Lewis Howes: Break Free From Fear, Shift Your Mindset, and Stop Sabotaging Success | Mental Health | YAPClassic

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If the life you're building looks successful on the outside but still feels heavy on the inside, this YAPClassic is for you. Today, we're bringing back my conversation with Lewis Howes, a self-made entrepreneur and the host of the hugely popular podcast, The School of Greatness. Lewis shares how he went from sleeping on his sister's couch to building a global personal development brand. But his biggest transformation wasn't external. It came from confronting the fear, shame, and past pain that kept him trapped in what he calls a powerless mindset. This conversation is honest, deep and packed with timeless wisdom. Without further delay, here's my YAPClassic with Lewis Howes. Lewis, welcome to Young and Profiting podcast.

**Lewis Howes** (2:02)
Hala Hala, thank you so much.

**Hala Taha** (2:04)
I'm so excited for you to be here, Lewis. Young and Profitors, we have self-made entrepreneur, best-selling author, and the host of hugely popular podcast, The School of Greatness, Lewis Howes. In today's episode, we'll talk about Lewis's new book, The Greatness Mindset and what he's learned from hundreds of conversations with some of the most inspiring and successful individuals on the planet. And before we dive into your new book, Lewis, I'd love to talk to you about your story and your own journey towards greatness and what you've learned along the way. And from my understanding, when I was doing my research, a major piece of your story occurred when you were sleeping on your sister's couch in Columbus, Ohio.
At the age of 23, you had an injury that abruptly ended your professional football career, and your dad was recently in a car accident and was put in a coma. You were also pretty broke, and it seemed like the walls of your world were basically caving in on you. So I'd love to understand what were the aha moments or the series of moments that got you off of your sister's couch?

**Lewis Howes** (3:04)
I think I had something inside of me calling me for something more. And in a moment of, or in many moments, many months of breakdown and sadness and kind of grieving, grieving the loss of my dream of playing football, grieving my father, who was in the hospital for many months in a coma, and just kind of grieving loss in general, emotional, mental, physical loss, and having a lack of certainty. I didn't have certainty. I didn't have clarity about my future. I didn't know what the point of all this was. And so it was just very confusing time. And I didn't have any resources.
I didn't have any money. I was in debt from my college loans.
This was in 2008, 2009, when the economy in the US was essentially tanking. The housing crisis was tanking and everything. And I didn't have my father, who was kind of my, you know, my backup bank account. If I needed money, he would give me like 50 bucks here and there. Like it was like a security blanket almost like, OK, go chase your dream. When you're done, you can come and you can. I'll hire you for my company type of thing. So I didn't have that anymore. So I had to learn like how to be resourceful. I had to learn how to kind of fend for my own, really, and how to tap into a network of people that I didn't know, but I felt like I needed to know. So that's when I started reaching out to mentors, coaches, guides. I started consuming as much as I could in terms of resources and books, going to conferences and just trying to meet people, learn from people and take action. So that was kind of that journey then.