When Life is a Struggle with Kawan Glover - a podcast by Jessica Sun
from 2020-09-30T10:00:10
If you’ve been asking yourself “Why me?” when there have been obstacles and challenges on your path, this is a must-listen. Find out how to move through the struggle and come through stronger, better, happier, and more aware of yourself. Get your mind right and all else will fall into place.
Kawan is a Victory Coach. He works with people struggling with adversity in their personal and professional lives by identifying their true potential and creating a plan to utilize that potential. Over the last six years, he has had a stroke, three brain surgeries, a suicide attempt, an opioid addiction, battles with depression, and been $1.2 million in medical debt. He is the author of Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose.
Quotes to remember:
“My superpower is vulnerability.”
“When you ask yourself bad questions, your mind has no choice but to produce bad answers.”
“When I get up in the morning and my feet touch the ground, everything I do after that is a bonus.”
Takeaways:
- When you have no room for judgment of others, you will not fear being judged
- Guilt will hold you hostage
- Joy is built on your gratitude for life, your relationships, and the things that matter
- You are the only person perpetuating your limiting beliefs
- Acceptance is the first step to finding the solution for anything
- Choosing stillness is an action
- Your morning is for you and no one else
- When you are quiet with your thoughts you will begin to listen to the subtle guiding thoughts of your mind and self
- Ask yourself empowering questions
What you’ll learn:
- Kawan’s journey through three brain surgeries that began as he was a sophomore in college, with addiction, depression, strokes, and PTSD in between
- What he did and does to overcome the story of “why me?”
- How to get past limiting beliefs that stem from childhood
- What his relationship with his body is now
- How he would respond now if he knew he would need a fourth brain surgery
- How being black affects Kawan’s relationship with his health
- How to bring yourself in the present moment, and more advice for people who aren’t okay
- What Kawan’s purpose is
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Links:
Further episodes of Guru Please
Further podcasts by Jessica Sun
Website of Jessica Sun