accomplished it when I came out.
27:44 Lewis Howes? Right.
27:45 Mike Tyson? And I still wasn't happy. It was just all in my mind. All the things I thought I could accomplish, and only if I didn't win the jail, was just an hallucination in my mind. I went to jail, I still accomplished everything. It's not more than I thought I would accomplish.
28:00 Lewis Howes? Cause you came out and you still won the title?
28:02 Mike Tyson? Yeah, it just, um.
28:03 Lewis Howes? You made a bunch of money?
28:04 Mike Tyson? It was just an illusion. You know, I was chasing illusion. It was just, it never existed, but it was in my head. In my head, I was getting revenge for who? I'm no one, no one got you in jail with you? Who am I getting revenge on? It's my head was fucked.
28:21 Lewis Howes? What happened to your life when you started studying spirituality more?
28:26 Mike Tyson? I don't know. It's pretty tricky. It's pretty much just letting it wing. If they just imagine if it was like this. And then you realize I can make it like this. You know, spirituality, I don't know. It wipes everything. This is my spirituality. It wipes everything that I ever believed. It makes it a lie.
28:50 Mike Tyson? You know?
28:51 Lewis Howes? What, I mean, what did you used to believe that makes it a lie now?
28:55 Mike Tyson? I believed just what everybody else had in these motherf**ker.
29:00 Mike Tyson? I believe that's the answer I believe. I believed all that crap. And everything then, so that's the paradigm shift. When everything you've been taught your whole life and then it comes a time you realize it was a lie. Now, how do we start from there?
29:19 Mike Tyson? We live in a lie. We have to make up our own lie and live in this lie. You know, it's gonna take it till you find, if you checked and tried to figure out till the day you die, you would never figure it out. It's based thousands and thousands and how many millions alive and years alive and you gotta, and some people just dedicated their whole life to trying to figure out the lies and what this world about it. They found out nothing. They got that, you know, they have this big encyclopedia of mine about wonderful things in history of the world and stuff. But we don't have to answer still.
29:57 Mike Tyson? It's just a beautiful ride.
29:58 Lewis Howes? Just enjoy the ride?
29:59 Mike Tyson? Yeah.
30:00 Lewis Howes? And don't try to figure everything out?
30:01 Mike Tyson? No way, it's a beautiful ride. We don't do that, that's human beings, we don't do that. We don't enjoy it like this, this is not right. We gotta figure this out, this is not right. This is not, that's how we are.
30:14 Lewis Howes? Do you think if you had-
30:15 Mike Tyson? You would spoil something.
30:16 Lewis Howes? Yeah, I know. Do you think if you had more peace in your heart, more love in your heart, in your twenties, thirties, do you think you would have enjoyed the ride more? And do you think you would have been able to be as successful in the boxing world if you had peace and love in your heart?
30:33 Mike Tyson? I didn't know. All my life I read about the conquest of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Shalhane, all these crazy gods, Clovis. I read about these guys. They had declared themselves gods. You know, depend, think of great prophets, think of Jesus or Prophet Muhammad. That's what was in the time of Alexander the Great. He would eliminate them. They wouldn't exist anymore. Everything is proper timing. Certain worlds and certain times, they would never existed.
31:07 Lewis Howes? Wow. When do you think was the moment you started to feel more peace in your heart? Inner peace?
31:13 Mike Tyson? I don't know. When I had the responsibility of just taking care of my family.
31:18 Lewis Howes? That's when it shifted more?
31:19 Mike Tyson? Yeah, after I tried to destroy it, it didn't work. And I said, well, I have to take care of this stuff. I have to really confront, what am I gonna do here? You know, and then I said, this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna dedicate my life. And that was a mess too. And then eventually, we have 10 years. You know, it worked out. We have a great deal of respect for one another.
31:43 Lewis Howes? Where do you think it'd be if you had no kids right now?
31:46 Mike Tyson? I wouldn't exist.
31:47 Lewis Howes? Really?
31:48 Mike Tyson? No way.
31:49 Lewis Howes? Where would you be?
31:50 Mike Tyson? I don't know, probably, probably dead with AIDS or something.
31:54 Lewis Howes? Really?
31:54 Mike Tyson? Yeah, I wouldn't exist. Or maybe somebody would kill me for [BLEEP] with their wives or girlfriends. You never know. I'll probably be a junkie.
32:02 Lewis Howes? Wow.
32:03 Mike Tyson? Without kids, that's the only thing that's stable me.
32:05 Lewis Howes? Wow.
32:06 Mike Tyson? That's the only thing that gave me any kind of meaning. If I have kids, [BLEEP] the world, I don't give a [BLEEP].
32:14 Lewis Howes? Wow.
32:15 Mike Tyson? Yeah, we had to talk.
32:17 Lewis Howes? Do you wish you would have had kids younger then, or?
32:20 Mike Tyson? No, I want to accomplish my goals.
32:22 Lewis Howes? Uh huh.
32:23 Mike Tyson? Because everything's proper timing.
32:24 Lewis Howes? Proper timing, yeah.
32:25 Mike Tyson? You just, you think you're paying check, or you think you, you, you [BLEEP] navigating your life, but you're not.
32:31 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
32:32 Mike Tyson? You know, you think, I know you say, why don't I just go ahead and do some jokes and just [BLEEP] my life up there? Mike don't think I'm navigating my life, I miss, you're just not, you're not programmed to do that then.
32:40 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
32:41 Mike Tyson? And if you were programmed to do it, you're programmed to come back and rebound.
32:44 Lewis Howes? Right.
32:45 Mike Tyson? Your life's not meant to go there, it's just not meant to be.
32:48 Lewis Howes? Wow. What do you think is the lesson you still want to learn for yourself? Like, the challenge you want to overcome still? To make you a better person?
32:56 Mike Tyson? I can't, I can't never find that.
32:59 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
32:59 Mike Tyson? You know, because that lesson, that, that thing I want to realize is, why me? Why is this happening? I'm never gonna figure it out.
33:08 Lewis Howes? What's the question you wish you could have answered?
33:11 Mike Tyson? Why is this school in my, why is my purpose here?
33:14 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
33:15 Mike Tyson? But I can make sense, I can say my purpose is to be the best person I could possibly be before I die.
33:19 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
33:21 Mike Tyson? You know what I mean? That could be my purpose in life. See how far we can go in life before we die.
33:26 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
33:27 Mike Tyson? But for so, but suppose, people don't think in that perspective. That's what LL Cool J told me, because I'm talking some, I think I'm talking some glamorous [BLEEP]. I'm talking some fly [BLEEP]. And he was telling me on mic, you know, there's some people that live in the outskirts of [BLEEP] in Ohio or somewhere. They just live simple lives and that's all they want to do, Mike.
33:46 Lewis Howes? Enjoy their life.
33:47 Mike Tyson? This shit we talking about don't mean nothing, Mike. They afraid to die, ready to meet God, taking care of their kids, the people they love. Or may go on a vacation, may never go on a vacation. Or leave the town, but this is just a simple life, this is what makes them happy.
34:01 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
34:02 Mike Tyson? And I really can't, you know, I come in the place, if you're nothing, if you're something, you're nothing.
34:07 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
34:10 Mike Tyson? You know, isn't that so [BLEEP] shower? If you're not something, you're nothing. What's my definition of something?
34:14 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
34:15 Mike Tyson? Somebody with a [BLEEP] wad of money in their pocket? I have no [BLEEP] concept of humanity is what life is. Does that mean I have a wad? I should be able to violate that person, it doesn't?
34:28 Lewis Howes? Wow.
34:29 Mike Tyson? I don't know.
34:30 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
34:30 Mike Tyson? I'm lost again.
34:32 Lewis Howes? Wow.
34:33 Mike Tyson? I shouldn't just try to figure [BLEEP] it out, you just go with the flow.
34:36 Lewis Howes? Mm-hmm.
34:39 Lewis Howes? Wow. How did you learn to finally start forgiving yourself?
34:42 Mike Tyson? Oh, that's **** that, man. That happened, um. Excuse me, I think that must have happened yesterday or something. You just don't do that stuff overnight. It doesn't work like, at least for me, it doesn't work like that.
34:54 Lewis Howes? Took a long time to forgive yourself?
34:55 Mike Tyson? Yeah, because I only, um. I know my demons and I realize in life, everybody's gonna really find them out eventually. You think you gotta hide that shit? It doesn't work that way.
35:07 Lewis Howes? Hmm. So you just started to forgive yourself on things?
35:11 Mike Tyson? Pretty much.
35:12 Lewis Howes? Or it's happening every day or?
35:13 Mike Tyson? You know, it comes around, yeah.
35:15 Lewis Howes? Wow.
35:17 Mike Tyson? I'm not gonna, hey, my ****, all that shit you did, it's cool, man. God love you. That's bullshit. I don't function, I don't think that, I don't think, God leaves you to figure it out, you live by yourself. If it's cool, it's cool. If it's not, it's not, you figure it out.
35:31 Lewis Howes? Yeah. And what are you most proud of in your life that you've done?
35:36 Mike Tyson? Wow.
35:39 Mike Tyson? I don't know, I'm proud of them existing.
35:41 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
35:41 Mike Tyson? I love to be alive. I know this makes sounds a little wild, but I'm proud to be alive and existing, yeah.
35:48 Lewis Howes? Do you feel like you should have been dead many times?
35:50 Mike Tyson? That could have happened, yeah, that could have happened. I don't know, I used to look at it and say, wow, what am I proud of? You know, I say I'm proud of my children and stuff, but they have their own lives to live.
35:59 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
36:00 Mike Tyson? I'm only proud of them because they're kind and make me happy. Some of them do things I don't like, but it's just that, um, my kids are my kids and that's, that's my personal life and I, when I think of something that I'm proud of, I don't know, I don't think about my fighting. I don't know, it's just weird that when you say that, you know?
36:19 Mike Tyson? I'm one of them doing things now that I'm proud of. I'm building a company. We're making people awareness of health and cannabis. So I'm really proud of my company that I'm doing, ice and rats, yeah.
36:33 Lewis Howes? And what are you most grateful for about your wife?
36:38 Mike Tyson? Hey, I'm just, um, well, that's interesting you say that, because, um, we have fought a long fight together.
36:45 Lewis Howes? You fought a long fight together?
36:46 Mike Tyson? Yeah, yeah.
36:48 Lewis Howes? How many years has it been now?
36:49 Mike Tyson? Ten years, but we've been living each other longer than that.
36:52 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
36:54 Mike Tyson? It was really great growing up with her. This is my third marriage, this is her first. But it's really been, um. This marriage and the struggle that we endured together was really gonna tell us this is gonna, we're gonna make it in life or not. You know, our existence in life, we're gonna do this stuff, if we're gonna fail, it's gonna be over and stuff.
37:13 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
37:14 Mike Tyson? And so when we had our kid, we just dedicated our life to make sure our kid wouldn't have the life that we had. It's a really, a really kind and pleasant, pleasant life.
37:23 Lewis Howes? Yeah. What do you love about her the most?
37:25 Mike Tyson? She's just an awesome kid and she's just, um, she's very competitive in life.
37:31 Lewis Howes? Is this your daughter or?
37:32 Mike Tyson? Yes, my daughter. Besides having two cradley parents, she really conducts herself like a champion.
37:39 Lewis Howes? She's, she's the adult in the family.
37:41 Mike Tyson? Oh, she's really awesome. Yeah. She's only 10 years old.
37:45 Lewis Howes? And what do you?
37:46 Mike Tyson? She's our life. We have another son named Morocco. He's eight years old.
37:49 Lewis Howes? Oh, that's great.
37:50 Mike Tyson? Yeah, but we, um, she was, she's, um, she's our girl that keeps us together.
37:55 Lewis Howes? That's cool. What do you admire and love about your wife the most?
37:59 Mike Tyson? The most? Um, man, she kept our family together and that was her main objective, is keeping our family together.
38:05 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
38:06 Mike Tyson? And being one.
38:08 Lewis Howes? That's great.
38:09 Mike Tyson? The most.
38:09 Lewis Howes? That's great.
38:10 Mike Tyson? She didn't give up, you know? Most people can easily give up. You just move on. It's just so easy. Just move on.
38:16 Lewis Howes? Lots of options out there.
38:17 Mike Tyson? Yeah, it's so much, yeah. It's so pervasive that this is what people do. It doesn't go, well, get away and we just go move on. We don't try to make this work.
38:28 Lewis Howes? Well, you did that in your previous marriages, you know, you guys.
38:30 Mike Tyson? Oh, I, yeah, I just kept going. My previous, my, I could always throw money at my problems. I had my money then, but I didn't have money then. So I can't say, fuck you, I'll take that, you know? So we had to make this stuff work.
38:42 Lewis Howes? Wow. You had to learn, you had to grow. That's good. I've got a couple of fun questions for you. This one is called the three truths.
38:49 Mike Tyson? Okay.
38:49 Lewis Howes? So I want you to imagine that you are, uh, it's your last day.
38:53 Mike Tyson? I'm dying.
38:54 Lewis Howes? It's many years away, right? It's your last day.
38:58 Mike Tyson? I'm, I'm always prepared though.
38:59 Lewis Howes? You're prepared any day.
39:00 Mike Tyson? I'm ready, I'm dying, let's do it, man.
39:02 Lewis Howes? But it's imagine it's 50 more years. You've got 52 to go, right?
39:06 Mike Tyson? Nah, it's not that many years.
39:08 Lewis Howes? Let's say you've got as many as you want. And then there's the last day, you gotta, you gotta turn the lights off.
39:13 Mike Tyson? Okay.
39:13 Lewis Howes? You've got your family there, it's a good setting.
39:15 Mike Tyson? Okay.
39:16 Lewis Howes? You've accomplished what you want, your, your ranch has blown up, your company, everything you're doing is amazing.
39:21 Mike Tyson? This is not a reality, this is not, this is.
39:23 Lewis Howes? Let's imagine. Let's imagine. Visualize.
39:27 Mike Tyson? Yeah, this is beautiful.
39:30 Lewis Howes? And you have a moment where you get to share your final three truths with the world. You get to announce it on your podcast, or you get to write this down. And these will be three lessons, the only three things people would be able to remember you by are these three final lessons that you would share with the world, what I like to call the three truths. What would you say are your three truths?
39:55 Mike Tyson? If I had more time, I could be even better than what I am.
40:01 Mike Tyson? Yeah, and if I had more time,
40:08 Mike Tyson? I could probably right through all the wrongs that I did.
40:16 Mike Tyson? If I had more time, I could live through the time with my kids, my grandkids.
40:21 Lewis Howes? Those are great. What lessons would you share with the world that you would want them to have for their lesson from you?
40:30 Mike Tyson? That we all have to live our lives to the fullest and fulfill our lives.
40:34 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
40:34 Mike Tyson? Our life fulfillment, whatever your life is. You know, this is what most people's problems are in life, they didn't fulfill their life fulfillment.
40:44 Lewis Howes? Who they're supposed to be?
40:45 Mike Tyson? Yeah, who they wanted to be.
40:48 Lewis Howes? What were they focused on?
40:50 Mike Tyson? It just never happened. They don't believe it happened to them. Yeah, I guess they believe it was supposed to be ordained for them. I don't know, but...
40:59 Lewis Howes? Yeah.
40:59 Mike Tyson? And then there's some people that works hard and use all the secrets of life and they still never get it. What do you say about that? How that works? And then there's people that work but don't work as hard as these guys and they get it. It's just a luck thing. Somebody liked them. They had the right look, they had the right person that was that, that got them on. How do people look at that in life? Do they give up and they say, "I guess keep working in the way that's been failing all my life until something happens." How do they look like? How does somebody think outside of the box and say, "We're not gonna do it that way no more. It's the way they like us. We're gonna make our own life. We're gonna make our own future. We're gonna create our own jobs."
41:44 Mike Tyson? That's how it happens. Happens from watching failures.
41:48 Lewis Howes? Sure.
41:49 Mike Tyson? Watching people just try and fail and then somebody says, "This is the way."
41:55 Mike Tyson? Dynasty for me.
41:58 Lewis Howes? How can we support you? What's uh, you know, you got your show, you got your company, you got the ranch. Tell us where we can connect with you, how we can support you.
42:06 Mike Tyson? Hey, listen, Hot Boxing is just um.
42:08 Lewis Howes? It's amazing.
42:09 Mike Tyson? Podcast you guys can.
42:10 Lewis Howes? It's amazing.
42:11 Mike Tyson? Check in, prescribe there and just hang out with us.
42:14 Lewis Howes? It's incredible.
42:15 Mike Tyson? It's gonna be really interesting.
42:16 Lewis Howes? It's on YouTube, it's on iTunes.
42:18 Mike Tyson? It's all over the world.
42:20 Lewis Howes? Hot Boxing.
42:21 Mike Tyson? With Mike Tyson, yes.
42:24 Lewis Howes? Yeah, Evan's amazing on there, I went on there.
42:26 Mike Tyson? The old boxer, see you got the old boxer named Jack, look up Jack Burton.
42:30 Lewis Howes? Okay, is that a?
42:31 Mike Tyson? New York fighter.
42:32 Lewis Howes? I'll look him up, I'll look him up later. You've had some incredible people on there, you had Snoop, you had LL Cool J recently, you had Lewis Howes on there, so make sure you check that episode out as well.
42:42 Mike Tyson? There's really um, interesting stories on there.
42:44 Lewis Howes? That, I mean, you got, you share some crazy stuff. It's amazing. You guys gotta check this out, because the stories you've been through are amazing. So check that out, where else? They can follow you on Instagram, Twitter, Mike Tyson, everywhere. Everywhere, worldwide, baby.
42:58 Mike Tyson? Hey, this guy's got the energy he plays, I don't even feel comfortable cursing. I said if you're cursing, I feel like I got stuck with a hot coat.
43:06 Lewis Howes? It's all good. I've got one final question for you, Mike, but before I do, I wanna, I wanna acknowledge you one more time for, for all the growth, because you could have easily tapped out, you could have easily gone back to jail.
43:19 Mike Tyson? I'm never gonna tap, I'm never gonna do that, I'm just gonna always um, try hard and see what's gonna happen. Listen, I've been worse than this. I've been in the worst situation that I've ever been in, why, and I didn't give up then, why am I gonna give up now? I'm at the height of my life now, how am I gonna give up? What the hell am I doing? This is a dream right now.
43:38 Lewis Howes? I'm the dream, baby.
43:39 Mike Tyson? Yeah, no doubt about it.
43:40 Lewis Howes? Final question then is, what's your definition of greatness?
43:43 Mike Tyson? My definition of greatness? Someone or something that can do the most difficult thing in the world with the most simple of these. That's greatness.
43:55 Lewis Howes? Ooh, Mike Tyson, the man, thank you, sir, appreciate you, man, thank you, man, he's powerful.
44:06 Lewis Howes? There you have it my friends, I hope you enjoyed this interview with the one and only Mike Tyson. If you did, make sure to share this with your friends, post it on social media, spread this far and wide, LewisHowes.com/829. Tag me on your Instagram story, Lewis Howes, and tag @MikeTyson as well. Let them know that you're listening to this and what you thought about this episode. Text it to a friend, spread the message of greatness. Every time you have an opportunity to learn from one of the greatest fighters in the world, one of the greatest athletes, inventors, whoever it may be, someone who's been at the top, it's important to learn from the lessons and also pay it forward. So make sure to share this message with your friends and other people that you might find it interesting
44:49 Lewis Howes? as well. And Muhammad Ali had a great quote at the beginning of this interview, "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it." Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, it's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. No matter what you've been through in your past, no matter how dark or scary it may be, or no matter how dark and scary your future dreams might be, impossible is nothing. It's not impossible to overcome
45:31 Lewis Howes? the challenges of your past, or the judgments of your past, or the pains you've caused of the people. You can always create a new future right now. And your future dreams and goals, as big and scary and impossible as they may seem, you need to focus on one day at a time. One day at a time on how can you improve, and how can you enjoy and appreciate the journey every single moment. Because this life is not guaranteed for another hour, another day, another month, a year, or 20, 30, 40 years. It's not guaranteed. What's guaranteed is right now, until it's not anymore. I hope you enjoyed this interview. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast if this is your first time here.
46:12 Lewis Howes? Leave us a review on what you think about this show and listen to other episodes. We've got some incredible guests coming on every single week, some of the top minds in the world. So make sure to click the subscribe button, tag me and follow me on Instagram at Lewis Howes. And I love you so very much. You know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.
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