Tom Bilyeu, Co-Founder of Impact Theory and Quest Nutrition

Tom Bilyeu (0:00)

What you repeat in your head matters a lot, and what you repeat out loud matters a lot. In fact, I'll just say that your mental and emotional stability comes down to what you keep repeating to yourself. And if you keep repeating to yourself that you're a loser, nothing ever works out for you, that basically you live in a hostile universe, everything's against you, you're gonna be miserable, and you're just repeating it over and over and over. And most people don't even realize that they're repeating it. That's the scary thing. They don't realize they have this narrative that's running on a loop, and that it's totally disempowering.

So that has been the primary driver for me is to really tend the garden of what I allow myself to repeat.

Michael Gervais (0:37)

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Now, this week's conversation is with Tom Bilyeu. He is the co-founder of Quest Nutrition, a unicorn startup valued at over a billion dollars. And he's also the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. So why did I want to sit down with Tom? He's driven to help people and the skills that they need to improve themselves in the world. And it's not every day that we get to learn from someone who created a billion dollar business. So it's flat out extraordinary. And I wanted to understand his mindset, his approach to leadership and what he is most hungry for.