THE ED MYLETT SHOW - What If Everything That Went Wrong Was Actually Right? 

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

You Are More Qualified Than You Think Have you ever felt like your past disqualified you from living the life of your dreams? Maybe it was a failure, a setback, or even a season of just being “average” that made you believe you weren’t enough. In this episode, I want to shatter that lie once and for all. Because the truth is, those very experiences you think disqualify you are actually what qualify you most to make a difference—in your own life and in the lives of others. I share a deeply personal story about my dad, a man who overcame addiction and transformed his life. And what struck me years later was this—he didn’t do it alone. Someone, in one of his lowest moments, stepped in and helped him. That act of grace created a ripple effect that changed my dad’s life, my life, and now millions of others. The lesson? You are most qualified to help the person you used to be. In this episode, I’ll show you why your scars, mistakes, and setbacks are not your disqualifications—they’re your credentials. When you embrace your imperfections, you don’t just inspire others, you connect with them in the deepest way. And every time you grow, you expand your capacity to reach back and lift someone else up. This is not just about believing in yourself—it’s about believing that your story has the power to create ripple effects you may never fully see. Today, I’m asking you to stop holding your past against yourself and instead use it as proof that you are more than capable. Because the moment you decide you’re qualified, your destiny changes. Key Takeaways: Why your past failures and mistakes actually qualify you for greatness How to reframe setbacks as preparation for your purpose The ripple effect of helping “the person you used to be” Why sharing your imperfections connects you more deeply than projecting perfection The decision that instantly shifts your destiny: believing you are qualified Your past isn’t a prison—it’s a platform. And today, it’s time to step into the life you were born to live. Max out. ⁠⁠👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈⁠⁠   → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ←  ➡️ ⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠   ➡️⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠X ⁠⁠  ➡️ ⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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so welcome back everybody i'm really really excited about what we've been doing here the ratings and reviews and shares are in the millions and it's so exciting to see what's happening so today what i want to talk about is qualifications for your dreams you know most times in life we do everything we can to disqualify ourselves from our dreams and our potential. And I want you to think about this just for a minute. I really believe, and I want to make a bold statement in the beginning, that you were born to do something great with your life and that you're not disqualified. No matter what's happened in your life, good, bad, or indifferent, or maybe it's just been average and ordinary the entire time.

You are not disqualified from making your dreams, your purpose, your vision, a reality in your life. But what we do often, and I've done it many times, is I think my past disqualifies me or some mistake I've made. So we hold ourselves, it's almost like a weapon we use against ourselves, is we hold our past mistakes, our past failures, our past setback, our past average performance and behavior, as if it's a predictor of what our future is. We think we're disqualified. So I'm here to tell you that the things that maybe that are the biggest setbacks of your life, the things you might be most ashamed of, the biggest disappointments, the biggest what you might call failures, where people have hurt you, or maybe you even hurt others, sins you've had mistakes.

You know, I've had a divorce, so I'm disqualified from winning. Not true. Or I've had this setback. No, you're not disqualified. Well, I've had a bankruptcy. Or I had a business failure. Or I've just always been invisible and average. So I'm disqualified.

Remember doing something great in my life. And nothing could be further from the truth. It's the great lie of life. The great lie of our lives is we begin to stack things that didn't work out as evidence that we can't win in the future as evidence it's not going to work we actually also literally think it disqualifies us somehow from winning and i'm here to tell you that is a great lie that millions of people around the world are telling themselves and what if i was to tell you that i think those same divorces setbacks failures sins mistakes the average performance of your past are the very things

that do qualify you to change other people's lives and fulfill your destiny that's what i actually believe. See, in life, if you really want to impress people, show them how perfect you are. Show them your best Instagram photo, your biggest achievement, the best things you've done in your life, how happy and smart and amazing you are. You really impress people and you'll connect with nobody and you will change nobody's life. But on the other hand, if your ambition is to change other people's lives, is to make a difference with your own life, to make an impact on people's lives then show them your imperfections if you show them or imperfections you will connect with them let me give you the best example in the world someone said this on my show many times i've said

it before you are most qualified to help the person or people you used to be say that to you again you are most qualified in your life to help the person or people you used to be rory vaden said that on my show i've said that back since 1997 a version of that i just didn't know how true it was until recently. So as you all know, I wrote the number one bestselling nonfiction book in the world this year called The Power of One More. If you haven't got that book, I would recommend you go get that book. I believe it'll change your life. But after I wrote that book and it became a bestseller, I woke up one night. And the book is really about the lessons I learned from my dad. As many of you know, but some may not. My dad was an alcoholic and a drug addict for the first 35,

or if there's 15 years of my life. And then he got sober when I was 15. And he made one decision to do that and stayed sober one day at a time for the rest of his life. And I'm in the personal development, the change your life space because I believe human beings can change. In fact, I don't believe it. I know it. And the reason that I know it is because my own hero did it. I watched my dad live a particular way that wasn't great the first 15 years of my life. And then the next 35 years of my life, I watched him live as a completely different man, a magnificent life, a giving life, a kind life, a beautiful life, a heavenly life. So I know humans can change because I watched my hero do it. But what's most amazing about my dad's sobriety is I woke up one night many months ago

crying in my sleep. And I woke up and I said to my wife, she said, what's wrong? And I said, well, you're not going to believe this, but I just realized something. Someone helped daddy. Someone helped my dad. She goes, what are you talking about? And I said, well, when dad got sober, someone helped my dad changes life. Some precious human being stepped forward and said, I can help you. See, we're born in our life to do great things in our life, big and small, but we don't know when we're doing them, whether they're big or small. We don't know the ripple effects.

And I said, someone helped my father in the worst moment of his life. My dad was either going to take his own life or lose his family. And in that terrible moment, I don't even know where it was. Was it a bar somewhere, an alley? I don't know who they are or where it happened. but what I know is some human being changed my dad's life, which then changed my life, and I've changed millions of people's lives. This precious human being has no idea that that one act, that one generosity, that one helping one person, is impacted millions of people because they

helped my father in that alley or that bar somewhere. Is that not remarkable? That one act, the ripple effect, has affected millions of people's lives. And that's not the most remarkable part of it even though that's crazy to think that as a human you have that power you have one person the ripple effects are unknown that's not the most amazing part the most amazing part is what was it that qualified that precious human to help my father what were their qualifications the very things that most people would think disqualified them the things that that person was most ashamed of, their biggest failures, their biggest sins. You know what qualified that person to help my dad? They were also an alcoholic at one time. They were also a drug addict at one time.

They also lied and cheated and stole money and lived in the shadows. The things that person would think, my gosh, my alcoholism, my drug addiction, my lying, my theft, my shadowy life, all those things, the worst things about me. I'm totally disqualified from having a great life, from living a dream, from helping other people. If anyone's disqualified, it's me. Actually, those were the very things God was using, the universe was using to qualify that person, to meet the moment, to help my dad when he was going to take his life or lose his family. I want you to understand and think about the power of that. The very thing that human being probably walked around most of their life thinking,

now that's the weapon I use against me, why I can't win, why I can't be happy, why I can't help people, why I can't you. Other people could win just not someone like me, not someone where I come from, not with my family, not with my background, not with my mistakes, not with the fact that I've always been average in ordinary, not the fact that I'm invisible. No, no, no, no. Sorry, guess what? Those very things that you use as a weapon against you that you think disqualify you are the very things that do qualify you.

That person didn't know all those years they were using drugs and suffering. All those years they were drinking alcohol and making mistakes and hurting other people and probably lying and probably steaming. and probably living in the shadows. Every single one of those things was preparing them for that moment to help somebody who was the person they used to be, my dad. You are most qualified to help the person you used to be

in your life. I'm a living proof of it. By the way, so are you. As you're listening to this or you're watching this, you are part of the ripple effect of that one act, that human being who helped my dad, who helped me who's now helping you what i hope you do today is by the way you share this episode with somebody so that ripple continues i want the world to understand one thing you are not

disqualified for making your dreams come true i don't care some people think well that's what i look like it's where i come from it's the mistake i made it's what it's none of that crap those are the very things that are qualifying you right now because you are most qualified to help the person you used to be and by the way that's why growing matters because Every time you grow into a new version of you, you are most qualified to help the people who you used to be. And then you grow up people. Why do you still grow and read and expand? Because I know every time I grow and change, I now can help that person I used to be, those people that I used to be.

If you were once broke and now have figured out how to make money, you can help broke people. If you were once overweight and now are fit, you can help all those people. If you were once broken and now are a little bit less broken, you can help broken people. If you're once invisible and average and ordinary and in despair, you can help people who feel average and ordinary and invisible and in despair. If you're once insecure and shy, and maybe you are right now and lack self-confidence or lack direction or lack purpose, and then now you find it and discover it, you can help all those people in the world who currently lack purpose, lack confidence, lack inspiration. We are most qualified in our life to help the person or people we used to be and never understand. underestimate the ripple effect of you just saying, hey, I'm imperfect too. But this is what I've learned. And I'm here for you. And I love you. And I believe in you. I honestly believe that if this

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let's be real if your gut is i want you to make your life something awesome i want you to change other people's lives and i know most of the time you feel disqualified to do it and i hope today maybe you get a little bit of a glimpse of exactly how qualified you are i think god's a really interesting dude and i think he sits there and goes if i could just get my children to understand i'm preparing you every day to make a difference in the world i'm preparing you every day to change your own life to change other people's lives, and that you're immensely qualified, that the DNA of the King of Kings runs through your bloodstream. I just want to remind you today, as you're listening to this, that you're born to do something

awesome with your life. And I'm here to help you every step of the way, along the way, but you've got to take the first step today. And that step today is just to believe that you're qualified. You're immensely qualified. You're immensely capable. You're awesome. with all your mistakes, all your weaknesses, all your sins, all the things you're not so good

at, all the things that you wish you were better at that you see other people have, you wish you looked this way or talk that way or thought that way or had that family, you're perfectly you. You're perfectly you in this moment. And the minute you accept that, you understand how qualified you are to change your own life and to change other people's lives. And I think one of the things you could do today that would qualify you is to share my message, is to share these thoughts with people so that people maybe today get a little bit of a glimpse into what's possible your decision shape your destiny everybody and the minute you decide that you're qualified your life changes and hopefully you decide to share this with somebody as well i hope by the way that you get

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