The Jamie Kern Lima Show - Powerful Habits to Overcome Self-Doubt & Discover Your Purpose Today with Ed Mylett (Pt 2 RR)

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

Get ready to discover your purpose, overcome self-doubt and discover powerful habits you can apply to your life today! Ed Mylett, the world’s #1 inspirational speaker, mindset & performance coach, s...hares how in this powerful, purposeful and deeply inspiring episode. Ed and Jamie go deep into stories and lesson’s they’ve never shared before on how to truly build your self-worth, how the depth of love you have for yourself impacts your kids, relationships and family and what you can do to optimize this today, and how simple steps and tools you can implement into your life today, can completely transform your belief in yourself! You do not want to miss this deeply impactful episode!! This is part 2 of a 2-part episode with Jamie and Ed, but each episode is stand-alone, so you can listen to it by itself, or as part of a 2-part life-changing masterclass just for you! ____  Are You Ready to believe in YOU?🙌⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠jamiekernlima.com ⁠⁠⁠👈 Sign up for my FREE Inspirational Newsletter and get ready for your self-worth to soar!🩷    Also, please make sure to take 2 seconds and click the “Follow” button right here on this page to follow me and the podcast, I’m so grateful and thank you SO much! ____  And whether you're joining me today for yourself or because someone that you love shared this episode with you, I want to welcome you to the Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast family. And remember this episode is not just for you and me. Please share it with every single person that you know because it can change their life too.  It’s such an honor to share this podcast together with you. And please note: I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional.   Click ⁠⁠⁠⁠Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Follow me here:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ —  Sign up for my inspirational newsletter for YOU at:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ jamiekernlima.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  —  Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WORTHY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Believe IT⁠⁠⁠

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Get ready to discover your purpose, overcome self-doubt, and discover powerful habits you can apply to your life today. Ed Milet, the world's number one inspirational speaker, mindset, and performance coach shares how in this powerful, purposeful, and deeply inspiring episode, and we go there. We go there on how to truly build yourself worth, how the depth of love you have for yourself impacts your kids, relationships, and family, and what you can do to optimize this today. This is part two of a two-part episode with me and Ed, but each episode is standalone. So if you can listen to it by itself or as part of a two-part life-changing masterclass, they both work just for you. And trust me, this is an episode you are going to want to share
Starting point is 00:00:50 with everyone you know today. I want to express this so profoundly. I want to express this so profoundly. I I'd love that you just, that's my favorite topic ever on any show I've ever done, and no one's ever talked to me about this before. I've conflated in my life too many times the difference between significance and love. And so when I was a little boy, actually, when I was a big boy, even now, I felt loved if I did something significant. So if I brought home straight A's, Eddie, we're so proud of you. Or if I hit a home run, or I got big muscles,
Starting point is 00:01:29 or I made hundreds of millions of dollars, or I had an island, or I got a jet, or whatever it was, that recognition felt like love. But it's a reduced version of it. So all my life, I've been trying to earn it. And earn it. And the truth is, I'm just realizing now. I don't have to earn it.
Starting point is 00:01:54 It's my birthright. God gave it to me. I want to talk to you. I want to ask you something I've never asked you before. Okay. Not even in our regular conversations. I've never asked you about this before. Oh, whoa.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Whoa, whoa. I've never been asked that one. Wow, wow, wow. Okay. You're amazing. Now you're going to make me really emotional. But to just melt back down and cool back down to what I was worth. And I'll never forget the day, because I live,
Starting point is 00:02:25 I literally watched my dreams walk out the door. But the moment was bigger than my worthiness in that moment. And wow, look at you. Literally, athletes, the best athletes in the world. I know that you coach presidents and world leaders. You coach so many different people to overcome their limiting beliefs. Believe it or not, it's their confidence or their worthiness level. And I remember asking you, what is it?
Starting point is 00:02:55 And you said that you can see God in that person. That's correct. Every single person. And that shifted me. See, people think, oh, a gift is I look like Beyonce or I sing like Beyonce or I'm strong like the rock, Dwayne Johnson. Those are gifts because they're very visible gifts. But most human beings' gifts are subtle and quiet and beautiful. It's their nurturing ability.
Starting point is 00:03:29 It's their kindness. It's their intention. It's their humor. It's their intellect. It's their problem-solving ability, right? It's their resiliency. It's their toughness. It's their faith.
Starting point is 00:03:39 It's their strength. It is impossible to see God in them and judge them at the same time. Oh, I love you. Right? That's exactly right. Right? And I'm watching them all of a sudden, feel judged by you so now they feel safe all right this is going to get controversial this is going
Starting point is 00:03:58 controversial you have said one of the most insidious forms of child neglect is a parent that does not go after their dreams yeah i think you're neglecting your children when you don't pursue your dreams and your potential that's big what you just said because a lot of people say well i'm really good at loving my kids, that's enough. You're saying, oh, but it's actually caught. It's caught. Not taught. And if they don't see you loving you.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Say this because I've never said this on any show before, but it's you, so I'll say it. I can't believe I'm saying this with you now. For everyone listening, just holding out for hope or for love in their life, would you mind just taking a moment and just speaking into them? Mm-hmm. And in your life, you're qualified to help anybody that you used to be. And so if you've been in pain and you're in a little bit less pain, you can help people in pain. If you've not believed in yourself for a little while, maybe you believe just a little bit more today.
Starting point is 00:05:04 You can help people who need that belief. I've done that good. I've done that really good with my kids. I've done that really good with them. And I would just recommend to everybody if you have a chance to tell another human being about them. Tell them. God chose you to change the world. That's what kept my head when we were talking today.
Starting point is 00:05:25 That's what I was thinking. It's going to use you a lot of different ways. It's not just the speaking. It's this too. Like, you're doing something here. Like, I've never cried like that. And the only time I ever cried in interviews when you interviewed me. Only two times ever.
Starting point is 00:05:36 You, you, this is, you need to doing this. Look, everyone's crying in here, by the way. Before we jump into this episode, I'd love to invite you to join this community to hear more interviews. and one-on-one conversations with me and you to help you truly believe in yourself, trust yourself, and know you are enough so that you can become unstoppable in living your best life. All I want you to do is click on the subscribe button.
Starting point is 00:06:06 I love your support. It's incredible to see your comments and how many of you are sharing these episodes with everyone else, and I'm just so grateful to be here for you and I'm so excited to go on this journey with you. So thank you for subscribing. It means so much to me. Who you spend time around is so important as energy is contagious and so is self-belief.
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Starting point is 00:07:19 Subscribe at jamiecernlima.com or in the link in the show notes. In life, you don't soar to the level of your hopes and dreams. You stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. When you build your self-worth, you change your entire life. And that's exactly why I wrote my new book, Worthy, how to believe you are enough and transform your life. for you. If you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill, worthy is for you. In worthy, you'll learn proven tools and simple steps that bring life-changing results,
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Starting point is 00:08:45 Imagine what you do if you fully believed in you. It's time to find out with Worthy. Welcome to the Jamie Kernlima show. Oprah, how have you defied the odd? Her show is unlike any I've ever done. A revelation. When you listen, it feels like a hug, but your brain and your spirit and your heart is like,
Starting point is 00:09:11 Wow, Melinda French Gates. When I look into Jamie's eyes, I feel like I am on some other cosmic level with her. I could see the light around her. She's infused with light. Imagine overcoming self-doubt, learning to believe in yourself and trust yourself and know you are enough. Welcome to the Jamie Kern-Lima show. Jamie Kern-Lima is her name. Everybody needs Jamie Kron-Lema in their life.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Jamie Kern, Lima. Jamie, you're so inspiring. Jamie Kern, Lima. He's been named the top performance and mindset coach in the world by USA Today. He's a renowned global entrepreneur, a best-selling author, host of the Ed My Letts Show, which is now one of the fastest growing and most successful podcast on the planet. He goes from sharing hardcore winning life and business strategies with his millions of followers online to having full out conversations with his three Pomeranians, Daisy, Lily and Rose on
Starting point is 00:10:20 Instagram. He is one of the very few people on the planet I call when I need to be reminded of the greatness that's in me on the days. I am tempted to forget it. And today he is going to ignite the greatness that is in you. he is one of my dear friends and today he's here to be one of yours all right this is going to get controversial this is going to get controversial you have said one of the most insidious forms of child neglect is a parent that does not go after their dreams yeah well that sounds harsh but
Starting point is 00:11:00 I just really believe it's true so when my book came out um a girl that I love went to high school with, actually elementary school with, called me, she goes like, I'm so proud of you, you're your book and you got a TV show. And I said, well, thank you. And she goes, and it's just how you overcame all that neglect as a child. And by the way, I had a great family. I want to make sure I qualify that. I have an unbelievable mom and my dad was awesome, but there was definitely some neglect in there. And I told her, I said, I won't say her name, but I said, you know, can I be honest with you? I think you neglect your kids. You said this is the person who called you. Yeah. And she got really quiet. She said, what do you mean? We've been married for 25 years. I don't even drink. We're
Starting point is 00:11:39 happily married. And I said, listen, I won't say her name, but I said, I think one of the most insidious forms, like invisible, insidious forms of child neglect is a child who's being raised by a parent who's not in pursuit of their dreams or their potential. And she's like, oh my gosh. I said, it's just, listen, you can say your daughter's sweetheart, you can be whatever you want to be. At some point, your daughter's going to look at you and say, Mama, why aren't you? You can look at your son and say you're going to be so happy son and you're going to live a blissful life why don't you daddy you know your kids at some point they're always going to love you you're their parents you don't but they do figure out who you are eventually and they're the ones with you when you're driving
Starting point is 00:12:21 home to school in the morning and they can see you in the rear view mirror they don't care whether you're rich they don't care about that but they do care whether you're truly happy right most things as a child are caught, not taught. We catch things from our parents. And one of the things we often catch from them is their emotional well-being. Their emotional home. You may end up with a different life,
Starting point is 00:12:48 but they catch it. And so they know whether you're happy. They know whether you're making a difference. They know whether you're contributing. Because people that are contributing and making a difference are happy. And people who aren't so happy. And so you're neglecting your children
Starting point is 00:13:05 when you don't pursue hard things in your life. They catch from you. One thing I did learn from my dad is hard work. I learned it was good to achieve and do hard things in my life. And I just feel like there's so many people out there that are oblivious to the fact that you're cheating your kids out of something really special because they're never going to know who you could have been. That whole thing of when I get to heaven, I want, you know, to be the ultimate version
Starting point is 00:13:30 of me, I want my kids to see that. I don't, I don't, like, my kids care whether I have. have money or not. But I do think they care whether Daddy's trying his best, whether there's some joy and some laughter in Daddy's life. I think they figure out whether Daddy loves Daddy. I think they figure that out. And if you're raised by someone or you're raising someone and you're not giving your children the gift of you loving you because they catch this from you. You can't teach them that. You have to show them that because it's caught not taught. And so when a child's raised by a parent who truly loves themselves,
Starting point is 00:14:08 who's truly happy and blissful, right? Or truly faithful, they catch that. And when they're raised by someone who's not, no matter what else you teach them, they catch that. And so that's what I mean by, I think you're neglecting your children when you don't pursue your dreams and your potential. And that's a harsh thing, but I say that because for this reason, we'll go back to what we said earlier,
Starting point is 00:14:31 I know how much you love your children. and I know you don't want to have that happen for them. So if I could link it to your kids, I can get you to change. It also just happens to be true. And learning to love yourself. That's big what you just said. Because a lot of people say, well, I'm really good at loving my kids. That's enough.
Starting point is 00:14:49 You're saying, oh, but it's actually caught. It's caught. Not taught. And if they don't see you loving you, which a lot of people think, oh, that's selfish. I don't need to love me. But that's like everything. It's the thing. I got to tell you, and I'll only say this because I've never said this on any show before,
Starting point is 00:15:06 but it's you, so I'll say it. I've neglected my kids that way. That one's from me. I'm really good at loving other people. I'm good at that. I'm not so good in letting myself feel it, not only just from me, but even from other people who truly love me
Starting point is 00:15:25 to fully experience what it feels like to be loved. You have a little bit of that, too, sister. okay and I realized my kids are going to my kids are going to catch this they're going to catch this I have to I have to let myself love myself one thing is I learned just recently I'll tell you well I'm telling everybody I guess but you've never heard me tell you this before and we talk all the time but you know I'm learning a lot about me at every stage of life like the reason I'm in this space for me is that I'm taking everyone on the journey of me learning and healing and growing and and so it's kind of fun but one things i've learned about me lately is
Starting point is 00:16:04 i learned as a kid to like disassociate emotionally so like when it was chaotic in my house what do you learn you learn to kind of disassociate a little bit and so i think that's carried over on my life a little you know if i'm at a party and everyone's having a good time i have a good time but not like everybody else does if i have something great happen in my life and i celebrate it. I celebrate it a little, but I don't allow myself to really feel it. When I'm with the people that I love the most and I'm loving on them so much and they love me so much, I let myself feel it a little bit. But I disassociate to some extent. And that disassociation has served me in a lot of ways. Like when I have to go speak on a big stage in an arena, I can kind of disassociate
Starting point is 00:16:52 from my fears a little bit and go up there and perform. Usually things we do in our lives to protect ourselves. There's a reason we do something, right? But I've realized long term the cost is greater than the benefit to me. And at some point, I'm going to get out of this life and I've never experienced it. At some point, I will have got out of life and never really felt loved by me and other people who truly loved me and never really celebrated. Truly, like really never enjoyed it. Like, I think even me, my age now with all the work I do, I'll, I in the back of my mind go, I'll get around eventually to really feeling great about my life or me or other people, but I'm robbing them, the other people. And here's why. You can't really fully transfer
Starting point is 00:17:42 to me something that you're not experiencing yourself. You can only give me. So I'm actually delusional in thinking that I'm giving all this love to other people. I'm giving them a limited version of it because you can't, you can only give what you really experience. And so I've maxed out giving love to other people based on my lack of having it myself right and it's it's like just recently like i'm talking about like maybe even this week i've fully embraced that that's true and i can't believe i'm saying this with you now but like i need to change that i need to change that i think i'm loving everyone fully but there's a there's another depth in a level i could go to to the love of other people. Only way there is to give it to myself first so that I can give to somebody
Starting point is 00:18:30 that which I'm experiencing myself. And so, wow, I'm surprised I just said that out loud, but it's totally true. It's something that I need to grow and change. How are you going to do that? I have this friend who wrote a book called Worthy and she actually sent me the manuscript before she wrote it and there are things in that book that I need to go back to and I'm being serious about it and here's what I've found it's a gift I can just give myself freely it's it's always been there I've just hidden from it kind of like I would hide from my dad right you talk about hiding in plain sight I've just developed a pattern of hiding in it in it and it's right there to be had I don't have to earn it and I've always thought I had to earn it
Starting point is 00:19:21 I've conflated in my life too many times the difference between significance and love. And so when I was a little boy, actually when I was a big boy, even now, I felt loved if I did something significant. So if I brought home straight A's, Eddie, we're so proud of you. Or if I hit a home run, or I got big muscles, or I made hundreds of millions of dollars, or I had an island, or I got, a jet or whatever it was that recognition felt like love but it's a reduced version of it so all my life i've been trying to earn it and earn it and the truth is i'm just realizing now i don't have to earn it it's my birthright god gave it to me i can have it any time i want and ironically through a very difficult time recently i've been giving myself pretty high doses of it in a time where maybe i don't
Starting point is 00:20:19 even feel like I've earned it because it's not something you earn it's something that you experience that's always been there and I'm actually I would say the last few weeks and by the way there's been other times in my life but like I think it's kind of interesting that it's happened during a rather difficult time that I've actually felt a lot of bliss and a lot of love and a lot of joy in kind of the midst of a tough time as opposed to just a good time and so to me it's not something I have to go earn it's something that I get that's a gift that was always there Tell you, you want to hear an interesting story about that? The quality of your life is the quality of your emotions.
Starting point is 00:20:54 You and I talk about that all the time. But you develop an emotional home. There's like, I talk about this in my book, but there's like three or four, five emotions you get on a regular basis no matter what because you're addicted to them. It's your home. And so for me, you know, those emotional homes could be bliss, joy, ecstasy, passion, love, faith, or they could be the other ones. it could be worry, fear, lack, anxiety, anger, right?
Starting point is 00:21:23 Anger usually is the flip side of the coin of fear. When you see an angry person, you're seeing a scared person. And so I had an experience happened a long time ago that enlightened me to this. I had finally made some money after all these years in business and being broke. I was building my first kind of like cool house. Not this cool, but a cool house. And anyway, the day was stressful. I'd had like a meeting happened to a bad meeting.
Starting point is 00:21:50 I was all, and then the contractor had messed something up. And so I'm driving over there. I'm ready to get in this contractor's face. And I'm mad about the business meeting. And I walk in, they're building this house in my house. I was a mansion and it was the first nice house I ever had. And I walk into the where the living room was. And to the left was my kitchen.
Starting point is 00:22:10 And in the kitchen were six men working. They were all men from Mexico that had to leave their families to come here just to send money back. home it's my mansion they're working in it and i come in there home and i look over at these guys and they're blissful i could see them from like i don't know 100 feet away they're blissful they got their mariachi music playing they're kind of dancing and laughing they're doing work they were great at that had meaning and purpose to them they had one another and in that moment i stepped out of myself for a second and i went if the game of life is the quality of of our emotions, they're winning. I'm losing. What is wrong with you? They're in your,
Starting point is 00:22:54 they had to leave their families, come over here, they're working, they're sending most of that money back home. They're building your dream house. And you're living in lack, anger, fear, worry, and they're living in bliss, joy, peace, equanimity. They're winning the game of life. Because here's the truth. You don't want the house. You want how you think it'll make you feel. You don't want even the relationship You want how you think it'll make you feel You don't want to lose the 20 pounds You want how you think it'll make you feel
Starting point is 00:23:24 And what I'm realizing is I can feel those things anytime I want And the truth is when you get those things They don't do it And so it just made me step back and say If that's really the game of life Is to feel things, I don't have to earn them But it's not until recently now
Starting point is 00:23:41 That I've realized I feel a lot of other things But not love Not love. That's the one I've withheld myself, giving myself the gift of. I've celebrated. I've had some passion and all that. But love, that's the one I've sort of reserved for only other people. And so now I'm working on giving myself that one. I have been with you when you have stepped off stage and you have an entire sold out arena just sobbing and moved and impacted and blessed. And you will come backstage and tear yourself apart and and and uh all those other things and i think you and i have
Starting point is 00:24:20 gosh so many things in common ed you do that with believing and just just most of my life believing that lie that i need to achieve enough to finally feel enough or believing that lie that achievement leads to love you think you still have some of that i think far less than ever i think it's only the past three years that I've realized. Yeah. And also only the past three years, I've realized all of that achievement and growth while it's important builds confidence, but none of it builds my worth, my identity, who I believe I am. And I think, you know, when our self-worth is our ceiling, right? And if we don't think we are, if we don't have enough self-love or self-worth to think we're worthy of something, we'll sabotage it,
Starting point is 00:25:09 will disassociate from it, all the things. I want to ask you. Wow, that's profound, that difference that you talk about there, not to interrupt you, but the difference between confidence and worthiness, all the work I've done, I've never understood until you talked to me about it on my show. And what you just said there is like, that's one of those. Everybody should rewind the last three minutes of that and listen to that again. That was really good.
Starting point is 00:25:32 It's just, I was believing, you know, because when we think, if we achieve more, we'll finally feel love and we'll get more, love, more, and why does it still feel like something's missing? Then we achieve more and then we work hard. And it's this never-ending cycle to never feeling it. Yes. Because we don't realize we are it. That's right.
Starting point is 00:25:48 We try to chase it and it was always within us to experience any time we wanted to. Yes, exactly. And when we don't believe it and feel it, then we hit ceilings, we sabotage things. I want to talk to you. I want to ask you something I've never asked you before. Okay. Not even in our regular conversations. I've never asked you about this before.
Starting point is 00:26:06 But will you talk about baseball and 440 and scouts leaving? Wow, look at you. And your self-worth. Oh, whoa. Whoa, whoa. I've never been going to ask that one. Wow, wow, wow. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:27 So I'm in college and I think I was leading the nation and hitting. I think I was leading the nation. But I was hitting 440. and you're amazing now you're going to make me really emotional but um so i think i was leading the nation hitting or i was close anyway it's hitting 440 and i remember my coach coming to me going hey listen we're playing in you and lv we played it there and i had a great series there and he goes hey next week we're going to go down to play cal state forward and these are top teams in the country and he goes i just want you to know there's going to be a ton of scouts there they're called cross checkers
Starting point is 00:26:59 national so it's like the scouts scouts they're coming to see you this is a big deal and And I said, okay. And so we went down and we're playing Cal State forward and I blew it. I blew it. First or second inning, a fly ball is hit to me like a normal everyday fly ball that I've been catching since I'm six years old. I drop it. Like right in my glove, drop it. Like basic routine, like taking a glass of water and drinking it, I drop the ball.
Starting point is 00:27:28 I end up getting out my first time, striking out the next time. I end up going like 0 for 13 or something like that in the series. But on my third or fourth at bat, I end up grounding out. And I hit first base, and I'm coming back to the dugout. And I look, and all I can see is the backs of all the scouts walking out. They all left. And I remember thinking, there goes my dream right there. I've blown it.
Starting point is 00:27:58 And the truth is, what happened there was, I didn't believe I was, worth it. It's impossible for me to play that bet. I didn't believe I was worthy of it. My identity was not high enough. And what happens when your identity is, you know, I talk about a lot, it's like a thermostat setting on your life, right? And so if you're set at 75 degrees and you start getting results that are heated up beyond what you believe you're worth, you will turn the air conditioners on unconsciously, subconsciously, and cool your life back down to what you believe you're supposed to get. And it's a true thing. If you don't raise that identity, thermoste, that worthiness thermostat,
Starting point is 00:28:34 you'll cool it back down. It'll seem coincidental. Like, ooh, the wind blew the fly ball. Sun was in my eyes. You know, or in business. Supply chain affected my business. Or, you know, I had to loan some money to a friend. It's none of that.
Starting point is 00:28:47 It's that you turn the air conditioners on. And so that weekend, I will literally never forget, and I can't believe you just asked me out because it actually changes how I feel inside. I turned the AC on as cold as I could get it back to what Eddie Milet thought he was worth. All the way by.
Starting point is 00:29:02 back to that little boy with the key in the lock and his dad coming through, I found a way in front of thousands and thousands of people to just melt back down and cool back down to what I was worth. And I'll never forget the day because I literally watched my dreams walk out the door. I watched these people who were the gatekeepers of my dreams go, what in the world are we doing with this guy? They didn't even stick around to see the rest of it. And they were gone. And with that day, part of my dream died. that day. Part of my dream died that day because I didn't believe I was worth it. I didn't believe I was worth it. And in hindsight, how sad. Now, what happens is that's baseball, so it's very obvious,
Starting point is 00:29:45 but in most people's lives, that subtly happens every single day of them. At some point, they just turn the air conditioners on and get it right back to what they think they're worth. And it wasn't for many, many years until after that that I figured out why I did it that day. I don't drop fly balls. I don't go 0 for 13. But the moment was bigger than my... worthiness in that moment and wow look at you yeah my mom and dad were there for that too and I remember watching my dad feels so bad for me like they were just heartbroken you know and I couldn't stop it I don't know if any of you get that way where you're spiraling I I couldn't stop it and then it got worse
Starting point is 00:30:23 and I got more pressure on me and more pressure and more pressure and then I just wanted to hide I just wanted to quit completely you know if I could have walked out of that game and that stadium in the middle of but I would have. Like, just please get me out of here. I don't belong here. And it was like this great microcosm of life. Like, I didn't think I belonged there.
Starting point is 00:30:44 It was getting too good. I was too close to my dream. I was getting too happy. I was becoming too successful. And I think it's a great warning, Jamie, for people that are on the climb right now. You have to keep growing your worthiness and growing that identity
Starting point is 00:30:58 because at some point, if you don't, you will turn the air conditioners on if you exceed too long you can exceed your identity for a little bit but eventually you're going to bring it back to what you think you're worth if you don't work on that part of you as you're growing and i i worked on how to hit a ball i worked on how to catch and run and throw i worked on all the fundamentals but i didn't work on me and the the true me who i thought the true me was came out and made sure i dropped that ball made sure i'd ground out the first made sure i struck out a bunch of times, made sure I made every mistake I could make to get what I thought I was worth.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Yeah. This is the one thing. It changes everything. I see, gosh, in my journey of building cosmetics, right, hiring over 1,000 employees or just in all different areas of life, friends, it doesn't matter. I have seen people so talented get a huge opportunity, and then they show up late every single time. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:31:54 And they just think, oh, they have a habit of being late. No, you're actually sabotaging an opportunity. Like, it shows up in so many ways, right? They're, oh, I really want a life partner, but you keep putting everyone in the friend zone and not being attracted to them. Yes. Because deep down inside, you don't believe you're worthy of a great relationship. That's right.
Starting point is 00:32:13 So how did you go from sabotaging your baseball dreams? Because you had dreamed being a pro athlete. And, you know, and now you help literally athletes, the best athletes in the world. I know that you coach presidents of world leaders. You coach so many different people to overcome their limiting beliefs, right? And I want to take a big step back here. I think in some spaces, like there's the personal growth world where everyone there knows what a limiting belief is.
Starting point is 00:32:47 I think that I have five families through being adopted. I would venture to guess 95% of them who are very smart, has never heard the term limiting belief. And just to break it down, because this may be, oh my gosh, of the other 200 things that are already breakthroughs in this episode, this one thing could be really, really big for somebody who's just listening right now. But we all have, you know, so many of us have limiting beliefs in our life. And you've just talked about a few of them, oh, I, you know, I'm not worthy of this or I'm unqualified or I'm not talented enough for this. I'm not, you know, we all tell ourselves. I'm too young. I'm too old. I'm not smart enough. People like me don't have things
Starting point is 00:33:30 like this happen to me. I mean, on and on and on. The list of limiting beliefs, a lot of us tell ourselves. Sometimes without realizing it, goes on and on and on. So how do you, Ed Milit, in the most simplest of terms, overcome a limiting belief? That's a great question. I'm going to tell you a weird thing that I do. For me, a lot of my superpower comes from from my physiology. So when I feel limiting things about myself, it's typically, it's a neurochemistry. So what I do with the athletes that I work,
Starting point is 00:34:05 people ask me, when you're dealing with these athletes, like what are you working on? And they're surprised, because you know this too, because you're connected to so many people that have achieved at a high level. Believe it or not, it's their confidence or their worthiness level, still at that level. They still struggle with it.
Starting point is 00:34:18 They go into a slump or something. Like you've got, I don't have to teach a UFC fighter how to throw a kick or a punch. They're better at that than that. I am. I have to get them back into. This is what I get them back into. I'll show them a kick or a punch they've thrown before and I'll make them watch it. And I'll say, what does that feel like in that moment? What does it feel like in your body? Okay. So here's the real answer. And they'll tell me, oh, it feels like this. It feels amazing when you connect or a baseball player when they hit it. What's it
Starting point is 00:34:45 feel like? And I'll make them tell me, what's it feel off the bat? Like what's it feel in your body? And I try to get there because I believe success, bliss, happiness is actually a neurology. It's a neurochemistry. It's something you feel in your body. Any of you that have ever kind of been in that zone before, like, wow, I gave a good meeting right there. That was an amazing conversation. You feel something. There's a calmness, a frequency to how you feel. And so what I will do to overcome my limiting beliefs is I will get my body back in that state of achievement. So for me, it might be a walk or I'm moving. I don't read my goals sitting down. My goals are done when I'm working out because I'm at a peak physical state. So I link it in those moments. So what I'm
Starting point is 00:35:26 I get with my athletes or I do with myself is I will shift my body into what I believe is like a peak neurochemistry and then I can believe anything I want to about myself in those moments. It's when I'm not in that state that I suffer. I suffer when my body's not moving. So that's why like Tony Robbins' work is so profound because what he does is he gets you moving and he's changing your neurochemistry, he's changing your neurology. So believe it or not, even with people that run big companies or countries, I will get that. them to get into the neurology they want and then link what they're doing physically to that state. So it's a technical thing, but it's something I do. Here's the other thing I have. I have
Starting point is 00:36:04 two or three people in my life. That's the complicated thing. It's changing your neurochemistry. The simple thing that I have is I have two or three people in my life. Maybe it's five now. You're one of them who will tell me the truth about me, who will get me to break through those limiting beliefs. I think you only need one other person in your life who believes in you super deeply, who can tell you when you're doing that to yourself. And I do it all the time. I still limit myself. I don't know if I could do this.
Starting point is 00:36:28 I don't know if I could write another book. I don't know this. And you're like, are you crazy? That's an amazing book. Like, I don't know how many times you've been telling me about this book that I'm supposed to write. Like, and your belief in me oftentimes can override the limiting beliefs I have. So if I can, if I can give you two gifts, it would be one, move your body in a resourceful
Starting point is 00:36:45 way where you have that superhuman physiology going and then do your thinking. Okay? In other words, don't think from an unresourceful state. Like when I wrote my book, I would move. my body before I would write. When I do my goals, I move my body. So if you're in a limiting belief, you're probably in a limiting physiology, a limiting neurology, a limiting neurochemistry.
Starting point is 00:37:06 Move your body to get things moving and then think, and then tell me how you feel. Okay? And you will think differently when your body, your body's changed. There's so much more coming up in this episode. You are not going to want to miss it. But first, I wanted to share this with you. In life, you don't sort the level of your heart. hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. When you build your self-worth,
Starting point is 00:37:32 you change your entire life. And that's exactly why I wrote my new book, Worthy, how to believe you are enough and transform your life for you. If you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill, worthy is for you. In Worthy, you'll learn proven tools and simple steps that bring life-changing results, like how to get unstuck from the things holding you back, build unshakable self-love, unlearn the lies that lead to self-doubt and embrace the truths that wake up worthiness, overcome limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome, achieve your hopes and dreams by believing you are worthy of them and so much more. Are you ready to unleash your greatness and step into the person you were born to be. Imagine a life with zero self-doubt and unshakable self-worth.
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Starting point is 00:39:34 If you're tired of hearing the bad news every single day and need some inspiration, some tips, tools, joy, and love hitting your inbox, I'm your girl. subscribe at jamie kurnlema.com or in the link in the show notes and now more of this incredible conversation together and have one to five people in your life who will speak truth to you when you're lying to yourself about the things that you're limited to do and typically for me those are the two things that shift me out of these limiting beliefs I also need someone like you to talk to you to go you're playing too small you're thinking too small right now come on this is what you're cable of and you'll do that with me all the time and You'll even challenge me.
Starting point is 00:40:18 I want friends in my life. Here's the kicker. I want friends in my life who love me. Everyone says, I just need people to accept me as I am. Do you? Do you? Like, I want people to love me as I am, but maybe not accept me. In other words, I want people to see me as I'm capable of becoming.
Starting point is 00:40:38 See me. I think real love, like with my children, I love them, but I don't always accept their behavior. right what if I accepted everything my kids ever did is that real love no so what I see is how my kids could be or what their behavior could have been I want friends who go I love you no matter what but I don't accept this behavior from you I don't accept that limiting belief I don't accept that you believe that about yourself because I know better about you so I have people in my life who love me enough to challenge me when I'm doing that to myself you are one of those people. You do that very regularly with me. You remind me of how much you believe in me and how much
Starting point is 00:41:21 you love me and what you think I'm capable of. And I have enough trust with you that I believe you when you say it. Sometimes I believe you when I don't believe me. And so I would say get that neurology and find these blessings in your life where these people love you, but they're not always just going to accept your behavior or your performance level that they're going to challenge you. I want friends who challenge me, challenge me, love me, but challenge me. And I have the blessing of that. And you're one of those blessings, as you know. Yeah, as are you in my life, as I opened this episode, one of the few people on the
Starting point is 00:41:56 planet I call when I am forgetting the greatness inside of me. Yeah, I remind you all the time. It's easy. It's easy with you. You know, you, oh my gosh, I just want to ask you about your ability. to see another person. And I know you shared that it started in pain in your household, learning how to just read your dad and really see what he's feeling,
Starting point is 00:42:27 what he's thinking, what he's going through. And you now have one of the fastest growing podcast in the world, the biggest shows out there. You have a television show called Change with Ed Milette. And the first time I saw that show, I binge watched the whole entire series, every episode, because I hadn't seen you in that format before. You're one of the three people who watched it. And I will never forget, the thing I will never forget is you had so many different types
Starting point is 00:43:01 of people in the chair, so many different life stories, so many people with varying levels of resentment and anger and setbacks and circumstances. And I watched them literally just disarm in your presence. I watched them just like relax at ease and get in this flow with you. And I remember asking you, what is it about your communication style, about what is happening on the set there because you almost never see this. Even with the greatest interviewers or coaches or in the world,
Starting point is 00:43:46 you almost never see this. And I'm watching this before my eyes. Person after person after person. And a lot of these people, they don't even know who you are. Like they're just someone with a really hard life challenge and you're helping them resolve it. And I remember asking you, what is it? And you said that you can see God in that person.
Starting point is 00:44:11 That's correct. Every single person. Yeah. And that shifted me. Yeah, I remember when we talked about that. Will you share this just because it's profound when we can approach this in our life? Well, I'm looking for God in you all the time. So when my dad was drinking in the worst version of himself, I would look in my dad and see
Starting point is 00:44:34 the good. I knew he loved me. I knew my dad had a good heart. And somehow in that time, God sewed into me to look for him in the midst of all of that stress and anger. I don't know if it was whispered to me as a little boy or not, but I remember having a strong sense, we'll call it the Holy Spirit, or whatever you want to call it, but of like, when I was hurting around my dad, God would tell me, look for me and him. Look for me and him. And I would. And it was, would give me comfort and peace while he was so angry it didn't scare me like it did before and I developed that habit with everyone so that when I meet people what I'm actually looking for is what's their giftedness what's their giftedness because within all of us we were all
Starting point is 00:45:25 born with two or three four very unique gifts that were sewn into just us and we discounted them because they're so natural to us. This isn't special. See, people think, oh, a gift is I look like Beyonce or I sing like Beyonce or I'm strong like the rock, Dwayne Johnson. Those are gifts because they're very visible gifts. But most human beings gifts are subtle and quiet and beautiful. It's their nurturing ability. It's their kindness. It's their intention. It's their humor. It's their intellect. It's their problem-solving ability, right? It's their resiliency. It's their toughness. It's their faith. It's their strength. It could be their ability to write or communicate or see or make other people look beautiful. It could be all kinds of different things. But because they're natural to
Starting point is 00:46:17 us, we discount them. So when I meet a human being, and by the way, those were set from God. So when I meet a human being, I'm fascinating. They're like a gift I want to open up, right? They're like a gift even people that are adversarial to me i kind of want to open them up because and then what's their thing and what i have found that when you can point out to a human being this is your gift they intuitively know it's true about them and now you have linked yourself and yoked them with them in a way maybe no human being has maybe a few so if i can see that god in you and i point it out to you and you go yeah i i do love people or i do help other people feel better about themselves or I am funny right or I do care then all of a sudden we have a connection
Starting point is 00:47:06 and you are sewn into a strength you didn't have before and now once we've made that connection you trust me and you feel strong about you to make a change in a shift because I've spoken truth to you like we talked about before and it's sort of become like this habit of mine if you're my Uber driver by the time we're done I will have opened you up and I will have identified two or three gifts in you. Now, it is a muscle I built where I'm pretty good at finding it faster than I used to be because it's almost like this radar I have to find in somebody. And it is, I said earlier, I only really have two gifts, my ability to connect with people, which is what we're describing right now much deeper, and maybe my ability to express to them what they could do with that gift,
Starting point is 00:47:46 which is the ability to communicate. And so if you see me on stage in front of 40,000 people, or you're my Uber driver, kind of the same thing's happening. What's trying to happen there is I'm trying to find the presence of God and you and your giftedness, and then communicate to you how you can best express it for the good of other people. And so that's sort of what happened on my show. More than three people watched it, I'm kidding. But it's something that I love to do an experience
Starting point is 00:48:12 because I feel connected to God when I'm with his children. And so it's easy to see in the world today are differences. Man, that's everywhere, right? And there are differences. We do believe different things. We do come from different places.
Starting point is 00:48:25 There are different personality types, but we're all connected as brothers and sisters, too. I catch a lot of flack. My wife's always telling me, you call everybody brother, everyone's sister. And I'm like, I do, because they are. And it's a reminder to me and them that we're connected, that we're all brothers and sisters in God's kingdom. Whatever you believe about God or the universe or whatever that is, that's your business, not mine. But for me, I know I'm connected to you. We are not separate.
Starting point is 00:48:52 We are connected. and the great lie in our culture today, Jamie, is that we're separate and everything's trying to separate us. So if I can just be a little bit of light in the world, I'm like, no, we're connected. And I see God in you. And by the way, when I pointed out to you, you know it's true already.
Starting point is 00:49:08 And now you see God in you, and now you have the power to change. Even if they don't know that's what it is. That's right. Even if they don't have any similar beliefs. Don't have to have the same beliefs. Don't have to have it. You see it in them.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Yeah, most people don't have the same beliefs. And by the way, how sad is it in our culture that we have to believe the same thing in order to feel connected? I got way past that. Way past that stuff. I don't have to believe. Yeah, I don't have to believe what you believe to be connected to you. In fact, you're interesting to me when you believe things I don't believe. Because now, if everyone believed everything I believed, it'd be a pretty boring conversation, right?
Starting point is 00:49:43 You want to know the most beautiful part about when I was witnessing this. and I was witnessing just you, and you're solving real problems in people's lives. I mean, you have people on your couch dealing with all kinds of stuff on this talk show. Yes. From the worst of situations to just challenging setbacks to wild life circumstances.
Starting point is 00:50:07 It's just no guest was the same. I'm watching them come in again with varying levels of resentment or a chip on their shoulder or, you know, whatever it might be. or hope, all of emotions, I'm watching you, like, see God in them. Yeah. And in that moment, and this is what I think is so beautiful about this,
Starting point is 00:50:32 it is impossible to see God in them and judge them at the same time. Oh, I love you. Right? That's exactly right. Right? And I'm watching them all of a sudden not feel judged by you, so now they feel safe. Ah, you got it. Yes. And by the way, I want to express this so profoundly. I love that you just, it's my favorite
Starting point is 00:50:53 topic ever on any show I've ever done. And no one's ever talked to me about this before. All of you have this ability. It just needed to be pointed out to you. This is not unique to me at all. I'm just looking for it. If you start looking for it in people, and by the way, the judgment part is so huge, giving people grace, even when maybe they don't seem like they deserve it at the time. I'll tell you an interesting story about exactly what you just said. About three weeks ago the kids were home for Christmas. We went out to dinner. Pretty nice restaurant. Not great, but pretty good place. Kind of a place where there's a, you know, I don't know how to explain it, but you probably aren't screaming and yelling in this place, right? One of those places. And when we
Starting point is 00:51:31 walk in, we're in the lobby and I can hear these kids screaming. Like, I mean like crazy screaming. And I'm like, oh, that's going to be noisy. And of course, who do we sit next to? Right next to the screaming table. There's five kids at this table. There's two parents. And I mean, these kids are going at it they're going at it i mean running around the table throwing food almost you know screaming and carrying on and the mom kind of has her head down the whole time the dad's not doing a lot and my normal tendency as a human would be and to judge them right and by the way i know that's my normal tendency i know that's our culture i know i can go there i'm completely capable and have gone there before in my life and i literally did what you just said i literally said i'm going to give them some grace i'm not
Starting point is 00:52:16 to judge them. I have no idea why in that moment I chose that, but it was like whispered to me to do it. In fact, and you know me pretty well, I said, Max, I want to say a prayer for that family real quick. My son's like, Dad, I said, and you're saying it. So I said, bow your heads, and we just said a quick prayer for the family. And of course, Bella goes, well, dad, we should do a thing we used to do where we buy them dinner, but they don't know it too. Even me, I'm like, you're pushing it. And I said, okay, so anyway, we used to do this thing as a family, where we would buy people dinner anonymously. I know you've done that, too.
Starting point is 00:52:47 Anyway, three quarters way through the dinner. The dinner ends, and we got their check. They didn't know where it came from, and they left. And it was pretty noisy the whole time. We leave about an hour later, and two days later, I'm hitting golf balls at the golf course warming up, and the man who was our server, who I got to know very well that night because I opened him up and told him what his giftedness was. So he was kind of connected to me, and he come, Mr. Milet, that was like one of the best experiences
Starting point is 00:53:13 I've ever had the other night and thank you being so kind. I felt so good about myself when I left. And I go, well, Derek, I meant it, brother. I mean, that is your giftedness. Your humor, man, and the way you can remember things, man, you could use that to change the world, right? And you're doing it in the restaurant. And he goes, and you're just so good to that family
Starting point is 00:53:28 who was coming back from the funeral. I said, what did you say? He goes, oh, the family at the table that night that you got the meal for, they had come back from their grandma's funeral. I went, you're kidding me. And he goes, yeah, and they used to come in here with the grandmother. She was amazing.
Starting point is 00:53:46 And the wife, it was her mom. She was inconsolable that night. I couldn't, she couldn't even lift her head up at the meal. And that makes me emotional. And the grandkids, they're so close to her because when their dad was deployed in Iraq, she was at home raising them when the mom had the job. So they were very, very close. And they had come in that night right after the funeral.
Starting point is 00:54:13 to celebrate their grandmother. I was like, well, man, you never know what someone's going through. You never know what they're carrying. You don't know their burden. Give them grace. You don't know. Usually hurt people, hurt people.
Starting point is 00:54:29 People in pain create pain. Thank God that night. Somehow, I'm not capable of this wisdom. God gave me the wisdom that night to give them grace and say a prayer for them. And I'm so grateful that I didn't go to what your tendency would be, which is to judge because to think that those precious babies had lost their grandma and buried her that day. And that mom who couldn't lift her head up, that was her mother.
Starting point is 00:54:58 And the husband, he fought for our country over in Iraq. And when he was deployed, that grandmother helped raise his precious children. Just amazing 48 hours in my life. And so that lesson played out, you know, really, really profoundly then. And the book that you mention, I'm always on you to write, that you're writing. That I'm writing. I want to talk to you about this because when you shared this concept, it has literally changed my life. You shared this concept, and I now do it with my kids.
Starting point is 00:55:34 I love it. I now do it with my husband. Will you share with everyone listening? because I think of the one person watching us listening today who's going to start doing this, and I have found it will change not only the person you do this with, but it'll change the relationships in your life. Can you talk about, let me tell you about you?
Starting point is 00:56:03 Sure. This is, by the way, you doing God's work in other people's lives. when you do this because it's what God would want you to say to them, I think. And I learned it because it's what God said to me. So I was going through a really hard time. Normally when you pray, if you're a praying person, you kind of, I don't know, you're worshipping God. That's sort of the traditional church relationship now is, thank you, God, thank you God.
Starting point is 00:56:31 I'd gone through this one really difficult time. And so this one night I got on my knees when I prayed and I asked, I said, God, tell me about me. tell me about me. And I had this amazing experience for, I don't know how long it was, but my father in heaven was praising me, raining down love on me,
Starting point is 00:56:53 telling me how tough I was and kind I was and smart I was. And I just had this beautiful experience that when I was done, I felt loved. I felt amazing. It was God telling me about me. I made you in my image. You're supposed to do something great.
Starting point is 00:57:10 It felt like Papa talking to me. me but more right and um max was born not that long after that and i remember as i was literally cutting max's cord i was cutting max's cord i said maximus let me tell you about you this my boy's been i don't know three minutes on earth five minutes on earth i said maximus i love you so much you're so amazing. I named you Maximus. You're a gladiator. You're tough. You're strong. And he opened his eyes. I go, you have daddy's blue eyes. You got my blue eyes. You're going to have an amazing life. You're so kind. You're so sweet. People are going to love you. And I started this. I did it when Bella was born. I was cutting her cord. I said, Bella boo. That daddy tell you about you. You're so
Starting point is 00:58:02 funny. You're going to be so fast. You're brilliant. People love you. You got daddy's blue eyes. And what started with my kids was I would do this every day. Just every day when we pray and I say, Maximus, let me tell you about you. You're a gladiator. You're a leader. You're a champion.
Starting point is 00:58:22 You're the greatest of all time, buddy. You're so kind. You've got such a beautiful heart. Then I'd go in and pray with Bella. Bella, boo, I love you. You're so smart. You're so funny. You got daddy's blue eyes.
Starting point is 00:58:32 I would do this over and over. My son always loved it. When Bella became a teenager, she started giving me the I go wait don't before you leave she goes dad I know I'm a superstar I'm amazing I'm I'm not right I go I'm telling come here and I told her I'm gonna tell you I've screwed up so many things in my life but the one thing I've done is I have done that with my kids I have told them about them and I do with a lot of my friends too as you know so an interesting experience to finish that was I had dropped Bella off at college and there's kids in her dorm and I was
Starting point is 00:59:07 getting ready to leave christina are getting ready to leave and she knows what i'm about to do and she's embarrassed by it right she looks at me dad don't do it i go well then we better go outside because i'm gonna do it so we walk into the hallway i said come here and what she didn't know is she was walking out i had written her a letter that i put on her pillow and in that letter when she got it later it said i'm not going to see you every day anymore let me tell you about you i wrote it first so she could read it day so she could read it every day and so we're in the hallway and I tell her I said come here I love you so much you're my only girl look at your blue eyes you're so funny people are gonna love you here so amazing she's thank you daddy I know when she went back and I had to leave my
Starting point is 01:00:01 daughter you know it's hard I knew she had this letter And like about six months later, I was flying to Florida with Christina. I said, Bella, I'm going to come by and see you at school. It's a rainy day. She goes, Dad, I'm busy. I said, I'm coming to see you. I came to see her. And when I walked in her dorm, all of her friends were there to meet me because they, you know,
Starting point is 01:00:23 they follow me on social media. So it's Mr. Milet, Mr. Milet. And there's all these kids there. And I'm going to take Bella to lunch. And as we're leaving, this is my daughter who's supposedly embarrassed by all this. As we're leaving, this boy goes, Belaboo, make sure he tells you about you. And I looked at her and I said, you told him I do that. She goes, well, dad, they always want to know about my dad and what's he like and all that.
Starting point is 01:00:49 And I don't, I just told him what you do. I said, you told them all? She told all her friends at college and they said, tell me about your dad. She didn't tell him about my success or our houses or she told him that. She said, all my life's, my dad's done this. So after we went to lunch Dropping her back off It's raining
Starting point is 01:01:08 She gets out of the car And I don't do it On purpose And she walks away She gets all the way over to her dorm I'm about to get back in the car And she turns I'll never forget it from the dorm
Starting point is 01:01:19 She goes, Daddy I go what? What? She goes, you didn't do it? I go do what? She goes, I go come here And she runs up to me She runs
Starting point is 01:01:32 she runs up to me i go come here i said i love you so much you're my only daughter you're my sweetie you're my only one you're so smart i told you everybody would love you here you're so funny
Starting point is 01:01:52 you're brilliant you can have an amazing life she starts crying i start crying just gives me the biggest hug I let her go again and the only I've done that good I've done that really good with my kids I've done that really good with them and I would just recommend to everybody if you have a chance to tell another human being about them tell them just tell them it doesn't have to be everything I just said but
Starting point is 01:02:23 when you feel something about somebody express it to them don't hold back like be fully present with them when you tell them and I'm right about my kids I'm right about them and I love them they do have my blue eyes so that's let me tell you about you I love that you wrote her a letter
Starting point is 01:02:45 just so she even has that with her to tell her about her okay that's enough for everyone listening today who is just holding out for hope or for love in their life or just needs hope today. Would you mind just taking a moment and just speaking into them,
Starting point is 01:03:17 whether it is just words, a prayer, whatever's on your heart to talk to them today? Yeah. Well, I always pray for anyone who's involved with anything that I'm doing, I pray for you very, very often. But I would say to you is that any of you that are holding out hope is that it's already here. And I would love you to give yourself the gift of telling you about you. Speak some truth to yourself for the first time, maybe in a long time. And stop believing the lies. Stop believing the lies. The things you
Starting point is 01:03:53 think are so impossible and difficult in your life. Those things are lies. And I'll just tell you that you were born for a reason. You're not a mistake. You're not supposed to be average and ordinary. And all your life, you've known you're supposed to do something special, haven't you? You've known it. There's a deep part of you that knows you're supposed to make a difference in the world. And you were.
Starting point is 01:04:15 And my prayer for you, my prayer so deeply for you is that you'll just feel the comfort of whatever your faith is, that it comforts you and gives you strength and knowing that you got this. You can handle this. you were built for this and that the world needs you the world needs what you can give there's some human being right now
Starting point is 01:04:35 as like my dad was that needs someone to say I can help you I can help you and thank God that person when the moment arose had the strength and the courage and the confidence
Starting point is 01:04:49 to help my dad when the rest of the world probably didn't think they were qualified and by the way I found that person that helped my dad. I know him now. You know what's crazy, Jamie? His name is Ed. It's a terrible, weird name we all have.
Starting point is 01:05:07 But me, my dad, my papa, and this man that changed my dad's life all have the same name. So I believe God was involved in that. And all he did was help somebody that he used to be. And in your life, you're qualified to help anybody that you used to be. And so if you've been in pain, you're in a little bit less pain, you can help people in pain. If you've not believed in
Starting point is 01:05:29 yourself for a little while, maybe you believe just a little bit more today, you can help people who need that belief that need that strength. If you've been really weak in your life many times and you've found a little extra strength out of today's conversation, you can help people who need some strength. If you just got a little bit more faith today from what we've talked about, you can help people who need that in their life. So I would just tell you that you were born to do something great with your life and my prayer for you is that you step into your truth. You step into the truth about you. And the truth about you is that you're supposed to do something great with your life.
Starting point is 01:06:01 And so this whole interview today has been us telling you about you, even though we've been talking to each other. Ooh. Ed Milet, I am. Dang, Jamie. Look, everyone's crying in here, by the way. I love you. I love you.
Starting point is 01:06:16 Thank you. That was awesome interview. You see if yours fit? You see if you're fit? Good thing I wore clean socks today. This is the coolest tradition ever. How about that? God chose you to change the world.
Starting point is 01:06:26 That's what kept my head when we were talking today. That's what I was thinking. It's going to use you a lot of different ways. It's not just the speaking. It's this too. Like, you're doing something here. Like, I've never cried like that. And the only time I ever cried in interviews when you interviewed me.
Starting point is 01:06:38 Only two times ever. You need to be doing this. You need to be doing this. It's a lot of work, but you're doing something here. I guarantee you I'm not the only one too. I bet that most of them have been this way. I have one more thing to share with you. but before I do, if you got value out of this episode, my only ask is that you please share
Starting point is 01:06:59 it, share it with another person in your life who can benefit from it, posted and share it with others online or in your community who just might need the words and tools and lessons in this episode today. You never know whose life you're meant to change today by sharing this episode. And thank you so much for joining me today. And before you go, want to share some words with you that couldn't be more true. You right now exactly as you are are enough and fully worthy. You're worthy of your greatest hopes, your wildest dreams and all the unconditional love in the world. And it is an honor to welcome you to each episode of the Jamie Kern-Lima Show. Here, I hope you'll come as you are. Heal where you need. Blossom what you
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